Except that I honestly thought that (in terms of the iPhone) that it was a literal unix-type jail. I was wrong - the AFC mode was setting the filesystem read-only, and the "jailbreak" as it were basically puts AFC into restore mode. It was almost 2 years after the fact before I realized that it wasn't a literal jail.
Now that the terminology is being thrown around so liberally, it irritates the crap outta me.
Granted, I know we're talking internationally, but 25cents for a minute of cell phone airtime???
T-Mobile here, I pay $125/mo for 2 phones, "unlimited" data, sms, and mms. 1500 shared minutes. Reasonably speaking, $25 of that is data, fees, and taxes. 1500/100 is 15 cents per minute, but more than that, we get unlimited mobile-to-mobile calling, so we get much more than that.
Ubuntu has been my primary desktop machine *at work* for almost 2 years now. There are hiccups here and there, primarily due to the occassionally stupid requirement of ActiveX in a web application or a Windows-only app that won't run in CrossOver office, forcing me to RDP into a Windows machine or run it in a VM - but generally speaking, I'd have no qualms with ditching OSX and going to Ubuntu.
Ironically, IOS devices are a problem on Ubuntu though, as iTunes still doesn't run properly in Wine, and in turn, on CrossOver Office. You'd still need to set up udev triggers for the IOS and run a VM (VirtualBox works nicely), to sync your IOS device up.
If you're going to ditch Apple, you seriously need to *ditch apple*. I make it work, but then I still have the used MacBook at home that I use for syncing.
I've been at that point for *months*, and people look at me like I've lost my marbles. Anyone that's had to deal with the jailbreak situation on iPhones in order to carrier unlock knows where I'm coming from. As of the 3GS, your phone initiates a "call home" to apple in order to ask permission to load a firmware revision. Looks like iTunes is doing it, but it's not. It's the phone itself.
Worse, if you disable all internet connectivity, the phone will flatly refuse to load *any* firmware. It must be able to phone home. The only savior to the situation is that it is vulnerable to a replay attack, so if you disable internet access, make an entry in your hosts file to point at localhost, then run a piece of software that can generate the TSS playback, the phone will then allow you to load the firmware of your choosing - with one caveat. You had to have captured a copy of the TSS session from a time when Apple was saying "okay" to that firmware, or in more technically speaking, they were signing the TSS session and giving you an SHSH. If you saved that SHSH, you're golden. If not, you're screwed.
Fast forward to now. You have the MacBook Air, and immediately prior to that, the Apple TV. I don't like this *at all*. I should not have to ask permission to load whatever I want on *my* hardware. Internet connectivity should never be a prerequisite to load an OS - unless the end user wants it that way.
I also should not have to rely on security flaws to get at the root filesystem of my computers. DO NOT WANT.
Well, it's a catch-22 situation. When I was rolling out my last data center, the business plan had us networking our data center, *and* separate address space for remote clients. I got our AS assigned, but fact is, I couldn't get an allotment because I couldn't "prove" use. Of course I couldn't, we were deploying the system! Our upstream wouldn't give us the address space, because they couldn't prove our use. So....WTF? Tried to get IPv6 allotment, couldn't prove use, won't give it to me. Upstream didn't support it. Etc, etc, etc.
Other replies to you addressed your question, but there's a point here that no one is bringing up, and that's the point of blacklist space. There are IP blocks out there that may be re-assigned, but no one wants because they're on blacklists of various types all over the world. I'm wondering how that winds up shaking out. We're going to eventually have to get people to re-use those blocks.
I'd switch to IPv6 in a heartbeat - if my ISP would support it.
You can firewall using publically accessible addresses. Why on earth do you need to make yourself unroutable, then have to throw an unstandardized hack in between and hope that traffic flows?
Perhaps, but as a small ISP in 2006, I couldn't even *get* an allocation of IPv6 addresses. I wanted them, but they wouldn't assign any to someone as small as myself, so I had to go back to my upstream provider and ask. They didn't support IPv6, had to use IPv4. Tried to switch to a provider that did....no one did.
