Since CBS took a gigantic steaming civil-lawsuit dump all over Axanar, I really couldn't give a damn about any of their imitation Star Trek-flavored crap, especially since I'd have to pay to see it in the first place -- and it's not even going to be worth pirating so far as I'm concerned. Likewise JJA's Star Trek-flavored 'movies'.
So do you get all upset when you go to a friends' house (do you have friends?) and they haven't put black electrical tape over all the brand names on things in their house and in their kitchen? Removed the manufacturer logos from the cars in their driveway? LOL unless shows start taking 4th-wall-breaking breaks in the middle of the plot to show off some product or other, you just ignore it like everything else and move on with your life.
And between "you cannot tape this show" and "you cannot fast forward through this part"
I've had Tivo since the Series 2 came out and have never been prevented from recording whatever I want or skipping/fast forwarding through anything I want, so I don't know what you're talking about. I know the technology exists to do that, but I've never had it happen to me nor have I ever heard of it happening to anyone.
Free TV is so full of commercials, people is paying just to avoid them
Maybe, but some of us paid ONCE: I have a DVR (Tivo), turn on 30-second skip, rarely see even part of a commercial. Rarely if ever watch 'live' TV, either, so it's really not a problem for me.
Get a better antenna, friend.:-) If an 8-bay semi-directional on a tall mast, properly aimed (or on a rotator, if the towers are spread out) won't do the job, then you must either live way out in the boonies, or in a canyon, or in an urban canyon.
Yes, Virginia, you are entitled to free content: It's called over-the-air broadcast television. Just get an antenna; free HDTV! The government even guarantees that no one can tell you that you can't have an antenna on your house. Of course if you live in an apartment complex and they don't have an antenna system and cut a deal with the cable companies to force it down your throat then you have my sympathy, but you can always move somewhere else I guess.
I'll stick to the antenna I've had on my roof for about the last 10 years. Do go right ahead and keep paying twice for your television shows, if it makes you happy: once for the internet connection, and again for the 'subscription'. All in all you're paying about as much as if you just kept paying for cable TV. Here in the U.S., there is a law that says you cannot be disallowed from having an antenna on your house for television reception, regardless of what any HOA tries to tell you. If you live in an apartment or in an area where it's physically impossible to have an effective antenna then you have my sympathy, but paying for 'streaming' video over the internet seems too much like just a rebranding of cable TV for the same price.
Likely they keep pushing it because it's a powerful surveillance/data gathering tool. Think about it: something that listens in on you the entire time it's running? Consider also that you can't uninstall it from Windows, and only through extreme measures was I able to disable it (which killed off at least one other 'feature' in the process). It's just another part of Miscreant-o-soft's campaign of annexation of everyone's computing devices, with possible ties to government surveillance operations.
Microsoft wants bring it's surveillance software code-named 'Cortana' to Android lock screens
..and in other news,
Microsoft announces it's renaming it's virtual assistant/surveillance software from 'Cortana' to 'CATS', says "All your OS are belong to us"
I suppose that just like Windows they'll make 'Cortana' on Android to be so thoroughly integrated that you can't uninstall or disable it, either. No thanks, I'll continue to use a cheap basic dumbphone that I keep turned 'off' when I'm not using it rather than be surveilled and tracked 24/7/365 like some sort of convicted criminal.
It's taking having experts repeat themselves over and over again, but our technologically uneducated politicians are starting to get the idea that the 'backdoors' they want in encryption will benefit criminals more than it will benefit law enforcement, so how about you Anonymous Coward jackasses stop with your all-or-nothing statements implying that the entire 300,000,000 people in the U.S. and however many in the UK all want 'backdoors' in their encryption, and target your statements where they belong, i.e. the aforementioned politicians who just don't understand what they're asking for just isn't possible?
Second this, it's bullshit to say the desktop PC is dead, there will ALWAYS be a need for powerful machines, tablets and phones can't do it all, can't do lots of things.
That's who'll be interested in technology like this. They could compress and store the conversations of every person in the U.S., 24/7/365, for decades, without having to upgrade their data storage capacity.
Just to show I'm not all gloom-and-doom: I'd think NASA, and private spaceflight companies like SpaceX, would be interested, since a low datarate for voice communications would be great, I'd think, for interplanetary distances. With higher datarates available you could have multiple conversations happening simultaneously.
Life != work and there would be plenty of great living to do outside of work.
No, it's not. But I work so I can pay for my Real Life. Would I rather just stay home all week, ride my bike, go to the gym, and become a great road racer? Sure. Can I do that if I'm homeless and starving to death because I have no income? No. Short of magically winning millions of dollars in the lottery, it ain't happening, I have to work.
Musks' Gigafactory may begin to change that. That, and research into better electric energy storage technology is fast and furious right now. Batteries, or whatever ends up replacing them, will get cheaper over time.
