The business model was really a bit more complicated than that. You could start pressuring some theater to give you a better price, or you won't send your traffic there. But it sounds almost impossible to pressure big chains, which is where the expenses are going to be.
Which means they not only didn't have a business plan, they didn't even do their due diligence and do basic research.
First, most of a ticket's price - anywhere from 50-100% (100% on opening weekend, 50% after a month or so) does not go to the theatre - it goes to the studio. Theatres absolutely cannot reduce ticket prices because of the studio's take. Even when the take lessens, the patronage has shrunk significantly that the theatre portion pays for operational expenses.
On release weekend, the theatre gets its money from concession sales - pack in the theatres mean the few that buy stuff will pay for the operational expenses.
Perhaps instead of paying for the ticket, they should've paid for the concessions as well - for $15 a month you get tickets and a bag of popcorn (which can cost $7-10), a drink, etc. Which can be $25 of value. And the chain will probably charge you $10 for the ticket plus a buck for everything else.
I can remember asking my mom, "Why don't you reply to these Publishers Clearinghouse letters? They say you won a million dollars. Look, they have pictures of them giving giant checks to people. It has to be real!"
It was when I learned that, yes, people would just lie to you to make money. She didn't have an answer as to why it was legal. I still have no idea why.
Because they actually are a legitimate company? And they actually DO award someone a million bucks?
Publishers Clearing House is a direct marketing company - basically they allowed you to subscribe to a few magazines for a single price, usually at a lower rate than subscribing individually. The sweepstakes part was really just a way to gauge interest - if you went through the effort, they assumed you didn't mind and continued to send you stuff.
Now, that didn't mean they didn't do scummy things - like making you believe subscribing would increase your chances or that you were closer than you think to winning. And of course, they bought all the mailing lists they can.
But the sweepstakes were real, and they'd arrive at your door and hand you the check, without demanding any money in return in "taxes" or "handling" (they took that off the money they gave you).
Thus, as far as things went, they were actually legitimate
For one, I am glad the image was not any larger - I do not need my browser to choke on that.
An 8 megapixel image is only slightly larger than a UHD screen... not entirely browser choking size. A lot of phones and digital cameras will take larger photos. Most people's screens however cannot show all the pixels in one go, though without scrolling.
It says 'they' are embarrassed by the unreasonable approval rates that were revealed after the election. The judges are _now_ doing their jobs, not rubber stamping.
Which is good, I guess. Another example of routine corruption that got exposed and derailed by Trump's election.
The problem is, it's statistics that don't mean jack squat.
It COULD mean the administration is doing their job. Or it COULD mean the administration is producing very poor requests that judges are denying because they're stupid.
And the latter is certainly possible if a certain commander in chief wanted to spy on all his "enemies" and got rejected more times.
The problem is, we don't know. We can never know because the nature of the courts won't let use determine if the rejections are because the courts are applying more scrutiny, or because the requests are of poorer quality and thus rejected because there is no basis for approving them?
One big issue Checkmarx faced is that on Echo devices a shining blue ring reveals when Alexa listens
I'd be more worried about it if they could listen without the indicator light on.
Question is, 1) how noticeable is the blue ring, and 2) would a regular user even know?
The first may be hard to see, the second is basically would a user even know what it meant if they saw the blue ring? Or would they thought someone merely turned the ring light on.
Hell, that could be the name of the skill - turn the ring light on.
It's important because experience has shown users to not be very observant - like asking for help trying to save a file while ignoring the big message saying the disk is full. Even if you tell them that if the blue ring is lit it's listening, you'll find most people will probably not notice it for days, and even if they do see it, they'd go "meh" and continue on, having not processed what it means.
I'm not an Instagram user, but I've used the Facebook "Download Your Data" function. It'll let you download a copy of everything you've uploaded (pics, vids, posts, messages), but it leaves out a lot. Facebook collects a lot of information based on Location Services if it's on and they track web activity wherever they're able. None of that is included in what they make available to download. The stuff that I suspect is most valuable is kept hidden.
Well, the law states that the download function, meant for data portability, consists of everything the user contributed. That's it. Any excess data collected but the user did not upload, or create, does not have to be part of the download package.
Effectively, Facebook can't hold YOUR data hostage - as part of the European law, everything you put on Facebook you can download from Facebook. (Yeah, you should have your own copies, but for most people that's scattered through a million hard drives and emails and photo albums).
Other data Facebook may have collected on you, based on what you uploaded or otherwise, is not included, so your location history, website visit history, face recognition details, etc. are not included.
In real terms these incremental improvements are just meaningless numbers now. Manufacturers should focus on reliability/durability instead.
Well, for SATA, you can't have faster SSDs. We've hit the max for SATA3 for at least a few years now (540MB/s). So the 800 series SSDs from Samsung are basically incremental improvements as they've hit max speed years ago.
And I'm pretty sure the durability issue has been a non-issue, especially with Samsung SSDs - a test done took 2 years of constant 24/7 writing on the smallest 830 Pro at the time (64GB?) to finally die. The larger SSDs simply have more blocks to go through.
Hell, out work has switched everyone to PCs with SSDs in them, and we've had no failures in the past couple of years since we've started issuing SSDs. And they aren't babied - these SSDs are used in developer PCs compiling actively. We've even put them in our nightly build machines where they compile and build on the SSD itself (the build is then archived to an HDD). The biggest problem we've had is the HDDs in developer PCs often die first (we do a 512GB SSD + 4TB HDD combination).
