Rooting my Droid involved only replacing the su binary that came with the device, with a different one. It is otherwise the same filesystem that the phone came with.
The MeMes on teh Intarwebs all say that this will preclude any OTA updates from happening, but AFAICT this remains to actually be seen.
Interesting rant. I take issue with the following:
You have designed yourselves to be a nation that doesn't care about the consequences of driving such distances, and in many cases flat out denies them.
We designed our oldest cities around horses and wagons. Not so long after, we added trains to the mix. When both of those largely left, chiefly due to the rise of the automobile, we were already well on our way to having roads suitable (ie: wide, flat, and non-muddy enough) for automobile traffic in and between our cities.
Earlier today, I drove beside an old interurban line for a dozen or so miles. The tracks are long gone, and even much of the ballast stone looks to have been reclaimed. For the most part, all that remains is a long row of not-so-old trees and an old raised grade where the line used to be. (Interestingly, the area is flush with Amish, and it's still very common to see a horse-and-cart in those parts.)
But the interurbans used to be a primary means of transit between cities large and small. When cars came along, people just stopped using the train so much. Rural roads continued to be improved, first to help agriculture (by far the largest and most important industry we had at the time), and only later to help cars get on their way. So, eventually, the interurbans disappeared -- not by willful intent, but because nobody was using them since folks were instead using cars.
So I guess my point is this: It wasn't really a design decision. It was just an evolution, helped along by the circumstances of the time in our particular case, and the free market at work.
Your circumstances in Europe were rather different, and have led to different conclusions: Many of your cities existed long before the first White Man found himself on this continent.
*shrug*
It's no surprise, really, that things are different between here and there in terms of transportation. But it's not something motivated by malice or derision, as you seem to imply. It's just the way things are.
The Internet, if it were created by corporations, would probably have resembled Telenet. Or, perhaps, Tymnet. Both of which were once actively used, and worked fine.
Buildings don't assemble themselves. And fries don't cook themselves. (There are exceptions to this, but they're rare enough in this context that I am willing to ignoring them.)
A backhoe without an operator is a rusting pile of steel. A fryer without a cook is a stagnant pit of hot oil.
You list a number of other components that generate wealth (distribution, for instance), but you fail to realize that if any one segment if the chain is broken, then the whole thing goes bust. To discount the important of a fry cook, while inflating the importance of (say) the suppliers, is fallacious -- at best.
Ergo, fry cooks are as important as the distributors, marketers, and the farmers that help move french fries.
So, if you were trying to make a point out of all those words, I'm sorry -- I didn't catch it.
We're using English. To hell with "correct" parlance in terms of any foreign and/or dead language. English is based on several different languages, including Latin, and bastardizes huge parts of all of them. Latin should not be exceptional in its retained purity.
"Virii," if it suits you. "Viruses" if it does not. "More then one virus" if you can't decide, though such phraseology reeks of superfluous verbosity.
Your version of "correct" and my version of "correct" are not the same thing. Get over it.
So, it's like beer, cigars, women, clothes, and cars. You often get what you pay for, but if you try a bit, you'll find that you can save a lot of money while getting a lot more.
Clever. I like my goatse idea better, though, since it denies them the opportunity to do anything useful, and I'm not currently interested in providing even free Wifi for whoever wanders by, even if it is upside-down. But maybe if it rotated between upside-down, goatse, and tubgirl -- then, maybe, it'd be sufficiently both fun and useless enough to satisfy my sadism. Especially if the rotation interval were short (a minute or two).
Indeed. It's public information, broadcast on some of the most public of the public airwaves -- the 2.4GHz ISM band. Nothing needs decrypted (therefore, various satellite and terrestrial broadcast rules don't apply, nor the DMCA), and nothing needs accessed (therefore, various computer access rules don't apply). Further, an SSID is too short for a meaningful copyright, and trademark law doesn't apply since it's not used in trade. And, of course, recording and publishing these things is simply recording and publishing a list of facts; a practice which has long been protected by various laws and rulings.
