That isn't true. With 3G, 4G (and future implementations of wide area wireless networks) you can place a single tower and have a very large surrounding area get signal (usually several mile radius at least). The problem like you said above though is that a high-density residential area will tax the tower's ability to communicate with that many users which is a good reason why we're still going to be connected cable for a long time.
You can't have a wireless infrastructure without a physical one. The backbone of the Internet basically is a bunch of cables that transmit massive amounts of Internet traffic from countries, cities, ISPs, homes, etc. I don't know very much about the details of how everything works, but without this massive cable infrastructure, the Internet couldn't exist (this is also one reason Internet speeds have slowly increased over time, the Internet originally used telephone lines because that was a common infrastructure that was already in place).
What are you talking about? If you have Windows installed, Windows is the firmware. Windows will update itself. Unless you are talking about updating the BIOS from the Mac partition, there is no reason to keep it around for "updating" purposes.
Ubuntu fans are obviously blind because they didn't make the choice to switch to it (or other linux distro). Yes, we are fanatics who like to cause general chaos and anarchy in the community. Especially because we know Windows is still a superior platform.
Considerably popular meaning nearly all major audio players but iTunes has support. It wouldn't have been supported unless there were a considerable amount of people requesting it. OGG conversion is also lossless which many people find undesirable. It's also a pain in the butt to do (and I've done it).
You're just flaming now. I'm not sure you're acting like you've grown up any older than 15.
You just restated what I said. I was only pointing out that Apple is not FSF. They aren't promoting open standards for the greater good, and I'm also implying that using Apple products is still a "lock in" because of their refusal to support OGG or FLAC files on an iPod even though they are considerably popular formats. I never used "good" or "evil" to describe Apple let alone any company really...
I didn't realize using a standard audio format, with tons of support from tons of software and hardware, and with better licensing terms than MP3 counted as "lock in".
Well duh it has wide support. It's only the biggest music store in the world, because it is heavily integrated with the highly popular iPods. Anything not supporting it was either made by Microsoft, or they didn't want a very wide adoption base. I do agree though, the licensing terms for AAC are much better than MP3 which is (in my opinion) a huge scam. The removal of DRM was also a smart move and I think helped keep AAC popular.
However, if Apple was really trying to support open standard, they would have added support for the OGG and FLAC formats long ago for their iPods and Quicktime/Itunes. It's completely ridiculous to think anything but that Apple has not included support for these open formats in order to discourage their use and keep their AAC format burgeoning. The only reason they support MP3 is because it's so widespread. They can afford alienating the OGG and FLAC users.
Apple only supports open formats and standards that will either short term or long term benefit them. The open-source kernel was used because it was a good kernel that worked well, and as long as these projects help Apple in it's goals, they will keep supporting them.
The kid's an idiot for not encrypting his drive. If I were stealing thousands of credit cards and operating an extremely illegal website, I'd at least encrypt those files if not my whole dang hard drive.
Oh and I can't imagine what a stray nerd on wireshark would think if they picked this guy's ftp packets with files of credit card numbers...sheesh....
Well I guess if you like paying for your software and are in need of compatibility, Windows gets a mod up...
Gives Mac vs PC fanboys something to argue over. Windows definitely beats Macs in that regard. Try to upgrade the original Macintosh to OSX Lion. Hehehehehe.
Basically, you're comparing being at the mercy of {motarola | samsung |...} to get OS updates (hahahahaha), against a guarentee written into the EULA that you'll get upgrades.
At the mercy of Motorola and Samsung? Please. My phone's manufacturer (HTC) has as much power over my phone as they have over the hardware they sold me (and unless they put a remote detonator in my phone, I think it's safe to say they have none). When I bought it I immediately loaded a much faster and more feature-rich ROM than the one they provided me. One of the major reasons to open source Android was to encourage community-driven flavors of Android (like Cyanogenmod) that completely blow iOS out of the water.
Don't tell me that loading the custom ROM yourself is too much a pain in the butt. If you are a consumer who can't spend a measly hour or two reading and installing a custom ROM with well established, and easy to follow instructions, then you obviously don't care whether your phone has the latest and greatest version of Android installed. Most of the people I know who got "official" 2.2 updates to their phones barely noticed a difference other than a few more app selections and a few minor UI improvments. Not a big deal. What did iOS users get with their upgrade? A slower phone...and downgrading wasn't much fun either.
