Guest Mr Salads Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 I'm sitting there, 11:30pm at night, trying to update that thing and then it tells me I have to update goddamn itunes first. Fuck itunes, it's such a resource hog in the first place. THEN, before its finished, I move my leg and it sends the phone plummeting, detaching the cord. All hell breaks loose and it tells me I am fucked. I must start all over again. I just shut my computer off and went to bed MAD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kibreg Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 new keyboard layout fooking RULES. mr salads: so apple sucks because you dropped/disconnected your phone during a 250mb firmware update? hmm. just saying :embrassed: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joshier Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 yeah apple is shit and great. there has yet to be an inbetweener, something that is easy but with the freedom to install anything you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr Salads Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 new keyboard layout fooking RULES. mr salads: so apple sucks because you dropped/disconnected your phone during a 250mb firmware update? hmm. just saying :embrassed: Yeah basically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tv_party Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 iphones seem cool but I don't think I'd use enough of the functionality to justify the cost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Quixote Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 Did the update cost anything on the iPhone? I just have an iPod Touch and Apple is apparently charging $9.95 for the firmware upgrade (which is the first time - as I recall, the last two were free). Oh well, I'll get the iPhone in August when my Verizon plan is up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hahathhat Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 yeah apple is shit and great. there has yet to be an inbetweener, something that is easy but with the freedom to install anything you want. CONGRATULATIONS CONSUMER ON YOUR PURCHASE OF A GNU/LINUX XMR3010, AN IMPOSSIBLY NAMED, ABSOLUTELY UNTRENDY, COMPLETELY OPEN AND FREE IPHONE CLONE. INITIAL SETUP WILL REQUIRE APPROXIMATELY FIFTEEN HOURS OF EDITING CONFIG FILES SO THE XMR3010 KNOWS PRECISELY HOW TO DIRECT YOUR FREEDOM. PLEASE SEE A DOCUMENTATION PAGE THAT HAS MYSTERIOUSLY BECOME A DEAD LINK FOR MORE INFORMATION. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alzado Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 lol calm down fag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 hey hey now hat, didn't you hear? they've reduced the setup time down to 14 hours for the config files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blicero Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 lol calm down fag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 oh and btw as a serious response to joshier: it takes about 20 minutes to jailbreak your iPhone/iPod touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tv_party Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 yeah that's right, a software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr Salads Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 Did the update cost anything on the iPhone? I just have an iPod Touch and Apple is apparently charging $9.95 for the firmware upgrade (which is the first time - as I recall, the last two were free). Oh well, I'll get the iPhone in August when my Verizon plan is up. Yeah it costs to upgrade for the ipod touch. Really though what do you need one for? oh and btw as a serious response to joshier: it takes about 20 minutes to jailbreak your iPhone/iPod touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 yeah apple is shit and great. there has yet to be an inbetweener, something that is easy but with the freedom to install anything you want. CONGRATULATIONS CONSUMER ON YOUR PURCHASE OF A GNU/LINUX XMR3010, AN IMPOSSIBLY NAMED, ABSOLUTELY UNTRENDY, COMPLETELY OPEN AND FREE IPHONE CLONE. INITIAL SETUP WILL REQUIRE APPROXIMATELY FIFTEEN HOURS OF EDITING CONFIG FILES SO THE XMR3010 KNOWS PRECISELY HOW TO DIRECT YOUR FREEDOM. PLEASE SEE A DOCUMENTATION PAGE THAT HAS MYSTERIOUSLY BECOME A DEAD LINK FOR MORE INFORMATION. ok, not a phone, an OS, but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_android Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tv_party Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 yeah apple is shit and great. there has yet to be an inbetweener, something that is easy but with the freedom to install anything you want. CONGRATULATIONS CONSUMER ON YOUR PURCHASE OF A GNU/LINUX XMR3010, AN IMPOSSIBLY NAMED, ABSOLUTELY UNTRENDY, COMPLETELY OPEN AND FREE IPHONE CLONE. INITIAL SETUP WILL REQUIRE APPROXIMATELY FIFTEEN HOURS OF EDITING CONFIG FILES SO THE XMR3010 KNOWS PRECISELY HOW TO DIRECT YOUR FREEDOM. PLEASE SEE A DOCUMENTATION PAGE THAT HAS MYSTERIOUSLY BECOME A DEAD LINK FOR MORE INFORMATION. ok, not a phone, an OS, but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_android has anyone here used both, and what's your opinion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 lots of people on /. love android, but they're not exactly an unbiased source just noticed android supports magnetometers. i'm sure there are some really] cool applications for that, probably involving some sort of magnetic doohickey, but i'm fucked if i can think of any. also Android has native support for multi-touch but the feature is disabled at the kernel level (possibly to avoid infringing Apple patents on touch-screen technology how the FUCK can you patent the idea of placing two fingers on a screen and the device being able to sense both? that's insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blicero Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 lots of people on /. love android, but they're not exactly an unbiased source just noticed android supports magnetometers. i'm sure there are some really cool applications for that, probably involving some sort of magnetic doohickey, but i'm fucked if i can think of any a $300 compass? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr Salads Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 My ex had an android. It worked pretty well I thought. Suitable alternative Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alzado Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 salads your original post is reminiscent of zelah's famed "taco bell fucked up my bean burrito" post. congratulations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 My ex had an android. It worked pretty well I thought. Suitable alternative no, she didn't she had a phone running android as for the magnetometers, i'm imagining a magnetic stylus or thimble or something giving full 3d wiimote like control or something. in conjunction with the accelerometers on the phone itself you could do even cooler shit. not a compass if you just wanted a 'smart browsing' phone - ie a browser and maybe ftp and ssh stuff, anything running symbian s60 should do it. i mean how much do people want their phones to do? i suppose they're becoming more 'multi-purpose handheld device' now though really. i'm rambling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 How open is Android? I'm considering buying an android phone. But can I access terminal, the root filesystem, use GNU tools and install any type of CLI app? Or is it hard/impractical to do anything outside the java vm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr Salads Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 salads your original post is reminiscent of zelah's famed "taco bell fucked up my bean burrito" post. congratulations. alzado you are a couple of rungs down the humor ladder, you need to get smarter about this My ex had an android. It worked pretty well I thought. Suitable alternative no, she didn't she had a phone running android as for the magnetometers, i'm imagining a magnetic stylus or thimble or something giving full 3d wiimote like control or something. in conjunction with the accelerometers on the phone itself you could do even cooler shit. not a compass if you just wanted a 'smart browsing' phone - ie a browser and maybe ftp and ssh stuff, anything running symbian s60 should do it. i mean how much do people want their phones to do? i suppose they're becoming more 'multi-purpose handheld device' now though really. i'm rambling isnt the OS what we are talking about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 How open is Android? I'm considering buying an android phone. But can I access terminal, the root filesystem, use GNU tools and install any type of CLI app? Or is it hard/impractical to do anything outside the java vm? Since 21 October 2008, Android has been available as open source. Google opened the entire source code (including network and telephony stacks[23]), which had previously been unavailable, under an Apache license.[24] With the Apache License, vendors are free to add proprietary extensions without submitting those back to the open source community. Android had been criticized for not being all open-source software despite what was announced by Google. Parts of the SDK are proprietary and closed source and some believe this is so that Google can control the platform.[25][26][27][28] The Android Software Development Kit License Agreement[29] states that: 3.2 You agree that Google (or Google's licensors) own all legal right, title and interest in and to the SDK, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in the SDK. Use, reproduction and distribution of components of the SDK licensed under an open source software license are governed solely by the terms of that open source software license and not by this License Agreement. Until the SDK is released under an open source license, you may not extract the source code or create a derivative work of the SDK. » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... « rtfa i seem to recall chaosmachine did some dev for mobile platforms? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joshier Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 oh and btw as a serious response to joshier: it takes about 20 minutes to jailbreak your iPhone/iPod touch. yeah but then you can't do updates because it isn't signed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alzado Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 salads your original post is reminiscent of zelah's famed "taco bell fucked up my bean burrito" post. congratulations. alzado you are a couple of rungs down the humor ladder, you need to get smarter about this i'll try harder next time zelah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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