you realize that Apple relies on cheap Chinese slave labor to make iPads at $499/ea, right? And if Apple pulled out of China they'd have nowhere else to go. America isn't an option because of labor regulations and an expensive workforce. iPads would be up at $1499 and still losing money, iPhones would be $1000 subsidized and America's economy would take a larger nosedive than China's. Brazil? They've already tried that and it's as bad as America.
Then there's the 99% likelihood that China would continue producing iPhones/iPads/etc and selling them everywhere but America. If Apple pulled out of China they'd be out of manufacturing AND out of a market.
As others have mentioned, Gargoyle is a superb alternative to Tomato (which is fairly limited in comparison) or OpenWRT (which is a bit frustrating for newbs). Gargoyle gives you the best of OpenWRT while also providing a useful, easy and intuitive user interface. LUCI is a bit rough:)
For the record, DD-WRT sucks monkey balls in comparison. I've been using my G300NH for months of uptime, heavy (multi-TB downloads, plenty of bittorrent uploads) usage, while SSH-ing into my work and home computers at need. No problems, no hassles. DD-WRT, which I ran for years on my other routers, and followed devel on too, required monthly reboots and tinkering to get anywhere. On the G300NH DDWRT is a piece of poo.
Absolutely top notch. I've been running mine for months with Gargoyle Router, a pretty nice upgrade from the standard OpenWRT unless you need to micro every last setting, but then you'd probably ssh and use the shell anyways, right?
Another superb router is the TP-Link WR1043ND, it's got 8MB flash and is stable after many months of uptime on Gargoyle, even without quite as much raw power as the Buffalo. Both have 32MB of RAM.
No matter what router you get, try Gargoyle or OpenWRT before settling. DD-WRT isn't what is used to be.
I'd recommend a Dell, if you can stand the hardware - their NBD warranties kick ass. You can practically (ab)use the hardware for anything except hammering fenceposts & they'll replace it for you. Plus there's the data recovery option, might be worth it if you're special enough to keep important data on a laptop.
If you make it to 90, you've got a very good chance of making 100.
The problem with this reasoning is that your probability of dying doubles every six years. At 80, your chance of dying is already pretty high, then at 86 you can double it again.
There are many ROMs that support proper "official" call recording ripped from the OEM Samsung Korean ROMs (which have it enabled by default IIRC). I've used it and it works perfectly, no mic-record nonsense involved. AFAIK it only works on Froyo so far.
Or you can just use MIUI, which everyone should be doing anyway. It kicks ass and supports call recording. No virus needed.
It's a good thing the TSA is there to protect you guys. Imagine if they didn't exist, where would you go to get gate raped? On the other side of the coin, where would the perverts go to take undergarments off nonagenerians or feel up kids, or suckle on illicit breast milk of unknown strangers, or steal iPads in plain sight?
This is the best of all possible worlds, really: the rinky-dink facade of security to appease the average idiots (that's most of y'all, obviously) while keeping the perverts in plain sight AND employing the otherwise-unemployable.
The last Apple purchase I made was a Nano 6G, not realizing it wasn't supported by libgpod. It's easy to forget how crippled this hardware is without iTunes, and how unpleasant iTunes is until you have to use it again. Since then I traded up to a Clip+ and I'm happy again.
So as far as tablets go I'm waiting to pay a reasonable amout, possibly even more than iPad2 prices, for a de-iTuned tablet from Samsung. Android gets better with every revision, whereas iPads get locked down more. The only logical option is to opt out of this game of jailbreak chicken.
1. there's not enough of a problem with girls relieving themselves in elevators, lobbies and doorways to warrant an artificial larger-size bush. 2. Ladies get 10x the toilets per restroom at the mall and that covers 99% of the time you're out of the house anyways.
If I sound bitter or cynical it's because I'm married.
axx made no mention of any desire to pirate OSes, and there's nothing to imply anybody wants to pirate an already-free OS in the original article.. did you know that Android is free of charge btw?
Hope that iPad 3.5 comes with 90% less bezel for reduced eyestrain of spectators. Or, better yet, here's hoping that next NookColor comes with dual cores. The only flaw of NC is choppy in pinch-zooming and stuff like that.
So true.. I recently dusted off an old iPhone and tried to use it for a day (nostalgia:) but went back to my SGS largely because of the missing buttons. The bigger, far superior screen didn't hurt either. Buttons are 24x better than soft-buttons or clumsy multi-touch gestures for such a tiny screen.
I phoned specifically about caps and found they don't cap - at least in my area. I did 550+GB in my first 20 days and they didn't care at all. Been going strong ever since.
If you're debating between Shaw and Telus then you're probably in Western Canada - have a look at the ominously-named CIA.com (3web) instead. They sublet Shaw or Telus lines, cost 10-20 less per month and don't cap. If you know somebody else on 3web use their tel# when you sign up and they'll give your friend a $20 credit. It's win-win-win, and you'll hand over less $$ to the big faceless evil entities.
