Saying it's "stupid" somehow makes your argument look lame, kind of like calling that someone you don't like a "big poopy head".
Flat out, it's police-state anti-democracy in action. Apple caved to political pressure placed upon it by sleazy politicians pandering to police organizations/unions.
The Cliq is a notoriously crappy phone. CPU is slow, too little RAM, to little internal flash memory. It's just a cheap phone and Motorola should be ashamed of it.
Unfortunately, I know that Cyanogen doesn't work on the Cliq. There might be other mods out there, and if there are, I would encourage you to check them out.
The phone handset manufactures lose money by extending and enhancing the capabilities of old phones. So, you won't be seeing much help out of them. However, if enough people care about modding their phone and make their purchasing decisions on that fact, the manufactures might let you have an open bootloader. But, as the userbase gets larger, the likelihood of that gets smaller.
It was added some time back, but don't forget about being able to boot from RAID5! Most people that I run into still don't know that you can do this. I've been doing it for awhile and it's great for my five-disk home server and a cheapy 4-disk 1U server system I have out in a colocate.
I am not saying this isn't true, but the US government, and others, are certainly trying to damage the reputation of Wikileaks.
What I see is a whole lot of reaction here, not a lot of critical thought. Hell, people have not even read the crap. I'm not sure that the document has even been validated?
Julian is a weird doucebag and probably a control freak, which is understandable given his background, but he's still a saint compared to 90% of all of the United States federally elected officials.
Just go over to the xda-devellopers website and see how great Sony's Android phones are. They are crap. The first gen was released on Android 1.6 when 2.1 was already out (or at least 2.0), and Sony never offered an update. The phone hardware is substandard. Sony support of their phones is junk.
Wait about two years, look back to now and see if they were telling to truth. If you want a preview, go back two years and look at what Sony was saying then, and then look at now. Get the idea? Yea.
Former gaming industry guy here, who worked in the online (MMO) space for games (mostly PC).
It's incompetence. That's all. The gaming industry is full of excited youthful noobs who are willing to work 50-60-or-more hour workweeks in exchange for working "in a cool industry" and occasionally getting a free tee shirt or some other crap.
The "online" portion of most game shops is seen as sort of like support. In fact, I've seen several places (some of them failed) where the online management (sysadmins, networking guys, etc) was actually manged by the online support person -- the same person responsible for level-1 customer support goons.
Since it's not programming, not art, not design, and not the "core" part of making the game, it's just something necessary sucking money away from the people who really deserve it, so it gets minimal attention.
I agree. I am Cisco/Juniper/Linux guy, but sometimes I've got to use Windows and DUMeter is a great live bandwidth monitoring tool with lots of features.
There is a freeware tool called Bitmeter which is very similar, but not anywhere near as good.
And people wonder why unemployment is so high. So someone moves your cheese icon -- go find wherever they put it.
That being said, employee training in most companies is horrible. Some things really don't need training, some things really do need training. Rarely is it offered either way.
When it's in their favor that you claim their network is capable of handing traffic, such as when talking to Apple, investors etc, they say it is.
When it's convenient for them to say that it isn't, in this case for the T-Mobile buyout approval, their network suddenly isn't capable.
The only thing that I can trust is that anything they say is self-serving.
Corporations are amoral. They are not people, and because nobody is responsible for the collective actions, nobody cares if they do or say unethical or untrue things.
You must be one of those people who wants the Internet to be like TV -- for "consumers" and "viewers" only.
For people, like me, who have to actually manage networks, NAT is one of the worst things that happened in networking that we still have to deal with. You end up with two sets of DNS for each company, public and private IP networks to manage, firewalls and routers doing additional processing that is wasting CPU and memory.
NAT also severely restricts the capabilities of what are possible on the Internet. It firmly gives control to those with public addresses (big companies) and takes it away from individual users.
I've not seen anyone here talking about Cisco's CORE products: Switches and routers.
Right now, Cisco is seriously missing on 10G networking. Their products suck ass compared with Juniper and Arista. Others have really great stuff out there too right now (Brocade, Extreme, Force 10).
They totally bailed out of Infiniband because their products were poop. It's a small market, but we use it here because of HPC.
The simple fact is that shortly after when Cisco shipped their 3750-E switches Juniper shipped their EX 4200 series switches. Juniper was: cheaper, had redundant power supplies, bigger uplink bandwidth, and mops cisco all over on features AND reliability.
Cisco had to come out with the 3750X series, which is a nice upgrade with a price drop, but still isn't as good because of the software.
Also, their ASA firewalls really suck. We've got a bunch of their big 5580-40s here, which were the biggest thing they had at the time. They crash often, management ain't that great, and cost-wise is like hitting yourself in the head with a gold hammer.
Cisco is in serious serious trouble. Stupid acquisitions are the least of their problems.
