When you are programming think about how often you use code completion because you can't remember parameter order, and how often you google stuff because you can't remember the exact class/function name. This lets you "google" without leaving the page, and cuts down on the amount of typing necessary. The fact that they allow you to refine the interpretation is what really makes this the difference between a frustrating and smooth experience.
The Windows Phone 7 operating system treats the SD card as an integrated part of the phone. This is in contrast to other devices, where you can use an SD card to increase the memory available to the device at any time or to transfer files to other devices,” the page reads.
To me this sounds like they are creating a disk pool that treats the internal memory and SD card as single logical volume, like LVM on Linux. In that case, even if other operating systems understood the formatting, it would be like yanking a single drive from a RAID array and expecting to get meaningful data off of it. It's possible in the forensic sense, but the data is incomplete and that's not how it is meant to be used.
I agree that you could probably reformat again, but they really should have been more upfront about the fact that sticking an SD card in a Windows Phone will result in permanent data loss.
Samsung have documented the feature for the Focus, saying that inserting a MicroSD card into a Windows Phone can be considered a “pernament modification” adding ”it will no longer be readable or writable on any other devices such as computers, cameras, printers, and so on”.
The two sources quoted (Samsung and MS) aren't contradictory. Given these two (incomplete) statements, I would guess that Windows Phone is formatting the card using some sort of disk pooling scheme, similar to LVM, and thus the data on the card is only meaningful as part of the entire pool. This may not be truly permanent from the point of view that you might be able to reformat the card, but it is permanent in the sense that any data that was on there before has been lost for good.
Yeah, and if we want people to stay we really need to change our immigration laws. As it is now, we are all but forcing them out of the country once their student visa expires. If someone is here on a student visa and they complete a degree they should automatically be given a green card. I had a friend who had lived in the states for longer than they have lived in their country of citizenship, and had to keep bouncing between student visas and H1Bs as the wait list for green cards was so long.
Here is another article by them about rampant fraud in China's research. More power to Brazil and other countries that are legitimately improving their scientific establishment rather than faking it till they make it.
This is a measure of how much people are talking about a language online, not a measure of how many jobs there are for it. I don't think that there are many jobs available for NXT-G despite it being a fast riser:)
Agreed. What surprised me was the fact that they ditched the Sidekick branding to begin with. Even after the data loss incident, that phone has massive positive name recognition, so I can't see why they on earth they would stop using it. Then again everything about how they handled the Danger acquisition has been incompetent.
Except that many, if not most, security holes come from the interactions between components, and are not contained within any single component. This is exasperated by the fact that many legacy systems don't have well-defined interfaces or their behavior does not meet the documentation. When you run up against a hole caused by crappy documentation, you can pound the table all you want about how the bug is in the legacy system, but the fact is that the introduction of your code made the system as a whole less secure. In the end that is what matters - the entire system, not just your part - and it is hard to build a secure system with buggy parts.
Nokia has announced there will be no more high end phones (higher than the N8) that will run Symbian, they will all run Meego.
That has been heavily reported, but it is flat out wrong. They announced that the N8 is the last high-end phone to run Symbian^3 - future phones will run Meego or Symbian^4: source.
The XD|S model has optical audio, as well as component video for those of us that bought high quality systems before HDMI was widely available. Unfortunately there aren't enough of us around to justify putting those on the base model where saving cost is high priority, so we have to fork out for the high-end model.
Here is a good article about the original antitrust settlement.
Basically, Intel refuses to license it's new DMI or QPI bus protocols to NVIDIA, so they can no longer make chipsets for intel processors (like nForce). Furthermore, it has been feared that with the push towards systems on chip, that Intel would eliminate the PCI-e bus as well leaving no way for any graphic company to supply a discrete graphics chip for netbook or notebook computers.
This is stupid. The designators 2G 3G 4G have never been anything but simplistic marketing terms for grouping protocols with similar relative performance relative. LTE and WiMax both deliver significant improvements over previous technologies, so they need some designator to describe this to the general public. ITU drew an arbitrary line that excludes these technologies from being called 4G, while incremental improvements on them (LTE Advanced) do qualify. Why should a major upgrade be given a.5 designator, while minor improvement on that increments the major number?
