You're saying it's a matter of laziness. Bad assumption. I've released open source on the internet without a license. It was a choice, not laziness.
Why did I do that? Because I put it out there for others to learn from. If I put a license on it, I'm expecting them to read it, or to expecting that they won't read it and will be bound by my terms and conditions any way. But I desire no terms and conditions, so why waste their time? Or bind them by terns and conditions that someone else wrote? I'm hoping that I might get the odd message saying thanks. But I don't want to ask, let alone require it.
But actually, it's not even that. It's this: I dislike open source licenses. So I'm not going to use them for my own code. And I don't have to. Why do I dislike them? Because it turns a gift into a right. I hate the people who get argumentative about their rights to get free stuff. They are the people that push open source licenses, and I want nothing to do with them. If it means they don't touch my open source, then good, I'm happy.
Ah, yes, eloquently stated. And, you know, it's totally okay to do that but let's assume that you've "fucked" the license and governance and your code is great and popular. Now, what stops a company from taking your code and making massive changes to it and shipping that code for mad moneys?
Nothing. The Open Source movement is supposed to be about freedom, remember? Why are you so keen to limit it?
What did you and the community gain by contributing to that company's revenue?
If releasing your source is all about your (and the communities - however you define that) gain, how is that any different from the commercial company that wants to gain from their software?
You still haven't provided any examples of any civilian ever committing a crime
It's not my duty to provide examples of the consequent to things you say. Nothing I've said has relied on there being any such examples. There may or may not have been such crimes - most crime reporting doesn't mention the make and model of firearms involved. It makes no difference to me either way.
By the way, speaking of entertainment purposes... would you agree that there is no purpose in having cars that can go above the highest speed limit in the country? What is it, 80 MPH? Clearly doing so on a public road would be highly dangerous, lethal even, and the few madmen who want to race on their own property are few enough to not worth the bother. I propose we ban all cars that can go faster than 80 MPH - the sooner they are banned, the better. Think of all the lives that'll save!
I agree with the basic premise of your proposal. The specific limit would need some thought, but some limit near the top speed limit seems appropriate. And you'd want to make sure that the limiter doesn't affect performance below the speed limit, and has a smooth take up, so it would probably be slightly above the speed limit - but not necessarily.
Note that busses and Heavy Goods Vehicles in Europe already have governors that limit their speed to their legal maximum. No problem there. Note also that many performance cars already have speed governors that limit the top speed - it's just a case of reducing the programmed limit. Literally a software change.
1) There is no god to give out rights. Rights are discussed and agreed upon amongst people.
2) The origin of North Korea wasn't the lack of people standing up for their rights. The origin was the partitioning of the country into to and the subsequent remote playing out of the cold war between the then world superpowers of The USSR and the USA.
It has absolutely nothing to do with your assumed gun rights. Change the tune.
There's a big difference between the OPs proposal to use a dongle as a permanent substitute for built in storage, and an adapter used for occasional file transfer from a camera.
The 1990s called. They want your tech spec number buying habits back.
RAM? Almost now one knows how much RAM is in an iPad without looking it up. It's irrelevant. Either an app runs or it doesn't. And all apps run on the latest iPad. It's not like apps would run faster if there was twice the RAM. This isn't a PC with virtual memory.
If you mean programming, say programming, not "content creation". Because the iPad has lots of content creation apps. For example musicians do loads with iPads.
Yeah, because replacing my duplex, wired network, color laser printer is so much cheaper than getting a USB ethernet port.
If the printer is wired into your network, then probably the iPad can print to it. No replacement needed.
Also, not using wireless means I can shut off the wifi portion of my router, which is the best way to secure it.
If you disconnect your system from the internet it'll be even more secure. And for the ultimate in security, unplug it from the mains too.
I can just keep backups on a USB drive, or use a USB optical drive for backups. And I'm pretty sure I could run a cron job if I wanted automated backups.
Cron jobs are pretty useless for backing up a mobile device to a wired drive. No amount of cron-fu is going to make it connect the cable all by itself. iCloud is automatic, and real-time.
I keep my MacBook backed up on a USB drive. Quite often I get a dialog popping up saying its 10 days since I last backed up. Because I simply haven't got round to connecting it.
an 'SD' slot which can be used to upgrade the memory at will.
