Domain peddlers are going bonkers now, I tried to get my name as a.guru, but it ended up costing a small fortune...so I steered away. At first...40 bucks seems nice for a 1 year.guru name, but then there are "early registration fees" so called landrush fees that can cost several thousand dollars, and they even have hefty admin fees that costs several hundred dollars...stay away from the scammers, and they're plentiful right now.
I'm kind of surprised no one in this long thread have mentioned Linux MultiMedia Studio yet, that software is actually very capable.
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/
Enjoy.
Yes, it is underpowered, but do you really need that much power?
Let me first point out that when I first bought the Wii-U, the whole thing was a HUGE disappointment to me, it cost as much as a PS4, it had less power than an Xbox360, and the controller looked like a thing out of an 80s Fischer Price toy, huge, bulky and heavy - worst part of all...a RESISTIVE screen in our multi-touch society which made browsing on this thing, not as smooth as ANY tablet I know of. And the Updating mistake? Shortly after unpacking, I had to wait 3-4 hours for the thing to update...even on a 12mbit line, huge annoying update. And to no avail, the menues were horribly slow and annoying.
But...all that negativity aside, they actually did something right. Netflix was installed, and it was the BEST streaming app I've ever seen, not even on any of my other so called HD streaming devices...could even touch it. The practical video-selection menu on the Wii-U controller gave us an unbeatable feeling of browsing trough DVDs in a video rental store, and it could display information about the movie - while watching the actual movie on the bigscreen, this brought back the "hold-your-dvd-in-your-hands" feel when I used to rent/own movies back in the days, it was right - it felt good. And the streaming quality was totally unseen on any other device. It also recovered whatever you saw earlier...faster than anywhere, I was in Video heaven. That APP alone, saved the Wii-U for me when the lack of titles were so obvious
But the problems wasn't over yet, Nintendos endless arrogance shows up again and again, the Netflix APP stopped working properly somewhere mid April 2013 because a Nintendo update broke it. Netflix didn't respond to the thousands of complaints...and Nintendo left it up to its volunteers at the MiiVerse to try to help people re-install the App..but to no Avail, this "Black-Screen" issue with Netflix lasted nearly 5 Months before they actually fixed it. But after that - all was peachy in Nintendo land.
Nintendo DOES still have issues with connecting players online (eg. Camera / Chat features, and Wii Sports Bowling that rarely if ever connects with another player), Nintendo claims it's owners fault for having a too strong firewall, not all ports available etc...but nothing is ever wrong with Nintendos programming, needless to say...we've already had a team of experts on this (our cable supporters & full time technicians, who have even set up a special Nintendo Wii-U pass all on their routers, but to no avail - it IS actually Nintendos fault...but you know the Nintendo team, they are NEVER at fault.
So, what is so smart about Nintendo then? Well, they made this device available before EVERYONE else, this means...they've had a YEAR to iron out baby bugs and other startup issues. Today the Wii-U is a great little box with lots of 3rd party games sold for very low prices (we're talking dollar store prices here), and some great titles like Super Mario 3D World...which is in my opinion, worth purchasing the Wii-U for alone, it's a feast to gorge upon, but should have been released WITH the console back in the days of early release.
I was heading off to purchase an PS4, and it was quickly sold out in November/December. I could get one in January, but seeing how much fun I'm having with the Wii-U today, and remembering the launch issues it had...plus seeing the PS4 owners having problems abundance and a severe lack of fun titles...makes me think I'm doing just fine, and I suspect - so will a lot of people, expect to pick up PS4 cheap in the nearest future.
Remember "We are the borg..." from Star Trek? Who can't remember that scene when Jean Luc Picard gets turned into a borg.
The Google glasses kind of look like that. Not to mention that the glasses make anyone look like a grade A dork (Think Screech from Saved by the Bell), someone who's all filled up to the brim with tech gadgets. Imagine that person wearing a camera...looking at you while he isn't talking to you...but perhaps making observational (to someone else who is listening in, belittling) comments about the surrounding he is "Google-eyeballing".
Remember the first cellphone? It looked like a giant brick...which it sort of was... but it made the user look...uh...so important....I must have a phone with me at all cost at all times. This will AUTOMATICALLY make you an enemy of the common people, because you're no longer one of them, you're ABOVE them (perhaps not in YOUR mind, but in THEIR minds...you are, because you make a spectacle around yourself).
