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  1. People said that about the Japanese electronics and about the Korean electronics. Eventually one of the Chinese companies will start increasing quality and move upmarket undercutting the other brands.

    Then we move on to some other place for crap

  2. I've never been able to convince anyone that farting is a skill.

  3. Re:silicon still matters on Hulu Joins Netflix and Amazon In Promoting Royalty-free Video Codec AV1 (fiercecable.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure Microsoft would like to not pay the MPEG-LA

  4. So are you willing to send Americans to Thailand for criticizing their King or to the middle east if they criticize Islam?

  5. Default Judgement on Sci-Hub 'Pirate Bay For Scientists' Sued by American Chemical Society Over Cloned Site (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Informative

    It should be noted that the judgement Elsvier won was a default judgement because SciHub didn't appear... because they aren't a US entity.

  6. Re:silicon still matters on Hulu Joins Netflix and Amazon In Promoting Royalty-free Video Codec AV1 (fiercecable.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you look at the membership lists its the whose who of software, hardware, streaming and editing. It looks like a very real chance of happening unless some of those members are actively sabotaging the process.

  7. I like my movies encoded in RealMedia, they're warmer and the buffering adds to the experience of watching digital video.

  8. Re:Solution on Amazon and eBay Images Broken By Photobucket's 'Ransom Demand' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Your hobby forum could simply change the embedded images to links to Photobucket, its only embedding they're blocking. Really, they should be hosting images themselves if they are important, this could have just as easily been Photobucket closing its doors.

  9. Re:Can't Blame Them on Amazon and eBay Images Broken By Photobucket's 'Ransom Demand' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So someone else should pay for you to leech off them indefinitely? Give a homeless man a sandwich and be responsible for feeding them for the rest of their lives?

  10. Re:The Motorbikes, really on Hanoi Plan To Ban Motorbikes By 2030 To Combat Pollution (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    in this equation zero because they aren't registered.

  11. Re:Can't Blame Them on Amazon and eBay Images Broken By Photobucket's 'Ransom Demand' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Except those are entirely different mediums that don't rely on self reporting.

  12. Re:The Motorbikes, really on Hanoi Plan To Ban Motorbikes By 2030 To Combat Pollution (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone pointed out above near my two-storke post that motorcycles significantly lag behind cars in emission requirements. Apparently motorcycles in California makeup 1% of vehicles but 13% of emissions.

  13. Re: Where are the electric motorbikes? on Hanoi Plan To Ban Motorbikes By 2030 To Combat Pollution (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm more of a ZPM fan, if your bike isn't going to speed of light why even bother.

  14. Re:Can someone explain? on Amazon and eBay Images Broken By Photobucket's 'Ransom Demand' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently they've been around 14-years, one imagines they hit a point where they couldn't afford to keep the lights on and needed drastic change. Hard to see how they convince people to pay $399 though.

  15. Re:Good bye Photobucket on Amazon and eBay Images Broken By Photobucket's 'Ransom Demand' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm reminded of the famous SNL skit where the bank claims to make money on volume. Actually, half the internet companies follow this model ;)

  16. Re:Can't Blame Them on Amazon and eBay Images Broken By Photobucket's 'Ransom Demand' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    My free sample is too salty. Take it back to the chef.

  17. Re:Can't Blame Them on Amazon and eBay Images Broken By Photobucket's 'Ransom Demand' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How exactly is it a ransom? They aren't a backup service. They've decided to stop providing a free service.

  18. Re:Just put an ad in the image on Amazon and eBay Images Broken By Photobucket's 'Ransom Demand' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I imagine we're talking about smaller embedded images which could require a significant portion of the image dedicated to the ad. More importantly no link, no money.

  19. Re:a couple of things on Hanoi Plan To Ban Motorbikes By 2030 To Combat Pollution (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    From Top Gear we know that cars are very expensive there. We also know that motorcycle emissions are much higher than modern cars.

  20. Re:Wow Samsung copying Apple again. on Samsung Reportedly Developing a Voice-Controlled Speaker To Compete With Amazon Echo (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple? They are the last to market, and if Samsung is setting their goal as Siri its a pretty low bar.

  21. Re:Can't Blame Them on Amazon and eBay Images Broken By Photobucket's 'Ransom Demand' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you envision an ad that cannot link anywhere going over with marketing departments?

  22. in South Korea. Samsung, please understand that what might be of interest to your domestic market is largely detracting from your products in the rest of the world.

  23. Re:It's not the bikes... on Hanoi Plan To Ban Motorbikes By 2030 To Combat Pollution (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that there are hundreds of thousands of bikes on the road now that will last for decades and likely many underground shops that would continue to churn them out.

  24. Re:Where are the electric motorbikes? on Hanoi Plan To Ban Motorbikes By 2030 To Combat Pollution (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of electric motorbikes around, though I think most are currently focusing on performance since that has higher margins

  25. Re:It's not the bikes... on Hanoi Plan To Ban Motorbikes By 2030 To Combat Pollution (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd hazard that many of the bikes are using two stroke engines which are particularly dirty. Maybe the push should be to electric motorcycles?