The internet is already a la carte. You only pay for the bandwidth you actually use. The rest of the net isn't constantly being streamed into your home at all hours of the day whether you use the data or not, like cable TV channels.
That said, the smartass reporter did some research; Wearable watches date back about 500 years, but they appear to have been worn as necklaces (Flavor-Flav in the 16th century yo) rather than on the wrist. He just confused wearable with wrist-mounted.
I would argue that was before teacher's unions and political correctness took them over, both of which are reasons why the rich (and many others) took their kids out or moved to a better neighborhood with better public schools.
I would argue that the NEA has been around since 1857 and saying that schools were better prior to 1857 than they are today is incredibly ignorant since those were the days of one-room school houses where all ages were taught in the same room at the same time by the same person... unless they were black, of course, in which case anyone teaching them may well have wound up in prison.
Yeah, no. Not even close to being as good as today's school, much less better.
And political correctness? That goes back as far as recorded history. There has never been a time when societies didn't use social and legal pressure their members to be nice to one another. If you think otherwise, you need to go back and study history a bit more.
Some outsourced call center is training every one of their employees to sound exactly the same, to the point that I've called from multiple time zones, at all hours of the day, and from different numbers/accounts and am still not entirely sure if they have more than a single sleepless extraterrestrial behind the phone.
Close, but they aren't intentionally training them to speak that way.
Let me introduce you to IELTS, the International English Language Testing System.
American companies like Comcast and the company I work for have call centers in other countries. Because of the language barrier, language testing is a big part of the hiring process. For my company, employees are also retested yearly and approximately 30% of their pay rate is a "language bonus" which they lose if they don't pass that test. This is not uncommon.
Training in written and spoken English is up to the employee. The company may provide some reimbursement for the expense, but they generally won't provide the courses.
English courses come in two types; one where you actually learn English and the other where you learn to pass the test. The latter is cheaper, so lots of people will go for it. Those are the people with the bizarre, unplaceable and someone feminine accent and equally WTF speech patterns.
You don't sell that product and you're not into fighting lawsuits, so without selling to a "patent troll", you can neither implement your invention nor monetize your invention.
First, the logic in your example is fallacious. "You don't sell that product" may a true statement, but there's nothing preventing you from selling the product other than your own unwillingness to do so. Your conclusion that "you can neither implement your invention nor monetize your invention" is false. "You're not into fighting lawsuits" is irrelevant since an improvement to a product does not give you the ability to sue someone making that product.
Second, a patent troll wouldn't buy your hypothetical patent. Patent trolls are only interested in filing lawsuits to take money away from those who actually make and sell products. Your hypothetical couldn't be used to sue the maker of the existing product, so it would be useless to a patent troll (unless, of course, you patented some aspect of an existing product, in which case you are also a patent troll).
Metro apps can run side by side, so multitasking still exists which makes your argument rather irrelevant unless you can find a study that shows that overlapping windows somehow cause a larger reduction in productivity than non-overlapping windows.
Have fun searching for that, because I'm pretty sure nothing of the sort exists. There just isn't any significant difference in the mental impact of switching your attention between overlapping windows and switching it between side-by-side windows.
And yet I was specifically speaking about Metro, which is not Desktop Mode.
Thanks for the completely pointless attempt to counter my statements about Metro with completely irrelevant statements about Desktop Mode. Borrowing on your logic, I have a banana in my lunchbox, therefore you must be wrong!
It's funny that you called me clueless when you've not only demonstrated your own ignorance, but you've gone on to defend it.
Windows 1.0 allowed you to run applications side by side. What it didn't allow was overlapping windows, just like metro applications. Try overlapping a metro application with any other window. If you accomplish that, then you'll have a valid argument.
Overlapping a metro application window with another window is impossible, of course, so you can't do that and your argument is invalid. I suspect you realize that and you're desperately trying to pretend that I said that non-metro apps couldn't overlap, but of course that's a strawman argument since I said nothing of the sort. I was clearly speaking about the limitations in the metro interface.
At least you had enough sense to post as AC so that you can't easily be linked to the idiocy you presented here.
This actually isn't redundant. Windows 2.0 introduced overlapping windows as a part of the OS and those have been present in every version up until Windows 8 and Metro. Microsoft has quite literally brought back a limitation of Windows 1.0 and is new calling it a feature.
