If so, how many surprise reboots have you had over the last two months? This never happens with QNX. PalmWebOS was just Linux; QNX is a different animal. Get a beagle bone to see the technical side. Understand it, and you will appreciate an alternative ecosystem which is superior for many uses.
Blackberry should offer their QNX kernel/userland source code for free to Huaiwai for safe-keeping. This gesture would foster a new ecosystem and provide assurance to the market that the platform will not vaporize.
The marketing agreement should stipulate that Blackberry retains their appstore, and royalties on high-performance units. Low-performance units would be the giveaways to flood cheap carriers.
Blackberry should retain the ability to revoke their OS license to vendors with unacceptable failure rates.
...then license your tablet and phone OS immediately.
The tablet OS never, ever crashes, runs any Gingerbread app, and is a far superior experience to Android. Blackberry should give the OS away for free for any tablet that has CPUs under 1ghz (as long as the vendor writes the drivers).
The phone OS builds on the tablet, will load any.APK, runs other vendors' market apps, and is judged a far, far superior experience by Android converts. Blackberry should give the phone OS away to any vendor running CPUs under 800Mhz (as long as the vendor writes the drivers).
If Blackberry takes market share, it will win. This cannot be done as a vertically-integrated platform.
...is that Cyanogenmod aggressively obsoletes older phones.
I am on Page Plus Cellular. If you look at their phones for sale, everything is Gingerbread. They also don't allow 4G devices on their network without substantial neutering of the firmware. And while they accept most Verizon 3G devices on their network, they strongly suggest that you leave the Verizon firmware intact.
So I run a DINC, which Cyanogenmod long ago put out to pasture, Gingerbread only. Evervolv took it to Android 4.1, and some guy took the Evervolv kernel and jacked it into 4.2.2.
So I run a very reliable phone with recent software on a cheap network with phenomenal coverage. But there is no hope that Cyanogenmod will ever be offered by my vendor (Page Plus) for sale on their network, because Cyanogenmod nukes legacy devices from their source tree.
This is a phenomenally bad business decision. I do not expect them to be successful, and I am not planning to invest.
BlackBerry should license an updated Playbook OS on cheap terms for Chinese tablets. It has its quirks, but it's far better software than most JellyBean implementations. With BB10's ability to run APKs natively, it would knock Android out of the market.
BB10 user satisfaction is especially good for Android converts. I have yet to make the Playbook suddenly reboot, which is far too common with most Android.
The Playbook probably has equivalent performance of the IPad 2/3, and is far lower in cost. The interface controls are superb.
My phone runs cyanogenmod, but I'd love to have another option with a QNX kernel.
Here's an idea for you: my Playbook would love to run BBM.
It might also like to load APK files directly.
It's called backporting. A few companies make quite a bit of money at it.
Oracle's Enterprise database costs $47,500 per processor core. There is no way in heck that I'd choose AMD over Intel when I have to run more cores to get the same performance.
Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise costs $6,874 per processor core.
AMD has a heavy investment in the server space. They should negotiate lower per-core license costs in these cases; license parity with Intel is throwing them out of the data center.
As the developers of x86-64, they should have a patent portfolio to do serious damage to 64-bit x86 systems vendors. Use it.
Individual admins may have correctly seen great risk and tried mightily to correct it. Such people are commonly overruled because ease of access trumps data security until the breach is dire.
We are all undergoing a change in focus (especially in IT), as the hostile attack community becomes more prevalent and determined. It will have profound impacts on how we interface with our machines.
In 10 years, the population will look at Android/iOS and think we were insane for carrying such risky devices.
I am already nostalgic for the days when systems were lax and free. We can't live like that anymore.
Below is a DVD of my classical rips, arranged as folders. This is hardly unmanagable.
