It has little to do with Apple. People are used to having their software up to date when they use smart phones. Android has plenty of defects in the earlier iterations that you need to develop work arounds for. The newer versions give much better functionality and performance, but if you are not able to develop your application for the newer platform, none of the benefits will pass on to the end user. While the iPhone apps keep getting better, Android developers will be catering to the least common denominator.
"In many ways, the project arguably benefits IBM by encouraging interest in the mainframe platform. That is largely why IBM has shown no hostility towards Hercules in the past. In fact, IBM's own researchers and System Z specialists have lavished Hercules with praise over the years after using it themselves in various contexts. The project was even featured at one time in an IBM Redbook. What brought about IBM's change in perspective was an unexpected effort by the TurboHercules company to commercialize the project in some unusual ways.
TurboHercules came up with a bizarre method to circumvent the licensing restrictions and monetize the emulator. IBM allows customers to transfer the operating system license to another machine in the event that their mainframe suffers an outage. Depending on how you choose to interpret that part of the license, it could make it legally permissible to use IBM's mainframe operating system with Hercules in some cases.
Exploiting that loophole in the license, TurboHercules promotes the Hercules emulator as a "disaster recovery" solution that allows mainframe users to continue running their mainframe software on regular PC hardware when their mainframe is inoperable or experiencing technical problems. This has apparently opened up a market for commercial Hercules support with a modest number of potential customers, such as government entities that are required to have redundant failover systems for emergencies, but can't afford to buy a whole additional mainframe."
IBM is suing TurboHercules who are out to make money out of the Hercules project.
From the TurboHercules website.
"The TurboHercules Niche TurboHercules is looking to carve out a commercial niche that complements—not competes with—the IBM mainframe.
The niche we see for TurboHercules is to focus on ancillary workloads such as mainframe education, training, demonstrations, pre- and post-processing, data preparation, archiving, development and testing. However, IBM has restricted the use of its operating system software to IBM mainframes only.
But, there is an exception. The worldwide IBM Customer Agreement clearly states that “if the designated machine is inoperable, the customer may use another machine temporarily.” Disaster recovery / business continuity is an ideal fit for TurboHercules since the backup and related communications occur without the need to run any IBM software on the TurboHercules machine.
For an overview of our disaster recovery offerings, please visit our DR Solutions page."
As a kid I played killing people. It was either cowboys and indians or police and robbers. But now apparently kids need to be cocooned till they are 18 and then must know everything at once. No time to learn what is right and wrong.
Of course, if they allowed people to get smart, the army wouldn't get recruits for the war on terror.
Google welcomes Gizmo5 Thursday, November 12, 2009 | 2:30 PM Today we're pleased to announce we've acquired Gizmo5, a company that provides Internet-based calling software for mobile phones and computers. While we don't have any specific features to announce right now, Gizmo5's engineers will be joining the Google Voice team to continue improving the Google Voice and Gizmo5 experience. Current Gizmo5 users will still be able to use the service, though we will be suspending new signups for the time being, and existing users will no longer be able to sign up for a call-in number.
We've acquired a number of small companies over the past five years, and the people and technology that have come to Google from other places have contributed in many ways, large and small, to all kinds of Google products. Since the GrandCentral team joined Google in 2007, they've done incredible things with Google's technology and resources to launch and improve Google Voice.
We welcome the Gizmo5 team to Google and look forward to working together to bringing more useful features to Google Voice.
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The future of Gizmo is being evaluated. It is not just the Linux client we have to worry about.
I second that. iTunes needs to be broken up into a media player and the rest of the syncing apps should be separate installs that plug into iTunes or run with their own GUI.
AION LAUNCH VERSION! September 17, 2009 4:34 PM Greetings!
As we draw closer to tomorrow I wanted to give everyone a brief update on the progress of our live version. We are excited to announce that we will be serving out the final update for you to patch within the next few hours. You will be able to use this version for both our Preselection and our Head Start. We are very excited with our final product and think that you will be as well! Below are the release notes for the patch you will see later today:
- Aion now features all three languages French, German and English. To select your language simply right click on Aion within your launcher and go to Properties->Language Options. Please select which languages you wish to download and which you wish Aion to display.
- After analyzing our open beta test results Aion will not feature GameGuard at launch. We will however continue to pursue ways to effectively utilize GameGuard within Aion in the future. Right now we're focused on providing players with the best possible Aion experience.
- The level cap is now level 50 (previously 45).
