I think I am their target market. Our Wii is aging and my kids are growing but not yet grown (oldest is middle school). I want a console with engaging, playable titles that won't bore them. On the other hand, I'm not ready to immerse them in the apocalyptic nightmare killiastic gore storm that I bathed in throughout my own 20's. Sure, we want all the new, awesome doodads, resolution, headsets, multiplayer, massive multiplayer, etc., but please with a plot that doesn't involve clubbing down either little old ladies or baby seals, or wielding bone saws. Maybe some scheming plumbers and giant megalomaniacal apes?
When I had to settle for a PS4 last year, what I really wanted was the awesome, high-powered, market-leading Nintendo console of my dreams. Where were you, Nintendo?
Let us not forget that his very first executive order jacked up mortgage costs for home buyers. It's hard to find a total price tag reported for that move, but a naive* calculation suggests 750000 loans x $500/year x 30 years = $11 billion on loans taken out in 2017, with more to follow for next year's loans. All of it straight out of the pockets of the little guy.
*I defer to some one who actually understands present value calculations on loans.
Personally, my trigger sound is the sound of yet another reprimand about the routine sounds of others enjoying themselves. I find myself longing for the occasions when the misphoniac is absent.
Clearly, the museum wasn't trying to list the top 7 most inventive software creations ever. Instead, they looked at people's lives / endeavors and ask whether software had changed that aspect of life. Roughly:
Entertainment (visual): Photoshop Entertainment (audio): MP3 Medicine: MRI Manufacturing: car crash simulation Scholarship: Wikipedia Communication: texting It Makes a Visually Appealing Exhibit: World of Warcraft
1. Find a statute that requires an agency to publish certain information. 2. Find an executive order that forbids the agency from publishing that information. 3. Sue the executive. (Or, perhaps, prosecute the executive if there is a provision making such interference criminal.)
How did so many of these corps arrive at the same decision at the same time? Possibilities: #1. Each corp sees the same need for this. #2. Each corp is watching the others and copying their moves. #3. Collusion.
#1 is unlikely. Dropping the headphone jack adds user expense and eats battery life for a trivial space savings.
#2 is unlikely because more corps would have broken ranks to keep the headphone jack and scoop up the segment of the market that wants one.
So, how did so many of these corps. manage to do the same thing at the same time?
One thing that buying a premium phone will get you is features that the base phone doesn't have. Just knowing that you have something* that your neighbor doesn't will make you happier. Heck, your neighbor's jealousy of your shiny new toy will make you happier, all by itself.
*Even if the something is, rationally, not very different. e.g., 24.2GB of usable storage compared to 22.8GB.
You've got it. People want not to have been wrong.
They want not to have gotten a lemon when they paid premium $$$. They want not to be stuck in a job/career they now despise. They want not to have screwed up their children's lives. They want not to have voted for a bozo.
The longer you listen to people talking about choices they now cannot unmake, the more it all sounds the same.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Thinks [a cheap* heavy launch infrastructure] Can Be the New Internet
There, fixed that for you. What Bezos is saying is that Amazon's rise was possible because some one had already deployed a long distance phone network and a postal system, and had already invented the Internet and the web. He is proposing to invent*/deploy the systems that will make startup companies for applications in space feasible.
*This is the step of his proposal, where a miracle occurs, is not going to be as hard as jumping from a long distance phone network to the Internet was. It is going to be as hard as jumping from hide drums to the Internet was.
Not to mention making intentional misrepresentations to a court (e.g., that a putative defendant existed who didn't, or that said defendant was the author of a post when no one actually believed he was). The contempt of court penalties for that will be a great deal swifter than the company's trial for practicing law without a license. No wonder the putative plaintiffs (clients) have lawyered up so fast and denied authorizing the suits. Judges do not like to be used.
Why is it that so many Americans are convinced that the merchant who sells a gun is not liable for what the purchaser does with it? (2nd amendment over all! yada yada . ..)
But that these same people keep claiming that the merchant who sells a message is liable for what the purchaser says in it? (1st amendment! but not really. yada yada . ..)
Apparently, they have realized that the pen is mightier than the sword and taken the wrong lesson from it: they have decided that everyone should have weapons and no one should have ideas.
This question of literary respect was put to Neal Stephenson here on/. a dozen years ago (God, I'm old!). On this, as on all things, his take is worth reading. He begins:
To set it up, a brief anecdote: a while back, I went to a writers' conference. I was making chitchat with another writer, a critically acclaimed literary novelist who taught at a university. She had never heard of me. After we'd exchanged a bit of of small talk, she asked me "And where do you teach?" just as naturally as one Slashdotter would ask another "And which distro do you use?"
I was taken aback. "I don't teach anywhere," I said.
Her turn to be taken aback. "Then what do you do?"
"I'm...a writer," I said. Which admittedly was a stupid thing to say, since she already knew that.
It is irrelevant whether an infinite number of monkeys posting everything they saw to the net would eventually produce every important news item that professional media organizations now produce.
1. We would never manage to find the important stories amidst the infinite amount of crap they would post. 2. We don't actually have an infinite number of monkeys.
