Comment DOMINATING!... (Score 1) 301
Read it out-loud in your UT announcer voice and it's even more awesome...
Comment Miguel, let it die (Score 0) 286
.NET was a mostly foiled attempt of microsoft to do the same thing with C that they did to Netscape. Why hand that over to Microsoft by implementing some cross-platform version of a noose they can hang you with? They are bad enough when the law *isn't* on their side.
I don't understand what would drive anyone to do this unless they are on the Microsoft bank-roll.
Comment What a convenient argument (Score 1) 645
Google is just trying to make a marketing argument to put some momentum behind their Chromebook. There is no solution which is completely 'torture' free... even an Abacus can be frustrating.
Comment Flash is never going away. Accept it. (Score 1) 244
No matter how much you want it to be gone, Flash is like ActiveX and IE. A necessary piece of software for many production applications in use today. To take those pieces away means costing corporation several thousands if not millions in re-inventing their wheels. Corporations don't like to that, and many IT budgets aren't fat enough to do it. No matter how much Steve Jobs bitches about it his argument is irrelevant - at least at this point in time.
It will take the industry a good many years to shift away from their crappy software suite dependencies (IE, Flash, Active-X, etc, etc) but until that happens, we are stuck with Flash so let's just stop with all the whining.
Comment Someone fix the summary please? (Score 2) 295
WTF? Why is this summary so far off-base? The short version, FTFA:
"..merge Android 3.1 and Android 2.3 into..."
"..which will be called Ice Cream Sandwich.."
"...open source it alongside code that is much more universally friendly."
3.1 *is* Honeycomb. 3.0 *is* Honeycomb. Google *is* open sourcing it. No, 3.0 will not be released for public consumption.
The Xoom (running 3.0) is slated for an update to 3.1in May sometime. AFAIK, this is the only device running 3.0 out there so 3.0 will basically be deprecated.
"..merge Android 3.1 and Android 2.3 into..."
"..which will be called Ice Cream Sandwich.."
"...open source it alongside code that is much more universally friendly."
3.1 *is* Honeycomb. 3.0 *is* Honeycomb. Google *is* open sourcing it. No, 3.0 will not be released for public consumption.
The Xoom (running 3.0) is slated for an update to 3.1in May sometime. AFAIK, this is the only device running 3.0 out there so 3.0 will basically be deprecated.
Comment Let's destroy this planet. At any cost. (Score 1) 390
It's not enough to pursue fossil fuels to the point of destroying the environment on a global scale, but what really, really pisses me off is that the 10 motherf@#$ in control of the world's supply are so crazed with insatiable greed that they can, and will, continue to as they wish with no regard for anything. They are unstoppable becuase they own the lawmakers.
I'm looking at you especially, Walker; you kochsucker.
Comment What makes this extra awesome: Native Client (Score 2) 150
This is the reason you don't want your browser able to access native OS code; when there's an exploit, the keys to the kingdom are in the browser.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/08/google_on_native_client/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/08/google_on_native_client/
Comment seems like a prudent choice (Score 0) 366
Rule #1 when going up against the mafiaa is to not go up against the mafiaa.
Submission + - WebGL: A New Dimension for Browser Exploitation (net-security.org)
Orome1 writes: Researchers have uncovered serious security flaws in the new WebGL technology that creates 3D graphics in a browser with the same speed and detail as hardware-accelerated PC games and applications. Design level security issues give potentially malicious web pages low level access to graphics cards that could provide a ‘back door’ for hackers and compromise data stored on internet-connected machines.
Submission + - Nokia announces start of Qt 5 development (nokia.com)
jrepin writes: "To also, in the future, be a leading edge development framework across multiple industries, Qt needs to continue to renew itself. Given that Qt is moving into open governance mode in the upcoming months, Lars wanted to share his thinking with the Qt community in order to kick off the discussions about what he sees as the technical architecture for Qt 5."
Submission + - Android Overtakes Blackberry (comscore.com)
eldavojohn writes: A staggering shift in the US between October of 2010 and January of 2011 (Android up 7.7%, Blackberry down 5.4%) indicates that Android has surpassed Blackberry in smart-phone platform market share. Other research puts it at 35% of worldwide total smart-phone market share. This presents reinforcing evidence for Android's new dominance in the smart-phone world. Is Android's lead over the business savvy Blackberry temporary or has it become a competitor for that market?
Submission + - Battle Brews Over FBI's Warrantless GPS Tracking (wired.com)
fysdt writes: "The FBI's use of GPS vehicle tracking devices is becoming a contentious privacy issue in the courts, with the Obama administration seeking Supreme Court approval for its use of the devices without a warrant, and a federal civil rights lawsuit targeting the Justice Department for tracking the movements of an Arab-American student. In the midst of this legal controversy, Threat Level decided to take a look at the inside of one of the devices, with the help of the teardown artists at iFixit."
Comment Of course the new guy can't code (Score 0) 194
Face it. Nobody is taking CS classes anymore. Software houses (and everyone else) found big bonanzas offshore in the early 2000s and they friggin <i>RAN</i> to the boats. Post-exodus, Manufacturing and Engineering went tits-up in the USA and nobody wanted to go into those fields and the people in them basically got the word "So sorry, tough sh*t"
The only reason the new guy can't code is because your getting bottom-of-the-barrel people coming into the interviews. The ones that were hot-shots have either left the US, moved-on to other careers, or are in management now. You reap what you sow; So sorry, tough sh*t. Yes, I'm a bit jaded.
The only reason the new guy can't code is because your getting bottom-of-the-barrel people coming into the interviews. The ones that were hot-shots have either left the US, moved-on to other careers, or are in management now. You reap what you sow; So sorry, tough sh*t. Yes, I'm a bit jaded.
Comment Looks like it's running Android, eh? (Score 1) 81
check out The top status bar. doesn't say in TFA.
Comment Big thank you to all the contributors (Score 3, Insightful) 197
To all the people who contributed Open Source projects over the last 20 years, a big THANKS. Can you imagine this landscape without open source software and alternatives to run it on like Linux and the *BSD variants?
Most of the internet would would need downtime for reboot every night, and the cost incurred by your ISP for all the proprietary licensing would probably put the net out of reach for most common folks.
Most of the internet would would need downtime for reboot every night, and the cost incurred by your ISP for all the proprietary licensing would probably put the net out of reach for most common folks.
