are an illusion. so long as either device you buy is tied to a draconian carrier its just another big ass phone screwing up the line of my pants and sucking down 5 hours worth of charge time in 3 days. the phones may be free, but their features, options and abilities will quickly be restricted at the carrier level.
A phone with freedoms is a phone that doesnt require service contracts or "new every 2" plans for hardware. Its also a phone that lets you question and subvert greedy carrier tactics and, god forbid, gauge and monitor a carriers network performance independently from their own claims of most reliable and most coverage. buy either one, but remember the freedom stops after the transceiver driver comes up.
to the battlefield. most technology in the United States invariably finds its way into our war machine. Since we spend the majority of our GDP on war, we have seen everything from tabasco sauce to laptops, go carts and exploding anti-tank dogs, an operating system based almost entirely on the notion of freedom and now an internet enabled cellphone.
one could argue war as we have waged it in modern times has been a thinly veiled product placement campaign. We will know when real war appears as it wont involve a new hummer to buy, a new cellphone on the "front lines" or a new iphone app. It will involve silence, discipline, remorse, depression, and an endless crashing wave of violence and destruction that will not be twittered, vblogged, or podcasted because the soldier at their cracked and bloodied Android hasnt any fingers left with which to hold anything more than his muddied rifle.
1. you were never meant to keep these 'treasured classics' forever like a book. this hurts the business model and prevents releasing such wonderous hits as Cinderella 4.
2. if it isnt open source, it wont be worth a damn. Proprietary encoders and decoders once obsoleted are nearly impossible to reconstruct or reverse-engineer for playback without finding yourself hauled into a Texas courtroom for patent infringement. the 'final solution' they tout will likely involve nothing but closed source players interwoven so closely, you'll forget to question it being a bad idea in light of historical defiance between them.
3. If its a DVD killer, and you own a majority of DVDs, why would you buy it? youve obsoleted the very thing you seek to keep indefinitely?
my theory is there will be a transition. first we had purchasing movies, now we have licensing movies to DVD, and finally we will have with Disneys 'killer' the ability to license limited viewing rights. the content may remain available in a unary format forever, but a recurring cost is introduced and you lose in the end the ability to watch a movie without being monitored for content infringement of "intellectual property" rights. inevitably movies may be retired from the collection, rerendered to lower or higher formats at disneys whim, or require suddenly a new television or provide new advertising content not originally found in the obsolete version you saught to keep. "authoring rights" will be expanded and more buttons on your remote will do less things when you want them to (example: skipping 'dont download a car' scaremercials.)
there is also another possibility entirely: Disney develops this device to lure customers into parting with books and DVD classics, then retires the device in ~8 years to ditch the poor suckers who believed in it as a viable alternative thus driving up sales in existing media for the time as a sort of 'umbrella' in case of stormy economic conditions. user ditches device, goes to walmart, buys latest instalment of Cincerella 5 and another copy of Cinderella 4 because that one is dead now, disney cash registers ring.
I think Slashdot as a community needs to take a step back, relax, and reconfirm: its just a browser.
if your OS is modifying the functionality of your favorite browser in a way you dont like, or forcing you to do things you dont like, then change your operating system.
similarly, if your browser isn't performing to your expectations, or disabling functionality you want, change your browser
for a real treat, try changing both at the same time! but for god sake stop with the asinine speculation and quit trying to turn this into legitimate news for nerds.
so, because a chip manufacturer and a phone company decided to add pulse support, that means everyone is using it? how about Mackey, or Elation? companies that provide light and sound solutions for major venues?
"these dag-blasted kiddies think they know it all! and they think theyre soooo special! Sometimes they have the gall to do weird things i dont approve of and they dont want to listen to my complaining! these confounded kids call the sheriff when theres a disagreement instead of just fighting like i did back when i was a kid! I live in a peppridge farm commercial where nobody needs the police and you only call the sheriff when mountain justice wont work! "
mod parent down...just becuse you use big words doesnt mean you suddenly become insightful.
the point of a legitimate act of war is to assert control over the masses. you can waste time throwing yourself at the most difficult route to get there, or if youre smart you can attack soft targets that register in the hearts and minds of your objectives. its one reason guerilla warfare is so devastatingly effective, and why it worked for us in the war of 1812.
blowing up a pizzaria is mission accomplished. afterwards it doesnt matter how many drones you build or hummers you have in the street, because villagers understand collusion with even the most noble, well intentioned and high-tech american forces will result in their son or daughter being turned into flaming dogfood at tomorrows burger king bombing.
