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Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt View Post
I guess this one was obvious. Android users are going to have swipe to pay via NFC really, really soon.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/27/g...-payment-demo/

Android becomes more and more enticing each day. This is a killer feature, which promises to make paying for goods/services a bit easier!
I dunno... in general, this gives me an eerie feeling that I don't like. Additionally, I REALLY don't trust anything Citi gets involved in.

Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt View Post
I don't know what the $%@^ you're talking about, but it seems as though you know what you're saying.
Hah! Well, this might explain some of the stuff I mentioned: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_TOS ...Atari computers were my world for most of my life up until my early 20's when I finally started moving into Amiga and IBM/PC Clones(XT/AT, 286 at the time).

Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt View Post
In all seriousness, that's pretty cool. What types of software did you write (if you don't mind my asking)?
Whatever I needed to write, really. I mainly scratched my itches and then released them as shareware--it was also my big foray into reading VERY deeply into copyright law and how it pertained to open-source, freeware, shareware, etc. and the legal differences between them. I think I released SOMETHING as just about every one of these licenses. I wrote an Atari 8-bit TurboBASIC based BBS system called TinyBBS as my first built-from-scratch BBS system that I released as public domain, for example, just to see what would happen with that. I think that was before I realized that GPL would have been a better fit if I wanted to see what happens (public domain gives you NO visibility since anyone could just close up your code on you within their own product). I think my favorite was a little Shareware app I wrote called MODcat that I wrote for the group I was a part of (the Western Massachusetts Atari Users' Group) so that we could all easily catalog SWATHS of discs full of MOD music files. I write a VERY VERY fast way to auto-detect the disc popping in and out, reading large volumes of files to get just the fields I needed, and unique-sorting catalogs VERY rapidly and being able to export a catalog of your music files. Ah the early 90's and those simpler times. I dabbled a bit in writing LHA/LZH/ZIP archiving tools too--but I don't think I ever released any of it. (Except to a beta tester friend of mine in Texas that I used to let test out my stuff.)

Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt View Post
I think a *wonderful* Android project would bridge traditional Desktop Linux with Android for apps in both directions.

The idea would be the ability to pull/use debian repos, as well as fill dependencies for userland applications (including an X client already). It would also provide a dalvik interpreter and the necessary shared libs for traditional Linux flavours. The idea is to simplify porting, or eliminate the need for it!

It may be a niche concept, but it would work towards consolidation of capability between these two systems! It would be lovely to use the Tab 8.9 as a netbook of sorts for general productivity, with a slim and portable keyboard! When Cortex A15 rolls around, these tablets will have the power to be able to replace our laptops.
Sounds like MeeGo with a Dalvik VM. Lardman? Any news? heh
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