Put differently, how many people are going to spend $31 to try out this thing called Linux?
$31 is the price for a 128GB, you don't need anywhere even close to that much space for a Linux install. Plus we've had live cds/dvds for many many years and now even have an online way to try Linux. The barrier to entry is ridiculously low, if the uptake isn't happening then most definitely something else is the problem.
Only through underhanded evil acts such as this can MS trick people into using their search engine.
No, people don't care what search engine it uses. If it gives them good results they will keep using it, if it doesn't then they won't use it and Microsoft ends up killing its own product.
It certainly does seem to be a gray area but the objection is to it is based on interpretation of the letter of the law rather than on some principal of free software. They're saying that while the result is exactly the same with the same freedom and access to the source code, the user must do the work to integrate the two systems rather than having somebody else do it and distribute it to them.
Well justice is the point of this, that's the reason why these people want to sue Saudi Arabia, to get "justice". My question was how will that happen?
That's a pretty interesting position to take. Even if it were true, your assertion is that a nation should be punished for the crimes of a few of its citizens helping your corrupt president and congress fool its own people and that would be justice? The US continues to sell weapons to the Saudis, in fact one of the biggest ever arms deals was the US selling arms to the Saudis. Justice would be more served by the American people giving themselves a right flogging for allowing their government to do this.
It is that lawsuits could be brought against them in the US that they would then have to defend in US courts or face the possibility of their US assets being frozen. I don't think they would want to risk that.
Ultimately what is the goal of these lawsuits? Even if they get to a point at which it is discovered and comprehensively proven that the Saudi government did have some involvement in it what happens then? Is the US going to mount an incursion into a sovereign nation to arrest Saudi nationals on the basis of a US court ruling? Are the families just wanting an admission of guilt from somebody? Or are they chasing a financial payout?
Sure they want the guilty parties held responsible but even assuming that is some senior Saudi government official and it is proven in a US court, how will justice be served?
Yeah it all depends on the task you're doing. I would say in the vast majority of cases you can pick one interaction method that is the clear winner in terms of being most intuitive, but not one for everything.
In some situations, sure but to do basic, common GUI tasks like selecting a passage of text in a document it's much faster and more intuitive (and efficient) to click and drag your mouse than to use voice or text commands to explain to the computer which passage you want to highlight.
I feel like Google is focusing on stupid shit now (emojis) rather than important stuff. The days of clever innovation seem gone.
I don't they are "focussing" on it, it was probably something they needed/wanted to get done so it got done. I doubt what you see in this preview release is the culmination of all of the work that has been going on for Android, it's just a small subset, the few things that were ready to go.
But the solution isn't authenticated cables--it's having a robust cable testing protocol.
I would much prefer my device to have software or hardware that would determine whether the cable was ok than to have to follow a "robust cable testing protocol" for every new cable I use.
Probably the controllers embedded in the cable will have eeprom elements that are vulnerable to cosmic rays, and also subject to the medium-term 'eprom alzheimer' issue that older eproms have.
And who could be responsible for that? Better add them to the possible "malicious" parties, wouldn't want anybody getting confused now.
Using Free Software to enforce proprietary hardware is pretty messed up.
Is it even Free(dom) Software? I had a quick look at the article and could only see that it's Free (of charge) Software...of course the two aren't mutually exclusive.
So the cables are deliberately causing fault or do you mean the manufacturers? It's hard for me to believe than an inanimate object has malicious intent.
Or maybe it wasn't the manufacturers but the designers, or maybe the transport company tampering with them, or maybe the warehouse opening them up and modifying them, or maybe the store deliberately causing fault...we must ensure all bases are covered because otherwise nobody will be able to understand.
Yeah, fuck it since you can't have 100% privacy then you shouldn't have any at all.
No I'm saying your privacy is far more erroded by the things you do that track your location around the world and capture the information you send than your VR toy that captures usage info. But the paranoid social retards have no concept of the difference between telemetry data and accessing everything on your computer.
Even if you believe that this is some conspiracy to get at your files then simply only install it under a "gaming" user account that doesn't have access to your files, or on a dedicated gaming system, or don't connect it to the net while you're using it. See even for the completely paranoid there are simple solutions that any even half technically-minded person could come up with, the most simple of all security solutions but for the keyboard warriors like you this isn't about solving the percieved problem, it's about complaining about it. And that is all you will do, no solution, no action, just whining and whining.
$30k is way too much for what it is, considering how much competition there is in this area. There are solutions coming to market soon (or already available) for far less. First google result: panono for 1500Euros, which uses 36 cameras. There are many others.
