Not only is Amazon happy but they have a whole range of vanity self-publishing services to extract money from them all along the way. It doesn't matter to Amazon if the author has crapped out some incoherent screed on paper providing they get a cut from it.
Yes it is for them to decide by negotiating contract terms that allow them to do it. And I'll give you an example of how boneheaded Amazon have been so far - people in Ireland can buy a Prime subscription from Amazon UK (indeed at Christmas time Amazon was heavily promoting it) but they can't watch Prime movies because they are geoblocked from doing so. So despite the fact that other companies including Netflix and all cable / satellite providers manage the feat of treating these two countries together, Amazon can't.
And Netflix have since launched in most other EU countries too and the content has become somewhat homogenous. Naturally not every piece of content is available everywhere, there are some notable exceptions and I'm sure people use VPNs to circumvent some limits. But Netflix do seem to have the clear intention of making their content available globally or over a wide a region wherever possible. And that all starts with the contract negotiation phase.
Anyway, so far Amazon has been doing a piss poor job of competing with Netflix. Their selection sucks. Their software sucks. The way they mix subscription / pay content together sucks. I'm not surprised they're desperately changing their payment terms again to attract more people. I expect they won't get anywhere unless they improve the content. Netflix is a juggernaut and it could do with some decent competition and Amazon isn't it.
Gamestop bought out Stardock's Impulse platform and tried to sell games through that. It flopped and the store was discontinued. So too bad if you happened to have bought games through that app because it's gone.
So it's hardly inspiring to hear they're having a second go. What if that flops too?
Aside from that, all these damned vertical stores are a nuisance. We have Steam, GOG (Galaxy), EA Origin, Ubisoft Unity, Microsoft Store and probably a heap of second tier contenders. It's a pain in the ass for consumers and anti-consumer and a pain in the ass for developers.
The last thing anyone needs is yet another vertical market from Gamestop. It's unlikely to succeed and even if it did, it's just more bloat and fragmentation. Frankly there is no reason at all that all of these services couldn't share a common infrastructure for sign on, patches, trophies etc.
He's one of the few directors that has managed to follow up initial successes with gigantic second films that expand the universe & storyline and don't just milk the first film for extra dollars.
He's also one of those directors who doesn't know when less is more, or when a when some well turned words are worth a thousand special effects. The effects and spectacle should follow the story and not the other way around.
And 4. Sometimes the APIs improve and the codebase is stuck implementing two paths, the fast new way and the slow old way for compatibility. Or they're stuck using old tools because the new tools aren't backwards compatible but they really want to use certain features in the new compiler (e.g. C++11,14 etc.)
There are some legit reasons for push notifications - new email alerts, tweets, new videos in your feed, replies to your slashdot post etc. But I fully expect that a lot of sites will make a nuisance of themselves by asking for permission to turn it on and will start selling ad space to whomever pays for the privilege.
And doubtless that's exactly how they intend to continue. Musk tweeted he expected an average $42,000 spend on the Model 3 so he expects people to fork out $7000 more than the $35,000 headline price. I assume some of that might be for a charger but undoubtedly other things that will be bundled to deliberately nickel and dime people into paying more.
You're right that the community as a whole doesn't hate Mozilla. The problem is there are a highly vocal minority whiners who complain every time Mozilla changes the slightest thing about the browser and take it as a personal affront. Mozilla isn't the only project on the receiving end - systemd, GNOME and others come in for their fair share of irrational hate too.
Someone needs to look up what a non sequitur is. Just because some other cars experienced issues, it does not follow that it is wise to place money on a car which doesn't exist and won't exist for several more years.
It'll take Tesla 2 years before a single model 3 rolls out of their line. Even if they secured funding right now to increase capacity, it doesn't magically happen just like that. It's not unreasonable to suppose it will take at least 2 or 3 more years for people at the end to receive their vehicles.
Nonsense. By that logic every car manufacturer should produce cars which operate flawlessly. After all they have the organizational knowledge of not just a couple of models but HUNDREDS of them. Even major manufacturers with established reputations still regularly issue recalls for serious safety issues and still carry out less serious but important repairs during the course of servicing & repair.
Tesla are not exempt from the norms of car production. They might extensively test their cars but there will always be problems which are not fixed before release and there will be problems discovered after release due to accidents, servicing and repairs. Virtually every new vehicle suffers faults, most of which are rectified as production matures. Those people who buy too early get to enjoy all of them and only the most serious ones will trigger a recall or a repair during servicing.
That's why it is sensible to wait a few years. Never buy version 1.0 of anything as expensive and potentially ruinous as a new car. I really don't know why anyone would plunk cash down on a Model 3 when it runs the exact same risks (and Tesla hasn't exactly bothered to say what features or spec the $35k car will have beyond some basics). On the plus side, some people on that list will be waiting 4 or 5 years so perhaps they'll get a better, more mature car than those who take delivery sooner.