As for reliability, Samsung had problems with their 830 EVOs a while back, but since they they've been rock solid. I can't say for other SSDs (We've had one Intel 320 SSD die and lose all its data, but it was revived doing a secure erase. And the SSD died because the user dropped the laptop and said laptop ended up in pieces on the floor. This was back when SSDs didn't necessarily have power outage protection).
Heck, Samsung used to warrant their SSD Pro series for 10 years, something the IT director and I thought was ridiculous - mainly because the SSD would be horribly obsolete and the machine decommissioned by then. Nor do we anticipate users wearing out their SSDs anytime soon. I did an analysis and even after 3-4 years of use, the SSDs in my PCs have barely any wear on them
So...if Google cached results that contained full SSNs and other PII, aren't they as culpable as well? (And I'd imagine they're still in there...)
They do, and Google promptly removes it as well once notified. They even block the search.
There was a time Google was used to search for credit card numbers, and Google quickly got those eradicated from the search results and made it so the search doesn't actually work anymore.
I don't know if it is feasible to demand an api for media data which the copyright holders will demand DRM, but spotify already has an API for everything else- I get the impression you can do *everything* with the api- skip tracks, get information, tell it to play certain tracks, but have the music actually play through their DRM software. So, 90% of what you want.
Not hard, you require the developer to register for API access and you give them the DRM key. As part of the sign on API, they ahve to return you an application ID (which you use to identify which key to encrypt the stream with).
Developer is responsible for keeping they key protected (in the software). and for obeying the rules. If the developer fails, the key is cancelled (so all apps using that key are blocked) and you can choose to pursue legal action.
Would make open-source software somewhat tricky to develop with, but that'a a different problem.
One of the first web pages I can't seem to forget about it about how cherry pop tarts could catch fire in a toaster under the right conditions. Does anyone else 'member that? Good times.
I think they were strawberry, and I remember something like that. In fact, if you buy pop tarts today, they make the heating optional, and recommend very quick heating times.
I think she was referring to Nintendo and other users of the Nvidia chip that has this flaw. The only way they can fix it in future devices is to move to a different system-on-chip.
Nintendo will probably have to hope that Nvidia creates a new version of this part, because moving to a different SoC isn't really a good option because it would create fragmentation.
Not really. The flaw is a bug in the boot ROM. All they have to do is fix the boot ROM. Existing Switches out there are vulnerable to the hack, but the new ones with the fixed ROM won't be.
This is not new - nVidia actually had to scrap a bunch of parts before back in the original Xbox days when a bug in the ROM was found.
Nintendo's options are to simply silently upgrade the SoC and let the existing units in the channel sell through so if you buy now, you'll get a vulnerable one, but next week, who knows.
Then they can in a few months introduce a new-and-improved version that can encourage people to upgrade, which would take a bunch of vulnerable units off by having them upgraded. This would make the supply of vulnerable units blip a tiny bit in the used market, but it'll be mixed by the general resold console market.
Republicans are all about subsidizing broken, obsolete or flawed ideas. It's their entire platform, while pretending to be against big deficit spending (for a few years)
Or is it old money versus new money? Republicans are "conservative" and thus things should stay the same. You used coal for energy - none of these newfangled "gas" or "solar" or "wind" or whatever. We used coal and we will always use coal.
Ditto oil for cars - cars have always used gasoline* and thus we will always use oil. No fancy "bio" crap or "electric". These are cars, and we want big heavy "we own the road" cars, not dinky electric golf carts getting in our way.
That's how the old money made their money. Republicans simply reflect the fact that the old money made their money in those industries and thus will keep those industries alive. Old money has always frowned on new money and thus those newfangled industries need to die.
* - actually, the early cars were powered by steam, electricity or other method. Gas was actually not a preferred fuel (too much nasty exhaust fumes compared to coal/steam or electricity). And given how bad battery technology was in the 19th century, this was an achievement.
While I can't speak to all of these places, the one cashless place that I frequent actually has it on the door on the way you walk in, and on the "sneeze guard" divider where you start your order. It's readily apparent for someone paying attention. I would not be surprised if they have to turn away one or fewer people per day.
That is good. Because it means there's plenty of warning that I shouldn't line up at the place. So yes, they probably have only one or two declined customers per day - if you tell people you don't take cash with plenty of notice, then those who choose to pay in cash will automatically not enter. Only those who are oblivious enough to not see the signs would get caught.
I find this interesting, but totally arbitrary. Why create this division? What if you go to a theme park? What if you stay at a hotel? Are these cash or credit expenses? You can't see the good - both are experiences (and both generally would be pretty good candidates to have on a credit card). You'll have receipts, but nothing stops you from saving your receipt from the burrito you bought for lunch either. As someone who uses a credit card in most places, I don't really understand why someone would prefer cash unless it's for spending control/budgetary reasons.
It's actually a "responsible use of credit" thing. You put onto credit things that will last until you pay the bill (helps remind you why you spent so much money). If it was going to theme parks, you'd have stubs and souvenirs of the tickets, shows and crap you bought. But common meals, well, I can't tell you what I had for lunch on Friday (well, actually I can, but still).
Plus, things like vacations and trips, you usually pay a good chunk of them ahead of time, so when you pay the bill, you still have the air tickets and such. It does break down if say, you need to go somewhere tomorrow at the very last minute, but hey, in general that's the rule.
