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Comment: Creative Ziio (Score 2) 425

http://us.store.creative.com/Creative-ZiiO-7-Entertainment-Tablet-16GB/M/B004DJQXDW.htm

Resistive Screen, comes with a stylus.
Runs Android but has not access to Android Market - not a problem, you can still download APKs and install it onto the device.
Evernote would be the app you you are looking for for Note-taking, you can download the APK for that no problem - it's freeware.

Comment: Re:falling ahead? (Score 1) 246

by tangent3 (#37656462) Attached to: Nexus Prime, And Ice Cream Sandwich, Go For a Video Tour

What kind of FUD is this?

The entire OS in Android is also C based.
The application stack runs a Dalvik VM which (since Froyo) does JIT compilation. Just about all the CPU-intensive stuff (i.e. UI drawing) is done in the C side through JNI. In any case with JIT, the performance difference between C and compiled bytecode is insignificant.

Comment: RMS doesn't even know what he's talking about (Score 1) 433

by tangent3 (#37447084) Attached to: RMS: 'Is Android Really Free Software?'

Android for mobile phones is still completedly free and open sourced. If you want the source, get the Gingerbread 2.3.4 source code, which is the latest version of Android for mobile phones. Honeycomb is NOT a mobile phone OS, therefore it's not valid to say that Android is not open-sourced for mobile phones.

Android for tablets is currently not open-sourced. I have access to the Honeycomb source code and it's not hard to see why - Google has pretty much hacked in tablet support and it looks like a rush job to get a tablet version of Android out so that Motorola, Samsung, etc will be able to push out tablets to compete with the iPad. Think of Honeycomb as a fork off Android, or a feature branch.

Android is apparently first and foremost a mobile phone OS, and Google apparently only wants to release the Android source code that is able to run on mobile phones. The good news is, Ice Cream Sandwich is the release where all the features of Honeycomb will be properly merged back into the mobile phone trunk code. Higher resolution mobile phones will be able to use the Honeycomb UI features like Fragments.

Comment: Re:Cold war turns hot (Score 1) 342

by tangent3 (#37335546) Attached to: HTC Sues Apple Using Google Patents

It's like a third country getting nuclear capabilities to match the US and the USSR back during the cold war.

"Hi guys! I have nukes and ICBMs now! Give me one billion gadzillion dollars! No? What is this MAD thing you guys keep talking about? Ah who cares, I'm going to fire an ICBM at you and see what happens after..."

Comment: "(Strictly protect)" (Score 1) 196

by tangent3 (#37295004) Attached to: The Guardian and the Wikileaks Encryption Key

Just reading through a few of the cables that have leaked regarding my country and I came across several cables that have named names of sources with the tag "(strictly protect)". Now, in my country, their lives are certainly not in danger, but their jobs certainly are.

The biggest achievement of cablegate would be to make everyone think twice about talking to any US diplomats.

"Today, of course, it is considered very poor taste to use the F-word except in major motion pictures." -- Dave Barry, "$#$%#^%!^%&@%@!"

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