See, you are projecting. Probably you get turned on by "Anal-Fisting", but you where raised a good god fearing christian, and you know sex is a sin because jesus said so, therefore that must be terrible. of course, you have no problem with the media talking about the dead penalty. We, as a society, murdering people in revenge? Perfectly fine. People experimenting with their bodies and having fun? Terrible! Sin! Sin!.
Kids don't have those prerogatives until you get them into their heads.
Also, explain to me how you accidentally click your way into anal fisting? Is that the excuse you gave to your wife when she found you looking at videos of midget transvestites cock-fingering each other?
Just because they are kids doesn't mean they aren't human, and it doesn't mean they don't have the same rights as everyone else. I never understood this censor the kids bullshit. Putting a veil on "the things that are out there" won't make them go away, and your kids will still have to deal with all of that real soon. Think hiding it from them for a few years will help them when they find "what is out there" in a dark alley? Or are you going to keep them forever in their little pink rooms?
Censoring access to information to kids is the worst kind of parenting you can do. Guide them, that's quite different. Be there for them as they discover the world, don't try to hide it from them because it won't work.
If you find them watching porn, tell them they'll have plenty of time to do that when they are older. When I was a kid the internet wasn't around yet, but that didn't prevent me from checking out the plumbing on my female cousin, and letting her explore mine. It didn't prevent me from checking out some boobs on my moms medical magazines, or from getting up in the middle of the night to watch 9 1/2 weeks. And I was barely your kids age, and I'm sure you did the same things. And that didn't screw us up, or destroyed our minds, or any other crap that the media will have you believe. Would you censor your kids access to your library? Hell no. Then why would you censor their internet access?
Sure, they might find some porn, but they'll also find wikipedia. Just be there to help them sort it out.
(I don't own an S3, but a Galaxy S i9003 running community-made ICS - CyanogenMod9)
From the face unlock configure screen (when you try to enable it): "- Face unlock is less secure than a pattern, PIN or password - Someone who looks similar to you could unlock your phone."
Most fingerprint readers, even those sold to open your fucking door, can be tricked with a black-and-white picture of the right fingerprint, who is surprised that a novelty feature still in beta, which is part of a Free OS for consumer mobile devices, as implemented by third party companies using a cheap VGA front camera, and configured quickly by an inexperienced user in poor lighting condition isn't vault-grade security? Specially when it says so right in the box.
Sorry, there are no Galaxy S (i9000) phones sold in Argentina. They where all i9003s sold as Galaxy S, but they actually where i9003 devices. The situation is the same in all of South America, AFAIK.
In most android forums and dev groups we use soft-bricked and hard-bricked to differentiate a phone that just needs reflashing from one that can't be salvaged that way.
Regardless, many phones can be brought back into a flashable state without hardware modification. For example, many tablets with Samsung NANDs can be brought back by disassembling, letting the battery deplet, then jumping certain pins on the NAND (usually 3 and 7) while turning it on. That triggers a low-level upload mode. Sure, you need to open your device but no real modifications are required.
You'll love ICS, it works awesome right now on this device.
Just 2 things you should take into account:
a) Do you use 3G? b) If so, What region are you in?
3G didn't work for me on this region, so I had to do a very ugly hack: I kept the modem.img from Froyo, and had to restore the original EFS files.
Don't worry, you won't brick your phone.
Here's what you should do:
If you are in Froyo, first update to Gingerbread (as Heimdall for Linux doesn't work well with i9003, you'll sadly need a windows machine and Odin). You'll find further instructions on XDA.
Root the device Install CWM
That's the last time you'll need a computer to upgrade, you can continue to do so from CWM.
Then just go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1449649, download the latest version (Alpha 7 at the moment), copy it to your SD card. Also download the Gapps zip. Reboot your phone into CWM, clear cache, data and dalvik-cache, install from zip, and install the Alpha 7. Install from zip again and install gapps. Reboot and enjoy ICS.
Feel free to mail me if you have any questions (almafuerte at gmail dot com).