I recall years ago when my kids were still in primary school, we received similar disclosures from the companies hired to do class pictures.
They claimed they owned the copyright on any pictures taken of our kids, we couldn't make our own copies and they could do what they wanted with the photos.
We declined and had our kids pictures taken instead at a local photographic studio without that crap.
Technically, according to copyright law, the photographer owns the copyright to the photos they take. So yes, they do own the copyright. And technically, since they do, they are free to do whatever they wish with those images.
It's why recording is often prohibited at concerts, plays, etc - because you, the recorder would own the copyright over the recording. The event organizer and venue obviously don't want you to sell your recording (because it's your copyright and you can do whatever you want with it) so they prohibit you from recording.
There is only one way around this, and that is "work for hire" in which case you would keep the copyright and not the photographer.
we have been told that if a company does not participate in GPP, those companies feel as if NVIDIA would hold back allocation of GPUs from their inventories.
If that threat was made in writing, or in front of multiple witnesses, then they should report it to the FTC.
No, it's not explicit. It never will be. What OEMs have experienced though is allocations - basically if you order 10,000 GPU chips, nVidia says "Sorry, we cannot fulfill that order, but we'll send you 2000 of what you wanted". so you can build 2000 graphic cards instead of 10,000. (Of course, it costs more to build cards this way - building 10,000 is cheaper per unit than building 2,000, and you don't really want to hang onto the chips so you can build a bigger batch)..
It is highly suspected that those in the GPP program will preferentially get their orders fulfilled than those not in the program. As in if 2 manufacturers wanted 10,000 chips each, nVidia would send the GPP member 5,000 of them, while the non-GPP member gets say, 2,000. Can you prove nVidia is purposely doing it? Not really - they will say there are "too many factors deciding how we allocate limited supplies of product to manufacturers". As in, "we will do as we damn well please".
So how the hell does a person do this within an hour of landing at a foreign airport, especially in a third world country?
Easy. You'd go to your device, click "subscribe to new service" or whatever, and you'd get a list of providers, pick one, log in or create a new account, and your phone either grabs the existing account, or creates a new one and activates itself.
Remember, the goal is to buy a device, and then have the ability to at your leisure pick a provider from the on-screen menu.
Apple loves this because it means you can pick up an iPhone or whatever from the Apple Store and you can pick your provider at your own time. Carriers hate it because it means unless you visit a carrier store, they can't force you to use them. Even worse, their shiny brochures are hidden behind an "ugly" (to them) plain menu offering a list of providers - there's no way AT&T should have to share screen space with T-Mobile or Sprint! It should be AT&T as biggest and the others you have to scroll through 300 screens to see. But of course, Apple controls how they display it.
My mother said that when she was looking for retail jobs in the 60s and 70s, it was easy as hell. See a "Help Wanted" sign, walk inside, talk to the manager, have a quick interview, and if they liked you, you were hired. You didn't even need a freaking resume. It was a much more sensible experience.
Those still exist, but you have to branch out from chains and franchises and into mom and pop. Yes, there are still mom and pop stores, and many still are in malls with big chains in them. Their help wanted signs are honest and you can go in and ask. If the store gives you a website, it's not a mom and pop.
They are easy to tell - mostly because the decor is rarely uniform - typically consisting of furniture pieces acquired over time and thus, mismatched. If a store is shiny and new and has display cases all alike, it's generally not.
Of course, they generally also require more flexibility so while you'll get a rough schedule, sometimes it may adjust (usually you'll get a text or such asking if you can come in an hour early or stay until closing).
And yes, now that I think about it, I patronize several mom and pop shops.
There are certainly better-paid jobs around, jobs these workers would love to work instead - but those are all taken. Given the high turnover, Amazon workers clearly do leave as soon as a better job opens up.
It's possible to make 6-figures with nothing more than a high-school education. Yes, it's possible, and yes, they're generally hiring.
It's not an easy job - they're physically demanding. They're also very dangerous (even with OSHA protections). They pay well because for most people, the demands are very strenuous and taxing.
Look at crab fishermen, oil worker, and other such jobs. They are out there, and they aren't skilled. But they require a lot of physical stamina where you can work for 40 hours straight on 2 hours of sleep, on slippery, cold, and wet decks and sprayed with all manner of liquids, while hauling heavy materials (crab pots weigh about 200lbs each), close to machines with spinny things, crushing things, sliding things, etc all able to kill you in a moment's notice.
Of course, this leads to the other problem of undereducated people with loads of cash, so you get serious drug problems, alcoholism and blowing your money away so even though you make $200K a year, you have $0 in savings and still live in a rented tiny low end apartment because you weren't able to put money away and buy something better.
These are the places where you order your food from a person at a register (or a kiosk!) and then pay. You might get a number or a buzzer, and a few minutes later, your food is ready. At the salad chains mentioned in the article, you watch them build your salad as you go down the line and then you pay at the very end right before they give it to you. They simply won't let you transact if you don't have a card.
No, that goes away - because if you're turning down a customer at that point, it's literally a waste of money - the customer has wasted their time and effort and leaves angry. The restaurant now has a meal that is unwanted - and they cannot sell it. No customer further down the line would want something made for someone else (even if they wanted the same thing - if you could have it made in front of you versus already made sitting out for who knows how long, at the same price, which would you go for?). There is no option other than the restaurant to throw it out - they can't even donate it to the food bank. OK, maybe they can give it to the bum in the alleyway behind the store, but it's still a loss to the store.
