How's life at the Lodsys office now that you've drawn the attention of the company you specifically wanted to avoid dealing with by going after the little guys?
As a member of the Church of St. George, no amount of factual reporting will change your mind either since you can conveniently swap cause and effect around at will.
The fact that the PS3 existed was reason enough alone for hackers to go after it. The fact that it was a game console was enough reason to draw the pirates in. OtherOS was just a handy excuse for their failure to crack it until the first chink in the armor was found. You really expect me to believe that pirates and hackers left it alone out of the goodness of their hearts just because of some crappy linux distro?
So basically Sony started it by trying to pander to the homebrew crowd. Shame on them for releasing the PS3 at all then.
Hopefully you'll be satisfied when no one will dare make any sort of move that could be viewed as friendly to the homebrew crowd lest they draw similar ire.
How do you know that "academic" model isn't just the shell of the academic model with the guts of the normal version? They'd have to make it dissimilar enough to make it very work intensive to swap parts which would be more than a one button change between batches. (Or they just do as they have been doing and say "Bugger off hobbyists, we don't want your business nor will we cater to you, at all."
Good luck getting your point across. Some (well, a lot of) people just don't get the "less is more" idea nor that most times a specialized tool will beat a general one.
If they can't put linux on it it's not a tool basically.
"The thing is, I'm a user, so I don't really care how hard it is for them to upgrade their networks, or notice when they need to. I don't care why they need to, or which phone caused it."
You want your bandwidth now, big, and cheap, no matter the cost (to them) to do it. Score one for "enlightened" self-interest.
"I'll admit to being a little skeptical at the idea that they didn't see any of this coming because I and a lot of other people did the first time we picked up a useable smartphone, and we don't even work in the industry."
The first time you picked up a usable smartphone was the first time there was a usable phone to suck down unprecedented amounts or resources. Those evil telcos can't just snap their fingers and have new equipment just appear when and where they need it.
For cleanup in the office, the aeropress wins hands down. The coffee can be ejected as a puck and a quick wipe down of the plunger is usually all it needs. The French press needs to go down to the sink with a strainer to keep the grounds from going down the drain.
The aeropress has the coffee ready sooner, as water is only in contact with the grounds for ten to twenty seconds plus the 'plunging' time. So it's faster but you have to be working at it the whole time unlike the French press which you can ignore while it brews.
Flavorwise, I'd have to give it to the aeropress. The shorter time in contact with the water seems to keep the bitterness down and since the bulk of the water is added after the pressing it is easier to adjust to taste. Not a world-shattering difference, probably not easily noticed by someone conditioned to live on office sludge, but it's there.
So in general, I prefer the aeropress. About the only downside it has is the quantity of coffee it can make in one go. If I'm making coffee for more than myself I use a French press.
The sludge in the breakroom is not representative of all coffee.
I too hated coffee as all I had experienced was office coffee or the stuff set out for events or meetings. Then I had coffee that wasn't prepared in a crappy automatic drip coffee maker. (Norwegian egg coffee for the record.)
Now I have a water kettle and a french press and an aeropress in my cubicle as well as a hand powered grinder. When I have the time at home I've found Turkish Coffee to be well worth the effort.
You have to remember that on/. (and unfortunately more of our world) if there is any intersection between A and B, no matter how little, it need merely exist, then A == B.
Since Terrorism kills people and War kills people, then War == Terrorism.
People willing to use suicide bombers would be willing to use suicide gunners that get close enough that spray and pray has a chance of working before getting mowed down by security or blowing themselves up.
The bad guys already have access to high power highly accurate sniper rifles (even a lowly modern deer rifle can reach out quite a ways with some accuracy), if you're willing to lose the gunman OSOK isn't important anymore.
Earth used to have a CO2 atmosphere until this new form of life (plants) showed up and started spewing O2 into it as waste bi-product from their "photosynthesis".
Some people are just trying to restore Earth to its natural state. How much greener can you get than that?
Those agencies at the turn of the 1900's aren't costing them their precious money, previous generations paid for them so those are A-OK.
But the agencies and administrations in place now are costing them money, so they've simply got to go. Look at how well things are running now, we don't need them anymore anyways.
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Walking (usually) doesn't involve using multi-ton murder machines.
Apple did buy a license to the patent.
How's life at the Lodsys office now that you've drawn the attention of the company you specifically wanted to avoid dealing with by going after the little guys?
As a member of the Church of St. George, no amount of factual reporting will change your mind either since you can conveniently swap cause and effect around at will.
The fact that the PS3 existed was reason enough alone for hackers to go after it. The fact that it was a game console was enough reason to draw the pirates in. OtherOS was just a handy excuse for their failure to crack it until the first chink in the armor was found. You really expect me to believe that pirates and hackers left it alone out of the goodness of their hearts just because of some crappy linux distro?
