Quote:
"The prediction is they will move 10+ million by the end of the year."
MS sells way more copies of Windows. By your standards/. should have a post about windows every millisecond. Thank god that does not happen.
The iPhone pretends to run applications which are web-based. So any application which follows web standards will work with an iPhone and any PC. At the same time though the iPhone won't let you pretty much do anything (activate it, transfer music, synchronize it), without not just iTunes, but iTunes for selected OS. I find this quite disturbing, almost a joke, actually. The iPhone, the prototype of the mobile machine that does everything you need without a PC, actually is useless without a companion. My idea of true mobile device is something which does not rely AT ALL on a PC/Mac to work, that can synchronize using open standards with everything, possibly wirelessly, that can access online music stores, that can be activated from the device. Some of these features have been available on phones. Where is the revolution?
Quote: "Use TWO fingers and you can scroll any windows content vertically/horizontally."
As previously stated, any laptop can do this. In fact this is native (no additional driver required) under linux. The main difference is that you can scroll with just one finger depending with where you are on the touchpad. Other than that it's a old well established feature.
"Hopefully in the future, Apple will begin to support third-party development of real native applications for the iPhone."
Did that ever happened for the iPod? No, and so it won't happen either for the iPhone.
"Take Action Now - It's urgent
that you call your State Senator and Assembly representatives on
Monday, June 18, at their Albany offices, and tell them they must not
weaken New York State's escrow and review requirements. Remind them
that the Legislature passed a strong law 2 years ago - they must not
give in to pressure by voting machine vendors to undermine those
protections.
Find your Assembly member's contact
information here: http://www.assembly.state.ny.us/mem/ (Not
sure who your Assembly member is? Click here to search by Zip Code)
I install Firefox to anybody who asks. I also install the Adblock extension, and explain what it does. People are VERY receptive, so that when they use anything else than Firefox, they complain about the abundance of ads.
Extensions can be very useful to the normal user, just need to educate them.
... in response to Mr Schwartz.
"Jonathan, I wish the above was true. 15 years ago I was the biggest Sun fan. Today I speak as the project leader for another set of open source projects -- OpenBSD and OpenSSH. OpenSSH will be better known to your audience, as it is what they use daily to connect securely to and from their Solaris (or Linux) machines. OpenSSH killed telnet and rlogin, for those who still remember those mechanisms. We give our software completely freely to the world, without even the standard encumberances people see in the GPL or CDDL. Yet when we turn around and ask Sun to give us documentation for the chips on their machines -- chips Sun themselves designed, not via contractors -- Sun drags their feet. Recently we tried to reopen these 10-year-old repeated requests, and once again nothing positive happened. You may remember, because you and David Yen were in an email conversation with us. Lots of nice open words were exchanged, but no action. However, let me give an example of the duplicity of Sun. (I wish I could use a lighter word). Two operating systems run on Sun's latest PCI-e based (smallish) Ultrasparc-III machines, the v215/v245 -- Solaris and OpenBSD. The latter system runs on those machines because the code to support the non-processor chips on the board had to be written after painstaking reverse engineering, because Sun refuses to make available documentation for how these chips are programmed. Now we will readily admit that not every programmer in the world needs to know how to program these chips. But does every programmer in the world need to know how to program every little detail on Sun's processors, in system mode? Sun gets great press out of UltraSPARC being all "open", but what use is supervisor-mode documentation when the rest of the chips that the supervisor-mode code has to communicate with are entirely undocumented??? The press does not spot this problem, but Jonathan, you should clearly understand this is a fallacy. There are two operating systems which surprisingly do not run on the Sun v215/v245 -- Linux and OpenSolaris. OpenSolaris?? Yes -- Sun isn't even open enough to give the OpenSolaris community enough documentation to support their new machines. So I think that Linus is right, and Sun has a long road ahead."
Posted by Theo de Raadt on June 13, 2007 at 02:25 AM PDT #
Too bad the 2.5G makes the phone slow (think 56K) when loading AJAX rich content. Have you ever tried to use any webmail written in AJAX on a 56K? It's not pleasant.
Please don't flame me for this, it's a genuine question: Does Apache download and apply patches itself automatically? Or are sys administrators more careful and quicker to apply patches as soon as they are released?
You forgot:
8. g) I have to use the command line.
This is in fact a major complain people have about Linux. Unfortunately (for them) there are plenty of GUIs around to actually accomplish the same tasks. It'd be nice to know what task the original poster was "forced" to perform from the CLI.
"Faulting an AV-less Vista for not stopping viruses is a bit like faulting a door without a lock for opening when the handle is twisted."
This simply means that Vista is a basically a faulting program!!!
