You're looking at a bad investment then. Once self driving cars are truly autonomous, then Uber is dead. There will be way to many competitors. Not to mention, some cities may end up subsidizing a version as a means to supplement their train and bus infrastructure.
Yes, they're "doing great" in the sense of gaining market share, but that share is costing them and will quickly evaporate when the one thing that finally makes them profitable (autonomy) comes to fruition.
Get a Nexus or other generic AOSP type phone. Android isn't the problem, it's the crap software these larger vendors put on to try and differentiate their brand that ruin the platform. Generic Android with the play store is all you really want/need.
I'm not saying I don't agree. I'm just playing Devil's Advocate in the sense that it does have some measure of effect. Personally, the TV side of the industry is a bunch of morons. Post a torrent with the ads included. I think people are over dramatic about how much everyone hates ads. Look at the damage YouTube is doing to them (who pays for Red?). If I could subscribe to an RSS feed of legal TV show torrents that had included ads, I would totally jump on it. It would make everything so much easier. I get that they need to make money. I just get pissed when they want me to pay for the content AND watch the ads. Give us one, or the other.... or people will just keep skipping both. A combination of paid ad-free streaming, and ad-injected torrents would do some devastating damage to TV piracy.
For the Movies... I really don't know what to tell Hollywood there. Non-action movies really don't gain much from the theater experience and you can't really put in ads for those. Offering cheap streaming "rentals" is about the best I can come up with, but it's still just too easy to pirate those.
Does Music still have a real piracy problem? I imagine the majority of the masses just stream for free and pay for the few tracks they really like. Music is a perfect example of it being easier to just pay for the track than deal with piracy.
Is it futile? Because they play wak-a-mole, anyone with flexget or other automated scripts are down until they adjust to an appropriate mirror or alt service. The casual pirates (the billions downloading Game of Thrones) now also have to hunt through the hordes of scam/virus-bot mirrors until the field stabilizes again and a site with a good rep surfaces.... Of course then the mole gets whacked again.
It's about breaking the stability and ease. If piracy isn't worth the headache of researching sites and clearing infections, then you just may pay for legal services. It's like prostitution. You will never stop it. But, by arresting all the clean ones less people will do it. No one want the crack whore. I'm not saying KAT was clean... But she was a prettier option then many others.
Totally agree here. The only legitimate gripe for desktop Linux is that of the users with critical business apps and gamers.
For the first:
Maybe you should find another solution so your business isn't being run at the mercy of M$.
For the gamers:
Really? That's your argument that Linux isn't a viable desktop replacement? It does EVERYTHING except play a game. Best way to force their hand on that one is to move to Linux. Once their customer base moves, they'll support the platform. Developers will always follow the herd. That's the easier money.
Why isn't there an open API/source block chain system for this yet? Then you could just have an insane number of public portals or just host hour own private one.
What am I missing here?
the only people who seem to care about this case are trump supporters. his poll numbers are down which is why i'm seeing the memes on my facebook feed from trump supporters
What??? No... Pretty much every veteran that's ever handled classified materials understands this case and wants to watch her burn. I don't care that she's a woman, or a Democrat... and there is also no way I'm voting for that other ass-clown.
I just hope Gary Johnson can get some real visibility before Nov, because I really don't want to have to imagine this country under either of the other two.
Easy, a Raspberry Pi running LibreELEC ( a minimalistic Kodi install). I don't have any Windows PC, so I don't run Samba and only have NFS shares on my network. Works great.
Anything that supports Kodi will get the job done, so you could even get one of those cheap Android boxes that are like $20-$30 as well.
Don't you know, radio ISN'T fair... that's why cell phone's in the US don't have the FM radios enabled. Free, no data, and low battery usage.... clearly not fair and MUST be disabled in the firmware.
It's become less if a popularity contest and more of a lesser-of-two-evils contest, and Clinton is winning it.
I would say that. Clinton is far more evil than Trump. He's just completely incompetent. It's more like damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's the evil queen driving through the dark forest, or off-road 4-wheeling praying you don't roll and die.
The queen will consume your soul, but you may survive..... the other guy is sure to kill you.
Sorry sir, we no longer support that model (or your warranty doesn't cover software). We can service it for 90% of the cost of a new TV, or recommend some of our newer models.
