Interesting; I didn't know that. Reminds me of back in the Bad Old Days when I was still repairing arcade games for a living, I thought quite a bit about condensing the original Pac Man circuitry down to a single programmable logic device, needing only RAM, ROM, and a Z80 processor to operate. Of course now you could synthesize the entire thing including all the above on a single FPGA, no problem. Too bad you'd get burned alive by Namco for doing it.
Just FYI, I know for a fact (since I used to repair arcade games) that at least the arcade versions of NES games came in 6 2764 EPROMs; 4 of them for program data, 2 of them for graphics data, so 32kB of program, 16kB of graphics. I'd imagine the home-version cartridges were the same.
Implying that U.S. and Japanese intelligence services don't already know where all of China's military bases and assets are at any given time -- and vice-versa.
This is a peaceful demonstration. Mod this up if you support equal rights and care about ALL lives of ANY race, color, creed, age, gender, or sexual orientation. Modding this down is discriminatory and supports racism, bigotry, willful ignornance, and intolerance in general.
(Assuming, of course, they completely banned encryption, which is about the only way they could have delivered to them what they're demanding)
This will last precisely as long as it takes for the first time the UK Home Secretary gets their bank account drained, or identity stolen, because there was no effective encryption on the very much public Internet to protect their very much private and personal data from criminals. Furthermore, I can see how legislation like this would actually increase the likelihood of terrorism; terrorists often use profits from criminal activities as operating funds; removing (or crippling) encryption on the Internet will allow them to commit cybercrimes with relative ease, thus increasing their operating funds that much more.
Of course, policitians being the duplicitous creatures they are, they -- and the rich, no doubt -- will create loopholes allowing them to posess and use full, non-crippled encryption -- for 'security purposes', of course -- and the common citizens can go fuck themselves, so far as they're concerned.
Nice job, UK. Don't you dare mock and make jokes about American politics, not when your own political system and government are at least as much of a bloody bollixed-up mess as ours, if not more so.
MEMO TO UK POLITICIANS: Go take some gods-be-damned basic computer science courses, will you? Because you have NO IDEA what the hell you're doing!
At those wavelengths, aren't the transmitters going to need to output a rediculous amount of power in order to get any reasonable distance, and for that matter, don't the transmitters themsevles get even more inefficient? This on top of the obvious attenuation problem from just about anything, including raindrops?
Guess we'll have to wait for a teardown of one, won't we? You're probably right, they could have totally recreated the old hardware in an ASIC but they probably just emulated the whole thing on another processor. After all 6502 was, what, 1Mhz or 2Mhz at most? Even a piddly (by today's standards) 100MHz single-core processor could emulate dozens of 6502's at the same time with no performance hit, and 6502 only had a 16-bit address bus, so memory is no problem. Mapping old graphics to a new graphics engine wouldn't be difficult either. If they can write Asteroids hardware emulators for a PC that runs the original 6502 assembly code, while also emulating the dedicated hardware vector generator, then they should be able to seamlessly emulate NES hardware, too.
I was just going to come back and say exactly that; yes, if it's a mass-production consumer electronics item, it'd be an ASIC, which is more or less the mass-production version of an FPGA, but their prototype would have been an FPGA until they finalized the design. Even the original NES (and the coin-op arcade game version) used a (relatively) small ASIC (40 pin DIP) that was specific to the game being run (more or less; usually, the wrong version would just have the wrong color palete; in much later titles, as I recall, they just plain wouldn't run with the wrong IC. But we used to re-label the 40-pin IC from some unpopular titles because it was the same one used for Super Mario Bros, and re-burn the 6 2764's and re-label them, too). In fact I wouldn't at all be surprised if the ASIC is a full-on SoC, including all the RAM and ROM necessary, and anything external is just glue logic and power supply circuitry.
Why are so many of you bothering with 'the cloud' when this sort of crap happens over and over and over again, ad nauseam? Are too many of you incapable of learning?
Surely they won't hurt us again this time, let's try Cloud storage again!
