It is only a matter of time until economy class gets always-on advertisements without ability to turn off, mute, or skip on infotainment.
When ticket price is the only metric and all feasible optimizations already achieved, airlines will turn into abuse and heinous behavior to further drive costs down.
. . . driving passengers mad, and resulting in vandalism. The video components are cheap to make, but a repair service call on a commercial airliner costs a little bit more. The airlines can then spend their ad money on repairs, and on refunds to angry passengers who actually (mysteriously) wanted the ads splashed in their face for hour, but got a broken system instead.
Maps, the Most Popular Elements of In-flight Entertainment Systems, Are About To Get a Big Upgrade -- and Some Ads
Here's an idea, just shut down the damn entertainment system and read a book (I know, radical thought).
The early entertainment systems did not have an OFF button or feature. I had to vandalize them in order to get them to turn off and quit flickering in my field-of-view while trying to read a book.
Prior to this, I had simply been putting the barf bag over the screen to hide it, but was directed by flight staff that such is not allowed, and that I must remove the barf bag cover. I shit you not. So, nowhere to rest my eyes, hence the vandalism. I don't live in a Clockwork Orange.
PS—Statute of limitations ran out years ago, so:-P.
Or, in real life, don't have a phone number to begin with. They can't annoy you if they can't fucking call you. In short, fuck them all. All my contacts are on iPhone, so I do 100% of my communications via iMessage or Facetime audio.
I get iMessage robo-spams all the time, in addition to the calls.
This stupid program is nothing more than that "Bruce 2" software that allowed unskilled morons (including myself) to click a button and claim that they had "made" a 3D mountain with impressive (and identical-looking) surroundings.
Commenter meant Bryce, which hasn't been updated in years, but is still being sold by an 'old software aggregator.'
Software is not: the copyrighted bit is the source, not the non-expressive object code. So if you think to pretend this is a slipper slope problem, then think again. And, no the execution of the code is a PERFORMANCE, not the fixed-in-medium expression required for copyrights.
When you saturate the market to the point where you can't grow anymore, you got to raise prices. Their cost of doing business hasn't gone up, so there's no real reason to raise prices other than to appease Wall Street.
I'd wager that their cost of doing business has been steadily decreasing for a couple of decades. Computers, you know, get faster and do things better year-by-year.
You can't buy a good 4k display that does not have a microphone. I said I wouldn't buy a display with a mic or camera, but I did. I just never plug an ethernet cable into it, and my wifi is white-listed to omit the display.
Microsoft announces things that they never intend to release all the time. We will probably never see it.
It was perhaps announced to put pressure on Steam and other non-hardware-tethered gaming-software makers. To make them waste their money. Or perhaps another reason
Humans have used sidewalks to deliver goods forever. Was that private taking of a public good also illegal?
False dichotomy. The key term in my post was "robots," by which I meant "autonomous vehicles" using sidewalks. It is a different thing than a delivery person using the sidewalk.
People put up with FedEx/UPS parking in red parking zones all over cities, or at least the cops do; they do not let them drive or park on the sidewalk, as the delivery trucks are vehicles.
..., but if people find robotic deliveries convenient and desire them, they'll have no problem making an exception for robotic delivery vehicles.
Perhaps. There will be discussion. I was describing the situation as it stands today, not in some future year. In any case, the myriad ways people have posted destruction of those e-scooters, their taunting of autonomous cars, or shooting-down of drones gives us a glimpse on the likelihood of mass acceptance of delivery bots using sidewalks. It is low.
Using robots to deliver packages via sidewalks is a private taking of a public good (sidewalk). It is illegal.
And for good reason. Just imagine the swarms of these things that could be in everyone's way –– these things that are motorized vehicles. Oh, most places, operating a motorized vehicle along a pedestrian right-of-way is illegal, too.
Neither of these will be enforced, unless a large group of individuals sues and wins.
Some of you will remember anon.penet.fi, a free email anonymizer from the 1990's. I used it a few times back in the late 1990's because I was aware of the security and privacy risks of 'regular' email. That is, 'plain Jane' risks of snooping on personal conversations.
Today, in 2018, I google my real name, and up come some of those anonymized emails, of which no copy was supposed to have ever existed, much less been kept on some server for 20+ years.