I ran across one recently that called itself "BURN. FACIAL. SUCK IT."
I've been thinking about putting together a cron job on a spare WRT router that periodically switches between various funny or disparaging SSIDs, myself. I might even leave it unencrypted, with DHCP on, with a random goatse appearing instead of net access.
Indeed. Some of the prettiest-sounding music I've ever heard has come from pro audio speakers, set up properly.
Well-designed horn loudspeakers are awesome things, for their almost complete lack of power compression, and their vastly reduced cabinet resonances in the 1-2KHz band where we hear things most clearly.
That said, there is a lot of trash out there on the market. And, unfortunately, in the tradeoff game between loud/good/cheap (pick any two), many club owners/DJs/whoevers pick "loud" and "cheap." But for those who pick "loud" and "good," genuinely excellent sound can result.
Imagine buying a roofing hammer instead of a nail gun because it is cheaper. Then imagine roofing with a blindfold on and smashing your finger badly. If you had bought a nail gun instead, you could have avoided smashing your finger while blindfolded. Now imagine suing the maker of the hammer for this reason. This is analogous to what happened here.
He was using his table saw, blindfolded, on the roof?
No. Maybe the numeric details are off -- it's not like I took fucking notes -- but the story is true.
And, you're wrong.
I still have a Socket 5 board with a P54C on it, specified to run at 66x1.5 -- about 100MHz. For what I was doing back then, I found that it performed better at 60x2, or 120MHz.
CPU-enforced multiplier locking didn't happen until later, and IIRC never happened at all on any Socket 5 or 7 boards.
And: Socket 5 CPUs work fine in Socket 7 motherboards, though not the other way around. So, yes, it'd be very possible to remark a Socket 5 chip as something closer in terms of speed to a Socket 7 offering, and have things "just work."
I have an ATI X300 in my laptop, which is creeping up on being 5 years old. It works fine in Windows 7, with all the 3D and all the bling, using ATI's "legacy" drivers, which (incidentally) were just updated a few weeks ago.
It also worked fine with Vista drivers, before ATI had an official release supporting 7.
*shrug*
The only conclusion I can draw from all of your banter is that you're either incompetent, prejudiced, or both.
Right. Hair ties are fragile, though, and chewy -- the cat (my cats, anyway) tend to bite them in two, and then they're no longer interesting.
Try a milk ring sometime. You know, that little red/orange/yellow/blue ring under the cap of a gallon of milk. I've got a cat that will chase one of these around, independently, for several unbroken hours before he gets bored with it, which is really quite something since he's approximately bloody ancient these days.
And: They're free with every gallon.
(-1 way off-topic, but at least I didn't post this at +1.)
Yep -- everything's gone lithium-based. It's easier to make usable batteries in different shapes than it than NiCd or NiMH, so they can fill all available space with a battery, instead of a battery+air combo. And you get a higher energy density, both by weight and by volume.
The tradeoff is cost, although they've been getting cheaper. And safety -- they sometimes like to catch themselves on fire.
And a shorter lifespan with no good tricks to make it longer. And more complicated charging circuits.
And. And. And.
Honestly, all said, I don't even know if it's all that good of an idea to use lithium batteries everywhere. But it's where we're at with things, anyway.:)
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They're not confusing customers with computer terms. They're just hiring people who don't understand the product, and aren't trained to know better.
Relevant quotes:
Never ascribe to malice that which can be easily explained by stupidity.
Caveat emptor.
If I'm deluded, then you're a bigoted asshole.
Hope this helps.
Rooting my Droid involved only replacing the su binary that came with the device, with a different one. It is otherwise the same filesystem that the phone came with.
The MeMes on teh Intarwebs all say that this will preclude any OTA updates from happening, but AFAICT this remains to actually be seen.
Interesting rant. I take issue with the following:
You have designed yourselves to be a nation that doesn't care about the consequences of driving such distances, and in many cases flat out denies them.
