No, it failed completely. Instead of getting the thoroughly corrupt person elected, we got the whack job. The guy who would have actually made a decent President was prevented from winning (or even running in the general election) because of the crappy election process and FPTP.
Meanwhile everyone else opted to evolve into somekind of a mouse, and that strikes me oddly as how the Xhristian and Jewish religions cant quite decide if the baby Dgjeshush was an animal (Lamb), or a Goat (Hindu brahman), a worm (Psalm22), a man, or God in the flesh only looking like a man.
Actually, he was one of the Engineers (though perhaps altered so he wasn't 10 feet tall). Humans didn't treat him too well, so they decided their creation was a failure and devised a plague to cleanse the planet of humans, but unfortunately, something went awry and the ship with this plague never left the planet it was developed on. In the future, a ship funded by the Weyland-Yutani corporation will find it...
Thus, we do not directly vote for laws or Presidents, we vote for proxies. This clever mechanism ensures that the uninformed majority doesn't elect whack jobs who could inflict grievous harm upon our Nation.
That's been proven wrong by the election of Trump. What you say was certainly the intent, but it's not the actual outcome. I suppose you could argue that without this "clever mechanism", we would have gotten more whack jobs throughout history than we have.
Yeah, but honestly, how likely is it they could run everyone else out of business? The core of their business is "ride-sharing", which really means a cellphone app which tracks drivers and matches them up with riders. It's not that technically difficult, and other companies exist doing the same thing, namely Lyft. Other cab companies have actually made similar stuff now in response, Anyone with a little capital could make a similar app; it's just not that hard. I don't see how Uber could possibly corner the market here. A new competitor could come up any time to challenge them if their rates to customers get too high.
Yeah, but the thing here is that while Uber's profit margin is really their own business, and they can charge what they like, they actually have a negative profit margin: the drivers are paid *more* than what the company is taking in from riders (at least, that's what I keep reading). That's not sustainable. But that's between Uber and their silly investors.
I wonder why: according to their website, their DRM works on Linux (and just about everything else too). They certainly don't have any control of the OS there. I do have one clue though: WIdevine is a Google company. Maybe they're doing this to try to shut down rooted Android phones because Google hates that.
Cost - plain and simple. Prove to Netflix there is a solid business case to support these users and they'll do it.
I'm not talking about cost, but technical ability: on Linux (the desktop kind), I can watch Netflix now on Firefox. Control of the platform isn't necessary. Firefox also runs on Android. So why can't I just use FF to watch Netflix on Android? I don't think they ever had to do anything to make it work on Linux with Chrome and FF. It just seems like they're actively blocking rooted phones for some reason, when the only thing that should matter is the browser.
Yeah, I remembered that afterwards; that's a new development. But thanks anyway.
I still use Chrome just because I normally use Firefox and it has a zillion tabs open so it gets slow sometimes. It seems to work better to just use Chrome since it's dedicated to Netflix on my system.
I don't know about you, but to me the idea of holding a device in front of my face for 1-2 hours is a no-go. It's not about the quality, it's the form factor.
Do you carry your laptop everywhere you go? If not, you might be in a restaurant or whatever with Wi-Fi but no laptop.
Yes, but that would mean watching a movie or a TV show on my phone, which isn't ever going to happen. I honestly can't imagine why anyone would want this. Maybe for a 9+" tablet, but that's a bit more like carrying your laptop around.
why would I want anything that would actually encourage me to watch MORE television and as a result, eat MORE crap, and get lest exercise?
Assuming you meant "less exercise", do you spend all your free time doing exercise? What about when it's raining or storming outside?
Not that I spend much time watching movies or TV (I don't have a TV, just my computer, which I sometimes watch Netflix on), but while I like cycling and hiking, I don't do those things if it's pouring rain or ridiculously hot or cold outside, and sometimes I like to just watch an episode of something in the evening before I go to sleep. I sure as hell am not going to go take a bike ride at 11PM.
The problem here is that the companies they license content from won't allow them to simply not use DRM. Netflix could go this route, and then they wouldn't have any 3rd-party content at all.
Personally, I have two thoughts about this:
1) Who watches TV shows on their *phone*??? Honestly, I can't even imagine.
2) Why does the phone need to be non-rooted? I use Netflix just fine on my Linux system, by using Google Chrome (it's the only thing I use that browser for in fact). I don't have to have a corporate-controlled OS, only a corporate-controlled DRMed browser for that one purpose. So why can't Netflix do things that way on phones for those weirdos who want to watch Netflix on a phone?
That's not what I remember about Beta. Beta only held 1 hour per tape, so a single movie wouldn't fit on a single tape. The other factor was that the porn industry went with VHS, and where porn goes, standards go.
As for that blank media tax, I don't remember that at all. I remember that passing in Canada, but not here in the US. They did, for a while, sell "blank music CD-Rs" that had a higher price than the "data CD-Rs", with of course the only difference being a higher price which supposedly supported artists, but that didn't go very far because only idiots would buy them.
It's like a lottery ticket for them. They get promotion from the record companies, but that doesn't guarantee they'll make more money than by waiting tables or making lattes. They only make money by touring and merchandise.
