What license agreement? The one in the manual? You don't have to agree to that. You aren't forced to sign anything. A lot of newer cameras don't even come with the manual in the box for fucks sake. How is that even enforceable from a legal perspective? This has less clout than a clickable EULA, and people expect it to hold up in court. Yeah. Good luck with that one. That being said, I read TFA, and I agree that we have certainly entered a legal quagmire, but how much of this stuff will hold up in court is truly questionable. If anything the theora codec developers have far more to worry about than the average consumer/company posting videos.
Why would they have incentive to? It would have cost them significantly in terms of development costs and for no return. Adobe didn't decide to switch platforms. Apple did. It was far easier I'm sure for them to bake in intel support in the next release because they could plan that from the ground up, rather than having to port everything. Photoshop is a fairly complex program in case you haven't noticed. Also, didn't mac OS just recently add in support for 64-bit and is still a hodgepodge of 32/64-bit code? How long has XP x64 been around? Windows has been 64-bit longer, but no 64-bit cs3. Adobe is just following the market. People didn't start running 64-bit operating systems on a large scale basis until relatively recently. Most OEMs are shipping machines with Windows 7 x86.
Lately firefox seems to be a lot better with ram usage. Before it was typically 3-400 megs for me, now it is significantly less. I fear you are using it terribly wrong somehow.
Yeah. Its active apps that won't go to cache as well as services that eat up processor and ram. If something is inactive in the background its as good as closed for what its worth. Any android task manager worth its salt will tell you the state of the app. Some apps don't play nice, and I can see where the average user isn't going to understand any of that and there probably isn't much they would know to do other than uninstall the app, that is, if they knew it was what was slowing their phone down. I'm on a G1 though, so ram is much more of an issue, the newer phones probably have a lot less issues, what with 256-512megs to play with.....
The 10MB hack may break some 3d apps, but I've found it just makes them a lot slower. Navigation works, but at a choppy framerate, but nothing terrible. Even most average GPS units lag a bit in the display. This is with music playing on the music app. I was also able to browse some web pages and have navigation call out voice commands along the way. Compcache and swap seem to help somewhat. For me the biggest downer is wanting to have a bunch of widgets on the home screen, but asides from the power widget, the music widget, a pandora folder, calwidget (great widget), astrid and a bunch of icons that's about all I have running. I also have systempanel running all the time in the background it seems pretty lightweight. It does logging and a bunch of really nice things. (nice uninstaller/archiver too). Oh, and I have the service that announces the caller via TTS, so I could make it even more lightweight for sure, but I find that I don't have a great deal of issues.Getting to the home screen after its been dumped can take like 20-30 seconds sometimes. Especially with music playing. That's about the worst case. It takes a heavy app to dump the home screen though, and also music is streaming of the sdcard while the swap is getting hit as well as loading icons for about 30-40 or so apps off the sdcard, so really the sdcard is becoming point of contention for me now. I'm only running a class 4 and I hear that a class 6 makes a big difference with more swap, so I'm thinking about trying that. Rumor has it that 2.1 is more optimized than 1.6 and will run faster when really stripped down, but I'm kind of waiting to some of the kinks to still iron out of the 2.1 roms that are floating around, since they sound even buggier than cyanogen (which is mostly stable as of late). I've been tempted to revert to a stock 1.6 rom for sheer speed, but I don't think I could possibly give up the browser with multitouch. I'd be really sad to have to go back to the lame zoom controls taking up half the real estate. For my limited needs, like having music playing while web browsing or checking out facebook, the g1 is pretty much a workhorse. I'd give up frills and speed for the better keyboard any day and after using the touch keyboard for periods of time (hey its there) I still find it very cumbersome. I picked the g1 over even the newer android phones out there because of the keyboard and I really liked the trackball too. I even like the way the screen swings out and I really don't understand why all the reviewers hated it so much. It certainly was different and I like the way it snaps out with authority. I've never had anything resembling a smartphone before, and even the old palm I used to have doesn't even begin to compare with what is possible with even a humble g1. I'm just kind of holding out for the next great keyboard equipped android phone. The nexus one and the htc desire really don't do much for me, and all the newer designs seem to take cues from the droid with the smaller slideout keyboard with less keys, which makes me kind of sad as well. Anyways, I hope that helps.
