You're right. It'll either be broken or it'll just deep-six the format.
I wish these jackasses would just stop wasting time, money and other resources telling people how they should consume content and put the cash they save towards...more/better content.
Fuck me! If they'd just stop with this idiotic shit, I'd look the other way and CHEER if they just used the saved cash to line their own pockets!
Look at the current situation of Blu-Ray.
There are NO free players out there that work reliably.
Most Blu-Ray player software, that isn't the trial versions that come with a drive, costs between $50 and $70 And all the PAID ones stop working for newer disks and force you to pay AGAIN to upgrade 4-12 months after purchase. Not to mention most of these programs are buggy as shit too.
Something like AnyDVD costs the US equivalent of $90 with updates for 2 years (and can be bought with lifetime support/upgrades for $130). And you can recycle an old PC, toss in a few disks and BOOM! Media server! At that point, it's actually less hassle and expense to RIP a Blu-Ray to a video file than it is to LEGITIMATELY play the disk!
Why? All this stupid DRM crap standing between the content makers, the content and the consumer.
A Mac is basically a UEFI x86 box running on non-standard hardware. It will happily allow a recent Windows version to be installed on it, with or without BootCamp. In fact, in some scenarios, if one compares hardware features to hardware features, and steps into the reality distortion field, Apple's offerings actually feel cheaper than the PCs with the exact same specs.
Of course, Apple isn't really gunning for the enterprise, mostly because they can't handle it and thus, don't want it, in addition to the fact that most enterprise implementers wouldn't put up with their clown-shoes support antics, so some company ordering 10,000 iMacs with a specific company-custom Windows image isn't likely, but their hardware is definitely usable, so long as you don't mind paying for what's essentially a branding fee.
Okay. Went through and converted that to English from Mac Fanboi.
Yeah. Must be the buyers who are braindead, not people like yourself (and CmdrTaco) who can't see what Apple actually does bring to the table.
So, they bring MMO-style gambling to the purchase of a watch?
REVOLUTIONARY!
Hundreds of years of watchmaking, and we've been waiting for THIS!.........
Oh PLEASE!
Turning insufficient supply of a crappy product into gambling opportunity for all of the sheeple.
What next? The Apple Pen? The Apple Shoe? The Apple Belt?
Oh! I know! The Apple WALL SOCKET!
Like a regular wall socket, but white, with an embossed, glow in the dark Apple logo!
Seriously, Apple could package fresh feces, say it came from Steve Jobs, and millions of fanboys would real-life deathmatch for the opportunity to buy it.
That's roughly a quarter acre lot per house. About 11,000 square feet. Even if the houses only occupy a quarter of that, you're still talking a 2500-3000 square foot house.
Basically, if it isn't XBox and a big name, Microsoft has NO idea how to handle it. So all the schmucks in their gaming divisions play ego games and try to fuck with the studios as much as they can. What a studio needs is strong enough leadership to tell these little pissant middlemen to fuck the hell off and go right over them whenever they attempt to interfere.
Like any other software project, you stick to the spec you're paid for. Changes require more money. PERIOD. No discussions.
If you're using a typewriter, you're looking directly at the content you're supposed to be typing. You're not looking at the pieces of paper on the roller that you're actually typing.
Sorry, but if you create a system with a security compromising flaw in it, even a well hidden, obfuscated, extremely well guarded flaw, someone aside from the "intended" users of said compromise are going to use it to break in.
The government's "need to know" does NOT trump my right to privacy. And if there's a real problem with that, they'd better be overtly bringing soldiers in to try to make me comply.
Sorry, but typewriters are ANYTHING but computer screens on paper.
With a typewriter, you're looking at the copy you're typing instead of what you're actually typing. If you're looking at what you're typing You Are Doing It Wrong.
The only thing they share is that, hey, QWERTY keyboard!
The first-gen Rift headsets are bulky, heavy, and have a low enough resolution and flicker to make most people ill after a short period of use.
Even the second-gen ones aren't really good enough.
I'd say, two, three more solid generations before this is "ready for everyone", mostly meaning early adopter wannabes who can't handle the current paradigm.
This option exposes the company to the least amount of possible damage the user could do. Lock all his accounts down. Obtain password lists to any external (but still company) resources this person may have had. Hand him his check. Thank him for his work. Watch him clean out his desk. Escort him out on his 2 week vacation.
People think it's rude and heartless. I've seen people leave companies on ostensibly "friendly" terms, only to come back and find that said "friend" fucked them over, delete a bunch of stuff, stole things, etc.
So, give the outgoing employee your respect, but DON'T continue to give them access to company resources. The amount of money lost in "productivity" is inconsequential compared to the time and money that could be lost by someone cleaning you out.
And sure, it's never happened to YOU...until it happens to you.
So she can finish bottoming out the economy, put the country into full repo, and then all government forms will come with 17 pages of ads and all government websites will auto-load crapware and malware?
