"Most are saying that they are going after google's jme which is quite interesting since google built (Dalvik) themselves to get around these licensing issues"
Oracle/Sun actually make money licensing JVM for mobile use. Google trying to use a technical exploit to escape licensing does seem like a dick move to me. I have no sympathy for Google on this one.
It was clear from the beginning that Sun was agaisn't this, but likely lacked the resources to do anything about it. Sun tried to work with Google in 2007 to clear things up. Google thinking they had found a loophole to exploit, told Sun to go pound sand:
Sun wants to work with Google to nip any problems in the bud. "We're really interested in working with Google to make sure developers don't end up with a fractured environment. We're reaching out to Google and assuming they'll be reaching out to us to ensure these platforms and APIs will be compatible so deployment on a wide variety of platforms will be possible," Green said.
Google unrepentant Google didn't adopt a terribly conciliatory tone in its response, arguing that when it comes to Java fragmentation, Android is the solution, not the problem.
To me it looks like Google said screw licensing. We are Google, we can do what we want...
Seriously? Exo PC? I hope these guys didn't invest much of their own money trying to get a company off the ground with it's first product being a windows tablet.
Windows Tablets are going to get a small part of the market and then these guys will get a negligible part of that market because the vast majority are going to get an ASUS or some other recognizable brand if they buy a windows tablet.
"Denial: Measurements are wrong - and the sun did it (despite the solar minimum)."
Yeah you have to love this one. I encountered it today from an ignorant Denier, claiming it was the sun because we were at a Solar Maximum.
Which was the line from paid deniers(liars) several years ago. This guy must have been a clueless parrot that was just regurgitating old nonsense he didn't understand.
Currently we are in the deepest solar minimum in Decades. The more up to date shills (liars) are now proclaiming the great solar minimum will counter GW.:rolleyes:
According to GM spokespersons Robert Peterson in Michigan and Shad Balch in California, GM decided in 2007 when it committed to series production of the Volt, to not seek California Air Resources Board AT-PZEV certification. Instead, the decision was made to certify the car in all 50 United States. ARB certification would have required, both GM executives explained, additional testing and since California's air quality regulators had yet to figure out how to classify the Volt, GM felt it was more important to continue the accelerated development program and get the car out by the Fall of 2010 then wait for ARB to come up with a way to categorize what will be for many drivers essentially an all-electric car, while for other who driver further distances each day, a hybrid.
Yes. This makes it almost useless for cars. I would love a laptop SCIB.
These have terrible energy density.
A current battery, limited to using 80% capacity, is much better than one with 25% capacity being able to use 100% of that capacity.
There are lots of interesting battery tech that has either long cycle life, fast charging or high energy density. We need one that has some intersection of these abilities.
Energy Density is especially important. With it this low, I consider this a non starter for cars.
D&D doesn't require any set number of characters. Modules were setup that way in P&P because it was a social game. NWN has rogue moduels, fighter modules, mage modules etc... Open class modules, supplied character modules, there are no limits.
In CRPGs my preference is actually single character control, not party control. You can play the vast majority of NWN modules with just your single character. That is part of making a unique experience. Play again as any combo of 20+ classes and change the experience.
Character building feels so pointless in DA that they may as well hide the whole thing. It just feels much more like a simplistic console game to me.
Everyone can have an opinion. But I uninstalled Dragon Age not long after finishing it. The RPG system just seems empty. I am still playing NWN (I played just this weekend past). NWN is my all time favorite Bioware game. I have played all the original modules multiple times, I have played perhaps twenty-five excellent third party modules, I have played in online worlds. I am waiting for further modules in some excellent series I have played.
NWN was the end of the golden age of free lan play, free online multiplayer, free online worlds...
I was a huge Bioware fan. I don't buy a lot of games, but my shelf is dominated by Bioware. BG,BG2,NWN, KOTOR, KOTOR2.
But Dragon Age was a disappointment for me. It looked pretty but the RPG engine seems light weight and limited. It felt very dumbed down compared to the D&D based system in NWN. Plus the move to selling in game items was a big turn off.
I won't be looking into DA2.
I will just keep playing NWN from that better, pre EA era of Bioware.
Strongest one I have ever felt. I felt and extremely minor one before and slept through the last one.
I am on the 4th floor. Significant shaking for about 30 seconds. Long enough to walk into several different rooms, then decide to retreat from vibrating windows in case they shattered(didn't know enough to know if it peaked). There seemed to be almost another minute of very gentle rocking that was still moving the monitor etc... Turned on a Radio to find out where the epicenter was. Figured it had to be pretty close.
The dual digital screens for reading a novel are not an advantage at all. They actually make it more cumbersome to deal with.
You have dual open pages in a paper book because of the way pages are bound, there is no advantage to carrying over this paper artifact to digital except in rare cases.
With a digital reader you simply page instantly to the next page, no need to have two screens, look at one, then the other, then page them both.
This is one of those niche ideas that looks cool at first but in reality has very little to recommend it considering the rise in cost/complexity/weight to deliver its few marginal benefits.