These networks aren't any less capable as a result of ITUs announcement - it is the term 4G that is now less useful.
Has anyone tried clearing cookies and filling out the form again in the same browser? Or filling the form in the same browser but at a different IP? Or they could have a load balancer and the result varies according to which server you get.
I have never tried to get a car loan online, but my experience with mortgages is that the advertised rate they give you online is completely pulled out of their ass, and has no resemblance to the final rate they actually give you. Of course by the time they tell you the actual rate you don't have time to get a different loan and meet the purchase timeline you have agreed to with the homeowner.
There are good politicians. Not all of them are hopelessly corrupt. You are just too lazy to do the research.
Yes, there are some. In all the years that I have been voting, I can think of three politicians that I voted for because I actually liked them. The rest of the votes that I have cast have been for the lesser of n evils. There are only two 3rd party candidates running this year, and they are worse than the major parties. There used to be more, but the Greens upset a governor election 16 years back, and since then the Democrats have made this state the most hostile to 3rd parties in the entire country. Then on top of that, the Secretary of State flat out commits election fraud and refuses to put them on the ballot even when they do meet the requirements. Then gets re-elected. We don't even get the option of writing a candidate in.
I do think that voting for the lesser of two evils is better than not voting. But that's all it is. No amount of research on my part will let me vote for candidates that aren't on the ballot. If you want to have more impact than that you need to look beyond the ballot box.
Sure, back when the space agency was pushing the cutting edge it resulted in the development of a large amount of new technology. But is that really true today, now that we are just applying tried and true principles? I haven't heard of a single invention that came out of the ISS which has made it's way into the civilian marketplace.
Furthermore, if building anything high tech will result in new tech, then doesn't it make sense to choose goals that are useful and worthwhile by themselves, over something that is a waste of money - we are getting the same indirect return either way.
No - executive agreements are limited in that they can only agree to things which the executive already has the power to enforce (ie things that are already laws). In this case, ACTA basically amounted to exporting the DMCA to other countries, thus administration took the point of view that no changes to the law were needed to enforce this agreement; thus it did not need to be treated as a treaty or need any congressional ratification.
These law scholars are arguing that the current draft does have sections that differ from our current laws and thus new legislation needs to be passed to uphold the treaty.
Personally, I think the idea of executive agreements are still a bad idea, as it is much harder to change the law after it has been enshrined in a treaty (by any name), so congress should have some say in whether the existing law is cemented like that.
I agree with all of that, but it has nothing to do with Black-Man's post. In fact the entire problem here is that they did "make these packages available to everyone" in a manner that they weren't allowed.
So, is it just me, or does anyone else conclude that Oracle really doesn't understand the licensing basis of their own copyrighted API codebase?
OpenJDK is released under the GPL. The android versions of the libraries have had the license changed to Apache v2.0. That is a legitimate copyright infringement. It looks like an isolated case where someone copied the file to use for testing, but who knows why they changed the license. Someone in the android development team screwed up.
See this groklaw comment for direct links to the files in the repositories.
An AC below pointed me to an article at zdnet that has a copy of the complaint and excerpts of the exhibits.
The one example listed is in PolicyNodeImpl: OpenJDK version, Android version. It was released under the GPL as part of the OpenJDK, but the license has been changed to Apache 2.0 in the Android version. Unless the original author authorized this, that is not kosher. I can't find in in the HEAD of the Harmony repository. Also note that it appears in a test directory of the Android tree - probably included to test against their own implementation.
Do you have access to the court filings? If so, please post them. This latest one isn't up on Groklaw yet, and I would be interested in more detail than the linked article.
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When you are programming think about how often you use code completion because you can't remember parameter order, and how often you google stuff because you can't remember the exact class/function name. This lets you "google" without leaving the page, and cuts down on the amount of typing necessary. The fact that they allow you to refine the interpretation is what really makes this the difference between a frustrating and smooth experience.
