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"Once a device is upgraded to Windows 10, we'll be keeping it current for the supported lifetime of the device," said Terry Myerson, executive vice president of the Operating Systems Group.
Sounds like it could be either.
You'll also have to understand that G&D LIFEBLOOD is the sim market. They get a cut of every sim card they make (also with the visa/mc cards you get). In essence, G&D is a company that is on life support with the new waves of technology (software sims, electronic payments, etc) unless they start to innovate on how they generate their revenue.
Why they haven't gone Software sims? Pretty simple, Carriers are fighting tooth and nail to not go that road. The carriers last piece of the phone that they own is the Sim card and they will fight to keep it that way. They don't want you to have the ability to just switch carriers in 10 seconds by simply receiving a new sim card to your phone via binary sms.
Which is also why they are pushing NFC technology into the SIM card as well. I wish Google all the luck, but google's NFC technology is going to be moot if the Carriers have their way with NFC.
Not sure why you have difficulty believing this. Our company does major mobile dev, and I can attest to this. It really depends on each company, but almost all companies usually ask you to buy all the hardware. Unless you are the one or two companies that everyone is after, why would you expect another company to pay for your hardware? Don't even ask about trying to get early releases. The only company that has been consistently open about their handsets with us lately (and this could be a special cases with us) is Blackberry, who was willing to provide both handsets AND early releases of their upcoming handsets. Probably because they are losing market share (?).
I can tell you don't work in the mobile sector.
From my own company, we do heavy mobile development and we litterally have cabinets FULL of mobile phones. Not just one of each, we generally have the same phone with multiple versions on it as well.
It's the nature of the beast. We've found issues that for device specific reasons need to be worked around. We catch a lot of the issues in our automated testing, but we do a sanity test on all major devices and revisions. Any that come up later on, we need a real world testing environment.
I have no idea how you think Google can fix this, unless you thing Google is going to come around and start telling mobile handset developers to use X cpu, Y gpu, with no additional mods), with Z version. Good luck with that.
That's weird....I believe that when the dataset is bigger than ram, you just break it into different servers (or just get more ram). This isn't anything new, this is actually old OLD technology, and you can find cases of this everywhere (google, microsoft uses it for hotmail, etc), called the Brick architecture or something like that.
Actually, a ton of research was done on these types of architectures by Jim Gray (who tragically was lost at sea a few years ago) at Microsoft. Not sure how many of these links are still active but: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gray/
From my own experience, at a job a few years ago, we were dealing with a little over 1 petabyte of data, and the system was engineered to NEVER hit platter, and to always have data in ram.
uh, not sure if you even read the original article but..
There IS an open implementation of java, the openJDK, which is why this is being shut down (IBM who was the main contributor to Harmony has moved it's resources to openJDK).
But I guess it's more in line with slashdots javahate if we ignore those facts.
And more to the fact, why would they? I don't believe any of their message transfering is encrypted, so why would India need to ask them for it? Note, blackberries encrypt by default. Also note, in the articles linked, they talk about Nokia giving access, so this isn't a blackberry only thing.
RIM is also not giving them access to the BES servers it seems, so they are pushing back....and to be honest, this ENTIRE slashdot submission is pretty much just here for more blackberry bashing (which seems to be pretty popular these days). This was originally announced 6 months ago, but now it makes the slashdot headlines.....
The Mumbai facility apparently deals with intercept requests for mostly consumer-facing services such as BlackBerry Messenger and email. However it is thought that BlackBerry enterprise email remains beyond(sic) the reach of Indian authorities, thanks to its higher levels of encryption.
There have been studies, and more well known, mythbusters did an episode on something very similar (is talking on a cellphone while driving just as bad as drinking and driving), and while mythbusters is a bit hollywood science at times, they confirmed the myth. Texting isn't that far off. And in other studies, is just as bad.
There's a reason why texting/talking on the phone is rapidly becoming illegal while driving. But hey! Maybe in Nebraska, facts and truths aren't the norm!