This is approximately the same as saying: My PC has unlimited storage, it has a floppy drive slot which can be used to upgrade the memory at will.
You don't say no to a bigger hard-disk on the basis that you have a floppy drive.
You don't seem to know the difference between memory and storage, so it's no wonder you don't appreciate that SDCards are slower than built in flash. And the cheaper the SD card, the slower it tends to be.
But (without jailbreaking) can I SSH to my home server and run my test apps?
Of course you can. Why ever not?
Can I run Nginx (or Apache), Postgres, Python/Django, or a host of other server-side technologies?
Via that SSH, sure. On an iPad no. It's a tablet, not a server. If you want a server, buy one. Not every product has to be usable as if it were every other product. That's what brings complexity and unreliability. Talking of which...
Whether they like it or not, geeks have at least some influence in the purchase decisions of mundanes.
Guess what? iOS and Android have democratised computing. You are no longer the high-priest that mere mortals need to look to for advice and support. The people don't need to put up with your indecipherable acronyms and buzzwords any more. You're yesterday's expert.
If Google+ has changed it to be that way, that's merely a symptom of the fact that no-one can find many friends on there.
I know about 4 people that tried it out in the early days. No one continued.
It's clear this analyst is measuring it incorrectly. And usually that's because someone's paying. In this case clearly it's Google that's paying. It's PR, nothing more.
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You're saying it's a matter of laziness. Bad assumption. I've released open source on the internet without a license. It was a choice, not laziness.
Why did I do that? Because I put it out there for others to learn from. If I put a license on it, I'm expecting them to read it, or to expecting that they won't read it and will be bound by my terms and conditions any way. But I desire no terms and conditions, so why waste their time? Or bind them by terns and conditions that someone else wrote? I'm hoping that I might get the odd message saying thanks. But I don't want to ask, let alone require it.
But actually, it's not even that. It's this: I dislike open source licenses. So I'm not going to use them for my own code. And I don't have to. Why do I dislike them? Because it turns a gift into a right. I hate the people who get argumentative about their rights to get free stuff. They are the people that push open source licenses, and I want nothing to do with them. If it means they don't touch my open source, then good, I'm happy.
Ah, yes, eloquently stated. And, you know, it's totally okay to do that but let's assume that you've "fucked" the license and governance and your code is great and popular. Now, what stops a company from taking your code and making massive changes to it and shipping that code for mad moneys?
Nothing. The Open Source movement is supposed to be about freedom, remember? Why are you so keen to limit it?
What did you and the community gain by contributing to that company's revenue?
If releasing your source is all about your (and the communities - however you define that) gain, how is that any different from the commercial company that wants to gain from their software?
You still haven't provided any examples of any civilian ever committing a crime
It's not my duty to provide examples of the consequent to things you say. Nothing I've said has relied on there being any such examples. There may or may not have been such crimes - most crime reporting doesn't mention the make and model of firearms involved. It makes no difference to me either way.
By the way, speaking of entertainment purposes... would you agree that there is no purpose in having cars that can go above the highest speed limit in the country? What is it, 80 MPH? Clearly doing so on a public road would be highly dangerous, lethal even, and the few madmen who want to race on their own property are few enough to not worth the bother. I propose we ban all cars that can go faster than 80 MPH - the sooner they are banned, the better. Think of all the lives that'll save!
I agree with the basic premise of your proposal. The specific limit would need some thought, but some limit near the top speed limit seems appropriate. And you'd want to make sure that the limiter doesn't affect performance below the speed limit, and has a smooth take up, so it would probably be slightly above the speed limit - but not necessarily.
Note that busses and Heavy Goods Vehicles in Europe already have governors that limit their speed to their legal maximum. No problem there. Note also that many performance cars already have speed governors that limit the top speed - it's just a case of reducing the programmed limit. Literally a software change.
your usage may vary
Not just my usage, but usage in general varies with yours. As I said, most printers are connected to a computer.
You bought an early generation WiFi, and thus it's not compatible. Sucks to be you. But it's not a problem for most people.
This is where American's gun culture has lost touch with sanity. Guns are lethal weapons, they are not toys for entertainment purposes.
Sooner they are banned the better.
Talking of cults of personality... What is it with worship of this Jesus guy that's been dead 2000 years.