But they also do far less. Right there you're comparing a still camera to a video camera. If you compare apples to oranges then sure you can make anything look like poor value but where are you getting a VR camera that can do 60fps and 8k resolution per eye for significantly less?
No, Talisman and LiteStep are certainly still going and have support for Windows 10 and the others are under FOSS licenses so anybody can continue to contribute to them or fork them.
Well that doesn't answer the question and you seem to be complaining about a problem that doesn't exist (or at least one that you don't have or understand).
Microsoft enforces hardware manufacturers to allow all microsoft signed bootloaders, and microsoft has signed bootloaders that can boot linux. Thats basically microsoft "forcing" manufacturers to allow people to "root" their systems, to use terms from the mobile world.
If by "forcing" you mean they want to leverage Microsoft's marketing and have that little "designed for Windows 10" sticker on the systems they ship then sure, but that's a pretty contrived definition of "forcing". They aren't "forced" to do that, in fact they don't even need to do that.
Yes, ability to disable secure boot is required for windows 8, but for windows 10 it is not required anymore.
Right, that is a decision for the manufacturer of the hardware to make. Just like Google doesn't force all handset manufacturers to have rooted systems and unlocked bootloaders.
Are smartphones mandatory? No they aren't. But if you don't have a smartphone you might have issues to get friends if you are younger than a certain age, because most of the communication happens over smartphones/smartphone apps.
Then your prospective "friends" don't much care about the doom-and-gloom pontificating of these privacy violations. You see it as a big deal, sure, but why? I have an oculus at my house, now if they can get this information from it what is the scenario you offer that would convince me to get rid of it?
Sure, and we're all on board with that. The problem is that each and every piece of new technology is going to be saddled with this unless we solve it legislatively.
So why don't you invest in open source? You don't need to have the newest shiny all the time, yes you'll be a bit behind but support those technologies that allow you to modify them and turn off things you don't like instead of funding the companies doing exactly the things you don't like to you. You're paying them to abuse you and then complaining about it. Stop being a submissive and start actively supporting the projects set out to empower you.
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Put differently, how many people are going to spend $31 to try out this thing called Linux?
$31 is the price for a 128GB, you don't need anywhere even close to that much space for a Linux install. Plus we've had live cds/dvds for many many years and now even have an online way to try Linux. The barrier to entry is ridiculously low, if the uptake isn't happening then most definitely something else is the problem.
Only through underhanded evil acts such as this can MS trick people into using their search engine.
No, people don't care what search engine it uses. If it gives them good results they will keep using it, if it doesn't then they won't use it and Microsoft ends up killing its own product.
I loved Ubuntu right up until they fucked it up with Unity.
It's trivial to switch desktop window managers, or was it that the thing you loved was just Gnome.
It certainly does seem to be a gray area but the objection is to it is based on interpretation of the letter of the law rather than on some principal of free software. They're saying that while the result is exactly the same with the same freedom and access to the source code, the user must do the work to integrate the two systems rather than having somebody else do it and distribute it to them.
Right, so this whole thing is nothing to do with "justice" and everything to do with getting some money.
Well justice is the point of this, that's the reason why these people want to sue Saudi Arabia, to get "justice". My question was how will that happen?
That's a pretty interesting position to take. Even if it were true, your assertion is that a nation should be punished for the crimes of a few of its citizens helping your corrupt president and congress fool its own people and that would be justice? The US continues to sell weapons to the Saudis, in fact one of the biggest ever arms deals was the US selling arms to the Saudis. Justice would be more served by the American people giving themselves a right flogging for allowing their government to do this.
It is that lawsuits could be brought against them in the US that they would then have to defend in US courts or face the possibility of their US assets being frozen. I don't think they would want to risk that.
Ultimately what is the goal of these lawsuits? Even if they get to a point at which it is discovered and comprehensively proven that the Saudi government did have some involvement in it what happens then? Is the US going to mount an incursion into a sovereign nation to arrest Saudi nationals on the basis of a US court ruling? Are the families just wanting an admission of guilt from somebody? Or are they chasing a financial payout?
Sure they want the guilty parties held responsible but even assuming that is some senior Saudi government official and it is proven in a US court, how will justice be served?
Yeah it all depends on the task you're doing. I would say in the vast majority of cases you can pick one interaction method that is the clear winner in terms of being most intuitive, but not one for everything.
In some situations, sure but to do basic, common GUI tasks like selecting a passage of text in a document it's much faster and more intuitive (and efficient) to click and drag your mouse than to use voice or text commands to explain to the computer which passage you want to highlight.
I feel like Google is focusing on stupid shit now (emojis) rather than important stuff. The days of clever innovation seem gone.
