Norway's parliament has passed the Data Retention Directive. We are members of the European Economic Area and are obliged to pass all EU directive into law. So don't come to Norway if you expect to escape EU law.
Good move, EU. Now you just gotta repeal the data retention directive, and then you'll regain some credibility on privacy matters!
Well - there is another vector here: Developer productivity. Libraries use extra memory, but they enable a developer to do more in less time. Imagine coding firefox entirely in assembler. The process would likely use much less memory, but how many coders would be required to maintain and extend it?
That being said, I agree wasting memory for the purpose of wasting memory is bad: Inefficient data structures, caching with low hit ratio etc etc. There are no excuses for inherently bad design.
Nokia gains nothing. But Nokia started to lose a few years ago when they simply refused to realize how the iPhone was going to change everything. They should in fact have been the one developing the iPhone- they have been distributing phones capable of running apps since
It is not accidental that Nokia created something great but failed to capitalize upon what they created: Nokia is an engineering-oriented company with a poor understanding of business and usability. They created a good start, but failed to realize what they had created. Allegedly the Symbian development kit was also rather complex, unfriendly and complex. So, a complete lack of imagination and focus has ensured Google and Apple has killed Nokia's dominance by extending Nokia's ideas with a solid development kit and usability improvements. Solid engineering alone is not enough when you interact with "real" people.
How do you mount an encrypted disk image on Android? And what if it's updated through Dropbox?
What the hell? Are you a naturist or something? I wipe my Galaxy S on my pants 98% of the time. I've got no problem finding a suitable wiping surface - I've yet to find a fabric that scratches the screen. Every once in a very long while (once a month?), I'll clean the screen with something that solves grease. Keeping your device clean is really no problem.
Why do we are about these things? We'll just outsource to the fine peoples of India and China!
Lotsa people think the tablet could replace most latops. See what most people do with their laptops: Watching movies, storing pictures from their cameras and mobiles, browsing the web, online banking. That's pretty much it. Most of that stuff is adequately handled by 10" tablet with an optional keyboard + stand. Just wait 'till the android tablets start attacking the Apple juggernaut. You'll see less margins on the hardware and more innovation in software - from both parties.
I'll bet the laptop will become a niche/work product at some point.
Agreed. "Tsunami" is a Japanese word. I'm flabbergasted at the poor tsunami resistance. C'mon, having the backup solution taken out by the same incident that caused the primary failure?! Also, it's discomforting that they don't appear to run on their diesel aggregates on a regular basis. Redundancy is only redundancy if you dare pull the plug. So, I hope the nuclear industry is scrambling to test their redundancy solutions etc. And they must dare think of the unthinkable: A F5 twister, a Cat 5 hurricane, a once-500-years earthquake, a 747.
Nuclear power safety is difficult but manageable.
Sony screwed themselves and their customers when they removed the OtherOS feature. Before that, they did not force a downgrade of the actual console you bought (though they removed functionality in later hardware revisions, you got what you paid for). When they forced a removal of a functionality that was important to many buyers, they pissed off a lot of knowledgeable folks who were enjoying their Linux on Cell experience. It certainly did not take long before the entire system was compromised.
No sympathy for Sony.
It's possible to revert to the old system. Bliss!
On my Mac (the horror! the horror!) I can log on, purchase and download the games that are released for Mac. I can even play them.
The trick is that once the Steam client has been ported, each individual game developer chooses whether to invest money in porting their awesome creation to OSX.
If Valve ported Steam to Linux, that would open a similar calculation for the developer. It would also mean that indie developers could develop on the Linux stack and sell their games to those who run Linux. Given careful selection of libraries, it's possible to run the same code on Linux, OSX and Windows. It would be sweet. But it depends on whether Valve thinks there would be enough money in the Linux market to pay for the development of a Linux client.
Many of these ideas are actually apps that you are free to implement yourself. And this profit from. If you patent them, you might even make a few more bucks when MS decide the ideas are good enough to be implemented in the base OS.
This one looks like the lion king, yo!
We want to create puppets that pull their own strings. - Ann Marion
