The folks that need to worry about openmoko are the folks at Palm, not Apple. Since the current version of the neo1973 is aimed at developers, one can assume it will be rough around the edges, and probably crash fairly often. Like a Treo. Shoot - if someone wrote an application for the neo1973 that made it spontaneously reboot every other day, they could honestly claim to have written a PalmOS emulator. Most Treo loyalists (like me) are only staying with Palm because they have third party applications that will never show up on an iPhone (for example, VNC), but there is no love lost between Treo users and Palm. Palm has been promising a new linux-basaed OS to replace PalmOS since Bill and Monica were sharing late night pizza, but the release date is always about 1 year away. Once there are some unstable, poorly written third party applications available for the openmoko platform, Treo users will defect in droves.
No they weren't, they were discovered in a lab. See the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
How the hell does someone who literally makes up pure bullshit get moded informative.
Perhaps because he knows more about it than you
apparently do. See, for example, the press
release for the anouncement of the 1996 Nobel Prize
in chemistry. Kroto was motivated to do the
work in order to explain the nature of dust surrounding
eveloved stars. See
http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1996/pre ss.html
Be careful buddy. If the standard of good science is that it has to be "useful" then I think you'll find that a lot of the funding for those fancy telescopes you love so much will quickly dry up. I haven't heard of a single useful thing that any astronomer has done in my lifetime.
The discovery of Fullerenes and carbon nanotubes arose
from studies of the dust surrounding a particular Asymptotic Giant Banch Star (IRC+10216). That was pretty useful.
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You're right, my comparison was poor. It's more like going up to the attic, and setting fire to all your money.
Building the ISS is a step towards traveling to Mars in the same sense that going to your attic is a step towards traveling to the Moon.
The folks that need to worry about openmoko are the folks at Palm, not Apple. Since the current version of the neo1973 is aimed at developers, one can assume it will be rough around the edges, and probably crash fairly often. Like a Treo. Shoot - if someone wrote an application for the neo1973 that made it spontaneously reboot every other day, they could honestly claim to have written a PalmOS emulator. Most Treo loyalists (like me) are only staying with Palm because they have third party applications that will never show up on an iPhone (for example, VNC), but there is no love lost between Treo users and Palm. Palm has been promising a new linux-basaed OS to replace PalmOS since Bill and Monica were sharing late night pizza, but the release date is always about 1 year away. Once there are some unstable, poorly written third party applications available for the openmoko platform, Treo users will defect in droves.
Perhaps because he knows more about it than you apparently do. See, for example, the press release for the anouncement of the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Kroto was motivated to do the work in order to explain the nature of dust surrounding eveloved stars. See http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1996/pre ss.html
The discovery of Fullerenes and carbon nanotubes arose from studies of the dust surrounding a particular Asymptotic Giant Banch Star (IRC+10216). That was pretty useful.
It's amazing to read complete sentences written by someone named Bush. Kinda like walking into your living room and finding a dog playing the piano.