We've seen it with SIM-locking. Voting with your wallet doesn't work in an oligopoly case. There are very few carriers and they all lock their phones. Fortunately, in many countries, the government stepped in and banned SIM locking. Nothing of value was lost and it is better for the consumer and increased competition.
We're fixing the problem way faster than the rest of the world.
Who's we? The USA? As long as you continue to emit more CO2 per capita than the rest of the world, you are not fixing the problem.
We were one of the very few that actually met the Kyoto Protocol requirements.
No you don't. You are one of the very few not part of the Kyoto Protocol. You definitely do not meet the planned requirement, which was something like a reduction of 6% of emissions under 1990 levels by 2012. The USA increased its CO2 emissions since 1990.
Of course now that you refused to join to protocol, you don't have any target. That doesn't make it a success. The -6% was already a much easier target than those planned for EU countries. And EU countries already emitted a lot less per capita. So Kyoto was a gift to the USA, and yet you failed to meet the target.
Done with natural gas replacing coal, and new power being natural gas as well as solar and wind. Nobody is converting more rapidly.
Citation needed.
We will be zero-carbon, leave-it-in-the-ground before anyone else, I'm betting. Its just going to take some time. Meanwhile, we're not going to impoverish millions trying to do too much too soon.
You should say meanwhile, you are contributing to the problem more than anyone else, by emitting a lot more.
Yeah, we do a lot of industry which takes a lot of power, and moving stuff around the country is expensive because its just big.
Your problem. Certainty not the rest of the world's. Many countries achieve similar or even higher wealth with much less CO2 emissions per capita. The US (and Canada, Australia, UAE, Qatar) carbon-based economy is unsustainable.
And it doesn't matter that America has pulled out of the Paris deal, we will still continue to set records for clean energy and CO2 mitigation via natural gas and solar and wind.
You mean record CO2 emissions (both per capita and overall)
Snapdragon 710 phones will probably be in the $400-600 range, not $200. I don't really like these so-called mid range phones because you can usually get the previous year flagship (used) for cheaper and get more performance, a better display and a better camera.
As the AC who posted after your comment pointed out, there are beta releases all the time - many of which are by BrainSlayer (who was the principal architect for V24 SPI, and is the principal architect for SP2, as well). For popular routers (i.e. - inexpensive and relatively powerful ones), there are often 2 or 3 betas per month. So who the hell cares about the "stable" release of SP2, when Kong's v3.0-r33675M (which I use on all 3 of my ASUS RT-56U's) is reliable, stable, has all relevant security issues patched, and supports more functions than most users will ever need?
(BTW - I agree with that guy about ignoring the router database, too. It's full of misinformation and outdated releases that no sane admin would choose to install on an Internet-exposed router. Newbies to DD-WRT should search the forums for advice on the best forks and versions to install for their particular make and model, instead.)
Sounds like a very badly managed project from one man in his mom's basement. Why should newbies have to search on forums and use a fork? What's wrong with the main branch? Why don't they fix it? I wouldn't trust DD-WRT with security updates if I have to use a beta fork.
As for the Broadcom code, again, openwrt uses a set of reverse-engineered drivers, and it is a freakin' nightmare to configure.
You probably haven't used openwrt in the past 8 years or so. It's very easy to configure with a web-based UI like any other router. It's also much easier to configure if you want to build from source and choose which package to include. But you are right that broadcom-based devices should be avoided with openwrt.
DD-WRT is straighforward. I don't give a flying fuck at a rolling donut that the comm driver is proprietary.
Well just don't say that DD-WRT is 100% open source and this will be fine with me.
I care that it works.
I will grant your point that, for Broadcom-based routers (including mine), the DD-WRT drivers are proprietary. I just don't care - and the fact that the DD-WRT developers choose to use them, rather than replace them with the reverse-engineered versions speaks volumes about how efficient, stable, and reliable they believe the open-source ones are...
