The difference is, because of Android and iOS, there is already a need to maintain cross-platform tools. And MS bought popular ones as opposed to developing a competitor inhouse.
I asked what you meant by a vague term, and what you thought a "cycle of dependency" would look like. And how it might be created. I posited one such mechanism, but apparently that wasn't at all what you claimed.
Remind me again, why would any judge want to make cops' life difficult?
If they didn't, then why wouldn't the warrants be trivial to get? Why would the improperly collected evidence be inadmissable? Why would the appeals court not allow it the admissability to stand?
which Obama's DOE gave them in loan-guarantees without any hope of earning a profit.
Except via the increased tax revenue that would have resulted. A lot of the stuff a government does is just to make society better, so it shouldn't even need a profit motive.
Think of what useful things could've been funded with the money, had it been done the fair â" Capitalist â" way.
Those DOE loans have a much, much higher success rate than VC or private equity backed ventures.
Like, a VC firm succeeds 10% of the time, and the DOE fails 10% of the time.
So yeah, whoever you worked with, it largely wasnt Hollywood. The films marketing consists of a billboard on la brea with a cryptic phrase and a billboard on la cienega with three birds and a charred facade but no mention of the film, its opening date, or even that its a film...
It's clear that it wasn't Hollywood. That doesn't appear to be a bad thing. First, I was quite aware of the impending release of the movie, and saw a lot of ads. I'm a customer (although, not in this particular case). The billboards in Hollywood seem to be aimed mostly at intra-industry back-slapping.
But, the ads worked. How do I know? Some guy said:
I work in West Hollywood. Angry Birds has enjoyed a media blitz here courtesy of the industry at large.
Sounds like they spent their ad money wisely!
Also, you seem to think they did horribly avoiding Hollywood. How will they sell toys and shirts and food!?!?!? You seem to ignore that they have a tie-in to McDonald's, an aisle in most Toys R Uses and a an existing apparel line that exceeded most films. Star Wars obviously breaks the mold in that area, and Angry Birds, when hot, was fairly competitive with that. (During the Prequel Days. Star Wars with Disney behind it blows all that away.)
It really sounds like you're upset your industry was upstaged by a group from Finland that makes okay games.
Actually, it's the first two weeks that really matter. After that, the % they get goes down and the theater's % goes way up.
By Hollywood accounting...
Since they self-financed, that should matter far less.
Also, the amount they make off tickets is nothing compared to the amount they make off merchandising and the games (yes, Angry Birds is a series of games.) When very successful mobile games can make $1 MM a day, it could have been worth it all as a marketing expense. Keep in mind, a lot more phones came out since Angry Birds was at its heyday.
They also have a ton of actual physical product lines and the juice to tie into McDonalds. So, given the multiple revenue streams, I'm betting this is a huge win for Rovio.
Are you kidding?? The major obstacle to requirements engineering is NLP. The rest is drilling down on edge cases and balancing cost/benefit. NLP is being working on a ton. Cost/Benefit are going to fall by the wayside as costs approach 0. And the AI will get better than you at identifying edge cases in ten years or less.
In a free market â" and this aspect of it remains reasonably free in the US â" the price of everything is the amount a buyer is willing to pay.
And this is good, why? It seems that you've confused "In a free market, X" with "X is good."
Also, it's factually not true. The price of everything is less than or equal to what a buyer will pay, if the thing is in fact traded. Which is a different statement.
Data-mining a correlation is different from implementing the causation. That said, of course they're going to use it in the future. This announcement is the first step of normalizing the idea of charge-based-pricing. Step 10 or so is implementing it.
Battery state is now considered private, personal confidential information also? Hey, my battery is at 78% right now, what are you going to do with that information?
Wait til it drops to 10%, then charge you 10x more for a ride.
Seriously, if Uber is going to use that information to charge me more, and it's my data, then of course I want to keep the information confidential. I also don't carry my W-2 into a car dealership to show to the salesman before we start talking.
It seems that it's the ContentID system, not DCMA takedown notices, that caused the clip to be pulled. ContentID is a pre-emptive system built by Google, as part of a settlement with Viacom
One should note it was Konami, not the uploader, who made Double Dribble. So, it's entirely possible that Konami gave permission to Family Guy and/or Konami got the clip taken down.
"Whether Fox can do that and legally show the clip in an episode is a matter for the experts to argue" is a scary statement. It seems like it should be a known thing whether companies are allowed to rebroadcast work you put on Youtube without further compensation.
I guess my point was that "technically competent" for knowing that non-end-to-end encryption is insecure is a low bar. Really low. I assume any computer literate person to understand what that means. Heck, anyone who uses public wifi should know what that means.
There's a giant difference between, "bad things are happening on the Internet" (general idea you are referencing) and "work I've devoted substantial parts of my life to is destroyed" (specific case here.)
I would agree with you if he was giving a critique of the algorithms or implementations of the encryption, but he's certainly technically competent (as am I and I suspect you) to discuss the danger of non-end-to-end encrypted connections, with regard to eavesdropping.
If there is a shortage of programmers, why are salaries for programmers not climbing?
BEcause employers coordinate on poaching, but somehow convinced programmers that coordinating on wages (unions) will lead to them working harder for no money. Or at least convinced a critical mass that unions mean that. Because every one in that critical mass is above average.
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The difference is, because of Android and iOS, there is already a need to maintain cross-platform tools. And MS bought popular ones as opposed to developing a competitor inhouse.
