That last paragraph about how the non-monetary costs of making a laptop Hackintosh? Like spending who-knows-how-long rolling his own drivers?
How about I just quote the 2012 hackintosh guide:
Tweaking can be kept to a minimum, since the HP ProBook 4530s forum on tonymacx86 has pretty much figured out everything for you. If you're looking for a truly Hackintosh-friendly laptop, go with this one.
That being said, not everything is perfect. Bluetooth won't work after waking up from sleep, but screen brightness controls won't work before waking up from sleep. So you'll have to decide which feature is more important to you. Also, Bluetooth doesn't work after a restart (only a cold bootup will make it work), the VGA port is unreliable, and the external microphone doesn't work at all. However, don't let all of these problems with the 4530s discourage you; none of the problems really affect the laptop's usability. In fact, the 4530s actually has fewer problems than most Hackintosh laptops. It just happens that the glitches for the 4530s are better documented.
And this is the gold standard. Bluetooth is kind of a dealbreaker. Screen brightness is kind of a dealbreaker. Headphones (laptop speakers suck) is absolutely a dealbreaker since I lug laptops to LANs and speakers will get you booted. I'll grant you that building a Hack Pro isn't terrible (I did it once, just try out OSX; I ended up with a succession of Macbooks Pro as a result) but building a Hackbook seems to have gone to hell with the demise of the Dell Mini-9.
Hypothetically, if I were on a 2-year American phone plan, lost my job due to a corporate takeover 2 months in, and ended up on food stamps, do I have any reason to stop using one of the few nice things I can't just give up on a whim to save money because I am bound by contract?
If you actually heard exactly that phrase that's somewhat different, but there's an awful lot of ways to have a reversal of fortunes in this day and age that's rather more sudden than the term of a smartphone contract.
AppleCare+ is $100 for a 2-year term, to cover an $850 phone.
So that's one broken device every 17 years to break even. I've dropped my phone causing significant damage about once every 3-7 years, so it's looking like quite a deal to me.
Also, it gets you some of the best phone support I've ever had the -- well, it wasn't a pleasure except by comparison, I suppose -- but you can escalate to talking to an engineer within an hour if need be. Finding someone who can talk you through an obscure Unix CLI problem without ever looking at the device is hard enough as it is, and most other methods will involve paying a consulting rate.
Siri, GPS, front-facing camera, mic, even the freakin' speaker. (iTouch, first-gen) What else iPhones can typically be assumed to Always Have Data Access. Proximity sensor is MIA on iTouches, which was important for the Google app, at least. iTouches don't have the silence switch, either.
And we're complaining about Ah, backgrounding. That thing that requires a boatload of CPU power and RAM that the ARMv6 devices can't be counted on having.
At least complain about something really app-breakingly important, like the GPS receiver.
But once you do that part, there's a problem. Once you've gradually, and without risking causality, turned someone into software, he's going to want to do things like fax himself to mars to pilot a rover. And now we're back to sticky philosophy.
Two problem scenarios: What happens when I get old and the pot stops helping with the glaucoma, and I get prosthetic eyeballs?
What happens when we can keep an eyeball alive as part of a machine indefinitely? That one I can answer; it involves a black market and a melon baller.
And the laws will change - the parts that are trivially made on 3D printers will probalby end up being deregistered, and other parts will be the registered ones (which will be great fun for everyone concerned...).
The serialized parts are serialized because they are not wear components prone to frequent replacement. As an off-the-cuff example, the US military's new M855a1 round, the new standard-issue bullet is an incremental upgrade over the M855/SS192 "Green Tip" bullet they've been fielding. It replaces all the lead with a copper/bismuth based alloy, (information is conflicted as to which they ended up using) - and it shoots faster. How faster? Faster enough that it cuts the useful life of a barrel in half.
And this is probably going to be the serialized component? x_x
Go post your idea (as a hypothetical, not a suggestion!) on 4chan. Then when 30,000/b/tards, working independently, report the MTV music video awards as copyright infringement and it's automatically pulled by the googlebot
You'd have to subsidize building an entire supply chain stateside before anything like that is feasible. Apple's fantastically agile supply chain is how they switched from plastic to glass screens in the last two weeks before the first iPhone launched, after all.
So at first, yes, you probably would be paying 3x as much. Later, once it's gotten down to a reasonable margin and you're not paying off the factories, they may get it down to a mere 50% premium, if I add up the cost of each of those little premiums for US assembly of US-made parts.
