How is this interesting? You are completely missing the point. Consider this: you are using k3b (cd burner) for the first time as a Linux newb. You will know it is the cd burner because the search box for the desktop brings it up when you start typing "cd bur...". When it opens up, you want to burn an iso so you start hunting through the menus for iso mode. But, wait, why hunt when you can just type "iso" in the same handy dandy little search box that you used to bring up the cd burner in the first place? It's brilliant. Of course, this is just an example and I'm sure when this comes out, it will find many uses that haven't been thought of yet that make a lot of sense.
The more I think about this the more brilliant it seems. It's the logical evolution of the omni-present search box seen in all modern desktops. Why should the instant search be limited to documents, programs, settings, etc. when it can also display results from the menu of the currently focused program. Quite often I'll fire up some little used program and have to go hunting through the menus for something I know is there but can't recall exactly where it is. This sounds like a solution to that.
That's very interesting. Seems a little conspiratorial but I wouldn't discount it completely. I always wondered why Linux posts seem to have so many ac flames in the first few comments. Hmmm...
You're wasting your time. People like the GP would rather live in their "clean slate" we're all really the same PC bubble than face the fact that people are most definitely not the same, some people are strongly predisposed to certain things and horror of horrors some of those predispositions are not always the most savory.
You should be modded +1million. Sadly you will languish at 1 or 2 with as many replies while the cynics and hysterical half-truths elsewhere will be 4 and 5. Sad. So much for logic and reason.
And every poster that points out the elephant in the room gets modded down. Welcome to NuSlashdot. When Slash dot turned to a shill infested shithole, I stopped caring about karma.
I just orient my Xoom in portrait mode and rest it on my chest. When I get tired of laying on my back, I go to the side and the Xoom just rests on the bed sideways. Works fantastically and I appreciate the added screen real estate over my Nexus S.
If Office were that critical to touch screen devices, windows phone wouldn't be languishing at sub 2 percent market share. Furthermore, there are windows tablets on the market right now and there have been windows tablets on the market every day for the last decade available to general consumers. They all run office. The "real" office. Yet they collect dust while I pads fly off the shelves. Office outside of work, e.g., the desktop is not as important as you think it is.
Having "Word" hasn't done anything for windows phone sales. What makes you think its a compelling differentiator for windows tablets? If office sold tablets, we wouldn't evenbe talking about ice cream sandwich and I pads because they wouldn't exist. You need to check your presumptions.
I had an N770 and it was nice. I have to ask though, what is it that you n900 can do that my rooted Droid2 with Ubuntu in a chroot can't that makes your Nokia more of a "usable PDA"? I'm not trying to argue here I'm seriously asking because I find my Droid much more functional than my n770 ever was and can't think of a single thing it could do that the Droid can't. Just to add a little more, I have the scripting layer for android installed so I can write and run python, perl, etc. scripts for any small gaps. I wrote a great barcode app that hooks into amazons aws API for when I'm yardsaling. I use lots of cli apps like rtorrent vim, screen, ipython, you name it. I can't for the life of me think of anything the n770 did better. Please enlighten me.
You have a uid in the low 700k and you should know better. Why bring the discussion down to such a low level? Obviously many people find capacitive screen tablets useful and they are used by many serious businesses in a functional capacity. I wrote the catalog app framework my company uses for salespeople in the field. Our sales have probably doubled since putting it into production last year. We have a fleet of Acer A500 Android tablets btw. What should we do? Stop using the tablets and not worry about making money because of some anti-capacitive screen fan boy crusade? That is flat ludicrous. Not everybody is like you and is willing to torture themselves using a mouse centric os on a touch screen. The fact that you think so just makes you look like an ignorant pompous child. Seriously, the kind of low brow flaming you're laying down here is what I would expect from a 15 year old.
Pay more get more. Duh. Works with practically everything under the sun. Look around you right now and ask how many of the things you see have cheaper (or more expensive) alternative. Why didn't you get those alternatives instead? Many people have a price point. Your argument seems to be let's just take all the inexpensive Android phones off the shelves because...because...you said so. Ha. You are not special enough to dictate what people buy.