If you put the register up front at time of order, then customers may be mildly annoyed (depends on how long the line up is), but it also matters because now it's a voided transaction. Those things are recorded (sometimes people want to know - how much business was turned away).
I have credit cards, but I never use them for food - using the simple principle of "if I can't see it when I pay the bill, it doesn't belong on the card". I should be able to take my bill, and physically see what was bought - tickets to an event (I have stubs), items, etc. Thus, consumables that will not last until bill day can't go on the credit card.
All I would demand is a simple sign at the door if someone doesn't take cash. If I know going in you don't take cash, you and I could avoid wasting a lot of time. No, a sign by the register won't cut it, because if I have to wait in line, you better serve me.
I know Eventbrite was used to sell tickets to a New Years Eve party with a famous band a few years back so yeah, they could probably monetize the content.
Yeah, and now, they're not going to get any of this. One store I know uses eventbrite, and they use it to give out free tickets to participating events. E.g., they offered free basic instrument lessons over lunch. Sure, Eventbrite can go and film a bunch of no-talents learn to play the ukelele. I'm sure YouTube could use more of that.
Another time they used it to reserve slots for a session on pianos. I attended (there were only 2 people who registered). I'm sure they could make money filming me ask stupid questions about pianos. At the very least, I got to ask stupid questions and get educated. I don't have a piano, but now I know more about them. All I wanted to know but was afraid to ask.
I'm guessing that's really all they're going to get nowadays - events of participation and silly stuff.
I wonder what's going to happen if they have an event for 25 people and the room can only hold 30 due to things like fire regulations. The event organizer will ask for up to 25 participants because they know 30 is a safe number, but if the eventbrite people come, then it'll exceed that figure easily. Are they going to reduce the number of tickets they sell?
Headphone connectors are subject to a lot of mechanical forces; that's what they are designed for: they are strong, springy, and very simple mechanically.
Lightning and USB-C connectors are not designed to have something plugged into that has a lot of forces applied to them. I've gone through two of these headphones so far, and the connectors keep failing, and I suspect the connector inside the phone is not going to survive long either.
Actually, headphone jacks cannot take a lot of mechanical forces. They are weak in certain directions because they go in all directions. They are almost always held onto circuit boards by soldered tabs, and ripping them off is surprisingly easy.
The plug is mechanically strong, but the jack itself is fairly weak. It's like a barrel connector - convenient to use, but damn they can be fragile.
Lightning and USB-C connectors however can be made to be structural elements. You can buy connectors that are basically meant to bolt to chassis - they are that strong. And Apple actually uses those (see any iFixit teardown - the Lightning port is bolted to the metal case and connects via flex cable to the motherboard). And a lot of phones use proper chassis-mountable USB-C ports. Enough so that Apple's dock consists of nothing more than the plug sticking up (it looks weird since it's a heavy base with nothing to support the phone other than the connector). And if it's unreliable, then Apple Stores must be replacing docks and phones on a daily basis.
+1. Have been using a newer "jackless" iPhone, it's not pleasant! 1) "Where is this lightning to jack adapter, again?", 2) Hey, how do I listen AND charge at the same time? 3) Using BT: one more thing to charge, 4) BT: lower quality etc...
1) It's attached to my headphones. Why have 2 pieces when you can have one. The $10 adapter turns my headphones into lightning headphones. Most people don't have a need for more than one set of headphones, so sticking it on permanently is more than a solution. (Most people also rarely if ever plug them into anything else).
2) Nice third party solutions exist for cars, though not really a problem since the latest models support wireless charging.
3) Thankfully you can buy lots of USB chargers these days. Those 5 port models are really nice and I've plugged in lots of the multi-output connectors so there's some staples, and some with odd plugs for the few times I plug in an odd thing to charge.
4) Yes, if you use the crappy SBC encoder that's mandatory. Luckily you can use higher quality encoders. Sure, iOS doesn't support lossless codecs on Bluetooth, but AAC will be more than satisfactory for headphones. For home use there is AirPlay which is lossless.
There are also plenty of headphones that can plug into a lightning jack for high-quality audio.
Every time a new game comes out the Steam forums are filled with folks complaining about AMD with at least a 3 to 1 ratio to the nVidia comments.
You want to know why? Take a look at the branding icons on every new game. Smack dab on it you'll see nVidia's logo. This can even extend to the intro screens (I still remember some having "the way it's meant to be played" on it).
The reason for it is simple - nVidia sends engineers out to game companies to optimize the game engine for their GPU. And not just that, but they have a ton of technology they offer game companies to incorporate into their games just to make it better.
And just like how a certain CPU chip manufacturer used less optimized paths when the code ran on other CPUs, well, you can bet a lot of the nVidia GPU code probably runs poorly on AMD chips. Whether intentionally or not (i.e., they should disable those features), it's hard to say.
Anyhow, I'm half wondering if it's because of the partnership Intel and AMD have now - the #1 GPU shipper in the world is Intel, and AMD GPUs are going to be featured on-package with Intel CPUs. You can bet that combination would make nVidia a little bit nervous
Even more, you can bet a few of those are destined for Apple products - Apple loves to use Iris Pro graphics, but with this new combination, Apple may use these Intel+AMD chips instead.
Since iOS9 side loading apps is a supported feature. As long as they're open source. Yes, that is important because binary-only releases go against the spirit of the function.