I currently have a $250 bill in collections from those jackasses at AT&T.
Several years ago, my landlords booted Comcast out and went with some fly-by-night Satellite/DSL reseller.
I'm eligible for 4G Service through Clearwire, but I'm on a SW facing of a brick, concrete and steel building, with the nearest antenna being NE of me. So I would get 1 bar connectivity most of the time. Totally untenable for anything other than web surfing.
As such, I'm stuck on AT&T DSL. I'm currently grandfathered into a 6Mbit/512K plan. Recently I'd started getting notices about exceeding my bandwidth cap. So I took a look at their business DSL. A bit more expensive, but at least it was a controlled cost, unlike capped consumer service. I ask to make sure I can still maintain the same speeds I have now, as my upstream speed is BARELY able to accommodate my IP phone (heavy internet traffic causes my phone to start chopping up). I get told "yeah yeah yeah" to pretty much everything I ask. The day they show up to do the switchover, I get told that I'm getting 3Mbit/384K and went "whoa". Apparently they stopped offering 6Mbit in my area because most of the lines are in need of replacement. And AT&T isn't going to invest in infrastructure in this area until they are FORCED to (due to fear of being getting fucked over the way Comcast was). I immediately cancelled. Yet they stuck me with a $250 bill.
For what? A service I never used and never should have been sold? All because one of their sales-fucks wanted to make quota?
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You're right. It'll either be broken or it'll just deep-six the format.
I wish these jackasses would just stop wasting time, money and other resources telling people how they should consume content and put the cash they save towards...more/better content.
Fuck me! If they'd just stop with this idiotic shit, I'd look the other way and CHEER if they just used the saved cash to line their own pockets!
Look at the current situation of Blu-Ray.
There are NO free players out there that work reliably.
Most Blu-Ray player software, that isn't the trial versions that come with a drive, costs between $50 and $70
And all the PAID ones stop working for newer disks and force you to pay AGAIN to upgrade 4-12 months after purchase. Not to mention most of these programs are buggy as shit too.
Something like AnyDVD costs the US equivalent of $90 with updates for 2 years (and can be bought with lifetime support/upgrades for $130).
And you can recycle an old PC, toss in a few disks and BOOM! Media server!
At that point, it's actually less hassle and expense to RIP a Blu-Ray to a video file than it is to LEGITIMATELY play the disk!
Why? All this stupid DRM crap standing between the content makers, the content and the consumer.
Systemd? No thanks.
Upon approaching the Neutral Zone with the RIAA, we have encountered an immensely powerful Stupid Field.
But it's okay! We're drinking like fish and flinging poo at each other while Mr. Snot attempts to bore a hole in the outer hull and let space in...
Man. And I thought Apple fanboys lived in a powerful RDF!
A Mac is basically a UEFI x86 box running on non-standard hardware. It will happily allow a recent Windows version to be installed on it, with or without BootCamp. In fact, in some scenarios, if one compares hardware features to hardware features, and steps into the reality distortion field, Apple's offerings actually feel cheaper than the PCs with the exact same specs.
Of course, Apple isn't really gunning for the enterprise, mostly because they can't handle it and thus, don't want it, in addition to the fact that most enterprise implementers wouldn't put up with their clown-shoes support antics, so some company ordering 10,000 iMacs with a specific company-custom Windows image isn't likely, but their hardware is definitely usable, so long as you don't mind paying for what's essentially a branding fee.
Okay. Went through and converted that to English from Mac Fanboi.
FTFY.
Yeah. Must be the buyers who are braindead, not people like yourself (and CmdrTaco) who can't see what Apple actually does bring to the table.
So, they bring MMO-style gambling to the purchase of a watch?
REVOLUTIONARY!
Hundreds of years of watchmaking, and we've been waiting for THIS! ... ... ...
Oh PLEASE!
Turning insufficient supply of a crappy product into gambling opportunity for all of the sheeple.
What next? The Apple Pen? The Apple Shoe? The Apple Belt?
Oh! I know! The Apple WALL SOCKET!
Like a regular wall socket, but white, with an embossed, glow in the dark Apple logo!
Seriously, Apple could package fresh feces, say it came from Steve Jobs, and millions of fanboys would real-life deathmatch for the opportunity to buy it.
"Security" isn't a product.
It's a process, aided by tools.
Unfortunately, the "security industry" is also abetted by "tools" too.
224 houses on 52 acres?
That's roughly a quarter acre lot per house. About 11,000 square feet.
Even if the houses only occupy a quarter of that, you're still talking a 2500-3000 square foot house.
That's just it. Inevitably, there will ALWAYS be an imbalance of power.
What is left in a situation of total surveillance is NOT a society. It's a panopticon prison ward. And the only rule is "thou shalt not get caught".
Right now I suspect it's only a matter of time and bribery before they deliver a de facto or fait accompli merger, regardless of what anyone says.
