That single click was to run an EXE that was emailed to them, its a rather common scam using DHL, Fedex, UPS, USPS and some made up 'shipping' companies as a basis for emailing some sort of reminder/pickup notice/confirmation/delievery change notice that you probably want to read if you want your package.
Its obviously a fake for any techie, but older people don't get it and will ask me every time one comes into our mail system to recover it from the mail quarantine so they can read it cause its important. Then I have to explain why it isn't.
Welp, considering on my car that would require removing large portions under hood as well as, and heres the kicker... opening a hermetically sealed aluminum box without damaging the sensitive components inside, some of which are designed to fail in case its opened that way.
I highly doubt I could (even with training/practice) GET the ECU out of my car and cracked up in 30 minutes. If you take 30 minutes to steal a car, you're caught.
The 'high performance' package from an ECU perspective is almost certainly nothing more than torque curve modifications to 'not hold the engine back' at certain RPM ranges that would make it hard for a dipshit off the street to drive. My car is one of those cars.
The other $4550 worth of the cost however typically goes to suspension or actual engine upgrades.
Unlike software were including extra, but disabled functionality has essentially no cost, in cars the more powerful engine has several costs. It costs more to manufacture itself, it requires different drive line components for supporting it and all sorts of things. In short, they don't do what you're referring too because its not cost effective to sell the bigger more powerful engine at a reduced price with an ecu tweak to ton it down. Its still far cheaper to put in a smaller engine.
Being that they work on 10 week cycles when producing cars, its not like they have to keep all sizes of engine in stock. This 10 week cycle we make big engine cars, next cycle medium, and the one after that is cleanup cycle or whatever.
If you think everyone has same engine you've never looked under the hood. All the corvette performance changes involve different engines with physically different configurations.
Wow, you are one of the worst 'stereo installers' I have ever fucking met.
You do realize there is an interface kit for every GM vehicle on the planet that will make it 'normal' or 'industry standard', right? Give you standard line outs, standard speaker outs, will still make sure that you get all your interface sounds piped through your speakers like door chimes and warning bells, blinker clicks, ect...
Whats great is you're talking about them using weird speakers shapes in places where... NORMAL SHAPES WON'T FIT.
What all of this means is that you don't actually know what you're talking about.
GM only has 2 or 3 interface busses for the dash electronics in their cars and there are interfaces for all of them. Get a clue about your job.
They aren't 'put in the stereo to intentionally make it harder' as you imply, but when you disconnect the stereo's internal bus, you do fuck up a portion of the cars' network.
GM really doesn't give a fuck if you put in a different stereo after you bought the car... YOU ALREADY PAID FOR THE STEREO IN THE CAR.
Replacing the stereo is also rather trivial, you just need an interface kit that will interface your stereo with the cars data bus. These interface kits are well known (Best buy sells the damn things) and fit pretty much any car on the planet and make it work with any kind of stereo from old school analog systems to fully modernized systems with blutooth phone audio relays and text output to the display.
Its not the car makers that don't know what they are doing in your case, its you and best buy.
People didn't talk about desktop fragmentation in the PC era, people don't talk about console fragmentation when you need specialized controllers to interact with many of today's games.
Uhm, before XP, when there were new versions of Windows every year or so (if you count OEM updates), fragmentation was a topic of discussion.
Linux fragmentation is the #1 or #2 reason companies won't bother with supporting it
Most Android devices struggle to be close enough to iOS to draw in people looking for iOS devices, thats not innovation.
iOS is being updated fairly often with new features wanted by developers and users on a fairly constant basis, how is that stagnation?
You need to stop talking in 'theoretically this is whats going to happen' and come back down to 'whats actually going on right now' because they are two entirely different things.
As for your take on the 'winning' thing, I think you're getting fed incorrect data at this point, considering the same could be said about Apple's iPhone in 2007-2008... you know, when Google bought Android so they could copy Apple... after they said it was silly?
