Offer tiers of service ranging from free (ad-supported) to dirt cheap (fewer/no ads) to cheap (mobile/offline support) to still reasonable (higher quality, international content, user uploads).
Allow artists to choose whether to make their content available at the 'free' tier.
Write the contracts such that paying users will always be able to access music they've added to their library, even if the artist/label throws a fit and leaves.
Do you really need to bequeath your blog to your next of kin? If you're talking to your family about funds and credentials, you're telling them 'here, I expect you to keep spending money forever on pointless sentimentality'. Keep a backup of the content, that's all.
But don't get me wrong; we should all be ready for our inevitable demise. I can't overestimate how important it is to prepare a will, insurance, a small untraceable account and a few years of queued posts offering a food tour of the afterlife.
Benchmarks are a more 'sustained' CPU load than typical home/office use. If anything, I think these would feel faster than the tests imply. Not everyone spends their day compiling code or applying Photoshop filters. (What's wrong with them?)
The *program* lasted six years, but the majority of the money was paid back 2-3 years in. It kept ahead of inflation and bond rates, so a net win for taxpayers.
Not shabby at all, as bailouts go. Brilliant compared to Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac or the disaster that was the '80s S&L crisis.
They switched their attention every three minutes on average. In 2012, we found that the time spent on one computer screen before switching to another computer screen was one minute 15 seconds. By the summer of 2014 it was an average of 59.5 seconds.
I know my average has plummeted over the years; especially when I bought a second display, and then a third.
Fortunately, this year I may replace them all with a large 4k display and then I'll have a long attention span again.
All the major testing houses check for false positives alongside detections, but perhaps they decided more false positives would still look better on benchmarks than a lower detection rate.
I'd love if they could start a new company that pays royalties, Spotify-style, where it can, yet allows users to share rare or otherwise unavailable content as well. Because of the mess of regional rights ownership there will probably never a fully legal way to enjoy all music worldwide, so a gray market will always be necessary to fill the gaps.
In the meantime, I'll sing a song for them. (...and good luck downloading that legally, US slashdotters)
...except Safari, and mobile browsers in general. Also, expect XP support to disappear from Chrome shortly.
On the other hand, Microsoft has made it a point to discourage users from installing OS upgrades, by charging lots of money for them and changing core functionality in undesirable ways.
The tank wasn't made from transparent alumin(i)um. Scotty traded the formula for enough polycarbonate sheets to build the tank. IIRC they even say it will take years of research to manufacture the stuff.
</pedant>
(mind you, they still could have done the job more cheaply with steel, or welded some deck plates together, or simply filled a cargo bay with water. But it made for a good scene, and who cares?)
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Offer tiers of service ranging from free (ad-supported) to dirt cheap (fewer/no ads) to cheap (mobile/offline support) to still reasonable (higher quality, international content, user uploads).
Allow artists to choose whether to make their content available at the 'free' tier.
Write the contracts such that paying users will always be able to access music they've added to their library, even if the artist/label throws a fit and leaves.
Yeah, that's why I only drink bottled cometary water. Artisanal too, I don't support the big comet water industries.
Do you really need to bequeath your blog to your next of kin? If you're talking to your family about funds and credentials, you're telling them 'here, I expect you to keep spending money forever on pointless sentimentality'. Keep a backup of the content, that's all.
But don't get me wrong; we should all be ready for our inevitable demise. I can't overestimate how important it is to prepare a will, insurance, a small untraceable account and a few years of queued posts offering a food tour of the afterlife.
You know, maybe they could find a way to automatically search text against a index of existing works.
Actually, they should contact Google—I hear they're good at it.
Indeed, other than the words '3D printing', why is this news? It's not exactly rocket science.
Benchmarks are a more 'sustained' CPU load than typical home/office use. If anything, I think these would feel faster than the tests imply. Not everyone spends their day compiling code or applying Photoshop filters. (What's wrong with them?)
The *program* lasted six years, but the majority of the money was paid back 2-3 years in. It kept ahead of inflation and bond rates, so a net win for taxpayers.
Not shabby at all, as bailouts go. Brilliant compared to Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac or the disaster that was the '80s S&L crisis.
Intel is slapping i5 (and i7) on some pretty slow chips these days...
Troll? What else would make a public utility monopoly change its ways?
They switched their attention every three minutes on average. In 2012, we found that the time spent on one computer screen before switching to another computer screen was one minute 15 seconds. By the summer of 2014 it was an average of 59.5 seconds.
I know my average has plummeted over the years; especially when I bought a second display, and then a third.
Fortunately, this year I may replace them all with a large 4k display and then I'll have a long attention span again.
I think it's going to be great, and the "sky is falling" predictions about all the downsides to this seem like nonsense to me
To be fair, that's not what I'm worried about falling.
The capsule in this test is a dummy; the final Dragon v2 will steer and land with its own 'SuperDraco' engines.
Until security is in a less sorry state I doubt too many people will stand in line to have the Internet wired into their nervous system.
She can see the economy from her house!
Glad I wasn't the only one to immediately think of this.
All the major testing houses check for false positives alongside detections, but perhaps they decided more false positives would still look better on benchmarks than a lower detection rate.
I'd love if they could start a new company that pays royalties, Spotify-style, where it can, yet allows users to share rare or otherwise unavailable content as well. Because of the mess of regional rights ownership there will probably never a fully legal way to enjoy all music worldwide, so a gray market will always be necessary to fill the gaps.
In the meantime, I'll sing a song for them.
(...and good luck downloading that legally, US slashdotters)
Don't worry, at least the speed of light is different.
I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of transistors suddenly cried out in terror...
...except Safari, and mobile browsers in general. Also, expect XP support to disappear from Chrome shortly.
On the other hand, Microsoft has made it a point to discourage users from installing OS upgrades, by charging lots of money for them and changing core functionality in undesirable ways.
Twitter is RSS feeds, centralized and simplified. It works well for a lot of people.
If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid.
It didn't get that far; apparently the game quit after the nations researched global thermonuclear war.
Probably a bug, they'll fix it in the next revision.
Oh, not the game—learning 'moccasin' is a color.
They could do that, but it wouldn't be a backdoor.
The tank wasn't made from transparent alumin(i)um. Scotty traded the formula for enough polycarbonate sheets to build the tank. IIRC they even say it will take years of research to manufacture the stuff.
</pedant>
(mind you, they still could have done the job more cheaply with steel, or welded some deck plates together, or simply filled a cargo bay with water. But it made for a good scene, and who cares?)