I don't care how much games cost in Japan or Australia or in Latvia. I care how much games cost HERE. MS Points are just vendor lock in. If a game comes out on PSN, I can buy the whole game with out buying "points" leaving me with extra leaving me to buy more points to buy another product on PSN thus leaving me to buy more points and keeping this unholy cycle going. This is, of course, for amounts greater than five bucks, but, there isn't much on the PSN store aside from DLC unlockables that cost that little.
if Sony wants to improve PSN, put out more crap on PSN. PSN is easier to search than the XBLA Marketplace and a whole lot more friendly when it comes to using *real* currency.
This has been the situation with Palm OS, Windows Mobile and Symbian.
The reason why Apple's selling like gang busters has been usability. Me and my girlfriend figured out the iPhone OS when we first picking the thing up. Android? Not so much. Anecdotes aren't data, but I'm pretty sure the sales figures speak for themselves.
It would be great if it came with a motor and hooked up to a set of blades, it would be really useful as a stick blender and possibly a desk fan. Just make sure you have the plastic blades hooked up for that mode.
I was out on a smoke break with a friend of mine who owns a G1 a few weeks ago. I was also bashing out some mobile specific web app and wanted to test it with a G1.
Because the fact that/, -, and some other common symbols are hidden in weird places on the keyboard, it took me a bit to get to my own app, even on the soft keyboard.
I don't care what's under the hood, usability is king among consumers. Freedom? That's a huge after thought.
First off, political apps aren't banned(see: Obama: The iPhone App). Negative political apps are. A countdown to the end of the Bush Era is politically negative. It's a business decision that would've been made in dozens of other contexts. Besides, negative politicking could put apple in a bunch of legal hot water.
Besides, do you know what immoral means?
Do you know what I mean when I say, "Apple is wrong, but there's nothing immoral going on?"
IT'S A FUCKING. PHONE. FOR GOD'S SAKE. It's not genocide. Get a grip.
You realize that Steve Jobs IS more liberal and his business dictate was to not offend people from the opposite end of the political spectrum in fear of lost sales and that other open apolitical forums would make the same decision he made?
Apple is advertising the strength of their App store, showing off the apps available, and then contrasting that to the usefulness of a netbook.
I think Apple's wrong here, a netbook is way more useful, but, they're certainly doing nothing that's immoral or worse than what TI's doing.
TI's out to protect itself and the institutions that depend on the OS being in a protected state. hence they're putting pressure on the TI calc community. What makes it worse is that if they litigate, they'll win. Most users aren't calc hackers and this ensures TI's core calc business.
If you're a senior dev with years of experience under your belt, perhaps yous hould do something else with your time off. If you're a green horn who should be getting a little jump start and some experience, that's a different story.
you're giving your average pirate *way* too much credit on their intelligence.
BitTorrent is really popular because it's obscenely easy. You install the torrent client, and you just grab the torrent itself. it has nothing to do with a cat and mouse game, it's just an evolution on usefulness.
Do you see the flaw in your argument now? Go look up on "first sale doctrine" some day.
I'm not stating that because there's an EULA that Sony can do what ever the hell it feels like.
I'm stating, 'You bought a fucking PS3. Don't be shocked that you have to mod it to do things other than play games.'
Yeah, so what? If your roomba can run arbitrary code, there's no reason for the manufacturer to prevent you from doing that by including, in the device, hardware designed to prevent you from running arbitrary code, hardware that you pay for, that they pass the costs of to you, the consumer, the client, who buys a product, with tech inside it that prevents you to use as you see fit.
Because there's no liability for iRobot if they allow you to hack your Roomba. There's a huge liability that Sony loses game sales when people hack their PSPs and PS3s. I'm not saying don't hack the PSP or PS3 or that piracy is inherently bad, I'm simply pointing out why they would do this, and that it is a good idea.
No, and repeatedly wishing for it does not make it so.
There is no enforceable contract, no implied social contract, that can prevent me from using it in any way I see fit.
