November of 2012 we have been trying to get these fools to allow us to change an accidental (or otherwise) thumbs up or thumbs down to the opposite, or simply remove either choice, and they still haven't implemented such a basic feature. It's ridiculous. And it's things like this that will continue to ensure they never get any money from me.
Yup, DRM never has and never will make any sense. Like you say, it does nothing but inconvenience actual customers. The people that pirate it are rarely deterred for any real length of time. Cracking games has been a thing since the beginning, when "find the 10th word on page 17" piracy protection was first introduced. And it will always be a thing. The entire DRM industry is completely pointless, and I have no idea how it still exists. Publishers are clueless, both about DRMs actual success rate, and how it affects the people actually giving them money.
Trackball Explorers are plentiful on eBay for about $125-$150. You can even find the rare unopened brand new one occasionally, if you don't mind spending $500-$600. A highly recommended upgrade for them is zirconia oxide bearings to replace the steel ones. The steel is so soft that the red ball actually wears a flat spot in them, and the worse it gets the harder it is to turn the ball. Replace the bearings with those ones and it's like new. And they won't wear out as quickly as the steel, if they ever will. Every one I've replaced them in is still feeling new.
Anything less than the $400-$600 they sell for on eBay is more than reasonable. I'd happily pay $300 for a brand new one that comes with zirconia oxide bearings installed from the factory. And I'd continue to buy them for the rest of my life. The only things that really wear out in them are the soft steel bearings that wear flat spots (hence the need for the zirconia oxide replacements you find when searching eBay for the device) and the meshing parts in the scroll wheel eventually start smoothing out and not properly cogging. I haven't stopped using these devices since they were first released, as my first trackball was the one MS released prior to them that had the little blue ball that sat in rollers to do the positional tracking. And I continue to buy replacements off eBay. Once in a blue moon you see a brand new unopened one go up for sale, but they're always in the $500-$600 range, heh. But you can get used ones that are in pretty reasonable shape for $125-$150 pretty regularly. They usually only require the bearings to be replaced.
There's never going to be TVs big enough *and* cheap enough for the home to actually make good use of 4k, and 8k TV will never be useful in the home, period. You'll need way too big of a TV, and that'll never happen.
I bought mine just for racing in iRacing. I've had a triple-monitor 6036x1080 setup for years now. After using the Rift for the first time in a race there was no going back. Resolution is worse. FOV is worse. But depth perception makes them irrelevant.
Capitalization is screwed in iOS 11, too. It's constantly capitalizing things in the middle of a sentence, which appear as though they may have been things that were capitalized at the beginning of a sentence at some point in the past. It's pretty annoying to have to constantly fix You or Work in the middle of sentences practically every time it is typed.
BeyondTV scanned recordings and marked the regions that looked like commercials, giving you chapter marks that allowed you to skip them. This was safer than automatically stripping those regions from the files, especially in the early versions where it wasn't as accurate as one might like. But eventually it was practically bulletproof. They never did add automatic commercial region removal, but the ability to script things was in there, and you could write a script that did remove those regions. I never bothered since all you had to do was hit the next chapter button and it instantly skipped over them.
A $0.15 bag of popcorn isn't costing me $5, nor is a $0.08 cup of Coke running me another $4, because I'd never pay that. It always amazes me that everyone except the movie theater industry seems to understand supply and demand. You're never going to make more money by charging insane prices for popcorn and drinks because those insane prices will stop the majority of people from buying those things at all. If they charged reasonable prices for those items they'd move more volume on those items. You're not making more money by selling those items for that much if you're selling way less volume. Let's look at two cases, one with those prices you mentioned, and one where they sell the stuff for a buck. Say they only sell 100 pairs at the high price.
It is pretty reasonable that if those items sold for a buck a piece instead that you would have many more people buying them. How many would need to buy at that price to equal the same amount of profit? (Yeah, we're ignoring the overhead of labour and all that stuff.)
1-0.15=0.85 profit per popcorn 1-0.08=0.92 profit per popcorn 0.85+0.92=$1.77 profit per item pair 877/1.77=495.5
So they'd have to sell 496 pairs of those items to make the same money. So roughly 5 times more people would have to buy a popcorn and Coke. But at $2 versus $9 for that combo how many more people are going to buy? I'd never buy at $9, personally. I wouldn't even think about it. It is too much money. But at $2 I'd buy every single time without a second thought. How much cheaper would it have to be than $9 to get me to bite? Well, I don't know, exactly. Would $4.50 be enough? Meh. $4? Or $3? Perhaps. But $9 is nuts. And that's why nobody is buying it. The fact that you've got a monopoly in your venue isn't enough to make those prices acceptable. It still has to be good value, or overall you won't have people biting.
