Hell, the success in the tablet space has been exactly inversely proportional to the ability to "hack" the device. Look at the iPad 2.
Yes just look at iPhone 4 vs Android. According to your theory, only 1/3 of the smart phone market is made up of "dumb schmucks", and 2/3 are made up of "us geeks".
It's not that hard to get around this stuff. You can't boycott them all, and they all sell to allies and/or distributors that do.
Cisco sells to Pakistan (ally), Pakistan sells to Russia (supposedly an ally now), who sells either directly to Libya (who was taken OFF our state terror list a while back) or to China (supposedly an ally now too), who sells to North Korea, Libya, Syria, or Canada, all definitely NOT allies. Boycott Cisco all you want, but good luck finding a competitor large enough to supply what you need at a better price and has found a way to keep their products off non-ally soil... and by good luck, I mean, no way.
I might be mistaken, but Microsoft tried to make their office document formats standard AND proprietary. In other words, extortion. "Comply with the standard, FOSS, but pay the oh so small fee for the patent."
The Apple claim is still BS, though. Motorola could claim that GSM can be worked around by using wifi and software... which is about as effectual as working around a thin rectangular screen tablet by making it a circle (and some idiot actually suggested that on another forum).
You know, the one with Sean Connery finding the cure for cancer in a rain forest only do have it plowed over? We can't get Pandas to reliably reproduce offspring in captivity... and some people are even saying, "Why are we wasting money trying to save some of these animals that don't seem to want to survive?"
Millions years of evolution is a toolbox we can pull parts from. Lost a species, and you loose millions of years of tools. You don't have to give a damn how cute a Panda is. What you should cause concern is our own survival.
Yes, because Google is so well known for bad search ideas and have no experience dealing with search spammers and SEO./sarcasm
The more signals a service can plug into, the better. Just look at the Real Time twitter feed that they had. Twitter is full of spammers, but it turned out to be an incredible service (good signal far outweighed the bad). I do think G+ will figure into ranking of trusted +1 sources. With their real name position, those with thousands of followers will most likely be verified. And having trustworthy sites being +1 recommended by the likes of Leo LaPort and Robert Scoble is a boon for Google.
I never said I didn't know what I was talking about, I asked for those who are more knowledgeable to confirm or deny (hopefully with some citation).
And I never said radio in general, but cellular radio. And if you think a completely open cellular radio is going to be A-OK with the federal government, you most likely have never heard of Kevin Mitnick.
With a completely open cellular radio system with full root access via the OS, cloning, among other things, would be "extremely" easy to do. (It already is easy, but at least you have to spend some effort, not just pick up a $20 phone at Walmart and jailbreak it.) Not to mention wiretapping and MITM attacks on the cellular network. There is a mountain of significant problems, including from the FCC. It is true that this is mostly the fault of the telecoms for not securing their networks properly, but this doesn't change the fact that security by obscurity is an accepted practice in the cellular space. This has been a feature again and again at the Black Hat security conference.
If you are talking HAM or CB radio, that's a completely different story. Similarly, wifi is also different.
So, not quite what "bullshit" you are referring to.
I'm a planner, mostly. I think of ways to fix problems and improve my company's network systems. Not only is reading Slashdot "productive" for me, so is sitting around at home watching a movie and eating popcorn.
The point is, I'm paid salary, not hourly. It doesn't matter how much time I'm given, I just have to complete all tasks, period. So, if I want to show up at work and screw around on Slashdot, or Google+ or whatever, it means nothing. Either my job gets done or not. If it continually doesn't get done, I won't have a job to return to.
At this very moment, I have at least 5 other things that I need to work on, yet I'm posting here. Why? If I get them done now, I can leave early. Otherwise, I'll be here for a lot longer. But, as anyone in IT knows, don't got changing every damn thing on the network if you don't like chaos.;) I'll update a client after I post. I'll call a Cisco engineer when I'm done with that. I'll screw around on Google+ after that, maybe post a ICanHazCheesburger picture after that, then check on my daily backups, then load balance the VM cloud, then I might even *gasp* check out some ladies in bikinis.
