I'm usually pretty adamant about individual rights and such too, but quite frankly...how is this worse than the bullshit you get on disc? The DRM on most discs is a lot of times far worse than that. You have a limited number of installs, or Starforce destroying your CDROM, or if you even have Daemon Tools running the game won't start, or if you have more than one ROM drive, the game won't start. Give me a break. Steam is a step forward even if it isn't all the way to where you want. Wanting no DRM at this point, I have to admit, is just unrealistic. With the choice between Steam and some of the other options...I'll take Steam.
"If the ACLU can successfully argue that Net Neutrality is a First Amendment Issue then it might not matter what businesses (who fall on either side of the issue) want the government to do."
The only way making it a 1st Amendment issue would actually matter is if the government actually regulates them, which it continually shies away from doing. As they are in fact private businesses, we can only hope that the government actually goes through with regulating their government mandated monopoly and stops letting them cry about fairness and all that kind of crap they've been lobbying about. Even if I DID have competitors to choose from, this kind of behavior is ridiculous. No one should have to put up with it. Period. You can bet your ass that without it even the DSL and cable companies will collude on this stuff as soon as possible. You think you're going to be able to leave your cable or DSL company for greener pastures? No. They'll all be doing the same thing...that's always the way this stuff works. Look what happened in Canada when Bell implemented bandwidth caps...it just rolled right on through. I don't want ridiculous bandwidth limits, discriminatory QoS, companies paying more for their website to load faster...I just want the internet to work as it always has which is quite honestly the best way it can work. I'm getting tired of this shit.
Hell, I don't even have a problem paying a little more for my connection since I do use quite a bit more bandwidth than most people. I usually have the most expensive plan for my ISP anyway.
how often do you really load up *all* cores at once running multiple desktop applications.
Lets see:
I've got three Java background apps running and unlike the Folding Client, they do not back off when I want to do something else. This means Firefox, Word, Outlook, One Note, XMPlay all have to fight them for any ticks on the CPU though I rarely see more then 50-75 avg. cpu loading. That's on an E6300 (1.8GHz) Core 2 running Win7-64 on 8GB and this is a typical situation for my system.
My system is 3 years old and I've just started looking at upgrading but I have a problem. There are no CPU's now available from Intel that are compatible with my board and no a Bios update wont solve the problem. They changed the damn socket 6 months after I built it. Intel has a habit of changing things ever 6 months so you can't upgrade you CPU to gain the performance boost needed when the time comes. In my case, the only option if I could find one is a Q6600, which has already been discontinued (18 months ago) so I'm now forced to look at building a new system.
Due to Intel's policy, I'm looking at AMD for my next system because they don't obsolete Sockets and Chips 6 months after you build the system, forcing you to buy the most chip you can afford and then replacing the entire system in two or three years when it can't keep up with demands. That's right. It's Intel that drives the business upgrade cycle because they can get more money from companies selling all new chips such as north/southbridge, nics and everything in between unlike AMD who prefers to see you buy more CPU's and gives us a gradual upgrade path by simply ensuring their new chips can run in at least the "+" series of sockets even though you may not have access to all features.
This. A thousand times this. I got lucky and my friend's dad swapped me my E6600 and $100 for his Q6600. Otherwise, I'd be screwed, which severely pisses me off. At the same time, I've got an AMD machine for my media center and I'm free to upgrade with chips that have just come out. I built the media center a year or so after my Intel machine. I'd say I'm starting to sour on Intel, but for me, the performance is worth it on my gaming PC. I'm pretty much never going to use them for anything else though. PCs for friends, family, other uses around the house...they're going to be AMD. I'm tired of Intel's bullshit. They don't need a new socket type every few months. It's just getting ridiculous now.
Have you ever tried setting up the CCCP? Go to the CCCP website to get it. I used that to set up my media center and it has all the stuff you need. I recently found that the built DXVA (an option you can select when you install or go to the configuration) actually works quite well with my nVidia card and this pack basically seems to have all the codecs you need to play like 99% of the videos around. If you're not aware, that's used for video acceleration to keep your CPU from eating itself playing back compressed 1080p video. Basically everything you need to play MOST stuff back is there. You use Media Player classic to play it.
So what's your point? I still bought it didn't I? If the only ways to acquire something are this way, why am I forced to deal with their bullshit? This argument of "don't like it, don't buy it" has a flaw. It's not a toaster...I want THAT movie or THAT CD from THAT band and me not buying it just means I don't get to enjoy it. Yeah, they're jackasses for trying to hamper me from doing what I want but if I don't buy it, yes, I guess I'm sending a message but are they getting this message and why do I have to suffer now?
