Most people read barely above a elementary school level. The average newspaper is barely written at a high school level. Reading is a recent technological development, and only a fraction of the population is truly proficient. For example, one innovation we need to make if we want people to be education beyond high school, which given the skills we need in the wordplace is a given, is to be less dependent on reading as the primary teaching method. It is efficient, but most people are not proficient.
That said code should be written in small snippets and as much as possible idiomatically. One recent troubling innovation I have seen are developers trying to do several things in one line of code, like they are trying to win the c obfuscation contest. It makes little sense as we are not using teletypes, and the compiler will optimize code as needed. What we know is that gates and memory is much cheaper than people, and we only need to optimize the code that is run often and is in fact slow.
So, to answer the question, how we read code depends on how code it written, just like we read anything. For the most part code should be written as easily accessible poetry, not literature, not a physics textbook. The skill in reading code, again just like any reading, is not the decoding or sounding out of the text, but the comprehension of the meaning.
It is a statement that could be defended, but usually we don't differentiate the POTUS from the person who occupies it.
Certainly Trump appears to believe that all of his actions fall under the protection of the office, not just his official duties. So when he is at his golf resorts on most weekends, and leaks classified information, he is not prosecuted as Donald J Trump, businessmen, but protected as POTUS.
Likewise he uses his personal Twitter account to make statements as POTUS, and bragged that it is the way he communicates with the people. For instance he uses the feed to release official information, calling himself president, not just DJT who is occasionally the president.
It is one thing for Trump to never hold a town hall. We cannot fault him for being a coward and hide behind campaign rallies where he can control who attends. However, if he is going to be POTUS, and going to make use his personal twitter account to make official US announcements and policy, which is has, then he has to follow the rules just like anyone else.
We are not a fascist country, and the POTUS is not a dictator who can do anything he wants.
Recording music ws a big thing for about two generations. The basis was to convince gullible children that trash such as New Kids on the Block and the Beatles were worth your parents hard earned expendable income. Then build on nostalgia so you bought the same songs again 20 years later.
That a streaming service would decide that it can produce the same quality of garbage that traditional music wants to be paid extraordinary amounts of cash for is not surprising. This in fact happens all the time. I read one story of a film maker wanting an Elvis Presley song but the cost was so high it was cheaper to commission. We see the same thing in Unbreakable Amy Schmidt. Shows of the 90's, like Buffy, are much better off with original music than others who used existing music and then had issues releasing to DVD.
The only problem that Spotify might have is if there was a contractual obligation to play traditional garbage instead of commissioned garbage. No such expectation can exists, however, as the labels have fought the type of compulsory licensing that exists on radio. Streaming services often cannot provide content without explicit permission, and users often cannot select content at all, so there is no expectations. Furthermore, labels can only prevent their own songs from being streamed, not demand that their songs be exclusively played. That again is ancient history, and is an illegal practice called payola. In fact payola was a response by the labels to new competition, just like this is.
The Rick Perry situations is mostly due to the Trump and the idiots who voted for him. Energy in Texas is not like energy in the rest of the country, where everyone is afraid of innovation. Places like California and West Virginia where anything new is feared.
One good thing that Perry did is limit state regulation that could have stopped renewables from takin over. Now that Perry is gone, and the true radicals have taken over Texas, there are regulations that protect legacy interests.
But those regulations will not stop what is already happening. Natural gas is taking over coal plants, so Texas is producing less pollution not due to regulation, but due to the free market. Likewise wind is predicting an increasing percentage of the energy, and more cities are depending more on wind energy and less on fossil fuels. This, again, is not regulation but the fact that wind energy is so cheap there are occasional times that overnight spot prices are negative.
This, of course, means that wind will become increasingly popular. And, of course, Texas does not care about killing birds any more than it cares about killing children with the pollution from coal fired plants.
No, everywhere else is going to be screwed. The current energy situation is because of fracking, not because fracking is cost effective, but because a lot of money has been invested, so they have to sell the oil even if it is break even, and that fracking results in massive quantities of natural gas, which again is sold, even at a loss.
