I say kudos to nokia - they're (as the review shows) releasing a cool bit of hardware kit and they're going to let the software developement community (both free, open & proprietary) fill in lots of gaps. I hope it works out.
Oh - and rereading the review - it appears the reviewer's "biggest complaint" was the lack of keyboard. That's what seperates a tablet from a tiny laptop retard
Gentoo and Ubuntu ought to be enough for anyone. That's it. No more corporate Linuxes.
What?
What about Debian? (Ubuntu would have trouble without debian to fork every six months)
What about Redhat? (They sponsor alot of stuff that goes into both Gentoo and Ubuntu)
The great thing about linux is that people can go and do their own thing as much as they want - who cares if there's another distro - all the good bits will be ported back to Distro-you-use (tm).
Frankly, I think Oracle Linux would be great (even if I'd never use it). Loads of corporations are vaguely interested in linux to run oracle on to save on the costs of Sun Hardware. An oracle CD they just pop into their drive, where everything just works would make life easier for them and smooth corporate acceptance of other OSS.
Also - anyone thinking the 40 'conspiring' devices makes it impractical to break HDCP/HDMI - think again. It just means 40 (or less) like minded hackers have to get together - not particularly hard to imagine these days.
I couldn't agree with your informative & interesting post more!
Kudos to you for completely ignoring the GP's main point
Another way to look at it is this. Of the times that you connect your ipod to a computer, how many of them do you wish to delete all of the music on your ipod?
There's no point replying to this sort of clap-trap, far, far better to educate the GP about which came first. itunes or the ipod - that will solve all of their problems.
In short - I couldn't agree with you more - Apple can do no wrong.
I absolutely guarantee you that NOT ONE of the people downloading the cracked OS X DVD own a LEGAL copy of Tiger - it's only available with the new iMacs & macbook pros.
I also resent my post being labelled "fanboist comment"
There are companies out their who are very reasonable with the conditions they set on their Intellectual Property - yet people in the "hacking" community continue to abuse their trust.
OS X 10.4.4 is a good example - there are people out there who are patching this product so that it can run on Beige Box PCs, rather then the elegant product it is designed to run.
Typically, a copyrighted download doesn't hurt the copyright holder - but in this case, it most certainly does - as Apple UNFAIRLY will get a bad reputation from bugs on these cheap, cruddy PCs will be blamed on OS X.
The vast majority of mac user's are not interested in Macromedia's products - I mean, who could imagine wanting to run Illustrator, Acrobat and Photoshop at the same time? (and its not like its possible under windows!!!)
The small amount of mac users who are also graphic designers can just continue to use power pcs anyway!
I am so sick of people spreading FUD about Mac Pricing - everyone knows that quality costs a little more and you do (as you pointed out) get OS X - which is worth the price alone!
I mean - it's not like its just standard intel hardware in a pretty box or anything is it?
'provided reviewers with chosen excerpts, not full articles; this was done with entries from both Encyclopaedia Britannica and Wikipedia.['] www.nature.com Making such arbritary decisions, and not detailing this in the original article is not what is expected of such a respectable publication
The article you link to refutes your point.
But this applied as much to criticisms of Wikipedia as of Encyclopaedia Britannica.Because the reviewers were blind to the source of the material they were evaluating, and material from both sources was treated the same way, there is absolutely no reason to think that any errors they made would have systematically altered the results of our inquiry.
And not just the summary (as it was copied & pasted verbatim from the article), but the NYT.
I thought on reading the line " to make robots full members of society" that the article was talking about robotrights. However, the article is just about making plans for standard automation & borderline AI over the next 10 years.
I for one am going to await until this company is taken over by the rightful owners of that name before I bother to get excited by robots.
"In one instance Britannica alleges that we provided a reviewer with material that was not from the Britannica website. We have checked and are confident that this was not the case."
So, its something Brittanica are alleging & Nature are denying - considering Nature were fairly open about this being a blind test, I'm going to believe them.
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An informal Clearware.org poll indicates that 67% of the 66 respondants never or rarely completely read end-user license agreements
:-)
67%? or Perhaps 66.666666667?
I'm still thinking that 33% of respondants lied if they say they always completely read the EULA.
Disregarding for just a moment what a 'tiny laptop retard' might me, two things:
I find it mildly amusing that you point out my lack of comma and in the same sentence make a far larger mistake.
You receive an F for reading comprehension, Whiney
Call me whiney all you like - at least I don't flame people for a simple mistake.
Well Newtons haven't been updated in 8 years and we're still waiting for something different...
2) And - the review did not mention the O/S crashing - just applications crashing. Linux is not the problem here.
Anyway, on to the meat:
Nokia's 770 platform is only just starting. The 770 is available for retail sale, but not really intended for the general public.
There's an upcoming release of the linux derived O/S it runs (in 2006) and Nokia are actively courting developers. (including discounts for gnome hackers)
I say kudos to nokia - they're (as the review shows) releasing a cool bit of hardware kit and they're going to let the software developement community (both free, open & proprietary) fill in lots of gaps. I hope it works out.
