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Comment Re:Matter of Opinion (Score 2) 150

It is a matter of opinion that they are losing money. If I want to share my password on my account, I should be able to do that. The streaming services can limit my number of streams if they want.

They do. Of the services I subscribe to, and share my password with my family, Netflix allows five, Hulu allows four, AT&TTVNow allows two. Not sure about Amazon Prime, but they haven't told me I'm using too many.

Comment Yep (Score 1) 240

Webster, Texas has been on a long downhill slide for two years. Optical media (CD/DVD/BluRay) removed and replaced with "as seen on TV" a year ago. Then, a month ago when I went to buy a solder sucker, electronic parts were down to about 25% of original shelf space and the only one available was part of a $50 kit. This place is literally two miles from NASA/Johnson Space Center, so there is no shortage of geeks that could keep their hobbyist section alive.

Comment Re:Not really (Score 1) 137

Surely you jest. Yes, an OLED is susceptible to burn-in, but will not let you down if treated properly. A display model, which has probably been set to a static image for hundreds of hours, is not a proper case study. I have a 2015 OLED with 7000 hours on it. Not a bit of burn-in. I wouldn't trade it for anything (especially because in addition the color advantages of OLED, it's also a 3-D model.

Comment Re:Incumbent car makers don't care about EVs (Score 1) 112

Maybe today's market is tiny, but in 15 years, it will have to be 100% of the new car market. Possibly a little less if the next Administration cracks down and actually outlaws two-strokes and engines without catalytic converters (leaf blowers and lawn mowers have ~11 times the carbon footprint of automobiles on an hourly usage basis).

Every car maker wants to make electric vehicles, they just don't want to pay for the R&D to make good ones, and are waiting for somebody else to shoulder the initial financial burden. When everyone wakes up to smell the coffee, there won't be anyone losing money making electric cars; the prices will have to go up, and consumers will have to pay them.

Comment Re:The real question: (Score 3, Informative) 90

That question isn't exactly relevant to this discussion, because Locast just uses the exact same model. They're not skipping commercials or substituting their own--they are only echoing the broadcast. It's a very useful service. My son isn't allowed to install an outdoor antenna in his Brooklyn apartment, and accesses local broadcasts on his AppleTV.

Comment Re:Prior to 2018? (Score 1) 109

Umm... in 1999 there weren't Smartphones that had "GPS, Internet connection and Mapping software." Also, you're reading the summary. It's like saying "Titanic was a derivative movie, there was already a 'best love story of all time'". That's meaningless. You have to look at the actual claims.

There were GPS and cellular modem add-ons available for the Palm III in 1999. TCP/IP stack was built-in, with browser and email capabilities.

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