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I think what he's talking about is Microsoft copying Apple exclusions with its store.
In OSX Mountain Lion, certain APIs are only accessible to software sold through the Apple store.
Windows Store is the only place you can buy Windows software for ARM based Windows 8
Since Valve is a Windows games software vendor and tablets are an important gaming platform, I think one can understand that Gabe is pissed off at being locked out of the market.
Both Apple and Microsoft are engaging in anti-competitive practices with their new desktop OSes.
Android was planning on, and working towards building the modern style of Android before the iPhone was announced, but had no hardware to work with and vendor buy in was hard to come by. The focus shifted when the iPhone was announced since suddenly vendors understood.
>A phone with a touchscreen, code-named Dream, that had been in the early stages of development, became the focus. Its launch was pushed out a year until fall 2008. Engineers started drilling into it all the things the iPhone didn’t do to differentiate their phone when launch day did occur.
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Also, osnews had further clarification to offer on the subject.
This comment will probably get buried, but I think you should know about it all the same.
I just want to warn you that the camera you're using to film this movie, while certainly a very nice one, is subject to codec licensing fees beginning in 2015.
Basically it boils down to this: currently all non-professional cameras, with the exception of the RED camera, use MPEG LA patented codecs internally. This means that when the grace period for H264 et al is up in 2015 you may have to pay royalties to the MPEG LA if you distribute your movie. More info is in the link above.
Keep up the nice work!
Yeah, this article is terrible. Contains almost zero information and frankly reeks of blogspam.
The original article, which this one ~~rips off~~ removes all useful information from and replaces it with ads and links to other equally useless articles, is much more helpful:
http://www.osnews.com/story/26230/Samsung_reveals_its_pre-iPhone_concepts_10_touchscreen
We tried other user interface ideas in the early days of home computing. Most of them proved to be clumsy for new users and limiting for power users. They also tended to be difficult to generalize in meaningful ways.
- http://apple2history.org/history/ah18/#04
- http://www.osnews.com/story/15223/GEOS_The_Graphical_Environment_Operating_System/page6/
Personally, I've always wanted a desktop based on the ring menu system of 16-bit era RPGs. I know it would be impractical in many ways, but it would give me something fun to do with my mouse besides nudge it away from the keyboard.
Heh, I remember when Miguel de Icaza was the darling of GNOME fanboys, then Mono fanboys, and now he's at Microsoft, where he's always belonged. I agree with Richard Stallman's take on de Icaza.
A major part of this operation is to teach people about and encourage people to use free and open source software as a means of protecting their privacy and digital freedom. Windows is proprietary ($), and NOT safe from a privacy standpoint.
Read these articles:
It's unfair to Foxconn to say that the company drove those employees to suicide. Maybe it did, maybe it didn't. I'm sure they all had plenty of other issues.
http://www.osnews.com/story/23359/The_Foxconn_Suicides
Apparently, Foxconn has 468,000 employees. Of these, ten committed suicide in one year, putting the rate significantly below the Chinese national average of 14 per hundred thousand.
Ah you know wine is becoming feature complete when it needs to start to implement hacks to make software work.
Almost like Microsoft adding hacks to windows to make sure it backwards compatible
Well it is awfully hard for AMD to match the performance of Intel when intel poisoned all the software with a compiler that cripples performance on AMD.
>there is no doubt in my mind that the phone I am holding today would behave so much differently if it weren't for the iPhone.
You're wrong.
There were two initial designs of Android, Sooner (no touchscreen) and Dream (touchscreen). To quote Diane Hackthorn, one Google's Android engineering group:
"From a software perspective, Sooner and Dream were basically the same -- different form-factors, one without a touch screen -- but they were not so different as this article indicates and the switch between them was not such a huge upheaval.
The main reason for the differences in schedule was hardware: Sooner was a variation of an existing device that HTC was shipping, while Dream was a completely new device with a lot of things that had never been shipped before, at least by HTC (new Qualcomm chipset, sensors, touch screen, the hinge design, etc). So Sooner was the safe/fast device, and Dream was the risky/long-term device.
Even if there was no iPhone, there is a good chance that Sooner would have been dropped".
As someone who worked closely with engineers for a cell carrier and has years of experience with cellular networks this is a very interesting read for most lay people.
http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone
http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone
tl;dr, the baseband processor that sits on top of the phone, the thing that connects first and takes precedence over everything on the phone, is extremely vulnerable and is getting exploited. No dumb or smart phone will help you to avoid this issue. Even the more private phones on kickstarter are usually not addressing this issue (correct me if I am wrong and I may buy that phone).
>IIRC it looked like a Blackberry knockoff
There were two Android prototypes at the time, one which had a full screen with an onscreen keyboard, and another which had a keyboard and looked like a "blackberry" (or countless other existing keyboard devices) -- and the SDK from pre-1.0 supported both equally. This myth of the "Android was like blackberry" is something that fits nicely on pro-iPhone infographics.
EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FJHYqE0RDg
http://www.osnews.com/story/25264/Did_Android_Really_Look_Like_BlackBerry_Before_the_iPhone_
Early on, you see the forever mentioned keyboard smartphone. But woe...what is that at the 3 minute mark?
Yuk...downvotes. Classic reddit. Don't let me distract you from your ignorance.
Most phones have a second firmware and chipset designed just for talking to the cell hardware. This is generally full of holes and backdoors, is proprietary and closed, and has direct access to the adjacent system (i.e. the one running CyanogenMod). This is a decent article on the subject.
You should add Microsoft to that list.
http://www.osnews.com/story/24960/Microsoft_Contributes_361_Changes_to_Linux_3_0
Even nokia contributes more to the linux kernel than Google/Android: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/linux-kernel-in-2011-15-million-total-lines-of-code-and-microsoft-is-a-top-contributor.ars
I am talking firmware/hardware level, baseband access which is how they can listen through your microphone
http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone
I can't find the article but it was posted on netsec that showed all the major modems are vulnerable to a shit ton of exploits
It is indeed impossible to verify that Apple's encryption does not contain backdoors, because no-one can see how Apple implemented it other than Apple itself.
On Android, things are different: If you are paranoid, you can compile your OS yourself and freely audit the encryption implementation because it belongs to the public AOSP code, so you can make sure that the encryption is backdoor-free.
Sadly, you actually don't have to break the encryption, but you can circumvent it by remote controlling devices via their baseband chip, forcing them to decrypt data and just sending it over the internet. Those vulnerable baseband chips are inside most mobile devices: http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone
Mobile phones actually run a seperate OS for radio bands which leave a gaping hole to the entire functionality of your OS. The code is so incredibly bad yet old nobody will touch it. Every mobile needs it. Due to this no matter what software you put on your device it will never fully secure. Here is a full writeup on it. http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone
if you have an android phone, you can get an app to detect these things
https://github.com/SecUpwN/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector
No idea if other mobile os'es have a equivalent of it though.
also, if you wish to know more about what component is to blame for it on your phone, look no further but this link:
http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone
its called a baseband processor and its basically satan.
I assume you are speaking of Foxconn which is a company that literally employs hundreds of thousands of people. Suicide is hardly a phenomenon unique to them. Suicide tends to be a very cultural. Tokyo is widely know as the "capital' of suicide. Hardly a poor city. Both Chinese and Japanese have very honor driven cultures which seems to encourage people killing themselves. Sad, but sensationalist. You havn't even considered if the suicide rate is higher than that of the general population which should be at least the VERY first step before we conclude "sweatshops are bad". Here is an article on it: http://www.osnews.com/story/23359/The_Foxconn_Suicides
>if you compare the number of suicides among Foxconn's 486000 employees to the Chinese average, you'll see that Foxconn is still well below said average. In China, 14 out of 100000 people commit suicide every year. This means that to match China's average, 68 Foxconn employees would have to commit suicide every year.
The overwhelming majority of people who have taken the time to actually educate themselves on the issue are pro-sweatshop
http://aidwatchers.com/2010/08/help-the-worlds-poor-buy-some-new-clothes/
You can't just go "oh man some people killed themselves, oh gosh those conditions are bad compared to what I consider acceptable" and reach a conclusion on sweatshops.
If you want a book coming from the left, and fairly far at that. I'd recommend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Discipline .
The anti-sweatshop movement is generally just as unintellectual as the tea party. With some exceptions going to people who work on IMPROVING the conditions of sweatshops not to OUR standards but to achievable goals that promote safe working environments and opportunities for children to attend schooling.
True.
EDIT: Posted because I thought this was a late post since SOPA's getting shelved. The article says that they're blacking out anyway. I thought more people would have the same train of thought.
I'll bite. Both Nvidia and Intel have a history of anticompetitive behavior, using their larger marketshare and higher revenue to force AMD out of a market. Intel beat the original Athlon (which was faster, cheaper, cooler, and used less power than the P4) by selling them at less than cost to OEMs who agreed to exclusively buy from Intel--they got fined $1.1 billion for it. They also got busted for their C compiler; when you built for AMD targets, it removed all optimizations so the performance was distinctly worse.
Nvidia gets a lot of their performance from drivers that optimize games that weren't written perfectly, which AMD just can't afford to do to the same extent. Not only that, they've published SDKs that deliberately performed badly on AMD cards, and all of their fancy technology is proprietary. They also gimped the normal GPUs' computer performance via drivers so enthusiasts who want to use their GPUs for things other than games have to buy the more expensive models.
