Based on this review, actually, I think I'll give the Compute Stick a miss. The fundamental problem is that it tries to cram a whole PC on a USB stick, with predictably dodgy results. I have a whole fully-powered PC sitting upstairs - I just need to forward its video/audio downstairs, and my keyboard/mouse input upstairs!
- Wireless HDMI (can be expensive to get low latency, doesn't do anything for peripherals) - Wireless USB hub (can be expensive last I checked, no clue how good it actually is)
I'm starting to think that using these two in tandem is the best I'm gonna get. Ideally there would be a product that bundled them up into one high-quality WiFi connection, but I'm not seeing such a product sadly.
Not necessarily cheap, but basically yes, your summary is correct. I probably wouldn't watch much media with it, and if I did, I'd probably be satisfied with low(ish) quality.
Otherwise, why not just use what you already have and set up network shares on the PC?
Because I'm thinking of more interactive things that just video, in addition. Like browsing the web and doing email stuff. Maybe even some Visual Studio development. It can just be nicer doing that in the living room on a comfy sofa with the TV than in the study.
There are some issues in what you want to do. Some free video sites go to great lengths to prevent you from watching them on a TV
This solution would involve streaming the video from the PC onto the TV. If it can be streamed onto the PC, it could be streamed onto the TV. I'm not really seeing the problem there.
Basically I'm looking for a solution that would be just like plugging a laptop into a TV, but instead, it's wirelessly connecting a desktop (probably using WiFi).
I don't see how AirTame fulfils my requirements. It doesn't have slots I can plug a keyboard/mouse into, interactive with the upstairs PC. It's still just about streaming audio/video one-way.
Yeah, but this is a bit of a "when you have to" instance. Running wires all the way downstairs isn't really much of an option. Surely these days we have reliable enough WiFi to allow this, if the WiFi hotspot were dedicated to this sole purpose?
It doesn't seem to be quite what I'm looking for, though; instead of forwarding through the video/audio/USB/etc. from my main PC, it actually acts as a separate computer. I'm literally looking to just take remote control of the PC as if it were sitting there wired up to the TV.
That just goes to show that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. As far as I can tell, EVERYTHING has become a monochrome "white-on-dark" or "black-on-white" mid-90's style WordArt icon, to the point where you can't tell some of them apart. They look butt ugly. Why UX people these days think that removing colour from the icons/glyphs, an important visual clue as to the icon's meaning, is beyond me. I'll keep my colourful Windiows 7, thanks. It doesn't run on a mobile phone, but I don't need or want it to.
In practice, your friend is extremely rare. Virtually everyone wants to stream some live video, whether on TV or thru the internet, and it's utterly unfair that they should have to pay for the Biased Bullshit Corporation in order to do so. My point stands.
introduce subscriptions, but this is more problematic than it seems at first glance. Would still need geoblocking + subscriptions for outside the geoblock, because otherwise the current practice in the UK of not caring where and what I'm streaming to will fall apart
You just talked about introducing subscriptions. So yeah, you would ditch the practice of "not caring where and what they are streaming to". The TV licence is an anachronism that should have been scrapped DECADES ago. It hangs on because enough people like enough BBC programming that they selfishly think EVERYONE in the UK should have to pay for it. Well I don't.
Great. Now when are they going to offer IPv6? A gigabit bandwidth should be enough for anyone (for the new few 100 years anyway) so time to start concentrating on native IPv6 support as the next "killer feature".
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You recently tweeted that no one who isn't transgender should voice opinions on transgender issues yet you regularly voice your own opinion on these issues. Is this a tacit "coming out" of your own transgender past, and if so, what does it mean for your own position as a representative and "megaphone" for women's issues and how you speak to the personal history of growing up as a woman?
You recently ran a successful campaign to get your game approved on Steam's greenlight. What approaches did you use to get your game ranked high enough to be greenlit. What do you feel had the biggest impact in getting the numbers? What suggestions do you have for other Indie Game Developers who want to get their games approved on Steam's greenlight system?
Considering you have spoken out in the past about female characters in games being overtly sexualized, could you explain why the protagonists of your own game Revolution 60 wear what appears to be skintight lycra to show off their perfect hourglass figures?
And that's just a few that didn't get modded down. Many of the +5 best questions early on got "mysteriously" modded down to -1 flamebait by.... somebody. Like this one which was at +5 funny when I remember reading it a few days ago:
Ms. Wu, when sending yourself harassment over steam [theralphretort.com] or twitter and faking having to leave your house [theralphretort.com] over harassment in response to trolling people, do you find TOR or a more traditional anonymous proxy to be more effective?
