Not true. Almost every device released today has full driver support in the kernel sources that are dropped. Userspace components notwithstanding, the kernels released are fully capable of supporting other OSes when recompiled (assuming the device will boot them.)
What does happen, however, and I stated this elsewhere, is the drivers are released ONLY into those tarballs with no revision history, full of android-specific code and are never merged upstream into the kernel. This makes porting newer kernels to the device even harder, which you can see in the 2.6.36 and 2.6.37 changeup in how some sound drivers are structured. As a result, you've got tons of drivers for hardware sitting, and rotting, in obscure folders on corporate websites.
And all this mess is before the schism created in the userspace by Android.
Music, and music only. Video and ebooks however continue to be wrapped in layers of DRM and little forward motion to push DRM out of those fields seems to be underway.
Just think. With the death of paper books and the move to only digital copies (most of which will be slathered in DRM) you can eliminate the concept of resale, ensure that old editions of books become unusable, and revise history on the fly. Region lockouts, EULAs, acitvations and time limits. Then they can layer even more restrictions on top and enforce them via more bad pro-corporation, anti-citizen laws.
Sure seems like we're already on this road. All they need to do is require government licensing for access to a compiler...
I like the bit about how it's been argued (repeatedly) that the War Powers Resolution is unconstitutional. I wonder if Obama will play chicken with a GOP that hates him so dearly.
My preference is for the argument that since we have a standing Army, it is the President's to command and if Congress doesn't like it, they can cut funding and force the President to bring the military home. Unfortunately, they wouldn't dare cut defense. Well, they might dare if they hate the president enough.
If people want to design and play with these for the fun of it, more power to them
Except your post basically comes off as "they should never have bothered, because they're dirty zealots and it's been done better by others and I don't find it interesting."
it's poorly conceived
How so?
will never be very successful at reaching the hands of hobbyists
It's been around since 2009 at least and hasn't died yet. Maybe it is, and you're just making things up?
As I told the other gentleman, if they're dedicated to open hardware, they'd be better off creating open hardware for desktops where they wouldn't have bad space, heat, and power constraints
Maybe the goal was to have a singular portable device not dependent on any other platform, that was completely open. In fact, I believe that was the goal. They seem to have succeeded.
rather than poorly duplicating functionality of something that most people carry around already.
Which generally aren't open in multiple ways. I defer to my earlier snark.
It's niche hardware, that makes it stupid. I hate it and so should you, and if you don't you suck. Everyone involved with it is a insane asshole (because I said so) and if you enjoy using this then you're mentally retarded and I hate you. Excuse me while I play mindless consumer and lock myself into an overpriced multi-year contract for something mostly unrelated to the subject at hand.
I think I gleaned the true meaning of your blather.
They'll pull your luggage if you don't get on the flight, but it's not a hard or fast rule. Your luggage can leave on an earlier flight, sometimes it will follow you on a later flight. They fuck stuff up all the time.
And I am not sure how putting it in the cloud avoids the politics? Any project of significance has to be run up the flag pole in any IT situation.
Nonsense. If the system is broken enough then moving into "the cloud" avoids the politics by becoming a simple matter of getting a PO and setting up an account. You simply don't inform IT of the matter until after it's been purchased and migrated to. Someone might get a hair up their ass about it, but as I've found out, if it solves a problem and you can get your job done then chances are people will force the issue to be dropped.
Can we please stop paying attention to this nitwit?
Until she's assuredly NOT a presidential candidate, she will be in the public eye. The best thing to do is expose her for who she truly is, and make her go away sooner.
Ah yes, I have seen this brought up before. Instead of wondering WHY people are intensely looking at what the politician in question has done, both now and in the past, they immediately start attacking those who are inquiring, calling them "deranged." It couldn't be because her political history is sketchy. It couldn't be because a woman who was almost VP and is still adored by the Tea Party, has made many statements that draw her value as a representative into question.
People want to see what she has said and done, in public office, before. But hey, she's a popular Republican politician so any inquiry or criticisms are just deragement. Time for congress to go on another $40 million dollar witch hunt again against whatever Democrat they can.
The XBOX360 has a triple-core PowerPC processor. And dual core processors aren't exactly new, so I wouldn't call them "beefy." Also, IIRC a lot of processing has to be done host-side of the data coming from the Kinect, so a single core processor probably can't hack it.
People think that Apple is some hero for convincing the media companies to release DRM-free AAC files, but you don't have to look hard to see that they're big friends of the media companies and will happily push DRM if it suits them.
Sure, we could only install applications developed by a corporation we already deal with and should have an interest in keeping us happy and keeping our business by not installing malware on our devices (Sony jokes aside), but doesn't this suppress the audience for "little guy" developers? Isn't that contrary to the spirit of FOSSetc?