A small, defective child that can't communicate without an expensive iFag device. Fuck her. I assume whatever shit prevents her from speaking has been around for ages before the ipad, and people found solutions nonetheless.
And it's not like there are no other high-tech solutions, it's just that mom's little snowflake doesn't want to try another one.
Stephen Hawking's voice synthesizer hasn't been produced for several decades. Of course, he can choose another one, but he decided to use the one he has because he likes it, and he's been able to do so for decades without support from the manufacturer. Hawking can't move 99% of his body, this bitch just can't speak. Why should I care about this 4 year old bitch more than I care about one of the brightest minds of the century?
I sacrificed video recording, camera, hardware acceleration, gps, and some other stuff when Samsung forgot about my device. The Galaxy S never reached South America. I had to settle for a Galaxy 5. When one day, my carrier publishes that it's available now. They sent me the device. It looks like a Galaxy S, performs like a Galaxy S, the box says Galaxy S, etc. But it's not a Galaxy S, It's a Galaxy SL (i9003 instead of i9000). For some stupid reason Samsung made a device that is actually a bit better than the Galaxy S (The i9003 is just as powerfull as the S, but has a better battery, and Super Clear LCD, which I prefer), but the hardware inside is closer to some motorola models than to the Galaxy S. They didn't bother telling anyone. I couldn't use any of the Galaxy S upgrades. My phone never received a single update. ICS was release about a month after my carrier (Claro) started selling the "Galaxy S", and I was still on Froyo. Of course, I relied on the community. I updated to Gingerbread, while losing video recording, and to the first ICS alpha losing just about everything else. Now it's been several months since I upgraded to ICS, and everything is working (apart from video recording, which probably never will, and hardware accelerated video playback, but software playback works at full framerate with this hardware up to 480p).
The same happened to every smartphone I have owned since my first Motorola A1200 back in 2005.
Don't wait for the manufacturer, chances are, if your device has enough users, there's a community project you can download and contribute to: forums.xda-developers.com. CyanogenMOD9 FTW.
a) You are fucking paranoid b) You give your government too much credit. They can't get their act together on such simple issues, you think they are actually monitoring you specifically 24/7? c) If you are convinced that you can get in troubles for clicking on a random link, move somewhere that doesn't suck.
My company develops several products (Hardware and Software)
We offer lifetime free updates for all of our products. We've never charged for an update. There are of course newer functions that might not work on older hardware. So far, all systems we've sold since 2007 run our latest firmware flawlessly.
Of course, that doesn't hold true for custom-made software. If you are actively developing a product, it doesn't hurt to give away updates for free for existing customers, but giving lifetime free support for a custom-made product is economically unfeasible.
You don't need higher tech. Cut the meat properly (The cuts used in the US just plain suck), make a nice fire using actual wood, preferably quebracho (very hard wood) and light it the traditional way (using no flammable fluids or other fire starters). Let it consume, and when it's mostly ashes, cook it slowly for several hours. Serve hot with nothing but salt.
There is an organization that needs to purchase something, from now on THE COMPANY. There is a person appointed by said organization to purchase the most cost-effective solution, from now on THE CTO There is a salesman that offers his product, from now on THE SALESMAN.
In an honest situation, THE CTO chooses the best option for THE COMPANY based on the characteristics and price of the product offered by THE SALESMAN. In a corrupt situation, THE SALESMAN pays THE CTO to select his product and not another one from the competition. THE COMPANY has lost money.
If we were talking about government, you would understand it's bribery.
I've seen it happened in front of my eyes. At some major companies. Not direct bribes, sure. But I've seen CTOs getting new high end laptops and desktops with thousands of dollars of software loaded into them, and CTOs getting a week-long trip to the other side of the world for some microsoft-sponsored event, at some 5-star resort. This is usually not paid by microsoft directly, of course, but by companies that sell microsoft products. This happens every fucking year.