As far as I'm concerned, movie theaters should be practically giving away popcorn and soft drinks. A buck a piece and they'd have practically everyone buying, I would wager. Obviously with other items, candy, and who knows what else (I've seen burgers and nachos, among other things now! wtf?) there are going to be differing costs and profit margins. You could probably get away with better margins on items other than popcorn and soft drinks. But if you charged a buck a piece on a reasonable amount of popcorn and drink (i.e. not a freakin' garbage pail) I'm sure you'd be making a lot more money than you are with the gouger prices. Those two items are cheap as hell, and everybody knows it, so when you charge out the ass for them you usually just get a thumbed nose instead. Why theaters aren't actually playing with those prices to find the supply/demand teetering point is beyond me. Seems like business 101, no? The whole "We aren't making enough money, jack up the prices!" idea makes absolutely no business sense. You'd have to be a fool to think it did make sense.
And it isn't our fault that they don't know how to deal with movie studios concerning the pricing they get for screening their movies. Studios should want to have their movies shown. But it seems whoever has been running them ever since they started whining about nobody going to movies anymore has no clue how to do their job. Making it harder and harder for theaters is just another bonehead example of what not to do in business. But obviously it will be harder for theater owners to organize and finally start getting better business deals with the studios.
I seriously believe theaters would make way more money if they started charging reasonable prices, based on reasonable profit margins, for popcorn and soft drinks alone. Don't change your prices for candy and all the other crap you guys are selling now. But make the popcorn and soft drinks super cheap, because your cost is super cheap, and make a big stink about dropping those prices with really obvious signage in the place. Guarantee you'll start moving crazy volume compared to what you're doing now. That stuff is cheap. Sell it cheap.
If it actually worked very well you wouldn't have noticed it pausing while it waited after a cache miss. Any cache can only help by so much. In the case of hybrid drives, I never understood why drive manufacturers used such a small amount of NAND, besides cost. Sure, it is expensive to use. But if you put more on there I'll pay more, because it will perform better more often.
We don't need to know how stuff works in order for it to be simulated in a simulator not written by us. She seems to be saying that it can't be a simulation because we don't know how it works. Saying that makes no sense. It's like saying I can't possibly play a video game because I don't know how to program a video game. Or I can't have eaten lasagna because I don't know how to make lasagna. For crying out loud, she says you can't simulate quantum mechanics because our computers use 1s and 0s. Does she even understand computers or computer programming in the least? She's a physicist. Some of that should be elementary to her. But is it? She seems pretty clueless in that arena.
"If you try to build the universe from classical bits, you won’t get quantum effects, so forget about this – it doesn’t work." Yeah, because it would be impossible to write an algorithm that simulates quantum effects. *eyeroll* Never mind that this statement of hers also assumes any potential simulation would have to be running on computers like we're using right now. Because other kinds of computers couldn't possibly exist. Because otherwise we'd have them, too. Heh. How this is over her head is beyond me, and yet, somehow, it is.
Removing features simply because they're not used by everyone every single day never made sense to me. Even if it is something only a very small percentage of users use, so what? It's not like you have to write that code again every time you compile. It just sits there minding its own business. Leave it alone and mind your own business. It doesn't affect any other work, so why remove it? To save a few bytes of memory? We all have nine zillion memories now. Who cares? Some people use it. And if more people knew about it they'd probably use it, too.
Most people power on their machine, use the web browser, and office apps. That doesn't mean it would be beneficial to stop making all other programs just because most people don't use them. Same thing.
"But that means going to work on Monday and going home on Tuesday, with the work day something like 1700-0200."
Yeah, so? It's all arbitrary anyway. The point is if you can agree that it is Sunday, March 12th for everyone then you should be able to agree that it is 1700 for everyone, too. The fact that it will seem odd to you at first given your current point of view does not mean it will always be odd. Just like January being summer in Australia should not seem odd to you.
Everyone uses the same calendar. Everyone should use the same time. It is, after all, the same moment in time for everyone anyway. The fact that the sun rises for you at a different moment in time because of the longitude of where you are on the planet shouldn't be relevant, especially since you don't think the latitude of where you're at is relevant to the date. That's the point you need to get through your head. Saying east and west matters but north and south doesn't is odd. And it should be clear which one should be thrown out.
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November of 2012 we have been trying to get these fools to allow us to change an accidental (or otherwise) thumbs up or thumbs down to the opposite, or simply remove either choice, and they still haven't implemented such a basic feature. It's ridiculous. And it's things like this that will continue to ensure they never get any money from me.
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Click the clock in the taskbar?
