That torrent only includes 16 bit per sample FLAC. The original audio is 32 bits per sample so quality is lost.

This torrent uses 32 bit per sample FLAC: http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7544348

Here is the livestream.com link OP's article points to: http://www.livestream.com/embed/spaceflightnow It will play filling your whole browser window.

Does anybody happen to have an rtmpdump url for this?

My experience come from owning a notion ink adam tablet with the pixelqi screen.

It is readable outside in sunlight.

BUT it is only readable when there is MUCH sunlight and it is NOT very good even under those optimal conditions.

The contrast is extremely bad, hence you get best results with most sunlight but they are still not optimal. Plus, even with most sunlight, the viewing angle is still extremely narrow and when you tilt the screen just a bit too much, the content becomes unreadable.

I am not surprised why we do not see these "magical" displays in more hardware.

...what happens in those 2 of 100 cases it detected your behind wrongly? :D

the product is dead and the company silent.

I've been with the project for over two and a half years and pre-ordered mine in february 2010 - no product yet. It was always delayed and the current status is:

forum silent, irc silent (been in both for three years now) and no answer to any email.

the product is total vaporware - dont buy it!

I got a second-hand V1 touchbook though but even that one is not recommendable - it has many hardware bugs, the most important one being that charging doesnt properly work and while there are resoldering solutions to some, there are none to others.

I have it running and here is how: http://blog.mister-muffin.de/2011/05/01/putting-debian-on-the-notion-ink-adam/

I pre-ordered a smartbook in february 2010 (!!) and there is nothing there yet.

Forums are dead.

IRC is dead.

No reply to any email you send to them.

Dont bother with this company!

why not instead of whining about the situation, help making a privacy respecting smartphone platform happen?

The successor to the openmoko gta02 is the goldendelicious gta04 featuring an omap3 processor and umts internet and many more things you would want your smartphone to have.

They started preorders now: http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04

So quit whining, get yourself a truly free and open phone and help making the operating system where YOU choose and not some evil corporation.

I have debian with e17 using the illume theme running on the notion ink adam tablet and I'm really impressed how well it works.

The packages in debian unstable are new enough for a proper installation of e17 and bootstrapping debian for armel is also piece of cake using multistrap.

maybe worth looking into it.

a short summary: http://superuser.com/questions/329375/how-is-this-operating-system-switching-done/330926#330926

the presentation by AI at ELC 2011: http://elinux.org/images/5/5c/ELC-AlwaysInnovating-Gentil.pdf

Troubles start when each operating system wants to get control over wireless, the display or any other resource they all share and expect to have exclusive control over. So considering how many bugs we already have in current operating systems I can hardly imagine the amount of hacks required to android or GNU/Linux to make them at least cooperate enough for basic functionality is worth the benefits of having multiple OS at the same time. I dont really see the advantage of such a feature.

is that you can win a game.

nobody EVER won tetris!!!

"Truly open-development, open-source phones like the Nokia N900..."

are you kidding me???

what is "Truly open-development, open-source" about a platform that has

* proprietary power management (bme)
* no docs for the gsm modem interface (and no source code for the apps using it)
* proprietary powervr graphics drivers
* proprietary osso-dsp-modules

read also:
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1584
http://wiki.maemo.org/Why_the_closed_packages

i'm not so much pissed by proprietary applications as i can replace the rootfs by a free and open source one what pisses me off is the undocumented hardware used and lacking communication with upstream kernel development.
dont call this device "truly open"-blah... it is definitely NOT.

there are a few devices that strive to be as open as a linux phone should be:
openmoko tried and indeed even though the calypso is undocumented they provided a implementation of how to interface it and thanks to it one can use all of its hardware without binary blobs - NOT POSSIBLE ON THE N900!!!
then there is the FLOW by gizmoforyou which uses a gumstix overo as the base and added a telit modem for which you can download the FULL DOCS from their website - hey guys at nokia, this is the kind of modem you should have picked if you wanted your device to be called "truly open"!
the modem used in the n900 uses ISI for which no reference interpretation in oss exists.

is it only me or did the slashdot crowd forget what "truly open" means and is now all over a device that is open on the top but not if one wants to really start messing around with it?