I will say this however: the main useful app that having a rooted Tab enables is AdFree Android. Yes there are other apps to overclock the system, mod/customize the interface, etc. If you really are so bent on all this tweaking stuff, or doing complex SSH tunneling or whatever, I would question why you would have a tablet and not a netbook or lightweight laptop with a keyboard, running Linux. Face it, these devices are essentially like dedicated web/document readers which can also play music and moves. I would question wanting to bend it beyond that use as kind of a waste of time/resources. People want to buy keyboards for these devices but that just seems ridiculous. Why buy a tablet in the first place if not using it for what it is designed for?
Rooting a Verizon Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is incredibly trivial and consists of doing a special boot sequence to be able to install one very tiny app on the system called "Superuser" which consists of one tiny file. There are no major flashes to the system, alterations of the boot loader, nor changes to the kernel or any other core components of the system. As far as I know installing this tiny app does not void the warranty, and even if it did it would be trivial to simply remove the app.
...and concludes with the statement that he "can see why Apple has gone to the darkside of law suits." What has that got to do with the article?... But FFS, we can't just go on posting the same generic crap every time an article has the words Samsung, Apple or Android in the summary
LOL The earnestness of your response is making me laugh harder than I have all day long.
The diagram on the freshdigital.info site is useful, but the text there begins with "patent wars wÐrÐ
ÑtÐrt ÐnÔ I ÔÎ nÎt admit Ñ-n thÑ-Ñ vicinity ÑfÎÏ......"
and another pearl: "It seems I Ðm nÎt lonely ÐnÔ thÐ guys early Thomson Reuters feel mÑf pain ÐnÔ hÐνРa diagram including thÐ intention Îf shows thÐ website Îf patents appearance war. "
trying to understand how gibberish written in one's native language can be construed to be somehow more preferable than accurate text in another language...
I think your argument confounds the issue. The main problem with the fake Syrian blogger was the fact that people were collaborating with him/her to high degrees WITHOUT EVER having even spoken with him/her via telephone, much less via video chat or live meeting. The naivete of that is shocking.
Verification and trust go together, along with a clear understanding of at what level certain thresholds are being crossed which require higher levels of verification. BS in a chat room is one thing. But when someone starts working on a collaborative web project spanning several years, verification of identity becomes essential.
I want to thank all you guys here on this forum for posting so much relevant and highly interesting information about evolving product designs in the world of consumer electronic products.
By the way, someone gave me an iPad2 not long ago, but after having it for a while and reading about having to jailbreak it just to install apps I want (like VLC), the way Apple controls their products made me sick and I returned it for a Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Honestly, I don't see how so many people avidly follow Apple when the company is so clearly the worst offender in terms of restricting use and cornering its users to force them into its own markets. The only explanation I can come up with is that most people are just technologically very inept and terrified of not being spoonfed.
I just have one question: Why, if Mozilla were about to release this new update, did not the German gov't at least give them the courtesy of a phone call or something (even a ping on a mailing list or something) saying "Hey guys, we're about to recommend to our 60 million citizens that they stop using your browser" to which Mozilla could have replied "Can you guys wait another few hours?"
I understand if your job as an agency is to protect consumers from harm but the whole point of Open Source is collaborative effort which strengthens projects and creates improvements.
Based on the human body and the fact that Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) is so utterly vital to our health and to our brains, the leading theory is that the early hominids who rapidly evolved much larger brains was due to an abundance of seafood in their diet, not savanna meat.
No where in the article is this mentioned. I'm almost inclined to think that this "article" is another one of these that has been surreptitiously sponsored by an industry - in this case not the pharmaceutical industry but the meat industry.
Anyhow, read for yourself the convincing data about why our ancestors were probably seafood eaters and not hunters as has traditionally believed.
Furthermore, if you simply ask yourself how many restaurants there are in the world where meat is served raw - which for species which are truly carnivorous is the way it is consumed and to which their digestive tracks have adapted - vs. how many there are where seafood is served raw. Sashimi anyone?
Linux has made it a PITA for hardware manufacturers to easily develop drivers for their hardware devices to work with it. When it comes to audio, unfortunately there is very poor support for most audio production gear such as firewire audio i/o interfaces. There are devices that are supported, but you would have to do your research in advance and find out which ones are well supported, and then make your purchases based on that. I sometimes wish that Linux were managed by people who were somewhat less ideological and more realistic, who designed an OS that was a stable as possible and that made it as easy as possible for 3rd parties to develop drivers for, regardless of whether those drivers were open or closed.
Given the extreme niche situation of Linux with regard to audio, I doubt it will ever catch on in significant numbers that many of the major audio hardware manufacturers will want to give a crap about it.
