You don't need a dataplan with a smartphone. I'm using one without a dataplan (paying 7.50 per month for call/sms, got a slightly outdated android phone for 270)
So, what do I use it for: * To call/sms * Email when I'm near WiFi (I don't need email everywhere, and I mostly do read-only) * Agenda, this is one of the most used features on my phone, having your schedule at hand is useful for a chaotic person like myself * Remote control for my media center, it's easier to select a file on a touchscreen then using a remote to scroll and select files onscreen * Toying around with apps, as a programmer I can make what I need:-)
While "standard" you can still remove them and have a functional Android system. The Cyanogenmod wiki has a nice list of what you can remove: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Barebones
I rooted my HTC Legend, installed Cyanogenmod, and I'm very happy about it. Blocking app permissions is just one of the reasons to install it. It also comes with a ton of extra configuration options. And I'm a hacker, so I hacked a few things to my own liking.
Which is harder to use. The "automatic" is important! Forgot to commit? Manual updates? Notifications about updates? no issue with dropbox.
I'm using dropbox a lot these days. I use 3 computers (work, home desktop, laptop), it's easy to have files accessible by al 3 by just putting the files in the right folder, no thinking beyond a single copy. I also have 3 shared folders which are used by other people, one of them even contains code, which is synced with a linux server, which runs the php code in the dropbox (rapid development) you can do all these things with other tools, but nothing matches the ease of use from dropbox.
I'm sorry to say this but you're ignorant. How the hell do you expect to feed 7*10^9 people?
Funny, but this problem will solve itself. It might get messy, but it will solve itself. The question just remains, how much damage do we want to do to the world before the problem solves itself?
I hope so. I hear very little to nothing about any replacement.
I'm European, and the USA spaceflight is one of those things that I used to look up to in my young years. I used to build little paper space-shuttles. And without a replacement there this dream is dead.
Because it's badly designed. Or more, it's designed for speed, not data safety. Read that again, SSD is designed to give you data fast, not to give you the right data all the time. The controllers need to account for wear-leveling and shifting around data so it uses less erase blocks. (A sector on a spinning harddisk is 512bytes, an erase block on a flash chip can be as large as 128kb)
The controller needs to maintain internal management of the flash layout. A virtual mapping so to say. 1 error in this mapping and your drive is junk. SD, compact flash, USB flash drives all show this problem. And there are only a few manufacturers have products that guarantee the safety of your data, and you pay the top price. (600 euro for an industrial grade CF card of 32GB) just having an "industrial grade" device doesn't guarantee anything, I have a few broken SD cards on my desk to prove it. So far CF is the only thing we found to be really safe, for a price, from the right manufacturer.
I won't trust my data to flash until we can access the raw flash and use something like JFFS2 or UBIFS.
I work with flash daily, we make products that last 15 years with flash. Without large failure rates. The problem is not with flash. It's with the SSD implementation. It's the "let's replace harddisks with flash! and don't change anything else!" that causes problems. Because of this normal filesystems are used, that assume to be on spinning harddrives, which have no issue in writing the same sector twice, or just writing 1 sector at once. On flash on the other hand you need to do wear-leveling, and have large erase blocks. Both are handled on the SSD right now, and that's where it fucks up. It needs to maintain an internal mapping of all the flash, accounting for wear-level and shifting blocks around. One error in this internal management and your disk is junk. Even with your fancy journaling filesystem (ntfs/ext3,4/...) you are just 1 power failure away from losing your data.
Compact flash cards, SD cards, SSD, USB sticks all see this problem. So far we've only found a few suppliers of Compact flash cards which guarantee the internal management is safe, and we tested it and found it to be true. SD cards, I've a few broken "industrial grade" SD cards on my desk as proof that this is not the case. SSD is to large for our product, so I have no tests for these, but I expect the problem to be the same.
We use raw flash, with linux and JFFS2 or UBIFS. Which is a filesystem designed to run on flash, raw flash. Wake me when "SSD" offers that solution. (TRIM is not a sollution, it's a workaround)
And still, Red Faction was blowing holes in walls in 2001.