It happens all the time. The problem is though, is that it's not a MASS shooting if the wacko is taken out quickly. If no one, or just a few people get hurt, the news hardly reports it.
As for the level or training... about 7% of the US population are military veterans. So if you have a group of even 15 people, then on average, one is trained Vet. Not to mention off duty law enforcement and other trained civilians.
As mentioned, most active shooting happen in gun free areas. If Chris Mintz had a gun, he probably would have been able to stop the Oregon community college shooter and also not been shot himself 7 times for trying without one.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
We don't need gun control, we need crazy people control.
You've clearly never worked retail. The cashier would call his friends to quickly "buy" up all the copies. This actually happens. Things get entered with a missed placed decimal.
The difference here, the merchandise is virtual so you never really own it, and because they can force the return, they do.
So is gross negligence. I can easily believe these idiots only maintained a years worth of backups and that there was no process in place to verify data integrity over time. It's a very common problem with government systems. They backup corrupted data and eventually no longer have a good version to record from.
This of course is when there actually is a backup to begin with. Often a productive underling will develop a system to make his job easier and it will grow into a poorly supported critical system. It's even worse in the DOD where the staff rotate every 3-5 years.
It's not just Echos. We've cut the cord and my kids use Roku's to watch most of their TV. Services like Hulu track all that garbage, but are making absolutely no effort to determine the viewers age. Netflix at least has age categories you can assign to profiles, but I don't see any COPPA parental control panel for the young kids. Its only to limit the catalog to the less sexual/violent media.
I'm sure their lawyers give them the "It's technically legal because it's just one account" thumbs up. But if Hulu is recommending to me to watch Daniel Tiger, then clearly my kids viewing data is being saved.
Saying it's the parents choice, is like saying its the parents choice to let kids use the Internet. My 9 year old daughter doesn't have a choice, her homework from school requires her to go to certain websites.
I'm not suggesting that COOPA is or isn't effective, or that further regulations are needed. I'm just pointing out that "parents choice" isn't a very valid argument.
I'm just calling it as I see it. She's a young women who went threw puberty all alone, trapped in a room. She wasn't taught social norms, or sexual boundaries. She would be hormone driven with no impulse control.
To be fair, it's not her fault... Her dad did the exact opposite of what the trolls advised.
On a side note: For the AC's replying about child molesting or school playgrounds... learn your characters. Elsa was 21 and Anna was 18.
Prude... If anything she's a freak. She probably masturbated incessantly for years in that room. She didn't have a computer, TV, of games to keep her occupied. There wasn't even any books if I recall. It would have been her only form of entertainment.
Then when she gets out, the first thing she does is slut up her outfit with that long slit up the leg. The giant ice monster probably had all those spikes because he was her snow version of some kind of multi-penis hentia sex slave. She probably has a back room in that castle full of giant ice dildos.
"someone in Pakistan" - AKA the guy at BuildTeam using TOR to make his DMCA claim look legit enough for Google to reject any appeals from the original poster.
The problem lies in the cost of the testing. The entire entertainment industry's legal force would be up against Google/YouTube. That's not a cheap fight. Which costs less, pissing off some mom/pop content producers that would lose their entire subscriber base if they switch services, or fight all of Hollywood?
Their motto may be "Don't be evil", but nothing in that says "Don't be a chicken shit to Hollywood." They know that if they paint a bulls-eye on their back, that they'll have so many injunctions and other debilitating orders that other services like Vine or Twitch will assume the model and take over. Then, even if they beat the corruption and win the Supreme Court, they still only serve as martyrs like Betamax.
Even if its on the same ports on the same servers and using encryption, the ISP will just need to set their throttling to kick in after a short delay. Then the speed tests will complete quickly, and the longer streaming video is still limited.
If you really want to test your speed, you pretty much need a private VPN with something like a Linode instance and openvpn. Of course then you have to account for the overhead of encryption and an extra hops; but at least you can rule out ISP shaping.
vBulletin supports gd by default, but it's no good for large files, and people taking photos on modern smart phones are posting HUGE images. ImageMagick is the quick fix. Its just a radio button to select it, and it fixes many of the resizing problems. Small forums that don't update their software as often as they should will be easily compromised by this for a while.
