Why YSK: just because you "buy" something digitally, doesn't mean the same when you physically buy something. you are buying ACCESS to the content. don't be surprised if the company revokes access.
A user lost access to his movies in apple's ecosystem. it was a licensing issue
If you look at amazon's policy for the content providers that want to use Amazon's platform: https://videodirect.amazon.com/home/agreement?ref_=avd_hm_ft_la
Under Section "6. General Description of the Service; Distribution Modes:" >(a) purchase a license to access digital copies ...
>(b) purchase a license to access digital copies ...
>(c) access audio visual content via ...
>(d) access audio visual content ....
Nowhere does it mention you own a copy of the audio/visual content. A lawsuit against Apple for using "buying" when you don't really buy anything > "Apple tried to get the lawsuit dismissed, claiming that consumers know that buying something on iTunes doesnβt mean buying it forever."
You don't own games from EA, only a license to the content > The EA Services are licensed to you, not sold. EA grants you a personal, limited, non-transferable, revocable and non-exclusive license to use the EA Services to which you have access for your non-commercial use, subject to your compliance with this Agreement.
Some reddit examples:
It's thanks to piracy we have access to so much media which has become inaccessible through legal means, due to copyright issues and other corporate nonsense. Piracy preserves digital content, it's a fact. If they managed to ban piracy altogether (good luck lol), a lot of games/shows/movies would be completely inaccessible. A lot of old console games cost a fortune and they aren't available for legal digital purchase either because of copyright fuckery or the companies simply refusing to rerelease them on modern store fronts (looking at you, EA, why am I not able to purchase NFS: Underground 2 or the OG Most Wanted)?
It's especially true for PC games, a lot of them came with one time activation codes, and once these codes have been activated, they can not be reused. So forget about buying old physical games. Even if you do find a copy, the money doesn't go towards the original developers, so that's throws the "morality" argument out the window.
Shout out to My Abandonware! If you can't buy something by legal means, there is 0 reason to feel bad for downloading it.
Itβs practically impossible to enforce copyright laws anymore, especially with how widespread internet piracy has become. Just about every movie youβll find on, say, Netflix, is also available on a free-movie streaming site. Itβs both cheaper and more efficient than paying for a subscription service, and it surprises me more people arenβt actively pirating digital media.
First, a few words about the application scale. I'm building an app to replace discord for online projects. It's a better discord with features to publish posts like on reddit and integrated calendar, goals and events. It's meant to help teams of volunteers improve their collaboration and get support from the greater audience. For example, it helps project leads to onboard new volunteers. The coordinators team can easily orient them by sending them to the About or Repository pages. Etc, etc, etc. If you want more info I'm posting updates in r/VisualSpace. There's also a live demo (read only) and a discord server.
Firebase? Digital Ocean? AWS?
I'm starting to have "buyers remorse" regarding Firebase. I mean it's all cool and fancy with all this real time stuff, but... I look at the transfer fees, and the Firebase offer starts to sour a bit. I know for a fact that VS will go into the Terabytes traffic range quite fast (even before the first 12 months) based on expected customers. No question about the high volume expectations. And regardless, there will be lots of teams and files to store. + if you include video editors, things will get nasty fast. So... I was looking at the firebase pricing, and it ain't looking good.
1) Transfer Rates per Tera - I was looking around for Digital Ocean, they seem to brag about tiny transfer rates pricing. Which is a big + for VS. VS will have A LOT of traffic, not just dumb storage/archiving. So I think price sensitivity for data transfer is a top concern.
2) Vendor Lock In - Second thing to consider is vendor lock in. The more I play around the more I realise that Firebase has you by the balls. If you want to do a migration you are toasted. As cool as having a BAAS for prototyping is, I think the real concern is to be able to expand with various infrastructure extensions. I believe that once the effort to build the developer API the true downside of Firebase will show up. It wont be pretty to extend the BAAS with specialised tooling for a developers API.
3) 3rd party developers API - Knowing that there will be a need to build a custom developers API I think building a custom VPS cluster with docker and Kubernetes is more future proof. Also This is something that is still unclear for me. Assuming that you rev a droplet to max throttle in DO it seems that you can get cheaper compute time than AWS by a large margin. Let me know if this is a mi
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What does DMS do?
