Exactly. my 2011 Quad i7 macbook pro 3 years later it's specs are the SAME as other high end laptops and I have a wonderful 1080p screen plus it's metal case has outlasted the 3 dells I had before it as it still looks new. (I bought the Dell Professional line of laptops that cost as much as Macbook pros)
2.6ghz quad i7 that "boosts up to 3.3", 16 gig of ram in it and I am going to move the Hard drive to the DVD drive bay and add a 500gb SSD here later this week to make it faster than it ever has been so it will easily last another 2-3 years.
I dont understand the guys that buy a new junk sub $1000 laptop every 2 years and complain how they cant get any decent screen resolutions. The only thing I really want in a new laptop is 8 cores and at least 32 gig of ram, I use VM's a lot and it would rock to dedicate 2 cores and 8 gig of ram to each VM that is running.
Give us a 40" desk surface like you guys demonstrated over 5 years ago.
Stop trying to compete where you already lost before you even started, grab onto the market that you own most of the patents for and there is NO competition in right now and run with it.
and yes, there IS a market for $2500 price point for a 37 - 42" coffee table size real surface device. If people are buying $800 ipads in droves, then something like a real surface table will sell for a higher price point.
They are simply a company that is trying to make a high end CHEAP VR goggle and sensor setup.
you can buy stuff that is better than theirs right now, in fact you have been able to buy better than Oculus Rift's current revision for over 5 years now, It just cost a metric buttload more money.
They escaped it by having the mother ship not know what to do with it. the whole cable TV biz confounded the top management so they left it alone for the short time it was standing on it's own.
really big corporations have nooks and crannies where you can operate completely free of management and any obstruction. One of my friends went 3 years without ever knowing who his manager was, never had any calls to ask him to do anything,etc... HR kept sending his paychecks. and he kept doing what he always did.
and Comcast bought us and the only way they found him was that 2 years after the merger they had to change HR/Payroll systems and that is when he was discovered. By then he had set up everything to be automated and remotely managed so he never went into work, he did it all from home.
When they asked him if what he did was important, he just said, "it will all fall down if I dont come in for a week, want me to take a vacation and prove that to you?" he went home that night and stopped all his cron jobs and scripts. Every single backbone video transfer system shit it's self across 3 states within 2 days. He was an expert in the old crap systems that even the vendor said, "you should not use those anymore"...
Actually you can, Cisco can start hiring contractor security firms and get more guns than the NSA. an NSA agent that has a M16 rifle pushed in his face by contractors and being told to "please leave the premises..... SIR!" has two options, he can leave or he can be killed in self defense.
A large very rich corperation can get away with a hired army to protect themselves from the government.
but that slippery slope is very steep and very very slippery.
if Cisco was honest, they would send to each customer upon registering the product a nice file that will reinstall the clean OS and eradicate the crap the NSA is doing.
But Cisco is far from honest as a company, so they are probably whining that they are not being PAID to install the back doors.
The FCC chairman is a bought and paid for industry insider. He is making sure he gets a very good bonus when he leaves his position and goes back to his job in the private sector.
Verizon does this as well, we have huge cables that are underwater and they refuse to replace them if your DSL is slow or if you have noise on your phone line. I am hoping that when they do some street construction this summer in the area, that when I point out to the backhoe operator that the cable there for Verizon is why his internet is slow it will be accidentally ripped out to force them to fix it.
Although I am thinking of doing what a friend mentioned he used to do in NYC in the 80's to force the phone company to fix wires. he would wire his phone wires to 120VAC and cause them to burn out at the problem point, no more noise on the line, just dead line that they have to fix.
I worked for AT&T broadband back then, and their management actually had a clue. Comcast came in and started the downward spiral. I remember sitting in on meetings talking about adding cameras to the cable boxes in order to count the number of people watching TV, at that time we already gathered information about what TV channels you were watching every 15 minutes, that data collection rate has increased in frequency I am sure.
I would not be surprised if the new boxes had a type of very low res FLIR camera in order to count the number of bodies in the room.
Uverse sucks because AT&T has not had any engineers that know ANYTHING about Fiber or Internet for 2 decades.
Uverse should have been 100% IP and they should have delivered 100Mbps to every home over fiber to the house and then a single CAT-5 into the home. Then their TV could have been IPTV on set top boxes and everything would have worked decently.
But no, they wanted to use their special crap, that stayed as crap and actually got crappier.
This is why I really hope a company that is semi competent starts pushing Fiber to homes like Google, and then violently massacres all the cable TV/ISP companies out there.
I want an OK-Corral type of bloodbath with companies like Comcast filing for Chapter 11 protection.
You have been able to get"free" or $59 or $99 smartphones for the past 5 years. There is nothing at all new about this, they were last year models or strip down models. EXACTLY what they are proposing.
Next up on Slashdot we discuss something from 5 years ago as if it is going to happen soon!
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Exactly, I know all the scumbags on the highway are intentionally speeding. they slow down when they see a cop.
Actually do their job? Like prevent crime?
I know, CRAZY idea...
So anyone have ubuntu running on these pro's smoothly yet? last I heard there was a couple of driver issues.
Exactly. my 2011 Quad i7 macbook pro 3 years later it's specs are the SAME as other high end laptops and I have a wonderful 1080p screen plus it's metal case has outlasted the 3 dells I had before it as it still looks new. (I bought the Dell Professional line of laptops that cost as much as Macbook pros)
2.6ghz quad i7 that "boosts up to 3.3", 16 gig of ram in it and I am going to move the Hard drive to the DVD drive bay and add a 500gb SSD here later this week to make it faster than it ever has been so it will easily last another 2-3 years.
