Yeah, sure. Pretty much any Android tablet has all of that available if you look hard enough.
But.. speaking of ignoring what was said I did NOT recommend running stuff directly on the tablet. Use a REAL F'ING computer for that! A Desktop!
Use the tablet as a remote terminal via VNC, RDP or whatever protocol floats your boat. Here in the modern world we have this really cool thing.. internet without wires! You should put down your acoustic-coupled modem and try it some time!
Yeah, I know. Growing up in a small town where everything interesting was long distance AOL was pretty much off the radar for me back then.
I'm thinking more of the late 90s when a lot of people, having missed the whole BBS days were getting their first experience with online anything with AOL as an internet connection. Remember the "provide your own access plan" I knew a lot of people who used that with their cable modem or college campus ethernet connections and it was the only way they even considered accessing the web.
Laptops suck. They are hard to find driver for.. unless you want to run the sucky Windows home edition and malware that it comes with. And.. they don't last. Buy one this year, you will be buying another next year.
Get a tablet with a good stand and bluetooth keboard.
Get an unlimited data connection for your phone and tether it. Unless you spend all your time in the presence of wifi. If so then maybe you don't need to bother with the phone data.
Get a good, always on internet connection for home.
Get a good desktop with all the processing power needed for your physics simulations and more.
The next part should be ovious.. do all your work on the desktop. If you don't feel like being tied down use VNC or a similar solution from the tablet.
Do it this way and everything pretty much "just works". And... it does so for years! Laptops are such a ripoff!
Wow, how many people still spend $1k on a computer? And a laptop no less... how long before it quits working? Laptops these days are practically disposable. They should have wax paper chasis made by Dixie!
In the United States, where very few are not willfully ignorant of technology, America Online is bringing its own version of the net: America Online, an application that gives computer users access to certain features such as E-Mail, mindless time-killing games and, of course, instant messaging with search functions made for creepy people. While the initiative has clearly profitable goals, it's also been criticized as an "imperialistic" push for AOL colonies, where novice Internet users will grow up thinking their restricted version of the web is the real internet. To fight against that possibility, an 11-year-old developer who goes only by the handle Mr L33t is working on an application that tunnels the "regular" internet through AOL's Instant Messenger, one of the services free to use on America Online's application. This allows AOL users to establish a link to the outside, unrestricted internet, circumventing restrictions.
Great! Now just buy me solar panels and a Tesla battery. Also negotiate with the people who just installed my new shingles so as not to break the waranty. Do all that and I am sold!
waterproof pda playing reality tv episodes in a loop on the bottom of their swimming pool (might not work for all Slashdotters but would work with a good percentage of the population)
There are no reliable studies to compare those two things.
Gunowners rarely actualy end up in shootouts with would-be attackers. The common scenario is would-be attacker starts to walk over, gun owner shows what they have just by pulling it out and holding it. There is no need to even point. Would-be attacker walks away. Everyone lives. Police are not called, nothing is recorded making useful statistics pretty much impossible.
The odds of any one person within a lifetime ever encountering someone who is about to go on a rampage is so small it may as well be zero. Sure, it happens and we see it on the news but there are a lot of people out there occupying a lot of space. It's not very likely to ever happen to you.
Now compare that to the odds of encountering someone wanting to rob, rape or otherwise harm you.
The rampage people are clearly crazy and I would hesitate to even predict how they would react to the site of your weapon. That second, much larger group... they will likely just walk away peacefully. You will pobably never even know what you avoided.
200 light year radius? In 1815 there were still 59 years to go before the birth of Marconni! Even if the author confused radius with diameter that would be pushing it. I doubt many radio transmissions of the kind being used in 1915 made it into interstellar space.
Having an HDMI port is good but it also needs the ability to change resolution and modes when you use it. I don't know about Windows devices, not all Android devices with HDMI out do that.
This is the reason I'm stuck on Jellybean on my Motorola Bionic. Sure, I can update to KitKat with Cyanogenmod (even Lolipop though it is unusably buggy). But.. when I dock it with that all I get is the phone screen blown up. With stock ROM when I dock it the phone's display turns off, the HDMI uses a higher resolution and all the apps switch to tablet mode.
It's like the difference between having an actual laptop vs having a phone with a big magnifying glass in front of the screen.
I hadn't heard of the Padfone. That looks like a decent upgrade path from the Lapdock. I would miss the USB ports though, I actually use those a bit for running an RTL-SDR stick.
Unfortunately I am stuck on Verizon. We are grandfathered into the unlimited data plan still and use it enough that we need to keep it. I know T-Mobile has unlimited data too and I have heard both that Sprint does and does not have it but neither have very good coverage in all the areas we would want to use it in.