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You're looking at a bad investment then. Once self driving cars are truly autonomous, then Uber is dead. There will be way to many competitors. Not to mention, some cities may end up subsidizing a version as a means to supplement their train and bus infrastructure. Yes, they're "doing great" in the sense of gaining market share, but that share is costing them and will quickly evaporate when the one thing that finally makes them profitable (autonomy) comes to fruition.
Get a Nexus or other generic AOSP type phone. Android isn't the problem, it's the crap software these larger vendors put on to try and differentiate their brand that ruin the platform. Generic Android with the play store is all you really want/need.
Ditto to this. I was content with Uverse, but with 4 rokus streaming I had to switch to Time Warner. The data caps were a retarded idea.
I did, didn't I? Perhaps if they just stopped turning the screws on us, we'd be happy with the same old business model. :)
I'm not saying I don't agree. I'm just playing Devil's Advocate in the sense that it does have some measure of effect. Personally, the TV side of the industry is a bunch of morons. Post a torrent with the ads included. I think people are over dramatic about how much everyone hates ads. Look at the damage YouTube is doing to them (who pays for Red?). If I could subscribe to an RSS feed of legal TV show torrents that had included ads, I would totally jump on it. It would make everything so much easier. I get that they need to make money. I just get pissed when they want me to pay for the content AND watch the ads. Give us one, or the other.... or people will just keep skipping both. A combination of paid ad-free streaming, and ad-injected torrents would do some devastating damage to TV piracy. For the Movies... I really don't know what to tell Hollywood there. Non-action movies really don't gain much from the theater experience and you can't really put in ads for those. Offering cheap streaming "rentals" is about the best I can come up with, but it's still just too easy to pirate those. Does Music still have a real piracy problem? I imagine the majority of the masses just stream for free and pay for the few tracks they really like. Music is a perfect example of it being easier to just pay for the track than deal with piracy.
Is it futile? Because they play wak-a-mole, anyone with flexget or other automated scripts are down until they adjust to an appropriate mirror or alt service. The casual pirates (the billions downloading Game of Thrones) now also have to hunt through the hordes of scam/virus-bot mirrors until the field stabilizes again and a site with a good rep surfaces.... Of course then the mole gets whacked again. It's about breaking the stability and ease. If piracy isn't worth the headache of researching sites and clearing infections, then you just may pay for legal services. It's like prostitution. You will never stop it. But, by arresting all the clean ones less people will do it. No one want the crack whore. I'm not saying KAT was clean... But she was a prettier option then many others.
Totally agree here. The only legitimate gripe for desktop Linux is that of the users with critical business apps and gamers. For the first: Maybe you should find another solution so your business isn't being run at the mercy of M$. For the gamers: Really? That's your argument that Linux isn't a viable desktop replacement? It does EVERYTHING except play a game. Best way to force their hand on that one is to move to Linux. Once their customer base moves, they'll support the platform. Developers will always follow the herd. That's the easier money.
Why isn't there an open API/source block chain system for this yet? Then you could just have an insane number of public portals or just host hour own private one. What am I missing here?
the only people who seem to care about this case are trump supporters. his poll numbers are down which is why i'm seeing the memes on my facebook feed from trump supporters
What??? No... Pretty much every veteran that's ever handled classified materials understands this case and wants to watch her burn. I don't care that she's a woman, or a Democrat... and there is also no way I'm voting for that other ass-clown. I just hope Gary Johnson can get some real visibility before Nov, because I really don't want to have to imagine this country under either of the other two.
Easy, a Raspberry Pi running LibreELEC ( a minimalistic Kodi install). I don't have any Windows PC, so I don't run Samba and only have NFS shares on my network. Works great. Anything that supports Kodi will get the job done, so you could even get one of those cheap Android boxes that are like $20-$30 as well.
Don't you know, radio ISN'T fair... that's why cell phone's in the US don't have the FM radios enabled. Free, no data, and low battery usage.... clearly not fair and MUST be disabled in the firmware.
We are almost there... just a little further to go till full Wall-E http://www.peopleofwalmart.com...
It's become less if a popularity contest and more of a lesser-of-two-evils contest, and Clinton is winning it.
I would say that. Clinton is far more evil than Trump. He's just completely incompetent. It's more like damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's the evil queen driving through the dark forest, or off-road 4-wheeling praying you don't roll and die. The queen will consume your soul, but you may survive..... the other guy is sure to kill you.
Sorry sir, we no longer support that model (or your warranty doesn't cover software). We can service it for 90% of the cost of a new TV, or recommend some of our newer models.
