How can you lay this at the feet of the graphics card manufacturers?
I don't know whose doorstep to drop this one on, but my experience so far is that 4.0b9 is pretty much OK on Linux, but a crock of shit on my second-hand oldish 2.16GHz Intel MacBook. On the latter machine, I am plagued with flickering toolbars and pages that insist on attempting to overlap each other. I was actually driven to use Safari for a few sites just a little earlier this evening.
I haven't had time to look at bugzilla, but I'm sure I can't be the first to find that this is the worst beta yet.
Sorry, I thought it was people, not guns, that were dangerous.
Well, that's true. Any suitably light-fingered individual is well qualified to attempt to lift my phone out of my front pants pocket, provided that they don't mind taking the chance that I might smash their brains in.
But then I personally think it's incredibly stupid to put any kind of financial details on anything that is so easily and casually stolen. I don't even leave such information lying around (at least in a form that is worth the trouble of attempting to decrypt) on my computers at home where I can guarantee a larger degree of security.
So any insinuation that Samsung blocks all android updates is false.
However, if we were to say this about Sony Ericsson's Xperia X10 Mini Pro, it would be entirely true. I have one of these devices, and actually like the nice, compact hardware, but SE really sucks as an android vendor. If I hadn't succeeded in rooting the device to enable tethering and get rid of my telco's crapware, I would have returned the device as defective, since I was told explicitly that my telco has no problem with tethering.
However, no-one seems to have succeeded in getting any Froyo ROM to run natively on it with camera etc operable yet, so it looks like I'll just have to be patient.
Also what happens if Julian Assange takes the simply expediency of walking into an Australian Embassy ie Australian territory and seeks protection.
He shouldn't hope for much justice there, since Australia's Prime Minister, Julia Gillard has already appointed herself as judge and jury by branding Assange as a criminal.
Did it every occur to you that MAYBE he needed superuser access so he could administrate other accounts? Employees often get hired and fired.
Sure, but the company in question had an HR department to handle that. Why have a dog and bark yourself? I think the guy in question really wanted to be able to spy on everybody else, but given that this was at a time when email wasn't available on those in-house systems, and all financial transactions were visible through the general ledger, I think he was just on a power trip.
Sometimes it seems as if the best and likeliest future for every member of the human race might be to shove a stick wand mixer through the top of everybody's skull to puree their brains, which can then be ingested though a straw, since that's all they're good for.
Let's face it: sudoku is purely a way to waste time. If you can't solve it, then put it down and find something else to do. I personally don't see why that should be so hard.
If we are so fucked that we have to have an app to waste time for us, then we might just as well never get out of bed.
Go ahead and craft a sudoers file that eliminates all the ways to load up a shell. Have fun with that...
True. I worked with a big variety of mainframe systems before I touched on *nix in its various forms, and was struck by how inefficient this use of root access is.
Far simpler to say "OK: We've hired a capable and trustworthy sysadmin to handle our machines between midnight and 6.00 am. He needs full access to do his job, and he doesn't need to share his password with anyone else". End of story.
The submission seems to presume that the system in question is some sort of *nix or Windows box. If we look into the world of mainframe operating systems, we'll see that this has already been fully adressed, and any number of individuals with discrete UIDs may have superuser access. This has evolved out of a history where sysadmins worked shifts, so sharing a single privileged UID/password was/is a bad idea.
The way such access is administrated needs a proper policy within the organisation, though. Back in the '90s, I worked at one outfit (an insurance company) where the vice-CEO demanded superuser privileges despite having no knowledge of system administration or any other computing background. He just wanted to act as overlord as to what staff had access to on their signons. I was very tempted to tell him to get fucked, phrased in more professional terms. Like "Go get professionally fucked".
My immediate boss was (wisely) more inclined to a diplomatic approach, however, so he pursuaded me to install a dummy program for him that was enough to convince him that he had what he wanted, without granting him any kind of command line access, or ability to change system configuration.
But dismissing a 2-day old service as nothing but crap based on your "briefest glance" shows that you probably didn't even take a "brief glance."
As it happens, you're completely wrong. I did indeed take more than a cursory glance, and as your list indicates, most of the pages that come up are exactly the sort of redundant stuff you mention.
