I believe that the food itself is probably OK for human consumption although GMO food (especially tomatoes) does seem to have much less and/or odd flavour. I think the biggest risk about GMO food is oddly overlooked, and that is that it will lead to a varietal monoculture controlled by a single company (Monsanto). Do you really want a single corporate with their thumb on all corn production for example? Do you really want to loose your choices of different varieties of things? Also look at what happens when a disease hits a monoculture, It already happened to bananas in 1965, and even todays bananas still seriously risk going extinct. http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/22/...
> there's a less than one in a thousand chance that the DVD player actually contains a disc with a Harry Potter movie
How on earth did you figure this? This is bullshit science. You are at least totally ignoring the owners personal taste.
> A Tesla owner would be much more likely to be watching a more recent release
I'm totally calling bullshit on this. I could easily afford a Tesla (just don't want one) and I haven't bought a DVD in years, so most of the DVDs I own are over a decade old.
Judging by some of the houses and supercars I see just driving around in Scottsdale AZ, Its probably pocket change to a surprisngly large amount of people.
> but you still have to pick one or the other. And these days, if you are really into games you don't have much choice but to be screwed over
Yes you absolutely do have a choice to not be screwed over, or at least to very much minimize the risk:
1) Don;t buy Xbox. I don't remember ever hearing Sony pulling the plug on peoples already purchased software. I don't follow Microsoft but even I have heard of at least 3 times now that Microsoft have done it.
>> That's just bizarre. Incomprehensible. Smells like poor management.
Not really. They've discovered that the public really are mostly made up of schmucks who will still queue up to buy the next XBox no matter how much Microsoft fuck their own customers over.
This is far from the first time that Microsoft have totally cut off users from DRM'd content that they have already bought. Its already very well-known that Microsoft clearly feel free to fuck their own customers over anytime they please.
When will people finally get it? If you don't want the risk of your media/games/apps library just disappearing one day, STOP BUYING FROM MICROSOFT. That includes buying any platform (e.g. XBox, Microsoft phones, tablets) that lock you into only buying from the Microsoft Store.
I dont want to now have to use some inconvenient external dongle to regain what my current phone has already built-in.
> People want expandable storage, but not enough to buy a different phone.
You're apparently assuming that people who value expandable storage currently have a phone without it. I would say the likelihood is not true, and the real problem is completely the opposite. The shrinking number of new phones that can replace features that people already have with their current phones.
Well said, thats exactly how I feel about it all too. I'm tending to the side of justfied though. The government should represent the people, not the other way round.
A) You got that backwards. Its Rift Games on Vive.
B) Its wrong anyway. Oculus ARENT ditching DRM. They're removing the recently added headset check (presumably to remove the reason for the ReVive author to continue publishing software that had to break their DRM to continue to work).
Are these rotodial phone users or something? Every cellphone I've ever had came with a time display, and furthermore the time is obtained from the phone service so its always accurate. What would even be the point of phoning if the time is already displayed on the phone? Is there even such a thing as modern phones that don't have a clock?
yes of course they do, its their cushy overpaid retirements as lifetime bureaucrats in Brussels thats on the line.
The mere fact that the people voted one way and the politicians are voting the other should tell you that what they are doing is clearly not representing the people, so totally self-motivated and undemocratic.
The people have voted. Thats democracy. Tough shit if it didnt happen to go your way. Having a do-over that less than half the people want is actually more like scrapping democracy than just going with the outcome of the first vote.
This is just thwe worst of all the most self-righteous PeeCee undemocratic morons that can't deal with the fact that they actually lost something fair and square.
Well I certainly expected the shitty EULAs, massive lock-in and personal data rape that Rift owners are experiencing, but I would have thought with all of Facebook's money behind them and the big head start they had at the beginning, they would at least be the ones with the better VR hardware/features and have their supply chain sorted, yet HTC/Vive has handily beat them on both of those fronts.
