Clearly this guy has never used an Android phone...
Android has a major weakness — it will always lack the simplicity and elegance that comes with end-to-end device software, middleware and hardware control.
Last I checked, Android was doing better with end-to-end device software than even Apple was, especially when it comes to things like Hardware Control. Apple's hardware has a basic functionality which can never be changed (without purchasing a new device). Android devices are pretty generic, and can be completely changed - at will, on the fly, in software - to use the hardware (correctly) however it wants. I can program my camera to stream over WiFi or 3G, and monitor it on my computer. I can do this in a couple hours this afternoon, and have it on the Market by dinner. With Apple, I have to purchase their XCode bullshit, and then code in an obscure user-unfriendly language - and only on a Mac. After this, I get to wait several months for them to say "Ok, you can put this on the App Store, but you have to charge $___ for it and we're keeping 75%. What kind of headache is that? Fuck Apple.
Blackberry is a waste of time. It has terrible software and hardware support, and it isn't popularly catered-to by most app developers. If they can overcome any or all of these things, perhaps they can get back a foothold on the market, but they will never lead or surpass the other players.
We absolutely should revert to the system we had before.
The only thing different about our security now is that a TON of government money is being funneled into 'security' that doesn't secure anything. I'm sure the kickbacks and corruption is equally egregious. Too bad elections are now a sham (stolen as fuck), and the people in power aren't about to give it up.
You're really using the Flight 93 situation as a citation of functional security? It fucking crashed. Everyone died. Way to go, security.
Also, the locked/strong doors should have been there from the start. I always assumed they were locked, and not a flimsy piece of particleboard before that happened, but I must have been incorrect.
Furthermore, there's no evidence that Flight 93 stopped anything from happening. For all we know, they could have flown into the ocean with the exact same results, even without passenger intervention.
The TSA doesn't prevent anything. They have repeatedly failed to prevent the bombs from getting on the plane, and it is only the 'terrorists' complete ignorance and lack of skill at blowing things up that saved those people. The underwear bomber? He didn't do it right, and it had nothing to do with the TSA. Shoe bomber? He made it on the plane. Razor-wielding crazy man? He made it on the plane. Psycho flight attendant opening doors on the runway? On the plane.
The TSA does NOTHING but waste our money, and it needs to go away - NOW.
That's because there is a serious dumbing-down of the entire US population. Many of them can't even find or identify the capitol of their own state now, and at least half are religiously-brainwashed morons who will believe any anti-gay, anti-women, and anti-minority hate speech that is thrown their way by the 'Good Ol' Boys' (who strangely enough are usually the ones arrested for doing a transsexual black hooker at the rest stop).
Republicans, Democrats, and all of their kind are DESTROYING this country, and they have their fingers, propaganda, and moral bullshit embedded so deeply it will require a full-blown guns-blazing revolution to oust it.
Besides, if Sony wants to sue Google over its patents, Google can turn around and sue Sony for use of its software(Android). No phone manufacturer uses the OS in the way exactly specified in the license, a-la modding and adding/removing features, so Google would have a good shot at it.
"We can't beat them with quality product and service, so let's just buy the technology out from under them in a super-shady deal, and then sue/charge for the use of their own tech!"
So this applies to any software used to write a legal document without license to practice law? What about the fat ass corporate lawyers who inevitably have their assistants or paralegals type up all of the documents, and then just put pen to paper and collect their fee? Any assistant who used Word, Notepad, TextEdit, whatever...would technically be guilty as well as the software they used?
This is some frivolous shit here...I hate lawyers.
It's not the software, USB drive, or USB itself that is evil. It's the common notion that "I found this so I can use it". If you find a gun in the gutter, are you going to go test fire it before you return it? If you found a sledgehammer on the ground, are you going to go smash a windshield to make sure it's solid?
Judging by the contents of my own key drives, there is almost never any user-identifiable information on these things. Any "I was just trying to see who's it was" argument is probably just cover for "I wanted a free key drive and didn't think to format it before I used it..."
People will never learn not to use these. They're a commodity - people try to accumulate as much storage space as possible. Also, curiosity is one of the fundamental driving forces of humanity, and nothing screams curiosity like a tiny package with unknown (possibly valuable, interesting, or entertaining) contents.
The real problem I have with this story is that people are BLAMING THE OS. Fuck that. It's just like kids bringing guns to school. The PARENTS (or with computers, the USERS) need to be responsible for watching their underlings, be it children, employees, or their computer use. Blaming the OS is like saying "I left my car running with the keys in and the door open in the ghetto, how could I know someone was going to steal it?"
