Nothing is ever "solved", there are simply ever improving products addressing needs. For sure there were mobile devices serving professionals before iOS. But the solutions since iOS have been much improved.
What sort of creativity? The only block is on developing apps for no cost. (Which is why slashdot are unusual in their hate.) Every other sort of creativity is well served.
The quality of the applications has no correlation whatsoever to whether or not there is a fee associated with access. That argument has been debunked a million times.
Show me a single time it's been "debunked".
Meanwhile, there's a reason F/OSS exists
There's a reason Islamic fundamentalism exists. That doesn't make it a good thing.
Says who? Is this a law? Was it on tablets delivered by Moses? Or is it just a personal preference of poetmatt. A requirement that is completely and fully satisfied by poetmatt not buying an iOS device.
As long as people are free to chose whatever product they want, there is no problem. Stop trying to enforce your desires on people who have different requirements.
There is no problem. It's entirely unrealistic for you to like every product on the market. And it's fucking insane to require that every product matches your preferences.
There is nothing you could do with Hypercard that you can't do today with HTML. And there is absolutely nothing stopping you from running HTML apps on an iPad. So what are you complaining about?
Please show me were I can upload applications for free to the Apple store and without restrictions. My application is a wireless network monitoring tool, which my understanding is that they are totally banned.
You don't have an application, and never will. You're an admin. That's the job you do when you like computers but you're too stupid to be even a grunt coder.
How about any job (and there are many) which used to be done walking (or driving) around with a clipboard, and then someone back at the office doing data entry from the paper form.
Just because your own kind of job doesn't require mobility, doesn't mean that all professionals don't need mobility.
Or did you intend to limit the artistry to the creation of apps. Strange then that there are more apps of better quality on the iPad than on Android tablets. And the categories that are missing are anything but artistic in nature.
Wasn't that the premise of pretty much every episode of "Penn & Teller: Bullshit!"?
Maybe, but that program doesn't have any credibility. It's a Libertarian promotional platform, and actually some of what it promotes is bullshit in itself. And even when it's not, it's delivered in the style of the worst of the Bible thumpers, so doesn't feel credible.
No, you have pointed out that you think they know everything and you know very little.
I used to be a software engineer at Symbian, where we dealt with this very issue, whereas you clearly have no professional knowledge of mobiles whatsoever, you ignorant fucker.
Your comment on the lifespan of SD cards indicates that NOW you appreciate the issue, whereas you previously did not. You should say thanks, not be a twat about it.
It is in fact a pretty common thing to do on old Android phones that are running community OS builds.
People do all sorts of irrational things. Tinkerer's like to tinker.Even when the results don't actually serve them well. You will notice though that most of the guides that tell you how to enable swap on Android come with warnings that you might damage your device. They aren't there for no reason.
The thing with flash wear is that it's not going to show up straight away. It's just going to cripple the life of your SD card (or worse, phone if you use the internal flash). And unlike with a desktop, it's not going to be immediately obvious if you're phone is thrashing the disk.
As I've already pointed out if swap files for smartphones were a good idea, manufacturers would be doing it already. They are competing with each other you know.
That ass said I doubt that the traffic originates from cyberbunker they do not have 30 10ge connections.
If it did, that would only be a DOS attack anyway. The first D in DDOS is for distributed. It was a botnet doing the attacking.
So cutting off Cyberbunker with a pair of wirecutters wouldn't have stopped the DDOS attack. But it would stop a lot of spam, torrent sites, controversial political sites, paranoia sites, whistleblower sites, porn, and assorted scams. Not all people wanting the anonymity and no questions asked policy of cyberbunker are criminals. But most will be.
1 GB of swap would easily hold all the browser tabs.
That's not how a swap file works. It works at the level of memory requests. It has no idea of applications, let alone a specific app or purpose for the memory.
Besides, 1GB of storage can be an enormous amount for a smartphone. The Samsung Galaxy Ace is a still shipping Android smartphone with only 0.5GB of flash storage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Ace
Of course it can get more storage with microSD. Which is far slower, allocated to Application storage, rather than system, and liable to be removed by the user at any moment. Disaster!
Anyhow, I've told you why smartphones don't use swap. Your objections are neither here nor there. If swap was a good idea on smartphones, then the engineers would have done it that way, given that both the Linux kernel and Darwin are capable of it.
