Steve Humiston

What do movie theaters offer?  better quality? No, I have dolby atmos and 4k at home. iMax does.. somewhat... but it's very expensive to take a family.

While my home theater allows me to stop/start.. have snacks that i want.. drinks that i want...

Movies have been a thing in the past for "going out".. but you go out to not talk.. just "see" each other..but you have to deal with lots of other types of people.. people who use phones, talk, yadda in the theater... I think covid kinda made that much more apparent.

As someone with a degenerative eye disease, the thought of smart glasses is amazing.. instead of using my phone to blow up menus, create light in restaurants.. doing it from the glasses would be awesome.. not having to bother others. I suspect the biggest hurdle for glasses is power...

while most items in this genre are niche and can be used to do small things for short periods of time.. eye glasses would probably be needed for longer... especially prescription... battery saving.. long term use.. lots of things to build on.

People who barely made it through HS: "WE WANT TRUMP"

People with advanced education degrees: "WE WANT BIDEN (or something that leans more left)"

In the end, that's the nutshell of our issues in the US. The uneducated refuse to shut up and listen. And since it failed at it, even in HS, they won't learn anything so it's pointless to try to lead them out of their "anti-science", "fake news", "lack of critical thought", and "indoctrinated ways". They are told things and if it aligns with how they actually feel, they believe it.

That's it, there is nothing more.

40domi said:

Most people on here seem to be judging the man and his actions, rather than a valid point, I've been an Apple user for 7 years now and this is news to me!
Whenever I delete an iMessage on my iPhone it seems to delete it on my Mac as well and vice versa, am I missing something here?
iCloud sync should work that way, otherwise it's not a sync, ie; one action on one devise being mirrored on all devises in iCloud, I wouldn't be too sure this guy has no leg to stand on with this suit!

I agree, and even the replies seem to be more worried about him losing the suit...

I couldn't care less about his stupidity... I've noticed this behavior, myself and it bothers me... if you sync my messages, you should sync my deletes... that's how syncing works.

Tampering with speeds

• Sprint is slowing traffic to Skype, which is owned by its competitor, Microsoft.
• The largest telecom companies are slowing internet traffic to and from popular apps like YouTube and Netflix.

Playing favorites with data caps

• AT&T is openly advertising that cellular customers can stream the company’s DirecTV Now product without it counting against monthly data caps. Meanwhile, all of the competing video services like Sling TV, Hulu, YouTube TV, Netflix, or Amazon Prime count against AT&T data caps — and video can quickly chew through a monthly data plan’s download allotment. AT&T’s behavior is almost a pure textbook example of why net neutrality rules were put into place — to stop ISPs from putting competitor’s products at a disadvantage. AT&T is the biggest cellular provider in the country and this creates a huge advantage for DirecTV Now. All of the major cellular carriers are doing something similar in allowing some video to not count against the monthly data cap, but AT&T is the only one pushing their own product.

Throttling bandwidth and network traffic

• A study led by Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst found that internet service providers are “giving a fixed amount of bandwidth — typically something in the range of one and a half megabits per second to four megabits per second — to video traffic, but they don’t impose these limits on other network traffic.” This slowing down of internet speeds is called throttling, and according to researcher Dave Choffnes, “nearly every U.S. cell phone provider” is doing it.
• Verizon has been throttling County Fire, the fire department charged with responding to California wildfires. “This throttling has had a significant impact on our ability to provide emergency services,” says Fire Chief Anthony Bowden. “Verizon imposed these limitations despite being informed that throttling was actively impeding County Fire’s ability to provide crisis-response and essential emergency services.”

Orchestrating “free” giveaways

• Verizon FiOS recently began giving free Netflix for a year to new broadband customers. AT&T also started giving out free HBO to new customers last year. This practice is more subtle than the cellular carrier practice of blocking or throttling content. One of the purposes of net neutrality was for ISPs to not discriminate against web traffic. By giving away free video services, the landline broadband companies are promoting specific web services over competitors. Smaller, start up ISP providers who don’t have large media services to give away for free are placed at a disadvantage, even though their cost or service may be superior.

The digital divide between those with broadband internet access and those without — disproportionately people of color, rural, and low-income — has never been more stark than it has been during the pandemic, as schools, health care providers, jobs, and other everyday necessities have moved online. As such, broadband access has rightly been a focal point of the American Jobs Plan and the latest COVID relief package. But we need to talk about what broadband access really means. If ISPs are dictating what content we can access, then a subscription to broadband service is considerably less meaningful. To fulfill its purpose, the internet must remain free and open. That means we need to restore net neutrality now.

IT'S ABOUT TIME.. and hopefully that'll help streaming services... they are being slowly eaten into 1 company ... i liked when I had choices.