The native API is Java-based, Android applications run under the JVM, and you can't expect to run anything but Java applications on Android. It's not a "Linux phone", it's a "Java phone" that happens to use Linux in its implementation.
Partly correct, except it won't use the JVM. It will use a different virtual machine called Dalvik, so that they can get around Sun's ridiculous JME licensing, MIDP profiles, and everything else that sucks about running midlets on phones today (such as the overzealous security restrictions that keep me from easily running a program I wrote on my own phone.)
One of the things that bugs me about Fedora is that by the time they have historically cobbled a release together, the packages they have elected to include are already a little aged. I recall being stuck on Firefox 1.5 for a very long time (simply because I wanted to keep with the distro without going to too many external sources in order to keep my RPM database as pure as possible) and the same goes for GNOME and OO.o and all sorts of things like that.
That's just how Fedora rolls. It's their policy (which owes to its Red Hat lineage) that they don't change major version numbers of any component within a release's lifecycle, with the intent that such a policy improves stability of the platform. Now there are certainly arguments to be made on whether that's a good policy, and it mostly comes down to personal preference, but if that's not your cup of tea then maybe Fedora isn't the distro for you.
That said, as you probably know there are some great 3rd party repos that do have the latest builds, or you can always grab the source RPM from the latest Fedora/Rawhide and compile, but obviously those options also have tradeoffs (both from a "purity"/compatibility standpoint, as well as living closer to the bleeding edge).
My point is that a distro's upstream inclusion/upgrade policy is one of the major things that sets it apart from the others, and if you're not happy with Fedora's specific policy then you may be interested in either looking at a new distro, or adjusting your expectation around needing to stay "pure".
PackageKit is actually a just a tool which sits on top of yum and does not replace it.
Depends on your definition of yum I guess. It does/can replace yum, the command-line tool, but does not replace the yum database. The wording is misleading though.
This actually isn't as insane or absurd as you wanted it to seem.
You see, the humor comes from the fact that his solution isn't 100% out of the realm of possibility. All geeks have been guilty of such pointless and absurd nostalgia at some point, which is why the mental image of someone actually devising and executing such a scheme to restore worthless data from a long-obsolete system is pretty funny. Or at least, it was funny until it's explained...
"well suited for children or users with limited computer experience" They are actively mocking the Linux community.
Yes, it sure is a far cry from their previous position on the price difference:
"Cost would be one of the reasons, but not the main one," Ho said in an e-mail. He then proceeded to trumpet the Linux-based system. "Also, [the] Linux version is our main Eee PC model with our unique interface, so the consumer not only can get the great and easy-to-use interface on the Linux version but extra storage space," Ho added.
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I am waiting for MSI Wind.
Me too, but I really wish they would put out some more info on pricing and launch date. I'm not gonna wait around forever; I may just say fsck it and get the eee 900 anyway if I don't hear more from them soon...
I am just really hoping that IBM, with all of its resources and its relative presence in this space, can give it to me...
I really don't see how replacing one closed, proprietary stack with another one gains anything. Sure, competition is good, and the Notes stack would have at least one free component, but until some company comes along with an enterprise grade mail/messaging/calendaring stack that is truly open source from bottom to top, I really can't get too excited about this.
This post demonstrates one of the most annoying habits of Slashdot, which is its tendency to assume that everyone already knows what the hell the article is referring to in the first place. WTF is a SPOT watch? Has it been discussed on Slashdot before? Sure, it's easy to Google it but would it kill the editors to add a link to a description or a prior article?
Wasting money on ensuring that your website works with an antiquated browser that only 25% of your potential customers use is stupid and unacceptable... unless the revenue generated by that 25% exceeds the cost of the additional development.
I agree. I design in Firefox, then test in IE7, Safari, and Opera, and finally make sure it isn't too broken in IE6. In fact, if it isn't broken enough in IE6, I'll use some hacks to make it a little more broken, along with prominent dire warnings about how they are using a broken browser that can't support the "advanced features" of my site and they need to upgrade.
Petty and immature? Yeah, probably. But IE6 made my life a living hell for plenty of years and now that it's no longer the dominant browser it makes me feel better to turn some of that pain right back around. If I can get just a small percentage of those 25% users to switch to a better browser, then I will have made the internet a bit better for everyone and that's definitely worth the lost customers I may have caused.
Its called the 'passing lane' and you could get pulled over and given a ticket if you thought it was amusing to be a smart ass by 'blocking' somebody in.
What state do you live in??