Microsoft used to ship something called Services for Unix which was a posix subsystem and came with a bunch of Unix tools, NFS etc. It didn't have bash iirc but it had ksh and csh. That said, Services for Unix was pretty awful. The tools were cobbled together and it was far more intrusive and destabilizing to the system - if you didn't need NFS it would be better to just install cygwin.
I could see how this might be ridiculously expensive if this just flips a coin and says left or right. But is it integrated with the airport security? Does it have failure modes? Is it adaptive to date, time, pressure on the system? Can it be remotely modified to respond to a threat level? Does it sound an alarm if persons don't go the way they're supposed to go? Does it capture and generate reports or metrics to some central location server? Is the server / networking part of the software infrastructure? Does it have authentication modes to access or override its settings? Does the code have to be audited? Does it have to be proven to have no biases? Is IBM on the hook to install and support this thing in every airport for 5 years?
Yeah maybe it is a coin toss app and IBM are laughing at the stupid government procurements process. Or maybe there is other stuff which at least partially justifies the price.
People plunking $1000 on a car with 200,000 people in front of them are going to wait YEARS for their vehicle to materialise. Even if Tesla scales up from 50,000 to 500,000 cars it may still be 3 or 4 years before people take delivery of theirs.
And Musk has gone on record saying he expects people to drop an average of $7000 on extras. So clearly that $35,000 is a headline price for a very basic vehicle and Tesla have an incentive to sell the rest as optional extras. I wouldn't even be sure that stuff like charging will be free any more.
The model 3 is not magically exempt from the norms of vehicle production. New vehicle designs always suffer glitches, deficiencies and bugs that are rectified over its production lifetime. If early adopters are lucky they will be relatively minor and if not it might even mean recalls. I see no reason to gamble money to find out. Let some other sucker find out.
As the adage goes, never buy version 1 of anything. And especially don't plunk one grand down on something which won't even see the light of day for a couple of years.
I see with hindsight you might be referring to some of the apps rather than the desktop using hamburger icons. Which is true. I don't see it hampers discoverability even in those cases since it is a pretty common metaphor that people are used to.
GNOME doesn't hide things behind hamburger menus so I really don't see the relevance of that point. It's certainly true that GNOME has points of annoyance, some that the devs choose to ignore but the same could be said of all Linux desktops.
To make the workspace task centric and simple to use. It's still designed first and foremost for a mouse and keyboard although the design doesn't exclude touch. I'd add that the shell is also extendible and many plugins exist that rectify things people commonly moan about, e.g. if you want a start-like menu, taskbar, workspace switcher etc. then those things exist..
He could have updated the module to delete and format the contents of every machine it was run on. I'm kind of surprised this hasn't happened before considering how many modern environments have such slapdash dependency systems. At the very least a packaging system should by default generate and use a lock file which contains a version and a hash of the dependent package. Npm supports a "shrinkwrap" flag but it should be the default.
Motion sickness would add an extra layer of realism in games where you're storming the beaches of Normandy. You can hurl your guts up like you're in a real landing craft!
Not many I would expect. Most vehicles come in 2 or 3 trim levels and have automatic as an option which adds a upwards of €1200 / £1000 to the price. So manual gears would still be the main seller, probably selling 5 for every 1 automatic. In addition, if you sit your driving test in an automatic then in some EU countries your license only covers you to drive automatic cars. So there is a tendency in legislation and price to favour manuals.
I'm sure automatics are more popular in certain niches. Some electric vehicles are entirely automatic so perhaps the future will see manuals disappear. Personally I don't mind driving automatic or manual.
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Not only is Amazon happy but they have a whole range of vanity self-publishing services to extract money from them all along the way. It doesn't matter to Amazon if the author has crapped out some incoherent screed on paper providing they get a cut from it.
And Netflix have since launched in most other EU countries too and the content has become somewhat homogenous. Naturally not every piece of content is available everywhere, there are some notable exceptions and I'm sure people use VPNs to circumvent some limits. But Netflix do seem to have the clear intention of making their content available globally or over a wide a region wherever possible. And that all starts with the contract negotiation phase.
Anyway, so far Amazon has been doing a piss poor job of competing with Netflix. Their selection sucks. Their software sucks. The way they mix subscription / pay content together sucks. I'm not surprised they're desperately changing their payment terms again to attract more people. I expect they won't get anywhere unless they improve the content. Netflix is a juggernaut and it could do with some decent competition and Amazon isn't it.
So it's hardly inspiring to hear they're having a second go. What if that flops too?
Aside from that, all these damned vertical stores are a nuisance. We have Steam, GOG (Galaxy), EA Origin, Ubisoft Unity, Microsoft Store and probably a heap of second tier contenders. It's a pain in the ass for consumers and anti-consumer and a pain in the ass for developers.
The last thing anyone needs is yet another vertical market from Gamestop. It's unlikely to succeed and even if it did, it's just more bloat and fragmentation. Frankly there is no reason at all that all of these services couldn't share a common infrastructure for sign on, patches, trophies etc.
He's one of the few directors that has managed to follow up initial successes with gigantic second films that expand the universe & storyline and don't just milk the first film for extra dollars.
