Comment Re:No, it won't gain a strong following. (Score 1) 170
And octave is available for Android (as is gnuplot, called droidplot).
Submission + - Octave and gnuplot coming to Android (walkingrandomly.com) 1
MathIsTasty writes: Recently, it was announced on the Octave-maintainers list that a Kickstarter campaign has been launched to bring Matlab style numerical computations and graphing to Android via a "more than" port of Octave and gnuplot. While, I doubt it will be as successful as some recent games on Kickstarter, is this a reasonable way to fund free software development? Now, we just have to worry about people working on simulating solar irradiation while driving. Here is a good blog post about the project.
Recent Sales Hint That Tape For Storage Is Far From Dead 228
hightechchick writes "Staples' business-to-business sales of backup tape for storage are experiencing a bit of a revival. What's next, a return to dumb terminals and mainframes (a la cloud computing)?"