Accordingly, it is necessary to employ a few professional, eagle-eyed reporters to keep the weasels of the world under control.
Newspapers are also extensive, experienced intelligence gathering organizations. They look for news. They do a better job than most of identifying stuff that matters. And then, they tell people about it. Some of the bad actors out there are quite good at hiding; it takes time and skill to sift the nuggets of information from the muck.
Yes, yes, publications also produce churn, listicles, FUD, etc. That's a minor annoyance compared to the value of having dedicated investigators on the job.
This law says, you may not publish true information because some one else might do something discriminatory with it.
But, we already have laws forbidding the discriminatory thing that might happen. So, this law abridging freedom of speech and of the press is necessary why, exactly?
Answer: It isn't necessary at all. This is exactly the "won't someone think of the children" thinking that suckers us into whittling our rights away into nothing, one sliver at a time.
What's interesting is the seemingly unlikely locations where projects are actually in place or being planned. So much for the argument that profitable wind locations would be rare or hard to reach.
They also neglect soft education like Music and Art
Are we still surprised by this? Anything that does not contribute directly to the bottom line gets cut. Recess. Music. Art. Sports. Here, the bottom line is that one-dimensional letter grade that legislators use to fund schools.
So, if you value these things, push to have them be part of the standards by which your state judges schools.
definition terrorist (n): a person who, in order to get you to do what he wants, hurts others
situation Attacks fully or partially caused: Inability to route prescriptions electronically to pharmacies Email downtime for departments where email supports critical processes Inability to access remotely hosted electronic health records
conclusion Wherever we see this dynamic, regardless of sympathetic motives, we can recognize a bad guy. Heroes don't do it that way.
Slashdot Mirror
I think I am their target market. Our Wii is aging and my kids are growing but not yet grown (oldest is middle school). I want a console with engaging, playable titles that won't bore them. On the other hand, I'm not ready to immerse them in the apocalyptic nightmare killiastic gore storm that I bathed in throughout my own 20's. Sure, we want all the new, awesome doodads, resolution, headsets, multiplayer, massive multiplayer, etc., but please with a plot that doesn't involve clubbing down either little old ladies or baby seals, or wielding bone saws. Maybe some scheming plumbers and giant megalomaniacal apes?
When I had to settle for a PS4 last year, what I really wanted was the awesome, high-powered, market-leading Nintendo console of my dreams. Where were you, Nintendo?
Let us not forget that his very first executive order jacked up mortgage costs for home buyers. It's hard to find a total price tag reported for that move, but a naive* calculation suggests 750000 loans x $500/year x 30 years = $11 billion on loans taken out in 2017, with more to follow for next year's loans. All of it straight out of the pockets of the little guy.
*I defer to some one who actually understands present value calculations on loans.
Personally, my trigger sound is the sound of yet another reprimand about the routine sounds of others enjoying themselves. I find myself longing for the occasions when the misphoniac is absent.
Clearly, the museum wasn't trying to list the top 7 most inventive software creations ever. Instead, they looked at people's lives / endeavors and ask whether software had changed that aspect of life. Roughly:
Entertainment (visual): Photoshop
Entertainment (audio): MP3
Medicine: MRI
Manufacturing: car crash simulation
Scholarship: Wikipedia
Communication: texting
It Makes a Visually Appealing Exhibit: World of Warcraft
The only pages that appear to be exempt from the throttling are those that play audio.
Dadgummnit! Those noisy ads that auto-play while I'm pre-loading news articles are the ones I want suppressed.
When I spawn a tab to pre-load a (quiet) article, I want it to load ASAP, not throttled.
1. Find a statute that requires an agency to publish certain information.
2. Find an executive order that forbids the agency from publishing that information.
3. Sue the executive. (Or, perhaps, prosecute the executive if there is a provision making such interference criminal.)
You will fail if only because there is always some other Chinese company ready to give people what they want.
Will they fail?
Apple dropped the headphone jack.
Samsung dropped the headphone jack.
HTC drops headphone jack.
Moto Z and Moto Z Force lack jacks.
Google Pixel, however, has the jack.
LG V20 has the jack too.
How did so many of these corps arrive at the same decision at the same time? Possibilities:
#1. Each corp sees the same need for this.
#2. Each corp is watching the others and copying their moves.
#3. Collusion.
#1 is unlikely. Dropping the headphone jack adds user expense and eats battery life for a trivial space savings.
#2 is unlikely because more corps would have broken ranks to keep the headphone jack and scoop up the segment of the market that wants one.
So, how did so many of these corps. manage to do the same thing at the same time?
We just didn't want to give it to you.
Can we please stop posting stories that amount to:
Lawyer Says His Client Wasn't Wrong?
Irrespective of whether any particular guy was wrong or not, his lawyer talking about it is almost never news.
Mod parent up.
One thing that buying a premium phone will get you is features that the base phone doesn't have. Just knowing that you have something* that your neighbor doesn't will make you happier. Heck, your neighbor's jealousy of your shiny new toy will make you happier, all by itself.
*Even if the something is, rationally, not very different. e.g., 24.2GB of usable storage compared to 22.8GB.
You've got it. People want not to have been wrong.
