You don't know how wrong you are. There are so many things I think Slashdotters would appreciate knowing about the iOS jailbreak process:
1) The "Tethered" (easy) jailbreaks only work on pre-2011 devices. 2) 2011 and later device can only be freed using "untethered" jailbreaks. 3) "Untethered" jailbreaks using Apple's copyrighted code usually happen first, but are not distributed because they would be subject to DMCA takedown. The hackers want to do this legit. 3) Making the last untethered jailbreak (whether for the "tethered" pre-2011 devices or the other ones) actually involved what appears to me at least to be a spectacularly complicated process:
TL;DR is that untethering iOS devices is spectacularly difficult, especially due to the fact that at least one of the best jailbreakers has been hired by apple.
If you do remove gadgets, there is only one true loss. The Pandora gadget is extremely useful because it provides the only ad-free frontend to pandora. If you disable Gadgets, you can still access it through this link:
I found the audio to be choppy for some reason under firefox when you navigate away from the tab that contains it... for that reason it should likely be spawned into its own window.
Joking aside, this is a big misconception many people have about cloud storage: that cloud storage is at the whim of the provider and if the provider goes poof then your data goes poof.
That is a gross misrepresentation of services like dropbox. These services mirror locally stored files on your own hard drive.
Therefore, you retain the local storage that you always wanted, but at the same time get syncing to all your devices without having to write a separate sync client for each device.
Now if you'd like to argue against cloud storage based on security, that is fine. But if high-level security is not an issue, cloud storage provides an added benefit to, rather than a replacement of, local storage.
For me the Linux desktops were competitive with windows and Mac until 2005 or so when spotlight desktop search came along (followed by its windows counterpart). In GNOME (and hence in Ubuntu) there was never* a stable, solid search function that would search inside all file types and index the results for instant retrieval. For me that is now the primary way I navigate the OS, and it wasn't until 2012 that Ubuntu had anything even remotely similar (and I don't think that searches inside files instantly yet).
So yes, Desktop search was the killer function that Linux could never get working quite right. I could have totally put up with a lack of prettiness, but the desktop search mess was what made it clear to me that windows and Mac had surpassed the Linux desktops in terms of relevancy of goals for the non-immature power user. Yes the kernel rocks but GNOME and KDE lack a philosophically mature developer base.
*yes yes I know about beagle tracker google desktop and all that. These have always been in various states of disfunction or non-support and are frankly a mess.
Nobody wants to admit it but slashing funding for postdocs is the right answer. Right now it's so easy to get a postdoc job that professors consider themselves a success if their students get a postdoc position. meanwhile, if you're supervising a postdoc who can't get a tenure-track appointment, it's considered "moving on to the industry" and no big deal.
If we cut funding for postdocs, this has several benefits. 1) the bottleneck is moved to the grad student level, and fewer grad students will apply; 2) those who would have left academia after their 3rd postdoc wind up wasting less of their life at low pay; 3) the lack of slave labor will cause us professors to actually do the fucking research ourselves rather than being remote grant writing machines as some of my esteemed colleagues have become; 4) more tenure-track jobs will be created from the savings if the grant system adapts by turning into UK style block grants which fund entire departments rather than (often competing) individuals.
At least in TomTom there's no easy way to actually use the map the way you'd use Google maps (enter point of interest, I.e stadium, find it; enter parking, find parking near stadium). That is mostly how I use the phone maps and TomTom requires dozens more steps to get something similar done and the point of interests list is also frequently out of date.
Thanks for letting us know... I bet you that most people on here like myself thought that updates were seamless just like on Ubuntu.
We've all been spoiled by how smooth Ubuntu is, and tend to forget how difficult and fiddly it was to get everything to work prior its existence.
As long as you leave the non-LTS releases alone, Ubuntu offers a very polished experience. I'm even willing to tolerate Unity to reap the benefits of 5 years of LTS.
- Written from a Hardy to Lucid to soon-to-be Precise Mac Pro running Linux as main OS.
The problem happened at some point during the transition from Mozilla suite to firefox. At that point, the developers decided they hated Linux. Not sure why and I can't dig up a citation but when Firefox came out essentially they decided to focus on speed gains in windows over Linux.
I am convinced that evil is a trait we share with all primates, and that it somehow evolved at the primate level, and is not unique to humans. And it's just not chimps: gorillas and baboons as well.
I am getting sick just recalling some of the stuff in that book.
Every religion has its plusses and minuses; you can't divorce the monumental genius of Bach from his Christian faith.
Religion is responsible for atrocities as well as brilliant works of art. It depends if the people in question listened to the hate side or to the love side. Just like everything else in life.
