No, the pundits are misunderstanding. Piracy is driven by the convenience of the piracy. Its merely the inconvenience necessary to get them to go legit is proportional to the affordability. However if piracy is convenient enough affordability offers little prevention.
This. I jumped on Steam today with my debit card in hand ready to make a purchase only to be greeted with: "Notice: Sales of Metro Exodus have been discontinued on Steam due to a publisher decision to make the game exclusive to another PC store."
I had no such problems on The Pirate Bay. Incidentally my card is still here on the table if the publisher wants to take my money through a means other than installing the Epic fail store on my computer.
That is an example that's for sure. I've seen something similar now that you mention it, but I can't recall where. In any case that one at least is a breach of the USB standards so it can't really be blamed on USB. Kind of makes me angry like the really early connected "USB" devices which were only USB on the computer end. I still have a box of cables somewhere with all sorts of weird connectors in it for those shitty Sony cameras that I probably should throw away.
But I bet you as soon as I throw away I find a device which needs it >_
You have repeated exactly what I said. You've listed 12 devices which plug into your PC using the same connector (compatibility) or 2 different connectors (speed). On the device side you have 3 different plugs (compatibility), or 4 (speed), + 1 for a device you don't own which if you had a modern motherboard would just work with a C connector.
You say you have 7/8 different cables on your desk, I count 3 which would work for all your devices, 4 if you need SS on the top one.
So where does that leave us? Some of your devices use an obsolete connection technology and yet work just fine even if you had a Macbook with only USB-C connectors. Why do I mention this? Well...
Seems to me that with USB, one now needs far more different types of cables than back in the days of RS232, parallel port, etc.
USB has been around for 25 years. It has seen more upgrades than any interface ever. The fact that you have 4 (7?) different cables yet all your devices including your friend's latest and greatest seem to work on your one computer is (excuse my french) fucking amazing. But as to how many cables you have on your device back in the day.
- Keyboard PS/2 - Mouse PS/2 - Printer Centronix - RS232 (what did you use this for, was it a "standard" cable with TX/RX/DTR/RTS? Was it a null modem cable? Did it have a DB9 / DB25 adapter? Did you have a serial printer since those were wired differently? Did you use one of the cables with a clock signal? Or the high speed 2 channel cable only available in DB25/DB25?) I mean with this standard alone we have more cable variants than are on your desk right now, and the best part was it was trial an error. Unlike USB just having the ability to plug it in did not at all mean it worked. - Gaming port because why not make something completely unique for a joystick.
I think that covers standard devices but we do so much more these days including external HDDs, and you mentioned evaluation boards so I'll keep going with some nerdier stuff: - External SCSI (about the only way to attach external storage to a computer, I can only remember about 6 different connectors but I'm sure there were more which were used for this stuff. including a Centronix connector which I think was one of the most common for PC and a DB25 which was most common for Macs. Along with all these connectors came some 10 different SCSI standards using at least 3 different (electrically) cables with the mixed salad of connectors on the end) - Before you had evaluation boards and test equipment on USB, we also had GPIB which was a extensible bus with a stacking connector widely used for evaluation boards and test equipment in labs (much of my gear still has GPIB connectors on the end, though these days I use a USB adapter for them.
In summary, if you have more cables now with USB than you did back in the good ol' days then you have done something very VERY wrong.
Ye be troll. A troll be spotted! A troll be spotted!
??? I'm genuinely confused. Are you suggesting that critics are paid by the movie? That the only movies rated poorly on RT are the ones not being paid for? Or was your argument so silly that you reverted to a caveman tactic https://yourlogicalfallacyis.c...
Stop wasting your own time repeating an argument that you already made and which was already shutdown earlier in this same thread.
has 8GB for future proofing
Stop wasting your time repeating a completely incorrect statement which you already made and which was already shutdown earlier in this same thread.
Must drive Nvidia nuts as their warehouse full of obsolete cards gets older and older. Getting close to the point where cheapest solution is landfill.
