Did you notice Sony will only let you watch streamed Video and Music sold to you by them? No DLNA support No USB support No using a PS4 for home media
I've been called a paid Sony Shill on these forums, and I'm now saying that the XBox is the best all-round device for the next generation.
That sucks but I don't see how the Xbox can be any better in these regards, speaking from my experience with the PS3 and the Xbox360.
If you want this kind of freedom then you need a general purpose computing device (i.e. a PC). The consoles are very locked-down, special purpose hardware, designed specifically for you to consume content in ways they intended, generating sustained revenue for MS/Sony in the process. If you're buying a console expecting anything more than that then you're bound to be disappointed. On the other hand, a general purpose computing device (i.e. a PC) of comparable processing capabilities would also cost you a fair bit more.
There's much more exploitable bullshit in Chinese traditional medicine than just big hard dicks. You just need to find the human organ that most resembles a "small, inert floppy goop-sack", and somehow link that organ to one's sexual prowess (through the theories of Chinese Medicine of course, I'm pretty sure it's in there somewhere). Do that and before you know it we're adding the jelly fish to the endangered list.
Or you can boot into a custom recovery like clockworkmod, start adb shell, mount/system and make whatever changes you like from there. No need to root at all.
But there's still likely several you can't actually uninstall. On my HTC phone, I can't uninstall Facebook, but I can disable it. On my Google Nexus, I've had Google re-enable some apps I've specifically disabled because I don't want them.
If you have root access you can just remove any apks you don't like from/system/app and they're gone for good. You can always get root if you buy the Nexus phones or the so-called "developer" phones. If you can't have root access because the your device is locked down from the bootloader (and no one has yet published an expliot to unlock it), then that essentially means you don't "own" the hardware.
They all try to put their crapware on the devices, and can make it awfully difficult to remove or disable them. Because they like to pretend they still own the devices, and they figure their desire to monetize your device outweighs your desire to lock it down.
Well, to be fair, they feel that way because they sold you a $600 phone for $200. So it's not really that outrageous they woud try to recoup that difference, by doing their best to force you to use their shitware. The confusion arises from the fact that you expect to fully own a device, while paying subsidized price.
If you really want to have full control of your device, then you'll need to adjust your expectations, that a high-end phone is $600 and not $200.
I specifically went with the Google branded Nexus so I wouldn't have to worry about the crap from a 3rd party, but that doesn't mean Google has made it any easier to strip out the shit you don't want
AFAIK all Nexus devices are bootloader unlocked, which means you can do whatever you want with the device, up to ripping out the whole operating system and installing your own. Does Google make it easy for you to remove their stuff? No. But that's no different from say a laptop. Does Microsoft make it easy for you to remove IE? When I buy a Thinkpad, there's Microsoft shit and Lenovo shit, and they don't make it easy for me remove their shit, but there's nothing stopping me from installing Linux. Same goes for smart phones, which are essentially small computers.
Welcome to the exciting future, where you don't own the stuff you buy, and the company who made it has embedded everything possible to give them access to your information.
The fact is, it really isn't that bad, at least not yet. The phone manufacturers are more than happy to sell you "developer" devices at a full price, and if that's too expensive then get a Nexus. The subsidized pricing model seems to flourish especially in the US market, presumably because the carriers make back much more than loss on the initial hardware sale over the long run. But the consumers are not without blame, as they've basically voted with their wallets saying that it's OK to trade their freedom (to tinker) and their privacy for a couple hundred bucks off their new shiny device. Luckily the choice is still there, but just don't expect to pay $200 for a $600 device and still be able to do whatever you want with it.
Aha, but there is a difference: collecting user data doesn't take any "time and attention", it's basically just pure "profit". In fact, for a company like Apple, I imagine it'd take enormous will power to resist the temptation to collect data on its users. If they're true to their words, kudos to them, but the business practice of Apple really doesn't give me any reason to trust them on that.
I'd imagine any autopilot that goes on sale will already have to avoid potholes, so it will have some sort of terrain management logic built into it.
Would it even know to avoid them on the 2nd pass?
Would you accept avoiding them on the first pass?
Exactly. That was a pretty poor example to hypothesize on the limitation of computers. I'd imagine if there was _any_ way around those bumps at all, the autopilot would find it in the blink of an eye. Furthermore, its chosen trajectory would most likely be more optimal than the one chosen by the human through trial and error. What the GP has described seems like a situation where an autopilot would _excel_ at.
