back in the day. Media companies grew on the backs of and money stolen from record labels.
FTFY. There wasn't shit to be made on those pissant streams back then, so once the labels took their cut of whatever they would have gotten, the artists would have seen shit.
Now that new media companies are maturing, many of those artists actually are seeing some money. I can't cry too much over someone who is essentially a pimp losing out on a little cash in the beginning only to make a shit-ton more from it later.
Show some respect for this Internet you've got: you could lose it.
Stop being so dramatic. That ship has sailed, long ago. We have pervasive TCP/IP support in every device, literally from toasters and refrigerators on up to big-iron servers. Internetworked communications aren't going anywhere. We might have to route around assholes like you who want censorship-disguised-as-couth, but the network will be fine.
That being said, I don't disagree that keyboard muscles seem to grow a lot faster these days, but singling out "The_Donald" for example is disingenuous and you know it. Everyone on the internet, from far-left communists and fascists to right-wing tinfoil hat nutters use the ban button as their method of choice when dealing with opinions and facts they don't want to hear. Keeping your mouth shut is of course a virtue sometimes, but being forced by some borg enterprise to shut your mouth with no recourse is something else entirely.
I'm not sure why, but leftists especially seem to think that not saying something because you're level-headed and being shut down by force are somehow equal.
"Social Media stars" (whatever the fuck they are), and would like to see them all put in prison on charges of assisting cultural suicide, no one should be compelled to give up evidence that incriminates themselves, ever. It's a basic right. Rights aren't granted by the government, but you wouldn't know it from how out of fucking control they are these days.
since America is one of the only places that uses CDMA for cell phones, it makes it a uniquely American problem.
Wrong. Qualcomm's patents definitely extend past their proprietary IS-95 and CDMA2000-based systems. 3G GSM using WCDMA and 4G LTE all depend to some extent on Qualcomm's intellectual propertly.
Sure, to use the OP's example, Samsung pays a lot less to Qualcomm by developing their own 3G/4G modem chipsets rather than sourcing them directly, but it's not like Qualcomm was stupid enough to cut themselves out of the game completely. In short, they aren't going anywhere for a good long while even after CDMA2000 is a page in the history books.
While you're technically correct, LTE has approximately zero things in common with plain-jane 2G GSM from an air-interface perspective.
3G GSM/UMTS uses a Wideband CDMA interface, and you'd better believe there are some Qualcomm patents involved there. 4G LTE is an OFDMA based technology, and Qualcomm definitely has some (albeit less) intellectual property involved there as well.
In short, Qualcomm is going to have less weight to throw around going forward, but it's definitely a non-zero amount of influence.
Unless you happen to live in the United States, where the CDMA networks are by far and away the most universal and ubiquitous mode of wireless communication.
You'll get your wish around 2020 when Verizon sunsets their CDMA2000 network, and we'll all be worse off because the LTE coverage won't match what we have today, just like when AMPS (another terrible, horrible proprietary technology) was turned down and the coverage never caught up with what we had originally.
While I don't believe for a second that the NSA is going to stop collecting ANYTHING, if it does happen to be true I really don't care WHAT motivation is behind innocent citizens being spied on less, as long as innocent citizens are spied on less.
The Trump administration, and every previous administration. And every administration of every government across the globe, worldwide. And every administration of each of those governments since their inception. Every government ever puts out propaganda and bullshit.
Your user ID is low enough that I can't possibly believe that you're just now, in 2017, coming to the realization that governments are all-propaganda-all-the-time. Do you expect people who want to control you to be forthcoming and honest about their intentions, ever?
I'm really not knocking someone who enjoys sports. But shouldn't there be a line in the sand? How much will people really take?
If no one ever speaks up, they keep pushing and taking more and more. Part of my personal path to happiness is leaving a better world for the next generation than the one I was thrown into. A dystopian surveillance state is not better.
