>How would I know if they were selling my viewing habits anyway?
If this is done right (HUGE IF), there's no reason for you to care. If they operate like those of us who work with personal data, but preserve privacy, the data will all be anonymized and aggregated to be useful for analysis without identifying any individual. This may very well not be the case, in which case you do still need to care if you're interested in privacy.
You could probably hook the TV to a decent router, and allow only the Internet IPs that you want access to like Netflix make it to the TV. There is some possibility that the menus you use to get to the NetFlix app would stop working if they can't reach the manufacturers server though if they're really that interested in tracking you.
> None of those even come close to fitting the description of a patriot.
Most of the people claiming to be patriots these days are anything but. It's always selfish, clueless people who are engaging in fantasy role-playing to pretend that they're better than quality people.
We need to stop letting sociopaths run our prisons. We should be giving all candidates psychological tests to make sure they're all compassionate people interested in keeping their prisoners safe and rehabilitating them so they can turn their lives around. Of course if you push for this, there are a ton of right-wing lunatics that will embarrass themselves by calling you "a bleeding-heart liberal." It's hard to reform society when many terrible people vote.
>He said: "that they made him cross-eyed and avoid eye contact"
>Which is the way most geeks naturally are anyway. So maybe wearing Goggle Glasses will correct those problem on geeks:
Anyone here who fits this description, talk to your doctor. 60mg citalopram daily completely fixed my aspergers-like social dysfunction. Not only did eye-contact suddenly become natural and automatic, it made me extremely outgoing and friendly. There have been no negative side-effect, other than light-sensitivity in the 1st few months, or loss of effect over the 7ish years I've been medicated. My life is far better than it would have been if I had done nothing about my social problems.
I'm waiting for a lot more powerful. A little text at the corner of my eye isn't much help to me. Full augmented reality across the entire lens would be.
You seem badly broken retech. Your posts indicate that you mistakenly believe that this is some kind of hoax, and you called a person who pointed out your error an asshole. It's clear that someone here is an asshole, but it isn't ziakll.
I wear a FitBit, and was really surprised at how much more active I am on a day off than at work. I hit my activity goals without even trying. We should be taking breaks to do a lot of walking during the work day. Our employers will benefit from this by having healthier employees.
>Cloud computing companies fuck their customers with excessive charges orders of magnitude higher than normal data-center co-location costs.
The scaleability they offer is a big advantage over just having a server at a co-lo. It's not worth the money for any project I've worked on, but if you have a web-business that has the potential to become very popular, putting it in a couple of different vendor's clouds can make a lot of sense so that you can very quickly scale up to handle the traffic.
>Ownership by Facebook immediately makes it technology I don't want. Not now, not ever.
Yeah, that makes me uncomfortable too. I was much more enthusiastic about this product before the purchase. There are competing devices, and one of those might wind up capturing most of this market, just because so many of us oppose having Facebook market our eyeballs.
Facebook might try that, but if they do, they're obviously very misguided.
VR has worked in the past, and they've made a ton of improvements, so I don't see this failing in the gamer market. I had an eMagin HMD around a decade ago, that was already awesome despite a narrow FOV on the earlier tech. The only issue was that it depended on Nvidia for support, which was dropped at the very next driver update. Lag wasn't a problem for me.
Of course I don't hesitate to adopt new technologies, so use things like Move and Kinect, so I may be more open to new things than some other gamers.
I wonder why you make the huge mistake of assuming that this is a mass-market product, but understand why you leap to erroneous conclusions because of your flawed premise. This is for a particular niche, the enthusiast gamer. There are plenty of us out there.
A tablet may not be the best place to run virtual machines or servers, and nothing else really requires more than 8GB of RAM. Win 8 will run very well with 8GB.
>often long enough to give you a better ROI than the 2-3 cheaper laptops you'd be buying during the same time period.
Correct. I bought one of the very first 1080p laptops so long ago that I don't remember when I got it, and it's still running great. The only thing I've had to replace is the battery. Yes it's big by today's standards, but it works fine with current software after all these years.
>An eventually-lost lawsuit would still cost you a lot of money to defend yourself. Maybe more money than whatever damages you are accused of.
Correct, and not just in cash, this can mean missing a day or more of work. Most of us are simply not in a position to defend ourselves from frivolous lawsuits.
The technology has been good enough for enthusiasts for years now. I had an eMagin head-mounted display with head-tracking about a decade ago. OR promises to be much better, but the only big issue with the eMagin HMD was that Nvidia stopped supporting it in their very next driver release. Playing F.E.A.R. on the device was awesome and terrifying despite a narrow FOV.
Much different. You need skill to operate an RC airplane. These drones pretty much fly themselves, so are much easier for criminals (and the rest of us) to use.
Being crazy isn't a handicap. If you make insane predictions that don't come true, people forget. If an insane, unsupported claim turns out to be true, they look like geniuses.
I've had plenty of issues with AMD video drivers, though those problems seem to be behind them, but is there really a problem with their CPU/chipset drivers?
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>How would I know if they were selling my viewing habits anyway?
If this is done right (HUGE IF), there's no reason for you to care. If they operate like those of us who work with personal data, but preserve privacy, the data will all be anonymized and aggregated to be useful for analysis without identifying any individual. This may very well not be the case, in which case you do still need to care if you're interested in privacy.
