I find the business of licensed uses of fonts interesting. It made sense for printed documents, but it gets hairy now with CSS being able to download custom fonts.
So you much rather watch a movie broken up with ads then?
Content of any consistent good quality is expensive to produce. Even some crappy you tube channels that has a quality a bit higher then a phone clip, often takes hours of production work. Factoring in time is costing thousands of dollars per 15minute clip.
A TV Show is usually a over a million per episode.
Remote Work should be a different concern then your Outsourcing. The biggest issue I see with working with different countries isn't the Time Zone, as you just base the Time Zone on the companies home location, and you just need to expect the employees to be working around home base time. So if the Company Home base is in New York, then if you are Chinese worker you still need to be available during Eastern Standard Time. But the biggest problem I have seen with Wide Remote Work across countries is differences in Cultures. If you have a Programmer working in India, they are working with Indian Culture, which will often clash with American Culture. However if you take the same person and move them to America, they are much more compatible, because they are operating within the US culture.
I am not sure why AirPlay is part of this fight. Apple Historically had the ability to a Companies biggest competitor and strongest strategic business partner at the same time. Yes Apple iTune services is in direct competition with Netflix, but using Apple Products (for those who like them) with Netflix, is a popular viewing method. Making Netflix harder to use on Apple Products, will make the product owners have to choose between getting new hardware, or switching services. Being that Netflix isn't in the business of selling Netflix boxes, that will mean a drop in customers for Netflix, as a good number (I expect 20%) would stick with Apple and Drop Netflix. Where if Netflix continued to play well with Apple Products, then there will be a smaller number of switchers where many would just buy into both services, and less would do a full switch. The trick to Apples model is you have a physical device where there is an emotional attachment to, vs a service which you can drop without feeling bad about it.
There are still issues with streaming services and new ones creeping up. For example. Disney+ CBS All Access
Netflix/Hulu/Amazon Prime/iTunes had been spots where you can get most of your content with one bill. However with these network only Streaming Sites, we are creating a case where we are paying near full cable price for less content, and canceling is a hassle multiplying itself.
Plus streaming sometimes forces us to stick to watching the shows we saw all the time, and never getting into something new.
That said, the biggest issue with Cable TV is the fact that there isn't much diversity on it. Just countless channels showing the same show all day. It isn't like Cable TV 20/30 years ago. Where they had more diversity, even if they were less popular shows.
Being an American company, there is a strong cultural bias towards free speech. Even though Constitutionally the First Amendment only applies to the government not companies. Americans in general have more tolerance towards "bad speech" while they may disagree with it, and condemn it, they often will not want to see it censored or banned. Mostly due to the fact that a lot of this is considered subjective, and can be used against your views in the future if your point of view is unpopular.
Now this is really an American value. Other countries, have a different tolerance on where the line should be drawn, this doesn't make them wrong, but some countries will draw the line much further to a point where banning political ideas that is opposing the party in power is considered harmful hate speech.
A lot of good parenting is being able to redirect bad behavior before it goes too far. You should get the kid off the game when you see they are getting too into it. Got then to do a chore or homework something productive. We are not rewarded bad behavior but we are not punishing them either. Just redirect their behavior.
Kids get addicted to anything. It is what kids do, they gravitate towards what they can do well, then work hard to improve on what they are good at. Some kids do this with sports, I did this with programming, other kids do it with game, music, scholastics... For most kids you see them gravitating towards some select set of skills. The problem with Fortnight the game is challenging enough to get better, but easy enough to get good quickly.
“Enough games, [go outside and play / do your homework / do these chores / let’s do something else...]”
I was a kid once, they had video games then too, and they were very compelling and if I had my way I would be playing them all the time. When my parents told me to stop I was mad at them. Because I was so close to winning and or I was having a good run.
But turning off the video games isn’t abuse. And you shouldn’t be allowing your kid to play games at the cost of their health and education.
There are some big questions to this. I got my masters degree from an another school then my undergrad degree. Who is to say how much of my salary is from my undergrad education and how much from my masters.