Back then they built hardware to last. Nowadays they build shit as cheap as possible with no thought to longevity since product life cycles are starting to shrink from 5 years to 2-3, or even 1 year in the case of cell phones. In return we get a sea of never ending upgraded devices that end up in landfills after a few short years. In one way it is interesting, because the pace of technology is rapidly exploding, but at the same time, at what cost? I guess enjoy the decadence while it lasts..........
Why? What's the big risk in running windows? There is a fair chance that anything could go physically wrong with the machine. With a decent image of the drive, if something goes wrong you could always just restore the image to a new drive or a broken installation. If it is a single purpose machine I could easily envision this squeezing onto a few dvds as well. Just in case. From what I've seen, windows is used just as much if not more in production machines, like cnc routers, huge industrial large format printers, etc. Windows does have the advantage of being fairly easy to code for and a pretty well known target. Seriously. You make it out like it is some sort of crime to install windows on a freaking cnc router. I really doubt security is the #1 issue for a single purpose computer that will run one application all the time, potentially without any sort of internet access, or at least limited behind a firewall. Why is unix always the answer for getting "real work" done? (a lot of linux installations in industrial equipment don't update as well...thus making them more vulnerable over time......) Why is linux so much more secure than windows? If you ask me windows has certainly come a long way, especially with vista/windows7. Not running as administrator 24/7 breaks a lot of common vulnerabilities. Sure there are probably huge open holes in the sides (let's not even talk about the back door....), but they've certainly done a much better job of at least making the front of the place looking locked up. MacOS and Linux just aren't big targets. I really don't think there is any way to quantify which platform is ultimately more secure because Windows is always the one that receives the most attention and scrutiny. I'm not the biggest M$ fan, but truth be told, their operating system has reached the point where I can tolerate it and not outright hate it. I love linux, but it ultimately feels so unpolished in comparison and sadly runs very few of my favorite applications.
You see after over 20 years of doing things with computers, I really don't care what I'm running as long as I can run the apps I really can't live without anymore. The environment is just a shell to me. I'm sort of digging the bling of windows 7, but in the end, I could care less about that sort of thing. I just want to launch my apps and do some work. In truth, lately I've been liking android quite a bit in its extreme simplicity. It just dishes up the apps I want and doesn't really do a whole lot to get in the way and everything runs in a nice little sandbox. I'm sure there are some vulnerabilities, but it seems like you'd have to grant something access before that would happen, outside of any root vulnerabilities in the kernel itself. I could totally see android on a netbook versus chrome. It sure would be a lot more usable....
Also. I can open apps over and over again on my g1 and have the desktop pop up. You really need to do some serious tweaking to optimize it, but I don't think I'd trade it for even a nexus one at this point. My music app never closes in the background and I can run music, go to maps, hit the home screen and pull open a browser without much delay at all. It just sounds like you have too much stuff active. Even the task killers tend to leave services running in the background. You don't want any services running on the g1 other than the stock ones, though I find astrid runs ok.
I have a g1. You really need to use a task manager and uninstall anything that possibly runs at boot/in the background. They are just waaaay too ram limited. Also check out cyanogen mod as well as the 10mb RAM hack and turning on compcache and swap. My phone flies compared to stock android 1.6 and I have stuff on every desktop. Just keep getting rid of stuff till it gets smooth again....
Hell. I could see just about every friend I have with an iphone showing this off. In case you didn't notice, smoking (cigarettes and especially weed) are extremely popular with generation Y. It seems fairly prevalent in my generation too, but not nearly as much. Of course, when I was in my 20s it seemed like everyone I knew smoked anyways. So maybe its just an age thing, but yeah, I can totally see this as being a hit with the "kids."
I really wonder what apple's policy on employee drug usage is........
Ah well. It will get banned and ported to android in a few months. Did anyone port the shaking baby game? I could think of all sorts of fun, twisted apps for the android. How about
Toss the Foetus
"You are an assistant at cut rate abortion clinic. Your job is to take the foetuses from a bucket and toss them into the dumpster. Score points by not leaving them to bake on the alleyway asphalt. Extra points for a rim shot."