*Bangs head against wall repeatedly*
People, you just don't get it. 'The Cloud' is a meme; it's a ruse; IT'S A TRAP. It's only two steps away from being Ransomware: 'Pay up or your data is TOAST'.
External hard drives are cheap and reliable. So are huge USB flash drives, both in nice fast USB3. Buy two for your most sensitive data and make two copies, just in case. Really, honestly, seriously, how difficult is this?
It's too big, too bulky, too confusing, why should I pay for anything?
Get a microSD card and a tiny USB adapter. Fits nicely in your wallet or purse. USB HDD's are smaller than a pack of cigarettes. Even huge, normal USB flash drives are tiny now, and they're all cheap, cheap, cheap. Meanwhile 'cloud' providers keep playing shell games with your data, losing it, getting hacked, going out of business and telling you 'tough luck', and likely snooping into your data regardless of anything they tell you to the contrary. Come on, people, why do you keep punishing yourselves this way? Did you do something bad in a previous life or something?
Please, please,, people: Stop with the 'cloud' nonsense already. You're just hurting yourselves.
I second this sentiment. While I have better things to do with $60 than buy this, it's still tempting, and I can certainly see the draw of it. Small amount of money compared to an Xbox or Playstation, most of the popular games from it built right in, just plug and go. Also since no cartridges, none of the electro-mechanical problems that the original NES developed over time.
That same AC probably thinks bicycles should only be for children too young to drive, and that they should be outlawed from public roads, too. Sad, sad, sad person.
You kidding me? The hardware for the NES was so minimal to start with, they probably put it all, with the exception of one big EPROM for the game software, onto one FPGA, including the 6502 processor (which was, as I recall, labeled '2A03', a 40-pin DIP IC). Remember, NES was only 8-bit.
You can't track something that's powered off. Surprise! I don't have a smartphone, I have a flip phone, it doesn't even have GPS, and if I'm feeling particularly paranoid, I can remove the battery, too. Don't need to really, when it's 'off' it's all the way off, and it can't be turned on remotely. No plans to get a smartphone either. I'll take the cheapest dumbphone I can get when I have to replace it, and like this one it'll be off when I'm not using it. Nothing to track!
No kidding. They sure this isn't subsidized by the NSA or some other intelligence agency, to trick people into voluntarily having their whereabouts tracked via GPS everywhere they go? Fools.
Here's my solution: If you go to an athletic event or music concert, how about you go to an atheletic event or music concert to watch the bloody gods-be-damned athletic event or music concert, and not fuck around on your gods-be-damned phone the entire time! Or is that just too triggering for you people addicted to your gods-be-damned phones?
Stop walking through your lives with your eyes glued to your stupid phones and actually live your life!
If they embedded the same commercials in television shows streamed over the internet that they embed in OTA broadcasts and offered them for free streaming, then that would make the most sense, but the problem with this is that it's never been about what's 'fair' or 'good for the viewers', it's about 'squeezing every last penny they can out of viewers regardless of whether it's fair or not'. I'm 51 years old. When I was a kid we had B&W all-tube (i.e. not solid-state) television in the house, and an antenna. My point being that I come from the time before videotape was anything other than what the Three Big Networks could afford to use, no VCRs yet. My point is that if the Three Big Networks (which BTW is all there was, and some piddly little independent stations) had stomped all over VCRs back then as hard as they're trying to stomp on digital filesharing now, we wouldn't even be having this discussion, there wouldn't be 'streaming video', there wouldn't be DVRs, and there wouldn't have been VCRs of any kind in the hands of consumers, they'd likely only be professionals' tools, with no tuners, just baseband video inputs for a camera. I'm sure all the networks and 'content producers' are now regretting not stamping out consumer video recording of OTA video now, seeing it as a missed opportunity to create a perpetual monopoly on all things Television. But that doesn't stop them from, now, stomping as hard as they can on streaming and filesharing now, even if it makes no sense, and trying to gouge us for every penny they can, whether they do it fairly or not. The fact of the matter is that if I can record 1080i video from an OTA signal and hand-carry a copy of that to a friend for them to watch, then it makes no sense for them to charge to watch it streaming over the internet. Again: it's all about profits, not about 'paying the content providers' or what's fair for