you've still got HTC and Samsung building decent phones with completely open bootloaders
Actually, HTC tried to lock down the boot image but that was cracked after a few months. Coincidentally or perhaps not, Samsung became the market leader. Maybe HTC and MOTO will perceive a message there. Stranger things have happened.
Whatever. There are so many sources of Android phones that surely some of them won't bother with the lockdown. When others see the market advantage thereby obtained that will be the end of ROM lockdown attempts.
That's true, but still way too noisy for my taste. And in particular, way noisier than even a cheap standalone player. Which I'm ordering forthwith because I'm tired of hearing the PS3 (slim) buzzing away in the quiet spots of music and movies.
I justified the purchase of the PS3 as a media client.
A PS3, even a mini, is too noisy to play music disks or movies in your living room. A PC, preferably running Linux, is a far better media client. More connectivity and much quieter. Also you can use a network enabled amplifier, Onkyo for example, to get the PC into the next room. Of course you could also do that with a PS3 if Sony had not retracted the Other OS option.
Which means LG going after Sony in this manner could probably result in a retaliatory action that would call for the halt of sale for all blu ray devices that LG makes because of some obscure BR patent owned by Sony. This doesn't seem like a good idea at all.
On the contrary, Blu Ray player shipments are a small part of LG's business while they are a major part of Sony's.
Looking forward to Sony retreating with tail between its legs on this one. Couldn't happen to a nicer company.
I just picked up two of their 101 tablets, one for me and one for my wife. We absolutely love them. No need for 3G. They tether just fine if you want access on the go and don't have a nearby WLAN to use.
Wow, I almost pulled the trigger on the 101 but was concerned about the screen quality, including viewing angle. Got any comments on that?
With this pricing and wifi policy, it would probably go over more like a lead balloon.
And if it has Moto's traditional ROM lockdown I'll definitely keep my wallet in my pocket this time round.
Looking forward to the coming influx of better/cheaper/freeer Android pads on the way. A 10 inch Archos with a decent screen would do the trick for me.
My take on it: The smart people at Google are in this case too boneheaded to figure out how to integrate two different build profiles into the same project. Or they are evil because they don't want the inevitable freedoms of the netpad release to leak into proprietary lockdown land of the phone release. Either way it does not look good on Google.
Message to smart people at Mountain View: it's all just Linux and Libc in spite of what you pretend. Please don't insult our intelligence.
And why is that cheating? Sounds like simple observance in an effort to get improve results.
It's cheating in my book. I suggest you look into your own heart and make your own decision. Regardless of what you think, cheating is in Microsoft's DNA and this is because Microsoft is moulded in the image of its founder.
Don't get me wrong, Google is not pristine. I witnessed cheating of various kinds while I worked there, mostly connected with personal advancement. However, cheating in the search engine is explicitly banned. It is not in Google's DNA to cheat at its core business. This is just based on my own observations of course, I certainly did not delve into every little crack of the organization. But this aspect of Google's corporate culture is very much front and center. Naturally in an organization of that size things are bound to slip through the cracks. I do not believe that such behaviour is pervasive at Google, whereas it is at Microsoft, and there it seems even to be glorified, or perhaps a precondition of maintaining a high career velocity.
They want everyone keeping all their devices connected to the online hub. This way they can control licensing, require updates, etc., more effectively than they do today.
Exactly, and I can tell you that it is extremely irritating to be frog marched to upgrade city on a regular basis, when trying to get online. For anyone who hasn't been subjected to this humiliation, this is how Sony forces upgrades... do it right now or no online for you.
Sony should instead quit the encyrpted, hardware locked hard drive idiocy. There is no reason whatsoever to do this, locking the hard drive to the processor does not prevent piracy or anything else, it just makes people lose saved data when the box dies, which it does on a regular basis. I am now on my third PS3 hard drive, the previous two are both completely functional with completely inaccessible game saves on them. Thanks a lot for that, Sony. Just one more reason why I will not spend another cent on you.
I'm still running a dual-core athlon 64. Processor/memory upgrades became overrated a few years ago.
I'm running a four core Phenom II black edition at home. Basically dirt cheap. I don't call that overrated at all, far from it. Oh, and 4 Gig, all of which I happily use. Actually that amount of memory will look small in the future. Say 6 months from now.
