"The reality is that India put in protectionist rules in place to ensure their folks got jobs and didn't have to compete internationally"
So you are advocating overriding the law of the land in a sovereign country. Meanwhile, everyone else is trying to OUTSOURCE to that country, which would realistically mean MORE JOBS FOR THAT COUNTRY, which means they want to protect that source of income, like ANY OTHER RATIONAL ENTITY WOULD DO.
Apologies for not mentioning this in my other post...
"The trick is creating visually stunning and immersive experiences which are less depressing than real life and don't require 20 minutes of fucking with cables and display configurations to get working correctly."
It's not fucking with cables that's the problem in Second Life. It's the horribly-optimized meshes and simulation coding that makes it require insane gobs of hardware to give even a semi-smooth performance. FX-9370 + 8GB R9 390? Shit still stutters whenever someone with a fucked model mesh pops into a sim, or someone has a shitty understanding of physics and bogs the sim down with crappy code.
"My DK1 mostly lives in it's case for these reasons."
If you're spending that much time on screwing around with cables, you need to learn cable/connection management/utilization. I've got guitars, microphones, head-mounted glasses webcams, regular webcams, laptop webcams rigged with proper USB cables for use in desktop systems, etc. all hooked up and set/routed for easy disconnect/transfer to another system in my house. All systems already have the drivers installed, each device has its specific port to plug into (to prevent the still-present Windows bullshit of needing to reinstall a driver every time you plug it into a USB port it hasn't been plugged into before) and everything takes no more than about 2 minutes to transfer, that includes a 1978 Fender Super Reverb amp (80-ish pounds with modifications) that I have to lug across the home from my office when I want to play some guitar in the kitchen while doing my cooking broadcast (usually waiting on things to bake or boil while doing this.)
How much do you want for that DK1? I'm not as susceptible to motion sickness like everyone else thanks to BPPV. I'm already used to living in a state of half-constant nausea.
"Even the GPUs sound like they'll be used to accelerate number crunching rather than for any rendering."
Maybe I'm nitpicking here, but graphical rendering is pretty much nothing but accelerated number crunching. That's kinda the purpose of CPU and GPU silicon.
"After all these years, VR is still a technology desperately looking for a problem that it is actually needed for."
Surgical training without needing to waste materials on dummies or having the students (usually 5th or 6th year) doing the work on a live patient for a grade.
Given proper physics simulations and haptic feedback, ingredient prep training for cooking.
I could think of many very viable applications for 'VR' and I can think of many technologies that would originate from VR yet get applied to usage in the real world.
Just because an actual problem does not exist, it does not mean that research for the sake of research is a bad thing, nor does it mean it will necessarily end as an unfruitful endeavor.
Similar Software was utilized as a Windows 98 add-on. To log in, you had to sit in front of the computer and facial recognition software acted as the password manager.
On a 180 MHz overclocked Compaq desktop, just to let you know how old this 'selfie for a password' idea truly is.
"because the hardware was actually leagues ahead of pc's at the time"
No it wasn't. The original XBox was a gimped 733 MHz Celeron with a modded GeForce 3 (only had specular capabilities added) and shipped in November 2001 - in a time when PCs were already using Pentium 4 (November 2000) processors and their GeForce 3 had the same power, and the GeForce 4 was literally right around the corner. PCs had typically double to triple the RAM an XBox had.
That's why I had to install another hard drive - because even their option of replacing iastor.sys WON'T WORK WHEN WINDOWS SETUP CANNOT DETECT HARD DRIVES.
By the way, yes, that includes RESTORING FROM OFFICIAL EXTERNAL MEDIA. Did not work. Windows 10 and 7 setup BOTH could not see any hard drives installed in the system, PERIOD. Removing all of them and putting a new one in solved this issue.
Windows 10 couldn't even write to itself to repair itself.
ON ALL SIX HARD DRIVES AT ONCE? Bear in mind, an OFFICIAL Windows install media wouldn't even detect the hard drives when I plugged it in and tried reinstalling "You are missing a required CD/DVD driver for installation"
For the purposes of most users, this is bricked. They do not get external install media to work from, Windows 10 usually trashes your partition tables and boot loader so your recovery partition is fucked, and in my case, after 10 tried installing itself on one machine, I tried to reinstall 7 from my VENDOR-PROVIDED USB stick only to get "You are missing a required CD/DVD device driver for installation." I couldn't even detect fucking hard drives to install to (UEFI sees all of them just fine) with the vendor-provided Windows 7 install media THAT HAD WORKED MULTIPLE TIMES BEFORE. Windows 10 couldn't even repair itself because suddenly it couldn't even write to any hard drives.