Fracking therefore has caused a glut in the crude oil market. As long as crude sells for around $70 a barrel, there is a break even costs. However, at these low prices we see destabilization in Russia and Venezuela and other non-middle east countries whose economy depends on oil income. Russia's only hope, other than $125 a barrel oil, is a half trillion dollar deal with the Trump administration that will prop up the Putin government for a generation.
On the other hand much of the middle east oil is produced at a few dollars a barrel. Their oil will always be sold, and will always be sold at a profit. As oil demand decreases, there countries, including the US, will see significant negative effects. Middle East countries will suffer, but we are a long way away from crude becoming irrelevant.
So you are saying that you would be ok promising someone five years of pay, then cutting them off after two if the congress says that funding has changed. Otherwise we are funding the army for five years.
In any case, I hope you don't depend on having a real job where you depend on the money so, as you have asserted is fair, you won't be harmed if they fire you on friday and refuse to pay you for the week.
More seriously, the army and Air Force are unconstitutional , so we should not compound our violation of this foundational document.
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
In particular I think we congress funds project for more than two years, and people often sign contracts that require them to work for more than two years, which means that the US is promising to pay them for more than two years. I would think our current congress, which is so concerned about the sanctity of the rule of law and the constitution, would be working to fix this constitutional violation, not exacerbate it.
To be sure we have no cost effective means of places soldiers in even low earth orbit, and have no reason to so do. To be sure the military is simply a means to waste the nations treasury without oversight. To be sure we already have a department that does put people and equipment into orbit, and we should continue to make space a civilian venture.
There is no reason for the US to be first country to militarize space. We depend on low earth orbit for many things. LEO is extremely difficult to defend. As soon as we signal that we are producing a military force for space and LEO, then every one of our satellites becomes a military target. The US can be crippled not by a nuclear bomb, but simple missiles that destroy our very visible and predictable satellites.
It is worthless. Anyone can register for community college. You can probably pay on a plan where you pay 10%, get a note, and graduate, and then drop all the courses. That would likely be under $100, and that is if you don't get financial aid or a loan. Every public school I knows makes everyone fill ou a FASFA. Now the kid has $500 of debt they can't get rid of without paying, acruiing at high interest rates.
Enlistment in the military is the simplest option. Send a certified retraction letter so it arrives before your DEP. if enough kids do this the military will be pissed off enough to either get the policy stopped, stop recruited students from Chicago schools, or reverse the policy of not bringing up AWOL recruits to a court martial. In all cases a huge amount of time will be wasted, though not taxpayer money because we have to pay recruiters anyway.
My sibling graduated high school several years before me. Many at the time were able to get married and live a comfortable middle class life working for construction, for about a decade. By the time I graduated high school, the economy was in the worst shape of my short life. I however got a computer job nearly immediately, making about $20 an hour in todays dollars. This was not a typical as many of friends made the same or better money. Many of them quit college to work full time, making nearly six figures in actual money back then.
Some managed to make a career of it. Some managed to have 20 years at the same firm, making very good money, only to not find a another job when the firm went under.
As a tech worker, the reality is that many jobs are not going to last more than a few years. My friends who have college degrees, like me, are able to find other lines of work when we need to. I am not saying that someone with a degree can't find good paying work when the economy goes down or their firm goes under, but a degree definitely helps.
As once was said, high school prepares you for your first job, college phttps://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/06/28/184225/a-new-kind-of-tech-job-emphasizes-skills-not-a-college-degree#repares you for you last job. And almost now one stays at their first job for 30 years.
t [iPad Pro] is inferior to a laptop in almost every way, unless you like to draw. If you think you can replace you laptop with this setup: you cannot.
This is true but irrelevant. A laptop still can't completely replace a desktop computer, which is why I still have a desktop, but for most people it is good enough. I was consulting when laptops and PDA became popular, and I spent a lot of time explaining what they could and could not do. It was important to keep it neutral because some people either had the money and desire to be first adopters, or the product could genuinely help them.