They also didn't sit around and do nothing when VCRs became affordable and people started copying tapes or recording stuff from TV. They tried to ban them. Of course, that didn't go very far.
They're not getting paid by the record companies either; record sales haven't been profitable for artists for ages due to the way record company contracts work. The only way for artists to get paid is to go on tour; it's been like this for quite some time.
Youtube is the only way I've found to actually listen to any new music to see if I like it or not, since they don't play anything worthwhile on the radio these days.
This is why I should be dictator, at least for a few years, to fix problems like this. I'd make it so that you can't pull legal tricks like this, and I'd also make fines much more fair for the amount of damage caused. For this firm, I think $1 per call is appropriate. Since they made $100M calls, that's $100M dollars they need to pay. And under my rule, they won't be able to hide through legal tricks, and their owners and executives will all be personally liable for the fine. If they can't pay, they'll be kept in prison and forced to perform labor until they do. Finally, instead of the government just keeping the fine, it'll be used for something worthwhile, like a homeless shelter or something.
The Azure deal was killed. Something about impossible claims being made.
That shouldn't have been allowed. The company should have been required to move everything to Azure, and for things where that was impossible, those things should have simply been shut down. The company made the choice to buy MS's bullshit, so they should have been required to follow through, even if it killed them. This would have been a great warning for other companies making dumb decisions.
Yes, there is: it's called "mobile devices". More and more people are just giving up on desktop/laptop computers (or keeping them and never upgrading or replacing them) and using mobile devices for their home usage.
It's kinda sad because mobile devices are so limited in what they can do, and can't be programmed (you have to load apps from the walled-garden app store), but owning and maintaining a Windows computer is such a chore and an expense (calling Geek Squad to make a personal visit every time you have a problem gets expensive quickly) that it makes perfect sense why people would want an appliance for internet usage. Even MS is trying to go this way with Windows 10 S, which can only run apps from the Windows app store, but I think it's very unlikely this will turn out well for them because people have abandoned Windows for the Apple/Android devices because it has a poor reputation for viruses etc., and another such device named "Windows" from Microsoft isn't going to convince them that it's different this time.
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We have absolute PROOF that intelligent life can exist in the universe.
Citation needed. I haven't seen any intelligent life yet, just a bunch of dumb, talking, overgrown monkeys.
No, it failed completely. Instead of getting the thoroughly corrupt person elected, we got the whack job. The guy who would have actually made a decent President was prevented from winning (or even running in the general election) because of the crappy election process and FPTP.
Meanwhile everyone else opted to evolve into somekind of a mouse, and that strikes me oddly as how the Xhristian and Jewish religions cant quite decide if the baby Dgjeshush was an animal (Lamb), or a Goat (Hindu brahman), a worm (Psalm22), a man, or God in the flesh only looking like a man.
Actually, he was one of the Engineers (though perhaps altered so he wasn't 10 feet tall). Humans didn't treat him too well, so they decided their creation was a failure and devised a plague to cleanse the planet of humans, but unfortunately, something went awry and the ship with this plague never left the planet it was developed on. In the future, a ship funded by the Weyland-Yutani corporation will find it...
I'm sure you have told a lie in your past, does that make you perpetually dishonest and unemployable for your entire life?
If you refuse to own up to the lie and apologize for it, then yes.
Thus, we do not directly vote for laws or Presidents, we vote for proxies. This clever mechanism ensures that the uninformed majority doesn't elect whack jobs who could inflict grievous harm upon our Nation.
That's been proven wrong by the election of Trump. What you say was certainly the intent, but it's not the actual outcome. I suppose you could argue that without this "clever mechanism", we would have gotten more whack jobs throughout history than we have.
Yeah, but honestly, how likely is it they could run everyone else out of business? The core of their business is "ride-sharing", which really means a cellphone app which tracks drivers and matches them up with riders. It's not that technically difficult, and other companies exist doing the same thing, namely Lyft. Other cab companies have actually made similar stuff now in response, Anyone with a little capital could make a similar app; it's just not that hard. I don't see how Uber could possibly corner the market here. A new competitor could come up any time to challenge them if their rates to customers get too high.
Yeah, but the thing here is that while Uber's profit margin is really their own business, and they can charge what they like, they actually have a negative profit margin: the drivers are paid *more* than what the company is taking in from riders (at least, that's what I keep reading). That's not sustainable. But that's between Uber and their silly investors.
Nobody sane would run medical equipment on Windows period. That should be cause for prosecution for attempted murder through extreme negligence.
If you have some completely non-life-critical application that runs on Windows, you can run it in a VM.
I wonder why: according to their website, their DRM works on Linux (and just about everything else too). They certainly don't have any control of the OS there. I do have one clue though: WIdevine is a Google company. Maybe they're doing this to try to shut down rooted Android phones because Google hates that.
Cost - plain and simple. Prove to Netflix there is a solid business case to support these users and they'll do it.
