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Audio quality is another big factor with streaming media. Streaming media likes to heavily compress surround sound effects. While discs aren't perfect, they usually have a more immersive audio experience because of less compression
Consider the following:
Google has a fiduciary duty to its shareholders.
Google has no duty to retain an employee hired at-will.
Is it more ethical to reject a duty by favoring the employees? Deontological ethics suggests otherwise.
pretty much all peripheral software (RGB control, anything customization) is Windows-first or Windows-only
Those people received generous severance packages, on top of government unemployment benefits.
Interesting example: Elon Musk is technically an "African American," except the word is actually used to mean Black American
I've played League of Legends for 10 years and have no idea why Riot Games would be a good analogue for NVIDIA. Can you elaborate?
Adjustment layers are a key part of a non-destructive editing workflow. Without them, doing professional work like retouching is much more difficult. GIMP's issue is that they don't seem to care about power user workflows.
Photopea's killer feature is the fact that it, for the most part, directly copies Photoshop's implementations of features. There's no learning curve because it's basically the same. On the other hand, GIMP still doesn't have Smart Objects or Adjustment Layers.
That kind of rotational system is used in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Every role, from teacher to pastor, in a local congregation is done by lay members. Because each person rotates between various roles over the years, there are no political incentives to try to climb the ranks.
It might play out differently in a workplace setting, but a rotational system works well in that religious context.
My understanding of a "conflict of interest" is that they happen when a personal interest interferes with a duty. Ex: a company executive receiving a gift from a potential supplier.
This situation would not be a conflict of interest because Apple has no duty to third party advertisers
What is your definition of "a better place"?
The vast majority of products people buy help them solve problems of all kinds. An economic transaction is a win-win for both buyers and sellers. Look at products like the computer, the car, the telephone, etc. I think the world is becoming a better place as a result.
Your opposition is often seeing things from a logic-based economic lens. You might not have much success making an emotional argument.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you but you need to logically argue why "rent, transport, utilities, medical" are "basic human dignity" and what a "base living wage" is. The fact that you believe everyone should have housing, transport, utilities, or adequate medical care doesn't change the underlying realities of economic scarcity.
It depends what you mean by "produce." Beans are far cheaper than chicken and have a more similar dietary role than chicken vs mangoes.
The Flavor Bible is an excellent book for pairing foods. They also have a vegetarian version.
Outside of the true exclusives, console games are just a subset of PC games. So as a PC gamer, you get access to console games + the majority of MOBA, MMO, RTS, 4X.
Tracking users with online advertising is actually a good thing for economic efficiency. People tend to see more relevant products, and are able to allocate their resources to products that better meet their needs. The best ads aren't lying to people.
particularly online advertising
Online advertising is far, far better than other forms. Marketers can tie individual sales to specific ads and improve ads by making them more like successful ones. This kind of specificity isn't possible with TV or print ads.
what the ads show
A good chunk of advertising is "brand awareness" not necessarily just selling one product. The point of brand awareness is to associate your brand with its brand values in a person's mind.
What GP is talking about isn't always a high five, so slap hands is a better phrase. See here for example: https://youtu.be/T9chSovkDkA?t=34
I'd appreciate it if you could provide some evidence for your claim that comparative advantage is "lost in the noise."
Efficient allocation of scarce resources is best achieved with comparative advantages. A commercial software team has shared context, management, and knowledge that cannot be as efficiently achieved by a decentralized community of contributors. So the commercial team can produce the same software at a cheaper cost. This is a good thing for the economy.
In the long run, a company that wastes money on purchases will be beaten in the market by a company that isn't so wasteful. Marketing and sales is not wasteful, but actually creates profit.
Contracting requires the devs to get up to speed on the software and your company needs. On the other hand, a private company selling commercial software has a comparative advantage in already knowing the codebase and user needs.
10 companies each contracting 1 dev for an open-source project is a less-efficient allocation of resources than 1 company hiring 10 devs for their commercial software project.
rough at the edges
That part is the deal-breaker for many people who actually use these tools for work. It's difficult to daily drive an objectively worse software, when your pay depends on producing value with it.
You might like this playlist from DIY Perks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOJU8YJjFwGOeh6BgCWVh...
justice tends not to occur
I think you're being a little disingenuous. Most police are shooting people in self-defense (https://www.statista.com/statistics/585140/people-shot-to-de...). A minority of victims are actually innocent, and justice still does tend to occur in those specific situations. For instance, George Floyd's killer received a (presumably) just punishment.
The MS controversy is that they implemented a centralized chat signing feature that is not opt-out. Most of the fun Minecraft servers are using a kind of server-side modding, but their users are playing with "vanilla" clients. So if you get banned by MS, you can't join those servers. MS is now the gatekeeper of offensive chat, not the individual servers.
It's a big deal because Minecraft's server system is traditionally very decentralized. However, this change suggests that Microsoft now wants to increasingly centralize the game. Microsoft seems to be going against the game's original ethos.
Many useful server plugins use chat commands for certain features. The in-game whisper chat feature might also need more configuration to emulate it in the external chat.
A Discord server would probably be the best solution.
One example: Geforce Now's streaming machines skimp on CPU strength, so certain CPU-intensive games like Planetside 2 run poorly. There is no way for an end user to solve this problem.