If you buy something that requires the manufacturer's equipment to operate, it means, of course, that they can effectively brick your purchase any time they want, for any reason they choose.
No price is low enough to buy something you do not actually own.
And no subtitles, or at least no subtitle system that doesn't burn up your eye muscles trying to focus at vastly different distances.
2. People everywhere.
Talking on their phones and to each other during the show, answering texts, spilling popcorn and soda all over the place and talking to each other during the show. and incidentally getting you charged with assault if you nudge them to call their attention to the above facts.
3. Focus.
Matter of pure choice on the part of the viewer.
4. Relentlessness.
Matter of viewer attention. See item 3.
5. A massive speaker system.
As if I really need more hearing damage than I have. These days theater speakers are set for rock concert volumes.
6. Previews.
These are nothing more than paid-for advertising which you frequently forget about by the time the movie being advertised comes out.
7. Disruption.
See items 3 and 4 above. Also, if a movie can't hold your attention to begin with, it's already not worth watching.
8. Alone time.
Huh? My family and I watch DVD movies together every weekend. We cherish it.
9. 32 ounces of cola in the dark.
And insulin injections in the light of morning. There are very few theater snacks which aren't on my doctor's KOS list..
10. Bragging rights.
WTF? Just how many movies these days are worth bragging about?
I'm not sure why anyone would think any person would be receptive to anything "compulsory" or "forced" whether math, religion, or whatever.
Why this is shocking or unusual I have no idea. You cant "force" someone to believe in something they don't. Sorry.
Don't be sorry. I was about to say pretty much the same thing in my own words. Compulsory exercise doesn't create a love of exercise. Compulsory reading doesn't create a love of literature, and on and on and on.
I can think of exactly ONE book I was required to read in high school that is still held in my heart, "The Little World of Don Camillo," back in 1963. I can't even remember what the other ones in that summer reading package were.
EXPOSURE works, for those who become interested. For the rest, it's a waste of the teacher's time and theirs.
Every subtitle system in the theaters forces the viewer to switch between two distances: the screen and the subtitle screen, which is MUCH closer to the viewer.
I don't have to put up with that for DVDs and I see no reason to fry my eye muscles trying to figure out WTF a character I can barely hear just said.
1. Turn out the rare movie worth watching in a theater. 2. Turn out the less rare movie worth watching when it gets to DVD. 3. Turn out a lot of movies that aren't worth watching. Period. 4. Go and whine to congress for legislation to protect them from "predatory competition."*
*Anybody who's eating your lunch is considered predatory, even if it's your fault.
Keep that in mind. Unions in such states are pretty much greedy monopolies, extracting dues whether the workers want them to or not, and then using the dues to buy political influence. Reminds me of corporations but without stockholders.
Unions: "That's a nice job you've got. Be a shame if anything happens to it."
It's still going to be an issue. If the minimum IQ for a job hits, say, 130, and the minimum training takes a real STEM education, you're talking mass unemployment right there. The "any idiot can do this job" jobs will pretty much be gone.
The Corporate Mantra is "But that costs money. The stockholders wouldn't like it."
Add in "But nothing bad can happen, so why waste money on it." and you have a recipe for the PG&E pipe explosion, Fukushima Daiichi, American Airlines Flight 191, and on and on and on,,,,
Once these systems are available, they WILL be made mandatory, "For your protection and in case of an emergency." Somewhere in the bowels of the NSA, there are analysts drooling at a full-on implementation of "1984."
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Grandpa, Mom says you've had your 20 minutes of internet time today, time to get offline.
Get off my lawn!
Oracle: We own our software ... and our customers.
Amazon: We own our software ... and we are our customers' assistants.
Welcome back to customer lock-in central.
More AI bullshit. We can barely even create functional regular software.
If you look at some of the common behaviors of your species, you can barely create functional regular people.
That's the real question. We no longer own what we purchase, even if the law says we do.
TOS > law
People Think Smart Home Tech is Too Expensive
If you buy something that requires the manufacturer's equipment to operate, it means, of course, that they can effectively brick your purchase any time they want, for any reason they choose.
No price is low enough to buy something you do not actually own .
The one thing that is better in the cinema is the 3D.
3D? ROFLMAO I tried it. I paid an extra three dollars for the glasses, and some extra bucks for painkillers to deal with the migraine.
