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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, June 15 2012 @ 02:38 PM EDT |
How would it feel to be Elop or Ballmer right now
glancing over the news and
being confronted with
headlines like this?
Analysis: Nokia job cuts may hasten, not stop,
death
spiral
Moody's cuts Nokia to
"junk" on fears of cash
burn
...and finally
Nokia Is Near Death
According To Most Analysts
Microsoft
is scheduled to make a big announcement on
Monday, and the tech blogs are rife
with speculation or what
it could be. I can remember when they announced the
death
of the Kin phones. Could it be they will announce they are
giving up on
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 15 2012 @ 06:25 PM EDT |
Ah, it just hit me.
All the noice about Nokia going from hero to zero and the smart phone drop?
The explanation that Nokia didn't get on the smart phone train because
management didn't take it serious and because Nokia had a UI getting in the way
of the experience?
Guess who (almost) have an interface to stick on those Nokia phones to take them
back to the top...
Microsoft is *saving* Nokia, don't you see...?!
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 15 2012 @ 07:28 PM EDT |
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| Authored by: ailuromancy on Saturday, June 16 2012 @ 03:15 AM EDT |
I am playing with the multimedia components on a
Raspberry Pi. The only way
to do that is by using a
closed source implementations of the openmaxil and
bcm_host libraries. At some point I will create a
library of functions that
take most of the pain out
of dealing with those libraries.
My first
choice of license would be GPL, but that
would make it totally useless - no-one
would be able
to distribute the library because it has to link to
those two
closed source libraries to do anything.
I could release it with a BSD
license, but I would
prefer not to provide my work for free to people who
want
to use it in closed source software.
Can anyone recommend an appropriate
license?
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| Authored by: odysseus on Saturday, June 16 2012 @ 03:53 AM EDT |
| http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/
2012/06/how-historys-greatest-inventions-really-happened/258525/ [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 16 2012 @ 11:37 AM EDT |
Just did a Java upgrade on a Windows box. Oracle's ads include a screen that
reads "3 Billion devices run Java" with a list that includes
"cell phones" ...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- No joke - Authored by: mattflaschen on Saturday, June 16 2012 @ 02:49 PM EDT
- re Oh, Oracle, you jokester you - Authored by: The Cornishman on Saturday, June 16 2012 @ 02:55 PM EDT
- Oh, Oracle, you jokester you - Authored by: hAckz0r on Saturday, June 16 2012 @ 05:12 PM EDT
- Oh, Oracle, you jokester you - Authored by: DannyB on Monday, June 18 2012 @ 10:21 AM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 16 2012 @ 03:27 PM EDT |
For several years, American artist Sarah Morris created a series of
paintings on the theme of origami in which she took origami crease patterns by
several international origami artists, changed the color scheme, made up her own
names for them, and then sold and exhibited them internationally without
obtaining permission or giving credit.
Six of the origami artists whose work
was so used have filed suit for copyright infringement against Ms. Morris in
Federal Court in Oakland, California.
robert j. lang
a picture is worth a thousand words... klik the
link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- RIAA mindset - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 17 2012 @ 11:16 AM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 16 2012 @ 03:30 PM EDT |
The Internet Archive has filed a federal challenge to a new
Washington State law that intends to make online service providers criminally
liable for providing access to third parties’ offensive
materials.
http://blog.archive.org/2012/06/16/internet-archive-sues-to-stop-new-washington-
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| Authored by: tiger99 on Saturday, June 16 2012 @ 05:02 PM EDT |
| Link
Yes, this is
nothing but a bunch of “what ifs” at this point. But maybe a Microsoft Kindle
Fire competitor is what we’re talking about for a Monday reveal… and not a true
iPad competitor (which is what the coming bunch of Windows RT tablets, the first
of which are expected to launch in Q4 of this year, are supposed to
be)…. I see a much worse possibility. Ballmer will never allow Linux
or Android. Where else can they get a stable, powerful OS in a hurry, with no
restrictions, that they can make into something closed and proprietary? Mono on
NetBSD perhaps?Link Mono is
available to be licensed commercially if the LGPL/GPL/X11 combination is not
suitable for you. Xamarin offers commercial licensing options to redistribute
Mono under non-LGPL terms. If your organization intends to redistribute software
which embeds or bundles Mono, but is unable to comply with the terms of GNU LGPL
v2, the Ultimate Edition may be right for you. And who is behind
Xamarin, but none other than our friend Miguel......[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 16 2012 @ 07:45 PM EDT |
At a time when much of the debate about net neutrality is driven by
dogma, it's particularly valuable to have some objective data on what's really
happening. It's worrying that it turns out that net neutrality has been under
assault in some countries for a while -- and disturbing that ETNO [European
Telecommunications Network Operators Association] wants to intensify that attack
still further.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 16 2012 @ 08:09 PM EDT |
In Russia, it's much more complex and nuanced. Everyone understands
that there's always something deeper going on that's always out of view, and you
have to try to figure it out.