"Docking will be wireless and easy. Just walk up to a BT keyboard/mouse and connect to a Miracast device."
I hope not but yes, that does seem to be how it is going. There is no need for wireless in this kind of application. Just stick the device to it's dock by the electrical connectors, hdmi and usb. If the thing is wireless it is going to be less efficient, less secure and less capable.
That miracast dongle... it has another processor in it sucking more electricity from your battery. The wireless signals for both it and the keyboard... they are broadcasting in all directions unlike electricity following a wire. That's more wasted power and a pointless security hole too.
I'm all for wireless where it actually makes sense. I use a bluetooth mouse with my Lapdock for example. The mouse I am dragging around the table. A cord actually is inconvenient. The keyboard and LCD.. not so much. Give me separate wired ports for those or.. if it must be combined (like MHL) then at least make the combined connector capable of doing BOTH USB and HDMI at the same time (unlike MHL).
Also.. what about all the other accessories you can use via USB? Sure.. bluetooth and miracast handle 90% of your use cases but what about USB storage devices for example? Are we going to get bluetooth memory sticks?
Niche uses? I also use the USB host on mine to run an RTL-SDR stick (radio) and to program Arduinos. I know those are not hugely popular things to do but I also know I am not the only one doing that. What about other people's niche uses? The 'U' in USB is for Univeral. Bluetooth and Miracast are only good for specific uses.
Our devices should still have wired connectors and USB host.
I would love to be able to install my x86 desktop aps on my mobile devices, even on my phone! This is all I have ever really wanted from mobile devices.
Sure.. a lot of them will suck cramped into a small screen and a touch interface they were never designed for. But.. they would not be totally unusable when I really need them. If they weren't then nobody would bother with vnc or remote deskop on their phones!
If such an environment was common then new versions of applications would be developed to scale well to both small and large screens and to work well with both keyboard/mouse and touch interfaces. Proving it is possible I have seen some Android devices that do this really well on a lapdock when they switch between their phone and tablet modes. In the tablet mode they don't just blow up the same view, they have different layouts with additional controls enabling more desktop-like features.
This is how mobile computing should have played out in the first place. Blackberry and Symbian plus the later iOS and Android have been only a poor imitation of what could have been and have slowed down mobile development as all the wheels have had to be re-invented.
Over the weekend I had an opportunity to play with a friend's Intel Windows 8 tablet. It was nice using real, full featured applications for once. An x86 Windows phone would definitely tempt me away from Android although I would much prefer a Linux (as in real Linux desktop) phone. That did almost exist once. There was an alternative desktop named GPE which ran on old Zaurus and HP PDAs back in the day. It used GTK on top of X. Qt was available as a separate package. So.. pretty much any Linux software, if you had the source it could be built! It even had a phone dialer although I don't know of any hardware that the dialer could be functional on. Unfortunately the cross-compiler was nearly required a PHD to get working and there weren't enough tools included to build packages on the device itself. It would have been a mini-desktop if it weren't for that.
Maybe someday....
Oh.. also on my wishlist.. these desktop-software running mobile devices should have HDMI out and USB host. When it does everything a desktop does there is no reason we shouldn't be able to plug it in and use it like one when we are not on the go.
Additionally... there is no reason it shouldn't work with something like the Motorola Lapdock. Except.. there should be some upgrades on that device which Motorola never offered. How about a touch screen? Better speakers? And.. why not make that keyboard removable. Then it becomes just a bigger screen for your phone.. your phone is a tablet.. is a laptop. Of course you could still have the HD docking station so it's a desktop too! Unless you want an always on-server then your phone is the only computer you need!
This is how it should be. What we have now sucks in comparison.
It wasn't meant to. It was meant to contradict the falacy that Android users never pay. I never meant to claim that there aren't a whole lot of stupid people out there spending money on stupid shit! iOS is the best scam in town!
I buy Android apps. Although, I admit I usually download the free version first. If I like it I usually buy it. Otherwise I just uninstall it. I rarely buy anything that I don't get to try this way first. I do have apps that have no free versions. Most of them I would buy just to get rid of the ads if I had a choice!
But... I wouldn't necessarily buy them at iOS prices. I do have an iPad too, on which I rarely install anything. My most used app on either platform is Anki, a flashcard program. It's free on Android, not even any ads. On iOS the same app is $50! iOS is such a ripoff!
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Yeah, sure. Pretty much any Android tablet has all of that available if you look hard enough.
But.. speaking of ignoring what was said I did NOT recommend running stuff directly on the tablet. Use a REAL F'ING computer for that! A Desktop!
Use the tablet as a remote terminal via VNC, RDP or whatever protocol floats your boat. Here in the modern world we have this really cool thing.. internet without wires! You should put down your acoustic-coupled modem and try it some time!