Huh? NVIDIA doesn't have a warehouse full of cards. They had a warehouse full of chips which affected Q4 results and which was solved by simply not manufacturing anymore. You realise listing a problem from September last year that has nothing to do with the gaming market and has already been solved complete with a proposed hyperbolic garbage (pun intended) solution doesn't help your argument right?
NVidia's response? RTX 2060 to run puddle tracing at 15 FPS.
Now you're talking about an 8GB card? Holy shit do you even have a coherent thought? But since you're clearly not a gamer let me actually update you on the gaming news: NVIDIA's response is the GTX1660, a card which on release caused AMD to shit themselves resulting in their entire CPU line including the 580 getting a heavy (incidentally this is the second time the RRP has been discounted in 2 months, you can send NVIDIA your thank-you letter). After all we wouldn't want them going to the "landfill" since that's apparently what happens to old cards still in the channel according to someone on the internet..
GTX 1660 to give loyal customers a reason not to buy 2080.
I think you just had a stroke. Call 911. When someone suddenly stops making what little sense they had mid sentence it's a clear sign of a stroke.
Sucks to be you.
Huh? Why? I own precisely none of the cards being discussed? The only negative impact on me at all is having to sit here and educate people who have no fucking idea what they are talking about.
A game made for the platform tends to run much better then on a PC with much higher specs in most areas. Because there is code that is needed to account for dealing with different drivers for a set of hardware.
Sorry but no. Games on PC run just fine with the same hardware as consoles. The problem is that game developers shit the bed when it comes to making consoles work and then ignore the capabilities of the PC. That's how you get shit like locked 50fps gameplay, jagged edges on 4K monitors thanks to internal fixed rendering resolutions (often with bizarre choices such as rendering at 900p and upscaling to 1080p because consoles are so underpowered).
Programming for a console is abstract enough that it doesn't make a difference anymore. There's no special magic hardware in an XBone that you can magically tune up to 11 which you can't on a PC.
When a PC is built, they will often get the Expensive Video Card, but cheap on on RAM, or get a slow drive. Hardware makers don't make it easy for most people to make informed decisions. Core i3, i5, i7, i9 6th, 7th, 8th gen? Sure 8th Gen i9 is probably the fastest, but it is wicked expensive. But am I better off with the 8th gen i5 or a 7th Gen i7?
Let me make this easy for you: 1. Your gaming PC *has* more RAM than an xbox one. 2. Your video card in your gaming PC (I'm talking about a machine built in the past generation (i.e. maybe 3 year old video card) is faster than the one in the xbox one. 3. Your CPU is 100% completely irrelevant. Not just a bit irrelevant. But completely irrelevant. Unless you're playing Ashes, but that game is incredibly unique. So 8th gen i5? 7th gen i7? You've already lost. Your 6th gen CPU is more than sufficient for every game on the market.
You can however be a complete arse and expect most people to not give a shit. It's quite interesting you stopped at Feb 19. Notice that Feb 19 - Feb 20 more than doubled the total number of responses and at Feb 21 there were more responses than any other movie on record?, all this a full week after the femnazi mouthed off and it hit the media?
You know what we call that? A coordinated campaign.
Interestingly it's not the actors needing to do anything. They aren't the ones complaining. It's RT that's complaining their platform is being misused, and they're not wrong. Go picket somewhere else.
Theory: "Everyone - leaves an honest answer to the question "do you want to see this movie"" Reality: "Everyone - I may leave an honest answer but I couldn't be fucked opening the website"
As a matter of interest do you think that Brie Larson is the first actress / director to shit in the bed right before a movie is released? Where were the 44000 angry white men the last 20 times this happened?
Yes this was a trolling campaign. Real men don't give enough shits about this. And fuck my karma but let's face it, getting incredibly hot headed and worked up about something incredibly trivial someone may have said is a thing... but not a thing that happens to men.
Just clicking around finds no other movies that shows anybody who wants to see them. Only Captain Marvel. Now perhaps there is a threshhold of votes that have to be met before Rotten Tomatoes will display the numbers.
