I'd say edit your comment, but, alas, Slasdot has yet to fix that bug.
That isn't a bug, it's a feature. They believe that your posts shouldn't change just like you can't change what you say in a real conversation. You can only make amendments to your post.
You made a $70 dollar downpayment and will be paying off the phone over the next two years.
Yeah. Had he only bought an unlocked phone instead, he wouldn't have a bill every month over the next two years by way of contract. He'd just spend a lot more up front and have a bill every month. The carriers are going to get your $50 to $120 a month. It's the only way they will let you on their network.
With most carriers in the US it doesn't matter if you use an unlocked phone, or locked phone on their network it still will cost you the same amount per month.
To be clear regarding "flat surface". Apple might mean by this a touchscreen-only phone without buttons, which is indeed something they introduced. But in that case the argument is again about distinctiveness of the design rather than any "invention".
But the iPhone does have a button on the main touch screen side! You know, that one home-button thing?
My android phone on the other hand is a touchscreen only device and only has a volume rocker, and power button.
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A good chunk of developer freedom is tied up in distribution.
If you're allowed to develop, but not distribute, then your freedom as a developer has been compromised. Consider the various free applications available from the Cedega app installer - there's no entrepreneurial angle there.
There would be nothing from stopping you distributing your code for an iOS app. In order for your "users" to install it though, they would need to pay the $99 fee for a developer license or be jailbroken. Your right as a developer to distribute software is still there, not very conveniently though but there none the less.
I sure don't. I expect them to charge a reasonable price, then GTFO once the transaction is completed. It isn't my problem if they subsidize the product, and even if they did and I bought it, I'd still complain if they crippled it. Just like everyone who has ever bought a Motorola handset that is now no longer under contract or was bought unlocked (i.e. Europe.)
Then the Amazon Fire is not you. There is still a market for it for it though.
As long as the computer is new enough not to have a floppy drive. Older machines, such as my grandma's PC on which I installed Xubuntu today to replace a thoroughly rootkitted Windows XP, tend not to recognize USB boot media.
Or in my experiences, tend to only have USB 1.1, making CD installs incredibly faster.
If you make $100 per week, and they raise your pay by 50-70 percent you make $150-170. If they raise your pay by 50-70 times, you make $5000-7000. A rather large difference if you ask me.
What if they hand over their passwords without changing them first? Chances are they use that same password for just about everything, and could then give their spouse access to other things like email or other IM accounts.
The problem is that for certain purposes, Linux just isn't a viable alternative because it does not contain production-quality support for ZFS. If you're building a NAS device, this is (or should be) a deal-breaker. All the existing Linux file systems suck, and even btrfs doesn't seem to take data integrity nearly as seriously as ZFS does.
That would probably where you could use on of the BSDs.
The real art starts coming into play with the unofficial ROMS such as myUI, etc...
Suppose you bought a car that could not make right turns or turn on its headlights, until you acquired a different engine from some sketchy third party on the internet and figured out how to get it installed by yourself. Assuming you're not an auto mechanic, would you be as dismissive of that car's faults? I don't think so. But here you are, all, "Hey, if a phone doesn't do what you need, root it and flash it with another ROM!"
The average person does not know how to, and does not want to learn how to, fuck with their phone like that. They want to take it out of the god damned box and use it. Seriously, when are you guys going to realize that?
But the thing is you don't need those extra things that require root or installation of another ROM. The phone will work fine without the OS upgrade.
Also, the only people who "need" those extra things are going to be the ones who know how to do them, or have the incentive/will to learn how to do such things.
The only reason i could see someone needing a whole iso is if they lack connectivity.
If you're doing multiple installs, it'd be a lot nicer for their servers if you're not slurping down a fresh copy for every install.
A lot of times for multiple installs you only install it on to one machine, and then image that computer. After that you just put that image on the other computers that you need it installed on. That way is often easier too since you don't need to reconfigure anything.
You overclocked a tablet? Really? Why do you hate your battery?
Have you tried some tweaks to fix the source of some of the problems first? yeah, they're a start, but still not enough...
Overclocking mobile devices often results in better battery life. It can do the work faster at the higher clock and then return to a lower clock sooner, saving you battery.
Well if you discount the 1 year of probation and only include the the fine and community service as punishment he would be making $118.75/hour throughout the community service. I wouldn't mind doing community service at that rate...
We already have cops in high schools, given the principals the authority to ruin the lives of high school students on the slightest whimsy, and eroded (if not destroyed outright) any suspicion that these students nearing adulthood actually have any rights while ensuring the parents have no actual responsibility for their child's eventual success or failure.
At my High School they still require Seniors who are 18 years old to get their parents signature for things like report cards and for signing out of school.
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I'd say edit your comment, but, alas, Slasdot has yet to fix that bug.
That isn't a bug, it's a feature. They believe that your posts shouldn't change just like you can't change what you say in a real conversation. You can only make amendments to your post.
You made a $70 dollar downpayment and will be paying off the phone over the next two years.
Yeah. Had he only bought an unlocked phone instead, he wouldn't have a bill every month over the next two years by way of contract. He'd just spend a lot more up front and have a bill every month. The carriers are going to get your $50 to $120 a month. It's the only way they will let you on their network.
With most carriers in the US it doesn't matter if you use an unlocked phone, or locked phone on their network it still will cost you the same amount per month.
