Generally it phones back to the Tivo service to get the updates to TV schedules. That's an important feature because Tivo can track your show even when it moves to a different time slot. Remember when people used to subscribe to TV-Guide and other television guides, it's the same concept. Of course, some of that fee goes back into profits as well. With my satellite+Tivo solution the fee was just another monthly fee tack on for the satellite, similar to how cable companies charge you a fee for their set top boxes and such.
The CBS service is pretty crappy though. Watch 5 episodes of your favorite show for free on your computer, or if you pay the subscription you get to see 7(!) episodes for free on your computer! Meanwhile with netflix you can get all episodes of all past seasons at once.
I think the technology is still very useful. The Tivo for me was vastly more user friendly than any other alternative; better the DVD players; better than streaming; etc. I think a combination of streaming+DVR is a good idea; stream during off-peak hours is more efficient than everyone trying to stream at 7-8pm, then stick it on the DVR to watch later. If the stream is slow or spotty it still manages to download and be ready to watch at the resolution you want. Also you can rewind a bit or rewatch later without sucking up even more bandwidth. Use slow motion for sports, etc.
Of course, media companies would hate that. They are amazingly paranoid that someone's going to pirate something, watch it in the wrong country, show it to two people at the same time, etc. DRM would be up the wazoo and they'd sue the hell out of any such idea. Meanwhile I think far too many people who stream think it's better to just have more and more bandwidth and more and more speed rather than consider that bandwidth can be conserved instead.
That's up to the states. I don't think there is any federal funding for party primaries. Some states have caucuses, so there's no expensive ballot printing. In other states there is already an ongoing election so the primary is just a relatively small additional expense (ie, the ballot boxes, voting machines, poll workers, and the like will be there whether or not there is a primary).
Nationalism is not a left/right concept. It's a good thing when done right, but a bad thing when done wrong. It's what gave much of Europe its borders. Good when the random germanic states decided to unify as a country, or when the Baltic regions figured they could kick out the Tsars, but bad when Napoleon decided he could sweep across the world.
Hitler wasn't socialist. He claimed that title because early on it got some votes, but never did he or his party have any kind of socialist ideas or policies.
And this probably explains why this whole idea was probably dreamed up by an intern who was at Google but didn't know how to program (and full of himself because he was at Google). Google campus is all about having people with no domain knowledge come up with wacky ideas that make no sense to the experts (technical term for this is "disruption").
Microsoft's strategy now is to copy everyone else in vains hopes to make something work. Cortana is a crude mixture of Siri and the much hated Google search bar what would install itself on your browser when you weren't looking. Why? Monetization. The only thing they care about their users anymore is monetization.
The Metro style apps, a vain attempt to strike it rich in the apps store market (like very other wannabe developer on the planet who thinks apps will help with early retirement). A microsoft ID, a vain attempt to spy on what their customers are doing and buying. Customers start to move towards phones and tablets and Microsoft stupidly decides to switch everything to a touch screen oriented device and fails badly; fires the VP in charge of that and replaces him with the moron that gave us Windows 10. In desparation they decide to surreptitiously install Windows 10 on computers when no one is looking.
Does Edge support plug-ins, like adblock and noscript? If not then it's a broken browser.
And what problems in Windows 8.1 are fixed? That's what I'm running and it fixed stuff in Win8. I don't care about the stupid start menu anymore, I learned to live wihtout it and I don't want a stupid wannabe start menu that shows Metro apps.
What about all the problems and misfeatures that Windows 10 added? Cortana, pure idiocy (hey, if we copy Siri badly we can be rich too!). Forced acceptance of all upgrades, idiocy. A giant string of registry hacks and control panel settings to make the thing play nice with telemetry, spying, advertising, peer-to-peer sharing of updates, sharing wifi passwords, etc, it's all idiocy. Not to mention the militant marketing campaign to dupe people into getting Windows 10.
That's for music buying, whereas itunes the application is for music playing and ipod syncing that just happens to have a buying function attached (kinda dumb since the web already exists).
MS got sued for it, and they ignored the lawsuit judgement until the punishment was effectively moot. Microsoft is not scare of something so puny as national governments.
No, it is very difficult to stamp down all uses of the Microsoft's Windows advertising. If you're smart, you can get the GWX stopper application. But you have to be on the ball and proactive all the time, and manually inspect each and every Windows update. Even then I found that there were Windows 10 download folders on my PC despite my heightened paranoia. So yes, go ahead and blame the local news reporter for not being savvy enough to prevent Microsoft's abusive marketing malware.
