It's okay. The people who study the end of the world and the people who study the beginning are mutually exclusive groups. No one of consequence will be smitten by Nibiru, only the true believers.
Jailbreaking is an extremely technical and precise word. Perhaps they didn't teach this in the English courses at your university, but the more specific an analogy is, the more distracting dissimilarities there are, and the less effective it is as a means of conveyance. To carry it to illustrative extremes, if I said it was time to phosphorylate the myosin light-chain kinases of revolution, you would be too distracted by the biological gobbledegook to recognise that I meant "contract the muscles of revolution," which itself is distracting and strange imagery.
As a piece of writing, it was downright sloppy, because the majority of the people who know what the word means also associate it very tightly with its actual meaning, excepting of course that inevitable meniscus of 'hip' technical writers who write groaners like this. (And look, now you have to go look up what "meniscus" means, only to find that the word makes no sense in context and that I have wasted your time with distracting language when I could have just said "layer" or "coating.") A good analogy is built on loose, everyday concepts and experiences, not a complicated freedom of speech issue that gives RMS hives.
You may deeply outclass me on knowledge about this particular topic, but it was my understanding that the original formulation, before it was laden with pork and cruft to try and poison it (similar to adding first-cousin marriage to a gay marriage bill in order to poison it) was actually pretty responsible and progressive. I've also heard it claimed that it's the first step toward deeper reform and a chance of socializing the American medical system into something more modern.
In iOS, application programmers can only perform the following seven tasks in the background:
Background audio - application continues to run in the background as long as it is playing audio or video content
Voice over IP - application is suspended when a phone call is not in progress
Background location - application is notified of location changes
Push notifications
Local notifications - application schedules local notifications to be delivered at a predetermined time
Task completion - application asks the system for extra time to complete a given task
Fast app switching - application does not execute any code and may be removed from memory at any time
So basically, no; the program is suspended if it isn't using one of these facilities. The OS obviously supports true multitasking, and there is a Cydia program called Activator which lets you control how individual programs behave, but it no longer works on iOS 5, and Apple tries to sandbox app developers as much as possible to control this component of the UI experience. Their reasoning, whether you agree with it or not (and I don't think many geeks do) is that such constraints prevent "Where is my battery going?" moments for the especially non-technical. Apparently ensuring the approval of this portion of the market was more important than permitting the flexibility that true multitasking obviously allows. Since Apple makes money anyway, they can always offer to remove these artificial limitations in a later update.
But don't get too upset over that last part about money—the fact that Apple gets a cut of every single sale is still way more unnerving.
To be fair, and just in case you didn't know, WinPhone 7 is very, very heavily rewritten from the WinMo days of yore. (Not that I'd ever voluntarily touch one myself.)
The primary reason mobile IM programs like eBuddy for iOS use bouncing servers isn't a technical necessity. There are plenty of IM programs that go straight to the source, in fact; even IRC, FTP, and SMB clients exist. One reason that eBuddy in particular connects through its own server is to provide an answering service, like an IRC reverse proxy. Simply put, it caches messages when you're out of signal range; if you have something like an iPod touch with no ubiquitous cell tower coverage, this is quite useful. (Of course, it also lets them read your stuff, but fortunately there are plenty of alternatives.)
Just the same, there's two things that don't sit right with me about that theory: (a) they're not that gutsy the rest of the time, and (b) he's still doing things like his Medicare reform, which totally cheesed off pretty much everyone. I don't think we can say either way whether or not he intended to diverge from his campaign promises as much as he has.
I think you may've overshot a point here. Yes, he could just order it shut down, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't amass very powerful entities. If Congress or the Senate or another committee hates the President, they're petty enough to vote against all of his initiatives regardless of merit. If you run afoul of the CIA, then no matter who you are, that's going to cause problems for you. Members of Congress have forced each other into voting for pork by attaching it to defense bills and attacking their opponents for lacking patriotism. The fucking NSA and DoJ have been caught conspiring to ruin lives. Robocalling. Filibusters. These are not people who fight fairly.
