I'm not exactly sure what is supposed to be special about Surface, but people only appear to dance with them. I could see a lot of screens getting broken.
The thing i got out of those commercials was how much the screen was smudged. You are shooting a commercial and you can't clean the smudge prints of the screen? Seriously? Why do I want a laptop that is dirty? Bad enough a cell phone screen gets smudged up, but dang, a laptop (yes, I know they are tablets, but lets be real, with the fucking keyboard cover, it's a laptop. With finger smudges all over the screen.)
How much is Tesla implying that the customer is using the car wrong?
Are we really looking at Terms of Service about how you are going to use an automobile you purchased? I know this was a media test drive, but what's to stop Telsa from using their diagnostics to throw you under the bus for speeding if you complain about running out of juice in a remote location "if the customer had been operating the car properly it wouldn't have run out of charge."
Are Tesla owners getting a nanny that will monitor their driving habits and tsk tsk at them when less than optimal driving results and range happen?
I understand the car is very complex, but in the real world stuff happens and you can't assume the conditions or even the actions of the driver are going to be optimal.
Okay, here's the rub. The car can keep logs of everything. You can turn it off. And apparently, you like to break laws while driving and putting everyone at risk, so you probably would turn it off.
Other then that, they should throw you under the bus if you think it's okay to drive like an idiot. You threaten everyone when you drive like that. I know, laws don't apply to you because you think your god or something stupid like that, but guess what? They do. Start obeying the traffic laws.
You can do pretty much what you want with the system as it stands so I'm not sure what's to be gained by taking it to pieces and reprogramming it. Sure its fun for a while seeing how it works, but this isn't a cheap device and if all you want is a general purpose controller running linux buy a raspberry pi. Why wreck an expensive bit of equipment to get the same result?
My Linksys WRT54LG router worked fine out of the box, but I still installed DD-WRT on it.
Why? Because I could. Breakdowns are sweet. I didn't have to buy this toy/tool to see whats inside, and now that I know, I can make a more informed decision if I want to buy this device to hack, or to just run on it's own.
Anyways, you miss the point of hacking stuff. It's about the fun, the challenge, the learning and sometimes it's about doing shit that no one else has done.
if you are so high strung about it? I mean, shit, why get so butthurt over a video trailer?
Guess what stupid religious people, there are people who do NOT believe the same thing as you, who might, *gasp* do something you consider offensive. Get over it. I find your actions regarding your religious beliefs to be extremely offensive, but you know what I do? Nothing. Be a bunch of stupid people, like it makes your religion look any better.
You can't hide your head in the sand from truth, so accept it. You act like a bunch of ignorant dumbshits. You know, sort of like the people in Texas.
Like Youtube is the only place you can see videos online.
Well most of the god-tards have moved on from disputing that things evolve. Rather their new shit is intelligent design, which says that god works behind the scenes, controlling how things evolve and change. So they aren't disputing the fact that change happens, they are disputing the theory as to why.
However their counter is not a theory, since there is no way to test it, and hence has no place in science class. Even if it is right, it is not science as it is not something one can test. Any time you mention god, by definition outside of the universe and untestable, you aren't talking science.
And you are just as bad as they are. Calling them "god-tards" just shows how bigoted and closed-minded you are.
Pot, meet kettle.
No, I have come to the conclusion that people that believe in stuff that isn't real, ie "faith" that they are mentally unbalanced, not of a sound mind. Now a lot of people that claim they believe in god don't actually do. They are just conditioned to say that from growing up. Some people find it hard to shake stuff they have been told from childhood, some don't.
Zeus and all those other gods were as wild as their namesakes. They were just aspects of nature that wasn't understood, but given human/god like characteristics. Zeus didn't get jealous because people gave offerings to Hermes. The Jewish God is a jealous god (which is oddly enough a sin for man), The Jewish God can have NO other gods before him (which tells you that other gods do exist). The Jewish God has no problem hurting his loyal followers to prove a point. (Book of Job).
I find that the bible is a great insight into the minds of man, precisely how fucked up and hypocritical man has always been. It's also great insight on how the Jewish Nation feels they are special (they claim to be the children of god) and how they have treated other nations in the name of this god since then. In other words, it explains why very few other nations like them.
What I Got Out of it, Is Gottfrid is a drug addict and and a coward that went into hiding leaving his friends to take the fall?
We have a society of Drug addicts. Nicotine, caffeine, tons of doctor prescribed drugs (like Methadone). Plus then we have non doctor prescribe addicts also.
It doesn't take much to be a drug addict in this society.
