Google doesn't have a problem with Alibaba, who is not a member of the Open Handset Alliance, making Aliyun as long as they don't violate the terms of the license, even though it works contrary to the Android ecosystem advantage. What they have a problem with is a member of the Open Handset Alliance which was formed to make Android a viable ecosytem helping them do it while still enjoying the benefits of being a member of that club. That is quite reasonable. A deal is a deal.
Google's not afraid of the competition. They're not complaining about Amazon's fork of Android. What they mind is that this member of the group organized to build a successful open Android system was trying to both be in the club, getting the benefits of being in the club, and also break the club rules about working counter to the purpose of the club. That's fair. That's not evil. "In or out, Acer buddy, but close the door. We're having a meeting."
Not really. 1GHz ARM SOC chips are going for $5-7 these days, capable of supporting full HD and Android 4.0. By this time next year that $40 tablet for India might actually be quite interesting. We don't really need an OS that targets much lower than that, since it's not likely to be necessary for long enough to launch before hardware progress obsoletes it.
When the jury foreman himself says they ignored their instructions and the law, this is the only possible outcome. If you want to do jury nullification, you render your verdict and then SHUT THE HELL UP.
Once upon a time there was a man, James Beard, who was so good at making bread that many said even God could not make better bread than he. After a time God became interested in a competition with him, and so it went.
They gathered their ingredients, but before the contest started God said: "unh, unh, uh. Prior art." pointing at James' stack of flour, yeast, water and egg.
This was more confessional than educational, and I suppose I'm going to be more confessional here. I haven't been a great teacher, though I've been a moderately fair one. Some of my students have gone on to do useful and interesting things. There's a useful lesson in here so I'll expand on it, but I don't expect anybody to listen, nor to care.
Genius, in and of itself, doesn't put bread on the table.
There is a nexus of human suffering surrounding ignorance and situation. As professor Kinnison said, "move to where the food is." I gained the advantages of knowledge and experience without the necessary learning to apply it to how to come into an advantageous economic position to exploit it, assuming that others would naturally desire to exploit my knowledge and ability for their own profit and share some little for my benefit. This premise was invalid, and it cost me a lot to unlearn it. No matter how good you are, the hirer is going to first run out of cousins, and then he's going to check off his boxes no matter how stupid they are. "I see here you don't have five years of WinRT programming experience. Why should I hire you over the people who do?" Frankly I've always suffered from excess honesty. Early on that was a Moral position I was willing to be poor to preserve. Now that I have learned more I understand it's a great position that's not just not harmful, but self-destructive to compromise.
In the late '90s I got an interview with a company developing an application who needed skilled programmers to develop a new application for a bank. So I go, and in the interview they ask: "tell us about your professional Visual Basic experience." I actually laughed out loud. "You're kidding, right?" End of interview. I could have re-implemented that day's version of Visual Basic in a weekend, with type checking and actual security, but they didn't care.
Now that I understand how to improve my situation without the permission of others I can't be put in that situation any more. I don't need tech to earn my bread now, I just prefer it. Several times during my wander in the desert I did try things that became great without me: a business concept of a service to aggregate sellers under one search engine in an online "mall" was probably the best one of many. A social network with lax social rules and paid subscription communications was another. I partnered poorly and my partner sold the servers I had paid for and developed the services on when he could have just asked me for more money instead because he was reluctant to say he was broke, right at the time that that theme was taking off. A retail PC store partner screwed me over in every way imaginable and then some - he sold me known failed hardware against my repair and maintenance skill work effort. The first customer of my eZine software engine I had spent nine months crafting rebranded it and gave it away to the world for free: a fact I discovered only a few days later since I was the West Coast distribution hub for free software (called "filebone hub") at that ancient time before Internet access was common. I seem to have found all of the primary ways to fail. This whole time I was paying for this stuff by bearing the pains posted above, trimming my personal needs to pay for it and working the code and processes in my off hours from my 60+ hrs a week job where I was mostly treated like a serf all day, and when the owner's daughter took over operations was threatened with unemployment _every single day_ in addition to the other pains.
BTW, eventually the evil daughter took over and in the transition I managed to find an unemployment out since the business I worked for had closed and legally the new business was a different business that I had not worked in. She tried to force me to work for her and failed. Her business went nine months and failed. If I had worked for the new business for one single day, she would have been able to protest my unemployment insurance and impoverish me even more - and she would have. S
I wonder if there was anybody on the team who got fired for saying "Hey, this whole idea is stupid. Here's a phone cam shot of the restricted demo picture on the restricted platform after it has been posted to imgur, become a template of/r/adviceanimals, been memed on reddit, crossposted to Facebook and twitpic, and been pinned on Pinterest 40,000 times."