I'm still waiting to see what Facebook's actual reason was for buying Oculus though. I can't believe that it was just to get into the VR gaming market. They must have a killer VR application in mind that they still haven't announced yet, and since its Facebook it will almost certainly be to do with social interaction/collaboration, not gaming.
Thing is, its almost already too late for Facebok there too, because AltspaceVR has pretty much now already become THE de-facto VR meeting space. Also they support just about ALL devices, even phone-based VR and plain old mouse/keyboard/monitor so no Rift exclusive thing is gonna cut it now either. Clearly Facebook's window of opportunity to quickly dominate the VR version of their core competence has also already just about closed. It looks to me like if they are interested as their purchase of Oculus would suggest, then their only real way in would now be to buy out AltspaceVR.
Maybe a few months ago I would have agreed but except for the most clueless media and most uninformed consumers, that just doesn't seem true any more. VIve has made a massive impact because of its room scale support and VR hand controllers, and not least, you can actually get a Vive.
Meanwhile people with months-old Rift pre-orders are still waiting, Oculus hand controllers still dont even have a time frame let alone release date, and Rift room scale is not even a thing beyond a few dev experiments. I'm not even getting into their retarded EULA or DRM decisions. Its like they're doing everything they can to fail.
>> It appears that the Thunderbolt monitor is going the way of the analog [headphone] jack over at Apple. Isn't it fun to be part of an unsuccessful experiment?
I'll make a bet right now that killing the headphone jack will be a step too far and Apple will be forced to bring it back pretty quickly.
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Yep. Just like I thought.
I believe that the food itself is probably OK for human consumption although GMO food (especially tomatoes) does seem to have much less and/or odd flavour. I think the biggest risk about GMO food is oddly overlooked, and that is that it will lead to a varietal monoculture controlled by a single company (Monsanto). Do you really want a single corporate with their thumb on all corn production for example? Do you really want to loose your choices of different varieties of things?
Also look at what happens when a disease hits a monoculture, It already happened to bananas in 1965, and even todays bananas still seriously risk going extinct. http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/22/...
> there's a less than one in a thousand chance that the DVD player actually contains a disc with a Harry Potter movie
How on earth did you figure this? This is bullshit science. You are at least totally ignoring the owners personal taste.
> A Tesla owner would be much more likely to be watching a more recent release
I'm totally calling bullshit on this. I could easily afford a Tesla (just don't want one) and I haven't bought a DVD in years, so most of the DVDs I own are over a decade old.
Judging by some of the houses and supercars I see just driving around in Scottsdale AZ, Its probably pocket change to a surprisngly large amount of people.
> but you still have to pick one or the other. And these days, if you are really into games you don't have much choice but to be screwed over
Yes you absolutely do have a choice to not be screwed over, or at least to very much minimize the risk:
1) Don;t buy Xbox. I don't remember ever hearing Sony pulling the plug on peoples already purchased software. I don't follow Microsoft but even I have heard of at least 3 times now that Microsoft have done it.
2) get your games on media not as downloads.
3) game on PC not console.
>> That's just bizarre. Incomprehensible. Smells like poor management.
Not really. They've discovered that the public really are mostly made up of schmucks who will still queue up to buy the next XBox no matter how much Microsoft fuck their own customers over.
This is far from the first time that Microsoft have totally cut off users from DRM'd content that they have already bought. Its already very well-known that Microsoft clearly feel free to fuck their own customers over anytime they please.
When will people finally get it? If you don't want the risk of your media/games/apps library just disappearing one day, STOP BUYING FROM MICROSOFT. That includes buying any platform (e.g. XBox, Microsoft phones, tablets) that lock you into only buying from the Microsoft Store.
I dont want to now have to use some inconvenient external dongle to regain what my current phone has already built-in.
> People want expandable storage, but not enough to buy a different phone.
You're apparently assuming that people who value expandable storage currently have a phone without it. I would say the likelihood is not true, and the real problem is completely the opposite. The shrinking number of new phones that can replace features that people already have with their current phones.