KDE user here that went from 3.5 to 4.0 and now uses XFCE and still some KDE.
I am actually glad that Gnome users are now getting their KDE4 treatment. That is, a dumbed-down UI that reduces functionality while not really solving problems from the end-user perspective, other than being "easy to use if used as intended." This is because it is likely to spur more development into some alternative.
I've been pretty happy with XFCE since trying it out. It's not perfect, but it's really good.
As for KDE4, I still have occasional crashes and it still has stupid design issues that prohibit power-user functionality.
As for what they did to the KDE apps like Amarok... those jerk devs should DIAF. Way to take a great app and turn it into crap.
Even if the funds were earmarked, they would still use them for something else. Arizona republicans think the law only applies to them other guys. They have already raided several funds that had specific uses. They don't care.
Republican hu? Yea, you're free to go. I like how that last article puts it up to being a "political arrest" over the fact that he had committed a felony.
Uh, yes, there are. I know it must be shocking and completely incomprehensible to you that other people might be different than yourself, but these people do actually exist.
You must also not be aware of the cost differential between AMD-based and Intel-based motherboards. Intel-based motherboards are substantially more expensive. Go check out Newegg some time.
AMD uses their longevity sockets as an attractive selling feature, which some of their customers greatly enjoy. It gives their platform more flexibility and their users don't have to constantly deal with the compatibility issues introduced.
Intel uses their short-timer socket designs as a profit maximizer, forcing you to upgrade more components at the same time than may be necessary. There is also the argument that by designing newer interfaces, you get newer/better technology. However, my personal experience with this last one is that there is no real benefit to owners for all of Intel's socket madness. Intel makes more profit, and that's why they do it.
Did Intel chipsets support DDR3 first? Yes they did. Was there any end-user benifit to having DDR3? No, not at the time.
Did it not occur to you that Google may have WANTED a relatively "harsh" punishment to set precedent specifically so that it might be applied to Facebook as well?
It's a wild idea, but I like wild ideas.
But yea, Buzz was a serious fuck-up and it's a good thing the dude who directed that disaster ain't working at Google any more.
I am for anything that makes the IPv4 resource situation more desperate: Desperate enough that mid-sized derp-a-derp MCSE sysadmin-lead companies will actually have to move to IPv6.
IPv6 won't go mainstream until people start getting desperate. I WANT people desperate and fearful. Fear drives people do things their lazy asses would not otherwise get around to doing.
If you sit in a chair for eight hours a day, you are KILLING YOUR MUSCLES! This is not natural for humans at all.
You need exercise. I would argue that all office workers need mandatory exercise at least twice a day for five minutes absolute minimum. I keep a 30 pound weight in a nearby electrical/IDF closet and go in there once or twice a day to move my muscles around.
Most neck and back pain that I've ever had was completely resolved by having an exercise routine. Your muscles are not telling you that they are hurting because you are doing something strenuous, but because they are so weak and lame that it hurts!
And you wonder why you and most other Americans are fat...
Nexus One on TMobile here in Phoenix Arizona. Been a customer since VoiceStream.
I've heard the assertion of poor coverage from some other customers, but in the southwest US, I've never actually experienced it anywhere. Sure, I don't get coverage in some places of Sequoia National Park, but I don't expect it either. I do a lot of traveling, and I've never looked at my phone while on the highway and not had coverage. In my travels to many small towns across California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and west Texas I've never had a problem where I didn't have coverage somewhere.
There were places that I didn't have 3G, but whoop de do. I don't expect to get 3G in Ouray Colorado, Williams Arizona, at Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, or Lee Vining California.
As for dropped calls, happens once or twice a year. Not a problem.
I am not saying that you don't have a coverage problem in your area. I am just saying that your assertion of "many parts of the country" not having coverage on TMobile doesn't match up with my personal experience... at all.
Anyway, I will be writing to anyone and everyone in government that I can to derail this deal. It's bad all across the board. Only the executives and lawyers will make money on this one. More efficiency = less jobs, higher prices, less competition, less interest in supporting individual customers.
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Saying it's "stupid" somehow makes your argument look lame, kind of like calling that someone you don't like a "big poopy head".
Flat out, it's police-state anti-democracy in action. Apple caved to political pressure placed upon it by sleazy politicians pandering to police organizations/unions.
You are absolutely right.
The Cliq is a notoriously crappy phone. CPU is slow, too little RAM, to little internal flash memory. It's just a cheap phone and Motorola should be ashamed of it.
Unfortunately, I know that Cyanogen doesn't work on the Cliq. There might be other mods out there, and if there are, I would encourage you to check them out.
