Uhhh...we have been able to sue Chinese corps for how many decades now? And exactly what effect has that had on them? Oh yeah jack with a side of shit.
You can sue foreign powers all you want pal, doesn't mean they are gonna give a single flying flipping fuck what you think, not unless you are willing to go full on protectionist and stop trading with them cold.
Bernie showed he was worthless when those two BLM fuckwits shoved him away from his own mike at his own rally and pwned his ass. As Joe Rogan so aptly said on his recent podcast about that incident "you can't even control your own stage, you have no chance in hell of controlling a country".
Even if Shillary wouldn't have rigged the primary Bernie was dead in the water the second that was aired, it was his Willie Horton. Frankly Bozo the clown could beat Bernie now, all they would have to do is show him being shoved aside and looking lost and pathetic and have a voice over say "He couldn't even control his own rally, you want this man controlling the country?" and that is it, game set and match...and this is coming from someone who until that aired was hoping against hope he would beat Shillary as I already knew she would flip flop like a fish on the bank while getting ready for the back stab just as she had did her whole political career. But that bit fucked him man, he is done.
As for Pocahontas? Unless she takes the blood test and backs up her bullshit I don't see her going anywhere, that bit is just too damned easy to use. When her lily white ass pulled that bit (which if she did use it to get special favors in college as a minority was fraud) she painted a big red bullshit that Ray Charles could hit. Frankly the only way I see her pulling a save is if she takes the test and it shows what she said was true, otherwise she be fucked.
Don't know about Grayson, never heard of 'em but Franken fucked himself with that pic, trying to say you are a champion of women while doing creepy as fuck shit like that? Yeah...no, just no, not gonna fly. BTW the ones I saw going after him the hardest? The Feminists and they sure as fuck ain't right wing, they are about as militant leftist as you can get.
Sooo...its Embrace, extend, and extinguish all over again? Hmmm...and so many here ran to defend Google for being so "
GPL friendly" while many of us pointed out they were just as nasty as any other megacorp.
The netbox at the shop is a quad core
Q9505S which means its getting screwed by Intel...now why EXACTLY should I be forced to replace a system that does its job VERY well? So Intel can make more money by trying to sell me a new chip because they BORKED their own CPU design? This chip is more than powerful enough to not only do its main job of downloading drivers and looking up parts but its also quite good for converting analog formats to digital thanks to the hauppauge built into the Pavilion Media Center...so why should I have to sink money to replace a unit whose ONLY issue is that Intel decided they weren't gonna bother fixing their mistakes?
The only thing this bullshit has convinced me of is that I made the right choice to be AMD exclusive and once this last Intel unit dies there won't be any more Intel at the shop that I'm not working on for a customer, they just aren't trustworthy.
If you think this is a left/right issue? I have some magic beans you might be interested in, or did you forget all the nasty shit Obama pushed through, the wiretapping, attacking whistleblowers, that the left cheered?
This is about those in power wanting more power PERIOD, the left has been taken over by SJWs that think you should be jailed for wrongthink, the right has been taken over by Neocons that think everyone is a potential terrorist...tomato tomatoe dude. Its why more and more of the actual classical liberals are going to the Green Party while the fiscal conservatives are going to the Libertarian Party, BOTH sides have become hopelessly corrupted so your "choices" today or Coke in a can VS Coke in a bottle, its not even Coke VS Pepsi anymore...surely you don't think Shillary actually gave a flying flipping fuck about curtailing power, did you?
What I see today only shows that Bill Hicks called it 25 years ago that its nothing but a puppet show, designed to keep the paupers arguing while the puppet masters laugh their asses off and take more and more for themselves.
Oh its worse than that, or haven't you heard several on the left pushing for it to be called "LGBTPQ"? The Q is for gender queer and the P? You're gonna love this...PEDOsexual. Yup the kiddie fiddlers are jumping on the bandwagon because they have seen how well the Oppression Olympics has worked for others.
But honestly it doesn't surprise me, because in the 70s and 80s? I was as left as you could possibly get. I have no problem with gays getting hitched (why should we be the only ones that have to deal with divorce? Let 'em have a big chunk of that misery says I) and was all for helping the poor and stopping the neocon wars for the profit of the megacorps...but then it stopped being about that and became nothing but gender politics. Didn't matter if an idea was batshit, didn't matter if we can plainly see with our own two peepers that others have tried something and it didn't work, nope all that matters is what skin color a person is and what gender they identify with...and the left wonders why you are seeing more and more of the map turn blood red?
I don't support most of what the right stands for, I don't support the war on drugs, don't support wars period, and don't support attacking social nets that help keep poor folks from starving...but the left has gone full bore whack-a-doodle man, we're talking Mad Hatter and March Hare levels of nuts. I may not like a lot of what the right stands for but I have to say...they don't come off as totally fucking batshit bananas and don't expect me to buy shit my own two eyes tell me is a lie.
Not to mention there is a BIG issue with what he wants...how do you update it without putting it at risk? Who is gonna support it?
You see I know how this really doesn't work because I actually have one that does almost exactly what he is suggesting and I use it for work...a EEE PC netbook. For those that do not know many of the EEE PC netbooks that came with windows have TWO start buttons, one boots into the main OS and one boots into a version of Splashtop...or at least it did before I upgraded to Windows 8.1. The problems with it were 1.- No software for the OS, which meant it was stuck with a really old version of Chromium and really old HTML based apps, 2.- No support so any vulnerabilities with the apps or the OS itself wouldn't get patched.
