No it's not going to underprivileged kids. The govt required the telcoms to provide phone service in remote areas, and therefore subsidized the telcoms to build out the require infrastructure.
Since basic telco analog line infrastructure is already in place in the vast majority of areas, it's stupid to keep subsidising those efforts. Under this arrangement, the telcos have no incentive to provide anything better than dialup. This shift would push the telcos to install improved infrastructure in isolated areas that supports broadband such as.DSL instead of lines that barely support 32k dialup speeds.
I think you might have trouble finding 50,000 actual working installations of QNX with internet connections. The simple point being that Windows is by far and large the largest target. No one in their right mind is going to waste time developing a botnet on the small potatoes like QNX, VAX, or Mac.
That would make them no better than any other company violating the GPL.
Only if they redistributed them. But with Bluetooth it's almost always a firmware issue (which could be had from any existing Touchpad.) You're probably right about the graphics drivers (the disaster there we can thank Google for.)
Yes in many ways using GPLd code is like poisoning your project
Bullshit. If you wander into using GPL'd sources for something without knowing what its terms are, you are a fool.
My point was that decompiling a proprietary binary, and then releasing it as GPL is just as bad as taking GPL and rolling it into your proprietary binary. It doesn't matter if they redistribute or develop their own drivers after that, because the case can be made (and has been made in other instances such as wine) that they didn't develop their version entirely on their own. The cyanogen team should take care not to expose themselves to anything not obtained properly least the rightful owners of that IP sue them.
As for GPL being poison, try looking at it from the perspective of a company whose employee cheated and incorporated any GPL'd code into your product. Down the road, when the open source community figures it out and starts demanding you release your source code, you'll be wishing your employee had stayed away from it.
Jobs tried several eastern religions. I don't know if he practiced and worshiped Buddhism religiously, but he certainly advocated independent thinking as based on quotes like this. In my opinion, this philosophy served him well.
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone elses life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary"
** Why is God a guy? Why can't he be a she? Was it because the stories were written by men during a time and in a region where women were (and to some extent still are) considered property and subservient to men?
I've tried referring to the Christian God using non-gender pronouns. It really pisses people off when you refer to their god as 'it'. Even more so than referring to their idol as 'your god' (note lowercase) which immediately tells them I don't share their beliefs and don't want to pretend that I'm religious. Or sometimes I ask them to clarify which god they are thanking, because there are several hundred possibilities.
In case you're wondering, I'm not truly atheist. I'd say I'm agnostic as I don't believe the god described by religious cults actually exists, but I can't completely rule out the possibility of a higher power or level of existence.
The Cyanogen team would be foolish to even look at the dumped ROM from these tablets. It sounds like they really want the drivers for things like the video and bluetooth, which are likely closed source binaries. That would make them no better than any other company violating the GPL.
It's kind of ironic that they are trying to strong arm HP and Qualcomm using legal tactics into releasing code that they never intended to release. (Yes in many ways using GPLd code is like poisoning your project). Even if it was a compiled driver that they intended to installed on tablets they sold, they are still under no obligation to release anything unless it was based on GPL'd code.
I've had my BoA accounts for a long time as well, however that is because I started with an account with BayBank, who was bought by Bank Boston, who merged with Fleet, who was bought by Bank of America. Not my fault.
I haven't closed my account, but what I DID do was to move out everything but the minimum to avoid fees to a local credit union. So basically BoA is stuck with a tiny savings account, a credit card that never earns interest, and a checking account that never generates overdraft fees. I think that's even worse for them than losing a customer.
I guess you didn't bother reading the statement of fees they sent you. You get charged the $5 a month if you don't keep enough in your account and/or have the right plan. So by pulling all your money out, you are causing your account to get charged the fees.
Uh wait, they are claiming the patent on what is essentially the 802.11 CSMA/CA standard? Which certainly has prior art as the collision avoidance in wired connections dating back a few decades further?
I've gone through 3 versions of Firefox and not once had any expansions broken. Besides, it's not Mozilla's responsibility to keep add-ons up-to-date - blame the developers for that. Personally, I can't stand Chrome - it's too IEish for my tastes. I tend to go back and forth between Safari and Firefox.
