Really? WTF dude. You are distracting the narrative of Americans being so incredibly gluttonous that even their pets are obese.
Every single person must be kept in the prison of belief that they are inadequate and worthless or at least partially at fault for just about everything that is wrong with the world. It should be a constant barrage of insults so that there is no relief other than death.
Being logical and taking the time to actually think about things detracts from the narrative which permits control that is so deep that a persons soul is almost permanently enslaved.
Tl;DR, Your words are very insightful and my sarcasm is off topic (but maybe entertaining?).
...that most pet owners have no idea how to care for their animals.
Wow. I should report my son to Animal Welfare because his older cat who can't get much exercise is obscenely obese. Yeah, he really should not be adopting older pets from the Animal Shelter. Those animals have problems and should just be put to sleep so that the world can be a more perfect place.
I mean, I did suggest not buying normal cat food and she is slowly losing some weight, but why should we look at what is offered up as pet food when we can shame the owners for not caring enough or being good enough to care for a pet?
I do not want to take away from your perfectly valid rant against crappy pet owners; however, the world is not so black and white my friend.
Of course it doesn't matter. We all know that all pets are purely gluttonous pigs that will eat until it kills them (actually, some pets WILL do this). No our pets should be shamed for not watching their weight. I mean, who cares if what is sold as cat food is essentially the same fillers that they put in the rest of our food. Who cares if there is a correlation between what is sold as food, whether for pets or for ourselves, and obesity? No. It is your failing. You are not working hard enough to ensure that you do not look like a huge fat pig ready for slaughter. You are the failure. The fact that the food is filled with sawdust and other biologically inert compounds to increase profits has nothing to do with it. No. It is all about how you and your pets are worthless pieces of shit.
TL;DR, Why the fuck is this on Slashdot and how would any nerd possibly care about this subject?
But us fair skinned people could barely say "hi my name is Apple"
Hola. Yo tango spanishwordforname es spanishwordforapple.
A few others phrases that I recall from three years of Spanish:
Cuantos anos tu tienes? (how many years do you have aka how old are you) Que hora es? (What time is it?) Usted y yo (You and I (name of the first book I was learning from)) Donde vives tu la familia? (Where does your family live?)
El bano (bathroom) Amor (love)
And that is about it. Three years in class and that is all that I learned... Definitely worth it.
For the love of all that is holy, do not hold your breath while waiting!
Honestly, I am a little unsure why corporations can't just outright kill people. They get away with pretty much everything else. Cutting wires is only criminal if you did not do it to hurt a competitor. If you cut wires to hurt a competitor, it is just competition which is the heart of capitalism.
We had Verizon recently installed at the time, and Saw a Comcast Truck out by our pole one morning. Figuring he was just hooking up another customer, we thought nothing of it and went about our surfing and Netflix... Then the internet cut out.
What if it had been some teenagers out there cutting it? I am betting there would have been criminal charges. I would be pounding down the door of the local DA and police chief demanding that criminal charges be pursued.
But yeah, behavior like this is expected when it involves large companies and you know... individual employees and possibly their managers could never be held accountable because, well, it is just business, and business can be quite nasty and unethical... and damnit, we should keep it that way.
If the claims are true, there also should be a criminal trial and jail time. This is deliberate destruction of a productive enterprise for financial gain, far worse than getting drunk and smashing a few windows, or burglary, each of which would result in jail.
I completely agree. What would happen to you or I if either one of us had cut those cables? We would be in prison and be responsible for huge sums of money in damages.
I am unsure how it becomes not a criminal matter when a person employed by a company (competing no less!) does it. I am doubting that Comcast will even get slapped on the wrist for this. With a full monopoly in the area, they can offer some sweet deals to the judges and officials in that area.
Intel CPUs have (had?) 3g modems built into them from the factory. Really, your only option is generating your own power to give to the device and placing it in a Faraday cage.
