Nice try Netflix, this is not about viewing quality, this is about DRM, controlling content, and controlling users streams.
What if someone streams to a Mac or PC running Air Parrot and then records the stream, oh the horrors. ( https://www.airsquirrels.com/a... )
It looks like Apple won't enforce your DRM because you won't pay them for using their platform. ( https://9to5mac.com/2019/03/18... )
It is so sad when the big boys can't share their toys.:(
You should have wrote a big article reading, "Apple is taking Airplay away from iPhone customers" however it would be untrue, but might get Apple to make the changes you need for your DRM.
The Apple TV 4k and iPhone Airplay streaming are as good as it gets, it is too bad Netflix customers won't get to fully enjoy all the benefits of their purchases.
Yes, this is the reason I am still on a 2013 Mac Book Pro. I mean, I would love to upgrade so I could carry around all the Apple expensive dongles and have to live in the future with only USB-C ports.
Bottom line, Apple will not listen to it's customers and wants thin, unrepairable, expensive still that lasts 2-3 years max.
And if we give you the keys Mr. Government everyone will have them in 3..2..1.. because we all know how well law enforcement can keep a secret. Yeah, I'm looking at you NSA, the most secure agency on planet earth that couldn't hang on to their toys, tools, and tactics.
Fun Fact: If it wasn't for the NSA leaks, we most likely would not have had the WannaCry ransomware attacks.
I know that terms like equivocation, equivocate, and false equivocation are used with little understanding in the media world, so it is understandable that you are confused.
Also, don't hide behind the AC, be bold. Do you do run around in the real world wearing a bandana over your face?
Believe it or not, old school is back in my house.
iPods, with Sound Docks (check, 30-pins are cheaper than dirt, good sound quality, easily repairable) iTunes library on a NAS (check) Plex Home Media Server on a NAS, (check) Rasperry Pi with Hi Fi Berry as a player (check)
I love going on Ebay or to a local CD resale shop, finding media, bringing it home and putting it on the home media server then storing the media in the basement.
Streaming is great, but you can never seem to find what you want when you want it, or you have to rent/but it. Streaming doesn't work it in the car, but the 128GB iPod works just fine with voice controls and playlists.
Ladies and Gentlemen, step right up to witness another technology train wreck where they try to achieve the illusive singularity. Apple is going to merge iPhone, iPad, and MacOS into a single platform. Other greats like Microsoft tried to achieve the singularity between mobile and and the desktop, but they failed. Their Windows Phone is just a memory and but the strange tiles on Windows 10 still remain and, Windows 10 tablet mode is still unusable.
Now, a company which doesn't have a touch screen computer, but only a lousy keyboard that everyone hates, is going to try this amazing feat again. Using a mobile ARM processor with a touch screen UI/UX/OS called IOS, they are going to merge it with another mouse driven UI/UX called MacOS. Can they pull it off without a touch screen? How will users dual boot to Windows 10 to run their CAD software? And will it have a headphone jack? So many questions, so few answers. Without the reality distortion field of Steve Jobs this could be a headless company recycling failed ideas from other companies. Did anyone from Microsoft recently take on a leadership role at Apple?
Not matter how you slice it, it will be painful drama for users. You won't be able to look away, it will be like watching a car crash in slow motion, you know you should look away, but you just can't.
I am not saying he is correct, but last I checked neither Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, or Enrico Fermi has Phds. and/or were members of the Royal Society of Science. Not to mention the Royal Society enthusiastically fell for the Piltdown Man hoax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It was a horrible how-to video. Nicely produced, but really bad, bad information. The (sic) technician installed the powersupply upside down which is downright stupid and dangerous due to overheating. He mistook the vibration insulators on the powersupply as electrical insulators explaining the the power supply should never touch the metal of the case, not realizing the screw he just attached to the mount the power supply upside down touched both the case and the powersupply.
It was bad and deserved the mocking that it received. We won't even get into how much thermal paste he used on the CPU.
Better keyboard Option for Touch Screen Better Repairability (See Louis Rossman, easy to replace keyboard and battery) Better Upgradability (Not Soldered in HDD and RAM) Better Water Resistance Return of the MagSafe More Ports on the Pro Model including a classic USB3.0 port eGPU Options for High End Cards with Plug N Play
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering.....
He (Ajit) has served in various positions at the FCC since being appointed to the commission by President Barack Obama in May 2012, at the recommendation of Mitch McConnell. He was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate on May 7, 2012, and was sworn in on May 14, 2012, for a five-year term.
