Ah yes, play the stupid cat and mouse game with Apple so that you can do as you please. No, the reality is to break out of the Stockholm Syndrome and stop buying Apple products.
After all, Apple has been pushing hard to get the Jailbreaking exemption removed. Once they achieve that goal (especially if the bullshit from the LoC last round is a sign of things to come) they'll come down hard on every jailbreaking group to push it even farther underground.
you don't even need to jailbreak just to install apps from sources not from the app store.
A baseless statement.
Anyone can install ad-hoc builds
IFF they work through the build process - and are willing to limit themselves to 120 users and force them to renew every 90 days.
anyone with an enterprise license
Which costs a pretty penny and isn't easy to get.
But yes, tinkerers should keep giving money to a company that is eminently hostile to them, to the point that they want to turn what they do into a Federal crime - and lead the charge to make it so each time it comes around.
But this isn't about that approach. It's about pushing for one's preferred topic over another without providing real support for the notion that tinkering with Twitter would make kids more "tech literate" than tinkering with an Arduino.
I know that I'd prefer to work with an Arduino, rather than screw around with web development even for a minute. Not everyone wants to work on the same project. The reality is that you'd do well to have two different paths that branch from the same fundamental education process earlier, rather than offering one or the other.
Writing software costs less and web development is more relevant to kids than robots.
Because there's no way that kids couldn't already be interested, or become interested, in robots. But of course, the most important thing is to ensure we spend as little on education as possible.
Granted, it is way harder and more impressive to create a DIY roomba, but in the end all it does is vacuum the floor.
Now we can introduce even more people to tinker toys that they'll never use after they get out of school!
And you know this how
How about concentrating on reading comprehension, mathematics, and basic sciences
Yeah, we should never expose children to the wider realities of technology. We should hold their noses to the desk, and ensure they never see anything but the insides of books until they can parrot back exactly what they are shown. Just remember that we also need to ensure that we must present math and science in as boring a manner as possible to suck the life and interest out of every student who encounters it.
Not everyone gets to be a rocket scientist when they grow up
Therefore no one should ever be allowed to build a model rocket, or be taught physics, in school.
we need to tailor our education systems to present high-but-attainable options.
Or we should give students every possible avenue and let them experience and experiment with whatever we can and let them determine their skills.
There's no dishonor in being a certified journeyman welder or an electrician or even a plumber, and all can pay very well if the individual learns the skills needed.
There isn't, but limiting education such that those are the pinnacle people can hope for is as idiotic as any stupid thing being done in education today.
It was good fun, but all it taught to kids was a very rudimentary concept of program flow.
Considering how limited the original Mindstorms kits and default software compared to the stuff being used today, you have to learn way more than "rudimentary concepts" to modify things.
If you want to make kids tech literate, you deconstruct something they use in their every day lives, when they're old enough to be capable of it.
How does this make anyone "tech literate?"
good example would be a high school course focusing on high level full-stack design - here's twitter, here's how their servers look like in a very simple way, here's their API, let's do a 2 month project to make a frontend.
How is making a front end for Twitter better than working with Arduino? Do you have a something against microcontrollers and compilers, but carry a strange fetish for Twitter or web development?
Google released the NDK (Native Development Kit) not long after Android was introduced because they finally clued in that Java simply isn't fast enough on slower processors to do gaming.
Because Android was closed source during initial development up until Google bought it and opened it, so they did whatever the hell they wanted.
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The main thing you need to know is that it's based on the Meego system that powered Nokia's last successful phone, the Nokia N9
No it's not. Tizen is based on some parts LiMO and large parts Samsung's SLP combined with a general transition from DEB to RPM. It has nothing in common with the N9, which doesn't actually run MeeGo but what would be better called Maemo 6.
since NTT DoCoMo is where much of mobile innovation starts
NTT DoCoMo are a laggard in mobile technology by most measures. The Galapagos phones that they touted in Japan were advanced for a while but they were all caught off guard by smartphones, particularly the iPhone. Now NTT, their parent company, they tend to be pretty innovative, but not in the mobile space.
Tizen can support QT apps
The proper thing to say would be "Qt supports Tizen." Tizen itself will not include Qt libraries so any app that uses them will need to include them in their package or statically link.
