No, you cannot replace the first stage bootloader and the baseband, so they will forever remain proprietary. There is no way to have a working Android phone without running proprietary code unfortunately.
You can, however, get Android running without relying on proprietary code. It just won't work as a phone unfortunately.
Android smartphones uses proprietary software and hardware. Film at 11.
Even the so called "open source phone", the Neo FreeRunner, relies on a proprietary baseband OS. The sad reality is that the open source philosophy does not lend well to the hardware world, where the hardware equivalent of "compilation" costs few million dollars each time and can only occur at a few dozen select locations on Earth.
Thanks for the clarification. To be fair nothing was unclear on commoncrawl.org, it was the i-programmer.info blog that mistakenly wrote "between 40,000 and 50,000 filled buckets".
I mean, hosting the stuffs on Amazon server is one thing - it gonna have to be hosted somewhere, but the thing that I feel uncomfortable is that if anyone wants to do any research on the info they end up have to pay Amazon.
Hmm....
So you expect the researchers to Fedex you 100000 2TB harddrive to you upon request? We're talking about 200 petabytes of data here. It's gonna take forever to transfer no matter how wide your intertubes are. A shipping container of harddrives is literally the only way to move this much data in a timely manner.
Since there's no easy way to move the data, it only makes sense to run your code on the cluster where the data is currently residing at.
It currently consists of an index of 5 billion web pages, their page rank, their link graphs and other metadata, all hosted on Amazon EC2.
The crawl is collated using a MapReduce process, compressed into 100Mbyte ARC files which are then uploaded to S3 storage buckets for you to access. Currently there are between 40,000 and 50,000 filled buckets waiting for you to search.
Either they made a typo, my math is wrong, or they started crawling the HD porn sites first. I really hope it's not the latter because 200 petabytes of porn will be the death of so many geeks that the year of Linux on the desktop might never come.
Herman Cain, if falsely accused, will suffer irreparable damage to his character during the campaign season because of it and it shows the Liberal hypocrisy between their treatment of Cain and Clinton. If he is guilty, the accusers are becoming victims again as the Conservative bloviators show their hypocrisy between their treatment of Clinton and Cain.
Are you seriously comparing a man with access to the nuclear button committing perjury to an average joe harassing co-workers? It's not even apples and oranges. One could result in the destruction of an entire nation and the other one will result in a devoice in the worst case.
I couldn't care less who Clinton and Cain may or may not fucked. That's a problem between them and their wifes.
The simple solution would be instead of "all goods manufactured in US must obey blah blah blah regulation" we use "all goods sold in US must obey blah blah blah regulation".
Of course our corporate overlords will never allow this pass to in congress.
The attacks were traced back to a computer system that was a virtual private server (VPS) located in the United
States. However, the system was owned by a 20-something male located in the Hebei region in China.
I don't usually overgeneralize, but "20-something male" pretty much describes 99% of the blackhats out there.
In 2007, a deal was reached by MIPS Technologies and ICT. STMicroelectronics bought a MIPS license for Loongson, and thus the processor can be promoted as MIPS-based or MIPS-compatible instead of MIPS-like.
In June 2009, ICT licenced the MIPS32 and MIPS64 architectures directly from MIPS Technologies.
In August 2011, Loongson Technology Corp. Ltd. licensed the MIPS32 and MIPS64 architectures from MIPS Technologies, Inc. for continued development of MIPS-based Loongson CPU cores.
Yet another FUD article trolling for xenophobic reactions.
The military budget hovers around $700 billion. Reigning in the military so they are once again simply charged with protecting the continental United States from foreign attack and shrinking the budget appropriately (lets say 30%) would be immensely more functional as a remedy at about $220 billion in savings
The Department of Defense would see $832 billion disappear from its budget during Paul’s first term in office, most of which would stem from Paul’s plan to end all foreign wars and foreign aid.
$220 billion * 4 = $880 billion
Interesting how your number is within 5% of his proposal.
The Department of Defense would see $832 billion disappear from its budget during Paul’s first term in office, most of which would stem from Paul’s plan to end all foreign wars and foreign aid.
