I generate more paper waste every year from the amount of election and tax materials from the state than from the puny amount of receipts I guess. But this is typical politician fare - they have to do *something* so that during re-election they can say more than just what they voted for against.
Government jobs are not 135% higher than the equivalent in private industry. Though I do agree that government jobs are one of the last holdouts for having decent pension plans.
But where is the intellectual property problem here? You can legally, ethically, and morally claim that anybody or anything is your inspiration for creativity as long as you don't copy it or use their trademark. Netflix did not claim this was a "choose your own adventure" product in their marketing, they just said that choose-your-own-adventure was an inspiration.
People do use them. I can infer this because I see many of them just dumped at a random location. Not near a building entrance, not near a transit stop, but just dumped. The company will put out 5 or 6 in a row waiting for someone to use them, but that's not the same as one dumped into bushes or a gutter.
Some games have DX12 support, but most don't. And those that do have DX12 are new games, and new games aren't as good (just like Hollywood movies). The number of users who can tell the difference between a high quality DX11 and DX12 version of a game is not that large.
That's true. Even if the manufacturing cost is trival (add the "smart" module or not) the fact of having two SKUs will really make your manufacturing team bitch at you because of the extra cost on their end. Enough so that R&D ends up adding extra cost to avoid having multiple versions.
Hah, a microphone input, I can see major fails there when it's not understanding my neighbor and he keeps shouting to his television "Fast Forward To The Nude Scenes!"
They do have several Roku Smart TVs. Which, if you're going to get a smart TV, then that makes more sense than the typical half-assed solution most smart TVs have.
I don't see evidence of spying for me like I used to before I used adblock. Sure, Netflix knows what I watch but they are only advertising for their own services, and only with email and not while watching TV. I have not seen any other advertisements anywhere that seem to indicate that they know I'm a Netflix user much less what I'm watching on Netflix. I also keep my devices disconnected from each other as much as I can, I don't sync them with each other, etc. And I opt out as much as possible when given a choice. It really does help.
It's also a mental attitude. If you cut back on dessert but that's the only lifestyle change you make, are you really becoming health conscious? Similarly, if you're not worried about electricity usage of a television, are you also not worried about how much gasoline your car uses, or whether your themostat is set too high, or how many plastic bags you take home from the grocery store, or...?
Of you're getting electricity from solar power, then go for it. If you're sucking at the teat of a coal plant then maybe reducing your usage could be a good idea. There's more to the cost than just what comes out of your wallet.
If I drop $1000 on a television, you can slap me for wasting my money.
And the point of saving $10 is not about the cost to you, but the cost to the planet. Because someone who's saying "it's cheap, don't worry" is very likely to take that attitude everywhere in life and not just for the one television set. Once someone starts deciding to be responsible electricity usage, or where the food comes from, or reducing your carbon footprint, then that person starts paying attention about such things.
My TV either turns off normally, or it keeps a screen saver up 24/7. So turning it off makes sense. Also, just be a responsible person and stop it with all the instant-on devices with wall-warts everywhere. When I'm out of town I shut down my routers even, as those wall-warts get surprisingly hot.
And the people keeping these TVs on 24/7 are probably off buying a new one every few years anyway, your advice makes more sense if you want to keep the TV for 15-20 years (and my old non-digital television lasted roughly that long with the daily power cycle).
My dumb TV takes some time to turn on and boot up also. Not huge, but it's certainly longer than the old days of waiting for the tube to warm up. They're all digital now so there's an RTOS that needs booting up, a UI to initialize, and so forth.
What about Roku? Are they collecting and selling data on everything you watch, or do they let the apps do that instead? You can get those for $50. Amazon though I can see selling and reselling your data on every black site it knows of.
I think it's like a lot of advertising, they end up seriously overpricing the value of the end customer. Because if the eyeballs of one person watching a stupid ad is worth that much money they should be paying us. It's like the dotcom idiocy where companies collapsed because they thought advertising revenue was going to be so much higher than reality should have indicated. And selling data about what a customer watched for $200, that's just ridiculous; I will tell them what I watched for a fraction of that.
The money that goes to a advertiser is just a small fraction of a product's profit margin. And selling customer data isn't even advertising yet, it's just data that an advertiser might use. So that should be a fraction of the fraction that advertisers get. The fraction that a television maker should get for collecting the data should logically be so low that they don't bother with it. It should cost more to hire people to manage the data than they make from the data. In a logical world that is, which is why I think a lot of companies have mistakenly misplaced some decimal points. Time for the next advertising dotcom bubble to pop?
It's a region of flash that by default can't be easily modified without getting root access. When these apps are updated you get a new copy of the app but the original one still exists and will resurface if you do a full system reset.
That's one thing that really surprised me about the election. There was plenty of valid dirt to lodge against HRC and yet poeple kept making up stuff. It was like they wanted to get involved in promoting their candidate but without any of the burden of researching to understand the issues or candidates. And it happens on the other side as well of course.
Politics has stopped being about a discussion about who has the best ideas, but instead today is about who can come up with the best insults against the other side. Thus the rise of the political "meme", which is all about making something funny rather than true.
Not just gerrymandering. For senate, each state gets 2 senators regardless of population. But I don't mind if the house and senate are from different parties, since that requires them to actually learn to cooperate and compromise to get stuff done.
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I generate more paper waste every year from the amount of election and tax materials from the state than from the puny amount of receipts I guess. But this is typical politician fare - they have to do *something* so that during re-election they can say more than just what they voted for against.