There's a spread of utilities and games that are not typically allowed (like emulators) in the app store you can compile and send to your iOS devices.
On the other gand, if it were possible to block the ads in magazines, newspapers, on billboards, clothing and on every item i buy, I would.
It's not hard. Either some black marker pen, some paper and glue, or a pair of scissors will easily remove the ads from magazines and newspapers. Billboards are harder and generally fall on private property, so painting those is harder. But you are free to block ads in newspapers and magazines, and it's quite easy to do so.
Anyhow, what I see happening on some sites is the ads are served up by the webserver themselves - the javascript, the assets, etc, are served by the main web server. I don't know how they do it, but it's dynamic - it appears the web server is retrieving ad information and embedding it in the webpage directly.
Of course, traditional ad blockers don't work since as far as they're concerned, it's part of the page and not an externally loaded asset.
You can't disable javascript because it'll disable site navigation, and most ad blockers have a hard time removing that part of the DOM...
Obviously. One year means nothing, 2000 people only can't have any impact on the overall economy of a country, and $690 in a northern Europe country? What are people going to do with this? Seriously?
I'm personally not favorable to this universal basic income thing, but let's be serious when we experiment. You can't seriously not work when you just earn $690 in Finland (just take a look at this: http://www.worldsalaries.org/f... ), unless you become poor and dependant. Is that what this is really all about? And if you still need to find a job to get a decent living, what's the point of the basic income then? Just pulling all salaries so low that it will look like slavery?
Basically, the point of UBI is that even if you fall to the bottom, you still have a roof over your head and food in your belly. That's it. It's not a great roof (it's supposed to be something like a barracks style room you share with 7 other people, but you do get a private locker for your stuff), and the food is nutritious, but that's about it. You can live, and the money pays for all that, medical treatments, etc.
And some people are happy with that. Which is entirely fine.
Most people though would want to upgrade their lfiestyle to something more traditional - a private apartment or house and all that. That's human nature - you'll find the vast majority of people actually do aspire to these things, so they will work.
Thing is, by having housing and food everyone can fall back to, you eliminate a lot of the exploitative jobs - the ones that pay crap and are dangerous. If you know you have at least a bed and 3 meals a day, would you take a minimum wage job that required you to work 16 hours a day at a physically demanding job? Not likely, but these days, there are a lot of people in a lot of those kind of jobs, because if they weren't, they'd be out on the streets.
Then there's also a lot of alternative self-employed jobs out there - plenty of people "make stuff" out of wood and such, and most only do it to scrape by. Instead, they can out there doing it to upgrade their lifestyle, so it goes from working to barely survive, to working to better one's life.
The point is, basically, yes, you will get housed and fed, even if you want to be a complete lazy ass. If that kind of living suits you, go right ahead. For the vast, vast, vast majority of people though, they will work to upgrade their lifestyle. But they will be less afraid to leave exploitative employers and into working for the betterment of themselves not just survival.
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Which means they not only didn't have a business plan, they didn't even do their due diligence and do basic research.
First, most of a ticket's price - anywhere from 50-100% (100% on opening weekend, 50% after a month or so) does not go to the theatre - it goes to the studio. Theatres absolutely cannot reduce ticket prices because of the studio's take. Even when the take lessens, the patronage has shrunk significantly that the theatre portion pays for operational expenses.
On release weekend, the theatre gets its money from concession sales - pack in the theatres mean the few that buy stuff will pay for the operational expenses.
Perhaps instead of paying for the ticket, they should've paid for the concessions as well - for $15 a month you get tickets and a bag of popcorn (which can cost $7-10), a drink, etc. Which can be $25 of value. And the chain will probably charge you $10 for the ticket plus a buck for everything else.
Because they actually are a legitimate company? And they actually DO award someone a million bucks?
Publishers Clearing House is a direct marketing company - basically they allowed you to subscribe to a few magazines for a single price, usually at a lower rate than subscribing individually. The sweepstakes part was really just a way to gauge interest - if you went through the effort, they assumed you didn't mind and continued to send you stuff.
Now, that didn't mean they didn't do scummy things - like making you believe subscribing would increase your chances or that you were closer than you think to winning. And of course, they bought all the mailing lists they can.
But the sweepstakes were real, and they'd arrive at your door and hand you the check, without demanding any money in return in "taxes" or "handling" (they took that off the money they gave you).
Thus, as far as things went, they were actually legitimate
An 8 megapixel image is only slightly larger than a UHD screen... not entirely browser choking size. A lot of phones and digital cameras will take larger photos. Most people's screens however cannot show all the pixels in one go, though without scrolling.
The problem is, it's statistics that don't mean jack squat.
It COULD mean the administration is doing their job. Or it COULD mean the administration is producing very poor requests that judges are denying because they're stupid.
And the latter is certainly possible if a certain commander in chief wanted to spy on all his "enemies" and got rejected more times.
The problem is, we don't know. We can never know because the nature of the courts won't let use determine if the rejections are because the courts are applying more scrutiny, or because the requests are of poorer quality and thus rejected because there is no basis for approving them?
Question is, 1) how noticeable is the blue ring, and 2) would a regular user even know?
The first may be hard to see, the second is basically would a user even know what it meant if they saw the blue ring? Or would they thought someone merely turned the ring light on.
Hell, that could be the name of the skill - turn the ring light on.