The real solution is to tell them to politely go fuck themselves when they tell me I can't copy the disc I bought. It's MINE. I physically own this disc. I'll be damned if you can tell me what I'm allowed to do with the disc I bought.
Not that I don't agree a lot of parents are lazy assholes, but you'd be surprised what those little kids can get themselves into. Sometimes you just don't think about it. It's kind of (excuse the comparison) when you have a dog and you leave something on the counter, come back later, and they've ripped it to shreds. Yeah, you could have put it way up on a shelf high as hell, but you just didn't think about it, you were in a rush, etc. Shit happens. It's not always a lazy parent and unless you're literally hovering around watching every movement the kid makes, that kind of thing will happen. It only take a few seconds for them to get a hold of that case and rip it open, unfortunately.
I'm not a parent but I have 2 much much younger siblings (I'm 24 and the older one just hit 10 years old) so I've seen my share of this stuff like any parent. I was really vigilant (most people are especially watchful when it isn't their own kids) so it's not like I just threw them in a room to watch TV and ignored them.
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Hate to break it to ya, but Microsoft is spread pretty thin on the exclusives. There are very VERY few games to be had on the 360 that aren't also on PS3 or the PC.
Reminds me of something...oh right, when someone goes on a killing spree and OMG they have video games! No one has video games, this person is special!:O
So we either get really shitty and SLOW internet or we get really fast and RESTRICTED internet? Those are AWESOME choices. Where do I sign up? Also no, the option to not have any internet is not actually an option, otherwise we wouldn't be having this discussion.
You can't call it fair competition when the players in the market have forced monopolies. I don't know if you're dense or just being facetious.
Guess I probably shouldn't mention where but it is a rather large company. I got an email from someone that was in another office in another city on the other side of the country that I'd never talked to before. Needless to say, I paused a moment before doing anything. Hovered over the link, lo and behold, it's linking to a.scr file on a different website. Interesting. I get 2 more and one goes to the majority of the people in our office, so I immediately send an email message saying "DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK." Regardless, at least 4 people in MY group end up clicking the link. Fuck's sake...what is wrong with people? Why would you click a link to an external site from someone you've never even talked to before? Seriously?
The really funny part was when one of the Team Leads walked over and asked if I knew what was going on. I was like "man, I can't believe anyone would click this...who would even do that?" at which point someone ran over and told us she'd clicked it and asked what to do. *sigh* I'm glad I'm not in our desktop department sometimes. I told her to call them and see what they wanted them to do and to go run over to all of our group to see who clicked it and quarantine that shit. I walked around later and saw notes on the computers of all the people that had clicked it saying not to touch that computer. Lol. They all had to move desks for the remainder of the day. Anyone that did this shouldn't be allowed internet access any more.:p
All of this is rather pointless since, if you actually hover over the link, you can see the link that you see isn't actually the link. My work got hit and I hovered over and saw it was a.scr file. It was kind of hilarious knowing who clicked it because they all had notes on their computers saying not to use that computer and they all had to move to another desk. Idiots.
One of the managers came over to me and I was like "who would even click that?!" at which point someone ran over and immediately said "I clicked that link and..." Yeah. "You'd better go call desktop services and see what they want you to do.":p
And if you're in an area where both companies do it?
I get tired about hearing about great old capitalism and choices in a market that essentially HAS NO CHOICES. I'm all for letting the market decide, but some people seem determined to fit a square peg in a round hole. It doesn't work in every single market. Stop parroting that crap and think about it for a minute. I mean seriously think. It's entirely possible that BOTH companies offering these services are simply going to dictate to you what you're allowed to do with their service and there is not a single thing you can do it. In other words, you can't vote for your wallet if there's no one there to vote for.
Right now I have it at 800 and it REALLY runs like crap (haven't gotten a new kernel yet for CM6). The browser seems sort of iffy in general but this happens in both Dolphin AND the built in browser, so I'm inclined to believe it is flash (and I have 10.1). I dunno. I've seen it run well on some phones but I'm kind of irritated at how crappy it runs on mine.
I'd be more interested in that 10" Viewsonic...the only really annoying thing I got while reading about it was the fact that you can't run Android 2.2 on it yet. That's kind of disappointing. This is definitely something I could pick up and play with though.
On the other hand, I think I'm interested more in color e-ink over this flurry of tablet PCs. Every time I see one, all I really think of is reading stuff. Like say...a comic book or even a normal book. I'm sure they're fine little PCs but I already have a netbook with an actual keyboard. The allure of a tablet is so-so.
Hey, not EVERY product. Photoshop and Dreamweaver are quite good. To be fair Dreamweaver WAS Macromedia, but I actually thing it HAS improved since Adobe bought it. Flash does pretty much suck shit though. No argument from me here on that point.
