That's cute, but I had a Zaurus like years and years ago. The problem is that after the initial release, it was basically unsupported. I would not buy another Sharp Linux product.
The irony of this proposal is that many professors, realizing that book prices are just obscene in the academic market, are preparing their own materials and giving them to the students for the cost of printing them.
This is clearly just an attempt by the textbook marketers to kill the secondhand book sellers.
As my wife says, "calculus has not changed much in the last 6 years, but my textbook has gone through 3 revisions in that time!"
Despite the millions of Java developers out there, and the millions of Java applications, if you want to actually make money with an online App store, you choose the Apple devices as your target.
In 2009, Apple took 99% of the revenue in the mobile marketplace. In 2010 it will probably be about the same.
Apple has said it will not *update its own* Java in the future. They didn't say a thing about disallowing you from running Java.
There are already multiple Javas that will compile, install, and run fine on OS X. Use one of those if you are one of the *tiny* fraction of people who needs a Macintosh server and also need Java on it.
Sheesh. Apple doesn't include Haskell or Erlang but they sure don't go to any pains to keep it off your machine.
I know lots of people who use Macbooks and Macbook Pros and they had no problems with swelling batteries. Anyway, Apple will fix a swelling battery for free.
As far as a reliable notebook goes, Apple makes the best ones, bar none. This has been my experience anyway.
I'm not sure that it's good to have what, 3 or 4 forks of Open Office. This situation will resolve itself, and it will be pretty clear to people which ones are dead and which are alive.
A question one may ask is, if Oracle stops giving away the sources of Open Office, or if they only release the source after a major release (which is their plan for the "free" version of Solaris) will the other projects maintain their momentum?
To be fair to Apple, it has been using odd shaped batteries to get more usable run time lately. I think the lack of a replaceable battery has more to do with the fact that the battery is weirdly shaped and that fact will not allow replacement.
Anyway, with a 10+ hour battery, who cares anymore?
Good. Flash sucks and there is NO reason for it to be installed by default on any computer.
Java, take it or leave it, but maybe Apple is getting a bit wary of Ellison and his attack lawyers.
Either way, this is a good move. Bundling Java and Flash is stupid anyway, as both are updated so frequently that you'd be resigned to shipping a product with two big security holes.
No, the Aspire is quite a bit slower. It runs at a higher clock speed, but a Core2 Duo is going to get more (much more!) work done per time unit.
You can't just look at the clock speed and say "the one running at a higher megahurtz is faster lol" because that only worked in the old days, or when comparing processors of nearly identical internal design.
I never ever heard of this LibreOffice of which you speak. On second look, it appears to be a Novell / Google fork of OpenOffice. How is this any better?
"Developers for the most part are not users; users for the most part are not developers."
Come on now, let's think about this. All developers are users, and some users are developers.
What do developers do when they write software? They become users of software development tools, which are written by people who also are users of other software.
Let me repeat, all developers are users, and some users are developers.
You're still missing the point. "Normal" TV viewing distance is across the living room. 12'-15' or so. At that distance HD is literally pointless.
I am not saying that you can't tell the difference. I am saying you can't tell the difference between 480, 720, and 1080 if you have a typical sized screen (42"-48") and are viewing it from a typical viewing distance.
It's not though. The point is that, even with perfect vision, you are still limited to a certain pixel size per distance before you lose the individual pixels.
If your TV is 15' away, you can't see the pixels, even with perfect vision, at 1080. 720 is even stretching it.
If you are one of those people who watches TV from 6' away, then sure, the resolution matters more.
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Isn't Flash supposedly sandboxed? And, what the hell is Flash doing in a PDF viewing utility?
I think it's about time to go from using Click2Flash to just deleting the Flash plugin completely.
Actually, you can now legally jailbreak your phone, and get your applications from the Cydia store. Then you can have your cake and eat it too.
Nice FUD though. Let me guess, Android fan?
And that 8% of the market generates 95% of the dough.
So Sharp is making an iPad now?
That's cute, but I had a Zaurus like years and years ago. The problem is that after the initial release, it was basically unsupported. I would not buy another Sharp Linux product.
The irony of this proposal is that many professors, realizing that book prices are just obscene in the academic market, are preparing their own materials and giving them to the students for the cost of printing them.
This is clearly just an attempt by the textbook marketers to kill the secondhand book sellers.
