The problem is that what the theorists argue is the better language (or other widget foo) has nothing to do with what the most usable widget or language is. Assembly, many would argue, is the best language because it lets you optimize things the best. But in reality it's a pain to use. TCL may be a great language in theory but its not popular because it's not easy to write code in it. I'm sure TCL is a better language with theory, and I've written a number of things in it. It made me very productive. I productively walked much faster away from it than most other languages.

... where a reputable news source would have checked its sources for accuracy first. stagnated and stalled? Hmm... Just two weeks ago we had very different news.

In reality, even if Qt stopped dead in the water with no development from anyone, it'd still be one of the best documented GUI libraries out there. I've never been a fanboy of any particular software suite, but the more and more I've dove into Qt in the last year the more I'm truly impressed with the design and documentation of the toolkit. Somehow I don't think it's going away.

Google is knot an evil umpire. They our hear 2 us with wheel whirled problems. Please stop bash tag google. All your words belong to us.

I have that watch

Hmmm... I'd have posted that as an AC :-)

And we didn't need them either! Now get off our lawn!

Hmm... Let me fix this for ya:

On the contrary, I push it all the time because it's a great tool... when it's the right tool for the job. If that job involves manipulating and/or storing sensitive data, it's somewhat less so in many cases.

On the contrary, I push it all the time because it's a great tool... when it's the right tool for the job. If that job involves manipulating and/or storing sensitive data, it's alwaysless so in all cases.

Um, you forgot two lines:

- Nokia can't easily retreat, having crossed/burned/blown up it's Linux/Maemo/MeeGo/Android-related bridges.
- ?????
- Profit!!!

Because if you rush, you can probably stock up on N900s. If you get, oh say, 5 they should last you for a while until the smart company makes a true power phone again that puts the OS in the hands of the user.

I suspect a hostile take over. They should have installed a https server so we'd know the redirect wasn't part of a nefarious plot.

Oh, and I forgot to add: the keyboard, being a real X based system, can be completely remapped at will. The ~ key, for example, doesn't exist by default so I added it to shift-up-arrow. Similarily, you can remove unused symbols and replace with better ones (eg, I never write about British currency but I do write with %s all the time).

Agree completely. Being able to ssh out out-of-the-box is awesome. What's even better is being able to ssh in. Think rsync both directions! I frequently ssh into my phone when I've accidentally left in it the bedroom.

But what really makes it great is that it's a full system. Yeah, typing code on a small keyboard is never fun but in a pinch when it's all you have, it's by far the best. When your phone has emacs, git, svn, ... it's almost equivalent to your desktop *except* for the smaller keyboard.

[one of these days I want to hook up a bluetooth keyboard and see how a full day on it would be]

I've used both AT&T and T-Mobile on my N900. T-Mobile is actually the cheaper of the two. And the N900 only supports 3G data speeds on T-Mobile as well, which is lame IMHO but true.

Ok, here: I'm not with comcast and the original post was just insanely uninformed. Go read *anywhere* else about dnssec and you'll find that comcast will have a hard time figuring out how turning it on can be a bad thing.

So you'd be fine with me and a friend communicating over some AES encrypted VoHAM protocol as long as I sold the key to anyone that wanted it for $1M?

They could do two things to prevent people from buying any radios but theirs:

1. Develop a patented voice-over-foo protocol and '''not''' release the specs to obscure the transmission.
2. Develop a patented voice-over-foo protocol and release the format so that anyone could write a decoder and simply go after manufacturers with their patent to make the "fat stacks of cash"

They win doing either one. But I argue until they fall into #2 they're with the intent to obscure. (if option #2 didn't exist, it would be a different story)