Congress passed a new resolution H.J. Res. 86. Verizon sees this new rule as an opportunity to raise rights in the name of fighting SMS spam. Verizon decides to raise rates on companies that are paying industry competitive SMS rates on not doing SMS spamming, since remind is 100% opt-in.
Remind says, "Hey, we aren't SMS spammers, don't raise our rates 7x-11x to fund a new Verizon department that fights SMS spam."
Lastly, with this move, Verizon SMS rates will no longer be in the realm of industry competitive SMS rates.
The same debate we had over Internet slow lanes with the cable companies who own the final mile to the customer. Verizon owns the last link to the customer and they are going to be the troll under the bridge demanding outrageous fees to cross over.
So yes, their business model is based on a free service, but they are still paying for each SMS. They just can't pay Verizon 7x-11x the industry rate.
Yes, while the FCC is furlough for the government shutdown, Verizon goes wild! We aren't talking about increasing the fee a little, Verizon is going for 700%-1110% fee increase. That takes some moxie, not even my scum bag monopoly cable provider tries for 700%. Keep in mind Remind already paying Verizon and providing the service free to teachers and coaches. Yes this is a huge scumbag move by Verizon and once again it highlights the effect of monopoly like power in big telecommunications companies.
From REMIND =========== Why the Verizon fee affects free text messaging on Remind
To offer our text messaging service free of charge, Remind has always paid for each text that users receive or send. Now, Verizon is charging Remind an additional fee intended for companies that send spam over its network.
Your Remind messages aren’t spam, but that hasn’t helped resolve the issue with Verizon. The fee will increase our cost of supporting text messaging to at least 11 times our current cost—forcing us to end free Remind text messaging for the more than 7 million students, parents, and educators who have Verizon Wireless as their carrier.
There is no new secret quantum CPU technology that is going to push Moore's law along. If you are talking about qubits and spinbits, they a long, long way off from becoming a viable CPU. This isn't a simple matter of retooling, a lot more research and slick tricks need to be invented. The quantum world is a very noisy world leading to a need to spread things out and use photons to communicate. Smaller isn't going to be the answer, in fact, chips will most likely get physically bigger. This new design is still in the research phase at least it was in Summer 2018.
CPUs stopped getting faster 3-years ago as Intel, AMD, ARM started cramming in more and more cores. Quantum is smoke and mirrors.
Either we need specialized neural chips which no one knows how to build or we need to go back to the days of liquid cooling.
I totally echo your sentiment, "no headphone jack, no upgrade." Holding at iPhone 6s until it dies, then moving to any other smartphone with a headphone back.
I also agree that the MBAs at Apple are killing innovation as evidenced by their shift in business models.
For Hot Wheels 50th Anniversary, they released a first edition chess set made up of Hot Wheels cars. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.htm... (Available on Ebay) called Checkmate.
So yeah, Chess is back, cooler than ever, and everyone enjoys it. It sure beats run and gun first person shooters. It's a game where you actually have to think two to three moves ahead... Oh my!
To your point, in notepad, the microphone works for text to speech, but voice commands won't play a local song on the phone or make a phone call.
Try saying: Open iTunes Play Playlist Chillout
After waiting 60 seconds: "I'm having some trouble with the connection. Please try again in a moment."
So yes, it has speech to text, similar to the Commodore 64, but no commands work, even if the command doesn't need the Internet for anything such as playing a song loaded on the phone or opening the camera.
Seriously, not ACID complaint? That is bad, bad, bad, when you are cranking millions of transactions per minute. Why not just use MySQL and call it a day? At least you'll be fast and wrong.
If Amazon can actually survive Black Friday and the Christmas shopping season on their new database, they might be able to sell it to others who are trapped by Oracle. It would be interesting to know the back story on how much pain and suffering was required to leave Oracle. My suspicion is that they forked PostGresSQL and Amazon enhanced it. Can anyone comment on the details?
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Nice try Netflix, this is not about viewing quality, this is about DRM, controlling content, and controlling users streams.
What if someone streams to a Mac or PC running Air Parrot and then records the stream, oh the horrors.
( https://www.airsquirrels.com/a... )
It looks like Apple won't enforce your DRM because you won't pay them for using their platform.
( https://9to5mac.com/2019/03/18... )
It is so sad when the big boys can't share their toys. :(
You should have wrote a big article reading, "Apple is taking Airplay away from iPhone customers" however it would be untrue, but might get Apple to make the changes you need for your DRM.
The Apple TV 4k and iPhone Airplay streaming are as good as it gets, it is too bad Netflix customers won't get to fully enjoy all the benefits of their purchases.
