I know someone who went to a minimum security prison. I suppose they might not all be alike but if they are sending him to one anything like my friend went to he has a year vacation to spend playing playstation games and/or in a gym occasionally interrupted by a class or two.
Now.. trying to find a good job with a conviction on his record once he gets out... That's the part which will suck for him.
"Just because it's trivial for you to defeat the roadblocks put in place by handset manufacturers or carriers does not eliminate the issue."
I very much agree. Unfortunately with vendors and carriers what they are today getting a truly open phone is prohibitively expensive when it's even possible at all. I would much rather root an Android phone though where the source is available so that I can keep getting update roms from outside the carrier than to jailbreak an iPhone and worry that the next update might get pushed by the carrier and be designed to brick jailbroken phones.
IMHO Android is a lesser evil than iPhone. That is all. My personal ideal phone would be an updated version of the Sharp Zaurus with a CDMA (Verizon) modem inside.
Pretty good! One of my favorite apps still isn't available from any marketplace but I just unchecked (or was it checked I can never remember) one box and my phone happily installs it for me from a website download.
Someday Apple will finally get around to what it has always been striving towards... the one button interface. I can see it now, Jobs explaining how everything a fanboi could need is all available through a series of short and long clicks of the iButton... http://alturl.com/np7pw
I totally agree. I have this NVidia setup now where I have two xorg.conf files and a couple of shell scripts which copy them in to place and restart xdm each time I go between gaming (single monitor) and desktop (dual monitor). I'd love to see the driver better integrated and maybe just throw a switch in the KDE control panel to do this. Also, rebuilding nvidia-driver for every kernel update sucks.
But as a consumer I don't want to spend the money until I know it is the better choice now, not will be in a few years once the driver matures. That's where the previous question came from.
I had a similar but opposite experience some years ago when I switched from ATI to NVidia. Is ATI actually working better than NVidia again? My card works great for it's age but my hardware is pretty old. Back when I preferred ATI I remember shelling out money for a few cards while never getting 3D acceleration to work decently. Finally I switched to NVidia. I don't want to risk buying 3 cards to finally end up with a working one again. Should I try AMD/ATI?
I've been pretty impressed with the closed source NVidia drivers but I'll definitely consider switching to AMD the next time I'm shopping for parts. I totally get the idea of not caring about politics so long as your video works but there are a few disadvantages to the closed source drivers.
1) Polish - They have their own configuration utility. NVidia-settings is nice enough but it makes a distro seem kind of unpolished when there is this nice KDE or Gnome control panel for setting resolution and such but it doesn't work and the user has to figure out that they need to run nvidia-settings instead. Of course this is meaningless if you are the type that would just prefer to edit xorg.conf by hand.
2) New kernels - I can't count the number of times I have installed a new kernel, rebooted and thought something was broken for a moment before I remembered oh, yah, I have to recompile nvidia-drivers. Again!
3) Longevity - I suppose I can't complain too much, I have some pretty old NVidia cards which still work with the NVidia drivers. Some day though they will not. Of course when that day comes I can continue to use the old drivers but eventually they will not work with a recent X. And someday an old X will not work with a recent application... Yes, it sounds cheap to care but there is nothing wrong with that. Certainly I will never care about this for a fast gaming PC but that's no reason not to pass the cards down to less speed critical machines which family members use for web browsing, document editing and such... Open source drivers will probably keep getting ported just about forever just because they can and that one person who cares and can program is still out there. This was one of the reasons I switched to Linux years ago... I had network cards which I used to run 98 on for which there were no XP drivers. This was back when a network card was $50 and I was a college student living on Ramen noodles. Linux drivers still exist today!
Not true at all.. there were galena crystals. Some people even were working on adding additional catwhiskers and obtaining amplification early on but then tubes came around and seemed like the better option for a while.
Not true at all.. there were galena crystals. Some people even were working on adding additional catwhiskers and obtaining amplification early on but then tubes came around and seemed like the better option for a while.
If you do, make sure to check the traps often! I learned that lesson the hard way. There really was a tooth fairy... poor fairy... dehydration is such an awful way to go!
Sure... but I've never seen something where I click the link on my PC and the app gets sent to and installed on my handset. Have I been missing something?
Even if it wasn't though.. isn't that how most patents have been since about 1995? Do x which has been done billions of times before since the beginning of history but do it with a computer...
I don't know what they are thinking but I'd say both of these options would be correct! The problem is it will probably just help Palin actually get elected... shudder...
OK, obviously turning off Latitude, making sure there are no apps spying on you, etc... are important. Still, even if you do get an old TracPhone from the 90s or some other totally non-smart device the only way to be sure it can't be used against you is to remove the battery. Your position can be narrowed down surprisingly good just by checking the signal strength at a few towers.
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Come on!! Somebody mod this up!
I know someone who went to a minimum security prison. I suppose they might not all be alike but if they are sending him to one anything like my friend went to he has a year vacation to spend playing playstation games and/or in a gym occasionally interrupted by a class or two.
Now.. trying to find a good job with a conviction on his record once he gets out... That's the part which will suck for him.
