Great, then TV will turn into a bunch of shitty Firefly knock offs because half the geek world seems to think a 'space based western' is gods gift to the universe or something.
So, contrary to what the title and the summary say, this has nothing to do with 'flash on the iPhone' and everything to do with 'some company is transcoding flash video to h264 and sending it off to the iPhone.
Apple hasn't 'allowed' iOS devices to run anything new, someone is transcoding.
There is no 'app embedded in Safari browser'
Did I miss the memo that said slashdot was going to start accepting submissions from people who have no clue what they are talking about, and clearly have no idea what the fuck they are talking about from a technical stand point?
This isn't fucking new or newsworthy, what the hell is wrong with you CmdrTaco, why the hell did you approve such a retarded summary and story? Do I need to add you to the ignore list along with timothy and kdawson now?
Oracle isn't in the application software business.
So... you don't actually KNOW what Oracle does do you?
The Oracle 'Database' is a small part of what companies who 'use Oracle' buy, most of the rest of it is all for supporting Oracle specific applications.
The database hasn't been there center of focus for 10 years.
Yes, you found 7 working forks (and there are A LOT more than just those seven).
But you completely ignored the 7-10 million failed forks.
Now, LibreOffice has a far higher chance of succeeding than most forks because of the people involved, but lets just be realistic when you start pulling numbers out of your ass, for every fork that succeeds, hundreds if not hundreds of thousands go no where and aren't worth mentioning out side of this comment.
On that note: Good luck to the OO devs who left, I really don't think Oracle could have made me a big enough offer to get me to stay if I were in their shoes, even if it meant the death of OO. I hope they do well with their future plans, OO fork or otherwise.
Open source gives the USERS the ability to take things in the direction they want if they disagree with the current controlling body.
Thats such bullshit. 'USERS' don't code. 'USERS' actually USE the software.
OSS gives DEVELOPERS a way to deal with this sort of problem, but it doesn't do jack shit for the user who doesn't have the knowledge, time, and most important, inclination to go fucking around with some massive OSS office suite.
This stupid OSS battle cry about 'empowering users' needs to die, no one with half a clue believes it, not the 'USERS', not the developers, just fanboys looking for some reason to somehow make their software better than someone elses software rather than letting the software stand on its own to show which one is better.
Again, lets make this clear, OSS doesn't mean a jack thing to users except generally 'Free' which is 'free' in the normal sense of the word meaning no cost, not the twisted OSS version that no normal person thinks of meaning 'freedom'.
Some devs may continue to make OO.org live on as LibreOffice, but it won't be the users, it will be the devs.
I suggest you, and most other OSS people, ESPECIALLY OSS DEVEVELOPERS get the fucking clue that USERS are NOT DEVS. OSS would do a fuckton better on a daily basis if that one damn thing got across.
Did you think it was just re-named? Heck no! Basically this exact same process occurred.
Yes, thats what little kids do when they can't play together. They take their toys, go off on their own, and rename it.
It does happen all the time in the OSS world (and in movies and games as well), but lets just call it what it is, a renaming.
When its the same devs, the same base code, and a simple search and replace of a couple branding elements gets you the 'fork', then its a freaking rename that could very well go back to the original name depending on how Oracle acts, wouldn't be the first time thats happened either.
So your solution to the fact that browsers don't currently actually follow the published standard they are designed for is to add another standard, which they weren't designed for, and have them support it properly?
When someone can't chew gum and walk at the same time, you don't give them a stick of gum, keys to your car and keys to your boat and tell them to chew gum while driving the boat around the car as it goes down the road.
Unfortunately all Chrome's rapid release schedule does is make more users think updating is a waste of time after they go through 8 'updates' and they can't notice a single difference.
The device references time everywhere internally as UTC time.
The alarm app stores time as UTC time as well, so when you set an alarm for 7AM local it gets converted to UTC, which will say that yesterday that conversion meant 7AM UTC as well (Just to keep it simple), everything works.
DST change happens.
Alarm.app is still set for 7AM UTC, but 7AM UTC is now actually 6AM local time.
Of course, thats the exact opposite of what happened here, but its a pretty easy mistake to make.
No matter what scenario I try to come up with to explain this bug, I get the alarm going off a hour early, rather than later.
The study you linked to makes a statement just as bunk as the one you quoted.
Both those statements are only true when looked at without proper context.
Its not like people only like to be warmer or cooler at certain places they happen to be at. If they aren't at home, the air conditioning or heating costs will be elsewhere. The amount of energy required for the person to be comfortable doesn't change, just where its spent does. What if they time the most energy was spent on heating and cooling was previously when people were mostly in their cars in transit, in which case you're just ignoring the fact that the energy is still being used but supplied from another source.
