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  1. another goliath chunk of plastic that won't fit in your pocket, once upon a time it was all about the miniturisation, seems we've passed that now, pretty soon they'll be trying to convince us we need a full atx form factor for our mobile devices.... end of the smart phone is upon us ladies and gents.

  2. Re: compact GNU/Linux in major electronics store on You Can Now Run Linux Apps On Chrome OS (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    heh, flashbacks.
    we still use the archos 101 i got in 2011. never did get round to installing linux on it though.

  3. where you get the idea that this https://developer.android.com/... is wrong.

  4. you said
    ->A Dalvik VM has absolutely nothing in common with a JVM

    Java bytecode a fairly substantial commonality in everyones world but yours it seems.

  5. same reason you don't keep searching for your car keys after you find them.
    The answer to 'android has nothing to do with the jvm' being true or not has been found.

  6. the android vm uses translated jvm bytecode, android apps run on any old jvm.

  7. yes, because you dont have to buy any of that, you can just pick up a raspberry pi 3 for a few dollars and stick LineageOS 14.1 (Android 7.1.2) on it.

  8. from your link:
    Programs for Android are commonly written in Java and compiled to bytecode for the Java virtual machine

    doh.

  9. What exactly do you think the difference between a JVM and Dalvik VM is?
    ->how/on what OS would a C++ App run on an 'Android Device',
    In exactly the same way you run native C/C++ code on a JVM, via a native code API (in androids case the "NDK")

    Which makes sense, because Dalvik is googles "clean room" copy and paste of JVM.

  10. eh, all android userspace is open source, its how we have lineageOS. They have to, its covered under the gpl. The only bits that aren't OS are google apps like the play store, gmail and google maps, which run on any old jvm.

  11. Android is a java vm running on a linux operating system. And works.
    Fuchsia is googles attempt at writing its own operating system, but like most every bit of software i have ever seen google write, it doesn't actually work.

  12. Re: sex is bad well, since the actual article was on FBI Seizes Backpage.com, a Site Criticized For Sex-Related Ads (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Definately, the legal age for americans to have sex should be at least 35: any younger and they are still fertile.

  13. Re: sex is bad on FBI Seizes Backpage.com, a Site Criticized For Sex-Related Ads (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously, So anything you can do to help marginalise the christian right further would be greatly appreciated.

  14. sex is bad on FBI Seizes Backpage.com, a Site Criticized For Sex-Related Ads (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Americans need to learn sex is bad, if you have sex you will have babies, and no one wants americans to have babies.

  15. Re: Good advertising for Telegram on Russia Files Lawsuit To Block Telegram Messaging App (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    quick run to Putin, i found them, they are in the source code: https://core.telegram.org/mtpr... ....
    otoh, methinks the fsb will have less success than the us did trying to block the AACS decryption key.

  16. Re: Ending ads may end home ISP economies of scale on Security Experts See Chromebooks as a Closed Ecosystem That Improves Security (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, I'm pretty sure my broadband is subsidised by stolen american tv shows.

  17. Re: Year of the Chromebook. on Security Experts See Chromebooks as a Closed Ecosystem That Improves Security (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    what he's saying is most people are tools. As long as we narrow that down to most Americans are tools i also agree.

  18. Re: Year of the Chromebook. on Security Experts See Chromebooks as a Closed Ecosystem That Improves Security (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    so you are saying most people should just get their bitch ass back in the kitchen and make us more pie?

  19. Re: Ads, paywalls, or what else? on Security Experts See Chromebooks as a Closed Ecosystem That Improves Security (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    i'd rather sites that offer nothing of value just died, then maybe we could find half decent sites back on the clearnet like the good old days.

  20. Re: FOSS needs managers on Security Experts See Chromebooks as a Closed Ecosystem That Improves Security (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    not sure i'd call chromeos a closed ecosystem. Everything you do on the device is being sold to the highest bidder, its about as wide open as an ecosystem can get. Sure, you can't do anything useful on the device itself, but there is absoluely nothing 'secure' or 'closed' about all the data sucked back to the mothership.

  21. disagree on the VR.
    VR is not compute intensive, despite the oculus hype. the headsets require less gpu than split screen or dual monitors. nasa have had decent vr headsets since the 1980s.

    The current sticking point with vr is all the tricks they use like bump mapping, various lighting techniques and a load of volumetric fill do not work in true 3d.

    Knocking the visual look back to the late 1990s. (because those lovely 3d bumps look like flat sprites)

    Raytrace is the only way that can move forward.

    And it will.

    I just do not believe it will be microsoft leading the way.

  22. pc gaming market is not a significant computer market anymore, it used to make up some 90% of computing equipment and software sales, now i doubt it makes up more than 1%. consoles (xbox, ps4, nintentdo) and mobile devices are where all the developers are.
    Most games developers are then using a compatability layer which targets all platforms and which are unlikely to devote any reasonable dev resources to anything windows specific. even hololens is struggling to find developers and that is an order of magnitude more usefull than raytracing.

    That said, it is a requirement for good vr (since bumpmaps dont work).
    However, euclideon are the current leaders of that pack.

  23. Windows 10 still doesnâ(TM)t support network drives or real userspace. At this point in time i doubt anyone is using windows for much more than writing word / powerpoint documents and a bit of light hearted internet browsing.

    microsoft web browsers hitting our web servers is down to sub 1% of users.

    raytracing and ar is too little too late imho. Not because they wont be ok, but simply because competant developers wont touch the platform with a bargepole.

  24. Re: I don't know, but whatever your problem is... on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any USB-C Wireless Video Solutions? · · Score: 1

    fine, but for that to work youâ(TM)d have to give up your guns first, and that isnâ(TM)t a solution because then youâ(TM)d have nothing to shoot the disney generation with.

  25. Re: This, in general, is a bad thing on Comcast's Protected Browsing Is Blocking PayPal, Steam and TorrentFreak, Customers Say (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Iâ(TM)m pretty sure not being able to establish your own broadband connection counts as stupid, typical state depenancy mentality, always someone elses fault.