We're looking at a few million people out of billions. If this were some big, scary zombie outbreak, we'd see a whole lot more cities being cannibalized. WHO and CDC are probably right. It's just people cosplaying to celebrate the upcoming release of Left 4 Dead 3, something that happens with any remotely popular game release.
besides, you are misrepresenting the way the USD system works; it does not turn physical USD into a larger amount
I chose my words very carefully. I never implied that physical USD can be turned into larger amount. Please read what I said again.
If the fractional reserve banking system can make $980 billion physical USD bills into $9.5 trillion dollars, then the very same system will make 7.2 million bitcoins into 72 million bitcoin credits.
Obviously physical USD bills != USD dollars, and in the same sense, bitcoins != bitcoin credits. I made the distinction very clear by my choice of words.
This is only true if people replicate the existing system of bank money on top of Bitcoin
Sorry but that's not my assumption. Fractional reserve banking is not just a property of the current banking system. It's a fact of life.
It's really unfortunate that the economists branded the "money multiplier" as an economic phenomenon, even though it is not exclusive to the field of economics. Please allow me to illiterate my point with a few examples:
1) Bob opens a car rental company in a town of 100. He is hugely optimistic and fills his lot with 100 cars. He then sends fliers to each resident promising that there will be a car waiting for them at all times. Unfortunately for Bob, 90 of his cars ends up never being used. John opens a competing car rental company in the same town with only 10 cars, and he makes the exact same promise to each resident. Needless to say, Bob's company cannot compete and goes into bankruptcy.
2) Bob opens a hosting company with 100 servers. 100 clients signs up each renting a server. Only 10% of the CPU, memory, and bandwidth ends up getting utilized at each server. John opens a hosting company with 10 servers and sells 100 virtualized servers. All of Bob's customers switch over to John because he is 90% cheaper. All of John's servers end up being utilized at 100%, and the clients are all happy because they saved 90% of the cost while getting the same thing.
In both examples, the "money multiplier" was 10, even though no money and no banks are involved. In both examples Bob lost the competition because he does not understand the principle that people don't need a service 100% of the time. People don't rent cars 24/7. People don't visit websites 24/7. People don't buy things 24/7. It's physically impossible. People need to eat, sleep, relax.
3) Bob holds 100 bitcoins in his wallet. John puts 100 bitcoins into a bitcoin bank to collect interest. The bank keeps only 10% of the deposits in house, and lends out the other 90%. 50 years later both men retire. Bob has exactly 100 bitcoins, while John has 1000 bitcoins due to compounding interest.
By holding 100 bitcoins in his wallet ready to spend at any time, Bob is assuming that he does not need to sleep, eat, or do anything else other than spend his bitcoins. This assumption is obviously wrong, and it has cost him greatly. The entire opportunity cost of those 100 bitcoins over 50 years were lost because Bob assumed he will be spending them 24/7 when that's obviously impossible.
John on the other hand, correctly assumed that he only needs his bitcoins at particular instances, i.e. when he's actually buying something. At any other time the bitcoins are useless to him, so he can profit from this idle period by lending them out via banks.
Regardless of how bitcoins are marketed or how it works, a bitcoin banking sector will develop, and everyone will start using it because the people who boycott the banking system will not be able to compete with those who do. The market will eventually weed them out just like how it weeded out Bob's two inefficient businesses in the above examples.
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No, you cannot replace the first stage bootloader and the baseband, so they will forever remain proprietary. There is no way to have a working Android phone without running proprietary code unfortunately.
You can, however, get Android running without relying on proprietary code. It just won't work as a phone unfortunately.
Android smartphones uses proprietary software and hardware. Film at 11.
Even the so called "open source phone", the Neo FreeRunner, relies on a proprietary baseband OS. The sad reality is that the open source philosophy does not lend well to the hardware world, where the hardware equivalent of "compilation" costs few million dollars each time and can only occur at a few dozen select locations on Earth.
Thanks for the clarification. To be fair nothing was unclear on commoncrawl.org, it was the i-programmer.info blog that mistakenly wrote "between 40,000 and 50,000 filled buckets".
I mean, hosting the stuffs on Amazon server is one thing - it gonna have to be hosted somewhere, but the thing that I feel uncomfortable is that if anyone wants to do any research on the info they end up have to pay Amazon.
Hmm ....
