For low-end laptops that come with 32GB eMMC storage and 2-4GB RAM, they almost always have an SD card slot that supports at least 128GB cards if not more. So stating that all these devices "aren't expandable" as if it were an absolute fact is bullshit. Seriously, go check laptops on Amazon in the £150 - £275 price range and actually check the hardware details. I'll wait.
Not a problem with me using PSVR, you just need to install a couple of foam bumpers to prevent your glasses scratching the lens. I don't even use those - just adjust the head mount so that they don't touch and lock it in place.
Maybe you're not up on current events, but No Man's Sky has enjoyed something of a renaissance the past few months since the NEXT update. Hardly a failure, even in the beginning. It sold a lot - at full price. Not bad for an indie game. I know it's fashionable to bash on NMS, but it's changed a lot the past two years. Just sayin',
You don't have more than one computer at home? Or a tablet and a smart phone? You can't conceive of anybody who might have more than one device or the usefulness of having files synced across devices? Really?
I've been using Windows 10 Home for a couple of months now on a daily basis. Once you disable it, it doesn't come back. And that's after upgrading to 1803. You're doing it wrong.
Agreed. The PS4 Media Player app *used* to play all my DLNA media from my Linux server in the study just fine (you know, once it got DLNA support). A few updates back and it stopped recognising my media files completely and showed nothing. Whereas the good old Xbox 360 still plays all my media just fine through the same DLNA server. And the PS Vita media player never recognised any of my media from day one. Sony sucks at this.
That's half the problem with Russia's economy long term right there. At any point as a private business person, your assets can be seized by Putin and his cronies. So citizens don't get to foster an attitude of entrepreneurism which might lead to the kinds of technological innovations that would allow Russia to compete globally long-term. Why bother starting a business or getting funding for a clever idea when your business and technologies can be taken away by the state at any time?
I did! I bought my S8 to replace my aging Sony Compact Z3 when the S9 was released and consequently got it cheap for what it is. The Sony would actually still be fine if the battery still held a charge. That's the thing the phone makers have figured out with non-removable batteries. Eventually the thing is useless even if the specs are still fine for your needs and the phone is physically still in one piece. You'll still have to upgrade in three years no matter what because the battery is fucked.
If mobile phones still had replacable batteries, I'm betting most people would keep their phones for 5+ years, assuming the OS updates keep going. Which is another calculated move by the phone makers.
While I understand the point you're attempting to make, that's nonsense. A modern smartphone is basically a PC in your pocket. Is your PC useless because you have nobody to email? No. There are any number of useful things that a smartphone can do that doesn't involve calling or texting anybody.
Don't bother. It's the same sort of person who tells anybody willing to listen that they don't own a TV and we should all just, like, unplug from our devices and go for a walk outside and experience, like, what's really *important* in life instead.
Technological Vegans, basically. And they're all dull as shit.
I use NFS all over the place on my home network, purely because it's my home network and my good old residential router doesn't forward any ports from outside for NFS or open them on the firewall. My NFS server exports all my media so that my media clients around the house can mount the movies directory or whatever as if it were local. I also use it to mount my MAME ROMS directory for my RetroPie setup in the living room. Very handy. Since the NFS server won't talk to anything other than 192.168.1.* via it's own firewall it works very well.
I'm not familiar with the history of NFS but did NFS used to be used from remote sites over the Internet or something? I suppose I can see a use for encrypted NFS over business networks if the LAN is huge and paranoid but wouldn't Samba or something be better in that situation?
Honest questions.
Tim Cook is Apple's Steve Ballmer. Seriously, that's what I think. The Founder leaves/dies and the shareholders or whoever promote a solid business guy to gain profit to shareholders. This works - for a bit.
Depends which ISP you're with. The big UK ISPs which have a vested interest in you not pirating the shit out of stuff because they have a hand in media like Virgin Media, Sky, BT, etc do indeed block. Smaller regional ISPs seem not to bother. Either way, it's trivial to bypass.
