The BBC is accessed through the TV licence so it is pay-to-watch (about $16.50 per month) but has no commercials. The licence covers a household i.e. a house and its occupants regarded as a unit, regardless of size. It also covers the cost of BBC radio although you only need a licence if you are watching the TV.
So, the expectation of the consumer would be to provide Netflix for free with ads or for a fee without ads. It would be a bitter pill to swallow to pay for a service AND have ads, particularly so if ad breaks appeared in films.
FYI, bread is made from high-gluten flour, which costs a lot more than plain flour around here.
If you ever tried to make your own bread from cheap flour, you should have noticed it is not at all the same.
Or you could make soda bread which uses plain flour and no yeast. Just saying...
I've purchased plenty of DVDs and Blu-ray discs from Amazon. I've yet to have an Amazon employee show up at my door to reclaim them.
Absolutely true but if you lost your copy or you lost the ability to access your copy - such as leaving it in Blu-ray player that you binned due to malfunction - you would have to purchase another copy.
It is similar here, the guy should have downloaded a local copy in case the ability to download was pulled.
What they should have is a universal connecting bus (UCB) to which you can attach a future connector. A bit like buying an electrical appliance with a universal plug and you choose which end to fit to match your country standard.
When you but a EV you simply select the appropriate connector and slot it into the (UCB). Obviously connectors will become obsolete but at least you only have to replace part of the connection rather than ripping the wall down like a grizzly old scab.
There is no way that would have 'killed' his election chances. There were allegations flying around about Trump walking in on underage girls changing their clothes all the time at Miss Teen USA, and 60 million idiots still voted for him. His voters absolutely do not care how or what Trump does to women (or girls).
Echoing the sentiment, it would have been interesting to have seen the effect of that allegation if it was underage boys rather than girls.
Presumably, the employer's share of healthcare expenses for smoking employees is higher than the cost of this program, which appears to be $600 plus the cost of cessation products
This assumes that the company provides healthcare.
It also doesn't counter those who pretend to smoke then pretend to give up when they didn't smoke in the first place. The people who are worse off are genuine non-smokers.
There is such a thing as police in the UK but not necessarily UK Police. If there was such a thing, they would be looking to protect all of the citizens of the UK rather than only the English.
I hate to be a pedant but the article focuses on an instance in Wales which is an entirely different country to England, albeit with the same legal system.
That brings up a related topic of remakes. You can make a successful film and it can be remade with largely the same script but for it to bomb. This could be due to fondness for the original (Total Recall) or crapiness of the remake (Point Break).
Star Wars is not quite the same as the story is good but the need to introduce a more child-centric element (Jar-Jar Binks) caused some grief. Obviously the Ewoks got a similar reception in Return of the Jedi but as Tim in Spaced said "Yeah but Jar Jar Binks makes the Ewoks look like... fuckin'... Shaft!"
Only time will tell if we will look back at the Phantom Menace with fondness as Episode 20 pitches some grumpy Sith Lord against Crash Bandicoot.
For many, the smartphone was the replacement for a watch. Trying to duplicate the smartphone in the watch form factor is a backwards step.
The smart watch is a placeholder for contact lens heads up display. Google glass moved in the right direction in this respect but that was effectively a failure despite initial interest.
Once processor and power problems are solved, the contact lens will be the way forward but progress has to be made on less esoteric technology in the interim and the smart watch is a reasonable project, no matter how inferior it is.
In "the old days", farmers would use two incandescent bulbs in series connected across the hot lines of 2 generators. They would adjust the speed and phase until the lights went out, then throw a switch to connect them.
That is fascinating. I had no idea such things were necessary or that 'normal' people had the ingenuity to solve these problems.
At its base level, if there were no guns there would be no shootings. Sure, killings would occur in different ways but a person would be hard-pushed to knife 17 people to death or kill them with harsh language.
The difficulty we have is the 300 million+ guns in the USA. Perhaps the regulation of ammunition would be more realistic?
I'm not offering a solution - the whole situation is b0rked.
The best we can do is try to stop the situation getting worse before considering how to reverse it. Regulating films and video games (any more than they are already) or arming teachers are not solutions.
and the benefits it provided to a userbase that is normally happy to vote using their wallet to get hardware that's supported on the OS of their choice
Perhaps the wallets of Windows and Mac users are enough for Razer. I can't imagine there being much profit in the Linux arena to warrant any additional effort on their part. You are talking about a niche product line for a niche OS.
Obviously describing Linux as a niche OS will get some people hot under the collar but it is when compared to Win and Mac. Feel free to disagree - this is slashdot after all.
I would say don't worry about it but the first display of dabbing I saw was a child - around 12 years old - standing on a bin (diameter of a large pizza) dabbing repeatedly at a busy traffic intersection.
It wasn't the dabbing that shocked me, it was the idiocy of the public display. If only his mother was there to record it and show it to him throughout his youth to keep him on the straight and narrow.