I have the GWX app to guard against this. And I have taken to monitoring ALL Windows updates instead of just accepting them. So I thought I was ok. I suspect that when I used the app to download a Windows 10 ISO for use only inside a VM image that it shoved something in the back door. So a couple days ago the computer was very sluggish after booting up in, with Firefox not responding. So I popped up task manager to look. I see this task hogging the disk, something with a name implying it's a Windows compatibility checker or such (I forget the exact name). So I kill it. Then I run GWX again and it shows that I have two hidden Windows 10 download folders. Of course I delete those.
What was amazing is that on the forum site discussing the particular.exe someone from Microsoft pops in and says "this is supposed to do , is this causing a problem for your computer?" Sort of a drive-by offer of IT help from Lucifer. Of course everyone on the forum says it is causing major problems. I've seen this sort of reponse from Microsoft many times, with a sort of implied notion that if it's not impacting your performance then you should not worry about anything happening on your PC.
Just try plugging in a USB-C cable to the back of a PC while crawling behind a desk and you're going to end up with a broken connector or cable. The analog jacks are used because the *work*.
I suspect the real reason for this moe is to get end-to-end DRM with audio the same way HDMI provides end-to-end DRM with video.
Nevertheless, the 5th amendment prohibits forcing someone to testify against him or herself. And providing a password is the same as providing evidence, which courts have said is the same as testifying. It does not matter if the accused is a pedophile, a murderer, a terrorist, or even a dirty commie, the constitution prohibits the courts and law enforcement from forcing the testimony out of the accused.
But what if the order itself is not valid? That's what I think the problem here is. The judges are too quick to kowtow to the feds whenever they say "All Writs Act", and if one of them refuses the order on the grounds of the 5th Amendment then the feds just go shopping for a more pliable judge.
It's a very shady legal process. The 5th amendment prohibits compelling people from testifying against themselves. So to get around that prohibition they attack from the sides, turn it into a contempt of court ruling instead to compel you to testify. Of course law enforcement will claim it's not testimony, but it really is. People are thrown into jail without due process and without even being charged with any crime, this is obviously a perversion of the constitutional protections that any moron could see.
This sort of thing needs to get to the supreme court instead of being mired down with lower level judges who rubber stamp anything the feds ask for. It should not matter if this person really is guilty of crimes or not, there are procedures and laws that must be followed by law enforcement. Once they get their way that they can compel evidence from one person they'll be able to compel it from anyone. But because the magic words "child pornography" are used most of the public opinion sides with law enforcement in their crusade to remove civic rights.
But most Windows applications do that. It's no worse than Firefox, certainly better than anything in MS Office, etc. Bloatware is the standard design paradigm for the PC. Doesn't bother me since I don't use it often; update the podcasts and sync to the ipod, and occasionally use it in the background, but it's off all the other time. I'm not addicted to having music on all the time.
I use it on a PC. It's ok. Better than Windows Media Player and Winamp. But I don't use all the features. I dont' buy music online. So it just has to be a music player (easy peasy, anything can do that), it has to sync with my ipod, and it has to at least manage podcasts in a sane manner. It used to put podcasts into a special playlist but after awhile it stopped doing that which makes trying to find them when I'm driving a challenge, and that's the only major flaw I have with it.
Never liked Winamp. I don't want something that spends so much time trying to look cool and edgy with lots of "skins". That's stupid, it should look like a Windows application if it is running on Windows, not try to break new and untested grounds on UI design.
I don't use the store and never will. But I use the application. It's ok, not great but not terrible. It does the job, no better or worse than any competitor. All it has to do is manage podcasts, show me a list of music, and sync to my ipod.
It's real problem is that it completely redesigns itself all the time, so I refuse to update it for months or years at a time because I have to learn how to use it all over again every time I do update it. Plus it keeps pushing for other Apple products when it wants to upgrade.
But as for being huge, bloated, or whatever, then that means it is a typical Windows application. Why switch to something else which is going to be exactly the same? It's certainly better than the Windows Media Player crap.
This is because both parties are piggy backing on the elections. The primaries are NOT only about the parties, there are real ballot measures, candidates for real office to be decided, and so forth. Part of making the party elections a part of public elections was an attempt in the past to reduce the power of party bosses (if you think it's rigged today, it's nothing compared to the past). Ultimately each state gets to decide though and the party bosses still have some power.
Consider states which have a caucus system. This requires you to go out of your way to get involved in choosing party delegates. You don't just vote on your way to work in the morning, you've got to spend a significant amount of time at it, you're discussing (and arguing) with others, and you're often also deciding on much more than a mere presidential candidate but working out plans for what to do at the convention (what parts of the platform to change, choosing local candidates, party leaders, etc).