A company that sold HP hardware had a really big customer: One of the biggest banks in the world. The regional CTO at this bank had a new laptop everytime I saw him, all provided by this company, for the purpose of testing new products, of course. He also traveled regularly, first class, 5 stars, to seminars and other kinds of events all sponsored by said company.
Of course, he swears by microsoft software running on HP hardware, and said bank runs nothing but that, even on areas where it costs significantly more than the competition. We are talking about thousands and thousands of computers and servers, many of them being renewed yearly.
Unix is actually very popular where security is a concern. Most of the internet runs on some variety of Unix.
Same in business.
But the reasons it's not even more widespread are:
a) Management and HR are clueless, and so they implement the wrong policies and hire the wrong people. b) Microsoft spends a lot of money on getting people hooked on their technologies, including getting most universities to teach their crap, so many sysadmins are clueless regarding anything outside Microsoft. c) CTOs get bribed. Those bribes determine what technology they buy. The FSF doesn't have much money to waste on bribes, but many corporations do.
Hinged racks are really expensive... just buy a conventional wall-mounted rack and mount it on regular hinges. It's nice to carve 10cm or so into the wall so that cables fit nicely when you close it. Front and back access without using much room. Another thing I've done when not much room is available is build a trap door in the wall where the wall-rack will be mounted. When you need to access the backside, you just go to the other room and pull out the trap door. If none of this is feasible, just mount the servers in rails. Without a hack like this, wall-mounted racks are just for switches and other devices with front connectors.
Yes, we did, and I'll just re-post what I post every time this bullshit comes up:
This is bullshit. It's counting by project, not by importance or size. I'm sure if we counted by lines of code, the GPL would still be #1.
What's happening is that we are seeing new "projects" being created at an alarming rate, most of this projects being wordpress plugins that do nothing important, collections of shitty javascript functions, and themes for various CMS, forums, etc.
Sure, it's full of kids that "just learned" the latest "cool" language (you know the type, Ruby, Python, etc) and just create some project that is either trivial, or is going nowhere past "we uploaded a readme and a roadmap to sourceforge". Half of sourceforge is dead projects.
The truth is that projects aren't jumping ships. No GPL projects are trying to change their license.
I could report "The earth is getting smaller and less important", but the truth is that the inflation of the universe doesn't change the size of the earth, just what percentage of the universe it represents.
I dislike Apple, quite a lot, but you have to be fair, Foxconn is an independent company, and certainly more closely associated with Intel than with Apple. It was Intel's huge contracts that made them as big as they are, and enabled them to get to other customers such as Apple.
Regardless, It's an industry wide issue. In order to compete in the real world, you have to manufacture in China, It's not just Apple doing it:
Here are more Foxconn customers:
Acer Inc. (Taiwan)[36]
Amazon.com (United States)[37]
Apple Inc. (United States)[38]
Cisco (United States)[39]
Dell (United States)[40]
Hewlett-Packard (United States)[41]
Intel (United States)[42]
Microsoft (United States)[43]
Motorola Mobility (United States)[40]
Nintendo (Japan)[44]
Nokia (Finland)[38]
Samsung Electronics (South Korea)[45]
Sony (Japan)[46]
Toshiba (Japan) [47]
Vizio (United States)[48]
Truth is Foxconn manufactures reasonably good quality products (certainly way above average for China) and they do so incredibly cheap. That changed the industry, and it will continue to attract huge companies.
We are all responsible: The Chinese government is the main abuser of its citizens, and wants a bigger industry, so they'll allow Foxconn to do anything they want. Most corporations are big amoral entities, and so are most governments (I don't mean this as an insult, I'm not saying they are evil or good, I'm saying they are neutral, they'll do what it takes to bring in profit, regardless of the implications). The other involved party, and the only ethical one, are the customers, the general public, and they completely lack morals too. Most members of the general public, as well as most employees at any of this huge corporations, and most functionaries in any government are ethical human beings, capable of feeling empathy and understanding right from wrong. But as a whole, as entities, they behave according to a completely different set of rules, and ethics and empathy aren't in their instruction set. So it's up to the individual to change this situation.