- Players will be able to reserve 2 character names during Preselection and create 8 characters in total once Head Start begins and beyond.
- Channels will be set to 10 instances for the beginning 2 zones of each faction. Please note that these will be lowered as characters progress and spread throughout Atreia.
Great. Now get some of those vendors to translate their solutions to English and post it for sale outside of Belgium. Software in Dutch for Linux, hmm...
You still a Mac to develop this.
It is very specific to the iPhone.
The delegate model closely mimics the Objective C libraries.
You still need to pay the Apple developer license for testing and deployment.
It still uses XCode (which is free).
It costs a few thousand dollars for the enterprise version in addition to the Apple fees.
Why can't the indexing service work in the background while you use the computer for something else? It can just move the files to the new directory structure and index it later.
Then again, if they're advocating committing mass murder or genocide for the sake of conserving resources.
I thought a future variant of the H1N1 that doesn't have a vaccination was supposed to do that as per the illuminati's master plan. /tinfoil hat/popcorn
Why the fuck are you copying John's article from Ars Technica to dropbox and driving traffic to it? Websites like Ars can use the exposure & ad. revenue so people like John can make a living.
Going by the Phoronix report, it looks like we need to wait for 10.6.1 or 10.6.2 for the graphics engine to be fixed. It is apparently slower than 10.5 right now.
The woman is a stupid fscking bitch and deserves what she got. You don't compromise the operational details of law enforcement with personal details for a hobby.
The Android based mobiles I have seen are still tied to a particular vendor. What the fuck is the use of an open platform when it tied to a !@!#@! service provider that sucks?
You raise a valid point. It is easy for people with incriminating data to spend a couple of years in the rig instead of screwing themselves and their organizations over. The UK is bat-shit crazy.
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The next best thing to happen since sliced bread? :p Speaking from Blizzard's perspective; of course.
It has little to do with Apple. People are used to having their software up to date when they use smart phones. Android has plenty of defects in the earlier iterations that you need to develop work arounds for. The newer versions give much better functionality and performance, but if you are not able to develop your application for the newer platform, none of the benefits will pass on to the end user. While the iPhone apps keep getting better, Android developers will be catering to the least common denominator.
I bet it is a i9+++ phone.
From Ars Technica
"In many ways, the project arguably benefits IBM by encouraging interest in the mainframe platform. That is largely why IBM has shown no hostility towards Hercules in the past. In fact, IBM's own researchers and System Z specialists have lavished Hercules with praise over the years after using it themselves in various contexts. The project was even featured at one time in an IBM Redbook. What brought about IBM's change in perspective was an unexpected effort by the TurboHercules company to commercialize the project in some unusual ways.
TurboHercules came up with a bizarre method to circumvent the licensing restrictions and monetize the emulator. IBM allows customers to transfer the operating system license to another machine in the event that their mainframe suffers an outage. Depending on how you choose to interpret that part of the license, it could make it legally permissible to use IBM's mainframe operating system with Hercules in some cases.
Exploiting that loophole in the license, TurboHercules promotes the Hercules emulator as a "disaster recovery" solution that allows mainframe users to continue running their mainframe software on regular PC hardware when their mainframe is inoperable or experiencing technical problems. This has apparently opened up a market for commercial Hercules support with a modest number of potential customers, such as government entities that are required to have redundant failover systems for emergencies, but can't afford to buy a whole additional mainframe."
IBM is suing TurboHercules who are out to make money out of the Hercules project.
From the TurboHercules website.
"The TurboHercules Niche
TurboHercules is looking to carve out a commercial niche that complements—not competes with—the IBM mainframe.
The niche we see for TurboHercules is to focus on ancillary workloads such as mainframe education, training, demonstrations, pre- and post-processing, data preparation, archiving, development and testing. However, IBM has restricted the use of its operating system software to IBM mainframes only.
But, there is an exception. The worldwide IBM Customer Agreement clearly states that “if the designated machine is inoperable, the customer may use another machine temporarily.” Disaster recovery / business continuity is an ideal fit for TurboHercules since the backup and related communications occur without the need to run any IBM software on the TurboHercules machine.
For an overview of our disaster recovery offerings, please visit our DR Solutions page."
Android called to let you know that despite the hype, it is trying to appease too many mobile operators with vested interests.
As a kid I played killing people. It was either cowboys and indians or police and robbers. But now apparently kids need to be cocooned till they are 18 and then must know everything at once. No time to learn what is right and wrong.