"1) The US doesn't offshore research more than it sends offshore anything else."
Hardly. Are we off-shoring lawyers/traders/finance people as much? I think not.
We off-shore manufacturing more. Bad enough but not the outright failure that off-shoring research is.
Off-Shoring research is short term thinking and a long term mistake. Where do your next generation of startups come from? Laborers, or researchers? It should be obvious how much more detrimental it is to off-shore research than manufacturing. You also encourage the effect discussed here. Avoiding the outsourced careers.
So is it 12 inches with perfect vision you can still detect pixels.
How representative of typical vision is the eye he is using for this example? Perfect?
What portion of the population can even focus comfortably at 12". That is pretty damn close. I doubt anyone over 40 can accommodate that focus point without reading glasses.
I am over 40, and 16-18 inches is in the comfortable close focus range. I played with a friends iPhone and I don't remember noticing pixels on the old one. But I wasn't looking for them.
IMO other than in Pedantic arguments, 326 dpi is likely overkill, especially on a phone.
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"I wonder if this could be as big and as interesting(for the geek community) a fight as SCO v Novell"
Nope because this one is much more grey.
I am on Oracles side on this one. Google tried to exploit a technical loophole to get around licensing. Dirty pool IMO.
Every other mobile implementation is licensed, but Google thought they were special and could get around it.
Sun tried to resolve this in 2007 and Google told them to go pound sand.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_3-9817048-39.html
"Most are saying that they are going after google's jme which is quite interesting since google built (Dalvik) themselves to get around these licensing issues"
Oracle/Sun actually make money licensing JVM for mobile use. Google trying to use a technical exploit to escape licensing does seem like a dick move to me. I have no sympathy for Google on this one.
It was clear from the beginning that Sun was agaisn't this, but likely lacked the resources to do anything about it. Sun tried to work with Google in 2007 to clear things up. Google thinking they had found a loophole to exploit, told Sun to go pound sand:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_3-9817048-39.html
Sun wants to work with Google to nip any problems in the bud. "We're really interested in working with Google to make sure developers don't end up with a fractured environment. We're reaching out to Google and assuming they'll be reaching out to us to ensure these platforms and APIs will be compatible so deployment on a wide variety of platforms will be possible," Green said.
Google unrepentant
Google didn't adopt a terribly conciliatory tone in its response, arguing that when it comes to Java fragmentation, Android is the solution, not the problem.
To me it looks like Google said screw licensing. We are Google, we can do what we want...
So many mediocre tablets from startups trying to cash in.
How about a quality unit from a top tier company?
BTW just read this bombshell.
Oracle is now suing Android over Java!!!
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15762198?nclick_check=1
There are announcements of Windows Embedded Compact (AKD Win CE) 7 tablets:
http://wmpoweruser.com/asus-eee-pad-ep101tc-first-windows-ce-7-tablet-announced/
(yes I know there was announcement dumping WinCE for Android, but there was a counter saying it was still going ahead).
There exist Windows 7 tablets:
http://www.archos.com/products/nb/archos_9/design.html?country=us&lang=en
So is this yet another previously unknown flavor to further muddy the waters?
"such as this splendid exo pc tablet"
Seriously? Exo PC? I hope these guys didn't invest much of their own money trying to get a company off the ground with it's first product being a windows tablet.
Windows Tablets are going to get a small part of the market and then these guys will get a negligible part of that market because the vast majority are going to get an ASUS or some other recognizable brand if they buy a windows tablet.
"Denial: Measurements are wrong - and the sun did it (despite the solar minimum)."
Yeah you have to love this one. I encountered it today from an ignorant Denier, claiming it was the sun because we were at a Solar Maximum.
Which was the line from paid deniers(liars) several years ago. This guy must have been a clueless parrot that was just regurgitating old nonsense he didn't understand.
Currently we are in the deepest solar minimum in Decades. The more up to date shills (liars) are now proclaiming the great solar minimum will counter GW.:rolleyes:
Won't there be Centrifugal/Centripetal forces from the drive wheel it is running inside?
Or do these forces not exist because the rubber band is essentially stable in it's position inside the wheel?
http://www.evworld.com/article.cfm?storyid=1896
According to GM spokespersons Robert Peterson in Michigan and Shad Balch in California, GM decided in 2007 when it committed to series production of the Volt, to not seek California Air Resources Board AT-PZEV certification. Instead, the decision was made to certify the car in all 50 United States. ARB certification would have required, both GM executives explained, additional testing and since California's air quality regulators had yet to figure out how to classify the Volt, GM felt it was more important to continue the accelerated development program and get the car out by the Fall of 2010 then wait for ARB to come up with a way to categorize what will be for many drivers essentially an all-electric car, while for other who driver further distances each day, a hybrid.
Yes. This makes it almost useless for cars. I would love a laptop SCIB.
These have terrible energy density.
A current battery, limited to using 80% capacity, is much better than one with 25% capacity being able to use 100% of that capacity.
There are lots of interesting battery tech that has either long cycle life, fast charging or high energy density. We need one that has some intersection of these abilities.