Why would you rather do Mars? Seriously, what is a manned Mars mission gonna get us?
We already know plenty about Mars, owing to all the probes we've send (and are sending) there. At least two things interest me more than having a one-off manned mission to Mars right now: a space elevator, and a permanent Lunar colony. One would make sending stuff into space drastically cheaper, and the other would begin the permanent expansion of the human race to other worlds (which is just cool in itself IMHO). But a manned mission to Mars? What is it, $100bn, so that a handful of people can touch the Martian soil, which we have a pretty good idea of already. Basically a waste of time and money at this point.
Security is becoming more important than getting things done. This excuse of "this security update will break something I need" has been over used to keep security holes open. In this connected world, your security hole is my problem too. It is like storing a 50 gallon drum of gasoline in your garage. You might have excellent reasons for doing so, but it is a fire hazard for the neighbors.
Except that Microsoft have recently been abusing the Windows 7 and Windows 8 update systems to spam Windows 10 to EVERY Windows user through an unremovable (without a registry hack) icon in the system tray. So if MS decides to abuse the update system again to do whatever they want to your system, you can't even stop them.
Twice, I have been at a red light turning right, started to go and stopped, (having seen vehicles coming too quickly for me to pull out safely) and been rear ended by people who thought I was going. Clearly I was not at fault but that start-stop action was definitely a factor.
Frankly, it sounds like US drivers are just fucking terrible. I guess it's because you have very lax driving tests and never ban anyone from driving (in any kind of serious way), but I've NEVER been rear-ended in the UK because of something like that. People just fucking well pay attention.
I was surprised at how low resolution the picture of Hydra was - like 10px by 5px.:-) Didn't they take any higher-res shots of it than that? You'd think they'd pick one of the higher res ones to send first if so.
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Based on this review, actually, I think I'll give the Compute Stick a miss. The fundamental problem is that it tries to cram a whole PC on a USB stick, with predictably dodgy results. I have a whole fully-powered PC sitting upstairs - I just need to forward its video/audio downstairs, and my keyboard/mouse input upstairs!
- Wireless HDMI (can be expensive to get low latency, doesn't do anything for peripherals)
- Wireless USB hub (can be expensive last I checked, no clue how good it actually is)
I'm starting to think that using these two in tandem is the best I'm gonna get. Ideally there would be a product that bundled them up into one high-quality WiFi connection, but I'm not seeing such a product sadly.
Not necessarily cheap, but basically yes, your summary is correct. I probably wouldn't watch much media with it, and if I did, I'd probably be satisfied with low(ish) quality.
I'm one of those old-fashioned people who isn't obsessed with widescreen, and I only use a 1280x1024 resolution on my PC; not 1080p.
Otherwise, why not just use what you already have and set up network shares on the PC?
Because I'm thinking of more interactive things that just video, in addition. Like browsing the web and doing email stuff. Maybe even some Visual Studio development. It can just be nicer doing that in the living room on a comfy sofa with the TV than in the study.
There are some issues in what you want to do. Some free video sites go to great lengths to prevent you from watching them on a TV
This solution would involve streaming the video from the PC onto the TV. If it can be streamed onto the PC, it could be streamed onto the TV. I'm not really seeing the problem there.
Basically I'm looking for a solution that would be just like plugging a laptop into a TV, but instead, it's wirelessly connecting a desktop (probably using WiFi).
That's not all I want to do. I want to interactively control my computer from in front of my TV, too.
I don't see how AirTame fulfils my requirements. It doesn't have slots I can plug a keyboard/mouse into, interactive with the upstairs PC. It's still just about streaming audio/video one-way.
Yeah, but this is a bit of a "when you have to" instance. Running wires all the way downstairs isn't really much of an option. Surely these days we have reliable enough WiFi to allow this, if the WiFi hotspot were dedicated to this sole purpose?
It doesn't seem to be quite what I'm looking for, though; instead of forwarding through the video/audio/USB/etc. from my main PC, it actually acts as a separate computer. I'm literally looking to just take remote control of the PC as if it were sitting there wired up to the TV.
The UI in 10 does look nice
That just goes to show that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. As far as I can tell, EVERYTHING has become a monochrome "white-on-dark" or "black-on-white" mid-90's style WordArt icon, to the point where you can't tell some of them apart. They look butt ugly. Why UX people these days think that removing colour from the icons/glyphs, an important visual clue as to the icon's meaning, is beyond me. I'll keep my colourful Windiows 7, thanks. It doesn't run on a mobile phone, but I don't need or want it to.
