Copyright violation?
Eh, is the ISO standard not subject to copyright protection? Has however is hosting that pdf got permission to distribute it for free? I had to fork out about $30 for my copy many years ago.
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I remember when I was young, a few blokes from the town I come from tried stealing some power lines from a pylon, one threw a chain up with the intention of tying it to the back of a car. Not surprising he was electrocuted and died (and causing a power cut).
Not a Darwin award as he had children. I went to school with his son, who was pretty traumatised his friends carried his dead body home and "rigged" his body to the tv in front of his family to pass it off as a accident!
and not censored by anything apple don't approve of.
Seriously, this is very poor, why can they not invest some effort to improve their support/documentation properly without trying to get some half baked comments added for free. MSDN do this, as do others such as MySQL and the user contributed comments are simply not worth reading, fortunately the official the mysql docs are quite good but Apples's/Microsoft's are a joke and only any use if you know exactly what you are looking for and use google to search for it.
From a company that has so much loose change knocking about surely they can make life a bit easier for their users/developers who help keep them in business themselves without resorting to these kind of 'improvements'.
You sure about that, last time I watched the news the country is in an economical plight, companies closing down everywhere, redundancies, rising unemployment, high inflation etc...
Just think how much a small business would have saved if they didn't fork out for say windows, MS-office and say SQL server. In quite a few bankrupt cases the difference would have kept the wolves away for a bit longer giving them a fighting chance. Now multiply that to the level of a local authority or government department and you've saved a new hospital build form been cancelled or knocked a penny of employee paid NI.
And before people mention support, who do you know actually gets support from MS, and of those who gets anything useful, if you want support for OS software buy it!
And as for familiarity, people on here would probably be surprised to know not everyone knows how to use Word/Access etc... And most people learn anything more than the very basics on the job, and of course relearn it with every new release.
Why do people still think there are legions of developers out there who work for nothing, sure there is the odd person who contribute to large projects for the hell of but they are few and far between. (I'm ignoring the plethora of small projects that people knock up to scratch an itch).
While I'm not defending Google and do think it is a poor choice to not open source it immediately I doubt doing so would make any noticeable improvements over developing under a closed source until they think it's ready.
I've open source various apps, libraries and snippets over the years and I've never done so until I'm happy with the code.
I think you have hit the nail on the head. The current honeycomb is merely a stop gap to ensure android tablets don't get left behind, it is a long way off what they are aiming for, guess they don't think it's worth releasing a target that is moving considerably.
I'd personally like to see it opened though/
Being able to do arithmetic in your head or not does not imply someone is good at maths or not, true a good head for figures probably leans in favour of good maths skills. I'm not saying this applies to the op, but equation of arithmetic and maths by the average person is itself a good indication of general poor maths knowledge.
We've noticed a few times that very heavy items in the front garden have moved, I've always put it down to people thinking about nicking them and then releasing they've got no chance without some lifting equipment (and given the access/width of the street they would be noticed). Guess they were looking for keys.
That certainly makes sense, wonder why everyone else hasn't moved in that direction instead of using so called best practices. Hope you are targeting assembler rather than low level C, a new standard may come along. Just hope everyone sticks to releasing on the same hardware/OS underneath the hood.
I said you have to pay and sign up to download the iOS SDK, which XCode uses to do iOS based development, show me where you can download it without handing over you money for the developer program. Even if you could (which you can't), all you would not be able to do anything but run the code under a simulator.
You have to be absolutely kidding right, are you seriously suggesting the tool support for Google's platform (I'm assuming you mean android, but the same applies to their other offerings), i.e. eclipse and the google plugins are below that provided by apple and microsoft.
Absolute nonsense. I work all day in a microsoft focused development company, in my own time I write for platforms including android and iwhatever. XCode and related development tools are abysmal, and visual studio is a bit better than that, and of course the useful/practical version of visual studio costs and you have to pay apple to be able to download the iOS development platform. In all seriousness and honesty I can develop stuff for android at least twice as quick with the tools google provide than those from either apple or ms.
True integrating the android simulator into eclipse takes an initial manual step, but that takes 2 mins. I'd much rather do that 2 mins to get the "tight" integration apple's. Or yeah, you also have to tell eclipse to look on googles web site for the plugin, another two minute one off job.