Any Linux distro or OSX do not ship with antivirus either. That doesn't make them faulty or unsafe to use it. Vista should be safer "regardless" of the presence of the antivirus, otherwise it simply faulty by design.
Software, and algorithms are just like knowledge. Imagine a world where every piece of knowledge (scientific for example) is patented. For example, someone had patented the linear regression algorithm. You need to use it on your research, then you would need to pay to use it. Extend this to all known science, you wouldn't be able to progress. It's true that some part of science is patented, but it's not usually the actual knowledge part, it's instead the precess that uses that knowledge. Software is the same. The general algorithm should not be patented, eventually only the process where you apply/combine those algorithms could, but only if they are truly demonstrated to be new, and groundbreaking. I know there is a fine line here, but a good start would be just to be hypercritic in judging the patent applications and grant them only after a detailed scrutiny.
In any case, I know for sure that if people dedicated effort and money on advancing knowledge instead of making workarounds on someone else work (to avoid patenting) or to invest on absurd patents, the software world should be a much better place.
PalmLinux will be fully backward compatible, so you can use all your old apps with no problems. They will include a 68K emulation layer just for the purpose.
There is a difference. Apple is cool, Linux, well, not yet. Apple consumer strategy is clearly what drove lots of people into buying Macs, a combination of iPod/iTunes and "supercool" features made their products irresistible, usually with a fairly higher sticker price. Dell is different: they are marketing the Ubuntu/Dells in the lower end of the consumer products, as "cheap alternatives". People will not buy them because they are cool, but because they are cheap. What you say would be correct if they would have installed Ubuntu on an the XPS line. I am waiting for Dell's marketing campaign and how they are going to target those machines.
This is why current OS are NOT tailored for students. Pretending Windows + Office will help getting a better education is simply dull. In this regard, I really hope the OLPC will work and may stimulate new development of finally useful educational platform.
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Quote: "The prediction is they will move 10+ million by the end of the year." MS sells way more copies of Windows. By your standards /. should have a post about windows every millisecond. Thank god that does not happen.
The iPhone pretends to run applications which are web-based. So any application which follows web standards will work with an iPhone and any PC. At the same time though the iPhone won't let you pretty much do anything (activate it, transfer music, synchronize it), without not just iTunes, but iTunes for selected OS. I find this quite disturbing, almost a joke, actually. The iPhone, the prototype of the mobile machine that does everything you need without a PC, actually is useless without a companion. My idea of true mobile device is something which does not rely AT ALL on a PC/Mac to work, that can synchronize using open standards with everything, possibly wirelessly, that can access online music stores, that can be activated from the device. Some of these features have been available on phones. Where is the revolution?
Quote: "Use TWO fingers and you can scroll any windows content vertically/horizontally." As previously stated, any laptop can do this. In fact this is native (no additional driver required) under linux. The main difference is that you can scroll with just one finger depending with where you are on the touchpad. Other than that it's a old well established feature.
No. My emphasis on the N was to highlight that the original post had two "n" (Italianna) instead of one (Italiana).
Correction: Fiat: Fabbrica ItaliaNa Automobili Torino
"Hopefully in the future, Apple will begin to support third-party development of real native applications for the iPhone." Did that ever happened for the iPod? No, and so it won't happen either for the iPhone.
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"Take Action Now - It's urgent that you call your State Senator and Assembly representatives on Monday, June 18, at their Albany offices, and tell them they must not weaken New York State's escrow and review requirements. Remind them that the Legislature passed a strong law 2 years ago - they must not give in to pressure by voting machine vendors to undermine those protections.
Find your Assembly member's contact information here:
http://www.assembly.state.ny.us/mem/
(Not sure who your Assembly member is? Click here to search by Zip Code)
Find your State Senator's contact information here:
http://www.senate.state.ny.us/senatehomepage.nsf/
(Not sure who your State Senator is? Click here to search by Zip Code)"
I install Firefox to anybody who asks. I also install the Adblock extension, and explain what it does. People are VERY receptive, so that when they use anything else than Firefox, they complain about the abundance of ads. Extensions can be very useful to the normal user, just need to educate them.
"(and preferably drop my T-Mobile SIM into it and keep my current plan)"
Wasn't the iPhone locked into the AT&T network, so you could not change SIM on it?
They do it simply because their browser is "the best ever"! So the others should adapt accordingly.
