I hope in the meantime you installed another rom on it, i have a s4 mini as well and another rom (clean, without crapware) transformed the phone. Not only is it faster but the battery will last days!
That first Jobs movie wasn't bad, it gets a lot of bad comments, but i didn't notice anything really bad about it. And to make another one, so soon after the first, why? Said trailer doesn't really blow me away.
When google glasses came out, it was fun pointing it to all things and letting it figure out what it was pointed at. At a certain time, a picture got taken from me, and behold, it though i was an gorilla too (and i'm white). We all had a good laugh with that one in the office.
Things like this have been done since... the start of computing? I remember patches like this were done on 8 bitters (c64, cpc,...) and later 16 bitters (amiga, atari, pc,...). For games they came in the form of cheatmodes or to enable piracy.
"On Android in general, some variants of Android, or UbuntuOS? Because that's interesting. I assume a ton of OSS is C++, so it can just be (or has been) recompiled* for ARM7"
I was talking about the ubuntu phone with 'ubuntu touch' on it. it is just a core ubuntu system, apt is enabled with the ubuntu ARM repositories.
fix it by installing a custom android rom, those samsung phones listed are well supported by many roms. you won't regret it either because samsung-android is horrible!
Let alone the fact that you can't be assured that the source code you get to see is actually the one they use to build the final product, i'm also left with the question of 3th party software that is included in MS products. Will these have their source code also available for inspection? Can't imagine those companies will allow MS to do that. And if you can't look at those products source code, how can you be sure there is nothing going on in those?
a better way would be if you could download the entire game and play it for 2 hours for free. if you still like it, then pay the price. why not? steam already controls your library anyway, so should be easy enough to do and seems an easier method then this (too much hassle).
Ever used enterprise software? Horrible horrible documentation most of the time, perhaps done on purpose to 'promote' their training courses. User software (for the user friendly windows & mac), most of the time you have to figure it out yourself. And the list goes on and on... ofcourse there are examples of good documentation in any type of software too. The point i'm trying to make is that the documentation quality problem affects all types of software.
But he's not referencing those early 8bit grfx, but rather the good old time of big shiny colourful 16bit pixel art (amiga, snes, genesis/megadrive, etc). Just look at some of those games and tell me they look bad or that you can't figure out what the sprite looks like, these are nothing like the grafics you get on an Atari 2600.
OpenTech was set up as an independent org that could work with open source without the fear of "contaminating" MS proper - remember, this was back when Ballmer with his "GPL is a virus" notions was still around, and lawyers were super-paranoid about people copy/pasting some code snippet and inadvertently exposing the code to some OSS license, or a patent claim or something like that. They were even more paranoid when people wanted to contribute something upstream
and it is sadly still like this in many many companies.
I just changed the wallpaper to the most horrible picture i could find on rotten.com, then watch from a distance as the first person logs in and... aaah, good times.
What about visual clues? The release notes say 'it unclutters your window and you can focus on the content", but i now no longer get a visual clue the window is actually scrollable.
So the solution is to always use your mousewheel quickly once, just to find out if the window is scrollable or not.
It escapes me on how this is a better solution and impoves my focus on the content.
They know something that we don't, they've seen some development in startup companies, that we obviously would never see or know about. And what they saw scared them. They can't reveal what they saw, so they keep it general and say that AI is dangerous.
Site i never heard of knows about next Nintendo console, right.
And they are wrong, because the home consoles nintendo make are excellent for multiplayer games (mario cart/party, even the new mario world etc). That wouldn't work so well with VR, which is more of a single player activity right now (unless you go online, but then you are still alone in your room).
What possible future genius would need a movie to get inspired and find his true calling? That is utter bs, i don't think a thousand movies will/can do that.
These things always happen to people who are using 3th party app stores, besides f-droid (which only has open source android apps), what could the possible reason be to use 3th party app stores? what apps are on there that you can't find on the play store?
i'm looking at this phone, and the only thing that is so-so is the screen resolution. All other things just look fine, 1.3Ghz quad core, 1Gb ram, 8Gb storage (expandable),... and running a real linux, all for less then 200 euro. What is not to like? I'm buying this.
well this Sony hack sure has been a good thing for us so far. It is bringing a lot of things into the open/spotlight that we would otherwise not know of (unless it is too late perhaps, and the lobbyists work is done). Could it have been een inside job? It this the equivalent of snowden-nsa but for one big media company? No wonder who ever did it doesn't want to step up, they would be trailed and sued to death, all the while Sony just continues whatever they've been doing without consequences (the impact of this will be minimal, just as all other crooked things they did, didn't have any impact).
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I hope in the meantime you installed another rom on it, i have a s4 mini as well and another rom (clean, without crapware) transformed the phone.
Not only is it faster but the battery will last days!
That first Jobs movie wasn't bad, it gets a lot of bad comments, but i didn't notice anything really bad about it.