Of course, if they allowed people to get smart, the army wouldn't get recruits for the war on terror.
From the TFA.
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Google welcomes Gizmo5
Thursday, November 12, 2009 | 2:30 PM
Today we're pleased to announce we've acquired Gizmo5, a company that provides Internet-based calling software for mobile phones and computers. While we don't have any specific features to announce right now, Gizmo5's engineers will be joining the Google Voice team to continue improving the Google Voice and Gizmo5 experience. Current Gizmo5 users will still be able to use the service, though we will be suspending new signups for the time being, and existing users will no longer be able to sign up for a call-in number.
We've acquired a number of small companies over the past five years, and the people and technology that have come to Google from other places have contributed in many ways, large and small, to all kinds of Google products. Since the GrandCentral team joined Google in 2007, they've done incredible things with Google's technology and resources to launch and improve Google Voice.
We welcome the Gizmo5 team to Google and look forward to working together to bringing more useful features to Google Voice.
---------
The future of Gizmo is being evaluated. It is not just the Linux client we have to worry about.
Some actually RTFA? Miracles do happen.
Life with openssh is hard to imagine. We use it without a second thought these days. A very big thank you to all those who contributed to it.
I second that. iTunes needs to be broken up into a media player and the rest of the syncing apps should be separate installs that plug into iTunes or run with their own GUI.
AION LAUNCH VERSION!
September 17, 2009 4:34 PM
Greetings!
As we draw closer to tomorrow I wanted to give everyone a brief update on the progress of our live version. We are excited to announce that we will be serving out the final update for you to patch within the next few hours. You will be able to use this version for both our Preselection and our Head Start. We are very excited with our final product and think that you will be as well! Below are the release notes for the patch you will see later today:
- Aion now features all three languages French, German and English. To select your language simply right click on Aion within your launcher and go to Properties->Language Options. Please select which languages you wish to download and which you wish Aion to display.
- After analyzing our open beta test results Aion will not feature GameGuard at launch. We will however continue to pursue ways to effectively utilize GameGuard within Aion in the future. Right now we're focused on providing players with the best possible Aion experience.
- The level cap is now level 50 (previously 45).
- Players will be able to reserve 2 character names during Preselection and create 8 characters in total once Head Start begins and beyond.
- Channels will be set to 10 instances for the beginning 2 zones of each faction. Please note that these will be lowered as characters progress and spread throughout Atreia.
Xaen
Aion Producer
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So they will introduce it in the future.
Great. Now get some of those vendors to translate their solutions to English and post it for sale outside of Belgium. Software in Dutch for Linux, hmm...
You still a Mac to develop this. It is very specific to the iPhone. The delegate model closely mimics the Objective C libraries. You still need to pay the Apple developer license for testing and deployment. It still uses XCode (which is free). It costs a few thousand dollars for the enterprise version in addition to the Apple fees.
Why can't the indexing service work in the background while you use the computer for something else? It can just move the files to the new directory structure and index it later.
Then again, if they're advocating committing mass murder or genocide for the sake of conserving resources.
I thought a future variant of the H1N1 that doesn't have a vaccination was supposed to do that as per the illuminati's master plan. /popcorn
/tinfoil hat
Why the fuck are you copying John's article from Ars Technica to dropbox and driving traffic to it? Websites like Ars can use the exposure & ad. revenue so people like John can make a living.
The original article is here.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars
It is not suicide, it is euthanasia. Big !@#!@# difference.
Going by the Phoronix report, it looks like we need to wait for 10.6.1 or 10.6.2 for the graphics engine to be fixed. It is apparently slower than 10.5 right now.
Looking at all the replies and the discussions, the OP didn't ask such a bad question.
$2 million for mp3s, $40 million for a bad argument.
Do these judges send a $10 million bill to toilet paper companies when they have to wipe their backside?
I don't have points to mod you up, but the judges do need to have their heads and their asses examined.
The woman is a stupid fscking bitch and deserves what she got. You don't compromise the operational details of law enforcement with personal details for a hobby.
The Android based mobiles I have seen are still tied to a particular vendor. What the fuck is the use of an open platform when it tied to a !@!#@! service provider that sucks?
You raise a valid point. It is easy for people with incriminating data to spend a couple of years in the rig instead of screwing themselves and their organizations over. The UK is bat-shit crazy.
Hmm. Anyone wanting to take bets on humans becoming extinct within the next 50000 years?