The shopping stuff isn't part of the search results, it's an advertising box at the top that used to display results from Google Shopping. Now it also displays results from other shopping sites.
Twitter allows you to participate in democracy in a way that was not possible for most people before. For example, I talk to powerful politicians regularly about Brexit, and while I can't claim to be a great influencer their views do seem to evolve as ordinary people interact with them.
It also gives me an insight into their character and their thinking. That includes the ones who have their staff write their tweets for them, because that in itself tells you a lot about them.
I also follow some interesting security researchers and some interesting engineers and makers that I enjoy and who give me inspiration.
It's a useful tool if you use it as such. Just like Slashdot really, you could argue that half the posts here are... "low quality", but we both keep coming back.
For democracy to function well the population needs to be informed. If the population is poorly informed or outright deceived we have seen what will happen, and it's not pretty.
Also, people don't like being deceived and would prefer that these social networks do something to block or flag fake news and fake accounts. So there is a business case for addressing the problem.
That doesn't work, because it's a chicken and egg problem. If you build the factory first it will take years for local supply chains to catch up and supply it, during which time you have to import and warehouse everything. If you build the supply chain first it will sit mostly idle for years while demand ramps up.
And even if somehow that was overcome, it would be competing against an established manufacturing base with an established global market.
As for why you "let" China join the WTO, it's because if you didn't then the WTO wouldn't be half as relevant as it is. China would have created a competing organization with better terms, and the EU would have wanted to be in it, and Japan would have joined.
I use up all my MOD points on off-topic and troll posts.
Here's an idea, instead of modding down stuff you don't like, why not make the decision to only mod up things that are interesting? Even if you don't agree with the argument being made, at least it can generate some good debate.
Down-modding creating a debate-free monoculture is the biggest issue for Slashdot right now. I'm not blaming you, I accept you are modding legitimately bad posts, I'm just saying that rather than being the janitor you have an opportunity to reverse the decline.
If they heard that NYC had a good chance of winning then speculatively buying property there makes sense. Even if NYC didn't win in the end it's hard to lose money on property in in-demand areas like that. Worst case you just rent it or sit on it while the value goes up.
Just say something like "what are my reminders?" and then "delete reminder to..." or "change reminder to..."
Also remember that Google Assistant is more aware of context and the prior conversation than others, so if you set a reminder and then change you mind you can just say "delete that".
Google Assistant's main strength is that you can talk to it naturally and it gives sensible answers to queries. With Siri you have to be more careful to use the right words. Cortana is somewhere between the two.
Imagine a plane with a rectangular fuselage 10x1x1. Its volume would be ten units, and the weight proportional. "Doubling the size" would be 20x2x2.
Doubling the size would be 20x1x1. That you allow you to carry twice as much cargo... Probably a lot more than 2x as much since the 10x1x1 aircraft would have fixed size equipment and mechanical stuff that doesn't scale proportionally.
What you suggest is multiplying the size by 8. In practice very large aircraft are economical and not as impractical as your numbers would suggest. Per unit of cargo (e.g. per person) an A380 compares well to a small business jet.
Why does anyone go there? Their clothes are overpriced and not particularly well made or good looking or practical. They use ridiculously thin models and mannequins that don't represent the way the clothes will look on normal people not suffering from eating disorders or death camp starvation.
Google makes money from advertising on its services, including News. News is made up entirely of snippets from news sites. Snippets that cost money to produce.
Google doesn't set up its own news service, it relies on others doing that work to populate Google News.
Of course Google does pay people for their work populating Google sites, such as YouTube. They seem to think of News as being more like search, but it's not really because most of the time it's used as a newspaper style presentation of current events rather than somewhere you go looking for something specific.
Maybe Google should be up front about what snippets are worth to it so we can tell if some small licence fee, like the merge amount they pay to YouTube content creators. They are just playing hardball in the hope that they can continue getting this resource for free.
You seem to be admitting that you either didn't read the whole post, or just ignored the bit you found inconvenient.
"Maybe the other channels predated the current racist staff, or were evaluated by someone else. Maybe they are owned by other companies, or they had to take them as part of a larger deal/bundle. The fact that they have them doesn't prove anything about this decision."
I've noticed that you always try to interpret everything in the most ridiculous possible way. I don't know if it's deliberate or if you just have poor reading comprehension skills, but either way I'm not going to keep repeating myself in the hope that you get it one day.
Actually the smell is associated with stuff that is cheap.
People who can afford a Ford in China can also afford better furniture. The current fashion is for heavy, solid wood stuff. Incredibly uncomfortable but then again many of them slept on blankets as kids. And of course wood, even treated wood, smells different to plastic.
The west isn't so different really. People are okay with the new car smell in more affordable motors, but when they buy an expensive one they expect better materials too. One of the most common complaints about car interiors is too much plastic, or too cheap plastic when softer touch synthetic materials would be preferred.
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The shopping stuff isn't part of the search results, it's an advertising box at the top that used to display results from Google Shopping. Now it also displays results from other shopping sites.
Ah yes, good example.
What if they post the comment "This is fake news, debunked (here)" along with it?
All the people debunking stuff would quickly get a bad rep.
Twitter allows you to participate in democracy in a way that was not possible for most people before. For example, I talk to powerful politicians regularly about Brexit, and while I can't claim to be a great influencer their views do seem to evolve as ordinary people interact with them.
It also gives me an insight into their character and their thinking. That includes the ones who have their staff write their tweets for them, because that in itself tells you a lot about them.
