Politicians paid to fight against technology they don't understand. Technically, (my understanding is) the plugins are not even illegal. It's the content they are pointing at that is technically enabling unauthorized viewing. IANAL, but I am interested in how this plays out. Could be an interesting court case, and potentially set some pretty crazy precedents. Are you watching closely?
How is this different from a browser that can go to the very same links the plugins are pointing at and get you unauthorized entertainment? Browser was paid for one way or another. By this logic, every web-browser is just as guilty, and setting grandma up with a couple of bookmarks makes me a criminal.
Kodi boxes are neat. Looks like they have finally hit critical mass.
All this does is drive the tech back into moms basement where it started. Goo Yob. Changes nothing.
Some forums are completely toxic. Fuck reddit.....
On the other hand, read the stickies, use the search, and for fucks sake, RTFM before you ask for help.
You are either 1.) On the wrong forum. 2.) posting off topic. 3.) not trying hard enough to "self help" 4.) Ignoring the 'READ THIS FIRST" thread. 5.) Fucking retarded.
Sometimes, the problem is you. Tough love. Not trying to be an asshole, but ther sheer number of people who can't seem to follow simple directions is staggering.
As a parent, I am constantly badgering my boy to build skills that his peers don't have, so later he can have the job that his peers wish they had. He's got it in his head that he is going to be a youtube star when he grows up. I see this as the same as moving to Hollywood to become a star, and tell him this almost daily. I sound like my father when I do it, and it kills me.
On the flip side, he's also learned how to solve his own computer problems and navigate the web for self help pretty well in pursuit of his dream. He even has a steady clientele of elderly folks with computer problems making him some money. Next we will spin up a simple site for his videos and blog stuff instead of leaning on youtube.
I went to every college in the area and said "If you have taken a programming class, I want you. I'll pay you. I'll train you in the languages we use" and no responses. Why??
Because a high school dropout can pull 45k managing A FAST FOOD RESTAURANT. (at least for a little while longer)
A high school GRADUATE can pull 50k+ working a call center.
A college GRADUATE *needs* to command 60k+ just to cover the overhead from 4 years of loans.
You know the workers exists, you said so in your post. Yet you fill your US funded lab with foreigners and wonder what the problem is. Are *YOU* working for 45k a year?
That's why. Raise your offer by 31% and when your foreign nationals are sent home and you will instead draw local talent. This is the POINT. Stop pretending to be clueless. It sounds like you are in a leadership position and are seeing the effects of the wage deflation this discussion is all about first hand. You're not going to see much sympathy, but you Will get through it.
Look on the bright side, soon you will be improving the lives of 6 American families, and all of the local businesses they frequent.
So now we can have phone-booth style human body diagnostic on every street corner.... and I'll still need to go to Mexico to be able to afford it myself.
You were lucky, in your background or genetics or decisions; others aren't.
DEAD WRONG. I worked my ass off and got shit on over and over and over for it. I've homeless more than a few times, and lost more than one opportunity to my scary background on account of my "lucky" decisions. Eventually I enlisted in the US Army, learned (learnt?) a decent skill, gained real world experience, and refused to quit until I had at least a decent job with a livable wage. None of that is luck, none of it was genetics, and the decisions that led me here have been mostly teaching me what not to do.
I get it though, it's easier to blame unseen forces like gods and luck and shit than accept that the world is a harsh place full of harsh realities and will never be fair. The only way anybody ever gets anywhere is failing over and over again. Yup, even the rich kid that inherits a fortune spends his life failing over and over until he "makes it" Blaming the people signing your paycheck certainly aint gonna move your ass up.
I'm not shitting on those that are trying, but when a jobs got you sleeping in the 7/11 parking lot, its time to re-evaluate your options. Complaining and demonizing the company that has agreed to employ you is wasting the time you could be using to learn a new hustle, or marketable skill.
Paywalled...... Sucks, I would have loved to read that. Oh well. I guess if I wanna afford to read the Wall Street Journal I better Check.These.Out..Instead.