It is Mozilla's fault when they bump the major rev number when they only made some bug fixes. Since add-ons must be updated for every revision because they can't claim to be forward compatible, then yes I blame Mozilla for arbitrarily breaking add-ons Even worse, Firefox will auto-update and then tell you which add-ons it disabled instead of asking ahead of time.
No, I was thinking of true QOS, where the router is honoring COS/TOS or even just simple queue prioritizing based on tcp ports (what some routers call QOS). I doubt the provider is even looking at those bits, since they aren't guaranteed to reflect the urgency of the packets. I wasn't even thinking IPV6 as I wasn't away of any VOIP providers using it yet.
But as pointed out, prioritizing your outbound traffic can be of some benefit if all your inbound traffic is tcpip, and not streaming video or people portscanning you (seems to be my problem lately).
I just installed it for the first time on my router yesterday (linksys e2000.) Easy to install and it's working well. Good QOS is nearly mandatory in my house.
QOS is nice, but implementing it only on one end is pointless. Is your provider actually doing QOS on the downstream traffic?
Opera turbo uses compression via opera's servers. Amazon's thing uses amazon's servers to render. With opera the point is to get around a slow connection on the consumer's side. Amazon's point is to do the render processing on amazon's side. Let's take an annoyingly busy website, for example: http://home.sina.com/ Now this beast can take a while to download and get ready, especially on a low power handheld thing like a tablet. Amazon's silk method should prep all those parts for the displaying device.
Um, yeah. So it does work exactly like Opera Turbo does. Opera turbo also down-sampled images to a lower resolution or lower number of colors which helped cut the download sizes quite a bit.
The Sectera is the one mentioned, that uses VOIP over SIPR. It's still quite large, poor battery life, and you have to treat the unit as classified at all times. The Blackberry is not authorized for classified at all, just sensitive but unclass.
What they really want is the cell phone equivalent of the STU/STE deskphones with the size and battery life of a current modern cell phone.
Exactly. HP can't write software very well (e.g. their horribly bloated printer drivers). Rather than go out and buy something like WebOS which would struggle to get any market share, they want to join the Android bandwagon. The open source crowd has done most of the port getting Android to work on the Touchpad already, so their business model just needs to leverage the free software development and concentrate on cranking out the cheap chinese-made tablets.
Honestly, the HP desktops and laptops have improved considerably over the last few years. They stopped making so many strange design decisions, dropped some of the stupid proprietary parts, and the quality went up.
Three strategies that most definitely work: 1. Don't buy a game right after it comes out (this also cuts down the price dramatically if you choose to buy it). Wait for the reviews and the like to percolate for a while, so you can get an idea of what the early adopters thought of it. Sure, it might not be as popular 2 years later, but it's still the same game.
2. Some gaming companies release demos, which is a perfectly legal way to try before you buy.
3. Alternately, scrap the commercial latest-and-greatest and just enjoy games that are available for free, like Battle for Wesnoth and FreeCiv. A lot of them are pretty good, replayable, portable across many OSes, and in some cases multi-player capable. You risk nothing but your free time, which is what you're using up to play games anyways.
That's how I do it, simply because the bleeding edge PC games usually require expensive bleeding edge hardware. A year or so down the road that bleeding edge hardware is relatively cheap.
Yes, it's funny to hear people tell you to watch loud power tools and music until... your hearing is 1/2 gone!
Just curious, the doc says hearing aids only amplify the volume of sounds. I'm only deficient in hearing in a certain small range but it makes talking to certain people (usually women and kids) a chore. Isn't there _something_ that can shift the pitch of a certain frequency into another frequency so I can hear it without amplification?
The more expensive hearing aids have an equalizer which can be tuned. That way, you only amplify the frequency ranges you need. Frequency shifting would be much more complex and really not necessary.
18min ago: "Our DB has blacklisted one of our frontend hosts due to connection errors. We're looking into it." 7min ago: "Our DB and frontend are friends again. The site is back up."
Their response time to this problem is a great advertisement for their services.
Translation: 18 min ago - One of our frontend servers was automatically isolated because it did something suspicious. 7 min ago - Don't worry, no one would ever hack us so we reconnected the server and all looks normal. (hey wait, who made all these unsigned commits?)
Most people would define an electric motor as something that takes electricity and produces motion, not an electric field. The molecule by itself, not attached to the copper doesn't rotate. By your definition, a hydrogen atom is a motor as it will move in an electric field.
