The fragmentation problem is because there are so many different versions of Android still out there, with different screen sizes, hardware capabilities, sensor availability, etc.
I don't really see how this is going to change much.
Have you been paying attention? Asking for a percentage of retail price is the normal, regular, standard way of doing things. Everyone does it--Motorola, Qualcomm, Samsung, etc.
The only reason why Apple/Microsoft are complaining is that normally the licensee agrees to cross-license some of their own patents instead of paying cash. Apple/Microsoft either don't have patents that others want or else don't want to cross-license them.
It's more than just fees. Traditionaly being a Professional Engineer (and calling yourself an "Engineer") meant that you actually personally signed off on projects as being able to meet the stated goals. (Bridges, buildings, reactors, power stations, etc.)
Unless a "Software Engineer" is personally signing off on a software design and taking actual responsibility for bugs, I don't think they should be using the term "Engineer".
Incidentally I have degrees in Computer Science and Engineering Physics. I do software development for telecoms stuff, but I definitely wouldn't call what I do "Engineering".
1) I run linux but occasionally need windows-based software for desktop sharing or some corporate-level thing so I have a Win7 install in VMware for that 2) For emulating our product (which runs either 2.6.27 or 2.6.34 kernels) on my laptop (which runs 2.6.35 currently) I just fire up a KVM-based virtual machine. 3) I run Fedora but I'm looking at a media player where the build environment assumes Ubuntu...so just fire up Ubuntu in a VM.
There is a fair bit of evidence that people will drive at a certain amount of perceived risk. So if you add a bunch of safety features then people will feel safer and thus tend to drive faster given the same conditions.
Around here there are always reports of people in 4wd vehicles getting into trouble when it snows--they've got more traction than a 2wd for getting up to speed, but the same amount of braking force.
and it slows to a crawl, like every other arm tablet out there.
There are some things (even common ones) where you really do need a couple gigs of RAM and a reasonably beefy CPU. (But "reasonably beefy" isn't hard, pretty much anything x86 better than an Atom qualifies.)
Also, are you seriously talking about doing nonlinear video editing on an ipad?
1) high frame rates in a basic game imply better frame rates in a more complicated game, or at higher resolution 2) high max frame rates imply a higher minimum frame rate, which is actually noticeable if it drops too low
Suppose I have 4 build machines, each running a different OS or version of the OS. At any given time I only need to be building 1 version.
If I virtualize them, I can use one machine (with 4x the disk space). Even accounting for reliability (and getting better redundancy than before) I can get away with 2 machines instead of 4.
Put one at the left, the other at the right, and make them so far apart that they CANNOT POSSIBLY BE CONFUSED even if the system is out by some number of pixels (or even some fraction of an inch)!
If you're a single person driving tens of miles to work then tens of miles back, it totally makes sense to have a tiny electric car. Charge it at home, charge it at work, you're good to go.
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The fragmentation problem is because there are so many different versions of Android still out there, with different screen sizes, hardware capabilities, sensor availability, etc.
I don't really see how this is going to change much.
Have you been paying attention? Asking for a percentage of retail price is the normal, regular, standard way of doing things. Everyone does it--Motorola, Qualcomm, Samsung, etc.
The only reason why Apple/Microsoft are complaining is that normally the licensee agrees to cross-license some of their own patents instead of paying cash. Apple/Microsoft either don't have patents that others want or else don't want to cross-license them.
Comes stock with Android, but they have a pure XBMC build. The company sponsors developers to work on XMBC for Android.
It's in what I would call beta stage at this point. Not perfect, but pretty decent. It is supposed to run Netflix, but I haven't actually tried yet.
I use it mostly for watching TV shows and movies stored on my NAS, and my wife/kids watch streaming video from websites via an addon.
Occasionally they come in handy when trying to figure out why we did certain things the way we did.
It's more than just fees. Traditionaly being a Professional Engineer (and calling yourself an "Engineer") meant that you actually personally signed off on projects as being able to meet the stated goals. (Bridges, buildings, reactors, power stations, etc.)
Unless a "Software Engineer" is personally signing off on a software design and taking actual responsibility for bugs, I don't think they should be using the term "Engineer".
Incidentally I have degrees in Computer Science and Engineering Physics. I do software development for telecoms stuff, but I definitely wouldn't call what I do "Engineering".
Player is free, and works on windows/linux.
1) I run linux but occasionally need windows-based software for desktop sharing or some corporate-level thing so I have a Win7 install in VMware for that
2) For emulating our product (which runs either 2.6.27 or 2.6.34 kernels) on my laptop (which runs 2.6.35 currently) I just fire up a KVM-based virtual machine.
3) I run Fedora but I'm looking at a media player where the build environment assumes Ubuntu...so just fire up Ubuntu in a VM.
There are still artists/engineers that master things properly.
Construction workers use generators with long cords all the time, how would this be any worse?
There is a fair bit of evidence that people will drive at a certain amount of perceived risk. So if you add a bunch of safety features then people will feel safer and thus tend to drive faster given the same conditions.
Around here there are always reports of people in 4wd vehicles getting into trouble when it snows--they've got more traction than a 2wd for getting up to speed, but the same amount of braking force.
Seriously? You're suggesting it's hard to store records indexed by patient in a database? Really?
and rip it
and it slows to a crawl, like every other arm tablet out there.
There are some things (even common ones) where you really do need a couple gigs of RAM and a reasonably beefy CPU. (But "reasonably beefy" isn't hard, pretty much anything x86 better than an Atom qualifies.)
Also, are you seriously talking about doing nonlinear video editing on an ipad?
1) high frame rates in a basic game imply better frame rates in a more complicated game, or at higher resolution
2) high max frame rates imply a higher minimum frame rate, which is actually noticeable if it drops too low
Suppose I have 4 build machines, each running a different OS or version of the OS. At any given time I only need to be building 1 version.
If I virtualize them, I can use one machine (with 4x the disk space). Even accounting for reliability (and getting better redundancy than before) I can get away with 2 machines instead of 4.
If necessary you could simply do unnecessary work on one of the code paths so that they end up doing the same amount of work on each path.
Historically speaking it's the people that band together and help each other in emergencies that do best.
Ironically, the VOIP service through the cableco is actually more expensive than a traditional twisted-pair line.
On the other hand, for real emergencies 911 works even on a "dead" twisted-pair line.
What he did when he was governor, what he told the Republican base to get nominated, or what he told people after being nominated?
It supports turbo boost, virtualization (vt-x and vt-d), speedstep, etc.
Put one at the left, the other at the right, and make them so far apart that they CANNOT POSSIBLY BE CONFUSED even if the system is out by some number of pixels (or even some fraction of an inch)!
Why is this so complicated?
If I give $1000 to a guy who is worth a billion dollars, he may just stick it in the vault and let it sit there.
If I give $1000 to someone who's living hand-to-mouth, it's going to get spent on food/drink/rent/clothes pretty much immediately.
If you're a single person driving tens of miles to work then tens of miles back, it totally makes sense to have a tiny electric car. Charge it at home, charge it at work, you're good to go.
The government is trying to say that the data is not legally yours because it's stored on someone else's server.
This is akin to saying your property is not legally yours because it's stored in a storage locker that you rented.
In both cases you are paying someone to store something for you. In both cases it legally *should* still belong to you.
And there are still new keyboards that use them.
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