Your changes of clothing for the next three days were in your pockets?? Or are you rich enough that you can just go out and buy more at your destination? Yes, I've had it take that long for an airline to find a bag.
No, the result would be that the artists would get less money.
The artist payments from streaming services are calculated based on the actual revenue collected by the company. If Apple did this shell game, the artist share would only be 70% (or whatever their actual percentage is) of $7 rather than 70% of $10. The norm for other services has been that no royalties at all have been paid for listening during trial periods, because 70% of $0 is $0. Apple was forced to cave and pay royalties for their trial period because of its unusual length (competing services offer much shorter trial periods) and the expectation that a large number of users would sign up for it.
Spotify is different because its free listening tier is ad-supported rather than a free trial of the full service. It has two separate payment pools; one for subscribers and another for ad-supported free listeners. The subscriber plays currently pay artists about 10 times as much as the ad-supported plays. That can change depending on how successful the company is at selling ads.
The root of the complaint is that Apple is giving itself a competitive revenue advantage in this market. If an iOS user buys an Apple Music subscription, Apple gets $10. If that user buys a subscription to another service through an iOS app, Apple gets $3 and the subscription provider gets $7 - EVERY MONTH. The margins in streaming music are small, so giving all that money to somebody else hurts the streaming companies. (It also hurts the artists because of the way streaming payments to artists are calculated; the artist share is now 70% of $7 rather than 70% of $10.) The other services can sell subscriptions through other channels, in which case Apple doesn't get any money, but Apple won't let them promote those other channels in the app.
A reasonable compromise might be to allow Apple to get their 30% once. The app would take your first month's fee (with Apple getting a cut), but after that it would redirect users to the service's web site to buy an ongoing subscription.
Music from artist A and music from artist B are not the same product. But streaming artist A from Apple, Google, Microsoft, Spotify, Rhapsody, Tidal, Deezer, etc. pretty much are the same product. The purchasing process and the provided applications vary but the end result is the same, artist A comes out of your speakers.
Uber drivers are not paid under the table. If you drive for Uber, all of your rides are paid for by credit card, collected by the company, and dispersed to the drivers. Uber files a 1099 for all those payments, so the IRS knows about them. It is then the driver's responsibility to pay taxes on them.
Uber drivers sometimes receive cash tips, though not nearly as often as regular taxi drivers do. There is not currently any way to pay tips though the app; drivers are allowed to accept cash tips but prohibited from soliciting them. That income may or may not get reported to the IRS, depending on the actions of the driver. That is also true of any cash tips that you give to regular taxi drivers.
Why do you need bags in the cabin? Because there is a significant probability that the airline will lose your checked bag, leaving you in a strange place with nothing. Or destroy your checked bag. Or steal things from it.
Banning cabin bags might make loading and unloading the plane faster, but it would make the total travel time slower because of the wait for your bag after arrival. Frequent travelers would likely be more in favor of adding more space for carry-ons and eliminating checked bags.
Airplanes already don't have enough room in the overhead bins for bags; passengers sometimes end up having to check bags they intended to carry on because no room is left. Cramming in more passengers will make the problem worse. This seating arrangement is also likely to have little room under the seats for bags.
Prime does offer access to Amazon's original shows; the best known of those are Alpha House and Transparent. There is not much new content from non-Amazon producers.
Amazon offers both pay-per-episode video (Instant Video) and subscription video (Prime Video). Pay-per-episode has a much larger selection, and includes many TV shows and movies that are not available on any subscription service. Amazon's subscription video service has a smaller selection than Netflix does, but it is also less expensive - the price is in the same neighborhood but Amazon Prime includes a number of non-video services, notably free second day shipping.
Blocking ad hosting sites will still work, and most video ads do not come from the same server as the desired web content. The IP address is not encrypted by HTTPS, so the router has no trouble blocking it.
Blocking specific content from a site that also serves desired content will not work at the router because the router will not be able to decode the web page. Blocking it with a client-based plugin like AdBlock Plus will still work because it sees the decrypted web page.
The strategy of buying a new printer actually did work for a while, until the printer makers figured it out and started shipping reduced capacity cartridges with the printers.