Don't get me wrong, I'm all about gadgets...in fact...I was that "Screech" geek that filled up his pockets with advanced programmable calculators/pocket computers back in the 80's, heck...I even hooked up a Casio PB1000 to a Packet Radio Modem and a Radio Amateur Radio and a battery...all encased in a suitcase, worlds first portable wireless connected computer right there? Don't know...I was around 12 at the time.
The point is, such as it is now, it's just geeky because it's not commonplace. I have no idea if it ever WILL become commonplace either. Remember the "Spoon"?...there is no spoon - only Bluetooth. Rarely anyone uses a Bluetooth headset anymore (maybe when driving), but there was a time when we saw every businessman in town wear one of those on his side...looking like he was online and important all the time. Now...it's literally gone, I dare you to spot one today.
Gets better yet, personally I've even ditched the Smartphone now - because older as I get...I realize that I do NOT need to be connected 24H, when my employer calls me, I usually take a few days to answer (until I've read my mail or so), or if it is all that important...he should have called me on my new "old fashion" dumb phone...that I bought to disconnect myself entirely from the Google Machine and the constant need for synchronizations and endless recharging of a device that sucks so much power it needs a power outlet at least once a day. My new phone, doesn't need recharging before a month has passed, and doesn't know anything else than SMS and Calls. YAY. Freedom.
When my neighbors smoke cannabis in their bathroom (I live in an apartment), the fumes get in through the shower vents and my mind starts to race like you wouldn't believe.
Albeit I don't smoke pot, I can sort of relate to this. Let me see now...bipolar, slightly psychotic at times, paranoid as f**k, loss of reality? Check! Hey, maybe I really SHOULD smoke some pot once in a while, what do I got to lose?
...an exotic name like my family name. I constantly get erroneous emails intended for someone else, sometimes these emails are of a very private nature, so this isn't very good. One of them was involving a personal gift to someone in my family and it was the lawyer who got my email address instead. Another time, it was the tax offices - and they even included the tax return documents with detailed information about their income. I've been sent several personal documents that should never have been seen by anyone other than the intended recipient. I don't think this is Googles mistake though, it's just people - being people.
...and still running just fine. Very little is happening on the PC market (except graphics card wise), I just couldn't justify upgrading to an i7 gaming platform that in Scandinavia cost around 2500$. It only had 16 gig memory, whereas my old one got 8 gig. The only thing I did to my "old" quad core pc, was to add a brand new Nvidia 760GTX, and basically every game ran smooth as ever. Even my 3D design software (which uses GPU rendering anyway) ran fantastic with this upgrade.
So yeah, if more people do what I just did (which I suspect they do), there's part of your decline in sales right there - the new computers just aren't innovative enough to justify spending hard earned cash on them.
Yes, I was bringing up the racist's excuse as a parallel. Nicely missed, chump...
I was momentarily autistic when I wrote that
He wasn't autistic. He doesn't know what it's like to be autistic. He was comparing being autistic with his "stream of consciousness" writing.
some of my best friends are autistic, and very intelligent btw
He uses his friends to gather comedy material. He believes autism makes people look unintelligent or he wouldn't feel the need to point out his friends're intelligent.
Would you like me to continue or should you shut up before I analyse you into a hole as well?
How do you know my friends? You're making up assumptions. "he believes", as if you knew what I believe. You do not know me, but you ASSUME you know me from my text, you sir, are an idiot.
I know...it was sort of a joke;)
But point taken, autism is no joke, no joke at all. In fact, some of my best friends are autistic, and very intelligent btw.
Everyone google everyone. When someone is asking for employment, seek a job, seek a position, ask for marriage, new neighbors etc...you'll get googled.
This isn't good, in fact - it's very bad, for everyone, including yourself. Because at some point, you'll have no privacy anymore. Sure - the one who GETS the information will be empowered by what he or she THINKS is facts, because it's out there - in plain text for everyone to see. But what you DON'T see, is the context, context as in "the other information", we're talking the "real" story here...not what someone PUT out there for everyone to see.
