Kazaa is the competing service, now Kazaa.com, which they still run. You'd know that if you read the article, saw that Kazaa is still operational as a legitimate business, and is a competing service, and is the company the patents are based on. It was worth the hit to my Karma to make a second post to the same thread to make a completely separate point.
Then I read your sig and it all made sense why you wouldn't get past the title, fanboy blindness. Too bad none of your Mod's bothered to read the article either.
Yes, but it's an ingenius patent troll! Now the pirates get to sit back and make bank on all the companies who basically road in on the backs of pirates, who quite honestly DID invent the first "cloud" with P2P. I wish we had more trolls like that. It's kind of a load of crap that some smart kids in school make incredible technology, then get crushed by the likes of the RIAA, only to have some big shot company stroll along, throw money at the record labels, and do basically the same thing without actually innovating... and it's not like these companies came along and at least bought the technology. No, they waited for the original creators to get sued into oblivion, and then appeared out of nowhere like they're Jesus-F*cking-Christ of the Cloud.
Ok, I way over stated that. But I am laughing my ass off that at least someone is getting their just rewards and throwing punches in the other direction.
They have money to burn now. Still, if I was them, I'd put the money into a campus party, then use Google Apps anyways, which is free for universities.
I could write arguments about why it's not, but...
But, you don't, because you can't. Because every argument you have against it being Linux would either be plain wrong, or could be used to say that distro x, y, or z isn't Linux. Is Gnome linux or KDE? Is.deb linux or is.rpm? Once you hit the application layer, the argument turns to dust, and that's the only argument one could really have. You mention patents. I hate to tell you this, but Linux is still Linux even if on top of it, it is running proprietary, patented, closed source, copyrighted binaries.
The fact is, Android is Linux. You can claim that it is a fork, or a massive fork, or whatever you want. If you could make the argument, you would. If you want to argue that it's not GNU, or it's not fully GPL, or something like that then you have some ground. But no argument takes away from the fact that Android is Linux anymore than arguing that LAMP isn't Linux because Apache uses it's own Apache License, and that's not "real" GPL, or some other RMS rubbish like that.
I thought this junk went away with the arguments over the LGPL.
I completely agree, until they can at least save the feature set. I use the facial recognition to help sort hundreds of photos at a time. I don't necessarily want to "share" recognition, but I still want it to organize my own photos.
Exactly. People don't understand that you have to build to the device, not just the platform. PCs are so very similar that people rarely notice the difference. Of course, anyone with a 32bit PC trying to run a 64bit only app immediately learn that there is a difference when the chipset changes. That's why devices like the GP2X runs emulators. It's also why VMWare and HyperV have such a great market. Not just for segregation of services, but also because many people still rely on 32 bit systems but need the power and ram of a 64bit system, which can be dynamically allocated among many 32bit systems. I have a server here running 32GB of ram and running nearly a dozen copies of Windows 2003.
People just don't realize that it's not just kernel, but the device, that matters. I can't even imagine the driver nightmare someone would run into ala Linux from years ago when nobody made open source drivers... actually, I can. Running CyanogenMod7, it becomes clear that drivers for different cameras and wireless chipsets are hard to optimize and get working properly.
Emulators solve that problem, especially if you can get everyone to agree on a common emulator or virtual machine.
Apple would likely not make the change to artificially increase the NYT rating unless they royally wanna piss off the FTC who is already hot about falsified product ratings and ratings pumping schemes.
First, it's called Java and it runs android apps on linux (amoung others), just like Linux runs any other app. Android doesn't make kernel bound, machine compiled apps for the very good reason that they need as many apps to run on as many phones without separate compilers. Phones are still running completely different chipsets than PCs, or are you not aware that you can't run amd64.deb on a 32bit PC, etc. etc. If so, you aren't very educated about the issue at all.
If you want to take some code, make some native applications compile to it, I'm sure you could get some command line tools that work on both platforms, compiling separately on each. Mainstream users don't CARE if they can run it on their computers. Frankly, not many geeks care either. That's a pretty minority of a minority view. At best, people would like to run Linux desktop apps on Android, not the other way around.
And the problem isn't Android, it's XWindows. When you get XWindows and Gnome/KDE to run efficiently on ARM, you let me know and THEN we'll talk about portability. Until then, NON ISSUE QED.
