Does he understand that if everyone exhibited the same leech behaviour there would be NO mobile phones to borrow? And I would never allow a stranger on a bus to make a call from my phone anyways.
Oh please, the Jobs era was just as bad. This is a company that sold a transparent-cased PC that cracked under thermal expansion of its metallic parts, sold a phone whose antenna could be shorted by holding it wrong, and also sold defective with defective dvd burners that gave up the ghost prematurely for years. Jobs was just better at barefaced lying.
GoDaddy acts as if they own their customers' websites and as if their customers are mere "content providers" for the sites GoDaddy "owns". For example, they will register the domain that a customer chose to themselves, and if they think the customer breached their TOS for whatever reason they will take over the domain and fill it with ads. Avoid GoDaddy if you can. And that's a big "if", since GoDaddy aggressively hoards (parks) domains which they never relinquish even if you "register" the domain with them (I put "register" in quotes because you are not really registering any domain to your name).
Just to be clear, if it's a vehicle from FCA, GM, Ford, VW or a Merc that isn't an S-class, just walk away. Honda has lost their quality too, but better than the rest.
Samsung did the right thing and recalled all affected products, which was exactly one. Meanwhile a couple of iPhones have bursted into flames in the past and Apple simply doesn't care. If anything, Samsung is the leader in customer protection. But I am sure you slashdot beards wouldn't be satisfied with anything less than the public execution of the CEO, or him committing sepuku (despite being Korean). BTW anything from VW is a nightmare to own. Setting out to buy a reliable and maintainable vehicle and ending up with an Audi is as much off-target as setting out to buy an air-conditioner unit and ending up with a flatulent giraffe. You have to read reliability statistics before sinking in your money, not just the glossy "reviews" by auto-journalists who are living in a world of loaner press cars which maintain themselves (or so it seems to the auto-journalists)
Funny how when Microsoft tries to do the right thing for things like security, reliability and component management (as they did with Windows Vista and Windows 7) the Linux people are the first to bite. This explains a lot about the state of Desktop Linux, I guess.
If an OS for you is a layer that manages your hardware and runs your apps, aka a means not an end, Windows is good (not crap). It has good drivers for most hardware, manages battery power well enough and doesn't require any repository middlemen to repackage applications before you can have your favorite applications. Unlike Desktop Linux.
Funny thing is that even FOSS software works better in Windows. I can download and install the latest VLC in Windows 7 with half a dozen clicks. Can an Ubuntu or Mint LTS from just 3 years ago do that? No. The repositories have an ancient version of VLC, so you will have to recompile the application (seriously). Or move to a rolling (aka continuously breaking) release. Or just go to Windows. Then there are countless driver issues (particularly around graphics and HDMI audio) and various power management issues which make apps run badly and/or for less amount of time on battery. No I don't care whose fault it is.
TV ads have metrics too (provided by Nielsen). In that regard, Google's saturate/spray wide ads are not that different from TV ads. My point was about "personalized" ads, and whether the cost of "personalized" metrics is worth the cost (it's not).
BTW you need to distinguish between "spray wide" online ads (similar yo TV ads) and personalized ads. Not every online ads has metrics behind it, abd not every online ad pays per-click.
Not if you have to pay dearly for those shitty metrics in the form of less eyeballs (potential customers) or higher advertiser's cut from sales. There is no proof personalized ads (based on those metrics) even work, let alone that they are more efficient than the "spray wide" advertisements that TV and newspapers offer.
Then there is the issue of "personalized ads" which ARE relevant but don't generate a purchase. For example, Google serving you lawnmower ads after you 've just bought the only lawnmower you will need for the next 10 years, or ads for holiday packages in your hometown you are never going to buy because your parents have a spare room to share, or ads by resellers you are never going to buy from because you buy from Amazon. But advertisers pay for those ads because users click on them accidentally or for kicks. Personalized ads are scams all the way down.
If you live in the same building as the property rented on AirBnB you can keep an eye on your AirBnB guests so it's not as crazy as it sounds. About renting your car out to total strangers, that's the Turo app, and it IS as crazy as it sounds.