It's just plain insanity. We're in for a future of NAT behind NAT.:(
The problem is backwards compatibility. We're going through this here at work right now. People want Windows 7 because it's new and shiny. From a usability perspective, let's face it - it just doesn't bring anything new to the table that will compel us to upgrade. It also breaks stuff. A LOT of stuff. As in we might as well be going to Ubuntu - too many freaking web apps that require ActiveX, or IE's old broken JavaScript calls, or one-off win32's that were written poorly and require Administrator privileges, and that vendor is now gone gone gone - no chance of ever getting it updated, and no budget to have it re-written.
Whether we want to or not, we're paying for Windows 6.1 with every new PC lease. If Windows 6.1 (what Microsoft is currently choosing to market as Windows 7) had simply said "look, we know we're breaking XP. If you need all of this old and broken stuff, stay on XP. Get on 7 if you want to be right going forward", then maybe this would be a different story.
It's been a while since I looked, but I *think* the real Windows 7 is still being developed, and will probably be the OS that completely cuts off this backward compatibility nonsense that plagues all Windows users right now. If MS could ever get themselves on the type of cycle has, cutting off backwards support and regular, routine intervals, they'd be much better off. The fact that we're even *discussing* having to deal with Internet Explorer 5.5 quirks mode applications is just insanity.
This is the precise reason that i use.rtf as much as possible. If I don't need any super-fancy formatting, I always save as.rtf. Cross platform (for the most part), opens in just about every version of everything that I'm aware, including Microsoft Works if I recall correctly.
No - he's talking about UI consistency and overall layout, not performance on older hardware. Whether you meant to do it or not, you've set up a straw man here.
Granted, ESPECIALLY with iTunes, and ESPECIALLY with the latest version, Apple seriously violates it's own UI guidelines. As of right now, everything always looks greyed out, and the minimize/maximize/close buttons aren't located where they're supposed to be, and they're vertically oriented instead of horizontally.
Apple's no saint, but the original poster's point still stands. Overall, Apple still wins on this.
Yeah, I'm not amused by the implementation of the jobs systems in the modern titles. Personally, I like the way FF4 handled that best. People have innate abilities. You grow those innate abilities. Granted, I didn't play 5 very much, but if it was simply an extension on that to where if you were a Knight but wanted to learn Ninja abilities, you could switch jobs, but be a very low-level Ninja until you leveled up as that.
I don't like the plug-and-play abilities like FF7 had. FF6 was *okay* - you had to spend time with a particular esper if you wanted to learn certain magics.
These "grids" are silly. They give you transparency and choices as to how you want to level up, and yes - a character's natural tendencies do wind up being exposed, but it is still an unneeded level of complexity. The license system of FF12 was particularly bad. I hung out in the Bujurban Mines for an hour or two grinding away, and all of a sudden I have licenses for anything and everything for everyone. (I'm exagerating a touch, but still - I think I hung out there until I had the Charge ability for everyone).
Glad to see at least someone agrees with me on 13. Final Fantasy 12 hit what I feel to be the pinnacle of FF's battle system. It took some getting used to at first, admittedly. Once you have all of the gambits, the thing almost plays on remote control - BUT, at least it's a remote control that you choose.
FF13? Auto-Battle. Auto-Battle. Auto-Battle. Can I choose what they do when I hit Auto-Battle? No? Herky-jerky in-and-out of the battle system, which in FF12 became a seamless thing.
HUGE steps backwards on both of these titles apparently, because I just don't play MMO's. Get the battle designer from FF12, and make sure he heads up all of the action sequences in FF15. Story seems to be fine for FF13 - it's just the complete lack of a compelling action/battle sequence (or free-roaming of any type, really). Get back to the open world. That's what FF has always been. Tweak the battle system if you must, but DO NOT force this game into linearity.
All I have every cared about is out-of-area locals and Sports Networks. The rest I can get over the internet in various forms (legally, I might add!), but things like NFL, NHL, and NCAA Div 1 Hockey are only available using "common" providers. C-Band capable to getting the out-of-market locals?
