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by hosay123 14y ago
The reason so many varieties of these Android sticks exist is the SOC manufacturers involved are often only supporting Android in their BSPs. How that came to be is a wildly interesting topic in itself, and one that isn't talked about much.
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by hosay123 14y ago
About the only assurance you're buying is that when a production run goes bad, it's an American rather than Chinese accent saying the words "your money is gone, this is what you get unless we find another $50k somehow. Sorry"
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by hosay123 14y ago
Which of the approximately 200 pre-existing, owned, tested and reviewed models over on cnx-software.com are you referring to? I'd rather take my chances buying something that already exists at a fair price, not last-generation vaporware sol
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by hosay123 14y ago
For comparison, here's a stick with double the RAM, double the cores, and double the flash for 30% less ($70): http://dealsprime.com/ugoos-ug007b-andriod-4-2-tv-stick-hdmi... . For literally a few $ more you can get the same spec in a set
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by hosay123 14y ago
I assumed you were making that quote up, but holy cow, he actually said it. My historical love of Google has been directly proportional to my unawareness of Schmidt's privacy philosophy. The man's gone completely insane, and makes a frankly
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by hosay123 14y ago
Sadly not, I overshot the mark slightly here (what worse an advocate for your stuff than an incorrect advocate!). Typed arrays allow for things like casting, where the same chunk of 'heap' can be seen through multiple views, and interpreted
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by hosay123 14y ago
There's a pretty lively thread over on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1asm1x/tell_w3c_...
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by hosay123 14y ago
Let me guess.. home work media job, lots of time on your hands to discuss interesting products?
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Tell W3C: We don't want the Hollyweb(defectivebydesign.org)
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by hosay123 14y ago
Account was registered on 3rd March, domain was registered 5th March. "Hmmm"
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by hosay123 14y ago
When the 'competition' is being advertised as an easy migration path for old software, then "backward compatible with IE6" means everything - it's just another way of measuring how much pain is involved in migrating some software over, only
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by hosay123 14y ago
But it's not, by your logic a compiler producing machine-generated K&R C in the late 70s would also be a blob. Only as anyone mining the web for esoteric code will attest, anything written in standard C since probably the mid 80s and us
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by hosay123 14y ago
And will binaries compiled for Native Client today support SSE6 (released Q1 2014), ARMv15 (Q3 2016), and so on? Of course, if the authoring party still exists to recompile it, and they have a commercial reason for doing so..
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by hosay123 14y ago
Perhaps for your OpenGL games, but for some business application originally written for VB4 that basically draws a bunch of forms and puts stuff in a database, that's more than fast enough for some compiler that took VB4 and turned it into
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by hosay123 14y ago
It's easy to show. Imagine Gmail was written for and compiled with an IE3 or IE4 era Javascript parser/interpreter/compiler, and the result was distributed as a blob to run natively. Shortly thereafter Google goes out of business. Now imagi
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by hosay123 14y ago
Actual numbers from the Groups link at the bottom: So I discovered from Alan today - asm.js was everything I hoped it would be. One of the more intensive examples in OpenSCAD (https://raw.github.com/openscad/openscad/mas
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by hosay123 14y ago
Did you even click the link? Renders in the browser here.
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by hosay123 14y ago
Sane is in the eye of the beholder.. gevent looks nice, but I'd be very diffident when it comes to actually supporting it in production. It monkey patches the standard library and messes with CPython internals to achieve what it does, inf
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by hosay123 14y ago
Or perhaps they could create designer glasses, and use the two face recognition companies (Viewdle, Neven Vision) they have bought since 2006 to keep track of population behaviour, then sell relevant feeds to panicked (0.25 9/11s) or eagerl
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by hosay123 14y ago
The more interesting question is how many multiples of existing growth will it be before Google start to use the data they collect in incredibly unfriendly ways. How will they push their stock price above $1000? $1200? I'd like to suggest a
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by hosay123 14y ago
Nacl is not merely a different approach, it's a wholly backwards incompatible approach based on techniques that tried and failed in the 80s (try searching for ANDF).
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by hosay123 14y ago
Almost everywhere (Linux kernel included IIRC) use -Os now as the effects of the memory hierarchy are much more important than raw instructions per second. A saved stall is worth hundreds of instructions
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Hiding Data in Hard-Drive’s Service Areas [pdf](recover.co.il)
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Google is booting ad blockers from the Play Store, Android(liliputing.com)
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by hosay123 14y ago
Chortle, if only Chrome and IE weren't guilty of much worse.. I guess for a change they can have some 'standards' forced on them if they'd like to remain competitive
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by hosay123 14y ago
Speaking as someone of "lower means" and mostly with a lifelong dedication to computers, I don't particularly care what software I use, and if you forced me to try and rationalize my choices, most likely I would, like the majority of peop
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by hosay123 14y ago
Just to add, users rarely choose their software at all. If we're talking about the unwashed masses here, then the primary reason Chrome, Internet Explorer, or Safari are popular at all is almost entirely due to placement. Joe consumer, comp
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by hosay123 14y ago
Be assured that if you were not identified, they'd have no reason to run the service in the first place.. Without looking I can safely say it's not a public proxy, probably tied to your device's Google Accounts session.
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by hosay123 14y ago
OK here we go, and why not, after all it's Sunday and I've got nothing better to do.. right? The central tenet was that discourse here is regularly devoid of sound engineering because it tends to be blinded by mindless cultural perception
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by hosay123 14y ago
Perhaps you didn't experience the PR storm around the time OS X was initially released: it was heavily geared towards nerds and the literal phrase "open source" was extensively employed in their marketing material. This aside, you're basica

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