Luckily for me I bought the AMD Brazos version that had no issues with 8Gb of RAM and VM support so in the end it was better to just upgrade to 8.1 and use a Linux VM when I needed a separate OS, as the VM can easily be updated or changed out if the distro dies, with these micro-OSes? They always end up out of date and poorly supported, they just aren't a great idea.
Dude its ALWAYS been that way, hell Joe Bob Briggs said way back in the early 80s "In the US you can't show a tit unless there is a knife in it". It was that way then, its that way now.
The bitch is we are due for a VERY HARD right shift, the Tumblrinas and SJWs have screamed wolf one too many times by calling everyone for everything an "ist!" that middle America is more than willing to swing as far right as they can if it means the regressives get kicked to the curb. It really reminds me of the late 70s, Carter came off as such a wuss and the media was pushing the left as hard as they possibly could and then bam, the entire country just took a hard right shift for the next dozen years and honestly never really swung completely back.
Which is why I am SOO HAPPY when shit like this happens, because these "extra chips" that the user doesn't have control over? Need to DIAF. It was a bad idea from conception to execution and the sooner the world realizes that these were only shoehorned in so Hollywood and the big corps could bake in DRM to screw users easier? The quicker we can get these damned things removed and move on.
If the PTBs want these chips? Let them be in enterprise class units so they can pay for them and everyone else can avoid them like the STDs they are, but there is NO REASON to bake this shit into every PC on the planet and shit like this just illustrates why.
What pisses me off with those retarded algorithms is that they ignore the obvious in favor for always being a day late and a dollar short!
Hey guys if I haven't looked at anything other than a BATTERY for a particular laptop? Odds are really good I'm not looking for a new laptop or I wouldn't be looking to replace the battery, would I? Likewise if I'm watching vids on CPUs or a particular game? Maybe, just maybe, you should show me ads for the products I'm actually watching videos on instead of continuing to show me ads for something I looked for a PART FOR weeks ago?
The really sad part? When they actually used "dumb ads" where they just based the ads on what you were actually watching? I actually bought products because they showed me deals on things I actually cared about, now I honestly cannot remember the last time they got a sale because they never seem to get WTF I'm actually trying to get, like showing me new cars when I'm looking for spark plugs or trying to sell me a POS laptop when I'm looking at games that would never run on said POS laptop they just don't seem to have a damned clue WTH they are doing when it comes to ads anymore.
Ya know what I always find funny? The ones screaming about the drug laws being "raciss" have no problem with the gun laws which are really REALLY racist and in fact were written by such lovely people as KKK members!
Protip: Any left leaners might want to watch "fear of an armed Negro" before they call for more gun laws, they got interviews with the ones that actually wrote the original gun laws and...damn, they aren't even subtle about how fucking racist they are, nor were they caring if you knew what their goal was, to make it so they could go stomp some black any time they wanted without worrying about the blacks being able to fight back, a "poll tax" for self defense as it were. Its one of the reason why they started with the Saturday Night Special", the original 38 special was a cheap and high quality self defense weapon...exactly what they did NOT want some black home owner to have when they kicked down the door.
As for TFA? This doesn't have shit to do with left or right, or did you forget Obama expanding the spying and prosecuting whistleblowers? Its about control and those who wield that control, and they stay in power whether its a D or R in the puppet chairs. All those wonderful 3 letter agencies, they stay no matter who you vote for and its they who have seen their power grow ever stronger every decade...of course after what happened to the POTUS that said he would "break the CIA" I seriously doubt you are gonna find ANY politician with enough balls to attempt to stop the 3 letter gangs any time soon, even the ballsiest politician knows who can easily make you stop breathing.
Glasses are the issue I think. A LOT of people need glasses of some sort and from what I've seen with both 3D and VR those people are more likely to get sick when dealing with those techs.
But I think the issue with VR is gonna be the same as 3D, the tech we have now is "good enough" for what most people want, same as how DVDs keep right on selling. I've tried VR and 3D and frankly I just find the experience of just having a couple of big fat monitors more than good enough for the games I play, even my flight games. Constantly having to whip my head around gives me neck strain after awhile and I just didn't find the whole VR thing very appealing, I guess my customer who was showing his off to me didn't care for it either because I noticed his VR rig for sale on CL about a month after he tried to get me interested in it.
I just don't see how they are gonna compete with the comfort factor, with my PC rig I have my big comfy chair and a couple of big monitors, its about as relaxing as one can get and I can reach over and gab a sip of my coke or wolf down some pizza while I'm in a climb,its just so damned much more comfy than wearing the headgear and I don't have to sink crazy money and try to buy a new GPU while miners are sucking down graphics cards like drunks sucking down a free minibar so its a win/win for me to just skip it like I did the 3D TV fad.
Because this is gambling? With other games you know what you are gonna get for your money be it expansion packs, premium vehicles, etc but this is designed to keep you throwing money in the CHANCE you might get something valuable...no different than a slot machine. Hell this is basically a variation on the pachinko scam they've used in Japan to get around gambling laws for years where you gamble for "prizes" that you can then walk next door and change into cash...just like the online auction houses in games like CS:GO where you can turn that prize into cash.
