>> Apple doesn't honestly have anything to lose other than this silly public spat they created.
You're not seeing the global picture. Most of Apple's business is not in the US. If Apple bend over for US government then what do you think is going to happen in all the other markets, especially places with governments like China's.
Are you REALLY still feeling warm and fuzzy about putting everything into Microsofts cloud, and believing Windows 10 isn't really spying on you, and that Microsoft aren't fundamentally aligned to sell out your private data at the first opportunity?
She's probably also a creationist that believes in the healing power of crystals and homeopathy, and checks her horoscope every day. If it wasn't for people like her there wouldn't be McDonalds employees or email spam.
I always test a new release by putting it on all our production servers, then if there are no complaints, I know its good enough for my personal laptop.
>> They imagine that all the public will buy this reason;
In the scenario you paint, I really don't think the US government would give a shit about what people think. They know they can get away with pretty much anything, partly because they have more guns than anyone else, and partly because most Americans have been so brainwashed they will always just shout "Go Murika", especially if the media is telling them to.
I'm seriously wondering if this whole thing could really just be a giant PR/marketing exercise by Apple, when in fact they are already complying with the NSA?
the Apple store guardians actually saw through it straight away but decided to let it through anyway since it actually promotes free speech/Apple's own agenda and because its a 3rd party app, it gives them plausible deniability.
I hope he already knows that the difference between what promises they will make to get him to the US, and what they will actually do after they have him in custody, are two totally different things.
Stuff sells on ebay for at least the minimum price the seller puts on their auction, or whatever lower offer they themselves choose to accept. You get my point? Its the seller not the buyer that completely determines the minimum price they will accept.
If women are on average getting less money than men for the exact same products, that clearly means women are either setting their minimum price too low or are more prepared to accept lowball offers.
The only possible valid conclusion from this report is that on average, women are actually worse at business than men.
I guess it depends on what you can get OTA in your location, and what your tastes are, but I'm very pleased with the general intellectual level and programming quality that PBS offers. Its WAY above literally anything the cable channels offer. Also there's some pretty good shows on The CW (such as The 100), and some great retro stuff to be had too. Some of the retro stuff doesn't hold up at all, but until recently when they started airing it again, I'd quite forgotten how good the Miami Vice story lines actually were and it still looks good (IMHO) assuming you can mentally blank out all the shoulder pads and puffy hairdos, (and thats just the men).
If like most cable subscribers, you get internet and something more than basic TV over your cable you're probably paying well over $100/month. I suspect cablecards are really not expensive for the cable company to bu, maybe $10? IT seems like a negligible one-time cost compared to what the customer pays every month tp get the channels it enables.
I don't know where you get the higher quality from. They lossily compress the hell out of most cable channels. OTA brodacasts are WAAAY better than anything over cable. The way they compress stuff currently, the only point of 4k via cable is so it looks good on paper to people who don't know any better.
eah OK last time I checked, Cox were charging $15/month, which is why I said what I did. I just checked now, its 1.99/month which is far more reasonable. I guess all the cable-cutters have had a real impact.
Its not only easy to build your own DVR, it gives you a great solution. At home I have a linux-based media PC running mythtv with a Digital tuner card plugged into an antenna. and it works great. The picture quality is better than cable (OTA is much less agressive with the lossy compression), I can stream both live and pre-recorded TV, and (cough)ripped movies and music(/cough) all over the house, and anywhere in the world to my cell phone from it. Other than intiai setup costs, its totally free going forward. If you want to keep paying for cable because of the extra content, you can even do a lot of premium cable except for DRM'd stuff with it by getting an hd homerun and a cable card.
It seems clear that the whole need for a set top box is artificial, and that it s actually just another mechanism to justify the cable company adding another fee to your cable bill.
All TVs already come with digital tuners, so serious question: Why can't they just legislate that cable companies have to supply standard QAM to the consumer, then we can do away with the whole stupid intermediate box thing entirely, and all the extra power/heat/cables/remotes that it requires and consumes too.
Except you can never buy the cable card, the cable company "rents" it to you at the same price that a cable box would cost to rent. Its money for old rope. Its just an artificial dependency who's only purpose is to scam you out of another $15/month or whatever.
Spot the irony here? The Polish government are using the law to supress/enforce what they want the people to think... which is a move directly from the Nazis own playbook.
I find it VERY concerning when software tools and even laws are made with the intention of preventing certain language from ever being written. Its clearly a win for "political correctthink" rather than actually free speech.
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Yaay go France. I wish the UK had more balls.
Alternatively maybe I can now "agree to pay" about 100th of my UK tax bill. and If not, why not?
>> Apple doesn't honestly have anything to lose other than this silly public spat they created.
You're not seeing the global picture. Most of Apple's business is not in the US. If Apple bend over for US government then what do you think is going to happen in all the other markets, especially places with governments like China's.
Because by then, PS4 and XBone will be 4 year old technology.