I think he said it best. Linux on the Desktop will never happen because Mac came along.
Before OS X, many many people were dying for a Desktop OS that looked beautiful but still gave them their beloved UNIX-style command line and familiar tools (emacs, vi, gcc, etc.). They wanted a UNIX-style OS which had drivers that actually worked instead of requiring wastage of huge amount of time googling this and compiling that.
OS X came along and fulfilled the wish of many. The only people left were those who wanted a UNIX-style OS that was libre; that was a vanishingly small number compared to the first group, whose desires were more than adequately fulfilled by OS X.
Linux IS a very stable, robust, and I dare say amazingly bug-poor kernel. GNOME/KDE is a different question.
It used to be that windowing systems used to be mostly bug-free on the desktop and it was Windows was the disfunction-infested nightmare.
With Windows 7, Microsoft cleaned up its act, but GNOME/KDE moved in the opposite direction, neglecting the need to fix serious regressions and important bugs that just got passed on from release to release; instead, they used their manpower to get on the warpath towards innovation at all costs.
In 1998, I would have modded you flamebait for the above, but sadly, now I'd say it's true, if you s/Linux/GNOME\/KDE/g.
No. Only Dropbox supports linux, and does it extremely well (though still proprietary).
Dropbox is the first internet company I've been excited about since Google back in 1998. They are run by a bunch of geeks, like Google used to be (MIT though, east coast style leadership vs. west coast/Stanford). Their syncing solution is elegant and just works. The day I tried Dropbox was they day my opinion of "the cloud" changed from a load of bull to actually something worthy of serious attention.
I'm sick of this high-temperature snobbery. The number of times I've heard people at bars go tut-tut at a bar because their favorite microbrew's been too cold? Give me a break. What you say may be true of a fine Bavarian Paulaner, but in the USA, most of the microbrews and not just Larry, Moe, and Curly need some serious cooling down due to a number of flavors that they' amateurishly been unable to suppress.
It would be an incredibly delicious outcome if TPB managed to transform itself from an outlaw defender of freedom to the legal representative of talented young artists (at fair compensation to the artists)
Interesting how Apple cannot shake its image as a pricy, too-expensive-for-the-hardware manufacturer, even when that's not always true.
In the US, you can get an ATT iPhone 4, which everyone agrees basically is not that much worse than their flagship 4S, for $99. For that price you get 960x640 resolution at high pixel density and a motherlode of apps, plus a device that when jailbroken is an absolute joy to use. This is for the same exact price as the N900, yet N900 comes off as a cheapo phone that's a bargain and the iPhone gets off as some kind of luxury item.
Same for the 8-core Mac Pro. My supposedly economical cluster blade vendor is sending me quotes for 8-core Nehalem blades that are the same price as the 8-core Mac Pro... WTF? Oh yeah, an 8+ core Mac Pro is actually very competitively priced compared to anything other than build your own.
So yeah, apple will rob you blind if you're trying to buy a charger, but just remember, there are some prices that aren't ripoffs, OK?
A few weeks ago I was moderated -1 flaimbait on Slashdot because I dared say that the scientists were irresponsible in going to press with this news. Everyone thought I was being a jerk because wow, isn't this a great demonstration of the way the scientific process is going to work and didn't we all learn about science in this fiasco.
Guess what, yes, maybe for non-scientists this is "how the scientific method works," but internally, among scientists, we are supposed to do many levels vetting before we go public like this with a result. The press loves any news story that claims Einstein was wrong, and so it's easy to get caught in the publicity and make a big deal of something that should be scrutinized thoroughly before being exposed.
This was not "the scientific method at work." The scientific method at work is that when you find something that contradicts a successful 100-year-old theory, you sit down a few years and think about it before going public with it. Otherwise it costs you your fucking reputation as a scientists, which can end your career.
Why? Very simple: they make the only 3lbs, 13" laptop that can play Skyrim on high settings at 1600x900 resolution.
Until another company caters to my particular niche, Sony it will be. I still love my 2010 VAIO Z, and it still kicks the ass of any 13" laptop you can buy today in one way or another.
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You don't know how wrong you are. There are so many things I think Slashdotters would appreciate knowing about the iOS jailbreak process:
1) The "Tethered" (easy) jailbreaks only work on pre-2011 devices.
2) 2011 and later device can only be freed using "untethered" jailbreaks.
3) "Untethered" jailbreaks using Apple's copyrighted code usually happen first, but are not distributed because they would be subject to DMCA takedown. The hackers want to do this legit.
