The problem is that content producers want too much control over how and when I can watch a show. When they offer me a download link to a file I'll pay for it. The problem right now is that pirated versions of TV and movies are BETTER than what you can pay for. Hell, the subtitles are even better and more available too.
But you have to set it up BEFORE the show airs. Say you bump into a coworker on Monday who says he saw a great show the day before. You can't get it because you didn't know about it on and record it. It's ridiculous.
I haven't had cable for eight years. Haven't missed it one bit. The very idea of letting TV schedule when I can sit and watch is ridiculous. Same goes for a DVR, where you have to both know about a show before it airs and set up the DVR to record it. Netflix has a terrible selection here in Canada so I tried that for whatever the trial period was and then ditched it. Turns out I ALWAYS have better things to do than watch TV, and when I give in to the urge I just hit up a torrent site.
People don't want 'prints', unless you consider the odd set of fifty year olds getting married these days. People want to post images online. They want to create their own derivative works - like turning some into B&W.
McDonalds has plenty of chefs that create their menu items. If you invent the McHaggis you don't get paid for every single McHaggis sold. You probably get your salary and that's it. Any chef could have created that same McHaggis but it takes an entire industry of people to market it, source the ingredients, manage the company, train the minimum wagers how to nuke it in a microwave, etc. So NO, the inventor of the Big Mac shouldn't be paid simply because they 'invented' a damn hamburger.
It turns out that for the vast majority of tasks a 2D remote camera is just fine and controlling it with a mouse or keyboard is ok too. There are very few tasks where the added cost of a 3D head mounted display with a head tracker is worth it.
Maybe they'd developed the tool and wanted to use it. It's faster and easier than asking MySpace to go digging through their logs, and they got some experience using the technique.
A guy running a one man shop selling foam hassled me when I wouldn't give him my name, address, and phone number for a $10 piece of foam. He actually said, "what are you worried about the FBI or something?", and this was in Canada. I started to walk away, leaving him with the unsellable piece of foam he already cut for me, and he wised up and suddenly figured out how to process the payment in whatever shit POS system he was using. In short, merchants are complete idiots when it comes to stuff like this.
Ads, even full top quality HD, load up just fine. Then when your video is actually supposed to play you just get that stupid waiting symbol. Then the video starts to play and just as it's getting to a good part it pauses while it loads again then rapidly skips the part you actually wanted to see. Maybe, just maybe, YouTube could make their site not suck before asking people to pay for it.
We have NFC enabled devices at retailers everywhere here in Canada yet Google Wallet only works in the US. Seems they have given up on the idea entirely.
This is just an easy way to install software without much popping up on the screen to alert the users. I wonder how long it'll be before reports of infections using this installation method. What we really want is someone typing Install-Package Chrom and getting infected because of a typo.
We must have the option of turning this stuff off. Google already does a fantastic job of keeping spam out of my inbox, and I unsubscribe from bulk emails I don't want. The result is that I get only a couple emails per day. I don't need fancy features to organize them as I just use search to find what I want. I'm sure this will help people with email clutter problems but I just like it the way it currently is. So please let me turn it off, just like Gmail's last attempt at automatic sorting.
So is it illegal to own counterfeit products or only to sell them? For example, if you have a fake Gucci handbag can a Gucci employee come up to you with a can of spray-paint and spray it to ruin it? Or if you took it to a legit store and they discovered it was counterfeit could they do the same thing? I'm thinking this steps way way over the line of what they're allowed to do to stop counterfeiting and they're going to get their asses sued big-time.
They also list their dispatch numbers. That's what you call when you want to report a non-emergency. For example, I called it to report a completely wasted drunk lady causing a disturbance. Not quite enough to call 911 but I wanted to report her before she wandered into traffic.
People accept these when it's expected. When a UAC prompt comes up when opening a PowerPoint presentation downloaded off the internet I think even most casual users will wake up and cancel the request... unless it's my sister-in-law. She'll install anything.
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A man with one watch always knows what time it is.
A man with two watches is never sure.
A man with two watches out of sync is an idiot.
The problem is that content producers want too much control over how and when I can watch a show. When they offer me a download link to a file I'll pay for it. The problem right now is that pirated versions of TV and movies are BETTER than what you can pay for. Hell, the subtitles are even better and more available too.
Apple TV. Non-HD. MKV is a 'weird container'. My sarcasm meter is going off.