We designed our oldest cities around horses and wagons. Not so long after, we added trains to the mix. When both of those largely left, chiefly due to the rise of the automobile, we were already well on our way to having roads suitable (ie: wide, flat, and non-muddy enough) for automobile traffic in and between our cities.
Earlier today, I drove beside an old interurban line for a dozen or so miles. The tracks are long gone, and even much of the ballast stone looks to have been reclaimed. For the most part, all that remains is a long row of not-so-old trees and an old raised grade where the line used to be. (Interestingly, the area is flush with Amish, and it's still very common to see a horse-and-cart in those parts.)
But the interurbans used to be a primary means of transit between cities large and small. When cars came along, people just stopped using the train so much. Rural roads continued to be improved, first to help agriculture (by far the largest and most important industry we had at the time), and only later to help cars get on their way. So, eventually, the interurbans disappeared -- not by willful intent, but because nobody was using them since folks were instead using cars.
So I guess my point is this: It wasn't really a design decision. It was just an evolution, helped along by the circumstances of the time in our particular case, and the free market at work.
Your circumstances in Europe were rather different, and have led to different conclusions: Many of your cities existed long before the first White Man found himself on this continent.
*shrug*
It's no surprise, really, that things are different between here and there in terms of transportation. But it's not something motivated by malice or derision, as you seem to imply. It's just the way things are.
The Internet, if it were created by corporations, would probably have resembled Telenet. Or, perhaps, Tymnet. Both of which were once actively used, and worked fine.
Next time, do your homework.
Buildings don't assemble themselves. And fries don't cook themselves. (There are exceptions to this, but they're rare enough in this context that I am willing to ignoring them.)
A backhoe without an operator is a rusting pile of steel. A fryer without a cook is a stagnant pit of hot oil.
You list a number of other components that generate wealth (distribution, for instance), but you fail to realize that if any one segment if the chain is broken, then the whole thing goes bust. To discount the important of a fry cook, while inflating the importance of (say) the suppliers, is fallacious -- at best.
Ergo, fry cooks are as important as the distributors, marketers, and the farmers that help move french fries.
So, if you were trying to make a point out of all those words, I'm sorry -- I didn't catch it.
I wanted it. So, there.
(Actually, I would've preferred a much more far-reaching plan, but those more socialized concepts died pretty early on...)
Are we speaking Latin right now?
No.
We're using English. To hell with "correct" parlance in terms of any foreign and/or dead language. English is based on several different languages, including Latin, and bastardizes huge parts of all of them. Latin should not be exceptional in its retained purity.
"Virii," if it suits you. "Viruses" if it does not. "More then one virus" if you can't decide, though such phraseology reeks of superfluous verbosity.
Your version of "correct" and my version of "correct" are not the same thing. Get over it.
Hmm.
So, it's like beer, cigars, women, clothes, and cars. You often get what you pay for, but if you try a bit, you'll find that you can save a lot of money while getting a lot more.
Nothing to see here, folks.
It's not fake Latin, or incorrect. It's English, which is my language. I'll use it any fucking way I want to.
Thanks!
Clever. I like my goatse idea better, though, since it denies them the opportunity to do anything useful, and I'm not currently interested in providing even free Wifi for whoever wanders by, even if it is upside-down. But maybe if it rotated between upside-down, goatse, and tubgirl -- then, maybe, it'd be sufficiently both fun and useless enough to satisfy my sadism. Especially if the rotation interval were short (a minute or two).
Indeed. It's public information, broadcast on some of the most public of the public airwaves -- the 2.4GHz ISM band. Nothing needs decrypted (therefore, various satellite and terrestrial broadcast rules don't apply, nor the DMCA), and nothing needs accessed (therefore, various computer access rules don't apply). Further, an SSID is too short for a meaningful copyright, and trademark law doesn't apply since it's not used in trade. And, of course, recording and publishing these things is simply recording and publishing a list of facts; a practice which has long been protected by various laws and rulings.