Why no love for Linux? I personally think it would be much more interesting to see if they could hack Chrome (or Firefox) on a Linux based OS (like Ubuntu). Although I suspect it would actually be easier because less testing is done on those platforms (or at least less development).
I'm considered a geek by many and I play D1 sports (XC and track). I've run a mile faster than.01% of the world's population......But "cybergeeks" as cool as sport stars? phaw! I was laughing aloud at that.
I like the niche spot.
the exodus has begun..Don't hold your breath though. It's going to take a long time for these bozo ISPs to get IPv6 implemented.
hopefully not 40 years long.....
Offending Clause for anyone wanting to see it. Again, I don't see anything explicitly forbidding jailbreaking...hasn't this already happened with the iPhone anyway?
Any way you slice it, Sony is being a bunch of wussies who are only hurting themselves by this (I mean the development of alternative software can only help sales of the PS3, right?)
I guess they decided it wasn't worth a lawsuit. All the offending links go to 404. Is that really a violation of the DCMA? I'm looking at the Wikipedia page for the DCMA but no mention (that I see) of how jailbreaking would be illegal.
If this Modern Security Analysis of an Automobile is anything to go by, the auto industry could really be in for many catastrophic security attacks on internal car networks if they start giving cars wireless capabilities. In the study, students were able to easily hack into a modern auto Electronic Control Unit and take almost complete control of the car. This included all sorts of fantastically fun things like completely shutting off the car mid-drive, turning all lights on and off, control the accelerator, control the dashboard, etc. (look at the pictures).
Giving hackers easy wireless access to nearly electrical function in our cars == really bad idea.
I'm trying to decide if this is the most moronic, uninformed court case I've ever heard of. Come on Canadians! A link is a reference! How the hell is that publishing?
And if by these politicians' utter depravity, they rule in Crookes' favor, I'm going to have a good laugh as they try to enforce this absolutely hilarious decision.
Most major religions do not contend that a God "popped" into existence. God is not part of existence. God is outside of existence. Therefore your statement is completely correct (according to my very fragmented logic).
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That isn't true. With 3G, 4G (and future implementations of wide area wireless networks) you can place a single tower and have a very large surrounding area get signal (usually several mile radius at least). The problem like you said above though is that a high-density residential area will tax the tower's ability to communicate with that many users which is a good reason why we're still going to be connected cable for a long time.
You can't have a wireless infrastructure without a physical one. The backbone of the Internet basically is a bunch of cables that transmit massive amounts of Internet traffic from countries, cities, ISPs, homes, etc. I don't know very much about the details of how everything works, but without this massive cable infrastructure, the Internet couldn't exist (this is also one reason Internet speeds have slowly increased over time, the Internet originally used telephone lines because that was a common infrastructure that was already in place).
What are you talking about? If you have Windows installed, Windows is the firmware. Windows will update itself. Unless you are talking about updating the BIOS from the Mac partition, there is no reason to keep it around for "updating" purposes.
Ubuntu fans are obviously blind because they didn't make the choice to switch to it (or other linux distro). Yes, we are fanatics who like to cause general chaos and anarchy in the community. Especially because we know Windows is still a superior platform.
That's what the normal Wikipedia site is for...
If you want an easier explanation to munch on then check out Khan Academy.
I believe that has been recognized and is addressed in the Simple English section of the site.
Considerably popular meaning nearly all major audio players but iTunes has support. It wouldn't have been supported unless there were a considerable amount of people requesting it. OGG conversion is also lossless which many people find undesirable. It's also a pain in the butt to do (and I've done it).
You're just flaming now. I'm not sure you're acting like you've grown up any older than 15.
You just restated what I said. I was only pointing out that Apple is not FSF. They aren't promoting open standards for the greater good, and I'm also implying that using Apple products is still a "lock in" because of their refusal to support OGG or FLAC files on an iPod even though they are considerably popular formats. I never used "good" or "evil" to describe Apple let alone any company really...
I didn't realize using a standard audio format, with tons of support from tons of software and hardware, and with better licensing terms than MP3 counted as "lock in".
Well duh it has wide support. It's only the biggest music store in the world, because it is heavily integrated with the highly popular iPods. Anything not supporting it was either made by Microsoft, or they didn't want a very wide adoption base. I do agree though, the licensing terms for AAC are much better than MP3 which is (in my opinion) a huge scam. The removal of DRM was also a smart move and I think helped keep AAC popular.