Here's an 8.4" tablet with a dual core ARM for under $200. Maybe it's a quality issue? I've read mixed things about cheap tablets. But still...
That's pretty weak on the hardware specs. If you don't care about off brand, you can get a Chinese clone with far better hardware at places like Merimobiles for less.
An Apple refurbished product is quite often brand new; especially after a new product release when all the unsold products suddenly are refurbished.
Apple continues to sell the old unsold models. They don't suddenly devalue them by labeling them refurbished. Refurbished means returned/repaired. Believe it on not, Apple has a lot of warranty returns.
270 dpi is "retina" now? Well, shoot, I didn't realize they lowered the standard for "retina".
Well first, Retina was a marketing term. The marketing was that the resolution was higher than the eye's ability to discern the pixels. A tablet will likely be held a little further away than the one foot distance that Apple claims an iPhone is held from the face. Holding the tablet 14" instead of 12" away would be the same effective resolution
People have also forgotten what the resolution of actual book pages is -- it's on the order of 2400 dpi on quality paper, and even crappy paperbacks are at least 600 dpi. For comparison, current ebook readers like the Nook color do 170 dpi, and the 10 inch iPad does 130 dpi. At least according to rumours Apple is working on a 270 dpi retina display for the next generation iPad.
Paperbacks are no where near 600 dpi, nor is dpi the only consideration for printing. For printing dot size is just as important. You're also ignoring important things like what you're looking at (picture or text) and viewing distance. For example billboards are as low as 15 dpi.
The whole point of pushing up the resolution is that you can increase effective screen real estate without physically making the screen bigger. The iPhone4 has more pixels than most 7" tablets and many cheaper 10" tablets. Being smaller makes it far more portable and requires less backlighting which greatly improves battery life. Sure you hold it a little closer to your face, but when it's 1/3rd the weight you don't even notice.
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No it's not going to underprivileged kids. The govt required the telcoms to provide phone service in remote areas, and therefore subsidized the telcoms to build out the require infrastructure.
Since basic telco analog line infrastructure is already in place in the vast majority of areas, it's stupid to keep subsidising those efforts. Under this arrangement, the telcos have no incentive to provide anything better than dialup. This shift would push the telcos to install improved infrastructure in isolated areas that supports broadband such as .DSL instead of lines that barely support 32k dialup speeds.
I think you might have trouble finding 50,000 actual working installations of QNX with internet connections. The simple point being that Windows is by far and large the largest target. No one in their right mind is going to waste time developing a botnet on the small potatoes like QNX, VAX, or Mac.
Host-Based Security System (HBSS) is McAfee's suite of products which includes antivirus, firewall, host intrusion, app locking, etc.
These systems are not on the internet. Most likely the infection path was a thumb drive.
Only if they redistributed them. But with Bluetooth it's almost always a firmware issue (which could be had from any existing Touchpad.) You're probably right about the graphics drivers (the disaster there we can thank Google for.)
Bullshit. If you wander into using GPL'd sources for something without knowing what its terms are, you are a fool.
My point was that decompiling a proprietary binary, and then releasing it as GPL is just as bad as taking GPL and rolling it into your proprietary binary. It doesn't matter if they redistribute or develop their own drivers after that, because the case can be made (and has been made in other instances such as wine) that they didn't develop their version entirely on their own. The cyanogen team should take care not to expose themselves to anything not obtained properly least the rightful owners of that IP sue them.
As for GPL being poison, try looking at it from the perspective of a company whose employee cheated and incorporated any GPL'd code into your product. Down the road, when the open source community figures it out and starts demanding you release your source code, you'll be wishing your employee had stayed away from it.
Jobs tried several eastern religions. I don't know if he practiced and worshiped Buddhism religiously, but he certainly advocated independent thinking as based on quotes like this. In my opinion, this philosophy served him well.
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone elses life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary"
-Steve Jobs, Stanford Graduate Commencement address (2005-06-12)
(Rest in peace Steve.)
** Why is God a guy? Why can't he be a she? Was it because the stories were written by men during a time and in a region where women were (and to some extent still are) considered property and subservient to men?
I've tried referring to the Christian God using non-gender pronouns. It really pisses people off when you refer to their god as 'it'. Even more so than referring to their idol as 'your god' (note lowercase) which immediately tells them I don't share their beliefs and don't want to pretend that I'm religious. Or sometimes I ask them to clarify which god they are thanking, because there are several hundred possibilities.