The infrastructure and support staff it takes to manage what the bots are doing takes a little more than "a few dozen workers" in those factories. Think shipping, raw materials, management... that's why they have such large parking lots. Full automation is coming, buts it not quite here yet.... there may not be many assembly line jobs left, but forklift drivers, automation specialists, various clerks and faces... they still put a LOT of people to work.
Are they "unskilled" jobs? If so, are you suggesting that there needs to remain a majority of people without proper education in order to have an "unskilled" work force so that you can go to the grocery store on Sunday or out to eat in the evening?
Yes, that's about the long and short of it.. people need to learn how to have a job, and learn the value of a dollar *before* they have the skills to command a livable wage... it grounds you to reality and teaches the young how the world works.
What happens if everybody has an education and is competing on the same level for "skilled" jobs and nobody wants to do the "unskilled" jobs? What happens if we don't have anyone to man the register or pick your food from a field? Wouldn't you say those jobs are necessary?
It seems like what you are saying is "some jobs aren't meant to pay for someone's subsistence"
This is exactly what he is saying. If everybody could skate by doing low/no-responsibility work without ever picking up any marketable skills, there would be very few people to do things that require responsibility and trade-skills.
These jobs are meant to be worked while you are a student, or living with your folks, or picking up something to do because your setup already and bored. It blows me away that people actually attempt to make a career out of those positions, but there's always "that guy".
What happens if everybody has an education and is competing on the same level for "skilled" jobs and nobody wants to do the "unskilled" jobs?
Those people compete for the limited amount of jobs, the lesser applicants compromises and take a step down to a lower position, or less optimal trade and keep training for the next opportunity. They also have children, and pass this life lesson on to them, which hopefully teaches them the importance of a strong work ethic, education, and/or trade-skills.
Nobody grows up wanting to be a plumber, what a shitty job... but its also a marketable skill, and will support you and your family, especially if you couple it with a strong work ethic and the drive to succeed. The job you want may not be available to you right now, but the job you need likely is. Those days may be numbered though, as every time people with no skills or motivation convince the world to pay them more for basically being present, it undervalues all the trades, making that livable wage worth that much less.
What really blows me away is the under-skilled workers complaining about not making a living wage while they blow paychecks on shit they cant afford. Things like tobacco, video-games, subscription entertainment services, and overpriced electronics all come to mind right away. Then there are the real silly things like scratch tickets, drugs, overpriced food, and generally living beyond your means.
If your really in a spot... maybe pregnant, addicted to drugs, mental issues, diseased, or otherwise UNABLE to learn skills or go to work, there are social safety nets in place to help you, otherwise, its YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to learn things. That's not saying you need to accept crushing debt and enroll in higher education, what that means is that instead of spending your off-time hanging out at the bar, or playing games, or generally fucking off complaining about how your always shit on, spend it developing skills on your own. Libraries offer so much more than free internet access, but internet access is also one of those things. If you REALLY have issues learning skills on your own, there is also the armed forces (here in America anyway) not only will you learn a skill, but you will learn how to learn. There really is no excuse for this sort of thing.
TL:DR= Develop some skills and get the job you need, while learning the skills for the trade you want. Every time you get another nickel or doing nothing, it makes that job you WANT less exactly that much.
Weekly stories of woh coming from the big studios, as they annually report profits in the BILLIONS. Then they expect Joe-citizen to pony up and hour or more worth income every time they decide to watch their legally licensed content on a different device? Cry me a river.
Its funny, when you make laws that are so slanted, so in favor of the few, and so at the expense of the many, people just decide not to respect those laws. Then when you try to enforce these laws, people don't respect the enforcer. When you finally find a way to enforce these laws, people lose even more respect for the law, the enforcer, the body that stands to profit from the laws, the government that allowed it in the first place, and worst of all, people lose respect for the rule of law all together.