its always a new player that wants to shake up ma bell, to innovate in ways theyve never tried and to level the playing field for real competition. time and time again its proven by pre-paid legislators, lobbyists and interest groups: you dont fuck with the megacorps. especially not the bells.
if google manages to get anything out of this, which judging by their resistance to the bush administration in the past they may just, I will be very surprised indeed. Once, just once, id love to see something new happen to the communications industry...real competition that follows the lines of the capitalism ive been taught, not the cronyism ive come to expect.
off topic, but id like to see real competition in any industry with a government sanctioned monopoly as well.
Ive spent months on 4chan trying to find hillarious pictures of zombie-dino-anonymous-jesus-hitler goatse that just DO NOT EXIST. With the latest technology from the interweb i can save several hours of stolen photoshop work and just sketch with the only hand i have above the desk the exact image of my pope-toilet-donkey-satan-pedobear-moneyshot-mobile. sauce, included.
for in 2012 when i am fending off the zombie apocalypse with an over-under shotgun from behind a burned out krispy kreme I'll have at very least the comfort of knowing I wasnt deluded into believing an open-source operating system through its own merits and achievements actually became more popular and market acceptable than its proprietary, closed source, and heavily regulated alternative. its just NOT HOW PEOPLE WORK, DAMNIT!
something that people hate, like ads, will somehow become likeable if it conforms to a time-based nature? so fallout 3 would have "double pits to chesty" axe ads and that would make them likeable? or perhaps Wolfenstein will have ads for family guy and armor all?
plus i dont think the technology in some cases has been well thought out. example: the same flash gamestop ad, between every clip of The Venture Brothers on Adult Swim, means i see the same rabbit sell me the same shit 5 times for one show. thats a commercial EVERY 6 MINUTES until i have memorized every line in it after 8 videos (40 viewings of the same damned commercial) and hanged myself in the bathroom.
anyone thought out how angry im going to be when i pay $65 for the latest xbox game only to enjoy commercials and advertisement in it at every opportunity? A comcept that works: Streets of Sim City made commercials laughable for fake products, which actually made the game more fun because a trailer full of marketing execs and legal teams weren't scared about market penetration or viewer reaction.
a country founded by nothing but criminals has evolved into a dictatorship run by nothing but saints.
im sorry to say, but censorship of this magnitude will greatly endanger australian citizens in the event of a zombie apocalypse. How will they know whether a baseball bat or a shotgun is the appropriate weapon? where do they place their shot groups? without detail in the game and critical points like splatter and decapitation, players will be poorly versed and risk overkill or worse, underkill of a zombie.
i would guess thats been happening ever since we realized the infrastructure behind the spectrum is too old to keep pace with the traffic. Throttle it and let your subscribers eat cake!
this proves and solves nothing, its a frogboil tactic they use to get customers familiar with their 'responsibility' on their network. soon it becomes "we kick you off if we find malware." Internet providers are already shovelling this bullshit with port scanning and automated warnings regarding account termination. Treating customers like dirt, redefining what "demand" is in terms of the business model, and shaping the services you supply sure is alot easier than actually scaling infrastructure to meet real-life demand.
some manufacturing managers got together over tea and decided what to do with extra chassis/components for 1q2010 that weren't going to sell anyhow. Netgear is attempting to create a market the same way any other company creates a market, but is being shut down quickly in this case because the community is well informed and the technology is distinctly fraudulent by our definition of the "open source" term they have decided to embrace.
Open source will prove an uncomfortable venture for netgear however one that marketing has identified as "worth a stab" in terms of revenue.
whats worse is anyone interested in this product to begin with will likely agree the entire thing can be accomplished with a craigslisted wireless router, an old desktop, and a few ethernet nics. Better crypto, functional WPA, and i didnt have to buy anything new. Sure its larger, but what netgear fails to realize is my rights matter more than the size of an appliance that doesnt work.
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are an illusion. so long as either device you buy is tied to a draconian carrier its just another big ass phone screwing up the line of my pants and sucking down 5 hours worth of charge time in 3 days. the phones may be free, but their features, options and abilities will quickly be restricted at the carrier level.
