The problem is that far too many now believe that patents exist to reward inventors. The absolute nonsense many patent supporters spout makes perfect sense if you start from that position, including the absolute disrespect for end users.
Large parts of the legal system and industry need to be forcibly reminded that rewarding inventors is the mechanism, not the purpose and if the mechanism is not working to further the real purpose, then it needs changing. In software that mechanism isn't just broken, it's unneeded.
800Mhz has much better propagation than 1.9/2.1Ghz, that's partly why they're so keen to grab these frequencies for it. Whilst it won't turn O2 into a real phone company, it should massively improve reception almost everywhere. Just a pity we'll all need new phones to use it.
If you want working 3G, stop pissing your money away on O2, a company only upgrading their 3G support because the alternative was losing their licence for failing to hit any coverage targets. Unfortunately the regulator doesn't seem to have compelled them to install any backhaul so coverage improvements aren't matched by available bandwidth!
Compare the novel legal theories in SCO vs the world and Oracle vs Google. Looks like BS&F just took the SCO claims, changed a few words and threw them at Google. Even when SCO are finally salted and burned, the zombie plague continues over at Oracle, spread by the infected fscking lawyers.
SCO missed the deadline on Project Monterrey claims and a great deal of the dancing they did was to drag Monterrey in by any means, foul or fouler. I almost wish that had worked since we already know IBM cancelled the contract *because* the scumbags bought the company, triggering the right to terminate. Watching Boies try to talk around that would have been hilarious.
Except you failed to establish its vaccination causing mortality. The smart money's on the vaccination rate reflecting the disease prevalence and variety, more diseases that need vaccination against.
I didn't need vaccination for smallpox, since it was extinct here before I was born. But I had the vaccine as a child before travelling abroad where it wasn't extinct yet. You can bet I'll have any advised protection if I ever head somewhere tropical. More disease is the cause of both mortality and the medical response to disease.
If only we could make Google think for dumb fucks using it.
1: WTF makes you think this represents even a small fraction of the money being spent. Spread it thin, compartmentalise funding into unconnected cells and it's so much easier to hide the real scale of the scheme. What works for terrorists works for corporations.
2: If the denial backers had to pay anything like as much as the actual research costs, they'd be spending it on mitigation tech and taking the profit later. Right now its still cheaper to stall anything that threatens their profits. Wrecking the planet is usually cheaper than not.
Make no mistake, the tech research solutions proposed 25 years ago would now be paying off, making billionaires of the successful implementers and giving the rest of us the energy we crave. Best of all that would be true whatever you believe about anthropogenic climate change. But crucially, dethroning any incumbent rich that declined to take part. That's why we're up shit creek now, their profit margin depended on no-one else taking their business and the cheapest solution was stalling change.
How do you propose Nokia will do anything now most of the engineers were either sacked, walked or were transferred out of Nokia along with the IP?
Nokia were up shit creek bereft of paddles before MS infiltrated them, with engineers incapable of finishing any of their new OS projects. MS and WP7 just took away the boat as well and put concrete boots on the company.
The history probe may be parallel but the overall compression isn't because those searches still have to be serially executed - until the probe completes you don't know how much input was consumed or what to start the next probe with. The parallelism doesn't scale beyond speeding up the serial steps.
The same applies to decoding variable length codes. I have SIMD accelerated yanking the next huffman code from a bitstream but I have to know where the 1st bit is to perform the detection. The overall loop is still resolutely serial.
AFAIK there are no lossless compression algorithms able to break that serialism without compromising compression rates.
...and we can expect change to lead to conflict. Even if the changes all balance or even prove beneficial on average, there will still be mass migration of the losers. If the winners succeed in keeping the losers out of their territory there will be war.
Maybe I'm mistaken but I get the impression most of the climate deniers are also rabidly opposed to immigration or any sharing of their privileged share of the planet with foreigners. Such a pity their denial will trigger exactly what they hate.
