The same reason why AOL was able to buy TimeWarner in 2000. What matters is apparent value not actual value.
Smartphones are the hot product, so Qualcomm has more apparent value than Intel which has focus on boring (but profitable) pc and server memory and cpus.
Yeah, it is stupid, yeah it doesn't make sense; but that is how stock markets work. A company not making quite as much money as predicted is the same as that company losing money.
Actually that is exactly why it was redacted, to avoid making Slashdot look foolish and backwards. The excerpt is directly ripped from the article with only that change.
I would be surprised if it was the editor that did it, however. There used to be a link to see the original submission, but I can't find it. It was probably removed to avoid making the editors look foolish, too.
Yes, lets give all the power of renting property to corporations. I can't tell if you are a fascist or a communist. I suppose at the extreme end there isn't much difference.
The problem was they sued her, but being dead she did not contest the charges. So the first I heard about it was a sheriff coming to my house to see what things he could repossess. And that was just a paper posted on my door with a list of all the things outside he could take, including the car. We never spoke, and he never entered the house. I called an attorney for advice and he said "if it's only $10k, just pay them, its cheaper than court." Great fucking legal system we have here.
I bet if it had come to my house I would have won since I am the only person ever listed on the loans. But it would have cost me more than the debt to fight.
I think that report assumes it is because a vehicle on site picks the person up and just goes. If you have to wait for an Uber to arrive it might not be any advantage.
Of course, it is possible that an Uber can arrive faster than an ambulance if you are in a busy enough area. The last time I called for an ambulance the first person to arrive was... a police officer. He was nearby so they dispatched him since it was going to be a while before the ambulance arrived. He wasn't a lot help, since I was having abdominal pain, but he at least kept me calm and helped me outside when the EMTs finally arrived.
(Pain turned out to be Kidney stones. Fuck kidney stones.)
Taxi drivers get a great deal of training on how to deal with situations like this and know what their legal responsibilities are. Also they get radio support from the dispatching station and will get higher priority from emergency services since, you know, they're actually legitimate.
Maybe in a place like New York. In a mid sized city, you are lucky if a taxi driver (that claims to have lived here all his life) knows where your neighborhood is.
Happened to my Mother too, I don't think she ever paid a dime for her multiple hospital stays after her work fired her and cut off her insurance when she got cancer.
The hospice care and pile of drugs she needed did not, however. Since she had to move in with me since she needed care and a place to live, that means they could go after the place she lived... even though she did not own it. They ended up suing the shit out of me and threatening to repossess everything I owned, including my car and house.
Advice for people with elderly and sick parents that move in with you, or to hospice. Do NOT have their official address listed as your address. Get a PO Box.
Yep, there have been so many games released over the last few years that I haven't had the time to finish, that I don't feel the need to buy a game on release-day ever again.
Though I am going to buy Into The Breach this weekend, the new game from the devs of FTL. An indie game that did not go the kickstarter route to try to milk money out of people, since they knew they would be making truckloads of cash for this game anyhow? Double respect there.
That is easy, then I don't buy the game at all. And if the game is crippled beyond belief without microtransactions, people will talk about it online before I buy. People that buy on day one not only pay more, but get fucked over by stuff like this.
At this point I never see a reason to buy a game on day one again. And I sure-as-shit will never pre-order a game again. I will do an occasional kickstarter for an indie dev that I like, and has proven to be able to deliver, though.
His idea is that if Triple-Hey games want to act like a mobile freeminum game, they should be free. EA, Ubisoft, and others want to have their cake of $60 games and eat it too with required DLC and microtransactions.
If people were willing to pay $20-$80 for a game, then EA and Ubisoft would simply treat that as license to charge $20-$80 AND add lootboxes and season passes.
I agree. Between 1984, F451, and Brave New World; we need to protect against all of these futures.
Each one makes a point, shows a danger, and shows the way to avoid it. Yes, for the most part things simply could never turn out the way the books say. That does not mean that parts of them can and are happening.
Hell, as afraid as everyone is of 1984, F451 becoming reality... BNW is far more likely.
Slashdot Mirror
I bet you are not even a real Dr. :)
The same reason why AOL was able to buy TimeWarner in 2000. What matters is apparent value not actual value.
Smartphones are the hot product, so Qualcomm has more apparent value than Intel which has focus on boring (but profitable) pc and server memory and cpus.
Yeah, it is stupid, yeah it doesn't make sense; but that is how stock markets work. A company not making quite as much money as predicted is the same as that company losing money.
If your story was so good, people would be happy to pay you to read it.
But it isn't. I doubt you have ever made any literary contribution to humankind.