They were benign emails, but... privacy. So, I guess I was right about that privacy thing.
Nothing ever goes away once it traverses the internet. And there is no such thing as free (as in beer).
The fact that you two are confused about the kind of company Apple is means they're quite successful at it. Apple are a marketing company
I'm sure that bit of nonsense sounded better in your head. You have classic conspiracy theory thinking. For whatever reason...
Apple is a marketing company in the purest sense of the word. They figure out what people actually want to buy already, and then go design and build those products.
They were outraged that Gal Gadot raised her arm - and horrors!!! To Twitter and scream!! Wonder Woman Gal Gadot had no armpit hair!! https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/...
Some men remove the hair from their faces on a daily basis. The horror!
* Keeps the flow of new Democratic voters reduced.
Low-skill illegals cross via a border, versus the majority who simply overstay visas. Of the border-crossers, they are too scared of getting caught and deported to try and vote. They can't even register to vote, in any case.
In my City, these scooters littering public spaces are legally "abandoned property". That means anyone can take a scooter or two off of the sidewalk and scrap it out. Legally.
You can get vroom vroom from speakers. Seriously, EVs will probably be required to make some noise as a safety feature for pedestrians and cyclists at some point. Especially at low speed, parking lots, crosswalks, etc.
Several do. I don't recall the brands, but they emit a Jetson's-like sound.
It is stupid to have electrics hum, and not just for noise pollution reasons. Streets are noisy mainly because of ICEs. Once their numbers are down, that won't be an issue.
And in any case, road noise from the tires is enough to alert a pedestrian to a car's presence.
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It is only a matter of time until economy class gets always-on advertisements without ability to turn off, mute, or skip on infotainment.
When ticket price is the only metric and all feasible optimizations already achieved, airlines will turn into abuse and heinous behavior to further drive costs down.
. . . driving passengers mad, and resulting in vandalism. The video components are cheap to make, but a repair service call on a commercial airliner costs a little bit more. The airlines can then spend their ad money on repairs, and on refunds to angry passengers who actually (mysteriously) wanted the ads splashed in their face for hour, but got a broken system instead.
Maps, the Most Popular Elements of In-flight Entertainment Systems, Are About To Get a Big Upgrade -- and Some Ads
Here's an idea, just shut down the damn entertainment system and read a book (I know, radical thought).
The early entertainment systems did not have an OFF button or feature. I had to vandalize them in order to get them to turn off and quit flickering in my field-of-view while trying to read a book.
Prior to this, I had simply been putting the barf bag over the screen to hide it, but was directed by flight staff that such is not allowed, and that I must remove the barf bag cover. I shit you not. So, nowhere to rest my eyes, hence the vandalism. I don't live in a Clockwork Orange.
PS—Statute of limitations ran out years ago, so :-P.
Nuke them from orbit.
Or, in real life, don't have a phone number to begin with. They can't annoy you if they can't fucking call you. In short, fuck them all.
All my contacts are on iPhone, so I do 100% of my communications via iMessage or Facetime audio.
I get iMessage robo-spams all the time, in addition to the calls.
...One can choose to listen or not. No?
I wasn't aware that robots, auto-dialers, or tape-recording machines had rights to free speech under the US Constitution.
They do not.
This stupid program is nothing more than that "Bruce 2" software that allowed unskilled morons (including myself) to click a button and claim that they had "made" a 3D mountain with impressive (and identical-looking) surroundings.
Commenter meant Bryce, which hasn't been updated in years, but is still being sold by an 'old software aggregator.'
Software is not: the copyrighted bit is the source, not the non-expressive object code. So if you think to pretend this is a slipper slope problem, then think again. And, no the execution of the code is a PERFORMANCE, not the fixed-in-medium expression required for copyrights.
A performance by WHOM?
It is MY computer running the compiled code.
When you saturate the market to the point where you can't grow anymore, you got to raise prices. Their cost of doing business hasn't gone up, so there's no real reason to raise prices other than to appease Wall Street.
I'd wager that their cost of doing business has been steadily decreasing for a couple of decades. Computers, you know, get faster and do things better year-by-year.
Welcome to the cashless society, where private firms hold the only keys to you conducting financial transactions. Bend over.