I agree with some of what you said, but I don't get your comments about VNC. What exactly are you trying to do with VNC anyway? Are you trying to play flash games on your home PC, or what?:p I use VNC rather frequently, actually, to start downloads and such. I guess maybe I'm just not doing anything particularly complicated but really...what WOULD you use VNC on your phone for other than an emergency?
I have tried in vain many times to load up the Daily Show on my phone and it is a horrible mess. I'm using a Droid and even overclocked to 1200MHz it still kind of runs like crap, which is actually kind of surprising. Takes forever to load, if it does load (like this article), and sometimes it makes my browser crash if I try and get too crazy with it (I however suspect this might be the overclock).
I dunno, I'm kind of disappointed with Flash so far. Maybe the original Droid just isn't that well suited to it or something. I dunno.
I'm still rooting for Google's format. I don't care about free as in money so much as free as in open source. I don't see how it could possibly be sustainable for every single company that makes a browser from here on out to have to pay a fee to use this codec. If they put H.264 into the HTML 5 spec, that is only going to make it a pain in the ass for browser developers and open source users. It's stupid. This isn't helpful...it's just slight of hand. "Look it's free!" Um no...it actually isn't free at all. I wish people writing all the other articles would acknowledge that a little better. This changes nothing.
Actually he was implying most of those fell under "this is retarded and I'm not buying this just for Apple." Most useful technologies (like USB for example) were NOT done first by Apple. All the examples you listed were Apple taking some standard and just making it smaller before anyone else and then being the only people selling cables. I don't see the point of a micro-SIM card or any of these "same thing but smaller lol" versions unless it actually becomes a standard and everyone jumps on board.
I don't really see many areas where Apple started a standard. If it's a standard, then everyone implements it usually. Most of what Apple does is bullshit lock-in and cables that cost 10x as much as they should.
Has there ever been a zombie outbreak at all? Kind of hard to get evidence when we're talking about something that has only ever happened in our imaginations.
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I'm usually pretty adamant about individual rights and such too, but quite frankly...how is this worse than the bullshit you get on disc? The DRM on most discs is a lot of times far worse than that. You have a limited number of installs, or Starforce destroying your CDROM, or if you even have Daemon Tools running the game won't start, or if you have more than one ROM drive, the game won't start. Give me a break. Steam is a step forward even if it isn't all the way to where you want. Wanting no DRM at this point, I have to admit, is just unrealistic. With the choice between Steam and some of the other options...I'll take Steam.
"If the ACLU can successfully argue that Net Neutrality is a First Amendment Issue then it might not matter what businesses (who fall on either side of the issue) want the government to do."
The only way making it a 1st Amendment issue would actually matter is if the government actually regulates them, which it continually shies away from doing. As they are in fact private businesses, we can only hope that the government actually goes through with regulating their government mandated monopoly and stops letting them cry about fairness and all that kind of crap they've been lobbying about. Even if I DID have competitors to choose from, this kind of behavior is ridiculous. No one should have to put up with it. Period. You can bet your ass that without it even the DSL and cable companies will collude on this stuff as soon as possible. You think you're going to be able to leave your cable or DSL company for greener pastures? No. They'll all be doing the same thing...that's always the way this stuff works. Look what happened in Canada when Bell implemented bandwidth caps...it just rolled right on through. I don't want ridiculous bandwidth limits, discriminatory QoS, companies paying more for their website to load faster...I just want the internet to work as it always has which is quite honestly the best way it can work. I'm getting tired of this shit.
Hell, I don't even have a problem paying a little more for my connection since I do use quite a bit more bandwidth than most people. I usually have the most expensive plan for my ISP anyway.
If the system was working, these patents never would have made it through in the first place for them to sue anyone with. :)
how often do you really load up *all* cores at once running multiple desktop applications.
Lets see:
I've got three Java background apps running and unlike the Folding Client, they do not back off when I want to do something else. This means Firefox, Word, Outlook, One Note, XMPlay all have to fight them for any ticks on the CPU though I rarely see more then 50-75 avg. cpu loading. That's on an E6300 (1.8GHz) Core 2 running Win7-64 on 8GB and this is a typical situation for my system.
My system is 3 years old and I've just started looking at upgrading but I have a problem. There are no CPU's now available from Intel that are compatible with my board and no a Bios update wont solve the problem. They changed the damn socket 6 months after I built it. Intel has a habit of changing things ever 6 months so you can't upgrade you CPU to gain the performance boost needed when the time comes. In my case, the only option if I could find one is a Q6600, which has already been discontinued (18 months ago) so I'm now forced to look at building a new system.
