This doesn't answer the most important question: why the fuck would you get a speaker to tell your shopping list to in the first place. Seriously, why?
I never, ever "safely" eject, I always yank it out when it's done with a transfer (if transfer there was). Amount of drives/keys/data lost so far is zero.
"In the future, there will be no more juggling passports and bags at check-in and digging through pockets or smartphones to show your boarding pass"
This seems like the sort of inconvenience they show you in poorly acted infomercials... Tired of tipping the bowl of chips over on the couch every time you reach for the remote? Tired of dropping the bottle on the floor every time you try to pour yourself a drink? IS THIS YOU?
This. I can't imagine just dropping my e-scooter to the ground, or goddamn driving it on the sidewalk. What the fuck is wrong with these people?
That's the kind of asshole that'll just throw some McDonald's paper bag to the ground, cardboard cup included, a couple meters away from a thrashcan because hey, I'm not at home. Classless clods the lot of 'em. (though I should remember this is in the US, this explains that...)
I can vouch for the "let's see who can do it for the cheapest cost" mentioned above... Here in Canada, at least in Quebec, their deliveries are handled by InterCom (or is it IntelCom?). Basically, the drivers are usually freshly arrived immigrants that barely speak French or English, very happy to have landed a job with a nice pay for the training... at the end of which they sign a contract they barely understand where they now deliver for Amazon with their own vehicle, pay their own gas, and are paid per-delivery at a ridiculous rate that really should be illegal. Actually, it IS well under our equally ridiculous minimum wage, but they're self-employed so InterCom can get away with it. This is why those poor drivers will leave your goddamn package by your front door, god help you if like me that front down is downtown in front of a shady boulevard, they have to deliver as many as possible as fast as possible to, somehow, make it profitable. I don't recall the exact amount per package, but it was something that didn't make any sense, in terms of making it profitable. InterCom is located right by the Montreal airport... So yeah, my most heartfelt sympathies for anyone that unfortunately ends up working for Amazon, anywhere in the chain.
See, there's this whole industry dedicated to video production. If you're shooting anything close to professional productions, hell even with prosumer gear today, something like a 64gb sd card is not even worth mentioning. I got 1tb of SD storage over a 512gb and 2x 256gb, and I'm on the market for a recorder/SSD drives setup now. I do run and gun documentary stuff, for the most part, and if I'm out on a shoot in the woods or somewhere remote for a couple of days, 1TB is bare minimum for the whole shoot. Aunt Darlene is probably fine with a 8gb card for the xmas pictures, a professional shoot has other requirements. Release a 12 TB card and I won't care what it costs, it will be paid back the first or second time I use it.
1. They're not selling me any toys at or above cost, not for a couple decades now.
2. Exactly. If you accept to pay for the infrastucture of developers, designers, servers, etc. through some in-game accessory that they're selling to you for real money, I sincerely despise you and that was my only point.
Yes, Anonymous Coward, that's precisely it. I am jealous that other people are wasting their disposable income over some worthless virtual shit to virtually impress other people they'll never meet, thanks to something that was considered worthless even to the employee that produced it without any effort. How I wish I was lucky enough to spend 20$ on some virtual armor or skin whenever I wish to further enhance a virtual appearance in some game world populated by random fucks I wouldn't want to sit down for a beer with. You got me!
Oh they have every right to, just as I have the right to see them as worthless scumfucks just the same as if I saw a line of worthless scumfucks sleeping outside some Apple store before the big release of the next same-fucking-phone-as-released-as-last-year-with-one-port-less-and-some-unnecessary-addition.
How pointless does your life have to be to see value in buying, with actual money, no less, some fancy virtual clothing for your virtual character? Some 3D model that's probably re-used again and again with different textures, took half an hour for some game artist to produce a shitload of them that the company can now charge you premium for, and extra-platinum if you get the one with the golden pixelated stars on the right side, just under the virtual pocket. No, you can't really wear it or put anything in that pocket, but look at the face of the other players when they see how fabulous your character is looking now!*
Note: Other players' faces may or may not be visible. Virtual belt and virtual shoes sold separately. We will totally release the same clothing model with a mildly different texture soon enough and we'll offer it for a "special price" for early adopters.
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This doesn't answer the most important question: why the fuck would you get a speaker to tell your shopping list to in the first place. Seriously, why?
The medical side of our lives is already in the data sets.
Treat and pay them fairly and you'll see a lot less of this. They have bills to pay, gotta make ends meet.
Bundleware! That's what you call it?
If only there was an article that could answer that question, maybe accessible through an hyperlink of some sorts...
Nowhere near close to that, have another coffee will you?
Yeah but still everyone's going the wrong way on the highway, keep being you!
