You cannot possibly believe that amazon will always act in an altruistic manner regarding your privacy? (Or if they somehow buck the overwhelming trend, that they cannot be compelled to violate your privacy, and use anything you've ever said against you at the behest of any TLA, armed with gag orders, secret courts, parallel construction, and whatever mental and legal gymnastics can be summoned for such things.)
Think about what you're getting with any of these home-assistants, if you don't see that they are very plainly a loss-leader for scooping up data (be it for advertising, speech processing, whatever) -- then.. $pithy_remark
the silver lining in 1984 is that the proles were more or less 'free' -- and there were enough of them to start a revolution if they ever organized (which admittedly is what the security forces were trying to prevent) -- but the indoctrination and mass control was limited to party members.
For example: the section where Winston is in a holding tank with a loud and obnoxious prole. The Prole is screaming and yelling at the cops, while the party members are terrified (Winston also picks up on the police officer's being made nervous by the Prole)..
The difference is, and where we're headed is that we're all inside this self-made panopticon. There is no escape from it, and no one is 'free'.
what if i don't want any of this bullshit? What if i want an OS that leaves me alone to do my work without being pestered, rebooted, and nagged ? What if i have zero interest in cortana, skydrive, or any of the other bullshit foisted on me? (see above)
(laptop came with windows 10 home, which.. fuck you MS. Not entirely sure the drivers are actually available for 7, or 8.1 in a pinch. Namely thunderbolt and touchscreen -- and entertaining the notion of spending ~$200 for the pro version to opt out of their nonsense.. again, kindly fuck yourselves MS.)
Product decisions like this are the reason MS will eventually lose the desktop OS market.
let me know when there's an oculus 'virtual boxing match' starring zuck. i imagine the lines would be pretty long to buy one of those goofy headsets if it meant you got to pummel the Hitler of privacy concerns.
to be fair though, sitting anywhere near the sales/marketing team is pretty much in violation of not only OSHA, as well as a grey area in the eyes of the Geneva Convention.
and semi's, trucks, airplanes, pressure cookers.. there's plenty of ways to kill people. ban one, someone will just move down the list. You might make it slightly more inconvenient, but the fact remains.. if someone wants to off a bunch of people and get their 15 minutes of infamy, they will.
there's a far deeper problem here, and banning a gun (or in this case, a 'scary looking' type of gun) isn't the answer. Bear in mind guns have been in the US since before there was a US. A modern 'scary looking' type of gun isn't some new technical wizardy after all.
So why do things like this happen? Semi-auto's (yes, even the 'scary looking' variety of.221 and such) have been available for decades, there have been deranged people since there were people. And yet..
It's similar to the ban on mobile phones in the car, it's feel-goodery writ large. It's trying to solve a societal problem by attempting to fix the superficial cause, while not addressing the actual issue.
Thanks to handbrake I can get a dvd once, then own it forever. Then I can stream it over plex at my leisure, without worrying about netflix and/or studios pulling the plug for $reasons.
Intelligence and consciousness are still questions for philosophy, not science/biology/engineering. How are we to devise and build something that we still struggle to adequately explain?
"i'm getting a killer golden parachute because i'm worth that much. Really guys, they wouldn't give me this much money to retire if I wasn't. Ergo, totes not my fault, and now it's not my problem either"
i don't think he was saying that at all; just correctly pointing out how finicky linux can be. In my experience trying to use it as a desktop OS was mostly pretty smooth sailing, but there always seems to be some little niggling behavior that just ruins it.
For example back in ~2015 I had an asus laptop that i tried with Mint, and ran into the folllowing: random shutdowns due to AHCI power management issues inconsistent trackpad cursor movement (it would periodicall, get stuck, zoom arbitrarily across the screen, or register phantom clicks) wifi wouldn't work after resuming
These did not happen with windows. I'm sure there were ways to get around or fix these bugs; but for an OS being described as an easy to use windows replacement, those are absolutely dealbreakers for the majority of users.
That said, for using drivers that are pretty generic out of the box, it's impressive how well it works; but not quite enough to beat the ease of use and consistency in windows or mac.
(your comment smacks of a conversation between two people; one criticizing Trump, and the other responding with, "Well obama did ___"
it is Musk talking about cost, so what he probably 'meant' was that buying the airline that hosts the economy class seat would be in the same ballpark as his rocket-ride.
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Grand-dad is not happy about that union.
echelon?
You cannot possibly believe that amazon will always act in an altruistic manner regarding your privacy? (Or if they somehow buck the overwhelming trend, that they cannot be compelled to violate your privacy, and use anything you've ever said against you at the behest of any TLA, armed with gag orders, secret courts, parallel construction, and whatever mental and legal gymnastics can be summoned for such things.)
