Even though I've pretty consistently used Samsung phones for like 15 years now, I always switched the default messaging app to Google's. Phone companies don't need to reinvent the wheel.

Its a pitch about "what if" - not something they've figured out how to do.

Such press releases basically ARE just science fiction that they're hoping to get an investor for to MAYBE turn into fact (or not - they'll be rich when/if it fails anyways).

Realistically, the home experience has just gotten too good these days to bother going to the theater. I'm 44 - when I was a kid a 25" TV screen was huge. When I was in college I took some extra financial aid refund money and bought a 32" CRT television for our room and everyone felt like that TV was comically large. Our dorm room was the place everyone came to watch TV because we had "the big TV".

Now 32" is tiny, and adjusted for inflation I can get an 85" TV for almost half of what I paid for that TV. For $150-200 you can add in a soundbar with a decent subwoofer and have damned good home audio. The TV's are also laid out in a better aspect ratio compared to film so letterboxing isn't as extreme, and the resolution is through the roof compared to old NTSC.

Realistically while at home viewing used to be a pale imitation of the quality you got at a theater, these days the home experience is on par, and you don't have to worry about other people talking or ruining the movie. A bag of popcorn at home is $0.45.

Its just a better experience at home.

I think we really need some type of granular filter.

An AI thumbnail or a few seconds of AI generated content I don't care about in a video, as long as the video is MOSTLY a real manual production.

The videos where the animations, voiceover, and even the script is all clearly AI though, those are the ones where I want to skip it entirely.

Like if this video is more than 30% AI, then I would prefer it be culled from my feed.

It is crazy just HOW wrong and weird these "hallucinations" can be. Just last night I was asking Gemini about TV shows to watch and it literally made up a TV show that didn't exist as a recommendation.

Ironically - they'd likely end up picking the worst artists in the country, as artists with skills who are more valuable are less in need of the program in the first place.

I get that the lack of a social safety net can be an issue. It leads people to either take or stay in jobs that they hate where conditions may be bad or unfair, because if you become unemployed most people aren't too many paychecks away from homelessness.

Still, I'd rather see something akin to an unemployement option where everyone gets up to 5 years of UBI throughout their lives. You can never touch it if you don't need it or you can take it for a few months in between jobs if need be, so long as you don't exceed your allocated amount. You can't stay on it indefinitely - you have to work - but a brief lapse in employment isn't likely to completely destroy your life.

Indeed. However that is what determines if you are successful or not. If you are an artist producing output that people WILL pay for - then that's a "real job". If you're an artist producing output that nobody is willing to pay for - then you're just wasting time.

Focusing activity where it is needed is part of the job market. If you go into your back yard with a shovel and just start digging a deep hole people will rightly think you're wasting time. If you instead take the same shovel and effort and dig where someone else specifically needs a whole dug, then you're producing valuable output.

On a societal structure, virtually all output is valued by what its worth to others. Since we are incapable of surviving alone in modern times (very few people are subsistence farmers or hunter/gatherers), you have to have some type of valuable skill that you are willing to trade to others for some portion of what you need to survive.

On the contrary, they absolutely do. Policing is a job with output. Criminals are caught, rules are enforced. This is output that can be measured. Output isn't directly died to producing manufactured goods. Output can be a service that people are willing to pay to have done.

In much the same vein, cleaning staff and maids aren't manufacturing anything, but they still produce output that people will pay for.

I am assuming Kosh (though they are ALL Kosh ;)). Sheridan confronts Kosh to intervene against the Shadows and at first Kosh refuses until Sheridan eventually goads him into helping.

As Kosh is being killed by the Shadows in retaliation, he comes to John in a dream (appearing as John's father) and explains that he was reluctant largely because he was afraid. He knew that helping John in that instance was effectively a death sentence - and he wouldn't be around to help John later when he'd need it. EG "I will not be with you, when you go to Zha'hadum").

The option itself was what set people off.

Even if there is an offer to heated seats to be a purchase, having the OPTION to pay monthly made a truth obvious to the public that anyone can understand: You can't download seat heating. That's hardware that's either there or its not, and if you're charging monthly for it then its already part of the car that I've paid for and this car is already perfectly capable of performing the function - you just want more money to enable it.

People would have been pissed to find out that the heating hardware was there and just "turned on" even if it was a purchase option rather than a subscription, but most people would never think about it or notice. The subscription option though made that fact very, very obvious.

I actually agree with this. Car crashes happen, and are often accompanied by fire. There needs to be a way to open the door when the vehicle has no power.

I gotta admit - I don't even care about 4k. My main TV in my living room supports it because any large TV these days tends to be 4k, but I'm perfectly happy watching content at 1080p and likely will be happy there for my whole life.

Even 720p is mostly fine as long as the bitrate isn't set too low.

I, Steve Wozniak, did not participate in the theft of the BASIC. It was funny to me to see others enjoying doing this. I had never used BASIC myself, at that time, only the more-scientific languages like Fortran, Algol, and PL-1, and several assembly languages. I sniffed the air and sensed that you needed BASIC to sell computers into homes, because of the book 101 Games in BASIC. I loved games and saw games as the key. It was the [MS] BASIC that inspired me to write a BASIC interpreter for my 6502 processor, in order to have a more useful computer.

It's hard to find people with Tim Berners-Lee's integrity. We should 'own' our own lives. It's a lot deeper than just being watched.

Not gonna lie . . . I thought Hawaii was bigger than Maryland.