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
"Shareholder Primacy" is the biggest most unethical scam that continues to go unchecked as though it were law, which it is most certainly not. It is an unethical and outdated relic of rapacious greed
"On August 19, 2019, 181 CEOs of America’s largest corporations overturned a 22-year-old policy statement that defined a corporation’s principal purpose as maximizing shareholder return" [1]
> continues to go unchecked as though it were law, which it is most certainly not.
On the contrary, Andrew, corporations are chartered through a particular state's corporate code. In every case I'm aware of, the shareholders are the ones who own the company. The "stakeholders" (employees, customers, neighbors) have legally defined rights, which do not include ownership. So it most certainly IS law.
The US Constitution was interpreted by the US Supreme Court to allow corporations to incorporate in the state of their choice, regardless of where their headquarters are. Over the 20th century, most major corporations incorporated under the Delaware General Corporation Law, which offered lower corporate taxes,
These 181 CEOs: did they have any rule-making authority? Or was that result just the opinion of 181 people?
What about all the corporations and single-proprietor businesses that were not part of that? Or the state of Delaware, whose laws govern most of them? Not to mention the Congress and the courts.
A corporations primary goal is enacting shareholders wishes. You can talk about stakeholders all you want. It’s bullshit. Companies exist to do what shareholders want, and 9 times out of ten that is make as much money as possible.
There is nothing to say that additional stakeholders cannot be added in by law, though. Companies would dump mercury into the rivers to make a buck if the law didn't prohibit it.
Sure, companies follow the law because it's in their long term best interests and doing otherwise would interfere with their ability to make money down the line.
> Those people received generous severance packages...
How do you know this? I think its a bit of a stretch to say _everyone_ who has been laid off because of a looming recession has been given a package, unless you just meant the short list of tech in the very specific area of SV. If so I would encourage you to broaden your horizons to think of more than just tech.
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.
Once upon a time there was a fork called 'gimpshop' that added a PS-like UI to gimp. Clever idea. Warning - the current gimpshop domain hosts some scammer's adware-laden rip-off.
You can do all the same stuff in the gimp, but it's just a little more laborious (or a lot more laborious if you're used to photoshop already I guess). The gimp lets you easily do all the same transformations, copy and reapply transformations, etc. It seems like the adjustment layer keeps the original image and the transformations to make it easier to repeatedly tinker with those adjustments and reapply them more quickly, though.
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.
> On the other hand, GIMP still doesn't have Smart Objects or Adjustment Layers.
Or even a layer palette with a list view that acts like a normal list view with e.g. shift-click to multi-select, like every list view on every platform has had for upwards of two decades by now.
I use Photopea at work precisely because of this. I know how to use Photoshop, but I don't have a license for Photoshop as an engineer, but I do sometimes need it. Photopea fills that role perfectly and it's almost a perfect drop-in replacement.
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