Really, AMD is just the least evil of the three. They write open source tech; Mantle got merged into OpenGL (Vulkan), and instead of writing their own GPU compute library to match CUDA, they implemented an open standard (OpenCL). Nvidia and Intel might have better performance, but AMD is all around a better company for the consumer.
http://www.osnews.com/story/22683/Intel_Forced_to_Remove_quot_Cripple_AMD_quot_Function_from_Compiler_
http://arstechnica.com/series/the-rise-and-fall-of-amd/
What does that have to do with our discussion on WWII losses?
http://www.osnews.com/story/25540/Why_People_Troll_and_How_to_Stop_Them
>Pithy put-downs
> Name-calling and insults
>Ad hominem attacks that try to negate an opinion by alleging negatives about the person supporting it
>Impugning other's motives
> Emotional rants
> Bullying and harassment
> Completely off-topic posts
>Posting inaccurate "facts"
There's no support for SysV IPC in Android's libc (aka bionic), but the syscalls are still there in the kernel. So it's possible to statically build an app with glibc that uses SysV IPC and it could still work on Android.
Also, interesting piece of trivia: Binder was originally supposed to be part of BeOS, then part of PalmOS, but now the lead engineer behind it works for Google.
It's not a bad thing - don't sweat it. From Windows Vista onwards, Microsoft implemented a feature called SuperFetch which preloads commonly used programs into memory for faster startup. Disable SuperFetch (seriously not recommended) and you'll see the RAM freed up. Windows will unload items from memory as needed.
> Half the cylinders, half the displacement, double the power, double the MPG. That's Intel.
And four times the price.
Intel isn't the best for everyone. Especially when you factor in their dubious behaviour (such as this ). I don't want to give money to people who do this.
Hasn't the intel compiler also been caught in the past deliberately ignoring all AMD CPU features and only running lowest common denominator code ?
here we are http://www.osnews.com/story/22683/Intel_Forced_to_Remove_quot_Cripple_AMD_quot_Function_from_Compiler_
I don't know if this has ever been resolved completely.
I kind of find this post disingenuous. Saying 'what exactly is it?' when I just googled it and the first link gave me a [nice wiki entry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system) on it. The links at the end provide a 14 page article on the history!
So, really... asking what it is, is either lazy as hell, or just trying to get people interested in it in order to pay you for it.
(The OS is available as freeware now)
Also, check out the wiki page for "application"
Better source http://www.osnews.com/story/24882/The_History_of_App_and_the_Demise_of_the_Programmer
Source dates "app" back to 1985 and it was used often to refer to software on computers and electronic devices.
As has been pointed out countless times, that was just one of many prototypes. Other prototypes were based around large touchscreens like current smartphones.
This is mind-boggling, and really scary.
The fact that anyone can now buy their own base tower off ebay and send out instructions that are inherently assumed safe by this second OS is insane.
I think this is going to be harder than they think:
http://www.osnews.com/story/29521/Facebook_can_and_should_wipe_out_fake_new
The *BSDs take a naively altruistic stance regarding code distribution. Whereas the FSF will try to gut you with the long arm of the law for taking code, the BSDs are just glad to be helping you out. Sometimes the stance is quite condescending, however - Henning Brauer said he was glad that Mac OS X was using pf because their devs were probably too incompetent to make their own firewall.
Talking of short sightedness, Linux kernel devs made the mistake of acceptancing driver code written under NDA. Theo summed up the problem nicely:
>you are trying to make sure that maintainers of code - i.e. any random joe who wants to improve the code in the future - has less access to docs later on because someone signed an NDA to write it in the first place. You are making a very big mistake.
>Yes, there are Apple fans who will always buy an iPhone no matter what.
Some Apple fans are just downright insane.
I was browsing news of the Mi Mix and I came across OSNews accusing Xiaomi of stealing iphone 8's design:
> It's quite likely the next iPhone will do away with the top and bottom bezel entirely in favour of a display much like this one. There's also been some talk about a ceramic iPhone, also just like this Xiaomi phone. It's pretty blatantly shameless that Xiaomi is ripping off the next iPhone, and I hope Obama (or Clinton, the next president) bans Xiaomi from shipping this shameless ripoff of the next iPhone from sales in the US to protect Apple's courageous innovation from these foul Asian companies.
>The shamelessness is just unbelievable here. I can't believe we live in a world that allows Asian companies to copy future Apple products. It makes me sick.
Nevermind, I found it myself. Another point of interest;
Do you even read the articles that you post? Because you sure seem to conform to almost every single point highlighted on that page.
By "minimum" power state, do you mean sleep/hibernate, or idle?
Getting the script to fire off at a specified time/schedule, I'd recommend cron -- syntax for the schedule can be a little strange to look at; but it works great.
If you're trying to get "wake from sleep" tied into that, well, maybe something like rctwake?
