"Producers who must grope for ways to measure the success of a given program and wonder if they're getting paid enough by the streaming service."
Gee, maybe you should get paid for the ACTUAL work that you do, and not how many people view it? Just a thought... This is why I can't stand the entertainment industry. Residuals should be outlawed. No one deserves to be paid for not doing actual work. They should be compensated well up-front, paid by the hour, just like the rest of us.
We desperately need a modern cashless currency system that is non-centralized and does not require merchants to hand over a significant percentage of their revenue for practically no benefit simply in order to compete. That is extortion. Is Bitcoin the answer? Maybe. Or something like it, backed by a traditional currency. But what we're doing now simply cannot go on. Cash is wasteful. Printing money is expensive, bad for the environment, and just a pain for everyone involved. Using it—lugging it around with you and having to collect it from a cash point—sucks. There simply must be a better way...
Of course! Why didn't they think of that? The REAL cause of congestion is everything that happens to annoy Joe Dragon in his personal commute! Brilliant!
Because of all the garbage gaming news, I had forgotten AMD even made CPUs! Typically most of what you see is about their GPUs since they bought out ATI. I would love to get off of Intel and back onto AMD, particularly with the management engine and other binary-only spyware Intel likes to sneak on to their products. I remember fondly my allegiance to them and the K7 CPU! inventing the amd64 wasn't half-bad either. I just wish they would have kept ATI separate so that I could tell the difference.
Local cloud servers are just...servers, right? I mean, how is this any different from what Microsoft (software-wise) has done since they launched NT? I don't get it. Obviously people can run their own servers. Are they just talking about some kind of management software on top of people's own hardware? Or are they actually providing the hardware as well? People would still be pretty crazy to risk putting their data on Microsoft products like this. I don't understand how they are even still in business.
They're talking about *personal* emails, right? Surely they aren't *that* incompetent that they're sending official communications over unencrypted email? PLEASE tell me they're not that stupid...
These visas are still arbitrarily limited to people with advanced degrees. They (generally) don't target the tech talent that actually knows what the fuck it's doing.
Why? Do you really not understand? Because other services have programmes people want to watch, that Netflix doesn't have. It's actually pretty simple.
I do agree with you, I have often wished for an original-programming-only option for HBO. I don't give a lick about their films, and I imagine the cost to license those must be quite high. But I also imagine it's just like the cable providers—they don't want to let people pick and choose what channels they get, because then they wouldn't be able to make as much money on either alone.
"Now, they'll be able to watch the show live or on-demand" Really? How is that any different from what people have been able to do with HBO Now all along? Hulu seems to be adding NO value to this equation. You still have to use their proprietary, DRM-ridden application. You have to pay the same price, plus have to pay for a shitty Hulu membership as well?
Is this is just to avoid having to use two different apps to watch programmes? That is actually an admirable goal, but implemented all wrong. There needs to be a standard for adding streaming service options to a single experience, such as add-ons to Kodi, so that everything is in one place, independent of each-other.
Oh well, I'm sure glad Hulu got a ton of free advertising out of this./s
Uh, yeah. Of course it's not "your own" if you don't run your own email server and have your own domain. How can anyone not understand this?
What Eastlink is doing is absolutely ridiculous, for sure. They are worried about people sending messages to a "noreply" address? Huh? Isn't that the whole point, that messages sent there won't receive a reply or even be looked at? And who would even think of manually typing in an address like that to send a message to? Unless they are using it as a from address for their own correspondence, in which case it would be entirely their fault. In that case, I think the customer would be entitled to file a complain t against Eastlink for potentially flooding his inbox with garbage!
Non-publicly-funded research should not even be considered or allowed in academia, unless full rights are granted by its creators. The whole practise needs to be blackballed in the scientific community, and barred from inclusion in any government consideration or testimony as well.
4. You just sound like a fucking idiot. You probably never download music you haven't paid for, either.
We need to organize a massive boycott of the ACS, and see chemists and others all across academia cancelling their memberships over this. If this disgusting organization isn't going to support science and scientists, they then can all go fuck themselves.
That makes no sense. It doesn't take into consideration materials cost. Something could be expertly designed and still only cost $1 and last 10 years, while something could be obscenely expensive and require regular maintenance after a month. There's just no point in trying to generalise things like this.
This is why social democracy cannot work as a long-term economic solution. As long as a free market remains, this kind of thing will never be more than a mere "suggestion" to manufacturers. Sure, they can try to incentivise it with tax breaks and other means, but ultimately, corporations are going to do what earns them the most money. Planned obsolescence is pretty much the entire business model of the mobile industry these days. I would love to see a change to this, but it's simply not possible until we move toward a more socialist system.
