Comment Re:GPL and copyright (Score 4, Insightful) 189
"The old copyright model [...] has expired."
Nobody is saying copyright law shouldn't exist.
"The old copyright model [...] has expired."
Nobody is saying copyright law shouldn't exist.
"And yet the Music Industry today is as powerful as ever."
Is it still powerful? Sure. As ever? Uh
For a settop box is there any reason not to use a low-end PC in a quiet case and run OpenELEC, XMBC or even Windows Media Center?
Not that I know of. It's a good option for cars, too. Kodi makes a dandy car interface. The last piece for home theater kind of fell into place recently when all the pieces became available to watch Netflix on Linux, that's a deal-breaker for many otherwise.
It seems more flexible and less likely to suddenly have the vendor refuse to support it (given NVIDIA's history with prior Android products
I won't buy Android anything [anymore] until there's a bootloader and at least one AOSP build. Obviously, I suggest the same policy to anyone.
You wouldn't happen to know if that 4V max screwdriver is powered by an 18650 would you? if so I might consider buying one
I did. I don't have a phone charging problem, because I have both portable solar panels (including a 10W flexi built into a bag) and a car which puts out lots of ~12V, but I still bought a USB charger. I broke open some LiIon laptop packs and didn't know what to do with all the cells, so I bought a $6 eBay power bank and loaded it up. Now I'm trying to imagine stuff to do with it. Wasn't my question, though. I think my R-Pi might go mobile, but then I need a boost converter to run the display I have in mind.
Do you understand that we're talking about screens where people claim being able to tell apart pixels that are so tiny, they shouldn't be able to?
Yep.
These people will most certainly be able to tell that image is smoothed out by scaler. It's far, FAR easier to see that.
It's easy to see whatever you're expecting. A good LCD-aware scaler, though, can produce some really great results on an LCD.
Apple has crapped on their TV-connected product line, though, by cheaping it out so hard that it's now pathetic.
Ah yes, the infamous "pretty good" of non native scaling on LCD screens.
I would have hoped that they would have LCD-aware scalers on these chips by now, but I'm not a registered developer so I can't download docs to find out.
I'm not suggesting that you can live high on the hog. Although what I would suggest is not having three kids if you don't have some kind of financial security lined up. After just one unplanned child I'd be off to the snip snip.
So why can't Android just use fucking Samba?!
Because you haven't downloaded the 'Samba Filesharing for Android' app yet. Did you even look?
I prefer my backups to be reliable and private, thank you.
Privacy is a valid concern. However...
Although hard drives do occasionally tell me "Hey, you've got a week to get your shit off me, ner ner!", at least they can't help it.
I've had HDDs give me warning, and I've had HDDs fail without any warning. People have gone to their backups and found them unreadable. People have lost their tape drives, bought another one, and found out that their old tape drive was fracked and creating tapes that no other drive could read. It takes a tiered backup solution to be more reliable than Google, who will almost certainly give you months of notice before they take down a service.
I agree with calm down, but I also agree that it's stupid. When you put your text in monospace, what you are saying is "I am a special snowflake, so you should read this text even though it is more difficult than if I didn't set a special style that I only use because I am a hipster." So if that's how you want to come across, by all means, keep setting your comments in monospace. If you've set a flag that makes all your comments enter in monospace, then you're an extra-hipster.
He is pointing out that google are renowned for dropping services for business reasons. Often with little or no warning.
When has Google ever dropped one of their services without providing months of notice to the unpaying users first?
Pretty useless for Kodi because it can't bitstream lossless audio (runs on a closed ecosystem and requires licensing to do so).
You really don't think that's going to be solved by the community?
Also can't handle 23.97 output (converts to 24fps) so there's judder.
You mean XBMC can't just slow everything down by a fraction of a percent?
There are lots of other cheaper devices which can do the job better.
Name one.
As far as Netflix 4k streaming goes, you need HDMI 2.0/HDCP 2.2 support, and if you have that you almost certainly have Netflix 4k streaming built into your 4k TV already.
I don't buy display devices with networking built into them. That's stupid.
This looks like a bigger, beefed-up version of an Ouya.
If it's halfway competent and doesn't try to lock you into using their shitty store and launcher, then all it will need is a real recovery to be everything the Ouya wasn't.
I bought Ouya, it was unremitting shit and didn't even work right, so I took it back. I won't preorder Android hardware again (I didn't kickstart, just preordered Ouya from a store, so I could return that POS) but I will give this machine a go if it reviews well.
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