I've been ranting about precisely the same things with what's touted as the first Internet Tablets based on OPEN SOURCE with the Nokia tablets. There's a LOT LOT LOT of closed source modules and even applications that you can't uninstall on them despite the Linux kernel and generally Debian flavor of the OS. Meanwhile everyone using the pre-(not even yet released)-N900 tablets are stuck with an aged 2.6.21 kernel because many drivers are closed and Nokia would rather make a new tablet than properly open up the tablet architecture even though they like to go on and on about what an erection they get when they think about open source. I'm becoming less and less convinced that the driver modules that Nokia proudly takes credit for opening up are even BECAUSE of Nokia so much as that chip manufactures are opening it up on their own because of the positively evolving effects and opinions around open-sourcing hardware drivers. What Netgear did here seems to feel almost IDENTICAL to what Nokia has been doing for a few years now--talking up open source to get the attention of the geeks and developers and put up an open facade. It's still a walled garden despite the open facade.
Let's just assume that everything they said were accurate accusations and that the FSF is anti-copyright, anti-RIAA, anti-whatever...
How is this relevant to their case? If anything, doesn't that make the FSF the opposing balance in the scales of the arguments? I'm just not sure that what they're saying really comes down to much more than just 'name-calling' and doesn't really explain whether their case has merit.
Hell.. why not just name it the "Fallen Kingdom Stewing Piddly Crap" Channel? (Try just saying the first syllables of that name for what I REALLY meant by it.)
Cripes.. I guess I'm just too much of a cellar-ridden geek playing video games. I guess what they're saying is that my buddies and I shouldn't bother throwing together chips and KFC parties for shows like we have been for BSG.:) Apparently, we're not in their demographic. So much for THAT ad revenue they were making.
It's truly insulting--plus they defined a general genre that a LARGE population of people have always liked and subscribed to their channel for--mind you, with a few stellar exceptions like BSG, Stargate and Firefly, most of their programming are disappointing and they deserve to lose most of the revenue if things ever finally go ala carte like Hulu and Amazon.
Looks like they JUST put up a 'We're sorry' page within the past few minutes.
I had happened to be on Amazon AS it went down.. it was working one moment then suddenly died while I was browsing their MP3's for download.
Neuros OSD has been able to do this for a very long time now, too. Sure--this is a good new feature for Tivo but it's sort of something everyone else seems to have already done; makes this seem like more of a 'me too!' feature at this point but I guess most of the Walmart shopping non-geeks wouldn't know it.
Finally! Now I can finally make my get-away in my old classic Volkswagen Beetle! Voom! er.. well, chirp!:) HEY! If nothing else.. I might be one of the few folks still able to drive a car for a while after a big EMP blast from space, eh?;)
But I do wonder--mine is a little red 1974 Bug with a 1973 engine in it (therefore no EGR). I don't think it would be susceptible at all either, would it? It has a carburetor and an old mechanical Bosch 009 distributor and so on. I'd think that microwave would fry solid state microchips and I don't think anything in that Bug is microchip based.
Didn't Gates go on various television shows reminding us about how long it took to develop Vista? Clearly it MUST be an amazing product given the amount of time spent on it, right?
I thought Microsoft kept repeating the mantra that customers were asking for all these features that Vista delivers. From what Microsoft has been showing us with Vista, it's obvious that operating systems for computers were always originally designed with the clear intention to play video and audio that studios produced--NEVER were you expected to produce anything yourself! The impression I get from the Vista's experience illustrates that Microsoft doesn't design Windows to end up as a workstation or a server or as any kind of a tool--just a bloated yet very limited media center.
My two cents, anyway.
Eternal Darkness was probably my favorite example of this. The game intentionally made you think you were going nuts as a game PLAYER while you were playing--psychological tricks like suddenly dying and losing the game just to flash to your character realizing it wasn't real, system error messages making you think your game just crashed just to have your character wake up and ask, 'What the hell was that?' and so on.:) It wasn't just a horror game--which it was, dark and disturbing--but it was also psychological and aimed at the player rather than only telling you the story of an on-screen character.
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Kinda surprised NOBODY has mentioned "Otherworld" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherworld_%28TV_series%29) I used to LOVE that show.