And even then, you'd still need a type of virtual machine, regardless of whether the code ran or not. Apps are built for.. wait for it... phones and tablets! It's pointy-multi-touchy, not lefty-righty-clicky.
The fact is that Android is the first, and only, real main stream Linux OS that rivals every single one of its competitors. What did Android do for Linux? That's like asking what Apache has done for Linux. Without Apache, Linux wouldn't have the server market cornered. Android did for linux on phones what Apache did for linux on servers. And if you don't get that analogy, you just don't get it the topic at all.
Don't add your reason to the giant pile of reasons to leave Facebook which is so high it's blocking the sun in parts of South America. Reduce, Reuse, Refriend.
I almost wanted to stop reading after the first point the developer made. Amazon rejected his application because it used an insecure communication channel over the internet. Cry me a river. I actually applaud Amazon for doing that.
You realize that slashdot uses an insecure communication channel over the internet? The developer used http to deliver game levels to the customer. No personal data, no need for security.
You do realize that Facebook uses an insecure communication channel over Wifi, which has allowed users of FireSheep to hijack any public wifi users session and steal their account? And you do realize that the store is for a device that relies entirely on wireless (3G/LTE/WiFi) technology? Demanding that all apps use only secure communication channels to protect devices most likely on unpassworded wifi is a good thing. A man-in-the-middle attack could easily hit a popular game like Angry Birds, corrupting levels with a payload. That payload could start a wifi tether and spread from device to device via MITM attack.
But, you say, would hackers hang out at Starbucks to start this? Nope, they'd start with an app. As I've said before smartphones are the new untapped and largely unprotected botnets.
Just because it hasn't happened on a large scale yet doesn't mean you don't take reasonable precautions to prevent against it.
I'm so disappointed. I saw "Porn As Network Driver" and immediately Googled for the.dll. I wanted to test out if the new driver meant the intranet is for porn too.
Google will likely try to support the IOS platform, assuming Apple lets them. I'll admit Google's support will probably lag behind the Android support and not be as good for IOS.
Two things. #1 - Apple won't stop them. Apple/iTunes is huge in music, and even the music industry would back a fight against Apple for anti-competitive actions. Apple wouldn't have a legal leg to stand on, and it just make them look like wankers if they try. Google would route around them via the web anyways. And that was #2, the web. Google is going HTML5, and so long as they stick to standards Apple has a choice. Allow it, or be non-compliant with standards.
Technically, the Dark Knight software was reference to a bat's echolocation ability, so...;) Either way, it's pretty cool... until the government gets a warrentless wiretap and uses it to watch us in our homes. If that ever happens, I can guarantee that Morgan Freeman will be pissed... again...
Oh for crying out loud. Can we not rehash this. Syncing over wireless. Not a hard concept to come up with. They didn't rip the name off as it's the most obvious name for such an app. Neither did the rip off the logo as it's a combination of a 'sync' logo and a 'wifi' logo. It's not rocket science. Yes, they rejected his app (due to him accessing parts of the OS outside the SDK) but that doesn't mean that they just ripped it off. Everyone's been after wifi syncing since the very first iPhone and I find it ridiculous that people out there believe that apple couldn't implement it themselves and had to 'rip off' this guy.
Did you hear about Apple suing Amazon over the word "App"? Fuck Apple.
Any musician knows that "pop" tunes usually score big with their 3-chord, 4/4, C-note lyrics as easily as shooting fish in a barrel. It just takes halfway decent talent, some sex appeal, and catchy memes. It's that part that's not so easy, just because it has to keep up with the bleeding edge of social styles. As Elton John said, that's entertainment, not music, when comparing himself (musician) to Brittany Spears (entertainer)... those Sir John certainly pushed the social style edge as well.
Interviews conducted by experts, not groping and searching by minimum wage automatons, provide effective security. Bags do need to be searched, and passengers screened, but this searching does not need to be intrusive. Anything else is just theatre.
Ironically, the best thing for Microsoft would be what could have been the result of its anti-trust problems, a company split. It's doing too much, in too many different directions, with too much rigidity. It needs to spin off its divisions and break away from the mother ship. The OS division and the mobile division should be one unit, the business productivity apps another unit, and the gaming division the third unit. Thinking that one CEO can do all that right for all those divisions is like trying to catch lightning in a bottle. It's not too big to fail, its too big to succeed.