I say Terraria is the better game, even with it's 2D nature. Because it contains a lot more stuff to do. And building/mining isn't new. Look up "Clonk", it's going strong all the way back to the 486 era, and it has a lot more features then minecraft. It's only not 3D.
The only wonder about Minecraft is the sudden amount of attention it got. It got lucky, that's all.
I suggest you get an update on the full story. Because they never had plans to sell "game breaking" equipment. They had in internal news letter that was made to start discussion about it, which leaked, and caused people to draw conclusions. And with those conclusions they where the noisy protesters, that gained followers. The end result was even more spam in local, a lot of lasers being fired on monuments, and me being even more happy to fly in nul-sec.
Have you read the leaked document? Because I have, and it looks nothing like "this is our plan!", it reads like, "these are views we can take on the subject"
You deal with the bitfields the same way as you deal with all other binary data. You read it, and then put it in the right member. Bitfields are not some magic way where you can map a structure on a file. You should never EVER do that. Read a byte, test the bits you want (with classic C style binary ands) and save the results in bitfield values. There is no reason why the mapping on disk should ever be the same as the mapping in memory.
The kernel is fine. Yes, patches are lacking behind a bit, but in general they are stable and working great.
On userland it's a whole different level. Automake just needs to die, it's like the 7th circle of hell for cross compilation. I need to build for x86, ARM and PPC (ppc860 in my case) and getting configure to cooperate is just a disaster every time. Anyone who says otherwise should try to cross compile "tcpdump" with configure. Which I never got to build with configure, and I got to build easy without it.
(Oh, and you can enable auto alignment fix for ARM to fix the SIGBUS, it will hit performance, but it will work, see/proc/cpu/alignment)
If you read the report, you'll notice that the bug introduces a slight incompatibility and a slight reduction in password strength if you use the 8th bit (read none-latin) characters. With blowfish (one of the many possible hash functions)
Yes, it's a bug. Yes, it needs to be fix. No, it's not OMG we're going to be pwned!
Wii drives are slightly modifed DVD drives (which is why early wii's can play DVDs with the right homebrew software) Wii U drives will most likely be slightly modified Blueray drives.
I won't be shocked if the Twiizer people get there hands on the Wii U and enable Blueray/DVD playback.
Those games have been around a lot longer then facebook, loads of webgames use the same mechanics. It's something about doing something and getting a reward that triggers an addictive reaction or something like that. In any case, doesn't work on me.
Oh, nice website. It indeed already has all the games I would mention.
It also shows the problem with Indie games: Overall they are quite limited. Minecraft is nr2 on their Top List, and that's still in Beta. It's very ambitious for an Indie game and I really like it, because it's different.
I'm not saying some of those games aren't great fun. I think they are. But it also shows that in today's game market people you need a level of perfection and an amount of content and art quality that is very hard to achieve alone or with a small team. If you want to reach the masses that is. It's amazing what such Indie developers can accomplish with the limited resources they have. But it also shows that there is a difference in scale compared to something like Blizzard.
The nr1 on the top list is Cave Story. A platform game with quite good and simple pixel graphics, all made by a single person. To get success in the indie market you don't need huge amount of content and art quality. You'll need a solid game.
And, there are loads and loads more indiegames then in the tigsource db, those are just the most noticeable. If you want more indie (smaller scale), head for the feedback forum: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?board=6.0 where people show off finished and unfinished games. If you want less indie (larger scale), head for the steam store.
Tigsource also runs a blog on the main page if you want information about new developments.
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It is luck if you are one of many who made a digital lego set, and suddenly sell it like wildfire.
You don't need a dataplan with a smartphone. I'm using one without a dataplan (paying 7.50 per month for call/sms, got a slightly outdated android phone for 270)
So, what do I use it for: :-)
* To call/sms
* Email when I'm near WiFi (I don't need email everywhere, and I mostly do read-only)
* Agenda, this is one of the most used features on my phone, having your schedule at hand is useful for a chaotic person like myself
* Remote control for my media center, it's easier to select a file on a touchscreen then using a remote to scroll and select files onscreen
* Toying around with apps, as a programmer I can make what I need
While "standard" you can still remove them and have a functional Android system. The Cyanogenmod wiki has a nice list of what you can remove:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Barebones
On Cyanogenmod the google apps are even a different install package (for copyright reasons, these are not open source) http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Latest_Version#Google_Apps and the system will work without this package.