Um... I hate to tell you this, but "App" was used by Apple long before Windows 8.
http://www.osnews.com/story/24882/The_History_of_App_and_the_Demise_of_the_Programmer
It was used as an abbreviation for "application" in job listings before 1981, and in 1985 came into computing as the Atari PE, MacApp, and FrameWork II came into development.
Large projects are ginormous, but that doesn't make them bad by design. Sometimes small projects are terrible. Recursion is actually a great example of that - when I interview candidates, I sometimes ask them to write a code snippet to output the Fibonacci sequence forever; if they give me a recursive answer, I ask them what the disadvantages to that are. (Spoiler: 1. Memory usage off the charts, and slow; every time you call the method you have to do a stack push; 2. related, you will get a stack overflow eventually, whereas with an infinite loop it'll just keep going).
A better way to measure how large something is is to ask how many classes it has, and what percentage of those classes are POJOs vs classes that do real work. But of course, even THAT assumes that a good job has been done with scope of responsibility in classes.
To be honest, the only real measure of code quality is in wtfs per minute
> i disable pagefile since i have 16gb of ram. no need for it since i have plenty of ram. windows "tries" to be "smart" and moves things out of ram, regardless how much you have, into the pagefile to "save" ram. Well, with 16gb of ram, whatever i have open, i want it to use my super fast ram.
Windows does what Windows is designed to do. Memory management between all of the various types is basically a rocket science by this point which Microsoft are experts at. You're the one trying to be smart in disabling a feature that when enabled doesn't hurt you in any way but when disabled may result in instability and/or other issues related to applications expecting available virtual memory but getting none.
I also like how you recommend disabling SuperFetch which is all about Windows caching as much applications and data in the memory as possible, which is exactly what you state you want in your first paragraph. The part about 'wasting writes' on the SSD is pure bullshit, as you basically need to be a data center with massive amounts of data being read or written at all times to the SSD to run it into the ground (in which case even mechanical HDDs would die under the same scenario).
Understanding the Windows Pagefile and Why You Shouldn't Disable It
>He does more for Russia than you do. That is why he is ignored in the US. You're a nitpicker. That much was clear on your selection of Dugin for a topic here. You had not done your homework.
http://www.osnews.com/story/25540/Why_People_Troll_and_How_to_Stop_Them
>Pithy put-downs
> Name-calling and insults
>Ad hominem attacks that try to negate an opinion by alleging negatives about the person supporting it
>Impugning other's motives
> Emotional rants
> Bullying and harassment
> Completely off-topic posts
>Posting inaccurate "facts"
C'mon, where's the emotional rant?
There are 2 operating systems running on all phones. One is the one you see, iOS, Andriod, or other. The second, is the real-time OS for the radio receivers. You have no control or interaction with what goeson in that OS, and likely aren't aware that it's there.
http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone
AMD tried to harm their bottom line. Once.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3839/intel-settles-with-the-ftc
I've always been surprised by the sub's siding with Intel all the time. I get if you need their CPUs, that's one thing... but people actually go as far as to downvote people who suggest AMD being relevant in any way/shape/form.
To quote OS News: > Repeat after me: Android is just as much 'Linux' as Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, or anything else that uses the Linux kernel. Technically, a better term would be 'Linux distribution', since Linux in and of itself is just a kernel.
So yes, under your strict definition of Linux, Android is not Linux. But keeping with that definition, neither is anything else most people think of as Linux.
>Obama said nothing about supporting SOPA. In fact, given his history on net neutrality support, I would be incredibly surprised if he didn't veto any bill that infringed on an open web.
Obama Nominates RIAA Lawyer for Solicitor General www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/riaa-lawyer-solicitor-general/ 24 Jan 2011
Obama Taps 5th RIAA Lawyer to Justice Dept. www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/obama-taps-fift/ 13 Apr 2009
Feds, RIAA Ask $22500 in Damages Per Song www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/04/tenenbaum-appeal/ 5 Apr 2011
Obama Sides with RIAA, MPAA; Backs ACTA http://www.osnews.com/story/23002/Obama_Sides_with_RIAA_MPAA_Backs_ACTA 12 Mar 2010
>Everyone on reddit is pulling shit out of their asses
Why don't you wipe it out of your eyes, dig it out of your ears?
> Apple first hired several RF engineers from Broadcom, and this small Bluetooth chip could be a stepping stone to Apple providing its own RF components such as the Wi-Fi chip or even the cellular baseband modem in future devices.
I really hope this happens. From what I understand, saying that the current baseband chips and OS used in virtually every phone is a security nightmare would be an understatement. If Apple can make a top to bottom cellular baseband chip and OS then they will be able to greatly increase the security of the iPhone.
Maybe that recently acquired RTOS expertise isn't just for the car.
A commenter over at OSNews http://www.osnews.com/comments/29231 says it better than I could:
"My read on this is that it does set a pretty clear line for the "public APIs". This lawyer seems to want to expand that to include to any and all copyrighted material. That's a bizarre jump, as that is absolutely not what is being discussed in the case."