I'd like you to replace your computer with this laptop. The case is an ugly mix of blocky colors and they keyboard is a 5x4 array of keys the size of business cards, but there's a pair of left right buttons that lets you scroll through the list of keys you're used to having. Trust me... it's a much better way of accessing the keys on the keyboard than the previous way which put them all in front of you at once.
If you aren't happy with it not working quite the way your old one worked, you can always go find a new keyboard and install it to make it work the way you want it to.
And if you're complain about paying for product that doesn't do what you want it to do and is demonstrably worse than the one it replaced until you spend the time and effort to fix the problems we designed into it, it's purely because you're sitting on your ass and whining about it like a spoiled brat who can't take any initiative, RIGHT?
"All exams are proctored using national proctoring standards. We have access to 4,500 physical proctoring facilities and are working with online proctoring institutions."
All that is true and they require even more light because drive-ins don't have the benefit of an enclosed room without ambient light competing with the screen image.
Look at the photos of the Cottingley Fairies. To our eyes today, it's pretty obvious that those are paper cutouts but many people of the day believed that they could be real.
Listen to the radio play of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds". At the time, it terrified everyone. Now? It seems ridiculous that anyone would believe it.
Re-watch the Star Wars. The lasers, explosions and other effects are cheesy and lame by today's standards, but it was awe-inspiring to the people who saw it in 1977.
Initially, people may take a nicer presentation of information with less skepticism than they should, but society adapts. In a few years, any widely used automated data visualization will be viewedthe same way a B-movie using bullet-time is viewed today; with a yawn.
You might as well ask why a Lamborghini cost is six figures since you bought a CitroÃn C1 last week for less than ten thousand.
A good consumer level digital projector has to be able to project an image covering an area of twenty square feet or so before it becomes so dim that it's unpleasant and will be designed to work with a screen only ten or fifteen feet away. That requires only one or two thousand lumens of output. What you bought for 30 quid probably produces a few hundred lumens.
The digital projector for a theater has to project an image that will cover over a hundred square feet without being so dim that it's unpleasant and the screen is most likely fifty to a hundred feet away depending on the size of the theater. The output needed to do that is on the order of 20,000 lumens and up.
Because the game publishers would send you replacement software after they've gone out of business if you had just bought it on CD instead of downloading it?
Hyperbolic insults, rants, threats and bullying are commonplace in every type of communication over the internet. The anonymity and pseudo-anonymity enable a culture where there is rarely any significant penalty for even the worst insults.
Bitcoins aren't defined or issued by the US government, so it has as much right to regulate Bitcoins as it has to regulate the Euro.
Try carrying a duffel bag with a few hundred thousand Euros through customs and tell the agent that they can't do anything about it because the US government doesn't have the right to regulate Euros. Please have someone record it, too, because the results will be the funniest thing I'll see all day.
The US government is empowered to regulate commerce within its borders. It doesn't matter what currency you're using.
And one of those two will also provide roads, firefighters, a national army to prevent foreign invasions, a space exploration program, regulation of food so we don't return to the level of 'quality' described in Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" and a few thousand other benefits in return for the money they 'stole' from you.
Basically the gas from beans is produced by bacteria breaking down oligosaccharides that your digestive system can't break down as easily. You may have different bacteria or a smaller amount of the same bacteria than someone who is more gassy.
You might want to take a look at how much of your DNA you share with a banana before asking for examples of plants having animal and fish DNA. Plants don't have to modify themselves with DNA from animals because a lot of that DNA is already there. Yay for evolution and common ancestors.
On the third hand, the sun heats your head up far more than any cell phone ever could when you're outdoors and the human race hasn't suddenly gone extinct, which is a pretty good indication that whatever heating a cell phone causes has no effect on your health.
The first ebook from Project Gutenberg, circa 1971. Still fully readable 41 years later. If you think all the copies will disappear in the next 9 years, you're an idiot.
So yeah... the same thing can absolutely be said about ebooks.
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The internet is already a la carte. You only pay for the bandwidth you actually use. The rest of the net isn't constantly being streamed into your home at all hours of the day whether you use the data or not, like cable TV channels.
Wrist watches is a technology only about 100 years old
Patek Philippe created the first wristwatch in 1868 for Countess Koscowicz of Hungary., so 145 years.
