Except I get benefits from paying taxes to the government, like fire services, schools and a militia to defend me from evil Canadians pouring across the border. I don't get benefits from being served ads, which take up space I'd rather use to read/watch content, and no share of the money exchanged in advertising comes to me. The discovery of new products and services that I will actually use is minimal to the point of being nonexistent.
Eh, I have a hard time seeing Android replacing too much on the desktop for several years. It might be a great drop-in substitute for ChromeOS, but I don't see it encroaching on distros like Ubuntu or openSUSE or Arch anytime soon. Plus, I'll bet there are plenty of Linux users who'd prefer not to have such a tightly coupled existence to Google.
That may be absolutely correct, but Ubuntu vanilla still accounts for a large number of linux "users" for which NVIDIA would be wise to target in one go like this.
It seems well timed to coincide with the release of 16.10 later this year, which, if all goes well, should use Mir by default for Unity 8. This gives NVIDIA 6 months or so for early adopters to work out the major kinks for them. Smart plan.
That's actually a good idea. A monitor-sized eInk screen that would need refreshing only once an hour or so (even a refresh every minute would be more power saving than any current monitor technology), but with the ability to respond when you need to pull up more detailed information. I do wish some companies would recognize eInk's viability for kiosk displays like that.
Actually, it looks to be a rebranding of the Onyx readers, and one fitting the exact bill (9.7", ~$400 price range) you mentioned is already available" at their store.
Maybe I want to run the Nook or Kindle app so I don't have to carry two devices to read my books? There are also comic book apps and newspaper apps, there's plenty of good print content that an e-reader could take advantage of through the Google Play store.
Except Mass Transit is never going to be a money-maker. It may be touted as such, but mass transit is always there as a service to the people. The importance of transporting population, including those in a wheelchair, takes precedence over pure revenue intake.
The handicap bus also doesn't necessarily need to be slower. As there are fewer handicap, it could possibly be an on-call system where it comes directly to you and takes you directly to your destination.
Many cities already have services like these, which are pricey and inefficient because of the lack of scale. When you're moving only dozens of people every day, instead of thousands, it's not going to be a very useful alternative (or alternatively, it's going to be a very expensive luxury for a city to maintain). A minor inconvenience for the masses on the bus is more than acceptable versus segregating handicapped riders onto separate buses or making them specifically requisition services that come automatically to the able-bodied.
It's discrimination no matter how you cut it. You cannot tell a person in a wheelchair that "Sorry, you have to wait 20 minutes for the next bus," while everyone else at the stop can hop on. And all for your convenience. This is classic discrimination.
CBS and Paramount can still argue that they have broadcast rights and that Axanar's use of copyrighted concepts from later shows (including Ambassador Soval from Enterprise, which ended in 2005 and most certainly is still under copyright) violates these rights. IANAL, but the TOS-only argument is a weak one.
Li-Ion has already done this. Do you know how many things that used to be AA are now Li-Ion and "rechargeable"? Which really means that when the battery loses its ability to hold a charge, you have to keep it plugged in or toss it.
So you're moving the risk from the crowdfunders to this nebulous OF company? If someone were able to personally obtain a loan for the product anyway, why would they approach Kickstarter/Indiegogo? Why wouldn't they just sit down at their local bank? You'd have to have a pretty compelling loan program for this to be more appealing than a regular loan or the current state of crowdfunding.
Honestly, what you're talking about sounds like a marriage of Kickstarter and Massdrop, and probably could be a successful business if you were to come up with a friendly loan program. The last thing we need to see is another business out to generate more debt among the middle class.
With online-only games like Call of Duty, SW Battlefront and MMOs galore being the norm now, I don't think there's much fear that players will be able to run zombie game servers after the dev company has called it quits.
That's really the reason I opted for the Nook, ePub is a bit easier of a format to strip out the DRM and ensure that no technical glitches will ever deprive me of the book. So long as I still have a device capable of reading the format, I'll always have access.
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Human civilization started with agriculture ~10,000 years ago. Today we have Farmville. Hmm... Maybe another 10,000 years will improve things.
FTFY.
Except I get benefits from paying taxes to the government, like fire services, schools and a militia to defend me from evil Canadians pouring across the border. I don't get benefits from being served ads, which take up space I'd rather use to read/watch content, and no share of the money exchanged in advertising comes to me. The discovery of new products and services that I will actually use is minimal to the point of being nonexistent.
