Why do you think that having an absurd childish belief is simply disagreeing with his view, rather than seeing it as the deep ignorance that it is?
Religious idiocy wouldn't be a problem, but malicious people are able to use it to get rubes to vote for insane anti-social right-wing loonies.
>Library of Congress is trying to figure out how CDs age so that we can better understand how to save them.
Here's a idea, if you must be stuck in the 1990s with physical media, just rip the CD to a media server when you get home. It only has to last long enough to get it home and copy it. That or just subscribe to Spotify. Being able to pick just about any song wherever you are is far superior to a music hoard.
You've just described most real games, as opposed to smart-phone crap. What does the 90s have to do with it? If the "got raped" comment means you're cheap, buy games from Steam sales.
>I've never seen one of these cameras and I doubt many other people have either.
Agreed.
>Nor does it seem likely that there are hackers standing by to "touch" the powered up, wifi connected camera
Agreed.
>And when all is said a relatively trivial patch would correct the issue.
Yes, but it should have been secure out of the box. Many manufacturers don't give a lot of thought to security, and that needs to change. If someone can own your camera over their WiFi, they can load an app that gives them access to YOUR WiFi when you get home. That's pretty serious.
>Do any of you realize you are biased against conservatives because you have been *trained* to be?
Does it occur to you that we're biased against conservatives because people who self-identify as conservative keep saying deeply stupid things in public. See just about any Republican politician, or check out the insane conservatives that use tags like #TGDN, #TCOT, and #REDNATIONRISING on Twitter. They just keep feeding each other fake quotes, and reinforcing a hatred of anyone who isn't as delusional as they are. They think that intelligent liberal people are their enemy, when really the enemy is the "conservative" media that filled their heads with nonsense.
Conservative didn't always mean crazy/stupid, but it sure does now.
>what is so bad about individual liberty, natural rights and limited government huh?
Nothing, it's the superstition, authoritarianism, racism, homophobia, and opposition to women's rights that's wrong with the ignorant conservatives.
No one drives a Prius fast enough to need an emergency stop system. Yes, I am frustrated by the invariably slow Prius drivers that feel the need to be in the left lane. It used to be that if someone was blocking traffic, they were in a BMW, but Prius took that crown.
>How about the ability to turn to "off" to stop an engine affected by a stuck accelerator?
This is the reason I oppose moving to a push-button system. We've already seen at least one person have an uncontrolled acceleration problem and not have a key to turn off. Push-button HAS to include an emergency cutoff switch. Requiring the user to hold in a button for several seconds to stop the engine is not acceptable.
>Netflix has started paying Comcast and Verizon directly and the FCC is saying that's perfectly fine.
Yes, it's completely fine that Netflix now pays Comcast for direct access to their network, rather than continuing to pay Cogent for transit when Cogent couldn't handle the traffic.
Of course if you only read about this on the perpetually outraged SlashDot, you might have been seriously misled regarding the situation. I know I was.
The Win 8 experience is excellent on tablets out of the box, and excellent on the desktop with the addition of the freeware Classic Shell. You have a strange idea of a shitty experience.
So what? The whole point of IOS it to make it ridiculously simple for untrained end-users. These people you speak of chose the wrong platform, and now want it to be something other than it is, so the failure is entirely theirs. If they want a phone/tablet that's like a desktop there are Windows 8, and Ubuntu phones available.
>I don't see PCs filling in their space. I can see phones filling in their space.
Easily. I don't even know where my Nexus 7 is, because I stopped carrying it when I got a Galaxy Note 3 with a big 1080p screen.
If someone creates a phone with a roll-out screen, it'll all over for tablets.
There was once a terrible syndicated show called Earth Final Conflict. The writing was just bad, the acting was mediocre at best, but the technologies on the show were really nice. They had something called a "global" that was a phone/camera with a pull-out display. This is what I want.
Of course these future phones may be full PCs when docked, so maybe it will in a sense be PCs replacing tablets.
Even with the latest and greatest FPS, a 5-year-old PC works fine. I haven't had to upgrade a PC to play a game at max-settings since Crysis was released.
We'll need to move to new video cards and maybe PCs for 4k gaming, but as long as we're at 1080p the current hardware is fine.