I rooted my HTC Legend, installed Cyanogenmod, and I'm very happy about it. Blocking app permissions is just one of the reasons to install it. It also comes with a ton of extra configuration options. And I'm a hacker, so I hacked a few things to my own liking.
Which is harder to use. The "automatic" is important! Forgot to commit? Manual updates? Notifications about updates? no issue with dropbox.
I'm using dropbox a lot these days. I use 3 computers (work, home desktop, laptop), it's easy to have files accessible by al 3 by just putting the files in the right folder, no thinking beyond a single copy. I also have 3 shared folders which are used by other people, one of them even contains code, which is synced with a linux server, which runs the php code in the dropbox (rapid development) you can do all these things with other tools, but nothing matches the ease of use from dropbox.
I'm sorry to say this but you're ignorant. How the hell do you expect to feed 7*10^9 people?
Funny, but this problem will solve itself. It might get messy, but it will solve itself. The question just remains, how much damage do we want to do to the world before the problem solves itself?
Already taken: http://www.steamgames.com/steamworks/ov_cloud.php
I hope so. I hear very little to nothing about any replacement.
I'm European, and the USA spaceflight is one of those things that I used to look up to in my young years. I used to build little paper space-shuttles. And without a replacement there this dream is dead.
Because it's badly designed. Or more, it's designed for speed, not data safety. Read that again, SSD is designed to give you data fast, not to give you the right data all the time. The controllers need to account for wear-leveling and shifting around data so it uses less erase blocks. (A sector on a spinning harddisk is 512bytes, an erase block on a flash chip can be as large as 128kb)
The controller needs to maintain internal management of the flash layout. A virtual mapping so to say. 1 error in this mapping and your drive is junk. SD, compact flash, USB flash drives all show this problem. And there are only a few manufacturers have products that guarantee the safety of your data, and you pay the top price. (600 euro for an industrial grade CF card of 32GB) just having an "industrial grade" device doesn't guarantee anything, I have a few broken SD cards on my desk to prove it. So far CF is the only thing we found to be really safe, for a price, from the right manufacturer.
I won't trust my data to flash until we can access the raw flash and use something like JFFS2 or UBIFS.
I work with flash daily, we make products that last 15 years with flash. Without large failure rates. The problem is not with flash. It's with the SSD implementation. It's the "let's replace harddisks with flash! and don't change anything else!" that causes problems. Because of this normal filesystems are used, that assume to be on spinning harddrives, which have no issue in writing the same sector twice, or just writing 1 sector at once. On flash on the other hand you need to do wear-leveling, and have large erase blocks. Both are handled on the SSD right now, and that's where it fucks up. It needs to maintain an internal mapping of all the flash, accounting for wear-level and shifting blocks around. One error in this internal management and your disk is junk. Even with your fancy journaling filesystem (ntfs/ext3,4/...) you are just 1 power failure away from losing your data.
Compact flash cards, SD cards, SSD, USB sticks all see this problem. So far we've only found a few suppliers of Compact flash cards which guarantee the internal management is safe, and we tested it and found it to be true. SD cards, I've a few broken "industrial grade" SD cards on my desk as proof that this is not the case. SSD is to large for our product, so I have no tests for these, but I expect the problem to be the same.
We use raw flash, with linux and JFFS2 or UBIFS. Which is a filesystem designed to run on flash, raw flash. Wake me when "SSD" offers that solution.
(TRIM is not a sollution, it's a workaround)
And still, Red Faction was blowing holes in walls in 2001.
I say Terraria is the better game, even with it's 2D nature. Because it contains a lot more stuff to do.
And building/mining isn't new. Look up "Clonk", it's going strong all the way back to the 486 era, and it has a lot more features then minecraft. It's only not 3D.
The only wonder about Minecraft is the sudden amount of attention it got. It got lucky, that's all.
