Who gives half a shit how many line items are on their debit/credit statement?
Amazon does. They don't want to pay processing fees running nickel and dime transactions. This isn't about any benefit to the end customer, Amazon just needs to spin it that way so people will use it.
Torrents and Netflix are different ways of getting video over the internet. That's not what we're comparing. This is about comparing getting your video over the internet instead of getting it via cable TV.
If vast quantities of people dropped their cable TV subscriptions and instead downloaded or streamed video over their internet pipe speed wouldn't drop? That's an interesting assertion. You are saying that Comcast (for example) would be able to simultaneously lose a great deal of revenue and upgrade their internet pipe faster than customers were demanding it.
You want to play unfair? Well, Comcast, guess what? I can download what I want at a better quality then you can offer, so no need for your cable. Oh, you don't like people using Netflix? Well, fuck you then, I'll just download off usenet and torrents (via a vpn).
You understand that's not sustainable, right? Only so many people can cancel cable and go internet only before internet prices increase and speed drops.
Also, psychologists will frown upon any research where the subjects do not know they are part of a research project.
RTFA. The "pub" is in a room on the fourth floor of a university building. No one is being tricked into thinking they're in a real pub. It's just a set to help people relax and act more naturally. Every experiment performed must be approved by the university ethics committee and no one will be given enough alcohol to put them over the legal driving limit.
It has zip to do with DNS caching other than storing what services are being made available on your machine to your network. It binds on a multicast IP.
Yes, that's the very definition of freedom. You are not required to do anything you don't want to (install other codecs) and they are not required to do anything they don't want to (serve other codecs). If one party is unhappy with the consequences of their decision, they are free to reevaluate. If you decide you want the media bad enough, you can install the required codecs. If they decide there is a drop in traffic they find unacceptable they can choose to start serving up other codecs again.
There is no possible way this situation could be more free.
And Lance Armstrong said "I have never doped." How is that relevant? I'm sure that producer either wants to feel like he's not accepting payment or wants others to view it that way. Unfortunately for him, that's not an accurate reflection of reality. Giving someone items of value in exchange for performing a service is the very definition of payment. End of story.
Really? So these are all actual scientific disciplines then?
Applied kinesiology
Baraminology
Chirology
Cryptozoology
Graphology
Iridology
Phrenology
Physiognomy
Pseudoarchaeology (well okay, that has pseudo right in the name)
Reflexology
Rumpology
I really hope that "well, it has -ology" is not something you use a rule of them when encountering new concepts.
This $5 study does NOT support that conclusion since the overwhelming majority of Mechanical Turkers are NOT Americans.
Not that you have provided any source for that assertion, but it's irrelevant anyway. You can set the qualifications for the job requiring them to be American. Studies have shown that while using the Mechanical Turk for social science research is not perfect, it is not wildly inaccurate either. In fact it works best for exactly this sort of study, a random sampling of the population with no other strict qualifiers.
If you're looking to replay your Atari classics, you've got two options that I see: either already own a working legacy console and buy the games from some secondhand source (such as eBay), or download an emulator and a ROM and work with it that way. Neither option gives Atari or its related companies any extra money..
More than one in 10 people are self employed. I assume that's the 10+% that isn't jealously whining on Slashdot. I don't know who you think the self-employed are but I know a hell of a lot of one and two man operations (particularly skilled blue collar workers who hire a laborer or two) that had very little start up cost. In many industries it's quite possible to build a client base while still working for someone else.
Not if this technology actually delivers and makes the workforce more efficient--even if it's through dehumanizing total control. Your hippy dippy startup won't be able to compete.
Of course it will. In the vast majority of industries there is room for boutique competitors as well. Efficiency is not the sole determiner of market success by any means.
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Who gives half a shit how many line items are on their debit/credit statement?
Amazon does. They don't want to pay processing fees running nickel and dime transactions. This isn't about any benefit to the end customer, Amazon just needs to spin it that way so people will use it.
They do that now. Nothing would change.
Getting video over cable TV channels will always be cheaper than getting it on demand.
Yes. That was the entire point.
Torrents and Netflix are different ways of getting video over the internet. That's not what we're comparing. This is about comparing getting your video over the internet instead of getting it via cable TV.
