Quite simply, a corporation does not want to lose a $300 million dollar asset. Whatever other punishment they might receive in the markets or in the courts or in the press is secondary to the immediate loss of a very expensive piece of hardware.
Hijackings used to be like bank robberies where everyone was supposed to cooperate and "not be a hero".
911 increased the stakes and altered all of the basic assumptions. Now someone getting hijacked has every expectation of dying while being used as a flying bomb.
I dunno. It seems like if you are really that much of a dedicated gamer then you will either buy a proper laptop or buy a proper desktop. The idea of getting some half-*ssed solution and then augmenting it seems really absurd in the general PC market where you don't have to be trapped by a single vendor's choices. Any tech that has $50 cables is bound to be problematic for all by the must dedicated users.
I can well imagine how I might personally overwhelm the performance potential of thunderbolt. I can also imagine the price tag. Aint gonna happen any time soon.
PC users will probably just use "legacy" devices until thunderbolt seems compelling enough, assuming it ever reaches that point.
> and of course actually allows people to connect real storage to the mini-server(provided > they throw a thunderbolt port in the next mini, which they would have be insane not too).
Sounds a lot like an Acer Revo. Except the Revo has an eSata port.
Although a small office environment would likely be quite content with any GigE NAS device.
eSATA is kind of like SCSI on the consumer high end. It's something that you would want to use to connect an external RAID array to your PC. On the low end, it is redundant because of USB. So you've got an obvious situation where USB is bound to crowd eSATA out of the high end. There just aren't that many people buying arrays.
Although there is a matter of degree even there. The more you overprice the solution, the fewer people you will find willing to pay for it.
As far as eSATA "being dead" goes, I see it on a lot of new equipment these days. Of course that gear doesn't come from Apple.
> People who are criticizing the move to Thunderbolt have a lot of that "3GB/s is enough for anyone" vibe about them
It is. Or rather it's really quite difficult to saturate such a connection. In order to do so, you have to be willing to spend quite a lot of money. By that point, you are FAR out of the league of some "pro-sumer" device.
Perhaps this is a cable for 2021. Apple likes to pull stunts like that: push it's users into tech that's not fully baked yet.
My firewire camera is a relic that I gave to the kid because it was so obsolete and annoying and because it was superceded by a much newer and much nicer USB camera. A lot of those firewire devices out there are likely playthings for small children, languishing in boxes, or already rotting in a land fill.
There aren't "several" cable card tuners, there are 2 and one of those is still vaporware. Any PC cable card tuner that has been alleged to exist has typically been a very hard thing to get your hands on versus the ease of which you might have gotten your hands on some device from Hauppauge or an HDHomeRun.
Bragging about not needing a cable card for a particular TV is kind of silly since that was the standard expectation for ANY TV before the digital switch.
That was a very handy kind of setup for an S1/S2 Tivo.
The Police are supposed to get a warrant before they spy on you. It's a key element of the laws surrounding the situation. There are controls and accountability.
What controls and accountability are here?
This is a corporation abusing you in a way that you should never tolerate from a government.
ANY thing that increases the cost of the unit will be avoided. EVERY one is trying to buy or build the cheapest option possible.
If you do anything to the design that ads any costs then 90% of the market will be alienated.
The only people that will got for this are those that care enough to BUILD their own boxes. Everyone else just wants the cheapest available solution. This is why Tivo struggles. Most consumers are not very discriminating.
The OP was whining about his toilet. Of course you don't have his problems if YOU JUST BUY A BETTER PRODUCT.
However, most people don't do that. They just grab the cheapest thing they can find or they just stick with the default option. In this case, it's probably what was already in the house. So you have this hippie do-gooder mentality colliding with market realities and crap being the end result.
I just got finished replacing the crap toilets my home builder put in during construction and it was well worth it...
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Quite simply, a corporation does not want to lose a $300 million dollar asset. Whatever other punishment they might receive in the markets or in the courts or in the press is secondary to the immediate loss of a very expensive piece of hardware.
911 changed the rules of hijackings.
Hijackings used to be like bank robberies where everyone was supposed to cooperate and "not be a hero".
911 increased the stakes and altered all of the basic assumptions. Now someone getting hijacked has every expectation of dying while being used as a flying bomb.
I dunno. It seems like if you are really that much of a dedicated gamer then you will either buy a proper laptop or buy a proper desktop. The idea of getting some half-*ssed solution and then augmenting it seems really absurd in the general PC market where you don't have to be trapped by a single vendor's choices. Any tech that has $50 cables is bound to be problematic for all by the must dedicated users.
I can well imagine how I might personally overwhelm the performance potential of thunderbolt. I can also imagine the price tag. Aint gonna happen any time soon.
PC users will probably just use "legacy" devices until thunderbolt seems compelling enough, assuming it ever reaches that point.
> Please plug a 600TB SAN into your eSATA port. We'll wait.
I could do 24TB with the array hardware I have right now.
> so that I can also have a full blown desktop video card on my ultraportable notebook
Then it won't be portable anymore.
> and of course actually allows people to connect real storage to the mini-server(provided
> they throw a thunderbolt port in the next mini, which they would have be insane not too).
