When they first started Anonymous seemed really cool, fighting oppressive regimes etc. What happened to turn them into a bunch of whiny asshats that supress free speech ad are only capapble of lame skript kiddy DDOS attacks?
>> I'm just going to assume you're full of bullshit. How very scientific and unbiassed of you. NOT. Not really just another sheeplike windows fanboi at all I see.
>> For PC hardware, that's far more likely to be true under Windows than Linux.
I've had far more hardware work correctly on Linux than Windows. Just one example: About 4 months ago I made the fatal mistake of so-called "upgrading" from windows 7 to widows 10 now my HP all-in-one printer/scanner (PSC 950) wont work properly anymore. HP dont even provide drivers for it since they're meant to be already included under windows 10. Guess what, it (continues to) work perfectly under linux, just like it always has, without ever needing to install any drivers at all.
Spoken like a real windows troll. You need to check your facts, for example do you even know that Linux actually supports more hardware than windows??? no? Thought not.
Thanks for the input. I'm serious about buying but there's nowhere I know that I can try both, and the comparative reviews all seem vague at best if not outright biassed. I realise that the oculus you have is a DK2 but since you have access to both, I'd really appreciate if you could help me understand the relative differences with answers to what is the difference if any between the units around the following: * head tracking lag/accuracy/dropouts * visuals (colour fidelity, screendoor effect if any, picture sharpness, lenses quality/blurriness/fisheye effect, size of field of view) * comfort of wearing/prolonged use (weight, "sweatiness factor", tendency to motion sickness)
That seems to be most people's criteria but for me at least there's more to it than that, mostly around the relative quality of each's Linux support. I'd also very much like to experience each first-hand before I buy. I'm pretty picky so the video quality (screen-door effect, clarity/resolution and size of field of view), head-tracking responsiveness, and headset comfort would all be potential deal-breakers for me, as would compromising the quality of any of the above in order to accommodate users who want to use them while wearing prescription glasses.
I've been trying to figure out which to buy: The Oculus or the Vive. Note: I have no personal experience of either so this is all about info just gleaned from reviews ete. I really hope to try both before I place an order but I have a feeling it wontt be easy. The Vive is about $100 more expensive but it seems well worth it for the difference, since it can also support standing up and moving around, and also comes with VR controllers. Yes I'm presuming the seated experience is as good as the Oculus, which is pretty important since I'm guessing that will actually be the most commonly used scenario, but having the option to stand up and move around would be nice. The BIG decision factor for me is that Oculus is primarily targetting Windows only, with Linux support at best being an afterthought (they announced several months ago that they have put their Linux dev effort on hold) Linux support remains a core goal to the Vive team. That alone would be enough for me to STRONGLY favour the Vive over the Oculus. My fear/expectation is that most windows game developers will stupidly only support oculus not vive, because they consider it the "de facto" VR headset, even if it it is more limited/not as good as the vive.
More and more things in my DVD queue keep being silently moved from the "next to be mailed" section into the "saved" section with wait times of "unknown", never to come back out. There's never any explanation or even warning.
Thats what you get when you write apps in languages and environments that fundamentally trade speed for convenience and depend on layers of layers of layers of crap, that are parsing bloated data structures obtained using inefficient protocols.
>> Someone with $10B in assets is a billionaire, and fits this "1% club", but they may only be in the upper 20% in annual TAXABLE INCOME.
You're joking right? Anybody with that much money has their own private accountant who's whole career is to make damn sure that on paper those people are only earning minimum wage.
They do that by (ab)using all sorts of tax avoidance strategies like trusts, offshore companies etc so technically they dont earn or personally own anything even though they still actually have a lot of money in their pockets, and take private jets to travel between their portfolio of mansions.
I'm amazed that so many millionaires are naive enough to think the government wont collect the money then just vote payrises for themselves, and/or waste the money on some other ill-conceived bureaucratic exercise instead.
Now if they would only deign to once again allow us mere users (and actual owners of the hardware) to decide where we want the window buttons (i.e. on the right like pretty much every other frikin GUI in the world).
Waaay too expensive for what it is. At that price it would definitely need to be color E-Ink before I seriously considered it, but even then I'd still think it was priced at a premium.
