Convenience, or security and privacy. Your choice. I don't have any IoT devices at all. If I want to change the temperature, I have to walk to the thermostat in the living room. Etc. My smartphone, a recent addition to my life, is my biggest worry now. I held on to a dumb flip phone for many years, but society has moved too far past that now. I need to stay functional. Slowly learning about the gotchas there.
Actually, he's right about VPNs, PapaBop. Your ISP normally does know everything you're doing, or they could easily find out. If you use a VPN, all they get is a tunnel of encrypted traffic to pass along, in which case all they would know is (1) you're using the service, (2) the bandwidth consumed, and (3) the one IP address all your traffic goes to and from (your VPN server). That's it.
The device I just typed this on is deaf and blind. It's a desktop PC with no cameras or microphones. The integrated (motherboard) audio is disabled. The speakers are fed through DisplayPort to the monitor's DACs. There are no ADCs to feed digital audio back to the PC.
So again, absolutes fail. No; not every device you type on can do audio or visual surveillance on you.
Kinda hard to turn speakers into microphones when they're fed digitally through external DACs and there are no ADCs in the circuit. So, no; not everything with a speaker can do this.
Reminds me of a story. Cop pulls a guy over for speeding. The guy asks "why did you pull ME over when everyone else was doing the same speed?" Cop asks "do you ever go fishing?" Guy says "yeah; so?" Cop answers "do you expect to catch every fish in the pond?"
Microsoft is the fish on this hook. Nothing anyone else does excuses them for it.
A fast-enough SSD can be treated as memory, at least in part. I'm not sure what the criticism is here. More memory, more storage, and faster storage are all essential for taking performance to the next level.
Steam's free-for-all is a big part of the problem. The "wannabe" titles don't really wanna be anything but leeches, and Steam allows such filth to fester, proliferate, and end up drowning the worthy titles in a sea of muck.
Same here. I'm a parent. I'm a gamer. I never liked censorship, in anything. Finding age-appropriate content for my children was my job, not anyone else's. They're grown now, so I don't even have to do that anymore.
Nintendo should stick to its consoles. The mobile market has a horrible business model. People aren't willing to pay enough money up front to free mobile games from the microtransaction blight. And that model isn't compatible with the company's image, which is in part why Dr Mario World wasn't well-received, and isn't earning its keep.
Yeah, I can't remember last time I threw out an electronic component. My recently deceased Samsung TV, trusty friend for 11 years (RIP), is in a closet basement. Backlight works, audio works, just no picture. I'm hoping it's a dead display chip that I can replace someday.
The crux of this is that 2 private investigators, which he called goons, showed up at his doorstep--his real-world doorstep. He felt so intimidated that he decided to take a powder, at least for a while.
I don't know what happened behind the scenes. I don't know if he did anything else besides disseminate leaks from other sources. Regardless, the events seem shady to me. Why would a game publisher be sending PIs to people's homes over some leak? If they hav...
Correct on both counts. It runs cooler because it uses far less power to reach the same performance (Tegra X1 SoC rev. t214 "Mariko", up from t210 "Logan"). It could clock a lot higher for better performance, but Nintendo opted to save on battery use instead. That's why it lasts so much longer, not because the battery is any different.
They could have done that with the new system. They opted to save on battery use instead. (The Tegra revised chip can clock a lot higher, but it's loafing instead to conserve the juice.)
hanko14, think about it. Why should you get a new, better system for free in exchange for something with a year's wear and tear?
You can usually return stuff for like a month after purchase. If you miss that grace period, you may be able to get a deal on trading up, since your system is still so new. Yeah, bad timing sucks. What else is new?
It's not an argument, just a fact. People get too worked up over colored drawings. If real people get victimized, then I want to know about it. Cartoons are meant to get hit on the head with an Acme anvil, or suffer any other indignities their creators can dream up.
Yeah, the expiring-licenses thing is a blight on the scene. There literally ought to be a law. Once something is licensed for a product, it should never become an impediment later on. Simple consumer protection. In racing games, both the cars and the music would be locked in place. The developer can't add newer car models, or different songs. I don't see why that would hurt the profits of car companies or artists. Newer games would have to license the newer cars and songs, or e...
I suspect the downvotes happened because your reply in no way justifies the delisting of one of Microsoft's top exclusive properties, and a fairly recent one at that. 4 years to the day? Really? It certainly gives the anti-digital-future crowd some ammo.
Extremely. 4K is overkill most of the time, and now they want to push 4 times as many pixels at us. That's 16 times the load of 1080p. 16 times the uncompressed data. Nonsense. Think of the load times, the storage space, the download times and the hit on the GPU, if games went to 8K native. Screw that noise.
This is ridiculous whether you're sensitive or not.