They don't just choose to use the proprietary drivers, it's worst than that. You can't just go to broadcom web site and download them. They are given to DD-WRT under NDA. I believe part of the driver must be recompiled for each kernel. It also forces DD-WRT to maintain several kernel branches and with the limited staff they have, I am sure they can't maintain security updates in all of them. I am not even sure I'd trust them more than D-Link on security.
Too bad their last stable release (V24 SP1) is from 9 years ago. They are almost done with the SP2!
And by 100% open source, you mean is heavily dependent on closed source drivers obtained from broadcom under NDA? With outdated info on their wiki on how to build the source?
I just installed openwrt/LEDE 17.01.4 on a TP-Link Archer C7 v2. I downloaded the file, used the web page to upload it and waited. How could it be any easier?
I then configured the router using the LuCI web interface which is better than most stock router web interface.
and the French might have a very different reputation today.
That reputation only exists in the USA. And it was popularized after the French refused to invade Iraq. Something the USA now acknowledges as a big mistake (waste of money, no WMD found).
Maybe (Switzerland also have immigrants, maybe not as much as the USA I didn't check). However the difference between Switzerland and the USA is that Switzerland has different regional cultures. There is no US state (or even region) which has a majority Chinese or Brazilian population. They are blended through the rest of the majority, English-speaking population. There is not even a US state who's working language is not English.
The difference is not the supported languages, but the supported targets. The embedded systems, toasters, light bulbs of the world are all developed in a language (usually C, and to a lesser extent C++) compiled using GCC or a derivative. But I've never seen a CPU vendor toolchain based on LLVM. I am sure it exists, but the popular ones are still based on GCC. And I've used various platforms from TI, NXP, Microchip, STmicro, Atheros, Broadcom, etc. All based on GCC.
Only one culture? Switzerland is much more culturally diverse than the USA. They have 4 official languages. French and German speaking Switzerland are very different.
In part, because our tax money ( and a percentage of lottery winnings ) are supposed to go to the schools.
But of course politicians get their grimy little hands on a budget, and it all goes to shit. This is in part why I
A) Almost always vote against the incumbent B) *ALWAYS* *ALWAYS* *ALWAYS* vote against tax increases.
They have enough of my cash. If they can't pay for basic services with the stacks of green they pull out of my ass, that's they're fuck up not mine, and I won't fund any further idiocy.
The USA is one of the less taxed developed country. Don't be surprised if your public services suck. You get what you pay for.
You are so locked-in that you don't even realize it. Try switching from Mac OS to Linux/Windows/whatever and try using that Time Machine on your Time capsule again.
The thing is, the only reason people get a TimeCapsule is because of that proprietary Time Machine feature. So the vendor lock-in, the proprietary protocol is at the very core of it.
The Airport router is not as bad, I admit, but still, I never met someone getting this router without also having many other Apple devices (usually at least a Mac and an iPhone, often a 3rd device such as an Apple TV). These people are usually vendor locked-in to the bone. They are never going to be able to move away from Apple.
It may or may not, depending on implementation. Anyways, the web page is blocked by default on the WAN side, which is what matters the most. I guess it's the same thing for Apple's utility.
Airplay and time machine were the two things I had in mind yes. There might be others. Of course you can buy an Apple time machine and use it as a router. You are just wasting money, right?
I'd take less vendor lock-in choices any day. Dozens of other companies will popup and offer WiFi router. There might even be more choices after Apple leave the segment.
Why do they insist on this broken update model which breaks things every fucking time. Last time was my VPN and Virtualbox network adapters.
Why can't they just put their 3D paint to the Windows store? I wish they modularized more. Cortana should also be an optional application. So does Edge.
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We've seen it with SIM-locking. Voting with your wallet doesn't work in an oligopoly case. There are very few carriers and they all lock their phones. Fortunately, in many countries, the government stepped in and banned SIM locking. Nothing of value was lost and it is better for the consumer and increased competition.
We're fixing the problem way faster than the rest of the world.
