What are Spotify getting for the 30% every month though for each user, after the user finds the app and installs it. For most apps that 30% usually of a small figure like £1 or £2 is almost like a listing fee, 30 to 60 pence to have you app on the store and in the search results.
A Spotify subscription costs £9.99 per month, and if you pay for it through the phone with your Apple Account £3 of that goes to Apple every month (for the first year). Apple aren't running any of Spotify servers, they aren't paying musicians with that money. They are offering the exact same services as the other apps get but for a monthly fee rather than a one of payment.
I think the most reasonable compromise would be 30% of the first month.
No doubt. The Lightning connector predates the USB-C connector, and the USB-C port isn't really catching on outside of smart phones. As evidence I give the many posts here on Slashdot on Apple putting USB-C ports on their laptops. Which is it? Is USB-C good or is it bad?
The USB-C port is catching on, it's strarting to replace power on most new small laptops (Chromebooks and Ultrabooks).
The complaint with the MacBook Pro was that it's the ONLY port, plus a 3.5mm audio jack. When USB was released motherboards still had Parallel and Serial ports for a while, when HDMI was released VGA didn't die instantly on Laptops. Apple skipped a step. $50 Dongles are an inadequate stop gap. They also released a phone that ships with headphones that you can't plug into the new laptop they released afterwards.
If they'd released a USB-C iPhone 7 and then the USB-C MacBook Pro there would have been far fewer complaints.
But the issues at Youtube are that advertisers are pressuring them to only show their ad on content that doesn't go against the companies guidelines. Film companies don't want their films advertised before a video preaching racial hatred. Seeing as YouTube, Google and the people making the videos rely on ad revenue to fund themselves, the site being perceived a non-advertiser friendly could and has cost them significantly. Even channels that provide news coverage of the recent marches and terrorist attacks have been flagged by advertisers, not even content in support of those things, just journalism.
So they're stuck between building better systems to indentify content the advertisers don't want to be associated with and either removing or filtering it, or loosing the larger advertisers entirely and potentially leading YouTube into financial decline.
Yeah, I'd love for that to get brought up in court.
Judge: "How are the comments stored?" FCC: "Digitally in a database system fed by an online submission website" Judge: "What part of rertrieveing comments from this system is burdensome?" FCC: "We've only got one computer than can access it." Judge: "How is that a burden?" FCC "It's in the basement, in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door that says beware of the leopard." "And it runs Windows 98"
Maybe that true outside the UK but here un-authorised withdrawals over £50 before we report the card last has to be refunded, and all un-authorised withdrawals of any amount has to be refunded that occur after the card is reported missing.
I personally place zero value on the data that makes up my spending habits... there are plenty of companies willing to exchange services for that data though rather than me pay for the services in cash. I wouldn't use Facebook if it charged a fee, likely not YouTube either, bit for a bit of data on what I read/like on Facebook or watch on YouTube I can use those services at no monetary charge.
I get targeted advertising sure. It's probably less annoying than adverts not aimed at me or my tastes though.
If I have debit card stolen, or even just the numbers. I can claim back the fraudulent expenses and get my money back.
If I'm carrying cash and it's taken, I have way of proving it... and little to no chance of ever getting it back. For this reason I feel uncomfortable having any more than £50 on me at a time and usually go weeks will less than £5 on my person, enough to afford a bus home. I've had my wallet stolen as a teenager with cash in and I've lost a few debit cards as an adult. Losing the money was far worse than the card, I can ring and cancel the card as soon as I notice it missing. I can't ring anyone to tell them to make my cash not work.
It's also too easy for me to spend, usually ends up being spent on consumables and things I wouldn't usually buy; such as food items from places that don't accept card. It's not usually food I need, it's food I'm getting because I have cash to get it with. Some might say have some self control... I do... I keep my money in my account whenever possible.
If implemented correctly, at least here in the UK, all contactless payment chip & pin will accept any form of contactless payment; Android Pay, Apple Pay, Contactless Debit... they're all one system.
It's one of the many deciding factors for whichever phone I get next, if you have a fingerprint scanner you can pay for purchases >£30 with Android/Apple Pay.
What I'd give for a reasonably priced Android phone with a slide out Qwerty keyboard. When every phone advertising it's stunning screen size and resolution but then gives up half the screen for the keyboard seems a bit ridiculous. I'd really like to be able to type in landscape mode on my phone without basically not being able to see anything too.
