Not only that, but if all Android devices that do come to market are ones that people know will be supported for more than a week, people will be more likely to purchase said products. Personally, I'd be willing to lift my self-imposed Motorola product ban if I knew that they played by the above rules, and ideally offered an unlocked bootloader.
Even with these new restrictions, manufacturers are still able to differentiate, and customize Android as much as they want. They just need to make sure their addons stick to documented API specifications, which from my understanding haven't had significant removals since 2.1, so they can be quickly upgraded to use the latest version of Android, and can be disabled. Neither of these two things are extremely complex, from my understanding.
Which changes that Google has made are going to make people more reluctant to buy Android handsets? The policy changes that say that manufacturers have to supply updates in a timely manner? That you have to allow people to remove the garbage that carriers/manufacturers preinstall and make unremovable without rooting?
There are 4 different Worlds on Earth. Yours is 1 of them. You're ignorant of 3 of them. Such ignorance is damnable.
You are educated stupid and can't compute a Time Cube. You are unworthy of Earth life and deserve banishment to a barren planet - more fit
for your antiNature life style.
Are you aware that the MIT Educators were as criminals for banning student right to
debate Nature's Time Cube?
Ignoring Time Cube is evil. Time Cube is highest order
of life, a "Cubic Creation".
MIT has become the first academic institution on the Earth to sponsor Harmonic Time Cube lecture / debate.
I am wiser than any god or scientist, for I have squared the circle and cubed Earth's sphere, thus I have created 4 simultaneous separate 24 hour days within a 4-corner (as in a 4-corner classroom) rotation of Earth. See for yourself the absolute proof.
The ifixit kit is not an actual pentolobular screwdriver. It's something that sort of fits. It's a worthy workaround, but it doesn't change the fact that this is a proprietary screw, for which actual screwdrivers cannot be purchased.
The ifixit kit has a five point star, not the weird rounded thing Apple is using.
A viable workaround does not mean this is not a screwjob by Apple.
How would you know if it suited your needs without knowing what it is? That, was my point, not if it was the panacea for data storage.
I apologise for reading your post improperly, I see now you were just saying the file versioning isn't as robust as you'd like, not that it was non-existent.
Sorry, I missed the part where anyone classified Dropbox as a code versioning system. It's not meant as a code repository. The only thing close to code I keep in there are batch scripts that I like to run across systems.
It's a program that's designed to give you access to files across multiple computers, and for that it is flawless.
Of course git or CVS or subversion is going to be better at keeping track of code changes. The same way that email is better at sending messages to other people.
Of course you can do both with Dropbox, but it's hardly the ideal platform for it.
If the only thing you deem important enough to store on multiple PCs and to have access to wherever you need to go is source, then congrats, you lead a much more minimal life than I do, and I am honestly and truly jealous.
However, if like most nerds I know, you have multiple ways to get access to files you need from other places (SSH, FTP, SCP, emailing the files to yourself, whatever), why not simplify the process with Dropbox? It's the perfect solution to having a live backup of files that are mostly static, or working documents like school assignments, RFCs, statements of work, and the like. It's an infinitely more simple solution for me to save an RFC I'm working on at work in my Dropbox, and open the same file from home than it is for me to lug a laptop around, or copy it to a USB drive, or VPN in, or RDP in, or whatever other three letter acronym you want to use to get access to it at home.
If you want to use a hammer, use a hammer. But don't shit on a screwdriver for not being a hammer.
While not a complete block of all this garbage, adFree on rooted Android phones blocks most ads at the/etc/hosts level, and I'm sure lots of these companies aren't writing code to submit directly to IP address.
I can't imagine them writing a way to get my info, but not show me their ads, and since installing, all of my "ad-supported" apps are not.
I have no issue paying for apps, and will continue to do so if I find it useful. But garbage like this is going to prevent me from doing any form of proxy support for developers.