As my wife says, "calculus has not changed much in the last 6 years, but my textbook has gone through 3 revisions in that time!"
Despite the millions of Java developers out there, and the millions of Java applications, if you want to actually make money with an online App store, you choose the Apple devices as your target.
In 2009, Apple took 99% of the revenue in the mobile marketplace. In 2010 it will probably be about the same.
Probably soon. For now you get your Java from Apple. Or you can get one of the other JVMs out there, right?
Apple has said it will not *update its own* Java in the future. They didn't say a thing about disallowing you from running Java.
There are already multiple Javas that will compile, install, and run fine on OS X. Use one of those if you are one of the *tiny* fraction of people who needs a Macintosh server and also need Java on it.
Sheesh. Apple doesn't include Haskell or Erlang but they sure don't go to any pains to keep it off your machine.
It's clear that you haven't really used Objective-C much.
Sure, the memory management dance is still a bit of a pain, but that is being worked on. It has a garbage collector now.
Not all-around, but as a specialized replacement for Java applets (remember those?) HTML5 will do nicely.
People don't run Java enterprise applications, in general. Companies do. They will probably continue to run Java on the server side of things.
You can get your Oracle Jave from http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp dawg.
I know lots of people who use Macbooks and Macbook Pros and they had no problems with swelling batteries. Anyway, Apple will fix a swelling battery for free.
As far as a reliable notebook goes, Apple makes the best ones, bar none. This has been my experience anyway.
I'm not sure that it's good to have what, 3 or 4 forks of Open Office. This situation will resolve itself, and it will be pretty clear to people which ones are dead and which are alive.
A question one may ask is, if Oracle stops giving away the sources of Open Office, or if they only release the source after a major release (which is their plan for the "free" version of Solaris) will the other projects maintain their momentum?
Even with one core disabled a 1.4 GHz Core2 Duo is faster than an Atom 1.8GHz with hyperthreading. Much faster.
To be fair to Apple, it has been using odd shaped batteries to get more usable run time lately. I think the lack of a replaceable battery has more to do with the fact that the battery is weirdly shaped and that fact will not allow replacement.
Anyway, with a 10+ hour battery, who cares anymore?
Good. Flash sucks and there is NO reason for it to be installed by default on any computer.
Java, take it or leave it, but maybe Apple is getting a bit wary of Ellison and his attack lawyers.
Either way, this is a good move. Bundling Java and Flash is stupid anyway, as both are updated so frequently that you'd be resigned to shipping a product with two big security holes.
No, the Aspire is quite a bit slower. It runs at a higher clock speed, but a Core2 Duo is going to get more (much more!) work done per time unit.
You can't just look at the clock speed and say "the one running at a higher megahurtz is faster lol" because that only worked in the old days, or when comparing processors of nearly identical internal design.
6to4, dawg, 6to4.
Cell phones are already only assigned ad-hoc IP addresses by the cell networks anyway.
I never ever heard of this LibreOffice of which you speak. On second look, it appears to be a Novell / Google fork of OpenOffice. How is this any better?
"Developers for the most part are not users; users for the most part are not developers."
Come on now, let's think about this. All developers are users, and some users are developers.
What do developers do when they write software? They become users of software development tools, which are written by people who also are users of other software.
Let me repeat, all developers are users, and some users are developers.
You're still missing the point. "Normal" TV viewing distance is across the living room. 12'-15' or so. At that distance HD is literally pointless.
I am not saying that you can't tell the difference. I am saying you can't tell the difference between 480, 720, and 1080 if you have a typical sized screen (42"-48") and are viewing it from a typical viewing distance.
"You Americans" indeed. Canada has huge problems with water contamination, especially near gas fields. Let's not even talk about places like India.
Fucking anti-American bullshit.
Alan Kay said "Actually I made up the term "object-oriented", and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind."
C++ seems like an awful stopgap solution that got out of control.
Because, even WITH a bluetooth keyboard, the iPad is still smaller and lighter. And it beats the hell out of all current netbooks for battery life.
It's not though. The point is that, even with perfect vision, you are still limited to a certain pixel size per distance before you lose the individual pixels.
If your TV is 15' away, you can't see the pixels, even with perfect vision, at 1080. 720 is even stretching it.
If you are one of those people who watches TV from 6' away, then sure, the resolution matters more.