Haha, thanks. I've been fairly absent lately, but when I spotted that magical moment where I could post "does it run linux?" before anybody else, I knew I had to sign back in.
You need to do more research. I can wirelessly sync music to my current-firmware iphone through Amarok over SSH with keyed authentication, and I'm definitely on the low end of technical knowledge when it comes to linux. There are clear, easy-to-follow wiki how-tos. To trick the iphone into reading unsigned database entries, you only have to edit a single entry in a.plist file on the phone.
That's very reasonable; I based my reply on one incident, which was probably a silly assumption. My local Wendy's, by way of example, messes up pretty infrequently, and I've gotten vouchers and so forth any time I've complained. I could swear they mess up less than when I moved to the area, but that could be placebo or wishful thinking. My walmart has *not* improved and I end up driving 30 minutes out of my way to support a different one. (Speaking of pointless boycotts...)
You realize it's insane and pointless to boycott an individual store, let alone an entire chain, based on one employee's actions, right? Say "I'm not buying item X today because employee Y ignored me repeatedly" on your way out, at least; you're not making any noticeable difference in sales by your one-man boycott, so unless you tell the store about it, they don't know that they're losing business because some jerk is too busy to work.
Success for OLPC must be defined in the traditional capitalist sense, since the fund operates in a capitalist society. Merely improving education would be great, but it's not sustainable without some kind of business model or donation system. OLPC will have to succeed as a hardware manufacturer in some sense in order to succeed in their primary goal of improving education.
God fear/love is a tricky line, because of course both terms mean slightly different things to different people and groups of people. They both suggest obedience to God, this is true, but it's arguable that obedience under duress (ie, fear of god) isn't "legitimate" faith.
Good customer service goes a long way towards customer retention? As Neo would say, whoa.
One of the reasons I bought an iPhone with no intention of using it as a phone is that I had roughly the iPAQ experience with my old iPod. When it died on me with a loose connector that was quite possibly my own fault, I opened it up to force a more solid connection in order to clear Rockbox and podzilla, Just In Case. Although I was careful, it showed some signs of forced entry. I got a new one less than a week later, no questions asked. I don't know what would have happened if it had been obviously modified, back then, but what kind of dope expects service on an obviously-hacked device? I'd hope for it, sure, and hoping is what I did. Turns out Apple is not being friendly on the iPhone, and if I have one of the (apparently fairly rare) hardware failures that are beginning to crop up, I'm totally boned. I'm not happy with that, but I knew the risk I was taking when I bought it.
I also haven't updated my iPhone to 1.1.1, because the Dev Team didn't say it was OK, yet. Just common sense, people.
And even if iTunes crashes a lot, DO NOT update to 7.4.3... it jailed my iPhone up again, and though it was easy to fix once I realized what had happened, it was pretty annoying.
Same here, more or less. It dispensed the cash, I reached for it, and it pulled the cash back in! I had to go to the bank to complain daily for several days before they gave in--not because they admitted their machine fucked up, which they didn't, but just to get rid of me I imagine.
By the way, this may have been a common Vista problem where certain services go nuts. On a low-end laptop it's a disaster. I found a nice step-by-step guide to tracking the problem down using manual tasklisting and services.msc but I don't get the same thrill out of troubleshooting that I did when I was a kid. We returned the laptop and bought one that worked. (The new Acer Aspire 5100 unfortunately runs Vista, but it runs it with Aero and reasonable CPU usage.)
Since it won't let me post this follow-up I'm just going to use my account and lose the mod points. I'm KILROY!
Kilroy.
Kilroy!
This lappy had half the ram (we intended to upgrade but returned it instead), but I doubt that was the CPU killer. I'm sure it was a driver/broken services issue, but MS or Everex or whoever's responsible ought to know that an entire production line of PCs should not idle at 80%! I mean day-yum.
First we bought a low-end Everex which was perfectly sufficient for email, IM, web browsing, and accounting software. Vista kept the processor at 80% on average, at idle. I installed XP and it was just fine, but we couldn't get XP drivers for the wifi adapter. Apparently Vista has a few high-demand services that you can disable to work around the problem, but you lose various features as a result.
So we returned that model for an Acer, and it handles Vista nicely. Sims 2 works, Aero works, it's all very pretty. Turns out Peachtree 2005 doesn't work, though, and 2005 is the only version my girlfriend can use for her accounting class. She's still using her old laptop, which this was supposed to replace, for the rest of the semester!
Are you saying that abusing the law "because you can" is not a power trip? And that it's surprising that people who have requested no "help" themselves get angry when help their neighbors called arrests them?
