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There have been quite a few low-memory crashes reported on the iPad Air, which has a 64-bit CPU but only 1GB of RAM. The iPad 4, in contrast, with its 32-bit CPU, doesn't seem to have these issues.

This is because any iOS apps not recompiled for 64-bit have to load their own copy of a 32-bit to 64-bit software shim which increases an app's memory requirements. If all app developers re-compiled for the iOS 7 SDK then each app would have a 64-bit and 32-bit version of the executable and memory requirements on the 64-bit platforms would drop from where they currently are.

Since 1st Feb 2014 Apple now requires each submitted app to be compiled against the iOS 7 SDK so the situation will only improve from now on in.

The Ghosts of Jamie Whitten and John Stennis live on in Mississippi. Bringing federal dollars to pork barrel projects.

Jamie Whitten was the ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee and any appropriations bill that passed by had to have something for Mississippi. Stennis was the same way in the Senate and together they always got something for Mississippi it seems in every appropriations bill.
That was true when the Advanced Solid Rocket Motor was mandated by Congress after the Challenger incident. NASA didn't want it but if they wanted to fund the shuttle and other programs, they had to take the ASRM too. Things like having to deliver the ASRM rockets on barges were put into bid contracts to prevent Thiokol (the supplier of RSRM engines for the shuttle) from bidding on the contract. Oh, they just happened to have the site at Iuka MS, which among being the site of a defunct Nuclear Reactor project by the TVA and was also a former weapons depot.

You see that's the problem with the seniority system in Congress, you can get politicians re-elected by people and they just move up the ladder on all these committees and it's the committees where all the power is in Congress. You can't just put legislation on the floor of either the House or Senate, it has to go through Committee first and if you have ranking congressmen and senators blocking projects until they get what they want, then important legislation can be held up indefinitely. It's been that way since our Federal Government was formed and handcuffs well meaning legislation with bad things that garner support from fringe members of Congress to get the votes necessary to pass the whole package.

Even though everybody thinks that Earmarks are supposedly a thing of the past, they're still around. The testing facility in MS shows again that port barrel spending is alive and well and a lot of things still get through, for example with the recent budget deal. Did you also know we have a STARBASE program as well? Well in 2012 it received $5m in funding and while most won't consider it a lot, it's really a glorified recruiting program.

-Tegra 5, renamed the K1. Built on the wrong process (not really Nvidia's fault- TSMC and others have failed to make the shrink progress expected years ago when this part was first planned). Using the wrong ARM core (A15), so Nvidia had to announce a later version of the K1 that will come with Nvidia's own 64-bit ARM core. Of course, this means the first K1 is already obsolete, long before it is on sale. First Tegra with PC class GPU cores, but not the NEW Maxwell GPU architecture Nvidia launches on the desktop in a few weeks time (750TI). So, the GPU is also out of date before the K1 goes on sale.

Who is building a phone or tablet with over 4GB of RAM? That's about the only circumstance where you'd need 64-bit ARM cores. In fact, with low-RAM systems, 64-bit can be a positive disadvantage, due to higher memory requirements (because pointers are double the size). There have been quite a few low-memory crashes reported on the iPad Air, which has a 64-bit CPU but only 1GB of RAM. The iPad 4, in contrast, with its 32-bit CPU, doesn't seem to have these issues.

And calling the GPU "out-of-date" is ridiculous. Maxwell hasn't even been released to the desktop yet – if you buy a Nvidia card today, no matter how expensive, it will be Kepler. More to the point, phone/tablet GPUs can only reasonably be compared against other phone/tablet GPUs, not the much larger and more power-hungry desktop offerings. Of course even a $100 desktop graphics card is probably going to decisively beat a tablet GPU, but so what? They are different devices (despite what Steve Ballmer seems to think), designed to do different things. If Kepler can compete on performance per watt with the other GPUs in the mobile space, then it's a viable product. The fact that something better exists on the desktop is neither here nor there.

https://plus.google.com/116317...

I had a typo on a property set somewhere else. No error. Why? Because javascript created a new property with the typo and set *that*.

FFS... This is normal problem for the vast majority of scripting languages. JavaScript is a scripting language.

There's lots of tools available to help you, but my favourite is Google Closure because it can minify my code when its done statically analysing it for errors.

I can't defend JavaScript as being the perfect tool for how it is used now, but it does the job if you work with it the right way.

