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Hmmm. After it gets out of China, is there any reasonable risk of items getting held back by customs or for some other reason? Obviously, the delay from that would be likely much less than the delay from the New Year celebrations, but I'm just sort of looking forward to see if there are any...

I'm in a psych research building, and the people across the hall are using Pandora controllers for studies.

It will be for me. I'm exiting New York in the afternoon. :D (one of the events I wanted to bring a Pandora to, sadly, but luckily I have other places to show off geekery in the future!)

Thank you! I know you're working hard and things are at a pretty crazy stress point. Although we like to partake in the sport of grumbling due to circumstances, we know that you guys are going to pull through with some nice bricks of concentrated awesome. :)

I agree that there shouldn't be (not just that there doesn't need to be) a user manual for command line apps. The Pandora is ultimately made to be used without the general need for terminal hacking. It's there to be used, but the only people who should need to use it are people who already...

As long as we're on the subject of touchscreen reliability: My father bought me a SciPhone Dream G2 for my birthday. He thought it was an Android phone, but it's really a knockoff from a chinese company who modified their proprietary OS to look like android. The device itself seems analogous...

Many months ago, somebody showed a png with keyboard/button mappings that had one of the shoulder buttons, iirc, mapped to the Compose key. If that's the case, then it should be really easy to set up and customize typing of special characters via editing the ~/.XCompose file (or using the...

Even if you could not, xfce is pretty configurable. At the very least, you could set the panel to something pretty big and make sure the fonts are appropriate for viewing. I'm playing around in an 800x480 session with mixed results. It looks fine, size-wise, but the Settings apps are all too...

I'm too old and set in my ways to switch browsers now. I will probably use lynx even if it's not the prettiest option. (but seriously, as long as I can use it with sitebar, we're at a good starting point)

That's all well and good, but we also need it to fold up just enough to fit in a fob pocket. This is certainly possible with recent advances in flexible display technology. You'll have to add accelerometers, a dual axis gyroscope, an internal compass, and a gps unit. If there's an extra cubic...

Nifty! When do preorders start? :D

Isn't Dreamcast a little past the Pandora? I know we've seen a few very basic videos of stuff running on Pandora hardware, but nothing that would suggest that we'd ever get a playable game working, except at best really non-intensive games like puzzlers (ChuChu Rocket! comes to mind). Has...

Wow, you're right. That worked really well. The "Restart Firefox" icon kind of sucks, but that's what it looks like if the wm is fullscreen and no titlebar. I've put in the minimum amount of stuff to make the browser workable for the app store. Heck, even the back and forward buttons could...

Haha, absolutely true. But in this particular case, the people putting together the app store only have about two months to get it fully operational, so to be prepared in time they'll have to start out with the browser+website route (there isn't an API for an app to be built upon, afaik, for...

I've been playing with Arora (and Konqueror, but that's a bit less pertinent here, I guess) to get an idea of the available area involved. right now, it has just one row with a few buttons, and I just disabled the title bar and realized that there is no way to close the app. Do you have a...

Replacing the shell doesn't take over the window management, though. I do know that window management can be modified somewhat, but we've not seen the broad range of variety that would produce something like ratpoison. It probably is comparatively hard to replace this aspect of the system...

You know, if we can just get fifteen or twenty people roughly spread out over the past year and two months to check their spot and post both their date of purchase here and current position, then nobody at all after that point would have to harass Jacquelyn about their spot, because everybody...

There's a bunch of changes they could indeed make that wouldn't break compatibility (in the way that, for example, a faster cpu or more ram could make software written for a Pandora Plus unworkable on a regular Pandora). I'm guessing that serious considerations for this won't be reached until...

I think I'll backup some of the other comments following this one. I have an old laptop (P266, I think) which originally had 48MB RAM. Linux and X11 installed fine on this, and I think even KDE3 ran, though it wasn't really usable (it was heavily into swap). But when I upgraded this bad boy...

Wow, your school is a much better deal than mine, price-wise. I just started, and it's about that same amount, but per semester. My job might cover half of it, though, which would make us even. :) My "tech" budget for a year usually averages out to about $500, including computer hardware...