In case you're wondering, I'm not truly atheist. I'd say I'm agnostic as I don't believe the god described by religious cults actually exists, but I can't completely rule out the possibility of a higher power or level of existence.
The Cyanogen team would be foolish to even look at the dumped ROM from these tablets. It sounds like they really want the drivers for things like the video and bluetooth, which are likely closed source binaries. That would make them no better than any other company violating the GPL.
It's kind of ironic that they are trying to strong arm HP and Qualcomm using legal tactics into releasing code that they never intended to release. (Yes in many ways using GPLd code is like poisoning your project). Even if it was a compiled driver that they intended to installed on tablets they sold, they are still under no obligation to release anything unless it was based on GPL'd code.
I've had my BoA accounts for a long time as well, however that is because I started with an account with BayBank, who was bought by Bank Boston, who merged with Fleet, who was bought by Bank of America. Not my fault.
I haven't closed my account, but what I DID do was to move out everything but the minimum to avoid fees to a local credit union. So basically BoA is stuck with a tiny savings account, a credit card that never earns interest, and a checking account that never generates overdraft fees. I think that's even worse for them than losing a customer.
I guess you didn't bother reading the statement of fees they sent you. You get charged the $5 a month if you don't keep enough in your account and/or have the right plan. So by pulling all your money out, you are causing your account to get charged the fees.
Uh wait, they are claiming the patent on what is essentially the 802.11 CSMA/CA standard? Which certainly has prior art as the collision avoidance in wired connections dating back a few decades further?
http://www.pcmag.com/image_popup/0,1740,iid=313504,00.asp
Curious that a few things are missing, such as "voice call content" and "GPS Location". Does IP session information include the content?
I've gone through 3 versions of Firefox and not once had any expansions broken.
Besides, it's not Mozilla's responsibility to keep add-ons up-to-date - blame the developers for that.
Personally, I can't stand Chrome - it's too IEish for my tastes. I tend to go back and forth between Safari and Firefox.
It is Mozilla's fault when they bump the major rev number when they only made some bug fixes. Since add-ons must be updated for every revision because they can't claim to be forward compatible, then yes I blame Mozilla for arbitrarily breaking add-ons Even worse, Firefox will auto-update and then tell you which add-ons it disabled instead of asking ahead of time.
No, I was thinking of true QOS, where the router is honoring COS/TOS or even just simple queue prioritizing based on tcp ports (what some routers call QOS). I doubt the provider is even looking at those bits, since they aren't guaranteed to reflect the urgency of the packets. I wasn't even thinking IPV6 as I wasn't away of any VOIP providers using it yet.
But as pointed out, prioritizing your outbound traffic can be of some benefit if all your inbound traffic is tcpip, and not streaming video or people portscanning you (seems to be my problem lately).
I just installed it for the first time on my router yesterday (linksys e2000.) Easy to install and it's working well. Good QOS is nearly mandatory in my house.
QOS is nice, but implementing it only on one end is pointless. Is your provider actually doing QOS on the downstream traffic?
Opera turbo uses compression via opera's servers. Amazon's thing uses amazon's servers to render. With opera the point is to get around a slow connection on the consumer's side. Amazon's point is to do the render processing on amazon's side. Let's take an annoyingly busy website, for example: http://home.sina.com/ Now this beast can take a while to download and get ready, especially on a low power handheld thing like a tablet. Amazon's silk method should prep all those parts for the displaying device.
Um, yeah. So it does work exactly like Opera Turbo does. Opera turbo also down-sampled images to a lower resolution or lower number of colors which helped cut the download sizes quite a bit.
The Sectera is the one mentioned, that uses VOIP over SIPR. It's still quite large, poor battery life, and you have to treat the unit as classified at all times. The Blackberry is not authorized for classified at all, just sensitive but unclass.
What they really want is the cell phone equivalent of the STU/STE deskphones with the size and battery life of a current modern cell phone.
Exactly. HP can't write software very well (e.g. their horribly bloated printer drivers). Rather than go out and buy something like WebOS which would struggle to get any market share, they want to join the Android bandwagon. The open source crowd has done most of the port getting Android to work on the Touchpad already, so their business model just needs to leverage the free software development and concentrate on cranking out the cheap chinese-made tablets.