None of that appears to be very reliable sources but meh. It is possible to do so and seeing what Microsoft is doing with the OS, it seems inconceivable that Intel is not doing something similar.
I've chosen this lifestyle because typically after about 18 months in the workplace my mental health suffers.
I have noticed this pattern in myself over the years. Do you know what causes it for you? I have some ideas about why it happens with me but I have nothing concrete yet.
That they ask this question, in this manner, makes me uncertain that they can even configure a dedicated appliance properly.
That they ask this question, in this manner, tells me that they do not have an understanding of what they want versus how reality works. If this "project" is anything other than a personal learning project and has importance (monetary or otherwise) then you are absolutely correct. Pay someone who understands the problem space to architect a solution that provides the desired outcome, if reality even allows for the goals and desired outcome to be met.
It should be noted that many people are considered security professionals but I would not trust them to provide the solution being asked for. I would recommend a very competent engineer who is a stickler for correctness over the average security professional.
If Microsoft thought that introducing incompatibilities was an ideal situation for the consumer (not being sarcastic here), I am unsure how that translates into the liberty of controlling what software someone chooses to run.
The only reasonable choice would be to introduce the incompatibility and let the user decide if they want to deal with the Blue Screen.
Ultimately, this is not about improvements, incompatibilities, features, etc. This is a shot across the bow concerning Microsoft determining what you can and can not do with the software that you purchased from them. Again, they are establishing that you have no choices and absolutely no control when you participate in the Microsoft ecosystem. The best that you can hope for is to try to regain some feeling (false) of control after Microsoft has determined what is acceptable.
Even more accurate: Microsoft chose what should or should not be running regardless of what you had intended.
Again, if you participate in the Microsoft ecosystem, you abdicate all control but keep all liability. Seems like something I would be excited to not only participate in, but pay for the "privilege" of doing so.
I am unsure how this situation is maintained. It is more than just market forces.
This is a "social engineering" article. The intent is to change perception. In this case, the idea is that you should be on Windows 10 so that there is no ability for you to escape having your internal dialogue be monitored as well as can be done through an operating system.
In other words, the "content" of the article (what it is ostensibly about) is actually irrelevant. What is relevant is that the public's perception of Windows 7 is altered, even if just by a little. I see this a lot. There is a LOT of social programming going on right now. Much more so than in the past. I am unsure what these developments are heralding, but anytime anyone has majority control of something and seeks more control, the end result will not be good.
Your instinctive reaction of "bullshit" is spot on, but this article is not meant for you or other people with knowledge of operating systems. It is to sway people who do not have a solid grasp of the situation.
I think this AI assisted driving should be taken out of the cars.
Ah yes. The wonderful "let's ban it" response. Relax bro. The stupid will merely find other ways to harm you while killing themselves.
Not that it really matters, but my position on this is that I would never trust it even for lane keeping. Yeah, I am sure it can keep lanes and speeds just fine, but my brain either needs to either be absolutely in control or absolutely not responsible at all. This system can only provide one of those options: me being in absolute control, which means I could not use it.
Personally, I feel safer with morons depending on this "autopilot" garbage than them depending on their own anti-depressant addled brains which choose to send and receive text messages while operating a multi-ton vehicle at speeds that impart quite a bit of inertia to stationary items.
Finally, a life pro-tip for you: If your immediate response to something problematic is to withdraw it or take it away, you are likely better off living under a fundamental religious dictatorship than an enlightened, liberty focused social order. For your own happiness and satisfaction, be honest with yourself and choose appropriately.
If you wrote out the contract properly then you made sure that user backups are the user's responsibility, in which case you don't have to pay a single penny ransom because you don't owe anyone anything.
Hm... kind of. Any business contract that allowed the company to fail in providing services to the customers with no penalties would be a rather odd thing. Meaning, yeah, the customer likely could not sue for loss of data, but it was the hosting company servers that were compromised, not the customers servers (of course customer servers were affected because they ride on top of company servers, but that is not the point).
