The USA doesn't charge to receive text messages if you pay extra per month for an unmetered text message plan.
Every plan that I can find, postpaid anyway, with the major carriers, offer unlimited text and talk.
I'm on pay-as-you-go. I was including postpaid plans, which generally run far more expensive than that, in "pay extra per month for an unmetered text message plan".
pretty much every plan does come with a couple of hundred texts
Some carriers, such as Virgin Mobile, still offer pure pay-as-you-go plans that charge per minute and per text. I guess these are intended for people who have a separate house phone, especially one shared with another member of the household, and thus don't need to use the cell phone as a primary incoming contact method.
So perhaps one could buy a tablet, use Google Authenticator on that, and use it as an excuse to shun services that fail to support Google Authenticator.
I thought they already had, first with the Atari Jaguar, then with the Nintendo 64, and finally with the AMD Jaguar processor in the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles.
Seriously, if your project is running out of memory while building then maybe the problem is with the project.
That ship sailed in December 2011, when the Firefox web browser became too large to build with profile-guided whole-program optimization without exceeding 3 GB. See Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows.
The USA doesn't charge to receive text messages if you pay extra per month for an unmetered text message plan. But not everyone uses text messages heavily enough outside 2FA to justify paying for such a plan.
Tax rent and interest income increasingly until it is impossible to actually profit just from owning things
There'd need to be some mechanism to discourage the owner of a particular piece of property, be it land, RF spectrum, copyright, or patent, from sitting on this property and not generating income from it. In the entertainment industry, for example, it's common for a copyright owner not to distribute certain old works because they would compete with the same publisher's newer works. I imagine that this sort of hoarding causes a deadweight loss to the economy.
are you suggesting that Europe is responsible for delayed DVD releases?
In some cases yes. Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea is the English dub of a French animated series. The original series has been released on French DVD around 2000, but the English dub has never been released on North American DVD.
Actually it was the Africans such as the Egyptians, with things like their wheeled chariots, irrigation and other things that came from civilization
Granted. But nowadays northern Africa is more closely associated with the "Middle East" brand than with the "Africa" brand. So that narrows the question going forward: What impressive tech or philosophy came out of sub-Saharan Africa before European contact?
The DVD-Video standard requires players to implement UOP, which allows discs to specify that a certain control shall cause the player to display the letter Ø in the corner of the screen for five seconds instead of performing the requested action. It was intended to make copyright notices unskippable, but distributors have abused it to make advertisements unskippable.
Apple IIGS and Super Nintendo Entertainment System are probably the best-known consumer products with a 65816. The IIGS has a standalone '816; the Super NES has a Ricoh 5A22, which puts a licensed '816 core on the same die as a custom memory controller for the DMA functionality that kept pace with Sega's "Blast Processing".
I hardly consider ITunes an option. You have to have itunes on a computer and then remove the DRM to play on your tv
Or have iTunes on the computer and connect the PC's DVI-D or HDMI out to the TV's HDMI in. Or have iTunes on the computer and connect the PC's VGA out to the TV's VGA in. Or buy an Apple TV device. How is the last of these "not really consumer friendly"?
My economics question is why back catalog movies which have been released on disc can't be purchased as downloads.
A lot of film producers' hands are tied by contracts with upstream licensors (such as the author and publisher of a novel adapted into a film or the performer, record label, songwriter, and music publisher of music used in the film) or with cast and crew unions whose members work on a residual basis rather than a "work made for hire" basis. Not all such contracts that provide for a home video release also provide for selling downloads. DVD early on had a similar problem with older films whose home video contracts were written for particular formats ("VHS and Beta" or "videotape") rather than generically enough to include DVD.
I'm guessing these titles aren't exactly burning up the sales charts and that a budget licensing deal for streaming on back catalog title to a streaming provider would be revenue they mostly wouldn't expect to get from a DVD.
For one thing, it can be expensive to gather all stakeholders (again, upstream licensors and any cast or crew promised residuals) for a contract negotiation. For another, old movies compete with the same studio's newer products.
So if countries require films to be exhibited in the official language as a condition of being shown in a country, how do you propose to make dozens of dubs before a film sees one dollar of revenue? And if countries place a quota on imported films to encourage the local film industry, how do you propose to re-produce films with local cast, crew, and sets?
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The USA doesn't charge to receive text messages if you pay extra per month for an unmetered text message plan.
Every plan that I can find, postpaid anyway, with the major carriers, offer unlimited text and talk.
I'm on pay-as-you-go. I was including postpaid plans, which generally run far more expensive than that, in "pay extra per month for an unmetered text message plan".
Move out of a country that allows such an idiotic practice.
Emigration is even more expensive than receiving SMS.
What if I choose to spam you like hell?
Your spam campaign may end up hitting someone willing to see you in court.
Send feedback to sites that only allow SMS 2FA and ask them to implement TOTP.
Such feedback has been sent, but site operators are under no obligation to honor it.
what the fuck are you doing that doesn't make you enough money to get a proper phone plan?
For some, it involves having been automated out of a job while residing and holding citizenship in a country that does not provide universal basic income.
Not all services that offer 2FA accept TOTP (RFC 6238). Many insist on SMS with a unique number per account, such as Twitter.
pretty much every plan does come with a couple of hundred texts
Some carriers, such as Virgin Mobile, still offer pure pay-as-you-go plans that charge per minute and per text. I guess these are intended for people who have a separate house phone, especially one shared with another member of the household, and thus don't need to use the cell phone as a primary incoming contact method.
