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The LGPL adopted by Webkit is much more restrictive than the MPL adopted by gecko (gecko still adopts GPL and LGPL, just because them it can link with GPL software), if you're blaming gecko for supporting Theora but not H.264 I must remember that the WebKit codebase do not includes an H.264 codec, it's Apple and Google that link the codec against webkit, any application that uses the bare WebKit will have to include its own version of the H.264 code, that said technically webkit is advancing much faster than gecko in some areas (WebGL for example).

Concerning gcc, were you reading the mailing list of the gcc project for the last 20 years or so? What you said about Stallman is a fairly serious accusation, and as such must be supported with facts, as far as I know Stallman wasn't even important among gcc developers in the last 10 years, also in the very beginning gcc was intended to be the compiler of the GNU system, the technical reality for compilers in the 80s was probably different from now.
I agree that some professions do need formal education. I'm thinking of medicine for example.
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Also, while it makes it 'a bit annoying' for people like me, I wonder if it will rule git out when it comes to Big Companies and people who are not so computer literate. The last time I looked at the git/windows thing, it was pretty ugly and not nearly as easy to use as turtlesvn.
I think this will happen in the next 3 years or so, but I think that Linux will support three compilers, gcc, clang and pcc which is being developed by OpenBSD hackers[1].

[1]: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=2009122823114...
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I'll bet the principle of 'buyer beware' wins out. This is about giving Goldman a PR hit, not a judicial one. It'll settle.
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interpreted.
http://github.com/kinetiknz/plogg/blob/master/plogg.cpp#L495
It's not clear to me what this is - Paulson facing corruption charges, Goldman facing breach of fiduciary duty/conflict of interest, or Goldman and Paulson facing conspiracy to defraud?
I've looked at Google's Keyword Tool and tried a bunch of different possibilities. There are certain keywords I'm targeting but despite my PR5 pagerank, I'm not at the top of the page on these yet. So it's a slow move forward. Still people continue to write about FBA so I expect this is a long term investment. As my site gets more quality links and longevitiy, I expect one day I may see more search traffic for the terms I'm targeting. Just not yet. A lot of the search traffic I get is people searching for feedback army by name. I take this as an encouraging sign about awareness of the product itself.
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generally, you don't have to sign anything to form valid contracts. You're agreeing to stuff just by buying the food - have a look for T&Cs posted in the shop, at the till, etc
I'm working on the content. I have a blog on a subdomain which is just PR3 right now. The blog of course is more diverse with the content. I wrote a post about once a week and put some time into what I write. I'm giving it a year (started in Jan) of posting once a week to see what effect it has. Just from the few posts that have done well, it has been worthwhile so far.

I'd say that SEO and page rank are good things to have but they're not going to be sole (or majority) drivers of traffic for everyone. So it's good to think about other forms of marketing too.

I had a period of time where I was very interested in SEO. Mostly because I thought I saw an easy path to more traffic and more sales. I put some time and effort in (keyword picking, optimizing parts of my site, blah blah) and saw some changes but nothing I'd consider too worthwhile. This led me to where I'm at now, focus on content and let the rest happen.
I presume you could buy it from them. Now, who wants to help me start up a soul market?
To be fair, the T&Cs are not written in 'an almost unreadable style'. They're written so that in a court dispute, the meaning will be clear. They're readable by lawyers, and all the less fuzzy for it. The problem is that they're unreadable by the actual parties to the transaction!
It seems to make sense for Apple to talk to alternative suppliers, if only to keep Intel on their toes.

I wonder though, whether there are any places in Apple's lineup where AMD chips are a better fit than Intel. I can't really think of any.
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The Kindle runs on Linux, so the issue is more: Why did they screw up the GPL (< version 3) to allow an open-source operating system to run on a jailed device?
Isn't the "dangerous geek warrior mode" for the iPhone called "joining the iPhone developer program"? That does allow you to compile and install any app you want, right?
No, because it's not about the initial purchase price. It's about having your stuff crammed into a piece of hardware, and for most people being dependent on that stuff being readily accessible.

That's why the "it just works" attitude is very powerful amongst the almost entire population for whom replacing hardware is a really huge deal, because they

a) have to be without their stuff for the time it takes for the computer repair guy to fix it, and
b) because they're scared pantless that their stuff will have been destroyed.

If you're not in the know, broken computer _might_ mean loss of data. That thought means loss of sleep.
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Yes, I knew that - but this shows it really well.