Pile onto that the fact that only one OS - Windows - really has a problem in this way. I have never had a USB drive auto-execute anything on linux, and nobody can figure out how to code for Mac so it's unlikely that anyone would try to attack the pretty plastic white boxes.
Not uniformly, but not properly random either. When you look at a total sample, you should expect truly random results. I would imagine they know this, and are observing a non-random series of diagnoses.
If there was no protection for intellectual property then there would be no employer to provide them a salary.
In the case of TV and Film you would probably have none of the films or TV shows you've seen in the last few years.
First, this is so misguided it made me laugh 'til my sides hurt. The companies who make software aren't going under or shutting down as a result of piracy or torrenting. If you need a perfect example, check out Adobe. They have some of the most pirated software on the Internet, and they're still raking in huge profits. Without these BS IP laws, you would likely see about the exact same percent of purchases vs pirate copies. As a heavy torrenter, I can say without a doubt that I could give less of a shit about IP laws, and I'm going to keep going whether they get strict or not. Until they can make the un-crackable, un-patchable, un-free-able software that their greedy investors are hoping for, there might as well be no legal protection for the software. Summary: Criminals gonna crim, and buyers gonna buy.
Second, I think I would be better off without the IP laws for television. The shit that has been coming out lately is so watered down and pseudo-copied from some other story, while trying to tiptoe around and not be seen as pure plagiarism, that they just plain suck. I think if SciFi could make it's low-budget original films as direct copies of successful movies, people might actually watch them. I think if they could come out with that awesome new drama series, which is all ready to go except the lawyers say it is 2% too similar to another work for IP laws, we could have some new content that I wouldn't shut off right away. The television industry is a joke, and garners most of its money from advertising and very little from 'sales' or 'subscription' services. This is starting to change as the companies responsible for the content try to milk more and more and more and more from the viewer in terms of longer commercial breaks, more commercial breaks, and more product placement in the shows themselves. It's getting fucking ridiculous, and it should all just be made fucking illegal. PBS style with no commercials during the program, 5 minute max between shows. None of this 7 minute breaks every 5 minutes horseshit.
We don't weld things together. We don't tend to work in assembly lines. We don't forge steel or mine for ore.
I weld, solder, smelt, and forge routinely for my geeky projects. Does being good with a computer somehow preclude me from labor-intensive tasks? Metallurgy is seriously fun. Of course I do it.
I give away all of my code for free. Part of that is I don't see any inherent value in some snippets I have made, but if someone wants to steal my code when I make a game or utility or something useful, go right ahead. I'm not going to be out the 1's and 0's of that file. I still have a copy. Nothing was stolen. The transfer of property is purely imaginary, and is a way corporations and the government try to wean cash income from something they're bad at on a management level, and which they don't understand well.
I'm sorry you're butthurt that your iPhone lets them remove stuff or brick your phone remotely. My droid doesn't have that issue.
I'm sorry you can't actually own your software or have a choice of app stores. My droid doesn't have that issue.
I'm sorry your iPhone has to install software from an app store, and there's no real package format for manual installation. My droid doesn't have that issue.
I'm sorry they took this particular torrent client off the market, though I don't see how it affects your iPhone. My droid doesn't have that issue.
I use aDownloader, which is pretty damn slick. Load and start the torrents I want when I leave the house in the morning, and sync the files back to my computer when I get home at night. If I need more than the 32GB of SD card, I should be doing it at home from the desktop anyhow(even though I routinely torrent ~6-8GB over 3G)..
It looks pretty uncomfortable and inaccurate as of yet. I highly doubt it will properly position your hands for any real musical instrument at this point.
Developing 'muscle memory' with it while not actually playing the device is hardly the same.
The managers responsible, however should go to prison, pay for the damage out of their own pockets and should be banned for life from working in management or any other place where they have the power to make decisions for an organization.
This. For everyone on Wall Street with a title of VP or higher. Now.
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A turbine is just a propeller with a hell of a lot more blades...it would logically have the same effect, if not more.
Clearly this guy has never used an Android phone...
Android has a major weakness — it will always lack the simplicity and elegance that comes with end-to-end device software, middleware and hardware control.