It's a performance based ad-tech business mostly getting their revenue from generating leads for their customers. They own a bunch of solid platforms like Protect, Aimtell, Zipquote, SparkRoom, (this is their SAAS offering for lead management). Why do customers love DMS? DMS gets paid only based on performance. This has resulted in them having top 10 US insurance companies, top 3 mortgage lenders, top 3 consumer reporting companies, numerous top universities etc. as their clients with a 100% retention rate of their top 20 customers.
THE NUMBERS:
Revenue growth? They've got it.
You might think what kind of revenue can ad-tech really generate? Well this company is brining in $437m in revenue this year. Their revenue growth has also been staggering as seen below:
2017: $67m 2018: $137m 2019: $238m 2020: $333m 2021: $437m-$447m (projected)
Most of their revenue growth has been through aggressive acquisitions but they've achieved 15%+ organic revenue growth through all this.
Profitability? They've got it.
2017: $11m 2018: $25m 2019: $53m 2020: $57m 2021: $60-63m (projected)
They also launched a health insurance agency to capitalize on the medicare enrollment period in Q4 2021. This is a wildcard since now they're directly selling insurance in addition to providing leads. However, it does have the chance to add meaningful revenue.
Free cash flow? They've got it.
All these acquisitions and growth has obviously resulted in them taking on a lot of debt. The current debt stands at $215.7m. However they produced $45m in unlevered free cash flow in 2020 and on track to produce a little over that this year. They also have a $50m revolving credit facility and $18m cash to tap into. So debt is not that big of a problem.
The multiples?
At the current trading price of $4.38 the market cap stands at $272m. Yeah read that again. A company doing $437m in revenue, growing organically at 15%+ rates all the while producing $60m in EBITDA and $45m in unlevered free cash flow is trading at a market cap of $271m.
That is a 0.63x revenue multiple and 4.53x EBITDA multiple. All in all this is in deep value territory, unless I'm missing something.
Quinstreet ($QNST) a similar company, trades at an EV/Revenue multiple of 1.46 and EV/EBITDA multiple of 27.94 as compared to DMS' EV/Revenue multiple of 1.05 and EV/EBITDA multiple of 10.27. Everything points to DMS being very underva
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Hi all, I decided to share my nosurf progress with everyone and hope I can inspire others to follow my path if you are thinking about it and cutting the digital addiction but have your inhibitions on why you canβt let go of that phone.
I am in my early 30s, so I am part of the fortunate age demographic who has seen both sides of life. I got to watch life parallel that of the only way to get ahold of someone was through a land line, or if you were out and about. A pay phone. Your only way to know what was going on in the rest of the world outside of your immediate social circle was to tune into the news on TV. The evolution of the internet made it a quirky utility pre-social media. Even then early platforms such as myspace, made what you could share limited. Website and content creation were exclusive to those who could code and afford insane server storage and bandwidth fees. Talking to people was largely reliant on texting, calling, email, Skype or msn messenger.
Today, as many of you who are here that are trying to break the addiction face the uncertain fear of not being immediately avalible to be contacted. You now have family and friends who exclusively only use, Snapchat or Facebook messenger and canβt be bothered with texting or phone calls. Or acquaintances who are not quite on the tier of being contacted directly, so we rely on emotes, post reacts and occasional comments to make conversation brief at best.
I will admit, psychedelics in large part are to thank, even though its been nearly 6 months since Iβve last used any, shrooms to be specific. They also helped me realize antidepressants and anti anxiety pills such as zoloft and Wellbutrin were not the answer. No surf is. Digital detox is a tool Iβve used frequently, for many years, around October I would unplug until the New Years before getting lured back into Facebook as I would always keep messenger active to keep in touch with those who couldnt be reached without it. But my journey into using psychedelics, my view on smart phones and social media began to sour fast.
I remember early news reports before smartphones took over the world and social media became so dominant that researchers were finding that these devices were activating similar parts of the brain as heroin and other opiate drugs. Reflecting on my own experiences with smart phones, my average daily screen time was creeping past the 9 hour mark. I was addicted. I could not sleep without checking my phone, I would wake up throu
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Hi, first time here, so excuse me if I forget something I should have here.
