Lets back up here a bit CBS/Paramount. You didn't invent Star Trek. You didn't even fund it's creation. You know who did: Lucille Ball (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Ball). Yep. That woman. She sunk her company's last penny into it and sold off all her rights to her own TV show to blood suckers like you to do it, until she could not hold any longer and had to sell out completely. If she could have held out another year she would have made it, but not one of you misogynist pigs in the industry would support a woman. So you buy the rights to Star Trek out from under her for a song, and then what do you decide to do? Cancel the show! CANCEL THE SHOW! Only a massive writing campaign by fans restrain you from canceling it, to your recorded dismay, so in retribution you stuff the last season into the Friday night death slot. It wasn't for the massive rerun support of fans you would have shelved the who thing long long ago, in a closet far far forgotten.
Paramount, you have no shame and I'm not sure you deserve any of the proceeds you've made off this franchise. I wish Lucille Ball could sue you, but alas, she has a statue of limitation. Meanwhile you get to keep exploiting her and Gene's legacy endlessly.
> externally managing router configuration with a centralized database
You can patent that? Hmm... I wonder who holds the patents for:
* managing bank accounts with a centralized database * managing medical records with a centralized database * managing music collections with a centralized database * managing contact information with a centralized database * managing cable boxes with a centralized database * managing user profiles with a centralized database * managing picture albums with a centralized database * managing patents with a centralized database!!!
This has some interesting potential long-term ramifications... imagine that your neighbor has already downloaded the the movie you would like to watch. So why not just get it from him/her directly and by pass the Internet entirely? With a cache in place, all it would take is some minor improvements to wi-fi and a secure protocol to handle the exchange.
Maybe they should stop approving military actions that cause unnecessary wars that lead to blow back... err... oh, you mean they *want* all that to lead to an erosion of our freedom?
400 patents for one idea? What the fuck! I think Bitcoin could probably be fully explained in less than 1,600 words, if well thought out. That's a patent for every four words.
We just can't do anything anymore. Since when can a contract worker dictate that he must be an employee? Since when can a government tell a company it can't do business b/c it will hurt someone else's business? The capitalist system is about to collapse under it's own crony-ism.
Here in Florida we were about to get the first true high-speed rail, until Rick Scott, our King, unilaterally said "nope". And that was the end of that. Now his crony's are starting their own slow-speed rail (and lie calling it high-speed) that only runs from Miami to Fort Lauderdale to Orlando -- no stops in between. And it will cost major $$$$. Who does that serve? Pigs only.
For f* sake, my doctors can't even get my medical records. Went to the emergency room, told them I just had a cat scan in the same hospital a few weeks ago of the problem area and they could use that for comparison. "Was it an out-patient procedure?", they asked. "Yes". "Then we can't use that." Another time I went to hospital, told them I had been to another hospital for the same thing but out of state, again oh well, they can't use those. Hell, every time I go to the doctor they ask for my height. That doesn't change very much. But they ask it every single freaking time. What's the point of all these records? We make an endless stream of them and never use them again.... oh, except when a foreign dignitary needs an organ, then they read them alright.
Agreed. The Greeks were actually *smart* people. They gave things names that were descriptive in their own language. We are *dumb* people, we give things names in dead languages. -- For every new word that no one can understand and thus easily recall, everyone is made proportionally dumber.
I have done some fairly extensive work on this and you are partially correct. Approx $800/mo would work as a stable UBI. Beyond that there would be increasing incentive to not join the workforce. Fortunately, even if regulators screw it up with some unrealistic figure like $2,000/mo the market will self-adjust to make $2,000 worth about $800. (FYI the $800 figure basically comes from "half the work for half the pay" of average income.)
You are right. it will cause some inflation. But not much b/c it averages out over the entire population. e.g. if the average income if 4,000/mo, than adding an extra 1,000/mo will potentially contribute to a 20% inflation increase (played out over a few years). But for the poor guy who only makes $2,000/mo, $1.000 more a month increases his income 33%. So he is still much better off.
Considering we drop bombs on people every day and accept "collateral" damage as morally passable, you can take your "ethically fraught" and shove it back into your hypocritical pie hole.
This has seemed the natural evolution of monitors to me for some time. Powerful GPUs are getting cheap enough that they should be able to be built-in to all TVs and monitors without raising costs inordinately. Once this becomes common place, CPU-oriented devices can drop their power and size requirements substantially.
The only pain point to this is hand-held gaming devices. Obviously they can't depend on an external monitor.
It is called "putting lipstick on a pig". When you get down to it all M$ ever does is put new window dressing on the same rotten core, move things around a bit, and resell it. Very little ever actually improves. In fact, just as often things get worse instead, e.g a feature is removed. The only real exception is probably DirectX, and of course drivers which have to be constantly updated b/c there are too few good standards and peripheral makes can't stand using the same part for more the three months b/c it might cost them a penny more.
If Paramount/CBS were smart they make a deal with these guys, throw some money at it and syndicate it. I don't know why Paramount/CBS hold so tightly to this franchise. They should take a page of Disney's handbook and give us fans multiple movies and shows.
FYI. It's been calculated that at our current rate of growth, the oceans will all evaporate in less than 500 years. Obviously something has to give eventually.
