I don't consider myself the paranoid type, but you're talking about a company that goes out of its way to create a profile of people who haven't signed up. What make you think that if you do sign up and put as little information on it as possible, that they will stop collecting information about you that you haven't put on it.
In 2000 my older sister bought her first PC. She thought it was a bargin as all she had to do was sign up to some online service and get a $200 gift certificate, or something. The downside was you got a trifecta of shit. An eMachine running Win ME. And to top it off there was a persistent banner ad just below the taskbar. That was the condition of the deal. I guess she didn't mind it too much.
I had that PDA, hell i still have it and it works. I found it funny that the display on it had twice the resolution than my iPhone 1. You probably could have used it like a desktop machine as it had an optional VGA adaptor. Speaking of Photoshop there was a paint program for it called Pocket Artist which was more like Photoshop than Adobe's own Photoshop Touch for tablets.
A casino I visit has transparent displays over some slot machines. They've taken LCD diplays and removedance the back lights you can see the wheels through the animated images.
Those look like the generics we used to buy at Kroger's in the early 80's with the same lowercase hevatica fonts. Only difference is that some random letters were capital for some reason.
Most tactile controls tend to be multi-functional in a way that is almost taken for granted. Not only does it let you change status but it informs you of its status even powered off. Take the simple volume knob, usually labeled 0 to 10, (or 11 if you're Spinal Tap), it hold its status whether it's on or off. I owned a 22 Sony CRT monitor that had two VGA inputs on the back. On the front was a switch labeled "1-2" which simple enough switched inputs. I've owned three LCD displays sonce then, all of them supported multiple inputs. All of them require you to access menus and submenus to do something that took less than a second to do with a tactile control.
I remember about 10 years ago when Sony announced the PSP the claimed that they were going to "will elevate portable entertainment out of the handheld gaming ghetto." No one raised a stink over Sony back then. The only thing people questioned was that idea that the Gameboy Advance, at the time, was a "ghetto."
Maybe I'm over simplifying things a bit, but isn't VR, boiled down to it's most basic concept just a monitor? OK, a monitor with some input, which make it closer in design to a touchscreen, or a Wacom Cintiq than the average PC display. When was the last time that you bough a display that required you to sight up for a service that needs a persistent connection to market to you? Show of hands which would you buy if you hand the choice, a 'smart' TV or a 'dumb' TV. I'm not saying the TOS is all brand new stuff, but seriously? I just want VR without a service. Is that even possible? Will I have to jailbreak an Occulus like a phone?
I often hear about the suggestion that if you TV is a certain size you should sit so many feet away. The bigger the screen the farther away you can sit. Those are good suggestions, but only suggestions. I one the other hand like my screens much closer. Where most people place their coffee table is where my 42" TV sat until I got a projector. I could tell the difference between HD and 4K.
The idea of an upgrade-able console has been around for quite a while, usually ending in failure. Most notably Sega's CD and 32X. Neither add-on was very successful. And the timing of the 32X didn't help it. Nintendo has it's memory pack for the N64 which few games used. Some game could only run with it, IIRC. There were other lesser known upgrades for other systems like memory expansion and VCD playback for the Sega Saturn and various devices that never made it out of Japan. People seen to reject console upgrades in general.
I never really understood why it was so common to have monitors with built in cables. It didn't make any sense. Hard disks didn't have them. Printers didn't have them. Where VGA cables that much more expensive or harder to make than say parallel or SCSI cables?
Our grade school class had just got back from a trip to a planetarium. We saw it on a TV in the teacher's lounge on the way back to class. I do't remember if we discussed in class or not. I do remember seeing an very special episode of Punk Brewster. And Prince referenced it in his song Sign O The Times.
Why not make the door out of a transparent material, some thing like glass might work. In fact why not use one of the beer/soda fridges you find at convenient store. They can't cost that much more than that fridge. Plus if you want a web cam, buy on and tape it to the door.
