Not one of these locked down devices is hard for a "free thinker" to put a new OS on.
They are all significantly harder than a current PC, and end up only partially functional when you do.
No one is making nor planning on making devices that are actually secure against a knowledgeable owner that wants them to do something different.
Nonsense. Apple, Microsoft, Sony, etc. all spend lots of time and money designing and implementing security schemes that make doing this more and more difficult. The EFF scored a coup by getting an exemption to the DMCA, but you can bet your ass they're lobbying hard to get that exemption overturned. Where the technology fails they plan on sending the FBI to cover.
No one is actually advocating the position your essay is opposing.
Not openly.
There is no long term trend in either direction. For example in the last 5 years virtually all music is sold DRM free while previously music companies had required DRM.
Music was freed of DRM but instead the most popular platforms have DRM integrated from the bottom up. And virtually every other media (books, video, etc.) are all slathered in a layer of DRM with no forward progress on removing it.
On the consumer tablet / phone devices there already exist a wealth of services to setup alternative "clouds" including both Android and iOS.
But are they integrated? If someone buys an iOS device, can they set their cloud provider to Dropbox instead of iCloud and have it work? Last I checked iCloud was integrated into the APIs and if you don't have iCloud, none of it works.
Seriously, though, OpenGL? WTF? Fluxbox is good enough for me. XFCE, not far behind.
I know! How dare they take advantage of graphics hardware of newer systems! X11 primitives should be enough for everyone!
Ubuntu is fine if you are an absolute Linux beginner.
It's also great if you want to work with Linux and the software available to it, but don't quite want to spend as much time screwing around with the platform.
For the rest of us, frankly, this is just one more nail in its coffin, as far as I am concerned, Ubuntu is fast becoming the Mandrake of the 20xx.
Fortunately it's not.
there is always Slackware 14 and NetBSD 6.0, who both just came out and promise tons of (non-OpenGL) goodness.
Hey, look at that. Options for the technology-averse technologist. Can people stop bitching about the fact that the GUI subsystem is being modernized and go take advantage of all the old, inefficient, software-powered solutions that you prefer?
they're so obsessed with turning the UI into Chrome
But unlike Chrome you can reconfigure the UI. I run Release at work and Nightly at home, and since version 4 my UI has looked pretty much the same as it did under FF 3.6.
Punish? No, punishment would be a fine or confiscation of assets or something. Dividing the company into two would simply mean that shareholders would have a stake in each company until they sorted things out.
We, the buying public, would have two companies with top-end technical capabilities, duking it out in the market. Unless you want to assert that corporations in ultra-powerful positions should be left alone even when it goes against the interests of, well, everyone but the company in question.
I wish when the first genetic mutation that lead to modern humans arised, the inferior/earlier specie, split the head of that mutant, so that no human would ever arise.
Ah, so you're in the CORPORATIONS = PEOPLE camp. Or maybe CORPORATIONS > PEOPLE camp.
So any innovation, anyone that shows promise, must be squashed and split! that will teach the innovators.
No, no corporation should ever be allowed to stay a monopoly.
So listen up all you people who want to create their own companies! If your company is successful, 1. Microlith will want you to start paying at least 80% in taxes to support garbage like him. 2. If you don't like it, he will ensure that you will not be able to leave the country, or transfer your corporation to another nation. and 2. If you're really successfull, Microlith will want the government to split and destroy your country, and maybe give me some part of it too!! that will teach you. Next time, you'll think twice before being more ambitious than those who are either too stupid to start their own companies, or those who lack all ambition and prefer to live with their parents and get fat while eating twinkies!
Ah, good 'ol Anonymous Coward. Gotta hide to speak your fascist, corporate supremacist Ayn Randian garbage, right?
AMD are doing real long term innovation with integrating CPU and GPU.
From all the reports coming out of AMD, they're doing no more than what every ARM SoC vendor is doing and including GPU cores on the CPU die, which they were doing well before AMD released the Fusion line.
Only for AMD, the SoC design process they've adopted has resulted in newer processors being slower than older ones.
Why do modern atheists feel the need to talk about God all the time?
More like, defending ourselves from the huge number of hyper-religious people around the world who insist we believe in their fairy tales and threaten us with hell (or death) whenever we reject their fantasies.
I don't remember Sagan, Darwin, or for that matter, Einstein feeling the need to dwell on the subject at any length.
