Your analysis is way off. The RIAA owns plenty of distribution channels - their business IS distribution and Youtube is an unwelcome competitor. It would suit the labels just fine if Youtube died in a fire.
Lets continue this train of thought a little bit... Where do people still get music?
CD's at Best Buy/Hastings/Fry's/Target wherever... We've all seen the reports from the music industry that physical media sales are down, and have been on a downward slope for some time. The CD section of best buy (and DVD but that's another matter) is less than a quarter of what it was 10-15 years ago. Though I still occasionally get a CD through Amazon, I haven't actually done so in a couple years.
Digital distribution? The big players here are Spotify, iTunes (Apple), and Amazon. Does any member of the RIAA actually own or have a controlling stake in any of those? Didn't think so.
Radio/streaming - Amazon, SoundCloud, Youtube, Pandora, etc... None of these are run by the music industry either.
Physical media was the cash cow for the music industry for decades. Last I checked, NONE of the record labels for bands I listen to have their own digital distribution system. Those labels that do are also-rans, much like EA's Origin to Valve's Steam. Why limit myself to one label when I can get the same or better prices and wider selection somewhere else?
Youtube needs RIAA content more than the RIAA needs Youtube streaming.
If you've ever been to Youtube, you are sure to see clips from TV shows, assorted how-tos, video blogs, random people doing stupid things, video game stuff like speed runs and such, and cat videos (not necessarily in that order). True most of those videos have music, but they aren't RIAA albums or "official music videos". With this statement you're just embarrassing yourself.
Intel has seen the writing on the wall for some time now, that's why they've been pushing the Atom and i3 chips to lower and lower power consumption. They need to get some level of parity with the ARM chips or those areas where ARM excels (low power, low heat) will be eating Intel's lunch.
The Intel powered phones weren't quite there in power consumption, but they certainly had processing power. With ARMs becoming more ubiquitous and general-purpose, you can bet your ass Intel is pushing to keep their hardware in use.
Performance - The PS4 has slightly more throughput and reports show it runs at a higher resolution
Marketing - XB1 was initially marketed as a one-box-fits-all media center that plays games. PS4 was marketed as a game console that handles a few other things
DRM - XB1's first press release had some convoluted solution for sharing games with friends and trying to kneecap second-hand sales. PS4 had a demonstration for sharing games, handing a box to your friend
Accessories - XB1 had the mandatory kinect with an always-on microphone. PS4 had an optional PS Move accessory pack. I'm pretty sure folks didn't like the idea of an always-on microphone and camera staring back at them when they aren't playing.
Cost - PS4 started off as a better bang-for-the-buck, partially due to it being slightly faster (DDR5 vs DDR4 RAM, among other specs), partially because it didn't have a $100 spybot sucking away potential consumer dollars.
It isn't that PSN is free and XBL is not. True you can browse stuff on the PSN, but in order to play games with friends and get the free monthly games, you need a Plus account, which is like the XBL gold account. It also isn't (necessarily) games, their starting libraries were very similar without many exclusives to either console. That's still pretty true, barring some of the established franchises like Gears of War and Uncharted.
Now with PS4 being the winner of this generation, developer focus is primarily on them.
I downloaded Windows 10 Developer Preview, which later was converted to a full license. I got a free version of Windows 10 just for signing up with a microsoft.com account.
This is precisely the reason for some emulators put a minimum age on the hardware they emulate. I seem to remember MAME having a minimum age of 3-5 years, so they are only emulating hardware that is last-gen and not likely actively sold by the OEM.
Can you name one thing that your customers actually want that is actually being prevented by network neutrality regulations? Or is this more of the same big business "we'll tell you what you want and you'll like it!" bullshit we've gotten for years and years?
Nope. Even TFS says it is the T-Mobile Chief Financial Officer. His focus is right there in his job title. I wouldn't expect anything less than "this is great for our bottom line" to ever be said by a CFO. It just feels like he's seeing new ways to pad his wallet.
Shame too, since T-Mobile's "un-carrier" stuff with unlimited streaming was a breath of fresh air against the 2-year lockdowns, and pay-extra-for-everything-including-breathing of their competitors.
Now I'd like to hear some logic behind that claim.
I can only see detriments. When states pick, the result will differ between them. That leads to unequal opportunities depending on where you were born, and as many gaps between haves and have-nots that divide further as gaps that close. Or more, because there seems to be a strong correlation between the overall poverty of a state and how reluctant it is to support science.
