How exactly did they got from a thing that can identify and pinpoint you just by your body, without using cameras, using a piece of equipment which is ubiquitous in all civilized parts of the World to a thing that is a "privacy-preserving biometric modality"???
Or is it just a 2025 dystopian version of the old
1. Do stupid thing
2. ?????
3. profit?
enjoy your enjoyment of 'sound'.
as you get older (GOML) the sound of the sound matters so much less.
there were times that listening to a single speaker fm pocket 'transistor radio' was good enough to enjoy the songs.
have your fun with your rumble and explosions. as you get older, that shit becomes SO much less important, you wont believe how irrelevant all that hype really is.
I have not been to a theater in - 20 years? more? I cant remember.
its been unpleasant for decades. and with home theater, unless you're a teen trying to escape home and get 'privacy' somewhere else, theaters have long outlived their usefulness.
I think I stopped theaters around the time I cut the cable.
all around, what passes for entertainment is just plain rotten and/or boring.
you can keep it.
"..., any of them, but Microsoft's, of course, would be worlds better than SMS".
Here, I fixed that for you!
If visibility would fall from 67% to 62%, that'd be "worse".
From 67% to 28% - that is "drivers are catastrophically blind"!
So much for the auto-industry.
Castillo de San Marcos - Built at Sea Level in 1672.
Castillo de San Marcos - Still at Sea Level in 2025.
1) break government
2) privatize what's left
3) profit
that's really it. they have zero care (the R party) for regular non-billionaire people. regular people need government. ultra rich are the ones who pay government to make laws that favor them.
I guess its not clear to everyone so it will be stated again: the R party is the robber baron party and they are not here to HELP anyone but themselves.
Netflix's goals are a little different. Yes, they expect to turn a profit on a film or series, but due to the nature of streaming, the movie itself is never a direct profit center. Under the Netflix model, a movie could have zero views and still be a smashing success if it induces more people to sign up or retain Netflix subscriptions.
Fair enough. But this specific movie is not an example of something that brings in new subscribers. There's nothing niche about it and nothing that targets a specific group of people or especially hobbyists or enthusiasts.
This is just a straight up bad movie, considering the amount of money that went into it.
For example, if Dune or LOTR were flop movies, I would agree with you and say that it still made sense for Netflix to finance those movies because those are cult classics and people will join Netflix just to see them. Or many of your vintage classic movies. Or Clint Eastwood Westerns. There are people who are super passionate about those genres and niches and even fans of those specific movies.
I think you'll find that opposes the well understood definition of a "door". It has hinges, it has a latch, it is used to reversibly occlude a space. It's a door.
You mean, a window?
Seriously, just stop spreading BS. Intel cannot be remotely compared to AOL, and even your fear-mongering of "stock options getting stolen" is largely BS. For the record, Intel switched from stock options a long time ago to RSUs or restricted stock units. Intel has been in existence for decades and has made steady profits for shareholders for decades. Intel's employees have become literal millionaires - and thousands of them. You're comparing this to some BS based on some cherry picked anecdotal data or some skewed comparison with startups.
Intel is not a startup. It has been rock solid for literally decades - spanning the career lifetime of many many employees. People have literally joined Intel fresh out of college and have retired out of Intel and have seen massive wealth creation from stock options they received. Not the paranoid BS you are writing.
Show me ONE example in Intel's 55+ years of history where Intel's lawyers have screwed Intel's employees out of stock options? Otherwise you're just farting in the wind.
clearly, you must be right.
after all, life is *so* good for jews, here in the US.
with the ratio of muslims to jews in the US, yeah, the jews have it made.
#include "oh_wait.h"
Just tell them I've stopped using Windows at Windows 95. Let them mind their business.
(being slightly less rude: I had to work in Windows machines recently, and I found out the WSL enviromment is completely usable, so, safe for some UI quirks(*), they are doing a good job)
(*) Among which the "black windows with black borders" theme for _some_ apps, which makes it a PITA each time you have one window on top of other - how that ever became the default for anything???
How is this of any significance to humanity? Seems like a weird way to waste both time and money.
here's the story I tell everyone in embedded, who is new to the field.
you want 3 boot partitions. 2 for flash and 1 for ROM.
your update toggles between partA and partB. you cant write to partC, its minimal and in rom. its there in case both A and B are not bootable (watchdog based).
I worked at a company that made radios that were for ISP's to use, tower to tower. a tower climb can cost $10k. you do NOT want to have to hire someone just to reboot or fix bad firmware. we learned that the cost of 3 partitions was worth it.
I used to work at car companies and guess what: they only have 2 boot partitions (at most) and they never have that rom partition. I've told several of them and they dont seem to see the cost benefit. (shrug)
but just be aware, if you want the job done right, have 3 partitions and one should be read-only so that you can always always recover to something; then use that to reflash A and or B.
My computer can beat up your computer. - Karl Lehenbauer
