Can't wait to see what sort of lies they try and cover this up with. I also can't wait to see which journalist actually have any integrity left to and decide to show this for what it is and not be influenced by lies or any sort of threat tactics.
No, I'm looking for tablet hardware that let me do what I want with it. Hardware that doesn't require me to jailbreak it to install the applications I want. Even if I were a fan of the OS on it I'd still feel the same. Just like if I liked Windows I'd buy a Windows PC but wouldn't touch a computer that only ran Windows and imposed restrictions on me.
Actually, Jailbreaking means you CAN change the core workings of the OS if you choose - you can replace any executable on the device, or (even better thanks to the Objective-C runtime) you can easy drop in replacements for individual methods in applications, commercial or built-in (like Springboard).
You still haven't proven what I said to be wrong. You're moving within the confines of Apple.If Jailbreaking allowed the freedom I'm talking about then we'd have the ability to have Rockbox running on the iPhone and iPad.
I care because these types of devices are Apples attempt to move computing in a direction where they have total control.
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You're still bound by Apple's environment. As I said jailbreaking allows freedom but it's still limited. It's like having a laptop where you can't change your OS and in order install more applications you have to hack it.
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To me they're better in the sense that from the start I can do what I want with the device I paid for rather than having to jailbreak which itself allows limited freedom. I'd rather not have Apple decide what I can do with my device.
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Jailbroken or not, the iPad is still locked into Apple. There are much better alternatives to the iPad which will allow you freedom over your own device.
Apple has already witnessed what happened to Bing. They know there's no success in creating a search engine simply to separate yourself. Sure Apple like to keep things closed but I doubt they'd go as far as trying to keep their users away from Google search.
The decision to drop support for GNU/Linux and instead put more effort towards video support was poorly thought out. Especially when you consider they're keeping OSX support. Drop a platform which favors FLOSS software to support platforms dominated by iTunes and with lots of users who couldn't care less about Songbird as an iTunes alternative. This decision is the start of the end for Songbird.
XNA may sound nice at first but it's actually pretty limiting. The worst thing of all is your forced to use C#. It also sucks that they didn't make solutions for other platforms. I could have seen myself buying a 360 just for XNA but not being able to code in C or C++ and having to use Windows to compile the stuff really changed a lot of that.
Halo 1 definately wasn't completed in 6 months. It went from a mac game -> pc game -> xbox game. It was more than a year in development. If anything it was porting it from pc to xbox that took 6 months.
I agree that the pc fps games are better than Halo 1 & 2 but then again out of the console market there really isn't that much to go against in regards to fps games.
The review was a good stray away from the large amount of review that rate it on the hype alone. This one actually details it's flaws. While I think Halo 2 is a great game it is not perfect (especially the ending) which 90% of the reviews you find will try to convince.
I disagree, considering the fact that dos is uses a command I doubt we'd have all the lazy users we have now that ache and crave a gui to do every single task. "non-lazy users"="users willing to learn new things" and not users who stick with windows because they don't want to learn something new. And besides the doom code is open source so the same people who play it now on linux, bsd, etc would still be playing it.
yeah I wouldn't be suprised if a new version of IE required you to use it in order to unlock "special" features which will no doubt not work with other (and much better) browsers
When developers move away from the proprietary directx format or at least allow the game to work with either directx or opengl I think there will be more games developed for linux.
yeah, I saw Rev OS, it wasn't scrapped. They just designed their kernel in a way which is which makes debugging hard, and thus really long development time. Lately it's looking good though from what I've seen in debian hurd
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I'm surprised to see no mention of DRM at all, though I'm doubtful that they'll ship these movies DRM-free.
Can't wait to see what sort of lies they try and cover this up with. I also can't wait to see which journalist actually have any integrity left to and decide to show this for what it is and not be influenced by lies or any sort of threat tactics.
No, it's runs on certain iPods up to the Nano 1G (2G is still unstable), but neither the Touch or iPhone can run Rockbox.
Flash is currently the standard for sites streaming porn. So until they switch to HTML5 or the iPad gets Flash there will be no iFapping.
You are correct that freedom is my benchmark. I could live with less powerful and even a bigger price tag for such a device offered what I need.
Touchbook and WePad are the two I'm currently considering.
No, I'm looking for tablet hardware that let me do what I want with it. Hardware that doesn't require me to jailbreak it to install the applications I want. Even if I were a fan of the OS on it I'd still feel the same. Just like if I liked Windows I'd buy a Windows PC but wouldn't touch a computer that only ran Windows and imposed restrictions on me.
Actually, Jailbreaking means you CAN change the core workings of the OS if you choose - you can replace any executable on the device, or (even better thanks to the Objective-C runtime) you can easy drop in replacements for individual methods in applications, commercial or built-in (like Springboard).
You still haven't proven what I said to be wrong. You're moving within the confines of Apple.If Jailbreaking allowed the freedom I'm talking about then we'd have the ability to have Rockbox running on the iPhone and iPad.
I care because these types of devices are Apples attempt to move computing in a direction where they have total control.
You're still bound by Apple's environment. As I said jailbreaking allows freedom but it's still limited. It's like having a laptop where you can't change your OS and in order install more applications you have to hack it.
To me they're better in the sense that from the start I can do what I want with the device I paid for rather than having to jailbreak which itself allows limited freedom. I'd rather not have Apple decide what I can do with my device.
Jailbroken or not, the iPad is still locked into Apple. There are much better alternatives to the iPad which will allow you freedom over your own device.
Apple has already witnessed what happened to Bing. They know there's no success in creating a search engine simply to separate yourself. Sure Apple like to keep things closed but I doubt they'd go as far as trying to keep their users away from Google search.
The decision to drop support for GNU/Linux and instead put more effort towards video support was poorly thought out. Especially when you consider they're keeping OSX support. Drop a platform which favors FLOSS software to support platforms dominated by iTunes and with lots of users who couldn't care less about Songbird as an iTunes alternative. This decision is the start of the end for Songbird.
The problem with Palm is they can't adapt. They're always behind and the market is moving too fast for them to catch up.
XNA may sound nice at first but it's actually pretty limiting. The worst thing of all is your forced to use C#. It also sucks that they didn't make solutions for other platforms. I could have seen myself buying a 360 just for XNA but not being able to code in C or C++ and having to use Windows to compile the stuff really changed a lot of that.
Halo 1 definately wasn't completed in 6 months. It went from a mac game -> pc game -> xbox game. It was more than a year in development. If anything it was porting it from pc to xbox that took 6 months.
I agree that the pc fps games are better than Halo 1 & 2 but then again out of the console market there really isn't that much to go against in regards to fps games.
The review was a good stray away from the large amount of review that rate it on the hype alone. This one actually details it's flaws. While I think Halo 2 is a great game it is not perfect (especially the ending) which 90% of the reviews you find will try to convince.
I disagree, considering the fact that dos is uses a command I doubt we'd have all the lazy users we have now that ache and crave a gui to do every single task. "non-lazy users"="users willing to learn new things" and not users who stick with windows because they don't want to learn something new. And besides the doom code is open source so the same people who play it now on linux, bsd, etc would still be playing it.
yeah I wouldn't be suprised if a new version of IE required you to use it in order to unlock "special" features which will no doubt not work with other (and much better) browsers
When developers move away from the proprietary directx format or at least allow the game to work with either directx or opengl I think there will be more games developed for linux.
yeah, I saw Rev OS, it wasn't scrapped. They just designed their kernel in a way which is which makes debugging hard, and thus really long development time. Lately it's looking good though from what I've seen in debian hurd