<p>Oh? What are you working on, if you don't mind my asking?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 16, 2012 1:19 PM, "Charles Shapiro" <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I'm out there workin' on it. Not getting ripped off or surveilled can<br>
be a powerful incentive.<br>
<br>
-- CHS<br>
<br>
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:10 PM, <a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a> <<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 03/16/2012 01:06 PM, Charles Shapiro wrote:<br>
>> The User of a Device should have Control over the Software Running on<br>
>> that Device.<br>
><br>
> Of course, but try convincing the “normal” people in the world of that.<br>
> The problem is that they don't really care. If it Just Works, they are<br>
> happy.<br>
><br>
> This is the major reason that I love Android-capable phones. For that<br>
> matter, you're not even really restricted to running Android on them,<br>
> but it would be kind of inconvenient to do anything else.<br>
><br>
> I would LOVE to see a really efficient smartphone operating system that<br>
> can breathe new life into old hardware like the G1. I understand that<br>
> as we move forward and more functionality is added, the operating<br>
> systems get heavier and heavier... but I can't help but think that if<br>
> the whole system were in optimized native code in the first place, the<br>
> on-flash and in-memory footprints would be significantly reduced and the<br>
> system would be better for it.<br>
><br>
> Oh, well. Long live Java and Dalvik, I suppose. :)<br>
><br>
> --- Mike<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic<br>
> than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.<br>
> --- Carveth Read, “Logic”<br>
><br>
><br>
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