Right, because all Ukrainians are just one single entity, all equally responsible for the actions of any of their countrymen. What an idiotic thing to say.
Why is "M.E. Doc used by 80 percent of Ukrainian companies?" Since when is software a regional/national thing? It's not like those companies can't choose whatever accounting software they wish from anywhere in the world. How did this M.E. Doc establish such a monopoly in the country? It's bizarre, right? Is this some kind of Ukrainian-nationalism, where everyone only wants to support their own? (Yet they still choose to run Windows, which I'm sure has far fewer Ukrainian developers than any Linux-based operating system!) I really can't say that I feel bad for the individuals, but I feel bad for the country itself, since surely its economy doesn't need this kind of a blow right now.
Yelp hires sales people to bully restaurants into paying for advertising and other premium services on its network, threatening to essentially blackball them if they don't comply. It's really abhorrent behaviour. Google may be the big behemoth here, but as far as I know they have never pulled any of this kind of crap. Yelp is like Facebook—the customer is the product. They aren't actually interested in providing accurate, unbiased reviews. They are interested in selling advertising and mining people's data which they can then sell for profit. I liked and used Yelp in its early days, like most of us, but would highly suggest moving away from it now as much possible.
It's just hard to swallow how far behind these machines are technically. Why can't we get a major manufacturer behind us so we can get modern components? I can sacrifice a lot of things—even the slow, dual-core CPU doesn't bother me too much—but 8 GB of RAM is is simply not doable for me. Also the low resolution of all the displays is disappointing. Is there any reason that a manufacturer couldn't take one of these models that support LibreBoot and install a new, high-res LCD panel into them? That would be better than nothing!
Kaspersky Lab should show it's source code to *everyone*, not just the U.S. government. It's absurd to even contemplate relying on a security product for which the source code is not publicly available. This case should highlight how incredibly absurd it is that proprietary software still exists in our society.
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"Producers who must grope for ways to measure the success of a given program and wonder if they're getting paid enough by the streaming service."
Gee, maybe you should get paid for the ACTUAL work that you do, and not how many people view it? Just a thought... This is why I can't stand the entertainment industry. Residuals should be outlawed. No one deserves to be paid for not doing actual work. They should be compensated well up-front, paid by the hour, just like the rest of us.
We desperately need a modern cashless currency system that is non-centralized and does not require merchants to hand over a significant percentage of their revenue for practically no benefit simply in order to compete. That is extortion. Is Bitcoin the answer? Maybe. Or something like it, backed by a traditional currency. But what we're doing now simply cannot go on. Cash is wasteful. Printing money is expensive, bad for the environment, and just a pain for everyone involved. Using it—lugging it around with you and having to collect it from a cash point—sucks. There simply must be a better way...
Of course! Why didn't they think of that? The REAL cause of congestion is everything that happens to annoy Joe Dragon in his personal commute! Brilliant!
Because of all the garbage gaming news, I had forgotten AMD even made CPUs! Typically most of what you see is about their GPUs since they bought out ATI. I would love to get off of Intel and back onto AMD, particularly with the management engine and other binary-only spyware Intel likes to sneak on to their products. I remember fondly my allegiance to them and the K7 CPU! inventing the amd64 wasn't half-bad either. I just wish they would have kept ATI separate so that I could tell the difference.
Local cloud servers are just...servers, right? I mean, how is this any different from what Microsoft (software-wise) has done since they launched NT? I don't get it. Obviously people can run their own servers. Are they just talking about some kind of management software on top of people's own hardware? Or are they actually providing the hardware as well? People would still be pretty crazy to risk putting their data on Microsoft products like this. I don't understand how they are even still in business.
They're talking about *personal* emails, right? Surely they aren't *that* incompetent that they're sending official communications over unencrypted email? PLEASE tell me they're not that stupid...
These visas are still arbitrarily limited to people with advanced degrees. They (generally) don't target the tech talent that actually knows what the fuck it's doing.
Why? Do you really not understand? Because other services have programmes people want to watch, that Netflix doesn't have. It's actually pretty simple.
I do agree with you, I have often wished for an original-programming-only option for HBO. I don't give a lick about their films, and I imagine the cost to license those must be quite high. But I also imagine it's just like the cable providers—they don't want to let people pick and choose what channels they get, because then they wouldn't be able to make as much money on either alone.
