Comment Re:Electric Flight (Score 1) 93
Well there is the optional trim package with FTL capabilities. But at only a 2,000ly distance, it's enough to give anyone range anxiety.
Well there is the optional trim package with FTL capabilities. But at only a 2,000ly distance, it's enough to give anyone range anxiety.
In the 20th century economics were thought of as a science, with rules that exist outside of the people living in it. In the 21st century, we realize that anyone who knows the "rules" can game the system. Do game the system. Monopolies are the norm. Politicians are owned lock stock and barrel. The judiciary is destroying any semblance of fair competition. So, yeah. The INSANE wealth hoarders run the show, and nothing short of violent revolution is going to stop them.
Everyone needs to read their Trotsky. Understand that the evil things he did were necessary to remove the cancer. We finally have a society of workers, and not peasants. The permanent revolution IS possible. Is NECESSARY more then ever. The intellectuals and progressives have been forced into the background. It's time to come back from the shadows and to take things back from the children running the show. The falsely described "libertarians" have to be the first to go.
The little man-child Marvel fans are never going to accept a strong female, especially one stronger than the men around her. DC fans are almost as bad. They don't "know" any women in their lives; they will never get to know any women. They are scared of women. Women are to be put on a pedestal, not conversed with as equals. It's just the classic mother-whore problem of ages immemorial.
Why bother hiring a room full of actors when you can just re-use some digital ones?
You say this like it's a bad thing.
Even though extras get paid breadcrumbs, the costs of using them is incredibly high due to all of the work required to prep and manage them. Replacing them with CGI, when tastefully done, would greatly improve efficiency on the set. It would be the film equivalent of getting rid of the secretarial pool and giving executives computers.
After almost 40 years, you'd think we'd be past the ridiculous reasons that people make up to justify their hatred for Apple.
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It's right up there with uBlock Origin in terms of essential extensions for keeping the Web usable.
4. The hold on re-opening Tesla was in the hands of a single county-level official (Alameda country) who refused to state when and how the county permit would be re-issued. The attitude was she would get to it when she felt like it and you are no better than anybody else.
Now this has me curious. Given some of the other government corruption issues involving tech companies in the bay area (e.g. Apple and concealed carry licenses), was this a case of misplaced safety ideals? Or was the official looking for a bribe?
Should you block ads? Are you stealing revenue?
How about, why do we think that ads serve any purpose what so ever? In every company I've worked, the sorriest and dumbest people worked in marketing. How is this allowed to continue? Business managers STILL have no idea what the internet it. Ads worked on TV. People were trained to always watch their shows on a particular day at a particular time. The advertisers bombard the viewer with the same ad over and over until it is part of their psyche. That can sell widgets. But the same is NOT true of the internet. One person seeing one ad at a random time does NOT sell anything. This is one of the reasons that the advertisers want your demographic. They over have a couple of shots, and they want to make sure you see the most appropriate ads. But a random pop up add DOES NOTHING. It sells NOTHING? So why?
If a product sells, it is 100% due to the marketing campaign.
If a product does not sell, the marketing department needs more money.
At least that's how the executives think it works. And it may have worked like that 50 years ago. But not now. So FUCK THE ADS. All ads. By being "nice" and viewing a page's ads DOES NOTHING. It is pointless. It is a waste of time. It's moronic. It sells nothing. If you want something, you can search for sellers and information on the products. Then make your decision. I suppose that there are people so superficial and gullible that they will buy a product due to an ad. But they are few.
It is ONLY the myths of marketing that keep the ads around.
It's already in the works, at least for Comcast and Charter. They already offer TV boxes that don't even have QAM tuners; just Wi-Fi/Ethernet as a backhaul to the combined modem/router. No further QAM box designs are planned. And in Comcast's case, they stopped distributing boxes with local storage in favor of cloud DVR service years ago (which allows up to 6 simultaneous recordings).
QAM TV isn't going away overnight. But all of the groundwork has been laid to start reclaiming the spectrum as cord cutting continues.
Imagine someone being able to wirelessly "update" your phone to a hacked version.
This seems to hinge on the assumption that attackers have a way to pass the phone's firmware validation, never mind any further layers of validation that may be involved with Apple's update pads.
Apple's private firmware signing key is the holy grail of iPhone hacking. If you have that (or an exploit to bypass it) then there are far more insidious things you could be doing to the billion iPhones that are already deployed in the world.
And that's essentially the angle Comcast is working.
DOCSIS 4.0 will be able to attain download speeds of over 10Gbps (the precise value depends on a few things, such as the spectral width), with upload speeds upwards of 5Gbps. However, that's basically using most of the spectrum within the cable. Coincidentally, you're going to see a lot of cable operators switching to pure IP networks, getting rid of dedicated cable TV QAMs in favor of using the entire pipe for passing IP data, and then making CATV an IP service on top of that.
It's a short article, so I'd encourage you to read it. But, in short, the concern is that their entire semiconductor unit is hemmoraging money.
Analysts see its semiconductor business â" typically Samsung's cash cow â" reporting a more than 3 trillion won ($2.2 billion) loss for the third quarter./blockquote
DRAM and NAND manufacturing is a black hole for money right now. Everyone has cut back production and is still having to sell it for less than it's worth. That's not just bad for business, but it's unsustainable.
It's the other elements of Samsung Electronics, such as the displays business, which is keeping them afloat right now. But that's a concerning thing, as that's like the life boats being used to hold up a ship.
Did Newsome suddenly sign or veto something like several dozen bills?
Yes. He had a stack of bills from the most recent legislative session on his desk that he finally signed/vetoed. This was done in quick succession, so there are a bunch of new laws that are suddenly passing or failing.
Where you can only claim copyright if its possible to purchase said content.
In this case, it is possible to purchase said content. Bewitched has been released on DVD a few times now, most recently in 2015.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B012...
It's technically out of print at the moment, I believe. But there are more than enough copies in circulation right now that they're cheap and easy to find.
And if streaming is your thing, all of the usual transactional VOD operators are offering all 8 seasons.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/vide...
There's plenty of stuff that is not currently available, and whether it should have copyright protection at all is a valid question. But Bewitched is very much available in multiple formats.
Truly the greatest space sim of all time.
Not that I ever expected Volition to make a sequel (virtually everyone ever involved with it is gone anyhow). But it's still a shame to see Volition close. This hurts almost as much as the day Dynamix died.
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