the hour thing is just to incentivize you to buy and brings no real warranty
The hour thing is based on when the truck leaves and what warehouse the item will ship from. I mean sure, it may not be 100% accurate, but it's not arbitrary.
Some of my friends were doing this shit back in the 80s on their answering machines and voicemail cards.
This audio plays before the callee picks up on the remote network (and it's not detected as a pickup by the networks either). Instead of the normal ringing tone you hear when you call someone (440 and 480 Hz together), you hear a recorded song instead.
Windows 10 is the same codebase with just a few UI changes here and there. There might be a few new vulnerabilities, but of the vulnerabilities that are found lately most affect Windows versions as far back as XP.
No kidding. Especially if you're trying to run commercial-grade audio production software. Windows 7 doesn't mean a thing for security unless it's the original release without updates.
nor do I want to believe that any boot up wait time in any future device is a valid argument.
Good. You agree with the upthread comment on the end goal. The easiest solution is to not have a boot-up process at all. Makes for a very secure, unhackable device too.
And I used to remember when my parents TV would have to warm up before showing a picture.
That's an older design that didn't use standby power. Newer CRT's trickled voltage into the capacitor to reduce the wait time.
In the greater scheme of things, we've become far more efficient than we used to
And you want to reverse course? How do you think we got there? The main reason the CRT used 10 times the power was the standby power required to keep the high-voltage capacitor ready.
I know a number of working families with one income that earn enough to live just fine.
False equivalence. That's not what I said (that a living family wage = exactly 2 full-time wages). I never said that it can't be done on one income, just that inflation has risen to match the increased supply of income.
Group childcare before school age is much less expensive than full time employment (except at minimum wage) and automation has reduced the workload of domestic chores to almost nothing.
Dual-income households only served to inflate the number hours needed to make a living family wage (to nearly double). All this new wave will do is halve the number of employable people, and the remaining will barely get by.
there will be one poor chap working 16 hours a day for 6 days a week for a minimum wage No, there'll be two of them working 8 hours a day, 3 days a week at two different jobs. Full time employees generally expect benefits.
It was a phrase that sounded so good that it continued to be used for things that never had knobs. At the time the phrase came about, it referred to controlling the flow of a lot of things (gas, water, etc). And then, turning on lights was a physical act.
When lights went electrical, the phrase continued to be used. However, controlling the flow of electricity was also called "turning on" and "turning off." So you could argue it came from either/or just as well as you can argue that it came from both/and.
And even when referring to it as controlling the flow of electricity, that's anachronistic too. Neither act literally involves turning, with a few exceptions.
I guess concurrent release would be a better word. They don't release any sooner/later than the main network with rights in a lot of their distribution deals.
I don't know where you're going with DVDs. This is not how Netflix acquires the source material for their stream. They usually use badly beat up secondhand Betacam SP or Digital Betacam tapes for most HD shows. How do I know? Because when watching some less popular streaming shows, the picture sometimes drops out to a blue screen with a "no signal" type error message.
In fact, lots of networks released shows on a weekly basis to Netflix (at least for distribution outside the US). Netflix would prefer to drop them all at the start, but the original network still wants to be premiering them before anyone anywhere is talking about the episodes. A couple of examples are Riverdale and Better Call Saul.
Why does it matter? I still "dial" my phone, despite not having seen a rotary phone since the 80's. I "turn on" the lights, despite not having an oil lamp. We still include floppy icons to mean "save" - even when half the people alive have never touched a floppy disk.
Obscurity has nothing to do with access. They're well known. And their release pretty much defines the earliest date anyone else will have their hands on it. Netflix tends to go for simultaneous release - even when they're not the primary producer. So it is likely you'll see that.
That won't go over very well... But if the pilot's good, I'll catch it when it makes it to Prime or Netflix in the US maybe 5 years from now. I'm in no rush.
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No - they got sellers to sign on to this. Which is fine with the bigger sellers that would sign on. Lower profit beats a lost sale any day for them.
the hour thing is just to incentivize you to buy and brings no real warranty
The hour thing is based on when the truck leaves and what warehouse the item will ship from. I mean sure, it may not be 100% accurate, but it's not arbitrary.
Some of my friends were doing this shit back in the 80s on their answering machines and voicemail cards.
This audio plays before the callee picks up on the remote network (and it's not detected as a pickup by the networks either). Instead of the normal ringing tone you hear when you call someone (440 and 480 Hz together), you hear a recorded song instead.