Honestly, the HP desktops and laptops have improved considerably over the last few years. They stopped making so many strange design decisions, dropped some of the stupid proprietary parts, and the quality went up.
Three strategies that most definitely work:
1. Don't buy a game right after it comes out (this also cuts down the price dramatically if you choose to buy it). Wait for the reviews and the like to percolate for a while, so you can get an idea of what the early adopters thought of it. Sure, it might not be as popular 2 years later, but it's still the same game.
2. Some gaming companies release demos, which is a perfectly legal way to try before you buy.
3. Alternately, scrap the commercial latest-and-greatest and just enjoy games that are available for free, like Battle for Wesnoth and FreeCiv. A lot of them are pretty good, replayable, portable across many OSes, and in some cases multi-player capable. You risk nothing but your free time, which is what you're using up to play games anyways.
That's how I do it, simply because the bleeding edge PC games usually require expensive bleeding edge hardware. A year or so down the road that bleeding edge hardware is relatively cheap.
Yes, it's funny to hear people tell you to watch loud power tools and music until... your hearing is 1/2 gone!
Just curious, the doc says hearing aids only amplify the volume of sounds. I'm only deficient in hearing in a certain small range but it makes talking to certain people (usually women and kids) a chore. Isn't there _something_ that can shift the pitch of a certain frequency into another frequency so I can hear it without amplification?
The more expensive hearing aids have an equalizer which can be tuned. That way, you only amplify the frequency ranges you need. Frequency shifting would be much more complex and really not necessary.
18min ago: "Our DB has blacklisted one of our frontend hosts due to connection errors. We're looking into it."
7min ago: "Our DB and frontend are friends again. The site is back up."
From their Twitter feed
Their response time to this problem is a great advertisement for their services.
Translation:
18 min ago - One of our frontend servers was automatically isolated because it did something suspicious.
7 min ago - Don't worry, no one would ever hack us so we reconnected the server and all looks normal.
(hey wait, who made all these unsigned commits?)
Most people would define an electric motor as something that takes electricity and produces motion, not an electric field. The molecule by itself, not attached to the copper doesn't rotate. By your definition, a hydrogen atom is a motor as it will move in an electric field.
Here's an 8.4" tablet with a dual core ARM for under $200. Maybe it's a quality issue? I've read mixed things about cheap tablets. But still...
That's pretty weak on the hardware specs. If you don't care about off brand, you can get a Chinese clone with far better hardware at places like Merimobiles for less.
So either sell the touchpad for $200 on eBay, or install Cyanogen on it and you have the same hardware and OS as most $200 tablets....
An Apple refurbished product is quite often brand new; especially after a new product release when all the unsold products suddenly are refurbished.
Apple continues to sell the old unsold models. They don't suddenly devalue them by labeling them refurbished. Refurbished means returned/repaired. Believe it on not, Apple has a lot of warranty returns.
270 dpi is "retina" now? Well, shoot, I didn't realize they lowered the standard for "retina".
Well first, Retina was a marketing term. The marketing was that the resolution was higher than the eye's ability to discern the pixels. A tablet will likely be held a little further away than the one foot distance that Apple claims an iPhone is held from the face. Holding the tablet 14" instead of 12" away would be the same effective resolution
http://medgadget.com/2010/06/apples_retina_display_what_does_it_mean.html
People have also forgotten what the resolution of actual book pages is -- it's on the order of 2400 dpi on quality paper, and even crappy paperbacks are at least 600 dpi. For comparison, current ebook readers like the Nook color do 170 dpi, and the 10 inch iPad does 130 dpi. At least according to rumours Apple is working on a 270 dpi retina display for the next generation iPad.
Paperbacks are no where near 600 dpi, nor is dpi the only consideration for printing. For printing dot size is just as important. You're also ignoring important things like what you're looking at (picture or text) and viewing distance. For example billboards are as low as 15 dpi.
The whole point of pushing up the resolution is that you can increase effective screen real estate without physically making the screen bigger. The iPhone4 has more pixels than most 7" tablets and many cheaper 10" tablets. Being smaller makes it far more portable and requires less backlighting which greatly improves battery life. Sure you hold it a little closer to your face, but when it's 1/3rd the weight you don't even notice.