Well said, thats exactly how I feel about it all too.
I'm tending to the side of justfied though. The government should represent the people, not the other way round.
> Funny, that argument wasn't valid when Apple launched the iPhone.
Says who? For me its a good enough reason alone to never buy one
Apparently Microsoft need to be reminded yet again that the customer comes first.
Yep and thats exactly why I haven't and wouldn't buy a Google phone.
A) You got that backwards. Its Rift Games on Vive.
B) Its wrong anyway. Oculus ARENT ditching DRM. They're removing the recently added headset check (presumably to remove the reason for the ReVive author to continue publishing software that had to break their DRM to continue to work).
Are these rotodial phone users or something?
Every cellphone I've ever had came with a time display, and furthermore the time is obtained from the phone service so its always accurate.
What would even be the point of phoning if the time is already displayed on the phone?
Is there even such a thing as modern phones that don't have a clock?
>> They will make trade agreements with the EU to effectively get back to the same place.
Don't need to, it turns out that the UK will still remain inside the EU free trade zone after all.
It turns out that the inability to trade with the EU really was all total pile of steaming paranoid scaremongering bullshit by the remainers.
yes of course they do, its their cushy overpaid retirements as lifetime bureaucrats in Brussels thats on the line.
The mere fact that the people voted one way and the politicians are voting the other should tell you that what they are doing is clearly not representing the people, so totally self-motivated and undemocratic.
The people have voted. Thats democracy. Tough shit if it didnt happen to go your way.
Having a do-over that less than half the people want is actually more like scrapping democracy than just going with the outcome of the first vote.
This is just thwe worst of all the most self-righteous PeeCee undemocratic morons that can't deal with the fact that they actually lost something fair and square.
>> then all of a sudden you are in this large cavernous stone hall with lots of orcs and giants.
Thats Montana Tech.
Well I certainly expected the shitty EULAs, massive lock-in and personal data rape that Rift owners are experiencing, but I would have thought with all of Facebook's money behind them and the big head start they had at the beginning, they would at least be the ones with the better VR hardware/features and have their supply chain sorted, yet HTC/Vive has handily beat them on both of those fronts.
I'm still waiting to see what Facebook's actual reason was for buying Oculus though. I can't believe that it was just to get into the VR gaming market.
They must have a killer VR application in mind that they still haven't announced yet, and since its Facebook it will almost certainly be to do with social interaction/collaboration, not gaming.
Thing is, its almost already too late for Facebok there too, because AltspaceVR has pretty much now already become THE de-facto VR meeting space. Also they support just about ALL devices, even phone-based VR and plain old mouse/keyboard/monitor so no Rift exclusive thing is gonna cut it now either.
Clearly Facebook's window of opportunity to quickly dominate the VR version of their core competence has also already just about closed. It looks to me like if they are interested as their purchase of Oculus would suggest, then their only real way in would now be to buy out AltspaceVR.
> "Oculus" is synonymous with "VR"
Maybe a few months ago I would have agreed but except for the most clueless media and most uninformed consumers, that just doesn't seem true any more.
VIve has made a massive impact because of its room scale support and VR hand controllers, and not least, you can actually get a Vive.
Meanwhile people with months-old Rift pre-orders are still waiting, Oculus hand controllers still dont even have a time frame let alone release date, and Rift room scale is not even a thing beyond a few dev experiments. I'm not even getting into their retarded EULA or DRM decisions. Its like they're doing everything they can to fail.
>> vote has been undermined by poor results in the north of England.
Exactly this kind of shit is why I dont bother with the BBC as a credible news source any more.
>> It appears that the Thunderbolt monitor is going the way of the analog [headphone] jack over at Apple. Isn't it fun to be part of an unsuccessful experiment?
I'll make a bet right now that killing the headphone jack will be a step too far and Apple will be forced to bring it back pretty quickly.
Yeah, the information that this just went viral and now the world is watching you screw this guy over.
Exactly. Insultingly low.