This is why they use technical methods to lock the console down, not litigious. They don't need contract law when a sufficiently tough DRM scheme exists.
They have no right to lock it down at the factory.
I'm sorry, what? According to who? According to what law? They have all right to lock it down.
Between these kinds of Anti-Sony screeds and the bullshit people are giving Apple for the Palm Pre affair, it's making me really wonder about the intelligence of the average/.'er. Even Bruce Perens has gone around the bend. IT'S FUCKING MP3S. IT'S NOT A BIG DEAL.
You may want to forget it, but the rootkit was an incredibly serious event. Orders of magnitude greater than you are giving it. I am complaining about Sony restricting the use of my property. What the rootkit did was Sony restricting the use of ALL of my property, whether or not it was even purchased from Sony. If you brought the CD over to someone elses house Sony was then restricting the use of property that was never theirs, or that customer's either.
The Sony rootkit thing is the prime example of why Sony would be a little skittish about letting unrestricted, arbitrary software run on their games consoles. In addition to piracy, et al.
Do you understand that it was a total of 55 discs? 55. Big deal. The bigger deal is that consumers en masse use an OS that lets this happen. Most of the/. crowd is anti-Windows, so that's not point that's often made. Besides you didn't actually name any logical fallacy, and used one of your own by poisoning the well with the discussion of the Holocaust. I'm going to conclude you are either an idiot or a troll.
The fallacy is stating that the intentions or understandings of the manufacturer or consumer somehow construct an argument by which restrictions on the use of property become valid in any sense.
Because when you're sold a games console it's not your property until it's in your hands? Until that happens Sony can install an OS that locks it down?
It's an absolute unequivocal right for me to do so!!!!! It's my property DUDE!
Before it leaves the factory, it's theirs and before it's sold to you, it's the store's. If they decide at the factory to lock it down, it's your responsibility to break it open when you buy it.
You're an idiot. You don't understand the practical reasons why Sony would be interested in stopping pirates, and in doing so, squash the very tiny niche of the market that would want not just Linux, but full access Linux, running on their console.
I hope you're not a CFO, or CEO. You'd suck at it.
What I said was, the logic is the same behind both arguments. Specifically, that of denying your existing rights because of the possibilities.
What I'm saying is that the analogy is highly FLAWED.
That hardly matters. Sony is selling something that can be used as a general purpose computing machine. Whether they intended it or not, is not relevant or a cause for any kind of action against the consumer to prevent it.
This does matter. They're selling you a hardware/software bundle that's specifically designed to play games. Some cars have built in limiters in them for speed. Not because they're trying to make you obey the speed limit, most kick in well above 100(on some SUVs it's well below 100 and often within the highway speed limits), but rather, they can't verify how stable the car will be above that. If you want to go that fast, it's on YOU to modify YOUR property.
Sony is selling you an Apple. They intend for it to be used in Apple Pies. I use it to make a Candied Apple.
There's no liability for them to be consumed any other way, even if there was, there's no mechanism they can use to require that. This is another flawed analogy.
What is an issue is that I am labeled a criminal and interfered with when I decide to purchase a PS3 or PSP and use it in a manner that Sony does not like.
You are only labeled a criminal when you share that information with others and conspire to continually defeat the copy protection methods used to lock down the console. I'm not saying that's a good idea either, but that is the DMCA(the same DMCA Sony hasn't used to try to squash home brew, only continual firmware updates breaking the home brew enabling methods).
Completely. Fallacious. Logic.
So name that fallacy.
It does not matter if I figure out a possible use for a device before or after I purchase it. The motivations of the manufacturers are irrelevant as well, including whether or not I understand or agree to their stated intentions of the device's use. The simple fact is that I can purchase these devices for any reason I want to and the manufacturer can produce and sell them for any reason they want to.
Which is why they lock them down at the factory instead of handing you a blank PS3 with no firmware loaded. They sold you a games console. You knew this when you purchased it. If you want to use it as a PC, you have to do it, not Sony. Besides, if Sony DID do that, do you know what kind of support nightmare that would be? Do you understand the practical problems here?