You can do that, but be in close proximity for cases like the above. Most AirBnB guests live really close to the property they are renting just so this won't happen. BTW this is no different than a long-term renter deciding to throw a wild party during his last week of tenancy.
See, the problem with unfettered globalism is that it enables the "race to the bottom". If there are no tarrifs, nobody has an incentive to make things in the US when they can go to China, India or Vietnam and make the same things but pay workers significantly less and also have less environmental regulations to deal with. The only reason the US still manufactures trucks is a special tarrif imposed on imported trucks which inhibits a "race to the bottom" for that particular kind of product.
There is a difference between "Amazon" and "Fulfilled by Amazon", despite both being eligible for Prime shipping. Items bought from Amazon are always new, sourced directly from the manufacturer. Instead, Fulfilled by Amazon is a third party seller who just uses Amazon's shipping system, and as a result you may get used stuff that has been resealed and are sold as new. A couple of months ago there was a Fulfilled by Amazon seller selling HTC One M7 phones as "new". Do you really think you can get a new HTC One M7 in 2018, or even several of them?
It's not that the problems imposed by unfettered globalism are complex, it's that there are no solutions to those problems that are satisfactory to the majority of people living in developed nations. For example, a true globalist moves his factories from the US to China (Foxconn) to save 10 dollars in production costs per piece, and then considers moving again to Vietnam because there are factory workers there willing to work for even less. This creates a problem for people who work in manufacturing jobs in the US and see those jobs moving to Asia. And no, not everybody is an MIT graduate that can work in the design department of Apple, some people want to work in manufacturing. Then there is the other problem of "open borders" bringing in too many people who are capable of only for menial jobs and can't even speak the local language, and there is already an overabundance of labour for these kinds of jobs in developed nations, and automation will reduce demand for such jobs anyway. Again, no solutions that are satisfactory to the citizen of a developed nations exist for that problem, and the only "solution" is to throw money at the problem that could be spent towards the native citizens.
So, the solution that is chosen by most voters is to back out of unfettered globalism and impose tarrifs and closed borders. Unfettered globalism proponents should propose proper solutions instead of engaging in nonsensical smear campaigns against nationalism.
If by "subsidy" you mean not taxing fossil fuels to oblivion then let me tell you this is not what a subsidy is. Fossil fuels will remain the most affordable source of fuel for the next decade (but probably not the decade after that), so any rollback of existing taxes whose sole purpose was to deprive individuals of this cheap source energy is a good thing. Not everyone is a commie living in a cold apartment and without access to a car.
Amazon Prime is unsustainable. If you think your Prime subscription (which also includes content services) or the little extra you pay at checkout to have Prime next-day shipping (or even two-day shipping) covers the cost of that shipping, you are deluding yourself. This was a case of Amazon "dumping" the service to grab market share. Up until now we knew about product dumping, Prime was the first case of shipping service dumping.
Still, copyright is not property, they shouldn't have the option of getting copyright recognized as property (non-expiry and such) even if they are willing to pay taxes.
Yes I have, and have RMA'ed devices because of this. If am paying through the nose for a premium device, I expect it to have the same manufacturing standards as a can of Coke.
You can assign your property to anyone you like after your death, it doesn't become public domain. And even if corporations aren't allowed to own copyright (which would make all kinds of studios impossible but whatever), if a person produces something at the age of 18 goes on to live 108 years, does this mean 90 years is a reasonable copyright term? It's not. Again, the fundamental problem is that copyright is viewed as "property" that is "owned" by some entity. It's not. Copyright a completely different series of rights than property. By allowing loaded language to conflate copyright with property, the precedent has been set to view copyright expiration in the same way you would view mandatory house expropriations after 90 years of ownership, thus setting the precedent for viewing perpetual copyright extensions positively. But when a copyright expires, no property is lost, instead other people assume the right to use their property to copy some binary digits they were previous not allowed to copy.
Sayeth the holder of essential patents for the defacto standard called "x86", a standard which is important for the little niche called "Almost all Desktop and laptops"
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Does he understand that if everyone exhibited the same leech behaviour there would be NO mobile phones to borrow? And I would never allow a stranger on a bus to make a call from my phone anyways.
