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Comment Re:He's being polite. (Score 1) 114

...and the number of people who identify as techies and still have no clue whatsoever about technical things is on the rise.

Worse is some of them are selling their services as a "techie" to normal people.

I talked to an auto parts store a couple weeks back replacing a POS PC and it couldn't get online, but the other machine in the store could, and they were calling us (the ISP) about the issue. They were both hardwired to a router (that was not supplied by us) and the store's third-party tech who installed the computer was there. He didn't know how to check an IP address and hadn't even looked at the router itself. He'd just connected the wires from the old computer they replaced to the new one and expected it to work.

Comment Re:Media streamer? (Score 1) 60

In fact, the Pi's CPU is used in set top boxes right now - I believe if you go to your favorite electronics retailer (online or off), pick up a Roku 2. The same CPU powering the Pi powers that. (Same amount of RAM, too I believe, and Ethernet.).

Roku 2 doesn't have Ethernet.
Only the Roku 3 does from the current generation, and it has a more powerful processor.

Comment Re:Media streamer? (Score 4, Insightful) 60

While the NUCs are overkill for HTPC duty, the PIs are also not sufficiently there either. A PI just has problems keeping up with the user interface (XBMC).

No, I don't think a NUC is overkill for HTPC. The only reason a Rpi works for HD is because of hardware acceleration for video playback. But throw it a file in a format that doesn't meet the qualifications for acceleration and pbbbbbt! So, no 10-bit h264 or HEVC, let alone if you want to do rendering of subtitles, filtering, or chroma upscaling to improve the picture quality of normal 4:2:0 video.

Comment Re:Just Remember (Score 1) 188

I cannot even begin to count the number of commenters here who pushed HTML5 as the best way to end, once and for all, those incredibly invasive and annoying Flash ads.

I remember what they were doing is pushing HTML5 as a way to deliver rich content that oftentimes was not supported on $favoriteOSSplatform due to reliance on proprietary plugins. HTML was supposed to help maintain the (original) spirit of the Internet as a platform-agnostic information source.

They forgot that once they get access to the content, those same companies now also have a way of delivering marketing content to the audience.

Comment Re:Do they have pay for repeats? (Score 1) 305

If you want fucking songs, there's always youporn and redtube although I wouldn't exactly call the audio "songs".

Those sites both have categories for vintage porn -- which include a large number of full-length professionally produced porno films from the 60s to the 80s with music scores.

Comment Re:Here's what happened (Score 1) 153

Saturn beat Playstation to the market with 3D. Launch titles games like Virtua Cop and Virtua Figher.

But those were Sega-published titles. As the AC said, there wasn't enough 3rd party content to make the platform that enticing to buyers.

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