Hate to break the news to ya, but you obviously forgot about OKC, one of the biggest attacks in history of the USA, and they used nothing more than fertilizer and gas. And what have we been seeing in places like Paris? Guys in trucks screaming Aloha Snackbar while running down dozens. Pro Tip...if a scumbag wants to kill lots of people? The Anarchist Cookbook can be downloaded in seconds and gives you the recipes to do massive damage just using the stuff found in your average kitchen. Are you gonna ban chemistry?
If you want to actually do something about school shootings? Here is 3 simple steps that would make it a LOT harder and less attractive to scumbags...1.- Give schools the same ability to push a single button and lock the place down like they have in hospitals. you'd be amazed how many schools have ancient buildings that simply cannot be locked down without some person going around with the keys. 2.- Give teachers firearms training and have them armed, look at how many teachers have given their lives protecting kids, think about how differently it could have been if the teacher had a way to defend their charges besides being a human shield. 3.- STOP GLAMORIZING THESE DOUCHEBAGS! They see their faces plastered on the news networks, stories about them for weeks, it allows any loser to get 15 minutes of fame and get tons of attention...think those same losers would be so willing to charge in if they saw the headline "needle dicked loser that was nothing but a complete failure at life proves that he should have been aborted by killing others"? Stop giving these losers positive press, let them know they won't get their name and picture plastered everywhere and the only time their shown will be with titles like "worthless' "pathetic" "impotent". There have been studies that show that these crimes go up after there is a lot of press about an attack because losers want to have the infamy the other guy got, why give it to them?
But if you think banning guns would do shit? I have a bridge you might be interested in. After all how long has it been illegal to cross the border without permission? How long has SLAVERY been illegal? According to Amnesty International thanks to our broken southern border we have thousands of slaves being brought in every year for sexual abuse and slave labor, do you honestly think getting slaves across the border is easier than getting a load of guns and ammo? We have literally tens of thousands of tons of illegal drugs being brought across our border every.single.year. you think the criminals can't just as easily bring a load of guns to go with the dope and the slaves? All the gun laws do is make sure the law abiding don't have a way to fight back, the criminals don't give a flying flipping fuck about your laws...hence why we call them criminals.
What is wrong with arming teachers? You trust them to indoctrinate your little hellspawn with whatever the narrative of the week is, but not to actually protect them from harm? DaFuq?
Personally I'd trust any of my former teachers with a gun a hell of a lot quicker than I'd trust the cops, after all I haven't seen any teachers running around shooting unarmed citizens because some douche lost at CS:GO and made a prank call or in the case of Columbine actually shooting the hostages...have you?
Actually last figures I saw had Google losing money on YouTube as the big YouTubers have realized they are getting fucked and have their own ads and bypass Google's biased BS ads so the only ad rolls they get are for the smaller channels and even those are going to Patreon because they are tired of the BS. Search is their cash cow, the others are just same datamining that helps the search business.
This is why I have switched to Bing, if Bing search disappeared tomorrow its not gonna affect MSFT in the slightest and they seem to be actively avoiding all the SJW shitshow while Google is balls deep, if you want to support their racist sexist views? That is your choice but since I think racists are scumbags I simply will not use their products. My Gmail is a spamdump, I don't use their search, the only Google product I use is an Android phone and I've replaced the browser and use Bing search on it so other than the occasional playstore search they aren't getting shit from me.
Sorry but you are just moving the goalposts. you claimed Steam is "supporting DRM" but the DRM DOES NOT WORK and has been cracked for many years now, so claiming that horseshit is like claiming that buying DVDs instead of stealing is "supporting DRM" despite the fact that DVD encryption has been broken since Bush Senior was in the white house.
But why don't you have the balls to admit the truth? Because I have seen your type a million times, you are a thief who is trying to justify his stealing by adding a layer of "sticking in to teh man!" bullshit. either that or you are one of those ancient farts that haven't played anything released since windows 98 and therefor have an opinion worth less than nothing since you don't even buy the product you are railing against...so which is it? Please don't tell me that you are one of those crackpot FOSSie that want to tell us all we need is Tux Racer and a million Q3 Arena rip offs, because I thought those died out in the early 2010s when everyone stopped giving a shit about Linux after google ripped it off and turned it into the DRMpaloza that is Android and ChromeOS.
Riiiight...you never hear of GameCopyWorld? Takes less than 15 seconds to crack any Steam game, Steam is to DRM what "pick the pictures with cars in them" is to security, its a joke designed to give someone a bit of security theater, nothing more. In fact if you go download a pirated game in 2018? Its almost always the Steam version because its so easy to crack.
Except MSFT is fucking them in the ass when it comes to sales...you take a look at MSFT Gamepass yet? MSFT is gonna royally fuck the game companies by pulling a Netflix and having an "all you can play" buffet and the yearly cost? The same as just TWO triple A titles.
The game reviewers on YouTube are already telling people to buy the XB1X and ditch buying new games completely, and comparing it to cord cutting. If its one thing these publishers should have picked up on is MSFT has no problem at all with throwing other companies under the bus if it makes them more money or gives them a lock in, the history of MSFT is littered with software and hardware corps that thought making an alliance with MSFT would be great only to get a shiv in the back.
