It's nice to see the media acknowledge that there's something to the laptop market beyond pretty little machines meant primarily to demonstrate how much of other people's money you can squander.
Yes. Suddenly it occurs to the SJWs that perhaps the standards we impose on minors should now be imposed on people that are supposed to be adults.
I can understand the power issues with letting adult students consort with teachers. Although banning such relationship has not been the rule previously. It simply wasn't the standard.
Now the standard is changing.
So things that were once thought perfectly fine are now suddenly "illegal".
Perhaps a memo should be distributed to everyone regarding the new rules.
No. It sounds like a bunch of cry babies whining that they got hit on. Some of it sounds potentially genuine and a lot of it sounds like the re-introduction of Victorian prudishness. Either way, excusing victims for not coming forward serves no useful purpose. Empowering their victimhood only adds to whatever problem you seem to perceive.
You are contributing to the culture of victimhood that women are indoctrinated into. It's this culture of being prey (social and otherwise), that's at the heart of this situation.
Actually, that's what we need to be spending our money on and we don't seem to be doing that at all in the "climate science" area. The propaganda machine has been whining that the sky is falling. Once you embrace that, it's simply time to move on. You move on how to fix the problem or survive it.
Chicken Little becomes irrelevant the moment that people start listening to him.
There's some well regarded English figurehead of some sort that's basically been saying this for a long time now. "OK, we're fucked. Now what?"
We have graduated from the "yeah, germs do exist" phase of this particular calamity.
A cracked copy is always going to more be useful. A player that does things it's not allowed to, is always going to be more useful than one that does not. The so-called copy-protection schemes don't do any thing of the sort and never did. All they do is reduce the usefulness of "legitimate paid for copies".
Even if you actually did pay for it, it's still more useful to strip the DRM yourself or have someone else do it for you.
That's even assuming that the work in question is being made available.
> 1: Satellite is hack-proof, and hasn't been compromised. > 2: The latest HDCP handshake has been the bane of pirates everywhere. > 3: Blu-Ray (BD+ actually) has yet to be cracked.
I think these three are just wrong.
I decrypt BDs all the time myself. The other two also have well known cracks that are often discussed in forums more specialized than this one.
> Old music outsells new music because there's more of it.
The new shiny shiny should be able to outsell the back catalog regardless. The new shiny shiny is getting all of the marketing support. The fact that the back catalog is selling better than the new stuff is still pathetic, even if it's only in the aggregate.
No. You cannot get a 1TB SSD for a "decent price" in any form factor.
People seem to be forgetting that this is the consumer market where people would rather "eat dirt" so long as it's a bargain. This is the same market that favored the command line over the GUI based on cost.
Based on price, a 1TB SSD is an enthusiast item only. Even that's pushing things.
Whereas multi-TB spinning rust comes in multiple form factors that truly does qualify as "decently priced".
A mere 256G isn't even going to hold Linux + Games.
Once you start getting into AAA titles and the accumulation of same over time, 256G just isn't going to cut it for the "Windows + Games" use case.
Even phones have managed to catch up to that level of storage.
I find it amusing that someone thinks that Windows can manage with so little. With various sorts of "artistic" assets only growing larger and larger, even the rubes are likely to accumulate stuff even if they aren't trying.
> So you want to go back to shell scripts? A system in the style of your father's CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT is what you want?
That presupposes that a DOS batch file is anything like a Unix shell script. All you've really done is demonstrate how utterly clueless you are about either of the things you're whining about.
People who have no clue, should be in no position to force anyone else to "abandon the past". They simply aren't qualified to judge. This is the fundemental problem with the SystemD crowd. They are idiots distracted by shiny objects.
The GPL is about implementations. So is any other license as that is the domain of copyright. The concept of "original ideas" is fundementally flawed and doesn't even match up with any existing form of "intellectual property". It is inappropriate in scope from a purely legal point of view. It's a pro-corporate distortion of the current legal framework.
From an academic viewpoint (as in University academia), then entire notion of "original ideas" in computer science is laughable. Computer science is full of recycled ideas and things that just haven't been implemented in consumer devices yet. What you think is an "original idea" probably isn't.
Not that this is a wild or unique insight. There are elements of primary education that undermine the notion "unique ideas".
Although ultimately considerations of "laws and ethics" should at least reflect the actual law.
Germans are also attacking those same immigrants. There's a bit of a gap between the utopia the liberal media pretends that Europe is and how things really are. This includes beatings, arson, and political views that are supposed to be forbidden. Push the system or a little bit, or the population and the classic bits of nastiness come seeping out.
I am not sure if they are doing well on the business side but their CPUs and GPUs are more than good enough for many users (if not most users). The market in general is mature and saturated. My aging AMD box performs well enough that ANY full system upgrade would seem gratuitous.
Intel may be the big bad monopoly but it's GPUs are less than exciting.
> Well, you probably shouldn't because even a small drone like the DJI Phantom will slice up or shred the birds legs on contact,
Sounds like a terrible legal liability if you really think about it. It makes the requirement for licensing and insuring these drones seem remarkably less absurd.