Long story short, yeah, the hosting company will not likely be held liable for the loss of customer data but the hosting company can and will be held liable for the extended loss of service, which means they should have had backups, which is how this conversation was started. Proper backups would have allowed them to restore business operations within a much shorter time frame... and possibly garnered some good will from their customers if customer data had been backed up as well.
Now, go play with your antiviri, malware, spybot, rootkit, updaters and reboot a few dozen times in between updates and in the mean time, I will get some work done on my debian sid system.
Debian ate the poison pill. Will anyone die tomorrow? Not likely. Will anything bad happen next year? Not likely. Long term, perhaps 50 years, it is guaranteed that Debian will be dead or will be used to abuse the people who use it... rather like MS Windows right now.
Personally I'd rather err on the side of removing content that incites violence. Flag as Inappropriate
Oops. I copied and pasted a little extra there but I like it. The juxtaposition of my words and that little extra is just delicious. lol.
So what you are saying is that there are ideas so nasty, despicable, and abhorrent, that they should not be allowed to be discussed in a civilized society.
Fuck you. Go live somewhere uncivilized where they practice that kind of shit.
Hm. Wait. That is everywhere! Fuck people. I side with the terrorists. Not because I like what they are trying to achieve but because I fucking hate you and people like you.
I will think about what *I* want to think about and discuss it with anyone who is interested. Try and stop me and I will try and kill you. Fair is fair.:)
I am confused as to why people that I despise are doing work that I despise are having outcomes that I like. Such a weird world. Maye you guys should stop being assholes and people will stop flipping out and trying to kill you? (it is not lost on me that i am being an asshole by saying "fuck you", how cool is that? (even weirder, i do not really hate, i just get a little motivated about shit that annoys me... like you supporting censorship))
Can someone get rid of SystemD please? It destroyed the EFI partition
Seriously? Are you sure it wasn't just the installer?:/
Definitely not the installer. I installed the latest version of Parrot OS a month or so ago but this is my main Mint (Mate) 17.3 installation. This is the second time within the past 6 months it has done this. The last time it happened, I reinstalled cleanly to ensure it wasn't me mucking about that caused SystemD to fuck with my EFI partition. This time, I tried and managed to repair it. Still not certain *why* it happened. Something to do with audio (mouse passed over an audio file, not unusual, but when I moved the mouse off, the "preview" would not stop.) I eventually just used the "start menu" to reboot the computer. When it came back up, it did not come back up.
I have yet to see a distro worth its weight in salt that does not have SystemD infecting it at some level so I may be forced to create my own distro. *sigh*
In theory, this could have happened with Windows 10 as well, but I stopped running any sort of Windows shortly after I tried Windows 10 on its initial release. Now, the only dual booting I do is from one *nix to another.
The great thing about the Pirate Bay is that it introduced me to a world of plenty... and I found out that I did not need or want that plenty. The spell has been broken. I have better things to spend my time and money on now.
Perhaps THAT is what all the "content creators" are afraid of?
Linux works fine for me. I have games and creativity software (C compilers, image creation tools, reverse engineering tools, etc). Linux also helps me in my day to day work of network/systems security.
So explain to me again why I need anything at all from the Pirate Bay? This whole kerfuffle is just absurd. Meh.
Can someone get rid of SystemD please? It destroyed the EFI partition again and it took me hours to get my installation usable. Again.:(
(never had a problem with SystemD in my virtual machines but something has to run on the hardware itself and I fail to see why it should not be Linux itself. Am I expected to install Windows to host my Linux systems?!)
Come on, you can't seriously define freedom as being able to download Netflix and Hollywood created content. It's just entertainment created by for profit companies. It isn't gonna cure diseases, it isn't gonna help hunger or global warning. It's just enterntainment(sic) and nobody is entitled to it. Freedom is about net neutrality, freedom of speech, democracy and so on, not about this.
