As someone with an independent insurance plan in an evil Red State, I find this false dichotomy absurd. My non-employer plan has always been competitive with anything I've seen an employer offer. You don't have to be married to your employer or the government. Trading dependence on one for dependence on the other really doesn't solve anything.
Health insurance as it has evolved in the US and Europe is a scam as it makes people think things are free when they are quite the opposite. It all invites abuse and a total lack of accountability.
Ultimately people need to be free to screw up their own lives or they are no longer people really.
> if the composition, subject and lighting are all great.
That's the problem. Most of the world isn't inside of a well managed portrait studio. You have to take the world and your experiences as they present themselves to you.
Quite often life won't accommodate your point-and-shoot camera and what you could manage with a phone would be even worse.
What's obscene here is the idea that you have to buy a device with Facebook built into it in order to publish things via Facebook. One should be able to easily combine devices that conform to open standards to achieve things with technology the engineers never thought of.
Profanity is not an inappropriate response to proprietary walled garden nonsense.
> Or, in other words, unless you really know what you're doing, you're probably wasting your money.
Ignorant nonsense.
A better device allows for taking photos under conditions that a lesser device is simply incapable of managing. As a camera, a phone is actually a step backwards from film cameras in terms of features and ease of use.
While it's true that more expensive "pro" cameras are a matter of greatly diminishing returns, they too have their uses and situations for which they product useful output rather than a pointless blur.
It doesn't take a lot of skill to benefit from better gear. That's one of the great things about modern technology.
Put up new-khan next to old-khan and it all doesn't seem that bad really. Much like with STAR WARS, a lot of us have forgotten how genuinely cheesey and flawed the original source material is. In some ways, reboots can be more genuine because they interrupt whatever slow and steady distortion of the source material that may have occured in recent memory.
In the first Star Trek 2 we had a whiney middle aged man moping around an apartment filled with relics. In the second Star Trek 2 we had a starfleet officer in is prime chasing 2 girls with tails in his apartment.
There's something to be said for producing stories about characters when they are in their prime rather than when they are having a midlife crisis or have one foot in the nursing home.
Any new version of a intergenrational story will trigger complaints of the "purists". Doesn't matter if it's Sherlock Holmes, Batman, or Star Trek.
> It's a felony to lie to an investigator during an investigation,
A lie in the moral sense of the term requires intent which is pretty difficult if not impossible to prove. So the entire idea is complete bullshit as the cops are free to lie or simply to disagree. Intent is not required. You can simply be imperfect (not even stupid or evil) and still run afoul of the law.
It's one of those "catch all laws" that really have no business being on the books in the first place. It's something that the authorities can accuse you of even if they can't pin anything else on you.
That's exactly what happened to Martha.
It's stupid to talk to a cop period. Everyone should take that to heart. The cops would deserve every bit of the consequences for being such fascists.
There is one big problem with trying to engage in a appeal to authority with some random pastry chef.
There is a high probability that Julia would call that French pastry chef an idiot. Surprisingly, she did not have a lot of tolerance for the kind of elitism in French cuisine that makes it expensive or unapproachable.
The word of some random french chef? Less valuable than toilet paper as toilet paper is at least soft.
This isn't some insider swooping into IBM and Yahoo. This enterprise has Martha's name on it. There's bound to be a bit more pride and a sense of ownership in that case.
"open source" is primarily just corporate friendly branding for Free Software. It's primarily a marketing job to accentuate the pragmatic benefits of Free Software over the political motivations RMS might tend to focus on.
In general, they should have brought the flight sims back and released them on every platform available. Slap their brand on every kind of game out there.
There's a sort of old boys club when it comes to large corporations. Once companies get to a certain size they become unmanageable except by similar larger entities. This goes for things like their IT department too. This also applies to government contracting.
One beaurocracy laden Fortune 100 company services another.
Grandma probably won't do anything beyond start it and stop it.
Fancy seeking controls? Grandma will probably look at you like you just grew a second head if you mention any of that stuff.
That's the problem with pandering to the biggest idiot you think you can find. Chances are that their usage of tech will be so limited and rudimentary that even the most basic tool is adequate.
Amazon Prime works on Linux. So does Hulu. So there's nothing inherent in Linux that makes it "unsuitable as judged by the studios".
Then there's the fact that there's a MacOS Netflix client. Apple didn't "bend over and say ahh" to Hollywood either. There is no "secure path" on MacOS. So Apple isn't any more "suitable as judged by Hollywood" either.