I'm sure if Sagan was around dealing with the mad religious fundamentalists we have today, it would be brought up to him as much as it's thrown at Neil DeGrasse Tyson during random talks. Darwin lived in a time where it was far more dangerous to vocally reject religion, and Einstein is on the record as flatly rejecting the common notions of religion, yet again he didn't have the fundamentalists we have today trying to force their beliefs on everyone, decrying themselves as being "oppressed" when others who disagree move to impede their abusive campaigns of ignorance.
While I'm sure the fundamentalists would be happy if men like Dawkins just went away and let them do as they please, it's a good thing there are people willing to stand up and question the notion of religion from end to end, rather than just giving way and being quiet.
Personally though I generally leave things like this on, I actually do want more relevant advertising (I don't use ad blockers on the web for the same reason).
Let it never be said that SuperKendall was not a faithful subject of his Corporate Masters. Apple can Do No Wrong.
You sound hurt that people are discussing it. Should we sit back and just, you know, ignore it?
Or does any somewhat negative discussion of lock down immediately send you into a shitfit over "RMS faithfuls?" Your post history suggests you are highly defensive regarding Windows and Microsoft as a whole, and extremely anti-Linx/anti-Android. Is it personal?
People were complaining about this a year ago as well. It's just taken a long time for the naysayers to realize that, yes, Microsoft is going the iOS route with WinRT.
What is all this nonsense about Android being a walled garden?
People with a tenuous grasp on the concept seem to think the walled garden is referring to the nature of the stores. They miss the fact that the walled garden isn't walled until the user is trapped in by the actions of the store owner.
Android gets around this by simply allowing sideloading.
Oh look, it's someone who doesn't know the line at which simple criticism turns into fear-based hate.
What I found particularly upsetting that was while Muslims were burning down our embassy and so on, Obamas administration could not stop itself from insulting Americans and their free speech rights and apologizing to Muslims.
This is a blatant lie, parroted by ignorant right-wing groups who hate Obama and Muslims.
Romney was correct from the beginning to criticize the administrations response.
He criticized a response never made by the administration for the purpose of scoring political points with his ultra-religious, hate-filled base.
Are you being paid to write this partisan bullshit here or something?
I am convinced that Romney is the right choice for President and we are not safe with Obama who has too many connections to Islam to be trusted.
Go back to FreeRepublic where your batshit insane ideas can rot with the rest of the madmen.
He's concerned about individual rights and freedoms. He sees an association between a Linux vendor and a company as a negative in part because of their ties to a PAC that tends to aggresively favor corporations over people.
On an aside, can you highlight how his description is inaccurate?
Pretty much anything like that is guaranteed to be a derivative work of the kernel/GPLv2 application and thus subject to the license. Particularly the output of ksplice since it acts on kernel sources directly.
I'm failing to see the problem with App Stores versus regular stores. The problem isn't with stores but the walled garden created by locking down devices and forcing people into that store.
MeeGo was supposed to be the industry-facing name for the platform. That it was spread farther was typical of the ineptness of the management at Nokia.
The code behind them is protected, and as a kernel module you are derivative work of the code behind those APIs. Trying to suggest that the APIs (that is to say, the prototypes, which is what Oracle tried to claim) themselves are being claimed is ridiculous.
But this is just another anti-GPL, anti-Linux attack to try and skew things in favor of uncooperative closed source vendors.
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But should Linux, as a platform, be prohibited from taking advantage of newer hardware and technologies for the sake of keeping old platforms alive?
They are all significantly harder than a current PC, and end up only partially functional when you do.
Nonsense. Apple, Microsoft, Sony, etc. all spend lots of time and money designing and implementing security schemes that make doing this more and more difficult. The EFF scored a coup by getting an exemption to the DMCA, but you can bet your ass they're lobbying hard to get that exemption overturned. Where the technology fails they plan on sending the FBI to cover.
Not openly.
Music was freed of DRM but instead the most popular platforms have DRM integrated from the bottom up. And virtually every other media (books, video, etc.) are all slathered in a layer of DRM with no forward progress on removing it.
But are they integrated? If someone buys an iOS device, can they set their cloud provider to Dropbox instead of iCloud and have it work? Last I checked iCloud was integrated into the APIs and if you don't have iCloud, none of it works.
So now any system with an Intel GPU is a gaming computer? Well fuck, you might as well just go into hiding now.
Yes, so what should they do? Be forced to give it up and do things The Right Way, As Determined By True Linux Users?
I know! How dare they take advantage of graphics hardware of newer systems! X11 primitives should be enough for everyone!
It's also great if you want to work with Linux and the software available to it, but don't quite want to spend as much time screwing around with the platform.
Fortunately it's not.
Hey, look at that. Options for the technology-averse technologist. Can people stop bitching about the fact that the GUI subsystem is being modernized and go take advantage of all the old, inefficient, software-powered solutions that you prefer?
