There is a lot of confusion here, and even worst, people don't seem to know what they are talking about... In order to publish your work in Physical Review journals you don't have to pay a dime. It's free to submit. You only need to pay if you want color images in the printed version (it's free for Online only color images).
The idea of refunds, or charging for publication as a way to select publication is just non-sense. You don't need to refund something you don't pay in first place. Selection of papers is done through peer-review, a hard enough process the get through, that money isn't really the issue.
Why do we have multicore processors? Why do they work so much better in multitasking? Because they are simply multiple brains at work. A single core, no matter how fast it runs, can only do as much.
Please, tell me how making the battery swappable would compromise the size of the laptop. You can easily make ultrathin batteries this days, which can be integrated to be fully swappable. Your argument doesn't hold up.
As of getting a subnotebook, the all point of it is to really get it for its portability and usefulness. While I think getting rid of the DVD drive is a good thing (you can always carry an external one), having a fixed battery is bad, mostly for a portable device.
What happens if your battery goes dead? You throw away the all thing? You pay for expensive service to install a new one?
For many people swapping batteries are just a way to keep going with their work.
TFA goes a long way suggesting the GPhone will sport Opera Mini as its default browser. Although it will be possible to run any piece of software (according to Sergei Brin), in its current form, the Android platform already has a quite capable browser, based on WebKit. I can't see what Opera Mini can do that it's not possible within the built in browser. I was testing it yesterday on the Android emulator and the browser is both fast and accurate in rendering. I am sure Opera will make a Gphone version, but I bet Mozilla will too. In other words, it won't matter what browser will be ported, because the user will have a great deal of choice.
Very Limited indeed. With the PC you can edit documents, add applications, "copy and paste". Things (among many others) you can't do with the Apples. The iPhone/iPod touch aren't really proper computers just for this reason.
So again, why comparing those things together? I still don't get the comparison.
I am curious to see how you can use this tiny PC as a phone, or at least how in the world you can use it by carrying around like a phone. You don;t seem to realize that with that PC you also need to carry around a monitor, a keyboard and mouse.
"the OLPC comes with OpenOffice and Gimp"
No, it doesn't. They both fall into the "bloated" software category, and they would run really poorly on the device (possibly the GIMP, for sure openoffice.org.
Islam was all alive and well when the Islamic science was at its best (about middle age). As other said, it was the fundamentalism and traditionalism in many of such countries that killed the science.
Think about stems cells research in the US these days, and what things other than science (politics and religion) made an impact to it.
"None of the math or physics folks I work with would think about using Excel for their data."
They compile their own programs in Fortran.
Engineers though love to make spreadsheets in Excel. It's easy and you can do a lot of simple calculations.
Call it pragmatism vs purism.
"all settings and stored mail can be easily ported in a single folder."
The same is true for Thunderbird.
Windows Vista Users\\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird
Windows 2000, XP Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Thunderbird
Windows NT WINNT\Profiles\\Application Data\Thunderbird
Windows 98, ME Windows\Application Data\Thunderbird
Mac OS X ~/Library/Thunderbird
Linux and Unix systems ~/.thunderbird
The problem is that other than the kernel, everything else in the current Foleo is specific for that platform. It won't share about nothing with the PalmLinux that will go on Palm smartphones. Keeping in mind that no devices have been sold, open sourcing the Foleo platform makes as much sense as open-sourcing a prototype. The PalmLinux will be very different, probably will make extensive use of Java. So even if open-sourced, many application designed for the foleo will need to be eavily rewritten for the new platform. Remember, if it would have at least a little bit of compatibility with the future products, they would never have killed it.
The Linux platform the Foleo was built upon is different from the one they are currently developing for the next line of smartphone. Thus it is quite expensive and resource intensive for them to maintain two lines. The Foleo II will have the same OS powering both the Foleo and the smarthphone.
In addition to this, the Foleo had a very limited amount of application that could run out of the box, making it not very practical/useful to use. Finally, in the current generation one it only support tethering with a Palm phone.
In few words: a very restrictive platform, a dead end for Palm. Let's hope generation two will be better.
Palm Treo can run on the AT&T network, and SDK are fully available. AT&T has nothing to do with it. Blaming them was a lame way for Mr. Jobs to skip the question.
Isn't this the issue really? A monolithic brain would be much faster in recollecting and using data. A microkernel brain (relying on gadgets for services) would have to deal with different gadgets to collect the same data and it would be use to access such devices. Not counting that different gadgets would not necessarily share data with each other (your laptop with your mp3 player, or with your PDA), immediately.
So according to Linus, the old school of relying on a monolithic brain would probably be faster and probably more efficient, although a bit dirtier (misplaced wedding anniversaries, a known bug in the male population). After all it worked for centuries...
This opens up a totally new meaning to nanotechnology. Considering all the hype around the iphone, next time I will hear someone talking about some nanotech breakthrough (new type of nano-sized materials), I will immediately think of it as something that originated in the Apple Nano. As for us, materials scientists, we just have to acknowledge that Apple was truly revolutionary in nanotechnology. Without the iPod Nano, it seems there would have been no nano-technology.
Sigh.
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There is a lot of confusion here, and even worst, people don't seem to know what they are talking about... In order to publish your work in Physical Review journals you don't have to pay a dime. It's free to submit. You only need to pay if you want color images in the printed version (it's free for Online only color images).
The idea of refunds, or charging for publication as a way to select publication is just non-sense. You don't need to refund something you don't pay in first place. Selection of papers is done through peer-review, a hard enough process the get through, that money isn't really the issue.