I also have a feature film recently completed and to free download via TPB and stream via Youtube. It's a comedy/horror called The Amateur Monster Movie and is similar in style to Shaun of the Dead.
We have a second film in post production right now to be released in Spring 2013 and a third in preproduction looking for a 2014 release. Most likely they will be released for free as well. You can find more info on our website. Hope you guys enjoy it.
Nice, something else to watch tonight, thanks for the info. Sounds good! =)
If you want to keep something secret, don't write it down, and best of all, don't email it to someone. Nothing is private on the internet, and if you don't treat the internet like that, then you have only yourself to blame.
I remember back in the day, my grandma would smack you upside the head if you even suggested pro wrestling wasn't real. We knew it wasn't real, and I'm sure she knew it wasn't real, but saying that breaks the magic of pro wrestling.
Fox News isn't real. We know it isn't real, but our grandma might smack us upside the head for saying that.
Maybe in the next decade or so, Fox News will admit it's actually entertainment, instead of the serious news show they promote.
The sad truth is people are corrupt. We all are. It's a part of human nature. What we need to start doing is accepting that people in power are going to abuse it, and put in blocks, checks to keep that from happening. The truth is, people need to be regulated. They need to be checked that they are doing what they are supposed to.
Too big to fail? Not to big to jail.
This also shows what the government thinks of everyone but the rich and corporations. They will bend over backwards to bail out the rich and the corporations while fucking the rest of us in the ass. The economy has been in the shitter but the people the caused it live like kings.
Wish some good would come of this, but our government won't do anything about it.
As someone who has been through an E-Discovery process (lawsuit by a patent troll we were fighting) there is amazing forensic analysis technology that goes into collecting and collating emails, IM's, and documents.
Unless there's a crime involved. Then the FBI just comes in and starts ripping hard drives out of chassis with an "amazing forensic" tool, also known as a hammer.
Never underestimate the computing ignorance of our grade-F government.
They don't use a hammer, that could damage the drives. If the drives in are in servers, you can just pull them out.
Anyways, they don't carry a hammer, it gets in the way of them carrying some sort of automatic weapons you see in the photos and videos. Because you know, them HD's are dangerous, they spin fast.
I never use another site to log into a different site. Sure, Facebook is big today, but this is the internet, this is technology. Myspace? Geocities?
What do you do when FB for whatever reason, suddenly stops? All those sites you used to use facebook to log in, you can't get in. You think FB is going to care when their stock is going for pennies?
My suggestion, don't use other sites to handle your log in for you.
My other suggestion: FB is a troll, quit feeding it.
In which case, the only option is to not buy the spyware-infested product. Since the spyware is secret, there's no way to tell which disks are infected and which are not. The only safe alternative is to avoid buying any official content what so ever. The industry will drive any previously paying customers that give two s**** about their privacy to turn to the "piracy" avenue of acquiring content. The contortions the industry goes through to reach out and nail their own coffin shut are quite impressive.
So you saying the pirates will be safe and the customers will be the ones affected?
The Government can ignore this just like they ignore a sovereign States authority (See DIA raids in CA on marijuana shops and farms). In fairness, the town must abide by State law which may invalidate the City law.
Until more people wake up and shake off the cobwebs, the police state will continue to grow. I hope like hell we catch it in time, but looking at media and education I have strong doubts.
Well, they may not be able to prevent Federal Drones, but State and County drones may be banned, especially if this City has a home-rule charter (giving them local law enforcement authority).
In Seattle, there is currently an uproar over drone use by Seattle PD. The Police have them, but haven't used them yet. They want to put them into use, but the public is pretty much opposed, and SPD hasn't made a convincing use case, or even cited any recent incident where these might have been useful. (They carry small cameras, and by the looks of them do not provide any telemetry.)
The idea is to prevent your own law enforcement units from wasting their time peeping into back yards and windows. By the time State Authorities and the Feds arrive, the situation is totally out of hand anyway. The demand on state and fed resources is probably such that their arrival with drones in hand is less likely.
So just keeping your local PD/Sheriff from acquiring invasive tools goes a long way.
We might be stoners here in Seattle, but we aren't stupid. The Police is likely to abuse the usage of Drones, and we know it.
My Wii is a not as cheap Netflix box. I don't do anything else with the thing.
the Wii does 720x480 max. Which is cool if you have a SD TV, but if you have entered into the 21st century, you probably have a 1080p (or 720p) TV. Oh, wait, the Wii doesn't support 720p or 1080p? The Ouya does? Nice.
