But the problem is the checkbox is all or nothing - either you only use Google Play, or you allow everything.
I run CM11 on old 2.3.x hardware. Due to space limitations, google apps won't fit on the device alongside the standard armv6 ROM so I use f-droid.
So yeah, toggling the checkbox does increase the chance that a user will inadvertently access a hyperlink to install a random.apk
I have more faith in the f-droid repo of FOSS more than I do random apps on Google Play! It would be nice if CM provided an option to keep the checkbox for app delivery but allow the user to override a list of trusted repositories, i.e. f-droid. (Of course perhaps I should get off my lazy arse and code the thing!)
You would concede that authenticating a us-government criminal database is irrelevant for the vast majority of internet traffic.
Such functionality doesn't belong in a core crypto library for linking against the thousands of software packages that make up the OpenBSD ports collection - which otherwise don't require it to work.
Maintain it as an add-on module if you must. It should be disabled by default unless a user specifically requires said functionality.
Well as others have pointed out, the included stylus with the surface pro isn't bad value if that's your cup of tea.
It's positioned for those who want a tablet AND a notebook computer but not BOTH.
Has it the impetus to worry the market leader, Apple? Not so far, as no hybrid reintegrationalist device (combining iOS and OS X) has been launched.
Would I consider buying one if I needed a portable computer? Well if it hurts MS financially and as long as the UEFI startup allows me to load my own bootloader, it's a challenger...
Show me a tablet with 8GB of RAM running Eclipse and the Android SDK and I'll believe you.
Windows 8.1 on a Surface Pro is self-hosting. Android isn't - I think there was even an obscure clause in the SDK licensing forbidding certain portions from being distributed on a device.
These APUs embed an ARM Cortex-A5 'PSP' for trusted computing.
I'm wondering whether this arm core is utilized with respect to running Android apps, via AMD's collaboration with Bluestacks.
A Cortex A5 is no speed demon compared to the quad-core beasts powering your smartphone. But it would only have to execute dalvik bytecode for an app, with an amd64 chip running the Windows host OS.
(AMD haven't indicated they want to enter the Android market but this might give them an advantage over Bay Trail tablets, which rely on libhoudini to translate ARM binaries to x86-64)
I think we should be very careful about dummying down curriculum based on preconceptions of what the average child is NOT capable of. A prescriptive approach would be to identify real world industry mathematics and simplify it for 10 year olds.
My lasting memories of primary school mathematics were
(a) rote-learning the 12-times table. Why stop at twelve? The metric system had replaced feet and inches in my country before I was born. A useful upgrade would be extending that to 16, so that a generation of students can easily master hexadecimal.
(b) learning angles, areas and volumes with degrees. Why does a circle have 360 degrees? because Babylonians used base 60. But for calculating circumference, you need to multiply the diameter by a magic fraction of 22/7. When I learnt trig much later, I was amazed by the simplicity of the unit circle and how grade 3 mathematics seemed so confusing as an 8yo by comparison. Radians are a far more intuitive concept. From there, polar coordinates aren't that much of a leap.
You mention logic - the foundations of mathematical logic, i.e. de morgan's laws could be taught in several afternoons using brightly coloured Venn Diagrams.
reading the 'rampage' comments, they're removing quirks, or hacks for obscure or archaic platforms such as ultrix, hp-ux and cray. They mention using a c-library function which does the work of several functions but later it's mentioned that not all platforms implement that library function, since it wasn't part of POSIX.
As for missing c-library functions, implementing those would no doubt help porting of other software packages to a platform that lacks them. (Not possible with proprietary vendors, naturally)
So what % is actually OpenBSD specific, that won't run unmodified on current platforms using defacto standard compilers such as gcc or clang with a modern c-library?
She will benefit when she can get a top specced phone from a generic Chinese factory for a fifth of the price of the latest Galaxy model because now *anyone* can become a smartphone assembler.
replaceable is swapping in extra RAM, upgrading the camera, swapping out the display for a holographic projector, swapping out the battery for a pico nuclear fusion cell, transferring your Cherry 2000's conscience from one skeleton to another, etc.
