What has changed in a couple months that this isn't the case now? Maybe some faster phones came out to drive the curve up? In the link above, Ouya states this thing isn't meant to compete with the "big boxes" and points out the cost of $100US. I don't think there is anything different performance-wise than what Ouya originally stated. It still outperforms the Nexus 7 which isn't so bad.
I wonder how many more "ok for real this time..." the NK has left in them. Not sure what Kim and Co. are expecting the rest of the world to do. They are really only two possible outcomes: one is to put everything away and try and work out the sanction problems, two, pull the trigger and be decimated.
Either way, NK has changed itself forever, they just don't realize it yet. There's no way they are going back to their "old ways' after this.
This is the thing I hate -- and it's not just Apple. These US companies offshored Allllll their manufacturing and processes to take full advantage of cheap labor, third-world economies and loose environmental restrictions. People at home get laid off[0] jobs dried up, manufacturers closed their doors, and a good portion of blue collar labor went on unemployment. Now, these same assholes complain their is no "skilled labor" to fill their job openings, so they need to import H1B workers[1]. What's more, then become worried that they can't find a source for components for their gizmos that USED TO BE PRODUCED IN THEIR OWN BACKYARD? The irony is mind-numbing.
There's a big difference between 'whistleblowing on a crime' and 'leaking every single thing you have
Unless "everything you have" is so illegally outrageous that the story needs to be told.
Furthermore, If Manning is going to be held accountable for information Al-Queda obtained, then the Pentagon and CIA should be held accountable in the same fashion when an unencrypted laptop with sensitive dat is lost, or a website database is compromised* due to gross negiligence. Right now, the only consequences are "whooops, lol sorry bro. have a free 6-month credit inquiry"
because you are lazy, inept or hungover. Default passwords or "admin:admin" is braindead. You're a terrible admin if you do this, and you should feel terrible if you get cracked.
Bill: "They don't even charge for this.. this ANDROID.. They give it away! For Free! You know, to get a foothold in the market so nobody will ever switch away from it. This is just... strongarming"
Nokia: "Besides, they have this great OS but really, really crappy hardware. It's not even a 16MP camera!! It's an abomination I tell you. Remember the N800? Now there was...."
Larry: "What's needed is some legislation to regulate licensing on the Android OS. What I propose is we charge by number of cpu core the OS is running on.. No, wait... Make that priced per megahertz of cpu core... yeah... and.. then divide that by 3.124 * the number of cores...uh...per year...per person.... multiplied by bandwidth used.. an..."
WHy is Facebook doing this? Why do they do anything?
Money
What is their profit center?
Advertising and selling any personal details which you agree to in clicking through those annoying EULAS.
Android to get your movements.
Yes, but you need to ask yourself how that could possibly be useful to them. Answer: more advertising. Eg: if the App knows your a block from Walmart and they can stream you an instantaneous Ad for Walmart special on Cheezypoofs (they know from your purchase history on Facebook Credit Card/Gift Card that you buy cheezy poofs -- again, you clicked the EULA) Walmart will put more money into that Advertising medium because it's targeted and specialized to each individual.
The creepy part about all of it? You'll probably never switch to another type of Cheezypoof. As long as there is a retailer within range of your GPS, you will always get served Ads for Cheezypoof brand Poofs. This drives a racket of monetized competition of advertising which, in the end, offers little choice for the consumer. Alternative products cannot gain enough of a foothold to compete with the Mega brands.
Only reason I can think of is direct competition with top-shelf scsi hardware. a 900G 10K SCSI is about $500 bucks. I sure would be tempted to RAID twice as many 10K SATA for half that price if I could get the same RPM.
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That's almost comical because we've been asking ourselves that question for so many years. Valve has got a good thing going, but until we start seeing mainstream games on Steam being released with Linux binaries, all Valve is doing is prolonging another inevitable Fail.
