Alexa mesures HTML / website visits to facebook.com. However, the vast majority of people who use Facebook use the FB app on a mobile device. A very tiny fraction of FB users do so using the website now. Facebook has 1.45 BILLION daily users. That's how many hits Reddit sees in an entire month.
1) Catalog. Pretty much any movie made is available. The titles available through streaming are a tiny, tiny fraction of what is available on DVD / blu-ray. This is especially true of any thing niche. Like old westerns? Martial arts flicks? Musicals? What about watching all the Alfred Hitchcock films? If there is a particular era / genre of film you are interested in pursuing you can't do it through streaming. 2) Only 81% of Americans have broadband internet. Rural areas may still be relying on wireless (cellular / satellite) broadband, for which streaming is not an option at all because bandwidth caps. 3) A great deal of the broadband in the US barely meets the definition of Broadband. I'm talking about you, DSL. Streaming quality is poor, and if anyone else starts using the internet at the same (or a device decides it's time for that 1GB OS update, etc) playback will stutter. 4) Some fraction of the population simply won't adopt to the latest in technology - that being streaming. I'm sure there are people still playing stuff on VHS. There are people that use 30 year old cars as their daily driver. There will be people using DVD for a long time to come. The number of DVDs out there exceed that of any other type of video media that has ever existed (8mm film, beta, laserdisc, vhs). As of 2011, 1 billion dvd *players* had been sold. Imagine how many DVDs have been pressed...
What kind of person, when confronted with a city where homes are so expensive they cannot afford them, will live on the streets and prefer being homeless over moving to some other area that has housing they can afford?
The "one-spacers"... showed statistically insignificant variation across all four spacing practices.
So individuals that are likely oblivious to the practice of using double spaces after a period saw no discernible difference in reading speed regardless of the amount of space after a period. To me, these individuals represent the physical reality of whether the spacing makes any difference in how easily the words can be seen and read. The result is that it makes no difference on the physical ability to identify and read words and sentences.
"two-spacers" saw a three-percent increase in reading speed for paragraphs in their own favored spacing scheme.
Let's phrase that differently.
"two-spacers" saw a three-percent decrease in reading speed for paragraphs not in the own favored spacing scheme.
Why? Probably because "two-spacers" have an opinion on the matter, which is why they go out of their way to space in a specific manner. Consequently, when they see a spacing scheme that they believe is incorrect, they are cognizant of that fact, and it gives them brief pause while they consciously recognize the scheme is not the scheme they prefer, and thus their reading rate drops slightly because they are thinking of something else for a moment as the encounter it.
Gold and diamonds have been recognized for their longevity by humans for millennia. It is extremely likely that any civilization would also identify gold and diamonds as being rare and thus valuable trinkets, and they would have been worked in various ways. Even after millions of years, gold that had been worked, or diamonds that had been cut, would be readily recognizable. Yet we have found none. Further, certain minerals, radioactive materials, etc, would have been collected and ended up in surface deposits that we also have not found. It's likely we would find radioactive elements with half lives that were not natural and are byproducts of an advanced civilization.
The burning of any fossil fuels would have left very obvious deposits in the ice cores that go back millions of years.
Many surface areas of the earth are very old, The Appalachians date back 400 million years. The Negev Desert in Israel has literally been sitting there as-is for 1.8 million years. Tunnels bored through mountains or passes cut through them would leave scars for hundreds of millions of years.
They most certainly did not make it to the moon. We have easily found all of the landers and other probes in imagery from orbiting spacecraft, and they are going to sit there untouched for billions more years.
Even so, we haven't found one piece of evidence to support this theory.
I call BS. Facebook sells a fortune in ads. Every 5th item you see while scrolling is a "sponsored" post (aka Advertisement). They fetch between $7 and $10 CPM just to promote a page (that is paying to promote a *page* that is already part of their system). Maybe they make some additional profit selling "user data", but you'd better believe most of the profit is directly from ads.
I'm sure there are a couple reasons people left the theater for reasons other than it was a "unmitigated disaster". When it was released in 1968, the opening scenes with apes, and them essentially turning into humans through evolution, would be sacrilege to many religious people. I'm sure that was the reason the majority of people walked out.
A second reason is the impatient individuals expecting a sci-fi space flick and they just couldn't be bothered to wait until the movie got to that point. They probably thought it was a bait-and-switch from what the movie posters depicted.