If you do apply for UI (EI, whatever its called these days), you would be surprised at how much lee-way they give you. I've never had to deal with the situation personally, but I know people that have quit and/or have been fired and still got UI.
wow, I never knew about this. No wonder my VLC player on my ipad hasn't been updated in close to a year.:( I guess I should count my lucky stars that I got it when it was still legit.
It's not a ban of the Samsung 10.1 tablet from all of Europe, just from Samsung Germany Division from selling it in other parts of Europe. Considering Samsung has divisions in most countries, this is a bit of a moot point.
In addition, Samsung Germany may not sell the device in any other European Union country, although other Samsung divisions may sell into those countries, a spokesman at the court said.
It's not just the phone market. This is actually a good example of a free market. Google is doing it's thing. The carriers are desperately doing it's own. Apple will come out swinging with their own NFC platform. RIM as well. And then there are big big hitters from card processors that basically have full blown out platforms already in production. There are so many players, it's actually nice to see such a huge possible market being fought by every single company.
disclosure: I work in this industry.
There are two major ways that are there to mitigate the risk when you lose your phone.
1. You (in most NFC platforms) have to sign in, or enter a pin before you can buy anything with your mobile wallet/card.
2. If you do lose your phone, many of the platforms will have binary encrypted sms's that they can send to your phone to remotely erase your cards.
Now when you compare that with your credit card, this offers a much more secure way to disable any type of transactions.
Also, there really is no difference between Google's wallet and the carriers wallet.
1. if you lose your phone, you are losing your sim based NFC enabled secure element.
2. If you lose your phone, you are losing your phone based NFC enabled secure element.
This is all about control. The carriers want to control this market because of the future growth (possibly the last bastion of profit for carriers), while Google (and Apple, and RIM, etc etc) want it phone based so they can hold all the keys.
Most notably, if you have different environments with different build, different servers, different svn locations, etc, etc etc. If you have a continuous build system and haven't looked at Hudson, I'd highly recommend it.
maybe not as dead as you think.
I remember the last olympics was available all online...in full HD....in silverlight.
First time I downloaded it, and I have to admit that it was easily the best representation of what I THINK the future of TV should be. All available online, all back events available, at a click of a mouse, including streaming of live events, all in HD.
I wonder how many more ppl still have silverlight installed cause of the olympics...
I've owned the Ipad 1 since it originally came out, and paid for a 3G plan since I got it.
First off, having constant data access is (personally) one of the major selling features of a tablet. You can say all you want about using your phone as a internet access point, but screen real estate is a huge factor in how functional it is. And having constant access (not just around the house wifi style) is a part of that feature!
But it also is RIDICULOUS how companies charge for the feature. Yes, you pay for your toys, and I've paid 30 bucks a month since I got it. That comes out to over $300 bucks just to use a feature!
I think Blackberry has the right idea: make teathering with your phones trivial. One plan, total connectivity. I just wish/hope they make it available to all phones, not just blackberry's.
Do we really have to keep calling this a Sandy Bridge issue? This isn't a sandy bridge issue, the name Sandy bridge is for the CPU. The issue is NOT with the CPU, it's with the chipset Cougar point. The Sandy Bridge is (so far) perfectly fine, and has no issues at all.
Of course, I guess "Intel Resumes Shipping of Faulty Cougar Point chip" doesn't seem as catastrophic.
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"Once a device is upgraded to Windows 10, we'll be keeping it current for the supported lifetime of the device," said Terry Myerson, executive vice president of the Operating Systems Group.
Sounds like it could be either.
Vulnerable devices include D-Link DIR-100, DIR-120, DI-624S, DI-524UP, DI-604S, DI-604UP, DI-604+, and TM-G5240 routers; Planex BRL-04R, BRL-04UR, and BRL-04CW routers; and Alpha Networks routers.
Google already sold a wireless charger for their Nexus 4 phones:
https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Nexus_4_Wireless_Charger?id=nexus_4_wireless_charger&hl=en
I own one, works fine, and I think it also works with the new Nexus 5's as it's using the Qi standard already.