The point is that you're constantly missing stuff that you've payed for, even with a DVR.
It costs more and has lower selection and usability than ThePirateBay.
But you have to set it up BEFORE the show airs. Say you bump into a coworker on Monday who says he saw a great show the day before. You can't get it because you didn't know about it on and record it. It's ridiculous.
I haven't had cable for eight years. Haven't missed it one bit. The very idea of letting TV schedule when I can sit and watch is ridiculous. Same goes for a DVR, where you have to both know about a show before it airs and set up the DVR to record it. Netflix has a terrible selection here in Canada so I tried that for whatever the trial period was and then ditched it. Turns out I ALWAYS have better things to do than watch TV, and when I give in to the urge I just hit up a torrent site.
And when you need more printing medium it's cheaper to just buy an entirely new printer rather than a new cartridge.
People don't want 'prints', unless you consider the odd set of fifty year olds getting married these days. People want to post images online. They want to create their own derivative works - like turning some into B&W.
McDonalds has plenty of chefs that create their menu items. If you invent the McHaggis you don't get paid for every single McHaggis sold. You probably get your salary and that's it. Any chef could have created that same McHaggis but it takes an entire industry of people to market it, source the ingredients, manage the company, train the minimum wagers how to nuke it in a microwave, etc. So NO, the inventor of the Big Mac shouldn't be paid simply because they 'invented' a damn hamburger.
It turns out that for the vast majority of tasks a 2D remote camera is just fine and controlling it with a mouse or keyboard is ok too. There are very few tasks where the added cost of a 3D head mounted display with a head tracker is worth it.
Maybe they'd developed the tool and wanted to use it. It's faster and easier than asking MySpace to go digging through their logs, and they got some experience using the technique.
A guy running a one man shop selling foam hassled me when I wouldn't give him my name, address, and phone number for a $10 piece of foam. He actually said, "what are you worried about the FBI or something?", and this was in Canada. I started to walk away, leaving him with the unsellable piece of foam he already cut for me, and he wised up and suddenly figured out how to process the payment in whatever shit POS system he was using. In short, merchants are complete idiots when it comes to stuff like this.
The actual people who came up with the characters sold them for money.
Ads, even full top quality HD, load up just fine. Then when your video is actually supposed to play you just get that stupid waiting symbol. Then the video starts to play and just as it's getting to a good part it pauses while it loads again then rapidly skips the part you actually wanted to see. Maybe, just maybe, YouTube could make their site not suck before asking people to pay for it.
We have NFC enabled devices at retailers everywhere here in Canada yet Google Wallet only works in the US. Seems they have given up on the idea entirely.
This is just an easy way to install software without much popping up on the screen to alert the users. I wonder how long it'll be before reports of infections using this installation method. What we really want is someone typing Install-Package Chrom and getting infected because of a typo.
It's fashionable to complain about the replaced start menu in Win 8. It isn't a big deal. It has never been a big deal.
Buy a computer because you like the shape of the case. It's how you guarantee quality.
Judging by one of my coworkers I'd say it was still going on around sixty years ago.
We must have the option of turning this stuff off. Google already does a fantastic job of keeping spam out of my inbox, and I unsubscribe from bulk emails I don't want. The result is that I get only a couple emails per day. I don't need fancy features to organize them as I just use search to find what I want. I'm sure this will help people with email clutter problems but I just like it the way it currently is. So please let me turn it off, just like Gmail's last attempt at automatic sorting.
So is it illegal to own counterfeit products or only to sell them? For example, if you have a fake Gucci handbag can a Gucci employee come up to you with a can of spray-paint and spray it to ruin it? Or if you took it to a legit store and they discovered it was counterfeit could they do the same thing? I'm thinking this steps way way over the line of what they're allowed to do to stop counterfeiting and they're going to get their asses sued big-time.
They also list their dispatch numbers. That's what you call when you want to report a non-emergency. For example, I called it to report a completely wasted drunk lady causing a disturbance. Not quite enough to call 911 but I wanted to report her before she wandered into traffic.
That's just about the most ridiculous thing I've heard here in a while.
People accept these when it's expected. When a UAC prompt comes up when opening a PowerPoint presentation downloaded off the internet I think even most casual users will wake up and cancel the request... unless it's my sister-in-law. She'll install anything.