But unlike Chrome you can reconfigure the UI. I run Release at work and Nightly at home, and since version 4 my UI has looked pretty much the same as it did under FF 3.6.
Microsoft has long referred to anything not-Microsoft as legacy. It's nothing new to absolutists.
Except stuff from China tends to be riddled with GPL violations and stuck with some ancient, decrepit version of Android.
Punish? No, punishment would be a fine or confiscation of assets or something. Dividing the company into two would simply mean that shareholders would have a stake in each company until they sorted things out.
We, the buying public, would have two companies with top-end technical capabilities, duking it out in the market. Unless you want to assert that corporations in ultra-powerful positions should be left alone even when it goes against the interests of, well, everyone but the company in question.
Ah, so you're in the CORPORATIONS = PEOPLE camp. Or maybe CORPORATIONS > PEOPLE camp.
No, no corporation should ever be allowed to stay a monopoly.
Ah, good 'ol Anonymous Coward. Gotta hide to speak your fascist, corporate supremacist Ayn Randian garbage, right?
From all the reports coming out of AMD, they're doing no more than what every ARM SoC vendor is doing and including GPU cores on the CPU die, which they were doing well before AMD released the Fusion line.
Only for AMD, the SoC design process they've adopted has resulted in newer processors being slower than older ones.
Split the company in two. Mandatory patent cross licensing between the two plus mandatory licensing to any 3rd party that asks.
More like, defending ourselves from the huge number of hyper-religious people around the world who insist we believe in their fairy tales and threaten us with hell (or death) whenever we reject their fantasies.
I'm sure if Sagan was around dealing with the mad religious fundamentalists we have today, it would be brought up to him as much as it's thrown at Neil DeGrasse Tyson during random talks. Darwin lived in a time where it was far more dangerous to vocally reject religion, and Einstein is on the record as flatly rejecting the common notions of religion, yet again he didn't have the fundamentalists we have today trying to force their beliefs on everyone, decrying themselves as being "oppressed" when others who disagree move to impede their abusive campaigns of ignorance.
While I'm sure the fundamentalists would be happy if men like Dawkins just went away and let them do as they please, it's a good thing there are people willing to stand up and question the notion of religion from end to end, rather than just giving way and being quiet.
Let it never be said that SuperKendall was not a faithful subject of his Corporate Masters. Apple can Do No Wrong.
You sound hurt that people are discussing it. Should we sit back and just, you know, ignore it?
Or does any somewhat negative discussion of lock down immediately send you into a shitfit over "RMS faithfuls?" Your post history suggests you are highly defensive regarding Windows and Microsoft as a whole, and extremely anti-Linx/anti-Android. Is it personal?
Persecution fetish much?
People were complaining about this a year ago as well. It's just taken a long time for the naysayers to realize that, yes, Microsoft is going the iOS route with WinRT.
People with a tenuous grasp on the concept seem to think the walled garden is referring to the nature of the stores. They miss the fact that the walled garden isn't walled until the user is trapped in by the actions of the store owner.
Android gets around this by simply allowing sideloading.
Oh look, it's someone who doesn't know the line at which simple criticism turns into fear-based hate.
This is a blatant lie, parroted by ignorant right-wing groups who hate Obama and Muslims.
He criticized a response never made by the administration for the purpose of scoring political points with his ultra-religious, hate-filled base.
Are you being paid to write this partisan bullshit here or something?
Go back to FreeRepublic where your batshit insane ideas can rot with the rest of the madmen.
He's concerned about individual rights and freedoms. He sees an association between a Linux vendor and a company as a negative in part because of their ties to a PAC that tends to aggresively favor corporations over people.
On an aside, can you highlight how his description is inaccurate?
Why are you here?
You would never know, quite honestly.
Pretty much anything like that is guaranteed to be a derivative work of the kernel/GPLv2 application and thus subject to the license. Particularly the output of ksplice since it acts on kernel sources directly.
I'm failing to see the problem with App Stores versus regular stores. The problem isn't with stores but the walled garden created by locking down devices and forcing people into that store.
Except for that Android bit.
MeeGo was supposed to be the industry-facing name for the platform. That it was spread farther was typical of the ineptness of the management at Nokia.
The code behind them is protected, and as a kernel module you are derivative work of the code behind those APIs. Trying to suggest that the APIs (that is to say, the prototypes, which is what Oracle tried to claim) themselves are being claimed is ridiculous.
But this is just another anti-GPL, anti-Linux attack to try and skew things in favor of uncooperative closed source vendors.