One of my teachers wrote programs for our calculators to solve common basic problems (e.g. Pythag, trig, stats, etc.) and gave them to all the students in his Further Math* class. For our exams calculators didn't need to be cleared, but in the previous years he had also given them an emulator so that the calc wasn't affected by the clearing due to his disillusionment with the VCAA (who set the curicula and exams). He had a rather unusual teaching style that included cutting up composite solids made of clay with a chainsaw (that could be easily heard from 3 classrooms away) and dropping a brick on his hand after wrapping his hand in newspaper to demonstrate impulse and momentum (that one was in physics).
* Further Math is the lowest level of yr 12 math in Vic, Australia and is roughly equivalent to what someone who's unusually good at math might cover in Year 9.
We don't. What we do care about is not pissing off America, since many of us (Australia, Canada, etc.) rely on them to protect us if anyone decides to declare war on us.
It's true that most apps aren't optimized for touch input. Usually there's way around the inability to mouse over / right-click via the keyboard (e.g. Evince), or modifications are made in the port (e.g. rdesktop, which has a full screen button in the same style as most Maemo apps).
Try closer to home - AFAIK, most mobile phone providers NAT them too. It's cheaper for them, and the killer apps for publicly accessible addresses (VOIP, P2P) aren't really in their best interests...
"Personally, given the ubiquity and propensity of life to flourish wherever it can, I would say that the chances for life on this planet are 100 percent. I have almost no doubt about it," Steven Vogt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at University of California Santa Cruz, told Discovery News.
Of course, I imagine you're all picturing the sort of woman who looks like a model and spends half the day doing her makeup and hair, rather than the average American geek girl.
Some of us prefer girls without half an inch of muck on their faces. Also, just cause we're geeks doesn't necessarily mean we want/need our partners to also be geeks.
I use the Windows address bar for this (and for file paths - I don't think I've ever used them for URLs though since Chrome is so much faster). Anyone know of any good alternatives for Ubuntu?
If that were used as evidence, then the defense would be able to simply turn around and ask for the details of the program, or have it analysed/reviewed by an expert witness. Anyone who did that would be up for perjury (and maybe distorting the course of justice, if they have that in your jurisdiction) and get hit pretty hard.
I know one ISP (iiNet) that actually did something similar: instead of making their largest quota unlimited, they made it 1TB then advertised the fact that it was the largest in the country. And being able to monitor your usage is pretty much a given here - even Telstra/Bigpond showed you how much you'd used (at least they did back when I was with them).
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA If you think that it's not going to go over-budget under Labour, you are seriously mistaken. If they actually get this done on budget, I will eat my hat.
Therefore it is guaranteed to go over budget and be ridiculously expensive (unless they decide to tax something else to subsidize it). Liberal may not have promised the same kind of penetration on the same time scale, but at least they considered all of the costs. It's not even off the ground and we're already seeing the costs increase.
The N900 app takes several seconds to take a photo. Part of this seems to be due to the processing that occurs in between. Regardless, I'd say video is still quite away off unless the device is designed for it.
We use that as an example because if you can replace the kernel, you can do/replace pretty much everything else. Phone calls - texting and calls through both GSM/CDMA and XMPP/MSN/Skype/etc. is almost identical - the same interface is used and he contact details are stored in the normal address book. Many/Most of the protocols are implemented through addins. PDA functions - this one is a little vague, not sure what you mean by it. Media player - alternative media players (most based on a mplayer port) mean the N900 supports most formats, and can playback various video streams as well Games - there are many, including ports of old games. There's also DOSBox which provides x86 emulation to run old PC games. Navigation - Mappero is far superior to the builtin map program, having far more info and features. e.g. vocal directions
Linux geeks tinker with a gadget to find out just what they can do with it. After that, they usually automate an application of the ability they found, and put the resulting program in the repositories.
The key points that make it attractive are that the device's functionality is not limited, and (practically) everything is free. This is in comparison to the iPhone, where programs that compete with the native software are forbidden in the app store. Consequently, even if someone can write a better program, nobody can benefit from it.
