Except that, as it happens, that's not quite right. Sun's license only prohibits supersetting by adding functionality in the java.*, javax.*, and possibly com.sun.* class heirachies. So Google could've used Sun Java but added their own Android-specific mobile functionality in com.android.* that weren't compatible with Sun's and still benefitted from the patent license. (They already did this as well as creating the Dalvik VM.) If they used.Net, they'd have to do exactly the same since Microsoft doesn't have any openly-licensed mobile or GUI APIs; this happens to actually be more risky than doing the same with Java.
The real killer for mobile and embedded applications is probably the prohibition on subsetting. You don't want to have to include the entire.Net or Java API on a device with limited RAM...
My most common command to my Google Nexus phone is: "Please (beeeeep) battery, do not die. It's been just 3 hours since I fully charged you." I hope that the next generation of Android will teach the phone to obey.
You're exaggerating by quite a bit or you have a broken phone. I got ~30 hours on a single charge running stock Nexus One ROM. I am currently running Cyanogenmod 6.0-RC2, and after 8.5 hours of a few calls, a few Youtube/Flash videos and a whole lot of internet browsing I still have 71% charge left.
Maybe you have the brightness cranked to the highest setting? Enabling Automatic Brightness (Settings->Display->Brightness in Cyanogen; probably the same in stock) will make the biggest difference in battery life. Although, even running it at the highest brightness setting, I've managed somewhere over 12 hours of time after a full charge.
I believe he's citing actual continuous talk time, not idle time.
If jailbreakme can use that exploit then so can someone malicious. Imagine having your phone bricked because you viewed the wrong PDF on some website. The update is a very good thing.
Never mind the fact that OS X, WINDOWS and LINUX all suffered from the same exploit via Type 42 Fonts. Freetype was immediately updated. http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/275247
A free market is a market without economic intervention and regulation by government except to enforce ownership ("property rights") and contracts....
A free market does not require the existence of competition...
Your understanding of economics is flawed. There is nothing about a monopoly that is per se incompatible with a free market. And again, why is there an urgent need for a regulatory solution to a theoretical problem that, at present, doesn't exist?
Until the US gets a level playing field of regulations with high standards, in all market segments and where consolidation which weakens actual competition has ceilings far lower than today's absurd world where 2 competitors in a field formerly held by 2 or more dozen are sharing the crown and choking the growth of competition this country will never meet its needs and Adam Smith's idyllic world which starts with the premise of a nation's needs already met, can never happen.
The goal of society & government is to benefit the people, not large mega telecommunications companies.
The great populist lie. Who do you think runs the "large mega telecommunications companies"? I'm pretty sure they're run by people, not autonomous robots or computer programs. So let's restate what you're saying a bit more accurately: The goal of society and government is to benefit certain people to the detriment of other people, based on who is part of the largest group and hence has the most votes.
Your vision of the role of government sounds like mob rule to me.
Spare me. Show me how long those telecommunications companies last w/o subsidies and the massive long-term subsidies they received in promise of wiring the US during deregulation, but instead pocketed the money. Perhaps you're used to a cesspool and cynically lived in a spiral where you beat yourself to remind yourself you need to be beaten down, but others do find the vision of a Meritocracy and a Democratic Repubic can be restored, right after the Supreme Court removes Lobbying/Individual status from Corporations they granted in the early 1930s--clearly something the Founders would have designed [they were heavily fixated in Commerce debates] if they thought it made sense. Even Hamilton was opposed to the idea.
And your solution to Comcast being crap is... to legislate them into not being crap? That'll totally work.
Comcast has already throttled and otherwise abused the bandwidth of their users. They have done exactly the kind of bullshit that net neutrality legislation is meant to prevent.
So you think that if you agree when you sign up that you won't use more than a certain amount of bandwidth, and you end up using more than that, Comcast should just have to suck it up? I'm glad I'm not doing business with you.
Not at all. Comcast should have their competition opened up, by the same Municipalities currently barred from entering into the game. Comcast was so bad with Tacoma, WA that the city was authorized to run it's own Cable System and does, to this day.
In Eastern WA we have Grant County with it's fiber to the Home county-wide. Spokane has phenomenally big pipes for connectivity, but is barred from competing and I'm stuck w/ Qwest for ADSL only and Comcast for cable only. Seriously, if they allowed Spokane and Spokane Valley to connect to their huge fiber lines Comcast would have to get off it's ass, along with Qwest.