I personally think those really shitty Android handsets do more to promote the iPhone than any amount of Apple marketing,
You can think what you want. I personally think that the cheap Android handsets give people an entry into the smartphone market that they otherwise would not enjoy. There is a carrier in my country called MetroPCS and they have some really budget Android phones. I have rooted a few for people and installed wi-fi tether and what not. The phones aren't the greatest. 480x320 screens 512 MB RAM, 600 MHz procs etc. but I have yet to see a single user say "Android sucks". These people are entry level. They have sense enough to know they cheaped out and when they want a better experience they'll spend more money. That money might go on an iPhone or it may go on a Galaxy S2. But they aren't as dumb as you so arrogantly and condescendingly seem to think they are.
I'm merely pointing out logical inconsistencies in arguments about Android on slashdot.
With that, in light of your comments preceding it, you are actually adding to the net "irony" in the universe but whatever makes you happy.
P.S., in the time it took us both to compose our messages another 50,000 android phones were bought and activated. I don't think Google needs your help in marketing their operating system.
The major benefit of Android over iphone is there is an Android phone on your carrier at the price you want to pay. But don't let something like the truth get in the way of a gois okd fashion platform bash...oh, you didn't!
ttp://wmpoweruser.com/ looks like pseudo "theres an windows phone user community" site.
Yep, wmpoweruser is a joke. Leave anything in the comment section that doesn't tow the rah rah windows phone party line and be prepared for "This site has banned you from commenting". Pure kool-aid.
How does this myth persist? Blackberry, Symbian, and even Bada outsell and have a higher marketshare than windows phone. They might be third in marketing and fanboys but they damn sure aren't third in sales.
Gambas is a great basic-esque ide for beginners and on any debian derivative is just an apt-get away. Of course use your respective repo tools elsewhere.
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How is this interesting? You are completely missing the point. Consider this: you are using k3b (cd burner) for the first time as a Linux newb. You will know it is the cd burner because the search box for the desktop brings it up when you start typing "cd bur...". When it opens up, you want to burn an iso so you start hunting through the menus for iso mode. But, wait, why hunt when you can just type "iso" in the same handy dandy little search box that you used to bring up the cd burner in the first place? It's brilliant. Of course, this is just an example and I'm sure when this comes out, it will find many uses that haven't been thought of yet that make a lot of sense.
The more I think about this the more brilliant it seems. It's the logical evolution of the omni-present search box seen in all modern desktops. Why should the instant search be limited to documents, programs, settings, etc. when it can also display results from the menu of the currently focused program. Quite often I'll fire up some little used program and have to go hunting through the menus for something I know is there but can't recall exactly where it is. This sounds like a solution to that.
That's very interesting. Seems a little conspiratorial but I wouldn't discount it completely. I always wondered why Linux posts seem to have so many ac flames in the first few comments. Hmmm...
The Linux desktop went nowhere.
Good thing I don't make my choice of OS based on a worldwide popularity contest then.
Damn.
Actually have mplayer on my Droid. Yes, that mplayer. Found it on xda-developers a long time ago. As far as nx, yes, the situation could be better.
You should be modded +1million. Sadly you will languish at 1 or 2 with as many replies while the cynics and hysterical half-truths elsewhere will be 4 and 5. Sad. So much for logic and reason.
And every poster that points out the elephant in the room gets modded down. Welcome to NuSlashdot. When Slash dot turned to a shill infested shithole, I stopped caring about karma.
I just orient my Xoom in portrait mode and rest it on my chest. When I get tired of laying on my back, I go to the side and the Xoom just rests on the bed sideways. Works fantastically and I appreciate the added screen real estate over my Nexus S.
If Office were that critical to touch screen devices, windows phone wouldn't be languishing at sub 2 percent market share. Furthermore, there are windows tablets on the market right now and there have been windows tablets on the market every day for the last decade available to general consumers. They all run office. The "real" office. Yet they collect dust while I pads fly off the shelves. Office outside of work, e.g., the desktop is not as important as you think it is.
