Posts by ecofeco 8240 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010
I'm surprised that the TV makers and cable companies haven't forced the TV to stay on 24 hours such that if you hit the "power off", it just goes into "ad mode" and shoves ads at the screen.
Don't think they haven't tried. Look at the Tivo ad blocking/skip lawsuits. Hell, "fast forward" on VCR came under attack and yes, even the mute button.
Yet the whole reason for PCs was independence from the timeshare/mainframe/subscription structure with the bonus of privacy and security.
And will continue to be so. MS, like Adobe, are ignoring this at their peril. As are all cloud based systems.
I read a LOT of old sci-fi when I was younger and still do. So much that I can't keep up with authors or even book titles any more. But the stories? Yeah, I still remember the stories.
I find it odd that of almost all the sci-fi ever written, it's been the dystopias that seem to have come to pass. Very odd indeed.
Even more odd is the fact that most of the public libraries where I live have very small sci-fi sections and a serious shortage of the old masters. You would think it was a conspiracy of some kind.
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