It appears the Oracle lawyer's attempt at stirring the FLOSS community's pot has succeeded.
http://www.osnews.com/story/22493/Apple_Scores_Massive_Win_in_Psystar_Case
"The judge affirmed the legality of the EULA"
Well, I don't know that well USA legal system, but, why do they write the EULA if it has no value.
Well I was skeptic about your claim that android earns more than windows phone 7 but it turns out this is correct. link
>Exactly. It did not need to change. Why shitty hipstor kiddies keep inventing new words when there are perfectly suitable old ones?
App isn't a new word.
Look at the highlighted menu in this app from 1985.
http://www.osnews.com/img/24882/apps.PNG
Plus the term "killer app" had been around for quite a long time.
See, now you're changing parameters ("ignoring W10"), and while you're technically correct about the version number, you're not correct about changes.
For example, here's info about changes in the Windows 7 kernel, and info about changes in the Windows 8 kernel.
Many changes don't require kernel work at all, and other changes that don't look like kernel changes do (like Hyper-V, or UEFI boot and secure boot, or hybrid fast boot, or DX12). Basically, you're taking a meaningless number chosen mostly for compatibility reasons and extrapolating it to actual functionality changes, and you're wrong.
Mission Impossible: Hardening Android for Security and Privacy and The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone
Read about the SS7 vulnerability.
No, Gameworks is made by Nvidia, Intel compilers had code of their own that crippled AMD.
Tasty Sauce!
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Yeah, as the article pointed out you have a huge number of people analyzing iOS code, if it was an OS based backdoor it would have probably been noticed by now. More likely he is referring to a baseband firmware exploit. Much more likely way to exploit IMHO. http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone
Nokia releases Touchscreen phone 7 years before iPhone: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nokia-lumia-iphone-ipad-touchscreen,16351.html
Samsung touch screen phone concepts developed before the iPhone was released: http://www.osnews.com/story/26230/Samsung_reveals_its_pre-iPhone_concepts_10_touchscreen_devices
Let's be honest, very few ideas are truly original any more.
Which isn't to say that Apple necesarilly 'stole' these ideas. But there are a million ideas floating around at any given moment.
This story on OSNews shows that there were multiple google phone prototypes including a fully touch screen phone before the iPhone was released.
Check out the video at ~3:00.
This is another misconception about Android - the BB style prototype people like bringing up was one of many prototypes (again, this is why I think saying Android is an iOS ripoff that lacks polish is a bit silly) that people were working on. Android had a touch based SDK as well but the BB prototype was one of the first available and people attach to that like it was the only thing Android team was working on.
http://www.osnews.com/story/25264/Did_Android_Really_Look_Like_BlackBerry_Before_the_iPhone_
That was a sarcastic video towards him. That speech is not against SOPA, it's an old speech of Biden, kind of like those of Hillary Clinton. But you know how they are, they "promote freedom of speech" in public, and then sign this kind of bills.
Thanks to the Obama administration alone (Congress wasn't even involved) they managed to push a secret international treaty called ACTA. They've just agreed to sign it in EU today:
http://bit.ly/sVF07v (Google translation link)
Older articles:
http://www.osnews.com/story/23002/Obama_Sides_with_RIAA_MPAA_Backs_ACTA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/11/acta-trade-agreement
I understand the vertical space argument, but I don't think it wins out over the other problems with global menu bars. (Although I would move #2 in that article to #1.)
At least do some research before jumping to sensationalist conclusions based on the title.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/31/samsung_keylogger_rumour_debunked/
http://www.osnews.com/story/24588/Samsung_Keylogger_Claim_Is_Bogus_and_We_Can_Prove_it
http://techland.time.com/2011/03/31/samsung-keylogger-accusation-is-false/
The problem here is that usually there is not enough people reviewing the code to check if there is something wrong.
For instance, this bug wasn't discovered until 25 years later.
So, we cannot assume that only for the fact that the code can be read by anyone, it is going to be read by people who actually understands the code, and is able to find something wrong with it. And this fact increases with the complexity of the project.
It wasn't just for show. Jobs had built the NeXT cube without a floppy drive 10 years earlier. He wasn't going to go backwards. There was also a conspiracy theory that the floppy drive controversy was intended to generate publicity and revitalize the third-party Mac peripheral market. Apple didn't make a USB floppy drive so a bunch of other companies jumped in to offer one.
There is no real performance difference between AMD and Intel CPUs. The rhetoric that Intel is superior to AMD comes from egregious rumors that started back when Intel was intentionally crippling AMD processors thru their compiler, and also because of Intel's attempts to bring bias into industry benchmarking tests. And again, switching out hundreds of dollars of (perfectly fine) hardware for one game is not an acceptable solution. Not to mention this would involve providing financial support to a company that is trying to dominate the market thru extremely shady and manipulative means.
