Actually, the one day life was remedied to some extent, through better software suspend. But your general point holds, there are hardware and software problems that never went away.
Which might have been more of a possibility if they'd effectively built a community rather than failing to communicate very well.
It would also be easier if they'd got the basics (reliable kernel, GSM firmware, graphics acceleration) going rather than making eye candy, abandoning it, making more, abandoning it again...
As a pissed off Freerunner owner I have this to say -
OM has been badly managed for some time now. Rather than concentrate on getting basic functionality going they wasted time and money doing things over and over and over again. They must have reinvented the wheel at least three times by now.
No disrespect to the developers, but OM the company was a failure. In what they did and in how they failed to communicate properly with their community, ultimately ensuring there wasn't much of one.
The only hope I have for getting a useful device out of the freerunner now is the (independant of OM) Android port.
"But, frankly, if somebody thinks I'm an asshole for not wanting other people to avail themselves of utility from something I create without compensating me for my time and effort? I'm really OK with that."
The problem comes when it turns into a reputation and other people that would have bought it decide not to.
Good point, but what if we simply hunted down and killed the folks taking the orders via spam?
I mean, if your website is selling p3n1s pi.l.l.z and was advertised in a known spam email... well, we should take 'em down, and then follow the money trail to the spammer (if it's not the same entity).
As a home mailserver admin I probably ought to check my logs a bit more often but I'm pretty sure most of the spam gets eaten by a combination of fqdn, rDNS, SPF and spamhaus. In fact after a quick check it would seem that I'm running at somewhere around 60% spam, before this filtering. After the filtering though, I get maybe one a day. And thunderbird's antispam engine tags that.
That's the thing, there are now so many counter-spam measures in place that users don't see what's going on behind the scenes. When there's no filtering at all on a reasonably public address then things change markedly. I have another domain hosted elsewhere and unfiltered that receives in the order of hundreds a day to a single address.
Frankly I don't believe for a second that it'll cost 10$. They'll find a way to squeeze more money out of you, look how the airlines do it with everything else.
I would expect at least 10$ and then a very steep bandwidth charge on top.
It does seem to be a relatively new phenomenon here too, previously I guess "Pay as you go" was the option, or one of the smaller, reseller firms (virgin etc.)
In the UK the phone is "free" (or not) and then you get contracts that provide you with minutes/texts that do cover the cost of the phone, but it's still hidden.
Most phones are available without a contract if you want to pay that much, and you can get contracts without phones that are considerably cheaper. But it's not necessarily the most economical way of doing it.
No, the UK way is to have the phone covered by the contract but the contract only lasts a single year, after which the companies are obliged to SIM Unlock the phone for a nominal fee.
Or of course just to use pay as you go, if that's your thing.
I suppose that is an abuse of the word "literally", though only because "screw" is now a multiply layered metaphor. My use of "literally" was intended to strip away the top layer only, rather than pare back to the underlying, non-slang definition.
Now that is an interesting phenomenon, true, and ought to be investigated. It does not immediately suggest sex saturation in society as a cause though.
However that still does not make the original comment correct, that it is our society causing kids in their early teens to become sexually aware. This is a natural animal function and sod all to do with media.
The PS3 has (so far) been pretty good about this, but I do have to check before my purchases as there are one or two locked games. The Wii has been hacked (though I'm not sure how well it holds up to the most recent firmware) to be able to do this too.
"And there is a thing called "research" which would have shown you it happens much earlier than the "early teens".
Which is exactly my point. The OP is one of those weird folks that think if children aren't told about sex then they won't figure it out or even think about it, or even be interested in the opposite sex.
I also like sci-fi, and unfortunately these superhero moves seem to be the nearest we get to scifi a lot of the time these days.
So keep em bloody and full of sex, then us adults that don't care for the saw franchise or chick-flicks have something to wath that isn't constantly thinking of the children.
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You know what would be really great?
Well in my head anyway - android as a set of packages for debian, all on OM.
Actually, the one day life was remedied to some extent, through better software suspend. But your general point holds, there are hardware and software problems that never went away.
Which might have been more of a possibility if they'd effectively built a community rather than failing to communicate very well.
It would also be easier if they'd got the basics (reliable kernel, GSM firmware, graphics acceleration) going rather than making eye candy, abandoning it, making more, abandoning it again...
As a pissed off Freerunner owner I have this to say -
OM has been badly managed for some time now. Rather than concentrate on getting basic functionality going they wasted time and money doing things over and over and over again. They must have reinvented the wheel at least three times by now.