Didn't you read what I wrote? Are you saying that the land area of the Vatican is equal to the land area of China? Because based on what I said, that is what it would take for the Vatican to be able to pollute as much as China.
What does the per-capita rate have to do with anything globally though? That is simply saying a country is allowed to damage the global environment more just because it has more people. Instead, shouldn't we be looking at the pollution a country generates relative to its land area? Because land area is finite, and is at a static ratio to our planet's atmosphere, water volume, etc. The US and China's land area is within 2% of one another (US is around 2.5% larger area). So based on that concept, China should produce around 2.5% less pollution than the USA.
Detroit has 31,000 empty houses. Wouldn't it just be cheaper to buy a house to stay in for a few days and burn it down or something when you're done with it?
Amateur radio and commercial radio systems have been using something like this for many decades, except it is the opposite. Only when a sub-audible tone (or more specifically, a tone that is not within the normal filtered audio output range of the radio) of a specific frequency is received will the radio "recognize" the signal and open the squelch so the audio can be heard. This is reverse CTCSS, where the tone must not be present for the audio to be processed. They can also use such a tone to "mute" Alexa for, say, 30 seconds at a time. So the tone (or tone sequence - like a little jingle or chime) can be played at the beginning of the commercial and can easily be heard, and then Alexa mutes for the next 30 seconds.
the exercise of judgement and skill for manual gear-changing, anticipating what gear to be in for a corner, executing the turn in the right gear for a clean and speedy exit, etc.
Wouldn't it be possible to simulate all of this with an electric car? As long as it can immediately accelerate at least as fast as an ICE engine at any given time, it could simulate the behavior of gears and clutch of any car less powerful. Assuming it had a clutch pedal and shifter.
WV is a neighboring state, and I happen to know a good bit about its demographics. WV has extremely rural areas - one county has a few dozen zip codes and some only have a hundred people in them, and the entire county only has around 10k people (and it is not a huge county geographically). The fact that the exact town the pharmacy is in only has 2,900 people does not mean those are the only people served by that pharmacy. It may serve the entire county and portions of the adjoining counties as well. The number is very, very deceiving if intended to represent the total customer base of those pharmacies.
Daycare is for children younger than school age. It is harder to take care of them and keep them safe than school aged children. That is why here, in Virginia, the teacher to child ratio for children 3 to 5 years old is 1 : 10. One teacher can only have at maximum 10 children. For younger children up to 16 months the ratio is only 1 : 4. Most school classrooms will have 1 teacher to 20-25 students (I remember a lot of classes that had around 30 students). You're not factoring that into the school vs daycare costs.
I'm not an Apple fanboi... really I'm not. I have an iPhone, but won't use their overpriced Macbooks because of Apple's draconian design decisions. Having said that, I really do not see what the issue is here. We know lithium ion batteries degrade with use. I (and I think most people) want their phones to last through the entire day. Besides making the display dimmer, which really isn't much of an option, slowing the CPU to reduce power consumption is one of the only viable methods available through software to preserve the operating time throughout the lifetime of the phone. Should Apple have made this a user controlled option? Sure. In fact, Apple could have had the phone show some message "Your battery needs replaced - your phone only has 75% of the capacity from when it was new" and could have made a lot of money off of people replacing their batteries.
I do not think that the devices are slowed to make them unusable so people would buy new phones. Having a totally dead phone after 8 hours instead of 12 hours is worse, in my opinion.
One article specifically pointed blame at Northrop Grumman, stating that the mechanism that controlled the release of the payload from the upper stage was built and controlled by Northrop Grumman. Which is why SpaceX can state that on their end, everything performed perfectly.
There is definitely a market for cheap handsets here.
None of this is rocket science here. The only thing that really is an obstacle is selling the devices in the US is the fact that companies think every Tom, Dick, and Harry can blow quad digits for a phone... which is not true.
What? Have you never visited the prepaid phone section in Walmart or any other dollar store?
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Sounds like he threw out some random tech buzzwords to me. Big deal.
Alexa mesures HTML / website visits to facebook.com. However, the vast majority of people who use Facebook use the FB app on a mobile device. A very tiny fraction of FB users do so using the website now. Facebook has 1.45 BILLION daily users. That's how many hits Reddit sees in an entire month.
