As for socialism, you have no more right to Take the product of my body (i.e. money) then you can force me to pick cotton in a field and call you master. It's theft of labor. It's a milder form of slavery. I work; you take.
Gonna have to remember that. I have a socialist cousin that won't listen to me explain that I think I give quite enough back to a Capitalist society and I'm not interested in reversing the ratio.
Maybe I could get him to listen long enough to grasp a short, simple point like that.
Oh, this is getting interesting then. I wish I'd had more time to check deeper than I did, but I do think it's interesting that what now looks like a troll made the front page of/....
I notice nothing is mentioned about simply rooting your android.
I haven't been able to find a definitive declaration, but I've been told and have read reports that rooting my DInc will result in a voided warranty.
IMO, this is like buying a Windows machine, but not having the right to administrative access.
What if I want to continue getting updates on the OS, but I also want to uninstall the crapware? I know there's very little on the DInc, but from what I hear and read, the X is choked with it. And these 'crapps' are using phone and network resources. What if you have a limited data plan (and regardless of what Verizon says, it will happen sooner or later), and your phone passively uses more than twice the data bandwidth you use actively? $$$$ out the window and into your carrier's pocket.
So, the real question (for me, anyhow), is does this apply to Android?
Before everyone gets their panties in a twist, wait for Motorola to comment. This is just rumor, after all.
Motorola has admitted that they are locking down the firmware, and gone so far as to say that if you want to mod your Android phone, buy a Nexus One. They have not acknowledged any kind of bricking booby-trap so far as I can find.
That said, I'm most definitely not a Motorola user anyway. I despised their stupid bloody Krazr phone the instant I pulled it out of the box, and when it completely shattered, 2 months later after a 20 inch drop to a wood floor, I didn't improve my opinion of their phones. I don't think this is going to help them much, but I also don't think it's going to hurt them much. As another poster mentioned, it's just not on that many users' radar. Nobody cares except the modding community.
Now, in the interest of Full Disclosure, I expect my shiny new HTC Incredible to be shipped today. This will be my first smartphone (I know, I'm a Luddite), and I don't know what to expect. I don't expect to muck with the boot loader, though I may opt to gain root access after I've studied the pros and cons better.
Oh, yes. HTML5 is the "next big thing" and I've been mostly ignoring it (I'm a back-end C/C++/Perl dev, not a web dev).
I saw that memory test result. I think the big problem there was that it was a stripped down FF install - no extensions. I don't use that many - maybe 6 or 8, but in my experience FF would tend to suck epic quantities of memory into oblivion along with the CPU any time it went pear shaped. I never was able to isolate that problem to a single plugin, page, or combination thereof. Now that FF4 is isolating plugins and tabs better, maybe I'll be able to.
I was under the impression that's what 4.0 is doing. On MacOS, I get an extra FF icon in the Dock when I run into sites with Flash...
Did I miss something?
And yeah, 3.6.x was so bad I upgraded my primary browser to the beta. Since then, no CPU drain at random, no out of control heat issue until I force kill it, and no framework lockup when I'm editing a long response on FB. It still freezes the edit box momentarily, but only rarely, and never crashes out or kills performance on the whole machine. To be honest, if the handful of extensions I use in FF had been ported to Safari, I'd already have jumped ship.
Agreed. The JS engine is probably the only area FF is trailing the rest of the market by a wide margin. It's not like they're announcing they're getting further out in front of the pack. Announcing they're finally coming up to par in this area is the best thing I've heard about FF since... well ever.
This might give me reason to hold out for FF4 rather than switching to Safari or Opera.
You can, but make sure you find something suitable to grease it up - or just pull a small line through that you *know* is strong enough to pull the less pliant wire. Make sure you attache the ends securely and wrap tight (but not too thick) with electrical tape to reduce the risk of catching on an elbow joint.
And I'd be doubly careful pulling, too.
Another alternative to using a wire of questionable integrity (or if said wire does break) can be used if the pipe is known to be airtight except at the accessible openings. You can use a vacuum to pull a line through if you tie a small but strong, pliant cord to a small cloth and feed it in - make sure the cloth isn't too tight a fit. If you can plug all other openings, there are no other cords to tangle your little cloth, and your shop vac is powerful enough, you should be able to feed it right through. It will be easier if you're feeding from the top of a horizontally arranged pipe, but vertical pulls are possible with a good setup.
Then use the cord and always remember to pull a backup along with any wires you want to leave behind.
Yeah, my dad is a retired electrician, so I've done this stuff before. It's tricky sometimes, but it works.
However, pull gently, and coax it the whole way (pun not intended). If the coaxial runs through pipes, you'll probably run much less risk of stripping or breaking the Cat5/6. Almost none if you find a gallon or so of wire lube at Home Depot or Lowes and grease the hell out of the new cable as it enters the pipe. Just be sure to trail a strong cord along with it so you have another pull if you want to pull another line in later. If you test it and it doesn't work because a wire stretched too much, you can just pull another (trailing in another pull string).
