Once again, you need to hack Apple products to make them good :P
But anyway, that is a pretty useful hack. $60 is definitely overpriced though. Isn't the hacker community supposed to be all about free and open source?
If you're the type who'd buy a product from microsoft or Apple, you're the type to try and leech money off of. You don't care about Free there, you shouldn't care about Free in your choice of userland software that much either. Buy what you have to to get the job done.
On the other side of the fence, our currency is bug reports, feature requests, and community support, all completely on the basis of common sense and nearly unbridled economy of scale. I report every bug I see, and I file every good idea I get on brainstorm. Because the bugs and features I interact with are specific to /me/ often times (I do weird things; I am the corner case.) , my level of interaction with the software today may help determine how well suited to my needs it is tomorrow.
But i agree with Ethana its true. Just because some hackers do give out free software, doesnt mean you should expect it nor just take it woithout a donation. This is all a lot of work to do and you are sitting on your ass waiting for them to do everything for you.
However, if you are lazy like me, you would much rather spend $60 than spend hours upon hours installing hacks on the AppleTV.
I don't have one (yet) but I have been toying with buying an AppleTV as a sort of nice DivX player and the instructions for hacking sound rather elaborate. Not hard, just pretty time-intensive. This device makes the AppleTV much more interesting to me.
On second thought: So these guys took a bunch of open source hacks, added some auto-start scripts, and put them on an autostarting USB flash drive. That's clever.
But how long will it take for some teenager with too much time on his hands to re-create the whole bundle from the bits and pieces floating on the internet and release it for free as a disk image so you can create your own USB stick? Hmmm.. I will hold off on a purchase for 2 weeks or so ;)
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Once again, you need to hack Apple products to make them good :P
But anyway, that is a pretty useful hack. $60 is definitely overpriced though.
Isn't the hacker community supposed to be all about free and open source?
yeah but "open" is not "free"..didn't you know? Now you know
If you're the type who'd buy a product from microsoft or Apple, you're the type to try and leech money off of. You don't care about Free there, you shouldn't care about Free in your choice of userland software that much either.
Buy what you have to to get the job done.
On the other side of the fence, our currency is bug reports, feature requests, and community support, all completely on the basis of common sense and nearly unbridled economy of scale. I report every bug I see, and I file every good idea I get on brainstorm. Because the bugs and features I interact with are specific to /me/ often times (I do weird things; I am the corner case.) , my level of interaction with the software today may help determine how well suited to my needs it is tomorrow.
Wow ethana, that was baffling
Sorry, the '[Arent smart people supposed to give me free stuff for proprietary platforms?]' kinda put me into one of those short lived moods...
But i agree with Ethana its true. Just because some hackers do give out free software, doesnt mean you should expect it nor just take it woithout a donation. This is all a lot of work to do and you are sitting on your ass waiting for them to do everything for you.
I think all the stuff on the USB stick is free.
However, if you are lazy like me, you would much rather spend $60 than spend hours upon hours installing hacks on the AppleTV.
I don't have one (yet) but I have been toying with buying an AppleTV as a sort of nice DivX player and the instructions for hacking sound rather elaborate. Not hard, just pretty time-intensive. This device makes the AppleTV much more interesting to me.
On second thought: So these guys took a bunch of open source hacks, added some auto-start scripts, and put them on an autostarting USB flash drive. That's clever.
But how long will it take for some teenager with too much time on his hands to re-create the whole bundle from the bits and pieces floating on the internet and release it for free as a disk image so you can create your own USB stick? Hmmm.. I will hold off on a purchase for 2 weeks or so ;)