I have a friend that have done nothing wrong afaik. His son is a police officer, and one day this police officer happen to catch "the wrong guy to mess with", the one he caught is still a criminal, but now the cop has been targeted by this criminal. The criminal happen to own a "BLOG" about his hate towards law enforcement, and he got really angry with my friends son. He decided to make my friend suffer, his wife, his daughter and his son suffer. So he went public with ALL their information and put it up on his blog.
One day, when my friend needs to talk to officials, they too will google him, and they will see his name and details on the criminals page, except...they probably won't investigate the fact that the page with the information, comes from a criminal that has a hen to pluck with my friends son.
This is why, this is a bad thing.
keep passwords inside the head rather than on a file - encrypted or otherwise. But if you can't do that, keep it on a piece of paper, and if you're worried about others seeing your paper, well, lock it up somewhere safe
Let's see: in a safe with a combination lock perhaps?
I know, it has actually happened to me;)
Once, I was on my way to a convention to purchase some electronic components, and I've actually forgotten my VISA pin-code. It was so silly, I've NEVER forgotten that code before, I used it on a daily basis and couldn't for the life of me understand why it was gone. Then I had a system (which I fortunately remembered), how I actually made up those numbers in the first place, and that could re-generate that code for me.
But of course, if I had TOTAL amnesia, then I'd have very different problems than just remembering a few passwords.
Unfortunately, this is the current trend.
While it may sound like a PR stunt, this is actually quite tragic. Why? Because it just shows us how FAR we've gotten into total surveillance. Sure, it could be nice to know that a cop is dirty and WHO that cop is, but many are fired for other reasons and this could potentially destroy the individuals future. Say - the cop was actually innocent, he's a human and not just another cop. Now, he'll have a hard time supporting his family because no one wants to hire someone busted on the job.
The price we pay for knowing everything about everyone, will one day become too expensive, and I fear - it already is.
It's generally wiser to keep passwords inside the head rather than on a file - encrypted or otherwise. But if you can't do that, keep it on a piece of paper, and if you're worried about others seeing your paper, well, lock it up somewhere safe, and if you're truly paranoid, you could always write your password with a system that only you know...example: if your password would be 15821e2a you could write 26932f3b instead, and only YOU know that you only shifted the numbers and characters one number ahead, you could do this to each second character in your code, or according to your own system. Your brain is the limit!
But people can basically judge you for anything they please, as long as they believe in it. In certain countries you can get arrested just because someone think it is wrong.
Alan is one of the smartest people on this planet. The way he was treated is a direct display of our inhumanity. He is on my wall now, framed in gold, hanging on my silk-spun wall of fame (not that it matters to anyone), but I will forever remember him as one of the most important mathematicians of his time and even our time. I've placed him next to Benoit Mandelbrot for a reason (can you figure out why?).
We as a species are very different when it comes to our mind, our culture, our background. People will always be treated according to the common public's belief, religion or politics no matter what science tells us.
I know this, because just as Alan, I am as different as the rest of you. But you would hate me for who I am, and if you knew, you would love me, as would you love your next of kin, and everyone around you...if you grew a little...kind of like Alan, but there is a time for everything, and hopefully...we're nearing that time...when you can discern between science and religion, and understand that the world is so much more.
What destroyed the Wii U for me, was the GIANT fischer Price controller.
I bought one as soon as it came out, for the HD definition part. The controller with a resistive (one touch only) screen (no multitouch) was a dodo bird. Doomed from the start.
I got the wiimote later on, and was relieved, even though I did not have a WII (the old wii...not the new Wii U). And the games (that was compatible with the Wiimote) was a lot more fun as I had to move my entire body to slash and dice with the sword. The Wii U's touch-pad...just plain old fashion sucks.
Please PLEASE Nintendo...do NOT make another mistake like that. The Wii U gamepad is probably the biggest dodobird in the world, biggest mistake ever, not even the clumsy PS3 move controllers comes close to this big mistake.
What where your developers thinking? No one even bothers making new and interesting games for this dodobird. I tried hard to think of cool things, but a single touch screen? What WAS your developers thinking?
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Domain peddlers are going bonkers now, I tried to get my name as a .guru, but it ended up costing a small fortune...so I steered away. At first...40 bucks seems nice for a 1 year .guru name, but then there are "early registration fees" so called landrush fees that can cost several thousand dollars, and they even have hefty admin fees that costs several hundred dollars...stay away from the scammers, and they're plentiful right now.