Besides, are you implying that one should only care about things that personally affect him right this second? If that's the case, I suppose I should just leave my family behind, go buy a Hummer, and spend the rest of my days eating double-cheeseburgers and partying with hookers and blow. Because if my family starves and the Earth cooks itself, well, that's not personally my problem, right?
grow up to be schizotypical wingnuts who eventually try to get into Congress with a backpack full of hand grenades to save us from the Liberal Muslim FEMA Conspiracy.
You know, I was interested in reading what you had to say until you were compelled to go take a thread about a medical condition and somehow manage to interject bullshit partisan political stereotypes into it.
Everyone knows the qualcomm LTE modems are better under optimal conditions but I feel Apple is more interested in providing a constant experience across it's platform.
That's the problem, under optimal conditions the performance IS consistent between the two modems. However, as the signal level starts to drop, the Intel modem's performance drops off a cliff. It's the real-world experience that suffers using Intel modems, not the lab tests.
I understand Apple's desire to cheap out on the modems to squeeze a dime from a business perspective. However, they position the iPhone as a premium product and using sub-par chips that provide sub-par performance will give consumers the opposite idea. If Apple was concerned with having a consistent user experience, they wouldn't be using Intel modems at all.
But there should also be a "second tier". Where content that doesn't meet the mommy-government-happy-shiny standard of acceptability, and your second-tier advertisers, the ones who can't afford to advertise on the sanitized channels, can still get their advertising out there (albeit at a lower cost).
Considering all of these systems are automated anyway, Google doesn't have anything to lose and it can be a win for free speech as well as small business, as people with a message the government or Verizon or whoever doesn't like can still monetize their content and the little guy still gets his ads out.
But I'm sure that will never happen. In 2017, opinions different from yours are "hate/racist/extremist" and don't deserve to be seen by anyone, let alone monetized, and that's what all this hubbub is really about: Google and Big Tech quashing free speech as usual. Same shit, different day.
There never really was any regulation. The FCC passed regulations (which many people saw as overstepping their bounds), which would have prevented the ISPs from selling customer data without authorization. This regulation was never enforced. But in effect, it just would have been another line in the TOS that you agree to it, and if you have no other choice for internet service, what are you going to do?
At any rate, it would be an FTC issue, not an FCC issue. All repealing the regulation did was keep the internet functioning the same way it has been since its inception. Ooh, scary, huh?!
Not to mention that the Facebooks and Googles of the world were never affected by this and could still sell any data they wish, so this just levels the playing field between different internet companies who are already doing much more nefarious things with your data.
The point of the incessant media coverage, however, was precisely to piss people off over essentially nothing because they are pushing a political agenda, and sites like this one and many news outlets want to whip up any fervor they can over the Trump administration, essentially numbing people to their wolf crying, so a few years into the administration, they'll have carte blanche to do anything and no one will care, because of "WOLF!!! WOLFFFFF!!!!!!!" every time some non-issue pops up that the mentally ill see as an impeachable offense.
If a group of people has been told by leftists their entire life that they can't get a job because of their skin color (or sexual preference/orientation, religion, whatever), they then develop a chip on their shoulder about their skin color, and are then unable to obtain a job because of their skin color.
If those same groups of people would just stop listening to leftists, they could break the feedback loop and find success.
So true. In fact, if I were CEO of IBM, I'd make it publicly known that I literally used their petition as toilet paper and tell them to get back to fucking work. If you don't like your job, quit.
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Wow, an obvious troll with "Go fuck yourself" in bold is modded +2. Speaks volumes about this place's agenda.
back in the day. Media companies grew on the backs of and money stolen from record labels.
FTFY. There wasn't shit to be made on those pissant streams back then, so once the labels took their cut of whatever they would have gotten, the artists would have seen shit.
Now that new media companies are maturing, many of those artists actually are seeing some money. I can't cry too much over someone who is essentially a pimp losing out on a little cash in the beginning only to make a shit-ton more from it later.
Show some respect for this Internet you've got: you could lose it.