A phone with freedoms is a phone that doesnt require service contracts or "new every 2" plans for hardware. Its also a phone that lets you question and subvert greedy carrier tactics and, god forbid, gauge and monitor a carriers network performance independently from their own claims of most reliable and most coverage. buy either one, but remember the freedom stops after the transceiver driver comes up.
when someone farts in an elevator I have the unethical urge to beat them with their own shoes.
/proc/cpuinfo will become a small book. on the bright side, i guarantee 100 cores meets the draft requirements for 'windows 8 capable' status.
to the battlefield. most technology in the United States invariably finds its way into our war machine. Since we spend the majority of our GDP on war, we have seen everything from tabasco sauce to laptops, go carts and exploding anti-tank dogs, an operating system based almost entirely on the notion of freedom and now an internet enabled cellphone.
one could argue war as we have waged it in modern times has been a thinly veiled product placement campaign. We will know when real war appears as it wont involve a new hummer to buy, a new cellphone on the "front lines" or a new iphone app. It will involve silence, discipline, remorse, depression, and an endless crashing wave of violence and destruction that will not be twittered, vblogged, or podcasted because the soldier at their cracked and bloodied Android hasnt any fingers left with which to hold anything more than his muddied rifle.
*.wav or *.aiff usually...
references available upon request. hourly, not salary offer please.
assume this wont work.
1. you were never meant to keep these 'treasured classics' forever like a book. this hurts the business model and prevents releasing such wonderous hits as Cinderella 4.
2. if it isnt open source, it wont be worth a damn. Proprietary encoders and decoders once obsoleted are nearly impossible to reconstruct or reverse-engineer for playback without finding yourself hauled into a Texas courtroom for patent infringement. the 'final solution' they tout will likely involve nothing but closed source players interwoven so closely, you'll forget to question it being a bad idea in light of historical defiance between them.
3. If its a DVD killer, and you own a majority of DVDs, why would you buy it? youve obsoleted the very thing you seek to keep indefinitely?
my theory is there will be a transition. first we had purchasing movies, now we have licensing movies to DVD, and finally we will have with Disneys 'killer' the ability to license limited viewing rights. the content may remain available in a unary format forever, but a recurring cost is introduced and you lose in the end the ability to watch a movie without being monitored for content infringement of "intellectual property" rights. inevitably movies may be retired from the collection, rerendered to lower or higher formats at disneys whim, or require suddenly a new television or provide new advertising content not originally found in the obsolete version you saught to keep. "authoring rights" will be expanded and more buttons on your remote will do less things when you want them to (example: skipping 'dont download a car' scaremercials.)
there is also another possibility entirely: Disney develops this device to lure customers into parting with books and DVD classics, then retires the device in ~8 years to ditch the poor suckers who believed in it as a viable alternative thus driving up sales in existing media for the time as a sort of 'umbrella' in case of stormy economic conditions. user ditches device, goes to walmart, buys latest instalment of Cincerella 5 and another copy of Cinderella 4 because that one is dead now, disney cash registers ring.
element discovers you!
all i can say is, "those poor bastards."
i just felt sandvine stock go up!
besides cancustomers afford to have their connection become anymore comcastic than it already is!?
The company that no longer exists just fired the guy who ran it into the ground?
someone check the connection to the trustees and former board...i think theres an unacceptably high latency...
I think Slashdot as a community needs to take a step back, relax, and reconfirm: its just a browser.
if your OS is modifying the functionality of your favorite browser in a way you dont like, or forcing you to do things you dont like, then change your operating system.
similarly, if your browser isn't performing to your expectations, or disabling functionality you want, change your browser
for a real treat, try changing both at the same time! but for god sake stop with the asinine speculation and quit trying to turn this into legitimate news for nerds.
so, because a chip manufacturer and a phone company decided to add pulse support, that means everyone is using it? how about Mackey, or Elation? companies that provide light and sound solutions for major venues?
"these dag-blasted kiddies think they know it all! and they think theyre soooo special! Sometimes they have the gall to do weird things i dont approve of and they dont want to listen to my complaining! these confounded kids call the sheriff when theres a disagreement instead of just fighting like i did back when i was a kid! I live in a peppridge farm commercial where nobody needs the police and you only call the sheriff when mountain justice wont work! "
mod parent down...just becuse you use big words doesnt mean you suddenly become insightful.
helps control automated selloff scripts triggered at certain levels just as much as it helps automated buy scripts.
the point of a legitimate act of war is to assert control over the masses. you can waste time throwing yourself at the most difficult route to get there, or if youre smart you can attack soft targets that register in the hearts and minds of your objectives. its one reason guerilla warfare is so devastatingly effective, and why it worked for us in the war of 1812.