I consider myself a courteous and defensive driver but I usually drive 10-20 over the speed limit. I like to drive fast, what can I say? That said, I also let people in when they signal, I stay in the right lane unless I'm passing someone, and I try to anticipate what other drivers will do and act accordingly.
Just once I would love to see a cop ticket the assholes who drive the speed limit in the left lane. They are the ones who are a safety problem because they piss off myself and others who are trying to get by, so then we do something stupid to put you behind us. I'm going to get around you eventually, whether I do so by passing safely on the left as intended or I have to zip around your dumb ass on the right. (I say "you" in the non-specific sense of course...)
And don't even get me started on truckers... they used to be the best and most courteous drivers on the road but these days too many of them are arrogant jerks as well, driving 55 in the left lane for miles because they're too lazy to get over...
We all know how close Cuba is to Florida, maybe they *meant* to vote No but really voted Yes, and the ISO committee couldn't agree on whether the chad was hanging or just dimpled.
OOXML cant kill ODF, because ODF is open, and OOXML isnt. People who want to guarantee access to their documents in perpetuity (eg legitimate governments) cannot use OOXML because it cannot meet their needs.... it may take a while for the smoke and mirrors to clear, but in the end, the truth will out.
And you, sir, live in a dream world where corrupt and/or clueless politicians, shady back-room deals, and money-trumps-all reality don't exist.
Yes, that's a very real concern that the secret service has been terrified of for years. Most people know that Cheney has a pacemaker, but the real secret is that they forgot to turn off SSID broadcast and its password is "Linksys".
I hate that when you click "view source", it reloads the page. I loagged this and was told that storing the page's source was a waste of memory. Forget that no other browser behaves that way. Forget that it's about 10k in the 200mb of ram used. Forget that it can be cached to disk.
I could have sworn that this used to happen to me but then when I tried to explicitly reproduce it I couldn't. I did a "tail -f" on my apache log and when I viewed source in Firefox it didn't register another hit, not even a 304. Changing the HTTP headers to turn caching on or off had no effect.
Glad to know I wasn't going crazy in thinking it did this at one point but I can't reproduce it now. Maybe it's some combination of extensions that are causing the behavior? People are often quick to blame Firefox for "bugs" when it's really their extensions causing the problem. Does the issue still happen when in "Safe Mode" (or a pristine profile) in the latest FF2?
From the Damn Interesting article:...and some of these lines remained in operation until 1953. Ultimately, however, trucks proved more efficient at information-moving than the series of tubes.
Ha! How wrong they were! Everyone knows that series of tubes are much more efficient than big trucks.
For those who don't read Damn Interesting regularly, I would bet that the tongue-in-cheek, geeky double meaning of that sentence was entirely intentional. Their articles are not only damn interesting but also very cleverly written. I highly suggest adding them to your RSS reader or browsing through their archives for a good weekly-or-so dose of enjoyable articles on all kindsa crazy shit.
Wow... I hope there are no existing web pages that happen to use the CSS class name "hslice" for anything, otherwise they're in for an unpleasant surprise when IE8 begins interpreting them in their own special way!
So now the whole "IE8 will break existing sites" discussion comes into clearer focus. Microsoft's definition of standards-compliant (which should surprise no one I guess) is that their proprietary "extensions" now happen to be (X)HTML compliant.
"While we do not believe there are currently any legal requirements that would dictate which rendering mode must be chosen as the default for a given browser, this step clearly removes this question as a potential legal and regulatory issue"
They aren't putting their neck on the line... it's already there.:)
It's a trap! First Microsoft lures us all into using interoperable web standards, and then... then.... shit, I can't figure out how they can use this for evil. Gimme a sec...
I agree, I should have mentioned them in my summary but I think there are several things lacking in that project, such as the peer review / moderation / trust system. It's also not possible to download that data into my GPS, or at least not in a way I could figure out. And even if it were, it lacks the "auto-routing" data that would make features such as driving directions possible. Plus, while it's possible to upload traces from my GPS, it doesn't seem like it's possible to import those directly to the map (maybe that's not correct but I'm admittedly not familiar w/ that process).
Stop funding Israel (whether you're for or against it, how many lives should we lose supporting a religious war?), remove our bases from sensitive areas, and stop parking our aircraft carriers off the coasts of hostile countries. Maybe we could spend some of that money fixing our health care problems, preventing car crashes, researching alternative energy, or *gasp* paying down our debt.