12/25/2007 10:31 AM Aaron_Copland
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Albinoni-Pachelbel
12/24/2007 09:47 AM Antonio_Vivaldi-6_Flute_Concertos,Op._10-Trevor_Pinnock
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Beethoven_Symphonies_5,6_Karajan
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Chabrier
12/29/2007 12:15 PM Debussy
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Erik_Satie
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Felix_Mendelsohn
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Gabriel_Faure
12/29/2007 01:42 PM Gershwin
12/29/2007 08:32 AM Gershwin-Piano_concerto_in_F
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Glazunov
12/24/2007 11:03 AM Gould,_Glen
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Grieg-Piano_Concerto-Peer_Gynt
12/24/2007 09:03 AM Grofe-Grand_Canyon_Suite
12/24/2007 09:03 AM Handel_Water_Music
12/24/2007 09:50 AM Hubert_Laws-The_Rite_Of_Spring
12/24/2007 09:04 AM J._S._Bach-Brandenburg_Concertos_Nos._1,2,3
12/24/2007 09:04 AM J._S._Bach-Brandenburg_Concertos_Nos._4,5,6
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Jean_Sibelius
12/27/2007 08:31 PM John_Williams-The_Seville_Concert
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Mahler,_Gustav-(1860-1911)-Ljubljana-Symphony_No._1
12/29/2007 08:17 AM Mozart
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Mozart-Concerto_For_Flute&Harp_C_major
12/29/2007 08:33 AM Mussorgsky-Pictures_at_an_Exhibition
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Prokofiev-Classical_Symphony-Ormandy-Philadelphia
12/27/2007 06:35 PM Puccini
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Rachmaninoff
12/31/2007 11:35 AM Ravel
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Rimsky-Korsakov_Capricco_Espagnol_Op.34
12/24/2007 09:05 AM Rimsky-Korsakov_Scheherazade
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Rodrigo-Concierto_de_Aranjuez
12/27/2007 07:53 PM Saint-Saens-Symphony_No._3_Organ
12/24/2007 09:05 AM Schubert_Trout_Quintet
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Tangos
12/24/2007 10:36 AM Tchaikovsky-Symphony_No._5_in_E_Minor_Opus_64
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Trevor_Jones-Richard_III_Soundtrack
12/24/2007 11:02 AM Various-Sorcerer
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Various-The_Glory_of_Gershwin
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Vivaldi-8_Concerti
12/25/2007 10:35 AM Vivaldi-The_Four_Seasons
12/24/2007 10:33 AM X-Bruckner,_Anton-Symphonie_#_4_Es-Dur_Romantische
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Yo-Yo_Ma-Classic_Yo-Yo
If you are storing your music on flash media, you are not likely walking around with a terabyte. What is so unmanagable about a folder interface?
A few words about Linux technologies that originated from solid positions within the IBM camp...
YUM (Yellowdog Updater, Modified)
Yellowdog is a well-known RPM-based Linux distribution for the POWER architecture.
JFS
The OS/2 native filesystem was incorporated into Linux and released to production in June, 2001.
NUMA
IBM's acquisition of Sequent eventually led to NUMA code releases for the kernel which have been particularly appropriate for Hypertransport and QPI - high-performance Linux ows much to IBM.
DB2
While not a free product, the UDB database is likely the largest competetor/option to Oracle on Linux.
Having acquired these powers over decades, no amount of voter insistence will be effective in removing them.
What needs to happen now is at the state level - the legislatures must be convinced to grant themselves greater oversight and control over federal activities.
Article. V. - The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
Our representative democracy was designed in an era where (horse-drawn) transportation was problematic, and the decisions of a few were practical. These conditions no longer exist, and the few are now too easily swayed by money and power. More people need to participate in federal decisions if we wish to (re)establish the consent of the governed.
I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose, directly
or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States
where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no
inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social
equality between the white and the black races. There is a physical
difference between the two, which, in my judgment, will probably forever
forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and
inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as
well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having
the superior position. I have never said anything to the contrary, but I
hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why
the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the
Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness. [Loud cheers.] I hold that he is as much entitled to these
as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many
respects-certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual
endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody
else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge
Douglas, and the equal of every living man. [Great applause.]
Lincoln was a lawyer, and a politician. People attribute something profound to him. I have doubts.
Currently, this lets you run on a dual-core x86, or a single core RISC/Itanium. The SPARC Niagra line had some real discount wierdness, since they present 64 cores to the OS.
Since the planet does not have a strong magnetic field, the surface is lethal.
The Earth is largely protected from the solar wind, a stream of energetic charged particles emanating from the Sun, by its magnetic field, which deflects most of the charged particles. These particles would strip away the ozone layer, which protects the Earth from harmful ultraviolet rays. Calculations of the loss of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere of Mars, resulting from scavenging of ions by the solar wind, are consistent with a near-total loss of its atmosphere since the magnetic field of Mars dissipated.
As has been discussed elsewhere, at the time of arrival on Mars a person would already have received a lifetime's radiation dose.