blowing up a pizzaria is mission accomplished. afterwards it doesnt matter how many drones you build or hummers you have in the street, because villagers understand collusion with even the most noble, well intentioned and high-tech american forces will result in their son or daughter being turned into flaming dogfood at tomorrows burger king bombing.
an admin has popped back from lunch and asked, "hey guys did someone turn my computer off while i was gone? there was a file i was working on......"
why didnt we just say "the government"
land of the fee
home of the paid.
its always a new player that wants to shake up ma bell, to innovate in ways theyve never tried and to level the playing field for real competition. time and time again its proven by pre-paid legislators, lobbyists and interest groups: you dont fuck with the megacorps. especially not the bells.
if google manages to get anything out of this, which judging by their resistance to the bush administration in the past they may just, I will be very surprised indeed. Once, just once, id love to see something new happen to the communications industry...real competition that follows the lines of the capitalism ive been taught, not the cronyism ive come to expect.
off topic, but id like to see real competition in any industry with a government sanctioned monopoly as well.
Ive spent months on 4chan trying to find hillarious pictures of zombie-dino-anonymous-jesus-hitler goatse that just DO NOT EXIST. With the latest technology from the interweb i can save several hours of stolen photoshop work and just sketch with the only hand i have above the desk the exact image of my pope-toilet-donkey-satan-pedobear-moneyshot-mobile. sauce, included.
for in 2012 when i am fending off the zombie apocalypse with an over-under shotgun from behind a burned out krispy kreme I'll have at very least the comfort of knowing I wasnt deluded into believing an open-source operating system through its own merits and achievements actually became more popular and market acceptable than its proprietary, closed source, and heavily regulated alternative. its just NOT HOW PEOPLE WORK, DAMNIT!
something that people hate, like ads, will somehow become likeable if it conforms to a time-based nature? so fallout 3 would have "double pits to chesty" axe ads and that would make them likeable? or perhaps Wolfenstein will have ads for family guy and armor all?
plus i dont think the technology in some cases has been well thought out. example: the same flash gamestop ad, between every clip of The Venture Brothers on Adult Swim, means i see the same rabbit sell me the same shit 5 times for one show. thats a commercial EVERY 6 MINUTES until i have memorized every line in it after 8 videos (40 viewings of the same damned commercial) and hanged myself in the bathroom.
anyone thought out how angry im going to be when i pay $65 for the latest xbox game only to enjoy commercials and advertisement in it at every opportunity? A comcept that works: Streets of Sim City made commercials laughable for fake products, which actually made the game more fun because a trailer full of marketing execs and legal teams weren't scared about market penetration or viewer reaction.
a country founded by nothing but criminals has evolved into a dictatorship run by nothing but saints.
im sorry to say, but censorship of this magnitude will greatly endanger australian citizens in the event of a zombie apocalypse. How will they know whether a baseball bat or a shotgun is the appropriate weapon? where do they place their shot groups? without detail in the game and critical points like splatter and decapitation, players will be poorly versed and risk overkill or worse, underkill of a zombie.
i would guess thats been happening ever since we realized the infrastructure behind the spectrum is too old to keep pace with the traffic. Throttle it and let your subscribers eat cake!
this proves and solves nothing, its a frogboil tactic they use to get customers familiar with their 'responsibility' on their network. soon it becomes "we kick you off if we find malware." Internet providers are already shovelling this bullshit with port scanning and automated warnings regarding account termination. Treating customers like dirt, redefining what "demand" is in terms of the business model, and shaping the services you supply sure is alot easier than actually scaling infrastructure to meet real-life demand.
some manufacturing managers got together over tea and decided what to do with extra chassis/components for 1q2010 that weren't going to sell anyhow. Netgear is attempting to create a market the same way any other company creates a market, but is being shut down quickly in this case because the community is well informed and the technology is distinctly fraudulent by our definition of the "open source" term they have decided to embrace.
Open source will prove an uncomfortable venture for netgear however one that marketing has identified as "worth a stab" in terms of revenue.
whats worse is anyone interested in this product to begin with will likely agree the entire thing can be accomplished with a craigslisted wireless router, an old desktop, and a few ethernet nics. Better crypto, functional WPA, and i didnt have to buy anything new. Sure its larger, but what netgear fails to realize is my rights matter more than the size of an appliance that doesnt work.