So what you're saying is that the movie producers are not allowed to have opinions at all? By your standard all movies having any ties to history and current events are propaganda, and all documentaries are automatically propaganda too.
In China, many people felt that the movie Avatar was social commentary about the occupation of Tibet.
What?? Which China are you talking about?
No Chinese would ever see themselves as colonists, only as victims of colonialism (first the British, then the Japanese). No Chinese would ever think of Tibet as an "occupation", only as an "Autonomous Region". Tibet has never been an "issue" in the minds of most Chinese. Chinese travel freely in Tibet, seldom aware that foreigners are often denied access.
As such, if the Chinese sees any message in the movie Avatar, it can only be about the struggle of indigenous people against the colonial powers, and they would most likely see part of themselves in the navi (especially the signature pony tails) and not the colonists.
The source you link doesn't even mention Tibet anywhere. The Chinese sources referenced from that page are all mistranslated sarcastic rants against the Chinese government, not really having much to do with how the Chinese interpret the movie Avatar, and most certainly have nothing to to with Tibet.
Meanwhile as of 3.11 the kernel "radeon" driver is already fully functional, complete with power management and KMS support.
Frankly I'd wager nvidia has already lost on Linux, even though it may currently appear they are still the preferred platform with their higher quality binary driver. But binary drivers have a very limited future on Linux, especially such a critical one as the graphics driver. AMD may have a shitty binary driver, but the "radeon" driver is miles ahead of "nouveau", and once they start seeing the signs on the wall it will be a simple matter for them to put in a little effort and make "radeon" the best graphics driver for gaming on Linux. It's hard to see how nvidia can ever catch up with AMD even if they somehow miraculously changed their attitude toward open source in the near future.
Or, they just set up massive auditing everywhere and aren't really going to fire anybody. Now they just sit back and watch which admins start accessing stuff they aren't supposed to. A bunch of little snively Snowdens we'll grab before they can flee justice.
Well except it won't be Snowdens they catch. Snowden aint your average opportunist who seeks to profit from classified info, Snowden is an idealist who chose to forfeit his life for something he believed in. You don't catch a Snowden with such a petty scheme. On the other hand, whoever does get caught by this totally deserves to get ass fucked for life.
Oh I wouldn't worry about that. We've only had radio for less than 150 years. How many stars are there within a 150 ly radius? By the time the very first signal from Earth reaches the center of the galaxy, the human kind may have long destroyed itself.
"The universe is enormous, no doubt there's *someone* out there."
So, you believe in the "invisible man in the sky" too huh?;)
The belief in extraterrestrial life is at least based on the observation that life exists on Earth, and the number of stars and planets like our Sun and Earth in the universe is.. astronomical.
I find SSH tunneling to be much less efficient than OpenVPN. With OpenVPN I can have a more-or-less usable remote VNC desktop from Beijing to New York, which is not possible using SSH tunneling.
Anyway, that is not a real solution, as there is nothing to prevent them from cutting off SSH connections when they feel like it. There is no technical solution to a political problem.
I was just in Beijing for two weeks. I have access to two OpenVPN servers, one in New York another in California. These are personal servers so they aren't on the IP based blacklist. However, my connection from Beijing to either of the two would crap out after a day or two, and the only remedy was to change the OpenVPN server port.
It seems right now they update their blacklist every 24~48 hours. I did not test whether the amount of traffic (idle vs. busy) would affect the time it takes them to block you. Blacklists last longer than two weeks, as the original ports I used was still blocked by the time I left. SSH connections does not seem to be affected at this time.
Not only that, even with the Xeon line which are supposed to have ECC support, they still flip the middle finger at you by crippling the "lower-end" E3 line to only support unbuffered ECC, not registered ECC.
Yes, because the 1.3 billion Chinese are a borg-like entity, collectively known as "China", sharing a single hive mind and bent on a single purpose -- to destroy the US and the "West"!
Your fantasies aside, what you refer to as "China" is really the Chinese Communist Government, the current ruling entity in the country known as China. It has been in power for a little over 60 years, and unless helped by, ironically, people like you, it is extremely unlikely to see another 60 in power. (Coincidentally, the communists would never even have risen to power in the first place without the help of the Japanese invasion at a crucial point in the Chinese civil war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March )
But yes, I guess China isn't really a threat, and doesn't view the West as a threat
The reality of the situation in China is that the government is under _huge_ pressure to drop the draconian population control policy, aka one-child policy. However, there is no sign from the regime that it would even consider budging on this issue. So if anything, they have an incentive to _overstate_ the population, rather than understate it.