Except that actually probably means you'll be a member of the only full-body-prosthetic cyborg generation, and in a few centuries, that'll be serious retro-cool, and other people will be getting elective decorpitations to try living that lifestyle.
What about a device that fits in a 5 1/4" bay, bears a slim optical drive, and a tiny SSD? The SATA write commands are ignored by the controller; if possible, the relevant lines are physically cut off from the motherboard. They instead lead to a slim optical drive; when a disk is placed in the drive, and a (recessed, molly-guarded) switch is pressed, the device's ROM code instructs the disk contents to be flashed onto the SSD. If you can be certain your image supplier is trustworthy, you can distribute the images over the internet with minimal fuss (and a lot of standard public-key cryptographic authentication to ensure the image isn't tampered with in transit).
The only attack surface I can see is the ROM code in the OS drive's loader, and compromising the OS vendor. Cracking AES is also possible, but there are other more lucrative goals for a black-hat hacker with the keys to AES' kingdom.
Concealed carry license holders engaged in a defensive shooting tend to be if I remember correctly, about 3 times as accurate as police officers.
The CCW holder probably enjoys recreational shooting, and therefore remains in practice more often than the average cop - only some of which fire their weapon more often than ten rounds every year to remain qualified.
Selective breeding also frequently results in inbreeding. This may just be an example of genetic drift in a small population undergoing a bottleneck effect, or the traits may in fact be linked genes.
Idealist-type personality, here. Fucking thrilled by the idea that this works.
Biology training makes me hesitant, but that's just a QA and testing challenge...
Cynically, the third world will get this once it's more economically valuable to have that many more creative types kicking around and automate all the manufacturing.
Idealistically, we'll realize this is more or less the same year the first world gets access, but...
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That last paragraph about how the non-monetary costs of making a laptop Hackintosh? Like spending who-knows-how-long rolling his own drivers?
How about I just quote the 2012 hackintosh guide:
And this is the gold standard. Bluetooth is kind of a dealbreaker. Screen brightness is kind of a dealbreaker. Headphones (laptop speakers suck) is absolutely a dealbreaker since I lug laptops to LANs and speakers will get you booted. I'll grant you that building a Hack Pro isn't terrible (I did it once, just try out OSX; I ended up with a succession of Macbooks Pro as a result) but building a Hackbook seems to have gone to hell with the demise of the Dell Mini-9.
Hypothetically, if I were on a 2-year American phone plan, lost my job due to a corporate takeover 2 months in, and ended up on food stamps, do I have any reason to stop using one of the few nice things I can't just give up on a whim to save money because I am bound by contract?
If you actually heard exactly that phrase that's somewhat different, but there's an awful lot of ways to have a reversal of fortunes in this day and age that's rather more sudden than the term of a smartphone contract.
Seriously, where are you getting unsubsidized current-gen iPhones for $200?
I'm not sure whether I want to use that knowledge, or send the police to break up the stolen-phone ring.
There's only three months or so in Florida that's not guaranteed to be outside of those parameters.
I'm of the opinion my gadgets ought to be at least as durable as I am, but no manufacturers are taking me up on it.
Carrier insurance sucks.
AppleCare+ is $100 for a 2-year term, to cover an $850 phone.
So that's one broken device every 17 years to break even. I've dropped my phone causing significant damage about once every 3-7 years, so it's looking like quite a deal to me.
Also, it gets you some of the best phone support I've ever had the -- well, it wasn't a pleasure except by comparison, I suppose -- but you can escalate to talking to an engineer within an hour if need be. Finding someone who can talk you through an obscure Unix CLI problem without ever looking at the device is hard enough as it is, and most other methods will involve paying a consulting rate.
Siri, GPS, front-facing camera, mic, even the freakin' speaker. (iTouch, first-gen) What else iPhones can typically be assumed to Always Have Data Access. Proximity sensor is MIA on iTouches, which was important for the Google app, at least. iTouches don't have the silence switch, either.
And we're complaining about Ah, backgrounding. That thing that requires a boatload of CPU power and RAM that the ARMv6 devices can't be counted on having.
At least complain about something really app-breakingly important, like the GPS receiver.
But once you do that part, there's a problem. Once you've gradually, and without risking causality, turned someone into software, he's going to want to do things like fax himself to mars to pilot a rover. And now we're back to sticky philosophy.
