The average TV size is 40"-50" What the fuck? That's tiny. Maybe creimer in his studio apartment gets that, but not for the sort of person with a large enough living room to keep the TV 10-15' distant.
What is wrong with grocery shopping as it is now? They have what I want, it's up to date and the produce is fresh.
You have to walk or drive to the store, walk around for half and hour, and walk home. It's not terrible, which is why grocery stores are such a common thing. But on some level, it's wasted time. If you could get somebody to drop it off at the house for the same price, why not?
Same as with retail shopping. It's not that driving to Best Buy and picking up a laptop is so bad. It's just that shopping online is better.
One bedroom apartment rental, not house. A decent one bedroom apartment might be $2,500 per month, which yeah, could get you a decent house in Stockton.
Same amount of money could also get you an almost-as-decent decent house in Concord or Pittsburgh, though, which are just about the same level of ghetto-ness as Stockton, and an easy BART ride to downtown SF.
Funny you say that, because recently dpreview had an article that high-end smartphones are good enough to replace SLR cameras for most users. I do have an SLR camera, but that becomes an issue of, sometimes you would rather have a capable swiss army knife in your pocket than lug around an 18 knife set plus a can opener.
23 year olds don't come to Slashdot. It's all old white men with established careers, and $1/day really isn't much to me. I make that much in about a minute.
That said, of course for a hypothetically small quality difference, even $1/day is too much money. I don't think the difference is that small yet - if I'm taking pictures of my kids, I want something that looks good, not just OK.
If you're one of those old men who just wants to make phone calls, sure just get whatever's cheapest.
People use their phones hours a day. If they hold on to them for a couple years, which is normal, they come out to maybe $1/day.
So why not? It's a minor expense, and while cheap phones may be decent, there is a quality difference. Even if they're really not much better, why cheap out on something you use all the time and isn't that expensive in the first place?
Personally I am considering a model 3. I would get the $5K luxury package and maybe an alternate color. $41K, minus perhaps $5K in government subsidy by the time my number comes up. Then, I save $1K per year in fuel and probably some additional in maintenance...and it become a pretty average-price car. Sure if you get all the options it costs more, but that's true of all cars.
Regular stores and malls are closing because ways of competition from Amazon, not a general decline in people buying stuff.
Right, just figure out the movie/TV preferences of 12 band members and pirate it all ahead of time! Wow, and who said Ask Slashdot had stupid answers to stupid questions?
The difference is that Windows is usually used for non-piracy related reasons. Meanwhile, there is just about zero reason to use Kodi for non-piracy related reasons.
It's like bittorrent, or SNES emulators...sure people can use it for Linux distributions or their self-transferred SNES game files, but realistically they are both 99.9% used for piracy, and everybody knows it, and anybody who claims otherwise is being disingenuous because they want to make a point.
I'm typing this on a laptop with a microphone and internet access. I also have a phone by my desk with a microphone and internet access. My TV, with a microphone and internet access, is downstairs. I guess there's also my wife's tablet, with a microphone and internet access, downstairs. Does an XBox One have a mic in it?
Give over it bub. We're in the 21st century, there's stuff with microphones has internet access. In another decade or two the list will probably be ten times as long. Throwing our electronics in the fire is a futile Luddite approach to the issue of potential police over-surveillance.
Surprise! Lower-quality, shitty phones are being manufactured in China, exclusively for the Chinese market, that likely wouldn't be popular or even pass inspection in first-world countries. The same can be said about lower-quality shitty milk products or lower-quality shitty toys. Even the ones that do come over to the US, Blu or whatever, are usable but clearly inferior to an iPhone. And if you use your phone a lot, and own it for years, and you're not poor, why cheap out on a lower-quality phone? A phone might dollar cost average out to a dollar a day, it's a bargain!
Cell phone development and innovation is primarily a US thing. Patent legislation may be hurting this innovation, but you drastically over-state your case, with disingenuous statements.
$1 in 1970 money would be worth $6.30 today. Not really so reasonable, especially in an era when teenagers were given less disposable income. People still gobbled that shit up.
There's no such thing as a reasonable price. People pirate $10 movies to play on their $1,000 TVs. Everybody just wants things to be cheaper as long as they can get away with it. If mp3 bittorrenting became legal nobody would fucking bother with Apple Music, $1 would be too much.
Where in the article does it suggest that everyone who can afford an electric car already has one? How does that even make sense? Surely there's far more people driving an expensive luxury ICE car than a Tesla.
Even if every single expensive car in Denmark is an electric car, cars still get older, crash into trees, people buy a second car, etc.
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Do people regularly use their Samsung S3s or iPhone 3GSs? Just sell it or recycle it when you no longer use it, and start using a new phone.
Shouldn't people be allowed to take vacations? I have no problem with this.
Why use Open Reddit when Slashdot code is easily available?
What an idiotic post. If you don't want the smart TV features, don't use them. Just don't log into the wifi, obviously.
The average TV size is 40"-50"
What the fuck? That's tiny. Maybe creimer in his studio apartment gets that, but not for the sort of person with a large enough living room to keep the TV 10-15' distant.