We all choose to play by this rule-set (copyright). If the game is rigged (DRM, region locking, no content shifting), we stop playing (piracy) and lose respect for the rules that we stopped playing by (copyright law) and the other players (rights-holders) and the stupid rules that we decided not to play with in first place. (copyright in general)
When first implemented, it was a good system... it fostered creation, paid out to the creators and generally was a pretty excepted way of doing things. Over the years however, its been perverted to serve the opposite of what it was made to do, Copyright stifles creativity with the constant bogus takedown letters and violation notices, costs creators money defending original ideas, and allows studios to retain ownership of whole swaths of culture that should rightfully have fallen into public hands LONG AGO. Copyright is broken as it is now, and needs to be dialed back to reality. Once the laws are once again SANE, huge portions of the population will begin to respect it once again.
Don't even get me started on the double-dipping force feeding of commercials to consumers who've already paid (to much) for the programming on whatever format they are getting it on.....
DMCA says that if there is any kind of copy protection, you are not allowed to break it. Period. Full stop.
Exemptions ave been made, but (correct me if I'm wrong) breaking DVD/blu-ray/Cable-box encryption is *not* one them. This is why the Slysoft suite of ripping tools went away. They made it too easy. Grandma could do it. They made a lot of money because it was easy and attractive, and they got shut down for it.
When format shifting is made illegal, only pirates will format shift.
Show me the bargain bin impulse buy streaming license that replaces the $1.00 old western DVDs. Where is the obscure horror movie lifetime streaming license from the same bargain bin? Where is the private buying, selling, and trading of digital content licenses? Where is the universal streaming license that works based on the content licensed, and not the content providers ecosystem? Where are the movies and content that are worth more than a single watch to begin with?
This reads like more of the same "poor us, we're not the elite that we used to be" bullshit that comes out of the entertainment industry every couple of months. How does anybody even take this shit seriously anymore?
Seriously, when you base a pictures attraction on flashy visuals and established IP, why would anybody bother watching it twice?
The entertainment industry is continually shooting itself in the face, and complaining about the damage like its the consumers fault.
Remember when VHS rental was happening in every grocery store and strip mall in America? How did they studios even survive?
We all point at the printing press, steam power, and and the industrial revolution and say "See? this has all happened before, things will be fine, remember the doomsayers of the past", but this IS different.
The level of automation on the horizon will remove workers and employees in great numbers, from all fields, not just the single improved industries as we have seen throughout history. Its going to happen very quickly. Huge swaths of the worlds population will find themselves out of work in a very short time, and even the robots and automation systems that replace them will go dark, as demand drops like a rock.
We can hope that new industries will arise, and the younger generation will find new skills and ways of life that we cannot even conceive of today. But even in the best of these scenarios, it wont be before the huge numbers of workers find themselves desperate and starving, while those with the resources to automate pull more and more wealth from the populations of the world.
We human beings have been marching into the future, improving our lives and adapting technology to replace mundane tasks since the first caveman combined sticks and stones. If we had no other qualities, we would survive this bleak future solely on account of our ability to adapt, and adapt we will, but not without great pains, and drastic change on a scale not seen since the fall of the dinosaur.
In the short term, I suggest learning robotics, investing your children heavily in STEM skills, and building a few small bots of your own. soon, the only meatbags needed need will be those who can maintain the growing legions of steel and circuitry, and those who are willing do the things even our soulless replacements refuse to do.
I know I sound like the doomsayers of the past, and I hope things don't go this way, but the writing is on the wall. This level of change is as unpredictable as it is unprecedented. Good luck to us all.
I agreed with you up to the last statement. Such policies are no better than the consequences they're meant to prevent.
In normal circumstances, extremes are bad, I agree. But when peoples families get involved, things can escalate to the point of gunfire before anybody even has a handle on what happened. Silence is consent. That quiet dude who just got walked out could be making a list on his way home. The manager who had to explain those emails to his family is coming after the team-leader in the morning, and who even knows what kind of shit the perp and his little accomplices are going to pull next.
I head a team, and I discussed this story with them over our meeting this morning. It was a hell of a way to remind them that fuck-fuck games are all good and well for solving problems at the lowest level, but sometimes it's easy to cross a line, and some lines should never be crossed.