You do realise Google are in trouble because they couldn't licence J2SE for phones (Sun/Oracle wouldn't allow it), J2ME is too limited for what they wanted to do and so Android is NOT based on it.
This is the direct fallout of Sun's policy of barring J2SE use on mobile by withholding the tools needed to certify it.
Are you sure the research delivered, because avoiding gc still gives a huge performance boost in most apps. You might not notice on your nGhz PC but you will on your phone.
I bought a 5MP Kodak camera long ago as an upgrade from a Konica Minolta X20 (very tiny 3MP digicam - wife's still using it). Immediately discovered the highest quality settings on the Kodak were worse than the lowest quality settings on the X20, worse even comparing 3MP vs 5MP images. So badly compressed you could see the artefacts even on the camera LCD. Went back the same day.
Kodak were so intent on protecting their film business they never took digicams seriously and ruined their own business by crippling their own cameras. They deserve to die, no-one killed them, it was suicide.
OK, can't expect a colonial to know she's a TV presenter on childrens programme "Blue Peter" and part of the job description is doing this sort of stunt. Or to notice the BBC are getting 9 weeks of possibly inspiring kiddies TV out of it. Can't even expect you to recognise the name 'Sport Relief' at the end of the article.
But completely missing the charity fund raising aspect (the Sport Relief bit)? You didn't read the article did you?
Lot's of reasons she's doing this, getting her name in the record books AGAIN is the least of them.
I would hope FaceBook never gets more integrated into Android. Took me 3 passes just finding all the FB integration apps on my Xperia Play and root to actually remove them all. But at least I could clear the infestation...
Yep, if you paid more than $5 for the phone it can run Java (unless Steve Jobs said NO!), but only the really desperate access the net with one and almost none knowingly install or run any Java apps beyond what the device shipped with. I tested net access on my fathers feature phone and it was painfully, unusably slow. On a sad JaveME based 'china phone' it was still far too bad to actually use, even over WiFi.
JavaME is a ubiquitous tech that no-one knowingly chooses to use. That's not a story, that's just a reminder Android did the right thing avoiding this steaming pile of mediocrity.
Many of the OSS people they hope to attract are already busy porting Android to the TouchPad. By waiting till Android is nearing a usable release to open source WebOS they've lost those devs.
The hardware is appealing but the software EOL, the replacement already arriving and no-one seems very interested in any WebOS device that's not in a fire sale. Too little, too late.
Luckily the encryption is simply a 'secret' huffman table and already available for MythTV, MediaPortal and I guess every other OSS PVR software usable in the UK.
It's almost as if the secrecy was about BSing the rights holders knowing full well there was no actual protection in place...
For reference here's the top 10 install breakdown for my giffgaff Android app, showing Samsung and HTC neck&neck with HTC just a little ahead. giffgaff is a SIM only MVNO, they don't sell phones so these numbers have a large component of customer choice, though box breaking has a big influence.
Really only useful as a HTC vs Samsung comparison because:
: some Android devices don't need the app so all Sony Ericsson, some LG and most phones running 3rd party firmware are under represented
: the ZTE Blade is absurdly cheap here (£69-100 unlocked), box broken from Orange
: the stats are cumulative over more than a year but do represent current active installs
Interesting trends are LG completely vanishing from that list several months ago and Samsung have almost caught up with HTC, HTC used to dominate the list. Bear in mind though that Samsung has been heavily discounted here in the UK for the last year, HTC much less so.
Even in the screwed up, carrier controlled US market I find it very easy to believe HTC selling as well as claimed.
How is it possible for the USPTO to grant the patent when there is prior art (which doesn't matter where it was done first)?
Before the America Invents changes the US patent system habitually ignored foreign prior art. Where they did consider it the 12 month window between invention and publication worked for US inventors and allowed them to grab patents on already published ideas.
That loophole should now be closed but it may be too late for this patent.