I'm not talking about cost, but technical ability: on Linux (the desktop kind), I can watch Netflix now on Firefox. Control of the platform isn't necessary. Firefox also runs on Android. So why can't I just use FF to watch Netflix on Android? I don't think they ever had to do anything to make it work on Linux with Chrome and FF. It just seems like they're actively blocking rooted phones for some reason, when the only thing that should matter is the browser.
Yeah, I remembered that afterwards; that's a new development. But thanks anyway.
I still use Chrome just because I normally use Firefox and it has a zillion tabs open so it gets slow sometimes. It seems to work better to just use Chrome since it's dedicated to Netflix on my system.
I don't know about you, but to me the idea of holding a device in front of my face for 1-2 hours is a no-go. It's not about the quality, it's the form factor.
Do you carry your laptop everywhere you go? If not, you might be in a restaurant or whatever with Wi-Fi but no laptop.
Yes, but that would mean watching a movie or a TV show on my phone, which isn't ever going to happen. I honestly can't imagine why anyone would want this. Maybe for a 9+" tablet, but that's a bit more like carrying your laptop around.
why would I want anything that would actually encourage me to watch MORE television and as a result, eat MORE crap, and get lest exercise?
Assuming you meant "less exercise", do you spend all your free time doing exercise? What about when it's raining or storming outside?
Not that I spend much time watching movies or TV (I don't have a TV, just my computer, which I sometimes watch Netflix on), but while I like cycling and hiking, I don't do those things if it's pouring rain or ridiculously hot or cold outside, and sometimes I like to just watch an episode of something in the evening before I go to sleep. I sure as hell am not going to go take a bike ride at 11PM.
The problem here is that the companies they license content from won't allow them to simply not use DRM. Netflix could go this route, and then they wouldn't have any 3rd-party content at all.
Personally, I have two thoughts about this:
1) Who watches TV shows on their *phone*??? Honestly, I can't even imagine.
2) Why does the phone need to be non-rooted? I use Netflix just fine on my Linux system, by using Google Chrome (it's the only thing I use that browser for in fact). I don't have to have a corporate-controlled OS, only a corporate-controlled DRMed browser for that one purpose. So why can't Netflix do things that way on phones for those weirdos who want to watch Netflix on a phone?
That's not what I remember about Beta. Beta only held 1 hour per tape, so a single movie wouldn't fit on a single tape. The other factor was that the porn industry went with VHS, and where porn goes, standards go.
As for that blank media tax, I don't remember that at all. I remember that passing in Canada, but not here in the US. They did, for a while, sell "blank music CD-Rs" that had a higher price than the "data CD-Rs", with of course the only difference being a higher price which supposedly supported artists, but that didn't go very far because only idiots would buy them.
It's like a lottery ticket for them. They get promotion from the record companies, but that doesn't guarantee they'll make more money than by waiting tables or making lattes. They only make money by touring and merchandise.
To get to the IME still requires getting through other layers of security, many of which shouldn't be running on Intel CPUs at all.
They also didn't sit around and do nothing when VCRs became affordable and people started copying tapes or recording stuff from TV. They tried to ban them. Of course, that didn't go very far.
They're not getting paid by the record companies either; record sales haven't been profitable for artists for ages due to the way record company contracts work. The only way for artists to get paid is to go on tour; it's been like this for quite some time.
Youtube is the only way I've found to actually listen to any new music to see if I like it or not, since they don't play anything worthwhile on the radio these days.
This is why I should be dictator, at least for a few years, to fix problems like this. I'd make it so that you can't pull legal tricks like this, and I'd also make fines much more fair for the amount of damage caused. For this firm, I think $1 per call is appropriate. Since they made $100M calls, that's $100M dollars they need to pay. And under my rule, they won't be able to hide through legal tricks, and their owners and executives will all be personally liable for the fine. If they can't pay, they'll be kept in prison and forced to perform labor until they do. Finally, instead of the government just keeping the fine, it'll be used for something worthwhile, like a homeless shelter or something.
Exactly. Why is this not being addressed more? Using Windows for anything critical is just asking to be a victim like we see here.
If they had had actual competent professionals on staff, they wouldn't have gotten hit with a ransomware attack.
The Azure deal was killed. Something about impossible claims being made.
That shouldn't have been allowed. The company should have been required to move everything to Azure, and for things where that was impossible, those things should have simply been shut down. The company made the choice to buy MS's bullshit, so they should have been required to follow through, even if it killed them. This would have been a great warning for other companies making dumb decisions.
Yes, there is: it's called "mobile devices". More and more people are just giving up on desktop/laptop computers (or keeping them and never upgrading or replacing them) and using mobile devices for their home usage.
It's kinda sad because mobile devices are so limited in what they can do, and can't be programmed (you have to load apps from the walled-garden app store), but owning and maintaining a Windows computer is such a chore and an expense (calling Geek Squad to make a personal visit every time you have a problem gets expensive quickly) that it makes perfect sense why people would want an appliance for internet usage. Even MS is trying to go this way with Windows 10 S, which can only run apps from the Windows app store, but I think it's very unlikely this will turn out well for them because people have abandoned Windows for the Apple/Android devices because it has a poor reputation for viruses etc., and another such device named "Windows" from Microsoft isn't going to convince them that it's different this time.