The phone handset manufactures lose money by extending and enhancing the capabilities of old phones. So, you won't be seeing much help out of them. However, if enough people care about modding their phone and make their purchasing decisions on that fact, the manufactures might let you have an open bootloader. But, as the userbase gets larger, the likelihood of that gets smaller.
It was added some time back, but don't forget about being able to boot from RAID5! Most people that I run into still don't know that you can do this. I've been doing it for awhile and it's great for my five-disk home server and a cheapy 4-disk 1U server system I have out in a colocate.
I am not saying this isn't true, but the US government, and others, are certainly trying to damage the reputation of Wikileaks.
What I see is a whole lot of reaction here, not a lot of critical thought. Hell, people have not even read the crap. I'm not sure that the document has even been validated?
Julian is a weird doucebag and probably a control freak, which is understandable given his background, but he's still a saint compared to 90% of all of the United States federally elected officials.
PSK on a "fairly large enterprise". Yep. That's what he said.
Just go over to the xda-devellopers website and see how great Sony's Android phones are. They are crap. The first gen was released on Android 1.6 when 2.1 was already out (or at least 2.0), and Sony never offered an update. The phone hardware is substandard. Sony support of their phones is junk.
Wait about two years, look back to now and see if they were telling to truth. If you want a preview, go back two years and look at what Sony was saying then, and then look at now. Get the idea? Yea.
Former gaming industry guy here, who worked in the online (MMO) space for games (mostly PC).
It's incompetence. That's all. The gaming industry is full of excited youthful noobs who are willing to work 50-60-or-more hour workweeks in exchange for working "in a cool industry" and occasionally getting a free tee shirt or some other crap.
The "online" portion of most game shops is seen as sort of like support. In fact, I've seen several places (some of them failed) where the online management (sysadmins, networking guys, etc) was actually manged by the online support person -- the same person responsible for level-1 customer support goons.
Since it's not programming, not art, not design, and not the "core" part of making the game, it's just something necessary sucking money away from the people who really deserve it, so it gets minimal attention.
That's all.
I agree. I am Cisco/Juniper/Linux guy, but sometimes I've got to use Windows and DUMeter is a great live bandwidth monitoring tool with lots of features.
There is a freeware tool called Bitmeter which is very similar, but not anywhere near as good.
With Intel the only one making SLI motherboards, NVidia needed to buddy up with AMD as leverage? Just a guess.
And people wonder why unemployment is so high. So someone moves your cheese icon -- go find wherever they put it.
That being said, employee training in most companies is horrible. Some things really don't need training, some things really do need training. Rarely is it offered either way.
Whatever AT&T corporate goons.
When it's in their favor that you claim their network is capable of handing traffic, such as when talking to Apple, investors etc, they say it is.
When it's convenient for them to say that it isn't, in this case for the T-Mobile buyout approval, their network suddenly isn't capable.
The only thing that I can trust is that anything they say is self-serving.
Corporations are amoral. They are not people, and because nobody is responsible for the collective actions, nobody cares if they do or say unethical or untrue things.
You must be one of those people who wants the Internet to be like TV -- for "consumers" and "viewers" only.
For people, like me, who have to actually manage networks, NAT is one of the worst things that happened in networking that we still have to deal with. You end up with two sets of DNS for each company, public and private IP networks to manage, firewalls and routers doing additional processing that is wasting CPU and memory.
NAT also severely restricts the capabilities of what are possible on the Internet. It firmly gives control to those with public addresses (big companies) and takes it away from individual users.
That's right guys, follow that shiny thing, wherever it leads. Forget all about what you were doing before.
I've not seen anyone here talking about Cisco's CORE products: Switches and routers.
Right now, Cisco is seriously missing on 10G networking. Their products suck ass compared with Juniper and Arista. Others have really great stuff out there too right now (Brocade, Extreme, Force 10).
They totally bailed out of Infiniband because their products were poop. It's a small market, but we use it here because of HPC.
The simple fact is that shortly after when Cisco shipped their 3750-E switches Juniper shipped their EX 4200 series switches. Juniper was: cheaper, had redundant power supplies, bigger uplink bandwidth, and mops cisco all over on features AND reliability.
Cisco had to come out with the 3750X series, which is a nice upgrade with a price drop, but still isn't as good because of the software.
Also, their ASA firewalls really suck. We've got a bunch of their big 5580-40s here, which were the biggest thing they had at the time. They crash often, management ain't that great, and cost-wise is like hitting yourself in the head with a gold hammer.
Cisco is in serious serious trouble. Stupid acquisitions are the least of their problems.
KDE user here that went from 3.5 to 4.0 and now uses XFCE and still some KDE.
I am actually glad that Gnome users are now getting their KDE4 treatment. That is, a dumbed-down UI that reduces functionality while not really solving problems from the end-user perspective, other than being "easy to use if used as intended." This is because it is likely to spur more development into some alternative.