Anyone remember the talk to jesus app for Mac OS 7? I loved that thing I could totally port that to android. Anyone still have a copy? (My old mac drive died years ago)
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He should have just given up the passwords. They weren't his computer systems. He was just an employee. I don't care what anyone here says. Let's say you have a work truck that your employer provides. You are to take the keys in the morning and leave them back when you leave. Do you just go home with the keys in your pocket? I mean none of this makes any sense to me. If he wasn't accessing the network anymore, why would he need the passwords? It certainly didn't benefit him to withhold them. I think he was just blindly obsessed, stupid, or an ignorant prick. The punishment is harsh, and really doesn't fit the crime, but by holding the passwords hostage he had essentially owned the network which certainly caused a lot of headaches for his previous employers. In any organization that large it is utterly foolish to leave all of the keys in one person's hands. What if they die? Go batshit crazy? We are not just talking about a couple of rackmounts in a closet here. Wasn't it a city wide network or something? That was tax payer funded? He may have felt that nobody was capable of running "his" network, but since he was no longer employed there, it really wasn't his place to be concerned with their future. I don't know if what he did warrants a felony charge, but it was certainly unjust. Maybe he felt that he owed his previous employers nothing, but when they haul your ass into court you might as well at least give them what they want, and they certainly didn't ask for much. Its never a good idea to plot against your keepers. Don't bite the hand that feeds you. At least in America you can always leave and fall back to aggravated robbery. We see how well that plan worked out for him in the past.
Terry Childs is a moron if you ask me, and his foolish stubbornness will now tragically cost him some time away from pursuing a happy life. He chose to make himself look like the bad guy, even though his justification was for "good" reasons. I understand that giving the passwords away in a court of law would probably be a bad idea, but it should have never have gotten to that point. He should have certainly just met up with his boss and divulged all that he knew. That's common courtesy. Even if you don't like your employer, they still gave you a job and a paycheck. Sure you can leave, but its always best to do so on good terms. In the end its always wiser to be the better man and just walk away with a clean slate. If Terry Childs would have done that, he'd be a free man who could choose his own destiny and probably even find a halfway decent job. Now he's just another convict with multiple felonies that will have a hard time finding a job when he walks free.
It should. They are selling an upwards of 60,000 android based phones a DAY. At that rate, it will become the no.2 smartphone behind the ubiquitous crackberry.
Apple is losing big time in their exclusivity with AT&T to be honest.
This is the traditional model. So is Microsoft and and just about every other software/hardware manufacturer out there. Its hard enough to get manufacturers to release their half-baked linux kernel sources, which they are obviously required to do so.
"They have consistently rebuked anything resembling openness. Want to run their OS? You run it on their hardware or not at all."
You *can* build a hackintosh. I mean if you wanted a cheap mac that badly. In case you forgot, Apple is a hardware company. It only increases their bottom line when you buy their hardware. They want every incentive to force you into their hardware if possible. Remember that the original ipod didn't even work with windows. If they had it their way, their whole box would have 3 ports. A AC plug, a monitor jack, and a usb port. Its just simpler that way, right? I mean, hell, even mice only need one button! No need to confuse people with two, or god forbid a scroll do-hicky.
"Want to use one of their media players? You sync it with iTunes or not at all."
Don't want to be "forced" to use iTunes? Don't buy a freaking ipod! Its not like they are the only mp3 player in the world. They do have damned near the best interface though. Everything else seems to be a miserable failure of shitty chinese design (seriously, who the fuck designs the garbage software they put on mp3 players?)or a cheap carbon copy. Eventually android or some linux based OS will take as MP3 players become small portable computers (ala ipod touch, dell mini 5, ipad, etc) over outside of apple. Or Windows Mobile will continue to be a popular choice.......where is blackberry moving to these days? Linux? I see more of the crackberry than all other smartphones combined. I love my G1. It becomes a roving 3G wi-fi hotspot, a debian shell, a remote terminal/ssh/rdp/etc, a media player, a half decent web browser (at least with the android 2.1 browser thrown in), a gps unit, a compass, a metal detector, a level, a social network browser, a video player, and I could just go on and on. I want a nexus one, but the lack of a keyboard is a real deal breaker for me, and the droid has a terrible keyboard. The G1 reminds me more of industrial grade hardware (sure its just mostly plastic) whereas the droid seems more aimed at the iphone camp. If they made a slightly larger G1 with a larger screen and a 1ghz Cortex A8 and a half gig of ram, I think I'd go suck some cock if that's what it took to get one in my hands. Cock. I've never had a better phone than say the cheapest of motorola and qualcomm. Fuck wearable computers. Having something that can actually run some interesting applications and be constantly connected to the internet in the palm of your fucking hand is amazing. After like 20 years of waiting, I finally have something that feels like a handheld computer and not some phone that can run a couple of poorly coded applications that come with the phone. Being able to install applications from an internet source is a total game changer, and you probably have Apple to thank for paving the way, even though they were developing android for a longer period of time IIRC.
