> You have to, without question, use the cable company's box. No other box will work.
That is a really stupid lie. Ever since the PVR became available to the public, these devices have been able to record off of cable by manipulating the cable provider's decoder box.
There is no real reason to use the shovelware PVR if you don't want.
> Because all the consumer A/V equipment can only record in SD even if it gets HD input.
That is simply nonsense.
Hauppauge has made a HD analog video capture device for a number of years now. It even has very good MythTV support. I used a couple of them myself to record DirecTV before I gave up on cable entirely.
At least bother to inform yourself before spouting off nonsense.
It sounds like if anything this boils down to a lack of regulation in China. These kinds of electrical devices are heavily regulated. So the idea that you need to buy an Apple branded product in order to be safe is just assinine. Every civilized country has a regulatory agency to make sure that electrical products aren't dangerous.
Although even the Chinese situation may simply be a matter of the numbers catching up to you. Sooner or later someone somewhere is likely to be the victim of that 1 in a billion manufacturing defect.
Given that Apple products come out of the same factories as everything else, that fruity logo is quite irrelevant.
That makes it an amphibious assault ship, not a modern aircraft carrier. An aircraft carrier is something that can launch air superiority craft like the ships that did battle in World War II.
Modern aircraft require a flight deck to match.
This is no capital ship. The fact that other navies field puny things and try to call them aircraft carriers really doesn't change that.
There's consent. So it's not rape, it's a business transaction.
The moment you try to deny that women can consent, you are treating them as children and effectively stripping their rights the same way that men did in the 1850s.
> The point of that is for people who can't tolerate dairy products.
No. The point is to make a cheaper product.
Whether or not it gives you a case of Montezuma's revenge is entirely immaterial.
Industrial engineering tweaks to food products are all about making it cheaper, easier to store, easier to transport, and to give it a longer shelf life. All other concerns are tertiary at best.
Although even that typically manifests only once a person has outlived their natural lifespan and are no longer able to breed and help perpetuate their family line.
Trying to maintain a lifestyle based on a cuisine that's not your own is a serious effort that can be easily f*cked up. Engaging in something that doesn't even have some cultural origin is just living of of some fad diet.
People in general are too stupid and aren't educated enough or aware enough of themselves. This includes vegans.
> Most heart disease is caused by eating animal products (which humans aren't supposed to eat),
You are not a cow. No matter how much you would like this to be the, case it simply is not true. If you try and pretend that you are a cow then you will DIE.
We are omnivores.
Being able to (mostly) eat what happens to be available is one of our key adaptive advantages and a key reason you even exist at all.
Opportunitistic carnivores are the only reason you're here to spout your political nonsense.
> well you can too, if you claim that someone stole something from you...
If YOU personally did this, your local police department and the FBI would likely IGNORE you. They may or may not even humor you about taking the charges seriously. They may tell you to your face that they "aren't going to bother".
When you have a lot of money to throw around and a senator or two in your pocket, THEN they listen to you.
The only problem with this is that you will also gleefully cripple Tort law at the same time. The end result is that White collar criminals and corporations are left with no meaningful consequences for their harmful actions. It's not even a theoretical possibility.
Much like modern Windows, the problem isn't so much the kernel but the really retarded user land stuff. It doesn't matter if you are running VMS or Unix if you insist on engaging on Microsoft style stupidity with your apps.
This mentality is not uncommon. Someone will see that there might be a problem somewhere and conclude that because they cannot have their vision of perfection, that they simply won't try at all. Consider this a victory for all of those screetching fanboys. They have achieved their desired result: FUD.
It doesn't have to be perfect. It needs to be useful.
> The ATV does have a few advantages: > -Decent form factor
Everyone has this.
> - Overall "fit and finish" is higher then most comparable products.
The ATV is nothing special in this regard. Once you get beyond using the ATV as an iTunes purchase enabler, it starts to fall down pretty quickly and pretty badly.
This case is actually not at all remarkable. If we were talking about pro players here, there wouldn't even be any question. It would be taken for granted that you can't take their likeness and just do whatever you want with it.
The only thing keeping people on Windows was the same old FUD from the 80s that Lemmings spread about how you wouldn't have anything to run on other platforms.
Tablets came along and looked new enough and strange enough that all of the old PC FUD didn't matter any more.
It also helps that the majority of tablets are in fact PHONES and not just general purpose computing devices. Most people buy the device because it is a PHONE and can make PHONE calls.
Still, it warps the perceptions of idiots. Microsoft is no longer seen as an unstoppable juggernaut that you have to use regardless of whether or not you actually like it.
