Did you miss the bit where it was "a project that required drivers that NVIDIA needs to develop anyways (after all, CARMA toolkit is consisted out of ARM-powered Tegra 3 processor and a 96-core Quadro GPU)"?
They could have been a brilliant contributer, if they wanted to, but they don't.
Not to diminish Linus's effort, but there is a backstory to his frustration, and nVidia have been given other incentives to become a better contributor.
NVIDIA was approached by one of the leading Chinese CPU teams to use an NV GPU in a pilot school PC project. Linux would run on the Chinese CPU, while GeForce GPU would provide the graphics power. 'Pilot project' in this case means over 10 million PCs in one order, broken down - 100,000 schools with 100-150 PCs each.
To cut the story short, the NV team appeared there, and in very arrogant manner told the Chinese side that they are a large US corporation, and that recompiling the Linux drivers would cost the Chinese a lot of money.
They lost the relationship with the Chinese team, who have since approached AMD. The pilot project was worth an initial 250-350 million dollars, with the potential of much more to follow.
Here you can find the information and source code you need to build an Android-compatible device.
Android is an open-source software stack for mobile devices, and a corresponding open-source project led by Google. We created Android in response to our own experiences launching mobile apps. We wanted to make sure that there was no central point of failure, so that no industry player can restrict or control the innovations of any other. That's why we created Android, and made its source code open.
You never hear freedom of the press framed as "does wood pulp have a right to free speech?"
Wood pulp can't act autonomously.
The thing is, a computer could already generate a news article without human intervention.
As a thought experiment, consider an anonymous activist planting a hidden computer to transcribe a political conversation and post it to a blog without human intervention.
Technically it could be done now. What would its legal status be? What if the conversation was in a public place chosen so there were no humans nearby?
Android needs to support standard X applications so the whole code base such as LibreOffice works on Android, allowing it to function effectively as a laptop replacement
Around half of the tablet users are now on Android, according to a recent study brought out by the Online Publisher’s Association or OPA. To be exact, 51% of them have the Google-branded device, 52% are on iOS tablets, while 8% are on those with other platforms, such as Blackberry OS.
Here's s foolproof method for cooking birds so they're moist and tender, based on the Hainan chicken recipe. It works by bringing the proteins in the bird above their denaturing temperature in a non-drying, salt-balanced environment first, then using high heat to generate the Maillard reactions for the roasted flavour. By keeping the temp below 100c, you also avoid stretching the muscle fibres by passing boiling liquids passing between them.
Put the bird in a pot of salted water or stock, add herbs, spices etc so the flavour of the stock is balanced. Bring to the point of boiling, then turn off the heat. Rest for 20 minutes or until the water drops below 70c, then repeat until a meat thermometer shows 65c in the thickest part of the bird.
Take the bird carefully from the water/stock and place in a roasting pan in a hot oven and roast until the skin is caramelized and brown. You can make gravy from the stock while the bird is roasting (in fact, you'll end up with a pot of delicious stock for soup or consommé).
So, did the blogger write an outraged article when Apple made a tablet
This is another sleight of hand trick.
There's no need for proportionate responses from different people. I'm allowed to write a bitter criticism of MS in spite of "blogger" not doing the same for Apple.
Despite that, many of us in Slashdot did and do complain about Apple locking people out of their own hardware. It's a major factor in my choice of Android for phones and tablets.
You're expecting far too much from the product people at GOOG.
Nick Wingfield, from NY Times, wrote, "With its new tablet, Microsoft will effectively be competing directly with its biggest customers. When asked whether Surface would damage those ties, Steven Sinofsky, the president of Microsoft’s Windows division, gently pushed a reporter in the direction of a stand of Surface tablets and said, "Go learn something.'"
Google's customers are not B&N and Amazon. It is in Google's interest to have many Android vendors, not just a few large ones, and their reference Nexus designs are intended to kickstart competition in the tablet world in much the same way as they have for mobile phones.
