I rooted my Galaxy S4 and never looked back. These days with stuff like towelroot and the like around root is stupid simple to get. Bootloaders are a little more.murky, honestly the carriers shouldn't be allowed to lock devices down unless there is a clearly defined way to unlock them. I get the security worries, but that doesn't mean all devices have to be locked down all the time for everybody
Then get a phone on which you can unlock the bootloader, put on whatever ROM you want (Cyanogenmod is pretty damn good) and forget about this stupid artificial lockdown horseshit the carriers cook up to move new handsets. Their warranty's aren't worth shit in the first place, why the fuck do we accept being locked down to a specific carriers stupid ass upgrade schedules and other self-serving bullshit? You wouldn't by a computer that was permanently locked down to a particular version of Windows, why the fuck do you put up with a phone permanently locked to the carriers capricious whims?
I don't know how good it is, but there's always that old standby of "That's just not how we do things here" that'll see the same shit happening again and again for years to come. The thought of giving independents a fair shakes disagrees with practically everyone's good thing. The Democrats don't want some far left moon bats cribbing votes from their flank, the Republicans don't care much for thought of the far right slipping out of their grasp, and thought of some middle of the road party eating both their lunches makes certain that we'll not see any meaningful movements toward dislodging the entrenched interests we've already got.
Or you know, the next guys can just build a better machine. I can't see how a society as obsessed with efficiency as ours could do anything else. They can paper it over with talk of innovation, and leveraging synergies.
It's a good thing they don't have something like %APPDATA%, otherwise there would be the worst of both worlds! A registry crammed full of cruft and detritus AND a hundred thousand vendor whatever files laying about.
"Should we put this config option in the registry or the config file?" "Flip a coin!"
No kidding, what a luddite! He should be embracing the Bank's innovations in extracting maximum profit from customers. Their bloated fee structures, heavy handed customer service and predatory lending practices should be the envy of any smaller bank or credit union. Those little guys must be a bunch of losers if they're not doing everything they possibly can to maximize profit at the expense of customers!
Remember kids, if you're not "Too Big to Fail" you're not big enough!
What, you thought because the US is touted as a leader in technology that our financial system wouldn't be lodged firmly in the 1980's? What the banks want, the banks get. And what the banks want, is to keep reaming us with absurd fees for services the rest of the world takes for granted. They're going to drag their feet for as long as possible about doing anything that even hints at being good for consumers, and once they do, they're going to make sure we pay dearly for it.
$4.99/transaction fee for NFC transactions? Sure, why the hell not?
Exactly! We need a new set of companies to dominate the market, to create new and exciting security problems, innovative modes of discrimination and exploitation, and new types of excessive charges. So what if it has a clunky interface, requires always on mobile service (and data charges) and probably creates new efficiencies for remote theft?
Theoretically NFC payment systems should allow greater degrees of consumer control, security measures and ease of use, but lets be realistic here: which software company do you believe can actually pull off more than two of the three? Google will be changing shit around every version for no reason other than because they can, the Apple version will be easy to use for one or two use-cases and a complete clusterfuck for the rest and this CurrentC thing will be the complete abomination that it sounds like. Amazon will jump in with some poorly thought out copy-cat version of the Google NFC that only works on Amazon.com, and Microsoft will blunder in late in the game with a solution that's reasonably well engineered and has a slick interface, but no one uses it because no one uses it.
At this point, I imagine that if NFC were the new way of payments, that Google and Apple will end up being the de facto means of utilizing the technology, and we'll all be stuck a little bit deeper in either of their respective tar pits, dependent on them first for communication, then for financial transactions. "My Android was free with a two year contract, sign me right the fuck up for some more sweet, sweet vendor lock in baby!"
How about they don't be self-centered pricks and accept quarantine instead of risking infecting thousands of people. Getting around quarantines like that should be highly illegal. The guy was a doctor, he should have known better.
Yeah, good luck with that. So many of the world's problems could be solved if only people would stop being self centered jerks! And then we could all link arms and sing Kumbaya!
These cases of doctors/nurses traveling even after exposure are particularly egregious, but human history is literally a case study in self centered and thoughtless behavior, "screw you i got mine" mentality and other related, unpleasant human traits. Why can't we all just get along??
The worst part is the animation duration, how in the hell can you use a system where it takes nearly two seconds for each menu to appear? It's completely insane!