Actually this is true for gamers as well, you can find plenty of vids on YouTube of people playing popular titles like the new Doom title and Rocket League on 10 year old Phenom IIs and C2Qs. I can say I've ended up joining that camp as well as I used to build a PC every other year (with a major upgrade in the off year) during the MHz wars, but now? My FX-8320e (which is just a gold binned FX-8350 from 2012) plays all my games at 60 FPS+ paired with an R9 280 and just chews through video renders like it was nothing so why spend the extra cash? So I can go from 93 FPS to 115 FPS?
The same appears to be true for my smartphone as I have zero desire to get a new one despite my current phone being a couple of years old. It has quad cores, 1.5Gb of RAM, 16GB of storage with another 32Gb on MicroSD, hell it even plays 3D games quite well on its 5.5 inch screen not that I give a shit as I hate touch controls in gaming. It sucks that its max OS is Android 5.1 but that is the OEMs trying to force obsolescence but I'm not gonna spend several hundred on a new phone every year just because those bastards never update software (and don't say "get an iPhone" because I would rather have an STD than deal with Apple's Fisher Price GUI) so as long as the hardware holds out they can just piss right off, what I have "just works" does what I want it to quite well.
Riiight, because Linux has such great support for ancient proprietary devices like ISA CNC boards, Serial connections to laser cutters, when Linux can't even keep support for older webcams working.
No Valve should refund their money because Steam is Valve's product and they are not doing due diligence to insure the products being sold on their store are quality products and not scams.
Remember for every rip off and fake product that gets sold on Steam? Valve is taking 30% off the top. Why do you think the quality of the games being sold on Steam has gone down the shitter and you have to wade through mountains of garbage and fakes and rip off to find anything these days on Steam? Do you think this little pissant company did that? No that was valve that has gotten too fucking GREEDY and has opened the flood gates to every fly by night asset flipping worthless corp that can throw something together.
Well its high time that Valve actually stood behind the products they sell. They don't have any problem taking that 30% do they? Think they are refunding that to the people who now have a game that doesn't do what they bought it to do, which is online multiplayer with the ease of Steam which is a major selling point of the Steam platform in the first place? If you want to be high and mighty and say you have standards Valve? Fine great PROVE IT by STANDING UP FOR YOUR CUSTOMERS and put your money where your mouth is! Steam users didn't let this company on your platform YOU DID so stand up for your customers,otherwise its nothing but worthless PR from another shit corp that is NO BETTER than EA or Ubisoft or Activision.
Probably for the same reason why my friend in LE ends up grabbing some porn addict who has 30 year old CP on his hard drive instead of going after the guys actually making money off it, because they are in dontgiveafuckistan where its easy to bribe the local cops?
You have to remember there is still a LOT of places in this world where things we would find the most vile and repulsive is totally acceptable if you have money and/or the right connections. Hell look up "child porn confession" on wikileaks some time and you'll find an article written by an actual CP producer where he brags about just how easy it is when you are making millions in a country where the average yearly income is less than 10k, he can just buy anybody he wants, cops, judges, and I bet its even easier than it is for the drug lords as they aren't having gang wars and shooting the place up every other week.
So it doesn't really do them any good if the one at the top of the ladder is in some place its gonna take an international incident to get their hands on to know who it is, easier to grab the small fish living in countries that play ball.
Why they didn't just buy the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer which is designed to be configurable for different missions so they could have just ordered it with whatever features they wanted?
One of the oldest rules is "don't build if you can buy" because you let someone else make the mistakes, iron out the bugs, and you can then just get a working solution OTS instead of trying to reinvent the wheel. Was it a case of NIH? Or one of those "bringing home the bacon" deals where spending money in the right districts mattered more than the finished product? Because looking at what they expected this turkey to do could have just as easily be gotten by simply buying the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer with the right package and it would "just work" since they have been in service since the 90s.
Sigh...do I REALLY need to provide the actual A/B tests that were done when Pono Player (wow that was some snake oil huh?) came out when they put 320k MP3 ripped from CDs against the 24bit masters in FLAC and found those "ears that can tell the difference" couldn't tell shit from shineola? It got a ton of press thanks to Neil Young making out CDs and MP3s to be shit, look it up.
At least with tubes versus solid state there is actual science there, tubes naturally accentuate even order harmonics and add a bit of organic compression to certain frequencies with a breakup that follows a smooth curve which is difficult for a solid state amp to replicate (this is why bass players like myself have no issues with solid state, our signal need to stay clean and thus the same effects the tube has on guitars produces mostly unwanted affecting of the signal on bass) but as we saw with Pono Player there are limits to human hearing that adding more fidelity simply will not change.
BTW if you wonder why if this is the case that studios record in much higher fidelity than what you get on CDs? I have spent a lot of time in studios and can answer that, headroom. When you are recording an instrument its extremely rare these days that the signal is gonna go straight from the recording to master without alteration, you need that extra headroom for effects and equalization so that you have more room to experiment before clipping. If one puts some serious thought into everything from mike placement to effects before one hits record? Its quite possible to get VERY good recordings using only 16bit CD audio quality, just look up demos of the Tascam and Zoom portastudios on YouTube or check out the low fi movement and we have certainly seen many artists create timeless recordings using equipment that any audiophile would consider absolute garbage.
Many think CDs sound like shit today NOT because of the format but because of the studios pushing the loudness war max compression, but go to a show where indie artists sell their own CDs and you'll find some really awesome sounding CDs because they are not slamming compressors on the entire mix. its not the format, its how its being misused.