If you are really pissed about it, stop working for them, stop voting for them, and stop buying from them. Complaining about it on the internet or pretending that any of this institutions, customers included, act as a whole will get you nowhere.
I was talking about The Wall. If I tell you that I still get goosebumps about a heavily anti-war album, you should be able to understand I wasn't romanticizing war, either current or past in any way.
It was a joke, and I was talking about the fucking music.
That video ain't from the shows I went to, but it's one of the best shots out there. It was much more impressive at River Plate stadium, bigger wall, and the plane going a larger distance.
This is bullshit. It's counting by project, not by importance or size. I'm sure if we counted by lines of code, the GPL would still be #1.
What's happening is that we are seeing new "projects" being created at an alarming rate, most of this projects being wordpress plugins that do nothing important, collections of shitty javascript functions, and themes for various CMS, forums, etc.
Sure, it's full of kids that "just learned" the latest "cool" language (you know the type, Ruby, Python, etc) and just create some project that is either trivial, or is going nowhere past "we uploaded a readme and a roadmap to sourceforge". Half of sourceforge is dead projects.
The truth is that projects aren't jumping ships. No GPL projects are trying to change their license.
I could report "The earth is getting smaller and less important", but the truth is that the inflation of the universe doesn't change the size of the earth, just what percentage of the universe it represents.
Slashdot Mirror
See, you are projecting. Probably you get turned on by "Anal-Fisting", but you where raised a good god fearing christian, and you know sex is a sin because jesus said so, therefore that must be terrible. of course, you have no problem with the media talking about the dead penalty. We, as a society, murdering people in revenge? Perfectly fine. People experimenting with their bodies and having fun? Terrible! Sin! Sin!.
Kids don't have those prerogatives until you get them into their heads.
Also, explain to me how you accidentally click your way into anal fisting? Is that the excuse you gave to your wife when she found you looking at videos of midget transvestites cock-fingering each other?
But I think you meant censor them, didn't you?.
Just because they are kids doesn't mean they aren't human, and it doesn't mean they don't have the same rights as everyone else. I never understood this censor the kids bullshit. Putting a veil on "the things that are out there" won't make them go away, and your kids will still have to deal with all of that real soon. Think hiding it from them for a few years will help them when they find "what is out there" in a dark alley? Or are you going to keep them forever in their little pink rooms?
Censoring access to information to kids is the worst kind of parenting you can do. Guide them, that's quite different. Be there for them as they discover the world, don't try to hide it from them because it won't work.
If you find them watching porn, tell them they'll have plenty of time to do that when they are older. When I was a kid the internet wasn't around yet, but that didn't prevent me from checking out the plumbing on my female cousin, and letting her explore mine. It didn't prevent me from checking out some boobs on my moms medical magazines, or from getting up in the middle of the night to watch 9 1/2 weeks. And I was barely your kids age, and I'm sure you did the same things. And that didn't screw us up, or destroyed our minds, or any other crap that the media will have you believe. Would you censor your kids access to your library? Hell no. Then why would you censor their internet access?
Sure, they might find some porn, but they'll also find wikipedia. Just be there to help them sort it out.
And it says so right when you go to configure it.
(I don't own an S3, but a Galaxy S i9003 running community-made ICS - CyanogenMod9)
From the face unlock configure screen (when you try to enable it):
"- Face unlock is less secure than a pattern, PIN or password
- Someone who looks similar to you could unlock your phone."
Most fingerprint readers, even those sold to open your fucking door, can be tricked with a black-and-white picture of the right fingerprint, who is surprised that a novelty feature still in beta, which is part of a Free OS for consumer mobile devices, as implemented by third party companies using a cheap VGA front camera, and configured quickly by an inexperienced user in poor lighting condition isn't vault-grade security? Specially when it says so right in the box.
Sorry, there are no Galaxy S (i9000) phones sold in Argentina. They where all i9003s sold as Galaxy S, but they actually where i9003 devices. The situation is the same in all of South America, AFAIK.
