It's compression. Audio compression levels are way up over what they were 20 years ago. I can't listen to many modern recordings because they no longer have any dynamic range to them.
Repetition is generally what makes a hit song a hit song. Simple catchy, highly repetitive musical phrase.
Like putting up their own metro fiber and building it to take all providers. Another change, even less expensive, is to not grant exclusive franchise agreements. For example, in Maine, if I declare myself a cable provider, I automatically get access to the poles. Also if I declare myself a CLEC and meet all the requirements for being a CLEC, (which Google could do, easily), I get access to the poles.
Around here, municipalities are installing their own fiber last miles. It's carrier neutral. Eventually, independent operators will be on those systems, they will interconnect and the big carriers will be sucking wind trying to suck money out of old outdated infrastructure. Break the rules.
What you thought you were living in a republic? You're surprised that a politician is lying? Do you honestly think they care about anything besides their own self-interest? You forget the Ayn Rand mentality of the rugged individual. Of course in a republic, that rugged individual's righs end where your chin begins. However, the USA, right now, is more of a fascist state than a republic.
It would be interesting to know what the Chinese are attempting to hide from the satellite mapping of their roads that has already been done by the US Military, The Russian military and any other military that has a spy satellite in orbit. Their roads and streets are already mapped by everyone and their brother.
I truly believe in net neutrality. This is more about trying to exact fees from streaming services like Netflix. Netflix is currently set up as a networking peer. A network peer is a network provider that agrees to exchange traffic at a peering point with other service providers. Netflix is a content provider, not a service provider and therefore is not a peer and should be paying for bandwidth. That's the big thing that the ISP's are trying to get a handle on. I'm putting on the flame suit now.
Not imagination. The moon program brought us solid state, microprocessors and miniaturization the went orders of magnitude better than anything previously produced, velcro, microwave ovens, fuel cells, ground reading radar, methods of inter-body navigation, Tang, Space docking procedures, standardized hatches on spacecraft, better alloys for building air and space craft, Meals Ready to Eat, air scrubbers, and more than anything else, confirmation of the math and physics involved. The space program generated all sorts of industries.
In n1961, the technology for putting a person on the moon and returning them safely to the earth didn't exist. by 1969 it did. That took leadership. I haven't seen that kind of leadership since Kennedy.
Lots of private contractors got very wealthy off the space program. However, NASA doesn't have the kind of lobbying money available to it that Goldman-Sachs has. What NASA does isn't sexy.
Could use a mail client that doesn't automatically load images and break the trackers. The article makes the assumption that all of this email is using some sort of service that does mail tracking (Constant Contact, Mail Chimp, etc.). I don't use mail clients that do tracking.
It's the old shareware nagware story. Give away a moderately crippled "community version" of your software hoping you'll get someone to pay your exorbitant subscription fees. Smoke and mirrors is still smoke and mirrors.
Now that municipalities are building their own fiber to the curb because the big telecoms won't, is a good time for those municipalities to start interconnecting those networks. They can run a neutral network that way. As soon as there is a local alternative to big telecom near me, I'll take it. Currently only 1 ADSL provider and ADSL is less reliable than cable which is less reliable than fiber.
seriously, a decent decision matrix and bayesian math does not make a machine intelligent. If if AI isn't a myth, it should be applied to phone systems.
to death. All of these paywals want you to subscribe. They all want you to pay roughly $10.00 per month. So now you pay for 2 or 3 paywals, plus a media streamer or two and you're paying the same or more as if you never cut the cord in the first place. What's the point? I realize that news organizations need to make a living, but they need to live with slimmer subscription margins. subscriptions need to be sub $5.00/month
It's not going to work.
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What could possibly go wrong? The results couldn't possibly get skewed (skewered?) could they? Nah.
Domino's Pizza still sucks and I don't order it. Since they'll be putting tons of poor folks out of work, I'll probably boycott them on principle.
It's compression. Audio compression levels are way up over what they were 20 years ago. I can't listen to many modern recordings because they no longer have any dynamic range to them. Repetition is generally what makes a hit song a hit song. Simple catchy, highly repetitive musical phrase.
Pure BS. A sales gimmick. Look at us. buy the latest and greatest overpriced hardware.
