YMMV. I had about 250GB of mp3 when I got bored maintaining / organising the collection, and for me there was a lot of "same". It would depend largely on your memory / perception of music. Since I switched over to Spotify Premium I don't hit the same problems. There are are other problems: mainly licensing issues that make things disappear or albums that have tracks missing...
And there we have him folks. The ideal media consumer. Too lazy to acquire and organize his own music collection. He would much rather rent the music by the month (or let us sell his data and advertise him to death).
How much longer before we rent our computer software by the month, oh right, its already happening. Our TV, check. Computer games, in the works...
So what's the news? Google pushes you to download Chrome every time you visit their site.
I don't have to use Google. In fact, I use DuckDuckGo instead. I pretty much have to use Windows for business reasons. You see the difference?
Then there is simply the old school belief that a computer OS should be a neutral platform, enabling the user to make the computer do its bidding, not serving up ads that you can't turn off on a device that you actually need to use.
ACtually, no, that's not how copyright works at all. The copyright OWNER is responsible for finding and reporting infringement, the service provider needs to provide some means for the content owner to report and request a take down. Youtube automatically scans content, flags are copyrighted, then layers ads on it sending the revenue to the content owner, or outright removes the video. Every single asshat "musician" complaining about youtube is doing so because they are attempting to launch their own service and it sucks.
Yahh, no. Courts have already spoken in other cases about this. When you are operating a whack-a-mole operation pretending to observe DMCA requirements, all the while knowing you have copyrighted material on your service, in fact depending on that material for your profits, then it is your (the service provider) responsibility.
That Google hasn't been hit harder over their YouTube operation is in large part because they have the money for a lot of lawyers.
People always say "Well Google can't monitor EVERYTHING on youtube! There are too many videos to find all the infringing ones!" Well guess what: that isn't the copyright holders problem. If your business model is such that you can't monitor everything, then YOU NEED TO FIX your business model. Spend some of those billions in cash and hire 50,000 people to monitor video submissions. It can be done, but Google just wants the cash with minimal expenditure.
EXCUUUUUSE ME!! But isn't that what being a disruptive force in the market is all about, ignoring the rules, regulations, laws, etc. through automation? Hire 50,000 people? That is SOOOO last century!!!
Actually, if there were 20 or 30 million signatures that might be the only thing that would catch politicians' attention. They take corporate money and do the bidding of the corporations because they want to stay in office. If there were evidence of huge voter opposition, enough that corporate money would not overcome voter antipathy, the TPP would go down in flames. 210,000 signatures is statistically insignificant. So, yeah, the politicians will do whatever.
Where is this MASSIVE opposition? 210,000 signatures isn't much. There were way more than that at WhiteHouse.GOV to have Justin Bieber deported following his string of arrests. Note that he is still here.
My tablet does replace my computer, at home anyway. I use it to Google whenever my curiosity is piqued, I pay my bills online, check my email, read the news, read books, listen to music and occasionally watch video. I rarely use my desktop or laptop computer at home anymore. My tablet is always nearby, all day long.
If I need to write at length then I might sit in front of my computer but that is rare at home. I do use a computer at work but even then the tablet is nearby playing music with a remote to hand.
I don't know about you but I would rather give up my home computer than my tablet. Still I can see where most people would not need to buy a new one every year or even every two years like some do with phones. I suspect that might have a lot to so with the drop in sales. Most everyone has a perfectly good tablet already. There is no compelling reason to upgrade.
Well as I am told the former big guy at AVG that turned that product into more adware than not moved to Avast to accomplish the same goal. It only makes sense that he buys out his former company and puts all of his handiwork into one business.
Power windows, you don't need a manual handle. Now cameras and screens so you don't need actual mirrors. Hey soon enough full, real autonomous driving, you don't need this steering wheel.
I suppose it is just as well, none of us will apparently be going anywhere anyway with everything we need delivered by Amazon and the rest of life lived via VR
Various commentards on other sites have suggested to me that I should suck it up and just update to Windows 10 already because everyone is going to have to sooner or later...