You're not going to get a decade out of a tablet battery. A replacement cycle of about 3 years seems to make the most sense for handheld devices without user-serviceable batteries. The improvements made over 3 years, and the price-drops will make getting a new one more reasonable than paying to service an older less-functional device. A PC can still be in use in 10 years because you can easily replace the motherboard battery.
>Scary, because when you listen to him he tends to seem much smarter than the average congressman
Maybe if you only let him run his mouth for a minute or two. Give him 5 minutes, and he'll say something crazy every time. The nut didn't fall far from the tree.
>Having everywhere in MIT that accepts dollars also accept BitCoin would do far more.
Sure, but why deal in bitcoin at all unless it's to buy prohibited items from black markets via the Internet or smuggle money across borders? For any other transaction, the local currency offers much more stability and much faster transactions.
The current version of the FitBit does include a time display. They recalled them all due to the band being toxic to skin, but I expect that they're releasing a fixed version.
Another option of a FitBit type device with a watch is the Basis smartwatch. It's a bit bulky, and I'm not having a great time with the software, but some people are happy with it.
I currently have a FitBit on my right wrist and a Basis on my left as I evaluate the Basis as a possible replacement for the FitBit. One thing stopping my transition is that the Basis completely lacks alarm functionality.
Definitely the former. You just completely left out all the functionality that's present in the smart watch that's completely missing in a crappy old mechanical watch, so you came to the wrong conclusion.
Correct. At 47, I'm in better shape than I was at 27. Avoid sugar and alcohol, keep carbs to a minimum, and get some exercise, and you can feel great even in your 60s. Much of our decline over time is just due to self-destructive behavior. If you're inactive and eat poorly, you're going to have a bad time.
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>When game companies are spending a small relative fraction on the actual development, there's a problem.
Not necessarily. They could make the greatest game ever, and if people have not heard of it, they'll go broke.
With games as large, complex, and art-heavy as they are today, you need to reach a huge audience at $50-$60 a game.
You don't think quoting a crank is insightful or useful in any way, do you?
Seriously, why would you want to quote someone as foolish and hypocritical as Ayn Rand?
Why do you think that having an absurd childish belief is simply disagreeing with his view, rather than seeing it as the deep ignorance that it is?
Religious idiocy wouldn't be a problem, but malicious people are able to use it to get rubes to vote for insane anti-social right-wing loonies.
>Library of Congress is trying to figure out how CDs age so that we can better understand how to save them.
Here's a idea, if you must be stuck in the 1990s with physical media, just rip the CD to a media server when you get home. It only has to last long enough to get it home and copy it. That or just subscribe to Spotify. Being able to pick just about any song wherever you are is far superior to a music hoard.
You've just described most real games, as opposed to smart-phone crap. What does the 90s have to do with it? If the "got raped" comment means you're cheap, buy games from Steam sales.
>Also, you still need steam to authenticate once in awhile, it just so happens that steam isn't a paid for membership.
Not being a paid membership is a huge difference. Many of us would not use Steam if we had to pay a monthly fee to access our games.
>I've never seen one of these cameras and I doubt many other people have either.
Agreed.
>Nor does it seem likely that there are hackers standing by to "touch" the powered up, wifi connected camera
Agreed.
>And when all is said a relatively trivial patch would correct the issue.
Yes, but it should have been secure out of the box. Many manufacturers don't give a lot of thought to security, and that needs to change. If someone can own your camera over their WiFi, they can load an app that gives them access to YOUR WiFi when you get home. That's pretty serious.
There's no need to modify DNA to ease phobias, you just have to get over whatever personal issue is holding you back.
I used to have an irrational fear of spiders, then I moved to a house with lots of spiders. Phobia cured.
>Do any of you realize you are biased against conservatives because you have been *trained* to be?
Does it occur to you that we're biased against conservatives because people who self-identify as conservative keep saying deeply stupid things in public. See just about any Republican politician, or check out the insane conservatives that use tags like #TGDN, #TCOT, and #REDNATIONRISING on Twitter. They just keep feeding each other fake quotes, and reinforcing a hatred of anyone who isn't as delusional as they are. They think that intelligent liberal people are their enemy, when really the enemy is the "conservative" media that filled their heads with nonsense.
Conservative didn't always mean crazy/stupid, but it sure does now.
>what is so bad about individual liberty, natural rights and limited government huh?
Nothing, it's the superstition, authoritarianism, racism, homophobia, and opposition to women's rights that's wrong with the ignorant conservatives.
