> all the apps already there for Android are Android on ARM
Aren't most apps inherently portable, as they're written in Java for the Dalvik VM? The exception is apps that use the native development kit, but my guess is that those are few.
Great. As did I. In case someone wants a ready made cancellation note, here's my best shot:
"I hereby close my Amazon.com account. All orders have already been canceled.
I close my account in objection to Amazon.com's recent removal of wikileaks content from their servers without clarification, let alone due process. This cancellation is not meant as an endorsement of the actions of wikileaks per se, but expresses my discontent with Amazon.com's hosting policies. By removing content at whim, Amazon.com expressly takes a political stance. It is my belief that a provider should offer services equally to all, except those found illegal by the courts".
With EC2, S3 and other AWS, Amazon repeatedly pushed the envelope technically and I loved them for it, but after the 1-click patent and their ironic silent removal of 1984 purchases from Kindles, this is the last straw.
If in doubt, remember that having an account buys you nothing (except 1-click).
"Share or tweet links often? Yeah, us too. No more wading through each site’s goofy share widget or copy-pasting URLs. We built sharing directly into the browser, right next to the URL bar. Like a site or story? Click “Share” and BAM – link shared."
"Behind the scenes, RockMelt is always working on your behalf. Do you visit the same site 10 times a day, checking for new posts or updates? Well, RockMelt keeps track of all your favorite sites for you, alerting you when a new story comes out, a friend posts new pictures, or a new video is available. And when you open a RockMelt feed, the content is already waiting for you."
None of this sounds world shattering.
"Your friends are important to you, so we built them in. Now you’re able to chat, share that piano-playing-cat video everyone’s going to love, or just see what your friends are up to, regardless of what site you’re on."
Browsing together with friends and commenting is promising. Others have tried and failed, but maybe they can get it right. Some more analysis at the reg.
While this research takes place in largely uncontested Yellow sea, any success could very well bolster the Chinese government's hawkish stand on naval borders.
On the other hands, who would want to do without it? Sometimes economically unsound investments have a bright future (think railroads). Here's to hoping the Burj Dubai will have a great future after the debt has been written off.
RFC 3229 discusses a design for delta encoding in HTTP.
I once stumbled upon this when I thought of doing something like this, as well. This idea
makes a lot of sense, but it's well known. The main problem I see is that you need both
parties to support it. Since gzip compression in HTTP is fairly common, this is not at all
impossible.
I have not RTFA, so they may well be proposing something different.
The statement that sockets limit throughput by copying between kernel and application processes is a bit simplistic. The copy of Rx data to an application usually primes the cache. If data isn't touched and loaded into the cache at this point, it will have to be loaded shortly, anyway. Granted, for Tx this trick does not hold.
Second, the interface is not the implementation. Just because sockets are traditionally implemented as system calls does not state that they have to. User level networking is a well known alternative to OS services for high-bandwidth and low-latency communication (e.g., U-net developed around '96). I know, because I myself built a network stack with large shared buffers that implements the socket API through local function calls (blatant plug, but on topic. The implementation is still shoddy, but good enough for UDP benchmarking).
User level networking can also offers low latency. My implementation doesn't, but U-net does.
This leaves the third point of the article, on multihoming. As sockets abstract away IP addresses and network interfaces, I don't see why they cannot support multihoming behind the socket interface. Note that IP addresses do not have to mapped 1:1 onto NICs. Operating systems generally support load-balancing or fail-over behind the interface through virtual interfaces (in IRIX) or some other means (Netfilter in Linux).
There has been some research (reg.req.) on the benefits of barefoot running. BUt, the article also mentions having to pull glass from your foot...
I've tried running barefoot once, on the beach, but wouldn't dare doing it on my standard run through the city. Does anyone here have any experience with the ultra thin Five Fingers running shoes (basically protective gloves around your feet)? Sure, you look like a dick -- almost as bad as Crocs -- but they appear a great alternative.
Lines are already forming at Apple stores worldwide for the revolutionary black operating system (which will ofcourse cost more than MacOS, the white edition).
Steve Jobs's wardrobe all make sense now. He had it all planned from the start. He must be the one.