Sure, the SII or i9100 is fairly common.
In most android forums and dev groups we use soft-bricked and hard-bricked to differentiate a phone that just needs reflashing from one that can't be salvaged that way.
Regardless, many phones can be brought back into a flashable state without hardware modification. For example, many tablets with Samsung NANDs can be brought back by disassembling, letting the battery deplet, then jumping certain pins on the NAND (usually 3 and 7) while turning it on. That triggers a low-level upload mode. Sure, you need to open your device but no real modifications are required.
Few devices really brick anymore.
You'll love ICS, it works awesome right now on this device.
Just 2 things you should take into account:
a) Do you use 3G?
b) If so, What region are you in?
3G didn't work for me on this region, so I had to do a very ugly hack: I kept the modem.img from Froyo, and had to restore the original EFS files.
Don't worry, you won't brick your phone.
Here's what you should do:
If you are in Froyo, first update to Gingerbread (as Heimdall for Linux doesn't work well with i9003, you'll sadly need a windows machine and Odin). You'll find further instructions on XDA.
Root the device
Install CWM
That's the last time you'll need a computer to upgrade, you can continue to do so from CWM.
Then just go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1449649, download the latest version (Alpha 7 at the moment), copy it to your SD card. Also download the Gapps zip. Reboot your phone into CWM, clear cache, data and dalvik-cache, install from zip, and install the Alpha 7. Install from zip again and install gapps. Reboot and enjoy ICS.
Feel free to mail me if you have any questions (almafuerte at gmail dot com).
A small, defective child that can't communicate without an expensive iFag device. Fuck her. I assume whatever shit prevents her from speaking has been around for ages before the ipad, and people found solutions nonetheless.
And it's not like there are no other high-tech solutions, it's just that mom's little snowflake doesn't want to try another one.
Stephen Hawking's voice synthesizer hasn't been produced for several decades. Of course, he can choose another one, but he decided to use the one he has because he likes it, and he's been able to do so for decades without support from the manufacturer. Hawking can't move 99% of his body, this bitch just can't speak. Why should I care about this 4 year old bitch more than I care about one of the brightest minds of the century?
I sacrificed video recording, camera, hardware acceleration, gps, and some other stuff when Samsung forgot about my device. The Galaxy S never reached South America. I had to settle for a Galaxy 5. When one day, my carrier publishes that it's available now. They sent me the device. It looks like a Galaxy S, performs like a Galaxy S, the box says Galaxy S, etc. But it's not a Galaxy S, It's a Galaxy SL (i9003 instead of i9000). For some stupid reason Samsung made a device that is actually a bit better than the Galaxy S (The i9003 is just as powerfull as the S, but has a better battery, and Super Clear LCD, which I prefer), but the hardware inside is closer to some motorola models than to the Galaxy S. They didn't bother telling anyone. I couldn't use any of the Galaxy S upgrades. My phone never received a single update. ICS was release about a month after my carrier (Claro) started selling the "Galaxy S", and I was still on Froyo. Of course, I relied on the community. I updated to Gingerbread, while losing video recording, and to the first ICS alpha losing just about everything else. Now it's been several months since I upgraded to ICS, and everything is working (apart from video recording, which probably never will, and hardware accelerated video playback, but software playback works at full framerate with this hardware up to 480p).
The same happened to every smartphone I have owned since my first Motorola A1200 back in 2005.
Don't wait for the manufacturer, chances are, if your device has enough users, there's a community project you can download and contribute to: forums.xda-developers.com. CyanogenMOD9 FTW.
a) You are fucking paranoid
b) You give your government too much credit. They can't get their act together on such simple issues, you think they are actually monitoring you specifically 24/7?
c) If you are convinced that you can get in troubles for clicking on a random link, move somewhere that doesn't suck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7_zMdNRAmo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8APlx9btTn8
My company develops several products (Hardware and Software)
We offer lifetime free updates for all of our products. We've never charged for an update. There are of course newer functions that might not work on older hardware. So far, all systems we've sold since 2007 run our latest firmware flawlessly.