Yet people continue to buy Blackberry and use the full keyboard on it. People still buy Android phones with full hard keyboards. I only just retired mine, in favour of an Xperia Play, a phone with around 20 keys mostly dedicated to game play and it's a hell of a lot better than trying to play with touch controls. Apple haven't eliminated phones with 'thousands of keys' because sometimes a lot of keys works better.
And that assumes Apple invented touchscreen phones, which the didn't - there were touch screen smartphones on sale before the iPhone was even announced.
Apple did touch control well and they patented the life out if it but they didn't actually invent very much. Apple are just as brazen as Microsoft about stealing other peoples research and passing it off as their own.
The problem is very few mobiles properly implement the existing power saving modes, there's little chance they'll retrofit this new mode.
The arithmetic doesn't work out in its favour either. This is essentially a low latency power saving mode. But for 18 hours a day the phone will be sleeping and so should its WiFi. For the 8 active hours you're unlikely to be continuously hammering WiFi and it should be in an existing power saving mode perhaps 6-7 of those hours. The power saving is likely to be 5-10% at best.
It's an idea that could give a small incremental saving but would probably end up displacing one of the existing deeper saving modes and end up just improving latency for the same power cost.
The VideoCore vector core is an astounding source of MIPS, albeit 16bit ones. It's a real pity Broadcom hide it behind high level libraries and don't give the manuals out easily. If pi manages to expose a 16way4K register SIMD device to eager programmers magical things could happen. And there must be distributed apps able to use massive integer performance out there.
It's a hell of a lot of fun writing for it and really instructive in managed caching and data flow to keep the unit fed. Training a new generation of programmers those skills has to be a winner.
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The problem is that far too many now believe that patents exist to reward inventors. The absolute nonsense many patent supporters spout makes perfect sense if you start from that position, including the absolute disrespect for end users.
Large parts of the legal system and industry need to be forcibly reminded that rewarding inventors is the mechanism, not the purpose and if the mechanism is not working to further the real purpose, then it needs changing. In software that mechanism isn't just broken, it's unneeded.
800Mhz has much better propagation than 1.9/2.1Ghz, that's partly why they're so keen to grab these frequencies for it. Whilst it won't turn O2 into a real phone company, it should massively improve reception almost everywhere. Just a pity we'll all need new phones to use it.
If you want working 3G, stop pissing your money away on O2, a company only upgrading their 3G support because the alternative was losing their licence for failing to hit any coverage targets. Unfortunately the regulator doesn't seem to have compelled them to install any backhaul so coverage improvements aren't matched by available bandwidth!
Zombie lawyers are harder.
Compare the novel legal theories in SCO vs the world and Oracle vs Google. Looks like BS&F just took the SCO claims, changed a few words and threw them at Google. Even when SCO are finally salted and burned, the zombie plague continues over at Oracle, spread by the infected fscking lawyers.
SCO missed the deadline on Project Monterrey claims and a great deal of the dancing they did was to drag Monterrey in by any means, foul or fouler. I almost wish that had worked since we already know IBM cancelled the contract *because* the scumbags bought the company, triggering the right to terminate. Watching Boies try to talk around that would have been hilarious.
Except you failed to establish its vaccination causing mortality. The smart money's on the vaccination rate reflecting the disease prevalence and variety, more diseases that need vaccination against.
I didn't need vaccination for smallpox, since it was extinct here before I was born. But I had the vaccine as a child before travelling abroad where it wasn't extinct yet. You can bet I'll have any advised protection if I ever head somewhere tropical. More disease is the cause of both mortality and the medical response to disease.
If only we could make Google think for dumb fucks using it.
1: WTF makes you think this represents even a small fraction of the money being spent. Spread it thin, compartmentalise funding into unconnected cells and it's so much easier to hide the real scale of the scheme. What works for terrorists works for corporations.