Considering that the Feds probably get a copy of everything they gather in the first place, I can hardly see them fining Apple for doing their work for them! The very idea of Apple turning all this data over to the Feds for "disposal" is utterly ludicrous. There may still yet be some areas of the US government that work for the people, but the DOJ and Intelligence agencies are clearly serving one interest: their own.
No, I don't understand it. And I don't really feel as though I want to, since I'm only working in a Windows environment because I'm too lazy to switch back and forth between a Linux one for work and Windows for games. I do web development, and it will be a cold day in hell before I touch any part of the MS web stack, so I spend most of my time remoted into one Linux box or another. Cygwin fills in the gaps..Net? Hmmph, more like.Meh
Something very much like the, uh, modern hosts file was originally specified by rfc952 in 1985. So the venerable hosts file is nearly 30 years old! That's like 10,000 in computer years!
[INSERT LONG ASS LIST OF FILES HERE IN SIMILAR FORMAT TO ls -l THAT SLASHDOT REFUSES TO LET ME POST]
PS C:\> Set-Location dev PS C:\dev> Get-Content _vimrc.....
How one might obtain a directory listing in a concise format is beyond me. Sure, those stupid commands are aliased to ls and cd, but the "real" versions are indicative of how all the commands are named. Names only a Java dev could love. Invoke-some-random-command-with-a-very-long-name-for-no-reason. LOL.
My personal favorite, however, is command invocation: PS C:\> 7z.exe Bad numeric constant: 7. (What??)
PS C:\> '7z.exe' 7z.exe (Uh...)
PS C:\> & '.\7z.exe' (WTF?)
7-Zip 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18
Every command drags you further and further down into the soul crushing hell that is COM, or whatever the current framework du jour is this year. I suppose it must be useful for something, but I think I'll stick with GnuWin32 and the powershell's idiot cousin, cmd.exe when I absolutely must work on a windows box.
Terseness. Hah. I'm sure the poor sons of bitches stuck administering a bunch of crufty Windows boxes get some millage out of it, but I'll be damned if I'd use it for day to day CLI work.
Silly little man, they don't have countrymen. They have SUBJECTS. They're only doing what's best for us, we're just too stupid and small minded to understand it.
The US spends six times as much in order to keep the NASA boondoggle afloat. I'm for space exploration as much as the next guy, but lets not pretend that the modern US space program is kept around for any reason other than it's a massive jobs program for the defense/aerospace industries.
That they do some good science despite the cynical, money grubbing bullshit is a miracle.
My understanding is it's C++, so a complete rewrite from the PC version. There's no way in hell it's Java, and I doubt they'd bother with XNA/C# if they had access to the real developer environment.
"The Interecept reports that contrary to lurid claims made by U.S. officials, a new independent analysis of Edward Snowden's revelations on NSA surveillance that examined the frequency of releases and updates of encryption software by jihadi groups, has found no correlation, in either measure, to Snowden's leaks about the NSA's surveillance techniques."
It is one hell of a long sentence though, definitely longer than the modern reader is used to.
You know, when you have a really nice, new, shiny weather vane. That warm and tingly sense of well being is Vane Satisfaction.
Vein Satisfaction is probably something from Dwarf Fortress. "Urist McHappyPants has been quite satisfied lately. He passed a beautiful vein of gold recently."
Ctrl-C in any alert type box copies the content to the clipboard. Well, it copies much more than that, which is weird, but it does copy the important bits. Can't find an example right now, but the format is hideous. You've got to paste it in a text editor first, but it's better than nothing.
My personal most hated feature of windows is that god awful "Choose a Folder" dialog that gives you a shitty, small tree list that you can't resize to stumble through your file system with. It's one of the absolute worst dialogs in computing history, and we've been stuck using it since at least Windows 95. The worst part is that it's possible to use the regular Open dialog for directories, but lazy ass devs use the simplest (for them) method of calling that fucking mess of shit.
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I rooted my Galaxy S4 and never looked back. These days with stuff like towelroot and the like around root is stupid simple to get. Bootloaders are a little more.murky, honestly the carriers shouldn't be allowed to lock devices down unless there is a clearly defined way to unlock them. I get the security worries, but that doesn't mean all devices have to be locked down all the time for everybody
Then get a phone on which you can unlock the bootloader, put on whatever ROM you want (Cyanogenmod is pretty damn good) and forget about this stupid artificial lockdown horseshit the carriers cook up to move new handsets. Their warranty's aren't worth shit in the first place, why the fuck do we accept being locked down to a specific carriers stupid ass upgrade schedules and other self-serving bullshit? You wouldn't by a computer that was permanently locked down to a particular version of Windows, why the fuck do you put up with a phone permanently locked to the carriers capricious whims?
