You're easily disturbed. They did this so they don't have to pay BluRay license fees for people who never play a BluRay on their PS4. It was a sound business decision.
Valve is a friendlier company, but a really powerful Steam machine isn't going to do you much good. You still need a powerful Windows machine to run most of the AAA games, which will then stream to the Steam Machine thin client.
If Linux gaming gains traction due to the Steam Machine, and I hope it does, a powerful one would become useful at that time. One you buy now will be out of date and worth much less than you paid by the time it's actually useful.
No, it means any feature they put in solely to bypass import taxes might go away when the tax situation changes.
OtherOS was never used by the PS3s target market, so was never missed by the vast majority of users. They did not take away game functionality or limit BluRay playback.
If you're going to hate Sony, the rootkit from their music division is a much better justification.
>Too often "communication" translates to "you are not my drinking buddy".
It can also mean don't be an introverted dork who's only there to work. People will dislike you if you only communicate with them when you need something.
Source: I was once an introverted dork, but got medicated for my social-dysfunction, and am now an outgoing person who gets along well with co-workers.
I think "stupidity" is too strong a word. A person of average intelligence wouldn't be capable of managing a project that large. "Mediocrity" might be closer to the truth.
>I didn't think I'd like ebooks since I like the paper versions so much, but over the past two years I've actually come around to the idea and now like it very much.
I believe that many of us went through this. We started with an emotional attachment to physical books, then realized that being able to carry 50 backpacks full of books in our pocket makes more sense now that portable devices have very nice screens.
Why would you lump absolutely critical sex-ed, and accurate info on climate change in with an absurd piracy lesson? Do you identify with the ignorant religious conservatives?
Sex-ed isn't a moral lesson, it's a biology lesson. The people trying to remove it from schools, or make it a "moral" lesson, are generally totally unethical religious crazies who want to deprive kids of accurate info. The same folks want to put their superstitions in science class. We all have an obligation to never let religious extremists limit education. People who can't handle reality should not be passing along their dysfunction to the next generation.
It would be pretty easy to MITM GPG encryption for anyone with control of the site. Simply display FBI or DEA controlled public keys for all sellers when logged in as anyone but the seller, the TLA agency then reads and forwards the message re-encrypted under the dealer's actual GPG key. The dealer never notices a problem unless they log in as someone else and review their own key. Whether this would work or not depends on the diligence of drug dealers.
XP is very much inferior to Windows 7 or 8. A single process can stall out every application on an XP machine. Under Windows 7 or 8, and probably even Vista, the same process is forced to share the CPU so the machine is still usable.
We're not going to stop helping people internationally in the case of major disasters no matter how much ugly, selfish people want to stop aid. Americans aren't overall so selfish and deeply stupid as to deny help.
Even if one is selfish but not completely stupid, they'll understand that other nations come running when we need help too.
Yep, but many of the ignorant Snowden supporters see anything that mentions his crimes as an attack. This primarily reveals total incompetence at the NSA, allowing a contractor to steal data.
Agree completely. This is pretty amazingly incompetent. I'm beginning to think that the major danger to the NSA collecting all the data they do is that they can't be trusted to follow the most basic security practices, so completely fail to secure the data.
I agree with much of your post, but believe that suicides should be included in the stats. To exclude them would be to pretend that making suicide extremely easy by owning a gun wasn't a problem.
>No shit, Sherlock. Ever tried smoking some nutmeg? Not that I would recommend it, but it's perfectly legal to possess and, when smoked, is purported to have >psychotropic qualities.
What? No. No one smokes nutmeg, but some people have eaten large quantities of it for it's horrible effect on the mind and body. (Don't do it)
>Granted, I haven't actually tried that one myself, but I can tell you that smoking dried banana peels can get you pretty fucked up.
No you can't. That hoax dates back to my father's teenage years, and I'm pretty old myself.
Usually I get mildly annoyed when people sign their posts, since it's not normally done and I'm obviously inappropriately uptight about a silly little thing, but yours with the "take care", rather than just a name, is just plain nice.
You're being goofy. It's completely understandable that people are annoyed that they can't just put their PS4 where their PS3 had been due to the lack of backward compatibility. Sony was one of the companies that trained their customers to expect it, and could have delivered it if not for the huge misstep of using the Cell Processor in the PS3 rather than a PC-like system.
I own 2 360s, the first a release console, and the second its replacement because I wanted HDMI output. No problems at all, which I credit a 3rd party 360 fan for.
Anyone who didn't add one of the inexpensive 3rd party cooling solutions might as well have put their 360 in the oven. Once we knew there was a problem, it was easily solved by the end-user.
Yes, we shouldn't have had to do that, but it did solve the problem easily. Shame on MS for your first failure, but the rest were your own fault if you didn't add cooling and just kept doing the same thing over and over again getting the same outcome each time.
I bought my PS3 to play exclusive games, not because I ruined my 360.
Isn't that about a worst-case scenario for people who aren't still using dial-up modems?
I could get DSL that slow if I wanted a 1998 Internet experience, but cable is much, much faster.
There was a time that I'd rather have the media, but one day I realized that my instinct to collect stuff like that was a mild version of hoarding. I'd much rather have clean shelves and read my media off of hard drives these days. There's still some hoarding going on in my life, collecting 1s and 0s on hard drives, but at least it doesn't take up physical space in my home.
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You're easily disturbed. They did this so they don't have to pay BluRay license fees for people who never play a BluRay on their PS4. It was a sound business decision.
Valve is a friendlier company, but a really powerful Steam machine isn't going to do you much good. You still need a powerful Windows machine to run most of the AAA games, which will then stream to the Steam Machine thin client.
