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« on: June 15, 2011, 05:38:57 pm »
Since I just posted it on IRC, I might as well link it here. This article has the video Scout linked above, and talks a bit about it.
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« on: June 15, 2011, 05:31:58 pm »
Yes, you can see that this is just an alternative really for the tablets. Tablet's are really for people who want to surf the web, do email, watch movies, and that sort of stuff.. like an entertainment device. With a touch screen. Also, yeah I would not like to upgrade my $1500 gaming rig to a tablet-optimized OS, so I think its safe to say that your better off getting a tablet with OS 8 on it. The GUI is much simpler than that of android being that the apps are there instantly, and no 'icons' so to speak. I think that windows 8 is an ingenious design for this market and I think that it will be a great success for those who seek the tablet market. Something this can do that the Android doesn't very elegantly is true side-by-side apps. But what do I know? I haven't played with side-by-side apps on android. Maybe it's better on it? Android is a wonderful os upon itself but I think that windows 8 might be a serious competitor because of the engineering they put into it and also not to mention how there is still the classic desktop available, something that lacks on all android/iOS touch devices. I also plan to buy the 'dell peju' tablet supposedly for $300 with wifi. I don't disagree with you that a tablet is good for some people, just that I personally don't want it. It looks to be a nice tablet OS that could seriously compete with Android and iOS. I don't know that the Windows 7 desktop adds much to the tablet experience- it's clunky to use with touch- but all in all Windows 8 seems nice for tablets. It's Windows 8 running on desktops that I have concerns about. And scout, dont forget CSS. Also, just because these are only developed with these languages, doesn't mean that they are necessairly arn't good. Take a look at what google did with their logo that one day when they made the balls bouncy and when you put your courser near the balls they moved away from it. That was (to some people) very fun, and (others hated it).
That's not really what I was getting at (don't know about Scout). It's not that you can't have good applications developed through nothing but HTML5, JS, and CSS- it's that it severely limits the possibilities for application developers. I get that a lot of people know HTML/CSS/JS: what about those who don't, but know some other language that they use to write Windows software? What about those who do but prefer not to use them?
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« on: June 15, 2011, 12:02:53 pm »
I'm a little disturbed about what is known about Windows 8 so far. To try and be concise about this, since we don't know everything yet: my two main concerns are Windows 8 on desktops/laptops and development. This sums up my issues with development for Windows 8 quite nicely- it's primarily a lack of information and communication from Microsoft. My concern with Windows 8 on desktops? I think the Metro-style UI is quite nice for tablets, but I can't imagine using it on a desktop or laptop. Yes, there is a Windows 7 desktop available, but the key question in my mind would be: is the Windows 8 UI intended as an alternative or as a replacement? If it's intended as a touch-focused alternative, with the Windows 7 UI (or not necessarily that but a more conventional desktop), I don't really have a problem. But if it's intended as a replacement... I don't see myself using that sort of UI with a keyboard and mouse, especially not for more complex applications like an IDE, word processor, and so on. I don't really see the value of a tablet as opposed to a laptop for someone like myself. If I were to consider one, I'd pick up an Android tablet over this, but I don't know enough about Windows 8 to make an informed decision yet, though.
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« on: May 25, 2011, 09:58:15 am »
Fedora for me!
Here's why:
-I found it very easy to pick up without ever using Linux before: it has useful GUI tools to do simple tasks but doesn't limit your ability to do anything using a terminal.
-I like it's package management system (yum, specificially, built on top of rpm) to be much easier to use and much more powerful than apt-get, which I have actually used (on Knoppix, which is a mobile version of Debian). That's just my opinion, obviously.
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« on: April 24, 2011, 03:39:30 pm »
So looks like I'm the only Fedora user around here.  Fedora was the first Linux I had any experience with, but I adapted pretty well. I'd say it falls between Ubuntu/Mint and Arch in terms of user-friendliness: perhaps not as easy to get used to as Ubuntu or Mint, but not as hard to use as Arch. It's a nice alternative to Debian-based systems: I personally think it's better than Debian-based systems, but that's just my opinion. I'd recommend looking into it though.