A truly extensible system would leave all your peripheral components intact and even swap in a new brain - e.g. dumping your Cortex A9 for a shiny new Atom Bay Trail. Dalvik bytecode is processor agnostic and linux is multiarch, so...
That was not my point at all. The question is whether, in an era of interchangeable hardware components, whether Apple can make MORE money for shareholders through their online store by selling to consumers who would never buy a premium Apple handset.
Yes, I'm aware mac clones were tried last millennium but Apple's business model was different - today it's about the apple store.
You mention Samsung, they continue to threaten to move away from Android because they don't get their fair share from Google Play.
... if they get out of the hardware business and reinvent themselves as a software/content company. If hardware margins diminish, they could still make money on app sales, books, music and movies.
Current market share is what, optimistically, 25% ? That's 3/4 of the market that aren't iTunes customers.
Tie the iOS ROM specifically to an Apple A7 and charge OEMs a fee per CPU/ROM component.
Drivers? Develop an iOS shim over whatever Google is proposing for Android. Better yet, support os independent drivers e.g. efi bytecode.
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I run CM11 on old 2.3.x hardware. Due to space limitations, google apps won't fit on the device alongside the standard armv6 ROM so I use f-droid.
So yeah, toggling the checkbox does increase the chance that a user will inadvertently access a hyperlink to install a random .apk
I have more faith in the f-droid repo of FOSS more than I do random apps on Google Play! It would be nice if CM provided an option to keep the checkbox for app delivery but allow the user to override a list of trusted repositories, i.e. f-droid. (Of course perhaps I should get off my lazy arse and code the thing!)
You would concede that authenticating a us-government criminal database is irrelevant for the vast majority of internet traffic.
Such functionality doesn't belong in a core crypto library for linking against the thousands of software packages that make up the OpenBSD ports collection - which otherwise don't require it to work.
Maintain it as an add-on module if you must. It should be disabled by default unless a user specifically requires said functionality.
Some may view that as a feature. :)
Now that Benedict is no longer pope, isn't it time you came up with a new meme? :)
Well as others have pointed out, the included stylus with the surface pro isn't bad value if that's your cup of tea.
It's positioned for those who want a tablet AND a notebook computer but not BOTH.
Has it the impetus to worry the market leader, Apple? Not so far, as no hybrid reintegrationalist device (combining iOS and OS X) has been launched.
Would I consider buying one if I needed a portable computer? Well if it hurts MS financially and as long as the UEFI startup allows me to load my own bootloader, it's a challenger...
Show me a tablet with 8GB of RAM running Eclipse and the Android SDK and I'll believe you.
Windows 8.1 on a Surface Pro is self-hosting. Android isn't - I think there was even an obscure clause in the SDK licensing forbidding certain portions from being distributed on a device.
Doctor Who predates BASIC by 6 months. Coincidence?
You ain't seen nothing yet.
Just wait until KDE 5.0 is released with Qt 5.x on Wayland.
The future, folks. Only performance will suck on my GMA 950 integrated graphics. :)
These APUs embed an ARM Cortex-A5 'PSP' for trusted computing.
I'm wondering whether this arm core is utilized with respect to running Android apps, via AMD's collaboration with Bluestacks.
A Cortex A5 is no speed demon compared to the quad-core beasts powering your smartphone. But it would only have to execute dalvik bytecode for an app, with an amd64 chip running the Windows host OS.
(AMD haven't indicated they want to enter the Android market but this might give them an advantage over Bay Trail tablets, which rely on libhoudini to translate ARM binaries to x86-64)
Without Shatner, no Space Teens
I think we should be very careful about dummying down curriculum based on preconceptions of what the average child is NOT capable of. A prescriptive approach would be to identify real world industry mathematics and simplify it for 10 year olds.
My lasting memories of primary school mathematics were
(a) rote-learning the 12-times table. Why stop at twelve? The metric system had replaced feet and inches in my country before I was born. A useful upgrade would be extending that to 16, so that a generation of students can easily master hexadecimal.
