I have to agree. I hate seeing video ads when i fire up my game console. Even my Tivo displays banner text strings when you pause and i PAY them for the privilege of them injecting ads into my OTA feed. I cant stand the hubris of modern electronics manufacturers. While i hate how my apple TV wont let me rearrange the interface a bit to put my content to be featured instead of stuff for purchase, it has never shown me advertising, EVER.
And the average idiot doesnt get the VERY GOOD reasons why we get up in arms about this stuff. You are equating not caring with not important, which is completely false.
Thats not force. You made a conscience, un-coerced choice. Does your son not have an email? Are you too much of a luddite to setup your own messaging system? Where is this 'force' you talk about?
Im sorry, but I take exception with your statement "99% have nothing to offer humanity" I didnt know my EXISTENCE required me to 'pay it back'. I owe humanity nothing.
There are very few times in my life when me losing THAT DAY'S photos are devastating. My setup at home takes your paranoia into account, but not my field gear. I have a secure vault for photos at home, (and other physical locations), im not going to sweat it out in the field when im already doing triple redundancy. I worry about losing over a decade of digital photos, not a days worth.
I want a Pi for a video front end, like Apple TV or a Roku box, maybe play some lite mame/console games. Its the video aspects of the thing that really piques my interest. The plan is to use them to roll out my own video network to my friends and family by popping one of these bad boys onto a spare HDMI input on their TV.
If someone steals all my gear on vacation, im not really going ot be worried about the shots i lost but rather THE GEAR I JUST LOST. I have used uploading to send my pics home on vaca, but it wasnt a requirement. 3 save spots is enough to rule out cosmic ray random loss of data.
Every password I have is written down in a Red & Black notebook in my office at home. If you are clever/powerful enough to get a look at it without my permission, I have bigger problems then worrying about my passwords.
It was not a mistake. It was a carefully crafted move to cut costs. They later added USB as hard drive support and slapped 4 GB of flash on the base config, effectively ending the issue.
You might want to do some research on Apple's upcoming Gatekeeper. apple wants the same thing, default whitelist and everything else is 'dirty'. Its an active campaign to make it look like anything that comes from non-approved vendors as not trusted and shouldnt be run. The win 8 'warning dialog' makes it feel like unapproved software is going to break your machine.
Optical drive has no bearing on used game sales for the next gen consoles. Its completely irrelevant. ALL code you run on your next gen console will have to be internet blessed before it will run. FULL STOP.
I dont think you understand, this changes nothing other then the BoM cost. Operationally, NOTHING has changed, and having the optical drive in no way hinders their used game sales war.
I'm using minecraft to teach myself circuitry, binary, FORTH, load handling, logic flow, command and control, system integration. Sure its minecraft on PC instead of Xbox, but its still a game. Its all about using the tools you have. I can hand a kid a $300 computer with minecraft on it and some mods and he could have an experimentation kit i would have killed for as a child.
Nothing is assured. Thats the point the impulse people are trying to make. People lie, circumstances change, higher castes take your spot etc etc. Take what you can get is a short-term survival trait. Better one marshmallow in the belly then the promise of two later, no matter how reassuring, depending on circumstances.
The ability to CONTROL becomes stronger, but you are missing the 'finite resource' part of the analogy. Sure, jogging regularly will increase your lung capacity, some, but you can still only process a finite amount of air per minute no matter how hard you train. Its important to remember that absolute control is not wise or even advisable. Small failures are as important as big successes.
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I have to agree. I hate seeing video ads when i fire up my game console. Even my Tivo displays banner text strings when you pause and i PAY them for the privilege of them injecting ads into my OTA feed. I cant stand the hubris of modern electronics manufacturers. While i hate how my apple TV wont let me rearrange the interface a bit to put my content to be featured instead of stuff for purchase, it has never shown me advertising, EVER.
Sincerely, learn to fucking google. I highlighted the words and right clicked to the answer.
And the average idiot doesnt get the VERY GOOD reasons why we get up in arms about this stuff. You are equating not caring with not important, which is completely false.
Thats not force. You made a conscience, un-coerced choice. Does your son not have an email? Are you too much of a luddite to setup your own messaging system? Where is this 'force' you talk about?
Im sorry, but I take exception with your statement "99% have nothing to offer humanity" I didnt know my EXISTENCE required me to 'pay it back'. I owe humanity nothing.
There are very few times in my life when me losing THAT DAY'S photos are devastating. My setup at home takes your paranoia into account, but not my field gear. I have a secure vault for photos at home, (and other physical locations), im not going to sweat it out in the field when im already doing triple redundancy. I worry about losing over a decade of digital photos, not a days worth.
I want a Pi for a video front end, like Apple TV or a Roku box, maybe play some lite mame/console games. Its the video aspects of the thing that really piques my interest. The plan is to use them to roll out my own video network to my friends and family by popping one of these bad boys onto a spare HDMI input on their TV.
If someone steals all my gear on vacation, im not really going ot be worried about the shots i lost but rather THE GEAR I JUST LOST. I have used uploading to send my pics home on vaca, but it wasnt a requirement. 3 save spots is enough to rule out cosmic ray random loss of data.
One set of photos goes on the external, one set goes on the internal and one set stays on the card. Problem solved.
Everything that will be on Apple iTV will also be on the current AppleTV
Im just going to pretend you meant 'server farm'.
Every password I have is written down in a Red & Black notebook in my office at home. If you are clever/powerful enough to get a look at it without my permission, I have bigger problems then worrying about my passwords.
that would be Luserland
It was not a mistake. It was a carefully crafted move to cut costs. They later added USB as hard drive support and slapped 4 GB of flash on the base config, effectively ending the issue.
Its not patently absurd. You are basically saying 'trust is hard, so we shouldnt try"
You might want to do some research on Apple's upcoming Gatekeeper. apple wants the same thing, default whitelist and everything else is 'dirty'. Its an active campaign to make it look like anything that comes from non-approved vendors as not trusted and shouldnt be run. The win 8 'warning dialog' makes it feel like unapproved software is going to break your machine.
Optical drive has no bearing on used game sales for the next gen consoles. Its completely irrelevant. ALL code you run on your next gen console will have to be internet blessed before it will run. FULL STOP.
I dont think you understand, this changes nothing other then the BoM cost. Operationally, NOTHING has changed, and having the optical drive in no way hinders their used game sales war.
Its easy, if the game's encoded serial number has already been registered on another console, it wont play. Child's play for a modern console.
I'm using minecraft to teach myself circuitry, binary, FORTH, load handling, logic flow, command and control, system integration. Sure its minecraft on PC instead of Xbox, but its still a game. Its all about using the tools you have. I can hand a kid a $300 computer with minecraft on it and some mods and he could have an experimentation kit i would have killed for as a child.
Nothing is assured. Thats the point the impulse people are trying to make. People lie, circumstances change, higher castes take your spot etc etc. Take what you can get is a short-term survival trait. Better one marshmallow in the belly then the promise of two later, no matter how reassuring, depending on circumstances.
The ability to CONTROL becomes stronger, but you are missing the 'finite resource' part of the analogy. Sure, jogging regularly will increase your lung capacity, some, but you can still only process a finite amount of air per minute no matter how hard you train. Its important to remember that absolute control is not wise or even advisable. Small failures are as important as big successes.
Ubiquitous autonomous flying robots is not the same thing at all. We dont want an automated police force because it scales far too easily.
I have a 'friend' who named his son Cash.