A student after a year or two determines that they don’t like that school and switch. Or fail out and one they matured they went to an other school.
Or the cases of the Billionaire college dropouts like Bill Gates, who realized they could make more money with their own business then wasting more time at school.
This method is hiding the fact the College Education is too expensive and a way to make college administrators lives easier by not finding area to save money. Such as not keeping on building new building but utilizing the space they have.
I found the charging mat to be rather lackluster on its initial show off. Part of the thing is, after the initial show, I haven't heard people waiting for this charging mat, most of them if they wanted wireless charging just kinda got one and started using it. Me I got 2. one for work from Samsung, and one from home. Mostly because the Samsung charger has an annoying blue LED to show it is charging, which is bright and hard to sleep next to my bed, while the one from home has a small red LED which is much easier to sleep with.
Now I think Apple Jump the gun, by showing off a demo a couple years ago, and really is messing up setting expectations. But if they couldn't getting it working well then they should just cancel it. I expect the issue is how sensitive wireless charging it. I actually like wireless charging, as most of the time a failure in my phone is often from strain from the charging connector, wireless charging reduces the stress on the phone. However while I got it charging if I move the phone slightly it stops charging, or if I put it on the charger too off center it will not charge. It seems to me the physics of a mat wireless charger would be difficult to get it to work as it was advertised, Just a large mat and drop your device(s) on it and they will start charging. Sure I can see something that looks like a mat, but has 2 or 3 chargers in it. But then it is just multiple wireless chargers in one case, and you need to put your phone on the right spot. Now I know Slashdot love to hate Apple, and will point out every time they didn't do something 100% right. But for the most part they don't produce crap products, and they will often work as advertised. Just the problem is we sometimes think they will do something that isn't advertised.
I always thought because Linux is a Server OS and these distributions just kinda put a Desktop GUI on top of a Server OS. Linux in terms of UI has always had the problem for the group of people between Grandma and Experts. The people who want to use a computer for more then just basic browsing and word processing, but doesn't need to be editing configuration files, and messing with odd settings trying to get software to work correctly. For Debian/Ubuntu systems if it isn't in Apt then you better get ready for a good few hour block trying to get the app to work (ok the.DEB files arn't that bad) and then to find that that software isn't what you were looking for to then spend a while trying to cleanly uninstall it.
Not all people who have bad internet connection are poor. It is just that they are not absurdly rich to get ISP's to get wires to their home. Some farmers who actually make a good living, may be miles away from the Internet Infrastructure, however will benefit getting information on weather, commodity prices, veterinarian results, bank account data, new on any new regulations, and communication with others.
There is a difference between East Coast rural, then mid-west rural. East Coast farms may have a few thousand acres, still small enough to be in rage of Cell Data, But in the mid-west a ranch are measured in square miles. Not profitable to put up Cell Towers to additional ISP wires (Cable/Fiber)
Dark Matter hasn't been proven yet. However its hypothesized nature does fit into the mathematical models of the trended data of the observed universe. Right now with our understanding of gravity and the universe expansion it would seem that we need more mass then what is observable. Could it be something different, yes. But the point of this article, is try to find ways to detect this "Dark Matter" where we then can either show that it does exist and now it is observable (no longer being dark matter) we can study it further and see if its properties does indeed help fill out all the number to match our models.
If we see that n^2 = 9 n will be equal to 3 or -3, both fit the model. However chances are it will be 3 not -3 as positive values are more common then negative ones. This isn't good enough to pass a math test, however if we are going to make a model of the universe, we should pick the more common and simplest answer then trying to explain the more complex model.
Most countries do not have free speech and the right to bare arms, as a Constitutional Amendments. While many countries may have these as rights on the book, they are not fundamental to the government so the governments are allowed more leeway for good or for ill. Free Speech and bearing arms The United States 1st and 2nt amendment respectively. Are the two most dangerous things people can have as a right. It isn't unreasonable to think other countries would want to have more control over these. As well many of the people would feel safer with controls on these.