"Now, they'll be able to watch the show live or on-demand" Really? How is that any different from what people have been able to do with HBO Now all along? Hulu seems to be adding NO value to this equation. You still have to use their proprietary, DRM-ridden application. You have to pay the same price, plus have to pay for a shitty Hulu membership as well?
Is this is just to avoid having to use two different apps to watch programmes? That is actually an admirable goal, but implemented all wrong. There needs to be a standard for adding streaming service options to a single experience, such as add-ons to Kodi, so that everything is in one place, independent of each-other.
Oh well, I'm sure glad Hulu got a ton of free advertising out of this. /s
There's something very ironic about these three companies joining an "open media" alliance, while they all rely on DRM *extensively*.
Uh, yeah. Of course it's not "your own" if you don't run your own email server and have your own domain. How can anyone not understand this?
What Eastlink is doing is absolutely ridiculous, for sure. They are worried about people sending messages to a "noreply" address? Huh? Isn't that the whole point, that messages sent there won't receive a reply or even be looked at? And who would even think of manually typing in an address like that to send a message to? Unless they are using it as a from address for their own correspondence, in which case it would be entirely their fault. In that case, I think the customer would be entitled to file a complain t against Eastlink for potentially flooding his inbox with garbage!
Non-publicly-funded research should not even be considered or allowed in academia, unless full rights are granted by its creators. The whole practise needs to be blackballed in the scientific community, and barred from inclusion in any government consideration or testimony as well.
4. You just sound like a fucking idiot. You probably never download music you haven't paid for, either.
We need to organize a massive boycott of the ACS, and see chemists and others all across academia cancelling their memberships over this. If this disgusting organization isn't going to support science and scientists, they then can all go fuck themselves.
Whatever version you choose to compile/install, presumably.
Who gives a shit about the *design* of their friggin' website? Seriously...get your priorities straight!
Dear god, who came up with that name?!?
Also, dollars are *not* a unit of weight, msmash.
At least then it *might* be worth its ridiculous, market-driven cost.
That makes no sense. It doesn't take into consideration materials cost. Something could be expertly designed and still only cost $1 and last 10 years, while something could be obscenely expensive and require regular maintenance after a month. There's just no point in trying to generalise things like this.
This is why social democracy cannot work as a long-term economic solution. As long as a free market remains, this kind of thing will never be more than a mere "suggestion" to manufacturers. Sure, they can try to incentivise it with tax breaks and other means, but ultimately, corporations are going to do what earns them the most money. Planned obsolescence is pretty much the entire business model of the mobile industry these days. I would love to see a change to this, but it's simply not possible until we move toward a more socialist system.
Right, because all Ukrainians are just one single entity, all equally responsible for the actions of any of their countrymen. What an idiotic thing to say.
Why is "M.E. Doc used by 80 percent of Ukrainian companies?" Since when is software a regional/national thing? It's not like those companies can't choose whatever accounting software they wish from anywhere in the world. How did this M.E. Doc establish such a monopoly in the country? It's bizarre, right? Is this some kind of Ukrainian-nationalism, where everyone only wants to support their own? (Yet they still choose to run Windows, which I'm sure has far fewer Ukrainian developers than any Linux-based operating system!) I really can't say that I feel bad for the individuals, but I feel bad for the country itself, since surely its economy doesn't need this kind of a blow right now.
Yelp hires sales people to bully restaurants into paying for advertising and other premium services on its network, threatening to essentially blackball them if they don't comply. It's really abhorrent behaviour. Google may be the big behemoth here, but as far as I know they have never pulled any of this kind of crap. Yelp is like Facebook—the customer is the product. They aren't actually interested in providing accurate, unbiased reviews. They are interested in selling advertising and mining people's data which they can then sell for profit. I liked and used Yelp in its early days, like most of us, but would highly suggest moving away from it now as much possible.
It's just hard to swallow how far behind these machines are technically. Why can't we get a major manufacturer behind us so we can get modern components? I can sacrifice a lot of things—even the slow, dual-core CPU doesn't bother me too much—but 8 GB of RAM is is simply not doable for me. Also the low resolution of all the displays is disappointing. Is there any reason that a manufacturer couldn't take one of these models that support LibreBoot and install a new, high-res LCD panel into them? That would be better than nothing!
Kaspersky Lab should show it's source code to *everyone*, not just the U.S. government. It's absurd to even contemplate relying on a security product for which the source code is not publicly available. This case should highlight how incredibly absurd it is that proprietary software still exists in our society.
My god, will you people ever shut the fuck up about systemd for one second?