[geeks] Whee! Lightning strikes, AGAIN!

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Jul 28, 2009, at 14:17 , nate at portents.com wrote:

> While we're at it, make the receiver fully open-source so you can  
> write
> any software you want for it, make the display on it an LCD, and  
> make at
> least some of it's hardware modular and upgradable.

Absolutely.

Not only that, but since we long ago dispatched the the need for fixed  
capabilities, we should also be able to mix and match displays and  
displays within displays.

We've moved from technology to being 90% of the limitations to  
bullshit being 90% of the limitations, and it will always suck until  
that changes.

We should have had FireWire instead of USB.

We should have video/audio designed for technical reasons only,  
unified, and no garbage added on top.

But as you said: it won't happen, or at least not easily.  Greed and  
stupidity are the motivators, at least until we force a change.

-- 
"Where some they sell their dreams for small desires."