Every day I pass by this beautiful church, with a statue of a begging homeless person in front of it, and a few real homeless people begging/sleeping right next to the statue. It is extremely cold outside. If your dogma is to help the homeless, why not let them in your empty luxury building to sleep in warmth? Why build a multi-bullion worship house in the middle of Manhattan when 70% of that money could be used to sustain the homeless, maybe even help some recover?

You should help the poor because when you raise their standard of living, you raise everyone's standard of living. How many rich kids do you know of that commit petty crimes like robbery, arson, theft, vandalism? How many kids grow up into poverty because they couldn't afford to goto school and to actually study for grades? How many kids end up in gangs because the parents are either not around or are too far gone into self-pity that they have no initiative to parent their kids?

The TSA exists because Americans tolerate it.

It's that simple.

We hold the purse strings AND the votes. Either one alone is enough to eliminate the TSA. But we have said, en-mass, that the TSA is acceptable in our society. So it will continue.

wrong, WRONG, WRONG!. there are good reasons that there is a 91% incumbency rate. one reason is unfettered gerrymandering which completely subverts democracy.

democracy is dead

Senator Tom Coburn described the situation well when he said, "In several election cycles in recent history, more incumbents died in office than lost reelection bids."

This was just after it came out around 1997. My wife and I had gotten a dog from a shelter about two years earlier, who turned out to be likely in retrospect much older than we had thought. Still, she was our "baby", as we did not have any kids then. And she was truly a wonderful dog, gentle as a lamb, but with a fearsome bark, looking a bit like a wolf. She would follow us everywhere and would spend all day laying by my feet as I programmed. She had started limping a bit from arthritis. I gave her baby aspirin which seemed to help. Our vet suggested this new "wonder drug" just out called Rimadyl. Our vet never to my recollection suggested any other options like glucosomine. I did not want to try Rymadil because the baby aspirin was working well and in general I think most drugs are best avoided, but my wife accused me of being mean to the dog, and I foolishly gave in and we bought the medicine from the vet (a conflict of interest?). We put our dog on half the prescribed dose.

Well, for a few weeks it was indeed wonderful. Our dog was prancing like a puppy at first. It was just amazing. Then a couple months later, she just collapsed in the middle of the day. We brought her to the vet. The vet did not know what it was. It was the early days of the web and we turned there for help. There were a bunch of report of Rimadyl causing just this sort of thing. A post my wife made from around then in our desperation (we got some private replies too):
https://groups.google.com/foru...

I can't prove Rimadyl killed our dog, but it was very coincidental. We took her off Rymadyl, and she lasted about a month after that, with me carrying a 70 lb dog outside several times a day to do her business in the yard, with her otherwise laying on the couch or a mat all day. We finally put her to sleep when she could not even keep her tongue in her mouth (probably we waited too long). The vet denied the connection to the end, saying instead that or dog must have had liver cancer and the Rymadyl was somehow helping her with the pain, and encouraged us to put her back on it -- which we would not.

The important thing to be aware of is that Rimadyl/Carprofen is at best a pain killer. It does nothing to improve underlying health, and likely it can cause disease in some dogs. You roll the dice with your dogs life when you try it, as this other similar example suggests:
http://www.stevedalepetworld.c...
"For both dogs, the answer seemed like a no-brainer - Rimadyl (generically called carprofen), the drug is particularly suited to treat osteoarthritis. Within days, Bernie was his old self, bounding up and down stairs - at least as much as any corgi can bound - and again he loved to be petted. Today, he's still on the twice daily pill that his owners say brought Bernie back to life. George's results were less dramatic, but Townsend noted at least some improvement, so she continued to use Rimadyl for about a month. Then, one morning George suddenly got very sick. He could barely move, he couldn't keep food down. George's condition worsened and within days he was being cared for by vets around the clock; he was no longer able to stand and could barely keep his head up. Townsend fails in her attempt to hold back tears as she recalls, "I looked into his eyes and George told me 'enough.' We ended his suffering on October 13, 1997.""

See also:
http://www.srdogs.com/Pages/ri...

For some health advice on pet nutrition to fix underlying problems, try Dr. Pitcairn:
http://www.amazon.com/Pitcairn...

Part of that book on arthritis:
http://books.google.com/books?...