However like most things political it isn't what they do but why and how they do it. Limiting Free Speech to make sure dangerous speech is limited is actually a good thing. But Limiting Free Speech to keep your ideas in power is a bad thing.
And those State Sponsored VPNs are now blocking banned sites. Just remember that before you sign up to a free VPN service, thinking your data is going to be so much more secure.
If your proof that P = NP is incorrect but not yet independently identified, or had found a fault. But your proof is more of a Postulate or a Theorem.
One can still criticize a proof even if they cannot produce a counter proof. Because your proof isn't the final outcome but the steps to get to that point. I don't have you discredit your Poof of P = NP by proving that P != NP but by going threw the steps in your poof, finding the error in your logic, often making an assumption or muddying the proof with other methods such as "Proof by intimation" by often stating something like "It is now obvious to anyone with a half a brain that from point A we now lead to point C."
There is a key difference between mobile service and free access to a website. The reason for Ads on websites, is because many of them are nearly hard to monetize. Back in the early 2000's we talked about micropayments where you would be charged a fraction of a cent to hit a webpage. However that never caught on. Ads on most websites are the best way for them to make money, as their business model is based on trying to make it a popular place to go to. The economic problem is making a complex website is expensive, however it handles a lot of users for its investment so it may lead to a dollar per user. But charging people a small amount for access is just annoying to the users who can find somewhere else for free. So the Ad model came to be. However for Mobile service we can charge the individual, for it. Because it is one bill for a unified service, and they can pick what they want more speed, less speed, unlimited, bandwidth caps...
I would recommend that you get your education in science from more reputable sources then Cable TV
The problem with these sources is that they are trying to stay interesting all the time. So when they actually report on Science it is often on the far off Hypothesis of the week. The Hypothesis process of the scientific method can be wrong, and usually incomplete. But it is the question that is asked, that requires further research to say yes this is a good idea, or no this is a stupid idea.
In terms of the new Ice Age 40 years ago, this was based on smog blocking out the sun, We had improvements in many parts of the world to reduce smog, so this was reduced... However during the recent Olympics in China. They found that the weather had gotten noticeably warmer when the Chinese Government Stopped Smog for the days during the Olympics.
The fungus spread is due to it being an invasive species being spread by human global trade. So it is still our fault. Global Climate change may also have an effect on this as well. As many amphibian are already stressed from changes in their climate, meaning they are less likely to handle the Fungus and other stresses as well.
The biggest problem is that with our exponential advancements in science and engineering over the last 150 years, we have created changes in our environment at an unprecedented rate where the earths natural balances cannot keep up. The problems are far more complex then Stop Driving Cars, and put up solar cells, also just feeling guilty on what is happening isn't helpful either. However denying the problems exist isn't helpful as well, because the problem is from mankind and we need to work out a balanced solution that will moderate the amount of long term damage we do for short term benefit.
Having done vendor certified repair of electronics in the past. I remember a lot of cases of bad repair jobs and people cheeping out that really put the equipment in much worse case then the original problem. A cheap ebay replacement battery, or power supply that saved the guy $20 off the part, ended up costing an addition $500 for a repair, because the power on the 3rd party device was way off, and damaged a lot of expensive components, or lacked the fuses/safety devices that would protect from further damage. What often makes it worse is when the guy brings us the broken equipment then just lies about the fact they had replaced it with a 3rd party part, and voided warranty. What makes it worse, is the fact that we state that it isn't under warranty, and they think we just want to do this because we get paid more. While the truth is doing Warranty repair is better for the business, because the company is timely in paying and we don't need to fight to get our payments, also most of the business was B2B having to do single customer fixes, we try to lower our rates a bit just to avoid negative reviews, as we don't expect them to come back again.
Now when the person fixes the problem them-self, and an other problem goes bad, then they will bad mouth the product, because they broke it further.
It is obvious that you never been to business class either. At least not the same classes I went to. I took my MBA in post Enron, and there was a huge push towards ethics in all the classes.
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I find the business of licensed uses of fonts interesting. It made sense for printed documents, but it gets hairy now with CSS being able to download custom fonts.