The Wii is great, I got one, i play with it everyday. But it's not HD.
Sure, the Wii looks great on SD, but on HD? You get laughed at.
I withdrew my backing after the first day of hype -- and I'm pretty easy to lure into your Kickstarter (I've backed about 450 of them, so far). I think the only value in this product will, ultimately, be in its conversation value as something sitting on your shelf in fifteen years. With the PS4 and the next Xbox coming out this year as well as the various Steam Boxes and the next round of high end GPUs for PC about to drop, the Ouya's brief appeal seems even less relevant. Most of the excitement at the time had been that it was touching on this mass appeal for *some* sort of new hardware in a world of aging seven-going-on-eight year old consoles this cycle.
Worse, the whole "we will support Ouya" thing became a plague on every single game related kickstarter afterward. And if you didn't say you were going to port your game to Ouya, people would spam your comments non-stop about "hey, you should contact Ouya and consider porting your game to it". Because when you're trying to produce a game on the cheap that is iffy to begin with, the best thing to do is hitch that wagon to an unreleased piece of hardware that will probably have little success and certainly not offer you anything remotely near the existing platforms that you're already developing the application for, like the PC. Blech.
I don't know. I'm thinking it might be nice for emulators. A small $100 device that plays emulators that I can take with me if I have to go visit relatives or else where that I have to stay the night at. My Wii is nice for that currently, but it's a bit bigger and has a dvd drive that can get messed up during transport (moveable parts).
But ya, it's a small fish in a big pond of new consoles that are coming.
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I'm not exactly sure what is supposed to be special about Surface, but people only appear to dance with them. I could see a lot of screens getting broken.
The thing i got out of those commercials was how much the screen was smudged. You are shooting a commercial and you can't clean the smudge prints of the screen? Seriously? Why do I want a laptop that is dirty? Bad enough a cell phone screen gets smudged up, but dang, a laptop (yes, I know they are tablets, but lets be real, with the fucking keyboard cover, it's a laptop. With finger smudges all over the screen.)
What scares me about this is:
How much is Tesla implying that the customer is using the car wrong?
Are we really looking at Terms of Service about how you are going to use an automobile you purchased? I know this was a media test drive, but what's to stop Telsa from using their diagnostics to throw you under the bus for speeding if you complain about running out of juice in a remote location "if the customer had been operating the car properly it wouldn't have run out of charge."
Are Tesla owners getting a nanny that will monitor their driving habits and tsk tsk at them when less than optimal driving results and range happen?
I understand the car is very complex, but in the real world stuff happens and you can't assume the conditions or even the actions of the driver are going to be optimal.
Okay, here's the rub. The car can keep logs of everything. You can turn it off. And apparently, you like to break laws while driving and putting everyone at risk, so you probably would turn it off.
Other then that, they should throw you under the bus if you think it's okay to drive like an idiot. You threaten everyone when you drive like that. I know, laws don't apply to you because you think your god or something stupid like that, but guess what? They do. Start obeying the traffic laws.
why?
cool, game sounds like fun.
don't own a 3DS.
do have a 3DS emulator.
still won't check it out.
You can do pretty much what you want with the system as it stands so I'm not sure what's to be gained by taking it to pieces and reprogramming it. Sure its fun for a while seeing how it works, but this isn't a cheap device and if all you want is a general purpose controller running linux buy a raspberry pi. Why wreck an expensive bit of equipment to get the same result?
My Linksys WRT54LG router worked fine out of the box, but I still installed DD-WRT on it.
Why? Because I could. Breakdowns are sweet. I didn't have to buy this toy/tool to see whats inside, and now that I know, I can make a more informed decision if I want to buy this device to hack, or to just run on it's own.
Anyways, you miss the point of hacking stuff. It's about the fun, the challenge, the learning and sometimes it's about doing shit that no one else has done.
...or does TFA, just like the OP, only look that way ?
No, it is a breakdown, as in, tear apart to see whats inside it, from a separate website/company.
This is a very common occurrence in the tech world. Some of us like to know whats inside before we buy.
if you are so high strung about it? I mean, shit, why get so butthurt over a video trailer?
Guess what stupid religious people, there are people who do NOT believe the same thing as you, who might, *gasp* do something you consider offensive. Get over it. I find your actions regarding your religious beliefs to be extremely offensive, but you know what I do? Nothing. Be a bunch of stupid people, like it makes your religion look any better.
You can't hide your head in the sand from truth, so accept it. You act like a bunch of ignorant dumbshits. You know, sort of like the people in Texas.