To be fair, the mission accomplished sign was in reference to the Aircraft Carrier's mission in the region...which was accomplished. To cite that without putting into context is just reusing the old broken talking points. It makes you look bad.
You're flat wrong. He declared the end to major combat operations in Iraq, that day. Not even close to the truth.
Duh, because if you work hard and earn a good living out of it then you should obviously be required to pay proportionally more in taxes than someone who didn't bother working hard and only earns half what you do.
That's the bit that irks me, I *already* pay more in tax because I earn more, simply by virtue of it being a percentage of income, but I also pay more tax because a chunk of my income is taxed at double the rate of the rest of it.
Roll back to Eisenhower when Corporations were at 87%. Go to 60% and keep individual taxes as they are today. I bet you won't be whining any more and you see how hard Corporations innovate by hiring and putting resources into R&D just to move that Tax cost down to around 40%. The lazy lion doesn't get into shape without the hyenas keeping it in check. Right now this country has a pride of lazy lions watching it's grazing terrain turn to nothing while it sits on a mountain of slowly rotting assets.
I suggest to you that 51 million Americans, armed with clubs and the odd rifle, descending on each seat of state and federal government on a few hours notice, could overthrow it. Especially with another 50 million ready in the countryside.
Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan have proven that conventional military does not do well against guerrilla forces. They have technological might, but not agility.
I'd suggest that 102 Million you fantasize about is more like 102 Thousand wackos in militia groups and even then most of them won't have the balls nor the proper training to go up against the US Army, let alone predator drones. The power is within the right to vote, not the right to non-peaceably assemble and threaten with the to do as we say. Stop voting in selfish, power hungry little puppets who are always on the take. It seems clear to me that the GOP is the biggest slut of them all. They call this latest bill which is paid for, unpaid, and they could care less about the jobs it saves. They're pissed about the tax loop holes lost. You can't get complete change until that retarded 60 vote status is overcome even while the GOP is whining about nothing very loudly.
"Formal Language Theory" - an undergrad course at my university that dealt with Finite State Automata, Touring Machines, Computability Theory, Complexity Theory,
How cool was that, I assume it was to give you a theoretical basis for the use of car analogies.
More likely they were thrown on a bike in the midst of the Tour de France w/o the helmet.
The point isn't about replacing the battery because of wear (though that is a plus, and the fact that you don't have to unscrew the whole damn backplate to get at it), it's about carrying a 6 pack of batteries when you're going on a mission and swapping them as needed.
That's your angle? You're going to carry a six pack versus a spare with a device to charge that offers multiple interfaces for charging? If you're on a mission that long, you're dead or you are in a group where you can swap out your batteries and keep your body with a few add-ons as possible.
As a self-taught programmer, the only disadvantage I have noted is that while I just know "a way that will work great", schooled people will be able to put some name to how they want to do things. The X Model, or Y Pattern. Being able to think outside the box is a skill that any good programmer should learn, but not knowing where the box is to begin with puts me at a communication disadvantage when working with a team.
Then again, that's just my experience. People can learn those definitions online just fine -- I tend to learn them on-demand when people mention them. For other fields, being self-taught might not work so great. Some would require materials and equipment too expensive to be self-taught, while others might be too hard to understand without easy access to the insight of a teacher.
And then there are a lot of people who go into school not knowing what they want to do with their lives, and just coast through their first year to find out. The uni experience, exposing them to so many ideas, might end up being better for these people.
You cite programming. Now imagine a traditional field like Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, Biology. I think you'd agree that on-line learning there is best as an extra resource to your experience at a University.
Then I call you a fool. Face time includes Office hours time. I probably spent equal amounts of time talking to my professors over projects and classes in their offices as I did taking notes during lectures.
In other words, education is lacking and unless you had the "drive" to learn something on your own its better to go to college despite the lack.
I left college because it wasnt good enough. I got a good education on programming because I knew nothing about it and MSDN was still a fledgling site. Now, you could learn a lot more from MSDN than you could from a book or a professor.
You should have researched which universities are better before attending.
There is no value in social conditioning and student loan debt.
You're right. Nothing beats home schooling, religious indoctrination and pumping out kids like an automaton. Social Conditioning begins at home and extends throughout your life. We call it social interaction and we hope with a self-aware conscience one is capable of forging their own social paradigm and rules of conduct without abusing others. University education is invaluable to expanding one's horizons.
Gates didn't need to learn it. Perhaps he would have been better in a social experiment where he was forced to live in a slum. Instead, he committed several felonies signing legal documents to an operating system his fledgling company [Paul Allen actually in charge] didn't own and had to go to Daddy for cash to buy one. How both his father, his father's firm and himself weren't thrown in jail and stripped of their assets proves that Wealth is still the hidden King in this once great Meritocracy.