Energy Density is especially important. With it this low, I consider this a non starter for cars.
Mytype seems to be one of those net firms that have banner adds to tell you your personality type.
By posting something like this, they get themselves tons of free press. Well done for them.
As far as selfish elites. I don't have an iPad but I was thinking it would be perfect for my retired mom who can't master a mouse...
"They could have just gone to Japan and stole from Toyota, much closer to home...."
The Japanese aren't so eager to hire cheaper Chinese engineers to save a few bucks.
Meanwhile GM was probably lobbying to expand the H1-B program to get more cheap Chinese Labor...
NSN were the stalking horse on Nortel CDMA/LTE infrastructure bidding, that Ericsson won for just over a billion.
Nortel had a larger CDMA (major piece NSN is missing) market share than Motorola, so now it looks like they paid more for less.
D&D doesn't require any set number of characters. Modules were setup that way in P&P because it was a social game. NWN has rogue moduels, fighter modules, mage modules etc... Open class modules, supplied character modules, there are no limits.
In CRPGs my preference is actually single character control, not party control. You can play the vast majority of NWN modules with just your single character. That is part of making a unique experience. Play again as any combo of 20+ classes and change the experience.
Character building feels so pointless in DA that they may as well hide the whole thing. It just feels much more like a simplistic console game to me.
Everyone can have an opinion. But I uninstalled Dragon Age not long after finishing it. The RPG system just seems empty. I am still playing NWN (I played just this weekend past). NWN is my all time favorite Bioware game. I have played all the original modules multiple times, I have played perhaps twenty-five excellent third party modules, I have played in online worlds. I am waiting for further modules in some excellent series I have played.
NWN was the end of the golden age of free lan play, free online multiplayer, free online worlds...
I was a huge Bioware fan. I don't buy a lot of games, but my shelf is dominated by Bioware. BG,BG2,NWN, KOTOR, KOTOR2.
But Dragon Age was a disappointment for me. It looked pretty but the RPG engine seems light weight and limited. It felt very dumbed down compared to the D&D based system in NWN. Plus the move to selling in game items was a big turn off.
I won't be looking into DA2.
I will just keep playing NWN from that better, pre EA era of Bioware.
It was nowhere near as free as the camera in NWN.
So far the early OLED cell phones are worse than LCDs. The need to try to overpower the sun for visibilty which isn't a great idea.
Transreflective solutions will win in these circumstances.
Strongest one I have ever felt. I felt and extremely minor one before and slept through the last one.
I am on the 4th floor. Significant shaking for about 30 seconds. Long enough to walk into several different rooms, then decide to retreat from vibrating windows in case they shattered(didn't know enough to know if it peaked). There seemed to be almost another minute of very gentle rocking that was still moving the monitor etc... Turned on a Radio to find out where the epicenter was. Figured it had to be pretty close.
The dual digital screens for reading a novel are not an advantage at all. They actually make it more cumbersome to deal with.
You have dual open pages in a paper book because of the way pages are bound, there is no advantage to carrying over this paper artifact to digital except in rare cases.
With a digital reader you simply page instantly to the next page, no need to have two screens, look at one, then the other, then page them both.
This is one of those niche ideas that looks cool at first but in reality has very little to recommend it considering the rise in cost/complexity/weight to deliver its few marginal benefits.
I wasn't using peer block. I got a constant 800KB/s +. Why would media sentry interfere with a legit free download?
Really. It is nearly maxing out my 10Mb/s connection. 25% done and no bad hashes.
"1) The US doesn't offshore research more than it sends offshore anything else."
Hardly. Are we off-shoring lawyers/traders/finance people as much? I think not.
We off-shore manufacturing more. Bad enough but not the outright failure that off-shoring research is.
Off-Shoring research is short term thinking and a long term mistake. Where do your next generation of startups come from? Laborers, or researchers? It should be obvious how much more detrimental it is to off-shore research than manufacturing. You also encourage the effect discussed here. Avoiding the outsourced careers.
So is it 12 inches with perfect vision you can still detect pixels.
How representative of typical vision is the eye he is using for this example? Perfect?
What portion of the population can even focus comfortably at 12". That is pretty damn close. I doubt anyone over 40 can accommodate that focus point without reading glasses.
I am over 40, and 16-18 inches is in the comfortable close focus range. I played with a friends iPhone and I don't remember noticing pixels on the old one. But I wasn't looking for them.
IMO other than in Pedantic arguments, 326 dpi is likely overkill, especially on a phone.
Why didn't they report the effects on the non addicts as well?
Also how much can you drink and remain un-habituated/un-addicted.
"I think that there is a reason that Native Client is a key component:"
That just means they can do higher performance apps in the browser (or browser playing an OS).
It doesn't mean I can use it to run the plethora of native apps I already have.
I know some are putting Android on Tablets, but it doesn't look like it is supported by Google.
I was looking forward to more Tablet optimized Android from Google (certification, higher official resolutions, etc).
Now with Chrome, they may choose to promote Chrome for tablets instead and not bother with tablet optimizations.