If Linux gaming gains traction due to the Steam Machine, and I hope it does, a powerful one would become useful at that time. One you buy now will be out of date and worth much less than you paid by the time it's actually useful.
No, it means any feature they put in solely to bypass import taxes might go away when the tax situation changes. OtherOS was never used by the PS3s target market, so was never missed by the vast majority of users. They did not take away game functionality or limit BluRay playback.
If you're going to hate Sony, the rootkit from their music division is a much better justification.
This is the best advice so far. We have no idea what's going on in his manager's head, so he's asking the wrong people.
>Too often "communication" translates to "you are not my drinking buddy".
It can also mean don't be an introverted dork who's only there to work. People will dislike you if you only communicate with them when you need something.
Source: I was once an introverted dork, but got medicated for my social-dysfunction, and am now an outgoing person who gets along well with co-workers.
> but why are people using online wallets beyond coins in motion...?
Do you really need to ask why people are behaving foolishly? Most people just don't think about security.
In this case the "bank" is the robbers. This is very different from your typical heist.
I think "stupidity" is too strong a word. A person of average intelligence wouldn't be capable of managing a project that large. "Mediocrity" might be closer to the truth.
>I didn't think I'd like ebooks since I like the paper versions so much, but over the past two years I've actually come around to the idea and now like it very much.
I believe that many of us went through this. We started with an emotional attachment to physical books, then realized that being able to carry 50 backpacks full of books in our pocket makes more sense now that portable devices have very nice screens.
Why would you lump absolutely critical sex-ed, and accurate info on climate change in with an absurd piracy lesson? Do you identify with the ignorant religious conservatives?
Sex-ed isn't a moral lesson, it's a biology lesson. The people trying to remove it from schools, or make it a "moral" lesson, are generally totally unethical religious crazies who want to deprive kids of accurate info. The same folks want to put their superstitions in science class. We all have an obligation to never let religious extremists limit education. People who can't handle reality should not be passing along their dysfunction to the next generation.
It would be pretty easy to MITM GPG encryption for anyone with control of the site. Simply display FBI or DEA controlled public keys for all sellers when logged in as anyone but the seller, the TLA agency then reads and forwards the message re-encrypted under the dealer's actual GPG key. The dealer never notices a problem unless they log in as someone else and review their own key. Whether this would work or not depends on the diligence of drug dealers.
XP is very much inferior to Windows 7 or 8. A single process can stall out every application on an XP machine. Under Windows 7 or 8, and probably even Vista, the same process is forced to share the CPU so the machine is still usable.
What's to decrypt? The government has the wallet, which just means that they have the private keys and can manage the bitcoins.
We're not going to stop helping people internationally in the case of major disasters no matter how much ugly, selfish people want to stop aid. Americans aren't overall so selfish and deeply stupid as to deny help.
Even if one is selfish but not completely stupid, they'll understand that other nations come running when we need help too.
Yep, but many of the ignorant Snowden supporters see anything that mentions his crimes as an attack. This primarily reveals total incompetence at the NSA, allowing a contractor to steal data.
Agree completely. This is pretty amazingly incompetent. I'm beginning to think that the major danger to the NSA collecting all the data they do is that they can't be trusted to follow the most basic security practices, so completely fail to secure the data.
I agree with much of your post, but believe that suicides should be included in the stats. To exclude them would be to pretend that making suicide extremely easy by owning a gun wasn't a problem.
>No shit, Sherlock. Ever tried smoking some nutmeg? Not that I would recommend it, but it's perfectly legal to possess and, when smoked, is purported to have >psychotropic qualities.
What? No. No one smokes nutmeg, but some people have eaten large quantities of it for it's horrible effect on the mind and body. (Don't do it)
>Granted, I haven't actually tried that one myself, but I can tell you that smoking dried banana peels can get you pretty fucked up.
No you can't. That hoax dates back to my father's teenage years, and I'm pretty old myself.
>which is why I didn't really want to relate smoking to it (as smoking does "have" a reason why people do it: they enjoy it),
People enjoy smoking crack way more than cigarettes. Should that also not be banned because "liberty?"
Having your arteries clogged is a much higher price to pay.
Usually I get mildly annoyed when people sign their posts, since it's not normally done and I'm obviously inappropriately uptight about a silly little thing, but yours with the "take care", rather than just a name, is just plain nice.
You're being goofy. It's completely understandable that people are annoyed that they can't just put their PS4 where their PS3 had been due to the lack of backward compatibility. Sony was one of the companies that trained their customers to expect it, and could have delivered it if not for the huge misstep of using the Cell Processor in the PS3 rather than a PC-like system.
I own 2 360s, the first a release console, and the second its replacement because I wanted HDMI output. No problems at all, which I credit a 3rd party 360 fan for.
Anyone who didn't add one of the inexpensive 3rd party cooling solutions might as well have put their 360 in the oven. Once we knew there was a problem, it was easily solved by the end-user.
Yes, we shouldn't have had to do that, but it did solve the problem easily. Shame on MS for your first failure, but the rest were your own fault if you didn't add cooling and just kept doing the same thing over and over again getting the same outcome each time.
I bought my PS3 to play exclusive games, not because I ruined my 360.
Isn't that about a worst-case scenario for people who aren't still using dial-up modems? I could get DSL that slow if I wanted a 1998 Internet experience, but cable is much, much faster.
There was a time that I'd rather have the media, but one day I realized that my instinct to collect stuff like that was a mild version of hoarding. I'd much rather have clean shelves and read my media off of hard drives these days. There's still some hoarding going on in my life, collecting 1s and 0s on hard drives, but at least it doesn't take up physical space in my home.