I have the same - an old account for my videos and I have tried to avoid the Google+ account as much as possible, so it's just good that it disappears. One headache less.
Now if Facebook could disappear too.
I don't have any problem with the account verification though - it's just a variant of the 2-factor authentication so don't complain too much, it may prevent you from getting your account hijacked.
Another factor - do you trust the password manager?
I agree, it's probably the most stupid statement ever in a copyright case.
Figure out if there's something that can bring back the flexibility of the lens as well.
Well - it's a disadvantage - and an advantage. But the primary problem is not really the national broadcasters. It's when you actually want to pay for something to view like Netflix - or buy a DVD/BluRay.
National broadcasters can select if they want to provide streams of their shows to other viewers or not. Many countries in Europe have the same system as the UK - public funding.
H.265 is a software solution. Of course you can elect to realize that through hardware gates but you can also realize it through a FPGA or pure software so - software patent problem it is.
I remember when that split happened, I was on a brief visit to HP in Böblingen that day when they went public with the split.
My thought then "Are they brainfucked?".
History reveals that - yes, they were then and haven't become better. No problems with the engineers at HP, they try to perform as well as they can given the conditions but the problem lies within marketing and product strategy - which are following management wishes.
But in any large organization there's bound to grow a lot of dead meat between the layers - people that don't produce anything and just are overhead. But any attempt to cut them off means that they start to sabotage the process of restructuring and put up virtual obstacles everywhere to try to make themselves important.
This is the disadvantage of software patents.
Also change the rules so that if something becomes a standard you can't charge a royalty for it.
“European consumers want to watch the pay-TV channel of their choice regardless of where they live or travel in the EU,”
That adds up to a block of nearly 500 million first-world media consumers. They don't necessarily all speak the same language, but English is probably the most commonly understood single language. And the important thing for American media companies to remember is that they're not American in thought, taste or outlook.
You got to pry the ESD slippers from my cold dead feet before I wear anything but them indoors.
At least I can use ESD safe footwear as an excuse for wearing slippers.
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