I also follow some interesting security researchers and some interesting engineers and makers that I enjoy and who give me inspiration.
It's a useful tool if you use it as such. Just like Slashdot really, you could argue that half the posts here are... "low quality", but we both keep coming back.
For democracy to function well the population needs to be informed. If the population is poorly informed or outright deceived we have seen what will happen, and it's not pretty.
Also, people don't like being deceived and would prefer that these social networks do something to block or flag fake news and fake accounts. So there is a business case for addressing the problem.
That doesn't work, because it's a chicken and egg problem. If you build the factory first it will take years for local supply chains to catch up and supply it, during which time you have to import and warehouse everything. If you build the supply chain first it will sit mostly idle for years while demand ramps up.
And even if somehow that was overcome, it would be competing against an established manufacturing base with an established global market.
As for why you "let" China join the WTO, it's because if you didn't then the WTO wouldn't be half as relevant as it is. China would have created a competing organization with better terms, and the EU would have wanted to be in it, and Japan would have joined.
I'm trying to think of a common example where "doubling the size" would mean doubling all three dimensions.
I use up all my MOD points on off-topic and troll posts.
Here's an idea, instead of modding down stuff you don't like, why not make the decision to only mod up things that are interesting? Even if you don't agree with the argument being made, at least it can generate some good debate.
Down-modding creating a debate-free monoculture is the biggest issue for Slashdot right now. I'm not blaming you, I accept you are modding legitimately bad posts, I'm just saying that rather than being the janitor you have an opportunity to reverse the decline.
If they heard that NYC had a good chance of winning then speculatively buying property there makes sense. Even if NYC didn't win in the end it's hard to lose money on property in in-demand areas like that. Worst case you just rent it or sit on it while the value goes up.
Just say something like "what are my reminders?" and then "delete reminder to..." or "change reminder to..."
Also remember that Google Assistant is more aware of context and the prior conversation than others, so if you set a reminder and then change you mind you can just say "delete that".
Google Assistant's main strength is that you can talk to it naturally and it gives sensible answers to queries. With Siri you have to be more careful to use the right words. Cortana is somewhere between the two.
Imagine a plane with a rectangular fuselage 10x1x1. Its volume would be ten units, and the weight proportional. "Doubling the size" would be 20x2x2.
Doubling the size would be 20x1x1. That you allow you to carry twice as much cargo... Probably a lot more than 2x as much since the 10x1x1 aircraft would have fixed size equipment and mechanical stuff that doesn't scale proportionally.
What you suggest is multiplying the size by 8. In practice very large aircraft are economical and not as impractical as your numbers would suggest. Per unit of cargo (e.g. per person) an A380 compares well to a small business jet.
Give up buddy, you tried and something you win, sometimes the tags win...
Why does anyone go there? Their clothes are overpriced and not particularly well made or good looking or practical. They use ridiculously thin models and mannequins that don't represent the way the clothes will look on normal people not suffering from eating disorders or death camp starvation.
Google makes money from advertising on its services, including News. News is made up entirely of snippets from news sites. Snippets that cost money to produce.
Google doesn't set up its own news service, it relies on others doing that work to populate Google News.
Of course Google does pay people for their work populating Google sites, such as YouTube. They seem to think of News as being more like search, but it's not really because most of the time it's used as a newspaper style presentation of current events rather than somewhere you go looking for something specific.
Maybe Google should be up front about what snippets are worth to it so we can tell if some small licence fee, like the merge amount they pay to YouTube content creators. They are just playing hardball in the hope that they can continue getting this resource for free.
"Bank" is actually from the Latin "bastardus". True fact.
You keep your old bank account open, transfer the money into it and then go to the counter to withdraw.
Seriously though, when was the last time you needed to withdraw a large amount of cash? These days the electronic payment is pretty much instant.
In Europe spam calls are mostly a thing of the past now, especially since GDPR came in.
You seem to be admitting that you either didn't read the whole post, or just ignored the bit you found inconvenient.
"Maybe the other channels predated the current racist staff, or were evaluated by someone else. Maybe they are owned by other companies, or they had to take them as part of a larger deal/bundle. The fact that they have them doesn't prove anything about this decision."
Only sometimes. Like this time.
I've noticed that you always try to interpret everything in the most ridiculous possible way. I don't know if it's deliberate or if you just have poor reading comprehension skills, but either way I'm not going to keep repeating myself in the hope that you get it one day.
Argue in good faith or forget it.
"Chip making has hit it's limits"
Oh no! What am I going to do now?!
"Our techniques could solve that"
Oh thank goodness! Do you take Bitcoin?
Are you saying that the UK is no longer a collective union of various counties and townships under the control of a centralized government?
No, guess again.
Careful, that's sounding dangerously close to the great soy boy panic of 2018...
Wow, you really are a miserable git, aren't you Mashiki? Lighten up.
By the way it's not "you guys" any more.
I'm sorry c6gunner, if that's how you understood my comment then your reading comprehension is too poor to continue this conversation.
Actually the smell is associated with stuff that is cheap.
People who can afford a Ford in China can also afford better furniture. The current fashion is for heavy, solid wood stuff. Incredibly uncomfortable but then again many of them slept on blankets as kids. And of course wood, even treated wood, smells different to plastic.
The west isn't so different really. People are okay with the new car smell in more affordable motors, but when they buy an expensive one they expect better materials too. One of the most common complaints about car interiors is too much plastic, or too cheap plastic when softer touch synthetic materials would be preferred.