With ready to use game engines like Unity, you really mainly need scripting rather than heavy programming skills. Most of the effort is in game design and developing graphic assets.
Yeah, they have this backwards. Cord-cutting soon to hit video games after people realize they're spending more money on a subscription service sounds more like it.
Google isn't damaging their reputation. They're damaging the manufacturer reputation. In the end, the average consumer is not going to realize it's Google - they're going to complain to the manufacturer.
Apple and Microsoft do not repurpose my desktop background or screensaver to shove advertisements in my face
You don't remember Active Desktop all the way back in the Windows 98SE days? It's true that you could turn it off. Today, the lock screen by default is Microsoft-controlled.
If Google wants to subsidise devices or hand them out for free in exchange for people putting up with advertisements that OK in my book, but if I buy a device outright unsubsidised doing this is bloody outrageous.
This is what happened. You just didn't get a choice to buy an unsubsidized device.
In this case, "mucking around with an external device" would be having to use the computer controls instead of a simplified remote control UI. This works only because you're in the "realm of the geek/enthusiast" as stated. That said, I don't have my TV connected and I use a Roku - which in a few years pays for itself vs the electricity cost of running an old desktop.
My current TV had firmware updates that fixed the color settings - there were some options that didn't work correctly and some input signals that were flagged wrong. I know I'm in the minority that have a TV where firmware updates actually fixed bugs. I don't use its smarts.
Maybe theoretically/sometimes. In the real world, peak business hours especially, congestion increases that latency. This new constellation is LEO - so you will have latency that competes with traditional broadband.
This is why you need so many satellites in a constellation for LEO. They are not going to be geostationary. There are already satellite constellations up there with terrible lag and only modestly high bandwidth (with caps).
Also why is the MCAS triggering 6 minutes into a flight. Takeoff by definition is close to stall.
Isn't that exactly the situation MCAS is designed for (takeoff)? It's not supposed to over-correct. It's supposed to correct for user action because the pilot wasn't retrained on the characteristics of these larger engines being placed where they were. If it's unsafe, the plane should either be scrapped or pilots re-certified for this model specifically, without MCAS.
This is a market that has plenty of room for me too. Even if you're talking about a total capacity of a few Tb/s for one constellation, that isn't enough to not allow competition.
China is a signatory to the Outer Space Treaty, but deciding whether taking down a satellite is a violation of that treaty would be a long-fought battle.
Bandwidth is hard too. Have you seen the caps on most satellite service? What's hard to tell is whether the lower-hanging satellites in this constellation are purely to drive down latency or if it's to increase the bandwidth they can serve. These are low - the latency wouldn't be much worse than transcontinental or transatlantic is now.
All it would take is caching hardware, and Prime customers with Amazon satellite service could get timed pre-downloads of popular Prime shows. Without affecting their cap if it's part of a multicast. I'm surprised that nobody is piggybacking on data satellite off-peak hours already, so maybe they haven't thought of it yet.
The surface area covered by low Earth orbit is 10s of millions of square kilometers. I don't think about 3,000 satellites would be all that crowded if moving in a stable path.
and who makes a credible threat with the intent to place that person in reasonable fear for his or her safety, or the safety of his or her immediate family.
Like offering to sell your data to law enforcement. Sounds like a threat to me.
I wouldn't want to buy an Amazon device because it can't run everything - a Roku can. Amazon is busy having a little fight with Google and they won't work with each other's services. If Amazon is smart, they'll just release their expanded service on Roku and get a lot more eyeballs on their advertising.
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I thought LA was Silicone Valley.
With ready to use game engines like Unity, you really mainly need scripting rather than heavy programming skills. Most of the effort is in game design and developing graphic assets.
How many of those games *install* fine without the Steam client?
Yeah, they have this backwards. Cord-cutting soon to hit video games after people realize they're spending more money on a subscription service sounds more like it.
OK, then just buy an actual Roku. Problem solved.