"Not having ownership of the entire suite of dev tools is a big problem for Google going forward." Balderdash again, they are building on the back of proven and extensible tools, google can concentrate on features need for android development, and it's available on most peoples preferred development platform, have you any idea how much of a pain it is having to develop on a windows box, then jump onto a mac and when not restrained jump onto a linux box.
> If Android is so open why can't you create an application in any language you wish?
Write one if you want, nothing stopping you like there is on iOS
> it's not as open as a Linux machine should be.
In what ways do you want it more open, or in what ways is it not open?
> Everything has to run on the Dalvik VM.
You sure about that or is this a comment not based on an understanding of what you are talking about?
When you search for a share price or a map, google is determine the physical thing you are looking for and as their services are well known to then it is trivial to create a link to the info.
On the other hand how can they practically create a link for every online service that say gives share prices without dumping them at a root page where you have to navigate from or link them to a page they came across in their web crawling which is likely to be potential less accurate as a first search result link.
Maybe goole could define some api for third parties to implement/register it order to be linked to reliably by google and other search engines?
If I search map <place i live> the first link is a google map for the place I live. If i search for mapquest map <place i live> I get a whole bunch of other links way before the link to google maps.
I don't see why google should have to provide a link to each provider of maps unless that was what I searched for, In my case I want to get a map of a specific place, would you want to maintain how to create a map link for each provider to produce a map for a particular place? Fair enough if they come across relevant link in web page somewhere, but why should they bother
> Variants of ZeuS are much commonly used to capture online banking credentials before sending them off to cybercrooks, however, and from this perspective the sample is a dead loss
Maybe it is intentional, I'd speculate there is a reasonable correlation between the amount of cash people have to spend on new high spec computer and the amount in there bank accounts. Filtering out old pcs could be way of filtering out people with no cash to steal.
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/libcore.git;a=blob;f=support/src/test/java/org/apache/harmony/security/tests/support/cert/PolicyNodeImpl.java
Interestingly it only seems to be used by tests, so I would not expect it to ever be deployed on any android device. Also the code has the following comment, if this is wrong one whoever added it is to blame. The original file is GPL'd, so there is a violation if the code really wasn't licensed, however it is ONE file, as supporting evidence to Oracles claim it's hardly even considering.
"Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership."
Notice file is at http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/libcore.git;a=blob_plain;f=NOTICE;hb=HEAD
"Yeah microsoft trying to get money for patents that they hold that is outrageous."
I doubt this is their sole aim at all, the most likely reason is to scare smaller companies away from android for fear of being sued. I've not looked too deeply into the patents, but they seem your bog standard blindingly obvious with years of prior examples.
It's a legal protection racket, simple as that, pay us for the patents/use our OS or we sue as we are bigger and can afford more/better lawyers.
"No, that is not a seperate matter, it's the whole point. Who's to say how much of the price of your stonkingly expensive iOS device is the software license / upgrade assurance and how much is the hardware"
I had to pay for iOS 3 for my ipod touch. I'm genuinely impressed apple are giving the away upgrades for free and not trying to get a few extra quid of us. (Of course that is the only thing Apple have done for ages that has impressed me, plenty to p*ss me off though).
Ok, I'd guess an average linux user is going to be less likely to pay for software as they are already aware that there is a lot of free (in both senses) software that does the job as good as or better than commercial software.
However, if some commercial software is better value for money (people's time is often the a much more expensive overhead then a few copies of some software) you would be foolish to stick with a poor free alternative, regardless of what operating system you like.
Of course you could also invest some money to the developers of some free software to improve it and save some future licenses.
Your java experience is obviously wider thna mine, in the 10+ years I've bene doing java development I have never had any com/ddl hell issues, but then again why would I.
Before people jump in about "classpath hell", this has been a sovled problem for a number of years no and was never an issue for any real development team who actually follow some sort of quality control rather than just hacking their way through it.
So basically MS/Spotify have agreed a port to windows mobile will be available. I wonder if Spotify have paid MS to get the app distributed on new phones, or more likely MS have bunged them some cash to port a popular app to windows. If the later then it would demonstrate MS's panic that people won't develop apps for the plafrom.