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« on: April 17, 2011, 08:22:36 pm »
What's wrong with Python 3 is that about ten years worth of software has been written for Python 2, and very little of it works with Python 3. And most users have Python 2 because of this.
On Linux, Python 3 and 2 can be installed side-by-side- one command is "python" and the other is "python3" (unless you're an Arch Linux user, where it's "python2" and "python"). But I imagine it's trickier on Windows (not that I've tried it there to say for certain).
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« on: April 17, 2011, 07:40:01 pm »
I remember looking at this a while ago when beginning to mess around with Android development. I wish there was a full port of the Android API to Python (or one of these other languages): this, and like the Jythonroid project which it seems to have supplanted, are really only for making scripts, not full-fledged applications. Well yeah, since Android is some sort of Linux distro, you can pretty much do anything with it.
It actually runs on top of the Linux distro.
To be technical, it runs on top of the Linux kernel (Or at least a version of the Linux kernel modified by Google). It's not considered a Linux distro (at least, not by Google).
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« on: April 07, 2011, 05:15:41 pm »
By the way nice to see you again TC01. Are you still into calc stuff?
Well, yes, it's just that I haven't done much calculator development lately, I've been spending my less-than-usual amounts of free time: a. Playing Minecraft b. Messing around with Android application development c. Other random coding As of yet that random coding has not included calculator stuff, though it probably will in the future.
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« on: April 05, 2011, 04:15:19 pm »
Indeed, I am.  (Maybe I should make a thread about my Civ 4 mods). I worked a bit on this project a bit some time ago when I was first getting involved in Civ 4 modding (I wrote some Python scripts): all my other projects soon left me with no time to pursue that one.
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« on: March 31, 2011, 09:19:51 pm »
I suppose it could be like OS 0.41- a beta OS that was not supposed to be actually posted and then quickly taken down.
Somehow I doubt TI would do that again though.
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« on: March 16, 2011, 08:53:58 pm »
Kerm was planning a calc software repository hosted on one of his servers accessible from gCn. He mentioned it (at least in) my ticalc.org package manager thread on Cemetech: ...I'm interested in building a file transfer / FTP-type CALCnet2.2 app, and if I do, I may implement some extended form of your software to enable calculators to directly browse ticalc.org and download software. Well, I'm imagining something running entirely on my server, so that there's just one centralized source for files. It would present an FTP-like hierarchy of files to the user, and when the user chose to fetch a particular .zip, it would be responsible for opening the zip, extracting the *.8x* files, and passing each such file to the client over gCn. Not sure quite what point I'm trying to make here with that . But I feel like the only people who would actually buy the calculator software in this case would be people who wanted to support Omnimaga (or the developers, I guess?). Yeah, people do sell calc software, but the target is not usually members of the calc community. It's people who think a $15 dollar suite of BASIC math programs for the 83+ is an "Operating System". And having an entirely free alternative that works the same way (i.e. over gCn, thus requiring DoorsCS, but accessing all of ticalc.org) probably won't help. So as I said, I really only see people who would be donating money anyway actually buying the software.
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« on: March 03, 2011, 08:28:41 am »
When you release the final version, could you make a .9xu of it and sign it using the 92+'s OS key, instead of using TIB?
I understand that TIB is just a good as a real OS file for TiEmu (and as this is a beta it's not really a good idea to try it out on a calc, as you say), but when it's actually intended to run on a calc, it'd be nice to have the signed version too.
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« on: March 01, 2011, 07:31:02 am »
Nice to see that Punix is still in development! I remember reading about it a while ago and thinking it was dead.
Good luck with this project.
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« on: February 09, 2011, 04:37:44 pm »
Cool to hear. Is it less intensive on their server, too? Also by different stuff do you mean for example XKCD #404?
Well, I'm not sure how more/less intensive it is on their server. I don't know how more or less intensive it is to access JSON or an RSS feed. As for "different stuff"- no, not like 404, but sometimes they post information about their site store or other miscellaneous news in the RSS as opposed to new comics.
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