I think I got my copy from the Walmart bargain bin back in the day. Had no idea it would end up on the other side of the supply-demand curve. Although that happens more often than you might think.
> There's hours of fun going through a new Linux distro, before you realize you're missing a proprietary 3-D driver.
That's much like sorting out the same detail in a Windows install. If you're lucky, you won't have to do that with your NIC. Sorting out a Windows box is a little more difficult without any network access.
If it took you hours to figure out that you are using a libre driver, then that's a testament to the libre driver really.
Cable Card presents an odious barrier to doing that. There are also patents from Tivo Corp to consider. MS has the benefit of being another 800lb gorilla with a patent portfolio of it's own to bludgeon trolls with.
The Mac's main software based PVR doesn't have proper CC support.
Much of Free Software is developed by people who's day job it is to contribute to the Free Software project in question. The idea that it's all just "hobbyware" was outdated even in the last century.
On the other hand, some projects that really are "hobbyware" from top to bottom get more attention than some things at Microsoft. Some of Microsoft's projects are even dependent on such hobbyware in order to reach their full potential.
The Brady Bunch had a den. This is basically a spare bedroom that Mr Brady employed as a home office. He had his drafting setup in there and everything. Same thing was true for the Stevens family in Bewitched. The husband had a home office.
Unless you are barely scraping by in some overcrowded and overpriced coastal city, you probably have enough room to put your PC some place other than next to your TV.
H*LL, even when I was "poor" we had enough space for that. My computer stayed in my bedroom. The family TV was in the living room.
You don't have to live in a mansion to have distance between your TV and computer.
I would imagine most people using a PC don't want to disturb people watching TV and vice versa.
> As for medicine, in the U.S. you'll pay a lot of specialist fees but not get anything that couldn't have been done just as well by a nurse with a flip book.
You are trying to hold America to some undisclosed standard and then you whine when people try to reverse engineer that standard and apply it equally to others.
This is the Internet. The net is so wide here that you are literally quite likely to find a man that has bitten a dog.
You haven't needed to manually type in an URL since the first search engine was created. That's pretty much the dawn of time for this particular discussion.
OTOH, you still have to type things in order to install some platform specific binary. Chances are that you will have to navigate to the same website in the process. So the app install process will always be a superset of bookmarking the website.
The design and engineering issues haven't changed really. People like to think that the new shiny shiny is all that but it's probably just a 3rd generation rehash of something from before you were born.
Modern "apps" also require an intermediary between the developer and the customer that doesn't exist with "full blown applications" or websites. A certain degree of control is taken away from both the developer and the end user.
There is also the possibility that the growing robot apocalypse will further democratise the means of production. Instead of the rich few owning all of the toys, it may be the case that EVERYONE can own enough toys to fend for themselves.
It is possible that the redistribution of wealth itself may become outdated.
ALL of those "evil people" built the foundation for your cushy life today. Without their corruption and their "excessive living", you never would have even existed. Your ancestors would not have lived well enough to survive long enough to have your great grand children.
Robber barons often do something useful beyond whatever empire they've built.
> With a UBI population would increase in first world countries since it would reduce the impact of having children on families.
This doesn't stop people now. Certain immigrant groups breed quite vigorously in Europe despite the chronic lack of space for most people. They happily live in 3rd world conditions that native groups won't tolerate. On the other hand, giving Europeans more money for free won't help their space problem.
You really don't have to bribe people to breed. They are going to have or not have kids depending on what they want for themselves.
> Here come the MRAs crying censorship....... because insanity always works
Well, you seem to think so. You certainly think that your shrill hysterics will discourage people from sticking up for things like equality, due process, and the rule of law.
You should get the kind of regime you seem to pine for. Just leave the rest of us out.
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I think I got my copy from the Walmart bargain bin back in the day. Had no idea it would end up on the other side of the supply-demand curve. Although that happens more often than you might think.
> There's hours of fun going through a new Linux distro, before you realize you're missing a proprietary 3-D driver.
That's much like sorting out the same detail in a Windows install. If you're lucky, you won't have to do that with your NIC. Sorting out a Windows box is a little more difficult without any network access.
If it took you hours to figure out that you are using a libre driver, then that's a testament to the libre driver really.
Cable Card presents an odious barrier to doing that. There are also patents from Tivo Corp to consider. MS has the benefit of being another 800lb gorilla with a patent portfolio of it's own to bludgeon trolls with.