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Generally it phones back to the Tivo service to get the updates to TV schedules. That's an important feature because Tivo can track your show even when it moves to a different time slot. Remember when people used to subscribe to TV-Guide and other television guides, it's the same concept. Of course, some of that fee goes back into profits as well. With my satellite+Tivo solution the fee was just another monthly fee tack on for the satellite, similar to how cable companies charge you a fee for their set top boxes and such.
The CBS service is pretty crappy though. Watch 5 episodes of your favorite show for free on your computer, or if you pay the subscription you get to see 7(!) episodes for free on your computer! Meanwhile with netflix you can get all episodes of all past seasons at once.
I think the technology is still very useful. The Tivo for me was vastly more user friendly than any other alternative; better the DVD players; better than streaming; etc. I think a combination of streaming+DVR is a good idea; stream during off-peak hours is more efficient than everyone trying to stream at 7-8pm, then stick it on the DVR to watch later. If the stream is slow or spotty it still manages to download and be ready to watch at the resolution you want. Also you can rewind a bit or rewatch later without sucking up even more bandwidth. Use slow motion for sports, etc.
Of course, media companies would hate that. They are amazingly paranoid that someone's going to pirate something, watch it in the wrong country, show it to two people at the same time, etc. DRM would be up the wazoo and they'd sue the hell out of any such idea. Meanwhile I think far too many people who stream think it's better to just have more and more bandwidth and more and more speed rather than consider that bandwidth can be conserved instead.
That's up to the states. I don't think there is any federal funding for party primaries. Some states have caucuses, so there's no expensive ballot printing. In other states there is already an ongoing election so the primary is just a relatively small additional expense (ie, the ballot boxes, voting machines, poll workers, and the like will be there whether or not there is a primary).
Nationalism is not a left/right concept. It's a good thing when done right, but a bad thing when done wrong. It's what gave much of Europe its borders. Good when the random germanic states decided to unify as a country, or when the Baltic regions figured they could kick out the Tsars, but bad when Napoleon decided he could sweep across the world.
Hitler wasn't socialist. He claimed that title because early on it got some votes, but never did he or his party have any kind of socialist ideas or policies.
"Google, make my router prioritize my chromecast above everything else. "
"Hey, why did all the lights in the neighborhood go out?"
And this probably explains why this whole idea was probably dreamed up by an intern who was at Google but didn't know how to program (and full of himself because he was at Google). Google campus is all about having people with no domain knowledge come up with wacky ideas that make no sense to the experts (technical term for this is "disruption").
Microsoft's strategy now is to copy everyone else in vains hopes to make something work. Cortana is a crude mixture of Siri and the much hated Google search bar what would install itself on your browser when you weren't looking. Why? Monetization. The only thing they care about their users anymore is monetization.
The Metro style apps, a vain attempt to strike it rich in the apps store market (like very other wannabe developer on the planet who thinks apps will help with early retirement). A microsoft ID, a vain attempt to spy on what their customers are doing and buying. Customers start to move towards phones and tablets and Microsoft stupidly decides to switch everything to a touch screen oriented device and fails badly; fires the VP in charge of that and replaces him with the moron that gave us Windows 10. In desparation they decide to surreptitiously install Windows 10 on computers when no one is looking.
Does Edge support plug-ins, like adblock and noscript? If not then it's a broken browser.
And what problems in Windows 8.1 are fixed? That's what I'm running and it fixed stuff in Win8. I don't care about the stupid start menu anymore, I learned to live wihtout it and I don't want a stupid wannabe start menu that shows Metro apps.
What about all the problems and misfeatures that Windows 10 added? Cortana, pure idiocy (hey, if we copy Siri badly we can be rich too!). Forced acceptance of all upgrades, idiocy. A giant string of registry hacks and control panel settings to make the thing play nice with telemetry, spying, advertising, peer-to-peer sharing of updates, sharing wifi passwords, etc, it's all idiocy. Not to mention the militant marketing campaign to dupe people into getting Windows 10.
Breaking local search is not a problem.
Only for people dumb enough to use Cortana.
That's for music buying, whereas itunes the application is for music playing and ipod syncing that just happens to have a buying function attached (kinda dumb since the web already exists).
MS got sued for it, and they ignored the lawsuit judgement until the punishment was effectively moot. Microsoft is not scare of something so puny as national governments.
No, it is very difficult to stamp down all uses of the Microsoft's Windows advertising. If you're smart, you can get the GWX stopper application. But you have to be on the ball and proactive all the time, and manually inspect each and every Windows update. Even then I found that there were Windows 10 download folders on my PC despite my heightened paranoia. So yes, go ahead and blame the local news reporter for not being savvy enough to prevent Microsoft's abusive marketing malware.