On the other hand, he may have been sneezing. It was in the Summer - perhaps he had hay fever?
I don't see the problem with Apple's face ID or having a fingerprint sensor on the back or the front (how about back and front?) but integrated in the screen?
Surely this is just a case of we can so we did?
Inventing poorly implemented features for a problem that doesn't really exist is so old-school. Like whistling to find your keys "hold on, it will work as long as I get the correct pitch, at a high-enough volume and I'm within 3 feet of the fob. And the battery hasn't run flat"
It's a worldwide problem - http://www.asti.org.uk/a-world... - but yeah, the UK has a problem along with stabbings as firearms aren't widely available.
Do you have visions of Minority Report where all of the autonomous cars are the same?
Who is going to manufacture the cars? Are all but one of the manufacturers going to go out of business? Will there be a global mandate to have one template against which all manufacturers will work or will each country/state have their own template?
You can impose standards but not personalization.
If we do get to a future that looks like Minority Report (which was optimistically set in 2054) the same individualization will be in evidence with the same trashy paint jobs/matt wraps.
The cars will still be different shapes although there might be the requirement to fit within a defined set of dimensions. It'll be a mess - all travelling at the same speed.
A made-up segment? They target the high end for computers and the phones cover a broad spectrum. So what? Why are you mad that Apple goes after a very specific market?
Quite. It's not as though the specific market is the very rich. People who want an iPhone range from those on the poverty line up to the rich and famous. It's all about the 'draw' of the product to the consumer.
>p>I recall seeing a news article about a nurse in the UK who wanted a Dodge Viper for £70k - around 3 years wages. She stopped going out, buying superfluous items and eventually she got the Viper. It didn't make sense to me but the product resonated with her.
The iPhone is small change in comparison and much more useful. Apple has managed to convince consumers that there is extra value to their products for 10 years and the competition between Apple and other manufacturers benefits us all right?
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In the UK, commercial TV = free.
The BBC is accessed through the TV licence so it is pay-to-watch (about $16.50 per month) but has no commercials. The licence covers a household i.e. a house and its occupants regarded as a unit, regardless of size. It also covers the cost of BBC radio although you only need a licence if you are watching the TV.
So, the expectation of the consumer would be to provide Netflix for free with ads or for a fee without ads. It would be a bitter pill to swallow to pay for a service AND have ads, particularly so if ad breaks appeared in films.
FYI, bread is made from high-gluten flour, which costs a lot more than plain flour around here. If you ever tried to make your own bread from cheap flour, you should have noticed it is not at all the same.
Or you could make soda bread which uses plain flour and no yeast. Just saying...
I've purchased plenty of DVDs and Blu-ray discs from Amazon. I've yet to have an Amazon employee show up at my door to reclaim them.
Absolutely true but if you lost your copy or you lost the ability to access your copy - such as leaving it in Blu-ray player that you binned due to malfunction - you would have to purchase another copy.
It is similar here, the guy should have downloaded a local copy in case the ability to download was pulled.
Well what if you want to see pubic hair mites?
[yawn] pubic hair is soooo 20th century. All adults shave now. Apparently the fashion has also spread to pre-pubescent children.
.....and at most might get a public 'apology' out of Trump.
He would probably give the apology and think nothing of it but what is his apology worth?
What they should have is a universal connecting bus (UCB) to which you can attach a future connector. A bit like buying an electrical appliance with a universal plug and you choose which end to fit to match your country standard. When you but a EV you simply select the appropriate connector and slot it into the (UCB). Obviously connectors will become obsolete but at least you only have to replace part of the connection rather than ripping the wall down like a grizzly old scab.
Copying himself doesn't prevent emails from being preserves.
That's precisely how they ended up in this sticky situation
There is no way that would have 'killed' his election chances. There were allegations flying around about Trump walking in on underage girls changing their clothes all the time at Miss Teen USA, and 60 million idiots still voted for him. His voters absolutely do not care how or what Trump does to women (or girls).
Echoing the sentiment, it would have been interesting to have seen the effect of that allegation if it was underage boys rather than girls.
Presumably, the employer's share of healthcare expenses for smoking employees is higher than the cost of this program, which appears to be $600 plus the cost of cessation products
This assumes that the company provides healthcare.
It also doesn't counter those who pretend to smoke then pretend to give up when they didn't smoke in the first place. The people who are worse off are genuine non-smokers.
For comparison the weight of an M1 Abrams main battle tank is around 62 metric tons.
So, they should use tanks to move planes around? Interesting...
There is such a thing as police in the UK but not necessarily UK Police. If there was such a thing, they would be looking to protect all of the citizens of the UK rather than only the English.
I hate to be a pedant but the article focuses on an instance in Wales which is an entirely different country to England, albeit with the same legal system.