Due to Intel's policy, I'm looking at AMD for my next system because they don't obsolete Sockets and Chips 6 months after you build the system, forcing you to buy the most chip you can afford and then replacing the entire system in two or three years when it can't keep up with demands. That's right. It's Intel that drives the business upgrade cycle because they can get more money from companies selling all new chips such as north/southbridge, nics and everything in between unlike AMD who prefers to see you buy more CPU's and gives us a gradual upgrade path by simply ensuring their new chips can run in at least the "+" series of sockets even though you may not have access to all features.
This. A thousand times this. I got lucky and my friend's dad swapped me my E6600 and $100 for his Q6600. Otherwise, I'd be screwed, which severely pisses me off. At the same time, I've got an AMD machine for my media center and I'm free to upgrade with chips that have just come out. I built the media center a year or so after my Intel machine. I'd say I'm starting to sour on Intel, but for me, the performance is worth it on my gaming PC. I'm pretty much never going to use them for anything else though. PCs for friends, family, other uses around the house...they're going to be AMD. I'm tired of Intel's bullshit. They don't need a new socket type every few months. It's just getting ridiculous now.
Have you ever tried setting up the CCCP? Go to the CCCP website to get it. I used that to set up my media center and it has all the stuff you need. I recently found that the built DXVA (an option you can select when you install or go to the configuration) actually works quite well with my nVidia card and this pack basically seems to have all the codecs you need to play like 99% of the videos around. If you're not aware, that's used for video acceleration to keep your CPU from eating itself playing back compressed 1080p video. Basically everything you need to play MOST stuff back is there. You use Media Player classic to play it.
So what's your point? I still bought it didn't I? If the only ways to acquire something are this way, why am I forced to deal with their bullshit? This argument of "don't like it, don't buy it" has a flaw. It's not a toaster...I want THAT movie or THAT CD from THAT band and me not buying it just means I don't get to enjoy it. Yeah, they're jackasses for trying to hamper me from doing what I want but if I don't buy it, yes, I guess I'm sending a message but are they getting this message and why do I have to suffer now?
The real solution is to tell them to politely go fuck themselves when they tell me I can't copy the disc I bought. It's MINE. I physically own this disc. I'll be damned if you can tell me what I'm allowed to do with the disc I bought.
Not that I don't agree a lot of parents are lazy assholes, but you'd be surprised what those little kids can get themselves into. Sometimes you just don't think about it. It's kind of (excuse the comparison) when you have a dog and you leave something on the counter, come back later, and they've ripped it to shreds. Yeah, you could have put it way up on a shelf high as hell, but you just didn't think about it, you were in a rush, etc. Shit happens. It's not always a lazy parent and unless you're literally hovering around watching every movement the kid makes, that kind of thing will happen. It only take a few seconds for them to get a hold of that case and rip it open, unfortunately.
I'm not a parent but I have 2 much much younger siblings (I'm 24 and the older one just hit 10 years old) so I've seen my share of this stuff like any parent. I was really vigilant (most people are especially watchful when it isn't their own kids) so it's not like I just threw them in a room to watch TV and ignored them.
Hate to break it to ya, but Microsoft is spread pretty thin on the exclusives. There are very VERY few games to be had on the 360 that aren't also on PS3 or the PC.
Reminds me of something...oh right, when someone goes on a killing spree and OMG they have video games! No one has video games, this person is special! :O
I nearly spit out my sandwich reading that. Thank you. xD
Seriously, and that same type of person would complain at the same time how bloated the browser is. It's like talking to a wall.
So we either get really shitty and SLOW internet or we get really fast and RESTRICTED internet? Those are AWESOME choices. Where do I sign up? Also no, the option to not have any internet is not actually an option, otherwise we wouldn't be having this discussion.
You can't call it fair competition when the players in the market have forced monopolies. I don't know if you're dense or just being facetious.
Guess I probably shouldn't mention where but it is a rather large company. I got an email from someone that was in another office in another city on the other side of the country that I'd never talked to before. Needless to say, I paused a moment before doing anything. Hovered over the link, lo and behold, it's linking to a .scr file on a different website. Interesting. I get 2 more and one goes to the majority of the people in our office, so I immediately send an email message saying "DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK." Regardless, at least 4 people in MY group end up clicking the link. Fuck's sake...what is wrong with people? Why would you click a link to an external site from someone you've never even talked to before? Seriously?