Just to be clear or at least clearer than /u/steveklabnik1 :-), and to make a point that few people fully grasp:
Open Source licenses are distribution licenses. They are NOT EULAs or any kind of user license.
If someone gives you a copy of a program under an Open Source license you are free to use that program without even having to accept the license. That's right, you can ignore the license.
The only time you need the license is when you want to make a copy and distribute it to someone else. Without the Open Source license you are forbidden by copyright law to make copies. That is what copyright controls, the right to make copies of a work. It doesn't actually control how someone may use a work they have legally obtained.
For far too much detail see: http://www.osnews.com/story/22233/The_Difference_Between_EULAs_and_Open_Source_Licenses
If I remember correctly Microsoft did use the word application in visual studio for instance before smartphones became popular. and the word app is actually old and seems widespread term by programmers
- Pithy put-downs
- Name-calling and insults
- Ad hominem attacks that try to negate an opinion by alleging negatives about the person supporting it
- Impugning other's motives
- Emotional rants
- Bullying and harassment
- Completely off-topic posts
- Posting inaccurate "facts
Why People Troll and How to Stop Them
Do you see how you match the different bullet points and how you're projecting?
People have referred to "programs" as "applications" (of which "app" is just a shortened form) for many, many years. Generally, "Application" is more of a Mac term, and Windows tends to use "Program" or "Executable". One popular example was that of the "killer app": a term used to refer to a piece of software that was almost considered necessary to have, e.g. VisiCalc, WordPerfect, MS Word, Excel, etc. at various times in the history of computing.
The term "app" really entered the vernacular after Jobs debuted the App Store, and later on the Mac App Store. With the popularity of the iProducts and iOS, it became more common, with other vendors creating their own "app stores" and using the term. Just to clarify: Jobs/Apple didn't invent the term, nor was he the first to use the term, but I would say that he is the one person most responsible for the current shift in terminology (intentionally or not).
EDIT: some more info at this link: http://www.osnews.com/story/24882/The_History_of_App_and_the_Demise_of_the_Programmer
I'd wait for confirmation that patching works and doesn't break anything before going ahead and doing so. Also I'm just posting it here for visibility, info on the Intel Compiler can be found here.
ok well now you have. The second device was being planned as the follow up the blackberry looking device. After the iPhone reveal they decided to make it their first device. There is an article with Andy Rubin detailing the whole thing IIRC if you want to google for it.
They were both being developed at the same time. Anyways, heres just one source I found using Google.
http://www.osnews.com/story/25264/Did_Android_Really_Look_Like_BlackBerry_Before_the_iPhone_
This project (and the associated company) makes a lot of claims, with little to back them up. Their products are all proprietary, and do nothing to protect against the privacy threats of the proprietary baseband in every cell phone.
My point is that if you truly want to help your family, teach them to use the computer, not just put in more idiot-proofing. Yes, antivirus software is still necessary, but without local admin the security posture of the target rises dramatically.
At least argue the case on the basis of its merits, instead of cherry picking facts that suit you...
HERE are ALL the pre-iPhone Samsung designs...
http://www.osnews.com/story/26230/Samsung_reveals_its_pre-iPhone_concepts_10_touchscreen
Here's a telling anecdote - "One of these phones (the bottom-right one) became the Samsung F700 - a product Apple once included as an infringing product, but later withdrew once it learned Samsung created it and brought it to market before the iPhone"
Mozilla originally rejected H.264 because it is patent-encumbered, and content creators and distributors of H.264 decoding software would or could be required to license the patents. WebM (VP8) had a very high chance of displacing H.264, but Google dropped the ball by not more aggressively pushing support. Now, because of a lack of decision on which codec to choose, the larger Video tag and HTML5 standards are at risk and Mozilla is essentially giving up the fight.
Personally, it's a shame that it has come to this. WebM had a lot of potential, but lack of adoption is lack of adoption. That means that we won't have a "Free Web" until 2027 when the H264 patents expire (source).
Disassemble Minecraft with the Minecraft Coder Pack. Read code. Count your WTFs per minute. When you exhaust the set of all numbers, momentarily feel better about your own abilities. Cry deeply when you realize your code didn't earn many millions of dollars.
I've worked in both 'codebases'; in particular, GCC, LLVM, and a wee bit of Clang. GCC legacy mess is a serious handicap. I will never code for GCC again. I know many other people who have 'made the switch' from GCC to LLVM/Clang and won't go back. In fact, GCC has changed its stance on using C-only (allowing C++) in order to address this issue.
Thought it was funny they call this thing post market OS. Very early.. have to make your own path. But much more thurrough than Cyanogenmod. Don't think it deals with the RTOS, however.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I will actively go out of my way to avoid ever giving Microsoft another dime, due to the things that they've put me through and the tactics that they've engaged the public with, just within the last two years.