That brings up a related topic of remakes. You can make a successful film and it can be remade with largely the same script but for it to bomb. This could be due to fondness for the original (Total Recall) or crapiness of the remake (Point Break).
Star Wars is not quite the same as the story is good but the need to introduce a more child-centric element (Jar-Jar Binks) caused some grief. Obviously the Ewoks got a similar reception in Return of the Jedi but as Tim in Spaced said "Yeah but Jar Jar Binks makes the Ewoks look like... fuckin'... Shaft!"
Only time will tell if we will look back at the Phantom Menace with fondness as Episode 20 pitches some grumpy Sith Lord against Crash Bandicoot.
Wouldn't it make sense to only darken the central part i.e. the bit over the pupil?
There would be no point in darkening the iris unless you wanted soulless black eyes just like a Zuckerbot...
For many, the smartphone was the replacement for a watch. Trying to duplicate the smartphone in the watch form factor is a backwards step.
The smart watch is a placeholder for contact lens heads up display. Google glass moved in the right direction in this respect but that was effectively a failure despite initial interest.
Once processor and power problems are solved, the contact lens will be the way forward but progress has to be made on less esoteric technology in the interim and the smart watch is a reasonable project, no matter how inferior it is.
In "the old days", farmers would use two incandescent bulbs in series connected across the hot lines of 2 generators. They would adjust the speed and phase until the lights went out, then throw a switch to connect them.
That is fascinating. I had no idea such things were necessary or that 'normal' people had the ingenuity to solve these problems.
At its base level, if there were no guns there would be no shootings. Sure, killings would occur in different ways but a person would be hard-pushed to knife 17 people to death or kill them with harsh language.
The difficulty we have is the 300 million+ guns in the USA. Perhaps the regulation of ammunition would be more realistic?
I'm not offering a solution - the whole situation is b0rked.
The best we can do is try to stop the situation getting worse before considering how to reverse it. Regulating films and video games (any more than they are already) or arming teachers are not solutions.
and the benefits it provided to a userbase that is normally happy to vote using their wallet to get hardware that's supported on the OS of their choice
Perhaps the wallets of Windows and Mac users are enough for Razer. I can't imagine there being much profit in the Linux arena to warrant any additional effort on their part. You are talking about a niche product line for a niche OS.
Obviously describing Linux as a niche OS will get some people hot under the collar but it is when compared to Win and Mac. Feel free to disagree - this is slashdot after all.
I would say don't worry about it but the first display of dabbing I saw was a child - around 12 years old - standing on a bin (diameter of a large pizza) dabbing repeatedly at a busy traffic intersection.
It wasn't the dabbing that shocked me, it was the idiocy of the public display. If only his mother was there to record it and show it to him throughout his youth to keep him on the straight and narrow.
On the other hand, he may have been sneezing. It was in the Summer - perhaps he had hay fever?
I don't see the problem with Apple's face ID or having a fingerprint sensor on the back or the front (how about back and front?) but integrated in the screen?
Surely this is just a case of we can so we did?
Inventing poorly implemented features for a problem that doesn't really exist is so old-school. Like whistling to find your keys "hold on, it will work as long as I get the correct pitch, at a high-enough volume and I'm within 3 feet of the fob. And the battery hasn't run flat"
It's a worldwide problem - http://www.asti.org.uk/a-world... - but yeah, the UK has a problem along with stabbings as firearms aren't widely available.
......once they are mass produced.
Do you have visions of Minority Report where all of the autonomous cars are the same?
Who is going to manufacture the cars? Are all but one of the manufacturers going to go out of business? Will there be a global mandate to have one template against which all manufacturers will work or will each country/state have their own template?
You can impose standards but not personalization.
If we do get to a future that looks like Minority Report (which was optimistically set in 2054) the same individualization will be in evidence with the same trashy paint jobs/matt wraps.
The cars will still be different shapes although there might be the requirement to fit within a defined set of dimensions. It'll be a mess - all travelling at the same speed.
For their next trick, free Ebola sandwiches!
Is that like Free Mandela tee-shirts?
A made-up segment? They target the high end for computers and the phones cover a broad spectrum. So what? Why are you mad that Apple goes after a very specific market?
Quite. It's not as though the specific market is the very rich. People who want an iPhone range from those on the poverty line up to the rich and famous. It's all about the 'draw' of the product to the consumer. >p>I recall seeing a news article about a nurse in the UK who wanted a Dodge Viper for £70k - around 3 years wages. She stopped going out, buying superfluous items and eventually she got the Viper. It didn't make sense to me but the product resonated with her.
The iPhone is small change in comparison and much more useful. Apple has managed to convince consumers that there is extra value to their products for 10 years and the competition between Apple and other manufacturers benefits us all right?
You could just not connect the TV to the network.
If the TV doesn't work without network access take it back for a refund.
This has appeared in newspapers (look that up) pretty much every year since I've been able to read.
3 years?