Because a balloon, at best, is filled with Hydrogen, and doesn't carry a lot of weight. This is for surveillance, possibly covert. Flying a giant balloon from a ground station in a forest outside a Colombian drug lord hideout wouldn't be the wisest move.
A copter on the other hand can be small, nearly silent, and left heavier equipment without nearly the visual footprint. It can also be rapidly deployed and returned for "quick looks". It can be taken to an exact height and location, not blowing around, and would not need tanks of gas brought around with it... A laser hooked up to a generator would eventually be safer and more portable and reusable in a battle or disaster.
It would also be much easier to remote control, turn the camera. What use is a balloon at say, a nuclear disaster zone like Japan, if the camera isn't stable enough to actually zoom in remotely without making the operator throw up?
If IT locks out the app store, it won't be successful.
Define "success"? Users won't like it or companies won't buy it? There's a difference, and the latter wins. It's the same reason companies don't buy office workers Alienware PCs.
If IT blocks internal programs, VPN and corporate websites from Sally's iPad, how's she going to have a choice. In the corporate environment, everyone takes the company phone. Most company phones suck, but the minutes and data are paid for. So, which tablet device are you going to use for streaming? The new one that nobody offers unlimited plans for, or the company one that pays for whatever you use?
Like every other device that companies provide, you'll still take it because the company, not you, buys it. And companies buy Cisco. Companies trust Cisco. Cisco is not seen as a toy gadget company. And most IT will never condone devices without control. They may put up with it, but given the choice, they'll get something they can control.
IT frankly doesn't care what Sally likes better for Angry Birds, or Sally at all for that matter. She's the same idiot downloading WeatherBug on every PC she touches. And if IT says encrypted devices only, they/we will by Cthulu will have it! Until the fired boss from Sony or Groupon or the Social Security Administration replaces our boss, and tells us to unencrypt everything, because nobody would ever, EVER, leave an iPad or iPhone just laying in a bar.
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Kazaa is the competing service, now Kazaa.com, which they still run. You'd know that if you read the article, saw that Kazaa is still operational as a legitimate business, and is a competing service, and is the company the patents are based on. It was worth the hit to my Karma to make a second post to the same thread to make a completely separate point.
Then I read your sig and it all made sense why you wouldn't get past the title, fanboy blindness. Too bad none of your Mod's bothered to read the article either.
Yes, but it's an ingenius patent troll! Now the pirates get to sit back and make bank on all the companies who basically road in on the backs of pirates, who quite honestly DID invent the first "cloud" with P2P. I wish we had more trolls like that. It's kind of a load of crap that some smart kids in school make incredible technology, then get crushed by the likes of the RIAA, only to have some big shot company stroll along, throw money at the record labels, and do basically the same thing without actually innovating... and it's not like these companies came along and at least bought the technology. No, they waited for the original creators to get sued into oblivion, and then appeared out of nowhere like they're Jesus-F*cking-Christ of the Cloud.
Ok, I way over stated that. But I am laughing my ass off that at least someone is getting their just rewards and throwing punches in the other direction.
It's already been done.
Bomb in the Rectum? Sounds like the name of a good Mexican Restaurant.
They have money to burn now. Still, if I was them, I'd put the money into a campus party, then use Google Apps anyways, which is free for universities.
I could write arguments about why it's not, but...
But, you don't, because you can't. Because every argument you have against it being Linux would either be plain wrong, or could be used to say that distro x, y, or z isn't Linux. Is Gnome linux or KDE? Is .deb linux or is .rpm? Once you hit the application layer, the argument turns to dust, and that's the only argument one could really have. You mention patents. I hate to tell you this, but Linux is still Linux even if on top of it, it is running proprietary, patented, closed source, copyrighted binaries.
The fact is, Android is Linux. You can claim that it is a fork, or a massive fork, or whatever you want. If you could make the argument, you would. If you want to argue that it's not GNU, or it's not fully GPL, or something like that then you have some ground. But no argument takes away from the fact that Android is Linux anymore than arguing that LAMP isn't Linux because Apache uses it's own Apache License, and that's not "real" GPL, or some other RMS rubbish like that.
I thought this junk went away with the arguments over the LGPL.
I completely agree, until they can at least save the feature set. I use the facial recognition to help sort hundreds of photos at a time. I don't necessarily want to "share" recognition, but I still want it to organize my own photos.
Great information (definitely Insightful), thanks!