But even before that, Microsoft was doing shady, shady shit. Here's just a couple examples.
http://www.osnews.com/story/22358/Silent_Install_Firefox_Plugin_Backfires_on_Microsoft
Most of these things weren't obvious to an average Joe, though.
That said, I'm in no hurry to adopt a Chromebook either. Its not because I hate Google (I mostly like them), its because I fundamentally reject the idea of using the cloud, being constantly monitored, and the risk that breaches bring in such an environment (everything about me that is collected being exposed). Not to mention government surveillance.
But I do hope that others adopt Chromebooks in mass, because I want to see the Windows monopoly crumble.
Wow, that is messed up! It makes this useless.
I was going to send a pull request to replace their license with a sensible one, but I couldn't find a good open source one one that prohibits military and commercial use (which is a limitation their license includes, which I believe is fair).
edit: I take back my comment about the military restriction after reading the military restriction answer here: http://www.osnews.com/story/25724/Interview_Richard_Stallman/
It's all a compromise and at some point you're going to have to choose which area to lighten up on.
Using a password manager could possibly compromise your privacy but it can greatly improve your security. (Are you able to remember strong random passwords for every login account in your life?) At some point, you're going to have to trust someone.
- How much do you trust the developers of the password manager? Are you willing to devise your own?
- How much do you trust your operating system? Will you write your own?
- How much do you trust your hardware manufacturer? How far down this chain will you trust? Are you going to create your own IC fabrication lab?
- Imagine after taking all the effort to secure your computer, it turns out your mobile phone baseband processor is what gets you droned...
If a TLA is after you, any contact with technology is going to be a huge compromise. If they're really after you, they'll go old-school and send men with guns. Who is more of a threat in your life, the TLA agencies or the script-kiddies and organised crime? Heck, the biggest threat to your privacy could be your mother-in-law who answers random 'questionnaires' by 'telemarketers' and clicks on attachments telling her she has an unpaid invoice.
We work with rushed legacy code, so more like WTS per minute.
Or when we deploy to our jboss server it takes .. some minutes. Resulting in folding of post it notes: Imgur
Do you remember posting this?
- Pithy put-downs
- Name-calling and insults
- Ad hominem attacks that try to negate an opinion by alleging negatives about the person supporting it
- Impugning other's motives
- Emotional rants
- Bullying and harassment
- Completely off-topic posts
- Posting inaccurate "facts
Why People Troll and How to Stop Them
Do you see how you match the different bullet points and how you're projecting?
He even used to post a article called "Why People Troll and How to Stop Them" until people called him out for matching most of the criteria himself.
- Pithy put-downs
- Name-calling and insults
- Ad hominem attacks that try to negate an opinion by alleging negatives about the person supporting it
- Impugning other's motives
- Emotional rants
- Bullying and harassment
- Completely off-topic posts
- Posting inaccurate "facts"
And if you look through his post history he really does meet every single point.
Third link from the top.
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/2236255/why-richard-stallman-was-right-all-along
> jrepin sends this excerpt from an opinion piece at OSNews:
>> "Late last year, president Obama signed a law that makes it possible to indefinitely detain terrorist suspects without any form of trial or due process. Peaceful protesters in Occupy movements all over the world have been labelled as terrorists by the authorities. Initiatives like SOPA promote diligent monitoring of communication channels. Thirty years ago, when Richard Stallman launched the GNU project, and during the three decades that followed, his sometimes extreme views and peculiar antics were ridiculed and disregarded as paranoia — but here we are, 2012, and his once paranoid what-ifs have become reality."
Links to this article:
http://www.osnews.com/story/25469/Richard_Stallman_Was_Right_All_Along
Direct Stallman quote:
> As our society grows more dependent on computers, the software we run is of critical importance to securing the future of a free society. Free software is about having control over the technology we use in our homes, schools and businesses, where computers work for our individual and communal benefit, not for proprietary software companies or governments who might seek to restrict and monitor us.
Rest of article explains how Stallman was right.
> Now, we can sit here all day and argue over how close his predictions have come to being correct and whether or not that counts, but in the end, there's zero evidence that people have forked other projects to get away from him, only to have it come and bite them in the ass after his predictions have proven true.
I'm not aware of people forking their projects to get away from him either, but there isn't as much work on his projects as there are on other people's projects.
The compiler added a line of code that checked the processor ID. If the ID wasn't an intel CPU it would run the slowest code path possible. Intel ended paying several billion dollars in damages to AMD. some random source.
Have you seen this: http://www.osnews.com/story/24079/Sunde_To_Launch_Open_Distributed_Alternative_to_ICANN
And thats not the original article I fund but it looks like the website I originally read it on is now down.
