I agree with you, but I would like to point out that (as far as I understand the GPL) there is no requirement in it to "contribute back your changes". You just have to provide the source code if you redistribute it.
Canadians are passive and will allow this to roll through largely uncontested...
Canadians have already fought off 2 or 3 attempts at passing crappy copyright legislation so maybe they aren't so "passive". C-11 is just the latest incarnation. The problem this time around is that the current government has a marjority in parliment so they can pretty much do whatever they want. Although you may be right about the CRTC, it has nothing to do with this...
Nice post but you completely missed the point of the article. The entertainment industry wants to *add* SOPA like provisions to C-11. You are correct that currently SOPA stuff isn't currently in there.
Good for you for trying to raise your kids gender neutral, but unless you raised them in a box its impossible to do. Did you let them watch TV? Did you let them play with other children? With your non gender neutral relatives? Lots of places they could have picked up those prefernences...
Objective-C's growth in popularity coincides with the Flurry Analytics study [flurry.com] that showed most mobile developers targeting iOS, with support for Android dropping by a third over 2011.
The Flurry Analytics study is flawed in that it only counts devs using Flurry. As others have pointed out, most Android devs use the free Google Analytics. This biases the Flurry study towards iOS.
So why is anyone ever choosing low end android phones?
Uh, because they are cheaper? I'd rather have a low end phone with Android that runs 90% of the apps (ie. exclude all the fancy 3D games, etc. that require better hardware) than a crappy feature phone that runs none. Even if it never gets updated.
You apparently didn't finish reading his comment so I'll repost it here for your convenience (emphais mine):
Now, the US system is superior to Communism as implemented by the USSR, but I am not really sure Corporatism as implemented in the west is all that superior in the long run. Both are vile systems IMHO.
...however given the sluggish reaction time and somewhat reduced editorial prowess, this quality is nowadays only reflected in the comments.
This has *always* been the case at slashdot! People come here for the discussions, not the submissions. The editing has always been crap and the stories are almost always "old" compared to other late-breaking news sites. Yet still people come and stay...
There is a toggle right in the upper corner of the search page that lets you turn it off. You can also go into your settings and disable it permanently.
When I'm searching it's because 'my world' doesn't know the answer and I have to go elsewhere. Filtering out people I don't know first makes it harder to find things.
Good thing they put a toggle right there in the upper right corner that will remove all the personalized stuff from your search results! You can even have it default to off in your settings!
Relax Coward, you seem to have skipped over the first sentence: "This certainly isn't true for me". He/she wasn't trying to claim that it was true for everyone.
Discredited by whom? I won't take such claims seriously unless I can evaluate the merit of the claim.
I don't know if the IAEA report is "entirely discredited" but there definitely seems to be some sketchy stuff in there. I found this link that talks about it (and I didn't really look very hard).
The hostage crisis in 1979? Really? That's the best you can come up with? I see you also conveniently forget that the CIA organized a coup in Iran. I don't think the Iranians are angels, but they have very good reasons to dislike the U.S. (and the British).
The button layout is the same as for Honeycomb. Honeycomb apps put their menu button in the top right corner (I believe this is called the application bar). I believe this is carried over to ICS. For legacy apps, a menu button shows up in the usual place. So you shouldn't need to worry...
You should read the summary again... Nexus S is definitely getting ICS, that's what this article is about - its rolling out to google employees first. After they have dogfooded it for a while it will go out to everyone.
Nexus One will probably not get it though. A bunch of manufacturers pledged to keep phones updated for 18 months after release. The Nexus One didn't make that cut off.
"Android is GPL" is flat out wrong. Only the linux kernel and a few bits are GPL. The bulk of the code is Apache licensed. You're being disingenuous by dismissing the most interesting parts of the Android system as "cruft layered on top".
First issue: This is great if you have an external system to log to - if not, you're boned. This new logging system seems to cover both cases.
Second issue: One of the big reasons for doing this is to be able to detect when the log has been altered to cover a crackers tracks. Obviously, a deleted log file is easily detected and a big indicator that your system has been compromised, so I'm not seeing your point here.
Third issue: As has been stated above, you can log to both the Journal and good old text based log files. That way you can still use your existing tools on the text file while still being notified of log file alteration. I agree that a common format for log entries would be nice but may not be possible since not every application logs the same kind of data. Note also that this proposal allows for arbitrary key/value pairs so some standard conventions will probably come about after its been used for a while.
Fourth issue: Not sure I understand what you are talking about here... Obviously, backward compatibility will have to be taken into account by the devs. You should be able to read the files on other machines if you backed up your encryption keys, etc. (you do backup that stuff right?). By reading the articles, it sounds like the devs have thought about these issues and/or they have already been raised by others. They seem to be fairly easy to deal with.
I'm not necessarily on board with this proposed system either, but your issues seem like they've already been covered by the proposed design.
It sounds like you are confusing these kernel code names for the Ubuntu and Mac OSX code names. They are not the same. No one really uses the kernel code names except maybe kernel devs (but even they mostly refer to specific version numbers).
You can find the Ubuntu and Mac OSX names on wikipedia (they're on their websites too, but wikipedia is easier to find). Here's Ubuntu's and here's Mac OSX.
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I agree with you, but I would like to point out that (as far as I understand the GPL) there is no requirement in it to "contribute back your changes". You just have to provide the source code if you redistribute it.
So obviously fake! I mean, if it were real we'd be able to see the crash site of the Transformer space ship! Yet another NASA cover-up...
