Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading!

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re: You need a minimum of a Cortex A8 to run Flash (Score 1) 273

Adobe's the one requiring a Cortex A8 and they've said that getting it to run on older ARM11 architectures is dicey at best. Just passing along what the OP didn't know. Whether or not the older ARM11 processors are capable of running Flash is certainly open to debate, but it doesn't matter if they are capable if Adobe won't port to it.

Comment Re:Late, and innaccurate (Score 1) 222

Another good application would be for PMPs and other mobile devices. Who cares if you have one pixel decoded improperly? Odds are you won't notice on that tiny screen and you'd happily trade that for doubling your battery life. Power consumption is, at best, a tertiary concern on a desktop or server.

Comment Re:um (Score 1) 667

Not to mention Blackberry, a platform with a commanding (for now) 44% of the smartphone market. Combined with Android and various dumbphones, the odds are that if you're doing mobile development, you're using either Java or Objective C. It's also used in a significant number of middleware projects and for server backends. You know, stuff that's really important that you don't see. Anyone dumb enough to discount Java as dead just because its use on the desktop is limited deserves to march themselves right into irrelevancy in the job marketplace.

Comment Re:TDS tactics work! (Score 2, Informative) 252

Qwest did the same thing to UTOPIA in Utah and delayed construction for 18 months. They thought they could assert ownership over the power company's poles and refuse to allow UTOPIA to use them. (Yeah, I can't explain the "logic" either.) In the end, they lost the case and won some of the war by forcing UTOPIA to refinance their bonds and put them in a situation where they'll have to call city tax pledges anyway. UTOPIA will still be able to make bond service in a few years, but now they have the PR black eye of having to collect tax money to make it happen.

Slashdot Top Deals

One man's constant is another man's variable. -- A.J. Perlis

Working...