Posts by Alex.Red 57 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Nov 2010
No - this is the short answer.
Below is the long answer.
I would be pretty embarrassed if I was you - talking about things that i do not have a clue. In this particular case you do not have a clue of how much does the performance increase when adding of 1/2/3/etc. cores to the system. Google it.
I am Russian and when I started learning programming I was amazed that people agreed to use the same letters for that.
But now some man comes and says that this is wrong and everybody should use their own language because it is easier...
In my opinion the following is also easier:
- not to learn programming;
- not to learn math;
- not to learn how to write in foreign language;
- or better not to learn your own language writing.
Having said that in my opinion all the above is not right since only smart and hard work makes you even smarter.
I read the article and the only thing I saw was: " A German court sided with Apple today and agreed that Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.7 infringes iPad design patents, granting Cupertino permission to push for a European Union-wide ban."
It is true, English is not my native language but where is injunction above? Does "permission to push..." is now synonymous to "injuction"? Is it a new smalltak or what?
From quick overlook of Android API a year or two ago I remember that there was an API that allows you to read whatever is typed on a keyboard.
I was looking into this thinking that sometime I might get time to write my own keyboard.
Did the guy used API? If so, it does not look a hack to me...
Another thought - Samsung in its *wisdom* decided that people in US are speaking either American English or Spanish, hence my SGS II on Sprint does not have any other language installed, hence I am using the Go keyboard.
As soon as I installed 3rd party app with access to keyboard - no banking for me.
I read a lengthy panegyric to Microsoft CIFS and one of Microsoft partners.
However I almost lost my eyeys looking for a *comparison* against NFS that (supposedly) was beaten badly, into dust by author's words.
Please, give me comparison and not another Microsoft advertisement!
Personal Data Protection Bill will help us in guarding our data. :-)
Easy to implement, easy to use. Here is the idea:
- person is in control of his/her personal data;
- person can dynamically grant access to personal data;
- data access is granular, ex. mail address, e-mail address, SSN, etc.;
- dynamic access allows person to limit access to the data, ex. Facebook can only see my name;
- person is granted right who queries personal information;
- person can sue the company that leaked his/her data;
- no company but public Data Banks can store personal information locally for longer than a session;
- dynamic access allows person to see who queries and what info.
The above can be done with public Data Banks that will keep your information and share it with Facebook and the likes (API to access personal data). Person uses private key to encrypt data and public key to grant access to personal data. Person can have a keychain with 365/366 keys for re-encryping personal data.
Yocto is your friend if you do not want building a GCC toolchain - Intel already did it for you (and the following CPU architectures: i86, ARM, PPC, MIPS). ;-)
All toolchains use Yocto Eclipse plug-in that simplifies on-target profiling/debugging for UI oriented developrs. :-)
http://www.yoctoproject.org/
You are implying that CIQ people did not understand what kind of application they were writing, right?
An application that logs *every* keypress *without* owner's consent (watch the video, it is all there) is totally legal as soon as you can sell it, right?
I understand (but do not agree) when CIA/FBI requests an application that snoops on every keypress.
But I do not understand when a carrier requests such thing and a company like CIQ *agrees* to write the applicatoin.
If I was a technical lead on such a project I would of start asking questions why do we write an application like that and what are legal consequences.
Could you clarify how it is harmless when all your keys are logged *before* HTTPS encryption takes place?
Do you understand that those keys are logged into a file that *any* application on the phone can read?
Do you understand that it is *easy* to parse the log file?
Do you understand that for the bad guys this is a *very* big Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Year gift?
Probably, it is time to root my family's phones (Evo 3Gs, Evo 3D and SGS II)
And it is called Keytracer (+IQ Agent Service) on my SGS II from Sprint
Also, if you check the video then you will see that keylogger logs *all* key presses all the time.
Could you tell me why the CIQ application logs my keys? You do know that Verizon does not preinstall the application, right?
Following your logic HP, Dell and others should install keyloggers on each and every Windows 7 machine that they produce in order:
- to deliver better service when something is not working, so their support center can know right off the bat what is going on;
- to monitor what applications people prefer so manufacturers can create better user experience by preinstalling them;
- to monitor your location in order to give you region specific offers;
- etc.
In US it is called *wiretapping*.
I would recommend everybody to follow the links in the article.
I, for one, followed the blog link and saw a very upset guy there. Would you be upset if you contender runs on 3 billion devices?
What Microsoft is talking about - many attack attempts (25 million) using few Java vulnerabilities.
I am glad for you an sad for myself, but per articles on the Internet those are carriers who requst bundling of CIQ software.
To me it looks obvious what are the most profitable smartphones on, say, AT&T - iPhone and the army of Droids - they are wiretapped, Windows phones are not.
On the other hand Verizon does not preinstall wiretapping software on their phones... I wonder if it is the right time to change my carrier.
Aren't both of these "new" phones modifications of N9?
If they are as they look alike then it means to me that Microsoft and Nokia spent a year on porting WP7 to the Nokia hardware.
Does not look a fast turnaround to me.
Please, do not tell me that they started development at the end of the day on February 11. :-)
I am in the same boat.
Tried to get used to the new Gnome 3 in Fedora 15 and finally gave up, installed Fedora 14 with Gnome 2.32 and in a process of configuring kernel 3.0 since the current kernel for Fedora 14 (2.6.35) does not support switcheroo that I need to switch between ATI 6770M and Intel HD3000 on my dv6t-6100 laptop.
Observing how relentlessly Apple is trying to shut the Galaxy I decided to give it a try... :-)
And, for curious minds - yes, I played with them both. To be more precise I was looking at them both for more than a month, leaning toward iPad. Apple convinced me that Galaxy is on par or might be better than iPad. ;-)
And no complaints from any member of my family.
Oops! Sorry, one of my sons recently upgraded his phone to Evo 3D.
And for curious minds - no, I do not pay for my kids, we split it even.
And one of my sons has iPhone, so everybody had a chance to play with it before we jumped the guns an abandoned AT&T :-)
So, my survey shows that only 16% of population want to stick to the iPhone :-):-):-)
Do you know that Florian Mueller has an Android phone?
Do you know that he is a self-proclaimed fan of Android?
I did not until I read about it on zdnet.com
My question is - how is having Android phone makes a person an Android fan? :-O
All articles of Florian that I have heard of or read are full of FUD about Android ecosystem - Google steals code from Java, Google does not license proper Java VM, Google is doing this wrong, Google is doing that wrong.
I also remember reading about Florian doing some work for Microsoft. I wonder if he is still getting his paycheck from them...
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