No one drives a Prius fast enough to need an emergency stop system. Yes, I am frustrated by the invariably slow Prius drivers that feel the need to be in the left lane. It used to be that if someone was blocking traffic, they were in a BMW, but Prius took that crown.
>How about the ability to turn to "off" to stop an engine affected by a stuck accelerator?
This is the reason I oppose moving to a push-button system. We've already seen at least one person have an uncontrolled acceleration problem and not have a key to turn off. Push-button HAS to include an emergency cutoff switch. Requiring the user to hold in a button for several seconds to stop the engine is not acceptable.
>Netflix has started paying Comcast and Verizon directly and the FCC is saying that's perfectly fine.
Yes, it's completely fine that Netflix now pays Comcast for direct access to their network, rather than continuing to pay Cogent for transit when Cogent couldn't handle the traffic.
Of course if you only read about this on the perpetually outraged SlashDot, you might have been seriously misled regarding the situation. I know I was.
The Win 8 experience is excellent on tablets out of the box, and excellent on the desktop with the addition of the freeware Classic Shell. You have a strange idea of a shitty experience.
So what? The whole point of IOS it to make it ridiculously simple for untrained end-users. These people you speak of chose the wrong platform, and now want it to be something other than it is, so the failure is entirely theirs. If they want a phone/tablet that's like a desktop there are Windows 8, and Ubuntu phones available.
>I don't see PCs filling in their space. I can see phones filling in their space.
Easily. I don't even know where my Nexus 7 is, because I stopped carrying it when I got a Galaxy Note 3 with a big 1080p screen.
If someone creates a phone with a roll-out screen, it'll all over for tablets.
There was once a terrible syndicated show called Earth Final Conflict. The writing was just bad, the acting was mediocre at best, but the technologies on the show were really nice. They had something called a "global" that was a phone/camera with a pull-out display. This is what I want.
Of course these future phones may be full PCs when docked, so maybe it will in a sense be PCs replacing tablets.
Even with the latest and greatest FPS, a 5-year-old PC works fine. I haven't had to upgrade a PC to play a game at max-settings since Crysis was released.
We'll need to move to new video cards and maybe PCs for 4k gaming, but as long as we're at 1080p the current hardware is fine.
You're not going to get a decade out of a tablet battery. A replacement cycle of about 3 years seems to make the most sense for handheld devices without user-serviceable batteries. The improvements made over 3 years, and the price-drops will make getting a new one more reasonable than paying to service an older less-functional device. A PC can still be in use in 10 years because you can easily replace the motherboard battery.
>Scary, because when you listen to him he tends to seem much smarter than the average congressman
Maybe if you only let him run his mouth for a minute or two. Give him 5 minutes, and he'll say something crazy every time. The nut didn't fall far from the tree.
>Having everywhere in MIT that accepts dollars also accept BitCoin would do far more.
Sure, but why deal in bitcoin at all unless it's to buy prohibited items from black markets via the Internet or smuggle money across borders? For any other transaction, the local currency offers much more stability and much faster transactions.
>When I dropped sugar a decade ago, I raised my fat intake. My weight went down by 10 pounds and has stayed down.
It's only been a couple of years for me, but I did the same, lost 35lbs, and feel fantastic. Sugar was VERY bad for me.
What's nice about the Kremlin propaganda channel RT? I find it totally useless since it's Putin's version of Fox News.
The current version of the FitBit does include a time display. They recalled them all due to the band being toxic to skin, but I expect that they're releasing a fixed version.
Another option of a FitBit type device with a watch is the Basis smartwatch. It's a bit bulky, and I'm not having a great time with the software, but some people are happy with it.
I currently have a FitBit on my right wrist and a Basis on my left as I evaluate the Basis as a possible replacement for the FitBit. One thing stopping my transition is that the Basis completely lacks alarm functionality.
Definitely the former. You just completely left out all the functionality that's present in the smart watch that's completely missing in a crappy old mechanical watch, so you came to the wrong conclusion.
Who didn't understand that siphons used gravity to move fluids?
Correct. At 47, I'm in better shape than I was at 27. Avoid sugar and alcohol, keep carbs to a minimum, and get some exercise, and you can feel great even in your 60s. Much of our decline over time is just due to self-destructive behavior. If you're inactive and eat poorly, you're going to have a bad time.