This. Then you get into some of the nonsense within the states, such as Kentucky legislators passing laws about teaching Creationism and Evolution as "alternate theories" to one another. I agree wholeheartedly that states have shown they aren't truly capable of making great decisions, just look at the lawsuits blocking competition to state-sponsored monopolies (Google Fiber vs TWC/Comcast/AT&T).
The only thinking behind a non-Federal initiative for education is the "No Child [Idiot] Left Behind" that pushes more standardized testing, and grading of teachers and schools based on how many kids fall below a set score. Face it folks, not all kids are going to be Math majors, and it's crazy to gauge a teachers abilities and a schools funding based on a few kids that aren't savants. Education is becoming more about teaching to a test than teaching kids to learn, think, and solve problems. It's gotten so bad that there's only one correct method to solve types of math problems now, goodbye long division/remainders, hello triangle-form (or whatever the hell they call it). For that we have ol' G.W. to blame.
However, we can fix those problems at the Federal level if we enable more teachers to actually do their jobs. Judge a school based on how many students graduate to the next school, not how little Timmy did on his math test.
My guess is because they didn't have test procedures for safety under various folds. Though if this race-to-paper continues, we may just have the Galaxy Note, Origami Fire edition.
It's probably the most cost-effective way to get back in the game. Back when it took 45 minutes to install and another few hours to configure the OS, it made sense to try to troubleshoot. Now it takes 5 minutes to install the OS, and with package managers (and assorted partition setup), you can be up and running in 10 minutes. Will it take 10 minutes to fix? no? re-install.
I use OpenDNS and have removed access to the latest list of MS telemetry servers. I use Windows 10 (sparingly) for games, and the odd application that actually does require windows. Yet I'm still able to update. Yes, it has managed to piss me off a couple times... but nowhere near the point of overhauling the box with Linux. Partially because the last time I tried to use Linux with this hardware it was even more of a pain to get to work, so I went with the path of least resistance.
Well yea, the whole point of a suicide bombing is to take as many of them with you as you can. If you can't get 200+ people on a 737, you can certainly get a few hundred in line for security at a major airport.
Instead of many lives and an airplane, it's many lives and reconstruction costs. How exactly is that any better?
I've seen the flip side of this coin too. I was in the market for a Microsoft Surface this year and had been doing a lot of research on them (or similar tablets) with my PC, laptop and phone. Sure enough, after a few weeks, watching Hulu on an Apple TV and a majority of what I see is MS Surface ads. Since I bought one and hadn't been searching, those ads disappeared.
That's just one example that stood out to me. I'm sure there are others that are a bit more subtle.
The only tax that Amazon gets to skirt is any difference between "Warehouse" and "Retail" for the number and square footage those warehouses take. Sure, they are a big retailer, but they have nowhere near the total square footage of the other big names like Target, Best Buy, etc...
It's because they are an online-only (well, mostly now) retailer that they are able to decrease their overall footprint and compete with the big boys. A better comparison (ignoring bankrupcies) would be Radio Shack is to Target as NewEgg is to Amazon.
Fedora is "bleeding edge" while Ubuntu favors stability - Fedora typically has newer versions of libraries sooner than Ubuntu does. While Ubuntu packages arent as old as Debian (which it's based on), Ubuntu is typically a bit more conservative and stable.
YUM (DNF) vs APT - Fedora uses YUM (now DNF) with RPM packages while Ubuntu uses APT and DEB packages. Functionally there isn't a lot of difference between the two, but the naming conventions for packages differ.
RPM vs DEB - Ubuntu is a little wider spread and has a bit stronger support. If you should need some obscure package/game/library, somebody likely has a.deb file of it, while you may be stuck with a manual compile/install on Fedora.
Repos - Ubuntu has a much larger number of third-party repos while Red Hat is slightly more consolidated (RPMFusion project).
Both will give you KDE (again, Fedora's version may be newer), MATE, LXDE, Gnome, etc... You can set either up however you'd like, and the default repos largely contain the same stuff.
Personally, I run Fedora since my work uses RHEL and that keeps me in the same mindset. I tend to bounce between Linux Mint and Fedora, and have found the only real difference for me comes down to some obscure libraries on (very rare) occasions. Folks complain that Fedora is unstable, and that's generally true for the first few weeks after release. I've had the same problem with Ubuntu, though... so YMMV
Except this particular development is starting to look like Cable TV 2.0. Instead of a "Prime Sports" package, the sports broadcasting will be subsidized across *all* prime members. The only difference is we'd be paying for one bundle we don't use, instead of 20.