1) Catalog. Pretty much any movie made is available. The titles available through streaming are a tiny, tiny fraction of what is available on DVD / blu-ray. This is especially true of any thing niche. Like old westerns? Martial arts flicks? Musicals? What about watching all the Alfred Hitchcock films? If there is a particular era / genre of film you are interested in pursuing you can't do it through streaming.
2) Only 81% of Americans have broadband internet. Rural areas may still be relying on wireless (cellular / satellite) broadband, for which streaming is not an option at all because bandwidth caps.
3) A great deal of the broadband in the US barely meets the definition of Broadband. I'm talking about you, DSL. Streaming quality is poor, and if anyone else starts using the internet at the same (or a device decides it's time for that 1GB OS update, etc) playback will stutter.
4) Some fraction of the population simply won't adopt to the latest in technology - that being streaming. I'm sure there are people still playing stuff on VHS. There are people that use 30 year old cars as their daily driver. There will be people using DVD for a long time to come. The number of DVDs out there exceed that of any other type of video media that has ever existed (8mm film, beta, laserdisc, vhs). As of 2011, 1 billion dvd *players* had been sold. Imagine how many DVDs have been pressed...
What kind of person, when confronted with a city where homes are so expensive they cannot afford them, will live on the streets and prefer being homeless over moving to some other area that has housing they can afford?
I certainly don't want my USB to permanently lock out the first time I don't touch my phone for a week.
By "permanently" I assume you mean "until I unlock my phone", and not really "permanently".
I'll sell you some. I heard Slashdot Mod Points are going for $3 a point.
I believe there is another cause for this.
The "one-spacers" ... showed statistically insignificant variation across all four spacing practices.
So individuals that are likely oblivious to the practice of using double spaces after a period saw no discernible difference in reading speed regardless of the amount of space after a period. To me, these individuals represent the physical reality of whether the spacing makes any difference in how easily the words can be seen and read. The result is that it makes no difference on the physical ability to identify and read words and sentences.
"two-spacers" saw a three-percent increase in reading speed for paragraphs in their own favored spacing scheme.
Let's phrase that differently.
"two-spacers" saw a three-percent decrease in reading speed for paragraphs not in the own favored spacing scheme.
Why? Probably because "two-spacers" have an opinion on the matter, which is why they go out of their way to space in a specific manner. Consequently, when they see a spacing scheme that they believe is incorrect, they are cognizant of that fact, and it gives them brief pause while they consciously recognize the scheme is not the scheme they prefer, and thus their reading rate drops slightly because they are thinking of something else for a moment as the encounter it.
There are too many issues with this theory.
Gold and diamonds have been recognized for their longevity by humans for millennia. It is extremely likely that any civilization would also identify gold and diamonds as being rare and thus valuable trinkets, and they would have been worked in various ways. Even after millions of years, gold that had been worked, or diamonds that had been cut, would be readily recognizable. Yet we have found none. Further, certain minerals, radioactive materials, etc, would have been collected and ended up in surface deposits that we also have not found. It's likely we would find radioactive elements with half lives that were not natural and are byproducts of an advanced civilization.
The burning of any fossil fuels would have left very obvious deposits in the ice cores that go back millions of years.
Many surface areas of the earth are very old, The Appalachians date back 400 million years. The Negev Desert in Israel has literally been sitting there as-is for 1.8 million years. Tunnels bored through mountains or passes cut through them would leave scars for hundreds of millions of years.
They most certainly did not make it to the moon. We have easily found all of the landers and other probes in imagery from orbiting spacecraft, and they are going to sit there untouched for billions more years.
Even so, we haven't found one piece of evidence to support this theory.
I call BS. Facebook sells a fortune in ads. Every 5th item you see while scrolling is a "sponsored" post (aka Advertisement). They fetch between $7 and $10 CPM just to promote a page (that is paying to promote a *page* that is already part of their system). Maybe they make some additional profit selling "user data", but you'd better believe most of the profit is directly from ads.
I'm sure there are a couple reasons people left the theater for reasons other than it was a "unmitigated disaster". When it was released in 1968, the opening scenes with apes, and them essentially turning into humans through evolution, would be sacrilege to many religious people. I'm sure that was the reason the majority of people walked out.
A second reason is the impatient individuals expecting a sci-fi space flick and they just couldn't be bothered to wait until the movie got to that point. They probably thought it was a bait-and-switch from what the movie posters depicted.
Facebook makes a killing off of ads. Period. They do not need to make another 10% profit off of selling personal information as well.
