It's not a problem with the kernel or any part of the software-hardware interface - it's a bug in the browser component, which is purely software. They could patch it for everyone if they wanted.
They have. It's called Android KitKat.
And when you say "they", who is "they". My contention is "they" is the hardware vendor/carrier, not Google, for the reasons outlined above.
No, it's your hardware provider that is your problem, not Google.
Do you update your Windows/Linux/OSX PC/laptop from the OS vendor or the company that sold you the hardware? It's almost always the OS vendor. A PC/laptop is very similar to a smartphone except the latter is smaller. Google's model of pushing updates through the hardware vendor utterly stupid and adds an extra unnecessary middleman to the process.
Not the same issue. PCs are standard, using largely off the shelf parts, a discoverable PCI based bus architecture to attach peripherals to the CPU, and the OS component is bought in.
In the case of a phone, the hardware is proprietry, using device trees to describe where peripherals are mapped (may vary between vendors) and the OS image itself usually customized by the network operator to push their crapware and "value add" tools.
Contact your hardware provider and bitch to them, not Google.
Why can't google's patch fix the issue? Is there a different kernel for each android phone so that different patches are needed for each phone?
Exactly. Each hardware vendor provides it's own kernel, and probably own version of drivers such as GPU and radio devices. The way Android is put onto phones is via a single monolithic read-only image, so it's all or nothing when updating the base Android image.
Now, if the hardware vendors make after market ROMs easier to install (or just possible to install without hacking the phone) then it might not even be an issue. My HTC One S (stock Android == 4.1) is happily running CM12 (Lollipop based), and it rocks. But again, this is outside Google's control, and I had to get unlock codes from HTC to do so (but at least they do so without requiring jail-breaking hacks.)
Pis are great.
But when the power drops.the filesystem on the SDcard is corrupt.
That's probably more a function of your crappy SDCard. These things are cheap, and probably not engineered to handle partial writes that would corrupt the card.
I do wonder why though, is it so difficult to order writes so that what's committed to FLASH is always recoverable?
But flash was already that cheap, so that would hardly be a breakthrough.
They only have to match the current market, which is a bonus if you can do so with an effectively new technology.
Once mature, Samsung will probably be able to bang these out much cheaper. Also, any bad non-SSD grade chips will just be redirected to their SD Card devision, which will map out the bad blocks at the controller level and work with what would otherwise be waste.
The FLASH industry is very efficient, and the price will remain high (price parity with planer FLASH) until Samsung recoup their upfront R&D costs, before raking in the money.
They're not stacking silicon wafers on top of each other. Rather, they're putting more layers of oxide, semiconductor, etc onto each wafer in order to produce the 3d stacking. Yes, it's more complex. But it's a pretty mature technology.
They're actually doing both. The 120GB drive only has a single NAND package (the PCB is tiny!) which contains 8 stacked 3D NAND dies. The NAND package has eight chip select pins, one for each die, and the controller interleaves requests to each die to achieve parallelism.
Still, the only advantage is if someone manages to run Linux on it. Might make up for the extra heat and lower battery life, to be able to run full featured Linux on it.
Um, you know Android is Linux, right? There's not much special about the Linux kernel in Android, just a few tweaks to the stock kernel to make it suitable to the environement on which it runs.
Almost all the Android special sauce is the user space, so the main difference between an Android system and a regular Linux distribution is what happens when PID 1 is executed. Change init, and you change the system entirely.
Run a debian chroot under Android if you want a regular looking Linux. Install a terminal app on android, and use a BT keyboard for input, and you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference from a regular Linux distro command line.
- return Windows to Microsoft for a $100 refund
Seriously - if you can score this hardware for $100 and run some other OS, they'll sell like hotcakes.
Except you'd more likely get around the ~$15 (guesstimate, no citation) OEM unit license cost as a refund. We're not talking the retail license here, and it puts into light what a rip-off the retail license cost actually is (assuming the extra cost of for the "support" that comes with the retail license.)
Top Gear had an interesting experiment where they raced a Prius against a BMW M3. But what they did was have the Prius go all out and the M3 just paced it. Then they measured the actual gas consumed and found that the BMW had better mileage under those circumstances.
This is what I'd expect, to be honest. I'd expect efficiency losses from the mixed drive train of the Prius, as there are energy losses when charging the battery under braking. Plus, most of the kinetic energy of the Prius is lost under braking as heat in the brakes, as the battery can't handle the power of hard braking under regenerative braking, so the physical brakes take over. Under normal driving conditions, much more of the kinetic energy would have been captured with much less aggressive breaking.
