Gambling is a government monopoly by law in the province. So either repeal this law and allow competition, or be consequent and enforce the law whether online or in brick and mortar casinos.
While I agree with you, PC manufacturers didn't get the memo. They are still stuck with 4GB, or maybe 8GB on high end PCs. RAM prices didn't help us avoiding that plateau. RAM was cheaper 3 years ago than it is now.
-How "premium" does it looks? I couldn't stand a plastic phone within my rubber case. It must be in metal or glass. -Does it "feel" cheap? -Are there stereo (or why not 7.1 surround?) speakers on the front? -Does it looks new or my friends will think I have a 2013 phone? -Is there a fruit logo on it? -Is it overpriced? I wouldn't want my friends to think I couldn't afford an expensive phone. -How good is the main camera, and I mean the front one? Does it records 4k video good enough to film me waiting in a line for days for my next phone?
Why? The main problem, as presented, is having a single place to find content, with links directly to the video, without having to worry about what app it is in.
Nope. The problem is not to find content. The problem is to see what content is offered. I don't want to browse dozens of different applications just to see what is new and what I could like.
With minimal changes, the content distributors (Netflix et al) can make that possible.
Netflix is not going to list content from competitors. Anyways we can't trust a single corporation with this task.
By contrast, there's vanishingly little benefit to having a single player UI, because most of the time, users never even touch the actual player UI except to pause playback occasionally.
Again, you forget the browsing. That's an important part. Often my wifi watches a movie we already have on Netflix. Why? Because she was browsing Netflix and it was more convenient to re-download a movie we already have than to switch to the other application / optical disk player.
Solving the search problem (and, potentially, the browsing problem) is trivial.
If so trivial, why doesn't it exists?
By contrast, a unified player is unlikely to ever happen because of DRM requirements from the content providers.
It doesn't need to be an unified player, but we need an unified content browser (not only a search field). It could be acceptable if it launched the content provider's application, although I would prefer a single player because it will be faster, and having dozens of different UIs to change audio language suck.
Anyways DRM suck, and content is still pirated from Netflix (House of cards is pirated as soon as it releases on Netflix and nowhere else), so this is a bad excuse.
We don't want dozens of applications and a single "search" field that allows to search within all of them. What we need is standardized APIs for delivering video content, so that a single application can list from many different sources. Such application could be open source, and the API wouldn't be controlled (or even approved) by Apple, it wouldn't require an Apple product to watch its content, it wouldn't require a Mac to develop, and it wouldn't require paying Apple any developer fee.
With all the streaming services out there, it seems like the chance of getting any single service that is of very high quality will go down.
Good. We need more fragmentation, because it means more choice. The problem isn't fragmentation itself, it is the closed platforms such as Netflix. We need an open platform able to receive content from any distributor.
They should use ext4. Most people will never put it in a Windows PC anyways. And they could release a Windows program to read/write the ext4 SD for the rest.
Of course they would be happier with a 1TB phone for $2 in a fantasy world. But the facts remain. More people buy cheaper phones with less storage. If they weren't happy with that phone, they'd buy another one.
One word: Price. They sell these 64 and 128 GB for way too much. They make a lot more profit on these phones than on base (16/32GB) variants. I'd pay an extra $20 to get 128 GB. I won't pay $200 for it, however. Not on a phone that I expect to last 4 years (after which it will be too slow) and that can break long before that.
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The government wouldn't care. If it blocks 90% of the users, it's a big win for Loto-Québec.
No, but you can organize a referendum on the separation of the rest of Canada from Quebec.
Gambling is a government monopoly by law in the province. So either repeal this law and allow competition, or be consequent and enforce the law whether online or in brick and mortar casinos.
Please excuse my ignorance, but how is homeopathy different, say, than the flu vaccine?
Flu vaccine has proven effect (against the specific flu strains it targets, obviously).
This is to be expected, as there are more Android users. There are more applications, especially free ones, in Google Play.
Can we have the US freedom in healthcare
You have it. It's not illegal to pay for private health care in Canada.
and certain US state's freedom from car insurance as well?
You are free to build your own highway on your own land and drive an uninsured car on it. But on public roads you must respect the rules.
We don't. The world has moved on, we now use the international system of units, except of course for those living in Myanmar, Liberia or the USA.