What was Ajit Pai's views on SOPA and PIPA? Was he for those but against Net Neutrality?
Actually that is exactly why it was redacted, to avoid making Slashdot look foolish and backwards. The excerpt is directly ripped from the article with only that change.
I would be surprised if it was the editor that did it, however. There used to be a link to see the original submission, but I can't find it. It was probably removed to avoid making the editors look foolish, too.
Yes, lets give all the power of renting property to corporations. I can't tell if you are a fascist or a communist. I suppose at the extreme end there isn't much difference.
Says the person posting to slashdot during work hours.
They will take the entire house, even if she is only part owner.
The problem was they sued her, but being dead she did not contest the charges. So the first I heard about it was a sheriff coming to my house to see what things he could repossess. And that was just a paper posted on my door with a list of all the things outside he could take, including the car. We never spoke, and he never entered the house. I called an attorney for advice and he said "if it's only $10k, just pay them, its cheaper than court." Great fucking legal system we have here.
I bet if it had come to my house I would have won since I am the only person ever listed on the loans. But it would have cost me more than the debt to fight.
RIP? More like BIH: Burn In Hell
I think that report assumes it is because a vehicle on site picks the person up and just goes. If you have to wait for an Uber to arrive it might not be any advantage.
Of course, it is possible that an Uber can arrive faster than an ambulance if you are in a busy enough area. The last time I called for an ambulance the first person to arrive was... a police officer. He was nearby so they dispatched him since it was going to be a while before the ambulance arrived. He wasn't a lot help, since I was having abdominal pain, but he at least kept me calm and helped me outside when the EMTs finally arrived.
(Pain turned out to be Kidney stones. Fuck kidney stones.)
Taxi drivers get a great deal of training on how to deal with situations like this and know what their legal responsibilities are. Also they get radio support from the dispatching station and will get higher priority from emergency services since, you know, they're actually legitimate.
Maybe in a place like New York. In a mid sized city, you are lucky if a taxi driver (that claims to have lived here all his life) knows where your neighborhood is.
Is it Good Samaritan if you are getting paid? My guess is that someone that should have called an ambulance is going to sue anyhow.
Happened to my Mother too, I don't think she ever paid a dime for her multiple hospital stays after her work fired her and cut off her insurance when she got cancer.
The hospice care and pile of drugs she needed did not, however. Since she had to move in with me since she needed care and a place to live, that means they could go after the place she lived... even though she did not own it. They ended up suing the shit out of me and threatening to repossess everything I owned, including my car and house.
Advice for people with elderly and sick parents that move in with you, or to hospice. Do NOT have their official address listed as your address. Get a PO Box.
I think he meant a few bucks on the Uber ride by using a shared ride instead of an individual one.
Yep, there have been so many games released over the last few years that I haven't had the time to finish, that I don't feel the need to buy a game on release-day ever again.
Though I am going to buy Into The Breach this weekend, the new game from the devs of FTL. An indie game that did not go the kickstarter route to try to milk money out of people, since they knew they would be making truckloads of cash for this game anyhow? Double respect there.
That is easy, then I don't buy the game at all. And if the game is crippled beyond belief without microtransactions, people will talk about it online before I buy. People that buy on day one not only pay more, but get fucked over by stuff like this.
At this point I never see a reason to buy a game on day one again. And I sure-as-shit will never pre-order a game again. I will do an occasional kickstarter for an indie dev that I like, and has proven to be able to deliver, though.
I am basically quoting him in my reply.
His idea is that if Triple-Hey games want to act like a mobile freeminum game, they should be free. EA, Ubisoft, and others want to have their cake of $60 games and eat it too with required DLC and microtransactions.
The lootboxes are just a shit icing on that cake.
Parents and grandparents will see the label and say "Oh, well I won't be giving the kids my credit card to make the payments, so no problem."
Except that the publishers will make the games nigh-unplayable without jumping in to the microtransactions.
If people were willing to pay $20-$80 for a game, then EA and Ubisoft would simply treat that as license to charge $20-$80 AND add lootboxes and season passes.
There is no end to their greed.
All book titles are supposed to use capital letters.
FCOJ
Maybe a better way to put it is "Math treating infinity as a real number does not work."
I am not sure if that is what this paper did, as I can't access it. (And likely wouldn't understand it even if I could.)
They field they are in is "left".
I agree. Between 1984, F451, and Brave New World; we need to protect against all of these futures.
Each one makes a point, shows a danger, and shows the way to avoid it. Yes, for the most part things simply could never turn out the way the books say. That does not mean that parts of them can and are happening.
Hell, as afraid as everyone is of 1984, F451 becoming reality... BNW is far more likely.