Of course, that doesn't hold true for custom-made software. If you are actively developing a product, it doesn't hurt to give away updates for free for existing customers, but giving lifetime free support for a custom-made product is economically unfeasible.
I live in a city with over 15 million people that looks like this:
http://wpjrnl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/wpid1574-Buenos-Aires-aerial-view-at-night.jpg
http://www.congresstour.cl/destinos/ciudades/910-avenida-9-de-julio,-buenos-aires,-argentina.jpg
But our barbecues still look like this:
http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/3043946.jpg
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/28/fc/83/asado-tipico-argentino.jpg
http://fotos-imagenes-gratuitas.com/carne-asada-asado-fotos/images/02.jpg
You don't need higher tech. Cut the meat properly (The cuts used in the US just plain suck), make a nice fire using actual wood, preferably quebracho (very hard wood) and light it the traditional way (using no flammable fluids or other fire starters). Let it consume, and when it's mostly ashes, cook it slowly for several hours. Serve hot with nothing but salt.
You won't ever eat something more delicious.
Read again.
There is an organization that needs to purchase something, from now on THE COMPANY.
There is a person appointed by said organization to purchase the most cost-effective solution, from now on THE CTO
There is a salesman that offers his product, from now on THE SALESMAN.
In an honest situation, THE CTO chooses the best option for THE COMPANY based on the characteristics and price of the product offered by THE SALESMAN.
In a corrupt situation, THE SALESMAN pays THE CTO to select his product and not another one from the competition. THE COMPANY has lost money.
If we were talking about government, you would understand it's bribery.
Sure, routing only. Every service that is run on the web is predominantly run on Unix
I've seen it happened in front of my eyes. At some major companies. Not direct bribes, sure. But I've seen CTOs getting new high end laptops and desktops with thousands of dollars of software loaded into them, and CTOs getting a week-long trip to the other side of the world for some microsoft-sponsored event, at some 5-star resort. This is usually not paid by microsoft directly, of course, but by companies that sell microsoft products. This happens every fucking year.
A company that sold HP hardware had a really big customer: One of the biggest banks in the world. The regional CTO at this bank had a new laptop everytime I saw him, all provided by this company, for the purpose of testing new products, of course. He also traveled regularly, first class, 5 stars, to seminars and other kinds of events all sponsored by said company.
Of course, he swears by microsoft software running on HP hardware, and said bank runs nothing but that, even on areas where it costs significantly more than the competition. We are talking about thousands and thousands of computers and servers, many of them being renewed yearly.
Tell me that's not bribing.
Unix is actually very popular where security is a concern. Most of the internet runs on some variety of Unix.
Same in business.
But the reasons it's not even more widespread are:
a) Management and HR are clueless, and so they implement the wrong policies and hire the wrong people.
b) Microsoft spends a lot of money on getting people hooked on their technologies, including getting most universities to teach their crap, so many sysadmins are clueless regarding anything outside Microsoft.
c) CTOs get bribed. Those bribes determine what technology they buy. The FSF doesn't have much money to waste on bribes, but many corporations do.
Like the respect they showed for important monuments, art and ruins in Iraq ...
The US didn't have jurisdiction over Iraq either. Or over Pakistan, when they killed Osama.
It didn't seem to matter.
Since when does the US government respect any law, internal or international?
Hinged racks are really expensive ... just buy a conventional wall-mounted rack and mount it on regular hinges. It's nice to carve 10cm or so into the wall so that cables fit nicely when you close it. Front and back access without using much room. Another thing I've done when not much room is available is build a trap door in the wall where the wall-rack will be mounted. When you need to access the backside, you just go to the other room and pull out the trap door. If none of this is feasible, just mount the servers in rails. Without a hack like this, wall-mounted racks are just for switches and other devices with front connectors.
Yes, we did, and I'll just re-post what I post every time this bullshit comes up:
This is bullshit. It's counting by project, not by importance or size. I'm sure if we counted by lines of code, the GPL would still be #1.
