This is not true in the slightest. I'm posting this in Chrome on Ubuntu 9.10 and Chrome is excellent in every practical way. It's fast, stable, full-featured, well integrated... I'm not sure what else you want before you can say it doesn't "suck".
I don't see it as ridiculous at all. They have over 90 percent of the market they choose to compete in. If they suddenly decided to cut the price of macbooks in half, they'd be competing in a new-for them-market. And they'd sell a lot of macbooks at that price point.
On Linux, mplayer will do this with no distortion. Just press the [ and ] key respectively to slow down and speed up. There is a command line switch to keep the same pitch if you want that. I'm not sure if it works like that on OSX but I can't see why not.
Which is why I guess I just won't "get it" with regards to all the resources wasted on trying to make Linux do jobs it simply isn't good at
Your point? What was Linux good at when Torvalds first started it back in 1991? Should he have just said, oh, this kernel isn't good at anything, I think I'll just stop now.
I love Meamo. I have a Nokia 770 that, unfortunately, bricked
itself a while back. It was probably my all time favorite
gadget and to this day, it sits on my shelf in the hope that
one day I'll plug in its power adapter and the little blue
line at the bottom will make it all the way across the screen.
But let's not get carried away. I also happen to be the very
happy owner of a Motorola Droid running my own special custom
version of Android. It's not a toy. It runs every one of the
command line apps you listed with aplomb and will run all of the
thousands and thousands of others you didn't mention. I have
rtorrent, elinks, vim, bash, ssh, and the list goes on and on.
It can run X apps too as I can just start the vmc server and
a viewer on localhost. But, for many X apps, there is a more
or less equivalent Android app that is suited to the small
capacitive screen so, I don't usually bother. I run my web
browser with a desktop user agent so I get the same internet
including full javascript that support on
it that I get on my desktop and since the screen is 854 pixels
wide, it is the great exception that horizontal scrolling is
necessary.
I want Maemo/Meego to succeed. As a matter of fact,
I want all the Unix based mobile systems to thrive even iOS.
I don't really care about Winphone 7 as I think MS has made
enough money on the desktop but that's just my bias creeping in.
My point is, Maemo is great, Android is great. Neither are toys
and the year of Linux on the cellphone is right here and now so
we should all be happy.
I don't have the particular smartbook under discussion at my
disposal to be absolutely 100 percent certain. However, I do
have a Motorola Droid sitting right here. When it goes on
"standby" that means I just clicked the button to switch the
screen off and the CPU clocks itself down to 250 MHz from the 1.2
GHz I have it overclocked at. It is still running just clocked down.
That is not the case when referring to an x86 system going into
standby. In the latter case, the device may as well be off as it
can't do anything at all. It's just keeping the memory contents hot, that's it. Using the word standby to refer
to two completely different concepts is, admittedly, unfortunate.
But, I've never seen the word standby on ARM mean the device
actually goes into "standby" as it is meant in the Wintel world.
My netbook goes for 6 hours, this one claims 8. Possibly a 25% difference, though that doesn't allow for the usual manufacturer hype.
I really wish I had the real specs of this smartbook here
but I'm going to go out on a limb and say, judging by it's weight that
it, at most, has a 3 cell li-ion battery in it. You're netbook
almost certainly has a 6 cell for that kind of life. I'd bet that if this smartbook had
your 6 cell, it would get 18-20 hours of continuous running since
although you'd be doubling the battery size, you'll get more than
double the run time. I won't bother explaining why, I'll just take
it on faith that you know.
A BP oilspill sized barrel of e-ink has been spilled about how
Moorestown will be an efficient alternative to ARM on mobile
devices. Talk to me when I can buy a Moorestown smartbook that
competes with the device I linked to in my previous post. Note
the 180 hours of standby (screen off) time. I'm not hating on Intel here.
On the contrary, I think Intel is great. They've supported
Linux through thick and thin and that's important to me. But,
I'm going to have to see some product to believe the Moorestown
and Oaktrail claims.
This advantage seems to have gone away, more or less.
My own Atom-based Netbook can make a battery last all day.
Check this out. Standby time
180 hours. And by standby time, they mean the
screen is off. Not "standby" as it is normally meant on regular desktops and laptops whereas the whole thing is off. The advantage there is instant
on, not 1 second on, not 2. Instant. And while the screen is off,
it can still be doing something. Checking your email, updating your
rss feeds, whatever it would normally be doing. Basically, it's
a continuous run device like a cell phone. And it's silent. And
it generates little to no heat without a cpu fan. It also weighs
less than 2 pounds. Your netbook doesn't even remotely compare to
this. What's the difference? ARM vs Atom. Atoms aren't even on
the same planet when it comes to power efficiency as ARM. Give it
5 years and maybe you can make that claim.