12+ hours later, moved south and east - nearly all of France, half of Italy, Romania, etc. blanketed ...

P.S. site may be having problems ... I got a look a few minutes ago, but now just get a blank page.
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Java - just bought a copy of Effective Java

I'm starting to go to more local dev events as well, especially those based around Python and Ruby. Can anyone recommend any decent events around London for C++/Java/Scala?
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Indeed, AMD's current selection of chips seems to be significantly less energy efficient than Intel's, so the speculation about notebook chips strikes me as extremely odd. Things are a little different at the high end - I think an Opteron-based Mac Pro might be realistic. The new 12-core Opterons are more energy efficient than the latest 8-core Xeons, and roughly equally fast.

But then, if the top brass are negotiating now, real products are probably at least a year away, if not more, so who knows.
Does anyone know where GeoLocation gets the data? My IP is registered to a city 35 miles away, yet it's able to pinpoint where I am within a few meters?
Patents are not the whole story. I doubt any other company cares as much as Apple about how the bottom side of their laptops looks. I don’t think you can patent that.
Again… Was US phone system open when Jobs and Woz were hacking it? If not, why is this example there.

And most importantly, your attempts to delve into the
mysteries of how the device functions will be punished.

Grab the SDK and delve into the mysteries.
Exactly. I assume telephone was in the nearly every house in US in seventies, but not everyone became Woz and Jobs. Now computers are in the every home, and phones are in everyone's pocket. Should we expect everyone to become a hacker all of the sudden? I'd argue that now we have a lot lot more hackers
than 40 years ago—and just the number of them makes them "invisible".
Apparently vesta (http://www.vestasys.org) can handle large binaries (it's from the EDA world, so this is plausible). It's open source, but the extent to which it's distributed is debatable - you need a server, but anyone can install a server and they form a distributed network like a dvcs.
I think their opposition of the DE Bill is likely to grab the attention of many individuals, but whether it's a last ditch attempt at false promises because they don't think that they can get into power is up in the air.

I enjoyed the first televised event and found myself ordering the candidates as follows:

1. Nick Clegg
2. Gordon Brown
3. David Cameron

The Guardian is hosting an event on Monday where each of the party manifesto writers can be questioned and you can vote/nominate questions: http://labs.38degrees.org.uk/election-debate
Personally, I only buy these kind of devices when there's a hack available. I will not let a corporation decide what I can and cannot do with a piece of hardware that I paid good money for.

To me they're just the producer of the device and that's where our relationship ends no matter what idiotic, lobbied for, legal rules say (and please don't bring murder and rape into this debate, it's a whole different ball park).
Many reasons:

* Intel vs nVidia legal battles have hurt Apple for sure.

* Delays in new mobile chips.

* Price

* Apple hoped Larrabee would be a hit and introduced Grand Central Dispatch etc. only to have Intel cancel it. Did Intel communicate early enough that Larrabee was not going to be feasible?

* nVidia is not doing very well in the graphics department with their new Fermi parts being power hungry and slow compared to AMD/ATI's chips.
Obama and Bush are the same in so many ways.
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If anything, the talks concern GPUs, NOT CPUs.

However much I dislike Intel, and however much I like AMD, the fact is that today AMD just cannot compare to Intel in the mobile segment in terms of power consumption and heat dissipation. There is just no way that Apple would make this kind of "switch" for their desktops or laptops. The closest plausible scenario would be a switch for their XServe segment, to bring more cores to them at a lower cost.

I am 100% certain that the next time Apple makes a brand/manufacturer switch of CPU in their desktop/laptop segment, you will see ARM written all over it.
You can only ad-hoc install apps that have been signed for your device specifically. So if Alice and Bob want to exchange apps in this way, they can, but it prevents them from distributing their apps to just anyone.

"Dangerous geek warrior mode" is much more akin to Jailbreaking.
After thinking about it for a while, I think the reason developers are so upset over 3.3.1 isn't just its direct effects. I think that many developers hoped that Apple would make the App Store more open over time. 3.3.1 is a clear sign that the opposite is more likely.
Or copyright reform, or cell phone law reform.

If you were, by law, allowed to unlock the phone, and they had to allow it, then 99% of Steve Job's crap wouldn't matter.
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I've seen a study where they've caused minor wounds by puncturing the skin of a finger, so I guess its possible here, you can get people to volunteer for all sorts of things.

