Do you hate your job? Are you only still there because you're waiting to vest? I feel your pain, brother. The only thing that kept me from leaving Netscape in 1997 and walking away from a dumptruck full of cash in frustration was this script. I ran this every morning for at least a year: it prints out the following motivational message:
Today's NSCP price is $__._; your total unsold shares are worth $____. You are __._% vested, for a total of ____ vested unsold shares ($____). But if you quit today, you will walk away from $____.
Hang in there, little trooper! Only _ years __ months __ days to go!
It's amazing how this script can put it all back into perspective and keep you from going postal and strangling someone. Fill in your numbers, and let it remind you not to do something you'll regret later.
Or you could just wait until delivery date, cough up the dough, take delivery of the gold and stack it around your living room for your friends to see.
As a non-supertechie Android user, I sure would welcome a more simplified way to root and install these files. I attempted it a month ago, following instructions laid out on Androidforums for my LG Virgin Mobile phone. Got it right up until the final step when it refused to accept the code that I know I was inputting exactly. Had to give up in frustration, glad it wasn't bricked, though. I'd love to have full control over permissions on my device, and to securely lock it down from any hack attempts. Thanks to/. for this heads up story.
Just disassemble the bootloader starting at breakpoint 0x10C08000 and look for the argument to CLD R0.
Once you've found that, you only have to patch the configuration file with the new value and reassemble the kernel userspace.
Then just flash the ROM with the resulting srecord file and you're good to go.
Anyone can do it.
I don't know. I never had a working camera app with CM. It would take anywhere from 0 to 3 pictures before forcing me to reboot the phone, and when I tried to take video, the visual quality was so bad that you couldn't recognize the people in the videos. That kind of killed one of the major benefits of having a smartphone for me.
Maybe they've improved it since then, but the last thread I read on the subject (maybe 6-12 months back) was "Well, the camera still doesn't work, but..." Needless to say, when I upgraded my phone, I chose NOT to install CM.
I choose to disregard your post, because every time some journalist or blogger writes about how great the latest iPhone is, the quick responses of legions of android fans claiming that the Android phone du jour kicks the iPhone's ass (if running CyanogenMod), is the only thing that allows me to maintain my world view, in which my personal self-esteem depends mostly on the perceived superiority of Android to iOS.
If I allow myself to believe that you are anything other than a paid shill for Apple, my self-esteem will plummet and I will likely do something extremely rash and ill-advised, like commit suicide, or even worse, switch to iPhone.
Why not just have the CM team be the official Android release team?
That way Android users would always get the best new software without having to worry about carrier interference.
You went to the Christian Science Monitor to get the information on the current altitude record? You're going to get your statistics from the people who think dinosaurs and humans coexisted? Good luck with that.
Display is LG. Flash is mostly Hynix and Toshiiba.
Yeah, but the software is Samsung, and everyone knows that's what really counts.
The CPU is manufactured by Samsung, and that's what really counts for Fandroids.
Nah, I was referring to the well sourced fact that iOS is actually just a gimped version of Android.
Remember Schmidt was on the Apple board, and he provided preview copies of Android to Jobs.
That's not true. LTE patents aren't FRAND. Apple is going to (rightfully) get slammed here.
LTE is an international standard. That means that either Samsung's LTE-related patents are covered under a FRAND agreement, or Samsung will lose the right to use all of the LTE-related patents that are covered under a FRAND agreement if they try to sue over LTE. Suing over standard-essential patents is just stupid, and won't help Samsung at all.
It was Apple that coughed up his credentials to the attackers. If Apple hadn't done that, there wouldn't be a problem.
There are some Apple employees that ought to lose their job over this and Apple ought to pay this guy something significant for screwing him over.
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Or you could just wait until delivery date, cough up the dough, take delivery of the gold and stack it around your living room for your friends to see.
Interestingly enough, it works great on the females in the clubs.
On the contrary, I know how to trade, but most other people don't.