That said, the smartass reporter did some research; Wearable watches date back about 500 years, but they appear to have been worn as necklaces (Flavor-Flav in the 16th century yo) rather than on the wrist. He just confused wearable with wrist-mounted.
Have you ever met a McDonald's employee with empathy for the company and it's future? Of course not. It's a shitty part-time job.
And yet that didn't stop the company from making over $5.5 billion last year. But I'm sure they'll fail real soon now, right?
I would argue that was before teacher's unions and political correctness took them over, both of which are reasons why the rich (and many others) took their kids out or moved to a better neighborhood with better public schools.
I would argue that the NEA has been around since 1857 and saying that schools were better prior to 1857 than they are today is incredibly ignorant since those were the days of one-room school houses where all ages were taught in the same room at the same time by the same person ... unless they were black, of course, in which case anyone teaching them may well have wound up in prison.
Yeah, no. Not even close to being as good as today's school, much less better.
And political correctness? That goes back as far as recorded history. There has never been a time when societies didn't use social and legal pressure their members to be nice to one another. If you think otherwise, you need to go back and study history a bit more.
Some outsourced call center is training every one of their employees to sound exactly the same, to the point that I've called from multiple time zones, at all hours of the day, and from different numbers/accounts and am still not entirely sure if they have more than a single sleepless extraterrestrial behind the phone.
Close, but they aren't intentionally training them to speak that way.
Let me introduce you to IELTS, the International English Language Testing System.
American companies like Comcast and the company I work for have call centers in other countries. Because of the language barrier, language testing is a big part of the hiring process. For my company, employees are also retested yearly and approximately 30% of their pay rate is a "language bonus" which they lose if they don't pass that test. This is not uncommon.
Training in written and spoken English is up to the employee. The company may provide some reimbursement for the expense, but they generally won't provide the courses.
English courses come in two types; one where you actually learn English and the other where you learn to pass the test. The latter is cheaper, so lots of people will go for it. Those are the people with the bizarre, unplaceable and someone feminine accent and equally WTF speech patterns.
You don't sell that product and you're not into fighting lawsuits, so without selling to a "patent troll", you can neither implement your invention nor monetize your invention.
First, the logic in your example is fallacious. "You don't sell that product" may a true statement, but there's nothing preventing you from selling the product other than your own unwillingness to do so. Your conclusion that "you can neither implement your invention nor monetize your invention" is false. "You're not into fighting lawsuits" is irrelevant since an improvement to a product does not give you the ability to sue someone making that product.
Second, a patent troll wouldn't buy your hypothetical patent. Patent trolls are only interested in filing lawsuits to take money away from those who actually make and sell products. Your hypothetical couldn't be used to sue the maker of the existing product, so it would be useless to a patent troll (unless, of course, you patented some aspect of an existing product, in which case you are also a patent troll).
Metro apps can run side by side, so multitasking still exists which makes your argument rather irrelevant unless you can find a study that shows that overlapping windows somehow cause a larger reduction in productivity than non-overlapping windows.
Have fun searching for that, because I'm pretty sure nothing of the sort exists. There just isn't any significant difference in the mental impact of switching your attention between overlapping windows and switching it between side-by-side windows.
And yet I was specifically speaking about Metro, which is not Desktop Mode.
Thanks for the completely pointless attempt to counter my statements about Metro with completely irrelevant statements about Desktop Mode. Borrowing on your logic, I have a banana in my lunchbox, therefore you must be wrong!
It's funny that you called me clueless when you've not only demonstrated your own ignorance, but you've gone on to defend it.
Windows 1.0 allowed you to run applications side by side. What it didn't allow was overlapping windows, just like metro applications. Try overlapping a metro application with any other window. If you accomplish that, then you'll have a valid argument.
Overlapping a metro application window with another window is impossible, of course, so you can't do that and your argument is invalid. I suspect you realize that and you're desperately trying to pretend that I said that non-metro apps couldn't overlap, but of course that's a strawman argument since I said nothing of the sort. I was clearly speaking about the limitations in the metro interface.
At least you had enough sense to post as AC so that you can't easily be linked to the idiocy you presented here.
This actually isn't redundant. Windows 2.0 introduced overlapping windows as a part of the OS and those have been present in every version up until Windows 8 and Metro. Microsoft has quite literally brought back a limitation of Windows 1.0 and is new calling it a feature.
