Posts by The Other Steve

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"I know it's impossible to talk about Apple without hysteria from one side or the other,"

It might be if you tried using facts instead of supposition and bullshit, have you considered that ?

" but Apple/Steve Jobs have/has no interest in killing jailbreaking completely."

In your completely uninformed opinion, which you just made up and has absolutely zero basis in any kind of fact tat you can point to.

"Making life just tricky enough for jailbreakers - and with just enough acceptance that what they are doing is off-piste - means that Apple isn't held accountable for problems with their phones as a result,"

As a result of what ? Apple isn't responsible for your phone if you jailbreak it, because you just voided your warranty. You fuck with it, you own any problems you have with it. Same ad any piece of consumer electronics.

" and yet keeps a large number of paying customers within the Apple fold."

How large ? You mention a number, what is the number and where did you get it from ?

If you're going to post such a declarative statement, you must surely have facts to back it up, where are they ?

I'm with the AC kid

"your kidding me right? buy the latest and greatest tech that can handle it then instead of whinning about it... its the end of the world for them putting something cool on their website ha ha ha."

'kin right. I'm showing 70% idle, down from 72. And I have a whole heap of other shit running.

Damn, I smell like jet fighters and punching.

Seriously, buy new kit.

Idiot

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3. Patents are non-transferrable. If selling a patented idea, it should be arranged so the original person reliquishes the patent and the buying company then registers anew.

The last two, hopefully, to prevent the practice of patent trolling. "

The last one has fuck all to do with preventing trolling, rather it has to do with restricting people's rights on how they may transfer their IP rights, which frankly has fuck all to do with you or anyone else. If I own it, I shall sell it, license it or give it the fuck away in a pack of cornflakes as I see fit.

Oh and number two ? Two years ? You ABSOLUTEly haven't even the faintest idea how long it can take to turn an invention into a product.

So it's probably a good job we weren't /actually/ waiting for expert you to declare exactly how the patent system must work, isn't it ?

The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'

"1) Bricked devices on official update - there are many people there who've followed the instructions to the LETTER to be left hung on the Dell logo or with flashing LED's"

No, there are many people who SAY they have followed the instructions to the letter, not messed with anything beforehand, etc, etc.

I will guarantee you that a portion of those are lying and another portion are just mistaken about what the instructions actually were. Probably the most vociferous ones.

Here are some other words

For exploiting such laziness : "Crime"

For You : "Douche"

Right now I am running BF attacks on your banking password, since if I can compromise it, it's your own fault. No whining when I take all you money or you're a fucking hypocrite.

Made of Fail

Firstly, there should be no need for any kind of delay since the relevant source should be in a stable branch of the dev teams source repository. Unless they're remarkably stupid they won't be directly modifying the code that they released.

Secondly, while the FOSS crowd may contain traces of nuts*, Dell - like any developer - are legally bound by the licence terms of any third party code that they use. The licence terms of the Linux kernel ought to have been DD'd by their in house legal bods and the implications rolled into the product release plan.

Failure to abide by the licence terms opens Dell to liability, albeit not a massive financial liability such as would be incurred by ripping off an Adobe or MS, and Dell's board would be well within their rights to slap the Streak team hard for failing so badly at Due Diligence.

It is of course possible that they did DD and decided that the risk/reward ratio was in their favour since they can go to court practically for free and the worst can happen is a compliance notice. Eventually. By which time they will have released an update. Perhaps they think some nebulous commercial advantage they've identified is worth more to them than the cost of this.

On the other hand they might just be asshats, much like the OP.

*Linuxu Akbar !!!!!

Pedo what now ?

Welcome, Daily Mail readers.

Fail train

Firstly the verbosity of VB has sod all to with using words like begin and end, neither of which has been a keyword. Secondly, anyone who HAS actually studied anything about the readability of computer languages will tell you that is easier for the eye to pick up {} pairs from blocks consisting of mostly other characters, due to the more obvious differentiation. Anyone who has read a little further will tell you that they can be made entirely redundant by relying on whitespace as in python.

Furthermore, a) there is no such thing as a 'semi decent' touch typist. There are touch typists and there are non touch typists, that is all, b) we actually live in a world of awful hunt and peck from the pov of /actual/ touch typists, and c) even if the preceding were not true, your assertion that there is some method of typing such that typing five characters is somehow faster than typing one is, to put it politely, utter arse wash.

So tunnel visioned and short sighted ...

... that his tiny company makes no money at all and he himself is virtually a pauper. Oh, no, wait

10 k is a lot, is it ?

10k will buy you somewhere around 33 days of software consultancy at ~£300/day, which is the low end of the scale. So to get a whole app delivered tested and ready for distribution at that cost represents quite good value.

These are minimal amounts of money being spent by government departments who, just for once in their miserable existence are trying to determine if their processes can benefit from using current mobile tech. But of course there was mention of the iPhone, and so the haters excoriate them, rather than making the leap to understand that innovations such as these, which have cost us fuck all, are aimed at driving cost savings.

Turns out ignorance isn't so much bliss as continual whining.

Ouch

"Okay, now go to this website. Now download this piece of third-party software that makes up for some yawning gap in Windows' basic functionality."

Such as ? I think you're getting confused between which bits are the OS and which bits are the applications.

Pin the tail on the misanthrope

"The biggest problem with bluetooth, or even wired, headsets is the idiots who use them without realising that you DON'T have to hold the phone out in your hand while resisting the urge to hold it close to your mouth and with wired, you DON'T need to hold the mic while you're talking. The tw@t-o-meter goes off the scale when both these techniques are used simultaneously. It's called "hands-free" for a reason!"

Yes, people know that, they don't do it because they're stupid, they do it because - consciously or unconsciously - they want observers to understand that they are participating in a phone call rather than exhibiting the symptoms of a mental illness.

Be careful not to let that twatometer point backwards, you might not like the reading.

Upgrade user base

"It simply requires you use your brain for a nanosecond "

Oh, now you're just being silly.