It's important because experience has shown users to not be very observant - like asking for help trying to save a file while ignoring the big message saying the disk is full. Even if you tell them that if the blue ring is lit it's listening, you'll find most people will probably not notice it for days, and even if they do see it, they'd go "meh" and continue on, having not processed what it means.
Well, the law states that the download function, meant for data portability, consists of everything the user contributed. That's it. Any excess data collected but the user did not upload, or create, does not have to be part of the download package.
Effectively, Facebook can't hold YOUR data hostage - as part of the European law, everything you put on Facebook you can download from Facebook. (Yeah, you should have your own copies, but for most people that's scattered through a million hard drives and emails and photo albums).
Other data Facebook may have collected on you, based on what you uploaded or otherwise, is not included, so your location history, website visit history, face recognition details, etc. are not included.
Well, for SATA, you can't have faster SSDs. We've hit the max for SATA3 for at least a few years now (540MB/s). So the 800 series SSDs from Samsung are basically incremental improvements as they've hit max speed years ago.
And I'm pretty sure the durability issue has been a non-issue, especially with Samsung SSDs - a test done took 2 years of constant 24/7 writing on the smallest 830 Pro at the time (64GB?) to finally die. The larger SSDs simply have more blocks to go through.
Hell, out work has switched everyone to PCs with SSDs in them, and we've had no failures in the past couple of years since we've started issuing SSDs. And they aren't babied - these SSDs are used in developer PCs compiling actively. We've even put them in our nightly build machines where they compile and build on the SSD itself (the build is then archived to an HDD). The biggest problem we've had is the HDDs in developer PCs often die first (we do a 512GB SSD + 4TB HDD combination).
As for reliability, Samsung had problems with their 830 EVOs a while back, but since they they've been rock solid. I can't say for other SSDs (We've had one Intel 320 SSD die and lose all its data, but it was revived doing a secure erase. And the SSD died because the user dropped the laptop and said laptop ended up in pieces on the floor. This was back when SSDs didn't necessarily have power outage protection).
Heck, Samsung used to warrant their SSD Pro series for 10 years, something the IT director and I thought was ridiculous - mainly because the SSD would be horribly obsolete and the machine decommissioned by then. Nor do we anticipate users wearing out their SSDs anytime soon. I did an analysis and even after 3-4 years of use, the SSDs in my PCs have barely any wear on them
They do, and Google promptly removes it as well once notified. They even block the search.
There was a time Google was used to search for credit card numbers, and Google quickly got those eradicated from the search results and made it so the search doesn't actually work anymore.
Not hard, you require the developer to register for API access and you give them the DRM key. As part of the sign on API, they ahve to return you an application ID (which you use to identify which key to encrypt the stream with).
Developer is responsible for keeping they key protected (in the software). and for obeying the rules. If the developer fails, the key is cancelled (so all apps using that key are blocked) and you can choose to pursue legal action.
Would make open-source software somewhat tricky to develop with, but that'a a different problem.
I think they were strawberry, and I remember something like that. In fact, if you buy pop tarts today, they make the heating optional, and recommend very quick heating times.
Apparently it lead to a few fires and lawsuits.
Not really. The flaw is a bug in the boot ROM. All they have to do is fix the boot ROM. Existing Switches out there are vulnerable to the hack, but the new ones with the fixed ROM won't be.
This is not new - nVidia actually had to scrap a bunch of parts before back in the original Xbox days when a bug in the ROM was found.
Nintendo's options are to simply silently upgrade the SoC and let the existing units in the channel sell through so if you buy now, you'll get a vulnerable one, but next week, who knows.
Then they can in a few months introduce a new-and-improved version that can encourage people to upgrade, which would take a bunch of vulnerable units off by having them upgraded. This would make the supply of vulnerable units blip a tiny bit in the used market, but it'll be mixed by the general resold console market.
Or is it old money versus new money? Republicans are "conservative" and thus things should stay the same. You used coal for energy - none of these newfangled "gas" or "solar" or "wind" or whatever. We used coal and we will always use coal.
Ditto oil for cars - cars have always used gasoline* and thus we will always use oil. No fancy "bio" crap or "electric". These are cars, and we want big heavy "we own the road" cars, not dinky electric golf carts getting in our way.
That's how the old money made their money. Republicans simply reflect the fact that the old money made their money in those industries and thus will keep those industries alive. Old money has always frowned on new money and thus those newfangled industries need to die.
* - actually, the early cars were powered by steam, electricity or other method. Gas was actually not a preferred fuel (too much nasty exhaust fumes compared to coal/steam or electricity). And given how bad battery technology was in the 19th century, this was an achievement.
That is good. Because it means there's plenty of warning that I shouldn't line up at the place. So yes, they probably have only one or two declined customers per day - if you tell people you don't take cash with plenty of notice, then those who choose to pay in cash will automatically not enter. Only those who are oblivious enough to not see the signs would get caught.
It's actually a "responsible use of credit" thing. You put onto credit things that will last until you pay the bill (helps remind you why you spent so much money). If it was going to theme parks, you'd have stubs and souvenirs of the tickets, shows and crap you bought. But common meals, well, I can't tell you what I had for lunch on Friday (well, actually I can, but still).
Plus, things like vacations and trips, you usually pay a good chunk of them ahead of time, so when you pay the bill, you still have the air tickets and such. It does break down if say, you need to go somewhere tomorrow at the very last minute, but hey, in general that's the rule.
Technically, according to copyright law, the photographer owns the copyright to the photos they take. So yes, they do own the copyright. And technically, since they do, they are free to do whatever they wish with those images.