The irony is palpable here. Nobody here is claiming they have a right to download copyrighted material. What they are claiming is that the way these companies will try to enforce copyright is by reducing what you call Freedom: "Freedom is about net neutrality, freedom of speech, democracy and so on, not about this."
Perhaps I'm wrong, perhaps you pulled yourself out of the gutter, perhaps you were born into poverty, suffered ill-health, wound up in jail through no real fault of your own, and still managed to survive, and eventually to overcome.
I pulled myself out of the gutter. None of my childhood friends did. They are all dead or in prison for life now.:(
Regardless, bad luck could have kept me in the same conditions as my childhood friends. I needed plenty of good luck get out of the gutter.
AI and autonomous cars are the current hype cycle. So much for VR.
That is because the folks selling VR software are trying to gouge too much profit out of it.
I was thinking about buying a Vive. I have a computer good enough to handle it so all I need is the headset and the software. Some of the software is really neat but the prices... well, my nose started bleeding once I started adding up the prices.
The problem is that there is no easy transition from regular programs to VR programs. Valve allows Team Fortress 2 to be played in normal mode or VR mode, but most software is not like that already. That means once you blow ~$800 on hardware, you MUST by more software. Well, when calculating what the market will bear, this "must buy" condition recommends high prices; after all, you already have a minimum of $800 invested.
Those profit calculations on what the market will bear seem to forget that VR is not an established technology and nobody HAS to buy a VR headset... and with those prices, many, like myself, will not buy a VR headset.
VR is stillborn. Again. Because of breathtaking greed. As usual.
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Really? WTF dude. You are distracting the narrative of Americans being so incredibly gluttonous that even their pets are obese.
Every single person must be kept in the prison of belief that they are inadequate and worthless or at least partially at fault for just about everything that is wrong with the world. It should be a constant barrage of insults so that there is no relief other than death.
Being logical and taking the time to actually think about things detracts from the narrative which permits control that is so deep that a persons soul is almost permanently enslaved.
Tl;DR, Your words are very insightful and my sarcasm is off topic (but maybe entertaining?).
...that most pet owners have no idea how to care for their animals.
Wow. I should report my son to Animal Welfare because his older cat who can't get much exercise is obscenely obese. Yeah, he really should not be adopting older pets from the Animal Shelter. Those animals have problems and should just be put to sleep so that the world can be a more perfect place.
I mean, I did suggest not buying normal cat food and she is slowly losing some weight, but why should we look at what is offered up as pet food when we can shame the owners for not caring enough or being good enough to care for a pet?
I do not want to take away from your perfectly valid rant against crappy pet owners; however, the world is not so black and white my friend.
Have a nice life. :)
Of course it doesn't matter. We all know that all pets are purely gluttonous pigs that will eat until it kills them (actually, some pets WILL do this). No our pets should be shamed for not watching their weight. I mean, who cares if what is sold as cat food is essentially the same fillers that they put in the rest of our food. Who cares if there is a correlation between what is sold as food, whether for pets or for ourselves, and obesity? No. It is your failing. You are not working hard enough to ensure that you do not look like a huge fat pig ready for slaughter. You are the failure. The fact that the food is filled with sawdust and other biologically inert compounds to increase profits has nothing to do with it. No. It is all about how you and your pets are worthless pieces of shit.
TL;DR, Why the fuck is this on Slashdot and how would any nerd possibly care about this subject?
But us fair skinned people could barely say "hi my name is Apple"
Hola. Yo tango spanishwordforname es spanishwordforapple.
A few others phrases that I recall from three years of Spanish:
Cuantos anos tu tienes? (how many years do you have aka how old are you)
Que hora es? (What time is it?)
Usted y yo (You and I (name of the first book I was learning from))
Donde vives tu la familia? (Where does your family live?)
El bano (bathroom)
Amor (love)
And that is about it. Three years in class and that is all that I learned... Definitely worth it.