Specific study was a psychology one though,not a medical one,but it was to test how long wounds took to heal (independent variable being the happiness of patients or similar).
OH, stupid me. You literally just call Apple and ask for them. (408) 996-1010 is the generic apple number. I forgot everyone didn't know that, calling that you can eventually find them by asking for the developer relations people when asked.

For local developer specific numbers, http://developer.apple.com/contact/phone.html is a good list (may require program login to the iphone dev program).

Sorry, I guess many people don't think to just call and ask, and I didn't make that clear.
I have very little knowledge of GCC procedure, but I've seen these linked from a pro-clang comparison.

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2007-11/msg00460.html

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-12/msg00888.html
I personally do not buy game consoles for exactly this reason.

I think there's less outrage because there's a sense that they are just for games. They are not intended to be general purpose computing devices, though these days they pretty much are. It becomes more outrageous when a device that you use for your private life, for your business, and for other things that really matter to you is controlled by someone else.
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HTC has come a long way from the purveyor of crappy Windows Mobile devices they used to be.

My first exposure to them was a Windows Mobile phone a couple of years ago, was an exercise in frustration.

Possibly because of the software, and the fact that I always lost the stylus.

But when I'm looking for an iPhone replacement, one of their Android devices will be a strong contender.
Nobody has said anything about it breaking the back button yet.
One of the easiest and cheapest ways to track mentions is to set up Google alerts. There are a variety of apps that monitor Twitter as well. Facebook is more difficult because most stuff on the network is still private.

If your willing to pay for a service their are countless maturing in the monitoring and engagement space.

http://www.radian6.com/
http://www.trendrr.com/
http://www.scoutlabs.com/
http://www.viralheat.com/

There are other I am sure I am missing, pry some good free ones out there too.
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The "obvious color conversion" shader is 18 cycles on SGX530,
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Very eloquent.

The thing that has surprised me with all these Airplane groundings is the number of companies who say they could go out of business. One of the smaller firms has said they will be effectively bankrupt if they can't start flying on Monday. I just heard Easyjet on the radio saying they need to fly at least 2 weeks in the next month to avoid "financial instability".

I know the aviation industry is struggling but didn't realise they were that close to the wire.
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It doesn't. Back moves to the previous slide.

That doesn't seem like broken behavior to me.
> the US copyright office has taken the stance that the creativity requirements can't be met by short phrases.

Actually, in the US, meaningful short phrases sometimes can. Some guy (who's name currently escapes me) has had a court confirm his copyright on his epigrams (he sells books of them or somesuch).
It's very frustrating to be able to edit 1080p video and play it back easily on my 64bit Linux machine but have Flash stutter many low res videos all over the web. I can't wait until the day when Flash, Adobe and Microsoft all have their formats destroyed. So I can send a document, video or audio to someone without having to think about the format - ditto for embedding it in the web.
I'm not blind to this problem myself. I'm afraid whatever happens to the USA could come soon to us. That's why this issue interests me so much and that's why I've changed my habits about food, losing 15 kg since last summer. I also keep a lot of attention over my son in this matter.

It's true that now we see morbidly obese persons more often than twenty years ago. But it's not common... yet.
I completely disagree that windows 7 is crap design. I'm more efficient with Windows 7's window management, for example, so I find their design much better than OS X's
The author really nails the ridiculous nature of the VP8 claims in this article. The same article could be applied to the Theora vs H.264 tests - all performed with completely suboptimal procedures and tools on the H.264 side.
I hope we don't have a disaster because aviation authorities were pressured into opening the skies too early.
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Some of Apple's competitors DO make good products. They just do not have the brand loyalty and marketing power of Apple.
And every wear leveling scheme I've ever seen on a battery powered device happened on bootup. The phone would be restarting all the time, or they'd be doing some sort of weird copy everything background task while the phone was running (and things would get really complicated if you tried to sync in the middle of that).
A fair number of programmers I respect have broken the law.

Sometimes the law is an ass, and needs to be broken.

And sometimes you're just so damn curious you have to figure out how it works, and you break it for the rush of both solving the problem and sticking it to the man.

Most people outgrow the latter, but I would think twice about the credentials of any programmer that did not do things of questionable legality growing up.

Curiosity is to be encouraged.
That's what's concerning me too.

It's partly ironic; I expect if there had been a terror attack grounded planes would be accepted, but people on the news last night seemed actually cross this was affecting them....

