Disney now has enough muscle to become a true competitor to Netflix, Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook in the fast-growing realm of online video.
Netflix: movies and TV shows including exclusives. Apple: for now, simply a reseller/renting service, nothing else. Amazon: movies and TV shows including exclusives, but AFAIK a lot smaller than Netflix - at least in Canada. Google: YouTube is for short videos, not full movies. Facebook: Are you kidding me? FUCK FACEBOOK.
They did not mention Crackle, Sony's ad-ridden streaming service that cuts the video ANYWHERE to show the same fucking three ads in rotation a half-dozen times every hour. They also have some exclusives.
They also didn't mention Hulu.
Disney + 21st Century Fox has potential, as long as they're not planning to ask a higher monthly fee than Netflix. People are fucking tired of paying fees for multiple similar services.
Make it illegal to manufacture things that cannot be easily repaired by parts/modules/etc.
End laptops with soldered RAM, soldered and glued batteries, etc. This is built-in obsolescence and should be illegal. Upgrading hardware means a longer lifespan and utility for the hardware. This is good.
End impossibly thin smartphones. Thicker phones mean stronger phones, meaning less cracked displays, less waste.
End fridges with impossible-to-clean cooling coils, leading to burnt-out compressors. The cost to repair means most people dump the whole thing and buy a new one instead.
Make chargers quasi-universal. There's micro-USB for 5V chargers but there should be standard pins/connectors/chargers for 12V and 24V. Set maybe three power levels per voltage and we'll only need three chargers in a house at the most if you have the highest-power models.
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... they didn't happen to predict Bitcoin at one million dollars by any chance?
The Simpsons? Is that still a thing?
It's going to be Firefly reboot, with Tinker Bell as "the firefly".
Now try to imagine Kingdom Hearts 4...
Netflix: movies and TV shows including exclusives.
Apple: for now, simply a reseller/renting service, nothing else.
Amazon: movies and TV shows including exclusives, but AFAIK a lot smaller than Netflix - at least in Canada.
Google: YouTube is for short videos, not full movies.
Facebook: Are you kidding me? FUCK FACEBOOK.
They did not mention Crackle, Sony's ad-ridden streaming service that cuts the video ANYWHERE to show the same fucking three ads in rotation a half-dozen times every hour. They also have some exclusives.
They also didn't mention Hulu.
Disney + 21st Century Fox has potential, as long as they're not planning to ask a higher monthly fee than Netflix. People are fucking tired of paying fees for multiple similar services.
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Okay, that really made me laugh.
To be honest, I already see Java and Flash as being malware so I'll never install these anyway.
The Handbrake malware incident, however, was the closest I ever came to having a tiny chance of maybe installing infected software on a computer.
There's no "MS Paint" or "Notepad" on Macs.
That's just it though - he doesn't need the key to the fucking city.
Funny, IMHO it looks more like this one.
Why not link to the actual joke?
oh... I was doing the quote from Spaceship Troopers.
But yeah, internet porn costs a lot of hot water and soap.
I'm doing my part!
Exactly what I thought. Thank you.
As usual, don't install random crap on your computer, whatever OS you might be using.
Basic computer security 101.
It would be nice to know how this crap gets on a system. Since we're talking about macOS, I'm going to guess this is a trojan and simply carry on...
It's gold-plated cables that cost about $100 per metre and are exclusively sold by a monster of some kind.
That argument is walking a tightrope.
And if they can already connect fiber to satellites, how come we still don't have space elevators?
Get jeans with pockets on the side of the legs.
We already have enough problems with the Ive-ification of fonts, i.e. thin and pale fonts which are hard to read and lack contrast.
On the same playing field, companies would innovate within these new constraints.
If they can do it for the "cult of thin", they can do it for repairability.
Bleh, here's one in much higher quality.
Maybe they could make some pudding.
I was lucky to buy an LCD monitor with two VGA inputs and one DVI input back in the day.
No DVI output? HMDI-to-DVI. Done.
Make it illegal to manufacture things that cannot be easily repaired by parts/modules/etc.
End laptops with soldered RAM, soldered and glued batteries, etc. This is built-in obsolescence and should be illegal. Upgrading hardware means a longer lifespan and utility for the hardware. This is good.
End impossibly thin smartphones. Thicker phones mean stronger phones, meaning less cracked displays, less waste.
End fridges with impossible-to-clean cooling coils, leading to burnt-out compressors. The cost to repair means most people dump the whole thing and buy a new one instead.
Make chargers quasi-universal. There's micro-USB for 5V chargers but there should be standard pins/connectors/chargers for 12V and 24V. Set maybe three power levels per voltage and we'll only need three chargers in a house at the most if you have the highest-power models.