The word "moar" reveals all that's needed to know you're a 14-year old channer.
I never, ever "safely" eject, I always yank it out when it's done with a transfer (if transfer there was). Amount of drives/keys/data lost so far is zero.
Every time, I'm shocked that Bing still exists.
"In the future, there will be no more juggling passports and bags at check-in and digging through pockets or smartphones to show your boarding pass"
This seems like the sort of inconvenience they show you in poorly acted infomercials...
Tired of tipping the bowl of chips over on the couch every time you reach for the remote?
Tired of dropping the bottle on the floor every time you try to pour yourself a drink?
IS THIS YOU?
We have the solution!
That's impossible, AI wouldn't let this happen. /s
This. I can't imagine just dropping my e-scooter to the ground, or goddamn driving it on the sidewalk. What the fuck is wrong with these people? That's the kind of asshole that'll just throw some McDonald's paper bag to the ground, cardboard cup included, a couple meters away from a thrashcan because hey, I'm not at home. Classless clods the lot of 'em. (though I should remember this is in the US, this explains that...)
Yes, but what about the AI? /s
I can vouch for the "let's see who can do it for the cheapest cost" mentioned above... Here in Canada, at least in Quebec, their deliveries are handled by InterCom (or is it IntelCom?). Basically, the drivers are usually freshly arrived immigrants that barely speak French or English, very happy to have landed a job with a nice pay for the training... at the end of which they sign a contract they barely understand where they now deliver for Amazon with their own vehicle, pay their own gas, and are paid per-delivery at a ridiculous rate that really should be illegal. Actually, it IS well under our equally ridiculous minimum wage, but they're self-employed so InterCom can get away with it. This is why those poor drivers will leave your goddamn package by your front door, god help you if like me that front down is downtown in front of a shady boulevard, they have to deliver as many as possible as fast as possible to, somehow, make it profitable. I don't recall the exact amount per package, but it was something that didn't make any sense, in terms of making it profitable. InterCom is located right by the Montreal airport... So yeah, my most heartfelt sympathies for anyone that unfortunately ends up working for Amazon, anywhere in the chain.
See, there's this whole industry dedicated to video production. If you're shooting anything close to professional productions, hell even with prosumer gear today, something like a 64gb sd card is not even worth mentioning. I got 1tb of SD storage over a 512gb and 2x 256gb, and I'm on the market for a recorder/SSD drives setup now. I do run and gun documentary stuff, for the most part, and if I'm out on a shoot in the woods or somewhere remote for a couple of days, 1TB is bare minimum for the whole shoot. Aunt Darlene is probably fine with a 8gb card for the xmas pictures, a professional shoot has other requirements. Release a 12 TB card and I won't care what it costs, it will be paid back the first or second time I use it.
Tell that to people who shoot in 4k, 4:2:2 16-bit RAW video. If we need that capacity, we can afford it.
1. They're not selling me any toys at or above cost, not for a couple decades now. 2. Exactly. If you accept to pay for the infrastucture of developers, designers, servers, etc. through some in-game accessory that they're selling to you for real money, I sincerely despise you and that was my only point.
That income definately is "disposable" if you'd waste it on some character skin or other trinket you benefit from only in some specific game world.
Yes, Anonymous Coward, that's precisely it. I am jealous that other people are wasting their disposable income over some worthless virtual shit to virtually impress other people they'll never meet, thanks to something that was considered worthless even to the employee that produced it without any effort. How I wish I was lucky enough to spend 20$ on some virtual armor or skin whenever I wish to further enhance a virtual appearance in some game world populated by random fucks I wouldn't want to sit down for a beer with. You got me!
Oh they have every right to, just as I have the right to see them as worthless scumfucks just the same as if I saw a line of worthless scumfucks sleeping outside some Apple store before the big release of the next same-fucking-phone-as-released-as-last-year-with-one-port-less-and-some-unnecessary-addition.
How pointless does your life have to be to see value in buying, with actual money, no less, some fancy virtual clothing for your virtual character? Some 3D model that's probably re-used again and again with different textures, took half an hour for some game artist to produce a shitload of them that the company can now charge you premium for, and extra-platinum if you get the one with the golden pixelated stars on the right side, just under the virtual pocket. No, you can't really wear it or put anything in that pocket, but look at the face of the other players when they see how fabulous your character is looking now!*
Note: Other players' faces may or may not be visible. Virtual belt and virtual shoes sold separately. We will totally release the same clothing model with a mildly different texture soon enough and we'll offer it for a "special price" for early adopters.
It was never published in a journal.
The Stanford Experiment has been debunked as a fraud recently, but yes, fuck the police and always record any interaction you have with the pigs.
Again, what does this have to do with the word "eurotrash"?