A connection to the mother ship is the only reason those devices exist. your use case for them is pretty much just ancillary to their goals. (machine learning training and advertising)
If you don't want to lose to someone like Trump, don't run someone like Hillary.
(in south park terms: I see your turd sandwich, and raise you a giant douche)
The election wasn't ideological at all-- it's just they took one of the most hated figures in modern american political history -- and ran her against a jingoistic, populist mouth-breather.
Ignore the pollsters and the news, what did you really think would happen?? A large swath of the voting public voted against Hillary. the fact that they wound up voting for trump was happenstance.
that's a problem though, going off of the trailer.
Consider for example Downsizing (matt damon, kristen wiig) -- the trailers made it look funny, or at least entertaining.. besides matt damon seems to have relatively good taste in what roles to accept.
First part of the movie wasn't too bad, but then it started climbing up its own ass with environmentalism and social justice and all that. It's pretty rare for me to walk out on a movie in the theater, but holy fuck, it just got painful.
all told, about $50 after popcorn, 2 tickets, and a soda. All because of a cherry picked trailer.:(
If it wasn't bad to the point that people cancel their subs, and if enough non-subscribers hear about the movie and say: "Hey look! it's will smith fucking around with orcs" -- it was probably a success.
Besides, anything they can do to maintain a wide array of content is good, doubly good if they don't have to pay another studio/producer licensing fees.
(I'm with you though, and applaud your tenacity, i didn't even make it past the obnoxious auto-play ad when looking at the title on my roku)
i dunno, i'd rather government take a step back from directly interfering in how companies design and market their products -- obviously with health, safety, and fraud concerns withstanding.
With regulations like this where does it end? It sucks that 'voting with your dollars' doesn't really work when all the manufacturers pull the same shenanigans; but having mommy government step in to dictate these things is an even worse idea. It's feel good legislation at its finest, but real world consequences intended or not are being ignored.
We're living in the tail end of a period in history. It's the usual arc; something new is invented, it goes through a period of 'wild west' type freedom; open -- anything goes. Then slowly over time, industry and/or government steps in to regulate and lock it down. Usually under the guise of it being for our safety of course, or in the case of industry -- to extract as much profit as possible (the overlap of what they offer versus what we want as consumers is seen as money left on the table).
That said, methinks the end game is to remove as much latitude in how you use devices as possible. In this case it's largely due to ads, and how to completely monetize every second of your existence.
Expect locked down, gimped hardware that runs software that spies on you constantly. Coding will be reduced to playing tetris with drag an drop, pre-fabbed blocks of functionality. And you'll be force fed ads at every turn.
On an aside, remember when you could buy something, and that was the end of it? Now every retailer, every company wants to scour as much information about you and your purchase. That trend will only accelerate.
yeah, i wonder that myself. Honestly probably a bit of a RINO.
I do definitely lean towards moderate/Goldwater type republicans though -- the last candidate I would have even considered voting for was Huntsman, but of course he got torpedoed pretty early on.
Go figure =/ The real problem isn't so much R vs D, it's that politics has become so incredibly fucking polarized (which is saying something.. I remember back when GWB was elected, it was pretty bad. Obama and now Trump have just amped that tendency up to weapons grade levels) that a moderate candidate from either party has essentially zero chance of getting past the primaries. It's really an untenable situation in the long term.
As a republican living in OR, thank you Mr. Wyden. I wish more of legislature had an iota of common sense and understanding relating to tech before shitting out half-assed regulation with absolutely no care taken to unintended consequences.
We should be more focused on keeping the pigs honest than catching the *incredibly* rare bogeymen.
why not figure out a (better) way to sequester carbon dioxide?
Maybe use some fancy plant breeding / gene editing to make trees that grow really dense trunks, and modify the wood so it's harder to break down (sort of like what happened before lignin could be broken down.
Seems much more within our means of developing in the near-term, without launching shit into space with potentially dire unintended consequences, nor hampering economic output in order to reduce emissions.