Hey... just to inject a bit of truth into this debate. I've got an ancient 2007-era iPhone and a Samsung Galaxy S, and the iPhone is smoother in many ways. Android just isn't as polished, smooth, seamless, no matter how much we might wish it were so. Noticeable pauses when scrolling, the hiccups in screen animations, but I put up with it since the alternative is living in Steve Jobs' pocket using Steve-provided apps and subsisting on Jobs' own precious Koolaidapps. Same for iPad vs Galaxy Tab; it doesn't match up perfectly, though Froyo is 85% as seamless as iOS4.
For the record, I haven't used the iPhone since August when I got the SGS but I'm pretty sure the hardware in that first-gen iPhone is crap compared to the SGS 1GHz hummingbird, 512MB etc etc.
Reasons to keep Android: once you try those extra buttons you'll never want to go back; unlock stays unlocked; no more hanging on iPhone dev team's every twitter; install CM eventually:)
point in favour of placebo: you're less likely to get catastrophic kidney/heart/liver/eye/etc failure than from approved drugs like Celebrex, Vioxx, Cialis et cetera.
Here's hoping there's a push for clean integration into the user experience, a la Sun's TimeSlider integration in Nautilus. I was surprised to use Windows 7 recently, it's got a crude TimeSlider now. I think OSX has something similar too.
I'm surprised nobody in Canonical has put this forward yet but it's only a matter of time, once btrfs is declared stable.
To desktop users ext3 is arguably slow. Creating a 4GB file on ext3? Watch the system grind to a halt for a few minutes. Try deleting any file over a few hundred MB, and wait for a few seconds to a few minutes until the OS becomes usable again. It's painful. Anything other than small file operations really put the irons to the ext3 user. Extents probably caused more upgrades to ext4 than any other feature.
"Applaud microsoft for security"???? Are you nuts? With MS' track record, this killswitch will be used solely by malicious apps to protect whichever botnet currently owns the phone. If it's genuinely based on Win7 it'll be hacked within minutes.
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you realize that Apple relies on cheap Chinese slave labor to make iPads at $499/ea, right? And if Apple pulled out of China they'd have nowhere else to go. America isn't an option because of labor regulations and an expensive workforce. iPads would be up at $1499 and still losing money, iPhones would be $1000 subsidized and America's economy would take a larger nosedive than China's. Brazil? They've already tried that and it's as bad as America.
Then there's the 99% likelihood that China would continue producing iPhones/iPads/etc and selling them everywhere but America. If Apple pulled out of China they'd be out of manufacturing AND out of a market.
I'm making a note here, "HUGE SUCCESS!"
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction with Russian nuclear engineering these days. Doing what they must because they can.
As others have mentioned, Gargoyle is a superb alternative to Tomato (which is fairly limited in comparison) or OpenWRT (which is a bit frustrating for newbs). Gargoyle gives you the best of OpenWRT while also providing a useful, easy and intuitive user interface. LUCI is a bit rough :)
For the record, DD-WRT sucks monkey balls in comparison. I've been using my G300NH for months of uptime, heavy (multi-TB downloads, plenty of bittorrent uploads) usage, while SSH-ing into my work and home computers at need. No problems, no hassles. DD-WRT, which I ran for years on my other routers, and followed devel on too, required monthly reboots and tinkering to get anywhere. On the G300NH DDWRT is a piece of poo.
TSA FTW.
Absolutely top notch. I've been running mine for months with Gargoyle Router, a pretty nice upgrade from the standard OpenWRT unless you need to micro every last setting, but then you'd probably ssh and use the shell anyways, right?
Another superb router is the TP-Link WR1043ND, it's got 8MB flash and is stable after many months of uptime on Gargoyle, even without quite as much raw power as the Buffalo. Both have 32MB of RAM.
No matter what router you get, try Gargoyle or OpenWRT before settling. DD-WRT isn't what is used to be.
add in the classic cracking/yellow plastic on prior models, the crappy 15-bit TN screens they've used in the past (fixed under performance guarantees, IIRC, after legal action), too much thermal paste causing massive overheating, nVidia gfx chips cracking and falling off, exploding batteries, cooling ports blocked by plastic film and numerous HW failures-by-design - well, it's no wonder he's looking for a heavy duty warranty.
I'd recommend a Dell, if you can stand the hardware - their NBD warranties kick ass. You can practically (ab)use the hardware for anything except hammering fenceposts & they'll replace it for you. Plus there's the data recovery option, might be worth it if you're special enough to keep important data on a laptop.
The problem with this reasoning is that your probability of dying doubles every six years. At 80, your chance of dying is already pretty high, then at 86 you can double it again.
while in a phone call hit the Tools button to get the Record option. it will record an .amr file for you.
There are many ROMs that support proper "official" call recording ripped from the OEM Samsung Korean ROMs (which have it enabled by default IIRC). I've used it and it works perfectly, no mic-record nonsense involved. AFAIK it only works on Froyo so far.
