the huge Wii U LCD/controller seemed like a solution in search of a problem to me.
I think they were searching for convergence of mobile and console gaming, but failed miserably. You can play some content without a TV - including the entire Wii library - and that is a problem in search of a solution in households where there are TVs everywhere.
Nintendo really needs to "get with the times" with their online multiplayer (or did they fix that with the Wii U?). No one wants to swap game codes to join their friends or whatever.
I'm sure this is because they primarily target a younger age and they want to avoid COPPA rules and child privacy issues. I'm not excusing it, but it makes some sense.
If you wait a few years, you can get a used Wii U for cheap and New Super Mario U and Mario 3D World are worth it. And you get an HDMI upgrade to the Wii if you have one.
Considering that employers don't generally pay employees outside of the checking/banking system, that's not really an important distinction. You still need banks to turn checks into cash. You could just as well do that at an ATM if you want cash so badly.
I've never understood the fact that an engineer can be dispatched to work on a whole neighborhood and potentially take them all down without the customers in the area being able to sign up for a service alert text. This isn't just Comcast, it's everyone (I'm in a Charter area).
Or, if an outage is confirmed, just let everyone know that you're aware of it via SMS. I wasted 20 minutes on hold just to find out that they were already aware of a problem. Internet is a utility, and my power company will actually do these things.
This has been their way for the last couple generations - both on the handheld and console sides. Release one of each type of game, stop developing first-party content, and then force everyone to buy a new console.
People like me could just keep playing new sequels of Super Mario World (or NSMB Wii) and never tire of it, as long as the level design was good. And re-using a game engine just makes sense - churning out a sequel or two would use far fewer resources.
I think it is more than they knew. For people like me who are a bit preservationist and never 100% tire of old games, I wanted to own my media. I still have SNES and Sega Genesis games even though the hardware has long worn out thanks to high quality emulation. Knowing that my games have a chance to continue existing beyond my console is a huge selling point for me.
it was powerful enough for designers to make high quality games, right? Then why buy a Wii-U?
When the price is right, I bought mine to get an HDMI port and access to two more games that I wanted to buy. That's it. But I really wanted HDMI out - component didn't cut it for me at all even on a 42" TV, since it was still only 480p signal with fuzzy edges.
The first Wii was different and innovative enough that it brought non-gamers in. But they lost focus with their core audience, some of whom don't even buy the console until there's enough games to justify the high cost.
I'm a platform gamer, primarily, and don't have time to try out new or innovative games. Starting with N64, they went to one Mario game of each "type" at most per platform. And with 3DS and Wii U they did a total of two types. With Wii, there was Super Mario Galaxy which even got a sequel. I own a total of 3 games for the Wii U and don't feel like there's anything else there for me.
They need to admit that Homebrew made them popular (unfortunately in small part to piracy). And I copied all of my Wii games to a hard drive for convenience - that still works on the vWii side of the Wii U, but the U side hasn't been opened up at all.
The keys work via proximity (like RFID or NFC) and the iginition is a button. The door unlocks as you approach the car. And is as full of as many problems as you might imagine.
I still have no idea how HDR is different than the "Deep Color" (16 bits per channel) spec that came with HDMI 1.3. I don't know if it ever saw any adoption or implementation. And HDR sounds like it would require the same thing - but press releases are a lot thinner on details.
The same remotes are also used for keyless entry and not just keyless ignition. I do think keyless ignition is a mistake, at least in its current form.
There is a lot of bad or gimmicky 3D content. When it's used as a subtle addition of depth, it can really have a positive impact. But if 3D in a movie theater seems flat to you, you might just not have working stereoscopic vision? If anything, I think a lot of the gimmicky stuff is over-exaggerated.
See the movie Hugo in 3D for an example of where it actually improves the movie. And I've seen this both in theaters and on TV (at a relatively close distance).
Sure there is. Especially in a movie theater where you have a 30 foot wide screen. You have to sit fairly close or have a 60"+ TV for it to really matter at home.
However, if 3D content libraries start to expand, I'd love to get a passive 3D 4K TV because I hate active shutter glasses and I hate the 50% cut in resolution you get on 1080p passive 3D TVs. I own three 3D Blu-Rays and a player, but still haven't bought the TV yet because I haven't seen anything I liked. They dropped out of the market pretty quickly. Passive 3D uses alternate lines for the left or right eye, so you would still get 1080 lines on 4K.
I'd recommend a refurbished E-series Vizio. You could get new, but if you were happy with an SD for so long, the minor improvements probably aren't worth the spend. You could probably get ~ 40" for under $300 and still have a decent picture. Up from there, if you want an improved picture/color quality, I'd go for either an older P-series Vizio or a Samsung. I shy away from particular model numbers, because so many stores have their own vanity model numbers anyway.
Regardless, the biggest influence on picture quality is post-purchase color setup. They all look like garbage when you get them home (if you know what the colors are supposed to look like). And turn off things like dynamic contrast, lower the brightness setting and possibly the contrast a bit, and you could go further with color calibration but you'd get 60% of the way there with just the first two settings.
And if you don't want a Smart TV, you may just buy one anyway to save money. You don't have to use the smart features. I also use a Roku.
