Dropbox has as much influence on the market of hard drives as the music industry has on music royalties in the real world. Basically Dropbox forced the margins down on hard drives so much that most companies are forced to exit the business.
is this even true? I never thought of Dropbox as cornering the entire market on storage. if anything, the hard drive market strikes me as... fragmented!
yeah but your monitor, keyboard, or tower aren't phones. btdubs 1999 called they want their desktop back. everybody has laptops these days. notice nearly every high-end laptops is a ripoff of the MacBook air or MacBook pro.
you can combine 2 and 4. They are the same. I would add a new one 4) they found they can make more ad revenue by restricting a feature to G+ users, or something similar. Perhaps they plan on restricting the feature in order to "drive" people to G+. A winning strategy!
it's obvious when something looks like an iphone and something doesn't look like an iphone. it's more complicated than "rounded corners". that's just an oversimplification that slashdotters can shake their fists at.
I don't understand why the "rounded corners" thing is such a bad idea. so what? it's a design patent, not a IP patent. If you don't want to infringe on patents, then don't make something that looks like something else that's patented.
disagree. these models have been well validated industry wide, so there would be no need to "test out a scenario". Also, the model would be simulating how traffic would adjust. here nobody had the chance to adjust because there was no education and no warning.
I agree with the first point. Now that the guy is on slashdot he'll make beelions from all the nerds here.
I partially agree with your second point in the abstract. yes, it's beneficial to model different incremental changes. But at least in CA it's illegal to convert an existing traffic lane to carpool / bus only. so that scenario wouldn't come up here.
I disagree with the second point in practice. you would never need to model the impacts of closing this bridge impact, because the impact is "you're fucked". No govt entity would spend $50k on that.
the dirty secret is that LEDs save a lot of juice over incandescents but not CFLs. so the payback on the incremental cost over CFLs is unacceptably long for me.
Who thumbs up bullshit like this. These are electronic components, you don't need acid capsules to destroy them in situ. And that would be very suspicious.
"I looked to see if NSA had installed covert hardware on my computer, but when I opened it up all I found was a mess of parts melted by some sort of acid. Now there's no way to tell if there's been an intrusion!"
apple has amazing capability in mobile but they have zero desire.
Sure they do. They are years behind in mapping, for example, so have a strong desire to collect data from users and car mounted cameras in the same way that Google does. They were already caught logging location data on their phones, deleting your Apple account is impossible (I tried), and they have an active and profitable advertising program that relies on user data the same way that Google's and Microsoft's do.
I agree with every statement but the last. They probably collect data to make their services better but they don't collect data to make money off of advertising. Are you referring to iAds ? At best that's a sop to developers and at worst it's a miserable failure.
two questions - who has the capability and who has the desire?
Google has the desire. The only way they make money is by tracking everything about you and selling that info. They have the capability - their search is #1, with double-click they can track you on all different sites. Their browser is huge too. Their phone is huge. now they're getting into home equipment too!
MS has some capability too. They have the browser, although that is trending down. they have the search engine, although that is 2nd and smaller. They have the phone, but it is an also ran. They own the living room with xbox. but I'm not sure they have the desire. Ultimately they make money by selling software, and to a small extent hardware. but they don't seem to know what they want to do these days, so I wouldn't be surprised if they're throwing everything against the wall.
apple has amazing capability in mobile but they have zero desire. They know that they make %% through hardware sales, to the extent that they're now giving away OS X, iOS, iLife, and iWork.
I trust apple the most here, because where there's a will there's a way.
I don't understand this guy's claims. the purpose of traffic modeling is to simulate different scenarios, i.e. if you add another traffic lane. The purpose of a traffic study is to count cars so you can get good base case for the modeling or accurate current conditions for whatever other purpose. it makes no sense at all to study the impact of cutting off traffic lanes. or to model it for that matter.
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Dropbox has as much influence on the market of hard drives as the music industry has on music royalties in the real world. Basically Dropbox forced the margins down on hard drives so much that most companies are forced to exit the business.
is this even true? I never thought of Dropbox as cornering the entire market on storage. if anything, the hard drive market strikes me as... fragmented!