We came from a place where we're used to
dealing with oligarchs who control everything and manipulate everything...
Putin's creation, the stable political system that he's ruled over all this time
is a sort of "sovereign democracy," as they call it, which is like a managed
democracy. You have an oligarchy, and you have this sort of benevolent dictator.
All the political parties are an expression of that, none of them are really
independent — they're all created and maintained by the hidden power
structures.
And in a way, that's what America is today.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 17 2012 @ 04:09 PM EDT |
| Everybody Wants Cheap Software
Dept.
Microsoft would just prefer it not be
free:
Ed L (not logged in)
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 17 2012 @ 06:19 PM EDT |
So long as campaigns cost money, Congress will be dependent upon
its funders. The only way to assure that such dependence doesn’t corrupt
dependence “upon the people alone” is to assure that “the People” are “the
Funders.” We should follow the Framers’ instincts and complete their
design—protecting against the corrupting influence of domestic Princes as well
as foreign.
...there is no First Amendment interest in protecting
corruption.
Ed L (not logged in)
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 17 2012 @ 06:26 PM EDT |
Looks like the Microsoft tablet is a way to get B&N out
of the Android
game.
B&N has been a major source of income for many developing
Android
apps. This looks like it will kill off a major
income stream.
At the same
time this may be the death of another
Microsoft partner. Customers with a
current Nook Color or
Nook Tablet reader will be upset to find out that that
apps
they purchased on these devices can't run on B&N's next Nook
tablet.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57454866-
75/microsoft-to
-unveil-tablet-with-barnes-noble/
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 17 2012 @ 08:19 PM EDT |
| I wanna personal blog. Not full time. Small part of part time. A personal home
page might suffice, but I do want to post articles. So I've looked at Google's
blogger/blogspot, and at Wordpress. Basically, what I've looked at thus far is
their respective privacy policies.
Google's is very straightforward. Your
content is yours. Your personal information is ours. We promise to protect it
and only reveal personally identifying information on a need-to-know basis.
Please remember our business is search and data. The more data we have, the more
search results we can offer. We'd really like to host your blog. And your
Google+ account. And your gmail accounts. And tie them all together with your
personal data which we promise to protect. Trust us.
There are advantages to
all that of course. I'm less than terrifically thrilled with Facebook. Google+
would be much better. Likewise, a blog should either allow comments, or provide
some way of emailing its owner, for which a personal email address wouldn't
really do. Disposable gmail accounts could be handy.
I think. Wordpress otoh
is attractive for its elegant simplicity. Privacy policy is similar to
Google's, but more restrictive as Wordpress gets its revenue directly from
advertising sporadically placed on your web page -- a useful feature they will
cheerfully disable for the usual fee. Also, there appears to be no lockin
whatsoever at Wordpress. You may export your blog, comments, articles and all as
XML, and the wordpress php hosting engine itself is a free-as-in-gplv2 download.
Having spent an excruciating 3 daze prying my myself out from under
Evolution, the last is a valuable consideration.
I'm not sure I want to use
my ISP's free hosting service, as it apparently requires
you
Provide your website with a personalized, easy-to-remember URL
(web address). You have two choices:
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http://USERNAME.home.comcast.net
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http://home.comcast.net/~USERNAME
I'm not too keen on
having "comcast" in my URL. That, and although Comcast have been a very reliable
provider and all, I'm just not optimistic FrontPage will play well with
Fedora...
Last week I started writing a simple html5 home page. It looks
fairly good and would be usable if all I wanted were static content. That may
suffice, but I'll probably want feedback on at least some of my articles, else
what's the point? (Re-inventing a blog engine lacks one as well.)
There is
certainly much here I've overlooked. Have any of you any comments, opinions, or
personal experience?
Thanks!
Ed L (not logged in)
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 17 2012 @ 09:52 PM EDT |
`the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill .. aims to create
"the right conditions for economic recovery" by reducing the amount of
bureaucracy dealt with by businesses'. link
"NHS whistleblowers could be discouraged from
speaking out by a proposed change in the law, HSJ has been told. Plans to impose
a public interest test on those wanting to raise the alarm are contained in the
draft Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill, published last
month" link.
--
`14 Disclosures not
protected unless believed to be made in the public interest
In section
43B of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (disclosures qualifying for protection),
in subsection (1), after “in the reasonable belief of the worker
making the disclosure”, insert “is made in the public
interest and”.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 18 2012 @ 04:18 PM EDT |
If I go with Chromium (under Linux) to that site I get "You
attempted to reach www.update.microsoft.com, but the server
presented a certificate issued by an entity that is not trusted by
your computer's operating system". Never tried that before,
perhaps the sites from Microsoft are just not in the list of my
browser.
But this article has some questions with the security of the new
certificates after Flame.
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