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The really funny part was when one of the Team Leads walked over and asked if I knew what was going on. I was like "man, I can't believe anyone would click this...who would even do that?" at which point someone ran over and told us she'd clicked it and asked what to do. *sigh* I'm glad I'm not in our desktop department sometimes. I told her to call them and see what they wanted them to do and to go run over to all of our group to see who clicked it and quarantine that shit. I walked around later and saw notes on the computers of all the people that had clicked it saying not to touch that computer. Lol. They all had to move desks for the remainder of the day. Anyone that did this shouldn't be allowed internet access any more.
All of this is rather pointless since, if you actually hover over the link, you can see the link that you see isn't actually the link. My work got hit and I hovered over and saw it was a .scr file. It was kind of hilarious knowing who clicked it because they all had notes on their computers saying not to use that computer and they all had to move to another desk. Idiots.
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One of the managers came over to me and I was like "who would even click that?!" at which point someone ran over and immediately said "I clicked that link and..." Yeah. "You'd better go call desktop services and see what they want you to do."
It wasn't actually a PDF. This circulated through my work todau and when you hovered over it, the thing went to a different site with a .scr extension.
Nowadays I just use XBMC whenever I need the 10-foot experience.
That what she s---aw I just can't bring myself to do it.
And if you're in an area where both companies do it?
I get tired about hearing about great old capitalism and choices in a market that essentially HAS NO CHOICES. I'm all for letting the market decide, but some people seem determined to fit a square peg in a round hole. It doesn't work in every single market. Stop parroting that crap and think about it for a minute. I mean seriously think. It's entirely possible that BOTH companies offering these services are simply going to dictate to you what you're allowed to do with their service and there is not a single thing you can do it. In other words, you can't vote for your wallet if there's no one there to vote for.
It's overclocked past the 600MHz rating. :)
Right now I have it at 800 and it REALLY runs like crap (haven't gotten a new kernel yet for CM6). The browser seems sort of iffy in general but this happens in both Dolphin AND the built in browser, so I'm inclined to believe it is flash (and I have 10.1). I dunno. I've seen it run well on some phones but I'm kind of irritated at how crappy it runs on mine.
I'd be more interested in that 10" Viewsonic...the only really annoying thing I got while reading about it was the fact that you can't run Android 2.2 on it yet. That's kind of disappointing. This is definitely something I could pick up and play with though.
On the other hand, I think I'm interested more in color e-ink over this flurry of tablet PCs. Every time I see one, all I really think of is reading stuff. Like say...a comic book or even a normal book. I'm sure they're fine little PCs but I already have a netbook with an actual keyboard. The allure of a tablet is so-so.
Hey, not EVERY product. Photoshop and Dreamweaver are quite good. To be fair Dreamweaver WAS Macromedia, but I actually thing it HAS improved since Adobe bought it. Flash does pretty much suck shit though. No argument from me here on that point.
I agree with some of what you said, but I don't get your comments about VNC. What exactly are you trying to do with VNC anyway? Are you trying to play flash games on your home PC, or what? :p I use VNC rather frequently, actually, to start downloads and such. I guess maybe I'm just not doing anything particularly complicated but really...what WOULD you use VNC on your phone for other than an emergency?
I have tried in vain many times to load up the Daily Show on my phone and it is a horrible mess. I'm using a Droid and even overclocked to 1200MHz it still kind of runs like crap, which is actually kind of surprising. Takes forever to load, if it does load (like this article), and sometimes it makes my browser crash if I try and get too crazy with it (I however suspect this might be the overclock).
I dunno, I'm kind of disappointed with Flash so far. Maybe the original Droid just isn't that well suited to it or something. I dunno.
I'm still rooting for Google's format. I don't care about free as in money so much as free as in open source. I don't see how it could possibly be sustainable for every single company that makes a browser from here on out to have to pay a fee to use this codec. If they put H.264 into the HTML 5 spec, that is only going to make it a pain in the ass for browser developers and open source users. It's stupid. This isn't helpful...it's just slight of hand. "Look it's free!" Um no...it actually isn't free at all. I wish people writing all the other articles would acknowledge that a little better. This changes nothing.
Actually he was implying most of those fell under "this is retarded and I'm not buying this just for Apple." Most useful technologies (like USB for example) were NOT done first by Apple. All the examples you listed were Apple taking some standard and just making it smaller before anyone else and then being the only people selling cables. I don't see the point of a micro-SIM card or any of these "same thing but smaller lol" versions unless it actually becomes a standard and everyone jumps on board.
I don't really see many areas where Apple started a standard. If it's a standard, then everyone implements it usually. Most of what Apple does is bullshit lock-in and cables that cost 10x as much as they should.
Has there ever been a zombie outbreak at all? Kind of hard to get evidence when we're talking about something that has only ever happened in our imaginations.