I don't think they are replay attacks. They are using MITM to amplify both sides of the conversation with the keys. The keys and car respond as if the victim is standing next to their car. Imagine a MITM HTTPS attack where the attacker didn't need to actually decrypt the data - just pass it along. So the encryption itself does nothing to protect the car.
That's not to say they can't do it with an entire office full of people, but it's not something you could do without the victim within range of your device (which could still be a long distance in the office).
Analog car remotes were subject to much more trivial replay attacks. Of course those at least required you to know when the owner was pressing a button. Once you're in the car, you can steal it if it's an older car without computer-based security.
People have been able to use replay attacks to get into houses via garage door openers for forever. I'm surprised by the lack of strong encryption on this, but do you even need to replay? If it's just MITM as an amplifier, no intermediate decoding is needed to get in and steal belongings anyway. It's a bad design all around.
Maybe when "smart" devices are literally credit card sized, then it will be more convenient.
Mastercard PayPass and American Express ExpressPay have both been around longer than Android Pay - exactly the same technology except it doesn't emulate multiple cards. Just nobody had machines to read them then except McDonalds. I had an ExpressPay card about 5 years ago, and it worked once or twice, but that's only because that's how many terminals accepted it then. I don't think the number of working terminals have changed since then, but I no longer use contactless.
The technology is no different. At all. And many vendors intentionally disabled NFC EMV when Apple Pay came along. So now you can't even use a contactless plastic credit card in those places.
The NFC reader also reads contactless EMV cards. Have you never heard of American Express ExpressPay, MasterCard PayPass, or Visa Contactless? They've been around for several years.
You're just opening up the business to fraud that your shop is responsible for, due to the liability shift in October.
The liability shift has already happened (October 2015). Any merchant not taking NFC/EMV is now liable for all fraudulent transactions that occur.
It's strange how everyone is suddenly having problems, at least with contactless EMV. Android Pay and Apple Pay both use contactless EMV, same as the American Express card I had 5 years ago. The few terminals that had it then worked flawlessly. Suddenly, now that everyone has a chip reader (and many people have chip cards or contactless), nothing works and nobody has it enabled.
ApplePay is a solution to tracking, at least versus swipe or chip credit cards. Each payment uses a one-time-use card number.
Whether you use a contact chip card or NFC, there is no tracking either. ApplePay is just an NFC implementation of EMV, same as any other contactless credit card.
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the huge Wii U LCD/controller seemed like a solution in search of a problem to me.
I think they were searching for convergence of mobile and console gaming, but failed miserably. You can play some content without a TV - including the entire Wii library - and that is a problem in search of a solution in households where there are TVs everywhere.
Nintendo really needs to "get with the times" with their online multiplayer (or did they fix that with the Wii U?). No one wants to swap game codes to join their friends or whatever.
I'm sure this is because they primarily target a younger age and they want to avoid COPPA rules and child privacy issues. I'm not excusing it, but it makes some sense.
If you wait a few years, you can get a used Wii U for cheap and New Super Mario U and Mario 3D World are worth it. And you get an HDMI upgrade to the Wii if you have one.
Considering that employers don't generally pay employees outside of the checking/banking system, that's not really an important distinction. You still need banks to turn checks into cash. You could just as well do that at an ATM if you want cash so badly.
I've never understood the fact that an engineer can be dispatched to work on a whole neighborhood and potentially take them all down without the customers in the area being able to sign up for a service alert text. This isn't just Comcast, it's everyone (I'm in a Charter area).
Or, if an outage is confirmed, just let everyone know that you're aware of it via SMS. I wasted 20 minutes on hold just to find out that they were already aware of a problem. Internet is a utility, and my power company will actually do these things.
This has been their way for the last couple generations - both on the handheld and console sides. Release one of each type of game, stop developing first-party content, and then force everyone to buy a new console.
People like me could just keep playing new sequels of Super Mario World (or NSMB Wii) and never tire of it, as long as the level design was good. And re-using a game engine just makes sense - churning out a sequel or two would use far fewer resources.
financially that wasn't even a blip on the radar.
I think it is more than they knew. For people like me who are a bit preservationist and never 100% tire of old games, I wanted to own my media. I still have SNES and Sega Genesis games even though the hardware has long worn out thanks to high quality emulation. Knowing that my games have a chance to continue existing beyond my console is a huge selling point for me.
it was powerful enough for designers to make high quality games, right? Then why buy a Wii-U?
When the price is right, I bought mine to get an HDMI port and access to two more games that I wanted to buy. That's it. But I really wanted HDMI out - component didn't cut it for me at all even on a 42" TV, since it was still only 480p signal with fuzzy edges.
The first Wii was different and innovative enough that it brought non-gamers in. But they lost focus with their core audience, some of whom don't even buy the console until there's enough games to justify the high cost.
I'm a platform gamer, primarily, and don't have time to try out new or innovative games. Starting with N64, they went to one Mario game of each "type" at most per platform. And with 3DS and Wii U they did a total of two types. With Wii, there was Super Mario Galaxy which even got a sequel. I own a total of 3 games for the Wii U and don't feel like there's anything else there for me.