Of course emissions can be lowered by increasing efficiency, but you'll never, ever sell a voluntary reduction in output. It's basically like saying "I feel really strongly about X -- please cut my wages by 20%"
you know though, teenage tantrums usually lead to a heartfelt 'thank you' about 10-15 years down the line.
Frankly, this will be pretty much the first generation of kids to grow up with an indelible list of their shenanigans that will follow them for the rest of their lives. The less shit they put on FB/social media between 14-21 the better.
There is a reason courts expunge juvenile records, and sadly FB and their ilk will not be so kind.
Not a fan of apple, or cook -- but he's probably right about this one.
yep, had a MD player back in the early 2000's, it wouldn't natively play MP3s, you had to encode them to atrac using their (horribly fucking bloated and cumbersome) software.
Excellent hardware, minidisc was -- but something tells me that sales and marketing completely shit the bed on that one.
Of course the writing was on the wall -- flash storage was just starting to get cheap enough to compete with MD.
not in regards to AGW. you aren't a skeptic, you're a denier.
That phrasing presupposes that the thing in question is 'true' -- which makes it really, really hard to have a rational conversation.. definitely more like a religious debate at that point.
Coffee, bananas, maple syrup, skinny, attractive women. These are things rumored to be going extinct.
They are also make for a much more interesting headline than "global temperature averages are thought to change by X in the next 30 years" (Usually some vanishingly small number, relative to what we're used to dealing with in every day life.)
Slashdot Mirror
it might be too soon to try your finger.. maybe put on some smooth jazz and give it a glass of wine?
A connection to the mother ship is the only reason those devices exist. your use case for them is pretty much just ancillary to their goals. (machine learning training and advertising)
If you don't want to lose to someone like Trump, don't run someone like Hillary.
(in south park terms: I see your turd sandwich, and raise you a giant douche)
The election wasn't ideological at all-- it's just they took one of the most hated figures in modern american political history -- and ran her against a jingoistic, populist mouth-breather.
Ignore the pollsters and the news, what did you really think would happen?? A large swath of the voting public voted against Hillary. the fact that they wound up voting for trump was happenstance.
Yes and then the Weinstein movie gropes your daughter and propositions your wife. Bad times indeed.
that's a problem though, going off of the trailer.
Consider for example Downsizing (matt damon, kristen wiig) -- the trailers made it look funny, or at least entertaining.. besides matt damon seems to have relatively good taste in what roles to accept.
First part of the movie wasn't too bad, but then it started climbing up its own ass with environmentalism and social justice and all that. It's pretty rare for me to walk out on a movie in the theater, but holy fuck, it just got painful.
all told, about $50 after popcorn, 2 tickets, and a soda. All because of a cherry picked trailer. :(
If it wasn't bad to the point that people cancel their subs, and if enough non-subscribers hear about the movie and say: "Hey look! it's will smith fucking around with orcs" -- it was probably a success.
Besides, anything they can do to maintain a wide array of content is good, doubly good if they don't have to pay another studio/producer licensing fees.
(I'm with you though, and applaud your tenacity, i didn't even make it past the obnoxious auto-play ad when looking at the title on my roku)
i dunno, i'd rather government take a step back from directly interfering in how companies design and market their products -- obviously with health, safety, and fraud concerns withstanding.
With regulations like this where does it end? It sucks that 'voting with your dollars' doesn't really work when all the manufacturers pull the same shenanigans; but having mommy government step in to dictate these things is an even worse idea. It's feel good legislation at its finest, but real world consequences intended or not are being ignored.
thanks for the support AC, as always, an insightful comment!
we have similar problems in OR with our delightful southern neighbors. If you find a way to permanently get rid of them, please share.
That sounds really great, but can it communicate with Serenity and let them know their show was murdered?
We're living in the tail end of a period in history. It's the usual arc; something new is invented, it goes through a period of 'wild west' type freedom; open -- anything goes. Then slowly over time, industry and/or government steps in to regulate and lock it down. Usually under the guise of it being for our safety of course, or in the case of industry -- to extract as much profit as possible (the overlap of what they offer versus what we want as consumers is seen as money left on the table).