For entertainment value, RedHat ought to buy EnterpriseDB, open the source code for the Oracle compatibility layer, then shove free PL/SQL compatibility for Postgres into Oracle Linux.
I'm sure that's why Oracle hasn't bought out EnterpriseDB - the moment they tried, the source would start flowing.
The flaw in your logic is the postal service. They are now maintaining images of the exterior of every piece of mail that they process. The exteriors of written correspondence are also part of my effects. This intrusion, useful as it has been, violates the 4th.
Perhaps a convention could clarify our privacy rights - if Google, Verizon, Microsoft, et al. cannot guarantee privacy from all intrusions, then they cannot prevent any intrusions. From this moment forward, all information on 3rd party carriers must be opened to public inspection. Everything. I get to hear all of your phone calls, read all of your email, and see all of your searches, and you get the same access to mine.
The court rulings have established unequal privilege and power for a shadow government, and I do not believe that they are correct. The majority of U.S. citizens appear to agree with me.
We've been having serious national problems in the political realm since Nixon because the powerful think they own the populace and do not have to abide by the rules for the rest of us. What do you suggest we do?
Realistically, the federal government will never relinquish the power that it has usurped - our right to be secure in our persons, papers, and effects will never be respected under the status quo.
The realistic course of action is to focus on state legislatures, and call a convention to forcibly remove these noxious elements from the sphere of federal power. The procedure to do so is quite clear:
Article. V. - The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.
The first question before us is clear: do we have agreeable legislatures in two thirds of the states, to initiate the process?
The next question is what needs to change, from what and to what? Do we need an obudsman, an office with full subpoena power over all the other branches, answerable to state legislatures? That might do it.
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If so, how many surprise reboots have you had over the last two months? This never happens with QNX. PalmWebOS was just Linux; QNX is a different animal. Get a beagle bone to see the technical side. Understand it, and you will appreciate an alternative ecosystem which is superior for many uses.
Blackberry should offer their QNX kernel/userland source code for free to Huaiwai for safe-keeping. This gesture would foster a new ecosystem and provide assurance to the market that the platform will not vaporize.
The marketing agreement should stipulate that Blackberry retains their appstore, and royalties on high-performance units. Low-performance units would be the giveaways to flood cheap carriers.
Blackberry should retain the ability to revoke their OS license to vendors with unacceptable failure rates.
...then license your tablet and phone OS immediately.
The tablet OS never, ever crashes, runs any Gingerbread app, and is a far superior experience to Android. Blackberry should give the OS away for free for any tablet that has CPUs under 1ghz (as long as the vendor writes the drivers).
The phone OS builds on the tablet, will load any .APK, runs other vendors' market apps, and is judged a far, far superior experience by Android converts. Blackberry should give the phone OS away to any vendor running CPUs under 800Mhz (as long as the vendor writes the drivers).
If Blackberry takes market share, it will win. This cannot be done as a vertically-integrated platform.
The first time that I used it, a (very!) convincing ad banner indicated that I had new voicemail.
It's hard to complain when I have unlimited free calls and texting, but I would really prefer more tasteful ads that were intelligently targetted.
There should be a button for all adware: PRESS IF YOU'D NEVER BUY THIS. That would save everybody a lot of grief.
In April 2010, Engadget stated: "the DROID Incredible is the best Android device that you can purchase in America right now."
Verizon is the largest network in the US.
Cyanogenmod is avoiding Verizon's MVNOs because they are supposedly blocking the CM10.1 that I am currently running.
This business model is doomed. You play the hand you're dealt with the people you have.
...is that Cyanogenmod aggressively obsoletes older phones.
I am on Page Plus Cellular. If you look at their phones for sale, everything is Gingerbread. They also don't allow 4G devices on their network without substantial neutering of the firmware. And while they accept most Verizon 3G devices on their network, they strongly suggest that you leave the Verizon firmware intact.
So I run a DINC, which Cyanogenmod long ago put out to pasture, Gingerbread only. Evervolv took it to Android 4.1, and some guy took the Evervolv kernel and jacked it into 4.2.2.
So I run a very reliable phone with recent software on a cheap network with phenomenal coverage. But there is no hope that Cyanogenmod will ever be offered by my vendor (Page Plus) for sale on their network, because Cyanogenmod nukes legacy devices from their source tree.
This is a phenomenally bad business decision. I do not expect them to be successful, and I am not planning to invest.