More likely you didn't look hard enough: Avengers Endgame: 10k people want to see, Frozen 2: 1050 want to see. John Wick 3: 700 want to see. You know this metric gets nuked as soon as a movie is released right?
have been doing a counter-troll campaign to drive up the number of people planning to see the movie?
100%. There was definitely a campaign to boost the numbers. I was paying attention as this story unfolded. 2 weeks ago there was about 2k people on the want to see and like 90% positive. Then the review bombs hit and at one point it was almost in the single digits positive with 20k+ opinions. Now as it stands more people want to see Captain Marvel than wanting to see the end of the most anticipated comic movie of this generation?
Definitely there was a counter campaign.
And will Rotten Tomatoes investigate and remove any fraudulent votes for the movie? Or just negative fraudulent votes?
Really there's no point. As I said this metric is removed on release anyway and it will soon be forgotten and these stupid bombing campaigns will simply not affect a movie prior to release in the future.
There's also no proof of review bombing despite all of the media outlets reporting that's the case. Rather it seems to directly centered around the main actress(Brie Larson ) being a misandrist, and a racist, while engaging in over sexism towards the primary audience.
As covered yesterday there's no proof but Occams Razor certainly points towards a co-ordinated campaign. The movie industry has been no stranger to incredible critique where directors / lead actors have outright shat the bed prior to a movie release, yet somehow some comic book flick found 44000 people (70x more than normal) butt-hurt enough to go online and have their click heard on a review system which gets deleted after a movie gets released anyway?
They are the most obvious shills on the internet and the old business model of independent critics is coming to an end. Critics now have to compete with regular viewers which is apparently a problem. Can't have people disagree with critics/narrative or else they be racist sexist trolls!
WTF are you on about. Critics in general aren't shills by any means and being paid to write reviews does not mean they favour any specific movie. You can see that happily if you actually bothered to read critical reviews. They do however fall into a certain general group that get attracted more to specific elements of a film than a general audience.
Do not disagree lest ye be troll!
WTF are you on about. People can and do happily disagree with critics all the time and don't get called a troll for it.
Opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one, no two are alike, and everyone think's other's smell of shit.
The 8GB Radeon you disparage is actually the top selling card on Amazon. Now wipe that spittle off your chin.
It's a great low range graphics card which performs worse than the card NVIDIA just superseded. Not everyone can afford to be a mid-range wannabe gamer.
How are you struggling to find the right cable? Saying there's 22 is stupid. The reality is far simpler:
The host side has 1 general style that always works, broken up into 3 if you need to pick your exact speed. Type A, Type A SS, and Type C. Other than iGarbage devices there's nothing being shipped that has Type C which also doesn't have Type A SS. All Type A connectors are compatible with each other.
That leaves us with the other side: Type B hasn't been in common use for years and is only found on devices you won't typically plug and unplug very often (reads fixed devices) Type B SS is rarer than hens teeth, I've only ever seen it on a single device. A HDD docking station. Ultimately it leaves you with Type B mini, Type B micro, and Type C. The Type B micro SS is completely compatible with Type B micro.
The A side is virtually non existent out there in mini and micro variants, and so is TypeA-B.
If you buy a device right now it will come with one of only 3 different cables, all of which will connect to a modern computer and are device dependent. If you're juggling more than 3 cables for the "22" (purposeful use of quotes since there's not 22 different connectors) connectors then you're doing something horribly wrong.
Is it not? Ironically I can happily plug a USB1.1 device in my USB 3.1 gen 2 (now USB 3.2 gen 2) socket on my motherboard. Likewise any device that comes with a cable that has USB-B socket on the end can plug in any motherboard completely regardless of which standard that socket supports.
Huh? Other than USB-C what USB device has ever necessitated you buying an adapter or a cable? My USB 3.1 gen 1 SSD will happily plug into the USB 1.1 socket on a 00s era motherboard with the included cable.
If USB can be described one way it would be incredibly backwards compatible. Hell that abortion of a USB-B micro 3.0 plug is living proof of that.