Government jobs are not 135% higher than the equivalent in private industry. Though I do agree that government jobs are one of the last holdouts for having decent pension plans.
But where is the intellectual property problem here? You can legally, ethically, and morally claim that anybody or anything is your inspiration for creativity as long as you don't copy it or use their trademark. Netflix did not claim this was a "choose your own adventure" product in their marketing, they just said that choose-your-own-adventure was an inspiration.
Well I think the sort of customer who might want this sort of thing is already wasting money on uber instead.
People do use them. I can infer this because I see many of them just dumped at a random location. Not near a building entrance, not near a transit stop, but just dumped. The company will put out 5 or 6 in a row waiting for someone to use them, but that's not the same as one dumped into bushes or a gutter.
They could get these scooters back far more cheaply if they just paid the impound fees early.
Some games have DX12 support, but most don't. And those that do have DX12 are new games, and new games aren't as good (just like Hollywood movies). The number of users who can tell the difference between a high quality DX11 and DX12 version of a game is not that large.
That's true. Even if the manufacturing cost is trival (add the "smart" module or not) the fact of having two SKUs will really make your manufacturing team bitch at you because of the extra cost on their end. Enough so that R&D ends up adding extra cost to avoid having multiple versions.
If the answer starts that way, it means that the speaker is glad of the opportunity to provide a canned answer.
Anybody with open wifi in their home is probably the sort who's not too concerned about privacy...
Hah, a microphone input, I can see major fails there when it's not understanding my neighbor and he keeps shouting to his television "Fast Forward To The Nude Scenes!"
They do have several Roku Smart TVs. Which, if you're going to get a smart TV, then that makes more sense than the typical half-assed solution most smart TVs have.
I don't see evidence of spying for me like I used to before I used adblock. Sure, Netflix knows what I watch but they are only advertising for their own services, and only with email and not while watching TV. I have not seen any other advertisements anywhere that seem to indicate that they know I'm a Netflix user much less what I'm watching on Netflix. I also keep my devices disconnected from each other as much as I can, I don't sync them with each other, etc. And I opt out as much as possible when given a choice. It really does help.
It's also a mental attitude. If you cut back on dessert but that's the only lifestyle change you make, are you really becoming health conscious? Similarly, if you're not worried about electricity usage of a television, are you also not worried about how much gasoline your car uses, or whether your themostat is set too high, or how many plastic bags you take home from the grocery store, or...?
Of you're getting electricity from solar power, then go for it. If you're sucking at the teat of a coal plant then maybe reducing your usage could be a good idea. There's more to the cost than just what comes out of your wallet.
If I drop $1000 on a television, you can slap me for wasting my money.
And the point of saving $10 is not about the cost to you, but the cost to the planet. Because someone who's saying "it's cheap, don't worry" is very likely to take that attitude everywhere in life and not just for the one television set. Once someone starts deciding to be responsible electricity usage, or where the food comes from, or reducing your carbon footprint, then that person starts paying attention about such things.
My TV either turns off normally, or it keeps a screen saver up 24/7. So turning it off makes sense. Also, just be a responsible person and stop it with all the instant-on devices with wall-warts everywhere. When I'm out of town I shut down my routers even, as those wall-warts get surprisingly hot.
And the people keeping these TVs on 24/7 are probably off buying a new one every few years anyway, your advice makes more sense if you want to keep the TV for 15-20 years (and my old non-digital television lasted roughly that long with the daily power cycle).
Waste of electricity to do that.
My dumb TV takes some time to turn on and boot up also. Not huge, but it's certainly longer than the old days of waiting for the tube to warm up. They're all digital now so there's an RTOS that needs booting up, a UI to initialize, and so forth.
What about Roku? Are they collecting and selling data on everything you watch, or do they let the apps do that instead? You can get those for $50. Amazon though I can see selling and reselling your data on every black site it knows of.
I think it's like a lot of advertising, they end up seriously overpricing the value of the end customer. Because if the eyeballs of one person watching a stupid ad is worth that much money they should be paying us. It's like the dotcom idiocy where companies collapsed because they thought advertising revenue was going to be so much higher than reality should have indicated. And selling data about what a customer watched for $200, that's just ridiculous; I will tell them what I watched for a fraction of that.
The money that goes to a advertiser is just a small fraction of a product's profit margin. And selling customer data isn't even advertising yet, it's just data that an advertiser might use. So that should be a fraction of the fraction that advertisers get. The fraction that a television maker should get for collecting the data should logically be so low that they don't bother with it. It should cost more to hire people to manage the data than they make from the data. In a logical world that is, which is why I think a lot of companies have mistakenly misplaced some decimal points. Time for the next advertising dotcom bubble to pop?
It's a region of flash that by default can't be easily modified without getting root access. When these apps are updated you get a new copy of the app but the original one still exists and will resurface if you do a full system reset.
That's one thing that really surprised me about the election. There was plenty of valid dirt to lodge against HRC and yet poeple kept making up stuff. It was like they wanted to get involved in promoting their candidate but without any of the burden of researching to understand the issues or candidates. And it happens on the other side as well of course.
Politics has stopped being about a discussion about who has the best ideas, but instead today is about who can come up with the best insults against the other side. Thus the rise of the political "meme", which is all about making something funny rather than true.
Not just gerrymandering. For senate, each state gets 2 senators regardless of population. But I don't mind if the house and senate are from different parties, since that requires them to actually learn to cooperate and compromise to get stuff done.