As the developer you have all the freedom in the world--nothing forces you to publish in the first place, just as nothing can force Mozilla to integrate and distribute your patch.
You're forced to publish YOUR work according to THEIR rules. That's not all the freedom in the world by any stretch.
The difference is, and this is what Jobs is counting on, his product will represent a 'walled garden' that content providers will prefer. That is to say, the DRM is what he hopes will 'make' the product. He's counting on the publishers and content providers shying away from any other platform, because they WANT a closed platform to have exclusive rights to their products.
Now, we will see if that is what people want. I remember that proprietary DVD-type player that failed to compete with DVD players.
Since a primary item to steal in break-ins is any guns on the property, it's likely that he would get the combination dialed in and possibly the door to the safe open at about the time the intruder pointed his gun and said 'gee, thanks, now hand all that stuff over... very slowly.'
Going back as far as Windows 2000 it's a hopeless mishmash of conflicting GUI elements.
That's a really weird attitude to have, compared to most other options. Maybe MacOS is more 'unified' in appearance. Certainly none of the freenixes are. Let's see. I'll open up Xfig and sketch something to include in my LyX document.... Wow. Those 'GUI elements' don't match at all.
Now, if you pick some 'Modern Linux Distro' that has 1% of the desktop market, you might be correct. But to get a robust collection of apps for it, you need to grab in apps from all over, which are compiled with a huge ugly cluster of widget varieties.
No, I'm afraid the ugly Kludge GUI is X11. Which I happen to like, but I use a classic X11, i.e. I run FVWM and reference the O'Reilly X11 User Manuals (the 'official' ones, i.e. Volume 3 is the Users Guide) to maintain my X systems. You know, X resources, etc.
And those places generally don't last very long before everyone else gets the same idea and within 5-10 years your "farm" will be surrounded by walmarts and formula developments and your 20 minute commute is 45 minutes.
I worried about that a lot, too. We live less than two miles from 'town' but on a county highway and out of city limits.
The thing is, we live 'south' and all the development has been 'north' of town. Also, the whole collusion deal between land developers, construction firms, realtors and real estate speculators has crashed. They built all those frickin' houses and now nobody wants to buy them. We said that for a number of years about all the houses going up: "Who is going to buy those monsters?" They are big expensive houses but they're packed in like boxes on a skid.
I'm not so worried now about the cornfield across the road turning into a housing development full of little nose-wiping kids.
No need to get exotic. Dandelion thrives in many places.
I'm often tempted to buy a big 100 pound bag of clover seed to spread around certain neighborhoods. Except... have you ever checked the price of clover seed? And anyway, the nuts would just dump an extra 400 pounds of chemical fertilizer on the clover to kill it.
All those little 'do not eat' packets that come sealed in packages with devices and items you buy contain a desiccant. And it's reusable. Usually the desiccant in them is crystal granules that are blue when dry, and go white when they've absorbed moisture. You can bake them at a low heat in an oven to re-dry them out for reuse. In fact, it's worth saving all the little 'do not eat' packets for that purpose. You can tear the packet open and keep the granules inside to combine in a larger container if you wish.
It's common practice to use that kind of desiccant in a sealed safe where you are storing rare coins or anything else you don't want to tarnish. You can buy it in bulk quantities for that purpose. Put the recharged-blue desiccant in the safe before sealing it, and it'll pull all the moisture out of the sealed-in air and reduce corrosion/tarnishing of the silver/copper coins.
My stories don't involve cell phones but it's devices of about equivalent size. And are from a different era.
I used to work at a medical device manufacturer that made TENS units. I worked in the Reliability Lab and my bench was across the room from the guy who serviced all the field return units.
He would occasionally get back devices that had fairly 'interesting' stories behind them. In that era, for the price we charged for the units, they came with a lifetime warranty. And the circuit boards were conformal-coated so it really was possible to offer that sort of warranty. Returned units might sometimes need the pots and connectors replaced, seldom more than that.
But the occasional unit would have a note attached. Like the unit that came back with a note that said 'Unit fell in a bucket of liquid feces.' Or the unit that came back completely filled with dried blood.
Both units were serviced and returned at no cost to the customer, BTW.