Credit card industry is already super-competitive. If this was ever going to happen, so marginal bank or Discover card would already be doing it.
Hippies and fags! LOL! Great post, racist grandpa!
What is wrong with grocery shopping as it is now? They have what I want, it's up to date and the produce is fresh.
You have to walk or drive to the store, walk around for half and hour, and walk home. It's not terrible, which is why grocery stores are such a common thing. But on some level, it's wasted time. If you could get somebody to drop it off at the house for the same price, why not?
Same as with retail shopping. It's not that driving to Best Buy and picking up a laptop is so bad. It's just that shopping online is better.
One bedroom apartment rental, not house. A decent one bedroom apartment might be $2,500 per month, which yeah, could get you a decent house in Stockton.
Same amount of money could also get you an almost-as-decent decent house in Concord or Pittsburgh, though, which are just about the same level of ghetto-ness as Stockton, and an easy BART ride to downtown SF.
Funny you say that, because recently dpreview had an article that high-end smartphones are good enough to replace SLR cameras for most users. I do have an SLR camera, but that becomes an issue of, sometimes you would rather have a capable swiss army knife in your pocket than lug around an 18 knife set plus a can opener.
23 year olds don't come to Slashdot. It's all old white men with established careers, and $1/day really isn't much to me. I make that much in about a minute.
That said, of course for a hypothetically small quality difference, even $1/day is too much money. I don't think the difference is that small yet - if I'm taking pictures of my kids, I want something that looks good, not just OK.
If you're one of those old men who just wants to make phone calls, sure just get whatever's cheapest.
People use their phones hours a day. If they hold on to them for a couple years, which is normal, they come out to maybe $1/day.
So why not? It's a minor expense, and while cheap phones may be decent, there is a quality difference. Even if they're really not much better, why cheap out on something you use all the time and isn't that expensive in the first place?
My wife is on the iphone all year long too, and she doesn't get paid a cent :(
Personally I am considering a model 3. I would get the $5K luxury package and maybe an alternate color. $41K, minus perhaps $5K in government subsidy by the time my number comes up. Then, I save $1K per year in fuel and probably some additional in maintenance...and it become a pretty average-price car. Sure if you get all the options it costs more, but that's true of all cars.
Regular stores and malls are closing because ways of competition from Amazon, not a general decline in people buying stuff.
"Millarworld" is a proper noun, not a name.
What sort of semi-educated drivel is this shit? Isn't Slashdot supposed to have smart people on it?
Right, just figure out the movie/TV preferences of 12 band members and pirate it all ahead of time! Wow, and who said Ask Slashdot had stupid answers to stupid questions?
I remember Google Plus! I hope after this, Linus gets a MySpace account!
The difference is that Windows is usually used for non-piracy related reasons. Meanwhile, there is just about zero reason to use Kodi for non-piracy related reasons.
It's like bittorrent, or SNES emulators...sure people can use it for Linux distributions or their self-transferred SNES game files, but realistically they are both 99.9% used for piracy, and everybody knows it, and anybody who claims otherwise is being disingenuous because they want to make a point.
I'm typing this on a laptop with a microphone and internet access. I also have a phone by my desk with a microphone and internet access. My TV, with a microphone and internet access, is downstairs. I guess there's also my wife's tablet, with a microphone and internet access, downstairs. Does an XBox One have a mic in it?
Give over it bub. We're in the 21st century, there's stuff with microphones has internet access. In another decade or two the list will probably be ten times as long. Throwing our electronics in the fire is a futile Luddite approach to the issue of potential police over-surveillance.
All of these patents serve to keep US cell prices very high compared to rest of the world.
Actually, the same phone is substantially cheaper in the US than in other markets.
Surprise! Lower-quality, shitty phones are being manufactured in China, exclusively for the Chinese market, that likely wouldn't be popular or even pass inspection in first-world countries. The same can be said about lower-quality shitty milk products or lower-quality shitty toys. Even the ones that do come over to the US, Blu or whatever, are usable but clearly inferior to an iPhone. And if you use your phone a lot, and own it for years, and you're not poor, why cheap out on a lower-quality phone? A phone might dollar cost average out to a dollar a day, it's a bargain!
Cell phone development and innovation is primarily a US thing. Patent legislation may be hurting this innovation, but you drastically over-state your case, with disingenuous statements.
the classic still runs lean and has a more efficient UI
Who wants to turn a circle around 30 times just to find a song to play?
Rates of genetic disease are also much higher with older dads, and the father being 40 or older is the main known risk factor for autism.
$1 in 1970 money would be worth $6.30 today. Not really so reasonable, especially in an era when teenagers were given less disposable income. People still gobbled that shit up.
There's no such thing as a reasonable price. People pirate $10 movies to play on their $1,000 TVs. Everybody just wants things to be cheaper as long as they can get away with it. If mp3 bittorrenting became legal nobody would fucking bother with Apple Music, $1 would be too much.
Where in the article does it suggest that everyone who can afford an electric car already has one? How does that even make sense? Surely there's far more people driving an expensive luxury ICE car than a Tesla.
Even if every single expensive car in Denmark is an electric car, cars still get older, crash into trees, people buy a second car, etc.