It appears that you just said "smaller, more restrained government is a fantasy".
It appears you have a reading comprehension problem. The fantasy I'm taking about is the premise that the tea party operates on; the idea that the government has grown significantly in size in recent history. The government has grown slowly over time, but these have been overwhelmingly due to programs that are immensely popular with all Americans - even Tea Partiers.
They were protesting large government and government excess.
The problem is that, if you look at the actual facts, the entire tea party platform is exposed as a one that is based on pure fantasy.
Our government spending as a size of GDP is not appreciably bigger than it ever has been and taxes as a percentage of GDP are at all time *lows*. Another fun fact that explodes the heads of tea partiers: The federal deficit for Obama's first budget (FY2010) and the projected deficit for his second budget (FY2011) were/are LOWER than the deficit under Bush's last budget.
I watched the video and noticed that there was no pinch to zoom. Anyone know if that is because of a patent issue, or because the software is feature incomplete?
"I have only been able to come up with one algorithm for creating Unix command names: think of a good English word to describe what you want to do, then think of an obscure near- or partial-synonym, throw away all the vowels, arbitrarily shorten what's left, and then, finally, as a sop to the literate programmer, maybe reinsert one of the missing vowels."
Also, try to find a Linux equivalent to WinMerge. There is none. KDiff is the closest you can get, but not close enough. I've been using Linux to compile Android kernels and WinMerge is perfect for getting a high level view what the various kernel devs (who don't use git properly) have done to the stock Samsung kernel source.
I resorted to Running WinMerge under Wine. It crashes whenever I do certain functions, but the native linux alternatives are so bad that I put up with it.
And don't get me started on gnome. Holy crap what an abomination. I used to enjoy the KDE 3.x series on my FreeBSD desktops. It was functional and relatively customizable, but this transition of the linux community to gnome boggles my mind, even with the clusterfuck that Kde 4.x series was/is. KDE 3.x is still better than the current Gnome IMO.
And before anyone replys, yes, I know I can choose a distro that uses KDE or install it myself. I've been around that block, and will be doing it again soon.
Your argument is idiotic. Android is open source. They can not dictate the actions of the phone companies due to the GPL.
Only the kernel is GPL. The rest of Android is licensed under the Apache license, and Google is under NO obligation to license it that way...or even release it.
The problem is you have a lot of oldschool ROM cooks from the WinMo days, colliding with the open-source crowd, such as the Cyanogenmod team, and in my experience most of the better kernel hackers are the ones that post full git commit histories because they have nothing to hide AND believe in peer review. A lot of kernels are barely GPL-compliant (e.g. no source for betas, when source drops it's a megatarball) and when I read the threads for those, I see that whoever it is seems to have broken all sorts of things in the pursuit of ShinyUselessFeature that everyone asks for despite it not really being that useful and having major potential negative side effects.
Believe me I know. I made a few enemies yesterday int he Epic 4G dev forum.
His (the guy distributing the kernel) excuse was that he had trouble getting git to work.
Rule #1: If you can figure out how to get git working, you shouldn't be mucking around with kernels and you sure as hell should not be distributing them publicly.
I have a ROM for the Epic4G with Carrier IQ removed. The first person who figured out how to remove CarrierIQ, posted the fixed jar files for all ROM developers to use.
I think the part of the reason why some of these mods don't come with guides is because they involve modifying those smali files, of which the stricture tends to very wildly from device to device.
Since I have tons of other mods on my ROM that affect the same files that CarrierIQ removal affects, I had to kang the changes by decompiling the stock jar/apk files and CIQ removed jar/apk files and comparing them with WinMerge.
The carrierIQ removal was actually fairly trivial compared the most challenging mod I integrated - adding a reboot and reboot to CWM recovery to the power menu. I followed an excellent guide on how to do it, but the guide was for a different device, were the structure and layout of the smali files was significantly different than the those that were on my phone.
You are right about devs not always sharing though. It's a giant rat race with everyone trying to integrate the latest hack or mod first.