OP here, could you reach out to me at jjunos@gmail.com? I would love to talk to you about this opportunity, and I can pass on my CV to you. Thanks!
OP here, is your company transparency.org? If you could reach out to me at jjunos@gmail.com, I would love to talk about any opportunities.
You'll also have to understand that G&D LIFEBLOOD is the sim market. They get a cut of every sim card they make (also with the visa/mc cards you get). In essence, G&D is a company that is on life support with the new waves of technology (software sims, electronic payments, etc) unless they start to innovate on how they generate their revenue.
Why they haven't gone Software sims? Pretty simple, Carriers are fighting tooth and nail to not go that road. The carriers last piece of the phone that they own is the Sim card and they will fight to keep it that way. They don't want you to have the ability to just switch carriers in 10 seconds by simply receiving a new sim card to your phone via binary sms.
Which is also why they are pushing NFC technology into the SIM card as well. I wish Google all the luck, but google's NFC technology is going to be moot if the Carriers have their way with NFC.
Not sure why you have difficulty believing this. Our company does major mobile dev, and I can attest to this. It really depends on each company, but almost all companies usually ask you to buy all the hardware. Unless you are the one or two companies that everyone is after, why would you expect another company to pay for your hardware? Don't even ask about trying to get early releases. The only company that has been consistently open about their handsets with us lately (and this could be a special cases with us) is Blackberry, who was willing to provide both handsets AND early releases of their upcoming handsets. Probably because they are losing market share (?).
I can tell you don't work in the mobile sector. From my own company, we do heavy mobile development and we litterally have cabinets FULL of mobile phones. Not just one of each, we generally have the same phone with multiple versions on it as well. It's the nature of the beast. We've found issues that for device specific reasons need to be worked around. We catch a lot of the issues in our automated testing, but we do a sanity test on all major devices and revisions. Any that come up later on, we need a real world testing environment. I have no idea how you think Google can fix this, unless you thing Google is going to come around and start telling mobile handset developers to use X cpu, Y gpu, with no additional mods), with Z version. Good luck with that.
That's weird....I believe that when the dataset is bigger than ram, you just break it into different servers (or just get more ram). This isn't anything new, this is actually old OLD technology, and you can find cases of this everywhere (google, microsoft uses it for hotmail, etc), called the Brick architecture or something like that.
Actually, a ton of research was done on these types of architectures by Jim Gray (who tragically was lost at sea a few years ago) at Microsoft. Not sure how many of these links are still active but: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gray/
From my own experience, at a job a few years ago, we were dealing with a little over 1 petabyte of data, and the system was engineered to NEVER hit platter, and to always have data in ram.
lol, well I did actually bring my helmet and my gloves to work since I bike...
WAIT A MINUTE IS THIS MY BOSS!?
uh, not sure if you even read the original article but..
There IS an open implementation of java, the openJDK, which is why this is being shut down (IBM who was the main contributor to Harmony has moved it's resources to openJDK).
But I guess it's more in line with slashdots javahate if we ignore those facts.
And more to the fact, why would they? I don't believe any of their message transfering is encrypted, so why would India need to ask them for it? Note, blackberries encrypt by default. Also note, in the articles linked, they talk about Nokia giving access, so this isn't a blackberry only thing.
RIM is also not giving them access to the BES servers it seems, so they are pushing back....and to be honest, this ENTIRE slashdot submission is pretty much just here for more blackberry bashing (which seems to be pretty popular these days). This was originally announced 6 months ago, but now it makes the slashdot headlines.....
The Mumbai facility apparently deals with intercept requests for mostly consumer-facing services such as BlackBerry Messenger and email. However it is thought that BlackBerry enterprise email remains beyond(sic) the reach of Indian authorities, thanks to its higher levels of encryption.
False sense of security.
There have been studies, and more well known, mythbusters did an episode on something very similar (is talking on a cellphone while driving just as bad as drinking and driving), and while mythbusters is a bit hollywood science at times, they confirmed the myth. Texting isn't that far off. And in other studies, is just as bad.
