Every Android dist is customized to that specific hardware. Creating a performing, stable Android dist for even one hardware config is an massive task.
That's an excuse an (I assume) you know it.
I didn't mean that Google had to roll every single OEM implementation themselves; but they could still maintain control over the "overall experience" of the "brand" through OEM Licensing Agreements.
Do you REALLY think that ANY OEM would want to Fork their own version of Android (which BTW, wouldn't be allowed to be called Android, nor use the familiar (if fugly) Logo)? No, they would cowtow to Google's new terms in a heartbeat.
Same with the Carriers: Although Google is not in direct control over the terms of Agreements between the OEMs and the Carriers, they can again use The Power Of The License to force the OEMs to strongarm the Carriers. And again, do you REALLY think that any Carrier would give up being able to SELL any Android-Logo'ed Phones, just so they could install some Crapware that virtually NOBODY wants nor USES (FFS!)?
It all works because NOBODY wants to maintain their own Fork of Android. Not even companies like Slamdung.
It's not Google's choice. Vendors want the ability to make customizations to the OS, to "add value".
Wrong! It IS Google's choice.
I'm sure that "Vendors" wanted the ability to make "Customizations" to the iPhone, too. It's just that Google COULDN'T CARE LESS about anything other than Datamining. Every Android install is nothing more to them than more Click-bait, more Datamining, more Privacy incursions.
"Reports suggest that Google has been taking this issue seriously, and at some point, it was considering publicly shaming its partners that didn't roll out security updates to their respective devices fast enough."
Publicly shaming?!? LOLWUT?
How about they deny using the Android name or Logo to any company who doesn't whip their own engineering and their distribution chain (carriers) in line? That seems to work for every other "Brand" or "Standard" that has a marketable "identity".
If you're primarily a Windows dev, and want to port your program to Linux, this is immensely useful, especially since VS is also getting some integration with all that stuff (cross-compilation with Clang, and debugging via gdb).
It's effectively a Linux syscall emulation layer + ELF loader, and Ubuntu running on top of that.
So kernelspace is entirely Windows (including drivers, filesystem support etc), but it presents Linux kernel ABI to the userspace. So userspace is just regular Linux. So there's no special "knowledge" between the two parts, aside from the ABI.
Filesystem is effectively shared, with a mapping system in place (Linux "partition" is in reality just an NTFS folder, while Windows drive letters are exposed as mount points in Linux).
Because the implementation sits directly on top of the NT kernel, side-by-side with Win32 (and not on top of it, like Cygwin does), it can efficiently provide proper semantics for things like fork().
So all of Windows' issues with questionable benefit to the Linux Dev.
The description is terrible. It's not bash; it's the ability to execute Linux binaries natively (one of which happens to be bash) as an NT subsystem. So you can run basically any Linux binary and it includes a complete Ubuntu (for whatever reason) userland.
So, they just glued an ENTIRE Linux Distro inside of Windows? Do they "know" about each other? Who uses what FileSystem? Is there a Hypervisor using Hyper-V (f/k/a Virtual PC), or is it just a parallel set of APIs? Who's on top? How are Events and I/O Arbitrated?
This is Slashdot.. The best and "only" new feature is BASH.. Who cares about the rest...
In all seriousness, please tell me what good BASH is if you don't have the rest of the Unix/Linux underpinnings, like OS X/macOS does, to make it all work?
To my dispointment, a number of my live sound colleagues have blown up iphones by plugging in via mini jack to XLR, and forgetting to switch of phantom power. They should know better, luckily they play dumb and tell Apple it just stopped working, and get replacements.
That should be the least of their worries. Plugging pre-amped headphone level output into mic level inputs isn't good for the mixer either. At least use a passive direct box that can match impedance and attenuate the signal. Better ones do re-amp, balun and 48V stripping, but even a $25 direct box is better than blowing your mackie/motu/whatever, and having to software gate a horribly clipped signal.