What will happen, eventually, is war. You get enough people (projected as hundreds of millions all over the world in this case) who are disaffected, disposessed, disregarded, and discarded, who all find a common complaint, and you have the makings of a war. People are not just going to sit and die quietly because they've been 'made obsolete'. The entire idea of people becoming 'obsolete' is absurd.
Governments will do something. Companies will do something, too, because it's in their collective best interests; if no one is working, no one has money to buy products, therefore companies don't have money to buy robots -- or to stay in business. No one to pay taxes, entire national economies fail. The world lapses into chaos. Nope, something will be done. Oh and by the way it won't be this 'universal basic income' nonsense, either, because that'll bankrupt a country faster than anything else possibly could, so you can forget about that, too.
I'm not sure which makes me sadder: The fact that an entire committee of people who are so highly placed in the EU actually think about this subject in such terms, or that enough citizens of the EU are concerned about the subject.
..no, it's neither one. It's the fact that all the above apparently believe science-fantasy so much, and are so under-educated on the actual realities of the subject, that any of them think the way they're thinking about this. Sad, sad, sad!
An AC who commented above you made a valid point, (s)he said:
Impossible while still meeting certain other criteria (like shiny!)
I'm sure that they can meet the current, and future, emissions standards of even California, but it'll likely be at the cost of performance, and naturally, cost to the consumer.
Someone else above also made a flippant remark about electric vehicles; to be quite honest that's where we're headed, and I'm okay with it. I've been working on internal-combustion engines (and the associated drivetrain) in one form or another my entire life, and frankly they're a pain in the neck. I'd just as soon they were electric, and we're headed in that direction. We're not quite there yet though. The day I can get a plug-in electric small pickup truck that recharges in a practical amount of time, and has at least 250 miles per charge, I'm there.
I actually begin to wonder if all this 'retro hipsterism' is just a symptom of people's brains being overwhelmed by so much high-tech, information overload, and a desire to 'simplify' things. Also, there's one thing analog tape can do: you can't load it down with DRM or any sort of copy protection, and so long as the 'analog hole' exists, you can dump audio to cassette tape. Sure, the quality is poor (somewhere between telephone and FM radio, fidelity-wise) but most people aren't audiophiles, they just want to hear music.
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Since CBS took a gigantic steaming civil-lawsuit dump all over Axanar , I really couldn't give a damn about any of their imitation Star Trek-flavored crap, especially since I'd have to pay to see it in the first place -- and it's not even going to be worth pirating so far as I'm concerned. Likewise JJA's Star Trek-flavored 'movies'.
Sure because you have complete control over what's on your phone, don't you?
You have to be able to alter the network configuration settings, just delete or change them in such a way that it can't connect to the outside world.
Give me a hardwired connection to the Internet any day rather than overpriced underperforming overbooked wireless.
So do you get all upset when you go to a friends' house (do you have friends?) and they haven't put black electrical tape over all the brand names on things in their house and in their kitchen? Removed the manufacturer logos from the cars in their driveway? LOL unless shows start taking 4th-wall-breaking breaks in the middle of the plot to show off some product or other, you just ignore it like everything else and move on with your life.
Free television disappears
*weary sigh* No, friend, it does NOT. Get an antenna! All the Free TV you can stand!
And between "you cannot tape this show" and "you cannot fast forward through this part"
I've had Tivo since the Series 2 came out and have never been prevented from recording whatever I want or skipping/fast forwarding through anything I want, so I don't know what you're talking about. I know the technology exists to do that, but I've never had it happen to me nor have I ever heard of it happening to anyone.
Free TV is so full of commercials, people is paying just to avoid them
Maybe, but some of us paid ONCE: I have a DVR (Tivo), turn on 30-second skip, rarely see even part of a commercial. Rarely if ever watch 'live' TV, either, so it's really not a problem for me.
Maybe they just want to focus on playing single notes instead. xD
Get a better antenna, friend. :-) If an 8-bay semi-directional on a tall mast, properly aimed (or on a rotator, if the towers are spread out) won't do the job, then you must either live way out in the boonies, or in a canyon, or in an urban canyon.
Yes, Virginia, you are entitled to free content: It's called over-the-air broadcast television. Just get an antenna; free HDTV! The government even guarantees that no one can tell you that you can't have an antenna on your house. Of course if you live in an apartment complex and they don't have an antenna system and cut a deal with the cable companies to force it down your throat then you have my sympathy, but you can always move somewhere else I guess.
I'll stick to the antenna I've had on my roof for about the last 10 years. Do go right ahead and keep paying twice for your television shows, if it makes you happy: once for the internet connection, and again for the 'subscription'. All in all you're paying about as much as if you just kept paying for cable TV. Here in the U.S., there is a law that says you cannot be disallowed from having an antenna on your house for television reception, regardless of what any HOA tries to tell you. If you live in an apartment or in an area where it's physically impossible to have an effective antenna then you have my sympathy, but paying for 'streaming' video over the internet seems too much like just a rebranding of cable TV for the same price.