I'm looking for someone to make a digital art for stream/social media use. I have a reference art of my character below. For details:
Style: clean anime style - example, Banished from the Hero's Party anime.
Content: my character in a free fall pose (also have a reference from the internet for this). It can be waist up or full body, I don't mind either. Only very simple sky background (some blue with white smudges).
Character details: male, one angelic wing (won't be visible in full), plate armor covering one arm (will be 100% visible, I have some reference for this too), eye patch (or closed eyes if it would be weird in this pose), calm/bland/bored expression, simple and mundene medieval-looking clothes.
For use as: background on various social media and as a stream asset (background, transitions etc). I don't plan to sell it in any way.
Budget: I'm aiming for 50-100$. If it is too low, please don't be offended, thats what I got for it.
The style and preserving listed character details is of course the most important for me. Feel free to PM here or in comments or on twitter (@VeraelHasta, yeah, kinda empty for now)
In the threads about the Emperor's height we always come ot the conclusion that its vague and unseeable to anybody who's described him, but the low bound seems to be that he's at least of average size.
If he is seen in movies, shows, etc, how should he be portrayed? Personally I would love for them to only portray him with heavy CGI or some vague animations to try and obscure his physical details as much as they've been obscured in the books. And if there's some true form to be seen behind that, I think it should be decrepitly dead.
If it's during the Horus Heresy then I think they shouldn't even show him directly, if they show him then just show his boots standing over the rows of people constantly bowing to him.
I ask cause were a generation that has dealt with it most imo.
In my lifetime, so far I have gone through almost every single music media type there is. Records, 8 tracks, cassette tapes, compact discs, and lastly mini discs. Yup, I had a mini disc player. Used it for physical activity back in the late 90s since every disc man I tried always skipped.
But for the most part I bought mostly CDs over the years. And many of them. At one point I had around 600. I still have many of them stashed away. The last CD I bought was almost 10 years ago though. I been digital with music since.
Dvds and blu-ray? About 5 years ago was my last purchase. At one point I had over 200 dvd movies. Sold most of them for only a dollar few years ago. And only a handful of blu-rays.
And with gaming? Same deal.... Gave em up 5 years ago as well.
I am and have been completely digital with music, games, and movie media now for a handful of years and love it and hate it.
I love the idea that the movie/game/album is there at my fingertips. I don't have to get up and put it in a player anymore.
But I hate how easily it now is and how it has taken a part of me that I'll never get back again, which is.........
The excitement...... The excitement of getting a new movie/game/album etc. Where you go out to the store and pick it up and actually hold it in your hands knowing you will be enjoying it later. The drive there. Or running into a friend and telling them why your there and they tell you that they're there for the same reason etc. And you share your excitement together.
Now?
I can hear or view an album or movie in secs the moment hear about it.
Games are a little different. Most games I download take 20 mins tops. But still a lot faster than running out and picking it up. When it came to games you're looking at a guy that has gone to multiple midnight video game releases back in the day. The Halo 3 release was insane in 07.
Those were fun times indeed. New media Tuesdays is what I used to call it. Couldn't wait to go to either Walmart for movies, Gamestop for games, and then my local record store at the dying mall we had, to pick up my music.
That thrill is gone.
It's kind of like taking the journey out of a vacation trip and just being instantly amused now.
Yeah, so I'm a digital guy now that loves and hates it. Would love to hear about your story. And I'm sure we're gonna have some really good ones here.
And I can almost bet we're also gonna have some big physic
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Iβm asking regarding written contents produced by media moguls . Are they still a thing or the new era is all about videos ( visual ) I personally see myself not interested in them and eventually theyβll vanish and put their content visual way only
I have a 2007 Honda Accord LX Coupe, and I was wondering how exactly the digital media receivers work? I know I have to pick a size single din or double and Iβm leaning towards the double din as of right now however the questions come there.. If Iβm looking to buy a double din do I have to be worried about if itβll be compatible with my car? Or does every head unit have the same plugs and can be used in any car? I also know that I have to get the dash kit to make the double din fit but if Iβm looking at something like the Sony xavax1000 which says itβs double din will it always fit the double din dash kit? Thank you!