The Mac's main software based PVR doesn't have proper CC support.
Much of Free Software is developed by people who's day job it is to contribute to the Free Software project in question. The idea that it's all just "hobbyware" was outdated even in the last century.
On the other hand, some projects that really are "hobbyware" from top to bottom get more attention than some things at Microsoft. Some of Microsoft's projects are even dependent on such hobbyware in order to reach their full potential.
The variants of MCE are a good example of that.
They don't so much fail as not really try. They act like they're not interested, and that's when they bother to have a product available.
The Brady Bunch had a den. This is basically a spare bedroom that Mr Brady employed as a home office. He had his drafting setup in there and everything. Same thing was true for the Stevens family in Bewitched. The husband had a home office.
Unless you are barely scraping by in some overcrowded and overpriced coastal city, you probably have enough room to put your PC some place other than next to your TV.
H*LL, even when I was "poor" we had enough space for that. My computer stayed in my bedroom. The family TV was in the living room.
You don't have to live in a mansion to have distance between your TV and computer.
I would imagine most people using a PC don't want to disturb people watching TV and vice versa.
Most places in America are not like Tokyo.
In other words, you're advocating something despite being totally (and willfully) ignorant of how it works in practice.
> As for medicine, in the U.S. you'll pay a lot of specialist fees but not get anything that couldn't have been done just as well by a nurse with a flip book.
What kind of flowers do you want at your funeral?
You are trying to hold America to some undisclosed standard and then you whine when people try to reverse engineer that standard and apply it equally to others.
This is the Internet. The net is so wide here that you are literally quite likely to find a man that has bitten a dog.
You are confusing extremes with the norm.
You need to lay off the 80s action movies. Manhattan is not a maximum security prison.
You haven't needed to manually type in an URL since the first search engine was created. That's pretty much the dawn of time for this particular discussion.
OTOH, you still have to type things in order to install some platform specific binary. Chances are that you will have to navigate to the same website in the process. So the app install process will always be a superset of bookmarking the website.
The design and engineering issues haven't changed really. People like to think that the new shiny shiny is all that but it's probably just a 3rd generation rehash of something from before you were born.
Modern "apps" also require an intermediary between the developer and the customer that doesn't exist with "full blown applications" or websites. A certain degree of control is taken away from both the developer and the end user.
I am sure someone thinks it's trendy and the right thing to do at this particular second.
There is also the possibility that the growing robot apocalypse will further democratise the means of production. Instead of the rich few owning all of the toys, it may be the case that EVERYONE can own enough toys to fend for themselves.
It is possible that the redistribution of wealth itself may become outdated.
An "expensive vacation" is also potentially very useful education.
You really need to get out and see the real world and stop listening to neo-communist propaganda.
ALL of those "evil people" built the foundation for your cushy life today. Without their corruption and their "excessive living", you never would have even existed. Your ancestors would not have lived well enough to survive long enough to have your great grand children.
Robber barons often do something useful beyond whatever empire they've built.
> Like the convention of Genova, you amaricans seem to forget: there is also a world charter of human rights.
We didn't forget it. We were first.
Also, rights are freedoms not other people's property.
> Actually, it isn't. France has one of the highest birth rates in the EU.
Who's birthrate? The French or the Caliphate?
> With a UBI population would increase in first world countries since it would reduce the impact of having children on families.
This doesn't stop people now. Certain immigrant groups breed quite vigorously in Europe despite the chronic lack of space for most people. They happily live in 3rd world conditions that native groups won't tolerate. On the other hand, giving Europeans more money for free won't help their space problem.
You really don't have to bribe people to breed. They are going to have or not have kids depending on what they want for themselves.
For the lazy, there is no real difference between a stipend and welfare. You have this strange romanticized notion of the poor.
> Right, high power, and small. Include a built in screen, and a battery, and you have a gaming machine in a laptop.
A laptop will require considerable compromises. Powerful systems aren't trivial to power or to cool.
That's one advantage of even a slightly larger low profile machine.
Laptop screens are also tiny.
I forgot to ask about whether or not these 10x0 based laptops will come with nuclear power cells they will likely require. [snicker]
> Here come the MRAs crying censorship....... because insanity always works
Well, you seem to think so. You certainly think that your shrill hysterics will discourage people from sticking up for things like equality, due process, and the rule of law.
You should get the kind of regime you seem to pine for. Just leave the rest of us out.
One of the GUI chat clients even uses sed syntax for editing typos in your conversation.