Well bring out the rootkit scandal and you can see that Sony is also a criminal awaiting justice.
They have, in many states as well as in various legal battles.
Can we now be done with the whole XCP bullshit? Seriously. Ford put out cars with tires that they knew to be substandard for the vehicle they sold that could potentially *kill* people and Ford doesn't get the kind of vitriol that Sony does.
I have never heard such an ignorant statement in my life either. The DRM scheme is protected by the DMCA. They don't use the DMCA since all they need to do is to issue a gazillion software updates a year effectively requiring them to play the games. It's a technical solution since the legal solution won't work and is too costly.
Emphasis added.
Which is why they're doing what they do.
You don't have the right to use your hardware out of the box the way you want to. You don't. I want my a roomba to also fetch my paper. It's not designed for this purposes, so it's on me to modify and make my devices do what I want. I'm not arguing that the DMCA is right and just, and that you shouldn't ever install CFW. I'm arguing if you want this capability, install CFW(Hell, *I* did. I'm the one arguing *for* Sony). I don't like Finder on OS X. Apple is under no obligation to make it easy to remove or replace. It is possible, but they're under no obligation to do so.
My analogies are perfect. Sony is preventing me from having full unfettered access to my system so that I can use it without their control and software. That it is not something I am making up. Your "good" reasons are anything but.
Saying Sony will take your guns away was stupid. Really. really. stupid.
I'm not sure if you're an idiot or a troll or whatever. If you're not a troll, then I hope in good faith you understand the next following statements. Sony is in business to sell games and consoles and make money, not general purpose computing machines.
It's no shock to anyone when you, or some other OSS, or Free Software or whatever movement zealot screams this. They lock down their games console so that way some schmuck with a HDD to USB adapter couldn't just dump games to the hard drive, and run them with out paying for it. This would hurt their business, severely. Why would they ever expose themselves to that kind of risk?
Many consumers also recognize the fact that while some devices do have similarities to general purpose computers, they also recognize the fact that why someone would pigeon hole such a device towards one task and set their expectations accordingly, and in many cases, accept it and purchase a machine. Some don't. Sony is not forcing you to purchase a PS3. This is not a totalitarian regime with forced consumption.
The DMCA is obviously at issue here because there would be no way on God's Green Earth they could stop me without it. Once again, not by the use and installation of my own software, but by the removal of theirs. You act like I can just choose not to use their software freely and without hindrance. That is a damnable lie.
The DMCA is not an issue here. When has Sony ever issued a DMCA notice to Dark AleX or the GEN team or anyone else in the PSP hacking community? This is why I'm pretty sure you're a troll, or some sort of blind crazy zealot.
How are they stopping you? By implementing a DRM scheme that activates when reading EBOOT.PBP files off of the memorystick and chosing not to run software that doesn't validate. That's how. Not DMCA take down notices, or other legal threats. Using technical means, not legal ones. Shut up about the DMCA already. It is a red herring.
Christ I feel like I just wrote an article for simple.wikipedia.org
Christ. You talk about fallacious logic but you really run face first into some of your own(the whole bit about Sony taking guns away should be enshrined as a shining example of what an improper analogy is, for instance).
I said that Sony does have good reasons why they would lock down a console like the PSP or the PS3 to keep out cheating and piracy. No where did I mention the DMCA.
Sony doesn't care whether or not YOU go through the hoops to tinker with your PSP. Just don't expect bug fixes, new firmware updates, warranty, etc. Your PSP as sold, is YOURS. Their update software is THEIRS.
Is Sony coming to your house to take your modded PSP? No. Sony isn't even serving C&Ds or DMCA take down notices to the GEN team or Dark Alex, or anyone who's hosing the files necessary to get CFW working. They're just doing the libertarian thing and setting rules on what happens when you install their new firmware, and what firmwares go out when they ship consoles out of their factories(hint: Google GEN-B 5.50 PSP).