I'm not sure you're a "tool" per se but you are guilty of running off at the mouth. Perhaps you are not aware that DRI was created mainly to handle OpenGL better? Granted, the net is not overflowing with links to technical details. Because it is pretty low level stuff, with a very small core of developers of maybe a couple dozen. But the information is out there.
GEM is a low level component of DRI that manages rendering objects in memory, while EGL is a cross platform API for creating and managing OpenGL drawing surfaces, a potential replacement for GLX on Linux and WGL on Windows. Not quite there yet in terms of general availability. Working from the above link you should be able to find your way to the answers you seek, all of which is pretty well documented but not necessarily heavily linked from every Facebook home page.
I used to like NetBeans at least as much as Eclipse, but with Oracle in charge, I'm not sure I can trust the future of anything from them that's free.
Oracle's pay-for stuff is also teh suck. Have you ever used Oracle enterprise apps? Cruel and unusual punishment. The only half decent product Oracle makes is a database which has a good reputation for reliability, but PostgreSQL is catching up fast in performance and features, and doesn't cost the extortionate price Oracle asks. With luck, Oracle will soon be in shrink zone just like its evil twin in Redmond, which seems to be trying to emulate.
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Agreed. As a former fan but now a much abused PS3 owner I will not buy anything from Sony ever again.
you've still got HTC and Samsung building decent phones with completely open bootloaders
Actually, HTC tried to lock down the boot image but that was cracked after a few months. Coincidentally or perhaps not, Samsung became the market leader. Maybe HTC and MOTO will perceive a message there. Stranger things have happened.
Whatever. There are so many sources of Android phones that surely some of them won't bother with the lockdown. When others see the market advantage thereby obtained that will be the end of ROM lockdown attempts.
It's going to be fun demolishing Microsoft's ill-gotten phone business. Nokia might even survive in a diminished form, there's always that.
(After all, SGI is still around after trying to sell NT workstations then partnering with Microsoft on Fahrenheit. Oh wait, they aren't.)
Steven Vaughan-Nichols is calling it "no longer as important as it once was".
Perhaps he doesn't know that Ubuntu depends on it, so do most live CD distros.
the slim's aren't as noisy as the old ones
That's true, but still way too noisy for my taste. And in particular, way noisier than even a cheap standalone player. Which I'm ordering forthwith because I'm tired of hearing the PS3 (slim) buzzing away in the quiet spots of music and movies.
why doing the exact same thing to the black sony box setting next to my tv isn't legal, I'll never understand.
Big media is above the law. Apparently.
Just buy one used, so Sony doesn't get a dime from you for it?
Even better, have nothing to do with Sony at all. I for one will not buy another game for the PS3. Sony was already banned in my home except for that.
I justified the purchase of the PS3 as a media client.
A PS3, even a mini, is too noisy to play music disks or movies in your living room. A PC, preferably running Linux, is a far better media client. More connectivity and much quieter. Also you can use a network enabled amplifier, Onkyo for example, to get the PC into the next room. Of course you could also do that with a PS3 if Sony had not retracted the Other OS option.
Which means LG going after Sony in this manner could probably result in a retaliatory action that would call for the halt of sale for all blu ray devices that LG makes because of some obscure BR patent owned by Sony. This doesn't seem like a good idea at all.
On the contrary, Blu Ray player shipments are a small part of LG's business while they are a major part of Sony's.
Looking forward to Sony retreating with tail between its legs on this one. Couldn't happen to a nicer company.
This is highly relevant to my interests as I embarked upon an upgrade crusade about a week ago to replace my aging PC
I'm very happy with my four core Phenom II. Powerful, quiet, cheap - pick all three.
I just bought an Archos 70 Internet Table...
I just picked up two of their 101 tablets, one for me and one for my wife. We absolutely love them. No need for 3G. They tether just fine if you want access on the go and don't have a nearby WLAN to use.
Wow, I almost pulled the trigger on the 101 but was concerned about the screen quality, including viewing angle. Got any comments on that?
With this pricing and wifi policy, it would probably go over more like a lead balloon.
And if it has Moto's traditional ROM lockdown I'll definitely keep my wallet in my pocket this time round.
Looking forward to the coming influx of better/cheaper/freeer Android pads on the way. A 10 inch Archos with a decent screen would do the trick for me.
"The fact you got modded up just goes to show how far the Microsoft bias runs here."
No really, it's more about being right.