As a professional developer, with Apps on the Mac App store, iOS app store, a couple Android market places, and the CTO of a SaaS company, you don't know what you're talking about.
I think iOS dev is actually pretty shitty. Its made for idiots, and because of that, is harder for those of us who know what we're doing to get it the hell of the way. It takes serious effort to hard code position information, and its worth pointing out that iOS apps almost all transitioned easily two 2x resolution without any app changes (accomplished via a simple scaling done automatically by the OS).
Android development is about the most obnoxious type one can code for. The only thing I've found worse than Android development is dealing with x86 assembly with out an OS or with something like DOS where you have to deal with all the retardedness of segmentation, none of the benefits of paging, a grand total of 4 orthagonal registers and a bunch of other non-ortagonal special purpose crap that almost all works slower than just doing it in software.
No one says windows is fragmented, they just accept it.
XP kind of changed that, it alone lasted longer than almost every previous versions of windows combined, and about half of the entire life of DOS (8 versions)
You're just a kid who doesn't remember what Windows was like before XP. If MS has its way, we're likely to see it come back to the obnoxious level again. XP lasted as long as it did was a great win for computing in general. Fragmentation wastes resources.
Giving it away and allowing anyone to change it willie nillie does not prevent fragmentation, it encourages it, AND encourages confusion because no people hear 'android' and think that the free phone they are getting will be like a $600 phone running some variation of what was at one point known as Android.
If everyone 'ran android' we'd just have MORE android fragmentation.
Android simply isn't capable in its native state of performing like iOS, until the GUI thread issue is fixed (seriously WTF IS WRONG with you guys?), you simply can not get the same results out of Android, so they'd have to go fix it, and then you'd have an incompatible version of android, at which point you're doing everyone a disservice by calling it the same name.
Its not fragmented because we have the option of iOS or Android.
Its fragemented because we have the option of a couple iOS devices or hundreds of different android devices.
I know what a new iOS device does. Pretty much every one on the planet does actually.
What are the tech specs on a 'new android device'... you can't tell me. Well you could, but then I could show you a device that is entirely different than what you describe and is still a 'new android device'.
iOS covers 1 tablet and 1 phone, slight yearly upgrades have been made.
Android covers... well, anything. Hundreds of completely different hardware models of phones, tens of completely different tablets, and hell, even some TVs!
we could create a government mandate that all computers have to be x86 based
Most people with a clue would say that the day Apple annouced the switch to x86 was one of the greatest days in computing. The only downside is that x86 is such a shitty architecture compared to pretty much EVERYTHING else on the planet, however for consumers of software that runs on mac's and/or windows, its been a tremendous improvement on both sides, now its FAR easier to port between the two OSes, even drivers.
What's a problem exactly? How is that different than any other platform that has diverse hardware and different OS release levels applied to it?
It isn't different, and thats the problem. 99.99999% of the world doesn't want to spend the time it takes to find the 'perfect option' for them. So rather than having fewer, more relevant choices with obvious differences, you have a fuckton of very alike products that don't show their differences until after purchase and in most cases are fucking annoying differences, not good ones.
When the general population goes to buy a car, they buy one that does pretty much all the basic stuff they need IN THE SAME WAY for roughly the same cost. Its obvious that a big ass Dodge can haul more cargo than a Prius... just like its obvious that a tablet has more screen area than a phone. Whats not obvious on the phones is that one of them might lag like shit or have absolutely shitty call quality, and the other one, both running android and using that as their big marketing factor, has great call quality, no lag, lots of space and outstanding hardware, and guess what, they both cost the same thing.
That is not helpful to most of us. Its not a good thing to have a bunch of options where everyone is trying to confuse you.
Android is a marketing gimic used by manufactures trying to ride on Google's coattails, and its working been really well. The problem is, ever non-geek on the planet now is not really impressed with Android. It simply doesn't live up to the hype, and as such people will start turning away from it.
