First, as other people have commented, a percentage of pirates are lost sales.
The Oatmeal cartoon is pretty flawed. First, iTunes and Amazon take a nasty cut from content, so I can understand content providers not using those services. Secondly, Netflix and Hulu are being paid, sure. But "I'm paying someone" and "I'm buying something" are really different. I mean, it's not like Netflix needed to pay extra for GoT, cause you're already subscribed. And it's not like GoT can be carried for free.
But yeah, you can buy HBO (but not GoT) ala carte now.
Personally, if I had to pay $10 for each of NBC, Disney, CBS, and other channel groups, I might as well just suck it up and pay for cable TV. If instead I was able to pay $1 for a channel that I actually cared about a-la carte, then I'd be much happier.
Of course you would. I'd be happier if things got cheaper too. But it makes sense for Disney to offer any of their channels for $15. I mean, yeah, you only want a subset. But they have to transmit all their channels anyway. So, why not let you choose among them? I mean, you're only paying for the one you want, but the implied value is higher..
I prefer pluralized database table names. Because, when spoken, it;s shorter. That is, I can see saying, e.g. "Join pastas and sauces" or "Join the pasta table and the sauce table". It doesn't feel right to say "Join pasta and sauce"
The first few weeks a programmer works for me, I expect a couple of commits like that. Their code should, stylistically, look like everyone else's. It helps maintain readability.
Ummm.... it depends on whether you factor in his licensed deals or not. But about that 80% number -businesses backed by a politically connected billionaire fail far less frequently. Businesses at the scale of and in the industries of Trump's businesses tend to fail far less frequently as well. You're averaging in all the undercaptialized people starting a restaurant/bar to make him look good.
But even the rate of failure isn't as important as how he fails. I'm not going to vote against someone for being unlucky, but I will for having poor judgement. And he has historically ignored or fired advisers when they disagreed with him, done what he wanted, and then the exact thing they foresaw happened, he declared bankruptcy or otherwise slipped away.
You sign up for a free account non-Google account at pokemon.com (it was intermittent for 4 days because of volume, but it's live now) and you can login to that account instead. It works on iOS and, I think, Android. And it has no access to your Google account.
Email or call her campaign. Tell them your name, that you donated 8 times to Obama, and you're not voting for her over this issue. They have giant tracking systems for public opinion. If all of/. did that, you'd see her take an anti H1B position very soon. After all, that's the upside to a focus-group driven candidate.
Wait... what? First off, it looks like, on paper most of his ventures have been failures. Where I use most as "more than 50%" and failures as "no longer in business/technically in business but not delivering any product/service". I'm happy to count businesses that license his name or not, either way, I think that the above 50% failure rate was hit.
Now, does that matter? I'd say you have to look at how well the businesses were run. I'd also say, it depends on what he learned from when those businesses went under.,
No idea on vendors
He's definitely spent a lot of his inheritance (once you account for a standard interest rate). Now, I have no idea why this is a bad thing. Not making more money that you'll never spend, and instead deciding it's worth a personal hit to buy stuff you want seems really reasonable to me. And while I might thing its crazy we let people inherit enough wealth that what they're buying is "skyscrapers to put their name on", that part seems reasonable
If 1000 Teslas follow almost exactly the same course down a particular stretch of road, and then some road construction workers put down temporary paint that shifts the lanes, will the next Tesla smugly take the old course (knocking down traffic cones, or worse, in the process) ?
At least half of slashdot will be posting - blaming the construction workers for not learning about, procuring, and using some free software Tesla makes (that runs on non-free hardware) that broadcasts a warning beacon to all Teslas. Thus it is their fault Tesla's software requires their help to not to crash into them.
The max bitcoins, by spec, is supposed to be 16M. Which makes peak bitcoin pretty darn soon. Even with the rewards recently halving in size.
"Reclaiming lost coins" sounds like "stealing coins" in many ways that are indistinguishable if bitcoin is supposed to be an asset you can store under a rock for later.
Any sufficiently complex OS is difficult to debug, and everyone wants to blame another system. Multi-billion dollar companies have been built around "tech support for Linux".
I have found that programs written to MS's best practices tend to work fairly well and be reasonably future-proof. After all, best practices in one version tend to morph into requirements in the next.
That said, I've had far more problems with hardware failures or specific software than OS's.
They were "free" in that the bitcoins were unclaimed by anyone, and mining a new block earned you the bitcoins. Those unclaimed bitcoins are of finite number and running out. Hence, the point is rapidly approaching where there is no incentive to mine because there is no bitcoin reward. In theory, there was supposed to be an infrastructure where people paid to have their transactions' verified. But, that hasn't grown into a thing, and time is running out.