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Lets back up here a bit CBS/Paramount. You didn't invent Star Trek. You didn't even fund it's creation. You know who did: Lucille Ball (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Ball). Yep. That woman. She sunk her company's last penny into it and sold off all her rights to her own TV show to blood suckers like you to do it, until she could not hold any longer and had to sell out completely. If she could have held out another year she would have made it, but not one of you misogynist pigs in the industry would support a woman. So you buy the rights to Star Trek out from under her for a song, and then what do you decide to do? Cancel the show! CANCEL THE SHOW! Only a massive writing campaign by fans restrain you from canceling it, to your recorded dismay, so in retribution you stuff the last season into the Friday night death slot. It wasn't for the massive rerun support of fans you would have shelved the who thing long long ago, in a closet far far forgotten.
Paramount, you have no shame and I'm not sure you deserve any of the proceeds you've made off this franchise. I wish Lucille Ball could sue you, but alas, she has a statue of limitation. Meanwhile you get to keep exploiting her and Gene's legacy endlessly.
> externally managing router configuration with a centralized database
You can patent that? Hmm... I wonder who holds the patents for:
* managing bank accounts with a centralized database
* managing medical records with a centralized database
* managing music collections with a centralized database
* managing contact information with a centralized database
* managing cable boxes with a centralized database
* managing user profiles with a centralized database
* managing picture albums with a centralized database
* managing patents with a centralized database!!!
Hop Lawyer, Hop!
So much for all that Big Texas "Freedom".
This has some interesting potential long-term ramifications... imagine that your neighbor has already downloaded the the movie you would like to watch. So why not just get it from him/her directly and by pass the Internet entirely? With a cache in place, all it would take is some minor improvements to wi-fi and a secure protocol to handle the exchange.
Maybe they should stop approving military actions that cause unnecessary wars that lead to blow back... err... oh, you mean they *want* all that to lead to an erosion of our freedom?
400 patents for one idea? What the fuck! I think Bitcoin could probably be fully explained in less than 1,600 words, if well thought out. That's a patent for every four words.
Wrong.
Freedom. What a quaint notion.
Please keep bombing other countries so you will have an endless litany of excuses. We never really wanted our freedoms anyway. Thanks.
Uber, "Okay okay. We'll make them all employees." ... a few years ... "Sorry, you're fired. We just automated your job."
The world has much bigger problems and the government is croning around with taxi companies.
We just can't do anything anymore. Since when can a contract worker dictate that he must be an employee? Since when can a government tell a company it can't do business b/c it will hurt someone else's business? The capitalist system is about to collapse under it's own crony-ism.
Here in Florida we were about to get the first true high-speed rail, until Rick Scott, our King, unilaterally said "nope". And that was the end of that. Now his crony's are starting their own slow-speed rail (and lie calling it high-speed) that only runs from Miami to Fort Lauderdale to Orlando -- no stops in between. And it will cost major $$$$. Who does that serve? Pigs only.
For f* sake, my doctors can't even get my medical records. Went to the emergency room, told them I just had a cat scan in the same hospital a few weeks ago of the problem area and they could use that for comparison. "Was it an out-patient procedure?", they asked. "Yes". "Then we can't use that." Another time I went to hospital, told them I had been to another hospital for the same thing but out of state, again oh well, they can't use those. Hell, every time I go to the doctor they ask for my height. That doesn't change very much. But they ask it every single freaking time. What's the point of all these records? We make an endless stream of them and never use them again.... oh, except when a foreign dignitary needs an organ, then they read them alright.
Agreed. The Greeks were actually *smart* people. They gave things names that were descriptive in their own language. We are *dumb* people, we give things names in dead languages. -- For every new word that no one can understand and thus easily recall, everyone is made proportionally dumber.
I have done some fairly extensive work on this and you are partially correct. Approx $800/mo would work as a stable UBI. Beyond that there would be increasing incentive to not join the workforce. Fortunately, even if regulators screw it up with some unrealistic figure like $2,000/mo the market will self-adjust to make $2,000 worth about $800. (FYI the $800 figure basically comes from "half the work for half the pay" of average income.)
You are right. it will cause some inflation. But not much b/c it averages out over the entire population. e.g. if the average income if 4,000/mo, than adding an extra 1,000/mo will potentially contribute to a 20% inflation increase (played out over a few years). But for the poor guy who only makes $2,000/mo, $1.000 more a month increases his income 33%. So he is still much better off.
Considering we drop bombs on people every day and accept "collateral" damage as morally passable, you can take your "ethically fraught" and shove it back into your hypocritical pie hole.
This has seemed the natural evolution of monitors to me for some time. Powerful GPUs are getting cheap enough that they should be able to be built-in to all TVs and monitors without raising costs inordinately. Once this becomes common place, CPU-oriented devices can drop their power and size requirements substantially.
The only pain point to this is hand-held gaming devices. Obviously they can't depend on an external monitor.
It is called "putting lipstick on a pig". When you get down to it all M$ ever does is put new window dressing on the same rotten core, move things around a bit, and resell it. Very little ever actually improves. In fact, just as often things get worse instead, e.g a feature is removed. The only real exception is probably DirectX, and of course drivers which have to be constantly updated b/c there are too few good standards and peripheral makes can't stand using the same part for more the three months b/c it might cost them a penny more.
No slippery slope here, no sir.
Every time I go to the hospital they have no ability to access my previous records!
If Paramount/CBS were smart they make a deal with these guys, throw some money at it and syndicate it. I don't know why Paramount/CBS hold so tightly to this franchise. They should take a page of Disney's handbook and give us fans multiple movies and shows.
FYI. It's been calculated that at our current rate of growth, the oceans will all evaporate in less than 500 years. Obviously something has to give eventually.
Just get rid of all corporation tax. It doesn't really matter, resulting increase sales and personal income will more than make up for it.
More like 21, but close enough.