I asked what you meant by a vague term, and what you thought a "cycle of dependency" would look like. And how it might be created. I posited one such mechanism, but apparently that wasn't at all what you claimed.
So, what do you mean?
Yes, he clearly meant a negative dependency. It's a very confusing statement. What's the dependency he's talking about? How would it come about?
If they didn't, then why wouldn't the warrants be trivial to get? Why would the improperly collected evidence be inadmissable? Why would the appeals court not allow it the admissability to stand?
What's a cycle of depndency actually mean to you? It seems meaningless to me.
First, we're all dependent on on another (no man is an island, etc. etc.)
Second, there doesn't seem to be any evidence that people stop working.
Third, and most importantly, why is a cycle of dependency worse than the status quo?
Except via the increased tax revenue that would have resulted. A lot of the stuff a government does is just to make society better, so it shouldn't even need a profit motive.
Those DOE loans have a much, much higher success rate than VC or private equity backed ventures.
Like, a VC firm succeeds 10% of the time, and the DOE fails 10% of the time.
It's clear that it wasn't Hollywood. That doesn't appear to be a bad thing. First, I was quite aware of the impending release of the movie, and saw a lot of ads. I'm a customer (although, not in this particular case). The billboards in Hollywood seem to be aimed mostly at intra-industry back-slapping.
But, the ads worked. How do I know? Some guy said:
Sounds like they spent their ad money wisely!
Also, you seem to think they did horribly avoiding Hollywood. How will they sell toys and shirts and food!?!?!? You seem to ignore that they have a tie-in to McDonald's, an aisle in most Toys R Uses and a an existing apparel line that exceeded most films. Star Wars obviously breaks the mold in that area, and Angry Birds, when hot, was fairly competitive with that. (During the Prequel Days. Star Wars with Disney behind it blows all that away.)
It really sounds like you're upset your industry was upstaged by a group from Finland that makes okay games.
Actually, it's the first two weeks that really matter. After that, the % they get goes down and the theater's % goes way up.
Since they self-financed, that should matter far less.
Also, the amount they make off tickets is nothing compared to the amount they make off merchandising and the games (yes, Angry Birds is a series of games.) When very successful mobile games can make $1 MM a day, it could have been worth it all as a marketing expense. Keep in mind, a lot more phones came out since Angry Birds was at its heyday.
They also have a ton of actual physical product lines and the juice to tie into McDonalds. So, given the multiple revenue streams, I'm betting this is a huge win for Rovio.
The Google fiber rollout preceded the elimination of corporate taxes. Insurance doesn't really get sold across state lines.
You mean like Kansas did, and then they are facing financial catastrophe?
Are you kidding?? The major obstacle to requirements engineering is NLP. The rest is drilling down on edge cases and balancing cost/benefit. NLP is being working on a ton. Cost/Benefit are going to fall by the wayside as costs approach 0. And the AI will get better than you at identifying edge cases in ten years or less.
(1) What do you do?
(2) How long do you expect before computers will do a better job at it than you do?
What's the benefit of 8 different wlan chips? Developing in the fragmented Android market is hard enough.
I view these as PCIe style extensions, for things beyond what a normal smartphone does.
Thanks. I stand corrected, embarrassingly so.
And this is good, why? It seems that you've confused "In a free market, X" with "X is good."
Also, it's factually not true. The price of everything is less than or equal to what a buyer will pay, if the thing is in fact traded. Which is a different statement.
Data-mining a correlation is different from implementing the causation. That said, of course they're going to use it in the future. This announcement is the first step of normalizing the idea of charge-based-pricing. Step 10 or so is implementing it.
Wait til it drops to 10%, then charge you 10x more for a ride.
Seriously, if Uber is going to use that information to charge me more, and it's my data, then of course I want to keep the information confidential. I also don't carry my W-2 into a car dealership to show to the salesman before we start talking.
Maybe if those men performed better in bed, it would be seen as mutually beneficial, not payment for services rendered?
It seems that it's the ContentID system, not DCMA takedown notices, that caused the clip to be pulled. ContentID is a pre-emptive system built by Google, as part of a settlement with Viacom
One should note it was Konami, not the uploader, who made Double Dribble. So, it's entirely possible that Konami gave permission to Family Guy and/or Konami got the clip taken down.
"Whether Fox can do that and legally show the clip in an episode is a matter for the experts to argue" is a scary statement. It seems like it should be a known thing whether companies are allowed to rebroadcast work you put on Youtube without further compensation.
I guess my point was that "technically competent" for knowing that non-end-to-end encryption is insecure is a low bar. Really low. I assume any computer literate person to understand what that means. Heck, anyone who uses public wifi should know what that means.
There's a giant difference between, "bad things are happening on the Internet" (general idea you are referencing) and "work I've devoted substantial parts of my life to is destroyed" (specific case here.)
I would agree with you if he was giving a critique of the algorithms or implementations of the encryption, but he's certainly technically competent (as am I and I suspect you) to discuss the danger of non-end-to-end encrypted connections, with regard to eavesdropping.
Skype is end-to-end encrypted.
BEcause employers coordinate on poaching, but somehow convinced programmers that coordinating on wages (unions) will lead to them working harder for no money. Or at least convinced a critical mass that unions mean that. Because every one in that critical mass is above average.
Protecting citizens from powerful forces is kinda the point of a police. Motorcycle gang or Facebook, they are supposed to protect you.