Google's Marketplace has nothing to do with FOSS. So long as they don't try to lock users out of their own devices (by barring sideloading) then it's a non-issue.
Sooner or later Google will need to do some sort of Quality Control on their store, or they'll just keep making the Marketplace look even less trustworthy and push people to the Amazon store.
Software developers do not say what you cannot do with your computer.
Apple does, by locking the device down. Sure you can jailbreak, but they're still telling you what you can do. Microsoft intends to, with the way they're setting up Windows Phone (and I wouldn't be surprised to see that extended into non-desktop versions of Windows 8.)
Say you buy a computer with no software
Show me a smartphone or other similar device you can buy without software.
Saying everyone should know how to program is just foolish, and is like saying I should know how to butcher a cow so I can have complete control over the type and cut of meat I get.
Some might say that knowing how to kill and dress an animal is a good thing, if only to understand where your food comes from.
I think your point falls into the pit of the ridiculous, since computers are so integral to our daily lives that being ignorant of how they work and how to make total use of them is bordering on being a plague as bad as the rampant ignorance in math and financial planning that causes so many problems today.
I lose nothing by having someone else build a house to my specifications. Architects don't tell me how I can use my building afterwards, either.
I lose a lot when a company comes along and says I can only do X, Y, and Z with something I bought, especially when they have a vested interest in restricting me.
To make a point, I suppose? I bought my N900 outright even though AT&T doesn't give discounts, mostly because there was no chance in hell that any US carrier would make it available.
Is this Google trying to usurp the successes had by the Arduino community and tie access to these peripherals to Android or something?
'The opportunity exists to dramatically change how you control your home,' said Tom Benton of Lighting Science. Over time, 'we're talking about the elimination of the wall switch.'
But I don't want to have to buy an Android device just to turn the lights on in my house:(
I understand that you hate Obama (and probably all Democrats,) but your point seems to be mostly irrational.
She isn't even declared as a candidate for the next election yet it seems as if the line to be part of the character assassination just continues to grow.
Maybe it's because there's a large, idiotic segment of the population that does want her as president. And people want to see exactly how (un)ethical of a person she is before they try to put her manipulative ass in the White House. That they've taken great pains to ensure that these e-mails are difficult to get and stripped of useful information, I suspect they've worked very hard to hide things.
If they even tried this with Obama there would be lines of people screaming racism.
Why? Official e-mails are part of the public record. The reason people are all over this is because of the deliberate actions taken to make these records hard to get.
I have no sympathy for Palin. She's manipulative, power hungry, and has show no evidence that she would be remotely capable of handling the role of the Presidency. She killed McCain's run, simply due to the fear that if anything happened to him, she'd end up in the hot seat.
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Not true. Almost every device released today has full driver support in the kernel sources that are dropped. Userspace components notwithstanding, the kernels released are fully capable of supporting other OSes when recompiled (assuming the device will boot them.)
What does happen, however, and I stated this elsewhere, is the drivers are released ONLY into those tarballs with no revision history, full of android-specific code and are never merged upstream into the kernel. This makes porting newer kernels to the device even harder, which you can see in the 2.6.36 and 2.6.37 changeup in how some sound drivers are structured. As a result, you've got tons of drivers for hardware sitting, and rotting, in obscure folders on corporate websites.
And all this mess is before the schism created in the userspace by Android.
Music, and music only. Video and ebooks however continue to be wrapped in layers of DRM and little forward motion to push DRM out of those fields seems to be underway.
Text books will absolutely die fast. They'll die each semester, a couple weeks after the end.
You'll still pay the new price though.
Just think. With the death of paper books and the move to only digital copies (most of which will be slathered in DRM) you can eliminate the concept of resale, ensure that old editions of books become unusable, and revise history on the fly. Region lockouts, EULAs, acitvations and time limits. Then they can layer even more restrictions on top and enforce them via more bad pro-corporation, anti-citizen laws.
Sure seems like we're already on this road. All they need to do is require government licensing for access to a compiler...
I like the bit about how it's been argued (repeatedly) that the War Powers Resolution is unconstitutional. I wonder if Obama will play chicken with a GOP that hates him so dearly.
My preference is for the argument that since we have a standing Army, it is the President's to command and if Congress doesn't like it, they can cut funding and force the President to bring the military home. Unfortunately, they wouldn't dare cut defense. Well, they might dare if they hate the president enough.
If people want to design and play with these for the fun of it, more power to them
Except your post basically comes off as "they should never have bothered, because they're dirty zealots and it's been done better by others and I don't find it interesting."
it's poorly conceived
How so?
will never be very successful at reaching the hands of hobbyists
It's been around since 2009 at least and hasn't died yet. Maybe it is, and you're just making things up?