anyone. Comcast/Xfinity/Paramount/Universal doesn't give a crap about what's fair, they want to make as much money as possible, and they'll do it any way they can, unless someone with a gun (Congress, for instance) walks up and points it at their head and tells then 'No, you will not'. Again: If they could shut down DVRs entirely, preventing people from recording their 'content', they'd do it, but that horse long ago left the barn, back in the 80's when VCRs became a Thing that people could go buy; DVRs have been Grandfathered in, and they can't make a case for killing them off now because of that (but, again: they wish they could go back in time and change that). So that's what this is really about: Trying to turn consumers upside down and shaking us down for what they can make fall out of our pockets, fair or not. But it's not fair. The closest they can come to 'fair' when it comes to charging us for streaming digital content, is if it's commercial-free, end-to-end, but so far as I know? It's NOT. They should allow people to stream everything for free if it has ~42 minutes of content and ~18 minutes of commercials like OTA; that would be fair. But they'll never do it unless someone points a gun at their heads and makes them. People know this, therefore they download from wherever. That's where we're at.
Well, what this really is, is Comcast/Universal/NBC seeing that their outdated advertising model is dying, they're not making the money off it they used to, and they think that clamping down on people downloading 'content' (that they could get OTA for free, anyway) is somehow going to 'fix' that for them and suddenly they'll be rolling in cash again. In the meantime you don't see them trying to make DVRs illegal, do you? When you can record shows from an OTA antenna for free, and nobody is the wiser, and you can edit that video to remove the commercials (or at least skip over them), what's the difference? Basically they're whiny, greedy crybabies, who aren't even operating in reality.
Lots of people watch free OTA TV, and last time I checked (which was less than an hour ago, LOL) broadcast radio is alive and well. Bluray (learn to spell it correctly, will you please?) hasn't caught on as well as DVD did, and DVDs still sell. Not everything is digital streaming and not everybody buys into it. If you had been born prior to the mid 1990's then maybe you'd understand that.
Piracy is estimated to cost content owners billions of dollars annually.
It should read:
Piracy is estimated to cost ADVERTISERS billions of dollars annually.
It's television, folks; the only people making any money off this are the advertisers. Oh and by the way? Most of us aren't paying any attention to your damned commercials anyway. We skip right over them, one way or another. Personally if I couldn't do that, I'd go back to the Old Days of just muting them and paying attention to something else until the program came back on. Or, if I couldn't use a DVR anymore for some reason I'd probably stop watching TV completely, since little-to-none of it would fit into my schedule anymore. So how about you stop whining about 'piracy', NBC (and television in general), at least we're watching your damned shows at all. Look at it this way: You're getting people interested in watching your shows this way. Make it too much of a pain in the ass, and many people just won't bother.
Haven't you been paying attention? Microsoft has been dabbling in Linux now, too. Clearly they want to own all operating systems for all devices. They're probably just consolidating their resources and forces as much as possilble before attacking Apple. Microsoft has always wanted to be a monopoly, and nothing has changed. They of course have to be stopped, broken up into smaller chunks (again), and in general smacked on the nose with a newspaper (again) and have it made clear to them that they do not own people's devices, and they will not be allowed to have a monopoly and stifle all competition. Personally I'd rather have NO computer than have any version of Windows anymore, entirely because of their behavior.
I work for one of Microsoft's major (probably biggest) 'partners corporations', and I'd be honestly shocked if they went along with a 'subscription' model; I'd think it'd be more along the lines of, "You either give us one-shot enterprise licensing like always, or maybe we stop supporting your software with our hardware"
This shit continues? Polticians, police, and the National Guard are going to have to worry about something bigger and badder than the 'Black Lives Matter' movement, they're going to have to worry about the American public-in-general getting pissed off about being treated like criminals in prison, or animals in a zoo.MEMO TO CONGRESSIONAL ASSHOLES: Get the ever-living-FUCK out of our business! All your surveillance? All your snooping? All your sticking your noses into everyone's gods-be-damned business? IT IS NOT 'STOPPING' ANYTHING! Get correct, Congress, or get the fuck out. Enough is too much!
