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Comment Re: steak, burger, and sausage are formats (Score 1) 192

Exactly, you name it after whatever product it is replacing. This is a service to the user. That is also why "the establish" wants to force you to use other words, so that you have to go out of your way to educate the public.
Don't let the incumbents gate keep. That is never to the benefit of the people.

Comment price to performance (Score 1) 21

...Says the guy who raises prices so that the price to performance metric does not move. If better more advanced devices stayed at the same old price then the price to performance gets better. But NGreedia abandoned that policy.

That said, the money doesn't go all to AI components. You need the rest of the computer, racks, data centers, utilities, and software.

Comment Re:There are more than two arthropods (Score 1) 257

I buy a car once, then it's mine. I can start it when I want and go where I want. When I buy a DVD and want to watch it on my phone I need to re-buy it. For a little while a lot of things were consolidated at Netflix, and things were good. Then they all got greedy and broke everything up again. While the industry insists on being siloed there will always be piracy.

Comment Re:There are more than two arthropods (Score 1) 37

At the same time if they allowed it to hit Bing.com every time a user launched the browser without visiting the site then they'd get complaints that they're raising server usage in an anti-competitive manner. It's a can't win situation.

Though, It should just have the setting and let the user enable it or not. There's no reason to check which site is enabled.

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