These days I see less and less utility of full sized laptops as a media tool, since it is technically possible to do most of the basic multimedia and creative works on a well-equipped mobile. I've been watching quite a lot of youtube videos using my blackberry which is surprisingly usable despite its limited memory and processing power. This is with a mobile that's already outdated and in process of being phased out, so the experience is only better on higher end handsets coming out these days... It's a little weird to have access to all the online research papers, video journals and dubbed animes (subtitles will turn me blind on this screen), not to mention IRC and instant messaging clients on the palm of my hand. The ubiquity of information is addictive when you're sufficiently exposed to it and that is a lesson the mobile/connectivity corporations should do well to remember. (That makes me think, the mobile market trend today might have turned out a lot differently if some innovative company could be in charge of both communications infrastructure and handset design, or even, handset design without having to worry about the politics of communications infrastructure. I played around a bit with virtualbox this afternoon. Usually I run vnc within windows to access alternative platforms but thought it would be interesting to be able to run a minimalistic linux/UNIX os within windows installation. I used #! linux, and the whole process took about 5 minutes. It's remarkable how simple it is compared to only a year or so ago. The virtualbox still has a bit of issue in resolving graphics driver that displays resolution higher than 800x600 so I had to do some manual tweaking that involved hosing down one system installation and reverting back to a previous session and reinstalling guest permissions/editing xorg.conf, but compared to some other installations it was all a minor hurdle. ...
More stuff on the state of minimal cell research.
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