As much as I hate the cancer that is Facebook and wish it would just die and go away (along with most all so-called 'social media'), it's more or less impossible for them to prescreen and censor every single post, even assuming they're speaking 'in the clear' and not encoding their content somehow. I'd more likely assume this 'lawsuit' is just to generate publicity, and that they don't expect it's going to actually get any legal traction.
While many of them are somewhat to blame in terms of not taking the initiative and updating their own skills having a post Hostess employment plan etc
Are you purposefully trying to come off as an asshole, or are you just not thinking about what you're saying before you say it?
Back in the 80's, when I was repairing arcade games for a living, I was trying to go to school, but had to go at night. When it came down to the point where there was a class I needed to take that was literally in the middle of the day, I asked my boss if I could take off for that time and then come back in after, even working late. He said "I pay you to work, not go to school, if you want to do that then I'll fire you and get someone will WILL work!". That's about how it is for most people in low-paying jobs: You either show up for work, or you get replaced. They don't give a damn if you want to go to school to 'better yourself' or 'update your skills', they want you to WORK, and if you make any noise about any of that, you'll find yourself on unemployment. These people have FAMILIES, and therefore they WORK as much as they can, often overtime if they can get it, because they are POOR compared to some people and struggle to get by. They don't have time to go to school at night, they have time to eat and sleep and go back to their factory job the next day, so their families can eat and have a place to live and their kids will have clothes to wear, etc etc etc. They're not tech workers making 6-digit salaries who can take 'sabbaticals' to 'find themselves' or go back to school, they won't have a job to come back to and they have no money to live on while they're 'updating their skills'.
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Interesting; I didn't know that.
Reminds me of back in the Bad Old Days when I was still repairing arcade games for a living, I thought quite a bit about condensing the original Pac Man circuitry down to a single programmable logic device, needing only RAM, ROM, and a Z80 processor to operate. Of course now you could synthesize the entire thing including all the above on a single FPGA, no problem. Too bad you'd get burned alive by Namco for doing it.
Just FYI, I know for a fact (since I used to repair arcade games) that at least the arcade versions of NES games came in 6 2764 EPROMs; 4 of them for program data, 2 of them for graphics data, so 32kB of program, 16kB of graphics. I'd imagine the home-version cartridges were the same.
Implying that U.S. and Japanese intelligence services don't already know where all of China's military bases and assets are at any given time -- and vice-versa.
Nothing to see here, kids.
This is a peaceful demonstration. Mod this up if you support equal rights and care about ALL lives of ANY race, color, creed, age, gender, or sexual orientation. Modding this down is discriminatory and supports racism, bigotry, willful ignornance, and intolerance in general.
#AllLivesMatter
(Assuming, of course, they completely banned encryption, which is about the only way they could have delivered to them what they're demanding)
This will last precisely as long as it takes for the first time the UK Home Secretary gets their bank account drained, or identity stolen, because there was no effective encryption on the very much public Internet to protect their very much private and personal data from criminals. Furthermore, I can see how legislation like this would actually increase the likelihood of terrorism; terrorists often use profits from criminal activities as operating funds; removing (or crippling) encryption on the Internet will allow them to commit cybercrimes with relative ease, thus increasing their operating funds that much more.
Of course, policitians being the duplicitous creatures they are, they -- and the rich, no doubt -- will create loopholes allowing them to posess and use full, non-crippled encryption -- for 'security purposes', of course -- and the common citizens can go fuck themselves, so far as they're concerned.
Nice job, UK. Don't you dare mock and make jokes about American politics, not when your own political system and government are at least as much of a bloody bollixed-up mess as ours, if not more so.
MEMO TO UK POLITICIANS: Go take some gods-be-damned basic computer science courses, will you? Because you have NO IDEA what the hell you're doing!