I ran across one recently that called itself "BURN. FACIAL. SUCK IT."
I've been thinking about putting together a cron job on a spare WRT router that periodically switches between various funny or disparaging SSIDs, myself. I might even leave it unencrypted, with DHCP on, with a random goatse appearing instead of net access.
What do mean when you say that? Hmm?
Indeed. Some of the prettiest-sounding music I've ever heard has come from pro audio speakers, set up properly.
Well-designed horn loudspeakers are awesome things, for their almost complete lack of power compression, and their vastly reduced cabinet resonances in the 1-2KHz band where we hear things most clearly.
That said, there is a lot of trash out there on the market. And, unfortunately, in the tradeoff game between loud/good/cheap (pick any two), many club owners/DJs/whoevers pick "loud" and "cheap." But for those who pick "loud" and "good," genuinely excellent sound can result.
Imagine buying a roofing hammer instead of a nail gun because it is cheaper. Then imagine roofing with a blindfold on and smashing your finger badly. If you had bought a nail gun instead, you could have avoided smashing your finger while blindfolded. Now imagine suing the maker of the hammer for this reason. This is analogous to what happened here.
He was using his table saw, blindfolded, on the roof?
*sigh*
Grownups, these days. They ruin fucking everything.
When did slashdot become a random blog aggregator instead of news for nerds?
Roughly at the same time as the word "blog" became common.
FYI, HTH, and so on, and so forth, et cetera, ad nauseum, ad infinitum.
No. Maybe the numeric details are off -- it's not like I took fucking notes -- but the story is true.
And, you're wrong.
I still have a Socket 5 board with a P54C on it, specified to run at 66x1.5 -- about 100MHz. For what I was doing back then, I found that it performed better at 60x2, or 120MHz.
CPU-enforced multiplier locking didn't happen until later, and IIRC never happened at all on any Socket 5 or 7 boards.
And: Socket 5 CPUs work fine in Socket 7 motherboards, though not the other way around. So, yes, it'd be very possible to remark a Socket 5 chip as something closer in terms of speed to a Socket 7 offering, and have things "just work."
Ah. Prejudiced. I suspected as much.
(Yes, I know. Pot, kettle, black.)
Oh. Right.
Yours is newer. Slightly.
I know: Let's blame Microsoft! Ya! It's totally relevant in an article about OpenBSD!
I have an ATI X300 in my laptop, which is creeping up on being 5 years old. It works fine in Windows 7, with all the 3D and all the bling, using ATI's "legacy" drivers, which (incidentally) were just updated a few weeks ago.
It also worked fine with Vista drivers, before ATI had an official release supporting 7.
*shrug*
The only conclusion I can draw from all of your banter is that you're either incompetent, prejudiced, or both.
Right. Hair ties are fragile, though, and chewy -- the cat (my cats, anyway) tend to bite them in two, and then they're no longer interesting.
Try a milk ring sometime. You know, that little red/orange/yellow/blue ring under the cap of a gallon of milk. I've got a cat that will chase one of these around, independently, for several unbroken hours before he gets bored with it, which is really quite something since he's approximately bloody ancient these days.
And: They're free with every gallon.
(-1 way off-topic, but at least I didn't post this at +1.)
Dedicated vibrating Playstation widgets are so 2004.
Yep -- everything's gone lithium-based. It's easier to make usable batteries in different shapes than it than NiCd or NiMH, so they can fill all available space with a battery, instead of a battery+air combo. And you get a higher energy density, both by weight and by volume.
The tradeoff is cost, although they've been getting cheaper. And safety -- they sometimes like to catch themselves on fire.
And a shorter lifespan with no good tricks to make it longer. And more complicated charging circuits.
And. And. And.
Honestly, all said, I don't even know if it's all that good of an idea to use lithium batteries everywhere. But it's where we're at with things, anyway. :)