IdeaPad U1 and Skylight. Yeah, they were demoing it, then it got "cancelled" then the
CEO was all like, no it's just delayed... and so on. I'll believe
it when I can lay hands on it.
You're on the right track there but it isn't quite that
cut and dry. A 5 Whr battery, yes, will run a 5 watt load for
an hour. Thing is, it will actually run a 2.5 watt load for
a bit more than 2 hours and so on. As the wattage gets lower
and lower, it will run for more and more than you would expect
just from the Whr rating itself. It gets pretty significant
the lower and lower the draw is and.25 watt is pretty low.
Unfortunately, I don't have exact numbers but a few years ago,
I was doing a lot of studying into it when I was running an inverter
in my motor home and trying to figure out which marine battery to get.
So all those new netbooks with touch screens and optional keyboard/mouse setup will be left with no OS at all by your logic!
Where do I go to buy one of these? What you're describing sounds
like one of those convertible laptops with the screen that flips
around. They have almost always came with resistive screens and
Windows and have been a decidedly niche product. Now, if you're talking about something with a capacitive multi-touch capable screen with some kind of
detachable keyboard, I'd have to think about it. Though, off
hand, it sounds like a job for Meego since it's more of a traditional
Linux so older applications that are designed for a keyboard and mouse
would work great as well as the new Meego only applications that
would be good for touchscreen mode.
I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all but as an
owner of a Motorola Droid that switches back and forth from Eris to
Froyo, I have to say I think the interface
looks very nice. I love the Droid Sans fonts, they're very easy
to read from a distance. I like the style of the widgets. The
buttons, toggles, radio buttons, menus, etc. are all attractive. The
gradients are dialed in very well. They aren't too much like
you see in some themes and they aren't too overly subtle either. The default
colors look good. Not over saturated like you get elsewhere. I'm really
curious. I mean, what is it exactly that you are wanting here?
Ford is reaping the harvest of decades of lackluster styling, piss poor engineering, abysmal reliability, and the list goes on. From the Pinto to the Tempo to the rental car queen Tauruses, they are the embodiment of pure mediocrity. Every Ford I've ever driven or ridden in was pure unadulterated shit. The fact that they didn't take a bailout in no way mitigates any of their failings. In the recent past, I have rented a 2008, 2009, and a 2010 Focus and a 2009 Fusion with Sync I might add. They were all pure trash.
Yeah, you're absolutely right on that. I will give them
credit for that much. I mean, if you're going to drive your business
into the ground at least have the decency not to take the
rest of us down too. Where they lost me is somewhere between
trying to cram yet another variation of the F150 and the
Expedition down our throats while at the same time giving us
a warmed over 2nd gen Focus while Europe got the third gen in
addition to the Fiesta and Festiva, both awesome little cars that
Ford is just now getting around to bringing here. Somehow,
while this was all happening, they were standing around scratching
their heads trying to figure out what was going on. Unbelievable.
Even now, I rent a lot of cars for business travel and
I dread getting a Focus or Fusion. Compared to everything else
even including the G6 by Pontiac, those cars are trash. And,
call me a zealot, I'll walk before I drive a car with Sync in it.
Dude, I had my phone rooted in the parking lot and Cyanogenmod
on it about 30 minutes after I got home. I'm sorry that you
were having issues with the stock ROM but I wouldn't really know
anything about that. To me, using the stock image is akin to
buying a windows computer and not bothering to remove all of the
trial crapware and useless docks that come with it. You wouldn't
blame Microsoft for all of that crap and I don't blame Android
for manufacturer's lame implementation of it either.
just like you are trying to say that I insisted somewhere that personally auditing all source code is the only way to be sure an open source app isn't malicious?
Have you read the source to all the open source apps you use? If your answer is no, then the answer to your question is yes.
You are directly contradicting yourself. Your arguing just
went from ridiculous to just plain bizarre.
Have you read the source to all the open source apps you use? If your answer is no, then the answer to your question is yes.
You quoted the guy out of context and made up a nice little straw
man out of it. By your definition, all software is a
threat unless you have personally pored over it line by line. That's
absurd. You can't just fit people in to your little nerd
turf war source box everytime it's convenient and then magically
be right. I only got into the conversation to point out the
absurdity of you saying that open source is a threat if you haven't
"read the source to all the open source apps you use". I mean, WTF?
Very little of Bing's growth has come from Google. It actually
came from Yahoo, AOL, and all of the other also rans. Not
to mention the fact that up until recently, people were basically
getting paid to use Bing. If you give me "cash back" on purchases
made that I look up on your search engine, of course I'm going to
play ball. Until you stop.
You are confused. I'm not even going to respond to your other
drivel other than to caution you away from a career in business,
particularly anything to do with acquisitions.