Stop being so dramatic. That ship has sailed, long ago. We have pervasive TCP/IP support in every device, literally from toasters and refrigerators on up to big-iron servers. Internetworked communications aren't going anywhere. We might have to route around assholes like you who want censorship-disguised-as-couth, but the network will be fine.
That being said, I don't disagree that keyboard muscles seem to grow a lot faster these days, but singling out "The_Donald" for example is disingenuous and you know it. Everyone on the internet, from far-left communists and fascists to right-wing tinfoil hat nutters use the ban button as their method of choice when dealing with opinions and facts they don't want to hear. Keeping your mouth shut is of course a virtue sometimes, but being forced by some borg enterprise to shut your mouth with no recourse is something else entirely.
I'm not sure why, but leftists especially seem to think that not saying something because you're level-headed and being shut down by force are somehow equal.
Anything to deflect the blame anywhere else but themselves. Liberals really ARE just like small children. Wonder what next month's excuse will be?
"Social Media stars" (whatever the fuck they are), and would like to see them all put in prison on charges of assisting cultural suicide, no one should be compelled to give up evidence that incriminates themselves, ever. It's a basic right. Rights aren't granted by the government, but you wouldn't know it from how out of fucking control they are these days.
since America is one of the only places that uses CDMA for cell phones, it makes it a uniquely American problem.
Wrong. Qualcomm's patents definitely extend past their proprietary IS-95 and CDMA2000-based systems. 3G GSM using WCDMA and 4G LTE all depend to some extent on Qualcomm's intellectual propertly.
Sure, to use the OP's example, Samsung pays a lot less to Qualcomm by developing their own 3G/4G modem chipsets rather than sourcing them directly, but it's not like Qualcomm was stupid enough to cut themselves out of the game completely. In short, they aren't going anywhere for a good long while even after CDMA2000 is a page in the history books.
While you're technically correct, LTE has approximately zero things in common with plain-jane 2G GSM from an air-interface perspective.
3G GSM/UMTS uses a Wideband CDMA interface, and you'd better believe there are some Qualcomm patents involved there. 4G LTE is an OFDMA based technology, and Qualcomm definitely has some (albeit less) intellectual property involved there as well.
In short, Qualcomm is going to have less weight to throw around going forward, but it's definitely a non-zero amount of influence.
This explains it a little bit more in-depth
Unless you happen to live in the United States, where the CDMA networks are by far and away the most universal and ubiquitous mode of wireless communication.
You'll get your wish around 2020 when Verizon sunsets their CDMA2000 network, and we'll all be worse off because the LTE coverage won't match what we have today, just like when AMPS (another terrible, horrible proprietary technology) was turned down and the coverage never caught up with what we had originally.
While I don't believe for a second that the NSA is going to stop collecting ANYTHING, if it does happen to be true I really don't care WHAT motivation is behind innocent citizens being spied on less, as long as innocent citizens are spied on less.
The Trump administration, and every previous administration. And every administration of every government across the globe, worldwide. And every administration of each of those governments since their inception. Every government ever puts out propaganda and bullshit.
Your user ID is low enough that I can't possibly believe that you're just now, in 2017, coming to the realization that governments are all-propaganda-all-the-time. Do you expect people who want to control you to be forthcoming and honest about their intentions, ever?
I'm really not knocking someone who enjoys sports. But shouldn't there be a line in the sand? How much will people really take?
If no one ever speaks up, they keep pushing and taking more and more. Part of my personal path to happiness is leaving a better world for the next generation than the one I was thrown into. A dystopian surveillance state is not better.
Besides, are you implying that one should only care about things that personally affect him right this second? If that's the case, I suppose I should just leave my family behind, go buy a Hummer, and spend the rest of my days eating double-cheeseburgers and partying with hookers and blow. Because if my family starves and the Earth cooks itself, well, that's not personally my problem, right?
Stop watching sports, turn off the TV. Period. It's the only language these fuckers understand-losing money.
Hit them where it hurts, make sure you don't spend one dime on any of their products or events.
