....says that if you lose market share you cut prices to try and regain it. They will no doubt raise prices to try and keep revenue the same...thus driving off even more customers.
Anything that has any human input is going to be subjective (aka "biased") in nature. The only goal that's achievable is to make it less biased than others.
C'mon, Lauren, with the 10's of millions of spams that google catches every day, some things are going to get caught by the filter that shouldn't be. Even if the filter is 99.99 effective that means there will be 1000 false positives in there...and yours is one of them. Shit happens. Adjust and move on.
Apparently what we're dealing with here is a simplistic (and frankly, rather haphazard in this respect at least) string-matching algorithm that could have come right out of the early 1970s...! [A]t least in this case, it appears that Google is basically using the venerable old UNIX/Linux "grep" command or some equivalent, and in a rather slipshod way, too. is drawing a trend and a conclusion from one data point.
...isn't by definition any stock sales by current officers insider trading? For good or bad, they will always have information that the public will never have. Where and how is that line drawn, and how can it not be an arbitrary one?
Neither the labels nor the streaming companies have any vested interest in paying their artists. It's not that they can't, it's that they don't want to.
So a company that nobody has heard of, who makes / performs a product or service that nobody here can identify, laid off 15 people and that rates the front page of Slashdot now?
Seriously?
Well said. I actually had to RTFA to a) see what it was and b) acknowledge that I didn't care.
....he can't share a cable stream like he can a Netflix or Hulu password. THAT'S why the cost argument falls on my cutters' deaf ears; they're already saving. If one pays the going rate, the argument isn't as nearly as compelling as the whiny author makes it out to be.
The education system must have been working pretty well in late 1800's and early 1900s. It managed to give us things like the industrial revolution, ubiquitous power, large scale agriculture, space exploration, medical advancements, etc...
So if the education system back then was able to provide us with the people that delivered all those kinds of outcomes... why are we trying to re-invent it completely?
Follow the money. Those who benefit financially from the re-inventions are the ones advocating for them. Back then, there weren't multi-billion dollar industries in chalk, paper, and slide rules, and a whole industry created to try and determine the efficacy of them.
Or they'll just beat off to porn and play video games and become useless NEETs.
They can do both. I was downloading porn on my Amiga 500, but I was also laying down skills that would help me later with other computers, and which led to sysadmin work.
Any manufacturer of devices with Lithium Ion batteries runs a risk of an occasional failure sparking a fire. Its not negligence, they implement all kinds of quality controls and features to prevent fires, but they are going to happen. Might be best for Apple to just pay up and not make much noise about it, as it is a rare event overall.
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My first thought this was one of the randomly generated Slashdot stories from last week from, say, 2006.
....says that if you lose market share you cut prices to try and regain it. They will no doubt raise prices to try and keep revenue the same...thus driving off even more customers.
Anything that has any human input is going to be subjective (aka "biased") in nature. The only goal that's achievable is to make it less biased than others.
I don't see how someone can receive a fair trial if the the mechanism used to collect evidence is secret.
I think you're confusing Canada with a country that has a Bill of Rights.
...apparently, there's a boy named Ender who is really good at this sort of thing....
"If you could beat the ponies, they wouldn't be running them."
Little hands, little balls.
LOL, I was thinking "leaving the --ing off of verbs" and things like that, but your example is better!
"The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."
V.I Lenin
C'mon, Lauren, with the 10's of millions of spams that google catches every day, some things are going to get caught by the filter that shouldn't be. Even if the filter is 99.99 effective that means there will be 1000 false positives in there...and yours is one of them. Shit happens. Adjust and move on.
Apparently what we're dealing with here is a simplistic (and frankly, rather haphazard in this respect at least) string-matching algorithm that could have come right out of the early 1970s...! [A]t least in this case, it appears that Google is basically using the venerable old UNIX/Linux "grep" command or some equivalent, and in a rather slipshod way, too. is drawing a trend and a conclusion from one data point.
...isn't by definition any stock sales by current officers insider trading? For good or bad, they will always have information that the public will never have. Where and how is that line drawn, and how can it not be an arbitrary one?
....is "shake to undo." Whoever came up with that unintuitive, hard to reproduce abomination should be forced to use Android 1.5.
"Former Female Oracle Employees Sue Company"
Former Female? What were they before? Perhaps you might mean "Female Former Oracle Employees Sue Company."
UC Berkeley Campus? Study invalid! All the squirrels were high from the second-hand pot smoke and probably whatever traces of acid were in the soil.
Surprised there were even nuts left after the pot-induced munchies kicked in....
...or someone who said half of his advertising budget was wasted...but identifying which half was the problem?
Neither the labels nor the streaming companies have any vested interest in paying their artists. It's not that they can't, it's that they don't want to.
...is to be be financially responsible for any breaches where the cost of non-compliance far, far outweighs the cost of compliance.
"Users will be able to make Animoji of unicorns, robots, pigs, pile of poo and many more.""
We've hit rock bottom....
So a company that nobody has heard of, who makes / performs a product or service that nobody here can identify, laid off 15 people and that rates the front page of Slashdot now?
Seriously?
Well said. I actually had to RTFA to a) see what it was and b) acknowledge that I didn't care.
....he can't share a cable stream like he can a Netflix or Hulu password. THAT'S why the cost argument falls on my cutters' deaf ears; they're already saving. If one pays the going rate, the argument isn't as nearly as compelling as the whiny author makes it out to be.
The education system must have been working pretty well in late 1800's and early 1900s. It managed to give us things like the industrial revolution, ubiquitous power, large scale agriculture, space exploration, medical advancements, etc...
So if the education system back then was able to provide us with the people that delivered all those kinds of outcomes... why are we trying to re-invent it completely?
Follow the money. Those who benefit financially from the re-inventions are the ones advocating for them. Back then, there weren't multi-billion dollar industries in chalk, paper, and slide rules, and a whole industry created to try and determine the efficacy of them.
Or they'll just beat off to porn and play video games and become useless NEETs.
They can do both. I was downloading porn on my Amiga 500, but I was also laying down skills that would help me later with other computers, and which led to sysadmin work.
...which led to higher-quality porn!
They should offer a 2 factor option of PIN and fingerprint.
....letting that huge market get in the way of their alleged principles.
Any manufacturer of devices with Lithium Ion batteries runs a risk of an occasional failure sparking a fire. Its not negligence, they implement all kinds of quality controls and features to prevent fires, but they are going to happen. Might be best for Apple to just pay up and not make much noise about it, as it is a rare event overall.
And set a precedent? No way.