Yeah, because that's what's wrong with this article.
Windows 10 is the same codebase with just a few UI changes here and there. There might be a few new vulnerabilities, but of the vulnerabilities that are found lately most affect Windows versions as far back as XP.
Never attribute to malice....Look, have you seen the editing on this site lately? This article is from Variety.
I guess MS will be going out of Business since I will never advise any of my Clients to use Windows
You just go ahead and keep thinking you drive the market. Isn't that special.
No kidding. Especially if you're trying to run commercial-grade audio production software. Windows 7 doesn't mean a thing for security unless it's the original release without updates.
nor do I want to believe that any boot up wait time in any future device is a valid argument.
Good. You agree with the upthread comment on the end goal. The easiest solution is to not have a boot-up process at all. Makes for a very secure, unhackable device too.
And I used to remember when my parents TV would have to warm up before showing a picture.
That's an older design that didn't use standby power. Newer CRT's trickled voltage into the capacitor to reduce the wait time.
Do you mean NYC? Isn't that one of the most expensive cities in the country. Where I am, it's about half that.
In the greater scheme of things, we've become far more efficient than we used to
And you want to reverse course? How do you think we got there? The main reason the CRT used 10 times the power was the standby power required to keep the high-voltage capacitor ready.
I know a number of working families with one income that earn enough to live just fine.
False equivalence. That's not what I said (that a living family wage = exactly 2 full-time wages). I never said that it can't be done on one income, just that inflation has risen to match the increased supply of income.
Group childcare before school age is much less expensive than full time employment (except at minimum wage) and automation has reduced the workload of domestic chores to almost nothing.
Yes, more standby power usage is what we need. That cable box uses almost as much electricity on standby as it does when running.
Dual-income households only served to inflate the number hours needed to make a living family wage (to nearly double). All this new wave will do is halve the number of employable people, and the remaining will barely get by.
there will be one poor chap working 16 hours a day for 6 days a week for a minimum wage
No, there'll be two of them working 8 hours a day, 3 days a week at two different jobs. Full time employees generally expect benefits.
If everyone's inside, then it's an inside job!
Globally?
It was a phrase that sounded so good that it continued to be used for things that never had knobs. At the time the phrase came about, it referred to controlling the flow of a lot of things (gas, water, etc). And then, turning on lights was a physical act.
When lights went electrical, the phrase continued to be used. However, controlling the flow of electricity was also called "turning on" and "turning off." So you could argue it came from either/or just as well as you can argue that it came from both/and.
And even when referring to it as controlling the flow of electricity, that's anachronistic too. Neither act literally involves turning, with a few exceptions.
I guess concurrent release would be a better word. They don't release any sooner/later than the main network with rights in a lot of their distribution deals.
I don't know where you're going with DVDs. This is not how Netflix acquires the source material for their stream. They usually use badly beat up secondhand Betacam SP or Digital Betacam tapes for most HD shows. How do I know? Because when watching some less popular streaming shows, the picture sometimes drops out to a blue screen with a "no signal" type error message.
In fact, lots of networks released shows on a weekly basis to Netflix (at least for distribution outside the US). Netflix would prefer to drop them all at the start, but the original network still wants to be premiering them before anyone anywhere is talking about the episodes. A couple of examples are Riverdale and Better Call Saul.
Why does it matter? I still "dial" my phone, despite not having seen a rotary phone since the 80's. I "turn on" the lights, despite not having an oil lamp. We still include floppy icons to mean "save" - even when half the people alive have never touched a floppy disk.
Obscurity has nothing to do with access. They're well known. And their release pretty much defines the earliest date anyone else will have their hands on it. Netflix tends to go for simultaneous release - even when they're not the primary producer. So it is likely you'll see that.
On the other hand, I could probably wait until the end of the second part of the season to sign up for a free trial and watch it all in one go.
At worst, I pay $5.99 - not much more than a movie rental before I cancel.
That won't go over very well... But if the pilot's good, I'll catch it when it makes it to Prime or Netflix in the US maybe 5 years from now. I'm in no rush.
obscure channel
Obscure channel? You mean the company that owns the Star Trek IP? CBS/Paramount is not obscure by any measurement.
But the originating network is going to premiere before Netflix, so it's going to be at least that date, possibly later.