On the contrary, someone buying an Apple iPhone knows more or less EXACTLY what they are getting and how well its going to work.
Lots of options and customizations are important on tools that people use constantly. Phones are not those sorts of tools.
Given the hard radiation environment in space, I doubt even the toughest bacterial spore can survive a multi-year trip through space from one planet to another,
There have been tests that prove you wrong.
Radiation effects different things in different ways. Light breaks down plastics, but not granite.
What the fuck is the point of an ESR version if you aren't patching it in a timely manner?
Are you just going to create an install with a 'ESR' tag, put it on the server, forget it and call that 'extended support' to shut people up?
I can not possibly imagine why you would call it an Extended SUPPORT release if you aren't going to actually support it.
Are you implying that your infrastructure for the software is so broken that its going to require multiple major overhauls in order to catch up with everyone else?
They'll be making some changes to their absolutely fucking retarded version control system for plugins, that won't make plugins compatible by default.
They API under the hood changes as well, that breaks things, which was the point of the way the retarded versioning system works for plugins, to ensure those changes don't allow plugins to run that are broken.
The problem is that Mozilla doesn't understand that not everyone else on the planet wants to chase them around while they dick with API's repeatedly rather than sit down, come up with an intelligent design, test it, then implement it once and for all. Mozilla calls development builds 'releases'. They don't know what an actual release pattern looks like.
Too bad, when you become 'part of the group' to get a 'reduced rate' it means you're subsidizing some people. If you want to make sure you pay 'your fair share' go ahead, you'll most likely end up paying more than you do now.
Idiots like you don't deserve the benefits granted by group, that way we don't have to pay for your stupid shit either.
In which case... it would be exactly like it is here, where everyone foots the bill.
What is it with you ignorant fucks that think people in America can't get free health care.
Health care IS FREE FOR EVERYONE IN THE US.
You walk into the ER and get served. Probably about the same amount of time it takes you to get served in Canada too.
We also have the option of not having to use doctors that are the lowest common denominator batch that barely passed their medical boards so now they work for the government free health care program as well.
If you had common sense you'd realize your way might not be the only way or the best way, but instead you'd rather sit around with your head up your ass.
It's something that's written for the benefit of the writer rather than the reader.
Hit the nail on the head there. I fully admit to trolling from time to time and thats exactly why I do it as well, for myself, to 'stir up shit' so to speak.
Not that its an outstanding revelation or anything but I never really thought about it until I read your post. Insightful indeed.
So let me get this straight... because the product does what I want when I want, my thought processes are controlled by a marketing campaign?
Thats a pretty impressive marketing campaign. Here I thought I could think for myself and that I just happened to be happy with the product.
I'm really glad you could enlighten me and tell me how I really feel and who controls me.
I never thought I would meet an all knowing god, let alone on slashdot.
Seriously, grow up douche bag. I'm sorry your toys aren't as fun as my toys but your jealousy and ignorance are annoying. Do you even hear how unbalanced you sound? Do you realize how creepy your statements are? How fucked up are you that you think that a phone or tablet, a simple common device, has mysterious magical properties over people?
You realize that to everyone else in the world when you try to pretend that iPhone people are the ones with issues you just make it blindly obvious that you're completely out of touch with reality.
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That single click was to run an EXE that was emailed to them, its a rather common scam using DHL, Fedex, UPS, USPS and some made up 'shipping' companies as a basis for emailing some sort of reminder/pickup notice/confirmation/delievery change notice that you probably want to read if you want your package.
Its obviously a fake for any techie, but older people don't get it and will ask me every time one comes into our mail system to recover it from the mail quarantine so they can read it cause its important. Then I have to explain why it isn't.
Way to not have any idea whats going on.
Do you have any idea how absolutely trivial it is to cloak yourself from process explorer?
Thats awesome, as I was there when tripwire was written.
Two things I can assure you.
