A professional would have continued to file reports,
No true scotsman fallacy. You might as well say a professional would have quit immediately and got another job. But we live in the really real world where people have to bring home a paycheck in order to not be incarcerated, as it is illegal to be homeless in America.
Filing a warranty claim isn't always free to the end user. When my eReader died, I had to pay shipping to get it to the repair depot.
And that, friends, is why it's cool to go buy stuff locally with cash. And to live in a state with decent warranty protection. In the state of California I can take a failed device back and have it replaced or refunded if it fails within warranty, I don't have to deal with sending shit back.
Second, quality control is handled externally to FoxConn -- or at least it damn well should have been.
Hahahahaha. You haven't been a Sony customer very long, have you? Sony does not test their equipment. It goes in the box, it comes to you, you open it, and maybe it works. These devices are too complex to test without human intervention, so they just trust in the channel to handle the failures. They test some samples, sure.
Remember, if there were a test procedure for every console, then consoles would ship with updated firmware...
For some reason the RPi always seem to get so much bitterness here.
A lot of us believed in them and bought one and then found out they weren't going to work for what we thought, either because we can't get meaningful documentation in spite of their promises (hey, let's have all the documentation on the camera connector. no? thought not) or because the USB is shit. All its non-GPIO connectivity is through the USB, and the USB is shit. It's like having to wear a helmet through which you can only experience the world through a two inch hole at all times... for speaking, seeing, breathing, and eating. Then they upgraded the specs and those of us who adopted them early were left behind, because all the distributions and projects are now focusing on 512MB and if there is even 256MB support it is half-assed. And finally, there is no proper power control, so you have to add a circuit to do that externally in order to use the Pi for anything other than hobby experiments, how much would it have cost to add a 2-pin header?
I can imagine many uses for a very small, cheap, low power hackable computer with moderate computing power and competent I/O, which ain't the Raspberry Pi.
If anyone wants something like that without GPIO, get a PogoPlug 3rd, it has USB3. Or with GPIO, get the new beaglebone. R-Pi is an almost-ran, not even an also-ran. I find how many of them they have sold slightly strange, but I know the value of advertising.
As matter of fact, most geniuses, scientists, professors are pretty rational, and they don't do anything stupid.
That depends very much on your perspective. To many people, spending your life behind a desk and not getting out and experiencing life, even the dangerous parts, is the stupid failure.
I, personally, despise thrill - I have no use for risk. I have better things to do.
I'm happy to let you mitigate your own level of risk, but the truth is that not only does your livelihood depend on risk (in our modern mercantilism, capitalism is reduced to a zero-sum or even negative-sum game, so someone must fail in order for someone to succeed) but life is risk. You could die tomorrow of a blood clot or what have you, sitting behind your desk.
As I read it, the complaint is that you can't revert to the old OS if you install a new OS.
Show me any OS installer that does that!
Well, as usual a bunch of people who have never flashed a rom to their phone and don't know fuck about shit are here to comment.
Let's talk about the Nexus 4 in particular. I own one and have been flashing it regularly (heh heh) for days now. This is not my first time around the block, but it is my first Nexus device. The Nexus 7 (also have) is basically the same, a little harder to get into the bootloader. If you flash cyanogenmod to the device via ROM Manager, which requires a compatible (TWRP or CWM) recovery to be flashed first (first you use adb to unlock the bootloader, then you use fastboot to flash a custom recovery) then it will offer to make a device backup before you install. The sdcard partition is maintained, so your backups persist. So do any application backups made with TitaniumBackup or similar. These backups can then be restored with the same recovery in which they were produced (last I looked, CWM and TWRP had slightly different backup formats) and they will restore the kernel, recovery, system, data, and even cache partitions.
In short, the normal, on-device installs of CyanogenMod do make a backup of the OS, and you can revert to the old OS. I can restore right back to 4.2.2 if I want; I also made a backup with the 4.3 factory image and with CM10.2, and have saved the backups aside (via adb) so that if I wanted, I could restore one of those backups and be off and running.