I have the GWX app to guard against this. And I have taken to monitoring ALL Windows updates instead of just accepting them. So I thought I was ok. I suspect that when I used the app to download a Windows 10 ISO for use only inside a VM image that it shoved something in the back door. So a couple days ago the computer was very sluggish after booting up in, with Firefox not responding. So I popped up task manager to look. I see this task hogging the disk, something with a name implying it's a Windows compatibility checker or such (I forget the exact name). So I kill it. Then I run GWX again and it shows that I have two hidden Windows 10 download folders. Of course I delete those.
What was amazing is that on the forum site discussing the particular .exe someone from Microsoft pops in and says "this is supposed to do , is this causing a problem for your computer?" Sort of a drive-by offer of IT help from Lucifer. Of course everyone on the forum says it is causing major problems. I've seen this sort of reponse from Microsoft many times, with a sort of implied notion that if it's not impacting your performance then you should not worry about anything happening on your PC.
Just try plugging in a USB-C cable to the back of a PC while crawling behind a desk and you're going to end up with a broken connector or cable.
The analog jacks are used because the *work*.
I suspect the real reason for this moe is to get end-to-end DRM with audio the same way HDMI provides end-to-end DRM with video.
Nevertheless, the 5th amendment prohibits forcing someone to testify against him or herself. And providing a password is the same as providing evidence, which courts have said is the same as testifying. It does not matter if the accused is a pedophile, a murderer, a terrorist, or even a dirty commie, the constitution prohibits the courts and law enforcement from forcing the testimony out of the accused.
But what if the order itself is not valid? That's what I think the problem here is. The judges are too quick to kowtow to the feds whenever they say "All Writs Act", and if one of them refuses the order on the grounds of the 5th Amendment then the feds just go shopping for a more pliable judge.
It's a very shady legal process. The 5th amendment prohibits compelling people from testifying against themselves. So to get around that prohibition they attack from the sides, turn it into a contempt of court ruling instead to compel you to testify. Of course law enforcement will claim it's not testimony, but it really is. People are thrown into jail without due process and without even being charged with any crime, this is obviously a perversion of the constitutional protections that any moron could see.
This sort of thing needs to get to the supreme court instead of being mired down with lower level judges who rubber stamp anything the feds ask for. It should not matter if this person really is guilty of crimes or not, there are procedures and laws that must be followed by law enforcement. Once they get their way that they can compel evidence from one person they'll be able to compel it from anyone. But because the magic words "child pornography" are used most of the public opinion sides with law enforcement in their crusade to remove civic rights.
But most Windows applications do that. It's no worse than Firefox, certainly better than anything in MS Office, etc. Bloatware is the standard design paradigm for the PC. Doesn't bother me since I don't use it often; update the podcasts and sync to the ipod, and occasionally use it in the background, but it's off all the other time. I'm not addicted to having music on all the time.
I use it on a PC. It's ok. Better than Windows Media Player and Winamp. But I don't use all the features. I dont' buy music online. So it just has to be a music player (easy peasy, anything can do that), it has to sync with my ipod, and it has to at least manage podcasts in a sane manner. It used to put podcasts into a special playlist but after awhile it stopped doing that which makes trying to find them when I'm driving a challenge, and that's the only major flaw I have with it.
Never liked Winamp. I don't want something that spends so much time trying to look cool and edgy with lots of "skins". That's stupid, it should look like a Windows application if it is running on Windows, not try to break new and untested grounds on UI design.
I don't use the store and never will. But I use the application. It's ok, not great but not terrible. It does the job, no better or worse than any competitor. All it has to do is manage podcasts, show me a list of music, and sync to my ipod.
It's real problem is that it completely redesigns itself all the time, so I refuse to update it for months or years at a time because I have to learn how to use it all over again every time I do update it. Plus it keeps pushing for other Apple products when it wants to upgrade.
But as for being huge, bloated, or whatever, then that means it is a typical Windows application. Why switch to something else which is going to be exactly the same? It's certainly better than the Windows Media Player crap.
This is because both parties are piggy backing on the elections. The primaries are NOT only about the parties, there are real ballot measures, candidates for real office to be decided, and so forth. Part of making the party elections a part of public elections was an attempt in the past to reduce the power of party bosses (if you think it's rigged today, it's nothing compared to the past). Ultimately each state gets to decide though and the party bosses still have some power.
Consider states which have a caucus system. This requires you to go out of your way to get involved in choosing party delegates. You don't just vote on your way to work in the morning, you've got to spend a significant amount of time at it, you're discussing (and arguing) with others, and you're often also deciding on much more than a mere presidential candidate but working out plans for what to do at the convention (what parts of the platform to change, choosing local candidates, party leaders, etc).