Papermaster was in-charge of the iPhone 4 design and it's interaction with all the hardware specs. Jony is an industrial designer, not an RF Engineer/Scientist. That's Papermaster's domain. He could have very easily vetoed his own antenna design that he developed within Ivy's design team's aesthetics. He has to own it.
didn't Apple go on the offensive to illustrate that ALL smart phones had an attenuation problem if held the right (wrong?) way? Then they fire someone for it. Basically their saying "yeah, we knew there was someone to blame for the design all along but we couldn't admit that publicly and force a recall...that would cost too much money. Lets lie instead, that costs less. We'll quietly shove him out the door when all the hoopla dies down." It can't both be everyone's and one persons problem at the same time. I call bullshit through deductive reasoning.
Papermaster was earning a massive salary with consistent stock options coming his way. With these perks come professional responsibilities. Perhaps we'll eventually find out he misrepresented his antenna design to Jobs by not having such down falls. However you slice it, he's a professional and professionals take their lumps.
Watergate wasn't even a real scandal; it was dressed up to look like a scandal by politicians who felt they needed to give the appearance of upholding moral standards (when in fact, as politicians, they had none to begin with).
Jean Baudrillard in his book "Simulations" explains it very nicely. Watergate was a simulation of a scandal.
Well, if Jean Baudrillard says it's just a dress up, then by all means it's a dress up. Grow up. Nixon and Kissinger were knee deep in corruption and their arrogance ended up tripping themselves up.
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McAfee has no right even existing.
You're a Linux user... Am I right?
or an OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Haiku, etc.. user.
Cut subsidies for all forms of transportation. Then, tax in proportion to carbon emissions. Trains win in every densely populated region, hands down.
And for those of us not in densely populated regions?
Transport costs via Train still trump in rural areas, over highway freight and also moving large groups of people to and fro.
Hardly. Digitizing tables date back to the 1950s.
How many consumer digitizing tablets were available back in the 1950s?
Except that, as it happens, that's not quite right. Sun's license only prohibits supersetting by adding functionality in the java.*, javax.*, and possibly com.sun.* class heirachies. So Google could've used Sun Java but added their own Android-specific mobile functionality in com.android.* that weren't compatible with Sun's and still benefitted from the patent license. (They already did this as well as creating the Dalvik VM.) If they used .Net, they'd have to do exactly the same since Microsoft doesn't have any openly-licensed mobile or GUI APIs; this happens to actually be more risky than doing the same with Java.
The real killer for mobile and embedded applications is probably the prohibition on subsetting. You don't want to have to include the entire .Net or Java API on a device with limited RAM...
Google didn't create the Dalvik VM. They bought it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalvik_VM
Google has since enhanced it, but they surely didn't create it.
My most common command to my Google Nexus phone is: "Please (beeeeep) battery, do not die. It's been just 3 hours since I fully charged you." I hope that the next generation of Android will teach the phone to obey.
You're exaggerating by quite a bit or you have a broken phone. I got ~30 hours on a single charge running stock Nexus One ROM. I am currently running Cyanogenmod 6.0-RC2, and after 8.5 hours of a few calls, a few Youtube/Flash videos and a whole lot of internet browsing I still have 71% charge left.
Maybe you have the brightness cranked to the highest setting? Enabling Automatic Brightness (Settings->Display->Brightness in Cyanogen; probably the same in stock) will make the biggest difference in battery life. Although, even running it at the highest brightness setting, I've managed somewhere over 12 hours of time after a full charge.
I believe he's citing actual continuous talk time, not idle time.
If jailbreakme can use that exploit then so can someone malicious. Imagine having your phone bricked because you viewed the wrong PDF on some website. The update is a very good thing.
Never mind the fact that OS X, WINDOWS and LINUX all suffered from the same exploit via Type 42 Fonts. Freetype was immediately updated. http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/275247
Spot on.
From Wikipedia:
A free market is a market without economic intervention and regulation by government except to enforce ownership ("property rights") and contracts....
A free market does not require the existence of competition...
Your understanding of economics is flawed. There is nothing about a monopoly that is per se incompatible with a free market. And again, why is there an urgent need for a regulatory solution to a theoretical problem that, at present, doesn't exist?