That said, methinks the end game is to remove as much latitude in how you use devices as possible. In this case it's largely due to ads, and how to completely monetize every second of your existence.
Expect locked down, gimped hardware that runs software that spies on you constantly. Coding will be reduced to playing tetris with drag an drop, pre-fabbed blocks of functionality. And you'll be force fed ads at every turn.
On an aside, remember when you could buy something, and that was the end of it? Now every retailer, every company wants to scour as much information about you and your purchase. That trend will only accelerate.
Bleak.
Or according to Nancy Grace; a horde of pedos will abduct them from their front yard.
yeah, i wonder that myself. Honestly probably a bit of a RINO.
I do definitely lean towards moderate/Goldwater type republicans though -- the last candidate I would have even considered voting for was Huntsman, but of course he got torpedoed pretty early on.
Go figure =/ The real problem isn't so much R vs D, it's that politics has become so incredibly fucking polarized (which is saying something.. I remember back when GWB was elected, it was pretty bad. Obama and now Trump have just amped that tendency up to weapons grade levels) that a moderate candidate from either party has essentially zero chance of getting past the primaries. It's really an untenable situation in the long term.
As a republican living in OR, thank you Mr. Wyden. I wish more of legislature had an iota of common sense and understanding relating to tech before shitting out half-assed regulation with absolutely no care taken to unintended consequences.
We should be more focused on keeping the pigs honest than catching the *incredibly* rare bogeymen.
why not figure out a (better) way to sequester carbon dioxide?
Maybe use some fancy plant breeding / gene editing to make trees that grow really dense trunks, and modify the wood so it's harder to break down (sort of like what happened before lignin could be broken down.
Seems much more within our means of developing in the near-term, without launching shit into space with potentially dire unintended consequences, nor hampering economic output in order to reduce emissions.
Of course emissions can be lowered by increasing efficiency, but you'll never, ever sell a voluntary reduction in output. It's basically like saying "I feel really strongly about X -- please cut my wages by 20%"
how do those boots taste?
I think the phrase "Masada shall not fall again" shows that maybe they learned something from the holocaust.
that would definitely require a sea section.
you know though, teenage tantrums usually lead to a heartfelt 'thank you' about 10-15 years down the line.
Frankly, this will be pretty much the first generation of kids to grow up with an indelible list of their shenanigans that will follow them for the rest of their lives. The less shit they put on FB/social media between 14-21 the better.
There is a reason courts expunge juvenile records, and sadly FB and their ilk will not be so kind.
Not a fan of apple, or cook -- but he's probably right about this one.
yep, had a MD player back in the early 2000's, it wouldn't natively play MP3s, you had to encode them to atrac using their (horribly fucking bloated and cumbersome) software.
Excellent hardware, minidisc was -- but something tells me that sales and marketing completely shit the bed on that one.
Of course the writing was on the wall -- flash storage was just starting to get cheap enough to compete with MD.
pretend you're a musician and you know that people are using the analog hole to pirate your stuff.
see? just that easy.
Pro Tip: there are roughly 3 bogeymen that apply to just about everything even tangentially related to technology:
piracy, child porn, and terrorism.
How quickly something gets moved on is a function of how many of those boxes are checked.
oh and also root out those filthy pirates by removing every analog out across all media.
not after they're extinct they won't.
not in regards to AGW. you aren't a skeptic, you're a denier.
That phrasing presupposes that the thing in question is 'true' -- which makes it really, really hard to have a rational conversation.. definitely more like a religious debate at that point.
well because scare stories drive page hits.
Coffee, bananas, maple syrup, skinny, attractive women. These are things rumored to be going extinct.
They are also make for a much more interesting headline than "global temperature averages are thought to change by X in the next 30 years" (Usually some vanishingly small number, relative to what we're used to dealing with in every day life.)