Sounds a lot like an Acer Revo. Except the Revo has an eSata port.
Although a small office environment would likely be quite content with any GigE NAS device.
They already sell Tesla workstations for that. No need to use some external bus cable and a card box.
Something like this is stuck between the "it's not really mobile" problem and the "certain stuff doesn't need to be mobile" problem.
It's a solution to a problem that really shouldn't exist in the first place.
eSATA is kind of like SCSI on the consumer high end. It's something that you would want to use to connect an external RAID array to your PC. On the low end, it is redundant because of USB. So you've got an obvious situation where USB is bound to crowd eSATA out of the high end. There just aren't that many people buying arrays.
Although there is a matter of degree even there. The more you overprice the solution, the fewer people you will find willing to pay for it.
As far as eSATA "being dead" goes, I see it on a lot of new equipment these days. Of course that gear doesn't come from Apple.
> People who are criticizing the move to Thunderbolt have a lot of that "3GB/s is enough for anyone" vibe about them
It is. Or rather it's really quite difficult to saturate such a connection. In order to do so, you have to be willing to spend quite a lot of money. By that point, you are FAR out of the league of some "pro-sumer" device.
Perhaps this is a cable for 2021. Apple likes to pull stunts like that: push it's users into tech that's not fully baked yet.
My firewire camera is a relic that I gave to the kid because it was so obsolete and annoying and because it was superceded by a much newer and much nicer USB camera. A lot of those firewire devices out there are likely playthings for small children, languishing in boxes, or already rotting in a land fill.
Then don't apply it to the market at large. Simply apply it to those companies willing to spend MILLIONS on either software or computing hardware.
The comparison still won't be in NBCs favor.
Or you could just explicitly call it an Apple videocam cable.
>> IT frankly doesn't care what Sally likes better for Angry Birds, or Sally at all for that matter.
>
> Unless she's the CFO.
Anyone else will get FIRED.
> Yes, but they're competing against the iPad.
No, not really. Apple gives minor lip service to business users but isn't really committed to them. Anyone that's not a total fanboy realizes that.
Think of all of those times where some fanboy responded to some complaint about how "this product isn't made for you". Shoes on the other foot now.
They represent a stupid new trend but in practice they are far less menancing than either BofA or AT&T.
Although give them enough time and they might catch up with the more established corporate scum in terms of general menace.
...yet despite this never bothered to include CUPS in PhoneOS directly.
Instead you have to go through extra uneccessary contortions and proprietary nonsense.
This Ubuntu patch is for dealing with something that Apple does that is gratuitiously proprietary.
There aren't "several" cable card tuners, there are 2 and one of those is still vaporware. Any PC cable card tuner that has been alleged to exist has typically been a very hard thing to get your hands on versus the ease of which you might have gotten your hands on some device from Hauppauge or an HDHomeRun.
Bragging about not needing a cable card for a particular TV is kind of silly since that was the standard expectation for ANY TV before the digital switch.
That was a very handy kind of setup for an S1/S2 Tivo.
At best?
A completely DRM free recording is not such a bad thing really.
The "at best" solution was good enough for 2 generations of Tivos. It's really not as scary as some try to make it out to be.
Not great for the whole "power consumption" thing though.
HD Tivos use Cable Card for cable and always have.
There is no HD Tivo that can "record from the cable box" like an S1 Tivo.
Recording analog HD is strictly an HTPC thing.
They are trying to use the general ignorance to create a headline that sounds more scandalous than it really is.
Yes. It is true only in theory.
The only example you can come up with is Tivo.
I am talking about real set top boxes, not just the single PVR vendor that has made it through the Cable DRM quagmire.
No. This is a problem.
The Police are supposed to get a warrant before they spy on you. It's a key element of the laws surrounding the situation. There are controls and accountability.
What controls and accountability are here?
This is a corporation abusing you in a way that you should never tolerate from a government.
That's kind of what internal change control is for.
Yes. It's sad how just about any PC can boot up faster than a cable box these days. You don't even have to do anything special to the PC.
It's very impractical to completely power down some cable receivers. They take too long getting themselves back online.
This is true only in theory.
There is very little market for 3rd party set top boxes. Usually this sort of thing in the US is associated with cable pirates.
The American version of CAM has mainly served as a barrier to entry preventing most potential competitors from even starting.
ANY thing that increases the cost of the unit will be avoided. EVERY one is trying to buy or build the cheapest option possible.
If you do anything to the design that ads any costs then 90% of the market will be alienated.
The only people that will got for this are those that care enough to BUILD their own boxes. Everyone else just wants the cheapest available solution. This is why Tivo struggles. Most consumers are not very discriminating.
> cash in the bank ...not as much as you think.
The OP was whining about his toilet. Of course you don't have his problems if YOU JUST BUY A BETTER PRODUCT.
However, most people don't do that. They just grab the cheapest thing they can find or they just stick with the default option. In this case, it's probably what was already in the house. So you have this hippie do-gooder mentality colliding with market realities and crap being the end result.
I just got finished replacing the crap toilets my home builder put in during construction and it was well worth it...