Comment Darwinism (Score 1) 566
Can we please let stupid people die? I mean really
Comment Funny considering... (Score 5, Funny) 206
... the newest Nokia ads claiming the "Smartphone Beta Test" is over with the Lumia 900. I hate to kick a dying dog but *point and laugh @ Nokia*
Submission + - CyanogenMod 6.0 Released In To The Wild 8
Jeagoss writes: CyanogenMod is the leading open source replacement ROM for Android based phones. With the 6.0 release, a targeted 8 models of phones have been hit with version 2.2 (Froyo) of Google's Android operating system for mobiles. Have a rooted phone? Been wanting a reason for rooting your phone? Head on over to http://www.cyanogenmod.com/ and check out the forums. I think you'll be quite surprised.
Comment Re:Nautilus still broken (Score 1) 567
If you look in the ~/.gvfs/ directory in a terminal you will find the mounts GNOME created. They would prefer you use GIO to access them but if your program doesn't support that just point it to the mount in there.
Five Top Publishers Plan Rival to Kindle Format 123
eldavojohn writes "Time Inc., News Corp., Conde Nast, Hearst Corp., and Meredith Corp. are teaming up to create a digital newsstand and somewhat open format that 'can render our content beautifully on those devices that come to market' instead of the gray inked Kindle's energy conscious display. Devices are being made for the new format with the launch coming next year. The format will also target smart phones and tablet computers. Will this pose a threat at all to the Kindle?"
Comment Re:Is This Bus Syndrome? (Score 1) 492
My belief is that projects like CentOS are there because people want to skate on the backs of people and companies who have spent time and money making a good product, just because they don't want to pay for that hard work. I believe this is the flaw in the GNU license, and not open source in general.
As opposed to what, BSD? The GPL is viral in that all derivative products must be contributed back to the community, whereas a less strict open source license would allow CentOS to keep the modified source to themselves as long as they gave due credit. I'm not a fan of the GPL, but this is a complete misrepresentation.
Comment Re:That Was Close! (Score 2, Insightful) 508
"Granted, they've been very creative with things like the MsPL but people see through those ruses pretty quickly."
Yes, total ruse. Except that the MSPL is an OSI-approved open source license. There's plenty to bash MS on, the MSPL isn't one of those things.
Comment Re:Why are we so worried about RAM (Score 1, Informative) 505
This is a false dichotomy. Most software that uses less RAM is actually also faster.
Nowadays, it's usually faster to recompute than read it all back from RAM, and if an interactive program uses a lot of RAM, then it's likely keeping a lot of junk in memory that it doesn't need.
Wow, this is a perfect example of completely misunderstanding memory-CPU tradeoffs.
No. For a non-trivial amount of data, it is never cheaper to recompute the data, at access-time. It may be faster overall, as you might be able to use the freed RAM in a better way elsewhere, but it will never speed the accessing task up.
If you recompute the data constantly, it has to hit RAM and then read it back, unless you're dealing with a dataset small enough to be stored completely in cache, in which case this is a nonissue anyway.
More caching is never a bad thing, so long as you set smart defaults for how the caching is done, and you allow the users to configure it. More RAM, in the hands of a smart developer, is a Good Thing (TM).
Comment Re:It may be illegal.. (Score 2, Insightful) 181
That's the firmware for the application CPU, but I don't believe the GSM baseband chip's firmware is open.
Comment Re:It may be illegal.. (Score 3, Informative) 181
You don't even need to go the FPGA route. The baseband firmware on the iPhone has been patched for an unlocking, there's nothing stopping someone from patching it to change the IMEI built into the phone or the IMSI it "reads" from the SIM. Change these and the phone can become any other.
Comment Re:Why are they so grudging with admissions? (Score 5, Interesting) 138
When you're in a position of power for a long time and an alternative comes along, what do you do? You assert control in any way you possibly can. Not that that's a good thing, but that's the way it goes.
Mininova Starts Filtering Torrents 267
Dreen writes with this snippet from TorrentFreak: "Just a few days before their court appearance, Mininova, the largest BitTorrent site on the Internet, has started to filter content. The site is using a third-party content recognition system that will detect and remove torrent files that link to copyright-infringing files."
Submission + - Fravia, inpiration to many, passes away (p2pnet.net)
Cody Brocious writes: "Fravia, inspiration to many a reverse engineer, passed away on May 3rd, 2009. In addition to his work in teaching many reverse engineers, he did extensive research in advanced web searching. Shortly before his passing, he wrote his final words of wisdom. He will be missed."
Comment Re:I wouldn't hold my breath (Score 2, Funny) 216
Helluva drug^Wengine
Comment Re:Is this some sort of joke? (Score 4, Funny) 481
There's a bird virus going around. They used to sing in a way that let me know what was going on, but now even the birds are pushing g3n3r1c c14l15.