This scenario was pretty much the worst case for the Prius, whereas the BMW was very far from the worst case (being a faster car generally, it was cantering.)
But Jezza did make the point that it is largely how you drive that determines mileage, and even quite big cars can get excellent mileage with highway driving, especially if they use efficient turbo diesel egines (which have much better part throttle efficiency compared to comparable gas/petrol engines.) Get up to speed, stick the cruise control on, then relax.
Perhaps you should read the articles you link.
The scientists where well aware of the earth quake! But they did not issue proper warnings! And that *is manslaughter*!
According the article, the scientists were well aware of the tremors that preceded the major earth quake, but as Italy is seismically very active anyway, didn't see any cause for concern of the tremors over and above all the other trremors Italy gets. And as none of them were alive in the 14th, 15th and 18th century (for which I doubt accurate, detailed seismic accounts are kept) they had no previous data on which to base their findings other than the ongoing seismic activity.
The article points to nothing else other than a travesty of justice.
Dick Cheney brought us the current mess. He set the bar. W was just his sock-puppet.
Oh yeah, that makes sense. The son of a former President, former CIA Director, grandson of a U.S. Senator, and great-grandson of one of the 19th centuries rail barons was merely a sock puppet serving the interests of the son of a minor bureaucrat with the Department of Agriculture. You know, people should look at the nature of history before they start building conspiracy theories.
This son of a bastard nobody changed millions of lives with war.
If you think "stock" makes people great or powerful, then you're no better than all the various monarchies overthrown in the last few hundred years. Nepotism only goes so far.
A lot of car makers left F1 in the past, Mercedes has returned, but Honda, BMW and Toyota have left.
Only because they were having their ass handed to them on a plate. Toyota achieved literally nothing in their F1 stint, BMW did get some wins, but weren't competitive enough to justify the investment. Honda ditto, but left at the wrong time (the post-Honda Brawn team won the 2009 championship with the Honda designed car.)
And there are other racing series, which may be more road relevent. The Audi R18 e-tron has a Diesel hybrid drivetrainm with flywheel based energy storage. Very road relavent and innovative in the field.
Motor Racing does help drive innovation but in a sport where the FIA have virtually done away with any concept of innovation, it'll be difficult to see how this new formula will enhance the sport or spur innovation in day to day cars. Fans are leaving, sponsors are worried and that means no money and a dead series coming soon.
It's not all about innovation. It's also about the grunt work of refining what you have. That's why Mercedes are dominating even the other identically powered cars. They've done the best job within the rules defined.
And there are lots of ways to innovate in chassis and aerodynamic design. The current crop of F1 cars have a very diverse array of front end designs.
And lets be honest, most F1 innovations don't translate to road cars anyway. The biggest influence of F1 and other motor racing has been in the engine management and fuel injection areas. Racing aerodynamics? Moot. Suspension design? Not applicable to most road cars. Sequential gearboxes? Came from bikes anyway. Tires? Irrelevent unless you only want your tires to last a week.
20 years ago, RISC vs CISC absolutely mattered. The x86 decoding was a major bottleneck and transistor budget overhead.
As the years have gone by, the x86 decode overhead has been dwarfed by the overhead of other units like functional units, reorder buffers, branch prediction, caches etc. The years have been kind to x86, making the x86 overhead appear like noise in performance. Just an extra stage in an already long pipeline.
All of which paints a bleak picture for Itanium. There is no compelling reason to keep Itanium alive other than existing contractual agreements with HP. SGI was the only other major Itanium holdout, and they basically dumped it long ago. And Itaiums are basically just glorified space heaters in terms of power usage.
I suggest government ministers, who seem to be driven round everywhere anyway. Might as well save a few drivers' salaries in these times of austerity.
How far is it from Amsterdam to Luxembourg anyway?
A four-hour drive by car (359.5 km), according to Google. I'm curious to know if taking a plane is more energy efficient than a car or train.
Depends on how full the plane, train and car are. A single person in a largish car (he's a CEO, remember) probably won't beat a full short haul flight for the same distance.
Trains are among the most efficient transportation methods (hard wheels on smooth rails = low rolling resistance) but the journey may not be the fastest nor most direct.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand
