Expecting a capitalist business to do something that cuts into their profits is a fool's errand. That Apple even considers this means they have a plan that they think will benefit them, as well as the populace.
It would not cost more to produce. You just don't like the thought of loosing out on the revenue that smart TVs can generate over the lifetime of the product. Dumb TVs only get paid for once, but with the data collection, you earn revenue for as long as it's in use. Selling dumb TVs doesn't make the TV cost more, it means you don't profit as much. Not the same thing, from the consumer side of the issue.
And it's still stupid that my fully-functional TV becomes obsolete just because you no longer support the hardware platform you installed in it 2-3 years ago, making it even *more* of a security problem for the consumer.
I disagree. No asking for a refund. Take over said infrastructure that tax payers paid for. With interest. e.g. Make laws that require the infrastructure to be open to any ISP that wants to pay the fees, public or private. Allow for actual competition and benefit the consumers rather than the major shareholders.
About time that ISPs can charge for the right to access information you get through THEIR networks THIS IS AMERICA -- if you want free information build your own internet you fucking commie liberals
About half of their infrastructure was paid by government subsidies. e.g. My/Our tax dollars. I think that makes 'their' networks half ours.
In the past 30 days, I've read nine and I'm half-way through a tenth. Re-read Alan Dean Foster's Icerigger trilogy, Stephen Brust's new Taltos novel "Vallista," John DeChancie's Skyway trilogy, and the first two of Michael Moorcock's Elric series. Working on the third now.
This is the issue that these companies don't seem to get. The audience pie is only so big, but they keep thinking that people are willing to pay for smaller and smaller slices. Netflix, $10/mo. Hulu $10/mo. Amazon, ~$9/mo. iTunes, YouTube Red, $10/mo. Disney, iTunes, etc. etc... Add it up and wonder why you ever stopped sending one check to pay for that cable subscription.
Learn to share, people. Disney, if you're not on Netflix's slice, and you don't find a truly compelling reason to use your service, you're going to loose this one. If all you're doing is restricting legal access to your stuff, people will just pirate them or rip the DVDs to their [Plex] system...
...but how becomes the important part. Everyone just trying to copy Chrome is pointless. I'll just use Chrome, then. However, I don't want to stream everything to Google. They get enough of my data as it. I prefer Firefox, but mostly for reasons that they keep wanting to change: Plug-ins, the more classic menu system, etc. Just make it run fast and smooth, and don't 'modernize' it. (e.g. Make it look like Chrome or just follow the 'flat UI' trend.)
Replacing my Roku when it becomes obsolete, or doesn't have a feature I want, that the new model has is easy and fairly inexpensive. (>$100) Having to replace my entire 50" TV for the same reason is lousy. It's many times more expensive, creates a ton more waste, and is just stupid because the screen still works just fine.
The fact that the manufacturers will do invasive things like inject ads and siphon viewer data is icing on the BS cake.
We could start up the discussion/argument about how science fiction is a subset of the Fantasy genre. The Doctor might approve of the inclusiveness, but many fans will probably get offended by the idea.
With so much of the series happening before the PC revolution, it's not surprising that the use of computers was limited to abstract devices. Adding to that, the way that the writers make a lot of the 'computerized' items to be living technology. (e.g. The Tardis itself.)
Not just Tor, but encrypt emails, especially ones that contain nothing of importance, and send them too. Perhaps setting up a large network of accounts that automatically send out encrypted garbage emails to each other. Add more hay to the haystack.
The really sad part, that's not a joke. I work for a county Sheriff. The gang, detective, and child porn units regularly peruse Facebook/MySpace/et al. There are lots of idiots out there who do things like video tape themselves committing crimes and then post them online. As they say, if they were smart, they wouldn't get caught.
With the data caps Internet providers are putting on all of our access these days, I'm not going to let my stay-at-home-neighbor stream Netflix movies all day, so that the cap is hit half-way through the month. If the data caps were removed, it might be a different story.
Seconded! A MDK was all kinds of wacky, awesome-sauce. Another, with the same sort of humor, would be really fun. I'd love a good Shadowrun game, but I think it would need to be an MMO. The problem there is, that I don't think anyone is up to the task of doing one well.
The Mechwarrior reboot has me all tingly. Even if it's just as pretty as the demo, but only plays as well as Mech4, I'll be happy.
Long on my list of games that need to be revisited: Archon.
Agreed. The loss of developers making any sort of 3D-movement simulator, be it flight or mecha, and side- and top-scrolling 2D games, meant that joysticks just aren't that useful anymore. They'd work for FPS games, but you'd have to build in the 'pointer acceleration' so that you could turn slow or fast, depending on how far/hard you pushed the stick. But then, the game pads already do this, and as someone else pointed out, if you didn't grow up with it, that's a hard level of dexterity to master, and why so many people prefer mouse-and-keyboard.
Personally, I really wish the publishers would make a few more sim games. A new Mechwarrior or space fighter (X-wing/Freespace/Wing Commander) game would be awesome. I'd certainly clear space to put my Saitek X48 to use again. Hell, I still have a Thrustmaster F16 sitting in a box...
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Shocked, I say!
Expecting a capitalist business to do something that cuts into their profits is a fool's errand. That Apple even considers this means they have a plan that they think will benefit them, as well as the populace.
It would not cost more to produce. You just don't like the thought of loosing out on the revenue that smart TVs can generate over the lifetime of the product. Dumb TVs only get paid for once, but with the data collection, you earn revenue for as long as it's in use. Selling dumb TVs doesn't make the TV cost more, it means you don't profit as much. Not the same thing, from the consumer side of the issue.