No disrespect to the developers, but OM the company was a failure. In what they did and in how they failed to communicate properly with their community, ultimately ensuring there wasn't much of one.
The only hope I have for getting a useful device out of the freerunner now is the (independant of OM) Android port.
It tells you that next time you can detect it that way before spin up.
Duh.
Netcraft is dead, BSD confirms it.
I know. I guess I either don't watch enough tv to find it funny or he just rubs me up the wrong way.
I prefer the more sober John Stewart
It's broadcasr on cable/satellite in the UK, meaning it only has access to a part of the audience.
It also sucks. He's a self promoting child.
At least the daily show is clever and satirical, colbert is just a grandstanding yank.
"But, frankly, if somebody thinks I'm an asshole for not wanting other people to avail themselves of utility from something I create without compensating me for my time and effort? I'm really OK with that."
The problem comes when it turns into a reputation and other people that would have bought it decide not to.
Good point, but what if we simply hunted down and killed the folks taking the orders via spam?
I mean, if your website is selling p3n1s pi.l.l.z and was advertised in a known spam email... well, we should take 'em down, and then follow the money trail to the spammer (if it's not the same entity).
Total email, or email that gets through?
As a home mailserver admin I probably ought to check my logs a bit more often but I'm pretty sure most of the spam gets eaten by a combination of fqdn, rDNS, SPF and spamhaus. In fact after a quick check it would seem that I'm running at somewhere around 60% spam, before this filtering. After the filtering though, I get maybe one a day. And thunderbird's antispam engine tags that.
That's the thing, there are now so many counter-spam measures in place that users don't see what's going on behind the scenes. When there's no filtering at all on a reasonably public address then things change markedly. I have another domain hosted elsewhere and unfiltered that receives in the order of hundreds a day to a single address.
I love it. That post deserves way more than a two.
I hope no marketing "visionaries" are reading slashdot today though.
robots.txt?
Or are they trying to get paid rather than make a point?
Frankly I don't believe for a second that it'll cost 10$. They'll find a way to squeeze more money out of you, look how the airlines do it with everything else.
I would expect at least 10$ and then a very steep bandwidth charge on top.
Funny, that's what the linux crowd say, and then promply get shouted at for their OS not being ready yet...
Customs also refers to border control and are very much related to enforcement of the law.
It's most definitely the dominant way of going about it. Even with PAYG the phones are tied to the network and subsidised to a small extent.
It does seem to be a relatively new phenomenon here too, previously I guess "Pay as you go" was the option, or one of the smaller, reseller firms (virgin etc.)
The UK must not be in Europe then.
In the UK the phone is "free" (or not) and then you get contracts that provide you with minutes/texts that do cover the cost of the phone, but it's still hidden.
Most phones are available without a contract if you want to pay that much, and you can get contracts without phones that are considerably cheaper. But it's not necessarily the most economical way of doing it.
No, the UK way is to have the phone covered by the contract but the contract only lasts a single year, after which the companies are obliged to SIM Unlock the phone for a nominal fee.
Or of course just to use pay as you go, if that's your thing.
I suppose that is an abuse of the word "literally", though only because "screw" is now a multiply layered metaphor. My use of "literally" was intended to strip away the top layer only, rather than pare back to the underlying, non-slang definition.
Laugh away though.
"women go through puberty earlier than ever"
Now that is an interesting phenomenon, true, and ought to be investigated. It does not immediately suggest sex saturation in society as a cause though.
However that still does not make the original comment correct, that it is our society causing kids in their early teens to become sexually aware. This is a natural animal function and sod all to do with media.
Me too.
The PS3 has (so far) been pretty good about this, but I do have to check before my purchases as there are one or two locked games. The Wii has been hacked (though I'm not sure how well it holds up to the most recent firmware) to be able to do this too.
but yes, it's a pain.
"And there is a thing called "research" which would have shown you it happens much earlier than the "early teens".
Which is exactly my point. The OP is one of those weird folks that think if children aren't told about sex then they won't figure it out or even think about it, or even be interested in the opposite sex.
I also like sci-fi, and unfortunately these superhero moves seem to be the nearest we get to scifi a lot of the time these days.
So keep em bloody and full of sex, then us adults that don't care for the saw franchise or chick-flicks have something to wath that isn't constantly thinking of the children.
Screw the children.
(not literally, please).
"OTOH, we don't even start to become sexual beings until the early teen years. (Later, in cultures that aren't so sex-saturated as the US.)"
UH, which societies would those be? The ones that allow marriage as young as 12 or the ones that allow it even younger?
There's this thing called biology that ensures that humans become sexually aware in their early teens, it's got very little to do with your society.