You do know that cordcutters who use their streaming subscriptions, HD at 3GB/hr, four hours a day [google.com], already blows that cap, right? That that's just for one person at less than the national average video usage per day?
375KB/s * 60s * 60m = 1.35GB / hr. at that rate, you could watch HD content for 222 hours straight (9.25 days) before you'd hit your 300GB cap. seems pretty reasonable to me.
This, I discovered the hard way, is not a universal quality of Android devices. Depending on the manufacturer and carrier, some are quite a bit less open than even iDevices.
that's the kind of comment that is worthless without some details. the basic security features features, for better or worse, remain the same across vendors. obviously, since the underlying OS is the same.
Affect only jail-broken devices. How is the even relevant news?
the same way Android exploits that require the user to enable side loading, disable google's APK checking service, and go to some shady website and install an APK are news. also, the exploit is only theoretical.
if that was the case, then they would have done that privately, and if they had done it privately, AM would have exposed that to put them in a bad light and to cast themselves as the victim.
Except it wasn't about vigilantes taking down an illegal website because society hadn't stepped up to the task. They stole personal data and are now trying to blackmail people with it. Where are the vigilantes who watch over the vigilantes?
if the hackers wanted to blackmail users, they'd have not gone public, and would have contacted users independently. sorry that does't fit.
seriously, can you point me to any benchmarks that show flash is faster, more efficient? when i google for this, the first three links show flash is ~2x better than HTML5 is animation and video.
Excellent. Now, which one of the things you just mentioned, doesn't completely suck in such an overwhelmingly over-the-top hysterical comedy of disgrace, that it didn't make what you had a decade earlier, look like so-much-higher tech that it was indistinguishable from magic?
i use probably 3 video services, and one music service and a regular basis and none of them suck.
There are outlandish things that are forbidden. For example, the DMCA means my ripping of my own personal DVD and Blu Ray discs to HDD is not lawful, which is absurd.
i love how people use things like this to reject copyright laws all together. NO ONE is bashing in your front door and tazing you because you made a copy of a DVD you purchased. in fact, how about referencing one single instance where that has happened. no?
Popcorn time I've never used, but the principle of the thing doesn't appeal either, I want to actually have my library at hand at any given time.
PT is just a torrent client. the movies are downloaded to your computer (or mobile device). all the "streaming" mode does is download the blocks in-order, and download up to a certain amount of them before it starts playing.
You don't ever want to be in a situation where the people you buy a service (or media) from, are also in control of the software that you use. Think back and see if you can ever remember a situation where that happened
let's see... every single pay service that requires you to go to their web site to view or listen to content? your browser is just something that downloads and runs software from the folks that supply the service.
You and those who upvoted you are the ones who 'need to relax', because you interpreted the comparison to Portugal as if it was compared to Romania or something, meaning the US is backwards. But again, I don't think it's the correct interpretation.
No one gives a sh*t about Portugal, in the context of this topic. I know you'd like to think this conversation is all about P but the bottom line is no one cares. P is an -insert 2nd world nation here- place filler.
We know P was a world power 400-500 years ago is irrelevant. We all had world history in grade school. We are very proud of P for achieving that. Good for them. We get it. But completely off topic and irrelevant to this conversation. .
Portugal fans need to relax. Interchange "Portugal" with any nation that isn't heavily invested in space exploration. It was meant to insult the US, not Portugal.
the USA is Portugal in the race to the New (Space) World.
Maybe you forgot that we landed a sensor and manipulator packed dune buggy on mars? Or that probe that just surveyed the Pluto system and is heading to the Kuiper belt? Or the Opportunity rover that's been active on Mars for over ten years and is still chugging along? Oh... all of that on a severely reduced budget.
No, it's just that the USA does the hard stuff. We just don't do the space equivalent of cargo hauling.
They put time, resources, and $ into setting up a process. Now you are just giving that away to the world. Even if we all recognize it as nothing special, that's not how the company sees it. IMHO, this thinking is especially prevalent in Asian cultures. They aren't into the whole OSS way of thinking. Not making any value judgement on that, just saying.
In any big company, there's very little room for "Oh Joe's a good guy, give him a break". Some VP heard about it and that's it. Goes back to Asian cultures as well. You don't question the boss.
No they can't. It's very difficult to fire people even in right to work states.
well, whatever. firing is so 1980. people don't have to be "fired" to get put out of a job. the company just claims a "restructuring" or a "reduction in force" and it's done. big tech companies do this regularly to clear out the bottom feeders.
i suggest you ask yourself why you purchased a samsung device? are you really asking a google employee why samsung doesn't allow (or make it obvious) for you to root your phone?
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last time i checked, you need internet to use netflix. if they own the pipe, they win regardless.
if you type the URL into your browser, then yes.
You do know that cordcutters who use their streaming subscriptions, HD at 3GB/hr, four hours a day [google.com], already blows that cap, right? That that's just for one person at less than the national average video usage per day?
Netflix requires 3.0Mb/s (megabits / s) for HD (less for SD). that's 375KB/s.
http://www.bandwidthplace.com/...
375KB/s * 60s * 60m = 1.35GB / hr. at that rate, you could watch HD content for 222 hours straight (9.25 days) before you'd hit your 300GB cap. seems pretty reasonable to me.
source: math.