N900 + TPG $10/month for 200 MB, or $1/month for 50/150 MB (depends on bundling) + whatever you do on wifi
Of course, you might have meant in your country of residence, but that's like someone in Myanmar thinking that one day there just might be broadband. It already exists, you're just in the wrong place. So you can either: a) move b) change the place that you live in for the better c) put up with it
I always laugh when I hear about people paying for phone apps. The N900 has thousands of free FOSS apps, and I'm fairly certain that they're combined functionality exceeds that of all the iPhone apps, both free and paid. There are some things you just can't do on an iPhone, even a jail broken one. e.g. replace the kernel (the alternative Maemo kernel has a lot of useful features)
The correct answer is neither: Ovi apps are rubbish and Debian apps often have issues with the interface (with the exception of the GNU utils, SSH, and anything else intended to run from the terminal) I get all my apps from the Extras and Extras-testing repositories. All of them are free and open source, and there are quite a few superior replacements for the native N900 packages. e.g Faster Package Manager, Leafpad, HDR Capture, etc. Extras-testing is intended to be RC quality, but many apps stay there because the developers couldn't be bothered to promote them. I haven't had problem with any of them, not even the alternative kernel (it says a lot that gaining root acess or replacing the kernel on the N900 is as easy as installing a text editor (and rebooting))
I agree - hybrids are the way to go (unless you want to habe 2 devices). My personal favourite is the new (not yet released) Touchbook. Should be out sometime this month, if they don't postpone it again.
2. Netbook will run Windows and random Windows software.
I would change that to 'your OS of choice'. Netbooks could just as easily run Linux, and would have if it's ARM. The real difference is whether they run a limited OS that makes them an appliance (iOS, Android), or a full desktop OS modified to work with a touch interface (Ubuntu, Win7, etc.) The difference between the 2 is the flexibility and the range of things it can be used for. An appliance is limited to the purposes it was intended for. A computer can do pretty much anything - compile code, run a VM, connect to a vpn, access network shares, etc.
Posted from my N900, which I would consider a netbook if it were 4 times larger.
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One of my teachers wrote programs for our calculators to solve common basic problems (e.g. Pythag, trig, stats, etc.) and gave them to all the students in his Further Math* class. For our exams calculators didn't need to be cleared, but in the previous years he had also given them an emulator so that the calc wasn't affected by the clearing due to his disillusionment with the VCAA (who set the curicula and exams). He had a rather unusual teaching style that included cutting up composite solids made of clay with a chainsaw (that could be easily heard from 3 classrooms away) and dropping a brick on his hand after wrapping his hand in newspaper to demonstrate impulse and momentum (that one was in physics).
* Further Math is the lowest level of yr 12 math in Vic, Australia and is roughly equivalent to what someone who's unusually good at math might cover in Year 9.
We don't. What we do care about is not pissing off America, since many of us (Australia, Canada, etc.) rely on them to protect us if anyone decides to declare war on us.
It's true that most apps aren't optimized for touch input. Usually there's way around the inability to mouse over / right-click via the keyboard (e.g. Evince), or modifications are made in the port (e.g. rdesktop, which has a full screen button in the same style as most Maemo apps).
Try closer to home - AFAIK, most mobile phone providers NAT them too. It's cheaper for them, and the killer apps for publicly accessible addresses (VOIP, P2P) aren't really in their best interests...
The only option would be to build a bullet-proof metal suit with a built-in nuclear power supply.
I think you mean an arc reactor.
You cannot currently create an image on a monitor that uses brown.
Ubuntu begs to differ
This is where I stopped reading:
"Personally, given the ubiquity and propensity of life to flourish wherever it can, I would say that the chances for life on this planet are 100 percent. I have almost no doubt about it," Steven Vogt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at University of California Santa Cruz, told Discovery News.
Chances are 100%. Almost no doubt.
He rounded the 10s place.
Of course, I imagine you're all picturing the sort of woman who looks like a model and spends half the day doing her makeup and hair, rather than the average American geek girl.
Some of us prefer girls without half an inch of muck on their faces. Also, just cause we're geeks doesn't necessarily mean we want/need our partners to also be geeks.
Correlation is not causation
(it had to be said)
Or you could look at the guys that did it first: http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/home/index.htm
I use the Windows address bar for this (and for file paths - I don't think I've ever used them for URLs though since Chrome is so much faster). Anyone know of any good alternatives for Ubuntu?
That cause they used a lossy compression algorithm on it, so for the large part only relevant posts were stored.
If that were used as evidence, then the defense would be able to simply turn around and ask for the details of the program, or have it analysed/reviewed by an expert witness.
Anyone who did that would be up for perjury (and maybe distorting the course of justice, if they have that in your jurisdiction) and get hit pretty hard.
