India is full of separate ethnic groups in addition to the caste system. So much so that some ethnic groups are deemed to belong in a specific caste and culminating in ethnic groups living in isolation from the central authority.
Hardware decoding is not necessary with how powerful many modern phone CPUs are. If you want to test this out now, simply download mpv on Android and try an AV1 file on it.
Note that this is for Android 12 and higher, so you have a natural cutoff in devices that can get it at all simply from their OEM's software support. The main challenge will be low-end handsets and people using, say, Lineage to run more recent Android on older phones.
Yes, but they won't be a hindrance much longer, just as soon as the doors randomly come off.
Nobody can even define what general ai would even be. It's just the singularity all over again we were supposed to get to a decade ago.
If someone thought the ai-pin was a good idea and reasonably priced they probably believe the general ai already exists. You shouldn't let them decide how to use money.
It really came down to that. You can make the perks be as nice as you want, but if I lose a hours a day just sitting in my car to get there, that's an hour I could be doing anything else...including my work for the company.
A consistently bad commute kills morale and reduces productivity. After a year at home, most tech and creatives realized that. While the initial loneliness was depressing, too, it was more easily adapted to as zoom and slack picked up, as well as doing remote work at public wifi spots like restaurants, coffeeshops, etc.
The bufferbloat folks proved that you don't have to have your call quality or gaming experience suffer if someone starts asking for tons of bandwidth. To oversimplify, the mongo download process is forced to compete fairly with the voip call, not just drown it out.
An ISP that doesn't use modern software is at moral hazard. They're tempted to rob Peter to pay Paul, exactly as we see <curses elided/> Telcos doing here.
At the same time, they need to legally use fq_codel and CAKE on their network, to do fair queuing (the fq in fc_codel).
For recent work in fixing bufferbloat within ISPs, see https://libreqos.io/, which I see as QOS done the right way, a way consistent with net neutrality.
It's just to log in Roku accounts, so it would only happen when logging into the Roku website or associating a newly-purchased Roku device/television with your account.
An easier solution would just be to stop storing payment information for users at all as it's of pretty limited usefulness for customers. I don't believe Roku has a paid media store like Amazon and Google, so people are very rarely going to be making credit card payments to Roku as a company. Its main use now of simply for buying additional Roku devices/accessories on their site. Are people really having too make purchases that often that it justifies having the payment method stored on-platform?
This is an issue that really should have been ironed out legally back when the Crunchyroll/Funimation merger happened, or even before that, with UltraViolet streaming codes. Those digital copies of movies/anime were purchased as part of the purchase of the physical disc of the title, and should be considered one and the same. If the company doesn't want to keep the servers on to make them available for on-demand streaming, give us a DRM-free copy of the file you were streaming so we can just load it onto our device and play back on our own, like purchased music from Apple, Amazon, or Bandcamp.
Nobody reads them! Its just other ai bots scrounging for bits for articles!
No seriously the young people don't read already all that much. This makes it very hard for them to actually absorb information from text and with the articles on offer starting to be more and more lenghtened with ai they're even less likely to start reading.
How do they learn then? they don't thats how we get university graduates who can't learn how to use excel.
"Over here if the film start time is given as 6pm there will be adverts"
If the "showtime" is 6pm here and you show up 15 mins early you'll get 15 mins of adverts off a digital projector and some silly "movie quiz" bits. When the main projector starts and the lights go out at show time we get about 4 or 5 more ads (with much higher production value) that last about a total of 10 mins max (usually about 5 mins) and one of them is for the concession stand and one specifically for Fanta Sodas (ugh). This includes the "no talking", "no phones" and "no laser pointers" PSAs and MAYBE a local "donation" request.
The trailers are rarely less than 15 mins before the "main feature".
Yes, the ads are annoying. RARELY they are entertaining -- but it happens. I usually take note of the ads and promise myself never to solicit any services or products from them.
"... the ads last FOREVER..."
If by "ads" you mean movie trailers then I gotta say *I* like that part of the "theater" experience. I look forward to it, arrive before show time and get annoyed when people chit-chat or turn their phone in to a "glow worm" during the trailers.
That said, much of the crap hitting theaters would qualify as straight to video quality about 20 years ago. I have no idea why that stuff gets screen time today. I find myself hitting vintage theaters more today to see films from across the 20th century than back in the 80s when it was midnight showings of Bill and Ted, Monty Python's Holy Grail, Rocky Horror, etc.
Example:
https://thenewbev.com/schedule...
Sometimes it's nice to find an old favorite from before I was born and see it in a real theater for the first time.
Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time. -- George Carlin