Devils advocate. I highly doubt it. Unlike a short period after USB2.0 was released currently there's little to no devices on the market that actually make use of USB 3.2 gen whatever the fuck the fastest USB3.1 thing was called. There's very little demand for it and if you drop top dollar on a motherboard right now you'd be lucky to get 1 or 2 USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports and many current cases still don't offer them.
I highly doubt there's any pressure here beyond: Well we did it the last few times so people expect us to do it now.
Through a barely used metric by a factor of 70x more than normal? If what you said is true we'd have seen this played over and over again. Captain Marvel is not the first movie to be mired in controversy, it is merely the latest.
The other thing you're missing here is the vocal minority. A person will generally bitch and moan, but people generally just don't care. Even thought the main actor shat her bed I find it highly unlikely that you'll get 44000 people to rage about it in one place, much less a pointless metric that disappears on release date from a website.
You're basically taking the stance that so many companies are these days. Companies like eBay and Netflix want to sanitize reviews so that people can't leave negative remarks or feedback.
I'm doing nothing of the sort. People should keep doing whatever the hell blows their whistle. I'm simply pointing out the obvious: The figures presented aren't a reflection of 44000's actual opinion.
And while it seems you can still give a negative review on Rotten Tomatoes, they're moving down the same path with the changes they've made.
Explain this to me please. I've seen nothing of the sort.
That's the way things work today.
Yes it is. No one is disputing the cause of the "review bomb". That is pretty much clear.
Sure in terms of network you're right. I'm talking about in terms of the user using their device. Reduced page load times means navigation is faster means less sitting and waiting on your device.
Latency wasn't the best term to describe it, but the point was just because I only browse slashdot all day doesn't mean I'd be happier if each page loaded in 0.5 seconds instead of 2 seconds.
His tweet is different but if the earnings report talks about hitting those numbers with a Model 3, imagine what Tesla could do if they actually had more than one model on the market...
People are concerned also in practice, not just in theory. But many lack the will power or are outright too lazy to take the appropriate measures.
It's not lacking the willpower, it's lacking the overall concern. Are people concerned about their privacy? Yep. Are people willing to sell it in exchange for a product that can't be had any other way? Also Yes.
There's no dichotomy between theory and practice here.
You're an idiot if you think speed is the only enabler of this technology and that "people" are the only target market.
I for one am looking forward to better battery life, seamless tower handover, and not having my phone drop off every time there's people watching a football game in the stadium next door.
Do you need that much faster speed(that you're probably not going to get) and limited bandwidth(10GB per month for $100?! sign me in!), on your mobile phone?
Yes. Speed reduces latency. It reduces active time on the modem and helps reduce battery life. Additionally it has better capacity for devices, better handover between towers, it also provides an ultra low power platform for connected devices (replacing not only LTE but also LoRa)
Seriously, this is less disruptive than having backdoors in it.
Not really. By it's nature espionage is not disruptive. Plus you're not guaranteeing preventing backdoors by limiting one vendor based on the word of the very people who have been caught spying on your communication.
why the hell is there a need to continuously blast music in a coffee shop, to begin with?
have human gotten so used to watching movies that they can't imagine anything in life without a background music track?
I don't know what you mean with "gotten". The psychological impacts of silence are well understood and the practice of adding background music to a relaxing environment dates back to the days of bards and mead.
Now if Starbucks is "blasting" music that's different, but the reality is we don't tolerate silence well in a mixed environment and the only time we truly appreciate silence is when the silence is complete and we're alone with our thoughts. Typically at that point many people will distract themselves by picking up and reading a book.
Forward projections of material facts issued by corporation directors are required to be issued to all shareholders simultaneously, and to be accompanied by specific legal disclaimers.
The proper way to release material information is in quarterly reports, or in pre-announced earnings calls.
Issuing these projections by tweet is never ok. It is especially bad for Elon because he has already been spanked once for this behavior, and had signed a consent decree to not do it again.
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No, the pundits are misunderstanding. Piracy is driven by the convenience of the piracy. Its merely the inconvenience necessary to get them to go legit is proportional to the affordability. However if piracy is convenient enough affordability offers little prevention.