I dunno - if I were able to watch NFL games off my handset without having to pay for Sunday Ticket's "To-Go" service, I might do it.
Too bad I like T-Mobile better than AT&T and Verizon both, and I have Clearwire's iSpot ($25/mo for WiMax) - and the combination of those is *still* cheaper than AT&T, likely to also be true of Verizon.
There's a reason AT&T adamantly refuses to carrier unlock iPhones. Meanwhile, back at the ranch - I wonder how open Sprint will be to jailbroken/carrier unlocked CDMA iPhones? Think they'll be as welcoming as T-Mobile is to GSM iPhones?
To be fair, we're talking about short-term adaptation rather than major evolution. The problem I see is that we're throwing the baby out with the bathwater in schools. Regardless of whether you believe evolution has been on the grand scale that the religious fanatics rave against, it's a pretty simple fact to watch generations adapt and adjust to their environments. Why are we not at least going so far as to show examples - like squirrels? There was a story on/. here a few years ago about squirrels that look booth ways before crossing the road. They didn't learn to do that overnight. The ones that looked, survived. The ones that didn't well....didn't. Not necessarily a genetic trait, but one that got passed down parent to offspring enough times that now the squirrels look both ways and thus survive the busy roads in their environments.
That's fine - I'll tell you what I've told everyone else.
If you want to put a Windows server into a production in my data center, here's your liability waiver paperwork. If that server goes down, is hacked, virus infected, etc, etc, etc - it's not my responsibility. If you want reliability, you don't use Windows. If you want someone to sue if something goes wrong, you use Windows.
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Except that I honestly thought that (in terms of the iPhone) that it was a literal unix-type jail. I was wrong - the AFC mode was setting the filesystem read-only, and the "jailbreak" as it were basically puts AFC into restore mode. It was almost 2 years after the fact before I realized that it wasn't a literal jail.
Now that the terminology is being thrown around so liberally, it irritates the crap outta me.
You do mean Windows 6.2? You're likely running Windows 6.1 right now. Run `winver`.
Granted, I know we're talking internationally, but 25cents for a minute of cell phone airtime???
T-Mobile here, I pay $125/mo for 2 phones, "unlimited" data, sms, and mms. 1500 shared minutes. Reasonably speaking, $25 of that is data, fees, and taxes. 1500/100 is 15 cents per minute, but more than that, we get unlimited mobile-to-mobile calling, so we get much more than that.
Even if what you said were true (giant speculation), it's decentralized. The system is nothing without the individual pods.
Huh? I inverted mine....?
Ubuntu has been my primary desktop machine *at work* for almost 2 years now. There are hiccups here and there, primarily due to the occassionally stupid requirement of ActiveX in a web application or a Windows-only app that won't run in CrossOver office, forcing me to RDP into a Windows machine or run it in a VM - but generally speaking, I'd have no qualms with ditching OSX and going to Ubuntu.
Ironically, IOS devices are a problem on Ubuntu though, as iTunes still doesn't run properly in Wine, and in turn, on CrossOver Office. You'd still need to set up udev triggers for the IOS and run a VM (VirtualBox works nicely), to sync your IOS device up.
If you're going to ditch Apple, you seriously need to *ditch apple*. I make it work, but then I still have the used MacBook at home that I use for syncing.
I've been at that point for *months*, and people look at me like I've lost my marbles. Anyone that's had to deal with the jailbreak situation on iPhones in order to carrier unlock knows where I'm coming from. As of the 3GS, your phone initiates a "call home" to apple in order to ask permission to load a firmware revision. Looks like iTunes is doing it, but it's not. It's the phone itself.
Worse, if you disable all internet connectivity, the phone will flatly refuse to load *any* firmware. It must be able to phone home. The only savior to the situation is that it is vulnerable to a replay attack, so if you disable internet access, make an entry in your hosts file to point at localhost, then run a piece of software that can generate the TSS playback, the phone will then allow you to load the firmware of your choosing - with one caveat. You had to have captured a copy of the TSS session from a time when Apple was saying "okay" to that firmware, or in more technically speaking, they were signing the TSS session and giving you an SHSH. If you saved that SHSH, you're golden. If not, you're screwed.
