Posts by Matt Bucknall

£23,592?

I'm in the wrong business.

ARM7 and ARMv7 are not the same thing people!

'...and would removed from the plane if this kind of behavior continued.'

Whilst the plane was airborne? A slightly disproportionate response perhaps?

The eighties called...

..it wants its red paint back.

Electricity was not invented, it was discovered. In any case, Edison's system sucked.

Just think how many Chinese students' lives are going to be RUINED by this move! (http://www.wkow.com/Global/story.asp?S=9667184&nav=menu1362_8_6)

I wonder...

how many patents Microsoft thinks FreeBSD or NetBSD violate?

Sorry

Didn't take in what it was saying properly. What can I say? I'm tired.

GWT?

Seems like another case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.

I'd have though generalizing GWT's java-to-javascript compiler technology would be time/money better spent so that it could do stuff like support different language front-ends (because choice is always good right?).

Alternatively maybe Google could convince W3C to standardize on some intermediate code format that browsers could eventually execute or JIT instead of (or initially as well as) having the burden of hosting a fully fledged Javascript engine.

If modern Javascript engines can do stuff like this (http://bellard.org/jslinux/) then I'm sure a JVM or CLR execution engine implemented in Javascript with appropriate tie-ins into the browser and DOM would run quite well. Theoretically it should already be possible for end application developers to do highly portable, high performance client-side scripting whilst avoiding having to actually code in Javascript at all.

It's all about...

..the IP. I really don't think Google will be using the acquisition to make hardware.

Arse about face

Dalvik <--> PNaCl

There, fixed it for them.

Paying the price

When I was a 'yoof', I too was guilty of listening to music with headphones way too loud, although not on public transport because back then portable CD players were way too expensive and I never really felt the desire for a cassette walkman.

Now I'm in my early 30s, I can definitely tell my hearing is on the way out. It's not such a big deal right now, although my ability to isolate individual sounds in a noisy environment is alarmingly bad (I'm useless at conversations in the pub) and the high-end frequency response of my left ear is somewhat worse than my right ear. I expect by the time I'm in my 50s, I might need a hearing aid.

Kids now listen to loud music way more than I did. Antisocial implications aside, I think we're going to have an awful lot of very deaf 40 year old men and women walking around in 20-25 years time. Thinking ahead, maybe I should consider developing a hearing-aid app for the iPhone....

You couldn't even take it to the genius bar.

Yeah, must be real bad. If those guys can't sort it out, no one can!

[Sigh]

Who the hell stores passwords as plain text these days?! It's enough to set off one of my, not necessarily appropriate, tirades about Java programmers and the uselessness that streams from universities these days. I'll try to keep a lid on it.

Says more...

...about the operating system than the hardware.

Hard drives?

Where we're going, we don't need hard drives!

@Anton Ivanov

A single system? Seriously?

This would happen...

...on the day I have a whole load of M2M equipment on O2 sims to test.

Interesting...

I need to see the insides of this thing!

Fun whilst it lasted...

...but next time I'm between projects, I'm going back to Fedora. Bye for now, I might come visit in a few years.

Huh?

How does Oracle suing Google over a Java related issue have anything to do with Linux?

Quite right too...

Regardless of her song's aesthetic qualities, some people really need to get a grip.