I don't know how good it is, but there's always that old standby of "That's just not how we do things here" that'll see the same shit happening again and again for years to come. The thought of giving independents a fair shakes disagrees with practically everyone's good thing. The Democrats don't want some far left moon bats cribbing votes from their flank, the Republicans don't care much for thought of the far right slipping out of their grasp, and thought of some middle of the road party eating both their lunches makes certain that we'll not see any meaningful movements toward dislodging the entrenched interests we've already got.
Or you know, the next guys can just build a better machine. I can't see how a society as obsessed with efficiency as ours could do anything else. They can paper it over with talk of innovation, and leveraging synergies.
It's a good thing they don't have something like %APPDATA%, otherwise there would be the worst of both worlds! A registry crammed full of cruft and detritus AND a hundred thousand vendor whatever files laying about.
"Should we put this config option in the registry or the config file?"
"Flip a coin!"
No kidding, what a luddite! He should be embracing the Bank's innovations in extracting maximum profit from customers. Their bloated fee structures, heavy handed customer service and predatory lending practices should be the envy of any smaller bank or credit union. Those little guys must be a bunch of losers if they're not doing everything they possibly can to maximize profit at the expense of customers!
Remember kids, if you're not "Too Big to Fail" you're not big enough!
What, you thought because the US is touted as a leader in technology that our financial system wouldn't be lodged firmly in the 1980's? What the banks want, the banks get. And what the banks want, is to keep reaming us with absurd fees for services the rest of the world takes for granted. They're going to drag their feet for as long as possible about doing anything that even hints at being good for consumers, and once they do, they're going to make sure we pay dearly for it.
$4.99/transaction fee for NFC transactions? Sure, why the hell not?
Exactly! We need a new set of companies to dominate the market, to create new and exciting security problems, innovative modes of discrimination and exploitation, and new types of excessive charges. So what if it has a clunky interface, requires always on mobile service (and data charges) and probably creates new efficiencies for remote theft?
Theoretically NFC payment systems should allow greater degrees of consumer control, security measures and ease of use, but lets be realistic here: which software company do you believe can actually pull off more than two of the three? Google will be changing shit around every version for no reason other than because they can, the Apple version will be easy to use for one or two use-cases and a complete clusterfuck for the rest and this CurrentC thing will be the complete abomination that it sounds like. Amazon will jump in with some poorly thought out copy-cat version of the Google NFC that only works on Amazon.com, and Microsoft will blunder in late in the game with a solution that's reasonably well engineered and has a slick interface, but no one uses it because no one uses it.
At this point, I imagine that if NFC were the new way of payments, that Google and Apple will end up being the de facto means of utilizing the technology, and we'll all be stuck a little bit deeper in either of their respective tar pits, dependent on them first for communication, then for financial transactions. "My Android was free with a two year contract, sign me right the fuck up for some more sweet, sweet vendor lock in baby!"
How about they don't be self-centered pricks and accept quarantine instead of risking infecting thousands of people. Getting around quarantines like that should be highly illegal. The guy was a doctor, he should have known better.
Yeah, good luck with that. So many of the world's problems could be solved if only people would stop being self centered jerks! And then we could all link arms and sing Kumbaya!
These cases of doctors/nurses traveling even after exposure are particularly egregious, but human history is literally a case study in self centered and thoughtless behavior, "screw you i got mine" mentality and other related, unpleasant human traits. Why can't we all just get along??
The worst part is the animation duration, how in the hell can you use a system where it takes nearly two seconds for each menu to appear? It's completely insane!
As long as you can still turn them off. Just one more thing to add to the post-install de-crapification checklist.
Considering that the Feds probably get a copy of everything they gather in the first place, I can hardly see them fining Apple for doing their work for them! The very idea of Apple turning all this data over to the Feds for "disposal" is utterly ludicrous. There may still yet be some areas of the US government that work for the people, but the DOJ and Intelligence agencies are clearly serving one interest: their own.
Does Windows 10 preview incorporate some manner of AI algorithm for making such determinations?
