Someone else already pointed out the settings configuration on Android, which is massive, hard to navigate, and hard to find things in.
Scrolling is, imo, terrible on Android. It feels like I'm working hard to scroll, and there are delays from when I move my finger to when the scrolling starts. This seems like a minor complaint, but this sort of thing (input lag from when you make the input to when you see results) is really a big deal in HCI.
The mail client is simply atrocious. Gmail is fine, but then you're stuck with Gmail services. I run my own mail server, and have no interest in using Gmail for my primary contacts. Incidentally, iOS4 has a much better mail client than iPhone OS 3. Threading is one of the big big things I've wanted in a mobile phone email client. k9mail, probably the best alternate email client on Android, doesn't do threading either, but is far and away better than the stock client. I haven't found an email client for Android which does threading.
Tap to zoom is far better on iOS4.
I really need to start keeping a list of these issues so that I can just link to it every time someone asks. There are a ton of little things that keep popping up and making me want to sell the Droid and cancel my contract, but I just live with it.
But anyway, I've found the android pretty easy and pleasant to use. To see any Linux you actually have to get a third party utility to open a shell.
I was really making a comparison about UI design, not saying that you actually see Linux on Android. The point is that it's cumbersome compared to iOS, not that it looks like Linux.
The only complaint I have is the App store. There is a big delay after I select something before it downloads and then it usually downloads slowly even when using the phone on wifi.
I've seen this a handful of times. I have no idea why it happens, but it's annoying. Luckily, I haven't seen it that often.
That's not really how the article describes push polling, which is more of a way of campaigning (or mudslinging) than a method of polling. Push polling is a way to get the people you poll to think something is true. This is more of a manipulation of the poll in order to get the results you want so that the rest of the world thinks that your outcome is true.
I then got a Droid, which was the next best Android phone at the time. When my contract is up, I'll probably switch back to the iPhone unless significant improvements have been made to Android by then. Android has a very Linuxy mindset--it can do just about anything you want, but the user experience is very poor. Compare to the iPhone, which does slightly less in practice (for me at least, the only thing the iPhone doesn't do is tether) but is more or less a joy to use.
18 months is a long time in phones these days, so who knows what the future will bring. But for myself, for now, I wish I had stuck with Apple.
Again, for the sake of argument, the US does not recognize Internet Access as a right. This means that there's generally no burden to preserve such access, or to provide for it to be provided indiscriminately except inasmuch as any corporation must provide services--not discriminating by race, sex, etc.
I'm generally in favor of the pipe analogy. Give me a pipe and let me do what I want with it. Don't interfere. I'm just trying to see both sides of the issue.
This is fantastically analogous to Net Neutrality. Right now, we have lots of websites competing for our attention. If ISPs are allowed to block/slow down websites, suddenly we won't be the ones deciding which websites we get to go to. Competition decreases, the customer loses.
But they went from zero to here in around one year.
With a large portion of the design already done for them.
I have heard and read from some people that they are already moving to Suricata because they think it has a better future than Snort or because they like some feature that it has.
Snort has been saying (for a long time) that 3.0 with threads would be coming really soon now. I think that a lot of people are jumping to Suricata because of that, as well as because of the fact that they consider it more "open." Time will tell, but I'm not going to jump ship until they have something that competes with Snort.
I just don't see what all the venom is about.
Venom from Sourcefire? I think it's definitely that they are siding with their product.
Venom from admins? Probably just like you said--football-team mentality.
Personally, I use the best tool for the job, which means that I have some Windows, Mac, and Unix machines. I use Snort for IDS until Suricata becomes the best tool (if that ever happens.)
I might play with Suricata at home, but I'm not staking my job on it.
Absolutely. But usually, you need to be pushing the envelope in order to get your competitors to do the same. Suricata isn't there yet, so Snort can still rest on its laurels.
Snort runs pretty fast, even if it only uses one core. If you can split your traffic, you can also run two instances of Snort on the same box. Not an ideal solution, but it's an option.
Once Suricata starts getting better performance, I'll re-evaluate it. For now, in our environment, Snort still outperforms it on the hardware which is within our budget.
Multithreading is really only a feature if it gets you some benefit (usually that benefit is increased performance.) There are reports which mirror my own findings that indicate that Snort performs much better on one core than Suricata. Snort's Vulnerability Response Team has a blog post that just went up on this exact subject--of course, they have a vested interest in promoting Snort.
The same physical machine ran Suricata and Snort, and Snort ran almost four time faster:
"Suricata peaked at about 300 Mb/s without dropping packets, provided no rules are loaded. With rules loaded, Suricata runs up to about 200Mb/s. Snort, with rules, hits 894Mb/s with no drops" -- Internal VRT Report on Suricata Performance
Now they don't talk about their testbed, so I'm assuming the worst case for Suricata--single core. At four cores, then, Suricata could match Snort's performance. Scaling up further, it could in theory beat it.
