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by randallu 13y ago
He didn't even win the last election, when he was running against a widely despised incumbent. I hope Milliband can wake up in time.
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by randallu 13y ago
Maybe they already did? Seems like the current government have introduced secret courts recently... http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/jun/14/what-are-secret-c... Also the Guardian hasn't stopped p
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by randallu 13y ago
JSC has a very stable external API and performs competitively (for some reason it always beats V8 on DOM manipulation stuff -- I don't know why v8/chrome haven't been able to make more efficient bindings). It doesn't bui
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by randallu 13y ago
Nice benchmark! Hopefully the asynchronous lazy decoding in Clank lands in Chrome soon and improves image decode blocking.
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by randallu 13y ago
Who incorporate SGX and Mali GPUs with closed drivers.
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by randallu 13y ago
They own many of the 3G and 4G ones too, and can give you a great deal on bundling if you go with them.
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by randallu 13y ago
Yeah, but most of it is encumbered so it'd be really hard for a competitor to go and read your driver code and then do the same thing without ending up in trouble later on. For example, NVIDIA vs SGI on Texture Mapping, or NVIDIA vs 3d
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by randallu 13y ago
GMail, etc, is just as important from a security perspective as your banking site since it could be used to perform a password reset. It could conceivably be iframe'd and have its contents sucked out. It's unlikely that every link
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by randallu 13y ago
These same guys had previously used WebGL to suck out text in the same way; unfortunately the demo is no longer at the same URL, but it is what's responsible for the fairly weird implementation of CSS Shaders: http://www.sch
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by randallu 13y ago
Rockmelt had apparently received $40M in funding which it seems likely they were not going to be able to return any time soon. Many of Y!'s recent acquisitions seem "distressed" (not all though).
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by randallu 13y ago
There are a bunch of conditionals in the Android framework on which SDK version something was compiled against, so they already do this in a way.
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by randallu 13y ago
I'd love to have screen pixels in CSS for doing hairlines. I hate when something that should be a hairline comes out fuzzy or lumpy.
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by randallu 13y ago
> your suggestion would be to use a completely hacked up libc, running on a platform not made for it, using shared memory and IPC hacks as well, for an app... When last I did this I was able to build Chrome for Ubuntu ARM and copy over U
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by randallu 13y ago
No, no, they ported Android to glibc the GNU libc implementation (from bionic, the APSLv2 licensed Android libc implementation) in order to run Chrome, which at the time depended on some glibc/posix things that weren't in bionic (
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by randallu 13y ago
It's a pity that GoogleTV (which the Chromecast OS appears to be derived from) is such a messed up platform. They really wanted to be able to run Chrome, before Chrome had been ported to bionic/Android... So, they ported Android t
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by randallu 13y ago
I worked on one of the biggest selling music players that used PlaysForSure, and every other piece of hardware was junk taking seconds to start playing DRM'd tracks, etc. Janus/PlaysForSure was just a library that vendors like Cre
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by randallu 13y ago
Bada is dead, Tizen looks likely to be DOA. By software platform company I meant a company that can sustain software platforms. It's really easy to ship a new platform every year; no third parties want that though. I agree with your po
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by randallu 13y ago
Probably the Marvell first-stage bootloader always verifies what it loads and the decision of whether to enforce or not comes after verification. Google chose not to enforce, good for us :).
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by randallu 13y ago
I like that self-hosting is a focus; I'd love for Android to become self-hosting and have some good development tools (and I believe that good tools would be much easier if Android ran regular java code and didn't require dexing -
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by randallu 13y ago
There was nothing like Android for music players. Samsung is not a software platform company in any way.
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by randallu 13y ago
Hello smartwatches!
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by randallu 13y ago
WebKit regularly pulls changes from Blink and I'm sure the reverse is true too. The One Last Thread Holding Wired Together Is Linkbait Headlines.
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by randallu 13y ago
I wonder what the SoC is on this, and if it runs Android. I assume it has some UI for connecting to WiFi, so conceivably it could be like those cheap Android HDMI dongles inside.
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by randallu 13y ago
Fahrenheit was a horrible microsoft api, and more like a scenegraph than a low level api. There were photos (probably still somewhere on reality.sgiweb.org) of it all being burned. Burn API burn!
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by randallu 13y ago
The SEC does only occasionally enforce the laws. Nacchio is a great example for Randall Stevenson and the other telco bosses to learn from...
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by randallu 13y ago
I don't know if you could use Chrome's SSH extension -- it's actually a super good terminal emulator -- if you check out the source they wrote some code to run tricky sequences through xterm and figure out what it does.
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by randallu 13y ago
Android allows apps to install apps (how the amazon store works) and if the new app appears signed with the device vendor's key then I'm guessing it wouldn't be an "untrusted source". Apparently the Play store has h
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by randallu 13y ago
It's a really hard problem -- especially for fractional scales where hairlines become blurry (or too wide, or too thin, or inconsistent).
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by randallu 13y ago
The real MIPS IV architecture is covered by some patents. Probably the real MIPS SIMD stuff is covered, too.
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by randallu 13y ago
At least as a browser vendor you just had to implement NPAPI to get Flash -- EME requires contracts and money.

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