this is why I love amazon prime! quick shipping free returns. I got a new hard drive and I needed a 2.5" to USB rig to do the initial file transfer. No worries, I just "borrowed" it.
Because you don't "own" anything anymore, you use it at the indulgence of the manufacturer, and they can and will make any changes they see fit in order to maximize revenue.
not really. the difference is that TVs used to be a product, but now they are both a product and a service. You own the product but don't own the service. This british man is free to unplug the tv from the internet and use it like he's always used it. It has a great display, integrated speakers, a digital tuner for OTA or basic cable, inputs for external devices, outputs of sound or video to external devices, a stylish design, and a remote control. this is what he owns.
I think the actual complaint is not with the product but the marketing. Maybe he feels that he was given the impression that he owned the service, but as you said only used the service "at the indulgence of" the mfr.
it depends if the change of terms if for LG specifically or pass-through for other services like NetFlix. If you decline the NetFlix terms you can't be mad at LG becuase the netflix app stops working.
Having said that, not connecting it at all is not an option for me, that would break netflix.
why plug the smart tv at all, and just get a roku or apple tv? both have way better interfaces than smart tv, offer more features, and better privacy protection. At the very least, the roku/apple tv are their own little boxes, so worst case they can only share information on your activities there and not on your entire living room experience.
srsly, some tvs have a video camera for skype? talk about a telescreen. you never know when they're watching, so you have to assume they're watching all the time.
I'm pretty sure the rest of the world loves the USA because we have the most freedoms and hollywood. that's why everybody else tries to have bollywood etc and similar freedoms
why would anybody assume that driverless vehicles will follow traffic laws? surely the vehicles will do whatever the owners, and to some degree the occupants, tell them to do. If the owners or occupants want it to speed, then it will speed. If they want it to push a yellow light, then it will push a yellow light.
unless you're saying that federal or state agencies should have hooks into all driverless cars so they can control car behavior. NOT!
note that there will always be a balance of owner power and passenger power. The owners will decide how much to delegate to the passenger.
here's how I do it:
five star is because something was awesome: the driver is really nice, or helps me out in some way, or something really sticks out. This is 15% of rides for me.
baseline is four stars. on time, clean nice car, pleasant driver. This is 80% of rides for me.
three stars is because something wasn't good. everything was still servicable, I was picked up on time and got to my destination. But maybe the car wasn't the best, or the driver was gruff, or he chose a suboptimal route. Basically at this point I might as well take a cab for this level of service.
two stars or one star: something sucked or went wrong. I never want to see that person again.
you're right, everybody's scale is going to be different. This works for me because it lets me call out outstanding peformance and problems.
true. there are three main carshare companies. usually when one has surge pricing the others dont. it's worthwhile to have all three apps on your phone.
Whatever man. I am the OP and apparently one of just a few people in all the comments who has actually used uber and understands how it works. I really value the service, as I said, and am asking a question about the service and how it is changing. I hope the question is addressed.
Perhaps they could charge a small premium for conversationally engaging drivers. They could even have a web interface where you could select the topics you enjoy discussing (sports, politics, current events, art, etc.) to help match you to the appropriate driver. Maybe you could even drill down to the favorite team or political persuasion of the driver, to avoid heated arguments. Another alternative, is that you could learn to speak Armenian.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but...
One thing that Lyft does and Uber does not do is Lyft requires both drivers and passengers to log in with their facebook account. So presumably if there were an overabundance of lyft drivers available, then Lyft could do some interesting analysis to match people up based on shared characteristics. Sure, sport teams as an example. Or they match you up so your Lyft driver is the cousin of one of the players on your old college roommate's weekend soccer team. No snark here, I dunno it's kind of a kooky idea but it could work. But it requires an overabundance of drivers. If there's only one or two drivers avillable near you any way, then you can't find pairings like that.
When it comes to interesting and fun drivers, uber black is even worse, because all the drivers are licensed limo drivers. So by that point you're just in a town car that has convenient ordering and payment. Lyft is doing a better job differentiating, because they've been able to maintain fun and interesting drivers. I don't know how they do it. All I know is when I ride Uber I sit in the back, but when I ride Lyft I sit in the front. Completely different vibes. UberX has slipped even more; it used to be that even thought it was X the drivers still dressed well and would open the door for you. Now you just get in and out, say where you're going and that's all. Last time the driver handed me his phone so I could enter the address, we didn't say one word.