He's also one of those directors who doesn't know when less is more, or when a when some well turned words are worth a thousand special effects. The effects and spectacle should follow the story and not the other way around.
And 4. Sometimes the APIs improve and the codebase is stuck implementing two paths, the fast new way and the slow old way for compatibility. Or they're stuck using old tools because the new tools aren't backwards compatible but they really want to use certain features in the new compiler (e.g. C++11,14 etc.)
There are some legit reasons for push notifications - new email alerts, tweets, new videos in your feed, replies to your slashdot post etc. But I fully expect that a lot of sites will make a nuisance of themselves by asking for permission to turn it on and will start selling ad space to whomever pays for the privilege.
That's just the way they do business.
And doubtless that's exactly how they intend to continue. Musk tweeted he expected an average $42,000 spend on the Model 3 so he expects people to fork out $7000 more than the $35,000 headline price. I assume some of that might be for a charger but undoubtedly other things that will be bundled to deliberately nickel and dime people into paying more.
You're right that the community as a whole doesn't hate Mozilla. The problem is there are a highly vocal minority whiners who complain every time Mozilla changes the slightest thing about the browser and take it as a personal affront. Mozilla isn't the only project on the receiving end - systemd, GNOME and others come in for their fair share of irrational hate too.
Someone needs to look up what a non sequitur is. Just because some other cars experienced issues, it does not follow that it is wise to place money on a car which doesn't exist and won't exist for several more years.
It'll take Tesla 2 years before a single model 3 rolls out of their line. Even if they secured funding right now to increase capacity, it doesn't magically happen just like that. It's not unreasonable to suppose it will take at least 2 or 3 more years for people at the end to receive their vehicles.
Nonsense. By that logic every car manufacturer should produce cars which operate flawlessly. After all they have the organizational knowledge of not just a couple of models but HUNDREDS of them. Even major manufacturers with established reputations still regularly issue recalls for serious safety issues and still carry out less serious but important repairs during the course of servicing & repair.
That's why it is sensible to wait a few years. Never buy version 1.0 of anything as expensive and potentially ruinous as a new car. I really don't know why anyone would plunk cash down on a Model 3 when it runs the exact same risks (and Tesla hasn't exactly bothered to say what features or spec the $35k car will have beyond some basics). On the plus side, some people on that list will be waiting 4 or 5 years so perhaps they'll get a better, more mature car than those who take delivery sooner.
Microsoft used to ship something called Services for Unix which was a posix subsystem and came with a bunch of Unix tools, NFS etc. It didn't have bash iirc but it had ksh and csh. That said, Services for Unix was pretty awful. The tools were cobbled together and it was far more intrusive and destabilizing to the system - if you didn't need NFS it would be better to just install cygwin.
Yeah maybe it is a coin toss app and IBM are laughing at the stupid government procurements process. Or maybe there is other stuff which at least partially justifies the price.
And Musk has gone on record saying he expects people to drop an average of $7000 on extras. So clearly that $35,000 is a headline price for a very basic vehicle and Tesla have an incentive to sell the rest as optional extras. I wouldn't even be sure that stuff like charging will be free any more.
The model 3 is not magically exempt from the norms of vehicle production. New vehicle designs always suffer glitches, deficiencies and bugs that are rectified over its production lifetime. If early adopters are lucky they will be relatively minor and if not it might even mean recalls. I see no reason to gamble money to find out. Let some other sucker find out.
As the adage goes, never buy version 1 of anything. And especially don't plunk one grand down on something which won't even see the light of day for a couple of years.
Run Sackboy Run came out last year. I assume Sony were testing the waters.
I see with hindsight you might be referring to some of the apps rather than the desktop using hamburger icons. Which is true. I don't see it hampers discoverability even in those cases since it is a pretty common metaphor that people are used to.
GNOME doesn't hide things behind hamburger menus so I really don't see the relevance of that point. It's certainly true that GNOME has points of annoyance, some that the devs choose to ignore but the same could be said of all Linux desktops.
To make the workspace task centric and simple to use. It's still designed first and foremost for a mouse and keyboard although the design doesn't exclude touch. I'd add that the shell is also extendible and many plugins exist that rectify things people commonly moan about, e.g. if you want a start-like menu, taskbar, workspace switcher etc. then those things exist..
It's not a touch oriented UI. So there's your answer.
He could have updated the module to delete and format the contents of every machine it was run on. I'm kind of surprised this hasn't happened before considering how many modern environments have such slapdash dependency systems. At the very least a packaging system should by default generate and use a lock file which contains a version and a hash of the dependent package. Npm supports a "shrinkwrap" flag but it should be the default.
Motion sickness would add an extra layer of realism in games where you're storming the beaches of Normandy. You can hurl your guts up like you're in a real landing craft!
I'm sure automatics are more popular in certain niches. Some electric vehicles are entirely automatic so perhaps the future will see manuals disappear. Personally I don't mind driving automatic or manual.