Also, test the wires directly by twisting them all together at one end and connecting a bell/battery gadget to pairs at the other. When you ring the bell, both wires are good. If it doesn't, one or both are bad.
And if it were me, I would absolutely work on getting an updated Cat5/6 line in the house. Barring that, go wireless. The coaxial solutions are more expensive and in my experience, rarely come close the current wireless options.
Good luck!
That wouldn't even cover the expenses incurred covering your tracks, nevermind having to get by after the fact until you can find a new job.
Of course, it would have been nice ...
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if they had followed through on their promises to continue Mac support...
A great many folks begged, pleaded, and even volunteered any and all input or support needed to help Bioware follow through with their promise to provide a universal executable for Neverwinter Nights. Bioware waffled for years on this promise before they finally admitted they weren't going to do it. By then a lot of folks (myself included) had bought several of the premium modules in good faith. There are still several I haven't bought, and now I won't be buying them. Too bad. It's the one game I always wanted to come back to when I get an itch for gaming.
Sorry, needless griping, and off topic to boot, but there we are.
Obviously I stand corrected on a few points. Thanks for the history lesson!:)
I knew about VisiCalc, but for some reason it slipped my mind. I probably would have been more accurate to say that we would have taken much longer to think about making them user friendly to your average housewife with better things to do than learn to use TeX or groff. But that's the goal Gates set for Microsoft.
Nonetheless, like I said, Gates was a new animal on the scene in the 80s. He was a business savvy computer geek. Not as much a computer geek as the guys involved in VisiCalc, Word Perfect or Lotus 1-2-3, and nowhere near the guys behind groff/troff and TeX. And by the way, I was explicitly excluding those latter tools because they're almost exclusively geek tools. You'll never see those used by an accountant or small business owner.
Gates' biggest contribution by far is penetration into everyday life. He wanted his hands in every last wallet and business account in the world and that is what he focused on. Not perfection of the product, as many geeks would do (get it working, make it solid, add features, repeat). In order to do this, he needed to know how to make everyone want to use it. Researching this is why Microsoft soared. In the process, MS often forgot or glossed over some of the key steps in the process (like make it solid).
Putting out software that attempted to show people how easy a task could be done, and how much more value could be added to the finished product, and making it so prone to crashing and losing data, really pissed a lot of people off. Some of them were proper computer nerds who, being more focused on doing a thing well than getting paid well for doing a thing, decided to beat Microsoft out of the market. It took forever for Apple to take up the torch there, but they're a real force now. This isn't because Jobs has gotten better at business than Gates, but he did get better at integrating usability, clean look and stability (though some would reasonably argue that he was always better than Gates in this area).
And after all this, I think I know what I'd get Gates as a retirement gift: a deposit slip to my bank account...
In the form of backlash, maybe. If you do something poorly in this industry and try to rape your customers for the privilege, there are a thousand nerds out there that will find a way to do it better for less (or free).
The real contribution is in that constant teasing of "You can do this" (as soon as our product stops sucking...). At least initially.
Eventually, when there was enough of a "footprint" of computers in common culture, it was guaranteed to get out of MS control.
The thing about Gates is he's more a business nerd than a software nerd - at least that's what he's better at. Sure, he probably got his fingers into the OS after he bought the original version of DOS, but trying to put computers on every business desk, and eventually every home rather than just focusing on the back rooms of banks and big businesses is what got everyday folks looking for the potential in these things.
The truth of the matter is that none of us real software nerds (flattering myself again) would ever have thought of writing a program that lets you track your finances, write documents and typeset them, create elaborate presentations, etc.. Sure, we'd have come up with some neat games, but without computers in every home, there would be a lot less creative pressure on that industry, and it wouldn't be quite so big as it currently is.
We'd probably just be breaking out of our fringe culture status, and a good number of us would have chosen far different paths for our professions.
Or am I giving him too much credit? Probably - Gods, I sound like a Gates fanboy - (as I write this on my Mac, developing on Linux. Gah!). He was really only out to make a buck and take over the world after all.
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As for socialism, you have no more right to Take the product of my body (i.e. money) then you can force me to pick cotton in a field and call you master. It's theft of labor. It's a milder form of slavery. I work; you take.
Gonna have to remember that. I have a socialist cousin that won't listen to me explain that I think I give quite enough back to a Capitalist society and I'm not interested in reversing the ratio.
Maybe I could get him to listen long enough to grasp a short, simple point like that.
Cheers!
truth is less interesting than reality
Did he really write that? Did George Bush get a job in journalism now?
I'm not the only one that sees an analogy to Daffy Duck blowing on his little sail to make his boat go, am I?