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the chrome port for linux sucks ATM.
This is not true in the slightest. I'm posting this in Chrome on Ubuntu 9.10 and Chrome is excellent in every practical way. It's fast, stable, full-featured, well integrated... I'm not sure what else you want before you can say it doesn't "suck".
I don't see it as ridiculous at all. They have over 90 percent of the market they choose to compete in. If they suddenly decided to cut the price of macbooks in half, they'd be competing in a new-for them-market. And they'd sell a lot of macbooks at that price point.
Mouse over the little orb windows flag thing on the bottom left corner for a couple of seconds and see what the tooltip says.
Could you post links to your books please?
Wait a minute, where did he bash on any OS? Steve Jobs, maybe. But what he said was pretty tame. Hardly a bash.
On Linux, mplayer will do this with no distortion. Just press the [ and ] key respectively to slow down and speed up. There is a command line switch to keep the same pitch if you want that. I'm not sure if it works like that on OSX but I can't see why not.
Which is why I guess I just won't "get it" with regards to all the resources wasted on trying to make Linux do jobs it simply isn't good at
Your point? What was Linux good at when Torvalds first started it back in 1991? Should he have just said, oh, this kernel isn't good at anything, I think I'll just stop now.
Any port in a storm, man. Any port in a storm.
card is 'tamper proof' and data cannot be altered or deleted, SanDisk said in a statement
To what value of highly funded and motivated attacker? They left that part out of the marketing hyperbole.
On what other phone would you bitch about the lack of fucking printing?
You can always pull one of these. Hehe.
I love Meamo. I have a Nokia 770 that, unfortunately, bricked itself a while back. It was probably my all time favorite gadget and to this day, it sits on my shelf in the hope that one day I'll plug in its power adapter and the little blue line at the bottom will make it all the way across the screen.
But let's not get carried away. I also happen to be the very happy owner of a Motorola Droid running my own special custom version of Android. It's not a toy. It runs every one of the command line apps you listed with aplomb and will run all of the thousands and thousands of others you didn't mention. I have rtorrent, elinks, vim, bash, ssh, and the list goes on and on. It can run X apps too as I can just start the vmc server and a viewer on localhost. But, for many X apps, there is a more or less equivalent Android app that is suited to the small capacitive screen so, I don't usually bother. I run my web browser with a desktop user agent so I get the same internet including full javascript that support on it that I get on my desktop and since the screen is 854 pixels wide, it is the great exception that horizontal scrolling is necessary.
I want Maemo/Meego to succeed. As a matter of fact, I want all the Unix based mobile systems to thrive even iOS. I don't really care about Winphone 7 as I think MS has made enough money on the desktop but that's just my bias creeping in. My point is, Maemo is great, Android is great. Neither are toys and the year of Linux on the cellphone is right here and now so we should all be happy.
My netbook goes for 6 hours, this one claims 8. Possibly a 25% difference, though that doesn't allow for the usual manufacturer hype.
I really wish I had the real specs of this smartbook here but I'm going to go out on a limb and say, judging by it's weight that it, at most, has a 3 cell li-ion battery in it. You're netbook almost certainly has a 6 cell for that kind of life. I'd bet that if this smartbook had your 6 cell, it would get 18-20 hours of continuous running since although you'd be doubling the battery size, you'll get more than double the run time. I won't bother explaining why, I'll just take it on faith that you know.
A BP oilspill sized barrel of e-ink has been spilled about how Moorestown will be an efficient alternative to ARM on mobile devices. Talk to me when I can buy a Moorestown smartbook that competes with the device I linked to in my previous post. Note the 180 hours of standby (screen off) time. I'm not hating on Intel here. On the contrary, I think Intel is great. They've supported Linux through thick and thin and that's important to me. But, I'm going to have to see some product to believe the Moorestown and Oaktrail claims.
This advantage seems to have gone away, more or less.
My own Atom-based Netbook can make a battery last all day.
Check this out. Standby time 180 hours. And by standby time, they mean the screen is off. Not "standby" as it is normally meant on regular desktops and laptops whereas the whole thing is off. The advantage there is instant on, not 1 second on, not 2. Instant. And while the screen is off, it can still be doing something. Checking your email, updating your rss feeds, whatever it would normally be doing. Basically, it's a continuous run device like a cell phone. And it's silent. And it generates little to no heat without a cpu fan. It also weighs less than 2 pounds. Your netbook doesn't even remotely compare to this. What's the difference? ARM vs Atom. Atoms aren't even on the same planet when it comes to power efficiency as ARM. Give it 5 years and maybe you can make that claim.
That is interesting. The next time I'm in Chicago (where TD is located), I'll drop in and check it out.