Think about what you're getting with any of these home-assistants, if you don't see that they are very plainly a loss-leader for scooping up data (be it for advertising, speech processing, whatever) -- then .. $pithy_remark
the silver lining in 1984 is that the proles were more or less 'free' -- and there were enough of them to start a revolution if they ever organized (which admittedly is what the security forces were trying to prevent) -- but the indoctrination and mass control was limited to party members.
For example: the section where Winston is in a holding tank with a loud and obnoxious prole. The Prole is screaming and yelling at the cops, while the party members are terrified (Winston also picks up on the police officer's being made nervous by the Prole)..
The difference is, and where we're headed is that we're all inside this self-made panopticon. There is no escape from it, and no one is 'free'.
severely underrated comment, jesus. spot on man, spot on.
it's a mute point, and you know it.
Thanks! will definitely have to try that.
what if i don't want any of this bullshit?
What if i want an OS that leaves me alone to do my work without being pestered, rebooted, and nagged ?
What if i have zero interest in cortana, skydrive, or any of the other bullshit foisted on me? (see above)
(laptop came with windows 10 home, which .. fuck you MS. Not entirely sure the drivers are actually available for 7, or 8.1 in a pinch. Namely thunderbolt and touchscreen -- and entertaining the notion of spending ~$200 for the pro version to opt out of their nonsense.. again, kindly fuck yourselves MS.)
Product decisions like this are the reason MS will eventually lose the desktop OS market.
what a quaint idea! nothing like a bit of humor to brighten up a dreary wednesday afternoon -- thanks bub!
i think the issue is that they aren't notifying users, nor providing a way to opt out.
if they were up front about it, i'd think most people would consider it a fair trade.
let me know when there's an oculus 'virtual boxing match' starring zuck. i imagine the lines would be pretty long to buy one of those goofy headsets if it meant you got to pummel the Hitler of privacy concerns.
to be fair though, sitting anywhere near the sales/marketing team is pretty much in violation of not only OSHA, as well as a grey area in the eyes of the Geneva Convention.
Gotcha, using a roku 3 (now roku premiere) and a yamaha receiver.. point taken though -- thanks
and semi's, trucks, airplanes, pressure cookers.. there's plenty of ways to kill people. ban one, someone will just move down the list. You might make it slightly more inconvenient, but the fact remains.. if someone wants to off a bunch of people and get their 15 minutes of infamy, they will.
there's a far deeper problem here, and banning a gun (or in this case, a 'scary looking' type of gun) isn't the answer. Bear in mind guns have been in the US since before there was a US. A modern 'scary looking' type of gun isn't some new technical wizardy after all.
So why do things like this happen? Semi-auto's (yes, even the 'scary looking' variety of .221 and such) have been available for decades, there have been deranged people since there were people. And yet..
It's similar to the ban on mobile phones in the car, it's feel-goodery writ large. It's trying to solve a societal problem by attempting to fix the superficial cause, while not addressing the actual issue.
netflix streams in 5.1 (well, most titles. there's a few in stereo, and a few without a subwoofer)
Thanks to handbrake I can get a dvd once, then own it forever. Then I can stream it over plex at my leisure, without worrying about netflix and/or studios pulling the plug for $reasons.
Intelligence and consciousness are still questions for philosophy, not science/biology/engineering. How are we to devise and build something that we still struggle to adequately explain?
bestiality is wrong.
if nothing else it represents competition to MS/Apple, and competition is always a good thing for consumers.
"i'm getting a killer golden parachute because i'm worth that much. Really guys, they wouldn't give me this much money to retire if I wasn't. Ergo, totes not my fault, and now it's not my problem either"
only if you try making anything in the book; excellent way to maim yourself.
much like creimer's mobility scooter, these goalposts have wheels.
i don't think he was saying that at all; just correctly pointing out how finicky linux can be. In my experience trying to use it as a desktop OS was mostly pretty smooth sailing, but there always seems to be some little niggling behavior that just ruins it.
For example back in ~2015 I had an asus laptop that i tried with Mint, and ran into the folllowing:
random shutdowns due to AHCI power management issues
inconsistent trackpad cursor movement (it would periodicall, get stuck, zoom arbitrarily across the screen, or register phantom clicks)
wifi wouldn't work after resuming
These did not happen with windows. I'm sure there were ways to get around or fix these bugs; but for an OS being described as an easy to use windows replacement, those are absolutely dealbreakers for the majority of users.
That said, for using drivers that are pretty generic out of the box, it's impressive how well it works; but not quite enough to beat the ease of use and consistency in windows or mac.
(your comment smacks of a conversation between two people; one criticizing Trump, and the other responding with, "Well obama did ___"
it is Musk talking about cost, so what he probably 'meant' was that buying the airline that hosts the economy class seat would be in the same ballpark as his rocket-ride.
I hear it as "I'm a pretentious douche-nozzle" . (See also 'sheeple')