Exactly. People don't understand that you have to build to the device, not just the platform. PCs are so very similar that people rarely notice the difference. Of course, anyone with a 32bit PC trying to run a 64bit only app immediately learn that there is a difference when the chipset changes. That's why devices like the GP2X runs emulators. It's also why VMWare and HyperV have such a great market. Not just for segregation of services, but also because many people still rely on 32 bit systems but need the power and ram of a 64bit system, which can be dynamically allocated among many 32bit systems. I have a server here running 32GB of ram and running nearly a dozen copies of Windows 2003.
People just don't realize that it's not just kernel, but the device, that matters. I can't even imagine the driver nightmare someone would run into ala Linux from years ago when nobody made open source drivers... actually, I can. Running CyanogenMod7, it becomes clear that drivers for different cameras and wireless chipsets are hard to optimize and get working properly.
Emulators solve that problem, especially if you can get everyone to agree on a common emulator or virtual machine.
Apple would likely not make the change to artificially increase the NYT rating unless they royally wanna piss off the FTC who is already hot about falsified product ratings and ratings pumping schemes.
First, it's called Java and it runs android apps on linux (amoung others), just like Linux runs any other app. Android doesn't make kernel bound, machine compiled apps for the very good reason that they need as many apps to run on as many phones without separate compilers. Phones are still running completely different chipsets than PCs, or are you not aware that you can't run amd64.deb on a 32bit PC, etc. etc. If so, you aren't very educated about the issue at all.
If you want to take some code, make some native applications compile to it, I'm sure you could get some command line tools that work on both platforms, compiling separately on each. Mainstream users don't CARE if they can run it on their computers. Frankly, not many geeks care either. That's a pretty minority of a minority view. At best, people would like to run Linux desktop apps on Android, not the other way around.
And the problem isn't Android, it's XWindows. When you get XWindows and Gnome/KDE to run efficiently on ARM, you let me know and THEN we'll talk about portability. Until then, NON ISSUE QED.
And even then, you'd still need a type of virtual machine, regardless of whether the code ran or not. Apps are built for.. wait for it... phones and tablets! It's pointy-multi-touchy, not lefty-righty-clicky.
The fact is that Android is the first, and only, real main stream Linux OS that rivals every single one of its competitors. What did Android do for Linux? That's like asking what Apache has done for Linux. Without Apache, Linux wouldn't have the server market cornered. Android did for linux on phones what Apache did for linux on servers. And if you don't get that analogy, you just don't get it the topic at all.
Don't add your reason to the giant pile of reasons to leave Facebook which is so high it's blocking the sun in parts of South America. Reduce, Reuse, Refriend.
I almost wanted to stop reading after the first point the developer made. Amazon rejected his application because it used an insecure communication channel over the internet. Cry me a river. I actually applaud Amazon for doing that.
You realize that slashdot uses an insecure communication channel over the internet? The developer used http to deliver game levels to the customer. No personal data, no need for security.
You do realize that Facebook uses an insecure communication channel over Wifi, which has allowed users of FireSheep to hijack any public wifi users session and steal their account? And you do realize that the store is for a device that relies entirely on wireless (3G/LTE/WiFi) technology? Demanding that all apps use only secure communication channels to protect devices most likely on unpassworded wifi is a good thing. A man-in-the-middle attack could easily hit a popular game like Angry Birds, corrupting levels with a payload. That payload could start a wifi tether and spread from device to device via MITM attack.
But, you say, would hackers hang out at Starbucks to start this? Nope, they'd start with an app. As I've said before smartphones are the new untapped and largely unprotected botnets.
Just because it hasn't happened on a large scale yet doesn't mean you don't take reasonable precautions to prevent against it.
Refining these metals is also very toxic, and most of the world says, "Not in my back yard!" China has a big backyard and doesn't give a shit.
I'm so disappointed. I saw "Porn As Network Driver" and immediately Googled for the .dll. I wanted to test out if the new driver meant the intranet is for porn too.
Google will likely try to support the IOS platform, assuming Apple lets them. I'll admit Google's support will probably lag behind the Android support and not be as good for IOS.
Two things. #1 - Apple won't stop them. Apple/iTunes is huge in music, and even the music industry would back a fight against Apple for anti-competitive actions. Apple wouldn't have a legal leg to stand on, and it just make them look like wankers if they try. Google would route around them via the web anyways. And that was #2, the web. Google is going HTML5, and so long as they stick to standards Apple has a choice. Allow it, or be non-compliant with standards.
