actually - and i'm not picking on you, it really bugs me that developers think "oh, i don't need to trim this down and it's ok to suck up more resources because next year ram will be cheaper"
that's the reason why we have desktops that still bog down with half a dozen programs running even though we now have orders of magnitude more resources. imagine what our desktops could actually do if we didn't have 183 levels of abstraction, 52 different sound ways to do sound, themes and rendering, etc, etc. just imagine having a browser that could actually scroll smoothly with multimedia objects, without requiring a quad xeon system and 8gigs of ram. please don't buy into the wasteful use of resources as "planning for the future". it's bothersome to go through accessories like a pair of shoes. that's one of the things that makes linux (*nix) so much better is that it can still run on "old" hardware. i nearly miss most of my calls on my phone even when it's sitting right here next to me because it takes so long for the phone user interface software to respond to me and tell the gsm modem to answer the call. that's entirely silly. i answer it and i can leave it sitting on the desk for another 7-15 seconds while it keeps on ringing before i pick it up and can talk. every other cellphone i've ever had, had a nearly instant transition from ring to talk when i answered it. :-/ On 06/25/09 06:26, mobi phil wrote: > How long do you think people will carry arround the freerunner in > their pockets, when next year the same time you will be able to buy a > "crap" :) nvidia tegra based device with 500MB memory for 200$ ? > Plan for the future, not for the past :) > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community