The problem with these sort of generic statements is that they only hold true if you ignore the big picture, and the big picture is what matters for the environment. 'Energy Savings' isn't savings just because you moved it to a different spot on the balance sheet. This isn't Hollywood accounting or AIG investments, Mother Nature doesn't let you bullshit the numbers and bail you out afterwords.
Now, I just buy Arduinos and reflash them with my own ASM directly.
The Arduino boards are nice for prototyping as they've got all the basics already included and ready to go as well as a good way to connect them to other things, with the exception of the retarded pin offset for one group of pins thats just completely out of place! (GRRR).
The boards come ready to run with serial ports, crystal based clocks, voltage regulators, and a boot rom that doesn't require you to do ISP programming, then you can just smack a prototype shield on top and make your design, or your own custom shield. If it doesn't work out, no biggie, just unplug it and throw a new one on, you didn't waste all the components of the arduino on a bad prototype board.
When you finally get it done right, you layout a fully custom board for your design, make a fully prototype or two to confirm the board design and do some basic stress tests, then ship the design off to batchpcb or the like for a small production run.
It only takes 6 wires to use most of the Atmel processors, but the Arduino board makes easy access to the other 20-120 pins (depending on the board) a breeze.
Yea, except most people don't go off-roading, they just want a car that will get them to the store and work on a daily basis. In that case, both the Prius and the Civic (I presume this is the android sports car you're talking about) will do just fine for most people.
If they are going to be truely 'open', they also have to be 'open' to people using their software in ways they don't really like.
If they start restricting carriers to arbitrary rules, its no longer open.
Outside of slashdot, most people in the software industry consider open to mean the rules are fairly loose and equal to everyone regardless of how they want to use it. The supplying vendor won't try to tell someone else how they can use it and/or what they can use it for.
The MP3 format is open because as long as you pay the fees (which are the same to everyone) then you can do whatever you want with it. You can give everyone in the world a porn player using MP3 encoded audio for free if you want... as long as you pay the license fees. Thats open.
You don't want open, you want copyleft, which is fine, but call it what it is. Don't call it by some other name in a poor attempt to trick people into thinking your way is better. You want open when it suits you but not when it suits someone else. That isn't open.
Whats cooler is that if you look in Arduino land... we've been using this serial port for years, there have been libraries written for Arduino to use this port to control playback.
It does, all of the iDevices do at this point, have for years. Its how you control the iDevice remotely. Its how your car steering wheel controls or car stereo or any of the remote systems to plug your iPod/iPhone/iPad into a XM radio controller so it appears on cars that don't directly support the iPod.
Yea, its rather well documented on Apple's website actually. Its how third party vendors can control the iPod/iPhone.
When you plug you iPod/iPhone into a car and start using your radio or steering wheel controls to change songs or whatever... thats done through the serial port.
Its all documented on Apples website for registered developers, including the control protocol. You can also find the information elsewhere on the web by those people who reverse engineered it to avoid being bound to Apples rules.
Now days, as far as a DB itself is concerned, you don't have to do much to PostgreSQL to make it look like a good alternative to Oracle in the majority of environments Oracle is in. Not all environments, but most of them for sure.
Oracle has a lot more to it than JUST a database you can talk to. They sell a lot of middleware to do stuff on top of the database.
Except we're talking about Caprica... a spin off of the new BSG... there is no 'great series' involved here, just two shitty ones with writers who have no freaking clue where they are going even though in both cases the ending was essentially already written for them.
The primary difference is that Civ III isn't constantly trying to invent ways to milk REAL currency out of you in exchange for you wasting your time. Your cost with CivIII was known up front, before you started. Farmville tries to suck you in silently and deceptively, and to let you survive and stick around so it can suckle the money out of your wallet without you noticing what you're doing.
Just like Evony... which I caught myself emptying my wallet on:(
I'm a software developer in Research Triangle Park North Carolina, home of Redhat and MANY other technology companies, with offices for development Sony-Ericson as well, and of course IBM.
I'm a geek, in the middle of several entire cities of geeks, who do nothing but work with phones and/or Linux all day long. If there was a place that was biased towards Android, the only one I can think of that would be more biased would be Google HQ.
My 'peer group' sells Linux, support for Linux and Linux software for a living. I agree with your logic, but I find it hard to believe considering exactly who my peer group is.
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Great, then TV will turn into a bunch of shitty Firefly knock offs because half the geek world seems to think a 'space based western' is gods gift to the universe or something.
pornhub.com has supported the iPhone since it came out.
So, contrary to what the title and the summary say, this has nothing to do with 'flash on the iPhone' and everything to do with 'some company is transcoding flash video to h264 and sending it off to the iPhone.