2: If the denial backers had to pay anything like as much as the actual research costs, they'd be spending it on mitigation tech and taking the profit later. Right now its still cheaper to stall anything that threatens their profits. Wrecking the planet is usually cheaper than not.
Make no mistake, the tech research solutions proposed 25 years ago would now be paying off, making billionaires of the successful implementers and giving the rest of us the energy we crave. Best of all that would be true whatever you believe about anthropogenic climate change. But crucially, dethroning any incumbent rich that declined to take part. That's why we're up shit creek now, their profit margin depended on no-one else taking their business and the cheapest solution was stalling change.
How do you propose Nokia will do anything now most of the engineers were either sacked, walked or were transferred out of Nokia along with the IP?
Nokia were up shit creek bereft of paddles before MS infiltrated them, with engineers incapable of finishing any of their new OS projects. MS and WP7 just took away the boat as well and put concrete boots on the company.
The history probe may be parallel but the overall compression isn't because those searches still have to be serially executed - until the probe completes you don't know how much input was consumed or what to start the next probe with. The parallelism doesn't scale beyond speeding up the serial steps.
The same applies to decoding variable length codes. I have SIMD accelerated yanking the next huffman code from a bitstream but I have to know where the 1st bit is to perform the detection. The overall loop is still resolutely serial.
AFAIK there are no lossless compression algorithms able to break that serialism without compromising compression rates.
...and we can expect change to lead to conflict. Even if the changes all balance or even prove beneficial on average, there will still be mass migration of the losers. If the winners succeed in keeping the losers out of their territory there will be war.
Maybe I'm mistaken but I get the impression most of the climate deniers are also rabidly opposed to immigration or any sharing of their privileged share of the planet with foreigners. Such a pity their denial will trigger exactly what they hate.
You do realise Google are in trouble because they couldn't licence J2SE for phones (Sun/Oracle wouldn't allow it), J2ME is too limited for what they wanted to do and so Android is NOT based on it.
This is the direct fallout of Sun's policy of barring J2SE use on mobile by withholding the tools needed to certify it.
Are you sure the research delivered, because avoiding gc still gives a huge performance boost in most apps. You might not notice on your nGhz PC but you will on your phone.
I bought a 5MP Kodak camera long ago as an upgrade from a Konica Minolta X20 (very tiny 3MP digicam - wife's still using it). Immediately discovered the highest quality settings on the Kodak were worse than the lowest quality settings on the X20, worse even comparing 3MP vs 5MP images. So badly compressed you could see the artefacts even on the camera LCD. Went back the same day.
Kodak were so intent on protecting their film business they never took digicams seriously and ruined their own business by crippling their own cameras. They deserve to die, no-one killed them, it was suicide.
OK, can't expect a colonial to know she's a TV presenter on childrens programme "Blue Peter" and part of the job description is doing this sort of stunt. Or to notice the BBC are getting 9 weeks of possibly inspiring kiddies TV out of it. Can't even expect you to recognise the name 'Sport Relief' at the end of the article.
But completely missing the charity fund raising aspect (the Sport Relief bit)? You didn't read the article did you?
Lot's of reasons she's doing this, getting her name in the record books AGAIN is the least of them.
I would hope FaceBook never gets more integrated into Android. Took me 3 passes just finding all the FB integration apps on my Xperia Play and root to actually remove them all. But at least I could clear the infestation...
Yep, if you paid more than $5 for the phone it can run Java (unless Steve Jobs said NO!), but only the really desperate access the net with one and almost none knowingly install or run any Java apps beyond what the device shipped with. I tested net access on my fathers feature phone and it was painfully, unusably slow. On a sad JaveME based 'china phone' it was still far too bad to actually use, even over WiFi.
JavaME is a ubiquitous tech that no-one knowingly chooses to use. That's not a story, that's just a reminder Android did the right thing avoiding this steaming pile of mediocrity.
