It made perfect sense for Netflix to spend a lot of capital replacing the DVD rental model and all its shuffling of fragile plastic between shelf space and mail, with streamed downloads. Given a suitable backup strategy, server-based files can last forever.
The problem was not technical, but legal. Netflix streaming servers have been stuck with an artificially limited selection of TV shows and movies that "expire" and have to be deleted. Until we see a basic change in IP law, the best film library will be DVD forever.
There are better examples of Apple software dumbing-down than this. iPhoto users used to be able to, after importing pictures from a camera, change the default chronological names of shooting day folders to something like "Maui," and then create new folders ("Hawaii") in which to move day folders. But iPhoto users who upgraded to the successor Photos application on computers found their entire folder structures blown away and images filed chronologically again, with their entire personal organization disappearing. By releasing Photos, Apple sold a lot of copies of Adobe Lightroom.
Local authors who have been using Pages, Apple's word processor, suddenly found the latest "upgrade" stripping away a host of publishing-level features that were instrumental in producing finished books. Pages is now good for typing up the garden club newsletter while the professional authors are all struggling to learn Word.
To add to your sentiment, the high end of the curve brings in more than just the revenue for its sales, and Apple should be smart enough to calculate this.
Plus, the people developing apps for their other, big revenue generating products need computers worth using for development.
Steve Jobs (peace be upon him) knew this by instinct. Not so, it seems, his corporate successors.
The article didn't mention a frequent user complaint: Apple's obsession with trumping the competition by making the whole universe two-dimensional. The newest release of every product is thinner than the last, even though users in every single online forum keep wanting to trade some thinness off for more battery life. In the face of all that reaction the next release will be thinner still, even to the point of compromising structural integrity (iPhone Plus, iPad) and ports (MacBook Pro) and hardware features (iMac).
Whenever I see an Android user running an antivirus on his smartphone, I genuflect toward Cupertino and give thanks that I don't have to go through that.
Nobody is going to stand up and proclaim they are implementing a strong AI. The near future will be a steady match of commercially applicable narrow AI implementagins (digital assistants, autonomous cars, asteroid assayers and miners). Eventually we will find we have backed into strong AI at the overlaps among such systems.
" I had considered coming here to joke about whether the anti-science deniers would come out of the woodwork to claim that the magnetic field wasn't changing at all and they were just after funding...
After decades of man's thoughtless self-indulgence, a large part of the Earth's vital magnetic field has been chopped up into small pieces for use in motors, cow trash extractors, toys and worst of all, attaching bits of paper to refrigerators. It's time to return all magnets to mother Earth to do their part in keeping us cosmic particle free.
"Then the cars can sip power as they sit outside under the sun"
But assuming perfect solar cells at 100% conversion efficiency with no atmospheric absoption, you have no way of squeezing out more than 1367 watts per square meter. Back to the old problem of charging time again.
There is no question that this will work. The question is, how efficiently, in comparison to a plug-in connection? Currently, the big disadvantage of electric cars is no longer range, but charging time. If we can 'gas up' as we are parked at a diner at 90% efficiency, that could be a tipping point for the technology.
I too had to retire several years earlier than planned when work dried up after the Crash. But then I found that my services were more needed than ever, recast as a small business. Now I'm an IT country doctor.
Recall also that BBSs were primarily local, for people interested in one activity in one city. Meatspace setups were considered an essential part of the process. Things began to change when Usenet was introduced: common interests, but no longer a common location.
An introvert is someone who is on a spectrum of needing less social contact than the average, but no functioning person can get by with no social contact at all. Look at what happens to people in enforced isolation. It's considered a form of torture.
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In other news, perhaps we were too hasty in condemning Pol Pot. He was only trying to make Pnom Penh a sustainable city.
He may not be exaggerating by as much as usual. Seattle is notorious for its lack of broadband.
It made perfect sense for Netflix to spend a lot of capital replacing the DVD rental model and all its shuffling of fragile plastic between shelf space and mail, with streamed downloads. Given a suitable backup strategy, server-based files can last forever.
The problem was not technical, but legal. Netflix streaming servers have been stuck with an artificially limited selection of TV shows and movies that "expire" and have to be deleted. Until we see a basic change in IP law, the best film library will be DVD forever.