Fortunately, most mixers made after the 1950s have these magic devices called "Input Gain", which can match the sensitivity of the input channel to an extremely wide range of signal levels, including so-called "line levels". Portable device headphone outputs can almost always be adjusted to be well within this range. So, unless you ignore that red "clipping" indicator on your input-strip, signal level mismatch isn't a problem. And if you're sourcing from a phone, any impedance mismatch (which probably doesn't matter anyway) is not going to be the limiting factor as far as "fidelity".
As far as the phantom power goes, well, that's hardly the phone's fault, now is it? Don't use cheap boards with "global" phantom power!
1000 units at an average of $10K each (one is 8K the other 20K, only MS knows the real numbers) is 10 million dollars of revenue, and that would be an average of 2 units per customer. If it was as low as 10 per customer that's $50 million. I don't think anyone would turn their nose up at that, even a Fortune 500 company.
Your numbers are both purely speculative, and are still fairly small potatoes for a F 500 company.
...which would be impressive.... For a Kickstarter Project. But for a multiBillion-dollar, multinational corporation, with huge R&D resources for both software and hardware? Not so much.
500 customers not units as usual the fucking Slashdot summary is shit. These are enterprise devices, common target environment is video conferencing, would not surprise me if 500 customers equates to many thousands of units.
And it wouldn't surprise me if 500 customers means 500 resellers, each shipped 1 evaluation/display unit.
The thing is that "the best that can be practically done" today is rather underwhelming to the über geek crowd
Tough shit.
Maybe some of THEM can stop playing Pokemon Go long enough to figure out how to stuff 3000 mAh of battery capacity into a quarter-inch thick by 46mm dia. battery. Because that's EXACTLY what it's gonna take.
Did you watch the keynote? The bulk of the watchOS 3 enhancements are related to improving the wheelchair user's experience with the Watch.
You don't spend that much time advertising to such a niche target unless they're the only ones buying the Watch.
This much time?!? You sir are both a liar and an idiot.
Yes, I did watch the Keynote. I didn't think they spent that much time on the Handicapped application, so I went back and looked. In fact, the WatchOS "demo" started at 8:27 and ended at 27:37. The Handicapped part started at 21:47 and ended at 23:42. So, out of TWENTY minutes of WatchOS demo, the handicapped portion was a "whopping" TWO minutes.
So, you are obviously full of shit. And a liar. Period.
Same as the US IRS's definition of voluntary... Unless you "volunteer" to pay "income tax", we will hound you/put you in jail... Thats their definition of "voluntary compliance"....
At US$17,000 a clip, how many people did iApple think would buy one...?
BTW, been using OSx Yosemite. What a throwback to the stone age...
KDE much nicer...
CAP === 'stubby'
WTF you smokin', Jackson? And can I have some?
From what I have seen, KDE is nothing more than a cheap Windows UI clone, down to the Start Menu and Taskbar. How in the HELL can that be better than OS X? Its tools to manage multiple windows and multiple "desktops" (Spaces) are second-to-none.
Every UI has its good points and its annoying points. But KDE is simply just derivative.
According to Apple's WWDC keynote, if you're in a wheelchair, a watch is far easier to access than a smart phone. That's apparently their biggest market: people in wheelchairs.
Smart watches are trying to evolve to be everything a phone is, instead of a simple device to get simple stuff done.
Actually, I think Apple has a pretty good handle on what can, and can't be done PRACTICALLY on a smartwatch, and is attempting to live within, instead of trying to ignore, the laws of physics.
The problem is that they designed the Apple Watch as a crippled device. They didn't want it to cannibalize iPhone sales, so it's basically a remote control for the phone in your pocket.
If they make a watch that can make calls, people will buy them. It could be the iPod Shuffle for the iPhone line. But they don't seem to understand this.
No, you don't understand physics.
How long do you think the battery-life of such a watch would be? Conversely, how THICK are you prepared for your watch to be, to fit in a cellphone-sized battery capacity? How large to be able to have a meaningful cell antenna system?