People are scared of change. We see this phones. In old TV shows you see a phone in a car that looks very similar to a home phone. The flip phone was scary. People made fun of the Star Tac and Razr with truly popularized the flip phone, not only because it sacrificed reception for size and style, but because it did not have a 'phone' form factor. Yet a generation later when the iPhone popularized the PDA flat form factor, everyone was complaining that it was not a flip phone.
I guess the/. editors no longer have the courage to call anything new 'lame' directly, so they have to have a reviewer do it.
Certainly many people buy tablets who can't use them. On the other hand, I know people who have laptops who do nothing but browse the web. And laptops are much more fragile
MS Windows is a beautiful OS because it is designed to be used on any POS hardware that falls off the back of a truck. This is incredible useful, and represent a significant technological advancement. It also results in serious compromises that limits what the OS can do, and limits the type of legacy thing the OS no longer needs to support.
So, Apple never supported the lame parallel port because it was, well lame. When firewire became useful, SCSI, which was incredible useful and fast, was pushed out the door. It was possible to transition between processor families because the old stuff could go away.
Remember that the need to support legacy products pretty much meant the MS Windows could not really take full advantage of the new chips, so the x86 Intel and AMD development were basically starved because the gamers and few HPC customers could not support development. It was Apple's move to Intel that gave it the funds to progress.
In reality if you can figure out how to get the OS to run on cheaper hardware, Apple really does not do anything t stop the private consumer. I have never seen a lawsuit where Apple has sued an end user for using it's OS on unsanctioned hardware. What Apple is not going to do it support its use because there is no upside or profit in it. People who want cheap hardware are not going to spend any money, and not going to support the advanced technology that Apple represents.
We will have to wait until August to see if it is over. Note that the spinner became really popular after spring break in the US. Students went out, had a week to play with theirs, and then bring it back to school. I think it became a big hit because 1) schools did not know what to make of it and 2) it was presented not as a toy but as a way to keep kids calm. To kids, it was simply a toy that they could use to waste time, most importantly a toy that schools did not seem inclined to take away.
Now that most kids in the US are not in school, they have many other interesting avenue to kill a day. The question is when they are forced to sit in a classroom all day, will they ask for the spinners, or will they find something new. Will the school continue to accept the spinners, or now that they is some understanding, treat them like any other toy.
Speakers tend to be invited by students. The bill is likely intended to make sure folks like Alex Jones are not blocked by administration. The problem will be when some smart ass student forms a group and books an atheist who thinks that Jebus is the inherent force of evil.
Right now the radical right is the ones doing the screaming, but in my experience college administration usually just tries to control the smart ass students who want to do publicity stunts, left or right.
I got an apple because it let me create right out of the box. Shape tables are awesome. Plug in a board and I was burning EPROMs. VisiCalc and excel were first in apple.
People but h today but nobody solders thier hacks like I did on my apple. People plug in cable or plugin a chip and they think they have built a computer. Give me a break.
I have python running on my mac, I have gcc. I have LaTex and I don't think nothing beats Texshop.
The problem with legos now is you don't start with a blank sheet of paper. In terms of teaching creativity, getting people to not be afraid of the blank canvass is a critical step. When you start with a Star Wars kit you lose that blank slate, the kid is not learning to be brave, merely to emulate. Yes you can do whatever, but the pressure is not to.
You may ask why not just give them a bunch or wood and glue. It is because we do have to scaffold. There might be some emulation needed between duplo and real legos. But what the company has done is give up on its core mission for profit. Which is fine. The good parents can still buy real lego sets.
I wish I would have started to read this book when I was younger as I would have had the stamina and attention span to finish it.
I think that everyone should read the little prince early as it makes less sense to an adult who reads it for the first time.
I was fortunate that I read Enders game the year it was published. All his other stuff, which I have also read, is mostly spiritual crap.
All I want is to be able to delete apps from the search screen. iOS is becoming mature enough that apps are being retired. I have no idea where they are. I have hundreds of app on my iPad which have been collecting dust over the years. All I want to do is type in the name, swipe left, and have it gone.