Some guy messaged me asking to trade the code to the power menu mod in my ROM in exchange for something [that I didn't need]. I thought it was silly and offered to help him for free. I told him about the guide I followed, but advised him to decompile my jar/apk files and rip the changes, but he said he would just follow the guide. It's been a week and still no power menu mod in his rom.
There is definitely a culture clash over at XDA. A lot of devs don't seem to get the point of open source.
Funny - it was the complete opposite when I started with the BSDs. I learned UNIX on FreeBSD using the handbook as my primary guide. Before discovering it, Linux was always an exercise in frustration due to slightly incorrect, or missing documentation. When you are starting from a position of having large pre-requisite knowledge gaps, slightly incorrect documentation is a killer.
FreeBSD's handbook allowed a noob like me to get by and make it while the knowledge gaps were filled in with experience.
There is no point to the debt ceiling. It's completely redundant. The debt ceiling is set every time congress approves a budget. It's a grandstanding tool.
It's not. It and all other Samsung phones can be easily flashed with a program called ODIN. Just tar up the filesystem images, modem, and kernel and flash away.
But income tends to grow with age so by the time one has kids going to college, I'd hope many parents are tending to the high side of median.
The median wage in this country is 28K a year, which is slightly less than double minimum wage and the media household income is around 49K, which if spilt between three (and most households are more) is a hare above minimum wage per capita.
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Me too. Nice of them to put in on a server with a fat pipe. Downloaded both the high and low res versions at a collective 10MB/s.
It appears that you just said "smaller, more restrained government is a fantasy".
It appears you have a reading comprehension problem. The fantasy I'm taking about is the premise that the tea party operates on; the idea that the government has grown significantly in size in recent history. The government has grown slowly over time, but these have been overwhelmingly due to programs that are immensely popular with all Americans - even Tea Partiers.
They were protesting large government and government excess.
The problem is that, if you look at the actual facts, the entire tea party platform is exposed as a one that is based on pure fantasy.
Our government spending as a size of GDP is not appreciably bigger than it ever has been and taxes as a percentage of GDP are at all time *lows*. Another fun fact that explodes the heads of tea partiers: The federal deficit for Obama's first budget (FY2010) and the projected deficit for his second budget (FY2011) were/are LOWER than the deficit under Bush's last budget.
I watched the video and noticed that there was no pinch to zoom. Anyone know if that is because of a patent issue, or because the software is feature incomplete?
It was meant as a fucking joke. Jeebus guys, have some more (or less) coffee. ;)
SQL injections typically affect php apps, and php has syntax somewhat similar to java. Therefore the GP's theory remains solid footing.
"I have only been able to come up with one algorithm for creating Unix command names: think of a good English word to describe what you want to do, then think of an obscure near- or partial-synonym, throw away all the vowels, arbitrarily shorten what's left, and then, finally, as a sop to the literate programmer, maybe reinsert one of the missing vowels."
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Are you that fucking stupid to think that I could compile my own working Android kernel, yet not find Kdiff and Meld?
Those are the first two things I tried and neither compare to WinMerge.
Someone else bothered to go into detail if you care:
http://petermoulding.com/what_is_the_equivalent_to_winmerge_in_linux
Awesome!
No other argument is needed.
Also, try to find a Linux equivalent to WinMerge. There is none. KDiff is the closest you can get, but not close enough. I've been using Linux to compile Android kernels and WinMerge is perfect for getting a high level view what the various kernel devs (who don't use git properly) have done to the stock Samsung kernel source.
I resorted to Running WinMerge under Wine. It crashes whenever I do certain functions, but the native linux alternatives are so bad that I put up with it.
And don't get me started on gnome. Holy crap what an abomination. I used to enjoy the KDE 3.x series on my FreeBSD desktops. It was functional and relatively customizable, but this transition of the linux community to gnome boggles my mind, even with the clusterfuck that Kde 4.x series was/is. KDE 3.x is still better than the current Gnome IMO.
And before anyone replys, yes, I know I can choose a distro that uses KDE or install it myself. I've been around that block, and will be doing it again soon.