Right, it requires bitcoin miners. The bitcoins for mining are running out. There was supposed to be an infrastructure that paid miners from each transaction in a block. It has not materialized yet.
You mean the free coins are going away. The bitcoins allocated to miners as rewards is drying up rapidly. And all the hypothesized infrastructure that would keep them mining hasn't materialized. So, I'd guess that there is a publicly visible countdown til bitcoins become practically untradable.
If the fan production uses commercially-available Star Trek uniforms, accessories, toys and props [emphasis mine], these items must be official merchandise and not bootleg items or imitations of such commercially available products.
So if you buy uniforms or props off the rack, they need to be official. If you build your own, you're perfectly fine.
I think you misread that. Whether you purchased an item or made it, it doesn't change whether the item is commercially available. You seem to be fine making something that is not available for purchase. But you'll run afoul of the rules if you clone a commercially-available item.
He said there were failures in the car that went beyond it being undrivable, that it already damaged other cars. I would demand compensation for that, leasing a replacement new car for the amount of time it took the lawsuit to be resolved, legal fees, plus a punitive damage, all on top of a full refund for the car.
he reason he had to file the lawsuit is that he probably did want a full refund, rather than the buy back which surely was in the contract he signed (we can't go understanding what we signed, now can we).
There are many things you sign that are unenforceable. You cannot sign away customer protections, for a host of good reasons.
Now, you questioned if his case has merit. His suit might be BS, sure.
There will be a way to turn it off. Until it's old news. Then, "support for a legacy option used by less than 1% of users, has been removed" will be a single item in a changelog.
You'll forgive me for skipping the first part of your response... I'm far more interested in the "why" than the "how".
Zoning laws are, at root, a collective statement from a specific time that certain things are not valid with regards to property (e.g. building skyscrapers). Given that these are rules decided by a community, I think they can, in fact, force a city to not grow in certain ways. Will that prevent the city from accommodating more residents, sure. Curtail possible business growth, yup. Possibly even cause a competing hub to pop up and pull people away, sure. But local control seems like a bedrock principle of the US experiment.
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First, as other people have commented, a percentage of pirates are lost sales.
The Oatmeal cartoon is pretty flawed. First, iTunes and Amazon take a nasty cut from content, so I can understand content providers not using those services. Secondly, Netflix and Hulu are being paid, sure. But "I'm paying someone" and "I'm buying something" are really different. I mean, it's not like Netflix needed to pay extra for GoT, cause you're already subscribed. And it's not like GoT can be carried for free.
But yeah, you can buy HBO (but not GoT) ala carte now.
Of course you would. I'd be happier if things got cheaper too. But it makes sense for Disney to offer any of their channels for $15. I mean, yeah, you only want a subset. But they have to transmit all their channels anyway. So, why not let you choose among them? I mean, you're only paying for the one you want, but the implied value is higher..
I prefer pluralized database table names. Because, when spoken, it;s shorter. That is, I can see saying, e.g. "Join pastas and sauces" or "Join the pasta table and the sauce table". It doesn't feel right to say "Join pasta and sauce"
The first few weeks a programmer works for me, I expect a couple of commits like that. Their code should, stylistically, look like everyone else's. It helps maintain readability.
If it was the mid-70's, it really was pre-big data. They probably tossed them as worthless.
Ummm.... it depends on whether you factor in his licensed deals or not. But about that 80% number -businesses backed by a politically connected billionaire fail far less frequently. Businesses at the scale of and in the industries of Trump's businesses tend to fail far less frequently as well. You're averaging in all the undercaptialized people starting a restaurant/bar to make him look good.
But even the rate of failure isn't as important as how he fails. I'm not going to vote against someone for being unlucky, but I will for having poor judgement. And he has historically ignored or fired advisers when they disagreed with him, done what he wanted, and then the exact thing they foresaw happened, he declared bankruptcy or otherwise slipped away.
GPAs? What are those?
You sign up for a free account non-Google account at pokemon.com (it was intermittent for 4 days because of volume, but it's live now) and you can login to that account instead. It works on iOS and, I think, Android. And it has no access to your Google account.
Email or call her campaign. Tell them your name, that you donated 8 times to Obama, and you're not voting for her over this issue. They have giant tracking systems for public opinion. If all of /. did that, you'd see her take an anti H1B position very soon. After all, that's the upside to a focus-group driven candidate.