Yes, this is the reason I am still on a 2013 Mac Book Pro. I mean, I would love to upgrade so I could carry around all the Apple expensive dongles and have to live in the future with only USB-C ports.
Bottom line, Apple will not listen to it's customers and wants thin, unrepairable, expensive still that lasts 2-3 years max.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Enjoy it while you can get it, but eventually the sheeple will figure it out.
$25 million and counting so far and we have "no collusion".
I imagine the next money wasting investigation will begin soon.
$25 million, just mindblowing... if we could only get that kind of unlimited money for education.
And if we give you the keys Mr. Government everyone will have them in 3..2..1.. because we all know how well law enforcement can keep a secret.
Yeah, I'm looking at you NSA, the most secure agency on planet earth that couldn't hang on to their toys, tools, and tactics.
Fun Fact: If it wasn't for the NSA leaks, we most likely would not have had the WannaCry ransomware attacks.
I do not think "false equivocation" means what you think it means señor anonymous coward.
You might find this website useful: https://www.cjr.org/language_c...
I know that terms like equivocation, equivocate, and false equivocation are used with little understanding in the media world, so it is understandable that you are confused.
Also, don't hide behind the AC, be bold.
Do you do run around in the real world wearing a bandana over your face?
What if the Democrats actually "got smart" and were trying to woo the tech community back into the fold with real net neutrality legislation?
If there is anything I've learned about these types of bills, the title is the opposite of what the bill is intended to do.
So this bill should be titled, "Stopping Net Neutrality"
Believe it or not, old school is back in my house.
iPods, with Sound Docks (check, 30-pins are cheaper than dirt, good sound quality, easily repairable)
iTunes library on a NAS (check)
Plex Home Media Server on a NAS, (check)
Rasperry Pi with Hi Fi Berry as a player (check)
I love going on Ebay or to a local CD resale shop, finding media, bringing it home and putting it on the home media server then storing the media in the basement.
Streaming is great, but you can never seem to find what you want when you want it, or you have to rent/but it.
Streaming doesn't work it in the car, but the 128GB iPod works just fine with voice controls and playlists.
Ladies and Gentlemen, step right up to witness another technology train wreck where they try to achieve the illusive singularity. Apple is going to merge iPhone, iPad, and MacOS into a single platform. Other greats like Microsoft tried to achieve the singularity between mobile and and the desktop, but they failed. Their Windows Phone is just a memory and but the strange tiles on Windows 10 still remain and, Windows 10 tablet mode is still unusable.
Now, a company which doesn't have a touch screen computer, but only a lousy keyboard that everyone hates, is going to try this amazing feat again. Using a mobile ARM processor with a touch screen UI/UX/OS called IOS, they are going to merge it with another mouse driven UI/UX called MacOS. Can they pull it off without a touch screen? How will users dual boot to Windows 10 to run their CAD software? And will it have a headphone jack? So many questions, so few answers. Without the reality distortion field of Steve Jobs this could be a headless company recycling failed ideas from other companies. Did anyone from Microsoft recently take on a leadership role at Apple?
Not matter how you slice it, it will be painful drama for users. You won't be able to look away, it will be like watching a car crash in slow motion, you know you should look away, but you just can't.
The singularity, can it be achieved? Stay tuned..
I am not saying he is correct, but last I checked neither Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, or Enrico Fermi has Phds. and/or were members of the Royal Society of Science. Not to mention the Royal Society enthusiastically fell for the Piltdown Man hoax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It was a horrible how-to video. Nicely produced, but really bad, bad information. The (sic) technician installed the powersupply upside down which is downright stupid and dangerous due to overheating. He mistook the vibration insulators on the powersupply as electrical insulators explaining the the power supply should never touch the metal of the case, not realizing the screw he just attached to the mount the power supply upside down touched both the case and the powersupply.
It was bad and deserved the mocking that it received. We won't even get into how much thermal paste he used on the CPU.
Anything newer than a 2016 MBP has a soldered in SSD, not upgradable, not replaceable.
https://blog.macsales.com/4461...
Quick Survey. did anyone ask for?
Here is what was on my list:
Better keyboard
Option for Touch Screen
Better Repairability (See Louis Rossman, easy to replace keyboard and battery)
Better Upgradability (Not Soldered in HDD and RAM)
Better Water Resistance
Return of the MagSafe
More Ports on the Pro Model including a classic USB3.0 port
eGPU Options for High End Cards with Plug N Play
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering.....