Sorry for the long rant, but I just kinda got lost in thought there and I tend to type awfully fast after days like today.
Back you your post.......
"Want to run a program on their phones? You obtain that program from them or not at all."
Don't buy the phone if you don't like it. There really isn't any penalty on a G1 or a MyTouch or a Nexus One that would keep you from rooting it and being able to do whatever you want. You do lose the myfaves on tmobile, but I think you can just set them up over the web.
I mean with my g1 I can run VOIP in the background and basically have 2 numbers at once. When I dial out over VOIP it shows my local cell number on caller id as well. Not shabby.
I tracked down a copy of lightspeed (never could find hyperspeed which is better) on some abandonware site one day. Fired it up and it asks a question right from the manual. I used to have all of these memorized, but now I can't find a damned one. I tried a crack, it corrupted the exe. I was really sad. I was totally looking forward to sweet nostalgia. That game did a lot of things that were really cool and was pretty ahead of its time in a lot of ways. If anyone has a copy of the manual, they would totally be my hero forever!
I read it correctly the first time. Why would you call something unobtainable when you can in fact obtain it. They obtained 6 atoms. Thus making it obtainable. If you had the same equipment/knowledge that they had, you could obtain some too. Unobtanium should be clearly 100% unobtainable before you decide to call it thus.
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What license agreement? The one in the manual? You don't have to agree to that. You aren't forced to sign anything. A lot of newer cameras don't even come with the manual in the box for fucks sake. How is that even enforceable from a legal perspective? This has less clout than a clickable EULA, and people expect it to hold up in court. Yeah. Good luck with that one. That being said, I read TFA, and I agree that we have certainly entered a legal quagmire, but how much of this stuff will hold up in court is truly questionable. If anything the theora codec developers have far more to worry about than the average consumer/company posting videos.
Apple's new slogan: "There's a patent for that."
Why would they have incentive to? It would have cost them significantly in terms of development costs and for no return. Adobe didn't decide to switch platforms. Apple did. It was far easier I'm sure for them to bake in intel support in the next release because they could plan that from the ground up, rather than having to port everything. Photoshop is a fairly complex program in case you haven't noticed. Also, didn't mac OS just recently add in support for 64-bit and is still a hodgepodge of 32/64-bit code? How long has XP x64 been around? Windows has been 64-bit longer, but no 64-bit cs3. Adobe is just following the market. People didn't start running 64-bit operating systems on a large scale basis until relatively recently. Most OEMs are shipping machines with Windows 7 x86.
Lately firefox seems to be a lot better with ram usage. Before it was typically 3-400 megs for me, now it is significantly less. I fear you are using it terribly wrong somehow.
Yeah. Its active apps that won't go to cache as well as services that eat up processor and ram. If something is inactive in the background its as good as closed for what its worth. Any android task manager worth its salt will tell you the state of the app. Some apps don't play nice, and I can see where the average user isn't going to understand any of that and there probably isn't much they would know to do other than uninstall the app, that is, if they knew it was what was slowing their phone down. I'm on a G1 though, so ram is much more of an issue, the newer phones probably have a lot less issues, what with 256-512megs to play with.....
