Comment An advert, not even thinly veiled (Score 1) 276
Come on. Why is this even allowed on /.?
The RFA has the email address of the recruiter and is really just a solicitation. The piece on /. is hardly any better.
Comment Content-free article (Score 1) 235
Do we now have hacks that post thinly disguised PR releases or vague descriptive picture stories? What a waste of /. bandwidth.
Comment It seems arrogant (Score 5, Insightful) 134
To imply that you can predict (or ask others to predict) which applications will become abandonware. Free, open-source program repositories are littered with abandonware. That is one of the real hurdles for open-source adoption in enterprises. Android will be no different. Besides, some programs will work fine even if they never get updated again.
Submission + - Unity3D Technology revises EULA, pushes developers into a ditch (unity3d.com)
mpbrede writes: Unity3D Technologies(http://unity3d.com/), the up-and coming cross-platform game developer has revised its EULA for Version 4 of the product.
Among the new restrictions imposed, and that has developers up in arms(http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/161689-Unity-4-New-EULA-Restrictions), are the following:
1) Unity3D can't be used in a gambling application, 2) Unity3D may not be used as the UI in embedded applications without a per-device license if the number of devices may exceed 50, and 3) Developers are prohibited from developing Streaming and Cloud Gaming applications.
Says the Unity CEO (David Helgason) in the forum(http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/161689-Unity-4-New-EULA-Restrictions?p=1107170&viewfull=1#post1107170): "Please remember that there's a difference between "not allowed by the EULA" and "not allowed at all". Of course we allow people to submit their games to OnLive, we just want to talk to them first and learn more about this area – so far we've not actually seen this happen at all."
Among the new restrictions imposed, and that has developers up in arms(http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/161689-Unity-4-New-EULA-Restrictions), are the following:
1) Unity3D can't be used in a gambling application, 2) Unity3D may not be used as the UI in embedded applications without a per-device license if the number of devices may exceed 50, and 3) Developers are prohibited from developing Streaming and Cloud Gaming applications.
Says the Unity CEO (David Helgason) in the forum(http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/161689-Unity-4-New-EULA-Restrictions?p=1107170&viewfull=1#post1107170): "Please remember that there's a difference between "not allowed by the EULA" and "not allowed at all". Of course we allow people to submit their games to OnLive, we just want to talk to them first and learn more about this area – so far we've not actually seen this happen at all."
Comment 5-year warranty? (Score 1) 122
As good as a lifetime warranty if the company is not in business to honor it.
Submission + - AT&T Promises To Expand LTE To More US Markets (theverge.com)
WIn5t0n writes: Even though AT&T has now promoted itself to the "Largest 4G Network" (HSPA+), it is still lagging far behind in advancing its LTE Coverage. AT&T's largest competitor, Verizon, has turned up the heat on the company now that it claims to cover 75 percent of US population with LTE, while AT&T's network only fully covers a few cities. However, AT&T has recognized consumer unrest and has planned to expand its 4G LTE coverage into "48 new markets" by the end of the year. With the iPhone 5 (rumored to have LTE capabilities) likely to be in consumers hands by the end of this month, AT&T is now feeling the pressure to make sure its customers can take full advantage of their new phones on a faster network. The company's full rollout of 4G LTE coverage is not scheduled to be complete until at least 2013.
Submission + - Steam Linux Beta Build Surfaces In Steam's Database (thepowerbase.com)
An anonymous reader writes: For those of you who are chomping at the bit, biting your nails and ruthlessly washing your cars over and over again in anxious anticipation of Steam for Linux, we’ve got good news for you.
Database hacker Marlamin uncovered the first evidence of a Steam for Linux build on Steam’s servers using using CDR Steam database parser. Steam’s beta carries an app id of 16549 and was uploaded just today.
Database hacker Marlamin uncovered the first evidence of a Steam for Linux build on Steam’s servers using using CDR Steam database parser. Steam’s beta carries an app id of 16549 and was uploaded just today.
Submission + - Raspberry Pi production moves to the UK (geek.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Back in January the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced that their tiny, cheap Linux PC had gone into production. It was a day to celebrate, but the people running the foundation weren’t totally happy. The reason? The Raspberry Pi wasn’t being manufactured in the UK.
Instead, a Far East manufacturing facility had been chosen simply because it meant the cost of manufacturing was $5 per unit cheaper, and delivery time was 3-4 weeks, not 12-14 as was quoted by UK manufacturers. It sounded crazy at the time, but that’s why everyone goes to China to get stuff made–it’s cheaper and quicker.
The good news is, manufacturing is now moving to the UK. More specifically, a deal has been done to see the tiny PC manufactured in South Wales at Sony’s Pencoed plant.
30,000 Raspberry Pis will be produced every month to begin with, and in the process it has created 30 new jobs at the facility. The other positive of this move is each Raspberry Pi will have to pass Sony’s Green Management program, which ensures each finished Pi has been manufactured using parts that are both ethically and ecologically sound.
Instead, a Far East manufacturing facility had been chosen simply because it meant the cost of manufacturing was $5 per unit cheaper, and delivery time was 3-4 weeks, not 12-14 as was quoted by UK manufacturers. It sounded crazy at the time, but that’s why everyone goes to China to get stuff made–it’s cheaper and quicker.
The good news is, manufacturing is now moving to the UK. More specifically, a deal has been done to see the tiny PC manufactured in South Wales at Sony’s Pencoed plant.