So you much rather watch a movie broken up with ads then?
Content of any consistent good quality is expensive to produce. Even some crappy you tube channels that has a quality a bit higher then a phone clip, often takes hours of production work. Factoring in time is costing thousands of dollars per 15minute clip.
A TV Show is usually a over a million per episode.
Remote Work should be a different concern then your Outsourcing. The biggest issue I see with working with different countries isn't the Time Zone, as you just base the Time Zone on the companies home location, and you just need to expect the employees to be working around home base time. So if the Company Home base is in New York, then if you are Chinese worker you still need to be available during Eastern Standard Time. But the biggest problem I have seen with Wide Remote Work across countries is differences in Cultures. If you have a Programmer working in India, they are working with Indian Culture, which will often clash with American Culture. However if you take the same person and move them to America, they are much more compatible, because they are operating within the US culture.
I am not sure why AirPlay is part of this fight. Apple Historically had the ability to a Companies biggest competitor and strongest strategic business partner at the same time. Yes Apple iTune services is in direct competition with Netflix, but using Apple Products (for those who like them) with Netflix, is a popular viewing method. Making Netflix harder to use on Apple Products, will make the product owners have to choose between getting new hardware, or switching services. Being that Netflix isn't in the business of selling Netflix boxes, that will mean a drop in customers for Netflix, as a good number (I expect 20%) would stick with Apple and Drop Netflix. Where if Netflix continued to play well with Apple Products, then there will be a smaller number of switchers where many would just buy into both services, and less would do a full switch.
The trick to Apples model is you have a physical device where there is an emotional attachment to, vs a service which you can drop without feeling bad about it.
There are still issues with streaming services and new ones creeping up.
For example.
Disney+
CBS All Access
Netflix/Hulu/Amazon Prime/iTunes had been spots where you can get most of your content with one bill. However with these network only Streaming Sites, we are creating a case where we are paying near full cable price for less content, and canceling is a hassle multiplying itself.
Plus streaming sometimes forces us to stick to watching the shows we saw all the time, and never getting into something new.
That said, the biggest issue with Cable TV is the fact that there isn't much diversity on it. Just countless channels showing the same show all day.
It isn't like Cable TV 20/30 years ago. Where they had more diversity, even if they were less popular shows.
Being an American company, there is a strong cultural bias towards free speech. Even though Constitutionally the First Amendment only applies to the government not companies. Americans in general have more tolerance towards "bad speech" while they may disagree with it, and condemn it, they often will not want to see it censored or banned. Mostly due to the fact that a lot of this is considered subjective, and can be used against your views in the future if your point of view is unpopular.
Now this is really an American value. Other countries, have a different tolerance on where the line should be drawn, this doesn't make them wrong, but some countries will draw the line much further to a point where banning political ideas that is opposing the party in power is considered harmful hate speech.
A lot of good parenting is being able to redirect bad behavior before it goes too far. You should get the kid off the game when you see they are getting too into it. Got then to do a chore or homework something productive. We are not rewarded bad behavior but we are not punishing them either. Just redirect their behavior.
Kids get addicted to anything. It is what kids do, they gravitate towards what they can do well, then work hard to improve on what they are good at.
Some kids do this with sports, I did this with programming, other kids do it with game, music, scholastics... For most kids you see them gravitating towards some select set of skills.
The problem with Fortnight the game is challenging enough to get better, but easy enough to get good quickly.
“Enough games, [go outside and play / do your homework / do these chores / let’s do something else ...]”
I was a kid once, they had video games then too, and they were very compelling and if I had my way I would be playing them all the time. When my parents told me to stop I was mad at them. Because I was so close to winning and or I was having a good run.
But turning off the video games isn’t abuse. And you shouldn’t be allowing your kid to play games at the cost of their health and education.
There are some big questions to this.
I got my masters degree from an another school then my undergrad degree. Who is to say how much of my salary is from my undergrad education and how much from my masters.
A student after a year or two determines that they don’t like that school and switch. Or fail out and one they matured they went to an other school.