There are better examples of Apple software dumbing-down than this. iPhoto users used to be able to, after importing pictures from a camera, change the default chronological names of shooting day folders to something like "Maui," and then create new folders ("Hawaii") in which to move day folders. But iPhoto users who upgraded to the successor Photos application on computers found their entire folder structures blown away and images filed chronologically again, with their entire personal organization disappearing. By releasing Photos, Apple sold a lot of copies of Adobe Lightroom.
Local authors who have been using Pages, Apple's word processor, suddenly found the latest "upgrade" stripping away a host of publishing-level features that were instrumental in producing finished books. Pages is now good for typing up the garden club newsletter while the professional authors are all struggling to learn Word.
To add to your sentiment, the high end of the curve brings in more than just the revenue for its sales, and Apple should be smart enough to calculate this.
Plus, the people developing apps for their other, big revenue generating products need computers worth using for development.
Steve Jobs (peace be upon him) knew this by instinct. Not so, it seems, his corporate successors.
The article didn't mention a frequent user complaint: Apple's obsession with trumping the competition by making the whole universe two-dimensional. The newest release of every product is thinner than the last, even though users in every single online forum keep wanting to trade some thinness off for more battery life. In the face of all that reaction the next release will be thinner still, even to the point of compromising structural integrity (iPhone Plus, iPad) and ports (MacBook Pro) and hardware features (iMac).
Whenever I see an Android user running an antivirus on his smartphone, I genuflect toward Cupertino and give thanks that I don't have to go through that.
What if the user doesn't have an internet connection?
Then he obviously wouldn't have been infected in the first place.
It's only anonymous if you pay in cash.
If you don't pay for a medallion can in cash, the driver will claim his credit card reader is broken. Therefore, you pay in cash.
4 core 6502?
More likely an i7 running Windows 10.
Enjoy!
https://tarnmoor.com/2016/12/1...
Because only a women can find something in a refrigerator if it is not visible in the front of a shelf.
If Microsoft would only introduce the Boot Country Club feature, which would allow a Surface to run OS X, then they would have a contender.
You would be arrested and thrown in jail for endangering the livelihood of some mega corp.
Or for running your cable trench through a muddy patch of ground that the EPA retrospectively declared to be "waters of the United States."
continues unabated. Well at least now MI6 and NSA can spy on farmers too.
And AC trolls can continue spewing crap.
Machine vision is weak AI by definition.
Nobody is going to stand up and proclaim they are implementing a strong AI. The near future will be a steady match of commercially applicable narrow AI implementagins (digital assistants, autonomous cars, asteroid assayers and miners). Eventually we will find we have backed into strong AI at the overlaps among such systems.
For all these years I thought this was just an expression.
" I had considered coming here to joke about whether the anti-science deniers would come out of the woodwork to claim that the magnetic field wasn't changing at all and they were just after funding...
After decades of man's thoughtless self-indulgence, a large part of the Earth's vital magnetic field has been chopped up into small pieces for use in motors, cow trash extractors, toys and worst of all, attaching bits of paper to refrigerators. It's time to return all magnets to mother Earth to do their part in keeping us cosmic particle free.
"Then the cars can sip power as they sit outside under the sun"
But assuming perfect solar cells at 100% conversion efficiency with no atmospheric absoption, you have no way of squeezing out more than 1367 watts per square meter. Back to the old problem of charging time again.
wireless charging is a waste of energy
There is no question that this will work. The question is, how efficiently, in comparison to a plug-in connection? Currently, the big disadvantage of electric cars is no longer range, but charging time. If we can 'gas up' as we are parked at a diner at 90% efficiency, that could be a tipping point for the technology.
An empty house can feel like you're stranded on a deserted island.
One man's Gilligan's Island is another man's Fantasy Island.
"De UPS truck! De UPS truck!"
I too had to retire several years earlier than planned when work dried up after the Crash. But then I found that my services were more needed than ever, recast as a small business. Now I'm an IT country doctor.
If you have to fall back on nflation to make your debt affordable, you are most likely a government.
Recall also that BBSs were primarily local, for people interested in one activity in one city. Meatspace setups were considered an essential part of the process. Things began to change when Usenet was introduced: common interests, but no longer a common location.
An introvert is someone who is on a spectrum of needing less social contact than the average, but no functioning person can get by with no social contact at all. Look at what happens to people in enforced isolation. It's considered a form of torture.