In fact most of the GPL compliant ones do not provide a workable source but just throw some code. GPL specify you need the tools and instruction to reproduce the binary. That said, it's usually OK as we figure stuff out.
There is another side however, for example let's take Samsung. They do release the GPL stuff (after a week delay usually) for one version, for example Froyo. Then they release important Froyo updates but the GPL code will not be updated. One could argue that the GPL code did not change, but this is not specified and in fact, it happens that it does change.
Currently for the Galaxy S II the GPL kernel source does not exactly match the latest firmware and I doubt they will ever fix that - and while it's better than some, that certainly is not compliant at all.
a zillion usb devices already available, work with usb, even if not at full speed almost nothing works on thunderbolt
same thing happened with firewire, although at least cameras are using it
thunderbolt and usb are both techs of intel so there isnt a lot of real competition anyway. the advantage of thunderbolt being that you can use it like a pci express lane. yeah - but. by the time there's enough devices that make sense, usb4 might be around (just like usb "killed" fw)
Google DOES pay people to look for these bugs all day long, what are you thinking? Every big such company has a group or people that are paid to do just that. And another group of people reviewing the coder's work. If bugs were so easy to find, there wouldn't be any left by now. But that's often not the case.
"This code and the technical details of the underlying vulnerabilities will not be publicly disclosed. They are shared exclusively with our Government customers as part of our vulnerability research services."
Oh, I feel SO MUCH better now!
They're always doing that and there's many companies like that. Basically, the bugs DO NOT GET FIXED until people (here, Google) pays up, and that's now the $5000 bounty we're talking about. These guys literally asks thousand hundreds. If not, well, bug stay there, bad advertisement for the company, etc.
I know, people should get paid for their work, including the security researcH. But sometimes it feels like racket.
Just FYI Firefox has multiprocess for tabs and UI (not multi threading - its already multi thread) planned. The mobile version already uses a separate process for the UI in fact.
Additionally, multi process tabs, while "solving" a few issues (since even if you have leaks or bugs=> close tab and it works) uses a lot more memory.
Then again, Firefox 4 uses a memory pool per tab (global in FF 3) for security and that already uses quite some memory, so yeah. Anyhow, multi-process is coming.
Also, it's still very fast. Mozilla 4/5 became really huge and slow. FF4 is as fast.. and faster in many areas than the competition (and slightly slower in some areas). So it's not nearly as bad as you picture it to be:)
My main reason to use Firefox, beside that its fast and work well enough, is that they're always doing the right thing and not the "commercial thing" or "what pleases governments/corporations" etc. No other browser seems to deliver that. As I want the web to keep being free and standardized, well that's that for me.
good specialized people cost a lot as long as they dont have a breahc they dont wanna afford it (of course, affording ONE of these guys would be cheaper over 50 years than ONE single breach but hey!)
We will see when the iphone 5 is out. Intel has promised super low power x86 for a while but didnt really deliver so far. They might also just make some ARM cpus based on Apple's specs.
That said the x86 way would be of course more interesting. Especially if it's actually more efficient than arm somehow. Magic.;-)
Or just use 1.0 2.0 3.0. I'm personally tired with the 2000 code name that sounds "so cool its ridiculous" for the 200 projects out there. News flash: weirdo code-names aren't cool or original anymore.
At least simple numbers are usefuL. Whats newer, Koala or Ibex? Right. Whats newer 2.0 or 4.0 ? Now that's easy.
popsci URL. Science + popular = 1 bad point "The team employed a mind-boggling set of quantum manipulation techniques to achieve this, " Cool words to fill the void of content = 1000 bad points
Being a manager means spending more time dealing with politics and paperwork rather than technical issues and I know from experience it's a lot less fun so I don't understand why people crave management so much.
money and making the proper decisions for their lower-in-the-chain friends
I have a Galaxy tab (the 7") a Galaxy S I-9000, an iPhone 3G, 3GS and 4. While they do have similarities (3G/3GS,SGS all are rectangular + rounded corners for example, but thats very vague design and most phones are like that by necessity) the UI is quite different - no artwork is reused and while some things are remotely similar, thats FAR from pixel for pixel reproduction. In fact, Apple does not even have a similar product to the 7" tab... Sure, both use rows of icons.. and that's mostly what's similar.
