I don't understand why Google and Apple don't just sit down and agree to let each other use all their patents. Then they really could compete on the strength of their own innovations, rather than wasting all this money on lawyers. The customers will go to the one who implements the patents better.
I have an old HTC Hero that has a badly cracked screen, that I'd love to repurpose as a UPnP audio server over Wifi, but every method I've seen to root it requires touching the screen at some point (and I don't know how to get VNC access without rooting it). Is there a way, or is it garbage now?
I'd be very interested to see this used for some kind of mesh networking. I suspect it'd be way cheaper to equip every car on the road with some kind of repeater, than it would be to build out a nationwide set of cell towers. Assuming they could address the security (some kind of encrypted tunnelling, maybe), it could be a way for a smaller operator to get into the ISP business.
They should get rid of all the passengers. Think about it....they wouldn't have to pay for meals, they could fire all the flight attendants and save that salary money, the seats on the planes wouldn't be needed anymore. They'd even save on fuel, since the planes would be so much lighter without all those people on board.
We're getting way off-topic here, but I couldn't disagree more. I have phones of both platforms (HTC Hero and iPhone 3G, as well as a 4 I just got), and I find my tinkering needs are well met by a jailbroken iPhone. If I couldn't jailbreak, I'd agree with you, but jailbreaking has opened up tonnes of new uses and functionality, more than enough to satisfy me.
I couldn't get MobileTerminal to work, either, so I just got iSSH from the app store. Well worth it, IMO, it can SSH to 127.0.0.1 and remote systems, too.
I heard about it earlier today, and clicked it up on my iPhone to check it out. It asked me if it could use my current location, and I said OK, and immediately it brought up a location thousands of miles away from me, in another country. Since this wasn't right, i tapped it, scrolled down to the search function, and typed in my current location. Buzz had the audacity to tell me that the location I typed in didn't exist, because it was not near the location it had auto-detected. Well, no shit it was nowhere near what it detected...that's what I was trying to tell it! And it was trying to tell me that I didn't know what I was talking about. It's not like I am out in the middle of nowhere (my current location is near a medium-sized American city). Fail!
Encryption wouldn't help here. The API allows access to all kinds of data on the iPhone, which some apps do legitimately require in order to function (for example, a Google Voice-type app would indeed need the user's phone number). Even if the data was encrypted, the iPhone would happily decrypt it and pass it to the app when given the proper API call. The issue here is enforcement. Developers caught doing this kind of thing should be banned from the App Store, and put on some kind of blacklist at Apple so Apple doesn't do further business with them.
How do you figure? We may not have better vehicles for manned flight, but we have way better cameras, sensors, processors, compression algorithms, and a lot of other science-finding goodies. Not to mention batteries...I wonder how long Voyager's sensors would have run off the battery in a Macbook.
Now we have a good reason to send some more Voyager probes out. The last two were certainly worth the cost, and it'd probably be a lot cheaper to build and launch a comparable probe today than it was when the first two were launched.
Pick up an original Xbox, walk them through a softmod and a Linux install, teach them to make USB adapters for the mouse and keyboard. Voila...you've taught them about computer internals, BIOSes, operating systems, and how to solder, and they thought it was all about video games.
This has been raised before, many times. The same thing happened with the Quebec referenda...they said No, the other side waited a bit, then said "How about now?". Is this what we've been reduced to in Canada, asking the same questions every couple of years?
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I don't understand why Google and Apple don't just sit down and agree to let each other use all their patents. Then they really could compete on the strength of their own innovations, rather than wasting all this money on lawyers. The customers will go to the one who implements the patents better.
I have an old HTC Hero that has a badly cracked screen, that I'd love to repurpose as a UPnP audio server over Wifi, but every method I've seen to root it requires touching the screen at some point (and I don't know how to get VNC access without rooting it). Is there a way, or is it garbage now?
I'd be very interested to see this used for some kind of mesh networking. I suspect it'd be way cheaper to equip every car on the road with some kind of repeater, than it would be to build out a nationwide set of cell towers. Assuming they could address the security (some kind of encrypted tunnelling, maybe), it could be a way for a smaller operator to get into the ISP business.
Why don't they sell a few of them? I'm sure they could find a buyer in Iran or North Korea, and I bet they'd pay a lot.
"bricked for internet usage"
WTF does that even mean?
You don't. The new iMacs have a non-standard hard drive that must be replaced by an Apple technician.
Ban politicians from making ridiculous unenforceable bans.
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See, I just assumed he meant his parents' basement.
They should get rid of all the passengers. Think about it....they wouldn't have to pay for meals, they could fire all the flight attendants and save that salary money, the seats on the planes wouldn't be needed anymore. They'd even save on fuel, since the planes would be so much lighter without all those people on board.
I always thought cheats were frowned upon in the academic world.
We're getting way off-topic here, but I couldn't disagree more. I have phones of both platforms (HTC Hero and iPhone 3G, as well as a 4 I just got), and I find my tinkering needs are well met by a jailbroken iPhone. If I couldn't jailbreak, I'd agree with you, but jailbreaking has opened up tonnes of new uses and functionality, more than enough to satisfy me.
I couldn't get MobileTerminal to work, either, so I just got iSSH from the app store. Well worth it, IMO, it can SSH to 127.0.0.1 and remote systems, too.
Abduct people, and force them to download your MP3's and warez for you. You know they won't be looking for them...
Agreed, but the inability to manually correct it is all on Google. That's the fail.
I heard about it earlier today, and clicked it up on my iPhone to check it out. It asked me if it could use my current location, and I said OK, and immediately it brought up a location thousands of miles away from me, in another country. Since this wasn't right, i tapped it, scrolled down to the search function, and typed in my current location. Buzz had the audacity to tell me that the location I typed in didn't exist, because it was not near the location it had auto-detected. Well, no shit it was nowhere near what it detected...that's what I was trying to tell it! And it was trying to tell me that I didn't know what I was talking about. It's not like I am out in the middle of nowhere (my current location is near a medium-sized American city). Fail!
Why not a politician tax, somewhere around 1% of their annual income, for the privilege of being a politician?
If it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander.
I saw an Eee PC running one of the demos in their presentation...is there a build available for that?
Encryption wouldn't help here. The API allows access to all kinds of data on the iPhone, which some apps do legitimately require in order to function (for example, a Google Voice-type app would indeed need the user's phone number). Even if the data was encrypted, the iPhone would happily decrypt it and pass it to the app when given the proper API call. The issue here is enforcement. Developers caught doing this kind of thing should be banned from the App Store, and put on some kind of blacklist at Apple so Apple doesn't do further business with them.
How do you figure? We may not have better vehicles for manned flight, but we have way better cameras, sensors, processors, compression algorithms, and a lot of other science-finding goodies. Not to mention batteries...I wonder how long Voyager's sensors would have run off the battery in a Macbook.
That doesn't mean it can't go, just that it probably will only hit one planet on the way out instead of a bunch.
Now we have a good reason to send some more Voyager probes out. The last two were certainly worth the cost, and it'd probably be a lot cheaper to build and launch a comparable probe today than it was when the first two were launched.
Pick up an original Xbox, walk them through a softmod and a Linux install, teach them to make USB adapters for the mouse and keyboard. Voila...you've taught them about computer internals, BIOSes, operating systems, and how to solder, and they thought it was all about video games.
This has been raised before, many times. The same thing happened with the Quebec referenda...they said No, the other side waited a bit, then said "How about now?". Is this what we've been reduced to in Canada, asking the same questions every couple of years?
Spliffs! Now I understand completely!