It has NOTHING to do with "cannibalizing" iPhone sales. They are just using the iPhone to do the "heavy lifting" of cell communications. Nothing else is practical in a watch, until some SERIOUS advances in battery technology happen. Yes, there have reportedly been "autonomous" smartwatches; but none of them seem to gain any traction, and most don't even seem to make it to being "real products", possibly because their relatively miniscule batteries give relatively miniscule running-times.
So, here is a review of one of the most "promising" of the "autonomous" (which is actually only semi-autonomous at best) Smartwatches. Not only is it over a half-inch thick ("like strapping on an ankle monitor") and HEAV-Y (THREE times as heavy as the Apple Watch!), and not only is it too dim to be seen in sunlight and too quiet to be used on the street as a phone, and not only is it buggy as all get-out, and not only is it only semi-autonomous at best; but for all this, the battery life is abysmal.
So, all-in-all, I would say that Apple is doing the best that can PRACTICALLY be done, given the laws of physics.
Apple is smart enough to realize this. They understand that throwing their users under the bus now will not make us safer later.
And it's important to point out that Apple maintained that stance at no small danger to themselves and their reputation. During that whole FBI thing, there were several Congresscritters that were calling Apple "Aligning with Terrists" and "Intentionally Marketing to Terrists" (really! I heard it myself on C-SPAN), and worse.
And this was in the country that the company was located (USA); so, to the person that said that BB had no choice but to give the RCMP the Keys to the Kingdom because it is located in the RCMP's backyard: Suck it! Apple showed us what REAL PATRIOTISM looks like!
And what was keeping them from challenging the RCMP in the courts - both the court of law and the court of public opinion? Apple won both of those battles.
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Every Android dist is customized to that specific hardware. Creating a performing, stable Android dist for even one hardware config is an massive task.
That's an excuse an (I assume) you know it.
I didn't mean that Google had to roll every single OEM implementation themselves; but they could still maintain control over the "overall experience" of the "brand" through OEM Licensing Agreements.
Do you REALLY think that ANY OEM would want to Fork their own version of Android (which BTW, wouldn't be allowed to be called Android, nor use the familiar (if fugly) Logo)? No, they would cowtow to Google's new terms in a heartbeat.
Same with the Carriers: Although Google is not in direct control over the terms of Agreements between the OEMs and the Carriers, they can again use The Power Of The License to force the OEMs to strongarm the Carriers. And again, do you REALLY think that any Carrier would give up being able to SELL any Android-Logo'ed Phones, just so they could install some Crapware that virtually NOBODY wants nor USES (FFS!)?
It all works because NOBODY wants to maintain their own Fork of Android. Not even companies like Slamdung.
It's not Google's choice. Vendors want the ability to make customizations to the OS, to "add value".
Wrong! It IS Google's choice.
I'm sure that "Vendors" wanted the ability to make "Customizations" to the iPhone, too. It's just that Google COULDN'T CARE LESS about anything other than Datamining. Every Android install is nothing more to them than more Click-bait, more Datamining, more Privacy incursions.
Google could end this RIGHT NOW. But they won't.
Ever ask yourself why?
"Reports suggest that Google has been taking this issue seriously, and at some point, it was considering publicly shaming its partners that didn't roll out security updates to their respective devices fast enough."
Publicly shaming?!? LOLWUT?
How about they deny using the Android name or Logo to any company who doesn't whip their own engineering and their distribution chain (carriers) in line? That seems to work for every other "Brand" or "Standard" that has a marketable "identity".
If you're primarily a Windows dev, and want to port your program to Linux, this is immensely useful, especially since VS is also getting some integration with all that stuff (cross-compilation with Clang, and debugging via gdb).
Extend...
It's effectively a Linux syscall emulation layer + ELF loader, and Ubuntu running on top of that.
So kernelspace is entirely Windows (including drivers, filesystem support etc), but it presents Linux kernel ABI to the userspace. So userspace is just regular Linux. So there's no special "knowledge" between the two parts, aside from the ABI.
Filesystem is effectively shared, with a mapping system in place (Linux "partition" is in reality just an NTFS folder, while Windows drive letters are exposed as mount points in Linux).