Wait... what? First off, it looks like, on paper most of his ventures have been failures. Where I use most as "more than 50%" and failures as "no longer in business/technically in business but not delivering any product/service". I'm happy to count businesses that license his name or not, either way, I think that the above 50% failure rate was hit.
Now, does that matter? I'd say you have to look at how well the businesses were run. I'd also say, it depends on what he learned from when those businesses went under.,
No idea on vendors
He's definitely spent a lot of his inheritance (once you account for a standard interest rate). Now, I have no idea why this is a bad thing. Not making more money that you'll never spend, and instead deciding it's worth a personal hit to buy stuff you want seems really reasonable to me. And while I might thing its crazy we let people inherit enough wealth that what they're buying is "skyscrapers to put their name on", that part seems reasonable
You mean a group of employees banding together to get better working conditions? When has that ever worked </sarcasm>
At least half of slashdot will be posting - blaming the construction workers for not learning about, procuring, and using some free software Tesla makes (that runs on non-free hardware) that broadcasts a warning beacon to all Teslas. Thus it is their fault Tesla's software requires their help to not to crash into them.
Oh, you said "reassuring" nor "assured"
The max bitcoins, by spec, is supposed to be 16M. Which makes peak bitcoin pretty darn soon. Even with the rewards recently halving in size.
"Reclaiming lost coins" sounds like "stealing coins" in many ways that are indistinguishable if bitcoin is supposed to be an asset you can store under a rock for later.
I never said free as in beer. I said free as in unclaimed.
The transaction fees are too low to be sustainable right now. They are being subsidized by the free bitcoins.
It's unclear if, once the fees rise to the level to encourage mining once the unclaimed bitcoins run out, bitcoins will lose popularity.
Does anyone know what happened to all the rumored open-source clones of DeepMind? Did any of them get off the ground?
Whether built off of TensorFlow or not.
Any sufficiently complex OS is difficult to debug, and everyone wants to blame another system. Multi-billion dollar companies have been built around "tech support for Linux".
I have found that programs written to MS's best practices tend to work fairly well and be reasonably future-proof. After all, best practices in one version tend to morph into requirements in the next.
That said, I've had far more problems with hardware failures or specific software than OS's.
They were "free" in that the bitcoins were unclaimed by anyone, and mining a new block earned you the bitcoins. Those unclaimed bitcoins are of finite number and running out. Hence, the point is rapidly approaching where there is no incentive to mine because there is no bitcoin reward. In theory, there was supposed to be an infrastructure where people paid to have their transactions' verified. But, that hasn't grown into a thing, and time is running out.
Right, it requires bitcoin miners. The bitcoins for mining are running out. There was supposed to be an infrastructure that paid miners from each transaction in a block. It has not materialized yet.
You mean the free coins are going away. The bitcoins allocated to miners as rewards is drying up rapidly. And all the hypothesized infrastructure that would keep them mining hasn't materialized. So, I'd guess that there is a publicly visible countdown til bitcoins become practically untradable.
I think you misread that. Whether you purchased an item or made it, it doesn't change whether the item is commercially available. You seem to be fine making something that is not available for purchase. But you'll run afoul of the rules if you clone a commercially-available item.
Paul Allen should do it.
Unfortunately, the last several movies have been profitable, so he'll need to wait another 5-10 years to go back down in value.
When Hyundai installs auto-door slammers, and then their hand detection unit fails to notice your hand in the way, of course you'll sue.
In some cases, it's criminal.
(On the part of the engineer who signed off on followed plans, or the person who modified the plans).
He said there were failures in the car that went beyond it being undrivable, that it already damaged other cars. I would demand compensation for that, leasing a replacement new car for the amount of time it took the lawsuit to be resolved, legal fees, plus a punitive damage, all on top of a full refund for the car.
There are many things you sign that are unenforceable. You cannot sign away customer protections, for a host of good reasons.
Now, you questioned if his case has merit. His suit might be BS, sure.
There will be a way to turn it off. Until it's old news. Then, "support for a legacy option used by less than 1% of users, has been removed" will be a single item in a changelog.
You'll forgive me for skipping the first part of your response... I'm far more interested in the "why" than the "how".
Zoning laws are, at root, a collective statement from a specific time that certain things are not valid with regards to property (e.g. building skyscrapers). Given that these are rules decided by a community, I think they can, in fact, force a city to not grow in certain ways. Will that prevent the city from accommodating more residents, sure. Curtail possible business growth, yup. Possibly even cause a competing hub to pop up and pull people away, sure. But local control seems like a bedrock principle of the US experiment.