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Uhhh...we have been able to sue Chinese corps for how many decades now? And exactly what effect has that had on them? Oh yeah jack with a side of shit.
You can sue foreign powers all you want pal, doesn't mean they are gonna give a single flying flipping fuck what you think, not unless you are willing to go full on protectionist and stop trading with them cold.
Bernie showed he was worthless when those two BLM fuckwits shoved him away from his own mike at his own rally and pwned his ass. As Joe Rogan so aptly said on his recent podcast about that incident "you can't even control your own stage, you have no chance in hell of controlling a country".
Even if Shillary wouldn't have rigged the primary Bernie was dead in the water the second that was aired, it was his Willie Horton. Frankly Bozo the clown could beat Bernie now, all they would have to do is show him being shoved aside and looking lost and pathetic and have a voice over say "He couldn't even control his own rally, you want this man controlling the country?" and that is it, game set and match...and this is coming from someone who until that aired was hoping against hope he would beat Shillary as I already knew she would flip flop like a fish on the bank while getting ready for the back stab just as she had did her whole political career. But that bit fucked him man, he is done.
As for Pocahontas? Unless she takes the blood test and backs up her bullshit I don't see her going anywhere, that bit is just too damned easy to use. When her lily white ass pulled that bit (which if she did use it to get special favors in college as a minority was fraud) she painted a big red bullshit that Ray Charles could hit. Frankly the only way I see her pulling a save is if she takes the test and it shows what she said was true, otherwise she be fucked.
Don't know about Grayson, never heard of 'em but Franken fucked himself with that pic, trying to say you are a champion of women while doing creepy as fuck shit like that? Yeah...no, just no, not gonna fly. BTW the ones I saw going after him the hardest? The Feminists and they sure as fuck ain't right wing, they are about as militant leftist as you can get.
Sooo...its Embrace, extend, and extinguish all over again? Hmmm...and so many here ran to defend Google for being so " GPL friendly" while many of us pointed out they were just as nasty as any other megacorp.
The netbox at the shop is a quad core Q9505S which means its getting screwed by Intel...now why EXACTLY should I be forced to replace a system that does its job VERY well? So Intel can make more money by trying to sell me a new chip because they BORKED their own CPU design? This chip is more than powerful enough to not only do its main job of downloading drivers and looking up parts but its also quite good for converting analog formats to digital thanks to the hauppauge built into the Pavilion Media Center...so why should I have to sink money to replace a unit whose ONLY issue is that Intel decided they weren't gonna bother fixing their mistakes?
The only thing this bullshit has convinced me of is that I made the right choice to be AMD exclusive and once this last Intel unit dies there won't be any more Intel at the shop that I'm not working on for a customer, they just aren't trustworthy.
If you think this is a left/right issue? I have some magic beans you might be interested in, or did you forget all the nasty shit Obama pushed through, the wiretapping, attacking whistleblowers, that the left cheered?
This is about those in power wanting more power PERIOD, the left has been taken over by SJWs that think you should be jailed for wrongthink, the right has been taken over by Neocons that think everyone is a potential terrorist...tomato tomatoe dude. Its why more and more of the actual classical liberals are going to the Green Party while the fiscal conservatives are going to the Libertarian Party, BOTH sides have become hopelessly corrupted so your "choices" today or Coke in a can VS Coke in a bottle, its not even Coke VS Pepsi anymore...surely you don't think Shillary actually gave a flying flipping fuck about curtailing power, did you?
What I see today only shows that Bill Hicks called it 25 years ago that its nothing but a puppet show, designed to keep the paupers arguing while the puppet masters laugh their asses off and take more and more for themselves.
Oh its worse than that, or haven't you heard several on the left pushing for it to be called "LGBTPQ"? The Q is for gender queer and the P? You're gonna love this...PEDOsexual. Yup the kiddie fiddlers are jumping on the bandwagon because they have seen how well the Oppression Olympics has worked for others.
But honestly it doesn't surprise me, because in the 70s and 80s? I was as left as you could possibly get. I have no problem with gays getting hitched (why should we be the only ones that have to deal with divorce? Let 'em have a big chunk of that misery says I) and was all for helping the poor and stopping the neocon wars for the profit of the megacorps...but then it stopped being about that and became nothing but gender politics. Didn't matter if an idea was batshit, didn't matter if we can plainly see with our own two peepers that others have tried something and it didn't work, nope all that matters is what skin color a person is and what gender they identify with...and the left wonders why you are seeing more and more of the map turn blood red?
I don't support most of what the right stands for, I don't support the war on drugs, don't support wars period, and don't support attacking social nets that help keep poor folks from starving...but the left has gone full bore whack-a-doodle man, we're talking Mad Hatter and March Hare levels of nuts. I may not like a lot of what the right stands for but I have to say...they don't come off as totally fucking batshit bananas and don't expect me to buy shit my own two eyes tell me is a lie.
Not to mention there is a BIG issue with what he wants...how do you update it without putting it at risk? Who is gonna support it?
You see I know how this really doesn't work because I actually have one that does almost exactly what he is suggesting and I use it for work...a EEE PC netbook. For those that do not know many of the EEE PC netbooks that came with windows have TWO start buttons, one boots into the main OS and one boots into a version of Splashtop...or at least it did before I upgraded to Windows 8.1. The problems with it were 1.- No software for the OS, which meant it was stuck with a really old version of Chromium and really old HTML based apps, 2.- No support so any vulnerabilities with the apps or the OS itself wouldn't get patched.