Don't get me wrong, I applaud Valve for what they are doing. It takes a lot of balls to take on the Console/Windows gaming behemoth and I think it takes keen insight to recognize the death of your product coming down the road because your main support platform went full-retard. BUT it doesn't feel good to sit at a Linux Steam console staring at all the cool games for Windows, and 90% of Linux selections are stuff repackaged from the Humble Bundles. When a new game comes out, the people on Linux Steam want to be able to play it too. When the industry gets to that point, the everyday Linux desktop headaches may offset the Windows ones enough to make make "YotLD" viable.
Obviously the reason behind poor Metro adoption is the screen resolution and overall dimensions of the tablet. How could those Microsoft engineers have missed that one?
People seem to think personal microcomputing started wtih Jobs, Wozniak and Apple and want to adorn history with misinformation. Yeah, the old Apples were pretty revolutaionary however The Home Brew Computer Club[1] was where it all started. With the Altair 88[0] and many other people besides Jobs and Wozniak.
resolution (eg ingress/egress filtering, rate limiting, non-recursive responses from outside your domain) to legal ones
Umm.. I'm not sure I follow you. The DDoS was comprised of DNS Reflection. Trying to add filtering at layer 2/3 is absolutely pointless since you're saturated at layer 0. The physical hardware is overwhelmed trying to keep up with the packets coming in.
I have not heard one single source say they were leaving SPARC
Ok , here's one. Albeit a few years ago.. We were having a lot of sad times with the Sun V880. We wanted faster Disk I/O along with a more usable OS. Solaris 9 (& 10), at the time, would boot and run Oracle but it was impossible to get patches for it. We used to download them from Sun's website but then all of a sudden you needed a Vendor ID. After submitting the Vendor ID, downloads still didn't work. iSCSI in particular was important to us but it just didn't work well. Buggy and horribly slow. We finally ended up ditching the V880 and going with two multi-core x86_64 Linux boxes running Centos and SSD raid. The DBA said some of his nightly processes finished in 1/6 of the time it took on the v880. All for a fraction of the cost of the Sun hardware. Yes, the sun stuff is sexy and built like a tank. Yes, it will run for decades without any trouble. If I never see a Sun product again it will be too soon.
Netflix has been working in wine for quite a while.
4 months of "working" is still Alpha/Beta stage in FOSS time. WINE is great and a lot of blood, sweat and tears has been put into the effort but in the end, it's a recipe for disaster if you have read incantations from the Necronomicon (wget+curl+./configure+make+make install|patch -p1|at>cron|bash -x/bin/sh|blah blah blah...) just to get it working. On other platforms, it's click+download+install+watch movie. If it's this way on that (godforsaken) Boxee-Box, why is it not this way for Linux?
Yes, there's a PPA to do all the heavy lifting for you but the first kernel/library update that comes along is going to leave your Netflix with a bleeding head wound until someone can get around to hacking things together again. Don't get me wrong, it's great that we have people willing to put the time and effort into this stuff but having a hacked-together-binder-twine-duct-tape solution is a piss-poor reason to not strive for native platform integration. I'd really like to hear the reasons why Netflix (and Amazon prime and Hulu for that matter) seem to be too braindead to figure out a viable Linux platform solution. No talent? Can't get the DRM right? Flash too screwed up? Can't figure out permissions? Prefer backslashes?
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In January, Penny Arcade said the Devs confirm [ouya] best in class performance
What has changed in a couple months that this isn't the case now? Maybe some faster phones came out to drive the curve up? In the link above, Ouya states this thing isn't meant to compete with the "big boxes" and points out the cost of $100US. I don't think there is anything different performance-wise than what Ouya originally stated. It still outperforms the Nexus 7 which isn't so bad.
They (PDF warning) dealt with the same invasion back in the '50s
I wonder how many more "ok for real this time..." the NK has left in them. Not sure what Kim and Co. are expecting the rest of the world to do. They are really only two possible outcomes: one is to put everything away and try and work out the sanction problems, two, pull the trigger and be decimated.
Either way, NK has changed itself forever, they just don't realize it yet. There's no way they are going back to their "old ways' after this.