Technology makes them no more hidden than they were when they left your house in days gone by. Sure, now you might be able to send some dirty text messages to someone, but 15 years ago you could've just been at a friend's house and snuck onto the phone for a bit of racy chat. Or just gone to the person's house and banged in their bedroom when the parents were out.
I'm not against reasonable technological solutions in the slightest. I am against people not understanding that snooping on your kids text messages is no different than reading their diary. If you think that is good parenting, or that it is going to cause them to behave in a manner you deem acceptable, I have no rebuttal because I'm unable to fathom how you can think that.
Kids are not mindless machines, if you breach their privacy, they will resent you for it.
Stating that they're never going to find out is laughable.
"Johnny, what were you doing out with Bobby and Tom? I told you you couldn't see them!" "Uh, how did you know I was?" "er, well, um..."
As soon as you act on anything that you've learned while snooping on their texts, you have outed yourself.
The fact that you're saying that "the child would barely comprehend what is even happening" is nothing but illustrative of the lack of respect that you have for them. Kids are not dumb, and are way more aware of things than their parents would like to think. Not to mention, way more tech savvy than most people, including lots of the parents that are on/..
And we're back to letting technology parent for you.
If you have concerns, talk to your fucking children.
If my parents had spent half the time asking me what was going on in my life that they did snooping through my shit, I'd probably have had a relationship with them between 15 and 25.
You might think that you're doing them a service by policing their every action and 'making sure they're not getting in trouble,' but the truth is that you're doing nothing but making them resent you and do more to hide things.
As EVERY rebellious child can attest, they are better at hiding things than you are at finding them.
Fine, Clinton killed more people by sanctioning the country and letting Iraq kill its own civilians.
That makes it perfectly ok for US soldiers and US military intelligence to ignore the shitty things that are going on in Iraq right now. Clinton fucked up big, so anything that goes on there now that doesn't match up to the scope of what happened previously, is A-OK.
I killed your sister drunk driving, and that was bad. But I'm sure you won't mind if I come into your house, rape your wife, torture your parents, and raze the place to the ground, because nobody died.
Get your head out of your ass. This isn't about Clinton. This is about what is going on now.
So I play on average ~35 hours of games a week, the only console I own is a Wii, am I a casual gamer?
Near as I can tell, the 360 and PS3 are for
1. People that want to play PC games but aren't willing to put together a decent gaming rig. 2. 13 year olds that want to broadcast how racist and homophobic they can be while fragging people that don't dedicate their entire lives to that one game. 3. Want to talk about how mature and hardcore they are because they don't own a Wii.
Does the article state "Windows has always been the most secure everything, and we don't need to fix anything, we're awesome and hack proof?"
I believe it states, and I'm paraphrasing here, "We're doing more to help idiot users protect themselves than Apple is." Which is true.
Article after article has pointed out that Apple's security through obscurity model makes an unpatched Mac much less secure than an unpatched Windows box.
In five years, everyone will be talking about how vulnerable Macs are, and how you can't run an OSX box without just as much shit as you have to put on a Windows machine in order to be secure.
Again we refuse to admit that MS has done anything right, because they still have problems. Improvement doesn't matter, because they're not perfect yet.
Not like OSX, or Linux. No sir. Neither of those products have any security holes. It doesn't matter that OSX is the first system to fall in any form of hacking contest, or that there have been at least 15 articles on/. in the last 6 months talking about how piss poor OSX's security model is. Nope, Microsoft isn't perfect, therefore they have not fixed anything.
I'm not so sure you're right. When watering my mother's garden, I put 10 units of water on it, and generally takes me 20 units of time to do so. I'm sure I could put all 10 units of water on it in 5 units of time, but having that much water thrown on my garden at once would fuck shit up. Yes, I want to take as little time doing the task as possible so I can return to my mother's basement, but I don't want her to take my phone away (again), so I can't destroy the garden. You can't just let the oil scream out as fast as physically possible. You need to get it out as fast as controllably possible, in order to not break your equipment. Which, clearly, is not happening in the gulf currently.