The Windows Phone 7 operating system treats the SD card as an integrated part of the phone. This is in contrast to other devices, where you can use an SD card to increase the memory available to the device at any time or to transfer files to other devices,” the page reads.
To me this sounds like they are creating a disk pool that treats the internal memory and SD card as single logical volume, like LVM on Linux. In that case, even if other operating systems understood the formatting, it would be like yanking a single drive from a RAID array and expecting to get meaningful data off of it. It's possible in the forensic sense, but the data is incomplete and that's not how it is meant to be used.
I agree that you could probably reformat again, but they really should have been more upfront about the fact that sticking an SD card in a Windows Phone will result in permanent data loss.
Samsung have documented the feature for the Focus, saying that inserting a MicroSD card into a Windows Phone can be considered a “pernament modification” adding ”it will no longer be readable or writable on any other devices such as computers, cameras, printers, and so on”.
The two sources quoted (Samsung and MS) aren't contradictory. Given these two (incomplete) statements, I would guess that Windows Phone is formatting the card using some sort of disk pooling scheme, similar to LVM, and thus the data on the card is only meaningful as part of the entire pool. This may not be truly permanent from the point of view that you might be able to reformat the card, but it is permanent in the sense that any data that was on there before has been lost for good.
Yeah, and if we want people to stay we really need to change our immigration laws. As it is now, we are all but forcing them out of the country once their student visa expires. If someone is here on a student visa and they complete a degree they should automatically be given a green card. I had a friend who had lived in the states for longer than they have lived in their country of citizenship, and had to keep bouncing between student visas and H1Bs as the wait list for green cards was so long.
Here is another article by them about rampant fraud in China's research. More power to Brazil and other countries that are legitimately improving their scientific establishment rather than faking it till they make it.
This is a measure of how much people are talking about a language online, not a measure of how many jobs there are for it. I don't think that there are many jobs available for NXT-G despite it being a fast riser :)
Agreed. What surprised me was the fact that they ditched the Sidekick branding to begin with. Even after the data loss incident, that phone has massive positive name recognition, so I can't see why they on earth they would stop using it. Then again everything about how they handled the Danger acquisition has been incompetent.
Each of those three AC wires still has potential relative to ground. They only need to tap into one and use an appropriate transformer.
Except that many, if not most, security holes come from the interactions between components, and are not contained within any single component. This is exasperated by the fact that many legacy systems don't have well-defined interfaces or their behavior does not meet the documentation. When you run up against a hole caused by crappy documentation, you can pound the table all you want about how the bug is in the legacy system, but the fact is that the introduction of your code made the system as a whole less secure. In the end that is what matters - the entire system, not just your part - and it is hard to build a secure system with buggy parts.
Nokia has announced there will be no more high end phones (higher than the N8) that will run Symbian, they will all run Meego.
That has been heavily reported, but it is flat out wrong. They announced that the N8 is the last high-end phone to run Symbian^3 - future phones will run Meego or Symbian^4: source.
Yep, part of the import address book feature is to invite every person in your address book to be your friend whether they are on facebook or not.
That is assuming you are signed up for facebook. Given his stance on the issue, I think it's safe to say that mystik does not use facebook.
The XD|S model has optical audio, as well as component video for those of us that bought high quality systems before HDMI was widely available. Unfortunately there aren't enough of us around to justify putting those on the base model where saving cost is high priority, so we have to fork out for the high-end model.
Here is a good article about the original antitrust settlement.
Basically, Intel refuses to license it's new DMI or QPI bus protocols to NVIDIA, so they can no longer make chipsets for intel processors (like nForce). Furthermore, it has been feared that with the push towards systems on chip, that Intel would eliminate the PCI-e bus as well leaving no way for any graphic company to supply a discrete graphics chip for netbook or notebook computers.
Both sound and client-side data storage are features of HTML5.