Posted as a follow-up, here is the PIC Pong project which could be adapted to be a clock. I guess you'd want to strap on a two or 3-wire serial RTC onto it to do the timekeeping and code the video to show a numeric display. The basis for the thing is already there all coded, including the code to generate the composite video.
As I said, far more authentic for the circuit to spit out composite video than to use a new-fangled LCD display. Use a RF modulator from an old Atari game for even more authenticity.
I think it is much cooler for that sort of thing to be on an actual CRT instead of an LCD. And there's a PIC project out there for a Pong game that is embedded into one of the fairly simple PIC processors which is programmed to directly spit out the composite video. The problem for kit dealerships like this is that a PIC/CRT design only requires the PIC processor, a few resistors and the circuit board. You supply the video hardware. To be most completlely authentic, you'd want to use a cast-off smaller TV set, ideally one that would have been obsolete and in the basement in about 1985, i.e. an old 70's set. Or a 9" portable b&w set, like the first TV set I bought new when I was in college (I wasn't a regular TV watcher, but rumors were going around at the time that the Beatles might do a reunion performance on Saturday Night Live so I didn't want to miss it) That's real retro hardware. When I think retro, I do NOT think 100% reproductions, and for that era you want CRT or VFD, not LCD.
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As the developer you have all the freedom in the world--nothing forces you to publish in the first place, just as nothing can force Mozilla to integrate and distribute your patch.
You're forced to publish YOUR work according to THEIR rules. That's not all the freedom in the world by any stretch.
Your frame of reference is a little warped, dude.
But I do agree. I remember Slashdot comments before Reagan and the Contract For America. Back then everybody here was just so much more congenial.
What if I just want the CVS update instead?
The difference is, and this is what Jobs is counting on, his product will represent a 'walled garden' that content providers will prefer. That is to say, the DRM is what he hopes will 'make' the product. He's counting on the publishers and content providers shying away from any other platform, because they WANT a closed platform to have exclusive rights to their products.
Now, we will see if that is what people want. I remember that proprietary DVD-type player that failed to compete with DVD players.
Yes, that's part of the process of becoming a young adult.
You're really angry.
Did they make you go to Sunday School?
Your religion is Materialism. And really, it's only about 200 years old. Not a very old religion at all.
That you seem to think you've 'arrived' at some point of enlightenment that nobody could have possibly ever reached, say, 500 years ago, is just sad.
But continue on. Maybe someday you'll get a clue. The Humanities are not just some obsolete hoax.
Double-down isn't gonna win you anything.
Grow up. I mean, really.
He kind of meant it metaphorically.
What he really meant was stuff like the Che T-shirt.
Guevara was a serial killer. It's kinda like wearing a Jeffery Dalhmer t-shirt.
Since a primary item to steal in break-ins is any guns on the property, it's likely that he would get the combination dialed in and possibly the door to the safe open at about the time the intruder pointed his gun and said 'gee, thanks, now hand all that stuff over... very slowly.'
Going back as far as Windows 2000 it's a hopeless mishmash of conflicting GUI elements.
That's a really weird attitude to have, compared to most other options. Maybe MacOS is more 'unified' in appearance. Certainly none of the freenixes are. Let's see. I'll open up Xfig and sketch something to include in my LyX document.... Wow. Those 'GUI elements' don't match at all.
Now, if you pick some 'Modern Linux Distro' that has 1% of the desktop market, you might be correct. But to get a robust collection of apps for it, you need to grab in apps from all over, which are compiled with a huge ugly cluster of widget varieties.
No, I'm afraid the ugly Kludge GUI is X11. Which I happen to like, but I use a classic X11, i.e. I run FVWM and reference the O'Reilly X11 User Manuals (the 'official' ones, i.e. Volume 3 is the Users Guide) to maintain my X systems. You know, X resources, etc.
12/21/2012 sounds like an excellent date, looking ahead. We'll have a lame duck president, for one thing.
clip 'is wings!
Yes!
But with the voice redubbed in as Donald Duck.
I worried about that a lot, too. We live less than two miles from 'town' but on a county highway and out of city limits.