Wow people think I might be from the US because I feel the ruler of my country should win an election,,, in fact I don't even really believe that, I think have one party rule over the others leaves a lot of people with no representation. All goverments should be coalitions if they can win without aiming for 51% of the votes. The last election in 2015 they got a majority of the seats but only ~36% of the votes. That a lot of people not represented by the ruling party.
That's all very techically true but what I meant is;
2007-2010 Gordon Brown become PM when Blair resigns, 2010-2015 David Cameron PM but his party didn't have a sole majority casuing the coalition, 2015-2016 David Cameron spends 1 year as PM who's party has actually won a majority then resigns after EU Membership referendum, 2016-2017 Teresa May becomes PM after all competition withdraws from Tory Leadership Contest, 2017 to Present Teresa May possibly to remain PM after losing majority and seeking to form a new coalition with the DUP
You description of the system we have is accurate on paper... but not in public perception or what actually happens. The majority of the campaigning focused on the leaders not on the local representatives and has for some time now. The average voter picks based on party rather than candidate because it's parties that have power, not our representatives.
We've only had an elected Primeminster for 1 year out of the last 10, that should be a ridiculous enough situation to bring about some politcal reform and actually have some representation but we're apparently stuck with First Past the Post regardless of it not working for over a decade now.
I've voted every time I've had chance to, been strategic too knowing the failings of our system. It's in a spirallng stall hurtling towards the ground now our country. Tempted to leave.
Do you mean the Fingerprint Sensor, unless the case is made of metal NFC with pass through the case. It's short distance RF like using RFID (which is what allows it to be compatible with contactless card readers in shops, same technology but a credit card is hardcoded, NFC can change the signal is produces).
I concede that you're method is higly efficient. My example was really for urban areas where assumptions could be made about deliveries per vehicle and the effect the extra traffic would have on congestions/fuel efficiency of other road users.
Delivery is a red herring though, having items delivered is likely a more efficient use of fuel than using a car to get items for single household. A delivery driver can server a 1 or 2 dozen families a day for approximately 6-7 hours of driving. If at a low estimate 12 families instead drove themselves to the shop (or possibly several shops) with an average round trip of an hour that's already more fuel burned and 12 times as much traffic capacity taken up. I don't have a car though so delivery is often a necessity for me, there's a limit to what I can carry.
I agree that people can be lazy and after instant gratification, and the SUV fashion is getting out of hand considering how often I see them being driven as a daily commuter vehicle with a single occupant.
When they rose the price of Prime from £49 to £79 and bundled in Prime Video I wasn't all that happy and until Grand Tour was released I had yet in the years since that increase to find a program I wanted to watch on there. I'd check, see if it was on Amazon or Netflix before often purchasing it on Google Play.
But 90% of the time that a show is actually on there it's not included. I wanted to watch Stargate SG1 the other day and they're charging £2.50 per episode, no offer to buy by the season (and the US price is listed as $1.99 but I bet that doesn't include VAT)
A separate site of what's available as part of the subscription would be good, tying it in with Amazon's full site doesn't help.
With the continued success of their Kick Starters I'm surprised how small a share they have. I know they're a very small company in comparison to the others in this industry but I've looked into the other watches available and Pebble seem to be getting price, functionality and battery life spot on. Very little compares well for value for money or convenience of use.
Maybe there's a bias towards supporting "indie" tech among my group of friends but Pebble is by far the most common smart watch among them, then again none of them use Apple products so that'll almost certainly skew an already biased sample.
Can't wait to upgrade to a Time 2 next year, my Classic has served me extremely well and been far more useful that even I expected. My phone now feels cumbersome to use with out and being one to put my phone down in the strangest of places I'm ashamed of how often I use my Pebble to find it.
Having websites act as parents isn't an efficient solution. Teach parents how to use decent parental control software and about the importance to monitoring what their children do online (not just porn) would be far more effective.
This issue will probably get less over time as the current generation of internet and computer illiterate parents are gradually replaced by the next generation that grew up with the internet and won't need a state sponsored course in this.To be honest I think one of the bigger issues is every parent buying their child a laptop each, yeah it can be great for entertainment and education but at least with a family computer it's in a place where you can see what they're doing without having to spy and it'd be very embarrassing to be caught looking at porn in the dining room or kitchen.