But we don't want the DISEASES to benefit. We want to get rid of those!
Yeah, I know. Growing up in a small town where everything interesting was long distance AOL was pretty much off the radar for me back then.
I'm thinking more of the late 90s when a lot of people, having missed the whole BBS days were getting their first experience with online anything with AOL as an internet connection. Remember the "provide your own access plan" I knew a lot of people who used that with their cable modem or college campus ethernet connections and it was the only way they even considered accessing the web.
Laptops suck. They are hard to find driver for.. unless you want to run the sucky Windows home edition and malware that it comes with. And.. they don't last. Buy one this year, you will be buying another next year.
Get a tablet with a good stand and bluetooth keboard.
Get an unlimited data connection for your phone and tether it. Unless you spend all your time in the presence of wifi. If so then maybe you don't need to bother with the phone data.
Get a good, always on internet connection for home.
Get a good desktop with all the processing power needed for your physics simulations and more.
The next part should be ovious.. do all your work on the desktop. If you don't feel like being tied down use VNC or a similar solution from the tablet.
Do it this way and everything pretty much "just works". And... it does so for years! Laptops are such a ripoff!
Wow, how many people still spend $1k on a computer? And a laptop no less... how long before it quits working? Laptops these days are practically disposable. They should have wax paper chasis made by Dixie!
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In the United States, where very few are not willfully ignorant of technology, America Online is bringing its own version of the net: America Online, an application that gives computer users access to certain features such as E-Mail, mindless time-killing games and, of course, instant messaging with search functions made for creepy people. While the initiative has clearly profitable goals, it's also been criticized as an "imperialistic" push for AOL colonies, where novice Internet users will grow up thinking their restricted version of the web is the real internet. To fight against that possibility, an 11-year-old developer who goes only by the handle Mr L33t is working on an application that tunnels the "regular" internet through AOL's Instant Messenger, one of the services free to use on America Online's application. This allows AOL users to establish a link to the outside, unrestricted internet, circumventing restrictions.
Great! Now just buy me solar panels and a Tesla battery. Also negotiate with the people who just installed my new shingles so as not to break the waranty. Do all that and I am sold!
Sometimes things actually run faster in Wine than on Windows.
Yeah! I'm sure a server from the mid 90s is VERY secure! I hope they applied all their updates!
Nah, these days most of those cowboy wannabe types just join the police force and get their jollies that way.
Most non-criminal gun ownwers would much rather just flash the gun and watch their would be attacker walk away before the violence starts.
poison
cut brake lines
waterproof pda playing reality tv episodes in a loop on the bottom of their swimming pool (might not work for all Slashdotters but would work with a good percentage of the population)
There are no reliable studies to compare those two things.
Gunowners rarely actualy end up in shootouts with would-be attackers. The common scenario is would-be attacker starts to walk over, gun owner shows what they have just by pulling it out and holding it. There is no need to even point. Would-be attacker walks away. Everyone lives. Police are not called, nothing is recorded making useful statistics pretty much impossible.
The odds of any one person within a lifetime ever encountering someone who is about to go on a rampage is so small it may as well be zero. Sure, it happens and we see it on the news but there are a lot of people out there occupying a lot of space. It's not very likely to ever happen to you.
Now compare that to the odds of encountering someone wanting to rob, rape or otherwise harm you.
The rampage people are clearly crazy and I would hesitate to even predict how they would react to the site of your weapon. That second, much larger group... they will likely just walk away peacefully. You will pobably never even know what you avoided.
200 light year radius? In 1815 there were still 59 years to go before the birth of Marconni! Even if the author confused radius with diameter that would be pushing it. I doubt many radio transmissions of the kind being used in 1915 made it into interstellar space.
Probably many considering that learning English would probably require making contact with Earth.
Having an HDMI port is good but it also needs the ability to change resolution and modes when you use it. I don't know about Windows devices, not all Android devices with HDMI out do that.
This is the reason I'm stuck on Jellybean on my Motorola Bionic. Sure, I can update to KitKat with Cyanogenmod (even Lolipop though it is unusably buggy). But.. when I dock it with that all I get is the phone screen blown up. With stock ROM when I dock it the phone's display turns off, the HDMI uses a higher resolution and all the apps switch to tablet mode.
It's like the difference between having an actual laptop vs having a phone with a big magnifying glass in front of the screen.
I hadn't heard of the Padfone. That looks like a decent upgrade path from the Lapdock. I would miss the USB ports though, I actually use those a bit for running an RTL-SDR stick.
Unfortunately I am stuck on Verizon. We are grandfathered into the unlimited data plan still and use it enough that we need to keep it. I know T-Mobile has unlimited data too and I have heard both that Sprint does and does not have it but neither have very good coverage in all the areas we would want to use it in.