We get to hear all about how piracy is killing Apple, Beeeeeeelions in lost profits, the company is tanking on account of all of these freeloaders watching our content for freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
We need a host of new laws on the books to protect us all from these criminal consumers!
That's fucking terrible. If I even saw that kind of shit from the other side of the room I would demand the little-dick prankster fuck be walked out or I quit on the spot. What a horrible environment to work in. This trash speaks to the (in)ability of your management team, the fuck-each-other-over-as-hard-as-you-can corporate bonus games that have permeated the tech industry, and your personal lack of integrity, knowing it all went down like that and not speaking up to put the real offender in the hotseat instead of watching the victims career nose-dive cuz he forgot to lock his system.
Totally should already be a habit, and is a requirement at every single serious tech job I've ever worked, but the first offence is maybe inverting some colors and flipping the monitor sideways, not taking kill-shots at your coworkers livelihood, destroying company source-code and sending email to managements families.
Anybody quietly aware of this action is an accomplice, and deserving of termination as well.
Retropi is ready to go right away. Controllers are plug and play. The hardest part for non tech people would be flashing the sdcard and expanding the file-system, both of which are well documented procedures with tons of video and text guides. Use a pi3 and your wifi will even work "out of the box"
Don't be scared, retropi is an easy and fun bonding experience for the whole family.
What a surprise. Mobile has been a racket from the very beginning. Is anybody surprised? Unlimited* plans. (*Sort of. OK, not really)
It's as if the wireless industry (here in America) has been on a mission to redefine what the word "unlimited" means for the past three decades.
Really though, once the consumer has already bought this months $1000 mobile phone (latest and greatest don-cha-know) it stands to reason that you can charge pretty much whatever you want and those people will pay it. This goes double for the fukfuk games the carriers play with hardware subsidies.
Consumers made this bed. You can always drop the plan and go wifi only. Tie your fav voip to the phone and your good to go. Embrace the all-knowing google god and install hangouts to make and receive calls. Go MS instead and skype is your ticket at fractions of pennies on the dollar compared to the big carriers, or roll your own solution.
Best to drop the whole thing and retrain your brain to think for itself. Remember paper maps and memorized phone numbers?
I only read the summary, but why bother shutting down FM to begin with? They can roll out digital anyway, Or do they step on each other? Are there other plans for the FM spectrum? Does it go public?
I can think of a few good reasons to carry around a passive computer.
Having something like this in my wallet to handle processing the data output from various wearable and IoT sensors sounds pretty nice.
Doubles as passive offline budget tracker thanks to its proximity to my various NFC equipped widgets, and the it does it all offline without reporting my habits or locations to anybody.
It sounds like device itself is designed with a modular nature, so the proc, ram and storage all live in an easily replaceable card that grandma can slide into her "head-unit" when its time to replace, and slide out and mail to me when "google is broken"
These things CAN be done with a raspi, but not before I spend at least a solid evening fooling with it (probly more) pi wont fit in my wallet, and is still stuck in ARM land.
Before you say you can do that all already with your mobile phone, consider the price of a phone in both local currency, as well as personal freedoms, personal intelligence, and privacy. I wont give the big anti-mobile speech, but I will say there are a few of us out there yet that flat refuse to carry a smartphone for various reasons. A device like this would allow me to stop fooling around with the raspberry pi in my back-back every morning. At 50 bucks a pop, I think its worth a look. There are plenty of applications that this device seems perfect for (on the surface) and plenty more if your not addicted to your smartphone-centric lifestyle.
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Politicians paid to fight against technology they don't understand. Technically, (my understanding is) the plugins are not even illegal. It's the content they are pointing at that is technically enabling unauthorized viewing. IANAL, but I am interested in how this plays out. Could be an interesting court case, and potentially set some pretty crazy precedents. Are you watching closely?