So perhaps one could buy a tablet, use Google Authenticator on that, and use it as an excuse to shun services that fail to support Google Authenticator.
Games need to catch up to 64-bit land.
I thought they already had, first with the Atari Jaguar, then with the Nintendo 64, and finally with the AMD Jaguar processor in the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles.
Seriously, if your project is running out of memory while building then maybe the problem is with the project.
That ship sailed in December 2011, when the Firefox web browser became too large to build with profile-guided whole-program optimization without exceeding 3 GB. See Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows.
just pay for the text message?
That can cost hundreds of dollars per year.
just use a second website (or even an email) to re-authenticate?
The context was authenticating to email.
Legal emigration is far more expensive than an unmetered SMS rider.
The USA doesn't charge to receive text messages if you pay extra per month for an unmetered text message plan. But not everyone uses text messages heavily enough outside 2FA to justify paying for such a plan.
Use 2-Factor authentication wherever possible, especially your email address
What's a good way to do that in countries where it is common practice for cellular carriers to charge per received text message?
Tax rent and interest income increasingly until it is impossible to actually profit just from owning things
There'd need to be some mechanism to discourage the owner of a particular piece of property, be it land, RF spectrum, copyright, or patent, from sitting on this property and not generating income from it. In the entertainment industry, for example, it's common for a copyright owner not to distribute certain old works because they would compete with the same publisher's newer works. I imagine that this sort of hoarding causes a deadweight loss to the economy.
there is at least one technology you probably use yourself that fits the description and comes from there:
Coffee
All the post above is really about is ranting at groups other than that of the poster.
Thank you. So next time we see one of those jingoistic losers, we know what to say: "Coffee motherfuccer, do you drink it?"
are you suggesting that Europe is responsible for delayed DVD releases?
In some cases yes. Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea is the English dub of a French animated series. The original series has been released on French DVD around 2000, but the English dub has never been released on North American DVD.
Actually it was the Africans such as the Egyptians, with things like their wheeled chariots, irrigation and other things that came from civilization
Granted. But nowadays northern Africa is more closely associated with the "Middle East" brand than with the "Africa" brand. So that narrows the question going forward: What impressive tech or philosophy came out of sub-Saharan Africa before European contact?
The fact they're not even going to pay for the product doesn't matter.
I have money. Where in the United States can I buy a lawfully made DVD of the film Song of the South?
I have money. Where in the United States can I buy a lawfully made DVD of the film Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night?
I have money. Where in the United States can I buy a lawfully made DVD of the TV series Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea?
And it still took a year after theatrical release to get the 2011 film Hop on region 1 DVD.
The DVD-Video standard requires players to implement UOP, which allows discs to specify that a certain control shall cause the player to display the letter Ø in the corner of the screen for five seconds instead of performing the requested action. It was intended to make copyright notices unskippable, but distributors have abused it to make advertisements unskippable.
Press "Top Menu": Ø. Press "Title Menu": Ø. Press "next chapter": Ø (arrrgh). What's left?
Apple IIGS and Super Nintendo Entertainment System are probably the best-known consumer products with a 65816. The IIGS has a standalone '816; the Super NES has a Ricoh 5A22, which puts a licensed '816 core on the same die as a custom memory controller for the DMA functionality that kept pace with Sega's "Blast Processing".
I hardly consider ITunes an option. You have to have itunes on a computer and then remove the DRM to play on your tv
Or have iTunes on the computer and connect the PC's DVI-D or HDMI out to the TV's HDMI in. Or have iTunes on the computer and connect the PC's VGA out to the TV's VGA in. Or buy an Apple TV device. How is the last of these "not really consumer friendly"?
My economics question is why back catalog movies which have been released on disc can't be purchased as downloads.
A lot of film producers' hands are tied by contracts with upstream licensors (such as the author and publisher of a novel adapted into a film or the performer, record label, songwriter, and music publisher of music used in the film) or with cast and crew unions whose members work on a residual basis rather than a "work made for hire" basis. Not all such contracts that provide for a home video release also provide for selling downloads. DVD early on had a similar problem with older films whose home video contracts were written for particular formats ("VHS and Beta" or "videotape") rather than generically enough to include DVD.
I'm guessing these titles aren't exactly burning up the sales charts and that a budget licensing deal for streaming on back catalog title to a streaming provider would be revenue they mostly wouldn't expect to get from a DVD.
For one thing, it can be expensive to gather all stakeholders (again, upstream licensors and any cast or crew promised residuals) for a contract negotiation. For another, old movies compete with the same studio's newer products.
So if countries require films to be exhibited in the official language as a condition of being shown in a country, how do you propose to make dozens of dubs before a film sees one dollar of revenue? And if countries place a quota on imported films to encourage the local film industry, how do you propose to re-produce films with local cast, crew, and sets?
What this is about is making the cinema releases worldwide for the same day
A lot of films lack budget to get cinema releases across one country for the same calendar year. Think of all the art films that play for a week in Los Angeles County, California, in December in order to qualify for that year's Academy Awards, with intent to open to a wide release the following January.
Then wipe and root your phone, or if you can't, sell your used phone and put the money toward one that you can root.