You don't have to use the store credit to buy more toner cartridges, at least not if you're talking about Staples. You can instead use it to buy stuff that is discounted, which can be a good value. For example, I have bought a few Logitech M325 mice there for $10 each during the Christmas season sales.
Build 10158 was released to the Fast ring yesterday. People who are running the Insider Preview of Windows 10 can now see a more recent build than that leaked one.
On Windows 10, the Start menu is back if you are on a computer with a keyboard and pointing device. No learning curve. If you are using a tablet you get a Start screen that has both tiles and a full program listing.
Did you pay cash to get into Disney? And buy everything inside the park with cash? If you used any kind of card to pay they already have your personal data, so there is no reason not to use the touchscreen.
There was a P4 in 2000, barely. "Pentium 4 is a line of single-core desktop, laptop and entry level server central processing units (CPUs) introduced by Intel on November 20, 2000" (quote from Wikipedia).
Intel was basically forced to license AMD64. Microsoft told Intel that they were only going to support one 64-bit version of the x86 architecture, and that it was going to be AMD64 because it was already established in the market.
Tesla vehicles also contain a 3G radio that is used to receive software updates. They have just as much Big Brother capability as cars equipped with OnStar, though Tesla may not use the data in the same manner as GM.
A 200 mile range means that the car will be usable for long road trips, making it possible for an EV to be your only car. With one charging stop you can go 400 miles, which is about as much as most people would care to drive in a day.
The payment model is similar to Spotify and other streaming music services. They take a percentage of all the money from the Unlimited subscriptions and divide it among all the books that were read. But now they are changing it to instead divide among all the pages that were read. The payment per page will be lower than the previous payment per book, but the total amount of money given out will be equal.
Those great books are mostly not being offered through Kindle Unlimited. Most of what you can get is self published works. Some are good, many more are not.
This change is only for Kindle Unlimited and the Kindle Owners Lending Library. You can't download books through those programs (and therefore can't convert them to other formats); you can only read them on a Kindle or with a Kindle app. (There are surely nefarious ways around that, but it's very different from a standard downloaded Kindle book that can be easily converted to another format.) Books that you buy from the Kindle store are not affected; authors still get paid when somebody buys one of those, whether or not it actually gets read.
Amazon probably is tracking what you read on a Kindle or Kindle app in any case. They're just not using the data to determine payments.
Amazon's planned change to payment of authors does not change the payment for books purchased for a Kindle or a Kindle app. It only affects books that you read using a Kindle Unlimited subscription, or though lending privileges granted to you by a Kindle owner through the Kindle Owners Lending Library program. Those programs pay authors using a model that is not unlike streaming music services: they look at all the books read over the month and divide up the revenue from those programs based on that readership.
It's a move on Amazon's part to limit gaming of the Kindle Unlimited program. Authors have been encouraging their friends who subscribe to download their books and open a few pages, which resulted in the author getting revenue as if somebody had read the book. Now they are shifting to actually checking how many pages you read and paying on that basis, so you can't throw money to your friend as easily. It also reins in the practice of carving up a novel into multiple smaller pieces to increase the amount of money received by the author for reading it.
It does have some possibly unintended consequences. First, it means that long books will pay more than short ones, assuming that readers actually read the entire book. (They are using a normalized page count that eliminates variables like typeface and size choices.) It also reduces the amount of money received by authors of things that aren't meant to be read cover to cover, such as reference books.
Java bytecode should always be compatible across platforms, and they have done a good job of keeping that true. There may be rare cases of compatibility issues but I haven't heard of them.
Native code is another matter entirely. That will fail if you move to a different architecture, as could happen if you moved from an old PowerPC Mac to a newer Mac or an x86 system, or when you try to move Java code to a system with an ARM processor. And the libraries have not been as good about maintaining backward compatibility as the JRE has.
Almost anything is more trustworthy than Sourceforge these days.
The direct downloads from the Document Foundation have always been crapware-free; you just have to click past a request for donations to get to them. Windows is the only platform that gets an installer; Mac has a.dmg like most Mac applications do. Linux has RPM and DEB versions, though most users get it from their distro's repositories instead.