Oh - and rereading the review - it appears the reviewer's "biggest complaint" was the lack of keyboard. That's what seperates a tablet from a tiny laptop retard
Gentoo and Ubuntu ought to be enough for anyone. That's it. No more corporate Linuxes.
What?
What about Debian? (Ubuntu would have trouble without debian to fork every six months)
What about Redhat? (They sponsor alot of stuff that goes into both Gentoo and Ubuntu)
The great thing about linux is that people can go and do their own thing as much as they want - who cares if there's another distro - all the good bits will be ported back to Distro-you-use (tm).
Frankly, I think Oracle Linux would be great (even if I'd never use it). Loads of corporations are vaguely interested in linux to run oracle on to save on the costs of Sun Hardware. An oracle CD they just pop into their drive, where everything just works would make life easier for them and smooth corporate acceptance of other OSS.
Here's a movie
Also - anyone thinking the 40 'conspiring' devices makes it impractical to break HDCP/HDMI - think again. It just means 40 (or less) like minded hackers have to get together - not particularly hard to imagine these days.
This is just the perfect story for my username....
:-(
Unfortunately I have nothing to say
JCR,
/.
If you like, I will send the password to this account to you (if you promise to always use it)
It will make life much easier for people reading
Aaah, thanx jcr.
There is no comment that is too obvious to just zoom over your head is there?
Apple can do no better then having a defender like you.
(I agree completely with everything you say!)
Kudos to you for completely ignoring the GP's main pointThere's no point replying to this sort of clap-trap, far, far better to educate the GP about which came first. itunes or the ipod - that will solve all of their problems.
In short - I couldn't agree with you more - Apple can do no wrong.
Do you want me to email my login password to you?
;-)
It would save everyone alot of time if you simply posted using this account
You have NO IDEA what you're talking about.
JCR used to work for apple.
Wow!
You say that like you know him!
I know you've worked at apple, but have you ever met steve?
I absolutely guarantee you that NOT ONE of the people downloading the cracked OS X DVD own a LEGAL copy of Tiger - it's only available with the new iMacs & macbook pros.
I also resent my post being labelled "fanboist comment"
CDs are not the only thing being downloaded.
There are companies out their who are very reasonable with the conditions they set on their Intellectual Property - yet people in the "hacking" community continue to abuse their trust.
OS X 10.4.4 is a good example - there are people out there who are patching this product so that it can run on Beige Box PCs, rather then the elegant product it is designed to run.
Typically, a copyrighted download doesn't hurt the copyright holder - but in this case, it most certainly does - as Apple UNFAIRLY will get a bad reputation from bugs on these cheap, cruddy PCs will be blamed on OS X.
Exactly - you are so right!!!!!
The vast majority of mac user's are not interested in Macromedia's products - I mean, who could imagine wanting to run Illustrator, Acrobat and Photoshop at the same time? (and its not like its possible under windows!!!)
The small amount of mac users who are also graphic designers can just continue to use power pcs anyway!
Exactly! I couldn't agree with you more!
The guys who work at the Apple Stores REALLY are GENII!!!!
Anyone who says questions why genii would work at a low paying job when they could get real work, are JUST SPREADING FUD!!!!
They work at Apple for love, not monetary rewards...
I just couldn't agree with you more!!!!!!
I am so sick of people spreading FUD about Mac Pricing - everyone knows that quality costs a little more and you do (as you pointed out) get OS X - which is worth the price alone!
I mean - it's not like its just standard intel hardware in a pretty box or anything is it?
Exactly right! I couldn't agree with you more!!!!!
I'm not going to let any of this FUD stop me buying a first gen macbook!
Knowing that Apple will simply ship the revisions to me in case of any problems is all I need to know.
Bah!
No AAC, can't connect to ITMS. Lame.
'provided reviewers with chosen excerpts, not full articles; this was done with entries from both Encyclopaedia Britannica and Wikipedia.['] www.nature.com Making such arbritary decisions, and not detailing this in the original article is not what is expected of such a respectable publication
The article you link to refutes your point.
But this applied as much to criticisms of Wikipedia as of Encyclopaedia Britannica.Because the reviewers were blind to the source of the material they were evaluating, and material from both sources was treated the same way, there is absolutely no reason to think that any errors they made would have systematically altered the results of our inquiry.
And not just the summary (as it was copied & pasted verbatim from the article), but the NYT.
I thought on reading the line " to make robots full members of society" that the article was talking about robot rights. However, the article is just about making plans for standard automation & borderline AI over the next 10 years.
I for one am going to await until this company is taken over by the rightful owners of that name before I bother to get excited by robots.
but I think this is a valid complaint by Britannica! They're being attacked for inaccuracies in text they didn't write?
Looking at Nature's formal reply:
"In one instance Britannica alleges that we provided a reviewer with material that was
not from the Britannica website. We have checked and are confident that this was not
the case."
So, its something Brittanica are alleging & Nature are denying - considering Nature were fairly open about this being a blind test, I'm going to believe them.
A. Nothing.
Intel's talking about "Kiosk" PC's - has noone from Intel ever travelled to a developing nation? PC's in Kiosk mode are everywhere allready.
What intel really need to do, is make a cut-down macbook style notebook and take Steve Jobs up on his generous offer to help third world children.