(b) learning angles, areas and volumes with degrees. Why does a circle have 360 degrees? because Babylonians used base 60. But for calculating circumference, you need to multiply the diameter by a magic fraction of 22/7. When I learnt trig much later, I was amazed by the simplicity of the unit circle and how grade 3 mathematics seemed so confusing as an 8yo by comparison. Radians are a far more intuitive concept. From there, polar coordinates aren't that much of a leap.
You mention logic - the foundations of mathematical logic, i.e. de morgan's laws could be taught in several afternoons using brightly coloured Venn Diagrams.
Mainstream adoption of functional principles? Target developers on mainstream runtimes (JVM, CLR) with languages such as clojure and F#.
In Meijer's case he explores Monads within Scala in the following course:
https://www.coursera.org/cours...
He gives as simple a layman's definition of Monads as possible, in fact deliberately sidestepping the mathematics behind it.
He displays it publicly on his website, so hasn't tried to hide the fact.
Y'know, maybe it's a marketing ploy to get one of the 3.5M slashdot readers to discuss business opportunities/offer him a job?
Wouldn't razor-qt meet their goals?
(Except it's GPL2 and so we're back to the holy wars)
Is that a good thing or a bad thing though? :)
reading the 'rampage' comments, they're removing quirks, or hacks for obscure or archaic platforms such as ultrix, hp-ux and cray. They mention using a c-library function which does the work of several functions but later it's mentioned that not all platforms implement that library function, since it wasn't part of POSIX.
As for missing c-library functions, implementing those would no doubt help porting of other software packages to a platform that lacks them. (Not possible with proprietary vendors, naturally)
So what % is actually OpenBSD specific, that won't run unmodified on current platforms using defacto standard compilers such as gcc or clang with a modern c-library?
Heartbleed was an issue targetting OpenSSL.
Apple write their own library for Darwin, viz the recent 'goto' bug.
so why expect them to join an industry conglomerate that has limited relevance to their products?
This announcement comes days after openbsd has launched libreSSL.
So the Linux Foundation has a fundamental distaste for Theo? Does the world really need two competing forks of OpenSSL?
Grandma won't be assembling them from scratch.
She will benefit when she can get a top specced phone from a generic Chinese factory for a fifth of the price of the latest Galaxy model because now *anyone* can become a smartphone assembler.
Smaller components, bigger battery.
by memory you mean storage via an SD-card, no?
replaceable is swapping in extra RAM, upgrading the camera, swapping out the display for a holographic projector, swapping out the battery for a pico nuclear fusion cell, transferring your Cherry 2000's conscience from one skeleton to another, etc.
A truly extensible system would leave all your peripheral components intact and even swap in a new brain - e.g. dumping your Cortex A9 for a shiny new Atom Bay Trail. Dalvik bytecode is processor agnostic and linux is multiarch, so...
I thought Soulskill was a shell script. :)
Aren't stories automatically selected by upvoting on firehose?
That was not my point at all. The question is whether, in an era of interchangeable hardware components, whether Apple can make MORE money for shareholders through their online store by selling to consumers who would never buy a premium Apple handset.
Yes, I'm aware mac clones were tried last millennium but Apple's business model was different - today it's about the apple store.
You mention Samsung, they continue to threaten to move away from Android because they don't get their fair share from Google Play.
... if they get out of the hardware business and reinvent themselves as a software/content company. If hardware margins diminish, they could still make money on app sales, books, music and movies.
Current market share is what, optimistically, 25% ? That's 3/4 of the market that aren't iTunes customers.
Tie the iOS ROM specifically to an Apple A7 and charge OEMs a fee per CPU/ROM component.
Drivers? Develop an iOS shim over whatever Google is proposing for Android. Better yet, support os independent drivers e.g. efi bytecode.
sarcasm, hold your fire.
Parent is saying Theo and team are worthy stewards of ssh and will again be so regarding ssl.
This is a permanent fork akin to KHTML -> Webkit.
There is Buckley's chance OpenSSL will survive in any relevant fashion in its original form.