I'd like you to replace your computer with this laptop. The case is an ugly mix of blocky colors and they keyboard is a 5x4 array of keys the size of business cards, but there's a pair of left right buttons that lets you scroll through the list of keys you're used to having. Trust me... it's a much better way of accessing the keys on the keyboard than the previous way which put them all in front of you at once.
If you aren't happy with it not working quite the way your old one worked, you can always go find a new keyboard and install it to make it work the way you want it to.
And if you're complain about paying for product that doesn't do what you want it to do and is demonstrably worse than the one it replaced until you spend the time and effort to fix the problems we designed into it, it's purely because you're sitting on your ass and whining about it like a spoiled brat who can't take any initiative, RIGHT?
http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/faq/
"All exams are proctored using national proctoring standards. We have access to 4,500 physical proctoring facilities and are working with online proctoring institutions."
All that is true and they require even more light because drive-ins don't have the benefit of an enclosed room without ambient light competing with the screen image.
Look at the photos of the Cottingley Fairies. To our eyes today, it's pretty obvious that those are paper cutouts but many people of the day believed that they could be real.
Listen to the radio play of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds". At the time, it terrified everyone. Now? It seems ridiculous that anyone would believe it.
Re-watch the Star Wars. The lasers, explosions and other effects are cheesy and lame by today's standards, but it was awe-inspiring to the people who saw it in 1977.
Initially, people may take a nicer presentation of information with less skepticism than they should, but society adapts. In a few years, any widely used automated data visualization will be viewedthe same way a B-movie using bullet-time is viewed today; with a yawn.
You might as well ask why a Lamborghini cost is six figures since you bought a CitroÃn C1 last week for less than ten thousand.
A good consumer level digital projector has to be able to project an image covering an area of twenty square feet or so before it becomes so dim that it's unpleasant and will be designed to work with a screen only ten or fifteen feet away. That requires only one or two thousand lumens of output. What you bought for 30 quid probably produces a few hundred lumens.
The digital projector for a theater has to project an image that will cover over a hundred square feet without being so dim that it's unpleasant and the screen is most likely fifty to a hundred feet away depending on the size of the theater. The output needed to do that is on the order of 20,000 lumens and up.
Because the game publishers would send you replacement software after they've gone out of business if you had just bought it on CD instead of downloading it?
Hyperbolic insults, rants, threats and bullying are commonplace in every type of communication over the internet. The anonymity and pseudo-anonymity enable a culture where there is rarely any significant penalty for even the worst insults.
Gabriel from Penny Arcade really summed it up nicely with his Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory
Bitcoins aren't defined or issued by the US government, so it has as much right to regulate Bitcoins as it has to regulate the Euro.
Try carrying a duffel bag with a few hundred thousand Euros through customs and tell the agent that they can't do anything about it because the US government doesn't have the right to regulate Euros. Please have someone record it, too, because the results will be the funniest thing I'll see all day.
The US government is empowered to regulate commerce within its borders. It doesn't matter what currency you're using.
And one of those two will also provide roads, firefighters, a national army to prevent foreign invasions, a space exploration program, regulation of food so we don't return to the level of 'quality' described in Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" and a few thousand other benefits in return for the money they 'stole' from you.
Gut flora.
Basically the gas from beans is produced by bacteria breaking down oligosaccharides that your digestive system can't break down as easily. You may have different bacteria or a smaller amount of the same bacteria than someone who is more gassy.
Like most assumptions based on no evidence whatsoever, your assumption is wrong.
You could do something crazy like read the description under the video which tells what they're testing rather than making wildly wrong assumptions.
You might want to take a look at how much of your DNA you share with a banana before asking for examples of plants having animal and fish DNA. Plants don't have to modify themselves with DNA from animals because a lot of that DNA is already there. Yay for evolution and common ancestors.
On the third hand, the sun heats your head up far more than any cell phone ever could when you're outdoors and the human race hasn't suddenly gone extinct, which is a pretty good indication that whatever heating a cell phone causes has no effect on your health.
And then we'll balance their checks!
Because we've done such a swell job with our own bookkeeping!
Can the same be said about eBooks 50 years from now?
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1
The first ebook from Project Gutenberg, circa 1971. Still fully readable 41 years later. If you think all the copies will disappear in the next 9 years, you're an idiot.
So yeah... the same thing can absolutely be said about ebooks.