I have zero faith in either wing of the US political monoparty's desire to actually stop this.
Yes. Because embedded graphics on a ULV mobile CPU is EXACTLY what people are talking about when they talk about comparisons...
Le sigh...
We'll have a real, honest-to-goodness 1995 level OS in time for 2045!
Like everything else ever submitted by that joke site.
"Sorry. But I'm never going to do this. So, politely, fuck off!"
Basically, if it isn't XBox and a big name, Microsoft has NO idea how to handle it.
So all the schmucks in their gaming divisions play ego games and try to fuck with the studios as much as they can.
What a studio needs is strong enough leadership to tell these little pissant middlemen to fuck the hell off and go right over them whenever they attempt to interfere.
Like any other software project, you stick to the spec you're paid for. Changes require more money. PERIOD. No discussions.
If you're using a typewriter, you're looking directly at the content you're supposed to be typing. You're not looking at the pieces of paper on the roller that you're actually typing.
Sorry, but if you create a system with a security compromising flaw in it, even a well hidden, obfuscated, extremely well guarded flaw, someone aside from the "intended" users of said compromise are going to use it to break in.
The government's "need to know" does NOT trump my right to privacy. And if there's a real problem with that, they'd better be overtly bringing soldiers in to try to make me comply.
Sorry, but typewriters are ANYTHING but computer screens on paper.
With a typewriter, you're looking at the copy you're typing instead of what you're actually typing. If you're looking at what you're typing You Are Doing It Wrong.
The only thing they share is that, hey, QWERTY keyboard!
I have a first and second gen rift, and while there is definitely room for improvement, they aren't nearly as bad as you are making out.
Having actually USED both, I can say that yes, they ARE.
The first gen is something I can use for about 20 minutes before I break out in sweats.
Any longer and it's massive headaches and nausea.
The second gen, it's maybe about 30 minutes.
A business partner of mine can't stand more than about 10 minutes on either.
I couldn't use something like this as a workaday desktop. I just can't.
The first-gen Rift headsets are bulky, heavy, and have a low enough resolution and flicker to make most people ill after a short period of use.
Even the second-gen ones aren't really good enough.
I'd say, two, three more solid generations before this is "ready for everyone", mostly meaning early adopter wannabes who can't handle the current paradigm.
They've be MUCH more secure when they're 6 feet under.
Confirm Radical Islam as our national religion!
Time to get me some 40 virgins! And hope they're not ugly, hairy GUYS!
Seriously.
This option exposes the company to the least amount of possible damage the user could do.
Lock all his accounts down.
Obtain password lists to any external (but still company) resources this person may have had.
Hand him his check.
Thank him for his work.
Watch him clean out his desk.
Escort him out on his 2 week vacation.
People think it's rude and heartless.
I've seen people leave companies on ostensibly "friendly" terms, only to come back and find that said "friend" fucked them over, delete a bunch of stuff, stole things, etc.
So, give the outgoing employee your respect, but DON'T continue to give them access to company resources.
The amount of money lost in "productivity" is inconsequential compared to the time and money that could be lost by someone cleaning you out.
And sure, it's never happened to YOU...until it happens to you.
So she can finish bottoming out the economy, put the country into full repo, and then all government forms will come with 17 pages of ads and all government websites will auto-load crapware and malware?
May Fiorina burn in hell!
I currently have a $250 bill in collections from those jackasses at AT&T.
Several years ago, my landlords booted Comcast out and went with some fly-by-night Satellite/DSL reseller.
I'm eligible for 4G Service through Clearwire, but I'm on a SW facing of a brick, concrete and steel building, with the nearest antenna being NE of me. So I would get 1 bar connectivity most of the time. Totally untenable for anything other than web surfing.
As such, I'm stuck on AT&T DSL. I'm currently grandfathered into a 6Mbit/512K plan.
Recently I'd started getting notices about exceeding my bandwidth cap.
So I took a look at their business DSL. A bit more expensive, but at least it was a controlled cost, unlike capped consumer service.
I ask to make sure I can still maintain the same speeds I have now, as my upstream speed is BARELY able to accommodate my IP phone (heavy internet traffic causes my phone to start chopping up).
I get told "yeah yeah yeah" to pretty much everything I ask.
The day they show up to do the switchover, I get told that I'm getting 3Mbit/384K and went "whoa".
Apparently they stopped offering 6Mbit in my area because most of the lines are in need of replacement. And AT&T isn't going to invest in infrastructure in this area until they are FORCED to (due to fear of being getting fucked over the way Comcast was).
I immediately cancelled. Yet they stuck me with a $250 bill.
For what? A service I never used and never should have been sold? All because one of their sales-fucks wanted to make quota?
Uh uh!
A company who hosts its servers in random people's houses?
While an interesting social experiment, this looks like a very self-limiting market.