Or the cases of the Billionaire college dropouts like Bill Gates, who realized they could make more money with their own business then wasting more time at school.
This method is hiding the fact the College Education is too expensive and a way to make college administrators lives easier by not finding area to save money. Such as not keeping on building new building but utilizing the space they have.
I found the charging mat to be rather lackluster on its initial show off. Part of the thing is, after the initial show, I haven't heard people waiting for this charging mat, most of them if they wanted wireless charging just kinda got one and started using it. Me I got 2. one for work from Samsung, and one from home. Mostly because the Samsung charger has an annoying blue LED to show it is charging, which is bright and hard to sleep next to my bed, while the one from home has a small red LED which is much easier to sleep with.
Now I think Apple Jump the gun, by showing off a demo a couple years ago, and really is messing up setting expectations. But if they couldn't getting it working well then they should just cancel it. I expect the issue is how sensitive wireless charging it. I actually like wireless charging, as most of the time a failure in my phone is often from strain from the charging connector, wireless charging reduces the stress on the phone.
However while I got it charging if I move the phone slightly it stops charging, or if I put it on the charger too off center it will not charge. It seems to me the physics of a mat wireless charger would be difficult to get it to work as it was advertised, Just a large mat and drop your device(s) on it and they will start charging. Sure I can see something that looks like a mat, but has 2 or 3 chargers in it. But then it is just multiple wireless chargers in one case, and you need to put your phone on the right spot.
Now I know Slashdot love to hate Apple, and will point out every time they didn't do something 100% right. But for the most part they don't produce crap products, and they will often work as advertised. Just the problem is we sometimes think they will do something that isn't advertised.
I always thought because Linux is a Server OS and these distributions just kinda put a Desktop GUI on top of a Server OS. Linux in terms of UI has always had the problem for the group of people between Grandma and Experts. The people who want to use a computer for more then just basic browsing and word processing, but doesn't need to be editing configuration files, and messing with odd settings trying to get software to work correctly. For Debian/Ubuntu systems if it isn't in Apt then you better get ready for a good few hour block trying to get the app to work (ok the .DEB files arn't that bad) and then to find that that software isn't what you were looking for to then spend a while trying to cleanly uninstall it.
Why don't we have carrier pigeons with USB sicks? Are drones that much more reliable and affordable to maintain?
Some areas are tough for Sneaker-Net. And with Drones we can have dozens of communication transfers a day vs. 1 or 2 with Sneaker-Net.
Not all people who have bad internet connection are poor. It is just that they are not absurdly rich to get ISP's to get wires to their home. Some farmers who actually make a good living, may be miles away from the Internet Infrastructure, however will benefit getting information on weather, commodity prices, veterinarian results, bank account data, new on any new regulations, and communication with others.
There is a difference between East Coast rural, then mid-west rural. East Coast farms may have a few thousand acres, still small enough to be in rage of Cell Data, But in the mid-west a ranch are measured in square miles. Not profitable to put up Cell Towers to additional ISP wires (Cable/Fiber)
Dark Matter hasn't been proven yet. However its hypothesized nature does fit into the mathematical models of the trended data of the observed universe.
Right now with our understanding of gravity and the universe expansion it would seem that we need more mass then what is observable. Could it be something different, yes. But the point of this article, is try to find ways to detect this "Dark Matter" where we then can either show that it does exist and now it is observable (no longer being dark matter) we can study it further and see if its properties does indeed help fill out all the number to match our models.
If we see that n^2 = 9 n will be equal to 3 or -3, both fit the model. However chances are it will be 3 not -3 as positive values are more common then negative ones.
This isn't good enough to pass a math test, however if we are going to make a model of the universe, we should pick the more common and simplest answer then trying to explain the more complex model.
Most countries do not have free speech and the right to bare arms, as a Constitutional Amendments. While many countries may have these as rights on the book, they are not fundamental to the government so the governments are allowed more leeway for good or for ill.
Free Speech and bearing arms The United States 1st and 2nt amendment respectively. Are the two most dangerous things people can have as a right. It isn't unreasonable to think other countries would want to have more control over these. As well many of the people would feel safer with controls on these.