Oh please, the Jobs era was just as bad. This is a company that sold a transparent-cased PC that cracked under thermal expansion of its metallic parts, sold a phone whose antenna could be shorted by holding it wrong, and also sold defective with defective dvd burners that gave up the ghost prematurely for years. Jobs was just better at barefaced lying.
GoDaddy acts as if they own their customers' websites and as if their customers are mere "content providers" for the sites GoDaddy "owns". For example, they will register the domain that a customer chose to themselves, and if they think the customer breached their TOS for whatever reason they will take over the domain and fill it with ads. Avoid GoDaddy if you can. And that's a big "if", since GoDaddy aggressively hoards (parks) domains which they never relinquish even if you "register" the domain with them (I put "register" in quotes because you are not really registering any domain to your name).
Just to be clear, if it's a vehicle from FCA, GM, Ford, VW or a Merc that isn't an S-class, just walk away. Honda has lost their quality too, but better than the rest.
Samsung did the right thing and recalled all affected products, which was exactly one. Meanwhile a couple of iPhones have bursted into flames in the past and Apple simply doesn't care. If anything, Samsung is the leader in customer protection. But I am sure you slashdot beards wouldn't be satisfied with anything less than the public execution of the CEO, or him committing sepuku (despite being Korean). BTW anything from VW is a nightmare to own. Setting out to buy a reliable and maintainable vehicle and ending up with an Audi is as much off-target as setting out to buy an air-conditioner unit and ending up with a flatulent giraffe. You have to read reliability statistics before sinking in your money, not just the glossy "reviews" by auto-journalists who are living in a world of loaner press cars which maintain themselves (or so it seems to the auto-journalists)
Funny how when Microsoft tries to do the right thing for things like security, reliability and component management (as they did with Windows Vista and Windows 7) the Linux people are the first to bite. This explains a lot about the state of Desktop Linux, I guess.
If an OS for you is a layer that manages your hardware and runs your apps, aka a means not an end, Windows is good (not crap). It has good drivers for most hardware, manages battery power well enough and doesn't require any repository middlemen to repackage applications before you can have your favorite applications. Unlike Desktop Linux.
Funny thing is that even FOSS software works better in Windows. I can download and install the latest VLC in Windows 7 with half a dozen clicks. Can an Ubuntu or Mint LTS from just 3 years ago do that? No. The repositories have an ancient version of VLC, so you will have to recompile the application (seriously). Or move to a rolling (aka continuously breaking) release. Or just go to Windows. Then there are countless driver issues (particularly around graphics and HDMI audio) and various power management issues which make apps run badly and/or for less amount of time on battery. No I don't care whose fault it is.
TV ads have metrics too (provided by Nielsen). In that regard, Google's saturate/spray wide ads are not that different from TV ads. My point was about "personalized" ads, and whether the cost of "personalized" metrics is worth the cost (it's not).
BTW you need to distinguish between "spray wide" online ads (similar yo TV ads) and personalized ads. Not every online ads has metrics behind it, abd not every online ad pays per-click.
Not if you have to pay dearly for those shitty metrics in the form of less eyeballs (potential customers) or higher advertiser's cut from sales. There is no proof personalized ads (based on those metrics) even work, let alone that they are more efficient than the "spray wide" advertisements that TV and newspapers offer.
Then there is the issue of "personalized ads" which ARE relevant but don't generate a purchase. For example, Google serving you lawnmower ads after you 've just bought the only lawnmower you will need for the next 10 years, or ads for holiday packages in your hometown you are never going to buy because your parents have a spare room to share, or ads by resellers you are never going to buy from because you buy from Amazon. But advertisers pay for those ads because users click on them accidentally or for kicks. Personalized ads are scams all the way down.
This. Use ad blockers.
If you live in the same building as the property rented on AirBnB you can keep an eye on your AirBnB guests so it's not as crazy as it sounds. About renting your car out to total strangers, that's the Turo app, and it IS as crazy as it sounds.