Who's we? The USA? As long as you continue to emit more CO2 per capita than the rest of the world, you are not fixing the problem.
We were one of the very few that actually met the Kyoto Protocol requirements.
No you don't. You are one of the very few not part of the Kyoto Protocol. You definitely do not meet the planned requirement, which was something like a reduction of 6% of emissions under 1990 levels by 2012. The USA increased its CO2 emissions since 1990.
Of course now that you refused to join to protocol, you don't have any target. That doesn't make it a success. The -6% was already a much easier target than those planned for EU countries. And EU countries already emitted a lot less per capita. So Kyoto was a gift to the USA, and yet you failed to meet the target.
Done with natural gas replacing coal, and new power being natural gas as well as solar and wind. Nobody is converting more rapidly.
Citation needed.
We will be zero-carbon, leave-it-in-the-ground before anyone else, I'm betting. Its just going to take some time. Meanwhile, we're not going to impoverish millions trying to do too much too soon.
You should say meanwhile, you are contributing to the problem more than anyone else, by emitting a lot more.
Yeah, we do a lot of industry which takes a lot of power, and moving stuff around the country is expensive because its just big.
Your problem. Certainty not the rest of the world's.
Many countries achieve similar or even higher wealth with much less CO2 emissions per capita. The US (and Canada, Australia, UAE, Qatar) carbon-based economy is unsustainable.
And it doesn't matter that America has pulled out of the Paris deal, we will still continue to set records for clean energy and CO2 mitigation via natural gas and solar and wind.
You mean record CO2 emissions (both per capita and overall)
iPhones don't have the best cameras and yes, flagship phones have better cameras than $300 phones. Just look on Dxomark or any review.
Snapdragon 710 phones will probably be in the $400-600 range, not $200.
I don't really like these so-called mid range phones because you can usually get the previous year flagship (used) for cheaper and get more performance, a better display and a better camera.
that french reputation existed before before US invaded Iraq. And was also quite popular in UK, not just the US.
You can maybe add the UK to that list but it's definitely not a world-wide thing.
As the AC who posted after your comment pointed out, there are beta releases all the time - many of which are by BrainSlayer (who was the principal architect for V24 SPI, and is the principal architect for SP2, as well). For popular routers (i.e. - inexpensive and relatively powerful ones), there are often 2 or 3 betas per month. So who the hell cares about the "stable" release of SP2, when Kong's v3.0-r33675M (which I use on all 3 of my ASUS RT-56U's) is reliable, stable, has all relevant security issues patched, and supports more functions than most users will ever need?
(BTW - I agree with that guy about ignoring the router database, too. It's full of misinformation and outdated releases that no sane admin would choose to install on an Internet-exposed router. Newbies to DD-WRT should search the forums for advice on the best forks and versions to install for their particular make and model, instead.)
Sounds like a very badly managed project from one man in his mom's basement. Why should newbies have to search on forums and use a fork? What's wrong with the main branch? Why don't they fix it?
I wouldn't trust DD-WRT with security updates if I have to use a beta fork.
As for the Broadcom code, again, openwrt uses a set of reverse-engineered drivers, and it is a freakin' nightmare to configure.
You probably haven't used openwrt in the past 8 years or so. It's very easy to configure with a web-based UI like any other router.
It's also much easier to configure if you want to build from source and choose which package to include.
But you are right that broadcom-based devices should be avoided with openwrt.
DD-WRT is straighforward. I don't give a flying fuck at a rolling donut that the comm driver is proprietary.
Well just don't say that DD-WRT is 100% open source and this will be fine with me.
I care that it works.
I will grant your point that, for Broadcom-based routers (including mine), the DD-WRT drivers are proprietary. I just don't care - and the fact that the DD-WRT developers choose to use them, rather than replace them with the reverse-engineered versions speaks volumes about how efficient, stable, and reliable they believe the open-source ones are ...