It's my job, my responsibilities, my choice how to spend my time. What time do they get from me? I've had to stay until 3am without any overtime pay to make sure email is working at 6am. Most of the time I sat watching the server transfer on one monitor, and watching Star Trek TNG on Netflix on my phone.
Anyone who has a complaint about that can find someone else willing to do my job, at my pay, with the same dedication, and with no goof-off time*. Haha, yeah, good luck with that!
I've had manual labor jobs, and no, the only perk there is listening to music. It's not the same, and you can't screw around on an hourly job, imho.
* btw, my "goof-off" time is usually reading on tech, which constantly improves my performance.
And... how many companies would use that version? Parts of it absolutely have to be locked out, yet link and work, such as the radio. While not impossible to get into the radio, the FCC (I could be talking out of my arse here, so someone with more knowledge can confirm or deny this general memory of mine) doesn't want the entire population walking around with fully open phones, even if the companies would supply them. They would fail to get licensing.
While not directly bootloader related (I sympathize with you, I really really do, I run CyanogenMod), GPLv3 has had some issues playing nice. I don't remember all of those issues, but I know several companies have balked at GPLv3. And FSF has been moving into this Midas "Everything we touch turns to GPL Gold!" creeping in for a long time now. And that's just NOT going to fly with cellular communications, period.
Tablets, you betcha! But we have to remember with phones, regardless of how little we use these things to actually talk, they are still phones and they are heavily regulated and must be licensed before they can be operated.
The fossils were from a sedimentary formation that was most likely a beach. They date back to 3.4 billion years ago and there is evidence that large amounts of water existed as far back as 4.4 billion years.
Does this suggest that beaches existed at least that old, and therefore, Jersey Shore is therefore explainable by evolution with its muscle bound, reptilian inhabitants?
Editorializing... just read some of the comments. They are practically brimming with people accusing people doing the act of sitting as the same as breaking into houses, breaking backs and legs, and causing global thermonuclear warfare. But, not one real citation. It's very Palin/Bachmann-esk... "I learned my history in Sunday School, don'tcha know!"... and sounds like as much.
Judging from your username, I doubt you seriously "like the idea of unions". But I love these long threads of unsubstantiated claims and anecdotes. No wonder 44% of the US population also thinks the earth is less than 10,000 years old, nobody cites, and nobody demands citation.
Not sure why people dislike them. Maybe it's another anti-socialist thing.
Because they harass people at their homes, bother their children, trespass on people's property, block people into their homes, and try to force their way into people's homes.
I want you to cite sources for unions forming human chains around people's home and then breaking into those homes. I'm sorry, I must not pay much attention to the news lately, because I've not seen these union mobs in the US breaking into homes. I call BULLSHIT.
Having been in workplaces with unions and those without, anybody that says for manual labor that a union is worse... they are living in dream land. Oh, how horrible! They pay dues! You mean, that couple dollars a week for earning almost twice that of most non-union shops? You mean, that couple dollars that pays the bills because it goes into a "strike fund" so you can feed your kids when the CEO tells you to take an 80% pay cut? You mean that "pay them for the privilege of working"?
I wish people would a) cite their rhetoric and b) were smart enough not to Mod Up people "Insightful" who make wholly unsubstantiated claims that, frankly, look like total bullshit on the face of those claims.
All those bastards who commit disobedience, those horrible "criminal acts" should be locked up! How dare they sit and do nothing?
Oooooo, wait a minute, I've heard that before... from Jim Crow advocates speaking about Rosa Parks.
Jesus Christ people, they're non-violently sitting and forming picket lines. Save the criminal bastard labels for those conducting actual outward acts of sabotage.
Otherwise, you look like a TWAT when your comments are directed at some of the greatest people of the last few generations. Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Ghandi, and even the Egypt Tahrir Square.
So they're striking over pay and hours, and the usual bits and pieces. They're not burning your homes down, they're fighting a telecom. Since when the hell have we started considering telecoms friendly, either to customers or employees?