This was just after it came out around 1997. My wife and I had gotten a dog from a shelter about two years earlier, who turned out to be likely in retrospect much older than we had thought. Still, she was our "baby", as we did not have any kids then. And she was truly a wonderful dog, gentle as a lamb, but with a fearsome bark, looking a bit like a wolf. She would follow us everywhere and would spend all day laying by my feet as I programmed. She had started limping a bit from arthritis. I gave her baby aspirin which seemed to help. Our vet suggested this new "wonder drug" just out called Rimadyl. Our vet never to my recollection suggested any other options like glucosomine. I did not want to try Rymadil because the baby aspirin was working well and in general I think most drugs are best avoided, but my wife accused me of being mean to the dog, and I foolishly gave in and we bought the medicine from the vet (a conflict of interest?). We put our dog on half the prescribed dose.

Well, for a few weeks it was indeed wonderful. Our dog was prancing like a puppy at first. It was just amazing. Then a couple months later, she just collapsed in the middle of the day. We brought her to the vet. The vet did not know what it was. It was the early days of the web and we turned there for help. There were a bunch of report of Rimadyl causing just this sort of thing. A post my wife made from around then in our desperation (we got some private replies too):
https://groups.google.com/foru...

I can't prove Rimadyl killed our dog, but it was very coincidental. We took her off Rymadyl, and she lasted about a month after that, with me carrying a 70 lb dog outside several times a day to do her business in the yard, with her otherwise laying on the couch or a mat all day. We finally put her to sleep when she could not even keep her tongue in her mouth (probably we waited too long). The vet denied the connection to the end, saying instead that or dog must have had liver cancer and the Rymadyl was somehow helping her with the pain, and encouraged us to put her back on it -- which we would not.

The important thing to be aware of is that Rimadyl/Carprofen is at best a pain killer. It does nothing to improve underlying health, and likely it can cause disease in some dogs. You roll the dice with your dogs life when you try it, as this other similar example suggests:
http://www.stevedalepetworld.c...
"For both dogs, the answer seemed like a no-brainer - Rimadyl (generically called carprofen), the drug is particularly suited to treat osteoarthritis. Within days, Bernie was his old self, bounding up and down stairs - at least as much as any corgi can bound - and again he loved to be petted. Today, he's still on the twice daily pill that his owners say brought Bernie back to life. George's results were less dramatic, but Townsend noted at least some improvement, so she continued to use Rimadyl for about a month. Then, one morning George suddenly got very sick. He could barely move, he couldn't keep food down. George's condition worsened and within days he was being cared for by vets around the clock; he was no longer able to stand and could barely keep his head up. Townsend fails in her attempt to hold back tears as she recalls, "I looked into his eyes and George told me 'enough.' We ended his suffering on October 13, 1997.""

See also:
http://www.srdogs.com/Pages/ri...

For some health advice on pet nutrition to fix underlying problems, try Dr. Pitcairn:
http://www.amazon.com/Pitcairn...

Part of that book on arthritis:
http://books.google.com/books?...

They said clearly that they were developing the permissions manager,

no (afar as app opss is concerned). Read Dianne Hackborn's comments in here :
https://plus.google.com/+Danny...

I agree with GP, but this argument is pointless because

1. The average African (AA) have not seen those "food and vaccines" that you are talking about.
2. The AA will never see those "extra-thin condoms" that BG is designing.
2a. - If the AA is lucky to get a box of them in his lifetime, that will not not change any significant digits in population growth.
3. Why is it your goal to control their population in the first place? If this is what they wanted they would control their own population by the magical "pull out" method and/or reading Slashdot. Just give them OLPCs or something.

There is a dogma that Christians have that one must help the poor. Nobody ever questions it. I have never seen a sound justification for it.
Every day I pass by this beautiful church, with a statue of a begging homeless person in front of it, and a few real homeless people begging/sleeping right next to the statue. It is extremely cold outside. If your dogma is to help the homeless, why not let them in your empty luxury building to sleep in warmth? Why build a multi-bullion worship house in the middle of Manhattan when 70% of that money could be used to sustain the homeless, maybe even help some recover?

"And what great knowledge have you demonstrated?"