Who cares? It's still the best choice if you value privacy and don't like ads.
I agree, the US should start by merging with Canada.
How so? Linux was developed after BSD.
Stronger heritage of what? The OP was referring to innovative features.
Most people have all the applications they want under 1GB.
16GB is definitely not a joke.
While I agree with you, PC manufacturers didn't get the memo. They are still stuck with 4GB, or maybe 8GB on high end PCs. RAM prices didn't help us avoiding that plateau. RAM was cheaper 3 years ago than it is now.
And the Verizon version is only 32GB. Are you kidding me? This is 2015. It should be at least 64GB or 128GB.
That would make the phone too expensive and it would be a commercial failure.
The most popular option is still 16GB.
You forget:
-How "premium" does it looks? I couldn't stand a plastic phone within my rubber case. It must be in metal or glass.
-Does it "feel" cheap?
-Are there stereo (or why not 7.1 surround?) speakers on the front?
-Does it looks new or my friends will think I have a 2013 phone?
-Is there a fruit logo on it?
-Is it overpriced? I wouldn't want my friends to think I couldn't afford an expensive phone.
-How good is the main camera, and I mean the front one? Does it records 4k video good enough to film me waiting in a line for days for my next phone?
Why? The main problem, as presented, is having a single place to find content, with links directly to the video, without having to worry about what app it is in.
Nope. The problem is not to find content. The problem is to see what content is offered. I don't want to browse dozens of different applications just to see what is new and what I could like.
With minimal changes, the content distributors (Netflix et al) can make that possible.
Netflix is not going to list content from competitors. Anyways we can't trust a single corporation with this task.
By contrast, there's vanishingly little benefit to having a single player UI, because most of the time, users never even touch the actual player UI except to pause playback occasionally.
Again, you forget the browsing. That's an important part. Often my wifi watches a movie we already have on Netflix. Why? Because she was browsing Netflix and it was more convenient to re-download a movie we already have than to switch to the other application / optical disk player.
Solving the search problem (and, potentially, the browsing problem) is trivial.
If so trivial, why doesn't it exists?
By contrast, a unified player is unlikely to ever happen because of DRM requirements from the content providers.
It doesn't need to be an unified player, but we need an unified content browser (not only a search field). It could be acceptable if it launched the content provider's application, although I would prefer a single player because it will be faster, and having dozens of different UIs to change audio language suck.
Anyways DRM suck, and content is still pirated from Netflix (House of cards is pirated as soon as it releases on Netflix and nowhere else), so this is a bad excuse.
We don't want dozens of applications and a single "search" field that allows to search within all of them. What we need is standardized APIs for delivering video content, so that a single application can list from many different sources.
Such application could be open source, and the API wouldn't be controlled (or even approved) by Apple, it wouldn't require an Apple product to watch its content, it wouldn't require a Mac to develop, and it wouldn't require paying Apple any developer fee.
Do you also complain you can't change the software on your cable/satellite box?
Hell yes. I despise them. Also, they serve no purpose. I'd rather have the cable directly connected to my TV, and one less remote.
Last I checked, iOS is not open. It is the most closed and locked-down mobile OS out there.
With all the streaming services out there, it seems like the chance of getting any single service that is of very high quality will go down.
Good. We need more fragmentation, because it means more choice. The problem isn't fragmentation itself, it is the closed platforms such as Netflix. We need an open platform able to receive content from any distributor.
it's a server, not a client
They should use ext4. Most people will never put it in a Windows PC anyways. And they could release a Windows program to read/write the ext4 SD for the rest.
Of course they would be happier with a 1TB phone for $2 in a fantasy world.
But the facts remain. More people buy cheaper phones with less storage. If they weren't happy with that phone, they'd buy another one.
We need armed guards at schools, churches, courthouses and every other place
He must be living in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, or some other country with a civil war, isn't it? Otherwise why would he wants armed guard in school?
One word: Price.
They sell these 64 and 128 GB for way too much. They make a lot more profit on these phones than on base (16/32GB) variants.
I'd pay an extra $20 to get 128 GB. I won't pay $200 for it, however. Not on a phone that I expect to last 4 years (after which it will be too slow) and that can break long before that.