I could get in big trouble for this, they made me sign an NDA but here's the pseudo-code:
function gatherTextData(field) {
if (field.type == "password") {
return ""
}
else {
return field.value
}
}
I think they've got a patent pending, it's pretty complicated stuff.
As for the registry, there's a great front end that fully resembles a file system view...
I've called regedit.exe a lot of things over the years, and great was never one of them.
No, I don't understand it. And I don't really feel as though I want to, since I'm only working in a Windows environment because I'm too lazy to switch back and forth between a Linux one for work and Windows for games. I do web development, and it will be a cold day in hell before I touch any part of the MS web stack, so I spend most of my time remoted into one Linux box or another. Cygwin fills in the gaps. .Net? Hmmph, more like .Meh
I can!
Something very much like the, uh, modern hosts file was originally specified by rfc952 in 1985. So the venerable hosts file is nearly 30 years old! That's like 10,000 in computer years!
QED.
Terseness??
PS C:\> Get-ChildItem
[INSERT LONG ASS LIST OF FILES HERE IN SIMILAR FORMAT TO ls -l THAT SLASHDOT REFUSES TO LET ME POST]
PS C:\> Set-Location dev .....
PS C:\dev> Get-Content _vimrc
How one might obtain a directory listing in a concise format is beyond me.
Sure, those stupid commands are aliased to ls and cd, but the "real" versions are indicative of how all the commands are named. Names only a Java dev could love. Invoke-some-random-command-with-a-very-long-name-for-no-reason. LOL.
My personal favorite, however, is command invocation:
PS C:\> 7z.exe
Bad numeric constant: 7. (What??)
PS C:\> '7z.exe'
7z.exe (Uh...)
PS C:\> & '.\7z.exe' (WTF?)
7-Zip 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18
Every command drags you further and further down into the soul crushing hell that is COM, or whatever the current framework du jour is this year. I suppose it must be useful for something, but I think I'll stick with GnuWin32 and the powershell's idiot cousin, cmd.exe when I absolutely must work on a windows box.
Terseness. Hah. I'm sure the poor sons of bitches stuck administering a bunch of crufty Windows boxes get some millage out of it, but I'll be damned if I'd use it for day to day CLI work.
Silly little man, they don't have countrymen. They have SUBJECTS. They're only doing what's best for us, we're just too stupid and small minded to understand it.
The US spends six times as much in order to keep the NASA boondoggle afloat. I'm for space exploration as much as the next guy, but lets not pretend that the modern US space program is kept around for any reason other than it's a massive jobs program for the defense/aerospace industries.
That they do some good science despite the cynical, money grubbing bullshit is a miracle.
My understanding is it's C++, so a complete rewrite from the PC version. There's no way in hell it's Java, and I doubt they'd bother with XNA/C# if they had access to the real developer environment.
Some commas might make it a little better...
"The Interecept reports that contrary to lurid claims made by U.S. officials, a new independent analysis of Edward Snowden's revelations on NSA surveillance that examined the frequency of releases and updates of encryption software by jihadi groups, has found no correlation, in either measure, to Snowden's leaks about the NSA's surveillance techniques."
It is one hell of a long sentence though, definitely longer than the modern reader is used to.
You know, when you have a really nice, new, shiny weather vane. That warm and tingly sense of well being is Vane Satisfaction.
Vein Satisfaction is probably something from Dwarf Fortress. "Urist McHappyPants has been quite satisfied lately. He passed a beautiful vein of gold recently."
Sounds like it's preparing students to enter the workforce just fine then.
Ctrl-C in any alert type box copies the content to the clipboard. Well, it copies much more than that, which is weird, but it does copy the important bits. Can't find an example right now, but the format is hideous. You've got to paste it in a text editor first, but it's better than nothing.
My personal most hated feature of windows is that god awful "Choose a Folder" dialog that gives you a shitty, small tree list that you can't resize to stumble through your file system with. It's one of the absolute worst dialogs in computing history, and we've been stuck using it since at least Windows 95. The worst part is that it's possible to use the regular Open dialog for directories, but lazy ass devs use the simplest (for them) method of calling that fucking mess of shit.
Ah yes, the good old, "We should do what the guys with captive markets do, because it's Smarter." argument. Cracks me up every time.
Which is so much better than the good old, "We should do the opposite of what the guys with captive markets do, because they're doing it" argument.