It took me removing all of the drives and installing a fresh hard drive with a compatible pre-written Windows 7 image to it to get the machine back up and running as it should.
If you have to remove and replace hardware to fix something, that is effectively a brick and break.
"that is to change USB-keyboards to PS/2 models to combat disappearing keyboards"
That actually doesn't help. I keep getting keyboard/mouse loss issues on my fiance's computer. Just recently, 10 decided its own iastor.sys was corrupt, and refused to boot altogether. A few hours later, suddenly, it works as if nothing ever happened.
"making it more difficult for a central authority to interfere with your financial affairs"
Yep, to the point that with a reversible transaction capability, you can fuck people over and pretty much get away with it. Pay, get your stuff, reverse the transaction, keep your money. Gov't can't help the one getting scammed!
"Are you saying that all these people didn't want OEM installs so took it to this one place, used this one particular IP address, and then activated Home, Professional, Server, Office, Enterprise, etc versions on this one particular IP address?"
That's quite often how it works, yes. If you actually had any idea about real life, you'd know this and not needed to have asked this question.
I guess you've not been paying attention to the huge money leakage coming from the Merida Initiative that started in 2007, huh (and that only STARTED at 1.7 billion dollars.)
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"The reality is that India put in protectionist rules in place to ensure their folks got jobs and didn't have to compete internationally"
So you are advocating overriding the law of the land in a sovereign country. Meanwhile, everyone else is trying to OUTSOURCE to that country, which would realistically mean MORE JOBS FOR THAT COUNTRY, which means they want to protect that source of income, like ANY OTHER RATIONAL ENTITY WOULD DO.
Your view of reality is fucked. Go seek help.
Apologies for not mentioning this in my other post...
"The trick is creating visually stunning and immersive experiences which are less depressing than real life and don't require 20 minutes of fucking with cables and display configurations to get working correctly."
It's not fucking with cables that's the problem in Second Life. It's the horribly-optimized meshes and simulation coding that makes it require insane gobs of hardware to give even a semi-smooth performance. FX-9370 + 8GB R9 390? Shit still stutters whenever someone with a fucked model mesh pops into a sim, or someone has a shitty understanding of physics and bogs the sim down with crappy code.
"My DK1 mostly lives in it's case for these reasons."
If you're spending that much time on screwing around with cables, you need to learn cable/connection management/utilization. I've got guitars, microphones, head-mounted glasses webcams, regular webcams, laptop webcams rigged with proper USB cables for use in desktop systems, etc. all hooked up and set/routed for easy disconnect/transfer to another system in my house. All systems already have the drivers installed, each device has its specific port to plug into (to prevent the still-present Windows bullshit of needing to reinstall a driver every time you plug it into a USB port it hasn't been plugged into before) and everything takes no more than about 2 minutes to transfer, that includes a 1978 Fender Super Reverb amp (80-ish pounds with modifications) that I have to lug across the home from my office when I want to play some guitar in the kitchen while doing my cooking broadcast (usually waiting on things to bake or boil while doing this.)
How much do you want for that DK1? I'm not as susceptible to motion sickness like everyone else thanks to BPPV. I'm already used to living in a state of half-constant nausea.
"Even the GPUs sound like they'll be used to accelerate number crunching rather than for any rendering."
Maybe I'm nitpicking here, but graphical rendering is pretty much nothing but accelerated number crunching. That's kinda the purpose of CPU and GPU silicon.
"After all these years, VR is still a technology desperately looking for a problem that it is actually needed for."
Surgical training without needing to waste materials on dummies or having the students (usually 5th or 6th year) doing the work on a live patient for a grade.
Given proper physics simulations and haptic feedback, ingredient prep training for cooking.
I could think of many very viable applications for 'VR' and I can think of many technologies that would originate from VR yet get applied to usage in the real world.
Just because an actual problem does not exist, it does not mean that research for the sake of research is a bad thing, nor does it mean it will necessarily end as an unfruitful endeavor.
"It also introduced a lot of things to the console world that are now considered standard; persistent onboard storage, built-in networking,"
Networking was done with the Dreamcast well before the XBox.
Similar Software was utilized as a Windows 98 add-on. To log in, you had to sit in front of the computer and facial recognition software acted as the password manager.
On a 180 MHz overclocked Compaq desktop, just to let you know how old this 'selfie for a password' idea truly is.