IdeaPad U1 and Skylight. Yeah, they were demoing it, then it got "cancelled" then the CEO was all like, no it's just delayed... and so on. I'll believe it when I can lay hands on it.
5.18 / 0.25 = 20.72 hours
You're on the right track there but it isn't quite that cut and dry. A 5 Whr battery, yes, will run a 5 watt load for an hour. Thing is, it will actually run a 2.5 watt load for a bit more than 2 hours and so on. As the wattage gets lower and lower, it will run for more and more than you would expect just from the Whr rating itself. It gets pretty significant the lower and lower the draw is and .25 watt is pretty low.
Unfortunately, I don't have exact numbers but a few years ago,
I was doing a lot of studying into it when I was running an inverter
in my motor home and trying to figure out which marine battery to get.
So all those new netbooks with touch screens and optional keyboard/mouse setup will be left with no OS at all by your logic!
Where do I go to buy one of these? What you're describing sounds like one of those convertible laptops with the screen that flips around. They have almost always came with resistive screens and Windows and have been a decidedly niche product. Now, if you're talking about something with a capacitive multi-touch capable screen with some kind of detachable keyboard, I'd have to think about it. Though, off hand, it sounds like a job for Meego since it's more of a traditional Linux so older applications that are designed for a keyboard and mouse would work great as well as the new Meego only applications that would be good for touchscreen mode.
I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all but as an owner of a Motorola Droid that switches back and forth from Eris to Froyo, I have to say I think the interface looks very nice. I love the Droid Sans fonts, they're very easy to read from a distance. I like the style of the widgets. The buttons, toggles, radio buttons, menus, etc. are all attractive. The gradients are dialed in very well. They aren't too much like you see in some themes and they aren't too overly subtle either. The default colors look good. Not over saturated like you get elsewhere. I'm really curious. I mean, what is it exactly that you are wanting here?
Ford is reaping the harvest of decades of lackluster styling, piss poor engineering, abysmal reliability, and the list goes on. From the Pinto to the Tempo to the rental car queen Tauruses, they are the embodiment of pure mediocrity. Every Ford I've ever driven or ridden in was pure unadulterated shit. The fact that they didn't take a bailout in no way mitigates any of their failings. In the recent past, I have rented a 2008, 2009, and a 2010 Focus and a 2009 Fusion with Sync I might add. They were all pure trash.
That's "what the fuck" I'm talking about.
Yeah, you're absolutely right on that. I will give them credit for that much. I mean, if you're going to drive your business into the ground at least have the decency not to take the rest of us down too. Where they lost me is somewhere between trying to cram yet another variation of the F150 and the Expedition down our throats while at the same time giving us a warmed over 2nd gen Focus while Europe got the third gen in addition to the Fiesta and Festiva, both awesome little cars that Ford is just now getting around to bringing here. Somehow, while this was all happening, they were standing around scratching their heads trying to figure out what was going on. Unbelievable.
Even now, I rent a lot of cars for business travel and I dread getting a Focus or Fusion. Compared to everything else even including the G6 by Pontiac, those cars are trash. And, call me a zealot, I'll walk before I drive a car with Sync in it.
Dude, I had my phone rooted in the parking lot and Cyanogenmod on it about 30 minutes after I got home. I'm sorry that you were having issues with the stock ROM but I wouldn't really know anything about that. To me, using the stock image is akin to buying a windows computer and not bothering to remove all of the trial crapware and useless docks that come with it. You wouldn't blame Microsoft for all of that crap and I don't blame Android for manufacturer's lame implementation of it either.
just like you are trying to say that I insisted somewhere that personally auditing all source code is the only way to be sure an open source app isn't malicious?
Have you read the source to all the open source apps you use? If your answer is no, then the answer to your question is yes.
You are directly contradicting yourself. Your arguing just went from ridiculous to just plain bizarre.
I'm out, dude.
If its open source, is it really a threat?
Have you read the source to all the open source apps you use? If your answer is no, then the answer to your question is yes.
You quoted the guy out of context and made up a nice little straw man out of it. By your definition, all software is a threat unless you have personally pored over it line by line. That's absurd. You can't just fit people in to your little nerd turf war source box everytime it's convenient and then magically be right. I only got into the conversation to point out the absurdity of you saying that open source is a threat if you haven't "read the source to all the open source apps you use". I mean, WTF?
Bing has roughly 15% of Google's market share.
Very little of Bing's growth has come from Google. It actually came from Yahoo, AOL, and all of the other also rans. Not to mention the fact that up until recently, people were basically getting paid to use Bing. If you give me "cash back" on purchases made that I look up on your search engine, of course I'm going to play ball. Until you stop.
You are confused. I'm not even going to respond to your other drivel other than to caution you away from a career in business, particularly anything to do with acquisitions.