Meanwhile I have moved to a Mac at home. At work I'm transitioning to a FreeNAS based file server and will be dumping my Windows server in the near future. The minute I can find a suitable (read as cheap), simple Point-Of-Sale / Jobs Manager for my small computer repair business I will be moving to Mac or Linux on my shop PCs.
Pardon the language but F**K Microsoft and their brazen, heavy-handed tactics. They've finally proved to me they're just not to be trusted or relied upon.
I don't give one hoot about Apple dropping the 3.5mm jack if the are providing a Lightning Port to 3.5mm adapter. The 3.5mm jack is fine in a larger device but it probably does need to go away in a modern, thin phone.
As far as port compatibility that some rant on about, if it means having a micro USB port on my iPhone then to hell with compatibility. I don't know how many broken USB ports I've had to to repair or replace on devices in my shop. The Lightning Port is a far more robust mechanical design.
That's where it starts down the slippery slope. Much like where PBS is today. Just wait. In the olden days there were a total of 4 minutes of ads, station ID, etc. and 26 minutes of show. Now you might see 18-22 minutes with network logos and animated ad graphics during the show.
If there is no ad-free option then I will cancel. My DVR is for skipping commercials, my NetFlix and Hulu-Plus Ad-Free ditto, I'd rather watch a soccer match than watch TV with up to 1/3 advertisements.
Obvious as in we'd all been there, done that several times when we moved from 8 bit to 16 bit to 32 bit. In order to maintain the Intel ISA compatibility going forward you are constrained to doing things a certain way. It is fairly obvious. Remember that when you parse it all down to basics, AMD is a licensee of Intel, as in, they have paid for the right to copy Intel's processor architecture.
As I said earlier, when it comes to implementing that architecture, down at the microcode and pipeline level things are different. That's where it isn't at all obvious and innovation and hard work can really matter. Ten years ago AMD was eating Intel's lunch because their micro-architecture was so much better.. I do give them credit where it is due.
Nowadays, AMD's cores aren't nearly as good as Intel's. Intel outspends AMD by far, year in and year out, on their R&D. AMD does cost less and that is a good reason to choose them for some purposes. I will continue to choose Intel when performance, heat and power consumption concern me.
Intel actually did have x64 in-house. They decided there was no need for it and sat on it. They were right in that regard too. There was little, to no, actual 64 bit software to run on the AMD64 processors. Server stuff, OK, but nothing on the desktop. The old chicken/egg conundrum. Recall that the original Windows XP 64 bit was really Server 2003 64 bit in consumer clothing. A real hot mess that was.
Anyway, even though it was more of a marketing ploy at the time, AMD deserves credit for moving the market along a bit, my point was that they didn't really invent anything earth-shattering. Everyone in the business knew what x64 would look like it was just the waiting to see it realized that was hard.
AMD64 was a set of completely obvious extensions to the Intel X86 model. Expand the existing 32 bit registers to 64 bit and add 64 bit versions of the existing 32 bit instructions as necessary. Nothing earth shaking or even novel. Intel made the mistake of not releasing their 64 bit earlier, and they easily could have, so AMD gets the bragging rights. There are quite a few articles about the whole deal.
Now the lower level bits and pieces that make it all work down deep, AMD has not done a decent core design on their own in years and years, Intel keeps churning out great new core designs every 2-3 years. That's why Intel outsells AMD by far, except perhaps, at the lower performance/price points. You know, in all those budget PCs and the XBox One and PS4.
Not exactly what I was ranting about. I can see a mechanism for FaceBookers to search out old (and new) friends, not on their own contact list being implemented by Zuck. Lost touch with Joey from 3rd grade? No problem we'll send him a text for you right now!
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Has become:
If you didn't pay for it they get you!
YMMV. I had about 250GB of mp3 when I got bored maintaining / organising the collection, and for me there was a lot of "same". It would depend largely on your memory / perception of music. Since I switched over to Spotify Premium I don't hit the same problems. There are are other problems: mainly licensing issues that make things disappear or albums that have tracks missing...