So you expect the researchers to Fedex you 100000 2TB harddrive to you upon request? We're talking about 200 petabytes of data here. It's gonna take forever to transfer no matter how wide your intertubes are. A shipping container of harddrives is literally the only way to move this much data in a timely manner.
Since there's no easy way to move the data, it only makes sense to run your code on the cluster where the data is currently residing at.
It currently consists of an index of 5 billion web pages, their page rank, their link graphs and other metadata, all hosted on Amazon EC2.
The crawl is collated using a MapReduce process, compressed into 100Mbyte ARC files which are then uploaded to S3 storage buckets for you to access. Currently there are between 40,000 and 50,000 filled buckets waiting for you to search.
Each S3 storage bucket is 5TB.
5TB * 40,000 / 5 billion = 42MB/web page
Either they made a typo, my math is wrong, or they started crawling the HD porn sites first. I really hope it's not the latter because 200 petabytes of porn will be the death of so many geeks that the year of Linux on the desktop might never come.
It used to be "bread and circuses", now it's "Chinaman steal your jobs while Muslim bomb your suburban homes".
Herman Cain, if falsely accused, will suffer irreparable damage to his character during the campaign season because of it and it shows the Liberal hypocrisy between their treatment of Cain and Clinton. If he is guilty, the accusers are becoming victims again as the Conservative bloviators show their hypocrisy between their treatment of Clinton and Cain.
Are you seriously comparing a man with access to the nuclear button committing perjury to an average joe harassing co-workers? It's not even apples and oranges. One could result in the destruction of an entire nation and the other one will result in a devoice in the worst case.
I couldn't care less who Clinton and Cain may or may not fucked. That's a problem between them and their wifes.
The simple solution would be instead of "all goods manufactured in US must obey blah blah blah regulation" we use "all goods sold in US must obey blah blah blah regulation".
Of course our corporate overlords will never allow this pass to in congress.
there is too much importation from China to inspect and regulate, it's impossible.
It's hard so let's just give up? Wow I gotta remember this excuse the next time I forgot to do my homework.
Fortunately that F-16 bug was caught and fixed during simulation.
The attacks were traced back to a computer system that was a virtual private server (VPS) located in the United States. However, the system was owned by a 20-something male located in the Hebei region in China.
I don't usually overgeneralize, but "20-something male" pretty much describes 99% of the blackhats out there.
reverse engineered
Licensed from MIPS.
DEC Alpha CPU
Loongson is MIPS-compatible.
in 2001
The company that makes Loongson was founded in 2002.
Wow, almost every single word in that clause is wrong.
If I were them, I'd one of the OpenSPARC cores.
You a verb there.
From wikipedia:
In 2007, a deal was reached by MIPS Technologies and ICT. STMicroelectronics bought a MIPS license for Loongson, and thus the processor can be promoted as MIPS-based or MIPS-compatible instead of MIPS-like.
In June 2009, ICT licenced the MIPS32 and MIPS64 architectures directly from MIPS Technologies.
In August 2011, Loongson Technology Corp. Ltd. licensed the MIPS32 and MIPS64 architectures from MIPS Technologies, Inc. for continued development of MIPS-based Loongson CPU cores.
Yet another FUD article trolling for xenophobic reactions.
The military budget hovers around $700 billion. Reigning in the military so they are once again simply charged with protecting the continental United States from foreign attack and shrinking the budget appropriately (lets say 30%) would be immensely more functional as a remedy at about $220 billion in savings
The Department of Defense would see $832 billion disappear from its budget during Paul’s first term in office, most of which would stem from Paul’s plan to end all foreign wars and foreign aid.
$220 billion * 4 = $880 billion
Interesting how your number is within 5% of his proposal.
Ron Paul plans to abolish the TSA, break up DHS, and cut military spending by $832 during his first term.
Sounds like he's the man you're looking for.
Public education, duh. Before it was created in 1979 there was no public schools in America.
The Department of Defense would see $832 billion disappear from its budget during Paul’s first term in office, most of which would stem from Paul’s plan to end all foreign wars and foreign aid.
I wonder why you didn't just google the reason.