This is really the key. Revenue for sports is generated because it is one of the few things that generates viewers for broadcast and TV. Broadcast TV was killed with timeshifting, and the only thing that saved it was reality TV, which was cheap, contest TV like dance shows and the like which encouraged views not to time shift, and sports which are seldom time shifted.
ESPN value to cable companies is that men will tend to buy a cable package that includes it, in the same that families will buy Disney and old people will buy Fox News. These channels attract a premium in the carriage fees because they will attract subscribers. But still, a majority of views do not watch these channels, so they mostly make their money, as the poster suggests, through a sociality system in which people who never use the system are forced to subsidize.
In a free market al a cart world in which the consumer only paid the carriage fees for the elected channels Fox and ESPN could not survive. The fees would no longer be hidden from the consumer, so the free market would set much lower fees that would not support the cost structure. An article was posting a few day ago that claimed ESPN could have saved itself by embracing technology. That would have happened only if was able to monetize the technology to consumers. As it has no experience at this, I don't see who it could work.
Disney likely provides enough value to families as free babysitting to survive.
In any case, most sports are toast for the same reason. They depend on inflated broadcast deals that in turn are funded at least in part by carriage fees that are funded in a large part by people who never watch sports. These fees are becoming more scarce by cord cutters.
Streaming deals are funded only by people who stream, i.e. a baseball fan who wants to steam has to pony up at least $100. This is only a month of cable, but it is not longer a hidden cost that might have been included in other bills, so baseball fans might be less likely to subscribe.
So fans go to other less expensive options. Also, schools are not doing nearly as a good a job at indoctrinating students into believing expensive sports are a good use of their hard earned money. Frankly you can get an excellent soccer ticket at the same cost as a nosebleed baseball ticket, and univision is broadcast.
Don't live in Europe, don't worry about Europe. Worry the I am going to trying to help some muslin on the bus, and some fracker is going to kill me for it. Have had a lot of Christians in my life almost come to blows because I demanded they respect other people.
Exactly,getting rid of hate speech on Twitter is really that
easy. Just block the current POTUS and all followers,and watch all the white Christian terrorism disappear.
Our roads are made for people, not horses. We can deal with skateboards and unicycles and bicycles, but not your new fangled horse carriages.
What is truly stupid here is that a self driving car is just a drone with a person in it. Why are they allowing Uber to test self driving cars, but have a problem with drones? Aren't they hey both going to clog the streets?
In fact the services are standard and can link to any device, a hub is needed to convert from the local network to the TCP/IP. Many use ZeeBee. The voice activited smart devices merely supply a link between the devices in the house and the proprietary stack used by Google, Amazon, or maybe Apple.
The issue is how they monetize the customer. Google is an advertising company, so obviously they are going to advertise, as seen in the controversy over the ads on their Home device. Amazon sells stuff, so they try to position Alexa as a gateway to buy stuff easily. They also have a paid music service, which is what I mostly use Alexa for, which generates income for Amazon. Apple needs to be careful because Apple customers already pay for everything. They have made a lot of missteps in focusing on monthly revenue rather than customer satisfaction. They have gone to a monthly $1 fee for the online service, presumably so the customers always have to have a valid credit card on file. They have made iTunes into a dog of a program, first by bloating it with options for paid videos, and now by making the interface more clutter by focusing on paid streaming service.
An Apple home assistant could be better if Apple focuses on making it useful for the consumer as opposed to useful for Apple. Amazon and Google can't compete with that because they have to move product. Apple can succeed in that Apple has made consumer products, while the only one making any money off Android is Samsung, and it is unclear if the Amazon fork of Android bring in any direct revenue. I have an Alexa, but I got it cheap on the initial promotion. Certainly would never pay the price Amazon wants for it now,.
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That said code should be written in small snippets and as much as possible idiomatically. One recent troubling innovation I have seen are developers trying to do several things in one line of code, like they are trying to win the c obfuscation contest. It makes little sense as we are not using teletypes, and the compiler will optimize code as needed. What we know is that gates and memory is much cheaper than people, and we only need to optimize the code that is run often and is in fact slow.