So your position is that if we do all those things, we'll stop being a target for terrorists? You don't think that maybe lots of them will continue to hate us anyway simply because we have religious and personal freedom?
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-ActMoreLike" content="FireFox"/> Depends on whether you're delivering via HTML or XHTML. The latter, being case-sensitive, won't know that "FireFox" should be "Firefox".
to be standards compliant, web pages have to incorporate a non-standard tag?
You don't have to include the tag. You can use a server-side user-agent browser sniffing check to see whether or not to include the IE-specific meta tag hack!
Of course, the really funny part is that the whole reason they're doing this is that too many people misused the DOCTYPE declaration in the first place -- declaring that their pages should use Strict rendering when in fact they used the old IE6 hacks. So who wants to bet that MS will need to introduce another browser hack for IE9 because too many web developers set this new hack to "IE=edge" or whatever to be "future-proof"?
As they say, make something idiot-proof, and the universe will just invent better idiots. The only problem is that MS feels the compelling urge to cater to these new, improved, uber-idiots.
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Partly correct, except it won't use the JVM. It will use a different virtual machine called Dalvik, so that they can get around Sun's ridiculous JME licensing, MIDP profiles, and everything else that sucks about running midlets on phones today (such as the overzealous security restrictions that keep me from easily running a program I wrote on my own phone.)
That's just how Fedora rolls. It's their policy (which owes to its Red Hat lineage) that they don't change major version numbers of any component within a release's lifecycle, with the intent that such a policy improves stability of the platform. Now there are certainly arguments to be made on whether that's a good policy, and it mostly comes down to personal preference, but if that's not your cup of tea then maybe Fedora isn't the distro for you.
That said, as you probably know there are some great 3rd party repos that do have the latest builds, or you can always grab the source RPM from the latest Fedora/Rawhide and compile, but obviously those options also have tradeoffs (both from a "purity"/compatibility standpoint, as well as living closer to the bleeding edge).
My point is that a distro's upstream inclusion/upgrade policy is one of the major things that sets it apart from the others, and if you're not happy with Fedora's specific policy then you may be interested in either looking at a new distro, or adjusting your expectation around needing to stay "pure".
Depends on your definition of yum I guess. It does/can replace yum, the command-line tool, but does not replace the yum database. The wording is misleading though.
Judging by how well the NSA.gov website is (not) handling being Slashdotted, I'm guessing that's exactly what they did.
You see, the humor comes from the fact that his solution isn't 100% out of the realm of possibility. All geeks have been guilty of such pointless and absurd nostalgia at some point, which is why the mental image of someone actually devising and executing such a scheme to restore worthless data from a long-obsolete system is pretty funny. Or at least, it was funny until it's explained...
Yes, it sure is a far cry from their previous position on the price difference:
"Cost would be one of the reasons, but not the main one," Ho said in an e-mail. He then proceeded to trumpet the Linux-based system. "Also, [the] Linux version is our main Eee PC model with our unique interface, so the consumer not only can get the great and easy-to-use interface on the Linux version but extra storage space," Ho added....
I am waiting for MSI Wind.Me too, but I really wish they would put out some more info on pricing and launch date. I'm not gonna wait around forever; I may just say fsck it and get the eee 900 anyway if I don't hear more from them soon...
Not only that, it will probably count as a Vista sale!
I really don't see how replacing one closed, proprietary stack with another one gains anything. Sure, competition is good, and the Notes stack would have at least one free component, but until some company comes along with an enterprise grade mail/messaging/calendaring stack that is truly open source from bottom to top, I really can't get too excited about this.
This post demonstrates one of the most annoying habits of Slashdot, which is its tendency to assume that everyone already knows what the hell the article is referring to in the first place. WTF is a SPOT watch? Has it been discussed on Slashdot before? Sure, it's easy to Google it but would it kill the editors to add a link to a description or a prior article?
I agree. I design in Firefox, then test in IE7, Safari, and Opera, and finally make sure it isn't too broken in IE6. In fact, if it isn't broken enough in IE6, I'll use some hacks to make it a little more broken, along with prominent dire warnings about how they are using a broken browser that can't support the "advanced features" of my site and they need to upgrade.
Petty and immature? Yeah, probably. But IE6 made my life a living hell for plenty of years and now that it's no longer the dominant browser it makes me feel better to turn some of that pain right back around. If I can get just a small percentage of those 25% users to switch to a better browser, then I will have made the internet a bit better for everyone and that's definitely worth the lost customers I may have caused.
What state do you live in??