If you want to see the real competitive 7" tablet market, search for '7" Allwinner Android'. Go learn something.
And Android is selling a million copies a day, iOS about two thirds of that, MS sells about 600k Windows licenses per day.
Hard to say how many Windows PCs are being retired every day, but given most corps work on somewhere between a 3-5yr lifecycle, it'd probably be a significant proportion of Microsoft's installed base.
In February 2009, Steve Ballmer of Microsoft presented a slide based on Microsoft's research; while it showed no figures, the pie chart depicted Linux and Apple as each having roughly 5–6% of home and business PCs.
It appears to be a real product that they will sell, like the Zune.
Very likely, and very probably it will sell as well as the Zune.
Why, given the near infinite amount of money they have, and designers they can hire, why did they make their OS so ugly?
Sure, the blue/green palette is distinctive, but it's not pleasant or welcoming. Like the brown Zune, it lacks style, and since it doesn't allow the same personalization as its competitors, it'll stay ugly.
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It is supposed to care more about itself rather than some open source project. By law.
Which law?
Link please?
Did you miss the bit where it was "a project that required drivers that NVIDIA needs to develop anyways (after all, CARMA toolkit is consisted out of ARM-powered Tegra 3 processor and a 96-core Quadro GPU)"?
They could have been a brilliant contributer, if they wanted to, but they don't.
Not to diminish Linus's effort, but there is a backstory to his frustration, and nVidia have been given other incentives to become a better contributor.
NVIDIA was approached by one of the leading Chinese CPU teams to use an NV GPU in a pilot school PC project. Linux would run on the Chinese CPU, while GeForce GPU would provide the graphics power. 'Pilot project' in this case means over 10 million PCs in one order, broken down - 100,000 schools with 100-150 PCs each.
To cut the story short, the NV team appeared there, and in very arrogant manner told the Chinese side that they are a large US corporation, and that recompiling the Linux drivers would cost the Chinese a lot of money.
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2012/6/21/china-nvidia-loses-face-and-a-10-million-pc-order-over-linux-drivers-and-nres.aspx
They lost the relationship with the Chinese team, who have since approached AMD. The pilot project was worth an initial 250-350 million dollars, with the potential of much more to follow.
They're just marketing tools. Nobody actually uses them.
http://source.android.com/
Welcome to Android
Here you can find the information and source code you need to build an Android-compatible device.
Android is an open-source software stack for mobile devices, and a corresponding open-source project led by Google. We created Android in response to our own experiences launching mobile apps. We wanted to make sure that there was no central point of failure, so that no industry player can restrict or control the innovations of any other. That's why we created Android, and made its source code open.
What Apple product is the xbox360 meant to compete against?
Pippin.
Nobody said they were agile...
I'm sure that their latest effort will have all the quality and attention to detail of the Xbox 360.
At $599 for the WiFi only version, they'll have plenty of time to handbuild them...
http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-surface-will-be-wifi-only-and-start-at-599-report-2012-6
Help yourself.
http://source.android.com/
You never hear freedom of the press framed as "does wood pulp have a right to free speech?"
Wood pulp can't act autonomously.
The thing is, a computer could already generate a news article without human intervention.
As a thought experiment, consider an anonymous activist planting a hidden computer to transcribe a political conversation and post it to a blog without human intervention.
Technically it could be done now. What would its legal status be? What if the conversation was in a public place chosen so there were no humans nearby?
Android needs to support standard X applications so the whole code base such as LibreOffice works on Android, allowing it to function effectively as a laptop replacement
It looks like they're heading down a different path and trying to get the app stack running on Android. Buying QuickOffice suggests they won't be pushing too hard to get Libre on there. http://googleblog.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/google-quickoffice-get-more-done.html.
There's already third party X11 servers, so they may appear on the open source versions of Android soon, if there's enough demand.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theqvd.android.x&hl=en
http://my20percent.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/android-x-server/
Microsoft missed the boat and it'll be having a hell of a time attracting any real customer base.