It's why recording is often prohibited at concerts, plays, etc - because you, the recorder would own the copyright over the recording. The event organizer and venue obviously don't want you to sell your recording (because it's your copyright and you can do whatever you want with it) so they prohibit you from recording.
There is only one way around this, and that is "work for hire" in which case you would keep the copyright and not the photographer.
No, it's not explicit. It never will be. What OEMs have experienced though is allocations - basically if you order 10,000 GPU chips, nVidia says "Sorry, we cannot fulfill that order, but we'll send you 2000 of what you wanted". so you can build 2000 graphic cards instead of 10,000. (Of course, it costs more to build cards this way - building 10,000 is cheaper per unit than building 2,000, and you don't really want to hang onto the chips so you can build a bigger batch)..
It is highly suspected that those in the GPP program will preferentially get their orders fulfilled than those not in the program. As in if 2 manufacturers wanted 10,000 chips each, nVidia would send the GPP member 5,000 of them, while the non-GPP member gets say, 2,000. Can you prove nVidia is purposely doing it? Not really - they will say there are "too many factors deciding how we allocate limited supplies of product to manufacturers". As in, "we will do as we damn well please".
Easy. You'd go to your device, click "subscribe to new service" or whatever, and you'd get a list of providers, pick one, log in or create a new account, and your phone either grabs the existing account, or creates a new one and activates itself.
Remember, the goal is to buy a device, and then have the ability to at your leisure pick a provider from the on-screen menu.
Apple loves this because it means you can pick up an iPhone or whatever from the Apple Store and you can pick your provider at your own time. Carriers hate it because it means unless you visit a carrier store, they can't force you to use them. Even worse, their shiny brochures are hidden behind an "ugly" (to them) plain menu offering a list of providers - there's no way AT&T should have to share screen space with T-Mobile or Sprint! It should be AT&T as biggest and the others you have to scroll through 300 screens to see. But of course, Apple controls how they display it.
Those still exist, but you have to branch out from chains and franchises and into mom and pop. Yes, there are still mom and pop stores, and many still are in malls with big chains in them. Their help wanted signs are honest and you can go in and ask. If the store gives you a website, it's not a mom and pop.
They are easy to tell - mostly because the decor is rarely uniform - typically consisting of furniture pieces acquired over time and thus, mismatched. If a store is shiny and new and has display cases all alike, it's generally not.
Of course, they generally also require more flexibility so while you'll get a rough schedule, sometimes it may adjust (usually you'll get a text or such asking if you can come in an hour early or stay until closing).
And yes, now that I think about it, I patronize several mom and pop shops.
It's possible to make 6-figures with nothing more than a high-school education. Yes, it's possible, and yes, they're generally hiring.
It's not an easy job - they're physically demanding. They're also very dangerous (even with OSHA protections). They pay well because for most people, the demands are very strenuous and taxing.
Look at crab fishermen, oil worker, and other such jobs. They are out there, and they aren't skilled. But they require a lot of physical stamina where you can work for 40 hours straight on 2 hours of sleep, on slippery, cold, and wet decks and sprayed with all manner of liquids, while hauling heavy materials (crab pots weigh about 200lbs each), close to machines with spinny things, crushing things, sliding things, etc all able to kill you in a moment's notice.
Of course, this leads to the other problem of undereducated people with loads of cash, so you get serious drug problems, alcoholism and blowing your money away so even though you make $200K a year, you have $0 in savings and still live in a rented tiny low end apartment because you weren't able to put money away and buy something better.
No, that goes away - because if you're turning down a customer at that point, it's literally a waste of money - the customer has wasted their time and effort and leaves angry. The restaurant now has a meal that is unwanted - and they cannot sell it. No customer further down the line would want something made for someone else (even if they wanted the same thing - if you could have it made in front of you versus already made sitting out for who knows how long, at the same price, which would you go for?). There is no option other than the restaurant to throw it out - they can't even donate it to the food bank. OK, maybe they can give it to the bum in the alleyway behind the store, but it's still a loss to the store.
If you put the register up front at time of order, then customers may be mildly annoyed (depends on how long the line up is), but it also matters because now it's a voided transaction. Those things are recorded (sometimes people want to know - how much business was turned away).
I have credit cards, but I never use them for food - using the simple principle of "if I can't see it when I pay the bill, it doesn't belong on the card". I should be able to take my bill, and physically see what was bought - tickets to an event (I have stubs), items, etc. Thus, consumables that will not last until bill day can't go on the credit card.
All I would demand is a simple sign at the door if someone doesn't take cash. If I know going in you don't take cash, you and I could avoid wasting a lot of time. No, a sign by the register won't cut it, because if I have to wait in line, you better serve me.
Yeah, and now, they're not going to get any of this. One store I know uses eventbrite, and they use it to give out free tickets to participating events. E.g., they offered free basic instrument lessons over lunch. Sure, Eventbrite can go and film a bunch of no-talents learn to play the ukelele. I'm sure YouTube could use more of that.
Another time they used it to reserve slots for a session on pianos. I attended (there were only 2 people who registered). I'm sure they could make money filming me ask stupid questions about pianos. At the very least, I got to ask stupid questions and get educated. I don't have a piano, but now I know more about them. All I wanted to know but was afraid to ask.
I'm guessing that's really all they're going to get nowadays - events of participation and silly stuff.