Like Youtube is the only place you can see videos online.
Well most of the god-tards have moved on from disputing that things evolve. Rather their new shit is intelligent design, which says that god works behind the scenes, controlling how things evolve and change. So they aren't disputing the fact that change happens, they are disputing the theory as to why.
However their counter is not a theory, since there is no way to test it, and hence has no place in science class. Even if it is right, it is not science as it is not something one can test. Any time you mention god, by definition outside of the universe and untestable, you aren't talking science.
And you are just as bad as they are. Calling them "god-tards" just shows how bigoted and closed-minded you are.
Pot, meet kettle.
No, I have come to the conclusion that people that believe in stuff that isn't real, ie "faith" that they are mentally unbalanced, not of a sound mind. Now a lot of people that claim they believe in god don't actually do. They are just conditioned to say that from growing up. Some people find it hard to shake stuff they have been told from childhood, some don't.
Zeus and all those other gods were as wild as their namesakes. They were just aspects of nature that wasn't understood, but given human/god like characteristics. Zeus didn't get jealous because people gave offerings to Hermes. The Jewish God is a jealous god (which is oddly enough a sin for man), The Jewish God can have NO other gods before him (which tells you that other gods do exist).
The Jewish God has no problem hurting his loyal followers to prove a point. (Book of Job).
I find that the bible is a great insight into the minds of man, precisely how fucked up and hypocritical man has always been. It's also great insight on how the Jewish Nation feels they are special (they claim to be the children of god) and how they have treated other nations in the name of this god since then. In other words, it explains why very few other nations like them.
Nice, so now we have a Fourth Amendment Free zone for 100 miles around our borders. How long before they decide it's 200 miles? 300 miles?
You think they won't? Please, this is a test of what we are willing to give up. If we let this go, then it's just the start.
People want convenience. And convenience is the mortal enemy of security.
I thought being cheaper was the mortal enemy of convenience.
For example, "convenience" stores are only convenient because they are closer, not because they sell stuff at twice the price of grocery stores.
But then I can see your point, because the convenience store doesn't hire a security guard, while the grocery store usually has 1 or 2.
So yes, I guess your correct.
What I Got Out of it, Is Gottfrid is a drug addict and and a coward that went into hiding leaving his friends to take the fall?
We have a society of Drug addicts. Nicotine, caffeine, tons of doctor prescribed drugs (like Methadone). Plus then we have non doctor prescribe addicts also.
It doesn't take much to be a drug addict in this society.
I also have a feature film recently completed and to free download via TPB and stream via Youtube. It's a comedy/horror called The Amateur Monster Movie and is similar in style to Shaun of the Dead.
We have a second film in post production right now to be released in Spring 2013 and a third in preproduction looking for a 2014 release. Most likely they will be released for free as well. You can find more info on our website. Hope you guys enjoy it.
Nice, something else to watch tonight, thanks for the info. Sounds good! =)
If you want to keep something secret, don't write it down, and best of all, don't email it to someone. Nothing is private on the internet, and if you don't treat the internet like that, then you have only yourself to blame.
If you think otherwise, then you are a fool.
I remember back in the day, my grandma would smack you upside the head if you even suggested pro wrestling wasn't real. We knew it wasn't real, and I'm sure she knew it wasn't real, but saying that breaks the magic of pro wrestling.
Fox News isn't real. We know it isn't real, but our grandma might smack us upside the head for saying that.
Maybe in the next decade or so, Fox News will admit it's actually entertainment, instead of the serious news show they promote.
The sad truth is people are corrupt. We all are. It's a part of human nature. What we need to start doing is accepting that people in power are going to abuse it, and put in blocks, checks to keep that from happening. The truth is, people need to be regulated. They need to be checked that they are doing what they are supposed to.
Too big to fail? Not to big to jail.
This also shows what the government thinks of everyone but the rich and corporations. They will bend over backwards to bail out the rich and the corporations while fucking the rest of us in the ass. The economy has been in the shitter but the people the caused it live like kings.
Wish some good would come of this, but our government won't do anything about it.
As someone who has been through an E-Discovery process (lawsuit by a patent troll we were fighting) there is amazing forensic analysis technology that goes into collecting and collating emails, IM's, and documents.
Unless there's a crime involved. Then the FBI just comes in and starts ripping hard drives out of chassis with an "amazing forensic" tool, also known as a hammer.
Never underestimate the computing ignorance of our grade-F government.
They don't use a hammer, that could damage the drives. If the drives in are in servers, you can just pull them out.
