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Give me a mock-up and I'll do it. I'm a programmer, not an artist, so I have no idea how I should make what you're describing. I tested the program on a Pentium 4 3Ghz processor, and the CPU usage came from the screen recorder (I was making 800x480 video at 60fps, what do you expect ;) )...

Oh, you're using Ubuntu Lucid! I didn't realize! Oh OK, that makes everything a tad more difficult, because the Android guide is meant to be used with Ubuntu Jaunty. Java 5 was actually removed from Ubuntu Lucid because it's so old. EDIT: as your error message says: it's obsolete. But OK...

Yeah, update-java-alternatives won't work unless you already have a proper JDK installed so don't try to skip steps in the guide and expect later steps to work ;) And I can clearly see that that package exists in multiverse, see: http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/sun-java5-jdk so this is very...

Ok, fixed my post.

The guide explicitly says that you need Java's JDK 5. So you *have* to install the package "sun-java5-jdk" for it to work. If you don't "have" that package, it means that Ubuntu multiverse is disabled. Go to "System" → "Administration" → "Package Sources" and check "Software restricted by...

Why don't you stick the installation of opkg in the toolchain script? ;) Also, it might be an idea to make a wrapper script for opkg that does all of the necessary "library fixes" automatically.

The instructions you linked to told you to install Git. The "repo" script uses git as its back end; it's just there so that you don't have to write "git pull --rebase" and common stuff like that Anyways, I'm curious to know how it went once you're done!

Possible but difficult. To convert JVM binaries to DVM binaries, you just replace every stack push by a register store instruction in a round-robin fashion. But it's more difficult to convert register stores to stack instructions, since you'll have to somehow find the order that was used when...

I think he meant the Dalvik VM. Would still be problematic though.

Newtons physics equations are false. His laws are correct, but his formulas aren't. Gravity isn't a force - it's a bend in time-space. The Moon is actually moving perfectly straight in a higher dimension, it's just that the Earth's gravity well makes the Moon's movement manifest itself as a...

It was a great experiment I think; very successful. But I would recommend that you explicitly state "NOTE: This is only a discussion at this point. Tell someone that it's for real and I'll eat your hamster." the next time.

Godwin's law. Never fails. ;)

We all know that the universe is written in LISP. Heh, this idea is very plausible, and actually quite popular. Has anyone here read Isaac Asimov's classic "Foundation" series? Short spoiler that is a little off-topic but relevant to this discussion (no turning points are revealed): But yes...

Hmm, I guess that the Swedish tongue-in-cheek humor doesn't suit you very well. Or you might not have realized how horrible some of my suggestions were (Using an IO monad for *every* operation? Wow, I'll stock up on replacement keys since my keyboard will wear out. Simulating pointer casting by...

This thread just makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time. It's like going into a congress building and being greeted by kindergarten children dabbling about who knows what. Yes, getting Android on the Pandora would probably be an awful idea, but I currently see stuff like "No, you can't...

If you use ad-hoc polymorphism and type classes in your code, you keep your code portable, because those are concepts expressible in *every* programming language. And then about other translations: Functional → Procedural; make procedures that only operate on their arguments and nothing else...

I don't know about you but I personally find my own code quite easy to port. I've ported an SDL app I made to Javascript, and a VB app I made back in the day to C, and a Haskell app to C++, Scala to Haskell, etc... I've only got difficulties with porting anything from/to "dynamically typed...

I will, once I get a Pandora. No prob.

The phone functionality is an optional component in the system. Several android-based tablets are going to appear later this year. (OH and I'm playing the devils advocate for the sake of this thread, if you haven't realized yet)

Software quality and stability. The Pandora distribution, derived from Ångström as it is, has serious serious issues, and will continue to have issues for a long long time.