How is this different from a browser that can go to the very same links the plugins are pointing at and get you unauthorized entertainment? Browser was paid for one way or another. By this logic, every web-browser is just as guilty, and setting grandma up with a couple of bookmarks makes me a criminal.
Kodi boxes are neat. Looks like they have finally hit critical mass.
All this does is drive the tech back into moms basement where it started. Goo Yob. Changes nothing.
Fucking crybaby.
Some forums are completely toxic. Fuck reddit.....
On the other hand, read the stickies, use the search, and for fucks sake, RTFM before you ask for help.
You are either
1.) On the wrong forum.
2.) posting off topic.
3.) not trying hard enough to "self help"
4.) Ignoring the 'READ THIS FIRST" thread.
5.) Fucking retarded.
Sometimes, the problem is you. Tough love. Not trying to be an asshole, but ther sheer number of people who can't seem to follow simple directions is staggering.
I wish I had some mod points for you.
As a parent, I am constantly badgering my boy to build skills that his peers don't have, so later he can have the job that his peers wish they had. He's got it in his head that he is going to be a youtube star when he grows up. I see this as the same as moving to Hollywood to become a star, and tell him this almost daily. I sound like my father when I do it, and it kills me.
On the flip side, he's also learned how to solve his own computer problems and navigate the web for self help pretty well in pursuit of his dream. He even has a steady clientele of elderly folks with computer problems making him some money. Next we will spin up a simple site for his videos and blog stuff instead of leaning on youtube.
Parent smarter, not harder.
I went to every college in the area and said "If you have taken a programming class, I want you. I'll pay you. I'll train you in the languages we use" and no responses. Why??
Because a high school dropout can pull 45k managing A FAST FOOD RESTAURANT. (at least for a little while longer)
A high school GRADUATE can pull 50k+ working a call center.
A college GRADUATE *needs* to command 60k+ just to cover the overhead from 4 years of loans.
You know the workers exists, you said so in your post. Yet you fill your US funded lab with foreigners and wonder what the problem is. Are *YOU* working for 45k a year?
Looks like the cost of living in MD is 30% higher than the average accost the board.
Your offer of 45k a year is quite low, or spot-dead average (depending on who you ask) for a fresh bachelors degree.
That's why. Raise your offer by 31% and when your foreign nationals are sent home and you will instead draw local talent. This is the POINT. Stop pretending to be clueless. It sounds like you are in a leadership position and are seeing the effects of the wage deflation this discussion is all about first hand. You're not going to see much sympathy, but you Will get through it.
Look on the bright side, soon you will be improving the lives of 6 American families, and all of the local businesses they frequent.
From this totally wholesome-on-the-up-and-up site. Color me surprised. This is why we use throw away email addys for this sort of thing kids.
So now we can have phone-booth style human body diagnostic on every street corner.... and I'll still need to go to Mexico to be able to afford it myself.
You were lucky, in your background or genetics or decisions; others aren't.
DEAD WRONG. I worked my ass off and got shit on over and over and over for it. I've homeless more than a few times, and lost more than one opportunity to my scary background on account of my "lucky" decisions. Eventually I enlisted in the US Army, learned (learnt?) a decent skill, gained real world experience, and refused to quit until I had at least a decent job with a livable wage. None of that is luck, none of it was genetics, and the decisions that led me here have been mostly teaching me what not to do.
I get it though, it's easier to blame unseen forces like gods and luck and shit than accept that the world is a harsh place full of harsh realities and will never be fair. The only way anybody ever gets anywhere is failing over and over again. Yup, even the rich kid that inherits a fortune spends his life failing over and over until he "makes it" Blaming the people signing your paycheck certainly aint gonna move your ass up.
I'm not shitting on those that are trying, but when a jobs got you sleeping in the 7/11 parking lot, its time to re-evaluate your options. Complaining and demonizing the company that has agreed to employ you is wasting the time you could be using to learn a new hustle, or marketable skill.
Paywalled...... Sucks, I would have loved to read that. Oh well. I guess if I wanna afford to read the Wall Street Journal I better Check. These. Out.. Instead.
