Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 24th Sep 2010 23:20 UTC
Well, this certainly isn't particularly surprising. The rising popularity of Android leaves more victims in its wake than just Windows Mobile. Sony Ericsson, one of the major manufacturers of Symbian phones (other than Nokia) has just announced it will pretty much abandon the platform to focus entirely on Android - leaving Nokia as the sole person cheering for team Symbian.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:15 UTC
"This is my NeXTstation Turbo Color booting the Mac System 7.1 Operating System using a hardware add-on called 'Daydream'. The Daydream has a Mac ROM and a few custom ICs in it and hooked up to the NeXTs DSP port. Turns your NeXT into a full fledged 68k powered Mac." So cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:11 UTC, submitted by Drumhellar
"The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Please note that all fixes in the prior security/bugfix updates (NetBSD 6.0.1 and 6.0.2) are also in 6.1."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 21:06 UTC
"At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn't developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports' Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as 'crap' and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. 'The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet', tweeted Bob Summerwill, listed as a senior software engineer at EA Canada, in a reply to a tweet posting a link about EA's no-Wii U news. 'Nintendo are walking dead at this point'." The Wii U is turning into the 21st century's Virtual Boy.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 7:37 UTC
"In NixOS, the entire operating system - the kernel, applications, system packages, configuration files, and so on - is built by the Nix package manager from a description in a purely functional build language. The fact that it's purely functional essentially means that building a new configuration cannot overwrite previous configurations. Most of the other features follow from this." Interesting approach. A Linux distribution, sure, but with some very refreshing ideas about system configuration.
Linked by fran on 05/18/13 1:38 UTC
Appfour added, among other features, C/C++ support to its new version of AIDE. From Android-IDE, "Now you can write parts of your app or your whole app in C/C++ on your device. AIDE supports the Standard Android NDK toolchain (GCC 4.6 + Bionic, STL, ...). No changes are necessary if you want to build an app developed on a PC with Eclipse. C/C++ development is fully integrated: Build errors appear in the error list and files can easily be navigated to with Go to file. The editor supports C/C++ syntax highlighting."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 23:35 UTC, submitted by kragil
Ars nails it: "The answer is that Google did announce what amounts to a fairly substantial Android update yesterday. They simply did it without adding to the update fragmentation problems that continue to plague the platform. By focusing on these changes and not the apparently-waiting-in-the-wings update to the core software, Google is showing us one of the ways in which it's trying to fix the update problem."
Linked by MOS6510 on 05/17/13 22:22 UTC
"It is good for programmers to understand what goes on inside a processor. The CPU is at the heart of our career. What goes on inside the CPU? How long does it take for one instruction to run? What does it mean when a new CPU has a 12-stage pipeline, or 18-stage pipeline, or even a 'deep' 31-stage pipeline? Programs generally treat the CPU as a black box. Instructions go into the box in order, instructions come out of the box in order, and some processing magic happens inside. As a programmer, it is useful to learn what happens inside the box. This is especially true if you will be working on tasks like program optimization. If you don't know what is going on inside the CPU, how can you optimize for it? This article is about what goes on inside the x86 processor's deep pipeline."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 22:15 UTC, submitted by Tom
"It was the only moment I heard regret slip into Otellini's voice during the several hours of conversations I had with him. 'The lesson I took away from that was, while we like to speak with data around here, so many times in my career I've ended up making decisions with my gut, and I should have followed my gut,' he said. 'My gut told me to say yes.'" The world would've been a much different place - Apple would have been less dependant on Samsung for its chips, which probably would've meant less money for Samsung to develop its Galaxy business.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 21:41 UTC
Glass is getting some love at Google I/O as well. New applications have been released - Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, Elle, Tumblr, and CNN. Perhaps more interesting: the newly announced Google Glass Developer Kit will allow offline applications and direct hardware access - great for hacking and expanding Glass' potential. This kit will really allow hackers to put Glass through its paces.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 17:04 UTC
"But Beck and Merrill decided that simply banning toxic players wasn't an acceptable solution for their game. Riot Games began experimenting with more constructive modes of player management through a formal player behavior initiative that actually conducts controlled experiments on its player base to see what helps reduce bad behavior. The results of that initiative have been shared at a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and on panels at the Penny Arcade Expo East and the Game Developers Conference." Absolutely fascinating stuff. I'm a League of Legends player, and to be honest, the community isn't nearly as bad as some make it out to be. I'm happy Riot games has the guts to employ science to address the issue.More News »
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It started with the N-Gage, then 3650, then E5-something and now with an E63. Back in the day, symbian was slick, fast, usable, non-bloated and with lots of cool software and games available. Then the 3rd generation of the OS came in, and with it, a slow, unstable OS. The build in browser is, well, no comments as I don't want to be rude (some say "yeah, it runs flash" but what's the point when it takes 1 minute to open a page, reloading it 2 or 3 times on the way, even with flash disabled?). OVI store is the joke that we see (besides slow, with a very non-intuitive interface, you don't get geo separation, so you look at the reviews and see comments in chinese, portuguese, polish, spanish, etc etc etc). Then we come to the e-mail, oh the e-mail... I mean, I have an E series, a business phone, and it can't handle HTML!? WTF!?
And now, the bugs:
1) Open a contact and edit it (suppose that you were editing it to copy the phone number or some other info into an sms or a note). Do an accidental change (say, erase the last char on the name or phone number). Now try to undo that... Right...
2) Call someone. Tell that someone to cancel the call (busy tone). See how long your phone takes to get to the home screen.... Right...
3) Connect to a WiFi network. Try to get the IP you were assigned to.... Right...
4) Open the browser, enter an address. Now open a new tab. Wait, what, where?!
5) Open the browser. Open a non-mobile optimised page. Count how long does it take to load, how slow the phone gets, and how many times the page is reloaded during the process... Right...
6) After the last firmware update, the special chars of my keyboard have gone crazy. So, I'm using the portuguese layout, and some accents aren't working anymore (regardless of the label on the key itsel). I have to run into weird Shift+Ctrl combinations when with the old versions, everything would work.
7) And the brightside, call audio quality is the best (puts SonyEricsson in a corner) both for me and the person on the other side of the line, and battery life is not bad.
I mean, C'MON!!!! I've bought a business oriented phone and this is what I get? No wonder people are disappointed. Then I get to my PC and I have to deal with that crappy OVI suite, or (the old and good) pcSuite trying to convince me to download and install that piece of crap!
There, and this is why I am a very unhappy nokia customer about to jump to Android.
Nokia E63
FW 500.21.009 (most recent to date)
02-06-2010
RM-437
PS: Thank God for Opera Mobile to fill some of these gaps!!!!
Edited 2010-09-27 16:35 UTC