I gave them the greatest source of knowledge ever. Teach a man to fish and all that. (See the link in the quote)

I have no respect for the FAA (not the one for airplanes, I'm not an expert on them but they seem to do a decent job); but given that it has been in force since 1986, I suspect that the DEA and friends know the value of discretion and selective application of the law. If they started going after respectable companies in the chemical industry and other established industries, they'd probably have some nontrivial lobbying firepower on their asses (for an example of how this works, watch what happens when OSHA tries to timidly consider updating the Permissible Exposure Limit for some chemicals. Let's just say that there's a reason why they still use the original ones they set in 1971 and have not managed an update, despite additional epidemiological and toxicological research obviously being done since that time, and new chemicals introduced. That is what it looks like when you fuck with somebody who matters' chemicals.)

Unless somebody unbelievably stupid gets their hands on the levers, very selective application, more or less only to whatever we are moral-panicking about the damn kids doing these days, is the rule.

maybe you should figure out if it's something as simple as them having hygiene standards for how he cooks, and some small fee for a license.

Or maybe the hot dog stand is such a small-time operation that "some small fee" is prohibitive. This has happened before with lemonade stands run by children. (Google lemonade stand prosecution.)

Seriously, how many developers for Windows games target their products on Wine?

Anyone who used TransGaming's Cider library to make a Mac port, for instance. See Slashdot stories about Cider

Which would explain why repeated studies have found the MTBF published by manufacturers to be orders of magnitude higher than reality.

But Android is not meant for the desktop

Android heads to desktops
http://www.pcworld.com/article...

Could an Android desktop replace your Windows PC?
http://www.zdnet.com/could-an-...

Android vs Windows: Now the battle for the desktop really begins
http://www.zdnet.com/android-v...

Android PCs and other Windows-alternative desktops are for real
http://www.zdnet.com/android-p...

Android desktops arrive as Lenovo eyes your living room
http://www.zdnet.com/android-d...

And, coincidentally...

https://play.google.com/store/...

THIS is so true... (I'm from Buffalo) Good tires makes all the difference along with learning how to drive. And yes its been in the single-digits here too, with caked snow and ice.

November 21, 2000 newspaper article titled "Buffalo Snowstorm strands workers, students"

What excuses do you guys still left in Buffalo use when the same thing happens to you?

I wouldn't believe the Daily Mail if they told me I had a hole in my arse

Well apparently having your head up your arse qualifies you as having no hole any more.

It the time it to you to post your little AC triumphant drivel you could have searched for other sources.

https://www.google.com/search?...

The 48.94 price was already adjusted for the split... the list price at that time was actually $97.88.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:MSFT
http://www.microsoft.com/investor/Stock/StockSplit/stockcalc.aspx

Hell, I'm stuck on Nvidias 314.22 drivers because every driver from the 32x and 33x series causes my machine to freeze or restart the driver in a "safe mode". You can read the many links to this horror via https://www.google.com/search?q=nvidia+video5

I'll just leave this here ...

The word emulator in the context of the English language is different from the meaning of the word emulator in the context of computers. With computers, an API is not an emulator. An emulator is necessarily a virtual machine.

Don't use the dictionary definition for a technical term. If you insist on doing so, I will take a drive to your home and ask you to plug in your mouse.

The word emulator in the context of the English language is different from the meaning of the word emulator in the context of computers. With computers, an API is not an emulator. An emulator is necessarily a virtual machine.

Don't use the dictionary definition for a technical term. If you insist on doing so, I will take a drive to your home and ask you to plug in your mouse.

Another reason to consider interesting ideas to make it useless to steal credit card numbers.

Then again, I suppose Monsanto has grown past the point where consumer action is going to do anything ever.

Truly the monopolist's dream. Buy the government, and be big enough to be impossible to avoid.

Hakon wants to see a better standard, but he recognizes the need of such a thing in general. And so he is against removing this code from Blink, because it is also used for multi-column (which is a spec that he authored) and other similar things:

"That being said, I believe in reusing code for fragmentation so that pagination and multi-column layout can be done using the same code. I believe Adobe has contributed good code for this purpose. "

Instead of the write-up, I would suggest reading the actual thread on the mailing list.

The big story here isn't that Google wants to drop CSS Regions support here. It's the wholesale removal of code that reduces standards compliance in several areas (including CSS Multicolumn), and affecting features such as printing, which Google does not consider important because, I quote, "we're building an application platform, not a document viewer", and also because "we're choosing to improve mobile performance instead of improving ... spec conformance".