BlackBerry should license an updated Playbook OS on cheap terms for Chinese tablets. It has its quirks, but it's far better software than most JellyBean implementations. With BB10's ability to run APKs natively, it would knock Android out of the market. BB10 user satisfaction is especially good for Android converts. I have yet to make the Playbook suddenly reboot, which is far too common with most Android. The Playbook probably has equivalent performance of the IPad 2/3, and is far lower in cost. The interface controls are superb. My phone runs cyanogenmod, but I'd love to have another option with a QNX kernel.
Here's an idea for you: my Playbook would love to run BBM. It might also like to load APK files directly. It's called backporting. A few companies make quite a bit of money at it.
Oracle's Enterprise database costs $47,500 per processor core. There is no way in heck that I'd choose AMD over Intel when I have to run more cores to get the same performance.
Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise costs $6,874 per processor core.
AMD has a heavy investment in the server space. They should negotiate lower per-core license costs in these cases; license parity with Intel is throwing them out of the data center.
As the developers of x86-64, they should have a patent portfolio to do serious damage to 64-bit x86 systems vendors. Use it.
Maybe they can get rights for the Declaration of Independence assigned to Jefferson's descendents.
Perhaps we should have to pay to read the U.S. Constitution?
And, certainly, the MLK descendents need to successfully pursue SCO's claims. That is most fitting.
Individual admins may have correctly seen great risk and tried mightily to correct it. Such people are commonly overruled because ease of access trumps data security until the breach is dire.
We are all undergoing a change in focus (especially in IT), as the hostile attack community becomes more prevalent and determined. It will have profound impacts on how we interface with our machines.
In 10 years, the population will look at Android/iOS and think we were insane for carrying such risky devices.
I am already nostalgic for the days when systems were lax and free. We can't live like that anymore.
I've heard of a few interesting access control technologies in my time, and even implemented a few.
Trusted Solaris? Oracle DBMS_FGA? Heck, even somebody who knows Active Directory and the CACLS command?
What is going on there? Who designed this network?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Database
The name Oracle comes from the code-name of a CIA-funded project Ellison had worked on while previously employed by Ampex.
Below is a DVD of my classical rips, arranged as folders. This is hardly unmanagable.
12/25/2007 10:31 AM Aaron_Copland
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Albinoni-Pachelbel
12/24/2007 09:47 AM Antonio_Vivaldi-6_Flute_Concertos,Op._10-Trevor_Pinnock
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Beethoven_Symphonies_5,6_Karajan
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Chabrier
12/29/2007 12:15 PM Debussy
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Erik_Satie
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Felix_Mendelsohn
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Gabriel_Faure
12/29/2007 01:42 PM Gershwin
12/29/2007 08:32 AM Gershwin-Piano_concerto_in_F
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Glazunov
12/24/2007 11:03 AM Gould,_Glen
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Grieg-Piano_Concerto-Peer_Gynt
12/24/2007 09:03 AM Grofe-Grand_Canyon_Suite
12/24/2007 09:03 AM Handel_Water_Music
12/24/2007 09:50 AM Hubert_Laws-The_Rite_Of_Spring
12/24/2007 09:04 AM J._S._Bach-Brandenburg_Concertos_Nos._1,2,3
12/24/2007 09:04 AM J._S._Bach-Brandenburg_Concertos_Nos._4,5,6
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Jean_Sibelius
12/27/2007 08:31 PM John_Williams-The_Seville_Concert
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Mahler,_Gustav-(1860-1911)-Ljubljana-Symphony_No._1
12/29/2007 08:17 AM Mozart
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Mozart-Concerto_For_Flute&Harp_C_major
12/29/2007 08:33 AM Mussorgsky-Pictures_at_an_Exhibition
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Prokofiev-Classical_Symphony-Ormandy-Philadelphia
12/27/2007 06:35 PM Puccini
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Rachmaninoff
12/31/2007 11:35 AM Ravel
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Rimsky-Korsakov_Capricco_Espagnol_Op.34
12/24/2007 09:05 AM Rimsky-Korsakov_Scheherazade
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Rodrigo-Concierto_de_Aranjuez
12/27/2007 07:53 PM Saint-Saens-Symphony_No._3_Organ
12/24/2007 09:05 AM Schubert_Trout_Quintet
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Tangos
12/24/2007 10:36 AM Tchaikovsky-Symphony_No._5_in_E_Minor_Opus_64
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Trevor_Jones-Richard_III_Soundtrack
12/24/2007 11:02 AM Various-Sorcerer
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Various-The_Glory_of_Gershwin
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Vivaldi-8_Concerti
12/25/2007 10:35 AM Vivaldi-The_Four_Seasons
12/24/2007 10:33 AM X-Bruckner,_Anton-Symphonie_#_4_Es-Dur_Romantische
12/24/2007 10:33 AM Yo-Yo_Ma-Classic_Yo-Yo
If you are storing your music on flash media, you are not likely walking around with a terabyte. What is so unmanagable about a folder interface?