Like I said... *CHA-CHING!*
As a non-supertechie Android user, I sure would welcome a more simplified way to root and install these files. I attempted it a month ago, following instructions laid out on Androidforums for my LG Virgin Mobile phone. Got it right up until the final step when it refused to accept the code that I know I was inputting exactly. Had to give up in frustration, glad it wasn't bricked, though. I'd love to have full control over permissions on my device, and to securely lock it down from any hack attempts. Thanks to /. for this heads up story.
Just disassemble the bootloader starting at breakpoint 0x10C08000 and look for the argument to CLD R0.
Once you've found that, you only have to patch the configuration file with the new value and reassemble the kernel userspace.
Then just flash the ROM with the resulting srecord file and you're good to go.
Anyone can do it.
Awesome! Hat off to you, sir!
Even MORE ways to scam people and steal their money! *CHA_CHING!!!*
I don't know. I never had a working camera app with CM. It would take anywhere from 0 to 3 pictures before forcing me to reboot the phone, and when I tried to take video, the visual quality was so bad that you couldn't recognize the people in the videos. That kind of killed one of the major benefits of having a smartphone for me.
Maybe they've improved it since then, but the last thread I read on the subject (maybe 6-12 months back) was "Well, the camera still doesn't work, but..." Needless to say, when I upgraded my phone, I chose NOT to install CM.
I choose to disregard your post, because every time some journalist or blogger writes about how great the latest iPhone is, the quick responses of legions of android fans claiming that the Android phone du jour kicks the iPhone's ass (if running CyanogenMod), is the only thing that allows me to maintain my world view, in which my personal self-esteem depends mostly on the perceived superiority of Android to iOS.
If I allow myself to believe that you are anything other than a paid shill for Apple, my self-esteem will plummet and I will likely do something extremely rash and ill-advised, like commit suicide, or even worse, switch to iPhone.
Why not just have the CM team be the official Android release team? That way Android users would always get the best new software without having to worry about carrier interference.
Wow you suck. Seriously.
Actually, I'd say that the lack of a slashdot meetup is a good sign that Atlanta must be a pretty decent, normal place.
I'm just wondering when someone's going to try a base jump from the ISS....
You went to the Christian Science Monitor to get the information on the current altitude record? You're going to get your statistics from the people who think dinosaurs and humans coexisted? Good luck with that.
I don't think you know what Christian Science is.
Display is LG. Flash is mostly Hynix and Toshiiba.
Yeah, but the software is Samsung, and everyone knows that's what really counts.
The CPU is manufactured by Samsung, and that's what really counts for Fandroids.
Nah, I was referring to the well sourced fact that iOS is actually just a gimped version of Android.
Remember Schmidt was on the Apple board, and he provided preview copies of Android to Jobs.
Seing those guys evolve is like watching an intricate ballet while everybody else is sumo wrestling.
So are you calling Apple users effeminate?
and their tech section is run by taco so it could be counted as a sort of pseudo-slashdot effect they have as well
Thank you. *sigh*
You just hurt my head...
*sigh*
Display is LG. Flash is mostly Hynix and Toshiiba.
Yeah, but the software is Samsung, and everyone knows that's what really counts.
That the cost of the new iphone is finally justified because of expensive handmade chips?
It's because of the gold connectors and diamond lenses.
it's 2012, haven't intel or amd engineers developed algorithms to do the chip design for them?
No, they never thought of doing that. Hurry up and apply for the patent.
Actually not only is that one hand made, each and every A6 is lovingly hand made. That's why they're top quality.
Site is already down due to the Slashdot effect.
Don't kid yourself. The Washington Post linked to it too.
Good job Samsung!
That's not true. LTE patents aren't FRAND. Apple is going to (rightfully) get slammed here.
LTE is an international standard. That means that either Samsung's LTE-related patents are covered under a FRAND agreement, or Samsung will lose the right to use all of the LTE-related patents that are covered under a FRAND agreement if they try to sue over LTE. Suing over standard-essential patents is just stupid, and won't help Samsung at all.
That means there won't be any trouble in waiting out Windows 8 for something better.
It was Apple that coughed up his credentials to the attackers. If Apple hadn't done that, there wouldn't be a problem.
There are some Apple employees that ought to lose their job over this and Apple ought to pay this guy something significant for screwing him over.