Right now they have monopoly on tablets (monopoly is legally defined as more than 50% market share in a particular market). But I really hope it will change soon.
Something fishy is going on, the obvious shill is modded up, while any attempt to object is immediately labelled as trolling. I guess it's time to move on from shillsdot.org to some other place.
How did a post from an obvious Microsoft shill received +5 Interesting moderation?
Signs for a Microsoft shill: - Very long first post - The only post by the user ever (rarely followed by one-two additional responses) - Very clear and strong anti-Google or pro-Microsoft message
We really want the shill to get away from Slashdot (maybe the company management doesn't, but the users do). Moderators, please always recognize the shills before modding up, and mod them down into oblivion. We also need a new moderation: -1 Astroturfing.
Please do something about it, it really hurts to see this site destroyed by paid mercenaries.
Regardless of why, its still IP that they must defend. Don't like it, change the laws, until then shut your pie hole.
True, you have to defend trademarks, but you must defend patents too.
That's total BS, no law says you have to defend your patents, especially the bogus ones for obvious ideas. Well, unless you are a patent troll, in that case I agree, you absolutely have to do that.
IBM is an example of company that never sues for patents unless being sued by others. And I believe it's you, sir, who definitely must stuff all your shiny itoys into all of your iholes, and stop insulting others' intelligence with childish replies.
That may or not be true, but the fact remains that someone may have violated another's patent. If you don't go after them, then you lose rights to said patent. Besides, if you are a company and feel someone is violating your IP, it would be silly not to do something about it.
You are confusing patents and trademarks. Please get your facts straight before commenting. And most of that IP is considered as such only because of the crappy US patent system.
Apple is evil, period. Not only on Slashdot, everywhere. It's time to FSF to restart its Boycott Apple program from 199x. The things Apple does are far worse now than back then.
1. Create a game with in-app-purchases, but sell it for 1$ instead of for 0$ 2. Drop the price to 0 and get free advertisement on Slashdot 3. Profit! (from in-app-purchases)
That's because he's a zealot and you can't do anything about it. It's like arguing with ayatollahs about the existence of god. I'm talking about normal people, who are not strongly biased towards one company or another. Just explaining why going with Apple is a bad idea usually does the trick.
Please explain to all your non-techie friends and family what Apple is doing, and why they shouldn't ever touch any Apple product until they change their way. It's very easy, I already prevented sale of a at least a few iphones.
Disclaimer: I'm not working for Google, Samsung or any other mobile related company. I'm just disgusted by Apple, and boycotting is the only way to stop them.
Their statistics are per SoC vendor, not by GPU core vendor. E.g. Apple and TI SoC come with PowerVR, Samsung SoC contain Mali (on most popular devices) or PowerVR.
It's already more than 2 players in mobile space: ARM with its Mali core, Qualcomm with Adreno (former ATI/AMD), NVidia with Tegra and IT with PowerVR. In addition, Intel already uses PowerVR cores in some Atom CPUs (targeted for tablets). Since they are still talking about mobile, how is that news?
I read the stupid article and the entire discussion (didn't you read my previous comments?). IPMI is a great tool and there is no way I'm turning it off in a data center, instead of securing it. Not going to expose it to the internet, of course.
Of course it can, but why would one want to do it? IPMI isn't available on desktop machines, only on expensive enterprise servers, where most admins really need its functionality.
It's a completely separate CPU (BMC - baseboard management controller). It works when the main one doesn't receive any power. I haven't seen any BMC hacks, maybe because they are different for each vendor.
I just use ipmitool locally (on linux) to set up each new machine, and it always works fine (on Supermicro as well). Sometimes slightly different settings are required for different vendors, but the differences are minor and can be done in a script.
Any sane admin would change the management password when installing the server. And I don't remember any recent vulnerabilities related to ipmi password.
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Well, god sucks. Hope that answers your rant.
You are right, I confused monopoly with "dominant firm".
Right now they have monopoly on tablets (monopoly is legally defined as more than 50% market share in a particular market).
But I really hope it will change soon.
Something fishy is going on, the obvious shill is modded up, while any attempt to object is immediately labelled as trolling.
I guess it's time to move on from shillsdot.org to some other place.
How did a post from an obvious Microsoft shill received +5 Interesting moderation?