Did you assume that corruption went no further than simple bribes and kickbacks of lobbying, with no defences should they get caught? How do you think ACTA got so much support from inside the government? The depth and complexity of corruption at the elected and senior levels far outstrips what we see in the newspapers. The system is so utterly entrenched that there is very little hope of fixing it.
No matter who had been elected President, he or she would be receiving the same blame. If anything, the rest of the Democrats let the new guy take the fall. Obama's short and bland track record suggests he was a relative outsider, and that he faced a great deal of adversity when his rhetoric fell upon the ears of the all-too-established old boys' clubs when he got in the door—although I guess you could say that Fox News's lack of pre-election hatred for him might have been some kind of foreshadowing that this was going to happen; either they knew he'd comply, had no chances of winning, or were too afraid of being accused of playing the race card.
C'mon now! We had no idea that would happen. He said he was going to shut down Guantanamo. (Personally, my pet theory is that everything below the head was so entrenched with Bush-appointed staff that Obama's widespread compromises were the only way to get anything done. But I'm Canadian, so I'm kinda in the peanut gallery.)
...but in all seriousness: okay, Mr. Venezia, you can jailbreak it. Just be careful you don't brick it. No one needs a bricked Internet. While you're at it, can you install a SIM unlock, too? I hear the service provider that the Internet comes with is terrible.
That's a fair point. In lieu of proper public forums (y'know, ones that actually promote discourse between diverse people rather than just facilitating our already-existing limited interpersonal relationships), like other forms of spam, the Eternal September isn't really a big deal for social networks. Unfortunately that comes at the cost of never having your worldview challenged.
We must enjoy this time while it lasts, before young adults start thinking the 20th century was a mythical time when dinosaurs walked the earth, the computer had not yet been invented, and people couldn't count past a hundred. ("Yeah, sure, I was born in one thousand nine-hundred and ninety-nine. So what?")
Well, I'll ask them, but I don't think they will be very keen. Uh, they already did that one, you see.
What?
He said they've already got one!
Are you sure they've got one?
Oh yes. It's very nice!
Admittedly it's not completely clear-cut, but he didn't exactly do as much as he could have. Observe:
Despite his diagnosis, Jobs resisted his doctors' recommendations for mainstream medical intervention for nine months,[103] instead consuming a special alternative medicine diet in an attempt to thwart the disease. According to Harvard researcher Dr. Ramzi Amir, his choice of alternative treatment "led to an unnecessarily early death".[136] According to Jobs's biographer, Walter Isaacson, "for nine months he refused to undergo surgery for his pancreatic cancer – a decision he later regretted as his health declined."[139] "Instead, he tried a vegan diet, acupuncture, herbal remedies and other treatments he found online, and even consulted a psychic. He also was influenced by a doctor who ran a clinic that advised juice fasts, bowel cleansings and other unproven approaches, before finally having surgery in July 2004."[140] He eventually underwent a pancreaticoduodenectomy (or "Whipple procedure") in July 2004, that appeared to successfully remove the tumor.[141][142][143] Jobs apparently did not receive chemotherapy or radiation therapy.[137][144] During Jobs's absence, Tim Cook, head of worldwide sales and operations at Apple, ran the company.[137]
So sayeth Wikipedia. The "flying to mysterious locations for exotic treatments" part did not work out so well.
I say, nonsense! Instead we should vote to rename the TSA to Central Services. I mean, we've already caught them red-handed making up acts of terrorism to facilitate power grabs—what's missing?
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It's okay. The people who study the end of the world and the people who study the beginning are mutually exclusive groups. No one of consequence will be smitten by Nibiru, only the true believers.
Jailbreaking is an extremely technical and precise word. Perhaps they didn't teach this in the English courses at your university, but the more specific an analogy is, the more distracting dissimilarities there are, and the less effective it is as a means of conveyance. To carry it to illustrative extremes, if I said it was time to phosphorylate the myosin light-chain kinases of revolution, you would be too distracted by the biological gobbledegook to recognise that I meant "contract the muscles of revolution," which itself is distracting and strange imagery.