Because the implementation sits directly on top of the NT kernel, side-by-side with Win32 (and not on top of it, like Cygwin does), it can efficiently provide proper semantics for things like fork().
So all of Windows' issues with questionable benefit to the Linux Dev.
Embrace...
The description is terrible. It's not bash; it's the ability to execute Linux binaries natively (one of which happens to be bash) as an NT subsystem. So you can run basically any Linux binary and it includes a complete Ubuntu (for whatever reason) userland.
So, they just glued an ENTIRE Linux Distro inside of Windows? Do they "know" about each other? Who uses what FileSystem? Is there a Hypervisor using Hyper-V (f/k/a Virtual PC), or is it just a parallel set of APIs? Who's on top? How are Events and I/O Arbitrated?
This is Slashdot.. The best and "only" new feature is BASH.. Who cares about the rest...
In all seriousness, please tell me what good BASH is if you don't have the rest of the Unix/Linux underpinnings, like OS X/macOS does, to make it all work?
To my dispointment, a number of my live sound colleagues have blown up iphones by plugging in via mini jack to XLR, and forgetting to switch of phantom power. They should know better, luckily they play dumb and tell Apple it just stopped working, and get replacements.
That should be the least of their worries. Plugging pre-amped headphone level output into mic level inputs isn't good for the mixer either. At least use a passive direct box that can match impedance and attenuate the signal. Better ones do re-amp, balun and 48V stripping, but even a $25 direct box is better than blowing your mackie/motu/whatever, and having to software gate a horribly clipped signal.
Fortunately, most mixers made after the 1950s have these magic devices called "Input Gain", which can match the sensitivity of the input channel to an extremely wide range of signal levels, including so-called "line levels". Portable device headphone outputs can almost always be adjusted to be well within this range. So, unless you ignore that red "clipping" indicator on your input-strip, signal level mismatch isn't a problem. And if you're sourcing from a phone, any impedance mismatch (which probably doesn't matter anyway) is not going to be the limiting factor as far as "fidelity".
As far as the phantom power goes, well, that's hardly the phone's fault, now is it? Don't use cheap boards with "global" phantom power!
What do you need that newfangled stuff for? I have a Quad 33/303 setup.
Pah, whippersnappers!
Dynaco PAS-2/Stereo 70 FTW, baby!
1000 units at an average of $10K each (one is 8K the other 20K, only MS knows the real numbers) is 10 million dollars of revenue, and that would be an average of 2 units per customer. If it was as low as 10 per customer that's $50 million. I don't think anyone would turn their nose up at that, even a Fortune 500 company.
Your numbers are both purely speculative, and are still fairly small potatoes for a F 500 company.
many thousands of units.
...which would be impressive.... For a Kickstarter Project. But for a multiBillion-dollar, multinational corporation, with huge R&D resources for both software and hardware? Not so much.
they don't go through resellers.
No. Of course not.
"We are ramping up production to meet this strong demand via our partner reseller channel as soon as possible." Reading is FUNdamental.
500 customers not units as usual the fucking Slashdot summary is shit. These are enterprise devices, common target environment is video conferencing, would not surprise me if 500 customers equates to many thousands of units.
And it wouldn't surprise me if 500 customers means 500 resellers, each shipped 1 evaluation/display unit.
This is really pathetic. A whole 500 units, and there's actually a story about how well it's selling?
Gimme a break!
The thing is that "the best that can be practically done" today is rather underwhelming to the über geek crowd
Tough shit.
Maybe some of THEM can stop playing Pokemon Go long enough to figure out how to stuff 3000 mAh of battery capacity into a quarter-inch thick by 46mm dia. battery. Because that's EXACTLY what it's gonna take.
Did you watch the keynote? The bulk of the watchOS 3 enhancements are related to improving the wheelchair user's experience with the Watch.
You don't spend that much time advertising to such a niche target unless they're the only ones buying the Watch.
This much time?!? You sir are both a liar and an idiot.
