The wife and I were talking just the other day about how even people who are 'struggling' in TV shows seem to be able to afford wonderful New York apartments. The people in the dingy apartments are always the bad guys, or the people with alcohol issues, or whatever. Furthermore, these characters are always well dressed, even though the joke is they have a shitty job. People move away from their support structure in search of this image of the American dream, to more condensed places where proper lodging is even more unattainable. This is the cost.
Of course not, most huge corporations have nowhere to grow except in the wallets of the ruling class. This is why we get five-bladed razors *cough*and 3-cameras*cough. Why try hard when you can get rich on your own corner of the market? The sad part is, all these companies will be eaten up by Amazon who is hungry, and will end up with all retail. Then we'll really be fucked.
When you have a business, providing a distinctive service is absolutely key. As a consumer I am not compelled to use any of them. What makes these other services distinctive enough from Google that ordinary internet users would go out of their way to use them? I've never heard anyone say, "Wow Yahoo provides such wonderful search results compared to Google". I don't like Google as a company, but yet I use them all the time because they are convenient; time is most important to me and at the end of the day Google is the easiest. And no I am not compelled to become an internet search crusader. I'm not sure if there is anywhere left in the search field to really be distinctive enough to win users because the playing field is just too level. I welcome Yahoo to reach me and convince me how their search results are better for me, but I feel they would have already if they truly knew how they were.
The lack of a barrier is the PROBLEM with the internet. The only hope for a small company looking to compete with Google is to identify a niche to protect them from Google; otherwise it is automatically a non-starter. You can't make yourself a distinctive product with no areas of the internet that are in themselves distinctive. Adding regulations, such as severely hampering Google's ability to do business in the EU, and therefore having smaller companies that specialize in the EU, is the only way to both encourage small companies to form and to encourage innovation. A person could start a search engine that pays more attention to European needs I suppose but that's not likely to be compelling on its own and once successful it is very easy for Google to simply emulate without the wants and needs of a nation enforced with laws.
They don't have to build it, all they have to do is work their laws so that there is a healthy competitive market where companies are not allowed to subsidize their capabilities with behavior that they don't want, or at least the effect of such behavior is mitigated with penalties. That is exactly what they are doing. If a company makes billions of dollars violating the laws then what is the motivation to create an honest company locally?
Eliminating poverty within your borders is a far more noble pursuit than exploring space. Let's cure problems down here first and then worry about up there.
The point is, if we don't stop someone from profiting because they are immoral, this would is going to be a very shitty place. All these calls for robocalling to stop means nothing, because your inconvenience and annoyance means nothing.
Honestly, I don't understand what the fun is in a game that you pay for powerups etc. There is no baseline and you have no way of knowing if any given part of the game is supposed to be won without paying or not. Is the level you are on easy or hard? It only depends how much you pay. Furthermore, I spend enough time in my real life budgeting what I do versus how much I want to spend, I don't need that invading my games as well.
Free to play is usually not that simple. I can understand a lack of interest in not supporting you if you're not playing, but free to play should mean they won't suddenly "lose" your profile and force you to go back to the beginning. I know of a few first-hand accounts of this happening. If you only want people to play for free for X days, then be honest about it and tell them it is a free trial.
You're comparing the economies of a profession that almost everyone can do to a profession that requires an enormous amount of money and dedication to get into. If most people never make it to be a rectal surgeon, you don't have to limit the number of rectal surgeons. Furthermore, there is no physical limitation to the space that medical institutions have for rectal surgeons, but there is a physical limit to the space on the road.
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The wife and I were talking just the other day about how even people who are 'struggling' in TV shows seem to be able to afford wonderful New York apartments. The people in the dingy apartments are always the bad guys, or the people with alcohol issues, or whatever. Furthermore, these characters are always well dressed, even though the joke is they have a shitty job. People move away from their support structure in search of this image of the American dream, to more condensed places where proper lodging is even more unattainable. This is the cost.
Never mind.. what country is format shifting legal in?
And in the eyes of the media companies, you might as well have pirated it. So why don't you?