However like most things political it isn't what they do but why and how they do it.
Limiting Free Speech to make sure dangerous speech is limited is actually a good thing. But Limiting Free Speech to keep your ideas in power is a bad thing.
And those State Sponsored VPNs are now blocking banned sites.
Just remember that before you sign up to a free VPN service, thinking your data is going to be so much more secure.
If your proof that P = NP is incorrect but not yet independently identified, or had found a fault. But your proof is more of a Postulate or a Theorem.
One can still criticize a proof even if they cannot produce a counter proof. Because your proof isn't the final outcome but the steps to get to that point.
I don't have you discredit your Poof of P = NP by proving that P != NP but by going threw the steps in your poof, finding the error in your logic, often making an assumption or muddying the proof with other methods such as "Proof by intimation" by often stating something like "It is now obvious to anyone with a half a brain that from point A we now lead to point C."
There is a key difference between mobile service and free access to a website.
The reason for Ads on websites, is because many of them are nearly hard to monetize. Back in the early 2000's we talked about micropayments where you would be charged a fraction of a cent to hit a webpage. However that never caught on. Ads on most websites are the best way for them to make money, as their business model is based on trying to make it a popular place to go to. The economic problem is making a complex website is expensive, however it handles a lot of users for its investment so it may lead to a dollar per user. But charging people a small amount for access is just annoying to the users who can find somewhere else for free. So the Ad model came to be.
However for Mobile service we can charge the individual, for it. Because it is one bill for a unified service, and they can pick what they want more speed, less speed, unlimited, bandwidth caps...
I would recommend that you get your education in science from more reputable sources then Cable TV
The problem with these sources is that they are trying to stay interesting all the time. So when they actually report on Science it is often on the far off Hypothesis of the week. The Hypothesis process of the scientific method can be wrong, and usually incomplete. But it is the question that is asked, that requires further research to say yes this is a good idea, or no this is a stupid idea.
In terms of the new Ice Age 40 years ago, this was based on smog blocking out the sun, We had improvements in many parts of the world to reduce smog, so this was reduced... However during the recent Olympics in China. They found that the weather had gotten noticeably warmer when the Chinese Government Stopped Smog for the days during the Olympics.
The fungus spread is due to it being an invasive species being spread by human global trade. So it is still our fault.
Global Climate change may also have an effect on this as well. As many amphibian are already stressed from changes in their climate, meaning they are less likely to handle the Fungus and other stresses as well.
The biggest problem is that with our exponential advancements in science and engineering over the last 150 years, we have created changes in our environment at an unprecedented rate where the earths natural balances cannot keep up. The problems are far more complex then Stop Driving Cars, and put up solar cells, also just feeling guilty on what is happening isn't helpful either. However denying the problems exist isn't helpful as well, because the problem is from mankind and we need to work out a balanced solution that will moderate the amount of long term damage we do for short term benefit.
Having done vendor certified repair of electronics in the past. I remember a lot of cases of bad repair jobs and people cheeping out that really put the equipment in much worse case then the original problem. A cheap ebay replacement battery, or power supply that saved the guy $20 off the part, ended up costing an addition $500 for a repair, because the power on the 3rd party device was way off, and damaged a lot of expensive components, or lacked the fuses/safety devices that would protect from further damage.
What often makes it worse is when the guy brings us the broken equipment then just lies about the fact they had replaced it with a 3rd party part, and voided warranty. What makes it worse, is the fact that we state that it isn't under warranty, and they think we just want to do this because we get paid more. While the truth is doing Warranty repair is better for the business, because the company is timely in paying and we don't need to fight to get our payments, also most of the business was B2B having to do single customer fixes, we try to lower our rates a bit just to avoid negative reviews, as we don't expect them to come back again.
Now when the person fixes the problem them-self, and an other problem goes bad, then they will bad mouth the product, because they broke it further.
It is obvious that you never been to business class either.
At least not the same classes I went to.
I took my MBA in post Enron, and there was a huge push towards ethics in all the classes.