If they do things right, the baseband is a USB device and its driver in the kernel is open source. Considering that half tends to be an entire computer unto itself in most phones, there's no reason it can't be completely isolated logically, and allow a fully open source software stack on the OMAP.
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I don't think it's indicative of people wanting to mash things together, so much as finding it amusing when someone sticks every day objects (and sometimes expensive ones) into a blender and records the destruction that ensues.
Sames as the guys on youtube who stick shit in microwaves for extended periods of time to see what happens. It's purely the destructive impulse being satisfied.
There already have been comparisons against AMD, and AMD remains competitive with Intel's low end. Also, no one cares about the latest high-threads SPARC because you can't get a modern one for less than several thousand dollars. If you're in line for one of those you're looking at the XEON line which outright smokes AMD's Opterons, and probably running software that won't run on SPARC.
The IEEE fails to take into account something rather major here:
First, that sounds like a royal goddamn pain in the ass and I'm a freaking software engineer. There's a reason the iPod has been so popular.
They can be freely copied and distributed to anyone, but here's the trick: anyone who can view your content can also "steal" it irrevocably. The simple addition of a way to lose content instantly leads consumers to set up a "circle of trust" that can be as wide as they like but will not extend to total strangers on the Internet.'"
No it doesn't, it instantly leads to people who quickly and repeatedly lose access to things they pay for, as malicious script kiddies get into their machines that they've added to the latest and greatest botnet, copy the files off, and snag the key. I can see people jacking those keys being as popular as sniffing for world of warcraft accounts.
And it gets even more confusing:
. To access the content inside, however, you'll need the playkey, which is delivered to the buyer of a digital media file and lives within "tamper-protected circuit" inside some device (computer, cell phone, router) or online at a playkey bank account. Controlling the playkey means that you control the media, and you truly own it, since no part of the system needs to phone home, and it imposes no restrictions on copying (except for those that arise naturally from fear of loss).
So this key is moved into a tamper-protected circuit (irrelevant, no?) that is device exclusive. So you stick it in your phone so your music files only work there, or on your desktop and they only work there, or online and it's not even in your hands (but useless if you're not online) and this license can easily be moved around and if taken, fucks you permanently. But also somehow is magically secure enough that I can't just use it to decrypt the files and strip the DRM? And I can't somehow duplicate this key? What about key backups?
As dumb an idea as ever, I suggest the IEEE leave this one to rot in the dustbin, and stop letting the media companies push the tech industry around.
It's why most LCD TVs have special modes for game consoles. On my Sharp Aquos it's called "Vyper Drive" but all it does is turn off any processing and scaling, the result being no lag.
I have this setting active for several analog inputs and the input from my PC and I've had no issues at all with games of any kind on my HDTV.
Chips that can decode WMA, AAC, and MP3 are frequently used in devices like this to save power. And "WAV" is just a container that tends to store raw PCM.
This phone is a giant step in the right direction, but it's still not the 'dream platform' for open source development.
It's a Debian based distro with a root prompt you don't have to work to get at, and has apt installed. It's far, far more a dream platform than OpenMoko ever was.
There could be aspects of the Vorbis codec that are patented, but no one knows as no one (for good reason) is looking. VP3 was written well before it became Theora, and unfortunately is in the bad position of being inefficient.
But let's consider what we don't have because of patents? How about wavelet compression, and the adoption of JPEG2000? Completely ground to a halt as one company holds a slew of patents over it.
Yes, patents force people to work around them. They're stuck reinventing the wheel, poorly, and remain at risk of patent suits. The problem with software patents is they're either so stupidly simple that everyone runs over them (and strive to remain ignorant of having done so, to lessen any possible damages) or are so vague that they cover huge swaths, denying entire fields and crippling compatibility.
Good to see that IBM has no clue what they're talking about. Patents most certainly have not fueled the explosive growth of open source software, the open nature of the licenses and community have. But go ahead and misrepresent the open source community IBM, for your own sake.
Patents sit as an ever present threat that threatens to push development outside of software patent permitting countries, and makes software that is known to violate them into seriously gray territory. I also don't see how a patent, something with the sole purpose of denying use of the described mechanism to others, could possibly aid open source.