First, a few words about the application scale. I'm building an app to replace discord for online projects. It's a better discord with features to publish posts like on reddit and integrated calendar, goals and events. It's meant to help teams of volunteers improve their collaboration and get support from the greater audience. For example, it helps project leads to onboard new volunteers. The coordinators team can easily orient them by sending them to the About or Repository pages. Etc, etc, etc. If you want more info I'm posting updates in r/VisualSpace. There's also a live demo (read only) and a discord server.
Firebase? Digital Ocean? AWS?
I'm starting to have "buyers remorse" regarding Firebase. I mean it's all cool and fancy with all this real time stuff, but... I look at the transfer fees, and the Firebase offer starts to sour a bit. I know for a fact that VS will go into the Terabytes traffic range quite fast (even before the first 12 months) based on expected customers. No question about the high volume expectations. And regardless, there will be lots of teams and files to store. + if you include video editors, things will get nasty fast. So... I was looking at the firebase pricing, and it ain't looking good.
1) Transfer Rates per Tera - I was looking around for Digital Ocean, they seem to brag about tiny transfer rates pricing. Which is a big + for VS. VS will have A LOT of traffic, not just dumb storage/archiving. So I think price sensitivity for data transfer is a top concern.
2) Vendor Lock In - Second thing to consider is vendor lock in. The more I play around the more I realise that Firebase has you by the balls. If you want to do a migration you are toasted. As cool as having a BAAS for prototyping is, I think the real concern is to be able to expand with various infrastructure extensions. I believe that once the effort to build the developer API the true downside of Firebase will show up. It wont be pretty to extend the BAAS with specialised tooling for a developers API.
3) 3rd party developers API - Knowing that there will be a need to build a custom developers API I think building a custom VPS cluster with docker and Kubernetes is more future proof. Also This is something that is still unclear for me. Assuming that you rev a droplet to max throttle in DO it seems that you can get cheaper compute time than AWS by a large margin. Let me know if this is a mi
... keep reading on reddit β‘First, a few words about the application scale. I'm building an app to replace discord for online projects. It's a better discord with features to publish posts like on reddit and integrated calendar, goals and events. It's meant to help teams of volunteers improve their collaboration and get support from the greater audience. For example, it helps project leads to onboard new volunteers. The coordinators team can easily orient them by sending them to the About or Repository pages. Etc, etc, etc.
Firebase? Digital Ocean? AWS?
I'm starting to have "buyers remorse" regarding Firebase. I mean it's all cool and fancy with all this real time stuff, but... I look at the transfer fees, and the Firebase offer starts to sour a bit. I know for a fact that VS will go into the Terabytes traffic range quite fast (even before the first 12 months) based on expected customers. No question about the high volume expectations. And regardless, there will be lots of teams and files to store. + if you include video editors, things will get nasty fast. So... I was looking at the firebase pricing, and it ain't looking good.
1) Transfer Rates per Tera - I was looking around for Digital Ocean, they seem to brag about tiny transfer rates pricing. Which is a big + for VS. VS will have A LOT of traffic, not just dumb storage/archiving. So I think price sensitivity for data transfer is a top concern.
2) Vendor Lock In - Second thing to consider is vendor lock in. The more I play around the more I realise that Firebase has you by the balls. If you want to do a migration you are toasted. As cool as having a BAAS for prototyping is, I think the real concern is to be able to expand with various infrastructure extensions. I believe that once the effort to build the developer API the true downside of Firebase will show up. It wont be pretty to extend the BAAS with specialised tooling for a developers API.
3) 3rd party developers API - Knowing that there will be a need to build a custom developers API I think building a custom VPS cluster with docker and Kubernetes is more future proof. Also This is something that is still unclear for me. Assuming that you rev a droplet to max throttle in DO it seems that you can get cheaper compute time than AWS by a large margin. Let me know if this is a misunderstanding on my side. I do expect that the VS app will have constant compute demands, so I expect AWS to be eye watering expensive.
4) Custom vs Managed Load Balancing A
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