Like putting up their own metro fiber and building it to take all providers. Another change, even less expensive, is to not grant exclusive franchise agreements. For example, in Maine, if I declare myself a cable provider, I automatically get access to the poles. Also if I declare myself a CLEC and meet all the requirements for being a CLEC, (which Google could do, easily), I get access to the poles.
Apparently doesn't know what the first, fourth and fourteenth amendments are or that they are supposed to protect us from him.
Around here, municipalities are installing their own fiber last miles. It's carrier neutral. Eventually, independent operators will be on those systems, they will interconnect and the big carriers will be sucking wind trying to suck money out of old outdated infrastructure. Break the rules.
I won't even get into the ethical dilemma.
Shouldn't need to legislate to get corporations to do "the right thing."
Neither is the Samsung worth that kind of money, either. Supply and demand. soft demand + high inventory = lower prices
What you thought you were living in a republic? You're surprised that a politician is lying? Do you honestly think they care about anything besides their own self-interest? You forget the Ayn Rand mentality of the rugged individual. Of course in a republic, that rugged individual's righs end where your chin begins. However, the USA, right now, is more of a fascist state than a republic.
It would be interesting to know what the Chinese are attempting to hide from the satellite mapping of their roads that has already been done by the US Military, The Russian military and any other military that has a spy satellite in orbit. Their roads and streets are already mapped by everyone and their brother.
I truly believe in net neutrality. This is more about trying to exact fees from streaming services like Netflix. Netflix is currently set up as a networking peer. A network peer is a network provider that agrees to exchange traffic at a peering point with other service providers. Netflix is a content provider, not a service provider and therefore is not a peer and should be paying for bandwidth. That's the big thing that the ISP's are trying to get a handle on. I'm putting on the flame suit now.
Not imagination. The moon program brought us solid state, microprocessors and miniaturization the went orders of magnitude better than anything previously produced, velcro, microwave ovens, fuel cells, ground reading radar, methods of inter-body navigation, Tang, Space docking procedures, standardized hatches on spacecraft, better alloys for building air and space craft, Meals Ready to Eat, air scrubbers, and more than anything else, confirmation of the math and physics involved. The space program generated all sorts of industries. In n1961, the technology for putting a person on the moon and returning them safely to the earth didn't exist. by 1969 it did. That took leadership. I haven't seen that kind of leadership since Kennedy. Lots of private contractors got very wealthy off the space program. However, NASA doesn't have the kind of lobbying money available to it that Goldman-Sachs has. What NASA does isn't sexy.
Could use a mail client that doesn't automatically load images and break the trackers. The article makes the assumption that all of this email is using some sort of service that does mail tracking (Constant Contact, Mail Chimp, etc.). I don't use mail clients that do tracking.
People may return more, but heaven forbid they actually interact with another person.
Even more to the point, those corporations are global and they don't particularly care about the USA.
pure socialism doesn't involve money. There's no need for it. Karl Marx did a great job identifying the problems. His solution was terrible.
It's the old shareware nagware story. Give away a moderately crippled "community version" of your software hoping you'll get someone to pay your exorbitant subscription fees. Smoke and mirrors is still smoke and mirrors.
The internet cowboys who built the internet in the first place will come in on the municipal fibre systems and offer un-metered bandwidth.
Now that municipalities are building their own fiber to the curb because the big telecoms won't, is a good time for those municipalities to start interconnecting those networks. They can run a neutral network that way. As soon as there is a local alternative to big telecom near me, I'll take it. Currently only 1 ADSL provider and ADSL is less reliable than cable which is less reliable than fiber.
Desparate to help the party of the bullies. The party of mean.
seriously, a decent decision matrix and bayesian math does not make a machine intelligent. If if AI isn't a myth, it should be applied to phone systems.
Would install the security hole that is IE on a Linux device?
to death. All of these paywals want you to subscribe. They all want you to pay roughly $10.00 per month. So now you pay for 2 or 3 paywals, plus a media streamer or two and you're paying the same or more as if you never cut the cord in the first place. What's the point? I realize that news organizations need to make a living, but they need to live with slimmer subscription margins. subscriptions need to be sub $5.00/month It's not going to work.