It hasn't captured any interest and it actively conflicts with Android in the tablet space. The best bits should be moved into Android and the rest should be done away with.
"Should a 5 year old 50watt GPU be pushed over a 200watt modern GPU?"
That's not the issue that legislation is addressing. The legislation would be asking if a 180watt modern GPU should be rewarded over a 200watt modern GPU if they belong to the same performance category and the answer is yes it should. Consumers are not forced to buy energy efficient devices, those displaying energy labels or energy stars, but obviously putting that information in front of them will encourage many to do so and in turn that puts more pressure on industry to meet that demand. The EU also uses energy star ratings during procurement so manufacturers which choose to ignore the ratings might find themselves excluded. Again more pressure.
No point in forcing regulation when the market should fix itself.
Well that's total nonsense. The market never fixes itself voluntarily when it comes to safety, emissions, or energy consumption. Never. Neither should government policy be held to ransom by the whims of market forces. The EU has committed to CO2 reductions through Kyoto, and has a general policy of improving air quality, reducing reliance on fossil fuels and lowering power consumption. It must tilt the market to achieve that effect. And one way they have chosen to do this is to require products to get energy rated and for that rating to be prominently displayed in order to guide consumer preference towards more efficient products.
I loved Reiser3 when it came out, but it always seemed to be on the fringes of the mainline because Reiser caused a lot of friction with other kernel devs. Linus had plenty of rants about the way the driver broke stuff, used weird code conventions or made dumb self serving decisions and these seemed to increase with Reiser 4 which was ridiculously ambitious and kept out of the mainline. I think even if Reiser hadn't been murdering his wife that it would have been a long time before it would have gone into the mainline, possibly never.
I don't run data centres or massive databases and my requirements for a fs are pretty modest. Maybe Reiser4 would have solved them in time but ext3, ext4 and btrfs more than adequately cover those bases now and I haven't felt the need to choose anything else. Basically my needs for an fs over the basic stuff run to don't fragment, don't slow down too much with large numbers of files, don't waste space, don't corrupt and don't make me wait inordinate amounts of time after unexpected power downs.
The EU's energy policies have been relatively sane, usually consisting of prominently displaying a device's energy rating in a simple letter grade. Devices which get an A+ or A rating have a natural sales advantage over those with a lower rating such as a B, C or D. It doesn't stop someone buying a lower rated device but the rating clearly it pushes demand towards efficiency and in turn manufacturers respond to that demand. Net result is lower power consumption devices.
I really don't see the big deal with regulation attempting to steer PCs towards efficiencies too which obviously includes integrated or discrete graphics processors. I could see that it could impact sales of high end cards but it might also act as the incentive manufacturers need to produce more efficient cards in the first place. I'm sure there is a correlation between energy draw and performance but its not exactly 1.0 and I expect that a lot of things a card could do to reduce its power draw aren't being done because the incentive wasn't there for manufacturers to pursue it. Now it is.
I think the primary issue is Facebook is a social network with a vested interest in mining the crap out of personal information and therefore it is in their interest to throw all the privacy settings as wide as they can go so people can connect. Thus they design their user interface and default settings in a way to bury options which control the flow of information. Not just for existing features but new features too. So people think they've locked down their account, a new feature turns up and suddenly they're not private any more.
The simple answer I would have thought is a simple master switch which says "for new features I want the default behaviour to be" - default / private / disabled. It shouldn't be hard to implement but unless someone like the EU were to force such a thing (and likely it would only cover the EU), I don't see Facebook ever volunteering to do it.
Why is it so hard to put every device key in escrow and provide an automated and simple process that allows a user to individually unlock their own device? This escrow could also provide a signing service for any dists on neutral and fair terms that allowed them to replace the bootloader. A locked bootloader is desirable in some regards but it should not be under the control of a single OS vendor.
PZ Myers ripped Kurzweil to pieces a number of times. I think it's fair to say that Kurzweil is at best optimistic, and at worst full of shit and a crank.
Browsers are getting do not track options when a large number of sites are being plastered with Facebook Like, G+ and other nuisance tags from "social media" are little more than tracking cookies themselves, capable of tracking someone regardless of them having an account on these services or not. I realise there may be add ons to block these links but my feeling is there should be an opt-out built into the browser. If a person chooses to opt out these links are replaced with placeholders. If the user really wants to, they can click on the placeholder and then the browser loads the real script. And otherwise the page is dark as far as these nuisance links go.
Diaspora would get a LOT more pods if it was a no-brainer to set up and install. That's what they need to hammer on. The more schools, universities, companies, libraries, groups and individuals they have running pods, the faster and more popular it will become.