...I read it as: Silicon Breasts That can Think...
Guess that means that mine can't think as fast as my house banana flies can smell.
I'm kind of surprised no one in this long thread have mentioned Linux MultiMedia Studio yet, that software is actually very capable. http://lmms.sourceforge.net/ Enjoy.
Well... http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/w... ;)
Yes, it is underpowered, but do you really need that much power?
Let me first point out that when I first bought the Wii-U, the whole thing was a HUGE disappointment to me, it cost as much as a PS4, it had less power than an Xbox360, and the controller looked like a thing out of an 80s Fischer Price toy, huge, bulky and heavy - worst part of all...a RESISTIVE screen in our multi-touch society which made browsing on this thing, not as smooth as ANY tablet I know of. And the Updating mistake? Shortly after unpacking, I had to wait 3-4 hours for the thing to update...even on a 12mbit line, huge annoying update. And to no avail, the menues were horribly slow and annoying.
But...all that negativity aside, they actually did something right. Netflix was installed, and it was the BEST streaming app I've ever seen, not even on any of my other so called HD streaming devices...could even touch it. The practical video-selection menu on the Wii-U controller gave us an unbeatable feeling of browsing trough DVDs in a video rental store, and it could display information about the movie - while watching the actual movie on the bigscreen, this brought back the "hold-your-dvd-in-your-hands" feel when I used to rent/own movies back in the days, it was right - it felt good. And the streaming quality was totally unseen on any other device. It also recovered whatever you saw earlier...faster than anywhere, I was in Video heaven. That APP alone, saved the Wii-U for me when the lack of titles were so obvious
But the problems wasn't over yet, Nintendos endless arrogance shows up again and again, the Netflix APP stopped working properly somewhere mid April 2013 because a Nintendo update broke it. Netflix didn't respond to the thousands of complaints...and Nintendo left it up to its volunteers at the MiiVerse to try to help people re-install the App..but to no Avail, this "Black-Screen" issue with Netflix lasted nearly 5 Months before they actually fixed it. But after that - all was peachy in Nintendo land.
Nintendo DOES still have issues with connecting players online (eg. Camera / Chat features, and Wii Sports Bowling that rarely if ever connects with another player), Nintendo claims it's owners fault for having a too strong firewall, not all ports available etc...but nothing is ever wrong with Nintendos programming, needless to say...we've already had a team of experts on this (our cable supporters & full time technicians, who have even set up a special Nintendo Wii-U pass all on their routers, but to no avail - it IS actually Nintendos fault...but you know the Nintendo team, they are NEVER at fault.
So, what is so smart about Nintendo then? Well, they made this device available before EVERYONE else, this means...they've had a YEAR to iron out baby bugs and other startup issues. Today the Wii-U is a great little box with lots of 3rd party games sold for very low prices (we're talking dollar store prices here), and some great titles like Super Mario 3D World...which is in my opinion, worth purchasing the Wii-U for alone, it's a feast to gorge upon, but should have been released WITH the console back in the days of early release.
I was heading off to purchase an PS4, and it was quickly sold out in November/December. I could get one in January, but seeing how much fun I'm having with the Wii-U today, and remembering the launch issues it had...plus seeing the PS4 owners having problems abundance and a severe lack of fun titles...makes me think I'm doing just fine, and I suspect - so will a lot of people, expect to pick up PS4 cheap in the nearest future.
The Google glasses kind of look like that. Not to mention that the glasses make anyone look like a grade A dork (Think Screech from Saved by the Bell), someone who's all filled up to the brim with tech gadgets. Imagine that person wearing a camera...looking at you while he isn't talking to you...but perhaps making observational (to someone else who is listening in, belittling) comments about the surrounding he is "Google-eyeballing".
Remember the first cellphone? It looked like a giant brick...which it sort of was... but it made the user look ...uh...so important....I must have a phone with me at all cost at all times. This will AUTOMATICALLY make you an enemy of the common people, because you're no longer one of them, you're ABOVE them (perhaps not in YOUR mind, but in THEIR minds...you are, because you make a spectacle around yourself).
Don't get me wrong, I'm all about gadgets...in fact...I was that "Screech" geek that filled up his pockets with advanced programmable calculators/pocket computers back in the 80's, heck...I even hooked up a Casio PB1000 to a Packet Radio Modem and a Radio Amateur Radio and a battery...all encased in a suitcase, worlds first portable wireless connected computer right there? Don't know...I was around 12 at the time.