Apple hasn't 'allowed' iOS devices to run anything new, someone is transcoding.
There is no 'app embedded in Safari browser'
Did I miss the memo that said slashdot was going to start accepting submissions from people who have no clue what they are talking about, and clearly have no idea what the fuck they are talking about from a technical stand point?
This isn't fucking new or newsworthy, what the hell is wrong with you CmdrTaco, why the hell did you approve such a retarded summary and story? Do I need to add you to the ignore list along with timothy and kdawson now?
Considering the quality of both in relation to OO, I'd say they probably should have been fired some time ago :/
Documentation is (for a end user application) second in importance only to UI design that prevents them from needing to reference the documentation.
OO pretty much fails 100% at both of those, nothing of value is lost here.
So ... you don't actually KNOW what Oracle does do you?
The Oracle 'Database' is a small part of what companies who 'use Oracle' buy, most of the rest of it is all for supporting Oracle specific applications.
The database hasn't been there center of focus for 10 years.
Yes, you found 7 working forks (and there are A LOT more than just those seven).
But you completely ignored the 7-10 million failed forks.
Now, LibreOffice has a far higher chance of succeeding than most forks because of the people involved, but lets just be realistic when you start pulling numbers out of your ass, for every fork that succeeds, hundreds if not hundreds of thousands go no where and aren't worth mentioning out side of this comment.
On that note: Good luck to the OO devs who left, I really don't think Oracle could have made me a big enough offer to get me to stay if I were in their shoes, even if it meant the death of OO. I hope they do well with their future plans, OO fork or otherwise.
Thats such bullshit. 'USERS' don't code. 'USERS' actually USE the software.
OSS gives DEVELOPERS a way to deal with this sort of problem, but it doesn't do jack shit for the user who doesn't have the knowledge, time, and most important, inclination to go fucking around with some massive OSS office suite.
This stupid OSS battle cry about 'empowering users' needs to die, no one with half a clue believes it, not the 'USERS', not the developers, just fanboys looking for some reason to somehow make their software better than someone elses software rather than letting the software stand on its own to show which one is better.
Again, lets make this clear, OSS doesn't mean a jack thing to users except generally 'Free' which is 'free' in the normal sense of the word meaning no cost, not the twisted OSS version that no normal person thinks of meaning 'freedom'.
Some devs may continue to make OO.org live on as LibreOffice, but it won't be the users, it will be the devs.
I suggest you, and most other OSS people, ESPECIALLY OSS DEVEVELOPERS get the fucking clue that USERS are NOT DEVS. OSS would do a fuckton better on a daily basis if that one damn thing got across.
Yes, thats what little kids do when they can't play together. They take their toys, go off on their own, and rename it.
It does happen all the time in the OSS world (and in movies and games as well), but lets just call it what it is, a renaming.
When its the same devs, the same base code, and a simple search and replace of a couple branding elements gets you the 'fork', then its a freaking rename that could very well go back to the original name depending on how Oracle acts, wouldn't be the first time thats happened either.
Same way you always have, using FTP.
So your solution to the fact that browsers don't currently actually follow the published standard they are designed for is to add another standard, which they weren't designed for, and have them support it properly?
When someone can't chew gum and walk at the same time, you don't give them a stick of gum, keys to your car and keys to your boat and tell them to chew gum while driving the boat around the car as it goes down the road.
I assure you, the results would be FAR worse.
Unfortunately all Chrome's rapid release schedule does is make more users think updating is a waste of time after they go through 8 'updates' and they can't notice a single difference.
The device references time everywhere internally as UTC time.
The alarm app stores time as UTC time as well, so when you set an alarm for 7AM local it gets converted to UTC, which will say that yesterday that conversion meant 7AM UTC as well (Just to keep it simple), everything works.
DST change happens.
Alarm.app is still set for 7AM UTC, but 7AM UTC is now actually 6AM local time.
Of course, thats the exact opposite of what happened here, but its a pretty easy mistake to make.
No matter what scenario I try to come up with to explain this bug, I get the alarm going off a hour early, rather than later.
The study you linked to makes a statement just as bunk as the one you quoted.
Both those statements are only true when looked at without proper context.
Its not like people only like to be warmer or cooler at certain places they happen to be at. If they aren't at home, the air conditioning or heating costs will be elsewhere. The amount of energy required for the person to be comfortable doesn't change, just where its spent does. What if they time the most energy was spent on heating and cooling was previously when people were mostly in their cars in transit, in which case you're just ignoring the fact that the energy is still being used but supplied from another source.