The company reports 30,000 upcoming, but it'll be much more in the end when the story is forgotten and nobody's watching. The company has implemented a cheating device that reports fake numbers when the press and incestors are watching: they call it the PR Department...
That is the most accurate description of C-level management I have ever seen. Well done.
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Your analysis is way off. The RIAA owns plenty of distribution channels - their business IS distribution and Youtube is an unwelcome competitor. It would suit the labels just fine if Youtube died in a fire.
Lets continue this train of thought a little bit... Where do people still get music?
CD's at Best Buy/Hastings/Fry's/Target wherever... We've all seen the reports from the music industry that physical media sales are down, and have been on a downward slope for some time. The CD section of best buy (and DVD but that's another matter) is less than a quarter of what it was 10-15 years ago. Though I still occasionally get a CD through Amazon, I haven't actually done so in a couple years.
Digital distribution? The big players here are Spotify, iTunes (Apple), and Amazon. Does any member of the RIAA actually own or have a controlling stake in any of those? Didn't think so.
Radio/streaming - Amazon, SoundCloud, Youtube, Pandora, etc... None of these are run by the music industry either.
Physical media was the cash cow for the music industry for decades. Last I checked, NONE of the record labels for bands I listen to have their own digital distribution system. Those labels that do are also-rans, much like EA's Origin to Valve's Steam. Why limit myself to one label when I can get the same or better prices and wider selection somewhere else?
Youtube needs RIAA content more than the RIAA needs Youtube streaming.
If you've ever been to Youtube, you are sure to see clips from TV shows, assorted how-tos, video blogs, random people doing stupid things, video game stuff like speed runs and such, and cat videos (not necessarily in that order). True most of those videos have music, but they aren't RIAA albums or "official music videos". With this statement you're just embarrassing yourself.
Intel has seen the writing on the wall for some time now, that's why they've been pushing the Atom and i3 chips to lower and lower power consumption. They need to get some level of parity with the ARM chips or those areas where ARM excels (low power, low heat) will be eating Intel's lunch.
The Intel powered phones weren't quite there in power consumption, but they certainly had processing power. With ARMs becoming more ubiquitous and general-purpose, you can bet your ass Intel is pushing to keep their hardware in use.
It isn't that PSN is free and XBL is not. True you can browse stuff on the PSN, but in order to play games with friends and get the free monthly games, you need a Plus account, which is like the XBL gold account. It also isn't (necessarily) games, their starting libraries were very similar without many exclusives to either console. That's still pretty true, barring some of the established franchises like Gears of War and Uncharted.
Now with PS4 being the winner of this generation, developer focus is primarily on them.
I downloaded Windows 10 Developer Preview, which later was converted to a full license. I got a free version of Windows 10 just for signing up with a microsoft.com account.
This is precisely the reason for some emulators put a minimum age on the hardware they emulate. I seem to remember MAME having a minimum age of 3-5 years, so they are only emulating hardware that is last-gen and not likely actively sold by the OEM.
You're confusing that with "sodo" or "significant-other do". Last I checked that has a near 0% success rate when calling "sodo make-me-a-sammich".
Did you forget that the first ~year of the install base were given the upgrade for free?
Can you name one thing that your customers actually want that is actually being prevented by network neutrality regulations? Or is this more of the same big business "we'll tell you what you want and you'll like it!" bullshit we've gotten for years and years?
Nope. Even TFS says it is the T-Mobile Chief Financial Officer. His focus is right there in his job title. I wouldn't expect anything less than "this is great for our bottom line" to ever be said by a CFO. It just feels like he's seeing new ways to pad his wallet.
Shame too, since T-Mobile's "un-carrier" stuff with unlimited streaming was a breath of fresh air against the 2-year lockdowns, and pay-extra-for-everything-including-breathing of their competitors.
"Remember Ralphie, if you get a bloody nose it's because you're picking your nose too much... or not enough." - Chief Wiggum
Sure does! I used this to stay pure for marriage, by paying others not to have sex.
Paying others is a non-issue if the others you are considering are already married.
These sorts of programs should not be Federal.
Now I'd like to hear some logic behind that claim.
I can only see detriments. When states pick, the result will differ between them. That leads to unequal opportunities depending on where you were born, and as many gaps between haves and have-nots that divide further as gaps that close. Or more, because there seems to be a strong correlation between the overall poverty of a state and how reluctant it is to support science.