Signs for a Microsoft shill:
- Very long first post
- The only post by the user ever (rarely followed by one-two additional responses)
- Very clear and strong anti-Google or pro-Microsoft message
We really want the shill to get away from Slashdot (maybe the company management doesn't, but the users do).
Moderators, please always recognize the shills before modding up, and mod them down into oblivion.
We also need a new moderation: -1 Astroturfing.
Please do something about it, it really hurts to see this site destroyed by paid mercenaries.
Regardless of why, its still IP that they must defend. Don't like it, change the laws, until then shut your pie hole.
True, you have to defend trademarks, but you must defend patents too.
That's total BS, no law says you have to defend your patents, especially the bogus ones for obvious ideas. Well, unless you are a patent troll, in that case I agree, you absolutely have to do that.
IBM is an example of company that never sues for patents unless being sued by others.
And I believe it's you, sir, who definitely must stuff all your shiny itoys into all of your iholes, and stop insulting others' intelligence with childish replies.
That may or not be true, but the fact remains that someone may have violated another's patent. If you don't go after them, then you lose rights to said patent. Besides, if you are a company and feel someone is violating your IP, it would be silly not to do something about it.
You are confusing patents and trademarks. Please get your facts straight before commenting.
And most of that IP is considered as such only because of the crappy US patent system.
Apple is evil, period.
Not only on Slashdot, everywhere.
It's time to FSF to restart its Boycott Apple program from 199x. The things Apple does are far worse now than back then.
1. Create a game with in-app-purchases, but sell it for 1$ instead of for 0$
2. Drop the price to 0 and get free advertisement on Slashdot
3. Profit! (from in-app-purchases)
But where's the ??? part?
Now we all know.
That's because he's a zealot and you can't do anything about it. It's like arguing with ayatollahs about the existence of god.
I'm talking about normal people, who are not strongly biased towards one company or another. Just explaining why going with Apple is a bad idea usually does the trick.
Please explain to all your non-techie friends and family what Apple is doing, and why they shouldn't ever touch any Apple product until they change their way.
It's very easy, I already prevented sale of a at least a few iphones.
Disclaimer: I'm not working for Google, Samsung or any other mobile related company. I'm just disgusted by Apple, and boycotting is the only way to stop them.
That's what happens to your throat when you eat Ice Cream Sandwich too much! Together with Frozen Yogurt!
Their statistics are per SoC vendor, not by GPU core vendor. E.g. Apple and TI SoC come with PowerVR, Samsung SoC contain Mali (on most popular devices) or PowerVR.
Not entirely true, my Galaxy S2 has ARM's Mali 400 GPU. Only Galaxy S and Galaxy Nexus come with PowerVR.
AMD used to have mobile core, but they sold it to Qualcomm. It's now called Qualcomm Adreno.
PowerVR drivers are either closed source for ARM or nearly nonexistent for x86 (Intel Poulsbo) on linux.
It's already more than 2 players in mobile space: ARM with its Mali core, Qualcomm with Adreno (former ATI/AMD), NVidia with Tegra and IT with PowerVR.
In addition, Intel already uses PowerVR cores in some Atom CPUs (targeted for tablets).
Since they are still talking about mobile, how is that news?
Actually A5 has a very decent performance. Check Qualcomm MSM7227A (A5-based 1GHz SoC) benchmarks for example. Many new phones are based on this chip.
I read the stupid article and the entire discussion (didn't you read my previous comments?). IPMI is a great tool and there is no way I'm turning it off in a data center, instead of securing it. Not going to expose it to the internet, of course.
Of course it can, but why would one want to do it? IPMI isn't available on desktop machines, only on expensive enterprise servers, where most admins really need its functionality.
It's IPMI v2 everywhere, v1.5 on very old servers.
Has this theoretical vulnerability been ever exploited?
It's a completely separate CPU (BMC - baseboard management controller). It works when the main one doesn't receive any power. I haven't seen any BMC hacks, maybe because they are different for each vendor.
I just use ipmitool locally (on linux) to set up each new machine, and it always works fine (on Supermicro as well). Sometimes slightly different settings are required for different vendors, but the differences are minor and can be done in a script.
Any sane admin would change the management password when installing the server. And I don't remember any recent vulnerabilities related to ipmi password.