This is all about Netflix making a bad technology decision and tying their wagon to one of Microsofts attempts to dominate some part of the industry that they didn't have control over yet.
This is all about Netflix swimming in the Kool-aid and jumping on Microsoft's bandwagon and attempting to unseat Adobe.
> Because it ships with a gamepad and has a case designed to fit in next to a television.
Neither of those is terribly remarkable in this day and age.
> Your average PC
is not nearly as big as it used to be. Lower profile machines have been around for a very long time. Having more living room friendly options isn't even a new thing really.
The main thing about a SteamBox will be having a low profile system that's more Linux friendly.
> Exactly that's why I buy consoles. I spend all day with a computer and when I get home to play, I don't want all the hassle.
My Myth boxes aren't a "hassle". They "just work". They chug along like nice little appliances. I built them with that in mind. Plus there's the whole "Unix just runs and runs" thing.
The only "bother" a console saves is BUILDING the thing.
Admitted, that's a big deal for a total n00b. But lets not pretend that the day to day operation of streamer or PVR software is anything magical or terribly difficult.
My myth hardware has survived through 3 iterations of ARM based streamer hardware and still runs circles around them despite being very primitive by PC standards.
> No, you can hack the Tivo to run your own software for the most part, there's only one small part you can't change.
Really. I am sure the Myth guys would be interested in that. Just about anything that could possibly be hacked to run MythTV on the cheap gets a lot of discussion on the mailing list.
Never heard of anyone having their way with a genuine Tivo.
Since I had a few collecting dust for awhile I would have been very interested too.
I probably hacked my first Tivo before you ever even heard of them.
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As someone with an independent insurance plan in an evil Red State, I find this false dichotomy absurd. My non-employer plan has always been competitive with anything I've seen an employer offer. You don't have to be married to your employer or the government. Trading dependence on one for dependence on the other really doesn't solve anything.
Health insurance as it has evolved in the US and Europe is a scam as it makes people think things are free when they are quite the opposite. It all invites abuse and a total lack of accountability.
Ultimately people need to be free to screw up their own lives or they are no longer people really.
They pay 100% but what do you pay them?
Unless you are a street sweeper, you're probably coming out ahead avoiding socialism even if you have what appears to be a horrendous insurance bill.
People seem to discount taxes for some strange reason when comparing these things.
Someone does have to pay the bill. There's really no getting around that. Stealing from Paul to pay Mary really doesn't change anything.
That's the ultimate problem with Obamacare: no real attempt to address escalating costs. Just lots of new forced customers for the insurance industry.
> if the composition, subject and lighting are all great.
That's the problem. Most of the world isn't inside of a well managed portrait studio. You have to take the world and your experiences as they present themselves to you.
Quite often life won't accommodate your point-and-shoot camera and what you could manage with a phone would be even worse.
What's obscene here is the idea that you have to buy a device with Facebook built into it in order to publish things via Facebook. One should be able to easily combine devices that conform to open standards to achieve things with technology the engineers never thought of.
Profanity is not an inappropriate response to proprietary walled garden nonsense.
> Or, in other words, unless you really know what you're doing, you're probably wasting your money.
Ignorant nonsense.
A better device allows for taking photos under conditions that a lesser device is simply incapable of managing. As a camera, a phone is actually a step backwards from film cameras in terms of features and ease of use.
While it's true that more expensive "pro" cameras are a matter of greatly diminishing returns, they too have their uses and situations for which they product useful output rather than a pointless blur.
It doesn't take a lot of skill to benefit from better gear. That's one of the great things about modern technology.
Put up new-khan next to old-khan and it all doesn't seem that bad really. Much like with STAR WARS, a lot of us have forgotten how genuinely cheesey and flawed the original source material is. In some ways, reboots can be more genuine because they interrupt whatever slow and steady distortion of the source material that may have occured in recent memory.
Young minds, fresh ideas...
In the first Star Trek 2 we had a whiney middle aged man moping around an apartment filled with relics. In the second Star Trek 2 we had a starfleet officer in is prime chasing 2 girls with tails in his apartment.
There's something to be said for producing stories about characters when they are in their prime rather than when they are having a midlife crisis or have one foot in the nursing home.
Any new version of a intergenrational story will trigger complaints of the "purists". Doesn't matter if it's Sherlock Holmes, Batman, or Star Trek.
Fanboys just love redefining common words to suit their distorted view of reality.
Damn you Darmok!
Stop swimming in the Kool-aid.