I wonder what's going to happen if they have an event for 25 people and the room can only hold 30 due to things like fire regulations. The event organizer will ask for up to 25 participants because they know 30 is a safe number, but if the eventbrite people come, then it'll exceed that figure easily. Are they going to reduce the number of tickets they sell?
Actually, headphone jacks cannot take a lot of mechanical forces. They are weak in certain directions because they go in all directions. They are almost always held onto circuit boards by soldered tabs, and ripping them off is surprisingly easy.
The plug is mechanically strong, but the jack itself is fairly weak. It's like a barrel connector - convenient to use, but damn they can be fragile.
Lightning and USB-C connectors however can be made to be structural elements. You can buy connectors that are basically meant to bolt to chassis - they are that strong. And Apple actually uses those (see any iFixit teardown - the Lightning port is bolted to the metal case and connects via flex cable to the motherboard). And a lot of phones use proper chassis-mountable USB-C ports. Enough so that Apple's dock consists of nothing more than the plug sticking up (it looks weird since it's a heavy base with nothing to support the phone other than the connector). And if it's unreliable, then Apple Stores must be replacing docks and phones on a daily basis.
1) It's attached to my headphones. Why have 2 pieces when you can have one. The $10 adapter turns my headphones into lightning headphones. Most people don't have a need for more than one set of headphones, so sticking it on permanently is more than a solution. (Most people also rarely if ever plug them into anything else).
2) Nice third party solutions exist for cars, though not really a problem since the latest models support wireless charging.
3) Thankfully you can buy lots of USB chargers these days. Those 5 port models are really nice and I've plugged in lots of the multi-output connectors so there's some staples, and some with odd plugs for the few times I plug in an odd thing to charge.
4) Yes, if you use the crappy SBC encoder that's mandatory. Luckily you can use higher quality encoders. Sure, iOS doesn't support lossless codecs on Bluetooth, but AAC will be more than satisfactory for headphones. For home use there is AirPlay which is lossless.
There are also plenty of headphones that can plug into a lightning jack for high-quality audio.
You want to know why? Take a look at the branding icons on every new game. Smack dab on it you'll see nVidia's logo. This can even extend to the intro screens (I still remember some having "the way it's meant to be played" on it).
The reason for it is simple - nVidia sends engineers out to game companies to optimize the game engine for their GPU. And not just that, but they have a ton of technology they offer game companies to incorporate into their games just to make it better.
And just like how a certain CPU chip manufacturer used less optimized paths when the code ran on other CPUs, well, you can bet a lot of the nVidia GPU code probably runs poorly on AMD chips. Whether intentionally or not (i.e., they should disable those features), it's hard to say.
Anyhow, I'm half wondering if it's because of the partnership Intel and AMD have now - the #1 GPU shipper in the world is Intel, and AMD GPUs are going to be featured on-package with Intel CPUs. You can bet that combination would make nVidia a little bit nervous
Even more, you can bet a few of those are destined for Apple products - Apple loves to use Iris Pro graphics, but with this new combination, Apple may use these Intel+AMD chips instead.
Since iOS9 side loading apps is a supported feature. As long as they're open source. Yes, that is important because binary-only releases go against the spirit of the function.
There's a spread of utilities and games that are not typically allowed (like emulators) in the app store you can compile and send to your iOS devices.
It's not hard. Either some black marker pen, some paper and glue, or a pair of scissors will easily remove the ads from magazines and newspapers. Billboards are harder and generally fall on private property, so painting those is harder. But you are free to block ads in newspapers and magazines, and it's quite easy to do so.
Anyhow, what I see happening on some sites is the ads are served up by the webserver themselves - the javascript, the assets, etc, are served by the main web server. I don't know how they do it, but it's dynamic - it appears the web server is retrieving ad information and embedding it in the webpage directly.
Of course, traditional ad blockers don't work since as far as they're concerned, it's part of the page and not an externally loaded asset.
You can't disable javascript because it'll disable site navigation, and most ad blockers have a hard time removing that part of the DOM...
Basically, the point of UBI is that even if you fall to the bottom, you still have a roof over your head and food in your belly. That's it. It's not a great roof (it's supposed to be something like a barracks style room you share with 7 other people, but you do get a private locker for your stuff), and the food is nutritious, but that's about it. You can live, and the money pays for all that, medical treatments, etc.
And some people are happy with that. Which is entirely fine.
Most people though would want to upgrade their lfiestyle to something more traditional - a private apartment or house and all that. That's human nature - you'll find the vast majority of people actually do aspire to these things, so they will work.
Thing is, by having housing and food everyone can fall back to, you eliminate a lot of the exploitative jobs - the ones that pay crap and are dangerous. If you know you have at least a bed and 3 meals a day, would you take a minimum wage job that required you to work 16 hours a day at a physically demanding job? Not likely, but these days, there are a lot of people in a lot of those kind of jobs, because if they weren't, they'd be out on the streets.
Then there's also a lot of alternative self-employed jobs out there - plenty of people "make stuff" out of wood and such, and most only do it to scrape by. Instead, they can out there doing it to upgrade their lifestyle, so it goes from working to barely survive, to working to better one's life.
The point is, basically, yes, you will get housed and fed, even if you want to be a complete lazy ass. If that kind of living suits you, go right ahead. For the vast, vast, vast majority of people though, they will work to upgrade their lifestyle. But they will be less afraid to leave exploitative employers and into working for the betterment of themselves not just survival.