Yup, DRM never has and never will make any sense. Like you say, it does nothing but inconvenience actual customers. The people that pirate it are rarely deterred for any real length of time. Cracking games has been a thing since the beginning, when "find the 10th word on page 17" piracy protection was first introduced. And it will always be a thing. The entire DRM industry is completely pointless, and I have no idea how it still exists. Publishers are clueless, both about DRMs actual success rate, and how it affects the people actually giving them money.
Trackball Explorers are plentiful on eBay for about $125-$150. You can even find the rare unopened brand new one occasionally, if you don't mind spending $500-$600. A highly recommended upgrade for them is zirconia oxide bearings to replace the steel ones. The steel is so soft that the red ball actually wears a flat spot in them, and the worse it gets the harder it is to turn the ball. Replace the bearings with those ones and it's like new. And they won't wear out as quickly as the steel, if they ever will. Every one I've replaced them in is still feeling new.
Anything less than the $400-$600 they sell for on eBay is more than reasonable. I'd happily pay $300 for a brand new one that comes with zirconia oxide bearings installed from the factory. And I'd continue to buy them for the rest of my life. The only things that really wear out in them are the soft steel bearings that wear flat spots (hence the need for the zirconia oxide replacements you find when searching eBay for the device) and the meshing parts in the scroll wheel eventually start smoothing out and not properly cogging. I haven't stopped using these devices since they were first released, as my first trackball was the one MS released prior to them that had the little blue ball that sat in rollers to do the positional tracking. And I continue to buy replacements off eBay. Once in a blue moon you see a brand new unopened one go up for sale, but they're always in the $500-$600 range, heh. But you can get used ones that are in pretty reasonable shape for $125-$150 pretty regularly. They usually only require the bearings to be replaced.
There's never going to be TVs big enough *and* cheap enough for the home to actually make good use of 4k, and 8k TV will never be useful in the home, period. You'll need way too big of a TV, and that'll never happen.
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I bought mine just for racing in iRacing. I've had a triple-monitor 6036x1080 setup for years now. After using the Rift for the first time in a race there was no going back. Resolution is worse. FOV is worse. But depth perception makes them irrelevant.
Waste of time and money.
I laughed out loud when watching Heroes when it originally aired and buddy couldn't stop saying "Nissan Versa!" over and over. :D
Capitalization is screwed in iOS 11, too. It's constantly capitalizing things in the middle of a sentence, which appear as though they may have been things that were capitalized at the beginning of a sentence at some point in the past. It's pretty annoying to have to constantly fix You or Work in the middle of sentences practically every time it is typed.
BeyondTV scanned recordings and marked the regions that looked like commercials, giving you chapter marks that allowed you to skip them. This was safer than automatically stripping those regions from the files, especially in the early versions where it wasn't as accurate as one might like. But eventually it was practically bulletproof. They never did add automatic commercial region removal, but the ability to script things was in there, and you could write a script that did remove those regions. I never bothered since all you had to do was hit the next chapter button and it instantly skipped over them.
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A $0.15 bag of popcorn isn't costing me $5, nor is a $0.08 cup of Coke running me another $4, because I'd never pay that. It always amazes me that everyone except the movie theater industry seems to understand supply and demand. You're never going to make more money by charging insane prices for popcorn and drinks because those insane prices will stop the majority of people from buying those things at all. If they charged reasonable prices for those items they'd move more volume on those items. You're not making more money by selling those items for that much if you're selling way less volume. Let's look at two cases, one with those prices you mentioned, and one where they sell the stuff for a buck. Say they only sell 100 pairs at the high price.
100*0.15=$15 popcorn cost
100*0.08=$8 Coke cost
$23 cost, $900 gross, so $877 profit.
It is pretty reasonable that if those items sold for a buck a piece instead that you would have many more people buying them. How many would need to buy at that price to equal the same amount of profit? (Yeah, we're ignoring the overhead of labour and all that stuff.)
1-0.15=0.85 profit per popcorn
1-0.08=0.92 profit per popcorn
0.85+0.92=$1.77 profit per item pair
877/1.77=495.5
So they'd have to sell 496 pairs of those items to make the same money. So roughly 5 times more people would have to buy a popcorn and Coke. But at $2 versus $9 for that combo how many more people are going to buy? I'd never buy at $9, personally. I wouldn't even think about it. It is too much money. But at $2 I'd buy every single time without a second thought. How much cheaper would it have to be than $9 to get me to bite? Well, I don't know, exactly. Would $4.50 be enough? Meh. $4? Or $3? Perhaps. But $9 is nuts. And that's why nobody is buying it. The fact that you've got a monopoly in your venue isn't enough to make those prices acceptable. It still has to be good value, or overall you won't have people biting.