Either these devices are "harmless" enough to be taken down by a raptor or they shouldn't even be allowed in the air.
> Serial ports haven't been included on PCs in more than a decade.
They most certainly have been included on PCs within the last decade. Fairly recent boards still have the port on the back and not that then the header for it on the motherboard.
This sounds like something that seems more significant in hindsight than it was at the time. They may have been on the cusp of developing something but didn't. Or maybe they discovered it and then didn't know what to do with it.
The ancient Greeks invented the steam engine. It just didn't lead to trains or powered ocean vessels or massive factories.
It is a vanity of modern people to think that the ancients didn't know anything and never achieved or built anything of significance (in modern terms).
No. What the church brought was stagnation and illiteracy. Anyone caught translating the bible was burned at the stake. All knowledge was reduced to religious dogma including the mistaken ideas of the ancients.
Preserving the bad ideas of the Greeks may or may not have been a good thing. We might have been better off flushing the whole thing and starting over completely from scratch.
The real problem was not being able to challenge bogus crap for 1000 years.
Also, this is a very limited edit. It's not something that is meant to be grown across the surface of the entire planet and released into the wild. It really is quite "surgical" when compared to other forms of "GMO".
ANY patent is "open source" by definition. That's just how patents work. The extra bit that Tesla added was disclaiming any rights or intentions to demand royalties.
It would be more accurate to say that he "copylefted" them or "liberated" them.
"open source" is a more watered down term by design.
> Please, may I?! Are you willing to pay for me to move over to say Germany
Why should we pay? You're the one that wants a socialist utopia. You don't have to destroy this country. You can just go back to the one that your ancestors escaped from.
Your attitude is the basic disconnect here. Many of us expect to be responsible for ourselves. You want the rest of us to pick up the slack for you. That's not the way it works over here. If you want something done for you, you have to sort it out for yourself.
You can have your socialist utopia. You will just have to stop being a Mooch for one minute in order to achieve it.
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It's nice to see the media acknowledge that there's something to the laptop market beyond pretty little machines meant primarily to demonstrate how much of other people's money you can squander.
...and so YOU help feed the beast with your excuses.
At a certain point "unwilling victims" need to start sharing some of the blame.
Yes. Suddenly it occurs to the SJWs that perhaps the standards we impose on minors should now be imposed on people that are supposed to be adults.
I can understand the power issues with letting adult students consort with teachers. Although banning such relationship has not been the rule previously. It simply wasn't the standard.
Now the standard is changing.
So things that were once thought perfectly fine are now suddenly "illegal".
Perhaps a memo should be distributed to everyone regarding the new rules.
No. It sounds like a bunch of cry babies whining that they got hit on. Some of it sounds potentially genuine and a lot of it sounds like the re-introduction of Victorian prudishness. Either way, excusing victims for not coming forward serves no useful purpose. Empowering their victimhood only adds to whatever problem you seem to perceive.
You are contributing to the culture of victimhood that women are indoctrinated into. It's this culture of being prey (social and otherwise), that's at the heart of this situation.
Actually, that's what we need to be spending our money on and we don't seem to be doing that at all in the "climate science" area. The propaganda machine has been whining that the sky is falling. Once you embrace that, it's simply time to move on. You move on how to fix the problem or survive it.
Chicken Little becomes irrelevant the moment that people start listening to him.
There's some well regarded English figurehead of some sort that's basically been saying this for a long time now. "OK, we're fucked. Now what?"
We have graduated from the "yeah, germs do exist" phase of this particular calamity.
A cracked copy is always going to more be useful. A player that does things it's not allowed to, is always going to be more useful than one that does not. The so-called copy-protection schemes don't do any thing of the sort and never did. All they do is reduce the usefulness of "legitimate paid for copies".
Even if you actually did pay for it, it's still more useful to strip the DRM yourself or have someone else do it for you.
That's even assuming that the work in question is being made available.
> 1: Satellite is hack-proof, and hasn't been compromised.
> 2: The latest HDCP handshake has been the bane of pirates everywhere.
> 3: Blu-Ray (BD+ actually) has yet to be cracked.
I think these three are just wrong.
I decrypt BDs all the time myself. The other two also have well known cracks that are often discussed in forums more specialized than this one.
Or were you attempting sarcasm...
> Old music outsells new music because there's more of it.
The new shiny shiny should be able to outsell the back catalog regardless. The new shiny shiny is getting all of the marketing support. The fact that the back catalog is selling better than the new stuff is still pathetic, even if it's only in the aggregate.
No. You cannot get a 1TB SSD for a "decent price" in any form factor.
People seem to be forgetting that this is the consumer market where people would rather "eat dirt" so long as it's a bargain. This is the same market that favored the command line over the GUI based on cost.
Based on price, a 1TB SSD is an enthusiast item only. Even that's pushing things.
Whereas multi-TB spinning rust comes in multiple form factors that truly does qualify as "decently priced".