At those wavelengths, aren't the transmitters going to need to output a rediculous amount of power in order to get any reasonable distance, and for that matter, don't the transmitters themsevles get even more inefficient? This on top of the obvious attenuation problem from just about anything, including raindrops?
Guess we'll have to wait for a teardown of one, won't we? You're probably right, they could have totally recreated the old hardware in an ASIC but they probably just emulated the whole thing on another processor. After all 6502 was, what, 1Mhz or 2Mhz at most? Even a piddly (by today's standards) 100MHz single-core processor could emulate dozens of 6502's at the same time with no performance hit, and 6502 only had a 16-bit address bus, so memory is no problem. Mapping old graphics to a new graphics engine wouldn't be difficult either. If they can write Asteroids hardware emulators for a PC that runs the original 6502 assembly code, while also emulating the dedicated hardware vector generator, then they should be able to seamlessly emulate NES hardware, too.
I was just going to come back and say exactly that; yes, if it's a mass-production consumer electronics item, it'd be an ASIC, which is more or less the mass-production version of an FPGA, but their prototype would have been an FPGA until they finalized the design. Even the original NES (and the coin-op arcade game version) used a (relatively) small ASIC (40 pin DIP) that was specific to the game being run (more or less; usually, the wrong version would just have the wrong color palete; in much later titles, as I recall, they just plain wouldn't run with the wrong IC. But we used to re-label the 40-pin IC from some unpopular titles because it was the same one used for Super Mario Bros, and re-burn the 6 2764's and re-label them, too). In fact I wouldn't at all be surprised if the ASIC is a full-on SoC, including all the RAM and ROM necessary, and anything external is just glue logic and power supply circuitry.
Surely they won't hurt us again this time, let's try Cloud storage again!
*Bangs head against wall repeatedly*
People, you just don't get it. 'The Cloud' is a meme; it's a ruse; IT'S A TRAP. It's only two steps away from being Ransomware: 'Pay up or your data is TOAST'.
External hard drives are cheap and reliable. So are huge USB flash drives, both in nice fast USB3. Buy two for your most sensitive data and make two copies, just in case. Really, honestly, seriously, how difficult is this?
It's too big, too bulky, too confusing, why should I pay for anything?
Get a microSD card and a tiny USB adapter. Fits nicely in your wallet or purse. USB HDD's are smaller than a pack of cigarettes. Even huge, normal USB flash drives are tiny now, and they're all cheap, cheap, cheap. Meanwhile 'cloud' providers keep playing shell games with your data, losing it, getting hacked, going out of business and telling you 'tough luck', and likely snooping into your data regardless of anything they tell you to the contrary. Come on, people, why do you keep punishing yourselves this way? Did you do something bad in a previous life or something?
Please, please,, people: Stop with the 'cloud' nonsense already. You're just hurting yourselves.
I second this sentiment. While I have better things to do with $60 than buy this, it's still tempting, and I can certainly see the draw of it. Small amount of money compared to an Xbox or Playstation, most of the popular games from it built right in, just plug and go. Also since no cartridges, none of the electro-mechanical problems that the original NES developed over time.
That same AC probably thinks bicycles should only be for children too young to drive, and that they should be outlawed from public roads, too. Sad, sad, sad person.
Shitty ass emulation.
You kidding me? The hardware for the NES was so minimal to start with, they probably put it all, with the exception of one big EPROM for the game software, onto one FPGA, including the 6502 processor (which was, as I recall, labeled '2A03', a 40-pin DIP IC). Remember, NES was only 8-bit.
You can't track something that's powered off. Surprise! I don't have a smartphone, I have a flip phone, it doesn't even have GPS, and if I'm feeling particularly paranoid, I can remove the battery, too. Don't need to really, when it's 'off' it's all the way off, and it can't be turned on remotely. No plans to get a smartphone either. I'll take the cheapest dumbphone I can get when I have to replace it, and like this one it'll be off when I'm not using it. Nothing to track!