I was never able to get my iPhone to connect to any VPNs when I was on 3G with Rogers, in Canada. Now that I've purchased a Milestone, my VPN connections work without issue.
Can I say for certain that this was an issue with my iPhone, not that Rogers decided to switch their policies. No. But I'm pretty sure that Steve Jobs was personally disallowing it. Think about it... It just makes sense.
So? Microsoft only had control of their software, and their software didn't prevent you from installing something else. As much as I agree with forcing people to learn more about the products they use, this policy is much more anti-competition than not advertising competing browsers, or installing them by default, ever was..
Perhaps they should turn on over the air updates. Or if they're worried about big brother forcing an update on them, perhaps they should check for a fucking update. It's not Verizon, Google or Motorola's fault if your friends decided not to attempt an update and either turned off, or ignored the prompt saying "there's a system update available."
As has been pointed out 1000000 times, the reason Flash runs so CPU heavy on Apple products is because Apple refuses to allow Adobe access to the APIs that would prevent it. If Apple released that API, all of Jobs' kvetching about Flash would lose a lot of its validity. Any way you look at this, it's Apple forcing Mac users to have a poor experience when using Flash. How that is anything other than negative, I have no idea.
I'm undoubtedly missing something, but why is installing a program in my personal folder a bad idea? It allows non-elevated installs, has no access to files outside of the user dir unless granted, allows each user to have a totally separate installation so fucking one up doesn't fuck up everyone else's, no registry entries aside from ones to HKCU, uninstalls don't mess everyone else's life up, no reboots on uninstall... I don't get it?
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Not only that, but if all Android devices that do come to market are ones that people know will be supported for more than a week, people will be more likely to purchase said products. Personally, I'd be willing to lift my self-imposed Motorola product ban if I knew that they played by the above rules, and ideally offered an unlocked bootloader.
Even with these new restrictions, manufacturers are still able to differentiate, and customize Android as much as they want. They just need to make sure their addons stick to documented API specifications, which from my understanding haven't had significant removals since 2.1, so they can be quickly upgraded to use the latest version of Android, and can be disabled. Neither of these two things are extremely complex, from my understanding.
Which changes that Google has made are going to make people more reluctant to buy Android handsets? The policy changes that say that manufacturers have to supply updates in a timely manner? That you have to allow people to remove the garbage that carriers/manufacturers preinstall and make unremovable without rooting?
Yeah, the changes are bad for end users.
There are 4 different Worlds
on Earth. Yours is 1 of them.
You're ignorant of 3 of them.
Such ignorance is damnable.
You are educated stupid and
can't compute a Time Cube.
You are unworthy of Earth
life and deserve banishment
to a barren planet - more fit
for your antiNature life style.
Are you aware that the MIT
Educators were as criminals
for banning student right to
debate Nature's Time Cube?
Ignoring Time Cube is evil.
Time Cube is highest order
of life, a "Cubic Creation".
MIT has become the first
academic institution on the
Earth to sponsor Harmonic
Time Cube lecture / debate.
I am wiser than any god or
scientist, for I have squared
the circle and cubed Earth's
sphere, thus I have created
4 simultaneous separate 24
hour days within a 4-corner
(as in a 4-corner classroom)
rotation of Earth. See for
yourself the absolute proof.
So, why not call it a gnillim machine?
The ifixit kit is not an actual pentolobular screwdriver. It's something that sort of fits. It's a worthy workaround, but it doesn't change the fact that this is a proprietary screw, for which actual screwdrivers cannot be purchased.
The ifixit kit has a five point star, not the weird rounded thing Apple is using.
A viable workaround does not mean this is not a screwjob by Apple.
So it's the password that's leaving itself around, or blindly jumping into a stranger's pocket?
80% of the people I see on the street these days are either listening to PMPs or on the phone not paying attention to any noise around them.
Forcing cars to make noise is dumb as bricks.