To use a proper gun ownership analogy with Sony, Sony is saying, "Do you want to own a gun? Great. Don't bring it into my place of business." You forget that when you play online, you're playing on their infrastructure, or the infrastructure of who ever's providing the online servers. You're also playing against other people and you cheating ruins their experience with Sony's product. Much like how business owners can throw you out of their place of business for bringing a gun into their domain, Sony is locking down Firmware updates and new consoles sold in stores.
as of Firmware 3.1, I can still install Linux on my big and bulky PS3.
Yes, Sony is fighting to prevent people to completely control their PSP and PS3, why? Online cheating, piracy, etc. It's not like they're keeping you out of the sacred land of home brew for really no good reason.
(it's working too, I'm thinking about either buying a spare PSP *just* for games that want FWs above 5.00(I haven't installed 5.50 GEN yet) or ditching CFW entirely. Gran Turismo Portable, you damned temptress.)
If being a geek means thinking in shallow terms, then I don't want to be a geek.
Yes it's a manufactured compatibility problem, but no, I don't think that iTunes should be forced to sync with the Pre, nor do I think it's appropriate for Palm to throw a hissy fit and mimic Apple's vendor ID either. You can pull data from the iTunes music repository from the plaintext XML it generates and you can add content to the iTunes repository using applescript(and COM under windows AFAIK). I don't care how open Palm is being with Web OS, if they're too lazy to build a sync tool for Mac, then I'm kind of worried about what else under the hood they're too lazy to build.
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I don't care how much games cost in Japan or Australia or in Latvia. I care how much games cost HERE. MS Points are just vendor lock in. If a game comes out on PSN, I can buy the whole game with out buying "points" leaving me with extra leaving me to buy more points to buy another product on PSN thus leaving me to buy more points and keeping this unholy cycle going. This is, of course, for amounts greater than five bucks, but, there isn't much on the PSN store aside from DLC unlockables that cost that little.
if Sony wants to improve PSN, put out more crap on PSN. PSN is easier to search than the XBLA Marketplace and a whole lot more friendly when it comes to using *real* currency.
This has been the situation with Palm OS, Windows Mobile and Symbian.
The reason why Apple's selling like gang busters has been usability. Me and my girlfriend figured out the iPhone OS when we first picking the thing up. Android? Not so much. Anecdotes aren't data, but I'm pretty sure the sales figures speak for themselves.
It would be great if it came with a motor and hooked up to a set of blades, it would be really useful as a stick blender and possibly a desk fan. Just make sure you have the plastic blades hooked up for that mode.
name a market segment that cares about *any* of that then get back to me.
Android phones are a usability mess.
I was out on a smoke break with a friend of mine who owns a G1 a few weeks ago. I was also bashing out some mobile specific web app and wanted to test it with a G1.
Because the fact that /, -, and some other common symbols are hidden in weird places on the keyboard, it took me a bit to get to my own app, even on the soft keyboard.
I don't care what's under the hood, usability is king among consumers. Freedom? That's a huge after thought.
First off, political apps aren't banned(see: Obama: The iPhone App). Negative political apps are. A countdown to the end of the Bush Era is politically negative. It's a business decision that would've been made in dozens of other contexts. Besides, negative politicking could put apple in a bunch of legal hot water.
Besides, do you know what immoral means?
Do you know what I mean when I say, "Apple is wrong, but there's nothing immoral going on?"
IT'S A FUCKING. PHONE. FOR GOD'S SAKE. It's not genocide. Get a grip.
You realize that Steve Jobs IS more liberal and his business dictate was to not offend people from the opposite end of the political spectrum in fear of lost sales and that other open apolitical forums would make the same decision he made?
Apple is advertising the strength of their App store, showing off the apps available, and then contrasting that to the usefulness of a netbook.
I think Apple's wrong here, a netbook is way more useful, but, they're certainly doing nothing that's immoral or worse than what TI's doing.
TI's out to protect itself and the institutions that depend on the OS being in a protected state. hence they're putting pressure on the TI calc community. What makes it worse is that if they litigate, they'll win. Most users aren't calc hackers and this ensures TI's core calc business.