> It's a felony to lie to an investigator during an investigation,
A lie in the moral sense of the term requires intent which is pretty difficult if not impossible to prove. So the entire idea is complete bullshit as the cops are free to lie or simply to disagree. Intent is not required. You can simply be imperfect (not even stupid or evil) and still run afoul of the law.
It's one of those "catch all laws" that really have no business being on the books in the first place. It's something that the authorities can accuse you of even if they can't pin anything else on you.
That's exactly what happened to Martha.
It's stupid to talk to a cop period. Everyone should take that to heart. The cops would deserve every bit of the consequences for being such fascists.
There is one big problem with trying to engage in a appeal to authority with some random pastry chef.
There is a high probability that Julia would call that French pastry chef an idiot. Surprisingly, she did not have a lot of tolerance for the kind of elitism in French cuisine that makes it expensive or unapproachable.
The word of some random french chef? Less valuable than toilet paper as toilet paper is at least soft.
More importantly, it is HER NAME.
This isn't some insider swooping into IBM and Yahoo. This enterprise has Martha's name on it. There's bound to be a bit more pride and a sense of ownership in that case.
> RMS has nothing to do with "open source".
"open source" is primarily just corporate friendly branding for Free Software. It's primarily a marketing job to accentuate the pragmatic benefits of Free Software over the political motivations RMS might tend to focus on.
> RED TAILS.
Did they make a game out of that?
That could be a cool game if you did it right.
In general, they should have brought the flight sims back and released them on every platform available. Slap their brand on every kind of game out there.
There's a sort of old boys club when it comes to large corporations. Once companies get to a certain size they become unmanageable except by similar larger entities. This goes for things like their IT department too. This also applies to government contracting.
One beaurocracy laden Fortune 100 company services another.
Grandma probably won't do anything beyond start it and stop it.
Fancy seeking controls? Grandma will probably look at you like you just grew a second head if you mention any of that stuff.
That's the problem with pandering to the biggest idiot you think you can find. Chances are that their usage of tech will be so limited and rudimentary that even the most basic tool is adequate.
> vnc is far better than remote desktop for windows
VNC is a festering pile. It's not better than anything. It's not even better than X. Never mind RDP.
Any option that includes "but you have to hunt down your own codecs" is an immediate usability fail.
> Grow a pair. Or stop being a prima donna and blaming the world for your social dysfunction
It's not my social dysfunction that's the problem.
Car salesmen have very much earned their place as one of the most despised creatures in modern society.
You're still spouting nonsense.
Amazon Prime works on Linux. So does Hulu. So there's nothing inherent in Linux that makes it "unsuitable as judged by the studios".
Then there's the fact that there's a MacOS Netflix client. Apple didn't "bend over and say ahh" to Hollywood either. There is no "secure path" on MacOS. So Apple isn't any more "suitable as judged by Hollywood" either.
This is all about Netflix making a bad technology decision and tying their wagon to one of Microsofts attempts to dominate some part of the industry that they didn't have control over yet.
This is all about Netflix swimming in the Kool-aid and jumping on Microsoft's bandwagon and attempting to unseat Adobe.
> Because it ships with a gamepad and has a case designed to fit in next to a television.
Neither of those is terribly remarkable in this day and age.
> Your average PC
is not nearly as big as it used to be. Lower profile machines have been around for a very long time. Having more living room friendly options isn't even a new thing really.
The main thing about a SteamBox will be having a low profile system that's more Linux friendly.
> Exactly that's why I buy consoles. I spend all day with a computer and when I get home to play, I don't want all the hassle.
My Myth boxes aren't a "hassle". They "just work". They chug along like nice little appliances. I built them with that in mind. Plus there's the whole "Unix just runs and runs" thing.
The only "bother" a console saves is BUILDING the thing.
Admitted, that's a big deal for a total n00b. But lets not pretend that the day to day operation of streamer or PVR software is anything magical or terribly difficult.
My myth hardware has survived through 3 iterations of ARM based streamer hardware and still runs circles around them despite being very primitive by PC standards.
> No, you can hack the Tivo to run your own software for the most part, there's only one small part you can't change.
Really. I am sure the Myth guys would be interested in that. Just about anything that could possibly be hacked to run MythTV on the cheap gets a lot of discussion on the mailing list.
Never heard of anyone having their way with a genuine Tivo.
Since I had a few collecting dust for awhile I would have been very interested too.
I probably hacked my first Tivo before you ever even heard of them.
> I've never wanted to resell my games. I actually think people that do are a little bit odd
It's like you just landed from some alien planet. Perhaps a StarTrek-esque utopia where they don't use money anymore.
"What is this commerce thing you speak of?"