I suggest you get an update on the full story. Because they never had plans to sell "game breaking" equipment. They had in internal news letter that was made to start discussion about it, which leaked, and caused people to draw conclusions. And with those conclusions they where the noisy protesters, that gained followers. The end result was even more spam in local, a lot of lasers being fired on monuments, and me being even more happy to fly in nul-sec.
Have you read the leaked document? Because I have, and it looks nothing like "this is our plan!", it reads like, "these are views we can take on the subject"
How about $70 for an monocle, that does nothing but show up in your ingame avatar.
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/06/22/eve-online-now-sells-70-monocles/
Comparing power usage of an x86 to an ARM is just laughable:
http://netbooked.net/blog/arm-vs-atom-size-vs-power-vs-performance/
The article points out that there is also a power regression in the scheduler. Which is the next thing that the writer will look at.
Read a bit better and you'll notice that he says:
4.5 > 4.8
4000 > 1000
or
4.5 < 4.8
4000 < 1000
Depending on what "it" is. Does not compute.
You deal with the bitfields the same way as you deal with all other binary data. You read it, and then put it in the right member. Bitfields are not some magic way where you can map a structure on a file. You should never EVER do that. Read a byte, test the bits you want (with classic C style binary ands) and save the results in bitfield values. There is no reason why the mapping on disk should ever be the same as the mapping in memory.
You are basically saying. "I don't want C++, I want C!"
If you are putting binary flags in enums then you are using them wrong. And that's why you are no longer allowed to do so. It's a GOOD thing.
You want bitfields: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ewwyfdbe(v=vs.71).aspx
You sir, hit the nail on the head.
The kernel is fine. Yes, patches are lacking behind a bit, but in general they are stable and working great.
On userland it's a whole different level. Automake just needs to die, it's like the 7th circle of hell for cross compilation. I need to build for x86, ARM and PPC (ppc860 in my case) and getting configure to cooperate is just a disaster every time. Anyone who says otherwise should try to cross compile "tcpdump" with configure. Which I never got to build with configure, and I got to build easy without it.
(Oh, and you can enable auto alignment fix for ARM to fix the SIGBUS, it will hit performance, but it will work, see /proc/cpu/alignment)
If you read the report, you'll notice that the bug introduces a slight incompatibility and a slight reduction in password strength if you use the 8th bit (read none-latin) characters. With blowfish (one of the many possible hash functions)
Yes, it's a bug. Yes, it needs to be fix. No, it's not OMG we're going to be pwned!
How could you forget the wave of apple/iphone related stories?
Wii drives are slightly modifed DVD drives (which is why early wii's can play DVDs with the right homebrew software)
Wii U drives will most likely be slightly modified Blueray drives.
I won't be shocked if the Twiizer people get there hands on the Wii U and enable Blueray/DVD playback.
Those games have been around a lot longer then facebook, loads of webgames use the same mechanics. It's something about doing something and getting a reward that triggers an addictive reaction or something like that. In any case, doesn't work on me.
Oh, nice website. It indeed already has all the games I would mention.
It also shows the problem with Indie games: Overall they are quite limited. Minecraft is nr2 on their Top List, and that's still in Beta. It's very ambitious for an Indie game and I really like it, because it's different.
I'm not saying some of those games aren't great fun. I think they are. But it also shows that in today's game market people you need a level of perfection and an amount of content and art quality that is very hard to achieve alone or with a small team. If you want to reach the masses that is. It's amazing what such Indie developers can accomplish with the limited resources they have. But it also shows that there is a difference in scale compared to something like Blizzard.
The nr1 on the top list is Cave Story. A platform game with quite good and simple pixel graphics, all made by a single person. To get success in the indie market you don't need huge amount of content and art quality. You'll need a solid game.
And, there are loads and loads more indiegames then in the tigsource db, those are just the most noticeable. If you want more indie (smaller scale), head for the feedback forum: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?board=6.0 where people show off finished and unfinished games. If you want less indie (larger scale), head for the steam store.
Tigsource also runs a blog on the main page if you want information about new developments.
http://db.tigsource.com/
You are welcome.