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Your changes of clothing for the next three days were in your pockets?? Or are you rich enough that you can just go out and buy more at your destination? Yes, I've had it take that long for an airline to find a bag.
No, the result would be that the artists would get less money.
The artist payments from streaming services are calculated based on the actual revenue collected by the company. If Apple did this shell game, the artist share would only be 70% (or whatever their actual percentage is) of $7 rather than 70% of $10. The norm for other services has been that no royalties at all have been paid for listening during trial periods, because 70% of $0 is $0. Apple was forced to cave and pay royalties for their trial period because of its unusual length (competing services offer much shorter trial periods) and the expectation that a large number of users would sign up for it.
Spotify is different because its free listening tier is ad-supported rather than a free trial of the full service. It has two separate payment pools; one for subscribers and another for ad-supported free listeners. The subscriber plays currently pay artists about 10 times as much as the ad-supported plays. That can change depending on how successful the company is at selling ads.
The root of the complaint is that Apple is giving itself a competitive revenue advantage in this market. If an iOS user buys an Apple Music subscription, Apple gets $10. If that user buys a subscription to another service through an iOS app, Apple gets $3 and the subscription provider gets $7 - EVERY MONTH. The margins in streaming music are small, so giving all that money to somebody else hurts the streaming companies. (It also hurts the artists because of the way streaming payments to artists are calculated; the artist share is now 70% of $7 rather than 70% of $10.) The other services can sell subscriptions through other channels, in which case Apple doesn't get any money, but Apple won't let them promote those other channels in the app.
A reasonable compromise might be to allow Apple to get their 30% once. The app would take your first month's fee (with Apple getting a cut), but after that it would redirect users to the service's web site to buy an ongoing subscription.
Music from artist A and music from artist B are not the same product. But streaming artist A from Apple, Google, Microsoft, Spotify, Rhapsody, Tidal, Deezer, etc. pretty much are the same product. The purchasing process and the provided applications vary but the end result is the same, artist A comes out of your speakers.
Uber drivers are not paid under the table. If you drive for Uber, all of your rides are paid for by credit card, collected by the company, and dispersed to the drivers. Uber files a 1099 for all those payments, so the IRS knows about them. It is then the driver's responsibility to pay taxes on them.
Uber drivers sometimes receive cash tips, though not nearly as often as regular taxi drivers do. There is not currently any way to pay tips though the app; drivers are allowed to accept cash tips but prohibited from soliciting them. That income may or may not get reported to the IRS, depending on the actions of the driver. That is also true of any cash tips that you give to regular taxi drivers.
Why do you need bags in the cabin? Because there is a significant probability that the airline will lose your checked bag, leaving you in a strange place with nothing. Or destroy your checked bag. Or steal things from it.
Banning cabin bags might make loading and unloading the plane faster, but it would make the total travel time slower because of the wait for your bag after arrival. Frequent travelers would likely be more in favor of adding more space for carry-ons and eliminating checked bags.
Airplanes already don't have enough room in the overhead bins for bags; passengers sometimes end up having to check bags they intended to carry on because no room is left. Cramming in more passengers will make the problem worse. This seating arrangement is also likely to have little room under the seats for bags.
Prime does offer access to Amazon's original shows; the best known of those are Alpha House and Transparent. There is not much new content from non-Amazon producers.
Amazon offers both pay-per-episode video (Instant Video) and subscription video (Prime Video). Pay-per-episode has a much larger selection, and includes many TV shows and movies that are not available on any subscription service. Amazon's subscription video service has a smaller selection than Netflix does, but it is also less expensive - the price is in the same neighborhood but Amazon Prime includes a number of non-video services, notably free second day shipping.
Blocking ad hosting sites will still work, and most video ads do not come from the same server as the desired web content. The IP address is not encrypted by HTTPS, so the router has no trouble blocking it.
Blocking specific content from a site that also serves desired content will not work at the router because the router will not be able to decode the web page. Blocking it with a client-based plugin like AdBlock Plus will still work because it sees the decrypted web page.
Name recognition, and the fact that the other Republican candidates are even worse.
The strategy of buying a new printer actually did work for a while, until the printer makers figured it out and started shipping reduced capacity cartridges with the printers.