How would you know if it suited your needs without knowing what it is? That, was my point, not if it was the panacea for data storage.
I apologise for reading your post improperly, I see now you were just saying the file versioning isn't as robust as you'd like, not that it was non-existent.
Sorry, I missed the part where anyone classified Dropbox as a code versioning system. It's not meant as a code repository. The only thing close to code I keep in there are batch scripts that I like to run across systems.
It's a program that's designed to give you access to files across multiple computers, and for that it is flawless.
Of course git or CVS or subversion is going to be better at keeping track of code changes. The same way that email is better at sending messages to other people.
Of course you can do both with Dropbox, but it's hardly the ideal platform for it.
If the only thing you deem important enough to store on multiple PCs and to have access to wherever you need to go is source, then congrats, you lead a much more minimal life than I do, and I am honestly and truly jealous.
However, if like most nerds I know, you have multiple ways to get access to files you need from other places (SSH, FTP, SCP, emailing the files to yourself, whatever), why not simplify the process with Dropbox? It's the perfect solution to having a live backup of files that are mostly static, or working documents like school assignments, RFCs, statements of work, and the like. It's an infinitely more simple solution for me to save an RFC I'm working on at work in my Dropbox, and open the same file from home than it is for me to lug a laptop around, or copy it to a USB drive, or VPN in, or RDP in, or whatever other three letter acronym you want to use to get access to it at home.
If you want to use a hammer, use a hammer. But don't shit on a screwdriver for not being a hammer.
Dropbox has version control.
Even if it doesn't suit your needs, you'd still have to know what it is to know that it didn't.
Have you been living under a rock for the last 3 years? What self-respecting nerd doesn't know what Dropbox is?
It's like a frat boy not knowing what rufies are.
While not a complete block of all this garbage, adFree on rooted Android phones blocks most ads at the /etc/hosts level, and I'm sure lots of these companies aren't writing code to submit directly to IP address.
I can't imagine them writing a way to get my info, but not show me their ads, and since installing, all of my "ad-supported" apps are not.
I have no issue paying for apps, and will continue to do so if I find it useful. But garbage like this is going to prevent me from doing any form of proxy support for developers.
Technology makes them no more hidden than they were when they left your house in days gone by. Sure, now you might be able to send some dirty text messages to someone, but 15 years ago you could've just been at a friend's house and snuck onto the phone for a bit of racy chat. Or just gone to the person's house and banged in their bedroom when the parents were out.
I'm not against reasonable technological solutions in the slightest. I am against people not understanding that snooping on your kids text messages is no different than reading their diary. If you think that is good parenting, or that it is going to cause them to behave in a manner you deem acceptable, I have no rebuttal because I'm unable to fathom how you can think that.
Kids are not mindless machines, if you breach their privacy, they will resent you for it.
Stating that they're never going to find out is laughable.
"Johnny, what were you doing out with Bobby and Tom? I told you you couldn't see them!"
"Uh, how did you know I was?"
"er, well, um..."
As soon as you act on anything that you've learned while snooping on their texts, you have outed yourself.
The fact that you're saying that "the child would barely comprehend what is even happening" is nothing but illustrative of the lack of respect that you have for them. Kids are not dumb, and are way more aware of things than their parents would like to think. Not to mention, way more tech savvy than most people, including lots of the parents that are on /..
And we're back to letting technology parent for you.
If you have concerns, talk to your fucking children.
If my parents had spent half the time asking me what was going on in my life that they did snooping through my shit, I'd probably have had a relationship with them between 15 and 25.
You might think that you're doing them a service by policing their every action and 'making sure they're not getting in trouble,' but the truth is that you're doing nothing but making them resent you and do more to hide things.
As EVERY rebellious child can attest, they are better at hiding things than you are at finding them.
Fine, Clinton killed more people by sanctioning the country and letting Iraq kill its own civilians.