Yes, CSS Regions is a controversial feature, but the initial discussion was over whether it should be finally exposed prefix-less, or maintain the current -webkit- prefix as an experimental feature. Then suddenly the topic changes to ripping the code altogether, but at that point it's not just about Regions. Quote:

"Does this mean that the new CSS columns work will be removed as well?"

"FWIW, it looks like it is included in Eric's speculative regions removal patch"

"I totally understand how Regions can appear as a complex beast to some. It is one of the few features that has been tested to behave well with all the other things in the platform. Our early discussions with the Blink team about shipping Regions included a requirement to fix all of the integration points with existing features. We needed to tweak the whole platform in order to have that magic happen.

Also, the implementation of Regions is a super-set of multi-columns and most of the code that you looked at would still be necessary to support new-multi-column and pagination. I’m all in favor of pagination (for printing pages) and new-multi-column based on Regions code. It will not just remove old Multi-Column code, but it will also improve the rendering & layout quality of these features"

"If you ignore Morten's reply [1] to Mihnea's email you may get the impression that Opera would support a decision to remove the Regions implementation from Blink. As Alexandru now also pointed out, the new multicol implementation that we've been working on has dependencies on the Regions code. I trust you take this into consideration before rushing to delete code we've contributed to Blink. "

In fact, Opera guys are opposing the removal of the code at this point, because they want multicolumn to work right:

"Yes, I think the ongoing discussions about the CSS Regions spec can be kept separate from the issue of whether or not this code needs to be removed from Blink (as Håkon also points out in his email, btw). From Opera's side we agree with the prioritization of performance optimizations in Blink, and we'd be happy to help identify issues and improve that aspect of the Regions code."

"Our Blink-based implementation of this functionality currently relies on fragmentation being done by the Regions code. It makes sense to use the same code for all fragmentation, including pagination and multicol support. The question of code reuse is separate from whether Regions should be exposed through CSS or HTML. "

And here's what Google guys say about this:

"As discussed in our proposed 2014 Goals for Blink [6] I believe Blink’s focus this year must be on mobile and specifically mobile performance. "

"In the past, we haven't had as narrow a focus as we have this year. Instead, we've taken the approach of encouraging innovation by letting a thousand flowers bloom. I don't think that's a good approach this year because the world is changing rapidly and we need to adapt."

And someone else notes:

"But if Chromium sets the goals for Blink on a yearly basis, throwing out anything that isn't a 100% fit for their short-term strategy, then it seems like it will be quite a huge risk to try to start projects of that magnitude for anyone else than those making decisions within the Chromium team.

Ind

They're actually explicitly saying just that in the linked discussion. Quote Chromium dev:

"we're building an application platform, not a document viewer"

There's still potential for the Ouya 1.0, the Tegra 3 chip it uses has been demonstrated (by nVidia) to be perfectly capable of game streaming.

You mean like $30 Chromecast? Or any random $25-35 Chinese miracast dongle?

There's still potential for the Ouya 1.0, the Tegra 3 chip it uses has been demonstrated (by nVidia) to be perfectly capable of game streaming.

So if steam machines pick up, with proper support, the Ouya 1.0s could easily become the streaming machines of choice.

Here's access to some of that data.
https://developers.google.com/...

This is another indication of how eager the tech industry is to get in on the same monetization model that Rovio was just implicated in with the Snowden documents--data for dollars.

Rovio was just the tip of the iceberg. Everyone is trying to get involved in a "goldrush" of funds that have infused the industry with a serious lack of morality.

As I pointed out in a couple of posts recently ( http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... ), it is the mobile analytics market that the NSA is targeting for their data on as many people as possible. Those analytics providers are doing what the NSA cannot do themselves legally--gather data. Analytics providers do the gathering, and the NSA either steals or buys the data. It's as simple as that folks.

The really dirty secret is that pretty much every company out there with an internet presence and a mobile presence (an app) is complicit in this gathering of data, and they all know it. Both The New York Times and The Guardian use the exact same analytics firm that Rovio uses in their mobile game "Angry Birds", yet they are the ones that published articles based on Edward Snowden documents outlining NSA activity that targeted mobile analytics. Hypocrites.

Just to give you an idea of just how big this iceberg is, dig deep in the following webpages--they outline, by connections, a web of investors and customers that are perpetrating a global auction of our privacy.

Amazon -- Seattle, Wa.
https://developer.amazon.com/s...