The 10MB hack may break some 3d apps, but I've found it just makes them a lot slower. Navigation works, but at a choppy framerate, but nothing terrible. Even most average GPS units lag a bit in the display. This is with music playing on the music app. I was also able to browse some web pages and have navigation call out voice commands along the way. Compcache and swap seem to help somewhat. For me the biggest downer is wanting to have a bunch of widgets on the home screen, but asides from the power widget, the music widget, a pandora folder, calwidget (great widget), astrid and a bunch of icons that's about all I have running. I also have systempanel running all the time in the background it seems pretty lightweight. It does logging and a bunch of really nice things. (nice uninstaller/archiver too). Oh, and I have the service that announces the caller via TTS, so I could make it even more lightweight for sure, but I find that I don't have a great deal of issues.Getting to the home screen after its been dumped can take like 20-30 seconds sometimes. Especially with music playing. That's about the worst case. It takes a heavy app to dump the home screen though, and also music is streaming of the sdcard while the swap is getting hit as well as loading icons for about 30-40 or so apps off the sdcard, so really the sdcard is becoming point of contention for me now. I'm only running a class 4 and I hear that a class 6 makes a big difference with more swap, so I'm thinking about trying that. Rumor has it that 2.1 is more optimized than 1.6 and will run faster when really stripped down, but I'm kind of waiting to some of the kinks to still iron out of the 2.1 roms that are floating around, since they sound even buggier than cyanogen (which is mostly stable as of late). I've been tempted to revert to a stock 1.6 rom for sheer speed, but I don't think I could possibly give up the browser with multitouch. I'd be really sad to have to go back to the lame zoom controls taking up half the real estate. For my limited needs, like having music playing while web browsing or checking out facebook, the g1 is pretty much a workhorse. I'd give up frills and speed for the better keyboard any day and after using the touch keyboard for periods of time (hey its there) I still find it very cumbersome. I picked the g1 over even the newer android phones out there because of the keyboard and I really liked the trackball too. I even like the way the screen swings out and I really don't understand why all the reviewers hated it so much. It certainly was different and I like the way it snaps out with authority. I've never had anything resembling a smartphone before, and even the old palm I used to have doesn't even begin to compare with what is possible with even a humble g1. I'm just kind of holding out for the next great keyboard equipped android phone. The nexus one and the htc desire really don't do much for me, and all the newer designs seem to take cues from the droid with the smaller slideout keyboard with less keys, which makes me kind of sad as well. Anyways, I hope that helps.
"Arguably government certified network cables cost less than Best Buy ones, but that's a different post."
Are you kidding?! Fuck a gallon of fuel costs them $400. In Iraq! Where they are pumping oil! Efficiency is not the military's strongest point.
Back then they built hardware to last. Nowadays they build shit as cheap as possible with no thought to longevity since product life cycles are starting to shrink from 5 years to 2-3, or even 1 year in the case of cell phones. In return we get a sea of never ending upgraded devices that end up in landfills after a few short years. In one way it is interesting, because the pace of technology is rapidly exploding, but at the same time, at what cost? I guess enjoy the decadence while it lasts..........
Who the hell wants a K6-2/350 anymore? Might as well be a 386.
Why? What's the big risk in running windows? There is a fair chance that anything could go physically wrong with the machine. With a decent image of the drive, if something goes wrong you could always just restore the image to a new drive or a broken installation. If it is a single purpose machine I could easily envision this squeezing onto a few dvds as well. Just in case. From what I've seen, windows is used just as much if not more in production machines, like cnc routers, huge industrial large format printers, etc. Windows does have the advantage of being fairly easy to code for and a pretty well known target. Seriously. You make it out like it is some sort of crime to install windows on a freaking cnc router. I really doubt security is the #1 issue for a single purpose computer that will run one application all the time, potentially without any sort of internet access, or at least limited behind a firewall. Why is unix always the answer for getting "real work" done? (a lot of linux installations in industrial equipment don't update as well...thus making them more vulnerable over time......) Why is linux so much more secure than windows? If you ask me windows has certainly come a long way, especially with vista/windows7. Not running as administrator 24/7 breaks a lot of common vulnerabilities. Sure there are probably huge open holes in the sides (let's not even talk about the back door....), but they've certainly done a much better job of at least making the front of the place looking locked up. MacOS and Linux just aren't big targets. I really don't think there is any way to quantify which platform is ultimately more secure because Windows is always the one that receives the most attention and scrutiny. I'm not the biggest M$ fan, but truth be told, their operating system has reached the point where I can tolerate it and not outright hate it. I love linux, but it ultimately feels so unpolished in comparison and sadly runs very few of my favorite applications.
You see after over 20 years of doing things with computers, I really don't care what I'm running as long as I can run the apps I really can't live without anymore. The environment is just a shell to me. I'm sort of digging the bling of windows 7, but in the end, I could care less about that sort of thing. I just want to launch my apps and do some work. In truth, lately I've been liking android quite a bit in its extreme simplicity. It just dishes up the apps I want and doesn't really do a whole lot to get in the way and everything runs in a nice little sandbox. I'm sure there are some vulnerabilities, but it seems like you'd have to grant something access before that would happen, outside of any root vulnerabilities in the kernel itself. I could totally see android on a netbook versus chrome. It sure would be a lot more usable....