Don't expect Americans to actually take notice. They'll start imprisoning file sharers along with the drug users and promise it'll reduce piracy.
When everyone is in prison, who will pay the taxes?
Comment above is not flamebait, please mod up.
My take on it: The smart people at Google are in this case too boneheaded to figure out how to integrate two different build profiles into the same project. Or they are evil because they don't want the inevitable freedoms of the netpad release to leak into proprietary lockdown land of the phone release. Either way it does not look good on Google.
Message to smart people at Mountain View: it's all just Linux and Libc in spite of what you pretend. Please don't insult our intelligence.
And why is that cheating? Sounds like simple observance in an effort to get improve results.
It's cheating in my book. I suggest you look into your own heart and make your own decision. Regardless of what you think, cheating is in Microsoft's DNA and this is because Microsoft is moulded in the image of its founder.
Don't get me wrong, Google is not pristine. I witnessed cheating of various kinds while I worked there, mostly connected with personal advancement. However, cheating in the search engine is explicitly banned. It is not in Google's DNA to cheat at its core business. This is just based on my own observations of course, I certainly did not delve into every little crack of the organization. But this aspect of Google's corporate culture is very much front and center. Naturally in an organization of that size things are bound to slip through the cracks. I do not believe that such behaviour is pervasive at Google, whereas it is at Microsoft, and there it seems even to be glorified, or perhaps a precondition of maintaining a high career velocity.
The action probably violates Google's TOS, so it might be actionable. (IANAL, TINLA, etc.)
Interesting. So if Google uses Yahoo's web directory to seed its index would that violate Yahoo's terms of service?
The last thing I need in my games is -more- waiting and loading time. "please wait while we download your savegame".
Also "don't even bother if your net connection is down". Which happens.
You know... if the save games are saved on their servers that wouldn't happen...
It also wouldn't happen if the disk was not crytographically tied to the CPU, so I regard your comment as facetious.
They want everyone keeping all their devices connected to the online hub. This way they can control licensing, require updates, etc., more effectively than they do today.
Exactly, and I can tell you that it is extremely irritating to be frog marched to upgrade city on a regular basis, when trying to get online. For anyone who hasn't been subjected to this humiliation, this is how Sony forces upgrades... do it right now or no online for you.
Sony should instead quit the encyrpted, hardware locked hard drive idiocy. There is no reason whatsoever to do this, locking the hard drive to the processor does not prevent piracy or anything else, it just makes people lose saved data when the box dies, which it does on a regular basis. I am now on my third PS3 hard drive, the previous two are both completely functional with completely inaccessible game saves on them. Thanks a lot for that, Sony. Just one more reason why I will not spend another cent on you.
I'm still running a dual-core athlon 64. Processor/memory upgrades became overrated a few years ago.
I'm running a four core Phenom II black edition at home. Basically dirt cheap. I don't call that overrated at all, far from it. Oh, and 4 Gig, all of which I happily use. Actually that amount of memory will look small in the future. Say 6 months from now.
I'm not sure you're a "tool" per se but you are guilty of running off at the mouth. Perhaps you are not aware that DRI was created mainly to handle OpenGL better? Granted, the net is not overflowing with links to technical details. Because it is pretty low level stuff, with a very small core of developers of maybe a couple dozen. But the information is out there.
GEM is a low level component of DRI that manages rendering objects in memory, while EGL is a cross platform API for creating and managing OpenGL drawing surfaces, a potential replacement for GLX on Linux and WGL on Windows. Not quite there yet in terms of general availability. Working from the above link you should be able to find your way to the answers you seek, all of which is pretty well documented but not necessarily heavily linked from every Facebook home page.
I used to like NetBeans at least as much as Eclipse, but with Oracle in charge, I'm not sure I can trust the future of anything from them that's free.
Oracle's pay-for stuff is also teh suck. Have you ever used Oracle enterprise apps? Cruel and unusual punishment. The only half decent product Oracle makes is a database which has a good reputation for reliability, but PostgreSQL is catching up fast in performance and features, and doesn't cost the extortionate price Oracle asks. With luck, Oracle will soon be in shrink zone just like its evil twin in Redmond, which seems to be trying to emulate.
Could be eight generations beyond, if you buy it Sony will make you regret it. Based on my PS3 experience.
The only Sony-branded products I would buy are those that are inherently "dumb", like speakers (because they do make pretty good ones).
Forget it, get JBL, they are awesome.