And there we have him folks. The ideal media consumer. Too lazy to acquire and organize his own music collection. He would much rather rent the music by the month (or let us sell his data and advertise him to death).
How much longer before we rent our computer software by the month, oh right, its already happening. Our TV, check. Computer games, in the works...
So what's the news? Google pushes you to download Chrome every time you visit their site.
I don't have to use Google. In fact, I use DuckDuckGo instead. I pretty much have to use Windows for business reasons. You see the difference?
Then there is simply the old school belief that a computer OS should be a neutral platform, enabling the user to make the computer do its bidding, not serving up ads that you can't turn off on a device that you actually need to use.
ACtually, no, that's not how copyright works at all. The copyright OWNER is responsible for finding and reporting infringement, the service provider needs to provide some means for the content owner to report and request a take down. Youtube automatically scans content, flags are copyrighted, then layers ads on it sending the revenue to the content owner, or outright removes the video. Every single asshat "musician" complaining about youtube is doing so because they are attempting to launch their own service and it sucks.
Yahh, no. Courts have already spoken in other cases about this. When you are operating a whack-a-mole operation pretending to observe DMCA requirements, all the while knowing you have copyrighted material on your service, in fact depending on that material for your profits, then it is your (the service provider) responsibility.
That Google hasn't been hit harder over their YouTube operation is in large part because they have the money for a lot of lawyers.
People always say "Well Google can't monitor EVERYTHING on youtube! There are too many videos to find all the infringing ones!" Well guess what: that isn't the copyright holders problem. If your business model is such that you can't monitor everything, then YOU NEED TO FIX your business model. Spend some of those billions in cash and hire 50,000 people to monitor video submissions. It can be done, but Google just wants the cash with minimal expenditure.
EXCUUUUUSE ME!! But isn't that what being a disruptive force in the market is all about, ignoring the rules, regulations, laws, etc. through automation? Hire 50,000 people? That is SOOOO last century!!!
Actually, if there were 20 or 30 million signatures that might be the only thing that would catch politicians' attention. They take corporate money and do the bidding of the corporations because they want to stay in office. If there were evidence of huge voter opposition, enough that corporate money would not overcome voter antipathy, the TPP would go down in flames. 210,000 signatures is statistically insignificant. So, yeah, the politicians will do whatever.
Bernie already said the Clinton won the nomination fairly by the rules in place.
Where is this MASSIVE opposition? 210,000 signatures isn't much. There were way more than that at WhiteHouse.GOV to have Justin Bieber deported following his string of arrests. Note that he is still here.
You folks are just using too many syllables. How about "less useful" as in "less useful by the day".
My tablet does replace my computer, at home anyway. I use it to Google whenever my curiosity is piqued, I pay my bills online, check my email, read the news, read books, listen to music and occasionally watch video. I rarely use my desktop or laptop computer at home anymore. My tablet is always nearby, all day long.
If I need to write at length then I might sit in front of my computer but that is rare at home. I do use a computer at work but even then the tablet is nearby playing music with a remote to hand.
I don't know about you but I would rather give up my home computer than my tablet. Still I can see where most people would not need to buy a new one every year or even every two years like some do with phones. I suspect that might have a lot to so with the drop in sales. Most everyone has a perfectly good tablet already. There is no compelling reason to upgrade.
Well as I am told the former big guy at AVG that turned that product into more adware than not moved to Avast to accomplish the same goal. It only makes sense that he buys out his former company and puts all of his handiwork into one business.
Power windows, you don't need a manual handle. Now cameras and screens so you don't need actual mirrors. Hey soon enough full, real autonomous driving, you don't need this steering wheel.
I suppose it is just as well, none of us will apparently be going anywhere anyway with everything we need delivered by Amazon and the rest of life lived via VR
Various commentards on other sites have suggested to me that I should suck it up and just update to Windows 10 already because everyone is going to have to sooner or later...
Meanwhile I have moved to a Mac at home. At work I'm transitioning to a FreeNAS based file server and will be dumping my Windows server in the near future. The minute I can find a suitable (read as cheap), simple Point-Of-Sale / Jobs Manager for my small computer repair business I will be moving to Mac or Linux on my shop PCs.