I suppose that would fall under the category of collateral damage, and they're probably expecting everyone within sight of the target to be, well, "The Enemy(tm)."
Because with corporations the size of Sony, the left hand has no clue what the right one is doing until the right hand comes along and demands useless copy protection schemes be pasted all over.
our society hasn't cast its collective conscience's vote yet on what attitude to adopt toward human euthanasia.
Well, if you went by the philosophies under which the US was founded then it's no one's business but the person seeking death. The problem are the religious busybodies who feel the need to butt in and interfere with people's decisions for the sake of their personal moral gratification.
For like 25 centuries doctors have been swearing the Hippocratic oath, which explicitly states "do no harm."
Is not forcing someone to live in pain, with no dignity, not causing harm? Is it truly harm if the person is granted the relief they desire? Have you hurt anyone?
anyone petitioning for euthanasia is acting irrationally...
Are they now? If there's no reasonable expectation of a cure for some terminal disease and the inevitable result is crippling disability, pain, and death, who are you to say someone who wishes to book early, preserving their dignity, is acting irrationally?
Could it not be argued that those willing to spend every last cent to stay alive, no matter how debilitating and painful life may become before death, are themselves acting irrationally?
On an unrelated note, the first quote of this paragraph was, before I previewed it, enclosed with the "blockbuster" tag. Please, anyone, tell me what I was thinking?
Pintos were also at risk of being exposed to considerably higher forces, and had a design flaw capable of killing people despite having survived an accident.
This situation is completely unrelated, as flaws like this are not only not unique to apple, but result from either user mishandling of the device or one in several hundred thousand built. On top of that, it doesn't sound like anyone was actively harmed.
But of course, feel free to pursue safety guidelines above and beyond what already exist. Enjoy the massive price increases that follow.
Seriously? Criticizing someone's views is silencing dissent? People backing up their opinion by deciding to (ineffectually) boycott is "trying to silence dissent?"
Funny, I thought that was proper politics. Oh right, under "evil Republican administrations" debate and criticism were met with cries of being "unpatriotic", "anti-american", and protests were corraled into "free speech zones" and impromptu prisons.
I'm sorry, what should they have done? Ignored him? Not debated or considered any of his points?
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unless Democrats are in charge then... To Question the State is Treason.
Gee, let's go back and see how often people who questioned Dubya's Iraqi Bloodthirst were accused of treason. On major cable networks and all over the internet, no less.
They'll make it stop working on your existing device by simply removing the option to install when the update comes down the pipe. I doubt there's any real technical reason for dropping it, other than some beancounter deciding that the loss of respect from technical users was less costly than the upkeep for the hypervisor (assuming they remove it.)
Assuming they don't, you'll be able to keep what you have on there, but not reinstall or do a new install. Which is a huge amount of ass considering how much work was done by the open source community to port things to the PS3 including kernel patches and various GCC ports and additions for the SPUs. All of that is now wasted, even on older consoles unless you never, ever let them contact PSN.
Considering that PS2s are still selling (strangely) well and getting new game releases, it's unlikely Sony will restore BC (even if only software emulation) to the PS3 platform. We'll probably see it return around the time they EOL the PS2 platform completely (once the PS3's successor is out.)
Although I'm not sure that holds water, at least if they're still selling the PSOne, which I think they are...
Manned colonization of the cosmos is, at the present time and likely for centuries to come, no different from a belief in an afterlife filled with saints, virgins, and angelic personages.
Walking on water, and having saints cause spontaneous miracles is not plausible. Humans actually exploring the solar system is plausible and can be accomplished. But no doubt there will be people such as yourself who will fight and criticize, and insist it is "fantasy" and never enter the realm of "reality."
I suspect we will have to wait for a private company to take the lead, so naysayers can stop feeling justified about it. Then those with the interest to tackle the engineering and logistics problems can take the initiative and let everyone else peer at the world around them with a camera.
Oh well we can handle that. Let's just increase the length of the contract by 20 pages and shrink the font size down to 5pt. On top of that let's make the language of the contract extremely arcane and hard to read.
There is such a thing as Due Diligence but lawyers can and will do everything to discourage people from trying and to demoralize and confuse those who do. Unless you're saying that you read and grasp every line of every EULA you've ever had to agree to when using a new piece of software. ever.