I think I know and/or have a plan for managing the internet when I have kids, and while the first time they go on a porn site won't immediately lead to punishment it will at least allow me to know that a conversation about it is necessary as well as discussion on an age when it might be appropriate.
The Lorem Ipsum is very strange for anything that's meant to be up and running.
I'm not usually one for big business but Facebook's terms of service expressly forbid third party access or sharing as far as I know. I'm aware that terms of service are of flimsy legality sometimes (some where between verbal contract and the ridiculousness of EULAs) but using Facebook for this without going via them (which wouldn't be possible because they deal in bulk analysis not individuals) just won't happen. Well it shouldn't happen. I sincerely hope it won't, Facebook might actually do the right thing, maybe, am I being naive?
We used MinecraftEdu in a previous workplace to teach a variety of things in Maths and Computing but we relied heavily on mods and this new one doesn't offer anything close to what we had. I was about to look into using in my new job but this version is Windows 10 only and has no mod support, this makes it pretty much useless for me.
The problem with the argument is that although life might seem like a wonderful adventure from Mr Musks point of view, a game or simulation that would be interesting to play, and experience, there are plenty of others who experience a much less fun 'game' experience - and wouldn't sign up for it in the first place.
You're assuming that we would be the players and not NPCs. The difference between simulation and game is fundamental, we're the sims in Sim Universe not player avatars of an MMORPG. It's in my opinion a very human thing to assume we're self important enough to still be real outside of the simulation, we're just as likely not to be.
I thought myself that it's a bit of hubris to even claim to know the "conditions for life". We're aware of one set of conditions that life found a way to flourish in but isn't it a folly to assume that there's only one list of conditions.
Unless we're talking base principles like, an atmosphere of some kind, some form of biological sun energy collection unless life could collect geothermal energy of some kind (which could be solar derived, gravitational pressure, tectonic friction) and by extension an amount of heat that's not either end of an extreme scale.
I thought we'd also pretty much confirmed that prehistoric Mars would have had some form of life but the loss of it's magnetic fields millions/billions of years ago allowed solar wind to strip it's atmosphere of the elements life there had come to rely upon. That might just be wishful thinking to be honest though.
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What are Spotify getting for the 30% every month though for each user, after the user finds the app and installs it. For most apps that 30% usually of a small figure like £1 or £2 is almost like a listing fee, 30 to 60 pence to have you app on the store and in the search results.
A Spotify subscription costs £9.99 per month, and if you pay for it through the phone with your Apple Account £3 of that goes to Apple every month (for the first year). Apple aren't running any of Spotify servers, they aren't paying musicians with that money. They are offering the exact same services as the other apps get but for a monthly fee rather than a one of payment.
I think the most reasonable compromise would be 30% of the first month.
No doubt. The Lightning connector predates the USB-C connector, and the USB-C port isn't really catching on outside of smart phones. As evidence I give the many posts here on Slashdot on Apple putting USB-C ports on their laptops. Which is it? Is USB-C good or is it bad?
The USB-C port is catching on, it's strarting to replace power on most new small laptops (Chromebooks and Ultrabooks).
The complaint with the MacBook Pro was that it's the ONLY port, plus a 3.5mm audio jack. When USB was released motherboards still had Parallel and Serial ports for a while, when HDMI was released VGA didn't die instantly on Laptops. Apple skipped a step. $50 Dongles are an inadequate stop gap. They also released a phone that ships with headphones that you can't plug into the new laptop they released afterwards.
If they'd released a USB-C iPhone 7 and then the USB-C MacBook Pro there would have been far fewer complaints.
But the issues at Youtube are that advertisers are pressuring them to only show their ad on content that doesn't go against the companies guidelines. Film companies don't want their films advertised before a video preaching racial hatred. Seeing as YouTube, Google and the people making the videos rely on ad revenue to fund themselves, the site being perceived a non-advertiser friendly could and has cost them significantly. Even channels that provide news coverage of the recent marches and terrorist attacks have been flagged by advertisers, not even content in support of those things, just journalism.
So they're stuck between building better systems to indentify content the advertisers don't want to be associated with and either removing or filtering it, or loosing the larger advertisers entirely and potentially leading YouTube into financial decline.
How is that in any way Google being evil?
Yeah, I'd love for that to get brought up in court.
Judge: "How are the comments stored?"
FCC: "Digitally in a database system fed by an online submission website"
Judge: "What part of rertrieveing comments from this system is burdensome?"
FCC: "We've only got one computer than can access it."
