So, if I come to your house, pick a lock and "tinker" with your stuff - you obviously won't mind, right? After all, it's very easy to get into a house - too bad you didn't build it as a fortress, what were you thinking? Right?
You can bark all you like - doesn't change the facts. Show a _single_ legitimate (as in "not to cheat or steal a game") example of the result of this hack.
The sole point of the hacking was to run pirated games. It's as clear as day. If you wanted to "tinker" - you've had the "Other OS feature to tinker with all you like. Sony's console was the only one which allowed to do that. But there weren't enough cool games for the PS3 back then, so the real tinkerers were happy, and pirates didn't care.
Now ps3 had quite a few very nice games that pirates would obviously love to steal. So here come the "hackers" - NOW there's a reason for them to get to work. It has nothing to do with tinkering - if anything, it had made it pretty much impossible to tinker anymore: thanks to the "hackers", the "Other OS" was removed, so the only way to tinker NOW is to indeed hack it, which violates EULA and might land _real_ tinkerers in hot water.
So stop with this bullshit already, pretending that you do it out of some noble cause. You've ruined it for all legitimate users, who now have to endure frequent firmware updates and might in the end have to deal with serial keys with every game or some other crazy DRM scheme, and who have lost the only legitimate way of playing with the Cell processor.
Why is this joke of a programming language so popular is beyond me. It's a complete failure, obviously created by a bunch of first grade students who have no clear idea about syntax and uniformity. Every new version breaks compatibility with older scripts and at the same time adds more moronisms. Ugh!
It kinda feels like if I come to a wholesaler and tell them to pony up for me to sell their goods to my clients...
Can't wait till someone sticks a bomb up their arse. TSA would then make everyone pass a colonoscopy in order to get on a plane.
"Do no evil" + "Do evil" = kaboom? Scary...
Isn't the whole point of unions to extort money and benefits from their employers? I mean, of course they're outraged: now people can see them for what they are. It reduces the leverage to extort additional money/benefits.
There is already a Simple Finder option in the current OSX, which only provides the very basic functionality to the user. My mom is using - and loving - it. No chance to break stuff, and incredibly easy for her to use.
Yes, 2.1 is a silly eye candy, with its live wallpapers, among other stuff. Instead of fixing issues and making something, you know, actually _useful_ they waste time doing crap like that.
Then you're not using Android's e-mail client. And last I checked - it was also the case for K9.
What's stopping me is I'm not in the market to develop shit, I'm in the market to _buy_ shit to use. If you can't make a decent e-mail client - my money go elsewhere. I don't care if the Android is free or paid - I pay for the phone and for the service.
Both Android's native e-mail client and K9 are piece of crap, compared to iPhone's. iPhone's is not perfect either, but at least it WORKS with multiple accounts properly and has an ability to move messages from folder to folder, among other things, and does not have a huge stupid "DELETE" button in the middle of the screen that deletes messages without confirmation, with no way to undelete it.
And I'm not even talking about the fact that a simple reboot makes Android forget EVERYTHING - what Google Maps was showing last time, what pages were open in the browser et cetera.
But I have to also point out: with this attitude "if you don't like it - make your own" Android will fail. It is already extremely fragmented, and simple updates take AGES to deploy. The gapless music playback in Android has been fixed ages ago, according to their bug tracker, but still hasn't made it into a release.
I've been using Android for half a year. In its current state (2.1) it's a load of crap. I've ultimately switched back to iPhone, and only use my Motorola Droid as a simple phone (seeing as iPhone is on a shitty AT&T network and can't make or receive calls most of the time, and when it can - the call will get dropped with about 90% certainty).
Maybe I'm an idiot, but isn't the whole point of being SOCIAL in sharing info with others? I mean, it wouldn't be a "social" site if it just locked all information up. If you don't want others to learn things about you you don't want them to learn - don't post them online.
Duh!
Does it also add emoticons to the text? I mean, transcribed voice mail is good, but nothing beats the live human voice for many reasons, emotions being one of them.
How in a world can a gaming console, which was obsolete even before it got released, last _10 years_??? I mean, really? 256 mb of RAM + 256 mb of VRAM, no hardware scaling, slow BD drive. And last time I checked, the PS3 OS memory footprint was something like 52 megabytes - that's out of 256! I REALLY hope it got better since then, but XBOX 360 OS, for example, takes only 32 megabytes.
Now, with the current state of things, consoles are already WAY behind PC in terms of power. So I'm guessing that in 10 years (8 years now, if I'm not mistaken), PC gaming will be so far ahead - either 360 or PS3 will look like something from the Paleozoic.
And besides, Sony's focus is really somewhere in a completely different universe - they add all irrelevant features to the PS3, trying to make it everything except the one thing that matters: a gaming machine. Its PSN still lacks basic features that Xbox Live has had for years (system-wide mute, player preference/avoidance system, way to report bad behavior etc.) But at least we have Life with Playstation, which probably nobody uses, and Photo Gallery, and Web browser, which doesn't work on probably 80% of web sites...
So, I guess, there's a very good chance that PS3 will only remain as a BD player. If BD lasts that long, that is.
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