Until the US gets a level playing field of regulations with high standards, in all market segments and where consolidation which weakens actual competition has ceilings far lower than today's absurd world where 2 competitors in a field formerly held by 2 or more dozen are sharing the crown and choking the growth of competition this country will never meet its needs and Adam Smith's idyllic world which starts with the premise of a nation's needs already met, can never happen.
The goal of society & government is to benefit the people, not large mega telecommunications companies.
The great populist lie. Who do you think runs the "large mega telecommunications companies"? I'm pretty sure they're run by people, not autonomous robots or computer programs. So let's restate what you're saying a bit more accurately: The goal of society and government is to benefit certain people to the detriment of other people, based on who is part of the largest group and hence has the most votes.
Your vision of the role of government sounds like mob rule to me.
Spare me. Show me how long those telecommunications companies last w/o subsidies and the massive long-term subsidies they received in promise of wiring the US during deregulation, but instead pocketed the money. Perhaps you're used to a cesspool and cynically lived in a spiral where you beat yourself to remind yourself you need to be beaten down, but others do find the vision of a Meritocracy and a Democratic Repubic can be restored, right after the Supreme Court removes Lobbying/Individual status from Corporations they granted in the early 1930s--clearly something the Founders would have designed [they were heavily fixated in Commerce debates] if they thought it made sense. Even Hamilton was opposed to the idea.
I realize Comcast is crap,
You don't see that as a problem?
And your solution to Comcast being crap is... to legislate them into not being crap? That'll totally work.
Comcast has already throttled and otherwise abused the bandwidth of their users. They have done exactly the kind of bullshit that net neutrality legislation is meant to prevent.
So you think that if you agree when you sign up that you won't use more than a certain amount of bandwidth, and you end up using more than that, Comcast should just have to suck it up? I'm glad I'm not doing business with you.
Not at all. Comcast should have their competition opened up, by the same Municipalities currently barred from entering into the game. Comcast was so bad with Tacoma, WA that the city was authorized to run it's own Cable System and does, to this day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click!_Network
In Eastern WA we have Grant County with it's fiber to the Home county-wide. Spokane has phenomenally big pipes for connectivity, but is barred from competing and I'm stuck w/ Qwest for ADSL only and Comcast for cable only. Seriously, if they allowed Spokane and Spokane Valley to connect to their huge fiber lines Comcast would have to get off it's ass, along with Qwest.
To be fair, the mission accomplished sign was in reference to the Aircraft Carrier's mission in the region...which was accomplished. To cite that without putting into context is just reusing the old broken talking points. It makes you look bad.
You're flat wrong. He declared the end to major combat operations in Iraq, that day. Not even close to the truth.
You're that much of a chick shit you can't use your own account? Just like a coward.
Duh, because if you work hard and earn a good living out of it then you should obviously be required to pay proportionally more in taxes than someone who didn't bother working hard and only earns half what you do.
That's the bit that irks me, I *already* pay more in tax because I earn more, simply by virtue of it being a percentage of income, but I also pay more tax because a chunk of my income is taxed at double the rate of the rest of it.
Roll back to Eisenhower when Corporations were at 87%. Go to 60% and keep individual taxes as they are today. I bet you won't be whining any more and you see how hard Corporations innovate by hiring and putting resources into R&D just to move that Tax cost down to around 40%. The lazy lion doesn't get into shape without the hyenas keeping it in check. Right now this country has a pride of lazy lions watching it's grazing terrain turn to nothing while it sits on a mountain of slowly rotting assets.
having the most wealthy pay their fair share
I'm sorry, but since when is more a fair share?
When 95% of what you are worth wasn't created by your direct input, but by the work of others in which you prospered.
I suggest to you that 51 million Americans, armed with clubs and the odd rifle, descending on each seat of state and federal government on a few hours notice, could overthrow it. Especially with another 50 million ready in the countryside.
Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan have proven that conventional military does not do well against guerrilla forces. They have technological might, but not agility.
I'd suggest that 102 Million you fantasize about is more like 102 Thousand wackos in militia groups and even then most of them won't have the balls nor the proper training to go up against the US Army, let alone predator drones. The power is within the right to vote, not the right to non-peaceably assemble and threaten with the to do as we say. Stop voting in selfish, power hungry little puppets who are always on the take. It seems clear to me that the GOP is the biggest slut of them all. They call this latest bill which is paid for, unpaid, and they could care less about the jobs it saves. They're pissed about the tax loop holes lost. You can't get complete change until that retarded 60 vote status is overcome even while the GOP is whining about nothing very loudly.
