Originally posted by: ryanv12
I don't think we'll be kept away from the OS forever. Microsoft has the PC industry by the balls in regards to your operating system. Saying that, I'll hold off as long as I can before upgrading, and when I do, you'll be sure I'll be using this hack. I wish there was a viable alternative, I really do.
It's called "making a few sacrifices."
I think I can safely say that there are very few of you posting on this board who do not love working with computers on some level. It is a hard task to condense the reasons for this, but let me try: perhaps it is that we enjoy the freedom of action we are provided. Most of the rules presented to us are but suggestions which, given enough knowledge, we may override, and some of them are for technical reasons (laws of nature, limitations of theory, etc.); but whenever we run into a limit unexpectedly, we become confused, frustrated, or angered, depending on the nature of the limit. However, I posit that these limits which are being now set before us are neither technical in nature nor suggestive in intent; they are imperative limits.
The first time imperative limits were placed in front of you in a major way was product activation. You complained that you didn't like it and that it often didn't work, but in the end, you quietly gave in and circumvented it (key generators). But so did the people for whom the system was designed to foil in the first place. Now, what was the point again?
The second time was with add-ons to hardware and device drivers in software, designed to obscure unprotected data from access. You complained that these broke compatability with existing hardware and software and that it often didn't work, but in the end, you quietly gave in and circumvented them (shift key, black marker, more key generators). But so did the people for whom the system was designed to foil in the first place. Now, what was the point again?
This time, they are redesigning everything, end to end, so that these measures "can't fail." They are going to back every software measure they take with hardware to enforce their rules, and they are going to break backwards compatability as much as is necessary to enforce the rules. Of course, now you're all of a sudden going to realize that some of the things that
they say you shouldn't be allowed to do,
you say you should. And you're probably going to complain. But what, from the last two generations of this shiat, has
ever indicated to you that they're going to listen? Nothing. NEWS FLASH: They don't listen to your words. And to return to what I was saying before, about how the fun of computing is freedom of action, all of a sudden, you will learn that you no longer have the final say about what you are allowed to do, limited by only pure technology and your own creativity.
In my opinion, in order to protect what we love, it is time for us to make a bold statement to those currently in the drivers' seat, with our voices,
and our wallets,
and our product usages, that we will not give up our freedom of action. There are, to a great degree, viable alternatives and other solutions; you just have to have the inner strength to resolve to use them.
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