As a piece of writing, it was downright sloppy, because the majority of the people who know what the word means also associate it very tightly with its actual meaning, excepting of course that inevitable meniscus of 'hip' technical writers who write groaners like this. (And look, now you have to go look up what "meniscus" means, only to find that the word makes no sense in context and that I have wasted your time with distracting language when I could have just said "layer" or "coating.") A good analogy is built on loose, everyday concepts and experiences, not a complicated freedom of speech issue that gives RMS hives.
You may deeply outclass me on knowledge about this particular topic, but it was my understanding that the original formulation, before it was laden with pork and cruft to try and poison it (similar to adding first-cousin marriage to a gay marriage bill in order to poison it) was actually pretty responsible and progressive. I've also heard it claimed that it's the first step toward deeper reform and a chance of socializing the American medical system into something more modern.
In iOS, application programmers can only perform the following seven tasks in the background:
Background audio - application continues to run in the background as long as it is playing audio or video content
Voice over IP - application is suspended when a phone call is not in progress
Background location - application is notified of location changes
Push notifications
Local notifications - application schedules local notifications to be delivered at a predetermined time
Task completion - application asks the system for extra time to complete a given task
Fast app switching - application does not execute any code and may be removed from memory at any time
So basically, no; the program is suspended if it isn't using one of these facilities. The OS obviously supports true multitasking, and there is a Cydia program called Activator which lets you control how individual programs behave, but it no longer works on iOS 5, and Apple tries to sandbox app developers as much as possible to control this component of the UI experience. Their reasoning, whether you agree with it or not (and I don't think many geeks do) is that such constraints prevent "Where is my battery going?" moments for the especially non-technical. Apparently ensuring the approval of this portion of the market was more important than permitting the flexibility that true multitasking obviously allows. Since Apple makes money anyway, they can always offer to remove these artificial limitations in a later update.
But don't get too upset over that last part about money—the fact that Apple gets a cut of every single sale is still way more unnerving.
To be fair, and just in case you didn't know, WinPhone 7 is very, very heavily rewritten from the WinMo days of yore. (Not that I'd ever voluntarily touch one myself.)
The primary reason mobile IM programs like eBuddy for iOS use bouncing servers isn't a technical necessity. There are plenty of IM programs that go straight to the source, in fact; even IRC, FTP, and SMB clients exist. One reason that eBuddy in particular connects through its own server is to provide an answering service, like an IRC reverse proxy. Simply put, it caches messages when you're out of signal range; if you have something like an iPod touch with no ubiquitous cell tower coverage, this is quite useful. (Of course, it also lets them read your stuff, but fortunately there are plenty of alternatives.)
Just the same, there's two things that don't sit right with me about that theory: (a) they're not that gutsy the rest of the time, and (b) he's still doing things like his Medicare reform, which totally cheesed off pretty much everyone. I don't think we can say either way whether or not he intended to diverge from his campaign promises as much as he has.
The Elders of the Internet would never allow such a thing!
I think you may've overshot a point here. Yes, he could just order it shut down, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't amass very powerful entities. If Congress or the Senate or another committee hates the President, they're petty enough to vote against all of his initiatives regardless of merit. If you run afoul of the CIA, then no matter who you are, that's going to cause problems for you. Members of Congress have forced each other into voting for pork by attaching it to defense bills and attacking their opponents for lacking patriotism. The fucking NSA and DoJ have been caught conspiring to ruin lives. Robocalling. Filibusters. These are not people who fight fairly.
Did you assume that corruption went no further than simple bribes and kickbacks of lobbying, with no defences should they get caught? How do you think ACTA got so much support from inside the government? The depth and complexity of corruption at the elected and senior levels far outstrips what we see in the newspapers. The system is so utterly entrenched that there is very little hope of fixing it.