Of course not, most huge corporations have nowhere to grow except in the wallets of the ruling class. This is why we get five-bladed razors *cough*and 3-cameras*cough. Why try hard when you can get rich on your own corner of the market? The sad part is, all these companies will be eaten up by Amazon who is hungry, and will end up with all retail. Then we'll really be fucked.
Winner winner chicken dinner!
When you have a business, providing a distinctive service is absolutely key. As a consumer I am not compelled to use any of them. What makes these other services distinctive enough from Google that ordinary internet users would go out of their way to use them? I've never heard anyone say, "Wow Yahoo provides such wonderful search results compared to Google". I don't like Google as a company, but yet I use them all the time because they are convenient; time is most important to me and at the end of the day Google is the easiest. And no I am not compelled to become an internet search crusader. I'm not sure if there is anywhere left in the search field to really be distinctive enough to win users because the playing field is just too level. I welcome Yahoo to reach me and convince me how their search results are better for me, but I feel they would have already if they truly knew how they were.
The lack of a barrier is the PROBLEM with the internet. The only hope for a small company looking to compete with Google is to identify a niche to protect them from Google; otherwise it is automatically a non-starter. You can't make yourself a distinctive product with no areas of the internet that are in themselves distinctive. Adding regulations, such as severely hampering Google's ability to do business in the EU, and therefore having smaller companies that specialize in the EU, is the only way to both encourage small companies to form and to encourage innovation. A person could start a search engine that pays more attention to European needs I suppose but that's not likely to be compelling on its own and once successful it is very easy for Google to simply emulate without the wants and needs of a nation enforced with laws.
I agree with you. The only improvement I could think of is if every window had a camera with a telescopic lens.
What is the motivation for anyone to start a company when they will be clobbered by the one not following the laws?
They don't have to build it, all they have to do is work their laws so that there is a healthy competitive market where companies are not allowed to subsidize their capabilities with behavior that they don't want, or at least the effect of such behavior is mitigated with penalties. That is exactly what they are doing. If a company makes billions of dollars violating the laws then what is the motivation to create an honest company locally?
They would never do that because their presence is the only reason why there are no competitors.
Eliminating poverty within your borders is a far more noble pursuit than exploring space. Let's cure problems down here first and then worry about up there.
Get a device that doesn't think it is too good for 1990's character sets!
The point is, if we don't stop someone from profiting because they are immoral, this would is going to be a very shitty place. All these calls for robocalling to stop means nothing, because your inconvenience and annoyance means nothing.
Well, at least you used to have weasels with some integrity. Now you don't even have that.
In a world where we need toys that bench real fire, we also need robocallers. Everyone has a right to profit after all.
The good news for him is that being a weasel is now apparently the new way to become president. Good luck for the future, Americans!
Honestly, I don't understand what the fun is in a game that you pay for powerups etc. There is no baseline and you have no way of knowing if any given part of the game is supposed to be won without paying or not. Is the level you are on easy or hard? It only depends how much you pay. Furthermore, I spend enough time in my real life budgeting what I do versus how much I want to spend, I don't need that invading my games as well.
if you are not paying*
Free to play is usually not that simple. I can understand a lack of interest in not supporting you if you're not playing, but free to play should mean they won't suddenly "lose" your profile and force you to go back to the beginning. I know of a few first-hand accounts of this happening. If you only want people to play for free for X days, then be honest about it and tell them it is a free trial.
Articles about Musk not only have to be true, they also have to be positive. Otherwise they can only be a conspiracy.
Down modded for dispensing facts. Too bad they were inconvenient facts for people with mod points.
Doesn't mean they need to be allowed anywhere around the public.
You're comparing the economies of a profession that almost everyone can do to a profession that requires an enormous amount of money and dedication to get into. If most people never make it to be a rectal surgeon, you don't have to limit the number of rectal surgeons. Furthermore, there is no physical limitation to the space that medical institutions have for rectal surgeons, but there is a physical limit to the space on the road.
Sure but we use them to cull the population. Japan will actually use them for driving.