Judge: "How is that a burden?"
FCC "It's in the basement, in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door that says beware of the leopard." "And it runs Windows 98"
Maybe that true outside the UK but here un-authorised withdrawals over £50 before we report the card last has to be refunded, and all un-authorised withdrawals of any amount has to be refunded that occur after the card is reported missing.
https://www.citizensadvice.org...
I personally place zero value on the data that makes up my spending habits... there are plenty of companies willing to exchange services for that data though rather than me pay for the services in cash. I wouldn't use Facebook if it charged a fee, likely not YouTube either, bit for a bit of data on what I read/like on Facebook or watch on YouTube I can use those services at no monetary charge.
I get targeted advertising sure. It's probably less annoying than adverts not aimed at me or my tastes though.
If I have debit card stolen, or even just the numbers. I can claim back the fraudulent expenses and get my money back.
If I'm carrying cash and it's taken, I have way of proving it... and little to no chance of ever getting it back. For this reason I feel uncomfortable having any more than £50 on me at a time and usually go weeks will less than £5 on my person, enough to afford a bus home. I've had my wallet stolen as a teenager with cash in and I've lost a few debit cards as an adult. Losing the money was far worse than the card, I can ring and cancel the card as soon as I notice it missing. I can't ring anyone to tell them to make my cash not work.
It's also too easy for me to spend, usually ends up being spent on consumables and things I wouldn't usually buy; such as food items from places that don't accept card. It's not usually food I need, it's food I'm getting because I have cash to get it with. Some might say have some self control... I do... I keep my money in my account whenever possible.
If implemented correctly, at least here in the UK, all contactless payment chip & pin will accept any form of contactless payment; Android Pay, Apple Pay, Contactless Debit... they're all one system.
It's one of the many deciding factors for whichever phone I get next, if you have a fingerprint scanner you can pay for purchases >£30 with Android/Apple Pay.
You totally made that mistake on purpose...
What I'd give for a reasonably priced Android phone with a slide out Qwerty keyboard. When every phone advertising it's stunning screen size and resolution but then gives up half the screen for the keyboard seems a bit ridiculous. I'd really like to be able to type in landscape mode on my phone without basically not being able to see anything too.
Wow people think I might be from the US because I feel the ruler of my country should win an election,,, in fact I don't even really believe that, I think have one party rule over the others leaves a lot of people with no representation. All goverments should be coalitions if they can win without aiming for 51% of the votes. The last election in 2015 they got a majority of the seats but only ~36% of the votes. That a lot of people not represented by the ruling party.
That's all very techically true but what I meant is;
2007-2010 Gordon Brown become PM when Blair resigns,
2010-2015 David Cameron PM but his party didn't have a sole majority casuing the coalition,
2015-2016 David Cameron spends 1 year as PM who's party has actually won a majority then resigns after EU Membership referendum,
2016-2017 Teresa May becomes PM after all competition withdraws from Tory Leadership Contest,
2017 to Present Teresa May possibly to remain PM after losing majority and seeking to form a new coalition with the DUP
You description of the system we have is accurate on paper... but not in public perception or what actually happens. The majority of the campaigning focused on the leaders not on the local representatives and has for some time now. The average voter picks based on party rather than candidate because it's parties that have power, not our representatives.
We've only had an elected Primeminster for 1 year out of the last 10, that should be a ridiculous enough situation to bring about some politcal reform and actually have some representation but we're apparently stuck with First Past the Post regardless of it not working for over a decade now.
I've voted every time I've had chance to, been strategic too knowing the failings of our system. It's in a spirallng stall hurtling towards the ground now our country. Tempted to leave.
Do you mean the Fingerprint Sensor, unless the case is made of metal NFC with pass through the case. It's short distance RF like using RFID (which is what allows it to be compatible with contactless card readers in shops, same technology but a credit card is hardcoded, NFC can change the signal is produces).
I concede that you're method is higly efficient. My example was really for urban areas where assumptions could be made about deliveries per vehicle and the effect the extra traffic would have on congestions/fuel efficiency of other road users.
Delivery is a red herring though, having items delivered is likely a more efficient use of fuel than using a car to get items for single household. A delivery driver can server a 1 or 2 dozen families a day for approximately 6-7 hours of driving. If at a low estimate 12 families instead drove themselves to the shop (or possibly several shops) with an average round trip of an hour that's already more fuel burned and 12 times as much traffic capacity taken up. I don't have a car though so delivery is often a necessity for me, there's a limit to what I can carry.