"because the hardware was actually leagues ahead of pc's at the time"
No it wasn't. The original XBox was a gimped 733 MHz Celeron with a modded GeForce 3 (only had specular capabilities added) and shipped in November 2001 - in a time when PCs were already using Pentium 4 (November 2000) processors and their GeForce 3 had the same power, and the GeForce 4 was literally right around the corner. PCs had typically double to triple the RAM an XBox had.
"the video shows what is essentially 6 miniature wenches"
I think you need to fix your glasses. Boobs were not present in that video.
"Credit and Debit are the results of _using_ currency."
The card is *TIED* to *MY* currency (much like fucking software dependencies.)
Thus, my debit card, being the direct link to MY currency, is currency. If it were not currency, NO FUCKING STORE WOULD ACCEPT IT.
I own and run businesses. I understand this stuff far better than you do.
"You don't have a cold-metal-restore backup?"
Doesn't work when install media will not detect hard drives.
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/...
That's why I had to install another hard drive - because even their option of replacing iastor.sys WON'T WORK WHEN WINDOWS SETUP CANNOT DETECT HARD DRIVES.
By the way, yes, that includes RESTORING FROM OFFICIAL EXTERNAL MEDIA. Did not work. Windows 10 and 7 setup BOTH could not see any hard drives installed in the system, PERIOD. Removing all of them and putting a new one in solved this issue.
Windows 10 couldn't even write to itself to repair itself.
I had a similar problem with Windows 7.
ON ALL SIX HARD DRIVES AT ONCE? Bear in mind, an OFFICIAL Windows install media wouldn't even detect the hard drives when I plugged it in and tried reinstalling "You are missing a required CD/DVD driver for installation"
No, this is a known DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION fuckup for Windows 10 - http://www.thewindowsclub.com/...
For the purposes of most users, this is bricked. They do not get external install media to work from, Windows 10 usually trashes your partition tables and boot loader so your recovery partition is fucked, and in my case, after 10 tried installing itself on one machine, I tried to reinstall 7 from my VENDOR-PROVIDED USB stick only to get "You are missing a required CD/DVD device driver for installation." I couldn't even detect fucking hard drives to install to (UEFI sees all of them just fine) with the vendor-provided Windows 7 install media THAT HAD WORKED MULTIPLE TIMES BEFORE. Windows 10 couldn't even repair itself because suddenly it couldn't even write to any hard drives.
It took me removing all of the drives and installing a fresh hard drive with a compatible pre-written Windows 7 image to it to get the machine back up and running as it should.
If you have to remove and replace hardware to fix something, that is effectively a brick and break.
"that is to change USB-keyboards to PS/2 models to combat disappearing keyboards"
That actually doesn't help. I keep getting keyboard/mouse loss issues on my fiance's computer. Just recently, 10 decided its own iastor.sys was corrupt, and refused to boot altogether. A few hours later, suddenly, it works as if nothing ever happened.
Windows 10 is utter and complete garbage.
"making it more difficult for a central authority to interfere with your financial affairs"
Yep, to the point that with a reversible transaction capability, you can fuck people over and pretty much get away with it. Pay, get your stuff, reverse the transaction, keep your money. Gov't can't help the one getting scammed!
You fucking spaz, it specifically says at the top of your chart "WITH FEE ONLY"
It has NOT gone down for those not paying fees.
Uhh, there's a difference between credit and debit. Credit means you don't have the money. Debit means you DO.
Thus, Debit is a digital currency.
"We are a great people destined to a bright future."
Yea, not when your own people can't be bothered to stand up to the blatant corruption.
"It's entirely plausible to me that Apple built something the FBI can't get into using their existing tools and techniques"
You fail at rule #1 of engineering: Man can make it, man can break it.
"Just how secure is Apple's signing key?"
Not secure enough that one can't bypass it within 10,000 guesses of the PIN.
Seriously, I could easily have this phone unlocked within a day. This court case is bullshit. Anyone with any technical chops knows it.
"Are you saying that all these people didn't want OEM installs so took it to this one place, used this one particular IP address, and then activated Home, Professional, Server, Office, Enterprise, etc versions on this one particular IP address?"
That's quite often how it works, yes. If you actually had any idea about real life, you'd know this and not needed to have asked this question.
"The obvious solution is to invalidate the authentication keys so no longer work."
You must know jack shit about cracking Windows. Here, let me help you.
DAZ LOADER.
The fucking hypocrisy of you saying that while your own sig fucking self-promotes is a mother fucking laugh.
You think that fucking failure at the basics of life is going to fix G+?
LMFAO.
I guess you've not been paying attention to the huge money leakage coming from the Merida Initiative that started in 2007, huh (and that only STARTED at 1.7 billion dollars.)