30,000 Raspberry Pis will be produced every month to begin with, and in the process it has created 30 new jobs at the facility. The other positive of this move is each Raspberry Pi will have to pass Sony’s Green Management program, which ensures each finished Pi has been manufactured using parts that are both ethically and ecologically sound.
Submission + - Do Tech Entrepreneurs Need to Know How to Code? (wsj.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Learning to write code has become something of a trendy thing to do. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said he intends to learn code this year. Estonia has recently announced a scheme with the aim of getting every 6-year-old in the Baltic state to learn programming skills. The demand has spawned a number of start-ups offering coding lessons. General Assembly, which teaches off-line courses, has recently opened up in London and is recruiting ahead of a launch in Berlin. On-line education site Codecademy landed $10 million to expand from its home base in New York. Zach Simms, the 22-year-old co-founder, said in an earlier interview with The Wall Street Journal that not everyone has to learn to code, but everybody “needs to learn the notions of algorithms, realizing what you can use code for.” But do they?
Submission + - Will Google Eventually Be Regulated (kernelmag.com)
SquarePixel writes: Kernel magazine has an interesting article about Google and its misbehaviors along the years. It also suggests that Google can't continue this for long, but will be indeed regulated in near future. "Google reminds me of Adam, the cute, 100-foot-tall toddler in the 1992 Rick Moranis film, Honey I Blew Up the Kid. In case you missed it, Adam keeps stumbling over buildings, mistakes real cars for toys, and ultimately threatens the existence of Las Vegas". From Street View Wi-Fi snooping to illegal pharma advertising and privacy violations, Google keeps finding innovative new ways to get itself in trouble several times a year. "No private, unregulated company should have the kind of power Google has amassed. To leave power of this magnitude in the hands of corporate executives or, worse yet, inscrutable automated bots – no matter how benign, well-meaning and snoogly-googly they claim to be – is imprudent, if not insane."
Submission + - Amazon To Release Kindle Smartphone (cnn.com)
WIn5t0n writes: With Amazon on the verge of announcing new kindle products at 1:30 ET (10:30PT) today from a hanger in Santa Monica, sources now say that the company is not only releasing a updated Kindle Fire (its popular tablet), but is also going to announce its entry into the cellphone market by unveiling a Kindle Smartphone. The phone, which will run on a modified version of the Kindle Fire OS or Android 4.0, is rumored to be using Nokia Maps and secondary software. However experts believe that the phone is still far away from being finished, and consumers will likely have to wait at least a month after its announcement to get their hands on one.
Submission + - Will Google Eventually Be Regulated (kernelmag.com)
Mr. Wok writes: Kernel magazine has an interesting article about Google and its misbehaviors along the years. It also suggests that Google can't continue this for long, but will be indeed regulated in near future. "Google reminds me of Adam, the cute, 100-foot-tall toddler in the 1992 Rick Moranis film, Honey I Blew Up the Kid. In case you missed it, Adam keeps stumbling over buildings, mistakes real cars for toys, and ultimately threatens the existence of Las Vegas". From Street View Wi-Fi snooping to illegal pharma advertising and privacy violations, Google keeps finding innovative new ways to get itself in trouble several times a year. "Google isn’t just collecting information in the abstract, as advertisers have always done; it’s collecting information about you, exactly as if it were listening in to all of your phone calls, peering though your windows to see which books and articles you read, watching you through hidden cameras to see which television shows you watch, following you from shop to shop to track your purchases, and then transcribing all of this information and indexing it for later use and resale. — No private, unregulated company should have the kind of power Google has amassed. To leave power of this magnitude in the hands of corporate executives or, worse yet, inscrutable automated bots – no matter how benign, well-meaning and snoogly-googly they claim to be – is imprudent, if not insane."
Submission + - Global Warming Killed Clams (washington.edu)
drainbramage writes: University of Washington research indicates volcanic eruptions on the Deccan Plateau warmed the planet
and killed life on the ocean floor (mostly species of clams and snails) then a big rock from space kill
ed the dinosaurs.
and killed life on the ocean floor (mostly species of clams and snails) then a big rock from space kill
ed the dinosaurs.
Submission + - Is "Big Data" About To Hit The Hype Cycle Peak? (itworld.com)
jfruh writes: "The analysts at the Gartner Group are promoting their concept of the "hype cycle" — a process in which new technologies have their possibilities oversold, leading to a trough of disapointment before they're eventually adopted and made useful if not world-shaking. They're putting "big data" — the use of new analytics techniques and computing power to get useful information out of huge data sets — close to the peak of 2012's hype cycle. But Irfan Khan, CTO of Sybase, has a big problem with that assessment. He argues that big data isn't a new technology at all, but rather some existing technologies working in tandem, ready to live up to their potential, the way the hardware and software that went into PCs created a boom in the early '80s."
Submission + - Apple patent to remotely disable phones (zdnet.com)
walterbyrd writes: If it's up to Apple, you will longer be able to use your iPhone to call for help if you are having a heart attack at the football stadium.
From the article: 'What that means in real-terms is "preventing wireless devices from communicating with other wireless devices (such as in academic settings)," and for, "forcing certain electronic devices to enter "sleep mode" when entering a sensitive area."'
From the article: 'What that means in real-terms is "preventing wireless devices from communicating with other wireless devices (such as in academic settings)," and for, "forcing certain electronic devices to enter "sleep mode" when entering a sensitive area."'