1. The big screen.
And no subtitles, or at least no subtitle system that doesn't burn up your eye muscles trying to focus at vastly different distances.
2. People everywhere.
Talking on their phones and to each other during the show, answering texts, spilling popcorn and soda all over the place and talking to each other during the show. and incidentally getting you charged with assault if you nudge them to call their attention to the above facts.
3. Focus.
Matter of pure choice on the part of the viewer.
4. Relentlessness.
Matter of viewer attention. See item 3.
5. A massive speaker system.
As if I really need more hearing damage than I have. These days theater speakers are set for rock concert volumes.
6. Previews.
These are nothing more than paid-for advertising which you frequently forget about by the time the movie being advertised comes out.
7. Disruption.
See items 3 and 4 above. Also, if a movie can't hold your attention to begin with, it's already not worth watching.
8. Alone time.
Huh? My family and I watch DVD movies together every weekend. We cherish it.
9. 32 ounces of cola in the dark.
And insulin injections in the light of morning. There are very few theater snacks which aren't on my doctor's KOS list..
10. Bragging rights.
WTF? Just how many movies these days are worth bragging about?
I'm not sure why anyone would think any person would be receptive to anything "compulsory" or "forced" whether math, religion, or whatever.
Why this is shocking or unusual I have no idea. You cant
"force" someone to believe in something they don't. Sorry.
Don't be sorry. I was about to say pretty much the same thing in my own words. Compulsory exercise doesn't create a love of exercise. Compulsory reading doesn't create a love of literature, and on and on and on.
I can think of exactly ONE book I was required to read in high school that is still held in my heart, "The Little World of Don Camillo," back in 1963. I can't even remember what the other ones in that summer reading package were.
EXPOSURE works, for those who become interested. For the rest, it's a waste of the teacher's time and theirs.
Every subtitle system in the theaters forces the viewer to switch between two distances: the screen and the subtitle screen, which is MUCH closer to the viewer.
I don't have to put up with that for DVDs and I see no reason to fry my eye muscles trying to figure out WTF a character I can barely hear just said.
We have built your Telescreen! You failed, however, to predict that people would willingly PAY for them.
America’s first national motto(1782): E pluribus unum (Out of many, one.)
America’s second national motto(1956): In God we trust.
America’s third national motto(2017): The best government money can buy.
Binary Solution Set
If Consensual, it's nobody's business but the participants, and certainly not the business of the project.
If Non-Consensual, call the police.
1. Turn out the rare movie worth watching in a theater.
2. Turn out the less rare movie worth watching when it gets to DVD.
3. Turn out a lot of movies that aren't worth watching. Period.
4. Go and whine to congress for legislation to protect them from "predatory competition."*
*Anybody who's eating your lunch is considered predatory, even if it's your fault.
I use Keepass on my desktop(s) and Keepass Touch on my iPhone, since I can securely upload the desktop databases to the phone.
I got four hours of sleep last night. Apologies. I suspect Seattle would object to being moved to Oregon.
Keep that in mind. Unions in such states are pretty much greedy monopolies, extracting dues whether the workers want them to or not, and then using the dues to buy political influence. Reminds me of corporations but without stockholders.
Unions: "That's a nice job you've got. Be a shame if anything happens to it."
"In all of this fighting, only the weapons have won." Battle for the Planet of the Apes
Agreed. OTOH, my friend Jqoeioeq;elfa;sdlk can be pretty stupid at times.
It's still going to be an issue. If the minimum IQ for a job hits, say, 130, and the minimum training takes a real STEM education, you're talking mass unemployment right there. The "any idiot can do this job" jobs will pretty much be gone.
I'll ask this question, which has come up before: If nobody has a job, then where the [bad language redacted] will they find CUSTOMERS?
Maybe we can finally get some really challenging AIs built for strategy games?
*diligence* and *discipline* cost money.
The Corporate Mantra is "But that costs money. The stockholders wouldn't like it."
Add in "But nothing bad can happen, so why waste money on it." and you have a recipe for the PG&E pipe explosion, Fukushima Daiichi, American Airlines Flight 191, and on and on and on,,,,
Once these systems are available, they WILL be made mandatory, "For your protection and in case of an emergency." Somewhere in the bowels of the NSA, there are analysts drooling at a full-on implementation of "1984."
Show me what is evaluated to define "safer" and show me the metrics. Without that, "safer" is just so much hot air.