Heh, heh, yeah. Here, try wikipedia's "simple" version: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP.
Canadians are passive and will allow this to roll through largely uncontested...
Canadians have already fought off 2 or 3 attempts at passing crappy copyright legislation so maybe they aren't so "passive". C-11 is just the latest incarnation. The problem this time around is that the current government has a marjority in parliment so they can pretty much do whatever they want. Although you may be right about the CRTC, it has nothing to do with this...
Nice post but you completely missed the point of the article. The entertainment industry wants to *add* SOPA like provisions to C-11. You are correct that currently SOPA stuff isn't currently in there.
Good for you for trying to raise your kids gender neutral, but unless you raised them in a box its impossible to do. Did you let them watch TV? Did you let them play with other children? With your non gender neutral relatives? Lots of places they could have picked up those prefernences...
Objective-C's growth in popularity coincides with the Flurry Analytics study [flurry.com] that showed most mobile developers targeting iOS, with support for Android dropping by a third over 2011.
The Flurry Analytics study is flawed in that it only counts devs using Flurry. As others have pointed out, most Android devs use the free Google Analytics. This biases the Flurry study towards iOS.
So the M stands for Mordor? I always wondered want it stood for... good to know, thanks!
So why is anyone ever choosing low end android phones?
Uh, because they are cheaper? I'd rather have a low end phone with Android that runs 90% of the apps (ie. exclude all the fancy 3D games, etc. that require better hardware) than a crappy feature phone that runs none. Even if it never gets updated.
You apparently didn't finish reading his comment so I'll repost it here for your convenience (emphais mine):
Now, the US system is superior to Communism as implemented by the USSR, but I am not really sure Corporatism as implemented in the west is all that superior in the long run. Both are vile systems IMHO.
...however given the sluggish reaction time and somewhat reduced editorial prowess, this quality is nowadays only reflected in the comments.
This has *always* been the case at slashdot! People come here for the discussions, not the submissions. The editing has always been crap and the stories are almost always "old" compared to other late-breaking news sites. Yet still people come and stay...
There is a toggle right in the upper corner of the search page that lets you turn it off. You can also go into your settings and disable it permanently.
...it really needs to be able to be toggled on/off easily
There is a toggle on the upper right corner of the search page. You can also default it to off in your settings.
And you can even default it to off in your settings! Amazing!
When I'm searching it's because 'my world' doesn't know the answer and I have to go elsewhere. Filtering out people I don't know first makes it harder to find things.
Good thing they put a toggle right there in the upper right corner that will remove all the personalized stuff from your search results! You can even have it default to off in your settings!
Heh, heh, says the guy who posts a link from the Christian propaganda machine... hilarious!
So just hit the super key (ie. windows key). Even easier...
Relax Coward, you seem to have skipped over the first sentence: "This certainly isn't true for me". He/she wasn't trying to claim that it was true for everyone.
Discredited by whom? I won't take such claims seriously unless I can evaluate the merit of the claim.
I don't know if the IAEA report is "entirely discredited" but there definitely seems to be some sketchy stuff in there. I found this link that talks about it (and I didn't really look very hard).
The hostage crisis in 1979? Really? That's the best you can come up with? I see you also conveniently forget that the CIA organized a coup in Iran. I don't think the Iranians are angels, but they have very good reasons to dislike the U.S. (and the British).
The button layout is the same as for Honeycomb. Honeycomb apps put their menu button in the top right corner (I believe this is called the application bar). I believe this is carried over to ICS. For legacy apps, a menu button shows up in the usual place. So you shouldn't need to worry...
You should read the summary again... Nexus S is definitely getting ICS, that's what this article is about - its rolling out to google employees first. After they have dogfooded it for a while it will go out to everyone.
Nexus One will probably not get it though. A bunch of manufacturers pledged to keep phones updated for 18 months after release. The Nexus One didn't make that cut off.
"Android is GPL" is flat out wrong. Only the linux kernel and a few bits are GPL. The bulk of the code is Apache licensed. You're being disingenuous by dismissing the most interesting parts of the Android system as "cruft layered on top".
First issue: This is great if you have an external system to log to - if not, you're boned. This new logging system seems to cover both cases.
Second issue: One of the big reasons for doing this is to be able to detect when the log has been altered to cover a crackers tracks. Obviously, a deleted log file is easily detected and a big indicator that your system has been compromised, so I'm not seeing your point here.
Third issue: As has been stated above, you can log to both the Journal and good old text based log files. That way you can still use your existing tools on the text file while still being notified of log file alteration. I agree that a common format for log entries would be nice but may not be possible since not every application logs the same kind of data. Note also that this proposal allows for arbitrary key/value pairs so some standard conventions will probably come about after its been used for a while.
Fourth issue: Not sure I understand what you are talking about here... Obviously, backward compatibility will have to be taken into account by the devs. You should be able to read the files on other machines if you backed up your encryption keys, etc. (you do backup that stuff right?). By reading the articles, it sounds like the devs have thought about these issues and/or they have already been raised by others. They seem to be fairly easy to deal with.
I'm not necessarily on board with this proposed system either, but your issues seem like they've already been covered by the proposed design.
It sounds like you are confusing these kernel code names for the Ubuntu and Mac OSX code names. They are not the same. No one really uses the kernel code names except maybe kernel devs (but even they mostly refer to specific version numbers).
You can find the Ubuntu and Mac OSX names on wikipedia (they're on their websites too, but wikipedia is easier to find). Here's Ubuntu's and here's Mac OSX.