NASA is elevating its digital platforms for the benefit of all by revamping its flagship and science websites, adding its first on-demand streaming service, and upgrading the NASA app. With these changes, everyone will have access to a new world of content from the space agency.
If it’s called NASA Plus, how is it free? The “plus” means it goes a step beyond their free content and into a paid tier.
Don’t get me wrong this is absolutely fantastic I adore NASA and space, but they’re just be some hidden cost? Otherwise it wouldn’t be a streaming service called NASA Plus, right?
But the Libertarians always have to say it. Nevermind that anything free from a corporation is paid for though advertising, or selling your data, or folded into the item cost, or future purchases, so by this strict definition that “someone is paying for it” means literally nothing is ever free.
It has to be said EVERY TIME someone mentions that public services are offered at no charge.
Everyone knows that… that’s what they mean by free, free to use. Why do you think people don’t know this? Did you just figure it out or something? Are you seriously that slow?
sure. However “plus” means that something is additional to something else. And the question here is what is the basic product that makes this one be the additional
Mauve for this you’ll need to have an account? This would already help nasa market products towards you and this is a good value they can get without you paying anything.
Thats just how science works though, through all of time a VERY large percentage of scientific advancements came from military money. Particle accelerators to make nuclear materials, engines for tanks and planes, even the telescope, galileo got money from the government saying he could help spot ships from farther away.
If it’s called NASA Plus, how is it free? The “plus” means it goes a step beyond their free content and into a paid tier.
Don’t get me wrong this is absolutely fantastic I adore NASA and space, but they’re just be some hidden cost? Otherwise it wouldn’t be a streaming service called NASA Plus, right?
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It’s actually Notepad+, plus it’s free
No, it is Notepad++ and it is called like that because it is written in C++.
Are you sure C++ isn’t just C+, plus it’s free?
They say it’s free but that’s how they get ya. It’ll only cost your soul!
Maybe the real cost was the friends we lost along the way.
Looks like they refer to adding their Science wing into the streaming, too.
In this crazy capitalist world peiple started forgetting that public services can be free, like, for real :D
*Paid for with taxes, not free.
That goes without saying.
It’s free for the end consumer and everyone knows that it is paid with taxes. So saying free is just easier.
But the Libertarians always have to say it. Nevermind that anything free from a corporation is paid for though advertising, or selling your data, or folded into the item cost, or future purchases, so by this strict definition that “someone is paying for it” means literally nothing is ever free.
It has to be said EVERY TIME someone mentions that public services are offered at no charge.
If I need to pay taxes anyway, at least I prefer to have the investment returned back to me in some way, and this seems like a nice way to do so.
Jokes on you, I’m not an American so it really is free for me!
Well it’s free for me!
Everyone knows that… that’s what they mean by free, free to use. Why do you think people don’t know this? Did you just figure it out or something? Are you seriously that slow?
plus just means more I think, they’re adding to their service so it’s “plus”
just because that’s usually a hook to get you to pay more doesn’t mean that’s now the definition of the word
sure. However “plus” means that something is additional to something else. And the question here is what is the basic product that makes this one be the additional
You’re really trying to make this more complicated than it is. Should they just call it NASA? NASA Streaming? NASA VOD?
It’s just a catchy name.
ok, so the word “plus” is used to indicate that it is a streaming service. Got it
Sure, why not. That’s all it means in the context of Disney+.
From their generic FAQ:
from my limited perspective, the word “plus” is to indicate the rest studios/companies that are included in the Disney (parent) company
That’s actually what it has kinda came to mean. Lots of Streaming services are called “Plus”, even if they don’t have a separate non-free version.
What other “plus” apps have a non plus version though? Stone Disney+ it’s just become “the thing” that streaming services go by now
Disney had a several tv channels and an app that was free for subscribers when they launched Disney+ but I don’t know if they still have the old app.
The “free” apps require a cable subscription, so they aren’t really free.
They’re selling our usage data to aliens to pay for server costs
What do you expect? “We’re not hosting an intergalactic kegger down here!”
Mauve for this you’ll need to have an account? This would already help nasa market products towards you and this is a good value they can get without you paying anything.
Mauve you’re right, mauve you’re not, mauve I’ll see for myself.
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Thats just how science works though, through all of time a VERY large percentage of scientific advancements came from military money. Particle accelerators to make nuclear materials, engines for tanks and planes, even the telescope, galileo got money from the government saying he could help spot ships from farther away.
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