This fact makes the CyanogenMod installer's refusal to perform a backup during install not just inexplicable, but unacceptable. The functionality is already in the recovery that is flashed with CM! They don't even need to add a reboot! Just flash recovery, boot to recovery, make a backup, then install the CM ZIP! Done and done! That's what I do every time I install a ROM, unless I'm not that enamored of my current system. After all, I can always restore an older backup, restore any newer apps from TitaniumBackup, and then update any remaining packages from the Play Store — then back those packages up with TitaniumBackup.
Whinging from an idiot in my books.
And yet, your post is a tale told by an idiot.
Anyway, what kind of idiot googles for child pornography. Really, how many users are that dumb?
Obligatory You Must Be New Here.
Yesterday I was not allowed to take a single photograph of my daughter who was in a dance competition, to quote "in case it ends up on the internet". This memory (dance competition) will be lost now, because it was not recorded.
Are you keeping a scrapbook? One fun thing to do would be to put a MEMORY REDACTED card in it for every event you're not permitted to photograph for some bullshit reason. Hopefully in 40 years you'll be permitted to look at it and shake your head.
I advocated no such thing.
Bullshit. That is precisely what you advocated, both on its face and in effect.
I advocated a way to repay society. Rather than sitting in a cell, watching TV and generally being idle at the taxpayer's expense.
What about society's debt to the criminal? First, many people are incarcerated for non-violent crimes; indeed, often for victimless crimes, after repeat offenses. This is wholly unacceptable. Again, you would enslave these people. HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A WOULD-BE SLAVER? Apparently it feels fine to you, because you don't even believe that you are one. But you are. Period, the end. Look in your fucking dictionary. Forced work without recompense is slavery, and that's what you would have American citizens who have been convicted of a crime subjected to whether it should be a valid crime or a valid conviction, or not. Slaver.
I advocated a way to repay society. Rather than sitting in a cell, watching TV and generally being idle at the taxpayer's expense.
What about what society does to the individual at the individual's expense? You would advocate throwing people in a box and then making them slaves, when throwing people in a box is already a failure. You wish to enslave people. You are a would-be slaver.
And in such a situation as wrongful conviction, the individual would have some form of redress to credit them for their labor.
There is NO VALID FORM OF REDRESS FOR SLAVERY. NO PAYMENT CAN EVER BE ENOUGH. YOU NEVER GET THAT TIME BACK. I should not have to put these words in capital letters, but you are both intellectually incompetent and morally bankrupt, and I suppose I will try this before I give up on you entirely — as you would do with those who have been abused by society to the extent that they feel they must abuse others. When society exerts the right to control your life, they also share the responsibility for the way it turns out. We all share the responsibility for the inequities in this nation. We're all in this together. Ditto for the planet, but one thing at a time.
Stop condoning slavery. It only makes you human garbage. You can always find an excuse to enslave someone.
Well, if somebody's fiddling about with a 30-cell pack of CR123s, it would likely be noticeable to some of the people sitting near them. (Note that this discussion is in the context of "using stuff bought in the secure zone to build weapons in the secure zone", so it's not likely that such a field-assembled battery pack would be disguised or even particularly tidily wrapped up
If you can't manage to turn a free headset and a stack of coin cells into a tidy bundle that nobody will notice you plug in within a few moments in the washroom, you're a lame.
I've been testing ZFSOnLinux for the past few weeks and I think it's getting close to production-ready;
That does not address the issue of it not being included in distributions.
As far as recovery goes, you're not limited to CD/DVDs; you could install an entire recovery environment (including ZFS, etc modules) to bootable USB stick,
Right. So if something happens to my stick I'll have to produce another one before I can do troubleshooting. If I'm in the field with no resources, I'm just boned.
Certainly ZOL is not for everyone, but development on it is still *years* ahead of Btrfs.
what I'm really suggesting is that the filers not rin Linux.
I prefer to always suggest Linux, but not this time.
no, you are not allowed to shoot yourself. that is a crime.
Hmm, perms problem. Wacky. This is the only cachine solution I have actually figured out so far. Apparently it is really straightforward and actually can cache your root volume, but only write-through. That's fine, that's what disk buffers are for.
dm-cache is in mainline since 3.9. Now please test it and let me know if I should bother trying it!
Well, crap. Now I have to copy my SSD's contents to my HDD... I'll get back to you, I guess. If it's even in my kernel, or if I can even get it to compile in.
I'm trying to imagine Greek rap superstars Cyprus Hill now...
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin
