Most of the Windows CE phones of that era (pre-Windows Phone 7) were also basically "rooted" - i.e. you could install any .CAB and there was nothing stopping you. But Linux is a real operating system and Windows CE is…
From the article: "Elop oversaw the 2011 launch of a Linux-based smartphone, the Nokia N9. The N9 ran on a distribution of Linux called MeeGo. Reviewers at the time praised the new smartphone direction the Finnish phone…
Consumers and gamers are already alienated. If the price of RAM keeps going up I'm not sure much technology will actually be here to stay. What's the point of AI "art" anyway if everyone needs $10,000 devices to…
See also: https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/NTSC_video
> Over 30 years after its introduction, IPv6 has still not replaced IPv4. The protocols are designed to exist side by side. Don't use IPv6 if you don't want to or can't. At some point IPv4's will be extremely expensive…
In a town nearby me (not really near me but within an hour's driving distance), sometimes I will see old people selling fresh fruit/vegetables in their front yard. They typically take cash, Cashapp, or Venmo. It's super…
Device/board manufacturers shouldn't be hiding information needed for an OS to talk to it and use it behind an NDA. I bought the hardware, the operating system and applications I use it with are my business.…
I agree with most of this, which is why emulation is generally better unless you specifically want to operate/show off a museum. Maybe things will be like the Nintendo BS-X where people will reverse engineer consoles…
> there is nothing wrong with those emotional ties This is a US centric viewpoint, and also a non-leadership viewpoint. It may not be wrong to experience emotional attachment to an employer, but it's unwise in my…
None of the stuff that makes Windows suck compared to Linux is because of the kernel. Two things I can think off off the top of my head that do completely suck about Windows: the forced updates and forced antivirus…
I ask a remote computer using an open protocol to send me stream of 3 million bytes, once, and then it sends me those bytes. Explain how this is unethical.
they had very flat (on one side) Ethernet pigtails in the PCMCIA days.
On the NES, most mappers would control which 16Kbyte blocks from the PRG ROM appeared in the upper ($C000) or lower ($8000) block of the NES ROM space. Often the upper block was fixed because of IRQ/RES/NMI vectors. I…
I haven't seen an open network around me or anywhere I go in years. Even places like gyms, coffee shops, and restaurants require passwords typically. I think it's much more likely TVs make deals with cell phone…
Elitism doesn't logically counter an argument. If you're yearning for the skill that makes you elite, then work to get it. If you want the output of skill without the work, you're fake, and it will show in your output.…
Downloading artists' songs is not equivalent to people using AI to generate sounds/images and claiming they are an artist. I really don't have a problem with people using AI to generate sounds/images for their own…
> What plug? Cloudflare.
> So you object to its current implementation, not to the principle itself Correct. The greater principle is freedom. Copyright is supposed to be a temporary trade of limitation of freedom in exchange for the progress…
> can't creators decide who gets access to their creations? If it's on their physical property. > Is it not inherently theirs? No. For example, a creator of a song does not own my hard drive. > What's the difference…
The comparison with money is interesting but not equivalent to copyright infringement. The closest valid application of the concept of counterfeit to songs, for example, would involve using them to make media and its…
This: The basic idea of freedom, that I should be able to generally do things including accessing media without interference from a third party. Someone using a physical property can possibly deprive others of its use.…
Besides life imprisonment without parole, what other punishment is appropriate for those who use the term "compile" to refer to what an assembler does (which is literally "assembling" not "compiling")?
Isn't this how the Xbox 360 got hacked? Not necessarily rowhammer but other methods.. IIRC some shader code in King Kong was able to affect CPU execution or something like that.
> so you're saying kids with bad parents deserve to suffer? I don't see how. Help me understand. Explain how kids with bad parents are suffering because parents might get fined or other legal action if they don't…
> study after study is damning against the unfettered access of it. No child is accessing the Internet without something a parent allowed them (or a different child) to have. Bad parents are the root of most of societal…
Most of the Windows CE phones of that era (pre-Windows Phone 7) were also basically "rooted" - i.e. you could install any .CAB and there was nothing stopping you. But Linux is a real operating system and Windows CE is…
From the article: "Elop oversaw the 2011 launch of a Linux-based smartphone, the Nokia N9. The N9 ran on a distribution of Linux called MeeGo. Reviewers at the time praised the new smartphone direction the Finnish phone…
Consumers and gamers are already alienated. If the price of RAM keeps going up I'm not sure much technology will actually be here to stay. What's the point of AI "art" anyway if everyone needs $10,000 devices to…
See also: https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/NTSC_video
> Over 30 years after its introduction, IPv6 has still not replaced IPv4. The protocols are designed to exist side by side. Don't use IPv6 if you don't want to or can't. At some point IPv4's will be extremely expensive…
In a town nearby me (not really near me but within an hour's driving distance), sometimes I will see old people selling fresh fruit/vegetables in their front yard. They typically take cash, Cashapp, or Venmo. It's super…
Device/board manufacturers shouldn't be hiding information needed for an OS to talk to it and use it behind an NDA. I bought the hardware, the operating system and applications I use it with are my business.…
I agree with most of this, which is why emulation is generally better unless you specifically want to operate/show off a museum. Maybe things will be like the Nintendo BS-X where people will reverse engineer consoles…
> there is nothing wrong with those emotional ties This is a US centric viewpoint, and also a non-leadership viewpoint. It may not be wrong to experience emotional attachment to an employer, but it's unwise in my…
None of the stuff that makes Windows suck compared to Linux is because of the kernel. Two things I can think off off the top of my head that do completely suck about Windows: the forced updates and forced antivirus…
I ask a remote computer using an open protocol to send me stream of 3 million bytes, once, and then it sends me those bytes. Explain how this is unethical.
they had very flat (on one side) Ethernet pigtails in the PCMCIA days.
On the NES, most mappers would control which 16Kbyte blocks from the PRG ROM appeared in the upper ($C000) or lower ($8000) block of the NES ROM space. Often the upper block was fixed because of IRQ/RES/NMI vectors. I…
I haven't seen an open network around me or anywhere I go in years. Even places like gyms, coffee shops, and restaurants require passwords typically. I think it's much more likely TVs make deals with cell phone…
Elitism doesn't logically counter an argument. If you're yearning for the skill that makes you elite, then work to get it. If you want the output of skill without the work, you're fake, and it will show in your output.…
Downloading artists' songs is not equivalent to people using AI to generate sounds/images and claiming they are an artist. I really don't have a problem with people using AI to generate sounds/images for their own…
> What plug? Cloudflare.
> So you object to its current implementation, not to the principle itself Correct. The greater principle is freedom. Copyright is supposed to be a temporary trade of limitation of freedom in exchange for the progress…
> can't creators decide who gets access to their creations? If it's on their physical property. > Is it not inherently theirs? No. For example, a creator of a song does not own my hard drive. > What's the difference…
The comparison with money is interesting but not equivalent to copyright infringement. The closest valid application of the concept of counterfeit to songs, for example, would involve using them to make media and its…
This: The basic idea of freedom, that I should be able to generally do things including accessing media without interference from a third party. Someone using a physical property can possibly deprive others of its use.…
Besides life imprisonment without parole, what other punishment is appropriate for those who use the term "compile" to refer to what an assembler does (which is literally "assembling" not "compiling")?
Isn't this how the Xbox 360 got hacked? Not necessarily rowhammer but other methods.. IIRC some shader code in King Kong was able to affect CPU execution or something like that.
> so you're saying kids with bad parents deserve to suffer? I don't see how. Help me understand. Explain how kids with bad parents are suffering because parents might get fined or other legal action if they don't…
> study after study is damning against the unfettered access of it. No child is accessing the Internet without something a parent allowed them (or a different child) to have. Bad parents are the root of most of societal…