I posted this story FOUR HOURS before you did, and by the way why is mine marked in red as 'SPAM'??!?
Come correct, Slashdot.
No kidding. They sure this isn't subsidized by the NSA or some other intelligence agency, to trick people into voluntarily having their whereabouts tracked via GPS everywhere they go? Fools.
Here's my solution:
If you go to an athletic event or music concert, how about you go to an atheletic event or music concert to watch the bloody gods-be-damned athletic event or music concert, and not fuck around on your gods-be-damned phone the entire time! Or is that just too triggering for you people addicted to your gods-be-damned phones?
Stop walking through your lives with your eyes glued to your stupid phones and actually live your life!
Congratulations, you've managed to be more pedantic than I allowed myself to be. Sadly, this does not impress me, it only makes me sad. :-/
If they embedded the same commercials in television shows streamed over the internet that they embed in OTA broadcasts and offered them for free streaming, then that would make the most sense, but the problem with this is that it's never been about what's 'fair' or 'good for the viewers', it's about 'squeezing every last penny they can out of viewers regardless of whether it's fair or not'. I'm 51 years old. When I was a kid we had B&W all-tube (i.e. not solid-state) television in the house, and an antenna. My point being that I come from the time before videotape was anything other than what the Three Big Networks could afford to use, no VCRs yet. My point is that if the Three Big Networks (which BTW is all there was, and some piddly little independent stations) had stomped all over VCRs back then as hard as they're trying to stomp on digital filesharing now, we wouldn't even be having this discussion, there wouldn't be 'streaming video', there wouldn't be DVRs, and there wouldn't have been VCRs of any kind in the hands of consumers, they'd likely only be professionals' tools, with no tuners, just baseband video inputs for a camera. I'm sure all the networks and 'content producers' are now regretting not stamping out consumer video recording of OTA video now, seeing it as a missed opportunity to create a perpetual monopoly on all things Television. But that doesn't stop them from, now, stomping as hard as they can on streaming and filesharing now, even if it makes no sense, and trying to gouge us for every penny they can, whether they do it fairly or not. The fact of the matter is that if I can record 1080i video from an OTA signal and hand-carry a copy of that to a friend for them to watch, then it makes no sense for them to charge to watch it streaming over the internet. Again: it's all about profits, not about 'paying the content providers' or what's fair for anyone. Comcast/Xfinity/Paramount/Universal doesn't give a crap about what's fair, they want to make as much money as possible, and they'll do it any way they can, unless someone with a gun (Congress, for instance) walks up and points it at their head and tells then 'No, you will not'. Again: If they could shut down DVRs entirely, preventing people from recording their 'content', they'd do it, but that horse long ago left the barn, back in the 80's when VCRs became a Thing that people could go buy; DVRs have been Grandfathered in, and they can't make a case for killing them off now because of that (but, again: they wish they could go back in time and change that). So that's what this is really about: Trying to turn consumers upside down and shaking us down for what they can make fall out of our pockets, fair or not. But it's not fair. The closest they can come to 'fair' when it comes to charging us for streaming digital content, is if it's commercial-free, end-to-end, but so far as I know? It's NOT. They should allow people to stream everything for free if it has ~42 minutes of content and ~18 minutes of commercials like OTA; that would be fair. But they'll never do it unless someone points a gun at their heads and makes them. People know this, therefore they download from wherever. That's where we're at.
Well, what this really is, is Comcast/Universal/NBC seeing that their outdated advertising model is dying, they're not making the money off it they used to, and they think that clamping down on people downloading 'content' (that they could get OTA for free, anyway) is somehow going to 'fix' that for them and suddenly they'll be rolling in cash again. In the meantime you don't see them trying to make DVRs illegal, do you? When you can record shows from an OTA antenna for free, and nobody is the wiser, and you can edit that video to remove the commercials (or at least skip over them), what's the difference? Basically they're whiny, greedy crybabies, who aren't even operating in reality.
