Apple had a fine language 20 years ago. It was said to influence the design of Ruby and Python. They butchered it into an Algol-like syntax because 'real programmers' can't grok s-expressions. Then they abandoned Dylan.
Next, they created a language for mobile devices. Its programming model was said influence the design of JavaScript. Then they abandoned NewtonScript.
The difference is, HTML5 isn't just another platform. Every smartphone includes a web engine capable of parsing HTML/CSS/JS.
So any app written for Firefox OS is *theoretically* instantly portable to any other smartphone. I say theoretically because each gecko alternative (webkit etc) needs to implement the Javascript APIs that Mozilla are standardising through the W3C.
(In the meantime, target a common api like Cordova)
HTML5 apps might never achieve the 'shiny' of an objective-c native app but for many scenarios it would suffice.
What would be better is a single, industry-standard API for smartphones.
So Firefox OS may lose the battle of market penetration. But Mozilla the web company will win the war if they've shown it's feasible to implement any smartphone app using the building blocks of the web.
Asa answered this question elsewhere to the extent that the company supplying the hardware has a 12 month contract to supply updates.
So probably not much official support from the manufacturer but the ability to build from source by being an official Mozilla build target. Hence as much support from the b2g community as Nexus devices do.
Firefox OS uses the Android infrastructure for builds. It is powered by Qualcomm. So should be relatively easy to port Cyanogenmod to it, were one to switch OSes.
As long as you're happy running an alpha browser on an alpha OS. Pardon me if I feel safer with respect to timely security updates on a mature platform.
How does a platform utilising llvmpipe for acceleration choke on full-HD HTML5 video and WebGL?
Does haiku provide touch input on par with modern environments such as KDE 5.x and Windows 8.1?
But saying Mozilla shouldn't build it because it won't be supported on someone's pet dead platform doesn't convince me. If 'the industry' see any money to be made, they'll make DRM available on said platforms.
kubuntu is just a series of packages contributed to the Ubuntu repositories, yes. Canonical doesn't invest time in packaging and testing KDE though, this is handled by the community.
Though the Kubuntu maintainers face a split in the next year or so as to whether they adopt XMir or switch to a shiny new Wayland-based experience...
So perhaps we'll see porting efforts directed more to creating a nice ISO for upstream debian, respun as KDEbian?:)
Language is only one thing being learned here - the elderly, if they bother to listen, will learn much about contemporary Brazilian culture.
For what it's worth, there are programs for retirees to learn languages - through seniors organisations such as U3A. One mightn't get as fluent as a teenager learning a language but it is possible.
Anyway, I'm 40 and if I started now, I'd be fluent in sign language by the time I'm in a home at age 90:)
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Surely you jest, Tony is making a splash with O'Bama as we speak. :)
Is there a half-life on Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?
They won't let "mad cows" from Britain donate here in Australia. But the outbreak over there was a couple of decades ago.
Zefram Cochrane has another 49 years to 'invent' warp technology.
A primitive society as found on Earth is of little interest.
So the future of computing is a hypervisor, booting Linux inside a pseudo-ramdisk where 'legacy' f/s operations are optimised away?
Stable exists. Run the Eric S Raymond release (ESR), which is currently pinned to v24.
Apple had a fine language 20 years ago. It was said to influence the design of Ruby and Python. They butchered it into an Algol-like syntax because 'real programmers' can't grok s-expressions. Then they abandoned Dylan.
Next, they created a language for mobile devices. Its programming model was said influence the design of JavaScript. Then they abandoned NewtonScript.
Last season's model - you'll most likely see Beats tech only on Apple gear.
Because these 2 kids building a console in their garage don't want, as per the previous story, Apple releasing a new product based on their ideas.
I don't know what brand loyalty is like but in my country it'd be
1. Apple
2. Samsung
3. HTC.
4. Sony xperia
5. Whatever market share is left of BB and Nokia
6. Moto and LG.
Does the USA have a strong 'buy American' ethos still?
I figure they'd have done better if they ditched the Motorola brand and just marketed Google phones.
So any app written for Firefox OS is *theoretically* instantly portable to any other smartphone. I say theoretically because each gecko alternative (webkit etc) needs to implement the Javascript APIs that Mozilla are standardising through the W3C.
(In the meantime, target a common api like Cordova)
HTML5 apps might never achieve the 'shiny' of an objective-c native app but for many scenarios it would suffice.
So Firefox OS may lose the battle of market penetration. But Mozilla the web company will win the war if they've shown it's feasible to implement any smartphone app using the building blocks of the web.
Asa answered this question elsewhere to the extent that the company supplying the hardware has a 12 month contract to supply updates.
So probably not much official support from the manufacturer but the ability to build from source by being an official Mozilla build target. Hence as much support from the b2g community as Nexus devices do.
Firefox OS uses the Android infrastructure for builds. It is powered by Qualcomm. So should be relatively easy to port Cyanogenmod to it, were one to switch OSes.
Example kernel module written in rust, for those interested...
https://github.com/tsgates/rus...
As long as you're happy running an alpha browser on an alpha OS. Pardon me if I feel safer with respect to timely security updates on a mature platform.
How does a platform utilising llvmpipe for acceleration choke on full-HD HTML5 video and WebGL?
Does haiku provide touch input on par with modern environments such as KDE 5.x and Windows 8.1?
With any modular code design, compiling binaries that don't include said functionality should be a piece of cake.
Debian, for example, already does debranded IceWeasel builds. Just disable it in the makefile!
I'm not saying I endorse DRM.
But saying Mozilla shouldn't build it because it won't be supported on someone's pet dead platform doesn't convince me. If 'the industry' see any money to be made, they'll make DRM available on said platforms.
Correct me if I'm wrong but Flash on Linux is Chrome-only now?
They went with a new plugin architecture that Mozilla doesn't use and on Android have discontinued the player.
How so?
Firefox is OS-neutral. You can port it to your obscure OS to your heart's content.
In the case of any proprietary code the DRM layer runs, well the BSDs have long provided an emulation layer for linux-specific binaries.
Surely the birds shit on both sides of the river, disregarding the formal political boundaries of the National Capital Region?
If you read the article, GooseBuster is deploying in other locations besides Petrie, including the Gatineau side.
'back in the day' ?
Turkey is a "new world" bird, so was unknown in medieval Europe.
Could they not just patch that in software - like emulating an FPU on 486SX ?
Sounds like a feature. :)
thanks for the heads up.
Amazon have spammed me 3 times on linked in about hiring events in Melbourne. I went once but didn't get past the hiring process.
KDE 4 works acceptably on a 32 bit CPU.
What FUD are you spreading that version 5 will be 64bit only?
kubuntu is just a series of packages contributed to the Ubuntu repositories, yes. Canonical doesn't invest time in packaging and testing KDE though, this is handled by the community.
Though the Kubuntu maintainers face a split in the next year or so as to whether they adopt XMir or switch to a shiny new Wayland-based experience...
So perhaps we'll see porting efforts directed more to creating a nice ISO for upstream debian, respun as KDEbian? :)
Language is only one thing being learned here - the elderly, if they bother to listen, will learn much about contemporary Brazilian culture.
For what it's worth, there are programs for retirees to learn languages - through seniors organisations such as U3A. One mightn't get as fluent as a teenager learning a language but it is possible.
Anyway, I'm 40 and if I started now, I'd be fluent in sign language by the time I'm in a home at age 90 :)