What's happening is that we are seeing new "projects" being created at an alarming rate, most of this projects being wordpress plugins that do nothing important, collections of shitty javascript functions, and themes for various CMS, forums, etc.
Sure, it's full of kids that "just learned" the latest "cool" language (you know the type, Ruby, Python, etc) and just create some project that is either trivial, or is going nowhere past "we uploaded a readme and a roadmap to sourceforge". Half of sourceforge is dead projects.
The truth is that projects aren't jumping ships. No GPL projects are trying to change their license.
I could report "The earth is getting smaller and less important", but the truth is that the inflation of the universe doesn't change the size of the earth, just what percentage of the universe it represents.
I dislike Apple, quite a lot, but you have to be fair, Foxconn is an independent company, and certainly more closely associated with Intel than with Apple. It was Intel's huge contracts that made them as big as they are, and enabled them to get to other customers such as Apple.
Regardless, It's an industry wide issue. In order to compete in the real world, you have to manufacture in China, It's not just Apple doing it:
Here are more Foxconn customers:
Acer Inc. (Taiwan)[36]
Amazon.com (United States)[37]
Apple Inc. (United States)[38]
Cisco (United States)[39]
Dell (United States)[40]
Hewlett-Packard (United States)[41]
Intel (United States)[42]
Microsoft (United States)[43]
Motorola Mobility (United States)[40]
Nintendo (Japan)[44]
Nokia (Finland)[38]
Samsung Electronics (South Korea)[45]
Sony (Japan)[46]
Toshiba (Japan) [47]
Vizio (United States)[48]
Truth is Foxconn manufactures reasonably good quality products (certainly way above average for China) and they do so incredibly cheap. That changed the industry, and it will continue to attract huge companies.
We are all responsible: The Chinese government is the main abuser of its citizens, and wants a bigger industry, so they'll allow Foxconn to do anything they want. Most corporations are big amoral entities, and so are most governments (I don't mean this as an insult, I'm not saying they are evil or good, I'm saying they are neutral, they'll do what it takes to bring in profit, regardless of the implications). The other involved party, and the only ethical one, are the customers, the general public, and they completely lack morals too. Most members of the general public, as well as most employees at any of this huge corporations, and most functionaries in any government are ethical human beings, capable of feeling empathy and understanding right from wrong. But as a whole, as entities, they behave according to a completely different set of rules, and ethics and empathy aren't in their instruction set. So it's up to the individual to change this situation.
If you are really pissed about it, stop working for them, stop voting for them, and stop buying from them. Complaining about it on the internet or pretending that any of this institutions, customers included, act as a whole will get you nowhere.
I assume you didn't check my video.
I was talking about The Wall. If I tell you that I still get goosebumps about a heavily anti-war album, you should be able to understand I wasn't romanticizing war, either current or past in any way.
It was a joke, and I was talking about the fucking music.
I've certainly experienced WWII aircraft flying over my head at close range, then crashing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oobkqiHavFc
That video ain't from the shows I went to, but it's one of the best shots out there. It was much more impressive at River Plate stadium, bigger wall, and the plane going a larger distance.
Best. Show. Ever. Still getting goose bumps.
This is bullshit. It's counting by project, not by importance or size. I'm sure if we counted by lines of code, the GPL would still be #1.
What's happening is that we are seeing new "projects" being created at an alarming rate, most of this projects being wordpress plugins that do nothing important, collections of shitty javascript functions, and themes for various CMS, forums, etc.
Sure, it's full of kids that "just learned" the latest "cool" language (you know the type, Ruby, Python, etc) and just create some project that is either trivial, or is going nowhere past "we uploaded a readme and a roadmap to sourceforge". Half of sourceforge is dead projects.
The truth is that projects aren't jumping ships. No GPL projects are trying to change their license.
I could report "The earth is getting smaller and less important", but the truth is that the inflation of the universe doesn't change the size of the earth, just what percentage of the universe it represents.
And they still won't allow you to use it on a fucking plane.