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And I thought they only watched manga in Japan
this is a job for common sense.
Ok, new favorite quote. I'm gonna use that one. A lot. Probably even on myself from time to time.
Hell, I'll probably put it on everything but ice cream.
Oh, this is getting interesting then. I wish I'd had more time to check deeper than I did, but I do think it's interesting that what now looks like a troll made the front page of /. ...
What could be the point?
Of all people, Cory Doctorow would know if he had violated the CC ...
I notice nothing is mentioned about simply rooting your android.
I haven't been able to find a definitive declaration, but I've been told and have read reports that rooting my DInc will result in a voided warranty.
IMO, this is like buying a Windows machine, but not having the right to administrative access.
What if I want to continue getting updates on the OS, but I also want to uninstall the crapware? I know there's very little on the DInc, but from what I hear and read, the X is choked with it. And these 'crapps' are using phone and network resources. What if you have a limited data plan (and regardless of what Verizon says, it will happen sooner or later), and your phone passively uses more than twice the data bandwidth you use actively? $$$$ out the window and into your carrier's pocket.
So, the real question (for me, anyhow), is does this apply to Android?
Before everyone gets their panties in a twist, wait for Motorola to comment. This is just rumor, after all.
Motorola has admitted that they are locking down the firmware, and gone so far as to say that if you want to mod your Android phone, buy a Nexus One. They have not acknowledged any kind of bricking booby-trap so far as I can find.
That said, I'm most definitely not a Motorola user anyway. I despised their stupid bloody Krazr phone the instant I pulled it out of the box, and when it completely shattered, 2 months later after a 20 inch drop to a wood floor, I didn't improve my opinion of their phones. I don't think this is going to help them much, but I also don't think it's going to hurt them much. As another poster mentioned, it's just not on that many users' radar. Nobody cares except the modding community.
Now, in the interest of Full Disclosure, I expect my shiny new HTC Incredible to be shipped today. This will be my first smartphone (I know, I'm a Luddite), and I don't know what to expect. I don't expect to muck with the boot loader, though I may opt to gain root access after I've studied the pros and cons better.
Oh, yes. HTML5 is the "next big thing" and I've been mostly ignoring it (I'm a back-end C/C++/Perl dev, not a web dev).
I saw that memory test result. I think the big problem there was that it was a stripped down FF install - no extensions. I don't use that many - maybe 6 or 8, but in my experience FF would tend to suck epic quantities of memory into oblivion along with the CPU any time it went pear shaped. I never was able to isolate that problem to a single plugin, page, or combination thereof. Now that FF4 is isolating plugins and tabs better, maybe I'll be able to.
I was under the impression that's what 4.0 is doing. On MacOS, I get an extra FF icon in the Dock when I run into sites with Flash ...
Did I miss something?
And yeah, 3.6.x was so bad I upgraded my primary browser to the beta. Since then, no CPU drain at random, no out of control heat issue until I force kill it, and no framework lockup when I'm editing a long response on FB. It still freezes the edit box momentarily, but only rarely, and never crashes out or kills performance on the whole machine. To be honest, if the handful of extensions I use in FF had been ported to Safari, I'd already have jumped ship.
Agreed. The JS engine is probably the only area FF is trailing the rest of the market by a wide margin. It's not like they're announcing they're getting further out in front of the pack. Announcing they're finally coming up to par in this area is the best thing I've heard about FF since ... well ever.
This might give me reason to hold out for FF4 rather than switching to Safari or Opera.
The AES128 algorithm in Perl?
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Of course, you might need a special government permit to cross borders
The Mormons were right?
Holy Crap!
Does it help if you don't have a life?
Shouldn't be a problem for most geeks.
Great, there'll be no living with those folks out in Utah now.
For those of you not following the PvP webcomic, the Emissary was featured in the last week or so, starting here. This was my favorite story line yet.
You can, but make sure you find something suitable to grease it up - or just pull a small line through that you *know* is strong enough to pull the less pliant wire. Make sure you attache the ends securely and wrap tight (but not too thick) with electrical tape to reduce the risk of catching on an elbow joint.
And I'd be doubly careful pulling, too.
Another alternative to using a wire of questionable integrity (or if said wire does break) can be used if the pipe is known to be airtight except at the accessible openings. You can use a vacuum to pull a line through if you tie a small but strong, pliant cord to a small cloth and feed it in - make sure the cloth isn't too tight a fit. If you can plug all other openings, there are no other cords to tangle your little cloth, and your shop vac is powerful enough, you should be able to feed it right through. It will be easier if you're feeding from the top of a horizontally arranged pipe, but vertical pulls are possible with a good setup.
Then use the cord and always remember to pull a backup along with any wires you want to leave behind.
Yeah, my dad is a retired electrician, so I've done this stuff before. It's tricky sometimes, but it works.
