Disney knows it can rely on kids to keep parents subscribed for at least 10 years.
There is that. of course.
But Disney has close on to 100 years of independent production to draw on, not counting Fox. Marvel, Pixar and so on ---- and mountains of cash to license productions from other sources. Disney may focus on family-oriented entertainment. But we are long way out from the studio as it was in the 50's and 60's.
If you are vaccinated, shouldn't you not have to worry about getting measles? Only the un-vaccinated will be affected? Where is the problem?
1> No vaccine is 100% effective. But vaccination can reduce the risk or the severity of the disease.
2. The population of Brooklyn is 2.65 million. You do not want a dangerously infectious disease to gain a foothold in a population that size.
3. There are legitimate medical reasons why everyone cannot be vaccinated. But you can protect the most vulnerable by immunizing those around them. Consider it a firewall..
4. We came within a hair of eliminating measles as we did smallpox. We could all-but-eliminate cervical cancer in the next generation. If we fail, the reason will there for veryone to see,
Probably. But there are far too many people with Stockholm Syndrome where Windows is concerned.
The geek has been peddling this excuse for the success of Windows since the launch of Slashdot. But never quite gets around to explaining why the plain-vanilla Linux product never gained traction in retail sales. While Google with Android and Chrome found a market.
We could have had decentralized services a long time ago, but they weren't profitable enough.
Which often translates as slow, limited, unreliable and difficult to use. Which is why the commercial, centralized, services succeed. Click on Netflix and the movie plays across all devices.
Mark Twain had to trash the first print run of Huckleberry Finn because an engraver made a subtle pornographic change in an illustration. I doubt he cared whether this off-color joke was ever meant to become public --- as an editor and publisher he had to answer for it. Think about who will be reading your comments and whether they are actually useful.
Big Brother is truly here now. Better to ditch Skype, if you haven't already done that 3 years ago.
In the US, IP telephone captioning for the disabled is a free service provided by the federal government --- transcription by human operators not automated speech recognition. Can't Hear on The Phone? Explain to why having an operator captioning your calls over an open line is more secure and less intrusive than an automated system doing the same over an encrypted link.
Not to mention that access to Skype's service doesn't require filing a certificate from your doctor or other proof of disability., which is not a trivial disclosure,
It's not hard to keep, it's really not ruining phones keeping it. I will not purchase a phone without it.
The geek's stubborn rear-guard resistance not withstanding, I'm afraid the headphone jack is going the way of the parallel port and the Dodo. It's just one more cable and one more connector that no one wants to bother with any more.
Why respect copyright, when nothing will ever enter the public domain any more?
The streaming music service has 30 million tracks + text and graphics. CD quality or close enough. One-click access. Local storage as an option. Access across all devices. If I value my time at minimum wage, why in the name of god would I want to go back to trying to dredge something useful out of the P2P nets?
Entry into the public domain doesn't guarantee preservation and without preservation access is meaningless. The problem isn't the bit rot that may erode your collection of MP3s, it is the decay that destroys primary sources. Conservation at that level is damned expensive but the geek never talks about that very much because he might be asked to help pay for it.
Man sometimes people on here are like not in the real world.
After all these years, Slashdot can't bring itself to use a legit Windows logo --- and I half expect Slashdot to expire before the Windows OS. Posts about new hardware always read like adds and Linux systems are not exempt. Complaints that the mass market PC ships with Windows is about as productive as complaining that grass is green and the sky is blue.
My problem with these isn't even the 'being tracked' issue, it's that the Government (state or federal) was not meant to be a revenue generation machine.
All modern governments are built on machines that generate revenue.. That is the only alternative to a forced draft of materials and labor. A strong federal government with independent sources of revenue was forged in the US because a loose confederation of states couldn't or wouldn't contribute enough money to keep the country afloat or do anything worthwhile like building a national system of roads and canals.
"With a modern PC, you have so much extra power, you don't need to be a hotshot programmer to make a game people love. You don't really have that convenience on any mobile platform, really, but especially not on our platform."
The hotshot programmer tends to deliver a tech demo, not a game.
That is why the Disney or Pixar movie with include end with 400 engineers credited in very fine print and 50 other creative talents given top billing. Script and story, Art design. Character design and animation. Vocal performance . Music and sound.