There's your problem right there. There actually are more voting options than just Democrat or Republican. You need to vote for what you actually believe in, regardless of its low chance of winning just because its a minority. Perhaps the whole reason it is a minority is because people like you are tactically voting. If there's really no option for you then not voting at all is better than giving your vote to the least worst.
Even though I keep seeing posts from people claiming the nVidia's linux driver is unstable etc etc, I've always personally found it to be rock solid, and thats been always true across many different hardware platforms/distros. The only thing I've ever had problems with is nouveau. And those problems are large and frequent. Annoyingly, all distros now seem to install nouveau just because its open, yet nouveau is still very unstable and far less functional than nVidias driver. Many distros also stupidly make it suprisingly difficult to uninstall nouveau and replace with the official nVidia driver.
Not really. I think what has made America worse in recent years is the phenomenon of most Americans to vote tactically. By which I mean, they vote against the people/party they dont want, instead of voting for the policies they actually do want, regardless of person or party. If you just vote for the thing that is most against the things you definitely don't want, no wonder you're gonna get a mess.
I find it very depressing that even here on Slashdot where the readership is apparently meant to be more "deep thinking" than the average, if you post anything that questions current mainstream thinking, no matter how polite, rational, justifiable and sincere your post is, you will inevitably incur the obligatory crop of -1 troll moderations.
If you are one of those people that moderates rational, polite posts as "-1 Troll" just because it is making a point that is contrary to your own beliefs, you need to realize what you are actually saying about yourself.
I think its getting worse, not better. The BBC used to be famously fastidious about unbiased reporting, however, watching BBC America News I've been disgusted at how radically feminist and very strongly anti-Trump all their reporting has now become.
I'd much rather vote for someone self-funded than blatantly bought-and-sold mouthpieces for the big corps and "special interest" groups like rubio, cruz and clinton.
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Siri, help me my intelligence is so fucking low that I need to ask an Apple phone what to do when I've been raped.
When they first started Anonymous seemed really cool, fighting oppressive regimes etc.
What happened to turn them into a bunch of whiny asshats that supress free speech ad are only capapble of lame skript kiddy DDOS attacks?
Conventional PC hardware? Citation *very badly* needed.
How about this one:
https://www.vg247.com/2016/01/...
>> I'm just going to assume you're full of bullshit.
How very scientific and unbiassed of you. NOT. Not really just another sheeplike windows fanboi at all I see.
>> For PC hardware, that's far more likely to be true under Windows than Linux.
Citation "VERY BADLY" needed. Pot meet kettle.
I've had far more hardware work correctly on Linux than Windows.
Just one example: About 4 months ago I made the fatal mistake of so-called "upgrading" from windows 7 to widows 10 now my HP all-in-one printer/scanner (PSC 950) wont work properly anymore. HP dont even provide drivers for it since they're meant to be already included under windows 10.
Guess what, it (continues to) work perfectly under linux, just like it always has, without ever needing to install any drivers at all.
Spoken like a real windows troll. You need to check your facts, for example do you even know that Linux actually supports more hardware than windows??? no? Thought not.
Thanks for the input. I'm serious about buying but there's nowhere I know that I can try both, and the comparative reviews all seem vague at best if not outright biassed. I realise that the oculus you have is a DK2 but since you have access to both, I'd really appreciate if you could help me understand the relative differences with answers to what is the difference if any between the units around the following:
* head tracking lag/accuracy/dropouts
* visuals (colour fidelity, screendoor effect if any, picture sharpness, lenses quality/blurriness/fisheye effect, size of field of view)
* comfort of wearing/prolonged use (weight, "sweatiness factor", tendency to motion sickness)
Thanks so much!
That seems to be most people's criteria but for me at least there's more to it than that, mostly around the relative quality of each's Linux support.
I'd also very much like to experience each first-hand before I buy.
I'm pretty picky so the video quality (screen-door effect, clarity/resolution and size of field of view), head-tracking responsiveness, and headset comfort would all be potential deal-breakers for me, as would compromising the quality of any of the above in order to accommodate users who want to use them while wearing prescription glasses.
Wow what an amazing thought.
I've been trying to figure out which to buy: The Oculus or the Vive. Note: I have no personal experience of either so this is all about info just gleaned from reviews ete. I really hope to try both before I place an order but I have a feeling it wontt be easy.
