I can already burn through my entire wireless data limit in minutes. What is the point in it being faster without data being cheaper? At least from a users perspective and not someone who owns a telecommunications company.
I can already burn through my entire wireless data limit in minutes. What is the point in it being faster without data being cheaper? At least from a users perspective and not someone who owns a telecommunications company.
I do remember that. I suppose not enough people would ever use it for things to ever balance out.
I want to see a website that links to whatever is the least viewed Wikipedia article at any given time until all Wikipedia articles basically have the same number of views.
The grift that keeps on grifting.
Wow, $80. I haven’t looked into these devices since the first one, but I thought the point of them was to be very cheap. I do wonder what these new more powerful ones are capable of. Perhaps the performance justifies the price.
That’s a fine opinion, but I happen to disagree.
Somehow? Paying to remove ads is rewarding ads thus causing more ads in the world. It’s not mysterious at all.
There are plenty of ways to not make it an all or nothing service, but that is at least the most straight forward. You could potentially give some of it away and then have to pay for the rest. Or have some stuff for free and more premium content is paid for. Or perhaps based on bandwidth with video quality / resolution.
Anything that is not ads is going to be an improvement.
Paying to remove ads is part of the ad business model. Upset your customer enough until they give you money to make it stop. Once you pay to remove the ads you have rewarded them for implementing ads which lets them know that implementing ads was a great way at making money.
So YouTube premium is not another model. It is the same model. Another model is paying for a service that never had ads at all such as NebulaTV or CuriosityStream.
It is at least a different problem, but adding in the element that any failure is a fatal one it just isn’t enough that there are less obstacles in the way.
Agreed. I already don’t trust car automation. No way I’m going to add a 3rd dimension to the list of possible failures.
I wonder if they mean optical instead of image here. It would make a lot of sense if that were the case.
What is a laser image transmission? Is the laser an image that is transmitting data within that image or is it a laser that is transmitting data in the form of images? 😐
To be fair I don’t think it is possible to come up with a legitimate argument for making adblocking illegal. You would have to argue that people aren’t allowed to own anything such as their computers.
If adblocking becomes illegal I’m done using the internet.
Good point. I guess there is a reason that is the highest setting.
What is considered a high bitrate? There isn’t much reason to go higher than 320 kb/s on an mp3.
Those groups of people might be of the misunderstanding that people are still listening to them just because they are paying money.
It’s a wonder that there is anyone still buying Tesla cars.
I’ve managed to never pay for Windows my whole life despite using legitimate copies since Windows XP. I guess I probably paid for XP through the hardware OEM, but I got Vista from University and then Win 7 and Microsoft has somehow let me upgrade that version all the way to Win 11. 😅
But if I ever actually had to pay for it I’d likely just switch to Linux forever.
It sounds like the latency is really important here and not necessarily the bandwidth. That makes sense.