If vast quantities of people dropped their cable TV subscriptions and instead downloaded or streamed video over their internet pipe speed wouldn't drop? That's an interesting assertion. You are saying that Comcast (for example) would be able to simultaneously lose a great deal of revenue and upgrade their internet pipe faster than customers were demanding it.
Compete with who?
You want to play unfair? Well, Comcast, guess what? I can download what I want at a better quality then you can offer, so no need for your cable. Oh, you don't like people using Netflix? Well, fuck you then, I'll just download off usenet and torrents (via a vpn).
You understand that's not sustainable, right? Only so many people can cancel cable and go internet only before internet prices increase and speed drops.
Basically students build a pub on the university grounds. Did they get a licence for it or were they trading illegally?
Did you read the article or are you commenting ignorantly? Hint: The article specifically answers that.
Also, psychologists will frown upon any research where the subjects do not know they are part of a research project.
RTFA. The "pub" is in a room on the fourth floor of a university building. No one is being tricked into thinking they're in a real pub. It's just a set to help people relax and act more naturally. Every experiment performed must be approved by the university ethics committee and no one will be given enough alcohol to put them over the legal driving limit.
You can't "turn off" VAC.
It has zip to do with DNS caching other than storing what services are being made available on your machine to your network. It binds on a multicast IP.
False. mDNSResponder is also used for unicast. The command to flush the DNS cache given by the GP is exactly how Apple tells you to do it using Mountain Lion.
Steam isn't a subscription service,
You should probably read the things you agree to. Steam is most definitely a subscription service.
It's been done multiple times, fourteen years in one case. They certainly go bad, they just don't change in appearance much.
When a microwave is available, they're not eating MREs. They're eating B-Rats or, more likely A-Rats.
Yes, that's the very definition of freedom. You are not required to do anything you don't want to (install other codecs) and they are not required to do anything they don't want to (serve other codecs). If one party is unhappy with the consequences of their decision, they are free to reevaluate. If you decide you want the media bad enough, you can install the required codecs. If they decide there is a drop in traffic they find unacceptable they can choose to start serving up other codecs again.
There is no possible way this situation could be more free.
And Lance Armstrong said "I have never doped." How is that relevant? I'm sure that producer either wants to feel like he's not accepting payment or wants others to view it that way. Unfortunately for him, that's not an accurate reflection of reality. Giving someone items of value in exchange for performing a service is the very definition of payment. End of story.
On what planet does giving someone expensive electronics in return for a service not count as "payment"?
Applied kinesiology
Baraminology
Chirology
Cryptozoology
Graphology
Iridology
Phrenology
Physiognomy
Pseudoarchaeology (well okay, that has pseudo right in the name)
Reflexology
Rumpology
I really hope that "well, it has -ology" is not something you use a rule of them when encountering new concepts.
This $5 study does NOT support that conclusion since the overwhelming majority of Mechanical Turkers are NOT Americans.
Not that you have provided any source for that assertion, but it's irrelevant anyway. You can set the qualifications for the job requiring them to be American. Studies have shown that while using the Mechanical Turk for social science research is not perfect, it is not wildly inaccurate either. In fact it works best for exactly this sort of study, a random sampling of the population with no other strict qualifiers.
If you're looking to replay your Atari classics, you've got two options that I see: either already own a working legacy console and buy the games from some secondhand source (such as eBay), or download an emulator and a ROM and work with it that way. Neither option gives Atari or its related companies any extra money..
Or, you know, buy an Atari Flashback.
Wivenhoe Park by John Constable.
You are not FBI director James Brien Comey Jr, who (just a guess) probably isn't in the phone book.
I wouldn't be so sure about that.
More than one in 10 people are self employed. I assume that's the 10+% that isn't jealously whining on Slashdot. I don't know who you think the self-employed are but I know a hell of a lot of one and two man operations (particularly skilled blue collar workers who hire a laborer or two) that had very little start up cost. In many industries it's quite possible to build a client base while still working for someone else.
Not if this technology actually delivers and makes the workforce more efficient--even if it's through dehumanizing total control. Your hippy dippy startup won't be able to compete.
Of course it will. In the vast majority of industries there is room for boutique competitors as well. Efficiency is not the sole determiner of market success by any means.
Sounds like a great time to start up a competing company. You can hire off the cream of the crop talent without having to pay above market average.