The video is attached below if you're curious. Can't help but point out that this wouldn't have happened if Sony hadn't decided to yank the Boot Other OS option.
Bollocks. Other systems have dozens of mods, why would it be any different for the PS3? That's assuming this is a legit hack which is questionable without further info.
Silverlight has absolutely abysmal support on Linux. Seems like the only Silverlight applications that are actually publicly use stuff not included in Moonlight.
Which is why Moonlight was doomed to fail from the get go. The devs could implement the thing perfectly and it still wouldn't play the DRM'd content that most Silverlight sites actually use it for. So that is more or less that.
Silverlight as a concept is sound and in many ways more desirable than Flash. e.g. you can write proper multithreaded apps in Silverlight. It's too bad it's firmly stuck to one platform and any claims it works on others are just a bad joke.
I use Security Essentials at home. It's hard to say if it's working (like most AV products) but it's non-intrusive, non-annoying and very importantly free. Kudos to Microsoft for once.
I use McAfee at work and again I have no idea if its working but I do know it drags my machine down to its knees during recompiles. I had to beg the admins to exclude some of my directories to lessen the impact it had on some of my build times.
I wish Firefox would stop trying to compete in Javascript and go back to one of the biggest reasons they started the project: speed of the browser itself. That means it should open instantaneously and have low overhead--even with the usual plugins installed (AdBlock, NoScript, etc).
Most of the application level behaviour (windows, buttons, menus etc.) *is* written in JS, CSS and XML. Improving the speed of JS (and the DOM / CSS / layout) has a direct impact on the speed of the browser.
As an aside, why do you say there's no doubt that Android is poor for gaming? The hardware is generally more than upto it, it has a full OpenGL ES implementation and you have the NDK if you really want raw performance.
I say its poor because it is poor. There are a dozen high end Android handsets and more by the day. Games might work fine with one handset and be completely bugged on another. This happened recently with a bunch of Gameloft titles that worked on the Motorola Droid but crapped out on the HTC Desire and other phones. The reason was the underlying chipset - PowerVR vs Snapdragon as well as other differences between the platforms.
I'm sure the situation will get better, but it would help enormously if Google created some gaming profiles and compliance tests that phones could implement and games could be coded to.
Aside from that it would also help if there was a service for high scores, saving to cloud, trophies, matchmaking etc. I.e. a unified gaming experience. Apple has Game Center in iOS 4 and Windows Mobile 7 is bound to use XBox Live. Android needs something similar.
To be fair to Windows Mobile 7, a lot of the other commentators came away generally positive although they noted omissions such as video in HTML, lack of YouTube client, no copy & paste & no 3rd party multitasking.
My own view is that Microsoft recognized how mouldy Windows Mobile 6.5 had become, especially the UI and decided to bisect the OS with a rump Windows CE acting as the kernel and a new.NET front end. All well and good but they'd have to toss a lot of functionality out in the process. So they picked to implement a consumer phone first and build the rest of the features in later.
Windows Mobile 7 won't match Android or iPhone for features but if MS can make a decent consumer phone with gaming then they might create a platform they can build from. There is no doubt that Android is pretty poor for gaming and iPhone lacks things that XBL could bring like trophies etc. So if MS can pull off that part they might be in with a chance but they're really going to have work on the missing functionality and fast.
Android isn't Linux in the traditional sense. It's a Linux kernel with BSD user land bolted on, e.g. the C runtime is called BIONIC and is a cutdown spinoff of the standard BSD libc. Drivers and stuff are accessed through abstraction layers to minimize dependencies between the kernel and the runtime. I guess Google did this so that if necessary they could dump Linux and use something else. Perhaps they even intend to do just that at some point.
Companies like Oracle might reasonably be able to argue that Android is a distinct environment, one which is relatively kernel agnostic and certainly doesn't correspond with a typical desktop or embedded Linux distribution.
From the PDF - "Google's Android competes with Oracle America's Java as an operating system
software platform for cellular telephones and other mobile devices."
Did you miss the part where SUN has (succesfully) sued Microsoft for the exact same thing?
