I have prime. Anything priced like that isn't via Prime. I exclude those from my search. I'm not paying a fucking cent for shipping. Not available via Prime? Not buying it. Full stop.
For me, many Brick and Mortar stores are not an option because, as I have no car, many require additional expenditure for Uber/Lyft, or wasting an entire day on the bus, and that's simply not going to happen if I can just order it and have it delivered instead.
When you lay people off regularly to maintain an environment of fear, the truely talented go elsewhere, or avoid you entirely. Meanwhile those left are more concerned with survival than innovation.
Let me introduce you to Larry Ellison's favorite management technique "Environment of Fear" where everyone stabs each other in the back in the hopes that they're not the next one to be shown out the door.
It's the poison that fucking asshole introduced to our industry. Every time he takes his fucking racing yacht out I hope it flips and rends him into unrecognizable catfood sized shards.
Fortunately, I only use Google Voice as the recipient of my voicemail, which lets me do things like having separate responses for separate call groups (such as the " This number is no longer in service" message that telemarketers et. al. get.)
I no longer have a landline because for 5 straight years, the only calls that came to it were from scammers, telemarketers and similar filth. I asked myself "Why the fuck am I paying for this?" and I couldn't find an answer, so I got rid of the thing.
Now I do live in a major metro area, and have great signal on my cell.
Your other points about mobile not being reliable in places away from home don't exactly do much to sell the idea that landlines are still relevant. Unless you have one really fucking long cord.
This is why I love the Do Not Disturb mode in Android Pie (9.0) You can tell it things in great detail like "Don't ring or show a text unless the call is from someone on my contacts (or even a subset)"
It makes all the call block apps that were necessary the past couple years completely unnecessary. I'm sure if I was in Sales or had some other reason to have to answer calls from numbers I don't know it would suck, but I identified early on in my career all the reasons I was NOT EVER going into sales.
As for lag, actually many games build in lag now. One of the most famous games is Street Fighter 5. Way back when SF2 became popular there was basically zero lag - the arcade machine reacted to button presses in less than 1 frame (16ms) and any delay was entirely under the control of the game designers.
Due to the rise of online gaming and base ping times of 3-4 frames (30ms to the server, 30ms to the other player) for SF5 they decided to just make the game constantly lag by 8 frames (128ms) in all modes, including single player. That meant there was no advantage to having a faster internet connection and momentary spikes in ping time could be tolerated. Players got used to it pretty quickly and just accepted it as part of the game.
If the game can somehow calculate the connection lag and use the inherent lag to flatten it, that might be a point, however, a remotely hosted game that is streamed is going to add the connection lag (and the compression artifacting) to the mix and be an inferior experience.
This is worse than renting games. Streaming them too? I have great fibre service where I live and I'd still rather just install them on my top end gaming pc and enjoy them with the best experience I can get.
Why would I want to lag in a single player game, for instance?
Here's the thing though. YOU don't get to set the priority for replacing a cold war era system that is a public safety system. You damned sure don't get to interfere with it or abuse it, EVEN IF IT IS POORLY SECURED BY TODAYS STANDARDS.
Jesus fucking christ on a cracker. Did none of you fucking learn "NOT YOURS. DON'T TOUCH" when you were kids?
Wish I had mod points for you. I'd never relocate to someplace in the Rust Belt where, if the position doesn't work out, I'm then stuck in the fucking rust belt. It's not like there's other prosepects. I'd never relocate for a job to a location where it's the only viable option.
Would definitely like block genre. I fucking hate Country Music and some other varieties. That said on things like my daily list, I can already select "block artist" as one of my options when I block a song. Have been able to for months. Haven't been using it long. Switched to it when it was announced XM was buying Pandora.
I don't think the vast majority of their long term customers have any idea how to roll their own ROMS. I used to. If I cared about watching Netflix on a mobile device, I'd be careful which devices I put custom ROMs on. I'm quite happy to save Netflix for watching at home on my Nvidia Shield and 65" TV. I can't stand squinting at mobile screens. Plus my phone company likes to throttle stuff now that A Shit Pie has nixed Net Neutrality. They'd rather I subscribe to their digital video package.
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Not everyone who wants a child wants to raise someone else's.
Im not a salesweasel, so i give zero fucks about talking to random callers. I like it that way.
I have prime. Anything priced like that isn't via Prime. I exclude those from my search. I'm not paying a fucking cent for shipping. Not available via Prime? Not buying it. Full stop.