I dont understand the guys that buy a new junk sub $1000 laptop every 2 years and complain how they cant get any decent screen resolutions. The only thing I really want in a new laptop is 8 cores and at least 32 gig of ram, I use VM's a lot and it would rock to dedicate 2 cores and 8 gig of ram to each VM that is running.
Stop with this tablet crap, nobody wants it.
What do we want? the REAL surface.
Give us a 40" desk surface like you guys demonstrated over 5 years ago.
Stop trying to compete where you already lost before you even started, grab onto the market that you own most of the patents for and there is NO competition in right now and run with it.
and yes, there IS a market for $2500 price point for a 37 - 42" coffee table size real surface device. If people are buying $800 ipads in droves, then something like a real surface table will sell for a higher price point.
You also get the benefit from protecting yourself from the worst made cars in the USA. GM made = designed to fall apart after 5 years.
They are simply a company that is trying to make a high end CHEAP VR goggle and sensor setup.
you can buy stuff that is better than theirs right now, in fact you have been able to buy better than Oculus Rift's current revision for over 5 years now, It just cost a metric buttload more money.
Prisons break laws constantly, they are expected to violate rights, violate laws, etc... they are there only for punishing poor people.
Show me millionaires that are in prison that go to general population prison.
Someone sent the DOJ a copy of "team america" and they believe it is their new mission.
They escaped it by having the mother ship not know what to do with it. the whole cable TV biz confounded the top management so they left it alone for the short time it was standing on it's own.
really big corporations have nooks and crannies where you can operate completely free of management and any obstruction. One of my friends went 3 years without ever knowing who his manager was, never had any calls to ask him to do anything ,etc... HR kept sending his paychecks. and he kept doing what he always did.
and Comcast bought us and the only way they found him was that 2 years after the merger they had to change HR/Payroll systems and that is when he was discovered. By then he had set up everything to be automated and remotely managed so he never went into work, he did it all from home.
When they asked him if what he did was important, he just said, "it will all fall down if I dont come in for a week, want me to take a vacation and prove that to you?"
he went home that night and stopped all his cron jobs and scripts. Every single backbone video transfer system shit it's self across 3 states within 2 days.
He was an expert in the old crap systems that even the vendor said, "you should not use those anymore"...
Actually you can, Cisco can start hiring contractor security firms and get more guns than the NSA. an NSA agent that has a M16 rifle pushed in his face by contractors and being told to "please leave the premises..... SIR!" has two options, he can leave or he can be killed in self defense.
A large very rich corperation can get away with a hired army to protect themselves from the government.
but that slippery slope is very steep and very very slippery.
You cant, It's a criminal offense to actually read that part of the patriot act.
if Cisco was honest, they would send to each customer upon registering the product a nice file that will reinstall the clean OS and eradicate the crap the NSA is doing.
But Cisco is far from honest as a company, so they are probably whining that they are not being PAID to install the back doors.
It's safer to assume that they all are both.
Oculus Rift VR are not the "original innovators" in any way. they are working atop a ton of previous work and previous products you could buy.
So when will Raytheon expect your support in VR technology they were one of the "original innovators" of?
The FCC chairman is a bought and paid for industry insider. He is making sure he gets a very good bonus when he leaves his position and goes back to his job in the private sector.
Verizon does this as well, we have huge cables that are underwater and they refuse to replace them if your DSL is slow or if you have noise on your phone line. I am hoping that when they do some street construction this summer in the area, that when I point out to the backhoe operator that the cable there for Verizon is why his internet is slow it will be accidentally ripped out to force them to fix it.
Although I am thinking of doing what a friend mentioned he used to do in NYC in the 80's to force the phone company to fix wires. he would wire his phone wires to 120VAC and cause them to burn out at the problem point, no more noise on the line, just dead line that they have to fix.
I worked for AT&T broadband back then, and their management actually had a clue. Comcast came in and started the downward spiral.
I remember sitting in on meetings talking about adding cameras to the cable boxes in order to count the number of people watching TV, at that time we already gathered information about what TV channels you were watching every 15 minutes, that data collection rate has increased in frequency I am sure.
I would not be surprised if the new boxes had a type of very low res FLIR camera in order to count the number of bodies in the room.
If you think their CEO knows how to run a billion dollar business, then I chuckle at your naivety.
Uverse sucks because AT&T has not had any engineers that know ANYTHING about Fiber or Internet for 2 decades.
Uverse should have been 100% IP and they should have delivered 100Mbps to every home over fiber to the house and then a single CAT-5 into the home. Then their TV could have been IPTV on set top boxes and everything would have worked decently.
But no, they wanted to use their special crap, that stayed as crap and actually got crappier.
This is why I really hope a company that is semi competent starts pushing Fiber to homes like Google, and then violently massacres all the cable TV/ISP companies out there.
I want an OK-Corral type of bloodbath with companies like Comcast filing for Chapter 11 protection.
You have been able to get"free" or $59 or $99 smartphones for the past 5 years.
There is nothing at all new about this, they were last year models or strip down models. EXACTLY what they are proposing.
Next up on Slashdot we discuss something from 5 years ago as if it is going to happen soon!
You have to be an absolute blast at parties!
Then you will love Detroit.. The Crack-heads here are as authentic as you can get.
Shhh, you have to leave something for the big WOW factor at the end of the presentation.
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Choose Detroit, It's hip here, happening, it's now and Wow! plus it has all the violence that SF has except instead of targeting tech, we are equal opportunity violence targeting!
Plus houses are only $1000!