It wasn't the exact same thing. Microsoft was passing off a bastardized version of Java as Java so they were sued for trademark infringement and related matters.
Google doesn't claim their platform is Java and never has. Oracle can't sue them for the same reasons so they've pulled some generic patents out of their ass and are suing them for those. Google will probably pull a bunch of generic web patents out its ass and countersue. After a big noise both sides will settle.
AnyDVD HD already does decrypt AACS and BD+ and it contains all the keys necessary to decrypt movies. So far Slysoft (makers of the tool) have kept themselves from being sued by being located in Antigua where clearly they have some kind of legal defence.
Traditionally that has also been the case for VLC which was based in France where software patents don't apply and decss appears semi legit. I don't think they have much to worry about (more than now) by inserting an AACS implementation. Where they might get some heat is if they shipped actual keys. Unlike decss where there is a class break, each Blu Ray disk has its own key. It's conceivable that could tip fair use into copyright infringement.
I expect sooner or later someone will produce an up to date list of keys that can be plugged in. Blu Ray's best defence against key discovery is BD+ but the platform seems strangely laid back about it. They have the potential if they so wished to ensure every batch of disks used a different BD+ scheme and different keys making it extremely difficult for Slysoft or anybody else to keep up with them all.
I was in Santa Cruz in Tenerife about 4 months ago and they did this. Bizarrely, the Wifi seemed to be free since there were a good 4 or 5 people with laptops enjoying the internet and air conditioning.
Yes you're supposed to, doesn't mean you actually have to, or that the MP has any easy of verifying you are you say you are, or that your views are representative of constituents, or that multiple people in the constituency should be spamming the MP with substantially identical form letters as part of a campaign.
The 38 degrees site claims to have sent "tens of thousands of emails" for just one recent campaign. Which means every single MP on average received at least 15 substantially identical emails and probably more. That's just one website and just one campaign. I would not be surprised if MPs receive upwards of 30-50 such boiler plate emails every day and more again from commercial lobby groups.
It's no wonder an MP might wish to remove their address from campaign sites. Just because they are a public representative doesn't mean they should have to listen, process or respond to essentially political spam.
a public official doesn't want to be contacted by the public? No one likes to hear the peasants out. Where's the story here?
No he doesn't want to be deluged in shit by a multitude of "campaign" sites. Quite understandable really. The public most MPs want to hear from are the people who elected them in their borough not some random lunatic cutting and pasting a form letter from a website.
When a customer buys a coffee their receipt should contain a unique PIN which is good for X amount of minutes from the time of purchase. The customer would have to enter the PIN to get through the firewall. Seems like a no brainer solution, one which discourages freeloaders and still allows coffee shops (or anywhere else) to offer wifi.
I acknowledged a quality device would cost more but I see no reason why it should cost $500. I bought a netbook for half the price of an iPad and I see no reason that tablets should be priced any differently. Even if a screen might cost more, the device saves in other ways such as no HDD, lower CPU spec, lower memory, no keyboard, no power brick, smaller packaging. I fully expect to see very acceptable Android powered brand name tablets starting from $200 up before long.
No, quality components simply cost more then the cheap ones used on those garbage devices. I would guess that quality Android devices will retail in the $300 to $400 price range. When this happens, Apple will drop their prices accordingly. The outrageously high price for the iPad is simply due to a lack of competition.
I see no reason that this should be so. I see no reason at all that something with better build quality and performance than a $99 tablet shouldn't occupy a price slot considerably less than an iPad. After all netbooks manage it and have as many, if not more components & costs to worry about than a tablet.
That's why I suggested hybrid devices. There is no doubt capacitive is more responsive for finger gestures but for writing it stinks badly. Capacitive devices including the iPad are useless for note taking. The best of both worlds would be something that handles a light touch via capacitive but allows pressure based sensing too for handwriting.
Don't believe the hype about capacitive. If you intend to take notes on a device then capacitive by itself is absolutely fucking useless. To take notes you have to finger paint like a child rather than write properly with a stylus. Any device pitched at students / ereaders really should have resistive functionality. Apparently there are hybrid screens that offer the best of both worlds.