Yes, I did watch the Keynote. I didn't think they spent that much time on the Handicapped application, so I went back and looked. In fact, the WatchOS "demo" started at 8:27 and ended at 27:37. The Handicapped part started at 21:47 and ended at 23:42. So, out of TWENTY minutes of WatchOS demo, the handicapped portion was a "whopping" TWO minutes.
So, you are obviously full of shit. And a liar. Period.
Same as the US IRS's definition of voluntary... Unless you "volunteer" to pay "income tax", we will hound you/put you in jail... Thats their definition of "voluntary compliance"....
Yeah, I always liked that one, too...
And you can be sure Apple would do the same.
No. They learned their lesson with LocationGate. They are headed HARD in the OTHER direction at this point.
At US$17,000 a clip, how many people did iApple think would buy one...?
BTW, been using OSx Yosemite. What a throwback to the stone age... KDE much nicer...
CAP === 'stubby'
WTF you smokin', Jackson? And can I have some?
From what I have seen, KDE is nothing more than a cheap Windows UI clone, down to the Start Menu and Taskbar. How in the HELL can that be better than OS X? Its tools to manage multiple windows and multiple "desktops" (Spaces) are second-to-none.
Every UI has its good points and its annoying points. But KDE is simply just derivative.
If they're in decline, it's only because the Pebble 2 is going to get released soon and everybody is waiting for it.....
Which is also likely why the Apple Watch is in decline...september is coming.
Exactly.
According to Apple's WWDC keynote, if you're in a wheelchair, a watch is far easier to access than a smart phone. That's apparently their biggest market: people in wheelchairs.
Please tell me you really aren't THAT stupid.
Smart watches are trying to evolve to be everything a phone is, instead of a simple device to get simple stuff done.
Actually, I think Apple has a pretty good handle on what can, and can't be done PRACTICALLY on a smartwatch, and is attempting to live within, instead of trying to ignore, the laws of physics.
The problem is that they designed the Apple Watch as a crippled device. They didn't want it to cannibalize iPhone sales, so it's basically a remote control for the phone in your pocket. If they make a watch that can make calls, people will buy them. It could be the iPod Shuffle for the iPhone line. But they don't seem to understand this.
No, you don't understand physics.
How long do you think the battery-life of such a watch would be? Conversely, how THICK are you prepared for your watch to be, to fit in a cellphone-sized battery capacity? How large to be able to have a meaningful cell antenna system?
It has NOTHING to do with "cannibalizing" iPhone sales. They are just using the iPhone to do the "heavy lifting" of cell communications. Nothing else is practical in a watch, until some SERIOUS advances in battery technology happen. Yes, there have reportedly been "autonomous" smartwatches; but none of them seem to gain any traction, and most don't even seem to make it to being "real products", possibly because their relatively miniscule batteries give relatively miniscule running-times.
So, here is a review of one of the most "promising" of the "autonomous" (which is actually only semi-autonomous at best) Smartwatches. Not only is it over a half-inch thick ("like strapping on an ankle monitor") and HEAV-Y (THREE times as heavy as the Apple Watch!), and not only is it too dim to be seen in sunlight and too quiet to be used on the street as a phone, and not only is it buggy as all get-out, and not only is it only semi-autonomous at best; but for all this, the battery life is abysmal.
So, all-in-all, I would say that Apple is doing the best that can PRACTICALLY be done, given the laws of physics.
Apple is smart enough to realize this. They understand that throwing their users under the bus now will not make us safer later.
And it's important to point out that Apple maintained that stance at no small danger to themselves and their reputation. During that whole FBI thing, there were several Congresscritters that were calling Apple "Aligning with Terrists" and "Intentionally Marketing to Terrists" (really! I heard it myself on C-SPAN), and worse.
And this was in the country that the company was located (USA); so, to the person that said that BB had no choice but to give the RCMP the Keys to the Kingdom because it is located in the RCMP's backyard: Suck it! Apple showed us what REAL PATRIOTISM looks like!
And what was keeping them from challenging the RCMP in the courts - both the court of law and the court of public opinion? Apple won both of those battles.
EXACTLY.