Fuck people like you.....so "woke" and desperate to show how much more "value" you're getting from life by appreciating the "simple things". Twenty years ago, you'd be spouting about how you "don't even own a TV".
That's not what this discussion is about, you ass.
Exactly. I own an Echo myself, but I'm sure Google Home, Cortana and whatever else can still access Spotify, tell me the news and act as a bluetooth speaker for my phone. The only really unique thing Alexa has that none of the others do is voice-purchasing from Amazon and I've never felt the need to use that particular feature.
So aside from the initial expense of actually buying the devices, I'd feel no real loyalty to Amazon.
I am not American but yeah - I thought after Sandy Hook something would be done, that surely, *surely* 20 toddlers being gunned down in cold blood would change american attitudes to guns. But no - all that happened was that a bunch of people thought it was a conspiracy and nobody died at all and that it was a huge government cover-up to take away their guns. To the point where there's hate campaigns against grieving parents of murdered children.
You can't fight that kind of fever. I assume it's just too embedded in the society to remove, regardless of the consequences.
My sympathies for your next entirely preventable tragedy, America.
Not American. But I visited once a few years ago - LA. We went out for a meal and I could not *believe* the portion sizes in the USA at restaurants. I found it hard to see how anyone could comfortably eat that amount of food. Four of us ate from two dishes that night and still didn't finish everything. We got a couple of odd looks from the staff which we laughed about later:)
Also, server staff - SO FRIENDLY. You would not get that in europe...at least not at that level. And the waitress took our order without writing anything down and then went and took an order from ten drunk Australians at the next table. Didn't get anything wrong. I tipped big that night, the whole thing was so....well, not what I'm used to.
You sound like you're trying to compensate for something, my friend. Because you sound unreasonably angry about this topic. Saying this as an impartial observer.
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For low-end laptops that come with 32GB eMMC storage and 2-4GB RAM, they almost always have an SD card slot that supports at least 128GB cards if not more. So stating that all these devices "aren't expandable" as if it were an absolute fact is bullshit. Seriously, go check laptops on Amazon in the £150 - £275 price range and actually check the hardware details. I'll wait.
Don't talk like this is a problem that all players experience. I don't get motion sickness at all in VR, even after 3 hours of Skyrim VR.
Not a problem with me using PSVR, you just need to install a couple of foam bumpers to prevent your glasses scratching the lens. I don't even use those - just adjust the head mount so that they don't touch and lock it in place.
Maybe you're not up on current events, but No Man's Sky has enjoyed something of a renaissance the past few months since the NEXT update. Hardly a failure, even in the beginning. It sold a lot - at full price. Not bad for an indie game. I know it's fashionable to bash on NMS, but it's changed a lot the past two years. Just sayin',
It's absolutely the default in CentOS 7.
You don't have more than one computer at home? Or a tablet and a smart phone? You can't conceive of anybody who might have more than one device or the usefulness of having files synced across devices? Really?
I've been using Windows 10 Home for a couple of months now on a daily basis. Once you disable it, it doesn't come back. And that's after upgrading to 1803. You're doing it wrong.
Agreed. The PS4 Media Player app *used* to play all my DLNA media from my Linux server in the study just fine (you know, once it got DLNA support). A few updates back and it stopped recognising my media files completely and showed nothing. Whereas the good old Xbox 360 still plays all my media just fine through the same DLNA server. And the PS Vita media player never recognised any of my media from day one. Sony sucks at this.
That's half the problem with Russia's economy long term right there. At any point as a private business person, your assets can be seized by Putin and his cronies. So citizens don't get to foster an attitude of entrepreneurism which might lead to the kinds of technological innovations that would allow Russia to compete globally long-term. Why bother starting a business or getting funding for a clever idea when your business and technologies can be taken away by the state at any time?
