Maybe they meant libertarian-radicals? While liberals seem to favor a free market (in that they want all the consumers to have equal opportunities in the market) they don't usually seem to get in an uproar about it, whereas the stereotype for libertarians is that they do.
yes, but they don't burn the discs, they just ship existing discs. (I kind of wish they could burn the discs, because the older and less-used parts of their catalog are becoming unusable.)
Hmmm. I was thinking that'd be a bummer because I'd want conduit and therefore a good pro would either have to be there while I pull wires or reject it because he couldn't trust the in-conduit wires... but on reflection, what I'd want in conduit would be cat6, speaker wire, and other low voltage stuff... would that matter? Does the electrician care about network and audio?
autoplaying audio is, I would argue, part of the experience but not part of the interface - it's not a control, it's just content that happens to make air move. The command line is a control, the steering wheels and pedals are controls, the remote control is not itself (imho) a UI; it's a widget that has a UI.
But your mileage may vary based on your point of view:)
maybe impractical for large quantities, but there's a lot of things that are very useful in tiny amounts, and if it's useful enough, it'll get made and used.
However, if "metal"ness was entirely a matter of which element is present, then hydrogen would either be a metal or not, and metallic hydrogen would be either impossible or uninteresting.
yeah, but it wasn't obvious that he was talking about proton->neutron conversion at first glance. It does make sense, hydrogen->helium has to pick up neutrons from somewhere, but it's not a step that most people think about a lot:)
perhaps more to the point, from the article: " The batteries included in this expanded recall have bar codes starting with: 6BZLU, 6CGFK, 6CGFQ, 6CZMB, 6DEMA, 6DEMH, 6DGAL and 6EBVA."
but now they have some actual evidence of what the difference in disc revenue is. This could be useful (to either/both sides) next time Netflix needs to negotiate streaming contracts - Netflix can't claim "it won't affect your DVD sales" and the studios can't claim "without streaming we'd sell ten times as many, you have to pay us based on that".
It will be annoying and sad if this reduces streaming availability, but having it based on evidence seems like an overall win in the long run.
I find that plausible; Disney (for all its behind-the-scenes warts) is detail-oriented enough about customer-visible areas to put in the effort to do it well. I'll have to try that out. Thanks!
I doubt he'd do it _just_ because he's a businessman. It is conceivable, however, that he would do so because he or his friends have vested interests in the more expensive options.
sorry, I started off with a restaurant scenario and changed to a hotel scenario but missed an instance of "restaurant" in the text. Please pretend I said "the hotel is not allowed to point..." instead.
If you post a bad review of a hotel to Facebook and use lots of foul language, Facebook can ban you because it's their platform; the hotel can't because it's not their platform. Post a bad review on the hotel's webpage and they can delete it and ban you because that's their platform. Neither of those are changing.
What is changing is that if you post a bad review to Facebook, the restaurant is not allowed to point to a clause in the contract you signed when renting the room that says you wouldn't say anything bad about them as a reason to sue you. They can still sue you, of course, but they would have to do it on the basis that your statement was false, not just that it was bad and you promised not to say anything bad.
You're both right. Continuity is both a strength and a potential for problems; it depends whether those with the institutional knowledge of the processes are using or abusing that information.
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I think it will at least be *ahem* titanic.
Thank you, thank you, try the veal :)
Maybe they meant libertarian-radicals? While liberals seem to favor a free market (in that they want all the consumers to have equal opportunities in the market) they don't usually seem to get in an uproar about it, whereas the stereotype for libertarians is that they do.
yes, but they don't burn the discs, they just ship existing discs. (I kind of wish they could burn the discs, because the older and less-used parts of their catalog are becoming unusable.)
depending where you live, that may or may not be enough to feed, clothe, and house yourself and 4 kids.
Hmmm. I was thinking that'd be a bummer because I'd want conduit and therefore a good pro would either have to be there while I pull wires or reject it because he couldn't trust the in-conduit wires... but on reflection, what I'd want in conduit would be cat6, speaker wire, and other low voltage stuff... would that matter? Does the electrician care about network and audio?
and with rules like this there never will be any "real journalists" again.
no, but it makes the hungry Wizard sad.
whups, responded to wrong post. Sorry.
He can push for that, and I would like to see it, but that's Congress, not the Presidency.
Towers get shared a lot, no?
autoplaying audio is, I would argue, part of the experience but not part of the interface - it's not a control, it's just content that happens to make air move. The command line is a control, the steering wheels and pedals are controls, the remote control is not itself (imho) a UI; it's a widget that has a UI.
But your mileage may vary based on your point of view :)
maybe impractical for large quantities, but there's a lot of things that are very useful in tiny amounts, and if it's useful enough, it'll get made and used.
I didn't think they'd taken the pressure off yet, because they still had things they wanted to test.
Actually, not so much. https://www.reference.com/scie...
However, if "metal"ness was entirely a matter of which element is present, then hydrogen would either be a metal or not, and metallic hydrogen would be either impossible or uninteresting.
yeah, but it wasn't obvious that he was talking about proton->neutron conversion at first glance. It does make sense, hydrogen->helium has to pick up neutrons from somewhere, but it's not a step that most people think about a lot :)
perhaps more to the point, from the article: " The batteries included in this expanded recall have bar codes starting with: 6BZLU, 6CGFK, 6CGFQ, 6CZMB, 6DEMA, 6DEMH, 6DGAL and 6EBVA."
*applause*
and of course today I have no mod points. Thanks for the link!
but now they have some actual evidence of what the difference in disc revenue is. This could be useful (to either/both sides) next time Netflix needs to negotiate streaming contracts - Netflix can't claim "it won't affect your DVD sales" and the studios can't claim "without streaming we'd sell ten times as many, you have to pay us based on that".
It will be annoying and sad if this reduces streaming availability, but having it based on evidence seems like an overall win in the long run.
I find that plausible; Disney (for all its behind-the-scenes warts) is detail-oriented enough about customer-visible areas to put in the effort to do it well. I'll have to try that out. Thanks!
obxkcd: http://xkcd.com/505/
I doubt he'd do it _just_ because he's a businessman. It is conceivable, however, that he would do so because he or his friends have vested interests in the more expensive options.
sorry, I started off with a restaurant scenario and changed to a hotel scenario but missed an instance of "restaurant" in the text. Please pretend I said "the hotel is not allowed to point..." instead.
If you post a bad review of a hotel to Facebook and use lots of foul language, Facebook can ban you because it's their platform; the hotel can't because it's not their platform. Post a bad review on the hotel's webpage and they can delete it and ban you because that's their platform. Neither of those are changing.
What is changing is that if you post a bad review to Facebook, the restaurant is not allowed to point to a clause in the contract you signed when renting the room that says you wouldn't say anything bad about them as a reason to sue you. They can still sue you, of course, but they would have to do it on the basis that your statement was false, not just that it was bad and you promised not to say anything bad.
You're both right. Continuity is both a strength and a potential for problems; it depends whether those with the institutional knowledge of the processes are using or abusing that information.