Apps that are updated to take advantage of the higher resolution will be fine, and those that don't will be cleanly upscaled (each pixel becomes 2x2). The exact same thing is seen with the iPhone 4, which will upscale older apps in such a way that they look identical on either an iPhone 3 or 4.
I am *so* glad I'm not the only one who thinks this. The first couple of books were great, but then they really started to drag on and on with all kinds of meaningless details on what people were wearing or what they were thinking which did exactly nothing to advance the story or make the characters interesting.
This was my experience with the very first book. I never even got halfway through before shelving it.
Yeah, but I'm sure that I'm not exactly in the minority with the non-pedophile AND non-tyrant camp.
Agreed. The app store is basically just like a package manager, albeit one with its fingers in your wallet. Consistency and centralized package updates (plus automated dependency handling) have always been things I enjoyed about package managers, so at least in that regard the app store has its benefits.
I also agree about the visual aesthetics of their iOS-matching applications. The literal pen-and-paper look of the notepad or sewn leather look of the to-do list just seem uncharacteristically tacky for Apple. Software that tries to resemble its real-world counterpart like it's still a novelty... what is this, 1995? I'd feel pretty stupid having to rely on that.
When Windows 7 first came out, Microsoft was directly selling the Professional edition for $30 as an academic discount. Now they are offering the upgrade for $60 as an academic discount.
You do that. I'll not stand with either.
And then a command line uninstall of unity-desktop.
KDE will still continue to be actively developed by its community, and will continue to be the default environment for many other *nix distributions. Hell, KDE will still be available to Ubuntu users; it just means that you'll have to go through a little extra work to install the vanilla version. This may even be better for KDE in the long run, by ending Kubuntu's questionable tweaks which may have ruined the ideal experience for many people.
Now you can just run Ubuntu with vanilla KDE4. I submit to you that this is actually a better experience than Kubuntu's twist on KDE4.
I'll do something crazy and be a constructive Slashdotter. Whether or not parent is trolling, at least other readers can glean some information. Hopefully I'm not completely full of shit...
"Android" is just the name of an operating system that employs the Linux kernel, the same as "Ubuntu" or "Slackware." Also like Ubuntu, it is financially supported and actively developed by a parent company. It is unique in its ground-up adaptation and optimization for battery-powered mobile architectures, as well as its display manager and development frameworks that are all designed from the ground up for low-resolution touch screens. It is also unique in its widespread use and endorsement among many hardware manufacturers.
The implementation of Linux in the context of this Spark tablet is also tailored very much for that hardware, and that is just an inherent beauty of Linux. It is using a version of KDE that is modified to be more friendly for the touch screen, but probably not as intuitively as Android's environment. I am seeing regular K-applications in the demo for this unit which are typically mouse-and-keyboard oriented. Out of the box this tablet probably lacks the necessary libraries and whatever other software capacities may be needed to run an Android application. However, that is not impossible and in fact I would be very surprised if somebody doesn't set one of these up to be able to do so. It will probably just be unintuitive...
Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.