Lots of people watch free OTA TV, and last time I checked (which was less than an hour ago, LOL) broadcast radio is alive and well. Bluray (learn to spell it correctly, will you please?) hasn't caught on as well as DVD did, and DVDs still sell. Not everything is digital streaming and not everybody buys into it. If you had been born prior to the mid 1990's then maybe you'd understand that.
Piracy is estimated to cost content owners billions of dollars annually.
It should read:
Piracy is estimated to cost ADVERTISERS billions of dollars annually.
It's television, folks; the only people making any money off this are the advertisers. Oh and by the way? Most of us aren't paying any attention to your damned commercials anyway. We skip right over them, one way or another. Personally if I couldn't do that, I'd go back to the Old Days of just muting them and paying attention to something else until the program came back on. Or, if I couldn't use a DVR anymore for some reason I'd probably stop watching TV completely, since little-to-none of it would fit into my schedule anymore. So how about you stop whining about 'piracy', NBC (and television in general), at least we're watching your damned shows at all. Look at it this way: You're getting people interested in watching your shows this way. Make it too much of a pain in the ass, and many people just won't bother.
..linux..
Haven't you been paying attention? Microsoft has been dabbling in Linux now, too. Clearly they want to own all operating systems for all devices. They're probably just consolidating their resources and forces as much as possilble before attacking Apple. Microsoft has always wanted to be a monopoly, and nothing has changed. They of course have to be stopped, broken up into smaller chunks (again), and in general smacked on the nose with a newspaper (again) and have it made clear to them that they do not own people's devices, and they will not be allowed to have a monopoly and stifle all competition. Personally I'd rather have NO computer than have any version of Windows anymore, entirely because of their behavior.
I work for one of Microsoft's major (probably biggest) 'partners corporations', and I'd be honestly shocked if they went along with a 'subscription' model; I'd think it'd be more along the lines of, "You either give us one-shot enterprise licensing like always, or maybe we stop supporting your software with our hardware"
This shit continues? Polticians, police, and the National Guard are going to have to worry about something bigger and badder than the 'Black Lives Matter' movement, they're going to have to worry about the American public-in-general getting pissed off about being treated like criminals in prison, or animals in a zoo.MEMO TO CONGRESSIONAL ASSHOLES: Get the ever-living-FUCK out of our business! All your surveillance? All your snooping? All your sticking your noses into everyone's gods-be-damned business? IT IS NOT 'STOPPING' ANYTHING! Get correct, Congress, or get the fuck out. Enough is too much!
As much as I hate the cancer that is Facebook and wish it would just die and go away (along with most all so-called 'social media'), it's more or less impossible for them to prescreen and censor every single post, even assuming they're speaking 'in the clear' and not encoding their content somehow. I'd more likely assume this 'lawsuit' is just to generate publicity, and that they don't expect it's going to actually get any legal traction.
Mod parent up.
While many of them are somewhat to blame in terms of not taking the initiative and updating their own skills having a post Hostess employment plan etc
Are you purposefully trying to come off as an asshole, or are you just not thinking about what you're saying before you say it?
Back in the 80's, when I was repairing arcade games for a living, I was trying to go to school, but had to go at night. When it came down to the point where there was a class I needed to take that was literally in the middle of the day, I asked my boss if I could take off for that time and then come back in after, even working late. He said "I pay you to work, not go to school, if you want to do that then I'll fire you and get someone will WILL work!". That's about how it is for most people in low-paying jobs: You either show up for work, or you get replaced. They don't give a damn if you want to go to school to 'better yourself' or 'update your skills', they want you to WORK, and if you make any noise about any of that, you'll find yourself on unemployment. These people have FAMILIES, and therefore they WORK as much as they can, often overtime if they can get it, because they are POOR compared to some people and struggle to get by. They don't have time to go to school at night, they have time to eat and sleep and go back to their factory job the next day, so their families can eat and have a place to live and their kids will have clothes to wear, etc etc etc. They're not tech workers making 6-digit salaries who can take 'sabbaticals' to 'find themselves' or go back to school, they won't have a job to come back to and they have no money to live on while they're 'updating their skills'.