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Your argument is idiotic. Android is open source. They can not dictate the actions of the phone companies due to the GPL.
Only the kernel is GPL. The rest of Android is licensed under the Apache license, and Google is under NO obligation to license it that way...or even release it.
Who's being idiotic now?
The problem is you have a lot of oldschool ROM cooks from the WinMo days, colliding with the open-source crowd, such as the Cyanogenmod team, and in my experience most of the better kernel hackers are the ones that post full git commit histories because they have nothing to hide AND believe in peer review. A lot of kernels are barely GPL-compliant (e.g. no source for betas, when source drops it's a megatarball) and when I read the threads for those, I see that whoever it is seems to have broken all sorts of things in the pursuit of ShinyUselessFeature that everyone asks for despite it not really being that useful and having major potential negative side effects.
Believe me I know. I made a few enemies yesterday int he Epic 4G dev forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19454556#post19454556
His (the guy distributing the kernel) excuse was that he had trouble getting git to work.
Rule #1: If you can figure out how to get git working, you shouldn't be mucking around with kernels and you sure as hell should not be distributing them publicly.
I have a ROM for the Epic4G with Carrier IQ removed. The first person who figured out how to remove CarrierIQ, posted the fixed jar files for all ROM developers to use.
I think the part of the reason why some of these mods don't come with guides is because they involve modifying those smali files, of which the stricture tends to very wildly from device to device.
Since I have tons of other mods on my ROM that affect the same files that CarrierIQ removal affects, I had to kang the changes by decompiling the stock jar/apk files and CIQ removed jar/apk files and comparing them with WinMerge.
The carrierIQ removal was actually fairly trivial compared the most challenging mod I integrated - adding a reboot and reboot to CWM recovery to the power menu. I followed an excellent guide on how to do it, but the guide was for a different device, were the structure and layout of the smali files was significantly different than the those that were on my phone.
You are right about devs not always sharing though. It's a giant rat race with everyone trying to integrate the latest hack or mod first.
Some guy messaged me asking to trade the code to the power menu mod in my ROM in exchange for something [that I didn't need]. I thought it was silly and offered to help him for free. I told him about the guide I followed, but advised him to decompile my jar/apk files and rip the changes, but he said he would just follow the guide. It's been a week and still no power menu mod in his rom.
There is definitely a culture clash over at XDA. A lot of devs don't seem to get the point of open source.
Funny - it was the complete opposite when I started with the BSDs. I learned UNIX on FreeBSD using the handbook as my primary guide. Before discovering it, Linux was always an exercise in frustration due to slightly incorrect, or missing documentation. When you are starting from a position of having large pre-requisite knowledge gaps, slightly incorrect documentation is a killer.
FreeBSD's handbook allowed a noob like me to get by and make it while the knowledge gaps were filled in with experience.
Linux is stable enough for use and also has ample useful features of its own.
You've just stumbled upon the reason why companies choose Windows over Linux.
Easier said than done.
...or they should stop voting for the democrats that banned nationwide insurance shopping.
So every insurance company could move to the state with the least regulation, rendering states powerless to regulate insurance in their own state?
Brilliant!
It drives his wife crazy, and he acknowledges that it is sort of asshole behavior, but he just can't help it.
He's a sociopath.
Of course. But you are you representative of the masses?
There is no point to the debt ceiling. It's completely redundant. The debt ceiling is set every time congress approves a budget. It's a grandstanding tool.
Marketing may have something to do with it.
I didn't know Heimdall supported Windows. I'll have to give it a whirl.
Thanks!
why is my Sprint Samsung Epic 4g locked??
It's not. It and all other Samsung phones can be easily flashed with a program called ODIN. Just tar up the filesystem images, modem, and kernel and flash away.
Google: ODIN samsung
But income tends to grow with age so by the time one has kids going to college, I'd hope many parents are tending to the high side of median.
The median wage in this country is 28K a year, which is slightly less than double minimum wage and the media household income is around 49K, which if spilt between three (and most households are more) is a hare above minimum wage per capita.