The infrastructure and support staff it takes to manage what the bots are doing takes a little more than "a few dozen workers" in those factories. Think shipping, raw materials, management... that's why they have such large parking lots. Full automation is coming, buts it not quite here yet.... there may not be many assembly line jobs left, but forklift drivers, automation specialists, various clerks and faces... they still put a LOT of people to work.
My question is "what jobs are those?"
Are they "unskilled" jobs? If so, are you suggesting that there needs to remain a majority of people without proper education in order to have an "unskilled" work force so that you can go to the grocery store on Sunday or out to eat in the evening?
Yes, that's about the long and short of it.. people need to learn how to have a job, and learn the value of a dollar *before* they have the skills to command a livable wage... it grounds you to reality and teaches the young how the world works.
What happens if everybody has an education and is competing on the same level for "skilled" jobs and nobody wants to do the "unskilled" jobs? What happens if we don't have anyone to man the register or pick your food from a field? Wouldn't you say those jobs are necessary?
It seems like what you are saying is "some jobs aren't meant to pay for someone's subsistence"
This is exactly what he is saying. If everybody could skate by doing low/no-responsibility work without ever picking up any marketable skills, there would be very few people to do things that require responsibility and trade-skills.
These jobs are meant to be worked while you are a student, or living with your folks, or picking up something to do because your setup already and bored. It blows me away that people actually attempt to make a career out of those positions, but there's always "that guy".
What happens if everybody has an education and is competing on the same level for "skilled" jobs and nobody wants to do the "unskilled" jobs?
Those people compete for the limited amount of jobs, the lesser applicants compromises and take a step down to a lower position, or less optimal trade and keep training for the next opportunity. They also have children, and pass this life lesson on to them, which hopefully teaches them the importance of a strong work ethic, education, and/or trade-skills.
Nobody grows up wanting to be a plumber, what a shitty job... but its also a marketable skill, and will support you and your family, especially if you couple it with a strong work ethic and the drive to succeed. The job you want may not be available to you right now, but the job you need likely is. Those days may be numbered though, as every time people with no skills or motivation convince the world to pay them more for basically being present, it undervalues all the trades, making that livable wage worth that much less.
What really blows me away is the under-skilled workers complaining about not making a living wage while they blow paychecks on shit they cant afford. Things like tobacco, video-games, subscription entertainment services, and overpriced electronics all come to mind right away. Then there are the real silly things like scratch tickets, drugs, overpriced food, and generally living beyond your means.
If your really in a spot... maybe pregnant, addicted to drugs, mental issues, diseased, or otherwise UNABLE to learn skills or go to work, there are social safety nets in place to help you, otherwise, its YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to learn things. That's not saying you need to accept crushing debt and enroll in higher education, what that means is that instead of spending your off-time hanging out at the bar, or playing games, or generally fucking off complaining about how your always shit on, spend it developing skills on your own. Libraries offer so much more than free internet access, but internet access is also one of those things. If you REALLY have issues learning skills on your own, there is also the armed forces (here in America anyway) not only will you learn a skill, but you will learn how to learn. There really is no excuse for this sort of thing.
TL:DR= Develop some skills and get the job you need, while learning the skills for the trade you want. Every time you get another nickel or doing nothing, it makes that job you WANT less exactly that much.
Weekly stories of woh coming from the big studios, as they annually report profits in the BILLIONS. Then they expect Joe-citizen to pony up and hour or more worth income every time they decide to watch their legally licensed content on a different device? Cry me a river.
Its funny, when you make laws that are so slanted, so in favor of the few, and so at the expense of the many, people just decide not to respect those laws. Then when you try to enforce these laws, people don't respect the enforcer. When you finally find a way to enforce these laws, people lose even more respect for the law, the enforcer, the body that stands to profit from the laws, the government that allowed it in the first place, and worst of all, people lose respect for the rule of law all together.