Many of the OSS people they hope to attract are already busy porting Android to the TouchPad. By waiting till Android is nearing a usable release to open source WebOS they've lost those devs.
The hardware is appealing but the software EOL, the replacement already arriving and no-one seems very interested in any WebOS device that's not in a fire sale. Too little, too late.
Luckily the encryption is simply a 'secret' huffman table and already available for MythTV, MediaPortal and I guess every other OSS PVR software usable in the UK. It's almost as if the secrecy was about BSing the rights holders knowing full well there was no actual protection in place...
For reference here's the top 10 install breakdown for my giffgaff Android app, showing Samsung and HTC neck&neck with HTC just a little ahead. giffgaff is a SIM only MVNO, they don't sell phones so these numbers have a large component of customer choice, though box breaking has a big influence.
1 ZTE Blade 19.7% (1,460)
2 HTC Wildfire 9.9% (735)
3 Samsung Galaxy S2 8.0% (595)
4 HTC Desire 6.6% (486)
5 Samsung Galaxy S 4.4% (327)
6 Samsung Galaxy 3 4.3% (320)
7 HTC Desire HD 3.8% (281)
8 Samsung Europa 3.0% (225)
9 HTC Wildfire S 2.1% (157)
10 Samsung Galaxy Ace 2.0% (151)
Really only useful as a HTC vs Samsung comparison because:
: some Android devices don't need the app so all Sony Ericsson, some LG and most phones running 3rd party firmware are under represented
: the ZTE Blade is absurdly cheap here (£69-100 unlocked), box broken from Orange
: the stats are cumulative over more than a year but do represent current active installs
Interesting trends are LG completely vanishing from that list several months ago and Samsung have almost caught up with HTC, HTC used to dominate the list. Bear in mind though that Samsung has been heavily discounted here in the UK for the last year, HTC much less so.
Even in the screwed up, carrier controlled US market I find it very easy to believe HTC selling as well as claimed.
How is it possible for the USPTO to grant the patent when there is prior art (which doesn't matter where it was done first)?
Before the America Invents changes the US patent system habitually ignored foreign prior art. Where they did consider it the 12 month window between invention and publication worked for US inventors and allowed them to grab patents on already published ideas.
That loophole should now be closed but it may be too late for this patent.
Yet people continue to buy Blackberry and use the full keyboard on it. People still buy Android phones with full hard keyboards. I only just retired mine, in favour of an Xperia Play, a phone with around 20 keys mostly dedicated to game play and it's a hell of a lot better than trying to play with touch controls. Apple haven't eliminated phones with 'thousands of keys' because sometimes a lot of keys works better. And that assumes Apple invented touchscreen phones, which the didn't - there were touch screen smartphones on sale before the iPhone was even announced. Apple did touch control well and they patented the life out if it but they didn't actually invent very much. Apple are just as brazen as Microsoft about stealing other peoples research and passing it off as their own.
The problem is very few mobiles properly implement the existing power saving modes, there's little chance they'll retrofit this new mode.
The arithmetic doesn't work out in its favour either. This is essentially a low latency power saving mode. But for 18 hours a day the phone will be sleeping and so should its WiFi. For the 8 active hours you're unlikely to be continuously hammering WiFi and it should be in an existing power saving mode perhaps 6-7 of those hours. The power saving is likely to be 5-10% at best.
It's an idea that could give a small incremental saving but would probably end up displacing one of the existing deeper saving modes and end up just improving latency for the same power cost.
The VideoCore vector core is an astounding source of MIPS, albeit 16bit ones. It's a real pity Broadcom hide it behind high level libraries and don't give the manuals out easily. If pi manages to expose a 16way4K register SIMD device to eager programmers magical things could happen. And there must be distributed apps able to use massive integer performance out there.
It's a hell of a lot of fun writing for it and really instructive in managed caching and data flow to keep the unit fed. Training a new generation of programmers those skills has to be a winner.