"Docking will be wireless and easy. Just walk up to a BT keyboard/mouse and connect to a Miracast device."
I hope not but yes, that does seem to be how it is going. There is no need for wireless in this kind of application. Just stick the device to it's dock by the electrical connectors, hdmi and usb. If the thing is wireless it is going to be less efficient, less secure and less capable.
That miracast dongle... it has another processor in it sucking more electricity from your battery. The wireless signals for both it and the keyboard... they are broadcasting in all directions unlike electricity following a wire. That's more wasted power and a pointless security hole too.
I'm all for wireless where it actually makes sense. I use a bluetooth mouse with my Lapdock for example. The mouse I am dragging around the table. A cord actually is inconvenient. The keyboard and LCD.. not so much. Give me separate wired ports for those or.. if it must be combined (like MHL) then at least make the combined connector capable of doing BOTH USB and HDMI at the same time (unlike MHL).
Also.. what about all the other accessories you can use via USB? Sure.. bluetooth and miracast handle 90% of your use cases but what about USB storage devices for example? Are we going to get bluetooth memory sticks?
Niche uses? I also use the USB host on mine to run an RTL-SDR stick (radio) and to program Arduinos. I know those are not hugely popular things to do but I also know I am not the only one doing that. What about other people's niche uses? The 'U' in USB is for Univeral. Bluetooth and Miracast are only good for specific uses.
Our devices should still have wired connectors and USB host.
I would love to be able to install my x86 desktop aps on my mobile devices, even on my phone! This is all I have ever really wanted from mobile devices.
Sure.. a lot of them will suck cramped into a small screen and a touch interface they were never designed for. But.. they would not be totally unusable when I really need them. If they weren't then nobody would bother with vnc or remote deskop on their phones!
If such an environment was common then new versions of applications would be developed to scale well to both small and large screens and to work well with both keyboard/mouse and touch interfaces. Proving it is possible I have seen some Android devices that do this really well on a lapdock when they switch between their phone and tablet modes. In the tablet mode they don't just blow up the same view, they have different layouts with additional controls enabling more desktop-like features.
This is how mobile computing should have played out in the first place. Blackberry and Symbian plus the later iOS and Android have been only a poor imitation of what could have been and have slowed down mobile development as all the wheels have had to be re-invented.
Over the weekend I had an opportunity to play with a friend's Intel Windows 8 tablet. It was nice using real, full featured applications for once. An x86 Windows phone would definitely tempt me away from Android although I would much prefer a Linux (as in real Linux desktop) phone. That did almost exist once. There was an alternative desktop named GPE which ran on old Zaurus and HP PDAs back in the day. It used GTK on top of X. Qt was available as a separate package. So.. pretty much any Linux software, if you had the source it could be built! It even had a phone dialer although I don't know of any hardware that the dialer could be functional on. Unfortunately the cross-compiler was nearly required a PHD to get working and there weren't enough tools included to build packages on the device itself. It would have been a mini-desktop if it weren't for that.
Maybe someday....
Oh.. also on my wishlist.. these desktop-software running mobile devices should have HDMI out and USB host. When it does everything a desktop does there is no reason we shouldn't be able to plug it in and use it like one when we are not on the go.
Additionally... there is no reason it shouldn't work with something like the Motorola Lapdock. Except.. there should be some upgrades on that device which Motorola never offered. How about a touch screen? Better speakers? And.. why not make that keyboard removable. Then it becomes just a bigger screen for your phone.. your phone is a tablet.. is a laptop. Of course you could still have the HD docking station so it's a desktop too! Unless you want an always on-server then your phone is the only computer you need!
This is how it should be. What we have now sucks in comparison.
Sell
Confiscate
Sell again
Sounds pretty bright to me!
I would imagine that he can afford some pretty bad ass security. Maybe attacking him can help thin their ranks a bit.
It wasn't meant to. It was meant to contradict the falacy that Android users never pay. I never meant to claim that there aren't a whole lot of stupid people out there spending money on stupid shit! iOS is the best scam in town!
Of course not! This is Slashdot! The only relationships here are between player and videogame character... consumated in mother's basement!
I buy Android apps. Although, I admit I usually download the free version first. If I like it I usually buy it. Otherwise I just uninstall it. I rarely buy anything that I don't get to try this way first. I do have apps that have no free versions. Most of them I would buy just to get rid of the ads if I had a choice!
But... I wouldn't necessarily buy them at iOS prices. I do have an iPad too, on which I rarely install anything. My most used app on either platform is Anki, a flashcard program. It's free on Android, not even any ads. On iOS the same app is $50! iOS is such a ripoff!