He (Ajit) has served in various positions at the FCC since being appointed to the commission by President Barack Obama in May 2012, at the recommendation of Mitch McConnell. He was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate on May 7, 2012, and was sworn in on May 14, 2012, for a five-year term.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/w...
As long as there's a popular Minecraft JAVA Edition, JAVA will remain popular.
All Mods need to be coded in JAVA, which forces people to learn and use it.
Here is a better summary:
Congress passed a new resolution H.J. Res. 86.
Verizon sees this new rule as an opportunity to raise rights in the name of fighting SMS spam.
Verizon decides to raise rates on companies that are paying industry competitive SMS rates on not doing SMS spamming, since remind is 100% opt-in.
Remind says, "Hey, we aren't SMS spammers, don't raise our rates 7x-11x to fund a new Verizon department that fights SMS spam."
Lastly, with this move, Verizon SMS rates will no longer be in the realm of industry competitive SMS rates.
The same debate we had over Internet slow lanes with the cable companies who own the final mile to the customer.
Verizon owns the last link to the customer and they are going to be the troll under the bridge demanding outrageous fees to cross over.
So yes, their business model is based on a free service, but they are still paying for each SMS. They just can't pay Verizon 7x-11x the industry rate.
Yes, while the FCC is furlough for the government shutdown, Verizon goes wild! We aren't talking about increasing the fee a little, Verizon is going for 700%-1110% fee increase. That takes some moxie, not even my scum bag monopoly cable provider tries for 700%. Keep in mind Remind already paying Verizon and providing the service free to teachers and coaches. Yes this is a huge scumbag move by Verizon and once again it highlights the effect of monopoly like power in big telecommunications companies.
From REMIND
===========
Why the Verizon fee affects free text messaging on Remind
To offer our text messaging service free of charge, Remind has always paid for each text that users receive or send. Now, Verizon is charging Remind an additional fee intended for companies that send spam over its network.
Your Remind messages aren’t spam, but that hasn’t helped resolve the issue with Verizon. The fee will increase our cost of supporting text messaging to at least 11 times our current cost—forcing us to end free Remind text messaging for the more than 7 million students, parents, and educators who have Verizon Wireless as their carrier.
But what about the Darwin Awards?
Seriously YouTube, what are you thinking?
No more Tide Pod challenges, trying to swallow cinnamons, or driving blindfolded.
This makes absolutely no sense.
What are you talking about?
There is no new secret quantum CPU technology that is going to push Moore's law along. If you are talking about qubits and spinbits, they a long, long way off from becoming a viable CPU. This isn't a simple matter of retooling, a lot more research and slick tricks need to be invented. The quantum world is a very noisy world leading to a need to spread things out and use photons to communicate. Smaller isn't going to be the answer, in fact, chips will most likely get physically bigger. This new design is still in the research phase at least it was in Summer 2018.
CPUs stopped getting faster 3-years ago as Intel, AMD, ARM started cramming in more and more cores.
Quantum is smoke and mirrors.
Either we need specialized neural chips which no one knows how to build or we need to go back to the days of liquid cooling.
From the summer of 2018, John Preskill's session at Cal-Tech.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.008...
I totally echo your sentiment, "no headphone jack, no upgrade." Holding at iPhone 6s until it dies, then moving to any other smartphone with a headphone back.
I also agree that the MBAs at Apple are killing innovation as evidenced by their shift in business models.
Does this work with Python?
For Hot Wheels 50th Anniversary, they released a first edition chess set made up of Hot Wheels cars. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.htm... (Available on Ebay) called Checkmate.
So yeah, Chess is back, cooler than ever, and everyone enjoys it. It sure beats run and gun first person shooters. It's a game where you actually have to think two to three moves ahead... Oh my!
To your point, in notepad, the microphone works for text to speech, but voice commands won't play a local song on the phone or make a phone call.
Try saying:
Open iTunes
Play Playlist Chillout
After waiting 60 seconds:
"I'm having some trouble with the connection. Please try again in a moment."
So yes, it has speech to text, similar to the Commodore 64, but no commands work, even if the command doesn't need the Internet for anything such as playing a song loaded on the phone or opening the camera.
Seriously, not ACID complaint? That is bad, bad, bad, when you are cranking millions of transactions per minute. Why not just use MySQL and call it a day? At least you'll be fast and wrong.
If Amazon can actually survive Black Friday and the Christmas shopping season on their new database, they might be able to sell it to others who are trapped by Oracle. It would be interesting to know the back story on how much pain and suffering was required to leave Oracle. My suspicion is that they forked PostGresSQL and Amazon enhanced it. Can anyone comment on the details?