The TouchWizz widgets, which are the Samsung UI on both of these devices are native Android widgets and uhm, I don't have those on any iPhone in fact, mostly because it's not supported on iPhone, in case you didn't know;-) The TW launcher difference with regular android is that you can pan from left to right on screen that are persistent (*like the iPhone*) in the apps and the icons are auto squarred... that's.. it
Knowledge is everything, actually. But what's on the resumé is rarely real knowledge. It's usually stuff you learn without fully understanding it and that you forget 2 years later. Real knowledge, is knowledge you know how to use. That one also happen to last a lot longer in memory. Knowledge is not just having data (information) stored in your brain. Any good dictionary will tell you that knowledge is both information and skills, and that it is the understanding (hint: that's the keyword) of them both. That goes far beyond what you make it sound like.
I very well know the state of affairs. Maybe you were looking for free karma:P actually these OSes have great technical advantages, and for compatibility they can run everything in a VM. If you ever wondered what XPMODE is really for, it's just a test to see if things work out. Apple has done this trick twice in the past, once via VM once via so called fat binaries (for backward compat - else its still forward compat via emulation)
Hes' been teaching kids and giving speech since forever. He's actually a pretty good guy. Not so interested into making more money than he already has, or conquer markets. More into the human side of things, and into "doing the right thing" kind of stuff.
Slashdot Mirror
*googles haskell helloworld*
FORTUNE HERE I COME
In fact most of the GPL compliant ones do not provide a workable source but just throw some code. GPL specify you need the tools and instruction to reproduce the binary.
That said, it's usually OK as we figure stuff out.
There is another side however, for example let's take Samsung. They do release the GPL stuff (after a week delay usually) for one version, for example Froyo.
Then they release important Froyo updates but the GPL code will not be updated. One could argue that the GPL code did not change, but this is not specified and in fact, it happens that it does change.
Currently for the Galaxy S II the GPL kernel source does not exactly match the latest firmware and I doubt they will ever fix that - and while it's better than some, that certainly is not compliant at all.
a zillion usb devices already available, work with usb, even if not at full speed
almost nothing works on thunderbolt
same thing happened with firewire, although at least cameras are using it
thunderbolt and usb are both techs of intel so there isnt a lot of real competition anyway. the advantage of thunderbolt being that you can use it like a pci express lane.
yeah - but. by the time there's enough devices that make sense, usb4 might be around (just like usb "killed" fw)
Google DOES pay people to look for these bugs all day long, what are you thinking? Every big such company has a group or people that are paid to do just that. And another group of people reviewing the coder's work.
If bugs were so easy to find, there wouldn't be any left by now. But that's often not the case.
The French.
"This code and the technical details of the underlying vulnerabilities will not be publicly disclosed. They are shared exclusively with our Government customers as part of our vulnerability research services."
Oh, I feel SO MUCH better now!
They're always doing that and there's many companies like that. Basically, the bugs DO NOT GET FIXED until people (here, Google) pays up, and that's now the $5000 bounty we're talking about.
These guys literally asks thousand hundreds. If not, well, bug stay there, bad advertisement for the company, etc.
I know, people should get paid for their work, including the security researcH. But sometimes it feels like racket.
Just FYI Firefox has multiprocess for tabs and UI (not multi threading - its already multi thread) planned. The mobile version already uses a separate process for the UI in fact.
Additionally, multi process tabs, while "solving" a few issues (since even if you have leaks or bugs=> close tab and it works) uses a lot more memory.
Then again, Firefox 4 uses a memory pool per tab (global in FF 3) for security and that already uses quite some memory, so yeah. Anyhow, multi-process is coming.
Also, it's still very fast. Mozilla 4/5 became really huge and slow. FF4 is as fast.. and faster in many areas than the competition (and slightly slower in some areas). So it's not nearly as bad as you picture it to be :)
My main reason to use Firefox, beside that its fast and work well enough, is that they're always doing the right thing and not the "commercial thing" or "what pleases governments/corporations" etc.