This, I discovered the hard way, is not a universal quality of Android devices. Depending on the manufacturer and carrier, some are quite a bit less open than even iDevices.
that's the kind of comment that is worthless without some details. the basic security features features, for better or worse, remain the same across vendors. obviously, since the underlying OS is the same.
Affect only jail-broken devices. How is the even relevant news?
the same way Android exploits that require the user to enable side loading, disable google's APK checking service, and go to some shady website and install an APK are news. also, the exploit is only theoretical.
I don't see any crusade against immorality here.
who cares? if robin hood stole from the rich and gave to the poor because he had mental illness, did the poor benefit any less?
if that was the case, then they would have done that privately, and if they had done it privately, AM would have exposed that to put them in a bad light and to cast themselves as the victim.
Except it wasn't about vigilantes taking down an illegal website because society hadn't stepped up to the task. They stole personal data and are now trying to blackmail people with it. Where are the vigilantes who watch over the vigilantes?
if the hackers wanted to blackmail users, they'd have not gone public, and would have contacted users independently. sorry that does't fit.
seriously, can you point me to any benchmarks that show flash is faster, more efficient?
when i google for this, the first three links show flash is ~2x better than HTML5 is animation and video.
maybe. references?
enjoy the pure HTML5 experience you've all been clambering for. oh wait, you mean HTML5 didn't turn out to magically efficient?!
The argument that no one is *bothering* to prosecute is not a defense of a law existing that could be used to prosecute.
no, but if you are spending your time worrying about it, you have too much time on your hands.
it's also illegal to go 1MPH over the speed limit. are you worried about that?
Excellent. Now, which one of the things you just mentioned, doesn't completely suck in such an overwhelmingly over-the-top hysterical comedy of disgrace, that it didn't make what you had a decade earlier, look like so-much-higher tech that it was indistinguishable from magic?
i use probably 3 video services, and one music service and a regular basis and none of them suck.
netflix
youtube
twitch
google play music
There are outlandish things that are forbidden. For example, the DMCA means my ripping of my own personal DVD and Blu Ray discs to HDD is not lawful, which is absurd.
i love how people use things like this to reject copyright laws all together. NO ONE is bashing in your front door and tazing you because you made a copy of a DVD you purchased. in fact, how about referencing one single instance where that has happened. no?
Popcorn time I've never used, but the principle of the thing doesn't appeal either, I want to actually have my library at hand at any given time.
PT is just a torrent client. the movies are downloaded to your computer (or mobile device). all the "streaming" mode does is download the blocks in-order, and download up to a certain amount of them before it starts playing.
You don't ever want to be in a situation where the people you buy a service (or media) from, are also in control of the software that you use. Think back and see if you can ever remember a situation where that happened
let's see ... every single pay service that requires you to go to their web site to view or listen to content? your browser is just something that downloads and runs software from the folks that supply the service.
I think it was meant as a leading country of the World, which Portugal was when the New World was discovered. So it was actually a compliment.
the level of your derangement is impressive.
You and those who upvoted you are the ones who 'need to relax', because you interpreted the comparison to Portugal as if it was compared to Romania or something, meaning the US is backwards. But again, I don't think it's the correct interpretation.
No one gives a sh*t about Portugal, in the context of this topic. I know you'd like to think this conversation is all about P but the bottom line is no one cares. P is an -insert 2nd world nation here- place filler.
We know P was a world power 400-500 years ago is irrelevant. We all had world history in grade school. We are very proud of P for achieving that. Good for them. We get it. But completely off topic and irrelevant to this conversation.
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Portugal fans need to relax. Interchange "Portugal" with any nation that isn't heavily invested in space exploration. It was meant to insult the US, not Portugal.
Saying the USA is like Portugal is a compliment. But, yes, it could mean the USA stagnated.
well i didn't say that, you responded to the wrong comment.
the USA is Portugal in the race to the New (Space) World.
Maybe you forgot that we landed a sensor and manipulator packed dune buggy on mars? Or that probe that just surveyed the Pluto system and is heading to the Kuiper belt? Or the Opportunity rover that's been active on Mars for over ten years and is still chugging along? Oh ... all of that on a severely reduced budget.
No, it's just that the USA does the hard stuff. We just don't do the space equivalent of cargo hauling.
They put time, resources, and $ into setting up a process. Now you are just giving that away to the world. Even if we all recognize it as nothing special, that's not how the company sees it. IMHO, this thinking is especially prevalent in Asian cultures. They aren't into the whole OSS way of thinking. Not making any value judgement on that, just saying.
In any big company, there's very little room for "Oh Joe's a good guy, give him a break". Some VP heard about it and that's it. Goes back to Asian cultures as well. You don't question the boss.
No they can't. It's very difficult to fire people even in right to work states.
well, whatever. firing is so 1980. people don't have to be "fired" to get put out of a job. the company just claims a "restructuring" or a "reduction in force" and it's done. big tech companies do this regularly to clear out the bottom feeders.
why can I still not get root on my S6 Active
i suggest you ask yourself why you purchased a samsung device? are you really asking a google employee why samsung doesn't allow (or make it obvious) for you to root your phone?
So, can you really expect to compile that and end up with something that you can load into your phone (and have it work?).
yes, people do it all the time. you can start here:
https://source.android.com/sou...
So, it is Open Source in the same way that OS X and iOS are. Darwin is Open Source. Many Frameworks are Open Source; but then...
no, android the OS is open source. google apps are not open source.