Luckily for me I bought the AMD Brazos version that had no issues with 8Gb of RAM and VM support so in the end it was better to just upgrade to 8.1 and use a Linux VM when I needed a separate OS, as the VM can easily be updated or changed out if the distro dies, with these micro-OSes? They always end up out of date and poorly supported, they just aren't a great idea.
Dude its ALWAYS been that way, hell Joe Bob Briggs said way back in the early 80s "In the US you can't show a tit unless there is a knife in it". It was that way then, its that way now.
The bitch is we are due for a VERY HARD right shift, the Tumblrinas and SJWs have screamed wolf one too many times by calling everyone for everything an "ist!" that middle America is more than willing to swing as far right as they can if it means the regressives get kicked to the curb. It really reminds me of the late 70s, Carter came off as such a wuss and the media was pushing the left as hard as they possibly could and then bam, the entire country just took a hard right shift for the next dozen years and honestly never really swung completely back.
Which is why I am SOO HAPPY when shit like this happens, because these "extra chips" that the user doesn't have control over? Need to DIAF. It was a bad idea from conception to execution and the sooner the world realizes that these were only shoehorned in so Hollywood and the big corps could bake in DRM to screw users easier? The quicker we can get these damned things removed and move on.
If the PTBs want these chips? Let them be in enterprise class units so they can pay for them and everyone else can avoid them like the STDs they are, but there is NO REASON to bake this shit into every PC on the planet and shit like this just illustrates why.
What pisses me off with those retarded algorithms is that they ignore the obvious in favor for always being a day late and a dollar short!
Hey guys if I haven't looked at anything other than a BATTERY for a particular laptop? Odds are really good I'm not looking for a new laptop or I wouldn't be looking to replace the battery, would I? Likewise if I'm watching vids on CPUs or a particular game? Maybe, just maybe, you should show me ads for the products I'm actually watching videos on instead of continuing to show me ads for something I looked for a PART FOR weeks ago?
The really sad part? When they actually used "dumb ads" where they just based the ads on what you were actually watching? I actually bought products because they showed me deals on things I actually cared about, now I honestly cannot remember the last time they got a sale because they never seem to get WTF I'm actually trying to get, like showing me new cars when I'm looking for spark plugs or trying to sell me a POS laptop when I'm looking at games that would never run on said POS laptop they just don't seem to have a damned clue WTH they are doing when it comes to ads anymore.
Ya know what I always find funny? The ones screaming about the drug laws being "raciss" have no problem with the gun laws which are really REALLY racist and in fact were written by such lovely people as KKK members!
Protip: Any left leaners might want to watch "fear of an armed Negro" before they call for more gun laws, they got interviews with the ones that actually wrote the original gun laws and...damn, they aren't even subtle about how fucking racist they are, nor were they caring if you knew what their goal was, to make it so they could go stomp some black any time they wanted without worrying about the blacks being able to fight back, a "poll tax" for self defense as it were. Its one of the reason why they started with the Saturday Night Special", the original 38 special was a cheap and high quality self defense weapon...exactly what they did NOT want some black home owner to have when they kicked down the door.
As for TFA? This doesn't have shit to do with left or right, or did you forget Obama expanding the spying and prosecuting whistleblowers? Its about control and those who wield that control, and they stay in power whether its a D or R in the puppet chairs. All those wonderful 3 letter agencies, they stay no matter who you vote for and its they who have seen their power grow ever stronger every decade...of course after what happened to the POTUS that said he would "break the CIA" I seriously doubt you are gonna find ANY politician with enough balls to attempt to stop the 3 letter gangs any time soon, even the ballsiest politician knows who can easily make you stop breathing.
Glasses are the issue I think. A LOT of people need glasses of some sort and from what I've seen with both 3D and VR those people are more likely to get sick when dealing with those techs.
But I think the issue with VR is gonna be the same as 3D, the tech we have now is "good enough" for what most people want, same as how DVDs keep right on selling. I've tried VR and 3D and frankly I just find the experience of just having a couple of big fat monitors more than good enough for the games I play, even my flight games. Constantly having to whip my head around gives me neck strain after awhile and I just didn't find the whole VR thing very appealing, I guess my customer who was showing his off to me didn't care for it either because I noticed his VR rig for sale on CL about a month after he tried to get me interested in it.
I just don't see how they are gonna compete with the comfort factor, with my PC rig I have my big comfy chair and a couple of big monitors, its about as relaxing as one can get and I can reach over and gab a sip of my coke or wolf down some pizza while I'm in a climb,its just so damned much more comfy than wearing the headgear and I don't have to sink crazy money and try to buy a new GPU while miners are sucking down graphics cards like drunks sucking down a free minibar so its a win/win for me to just skip it like I did the 3D TV fad.
Because this is gambling? With other games you know what you are gonna get for your money be it expansion packs, premium vehicles, etc but this is designed to keep you throwing money in the CHANCE you might get something valuable...no different than a slot machine. Hell this is basically a variation on the pachinko scam they've used in Japan to get around gambling laws for years where you gamble for "prizes" that you can then walk next door and change into cash...just like the online auction houses in games like CS:GO where you can turn that prize into cash.