We all choose to play by this rule-set (copyright). If the game is rigged (DRM, region locking, no content shifting), we stop playing (piracy) and lose respect for the rules that we stopped playing by (copyright law) and the other players (rights-holders) and the stupid rules that we decided not to play with in first place. (copyright in general)
When first implemented, it was a good system... it fostered creation, paid out to the creators and generally was a pretty excepted way of doing things.
Over the years however, its been perverted to serve the opposite of what it was made to do, Copyright stifles creativity with the constant bogus takedown letters and violation notices, costs creators money defending original ideas, and allows studios to retain ownership of whole swaths of culture that should rightfully have fallen into public hands LONG AGO. Copyright is broken as it is now, and needs to be dialed back to reality. Once the laws are once again SANE, huge portions of the population will begin to respect it once again.
Don't even get me started on the double-dipping force feeding of commercials to consumers who've already paid (to much) for the programming on whatever format they are getting it on.....
DMCA says that if there is any kind of copy protection, you are not allowed to break it. Period. Full stop.
Exemptions ave been made, but (correct me if I'm wrong) breaking DVD/blu-ray/Cable-box encryption is *not* one them. This is why the Slysoft suite of ripping tools went away. They made it too easy. Grandma could do it. They made a lot of money because it was easy and attractive, and they got shut down for it.
When format shifting is made illegal, only pirates will format shift.
Raspberry pi, no additional hardware required. $35.00USD out the door. OOOOOhhhhhhhhhhh your a government?! I meant to say 3500000/ each. My mistake.
Show me the bargain bin impulse buy streaming license that replaces the $1.00 old western DVDs.
Where is the obscure horror movie lifetime streaming license from the same bargain bin?
Where is the private buying, selling, and trading of digital content licenses?
Where is the universal streaming license that works based on the content licensed, and not the content providers ecosystem?
Where are the movies and content that are worth more than a single watch to begin with?
This reads like more of the same "poor us, we're not the elite that we used to be" bullshit that comes out of the entertainment industry every couple of months. How does anybody even take this shit seriously anymore?
Seriously, when you base a pictures attraction on flashy visuals and established IP, why would anybody bother watching it twice?
The entertainment industry is continually shooting itself in the face, and complaining about the damage like its the consumers fault.
Remember when VHS rental was happening in every grocery store and strip mall in America? How did they studios even survive?
We all point at the printing press, steam power, and and the industrial revolution and say "See? this has all happened before, things will be fine, remember the doomsayers of the past", but this IS different.
The level of automation on the horizon will remove workers and employees in great numbers, from all fields, not just the single improved industries as we have seen throughout history. Its going to happen very quickly. Huge swaths of the worlds population will find themselves out of work in a very short time, and even the robots and automation systems that replace them will go dark, as demand drops like a rock.
We can hope that new industries will arise, and the younger generation will find new skills and ways of life that we cannot even conceive of today. But even in the best of these scenarios, it wont be before the huge numbers of workers find themselves desperate and starving, while those with the resources to automate pull more and more wealth from the populations of the world.
We human beings have been marching into the future, improving our lives and adapting technology to replace mundane tasks since the first caveman combined sticks and stones. If we had no other qualities, we would survive this bleak future solely on account of our ability to adapt, and adapt we will, but not without great pains, and drastic change on a scale not seen since the fall of the dinosaur.
In the short term, I suggest learning robotics, investing your children heavily in STEM skills, and building a few small bots of your own. soon, the only meatbags needed need will be those who can maintain the growing legions of steel and circuitry, and those who are willing do the things even our soulless replacements refuse to do.
I know I sound like the doomsayers of the past, and I hope things don't go this way, but the writing is on the wall. This level of change is as unpredictable as it is unprecedented. Good luck to us all.
I agreed with you up to the last statement. Such policies are no better than the consequences they're meant to prevent.
In normal circumstances, extremes are bad, I agree. But when peoples families get involved, things can escalate to the point of gunfire before anybody even has a handle on what happened. Silence is consent. That quiet dude who just got walked out could be making a list on his way home. The manager who had to explain those emails to his family is coming after the team-leader in the morning, and who even knows what kind of shit the perp and his little accomplices are going to pull next.