I do like that map. Though Mer 0.17 has nothing to do with Mer Core but name, it does show that Tizen truly has nothing to do with MeeGo other than Intel's involvement in both.
Go look at Wayland for something that has more explanation behind it.
In general, both Wayland and Mir solve stupid X11 problems like fonts, 3D, and sound because there's no good reason for your display manager to care about those.
The plan was to have the DRM in the browser natively and then somehow verify the browser itself has not been modified in any way.
Was it? Certainly, it isn't part of the spec. Not that it matters, because it would simply have made being HTML5 compliant impossible for all but closed source black boxes which is basically spitting in the face of everything that got the Internet to where it is now.
If you read the BBC's comments on HTML DRM that was how they wanted it implemented.
The BBC also expressed a desire for laws similar to the DMCA be available so they could legally attack anyone who bypassed it. I lost a lot of respesct for the BBC the day I read that.
That's the definition of the ECE spec. It's literally Yet Another Plugin Interface that solves no problems but establishes in the HTML5 standard a path by which you can be HTML5 compliant but unable to access swaths of content on the web.
I have noticed older shows (Currently re-watching Star Trek TNG) always have worse quality, but only because the original was not recorded in 1080p. Not through any technical fault of Netflix.
Actually, it was recorded on anamorphic 35mm film stock. They're reusing that film to produce the Blu-rays. What you're watching right now is probably the old DVD sources. I suspect that CBS won't be supplying the Blu-ray sources to anyone until well after disc sales have tapered off.
Where Stallman says no, Ballmer sees opportunity for big profit.
Missed this one.
Stallman says "no" because it would screw individuals in the long term. Ballmer wouldn't hesitate to screw users in the long term if it meant big profits. That's the nature of sociopathic corporations.
All you people that mercilessly assaulted the idea of HTML5 DRM extensions, this is the result.
This is the result? An implementation of said HTML5 DRM extensions?
How likely do you think it is that Firefox will get these proprietary extensions?
Work on the literacy bit, then you'll find that even if Firefox implemented ECE there's no guarantee that the module would even function in Firefox.
Sure DRM is evil and ineffective, but pointing that out won't make it go away.
So we shouldn't ever criticize it?
There has to be some way that every browser can build in the hooks and let a web site install their own DRM plugin without needing to restart anything.
Yeah, just what I want. DRM plugins from every website that wants to install one.
They don't use Unity, do they? There's no reason they couldn't modify the base install to use Wayland or Xorg in later releases. Especially considering they have a Debian-based version as well.
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Ah yes, play the stupid cat and mouse game with Apple so that you can do as you please. No, the reality is to break out of the Stockholm Syndrome and stop buying Apple products.
After all, Apple has been pushing hard to get the Jailbreaking exemption removed. Once they achieve that goal (especially if the bullshit from the LoC last round is a sign of things to come) they'll come down hard on every jailbreaking group to push it even farther underground.
A baseless statement.
IFF they work through the build process - and are willing to limit themselves to 120 users and force them to renew every 90 days.
Which costs a pretty penny and isn't easy to get.
But yes, tinkerers should keep giving money to a company that is eminently hostile to them, to the point that they want to turn what they do into a Federal crime - and lead the charge to make it so each time it comes around.
Careful, or you might find yourself lumped into that group.
But this isn't about that approach. It's about pushing for one's preferred topic over another without providing real support for the notion that tinkering with Twitter would make kids more "tech literate" than tinkering with an Arduino.
I know that I'd prefer to work with an Arduino, rather than screw around with web development even for a minute. Not everyone wants to work on the same project. The reality is that you'd do well to have two different paths that branch from the same fundamental education process earlier, rather than offering one or the other.
Because there's no way that kids couldn't already be interested, or become interested, in robots. But of course, the most important thing is to ensure we spend as little on education as possible.
I love how unintelligently dismissive you are.
Therefore we should not, right? If the "unintelligent masses" cannot grasp it, we should not expose anyone to it. Am I getting you?
And you know this how
Yeah, we should never expose children to the wider realities of technology. We should hold their noses to the desk, and ensure they never see anything but the insides of books until they can parrot back exactly what they are shown. Just remember that we also need to ensure that we must present math and science in as boring a manner as possible to suck the life and interest out of every student who encounters it.
Therefore no one should ever be allowed to build a model rocket, or be taught physics, in school.
