Why are you so desperate to destroy Liberty and oppose any measure that might defend it? I use my hand-assembled x86 Kodi box for completely lawful purposes (See Sony v Universal, linked below). If you want to punish wrongdoers, go after them, but dont tell me i cant have Kodi because of the actions of others, that is an unnecessary infringement of Liberty for the overall minor issue of copyright infringement.
By little bubble, you mean our continent-sized nation that sets the cultural tone for the rest of the world? You do realize cultures come to us and we integrate them, right? Growing up in Detroit i got to experience all sorts of cultures..Polish, Irish, Greek, Arabs (Muslim and Christian), Italians, Germans, Slavs, Yugos, Croats.. Try a better tack next time besides 'America is culturally bankrupt'.
The biggest barrier to VR adoption right now is the costs of rendering hardware (money, heat dissipation, size constraints). GPU cost has everything to do with VR. I spent more than double on GPUs than i did on CPUs. Most video games today are just trying to hit 1080p @ 60 FPS. VR's minimum performance floor is 2160x1200 @ 90 FPS.
I am experiencing all of this all over again with Virtual Reality. You should check it out, its the same kind of feeling of endless possibility and discovery...Right now we need as much GPU power as we can possibly muster. GPU cards are on fire right now, selling well above MSRP. I could sell my 1080 and 1080ti for $100 more than i paid for them over a year ago. GPU tech is a very VERY big deal, as it drives AI research. Its not just vanity tech, but a vital component pushing us farther than general purpose processors ever could.
They flat out do not respect the user. They will do whatever they feel is right, regardless of whether you want it or not. IN the end, i had to ask my wife to uninstall it from her phone because i honestly do not trust them to act ethically. Its gotten so bad, Google is resorting to annoying users on Android Oreo to force Facebook to change some its practices regarding how its apps run. (persistent notification that background apps are running)
You are an utter fraud if it takes $2000 to put text on the internet. Take your head out of your ass for two seconds and look to your process as to where you could eliminate costs. Seriously, you should feel ashamed for putting forth this argument. You sir, are an alchemist and belong in the Dark Ages.
I still have it in a drawer and i pull it out from time to time. It really is a relic of an unrealized future, way ahead of its time. I have had dozens of smartphones, the Pre Plus is only one i bothered keeping after its useful life.
I guess you missed the memo. Essentially either you roll an LLC, move up to commercial use and developer contracts or you are a plebian user and cant be trusted to run a server. Home connections will NEVER be officially considered to support servers. Its not a use-case anyone with money at stake wants to encourage. It should be flat out illegal for my ISP to block port 80, but here we are...I have requested multiple times over the last decade to have it removed only for them to tell me to piss off, they wont ever do it.
Dont fall in love with Discord, its only a matter of time until it becomes a massive ad-platform. Anything like this that is run from a centralized client is doomed to suck. If you want voice chat, pop up a self-hosted server, its absolutely trivial to do.
We need the ability for the OS to LIE to apps. I should be able to feed Uber bullshit data if i so choose.(and obviously deal with the fallout if i abuse it)
A poorly chosen one that instantly destroyed my suspension-of-disbelief. I would have spent the rest of the show tearing that theory apart and proving them wrong. Now to be fair, im a communications specialist, im interested in all forms of intercommunication so i just couldnt swallow a 'future' without networking. It was completely implausible, to me. Explaining the 'reasons' for bad writing dont make it any more palatable.
The first time they mentioned 'no networked computers' i lost all interest. There is no way you would ever do that. You would find a way to keep the Silons out or you would have to give up electricity altogether.
You can easily remove those items yourself. To further your analogy, the employees of the sandwich shop come over and shove the sandwich with the items you didnt want down your throat. They tell you that if you dont eat it all, you will get sick and are a danger to others.
I want VOICE CONTROL, not a voice assistant. I dont want the computer to respond with sassy remarks or tell me what it 'thinks'. I want it to hear commands and execute them with minimal useless feedback. One of the options of Cortana is to 'allow Cortana to pipe up once in a while with offers, tips etc'. Its literally asking me for permission for voice popup ads...The 'pipe-up' terminology annoyed me to no end.
Lets make something clear, using these assistants is like going through and hiring your own personal assistant and every time you ask him to bring you something he says 'Brought to you by Carl's Jr.''. These services dont work for you, they work for Amazon and Microsoft
Up until last year, Slashdot considered my contributions (by maintaining a high karma score) as payment enough and allowed me to disable ads with a checkbox.
>How do you intend to compensate the websites who provides content to you?
I dont. If that content can only exist because of ads, its shitty content and i dont need it, nor does anyone deserve to be paid for it. Advertising revenue right now is straight up about abusing the user as much as possible. Why do you defend it?
Its never going to happen. Our devices are now designed specifically to detect what the human is doing. You know the face scanning 'windows hello' login system? Its EXPRESSLY designed to ensure a human is operating the machine and not automation. Its a way of Microsoft knowing for sure a human is there and is ready to accept new ads.
You are confusing listening with spying. Listening in this context is supposed to mean a conversation where both parties have to read and interpret each others thoughts to come to a mutual understanding. Its a give and take between 'peers'. This is not what Mozilla is interested in. They want to build a package to sell to others, period. That doesnt involve 'listening', it involves doing things the user has already expressly told you not to. Its the opposite of listening.
As a citizen, i dont give a shit about your tax payments, they certainly dont entitle you to anything. It has no bearing on your citizenship or political view. Why do you use the term taxpayer? Its a meaningless status.
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Why are you so desperate to destroy Liberty and oppose any measure that might defend it? I use my hand-assembled x86 Kodi box for completely lawful purposes (See Sony v Universal, linked below). If you want to punish wrongdoers, go after them, but dont tell me i cant have Kodi because of the actions of others, that is an unnecessary infringement of Liberty for the overall minor issue of copyright infringement.
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By little bubble, you mean our continent-sized nation that sets the cultural tone for the rest of the world? You do realize cultures come to us and we integrate them, right? Growing up in Detroit i got to experience all sorts of cultures..Polish, Irish, Greek, Arabs (Muslim and Christian), Italians, Germans, Slavs, Yugos, Croats.. Try a better tack next time besides 'America is culturally bankrupt'.
The biggest barrier to VR adoption right now is the costs of rendering hardware (money, heat dissipation, size constraints). GPU cost has everything to do with VR. I spent more than double on GPUs than i did on CPUs. Most video games today are just trying to hit 1080p @ 60 FPS. VR's minimum performance floor is 2160x1200 @ 90 FPS.
I am experiencing all of this all over again with Virtual Reality. You should check it out, its the same kind of feeling of endless possibility and discovery...Right now we need as much GPU power as we can possibly muster. GPU cards are on fire right now, selling well above MSRP. I could sell my 1080 and 1080ti for $100 more than i paid for them over a year ago. GPU tech is a very VERY big deal, as it drives AI research. Its not just vanity tech, but a vital component pushing us farther than general purpose processors ever could.
They flat out do not respect the user. They will do whatever they feel is right, regardless of whether you want it or not. IN the end, i had to ask my wife to uninstall it from her phone because i honestly do not trust them to act ethically. Its gotten so bad, Google is resorting to annoying users on Android Oreo to force Facebook to change some its practices regarding how its apps run. (persistent notification that background apps are running)
You are an utter fraud if it takes $2000 to put text on the internet. Take your head out of your ass for two seconds and look to your process as to where you could eliminate costs. Seriously, you should feel ashamed for putting forth this argument. You sir, are an alchemist and belong in the Dark Ages.
I still have it in a drawer and i pull it out from time to time. It really is a relic of an unrealized future, way ahead of its time. I have had dozens of smartphones, the Pre Plus is only one i bothered keeping after its useful life.
I guess you missed the memo. Essentially either you roll an LLC, move up to commercial use and developer contracts or you are a plebian user and cant be trusted to run a server. Home connections will NEVER be officially considered to support servers. Its not a use-case anyone with money at stake wants to encourage. It should be flat out illegal for my ISP to block port 80, but here we are...I have requested multiple times over the last decade to have it removed only for them to tell me to piss off, they wont ever do it.
Dont fall in love with Discord, its only a matter of time until it becomes a massive ad-platform. Anything like this that is run from a centralized client is doomed to suck. If you want voice chat, pop up a self-hosted server, its absolutely trivial to do.
We need the ability for the OS to LIE to apps. I should be able to feed Uber bullshit data if i so choose.(and obviously deal with the fallout if i abuse it)
A poorly chosen one that instantly destroyed my suspension-of-disbelief. I would have spent the rest of the show tearing that theory apart and proving them wrong. Now to be fair, im a communications specialist, im interested in all forms of intercommunication so i just couldnt swallow a 'future' without networking. It was completely implausible, to me. Explaining the 'reasons' for bad writing dont make it any more palatable.
The first time they mentioned 'no networked computers' i lost all interest. There is no way you would ever do that. You would find a way to keep the Silons out or you would have to give up electricity altogether.
You can easily remove those items yourself. To further your analogy, the employees of the sandwich shop come over and shove the sandwich with the items you didnt want down your throat. They tell you that if you dont eat it all, you will get sick and are a danger to others.
I want VOICE CONTROL, not a voice assistant. I dont want the computer to respond with sassy remarks or tell me what it 'thinks'. I want it to hear commands and execute them with minimal useless feedback. One of the options of Cortana is to 'allow Cortana to pipe up once in a while with offers, tips etc'. Its literally asking me for permission for voice popup ads...The 'pipe-up' terminology annoyed me to no end.
Lets make something clear, using these assistants is like going through and hiring your own personal assistant and every time you ask him to bring you something he says 'Brought to you by Carl's Jr.''. These services dont work for you, they work for Amazon and Microsoft
Voice control, not assistants....
Up until last year, Slashdot considered my contributions (by maintaining a high karma score) as payment enough and allowed me to disable ads with a checkbox.
>How do you intend to compensate the websites who provides content to you? I dont. If that content can only exist because of ads, its shitty content and i dont need it, nor does anyone deserve to be paid for it. Advertising revenue right now is straight up about abusing the user as much as possible. Why do you defend it?
Its never going to happen. Our devices are now designed specifically to detect what the human is doing. You know the face scanning 'windows hello' login system? Its EXPRESSLY designed to ensure a human is operating the machine and not automation. Its a way of Microsoft knowing for sure a human is there and is ready to accept new ads.
You need to put a seizure warning on this comment. I started twitching a little.
You are missing the point. Users dont OWE you their usage records. Its not data you are EVER entitled to.
You are confusing listening with spying. Listening in this context is supposed to mean a conversation where both parties have to read and interpret each others thoughts to come to a mutual understanding. Its a give and take between 'peers'. This is not what Mozilla is interested in. They want to build a package to sell to others, period. That doesnt involve 'listening', it involves doing things the user has already expressly told you not to. Its the opposite of listening.
Please enlighten us as to what you consider 'good'.
As a citizen, i dont give a shit about your tax payments, they certainly dont entitle you to anything. It has no bearing on your citizenship or political view. Why do you use the term taxpayer? Its a meaningless status.
Really? Shadows of War and Alien:Isolation suck? Rocket League sucks??
Wow, you really are an asshole. Even if your arguments had merit(they dont), you come off as a petty child who doesnt understand consumer optics.
Companies are not people and do not have the rights of a person.