Last I checked, Android was doing better with end-to-end device software than even Apple was, especially when it comes to things like Hardware Control. Apple's hardware has a basic functionality which can never be changed (without purchasing a new device). Android devices are pretty generic, and can be completely changed - at will, on the fly, in software - to use the hardware (correctly) however it wants. I can program my camera to stream over WiFi or 3G, and monitor it on my computer. I can do this in a couple hours this afternoon, and have it on the Market by dinner. With Apple, I have to purchase their XCode bullshit, and then code in an obscure user-unfriendly language - and only on a Mac. After this, I get to wait several months for them to say "Ok, you can put this on the App Store, but you have to charge $___ for it and we're keeping 75%. What kind of headache is that? Fuck Apple.
Blackberry is a waste of time. It has terrible software and hardware support, and it isn't popularly catered-to by most app developers. If they can overcome any or all of these things, perhaps they can get back a foothold on the market, but they will never lead or surpass the other players.
We absolutely should revert to the system we had before.
The only thing different about our security now is that a TON of government money is being funneled into 'security' that doesn't secure anything. I'm sure the kickbacks and corruption is equally egregious. Too bad elections are now a sham (stolen as fuck), and the people in power aren't about to give it up.
You're really using the Flight 93 situation as a citation of functional security? It fucking crashed. Everyone died. Way to go, security.
Also, the locked/strong doors should have been there from the start. I always assumed they were locked, and not a flimsy piece of particleboard before that happened, but I must have been incorrect.
Furthermore, there's no evidence that Flight 93 stopped anything from happening. For all we know, they could have flown into the ocean with the exact same results, even without passenger intervention.
The TSA doesn't prevent anything. They have repeatedly failed to prevent the bombs from getting on the plane, and it is only the 'terrorists' complete ignorance and lack of skill at blowing things up that saved those people. The underwear bomber? He didn't do it right, and it had nothing to do with the TSA. Shoe bomber? He made it on the plane. Razor-wielding crazy man? He made it on the plane. Psycho flight attendant opening doors on the runway? On the plane.
The TSA does NOTHING but waste our money, and it needs to go away - NOW.
You forgot #4:
#4 There is no real threat to our safety on a regular basis, and we should go back to 1995-level airport security - you know, when it worked the best?
That's because there is a serious dumbing-down of the entire US population. Many of them can't even find or identify the capitol of their own state now, and at least half are religiously-brainwashed morons who will believe any anti-gay, anti-women, and anti-minority hate speech that is thrown their way by the 'Good Ol' Boys' (who strangely enough are usually the ones arrested for doing a transsexual black hooker at the rest stop).
Republicans, Democrats, and all of their kind are DESTROYING this country, and they have their fingers, propaganda, and moral bullshit embedded so deeply it will require a full-blown guns-blazing revolution to oust it.
Besides, if Sony wants to sue Google over its patents, Google can turn around and sue Sony for use of its software(Android). No phone manufacturer uses the OS in the way exactly specified in the license, a-la modding and adding/removing features, so Google would have a good shot at it.
"We can't beat them with quality product and service, so let's just buy the technology out from under them in a super-shady deal, and then sue/charge for the use of their own tech!"
So this applies to any software used to write a legal document without license to practice law? What about the fat ass corporate lawyers who inevitably have their assistants or paralegals type up all of the documents, and then just put pen to paper and collect their fee? Any assistant who used Word, Notepad, TextEdit, whatever...would technically be guilty as well as the software they used?
This is some frivolous shit here...I hate lawyers.
It's not the software, USB drive, or USB itself that is evil. It's the common notion that "I found this so I can use it". If you find a gun in the gutter, are you going to go test fire it before you return it? If you found a sledgehammer on the ground, are you going to go smash a windshield to make sure it's solid?
Judging by the contents of my own key drives, there is almost never any user-identifiable information on these things. Any "I was just trying to see who's it was" argument is probably just cover for "I wanted a free key drive and didn't think to format it before I used it..."
People will never learn not to use these. They're a commodity - people try to accumulate as much storage space as possible. Also, curiosity is one of the fundamental driving forces of humanity, and nothing screams curiosity like a tiny package with unknown (possibly valuable, interesting, or entertaining) contents.
The real problem I have with this story is that people are BLAMING THE OS. Fuck that. It's just like kids bringing guns to school. The PARENTS (or with computers, the USERS) need to be responsible for watching their underlings, be it children, employees, or their computer use. Blaming the OS is like saying "I left my car running with the keys in and the door open in the ghetto, how could I know someone was going to steal it?"
Pile onto that the fact that only one OS - Windows - really has a problem in this way. I have never had a USB drive auto-execute anything on linux, and nobody can figure out how to code for Mac so it's unlikely that anyone would try to attack the pretty plastic white boxes.