The other reality is that hundreds of elementary schools rural areas were closed down over the past few years due to not having enough school kids. Class rooms that once hold 40 children were down to 5, so the local gov simply closed the under attended schools and moved the children into bigger schools in towns, forcing some kids to travel great distances just to get to school everyday. The Hong Kong based Phoenix media ran a documentary on this a couple of years ago, which for some reason, was not aired in mainland China.
Have you ever gone to Chinatown and seen all the "fake" handbags (it is hard to call them "fake" when they are probably produced by the same people who make "genuine" handbags)? Online, there are plenty of websites that will sell you a bag or a shoe that looks just like an expensive brand for a fraction of the cost. SOPA is meant to block access to such websites, which are often hosted offshore where US law enforcement agencies cannot touch them.
Yes, they will be blocked, just like how all the websites who do not paint the Chinese government positively are blocked in China, which are often hosted offshore where Chinese law enforcement agencies cannot touch them.
And if they don't even bother prosecuting those selling counterfeit goods in Chinatown in broad day light, what sense does it make to give them such broad power to censor the Internet in the name of curbing IP theft?
Won't be so easy if "what you believe in" happens to have rounded rectangles, or god knows what else might be considered "violating Apple patents".
Apple products make lots of people happy. Good for them. They're welcome to it. I won't be one of them and wish one and all well.
Indeed. But nobody is making a fuss about Apple making people happy, the fuss is about Apple actively trying to make life miserable for those that aren't "one of them".
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Did you notice Sony will only let you watch streamed Video and Music sold to you by them?
No DLNA support
No USB support
No using a PS4 for home media
I've been called a paid Sony Shill on these forums, and I'm now saying that the XBox is the best all-round device for the next generation.
That sucks but I don't see how the Xbox can be any better in these regards, speaking from my experience with the PS3 and the Xbox360.
If you want this kind of freedom then you need a general purpose computing device (i.e. a PC). The consoles are very locked-down, special purpose hardware, designed specifically for you to consume content in ways they intended, generating sustained revenue for MS/Sony in the process. If you're buying a console expecting anything more than that then you're bound to be disappointed. On the other hand, a general purpose computing device (i.e. a PC) of comparable processing capabilities would also cost you a fair bit more.
There's much more exploitable bullshit in Chinese traditional medicine than just big hard dicks. You just need to find the human organ that most resembles a "small, inert floppy goop-sack", and somehow link that organ to one's sexual prowess (through the theories of Chinese Medicine of course, I'm pretty sure it's in there somewhere). Do that and before you know it we're adding the jelly fish to the endangered list.
Or you can boot into a custom recovery like clockworkmod, start adb shell, mount /system and make whatever changes you like from there. No need to root at all.
But there's still likely several you can't actually uninstall. On my HTC phone, I can't uninstall Facebook, but I can disable it. On my Google Nexus, I've had Google re-enable some apps I've specifically disabled because I don't want them.
If you have root access you can just remove any apks you don't like from /system/app and they're gone for good. You can always get root if you buy the Nexus phones or the so-called "developer" phones. If you can't have root access because the your device is locked down from the bootloader (and no one has yet published an expliot to unlock it), then that essentially means you don't "own" the hardware.
They all try to put their crapware on the devices, and can make it awfully difficult to remove or disable them. Because they like to pretend they still own the devices, and they figure their desire to monetize your device outweighs your desire to lock it down.
Well, to be fair, they feel that way because they sold you a $600 phone for $200. So it's not really that outrageous they woud try to recoup that difference, by doing their best to force you to use their shitware. The confusion arises from the fact that you expect to fully own a device, while paying subsidized price.
If you really want to have full control of your device, then you'll need to adjust your expectations, that a high-end phone is $600 and not $200.
I specifically went with the Google branded Nexus so I wouldn't have to worry about the crap from a 3rd party, but that doesn't mean Google has made it any easier to strip out the shit you don't want
AFAIK all Nexus devices are bootloader unlocked, which means you can do whatever you want with the device, up to ripping out the whole operating system and installing your own. Does Google make it easy for you to remove their stuff? No. But that's no different from say a laptop. Does Microsoft make it easy for you to remove IE? When I buy a Thinkpad, there's Microsoft shit and Lenovo shit, and they don't make it easy for me remove their shit, but there's nothing stopping me from installing Linux. Same goes for smart phones, which are essentially small computers.