Are you REALLY still feeling warm and fuzzy about putting everything into Microsofts cloud, and believing Windows 10 isn't really spying on you, and that Microsoft aren't fundamentally aligned to sell out your private data at the first opportunity?
She's probably also a creationist that believes in the healing power of crystals and homeopathy, and checks her horoscope every day.
If it wasn't for people like her there wouldn't be McDonalds employees or email spam.
>> the real misinformation would be continuing to spread the lie that CO2 will have a significant impact on temperature increase,
Is this some attempt at humour that I'm just not getting, or do you _actually_ believe that CO2 is having no significant impact?
http://climate.nasa.gov/causes...
http://www3.epa.gov/climatecha...
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessm...
I always test a new release by putting it on all our production servers, then if there are no complaints, I know its good enough for my personal laptop.
>> They imagine that all the public will buy this reason;
In the scenario you paint, I really don't think the US government would give a shit about what people think. They know they can get away with pretty much anything, partly because they have more guns than anyone else, and partly because most Americans have been so brainwashed they will always just shout "Go Murika", especially if the media is telling them to.
What makes you think the Attorney General would actually be independent and not already on the governments side?
I'm seriously wondering if this whole thing could really just be a giant PR/marketing exercise by Apple, when in fact they are already complying with the NSA?
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
the Apple store guardians actually saw through it straight away but decided to let it through anyway since it actually promotes free speech/Apple's own agenda and because its a 3rd party app, it gives them plausible deniability.
I hope he already knows that the difference between what promises they will make to get him to the US, and what they will actually do after they have him in custody, are two totally different things.
Stuff sells on ebay for at least the minimum price the seller puts on their auction, or whatever lower offer they themselves choose to accept.
You get my point? Its the seller not the buyer that completely determines the minimum price they will accept.
If women are on average getting less money than men for the exact same products, that clearly means women are either setting their minimum price too low or are more prepared to accept lowball offers.
The only possible valid conclusion from this report is that on average, women are actually worse at business than men.
it could actually play in time.
I guess it depends on what you can get OTA in your location, and what your tastes are, but I'm very pleased with the general intellectual level and programming quality that PBS offers. Its WAY above literally anything the cable channels offer. Also there's some pretty good shows on The CW (such as The 100), and some great retro stuff to be had too. Some of the retro stuff doesn't hold up at all, but until recently when they started airing it again, I'd quite forgotten how good the Miami Vice story lines actually were and it still looks good (IMHO) assuming you can mentally blank out all the shoulder pads and puffy hairdos, (and thats just the men).
If like most cable subscribers, you get internet and something more than basic TV over your cable you're probably paying well over $100/month. I suspect cablecards are really not expensive for the cable company to bu, maybe $10? IT seems like a negligible one-time cost compared to what the customer pays every month tp get the channels it enables.
That sounds like an oversight by Comcast in your case, not general policy:
https://www.reddit.com/r/cordc...
Did you get your Tivo from them? Maybe it was an already used one that they forgot to remove the cablecard from.
I would keep quiet about it if I were you.
I don't know where you get the higher quality from. They lossily compress the hell out of most cable channels.
OTA brodacasts are WAAAY better than anything over cable. The way they compress stuff currently, the only point of 4k via cable is so it looks good on paper to people who don't know any better.
>> You should do some new research.
eah OK last time I checked, Cox were charging $15/month, which is why I said what I did. I just checked now, its 1.99/month which is far more reasonable. I guess all the cable-cutters have had a real impact.
OK but my point is that you're still paying $5 a month for it.
Its not only easy to build your own DVR, it gives you a great solution.
At home I have a linux-based media PC running mythtv with a Digital tuner card plugged into an antenna. and it works great. The picture quality is better than cable (OTA is much less agressive with the lossy compression), I can stream both live and pre-recorded TV, and (cough)ripped movies and music(/cough) all over the house, and anywhere in the world to my cell phone from it. Other than intiai setup costs, its totally free going forward.
If you want to keep paying for cable because of the extra content, you can even do a lot of premium cable except for DRM'd stuff with it by getting an hd homerun and a cable card.
It seems clear that the whole need for a set top box is artificial, and that it s actually just another mechanism to justify the cable company adding another fee to your cable bill.
All TVs already come with digital tuners, so serious question: Why can't they just legislate that cable companies have to supply standard QAM to the consumer, then we can do away with the whole stupid intermediate box thing entirely, and all the extra power/heat/cables/remotes that it requires and consumes too.
Except you can never buy the cable card, the cable company "rents" it to you at the same price that a cable box would cost to rent.
Its money for old rope. Its just an artificial dependency who's only purpose is to scam you out of another $15/month or whatever.
Whatever I am or not, at least I'm not a childish dick like you.
Spot the irony here? The Polish government are using the law to supress/enforce what they want the people to think... which is a move directly from the Nazis own playbook.
I find it VERY concerning when software tools and even laws are made with the intention of preventing certain language from ever being written. Its clearly a win for "political correctthink" rather than actually free speech.