I agree that people can be lazy and after instant gratification, and the SUV fashion is getting out of hand considering how often I see them being driven as a daily commuter vehicle with a single occupant.
When they rose the price of Prime from £49 to £79 and bundled in Prime Video I wasn't all that happy and until Grand Tour was released I had yet in the years since that increase to find a program I wanted to watch on there. I'd check, see if it was on Amazon or Netflix before often purchasing it on Google Play.
But 90% of the time that a show is actually on there it's not included. I wanted to watch Stargate SG1 the other day and they're charging £2.50 per episode, no offer to buy by the season (and the US price is listed as $1.99 but I bet that doesn't include VAT)
A separate site of what's available as part of the subscription would be good, tying it in with Amazon's full site doesn't help.
With the continued success of their Kick Starters I'm surprised how small a share they have. I know they're a very small company in comparison to the others in this industry but I've looked into the other watches available and Pebble seem to be getting price, functionality and battery life spot on. Very little compares well for value for money or convenience of use.
Maybe there's a bias towards supporting "indie" tech among my group of friends but Pebble is by far the most common smart watch among them, then again none of them use Apple products so that'll almost certainly skew an already biased sample.
Can't wait to upgrade to a Time 2 next year, my Classic has served me extremely well and been far more useful that even I expected. My phone now feels cumbersome to use with out and being one to put my phone down in the strangest of places I'm ashamed of how often I use my Pebble to find it.
Having websites act as parents isn't an efficient solution. Teach parents how to use decent parental control software and about the importance to monitoring what their children do online (not just porn) would be far more effective.
This issue will probably get less over time as the current generation of internet and computer illiterate parents are gradually replaced by the next generation that grew up with the internet and won't need a state sponsored course in this.To be honest I think one of the bigger issues is every parent buying their child a laptop each, yeah it can be great for entertainment and education but at least with a family computer it's in a place where you can see what they're doing without having to spy and it'd be very embarrassing to be caught looking at porn in the dining room or kitchen.
I think I know and/or have a plan for managing the internet when I have kids, and while the first time they go on a porn site won't immediately lead to punishment it will at least allow me to know that a conversation about it is necessary as well as discussion on an age when it might be appropriate.
35 Million people isn't enough to become a dominant power though really is it?
The Lorem Ipsum is very strange for anything that's meant to be up and running.
I'm not usually one for big business but Facebook's terms of service expressly forbid third party access or sharing as far as I know. I'm aware that terms of service are of flimsy legality sometimes (some where between verbal contract and the ridiculousness of EULAs) but using Facebook for this without going via them (which wouldn't be possible because they deal in bulk analysis not individuals) just won't happen. Well it shouldn't happen. I sincerely hope it won't, Facebook might actually do the right thing, maybe, am I being naive?
We used MinecraftEdu in a previous workplace to teach a variety of things in Maths and Computing but we relied heavily on mods and this new one doesn't offer anything close to what we had. I was about to look into using in my new job but this version is Windows 10 only and has no mod support, this makes it pretty much useless for me.
This is based on the Mobile/Pocket version of Minecraft which is written in C++.
The problem with the argument is that although life might seem like a wonderful adventure from Mr Musks point of view, a game or simulation that would be interesting to play, and experience, there are plenty of others who experience a much less fun 'game' experience - and wouldn't sign up for it in the first place.
You're assuming that we would be the players and not NPCs. The difference between simulation and game is fundamental, we're the sims in Sim Universe not player avatars of an MMORPG. It's in my opinion a very human thing to assume we're self important enough to still be real outside of the simulation, we're just as likely not to be.
I thought myself that it's a bit of hubris to even claim to know the "conditions for life". We're aware of one set of conditions that life found a way to flourish in but isn't it a folly to assume that there's only one list of conditions.
Unless we're talking base principles like, an atmosphere of some kind, some form of biological sun energy collection unless life could collect geothermal energy of some kind (which could be solar derived, gravitational pressure, tectonic friction) and by extension an amount of heat that's not either end of an extreme scale.
I thought we'd also pretty much confirmed that prehistoric Mars would have had some form of life but the loss of it's magnetic fields millions/billions of years ago allowed solar wind to strip it's atmosphere of the elements life there had come to rely upon. That might just be wishful thinking to be honest though.