I kind of went through that last weekend when I cloned the HDD in my 5 year
old laptop to an SSD. Everything worked perfectly except for one piece of
Adobe CS2 software which evidently tracked multiple parameters about the
system not just the motherboard, and required re-activation. One problem -
Adobe had taken the activation servers offline, they no longer existed. But
as a solution, they posted versions of the CS2 applications along with keys
that you could download and install without activation. But they had all
sorts of warnings that the software was 7 years old and using it could mean
the end of life as we know it.
On the topic of cars and software, Tesla particularly seems to use
over-the-air software updates. Notably after the flaming Tesla video, they
pushed out an update to disable lowering of the suspension at highway speed.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Burke via Af
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2014 5:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Playstation, Xbox Live networks reported down?
Why sell you the book when they can just rent it to you? Seems to make
sense from a business perspective.
I'm really interested in all the software that cars have now. How long
are they expected to update the software? In 20 years, if there's a
software bug that shuts down and bricks your car in the middle of the
interstate, who's fault is it? The 20 year old code? Or should you pay
a monthly access fee for the right to drive your car and getting
software updates.
On 12/25/2014 4:50 PM, Ken Hohhof via Af wrote:
Long ago, people had dumb terminals that were useless without the
mainframe, while a centralized organization decided what software you
could run, and snooped on your data.
Luckily the PC was invented to free us from the tyranny of IT and the
mainframe.
The IT people tried to regain their control over us with "thin clients",
but we didn't fall for that trick.
Now everything old is new again, and we have "the cloud" and "devices" and
"SaaS" which basically means renting software. And if the cloud goes
down, the devices are bricks. Even game consoles, even school textbooks,
even Belkin routers.
Can you imagine a book publisher going out of business, and the books on
your shelves suddenly have blank pages? Pontiac goes out of business, and
your Firebird stops running?
-----Original Message----- From: Seth Mattinen via Af
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2014 4:29 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Playstation, Xbox Live networks reported down?
On 12/25/14 11:30 AM, Mathew Howard via Af wrote:
Xbox? is that just because the game is stupidly made, or is it
everything?
That's how it all works now. Things call home to authorize you're
allowed to use it.
~Seth
