gordwait’s Comments

• Aug 18th, 2020 @ 10:27am

  Antitrust? How many platforms is Fortnight available on?

  on The Fortnite App Store Battle: A Real Antitrust Conundrum, Or Just A Carefully Planned Out Contract Negotiation?

  PC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Android, iOS, any others?
  I have zero interest in who "wins" this but claiming monopoly is ridiculous..

• Jan 15th, 2016 @ 11:08am

  Quality? Not from my streaming service..

  on No, The Internet Hasn't Destroyed Quality Music Either
  On the way to work in my car, twice in the same song (Space Oddity, because.. ) did the stream glitch and get interrupted like a cassette tape with a very bad crinkle.
  
  So yes _when_ it plays, the quality is more than good enough for the drive to work.
  
  And to start it, I tried "Ok Google, play Space Oddity by David Bowie". Two things happened. Instead of loading up Google Play Music (I have a subscription), it went and found a Youtube track (this is a regular but random occurrence). Then my bluetooth stereo kicked into "Voice Dial" mode and I had to power cycle it to get things back.
  
  I should install a cassette player in the car. You press play, it effing works.
  
  I do have a CD player, guess it's time to make a few mix discs..
• Sep 23rd, 2015 @ 10:12am

  Re: It's official

  on Thailand Might Be Required To Sacrifice Plant And Seed Sovereignty For The Sake Of Trade Agreement With EU
  You beat me to it.
• Sep 10th, 2015 @ 5:26pm

  My favourite failure mode?

  on DailyDirt: Listening To Muzak On A Long Space Elevator Ride...
  Lightning strikes.
  
  Let's see your super thin carbon nanotube rope cut right through a thunderhead without frying.
  
  Harvesting electical power from clouds is an obvious thing, so nobody bother to patent in mkay?
• Apr 23rd, 2015 @ 11:44am

  Simple. Don't buy them.

  on DVD Makers Say That You Don't Really Own The DVDs You Bought... Thanks To Copyright
  I've only watched the handful of live concert DVD's I bought once, maybe showed a few friends some choice cuts.
  
  Movie DVDs? Save your money. There are so many interesting sources of entertainment now, life is too short to watch the same movie twice. Just wait for the retread - you know - the one where they add a Spiderman role to it.
  
  There's a meme for someone, insert Spiderman into all sorts of unlikely retreads!
• Feb 23rd, 2015 @ 1:10pm

  Were they ordered not to speak about it?

  on Gemalto Takes The Lenovo Approach: Denies Any Real Risk From NSA Hacking Its Encryption Keys
  With this "new world" we've found ourselves, how many other software packages we let autoupdate have government ordered spyware installed in them?
  
  Oracle has sure been pushing out a lot of Java updates,
  how do we know we can trust them?
  They may be under a national security order not to talk about any "special features"...
  
  Turns out the tinfoil hat gang was right..