To be clear regarding "flat surface". Apple might mean by this a touchscreen-only phone without buttons, which is indeed something they introduced. But in that case the argument is again about distinctiveness of the design rather than any "invention".
But the iPhone does have a button on the main touch screen side! You know, that one home-button thing?
My android phone on the other hand is a touchscreen only device and only has a volume rocker, and power button.
A good chunk of developer freedom is tied up in distribution.
If you're allowed to develop, but not distribute, then your freedom as a developer has been compromised. Consider the various free applications available from the Cedega app installer - there's no entrepreneurial angle there.
There would be nothing from stopping you distributing your code for an iOS app. In order for your "users" to install it though, they would need to pay the $99 fee for a developer license or be jailbroken. Your right as a developer to distribute software is still there, not very conveniently though but there none the less.
And then it wouldn't make it past 2068....
You mean the one restart that takes a minute and a half on Windows 7?
Followed by thirteen and a half minutes for all the crapware to start up after you log in.
But at least the crapware will update itself quickly!
Mine is infinity since I don't have a facebook account.
Surely you know someone with a facebook though. Just add 1 to the degrees of separation for you then.
furthermore, they may want to rethink the name if "diode for light" is going to become DFL
Hopefully it's dfl on their list of names.
I sure don't. I expect them to charge a reasonable price, then GTFO once the transaction is completed. It isn't my problem if they subsidize the product, and even if they did and I bought it, I'd still complain if they crippled it. Just like everyone who has ever bought a Motorola handset that is now no longer under contract or was bought unlocked (i.e. Europe.)
Then the Amazon Fire is not you. There is still a market for it for it though.
Any OS can be installed easily from USB drives.
As long as the computer is new enough not to have a floppy drive. Older machines, such as my grandma's PC on which I installed Xubuntu today to replace a thoroughly rootkitted Windows XP, tend not to recognize USB boot media.
Or in my experiences, tend to only have USB 1.1, making CD installs incredibly faster.
What's the difference?
If you make $100 per week, and they raise your pay by 50-70 percent you make $150-170. If they raise your pay by 50-70 times, you make $5000-7000. A rather large difference if you ask me.
Or about those yanks that pronounce beta as bay-tah.
How do you pronounce it then?
What if they hand over their passwords without changing them first? Chances are they use that same password for just about everything, and could then give their spouse access to other things like email or other IM accounts.
The problem is that for certain purposes, Linux just isn't a viable alternative because it does not contain production-quality support for ZFS. If you're building a NAS device, this is (or should be) a deal-breaker. All the existing Linux file systems suck, and even btrfs doesn't seem to take data integrity nearly as seriously as ZFS does.
That would probably where you could use on of the BSDs.
Is that the latest excuse as to why the "security solutions" out there today are complete crap?
Just put it in a VM. If it's in a VM it's secure, right?
The real art starts coming into play with the unofficial ROMS such as myUI, etc...
Suppose you bought a car that could not make right turns or turn on its headlights, until you acquired a different engine from some sketchy third party on the internet and figured out how to get it installed by yourself. Assuming you're not an auto mechanic, would you be as dismissive of that car's faults? I don't think so. But here you are, all, "Hey, if a phone doesn't do what you need, root it and flash it with another ROM!"
The average person does not know how to, and does not want to learn how to, fuck with their phone like that. They want to take it out of the god damned box and use it. Seriously, when are you guys going to realize that?
But the thing is you don't need those extra things that require root or installation of another ROM. The phone will work fine without the OS upgrade.
Also, the only people who "need" those extra things are going to be the ones who know how to do them, or have the incentive/will to learn how to do such things.
The only reason i could see someone needing a whole iso is if they lack connectivity.
If you're doing multiple installs, it'd be a lot nicer for their servers if you're not slurping down a fresh copy for every install.
A lot of times for multiple installs you only install it on to one machine, and then image that computer. After that you just put that image on the other computers that you need it installed on. That way is often easier too since you don't need to reconfigure anything.
Gasoline: Lousy Engine, incredibly great energy storage
Electric: Great Engine, incredibly lousy energy storage
There's nothing wrong with electric cars that a battery that costs half as much for twice the life(range and longevity) wouldn't fix.
Can you say gas generator powering "electric" car?
You overclocked a tablet? Really? Why do you hate your battery?
Have you tried some tweaks to fix the source of some of the problems first?
yeah, they're a start, but still not enough...
Overclocking mobile devices often results in better battery life. It can do the work faster at the higher clock and then return to a lower clock sooner, saving you battery.
Well if you discount the 1 year of probation and only include the the fine and community service as punishment he would be making $118.75/hour throughout the community service. I wouldn't mind doing community service at that rate...
We already have cops in high schools, given the principals the authority to ruin the lives of high school students on the slightest whimsy, and eroded (if not destroyed outright) any suspicion that these students nearing adulthood actually have any rights while ensuring the parents have no actual responsibility for their child's eventual success or failure.
At my High School they still require Seniors who are 18 years old to get their parents signature for things like report cards and for signing out of school.
So my new Evo Shift 4G will no longer have WiMAX/4G capability after 2012? Unlike some people, I don't buy new phones every 2 years...
You won't be required to upgrade. 3G will still work just fine, it's just that you will lose 4G connectivity.
$200 *net* in ~2 hours? With that kind of dough I wouldn't be looking at a Fire.
Maybe he just eats lunch very late in the day?