Garage Band, iPhoto and Aperture, for instance, are available on Apple's install DVDs. Are they really hoping that some mug will pay to download them again? (Who knows, maybe they're right.) Apart from those, I believe all of the other apps you mention are well catered for by quality F/OSS alternative offerings, easily found by Google.
If you insist on characterising my reaction (however inaccurately) as a "hand-wave", I draw your attention to Apple's installation of their App store launcher into my dock without so much as a by-your-leave. Given that they had already drawn my attention to its existence in the release notes, I regard this as otiose and intrusive.
Higher quality than MP3-what? Almost anything is better than 128-kbps MP3 (which is fine for a voice-only podcast), but MP3 at the better end of the quality spectrum offers fine competition to AAC.
For the record, as a long-term Slashdot reader, my income for the last 3 years has been $0.00. And I'm not even dodging tax: I have to earn something to do that. I'm living off debt.
Apple is apparently trying to flog the same sort of crapware that telcos tend to load up on our phones. I have a (free second-hand) MacBook that I inherited from my wife when she upgraded her machine. Since I'm an ancient Unix hacker, I can coexist perfectly well with the hardware, but really hate Apple's business model. So, with the exception of the software that comes out of the box, I run OSS apps pretty much exclusively.
The briefest glance at the "App Store" offerings was enough to convince me that there was nothing to see there, so I quickly removed that launcher from my dock.
I have allowed Apple into my life because their computers (emphasis on that last word: iPads don't count) are essentially *nix boxes with a proprietary GUI. I am (more or less) willing to overlook the latter for the convenience of the former, but my complaisance is wearing thin with every petty, nasty-minded attack on personal liberty that Apple perpetrates. Come the time when I have to (actually pay money to) replace this laptop, my wallet will be voting in favour of another Linux box.
Indeed, your anecdotal comment clearly trumps the above comment's cold hard fact.
The "above" comment supplies no supporting data, so my comment based on an equally subjective impression has equal value. I have absolutely no interest in "trumping" other posts; I was making a simple observation on the nature of Android Market's search responses.
They're a bunch of craniorectals who apparently think that using terms like "leverageing assets" is cool. If you want to screw money out of someone, you might want to use a lever (maybe, if applied correctly) or even a screw (if you're a bit nasty). "Leverageing" is just a stupid word when "levering" is a perfectly grammatically sound alternative. Damned suitspeak weasel words...:-|
Interesting. You wouldn't know that by looking at the Market. Whenever I pull it up, I find the majority of apps tend to be non-free or ad-supported, which is also non-free.
Of course, no support for mac or linux, so I'm stumped on that front.
I shared your frustration for a while with my Xperia X10 Mini pro, but now that I've been able to root it to get rid of my telco's crapware and enable tethering, I'm happy. Remember that Android itself runs on a Linux kernel, so the device is not by nature inimical to other *nix boxes.
If you root your phone with z4root.apk (you might need to google for a working version of the app, some of the binaries are broken), you can use the adb shell from the android SDK on any Mac or Linux box in exactly the same way as you can on any XP box. For convenience I used my Macbook, since my Linux desktop box is currently headless, but I can't see that it would have made any difference. Or alternatively, download one of the terminal emulators from the market and use the command line from the device's keyboard.
There's only one trick to it: The su command will give you superuser access, but the filesystem is read-only by default, so you will have to
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2/dev/block/mtdblock2/system to make it read-write.
so there is no motivation to actually verify experiments that have already been done by well established researchers.
I have seen any number of cases (in molecular biology) where researchers have done just that, and have come up with equivocal or contradictory conclusions. It's no biggie unless you're on an ego trip or have nasty funding issues attached to your research program.
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How can you lay this at the feet of the graphics card manufacturers?
I don't know whose doorstep to drop this one on, but my experience so far is that 4.0b9 is pretty much OK on Linux, but a crock of shit on my second-hand oldish 2.16GHz Intel MacBook. On the latter machine, I am plagued with flickering toolbars and pages that insist on attempting to overlap each other. I was actually driven to use Safari for a few sites just a little earlier this evening.
I haven't had time to look at bugzilla, but I'm sure I can't be the first to find that this is the worst beta yet.
A way cooler project might be to backport all those nice new viruses to run on Windows 3.x. Just think of all those people who are missing out.