Meanwhile in Belgium a report was just published on "how to integrate muslims : reasonable demands" by the minister for integration.
Of course no searches on such a document, nor on Maggie De Block, the Minister for Secretary of State for Asylum, Immigration and Social Integration find anything remotely like this.
Here's the thing about that phrase. Both the pot AND the kettle are black.
(Aside: Where black means bad. Not sure if that has racist connotations, or whether it's purely about soot and cleanliness, without a thought to race.)
More than that, it's bigotry. Your language reeks of it. "near-religious relic"? Really?
You are acting ever more like it's a religion. You're now offended that I don't share your views on the US constitution, and call it bigotry. Exactly what happens with religious believers to blasphemers.
5 year lifespan. Funny how that's become acceptable.
And if it's more than 165 times? We've all experienced too many apps on a desktop OS, with the resultant slow down, and the hard disk being thrashed constantly. Hopefully that's mostly reads. But not necessarily.
And of course the no swap design for smartphones dates back years, to times when wear was more of a problem for flash.
Oh, and I thought of a 3rd reason. When the smartphone only has a few GB flash, a swap drive would take a big chunk out of it that couldn't be used for other purposes.
FIrst, because flash chips have a limited number of write cycles. Repeatedly writing to swap files kills them more rapidly. For sure more recently desktop OSs use swap on SSDs, But they are expensive, and large compared to the flash chips in mobiles. So whilst swap is slowly killing them too, their life expectancy is longer.
Secondly, desktop OSs have to keep many apps running, because of their multi-window nature, users can see multiple apps. Smartphones are essentially single app UI devices, so it's possible to kill off background apps without the user noticing. And that means that the desktop OSs use swap as a necessity to avoid OOM. And smartphones don't need to.
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Nothing is ever "solved", there are simply ever improving products addressing needs. For sure there were mobile devices serving professionals before iOS. But the solutions since iOS have been much improved.
What sort of creativity? The only block is on developing apps for no cost. (Which is why slashdot are unusual in their hate.) Every other sort of creativity is well served.
Up to now you've been winning. Now you've just reminded everyone how poor the results are in the ideal FOSS platform.
You guys seriously want everything to be as user hostile as desktop Linux?
The quality of the applications has no correlation whatsoever to whether or not there is a fee associated with access. That argument has been debunked a million times.
Show me a single time it's been "debunked".
Meanwhile, there's a reason F/OSS exists
There's a reason Islamic fundamentalism exists. That doesn't make it a good thing.
Says who? Is this a law? Was it on tablets delivered by Moses? Or is it just a personal preference of poetmatt. A requirement that is completely and fully satisfied by poetmatt not buying an iOS device.
As long as people are free to chose whatever product they want, there is no problem. Stop trying to enforce your desires on people who have different requirements.
There is no problem. It's entirely unrealistic for you to like every product on the market. And it's fucking insane to require that every product matches your preferences.
There is nothing you could do with Hypercard that you can't do today with HTML. And there is absolutely nothing stopping you from running HTML apps on an iPad. So what are you complaining about?
Please show me were I can upload applications for free to the Apple store and without restrictions.
My application is a wireless network monitoring tool, which my understanding is that they are totally banned.
You don't have an application, and never will. You're an admin. That's the job you do when you like computers but you're too stupid to be even a grunt coder.
How about any job (and there are many) which used to be done walking (or driving) around with a clipboard, and then someone back at the office doing data entry from the paper form.
Just because your own kind of job doesn't require mobility, doesn't mean that all professionals don't need mobility.
Artistically stifling? Isn't it odd then that whenever there are artists doing some artistry with a tablet, it's virtually always with an iPad.
e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzr6kPoxQhI
Or did you intend to limit the artistry to the creation of apps. Strange then that there are more apps of better quality on the iPad than on Android tablets. And the categories that are missing are anything but artistic in nature.
I'd use my Dictaphone.
Wasn't that the premise of pretty much every episode of "Penn & Teller: Bullshit!"?
Maybe, but that program doesn't have any credibility. It's a Libertarian promotional platform, and actually some of what it promotes is bullshit in itself. And even when it's not, it's delivered in the style of the worst of the Bible thumpers, so doesn't feel credible.
Some of them are.
I don't know anyone who doesn't have a least a few stupid beliefs.
(Present company excepted, of course!)