This. I jumped on Steam today with my debit card in hand ready to make a purchase only to be greeted with:
"Notice: Sales of Metro Exodus have been discontinued on Steam due to a publisher decision to make the game exclusive to another PC store."
I had no such problems on The Pirate Bay. Incidentally my card is still here on the table if the publisher wants to take my money through a means other than installing the Epic fail store on my computer.
That is an example that's for sure. I've seen something similar now that you mention it, but I can't recall where. In any case that one at least is a breach of the USB standards so it can't really be blamed on USB. Kind of makes me angry like the really early connected "USB" devices which were only USB on the computer end. I still have a box of cables somewhere with all sorts of weird connectors in it for those shitty Sony cameras that I probably should throw away.
But I bet you as soon as I throw away I find a device which needs it >_
You have repeated exactly what I said.
You've listed 12 devices which plug into your PC using the same connector (compatibility) or 2 different connectors (speed).
On the device side you have 3 different plugs (compatibility), or 4 (speed), + 1 for a device you don't own which if you had a modern motherboard would just work with a C connector.
You say you have 7/8 different cables on your desk, I count 3 which would work for all your devices, 4 if you need SS on the top one.
So where does that leave us? Some of your devices use an obsolete connection technology and yet work just fine even if you had a Macbook with only USB-C connectors. Why do I mention this? Well...
Seems to me that with USB, one now needs far more different types of cables than back in the days of RS232, parallel port, etc.
USB has been around for 25 years. It has seen more upgrades than any interface ever. The fact that you have 4 (7?) different cables yet all your devices including your friend's latest and greatest seem to work on your one computer is (excuse my french) fucking amazing. But as to how many cables you have on your device back in the day.
- Keyboard PS/2
- Mouse PS/2
- Printer Centronix
- RS232 (what did you use this for, was it a "standard" cable with TX/RX/DTR/RTS? Was it a null modem cable? Did it have a DB9 / DB25 adapter? Did you have a serial printer since those were wired differently? Did you use one of the cables with a clock signal? Or the high speed 2 channel cable only available in DB25/DB25?) I mean with this standard alone we have more cable variants than are on your desk right now, and the best part was it was trial an error. Unlike USB just having the ability to plug it in did not at all mean it worked.
- Gaming port because why not make something completely unique for a joystick.
I think that covers standard devices but we do so much more these days including external HDDs, and you mentioned evaluation boards so I'll keep going with some nerdier stuff:
- External SCSI (about the only way to attach external storage to a computer, I can only remember about 6 different connectors but I'm sure there were more which were used for this stuff. including a Centronix connector which I think was one of the most common for PC and a DB25 which was most common for Macs. Along with all these connectors came some 10 different SCSI standards using at least 3 different (electrically) cables with the mixed salad of connectors on the end)
- Before you had evaluation boards and test equipment on USB, we also had GPIB which was a extensible bus with a stacking connector widely used for evaluation boards and test equipment in labs (much of my gear still has GPIB connectors on the end, though these days I use a USB adapter for them.
In summary, if you have more cables now with USB than you did back in the good ol' days then you have done something very VERY wrong.
Ye be troll. A troll be spotted! A troll be spotted!
??? I'm genuinely confused. Are you suggesting that critics are paid by the movie? That the only movies rated poorly on RT are the ones not being paid for? Or was your argument so silly that you reverted to a caveman tactic https://yourlogicalfallacyis.c...
Apparently, RX 580 is what customers actually
Stop wasting your own time repeating an argument that you already made and which was already shutdown earlier in this same thread.
has 8GB for future proofing
Stop wasting your time repeating a completely incorrect statement which you already made and which was already shutdown earlier in this same thread.
Must drive Nvidia nuts as their warehouse full of obsolete cards gets older and older. Getting close to the point where cheapest solution is landfill.
Huh? NVIDIA doesn't have a warehouse full of cards. They had a warehouse full of chips which affected Q4 results and which was solved by simply not manufacturing anymore. You realise listing a problem from September last year that has nothing to do with the gaming market and has already been solved complete with a proposed hyperbolic garbage (pun intended) solution doesn't help your argument right?