No matter who had been elected President, he or she would be receiving the same blame. If anything, the rest of the Democrats let the new guy take the fall. Obama's short and bland track record suggests he was a relative outsider, and that he faced a great deal of adversity when his rhetoric fell upon the ears of the all-too-established old boys' clubs when he got in the door—although I guess you could say that Fox News's lack of pre-election hatred for him might have been some kind of foreshadowing that this was going to happen; either they knew he'd comply, had no chances of winning, or were too afraid of being accused of playing the race card.
C'mon now! We had no idea that would happen. He said he was going to shut down Guantanamo. (Personally, my pet theory is that everything below the head was so entrenched with Bush-appointed staff that Obama's widespread compromises were the only way to get anything done. But I'm Canadian, so I'm kinda in the peanut gallery.)
Then while we're at it, we should probably double-check just to make sure that the due process really truly is due. Remember that the US DoJ has had a few nasty smears on its track record when it comes to electronic surveillance. We need a less corruptible set of rules for arbitration in these cases.
Perhaps an all-knowing artificial intelligence would do the trick...
Give me RFCs or give me death, I say!
Oh god, it burns.
...but in all seriousness: okay, Mr. Venezia, you can jailbreak it. Just be careful you don't brick it. No one needs a bricked Internet. While you're at it, can you install a SIM unlock, too? I hear the service provider that the Internet comes with is terrible.
Heh. Heheh. Heh. You just reminded me of why phones and MRI don't mix.
Look at all the social network users without resistance to ostracism! Who's going to run civilization now? Zoidberg! That's who!
That's a fair point. In lieu of proper public forums (y'know, ones that actually promote discourse between diverse people rather than just facilitating our already-existing limited interpersonal relationships), like other forms of spam, the Eternal September isn't really a big deal for social networks. Unfortunately that comes at the cost of never having your worldview challenged.
We must enjoy this time while it lasts, before young adults start thinking the 20th century was a mythical time when dinosaurs walked the earth, the computer had not yet been invented, and people couldn't count past a hundred. ("Yeah, sure, I was born in one thousand nine-hundred and ninety-nine. So what?")
Yours,
- Samantha (b. 1988)
Well, I'll ask them, but I don't think they will be very keen. Uh, they already did that one, you see.
What?
He said they've already got one!
Are you sure they've got one?
Oh yes. It's very nice!
Admittedly it's not completely clear-cut, but he didn't exactly do as much as he could have. Observe:
Despite his diagnosis, Jobs resisted his doctors' recommendations for mainstream medical intervention for nine months,[103] instead consuming a special alternative medicine diet in an attempt to thwart the disease. According to Harvard researcher Dr. Ramzi Amir, his choice of alternative treatment "led to an unnecessarily early death".[136] According to Jobs's biographer, Walter Isaacson, "for nine months he refused to undergo surgery for his pancreatic cancer – a decision he later regretted as his health declined."[139] "Instead, he tried a vegan diet, acupuncture, herbal remedies and other treatments he found online, and even consulted a psychic. He also was influenced by a doctor who ran a clinic that advised juice fasts, bowel cleansings and other unproven approaches, before finally having surgery in July 2004."[140] He eventually underwent a pancreaticoduodenectomy (or "Whipple procedure") in July 2004, that appeared to successfully remove the tumor.[141][142][143] Jobs apparently did not receive chemotherapy or radiation therapy.[137][144] During Jobs's absence, Tim Cook, head of worldwide sales and operations at Apple, ran the company.[137]
So sayeth Wikipedia. The "flying to mysterious locations for exotic treatments" part did not work out so well.
In all fairness, and despite this being wildly off topic, Jobs died of cancer because he refused treatment.
Found it. Google totally ruins the dystopia of Brazil.
No, but some of them may be demolished to make room for a new hyperspace bypass.
I say, nonsense! Instead we should vote to rename the TSA to Central Services. I mean, we've already caught them red-handed making up acts of terrorism to facilitate power grabs—what's missing?
That works too.
Thought as much. Then let the rebuttals also be copied and pasted!