The part of the system that people interact with is GNU.
It's just like MacOS isn't Unix. It's more like System 6 with a Unix kernel underneath. Even if you think it's all only OpenStep now, it's still Openstep, not Unix.
Yeah, the little details matter.
Linux was always that last remaining missing part of GNU.
> It's kind of sad that people on Slashdot no longer understand that operating systems include modular components that can be replaced.
Except MacOS and Windows don't really work that way. They simply aren't designed to. Neither is nearly as modular as Unix.
In Linux, this modularity leads to a meaningful level of diversity that a lot of trolls like to spin as "fragmentation" and a barrier to consumer adoption.
Windows has more problems than a graphics stack that has been hacked to violate Microsoft's own original OS design.
>> Apple is as much a Unix vendor as Tivo is. > > The same could be said about Android and Linux but I'm sure that doesn't stop you from making such a "mistake."
Some of us actually use Unix. Others just talk about it.
> A pretty UI/graphics package is also a must. Note that the iPad does all of that
You need to update your propaganda. Apple no longer has the lead in tablet market share.
The problem with ignoring experts or deriding them is that sooner or later the rube consumer is going to depend on experts. It can be the neighborhood free tech support guy or your neighborhood auto mechanic. It can even be the hardware manufacturer.
Sooner or later you are going to need that guy. His opinion is still relevant even if his choices are one or more levels removed from the consumer.
The level of attachment to either leading mobile platform is highly disputable. The apps for both platforms tend to be dirt cheap or just plain free. The average Apple or Android user probably has less invested in there platform in terms of "apps" than the cost of a single PC game.
The real vendor lock is going to come from platform only entertainment content like music or books or movies.
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> You have to, without question, use the cable company's box. No other box will work.
That is a really stupid lie. Ever since the PVR became available to the public, these devices have been able to record off of cable by manipulating the cable provider's decoder box.
There is no real reason to use the shovelware PVR if you don't want.
> Because all the consumer A/V equipment can only record in SD even if it gets HD input.
That is simply nonsense.
Hauppauge has made a HD analog video capture device for a number of years now. It even has very good MythTV support. I used a couple of them myself to record DirecTV before I gave up on cable entirely.
At least bother to inform yourself before spouting off nonsense.
It sounds like if anything this boils down to a lack of regulation in China. These kinds of electrical devices are heavily regulated. So the idea that you need to buy an Apple branded product in order to be safe is just assinine. Every civilized country has a regulatory agency to make sure that electrical products aren't dangerous.
Although even the Chinese situation may simply be a matter of the numbers catching up to you. Sooner or later someone somewhere is likely to be the victim of that 1 in a billion manufacturing defect.
Given that Apple products come out of the same factories as everything else, that fruity logo is quite irrelevant.
> Such a carrier could easily launch F-35 VSTOL
In other words, no serious aircraft to speak of.
That makes it an amphibious assault ship, not a modern aircraft carrier. An aircraft carrier is something that can launch air superiority craft like the ships that did battle in World War II.
Modern aircraft require a flight deck to match.
This is no capital ship. The fact that other navies field puny things and try to call them aircraft carriers really doesn't change that.
An "aircraft carrier" with a 250M flight deck? Really?
This is like ignorant liberals getting hysterical over guns.
They simply have no clue whatsoever. Show them something a little scary and they will start screaming and running amok.
It's a DESTROYER. That is a puny ship in modern naval terms.
We probably have Coast Guard ships larger than this thing.
> Another libertarian who wants to legalize rap
There's consent. So it's not rape, it's a business transaction.
The moment you try to deny that women can consent, you are treating them as children and effectively stripping their rights the same way that men did in the 1850s.
> The point of that is for people who can't tolerate dairy products.
No. The point is to make a cheaper product.
Whether or not it gives you a case of Montezuma's revenge is entirely immaterial.
Industrial engineering tweaks to food products are all about making it cheaper, easier to store, easier to transport, and to give it a longer shelf life. All other concerns are tertiary at best.
The main risk from heart disease is genetic.
Although even that typically manifests only once a person has outlived their natural lifespan and are no longer able to breed and help perpetuate their family line.
Trying to maintain a lifestyle based on a cuisine that's not your own is a serious effort that can be easily f*cked up. Engaging in something that doesn't even have some cultural origin is just living of of some fad diet.
People in general are too stupid and aren't educated enough or aware enough of themselves. This includes vegans.
> Most heart disease is caused by eating animal products (which humans aren't supposed to eat),
You are not a cow. No matter how much you would like this to be the, case it simply is not true. If you try and pretend that you are a cow then you will DIE.