America fixed this with the, less than ideal, 2 party system, all or nothing, and if less than 50%, you have a run off. Unless you are more European, then you can elect by % of vote per party, whereby if there are 100 seats, someone with 39% gets 39 seats. I rather like that system better, but either way, these are the only real working alternatives that I've seen.
Maybe other's have seen other alternatives for fair elections?
Crystallization causes a zeroing of the isotopic clock. In other words, if a crystal of all potassium is formed, it will contain some potassium-40 isotopes, but no argon-40. This is used to determine when the rock was initially formed. As time passes, potassium-40 decays into argon-40 with a half life of 1.3 billion years. So, if a crystal contains a 1:1 ratio, or 50% (1 half life) potassium-40 to argon-40, the rock was formed 1.3 billion years ago. If it is 25% potassium-40 to 75% argon-40, the rock was formed 1.3 billion years ago.
Of course, the problem with this in planetary dating is that A) you have to assume the crystals were formed exactly when the planet/moon formed, which likely is not the case, since it requires, however brief, a period of cooling for the crystals to form and B) you have to find the rocks that first formed, aka, the oldest rocks.
There is also the problem of margin for error, but this is usually small enough to not really matter. If something is 4 or 5 billion years old, having a 100-200 million year margin for error is still pretty small. The other issue is to use as many of these clocks as possible to find out where they all tend to synchronize. In this case, they used lead and neodymium. And their change was no more spectacular, really, than the Shroud of Turin being dated either 1250 or 1350 AD. We can still say it was around 1300 AD (ignoring the "it caught on fire" contamination theory).
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Not likely...
Hell, the success in the tablet space has been exactly inversely proportional to the ability to "hack" the device. Look at the iPad 2.
Yes just look at iPhone 4 vs Android. According to your theory, only 1/3 of the smart phone market is made up of "dumb schmucks", and 2/3 are made up of "us geeks".
It's not that hard to get around this stuff. You can't boycott them all, and they all sell to allies and/or distributors that do.
Cisco sells to Pakistan (ally), Pakistan sells to Russia (supposedly an ally now), who sells either directly to Libya (who was taken OFF our state terror list a while back) or to China (supposedly an ally now too), who sells to North Korea, Libya, Syria, or Canada, all definitely NOT allies. Boycott Cisco all you want, but good luck finding a competitor large enough to supply what you need at a better price and has found a way to keep their products off non-ally soil... and by good luck, I mean, no way.
Oh Canada, I keed, I keed!
I might be mistaken, but Microsoft tried to make their office document formats standard AND proprietary. In other words, extortion. "Comply with the standard, FOSS, but pay the oh so small fee for the patent."
The Apple claim is still BS, though. Motorola could claim that GSM can be worked around by using wifi and software... which is about as effectual as working around a thin rectangular screen tablet by making it a circle (and some idiot actually suggested that on another forum).
I'm still waiting for the sequence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
They should post all stories in not very well known and irrelevant currencies, like say Bitcoin. Oh wait, /. already did that a few months ago.
I thought the Onion already reported that Kim Jong Il has much more ambitious plans to capture the moon already? It's already in the zone, we just need a bunch of rockets to fly it down to North Korea, right?
You know, the one with Sean Connery finding the cure for cancer in a rain forest only do have it plowed over? We can't get Pandas to reliably reproduce offspring in captivity... and some people are even saying, "Why are we wasting money trying to save some of these animals that don't seem to want to survive?"
Millions years of evolution is a toolbox we can pull parts from. Lost a species, and you loose millions of years of tools. You don't have to give a damn how cute a Panda is. What you should cause concern is our own survival.
Now you can run around with Micky-O. I'm sure Disney has no use for that old, dried up copyright, right? ;)
Yes, because Google is so well known for bad search ideas and have no experience dealing with search spammers and SEO. /sarcasm
The more signals a service can plug into, the better. Just look at the Real Time twitter feed that they had. Twitter is full of spammers, but it turned out to be an incredible service (good signal far outweighed the bad). I do think G+ will figure into ranking of trusted +1 sources. With their real name position, those with thousands of followers will most likely be verified. And having trustworthy sites being +1 recommended by the likes of Leo LaPort and Robert Scoble is a boon for Google.