One guy even said (and I swear this is a quote): "but it looks clear out there, it's not at ground level is it?"

doh.
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There are plenty of startups in storage space, it's a very active area for obvious reasons. Look at the Storage Mojo blog for coverage of them: http://storagemojo.com/

E.g. the very first item as I write this is on industry giant NetApp buying a Canadian company that has to be a startup (the company's CTO and blogger's hair is otherwise too long :-).

Virtualization is also hot and there are startups in this space, including the above company. Xen and VMWare have only recently exited "startup" status.

Security that gets pretty deep into systems also has a lot of startups.
The author's only claims about the claims made by On2 seem to be that the tech is still closeted so there's no way to verify On2's claims. That doesn't sound like they used "suboptimal procedures" to me -- there's no accusation of that, merely a desire to see something so that meaningful independent evaluation can be performed.
Reading through the comments, I am really struck by how much good will apple has completely squandered. The most obvious interpretation of events (in my mind, at least) is that no US based company would ever, ever want to be associated with censoring a satirist, and that the removal of the app really was a complete fuckup, indicative of a system that needs is not working like intended.

A lot of the other comments seem to think it isn't a fuckup, that the system is designed to keep satirists out. Which would mean viewing apple in a pretty extreme light. The only way someone could think that about a company is if you have a lot of ill will towards them in the first place. The whole level of suspicion towards apple right now is a sign of just how much they've fucked up the goodwill they earned with their shiny products.

I don't think that apple is intentionally rejecting satire apps. But I do think that unless they make a real effort to start earning back some trust, they deserve to have people thinking that way.
This is how it ends, not with a bang but with a whimper.
In general, Aviation is 0-profit biz. And alot of Sturt-ups and other businneses are dependent of cheap flights.
Most laypeople do think it's a problem with visibility and can't understand why if planes can fly at night they can't fly through dust. That it will destroy the engines (and won't show up on radar, so you can't just avoid it) never occurs to them. I suppose it's nice to live in a world in which flight is taken for granted.
Hmmm, that brings up the question "Can this software ever be moral or legal?"

I.e. if you were to use it outside of the context of a school, there's still the possibility a minor might steal your laptop, set it up in his bedroom, have legal (for him and her) XXX with another minor....

In the above case I think you haven't broken the spirit of US child porn laws (that they are born illegal because they can't be taken without hurting the minor(s) in question), but I could be wrong. Legally your case is much iffier. Morally it's stronger, but how much so?
I think a UI with well thought out transitional animations certainly enhances the user experience. It might be slower than just switching to a new window/view/focus, but it helps the interface seem more intuitive. The rapid expansion/zoom that iphone apps do when you open them, for example.

As for slowing things down for no reason, no. I don't think anyone enjoys having their time and attention put on hold.
Interestingly, the article's author is the programmer/maintainer of the Linux Flash port. Not that I wish to suggest the performance problems are his fault.
I'd like to see Apple move to POWER7 in Xserves. Then we'd really be cooking with gas. The only issue would be how happy IBM would be with a(nother) competitor Unix.
I wonder if it's time we started pushing for encrypted email as a default. Mail/Calendar/Documents hosted in encrypted form online, and can only be decrypted on personal devices owned by users themselves. I really don't trust any machines other than my own when it comes to entering passwords. Do you?
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That's probably accurate, but supports something a bit different on the timeline: Stallman opposed a change in the gcc architecture in the 2000s that he thought would make it easier for companies to make proprietary derivatives. But that's not quite the same as saying he wrote it in the 80s to deliberately prevent it from being extensible. When he was writing it in the 80s, getting a whole C compiler written from scratch was probably the bigger design goal.

I tend to find the sniping at Stallman over gcc a little annoying overall. There are plenty of ways I disagree with Stallman's strategy, but from a "show me the code" perspective, he produced a free-software C compiler suitable for use in a modern free Unix 25 years before any of the MIT/BSD-license proponents did (until llvm, their only real alternative was the original pcc from the 1970s, which is why the BSDs all grudgingly use gcc).
Very cool, any way to get this running under Linux or OS X (other than emulation). Mono perhaps?
One thing for sure, even though the ash is probably not good for the environment itself, having a severe cut down on aircraft flights is good for nature.
> considering how soundly Webkit is beating Gecko on every front

When did WebKit get support for Direct2D?
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