Still waiting.
For the love of all that is holy, do not hold your breath while waiting!
Honestly, I am a little unsure why corporations can't just outright kill people. They get away with pretty much everything else. Cutting wires is only criminal if you did not do it to hurt a competitor. If you cut wires to hurt a competitor, it is just competition which is the heart of capitalism.
We had Verizon recently installed at the time, and Saw a Comcast Truck out by our pole one morning. Figuring he was just hooking up another customer, we thought nothing of it and went about our surfing and Netflix... Then the internet cut out.
What if it had been some teenagers out there cutting it? I am betting there would have been criminal charges. I would be pounding down the door of the local DA and police chief demanding that criminal charges be pursued.
But yeah, behavior like this is expected when it involves large companies and you know... individual employees and possibly their managers could never be held accountable because, well, it is just business, and business can be quite nasty and unethical... and damnit, we should keep it that way.
If the claims are true, there also should be a criminal trial and jail time. This is deliberate destruction of a productive enterprise for financial gain, far worse than getting drunk and smashing a few windows, or burglary, each of which would result in jail.
I completely agree. What would happen to you or I if either one of us had cut those cables? We would be in prison and be responsible for huge sums of money in damages.
I am unsure how it becomes not a criminal matter when a person employed by a company (competing no less!) does it. I am doubting that Comcast will even get slapped on the wrist for this. With a full monopoly in the area, they can offer some sweet deals to the judges and officials in that area.
Intel CPUs have (had?) 3g modems built into them from the factory. Really, your only option is generating your own power to give to the device and placing it in a Faraday cage.
Unfortunately, a quick visit to Google only provides this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/priva...
None of that appears to be very reliable sources but meh. It is possible to do so and seeing what Microsoft is doing with the OS, it seems inconceivable that Intel is not doing something similar.
I've chosen this lifestyle because typically after about 18 months in the workplace my mental health suffers.
I have noticed this pattern in myself over the years. Do you know what causes it for you? I have some ideas about why it happens with me but I have nothing concrete yet.
That they ask this question, in this manner, makes me uncertain that they can even configure a dedicated appliance properly.
That they ask this question, in this manner, tells me that they do not have an understanding of what they want versus how reality works. If this "project" is anything other than a personal learning project and has importance (monetary or otherwise) then you are absolutely correct. Pay someone who understands the problem space to architect a solution that provides the desired outcome, if reality even allows for the goals and desired outcome to be met.
It should be noted that many people are considered security professionals but I would not trust them to provide the solution being asked for. I would recommend a very competent engineer who is a stickler for correctness over the average security professional.
If Microsoft thought that introducing incompatibilities was an ideal situation for the consumer (not being sarcastic here), I am unsure how that translates into the liberty of controlling what software someone chooses to run.
The only reasonable choice would be to introduce the incompatibility and let the user decide if they want to deal with the Blue Screen.
Ultimately, this is not about improvements, incompatibilities, features, etc. This is a shot across the bow concerning Microsoft determining what you can and can not do with the software that you purchased from them. Again, they are establishing that you have no choices and absolutely no control when you participate in the Microsoft ecosystem. The best that you can hope for is to try to regain some feeling (false) of control after Microsoft has determined what is acceptable.
Even more accurate: Microsoft chose what should or should not be running regardless of what you had intended.
Again, if you participate in the Microsoft ecosystem, you abdicate all control but keep all liability. Seems like something I would be excited to not only participate in, but pay for the "privilege" of doing so.
I am unsure how this situation is maintained. It is more than just market forces.
This is a "social engineering" article. The intent is to change perception. In this case, the idea is that you should be on Windows 10 so that there is no ability for you to escape having your internal dialogue be monitored as well as can be done through an operating system.
In other words, the "content" of the article (what it is ostensibly about) is actually irrelevant. What is relevant is that the public's perception of Windows 7 is altered, even if just by a little. I see this a lot. There is a LOT of social programming going on right now. Much more so than in the past. I am unsure what these developments are heralding, but anytime anyone has majority control of something and seeks more control, the end result will not be good.