This is stupid. The designators 2G 3G 4G have never been anything but simplistic marketing terms for grouping protocols with similar relative performance relative. LTE and WiMax both deliver significant improvements over previous technologies, so they need some designator to describe this to the general public. ITU drew an arbitrary line that excludes these technologies from being called 4G, while incremental improvements on them (LTE Advanced) do qualify. Why should a major upgrade be given a .5 designator, while minor improvement on that increments the major number?
These networks aren't any less capable as a result of ITUs announcement - it is the term 4G that is now less useful.
Has anyone tried clearing cookies and filling out the form again in the same browser? Or filling the form in the same browser but at a different IP? Or they could have a load balancer and the result varies according to which server you get.
I have never tried to get a car loan online, but my experience with mortgages is that the advertised rate they give you online is completely pulled out of their ass, and has no resemblance to the final rate they actually give you. Of course by the time they tell you the actual rate you don't have time to get a different loan and meet the purchase timeline you have agreed to with the homeowner.
There are good politicians. Not all of them are hopelessly corrupt. You are just too lazy to do the research.
Yes, there are some. In all the years that I have been voting, I can think of three politicians that I voted for because I actually liked them. The rest of the votes that I have cast have been for the lesser of n evils. There are only two 3rd party candidates running this year, and they are worse than the major parties. There used to be more, but the Greens upset a governor election 16 years back, and since then the Democrats have made this state the most hostile to 3rd parties in the entire country. Then on top of that, the Secretary of State flat out commits election fraud and refuses to put them on the ballot even when they do meet the requirements. Then gets re-elected. We don't even get the option of writing a candidate in.
I do think that voting for the lesser of two evils is better than not voting. But that's all it is. No amount of research on my part will let me vote for candidates that aren't on the ballot. If you want to have more impact than that you need to look beyond the ballot box.
Sure, back when the space agency was pushing the cutting edge it resulted in the development of a large amount of new technology. But is that really true today, now that we are just applying tried and true principles? I haven't heard of a single invention that came out of the ISS which has made it's way into the civilian marketplace.
Furthermore, if building anything high tech will result in new tech, then doesn't it make sense to choose goals that are useful and worthwhile by themselves, over something that is a waste of money - we are getting the same indirect return either way.
No - executive agreements are limited in that they can only agree to things which the executive already has the power to enforce (ie things that are already laws). In this case, ACTA basically amounted to exporting the DMCA to other countries, thus administration took the point of view that no changes to the law were needed to enforce this agreement; thus it did not need to be treated as a treaty or need any congressional ratification.
These law scholars are arguing that the current draft does have sections that differ from our current laws and thus new legislation needs to be passed to uphold the treaty.
Personally, I think the idea of executive agreements are still a bad idea, as it is much harder to change the law after it has been enshrined in a treaty (by any name), so congress should have some say in whether the existing law is cemented like that.
I agree with all of that, but it has nothing to do with Black-Man's post. In fact the entire problem here is that they did "make these packages available to everyone" in a manner that they weren't allowed.
The android version of the file has had the license changed to Apache v2.0.
I worded that poorly.
So, is it just me, or does anyone else conclude that Oracle really doesn't understand the licensing basis of their own copyrighted API codebase?
OpenJDK is released under the GPL. The android versions of the libraries have had the license changed to Apache v2.0. That is a legitimate copyright infringement. It looks like an isolated case where someone copied the file to use for testing, but who knows why they changed the license. Someone in the android development team screwed up.
See this groklaw comment for direct links to the files in the repositories.
An AC below pointed me to an article at zdnet that has a copy of the complaint and excerpts of the exhibits.
The one example listed is in PolicyNodeImpl: OpenJDK version, Android version.
It was released under the GPL as part of the OpenJDK, but the license has been changed to Apache 2.0 in the Android version. Unless the original author authorized this, that is not kosher. I can't find in in the HEAD of the Harmony repository. Also note that it appears in a test directory of the Android tree - probably included to test against their own implementation.
Do you have access to the court filings? If so, please post them. This latest one isn't up on Groklaw yet, and I would be interested in more detail than the linked article.