The point is, such as it is now, it's just geeky because it's not commonplace. I have no idea if it ever WILL become commonplace either. Remember the "Spoon"?...there is no spoon - only Bluetooth. Rarely anyone uses a Bluetooth headset anymore (maybe when driving), but there was a time when we saw every businessman in town wear one of those on his side...looking like he was online and important all the time. Now...it's literally gone, I dare you to spot one today.
Gets better yet, personally I've even ditched the Smartphone now - because older as I get...I realize that I do NOT need to be connected 24H, when my employer calls me, I usually take a few days to answer (until I've read my mail or so), or if it is all that important...he should have called me on my new "old fashion" dumb phone...that I bought to disconnect myself entirely from the Google Machine and the constant need for synchronizations and endless recharging of a device that sucks so much power it needs a power outlet at least once a day. My new phone, doesn't need recharging before a month has passed, and doesn't know anything else than SMS and Calls. YAY. Freedom.
When my neighbors smoke cannabis in their bathroom (I live in an apartment), the fumes get in through the shower vents and my mind starts to race like you wouldn't believe.
Hey, wanna switch apartments?
Albeit I don't smoke pot, I can sort of relate to this. Let me see now...bipolar, slightly psychotic at times, paranoid as f**k, loss of reality? Check! Hey, maybe I really SHOULD smoke some pot once in a while, what do I got to lose?
...an exotic name like my family name. I constantly get erroneous emails intended for someone else, sometimes these emails are of a very private nature, so this isn't very good. One of them was involving a personal gift to someone in my family and it was the lawyer who got my email address instead. Another time, it was the tax offices - and they even included the tax return documents with detailed information about their income. I've been sent several personal documents that should never have been seen by anyone other than the intended recipient. I don't think this is Googles mistake though, it's just people - being people.
...my family!
...and still running just fine. Very little is happening on the PC market (except graphics card wise), I just couldn't justify upgrading to an i7 gaming platform that in Scandinavia cost around 2500$. It only had 16 gig memory, whereas my old one got 8 gig. The only thing I did to my "old" quad core pc, was to add a brand new Nvidia 760GTX, and basically every game ran smooth as ever. Even my 3D design software (which uses GPU rendering anyway) ran fantastic with this upgrade. So yeah, if more people do what I just did (which I suspect they do), there's part of your decline in sales right there - the new computers just aren't innovative enough to justify spending hard earned cash on them.
Yes, I was bringing up the racist's excuse as a parallel. Nicely missed, chump...
I was momentarily autistic when I wrote that
He wasn't autistic. He doesn't know what it's like to be autistic. He was comparing being autistic with his "stream of consciousness" writing.
some of my best friends are autistic, and very intelligent btw
He uses his friends to gather comedy material. He believes autism makes people look unintelligent or he wouldn't feel the need to point out his friends're intelligent.
Would you like me to continue or should you shut up before I analyse you into a hole as well?
How do you know my friends? You're making up assumptions. "he believes", as if you knew what I believe. You do not know me, but you ASSUME you know me from my text, you sir, are an idiot.
"I'm not racist, some of my best friends are black!"
Yeah, you're probably very insensitive to your friends but because of your condition they probably won't confront you about it.
So, you decided to beat me down because you saw me excuse myself to bringing that up? That makes you a lot better than me? Good for you.
Autism is not an acute illness
I know...it was sort of a joke ;)
But point taken, autism is no joke, no joke at all. In fact, some of my best friends are autistic, and very intelligent btw.
You know what a good thing is? Paragraphs, dude. Paragraphs.
I was momentarily autistic when I wrote that, you insensitive clod!