You can't buy a good 4k display that does not have a microphone. I said I wouldn't buy a display with a mic or camera, but I did. I just never plug an ethernet cable into it, and my wifi is white-listed to omit the display.
Microsoft announces things that they never intend to release all the time. We will probably never see it.
It was perhaps announced to put pressure on Steam and other non-hardware-tethered gaming-software makers. To make them waste their money. Or perhaps another reason
Youtube rips for non-public use are LEGAL around here.
Where is here (roughly)?
But the 1099 remote driver can get a dui
OK, that sounds plausible. Has this actually occurred somewhere?
Humans have used sidewalks to deliver goods forever. Was that private taking of a public good also illegal?
False dichotomy. The key term in my post was "robots," by which I meant "autonomous vehicles" using sidewalks. It is a different thing than a delivery person using the sidewalk.
People put up with FedEx/UPS parking in red parking zones all over cities, or at least the cops do; they do not let them drive or park on the sidewalk, as the delivery trucks are vehicles.
..., but if people find robotic deliveries convenient and desire them, they'll have no problem making an exception for robotic delivery vehicles.
Perhaps. There will be discussion. I was describing the situation as it stands today, not in some future year. In any case, the myriad ways people have posted destruction of those e-scooters, their taunting of autonomous cars, or shooting-down of drones gives us a glimpse on the likelihood of mass acceptance of delivery bots using sidewalks. It is low.
Using robots to deliver packages via sidewalks is a private taking of a public good (sidewalk). It is illegal.
And for good reason. Just imagine the swarms of these things that could be in everyone's way –– these things that are motorized vehicles. Oh, most places, operating a motorized vehicle along a pedestrian right-of-way is illegal, too.
Neither of these will be enforced, unless a large group of individuals sues and wins.
Some of you will remember anon.penet.fi, a free email anonymizer from the 1990's. I used it a few times back in the late 1990's because I was aware of the security and privacy risks of 'regular' email. That is, 'plain Jane' risks of snooping on personal conversations.
Today, in 2018, I google my real name, and up come some of those anonymized emails, of which no copy was supposed to have ever existed, much less been kept on some server for 20+ years.
They were benign emails, but... privacy. So, I guess I was right about that privacy thing.
Nothing ever goes away once it traverses the internet. And there is no such thing as free (as in beer).
The fact that you two are confused about the kind of company Apple is means they're quite successful at it. Apple are a marketing company
I'm sure that bit of nonsense sounded better in your head. You have classic conspiracy theory thinking. For whatever reason ...
Apple is a marketing company in the purest sense of the word. They figure out what people actually want to buy already, and then go design and build those products.
Universities? WTF?!?
This thread is about video games.
They were outraged that Gal Gadot raised her arm - and horrors!!! To Twitter and scream!! Wonder Woman Gal Gadot had no armpit hair!! https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/...
Some men remove the hair from their faces on a daily basis. The horror!
...*snip*...
Disadvantages:
* Keeps the flow of new Democratic voters reduced.
Low-skill illegals cross via a border, versus the majority who simply overstay visas. Of the border-crossers, they are too scared of getting caught and deported to try and vote. They can't even register to vote, in any case.
They only released this story to bring attention to the inability to act upon the shifting magnetic pole due to the partial Government shutdown.
If navigational errors from the old model are close to falling out-of-bounds, then this ought to be publicized. People die when boats collide.
In my City, these scooters littering public spaces are legally "abandoned property". That means anyone can take a scooter or two off of the sidewalk and scrap it out. Legally.
Check your local City Code.
Yup. There's a book on it.
And yet a new Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti still costs double what it cost in November, 2017. I thought excess stock led to price drops.
So don't buy IoT or persistent-listening devices.
Marketers are trying hard to push these things on consumers, but if no one buys them, then it won't happen.
You can get vroom vroom from speakers. Seriously, EVs will probably be required to make some noise as a safety feature for pedestrians and cyclists at some point. Especially at low speed, parking lots, crosswalks, etc.
Several do. I don't recall the brands, but they emit a Jetson's-like sound.
It is stupid to have electrics hum, and not just for noise pollution reasons. Streets are noisy mainly because of ICEs. Once their numbers are down, that won't be an issue.
And in any case, road noise from the tires is enough to alert a pedestrian to a car's presence.