Also. I can open apps over and over again on my g1 and have the desktop pop up. You really need to do some serious tweaking to optimize it, but I don't think I'd trade it for even a nexus one at this point. My music app never closes in the background and I can run music, go to maps, hit the home screen and pull open a browser without much delay at all. It just sounds like you have too much stuff active. Even the task killers tend to leave services running in the background. You don't want any services running on the g1 other than the stock ones, though I find astrid runs ok.
I have a g1. You really need to use a task manager and uninstall anything that possibly runs at boot/in the background. They are just waaaay too ram limited. Also check out cyanogen mod as well as the 10mb RAM hack and turning on compcache and swap. My phone flies compared to stock android 1.6 and I have stuff on every desktop. Just keep getting rid of stuff till it gets smooth again....
Yeah. The moral dilemmas the gypsy gives you.
Here! Here! For moral support I just look to our leaders in washington.......
Hell. I could see just about every friend I have with an iphone showing this off. In case you didn't notice, smoking (cigarettes and especially weed) are extremely popular with generation Y. It seems fairly prevalent in my generation too, but not nearly as much. Of course, when I was in my 20s it seemed like everyone I knew smoked anyways. So maybe its just an age thing, but yeah, I can totally see this as being a hit with the "kids."
I really wonder what apple's policy on employee drug usage is........
Ah well. It will get banned and ported to android in a few months. Did anyone port the shaking baby game? I could think of all sorts of fun, twisted apps for the android. How about
Toss the Foetus
"You are an assistant at cut rate abortion clinic. Your job is to take the foetuses from a bucket and toss them into the dumpster. Score points by not leaving them to bake on the alleyway asphalt. Extra points for a rim shot."
Anyone remember the talk to jesus app for Mac OS 7? I loved that thing I could totally port that to android. Anyone still have a copy? (My old mac drive died years ago)
He should have just given up the passwords. They weren't his computer systems. He was just an employee. I don't care what anyone here says. Let's say you have a work truck that your employer provides. You are to take the keys in the morning and leave them back when you leave. Do you just go home with the keys in your pocket? I mean none of this makes any sense to me. If he wasn't accessing the network anymore, why would he need the passwords? It certainly didn't benefit him to withhold them. I think he was just blindly obsessed, stupid, or an ignorant prick. The punishment is harsh, and really doesn't fit the crime, but by holding the passwords hostage he had essentially owned the network which certainly caused a lot of headaches for his previous employers. In any organization that large it is utterly foolish to leave all of the keys in one person's hands. What if they die? Go batshit crazy? We are not just talking about a couple of rackmounts in a closet here. Wasn't it a city wide network or something? That was tax payer funded? He may have felt that nobody was capable of running "his" network, but since he was no longer employed there, it really wasn't his place to be concerned with their future. I don't know if what he did warrants a felony charge, but it was certainly unjust. Maybe he felt that he owed his previous employers nothing, but when they haul your ass into court you might as well at least give them what they want, and they certainly didn't ask for much. Its never a good idea to plot against your keepers. Don't bite the hand that feeds you. At least in America you can always leave and fall back to aggravated robbery. We see how well that plan worked out for him in the past.
Terry Childs is a moron if you ask me, and his foolish stubbornness will now tragically cost him some time away from pursuing a happy life. He chose to make himself look like the bad guy, even though his justification was for "good" reasons. I understand that giving the passwords away in a court of law would probably be a bad idea, but it should have never have gotten to that point. He should have certainly just met up with his boss and divulged all that he knew. That's common courtesy. Even if you don't like your employer, they still gave you a job and a paycheck. Sure you can leave, but its always best to do so on good terms. In the end its always wiser to be the better man and just walk away with a clean slate. If Terry Childs would have done that, he'd be a free man who could choose his own destiny and probably even find a halfway decent job. Now he's just another convict with multiple felonies that will have a hard time finding a job when he walks free.
Damnit! Why did I suddenly envision a gypsy in a covered wagon by a river giving me a tarot card reading?
"Yep, Android has Apple quaking in its boots."