Distractionball is only there to keep your mind off of what the elites are really doing, anyway.
This about sums it up.
If I want to use a smartphone, but can't stand Apple or Google, what do I do?
No, he probably just meant braindead liberals like yourself. You know, the ones always projecting their racism onto everyone else?
grow up to be schizotypical wingnuts who eventually try to get into Congress with a backpack full of hand grenades to save us from the Liberal Muslim FEMA Conspiracy.
You know, I was interested in reading what you had to say until you were compelled to go take a thread about a medical condition and somehow manage to interject bullshit partisan political stereotypes into it.
Found the SJW!
Everyone knows the qualcomm LTE modems are better under optimal conditions but I feel Apple is more interested in providing a constant experience across it's platform.
That's the problem, under optimal conditions the performance IS consistent between the two modems. However, as the signal level starts to drop, the Intel modem's performance drops off a cliff. It's the real-world experience that suffers using Intel modems, not the lab tests.
I understand Apple's desire to cheap out on the modems to squeeze a dime from a business perspective. However, they position the iPhone as a premium product and using sub-par chips that provide sub-par performance will give consumers the opposite idea. If Apple was concerned with having a consistent user experience, they wouldn't be using Intel modems at all.
Again, the two parties are not the same: one fights for right, and one fights for evil.
My fuck do I wish I had such a simplistic world view as you. Nothing is black and white, you'll learn that when you become an adult.
The iPhone 7 doesn't even have a physical home button! It's a touch-sensitive spot on the bottom of the fucking glass!
How would you go about "replacing" it anyway? Fake news.
I'd say your system would be a start.
But there should also be a "second tier". Where content that doesn't meet the mommy-government-happy-shiny standard of acceptability, and your second-tier advertisers, the ones who can't afford to advertise on the sanitized channels, can still get their advertising out there (albeit at a lower cost).
Considering all of these systems are automated anyway, Google doesn't have anything to lose and it can be a win for free speech as well as small business, as people with a message the government or Verizon or whoever doesn't like can still monetize their content and the little guy still gets his ads out.
But I'm sure that will never happen. In 2017, opinions different from yours are "hate/racist/extremist" and don't deserve to be seen by anyone, let alone monetized, and that's what all this hubbub is really about: Google and Big Tech quashing free speech as usual. Same shit, different day.
Unfortunate but acceptable.
Well, your username checks out.
There never really was any regulation. The FCC passed regulations (which many people saw as overstepping their bounds), which would have prevented the ISPs from selling customer data without authorization. This regulation was never enforced. But in effect, it just would have been another line in the TOS that you agree to it, and if you have no other choice for internet service, what are you going to do?
At any rate, it would be an FTC issue, not an FCC issue. All repealing the regulation did was keep the internet functioning the same way it has been since its inception. Ooh, scary, huh?!
Not to mention that the Facebooks and Googles of the world were never affected by this and could still sell any data they wish, so this just levels the playing field between different internet companies who are already doing much more nefarious things with your data.
The point of the incessant media coverage, however, was precisely to piss people off over essentially nothing because they are pushing a political agenda, and sites like this one and many news outlets want to whip up any fervor they can over the Trump administration, essentially numbing people to their wolf crying, so a few years into the administration, they'll have carte blanche to do anything and no one will care, because of "WOLF!!! WOLFFFFF!!!!!!!" every time some non-issue pops up that the mentally ill see as an impeachable offense.
Oh yes, because sexually abusing a child is pretty much just as bad as casually infringing on copyright for personal use.
If a group of people has been told by leftists their entire life that they can't get a job because of their skin color (or sexual preference/orientation, religion, whatever), they then develop a chip on their shoulder about their skin color, and are then unable to obtain a job because of their skin color.
If those same groups of people would just stop listening to leftists, they could break the feedback loop and find success.
So true. In fact, if I were CEO of IBM, I'd make it publicly known that I literally used their petition as toilet paper and tell them to get back to fucking work. If you don't like your job, quit.