Pardon the language but F**K Microsoft and their brazen, heavy-handed tactics. They've finally proved to me they're just not to be trusted or relied upon.
I hope this serves as a warning for the ignorant people considering a vote for Donald or Hillery.
There corrected that for you.
I hope this serves as a warning for the ignorant people considering a vote for Donald or Hillary.
There I corrected that for you.
I don't give one hoot about Apple dropping the 3.5mm jack if the are providing a Lightning Port to 3.5mm adapter. The 3.5mm jack is fine in a larger device but it probably does need to go away in a modern, thin phone.
As far as port compatibility that some rant on about, if it means having a micro USB port on my iPhone then to hell with compatibility. I don't know how many broken USB ports I've had to to repair or replace on devices in my shop. The Lightning Port is a far more robust mechanical design.
Kudos to Apple for moving the industry forward!
Yup, just like Microsoft didn't listen to the market and didn't bring back some semblance of the Start Menu in windows.
That's where it starts down the slippery slope. Much like where PBS is today. Just wait. In the olden days there were a total of 4 minutes of ads, station ID, etc. and 26 minutes of show. Now you might see 18-22 minutes with network logos and animated ad graphics during the show.
If there is no ad-free option then I will cancel. My DVR is for skipping commercials, my NetFlix and Hulu-Plus Ad-Free ditto, I'd rather watch a soccer match than watch TV with up to 1/3 advertisements.
Because I can call all those people TWITS. I haven't figured what to call Instagram folk yet.
50 pound drones filling the skies flying to and fro. My, I am going to carry my umbrella more often...
Obvious as in we'd all been there, done that several times when we moved from 8 bit to 16 bit to 32 bit. In order to maintain the Intel ISA compatibility going forward you are constrained to doing things a certain way. It is fairly obvious. Remember that when you parse it all down to basics, AMD is a licensee of Intel, as in, they have paid for the right to copy Intel's processor architecture.
As I said earlier, when it comes to implementing that architecture, down at the microcode and pipeline level things are different. That's where it isn't at all obvious and innovation and hard work can really matter. Ten years ago AMD was eating Intel's lunch because their micro-architecture was so much better.. I do give them credit where it is due.
Nowadays, AMD's cores aren't nearly as good as Intel's. Intel outspends AMD by far, year in and year out, on their R&D. AMD does cost less and that is a good reason to choose them for some purposes. I will continue to choose Intel when performance, heat and power consumption concern me.
Intel actually did have x64 in-house. They decided there was no need for it and sat on it. They were right in that regard too. There was little, to no, actual 64 bit software to run on the AMD64 processors. Server stuff, OK, but nothing on the desktop. The old chicken/egg conundrum. Recall that the original Windows XP 64 bit was really Server 2003 64 bit in consumer clothing. A real hot mess that was.
Anyway, even though it was more of a marketing ploy at the time, AMD deserves credit for moving the market along a bit, my point was that they didn't really invent anything earth-shattering. Everyone in the business knew what x64 would look like it was just the waiting to see it realized that was hard.
Kewl! So, I can, like, flame or troll myself on Slashdot?
AMD64 was a set of completely obvious extensions to the Intel X86 model. Expand the existing 32 bit registers to 64 bit and add 64 bit versions of the existing 32 bit instructions as necessary. Nothing earth shaking or even novel. Intel made the mistake of not releasing their 64 bit earlier, and they easily could have, so AMD gets the bragging rights. There are quite a few articles about the whole deal.
Now the lower level bits and pieces that make it all work down deep, AMD has not done a decent core design on their own in years and years, Intel keeps churning out great new core designs every 2-3 years. That's why Intel outsells AMD by far, except perhaps, at the lower performance/price points. You know, in all those budget PCs and the XBox One and PS4.
Not exactly what I was ranting about. I can see a mechanism for FaceBookers to search out old (and new) friends, not on their own contact list being implemented by Zuck. Lost touch with Joey from 3rd grade? No problem we'll send him a text for you right now!