To put $832 billion in perspective, that's roughly 83% of of Dr. Paul proposed $1T cuts.
bad movie
one of the most awarded and acclaimed movies of the last decade
This may come as a shock to you, but no amount of awards, acclaims, and raving reviews will make a movie good.
Please see me after class, Mike.
We're looking at a few million people out of billions. If this were some big, scary zombie outbreak, we'd see a whole lot more cities being cannibalized. WHO and CDC are probably right. It's just people cosplaying to celebrate the upcoming release of Left 4 Dead 3, something that happens with any remotely popular game release.
The RIAA/MPAA racketeering is illegal in many if not most states, yet it continues to happen on a daily basis.
Tax evasion is illegal in many if not most states, yet it continues to happen on a daily basis.
What's your point?
Just because something is illegal doesn't mean it won't happen. If reality really worked that way then Earth becomes a crime-free paradise instantly.
Goto
Go Two
It's Go version 2.0, dur.
uncontrolled fall
There's a reason why engineers shouldn't write press releases.
besides, you are misrepresenting the way the USD system works; it does not turn physical USD into a larger amount
I chose my words very carefully. I never implied that physical USD can be turned into larger amount. Please read what I said again.
If the fractional reserve banking system can make $980 billion physical USD bills into $9.5 trillion dollars, then the very same system will make 7.2 million bitcoins into 72 million bitcoin credits.
Obviously physical USD bills != USD dollars, and in the same sense, bitcoins != bitcoin credits. I made the distinction very clear by my choice of words.
This is only true if people replicate the existing system of bank money on top of Bitcoin
Sorry but that's not my assumption. Fractional reserve banking is not just a property of the current banking system. It's a fact of life.
It's really unfortunate that the economists branded the "money multiplier" as an economic phenomenon, even though it is not exclusive to the field of economics. Please allow me to illiterate my point with a few examples:
1) Bob opens a car rental company in a town of 100. He is hugely optimistic and fills his lot with 100 cars. He then sends fliers to each resident promising that there will be a car waiting for them at all times. Unfortunately for Bob, 90 of his cars ends up never being used. John opens a competing car rental company in the same town with only 10 cars, and he makes the exact same promise to each resident. Needless to say, Bob's company cannot compete and goes into bankruptcy.
2) Bob opens a hosting company with 100 servers. 100 clients signs up each renting a server. Only 10% of the CPU, memory, and bandwidth ends up getting utilized at each server. John opens a hosting company with 10 servers and sells 100 virtualized servers. All of Bob's customers switch over to John because he is 90% cheaper. All of John's servers end up being utilized at 100%, and the clients are all happy because they saved 90% of the cost while getting the same thing.
In both examples, the "money multiplier" was 10, even though no money and no banks are involved. In both examples Bob lost the competition because he does not understand the principle that people don't need a service 100% of the time. People don't rent cars 24/7. People don't visit websites 24/7. People don't buy things 24/7. It's physically impossible. People need to eat, sleep, relax.
3) Bob holds 100 bitcoins in his wallet. John puts 100 bitcoins into a bitcoin bank to collect interest. The bank keeps only 10% of the deposits in house, and lends out the other 90%. 50 years later both men retire. Bob has exactly 100 bitcoins, while John has 1000 bitcoins due to compounding interest.
By holding 100 bitcoins in his wallet ready to spend at any time, Bob is assuming that he does not need to sleep, eat, or do anything else other than spend his bitcoins. This assumption is obviously wrong, and it has cost him greatly. The entire opportunity cost of those 100 bitcoins over 50 years were lost because Bob assumed he will be spending them 24/7 when that's obviously impossible. John on the other hand, correctly assumed that he only needs his bitcoins at particular instances, i.e. when he's actually buying something. At any other time the bitcoins are useless to him, so he can profit from this idle period by lending them out via banks.
Regardless of how bitcoins are marketed or how it works, a bitcoin banking sector will develop, and everyone will start using it because the people who boycott the banking system will not be able to compete with those who do. The market will eventually weed them out just like how it weeded out Bob's two inefficient businesses in the above examples.
...and unless you have the resources and well documented evidence (such lab books where EACH PAGE is signed by two individuals) you will lose out.
pssst, they sell pre-double signed lab books on eBay. Just make you buy them using prepaid credit cards and ship them to a PO box.