A mere 256G isn't even going to hold Linux + Games.
Once you start getting into AAA titles and the accumulation of same over time, 256G just isn't going to cut it for the "Windows + Games" use case.
Even phones have managed to catch up to that level of storage.
I find it amusing that someone thinks that Windows can manage with so little. With various sorts of "artistic" assets only growing larger and larger, even the rubes are likely to accumulate stuff even if they aren't trying.
> So you want to go back to shell scripts? A system in the style of your father's CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT is what you want?
That presupposes that a DOS batch file is anything like a Unix shell script. All you've really done is demonstrate how utterly clueless you are about either of the things you're whining about.
People who have no clue, should be in no position to force anyone else to "abandon the past". They simply aren't qualified to judge. This is the fundemental problem with the SystemD crowd. They are idiots distracted by shiny objects.
The GPL is about implementations. So is any other license as that is the domain of copyright. The concept of "original ideas" is fundementally flawed and doesn't even match up with any existing form of "intellectual property". It is inappropriate in scope from a purely legal point of view. It's a pro-corporate distortion of the current legal framework.
From an academic viewpoint (as in University academia), then entire notion of "original ideas" in computer science is laughable. Computer science is full of recycled ideas and things that just haven't been implemented in consumer devices yet. What you think is an "original idea" probably isn't.
Not that this is a wild or unique insight. There are elements of primary education that undermine the notion "unique ideas".
Although ultimately considerations of "laws and ethics" should at least reflect the actual law.
> Oh yeah, all you have to do is this and that. That is why I say "in spirit". Android is about as open as iOS. Linux is Open.
all except for that inconvenient detail that you just glossed over.
They allow for alternate sources of apps. The method of allowing this is so simple that even a blithering idiot (or an Apple user) can manage it.
Conceptually, it's pretty similar to adding a PPA to Ubuntu.
> Getting fresh air and spending time with loved ones is still free.
What fresh air?
The corporate sovereignty provisions of the TPP have much wider implications than you seem to be willing to acknowledge.
Germans are also attacking those same immigrants. There's a bit of a gap between the utopia the liberal media pretends that Europe is and how things really are. This includes beatings, arson, and political views that are supposed to be forbidden. Push the system or a little bit, or the population and the classic bits of nastiness come seeping out.
> Explain why he's wrong.
The lottery has MUCH higher odds.
This event is probably somewhere more along the lines of one spin at a Roulette wheel.
If you're comparing this situation to the lottery, then you're an innumerate idiot.
You mean that they need to produce a CPU at a price point that NO ONE here would have any intention of buying?
I am not sure if they are doing well on the business side but their CPUs and GPUs are more than good enough for many users (if not most users). The market in general is mature and saturated. My aging AMD box performs well enough that ANY full system upgrade would seem gratuitous.
Intel may be the big bad monopoly but it's GPUs are less than exciting.
> Well, you probably shouldn't because even a small drone like the DJI Phantom will slice up or shred the birds legs on contact,
Sounds like a terrible legal liability if you really think about it. It makes the requirement for licensing and insuring these drones seem remarkably less absurd.
Either these devices are "harmless" enough to be taken down by a raptor or they shouldn't even be allowed in the air.
> Serial ports haven't been included on PCs in more than a decade.
They most certainly have been included on PCs within the last decade. Fairly recent boards still have the port on the back and not that then the header for it on the motherboard.
This sounds like something that seems more significant in hindsight than it was at the time. They may have been on the cusp of developing something but didn't. Or maybe they discovered it and then didn't know what to do with it.
The ancient Greeks invented the steam engine. It just didn't lead to trains or powered ocean vessels or massive factories.
It is a vanity of modern people to think that the ancients didn't know anything and never achieved or built anything of significance (in modern terms).
No. What the church brought was stagnation and illiteracy. Anyone caught translating the bible was burned at the stake. All knowledge was reduced to religious dogma including the mistaken ideas of the ancients.
Preserving the bad ideas of the Greeks may or may not have been a good thing. We might have been better off flushing the whole thing and starting over completely from scratch.
The real problem was not being able to challenge bogus crap for 1000 years.
Also, this is a very limited edit. It's not something that is meant to be grown across the surface of the entire planet and released into the wild. It really is quite "surgical" when compared to other forms of "GMO".
ANY patent is "open source" by definition. That's just how patents work. The extra bit that Tesla added was disclaiming any rights or intentions to demand royalties.
It would be more accurate to say that he "copylefted" them or "liberated" them.
"open source" is a more watered down term by design.
> Please, may I?! Are you willing to pay for me to move over to say Germany
Why should we pay? You're the one that wants a socialist utopia. You don't have to destroy this country. You can just go back to the one that your ancestors escaped from.
Your attitude is the basic disconnect here. Many of us expect to be responsible for ourselves. You want the rest of us to pick up the slack for you. That's not the way it works over here. If you want something done for you, you have to sort it out for yourself.
You can have your socialist utopia. You will just have to stop being a Mooch for one minute in order to achieve it.