Now Suricata is also taking an ethical stand against compiled rules, which I like--to a degree. I recognize that there are tests which are hard or impossible to perform using Snort's rules language, but at the same time, I want to be able to look at the rule and see how likely it is to be a false positive. Over the years, the VRT has put out some rules which I would consider laughable. In a highly tuned context, they might work okay. In a larger context (say an ISP or a university, where the sniffers don't necessarily control every machine on the network) they false like crazy. Snort doesn't publish any information on how likely a rule is to false, and so if I can't read the rule, I can't gauge that at all.
It's all the writing. I don't particularly care for Matt Smith, but I think that's my problem--having an unholy love for the previous Doctor. But for me, it's pretty hard to get past all of the continuity they've been screwing with, and even when they aren't doing that, the writing is just bad.
A few schools have outsourced their e-mail to Google. Many of those students came in with a Gmail account already, and some people may not want to redirect mail.
You say they want to F their customers... I'm curious to know what your reason is for making that assertion. I mean, they obviously want customers. The backlash and half-hearted backpedaling attests to that, as does the fact that they don't ban people who troll.
Most libertarians don't start from zero--they start from where we are as a society, or perhaps a tiny bit back.
What I mean by that is that libertarians want streets. They want clean water, clean food, and they probably want clean air. But they take these for granted, because we have these things. And we have them because of government regulation. Ideologically, they think that the government shouldn't interfere, but they turn a blind eye to (or honestly don't think about) all of the places where government actually makes things better.
Look at it this way--a libertarian would say that regulations on offshore drilling are bad. How many more spills would we have if drilling was completely unregulated? How many more risks would companies take to squeeze a little more bang for their buck?
In theory, this is why we have a democratic republic. So that when the idiot masses come up with something stupid that they want (e.g. infringing on civil liberties) the representative can tell them to fuck off.
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Got a citation for that wild claim?
Someone else already pointed out the settings configuration on Android, which is massive, hard to navigate, and hard to find things in.
Scrolling is, imo, terrible on Android. It feels like I'm working hard to scroll, and there are delays from when I move my finger to when the scrolling starts. This seems like a minor complaint, but this sort of thing (input lag from when you make the input to when you see results) is really a big deal in HCI.
The mail client is simply atrocious. Gmail is fine, but then you're stuck with Gmail services. I run my own mail server, and have no interest in using Gmail for my primary contacts. Incidentally, iOS4 has a much better mail client than iPhone OS 3. Threading is one of the big big things I've wanted in a mobile phone email client. k9mail, probably the best alternate email client on Android, doesn't do threading either, but is far and away better than the stock client. I haven't found an email client for Android which does threading.
Tap to zoom is far better on iOS4.
I really need to start keeping a list of these issues so that I can just link to it every time someone asks. There are a ton of little things that keep popping up and making me want to sell the Droid and cancel my contract, but I just live with it.
Really? Troll? In what universe was that post a troll?
Slashdot's really hit the toilet these days.
Sorry to hear about all of your problems. The Galaxy S is a very nice piece of hardware. It's really too bad that Android is so unpolished.
You're right--the settings really exemplify the problems with Android.
Good luck on your swap!
But anyway, I've found the android pretty easy and pleasant to use. To see any Linux you actually have to get a third party utility to open a shell.
I was really making a comparison about UI design, not saying that you actually see Linux on Android. The point is that it's cumbersome compared to iOS, not that it looks like Linux.
The only complaint I have is the App store. There is a big delay after I select something before it downloads and then it usually downloads slowly even when using the phone on wifi.
I've seen this a handful of times. I have no idea why it happens, but it's annoying. Luckily, I haven't seen it that often.
That's not really how the article describes push polling, which is more of a way of campaigning (or mudslinging) than a method of polling. Push polling is a way to get the people you poll to think something is true. This is more of a manipulation of the poll in order to get the results you want so that the rest of the world thinks that your outcome is true.
I went from an iPhone 3G to a Nexus One, which I returned due to poor reception when holding the device. http://gdgt.com/discuss/nexus-one-has-cell-antennas-on-the-6sn/
I then got a Droid, which was the next best Android phone at the time. When my contract is up, I'll probably switch back to the iPhone unless significant improvements have been made to Android by then. Android has a very Linuxy mindset--it can do just about anything you want, but the user experience is very poor. Compare to the iPhone, which does slightly less in practice (for me at least, the only thing the iPhone doesn't do is tether) but is more or less a joy to use.
18 months is a long time in phones these days, so who knows what the future will bring. But for myself, for now, I wish I had stuck with Apple.
Again, for the sake of argument, the US does not recognize Internet Access as a right. This means that there's generally no burden to preserve such access, or to provide for it to be provided indiscriminately except inasmuch as any corporation must provide services--not discriminating by race, sex, etc.
