It'd be nice if MS would officially support loading standard win32 applications, compiled for ARM, without jailbreaking though.
Now obviously they want to avoid a situation where a consumer tries to install a shrink-wrapped x86 program that won't run on a different architecture - but there are other means. e.g. distributing platform specific binaries through the Windows store.
gcj is largely abandonware since distros adopted openjdk.
(There might still be a case for an AOT compiler to replace hotspot but I'm not sure Excelsior JET has much industry adoption - at least not in the enterprises I worked at.)
A smart move by Intel. They need to grow the mindshare of hackers - much like the beagleboard made OMAP a popular choice for people hacking on smartphones.
For the poweruser an Intel smartphone can then multi-boot Windows 7/Ubuntu/Firefox OS/Android according to their whim.
i.e. develop a community with Android & FFOS mature on a single board computer and the results will flow to x86 phones and tablets. With Intel favouring Intel HD over PowerVR solutions, mature FOSS drivers are an advantage over the vendor blobs of Mali/Adreno/Tegra.
I've had several cables whose plastic clippy endy things have snapped off, including ones with rubber covers. They still work but you have to hold the cable in place, rather than the satisfying click that normally accompanies inserting the cable.
That's just from carrying the cable in a laptop bag and plugging it in each day.
Well back when Symbian was king and before Kickstarter, there was a phone platform for tinkerers - Neo 1973/Freerunner.
Suffice to say it died. A main reason was software - few people wanted to pay for a half-finished platform. Today, numerous alternatives exist to windows phone and iOS. e.g. Android, Sailfish, Tizen, Firefox OS.
So a feasible crowd-funded project might be to hire, full time, a few kernel hackers to write blob replacements for replicant and integrate the free GPU efforts of rpi/lima/freedreno. Outsourcing the hardware to ZTE and Geeksphone, based on schematics from the Google/Moto modular smartphone project Ara.
I thought that was the point of compulsory superannuation. Entrust 10%, or thereabouts, of your pay packet to a benevolent fund manager to invest on your behalf for 40 years.
Within 3 generations, aged pensions could be eradicated, all the while lining the pockets of the 'right' that own the financial institutions.
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It'd be nice if MS would officially support loading standard win32 applications, compiled for ARM, without jailbreaking though.
Now obviously they want to avoid a situation where a consumer tries to install a shrink-wrapped x86 program that won't run on a different architecture - but there are other means. e.g. distributing platform specific binaries through the Windows store.
gcj is largely abandonware since distros adopted openjdk.
(There might still be a case for an AOT compiler to replace hotspot but I'm not sure Excelsior JET has much industry adoption - at least not in the enterprises I worked at.)
Early to bed and early to rise
Makes a man or woman
Miss out on the nightlife
RIP Mark Sandman.
A smart move by Intel. They need to grow the mindshare of hackers - much like the beagleboard made OMAP a popular choice for people hacking on smartphones.
For the poweruser an Intel smartphone can then multi-boot Windows 7/Ubuntu/Firefox OS/Android according to their whim.
i.e. develop a community with Android & FFOS mature on a single board computer and the results will flow to x86 phones and tablets. With Intel favouring Intel HD over PowerVR solutions, mature FOSS drivers are an advantage over the vendor blobs of Mali/Adreno/Tegra.
Why is MATE in all capitals?
It's not spelled that way in Uruguayan Spanish. Did they invent a witty backronym?
Why not use Okular?
I thought all the hipsters had switched to car-pooling in Teslas?
Judging by the number of slashvertisements...
Add the quarter of a million Japanese murdered by President Truman.
Leave the shit in the ground lest a 'rogue state' break the truce of mutually assured destruction. *cough* Al Qaeda *cough*
I'll wait for the mac nano.
They could halve the price if they abandoned Intel for their own A7 chip. i.e. iPad internals with 8GB RAM running OS X.
Gavin was probably drinking tea at the time.
Tea from Sri Lanka, e.g. Dilmah, still uses the colonial name on its packaging.
Given that Java has coffee-related connotations...
The 'rebirth' of enlightenment coincided with said Rasterman getting a full time job at Samsung.
The libraries that underpin E are the basis of a fledgling mobile OS, Tizen.
Haha. Makes a nice change from all the pyramid-scheme stories about bitcoin.
I guess the point here is whether '8' introduces any new incompatibilities over '7'.
~$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_51"
Java has always been 1.x under the covers. We went through the 'Java 2' phase, now it's just Java SE.
FWIW, programmers will still refer to it as JDK 1.8
And buy a new cable every few months?
I've had several cables whose plastic clippy endy things have snapped off, including ones with rubber covers. They still work but you have to hold the cable in place, rather than the satisfying click that normally accompanies inserting the cable.
That's just from carrying the cable in a laptop bag and plugging it in each day.
Elop.
Well back when Symbian was king and before Kickstarter, there was a phone platform for tinkerers - Neo 1973/Freerunner.
Suffice to say it died. A main reason was software - few people wanted to pay for a half-finished platform. Today, numerous alternatives exist to windows phone and iOS. e.g. Android, Sailfish, Tizen, Firefox OS.
So a feasible crowd-funded project might be to hire, full time, a few kernel hackers to write blob replacements for replicant and integrate the free GPU efforts of rpi/lima/freedreno. Outsourcing the hardware to ZTE and Geeksphone, based on schematics from the Google/Moto modular smartphone project Ara.
Didn't I write "language family"?
'Polynesian' is language family spoken in various Pacific countries such as New Zealand (Maori), USA (Hawaiian) and Chile(Rapa Nui).
The release number aligns with the AOSP release, i.e. Replicant 4.2 targets Jelly Bean.
Not if you set it to flight mode.
There is only XUL.
I think what the poster is saying is that Palm went back to the drawing board after seeing iOS 1.0
webOS, according to vocal Palm Pre users on here, was more intuitive but launched later after iPhone had made an impact.
cue the soylents...
Their website has been sold out already. Oops! Seems like the new boss wanted a quick profit.
http://soylentnews.org/article...
I thought that was the point of compulsory superannuation. Entrust 10%, or thereabouts, of your pay packet to a benevolent fund manager to invest on your behalf for 40 years.
Within 3 generations, aged pensions could be eradicated, all the while lining the pockets of the 'right' that own the financial institutions.
Or so goes the theory...