You don't have to use the store credit to buy more toner cartridges, at least not if you're talking about Staples. You can instead use it to buy stuff that is discounted, which can be a good value. For example, I have bought a few Logitech M325 mice there for $10 each during the Christmas season sales.
Build 10158 was released to the Fast ring yesterday. People who are running the Insider Preview of Windows 10 can now see a more recent build than that leaked one.
On Windows 10, the Start menu is back if you are on a computer with a keyboard and pointing device. No learning curve. If you are using a tablet you get a Start screen that has both tiles and a full program listing.
Did you pay cash to get into Disney? And buy everything inside the park with cash? If you used any kind of card to pay they already have your personal data, so there is no reason not to use the touchscreen.
There was a P4 in 2000, barely. "Pentium 4 is a line of single-core desktop, laptop and entry level server central processing units (CPUs) introduced by Intel on November 20, 2000" (quote from Wikipedia).
Intel was basically forced to license AMD64. Microsoft told Intel that they were only going to support one 64-bit version of the x86 architecture, and that it was going to be AMD64 because it was already established in the market.
Tesla vehicles also contain a 3G radio that is used to receive software updates. They have just as much Big Brother capability as cars equipped with OnStar, though Tesla may not use the data in the same manner as GM.
A 200 mile range means that the car will be usable for long road trips, making it possible for an EV to be your only car. With one charging stop you can go 400 miles, which is about as much as most people would care to drive in a day.
The payment model is similar to Spotify and other streaming music services. They take a percentage of all the money from the Unlimited subscriptions and divide it among all the books that were read. But now they are changing it to instead divide among all the pages that were read. The payment per page will be lower than the previous payment per book, but the total amount of money given out will be equal.
Those great books are mostly not being offered through Kindle Unlimited. Most of what you can get is self published works. Some are good, many more are not.
This change is only for Kindle Unlimited and the Kindle Owners Lending Library. You can't download books through those programs (and therefore can't convert them to other formats); you can only read them on a Kindle or with a Kindle app. (There are surely nefarious ways around that, but it's very different from a standard downloaded Kindle book that can be easily converted to another format.) Books that you buy from the Kindle store are not affected; authors still get paid when somebody buys one of those, whether or not it actually gets read.
Amazon probably is tracking what you read on a Kindle or Kindle app in any case. They're just not using the data to determine payments.
Amazon's planned change to payment of authors does not change the payment for books purchased for a Kindle or a Kindle app. It only affects books that you read using a Kindle Unlimited subscription, or though lending privileges granted to you by a Kindle owner through the Kindle Owners Lending Library program. Those programs pay authors using a model that is not unlike streaming music services: they look at all the books read over the month and divide up the revenue from those programs based on that readership.
It's a move on Amazon's part to limit gaming of the Kindle Unlimited program. Authors have been encouraging their friends who subscribe to download their books and open a few pages, which resulted in the author getting revenue as if somebody had read the book. Now they are shifting to actually checking how many pages you read and paying on that basis, so you can't throw money to your friend as easily. It also reins in the practice of carving up a novel into multiple smaller pieces to increase the amount of money received by the author for reading it.
It does have some possibly unintended consequences. First, it means that long books will pay more than short ones, assuming that readers actually read the entire book. (They are using a normalized page count that eliminates variables like typeface and size choices.) It also reduces the amount of money received by authors of things that aren't meant to be read cover to cover, such as reference books.
Java bytecode should always be compatible across platforms, and they have done a good job of keeping that true. There may be rare cases of compatibility issues but I haven't heard of them.
Native code is another matter entirely. That will fail if you move to a different architecture, as could happen if you moved from an old PowerPC Mac to a newer Mac or an x86 system, or when you try to move Java code to a system with an ARM processor. And the libraries have not been as good about maintaining backward compatibility as the JRE has.
Almost anything is more trustworthy than Sourceforge these days.
The direct downloads from the Document Foundation have always been crapware-free; you just have to click past a request for donations to get to them. Windows is the only platform that gets an installer; Mac has a .dmg like most Mac applications do. Linux has RPM and DEB versions, though most users get it from their distro's repositories instead.