You generally don't start with the smallest possible action when you are planning more than one.
You tear down a man's defenses brick by brick. Winning the easy cases early on yields big dividends down the road. Lose and you learn from your mistakes. Why do you think every criminal prosecutor begins with the small fry?
How many do you subtract that were forced on unsuspecting users, users who didn't know any better, and users who weren't otherwise given a choice? Can we also subtract out businesses, who either didn't have a choice, either, and their employees, who weren't given a choice by their employers?
The geek has been posting variations of this rant since the launch of Slashdot. Windows took possession of the desktop along about Win 95 and never looked back. The fundamental reason is that the Windows PC is a mass market product easily customized for home and office use. You want 1500 thin clients for corporate use? No problem. Shopping Amazon.com for the high-end water cooled gaming machine? Also no problem.
Unix solved most of the problems associated with an operating system
Unix solved most of the problems for the mainframe or minicomputer of the Jurassic era in computing. Not so much when the micro computer came into play.in the seventies and eighties ---- and system hardware had to be realistically mass market priced at $1500-$2500 ---- at a time when 5 MB of hard disk storage could cost something like $5000.
The truth is that most trolley lines were in deep financial trouble before World War I.
The economics were roughly this. The Model T Ford cost about 5 cents a mile. 24/7/365 unscheduled point-to-the-point transportation for a family of four plus dog and cargo. 40 MPH on paved roads, but serviceable on the most ragged and rugged of dirt tracks. Light truck, bus and other conversions available almost from the start.
I've used both (Photoshop and GIMP) and GIMP doesn't even come close. Not even for Joe Non-Professional User.
OS and Photoshop licensing a tiny fraction of the cost of photo editing and graphic design at the professional level. Which is why Free-As-In-Beer or Free-As-In-Freedom counts for nothing.
I bike to work most days and don't consider any of that time "wasted" -- I spend less time in the gym and more time on my bike, and I look forward to the bike ride home.
The bike commute here is seasonal at best. With extreme conditions taking even the most youthful and vigorous cyclists off the road in both summer and winter. There are some fine trails available for recreational cyclists, for the daily commute, not so much.
IRC for "instant" communications among individuals and groups, and Usenet for public forums is why there is no need for Facebook, Twitter and other centrally-controlled systems so prone to censorship and similar abuses.
Let's be honest here. IRC and Usenet clients were --- and in many ways still are --- painfully arcane and riddled with geek jargon. Microsoft Chat, the IM messaging and chat rooms of online services like AOL were proof that ift didn't have to be this way.
Anyone with eyeballs. Just watch cars go by. 70-80% have a single occupant. That is "normal use".
That car will be quite usable, quite comfortable, to drive under all conditions, save the occasional wildfire fire, flood, earthquake, blizzard and so on. When you need passenger or cargo space, it will be there. When you need range, speed or acceleration, it will be there.
Along with the seasonal fireworks sale at our local Walmart was a not-half-bad selection of LPs ---- strategically positioned near the bleeding edge 4K UHD HDR brand name TVs, sound bars, steaming media boxes, video game consoles and so on, You can sell CDs, if you where and how to place them.
The appeal of subscription audio is straight-forward: Instant access to some twenty-five to thirty million tracks, ideally supplemented with subtly animated graphics and text, as an integrated part of a home theater system, this can work very well. Playlists are easy to build and easy to share. No junk files or viral payloads, no time wasted on the P2P nets.
Yes, because as we all know, airplane autopilots are totally designed to replace a pilot, and that's why we don't have pilots anymore.
The problem is that the general public isn't thinking DC3 when they here the the word "autopilot." They are thinking about the glass cockpit and automation of a 21st century jumbo jet.
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Disney knows it can rely on kids to keep parents subscribed for at least 10 years.
There is that. of course.
But Disney has close on to 100 years of independent production to draw on, not counting Fox. Marvel, Pixar and so on ---- and mountains of cash to license productions from other sources. Disney may focus on family-oriented entertainment. But we are long way out from the studio as it was in the 50's and 60's.
If you are vaccinated, shouldn't you not have to worry about getting measles? Only the un-vaccinated will be affected? Where is the problem?