The idea is that there's also no more GREED any more. But I guess that's the same as saying there's no more entrepreneurship.
from his POV.
If you're a senior dev with years of experience under your belt, perhaps yous hould do something else with your time off. If you're a green horn who should be getting a little jump start and some experience, that's a different story.
Really? Mine's grape, and i use itunes.
Seriously, even ActiveSync looks good now.
I don't know if this was supposed to be funny or serious.
Either way most people just shake their fist and scream, "GET OFF MY LAWN" when they want to sound ridiculously old.
you're giving your average pirate *way* too much credit on their intelligence.
BitTorrent is really popular because it's obscenely easy. You install the torrent client, and you just grab the torrent itself. it has nothing to do with a cat and mouse game, it's just an evolution on usefulness.
From Big Iron to VMs and dedicated Unix machines.
I don't care what part of the political spectrum you fall under, that's change we can all get behind.
Unless your job was supporting old, proprietary big iron.
Do you see the flaw in your argument now? Go look up on "first sale doctrine" some day.
I'm not stating that because there's an EULA that Sony can do what ever the hell it feels like.
I'm stating, 'You bought a fucking PS3. Don't be shocked that you have to mod it to do things other than play games.'
Yeah, so what? If your roomba can run arbitrary code, there's no reason for the manufacturer to prevent you from doing that by including, in the device, hardware designed to prevent you from running arbitrary code, hardware that you pay for, that they pass the costs of to you, the consumer, the client, who buys a product, with tech inside it that prevents you to use as you see fit.
Because there's no liability for iRobot if they allow you to hack your Roomba. There's a huge liability that Sony loses game sales when people hack their PSPs and PS3s. I'm not saying don't hack the PSP or PS3 or that piracy is inherently bad, I'm simply pointing out why they would do this, and that it is a good idea.
The analogy is perfect.
No, and repeatedly wishing for it does not make it so.
There is no enforceable contract, no implied social contract, that can prevent me from using it in any way I see fit.
This is why they use technical methods to lock the console down, not litigious. They don't need contract law when a sufficiently tough DRM scheme exists.
They have no right to lock it down at the factory.
I'm sorry, what? According to who? According to what law? They have all right to lock it down.
Between these kinds of Anti-Sony screeds and the bullshit people are giving Apple for the Palm Pre affair, it's making me really wonder about the intelligence of the average /.'er. Even Bruce Perens has gone around the bend. IT'S FUCKING MP3S. IT'S NOT A BIG DEAL.
You may want to forget it, but the rootkit was an incredibly serious event. Orders of magnitude greater than you are giving it. I am complaining about Sony restricting the use of my property. What the rootkit did was Sony restricting the use of ALL of my property, whether or not it was even purchased from Sony. If you brought the CD over to someone elses house Sony was then restricting the use of property that was never theirs, or that customer's either.
The Sony rootkit thing is the prime example of why Sony would be a little skittish about letting unrestricted, arbitrary software run on their games consoles. In addition to piracy, et al.
Do you understand that it was a total of 55 discs? 55. Big deal. The bigger deal is that consumers en masse use an OS that lets this happen. Most of the /. crowd is anti-Windows, so that's not point that's often made. Besides you didn't actually name any logical fallacy, and used one of your own by poisoning the well with the discussion of the Holocaust. I'm going to conclude you are either an idiot or a troll.
The fallacy is stating that the intentions or understandings of the manufacturer or consumer somehow construct an argument by which restrictions on the use of property become valid in any sense.
Because when you're sold a games console it's not your property until it's in your hands? Until that happens Sony can install an OS that locks it down?
It's an absolute unequivocal right for me to do so!!!!! It's my property DUDE!
Before it leaves the factory, it's theirs and before it's sold to you, it's the store's. If they decide at the factory to lock it down, it's your responsibility to break it open when you buy it.
