Comments on: Chumby love http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/11/16/chumby-love/ Same old blog, brand new place Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:24:25 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Karoli http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/11/16/chumby-love/comment-page-1/#comment-11172 Karoli Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:47:25 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/11/16/chumby-love/#comment-11172 I bought a Chumby as soon as I received my invitation about a month ago. It is definitely the coolest gadget I've laid my hands on in a long time. My frustration is that I'm not a developer, so I can't make things for it. I am, however, a user and I have lots of ideas for neat gadgets that would make it so much more useful to me. I've blogged some of those ideas, and am hoping for some way to communicate them more effectively to those who have the ability to implement them. I bought a Chumby as soon as I received my invitation about a month ago. It is definitely the coolest gadget I’ve laid my hands on in a long time. My frustration is that I’m not a developer, so I can’t make things for it. I am, however, a user and I have lots of ideas for neat gadgets that would make it so much more useful to me.

I’ve blogged some of those ideas, and am hoping for some way to communicate them more effectively to those who have the ability to implement them.

]]> By: Russell Nelson http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/11/16/chumby-love/comment-page-1/#comment-9101 Russell Nelson Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:51:07 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/11/16/chumby-love/#comment-9101 Sean, check out gnash -- Flash player clone. Cliff, I don't plan to eat my Chumby, so I don't care what it's made of. Sean, check out gnash — Flash player clone.

Cliff, I don’t plan to eat my Chumby, so I don’t care what it’s made of.

]]> By: Cliff Gerrish http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/11/16/chumby-love/comment-page-1/#comment-9021 Cliff Gerrish Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:40:17 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/11/16/chumby-love/#comment-9021 Doesn't so much matter to me. But some folks might like a Chumby that was "leather free." I applaud all the open sourceness of it all, but a vegan Chumby should be available on the menu. Clearly the computer overdelivers for the average consumer. We can assume that Chumby is the first in a long line of limited network attached devices. Doesn’t so much matter to me. But some folks might like a Chumby that was “leather free.” I applaud all the open sourceness of it all, but a vegan Chumby should be available on the menu.

Clearly the computer overdelivers for the average consumer. We can assume that Chumby is the first in a long line of limited network attached devices.

]]> By: Sean Upton http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/11/16/chumby-love/comment-page-1/#comment-9017 Sean Upton Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:34:33 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/11/16/chumby-love/#comment-9017 I've seen one of these - figure that maybe this takes off in spaces where Chumby licenses their technology to say, a Kitchen Appliance maker. An embedded Flash-player-on-Linux environment seems novel. What would be nice is if Adobe open-sourced a base-line Flash player runtime so that desktop Linux users (on PPC and AMD64) and embedded developers had more ability to use and create technology like this. Free projects to create SWF players are nice, but nicer still would be Adobe following Sun's lead, taking the leap to make their runtime free. I’ve seen one of these – figure that maybe this takes off in spaces where Chumby licenses their technology to say, a Kitchen Appliance maker.

An embedded Flash-player-on-Linux environment seems novel. What would be nice is if Adobe open-sourced a base-line Flash player runtime so that desktop Linux users (on PPC and AMD64) and embedded developers had more ability to use and create technology like this. Free projects to create SWF players are nice, but nicer still would be Adobe following Sun’s lead, taking the leap to make their runtime free.

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