NVidia's response? RTX 2060 to run puddle tracing at 15 FPS.
Now you're talking about an 8GB card? Holy shit do you even have a coherent thought? But since you're clearly not a gamer let me actually update you on the gaming news: NVIDIA's response is the GTX1660, a card which on release caused AMD to shit themselves resulting in their entire CPU line including the 580 getting a heavy (incidentally this is the second time the RRP has been discounted in 2 months, you can send NVIDIA your thank-you letter). After all we wouldn't want them going to the "landfill" since that's apparently what happens to old cards still in the channel according to someone on the internet..
GTX 1660 to give loyal customers a reason not to buy 2080.
I think you just had a stroke. Call 911. When someone suddenly stops making what little sense they had mid sentence it's a clear sign of a stroke.
Sucks to be you.
Huh? Why? I own precisely none of the cards being discussed? The only negative impact on me at all is having to sit here and educate people who have no fucking idea what they are talking about.
A game made for the platform tends to run much better then on a PC with much higher specs in most areas. Because there is code that is needed to account for dealing with different drivers for a set of hardware.
Sorry but no. Games on PC run just fine with the same hardware as consoles. The problem is that game developers shit the bed when it comes to making consoles work and then ignore the capabilities of the PC. That's how you get shit like locked 50fps gameplay, jagged edges on 4K monitors thanks to internal fixed rendering resolutions (often with bizarre choices such as rendering at 900p and upscaling to 1080p because consoles are so underpowered).
Programming for a console is abstract enough that it doesn't make a difference anymore. There's no special magic hardware in an XBone that you can magically tune up to 11 which you can't on a PC.
When a PC is built, they will often get the Expensive Video Card, but cheap on on RAM, or get a slow drive. Hardware makers don't make it easy for most people to make informed decisions. Core i3, i5, i7, i9 6th, 7th, 8th gen? Sure 8th Gen i9 is probably the fastest, but it is wicked expensive. But am I better off with the 8th gen i5 or a 7th Gen i7?
Let me make this easy for you:
1. Your gaming PC *has* more RAM than an xbox one.
2. Your video card in your gaming PC (I'm talking about a machine built in the past generation (i.e. maybe 3 year old video card) is faster than the one in the xbox one.
3. Your CPU is 100% completely irrelevant. Not just a bit irrelevant. But completely irrelevant. Unless you're playing Ashes, but that game is incredibly unique. So 8th gen i5? 7th gen i7? You've already lost. Your 6th gen CPU is more than sufficient for every game on the market.
You cannot just be a complete ass and expect people not to react. https://web.archive.org/web/*/... [archive.org]
You can however be a complete arse and expect most people to not give a shit. It's quite interesting you stopped at Feb 19. Notice that Feb 19 - Feb 20 more than doubled the total number of responses and at Feb 21 there were more responses than any other movie on record?, all this a full week after the femnazi mouthed off and it hit the media?
You know what we call that? A coordinated campaign.
Interestingly it's not the actors needing to do anything. They aren't the ones complaining. It's RT that's complaining their platform is being misused, and they're not wrong. Go picket somewhere else.
Theory: "Everyone - leaves an honest answer to the question "do you want to see this movie""
Reality: "Everyone - I may leave an honest answer but I couldn't be fucked opening the website"
As a matter of interest do you think that Brie Larson is the first actress / director to shit in the bed right before a movie is released? Where were the 44000 angry white men the last 20 times this happened?
Yes this was a trolling campaign. Real men don't give enough shits about this. And fuck my karma but let's face it, getting incredibly hot headed and worked up about something incredibly trivial someone may have said is a thing ... but not a thing that happens to men.
Just clicking around finds no other movies that shows anybody who wants to see them. Only Captain Marvel. Now perhaps there is a threshhold of votes that have to be met before Rotten Tomatoes will display the numbers.
