You attacked the original iPhone for not having 3G
I did? I don't remember doing this and it doesn't seem like a point I'd criticize, but maybe you're memory's better than mine. Feel free to point out where I said this.
Your sig is especially hilarious, since without Apple, Android would still be on Blackberry-like devices and wouldn't be able to include things like Webkit. We'd all be stuck with DRM-locked music from online stores and people would laugh at you if you suggested a 10" touchscreen tablet as something the consumer would want to buy.
My sig has nothing to do with Android whatsoever. Apple hater != Android fanboy.
I have no problem with Blackberry-like devices personally, it's a better form factor than the touchscreen-only phone IMO (although the landscape slider gives the best of all worlds, at the cost of a bit of thickness). Without WebKit other phones would just use Mozilla-based browsers, so that's no big loss. Apple may have helped push DRM-free music, but that's basically irrelevant to everybody but US residents, who still can't buy DRM-free music anyways.
If people laughed at the idea of a tablet I'd have no problem with that either, tablets can be more useful than laptops or phones for a few tasks but it isn't a terribly useful form overall. Tablet-shaped e-readers would find their way onto the market, but tablets wouldn't be seen in computing until convertible laptops become cheap, and even then people would only flip their screens around for reading and use while standing.
They're not perfect by any means, but they're far from the Machiavellian evil empire that people on slashdot [childish ad-hominem removed] seem to think they are.
No they certainly are a Machiavellian evil empire, worse than Microsoft ever was. Bringing curated computing into the mainstream is the worst thing ever done in the history of computing, they're at least as anti-competitive as MS ever was, they're worse on openness than Microsoft even if it doesn't seem that way because they use openwashing instead of being openly hostile to openness as MS is, and their hyper-aggressive patent bullying is in the news every day. If you hated Microsoft at any point you should hate the shit out of Apple right now.
Yeah my home server has a Foxconn mobo and my work PC (which I didn't buy) has some Foxconn bits in it, but that's it. Gaming PC, laptop and phone are all made in South Korea and Taiwan.
I think it's more likely their traffic would drop by 0.0001%. The authorities probably thought torrents were too technical for the average joe back in the days of Napster too.
No but seriously, these things are operated mainly by mapping services (Google uses quadcopters aerial photography), law enforcement (everything from little hand-launched models to Predators and big blimps), and the rest are experimental projects run by hackers with cash or defense companies.
Another "wasn't a problem before so isn't a problem with new tech" argument, real smart. Yeah what problems could possibly arise from the surveillance aircraft becoming smaller, quieter and cheaper?
This is a terrible attitude to have, it ignores the differences between a human and a machine and enables terrible abuses that are possible with the tirelessness and low running cost of a machine but would be terribly impractical to do with humans. You're allowing laws designed with humans in mind to be worked around through technological advances.
This is the nastiest sticking point in mobile hackability. Pretty much everything smaller than a netbook has a PowerVR GPU and if you get an unfixable binary blob driver for your OS of choice from them, you should consider yourself lucky.
Being an x86 CPU the performance should be better. Better performance at the same power draw? Sounds like an advantage. Although 2Ghz dual-core ARM CPUs are coming out now so it might not be that much.
What I'm looking forward to is the modding potential of portable devices running Win8. It's a regular x86 OS, so it should be pretty easy to install Linux on these things, more specifically Maemo, the best portable device OS ever!:D
No thanks, I'll stick to the keyboard + mouse or gamepad. I've already spent my novelty minutes for silly motion-controlled games on some early Wii games, and I spent my novelty minutes for Minority Report-style desktop controls back when the P5 glove came out. It makes your arms tired.
What's needed is to make the drones more autonomous, so they have some clue what to do if they lose the control signal, and I'm sure after the Sentinel capture incident they'll probably all be retrofitted with dead reckoning navigation devices so they can figure out when their GPS signal is being spoofed.
I don't see much of a chance of conventional warfare. The only potential enemies for the western world that would fight a conventional war are North Korea and China (and maybe Iran, but the US military could take them out before lunch using only some of their old equipment). China has too much to lose economically to start anything and North Korea has a less batshit-crazy leader now. Don't forget the Europeans have some pretty up-to-date stuff if needed, I know it will make America's collective dick go soft, but let those EF2000s and Rafales do some work.
Yeah I turned off the "browsing history" feature shortly after it was rolled out. As I've discussed elsewhere in this thread I'd like to "sandbox" any Google account activity in a separate private browsing window, I can't wait until Firefox allows concurrent private browsing like Chrome does.
When you're googling a suspicious piece of software you found on a Windows PC, the Doggfather can tell you when to drop it like it's hot and Britney can concur that it's not that innocent.
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You attacked the original iPhone for not having 3G
I did? I don't remember doing this and it doesn't seem like a point I'd criticize, but maybe you're memory's better than mine. Feel free to point out where I said this.
Your sig is especially hilarious, since without Apple, Android would still be on Blackberry-like devices and wouldn't be able to include things like Webkit. We'd all be stuck with DRM-locked music from online stores and people would laugh at you if you suggested a 10" touchscreen tablet as something the consumer would want to buy.