So basically Sony started it by trying to pander to the homebrew crowd. Shame on them for releasing the PS3 at all then.
Hopefully you'll be satisfied when no one will dare make any sort of move that could be viewed as friendly to the homebrew crowd lest they draw similar ire.
"Lets not forget Sony started the fight with the community"
Hmm, I thought the community started the fight by using OtherOS to hack the PS3's security.
The author was probably just pissed because he didn't get raptured and doesn't feel complete without some sort of end-of-days prediction.
I value my time and like not having to deal with basement dwellers any more than I have to, so let's not go back to the Sinclair model.
How do you know that "academic" model isn't just the shell of the academic model with the guts of the normal version? They'd have to make it dissimilar enough to make it very work intensive to swap parts which would be more than a one button change between batches. (Or they just do as they have been doing and say "Bugger off hobbyists, we don't want your business nor will we cater to you, at all."
I bet that they had an app for English class as well.
Good luck getting your point across. Some (well, a lot of) people just don't get the "less is more" idea nor that most times a specialized tool will beat a general one.
If they can't put linux on it it's not a tool basically.
"The thing is, I'm a user, so I don't really care how hard it is for them to upgrade their networks, or notice when they need to. I don't care why they need to, or which phone caused it."
You want your bandwidth now, big, and cheap, no matter the cost (to them) to do it. Score one for "enlightened" self-interest.
"I'll admit to being a little skeptical at the idea that they didn't see any of this coming because I and a lot of other people did the first time we picked up a useable smartphone, and we don't even work in the industry."
The first time you picked up a usable smartphone was the first time there was a usable phone to suck down unprecedented amounts or resources. Those evil telcos can't just snap their fingers and have new equipment just appear when and where they need it.
I haven't bothered to look (nor do I want them getting any ad revenue from a peek at their site) but is the tulip the official symbol of bitcoin?
For cleanup in the office, the aeropress wins hands down. The coffee can be ejected as a puck and a quick wipe down of the plunger is usually all it needs. The French press needs to go down to the sink with a strainer to keep the grounds from going down the drain.
The aeropress has the coffee ready sooner, as water is only in contact with the grounds for ten to twenty seconds plus the 'plunging' time. So it's faster but you have to be working at it the whole time unlike the French press which you can ignore while it brews.
Flavorwise, I'd have to give it to the aeropress. The shorter time in contact with the water seems to keep the bitterness down and since the bulk of the water is added after the pressing it is easier to adjust to taste. Not a world-shattering difference, probably not easily noticed by someone conditioned to live on office sludge, but it's there.
So in general, I prefer the aeropress. About the only downside it has is the quantity of coffee it can make in one go. If I'm making coffee for more than myself I use a French press.
The sludge in the breakroom is not representative of all coffee.
I too hated coffee as all I had experienced was office coffee or the stuff set out for events or meetings. Then I had coffee that wasn't prepared in a crappy automatic drip coffee maker. (Norwegian egg coffee for the record.)
Now I have a water kettle and a french press and an aeropress in my cubicle as well as a hand powered grinder. When I have the time at home I've found Turkish Coffee to be well worth the effort.
You just need the Atreides no-gene. He'll never see you coming then.
Doesn't DSK have the nickname of "The Seducer" back in France?
He is (the new?) west[l|b]ake, master of sockpuppets and trollery. That deserves some sort of respect.
BitCoins are no good out here. I need something more real.
You have to remember that on /. (and unfortunately more of our world) if there is any intersection between A and B, no matter how little, it need merely exist, then A == B.
Since Terrorism kills people and War kills people, then War == Terrorism.
Great, first Truthers, then Birthers, then Deathers and now Sumterers.
People willing to use suicide bombers would be willing to use suicide gunners that get close enough that spray and pray has a chance of working before getting mowed down by security or blowing themselves up.
The bad guys already have access to high power highly accurate sniper rifles (even a lowly modern deer rifle can reach out quite a ways with some accuracy), if you're willing to lose the gunman OSOK isn't important anymore.
Wouldn't the 4 or 5 hour battery life be a downside?
One "word": BOGO.
Once they start selling Android tablets BOGO like the phones the tablets might start to be competitive.
Earth used to have a CO2 atmosphere until this new form of life (plants) showed up and started spewing O2 into it as waste bi-product from their "photosynthesis".
Some people are just trying to restore Earth to its natural state. How much greener can you get than that?
Those agencies at the turn of the 1900's aren't costing them their precious money, previous generations paid for them so those are A-OK.
But the agencies and administrations in place now are costing them money, so they've simply got to go. Look at how well things are running now, we don't need them anymore anyways.