The Vive is about $100 more expensive but it seems well worth it for the difference, since it can also support standing up and moving around, and also comes with VR controllers. Yes I'm presuming the seated experience is as good as the Oculus, which is pretty important since I'm guessing that will actually be the most commonly used scenario, but having the option to stand up and move around would be nice.
The BIG decision factor for me is that Oculus is primarily targetting Windows only, with Linux support at best being an afterthought (they announced several months ago that they have put their Linux dev effort on hold)
Linux support remains a core goal to the Vive team.
That alone would be enough for me to STRONGLY favour the Vive over the Oculus.
My fear/expectation is that most windows game developers will stupidly only support oculus not vive, because they consider it the "de facto" VR headset, even if it it is more limited/not as good as the vive.
>> Microsoft's HoloLens is arguably the front-runner in the nascent, but fast-evolving, augmented reality space.
No it isn't. It isn't anything other than made-up marketing hype until you can actually buy them.
More and more things in my DVD queue keep being silently moved from the "next to be mailed" section into the "saved" section with wait times of "unknown", never to come back out. There's never any explanation or even warning.
Thats what you get when you write apps in languages and environments that fundamentally trade speed for convenience and depend on layers of layers of layers of crap, that are parsing bloated data structures obtained using inefficient protocols.
>> 600 million people are using PCs that are over five years old. 'This is really sad,' he said.
No it really isn't. Most people just use PCs to write emails and surf the net. Heck even 5 year old hardware is overpowered just for that.
>> Someone with $10B in assets is a billionaire, and fits this "1% club", but they may only be in the upper 20% in annual TAXABLE INCOME.
You're joking right? Anybody with that much money has their own private accountant who's whole career is to make damn sure that on paper those people are only earning minimum wage.
They do that by (ab)using all sorts of tax avoidance strategies like trusts, offshore companies etc so technically they dont earn or personally own anything even though they still actually have a lot of money in their pockets, and take private jets to travel between their portfolio of mansions.
I'm amazed that so many millionaires are naive enough to think the government wont collect the money then just vote payrises for themselves, and/or waste the money on some other ill-conceived bureaucratic exercise instead.
They can be a bitch to press especially if covered with a thick rubber cover, and they often break off
Now if they would only deign to once again allow us mere users (and actual owners of the hardware) to decide where we want the window buttons (i.e. on the right like pretty much every other frikin GUI in the world).
Waaay too expensive for what it is.
At that price it would definitely need to be color E-Ink before I seriously considered it, but even then I'd still think it was priced at a premium.
>> In cases where I dislike both candidates,
There's your problem right there. There actually are more voting options than just Democrat or Republican. You need to vote for what you actually believe in, regardless of its low chance of winning just because its a minority. Perhaps the whole reason it is a minority is because people like you are tactically voting. If there's really no option for you then not voting at all is better than giving your vote to the least worst.
Even though I keep seeing posts from people claiming the nVidia's linux driver is unstable etc etc, I've always personally found it to be rock solid, and thats been always true across many different hardware platforms/distros.
The only thing I've ever had problems with is nouveau. And those problems are large and frequent.
Annoyingly, all distros now seem to install nouveau just because its open, yet nouveau is still very unstable and far less functional than nVidias driver. Many distros also stupidly make it suprisingly difficult to uninstall nouveau and replace with the official nVidia driver.
Not really. I think what has made America worse in recent years is the phenomenon of most Americans to vote tactically. By which I mean, they vote against the people/party they dont want, instead of voting for the policies they actually do want, regardless of person or party.
If you just vote for the thing that is most against the things you definitely don't want, no wonder you're gonna get a mess.
I find it very depressing that even here on Slashdot where the readership is apparently meant to be more "deep thinking" than the average, if you post anything that questions current mainstream thinking, no matter how polite, rational, justifiable and sincere your post is, you will inevitably incur the obligatory crop of -1 troll moderations.
If you are one of those people that moderates rational, polite posts as "-1 Troll" just because it is making a point that is contrary to your own beliefs, you need to realize what you are actually saying about yourself.
Yeah but they aren't running for this election are they?
I think its getting worse, not better.
The BBC used to be famously fastidious about unbiased reporting, however, watching BBC America News I've been disgusted at how radically feminist and very strongly anti-Trump all their reporting has now become.
I'd much rather vote for someone self-funded than blatantly bought-and-sold mouthpieces for the big corps and "special interest" groups like rubio, cruz and clinton.