More likely you didn't look hard enough: Avengers Endgame: 10k people want to see, Frozen 2: 1050 want to see. John Wick 3: 700 want to see. You know this metric gets nuked as soon as a movie is released right?
have been doing a counter-troll campaign to drive up the number of people planning to see the movie?
100%. There was definitely a campaign to boost the numbers. I was paying attention as this story unfolded. 2 weeks ago there was about 2k people on the want to see and like 90% positive. Then the review bombs hit and at one point it was almost in the single digits positive with 20k+ opinions. Now as it stands more people want to see Captain Marvel than wanting to see the end of the most anticipated comic movie of this generation?
Definitely there was a counter campaign.
And will Rotten Tomatoes investigate and remove any fraudulent votes for the movie? Or just negative fraudulent votes?
Really there's no point. As I said this metric is removed on release anyway and it will soon be forgotten and these stupid bombing campaigns will simply not affect a movie prior to release in the future.
There's also no proof of review bombing despite all of the media outlets reporting that's the case. Rather it seems to directly centered around the main actress(Brie Larson ) being a misandrist, and a racist, while engaging in over sexism towards the primary audience.
As covered yesterday there's no proof but Occams Razor certainly points towards a co-ordinated campaign. The movie industry has been no stranger to incredible critique where directors / lead actors have outright shat the bed prior to a movie release, yet somehow some comic book flick found 44000 people (70x more than normal) butt-hurt enough to go online and have their click heard on a review system which gets deleted after a movie gets released anyway?
Doesn't pass the pub test.
They are the most obvious shills on the internet and the old business model of independent critics is coming to an end. Critics now have to compete with regular viewers which is apparently a problem. Can't have people disagree with critics/narrative or else they be racist sexist trolls!
WTF are you on about. Critics in general aren't shills by any means and being paid to write reviews does not mean they favour any specific movie. You can see that happily if you actually bothered to read critical reviews. They do however fall into a certain general group that get attracted more to specific elements of a film than a general audience.
Do not disagree lest ye be troll!
WTF are you on about. People can and do happily disagree with critics all the time and don't get called a troll for it.
Opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one, no two are alike, and everyone think's other's smell of shit.
The 8GB Radeon you disparage is actually the top selling card on Amazon. Now wipe that spittle off your chin.
It's a great low range graphics card which performs worse than the card NVIDIA just superseded. Not everyone can afford to be a mid-range wannabe gamer.
How are you struggling to find the right cable? Saying there's 22 is stupid. The reality is far simpler:
The host side has 1 general style that always works, broken up into 3 if you need to pick your exact speed. Type A, Type A SS, and Type C. Other than iGarbage devices there's nothing being shipped that has Type C which also doesn't have Type A SS. All Type A connectors are compatible with each other.
That leaves us with the other side:
Type B hasn't been in common use for years and is only found on devices you won't typically plug and unplug very often (reads fixed devices)
Type B SS is rarer than hens teeth, I've only ever seen it on a single device. A HDD docking station.
Ultimately it leaves you with Type B mini, Type B micro, and Type C. The Type B micro SS is completely compatible with Type B micro.
The A side is virtually non existent out there in mini and micro variants, and so is TypeA-B.
If you buy a device right now it will come with one of only 3 different cables, all of which will connect to a modern computer and are device dependent. If you're juggling more than 3 cables for the "22" (purposeful use of quotes since there's not 22 different connectors) connectors then you're doing something horribly wrong.
Is it not? Ironically I can happily plug a USB1.1 device in my USB 3.1 gen 2 (now USB 3.2 gen 2) socket on my motherboard. Likewise any device that comes with a cable that has USB-B socket on the end can plug in any motherboard completely regardless of which standard that socket supports.
Huh? Other than USB-C what USB device has ever necessitated you buying an adapter or a cable? My USB 3.1 gen 1 SSD will happily plug into the USB 1.1 socket on a 00s era motherboard with the included cable.
If USB can be described one way it would be incredibly backwards compatible. Hell that abortion of a USB-B micro 3.0 plug is living proof of that.
This probably is falling along similar lines.