Welcome to the exciting future, where you don't own the stuff you buy, and the company who made it has embedded everything possible to give them access to your information.
The fact is, it really isn't that bad, at least not yet. The phone manufacturers are more than happy to sell you "developer" devices at a full price, and if that's too expensive then get a Nexus. The subsidized pricing model seems to flourish especially in the US market, presumably because the carriers make back much more than loss on the initial hardware sale over the long run. But the consumers are not without blame, as they've basically voted with their wallets saying that it's OK to trade their freedom (to tinker) and their privacy for a couple hundred bucks off their new shiny device. Luckily the choice is still there, but just don't expect to pay $200 for a $600 device and still be able to do whatever you want with it.
Aha, but there is a difference: collecting user data doesn't take any "time and attention", it's basically just pure "profit". In fact, for a company like Apple, I imagine it'd take enormous will power to resist the temptation to collect data on its users. If they're true to their words, kudos to them, but the business practice of Apple really doesn't give me any reason to trust them on that.
I'd imagine any autopilot that goes on sale will already have to avoid potholes, so it will have some sort of terrain management logic built into it.
Would it even know to avoid them on the 2nd pass?
Would you accept avoiding them on the first pass?
Exactly. That was a pretty poor example to hypothesize on the limitation of computers. I'd imagine if there was _any_ way around those bumps at all, the autopilot would find it in the blink of an eye. Furthermore, its chosen trajectory would most likely be more optimal than the one chosen by the human through trial and error. What the GP has described seems like a situation where an autopilot would _excel_ at.
It's always nice to see the Apple customers so very satisfied with their ... things. Brings a warm fuzzy feeling to the heart!
So what you're saying is that the movie producers are not allowed to have opinions at all? By your standard all movies having any ties to history and current events are propaganda, and all documentaries are automatically propaganda too.
In China, many people felt that the movie Avatar was social commentary about the occupation of Tibet.
What?? Which China are you talking about?
No Chinese would ever see themselves as colonists, only as victims of colonialism (first the British, then the Japanese).
No Chinese would ever think of Tibet as an "occupation", only as an "Autonomous Region". Tibet has never been an "issue" in the minds of most Chinese. Chinese travel freely in Tibet, seldom aware that foreigners are often denied access.
As such, if the Chinese sees any message in the movie Avatar, it can only be about the struggle of indigenous people against the colonial powers, and they would most likely see part of themselves in the navi (especially the signature pony tails) and not the colonists.
The source you link doesn't even mention Tibet anywhere. The Chinese sources referenced from that page are all mistranslated sarcastic rants against the Chinese government, not really having much to do with how the Chinese interpret the movie Avatar, and most certainly have nothing to to with Tibet.
Meanwhile as of 3.11 the kernel "radeon" driver is already fully functional, complete with power management and KMS support.
Frankly I'd wager nvidia has already lost on Linux, even though it may currently appear they are still the preferred platform with their higher quality binary driver. But binary drivers have a very limited future on Linux, especially such a critical one as the graphics driver. AMD may have a shitty binary driver, but the "radeon" driver is miles ahead of "nouveau", and once they start seeing the signs on the wall it will be a simple matter for them to put in a little effort and make "radeon" the best graphics driver for gaming on Linux. It's hard to see how nvidia can ever catch up with AMD even if they somehow miraculously changed their attitude toward open source in the near future.
Does NoScript still upgrade itself Every.Single.Day?
Or, they just set up massive auditing everywhere and aren't really going to fire anybody. Now they just sit back and watch which admins start accessing stuff they aren't supposed to. A bunch of little snively Snowdens we'll grab before they can flee justice.
Well except it won't be Snowdens they catch. Snowden aint your average opportunist who seeks to profit from classified info, Snowden is an idealist who chose to forfeit his life for something he believed in. You don't catch a Snowden with such a petty scheme. On the other hand, whoever does get caught by this totally deserves to get ass fucked for life.
Yes. But silent data corruption is obviously a problem of the filesystem, ext4 in this case. Too bad btrfs is still years from stable.