They want not to have gotten a lemon when they paid premium $$$.
They want not to be stuck in a job/career they now despise.
They want not to have screwed up their children's lives.
They want not to have voted for a bozo.
The longer you listen to people talking about choices they now cannot unmake, the more it all sounds the same.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Thinks [a cheap* heavy launch infrastructure] Can Be the New Internet
There, fixed that for you. What Bezos is saying is that Amazon's rise was possible because some one had already deployed a long distance phone network and a postal system, and had already invented the Internet and the web. He is proposing to invent*/deploy the systems that will make startup companies for applications in space feasible.
*This is the step of his proposal, where a miracle occurs, is not going to be as hard as jumping from a long distance phone network to the Internet was. It is going to be as hard as jumping from hide drums to the Internet was.
Maryland : Unauthorized Practice of Law: Md. Bus. Occ. & Prof. Code 10-601 to 10-606
Fines and penalties of up to $5000 and 5 years in prison per instance.
Not to mention making intentional misrepresentations to a court (e.g., that a putative defendant existed who didn't, or that said defendant was the author of a post when no one actually believed he was). The contempt of court penalties for that will be a great deal swifter than the company's trial for practicing law without a license. No wonder the putative plaintiffs (clients) have lawyered up so fast and denied authorizing the suits. Judges do not like to be used.
Why is it that so many Americans are convinced that the merchant who sells a gun is not liable for what the purchaser does with it? (2nd amendment over all! yada yada . . .)
But that these same people keep claiming that the merchant who sells a message is liable for what the purchaser says in it? (1st amendment! but not really. yada yada . . .)
Apparently, they have realized that the pen is mightier than the sword and taken the wrong lesson from it: they have decided that everyone should have weapons and no one should have ideas.
This question of literary respect was put to Neal Stephenson here on /. a dozen years ago (God, I'm old!). On this, as on all things, his take is worth reading. He begins:
To set it up, a brief anecdote: a while back, I went to a writers' conference. I was making chitchat with another writer, a critically acclaimed literary novelist who taught at a university. She had never heard of me. After we'd exchanged a bit of of small talk, she asked me "And where do you teach?" just as naturally as one Slashdotter would ask another "And which distro do you use?"
I was taken aback. "I don't teach anywhere," I said.
Her turn to be taken aback. "Then what do you do?"
"I'm...a writer," I said. Which admittedly was a stupid thing to say, since she already knew that.
"Yes, but what do you do?"
Old cold-war joke:
Two Soviet tank generals meet in Paris. One turns to the other and says, "So. Who won the air war?"
This concurring opinion did not get enough votes (only 1 of 3) to become law. It is a demo of a stance the court could adopt some day in another case.
When a proposal like this doesn't get adopted, they call it dicta.
It is irrelevant whether an infinite number of monkeys posting everything they saw to the net would eventually produce every important news item that professional media organizations now produce.
1. We would never manage to find the important stories amidst the infinite amount of crap they would post.
2. We don't actually have an infinite number of monkeys.
Accordingly, it is necessary to employ a few professional, eagle-eyed reporters to keep the weasels of the world under control.
Newspapers are also extensive, experienced intelligence gathering organizations. They look for news. They do a better job than most of identifying stuff that matters. And then, they tell people about it. Some of the bad actors out there are quite good at hiding; it takes time and skill to sift the nuggets of information from the muck.
Yes, yes, publications also produce churn, listicles, FUD, etc. That's a minor annoyance compared to the value of having dedicated investigators on the job.
This law says, you may not publish true information because some one else might do something discriminatory with it.
But, we already have laws forbidding the discriminatory thing that might happen. So, this law abridging freedom of speech and of the press is necessary why, exactly?
Answer: It isn't necessary at all. This is exactly the "won't someone think of the children" thinking that suckers us into whittling our rights away into nothing, one sliver at a time.
What's interesting is the seemingly unlikely locations where projects are actually in place or being planned. So much for the argument that profitable wind locations would be rare or hard to reach.
Amazon@ Fowler Ridge Indiana
Amazon@ Paulding County Ohio
Amazon@ Perquimans and Pasquotank Counties, North Carolina
Amazon@ Scurry County, Texas
Large size increases likelihood of detection. The code to count .doc files is tiny. Facial recognition, not so much.
They also neglect soft education like Music and Art
Are we still surprised by this? Anything that does not contribute directly to the bottom line gets cut. Recess. Music. Art. Sports. Here, the bottom line is that one-dimensional letter grade that legislators use to fund schools.
So, if you value these things, push to have them be part of the standards by which your state judges schools.
Industry: We want one set of nationwide (or, better yet, global) rules covering features and liability.
Feds: What rules would you like?
Industry: It hardly matters, since we make money in any predictable environment. But since you ask, we do have some suggestions . . .
definition
terrorist (n): a person who, in order to get you to do what he wants, hurts others
situation
Attacks fully or partially caused:
Inability to route prescriptions electronically to pharmacies
Email downtime for departments where email supports critical processes
Inability to access remotely hosted electronic health records
conclusion
Wherever we see this dynamic, regardless of sympathetic motives, we can recognize a bad guy. Heroes don't do it that way.