You could probably hook the TV to a decent router, and allow only the Internet IPs that you want access to like Netflix make it to the TV. There is some possibility that the menus you use to get to the NetFlix app would stop working if they can't reach the manufacturers server though if they're really that interested in tracking you.
> None of those even come close to fitting the description of a patriot.
Most of the people claiming to be patriots these days are anything but. It's always selfish, clueless people who are engaging in fantasy role-playing to pretend that they're better than quality people.
You can't buy drugs with Dogecoin. At least I don't think you can. Can someone with better knowledge of black-market sites chime in?
We need to stop letting sociopaths run our prisons. We should be giving all candidates psychological tests to make sure they're all compassionate people interested in keeping their prisoners safe and rehabilitating them so they can turn their lives around. Of course if you push for this, there are a ton of right-wing lunatics that will embarrass themselves by calling you "a bleeding-heart liberal." It's hard to reform society when many terrible people vote.
>He said: "that they made him cross-eyed and avoid eye contact"
>Which is the way most geeks naturally are anyway. So maybe wearing Goggle Glasses will correct those problem on geeks:
Anyone here who fits this description, talk to your doctor. 60mg citalopram daily completely fixed my aspergers-like social dysfunction. Not only did eye-contact suddenly become natural and automatic, it made me extremely outgoing and friendly. There have been no negative side-effect, other than light-sensitivity in the 1st few months, or loss of effect over the 7ish years I've been medicated. My life is far better than it would have been if I had done nothing about my social problems.
I'm waiting for a lot more powerful. A little text at the corner of my eye isn't much help to me. Full augmented reality across the entire lens would be.
You seem badly broken retech. Your posts indicate that you mistakenly believe that this is some kind of hoax, and you called a person who pointed out your error an asshole. It's clear that someone here is an asshole, but it isn't ziakll.
I wear a FitBit, and was really surprised at how much more active I am on a day off than at work. I hit my activity goals without even trying. We should be taking breaks to do a lot of walking during the work day. Our employers will benefit from this by having healthier employees.
>Cloud computing companies fuck their customers with excessive charges orders of magnitude higher than normal data-center co-location costs.
The scaleability they offer is a big advantage over just having a server at a co-lo. It's not worth the money for any project I've worked on, but if you have a web-business that has the potential to become very popular, putting it in a couple of different vendor's clouds can make a lot of sense so that you can very quickly scale up to handle the traffic.
>Ownership by Facebook immediately makes it technology I don't want. Not now, not ever.
Yeah, that makes me uncomfortable too. I was much more enthusiastic about this product before the purchase. There are competing devices, and one of those might wind up capturing most of this market, just because so many of us oppose having Facebook market our eyeballs.
Facebook might try that, but if they do, they're obviously very misguided.
VR has worked in the past, and they've made a ton of improvements, so I don't see this failing in the gamer market. I had an eMagin HMD around a decade ago, that was already awesome despite a narrow FOV on the earlier tech. The only issue was that it depended on Nvidia for support, which was dropped at the very next driver update. Lag wasn't a problem for me.
Of course I don't hesitate to adopt new technologies, so use things like Move and Kinect, so I may be more open to new things than some other gamers.
I wonder why you make the huge mistake of assuming that this is a mass-market product, but understand why you leap to erroneous conclusions because of your flawed premise. This is for a particular niche, the enthusiast gamer. There are plenty of us out there.
A tablet may not be the best place to run virtual machines or servers, and nothing else really requires more than 8GB of RAM. Win 8 will run very well with 8GB.
>often long enough to give you a better ROI than the 2-3 cheaper laptops you'd be buying during the same time period.
Correct. I bought one of the very first 1080p laptops so long ago that I don't remember when I got it, and it's still running great. The only thing I've had to replace is the battery. Yes it's big by today's standards, but it works fine with current software after all these years.
I think they're making the right choice.
>An eventually-lost lawsuit would still cost you a lot of money to defend yourself. Maybe more money than whatever damages you are accused of.
Correct, and not just in cash, this can mean missing a day or more of work. Most of us are simply not in a position to defend ourselves from frivolous lawsuits.
Are you thinking what I'm thinking, that TWoWS is cruel and unusual punishment?
Is it? A friend that I generally trust recommended it to me, but I haven't gotten to it yet.
The technology has been good enough for enthusiasts for years now. I had an eMagin head-mounted display with head-tracking about a decade ago. OR promises to be much better, but the only big issue with the eMagin HMD was that Nvidia stopped supporting it in their very next driver release. Playing F.E.A.R. on the device was awesome and terrifying despite a narrow FOV.
So the question is will people be more afraid of this Chinese device spying on them or Facebook's Occulus Rift.
How is China sketchier than your country?
>Yeah, I've heard all the crap about my fridge can email me that I am out of milk. Bull. No one really wants that.
I do, but only because it means a burglar drank my milk. You know, if I had milk.
Much different. You need skill to operate an RC airplane. These drones pretty much fly themselves, so are much easier for criminals (and the rest of us) to use.
Being crazy isn't a handicap. If you make insane predictions that don't come true, people forget. If an insane, unsupported claim turns out to be true, they look like geniuses.
I've had plenty of issues with AMD video drivers, though those problems seem to be behind them, but is there really a problem with their CPU/chipset drivers?