Yeah but obv pandora doesn't back up to Dropbox! So I don't understand the question
a bonus for broadcast, you get 20 mins of some idiot talking every hour, plus 20 mins of commercials. value added!
no, because I stream all my music anyways so there's no need to back it up to disk.
yeah but your monitor, keyboard, or tower aren't phones. btdubs 1999 called they want their desktop back. everybody has laptops these days. notice nearly every high-end laptops is a ripoff of the MacBook air or MacBook pro.
you can combine 2 and 4. They are the same. I would add a new one 4) they found they can make more ad revenue by restricting a feature to G+ users, or something similar. Perhaps they plan on restricting the feature in order to "drive" people to G+. A winning strategy!
it's obvious when something looks like an iphone and something doesn't look like an iphone. it's more complicated than "rounded corners". that's just an oversimplification that slashdotters can shake their fists at.
I don't understand why the "rounded corners" thing is such a bad idea. so what? it's a design patent, not a IP patent. If you don't want to infringe on patents, then don't make something that looks like something else that's patented.
disagree. these models have been well validated industry wide, so there would be no need to "test out a scenario". Also, the model would be simulating how traffic would adjust. here nobody had the chance to adjust because there was no education and no warning.
I agree with the first point. Now that the guy is on slashdot he'll make beelions from all the nerds here.
I partially agree with your second point in the abstract. yes, it's beneficial to model different incremental changes. But at least in CA it's illegal to convert an existing traffic lane to carpool / bus only. so that scenario wouldn't come up here.
I disagree with the second point in practice. you would never need to model the impacts of closing this bridge impact, because the impact is "you're fucked". No govt entity would spend $50k on that.
the dirty secret is that LEDs save a lot of juice over incandescents but not CFLs. so the payback on the incremental cost over CFLs is unacceptably long for me.
payback over CFLs or over incandescents? CFL is the new baseline here.
Who thumbs up bullshit like this. These are electronic components, you don't need acid capsules to destroy them in situ. And that would be very suspicious.
"I looked to see if NSA had installed covert hardware on my computer, but when I opened it up all I found was a mess of parts melted by some sort of acid. Now there's no way to tell if there's been an intrusion!"
It's about payback period. I generally avoid investments if they don't have 2-3 year payback
apple has amazing capability in mobile but they have zero desire.
Sure they do. They are years behind in mapping, for example, so have a strong desire to collect data from users and car mounted cameras in the same way that Google does. They were already caught logging location data on their phones, deleting your Apple account is impossible (I tried), and they have an active and profitable advertising program that relies on user data the same way that Google's and Microsoft's do.
I agree with every statement but the last. They probably collect data to make their services better but they don't collect data to make money off of advertising. Are you referring to iAds ? At best that's a sop to developers and at worst it's a miserable failure.
two questions - who has the capability and who has the desire?
Google has the desire. The only way they make money is by tracking everything about you and selling that info. They have the capability - their search is #1, with double-click they can track you on all different sites. Their browser is huge too. Their phone is huge. now they're getting into home equipment too!
MS has some capability too. They have the browser, although that is trending down. they have the search engine, although that is 2nd and smaller. They have the phone, but it is an also ran. They own the living room with xbox. but I'm not sure they have the desire. Ultimately they make money by selling software, and to a small extent hardware. but they don't seem to know what they want to do these days, so I wouldn't be surprised if they're throwing everything against the wall.
apple has amazing capability in mobile but they have zero desire. They know that they make %% through hardware sales, to the extent that they're now giving away OS X, iOS, iLife, and iWork.
I trust apple the most here, because where there's a will there's a way.
Google is the panopticon. This is why I don't use chrome and I won't have a nest product.
Frownie face! Why the bad vibes?
I don't like LEDs because they last 20+ years... I don't need to make that big an investment in my lighting future!
the leader of my country wasn't even born in America!
I don't understand this guy's claims. the purpose of traffic modeling is to simulate different scenarios, i.e. if you add another traffic lane. The purpose of a traffic study is to count cars so you can get good base case for the modeling or accurate current conditions for whatever other purpose. it makes no sense at all to study the impact of cutting off traffic lanes. or to model it for that matter.
this man could have just walked out of the movie theater. This wasn't a self defense, this was a righeous indignation need for justice.
in the united states everybody is either a 1%er or an aspiring 1%er.
Welcome to Florida. Concealed carry, Stand Your Ground. Even in a movie theater over a cell phone / popcorn dispute.