Your instinctive reaction of "bullshit" is spot on, but this article is not meant for you or other people with knowledge of operating systems. It is to sway people who do not have a solid grasp of the situation.
I think this AI assisted driving should be taken out of the cars.
Ah yes. The wonderful "let's ban it" response. Relax bro. The stupid will merely find other ways to harm you while killing themselves.
Not that it really matters, but my position on this is that I would never trust it even for lane keeping. Yeah, I am sure it can keep lanes and speeds just fine, but my brain either needs to either be absolutely in control or absolutely not responsible at all. This system can only provide one of those options: me being in absolute control, which means I could not use it.
Personally, I feel safer with morons depending on this "autopilot" garbage than them depending on their own anti-depressant addled brains which choose to send and receive text messages while operating a multi-ton vehicle at speeds that impart quite a bit of inertia to stationary items.
Finally, a life pro-tip for you: If your immediate response to something problematic is to withdraw it or take it away, you are likely better off living under a fundamental religious dictatorship than an enlightened, liberty focused social order. For your own happiness and satisfaction, be honest with yourself and choose appropriately.
If you wrote out the contract properly then you made sure that user backups are the user's responsibility, in which case you don't have to pay a single penny ransom because you don't owe anyone anything.
Hm... kind of. Any business contract that allowed the company to fail in providing services to the customers with no penalties would be a rather odd thing. Meaning, yeah, the customer likely could not sue for loss of data, but it was the hosting company servers that were compromised, not the customers servers (of course customer servers were affected because they ride on top of company servers, but that is not the point).
Long story short, yeah, the hosting company will not likely be held liable for the loss of customer data but the hosting company can and will be held liable for the extended loss of service, which means they should have had backups, which is how this conversation was started. Proper backups would have allowed them to restore business operations within a much shorter time frame... and possibly garnered some good will from their customers if customer data had been backed up as well.
Headline should say, "Company would rather pay million dollar ransom than pay for competent help"
Who cares? Why is this is on Slashdot? We all already know. The situation is predictable and happens all the time. Water is wet, news at 11.
We know for certain that the Standard Model is incomplete because it cannot explain gravity.
What if gravity is merely the effect of time moving at different speeds in relation to distance from mass?
GPS satellite clocks move faster than clocks on the surface of the planet. Hm?
(the Standard Model is still clearly an incomplete model)
Now, go play with your antiviri, malware, spybot, rootkit, updaters and reboot a few dozen times in between updates and in the mean time, I will get some work done on my debian sid system.
Debian ate the poison pill. Will anyone die tomorrow? Not likely. Will anything bad happen next year? Not likely. Long term, perhaps 50 years, it is guaranteed that Debian will be dead or will be used to abuse the people who use it... rather like MS Windows right now.
Personally I'd rather err on the side of removing content that incites violence.
Flag as Inappropriate
Oops. I copied and pasted a little extra there but I like it. The juxtaposition of my words and that little extra is just delicious. lol.
So what you are saying is that there are ideas so nasty, despicable, and abhorrent, that they should not be allowed to be discussed in a civilized society.
Fuck you. Go live somewhere uncivilized where they practice that kind of shit.
Hm. Wait. That is everywhere! Fuck people. I side with the terrorists. Not because I like what they are trying to achieve but because I fucking hate you and people like you.