I see a lot of people enumerating absolute problems with Linux which should be cured and I would agree that there are many Linux distributions which are less advantageous than others and could be improved in some way. I've never found one that is just perfect to suit me and I don't expect to ever unless I take the time out to make my own distro. Frankly I'm not quite happy with anything I find in IT and I could improve each one if I had 20 man-years to do it. Many distros now available are quite fine with a bit of tweaking for most things, though for a robust server I would still go with BSD.
For the desktop I've managed to find a Linux distro more acceptable to me than the mainstream alternatives for over fifteen years. Initially this was about Freedom, later about hardware compatibility, and more lately about security and reliability.
To me the desktop metaphor is dying now. I do far more and spend far more time on my Android phone and tablet than I do on a traditional desktop PC or laptop.
Now to get topical. Since this is a Cathedral and Bazaar story again, and assuming you've all done your homework, I can put a premise that answers the question. The reason why Linux desktops aren't taking off is that they're not a Cathedral, and they're not a Bazaar. Linux desktops are a redundant array of beowulf clusters of heterogeneous computing paradigms, each uniquely adapted to its environment. You can't sell that. Just as Windows Phone and Windows 8 are staking out the dusty, little travelled middle ground between the Cathedral and the Bazaar, Desktop Linux platforms are attempting to become the Oort cloud beyond the periphery of their scope. It's cold and lonely out there, but quite roomy.
Computation is zero energy, for sufficient values of zero.
Since the energy inputs and outputs of digital computation are necessarily equal for all forms of computation not involving fission, fusion, zero-point energy, quantum teleportation, black holes and other such esoteric things in the computation process, yes, computation is zero energy. I would wager that the entire amount of energy created or destroyed in the process of computation by humans in all of history wouldn't amount to an entire Joule.
Computation does now require converting energy from electrical energy format to thermal energy format though. Since quite a lot of electrical energy is used to create thermal energy in the regular course of business naturally this means that peak computation electrical energy efficiency can be improved not just by increasing the computations per KWh but also by putting the computation in the place where you wanted the thermal energy anyway, or using the thermal energy once you have it for some other purpose. That way you get to use the same watt twice at no additional cost. Fortunately Intel is already on this one too.
Agreed. We are well into the era of preemptive patents, where people claim as many possible permutations of function, form and use as they can without inventing anything. Which of course halts any sort of progress completely.
You don't even know. MIT grads can be excellent, or not. I've known a few I wouldn't trust to do my laundry.
Dude, I had a BA in computer science and a decade in the field when I was washing dishes in a cafe and deli many years ago. That's a vast understatement of my qualifications then. I've cleaned the same grease trap over, and over, and over. Do you know what a grease trap smells like? It smells like fragrant death. I had to deal with the owner's daughter, whose sole gift to humanity was that she was born rich and thought that was a reason to beat me down. I used to pause while walking the mile to work in all weather here and there to vomit.
And at that time I had implemented LZW, designed my own operating system, programming languages, popular BBS forums, a platform for magazine distribution through self-executing e-zines, a streaming graphics protocol and a number of other things. Had been a Unix admin for a decade. Everybody involved knew I shouldn't be there but that did not change my life. And I guess that's OK. I had to survive to find the opening I needed to get out of that hole, and they needed things too. I'm not afraid of honest work. I managed to learn some useful things: I'm still a killer chef and baristo. I had to fight my way out of that hell.
Eventually I got lucky and got back in the tech game, and have since found a good spot for me. Ever since I don't assume things about others, no matter their situation or education. They have only to show me they can and will do the work, and they suit.
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Google doesn't have a problem with Alibaba, who is not a member of the Open Handset Alliance, making Aliyun as long as they don't violate the terms of the license, even though it works contrary to the Android ecosystem advantage. What they have a problem with is a member of the Open Handset Alliance which was formed to make Android a viable ecosytem helping them do it while still enjoying the benefits of being a member of that club. That is quite reasonable. A deal is a deal.