The URL can be www.microsoftsearch.com That's convenient. Great idea!
Didn't you read what I wrote? Are you saying that the land area of the Vatican is equal to the land area of China? Because based on what I said, that is what it would take for the Vatican to be able to pollute as much as China.
What does the per-capita rate have to do with anything globally though? That is simply saying a country is allowed to damage the global environment more just because it has more people. Instead, shouldn't we be looking at the pollution a country generates relative to its land area? Because land area is finite, and is at a static ratio to our planet's atmosphere, water volume, etc. The US and China's land area is within 2% of one another (US is around 2.5% larger area). So based on that concept, China should produce around 2.5% less pollution than the USA.
Detroit has 31,000 empty houses. Wouldn't it just be cheaper to buy a house to stay in for a few days and burn it down or something when you're done with it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Amateur radio and commercial radio systems have been using something like this for many decades, except it is the opposite. Only when a sub-audible tone (or more specifically, a tone that is not within the normal filtered audio output range of the radio) of a specific frequency is received will the radio "recognize" the signal and open the squelch so the audio can be heard. This is reverse CTCSS, where the tone must not be present for the audio to be processed. They can also use such a tone to "mute" Alexa for, say, 30 seconds at a time. So the tone (or tone sequence - like a little jingle or chime) can be played at the beginning of the commercial and can easily be heard, and then Alexa mutes for the next 30 seconds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
the exercise of judgement and skill for manual gear-changing, anticipating what gear to be in for a corner, executing the turn in the right gear for a clean and speedy exit, etc.
Wouldn't it be possible to simulate all of this with an electric car? As long as it can immediately accelerate at least as fast as an ICE engine at any given time, it could simulate the behavior of gears and clutch of any car less powerful. Assuming it had a clutch pedal and shifter.
WV is a neighboring state, and I happen to know a good bit about its demographics. WV has extremely rural areas - one county has a few dozen zip codes and some only have a hundred people in them, and the entire county only has around 10k people (and it is not a huge county geographically). The fact that the exact town the pharmacy is in only has 2,900 people does not mean those are the only people served by that pharmacy. It may serve the entire county and portions of the adjoining counties as well. The number is very, very deceiving if intended to represent the total customer base of those pharmacies.
Daycare is for children younger than school age. It is harder to take care of them and keep them safe than school aged children. That is why here, in Virginia, the teacher to child ratio for children 3 to 5 years old is 1 : 10. One teacher can only have at maximum 10 children. For younger children up to 16 months the ratio is only 1 : 4. Most school classrooms will have 1 teacher to 20-25 students (I remember a lot of classes that had around 30 students). You're not factoring that into the school vs daycare costs.
Tax dollars at work. Unless the armies of attorneys are doing the work for free out of the goodness of their hearts.
I'm not an Apple fanboi... really I'm not. I have an iPhone, but won't use their overpriced Macbooks because of Apple's draconian design decisions. Having said that, I really do not see what the issue is here. We know lithium ion batteries degrade with use. I (and I think most people) want their phones to last through the entire day. Besides making the display dimmer, which really isn't much of an option, slowing the CPU to reduce power consumption is one of the only viable methods available through software to preserve the operating time throughout the lifetime of the phone. Should Apple have made this a user controlled option? Sure. In fact, Apple could have had the phone show some message "Your battery needs replaced - your phone only has 75% of the capacity from when it was new" and could have made a lot of money off of people replacing their batteries.
I do not think that the devices are slowed to make them unusable so people would buy new phones. Having a totally dead phone after 8 hours instead of 12 hours is worse, in my opinion.
How does one earn this "New Achievement, Do Not Disturb"? By not interacting with your online friends for a certain amount of hours?
One article specifically pointed blame at Northrop Grumman, stating that the mechanism that controlled the release of the payload from the upper stage was built and controlled by Northrop Grumman. Which is why SpaceX can state that on their end, everything performed perfectly.
If you don't need the PIA subscription then wouldn't it make more sense to donate that money directly to Linux Journal?
There is definitely a market for cheap handsets here.
None of this is rocket science here. The only thing that really is an obstacle is selling the devices in the US is the fact that companies think every Tom, Dick, and Harry can blow quad digits for a phone... which is not true.
What? Have you never visited the prepaid phone section in Walmart or any other dollar store?
https://www.walmart.com/c/kp/p...