I don't they are "focussing" on it, it was probably something they needed/wanted to get done so it got done. I doubt what you see in this preview release is the culmination of all of the work that has been going on for Android, it's just a small subset, the few things that were ready to go.
But the solution isn't authenticated cables--it's having a robust cable testing protocol.
I would much prefer my device to have software or hardware that would determine whether the cable was ok than to have to follow a "robust cable testing protocol" for every new cable I use.
Probably the controllers embedded in the cable will have eeprom elements that are vulnerable to cosmic rays, and also subject to the medium-term 'eprom alzheimer' issue that older eproms have.
And who could be responsible for that? Better add them to the possible "malicious" parties, wouldn't want anybody getting confused now.
Using Free Software to enforce proprietary hardware is pretty messed up.
Is it even Free(dom) Software? I had a quick look at the article and could only see that it's Free (of charge) Software...of course the two aren't mutually exclusive.
So the cables are deliberately causing fault or do you mean the manufacturers? It's hard for me to believe than an inanimate object has malicious intent.
Or maybe it wasn't the manufacturers but the designers, or maybe the transport company tampering with them, or maybe the warehouse opening them up and modifying them, or maybe the store deliberately causing fault...we must ensure all bases are covered because otherwise nobody will be able to understand.
Yeah, fuck it since you can't have 100% privacy then you shouldn't have any at all.
No I'm saying your privacy is far more erroded by the things you do that track your location around the world and capture the information you send than your VR toy that captures usage info. But the paranoid social retards have no concept of the difference between telemetry data and accessing everything on your computer.
Even if you believe that this is some conspiracy to get at your files then simply only install it under a "gaming" user account that doesn't have access to your files, or on a dedicated gaming system, or don't connect it to the net while you're using it. See even for the completely paranoid there are simple solutions that any even half technically-minded person could come up with, the most simple of all security solutions but for the keyboard warriors like you this isn't about solving the percieved problem, it's about complaining about it. And that is all you will do, no solution, no action, just whining and whining.
$30k is way too much for what it is, considering how much competition there is in this area. There are solutions coming to market soon (or already available) for far less. First google result: panono for 1500Euros, which uses 36 cameras. There are many others.
But they also do far less. Right there you're comparing a still camera to a video camera. If you compare apples to oranges then sure you can make anything look like poor value but where are you getting a VR camera that can do 60fps and 8k resolution per eye for significantly less?
No, Talisman and LiteStep are certainly still going and have support for Windows 10 and the others are under FOSS licenses so anybody can continue to contribute to them or fork them.
Well that doesn't answer the question and you seem to be complaining about a problem that doesn't exist (or at least one that you don't have or understand).
Microsoft enforces hardware manufacturers to allow all microsoft signed bootloaders, and microsoft has signed bootloaders that can boot linux. Thats basically microsoft "forcing" manufacturers to allow people to "root" their systems, to use terms from the mobile world.
If by "forcing" you mean they want to leverage Microsoft's marketing and have that little "designed for Windows 10" sticker on the systems they ship then sure, but that's a pretty contrived definition of "forcing". They aren't "forced" to do that, in fact they don't even need to do that.
You realize Windows has long had interface alternatives like Emerge, LiteStep, Bumptop, Talisman, etc... or produce your own.
Yes, ability to disable secure boot is required for windows 8, but for windows 10 it is not required anymore.
Right, that is a decision for the manufacturer of the hardware to make. Just like Google doesn't force all handset manufacturers to have rooted systems and unlocked bootloaders.
Are smartphones mandatory? No they aren't. But if you don't have a smartphone you might have issues to get friends if you are younger than a certain age, because most of the communication happens over smartphones/smartphone apps.
Then your prospective "friends" don't much care about the doom-and-gloom pontificating of these privacy violations. You see it as a big deal, sure, but why? I have an oculus at my house, now if they can get this information from it what is the scenario you offer that would convince me to get rid of it?
Sure, and we're all on board with that. The problem is that each and every piece of new technology is going to be saddled with this unless we solve it legislatively.
So why don't you invest in open source? You don't need to have the newest shiny all the time, yes you'll be a bit behind but support those technologies that allow you to modify them and turn off things you don't like instead of funding the companies doing exactly the things you don't like to you. You're paying them to abuse you and then complaining about it. Stop being a submissive and start actively supporting the projects set out to empower you.
There's NO reason for a company to collect data, period.
If that is true then why are they doing it?
I'm not installing spyware, I'm not running a spy OS, and I definitely don't need a spybot hardware piece. It's useless bullshit.
But you likely use a phone, go in places that have CCTV and right now you're using the public net.