I've been ranting about precisely the same things with what's touted as the first Internet Tablets based on OPEN SOURCE with the Nokia tablets. There's a LOT LOT LOT of closed source modules and even applications that you can't uninstall on them despite the Linux kernel and generally Debian flavor of the OS. Meanwhile everyone using the pre-(not even yet released)-N900 tablets are stuck with an aged 2.6.21 kernel because many drivers are closed and Nokia would rather make a new tablet than properly open up the tablet architecture even though they like to go on and on about what an erection they get when they think about open source. I'm becoming less and less convinced that the driver modules that Nokia proudly takes credit for opening up are even BECAUSE of Nokia so much as that chip manufactures are opening it up on their own because of the positively evolving effects and opinions around open-sourcing hardware drivers. What Netgear did here seems to feel almost IDENTICAL to what Nokia has been doing for a few years now--talking up open source to get the attention of the geeks and developers and put up an open facade. It's still a walled garden despite the open facade.
Let's just assume that everything they said were accurate accusations and that the FSF is anti-copyright, anti-RIAA, anti-whatever...
How is this relevant to their case? If anything, doesn't that make the FSF the opposing balance in the scales of the arguments? I'm just not sure that what they're saying really comes down to much more than just 'name-calling' and doesn't really explain whether their case has merit.
Hell.. why not just name it the "Fallen Kingdom Stewing Piddly Crap" Channel? (Try just saying the first syllables of that name for what I REALLY meant by it.) Cripes.. I guess I'm just too much of a cellar-ridden geek playing video games. I guess what they're saying is that my buddies and I shouldn't bother throwing together chips and KFC parties for shows like we have been for BSG. :) Apparently, we're not in their demographic. So much for THAT ad revenue they were making.
It's truly insulting--plus they defined a general genre that a LARGE population of people have always liked and subscribed to their channel for--mind you, with a few stellar exceptions like BSG, Stargate and Firefly, most of their programming are disappointing and they deserve to lose most of the revenue if things ever finally go ala carte like Hulu and Amazon.
YAY!! And now it's back!!
Well, they ARE making MP3's available for download. :)
Now it looks like they've gone back to an "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" error.
Looks like they JUST put up a 'We're sorry' page within the past few minutes. I had happened to be on Amazon AS it went down.. it was working one moment then suddenly died while I was browsing their MP3's for download.
Sorry, hadda be said. :)
Neuros OSD has been able to do this for a very long time now, too. Sure--this is a good new feature for Tivo but it's sort of something everyone else seems to have already done; makes this seem like more of a 'me too!' feature at this point but I guess most of the Walmart shopping non-geeks wouldn't know it.
Finally! Now I can finally make my get-away in my old classic Volkswagen Beetle! Voom! er.. well, chirp! :) HEY! If nothing else.. I might be one of the few folks still able to drive a car for a while after a big EMP blast from space, eh? ;)
But I do wonder--mine is a little red 1974 Bug with a 1973 engine in it (therefore no EGR). I don't think it would be susceptible at all either, would it? It has a carburetor and an old mechanical Bosch 009 distributor and so on. I'd think that microwave would fry solid state microchips and I don't think anything in that Bug is microchip based.
Grammatically, quotes in the right places would help too. "The Dumber Android Is, The Better," Say Experts
Didn't Gates go on various television shows reminding us about how long it took to develop Vista? Clearly it MUST be an amazing product given the amount of time spent on it, right? I thought Microsoft kept repeating the mantra that customers were asking for all these features that Vista delivers. From what Microsoft has been showing us with Vista, it's obvious that operating systems for computers were always originally designed with the clear intention to play video and audio that studios produced--NEVER were you expected to produce anything yourself! The impression I get from the Vista's experience illustrates that Microsoft doesn't design Windows to end up as a workstation or a server or as any kind of a tool--just a bloated yet very limited media center. My two cents, anyway.
Do I get to have the car for free?
Eternal Darkness was probably my favorite example of this. The game intentionally made you think you were going nuts as a game PLAYER while you were playing--psychological tricks like suddenly dying and losing the game just to flash to your character realizing it wasn't real, system error messages making you think your game just crashed just to have your character wake up and ask, 'What the hell was that?' and so on. :) It wasn't just a horror game--which it was, dark and disturbing--but it was also psychological and aimed at the player rather than only telling you the story of an on-screen character.