Or you can just use MIUI, which everyone should be doing anyway. It kicks ass and supports call recording. No virus needed.
It's a good thing the TSA is there to protect you guys. Imagine if they didn't exist, where would you go to get gate raped? On the other side of the coin, where would the perverts go to take undergarments off nonagenerians or feel up kids, or suckle on illicit breast milk of unknown strangers, or steal iPads in plain sight?
This is the best of all possible worlds, really: the rinky-dink facade of security to appease the average idiots (that's most of y'all, obviously) while keeping the perverts in plain sight AND employing the otherwise-unemployable.
Win win. Go America!
The last Apple purchase I made was a Nano 6G, not realizing it wasn't supported by libgpod. It's easy to forget how crippled this hardware is without iTunes, and how unpleasant iTunes is until you have to use it again. Since then I traded up to a Clip+ and I'm happy again.
So as far as tablets go I'm waiting to pay a reasonable amout, possibly even more than iPad2 prices, for a de-iTuned tablet from Samsung. Android gets better with every revision, whereas iPads get locked down more. The only logical option is to opt out of this game of jailbreak chicken.
1. there's not enough of a problem with girls relieving themselves in elevators, lobbies and doorways to warrant an artificial larger-size bush.
2. Ladies get 10x the toilets per restroom at the mall and that covers 99% of the time you're out of the house anyways.
If I sound bitter or cynical it's because I'm married.
"A robot must maximize profits, and may not through inaction allow profits to not be less than maximized" is self-contradictory.
axx made no mention of any desire to pirate OSes, and there's nothing to imply anybody wants to pirate an already-free OS in the original article.. did you know that Android is free of charge btw?
Would you object if you were deaf? How about if you didn't bother to download music that%s not in the public domain? This tax is a terrible idea.
Hope that iPad 3.5 comes with 90% less bezel for reduced eyestrain of spectators. Or, better yet, here's hoping that next NookColor comes with dual cores. The only flaw of NC is choppy in pinch-zooming and stuff like that.
So true.. I recently dusted off an old iPhone and tried to use it for a day (nostalgia :) but went back to my SGS largely because of the missing buttons. The bigger, far superior screen didn't hurt either. Buttons are 24x better than soft-buttons or clumsy multi-touch gestures for such a tiny screen.
I phoned specifically about caps and found they don't cap - at least in my area. I did 550+GB in my first 20 days and they didn't care at all. Been going strong ever since.
If you're debating between Shaw and Telus then you're probably in Western Canada - have a look at the ominously-named CIA.com (3web) instead. They sublet Shaw or Telus lines, cost 10-20 less per month and don't cap. If you know somebody else on 3web use their tel# when you sign up and they'll give your friend a $20 credit. It's win-win-win, and you'll hand over less $$ to the big faceless evil entities.
Hey... just to inject a bit of truth into this debate. I've got an ancient 2007-era iPhone and a Samsung Galaxy S, and the iPhone is smoother in many ways. Android just isn't as polished, smooth, seamless, no matter how much we might wish it were so. Noticeable pauses when scrolling, the hiccups in screen animations, but I put up with it since the alternative is living in Steve Jobs' pocket using Steve-provided apps and subsisting on Jobs' own precious Koolaidapps. Same for iPad vs Galaxy Tab; it doesn't match up perfectly, though Froyo is 85% as seamless as iOS4.
:)
For the record, I haven't used the iPhone since August when I got the SGS but I'm pretty sure the hardware in that first-gen iPhone is crap compared to the SGS 1GHz hummingbird, 512MB etc etc.
Reasons to keep Android: once you try those extra buttons you'll never want to go back; unlock stays unlocked; no more hanging on iPhone dev team's every twitter; install CM eventually
point in favour of placebo: you're less likely to get catastrophic kidney/heart/liver/eye/etc failure than from approved drugs like Celebrex, Vioxx, Cialis et cetera.
you might even classify some alternatives, eg x2go as superior. freenx and neatx are ok sometimes but if you have the option...
Here's hoping there's a push for clean integration into the user experience, a la Sun's TimeSlider integration in Nautilus. I was surprised to use Windows 7 recently, it's got a crude TimeSlider now. I think OSX has something similar too.
I'm surprised nobody in Canonical has put this forward yet but it's only a matter of time, once btrfs is declared stable.
To desktop users ext3 is arguably slow. Creating a 4GB file on ext3? Watch the system grind to a halt for a few minutes. Try deleting any file over a few hundred MB, and wait for a few seconds to a few minutes until the OS becomes usable again. It's painful. Anything other than small file operations really put the irons to the ext3 user. Extents probably caused more upgrades to ext4 than any other feature.
"Applaud microsoft for security"???? Are you nuts? With MS' track record, this killswitch will be used solely by malicious apps to protect whichever botnet currently owns the phone. If it's genuinely based on Win7 it'll be hacked within minutes.