I never referred to playing the lottery in and of itself as stupid, nor the people who play it, in general (although there are people who to get a little carried away with it.) My likening was with the lottery players who themselves consider the game a scam, yet continue to play it. I've seen people convinced that "their" number was supposed to come out because their system said it would and the lottery tricked them somehow. Yet they keep playing, hoping that the lottery will trip up and produce their number. Normal folks just brush off a loss as a loss and move on.
I work retail and operated a lottery machine. I've seen all types of people, some play for fun but most play with a seriousness that one would for working a job. A lot of folks have their "system" and they stick to it. Never mind that they lose 99 times that 100th time that they won means their system is flawless. And then there are the people who think the lotto is a scam, but play anyway. I liken these folk to people who go to a used car dealer who sells but somehow will slip up an sell a good car.
Form what I read the original ADB was going to be based on a jack similar to headphone jack. It would have solved the problem of trying to find the orientation of insertion without even looking. Something that hadn't been solved since Lighting and USB 3 C.
I've always been fond of Apple's ADB. It seemed like the closest thing to USB as far as I know of, at least compared to IBM's PS/2. ADB seemed more versatile than PS/2, which was easy to mistake the PS/2 mouse port with the PS/2 keyboard port. The only other versatile port I can think was SCSI with it's ability to chain devices.
If I'm not mistaken, most barcode readers, as far as a computer is concerned is just a keyboard. I have had limited time messing around with one that plugged in via a PS/2 port, although most, these days, plug in through USB. If you open a blank text doc and scan something, what would usually show up is the number that appeared below the barcode. I'm not sure if this would work on all retail POS, maybe those that run on some variant of Windows. But would it work on Linux, or proprietary systems?
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A do have money saved up for gaming but for new GPU.
I don't consider myself the paranoid type, but you're talking about a company that goes out of its way to create a profile of people who haven't signed up. What make you think that if you do sign up and put as little information on it as possible, that they will stop collecting information about you that you haven't put on it.
In 2000 my older sister bought her first PC. She thought it was a bargin as all she had to do was sign up to some online service and get a $200 gift certificate, or something. The downside was you got a trifecta of shit. An eMachine running Win ME. And to top it off there was a persistent banner ad just below the taskbar. That was the condition of the deal. I guess she didn't mind it too much.
I had that PDA, hell i still have it and it works. I found it funny that the display on it had twice the resolution than my iPhone 1. You probably could have used it like a desktop machine as it had an optional VGA adaptor. Speaking of Photoshop there was a paint program for it called Pocket Artist which was more like Photoshop than Adobe's own Photoshop Touch for tablets.
Couldn't a 3rd party create a DVR app that does that? Is such a thing even allowed on the xbone or can only MS do it?
Am I the only one who read the headline as " How The FAA Shot Down 'Uber Drone'?"
A casino I visit has transparent displays over some slot machines. They've taken LCD diplays and removedance the back lights you can see the wheels through the animated images.
Those look like the generics we used to buy at Kroger's in the early 80's with the same lowercase hevatica fonts. Only difference is that some random letters were capital for some reason.
Isn't any discussion about fictional stories, be it sci-fi, fantasy, thriller, romantic, etc, essentially over thinking it?
Most tactile controls tend to be multi-functional in a way that is almost taken for granted. Not only does it let you change status but it informs you of its status even powered off. Take the simple volume knob, usually labeled 0 to 10, (or 11 if you're Spinal Tap), it hold its status whether it's on or off. I owned a 22 Sony CRT monitor that had two VGA inputs on the back. On the front was a switch labeled "1-2" which simple enough switched inputs. I've owned three LCD displays sonce then, all of them supported multiple inputs. All of them require you to access menus and submenus to do something that took less than a second to do with a tactile control.
Those specs seem backwards. Perhaps it had 16MB of ram and an 80MB hard drive?
...let them starve to death.