You're an idiot. You don't understand the practical reasons why Sony would be interested in stopping pirates, and in doing so, squash the very tiny niche of the market that would want not just Linux, but full access Linux, running on their console.
I hope you're not a CFO, or CEO. You'd suck at it.
What I said was, the logic is the same behind both arguments. Specifically, that of denying your existing rights because of the possibilities.
What I'm saying is that the analogy is highly FLAWED.
That hardly matters. Sony is selling something that can be used as a general purpose computing machine. Whether they intended it or not, is not relevant or a cause for any kind of action against the consumer to prevent it.
This does matter. They're selling you a hardware/software bundle that's specifically designed to play games. Some cars have built in limiters in them for speed. Not because they're trying to make you obey the speed limit, most kick in well above 100(on some SUVs it's well below 100 and often within the highway speed limits), but rather, they can't verify how stable the car will be above that. If you want to go that fast, it's on YOU to modify YOUR property.
Sony is selling you an Apple. They intend for it to be used in Apple Pies. I use it to make a Candied Apple.
There's no liability for them to be consumed any other way, even if there was, there's no mechanism they can use to require that. This is another flawed analogy.
What is an issue is that I am labeled a criminal and interfered with when I decide to purchase a PS3 or PSP and use it in a manner that Sony does not like.
You are only labeled a criminal when you share that information with others and conspire to continually defeat the copy protection methods used to lock down the console. I'm not saying that's a good idea either, but that is the DMCA(the same DMCA Sony hasn't used to try to squash home brew, only continual firmware updates breaking the home brew enabling methods).
Completely. Fallacious. Logic.
So name that fallacy.
It does not matter if I figure out a possible use for a device before or after I purchase it. The motivations of the manufacturers are irrelevant as well, including whether or not I understand or agree to their stated intentions of the device's use. The simple fact is that I can purchase these devices for any reason I want to and the manufacturer can produce and sell them for any reason they want to.
Which is why they lock them down at the factory instead of handing you a blank PS3 with no firmware loaded. They sold you a games console. You knew this when you purchased it. If you want to use it as a PC, you have to do it, not Sony. Besides, if Sony DID do that, do you know what kind of support nightmare that would be? Do you understand the practical problems here?
Well bring out the rootkit scandal and you can see that Sony is also a criminal awaiting justice.
They have, in many states as well as in various legal battles.
Can we now be done with the whole XCP bullshit? Seriously. Ford put out cars with tires that they knew to be substandard for the vehicle they sold that could potentially *kill* people and Ford doesn't get the kind of vitriol that Sony does.
I have never heard such an ignorant statement in my life either. The DRM scheme is protected by the DMCA. They don't use the DMCA since all they need to do is to issue a gazillion software updates a year effectively requiring them to play the games. It's a technical solution since the legal solution won't work and is too costly.
Emphasis added.
Which is why they're doing what they do.
You don't have the right to use your hardware out of the box the way you want to. You don't. I want my a roomba to also fetch my paper. It's not designed for this purposes, so it's on me to modify and make my devices do what I want. I'm not arguing that the DMCA is right and just, and that you shouldn't ever install CFW. I'm arguing if you want this capability, install CFW(Hell, *I* did. I'm the one arguing *for* Sony). I don't like Finder on OS X. Apple is under no obligation to make it easy to remove or replace. It is possible, but they're under no obligation to do so.
My analogies are perfect. Sony is preventing me from having full unfettered access to my system so that I can use it without their control and software. That it is not something I am making up. Your "good" reasons are anything but.
Saying Sony will take your guns away was stupid. Really. really. stupid.
I'm not sure if you're an idiot or a troll or whatever. If you're not a troll, then I hope in good faith you understand the next following statements. Sony is in business to sell games and consoles and make money, not general purpose computing machines.
It's no shock to anyone when you, or some other OSS, or Free Software or whatever movement zealot screams this. They lock down their games console so that way some schmuck with a HDD to USB adapter couldn't just dump games to the hard drive, and run them with out paying for it. This would hurt their business, severely. Why would they ever expose themselves to that kind of risk?