At least I can still turn off my TV in the middle of an advertisement.
And TV ads don't eat into your download cap and infect your TV with malware.
You've never had nightmares about Flo (Progressive) giving birth to the e-Trade baby, have you?
Show me a child unwilling to learn, and I'll show you the parents and teachers that continually failed the child.
I never said I didn't know what I was talking about, I asked for those who are more knowledgeable to confirm or deny (hopefully with some citation).
And I never said radio in general, but cellular radio. And if you think a completely open cellular radio is going to be A-OK with the federal government, you most likely have never heard of Kevin Mitnick.
With a completely open cellular radio system with full root access via the OS, cloning, among other things, would be "extremely" easy to do. (It already is easy, but at least you have to spend some effort, not just pick up a $20 phone at Walmart and jailbreak it.) Not to mention wiretapping and MITM attacks on the cellular network. There is a mountain of significant problems, including from the FCC. It is true that this is mostly the fault of the telecoms for not securing their networks properly, but this doesn't change the fact that security by obscurity is an accepted practice in the cellular space. This has been a feature again and again at the Black Hat security conference.
If you are talking HAM or CB radio, that's a completely different story. Similarly, wifi is also different.
So, not quite what "bullshit" you are referring to.
Kinda wish there were still "unknown" places you couldn't just click to.
I'm a planner, mostly. I think of ways to fix problems and improve my company's network systems. Not only is reading Slashdot "productive" for me, so is sitting around at home watching a movie and eating popcorn.
The point is, I'm paid salary, not hourly. It doesn't matter how much time I'm given, I just have to complete all tasks, period. So, if I want to show up at work and screw around on Slashdot, or Google+ or whatever, it means nothing. Either my job gets done or not. If it continually doesn't get done, I won't have a job to return to.
At this very moment, I have at least 5 other things that I need to work on, yet I'm posting here. Why? If I get them done now, I can leave early. Otherwise, I'll be here for a lot longer. But, as anyone in IT knows, don't got changing every damn thing on the network if you don't like chaos. ;) I'll update a client after I post. I'll call a Cisco engineer when I'm done with that. I'll screw around on Google+ after that, maybe post a ICanHazCheesburger picture after that, then check on my daily backups, then load balance the VM cloud, then I might even *gasp* check out some ladies in bikinis.
It's my job, my responsibilities, my choice how to spend my time. What time do they get from me? I've had to stay until 3am without any overtime pay to make sure email is working at 6am. Most of the time I sat watching the server transfer on one monitor, and watching Star Trek TNG on Netflix on my phone.
Anyone who has a complaint about that can find someone else willing to do my job, at my pay, with the same dedication, and with no goof-off time*. Haha, yeah, good luck with that!
I've had manual labor jobs, and no, the only perk there is listening to music. It's not the same, and you can't screw around on an hourly job, imho.
* btw, my "goof-off" time is usually reading on tech, which constantly improves my performance.
And... how many companies would use that version? Parts of it absolutely have to be locked out, yet link and work, such as the radio. While not impossible to get into the radio, the FCC (I could be talking out of my arse here, so someone with more knowledge can confirm or deny this general memory of mine) doesn't want the entire population walking around with fully open phones, even if the companies would supply them. They would fail to get licensing.
While not directly bootloader related (I sympathize with you, I really really do, I run CyanogenMod), GPLv3 has had some issues playing nice. I don't remember all of those issues, but I know several companies have balked at GPLv3. And FSF has been moving into this Midas "Everything we touch turns to GPL Gold!" creeping in for a long time now. And that's just NOT going to fly with cellular communications, period.
Tablets, you betcha! But we have to remember with phones, regardless of how little we use these things to actually talk, they are still phones and they are heavily regulated and must be licensed before they can be operated.
...especially in the presence of the ancient dried form of the life form Cannabis.
The fossils were from a sedimentary formation that was most likely a beach. They date back to 3.4 billion years ago and there is evidence that large amounts of water existed as far back as 4.4 billion years.