This is the thing I hate -- and it's not just Apple. These US companies offshored Allllll their manufacturing and processes to take full advantage of cheap labor, third-world economies and loose environmental restrictions. People at home get laid off[0] jobs dried up, manufacturers closed their doors, and a good portion of blue collar labor went on unemployment. Now, these same assholes complain their is no "skilled labor" to fill their job openings, so they need to import H1B workers[1]. What's more, then become worried that they can't find a source for components for their gizmos that USED TO BE PRODUCED IN THEIR OWN BACKYARD? The irony is mind-numbing.
[0] - TI lays off 1700
[1] - H1B Visa lottery
There's a big difference between 'whistleblowing on a crime' and 'leaking every single thing you have
Unless "everything you have" is so illegally outrageous that the story needs to be told.
Furthermore, If Manning is going to be held accountable for information Al-Queda obtained, then the Pentagon and CIA should be held accountable in the same fashion when an unencrypted laptop with sensitive dat is lost, or a website database is compromised* due to gross negiligence. Right now, the only consequences are "whooops, lol sorry bro. have a free 6-month credit inquiry"
* http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/03/nasa-inspector-gen-says-stolen-laptop-contained-space-station-control-codes.php
http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/02/8821/
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2007/02/hundreds_of_fbi/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/01/malware_pentagon_usb_ban/
If you're using GNUPG or Enigmail* Thunderbird plugin, just what do they expect to find in the gibberish metadata?
[*] http://www.enigmail.net/home/index.php
lol whops... sry Kim my bad. -Obama
because you are lazy, inept or hungover. Default passwords or "admin:admin" is braindead. You're a terrible admin if you do this, and you should feel terrible if you get cracked.
what's the problem here?
Alleged 4th amendment viloation
Bill: "They don't even charge for this.. this ANDROID.. They give it away! For Free! You know, to get a foothold in the market so nobody will ever switch away from it. This is just... strongarming"
Nokia: "Besides, they have this great OS but really, really crappy hardware. It's not even a 16MP camera!! It's an abomination I tell you. Remember the N800? Now there was ...."
Larry: "What's needed is some legislation to regulate licensing on the Android OS. What I propose is we charge by number of cpu core the OS is running on.. No, wait... Make that priced per megahertz of cpu core... yeah... and.. then divide that by 3.124 * the number of cores...uh...per year...per person.... multiplied by bandwidth used.. an..."
http://www.toms.net/rb/ It's tiny, installs from DOS and Windows 9.x and even fits on a single floppy.... what?
WHy is Facebook doing this? Why do they do anything?
Money
What is their profit center?
Advertising and selling any personal details which you agree to in clicking through those annoying EULAS.
Android to get your movements.
Yes, but you need to ask yourself how that could possibly be useful to them. Answer: more advertising. Eg: if the App knows your a block from Walmart and they can stream you an instantaneous Ad for Walmart special on Cheezypoofs (they know from your purchase history on Facebook Credit Card/Gift Card that you buy cheezy poofs -- again, you clicked the EULA) Walmart will put more money into that Advertising medium because it's targeted and specialized to each individual.
The creepy part about all of it? You'll probably never switch to another type of Cheezypoof. As long as there is a retailer within range of your GPS, you will always get served Ads for Cheezypoof brand Poofs. This drives a racket of monetized competition of advertising which, in the end, offers little choice for the consumer. Alternative products cannot gain enough of a foothold to compete with the Mega brands.
Blow the whistle and blow it loud on these cringing cowards.
Better yet, bring in the freakin' gavel and make these douchebags pay, like everyone else, for breaking the law.
Why are we not seeing more 10K drives?
Only reason I can think of is direct competition with top-shelf scsi hardware. a 900G 10K SCSI is about $500 bucks. I sure would be tempted to RAID twice as many 10K SATA for half that price if I could get the same RPM.
Jar-Jar vs. tie-fighter
Interplanetary Karaoke with Jar-Jar Binks
Jar-Jar Dance Revolution
Jar-Jar's Cajun Cuisine Database
Typing Tutuorial Featuring Jar-Jar Binks with Free McDonalds Happy Meal
Best thing since Bill Nye! Where can I donate some cash to the cause?