Anyways, they don't carry a hammer, it gets in the way of them carrying some sort of automatic weapons you see in the photos and videos. Because you know, them HD's are dangerous, they spin fast.
I never use another site to log into a different site. Sure, Facebook is big today, but this is the internet, this is technology. Myspace? Geocities?
What do you do when FB for whatever reason, suddenly stops? All those sites you used to use facebook to log in, you can't get in. You think FB is going to care when their stock is going for pennies?
My suggestion, don't use other sites to handle your log in for you.
My other suggestion: FB is a troll, quit feeding it.
...The young insects have a specialized spike along their abdomen that they stroke with one of their hind legs...
I don't write anymore, I just type.
In which case, the only option is to not buy the spyware-infested product. Since the spyware is secret, there's no way to tell which disks are infected and which are not. The only safe alternative is to avoid buying any official content what so ever. The industry will drive any previously paying customers that give two s**** about their privacy to turn to the "piracy" avenue of acquiring content.
The contortions the industry goes through to reach out and nail their own coffin shut are quite impressive.
So you saying the pirates will be safe and the customers will be the ones affected?
Nice business model!
The Government can ignore this just like they ignore a sovereign States authority (See DIA raids in CA on marijuana shops and farms). In fairness, the town must abide by State law which may invalidate the City law.
Until more people wake up and shake off the cobwebs, the police state will continue to grow. I hope like hell we catch it in time, but looking at media and education I have strong doubts.
Well, they may not be able to prevent Federal Drones, but State and County drones may be banned, especially if this City has a home-rule charter (giving them local law enforcement authority).
In Seattle, there is currently an uproar over drone use by Seattle PD. The Police have them, but haven't used them yet. They want to put them into use, but the public is pretty much opposed, and SPD hasn't made a convincing use case, or even cited any recent incident where these might have been useful. (They carry small cameras, and by the looks of them do not provide any telemetry.)
The idea is to prevent your own law enforcement units from wasting their time peeping into back yards and windows. By the time State Authorities and the Feds arrive, the situation is totally out of hand anyway. The demand on state and fed resources is probably such that their arrival with drones in hand is less likely.
So just keeping your local PD/Sheriff from acquiring invasive tools goes a long way.
We might be stoners here in Seattle, but we aren't stupid. The Police is likely to abuse the usage of Drones, and we know it.
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Gosh. "...can be loaded high.". I got a little tickle of nostalgia thinking about that. All those wonderful "load high and remain resident" hacks.
Wait. Why is this good?
640k is enough for everyone!
I'll be happy if it works as a good $99 mame box.
Depending on how modern of video games you want to emulate, I see this being a great HD Mame Box.
One of the reasons I'm considering buying one when it ships.
My Wii is a not as cheap Netflix box. I don't do anything else with the thing.
the Wii does 720x480 max. Which is cool if you have a SD TV, but if you have entered into the 21st century, you probably have a 1080p (or 720p) TV. Oh, wait, the Wii doesn't support 720p or 1080p? The Ouya does? Nice.
The Wii is great, I got one, i play with it everyday. But it's not HD.
Sure, the Wii looks great on SD, but on HD? You get laughed at.
I withdrew my backing after the first day of hype -- and I'm pretty easy to lure into your Kickstarter (I've backed about 450 of them, so far). I think the only value in this product will, ultimately, be in its conversation value as something sitting on your shelf in fifteen years. With the PS4 and the next Xbox coming out this year as well as the various Steam Boxes and the next round of high end GPUs for PC about to drop, the Ouya's brief appeal seems even less relevant. Most of the excitement at the time had been that it was touching on this mass appeal for *some* sort of new hardware in a world of aging seven-going-on-eight year old consoles this cycle.
Worse, the whole "we will support Ouya" thing became a plague on every single game related kickstarter afterward. And if you didn't say you were going to port your game to Ouya, people would spam your comments non-stop about "hey, you should contact Ouya and consider porting your game to it". Because when you're trying to produce a game on the cheap that is iffy to begin with, the best thing to do is hitch that wagon to an unreleased piece of hardware that will probably have little success and certainly not offer you anything remotely near the existing platforms that you're already developing the application for, like the PC. Blech.
I don't know. I'm thinking it might be nice for emulators. A small $100 device that plays emulators that I can take with me if I have to go visit relatives or else where that I have to stay the night at. My Wii is nice for that currently, but it's a bit bigger and has a dvd drive that can get messed up during transport (moveable parts).
But ya, it's a small fish in a big pond of new consoles that are coming.