I remember about 10 years ago when Sony announced the PSP the claimed that they were going to "will elevate portable entertainment out of the handheld gaming ghetto." No one raised a stink over Sony back then. The only thing people questioned was that idea that the Gameboy Advance, at the time, was a "ghetto."
Maybe I'm over simplifying things a bit, but isn't VR, boiled down to it's most basic concept just a monitor? OK, a monitor with some input, which make it closer in design to a touchscreen, or a Wacom Cintiq than the average PC display. When was the last time that you bough a display that required you to sight up for a service that needs a persistent connection to market to you? Show of hands which would you buy if you hand the choice, a 'smart' TV or a 'dumb' TV. I'm not saying the TOS is all brand new stuff, but seriously? I just want VR without a service. Is that even possible? Will I have to jailbreak an Occulus like a phone?
I often hear about the suggestion that if you TV is a certain size you should sit so many feet away. The bigger the screen the farther away you can sit. Those are good suggestions, but only suggestions. I one the other hand like my screens much closer. Where most people place their coffee table is where my 42" TV sat until I got a projector. I could tell the difference between HD and 4K.
The idea of an upgrade-able console has been around for quite a while, usually ending in failure. Most notably Sega's CD and 32X. Neither add-on was very successful. And the timing of the 32X didn't help it. Nintendo has it's memory pack for the N64 which few games used. Some game could only run with it, IIRC. There were other lesser known upgrades for other systems like memory expansion and VCD playback for the Sega Saturn and various devices that never made it out of Japan. People seen to reject console upgrades in general.
I never really understood why it was so common to have monitors with built in cables. It didn't make any sense. Hard disks didn't have them. Printers didn't have them. Where VGA cables that much more expensive or harder to make than say parallel or SCSI cables?
Our grade school class had just got back from a trip to a planetarium. We saw it on a TV in the teacher's lounge on the way back to class. I do't remember if we discussed in class or not. I do remember seeing an very special episode of Punk Brewster. And Prince referenced it in his song Sign O The Times.
If I'm not mistaken that was one of the plot points in Batman and Robin. Using mirrors in orbit to thwart Mr Freeze's plans.
Why not make the door out of a transparent material, some thing like glass might work. In fact why not use one of the beer/soda fridges you find at convenient store. They can't cost that much more than that fridge. Plus if you want a web cam, buy on and tape it to the door.
I never referred to playing the lottery in and of itself as stupid, nor the people who play it, in general (although there are people who to get a little carried away with it.) My likening was with the lottery players who themselves consider the game a scam, yet continue to play it. I've seen people convinced that "their" number was supposed to come out because their system said it would and the lottery tricked them somehow. Yet they keep playing, hoping that the lottery will trip up and produce their number. Normal folks just brush off a loss as a loss and move on.
I work retail and operated a lottery machine. I've seen all types of people, some play for fun but most play with a seriousness that one would for working a job. A lot of folks have their "system" and they stick to it. Never mind that they lose 99 times that 100th time that they won means their system is flawless. And then there are the people who think the lotto is a scam, but play anyway. I liken these folk to people who go to a used car dealer who sells but somehow will slip up an sell a good car.
Form what I read the original ADB was going to be based on a jack similar to headphone jack. It would have solved the problem of trying to find the orientation of insertion without even looking. Something that hadn't been solved since Lighting and USB 3 C.
I've always been fond of Apple's ADB. It seemed like the closest thing to USB as far as I know of, at least compared to IBM's PS/2. ADB seemed more versatile than PS/2, which was easy to mistake the PS/2 mouse port with the PS/2 keyboard port. The only other versatile port I can think was SCSI with it's ability to chain devices.
If I'm not mistaken, most barcode readers, as far as a computer is concerned is just a keyboard. I have had limited time messing around with one that plugged in via a PS/2 port, although most, these days, plug in through USB. If you open a blank text doc and scan something, what would usually show up is the number that appeared below the barcode. I'm not sure if this would work on all retail POS, maybe those that run on some variant of Windows. But would it work on Linux, or proprietary systems?