Quote: "If they make the next-gen eee an inch or so wider for the same reason, only with a decent screen (even if it is not as good as OLPC's) then I would settle for that." http://eeesite.net/2008/03/asus-announces-next-generation-eee-pc.html
Here: http://blog.mycintosh.com/blog_pics/open_ms_gross.jpg
What would be a truly sincere support of interoperability and open standards? For one, full support of OpenDocument.
Why do we have multicore processors? Why do they work so much better in multitasking? Because they are simply multiple brains at work. A single core, no matter how fast it runs, can only do as much.
Please, tell me how making the battery swappable would compromise the size of the laptop. You can easily make ultrathin batteries this days, which can be integrated to be fully swappable. Your argument doesn't hold up. As of getting a subnotebook, the all point of it is to really get it for its portability and usefulness. While I think getting rid of the DVD drive is a good thing (you can always carry an external one), having a fixed battery is bad, mostly for a portable device.
I imagine that working with screwdrivers in an intercontinental flights (or in any "on the run" trips) will be the next big "Apple" thing. Very posh.
What happens if your battery goes dead? You throw away the all thing? You pay for expensive service to install a new one? For many people swapping batteries are just a way to keep going with their work.
... Windows would have been long dead.
TFA goes a long way suggesting the GPhone will sport Opera Mini as its default browser. Although it will be possible to run any piece of software (according to Sergei Brin), in its current form, the Android platform already has a quite capable browser, based on WebKit. I can't see what Opera Mini can do that it's not possible within the built in browser. I was testing it yesterday on the Android emulator and the browser is both fast and accurate in rendering. I am sure Opera will make a Gphone version, but I bet Mozilla will too. In other words, it won't matter what browser will be ported, because the user will have a great deal of choice.
This is no iPhone (which is Safari only...).
Apparently reading the tech specs requires too much of an effort for lots of /. readers.
From the article, The N810 uses an Arm 400MHz processor, versus the 320MHz used by the N800.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/17/nokia-n810-gets-official/
Funny that the main sponsor is the Italian Highway Patrol (Polizia Stradale). I wonder how official that sponsor is....
Very Limited indeed. With the PC you can edit documents, add applications, "copy and paste". Things (among many others) you can't do with the Apples. The iPhone/iPod touch aren't really proper computers just for this reason. So again, why comparing those things together? I still don't get the comparison.
I am curious to see how you can use this tiny PC as a phone, or at least how in the world you can use it by carrying around like a phone. You don;t seem to realize that with that PC you also need to carry around a monitor, a keyboard and mouse.
"the OLPC comes with OpenOffice and Gimp" No, it doesn't. They both fall into the "bloated" software category, and they would run really poorly on the device (possibly the GIMP, for sure openoffice.org.
Islam was all alive and well when the Islamic science was at its best (about middle age). As other said, it was the fundamentalism and traditionalism in many of such countries that killed the science. Think about stems cells research in the US these days, and what things other than science (politics and religion) made an impact to it.
In the Newton you could actually add apps, or even simply edit documents. Amazingly, you could do "cut and paste".
All things (and many others) you cannot do with the iPhone. I fail to see how the iPhone can be the new Newton.
"None of the math or physics folks I work with would think about using Excel for their data." They compile their own programs in Fortran. Engineers though love to make spreadsheets in Excel. It's easy and you can do a lot of simple calculations. Call it pragmatism vs purism.
To all people in science and engineering (I know lots of them) using Excel to analyze their data...
"all settings and stored mail can be easily ported in a single folder." The same is true for Thunderbird. Windows Vista Users\\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird Windows 2000, XP Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Thunderbird Windows NT WINNT\Profiles\\Application Data\Thunderbird Windows 98, ME Windows\Application Data\Thunderbird Mac OS X ~/Library/Thunderbird Linux and Unix systems ~/.thunderbird
The problem is that other than the kernel, everything else in the current Foleo is specific for that platform. It won't share about nothing with the PalmLinux that will go on Palm smartphones. Keeping in mind that no devices have been sold, open sourcing the Foleo platform makes as much sense as open-sourcing a prototype. The PalmLinux will be very different, probably will make extensive use of Java. So even if open-sourced, many application designed for the foleo will need to be eavily rewritten for the new platform. Remember, if it would have at least a little bit of compatibility with the future products, they would never have killed it.
The Linux platform the Foleo was built upon is different from the one they are currently developing for the next line of smartphone. Thus it is quite expensive and resource intensive for them to maintain two lines. The Foleo II will have the same OS powering both the Foleo and the smarthphone. In addition to this, the Foleo had a very limited amount of application that could run out of the box, making it not very practical/useful to use. Finally, in the current generation one it only support tethering with a Palm phone. In few words: a very restrictive platform, a dead end for Palm. Let's hope generation two will be better.
Palm Treo can run on the AT&T network, and SDK are fully available. AT&T has nothing to do with it. Blaming them was a lame way for Mr. Jobs to skip the question.
Isn't this the issue really? A monolithic brain would be much faster in recollecting and using data. A microkernel brain (relying on gadgets for services) would have to deal with different gadgets to collect the same data and it would be use to access such devices. Not counting that different gadgets would not necessarily share data with each other (your laptop with your mp3 player, or with your PDA), immediately. So according to Linus, the old school of relying on a monolithic brain would probably be faster and probably more efficient, although a bit dirtier (misplaced wedding anniversaries, a known bug in the male population). After all it worked for centuries...
This opens up a totally new meaning to nanotechnology. Considering all the hype around the iphone, next time I will hear someone talking about some nanotech breakthrough (new type of nano-sized materials), I will immediately think of it as something that originated in the Apple Nano. As for us, materials scientists, we just have to acknowledge that Apple was truly revolutionary in nanotechnology. Without the iPod Nano, it seems there would have been no nano-technology. Sigh.