> Apple builds the handset, the OS and the store
Remember, when iPhone came out there was no App Store.
That was a separate business that came later, competition was prohibited, and by prohibiting competition rents were extracted.
This is called "illegal tying" in the law.
They're gonna install malware on your device but heaven forbid your website sets the wrong cookie, then they're fining you 6% of annual revenue.
When did East Germany win?
It's over.
No country can afford to take in unlimited refugees. At some point, the answer becomes another question. "How to we raise the standard of living for people in that country because we can not afford to take any more of them here?"
LK
For Aldi, which uses Instacart, I assumed it was because there is no 'fee' for pickup, but they have to pay someone to shop for you. I consider the difference a convenience fee.
That said, by not shopping in store, I end up getting only what is on my list and end up paying FAR LESS than I would if I was wandering around.
l think this comment wins the thread.
The time has come for a European University CSE department group to reverse-engineer HDMI 2.1 and publish a compatible implementation on Github.
There's a solid history of this category of work going back 30 years.
They have certain legal protections for compatibility and public interest work.
This 1990's licensing model is antiquated and obsolete.
IEEE and ITU have abdicated their responsibility so sombody like Valve needs to do for transport spec what AV1 did for codecs and linux did for operating systems.
"A rising tide lifts all boats" is common among free marketeers and communists but opposed by fascists.
> Is there a huge difference between a criminal organization and a multinational corporation?
Yes, huge difference.
The common-law criminals running corporations get statutory protection from liability for the crimes they commit under corporate letterhead.
A regular mafia has individual liability.
anthropo...genic? I'm not sure what anthropomorphic climate change would be like.
To watch your dogs a wifi device is OK but if real security is a concern understand that home invasion gangs use ~10W wifi jammers as standard practice now.
Amcrest supports RTSP pull and SFTP push which is handy.
Do you have any way to suss out correlation versus causation on that?
> Meanwhile, H.264 has dedicated hardware decoders in world+dog devices, including ancient ones.
Ancient ones, yes, but most devices sold in the past five years have AV1 *decode* support.
Hardware with AV1 *encode* is still pretty rare but a fair number of up-market chips from the past few years have it.
What we mostly care about here is the $20 amtel or mediatek devices sold today, and those are fine.
Netflix can support the older devices with H.264 as long as it makes more sense to pay the patent license fees than to drop support for old devices.
It won't be long before there are no devices that the manufacturer still supports that can't decode AV1 in hardware. Not that most end-users even know their device went EOL and now a potential liability.
Given that Netflix has native apps on most of these systems it should be straightforward to serve the non-patented stream to any device that can play it well.
> They don't do backups at those outfits?
We really need Federal government backups to be centralized at the National Archives.
Both so one expert team can make sure it's done right, instead of hundreds of teams with questionable experience and track records attempting to do it right.
And
Right now, the prosecutor just goes, "shucks, I guess we don't have a case then. Better fire some leaf-node IT contractor."
They also didn't start delving into DEI madness in 2010...neglecting the engineering to chase the "diversity" ghost
Steve Lehto has a good video about this.
In Michigan the Lemon Law applies to problems that 'reduce the value to the consumer'.
Some people are attempting to return their cars over these popup ads. IIRC it was GM that was much more aggressive but I might have that detail wrong.
"It might help if we ran the MBA's out of Washington." -- Admiral Grace Hopper