Google isn't damaging their reputation. They're damaging the manufacturer reputation. In the end, the average consumer is not going to realize it's Google - they're going to complain to the manufacturer.
Apple and Microsoft do not repurpose my desktop background or screensaver to shove advertisements in my face
You don't remember Active Desktop all the way back in the Windows 98SE days? It's true that you could turn it off. Today, the lock screen by default is Microsoft-controlled.
If Google wants to subsidise devices or hand them out for free in exchange for people putting up with advertisements that OK in my book, but if I buy a device outright unsubsidised doing this is bloody outrageous.
This is what happened. You just didn't get a choice to buy an unsubsidized device.
In this case, "mucking around with an external device" would be having to use the computer controls instead of a simplified remote control UI. This works only because you're in the "realm of the geek/enthusiast" as stated. That said, I don't have my TV connected and I use a Roku - which in a few years pays for itself vs the electricity cost of running an old desktop.
My current TV had firmware updates that fixed the color settings - there were some options that didn't work correctly and some input signals that were flagged wrong. I know I'm in the minority that have a TV where firmware updates actually fixed bugs. I don't use its smarts.
Yes, Satellite TV operators already do this. I'm talking specifically about Satellite Internet providers with no live TV services.
It might be time to upgrade.
And even the auto-install of twice a year updates was better than the near-forced install of Windows 10 from Windows 7.
Maybe theoretically/sometimes. In the real world, peak business hours especially, congestion increases that latency. This new constellation is LEO - so you will have latency that competes with traditional broadband.
VoIP doesn't work "fine" at 1s+ latency. The amount of time wasted accidentally talking over each other is almost equal to the length of the call.
This is why you need so many satellites in a constellation for LEO. They are not going to be geostationary. There are already satellite constellations up there with terrible lag and only modestly high bandwidth (with caps).
Also why is the MCAS triggering 6 minutes into a flight. Takeoff by definition is close to stall.
Isn't that exactly the situation MCAS is designed for (takeoff)? It's not supposed to over-correct. It's supposed to correct for user action because the pilot wasn't retrained on the characteristics of these larger engines being placed where they were. If it's unsafe, the plane should either be scrapped or pilots re-certified for this model specifically, without MCAS.
This is a market that has plenty of room for me too. Even if you're talking about a total capacity of a few Tb/s for one constellation, that isn't enough to not allow competition.
China is a signatory to the Outer Space Treaty, but deciding whether taking down a satellite is a violation of that treaty would be a long-fought battle.
Bandwidth is hard too. Have you seen the caps on most satellite service? What's hard to tell is whether the lower-hanging satellites in this constellation are purely to drive down latency or if it's to increase the bandwidth they can serve. These are low - the latency wouldn't be much worse than transcontinental or transatlantic is now.
They should have just said tastes "stronger." It would be less false, less controversial, and not all that compelling either.
All it would take is caching hardware, and Prime customers with Amazon satellite service could get timed pre-downloads of popular Prime shows. Without affecting their cap if it's part of a multicast. I'm surprised that nobody is piggybacking on data satellite off-peak hours already, so maybe they haven't thought of it yet.
The surface area covered by low Earth orbit is 10s of millions of square kilometers. I don't think about 3,000 satellites would be all that crowded if moving in a stable path.
and who makes a credible threat with the intent to place that person in reasonable fear for his or her safety, or the safety of his or her immediate family.
Like offering to sell your data to law enforcement. Sounds like a threat to me.
What device do you have? The sticks are worthless. It was only the Roku 2 that had serious wireless compatibility issues as far as I've seen.
It's true that I use mine with Ethernet anyway, but I just didn't want to take the chance if I had the choice.
I wouldn't want to buy an Amazon device because it can't run everything - a Roku can. Amazon is busy having a little fight with Google and they won't work with each other's services. If Amazon is smart, they'll just release their expanded service on Roku and get a lot more eyeballs on their advertising.