But those two problems were directly the result of forcing their “always on” Kinect solution on customers. It both raised the price $100 over the PS4 and took too many resources to allow intense games to run at 1080p (since they removed the must have Kinect, the resources freed allow games to be played at 1080p and the price is the same as a PS4).
So basically, they got too greedy trying to bring Big Brother to your living room.
The graphics hardware chosen limits it to 720p. Feel free to look up details. MSFT chose poorly, Sony picked stronger graphics hardware. (Maybe more cost cutting to fit in Kinect?)
Kinect bundling added $100 to price.
Create a plausible scenerio based on computing, viri infection rate on old XP systems 10 years ago, coupled with the normal browsing habits of an average male college student, that directly disproves what I described, and hell, provide a motive for me to even lie about something that blatantly innocuous, and maybe I’ll believe you.
Otherwise, moving on. You seem to be the type looking for an arguement over shit that doesn’t matter. I’m just stupid enough to reply to people when they blatantly call me a liar for anything, with no evidence, much less for trivial innocuous shit.
What, you think I had it autoserfing german barnyard beastiality bondage porn 24-7 to lose a few hours a week scrubbing the registry? Have you forgotten how flawed IE was 10 years ago, coupled with outdated XP even then?
Dude, I don’t know what secret regime of NSA hacking porn browsing thru shady chinese wesites you think I was doing, but whatever you think, trust me, it wasn’t.
well that sucks. the hostfile should have the ultimate say. i guess they are trying from preventing people from stopping call home, and more importantly spoofing activation servers to self activate their windows copy. still poor form to break something like that. boo hiss.
yeah that is tricky. by forcing everyone they increase number of units distributed and hopefully encourage more content developed that supports it. they were trying to hit critical mass adoption. perhaps they could have done better through rebated/subsidized addons though. i understand the logic without agreeing with the approach.
i guess I’d ask why? since there were plenty of good free registry scrubbers available at the time that would run in 5min or less. work smarter not harder. i mean, you could spend hours a week dicking around browsing your files system, but why? i think the point is that your user experience wasn’t typical, that’s all, not that it didn’t happen. just my 2 cents.
I play Steam with WINE, it works okay. I’m not super heavy into modding or anything, though.
That may be the greatest thing ever.
There’s no limit to the tortures people will put up with if it comes with something installed by default…
From what I understand, the GCHQ (and suspicionless spying in general) is worse in some ways than the NSA and your links certainly confirm it. I really don’t properly comprehend what’s going on in UK, Canada, Australia, etc. with so many draconian corporatist/conservative leaders getting elected. I understand why some Americans fall for it, but what’s going on in all these other countries? I’d like to think we’re evolving as a species, but reading worldwide stuff like this makes me think we’re temporarily stuck in the mud.
had a suspected data leak from the DWP regarding my gender identity
I had never heard about that crap until now. I assume you’re talking about this?
Says they fired 120 people which makes me suspect that’s just the small percentage of offenders who were snooping overall, but didn’t get caught. Reminds me of what Snowden said about the NSA to some extent.
Citizens’ Racy Photos Shared Among NSA Workers, Snowden Says
No, I should have had my account locked to anyone without security clearance when I transitioned. Five years after I escaped from transphobic abuse, when I had to renew my disability benefits, it was discovered that the account was completely open to anyone working for the DWP.
I don’t know for certain it was a deliberate data leak, but even if it wasn’t it was a severe breach in security protocols (locked accounts usually mean vulnerable people including transpeople or the super-rich/powerful) and it was open at a time when I was being targeted by transphobes.
Agreed it probably wasn’t typical. But then, I’m atypically extremely paranoid. So why hours?
I saw the Snowden disclosures coming for years- I didn’t know about all of it, but some of the more major shit, I had reason to believe existed, merely from over a decade of reading slashdot and others, following things down the rabbit holes everyone else ignored. I knew some seriously bad shit was going on, but I didn’t have hard proof to show people until Snowden. So, for a long time, my friends and family thought I was batshit nuts when I told them about how they were being spied on, through various means, things like Binney’s revelations, EMF keyboard radiation, et al.
Until Snowden came out- and now my family begrudgingly admits I wasn’t nuts. Granted- I am still an extremely paranoid person, and some of the stuff I believe may be impossible to prove- but I have the capability to point that shit out technically speaking now, at least how it’s technically possible.
How that relates to registry stuff: being that paranoid, and living that way- I had tried many free programs for that sort of thing, only to not be as savvy at the time to pick stuff that didn’t also install it’s own spyware & persistent cookies. It happened enough times early on, that I soon suspected every program that 'helped" me for free, and even some paid, to be putting their own marketing and other shit on my computer, so I ended up only trusting exactly my own hand, thus, deleting everything, every time, individually, and manually. It was living hell.
So yes, when you are as paranoid as me, it costs you a lot more time than most. But I’d rather be paranoid and thought a nut, than sane and ignoring what I know to be possible.
Thanks for the explanation, that makes sense.
It’s not paranoia.
It’s awareness.
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