A few words about Linux technologies that originated from solid positions within the IBM camp...
YUM (Yellowdog Updater, Modified) Yellowdog is a well-known RPM-based Linux distribution for the POWER architecture. JFS The OS/2 native filesystem was incorporated into Linux and released to production in June, 2001. NUMA IBM's acquisition of Sequent eventually led to NUMA code releases for the kernel which have been particularly appropriate for Hypertransport and QPI - high-performance Linux ows much to IBM. DB2 While not a free product, the UDB database is likely the largest competetor/option to Oracle on Linux.Linux owes a great deal to IBM.
Having acquired these powers over decades, no amount of voter insistence will be effective in removing them.
What needs to happen now is at the state level - the legislatures must be convinced to grant themselves greater oversight and control over federal activities.
Our representative democracy was designed in an era where (horse-drawn) transportation was problematic, and the decisions of a few were practical. These conditions no longer exist, and the few are now too easily swayed by money and power. More people need to participate in federal decisions if we wish to (re)establish the consent of the governed.
Most people find this enlightening:
http://www.nps.gov/liho/historyculture/debate1.htm
Lincoln was a lawyer, and a politician. People attribute something profound to him. I have doubts.
A processor license for Oracle Enterprise database is $47,500.
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/technology-price-list-070617.pdf
Currently, this lets you run on a dual-core x86, or a single core RISC/Itanium. The SPARC Niagra line had some real discount wierdness, since they present 64 cores to the OS.
The syntax is:
alter database recover datafile '/path/to/restored/file.dat';
alter datafile '/path/to/restored/file.dat' online;
I used that on an Oracle 7 database about 2 months ago.
Since the planet does not have a strong magnetic field, the surface is lethal.
As has been discussed elsewhere, at the time of arrival on Mars a person would already have received a lifetime's radiation dose.
For entertainment value, RedHat ought to buy EnterpriseDB, open the source code for the Oracle compatibility layer, then shove free PL/SQL compatibility for Postgres into Oracle Linux.
I'm sure that's why Oracle hasn't bought out EnterpriseDB - the moment they tried, the source would start flowing.
The flaw in your logic is the postal service. They are now maintaining images of the exterior of every piece of mail that they process. The exteriors of written correspondence are also part of my effects. This intrusion, useful as it has been, violates the 4th.
Perhaps a convention could clarify our privacy rights - if Google, Verizon, Microsoft, et al. cannot guarantee privacy from all intrusions, then they cannot prevent any intrusions. From this moment forward, all information on 3rd party carriers must be opened to public inspection. Everything. I get to hear all of your phone calls, read all of your email, and see all of your searches, and you get the same access to mine.
The court rulings have established unequal privilege and power for a shadow government, and I do not believe that they are correct. The majority of U.S. citizens appear to agree with me.
We've been having serious national problems in the political realm since Nixon because the powerful think they own the populace and do not have to abide by the rules for the rest of us. What do you suggest we do?
Realistically, the federal government will never relinquish the power that it has usurped - our right to be secure in our persons, papers, and effects will never be respected under the status quo.
The realistic course of action is to focus on state legislatures, and call a convention to forcibly remove these noxious elements from the sphere of federal power. The procedure to do so is quite clear:
The first question before us is clear: do we have agreeable legislatures in two thirds of the states, to initiate the process?
The next question is what needs to change, from what and to what? Do we need an obudsman, an office with full subpoena power over all the other branches, answerable to state legislatures? That might do it.
Commentary is that Hong Kong was a terrible choice for sanctuary (as they extradite). Does Snowden know something that we do not?
If he is captured, has he prepared the release of more damaging documents?
Does Ecuador have an embassy in Hong Kong? If so, I hope the couches are comfortable, and it's close to Snowden's hotel.