Eh, I have a hard time seeing Android replacing too much on the desktop for several years. It might be a great drop-in substitute for ChromeOS, but I don't see it encroaching on distros like Ubuntu or openSUSE or Arch anytime soon. Plus, I'll bet there are plenty of Linux users who'd prefer not to have such a tightly coupled existence to Google.
That may be absolutely correct, but Ubuntu vanilla still accounts for a large number of linux "users" for which NVIDIA would be wise to target in one go like this.
It seems well timed to coincide with the release of 16.10 later this year, which, if all goes well, should use Mir by default for Unity 8. This gives NVIDIA 6 months or so for early adopters to work out the major kinks for them. Smart plan.
That's actually a good idea. A monitor-sized eInk screen that would need refreshing only once an hour or so (even a refresh every minute would be more power saving than any current monitor technology), but with the ability to respond when you need to pull up more detailed information. I do wish some companies would recognize eInk's viability for kiosk displays like that.
Actually, it looks to be a rebranding of the Onyx readers, and one fitting the exact bill (9.7", ~$400 price range) you mentioned is already available" at their store.
It's likely a rebranding and a small discount for a bulk rate (the guy in the video says they need 60).
Maybe I want to run the Nook or Kindle app so I don't have to carry two devices to read my books? There are also comic book apps and newspaper apps, there's plenty of good print content that an e-reader could take advantage of through the Google Play store.
Sure it is. It just doesn't necessarily have to be true. Fact != truth.
Except Mass Transit is never going to be a money-maker. It may be touted as such, but mass transit is always there as a service to the people. The importance of transporting population, including those in a wheelchair, takes precedence over pure revenue intake.
The handicap bus also doesn't necessarily need to be slower. As there are fewer handicap, it could possibly be an on-call system where it comes directly to you and takes you directly to your destination.
Many cities already have services like these, which are pricey and inefficient because of the lack of scale. When you're moving only dozens of people every day, instead of thousands, it's not going to be a very useful alternative (or alternatively, it's going to be a very expensive luxury for a city to maintain). A minor inconvenience for the masses on the bus is more than acceptable versus segregating handicapped riders onto separate buses or making them specifically requisition services that come automatically to the able-bodied.
It's discrimination no matter how you cut it. You cannot tell a person in a wheelchair that "Sorry, you have to wait 20 minutes for the next bus," while everyone else at the stop can hop on. And all for your convenience. This is classic discrimination.
Schenectady, NY is the location for a lot of my purchases when they ask for my zip code.
Are you kidding?
CBS and Paramount can still argue that they have broadcast rights and that Axanar's use of copyrighted concepts from later shows (including Ambassador Soval from Enterprise, which ended in 2005 and most certainly is still under copyright) violates these rights. IANAL, but the TOS-only argument is a weak one.
Isn't congressional oversight great?
Li-Ion has already done this. Do you know how many things that used to be AA are now Li-Ion and "rechargeable"? Which really means that when the battery loses its ability to hold a charge, you have to keep it plugged in or toss it.
So you're moving the risk from the crowdfunders to this nebulous OF company? If someone were able to personally obtain a loan for the product anyway, why would they approach Kickstarter/Indiegogo? Why wouldn't they just sit down at their local bank? You'd have to have a pretty compelling loan program for this to be more appealing than a regular loan or the current state of crowdfunding.
Honestly, what you're talking about sounds like a marriage of Kickstarter and Massdrop, and probably could be a successful business if you were to come up with a friendly loan program. The last thing we need to see is another business out to generate more debt among the middle class.
How is a product supposed to be developed and manufactured when the owners don't have the money they raised from the crowd funding?
With online-only games like Call of Duty, SW Battlefront and MMOs galore being the norm now, I don't think there's much fear that players will be able to run zombie game servers after the dev company has called it quits.
When exactly did that happen? Jimmy Carter's library website doesn't have Union College, and a similar assertion rejects the idea that he could have completed such a program.
He probably had some nuclear knowledge, just like I have some chemistry knowledge. I wouldn't call myself a chemist, though.
Carter served on a nuclear submarine, that doesn't make him a nuclear engineer. He's probably more well known for being a peanut farmer.
That's really the reason I opted for the Nook, ePub is a bit easier of a format to strip out the DRM and ensure that no technical glitches will ever deprive me of the book. So long as I still have a device capable of reading the format, I'll always have access.
Accepted Ads program and the mysterious new owner of AdBlock should make it completely fail Transparency and Openness.