Hate to break the news to ya, but you obviously forgot about OKC, one of the biggest attacks in history of the USA, and they used nothing more than fertilizer and gas. And what have we been seeing in places like Paris? Guys in trucks screaming Aloha Snackbar while running down dozens. Pro Tip...if a scumbag wants to kill lots of people? The Anarchist Cookbook can be downloaded in seconds and gives you the recipes to do massive damage just using the stuff found in your average kitchen. Are you gonna ban chemistry?
If you want to actually do something about school shootings? Here is 3 simple steps that would make it a LOT harder and less attractive to scumbags...1.- Give schools the same ability to push a single button and lock the place down like they have in hospitals. you'd be amazed how many schools have ancient buildings that simply cannot be locked down without some person going around with the keys. 2.- Give teachers firearms training and have them armed, look at how many teachers have given their lives protecting kids, think about how differently it could have been if the teacher had a way to defend their charges besides being a human shield. 3.- STOP GLAMORIZING THESE DOUCHEBAGS! They see their faces plastered on the news networks, stories about them for weeks, it allows any loser to get 15 minutes of fame and get tons of attention...think those same losers would be so willing to charge in if they saw the headline "needle dicked loser that was nothing but a complete failure at life proves that he should have been aborted by killing others"? Stop giving these losers positive press, let them know they won't get their name and picture plastered everywhere and the only time their shown will be with titles like "worthless' "pathetic" "impotent". There have been studies that show that these crimes go up after there is a lot of press about an attack because losers want to have the infamy the other guy got, why give it to them?
But if you think banning guns would do shit? I have a bridge you might be interested in. After all how long has it been illegal to cross the border without permission? How long has SLAVERY been illegal? According to Amnesty International thanks to our broken southern border we have thousands of slaves being brought in every year for sexual abuse and slave labor, do you honestly think getting slaves across the border is easier than getting a load of guns and ammo? We have literally tens of thousands of tons of illegal drugs being brought across our border every.single.year. you think the criminals can't just as easily bring a load of guns to go with the dope and the slaves? All the gun laws do is make sure the law abiding don't have a way to fight back, the criminals don't give a flying flipping fuck about your laws...hence why we call them criminals.
What is wrong with arming teachers? You trust them to indoctrinate your little hellspawn with whatever the narrative of the week is, but not to actually protect them from harm? DaFuq?
Personally I'd trust any of my former teachers with a gun a hell of a lot quicker than I'd trust the cops, after all I haven't seen any teachers running around shooting unarmed citizens because some douche lost at CS:GO and made a prank call or in the case of Columbine actually shooting the hostages...have you?
Actually last figures I saw had Google losing money on YouTube as the big YouTubers have realized they are getting fucked and have their own ads and bypass Google's biased BS ads so the only ad rolls they get are for the smaller channels and even those are going to Patreon because they are tired of the BS. Search is their cash cow, the others are just same datamining that helps the search business.
This is why I have switched to Bing, if Bing search disappeared tomorrow its not gonna affect MSFT in the slightest and they seem to be actively avoiding all the SJW shitshow while Google is balls deep, if you want to support their racist sexist views? That is your choice but since I think racists are scumbags I simply will not use their products. My Gmail is a spamdump, I don't use their search, the only Google product I use is an Android phone and I've replaced the browser and use Bing search on it so other than the occasional playstore search they aren't getting shit from me.
Sorry but you are just moving the goalposts. you claimed Steam is "supporting DRM" but the DRM DOES NOT WORK and has been cracked for many years now, so claiming that horseshit is like claiming that buying DVDs instead of stealing is "supporting DRM" despite the fact that DVD encryption has been broken since Bush Senior was in the white house.
But why don't you have the balls to admit the truth? Because I have seen your type a million times, you are a thief who is trying to justify his stealing by adding a layer of "sticking in to teh man!" bullshit. either that or you are one of those ancient farts that haven't played anything released since windows 98 and therefor have an opinion worth less than nothing since you don't even buy the product you are railing against...so which is it? Please don't tell me that you are one of those crackpot FOSSie that want to tell us all we need is Tux Racer and a million Q3 Arena rip offs, because I thought those died out in the early 2010s when everyone stopped giving a shit about Linux after google ripped it off and turned it into the DRMpaloza that is Android and ChromeOS.
Riiiight...you never hear of GameCopyWorld? Takes less than 15 seconds to crack any Steam game, Steam is to DRM what "pick the pictures with cars in them" is to security, its a joke designed to give someone a bit of security theater, nothing more. In fact if you go download a pirated game in 2018? Its almost always the Steam version because its so easy to crack.
Except MSFT is fucking them in the ass when it comes to sales...you take a look at MSFT Gamepass yet? MSFT is gonna royally fuck the game companies by pulling a Netflix and having an "all you can play" buffet and the yearly cost? The same as just TWO triple A titles.
The game reviewers on YouTube are already telling people to buy the XB1X and ditch buying new games completely, and comparing it to cord cutting. If its one thing these publishers should have picked up on is MSFT has no problem at all with throwing other companies under the bus if it makes them more money or gives them a lock in, the history of MSFT is littered with software and hardware corps that thought making an alliance with MSFT would be great only to get a shiv in the back.