My sig has nothing to do with Android whatsoever. Apple hater != Android fanboy.
I have no problem with Blackberry-like devices personally, it's a better form factor than the touchscreen-only phone IMO (although the landscape slider gives the best of all worlds, at the cost of a bit of thickness). Without WebKit other phones would just use Mozilla-based browsers, so that's no big loss. Apple may have helped push DRM-free music, but that's basically irrelevant to everybody but US residents, who still can't buy DRM-free music anyways.
If people laughed at the idea of a tablet I'd have no problem with that either, tablets can be more useful than laptops or phones for a few tasks but it isn't a terribly useful form overall. Tablet-shaped e-readers would find their way onto the market, but tablets wouldn't be seen in computing until convertible laptops become cheap, and even then people would only flip their screens around for reading and use while standing.
They're not perfect by any means, but they're far from the Machiavellian evil empire that people on slashdot [childish ad-hominem removed] seem to think they are.
No they certainly are a Machiavellian evil empire, worse than Microsoft ever was. Bringing curated computing into the mainstream is the worst thing ever done in the history of computing, they're at least as anti-competitive as MS ever was, they're worse on openness than Microsoft even if it doesn't seem that way because they use openwashing instead of being openly hostile to openness as MS is, and their hyper-aggressive patent bullying is in the news every day. If you hated Microsoft at any point you should hate the shit out of Apple right now.
I don't think you understand how open source works. Not surprised...
You have an N950!? Ugggh JEALOUSY OVERLOAD x_x
Yeah my home server has a Foxconn mobo and my work PC (which I didn't buy) has some Foxconn bits in it, but that's it. Gaming PC, laptop and phone are all made in South Korea and Taiwan.
See here:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2616908&cid=38672518
And if you're not going to pull the "but it doesn't have a cell modem in it so it doesn't count!" argument, then accept the final nail in the coffin.
Since apparently VoIP doesn't count as phone capability to you, I guess I shouldn't mention the WiMax version either.
Well then would you accept the Treo 180g or Visorphone?
I think it's more likely their traffic would drop by 0.0001%. The authorities probably thought torrents were too technical for the average joe back in the days of Napster too.
.onion and .i2p sites are the way to go!
All TPB has to do is set up some darknet sites and they'll be un-blockable worldwide.
See: YouTube takedown shitfest, esp. illegitimate takedown of MegaUpload (or whatever it's called) promotional music video.
Wasn't there a low-budget sci-fi movie like this?
Haha sounds fair! Protect the homeland! XD
No but seriously, these things are operated mainly by mapping services (Google uses quadcopters aerial photography), law enforcement (everything from little hand-launched models to Predators and big blimps), and the rest are experimental projects run by hackers with cash or defense companies.
Another "wasn't a problem before so isn't a problem with new tech" argument, real smart. Yeah what problems could possibly arise from the surveillance aircraft becoming smaller, quieter and cheaper?
This is a terrible attitude to have, it ignores the differences between a human and a machine and enables terrible abuses that are possible with the tirelessness and low running cost of a machine but would be terribly impractical to do with humans. You're allowing laws designed with humans in mind to be worked around through technological advances.
This is the nastiest sticking point in mobile hackability. Pretty much everything smaller than a netbook has a PowerVR GPU and if you get an unfixable binary blob driver for your OS of choice from them, you should consider yourself lucky.
Being an x86 CPU the performance should be better. Better performance at the same power draw? Sounds like an advantage. Although 2Ghz dual-core ARM CPUs are coming out now so it might not be that much.
What I'm looking forward to is the modding potential of portable devices running Win8. It's a regular x86 OS, so it should be pretty easy to install Linux on these things, more specifically Maemo, the best portable device OS ever! :D
Sounds fair.
No thanks, I'll stick to the keyboard + mouse or gamepad. I've already spent my novelty minutes for silly motion-controlled games on some early Wii games, and I spent my novelty minutes for Minority Report-style desktop controls back when the P5 glove came out. It makes your arms tired.
I had many lols XD
You can still jam it though.
What's needed is to make the drones more autonomous, so they have some clue what to do if they lose the control signal, and I'm sure after the Sentinel capture incident they'll probably all be retrofitted with dead reckoning navigation devices so they can figure out when their GPS signal is being spoofed.
I don't see much of a chance of conventional warfare. The only potential enemies for the western world that would fight a conventional war are North Korea and China (and maybe Iran, but the US military could take them out before lunch using only some of their old equipment). China has too much to lose economically to start anything and North Korea has a less batshit-crazy leader now. Don't forget the Europeans have some pretty up-to-date stuff if needed, I know it will make America's collective dick go soft, but let those EF2000s and Rafales do some work.
Yeah I turned off the "browsing history" feature shortly after it was rolled out. As I've discussed elsewhere in this thread I'd like to "sandbox" any Google account activity in a separate private browsing window, I can't wait until Firefox allows concurrent private browsing like Chrome does.
When you're googling a suspicious piece of software you found on a Windows PC, the Doggfather can tell you when to drop it like it's hot and Britney can concur that it's not that innocent.
That's been true for years though.
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