First, in 1992, Linux wasn't running Tripwire, one could argue that it didn't really fit the definition of 'running' for a good portion of that year.
Second, Tripwire came nearly a decade later.
Welp, considering on my car that would require removing large portions under hood as well as, and heres the kicker ... opening a hermetically sealed aluminum box without damaging the sensitive components inside, some of which are designed to fail in case its opened that way.
I highly doubt I could (even with training/practice) GET the ECU out of my car and cracked up in 30 minutes. If you take 30 minutes to steal a car, you're caught.
Uhm, this isn't Windows, thats not how it works.
The 'high performance' package from an ECU perspective is almost certainly nothing more than torque curve modifications to 'not hold the engine back' at certain RPM ranges that would make it hard for a dipshit off the street to drive. My car is one of those cars.
The other $4550 worth of the cost however typically goes to suspension or actual engine upgrades.
Unlike software were including extra, but disabled functionality has essentially no cost, in cars the more powerful engine has several costs. It costs more to manufacture itself, it requires different drive line components for supporting it and all sorts of things. In short, they don't do what you're referring too because its not cost effective to sell the bigger more powerful engine at a reduced price with an ecu tweak to ton it down. Its still far cheaper to put in a smaller engine.
Being that they work on 10 week cycles when producing cars, its not like they have to keep all sizes of engine in stock. This 10 week cycle we make big engine cars, next cycle medium, and the one after that is cleanup cycle or whatever.
If you think everyone has same engine you've never looked under the hood. All the corvette performance changes involve different engines with physically different configurations.
Wow, you are one of the worst 'stereo installers' I have ever fucking met.
You do realize there is an interface kit for every GM vehicle on the planet that will make it 'normal' or 'industry standard', right? Give you standard line outs, standard speaker outs, will still make sure that you get all your interface sounds piped through your speakers like door chimes and warning bells, blinker clicks, ect ...
Whats great is you're talking about them using weird speakers shapes in places where ... NORMAL SHAPES WON'T FIT.
What all of this means is that you don't actually know what you're talking about.
GM only has 2 or 3 interface busses for the dash electronics in their cars and there are interfaces for all of them. Get a clue about your job.
They aren't 'put in the stereo to intentionally make it harder' as you imply, but when you disconnect the stereo's internal bus, you do fuck up a portion of the cars' network.
GM really doesn't give a fuck if you put in a different stereo after you bought the car ... YOU ALREADY PAID FOR THE STEREO IN THE CAR.
Replacing the stereo is also rather trivial, you just need an interface kit that will interface your stereo with the cars data bus. These interface kits are well known (Best buy sells the damn things) and fit pretty much any car on the planet and make it work with any kind of stereo from old school analog systems to fully modernized systems with blutooth phone audio relays and text output to the display.
Its not the car makers that don't know what they are doing in your case, its you and best buy.
So that the emergency bell/check engine ding on your engine plays through your speakers when you're blasting the radio too loud to hear it otherwise.
Thats just an example that came to me off the top of my head as I've seen it happen. I'm sure there are plenty more.
People didn't talk about desktop fragmentation in the PC era, people don't talk about console fragmentation when you need specialized controllers to interact with many of today's games.
Uhm, before XP, when there were new versions of Windows every year or so (if you count OEM updates), fragmentation was a topic of discussion.
Linux fragmentation is the #1 or #2 reason companies won't bother with supporting it
Most Android devices struggle to be close enough to iOS to draw in people looking for iOS devices, thats not innovation.
iOS is being updated fairly often with new features wanted by developers and users on a fairly constant basis, how is that stagnation?
You need to stop talking in 'theoretically this is whats going to happen' and come back down to 'whats actually going on right now' because they are two entirely different things.
As for your take on the 'winning' thing, I think you're getting fed incorrect data at this point, considering the same could be said about Apple's iPhone in 2007-2008 ... you know, when Google bought Android so they could copy Apple ... after they said it was silly?