Oh I wouldn't worry about that. We've only had radio for less than 150 years. How many stars are there within a 150 ly radius? By the time the very first signal from Earth reaches the center of the galaxy, the human kind may have long destroyed itself.
"The universe is enormous, no doubt there's *someone* out there."
So, you believe in the "invisible man in the sky" too huh? ;)
The belief in extraterrestrial life is at least based on the observation that life exists on Earth, and the number of stars and planets like our Sun and Earth in the universe is .. astronomical.
The belief in God has no such basis.
Yes, I did, it does not work, they are able to distinguish VPN from HTTPS traffic. Their detection scheme doesn't seem to care about the port number.
I find SSH tunneling to be much less efficient than OpenVPN. With OpenVPN I can have a more-or-less usable remote VNC desktop from Beijing to New York, which is not possible using SSH tunneling.
Anyway, that is not a real solution, as there is nothing to prevent them from cutting off SSH connections when they feel like it. There is no technical solution to a political problem.
I was just in Beijing for two weeks. I have access to two OpenVPN servers, one in New York another in California. These are personal servers so they aren't on the IP based blacklist. However, my connection from Beijing to either of the two would crap out after a day or two, and the only remedy was to change the OpenVPN server port.
It seems right now they update their blacklist every 24~48 hours. I did not test whether the amount of traffic (idle vs. busy) would affect the time it takes them to block you. Blacklists last longer than two weeks, as the original ports I used was still blocked by the time I left. SSH connections does not seem to be affected at this time.
Not only that, even with the Xeon line which are supposed to have ECC support, they still flip the middle finger at you by crippling the "lower-end" E3 line to only support unbuffered ECC, not registered ECC.
If you're doing virtualization then the number of cores do matter a lot.
Yes, because the 1.3 billion Chinese are a borg-like entity, collectively known as "China", sharing a single hive mind and bent on a single purpose -- to destroy the US and the "West"!
Your fantasies aside, what you refer to as "China" is really the Chinese Communist Government, the current ruling entity in the country known as China. It has been in power for a little over 60 years, and unless helped by, ironically, people like you, it is extremely unlikely to see another 60 in power. (Coincidentally, the communists would never even have risen to power in the first place without the help of the Japanese invasion at a crucial point in the Chinese civil war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March )
But yes, I guess China isn't really a threat, and doesn't view the West as a threat
If China really does view the West as threat, it is only because the history of the past one hundred and fifty years taught it to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Summer_Palace#Destruction_of_the_Summer_Palace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shandong_Problem
As ugly and imperfect as the US may be, don't you think its principles and ideals and those of its allies are worth protecting?
Oh please....
The reality of the situation in China is that the government is under _huge_ pressure to drop the draconian population control policy, aka one-child policy. However, there is no sign from the regime that it would even consider budging on this issue. So if anything, they have an incentive to _overstate_ the population, rather than understate it.
The other reality is that hundreds of elementary schools rural areas were closed down over the past few years due to not having enough school kids. Class rooms that once hold 40 children were down to 5, so the local gov simply closed the under attended schools and moved the children into bigger schools in towns, forcing some kids to travel great distances just to get to school everyday. The Hong Kong based Phoenix media ran a documentary on this a couple of years ago, which for some reason, was not aired in mainland China.
Have you ever gone to Chinatown and seen all the "fake" handbags (it is hard to call them "fake" when they are probably produced by the same people who make "genuine" handbags)? Online, there are plenty of websites that will sell you a bag or a shoe that looks just like an expensive brand for a fraction of the cost. SOPA is meant to block access to such websites, which are often hosted offshore where US law enforcement agencies cannot touch them.
Yes, they will be blocked, just like how all the websites who do not paint the Chinese government positively are blocked in China, which are often hosted offshore where Chinese law enforcement agencies cannot touch them.
And if they don't even bother prosecuting those selling counterfeit goods in Chinatown in broad day light, what sense does it make to give them such broad power to censor the Internet in the name of curbing IP theft?
Just quietly buy what you believe in
Won't be so easy if "what you believe in" happens to have rounded rectangles, or god knows what else might be considered "violating Apple patents".
Apple products make lots of people happy. Good for them. They're welcome to it. I won't be one of them and wish one and all well.
Indeed. But nobody is making a fuss about Apple making people happy, the fuss is about Apple actively trying to make life miserable for those that aren't "one of them".
and short of cheapening your own labor, I am not really sure how you do that.
Perhaps by being more productive per labor?