Filing extensions. It's how more than a few patent trolls managed to set their patents up, by continually filing extensions and amending them to better line up with where technology was going already then dropping them like bombs on anyone that came along.
Not according to Apple, who consider it a DMCA violation. Never mind the retarded acceptance of fighting the manufacturer for control over your property.
the iPhone emulator in the iPhone SDK allows you to run any program you want AND decompile/debug it.
Totally irrelevant, since you have to pay Apple $99 to load it on a non-Jailbroken device and not at all to others.
There is no FUD here. Apple is totally hostile in the mobile front and that's dangerous.
Notice that HTC proper does not sell direct to end users, they always make you go through 3rd parties. With the Nexus One, it was through Google who chose to make them available unlocked.
Unfortunately, they ended that so you will probably not be able to get them as such anymore.
This is, incidentally, one of the major reasons for my buying an N900.
You still have to dance around the TrustZone lockdown, and the kernel isn't preserved between power cycles, thus still preventing your ability to alter the filesystem (read: load Cyanogen ROMs.)
Also, I said that it didn't apply to the DROID, and the Nexus One isn't a Motorola device. Did you even comprehend my post?
I wonder if this device will end up like the Milestone and pretty much all other Android-based Motorola devices, locked down via TrustZone to prevent the user from actually doing what they want with it.
But I suppose that's the price you pay when patronizing companies that treat the end-user as the enemy.
I really wish they had gone into detail on what exactly a 'faith science basis' is.
They don't need to, just reading the phrase tells you all you need to know: it's a bunch of religious hokum clothed in pseudo-scientific garbage to try and sneak it into schools as if it were legitimate information.
If you want to teach it as a disproved theory, I got no problem.
I do, because it is not provable, disprovable, nor was it ever a theory. It should be held up as an example of anti-scientific thinking and religious quackery, ripped at and torn to pieces until nothing is left.
Other religions have similar damage control, why do the Christians only get theirs mentioned in state schools?
Because for some reason the US and Australia have strangely aggressive Christian Fundamentalist elements.
ID, if it has a role in schools, should be used for critical thinking. But it should be done properly, in the context that ID is shown for what it is: a red herring designed to mask faith as science. But that's not what they're after when they say "critical thinking."
People aren't going to toss these things in the trash just so the can buy brand new devices that give them the exact same experience.
And chances are they won't have to. Few devices have silicon h.264 decoders, instead having a DSP and a software h.264 codec. Plenty faster than a regular software decoder, cheaper and more flexible than a fixed decoder.
Some, usually the more expensive models, will use SLC NAND. No SSD uses NOR for data storage due to a total lack of density on that technology. They may for storing firmware/FPGA data, however.
They disguised their monopoly, and profited off it longer.
Which monopoly did they have? What market did they have such a hold on that they could kill a customer on a whim?
So, you can call me a Microsoft apologist, and I can call you Jobs' personal fluffer, but in the end, I just want companies playing by the same rules, and you'll still be a cocksucker.
Apologists for Microsoft always rush to the "bbbbut Apple!" defense but there's a distinct difference here:
- Microsoft held and continues to hold a -de facto- monopoly on desktop operating systems. Were they to revoke OEM pricing for Windows they could easily send a PC manufacturer into unprofitable territory. - Microsoft did just that over Netscape, BeOS, and likely others to retain their position and push their products. - They were convicted of this in Federal court.
So as it stands, Microsoft has to play by different rules. The comparisons are not fair.
Unless, perhaps, Apple gains dominance in a market to the point that their denial of services or manipulation of terms would be detrimental to the targeted party unless complied with. At which an investigation could begin and if found to be a monopoly, Apple would have to start playing under those same rules. Chances are this would follow with a trial and if convicted Apple would end up under the government's thumb for some time.
Again, they don't (yet) play under the same rules. Can't pull that argument yet though.
Leave Microsoft alone, and go after the real evil... Apple.
Microsoft would be just as evil as Apple, they just got caught.
The fact that Nvidia had to bypass a good portion of X's functionality to develop a proper hardware accelerated driver speaks volumes to the fact that X is not at all suited for the desktop.
Isn't that more because they wanted to keep their driver closed source, and thus had to bypass and work around a bunch of stuff to jam their binary blob into the thing?
And that will never happen, because the Linux community fails to acknowledge their shortcomings.
Oh omniscient one, what is wrong with the Linux community. Surely you have seen it all and can provide coherent, reasonable arguments as to why X11 is bad?
You have your work cut out for you, as my phone is running X11 with 3D acceleration without bypassing anything and works quite well.
What do they have to lose for giving us pre-rooted phones?
Control. If they give up that, they might not be able to force you on to their services.
Motorola's the worst, since they sign the bootloader, kernel, and file system. The devices won't boot if any part of that has changed, and the only device you -can- change is the DROID (though the Milestone variant is locked down, last I checked.)
It's aimed at reducing the number of different cables on your desktop, I believe.
The initial demo showed an LCD panel, HDD, and at least one other thing running off a single Light Peak chain. Effectively, they want it to replace USB (for data connections), Firewire, eSATA, SATA, SCSI, SAS, DVI, DisplayPort, probably every audio connection you have, Ethernet, and likely more.
Risk management costs money. Why pay for risk management when you can ignore it; and when worst comes to worst and the government tries to get cash out of you, tie them up in courts forever.
Then people need to stop being stupid and start buying their phones from the manufacturer directly. In such cases, there's no value in providing any lockdown.
This is why I bought my N900 directly from Nokia, and would have even in the extremely unlikely event of a US carrier picking it up.
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Filing extensions. It's how more than a few patent trolls managed to set their patents up, by continually filing extensions and amending them to better line up with where technology was going already then dropping them like bombs on anyone that came along.