3) Making the last untethered jailbreak (whether for the "tethered" pre-2011 devices or the other ones) actually involved what appears to me at least to be a spectacularly complicated process:
http://pod2g-ios.blogspot.com/2012/01/details-on-corona.html
TL;DR is that untethering iOS devices is spectacularly difficult, especially due to the fact that at least one of the best jailbreakers has been hired by apple.
If you do remove gadgets, there is only one true loss. The Pandora gadget is extremely useful because it provides the only ad-free frontend to pandora. If you disable Gadgets, you can still access it through this link:
http://internal-tuner.pandora.com/windowsgadget/gadget.jsp
I found the audio to be choppy for some reason under firefox when you navigate away from the tab that contains it... for that reason it should likely be spawned into its own window.
It's too bad. The author of the original research was totally hot.
I love Firefox, but it's still about 50% faster on Windows 7 than on Linux. Chrome wins clearly on Linux. I agree that on Windows they're comparable.
Joking aside, this is a big misconception many people have about cloud storage: that cloud storage is at the whim of the provider and if the provider goes poof then your data goes poof.
That is a gross misrepresentation of services like dropbox. These services mirror locally stored files on your own hard drive.
Therefore, you retain the local storage that you always wanted, but at the same time get syncing to all your devices without having to write a separate sync client for each device.
Now if you'd like to argue against cloud storage based on security, that is fine. But if high-level security is not an issue, cloud storage provides an added benefit to, rather than a replacement of, local storage.
For me the Linux desktops were competitive with windows and Mac until 2005 or so when spotlight desktop search came along (followed by its windows counterpart). In GNOME (and hence in Ubuntu) there was never* a stable, solid search function that would search inside all file types and index the results for instant retrieval. For me that is now the primary way I navigate the OS, and it wasn't until 2012 that Ubuntu had anything even remotely similar (and I don't think that searches inside files instantly yet).
So yes, Desktop search was the killer function that Linux could never get working quite right. I could have totally put up with a lack of prettiness, but the desktop search mess was what made it clear to me that windows and Mac had surpassed the Linux desktops in terms of relevancy of goals for the non-immature power user. Yes the kernel rocks but GNOME and KDE lack a philosophically mature developer base.
*yes yes I know about beagle tracker google desktop and all that. These have always been in various states of disfunction or non-support and are frankly a mess.
I'd put money on the likelihood that there is a GPL violation in their driver code that they'd have to own up to if they actually released the source.
Activate turbo mode.
Done.
Nobody wants to admit it but slashing funding for postdocs is the right answer. Right now it's so easy to get a postdoc job that professors consider themselves a success if their students get a postdoc position. meanwhile, if you're supervising a postdoc who can't get a tenure-track appointment, it's considered "moving on to the industry" and no big deal.
If we cut funding for postdocs, this has several benefits. 1) the bottleneck is moved to the grad student level, and fewer grad students will apply; 2) those who would have left academia after their 3rd postdoc wind up wasting less of their life at low pay; 3) the lack of slave labor will cause us professors to actually do the fucking research ourselves rather than being remote grant writing machines as some of my esteemed colleagues have become; 4) more tenure-track jobs will be created from the savings if the grant system adapts by turning into UK style block grants which fund entire departments rather than (often competing) individuals.
At least in TomTom there's no easy way to actually use the map the way you'd use Google maps (enter point of interest, I.e stadium, find it; enter parking, find parking near stadium). That is mostly how I use the phone maps and TomTom requires dozens more steps to get something similar done and the point of interests list is also frequently out of date.
Thanks for letting us know... I bet you that most people on here like myself thought that updates were seamless just like on Ubuntu.
We've all been spoiled by how smooth Ubuntu is, and tend to forget how difficult and fiddly it was to get everything to work prior its existence.
As long as you leave the non-LTS releases alone, Ubuntu offers a very polished experience. I'm even willing to tolerate Unity to reap the benefits of 5 years of LTS.
- Written from a Hardy to Lucid to soon-to-be Precise Mac Pro running Linux as main OS.
The problem happened at some point during the transition from Mozilla suite to firefox. At that point, the developers decided they hated Linux. Not sure why and I can't dig up a citation but when Firefox came out essentially they decided to focus on speed gains in windows over Linux.
It's also one of the better lightweight HTML editors out there. Perfect for when someone without experience needs to edit a web page for content.
After reading the despicable evils and atrocities that primates, especially Chimpanzees, are capable of in this book by Carl Sagan and his wife:
http://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Forgotten-Ancestors-Carl-Sagan/dp/0345384725
I am convinced that evil is a trait we share with all primates, and that it somehow evolved at the primate level, and is not unique to humans. And it's just not chimps: gorillas and baboons as well.