That applies for all computers too, though. I can get a lot better power use out of even Windows with the right power settings and usage.
Given the same settings and usage pattern, I find that my linux computer uses about half the power (twice the battery life).
My more-than-double battery life would suggest that you are correct.
You say "dope-smoking Liberal" like it's a bad thing...
Funions. I normally wouldn't correct people on the internet, but that's an important distinction.
Not uniformly, but not properly random either. When you look at a total sample, you should expect truly random results. I would imagine they know this, and are observing a non-random series of diagnoses.
If there was no protection for intellectual property then there would be no employer to provide them a salary.
In the case of TV and Film you would probably have none of the films or TV shows you've seen in the last few years.
First, this is so misguided it made me laugh 'til my sides hurt. The companies who make software aren't going under or shutting down as a result of piracy or torrenting. If you need a perfect example, check out Adobe. They have some of the most pirated software on the Internet, and they're still raking in huge profits. Without these BS IP laws, you would likely see about the exact same percent of purchases vs pirate copies. As a heavy torrenter, I can say without a doubt that I could give less of a shit about IP laws, and I'm going to keep going whether they get strict or not. Until they can make the un-crackable, un-patchable, un-free-able software that their greedy investors are hoping for, there might as well be no legal protection for the software. Summary: Criminals gonna crim, and buyers gonna buy.
Second, I think I would be better off without the IP laws for television. The shit that has been coming out lately is so watered down and pseudo-copied from some other story, while trying to tiptoe around and not be seen as pure plagiarism, that they just plain suck. I think if SciFi could make it's low-budget original films as direct copies of successful movies, people might actually watch them. I think if they could come out with that awesome new drama series, which is all ready to go except the lawyers say it is 2% too similar to another work for IP laws, we could have some new content that I wouldn't shut off right away. The television industry is a joke, and garners most of its money from advertising and very little from 'sales' or 'subscription' services. This is starting to change as the companies responsible for the content try to milk more and more and more and more from the viewer in terms of longer commercial breaks, more commercial breaks, and more product placement in the shows themselves. It's getting fucking ridiculous, and it should all just be made fucking illegal. PBS style with no commercials during the program, 5 minute max between shows. None of this 7 minute breaks every 5 minutes horseshit.
We don't weld things together. We don't tend to work in assembly lines. We don't forge steel or mine for ore.
I weld, solder, smelt, and forge routinely for my geeky projects. Does being good with a computer somehow preclude me from labor-intensive tasks? Metallurgy is seriously fun. Of course I do it.
I give away all of my code for free. Part of that is I don't see any inherent value in some snippets I have made, but if someone wants to steal my code when I make a game or utility or something useful, go right ahead. I'm not going to be out the 1's and 0's of that file. I still have a copy. Nothing was stolen. The transfer of property is purely imaginary, and is a way corporations and the government try to wean cash income from something they're bad at on a management level, and which they don't understand well.
will force you to use their market
It took me about 3 minutes to root my Droid...no more proprietary shit. Free wifi/wired tethers. Remove 'system' apps I didn't want. Done.
I'm sorry you're butthurt that your iPhone lets them remove stuff or brick your phone remotely. My droid doesn't have that issue.
I'm sorry you can't actually own your software or have a choice of app stores. My droid doesn't have that issue.
I'm sorry your iPhone has to install software from an app store, and there's no real package format for manual installation. My droid doesn't have that issue.
I'm sorry they took this particular torrent client off the market, though I don't see how it affects your iPhone. My droid doesn't have that issue.
I use aDownloader, which is pretty damn slick. Load and start the torrents I want when I leave the house in the morning, and sync the files back to my computer when I get home at night. If I need more than the 32GB of SD card, I should be doing it at home from the desktop anyhow(even though I routinely torrent ~6-8GB over 3G)..
It looks pretty uncomfortable and inaccurate as of yet. I highly doubt it will properly position your hands for any real musical instrument at this point.
Developing 'muscle memory' with it while not actually playing the device is hardly the same.
mount-gtk is pretty effective. Hasn't let me down yet.
http://mount-gtk.sourceforge.net/
But I have GRUB...it pops up on boot, and I can pick then. Why do I need KDE to choose before restart again?
The managers responsible, however should go to prison, pay for the damage out of their own pockets and should be banned for life from working in management or any other place where they have the power to make decisions for an organization.
This. For everyone on Wall Street with a title of VP or higher. Now.
All you have to do is send a blank check to this Nigerian prince...