I'm generally in favor of the pipe analogy. Give me a pipe and let me do what I want with it. Don't interfere. I'm just trying to see both sides of the issue.
The best effect for whom?
For the sake of argument, why should a company be forced to allow you to communicate as you please?
This is fantastically analogous to Net Neutrality. Right now, we have lots of websites competing for our attention. If ISPs are allowed to block/slow down websites, suddenly we won't be the ones deciding which websites we get to go to. Competition decreases, the customer loses.
Are you actually saying that a virtual machine is safe from the host on which it runs?
The HTC Incredible is practically the same phone on Verizon.
But they went from zero to here in around one year.
With a large portion of the design already done for them.
I have heard and read from some people that they are already moving to Suricata because they think it has a better future than Snort or because they like some feature that it has.
Snort has been saying (for a long time) that 3.0 with threads would be coming really soon now. I think that a lot of people are jumping to Suricata because of that, as well as because of the fact that they consider it more "open." Time will tell, but I'm not going to jump ship until they have something that competes with Snort.
I just don't see what all the venom is about.
Venom from Sourcefire? I think it's definitely that they are siding with their product.
Venom from admins? Probably just like you said--football-team mentality.
Personally, I use the best tool for the job, which means that I have some Windows, Mac, and Unix machines. I use Snort for IDS until Suricata becomes the best tool (if that ever happens.)
I might play with Suricata at home, but I'm not staking my job on it.
Absolutely. But usually, you need to be pushing the envelope in order to get your competitors to do the same. Suricata isn't there yet, so Snort can still rest on its laurels.
Snort runs pretty fast, even if it only uses one core. If you can split your traffic, you can also run two instances of Snort on the same box. Not an ideal solution, but it's an option.
Once Suricata starts getting better performance, I'll re-evaluate it. For now, in our environment, Snort still outperforms it on the hardware which is within our budget.
Multithreading is really only a feature if it gets you some benefit (usually that benefit is increased performance.) There are reports which mirror my own findings that indicate that Snort performs much better on one core than Suricata. Snort's Vulnerability Response Team has a blog post that just went up on this exact subject--of course, they have a vested interest in promoting Snort.
http://vrt-sourcefire.blogspot.com/2010/07/innovation-you-keep-using-that-word.html
The same physical machine ran Suricata and Snort, and Snort ran almost four time faster:
"Suricata peaked at about 300 Mb/s without dropping packets, provided no rules are loaded.
With rules loaded, Suricata runs up to about 200Mb/s.
Snort, with rules, hits 894Mb/s with no drops" -- Internal VRT Report on Suricata Performance
Now they don't talk about their testbed, so I'm assuming the worst case for Suricata--single core. At four cores, then, Suricata could match Snort's performance. Scaling up further, it could in theory beat it.
Now Suricata is also taking an ethical stand against compiled rules, which I like--to a degree. I recognize that there are tests which are hard or impossible to perform using Snort's rules language, but at the same time, I want to be able to look at the rule and see how likely it is to be a false positive. Over the years, the VRT has put out some rules which I would consider laughable. In a highly tuned context, they might work okay. In a larger context (say an ISP or a university, where the sniffers don't necessarily control every machine on the network) they false like crazy. Snort doesn't publish any information on how likely a rule is to false, and so if I can't read the rule, I can't gauge that at all.
The reports I've seen have Suricata performing much more slowly than snort, even with multiple threads.
My notebook is capped at 1GB of RAM, so no, memory is not cheap for me. To upgrade my RAM, I have to upgrade my computer.
That said, I use Chrome because it's still quite a bit faster (except for Flash.)
It's all the writing. I don't particularly care for Matt Smith, but I think that's my problem--having an unholy love for the previous Doctor. But for me, it's pretty hard to get past all of the continuity they've been screwing with, and even when they aren't doing that, the writing is just bad.
A few schools have outsourced their e-mail to Google. Many of those students came in with a Gmail account already, and some people may not want to redirect mail.
You say they want to F their customers... I'm curious to know what your reason is for making that assertion. I mean, they obviously want customers. The backlash and half-hearted backpedaling attests to that, as does the fact that they don't ban people who troll.
Most libertarians don't start from zero--they start from where we are as a society, or perhaps a tiny bit back.
What I mean by that is that libertarians want streets. They want clean water, clean food, and they probably want clean air. But they take these for granted, because we have these things. And we have them because of government regulation. Ideologically, they think that the government shouldn't interfere, but they turn a blind eye to (or honestly don't think about) all of the places where government actually makes things better.
Look at it this way--a libertarian would say that regulations on offshore drilling are bad. How many more spills would we have if drilling was completely unregulated? How many more risks would companies take to squeeze a little more bang for their buck?
In theory, this is why we have a democratic republic. So that when the idiot masses come up with something stupid that they want (e.g. infringing on civil liberties) the representative can tell them to fuck off.
The peanut has its name for a reason, too. But it's still not a nut.