But as a Kindle Fire user and a veteran of much smartphone hacking... I don't see the point in ANY of this.
The Kindle is a cheap(ish) / subsidized tablet running a proprietary fork of Android locked into Amazon's crappy app store. I can see the incentive for wanting to root the device and turn it into a standard android device. Not everyone watches videos through their tablet.
Do you understand that car manufacturers are not idiots and there are videos demonstrating electric vehicles operating in subzero snowy conditions? For example.
The immediate question is why do you think an electric vehicle can't operate in snow? It has a smooth torque that would help in snow and even heating the vehicle doesn't have to be strain the battery, it could use an ethanol based heater or similar.
The ignorance is when people say "police state" without understanding what the role of police in the real world actually is. In this case they were doing exactly what their mandate requires - enforcing laws on the statute book. They are not responsible for prosecuting the person, or in what the judge might consider, or the jury, or the various other higher courts all the way up to EU level which would certainly be appealed along the way.
The police's job is to investigate and make an arrest on the basis of law. It's for the Crown Prosecution Service to determine if the case should then be prosecuted and their determination would be made on a) whether its in the public interest to prosecute, and b) whether there is sufficient evidence to secure a conviction. The police don't pick and choose what laws they wish to follow although they or the CPS may choose to issue a caution or penalty for a minor crime.
Look at the section in the act. Sounds like some people were grossly offended by this joke which concerns 5 year old girl who is assumed to be murdered and is currently front page news in the UK at the moment. I don't think making tasteless jokes should be subject to criminal law but the police do have grounds to make an arrest. A way to look at it is this dickhead has volunteered to become a test case to see what the limits of the law actually are. I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up in European courts of justice if the matter is pushed that far by prosecutors or championed by civil rights defenders.
It's easy to retrain. Pick a personal project which uses some technology, develop it to completion and you'll be conversant with it by the end. A few months works for me.
Android needs a trust model. Apps should be assigned to a trust group or level - implicit, trusted, store or untrusted, or one of a user's own making.
Any action by the app which could cost a user money or reveal private data should be tested against the trust. For example, perhaps SMS messages are outright banned for untrusted apps and are put in a quarantine queue, but for Play store apps maybe domestic SMSs are permitted but not international ones and so on. Certain actions like dialling numbers could be controlled in a similar way with popup messages and alerts that app X attempted to dial a nr at 3am. Internet and file access could be subject to quotas and other rules. If a user trusts an app they can change it in their settings.
It would complement the static upfront permissions that Android currently uses and provide an additional level of security that would defang most malware.
Diaspora in the past has been buggy and slow but recent visits to the site have shown it has turned into a slick and intuitive experience. The problem now is not the software so much as the lack of users. Some small site is never going to be able to compete with the wallets or resources of Google or Facebook.
Diaspora is designed as federated software where many servers can be part of the same network and users and content are shared across those servers in interesting ways. The problem at present is setting it up is very messy and that suppresses interest people have in using it. Therefore I think the best way of increasing its use is to make the setup easy to get it into the hands of as many universities, libraries, schools, businesses and individuals as possible. Make Diaspora a no-brainer to setup - Diaspora in a Box - a script or executable that asks few questions and has a node up and running. If they get to this state then it's likely that some dists might even pick it up or at least support it to some level.
Because I needed more space obviously. Sense is nice but it wastes a lot of space and has a lot of shit baked in like Facebook which I don't need. There is no reason that a custom ROM should look ugly and no reason that I should feel constrained from saying so in a discussion thread concerning CM.
Pity that there is now a bunch of lunatics trying to make printable guns. The world will not be a better place when everyone and their dog can download and print their own guns.
More likely they're making plastic stocks and receiver housing and the other peripheral stuff which holds the important bits together. The barrel, receiver, firing pin, magazine, springs, screws and other metal parts of a gun, plus the ammunition would have to be manufactured some other way for the time being.
Of course some enterprising fellow who has watched In the Line of Fire might get the bright idea to make the whole gun out of plastic. Maybe it would work but its as likely to blow their hand off, or decorate their face with shards of plastic.
Thanks I did a brief search on apps 2 SD for CM7 and it said the whole moving apps onto a mounted device was deprecated. I'll look again and see if there is a solution. I already move my apps to SD but with only 128MB it still fills up really quickly.
I think he's genuine in his beliefs regardless of how stupid I consider them personally. On the other hand that Dr Bob cretin who stinks so many article with chiropractic screed probably is a troll, or mentally unbalanced, or both.
