The Galaxy S line is just 3 years old and can support 4.2.2 through CyanogenMod. It should be supported by Samsung for 3 years as well, I think. 2.3 is ancient (as Android versions go), and was out when the S line was still being sold. Admittedly, keeping an Android phone up to date with the latest version isn't that important for features because of overall flexibility, getting security updates is.
Personally, I'm not likely to buy another non-Nexus device. You can't trust Samsung to update the OS, and it's nice to be able to remove any custom Samsung software. Third-party ROM support is never guaranteed, and is often required for non-Nexus devices, even just to fix security vulnerabilities.
It's not really that straight forward. For many tasks, multi-cores are under-rated, it just depends on the task and how the software is written. Multi-cores are not particularly helpful with single threaded applications though, true.
Yep. Sony has been doing it forever, and Microsoft seems to have become a big fan of it lately as well. FaceBook was actually caught doing it against Google.
That's not the definition of open source software. Isn't that 'libre' software? Open source just means that you have the source. Personally, I'd prefer it if they mandated FOSS. Question though... if MS made their products open source, could you maintain it yourself... or would that be something that could be restricted by licence? The way I see it you could do anything you wanted with it within your own business. Anything else would be against copyright laws.
You're making the assumption that they thought about this. The people involved in the decision probably numbered in the dozens tops, with most of them marketing and finance people. With the way companies seem to be run to realize maximum profits in the short term these days, it's even possible they realized this but turned down the long term gain anyway.
You speak of the US as if they wouldn't do exactly the same thing (and almost certainly are). This is why there should be an open implementation that supports proper security.
If you use something like Ksplice, you can install the kernel security patches without rebooting, although I don't think they were doing that here. I'm so disappointed that Oracle bought Ksplice.
Likewise. Everyone who sees me using it becomes a user. This is quite disappointing. I wonder if they can recommend anything that replaces anywhere close to the functionality...
I wish more large developers would do the same. All they need to do is allow an 'install external app' checkbox to make most happy, but that would break the app-store lock-in. Personally, I think your business should rely on people wanting to use it, not being forced to. The app store has value, but to me it's unacceptable to have no alternatives.
The part of this that's annoying to me is not the resale of digital goods part... that should be assumed to be acceptable in the same way as any or goods are resold. The part I find annoying is that these weasels are patenting methods of doing it. I have a lot of trouble believing that anything they propose is original or not obvious.
You also pay to send postcards. Gooogle is offereing these serices for 'free'. Do you think it's out of the goodness of their hearts? Advertising is how they make money.
Perhaps in a case like this the judge should fine the accuser if they lose and give the claimed damages to the defendants.There needs to be some sort of downside to this kind of abuse.
This was not IE. I found the offending executable... it was SearchFilterHost. I found threads at Microsoft (which seem to have been removed, but it has been quite a while) asking why it was accessing the network.
I was actually just looking around for the name of the module that was sending the data. I remember one thing it was doing was sending URLs to a DNS server on a non-standard port on a cloud server form that was registered to Microsoft. It really looked like a virus. I'll keep digging for the name of the offending module.
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The Galaxy S line is just 3 years old and can support 4.2.2 through CyanogenMod. It should be supported by Samsung for 3 years as well, I think. 2.3 is ancient (as Android versions go), and was out when the S line was still being sold. Admittedly, keeping an Android phone up to date with the latest version isn't that important for features because of overall flexibility, getting security updates is.
Personally, I'm not likely to buy another non-Nexus device. You can't trust Samsung to update the OS, and it's nice to be able to remove any custom Samsung software. Third-party ROM support is never guaranteed, and is often required for non-Nexus devices, even just to fix security vulnerabilities.
It's not really that straight forward. For many tasks, multi-cores are under-rated, it just depends on the task and how the software is written. Multi-cores are not particularly helpful with single threaded applications though, true.
It's also nice to use a desktop whose designers actually think you should be allowed to configure it to look and act the way that you want.
Yep. Sony has been doing it forever, and Microsoft seems to have become a big fan of it lately as well. FaceBook was actually caught doing it against Google.
That's not the definition of open source software. Isn't that 'libre' software? Open source just means that you have the source. Personally, I'd prefer it if they mandated FOSS. Question though ... if MS made their products open source, could you maintain it yourself ... or would that be something that could be restricted by licence? The way I see it you could do anything you wanted with it within your own business. Anything else would be against copyright laws.
... or they pick the product whose sales-weasels give them vacations and golf outings.
That's most likely in this case, but I still don't think it's guaranteed. Companies make bad, short sighted decisions all the time.
... and I'll throw this out there as well.
You're making the assumption that they thought about this. The people involved in the decision probably numbered in the dozens tops, with most of them marketing and finance people. With the way companies seem to be run to realize maximum profits in the short term these days, it's even possible they realized this but turned down the long term gain anyway.
You speak of the US as if they wouldn't do exactly the same thing (and almost certainly are). This is why there should be an open implementation that supports proper security.
If you use something like Ksplice, you can install the kernel security patches without rebooting, although I don't think they were doing that here. I'm so disappointed that Oracle bought Ksplice.
The Android "PhotoSphere" app built on the Nexus 4 works quite well, in both panorama and sphere mode. You don't need to be that steady.
Adblock Plus on Android does not 'require' root. It blocks ads on wifi without it, and uses a proxy for the rest.
Likewise. Everyone who sees me using it becomes a user. This is quite disappointing. I wonder if they can recommend anything that replaces anywhere close to the functionality ...
I wish more large developers would do the same. All they need to do is allow an 'install external app' checkbox to make most happy, but that would break the app-store lock-in. Personally, I think your business should rely on people wanting to use it, not being forced to. The app store has value, but to me it's unacceptable to have no alternatives.
The part of this that's annoying to me is not the resale of digital goods part ... that should be assumed to be acceptable in the same way as any or goods are resold. The part I find annoying is that these weasels are patenting methods of doing it. I have a lot of trouble believing that anything they propose is original or not obvious.
Open an email? You mean text? Not really a problem. if you're not blocking images and JavaScript, you're headed for trouble, targeted or not.
Wait until you're only allowed to install software from the Mac App Store unless you buy a 'developer licence'. Don't think that's going to happen?
Private email services are not secure either. If you want security, encrypt.
You also pay to send postcards. Gooogle is offereing these serices for 'free'. Do you think it's out of the goodness of their hearts? Advertising is how they make money.
Unless I'm horribly mistaken, they've let certificates expire before. Why would I think they won't let it happen again?
Perhaps in a case like this the judge should fine the accuser if they lose and give the claimed damages to the defendants.There needs to be some sort of downside to this kind of abuse.
This was not IE. I found the offending executable ... it was SearchFilterHost. I found threads at Microsoft (which seem to have been removed, but it has been quite a while) asking why it was accessing the network.
I was actually just looking around for the name of the module that was sending the data. I remember one thing it was doing was sending URLs to a DNS server on a non-standard port on a cloud server form that was registered to Microsoft. It really looked like a virus. I'll keep digging for the name of the offending module.