You can do that, but be in close proximity for cases like the above. Most AirBnB guests live really close to the property they are renting just so this won't happen. BTW this is no different than a long-term renter deciding to throw a wild party during his last week of tenancy.
See, the problem with unfettered globalism is that it enables the "race to the bottom". If there are no tarrifs, nobody has an incentive to make things in the US when they can go to China, India or Vietnam and make the same things but pay workers significantly less and also have less environmental regulations to deal with. The only reason the US still manufactures trucks is a special tarrif imposed on imported trucks which inhibits a "race to the bottom" for that particular kind of product.
Android TV's problem is that Samsung and LG have their own Smart TV OSes and pay TV providers have their own domestic OSes too.
There is a difference between "Amazon" and "Fulfilled by Amazon", despite both being eligible for Prime shipping. Items bought from Amazon are always new, sourced directly from the manufacturer. Instead, Fulfilled by Amazon is a third party seller who just uses Amazon's shipping system, and as a result you may get used stuff that has been resealed and are sold as new. A couple of months ago there was a Fulfilled by Amazon seller selling HTC One M7 phones as "new". Do you really think you can get a new HTC One M7 in 2018, or even several of them?
It's not that the problems imposed by unfettered globalism are complex, it's that there are no solutions to those problems that are satisfactory to the majority of people living in developed nations. For example, a true globalist moves his factories from the US to China (Foxconn) to save 10 dollars in production costs per piece, and then considers moving again to Vietnam because there are factory workers there willing to work for even less. This creates a problem for people who work in manufacturing jobs in the US and see those jobs moving to Asia. And no, not everybody is an MIT graduate that can work in the design department of Apple, some people want to work in manufacturing. Then there is the other problem of "open borders" bringing in too many people who are capable of only for menial jobs and can't even speak the local language, and there is already an overabundance of labour for these kinds of jobs in developed nations, and automation will reduce demand for such jobs anyway. Again, no solutions that are satisfactory to the citizen of a developed nations exist for that problem, and the only "solution" is to throw money at the problem that could be spent towards the native citizens. So, the solution that is chosen by most voters is to back out of unfettered globalism and impose tarrifs and closed borders. Unfettered globalism proponents should propose proper solutions instead of engaging in nonsensical smear campaigns against nationalism.
If by "subsidy" you mean not taxing fossil fuels to oblivion then let me tell you this is not what a subsidy is. Fossil fuels will remain the most affordable source of fuel for the next decade (but probably not the decade after that), so any rollback of existing taxes whose sole purpose was to deprive individuals of this cheap source energy is a good thing. Not everyone is a commie living in a cold apartment and without access to a car.
Amazon Prime is unsustainable. If you think your Prime subscription (which also includes content services) or the little extra you pay at checkout to have Prime next-day shipping (or even two-day shipping) covers the cost of that shipping, you are deluding yourself. This was a case of Amazon "dumping" the service to grab market share. Up until now we knew about product dumping, Prime was the first case of shipping service dumping.
Still, copyright is not property, they shouldn't have the option of getting copyright recognized as property (non-expiry and such) even if they are willing to pay taxes.
Yes I have, and have RMA'ed devices because of this. If am paying through the nose for a premium device, I expect it to have the same manufacturing standards as a can of Coke.
You can assign your property to anyone you like after your death, it doesn't become public domain. And even if corporations aren't allowed to own copyright (which would make all kinds of studios impossible but whatever), if a person produces something at the age of 18 goes on to live 108 years, does this mean 90 years is a reasonable copyright term? It's not. Again, the fundamental problem is that copyright is viewed as "property" that is "owned" by some entity. It's not. Copyright a completely different series of rights than property. By allowing loaded language to conflate copyright with property, the precedent has been set to view copyright expiration in the same way you would view mandatory house expropriations after 90 years of ownership, thus setting the precedent for viewing perpetual copyright extensions positively. But when a copyright expires, no property is lost, instead other people assume the right to use their property to copy some binary digits they were previous not allowed to copy.
Sayeth the holder of essential patents for the defacto standard called "x86", a standard which is important for the little niche called "Almost all Desktop and laptops"