PayPal did the same thing when Dan Savage of the Savage Love sex column took up a collection for charity. PayPal refused to release the funds to him and would only donate them directly to United Way, a charity with a very questionable reputation. Don't take charity through PayPal, people. They're sketchy enough when you're buying and selling like they want you to.
No, wait, we'll build the corruption right into the system! We'll sell indulgences just like the church of old. Companies will be able to buy themselves extra time to fix the bug before the release date, and we can invest the money in charity, scientific research, and hookers. Actually, forget charity and science.
...of the super leet who will serve as judges on a case-by-case basis. The, ahem, debugger, will submit his evidence that the company has refused to respond or address the bug in a timely manner. The panel will attempt to contact the company themselves as a last resort, and if this fails, will permit the release of the exploit. Eventually the panel will become drunk with power and corrupt, and retire in disgrace on billion-dollar yachts.
I think PalmOS is potentially stable, but exceptionally fragile, particularly on NVFS devices like Treos. Mine was rock-solid for a long time with a custom rom and some hand-picked apps, but eventually junk accumulated as I installed and uninstalled new programs and now I experience resets here and there. It isn't bothersome enough to hard-reset and reinstall things. My girlfriend has had hers a week and I set it up just like mine; no crashes yet. As long as she doesn't install and remove a ton of dodgy shareware, I reckon it'll remain stable at least until the newer models drop in price.
To the designers of MobiQWERTY, I pose a question: could you hook me up with your dealer? I want what you're smokin!
QWERTY as you may know is the apparently-random keyboard design we use as a standard because it slows down typing which prevented primitive machines called "type writers" from jamming. We still use QWERTY on our digital keyboards because we're a stupid, stupid species.
Cell phone don't jam either, folks. That's just your shitty service.
MobiQWERTY has rearranged the default alphabetic 3x3x3 mobile phone layout with one vaguely resembling QWERTY, which places commonly-used letters in mathematically rational positions that make no sense at a glance--except that they're like your computer keyboard, which is a bad association to make because it's not like enough. Of course, DVORAK never caught on and that's actually better.
This kind of thing makes me mad. Interfaces are bad enough already, folks.
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Haha, thanks. I've been fairly absent lately, but when I spotted that magical moment where I could post "does it run linux?" before anybody else, I knew I had to sign back in.
Does it run linux?
Jesus christ, even Reddit doesn't downvote dissent so virulently. Somebody remind me: why'd I bother coming back here?
You need to do more research. I can wirelessly sync music to my current-firmware iphone through Amarok over SSH with keyed authentication, and I'm definitely on the low end of technical knowledge when it comes to linux. There are clear, easy-to-follow wiki how-tos. To trick the iphone into reading unsigned database entries, you only have to edit a single entry in a .plist file on the phone.
That's very reasonable; I based my reply on one incident, which was probably a silly assumption. My local Wendy's, by way of example, messes up pretty infrequently, and I've gotten vouchers and so forth any time I've complained. I could swear they mess up less than when I moved to the area, but that could be placebo or wishful thinking. My walmart has *not* improved and I end up driving 30 minutes out of my way to support a different one. (Speaking of pointless boycotts...)
You realize it's insane and pointless to boycott an individual store, let alone an entire chain, based on one employee's actions, right? Say "I'm not buying item X today because employee Y ignored me repeatedly" on your way out, at least; you're not making any noticeable difference in sales by your one-man boycott, so unless you tell the store about it, they don't know that they're losing business because some jerk is too busy to work.
Success for OLPC must be defined in the traditional capitalist sense, since the fund operates in a capitalist society. Merely improving education would be great, but it's not sustainable without some kind of business model or donation system. OLPC will have to succeed as a hardware manufacturer in some sense in order to succeed in their primary goal of improving education. God fear/love is a tricky line, because of course both terms mean slightly different things to different people and groups of people. They both suggest obedience to God, this is true, but it's arguable that obedience under duress (ie, fear of god) isn't "legitimate" faith.
I dated her, dude. She's not worth it.
Good customer service goes a long way towards customer retention? As Neo would say, whoa.
... it jailed my iPhone up again, and though it was easy to fix once I realized what had happened, it was pretty annoying.
One of the reasons I bought an iPhone with no intention of using it as a phone is that I had roughly the iPAQ experience with my old iPod. When it died on me with a loose connector that was quite possibly my own fault, I opened it up to force a more solid connection in order to clear Rockbox and podzilla, Just In Case. Although I was careful, it showed some signs of forced entry. I got a new one less than a week later, no questions asked. I don't know what would have happened if it had been obviously modified, back then, but what kind of dope expects service on an obviously-hacked device? I'd hope for it, sure, and hoping is what I did. Turns out Apple is not being friendly on the iPhone, and if I have one of the (apparently fairly rare) hardware failures that are beginning to crop up, I'm totally boned. I'm not happy with that, but I knew the risk I was taking when I bought it.