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I will say this however: the main useful app that having a rooted Tab enables is AdFree Android. Yes there are other apps to overclock the system, mod/customize the interface, etc. If you really are so bent on all this tweaking stuff, or doing complex SSH tunneling or whatever, I would question why you would have a tablet and not a netbook or lightweight laptop with a keyboard, running Linux. Face it, these devices are essentially like dedicated web/document readers which can also play music and moves. I would question wanting to bend it beyond that use as kind of a waste of time/resources. People want to buy keyboards for these devices but that just seems ridiculous. Why buy a tablet in the first place if not using it for what it is designed for?
Rooting a Verizon Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is incredibly trivial and consists of doing a special boot sequence to be able to install one very tiny app on the system called "Superuser" which consists of one tiny file. There are no major flashes to the system, alterations of the boot loader, nor changes to the kernel or any other core components of the system. As far as I know installing this tiny app does not void the warranty, and even if it did it would be trivial to simply remove the app.
See the instructions at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1202320
and:
http://alaya.net/blog/?p=5807
...and concludes with the statement that he "can see why Apple has gone to the darkside of law suits." What has that got to do with the article? ... But FFS, we can't just go on posting the same generic crap every time an article has the words Samsung, Apple or Android in the summary
LOL The earnestness of your response is making me laugh harder than I have all day long.
The diagram on the freshdigital.info site is useful, but the text there begins with "patent wars wÐrÐ
ÑtÐrt ÐnÔ I ÔÎ nÎt admit Ñ-n thÑ-Ñ vicinity ÑfÎÏ......"
and another pearl: "It seems I Ðm nÎt lonely ÐnÔ thÐ guys early Thomson Reuters feel mÑf pain ÐnÔ hÐνРa diagram including thÐ intention Îf shows thÐ website Îf patents appearance war. "
trying to understand how gibberish written in one's native language can be construed to be somehow more preferable than accurate text in another language...
I think your argument confounds the issue. The main problem with the fake Syrian blogger was the fact that people were collaborating with him/her to high degrees WITHOUT EVER having even spoken with him/her via telephone, much less via video chat or live meeting. The naivete of that is shocking.
Verification and trust go together, along with a clear understanding of at what level certain thresholds are being crossed which require higher levels of verification. BS in a chat room is one thing. But when someone starts working on a collaborative web project spanning several years, verification of identity becomes essential.
I want to thank all you guys here on this forum for posting so much relevant and highly interesting information about evolving product designs in the world of consumer electronic products.
By the way, someone gave me an iPad2 not long ago, but after having it for a while and reading about having to jailbreak it just to install apps I want (like VLC), the way Apple controls their products made me sick and I returned it for a Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Honestly, I don't see how so many people avidly follow Apple when the company is so clearly the worst offender in terms of restricting use and cornering its users to force them into its own markets. The only explanation I can come up with is that most people are just technologically very inept and terrified of not being spoonfed.
I just have one question: Why, if Mozilla were about to release this new update, did not the German gov't at least give them the courtesy of a phone call or something (even a ping on a mailing list or something) saying "Hey guys, we're about to recommend to our 60 million citizens that they stop using your browser" to which Mozilla could have replied "Can you guys wait another few hours?"
I understand if your job as an agency is to protect consumers from harm but the whole point of Open Source is collaborative effort which strengthens projects and creates improvements.
That is so funny! I almost chocked on my food! LOL
Based on the human body and the fact that Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA) is so utterly vital to our health and to our brains, the leading theory is that the early hominids who rapidly evolved much larger brains was due to an abundance of seafood in their diet, not savanna meat.
No where in the article is this mentioned. I'm almost inclined to think that this "article" is another one of these that has been surreptitiously sponsored by an industry - in this case not the pharmaceutical industry but the meat industry.
Anyhow, read for yourself the convincing data about why our ancestors were probably seafood eaters and not hunters as has traditionally believed. Furthermore, if you simply ask yourself how many restaurants there are in the world where meat is served raw - which for species which are truly carnivorous is the way it is consumed and to which their digestive tracks have adapted - vs. how many there are where seafood is served raw. Sashimi anyone?
Linux has made it a PITA for hardware manufacturers to easily develop drivers for their hardware devices to work with it. When it comes to audio, unfortunately there is very poor support for most audio production gear such as firewire audio i/o interfaces. There are devices that are supported, but you would have to do your research in advance and find out which ones are well supported, and then make your purchases based on that. I sometimes wish that Linux were managed by people who were somewhat less ideological and more realistic, who designed an OS that was a stable as possible and that made it as easy as possible for 3rd parties to develop drivers for, regardless of whether those drivers were open or closed.
Given the extreme niche situation of Linux with regard to audio, I doubt it will ever catch on in significant numbers that many of the major audio hardware manufacturers will want to give a crap about it.