Has it really been 9 years since Amazon messed up the platform?

I really want my roku to stream twitch again; I simply refuse to use fire sticks.

My home library is almost 100% Ogg, but like many I haven't purchased many CD since around 2005. I think the last time I purchased a physical CD was 2017 when I signed up for a kickstarted to crowd fund my favorite childhood band making a new album post children and marriage. :) I ripped and encoded that immediately, but haven't since.

So yes I still use it.

But also I don't use it.

They've been forcing formaldehyde into cigarettes for decades. Because its totally ok to intentionally give cancer causing agents to smokers. They're only upset because they got caught putting in something that doesn't necessarily kill the people they were intending.

But they have such great leadership?!

https://www.barrons.com/articl...

As somebody who begrudgingly did business with Mr Cooper for about 12 years, I don't doubt this is the 2nd or 3rd time this happened...they just finally upped their game enough to find out this time.

And by 'up their game' I mean the bad guys actually pressed the button to ruin their systems for a few days. I'm sure more than one actor was in there in the first place.

Yes....what are the customers paying for? They knew the problem 30 years ago when satellite starting advertising 500 channels. The obvious implication was that the cable networks had less to watch. Now they've finally figured it out. I mean I used to love the history channel, and I'll watch a stupid curse of oak island episode every single time. However I already know that each episode had approximately 4 minutes of actual new content, 16 minutes of hype, and another 10 of advertising.

The cable networks for a few years simply made money selling the streaming rights to the streaming corps, but they all stopped doing that because then they thought they were losing out on direct sales. Turns out now they're just plain losing.

How did they account for "Whiny"?

Honestly though! My last brand new car was purchased 12 years ago. Fairly early I bought it in for 2 or 3 little things that should not be a problem on a new car but was. I also did NOT bring it in for probably a half dozen little irritations.

I'd bet that new car's worth that most of the quantity of complaints on EVs are that people want them to be 100% trouble (character) free. We all have cars with a little character in them....we just don't bring them to the dealership for it. I bet the EVs that with character get reported very very often.

Of all the chip fab schemes this one is for sure the worst. Wisconsin was pretty bad but anybody with a brain knew it wasn't going to happen in alcoholic farm country.

Arizona on the other hand? Really?
We want to be 'sustainable' on chips while building industrial facilities in the literal first place in the entire continent of north america to become uninhabitable? Probably 10 years to build and staff ... then what? 15 or so productive years before the dumbs start moving out of the worst place in the country?

Of course it will be followed shortly by low lying coastal areas and maybe a little mid-continent dust bowl...but Arizona just isn't a good place for anything. It never was. It only became a region with any industry at all because it was simply flat and nobody bothered you there.

So it sat for 3 years. Cool. As others posted; yup nobody uses this. It isn't 1998 anymore. No experienced user would ever do this. Which leaves the target (whether intentional or not) audience:

High school and potentially first year college students that are used to a windows world where you go and download everything. So the attackers got a whole bunch of logins for ... ebay and newegg? Maybe their student loan info if any college kid ever tried to look at that over the course of the first year. Who these attackers going to steal from? Some twit living off $100 a week?

3 years ... because the target audience wouldn't know enough to question a non-standard cron entry.

Was this unrealized promise because it wasn't really 5G?
Most carriers in USA simply rebranded 4G LTE as 5G .... whilst not actually using most of the features that previously were decided to actually be 5th generation.
Frequency Range #2 was 24-52Ghz .... This was the original engineering promise of 5G.
What we all got was marketing and business majors feeding us 450Mhz to 6Ghz .... just like 4G but newer and cooler because marketing and business majors.

You can do fancy things with the spectrum all you want be it time division frequency division etc ... but it simply works better on the higher frequencies.

So marine shipping fuel is so thick that it needs to be warmed in order to actually flow through the pumps to the engines. This stuff is the left overs after all other usable fuels have been distilled out. What does one do with thick heavy sludge that is leftover from other more useful fuel production?

"six tonnes of fuel saved, that's 20 tonnes of CO2 saved - per day. The numbers are massive."

I learned a thing today. General math for fuel is ~3.7x the fuel weight for the output CO2.

C = 6
O = 8

The current cost of the great University of Cambridge and Oxford University are significantly lower than the cost of most US public universities.

Where do you want to hire some new 22 year twit from? Colorado College of asshattery or Cambridge?

I did University of Minnesota - Duluth campus from 1997 to 2002 (delayed slightly due to 9/11).

By the time I finished tuition had doubled already just in those 5 years. 3 new buildings were added to the campus:
1 dormitory; nice but reasonable.
1 library upgrade; old one was a bit squashed. Reasonable...until they spend $1M on 'art' for it..
1 performance hall. Sure the music folk need somewhere to perform ... but they didn't exactly increase student count...the students had performed for decades prior in other perfectly acceptable locations.

My tuition doubled ... and the eyesore of a building that is left completely empty 99% of the time because it literally has zero academic purpose. I wonder where my $$$ went.... wasn't my program.

They saw Netflix making some money off their old shows. Then they wanted more than what Netflix was paying them so they built their own.
Now Netflix has less content and therefore less value.
Also, when restricted to the studios' own catalog, they have significantly less value.

What used to be a win-win-win
(netflix makes money, studios get paid by netflix, consumers ok)
has turned into lose-lose-lose
(netflix weaker, studios offerings very limited and they have to pay to maintain it as well as suffer directly user anger, consumers angry).

For instance I installed CBS All Access at least a half dozen times .... kept glitching out ... over a couple years. Installed the replacement Paramount Plus ... same bullshit idiot coders that make the stream stutter or app completely crash. Netflix didn't have this problem. If Paramount would quit being greedy idiots, they could get paid by netflix, who gets paid by me ... because perfectly working platform.

Don't get me started on Amazon's 'watchlist' being 9000 rows down ... for real...I put it on a to-watch-list....give me the #$^%@# list when I start up the program.