As a professional developer, with Apps on the Mac App store, iOS app store, a couple Android market places, and the CTO of a SaaS company, you don't know what you're talking about.
I think iOS dev is actually pretty shitty. Its made for idiots, and because of that, is harder for those of us who know what we're doing to get it the hell of the way. It takes serious effort to hard code position information, and its worth pointing out that iOS apps almost all transitioned easily two 2x resolution without any app changes (accomplished via a simple scaling done automatically by the OS).
Android development is about the most obnoxious type one can code for. The only thing I've found worse than Android development is dealing with x86 assembly with out an OS or with something like DOS where you have to deal with all the retardedness of segmentation, none of the benefits of paging, a grand total of 4 orthagonal registers and a bunch of other non-ortagonal special purpose crap that almost all works slower than just doing it in software.
No one says windows is fragmented, they just accept it.
XP kind of changed that, it alone lasted longer than almost every previous versions of windows combined, and about half of the entire life of DOS (8 versions)
You're just a kid who doesn't remember what Windows was like before XP. If MS has its way, we're likely to see it come back to the obnoxious level again. XP lasted as long as it did was a great win for computing in general. Fragmentation wastes resources.
Bullshit. You clearly have never done any android development for public apps that use the contact api.
Giving it away and allowing anyone to change it willie nillie does not prevent fragmentation, it encourages it, AND encourages confusion because no people hear 'android' and think that the free phone they are getting will be like a $600 phone running some variation of what was at one point known as Android.
If everyone 'ran android' we'd just have MORE android fragmentation.
Android simply isn't capable in its native state of performing like iOS, until the GUI thread issue is fixed (seriously WTF IS WRONG with you guys?), you simply can not get the same results out of Android, so they'd have to go fix it, and then you'd have an incompatible version of android, at which point you're doing everyone a disservice by calling it the same name.
Oh, that makes it totally different then doesn't it.
And this post is no way correct or insightful.
Its not fragmented because we have the option of iOS or Android.
Its fragemented because we have the option of a couple iOS devices or hundreds of different android devices.
I know what a new iOS device does. Pretty much every one on the planet does actually.
What are the tech specs on a 'new android device' ... you can't tell me. Well you could, but then I could show you a device that is entirely different than what you describe and is still a 'new android device'.
iOS covers 1 tablet and 1 phone, slight yearly upgrades have been made.
Android covers ... well, anything. Hundreds of completely different hardware models of phones, tens of completely different tablets, and hell, even some TVs!
we could create a government mandate that all computers have to be x86 based
Most people with a clue would say that the day Apple annouced the switch to x86 was one of the greatest days in computing. The only downside is that x86 is such a shitty architecture compared to pretty much EVERYTHING else on the planet, however for consumers of software that runs on mac's and/or windows, its been a tremendous improvement on both sides, now its FAR easier to port between the two OSes, even drivers.
What's a problem exactly? How is that different than any other platform that has diverse hardware and different OS release levels applied to it?
It isn't different, and thats the problem. 99.99999% of the world doesn't want to spend the time it takes to find the 'perfect option' for them. So rather than having fewer, more relevant choices with obvious differences, you have a fuckton of very alike products that don't show their differences until after purchase and in most cases are fucking annoying differences, not good ones.
When the general population goes to buy a car, they buy one that does pretty much all the basic stuff they need IN THE SAME WAY for roughly the same cost. Its obvious that a big ass Dodge can haul more cargo than a Prius ... just like its obvious that a tablet has more screen area than a phone. Whats not obvious on the phones is that one of them might lag like shit or have absolutely shitty call quality, and the other one, both running android and using that as their big marketing factor, has great call quality, no lag, lots of space and outstanding hardware, and guess what, they both cost the same thing.
That is not helpful to most of us. Its not a good thing to have a bunch of options where everyone is trying to confuse you.