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If they do things right, the baseband is a USB device and its driver in the kernel is open source. Considering that half tends to be an entire computer unto itself in most phones, there's no reason it can't be completely isolated logically, and allow a fully open source software stack on the OMAP.
I don't think it's indicative of people wanting to mash things together, so much as finding it amusing when someone sticks every day objects (and sometimes expensive ones) into a blender and records the destruction that ensues.
Sames as the guys on youtube who stick shit in microwaves for extended periods of time to see what happens. It's purely the destructive impulse being satisfied.
There already have been comparisons against AMD, and AMD remains competitive with Intel's low end. Also, no one cares about the latest high-threads SPARC because you can't get a modern one for less than several thousand dollars. If you're in line for one of those you're looking at the XEON line which outright smokes AMD's Opterons, and probably running software that won't run on SPARC.
The IEEE fails to take into account something rather major here:
First, that sounds like a royal goddamn pain in the ass and I'm a freaking software engineer. There's a reason the iPod has been so popular.
No it doesn't, it instantly leads to people who quickly and repeatedly lose access to things they pay for, as malicious script kiddies get into their machines that they've added to the latest and greatest botnet, copy the files off, and snag the key. I can see people jacking those keys being as popular as sniffing for world of warcraft accounts.
And it gets even more confusing:
So this key is moved into a tamper-protected circuit (irrelevant, no?) that is device exclusive. So you stick it in your phone so your music files only work there, or on your desktop and they only work there, or online and it's not even in your hands (but useless if you're not online) and this license can easily be moved around and if taken, fucks you permanently. But also somehow is magically secure enough that I can't just use it to decrypt the files and strip the DRM? And I can't somehow duplicate this key? What about key backups?
As dumb an idea as ever, I suggest the IEEE leave this one to rot in the dustbin, and stop letting the media companies push the tech industry around.
Right, teach them how to touch type on chord keyboards that no one uses. Oh and they only cost $1000 each.
It's why most LCD TVs have special modes for game consoles. On my Sharp Aquos it's called "Vyper Drive" but all it does is turn off any processing and scaling, the result being no lag.
I have this setting active for several analog inputs and the input from my PC and I've had no issues at all with games of any kind on my HDTV.
One word, and I'll bet I'm right:
Hardware.
Chips that can decode WMA, AAC, and MP3 are frequently used in devices like this to save power. And "WAV" is just a container that tends to store raw PCM.
It's a Debian based distro with a root prompt you don't have to work to get at, and has apt installed. It's far, far more a dream platform than OpenMoko ever was.
There could be aspects of the Vorbis codec that are patented, but no one knows as no one (for good reason) is looking. VP3 was written well before it became Theora, and unfortunately is in the bad position of being inefficient.
But let's consider what we don't have because of patents? How about wavelet compression, and the adoption of JPEG2000? Completely ground to a halt as one company holds a slew of patents over it.
Yes, patents force people to work around them. They're stuck reinventing the wheel, poorly, and remain at risk of patent suits. The problem with software patents is they're either so stupidly simple that everyone runs over them (and strive to remain ignorant of having done so, to lessen any possible damages) or are so vague that they cover huge swaths, denying entire fields and crippling compatibility.
Good to see that IBM has no clue what they're talking about. Patents most certainly have not fueled the explosive growth of open source software, the open nature of the licenses and community have. But go ahead and misrepresent the open source community IBM, for your own sake.
Patents sit as an ever present threat that threatens to push development outside of software patent permitting countries, and makes software that is known to violate them into seriously gray territory. I also don't see how a patent, something with the sole purpose of denying use of the described mechanism to others, could possibly aid open source.
I suppose that would fall under the category of collateral damage, and they're probably expecting everyone within sight of the target to be, well, "The Enemy(tm)."
Because with corporations the size of Sony, the left hand has no clue what the right one is doing until the right hand comes along and demands useless copy protection schemes be pasted all over.
Well, if you went by the philosophies under which the US was founded then it's no one's business but the person seeking death. The problem are the religious busybodies who feel the need to butt in and interfere with people's decisions for the sake of their personal moral gratification.