Two problem scenarios: What happens when I get old and the pot stops helping with the glaucoma, and I get prosthetic eyeballs?
What happens when we can keep an eyeball alive as part of a machine indefinitely? That one I can answer; it involves a black market and a melon baller.
If the Yellowstone supervolcano blows, that's [sarc]exactly the right[/sarc] place to put your heavy assets.
And it sure would get rid of all those pesky liberals, wouldn't it? The only people left would be those living in Jesusland.
It'd also get rid of most of the economy.
And the laws will change - the parts that are trivially made on 3D printers will probalby end up being deregistered, and other parts will be the registered ones (which will be great fun for everyone concerned...).
The serialized parts are serialized because they are not wear components prone to frequent replacement. As an off-the-cuff example, the US military's new M855a1 round, the new standard-issue bullet is an incremental upgrade over the M855/SS192 "Green Tip" bullet they've been fielding. It replaces all the lead with a copper/bismuth based alloy, (information is conflicted as to which they ended up using) - and it shoots faster. How faster? Faster enough that it cuts the useful life of a barrel in half.
And this is probably going to be the serialized component? x_x
I carry a handgun because I never expect to get in a gunfight.
If I expect a gunfight, I shall simply send a SWAT team in my stead.
Go post your idea (as a hypothetical, not a suggestion!) on 4chan. Then when 30,000 /b/tards, working independently, report the MTV music video awards as copyright infringement and it's automatically pulled by the googlebot
You'd have to subsidize building an entire supply chain stateside before anything like that is feasible. Apple's fantastically agile supply chain is how they switched from plastic to glass screens in the last two weeks before the first iPhone launched, after all.
So at first, yes, you probably would be paying 3x as much. Later, once it's gotten down to a reasonable margin and you're not paying off the factories, they may get it down to a mere 50% premium, if I add up the cost of each of those little premiums for US assembly of US-made parts.
Except that actually probably means you'll be a member of the only full-body-prosthetic cyborg generation, and in a few centuries, that'll be serious retro-cool, and other people will be getting elective decorpitations to try living that lifestyle.
Imagine "Neural Plasticity in-a-Pill".
Now imagine that it's also part of the standard longevity treatments.
And about two and a quarter seconds later, it becomes "And does that even matter?"
(I am of the opinion it really does not, but YMMV)
Yes.
I may even succeed before the actuarial tables suggest I should die of natural causes.
What about a device that fits in a 5 1/4" bay, bears a slim optical drive, and a tiny SSD? The SATA write commands are ignored by the controller; if possible, the relevant lines are physically cut off from the motherboard. They instead lead to a slim optical drive; when a disk is placed in the drive, and a (recessed, molly-guarded) switch is pressed, the device's ROM code instructs the disk contents to be flashed onto the SSD. If you can be certain your image supplier is trustworthy, you can distribute the images over the internet with minimal fuss (and a lot of standard public-key cryptographic authentication to ensure the image isn't tampered with in transit).
The only attack surface I can see is the ROM code in the OS drive's loader, and compromising the OS vendor. Cracking AES is also possible, but there are other more lucrative goals for a black-hat hacker with the keys to AES' kingdom.
Uh, they can just add the rifling to the blueprint. And shitty rifling is still legally rifling.
.410 revolver "shotguns" skirt the spirit of the law while remaining in full compliance.
Protip: So is straight rifling. It's how
Concealed carry license holders engaged in a defensive shooting tend to be if I remember correctly, about 3 times as accurate as police officers.
The CCW holder probably enjoys recreational shooting, and therefore remains in practice more often than the average cop - only some of which fire their weapon more often than ten rounds every year to remain qualified.
Selective breeding also frequently results in inbreeding. This may just be an example of genetic drift in a small population undergoing a bottleneck effect, or the traits may in fact be linked genes.
Correlation != causality, kids!
The lesson is there, it's just about Gene Roddenberry's sensibilities.
It looks like they're trying to make up for lost time.
Idealist-type personality, here. Fucking thrilled by the idea that this works.
Biology training makes me hesitant, but that's just a QA and testing challenge...
Cynically, the third world will get this once it's more economically valuable to have that many more creative types kicking around and automate all the manufacturing.
Idealistically, we'll realize this is more or less the same year the first world gets access, but...
"I'm sure people predicted the same thing about vaccinations. (And some people still think they're right.)"
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