I did! I bought my S8 to replace my aging Sony Compact Z3 when the S9 was released and consequently got it cheap for what it is. The Sony would actually still be fine if the battery still held a charge. That's the thing the phone makers have figured out with non-removable batteries. Eventually the thing is useless even if the specs are still fine for your needs and the phone is physically still in one piece. You'll still have to upgrade in three years no matter what because the battery is fucked. If mobile phones still had replacable batteries, I'm betting most people would keep their phones for 5+ years, assuming the OS updates keep going. Which is another calculated move by the phone makers.
While I understand the point you're attempting to make, that's nonsense. A modern smartphone is basically a PC in your pocket. Is your PC useless because you have nobody to email? No. There are any number of useful things that a smartphone can do that doesn't involve calling or texting anybody.
Don't bother. It's the same sort of person who tells anybody willing to listen that they don't own a TV and we should all just, like, unplug from our devices and go for a walk outside and experience, like, what's really *important* in life instead. Technological Vegans, basically. And they're all dull as shit.
I use NFS all over the place on my home network, purely because it's my home network and my good old residential router doesn't forward any ports from outside for NFS or open them on the firewall. My NFS server exports all my media so that my media clients around the house can mount the movies directory or whatever as if it were local. I also use it to mount my MAME ROMS directory for my RetroPie setup in the living room. Very handy. Since the NFS server won't talk to anything other than 192.168.1.* via it's own firewall it works very well. I'm not familiar with the history of NFS but did NFS used to be used from remote sites over the Internet or something? I suppose I can see a use for encrypted NFS over business networks if the LAN is huge and paranoid but wouldn't Samba or something be better in that situation? Honest questions.
Tim Cook is Apple's Steve Ballmer. Seriously, that's what I think. The Founder leaves/dies and the shareholders or whoever promote a solid business guy to gain profit to shareholders. This works - for a bit.
Depends which ISP you're with. The big UK ISPs which have a vested interest in you not pirating the shit out of stuff because they have a hand in media like Virgin Media, Sky, BT, etc do indeed block. Smaller regional ISPs seem not to bother. Either way, it's trivial to bypass.
Yeah, so if I'm reading this right: - Thermal issues on new laptop line == pushing the gay agenda. Americans are....interesting.
Look, if you're going to quote something, at least get the quote right...
"Miles Above the Cloud"?
Fuck people like you.....so "woke" and desperate to show how much more "value" you're getting from life by appreciating the "simple things". Twenty years ago, you'd be spouting about how you "don't even own a TV". That's not what this discussion is about, you ass.
Exactly. I own an Echo myself, but I'm sure Google Home, Cortana and whatever else can still access Spotify, tell me the news and act as a bluetooth speaker for my phone. The only really unique thing Alexa has that none of the others do is voice-purchasing from Amazon and I've never felt the need to use that particular feature. So aside from the initial expense of actually buying the devices, I'd feel no real loyalty to Amazon.
I am not American but yeah - I thought after Sandy Hook something would be done, that surely, *surely* 20 toddlers being gunned down in cold blood would change american attitudes to guns. But no - all that happened was that a bunch of people thought it was a conspiracy and nobody died at all and that it was a huge government cover-up to take away their guns. To the point where there's hate campaigns against grieving parents of murdered children. You can't fight that kind of fever. I assume it's just too embedded in the society to remove, regardless of the consequences. My sympathies for your next entirely preventable tragedy, America.
Got a smartphone? Because I'm betting you do.
Not American. But I visited once a few years ago - LA. We went out for a meal and I could not *believe* the portion sizes in the USA at restaurants. I found it hard to see how anyone could comfortably eat that amount of food. Four of us ate from two dishes that night and still didn't finish everything. We got a couple of odd looks from the staff which we laughed about later :)
Also, server staff - SO FRIENDLY. You would not get that in europe...at least not at that level. And the waitress took our order without writing anything down and then went and took an order from ten drunk Australians at the next table. Didn't get anything wrong. I tipped big that night, the whole thing was so....well, not what I'm used to.
First sentence: Huh, Okay, this guy has some information to impart, let's hear it. Second sentence: Oh. Oh well.
You sound like you're trying to compensate for something, my friend. Because you sound unreasonably angry about this topic. Saying this as an impartial observer.