Re: [ANN] "World's first supercomputer tablet"

2011-11-09 Thread Chipp Walters
Yep. And one of the reasons I predict Apple will be forced to license iOS to other manufacturers within the next 3 years-- or lose the commanding presence and top marketshare they now enjoy. The simple fact is it is impossible for the small number of engineers at Apple to keep ahead,or even keep up

Re: [ANN] "World's first supercomputer tablet"

2011-11-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Roger- Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 2:12:54 PM, you wrote: > Andre, I think doomsday has already come. At work, we configure laptops > for our users. We often use opensource Live CDs to boot the machine for > whatever reasons like looking at the partition table, or just to see how > the latest

Re: [ANN] "World's first supercomputer tablet"

2011-11-09 Thread Andre Garzia
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > I'm with you on "what's mine" concept Andre. If I buy it with MY money, I > should have the right to install any OS that I please. > Yes, I think it is a great concept! Now, if you want to try linux supported hardware, checkout System76 machi

Re: [ANN] "World's first supercomputer tablet"

2011-11-09 Thread Roger Eller
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > Chipp, > > I tend to classify machines these days in two categories: my machine and > their machine. > > my machine is the hardware that once I buy, I can install whatever I want > from whatever source I want. So both my macbook pro and my Goo

Re: [ann] taskRunner (was Re: [ANN] "World's first supercomputer tablet")

2011-11-09 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 09.11.2011 at 19:38 Uhr + Alex Tweedly apparently wrote: taskRunner is, as I'm sure you can guess, named after Ken Ray's 'stackRunner', but unlike stackRunner it doesn't run "whole" stacks, it simply performs little "tasks", and does so on behalf of another app rather than for a user dir

Re: [ann] taskRunner (was Re: [ANN] "World's first supercomputer tablet")

2011-11-09 Thread Alex Tweedly
On 09/11/2011 19:38, Alex Tweedly wrote: This is all at www.tweedly.org/taskRunner Duh. It can be found at www.tweedly.org/taskRunner.lc -- Alex. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsub

[ann] taskRunner (was Re: [ANN] "World's first supercomputer tablet")

2011-11-09 Thread Alex Tweedly
taskRunner is, as I'm sure you can guess, named after Ken Ray's 'stackRunner', but unlike stackRunner it doesn't run "whole" stacks, it simply performs little "tasks", and does so on behalf of another app rather than for a user directly. I started developing taskRunner about 6 months ago, wi

Re: [ANN] "World's first supercomputer tablet"

2011-11-09 Thread Alex Tweedly
On 09/11/2011 17:08, Andre Garzia wrote: Scripting resizeStack is a good exercise but we really should aim to some form of resolution independence here. Mobile apps tend to use more images as decoration than desktop apps, with all those different resolutions, you need to carry a lot of images of

Re: [ANN] "World's first supercomputer tablet"

2011-11-09 Thread Andre Garzia
Chipp, IMHO that is not a tablet but a laptop. The line between laptop and tablet is so thin these days that I begun to use another criteria to distinguish between them than the presence of a physical keyboard. Most if not all tablets in the market can pair with keyboards so in the end it makes li

Re: [ANN] "World's first supercomputer tablet"

2011-11-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Chipp Walters wrote: Richard, I think you already have V1 of these. http://gizmodo.com/5857759/meet-the-asus-eee-pad-transformer-prime-the-worlds-first-supercomputer-tablet I do, and the only disappointment, if you can call it that, is that the TF101 already performs so well I'm likely to sit

[ANN] "World's first supercomputer tablet"

2011-11-09 Thread Chipp Walters
Richard, I think you already have V1 of these. http://gizmodo.com/5857759/meet-the-asus-eee-pad-transformer-prime-the-worlds-first-supercomputer-tablet -- Chipp Walters CEO, Shafer Walters Group, Inc. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.run