I installed CM7 recently on an HTC Desire and it works flawlessly. What isn't so good is that the stock android really is pretty shit from a look and feel perspective. The CM7 contains ADWLauncher to control the screens but there is no change that I can see to apps like the dialler, contacts, calls & messages. Compared to HTC Sense it just looks ugly and disjointed. Consequently I have to go off and install 3rd party tools (e.g. Go Contacts Ex) and I end up wasting space in a device which doesn't have space to spare.
I think if Cyanogenmod really wants to make an impression it should consider supplying its own core apps and concentrate on a coherent and integrated experience that has the polish of some of the commercial firmware. Perhaps it's too late for CM7, but going forward I think if CM was desirable rather than the place that old phones go, that it could even come to pass that commercially sold phones actually ship out of the box with CM firmware. Wouldn't that be a turn up for the books?
Holding libertarian views and loudly and consistently extolling them regardless of how stupid they might be in the context of the thread or even on their own merits isn't trolling.
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Don't shut down the merchant account, suspend the banks. Make an example out of them and other banks might think twice about facilitating scammers.
It hasn't captured any interest and it actively conflicts with Android in the tablet space. The best bits should be moved into Android and the rest should be done away with.
That's not the issue that legislation is addressing. The legislation would be asking if a 180watt modern GPU should be rewarded over a 200watt modern GPU if they belong to the same performance category and the answer is yes it should. Consumers are not forced to buy energy efficient devices, those displaying energy labels or energy stars, but obviously putting that information in front of them will encourage many to do so and in turn that puts more pressure on industry to meet that demand. The EU also uses energy star ratings during procurement so manufacturers which choose to ignore the ratings might find themselves excluded. Again more pressure.
No point in forcing regulation when the market should fix itself.
Well that's total nonsense. The market never fixes itself voluntarily when it comes to safety, emissions, or energy consumption. Never. Neither should government policy be held to ransom by the whims of market forces. The EU has committed to CO2 reductions through Kyoto, and has a general policy of improving air quality, reducing reliance on fossil fuels and lowering power consumption. It must tilt the market to achieve that effect. And one way they have chosen to do this is to require products to get energy rated and for that rating to be prominently displayed in order to guide consumer preference towards more efficient products.
I don't run data centres or massive databases and my requirements for a fs are pretty modest. Maybe Reiser4 would have solved them in time but ext3, ext4 and btrfs more than adequately cover those bases now and I haven't felt the need to choose anything else. Basically my needs for an fs over the basic stuff run to don't fragment, don't slow down too much with large numbers of files, don't waste space, don't corrupt and don't make me wait inordinate amounts of time after unexpected power downs.
I really don't see the big deal with regulation attempting to steer PCs towards efficiencies too which obviously includes integrated or discrete graphics processors. I could see that it could impact sales of high end cards but it might also act as the incentive manufacturers need to produce more efficient cards in the first place. I'm sure there is a correlation between energy draw and performance but its not exactly 1.0 and I expect that a lot of things a card could do to reduce its power draw aren't being done because the incentive wasn't there for manufacturers to pursue it. Now it is.
The simple answer I would have thought is a simple master switch which says "for new features I want the default behaviour to be" - default / private / disabled. It shouldn't be hard to implement but unless someone like the EU were to force such a thing (and likely it would only cover the EU), I don't see Facebook ever volunteering to do it.
Why is it so hard to put every device key in escrow and provide an automated and simple process that allows a user to individually unlock their own device? This escrow could also provide a signing service for any dists on neutral and fair terms that allowed them to replace the bootloader. A locked bootloader is desirable in some regards but it should not be under the control of a single OS vendor.
PZ Myers ripped Kurzweil to pieces a number of times. I think it's fair to say that Kurzweil is at best optimistic, and at worst full of shit and a crank.
Browsers are getting do not track options when a large number of sites are being plastered with Facebook Like, G+ and other nuisance tags from "social media" are little more than tracking cookies themselves, capable of tracking someone regardless of them having an account on these services or not. I realise there may be add ons to block these links but my feeling is there should be an opt-out built into the browser. If a person chooses to opt out these links are replaced with placeholders. If the user really wants to, they can click on the placeholder and then the browser loads the real script. And otherwise the page is dark as far as these nuisance links go.
Diaspora would get a LOT more pods if it was a no-brainer to set up and install. That's what they need to hammer on. The more schools, universities, companies, libraries, groups and individuals they have running pods, the faster and more popular it will become.
But as a Kindle Fire user and a veteran of much smartphone hacking ... I don't see the point in ANY of this.