Looks to me as if that system is best suited to card-skimming operations. The convenience seems to fall entirely on one side of the transaction.
It is lose not loose. Why is it that so many people mix up these words?
Because they're illiter8 ba5tards.
I would also like to know what devices that can be cracked in 30 seconds. In fact, I can't find an iPhone crack on googling.
So don't bother to RTFA. That might inform you of the casual smudge-track left by those crappy 3x3 gesture-passcodes.
Of course, the simple solution here is not to use it, but what the hell. Anything for a lame story...
Sorry, I thought it was people, not guns, that were dangerous.
Well, that's true. Any suitably light-fingered individual is well qualified to attempt to lift my phone out of my front pants pocket, provided that they don't mind taking the chance that I might smash their brains in.
But then I personally think it's incredibly stupid to put any kind of financial details on anything that is so easily and casually stolen. I don't even leave such information lying around (at least in a form that is worth the trouble of attempting to decrypt) on my computers at home where I can guarantee a larger degree of security.
So any insinuation that Samsung blocks all android updates is false.
However, if we were to say this about Sony Ericsson's Xperia X10 Mini Pro, it would be entirely true. I have one of these devices, and actually like the nice, compact hardware, but SE really sucks as an android vendor. If I hadn't succeeded in rooting the device to enable tethering and get rid of my telco's crapware, I would have returned the device as defective, since I was told explicitly that my telco has no problem with tethering.
However, no-one seems to have succeeded in getting any Froyo ROM to run natively on it with camera etc operable yet, so it looks like I'll just have to be patient.
Also what happens if Julian Assange takes the simply expediency of walking into an Australian Embassy ie Australian territory and seeks protection.
He shouldn't hope for much justice there, since Australia's Prime Minister, Julia Gillard has already appointed herself as judge and jury by branding Assange as a criminal.
Aha! Another Islay malt fan. Now you're talking. Don't forget Ardbeg while you're there...
So Sony is cutting costs. No prizes for guessing whether or not this reduction is reflected in the cost of their products.
Did it every occur to you that MAYBE he needed superuser access so he could administrate other accounts? Employees often get hired and fired.
Sure, but the company in question had an HR department to handle that. Why have a dog and bark yourself? I think the guy in question really wanted to be able to spy on everybody else, but given that this was at a time when email wasn't available on those in-house systems, and all financial transactions were visible through the general ledger, I think he was just on a power trip.
Sometimes it seems as if the best and likeliest future for every member of the human race might be to shove a stick wand mixer through the top of everybody's skull to puree their brains, which can then be ingested though a straw, since that's all they're good for.
Let's face it: sudoku is purely a way to waste time. If you can't solve it, then put it down and find something else to do. I personally don't see why that should be so hard.
If we are so fucked that we have to have an app to waste time for us, then we might just as well never get out of bed.
Go ahead and craft a sudoers file that eliminates all the ways to load up a shell. Have fun with that...
True. I worked with a big variety of mainframe systems before I touched on *nix in its various forms, and was struck by how inefficient this use of root access is.
Far simpler to say "OK: We've hired a capable and trustworthy sysadmin to handle our machines between midnight and 6.00 am. He needs full access to do his job, and he doesn't need to share his password with anyone else". End of story.
...spoil the soup.
The submission seems to presume that the system in question is some sort of *nix or Windows box. If we look into the world of mainframe operating systems, we'll see that this has already been fully adressed, and any number of individuals with discrete UIDs may have superuser access. This has evolved out of a history where sysadmins worked shifts, so sharing a single privileged UID/password was/is a bad idea.
The way such access is administrated needs a proper policy within the organisation, though. Back in the '90s, I worked at one outfit (an insurance company) where the vice-CEO demanded superuser privileges despite having no knowledge of system administration or any other computing background. He just wanted to act as overlord as to what staff had access to on their signons. I was very tempted to tell him to get fucked, phrased in more professional terms. Like "Go get professionally fucked".
My immediate boss was (wisely) more inclined to a diplomatic approach, however, so he pursuaded me to install a dummy program for him that was enough to convince him that he had what he wanted, without granting him any kind of command line access, or ability to change system configuration.
But dismissing a 2-day old service as nothing but crap based on your "briefest glance" shows that you probably didn't even take a "brief glance."