I've been pretty happy with XFCE since trying it out. It's not perfect, but it's really good.
As for KDE4, I still have occasional crashes and it still has stupid design issues that prohibit power-user functionality.
As for what they did to the KDE apps like Amarok... those jerk devs should DIAF. Way to take a great app and turn it into crap.
Ding ding ding! We have a winner.
Even if the funds were earmarked, they would still use them for something else. Arizona republicans think the law only applies to them other guys. They have already raided several funds that had specific uses. They don't care.
Photo unit snaps GOP party chief speeding 109 mph
http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/arizona-capitol-times/mi_8079/is_20090508/arizona-dps-photo-unit-snaps/ai_n51711437/
Arizona: Judge Throws Out Political Arrest Based on Photo Ticket
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/28/2801.asp
Republican hu? Yea, you're free to go. I like how that last article puts it up to being a "political arrest" over the fact that he had committed a felony.
Arizona resident here. Downtown Phoenix, no less, about eight blocks from the capitol.
I don't know WTF this has to do with news for nerds, but I'll bite.
Looks like we are becoming the new Floriduh here. Some of the bad attention is well deserved. Some of it not.
Maybe if they had not given that huge tax break to University of Phoenix, they would not have to do stuff like this;
http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2011/04/04/Arizona-Legislature-OKs-tax-break.html
Also, I would be negligent if I didn't point out that republicans here went and made their own FUD true: Death panels!
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2010/12/09/20101209Montini1209.html
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2011/02/25/20110225montini0225.html
Uh, yes, there are. I know it must be shocking and completely incomprehensible to you that other people might be different than yourself, but these people do actually exist.
You must also not be aware of the cost differential between AMD-based and Intel-based motherboards. Intel-based motherboards are substantially more expensive. Go check out Newegg some time.
AMD uses their longevity sockets as an attractive selling feature, which some of their customers greatly enjoy. It gives their platform more flexibility and their users don't have to constantly deal with the compatibility issues introduced.
Intel uses their short-timer socket designs as a profit maximizer, forcing you to upgrade more components at the same time than may be necessary. There is also the argument that by designing newer interfaces, you get newer/better technology. However, my personal experience with this last one is that there is no real benefit to owners for all of Intel's socket madness. Intel makes more profit, and that's why they do it.
Did Intel chipsets support DDR3 first? Yes they did.
Was there any end-user benifit to having DDR3? No, not at the time.
Did it not occur to you that Google may have WANTED a relatively "harsh" punishment to set precedent specifically so that it might be applied to Facebook as well?
It's a wild idea, but I like wild ideas.
But yea, Buzz was a serious fuck-up and it's a good thing the dude who directed that disaster ain't working at Google any more.
I am for anything that makes the IPv4 resource situation more desperate: Desperate enough that mid-sized derp-a-derp MCSE sysadmin-lead companies will actually have to move to IPv6.
IPv6 won't go mainstream until people start getting desperate. I WANT people desperate and fearful. Fear drives people do things their lazy asses would not otherwise get around to doing.
Ding ding ding.
If you sit in a chair for eight hours a day, you are KILLING YOUR MUSCLES! This is not natural for humans at all.
You need exercise. I would argue that all office workers need mandatory exercise at least twice a day for five minutes absolute minimum. I keep a 30 pound weight in a nearby electrical/IDF closet and go in there once or twice a day to move my muscles around.
Most neck and back pain that I've ever had was completely resolved by having an exercise routine. Your muscles are not telling you that they are hurting because you are doing something strenuous, but because they are so weak and lame that it hurts!
And you wonder why you and most other Americans are fat...
Nexus One on TMobile here in Phoenix Arizona. Been a customer since VoiceStream.
I've heard the assertion of poor coverage from some other customers, but in the southwest US, I've never actually experienced it anywhere. Sure, I don't get coverage in some places of Sequoia National Park, but I don't expect it either. I do a lot of traveling, and I've never looked at my phone while on the highway and not had coverage. In my travels to many small towns across California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and west Texas I've never had a problem where I didn't have coverage somewhere.
There were places that I didn't have 3G, but whoop de do. I don't expect to get 3G in Ouray Colorado, Williams Arizona, at Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, or Lee Vining California.
As for dropped calls, happens once or twice a year. Not a problem.
I am not saying that you don't have a coverage problem in your area. I am just saying that your assertion of "many parts of the country" not having coverage on TMobile doesn't match up with my personal experience... at all.
Anyway, I will be writing to anyone and everyone in government that I can to derail this deal. It's bad all across the board. Only the executives and lawyers will make money on this one. More efficiency = less jobs, higher prices, less competition, less interest in supporting individual customers.
I'll never look at that thing the same.
That guy looks like he's really gotta go.
Meetoo. Please make this happen.