Having "Word" hasn't done anything for windows phone sales. What makes you think its a compelling differentiator for windows tablets? If office sold tablets, we wouldn't evenbe talking about ice cream sandwich and I pads because they wouldn't exist. You need to check your presumptions.
I had an N770 and it was nice. I have to ask though, what is it that you n900 can do that my rooted Droid2 with Ubuntu in a chroot can't that makes your Nokia more of a "usable PDA"? I'm not trying to argue here I'm seriously asking because I find my Droid much more functional than my n770 ever was and can't think of a single thing it could do that the Droid can't. Just to add a little more, I have the scripting layer for android installed so I can write and run python, perl, etc. scripts for any small gaps. I wrote a great barcode app that hooks into amazons aws API for when I'm yardsaling. I use lots of cli apps like rtorrent vim, screen, ipython, you name it. I can't for the life of me think of anything the n770 did better. Please enlighten me.
You have a uid in the low 700k and you should know better. Why bring the discussion down to such a low level? Obviously many people find capacitive screen tablets useful and they are used by many serious businesses in a functional capacity. I wrote the catalog app framework my company uses for salespeople in the field. Our sales have probably doubled since putting it into production last year. We have a fleet of Acer A500 Android tablets btw. What should we do? Stop using the tablets and not worry about making money because of some anti-capacitive screen fan boy crusade? That is flat ludicrous. Not everybody is like you and is willing to torture themselves using a mouse centric os on a touch screen. The fact that you think so just makes you look like an ignorant pompous child. Seriously, the kind of low brow flaming you're laying down here is what I would expect from a 15 year old.
The fact that you are so stupid astounds me.
Pull the aluminum foil a little tighter, man. I think I saw a black helicopter.
You make him sound so sad and pathetic.
Are you the new InsightInterestingin140FellowBytes?
Dude, Google didn't actually do anything. Read the article. Please.
Wake me up when X-Box makes those billions back and/or is on top because neither has happened yet.
What if I don't want to pay for shit?
Pay more get more. Duh. Works with practically everything under the sun. Look around you right now and ask how many of the things you see have cheaper (or more expensive) alternative. Why didn't you get those alternatives instead? Many people have a price point. Your argument seems to be let's just take all the inexpensive Android phones off the shelves because...because...you said so. Ha. You are not special enough to dictate what people buy.
I personally think those really shitty Android handsets do more to promote the iPhone than any amount of Apple marketing,
You can think what you want. I personally think that the cheap Android handsets give people an entry into the smartphone market that they otherwise would not enjoy. There is a carrier in my country called MetroPCS and they have some really budget Android phones. I have rooted a few for people and installed wi-fi tether and what not. The phones aren't the greatest. 480x320 screens 512 MB RAM, 600 MHz procs etc. but I have yet to see a single user say "Android sucks". These people are entry level. They have sense enough to know they cheaped out and when they want a better experience they'll spend more money. That money might go on an iPhone or it may go on a Galaxy S2. But they aren't as dumb as you so arrogantly and condescendingly seem to think they are.
I'm merely pointing out logical inconsistencies in arguments about Android on slashdot.
With that, in light of your comments preceding it, you are actually adding to the net "irony" in the universe but whatever makes you happy.
P.S., in the time it took us both to compose our messages another 50,000 android phones were bought and activated. I don't think Google needs your help in marketing their operating system.
The major benefit of Android over iphone is there is an Android phone on your carrier at the price you want to pay. But don't let something like the truth get in the way of a gois okd fashion platform bash...oh, you didn't!
FreeBSD is in fourth place on the desktop (AFAIK). Not an enviable place to be.
ttp://wmpoweruser.com/ looks like pseudo "theres an windows phone user community" site.
Yep, wmpoweruser is a joke. Leave anything in the comment section that doesn't tow the rah rah windows phone party line and be prepared for "This site has banned you from commenting". Pure kool-aid.
They're a distant third these days.
How does this myth persist? Blackberry, Symbian, and even Bada outsell and have a higher marketshare than windows phone. They might be third in marketing and fanboys but they damn sure aren't third in sales.
Gambas is a great basic-esque ide for beginners and on any debian derivative is just an apt-get away. Of course use your respective repo tools elsewhere.