People were not born voluntarily, once alive we mostly don't die voluntarily. We won't stop voluntarily because it would be akin to dying voluntarily. We have to accept the fact that we are not in fact the Borg, we don't have one hive mind.
of a slightly shittier country.
I have never heard of Vine, but it sounds like Tiktok in much much worse. And since it comes from Dorsey, it's safe to assume it's gonna be shit.
I could not for example run MFS, DCS or Elite.
Have you watched the release video, or are you just shooting from the hip?
The problem is untethered VR in the real world means shit graphics, shit battery life and a bulky HMD that generates more heat than the sun.
You have not watched the release announcement. Even if, for the sake of argument, you are correct in your claims, it would be massively incorrect to judge the Frame by those past experiences, assuming Valve's claims are even partially accurate (there is every reason to believe they are completely true). Valve has seen all the complaints about all prior headsets, and addressed the all.
I can't think of a sci-fi series that's more polarizing than this one in recent memory?
Even in my own group of friends, it runs about 50/50 that people either loved Alien Earth, or they thought it was trash.
I watched it because of a high recommendation from one guy I know, and tried to give it a chance. I had to stop after a few episodes. It was just painfully awful, IMO. I mean, sure - lots of money was poured into good special F/X and it's the creatures we all know from the long-running franchise. But the story line and characters were ridiculous.
I mean, sure -- let's take a bunch of kids and immediately throw them into harm's way, doing "save the planet" stuff! And "Boy Kavalier" is a bad caricature of just about every tech CEO in modern times that people like to poke fun at. Except even more over-the-top with his "poor me
The thing is though? I *do* get the points people raise in favor of it. The concept had "legs" in the sense there's potential in the idea you have competing corporations with different approaches to "improving humanity" and it creates a dynamic of tensions between your cyborgs vs your hybrids or synths. It's just that to me, it felt like they took those great ideas and squandered them.
Actually most of those house are now occupied. The "train stations to nowhere", supposedly an indicator of the imminent collapse of their economy, are now surrounded by industries and towns.
No they're not. You're exaggerating. The majority of these developments are still empty. China's declining birth rates coupled with the increased mortality from COVID have thrown in a monkey wrench into their planning. Up to 80 million units are still empty, with slim prospects for ever being bought or even used as social housing. Most of them are just crumbling ruins at this point. Even where people have moved in (often with heavy government subsidies, essentially turning units into an eastern Section 8 housing project), occupancy is still under 10%. They simply built too many units, and there aren't enough people to live in them. Some developments are being reclaimed for agriculture, with farmers grazing livestock and plowing fields on the strips of land between crumbing concrete structures.
Of course they all support side loading and alternative app stores, so you aren't locked in to Google Play/Apple Store.
For now. Goggle is trying to lock down the sideloading and the play store.
Probably for less than what this will cost.
Maybe, and maybe not. But it WILL be locked down all to Hell, and will be stuffed to the gills with crapware and spyware. The Steam Machine will not. My next living room PC will definitely be a Steam Machine. The form-factor and openness have me sold.
Judge: Why don't you want to turn over the chat logs?
OpenAI: Because it's devastating to our case!
All I want in an HMD is something that...plugs into the GPU in the back of a PC.
You are definitely in the terribly small minority of VR players who want wires on their VR headset. Tethered VR is dead, and has been for quite a while. Unwired VR is what 99.9999999% of players want.
The Steam Frame is a Quest-killer, and has tons of potential to which no other VR headset even comes close. I expect to see a firesale on used Quest 3s once the Frame hits the market, if the Frame is price-competitive with the Quest 3.
This concerns me from the standpoint of using FireSticks for TV signage purposes.
Our workplace uses the "ScreenCloud" software to turn a number of our TVs around our offices into digital sign-boards displaying things like employee birthdays and general office news, calendar info, etc.
We already had issues where Amazon decided to lock down a newer model of FireStick to the point the ScreenCloud app refused to run on it anymore. At first, the makers of ScreenCloud expected us to "root" each FireStick and do a bunch of steps to it in "developer mode" so their app could keep working on one. Then, Amazon locked them out of even that work-around. It seems the two companies got together at that point, and the result was a requirement we buy some more pricey variant of the same FireStick that's designed just for use with ScreenCloud!
You're using a keyboard! How quaint!