Likely they keep pushing it because it's a powerful surveillance/data gathering tool. Think about it: something that listens in on you the entire time it's running? Consider also that you can't uninstall it from Windows, and only through extreme measures was I able to disable it (which killed off at least one other 'feature' in the process). It's just another part of Miscreant-o-soft's campaign of annexation of everyone's computing devices, with possible ties to government surveillance operations.
Microsoft wants bring it's surveillance software code-named 'Cortana' to Android lock screens
..and in other news,
Microsoft announces it's renaming it's virtual assistant/surveillance software from 'Cortana' to 'CATS', says "All your OS are belong to us"
I suppose that just like Windows they'll make 'Cortana' on Android to be so thoroughly integrated that you can't uninstall or disable it, either. No thanks, I'll continue to use a cheap basic dumbphone that I keep turned 'off' when I'm not using it rather than be surveilled and tracked 24/7/365 like some sort of convicted criminal.
It's taking having experts repeat themselves over and over again, but our technologically uneducated politicians are starting to get the idea that the 'backdoors' they want in encryption will benefit criminals more than it will benefit law enforcement, so how about you Anonymous Coward jackasses stop with your all-or-nothing statements implying that the entire 300,000,000 people in the U.S. and however many in the UK all want 'backdoors' in their encryption, and target your statements where they belong, i.e. the aforementioned politicians who just don't understand what they're asking for just isn't possible?
That sonofabitch has one hell of a nerve lecturing anyone about hubris.
promote the healthy and orderly development of the mobile internet
More likely they want to inject their spyware into all apps so they can maintain 100% surveillance and control of their citizens at all times.
Second this, it's bullshit to say the desktop PC is dead, there will ALWAYS be a need for powerful machines, tablets and phones can't do it all, can't do lots of things.
That's who'll be interested in technology like this. They could compress and store the conversations of every person in the U.S., 24/7/365, for decades, without having to upgrade their data storage capacity.
Just to show I'm not all gloom-and-doom: I'd think NASA, and private spaceflight companies like SpaceX, would be interested, since a low datarate for voice communications would be great, I'd think, for interplanetary distances. With higher datarates available you could have multiple conversations happening simultaneously.
Life != work and there would be plenty of great living to do outside of work.
No, it's not. But I work so I can pay for my Real Life. Would I rather just stay home all week, ride my bike, go to the gym, and become a great road racer? Sure. Can I do that if I'm homeless and starving to death because I have no income? No. Short of magically winning millions of dollars in the lottery, it ain't happening, I have to work.
Musks' Gigafactory may begin to change that. That, and research into better electric energy storage technology is fast and furious right now. Batteries, or whatever ends up replacing them, will get cheaper over time.
What will happen, eventually, is war. You get enough people (projected as hundreds of millions all over the world in this case) who are disaffected, disposessed, disregarded, and discarded, who all find a common complaint, and you have the makings of a war. People are not just going to sit and die quietly because they've been 'made obsolete'. The entire idea of people becoming 'obsolete' is absurd.
Governments will do something. Companies will do something, too, because it's in their collective best interests; if no one is working, no one has money to buy products, therefore companies don't have money to buy robots -- or to stay in business. No one to pay taxes, entire national economies fail. The world lapses into chaos. Nope, something will be done. Oh and by the way it won't be this 'universal basic income' nonsense, either, because that'll bankrupt a country faster than anything else possibly could, so you can forget about that, too.
I'm not sure which makes me sadder: The fact that an entire committee of people who are so highly placed in the EU actually think about this subject in such terms, or that enough citizens of the EU are concerned about the subject.
..no, it's neither one. It's the fact that all the above apparently believe science-fantasy so much, and are so under-educated on the actual realities of the subject, that any of them think the way they're thinking about this. Sad, sad, sad!
Impossible while still meeting certain other criteria (like shiny!)
I'm sure that they can meet the current, and future, emissions standards of even California, but it'll likely be at the cost of performance, and naturally, cost to the consumer.
Someone else above also made a flippant remark about electric vehicles; to be quite honest that's where we're headed, and I'm okay with it. I've been working on internal-combustion engines (and the associated drivetrain) in one form or another my entire life, and frankly they're a pain in the neck. I'd just as soon they were electric, and we're headed in that direction. We're not quite there yet though. The day I can get a plug-in electric small pickup truck that recharges in a practical amount of time, and has at least 250 miles per charge, I'm there.
I actually begin to wonder if all this 'retro hipsterism' is just a symptom of people's brains being overwhelmed by so much high-tech, information overload, and a desire to 'simplify' things. Also, there's one thing analog tape can do: you can't load it down with DRM or any sort of copy protection, and so long as the 'analog hole' exists, you can dump audio to cassette tape. Sure, the quality is poor (somewhere between telephone and FM radio, fidelity-wise) but most people aren't audiophiles, they just want to hear music.