It should. They are selling an upwards of 60,000 android based phones a DAY. At that rate, it will become the no.2 smartphone behind the ubiquitous crackberry.
Apple is losing big time in their exclusivity with AT&T to be honest.
Too lazy to write quote tags today.....
"Apple is about control."
This is the traditional model. So is Microsoft and and just about every other software/hardware manufacturer out there. Its hard enough to get manufacturers to release their half-baked linux kernel sources, which they are obviously required to do so.
"They have consistently rebuked anything resembling openness. Want to run their OS? You run it on their hardware or not at all."
You *can* build a hackintosh. I mean if you wanted a cheap mac that badly. In case you forgot, Apple is a hardware company. It only increases their bottom line when you buy their hardware. They want every incentive to force you into their hardware if possible. Remember that the original ipod didn't even work with windows. If they had it their way, their whole box would have 3 ports. A AC plug, a monitor jack, and a usb port. Its just simpler that way, right? I mean, hell, even mice only need one button! No need to confuse people with two, or god forbid a scroll do-hicky.
"Want to use one of their media players? You sync it with iTunes or not at all."
Don't want to be "forced" to use iTunes? Don't buy a freaking ipod! Its not like they are the only mp3 player in the world. They do have damned near the best interface though. Everything else seems to be a miserable failure of shitty chinese design (seriously, who the fuck designs the garbage software they put on mp3 players?)or a cheap carbon copy. Eventually android or some linux based OS will take as MP3 players become small portable computers (ala ipod touch, dell mini 5, ipad, etc) over outside of apple. Or Windows Mobile will continue to be a popular choice.......where is blackberry moving to these days? Linux? I see more of the crackberry than all other smartphones combined. I love my G1. It becomes a roving 3G wi-fi hotspot, a debian shell, a remote terminal/ssh/rdp/etc, a media player, a half decent web browser (at least with the android 2.1 browser thrown in), a gps unit, a compass, a metal detector, a level, a social network browser, a video player, and I could just go on and on. I want a nexus one, but the lack of a keyboard is a real deal breaker for me, and the droid has a terrible keyboard. The G1 reminds me more of industrial grade hardware (sure its just mostly plastic) whereas the droid seems more aimed at the iphone camp. If they made a slightly larger G1 with a larger screen and a 1ghz Cortex A8 and a half gig of ram, I think I'd go suck some cock if that's what it took to get one in my hands. Cock. I've never had a better phone than say the cheapest of motorola and qualcomm. Fuck wearable computers. Having something that can actually run some interesting applications and be constantly connected to the internet in the palm of your fucking hand is amazing. After like 20 years of waiting, I finally have something that feels like a handheld computer and not some phone that can run a couple of poorly coded applications that come with the phone. Being able to install applications from an internet source is a total game changer, and you probably have Apple to thank for paving the way, even though they were developing android for a longer period of time IIRC.
Sorry for the long rant, but I just kinda got lost in thought there and I tend to type awfully fast after days like today.
Back you your post.......
"Want to run a program on their phones? You obtain that program from them or not at all."
Don't buy the phone if you don't like it. There really isn't any penalty on a G1 or a MyTouch or a Nexus One that would keep you from rooting it and being able to do whatever you want. You do lose the myfaves on tmobile, but I think you can just set them up over the web.
I mean with my g1 I can run VOIP in the background and basically have 2 numbers at once. When I dial out over VOIP it shows my local cell number on caller id as well. Not shabby.
This has got to be the best sysadmin story I've ever read on slashdot. Well, one of the best! Thank you.
laptops are portable.
I tracked down a copy of lightspeed (never could find hyperspeed which is better) on some abandonware site one day. Fired it up and it asks a question right from the manual. I used to have all of these memorized, but now I can't find a damned one. I tried a crack, it corrupted the exe. I was really sad. I was totally looking forward to sweet nostalgia. That game did a lot of things that were really cool and was pretty ahead of its time in a lot of ways. If anyone has a copy of the manual, they would totally be my hero forever!
I read it correctly the first time. Why would you call something unobtainable when you can in fact obtain it. They obtained 6 atoms. Thus making it obtainable. If you had the same equipment/knowledge that they had, you could obtain some too. Unobtanium should be clearly 100% unobtainable before you decide to call it thus.
Uh. The name doesn't fit. Clearly it is obtainable. They obtained 6 atoms.