Technically, the Dark Knight software was reference to a bat's echolocation ability, so... ;) Either way, it's pretty cool... until the government gets a warrentless wiretap and uses it to watch us in our homes. If that ever happens, I can guarantee that Morgan Freeman will be pissed... again...
Like when Apple ripped off an wireless sync app made by a one guy.
Oh for crying out loud. Can we not rehash this. Syncing over wireless. Not a hard concept to come up with. They didn't rip the name off as it's the most obvious name for such an app. Neither did the rip off the logo as it's a combination of a 'sync' logo and a 'wifi' logo. It's not rocket science. Yes, they rejected his app (due to him accessing parts of the OS outside the SDK) but that doesn't mean that they just ripped it off. Everyone's been after wifi syncing since the very first iPhone and I find it ridiculous that people out there believe that apple couldn't implement it themselves and had to 'rip off' this guy.
Did you hear about Apple suing Amazon over the word "App"? Fuck Apple.
Any musician knows that "pop" tunes usually score big with their 3-chord, 4/4, C-note lyrics as easily as shooting fish in a barrel. It just takes halfway decent talent, some sex appeal, and catchy memes. It's that part that's not so easy, just because it has to keep up with the bleeding edge of social styles. As Elton John said, that's entertainment, not music, when comparing himself (musician) to Brittany Spears (entertainer)... those Sir John certainly pushed the social style edge as well.
Interviews conducted by experts, not groping and searching by minimum wage automatons, provide effective security. Bags do need to be searched, and passengers screened, but this searching does not need to be intrusive. Anything else is just theatre.
That's how Israel does it, and it works.
Ironically, the best thing for Microsoft would be what could have been the result of its anti-trust problems, a company split. It's doing too much, in too many different directions, with too much rigidity. It needs to spin off its divisions and break away from the mother ship. The OS division and the mobile division should be one unit, the business productivity apps another unit, and the gaming division the third unit. Thinking that one CEO can do all that right for all those divisions is like trying to catch lightning in a bottle. It's not too big to fail, its too big to succeed.
Time Cube cannot be solved in 7 moves with stupid educators.
Their hosting was only good for 500GB per hour, which they bet $10,000 that it was impossible for the Interwebs to read.
Because a balloon, at best, is filled with Hydrogen, and doesn't carry a lot of weight. This is for surveillance, possibly covert. Flying a giant balloon from a ground station in a forest outside a Colombian drug lord hideout wouldn't be the wisest move.
A copter on the other hand can be small, nearly silent, and left heavier equipment without nearly the visual footprint. It can also be rapidly deployed and returned for "quick looks". It can be taken to an exact height and location, not blowing around, and would not need tanks of gas brought around with it... A laser hooked up to a generator would eventually be safer and more portable and reusable in a battle or disaster.
It would also be much easier to remote control, turn the camera. What use is a balloon at say, a nuclear disaster zone like Japan, if the camera isn't stable enough to actually zoom in remotely without making the operator throw up?
If IT locks out the app store, it won't be successful.
Define "success"? Users won't like it or companies won't buy it? There's a difference, and the latter wins. It's the same reason companies don't buy office workers Alienware PCs.
If IT blocks internal programs, VPN and corporate websites from Sally's iPad, how's she going to have a choice. In the corporate environment, everyone takes the company phone. Most company phones suck, but the minutes and data are paid for. So, which tablet device are you going to use for streaming? The new one that nobody offers unlimited plans for, or the company one that pays for whatever you use?
Like every other device that companies provide, you'll still take it because the company, not you, buys it. And companies buy Cisco. Companies trust Cisco. Cisco is not seen as a toy gadget company. And most IT will never condone devices without control. They may put up with it, but given the choice, they'll get something they can control.
IT frankly doesn't care what Sally likes better for Angry Birds, or Sally at all for that matter. She's the same idiot downloading WeatherBug on every PC she touches. And if IT says encrypted devices only, they/we will by Cthulu will have it! Until the fired boss from Sony or Groupon or the Social Security Administration replaces our boss, and tells us to unencrypt everything, because nobody would ever, EVER, leave an iPad or iPhone just laying in a bar.
Bzzzzzzz.....