1> No vaccine is 100% effective. But vaccination can reduce the risk or the severity of the disease.
2. The population of Brooklyn is 2.65 million. You do not want a dangerously infectious disease to gain a foothold in a population that size.
3. There are legitimate medical reasons why everyone cannot be vaccinated. But you can protect the most vulnerable by immunizing those around them. Consider it a firewall..
4. We came within a hair of eliminating measles as we did smallpox. We could all-but-eliminate cervical cancer in the next generation. If we fail, the reason will there for veryone to see,
Probably. But there are far too many people with Stockholm Syndrome where Windows is concerned.
The geek has been peddling this excuse for the success of Windows since the launch of Slashdot. But never quite gets around to explaining why the plain-vanilla Linux product never gained traction in retail sales. While Google with Android and Chrome found a market.
Porn drove wide adoption of VCRs and DVDs, but pornographers exploited the tech, they did not create it.
It is fair to suggest that Disney drove sales of VHS and DVDs, as it did color TV sales in the 1960s.
We could have had decentralized services a long time ago, but they weren't profitable enough.
Which often translates as slow, limited, unreliable and difficult to use. Which is why the commercial, centralized, services succeed. Click on Netflix and the movie plays across all devices.
Mark Twain had to trash the first print run of Huckleberry Finn because an engraver made a subtle pornographic change in an illustration. I doubt he cared whether this off-color joke was ever meant to become public --- as an editor and publisher he had to answer for it. Think about who will be reading your comments and whether they are actually useful.
Big Brother is truly here now. Better to ditch Skype, if you haven't already done that 3 years ago.
In the US, IP telephone captioning for the disabled is a free service provided by the federal government --- transcription by human operators not automated speech recognition. Can't Hear on The Phone? Explain to why having an operator captioning your calls over an open line is more secure and less intrusive than an automated system doing the same over an encrypted link.
Not to mention that access to Skype's service doesn't require filing a certificate from your doctor or other proof of disability., which is not a trivial disclosure,
It's not hard to keep, it's really not ruining phones keeping it. I will not purchase a phone without it.
The geek's stubborn rear-guard resistance not withstanding, I'm afraid the headphone jack is going the way of the parallel port and the Dodo. It's just one more cable and one more connector that no one wants to bother with any more.
Why respect copyright, when nothing will ever enter the public domain any more?
The streaming music service has 30 million tracks + text and graphics. CD quality or close enough. One-click access. Local storage as an option. Access across all devices. If I value my time at minimum wage, why in the name of god would I want to go back to trying to dredge something useful out of the P2P nets?
Entry into the public domain doesn't guarantee preservation and without preservation access is meaningless. The problem isn't the bit rot that may erode your collection of MP3s, it is the decay that destroys primary sources. Conservation at that level is damned expensive but the geek never talks about that very much because he might be asked to help pay for it.
Man sometimes people on here are like not in the real world.
After all these years, Slashdot can't bring itself to use a legit Windows logo --- and I half expect Slashdot to expire before the Windows OS. Posts about new hardware always read like adds and Linux systems are not exempt. Complaints that the mass market PC ships with Windows is about as productive as complaining that grass is green and the sky is blue.
LOL nobody uses H.265 in wide distribution because nobody can afford to with the multiple patent pool licensing. It's dead,
That will be news to people playing 4K video as streaming media or off 4K UHD Blu Ray video disks.
My problem with these isn't even the 'being tracked' issue, it's that the Government (state or federal) was not meant to be a revenue generation machine.
All modern governments are built on machines that generate revenue.. That is the only alternative to a forced draft of materials and labor. A strong federal government with independent sources of revenue was forged in the US because a loose confederation of states couldn't or wouldn't contribute enough money to keep the country afloat or do anything worthwhile like building a national system of roads and canals.
"With a modern PC, you have so much extra power, you don't need to be a hotshot programmer to make a game people love. You don't really have that convenience on any mobile platform, really, but especially not on our platform."
The hotshot programmer tends to deliver a tech demo, not a game.
That is why the Disney or Pixar movie with include end with 400 engineers credited in very fine print and 50 other creative talents given top billing. Script and story, Art design. Character design and animation. Vocal performance . Music and sound.
