So, if you want to really take advantage of the hardware you 've paid for, you 've got to go Nvidia. All the others are basically frauds when it comes to Linux support. So, why so much Nvidia hate in the community? Isn't having a Linux system that's 99.9% open-source and has killer graphics better than having a system that's 100% open-source but doesn't allow you to take advantage of the GPU hardware?
The prices the article mentions are before or after incentives? If someone makes an electric car that costs, say $30000 after incentives, the government will greatly reduce the incentives, as they will evolve into a huge financial liability.
(at last, a Stallman lecture that you can sit through) Now, as regards topic, presenting "free software" as the only way to gain customer rights is a recipe for disaster. It basically gives proprietary companies the "right" to never deal with customer rights complaints, because "if you want that use free software".
I don't say this often, but we need some regulation here. All airplane seats should have enough legroom to accomondate an 185 cm person, with the front seat reclined. This would prevent airliners from putting seats that recline too much (what kind of stupid engineers design economy class seats that recline so much anyway?)
PS: So many thanks for tiping me on Knee Defender! I am only 177 cm, but have trouble when inconsiderate people in front of me recline the seat all the way.
The reason 4K content might not get pirated too much is because of the sheer size of it. Even the heavily compressed release will have to be around 16GB! (1080p releases are usually around 8GB, 4 times that equals 32GB, halve that because H.265 alledgely achieves same quality in half the size... 16GB)
"Why are they still bothering?"
This time it's gonna be different and we are going to lock the content for good. The company that sold us the "DRM solution" promised it! They also promised nobody can run PowerDVD or WinDVD inside a debugger and figure out the DRM system because the decryption code is protected by magic fairies.
Problem is, there isn't any GOOD standard def content anymore. Your choices are either heavily compressed 480p/576p with visible artifacts, or a jump to 720p. Even if you go legal and rent DVDs, most DVDs nowadays are heavily compressed too, and most studios don't remove film noise anymore (which looks terrible in heavily compressed SD). Gone are the days of excellent DVD releases such as Blade III (two dual layers DVDs - yay!)
And what DOES run on the Raspberyy Pi? The Raspberry Pi requires special binaries, and even then the performance is bad. It was already-obsolete when released, now it's vintage. Just buy an ODROID-U3. For a price different that is essentially pocket change, you get much more utility. And it runs Real Android (tm) with Play Store. I even run Vector Unit's games with no third party app (and Gameloft games with the Tincore Keymapper app).
"Banning has already eradicated many other invisible activities..."
They 'll just sell you a computer with Secure Boots on steroids (always enabled, allowing only fully "certified" images to run) which also is glued-shut and has glued-on components, so you can't open it without destroying it. https://www.ifixit.com/Teardow... Good luck with installing a custom OS on that. I hope I am wrong, but soon some Hollywood Legislator will ban devices with unlocked bootloaders like Nexus devices and mandate always-enabled secure boots on all devices (phones, tablets, laptops etc).
GoDaddy: A cybersquatter masquerading as a registrar. If you forgot to pay the bill, they 'll take down your site and will fill up your domain with ads.
And god forbid you actually break their TOS. They 'll take your domain and put ads, you won't be able to take it back, and they wom't even tell you which parts of the TOS you supposedly broke. There was a site "nodaddy" detailing those things.
As long as there are EULAs stripping the user from all warranty rights, there won't be any incentive to provide support.
"We got your money, good luck"
The only way to work around this (for consumer tech) is to buy Apple (sorry slashdoters), because software and hardware is basically one product, and the exact same software runs on a great number of devices, so if a problem exists they 'll be shamed into fixing their software. That's why people who hate even the idea of troubleshooting buy them.
Nobody cares about your random laptop or android phone/tablet however.
"So obviously some manufacturers choose not to enter the agreement."
And if you do that, unless you are already a content seller like Amazon, you device is doomed to be niche or low-end. You can't just ship a hi-end or mid-range device without the Play Store.
Play Store and Play Services are what Google uses to ensure control over Android, you didn't really think it was going to be really open source? It's mixed open-closed really.
In even more layman's terms, there is a "special" category of mistakes, like confusing "their" with "there", "your" with "you 're" or "here" with "hear" that happens ONLY to people who consider language as a bunch of sounds (and not as a bunch of words and gramnar rules). We all mispell words, get tenses wrong and forget words (when we fail to apply the grammar rules properly), but people who make mistakes of the "special" category don't even know what grammar is.
To put it in layman's terms, if you have the SLIGHTEST clue about grammar and how sentences are formed, there is no way you can confuse "their" with "there". I, a non-native speaker (I am greek), do not confuse the two. So, confusing the two means that you 've learnt english as a bunch of sounds, and when you write you are trying to find words that fit the sounds. I have no problem with people writing "thought" as "thougt" or even with people writing "definitely" as "definately" (as long as they don't insist it's the correct spelling, like most do), but seeing people confuse "their" with "there" and "your" with "you 're" saddens me, because said people are parrots. There is no nice way to put it.
My spelling mistake was just a mistype on Samsung's stupid virtual keyboard. But if you confuse "there" with "their", it means that, for you, use of english is nothing more than parroting a bunch or sounds you 've heard in similar situations, and you don't have a clue about basic grammar. Cheers.
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Google caved in and released Nexuses with 32GB storage. And I haven't met a single Android fanboy downplaying the importance of local storage.
Anyone else thought of the "Software is sh!t" scene from IronMan 2 (it's said by a Russian-speaking character).
So, if you want to really take advantage of the hardware you 've paid for, you 've got to go Nvidia. All the others are basically frauds when it comes to Linux support. So, why so much Nvidia hate in the community? Isn't having a Linux system that's 99.9% open-source and has killer graphics better than having a system that's 100% open-source but doesn't allow you to take advantage of the GPU hardware?