Actually this is true for gamers as well, you can find plenty of vids on YouTube of people playing popular titles like the new Doom title and Rocket League on 10 year old Phenom IIs and C2Qs. I can say I've ended up joining that camp as well as I used to build a PC every other year (with a major upgrade in the off year) during the MHz wars, but now? My FX-8320e (which is just a gold binned FX-8350 from 2012) plays all my games at 60 FPS+ paired with an R9 280 and just chews through video renders like it was nothing so why spend the extra cash? So I can go from 93 FPS to 115 FPS?
The same appears to be true for my smartphone as I have zero desire to get a new one despite my current phone being a couple of years old. It has quad cores, 1.5Gb of RAM, 16GB of storage with another 32Gb on MicroSD, hell it even plays 3D games quite well on its 5.5 inch screen not that I give a shit as I hate touch controls in gaming. It sucks that its max OS is Android 5.1 but that is the OEMs trying to force obsolescence but I'm not gonna spend several hundred on a new phone every year just because those bastards never update software (and don't say "get an iPhone" because I would rather have an STD than deal with Apple's Fisher Price GUI) so as long as the hardware holds out they can just piss right off, what I have "just works" does what I want it to quite well.
Riiight, because Linux has such great support for ancient proprietary devices like ISA CNC boards, Serial connections to laser cutters, when Linux can't even keep support for older webcams working.
No Valve should refund their money because Steam is Valve's product and they are not doing due diligence to insure the products being sold on their store are quality products and not scams.
Remember for every rip off and fake product that gets sold on Steam? Valve is taking 30% off the top. Why do you think the quality of the games being sold on Steam has gone down the shitter and you have to wade through mountains of garbage and fakes and rip off to find anything these days on Steam? Do you think this little pissant company did that? No that was valve that has gotten too fucking GREEDY and has opened the flood gates to every fly by night asset flipping worthless corp that can throw something together.
Well its high time that Valve actually stood behind the products they sell. They don't have any problem taking that 30% do they? Think they are refunding that to the people who now have a game that doesn't do what they bought it to do, which is online multiplayer with the ease of Steam which is a major selling point of the Steam platform in the first place? If you want to be high and mighty and say you have standards Valve? Fine great PROVE IT by STANDING UP FOR YOUR CUSTOMERS and put your money where your mouth is! Steam users didn't let this company on your platform YOU DID so stand up for your customers,otherwise its nothing but worthless PR from another shit corp that is NO BETTER than EA or Ubisoft or Activision.
Probably for the same reason why my friend in LE ends up grabbing some porn addict who has 30 year old CP on his hard drive instead of going after the guys actually making money off it, because they are in dontgiveafuckistan where its easy to bribe the local cops?
You have to remember there is still a LOT of places in this world where things we would find the most vile and repulsive is totally acceptable if you have money and/or the right connections. Hell look up "child porn confession" on wikileaks some time and you'll find an article written by an actual CP producer where he brags about just how easy it is when you are making millions in a country where the average yearly income is less than 10k, he can just buy anybody he wants, cops, judges, and I bet its even easier than it is for the drug lords as they aren't having gang wars and shooting the place up every other week.
So it doesn't really do them any good if the one at the top of the ladder is in some place its gonna take an international incident to get their hands on to know who it is, easier to grab the small fish living in countries that play ball.
Why they didn't just buy the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer which is designed to be configurable for different missions so they could have just ordered it with whatever features they wanted?
One of the oldest rules is "don't build if you can buy" because you let someone else make the mistakes, iron out the bugs, and you can then just get a working solution OTS instead of trying to reinvent the wheel. Was it a case of NIH? Or one of those "bringing home the bacon" deals where spending money in the right districts mattered more than the finished product? Because looking at what they expected this turkey to do could have just as easily be gotten by simply buying the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer with the right package and it would "just work" since they have been in service since the 90s.
Sigh...do I REALLY need to provide the actual A/B tests that were done when Pono Player (wow that was some snake oil huh?) came out when they put 320k MP3 ripped from CDs against the 24bit masters in FLAC and found those "ears that can tell the difference" couldn't tell shit from shineola? It got a ton of press thanks to Neil Young making out CDs and MP3s to be shit, look it up.
At least with tubes versus solid state there is actual science there, tubes naturally accentuate even order harmonics and add a bit of organic compression to certain frequencies with a breakup that follows a smooth curve which is difficult for a solid state amp to replicate (this is why bass players like myself have no issues with solid state, our signal need to stay clean and thus the same effects the tube has on guitars produces mostly unwanted affecting of the signal on bass) but as we saw with Pono Player there are limits to human hearing that adding more fidelity simply will not change.
BTW if you wonder why if this is the case that studios record in much higher fidelity than what you get on CDs? I have spent a lot of time in studios and can answer that, headroom. When you are recording an instrument its extremely rare these days that the signal is gonna go straight from the recording to master without alteration, you need that extra headroom for effects and equalization so that you have more room to experiment before clipping. If one puts some serious thought into everything from mike placement to effects before one hits record? Its quite possible to get VERY good recordings using only 16bit CD audio quality, just look up demos of the Tascam and Zoom portastudios on YouTube or check out the low fi movement and we have certainly seen many artists create timeless recordings using equipment that any audiophile would consider absolute garbage.
Many think CDs sound like shit today NOT because of the format but because of the studios pushing the loudness war max compression, but go to a show where indie artists sell their own CDs and you'll find some really awesome sounding CDs because they are not slamming compressors on the entire mix. its not the format, its how its being misused.