Everyone google everyone. When someone is asking for employment, seek a job, seek a position, ask for marriage, new neighbors etc...you'll get googled. This isn't good, in fact - it's very bad, for everyone, including yourself. Because at some point, you'll have no privacy anymore. Sure - the one who GETS the information will be empowered by what he or she THINKS is facts, because it's out there - in plain text for everyone to see. But what you DON'T see, is the context, context as in "the other information", we're talking the "real" story here...not what someone PUT out there for everyone to see. I have a friend that have done nothing wrong afaik. His son is a police officer, and one day this police officer happen to catch "the wrong guy to mess with", the one he caught is still a criminal, but now the cop has been targeted by this criminal. The criminal happen to own a "BLOG" about his hate towards law enforcement, and he got really angry with my friends son. He decided to make my friend suffer, his wife, his daughter and his son suffer. So he went public with ALL their information and put it up on his blog. One day, when my friend needs to talk to officials, they too will google him, and they will see his name and details on the criminals page, except...they probably won't investigate the fact that the page with the information, comes from a criminal that has a hen to pluck with my friends son. This is why, this is a bad thing.
keep passwords inside the head rather than on a file - encrypted or otherwise. But if you can't do that, keep it on a piece of paper, and if you're worried about others seeing your paper, well, lock it up somewhere safe
Let's see: in a safe with a combination lock perhaps?
I just use a key.
I know, it has actually happened to me ;)
Once, I was on my way to a convention to purchase some electronic components, and I've actually forgotten my VISA pin-code. It was so silly, I've NEVER forgotten that code before, I used it on a daily basis and couldn't for the life of me understand why it was gone. Then I had a system (which I fortunately remembered), how I actually made up those numbers in the first place, and that could re-generate that code for me.
But of course, if I had TOTAL amnesia, then I'd have very different problems than just remembering a few passwords.
Unfortunately, this is the current trend. While it may sound like a PR stunt, this is actually quite tragic. Why? Because it just shows us how FAR we've gotten into total surveillance. Sure, it could be nice to know that a cop is dirty and WHO that cop is, but many are fired for other reasons and this could potentially destroy the individuals future. Say - the cop was actually innocent, he's a human and not just another cop. Now, he'll have a hard time supporting his family because no one wants to hire someone busted on the job. The price we pay for knowing everything about everyone, will one day become too expensive, and I fear - it already is.
It's generally wiser to keep passwords inside the head rather than on a file - encrypted or otherwise. But if you can't do that, keep it on a piece of paper, and if you're worried about others seeing your paper, well, lock it up somewhere safe, and if you're truly paranoid, you could always write your password with a system that only you know...example: if your password would be 15821e2a you could write 26932f3b instead, and only YOU know that you only shifted the numbers and characters one number ahead, you could do this to each second character in your code, or according to your own system. Your brain is the limit!
No, nothing like that. (Not that I know of anyway).
Think oscillating chemistry.
What? No!
But people can basically judge you for anything they please, as long as they believe in it. In certain countries you can get arrested just because someone think it is wrong.
Alan is one of the smartest people on this planet. The way he was treated is a direct display of our inhumanity. He is on my wall now, framed in gold, hanging on my silk-spun wall of fame (not that it matters to anyone), but I will forever remember him as one of the most important mathematicians of his time and even our time. I've placed him next to Benoit Mandelbrot for a reason (can you figure out why?).
We as a species are very different when it comes to our mind, our culture, our background. People will always be treated according to the common public's belief, religion or politics no matter what science tells us.
I know this, because just as Alan, I am as different as the rest of you. But you would hate me for who I am, and if you knew, you would love me, as would you love your next of kin, and everyone around you...if you grew a little...kind of like Alan, but there is a time for everything, and hopefully...we're nearing that time...when you can discern between science and religion, and understand that the world is so much more.
What destroyed the Wii U for me, was the GIANT fischer Price controller.
I bought one as soon as it came out, for the HD definition part. The controller with a resistive (one touch only) screen (no multitouch) was a dodo bird. Doomed from the start.
I got the wiimote later on, and was relieved, even though I did not have a WII (the old wii...not the new Wii U). And the games (that was compatible with the Wiimote) was a lot more fun as I had to move my entire body to slash and dice with the sword. The Wii U's touch-pad...just plain old fashion sucks.
Please PLEASE Nintendo...do NOT make another mistake like that. The Wii U gamepad is probably the biggest dodobird in the world, biggest mistake ever, not even the clumsy PS3 move controllers comes close to this big mistake.
What where your developers thinking? No one even bothers making new and interesting games for this dodobird. I tried hard to think of cool things, but a single touch screen? What WAS your developers thinking?
Now there you go.
Someone found what I failed to find. Thanks! That's what I wanted to see.