Physical media is the one usable fallback you can count on when all of the empty promises of techno-hipsters fail you.
Unless you want to pirate everything and use protocols that announce your actions to the world, the most reliable method of data acquisition is still physical media. It's also the most reliable way to ensure that you have access to your stuff wherever you happen to be.
The "lets-force-you-to-download-this-each-and-every-single-time sttreaming services go to crap as soon as there is the slightest network hiccup.
The problem with digital "sales" is that they aren't really a sale. They are effectively an extended rental. That rental can be revoked at any time and your entire collection can be made to go away.
That said, what is going to kill physical media is the availability of cheap subscription options. If something can be had on Netflix for $8 it makes little sense to pay $20 or $60 for the DVDs.
The comparison between physical media and expensive pay per view services is another matter though. Streaming doesn't have an obvious price advantage.
Plus there's the question of whether or not what you want is on ANY streaming service.
A company does not have to stand completely alone in the marketplace in order to have a dire impact on things. The usual villain here is Walmart. They have been abusing suppliers long before Amazon got in the act.
The fact that I can choose one titan over another doesn't alter the fact that either can distort the market to a degree that's dangerous for the free market in general.
> It really doesn't matter. It's their private establishment; it's their rules.
No. Not really. Not at all in fact.
They are actually a public accomodation.
Contrary to your Fox News fantasy, corporations and public accomodations are still bound by the rule of law. Their are any number of things they can't get away with despite it being "their private establishment".
It's a broadcast device. EVERYONE around you is effected. This will just add to the electronic clutter of your neighborhood. If it doesn't annoy you directly, it might annoy the guy next door and interfere with his network.
> Read the article. It's for SWAT teams not every day police. These are needed to stop the occasional crazies who shoot up places, not a conspiracy by the man to persecute slashdotters.
A competent marksman and a good bolt action rifle is all you need to deal with such a crazy.
You see, all of the reasons that can be dreamt up to take guns away from civilians can be applied equally well to civilians that wear a badge.
The convenience factor of an AR-15 is useful in a number of ways but not strictly necessary.
The retard in question couldn't even get his basic terminology straight. Clearly the other guy didn't put any effort into his original claims. Why should the rebuttal require less indifference?
Gun grabbing busybodies are like Apple users. They are ignorant and they are fiercely proud of their ignorance. This includes information about the guns themselves, and violent crime in general, as well as the likelihood that they will ever be victims of violent crime of any sort.
When a retard can't pretend to take the subject at all seriously, why continue with civilized pretense?
There should be a place that a man and his family don't have to retreat from. This what makes you a man rather than a peasant. This is what makes you something other than property.
The idea that you aren't allowed to defend your family is what is really abhorent here.
Ready access to guns may not suppress violent crime but ratcheting up the gun laws certainly seems to do nothing to stem the tide. Assuming that gun laws are a reactionary, knee-jerk response to high levels of gun crime, the results don't seem very promising.
Perhaps something else is actually going on and fixating on guns is an easy way to avoid solving the real problem which is really hard and will make liberal busybodies squirm.
Just because a libre driver exists doesn't mean that people are going to want to use it. Those of us interested in performance are far more likely to immediately dump those libre drivers for something that actually works well.
Free Software zealotry in this area really only makes sense if you are actively avoiding all of the software that would need a good OpenGL implementation. Most of that stuff is not Free Software either.
While my $300 Zotac ION nettop was still alive,that is what I used for my BD rips. It really does not take much machine to read something off of an optical disk.
This is especially true when the whole point of the media in question is that it's the highest quality option available (no transcoding).
Although even that can run as a batch job and take as long as it needs to take while you're off scuba diving or racing motorcycles.
It's still a binary blob that has to do some function that is not covered by any standard. Calling it by a different name or pretending that such plugins are part of the official standard doesn't really change anything.
> Someone explain to me why people who just happened to be born in the bounds of an arbitrary nation should have ANY advantages over someone who was not.
That's the best argument for elminating the H1B visa actually.
You think those Indians are being done some kind of favor? They are not. They are being allowed to become part of an underclass. If we were to be true to your rhetoric, anyone we saw fit to import for their skills would be the equal to any other man rather than at the mercy of his importer.
Creating an underclass is the kind of thing that "Maya Angelou would object to".
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On the one hand, I have used cheap generic chargers bought in the US with no problems in European outlets.
On the other hand, there are different electrical standards in play here.
Still. I've used the cheapest parts I could lay my hands on and never managed a fire or explosion.
> Intel seems to have the only graphics that doesn't suck horribly on Linux for normal day to day use.
Are you kidding? Their hardware sucks horribly for normal day to day use regardless of what OS you're talking about.
It's better than being an idiot.
> pay per view
> pay per view
Let me post that relevant bit again.
> pay per view
Your remarks about Netflix weren't relevant to my point.
Physical media is the one usable fallback you can count on when all of the empty promises of techno-hipsters fail you.
Unless you want to pirate everything and use protocols that announce your actions to the world, the most reliable method of data acquisition is still physical media. It's also the most reliable way to ensure that you have access to your stuff wherever you happen to be.
The "lets-force-you-to-download-this-each-and-every-single-time sttreaming services go to crap as soon as there is the slightest network hiccup.