The prices the article mentions are before or after incentives? If someone makes an electric car that costs, say $30000 after incentives, the government will greatly reduce the incentives, as they will evolve into a huge financial liability.
"Do you have any other questions? Thank you for contacting Comcast, have a great day." This sounded like a dialog from a dystopian movie.
Now, if we could get legislation to ban contracts restricting class-action suits...
(at last, a Stallman lecture that you can sit through) Now, as regards topic, presenting "free software" as the only way to gain customer rights is a recipe for disaster. It basically gives proprietary companies the "right" to never deal with customer rights complaints, because "if you want that use free software".
I don't say this often, but we need some regulation here. All airplane seats should have enough legroom to accomondate an 185 cm person, with the front seat reclined. This would prevent airliners from putting seats that recline too much (what kind of stupid engineers design economy class seats that recline so much anyway?) PS: So many thanks for tiping me on Knee Defender! I am only 177 cm, but have trouble when inconsiderate people in front of me recline the seat all the way.
Just a failure of the magic smoke sealant.
The reason 4K content might not get pirated too much is because of the sheer size of it. Even the heavily compressed release will have to be around 16GB! (1080p releases are usually around 8GB, 4 times that equals 32GB, halve that because H.265 alledgely achieves same quality in half the size... 16GB)
"Why are they still bothering?" This time it's gonna be different and we are going to lock the content for good. The company that sold us the "DRM solution" promised it! They also promised nobody can run PowerDVD or WinDVD inside a debugger and figure out the DRM system because the decryption code is protected by magic fairies.
Problem is, there isn't any GOOD standard def content anymore. Your choices are either heavily compressed 480p/576p with visible artifacts, or a jump to 720p. Even if you go legal and rent DVDs, most DVDs nowadays are heavily compressed too, and most studios don't remove film noise anymore (which looks terrible in heavily compressed SD). Gone are the days of excellent DVD releases such as Blade III (two dual layers DVDs - yay!)
different = difference
And what DOES run on the Raspberyy Pi? The Raspberry Pi requires special binaries, and even then the performance is bad. It was already-obsolete when released, now it's vintage. Just buy an ODROID-U3. For a price different that is essentially pocket change, you get much more utility. And it runs Real Android (tm) with Play Store. I even run Vector Unit's games with no third party app (and Gameloft games with the Tincore Keymapper app).
Some WoW addict read this as: "Procreation: A source of revenue to fund your WoW leveling"
"Banning has already eradicated many other invisible activities..." They 'll just sell you a computer with Secure Boots on steroids (always enabled, allowing only fully "certified" images to run) which also is glued-shut and has glued-on components, so you can't open it without destroying it. https://www.ifixit.com/Teardow... Good luck with installing a custom OS on that. I hope I am wrong, but soon some Hollywood Legislator will ban devices with unlocked bootloaders like Nexus devices and mandate always-enabled secure boots on all devices (phones, tablets, laptops etc).
GoDaddy: A cybersquatter masquerading as a registrar. If you forgot to pay the bill, they 'll take down your site and will fill up your domain with ads. And god forbid you actually break their TOS. They 'll take your domain and put ads, you won't be able to take it back, and they wom't even tell you which parts of the TOS you supposedly broke. There was a site "nodaddy" detailing those things.
As long as your deposits are bet on those fictonal products, and the fairy tale of national debt exists, finance will never be "irrelevant".
All I heard was: Heavily customized version of Android that won't see any upgrades.
As long as there are EULAs stripping the user from all warranty rights, there won't be any incentive to provide support. "We got your money, good luck" The only way to work around this (for consumer tech) is to buy Apple (sorry slashdoters), because software and hardware is basically one product, and the exact same software runs on a great number of devices, so if a problem exists they 'll be shamed into fixing their software. That's why people who hate even the idea of troubleshooting buy them. Nobody cares about your random laptop or android phone/tablet however.
Because they fund the campaign of politicians and sometimes even their private lives. Search for "friends of angelo countrywide scandal".
"So obviously some manufacturers choose not to enter the agreement." And if you do that, unless you are already a content seller like Amazon, you device is doomed to be niche or low-end. You can't just ship a hi-end or mid-range device without the Play Store. Play Store and Play Services are what Google uses to ensure control over Android, you didn't really think it was going to be really open source? It's mixed open-closed really.
In even more layman's terms, there is a "special" category of mistakes, like confusing "their" with "there", "your" with "you 're" or "here" with "hear" that happens ONLY to people who consider language as a bunch of sounds (and not as a bunch of words and gramnar rules). We all mispell words, get tenses wrong and forget words (when we fail to apply the grammar rules properly), but people who make mistakes of the "special" category don't even know what grammar is.
To put it in layman's terms, if you have the SLIGHTEST clue about grammar and how sentences are formed, there is no way you can confuse "their" with "there". I, a non-native speaker (I am greek), do not confuse the two. So, confusing the two means that you 've learnt english as a bunch of sounds, and when you write you are trying to find words that fit the sounds. I have no problem with people writing "thought" as "thougt" or even with people writing "definitely" as "definately" (as long as they don't insist it's the correct spelling, like most do), but seeing people confuse "their" with "there" and "your" with "you 're" saddens me, because said people are parrots. There is no nice way to put it.
My spelling mistake was just a mistype on Samsung's stupid virtual keyboard. But if you confuse "there" with "their", it means that, for you, use of english is nothing more than parroting a bunch or sounds you 've heard in similar situations, and you don't have a clue about basic grammar. Cheers.