They need to admit that Homebrew made them popular (unfortunately in small part to piracy). And I copied all of my Wii games to a hard drive for convenience - that still works on the vWii side of the Wii U, but the U side hasn't been opened up at all.
The keys work via proximity (like RFID or NFC) and the iginition is a button. The door unlocks as you approach the car. And is as full of as many problems as you might imagine.
I still have no idea how HDR is different than the "Deep Color" (16 bits per channel) spec that came with HDMI 1.3. I don't know if it ever saw any adoption or implementation. And HDR sounds like it would require the same thing - but press releases are a lot thinner on details.
analog signal != physical objects
The same remotes are also used for keyless entry and not just keyless ignition. I do think keyless ignition is a mistake, at least in its current form.
There is a lot of bad or gimmicky 3D content. When it's used as a subtle addition of depth, it can really have a positive impact. But if 3D in a movie theater seems flat to you, you might just not have working stereoscopic vision? If anything, I think a lot of the gimmicky stuff is over-exaggerated.
See the movie Hugo in 3D for an example of where it actually improves the movie. And I've seen this both in theaters and on TV (at a relatively close distance).
Sure there is. Especially in a movie theater where you have a 30 foot wide screen. You have to sit fairly close or have a 60"+ TV for it to really matter at home.
However, if 3D content libraries start to expand, I'd love to get a passive 3D 4K TV because I hate active shutter glasses and I hate the 50% cut in resolution you get on 1080p passive 3D TVs. I own three 3D Blu-Rays and a player, but still haven't bought the TV yet because I haven't seen anything I liked. They dropped out of the market pretty quickly. Passive 3D uses alternate lines for the left or right eye, so you would still get 1080 lines on 4K.
I'd recommend a refurbished E-series Vizio. You could get new, but if you were happy with an SD for so long, the minor improvements probably aren't worth the spend. You could probably get ~ 40" for under $300 and still have a decent picture. Up from there, if you want an improved picture/color quality, I'd go for either an older P-series Vizio or a Samsung. I shy away from particular model numbers, because so many stores have their own vanity model numbers anyway.
Regardless, the biggest influence on picture quality is post-purchase color setup. They all look like garbage when you get them home (if you know what the colors are supposed to look like). And turn off things like dynamic contrast, lower the brightness setting and possibly the contrast a bit, and you could go further with color calibration but you'd get 60% of the way there with just the first two settings.
And if you don't want a Smart TV, you may just buy one anyway to save money. You don't have to use the smart features. I also use a Roku.
I don't think they are replay attacks. They are using MITM to amplify both sides of the conversation with the keys. The keys and car respond as if the victim is standing next to their car. Imagine a MITM HTTPS attack where the attacker didn't need to actually decrypt the data - just pass it along. So the encryption itself does nothing to protect the car.
That's not to say they can't do it with an entire office full of people, but it's not something you could do without the victim within range of your device (which could still be a long distance in the office).
Analog car remotes were subject to much more trivial replay attacks. Of course those at least required you to know when the owner was pressing a button. Once you're in the car, you can steal it if it's an older car without computer-based security.
People have been able to use replay attacks to get into houses via garage door openers for forever. I'm surprised by the lack of strong encryption on this, but do you even need to replay? If it's just MITM as an amplifier, no intermediate decoding is needed to get in and steal belongings anyway. It's a bad design all around.
Maybe when "smart" devices are literally credit card sized, then it will be more convenient.
Mastercard PayPass and American Express ExpressPay have both been around longer than Android Pay - exactly the same technology except it doesn't emulate multiple cards. Just nobody had machines to read them then except McDonalds. I had an ExpressPay card about 5 years ago, and it worked once or twice, but that's only because that's how many terminals accepted it then. I don't think the number of working terminals have changed since then, but I no longer use contactless.
They replied to themselves. They Googled it for themselves.
The technology is no different. At all. And many vendors intentionally disabled NFC EMV when Apple Pay came along. So now you can't even use a contactless plastic credit card in those places.
You mean the EMV chip and/or contactless standards?
https://www.emvco.com/
The NFC reader also reads contactless EMV cards. Have you never heard of American Express ExpressPay, MasterCard PayPass, or Visa Contactless? They've been around for several years.
You're just opening up the business to fraud that your shop is responsible for, due to the liability shift in October.
You forgot that you have to say no to signing up for rewards, decline cash back, and say no to donating $1 to some charity of the day.
The liability shift has already happened (October 2015). Any merchant not taking NFC/EMV is now liable for all fraudulent transactions that occur.
It's strange how everyone is suddenly having problems, at least with contactless EMV. Android Pay and Apple Pay both use contactless EMV, same as the American Express card I had 5 years ago. The few terminals that had it then worked flawlessly. Suddenly, now that everyone has a chip reader (and many people have chip cards or contactless), nothing works and nobody has it enabled.
ApplePay is a solution to tracking, at least versus swipe or chip credit cards. Each payment uses a one-time-use card number.
Whether you use a contact chip card or NFC, there is no tracking either. ApplePay is just an NFC implementation of EMV, same as any other contactless credit card.