Or we should give students every possible avenue and let them experience and experiment with whatever we can and let them determine their skills.
There isn't, but limiting education such that those are the pinnacle people can hope for is as idiotic as any stupid thing being done in education today.
It won't work, will it?
Considering how limited the original Mindstorms kits and default software compared to the stuff being used today, you have to learn way more than "rudimentary concepts" to modify things.
How does this make anyone "tech literate?"
good example would be a high school course focusing on high level full-stack design - here's twitter, here's how their servers look like in a very simple way, here's their API, let's do a 2 month project to make a frontend.
How is making a front end for Twitter better than working with Arduino? Do you have a something against microcontrollers and compilers, but carry a strange fetish for Twitter or web development?
Google released the NDK (Native Development Kit) not long after Android was introduced because they finally clued in that Java simply isn't fast enough on slower processors to do gaming.
So, removing yourself from modern society I take it?
Yeah, we should shut up and be happy with iOS or Android. It's not like choice and competition ever benefited anyone, anyway.
Also, it's ${DEITY}, which currently evaluates to 0.
Ah yes, a "terrorist threat." I see we're starting to reap what is sewn by the terrorism boogeyman.
Yes, he should know when not to say the bad things! You might not know what they are, so be careful and keep your mouth shut!
Except it wasn't a direct threat.
He's a sociopath, huh? How'd you figure that one out?
And now he's mentally ill?
Hasn't stopped you from casting judgement.
Therefore no amount of abusive, oppressive investigation and imprisonment is too much!
Because Android was closed source during initial development up until Google bought it and opened it, so they did whatever the hell they wanted.
No it's not. Tizen is based on some parts LiMO and large parts Samsung's SLP combined with a general transition from DEB to RPM. It has nothing in common with the N9, which doesn't actually run MeeGo but what would be better called Maemo 6.
NTT DoCoMo are a laggard in mobile technology by most measures. The Galapagos phones that they touted in Japan were advanced for a while but they were all caught off guard by smartphones, particularly the iPhone. Now NTT, their parent company, they tend to be pretty innovative, but not in the mobile space.
The proper thing to say would be "Qt supports Tizen." Tizen itself will not include Qt libraries so any app that uses them will need to include them in their package or statically link.
I do like that map. Though Mer 0.17 has nothing to do with Mer Core but name, it does show that Tizen truly has nothing to do with MeeGo other than Intel's involvement in both.
I imagine Canonical is hoping to undermine Wayland by getting Nvidia to provide binary drives only for Mir.
Go look at Wayland for something that has more explanation behind it.
In general, both Wayland and Mir solve stupid X11 problems like fonts, 3D, and sound because there's no good reason for your display manager to care about those.
Was it? Certainly, it isn't part of the spec. Not that it matters, because it would simply have made being HTML5 compliant impossible for all but closed source black boxes which is basically spitting in the face of everything that got the Internet to where it is now.
The BBC also expressed a desire for laws similar to the DMCA be available so they could legally attack anyone who bypassed it. I lost a lot of respesct for the BBC the day I read that.
That's the definition of the ECE spec. It's literally Yet Another Plugin Interface that solves no problems but establishes in the HTML5 standard a path by which you can be HTML5 compliant but unable to access swaths of content on the web.
Actually, it was recorded on anamorphic 35mm film stock. They're reusing that film to produce the Blu-rays. What you're watching right now is probably the old DVD sources. I suspect that CBS won't be supplying the Blu-ray sources to anyone until well after disc sales have tapered off.
Missed this one.
Stallman says "no" because it would screw individuals in the long term. Ballmer wouldn't hesitate to screw users in the long term if it meant big profits. That's the nature of sociopathic corporations.
This is the result? An implementation of said HTML5 DRM extensions?
Work on the literacy bit, then you'll find that even if Firefox implemented ECE there's no guarantee that the module would even function in Firefox.
So we shouldn't ever criticize it?
Yeah, just what I want. DRM plugins from every website that wants to install one.
Stupid DRM apologists.
Bravo! They have implemented DRM centered around preserving someone else's business model while solving no problems whatsoever!
Because Netflix and the RIAA/MPAA are full of shit?
They don't use Unity, do they? There's no reason they couldn't modify the base install to use Wayland or Xorg in later releases. Especially considering they have a Debian-based version as well.