I also haven't updated my iPhone to 1.1.1, because the Dev Team didn't say it was OK, yet. Just common sense, people.
And even if iTunes crashes a lot, DO NOT update to 7.4.3
Same here, more or less. It dispensed the cash, I reached for it, and it pulled the cash back in! I had to go to the bank to complain daily for several days before they gave in--not because they admitted their machine fucked up, which they didn't, but just to get rid of me I imagine.
History tells us the answer is "no." I'm still waiting on the WM 2003 update for my Toshiba e740.
By the way, this may have been a common Vista problem where certain services go nuts. On a low-end laptop it's a disaster. I found a nice step-by-step guide to tracking the problem down using manual tasklisting and services.msc but I don't get the same thrill out of troubleshooting that I did when I was a kid. We returned the laptop and bought one that worked. (The new Acer Aspire 5100 unfortunately runs Vista, but it runs it with Aero and reasonable CPU usage.)
Since it won't let me post this follow-up I'm just going to use my account and lose the mod points. I'm KILROY!
Kilroy.
Kilroy!
This lappy had half the ram (we intended to upgrade but returned it instead), but I doubt that was the CPU killer. I'm sure it was a driver/broken services issue, but MS or Everex or whoever's responsible ought to know that an entire production line of PCs should not idle at 80%! I mean day-yum.
First we bought a low-end Everex which was perfectly sufficient for email, IM, web browsing, and accounting software. Vista kept the processor at 80% on average, at idle. I installed XP and it was just fine, but we couldn't get XP drivers for the wifi adapter. Apparently Vista has a few high-demand services that you can disable to work around the problem, but you lose various features as a result.
So we returned that model for an Acer, and it handles Vista nicely. Sims 2 works, Aero works, it's all very pretty. Turns out Peachtree 2005 doesn't work, though, and 2005 is the only version my girlfriend can use for her accounting class. She's still using her old laptop, which this was supposed to replace, for the rest of the semester!
We all moan for new phones.
I love David Tennant, but I'm hoping he gets encased in carbonite and Rose takes the Tardis back to grab Chris Eccleston.
Are you saying that abusing the law "because you can" is not a power trip? And that it's surprising that people who have requested no "help" themselves get angry when help their neighbors called arrests them?
If you shoot too late, a random hiccough in your broadband might let the auction time out before your snipe goes through.
Try 30 seconds!
PayPal did the same thing when Dan Savage of the Savage Love sex column took up a collection for charity. PayPal refused to release the funds to him and would only donate them directly to United Way, a charity with a very questionable reputation. Don't take charity through PayPal, people. They're sketchy enough when you're buying and selling like they want you to.
No, wait, we'll build the corruption right into the system! We'll sell indulgences just like the church of old. Companies will be able to buy themselves extra time to fix the bug before the release date, and we can invest the money in charity, scientific research, and hookers. Actually, forget charity and science.
...of the super leet who will serve as judges on a case-by-case basis. The, ahem, debugger, will submit his evidence that the company has refused to respond or address the bug in a timely manner. The panel will attempt to contact the company themselves as a last resort, and if this fails, will permit the release of the exploit. Eventually the panel will become drunk with power and corrupt, and retire in disgrace on billion-dollar yachts.
I nominate myself to head this committee.
I think PalmOS is potentially stable, but exceptionally fragile, particularly on NVFS devices like Treos. Mine was rock-solid for a long time with a custom rom and some hand-picked apps, but eventually junk accumulated as I installed and uninstalled new programs and now I experience resets here and there. It isn't bothersome enough to hard-reset and reinstall things. My girlfriend has had hers a week and I set it up just like mine; no crashes yet. As long as she doesn't install and remove a ton of dodgy shareware, I reckon it'll remain stable at least until the newer models drop in price.
Or, alternatively, "it's free, but it's not open-source."
To the designers of MobiQWERTY, I pose a question: could you hook me up with your dealer? I want what you're smokin! QWERTY as you may know is the apparently-random keyboard design we use as a standard because it slows down typing which prevented primitive machines called "type writers" from jamming. We still use QWERTY on our digital keyboards because we're a stupid, stupid species. Cell phone don't jam either, folks. That's just your shitty service. MobiQWERTY has rearranged the default alphabetic 3x3x3 mobile phone layout with one vaguely resembling QWERTY, which places commonly-used letters in mathematically rational positions that make no sense at a glance--except that they're like your computer keyboard, which is a bad association to make because it's not like enough. Of course, DVORAK never caught on and that's actually better. This kind of thing makes me mad. Interfaces are bad enough already, folks.