Half of them aren’t in China though. It’s dropshippers, so you still get your cheap death traps, but you get them in a few days, Amazon get their enormous cut, and they get to take no responsibility when it burns your house down.
Half of them aren’t in China though. It’s dropshippers, so you still get your cheap death traps, but you get them in a few days, Amazon get their enormous cut, and they get to take no responsibility when it burns your house down.
Shit, most of Amazon is that as well.
And the product thumbnails that all look like sex toys.
Yeah, it’s the reason I cancelled Amazon the day they announced that, while Netflix shambles on.
If they haven’t been doing so for at least a decade, I’m sure their shareholders will want to know why not.
You’d think so, but who do you think pays huge sums of money every year to be allowed to sell death traps to the public?
But of course. If artists want to fight for their rights, they better get their own lawyers.
Yeah, there’s no real costs, because in this case it’s a cost of “lost opportunity” in advertising.
As a rich westerner, your eyeballs are worth more than some rickshaw driver in deepest darkest India, because you have more money to fritter away on nonsense.
Never understood how the third world pricing logic holds up for things like video games, since the hardware to play them costs pretty much the same no matter where you are.
I gave up trying to figure out what the “bitness” of CPUs were around the time the Atari Jaguar came out and people described it as 64 bit because it had 32 bit graphics chip plus a 32 bit sound chip.
It’s been mostly marketing bollocks since forever.
I’d imagine 60 million dollars to google is like 60 cents to most of us.
Torrenting was blocked on it anyway, as far as I could tell.
If five people can maintain a service bigger than all those combined, then the big streamers need to buck their fucking ideas up.
The whole “but what about the one journey a year you make that’s outside the normal battery range?” is such an obvious fossil fuel industry boondoggle. It’s up there with “but what about that one time you had to move a fridge?” when convincing people that a Ford F150 is a normal sized family car.
For the same reason they include spelling errors in their emails, it certainly helps when only their dumbest victims get past the initial pitch.
To do:
Cheaper headset
Actual controllers
Make it work with PCs
Right wingers and authoritarians get mixed up a lot.
Well that’s still better than the weird Indian witch doctor spam I see on a couple of forums I visit.
God, it’s like women’s clothing sizes all over again.
Shouldn’t come as much surprise though. We’re not going to risk nuclear armageddon over nVidia’s stock price.
There’ll be lots of huffing and puffing, stern statements and red lines drawn, but if China decide they really want it, they’ll take it and the rest of the world won’t really do much.
Everyone has way too much of their infrastructure in China and they know it.
As he counts his money.