Second that suggestion.
However, pull gently, and coax it the whole way (pun not intended). If the coaxial runs through pipes, you'll probably run much less risk of stripping or breaking the Cat5/6. Almost none if you find a gallon or so of wire lube at Home Depot or Lowes and grease the hell out of the new cable as it enters the pipe. Just be sure to trail a strong cord along with it so you have another pull if you want to pull another line in later. If you test it and it doesn't work because a wire stretched too much, you can just pull another (trailing in another pull string).
Also, test the wires directly by twisting them all together at one end and connecting a bell/battery gadget to pairs at the other. When you ring the bell, both wires are good. If it doesn't, one or both are bad.
And if it were me, I would absolutely work on getting an updated Cat5/6 line in the house. Barring that, go wireless. The coaxial solutions are more expensive and in my experience, rarely come close the current wireless options. Good luck!
That wouldn't even cover the expenses incurred covering your tracks, nevermind having to get by after the fact until you can find a new job.
if they had followed through on their promises to continue Mac support ...
A great many folks begged, pleaded, and even volunteered any and all input or support needed to help Bioware follow through with their promise to provide a universal executable for Neverwinter Nights. Bioware waffled for years on this promise before they finally admitted they weren't going to do it. By then a lot of folks (myself included) had bought several of the premium modules in good faith. There are still several I haven't bought, and now I won't be buying them. Too bad. It's the one game I always wanted to come back to when I get an itch for gaming.
Sorry, needless griping, and off topic to boot, but there we are.
Giant slime mold uses Tokyo Railway system to destroy Tokyo ...
Story at 11
He's practically telling the world he's a pirate
(paraphrased: Pratchett, Going Postal)
Anyone see a pic? Is he wearing an eye patch?
Obviously I stand corrected on a few points. Thanks for the history lesson! :)
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I knew about VisiCalc, but for some reason it slipped my mind. I probably would have been more accurate to say that we would have taken much longer to think about making them user friendly to your average housewife with better things to do than learn to use TeX or groff. But that's the goal Gates set for Microsoft.
Nonetheless, like I said, Gates was a new animal on the scene in the 80s. He was a business savvy computer geek. Not as much a computer geek as the guys involved in VisiCalc, Word Perfect or Lotus 1-2-3, and nowhere near the guys behind groff/troff and TeX. And by the way, I was explicitly excluding those latter tools because they're almost exclusively geek tools. You'll never see those used by an accountant or small business owner.
Gates' biggest contribution by far is penetration into everyday life. He wanted his hands in every last wallet and business account in the world and that is what he focused on. Not perfection of the product, as many geeks would do (get it working, make it solid, add features, repeat). In order to do this, he needed to know how to make everyone want to use it. Researching this is why Microsoft soared. In the process, MS often forgot or glossed over some of the key steps in the process (like make it solid).
Putting out software that attempted to show people how easy a task could be done, and how much more value could be added to the finished product, and making it so prone to crashing and losing data, really pissed a lot of people off. Some of them were proper computer nerds who, being more focused on doing a thing well than getting paid well for doing a thing, decided to beat Microsoft out of the market. It took forever for Apple to take up the torch there, but they're a real force now. This isn't because Jobs has gotten better at business than Gates, but he did get better at integrating usability, clean look and stability (though some would reasonably argue that he was always better than Gates in this area).
And after all this, I think I know what I'd get Gates as a retirement gift: a deposit slip to my bank account
Yah, right.
...). At least initially.
In the form of backlash, maybe. If you do something poorly in this industry and try to rape your customers for the privilege, there are a thousand nerds out there that will find a way to do it better for less (or free).
The real contribution is in that constant teasing of "You can do this" (as soon as our product stops sucking
Eventually, when there was enough of a "footprint" of computers in common culture, it was guaranteed to get out of MS control.
The thing about Gates is he's more a business nerd than a software nerd - at least that's what he's better at. Sure, he probably got his fingers into the OS after he bought the original version of DOS, but trying to put computers on every business desk, and eventually every home rather than just focusing on the back rooms of banks and big businesses is what got everyday folks looking for the potential in these things.
The truth of the matter is that none of us real software nerds (flattering myself again) would ever have thought of writing a program that lets you track your finances, write documents and typeset them, create elaborate presentations, etc.. Sure, we'd have come up with some neat games, but without computers in every home, there would be a lot less creative pressure on that industry, and it wouldn't be quite so big as it currently is.
We'd probably just be breaking out of our fringe culture status, and a good number of us would have chosen far different paths for our professions.
Or am I giving him too much credit? Probably - Gods, I sound like a Gates fanboy - (as I write this on my Mac, developing on Linux. Gah!). He was really only out to make a buck and take over the world after all.
If so, when is someone gonna slip this to our witless president?
Now if it can cure him then it really will cure anyone.