Fast forward to now. You have the MacBook Air, and immediately prior to that, the Apple TV. I don't like this *at all*. I should not have to ask permission to load whatever I want on *my* hardware. Internet connectivity should never be a prerequisite to load an OS - unless the end user wants it that way.
I also should not have to rely on security flaws to get at the root filesystem of my computers. DO NOT WANT.
Help with Diaspora? GitHub is set up. I just set up my pod yesterday. Help be part of the solution by testing and suggesting changes/fixes.
Well, it's a catch-22 situation. When I was rolling out my last data center, the business plan had us networking our data center, *and* separate address space for remote clients. I got our AS assigned, but fact is, I couldn't get an allotment because I couldn't "prove" use. Of course I couldn't, we were deploying the system! Our upstream wouldn't give us the address space, because they couldn't prove our use. So....WTF? Tried to get IPv6 allotment, couldn't prove use, won't give it to me. Upstream didn't support it. Etc, etc, etc.
Top down, this is a MESS.
Nope, then we start NAT'ing behind NAT's.
Other replies to you addressed your question, but there's a point here that no one is bringing up, and that's the point of blacklist space. There are IP blocks out there that may be re-assigned, but no one wants because they're on blacklists of various types all over the world. I'm wondering how that winds up shaking out. We're going to eventually have to get people to re-use those blocks.
I'd switch to IPv6 in a heartbeat - if my ISP would support it.
Use a firewall, use public addresses. Leave NAT at the curb and say goodbye to UPnP.
NAT needs to die. DIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIE
You can firewall using publically accessible addresses. Why on earth do you need to make yourself unroutable, then have to throw an unstandardized hack in between and hope that traffic flows?
Perhaps, but as a small ISP in 2006, I couldn't even *get* an allocation of IPv6 addresses. I wanted them, but they wouldn't assign any to someone as small as myself, so I had to go back to my upstream provider and ask. They didn't support IPv6, had to use IPv4. Tried to switch to a provider that did....no one did.
It's just plain insanity. We're in for a future of NAT behind NAT. :(
The problem is backwards compatibility. We're going through this here at work right now. People want Windows 7 because it's new and shiny. From a usability perspective, let's face it - it just doesn't bring anything new to the table that will compel us to upgrade. It also breaks stuff. A LOT of stuff. As in we might as well be going to Ubuntu - too many freaking web apps that require ActiveX, or IE's old broken JavaScript calls, or one-off win32's that were written poorly and require Administrator privileges, and that vendor is now gone gone gone - no chance of ever getting it updated, and no budget to have it re-written.
Whether we want to or not, we're paying for Windows 6.1 with every new PC lease. If Windows 6.1 (what Microsoft is currently choosing to market as Windows 7) had simply said "look, we know we're breaking XP. If you need all of this old and broken stuff, stay on XP. Get on 7 if you want to be right going forward", then maybe this would be a different story.
It's been a while since I looked, but I *think* the real Windows 7 is still being developed, and will probably be the OS that completely cuts off this backward compatibility nonsense that plagues all Windows users right now. If MS could ever get themselves on the type of cycle has, cutting off backwards support and regular, routine intervals, they'd be much better off. The fact that we're even *discussing* having to deal with Internet Explorer 5.5 quirks mode applications is just insanity.
This is the precise reason that i use .rtf as much as possible. If I don't need any super-fancy formatting, I always save as .rtf. Cross platform (for the most part), opens in just about every version of everything that I'm aware, including Microsoft Works if I recall correctly.
No - he's talking about UI consistency and overall layout, not performance on older hardware. Whether you meant to do it or not, you've set up a straw man here.