Google's not afraid of the competition. They're not complaining about Amazon's fork of Android. What they mind is that this member of the group organized to build a successful open Android system was trying to both be in the club, getting the benefits of being in the club, and also break the club rules about working counter to the purpose of the club. That's fair. That's not evil. "In or out, Acer buddy, but close the door. We're having a meeting."
Ironically, that is actually the cure for the illness. Sometimes life is counterintuitive.
Not really. 1GHz ARM SOC chips are going for $5-7 these days, capable of supporting full HD and Android 4.0. By this time next year that $40 tablet for India might actually be quite interesting. We don't really need an OS that targets much lower than that, since it's not likely to be necessary for long enough to launch before hardware progress obsoletes it.
My fault. I'm pretty bad at submitting, it's true. More practice is in order.
Quit. Just give up and try to pretend mobile never happened.
I was a foolish young man, as most are, and got exploited. You can be both brilliant and stupid at the same time. It happens every day.
When the jury foreman himself says they ignored their instructions and the law, this is the only possible outcome. If you want to do jury nullification, you render your verdict and then SHUT THE HELL UP.
Once upon a time there was a man, James Beard, who was so good at making bread that many said even God could not make better bread than he. After a time God became interested in a competition with him, and so it went.
They gathered their ingredients, but before the contest started God said: "unh, unh, uh. Prior art." pointing at James' stack of flour, yeast, water and egg.
It doesn't matter. The Jury's ruling will be found invalid for misconduct.
You should probably patent that.
The level of gibberish in the parent post could be, by itself, considered an argument against software patents.
This was more confessional than educational, and I suppose I'm going to be more confessional here. I haven't been a great teacher, though I've been a moderately fair one. Some of my students have gone on to do useful and interesting things. There's a useful lesson in here so I'll expand on it, but I don't expect anybody to listen, nor to care.
Genius, in and of itself, doesn't put bread on the table.
There is a nexus of human suffering surrounding ignorance and situation. As professor Kinnison said, "move to where the food is." I gained the advantages of knowledge and experience without the necessary learning to apply it to how to come into an advantageous economic position to exploit it, assuming that others would naturally desire to exploit my knowledge and ability for their own profit and share some little for my benefit. This premise was invalid, and it cost me a lot to unlearn it. No matter how good you are, the hirer is going to first run out of cousins, and then he's going to check off his boxes no matter how stupid they are. "I see here you don't have five years of WinRT programming experience. Why should I hire you over the people who do?" Frankly I've always suffered from excess honesty. Early on that was a Moral position I was willing to be poor to preserve. Now that I have learned more I understand it's a great position that's not just not harmful, but self-destructive to compromise.
In the late '90s I got an interview with a company developing an application who needed skilled programmers to develop a new application for a bank. So I go, and in the interview they ask: "tell us about your professional Visual Basic experience." I actually laughed out loud. "You're kidding, right?" End of interview. I could have re-implemented that day's version of Visual Basic in a weekend, with type checking and actual security, but they didn't care.
Now that I understand how to improve my situation without the permission of others I can't be put in that situation any more. I don't need tech to earn my bread now, I just prefer it. Several times during my wander in the desert I did try things that became great without me: a business concept of a service to aggregate sellers under one search engine in an online "mall" was probably the best one of many. A social network with lax social rules and paid subscription communications was another. I partnered poorly and my partner sold the servers I had paid for and developed the services on when he could have just asked me for more money instead because he was reluctant to say he was broke, right at the time that that theme was taking off. A retail PC store partner screwed me over in every way imaginable and then some - he sold me known failed hardware against my repair and maintenance skill work effort. The first customer of my eZine software engine I had spent nine months crafting rebranded it and gave it away to the world for free: a fact I discovered only a few days later since I was the West Coast distribution hub for free software (called "filebone hub") at that ancient time before Internet access was common. I seem to have found all of the primary ways to fail. This whole time I was paying for this stuff by bearing the pains posted above, trimming my personal needs to pay for it and working the code and processes in my off hours from my 60+ hrs a week job where I was mostly treated like a serf all day, and when the owner's daughter took over operations was threatened with unemployment _every single day_ in addition to the other pains.
BTW, eventually the evil daughter took over and in the transition I managed to find an unemployment out since the business I worked for had closed and legally the new business was a different business that I had not worked in. She tried to force me to work for her and failed. Her business went nine months and failed. If I had worked for the new business for one single day, she would have been able to protest my unemployment insurance and impoverish me even more - and she would have. S
I wonder if there was anybody on the team who got fired for saying "Hey, this whole idea is stupid. Here's a phone cam shot of the restricted demo picture on the restricted platform after it has been posted to imgur, become a template of /r/adviceanimals, been memed on reddit, crossposted to Facebook and twitpic, and been pinned on Pinterest 40,000 times."