Great idea! Life before the unions was so nice! The bosses were all so sweet and kind! No one would be underpaid, overworked or hungry ever again!
Didn't Google stop selling phones directly?
"Just because it's trivial for you to defeat the roadblocks put in place by handset manufacturers or carriers does not eliminate the issue."
I very much agree. Unfortunately with vendors and carriers what they are today getting a truly open phone is prohibitively expensive when it's even possible at all. I would much rather root an Android phone though where the source is available so that I can keep getting update roms from outside the carrier than to jailbreak an iPhone and worry that the next update might get pushed by the carrier and be designed to brick jailbroken phones.
IMHO Android is a lesser evil than iPhone. That is all. My personal ideal phone would be an updated version of the Sharp Zaurus with a CDMA (Verizon) modem inside.
Pretty good! One of my favorite apps still isn't available from any marketplace but I just unchecked (or was it checked I can never remember) one box and my phone happily installs it for me from a website download.
Someday Apple will finally get around to what it has always been striving towards... the one button interface. I can see it now, Jobs explaining how everything a fanboi could need is all available through a series of short and long clicks of the iButton... http://alturl.com/np7pw
I totally agree. I have this NVidia setup now where I have two xorg.conf files and a couple of shell scripts which copy them in to place and restart xdm each time I go between gaming (single monitor) and desktop (dual monitor). I'd love to see the driver better integrated and maybe just throw a switch in the KDE control panel to do this. Also, rebuilding nvidia-driver for every kernel update sucks.
But as a consumer I don't want to spend the money until I know it is the better choice now, not will be in a few years once the driver matures. That's where the previous question came from.
I had a similar but opposite experience some years ago when I switched from ATI to NVidia. Is ATI actually working better than NVidia again? My card works great for it's age but my hardware is pretty old. Back when I preferred ATI I remember shelling out money for a few cards while never getting 3D acceleration to work decently. Finally I switched to NVidia. I don't want to risk buying 3 cards to finally end up with a working one again. Should I try AMD/ATI?
That's a valid point. NVidia seems to have some support for that in the closed drivers now.
Maybe so. What happens when developers outside of AMD start hacking at it?
I've been pretty impressed with the closed source NVidia drivers but I'll definitely consider switching to AMD the next time I'm shopping for parts. I totally get the idea of not caring about politics so long as your video works but there are a few disadvantages to the closed source drivers.
1) Polish - They have their own configuration utility. NVidia-settings is nice enough but it makes a distro seem kind of unpolished when there is this nice KDE or Gnome control panel for setting resolution and such but it doesn't work and the user has to figure out that they need to run nvidia-settings instead. Of course this is meaningless if you are the type that would just prefer to edit xorg.conf by hand.
2) New kernels - I can't count the number of times I have installed a new kernel, rebooted and thought something was broken for a moment before I remembered oh, yah, I have to recompile nvidia-drivers. Again!
3) Longevity - I suppose I can't complain too much, I have some pretty old NVidia cards which still work with the NVidia drivers. Some day though they will not. Of course when that day comes I can continue to use the old drivers but eventually they will not work with a recent X. And someday an old X will not work with a recent application... Yes, it sounds cheap to care but there is nothing wrong with that. Certainly I will never care about this for a fast gaming PC but that's no reason not to pass the cards down to less speed critical machines which family members use for web browsing, document editing and such... Open source drivers will probably keep getting ported just about forever just because they can and that one person who cares and can program is still out there. This was one of the reasons I switched to Linux years ago... I had network cards which I used to run 98 on for which there were no XP drivers. This was back when a network card was $50 and I was a college student living on Ramen noodles. Linux drivers still exist today!
Good morning. How was you hibernation?
Not true at all.. there were galena crystals. Some people even were working on adding additional catwhiskers and obtaining amplification early on but then tubes came around and seemed like the better option for a while.
Not true at all.. there were galena crystals. Some people even were working on adding additional catwhiskers and obtaining amplification early on but then tubes came around and seemed like the better option for a while.
If you do, make sure to check the traps often! I learned that lesson the hard way. There really was a tooth fairy... poor fairy... dehydration is such an awful way to go!
That's still less convenient.
Sure... but I've never seen something where I click the link on my PC and the app gets sent to and installed on my handset. Have I been missing something?
That part sucks. It sucks because no doubt Amazon is patenting this process now and it will be hard to get that feature elsewhere.
This looks like some pretty specific software.
Even if it wasn't though.. isn't that how most patents have been since about 1995? Do x which has been done billions of times before since the beginning of history but do it with a computer...
What drugs are involved in that context?
I don't know what they are thinking but I'd say both of these options would be correct! The problem is it will probably just help Palin actually get elected... shudder...
Yup. Pretty much. Welcome to Ameika! It's been that way at least since Hoover and it's only getting worse.
OK, obviously turning off Latitude, making sure there are no apps spying on you, etc... are important. Still, even if you do get an old TracPhone from the 90s or some other totally non-smart device the only way to be sure it can't be used against you is to remove the battery. Your position can be narrowed down surprisingly good just by checking the signal strength at a few towers.
I wish I could mod this one up!