Is not forcing someone to live in pain, with no dignity, not causing harm? Is it truly harm if the person is granted the relief they desire? Have you hurt anyone?
Are they now? If there's no reasonable expectation of a cure for some terminal disease and the inevitable result is crippling disability, pain, and death, who are you to say someone who wishes to book early, preserving their dignity, is acting irrationally?
Could it not be argued that those willing to spend every last cent to stay alive, no matter how debilitating and painful life may become before death, are themselves acting irrationally?
On an unrelated note, the first quote of this paragraph was, before I previewed it, enclosed with the "blockbuster" tag. Please, anyone, tell me what I was thinking?
Pintos were also at risk of being exposed to considerably higher forces, and had a design flaw capable of killing people despite having survived an accident.
This situation is completely unrelated, as flaws like this are not only not unique to apple, but result from either user mishandling of the device or one in several hundred thousand built. On top of that, it doesn't sound like anyone was actively harmed.
But of course, feel free to pursue safety guidelines above and beyond what already exist. Enjoy the massive price increases that follow.
s/blocking/dropping support for/
Nothing, IIRC, is stopping Palm from doing the heavy lifting required to support their devices in OS X except Palm.
Any GSM provider should, though from the reports it supports Euro/T-Mobile(US) 3G bands.
Also, the OpenMoko failed for reasons above and beyond not having a US carrier not selling it.
That's silencing dissent?
Seriously? Criticizing someone's views is silencing dissent? People backing up their opinion by deciding to (ineffectually) boycott is "trying to silence dissent?"
Funny, I thought that was proper politics. Oh right, under "evil Republican administrations" debate and criticism were met with cries of being "unpatriotic", "anti-american", and protests were corraled into "free speech zones" and impromptu prisons.
I'm sorry, what should they have done? Ignored him? Not debated or considered any of his points?
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Gee, let's go back and see how often people who questioned Dubya's Iraqi Bloodthirst were accused of treason. On major cable networks and all over the internet, no less.
Hot damn!
Want to check your bank balance? Reboot!
Pay your installment loan? Reboot!
Import your information into Gnucash or Quicken? Oh sorry, no can do!
Awesome, total security at the cost of total and complete inconvenience.
They'll make it stop working on your existing device by simply removing the option to install when the update comes down the pipe. I doubt there's any real technical reason for dropping it, other than some beancounter deciding that the loss of respect from technical users was less costly than the upkeep for the hypervisor (assuming they remove it.)
Assuming they don't, you'll be able to keep what you have on there, but not reinstall or do a new install. Which is a huge amount of ass considering how much work was done by the open source community to port things to the PS3 including kernel patches and various GCC ports and additions for the SPUs. All of that is now wasted, even on older consoles unless you never, ever let them contact PSN.
Considering that PS2s are still selling (strangely) well and getting new game releases, it's unlikely Sony will restore BC (even if only software emulation) to the PS3 platform. We'll probably see it return around the time they EOL the PS2 platform completely (once the PS3's successor is out.)
Although I'm not sure that holds water, at least if they're still selling the PSOne, which I think they are...
Walking on water, and having saints cause spontaneous miracles is not plausible. Humans actually exploring the solar system is plausible and can be accomplished. But no doubt there will be people such as yourself who will fight and criticize, and insist it is "fantasy" and never enter the realm of "reality."
I suspect we will have to wait for a private company to take the lead, so naysayers can stop feeling justified about it. Then those with the interest to tackle the engineering and logistics problems can take the initiative and let everyone else peer at the world around them with a camera.
Oh yeah, cause it's -all- Obama's fault, right?
Oh well we can handle that. Let's just increase the length of the contract by 20 pages and shrink the font size down to 5pt. On top of that let's make the language of the contract extremely arcane and hard to read.
There is such a thing as Due Diligence but lawyers can and will do everything to discourage people from trying and to demoralize and confuse those who do. Unless you're saying that you read and grasp every line of every EULA you've ever had to agree to when using a new piece of software. ever.
Don't worry, the Right is the exact same way.
True but it won't stop Microsoft from throwing their weight around and dicking over interesting designs.
MSI hybrid-storage netbook anyone?
Yet another stupid, linkless, flamebait article.
Come the fuck on guys.