So, to answer the question, how we read code depends on how code it written, just like we read anything. For the most part code should be written as easily accessible poetry, not literature, not a physics textbook. The skill in reading code, again just like any reading, is not the decoding or sounding out of the text, but the comprehension of the meaning.
Certainly Trump appears to believe that all of his actions fall under the protection of the office, not just his official duties. So when he is at his golf resorts on most weekends, and leaks classified information, he is not prosecuted as Donald J Trump, businessmen, but protected as POTUS.
Likewise he uses his personal Twitter account to make statements as POTUS, and bragged that it is the way he communicates with the people. For instance he uses the feed to release official information, calling himself president, not just DJT who is occasionally the president.
It is one thing for Trump to never hold a town hall. We cannot fault him for being a coward and hide behind campaign rallies where he can control who attends. However, if he is going to be POTUS, and going to make use his personal twitter account to make official US announcements and policy, which is has, then he has to follow the rules just like anyone else.
We are not a fascist country, and the POTUS is not a dictator who can do anything he wants.
That a streaming service would decide that it can produce the same quality of garbage that traditional music wants to be paid extraordinary amounts of cash for is not surprising. This in fact happens all the time. I read one story of a film maker wanting an Elvis Presley song but the cost was so high it was cheaper to commission. We see the same thing in Unbreakable Amy Schmidt. Shows of the 90's, like Buffy, are much better off with original music than others who used existing music and then had issues releasing to DVD.
The only problem that Spotify might have is if there was a contractual obligation to play traditional garbage instead of commissioned garbage. No such expectation can exists, however, as the labels have fought the type of compulsory licensing that exists on radio. Streaming services often cannot provide content without explicit permission, and users often cannot select content at all, so there is no expectations. Furthermore, labels can only prevent their own songs from being streamed, not demand that their songs be exclusively played. That again is ancient history, and is an illegal practice called payola. In fact payola was a response by the labels to new competition, just like this is.
One good thing that Perry did is limit state regulation that could have stopped renewables from takin over. Now that Perry is gone, and the true radicals have taken over Texas, there are regulations that protect legacy interests.
But those regulations will not stop what is already happening. Natural gas is taking over coal plants, so Texas is producing less pollution not due to regulation, but due to the free market. Likewise wind is predicting an increasing percentage of the energy, and more cities are depending more on wind energy and less on fossil fuels. This, again, is not regulation but the fact that wind energy is so cheap there are occasional times that overnight spot prices are negative.
This, of course, means that wind will become increasingly popular. And, of course, Texas does not care about killing birds any more than it cares about killing children with the pollution from coal fired plants.
Fracking therefore has caused a glut in the crude oil market. As long as crude sells for around $70 a barrel, there is a break even costs. However, at these low prices we see destabilization in Russia and Venezuela and other non-middle east countries whose economy depends on oil income. Russia's only hope, other than $125 a barrel oil, is a half trillion dollar deal with the Trump administration that will prop up the Putin government for a generation.
On the other hand much of the middle east oil is produced at a few dollars a barrel. Their oil will always be sold, and will always be sold at a profit. As oil demand decreases, there countries, including the US, will see significant negative effects. Middle East countries will suffer, but we are a long way away from crude becoming irrelevant.
In any case, I hope you don't depend on having a real job where you depend on the money so, as you have asserted is fair, you won't be harmed if they fire you on friday and refuse to pay you for the week.
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
In particular I think we congress funds project for more than two years, and people often sign contracts that require them to work for more than two years, which means that the US is promising to pay them for more than two years. I would think our current congress, which is so concerned about the sanctity of the rule of law and the constitution, would be working to fix this constitutional violation, not exacerbate it.
To be sure we have no cost effective means of places soldiers in even low earth orbit, and have no reason to so do. To be sure the military is simply a means to waste the nations treasury without oversight. To be sure we already have a department that does put people and equipment into orbit, and we should continue to make space a civilian venture.
There is no reason for the US to be first country to militarize space. We depend on low earth orbit for many things. LEO is extremely difficult to defend. As soon as we signal that we are producing a military force for space and LEO, then every one of our satellites becomes a military target. The US can be crippled not by a nuclear bomb, but simple missiles that destroy our very visible and predictable satellites.