Not according to Apple, who consider it a DMCA violation. Never mind the retarded acceptance of fighting the manufacturer for control over your property.
Totally irrelevant, since you have to pay Apple $99 to load it on a non-Jailbroken device and not at all to others.
There is no FUD here. Apple is totally hostile in the mobile front and that's dangerous.
Leaking a video and foreign policy documents does not constitute "treason."
HTC is as well.
Notice that HTC proper does not sell direct to end users, they always make you go through 3rd parties. With the Nexus One, it was through Google who chose to make them available unlocked.
Unfortunately, they ended that so you will probably not be able to get them as such anymore.
This is, incidentally, one of the major reasons for my buying an N900.
You still have to dance around the TrustZone lockdown, and the kernel isn't preserved between power cycles, thus still preventing your ability to alter the filesystem (read: load Cyanogen ROMs.)
Also, I said that it didn't apply to the DROID, and the Nexus One isn't a Motorola device. Did you even comprehend my post?
I wonder if this device will end up like the Milestone and pretty much all other Android-based Motorola devices, locked down via TrustZone to prevent the user from actually doing what they want with it.
But I suppose that's the price you pay when patronizing companies that treat the end-user as the enemy.
They'll do the same with EFI.
Because there are those in power who never want them to figure it out.
let them ask for help when they need to
Well if we don't raise the issue then the ones in power will work to ensure they cannot. See Iran and their crackdown a year ago.
At which point it's obvious the government gives not a damn for its people and instead exists only for itself and whatever broken ideology it follows.
They don't need to, just reading the phrase tells you all you need to know: it's a bunch of religious hokum clothed in pseudo-scientific garbage to try and sneak it into schools as if it were legitimate information.
I do, because it is not provable, disprovable, nor was it ever a theory. It should be held up as an example of anti-scientific thinking and religious quackery, ripped at and torn to pieces until nothing is left.
Because for some reason the US and Australia have strangely aggressive Christian Fundamentalist elements.
ID, if it has a role in schools, should be used for critical thinking. But it should be done properly, in the context that ID is shown for what it is: a red herring designed to mask faith as science. But that's not what they're after when they say "critical thinking."
And chances are they won't have to. Few devices have silicon h.264 decoders, instead having a DSP and a software h.264 codec. Plenty faster than a regular software decoder, cheaper and more flexible than a fixed decoder.
Some, usually the more expensive models, will use SLC NAND. No SSD uses NOR for data storage due to a total lack of density on that technology. They may for storing firmware/FPGA data, however.
Which monopoly did they have? What market did they have such a hold on that they could kill a customer on a whim?
A vulgar one, aren't you. Go back to /g/.
Apologists for Microsoft always rush to the "bbbbut Apple!" defense but there's a distinct difference here:
- Microsoft held and continues to hold a -de facto- monopoly on desktop operating systems. Were they to revoke OEM pricing for Windows they could easily send a PC manufacturer into unprofitable territory.
- Microsoft did just that over Netscape, BeOS, and likely others to retain their position and push their products.
- They were convicted of this in Federal court.
So as it stands, Microsoft has to play by different rules. The comparisons are not fair.
Unless, perhaps, Apple gains dominance in a market to the point that their denial of services or manipulation of terms would be detrimental to the targeted party unless complied with. At which an investigation could begin and if found to be a monopoly, Apple would have to start playing under those same rules. Chances are this would follow with a trial and if convicted Apple would end up under the government's thumb for some time.
Again, they don't (yet) play under the same rules. Can't pull that argument yet though.
Microsoft would be just as evil as Apple, they just got caught.
Hey look, someone blaming X11 again.
Isn't that more because they wanted to keep their driver closed source, and thus had to bypass and work around a bunch of stuff to jam their binary blob into the thing?
Oh omniscient one, what is wrong with the Linux community. Surely you have seen it all and can provide coherent, reasonable arguments as to why X11 is bad?
You have your work cut out for you, as my phone is running X11 with 3D acceleration without bypassing anything and works quite well.
Please, enough with the "no true scotsman" fallacies.
They are as Christian as you claim to be, and unfortunately are much louder.
Control. If they give up that, they might not be able to force you on to their services.
Motorola's the worst, since they sign the bootloader, kernel, and file system. The devices won't boot if any part of that has changed, and the only device you -can- change is the DROID (though the Milestone variant is locked down, last I checked.)
Sounds to me like you're as nutty as the people in the article, as opposed to in any way rational.
Are you a Teabagger?
OH NOES SOCIALISM!
Next thing you know they'll be confiscating all your property and making you work in the salt mines!
Ask the MPEG-LA and any other standards body.
You sound bootstrappy. Would you like to tell my 87 year old grandmother she needs to get a job?
I know, the poor should be excluded. Hell, they should just die.
Awesome. Perhaps we should deny votes to those who don't pay taxes, or those who get a full refund?
I understand your point, but your argument is so classist and tea-bagger-rific that I can't take it seriously.
Nice assumption there, I seriously doubt that would ever be the case.
It's aimed at reducing the number of different cables on your desktop, I believe.
The initial demo showed an LCD panel, HDD, and at least one other thing running off a single Light Peak chain. Effectively, they want it to replace USB (for data connections), Firewire, eSATA, SATA, SCSI, SAS, DVI, DisplayPort, probably every audio connection you have, Ethernet, and likely more.
Risk management costs money. Why pay for risk management when you can ignore it; and when worst comes to worst and the government tries to get cash out of you, tie them up in courts forever.
Then people need to stop being stupid and start buying their phones from the manufacturer directly. In such cases, there's no value in providing any lockdown.
This is why I bought my N900 directly from Nokia, and would have even in the extremely unlikely event of a US carrier picking it up.
I hardly believe that denying corporations the ability to abuse their customers is truly restricting freedom.