The Kindle is a cheap(ish) / subsidized tablet running a proprietary fork of Android locked into Amazon's crappy app store. I can see the incentive for wanting to root the device and turn it into a standard android device. Not everyone watches videos through their tablet.
Do you understand that car manufacturers are not idiots and there are videos demonstrating electric vehicles operating in subzero snowy conditions? For example.
The immediate question is why do you think an electric vehicle can't operate in snow? It has a smooth torque that would help in snow and even heating the vehicle doesn't have to be strain the battery, it could use an ethanol based heater or similar.
The ignorance is when people say "police state" without understanding what the role of police in the real world actually is. In this case they were doing exactly what their mandate requires - enforcing laws on the statute book. They are not responsible for prosecuting the person, or in what the judge might consider, or the jury, or the various other higher courts all the way up to EU level which would certainly be appealed along the way.
The police's job is to investigate and make an arrest on the basis of law. It's for the Crown Prosecution Service to determine if the case should then be prosecuted and their determination would be made on a) whether its in the public interest to prosecute, and b) whether there is sufficient evidence to secure a conviction. The police don't pick and choose what laws they wish to follow although they or the CPS may choose to issue a caution or penalty for a minor crime.
Why would it be a case at all?
Look at the section in the act. Sounds like some people were grossly offended by this joke which concerns 5 year old girl who is assumed to be murdered and is currently front page news in the UK at the moment. I don't think making tasteless jokes should be subject to criminal law but the police do have grounds to make an arrest. A way to look at it is this dickhead has volunteered to become a test case to see what the limits of the law actually are. I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up in European courts of justice if the matter is pushed that far by prosecutors or championed by civil rights defenders.
It's easy to retrain. Pick a personal project which uses some technology, develop it to completion and you'll be conversant with it by the end. A few months works for me.
Any action by the app which could cost a user money or reveal private data should be tested against the trust. For example, perhaps SMS messages are outright banned for untrusted apps and are put in a quarantine queue, but for Play store apps maybe domestic SMSs are permitted but not international ones and so on. Certain actions like dialling numbers could be controlled in a similar way with popup messages and alerts that app X attempted to dial a nr at 3am. Internet and file access could be subject to quotas and other rules. If a user trusts an app they can change it in their settings.
It would complement the static upfront permissions that Android currently uses and provide an additional level of security that would defang most malware.
Diaspora is designed as federated software where many servers can be part of the same network and users and content are shared across those servers in interesting ways. The problem at present is setting it up is very messy and that suppresses interest people have in using it. Therefore I think the best way of increasing its use is to make the setup easy to get it into the hands of as many universities, libraries, schools, businesses and individuals as possible. Make Diaspora a no-brainer to setup - Diaspora in a Box - a script or executable that asks few questions and has a node up and running. If they get to this state then it's likely that some dists might even pick it up or at least support it to some level.
Because I needed more space obviously. Sense is nice but it wastes a lot of space and has a lot of shit baked in like Facebook which I don't need. There is no reason that a custom ROM should look ugly and no reason that I should feel constrained from saying so in a discussion thread concerning CM.
Pity that there is now a bunch of lunatics trying to make printable guns. The world will not be a better place when everyone and their dog can download and print their own guns.
More likely they're making plastic stocks and receiver housing and the other peripheral stuff which holds the important bits together. The barrel, receiver, firing pin, magazine, springs, screws and other metal parts of a gun, plus the ammunition would have to be manufactured some other way for the time being. Of course some enterprising fellow who has watched In the Line of Fire might get the bright idea to make the whole gun out of plastic. Maybe it would work but its as likely to blow their hand off, or decorate their face with shards of plastic.
Thanks I did a brief search on apps 2 SD for CM7 and it said the whole moving apps onto a mounted device was deprecated. I'll look again and see if there is a solution. I already move my apps to SD but with only 128MB it still fills up really quickly.
I think he's genuine in his beliefs regardless of how stupid I consider them personally. On the other hand that Dr Bob cretin who stinks so many article with chiropractic screed probably is a troll, or mentally unbalanced, or both.
I think if Cyanogenmod really wants to make an impression it should consider supplying its own core apps and concentrate on a coherent and integrated experience that has the polish of some of the commercial firmware. Perhaps it's too late for CM7, but going forward I think if CM was desirable rather than the place that old phones go, that it could even come to pass that commercially sold phones actually ship out of the box with CM firmware. Wouldn't that be a turn up for the books?
Holding libertarian views and loudly and consistently extolling them regardless of how stupid they might be in the context of the thread or even on their own merits isn't trolling.