No. You're the one lashing out like a deluded nitwit.
The problem with digital "sales" is that they aren't really a sale. They are effectively an extended rental. That rental can be revoked at any time and your entire collection can be made to go away.
That said, what is going to kill physical media is the availability of cheap subscription options. If something can be had on Netflix for $8 it makes little sense to pay $20 or $60 for the DVDs.
The comparison between physical media and expensive pay per view services is another matter though. Streaming doesn't have an obvious price advantage.
Plus there's the question of whether or not what you want is on ANY streaming service.
A company does not have to stand completely alone in the marketplace in order to have a dire impact on things. The usual villain here is Walmart. They have been abusing suppliers long before Amazon got in the act.
The fact that I can choose one titan over another doesn't alter the fact that either can distort the market to a degree that's dangerous for the free market in general.
He attributed his source, so it doesn't matter either way.
It's no longer plagarism at that point.
...except the genre equivalent of the 'latest and greatest" already announced a Linux version awhile ago.
We can play with the "scraps" while waiting on that.
Although true classics should never get tiresome.
They have a remote install option. So, by the time you get home the thing will be ready and waiting for you.
It is a monstrous download...
Once again. It's all fine so long as everyone's packets of a particular type are all treated the same.
Prioritizing VOIP over my Netflix packets is not and has never been the issue.
Cable companies are masquerading as ISPs. They want to sabotage the competition in ways we would not tolerate if they were a phone company.
> It really doesn't matter. It's their private establishment; it's their rules.
No. Not really. Not at all in fact.
They are actually a public accomodation.
Contrary to your Fox News fantasy, corporations and public accomodations are still bound by the rule of law. Their are any number of things they can't get away with despite it being "their private establishment".
This could quickly devolve into an ADA issue.
It's a broadcast device. EVERYONE around you is effected. This will just add to the electronic clutter of your neighborhood. If it doesn't annoy you directly, it might annoy the guy next door and interfere with his network.
> Read the article. It's for SWAT teams not every day police. These are needed to stop the occasional crazies who shoot up places, not a conspiracy by the man to persecute slashdotters.
A competent marksman and a good bolt action rifle is all you need to deal with such a crazy.
You see, all of the reasons that can be dreamt up to take guns away from civilians can be applied equally well to civilians that wear a badge.
The convenience factor of an AR-15 is useful in a number of ways but not strictly necessary.
The retard in question couldn't even get his basic terminology straight. Clearly the other guy didn't put any effort into his original claims. Why should the rebuttal require less indifference?
Gun grabbing busybodies are like Apple users. They are ignorant and they are fiercely proud of their ignorance. This includes information about the guns themselves, and violent crime in general, as well as the likelihood that they will ever be victims of violent crime of any sort.
When a retard can't pretend to take the subject at all seriously, why continue with civilized pretense?
There is nothing wrong with the attitude.
There should be a place that a man and his family don't have to retreat from. This what makes you a man rather than a peasant. This is what makes you something other than property.
The idea that you aren't allowed to defend your family is what is really abhorent here.
Ready access to guns may not suppress violent crime but ratcheting up the gun laws certainly seems to do nothing to stem the tide. Assuming that gun laws are a reactionary, knee-jerk response to high levels of gun crime, the results don't seem very promising.
Perhaps something else is actually going on and fixating on guns is an easy way to avoid solving the real problem which is really hard and will make liberal busybodies squirm.
Just because a libre driver exists doesn't mean that people are going to want to use it. Those of us interested in performance are far more likely to immediately dump those libre drivers for something that actually works well.
Free Software zealotry in this area really only makes sense if you are actively avoiding all of the software that would need a good OpenGL implementation. Most of that stuff is not Free Software either.
Oh really?
I've never had that problem ever.
Just like at home, I only handle cash when I absolutely have to. Otherwise I use the plastic.
Merchants want your money. Doesn't matter where they are.
Who knew?
All of this is just reason to avoid this nonsense on PCs entirely and just use a dedicated video streamer or some combination of tablet+streamer.
Even on Windows, these plugins are inefficient and fail to take advantage of the hardware acceleration available to "hobbyware".
While my $300 Zotac ION nettop was still alive,that is what I used for my BD rips. It really does not take much machine to read something off of an optical disk.
This is especially true when the whole point of the media in question is that it's the highest quality option available (no transcoding).
Although even that can run as a batch job and take as long as it needs to take while you're off scuba diving or racing motorcycles.
My Ubuntu install was easy peasy and it performs about how you would expect any of these things to perform regardless of platform.
The fact that the Arch install is more "interesting" is just a matter of self-flagellation.
It's still a binary blob that has to do some function that is not covered by any standard. Calling it by a different name or pretending that such plugins are part of the official standard doesn't really change anything.
You still need a platform specific binary blob.
> Someone explain to me why people who just happened to be born in the bounds of an arbitrary nation should have ANY advantages over someone who was not.
That's the best argument for elminating the H1B visa actually.
You think those Indians are being done some kind of favor? They are not. They are being allowed to become part of an underclass. If we were to be true to your rhetoric, anyone we saw fit to import for their skills would be the equal to any other man rather than at the mercy of his importer.
Creating an underclass is the kind of thing that "Maya Angelou would object to".