But don't take my word for it, take a look at all the studies and materials.
There's a reason why texting/talking on the phone is rapidly becoming illegal while driving. But hey! Maybe in Nebraska, facts and truths aren't the norm!
Good post, just an additional note,
If you do apply for UI (EI, whatever its called these days), you would be surprised at how much lee-way they give you. I've never had to deal with the situation personally, but I know people that have quit and/or have been fired and still got UI.
wow, I never knew about this. No wonder my VLC player on my ipad hasn't been updated in close to a year. :( I guess I should count my lucky stars that I got it when it was still legit.
In addition, Samsung Germany may not sell the device in any other European Union country, although other Samsung divisions may sell into those countries, a spokesman at the court said.
Well,
It's not just the phone market. This is actually a good example of a free market. Google is doing it's thing. The carriers are desperately doing it's own. Apple will come out swinging with their own NFC platform. RIM as well. And then there are big big hitters from card processors that basically have full blown out platforms already in production. There are so many players, it's actually nice to see such a huge possible market being fought by every single company.
disclosure: I work in this industry. There are two major ways that are there to mitigate the risk when you lose your phone. 1. You (in most NFC platforms) have to sign in, or enter a pin before you can buy anything with your mobile wallet/card. 2. If you do lose your phone, many of the platforms will have binary encrypted sms's that they can send to your phone to remotely erase your cards. Now when you compare that with your credit card, this offers a much more secure way to disable any type of transactions. Also, there really is no difference between Google's wallet and the carriers wallet. 1. if you lose your phone, you are losing your sim based NFC enabled secure element. 2. If you lose your phone, you are losing your phone based NFC enabled secure element. This is all about control. The carriers want to control this market because of the future growth (possibly the last bastion of profit for carriers), while Google (and Apple, and RIM, etc etc) want it phone based so they can hold all the keys.
muelleralert, so i know when to avoid the article.
this x 10
Most notably, if you have different environments with different build, different servers, different svn locations, etc, etc etc. If you have a continuous build system and haven't looked at Hudson, I'd highly recommend it.
Um, they fixed the browser in OS 6. It doesn't suck anymore.
Yeah, the blackberry browser in OS6 is fantastic. I find myself using it more frequently then my ipad browser at times...
maybe not as dead as you think. I remember the last olympics was available all online...in full HD....in silverlight. First time I downloaded it, and I have to admit that it was easily the best representation of what I THINK the future of TV should be. All available online, all back events available, at a click of a mouse, including streaming of live events, all in HD. I wonder how many more ppl still have silverlight installed cause of the olympics...
I've owned the Ipad 1 since it originally came out, and paid for a 3G plan since I got it. First off, having constant data access is (personally) one of the major selling features of a tablet. You can say all you want about using your phone as a internet access point, but screen real estate is a huge factor in how functional it is. And having constant access (not just around the house wifi style) is a part of that feature! But it also is RIDICULOUS how companies charge for the feature. Yes, you pay for your toys, and I've paid 30 bucks a month since I got it. That comes out to over $300 bucks just to use a feature! I think Blackberry has the right idea: make teathering with your phones trivial. One plan, total connectivity. I just wish/hope they make it available to all phones, not just blackberry's.
Not sure why the submitter didn't post the Intel response denying it: http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/03/23/chip-shot-intel-reaffirms-commitment-to-itanium While you would think Intel would of course deny it, but considering Intel just took the wraps off their next revision of the Itanium, this is pretty much just FUD coming from Oracle.
Do we really have to keep calling this a Sandy Bridge issue? This isn't a sandy bridge issue, the name Sandy bridge is for the CPU. The issue is NOT with the CPU, it's with the chipset Cougar point. The Sandy Bridge is (so far) perfectly fine, and has no issues at all. Of course, I guess "Intel Resumes Shipping of Faulty Cougar Point chip" doesn't seem as catastrophic.