They don't just choose to use the proprietary drivers, it's worst than that. You can't just go to broadcom web site and download them. They are given to DD-WRT under NDA. I believe part of the driver must be recompiled for each kernel. It also forces DD-WRT to maintain several kernel branches and with the limited staff they have, I am sure they can't maintain security updates in all of them. I am not even sure I'd trust them more than D-Link on security.
Too bad their last stable release (V24 SP1) is from 9 years ago. They are almost done with the SP2!
And by 100% open source, you mean is heavily dependent on closed source drivers obtained from broadcom under NDA?
With outdated info on their wiki on how to build the source?
I just installed openwrt/LEDE 17.01.4 on a TP-Link Archer C7 v2. I downloaded the file, used the web page to upload it and waited. How could it be any easier?
I then configured the router using the LuCI web interface which is better than most stock router web interface.
and the French might have a very different reputation today.
That reputation only exists in the USA. And it was popularized after the French refused to invade Iraq. Something the USA now acknowledges as a big mistake (waste of money, no WMD found).
so you don't use a car seat for your baby because you don't crash your car, right?
Maybe (Switzerland also have immigrants, maybe not as much as the USA I didn't check). However the difference between Switzerland and the USA is that Switzerland has different regional cultures. There is no US state (or even region) which has a majority Chinese or Brazilian population. They are blended through the rest of the majority, English-speaking population. There is not even a US state who's working language is not English.
The difference is not the supported languages, but the supported targets.
The embedded systems, toasters, light bulbs of the world are all developed in a language (usually C, and to a lesser extent C++) compiled using GCC or a derivative. But I've never seen a CPU vendor toolchain based on LLVM. I am sure it exists, but the popular ones are still based on GCC. And I've used various platforms from TI, NXP, Microchip, STmicro, Atheros, Broadcom, etc. All based on GCC.
Only one culture?
Switzerland is much more culturally diverse than the USA. They have 4 official languages. French and German speaking Switzerland are very different.
In part, because our tax money ( and a percentage of lottery winnings ) are supposed to go to the schools.
But of course politicians get their grimy little hands on a budget, and it all goes to shit. This is in part why I
A) Almost always vote against the incumbent
B) *ALWAYS* *ALWAYS* *ALWAYS* vote against tax increases.
They have enough of my cash. If they can't pay for basic services with the stacks of green they pull out of my ass, that's they're fuck up not mine, and I won't fund any further idiocy.
The USA is one of the less taxed developed country. Don't be surprised if your public services suck. You get what you pay for.
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aren't they already in the stone age? Or have they moved to the bronze age already?
You are so locked-in that you don't even realize it. Try switching from Mac OS to Linux/Windows/whatever and try using that Time Machine on your Time capsule again.
which I can plug a regular printer into via USB
I use printers with Ethernet ports instead.
Phew. There are just 2 of them!
The thing is, the only reason people get a TimeCapsule is because of that proprietary Time Machine feature. So the vendor lock-in, the proprietary protocol is at the very core of it.
The Airport router is not as bad, I admit, but still, I never met someone getting this router without also having many other Apple devices (usually at least a Mac and an iPhone, often a 3rd device such as an Apple TV). These people are usually vendor locked-in to the bone. They are never going to be able to move away from Apple.
It may or may not, depending on implementation. Anyways, the web page is blocked by default on the WAN side, which is what matters the most. I guess it's the same thing for Apple's utility.
Haha, first router I know which is not configurable over any web browser. Good one.
Airplay and time machine were the two things I had in mind yes. There might be others.
Of course you can buy an Apple time machine and use it as a router. You are just wasting money, right?
Canada should build a wall and send the bill to Trump.
I'd take less vendor lock-in choices any day. Dozens of other companies will popup and offer WiFi router. There might even be more choices after Apple leave the segment.
Why do they insist on this broken update model which breaks things every fucking time. Last time was my VPN and Virtualbox network adapters.
Why can't they just put their 3D paint to the Windows store? I wish they modularized more. Cortana should also be an optional application. So does Edge.