No other browser seems to deliver that. As I want the web to keep being free and standardized, well that's that for me.
good specialized people cost a lot
as long as they dont have a breahc they dont wanna afford it (of course, affording ONE of these guys would be cheaper over 50 years than ONE single breach but hey!)
While it is less detailed and has no popups, it is open source and works rather well:
http://code.google.com/p/droidwall/
The main difference being that DroidWall is all or nothing.
We will see when the iphone 5 is out. Intel has promised super low power x86 for a while but didnt really deliver so far.
They might also just make some ARM cpus based on Apple's specs.
That said the x86 way would be of course more interesting. Especially if it's actually more efficient than arm somehow. Magic. ;-)
Of euros. I think it's worth mentioning that the French found it. Not that they've been fast tho , but credit where it's due ;-)
Doesn't work so well with non-ubuntu. Also, Z is pretty near.
Or just use 1.0 2.0 3.0.
I'm personally tired with the 2000 code name that sounds "so cool its ridiculous" for the 200 projects out there.
News flash: weirdo code-names aren't cool or original anymore.
At least simple numbers are usefuL. Whats newer, Koala or Ibex? Right. Whats newer 2.0 or 4.0 ? Now that's easy.
popsci URL. Science + popular = 1 bad point
"The team employed a mind-boggling set of quantum manipulation techniques to achieve this, " Cool words to fill the void of content = 1000 bad points
I hate those articles so much.
to take with a grain of salt since if you're replaceable you can also just be dumped when you ask for a better salary after 5 years.
Being a manager means spending more time dealing with politics and paperwork rather than technical issues and I know from experience it's a lot less fun so I don't understand why people crave management so much.
money and making the proper decisions for their lower-in-the-chain friends
Reading the article, this post looks like spam to promote their website if anything.
Beside this discussion comes back every couple of month on Slashdot. How did that get to top again :'(
I have a Galaxy tab (the 7") a Galaxy S I-9000, an iPhone 3G, 3GS and 4.
While they do have similarities (3G/3GS,SGS all are rectangular + rounded corners for example, but thats very vague design and most phones are like that by necessity) the UI is quite different - no artwork is reused and while some things are remotely similar, thats FAR from pixel for pixel reproduction.
In fact, Apple does not even have a similar product to the 7" tab...
Sure, both use rows of icons.. and that's mostly what's similar.
The TouchWizz widgets, which are the Samsung UI on both of these devices are native Android widgets and uhm, I don't have those on any iPhone in fact, mostly because it's not supported on iPhone, in case you didn't know ;-)
The TW launcher difference with regular android is that you can pan from left to right on screen that are persistent (*like the iPhone*) in the apps and the icons are auto squarred... that's.. it
Also the Droid X is Motorola.
... that's why I don't buy Apple. Vote with your wallet they say. So yeah, there.
Knowledge is everything, actually.
But what's on the resumé is rarely real knowledge. It's usually stuff you learn without fully understanding it and that you forget 2 years later.
Real knowledge, is knowledge you know how to use. That one also happen to last a lot longer in memory.
Knowledge is not just having data (information) stored in your brain. Any good dictionary will tell you that knowledge is both information and skills, and that it is the understanding (hint: that's the keyword) of them both. That goes far beyond what you make it sound like.
I very well know the state of affairs. Maybe you were looking for free karma :P
actually these OSes have great technical advantages, and for compatibility they can run everything in a VM. If you ever wondered what XPMODE is really for, it's just a test to see if things work out.
Apple has done this trick twice in the past, once via VM once via so called fat binaries (for backward compat - else its still forward compat via emulation)
They should just make that work and release it :)
Hes' been teaching kids and giving speech since forever. He's actually a pretty good guy. Not so interested into making more money than he already has, or conquer markets. More into the human side of things, and into "doing the right thing" kind of stuff.
Well.. yes it must be lol. I can click it just fine ;-)
also this might interest you:
about:memory