Make purchase of Comcast internet a mandatory thing for all americans.
Now the poor have internet, and are only somewhat more poor!
Hey, it worked for the insurance industry and healthcare policies.
Although to be fair the analogy is not really complete unless you also make all americans purchase HBA/Showtime/MLB packages.
Amazon behaving badly in a market where they have a monopoly? Time to get out the Apple Beatin' Stick again! Got to keep down those competitors with government sanctioned punishments for even trying.
Why don't the studios let Netflix stream the movies that are currently only available as physical DVDs
Because the studios are asking more money than Netflix can pay at a flat rate for streaming. Simpler answer: The studios hate money, or rather they value imaginary money more than real money so they maximize the imaginary return.
Why are you trying to ask a rational question of an entity that has shown no degree of rationality? You come across as the very worst sort of engineer, explaining how something can technically work when we all know it can technically work and the thing holding everything back is not technology at all.
In his incredibly naive mind he imagines a stream that is limited to one person at a time and backed by a physical DVD.
Or at least I'm pretty sure that's what he meant, reading his whole missive would lower the IQ of anyone by ten points.
Do you not remember CDNow, and the virtual CD service? You probably don't since it was annihilated in a legal storm of massive furor.
Why is Netflix being unable to offer "virtual CD"s any more complicated than "movie studio lawyers do not like it"??
Creating a system where the poor can't afford to sue because they may have to pay for the other guy's legal costs means that only the rich would be able to afford to defend themselves.
That's already true, so lets make life better for most instead of none (legally speaking).
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Computers mean efficient communications and stored knowledge. ALL of the things you mention have been made better through information stored and shared via computers.
Computer Science is thing thing that amplifies everything else, making it more accessible to everyone and not just first world countries.
Points to Ms Clinton for asking that money be put to fundamental development and the general betterment.
How sad that more people do not realize computers have brought "General Betterment" to more people than most inventions in history.
The BamBaoni 5000
Don't miss the Penny Arcade Surface Pro 3 feedback, as it gives some good solid thoughts on usability hiccups - which it sounds like Microsoft is going to great lengths to address quickly.
His take is especially interesting because he uses it heavily for art.
Are you sure your not looking to rationalize a toy?
No, it's very useful for development work to have programming stuff on one monitor and design things n another. It's not rationalization.
But that's also why I'm not sure about three monitors, because I don't as often have use for three separate "views" as it were.
It's not a bad idea but I don't want the fiddling (and cables) associated with that many monitors.
The customer's time is valuable too. If they can get at the relevant information more quickly by asking you to read the manual to them than by reading it themselves, then they have saved time that can now be put to productive use.
Even if a product margins were 90% you would not be paying enough to have anyone do that for you.
It's like you bought a new car and with no training or help expect to run the Dakar rally...
That's ust plain unreasonable.
I don't believe that - unless you have a screen the size of a small movie theatre your eye cannot distinguish between 4k and 1080p resolution pixels.
It's not that large of a screen you can plainly see the difference, especially sitting at a few feet (as you do with a computer monitor).
You should go to CES sometime where you can see lots and lots AND LOTS of different displays all using the same source material, then you can tell for yourself...
Really? Many people like dual monitors, which gives lots of horizontal resolution and not so much vertical.
Yes really. I use multiple monitors most of the time, but I find my current second display (A cheapish HD monitor) at 1080p, is jet a bit too short. I've been looking at second monitors that offer more vertical resolution (looking strongly at 4K).
Although extra space to either side is nice in the end vertical space is often more useful for the task at hand.
With all the fancy scientists in the world, why can't they just once build a nuclear balm?