They spent $400 million on marketing and reputation management of WP7. How much do you reckon they'll spend on W8?
Yep.
Can anything stop the all conquering iPad?
And yes.
Around half of the tablet users are now on Android, according to a recent study brought out by the Online Publisher’s Association or OPA. To be exact, 51% of them have the Google-branded device, 52% are on iOS tablets, while 8% are on those with other platforms, such as Blackberry OS.
Order a Cement Mixer shot next time you're in a bar.
AC above is not American. Elsewhere in the world, getting pissed involves becoming drunk, not angry.
2) Cooking time is pretty critical.
Here's s foolproof method for cooking birds so they're moist and tender, based on the Hainan chicken recipe. It works by bringing the proteins in the bird above their denaturing temperature in a non-drying, salt-balanced environment first, then using high heat to generate the Maillard reactions for the roasted flavour. By keeping the temp below 100c, you also avoid stretching the muscle fibres by passing boiling liquids passing between them.
Put the bird in a pot of salted water or stock, add herbs, spices etc so the flavour of the stock is balanced. Bring to the point of boiling, then turn off the heat. Rest for 20 minutes or until the water drops below 70c, then repeat until a meat thermometer shows 65c in the thickest part of the bird.
Take the bird carefully from the water/stock and place in a roasting pan in a hot oven and roast until the skin is caramelized and brown. You can make gravy from the stock while the bird is roasting (in fact, you'll end up with a pot of delicious stock for soup or consommé).
Carve and eat.
So, did the blogger write an outraged article when Apple made a tablet
This is another sleight of hand trick.
There's no need for proportionate responses from different people. I'm allowed to write a bitter criticism of MS in spite of "blogger" not doing the same for Apple.
Despite that, many of us in Slashdot did and do complain about Apple locking people out of their own hardware. It's a major factor in my choice of Android for phones and tablets.
So who'll be writing and distributing the OS? They'll be the ones prosecuted.
You're expecting far too much from the product people at GOOG.
Nick Wingfield, from NY Times, wrote, "With its new tablet, Microsoft will effectively be competing directly with its biggest customers. When asked whether Surface would damage those ties, Steven Sinofsky, the president of Microsoft’s Windows division, gently pushed a reporter in the direction of a stand of Surface tablets and said, "Go learn something.'"
Google's customers are not B&N and Amazon. It is in Google's interest to have many Android vendors, not just a few large ones, and their reference Nexus designs are intended to kickstart competition in the tablet world in much the same way as they have for mobile phones.
If you want to see the real competitive 7" tablet market, search for '7" Allwinner Android'. Go learn something.
Hard to say how many Windows PCs are being retired every day, but given most corps work on somewhere between a 3-5yr lifecycle, it'd probably be a significant proportion of Microsoft's installed base.
W8 will probably accelerate the downwards slide.
Who is claiming it is not?
Microsoft.
In February 2009, Steve Ballmer of Microsoft presented a slide based on Microsoft's research; while it showed no figures, the pie chart depicted Linux and Apple as each having roughly 5–6% of home and business PCs.
It appears to be a real product that they will sell, like the Zune.
Very likely, and very probably it will sell as well as the Zune.
Why, given the near infinite amount of money they have, and designers they can hire, why did they make their OS so ugly?
Sure, the blue/green palette is distinctive, but it's not pleasant or welcoming. Like the brown Zune, it lacks style, and since it doesn't allow the same personalization as its competitors, it'll stay ugly.
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Samsung wants to make their own OS, which will be miles behind iOS, or Android, in applications.
Davlik is open source, reasonably compact and is being tested in the forges of patent law.
Samsung could add it to their own OS to maintain compatibility with Android Apps.
This guy is a complete moron. First, it's called the CLI, not the CIL.
Perhaps not as compete as some...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Intermediate_Language
They haven't extended HTML5 enough to stop it being portable yet. How will they lock users in?