The problem is games. As odd as it may sound. What keeps most people chained to Windows is that their games don't run (properly or at all) on Linux without jumping through more hoops than they can. It's still not trivial to run games on Linux so they "just work". Especially when dealing with some of the more insanely DRMified junk from EA or Ubi.
Technological advances 30 years ago were for the benefit of their users. Technological advances today are for the benefit of their maker.
I prefer to be the user to being the product. That's why they were more exciting and actually something to look forward to. The question back then was "how do I get it?" The question today is "How do I turn it off?"
How about sharing and mixing our tracking cookies? That also works with pages that have this "facebook-like-my-shit" button that does actually track you, too, even if you have no account.
Nothing's worse than a poisoned data pool. Trust your statistician.
Didn't you learn anything from webpages and what happened to their ad revenues when ads became more and more obnoxious? What did people do? Grin and bear it? Pay for the pages? Or install more and more sophisticated blockers for the nuisance?
The only thing that will happen is that people install adblockers. Worse, you'll get people who did NOT use adblockers so far to use them. The ones that are your key audience. The ones that don't want to deal with "that computer shit" and just want their fix. The ones that still put up with your ads. You have already lost the ones that do care and that do know how to use adblockers. I haven't seen an ad on YouTube in ages.
You are about to learn what the webpage ad industry learned: That you can actually make mountains move if you pester them enough. These are the people who put up with 20+ popups from some "free" software they installed. These are the people that dutifully close window after window every time they start their computer because they have no idea how to clean their autorun from uninstalled software that didn't quite uninstall properly. These are the people that surf on 5" browser windows on 30" screens because the rest of the browser real estate is hogged by "browser bars" they somehow installed and now don't know how to get rid of.
The ad industry managed to piss THESE people off enough that they installed ad blockers!
And now they are whining and begging and threatening and complaining that their ad revenue dried up. And they beg and plead to deactivate and uninstall those adblockers. But there is no going back. These people will continue to block. Worse, it's likely they don't even know how to deactivate it, even if they could be bothered to do it.
YouTube, you're about to learn the same lesson. Why do you insist in touching the stove yourself, ain't it enough that everyone else is already crying over scorched hands?
Having valid information is good. Having bogus information that you know is bogus is also ok. Having bogus information you cannot tell from valid information is death to a database.
I think what he means is that the Chinese are about as communist anymore as the ISP market is a competitive free market. Sure, in name it still is, in practice, though,...
We're talking about patients that are well above 70 years. If it lasts 10-15 years, it probably lasts longer than the patient.
There is a reason why cataract operations are done when you're 70. The later you do them, the higher the complication chance and with a life span of about 20 years, the lens will probably last longer than you.
People laughed at me when I wept when the Soviet Union fell. Back when the evil Russians still existed our leaders had to pretend they're the good guys. Back then we had a evil empire that forced ours to be good. Today we have an evil empire that bribes ours to be as bad so it doesn't get noticed anymore.
What's "better" though? China still has one of the fastest growing economies. That certainly is good for... well, at least some Chinese. Not all, of course. Same as here, you know? Just with no growing economy and you can choose between two assholes to dictate your laws instead of having to go with only one.
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And why again do you think your laws apply here?
The problem is games. As odd as it may sound. What keeps most people chained to Windows is that their games don't run (properly or at all) on Linux without jumping through more hoops than they can. It's still not trivial to run games on Linux so they "just work". Especially when dealing with some of the more insanely DRMified junk from EA or Ubi.
Technological advances 30 years ago were for the benefit of their users. Technological advances today are for the benefit of their maker.
I prefer to be the user to being the product. That's why they were more exciting and actually something to look forward to. The question back then was "how do I get it?" The question today is "How do I turn it off?"
Pretty much this.
Ok, granted, I've been blocking that shit for ages, but now I at least have a moral justification.
But more important: How long will the rollback to a usable system take?
How about sharing and mixing our tracking cookies? That also works with pages that have this "facebook-like-my-shit" button that does actually track you, too, even if you have no account.
Nothing's worse than a poisoned data pool. Trust your statistician.
The ad industry is used to paying for the privilege to piss people off, there's nothing new here.
My guess is they're trying the market segment that cannot google "Youtube ad blocker".
Didn't you learn anything from webpages and what happened to their ad revenues when ads became more and more obnoxious? What did people do? Grin and bear it? Pay for the pages? Or install more and more sophisticated blockers for the nuisance?
The only thing that will happen is that people install adblockers. Worse, you'll get people who did NOT use adblockers so far to use them. The ones that are your key audience. The ones that don't want to deal with "that computer shit" and just want their fix. The ones that still put up with your ads. You have already lost the ones that do care and that do know how to use adblockers. I haven't seen an ad on YouTube in ages.
You are about to learn what the webpage ad industry learned: That you can actually make mountains move if you pester them enough. These are the people who put up with 20+ popups from some "free" software they installed. These are the people that dutifully close window after window every time they start their computer because they have no idea how to clean their autorun from uninstalled software that didn't quite uninstall properly. These are the people that surf on 5" browser windows on 30" screens because the rest of the browser real estate is hogged by "browser bars" they somehow installed and now don't know how to get rid of.
The ad industry managed to piss THESE people off enough that they installed ad blockers!
And now they are whining and begging and threatening and complaining that their ad revenue dried up. And they beg and plead to deactivate and uninstall those adblockers. But there is no going back. These people will continue to block. Worse, it's likely they don't even know how to deactivate it, even if they could be bothered to do it.
YouTube, you're about to learn the same lesson. Why do you insist in touching the stove yourself, ain't it enough that everyone else is already crying over scorched hands?
Actually China today has more of a nationalist dictatorship than a communist one.
And those revering Mao and Stalin should feel right home, especially now that Xi has essentially become dear leader for life.
Only that this blind pig somehow manages to find more acorns than the pigs searching with both eyes open.
Yes.
Can we start with the living before we try for the unborn?
Why not just have a real profile with fake data?
Having valid information is good. Having bogus information that you know is bogus is also ok. Having bogus information you cannot tell from valid information is death to a database.
I think what he means is that the Chinese are about as communist anymore as the ISP market is a competitive free market. Sure, in name it still is, in practice, though, ...
So many actually born people want to live and don't get to.
Life ain't fair and it ends in death. Deal with it.
I bet my eye sight that those "pro-lifers" won't have a problem whatsoever with it as long as they can see again.
Show me one moralist that doesn't immediately go into full reverse as soon as it affects him personally.
We're talking about patients that are well above 70 years. If it lasts 10-15 years, it probably lasts longer than the patient.
There is a reason why cataract operations are done when you're 70. The later you do them, the higher the complication chance and with a life span of about 20 years, the lens will probably last longer than you.
So Communism is not only more effective but also cheaper?
No. Hand them a bible, it should be at least as good.
If you think it's good enough for our education system, it's good enough for your health.
You know that there was time between WW2 and now, yes? Because until WW2 you might have had a case.
Please. There's things even the Chinese won't touch, they already have enough pollution at home, why import more?
Didn't you ever produce defective products and still wanted to sell them?
According to Iron Sky, I'd guess it could be Finland.
People laughed at me when I wept when the Soviet Union fell. Back when the evil Russians still existed our leaders had to pretend they're the good guys. Back then we had a evil empire that forced ours to be good. Today we have an evil empire that bribes ours to be as bad so it doesn't get noticed anymore.
Well, duh!
What's "better" though? China still has one of the fastest growing economies. That certainly is good for ... well, at least some Chinese. Not all, of course. Same as here, you know? Just with no growing economy and you can choose between two assholes to dictate your laws instead of having to go with only one.