I've tried out dozens over the years when something that intrigues my inner geek pops up at http://www.osnews.com
Always had a softspot for BeOS, it was my first. Leo Laporte got me to install it by doing the whole process on a ScreenSavers episode on what was then still ZDTV.
/geekout
Its possibly a broken DSDT table, which is a manufacturer supplied table in the BIOS that describes the hardware to the OS.
There are 2 suppliers of DSDT table compilers, Intel and Microsoft. The Microsoft one is notorious for creating incorrect dsdt tables that just happen to work with windows, but causes anything correctly following the acpi spec to go wrong.
I have had hardware in the past thats corrected by installing a corrected table, or possibly by configuration of the kernel using devfs (or however kernels handle known dodgy hardware these days.
If all else fails ACPI=OFF might still work around the worst of the problems.
http://www.osnews.com/story/17689/Bill_Gates_on_Making_ACPI_Not_Work_with_Linux
Pretty much, yes. There was a lot of vitriol back then too, as with KDE4 and GNOME3.
Random links: http://www.osnews.com/story/1280 and http://tech.slashdot.org/story/02/06/26/1813231/gnome-20-released
Amongst the things people complained about: change of button-order, switching workspaces for desktops, anti-aliased text, increased system requirements, lack of window-manager choice, non-configurable panel, new theme, new icons, and non-configurable control-panel.
>"Today's announcement is more ambitious than any single 'Google Phone' that the press has been speculating about over the past few weeks. Our vision is that the powerful platform we're unveiling will power thousands of different phone models."
And even now, people still don't realize that. You still find people linking to the site that says Android looked like Blackberry before the iPhone, even though it's been debunked. Android is a software platform designed to run on thousands of different devices.
Pernicious myths are hard to kill, whether it's "MSG causes headaches", "eating sugar makes kids hyperactive", or "Android looked like Blackberry before the iPhone", people cling to their false beliefs.
Because there's no copy protection on analog outputs the big manufacturers are actively removing the analog outputs on devices. they've signed an agreement phasing it out & everything. some time next year a patch will go out that disables the component output of most blu-ray players.
Its fucking retarded though because people will just download the content they want anyway, not bother going to all the trouble of ripping something through a component output.
This "analog sunset" as they're calling it isnt very well known yet, but shit will get very inconvenient in the next few years when the true potential of HDMI and HDCP comes into force for Joe average.
Try playing a bluray on a projector in a classroom in 2 years time & HDCP will disable it becasue it knows you dont have the rights to play it in a public area.
here's an article: http://www.osnews.com/story/22897/2010_Analog_Sunset_the_End_of_Component_Video
Low WTF/m: http://www.osnews.com/story/19266/WTFs_m
Seriously. If you give the code to a large group of programmers and they don't WTF, it is a perfectly elegant code (written by God). If they WTF here and there, it is elegant (written by a real programmer). If they WTF a lot, it is crap (written by code monkeys).
Code is for communicating with the developer after you as much - or even more so - than commanding the computer.
I must say your code is quite confusing (as you can see in Eryksun here failing to understand what exactly you do).
So first thing would be to add a comment along the lines of:
dir, files = stack[-1]
# do not pop it just yet, instead we are going to pop one file
# from files, and only if that's empty then this record from the stack.
Because you see, you do not one, but two "clever" things here: you peek at the top of the stack instead of popping, and you modify the contents of files inplace, through another reference. Both things are relatively unusual for Python code.
Problem is, anyone including yourself a couple of weeks later will miss these nuances when they glance over your code quickly, and introduce a bug at worst, or at least spend a couple of minutes being confused about how it could possibly work and why the fuck it does all these strange things. "The only valid measurement of code quality".
So while sometimes writing "clever" code is inevitable, all such deviations from the usual boring stuff MUST be explicitly pointed out and explained. Always write code as if the next person who is going to read it would be an axe murderer who knows where you live. And he is hangover at the moment.
Then, well, I don't know, do you really need this exact traversal order? If not, then you can do "dir, files = stack.pop()", then remove the continue and the else clause.
Or if you do want it exactly like that, you can also add and use this inner function:
def push(dir, files): for file in files: stack.push(os_path.join(dir, file))
Oh, and by the way, I personally prefer from os import path as os_path, and I'm not alone in that, because working with os.path directly is somewhat quirky, it automagically imports os etc.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Megahertz_myth and http://www.osnews.com/story/3997
, and also remember that cache size is really important. Cache is basically super duper high speed ram, it's used to mitigate the effects of the https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Von_Neumann_bottleneck#Von_Neumann_bottleneck
5MB Windows 95: https://msfn.org/board/topic/28825-how-to-windows-95-on-535mb/
5MB Windows 98: http://www.osnews.com/comments/4263
10MB Windows XP: http://reboot.pro/topic/3717-xpsp1-with-full-commandline-and-ntfs-below-10-mb/