It happens all the time. The problem is though, is that it's not a MASS shooting if the wacko is taken out quickly. If no one, or just a few people get hurt, the news hardly reports it. As for the level or training... about 7% of the US population are military veterans. So if you have a group of even 15 people, then on average, one is trained Vet. Not to mention off duty law enforcement and other trained civilians. As mentioned, most active shooting happen in gun free areas. If Chris Mintz had a gun, he probably would have been able to stop the Oregon community college shooter and also not been shot himself 7 times for trying without one. http://www.usatoday.com/story/... We don't need gun control, we need crazy people control.
You've clearly never worked retail. The cashier would call his friends to quickly "buy" up all the copies. This actually happens. Things get entered with a missed placed decimal. The difference here, the merchandise is virtual so you never really own it, and because they can force the return, they do.
So is gross negligence. I can easily believe these idiots only maintained a years worth of backups and that there was no process in place to verify data integrity over time. It's a very common problem with government systems. They backup corrupted data and eventually no longer have a good version to record from. This of course is when there actually is a backup to begin with. Often a productive underling will develop a system to make his job easier and it will grow into a poorly supported critical system. It's even worse in the DOD where the staff rotate every 3-5 years.
It's not just Echos. We've cut the cord and my kids use Roku's to watch most of their TV. Services like Hulu track all that garbage, but are making absolutely no effort to determine the viewers age. Netflix at least has age categories you can assign to profiles, but I don't see any COPPA parental control panel for the young kids. Its only to limit the catalog to the less sexual/violent media. I'm sure their lawyers give them the "It's technically legal because it's just one account" thumbs up. But if Hulu is recommending to me to watch Daniel Tiger, then clearly my kids viewing data is being saved. Saying it's the parents choice, is like saying its the parents choice to let kids use the Internet. My 9 year old daughter doesn't have a choice, her homework from school requires her to go to certain websites. I'm not suggesting that COOPA is or isn't effective, or that further regulations are needed. I'm just pointing out that "parents choice" isn't a very valid argument.
I'm just calling it as I see it. She's a young women who went threw puberty all alone, trapped in a room. She wasn't taught social norms, or sexual boundaries. She would be hormone driven with no impulse control. To be fair, it's not her fault... Her dad did the exact opposite of what the trolls advised. On a side note: For the AC's replying about child molesting or school playgrounds... learn your characters. Elsa was 21 and Anna was 18.
Prude... If anything she's a freak. She probably masturbated incessantly for years in that room. She didn't have a computer, TV, of games to keep her occupied. There wasn't even any books if I recall. It would have been her only form of entertainment. Then when she gets out, the first thing she does is slut up her outfit with that long slit up the leg. The giant ice monster probably had all those spikes because he was her snow version of some kind of multi-penis hentia sex slave. She probably has a back room in that castle full of giant ice dildos.
"someone in Pakistan" - AKA the guy at BuildTeam using TOR to make his DMCA claim look legit enough for Google to reject any appeals from the original poster.
I think Fitbit, and the exploding wearable's market in general would disagree with you there.
The problem lies in the cost of the testing. The entire entertainment industry's legal force would be up against Google/YouTube. That's not a cheap fight. Which costs less, pissing off some mom/pop content producers that would lose their entire subscriber base if they switch services, or fight all of Hollywood? Their motto may be "Don't be evil", but nothing in that says "Don't be a chicken shit to Hollywood." They know that if they paint a bulls-eye on their back, that they'll have so many injunctions and other debilitating orders that other services like Vine or Twitch will assume the model and take over. Then, even if they beat the corruption and win the Supreme Court, they still only serve as martyrs like Betamax.
Even if its on the same ports on the same servers and using encryption, the ISP will just need to set their throttling to kick in after a short delay. Then the speed tests will complete quickly, and the longer streaming video is still limited. If you really want to test your speed, you pretty much need a private VPN with something like a Linode instance and openvpn. Of course then you have to account for the overhead of encryption and an extra hops; but at least you can rule out ISP shaping.
vBulletin supports gd by default, but it's no good for large files, and people taking photos on modern smart phones are posting HUGE images. ImageMagick is the quick fix. Its just a radio button to select it, and it fixes many of the resizing problems. Small forums that don't update their software as often as they should will be easily compromised by this for a while.