However, if Apple was really trying to support open standard, they would have added support for the OGG and FLAC formats long ago for their iPods and Quicktime/Itunes. It's completely ridiculous to think anything but that Apple has not included support for these open formats in order to discourage their use and keep their AAC format burgeoning. The only reason they support MP3 is because it's so widespread. They can afford alienating the OGG and FLAC users.
Apple only supports open formats and standards that will either short term or long term benefit them. The open-source kernel was used because it was a good kernel that worked well, and as long as these projects help Apple in it's goals, they will keep supporting them.
The kid's an idiot for not encrypting his drive. If I were stealing thousands of credit cards and operating an extremely illegal website, I'd at least encrypt those files if not my whole dang hard drive.
Oh and I can't imagine what a stray nerd on wireshark would think if they picked this guy's ftp packets with files of credit card numbers...sheesh....
Well I guess if you like paying for your software and are in need of compatibility, Windows gets a mod up...
Gives Mac vs PC fanboys something to argue over. Windows definitely beats Macs in that regard. Try to upgrade the original Macintosh to OSX Lion. Hehehehehe.
That's called Bandcamp my friend!
A long bearded Linux wizard doesn't have sudo installed on his system. Come on.
I've also heard regex solutions, while nice and pretty sometimes, can also be very inefficient especially if you are doing something like url parsing.
Basically, you're comparing being at the mercy of {motarola | samsung | ...} to get OS updates (hahahahaha), against a guarentee written into the EULA that you'll get upgrades.
At the mercy of Motorola and Samsung? Please. My phone's manufacturer (HTC) has as much power over my phone as they have over the hardware they sold me (and unless they put a remote detonator in my phone, I think it's safe to say they have none). When I bought it I immediately loaded a much faster and more feature-rich ROM than the one they provided me. One of the major reasons to open source Android was to encourage community-driven flavors of Android (like Cyanogenmod) that completely blow iOS out of the water.
Don't tell me that loading the custom ROM yourself is too much a pain in the butt. If you are a consumer who can't spend a measly hour or two reading and installing a custom ROM with well established, and easy to follow instructions, then you obviously don't care whether your phone has the latest and greatest version of Android installed. Most of the people I know who got "official" 2.2 updates to their phones barely noticed a difference other than a few more app selections and a few minor UI improvments. Not a big deal. What did iOS users get with their upgrade? A slower phone...and downgrading wasn't much fun either.
don't be a victim. Use a proxy.
No, but knives less than 5 inches and certain hatchets are allowed for the hacking part.
Why no love for Linux? I personally think it would be much more interesting to see if they could hack Chrome (or Firefox) on a Linux based OS (like Ubuntu). Although I suspect it would actually be easier because less testing is done on those platforms (or at least less development).
I'm considered a geek by many and I play D1 sports (XC and track). I've run a mile faster than .01% of the world's population... ...But "cybergeeks" as cool as sport stars? phaw! I was laughing aloud at that.
I like the niche spot.
the exodus has begun..Don't hold your breath though. It's going to take a long time for these bozo ISPs to get IPv6 implemented. hopefully not 40 years long.....
Offending Clause for anyone wanting to see it. Again, I don't see anything explicitly forbidding jailbreaking...hasn't this already happened with the iPhone anyway?
Any way you slice it, Sony is being a bunch of wussies who are only hurting themselves by this (I mean the development of alternative software can only help sales of the PS3, right?)
I guess they decided it wasn't worth a lawsuit. All the offending links go to 404. Is that really a violation of the DCMA? I'm looking at the Wikipedia page for the DCMA but no mention (that I see) of how jailbreaking would be illegal.
If this Modern Security Analysis of an Automobile is anything to go by, the auto industry could really be in for many catastrophic security attacks on internal car networks if they start giving cars wireless capabilities. In the study, students were able to easily hack into a modern auto Electronic Control Unit and take almost complete control of the car. This included all sorts of fantastically fun things like completely shutting off the car mid-drive, turning all lights on and off, control the accelerator, control the dashboard, etc. (look at the pictures).
Giving hackers easy wireless access to nearly electrical function in our cars == really bad idea.
I'm trying to decide if this is the most moronic, uninformed court case I've ever heard of. Come on Canadians! A link is a reference! How the hell is that publishing? And if by these politicians' utter depravity, they rule in Crookes' favor, I'm going to have a good laugh as they try to enforce this absolutely hilarious decision.
Most major religions do not contend that a God "popped" into existence. God is not part of existence. God is outside of existence. Therefore your statement is completely correct (according to my very fragmented logic).