We are omnivores.
Being able to (mostly) eat what happens to be available is one of our key adaptive advantages and a key reason you even exist at all.
Opportunitistic carnivores are the only reason you're here to spout your political nonsense.
> well you can too, if you claim that someone stole something from you...
If YOU personally did this, your local police department and the FBI would likely IGNORE you. They may or may not even humor you about taking the charges seriously. They may tell you to your face that they "aren't going to bother".
When you have a lot of money to throw around and a senator or two in your pocket, THEN they listen to you.
The only problem with this is that you will also gleefully cripple Tort law at the same time. The end result is that White collar criminals and corporations are left with no meaningful consequences for their harmful actions. It's not even a theoretical possibility.
Much like modern Windows, the problem isn't so much the kernel but the really retarded user land stuff. It doesn't matter if you are running VMS or Unix if you insist on engaging on Microsoft style stupidity with your apps.
It's not just that they are favoring one proprietary platform vendor over everyone else but that they are also repeating their FUD too.
This mentality is not uncommon. Someone will see that there might be a problem somewhere and conclude that because they cannot have their vision of perfection, that they simply won't try at all. Consider this a victory for all of those screetching fanboys. They have achieved their desired result: FUD.
It doesn't have to be perfect. It needs to be useful.
> The ATV does have a few advantages:
> -Decent form factor
Everyone has this.
> - Overall "fit and finish" is higher then most comparable products.
The ATV is nothing special in this regard. Once you get beyond using the ATV as an iTunes purchase enabler, it starts to fall down pretty quickly and pretty badly.
That's why people like to jailbreak the things.
This case is actually not at all remarkable. If we were talking about pro players here, there wouldn't even be any question. It would be taken for granted that you can't take their likeness and just do whatever you want with it.
Parody is a very particular exception that.
The only thing keeping people on Windows was the same old FUD from the 80s that Lemmings spread about how you wouldn't have anything to run on other platforms.
Tablets came along and looked new enough and strange enough that all of the old PC FUD didn't matter any more.
It also helps that the majority of tablets are in fact PHONES and not just general purpose computing devices. Most people buy the device because it is a PHONE and can make PHONE calls.
Still, it warps the perceptions of idiots. Microsoft is no longer seen as an unstoppable juggernaut that you have to use regardless of whether or not you actually like it.
The part of the system that people interact with is GNU.
It's just like MacOS isn't Unix. It's more like System 6 with a Unix kernel underneath. Even if you think it's all only OpenStep now, it's still Openstep, not Unix.
Yeah, the little details matter.
Linux was always that last remaining missing part of GNU.
> It's kind of sad that people on Slashdot no longer understand that operating systems include modular components that can be replaced.
Except MacOS and Windows don't really work that way. They simply aren't designed to. Neither is nearly as modular as Unix.
In Linux, this modularity leads to a meaningful level of diversity that a lot of trolls like to spin as "fragmentation" and a barrier to consumer adoption.
Windows has more problems than a graphics stack that has been hacked to violate Microsoft's own original OS design.
States are still independent entities with their own judiciary.
People tend to forget that.
>> Apple is as much a Unix vendor as Tivo is.
>
> The same could be said about Android and Linux but I'm sure that doesn't stop you from making such a "mistake."
Some of us actually use Unix. Others just talk about it.
Obviously you are in the latter category.
> Even though every version of Os X since 10.5 has been an officially certified UNIX?
You don't even understand what that means.
> A pretty UI/graphics package is also a must. Note that the iPad does all of that
You need to update your propaganda. Apple no longer has the lead in tablet market share.
The problem with ignoring experts or deriding them is that sooner or later the rube consumer is going to depend on experts. It can be the neighborhood free tech support guy or your neighborhood auto mechanic. It can even be the hardware manufacturer.
Sooner or later you are going to need that guy. His opinion is still relevant even if his choices are one or more levels removed from the consumer.
The level of attachment to either leading mobile platform is highly disputable. The apps for both platforms tend to be dirt cheap or just plain free. The average Apple or Android user probably has less invested in there platform in terms of "apps" than the cost of a single PC game.
The real vendor lock is going to come from platform only entertainment content like music or books or movies.
> The walled garden has yet to reach the Apple desktop, which is still a POSIX compliant UNIX
MacOS is a proprietary GUI based user environment with it's own history, culture, and expectations quite different and distinct from Unix.
Only a vanishingly small minority of MacOS users care or even know that their shiny happy thing is a Unix underneath.
Apple is as much a Unix vendor as Tivo is.