What are you basing that on? I would assume that the reason Android has a bigger marketshare than iPhone OS is because it's licensed to many, many manufacturers, whereas iPhone OS is only available on Apple products.
I don't think that has anything to do with it being "open."
SGI's computer systems weren't "uber powerful and specialized" in the late 90's. They had largely lost the commercial UNIX market to DEC and Sun by then, and were getting eaten alive in technical computing by HPPA. This continued right up until the demise of SGI MIPS.
What they had going for them was NUMAlink-induced scale-up capacity, which they still have in their Itanium and x64 systems.
Note that I'm aware that they did not literally sell Qt itself, just the commercial Qt business unit. I think at this point Nokia just doesn't give much of a fuck about it.
That's because its not true. They both use a similar core - a vaguely PPC970-like 64-bit PowerPC - but the major features of the Cell are the external vector units, not the CPU core itself.
It is a collaboration between Intel and several cell phone OEM's, with Nokia a major player, to develop an open-source Linux operating system for phones. In a sense, it is the spiritual successor to Nokia's Maemo operating system, found on the N770, N800, N810, and N900 devices. MeeGo is much more "Linuxy" than Android is, providing a complete RPM-based Linux stack with Qt as the primary API.
You make those of us who oppose the Act look bad when you make blatantly misinformed rants about its actual contents. The PATRIOT Act is mostly related to special search-and-seizure power, not "enemy combatants".
Italy and Germany ended up with fascist governments due to back-room political maneuvering, not elections. The Nazis never got close to an election majority.
The Javascript engines in browsers come nowhere close to the runtimes for the mainstream server-side platforms (J2EE,.NET, etc) in performance. It's not always orders of magnitude difference anymore, but one of those runtimes will still reliably be several times faster than the fastest JS engines.
OS/2 was a miniscule part of IBM's total strategy. IBM plays in high-end UNIX servers, mainframes, software, and services (maintenance, outsourcing, support.) This is big money, despite being largely invisible to consumers.
Is that MeeGo, or Maemo 6/Harmattan? My understanding was that M6 wouldn't be built on a MeeGo core, but would just offer a degree of API compatibility.
At least from a developer perspective, Android seems a lot closer to BB OS than Maemo/MeeGo. It uses a bytecode interpreter, a non-X GUI, and a Java SDK with libraries that are highly reminiscent of J2ME.
On the other hand, Maemo doesn't look deader now than it has at any time over the last five years - a new device (the N950) is coming out with a new Maemo version, Maemo 6. I'm cautiously optimistic that it will continue to fill the power-user niche that it does now.
A couple hundred ARM CPU's still can't deliver decent single-thread performance, which is more important for servers than a lot of people seem to think. If that wasn't true, the Oracle Niagara chips (128 threads @ roughly 200MHz) would be doing great right now instead of bleeding market share.
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What are you basing that on? I would assume that the reason Android has a bigger marketshare than iPhone OS is because it's licensed to many, many manufacturers, whereas iPhone OS is only available on Apple products.
I don't think that has anything to do with it being "open."
US aid to Israel is mostly spent in the US. Think of it as indirect job-creation money, just like most of the defense budget.
How is the lagging Symbian business, which has been rotting for years, remotely related to Microsoft?
SGI's computer systems weren't "uber powerful and specialized" in the late 90's. They had largely lost the commercial UNIX market to DEC and Sun by then, and were getting eaten alive in technical computing by HPPA. This continued right up until the demise of SGI MIPS.
What they had going for them was NUMAlink-induced scale-up capacity, which they still have in their Itanium and x64 systems.
This was research by the Belgian government into developing potatoes resistant to disease.
Where are the Generic Evil Megacorps in this story?
From another poster:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Sklyarov
Note that I'm aware that they did not literally sell Qt itself, just the commercial Qt business unit. I think at this point Nokia just doesn't give much of a fuck about it.
Nokia sold Qt, and you have no real logical thread that I can detect.
The Xbox 360 doesn't have SPE's, period. I would love to see any source that says it does.
That's because its not true. They both use a similar core - a vaguely PPC970-like 64-bit PowerPC - but the major features of the Cell are the external vector units, not the CPU core itself.
The typical API's on Wii and PS3 are not OpenGL. IIRC the PS3 offers an OpenGL API, but it is almost never used.
No they didn't.
It is a collaboration between Intel and several cell phone OEM's, with Nokia a major player, to develop an open-source Linux operating system for phones. In a sense, it is the spiritual successor to Nokia's Maemo operating system, found on the N770, N800, N810, and N900 devices. MeeGo is much more "Linuxy" than Android is, providing a complete RPM-based Linux stack with Qt as the primary API.
AES isn't commercially-significant? What about RC4?
You make those of us who oppose the Act look bad when you make blatantly misinformed rants about its actual contents. The PATRIOT Act is mostly related to special search-and-seizure power, not "enemy combatants".
Italy and Germany ended up with fascist governments due to back-room political maneuvering, not elections. The Nazis never got close to an election majority.
The Javascript engines in browsers come nowhere close to the runtimes for the mainstream server-side platforms (J2EE, .NET, etc) in performance. It's not always orders of magnitude difference anymore, but one of those runtimes will still reliably be several times faster than the fastest JS engines.
OS/2 was a miniscule part of IBM's total strategy. IBM plays in high-end UNIX servers, mainframes, software, and services (maintenance, outsourcing, support.) This is big money, despite being largely invisible to consumers.
Is that MeeGo, or Maemo 6/Harmattan? My understanding was that M6 wouldn't be built on a MeeGo core, but would just offer a degree of API compatibility.
At least from a developer perspective, Android seems a lot closer to BB OS than Maemo/MeeGo. It uses a bytecode interpreter, a non-X GUI, and a Java SDK with libraries that are highly reminiscent of J2ME.
On the other hand, Maemo doesn't look deader now than it has at any time over the last five years - a new device (the N950) is coming out with a new Maemo version, Maemo 6. I'm cautiously optimistic that it will continue to fill the power-user niche that it does now.
A couple hundred ARM CPU's still can't deliver decent single-thread performance, which is more important for servers than a lot of people seem to think. If that wasn't true, the Oracle Niagara chips (128 threads @ roughly 200MHz) would be doing great right now instead of bleeding market share.
The obvious answer would be the Russians, who have historically demonstrated a somewhat cavalier attitude towards biological warfare.
What, because the Russians did so well with that kind of strategy? Nobody wins in Afghanistan.
Typically about ten years (Server 2000 support ended last year, and 2003 is still supported.)
My laptop (Sony Vaio Z) is 13" and 1920x1080. It took a few days to get used to, but now it's perfectly usable and doesn't give me headaches.