I like Sidecar too, but their recent overhaul has been a disaster in the area where I live. They opened up the flexibility for drivers to have higher or lower fares, and now all the prices in my area are 50% higher or more compared to Lyft and Uber.
Wow, Uber really transformed my life. 6 mo ago I got in a bad car accident and now I rely on ride services to get around (I use UberX in the Los Angeles area). Without Uber and others I would be calling cab companies.
However, I've noticed that Uber used to be much more fun, but has been backsliding a bit. It used to be that half the fun of Uber was meeting the drivers, who were driving Uber but also were actors or grad students or other interesting people with flex time. But in the past couple months it's become more and more dominated by gruff foreigners (Armenians primarily in the LA area) who say two words for you and listen to their music. The cars are still clean, and they arrive on time and get you there efficiently. But it's no longer fun and feels more like a cab, albeit it doesn't smell like smoke.
Somehow, Lyft has resisted this trend, and rides on Lyft are still really cool. On my last Lyft the driver and I were talking about articles in the recent issue of Fast Company. When was the last time you did that in a cab?
So the question: how can Uber continue to grow while maintaining the quality of their driver pool, specifically drivers that are fun and engaging?
i agree, the up vote / down vote system works well here because people who have low karma can't post as much as people with good karma. another solution is the "alternate reality" approach, where a troll's posts are visible to him but not to others. he thinks he's being ignored.
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this is why I love amazon prime! quick shipping free returns. I got a new hard drive and I needed a 2.5" to USB rig to do the initial file transfer. No worries, I just "borrowed" it.
idk how much bandwidth i use on a daily or monthly basis. How can I learn this?
Oh. I wonder what weev thinks of the Unabomber
i know of tim mcveigh becasue he's the unabomber guy. Who are the other peopel?
Because you don't "own" anything anymore, you use it at the indulgence of the manufacturer, and they can and will make any changes they see fit in order to maximize revenue.
not really. the difference is that TVs used to be a product, but now they are both a product and a service. You own the product but don't own the service. This british man is free to unplug the tv from the internet and use it like he's always used it. It has a great display, integrated speakers, a digital tuner for OTA or basic cable, inputs for external devices, outputs of sound or video to external devices, a stylish design, and a remote control. this is what he owns.
I think the actual complaint is not with the product but the marketing. Maybe he feels that he was given the impression that he owned the service, but as you said only used the service "at the indulgence of" the mfr.
it depends if the change of terms if for LG specifically or pass-through for other services like NetFlix. If you decline the NetFlix terms you can't be mad at LG becuase the netflix app stops working.
just never plug it in to the internet. doesn't matter how "smart" it thinks it is. unless it becomes self-aware there are no problems.
Having said that, not connecting it at all is not an option for me, that would break netflix.
why plug the smart tv at all, and just get a roku or apple tv? both have way better interfaces than smart tv, offer more features, and better privacy protection. At the very least, the roku/apple tv are their own little boxes, so worst case they can only share information on your activities there and not on your entire living room experience.
srsly, some tvs have a video camera for skype? talk about a telescreen. you never know when they're watching, so you have to assume they're watching all the time.
I'm pretty sure the rest of the world loves the USA because we have the most freedoms and hollywood. that's why everybody else tries to have bollywood etc and similar freedoms
violent crime in US is at a multi-decade low, possibly due to phasing out the leaded fuel. streets are safe here too.
why would anybody assume that driverless vehicles will follow traffic laws? surely the vehicles will do whatever the owners, and to some degree the occupants, tell them to do. If the owners or occupants want it to speed, then it will speed. If they want it to push a yellow light, then it will push a yellow light.
unless you're saying that federal or state agencies should have hooks into all driverless cars so they can control car behavior. NOT!
note that there will always be a balance of owner power and passenger power. The owners will decide how much to delegate to the passenger.
here's how I do it:
five star is because something was awesome: the driver is really nice, or helps me out in some way, or something really sticks out. This is 15% of rides for me.
baseline is four stars. on time, clean nice car, pleasant driver. This is 80% of rides for me.
three stars is because something wasn't good. everything was still servicable, I was picked up on time and got to my destination. But maybe the car wasn't the best, or the driver was gruff, or he chose a suboptimal route. Basically at this point I might as well take a cab for this level of service.
two stars or one star: something sucked or went wrong. I never want to see that person again.
you're right, everybody's scale is going to be different. This works for me because it lets me call out outstanding peformance and problems.
true. there are three main carshare companies. usually when one has surge pricing the others dont. it's worthwhile to have all three apps on your phone.