To point out believing in myths is a bad habit is not bigotry.
Hey I wonder if Mythbusters could take this on?!
No, you have pointed out that you think they know everything and you know very little.
I used to be a software engineer at Symbian, where we dealt with this very issue, whereas you clearly have no professional knowledge of mobiles whatsoever, you ignorant fucker.
Your comment on the lifespan of SD cards indicates that NOW you appreciate the issue, whereas you previously did not. You should say thanks, not be a twat about it.
Goodbye, and good riddance.
Because the list includes some criminal activities and some legal ones.
It is in fact a pretty common thing to do on old Android phones that are running community OS builds.
People do all sorts of irrational things. Tinkerer's like to tinker.Even when the results don't actually serve them well. You will notice though that most of the guides that tell you how to enable swap on Android come with warnings that you might damage your device. They aren't there for no reason.
The thing with flash wear is that it's not going to show up straight away. It's just going to cripple the life of your SD card (or worse, phone if you use the internal flash). And unlike with a desktop, it's not going to be immediately obvious if you're phone is thrashing the disk.
As I've already pointed out if swap files for smartphones were a good idea, manufacturers would be doing it already. They are competing with each other you know.
But you go ahead. I hope it makes you happy.
That would be why I said: "Not all people wanting the anonymity and no questions asked policy of cyberbunker are criminals."
That ass said I doubt that the traffic originates from cyberbunker they do not have 30 10ge connections.
If it did, that would only be a DOS attack anyway. The first D in DDOS is for distributed. It was a botnet doing the attacking.
So cutting off Cyberbunker with a pair of wirecutters wouldn't have stopped the DDOS attack. But it would stop a lot of spam, torrent sites, controversial political sites, paranoia sites, whistleblower sites, porn, and assorted scams. Not all people wanting the anonymity and no questions asked policy of cyberbunker are criminals. But most will be.
1 GB of swap would easily hold all the browser tabs.
That's not how a swap file works. It works at the level of memory requests. It has no idea of applications, let alone a specific app or purpose for the memory.
Besides, 1GB of storage can be an enormous amount for a smartphone. The Samsung Galaxy Ace is a still shipping Android smartphone with only 0.5GB of flash storage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Ace
Of course it can get more storage with microSD. Which is far slower, allocated to Application storage, rather than system, and liable to be removed by the user at any moment. Disaster!
Anyhow, I've told you why smartphones don't use swap. Your objections are neither here nor there. If swap was a good idea on smartphones, then the engineers would have done it that way, given that both the Linux kernel and Darwin are capable of it.
Meanwhile in Belgium a report was just published on "how to integrate muslims : reasonable demands" by the minister for integration.
Of course no searches on such a document, nor on Maggie De Block, the Minister for Secretary of State for Asylum, Immigration and Social Integration find anything remotely like this.
Here's the thing about that phrase. Both the pot AND the kettle are black.
(Aside: Where black means bad. Not sure if that has racist connotations, or whether it's purely about soot and cleanliness, without a thought to race.)
More than that, it's bigotry. Your language reeks of it. "near-religious relic"? Really?
You are acting ever more like it's a religion. You're now offended that I don't share your views on the US constitution, and call it bigotry. Exactly what happens with religious believers to blasphemers.
5 year lifespan. Funny how that's become acceptable.
And if it's more than 165 times? We've all experienced too many apps on a desktop OS, with the resultant slow down, and the hard disk being thrashed constantly. Hopefully that's mostly reads. But not necessarily.
And of course the no swap design for smartphones dates back years, to times when wear was more of a problem for flash.
Oh, and I thought of a 3rd reason. When the smartphone only has a few GB flash, a swap drive would take a big chunk out of it that couldn't be used for other purposes.
There's none so blind as those that won't see.
Two reasons.
FIrst, because flash chips have a limited number of write cycles. Repeatedly writing to swap files kills them more rapidly. For sure more recently desktop OSs use swap on SSDs, But they are expensive, and large compared to the flash chips in mobiles. So whilst swap is slowly killing them too, their life expectancy is longer.
Secondly, desktop OSs have to keep many apps running, because of their multi-window nature, users can see multiple apps. Smartphones are essentially single app UI devices, so it's possible to kill off background apps without the user noticing. And that means that the desktop OSs use swap as a necessity to avoid OOM. And smartphones don't need to.