For me, many Brick and Mortar stores are not an option because, as I have no car, many require additional expenditure for Uber/Lyft, or wasting an entire day on the bus, and that's simply not going to happen if I can just order it and have it delivered instead.
When you lay people off regularly to maintain an environment of fear, the truely talented go elsewhere, or avoid you entirely. Meanwhile those left are more concerned with survival than innovation.
And hopefully very very soon.
Let me introduce you to Larry Ellison's favorite management technique "Environment of Fear" where everyone stabs each other in the back in the hopes that they're not the next one to be shown out the door.
It's the poison that fucking asshole introduced to our industry. Every time he takes his fucking racing yacht out I hope it flips and rends him into unrecognizable catfood sized shards.
Which is convenient, given the great font of that disease that is South Florida.
Fortunately, I only use Google Voice as the recipient of my voicemail, which lets me do things like having separate responses for separate call groups (such as the " This number is no longer in service" message that telemarketers et. al. get.)
That seems rather a redundant phrase...
I no longer have a landline because for 5 straight years, the only calls that came to it were from scammers, telemarketers and similar filth. I asked myself "Why the fuck am I paying for this?" and I couldn't find an answer, so I got rid of the thing.
Now I do live in a major metro area, and have great signal on my cell.
Your other points about mobile not being reliable in places away from home don't exactly do much to sell the idea that landlines are still relevant. Unless you have one really fucking long cord.
This is why I love the Do Not Disturb mode in Android Pie (9.0) You can tell it things in great detail like "Don't ring or show a text unless the call is from someone on my contacts (or even a subset)"
It makes all the call block apps that were necessary the past couple years completely unnecessary. I'm sure if I was in Sales or had some other reason to have to answer calls from numbers I don't know it would suck, but I identified early on in my career all the reasons I was NOT EVER going into sales.
If the game can somehow calculate the connection lag and use the inherent lag to flatten it, that might be a point, however, a remotely hosted game that is streamed is going to add the connection lag (and the compression artifacting) to the mix and be an inferior experience.
Those certainly aren't reasons why I would want it. And my hardware is top of the line and LOCAL so no artifacting or lag.
None of the other reasons is really a positive for ME, the consumer.
My question stands.
This is worse than renting games. Streaming them too? I have great fibre service where I live and I'd still rather just install them on my top end gaming pc and enjoy them with the best experience I can get.
Why would I want to lag in a single player game, for instance?
A solution looking for a problem.
Well implying he's a bin would make him a Dalek though, wouldn't it?
I'd go with "accidentally shot self in back of head with a carbine. Twice".
Here's the thing though. YOU don't get to set the priority for replacing a cold war era system that is a public safety system. You damned sure don't get to interfere with it or abuse it, EVEN IF IT IS POORLY SECURED BY TODAYS STANDARDS.
Jesus fucking christ on a cracker. Did none of you fucking learn "NOT YOURS. DON'T TOUCH" when you were kids?
Of Trump's brain...
Ah, Whataboutism. Such a marker of despearation and deflection. Try again.
Riiiight. So that means we shouldn't regulate it at all. Makes perfect sense.
Wish I had mod points for you. I'd never relocate to someplace in the Rust Belt where, if the position doesn't work out, I'm then stuck in the fucking rust belt. It's not like there's other prosepects. I'd never relocate for a job to a location where it's the only viable option.
Subtitled "I've just shat myself in surprise!"
Would definitely like block genre. I fucking hate Country Music and some other varieties. That said on things like my daily list, I can already select "block artist" as one of my options when I block a song. Have been able to for months. Haven't been using it long. Switched to it when it was announced XM was buying Pandora.
I don't think the vast majority of their long term customers have any idea how to roll their own ROMS. I used to. If I cared about watching Netflix on a mobile device, I'd be careful which devices I put custom ROMs on. I'm quite happy to save Netflix for watching at home on my Nvidia Shield and 65" TV. I can't stand squinting at mobile screens. Plus my phone company likes to throttle stuff now that A Shit Pie has nixed Net Neutrality. They'd rather I subscribe to their digital video package.
I get a ton in Fort Lauderdale, every station from FTL, Miami, West Palm, and many from the west coast of FL.
Theres a LOT of duplication though. 4 different ABC affiliates for one.
ANd a shitload of religious and spanish programming that are of no use to me at all.