By the way after finishing vernor vinges the peace war I'm thinking tinkerers really need to get to work. They did some amazing things in that book.
Tinkerer’s Sunset
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Re: Tinkerer’s Sunset
#72The iPad has really brought out a lot of old, crochety "well in my day" engineers that are now to the point where its embarassing. The iPad will draw more people towards software engineering, because for the first time we will have a general purpose computer that doesn't suck horribly for normal people. It will be cool. It will be fun. Passion for software has little to do with how much you can "hack" down to the har…
> They can, of course, jailbreak. Why do people insist that 'jail-breaking' is some sort of valid option? * If Apple had their way even jail-breaking would be illegal. * Jail-breaking is dependent on security holes in the operating system (i.e. the same way that you are jail-breaking your iPhone is the same way that blackhats could take it over) * Jail-breaking breaks on most updates. Why do people think that it is i…
My point was Jailbreaking is a final, last ditch step that young aspiring software nerds will probably have if they want to spend their time dicking around with the low level guts of the pad. My bigger point was, they won't bother. Because the capabilities of the device make it so there's not really that much joy to be had in rooting the thing or tinkering with it the way we were "brought up" in the computing world.
If I am an aspiring young hacker I would probably spend more of my time writing apps for the app store or building apps on the web for my friends' iPhones. If I really want to learn about the guts of the thing, I can jailbreak or simply learn about the guts of non-iPad computers.