The thing is, we live 'south' and all the development has been 'north' of town. Also, the whole collusion deal between land developers, construction firms, realtors and real estate speculators has crashed. They built all those frickin' houses and now nobody wants to buy them. We said that for a number of years about all the houses going up: "Who is going to buy those monsters?" They are big expensive houses but they're packed in like boxes on a skid.
I'm not so worried now about the cornfield across the road turning into a housing development full of little nose-wiping kids.
No need to get exotic. Dandelion thrives in many places.
I'm often tempted to buy a big 100 pound bag of clover seed to spread around certain neighborhoods. Except... have you ever checked the price of clover seed? And anyway, the nuts would just dump an extra 400 pounds of chemical fertilizer on the clover to kill it.
For the record, the economy went into a tank starting in 2006, after the liberals took control of Congress.
Naw. Instead I'm just gonna key your Porche. You'll never figure out who I am.
You'd better have secured parking spots anywhere you drive.
Oversight by whom? For what purpose?
Yes, we understand. Bureaucrats and the Police just wanna know.
Nobody knows WHAT your name is. You apparently claim to be somebody named D Aldredge. But we haven't seen any proof.
All those little 'do not eat' packets that come sealed in packages with devices and items you buy contain a desiccant. And it's reusable. Usually the desiccant in them is crystal granules that are blue when dry, and go white when they've absorbed moisture. You can bake them at a low heat in an oven to re-dry them out for reuse. In fact, it's worth saving all the little 'do not eat' packets for that purpose. You can tear the packet open and keep the granules inside to combine in a larger container if you wish.
It's common practice to use that kind of desiccant in a sealed safe where you are storing rare coins or anything else you don't want to tarnish. You can buy it in bulk quantities for that purpose. Put the recharged-blue desiccant in the safe before sealing it, and it'll pull all the moisture out of the sealed-in air and reduce corrosion/tarnishing of the silver/copper coins.
My stories don't involve cell phones but it's devices of about equivalent size. And are from a different era.
I used to work at a medical device manufacturer that made TENS units. I worked in the Reliability Lab and my bench was across the room from the guy who serviced all the field return units.
He would occasionally get back devices that had fairly 'interesting' stories behind them. In that era, for the price we charged for the units, they came with a lifetime warranty. And the circuit boards were conformal-coated so it really was possible to offer that sort of warranty. Returned units might sometimes need the pots and connectors replaced, seldom more than that.
But the occasional unit would have a note attached. Like the unit that came back with a note that said 'Unit fell in a bucket of liquid feces.' Or the unit that came back completely filled with dried blood.
Both units were serviced and returned at no cost to the customer, BTW.
Posted as a follow-up, here is the PIC Pong project which could be adapted to be a clock. I guess you'd want to strap on a two or 3-wire serial RTC onto it to do the timekeeping and code the video to show a numeric display. The basis for the thing is already there all coded, including the code to generate the composite video.
As I said, far more authentic for the circuit to spit out composite video than to use a new-fangled LCD display. Use a RF modulator from an old Atari game for even more authenticity.
I think it is much cooler for that sort of thing to be on an actual CRT instead of an LCD. And there's a PIC project out there for a Pong game that is embedded into one of the fairly simple PIC processors which is programmed to directly spit out the composite video. The problem for kit dealerships like this is that a PIC/CRT design only requires the PIC processor, a few resistors and the circuit board. You supply the video hardware. To be most completlely authentic, you'd want to use a cast-off smaller TV set, ideally one that would have been obsolete and in the basement in about 1985, i.e. an old 70's set. Or a 9" portable b&w set, like the first TV set I bought new when I was in college (I wasn't a regular TV watcher, but rumors were going around at the time that the Beatles might do a reunion performance on Saturday Night Live so I didn't want to miss it) That's real retro hardware. When I think retro, I do NOT think 100% reproductions, and for that era you want CRT or VFD, not LCD.
It meant access to the hardware schematics.
So where do I download the microcode and production details to produce my own Atmel processor?
I'm not redefining the term.
'Open Hardware' implies the hardware is fully open. COTS processors are not generally open.
especially if you have the same root password on dozens of machines.
Hmmm. Well, I suppose if you have a LOT of luggage that has combination locks....