Make all your material available all the time, everywhere, in convenient ways, at reasonable prices. Stop the artificial scarcity nonsense. Stop making people feel like criminals. Stop limiting where and when they can watch/listen to the material. Abandon the the-material-is-ours-not-yours-we-just-let-you-watch-it-as-and-when-we-want mindset. Hardcore pirates will still practice piracy. Normal people will do the right thing, just because it is right, and for peace of mind.
It is, of course, your right, to carry on doing what you are doing. You might even make more money with the current approach. But, the thorn in your side, of millions upon millions of people enjoying your material for free, day after day, year after year, will dig in deeper and deeper. Piracy is not going anywhere. If anything, with faster and faster networks, it will get worse. The choice is yours: learn to live with rampant piracy, as is happening now, or with a modest amount of piracy - much easier to monitor, control, and suppress. The twentieth century is not coming back.
As long as those advertising clowns believe that advertising is going to earn a them an extra few, clueless customers, advertising will be staying. That is a good thing for those of us who use ad blockers - we won't see their stupid ads, but those stupid ads will carry on paying for things. Since there will always be clueless customers, and since the advertising clowns will always have the suspicion that advertising captures such morons, advertising will stay. And we won't see the ads. Things are good.
We have been promised real AI any time now for forty years. What we have are the utterly stupid chatbots and the only somewhat less stupid digital assistants, which are good for party games, grins and giggles, and little more. Hopefully, this time things will be different - but I am not holding my breath.
That's what happens when a company does not deliver hot devices. Those that come up with explosive handsets are doing much better. Indeed, they have rekindled the public's interest, with their money now burning a hole in their pockets. Such fiery companies are searing the competition.
Currently, these so-called "intelligent assistants" are little more than toys. You play with them for a couple of days, they are kind of fun, but then the novelty of the toy wears off. They are OK when it comes to rather specific questions, and all but useless for issues that require a minimum of intelligence.I expect that, one day, they will live up to their name. As of today, they are toys.
I can't wait for this medium (and its high resolution counterpart) to die. Not only it is a fragile PoS - unlike what we were told initially, that you could scratch it with a screwdriver and it would keep working regardless - but, in addition, they tend to be shipped with unskippable junk that you have to watch every single time, before watching the material you are interested in.
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Seriously, how many articles about that CrapOS can you bring per month?!?!
Indeed. I think it is high time to have a browser add-on to filter out articles about that trash.
Make all your material available all the time, everywhere, in convenient ways, at reasonable prices. Stop the artificial scarcity nonsense. Stop making people feel like criminals. Stop limiting where and when they can watch/listen to the material. Abandon the the-material-is-ours-not-yours-we-just-let-you-watch-it-as-and-when-we-want mindset. Hardcore pirates will still practice piracy. Normal people will do the right thing, just because it is right, and for peace of mind. It is, of course, your right, to carry on doing what you are doing. You might even make more money with the current approach. But, the thorn in your side, of millions upon millions of people enjoying your material for free, day after day, year after year, will dig in deeper and deeper. Piracy is not going anywhere. If anything, with faster and faster networks, it will get worse. The choice is yours: learn to live with rampant piracy, as is happening now, or with a modest amount of piracy - much easier to monitor, control, and suppress. The twentieth century is not coming back.
It is not infinite - it gets interrupted when the phone explodes - this is a Samsung phone that we are talking about.
The defense people ought to select the most explosive device.
The duchy is full.
But when will we see hydrogen filled drives?
Never. The drives would just hover away :-)
Just as they were not bothered by poor sales in the mobile space? Consider yourself middle-fingered, Microsoft.
As long as those advertising clowns believe that advertising is going to earn a them an extra few, clueless customers, advertising will be staying. That is a good thing for those of us who use ad blockers - we won't see their stupid ads, but those stupid ads will carry on paying for things. Since there will always be clueless customers, and since the advertising clowns will always have the suspicion that advertising captures such morons, advertising will stay. And we won't see the ads. Things are good.
We have been promised real AI any time now for forty years. What we have are the utterly stupid chatbots and the only somewhat less stupid digital assistants, which are good for party games, grins and giggles, and little more. Hopefully, this time things will be different - but I am not holding my breath.
As in "more explosive"? It's Samsung that we are talking about - a company on fire, hell-bent on delivering the hottest products,
That's what happens when a company does not deliver hot devices. Those that come up with explosive handsets are doing much better. Indeed, they have rekindled the public's interest, with their money now burning a hole in their pockets. Such fiery companies are searing the competition.
Like the other dozens of projects and partnerships that have promised pretty much the same over the last 40+ years.
For, if it is, this will be the hottest product of the year.
Currently, these so-called "intelligent assistants" are little more than toys. You play with them for a couple of days, they are kind of fun, but then the novelty of the toy wears off. They are OK when it comes to rather specific questions, and all but useless for issues that require a minimum of intelligence.I expect that, one day, they will live up to their name. As of today, they are toys.
What a disappointment. I had grown fond of Samsung's explosive devices.
We'll see.
For the masochist in you.
Who is/has computer is it again? Syntax error.
Yet.
That gives yet another opportunity to publish a scathing review of Microsoft's trash. As usual, consider yourself middle-fingered, Microsoft.
With Samsung's forthcoming hot handsets. They will redefine what an explosive device is all about.
Poor and uneducated do not go together. In particular, there are many who are thoroughly uneducated, but not necessarily poor.
It is the last five decades, not just the last decade. Since the 60s, AI has been synonymous with hype, wild exaggeration, and plain lies.
I can't wait for this medium (and its high resolution counterpart) to die. Not only it is a fragile PoS - unlike what we were told initially, that you could scratch it with a screwdriver and it would keep working regardless - but, in addition, they tend to be shipped with unskippable junk that you have to watch every single time, before watching the material you are interested in.
Opera makes no difference any more. Much less as a closed source project.