Or read this great example of investigative reporting from 1982: Have you ever tried to sell a diamond. It's all still true today (although you might have to swap some country names here and there).
Even if you don't care about diamonds per se, the "gem" diamond business is interesting for its unique economy and as an example of the power of PR firms.
I will never by a "natural gem" in my life. Nothing says I love you like pure zirkonium. Not that any woman would know the difference, anyway.
The best solution, ofcourse, is to switch to a less zealous ISP. But that is not always possible: I, for example, find myself subletting an apartment that comes with horrible, horrible Comcast DSL (who actively reset with your TCP connections).
In these cases say Aye, matey and hook up to the swedish Pirate Party's Relakks VPN service (as seen on Slashdot) to get past your pesky ISPs rules. It's also be very useful if you use coffeeshop wireless a lot and your email provider still requires plain-text passwords.
By the way, the give-one-get-one deal on the XO has been extended until the end of the year.
Fight Wintel and get one. I believe the second laptop (that you give away)
is tax-deductible, by the way.
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> all the apps already there for Android are Android on ARM
Aren't most apps inherently portable, as they're written in Java for the Dalvik VM? The exception is apps that use the native development kit, but my guess is that those are few.
google cache result for kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.2
Just hook all that hardware up to the C&C generals engine.
This also offers an easy downgrade path in case geopolitics change again.
Great. As did I. In case someone wants a ready made cancellation note, here's my best shot:
"I hereby close my Amazon.com account. All orders have already been canceled.
I close my account in objection to Amazon.com's recent removal of wikileaks content from their servers without clarification, let alone due process. This cancellation is not meant as an endorsement of the actions of wikileaks per se, but expresses my discontent with Amazon.com's
hosting policies. By removing content at whim, Amazon.com expressly takes a political stance. It is my belief that a provider should offer services equally to all, except those found illegal by the courts".
With EC2, S3 and other AWS, Amazon repeatedly pushed the envelope technically and I loved them for it, but after the 1-click patent and their ironic silent removal of 1984 purchases from Kindles, this is the last straw.
If in doubt, remember that having an account buys you nothing (except 1-click).
And after you have cancelled all outstanding orders, close your account to drive home the point.
This blog post is the source of the story. Some quotes:
"Share or tweet links often? Yeah, us too. No more wading through each site’s goofy share widget or copy-pasting URLs. We built sharing directly into the browser, right next to the URL bar. Like a site or story? Click “Share” and BAM – link shared."
"Behind the scenes, RockMelt is always working on your behalf. Do you visit the same site 10 times a day, checking for new posts or updates? Well, RockMelt keeps track of all your favorite sites for you, alerting you when a new story comes out, a friend posts new pictures, or a new video is available. And when you open a RockMelt feed, the content is already waiting for you."
None of this sounds world shattering.
"Your friends are important to you, so we built them in. Now you’re able to chat, share that piano-playing-cat video everyone’s going to love, or just see what your friends are up to, regardless of what site you’re on."
Browsing together with friends and commenting is promising. Others have tried and failed, but maybe they can get it right. Some more analysis at the reg.
While this research takes place in largely uncontested Yellow sea, any success could very well bolster the Chinese government's hawkish stand on naval borders.
The disputes with Japan and Taiwan are well known. It recently claimed sovereignty of regions of the South China Sea that are well beyond common UN agreements on sovereignty and openly challenged by ASEAN neighbors.
Even the Yellow Sea is not without conflict, in which even the US is directly involved. At the heart of the matter is what the article calls ``one element in what appears to be an attempt to turn the seas near it into a Chinese lake''.
I was quite amazed to see the Financial Times refer to separate McKinsey and PWC studies that show that the cost of reducing European CO2 by 80% would not cost more than ``business as usual'' replacement of coal fired plants and even that going 100% renewable by 2050 would cost only about 2.5 times what Germany has already spent on solar power.
FT, McKinsey and PWC are not known as granola eating treehuggers, which makes this all the more exciting.
> white elephants are something the US already has plenty of.
The Empire state building was not called Empty State Building for nothing: it has had a spotty history, financially speaking.
On the other hands, who would want to do without it? Sometimes economically unsound investments
have a bright future (think railroads). Here's to hoping the Burj Dubai will have a great future after
the debt has been written off.
