They have Android smartphones... I'm very much wondering how this service will ever be able to work between the plentiful applications, including third-browsers (plus Flash support on 2.2). I imagine that the power user, at least, will have no trouble getting around it; the block won't be total either way.
I know about five (non-techies) that got Nook Colors and a few people that got Tabs (3 to be exact). It´s probably partially because of the stronghold Verizon holds in my area so AT&T isn´t worth it... there is literally no AT&T service within a 10 mile radius of my house and school. I only know one person who got an iPad; well someone that posted on Facebook. I´m not sure I get the original argument.
I am trying something similar; I have screenshots taken of my screen and stored at a regular interval to a folder. Lately I've just been looking back to see how much I stayed on productive activities and such, but they may be good for some sort of statistical analysis later. I just wrote a few line bash script to accomplish this.
Could it be that websites like del.icio.us and StumbleUpon generally have better sharing methods already than e-mail, which is not as quick of a method? Sites that are dedicated to sharing generally have bookmarklets, browser toolbars, and other programs to make it easier, whereas e-mail is something that it may be easier to do with AddThis.
¨...a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest¨ -Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
Mine was very gradual to the point where I´m not sure how to answer it. I remember from an early age playing with software like Trillian Pro and Frontpage (express maybe too?) and seeing what everything did and watching the HTML change. I didn´t have Internet access very often (I was restricted on when I could dial in on my old Windows 95 and later 98 boxes), so I never hosted anything. But when I was online I started finding JavaScript snippets and starting playing with them and started figuring out what they did to the point where I was starting to do programming that way by the time I was nine or ten.
The first time I specifically felt like I was programming was when friend when I was nine showed me an old QBasic book he had found. He showed me some little programs he had written and that night I spent all night on our old Windows 3.1 computer seeing what I could do with it. I just made little text adventure games and math equation solvers.
Then once I we got DSL around when I was 11 I started to hang on USENET and IRC (older technologies of the time, but they were cool to me) where some folks introduced me to Python.
Hacker News is the only thing I am guaranteed to read every day. I will occasionally click over to Google News if I wish to know what is going on in the world or Slashdot if I need something else to look at. But Hacker News usually satisfies me in knowing what is most important to me in the world, which has the same basic tech emphasis as here; the other content that shows up from time-to-time usually matches what I wish to read about fairly well.
I know about five Jewish families that also celebrate Christmas as a non-religious holiday--the only Jewish families I know. I´d say the secular Christmas holiday is common enough in the American culture to not offend all that many people.
The kind of people that most e-mail newsletters appeal to are probably the ones that also don´t know how to use syndication feeds. I know my parents (and I´m assuming more of their generation) love getting various store advertisements and so forth through e-mail newsletters and actually look at nearly every one; RSS would probably be more useful, but my dad has never caught on to the format for other stuff. Putting it in Thunderbird like his e-mail works for him, but there is no real content he´s interested in.
I'm beginning to see Linux as simple a broad open platform that is very customizable to individual needs. The idea of the spanning, generally somewhat similar but incompatible enough to be a nuisance, problematic because you have to install it on your own in virtually all cases, desktop Linux is a dying breed. I say this as a sole user of desktop Linux for nearly ten years (currently typing in CrunchBang, a Debian respin).
Why? The places where Linux has slowly started to spin are independent ecosystems each spun from Linux. This has slowly been becoming the case in the mobile sphere. But the mobile OSs that are winning are not the ones that are much codeshared with desktop Linux like Maemo, but those that exist in independent ecosystems like webOS and Android, not to mention the open source devices like Kindles and Tom Toms that you never think about the OS on.
Even the main Linux distros for desktops and similar x86 devices are beginning to separate. Ubuntu is looking at alternatives to the X server. Chrome OS has the possibility to make inroads which is not a traditional distro in any sense. Linux as a kernel is becoming something diverse that can be respun to many different uses.
Used to, the Linux landscape was fairly consistent. Mobile devices that ran the Linux kernel were using much of the same code and software as the desktop Linux distros. For example, Dillo was a web browser used on Linux ports to mobile devices and the desktop. I had mobile Linux devices in the past that ran Pidgin.
A country-wide move would make Linux being learnt in school much more useful. However, if the systems used in school are low powered and using software like, say, LXDE and then moving to Compiz-powered GNOME in situations where the specs work, would anything be accomplished?
It is still interesting to me how Android doesn't show up on web usage shares whereas iOS does; my website reports far more Android share than iOS (and I'm on Android now).
My netbook running Puppy Linux 4.3 boots from power button to connected wifi ready to go in less than ten seconds. It feels just about instant, although I've never timed it. I've used that exact same disc on machines as old as a K6 that I can't imagine trying to run XP on... and it still runs pretty darn well.
He is obviously expressing surprise at who it was. Just because the person may have not been a role model or the brightest person in general, however, does not mean all of their ideas must be thrown out. If you disregarded the ideas of anyone who believed or did something you disagreed with, you´d only have yourself to look at.
Mine isn´t speed. I find myself typing just as quickly on a virtual keyboard, but it just starts to get overly tedious and annoying because of the extra level of focus it requires. If I´m typing anything more than a couple of sentences I quickly become irate from it...
I used to dedicate a lot of time to it and be active in the Wikipedia/Wikimedia channels on IRC. I would mostly add articles on the needed articles pages... just start a few paragraph stubs; or in some cases I would extend stubs. I´ve felt it harder to edit lately, although I have enjoyed working with Wikimedia Commons more...
One cold night, when the temperature was just at that comfortable temperature below freezing, clouds began to form in the heavens. Before long, these clouds let forth a surplus of unique, sticky snowflakes. These snowflakes came to litter the ground. A child looked out and observed his frontyard which had been transformed into a winter wonderland. Rushing outside, he rolled the snow into 3 large orbs descending in size; thus he made the snow into the likeness of a man. The sun was shining warm as he worked. All was happy.
However, as the sun continued to come out, the falling snow quickly turned to rain. The rain came down upon the snow, and working with the sunlight, the snow quickly went away. As the snow disappeared, so too did the snowman. The snowman bore a slow death as he melted to the ground. Such sorrow was wrought, until the final death had at last approached.
I´m more concerned with the fact that it only stores the first eight characters. Does anyone know if this is common? I often use very long password strings that begin with something simple... like I may use the first line of a song (e.g. myformerhopesarefledmyterrornowbegins). I figured that it was exponentially harder to crack a longer password so I never bothered with diverse characters and capitalization.
I tend to just buy a copy (that I keep unopened usually) and download a copy from torrents if it´s DRM´d. That makes it much simpler for me, but I still know I didn´t just steal it.
I definitely liked the idea of fish. I tried using for a little while when I first came across it a few years ago, but it´s new features were outweighed by simple things I had become use to in Bash such as operators like && to run commands at the same time and the keyboard short-cuts (Ctrl+A, Ctrl+U, etc.).
I have no tolerance for products that have ads and I pay for them. Nowadays, a lot of times paying means simple ¨removing¨ ads. This is a product that I can achieve in some ways for free. Why should I both pay for it and experience ads.
Is there a practical reason for the limit? I tend to switch to tethering over Verizon 3G for large downloads as it is faster than my ADSL connection. I don't have an iPhone, but I can't imagine the benefit of a potentially slower connection to download something.