I interpret their statement as a CYA move if they someday decide to implement the account requirement. So they're not on record as saying that they would never do it.

Even though Sony seems to be hedging their bets a bit with their statement, I think even they must realize how disastrous it would be to reverse course again.

I think he believes what he says. He’s also very aware that his intentions could change tomorrow.

I wouldn’t call the AV1 codec itself “early stage” anymore. It’s reached a level of maturity that’s production ready and SVT-AV1 is a good software encoder.

But, adoption has been disappointingly lagging so far. If more of the Alliance for Open Media’s members actually embraced their own codec, we would be much farther ahead at this point. Only Google really seems to be pushing hard for hardware decoding support.

There’s been recent progress on the desktop side with new GPU hardware encoder and decoder support. But mobile hardware decoder support has been minuscule so far. Hopefully that will change in 2023 with upcoming Snapdragon and Apple chips.

I’m wondering who thought this was a good idea? Anyone in your potential target audience who would even remember Limewire is now twenty years older.

Because ya know — It’s the future — we’ve all decided centralized banking is rigged so we trust more in fly-by-night Ponzi schemes.

How do you reach a consensus if enemy nukes are in flight and you only have a few minutes to make a decision? The only feasible solution I can think of is eliminating nuclear weapons.

Trump was a populist neoconservativeâ(TM)s wet dream. And despite the fact that he was riding a great economy for most of his term, he still managed to fuck it all up.

So, instead of being so smug and condescending, maybe itâ(TM)s time to step back and think about why the rest of the country voted him out.

It really doesn't. You can survive. Maybe even for quite awhile but everyone has a breaking point.

I completely agree and Trump lacks any self control when someone goes after him. But he does know when to play up an attack because it connects very well with his base. A good example is the NFL national anthem fight.

"He's 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers, it's unbelievable."

http://i.imgur.com/x7bd0yf.jpg

Oops. I could have told them that 30 years ago.

I could have them that 30 years ago.

So the combination is... one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!