Yes. Core 2 Quad made so much more sense.
How much does Intel pay its marketeers? Is that in bananas?
RFC 3229 discusses a design for delta encoding in HTTP. I once stumbled upon this when I thought of doing something like this, as well. This idea makes a lot of sense, but it's well known. The main problem I see is that you need both parties to support it. Since gzip compression in HTTP is fairly common, this is not at all impossible. I have not RTFA, so they may well be proposing something different.
This was a very clear explanation, thanks.
This is hardly news and partly mistaken.
The statement that sockets limit throughput by copying between kernel and application processes is a bit simplistic. The copy of Rx data to an application usually primes the cache. If data isn't touched and loaded into the cache at this point, it will have to be loaded shortly, anyway. Granted, for Tx this trick does not hold.
Second, the interface is not the implementation. Just because sockets are traditionally implemented as system calls does not state that they have to. User level networking is a well known alternative to OS services for high-bandwidth and low-latency communication (e.g., U-net developed around '96). I know, because I myself built a network stack with large shared buffers that implements the socket API through local function calls (blatant plug, but on topic. The implementation is still shoddy, but good enough for UDP benchmarking).
User level networking can also offers low latency. My implementation doesn't, but U-net does.
This leaves the third point of the article, on multihoming. As sockets abstract away IP addresses and network interfaces, I don't see why they cannot support multihoming behind the socket interface. Note that IP addresses do not have to mapped 1:1 onto NICs. Operating systems generally support load-balancing or fail-over behind the interface through virtual interfaces (in IRIX) or some other means (Netfilter in Linux).
Not need to replace sockets just yet.
There has been some research (reg.req.) on the benefits of barefoot running. BUt, the article also mentions having to pull glass from your foot... I've tried running barefoot once, on the beach, but wouldn't dare doing it on my standard run through the city. Does anyone here have any experience with the ultra thin Five Fingers running shoes (basically protective gloves around your feet)? Sure, you look like a dick -- almost as bad as Crocs -- but they appear a great alternative.
Indeed, it is called the deep web.
Even the first link uses that term. The submitter messed up (and the editors didn't catch it. News at 11)
Black is the new grey.
Lines are already forming at Apple stores worldwide
for the revolutionary black operating system
(which will ofcourse cost more than MacOS, the white edition).
Steve Jobs's wardrobe all make sense now. He had it
all planned from the start. He must be the one.
Or read this great example of investigative reporting from 1982:
Have you ever tried to sell a diamond.
It's all still true today (although you might have to swap some
country names here and there).
Even if you don't care about diamonds per se, the "gem" diamond business
is interesting for its unique economy and as an example of the power of
PR firms.
I will never by a "natural gem" in my life. Nothing says I love you like
pure zirkonium. Not that any woman would know the difference, anyway.
which is what a vast majority of readers would want
Are we on the same site? What is this "article" you talk of?
Try to be fair - criticize where there is genuinely something to criticize, praise where that is due
Welcome to Slashdot! You must be new here.
> Arrr, we be lootin' again!
Oh wait, I'm in RIAA country now. Did I say looting? I meant to say "sending holiday greetings to our loved ones".
5GB/day? Why yes, officer, I do write long emails.
The best solution, ofcourse, is to switch to a less zealous ISP. But that is not always possible: I, for example, find myself subletting an
apartment that comes with horrible, horrible Comcast DSL (who actively reset with your TCP connections).
In these cases say Aye, matey and hook up to the swedish Pirate Party's Relakks VPN service (as seen on Slashdot)
to get past your pesky ISPs rules. It's also be very useful if you use coffeeshop wireless a lot and your email provider still requires plain-text passwords.
Arrr, we be lootin' again!
By the way, the give-one-get-one deal on the XO has been extended until the end of the year. Fight Wintel and get one. I believe the second laptop (that you give away) is tax-deductible, by the way.
From the article: "A complementary audio element is also proposed. For example, you might attach background music to a Web page"
Great idea! I choose <audio src="1000_wailing_women.ogg"/> to accompany this post.
Only in america will someone call a camry a "small car"