And to make another one, so soon after the first, why? Said trailer doesn't really blow me away.
When google glasses came out, it was fun pointing it to all things and letting it figure out what it was pointed at.
At a certain time, a picture got taken from me, and behold, it though i was an gorilla too (and i'm white).
We all had a good laugh with that one in the office.
Things like this have been done since... the start of computing? I remember patches like this were done on 8 bitters (c64, cpc, ...) and later 16 bitters (amiga, atari, pc, ...). For games they came in the form of cheatmodes or to enable piracy.
"On Android in general, some variants of Android, or UbuntuOS? Because that's interesting.
I assume a ton of OSS is C++, so it can just be (or has been) recompiled* for ARM7"
I was talking about the ubuntu phone with 'ubuntu touch' on it.
it is just a core ubuntu system, apt is enabled with the ubuntu ARM repositories.
No worries, you can install a terminal 'app' and then you have access to a linux shell, start python and apt-get install stuff till you drop.
fix it by installing a custom android rom, those samsung phones listed are well supported by many roms.
you won't regret it either because samsung-android is horrible!
Let alone the fact that you can't be assured that the source code you get to see is actually the one they use to build the final product, i'm also left with the question of 3th party software that is included in MS products. Will these have their source code also available for inspection? Can't imagine those companies will allow MS to do that. And if you can't look at those products source code, how can you be sure there is nothing going on in those?
a better way would be if you could download the entire game and play it for 2 hours for free. if you still like it, then pay the price.
why not? steam already controls your library anyway, so should be easy enough to do and seems an easier method then this (too much hassle).
Ever used enterprise software? Horrible horrible documentation most of the time, perhaps done on purpose to 'promote' their training courses.
User software (for the user friendly windows & mac), most of the time you have to figure it out yourself.
And the list goes on and on... ofcourse there are examples of good documentation in any type of software too. The point i'm trying to make is that the documentation quality problem affects all types of software.
But he's not referencing those early 8bit grfx, but rather the good old time of big shiny colourful 16bit pixel art (amiga, snes, genesis/megadrive, etc).
Just look at some of those games and tell me they look bad or that you can't figure out what the sprite looks like, these are nothing like the grafics you get on an Atari 2600.
OpenTech was set up as an independent org that could work with open source without the fear of "contaminating" MS proper - remember, this was back when Ballmer with his "GPL is a virus" notions was still around, and lawyers were super-paranoid about people copy/pasting some code snippet and inadvertently exposing the code to some OSS license, or a patent claim or something like that. They were even more paranoid when people wanted to contribute something upstream
and it is sadly still like this in many many companies.
I just changed the wallpaper to the most horrible picture i could find on rotten.com, then watch from a distance as the first person logs in and...
aaah, good times.
What about visual clues? The release notes say 'it unclutters your window and you can focus on the content", but i now no longer get a visual clue the window is actually scrollable.
So the solution is to always use your mousewheel quickly once, just to find out if the window is scrollable or not.
It escapes me on how this is a better solution and impoves my focus on the content.
Most stupid thing ever.
They know something that we don't, they've seen some development in startup companies, that we obviously would never see or know about. And what they saw scared them. They can't reveal what they saw, so they keep it general and say that AI is dangerous.
Site i never heard of knows about next Nintendo console, right.
And they are wrong, because the home consoles nintendo make are excellent for multiplayer games (mario cart/party, even the new mario world etc). That wouldn't work so well with VR, which is more of a single player activity right now (unless you go online, but then you are still alone in your room).
My first reaction also was - so what, the wii u does this also - but if google does it, it's suddenly cool?
What possible future genius would need a movie to get inspired and find his true calling?
That is utter bs, i don't think a thousand movies will/can do that.
These things always happen to people who are using 3th party app stores, besides f-droid (which only has open source android apps), what could the possible reason be to use 3th party app stores? what apps are on there that you can't find on the play store?
Lets ban all those horrible images from WOII too.
automate!
seriously, who still does this stuff manually these days?
i'm looking at this phone, and the only thing that is so-so is the screen resolution. ... and running a real linux, all for less then 200 euro.
All other things just look fine, 1.3Ghz quad core, 1Gb ram, 8Gb storage (expandable),
What is not to like? I'm buying this.
to be replaced by systemd.
nm includes dhcp client, systemd also. both are RH projects, wtf.
well this Sony hack sure has been a good thing for us so far. It is bringing a lot of things into the open/spotlight that we would otherwise not know of (unless it is too late perhaps, and the lobbyists work is done). Could it have been een inside job? It this the equivalent of snowden-nsa but for one big media company?
No wonder who ever did it doesn't want to step up, they would be trailed and sued to death, all the while Sony just continues whatever they've been doing without consequences (the impact of this will be minimal, just as all other crooked things they did, didn't have any impact).