And it's still stupid that my fully-functional TV becomes obsolete just because you no longer support the hardware platform you installed in it 2-3 years ago, making it even *more* of a security problem for the consumer.
I disagree. No asking for a refund. Take over said infrastructure that tax payers paid for. With interest. e.g. Make laws that require the infrastructure to be open to any ISP that wants to pay the fees, public or private. Allow for actual competition and benefit the consumers rather than the major shareholders.
Further support for the debunking of this 'weapon.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
One more way for Walmart to not pay employees...
About time that ISPs can charge for the right to access information you get through THEIR networks
THIS IS AMERICA -- if you want free information build your own internet you fucking commie liberals
About half of their infrastructure was paid by government subsidies. e.g. My/Our tax dollars. I think that makes 'their' networks half ours.
Time for them, and Verizon, T-mobile, and even Sprint, to be broken up into smaller companies. Cable companies too. Plus loss of their protectionism.
Competition? What do you think this is? A polyopoly market?
In the past 30 days, I've read nine and I'm half-way through a tenth.
Re-read Alan Dean Foster's Icerigger trilogy, Stephen Brust's new Taltos novel "Vallista," John DeChancie's Skyway trilogy, and the first two of Michael Moorcock's Elric series. Working on the third now.
This is the issue that these companies don't seem to get. The audience pie is only so big, but they keep thinking that people are willing to pay for smaller and smaller slices. Netflix, $10/mo. Hulu $10/mo. Amazon, ~$9/mo. iTunes, YouTube Red, $10/mo. Disney, iTunes, etc. etc... Add it up and wonder why you ever stopped sending one check to pay for that cable subscription.
Learn to share, people. Disney, if you're not on Netflix's slice, and you don't find a truly compelling reason to use your service, you're going to loose this one. If all you're doing is restricting legal access to your stuff, people will just pirate them or rip the DVDs to their [Plex] system...
...but how becomes the important part. Everyone just trying to copy Chrome is pointless. I'll just use Chrome, then. However, I don't want to stream everything to Google. They get enough of my data as it. I prefer Firefox, but mostly for reasons that they keep wanting to change: Plug-ins, the more classic menu system, etc. Just make it run fast and smooth, and don't 'modernize' it. (e.g. Make it look like Chrome or just follow the 'flat UI' trend.)
...for reading The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, at least.
...but the hands of the telecom puppeteers takes up that space...
...has a ton of pull with major manufacturers. Yes, make billions of insecure devices we can run botnets from, please.
I don't want a smart TV. I want a 'smart' appliance of any other type even less.
Look! It's a 1990's Sun Microsystems computer, reborn!
Replacing my Roku when it becomes obsolete, or doesn't have a feature I want, that the new model has is easy and fairly inexpensive. (>$100) Having to replace my entire 50" TV for the same reason is lousy. It's many times more expensive, creates a ton more waste, and is just stupid because the screen still works just fine.
The fact that the manufacturers will do invasive things like inject ads and siphon viewer data is icing on the BS cake.
We could start up the discussion/argument about how science fiction is a subset of the Fantasy genre. The Doctor might approve of the inclusiveness, but many fans will probably get offended by the idea.
With so much of the series happening before the PC revolution, it's not surprising that the use of computers was limited to abstract devices. Adding to that, the way that the writers make a lot of the 'computerized' items to be living technology. (e.g. The Tardis itself.)
Not just Tor, but encrypt emails, especially ones that contain nothing of importance, and send them too. Perhaps setting up a large network of accounts that automatically send out encrypted garbage emails to each other. Add more hay to the haystack.
The really sad part, that's not a joke. I work for a county Sheriff. The gang, detective, and child porn units regularly peruse Facebook/MySpace/et al. There are lots of idiots out there who do things like video tape themselves committing crimes and then post them online.
As they say, if they were smart, they wouldn't get caught.
Guns can be used to commit crimes, therefore they must all be banned!
Cars can be used to kill people or destroy property. They've got to go as well!
Screwdrivers can be used to break into cars and houses. We need to ban those too!
Airplanes, ships, and trucks can be used to transport counterfeit goods across borders. Away with them!
Many Bothans died to bring us this information...
With the data caps Internet providers are putting on all of our access these days, I'm not going to let my stay-at-home-neighbor stream Netflix movies all day, so that the cap is hit half-way through the month. If the data caps were removed, it might be a different story.
Seconded! A MDK was all kinds of wacky, awesome-sauce. Another, with the same sort of humor, would be really fun.
I'd love a good Shadowrun game, but I think it would need to be an MMO. The problem there is, that I don't think anyone is up to the task of doing one well.
The Mechwarrior reboot has me all tingly. Even if it's just as pretty as the demo, but only plays as well as Mech4, I'll be happy.
Long on my list of games that need to be revisited: Archon.
Agreed. The loss of developers making any sort of 3D-movement simulator, be it flight or mecha, and side- and top-scrolling 2D games, meant that joysticks just aren't that useful anymore. They'd work for FPS games, but you'd have to build in the 'pointer acceleration' so that you could turn slow or fast, depending on how far/hard you pushed the stick. But then, the game pads already do this, and as someone else pointed out, if you didn't grow up with it, that's a hard level of dexterity to master, and why so many people prefer mouse-and-keyboard.
Personally, I really wish the publishers would make a few more sim games. A new Mechwarrior or space fighter (X-wing/Freespace/Wing Commander) game would be awesome. I'd certainly clear space to put my Saitek X48 to use again. Hell, I still have a Thrustmaster F16 sitting in a box...