Ebay is filled with auctions for android tablet devices circling $99. Most seem to be something called an Eken aBook running Android. Charitably it looks functional, less charitably it looks cheap and nasty. There are a few models one which looks gaudy, another which is an iPad ripoff shell and another somewhere in between. Despite being pitched as an iPad knock off it does demonstrate one thing - there is no reason that tablet devices should cost $500 upwards.
I expect when bigger players come along that we'll see some decent Android based tablets for $200 offering comparable functionality to the iPad with none of the downsides.
Labelling is hugely variable in the EU. Companies are legally obliged to list certain ingredients derived from wheat, barley, rye but some bury the info so deep you can barely see it. Others might not contain anything dodgy but won't say "gluten free". Others are very helpful and provide very clear allergen advice. Legislation is improving things but I think most allergen / coeliac sufferers would like EU to require clear and concise advice in a consistent layout to make it easy to see at a glance.
The contrast is clearest by comparing two similar stores LIDL and Aldi. Both are regarded as budget stores although in truth the stuff they sell is often no worse and frequently better than some other stores. The difference for sufferers is very pronounced. LIDL is absolutely terrible. A packet of golden rice (for example) might have ingredients listed in 12 languages in miniscule badly printed lettering. The 15th ingredient might say "starch" but what kind of starch? Wheat starch is bad, potato / corn / rice starch is fine. They don't say. LIDL should be ashamed how bad their advice especially in contrast to Aldi.
Aldi deserves massive praise. Virtually every Aldi has a prominent white on black "allergen advice" section making it easy to see what contains what. Furthermore, a lot more of their produce is gluten free compared to other stores.
I'm a bit perplexed at this comment, I thought that McDonalds had a fairly large gluten free menu though I'm not a celiac myself.
McDs really doesn't make much effort for coeliacs. They can eat fries (only if the fry stations are not also used to fry twisty fries, onion rings), meat patties (no dressing, no bun), some ice creams (some contain biscuits, candy or sauces that contain wheat), some drinks (some shakes are offlimits), and some salads (no dressing, meat). Pretty much everything else has wheat in it in one form or another. There is no advice for any of this in the menus and you have to rely on what info the coeliac society has discovered. Burger King is worse because their fries are coated in some mixture.
Anyway the upshot is we're trying to discourage trips since its a minefield. Yes we can order a happy meal with a meat patty but that's hardly the same as what he used to be able to have. Just trying to explain how we want a patty with no bun or dressing to someone with poor English and no knowledge of the condition is a pain in itself.
Utter bullshit. Coeliacs must avoid "ancient" varieties of wheat such as spelt as much as modern varieties. It has nothing to do with GM foods. If anything GM holds the best hope for a cure by producing a strain of wheat whose gluten protein is modified sufficiently that it doesn't trigger an autoimmune reaction.
My daughter was 14 months when she was hospitalised with a severe bacterial infection. She was very sick and doctors initially thought she was suffering from swine flu. After being pumped full of antibiotics and subjected to various tests over a weak she went home. Blood tests suggested she was coeliac and she had a follow on biopsy to confirm it. Doctors suspect she was severely weakened by the disease and this made it easier for the infection to take hold. Her brother also suffered various gastro problems so after she was diagnosed he was also tested and he was confirmed as coeliac too.
As depressing as it was to learn of this, at least they were caught early. The progress my daughter has made in the last 10 months is remarkable. From looking unnourished and sickly she is an active, loud two year old. Her brother is also full of life although he protests about treats like McDonalds etc. They can still eat fresh fruit, meat, fish, veg, dairy etc. with no issue. but they have to eat GF bread, pasta, biscuits etc which can be struggle. To be frank some GF food tastes awful but some brands are a lot more edible than others.
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Bollocks. Other systems have dozens of mods, why would it be any different for the PS3? That's assuming this is a legit hack which is questionable without further info.