I see a lot of people enumerating absolute problems with Linux which should be cured and I would agree that there are many Linux distributions which are less advantageous than others and could be improved in some way. I've never found one that is just perfect to suit me and I don't expect to ever unless I take the time out to make my own distro. Frankly I'm not quite happy with anything I find in IT and I could improve each one if I had 20 man-years to do it. Many distros now available are quite fine with a bit of tweaking for most things, though for a robust server I would still go with BSD.
For the desktop I've managed to find a Linux distro more acceptable to me than the mainstream alternatives for over fifteen years. Initially this was about Freedom, later about hardware compatibility, and more lately about security and reliability.
To me the desktop metaphor is dying now. I do far more and spend far more time on my Android phone and tablet than I do on a traditional desktop PC or laptop.
Now to get topical. Since this is a Cathedral and Bazaar story again, and assuming you've all done your homework, I can put a premise that answers the question. The reason why Linux desktops aren't taking off is that they're not a Cathedral, and they're not a Bazaar. Linux desktops are a redundant array of beowulf clusters of heterogeneous computing paradigms, each uniquely adapted to its environment. You can't sell that. Just as Windows Phone and Windows 8 are staking out the dusty, little travelled middle ground between the Cathedral and the Bazaar, Desktop Linux platforms are attempting to become the Oort cloud beyond the periphery of their scope. It's cold and lonely out there, but quite roomy.
Computation is zero energy, for sufficient values of zero.
Since the energy inputs and outputs of digital computation are necessarily equal for all forms of computation not involving fission, fusion, zero-point energy, quantum teleportation, black holes and other such esoteric things in the computation process, yes, computation is zero energy. I would wager that the entire amount of energy created or destroyed in the process of computation by humans in all of history wouldn't amount to an entire Joule.
Computation does now require converting energy from electrical energy format to thermal energy format though. Since quite a lot of electrical energy is used to create thermal energy in the regular course of business naturally this means that peak computation electrical energy efficiency can be improved not just by increasing the computations per KWh but also by putting the computation in the place where you wanted the thermal energy anyway, or using the thermal energy once you have it for some other purpose. That way you get to use the same watt twice at no additional cost. Fortunately Intel is already on this one too.
All of the jurors though were all from California near the courthouse - which happens to be just down the road from Apple HQ.
Agreed. We are well into the era of preemptive patents, where people claim as many possible permutations of function, form and use as they can without inventing anything. Which of course halts any sort of progress completely.
"If you wish to make apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." - Carl Sagan
Some things never change.
The problem with a machine that old isn't performance or compatibility. At that point it's past the service life of its capacitors and prone to fail.
Some of the developers probably already did this. "Hey Jim, looks like the watermark algo is getting a little heavyhanded again. See attached pic."
How does a project like this even ship without at least one person involved saying "Hey, wait..."?
In return Aple will countersue Samsung for "slavishly copying" their innovative 16:9 display.
You don't even know. MIT grads can be excellent, or not. I've known a few I wouldn't trust to do my laundry.
Dude, I had a BA in computer science and a decade in the field when I was washing dishes in a cafe and deli many years ago. That's a vast understatement of my qualifications then. I've cleaned the same grease trap over, and over, and over. Do you know what a grease trap smells like? It smells like fragrant death. I had to deal with the owner's daughter, whose sole gift to humanity was that she was born rich and thought that was a reason to beat me down. I used to pause while walking the mile to work in all weather here and there to vomit.
And at that time I had implemented LZW, designed my own operating system, programming languages, popular BBS forums, a platform for magazine distribution through self-executing e-zines, a streaming graphics protocol and a number of other things. Had been a Unix admin for a decade. Everybody involved knew I shouldn't be there but that did not change my life. And I guess that's OK. I had to survive to find the opening I needed to get out of that hole, and they needed things too. I'm not afraid of honest work. I managed to learn some useful things: I'm still a killer chef and baristo. I had to fight my way out of that hell.
Eventually I got lucky and got back in the tech game, and have since found a good spot for me. Ever since I don't assume things about others, no matter their situation or education. They have only to show me they can and will do the work, and they suit.