I head a team, and I discussed this story with them over our meeting this morning. It was a hell of a way to remind them that fuck-fuck games are all good and well for solving problems at the lowest level, but sometimes it's easy to cross a line, and some lines should never be crossed.
We get to hear all about how piracy is killing Apple, Beeeeeeelions in lost profits, the company is tanking on account of all of these freeloaders watching our content for freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
We need a host of new laws on the books to protect us all from these criminal consumers!
That's fucking terrible. If I even saw that kind of shit from the other side of the room I would demand the little-dick prankster fuck be walked out or I quit on the spot. What a horrible environment to work in. This trash speaks to the (in)ability of your management team, the fuck-each-other-over-as-hard-as-you-can corporate bonus games that have permeated the tech industry, and your personal lack of integrity, knowing it all went down like that and not speaking up to put the real offender in the hotseat instead of watching the victims career nose-dive cuz he forgot to lock his system.
Totally should already be a habit, and is a requirement at every single serious tech job I've ever worked, but the first offence is maybe inverting some colors and flipping the monitor sideways, not taking kill-shots at your coworkers livelihood, destroying company source-code and sending email to managements families.
Anybody quietly aware of this action is an accomplice, and deserving of termination as well.
Unless we double your monthly bill of course.... then the network can handle it fine.... until... you know... next time it can't......
So THAT's where they keep getting these ideas...
Retropi is ready to go right away. Controllers are plug and play. The hardest part for non tech people would be flashing the sdcard and expanding the file-system, both of which are well documented procedures with tons of video and text guides. Use a pi3 and your wifi will even work "out of the box"
Don't be scared, retropi is an easy and fun bonding experience for the whole family.
What a surprise. Mobile has been a racket from the very beginning. Is anybody surprised? Unlimited* plans. (*Sort of. OK, not really)
It's as if the wireless industry (here in America) has been on a mission to redefine what the word "unlimited" means for the past three decades.
Really though, once the consumer has already bought this months $1000 mobile phone (latest and greatest don-cha-know) it stands to reason that you can charge pretty much whatever you want and those people will pay it. This goes double for the fukfuk games the carriers play with hardware subsidies.
Consumers made this bed. You can always drop the plan and go wifi only. Tie your fav voip to the phone and your good to go. Embrace the all-knowing google god and install hangouts to make and receive calls. Go MS instead and skype is your ticket at fractions of pennies on the dollar compared to the big carriers, or roll your own solution.
Best to drop the whole thing and retrain your brain to think for itself. Remember paper maps and memorized phone numbers?
I only read the summary, but why bother shutting down FM to begin with? They can roll out digital anyway, Or do they step on each other? Are there other plans for the FM spectrum? Does it go public?
I can think of a few good reasons to carry around a passive computer.
Having something like this in my wallet to handle processing the data output from various wearable and IoT sensors sounds pretty nice.
Doubles as passive offline budget tracker thanks to its proximity to my various NFC equipped widgets, and the it does it all offline without reporting my habits or locations to anybody.
It sounds like device itself is designed with a modular nature, so the proc, ram and storage all live in an easily replaceable card that grandma can slide into her "head-unit" when its time to replace, and slide out and mail to me when "google is broken"
These things CAN be done with a raspi, but not before I spend at least a solid evening fooling with it (probly more) pi wont fit in my wallet, and is still stuck in ARM land.
Before you say you can do that all already with your mobile phone, consider the price of a phone in both local currency, as well as personal freedoms, personal intelligence, and privacy. I wont give the big anti-mobile speech, but I will say there are a few of us out there yet that flat refuse to carry a smartphone for various reasons. A device like this would allow me to stop fooling around with the raspberry pi in my back-back every morning. At 50 bucks a pop, I think its worth a look. There are plenty of applications that this device seems perfect for (on the surface) and plenty more if your not addicted to your smartphone-centric lifestyle.