As far as I'm concerned, movie theaters should be practically giving away popcorn and soft drinks. A buck a piece and they'd have practically everyone buying, I would wager. Obviously with other items, candy, and who knows what else (I've seen burgers and nachos, among other things now! wtf?) there are going to be differing costs and profit margins. You could probably get away with better margins on items other than popcorn and soft drinks. But if you charged a buck a piece on a reasonable amount of popcorn and drink (i.e. not a freakin' garbage pail) I'm sure you'd be making a lot more money than you are with the gouger prices. Those two items are cheap as hell, and everybody knows it, so when you charge out the ass for them you usually just get a thumbed nose instead. Why theaters aren't actually playing with those prices to find the supply/demand teetering point is beyond me. Seems like business 101, no? The whole "We aren't making enough money, jack up the prices!" idea makes absolutely no business sense. You'd have to be a fool to think it did make sense.
And it isn't our fault that they don't know how to deal with movie studios concerning the pricing they get for screening their movies. Studios should want to have their movies shown. But it seems whoever has been running them ever since they started whining about nobody going to movies anymore has no clue how to do their job. Making it harder and harder for theaters is just another bonehead example of what not to do in business. But obviously it will be harder for theater owners to organize and finally start getting better business deals with the studios.
I seriously believe theaters would make way more money if they started charging reasonable prices, based on reasonable profit margins, for popcorn and soft drinks alone. Don't change your prices for candy and all the other crap you guys are selling now. But make the popcorn and soft drinks super cheap, because your cost is super cheap, and make a big stink about dropping those prices with really obvious signage in the place. Guarantee you'll start moving crazy volume compared to what you're doing now. That stuff is cheap. Sell it cheap.
They don't offer write-back as an option for those that do have a UPS and want to use write-back?
If it actually worked very well you wouldn't have noticed it pausing while it waited after a cache miss. Any cache can only help by so much. In the case of hybrid drives, I never understood why drive manufacturers used such a small amount of NAND, besides cost. Sure, it is expensive to use. But if you put more on there I'll pay more, because it will perform better more often.
Nice. Add to Waze. Next.
YT: Care to buy ad time on a platform based on random people uploading videos based on whatever randomness they're into?
Companies: Yes!
YT: OK, thanks!
Companies: Hey! How come these random videos we're advertising over contain all manner of random stuff?!
YT: Um, duh?
Final offer.
"when usage statistics confirmed that Chrome users rarely used the two options"
Duh.
We don't need to know how stuff works in order for it to be simulated in a simulator not written by us. She seems to be saying that it can't be a simulation because we don't know how it works. Saying that makes no sense. It's like saying I can't possibly play a video game because I don't know how to program a video game. Or I can't have eaten lasagna because I don't know how to make lasagna. For crying out loud, she says you can't simulate quantum mechanics because our computers use 1s and 0s. Does she even understand computers or computer programming in the least? She's a physicist. Some of that should be elementary to her. But is it? She seems pretty clueless in that arena.
"If you try to build the universe from classical bits, you won’t get quantum effects, so forget about this – it doesn’t work." Yeah, because it would be impossible to write an algorithm that simulates quantum effects. *eyeroll* Never mind that this statement of hers also assumes any potential simulation would have to be running on computers like we're using right now. Because other kinds of computers couldn't possibly exist. Because otherwise we'd have them, too. Heh. How this is over her head is beyond me, and yet, somehow, it is.
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Removing features simply because they're not used by everyone every single day never made sense to me. Even if it is something only a very small percentage of users use, so what? It's not like you have to write that code again every time you compile. It just sits there minding its own business. Leave it alone and mind your own business. It doesn't affect any other work, so why remove it? To save a few bytes of memory? We all have nine zillion memories now. Who cares? Some people use it. And if more people knew about it they'd probably use it, too.
Most people power on their machine, use the web browser, and office apps. That doesn't mean it would be beneficial to stop making all other programs just because most people don't use them. Same thing.
I thought maybe the EM drive working says we've found the resolution of the simulation.
I'm pretty sure my argument was that it is not confusing at all, nor should it be if we all converted to one single time.
"But that means going to work on Monday and going home on Tuesday, with the work day something like 1700-0200."
Yeah, so? It's all arbitrary anyway. The point is if you can agree that it is Sunday, March 12th for everyone then you should be able to agree that it is 1700 for everyone, too. The fact that it will seem odd to you at first given your current point of view does not mean it will always be odd. Just like January being summer in Australia should not seem odd to you.
Everyone uses the same calendar. Everyone should use the same time. It is, after all, the same moment in time for everyone anyway. The fact that the sun rises for you at a different moment in time because of the longitude of where you are on the planet shouldn't be relevant, especially since you don't think the latitude of where you're at is relevant to the date. That's the point you need to get through your head. Saying east and west matters but north and south doesn't is odd. And it should be clear which one should be thrown out.