The stupidity of this congress is beyond belief.
Enlistment in the military is the simplest option. Send a certified retraction letter so it arrives before your DEP. if enough kids do this the military will be pissed off enough to either get the policy stopped, stop recruited students from Chicago schools, or reverse the policy of not bringing up AWOL recruits to a court martial. In all cases a huge amount of time will be wasted, though not taxpayer money because we have to pay recruiters anyway.
Some managed to make a career of it. Some managed to have 20 years at the same firm, making very good money, only to not find a another job when the firm went under.
As a tech worker, the reality is that many jobs are not going to last more than a few years. My friends who have college degrees, like me, are able to find other lines of work when we need to. I am not saying that someone with a degree can't find good paying work when the economy goes down or their firm goes under, but a degree definitely helps.
As once was said, high school prepares you for your first job, college phttps://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/06/28/184225/a-new-kind-of-tech-job-emphasizes-skills-not-a-college-degree#repares you for you last job. And almost now one stays at their first job for 30 years.
This is true but irrelevant. A laptop still can't completely replace a desktop computer, which is why I still have a desktop, but for most people it is good enough. I was consulting when laptops and PDA became popular, and I spent a lot of time explaining what they could and could not do. It was important to keep it neutral because some people either had the money and desire to be first adopters, or the product could genuinely help them.
People are scared of change. We see this phones. In old TV shows you see a phone in a car that looks very similar to a home phone. The flip phone was scary. People made fun of the Star Tac and Razr with truly popularized the flip phone, not only because it sacrificed reception for size and style, but because it did not have a 'phone' form factor. Yet a generation later when the iPhone popularized the PDA flat form factor, everyone was complaining that it was not a flip phone.
I guess the /. editors no longer have the courage to call anything new 'lame' directly, so they have to have a reviewer do it.
Certainly many people buy tablets who can't use them. On the other hand, I know people who have laptops who do nothing but browse the web. And laptops are much more fragile
The same support issue exists. MS makes an OS that runs on anything, which is why I run in a VM on my Mac. Mac OS is not designed to run on anything.
So, Apple never supported the lame parallel port because it was, well lame. When firewire became useful, SCSI, which was incredible useful and fast, was pushed out the door. It was possible to transition between processor families because the old stuff could go away.
Remember that the need to support legacy products pretty much meant the MS Windows could not really take full advantage of the new chips, so the x86 Intel and AMD development were basically starved because the gamers and few HPC customers could not support development. It was Apple's move to Intel that gave it the funds to progress.
In reality if you can figure out how to get the OS to run on cheaper hardware, Apple really does not do anything t stop the private consumer. I have never seen a lawsuit where Apple has sued an end user for using it's OS on unsanctioned hardware. What Apple is not going to do it support its use because there is no upside or profit in it. People who want cheap hardware are not going to spend any money, and not going to support the advanced technology that Apple represents.
Now that most kids in the US are not in school, they have many other interesting avenue to kill a day. The question is when they are forced to sit in a classroom all day, will they ask for the spinners, or will they find something new. Will the school continue to accept the spinners, or now that they is some understanding, treat them like any other toy.
Right now the radical right is the ones doing the screaming, but in my experience college administration usually just tries to control the smart ass students who want to do publicity stunts, left or right.
The problem with this from Lego point of view is they only sold one tub per family. Now they sell many sets per family
I know people have trouble with a blank canvass that us because they did not do enough free play, which Legos can be a part.
People but h today but nobody solders thier hacks like I did on my apple. People plug in cable or plugin a chip and they think they have built a computer. Give me a break.
I have python running on my mac, I have gcc. I have LaTex and I don't think nothing beats Texshop.
The problem with legos now is you don't start with a blank sheet of paper. In terms of teaching creativity, getting people to not be afraid of the blank canvass is a critical step. When you start with a Star Wars kit you lose that blank slate, the kid is not learning to be brave, merely to emulate. Yes you can do whatever, but the pressure is not to.