Granted, ESPECIALLY with iTunes, and ESPECIALLY with the latest version, Apple seriously violates it's own UI guidelines. As of right now, everything always looks greyed out, and the minimize/maximize/close buttons aren't located where they're supposed to be, and they're vertically oriented instead of horizontally.
Apple's no saint, but the original poster's point still stands. Overall, Apple still wins on this.
Does it matter when it's true?
Yeah, I'm not amused by the implementation of the jobs systems in the modern titles. Personally, I like the way FF4 handled that best. People have innate abilities. You grow those innate abilities. Granted, I didn't play 5 very much, but if it was simply an extension on that to where if you were a Knight but wanted to learn Ninja abilities, you could switch jobs, but be a very low-level Ninja until you leveled up as that.
I don't like the plug-and-play abilities like FF7 had. FF6 was *okay* - you had to spend time with a particular esper if you wanted to learn certain magics.
These "grids" are silly. They give you transparency and choices as to how you want to level up, and yes - a character's natural tendencies do wind up being exposed, but it is still an unneeded level of complexity. The license system of FF12 was particularly bad. I hung out in the Bujurban Mines for an hour or two grinding away, and all of a sudden I have licenses for anything and everything for everyone. (I'm exagerating a touch, but still - I think I hung out there until I had the Charge ability for everyone).
Glad to see at least someone agrees with me on 13. Final Fantasy 12 hit what I feel to be the pinnacle of FF's battle system. It took some getting used to at first, admittedly. Once you have all of the gambits, the thing almost plays on remote control - BUT, at least it's a remote control that you choose.
FF13? Auto-Battle. Auto-Battle. Auto-Battle. Can I choose what they do when I hit Auto-Battle? No? Herky-jerky in-and-out of the battle system, which in FF12 became a seamless thing.
HUGE steps backwards on both of these titles apparently, because I just don't play MMO's. Get the battle designer from FF12, and make sure he heads up all of the action sequences in FF15. Story seems to be fine for FF13 - it's just the complete lack of a compelling action/battle sequence (or free-roaming of any type, really). Get back to the open world. That's what FF has always been. Tweak the battle system if you must, but DO NOT force this game into linearity.
All I have every cared about is out-of-area locals and Sports Networks. The rest I can get over the internet in various forms (legally, I might add!), but things like NFL, NHL, and NCAA Div 1 Hockey are only available using "common" providers. C-Band capable to getting the out-of-market locals?
I dunno - if I were able to watch NFL games off my handset without having to pay for Sunday Ticket's "To-Go" service, I might do it.
Too bad I like T-Mobile better than AT&T and Verizon both, and I have Clearwire's iSpot ($25/mo for WiMax) - and the combination of those is *still* cheaper than AT&T, likely to also be true of Verizon.
There's a reason AT&T adamantly refuses to carrier unlock iPhones. Meanwhile, back at the ranch - I wonder how open Sprint will be to jailbroken/carrier unlocked CDMA iPhones? Think they'll be as welcoming as T-Mobile is to GSM iPhones?
Come on, don't make us beg. I know C-band dishes are available, but specifics would be great KTHX.
To be fair, we're talking about short-term adaptation rather than major evolution. The problem I see is that we're throwing the baby out with the bathwater in schools. Regardless of whether you believe evolution has been on the grand scale that the religious fanatics rave against, it's a pretty simple fact to watch generations adapt and adjust to their environments. Why are we not at least going so far as to show examples - like squirrels? There was a story on /. here a few years ago about squirrels that look booth ways before crossing the road. They didn't learn to do that overnight. The ones that looked, survived. The ones that didn't well....didn't. Not necessarily a genetic trait, but one that got passed down parent to offspring enough times that now the squirrels look both ways and thus survive the busy roads in their environments.
You can't ignore it forever.
That's fine - I'll tell you what I've told everyone else.
If you want to put a Windows server into a production in my data center, here's your liability waiver paperwork. If that server goes down, is hacked, virus infected, etc, etc, etc - it's not my responsibility. If you want reliability, you don't use Windows. If you want someone to sue if something goes wrong, you use Windows.