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Comment: Re:The year of the Linux Tablet (Score 1) 487

by carou (#46396073) Attached to: Android Beats iOS As the Top Tablet OS

I'll give it a year. If the market doesn't implode that is. I doubt a tablet and guess what. I don't use it that often. I either use my PC at home, or the laptop when travelling, or the smartphone when I can't be bothered carrying my laptop around. It is niche hardware.

You don't use your Android tablet that often, and this spells doom for the iPad?

Admittedly I'm only guessing you bought Android, but you don't sound like an mass-market Apple user. You think the iPad is niche? I'll tell you what's niche: owning four different computing devices, when just one will do 90% of the things that 90% of people want to do.

Comment: Re: It's about tactics: GPL helps free software (Score 1) 1098

by carou (#46063521) Attached to: FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback'

LLVM weakens GCC's ability to attract free software contributors. That's why Apple funds LLVM.

You think Apple funded almost the entire development of a new open source compiler, in order to hurt Linux through hoping that GCC support would get worse. That's what you're seriously claiming?

Comment: Re:Typical American attitude (Score 1) 70

by carou (#45712135) Attached to: Google Seeks To Throw Out UK Safari Tracking Suit

If you didn't want to limit your legal remedies to those available in a certain area, then why did you agree to doing so in the first place? Was it an intentional act of fraud in order to benefit from what you otherwise couldn't?

This isn't something that just got made up. Its part of the license agreement people agree to in order to install the software.

What license agreement? The only installed software in this discussion in Safari.


Speak for yourself.

Comment: Re:The Only Good Bug is a Dead Bug. (Score 1) 726

by carou (#45370595) Attached to: Critics Reassess <em>Starship Troopers</em> As a Misunderstood Masterpiece

As a Dutch person, America's sarcasm detector seems collectively turned completely off. All of Paul Verhoevens films are dark comedies about the big issues of our times (as seen by Mr. Verhoeven), but it seems it takes another Dutchman to see this. The fact that some people only now see Starship Troopers as perhaps somewhat sarcastic blows my mind. How can you miss it?

Yes! Same with Robocop, a satire on corporate greed and its influence on capitalism. Even the studio that produced it doesn't seem to have understood the joke judging by the two sequels they made.

Comment: Re:History Lesson (Score 2) 108

by carou (#45183097) Attached to: Sleeper: LG G2 One of the Fastest Android Smartphones On the Market

I only mean that, in isolation from other configuration, turning hyperthreading off produced a higher benchmark result than turning it on. Dell didn't publish details of how they had configured the computer to produce their numbers although the compiler probably had a large part to do with it; according to the follow-up article, the host OS was different (Linux vs Windows) and they had probably used the Intel compiler whereas the VeriTest study used gcc (for both the x86 and the G5, which makes sense if your aim is to compare chip performance as opposed to compiler performance).

From the article:

To be fair, at least Apple and VeriTest tell you what they've done, which is more than can be said for the vendor-supplied figures on SPEC's web site. What tweaks have vendors applied to boost their own scores?

Comment: Re:Apple Cheating on Benchmarks since 2003 (Score 4, Informative) 108

by carou (#45182611) Attached to: Sleeper: LG G2 One of the Fastest Android Smartphones On the Market

That report was later discredited. The accusation was largely based on the fact that the testers had disabled hyperthreading on the compared Dell PC: it turned out they had done this because it made that benchmark result *better*. They showed the x86 in its best possible light, so that those in the peanut gallery couldn't credibly accuse them of bias in favour of the G5.


Richard III Suffered an Ignominious Burial, Researchers Find 145

Posted by samzenpus
from the hold-the-pomp dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Richard III may have been the King of England and the subject of a Shakespearean play, but even that couldn't keep him safe from ending up in a hastily-dug grave that ultimately became part of a parking lot, according to a new study published in the journal Antiquity."

Music and Movies Could Trigger Mobile Malware 88

Posted by timothy
from the seeds-of-your-own-destruction dept.

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