Whatever man. I am the OP and apparently one of just a few people in all the comments who has actually used uber and understands how it works. I really value the service, as I said, and am asking a question about the service and how it is changing. I hope the question is addressed.
Perhaps they could charge a small premium for conversationally engaging drivers. They could even have a web interface where you could select the topics you enjoy discussing (sports, politics, current events, art, etc.) to help match you to the appropriate driver. Maybe you could even drill down to the favorite team or political persuasion of the driver, to avoid heated arguments. Another alternative, is that you could learn to speak Armenian.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but...
One thing that Lyft does and Uber does not do is Lyft requires both drivers and passengers to log in with their facebook account. So presumably if there were an overabundance of lyft drivers available, then Lyft could do some interesting analysis to match people up based on shared characteristics. Sure, sport teams as an example. Or they match you up so your Lyft driver is the cousin of one of the players on your old college roommate's weekend soccer team. No snark here, I dunno it's kind of a kooky idea but it could work. But it requires an overabundance of drivers. If there's only one or two drivers avillable near you any way, then you can't find pairings like that.
When it comes to interesting and fun drivers, uber black is even worse, because all the drivers are licensed limo drivers. So by that point you're just in a town car that has convenient ordering and payment. Lyft is doing a better job differentiating, because they've been able to maintain fun and interesting drivers. I don't know how they do it. All I know is when I ride Uber I sit in the back, but when I ride Lyft I sit in the front. Completely different vibes. UberX has slipped even more; it used to be that even thought it was X the drivers still dressed well and would open the door for you. Now you just get in and out, say where you're going and that's all. Last time the driver handed me his phone so I could enter the address, we didn't say one word.
I like Sidecar too, but their recent overhaul has been a disaster in the area where I live. They opened up the flexibility for drivers to have higher or lower fares, and now all the prices in my area are 50% higher or more compared to Lyft and Uber.
Wow, Uber really transformed my life. 6 mo ago I got in a bad car accident and now I rely on ride services to get around (I use UberX in the Los Angeles area). Without Uber and others I would be calling cab companies.
However, I've noticed that Uber used to be much more fun, but has been backsliding a bit. It used to be that half the fun of Uber was meeting the drivers, who were driving Uber but also were actors or grad students or other interesting people with flex time. But in the past couple months it's become more and more dominated by gruff foreigners (Armenians primarily in the LA area) who say two words for you and listen to their music. The cars are still clean, and they arrive on time and get you there efficiently. But it's no longer fun and feels more like a cab, albeit it doesn't smell like smoke.
Somehow, Lyft has resisted this trend, and rides on Lyft are still really cool. On my last Lyft the driver and I were talking about articles in the recent issue of Fast Company. When was the last time you did that in a cab?
So the question: how can Uber continue to grow while maintaining the quality of their driver pool, specifically drivers that are fun and engaging?
I'm super stoked about this game! Never had a os3 so I missed out on it before.
the finding here is that "don't feed the trolls" can be rigorously demonstrated as true.
i agree, the up vote / down vote system works well here because people who have low karma can't post as much as people with good karma. another solution is the "alternate reality" approach, where a troll's posts are visible to him but not to others. he thinks he's being ignored.
Regardless, I'm still going to kick in the door.
the police tracked him down with no search warrant
No they didn't. They tracked the pill bottle. Same way I would use Find My iPhone if somebody took my phone, then go kick in his door.
I like to think it was the SCCM server itself that said fuck you all I've had enough. I'm pushing the red button and we're all going down.
won't you be frustrated when you have 50% less money tomorrow than you have today?
did it at least complete its five year mission to explore strange new worlds?