This. Then you get into some of the nonsense within the states, such as Kentucky legislators passing laws about teaching Creationism and Evolution as "alternate theories" to one another. I agree wholeheartedly that states have shown they aren't truly capable of making great decisions, just look at the lawsuits blocking competition to state-sponsored monopolies (Google Fiber vs TWC/Comcast/AT&T).
The only thinking behind a non-Federal initiative for education is the "No Child [Idiot] Left Behind" that pushes more standardized testing, and grading of teachers and schools based on how many kids fall below a set score. Face it folks, not all kids are going to be Math majors, and it's crazy to gauge a teachers abilities and a schools funding based on a few kids that aren't savants. Education is becoming more about teaching to a test than teaching kids to learn, think, and solve problems. It's gotten so bad that there's only one correct method to solve types of math problems now, goodbye long division/remainders, hello triangle-form (or whatever the hell they call it). For that we have ol' G.W. to blame.
However, we can fix those problems at the Federal level if we enable more teachers to actually do their jobs. Judge a school based on how many students graduate to the next school, not how little Timmy did on his math test.
My guess is because they didn't have test procedures for safety under various folds. Though if this race-to-paper continues, we may just have the Galaxy Note, Origami Fire edition.
It's probably the most cost-effective way to get back in the game. Back when it took 45 minutes to install and another few hours to configure the OS, it made sense to try to troubleshoot. Now it takes 5 minutes to install the OS, and with package managers (and assorted partition setup), you can be up and running in 10 minutes. Will it take 10 minutes to fix? no? re-install.
I use OpenDNS and have removed access to the latest list of MS telemetry servers. I use Windows 10 (sparingly) for games, and the odd application that actually does require windows. Yet I'm still able to update. Yes, it has managed to piss me off a couple times... but nowhere near the point of overhauling the box with Linux. Partially because the last time I tried to use Linux with this hardware it was even more of a pain to get to work, so I went with the path of least resistance.
Well yea, the whole point of a suicide bombing is to take as many of them with you as you can. If you can't get 200+ people on a 737, you can certainly get a few hundred in line for security at a major airport.
Instead of many lives and an airplane, it's many lives and reconstruction costs. How exactly is that any better?
I've seen the flip side of this coin too. I was in the market for a Microsoft Surface this year and had been doing a lot of research on them (or similar tablets) with my PC, laptop and phone. Sure enough, after a few weeks, watching Hulu on an Apple TV and a majority of what I see is MS Surface ads. Since I bought one and hadn't been searching, those ads disappeared.
That's just one example that stood out to me. I'm sure there are others that are a bit more subtle.
They know what you've been streaming,
;-)
They know that you're awake,
They've sold you to be advertized
So bend over and close your eyes...
Just thought I'd spread a little holiday cheer
They're nothing compared to ChuckNorium
MS Translation: "We've beefed up our storage capacity, we're now ready to know all about your business."
Maybe that's their new internal slogan "We make it our business to know all about your business".
The only tax that Amazon gets to skirt is any difference between "Warehouse" and "Retail" for the number and square footage those warehouses take. Sure, they are a big retailer, but they have nowhere near the total square footage of the other big names like Target, Best Buy, etc...
It's because they are an online-only (well, mostly now) retailer that they are able to decrease their overall footprint and compete with the big boys. A better comparison (ignoring bankrupcies) would be Radio Shack is to Target as NewEgg is to Amazon.
Both will give you KDE (again, Fedora's version may be newer), MATE, LXDE, Gnome, etc... You can set either up however you'd like, and the default repos largely contain the same stuff.
Personally, I run Fedora since my work uses RHEL and that keeps me in the same mindset. I tend to bounce between Linux Mint and Fedora, and have found the only real difference for me comes down to some obscure libraries on (very rare) occasions. Folks complain that Fedora is unstable, and that's generally true for the first few weeks after release. I've had the same problem with Ubuntu, though... so YMMV
Except this particular development is starting to look like Cable TV 2.0. Instead of a "Prime Sports" package, the sports broadcasting will be subsidized across *all* prime members. The only difference is we'd be paying for one bundle we don't use, instead of 20.
I think in this case the government has a right to it. Volkswagen was very naughty and even worse, they got caught.
Well, I guess we know which of Santa's lists they're on. Unfortunately I think they know what to do with that lump of coal...
"What are you doing to protect the environment?"
"I'm eating the cow."
The company reports 30,000 upcoming, but it'll be much more in the end when the story is forgotten and nobody's watching. The company has implemented a cheating device that reports fake numbers when the press and incestors are watching: they call it the PR Department...
That is the most accurate description of C-level management I have ever seen. Well done.