I will think about what *I* want to think about and discuss it with anyone who is interested. Try and stop me and I will try and kill you. Fair is fair. :)
I am confused as to why people that I despise are doing work that I despise are having outcomes that I like. Such a weird world. Maye you guys should stop being assholes and people will stop flipping out and trying to kill you? (it is not lost on me that i am being an asshole by saying "fuck you", how cool is that? (even weirder, i do not really hate, i just get a little motivated about shit that annoys me... like you supporting censorship))
Kind regards,
Dave
Can someone get rid of SystemD please? It destroyed the EFI partition
Seriously? Are you sure it wasn't just the installer? :/
Definitely not the installer. I installed the latest version of Parrot OS a month or so ago but this is my main Mint (Mate) 17.3 installation. This is the second time within the past 6 months it has done this. The last time it happened, I reinstalled cleanly to ensure it wasn't me mucking about that caused SystemD to fuck with my EFI partition. This time, I tried and managed to repair it. Still not certain *why* it happened. Something to do with audio (mouse passed over an audio file, not unusual, but when I moved the mouse off, the "preview" would not stop.) I eventually just used the "start menu" to reboot the computer. When it came back up, it did not come back up.
I have yet to see a distro worth its weight in salt that does not have SystemD infecting it at some level so I may be forced to create my own distro. *sigh*
In theory, this could have happened with Windows 10 as well, but I stopped running any sort of Windows shortly after I tried Windows 10 on its initial release. Now, the only dual booting I do is from one *nix to another.
The great thing about the Pirate Bay is that it introduced me to a world of plenty... and I found out that I did not need or want that plenty. The spell has been broken. I have better things to spend my time and money on now.
Perhaps THAT is what all the "content creators" are afraid of?
Linux works fine for me. I have games and creativity software (C compilers, image creation tools, reverse engineering tools, etc). Linux also helps me in my day to day work of network/systems security.
So explain to me again why I need anything at all from the Pirate Bay? This whole kerfuffle is just absurd. Meh.
Can someone get rid of SystemD please? It destroyed the EFI partition again and it took me hours to get my installation usable. Again. :(
(never had a problem with SystemD in my virtual machines but something has to run on the hardware itself and I fail to see why it should not be Linux itself. Am I expected to install Windows to host my Linux systems?!)
Come on, you can't seriously define freedom as being able to download Netflix and Hollywood created content. It's just entertainment created by for profit companies. It isn't gonna cure diseases, it isn't gonna help hunger or global warning. It's just enterntainment(sic) and nobody is entitled to it.
Freedom is about net neutrality, freedom of speech, democracy and so on, not about this.
The irony is palpable here. Nobody here is claiming they have a right to download copyrighted material. What they are claiming is that the way these companies will try to enforce copyright is by reducing what you call Freedom: "Freedom is about net neutrality, freedom of speech, democracy and so on, not about this."
Perhaps I'm wrong, perhaps you pulled yourself out of the gutter, perhaps you were born into poverty, suffered ill-health, wound up in jail through no real fault of your own, and still managed to survive, and eventually to overcome.
I pulled myself out of the gutter. None of my childhood friends did. They are all dead or in prison for life now. :(
Regardless, bad luck could have kept me in the same conditions as my childhood friends. I needed plenty of good luck get out of the gutter.
TL;DR, you are correct.
AI and autonomous cars are the current hype cycle. So much for VR.
That is because the folks selling VR software are trying to gouge too much profit out of it.
I was thinking about buying a Vive. I have a computer good enough to handle it so all I need is the headset and the software. Some of the software is really neat but the prices ... well, my nose started bleeding once I started adding up the prices.
The problem is that there is no easy transition from regular programs to VR programs. Valve allows Team Fortress 2 to be played in normal mode or VR mode, but most software is not like that already. That means once you blow ~$800 on hardware, you MUST by more software. Well, when calculating what the market will bear, this "must buy" condition recommends high prices; after all, you already have a minimum of $800 invested.
Those profit calculations on what the market will bear seem to forget that VR is not an established technology and nobody HAS to buy a VR headset... and with those prices, many, like myself, will not buy a VR headset.
VR is stillborn. Again. Because of breathtaking greed. As usual.
If the game count reached 2^31, how long until it reaches 2^32?
Assuming all else is equal, this is easy to answer: Twice as long. Hurray for binary!