I know one ISP (iiNet) that actually did something similar: instead of making their largest quota unlimited, they made it 1TB then advertised the fact that it was the largest in the country.
And being able to monitor your usage is pretty much a given here - even Telstra/Bigpond showed you how much you'd used (at least they did back when I was with them).
Just go from here and fill out the forms as you go: http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/
The cost is small ($6B/yr for 8 years)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
If you think that it's not going to go over-budget under Labour, you are seriously mistaken. If they actually get this done on budget, I will eat my hat.
The NBN will be implmented by by:
Labour
Therefore it is guaranteed to go over budget and be ridiculously expensive (unless they decide to tax something else to subsidize it).
Liberal may not have promised the same kind of penetration on the same time scale, but at least they considered all of the costs. It's not even off the ground and we're already seeing the costs increase.
The N900 app takes several seconds to take a photo. Part of this seems to be due to the processing that occurs in between. Regardless, I'd say video is still quite away off unless the device is designed for it.
We use that as an example because if you can replace the kernel, you can do/replace pretty much everything else.
Phone calls - texting and calls through both GSM/CDMA and XMPP/MSN/Skype/etc. is almost identical - the same interface is used and he contact details are stored in the normal address book. Many/Most of the protocols are implemented through addins.
PDA functions - this one is a little vague, not sure what you mean by it.
Media player - alternative media players (most based on a mplayer port) mean the N900 supports most formats, and can playback various video streams as well
Games - there are many, including ports of old games. There's also DOSBox which provides x86 emulation to run old PC games.
Navigation - Mappero is far superior to the builtin map program, having far more info and features. e.g. vocal directions
Linux geeks tinker with a gadget to find out just what they can do with it. After that, they usually automate an application of the ability they found, and put the resulting program in the repositories.
The key points that make it attractive are that the device's functionality is not limited, and (practically) everything is free. This is in comparison to the iPhone, where programs that compete with the native software are forbidden in the app store. Consequently, even if someone can write a better program, nobody can benefit from it.
N900 + TPG
$10/month for 200 MB, or $1/month for 50/150 MB (depends on bundling) + whatever you do on wifi
Of course, you might have meant in your country of residence, but that's like someone in Myanmar thinking that one day there just might be broadband. It already exists, you're just in the wrong place.
So you can either:
a) move
b) change the place that you live in for the better
c) put up with it
I always laugh when I hear about people paying for phone apps. The N900 has thousands of free FOSS apps, and I'm fairly certain that they're combined functionality exceeds that of all the iPhone apps, both free and paid. There are some things you just can't do on an iPhone, even a jail broken one. e.g. replace the kernel (the alternative Maemo kernel has a lot of useful features)
The correct answer is neither: Ovi apps are rubbish and Debian apps often have issues with the interface (with the exception of the GNU utils, SSH, and anything else intended to run from the terminal)
I get all my apps from the Extras and Extras-testing repositories. All of them are free and open source, and there are quite a few superior replacements for the native N900 packages. e.g Faster Package Manager, Leafpad, HDR Capture, etc.
Extras-testing is intended to be RC quality, but many apps stay there because the developers couldn't be bothered to promote them. I haven't had problem with any of them, not even the alternative kernel (it says a lot that gaining root acess or replacing the kernel on the N900 is as easy as installing a text editor (and rebooting))
You may find the following helpful:
http://maemo.org/packages/
http://maemo.org/downloads/Maemo5/
http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras
If anyone seriously thinks that an iPhone is more fuctional/powerful than a N900, they're using it wrong.
I agree - hybrids are the way to go (unless you want to habe 2 devices). My personal favourite is the new (not yet released) Touchbook. Should be out sometime this month, if they don't postpone it again.
2. Netbook will run Windows and random Windows software.
I would change that to 'your OS of choice'. Netbooks could just as easily run Linux, and would have if it's ARM.
The real difference is whether they run a limited OS that makes them an appliance (iOS, Android), or a full desktop OS modified to work with a touch interface (Ubuntu, Win7, etc.)
The difference between the 2 is the flexibility and the range of things it can be used for. An appliance is limited to the purposes it was intended for. A computer can do pretty much anything - compile code, run a VM, connect to a vpn, access network shares, etc.
Posted from my N900, which I would consider a netbook if it were 4 times larger.
Then you lose the ability to determine what direction the sounds are coming from.