That makes it perfectly ok for US soldiers and US military intelligence to ignore the shitty things that are going on in Iraq right now. Clinton fucked up big, so anything that goes on there now that doesn't match up to the scope of what happened previously, is A-OK.
I killed your sister drunk driving, and that was bad. But I'm sure you won't mind if I come into your house, rape your wife, torture your parents, and raze the place to the ground, because nobody died.
Get your head out of your ass. This isn't about Clinton. This is about what is going on now.
So I play on average ~35 hours of games a week, the only console I own is a Wii, am I a casual gamer?
Near as I can tell, the 360 and PS3 are for
1. People that want to play PC games but aren't willing to put together a decent gaming rig.
2. 13 year olds that want to broadcast how racist and homophobic they can be while fragging people that don't dedicate their entire lives to that one game.
3. Want to talk about how mature and hardcore they are because they don't own a Wii.
Clearly, you're not a Doctor Who fan.
Does the article state "Windows has always been the most secure everything, and we don't need to fix anything, we're awesome and hack proof?"
I believe it states, and I'm paraphrasing here, "We're doing more to help idiot users protect themselves than Apple is." Which is true.
Article after article has pointed out that Apple's security through obscurity model makes an unpatched Mac much less secure than an unpatched Windows box.
In five years, everyone will be talking about how vulnerable Macs are, and how you can't run an OSX box without just as much shit as you have to put on a Windows machine in order to be secure.
Again we refuse to admit that MS has done anything right, because they still have problems. Improvement doesn't matter, because they're not perfect yet.
Not like OSX, or Linux. No sir. Neither of those products have any security holes. It doesn't matter that OSX is the first system to fall in any form of hacking contest, or that there have been at least 15 articles on /. in the last 6 months talking about how piss poor OSX's security model is. Nope, Microsoft isn't perfect, therefore they have not fixed anything.
I'm not so sure you're right. When watering my mother's garden, I put 10 units of water on it, and generally takes me 20 units of time to do so. I'm sure I could put all 10 units of water on it in 5 units of time, but having that much water thrown on my garden at once would fuck shit up. Yes, I want to take as little time doing the task as possible so I can return to my mother's basement, but I don't want her to take my phone away (again), so I can't destroy the garden. You can't just let the oil scream out as fast as physically possible. You need to get it out as fast as controllably possible, in order to not break your equipment. Which, clearly, is not happening in the gulf currently.
But will you be able to connect over 3G?
I was never able to get my iPhone to connect to any VPNs when I was on 3G with Rogers, in Canada. Now that I've purchased a Milestone, my VPN connections work without issue.
Can I say for certain that this was an issue with my iPhone, not that Rogers decided to switch their policies. No. But I'm pretty sure that Steve Jobs was personally disallowing it. Think about it... It just makes sense.
So? Microsoft only had control of their software, and their software didn't prevent you from installing something else. As much as I agree with forcing people to learn more about the products they use, this policy is much more anti-competition than not advertising competing browsers, or installing them by default, ever was..
Perhaps they should turn on over the air updates. Or if they're worried about big brother forcing an update on them, perhaps they should check for a fucking update. It's not Verizon, Google or Motorola's fault if your friends decided not to attempt an update and either turned off, or ignored the prompt saying "there's a system update available."
As has been pointed out 1000000 times, the reason Flash runs so CPU heavy on Apple products is because Apple refuses to allow Adobe access to the APIs that would prevent it. If Apple released that API, all of Jobs' kvetching about Flash would lose a lot of its validity. Any way you look at this, it's Apple forcing Mac users to have a poor experience when using Flash. How that is anything other than negative, I have no idea.
Oh right, updating. I knew I was missing something.
I'm undoubtedly missing something, but why is installing a program in my personal folder a bad idea? It allows non-elevated installs, has no access to files outside of the user dir unless granted, allows each user to have a totally separate installation so fucking one up doesn't fuck up everyone else's, no registry entries aside from ones to HKCU, uninstalls don't mess everyone else's life up, no reboots on uninstall... I don't get it?