... in response to Mr Schwartz. "Jonathan, I wish the above was true. 15 years ago I was the biggest Sun fan. Today I speak as the project leader for another set of open source projects -- OpenBSD and OpenSSH. OpenSSH will be better known to your audience, as it is what they use daily to connect securely to and from their Solaris (or Linux) machines. OpenSSH killed telnet and rlogin, for those who still remember those mechanisms. We give our software completely freely to the world, without even the standard encumberances people see in the GPL or CDDL. Yet when we turn around and ask Sun to give us documentation for the chips on their machines -- chips Sun themselves designed, not via contractors -- Sun drags their feet. Recently we tried to reopen these 10-year-old repeated requests, and once again nothing positive happened. You may remember, because you and David Yen were in an email conversation with us. Lots of nice open words were exchanged, but no action. However, let me give an example of the duplicity of Sun. (I wish I could use a lighter word). Two operating systems run on Sun's latest PCI-e based (smallish) Ultrasparc-III machines, the v215/v245 -- Solaris and OpenBSD. The latter system runs on those machines because the code to support the non-processor chips on the board had to be written after painstaking reverse engineering, because Sun refuses to make available documentation for how these chips are programmed. Now we will readily admit that not every programmer in the world needs to know how to program these chips. But does every programmer in the world need to know how to program every little detail on Sun's processors, in system mode? Sun gets great press out of UltraSPARC being all "open", but what use is supervisor-mode documentation when the rest of the chips that the supervisor-mode code has to communicate with are entirely undocumented??? The press does not spot this problem, but Jonathan, you should clearly understand this is a fallacy. There are two operating systems which surprisingly do not run on the Sun v215/v245 -- Linux and OpenSolaris. OpenSolaris?? Yes -- Sun isn't even open enough to give the OpenSolaris community enough documentation to support their new machines. So I think that Linus is right, and Sun has a long road ahead." Posted by Theo de Raadt on June 13, 2007 at 02:25 AM PDT #
Too bad the 2.5G makes the phone slow (think 56K) when loading AJAX rich content. Have you ever tried to use any webmail written in AJAX on a 56K? It's not pleasant.
So how's that Palm has not brought down any network, but still provides a pretty open platform, including SDK? Is that because Palm OS is ancient?
Please don't flame me for this, it's a genuine question: Does Apache download and apply patches itself automatically? Or are sys administrators more careful and quicker to apply patches as soon as they are released?
Maybe at least knowing what version of Ubuntu you tried would make things a bit clearer. As far as we know you may be trying Ubuntu 4.10.
Can you just make a text file with the command and set it as executable?
You forgot: 8. g) I have to use the command line. This is in fact a major complain people have about Linux. Unfortunately (for them) there are plenty of GUIs around to actually accomplish the same tasks. It'd be nice to know what task the original poster was "forced" to perform from the CLI.
"Faulting an AV-less Vista for not stopping viruses is a bit like faulting a door without a lock for opening when the handle is twisted." This simply means that Vista is a basically a faulting program!!! Any Linux distro or OSX do not ship with antivirus either. That doesn't make them faulty or unsafe to use it. Vista should be safer "regardless" of the presence of the antivirus, otherwise it simply faulty by design.
Just speculation. I am waiting for the real specs.
Please indicate clearly where in the specs you see the Foleo runs on ARM. As far as we know, we don't know anything about RAM, CPU, etc.
Software, and algorithms are just like knowledge. Imagine a world where every piece of knowledge (scientific for example) is patented. For example, someone had patented the linear regression algorithm. You need to use it on your research, then you would need to pay to use it. Extend this to all known science, you wouldn't be able to progress. It's true that some part of science is patented, but it's not usually the actual knowledge part, it's instead the precess that uses that knowledge. Software is the same. The general algorithm should not be patented, eventually only the process where you apply/combine those algorithms could, but only if they are truly demonstrated to be new, and groundbreaking. I know there is a fine line here, but a good start would be just to be hypercritic in judging the patent applications and grant them only after a detailed scrutiny. In any case, I know for sure that if people dedicated effort and money on advancing knowledge instead of making workarounds on someone else work (to avoid patenting) or to invest on absurd patents, the software world should be a much better place.
PalmLinux will be fully backward compatible, so you can use all your old apps with no problems. They will include a 68K emulation layer just for the purpose.
There is a difference. Apple is cool, Linux, well, not yet. Apple consumer strategy is clearly what drove lots of people into buying Macs, a combination of iPod/iTunes and "supercool" features made their products irresistible, usually with a fairly higher sticker price. Dell is different: they are marketing the Ubuntu/Dells in the lower end of the consumer products, as "cheap alternatives". People will not buy them because they are cool, but because they are cheap. What you say would be correct if they would have installed Ubuntu on an the XPS line. I am waiting for Dell's marketing campaign and how they are going to target those machines.
Do you consider using MS Office useful "basic skills"? Or do you think software designed to make you think be more useful instead?
This is why current OS are NOT tailored for students. Pretending Windows + Office will help getting a better education is simply dull. In this regard, I really hope the OLPC will work and may stimulate new development of finally useful educational platform.