As I told the other gentleman, if they're dedicated to open hardware, they'd be better off creating open hardware for desktops where they wouldn't have bad space, heat, and power constraints
Maybe the goal was to have a singular portable device not dependent on any other platform, that was completely open. In fact, I believe that was the goal. They seem to have succeeded.
rather than poorly duplicating functionality of something that most people carry around already.
Which generally aren't open in multiple ways. I defer to my earlier snark.
Hey, well if you had rubbed your two brain cells together at the start, maybe I wouldn't have been so snarky
Oh well.
your too god damed busy being a fucking troll to bother with that, you just give me shit
Shit you deserve, for being so thick. If you clicked on the first link there's a "buy now" link at the top of the page.
if your "selling" a product fucking make it where people can find it, if you dont go fuck yourself and your story about how its not selling well
They've put it exactly where they wanted it. "Not selling well" was put in by the article submitter. But please, continue being an idiot.
I just searched "nanonote" in google and it was the FIRST GODDAMN PAGE OF HITS.
I think I gleaned the true meaning of your blather.
I know, man. If it isn't in Best Buy it just doesn't exist! Fuck people who make niche hardware for thinking they can try!
They'll pull your luggage if you don't get on the flight, but it's not a hard or fast rule. Your luggage can leave on an earlier flight, sometimes it will follow you on a later flight. They fuck stuff up all the time.
Nonsense. If the system is broken enough then moving into "the cloud" avoids the politics by becoming a simple matter of getting a PO and setting up an account. You simply don't inform IT of the matter until after it's been purchased and migrated to. Someone might get a hair up their ass about it, but as I've found out, if it solves a problem and you can get your job done then chances are people will force the issue to be dropped.
Until she's assuredly NOT a presidential candidate, she will be in the public eye. The best thing to do is expose her for who she truly is, and make her go away sooner.
Ah yes, I have seen this brought up before. Instead of wondering WHY people are intensely looking at what the politician in question has done, both now and in the past, they immediately start attacking those who are inquiring, calling them "deranged." It couldn't be because her political history is sketchy. It couldn't be because a woman who was almost VP and is still adored by the Tea Party, has made many statements that draw her value as a representative into question.
People want to see what she has said and done, in public office, before. But hey, she's a popular Republican politician so any inquiry or criticisms are just deragement. Time for congress to go on another $40 million dollar witch hunt again against whatever Democrat they can.
The XBOX360 has a triple-core PowerPC processor. And dual core processors aren't exactly new, so I wouldn't call them "beefy." Also, IIRC a lot of processing has to be done host-side of the data coming from the Kinect, so a single core processor probably can't hack it.
People think that Apple is some hero for convincing the media companies to release DRM-free AAC files, but you don't have to look hard to see that they're big friends of the media companies and will happily push DRM if it suits them.
Google's Marketplace has nothing to do with FOSS. So long as they don't try to lock users out of their own devices (by barring sideloading) then it's a non-issue.
Sooner or later Google will need to do some sort of Quality Control on their store, or they'll just keep making the Marketplace look even less trustworthy and push people to the Amazon store.
Apple does, by locking the device down. Sure you can jailbreak, but they're still telling you what you can do. Microsoft intends to, with the way they're setting up Windows Phone (and I wouldn't be surprised to see that extended into non-desktop versions of Windows 8.)
Show me a smartphone or other similar device you can buy without software.
Some might say that knowing how to kill and dress an animal is a good thing, if only to understand where your food comes from.
I think your point falls into the pit of the ridiculous, since computers are so integral to our daily lives that being ignorant of how they work and how to make total use of them is bordering on being a plague as bad as the rampant ignorance in math and financial planning that causes so many problems today.
I lose nothing by having someone else build a house to my specifications. Architects don't tell me how I can use my building afterwards, either.
I lose a lot when a company comes along and says I can only do X, Y, and Z with something I bought, especially when they have a vested interest in restricting me.
Is Tracfone GSM based? If so, yes.
To make a point, I suppose? I bought my N900 outright even though AT&T doesn't give discounts, mostly because there was no chance in hell that any US carrier would make it available.
Is this Google trying to usurp the successes had by the Arduino community and tie access to these peripherals to Android or something?
But I don't want to have to buy an Android device just to turn the lights on in my house :(
I understand that you hate Obama (and probably all Democrats,) but your point seems to be mostly irrational.
Maybe it's because there's a large, idiotic segment of the population that does want her as president. And people want to see exactly how (un)ethical of a person she is before they try to put her manipulative ass in the White House. That they've taken great pains to ensure that these e-mails are difficult to get and stripped of useful information, I suspect they've worked very hard to hide things.
Why? Official e-mails are part of the public record. The reason people are all over this is because of the deliberate actions taken to make these records hard to get.
I have no sympathy for Palin. She's manipulative, power hungry, and has show no evidence that she would be remotely capable of handling the role of the Presidency. She killed McCain's run, simply due to the fear that if anything happened to him, she'd end up in the hot seat.