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Submission + - Oracle Kills Commercial Support for GlassFish: Was It Inevitable? (adtmag.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Oracle acquired GlassFish when it acquired Sun Microsystems, and now — like OpenSolaris and OpenOffice — the company has announced it will no longer support a commercial version of the product. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. said in an interview the decision wasn't exactly a surprise: "The only company that was putting any real investment in GlassFish was Oracle," Milinkovich said. "Nobody else was really stepping up to the plate to help. If you never contributed anything to it, you can't complain when something like this happens." An update to the open source version is still planned for 2014.

Submission + - Intel Caught Cheating in AnTuTu Benchmark To Show-up ARM? (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: Recently, industry analysts came forward with the dubious claim that Intel's Clover Trail+ low power processor for mobile devices had somehow seized a massive lead over ARM's products, though there were suspicious discrepancies in the popular AnTuTu benchmark that was utilized to showcase performance. It turns out that the situation is far shadier than initially thought. The version used in testing with the benchmark isn't just tilted to favor Intel — it seems to flat-out cheat to accomplish it. The new 3.3 version of AnTuTu was compiled using Intel's C++ Compiler, while GCC was used for the ARM variants. The Intel code was auto-vectorized, the ARM code wasn't — there are no NEON instructions in the ARM version of the application. Granted, GCC isn't currently very good at auto-vectorization, but NEON is now standard on every Cortex-A9 and Cortex-A15 SoC — and these are the parts people will be benchmarking. But compiler optimizations are just the beginning. Apparently the Intel code deliberately breaks the benchmark's function. At a certain point, it runs a loop that's meant to be performed 32x just once, then reports to the benchmark that the task completed successfully. Now, the optimization in question is part of ICC (the Intel C++ compiler), but was only added recently. It's not the kind of procedure you'd call by accident. AnTuTu has released an updated "new" version of the benchmark in which Intel performance drops back down 20-50%. Systems based on high-end ARM devices again win the benchmark overall, as they did previously.

Comment Widgets.. (Score 0) 262

by xushi (#43945031) Attached to: What Features Does iOS 7 Need?

Not like Android where you have your apps list, and the second confusing menu where you can put the same apps, and widgets... just the very same windows they have now but with the ability to add widgets.

Submission + - Paying for the great urbanization of China (thebulletin.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Interesting article that describes the huge migration of much of China's population to urban centers, and the myriad problems and opportunities that migration provides. Nice description of why it should matter to the US, such as the fact that 3/4 of the black soot found on the US West Coast is from China. The new rapid-bus line idea that China has learned from Brazil is very encouraging and hopefully will be copied in the US. Nice read.

Comment Re:"and websites" (Score 0) 94

So all I or TBP have to do is clearly mark my pages as "archives" and legally get away with hosting child porn, TBP meta links, torrents and PDF books ? (Note to the Feds.. I don't and am not looking for an excuse to..) :)

Yes sounds a bit silly but that's the point I was trying to make.. To many it looks like an organisation is getting away with that simply by playing with words or playing with a form of `political grammar`, while an average Joe who tries to do the same can get done for it - and other malicious Joes might get away with it if they were smart/big enough.

Comment "and websites" (Score 4, Interesting) 94

Out of curiosity, how is this even legal?

legally should/would they be held liable if one of those millions of sites has illegal content, like say child pornography or pedophilia? Or can any user use `mass archiving` as an excuse should they ever get caught with any illegal porn, copyrighted material, et al..

Or what if they archived a copyrighted site without asking the owners for permission, such as a personal site, or one of those news sites that keep complaining about others who link to them - or even those persons who link to them...

There are many more examples, but it looks like this should cause more issues rather than good use.

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