Jaspersoft -- San Francisco, CA.
https://www.jaspersoft.com/mob...

Google -- San Francisco, CA.
http://www.google.com/analytic...

Flurry -- San Francisco, CA.
http://www.flurry.com/flurry-a...

Localytics -- Boston, MA.
http://www.localytics.com/

Countly -- LIBYA!!....serious wtf here. All contact info is for Libyan addresses.
https://count.ly/products/feat...

Konitgent -- San Francisco, CA.
http://www.kontagent.com/compa...

Webtrends -- Portland, OR.
http://webtrends.com/solutions...

Bango -- London, UK
http://bango.com/corporate/

Apsalar -- San Francisco, CA.
https://apsalar.com/

Piwik -- London, UK
http://piwik.org/what-is-piwik...

Mobilytics (Mobivity) -- Chandler, AZ.
http://www.mobilytics.net/

Adobe -- San Jose, CA.
http://www.adobe.com/solutions...

Openwave Mobility -- Redwood City, CA.
http://owmobility.com/about-us

Mixpanel -- San Francisco, CA.
https://mixpanel.com/

Urban Airship -- San Francisco/London
http://urbanairship.com/produc...

Cognizant -- Teaneck, NJ.
http://www.cognizant.com/enter...

Amethon -- Sydney, AU
http://www.amethon.com/

The ring to rule them all, if you believe the developers..
Segment.io -- San Francisco, CA.
https://segment.io/mobile

For the inner workings, see linked Whitepaper. A good list of other miscreants is included on that

IIRC Backblaze's workload is write once read maybe once (I mean, they are a backup company). So it's quite likely that they are massively under the specs for throughput.

The truly interesting thing about this study is that they name names; previous work in the area (lke Bianca Schroeder's FAST 07 paper, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bianca/... or Google's FAST 07 paper, http://research.google.com/arc..., or NetApp's FAST 08 paper http://www.usenix.org/event/fa...) doesn't give away vendor names. The Backblaze results broadly agree with the previous results.

I agree about Waze. I got it as an alternative to Google and really liked it... then Google snarfed it up. (I am pretty sure "snarf" is the right word.)

You're right. define:snarf

snarf
snärf/
verb informal
verb: snarf; 3rd person present: snarfs; past tense: snarfed; past participle: snarfed; gerund or present participle: snarfing
1. eat or drink quickly or greedily.
"they snarfed up frozen yogurt"

(Pardon the pun.)

Try this: GMaps: https://www.google.com/maps/pr... OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/r...

Looks like the only difference is that OSM gives us more information.

Google seems willing to pay 10B to rent companies for a while...

They didn't "rent" anything -- they paid $10 billion for Motorola's patents. The rest wasn't worth much to them.

According to this Google+ post, it wasn't that bad. Motorola came to Google with $5.6B in cash and deferred tax assets, plus Google recovered some more of their money by selling the set-top box business ($2.35) and some factories ($75M), and finally the sale price to Lenovo ($2.91B).

So the net cost was about $1.56B. For that Google got most of the Motorola patents and Motorola's advanced products group. Good deal? Bad deal? You decide.

Way to cherry pick your area:

https://www.google.com/maps?q=...

http://www.openstreetmap.org/r...

You're jumping to unwarranted conclusions. OSM usually has better detailed and more accurate data than Google Maps. Don't take my word for it, though - look for yourself: OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#... GMaps: https://www.google.com/maps/pr... OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#... GMaps: https://www.google.com/maps/pr... OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#... GMaps: https://www.google.com/maps/pr... OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#... GMaps: https://www.google.com/maps/pr...

You're jumping to unwarranted conclusions. OSM usually has better detailed and more accurate data than Google Maps. Don't take my word for it, though - look for yourself: OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#... GMaps: https://www.google.com/maps/pr... OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#... GMaps: https://www.google.com/maps/pr... OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#... GMaps: https://www.google.com/maps/pr... OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#... GMaps: https://www.google.com/maps/pr...

You're jumping to unwarranted conclusions. OSM usually has better detailed and more accurate data than Google Maps. Don't take my word for it, though - look for yourself: OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#... GMaps: https://www.google.com/maps/pr... OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#... GMaps: https://www.google.com/maps/pr... OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#... GMaps: https://www.google.com/maps/pr... OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#... GMaps: https://www.google.com/maps/pr...

You're jumping to unwarranted conclusions. OSM usually has better detailed and more accurate data than Google Maps. Don't take my word for it, though - look for yourself: OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#... GMaps: https://www.google.com/maps/pr... OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#... GMaps: https://www.google.com/maps/pr... OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#... GMaps: https://www.google.com/maps/pr... OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#... GMaps: https://www.google.com/maps/pr...

I can't speak to the edit/delete wars issue, because I don't know the rules under which it operates.

But without resorting to the use of hugely expensive satellite imagery, and official sources, and mapping that to known points, openstreetmaps misses a lot of the less traveled roads, even in countries like the US where everyone is carrying a cell phone with GPS turned on. Look into south america and the quality drops off quite a bit.

Enthusiasts may run mapping apps and contribute, but until they can get a large segment of people doing so they will always be behind the curve.
There are some mapping track submission apps for Android and probabl for IOS, but these are fairly crude and battery hogging things. They are unwieldy, and more than a little geeky to use.

What they really need is something that will track your location and speed on your phone. Anything over 15 to 20 indicates some sort of vehicle. Just record that on your phone, and not upload it. Then, (when connected to wifi or on the charger perhaps), download just those map segments needed and compare that to the recorded track. Any travel at speed NOT on a known road, would periodically submitted. When there is enough evidence to suggest a road from enough different users, they could add the road to the map.

That way, they can make up for the lack of official sources and satellite imagery by using the power of thousands of phones without users having to do anything other than install the app, and key in some random digits to use for anonamizing the submissions.

Google gets real time traffic data via this method, so we already know it works.

Thumb-2 is a great idea but unfortunately it is not supported for 64 bit mode. 64 bit mode is AArch64 which used 32 bit fixed length instructions

http://www.arm.com/files/downl...

That being said it's not as bad as ARM32

https://groups.google.com/d/to...

So far, the LZSS routine in my code looks like this:
      THUMB2: 76 bytes
      THUMB: 76 bytes
      ARM64: 96 bytes
      ARM32: 116 bytes
(for comparison, x86 is 63 bytes)

Still it is quite a bit worse than x86. x64 incidentally is the same code size as x86

http://www.deater.net/weave/vm...

8086 58 bytes
x86_x32 66 bytes
x86_64 66 bytes
arm_thumb2 76 bytes
arm_thumb 76 bytes
m68k 88 bytes
arm64 96 bytes
z80 96 bytes
arm eabi 116 bytes

Of course this benchmark is a bit silly.

There have been novel designs to help overcome the pains of typing on a touchscreen... such as swipe to type (e.g. Swiftkey, Touchpal, etc. on Android).

Yes, it's still not as fast as a regular keyboard, but it's on par with an actual mobile sized keyboard, IMO.

Seconded.

I see nothing to indicate Oracle's patents are an issue for PostGRES.

Stolenmovies.com is blatantly trying to unfairly profit from other people's work.

CNN is covering the news.

Same difference or has CNN become a charity http://www.google.com/finance?q=TWX ?

I use www.rovio.com as a poster child of what a bad ToS reads like, Rovio uses the www.nytimes.com's privacy policy :} - to show it's "in fine company, or they aren't the only ones doing it. http://www.rovio.com/en/news/b... bottom of the list. www.rovio.com also taught me of Flurry.com - one thing about www.rovio.com they covered everybody in the chain, very helpful editing one's HOSTS file. Missing of course: "overseas".

After reading Rovio's ToS - to opt out is done by cookies, you can never remove another cookie, it's best to use a HOSTS file - except for www.Flurry.com which is Google's on-line Analytics. To block Flurry.com you must request to opt out (I can't find the address for obvious reasons - Google: flurry.com opt out

You will need a rather hard to find mobile number "Android ID" is required for that https://play.google.com/store/... contrary to a review posted you don't opt out of www.rovio.com this way, use a router firewall, which your most likely using to connect to the Internet with and add www.rovio.com.

Each time you Change Roms, unlock, root, jail break or whatever you call owning your mobile device you will need to opt out from Flurry.com again (your ID will of changed).

It's a lot to type; but if you stayed with it and it help you, worth it.

Voice your opinion.

Many have asked for this feature. Google keeps ignoring them.

Not sure why.

Voice your opinion.

Many have asked for this feature. Google keeps ignoring them.

Not sure why.