The problem with these sort of generic statements is that they only hold true if you ignore the big picture, and the big picture is what matters for the environment. 'Energy Savings' isn't savings just because you moved it to a different spot on the balance sheet. This isn't Hollywood accounting or AIG investments, Mother Nature doesn't let you bullshit the numbers and bail you out afterwords.
I did, for a long time.
Now, I just buy Arduinos and reflash them with my own ASM directly.
The Arduino boards are nice for prototyping as they've got all the basics already included and ready to go as well as a good way to connect them to other things, with the exception of the retarded pin offset for one group of pins thats just completely out of place! (GRRR).
The boards come ready to run with serial ports, crystal based clocks, voltage regulators, and a boot rom that doesn't require you to do ISP programming, then you can just smack a prototype shield on top and make your design, or your own custom shield. If it doesn't work out, no biggie, just unplug it and throw a new one on, you didn't waste all the components of the arduino on a bad prototype board.
When you finally get it done right, you layout a fully custom board for your design, make a fully prototype or two to confirm the board design and do some basic stress tests, then ship the design off to batchpcb or the like for a small production run.
It only takes 6 wires to use most of the Atmel processors, but the Arduino board makes easy access to the other 20-120 pins (depending on the board) a breeze.
To sum it up, connivence.
Yea, except most people don't go off-roading, they just want a car that will get them to the store and work on a daily basis. In that case, both the Prius and the Civic (I presume this is the android sports car you're talking about) will do just fine for most people.
If they are going to be truely 'open', they also have to be 'open' to people using their software in ways they don't really like.
If they start restricting carriers to arbitrary rules, its no longer open.
Outside of slashdot, most people in the software industry consider open to mean the rules are fairly loose and equal to everyone regardless of how they want to use it. The supplying vendor won't try to tell someone else how they can use it and/or what they can use it for.
The MP3 format is open because as long as you pay the fees (which are the same to everyone) then you can do whatever you want with it. You can give everyone in the world a porn player using MP3 encoded audio for free if you want ... as long as you pay the license fees. Thats open.
You don't want open, you want copyleft, which is fine, but call it what it is. Don't call it by some other name in a poor attempt to trick people into thinking your way is better. You want open when it suits you but not when it suits someone else. That isn't open.
Whats cooler is that if you look in Arduino land ... we've been using this serial port for years, there have been libraries written for Arduino to use this port to control playback.
Maybe, but its known, well documented purpose is so external devices can control the iPod/iPhone. Tell it to change songs and such.
Its not a new discovery, its well known and documented and has been for years.
I've known about it for at least 2 years and it wasn't new when I came across it.
It does, all of the iDevices do at this point, have for years. Its how you control the iDevice remotely. Its how your car steering wheel controls or car stereo or any of the remote systems to plug your iPod/iPhone/iPad into a XM radio controller so it appears on cars that don't directly support the iPod.
Yea, its rather well documented on Apple's website actually. Its how third party vendors can control the iPod/iPhone.
When you plug you iPod/iPhone into a car and start using your radio or steering wheel controls to change songs or whatever ... thats done through the serial port.
Its all documented on Apples website for registered developers, including the control protocol. You can also find the information elsewhere on the web by those people who reverse engineered it to avoid being bound to Apples rules.
Now days, as far as a DB itself is concerned, you don't have to do much to PostgreSQL to make it look like a good alternative to Oracle in the majority of environments Oracle is in. Not all environments, but most of them for sure.
Oracle has a lot more to it than JUST a database you can talk to. They sell a lot of middleware to do stuff on top of the database.
Except we're talking about Caprica ... a spin off of the new BSG ... there is no 'great series' involved here, just two shitty ones with writers who have no freaking clue where they are going even though in both cases the ending was essentially already written for them.
The primary difference is that Civ III isn't constantly trying to invent ways to milk REAL currency out of you in exchange for you wasting your time. Your cost with CivIII was known up front, before you started. Farmville tries to suck you in silently and deceptively, and to let you survive and stick around so it can suckle the money out of your wallet without you noticing what you're doing.
Just like Evony ... which I caught myself emptying my wallet on :(
I'll buy #2 for low budget games. MoH? CoD? Halo? No, doesn't apply, those aren't 'limited budget' titles, sorry.
I'm a software developer in Research Triangle Park North Carolina, home of Redhat and MANY other technology companies, with offices for development Sony-Ericson as well, and of course IBM.
I'm a geek, in the middle of several entire cities of geeks, who do nothing but work with phones and/or Linux all day long. If there was a place that was biased towards Android, the only one I can think of that would be more biased would be Google HQ.
My 'peer group' sells Linux, support for Linux and Linux software for a living. I agree with your logic, but I find it hard to believe considering exactly who my peer group is.