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Comment it's just about pono, and you can buy his music in (Score 1) 574

and he's full of shit.

it's just about pono, and you can buy his music in mp3.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/ar...

spotify on high quality is way, wayyyyy better than cassette or radio or 8 tracks. but he wants to sell pono-tech. I'm guessing he wants to sell a lossless streaming service.

if it's really just about the quality how come streaming service mp3 is unacceptable and "worse than 8 track" BUT itunes mp3 is acceptable?

Comment his music is good.. (Score 4, Insightful) 574

and pretty well known. saw him live two years ago in Helsinki. a pretty good concert.

HOWEVER when it comes to his hifi music digital audio player, he's full of shit.

this is just so he can sell/promote PONO. I'm not sure if he believes that the hifisupadupasound of PONO is really better or if he's just a knowing shill. it's just a player that plays lossless files - nothing special there!

besides, streaming services have BETTER sound quality than RADIO and his music is played on radio all the time. streaming is also much better than cassettes.

he says it's not about the money, but sound quality blabla.. IT IS ABOUT THE FUCKING MONEY.

also, is he going to do home calls and check that his music is only played on hifi stereos and never on multimedia speakers?

Comment Re:Gag orders (Score 1) 138

because fundamentally it is just a 2.5km radio data link and not a magical anonymizer.

(it doesn't connect directly to the wifi ap either, due to the wifi ap being able to not receive low freqs)

it just sounds like a concept they rolled up while high, marketing got involved and it all went downhill from there and they cancelled it to save face.

Comment maybe they were just bullshitting. (Score 2) 138

maybe they were just bullshitting anyways.

like, come on, if it dependent on a device that sat near the wifi AP, it was hardly anything magical-special-super-anonymizer device in the first place. all it then was, would have been an unlicensed sort-of-long distance radio data link - which would have a whole other market mind you.

if they were implying that you could connect to the wifi ap from 2.5 klicks without anything special device near the wifi ap, then they were bullshitting.

so probably they were bullshitting because their product if it functioned as would have been likely, would have had a totally different market than what they were pushing it to.

just that it worked on unlicensed spectrum wouldn't have made it illegal to produce for markets where such use would have been legal.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 4, Insightful) 283

but what will you use then to play happy wheels?

look, all this talk about "bad corporations do intentional obsoleting of software to sell new software" and then *bam* start asking for them to make tens of thousands of games unplayable.

nice, real nice.

yes kill date implies that you wouldn't be able to _use_ it at all after the date, which would actually work as an incentive to not update to any such version that has a kill date. kill date would also mean no further security fixes.

putting a date on it would be stupid for everyone involved. adobe can just(and pretty much has) quit developing new features for it, thus driving people to other things.

Comment Re:Greeks surrender: no restructuring (Score 1) 485

tyranny?

it's tyranny? some of the countries have been performing cuts as well. what's so tyrannical of a country refusing to give greeks earlier pensions than they give to their own citizens...

tsipras is a clown and his best chum gametheorist was an even bigger clown of a finance minister. he literally did no finance ministering AT ALL during his tenure, their game tactic was simply that varoufakis thought he was so super smart he could keep his own country as hostage in the negotiations.

thing is there is _no_ possible way for the greeks to maintain their expenses.

Comment Re: Greeks surrender: no restructuring (Score 1) 485

for greece? perhaps.

but the politicians are worried more about greek citizens than greece.

if they leave euro and convert their bank savings into funny-drakhmas then for anyone with money it's pretty expensive.

the problem was that tsipras & syriza promised politics that would have dependent on creating _huge_ inflation by printing out money - a choice that they don't have since tsipras also promised to stay in the euro (also because they didn't make any contingency plans for that option apparently the next few months would have meant that there would have been no foreign supplies of any kind for a few months at least).

in practicality it's like Syriza came to power, hired a few thousand people back to push brooms&pencils around and then did nothing for like 5 months. literally nothing.

personally, I'd say that they've stalled enough already - the greece left wing wants it to be venezuela so let them have it - of course then they'll blame again everyone else for their problems, while shouting at their bigscreen tv's bought with euros.

Comment Re:Never heard that one before (Score 2) 504

jamaican creole is overwhelmingly spoken by black people + couple of backpacker hippies.

only thing missing was jar jar smoking a big 'ol fat joint, really. even his ears are meant to flow around like rastas and he goes around as if he was high all the time.

watch some grittier travel shows sometime..

note: this is not why episode 1 sucks though or why the jar jar character sucks.

Comment Re:Correct (Score 2) 267

it's there because it's the job for the asker of the question. if the override system goes through his job is meaningless.

and if he fears his network for this reason, his network is already fuxored, so there's that. most likely it's just a whitelist anyways(if he thinks that a disconnected network for connected workers is more beneficial than workers working) or a kickback commercial "bad sites" list(which is as useless as an inhouse developed blacklist - its going to be out of date every day anyways).

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