There are some awesome sights there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHMSGQwLPrA
You appear to be trying to compare a fixed PC system to a mobile tablet system. Pointless.
1) There is no god to give out rights. Rights are discussed and agreed upon amongst people.
2) The origin of North Korea wasn't the lack of people standing up for their rights. The origin was the partitioning of the country into to and the subsequent remote playing out of the cold war between the then world superpowers of The USSR and the USA.
It has absolutely nothing to do with your assumed gun rights. Change the tune.
There's a big difference between the OPs proposal to use a dongle as a permanent substitute for built in storage, and an adapter used for occasional file transfer from a camera.
Because it has no legitimate civilian use. It's a weapon for the military, and it's not reasonable for civilians to be owning military weapons.
I can see why people block you.
Looks like something that should definitely be on the list for gun control.
It's good to see you used Google to answer your own question.
And you wonder why people want gun control?
And maliciously moderated again by one of the aforesaid dishonest scum.
USB Dongle? On a mobile device? Jeez.
So the iPad can run x86 code now?
You may not have noticed, but the trend is away from X86 towards ARM. And the iPad is already ARM.
Does it have a pressure sensitive stylus now?
Here:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pressure+sensitive+stylus
Notice how all the top hits are for iPad.
The 1990s called. They want your tech spec number buying habits back.
RAM? Almost now one knows how much RAM is in an iPad without looking it up. It's irrelevant. Either an app runs or it doesn't. And all apps run on the latest iPad. It's not like apps would run faster if there was twice the RAM. This isn't a PC with virtual memory.
If you mean programming, say programming, not "content creation". Because the iPad has lots of content creation apps. For example musicians do loads with iPads.
Yeah, because replacing my duplex, wired network, color laser printer is so much cheaper than getting a USB ethernet port.
If the printer is wired into your network, then probably the iPad can print to it. No replacement needed.
Also, not using wireless means I can shut off the wifi portion of my router, which is the best way to secure it.
If you disconnect your system from the internet it'll be even more secure. And for the ultimate in security, unplug it from the mains too.
I can just keep backups on a USB drive, or use a USB optical drive for backups. And I'm pretty sure I could run a cron job if I wanted automated backups.
Cron jobs are pretty useless for backing up a mobile device to a wired drive. No amount of cron-fu is going to make it connect the cable all by itself. iCloud is automatic, and real-time.
I keep my MacBook backed up on a USB drive. Quite often I get a dialog popping up saying its 10 days since I last backed up. Because I simply haven't got round to connecting it.
an 'SD' slot which can be used to upgrade the memory at will.
This is approximately the same as saying: My PC has unlimited storage, it has a floppy drive slot which can be used to upgrade the memory at will.
You don't say no to a bigger hard-disk on the basis that you have a floppy drive.
You don't seem to know the difference between memory and storage, so it's no wonder you don't appreciate that SDCards are slower than built in flash. And the cheaper the SD card, the slower it tends to be.
No it doesn't. Most printers are connected to a computer. And you can do your iPad printing via the computer.
But (without jailbreaking) can I SSH to my home server and run my test apps?
Of course you can. Why ever not?
Can I run Nginx (or Apache), Postgres, Python/Django, or a host of other server-side technologies?
Via that SSH, sure. On an iPad no. It's a tablet, not a server. If you want a server, buy one. Not every product has to be usable as if it were every other product. That's what brings complexity and unreliability. Talking of which...
Whether they like it or not, geeks have at least some influence in the purchase decisions of mundanes.
Guess what? iOS and Android have democratised computing. You are no longer the high-priest that mere mortals need to look to for advice and support. The people don't need to put up with your indecipherable acronyms and buzzwords any more. You're yesterday's expert.
You still lack a full desktop OS.
A tablet isn't a desktop.
If I wanted a keyboard and a desktop OS, I'd buy a Macbook Air.
This is the problem with Microsoft Surface, and indeed Windows 8. They don't know what they are. They are having an identity crisis.
Facebook posts are not public by default.
If Google+ has changed it to be that way, that's merely a symptom of the fact that no-one can find many friends on there.
I know about 4 people that tried it out in the early days. No one continued.
It's clear this analyst is measuring it incorrectly. And usually that's because someone's paying. In this case clearly it's Google that's paying. It's PR, nothing more.