In practice, your friend is extremely rare. Virtually everyone wants to stream some live video, whether on TV or thru the internet, and it's utterly unfair that they should have to pay for the Biased Bullshit Corporation in order to do so. My point stands.
introduce subscriptions, but this is more problematic than it seems at first glance. Would still need geoblocking + subscriptions for outside the geoblock, because otherwise the current practice in the UK of not caring where and what I'm streaming to will fall apart
You just talked about introducing subscriptions. So yeah, you would ditch the practice of "not caring where and what they are streaming to". The TV licence is an anachronism that should have been scrapped DECADES ago. It hangs on because enough people like enough BBC programming that they selfishly think EVERYONE in the UK should have to pay for it. Well I don't.
Great. Now when are they going to offer IPv6? A gigabit bandwidth should be enough for anyone (for the new few 100 years anyway) so time to start concentrating on native IPv6 support as the next "killer feature".
Anyone have a mirror of this stuff?
Heh. Literally the first words out of my mouth were "Is that something from Monty Python? because it's not at all funny."
Bullshit.
Several questions were at +4 or +5 for days, and then suddenly got modded down to -1. That is pretty blatant abuse of the modding system by someone.
Transgender voice?
You recently tweeted that no one who isn't transgender should voice opinions on transgender issues yet you regularly voice your own opinion on these issues. Is this a tacit "coming out" of your own transgender past, and if so, what does it mean for your own position as a representative and "megaphone" for women's issues and how you speak to the personal history of growing up as a woman?
Steam Greenlight
You recently ran a successful campaign to get your game approved on Steam's greenlight. What approaches did you use to get your game ranked high enough to be greenlit. What do you feel had the biggest impact in getting the numbers? What suggestions do you have for other Indie Game Developers who want to get their games approved on Steam's greenlight system?
Regarding your own game
Considering you have spoken out in the past about female characters in games being overtly sexualized, could you explain why the protagonists of your own game Revolution 60 wear what appears to be skintight lycra to show off their perfect hourglass figures?
And that's just a few that didn't get modded down. Many of the +5 best questions early on got "mysteriously" modded down to -1 flamebait by.... somebody. Like this one which was at +5 funny when I remember reading it a few days ago:
On Managing a Patreon Campaign
Ms. Wu, when sending yourself harassment over steam [theralphretort.com] or twitter and faking having to leave your house [theralphretort.com] over harassment in response to trolling people, do you find TOR or a more traditional anonymous proxy to be more effective?
A bunch more were mysteriously modded down.
It started with an insane screed by a jilted ex-boyfriend
So what part of the "insane screed" agaisnt Zoe Quinn are you claiming was untrue? And on what evidence?
Let's spend it building a space elevator so future space exploration is much cheaper and easier!
Why would you rather do Mars? Seriously, what is a manned Mars mission gonna get us?
We already know plenty about Mars, owing to all the probes we've send (and are sending) there. At least two things interest me more than having a one-off manned mission to Mars right now: a space elevator, and a permanent Lunar colony. One would make sending stuff into space drastically cheaper, and the other would begin the permanent expansion of the human race to other worlds (which is just cool in itself IMHO). But a manned mission to Mars? What is it, $100bn, so that a handful of people can touch the Martian soil, which we have a pretty good idea of already. Basically a waste of time and money at this point.
Security is becoming more important than getting things done. This excuse of "this security update will break something I need" has been over used to keep security holes open. In this connected world, your security hole is my problem too. It is like storing a 50 gallon drum of gasoline in your garage. You might have excellent reasons for doing so, but it is a fire hazard for the neighbors.
Except that Microsoft have recently been abusing the Windows 7 and Windows 8 update systems to spam Windows 10 to EVERY Windows user through an unremovable (without a registry hack) icon in the system tray. So if MS decides to abuse the update system again to do whatever they want to your system, you can't even stop them.
Twice, I have been at a red light turning right, started to go and stopped, (having seen vehicles coming too quickly for me to pull out safely) and been rear ended by people who thought I was going. Clearly I was not at fault but that start-stop action was definitely a factor.
Frankly, it sounds like US drivers are just fucking terrible. I guess it's because you have very lax driving tests and never ban anyone from driving (in any kind of serious way), but I've NEVER been rear-ended in the UK because of something like that. People just fucking well pay attention.
I was surprised at how low resolution the picture of Hydra was - like 10px by 5px. :-) Didn't they take any higher-res shots of it than that? You'd think they'd pick one of the higher res ones to send first if so.
In fact the core technology of the 2 main imaging devices, LORRI and RALPH, was British.