You may ask why not just give them a bunch or wood and glue. It is because we do have to scaffold. There might be some emulation needed between duplo and real legos. But what the company has done is give up on its core mission for profit. Which is fine. The good parents can still buy real lego sets.
I wish I would have started to read this book when I was younger as I would have had the stamina and attention span to finish it. I think that everyone should read the little prince early as it makes less sense to an adult who reads it for the first time. I was fortunate that I read Enders game the year it was published. All his other stuff, which I have also read, is mostly spiritual crap.
All I want is to be able to delete apps from the search screen. iOS is becoming mature enough that apps are being retired. I have no idea where they are. I have hundreds of app on my iPad which have been collecting dust over the years. All I want to do is type in the name, swipe left, and have it gone.
You know, I wonder why the got rid of club penguin. Spent a huge amount on monthly subscription, it must have been a cash cow.
ESPN value to cable companies is that men will tend to buy a cable package that includes it, in the same that families will buy Disney and old people will buy Fox News. These channels attract a premium in the carriage fees because they will attract subscribers. But still, a majority of views do not watch these channels, so they mostly make their money, as the poster suggests, through a sociality system in which people who never use the system are forced to subsidize.
In a free market al a cart world in which the consumer only paid the carriage fees for the elected channels Fox and ESPN could not survive. The fees would no longer be hidden from the consumer, so the free market would set much lower fees that would not support the cost structure. An article was posting a few day ago that claimed ESPN could have saved itself by embracing technology. That would have happened only if was able to monetize the technology to consumers. As it has no experience at this, I don't see who it could work.
Disney likely provides enough value to families as free babysitting to survive.
In any case, most sports are toast for the same reason. They depend on inflated broadcast deals that in turn are funded at least in part by carriage fees that are funded in a large part by people who never watch sports. These fees are becoming more scarce by cord cutters.
Streaming deals are funded only by people who stream, i.e. a baseball fan who wants to steam has to pony up at least $100. This is only a month of cable, but it is not longer a hidden cost that might have been included in other bills, so baseball fans might be less likely to subscribe.
So fans go to other less expensive options. Also, schools are not doing nearly as a good a job at indoctrinating students into believing expensive sports are a good use of their hard earned money. Frankly you can get an excellent soccer ticket at the same cost as a nosebleed baseball ticket, and univision is broadcast.
Don't live in Europe, don't worry about Europe. Worry the I am going to trying to help some muslin on the bus, and some fracker is going to kill me for it. Have had a lot of Christians in my life almost come to blows because I demanded they respect other people.
Exactly,getting rid of hate speech on Twitter is really that easy. Just block the current POTUS and all followers,and watch all the white Christian terrorism disappear.
So you saying one person allowed uber self driving cars on the street, no one else supported it. Wow, SF is a small town run by a dictator, huh.
What is truly stupid here is that a self driving car is just a drone with a person in it. Why are they allowing Uber to test self driving cars, but have a problem with drones? Aren't they hey both going to clog the streets?
The issue is how they monetize the customer. Google is an advertising company, so obviously they are going to advertise, as seen in the controversy over the ads on their Home device. Amazon sells stuff, so they try to position Alexa as a gateway to buy stuff easily. They also have a paid music service, which is what I mostly use Alexa for, which generates income for Amazon. Apple needs to be careful because Apple customers already pay for everything. They have made a lot of missteps in focusing on monthly revenue rather than customer satisfaction. They have gone to a monthly $1 fee for the online service, presumably so the customers always have to have a valid credit card on file. They have made iTunes into a dog of a program, first by bloating it with options for paid videos, and now by making the interface more clutter by focusing on paid streaming service.
An Apple home assistant could be better if Apple focuses on making it useful for the consumer as opposed to useful for Apple. Amazon and Google can't compete with that because they have to move product. Apple can succeed in that Apple has made consumer products, while the only one making any money off Android is Samsung, and it is unclear if the Amazon fork of Android bring in any direct revenue. I have an Alexa, but I got it cheap on the initial promotion. Certainly would never pay the price Amazon wants for it now,.