$75 million will buy a little more than 3 F-16 Falcon fighter jets.
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It looks like this might finally be the year.
That's almost comical because we've been asking ourselves that question for so many years. Valve has got a good thing going, but until we start seeing mainstream games on Steam being released with Linux binaries, all Valve is doing is prolonging another inevitable Fail.
Don't get me wrong, I applaud Valve for what they are doing. It takes a lot of balls to take on the Console/Windows gaming behemoth and I think it takes keen insight to recognize the death of your product coming down the road because your main support platform went full-retard. BUT it doesn't feel good to sit at a Linux Steam console staring at all the cool games for Windows, and 90% of Linux selections are stuff repackaged from the Humble Bundles. When a new game comes out, the people on Linux Steam want to be able to play it too. When the industry gets to that point, the everyday Linux desktop headaches may offset the Windows ones enough to make make "YotLD" viable.
Obviously the reason behind poor Metro adoption is the screen resolution and overall dimensions of the tablet. How could those Microsoft engineers have missed that one?
People seem to think personal microcomputing started wtih Jobs, Wozniak and Apple and want to adorn history with misinformation. Yeah, the old Apples were pretty revolutaionary however The Home Brew Computer Club[1] was where it all started. With the Altair 88[0] and many other people besides Jobs and Wozniak.
[0] - http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/inside-the-altair-8800-vintage-computer/1453?seq=15
[1] - http://www.silicon-valley-story.de/sv/pc_homebrew.html
resolution (eg ingress/egress filtering, rate limiting, non-recursive responses from outside your domain) to legal ones
Umm.. I'm not sure I follow you. The DDoS was comprised of DNS Reflection. Trying to add filtering at layer 2/3 is absolutely pointless since you're saturated at layer 0. The physical hardware is overwhelmed trying to keep up with the packets coming in.
Keep a bottle in your desk so the bar never ends.
I have not heard one single source say they were leaving SPARC
Ok , here's one. Albeit a few years ago.. We were having a lot of sad times with the Sun V880. We wanted faster Disk I/O along with a more usable OS. Solaris 9 (& 10), at the time, would boot and run Oracle but it was impossible to get patches for it. We used to download them from Sun's website but then all of a sudden you needed a Vendor ID. After submitting the Vendor ID, downloads still didn't work. iSCSI in particular was important to us but it just didn't work well. Buggy and horribly slow. We finally ended up ditching the V880 and going with two multi-core x86_64 Linux boxes running Centos and SSD raid. The DBA said some of his nightly processes finished in 1/6 of the time it took on the v880. All for a fraction of the cost of the Sun hardware. Yes, the sun stuff is sexy and built like a tank. Yes, it will run for decades without any trouble. If I never see a Sun product again it will be too soon.
Netflix has been working in wine for quite a while.
4 months of "working" is still Alpha/Beta stage in FOSS time. WINE is great and a lot of blood, sweat and tears has been put into the effort but in the end, it's a recipe for disaster if you have read incantations from the Necronomicon (wget+curl+./configure+make+make install|patch -p1|at>cron|bash -x /bin/sh|blah blah blah...) just to get it working. On other platforms, it's click+download+install+watch movie. If it's this way on that (godforsaken) Boxee-Box, why is it not this way for Linux?
Yes, there's a PPA to do all the heavy lifting for you but the first kernel/library update that comes along is going to leave your Netflix with a bleeding head wound until someone can get around to hacking things together again. Don't get me wrong, it's great that we have people willing to put the time and effort into this stuff but having a hacked-together-binder-twine-duct-tape solution is a piss-poor reason to not strive for native platform integration. I'd really like to hear the reasons why Netflix (and Amazon prime and Hulu for that matter) seem to be too braindead to figure out a viable Linux platform solution. No talent? Can't get the DRM right? Flash too screwed up? Can't figure out permissions? Prefer backslashes?