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Yes I did 1024 to simulate the tablets. I'm going to try switching from openjdk-6 to sun.

EDIT: still no better. sun-java6-jdk is in the Ubuntu partner repo for maverick now though

The emulator is unusably slow on my Core2Duo. Launching the browser spikes 100% cpu then timesout. Anybody have better luck on a modern i7?

Actually Engadget are sticklers for attribution, when reblogging an article they sometimes have two links; both {Via} and up the chain to {Source}

It is hard to see it if you are not used to the page design. I do find the pages heavy on engadget. (which always cause problems when demoed on mobiles tee hee)

That is an old gtk theme. The GTK3 look fits better with the new titlebar

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jakubsteiner/5201953378/sizes/o...

There's a great book called Seven Languages in Seven Weeks that teaches this way of thinking to broaden your horizons.

The languages discussed are Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure, and Haskell

http://pragprog.com/titles/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-w...

The Atrix runs Android 2.2 (Froyo) which shipped last May. I was just talking about CES because we've been bombarded the past week

Firefox overtook IE in Europe recently (38%), and it wasn't at the expense of Chrome which is higher in the EU than in the US (15% v 12.5%)

FUD. All the Tegra 2 stuff at CES was hardware accelerated and the Motorola Atrix even played video @1080p over the hdmi port

Google dropped their own O3D plugin to adopt the open standard WebGL. They also sunsetted Google Gears to push HTML5 offline storage (some say prematurely)

They also based their browser around Webkit which is promoted by their main rival Apple (although based on the original KHTML) and many Google engineers are bullish about the Apple endorsed LLVM for the Portable Native Client code.

I'm sure it will sell well, and I know how much current iPhone users hate the AT&T network, but after four generations of iPhones are there really that many people who wanted one that have been holding back?

In the UK you can get iPhones on 5 networks as well as unlocked, yet Android is still growing in a similar pattern. The whole pie is growing rapidly though it is hard to tell. Mmmm, pie.

Thank you for following up. Much of that will be the rotary drive and unfair to compare to an SSD.

For what it is worth, I do like Intel, my Core 2 Duo is so good it will tide me over until Ivy Bridge (22nm).

Augmented Reality

If true I am impressed, I thought the accompanying chipset pushed the baby Atoms up to ~12w total.

Anyway, the Tegra 2 is <2w for complete SoC including the both cores, nvidia gfx, ram and 1Gb storage.

e.g. http://www.netbooknews.com/4891/nvidia-tegra-2-module-fits-o...

TBH, T2 is from 2009, we know Tegra 3 is done and they are already working on Tegra 4 from an interview with the CEO last year

Show me an Intel device that compares with a 2W ARM cpu.

People have been complaining for years that open-source is always designed by committee and lacking a coherent vision.

It still has all the benefits of trust, forkability, hackability and control over your own future.

Yeah my old man actually asked me to install it after getting slowed down by viruses. All he needs is Chrome and VLC. The little thing pops up when he plugs in a camera too. Bosh.

Linux is a way of life, like healthy eating or meditation, and it is not for everyone.

When a new version of something open-source unfolds it is not because Christmas is around the corner or some other marketing bullshit; someone has poured their love into their work to make it a little bit faster, safer and shinier, and they want to share it with the world in the name of progress

We are playing the long game, like physics and maths before us, open-source will still be here in 1,000 years long after the name of Microsoft has faded.

Join us, or not, as you will

NaCl works on both ARM and x86 using the same downloadable bytecode. The long term goal seems to be to translate the bytecode in the client using a sandboxed LLVM to target the local architecture

See the following video from the recent LLVM Developers' Meeting

Portable Native Client, David Sehr, Google [mp4,269mb] http://www.llvm.org/devmtg/2010-11/videos/Sehr_NativeClient-...

Yes the memory usage in 0.3.3 is much better. I don't know how much is node and how much is the switch to v8 3

Although https is broken in git at the moment due to a rewrite

Actually, it is said that there are more slaves today than at any point in history

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=859770

Sometimes, when I think no one is looking, I shout "Arch!" just in case I'm on a holodeck

You can see how much they have moved in the past 12 months in this graph. Project this forward 5 years [flash warning]

http://gs.statcounter.com/?PHPSESSID=nv37oj3f3ovned6v8hr2mlp...

Also, Greenland is missing :)

Pretty strong correlation with democracy

They are also working on new Monospace font which should be ready in few months

If you look in the Ubuntu repos for a package called gtk-recordmydesktop I believe that is popular for making screencasts.

If you want to edit the video I think PiTiVi is installed by default. I hear OpenShot is also good for beginners.

Tyler Durden! EDIT: Oh nvm I see from the gravatar that the analyst cited is using a pseudonym.

I just watched a great talk about Scala yesterday by Dean Wampler called "Seductions of Scala"

http://bit.ly/hTwYm4

I've never felt comfortable about functional programming, (I still have nightmares about Prolog from my AI class at uni), but the way Scala mixes OO with the conciseness of FP felt good.

The Actor message model is ripped straight from Erlang, which is well respected, and features liked mixins appealed to my C++ heart.

Scala is on the list of stuff to tinker with over xmas now along with node.js and Go .

That is a string bet and would get you thrown out of any real card game. Despite the fact they do it in every movie.

Oracle owns the trademark to JavaScript now too. We are going to have to call it ECMAScript to be safe.