Android is a marketing gimic used by manufactures trying to ride on Google's coattails, and its working been really well. The problem is, ever non-geek on the planet now is not really impressed with Android. It simply doesn't live up to the hype, and as such people will start turning away from it.
On the contrary, someone buying an Apple iPhone knows more or less EXACTLY what they are getting and how well its going to work.
Lots of options and customizations are important on tools that people use constantly. Phones are not those sorts of tools.
No, you aren't. You would pay for the contract price even if you already had your phone.
You were going to pay the same price over that period for service ANYWAY. It doesn't cost you more because you got the phone as well.
You are in fact, losing out if you don't take the most valuable 'free' phone you can find.
Your thought pattern has no logic what so ever.
Given the hard radiation environment in space, I doubt even the toughest bacterial spore can survive a multi-year trip through space from one planet to another,
There have been tests that prove you wrong.
Radiation effects different things in different ways. Light breaks down plastics, but not granite.
Seriously?
You guys are such douches.
What the fuck is the point of an ESR version if you aren't patching it in a timely manner?
Are you just going to create an install with a 'ESR' tag, put it on the server, forget it and call that 'extended support' to shut people up?
I can not possibly imagine why you would call it an Extended SUPPORT release if you aren't going to actually support it.
Are you implying that your infrastructure for the software is so broken that its going to require multiple major overhauls in order to catch up with everyone else?
IE6 has been unsupported by Microsoft for a while.
No they won't.
They'll be making some changes to their absolutely fucking retarded version control system for plugins, that won't make plugins compatible by default.
They API under the hood changes as well, that breaks things, which was the point of the way the retarded versioning system works for plugins, to ensure those changes don't allow plugins to run that are broken.
The problem is that Mozilla doesn't understand that not everyone else on the planet wants to chase them around while they dick with API's repeatedly rather than sit down, come up with an intelligent design, test it, then implement it once and for all. Mozilla calls development builds 'releases'. They don't know what an actual release pattern looks like.
1 year is not long term.
Too bad, when you become 'part of the group' to get a 'reduced rate' it means you're subsidizing some people. If you want to make sure you pay 'your fair share' go ahead, you'll most likely end up paying more than you do now.
Idiots like you don't deserve the benefits granted by group, that way we don't have to pay for your stupid shit either.
In which case ... it would be exactly like it is here, where everyone foots the bill.
What is it with you ignorant fucks that think people in America can't get free health care.
Health care IS FREE FOR EVERYONE IN THE US.
You walk into the ER and get served. Probably about the same amount of time it takes you to get served in Canada too.
We also have the option of not having to use doctors that are the lowest common denominator batch that barely passed their medical boards so now they work for the government free health care program as well.
If you had common sense you'd realize your way might not be the only way or the best way, but instead you'd rather sit around with your head up your ass.
It's something that's written for the benefit of the writer rather than the reader.
Hit the nail on the head there. I fully admit to trolling from time to time and thats exactly why I do it as well, for myself, to 'stir up shit' so to speak.
Not that its an outstanding revelation or anything but I never really thought about it until I read your post. Insightful indeed.
So let me get this straight ... because the product does what I want when I want, my thought processes are controlled by a marketing campaign?
Thats a pretty impressive marketing campaign. Here I thought I could think for myself and that I just happened to be happy with the product.
I'm really glad you could enlighten me and tell me how I really feel and who controls me.
I never thought I would meet an all knowing god, let alone on slashdot.
Seriously, grow up douche bag. I'm sorry your toys aren't as fun as my toys but your jealousy and ignorance are annoying. Do you even hear how unbalanced you sound? Do you realize how creepy your statements are? How fucked up are you that you think that a phone or tablet, a simple common device, has mysterious magical properties over people?
You realize that to everyone else in the world when you try to pretend that iPhone people are the ones with issues you just make it blindly obvious that you're completely out of touch with reality.