I am getting sick just recalling some of the stuff in that book.
Opera mini or turbo mode is the easiest way isn't it? No config required.
Every religion has its plusses and minuses; you can't divorce the monumental genius of Bach from his Christian faith.
Religion is responsible for atrocities as well as brilliant works of art. It depends if the people in question listened to the hate side or to the love side. Just like everything else in life.
Or you could just jailbreak the device and enjoy non-curated goodness. It doesn't take a genius to figure out how. Millions of people are doing it
I think he said it best. Linux on the Desktop will never happen because Mac came along.
Before OS X, many many people were dying for a Desktop OS that looked beautiful but still gave them their beloved UNIX-style command line and familiar tools (emacs, vi, gcc, etc.). They wanted a UNIX-style OS which had drivers that actually worked instead of requiring wastage of huge amount of time googling this and compiling that.
OS X came along and fulfilled the wish of many. The only people left were those who wanted a UNIX-style OS that was libre; that was a vanishingly small number compared to the first group, whose desires were more than adequately fulfilled by OS X.
http://slashdot.org/story/07/10/11/1527219/rob-malda-answers-your-questions
Linux IS a very stable, robust, and I dare say amazingly bug-poor kernel. GNOME/KDE is a different question.
It used to be that windowing systems used to be mostly bug-free on the desktop and it was Windows was the disfunction-infested nightmare.
With Windows 7, Microsoft cleaned up its act, but GNOME/KDE moved in the opposite direction, neglecting the need to fix serious regressions and important bugs that just got passed on from release to release; instead, they used their manpower to get on the warpath towards innovation at all costs.
In 1998, I would have modded you flamebait for the above, but sadly, now I'd say it's true, if you s/Linux/GNOME\/KDE/g.
No. Only Dropbox supports linux, and does it extremely well (though still proprietary).
Dropbox is the first internet company I've been excited about since Google back in 1998. They are run by a bunch of geeks, like Google used to be (MIT though, east coast style leadership vs. west coast/Stanford). Their syncing solution is elegant and just works. The day I tried Dropbox was they day my opinion of "the cloud" changed from a load of bull to actually something worthy of serious attention.
I'm sick of this high-temperature snobbery. The number of times I've heard people at bars go tut-tut at a bar because their favorite microbrew's been too cold? Give me a break. What you say may be true of a fine Bavarian Paulaner, but in the USA, most of the microbrews and not just Larry, Moe, and Curly need some serious cooling down due to a number of flavors that they' amateurishly been unable to suppress.
It would be an incredibly delicious outcome if TPB managed to transform itself from an outlaw defender of freedom to the legal representative of talented young artists (at fair compensation to the artists)
Interesting how Apple cannot shake its image as a pricy, too-expensive-for-the-hardware manufacturer, even when that's not always true.
In the US, you can get an ATT iPhone 4, which everyone agrees basically is not that much worse than their flagship 4S, for $99. For that price you get 960x640 resolution at high pixel density and a motherlode of apps, plus a device that when jailbroken is an absolute joy to use. This is for the same exact price as the N900, yet N900 comes off as a cheapo phone that's a bargain and the iPhone gets off as some kind of luxury item.
Same for the 8-core Mac Pro. My supposedly economical cluster blade vendor is sending me quotes for 8-core Nehalem blades that are the same price as the 8-core Mac Pro... WTF? Oh yeah, an 8+ core Mac Pro is actually very competitively priced compared to anything other than build your own.
So yeah, apple will rob you blind if you're trying to buy a charger, but just remember, there are some prices that aren't ripoffs, OK?
A few weeks ago I was moderated -1 flaimbait on Slashdot because I dared say that the scientists were irresponsible in going to press with this news. Everyone thought I was being a jerk because wow, isn't this a great demonstration of the way the scientific process is going to work and didn't we all learn about science in this fiasco.
Guess what, yes, maybe for non-scientists this is "how the scientific method works," but internally, among scientists, we are supposed to do many levels vetting before we go public like this with a result. The press loves any news story that claims Einstein was wrong, and so it's easy to get caught in the publicity and make a big deal of something that should be scrutinized thoroughly before being exposed.
This was not "the scientific method at work." The scientific method at work is that when you find something that contradicts a successful 100-year-old theory, you sit down a few years and think about it before going public with it. Otherwise it costs you your fucking reputation as a scientists, which can end your career.
Why? Very simple: they make the only 3lbs, 13" laptop that can play Skyrim on high settings at 1600x900 resolution.
Until another company caters to my particular niche, Sony it will be. I still love my 2010 VAIO Z, and it still kicks the ass of any 13" laptop you can buy today in one way or another.