Number one, simply cover that portion of the screen. Stupid, yes, but at least you won't need to watch their ads. (That might be an idea for a magazine ad (heh) apposing this thing..)
Number two, (and this is the big one..) simply unplug the idiot box from any sort of brodcast feed. Antena, cable, sat, all of it. Keep a multiregion dvd player or vcr around if you want, for those old classics.
Frankly, there is nothing good on television anymore. I have a spare commodore monitor under a pile of crud and a vcr i can plug in if i need to watch something, but i doubt that will happen any time soon.
People have gotten on fine without tv for a long time. Now, internet access is another story completely.
They would attack the manufacturers of the hardware
True, unless the manufacturers were many. Though drastically reducing any chance of corporate manufacturing, open sourcing the protocols and example schematics would make it impossible to get all of the do-it-myself people out here.
Secondly, allowing the hardware side of this device to be a simple mod or add-on to an existing platform (or platforms) would increase the adoption rate.
If it's open source, then it _will_ be ported to anything and everything. Hence the need for open protocols. The actual device can be whatever the user implements it as.
Come on people! Sure the programs were copyrighted. So? Sony was making money off the hardware, not the software. Lego showed us the way with Lego Mindstorms.
Without the customer community, there would bo no company. I for one will not by buying from Sony this Christmas. Promote fanaticism of your user base, it's the only way for a company to survive.
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There are two obvious solutions to this issue;
Number one, simply cover that portion of the screen. Stupid, yes, but at least you won't need to watch their ads. (That might be an idea for a magazine ad (heh) apposing this thing..)
Number two, (and this is the big one..) simply unplug the idiot box from any sort of brodcast feed. Antena, cable, sat, all of it. Keep a multiregion dvd player or vcr around if you want, for those old classics.
Frankly, there is nothing good on television anymore. I have a spare commodore monitor under a pile of crud and a vcr i can plug in if i need to watch something, but i doubt that will happen any time soon.
People have gotten on fine without tv for a long time. Now, internet access is another story completely.
As a relative newcomer to the linux platform, I (and probably a few others) are not comfortable recompiling large masses of code.
Is a Redhat binary available? I've looked through most of the mirrors as well as ftp.kde.org, and have not seen one.
Is the Suse compile psudo-compatible? Rumor I've heard around here.
.So every true.. *sigh*
I wonder if they actually stuck a monkey house on checking the actual content.
True, unless the manufacturers were many. Though drastically reducing any chance of corporate manufacturing, open sourcing the protocols and example schematics would make it impossible to get all of the do-it-myself people out here.
Secondly, allowing the hardware side of this device to be a simple mod or add-on to an existing platform (or platforms) would increase the adoption rate.
If it's open source, then it _will_ be ported to anything and everything. Hence the need for open protocols. The actual device can be whatever the user implements it as.
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Come on people! Sure the programs were copyrighted. So? Sony was making money off the hardware, not the software. Lego showed us the way with Lego Mindstorms.
Without the customer community, there would bo no company. I for one will not by buying from Sony this Christmas. Promote fanaticism of your user base, it's the only way for a company to survive.