Devils advocate. I highly doubt it. Unlike a short period after USB2.0 was released currently there's little to no devices on the market that actually make use of USB 3.2 gen whatever the fuck the fastest USB3.1 thing was called. There's very little demand for it and if you drop top dollar on a motherboard right now you'd be lucky to get 1 or 2 USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports and many current cases still don't offer them.
I highly doubt there's any pressure here beyond: Well we did it the last few times so people expect us to do it now.
People are voicing their opinions.
Through a barely used metric by a factor of 70x more than normal? If what you said is true we'd have seen this played over and over again. Captain Marvel is not the first movie to be mired in controversy, it is merely the latest.
The other thing you're missing here is the vocal minority. A person will generally bitch and moan, but people generally just don't care. Even thought the main actor shat her bed I find it highly unlikely that you'll get 44000 people to rage about it in one place, much less a pointless metric that disappears on release date from a website.
You're basically taking the stance that so many companies are these days. Companies like eBay and Netflix want to sanitize reviews so that people can't leave negative remarks or feedback.
I'm doing nothing of the sort. People should keep doing whatever the hell blows their whistle. I'm simply pointing out the obvious: The figures presented aren't a reflection of 44000's actual opinion.
And while it seems you can still give a negative review on Rotten Tomatoes, they're moving down the same path with the changes they've made.
Explain this to me please. I've seen nothing of the sort.
That's the way things work today.
Yes it is. No one is disputing the cause of the "review bomb". That is pretty much clear.
Sure in terms of network you're right. I'm talking about in terms of the user using their device. Reduced page load times means navigation is faster means less sitting and waiting on your device.
Latency wasn't the best term to describe it, but the point was just because I only browse slashdot all day doesn't mean I'd be happier if each page loaded in 0.5 seconds instead of 2 seconds.
His tweet talks about 2019 which is different.
His tweet is different but if the earnings report talks about hitting those numbers with a Model 3, imagine what Tesla could do if they actually had more than one model on the market...
People are concerned also in practice, not just in theory. But many lack the will power or are outright too lazy to take the appropriate measures.
It's not lacking the willpower, it's lacking the overall concern. Are people concerned about their privacy? Yep. Are people willing to sell it in exchange for a product that can't be had any other way? Also Yes.
There's no dichotomy between theory and practice here.
You're an idiot if you think speed is the only enabler of this technology and that "people" are the only target market.
I for one am looking forward to better battery life, seamless tower handover, and not having my phone drop off every time there's people watching a football game in the stadium next door.
Do you need that much faster speed(that you're probably not going to get) and limited bandwidth(10GB per month for $100?! sign me in!), on your mobile phone?
Yes. Speed reduces latency. It reduces active time on the modem and helps reduce battery life. Additionally it has better capacity for devices, better handover between towers, it also provides an ultra low power platform for connected devices (replacing not only LTE but also LoRa)
Seriously, this is less disruptive than having backdoors in it.
Not really. By it's nature espionage is not disruptive. Plus you're not guaranteeing preventing backdoors by limiting one vendor based on the word of the very people who have been caught spying on your communication.
why the hell is there a need to continuously blast music in a coffee shop, to begin with?
have human gotten so used to watching movies that they can't imagine anything in life without a background music track?
I don't know what you mean with "gotten". The psychological impacts of silence are well understood and the practice of adding background music to a relaxing environment dates back to the days of bards and mead.
Now if Starbucks is "blasting" music that's different, but the reality is we don't tolerate silence well in a mixed environment and the only time we truly appreciate silence is when the silence is complete and we're alone with our thoughts. Typically at that point many people will distract themselves by picking up and reading a book.
Forward projections of material facts issued by corporation directors are required to be issued to all shareholders simultaneously, and to be accompanied by specific legal disclaimers.
The proper way to release material information is in quarterly reports, or in pre-announced earnings calls.
Issuing these projections by tweet is never ok. It is especially bad for Elon because he has already been spanked once for this behavior, and had signed a consent decree to not do it again.
You mean this earnings report released in Q4 last year which quotes the annualized 500k figure? http://ir.tesla.com/static-fil...