Which is why Moonlight was doomed to fail from the get go. The devs could implement the thing perfectly and it still wouldn't play the DRM'd content that most Silverlight sites actually use it for. So that is more or less that.
Silverlight as a concept is sound and in many ways more desirable than Flash. e.g. you can write proper multithreaded apps in Silverlight. It's too bad it's firmly stuck to one platform and any claims it works on others are just a bad joke.
I use McAfee at work and again I have no idea if its working but I do know it drags my machine down to its knees during recompiles. I had to beg the admins to exclude some of my directories to lessen the impact it had on some of my build times.
Most of the application level behaviour (windows, buttons, menus etc.) *is* written in JS, CSS and XML. Improving the speed of JS (and the DOM / CSS / layout) has a direct impact on the speed of the browser.
So Iran is more analogous to a religious junta.
I say its poor because it is poor. There are a dozen high end Android handsets and more by the day. Games might work fine with one handset and be completely bugged on another. This happened recently with a bunch of Gameloft titles that worked on the Motorola Droid but crapped out on the HTC Desire and other phones. The reason was the underlying chipset - PowerVR vs Snapdragon as well as other differences between the platforms.
I'm sure the situation will get better, but it would help enormously if Google created some gaming profiles and compliance tests that phones could implement and games could be coded to.
Aside from that it would also help if there was a service for high scores, saving to cloud, trophies, matchmaking etc. I.e. a unified gaming experience. Apple has Game Center in iOS 4 and Windows Mobile 7 is bound to use XBox Live. Android needs something similar.
My own view is that Microsoft recognized how mouldy Windows Mobile 6.5 had become, especially the UI and decided to bisect the OS with a rump Windows CE acting as the kernel and a new .NET front end. All well and good but they'd have to toss a lot of functionality out in the process. So they picked to implement a consumer phone first and build the rest of the features in later.
Windows Mobile 7 won't match Android or iPhone for features but if MS can make a decent consumer phone with gaming then they might create a platform they can build from. There is no doubt that Android is pretty poor for gaming and iPhone lacks things that XBL could bring like trophies etc. So if MS can pull off that part they might be in with a chance but they're really going to have work on the missing functionality and fast.
Companies like Oracle might reasonably be able to argue that Android is a distinct environment, one which is relatively kernel agnostic and certainly doesn't correspond with a typical desktop or embedded Linux distribution.
Hahah. No.
It wasn't the exact same thing. Microsoft was passing off a bastardized version of Java as Java so they were sued for trademark infringement and related matters.
Google doesn't claim their platform is Java and never has. Oracle can't sue them for the same reasons so they've pulled some generic patents out of their ass and are suing them for those. Google will probably pull a bunch of generic web patents out its ass and countersue. After a big noise both sides will settle.
Traditionally that has also been the case for VLC which was based in France where software patents don't apply and decss appears semi legit. I don't think they have much to worry about (more than now) by inserting an AACS implementation. Where they might get some heat is if they shipped actual keys. Unlike decss where there is a class break, each Blu Ray disk has its own key. It's conceivable that could tip fair use into copyright infringement.
I expect sooner or later someone will produce an up to date list of keys that can be plugged in. Blu Ray's best defence against key discovery is BD+ but the platform seems strangely laid back about it. They have the potential if they so wished to ensure every batch of disks used a different BD+ scheme and different keys making it extremely difficult for Slysoft or anybody else to keep up with them all.
I was in Santa Cruz in Tenerife about 4 months ago and they did this. Bizarrely, the Wifi seemed to be free since there were a good 4 or 5 people with laptops enjoying the internet and air conditioning.
The 38 degrees site claims to have sent "tens of thousands of emails" for just one recent campaign. Which means every single MP on average received at least 15 substantially identical emails and probably more. That's just one website and just one campaign. I would not be surprised if MPs receive upwards of 30-50 such boiler plate emails every day and more again from commercial lobby groups.
It's no wonder an MP might wish to remove their address from campaign sites. Just because they are a public representative doesn't mean they should have to listen, process or respond to essentially political spam.
