'mobile' as in powers a 'mobile phone'. You're comparing apples and oranges. Wake me up when Intel HD Graphics compete in the SoC space with Adreno and Lima.
The Atom used in phones such as the Geeksphone Revolution still uses a PowerVR GPU.
All humans have universal rights and freedoms, and one of them is freedom of speech, which includes your choice of language to communicate in.
And the official language of Quebec is French. As someone pointed out, these 'repressive' laws have been in place since 1976 - two generations ago, which as I stated, was when mass emigration to Ontario commenced.
Confected outrage on Slashdot for something that has been the law for nearly 4 decades, amounting to little more than 'frog bashing'. A shop on the Gatineau side of the river ought well be aware of the francophone local laws only this time "it's on facebook".
If Canadians want freedom of language, Nouveau Brunswick is the only bilingual province.
It's a struggle that has been going on for 250 years though and in the case of 'draconian' language laws, several decades.
There's nothing to "deal with". Part of doing business in Quebec is paying lip-service to the French language, something that's been enforced since the 70s.
But apparently it's front page news to slashdot.:)
Language is one of those "use it or lose it" skills.
Take a trip along the St Lawrence river someday, it's a nice spot. I spent an extended weekend in a quaint town. As a foreigner whose last French class was 25 years ago, my French was fairly basic.
I met an Anglophone spending her summer vacation working in town, keen to gain some practical experience in the language. I doubt that's common in uprooting oneself for a month or two (when one has a career etc) but certainly rewarding in her case.
F-Droid - instead of google play Replicant - 'tinfoil hat' stuff to remove binary blobs PowerVR drivers - drivers for Mali and Adreno have independently emerged, even if OMAP is no longer a major player.
AFAIK, none of the competing platforms (Ubuntu, Tizen, Sailfish, Firefox OS) have integrated lima or freedreno, falling back to the Android drivers via libhybris
You may claim the bug is obvious and yet it slipped through to production. So rather than bring up the blame-log on the indvidual developer - programmers make mistakes and enforcing coding standards such as indentation or braces help in identifying errors where errant coders fail.
If indeed Apple does have a coding standard, then this one slipped through. Using an IDE to pretty-print the code according to the coding standard, prior to checkin, would have revealed the inconsistency of indentation in the duplicated line. Of course performing a visual diff on the previous revision would likewise have exposed the flaw.
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'mobile' as in powers a 'mobile phone'. You're comparing apples and oranges. Wake me up when Intel HD Graphics compete in the SoC space with Adreno and Lima.
The Atom used in phones such as the Geeksphone Revolution still uses a PowerVR GPU.
Whatsapp is dead. Long live Facebook Messenger!
(rebranded)
sorry, I meant the article's discussion.
Look through the thread, I was referring to:
"throwing every last croaking one of the frog bastards out."
"There are many border regions of Quebec where nobody voluntarily speaks frogish."
"we speak pretty good Frog, and we have a web-page in Phrog for the Phrog tourists. So I'm gonna take it down (the Phrog version)"
And the official language of Quebec is French. As someone pointed out, these 'repressive' laws have been in place since 1976 - two generations ago, which as I stated, was when mass emigration to Ontario commenced.
Confected outrage on Slashdot for something that has been the law for nearly 4 decades, amounting to little more than 'frog bashing'. A shop on the Gatineau side of the river ought well be aware of the francophone local laws only this time "it's on facebook".
If Canadians want freedom of language, Nouveau Brunswick is the only bilingual province.
"Why would anyone..."
Because they can and will have had fun doing it in the first place.
Exactly, the toothpaste you buy in Buenos Aires has 'weird' Portuguese words on the label.
I dunno, that train to Halifax, NoSco is quite scenic. :-)
Maybe I'll open an Australia bar in Montreal.
"G'day, ami".
When the language police come a knockin', I'll explain "G'day" is a traditional greeting in Australian French.
The Acadians were around for a while. But the Quebec folks convinced the British they weren't Canadien enough and deported them to Louisiana.
Although, Quebec is just about the only place in Canada you can get a decent goat's cheese.
(Sure you can buy it in Vancouver but it's more expensive and says product of Quebec on the label!)
I heard one native Quebecois, born and bred, complaining that someone had mistaken his accent as Belgian. :)
It's a struggle that has been going on for 250 years though and in the case of 'draconian' language laws, several decades.
There's nothing to "deal with". Part of doing business in Quebec is paying lip-service to the French language, something that's been enforced since the 70s.
But apparently it's front page news to slashdot. :)
Language is one of those "use it or lose it" skills.
Take a trip along the St Lawrence river someday, it's a nice spot. I spent an extended weekend in a quaint town. As a foreigner whose last French class was 25 years ago, my French was fairly basic.
I met an Anglophone spending her summer vacation working in town, keen to gain some practical experience in the language. I doubt that's common in uprooting oneself for a month or two (when one has a career etc) but certainly rewarding in her case.
People in BC are more likely to speak "Australian" that French.
I wanted a nice relaxing vacation away from my homeland but from Victoria to Vancouver to Kelowna, we darn Aussies were everywhere!
(Fewer in Tofino, admittedly)
If you don't like it, emigrate.
That's exactly what happened; anglophones deserted Montreal in droves for Toronto.
The FSF position:
F-Droid - instead of google play
Replicant - 'tinfoil hat' stuff to remove binary blobs
PowerVR drivers - drivers for Mali and Adreno have independently emerged, even if OMAP is no longer a major player.
AFAIK, none of the competing platforms (Ubuntu, Tizen, Sailfish, Firefox OS) have integrated lima or freedreno, falling back to the Android drivers via libhybris
http://soylentnews.org/
I thought desktop browsers were holding back the adoption of WebGL?
Or rather not the browsers themselves but blacklisted drivers.
Palm didn't fail. They had a nice little niche business; the Pre had a cult following...
It was HP management that sabotaged its own acquisition.
webOS lives on in LG smart tvs.
Ford manufacturing has sunk, at least in Geelong.
Perhaps they're producing a range of hovercraft?
Never fear, Mozilla are downsizing Firefox OS to run on $25 handsets with 128MB of RAM.
That's about the amount of RAM your university's *server* had when you accessed the web via an Xterm in NCSA Mosaic back in 1994.
Compiler warnings or source code analysis tools are often ignored though, sadly, as an afterthought or distraction.
You may claim the bug is obvious and yet it slipped through to production. So rather than bring up the blame-log on the indvidual developer - programmers make mistakes and enforcing coding standards such as indentation or braces help in identifying errors where errant coders fail.
If indeed Apple does have a coding standard, then this one slipped through. Using an IDE to pretty-print the code according to the coding standard, prior to checkin, would have revealed the inconsistency of indentation in the duplicated line. Of course performing a visual diff on the previous revision would likewise have exposed the flaw.
Coding standards often specify pedantic use of superfluous braces, even for single line clauses, e.g.
if (condition) { // single line here
}
But clearly the folks at Apple know better. :-(