As it happens, you're completely wrong. I did indeed take more than a cursory glance, and as your list indicates, most of the pages that come up are exactly the sort of redundant stuff you mention.
Garage Band, iPhoto and Aperture, for instance, are available on Apple's install DVDs. Are they really hoping that some mug will pay to download them again? (Who knows, maybe they're right.) Apart from those, I believe all of the other apps you mention are well catered for by quality F/OSS alternative offerings, easily found by Google.
If you insist on characterising my reaction (however inaccurately) as a "hand-wave", I draw your attention to Apple's installation of their App store launcher into my dock without so much as a by-your-leave. Given that they had already drawn my attention to its existence in the release notes, I regard this as otiose and intrusive.
Higher quality than MP3-what? Almost anything is better than 128-kbps MP3 (which is fine for a voice-only podcast), but MP3 at the better end of the quality spectrum offers fine competition to AAC.
For the record, as a long-term Slashdot reader, my income for the last 3 years has been $0.00. And I'm not even dodging tax: I have to earn something to do that. I'm living off debt.
Then what the fuck apple is doing?
Apple is apparently trying to flog the same sort of crapware that telcos tend to load up on our phones. I have a (free second-hand) MacBook that I inherited from my wife when she upgraded her machine. Since I'm an ancient Unix hacker, I can coexist perfectly well with the hardware, but really hate Apple's business model. So, with the exception of the software that comes out of the box, I run OSS apps pretty much exclusively.
The briefest glance at the "App Store" offerings was enough to convince me that there was nothing to see there, so I quickly removed that launcher from my dock.
I have allowed Apple into my life because their computers (emphasis on that last word: iPads don't count) are essentially *nix boxes with a proprietary GUI. I am (more or less) willing to overlook the latter for the convenience of the former, but my complaisance is wearing thin with every petty, nasty-minded attack on personal liberty that Apple perpetrates. Come the time when I have to (actually pay money to) replace this laptop, my wallet will be voting in favour of another Linux box.
Only if you can't spell "viruses".
Indeed, your anecdotal comment clearly trumps the above comment's cold hard fact.
The "above" comment supplies no supporting data, so my comment based on an equally subjective impression has equal value. I have absolutely no interest in "trumping" other posts; I was making a simple observation on the nature of Android Market's search responses.
Jobs will finally leverage his synergies to bridge the gap between the mobile and desktop paradigms.
Oh, hell. Three suitspeak buzzwords in one sentence. Be still, my heart. This was once a forum for nerds, not newly-enrolled MBA students...
They're a bunch of craniorectals who apparently think that using terms like "leverageing assets" is cool. If you want to screw money out of someone, you might want to use a lever (maybe, if applied correctly) or even a screw (if you're a bit nasty). "Leverageing" is just a stupid word when "levering" is a perfectly grammatically sound alternative. Damned suitspeak weasel words... :-|
Over half of all android apps are free.
Interesting. You wouldn't know that by looking at the Market. Whenever I pull it up, I find the majority of apps tend to be non-free or ad-supported, which is also non-free.
Of course, no support for mac or linux, so I'm stumped on that front.
/dev/block/mtdblock2 /system
I shared your frustration for a while with my Xperia X10 Mini pro, but now that I've been able to root it to get rid of my telco's crapware and enable tethering, I'm happy. Remember that Android itself runs on a Linux kernel, so the device is not by nature inimical to other *nix boxes.
If you root your phone with z4root.apk (you might need to google for a working version of the app, some of the binaries are broken), you can use the adb shell from the android SDK on any Mac or Linux box in exactly the same way as you can on any XP box. For convenience I used my Macbook, since my Linux desktop box is currently headless, but I can't see that it would have made any difference. Or alternatively, download one of the terminal emulators from the market and use the command line from the device's keyboard.
There's only one trick to it: The su command will give you superuser access, but the filesystem is read-only by default, so you will have to
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2
to make it read-write.
HTH.
so there is no motivation to actually verify experiments that have already been done by well established researchers.
I have seen any number of cases (in molecular biology) where researchers have done just that, and have come up with equivocal or contradictory conclusions. It's no biggie unless you're on an ego trip or have nasty funding issues attached to your research program.