No he doesn't want to be deluged in shit by a multitude of "campaign" sites. Quite understandable really. The public most MPs want to hear from are the people who elected them in their borough not some random lunatic cutting and pasting a form letter from a website.
When a customer buys a coffee their receipt should contain a unique PIN which is good for X amount of minutes from the time of purchase. The customer would have to enter the PIN to get through the firewall. Seems like a no brainer solution, one which discourages freeloaders and still allows coffee shops (or anywhere else) to offer wifi.
I acknowledged a quality device would cost more but I see no reason why it should cost $500. I bought a netbook for half the price of an iPad and I see no reason that tablets should be priced any differently. Even if a screen might cost more, the device saves in other ways such as no HDD, lower CPU spec, lower memory, no keyboard, no power brick, smaller packaging. I fully expect to see very acceptable Android powered brand name tablets starting from $200 up before long.
No, nothing like that. I mean built in, not some crappy pen emulation that tries to work around capacitive screens.
I see no reason that this should be so. I see no reason at all that something with better build quality and performance than a $99 tablet shouldn't occupy a price slot considerably less than an iPad. After all netbooks manage it and have as many, if not more components & costs to worry about than a tablet.
That's why I suggested hybrid devices. There is no doubt capacitive is more responsive for finger gestures but for writing it stinks badly. Capacitive devices including the iPad are useless for note taking. The best of both worlds would be something that handles a light touch via capacitive but allows pressure based sensing too for handwriting.
Don't believe the hype about capacitive. If you intend to take notes on a device then capacitive by itself is absolutely fucking useless. To take notes you have to finger paint like a child rather than write properly with a stylus. Any device pitched at students / ereaders really should have resistive functionality. Apparently there are hybrid screens that offer the best of both worlds.
I expect when bigger players come along that we'll see some decent Android based tablets for $200 offering comparable functionality to the iPad with none of the downsides.
The contrast is clearest by comparing two similar stores LIDL and Aldi. Both are regarded as budget stores although in truth the stuff they sell is often no worse and frequently better than some other stores. The difference for sufferers is very pronounced. LIDL is absolutely terrible. A packet of golden rice (for example) might have ingredients listed in 12 languages in miniscule badly printed lettering. The 15th ingredient might say "starch" but what kind of starch? Wheat starch is bad, potato / corn / rice starch is fine. They don't say. LIDL should be ashamed how bad their advice especially in contrast to Aldi.
Aldi deserves massive praise. Virtually every Aldi has a prominent white on black "allergen advice" section making it easy to see what contains what. Furthermore, a lot more of their produce is gluten free compared to other stores.
McDs really doesn't make much effort for coeliacs. They can eat fries (only if the fry stations are not also used to fry twisty fries, onion rings), meat patties (no dressing, no bun), some ice creams (some contain biscuits, candy or sauces that contain wheat), some drinks (some shakes are offlimits), and some salads (no dressing, meat). Pretty much everything else has wheat in it in one form or another. There is no advice for any of this in the menus and you have to rely on what info the coeliac society has discovered. Burger King is worse because their fries are coated in some mixture.
Anyway the upshot is we're trying to discourage trips since its a minefield. Yes we can order a happy meal with a meat patty but that's hardly the same as what he used to be able to have. Just trying to explain how we want a patty with no bun or dressing to someone with poor English and no knowledge of the condition is a pain in itself.
Utter bullshit. Coeliacs must avoid "ancient" varieties of wheat such as spelt as much as modern varieties. It has nothing to do with GM foods. If anything GM holds the best hope for a cure by producing a strain of wheat whose gluten protein is modified sufficiently that it doesn't trigger an autoimmune reaction.
As depressing as it was to learn of this, at least they were caught early. The progress my daughter has made in the last 10 months is remarkable. From looking unnourished and sickly she is an active, loud two year old. Her brother is also full of life although he protests about treats like McDonalds etc. They can still eat fresh fruit, meat, fish, veg, dairy etc. with no issue. but they have to eat GF bread, pasta, biscuits etc which can be struggle. To be frank some GF food tastes awful but some brands are a lot more edible than others.