You generally don't start with the smallest possible action when you are planning more than one.
You tear down a man's defenses brick by brick. Winning the easy cases early on yields big dividends down the road. Lose and you learn from your mistakes. Why do you think every criminal prosecutor begins with the small fry?
How many do you subtract that were forced on unsuspecting users, users who didn't know any better, and users who weren't otherwise given a choice? Can we also subtract out businesses, who either didn't have a choice, either, and their employees, who weren't given a choice by their employers?
The geek has been posting variations of this rant since the launch of Slashdot. Windows took possession of the desktop along about Win 95 and never looked back. The fundamental reason is that the Windows PC is a mass market product easily customized for home and office use. You want 1500 thin clients for corporate use? No problem. Shopping Amazon.com for the high-end water cooled gaming machine? Also no problem.
Simply knowing COBOL isn't the deciding factor. Could I stomach being employed in the banking industry and facilitating the awful shit they pull?
Now you know why out-sourcing to countries with workers more interested in gainful employment than nursing old grievances makes good sense.
Unix solved most of the problems associated with an operating system
Unix solved most of the problems for the mainframe or minicomputer of the Jurassic era in computing. Not so much when the micro computer came into play.in the seventies and eighties ---- and system hardware had to be realistically mass market priced at $1500-$2500 ---- at a time when 5 MB of hard disk storage could cost something like $5000.
GM paid to have trolley car tracks ripped out.
The truth is that most trolley lines were in deep financial trouble before World War I.
The economics were roughly this. The Model T Ford cost about 5 cents a mile. 24/7/365 unscheduled point-to-the-point transportation for a family of four plus dog and cargo. 40 MPH on paved roads, but serviceable on the most ragged and rugged of dirt tracks. Light truck, bus and other conversions available almost from the start.
I've used both (Photoshop and GIMP) and GIMP doesn't even come close. Not even for Joe Non-Professional User.
OS and Photoshop licensing a tiny fraction of the cost of photo editing and graphic design at the professional level. Which is why Free-As-In-Beer or Free-As-In-Freedom counts for nothing.
I bike to work most days and don't consider any of that time "wasted" -- I spend less time in the gym and more time on my bike, and I look forward to the bike ride home.
The bike commute here is seasonal at best. With extreme conditions taking even the most youthful and vigorous cyclists off the road in both summer and winter. There are some fine trails available for recreational cyclists, for the daily commute, not so much.
IRC for "instant" communications among individuals and groups, and Usenet for public forums is why there is no need for Facebook, Twitter and other centrally-controlled systems so prone to censorship and similar abuses.
Let's be honest here. IRC and Usenet clients were --- and in many ways still are --- painfully arcane and riddled with geek jargon. Microsoft Chat, the IM messaging and chat rooms of online services like AOL were proof that ift didn't have to be this way.
Anyone with eyeballs. Just watch cars go by. 70-80% have a single occupant. That is "normal use".
That car will be quite usable, quite comfortable, to drive under all conditions, save the occasional wildfire fire, flood, earthquake, blizzard and so on. When you need passenger or cargo space, it will be there. When you need range, speed or acceleration, it will be there.
Oh really??? no shit!! 35mm film can be scanned at 4K , my mind is fucking blown.
There is more to restoration and editing for 4K HDR release than the mechanical process of scanning the master print of a film or secondary sources.
Along with the seasonal fireworks sale at our local Walmart was a not-half-bad selection of LPs ---- strategically positioned near the bleeding edge 4K UHD HDR brand name TVs, sound bars, steaming media boxes, video game consoles and so on, You can sell CDs, if you where and how to place them.
The appeal of subscription audio is straight-forward: Instant access to some twenty-five to thirty million tracks, ideally supplemented with subtly animated graphics and text, as an integrated part of a home theater system, this can work very well. Playlists are easy to build and easy to share. No junk files or viral payloads, no time wasted on the P2P nets.
Yes, because as we all know, airplane autopilots are totally designed to replace a pilot, and that's why we don't have pilots anymore.
The problem is that the general public isn't thinking DC3 when they here the the word "autopilot." They are thinking about the glass cockpit and automation of a 21st century jumbo jet.