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  1. Re:LOVE IT! on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Forced Subscription-Only Software? · · Score: 1

    He said in the recording industry and specifically cited recording studios. I doubt anyone's tracking a band into Live. You might argue that Live is the standard tool for music producers, except that R&B and hip hop now have the market lead so we'd probably put good ol' fruity loops at the head of the production pack.

  2. Article slightly misleading on Bitcoin Conference Stops Accepting BTC Due To High Fees (bitcoin.com) · · Score: 1

    The TNABC ticketing site says they stopped accepting bitcoin for last minute ticket purchases due to the need to manually input those ticket sales and the associated ticket print deadline. It doesn't seem nearly as ironic (or interesting) as the article referenced in the summary implies.

  3. Re:Just installed the Win 10 patch on my i5 7500 on Google Says CPU Patches Cause 'Negligible Impact On Performance' With New 'Retpoline' Technique (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    SSD IO seem to get hit the hardest. check there and see where you're at. On an ancient dual Xeon system I took a 30% hit.

  4. Re:small shops want you to buy more then gum card on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The swipe fee's pretty hefty, like 10 cents. Small merchants can get hammered on small transactions.

  5. Re: Where's the story here? on Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And knowledge of the item prices, which is typically no longer tagged onto each item. I've been through your "pencil and paper" transaction, post-Irma, and it took 15 minutes to an hour to process each transaction.

  6. Re:What is the delivery time frame? on Walmart Says It's Preordered 15 of Tesla' New Semi Trucks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Christ, modded to +5 and it's basically an urban legend. Just because walmart does vendor-managed inventory doesn't mean they're consigning product at the store level.

  7. Re:Not getting the naysayers on Walmart Says It's Preordered 15 of Tesla' New Semi Trucks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if you are US-based, but essentially all grocery distribution in the US is done with normal refrigerated tractor trailers. Even restaurants are serviced by tractor trailers, frequently with using a smaller 28' trailer. Box trucks are used only for specialty goods like produce and dairy.

  8. Re:Not getting the naysayers on Walmart Says It's Preordered 15 of Tesla' New Semi Trucks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The store's vendors almost always go into a distribution center first, so the size of the store doesn't really matter, and large distribution centers aren't new. The actual industry trend is towards more frequent, smaller shipments.

  9. Re:Not getting the naysayers on Walmart Says It's Preordered 15 of Tesla' New Semi Trucks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Why are you intermingling the tractor with the trailer? Since you seem to be familiar with the shipping industry, you know that the tractor can pull smaller trailers such as those used for LTL. In the US, the use of LTL freight over TL has increased year over year for many years now. Some of the largest US freight carriers are primarily LTL (Fedex Freight, for example).

  10. Re:Not getting the naysayers on Walmart Says It's Preordered 15 of Tesla' New Semi Trucks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's 450 miles per day in the US.

  11. Re:What is the delivery time frame? on Walmart Says It's Preordered 15 of Tesla' New Semi Trucks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The US trucking industry is dominated by less than 10 companies.

  12. Re:What is the delivery time frame? on Walmart Says It's Preordered 15 of Tesla' New Semi Trucks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Walmart doesn't do this, though.

  13. Re: And what of the FOUR horseman? on America's 'Retail Apocalypse' Is Really Just Beginning (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's only one segment of retail, though. Every brick and mortar is getting hammered, regardless of the target demographic.

  14. Out of touch with reality on The Future of Work Might Not Be So Bleak (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Nearly every trucking company has more trucks than drivers due to wages, not a fear of truck damage.

  15. Re:This is the biggest problem? on Tribal 'Sovereign Immunity' Patent Protection Could Be Outlawed (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The case in question involves a product that generates over a billion dollars in annual revenue for Allergan. So it's not exactly the smallest case.

  16. Re: I pray the power never goes out PERIOD on In a Cashless World, You'd Better Pray the Power Never Goes Out (mises.org) · · Score: 1

    A nuclear plant generally isn't powered by its own output, in case they have to take the turbines offline.

  17. Re: I pray the power never goes out PERIOD on In a Cashless World, You'd Better Pray the Power Never Goes Out (mises.org) · · Score: 1

    The post-Irma issue wasn't that the generators didn't work, it was that the gas stations are only required to be wired for generator hookup. They don't have to have one on site, and none do. But even that doesn't matter, the real problem wasn't lack of power at the gas stations, it was lack of gas in the stations' tanks. This continued to be a serious issue for about 5 days after the storm had already passed. Stations would run through gas roughly 2 hours after delivery. People were following the tankers around. It was kind of insane.

  18. Re:Another reason why bitcoin is garbage on In a Cashless World, You'd Better Pray the Power Never Goes Out (mises.org) · · Score: 1

    Most non-rural areas aren't going to let you legally store a generator-month's worth of gasoline at your residence. Assuming a 5 gallon a day burn rate for the generator, you're storing 150 gallons on site?

  19. Re:Another reason why bitcoin is garbage on In a Cashless World, You'd Better Pray the Power Never Goes Out (mises.org) · · Score: 1

    I signed up for an Amazon Rewards card so I can double up on some cash back when buying from Amazon. I was quite surprised when it arrived... it has nothing that an imprinter could capture. The card # is printer-printed on the back and isn't raised. It was slightly concerning to me, as I live in South Florida and we had to use an imprinter at Home Depot not even six weeks ago after Irma as their card system was offline.

  20. Re:Stream Data From an Oracle Database on Oracle's Larry Ellison Pokes Amazon Again With New Cloud Pricing Plan (siliconangle.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed, video and sound can go on a filesystem or a NoSQL store. And I couldn't imagine using the database (typically the hardest layer to scale) to serve web pages.

  21. Re:Postgres Oracle Compatibility Pack? on Oracle's Larry Ellison Pokes Amazon Again With New Cloud Pricing Plan (siliconangle.com) · · Score: 1

    It works for very basic PL/SQL and fairly basic queries.

  22. Re:Stream Data From an Oracle Database on Oracle's Larry Ellison Pokes Amazon Again With New Cloud Pricing Plan (siliconangle.com) · · Score: 1

    Did I just somehow get transported back to 1995?

  23. PL/PgSQL may work as well, but it's not even remotely compatible with Oracle's flavor, so you'd have to do a complete manual port of all DB-layer code.

  24. Re:The day the music died.... on EFF Resigns From Web Consortium In Wake of EME DRM Standardization (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Kinda wrong, songwriters (only) get paid for radio plays.

  25. Copyright all possible variations of "music" on Popular YouTube Artist Uses AI To Record New Album (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They should just run the Amper algorithm nonstop, generating every possible chord and note permutation likely to appear in commercial music. Then they can sit back and sue any future hit artists for copyright infringement