Does this suggest that beaches existed at least that old, and therefore, Jersey Shore is therefore explainable by evolution with its muscle bound, reptilian inhabitants?
Editorializing... just read some of the comments. They are practically brimming with people accusing people doing the act of sitting as the same as breaking into houses, breaking backs and legs, and causing global thermonuclear warfare. But, not one real citation. It's very Palin/Bachmann-esk... "I learned my history in Sunday School, don'tcha know!"... and sounds like as much.
Judging from your username, I doubt you seriously "like the idea of unions". But I love these long threads of unsubstantiated claims and anecdotes. No wonder 44% of the US population also thinks the earth is less than 10,000 years old, nobody cites, and nobody demands citation.
Not sure why people dislike them. Maybe it's another anti-socialist thing.
Because they harass people at their homes, bother their children, trespass on people's property, block people into their homes, and try to force their way into people's homes.
I want you to cite sources for unions forming human chains around people's home and then breaking into those homes. I'm sorry, I must not pay much attention to the news lately, because I've not seen these union mobs in the US breaking into homes. I call BULLSHIT.
Having been in workplaces with unions and those without, anybody that says for manual labor that a union is worse... they are living in dream land. Oh, how horrible! They pay dues! You mean, that couple dollars a week for earning almost twice that of most non-union shops? You mean, that couple dollars that pays the bills because it goes into a "strike fund" so you can feed your kids when the CEO tells you to take an 80% pay cut? You mean that "pay them for the privilege of working"?
I wish people would a) cite their rhetoric and b) were smart enough not to Mod Up people "Insightful" who make wholly unsubstantiated claims that, frankly, look like total bullshit on the face of those claims.
All those bastards who commit disobedience, those horrible "criminal acts" should be locked up! How dare they sit and do nothing?
Oooooo, wait a minute, I've heard that before... from Jim Crow advocates speaking about Rosa Parks.
Jesus Christ people, they're non-violently sitting and forming picket lines. Save the criminal bastard labels for those conducting actual outward acts of sabotage.
Otherwise, you look like a TWAT when your comments are directed at some of the greatest people of the last few generations. Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Ghandi, and even the Egypt Tahrir Square.
So they're striking over pay and hours, and the usual bits and pieces. They're not burning your homes down, they're fighting a telecom. Since when the hell have we started considering telecoms friendly, either to customers or employees?
You can't fix cable without fixing the cable companies, not the box.
America fixed this with the, less than ideal, 2 party system, all or nothing, and if less than 50%, you have a run off. Unless you are more European, then you can elect by % of vote per party, whereby if there are 100 seats, someone with 39% gets 39 seats. I rather like that system better, but either way, these are the only real working alternatives that I've seen.
Maybe other's have seen other alternatives for fair elections?
Correction, I meant to say 2.6 in the case of 25% to 75%.
Crystallization causes a zeroing of the isotopic clock. In other words, if a crystal of all potassium is formed, it will contain some potassium-40 isotopes, but no argon-40. This is used to determine when the rock was initially formed. As time passes, potassium-40 decays into argon-40 with a half life of 1.3 billion years. So, if a crystal contains a 1:1 ratio, or 50% (1 half life) potassium-40 to argon-40, the rock was formed 1.3 billion years ago. If it is 25% potassium-40 to 75% argon-40, the rock was formed 1.3 billion years ago.
Of course, the problem with this in planetary dating is that A) you have to assume the crystals were formed exactly when the planet/moon formed, which likely is not the case, since it requires, however brief, a period of cooling for the crystals to form and B) you have to find the rocks that first formed, aka, the oldest rocks.
There is also the problem of margin for error, but this is usually small enough to not really matter. If something is 4 or 5 billion years old, having a 100-200 million year margin for error is still pretty small. The other issue is to use as many of these clocks as possible to find out where they all tend to synchronize. In this case, they used lead and neodymium. And their change was no more spectacular, really, than the Shroud of Turin being dated either 1250 or 1350 AD. We can still say it was around 1300 AD (ignoring the "it caught on fire" contamination theory).
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating