"I don't understand why, as Americans, we feel the need to always voice our opinions as if they are fact. "
Why do you accept what they have to say as fact? People are going to be ignorant, we cant change that, it hasnt changed in 4000 years. Even Einstein gave up on humanity's ignorance, and i consider him a profound humanist. Asimov had some choice words on anti-intellectualism too.
Im sorry, i thought this was a nation of laws. What happened to 'I may hate what you say, but i will defend to the DEATH your right to say it'. The consequences you mention are supposed to be CIVILIZED REACTIONS, not barbarism and lawlessness. If you throw a fist at me, I might toss hot lead back at you. Maybe we should just be civilized and agree to disagree instead of someone getting hurt.
Appeal to Authority fallacy. Colleges are not the final word on AI. College taught me a bunch of shit that was completely useless and behind the times too.
Pro allows you to defer UPGRADES, not updates. The added control you paid for is being steadily chipped away. Pro is essentially home with a group policy editor at this point. Pro is no longer a 'business class' OS, thats reserved for Enterprise with its lovely annual licensing agreements.
This isnt a dichotomy. I dont like sin taxes, its really that simple. You have people in countries with socialized medicine who now think they have the right to decide other's lifestyle choices without ever addressing things like coal miners and other hazardous jobs.
Government, by definition is monopoly-on-violence. ALL government action is force. Its important to remember that. When you take $20 in taxes from someone in this manner, you have reduced their resources and power. That is measurable 'force' and cant be hand-waved away.
Pointing out that taxation is using force is NOT the same thing as saying 'i dont want to pay taxes'. Using force to shape society like this is incredibly distasteful to me. Im sorry all you moral busybodies thinks its ok to wield force to shape your neighbor's behavior like this.
yes i know, which is why i carefully chose the phrase 'connected is the PRIMARY use case'. This is something we learned not to do in the mainframe era. You are displaying the exact same hubris.
Google is very good at helping you export your data so you can back it up using traditional methods. I despise the 'connected is the primary use case' model that google has, but your user generated content is yours.
Oh fuck off. With 360 video becoming a thing, we are going to need 16k cameras to capture reality in decent fidelity. My personal raw 4k footage already vastly exceeds the 2 TB of backup media content i maintain.
I store my physical CDs as straight up.wavs at this point. My home surveillance package could fill a 16 TB quickly, even quicker if i upgrade to higher resolution cameras.....You lack imagination.
VR is not a fad. The tracking tech alone is an industry in and of itself, even without HMDs. The difference between 3D TV and VR is that 3d TV was forced on consumers from the top down. It was created by Hollywood as a premium experience to help shore up flagging ticket sales. VR came from the ground up. A few people hacked together some prototypes and code and said 'Holy shit, we can do this'. Even if the VR industry dies tomorrow, people would hack together headsets. The genie is out of the bottle, and there is no going back.
If you recall the tablet was sold as a fire sale. You should have known there werent going to be any apps for it. Its the primary reason i didnt pick one up. When i bought my Pre, WebOS was still viable and vibrant.
You shut your dirty mouth. WebOS was LIGHTYEARS ahead of iOS and Android. I still have my Palm Pre Plus in a drawer. I have yet to see a hardware/software stack that is as elegant and ahead of its time as WebOS on Palm was.
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"I don't understand why, as Americans, we feel the need to always voice our opinions as if they are fact. "
Why do you accept what they have to say as fact? People are going to be ignorant, we cant change that, it hasnt changed in 4000 years. Even Einstein gave up on humanity's ignorance, and i consider him a profound humanist. Asimov had some choice words on anti-intellectualism too.
Im sorry, i thought this was a nation of laws. What happened to 'I may hate what you say, but i will defend to the DEATH your right to say it'. The consequences you mention are supposed to be CIVILIZED REACTIONS, not barbarism and lawlessness. If you throw a fist at me, I might toss hot lead back at you. Maybe we should just be civilized and agree to disagree instead of someone getting hurt.
Shes really sharp, and i dont even like her comedy.
Appeal to Authority fallacy. Colleges are not the final word on AI. College taught me a bunch of shit that was completely useless and behind the times too.
Not only that, Sony v. Universal set the standard of 'a backup is a backup is a backup, its origin is irrelevant.'.
The OtherOS issue permanently affected what i buy from Sony. I still have my full phat ps3, and i still have the HDD with PPC Yellow Dog Linux on it.
I would load up SteamOS for Linux VR on my 1080 hybrid in a second if it was available. I also have an i5/970gtx rig just waiting for Steam OS VR.
eGPU is a super tiny niche. It will never be more than a tiny fraction of the market.
More than anything its to force usage of GFE. Nvidia wants its little storefront on PC too.
Pro allows you to defer UPGRADES, not updates. The added control you paid for is being steadily chipped away. Pro is essentially home with a group policy editor at this point. Pro is no longer a 'business class' OS, thats reserved for Enterprise with its lovely annual licensing agreements.
SpaceX says 'LOL'.
This isnt a dichotomy. I dont like sin taxes, its really that simple. You have people in countries with socialized medicine who now think they have the right to decide other's lifestyle choices without ever addressing things like coal miners and other hazardous jobs.
Government, by definition is monopoly-on-violence. ALL government action is force. Its important to remember that. When you take $20 in taxes from someone in this manner, you have reduced their resources and power. That is measurable 'force' and cant be hand-waved away.
Pointing out that taxation is using force is NOT the same thing as saying 'i dont want to pay taxes'. Using force to shape society like this is incredibly distasteful to me. Im sorry all you moral busybodies thinks its ok to wield force to shape your neighbor's behavior like this.
Both approaches are silly and oppressive. Taxation is still using force.
That is what Playready 3.0 is for. Basically Windows decides what you can and cant record/screenshot, etc.
yes i know, which is why i carefully chose the phrase 'connected is the PRIMARY use case'. This is something we learned not to do in the mainframe era. You are displaying the exact same hubris.
Google is very good at helping you export your data so you can back it up using traditional methods. I despise the 'connected is the primary use case' model that google has, but your user generated content is yours.
.wav support is so ubiquitous as to be considered ambient. Its the raw file off the disc. I can always make a FLAC from it later.
.wav takes no processing power. Its basically a bit for bit copy and anything will play it. Song matching databases get around the need for metadata
Oh fuck off. With 360 video becoming a thing, we are going to need 16k cameras to capture reality in decent fidelity. My personal raw 4k footage already vastly exceeds the 2 TB of backup media content i maintain.
.wavs at this point. My home surveillance package could fill a 16 TB quickly, even quicker if i upgrade to higher resolution cameras.....You lack imagination.
I store my physical CDs as straight up
VR is not a fad. The tracking tech alone is an industry in and of itself, even without HMDs. The difference between 3D TV and VR is that 3d TV was forced on consumers from the top down. It was created by Hollywood as a premium experience to help shore up flagging ticket sales. VR came from the ground up. A few people hacked together some prototypes and code and said 'Holy shit, we can do this'. Even if the VR industry dies tomorrow, people would hack together headsets. The genie is out of the bottle, and there is no going back.
I dont think you remember how dark things actually became. Until the ipad came out, it looked like an MS future, forever.
If you recall the tablet was sold as a fire sale. You should have known there werent going to be any apps for it. Its the primary reason i didnt pick one up. When i bought my Pre, WebOS was still viable and vibrant.
" because WEBOS was a joke to begin with"
You shut your dirty mouth. WebOS was LIGHTYEARS ahead of iOS and Android. I still have my Palm Pre Plus in a drawer. I have yet to see a hardware/software stack that is as elegant and ahead of its time as WebOS on Palm was.