Many consumers also recognize the fact that while some devices do have similarities to general purpose computers, they also recognize the fact that why someone would pigeon hole such a device towards one task and set their expectations accordingly, and in many cases, accept it and purchase a machine. Some don't. Sony is not forcing you to purchase a PS3. This is not a totalitarian regime with forced consumption.
The DMCA is obviously at issue here because there would be no way on God's Green Earth they could stop me without it. Once again, not by the use and installation of my own software, but by the removal of theirs. You act like I can just choose not to use their software freely and without hindrance. That is a damnable lie.
The DMCA is not an issue here. When has Sony ever issued a DMCA notice to Dark AleX or the GEN team or anyone else in the PSP hacking community? This is why I'm pretty sure you're a troll, or some sort of blind crazy zealot.
How are they stopping you? By implementing a DRM scheme that activates when reading EBOOT.PBP files off of the memorystick and chosing not to run software that doesn't validate. That's how. Not DMCA take down notices, or other legal threats. Using technical means, not legal ones. Shut up about the DMCA already. It is a red herring.
Christ I feel like I just wrote an article for simple.wikipedia.org
Christ. You talk about fallacious logic but you really run face first into some of your own(the whole bit about Sony taking guns away should be enshrined as a shining example of what an improper analogy is, for instance).
I said that Sony does have good reasons why they would lock down a console like the PSP or the PS3 to keep out cheating and piracy. No where did I mention the DMCA.
Sony doesn't care whether or not YOU go through the hoops to tinker with your PSP. Just don't expect bug fixes, new firmware updates, warranty, etc. Your PSP as sold, is YOURS. Their update software is THEIRS.
Is Sony coming to your house to take your modded PSP? No. Sony isn't even serving C&Ds or DMCA take down notices to the GEN team or Dark Alex, or anyone who's hosing the files necessary to get CFW working. They're just doing the libertarian thing and setting rules on what happens when you install their new firmware, and what firmwares go out when they ship consoles out of their factories(hint: Google GEN-B 5.50 PSP).
To use a proper gun ownership analogy with Sony, Sony is saying, "Do you want to own a gun? Great. Don't bring it into my place of business." You forget that when you play online, you're playing on their infrastructure, or the infrastructure of who ever's providing the online servers. You're also playing against other people and you cheating ruins their experience with Sony's product. Much like how business owners can throw you out of their place of business for bringing a gun into their domain, Sony is locking down Firmware updates and new consoles sold in stores.
as of Firmware 3.1, I can still install Linux on my big and bulky PS3.
Yes, Sony is fighting to prevent people to completely control their PSP and PS3, why? Online cheating, piracy, etc. It's not like they're keeping you out of the sacred land of home brew for really no good reason.
(it's working too, I'm thinking about either buying a spare PSP *just* for games that want FWs above 5.00(I haven't installed 5.50 GEN yet) or ditching CFW entirely. Gran Turismo Portable, you damned temptress.)
The 3.5" floppy? Sony.
not having to pay $100 bucks for a wifi device, not having to spend 20 bucks for a rechargable battery? Free online?
The Floppy and CD were proprietary Sony inventions too.
Even IF you get a LibArts degree, the essay probably doesn't tell college admissions anything anymore.
NOt unless you fly completely off the handle and start ranting about New World Order conspiracies or the proper way to eat a Jalapeno.
George Lucas...? is that you?
If being a geek means thinking in shallow terms, then I don't want to be a geek.
Yes it's a manufactured compatibility problem, but no, I don't think that iTunes should be forced to sync with the Pre, nor do I think it's appropriate for Palm to throw a hissy fit and mimic Apple's vendor ID either. You can pull data from the iTunes music repository from the plaintext XML it generates and you can add content to the iTunes repository using applescript(and COM under windows AFAIK). I don't care how open Palm is being with Web OS, if they're too lazy to build a sync tool for Mac, then I'm kind of worried about what else under the hood they're too lazy to build.