Ditto... once a company tries this, you can be sure they'll be back for mineable data sooner rather than later, with or without asking in a way that becomes public knowledge.
If there isn't a free streaming option, most people will either (a) Pay, (b) wait for Netflix or whatever, (c) make appointment to watch live or use DVR, or (d) decide they don't want to pay and don't watch. Probably in that order. Very few average people will know how to pirate or make an effort to do so.
It's hard to see how a meager amount of revenue from streaming advertising could ever make up for the loss of people who choose options A, B, or C. Therefore, not having a streaming option makes the most sense.
You could use it for promotional purposes, like only having select episodes online, but they still have to get paid.
I don't see this as a big deal... the rate PC sales are declining has slowed a bit, although it's still steadily declining. There are always going to be some places where you can't get around having a box, where it's more convenient to have one, or where it's cheaper to have one.
I think when mobile matures to the point of being fully functional as a PC replacement you'll see the bottom of the PC market fall out all at once.
As soon as we aren't deciding between a box or a virtual PC to run that LCD, but the LCD runs itself through an app and doesn't need to be wired to anything but power, then the PC will go the way of the dodo. We're not quite there yet for enterprise.
alt-right is just a generic insult that doesn't mean anything anymore. It's a way to play certain cards while avoiding the stigma of being someone who pulls those same cards in every discussion.
The problem with this article is that Snopes itself has a pretty strong left-wing bias. They might be useful in debunking urban legends, but it's not a useful outlet for fact checking anything that politics may enter into.
All these fact checking websites have biases, but people for some reason do not believe they do.
Slashdot Mirror
GP is right, BlackBerry can't put themselves in cars branded as BlackBerry. It would make a brand new car seem dated.
People denying the existence of roads may be roads themselves.
Where we're going we don't need roads.
Ditto... once a company tries this, you can be sure they'll be back for mineable data sooner rather than later, with or without asking in a way that becomes public knowledge.
I wanted to use my Note 7 as a rechargeable handwarmer, you insensitive clods!
People are fleeing Facebook because their news feeds have become garbage chains of political keyboard-rage and garbage "Shared" posts.
Instagram is usually content original to people I know, which is all I want to see.
At least AOL wasn't trying to pass Snopes and Polifact off as being unbiased.
Who's "Us"?
Great, if Goo.., I mean Alphabet, won't develop a self-driving car I'm going to be stuck with a Samsung self-driving car.
Like everything MS does today, it's MS being third to market with a poor imitation of a product pioneered by someone else.
An echo chamber where the thought police are editing things behind the scenes is not even useful as an echo chamber.
You will pay. You will not complain. You have no rights against the all-powerful CORPORATION. Unless you incorporate yourself.
I'm not free to cut the cord?
Cliche as it is to say, Apple has lost its way post-Jobs.
Does he not know that space makes the screen scroll DOWN, not up?
So this wasn't just Apple.
All carriers will try to save a few cents on each unit by omitting a headphone jack.
"By the way sir/madam, have you seen our selection of premium headphones?"
If we ask how sales of the Apple Watch are doing, shouldn't we also ask how sales of ANY smart watch are doing?
If there isn't a free streaming option, most people will either (a) Pay, (b) wait for Netflix or whatever, (c) make appointment to watch live or use DVR, or (d) decide they don't want to pay and don't watch. Probably in that order. Very few average people will know how to pirate or make an effort to do so.
It's hard to see how a meager amount of revenue from streaming advertising could ever make up for the loss of people who choose options A, B, or C. Therefore, not having a streaming option makes the most sense.
You could use it for promotional purposes, like only having select episodes online, but they still have to get paid.
1. Windows Phone sucks
prepaid CC FTW
:::deletes the Uber app:::
I don't see this as a big deal... the rate PC sales are declining has slowed a bit, although it's still steadily declining. There are always going to be some places where you can't get around having a box, where it's more convenient to have one, or where it's cheaper to have one.
I think when mobile matures to the point of being fully functional as a PC replacement you'll see the bottom of the PC market fall out all at once.
As soon as we aren't deciding between a box or a virtual PC to run that LCD, but the LCD runs itself through an app and doesn't need to be wired to anything but power, then the PC will go the way of the dodo. We're not quite there yet for enterprise.
2017 will be the Year of Linux on the Desktop! :)
alt-right is just a generic insult that doesn't mean anything anymore. It's a way to play certain cards while avoiding the stigma of being someone who pulls those same cards in every discussion.
I think he means OSX, which has in fact had this functionality for a number of years now.
The problem with this article is that Snopes itself has a pretty strong left-wing bias. They might be useful in debunking urban legends, but it's not a useful outlet for fact checking anything that politics may enter into.
All these fact checking websites have biases, but people for some reason do not believe they do.