How cool was that, I assume it was to give you a theoretical basis for the use of car analogies.
More likely they were thrown on a bike in the midst of the Tour de France w/o the helmet.
The point isn't about replacing the battery because of wear (though that is a plus, and the fact that you don't have to unscrew the whole damn backplate to get at it), it's about carrying a 6 pack of batteries when you're going on a mission and swapping them as needed.
That's your angle? You're going to carry a six pack versus a spare with a device to charge that offers multiple interfaces for charging? If you're on a mission that long, you're dead or you are in a group where you can swap out your batteries and keep your body with a few add-ons as possible.
Gates dropped out of Harvard to found Microsoft, so seeing him say that university isn't necessary is a little unsurprising.
And yet four months ago, he advised students not to do that. There can only be one or two Bill Gates' so advising millions of people to do that is not a great idea. And, to poke a hole in your logic he technically did graduate.
You must be younger than 40. Anyone that age and older knows he was a drop out and daddy with Paul made Microsoft possible.
As a self-taught programmer, the only disadvantage I have noted is that while I just know "a way that will work great", schooled people will be able to put some name to how they want to do things. The X Model, or Y Pattern. Being able to think outside the box is a skill that any good programmer should learn, but not knowing where the box is to begin with puts me at a communication disadvantage when working with a team.
Then again, that's just my experience. People can learn those definitions online just fine -- I tend to learn them on-demand when people mention them. For other fields, being self-taught might not work so great. Some would require materials and equipment too expensive to be self-taught, while others might be too hard to understand without easy access to the insight of a teacher.
And then there are a lot of people who go into school not knowing what they want to do with their lives, and just coast through their first year to find out. The uni experience, exposing them to so many ideas, might end up being better for these people.
You cite programming. Now imagine a traditional field like Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, Biology. I think you'd agree that on-line learning there is best as an extra resource to your experience at a University.
Then I call you a fool. Face time includes Office hours time. I probably spent equal amounts of time talking to my professors over projects and classes in their offices as I did taking notes during lectures.
In other words, education is lacking and unless you had the "drive" to learn something on your own its better to go to college despite the lack. I left college because it wasnt good enough. I got a good education on programming because I knew nothing about it and MSDN was still a fledgling site. Now, you could learn a lot more from MSDN than you could from a book or a professor.
You should have researched which universities are better before attending.
There is no value in social conditioning and student loan debt.
You're right. Nothing beats home schooling, religious indoctrination and pumping out kids like an automaton. Social Conditioning begins at home and extends throughout your life. We call it social interaction and we hope with a self-aware conscience one is capable of forging their own social paradigm and rules of conduct without abusing others. University education is invaluable to expanding one's horizons.
Gates didn't need to learn it. Perhaps he would have been better in a social experiment where he was forced to live in a slum. Instead, he committed several felonies signing legal documents to an operating system his fledgling company [Paul Allen actually in charge] didn't own and had to go to Daddy for cash to buy one. How both his father, his father's firm and himself weren't thrown in jail and stripped of their assets proves that Wealth is still the hidden King in this once great Meritocracy.
Papermaster was in-charge of the iPhone 4 design and it's interaction with all the hardware specs. Jony is an industrial designer, not an RF Engineer/Scientist. That's Papermaster's domain. He could have very easily vetoed his own antenna design that he developed within Ivy's design team's aesthetics. He has to own it.
didn't Apple go on the offensive to illustrate that ALL smart phones had an attenuation problem if held the right (wrong?) way? Then they fire someone for it. Basically their saying "yeah, we knew there was someone to blame for the design all along but we couldn't admit that publicly and force a recall...that would cost too much money. Lets lie instead, that costs less. We'll quietly shove him out the door when all the hoopla dies down." It can't both be everyone's and one persons problem at the same time. I call bullshit through deductive reasoning.
Papermaster was earning a massive salary with consistent stock options coming his way. With these perks come professional responsibilities. Perhaps we'll eventually find out he misrepresented his antenna design to Jobs by not having such down falls. However you slice it, he's a professional and professionals take their lumps.
Watergate wasn't even a real scandal; it was dressed up to look like a scandal by politicians who felt they needed to give the appearance of upholding moral standards (when in fact, as politicians, they had none to begin with).
Jean Baudrillard in his book "Simulations" explains it very nicely. Watergate was a simulation of a scandal.
Well, if Jean Baudrillard says it's just a dress up, then by all means it's a dress up. Grow up. Nixon and Kissinger were knee deep in corruption and their arrogance ended up tripping themselves up.