I consider myself a courteous and defensive driver but I usually drive 10-20 over the speed limit. I like to drive fast, what can I say? That said, I also let people in when they signal, I stay in the right lane unless I'm passing someone, and I try to anticipate what other drivers will do and act accordingly.
Just once I would love to see a cop ticket the assholes who drive the speed limit in the left lane. They are the ones who are a safety problem because they piss off myself and others who are trying to get by, so then we do something stupid to put you behind us. I'm going to get around you eventually, whether I do so by passing safely on the left as intended or I have to zip around your dumb ass on the right. (I say "you" in the non-specific sense of course...)
And don't even get me started on truckers... they used to be the best and most courteous drivers on the road but these days too many of them are arrogant jerks as well, driving 55 in the left lane for miles because they're too lazy to get over...
We all know how close Cuba is to Florida, maybe they *meant* to vote No but really voted Yes, and the ISO committee couldn't agree on whether the chad was hanging or just dimpled.
And you, sir, live in a dream world where corrupt and/or clueless politicians, shady back-room deals, and money-trumps-all reality don't exist.
How exactly did Microsoft force IE 8 on you?
Yes, that's a very real concern that the secret service has been terrified of for years. Most people know that Cheney has a pacemaker, but the real secret is that they forgot to turn off SSID broadcast and its password is "Linksys".
I could have sworn that this used to happen to me but then when I tried to explicitly reproduce it I couldn't. I did a "tail -f" on my apache log and when I viewed source in Firefox it didn't register another hit, not even a 304. Changing the HTTP headers to turn caching on or off had no effect.
Glad to know I wasn't going crazy in thinking it did this at one point but I can't reproduce it now. Maybe it's some combination of extensions that are causing the behavior? People are often quick to blame Firefox for "bugs" when it's really their extensions causing the problem. Does the issue still happen when in "Safe Mode" (or a pristine profile) in the latest FF2?
Ha! How wrong they were! Everyone knows that series of tubes are much more efficient than big trucks.
For those who don't read Damn Interesting regularly, I would bet that the tongue-in-cheek, geeky double meaning of that sentence was entirely intentional. Their articles are not only damn interesting but also very cleverly written. I highly suggest adding them to your RSS reader or browsing through their archives for a good weekly-or-so dose of enjoyable articles on all kindsa crazy shit.
Hardly. Reading the developer link reveals the following gem on an example for implementing WebSlices:
Wow... I hope there are no existing web pages that happen to use the CSS class name "hslice" for anything, otherwise they're in for an unpleasant surprise when IE8 begins interpreting them in their own special way!
So now the whole "IE8 will break existing sites" discussion comes into clearer focus. Microsoft's definition of standards-compliant (which should surprise no one I guess) is that their proprietary "extensions" now happen to be (X)HTML compliant.
You must not have read the press release!
"While we do not believe there are currently any legal requirements that would dictate which rendering mode must be chosen as the default for a given browser, this step clearly removes this question as a potential legal and regulatory issue"They aren't putting their neck on the line... it's already there. :)
It's a trap! First Microsoft lures us all into using interoperable web standards, and then... then.... shit, I can't figure out how they can use this for evil. Gimme a sec...
Just out of curiosity... were you able to type the phrase "partly open-source" with a straight face?
I agree, I should have mentioned them in my summary but I think there are several things lacking in that project, such as the peer review / moderation / trust system. It's also not possible to download that data into my GPS, or at least not in a way I could figure out. And even if it were, it lacks the "auto-routing" data that would make features such as driving directions possible. Plus, while it's possible to upload traces from my GPS, it doesn't seem like it's possible to import those directly to the map (maybe that's not correct but I'm admittedly not familiar w/ that process).
So your position is that if we do all those things, we'll stop being a target for terrorists? You don't think that maybe lots of them will continue to hate us anyway simply because we have religious and personal freedom?
You don't have to include the tag. You can use a server-side user-agent browser sniffing check to see whether or not to include the IE-specific meta tag hack!
Of course, the really funny part is that the whole reason they're doing this is that too many people misused the DOCTYPE declaration in the first place -- declaring that their pages should use Strict rendering when in fact they used the old IE6 hacks. So who wants to bet that MS will need to introduce another browser hack for IE9 because too many web developers set this new hack to "IE=edge" or whatever to be "future-proof"?
As they say, make something idiot-proof, and the universe will just invent better idiots. The only problem is that MS feels the compelling urge to cater to these new, improved, uber-idiots.