This is exactly what was said was going to happen when it came to light that Intel was sticking extra shit to motherboards no one was asking for. And at the time, Intel said no one would be capable of getting to it. Guess what?
If you're going to be selling temporary housing to people, then focus on that business. Make it a great experience. Or a cheap experience if that's the market you decide to be in. Just focus on that and let someone else worry about getting people to you.
Conversely, if you want to be in the business of helping people find temporary housing then focus on doing that. Get out of the housing portion if it's causing you a headache/heartburn because of conflicts with the first part of your business. Get really good at matching people's price point with those willing to house there. Let someone else worry about making the ends meet on the housing side.
TL,DR; Pick a business and get good at only that business.
One might even feel like the court, with it's unanimity is trying to tell the Federal Circuit that it really wants to stop having to hear all these patent cases. The opinion was delivered by the Chief Justice who spared no words in telling the Federal Circuit that it needs to do a much better job.
This venerable principle is not, as the Federal Circuit dismissively viewed it, merely "one common-law jurisdiction's general judicial policy at one time toward antialienation restrictions."
And
The Federal Circuit reached a different result largely because it got off on the wrong foot.
That sounds like a place where they need to hire more people because there's no excuse for single coverage of anything.
But this being the US, it means that if the company can get away with it (for various values of "get away") they will. Hope no one suddenly quits for a better job or has some sort of crippling accident because it sounds like everyone is going to be screwed if that happens.
It's another disinformation campaign that's been going on for some time. There are a few congressional members who have been aiming to rid us of the Post Office and sell off pieces of it to their buddies. They've been making sure that the PO's budget can't balance through making them pre-pay pensions for a very unreasonable amount of time as well as shrinking the amount they can charge for stamps.
That doesn't even get into the political battle over letting the PO act as a bank for low income people. Which it did at one time but was removed in the late sixties and completely shut down by 1984.
as he does, it's going to have knock-on effects that go beyond the political sphere.
And those companies and people directly affected by this turmoil better speak up about it. The more voices in the political arena, the better our democracy.
Instead of having a text renderer built into the player and the subtitles just be stored in a file with the appropriate timecodes, the DVD people decided that the best way to go was to slap subtitles in as a transparent image overlay?
Guessing it has something to do with how it synchs up with the video. Also guessing that instead of including timestamps on the text data, it's some sort of interpreted system using xml.
Splice in some javascript or whatever language the player is using and there you go. A nice side channel hack.
If people did not want that they would not pay for it and it would die off.
That only works if there are viable alternatives or when the market isn't one of a natural monopoly. But neither one of those things need to have been said, since you were citing reality to begin with.
It is the fact that we are dealing with natural monopolies that make this a big deal and one which requires the utmost scrutiny.
If he's not been paid off somehow, then there's a deal in place for when he leaves the FCC for some nice, well paid, well heeled position with some ISP megacorp.
He's made it clear that he's not having any counter argument to the point of holding his hands against his head and screaming "LALALALALAICAN'THEARYOU!" as he runs from interviews with journalists. Later, when they catch him going to lunch he'll have his goonish bodyguards pin the stray ones against the wall so they can't ask questions.
It's not like these companies are entrusted with anything special. Millions of people don't use their smart phones for anything more than calling and texting family or friends. And there's absolutely nothing which can be done with that information. So who cares about privacy? This is just enough for you to feel like there's security in place. Just like with the fingerprint scanner. There's no way those could have flaws which allow someone to bypass it with one of twenty possible fake fingerprints.
That'd be stupid and open up the company to allegations of fraud. No one's greedy enough to let that happen!
Because it's not really about connecting people who should be friends. Don't let Zuck fool you.
This is about advertisement. Back a couple years ago, FB threw up its collective hands and told us we had to put people into categories since they couldn't get people to click on a nag-button. This is the next step in that. You've already been analyzed and habits tracked. Now you're going to be put into discrete groups so that the advertisers can target better.
See? This isn't about connecting people or bettering communications. This is about how FB makes money and returning all those billions that's been invested in it.
You and now the various groups you belong to are the product. Funny how the wheel has already turned from micro-targeting individuals to targeting broader groups. It's almost as if broadcasting was the best way to get potential customers' attention in the first place. Who knew we could and would ignore the individuation of advertisement?
another skill that's also part talent. Only in this case the talent portion seems to be taken up with the ability for public performance and not so much with the ability to manage.
Look, common suffering only goes so far when you don't do anything to alleviate the conditions which lead to the suffering. So sleeping on the concrete is easily seen as nothing but a show for the workers not solidarity with them. Solidarity with them would to open examine why they're having to work so many extra hours and to find some way to reduce them. But I'm willing to bet that solution would have been along the lines of reducing hours which would have put the factory behind the artificial targets that were arrived at in order to influence the market-makers on Wall Street. And we can't disappoint Wall Street now can we?
For as much as a maverick Musk puts himself out there as, he sure is as tied to the hip to Wall Street as everyone else is these days. If he was actually interested in making his worker's lives better he'd be the first one to proclaim that the quality of the work is far important than the number of hours dedicated to it.
Again, this is another case where these people are being paid to misunderstand the situation because it profits someone else much more if they do. The sad part is that they've been put in a position of power. Hopefully this bill never makes it out of committee, let alone gets scheduled for a vote.
The reason the good content has fled for cable and/or the Internet is because of commercial concerns. The first concern is the palette of the masses. You don't want to be too controversial or too radical or you don't get the broadest audience. Or if you go too far in the opposite direction and have too narrow of an audience. Both of those are a problem for the second concern, selling the commercial space. These programs aren't created to be entertaining, they're created to pass the time between swaths of 30-second sale pitches. Now, they can be entertaining and being entertaining helps since in theory that could get the commercials a larger audience, which is the whole point.
Now the twist is that TV execs are figuring out audience statistics better, so a show doesn't necessarily have to have the broadest of audiences to survive. An equally acceptable one is a predictable, identifiable audience. Anything which makes it easy to sell commercial time is the key. So if you have a show which has a fairly narrow but easily identifiable audience you have an easier time targeting your broadcast commercials to them.
For TV execs, the ideal choice is either Friends or Supernatural.
That's the beginning and the end of this conversation.
The only way to get airlines to stop doing it is to make it unprofitable to do so either through fines and/or regulations which increase the compensation for those bumped from flights to the point where it's not worth it to do.
Stop fucking around with the API and stop fucking around with access to it. You need to build trust and you can't do that when you change rules willy-nilly all the time.
The reason why developers fled your platform is because you never let it stabilize long enough for people to do things with it. Then, if memory serves, you closed it. And then you sold it.
So the question becomes one of why would anyone want to invest the time to figure the API and platform out if you're just going to pull the football away without warning?
And doing their lawyerly best to shield Uber from the worst of the storm that's brewing.
If you go read Ars' article on the same, you'll find that the judge is having none of Uber's bullshit and is forcing them to confront the employee who has their own lawyer and is pleading the fifth about what happened to the documents in question and when.
Uber already has enough trouble on it's plate and apparently didn't do enough due diligence when they bought this guy's company out. I'm going to guess that someone's leadership position is in severe trouble if this trial goes the wrong way for them.
No. This is a case where his future plans of employment are contingent upon his to understanding reality from your's or my perspective. So he doesn't. He believes what his likely future employers want him to believe.
Wage stagnation has taken the earnings of the middle class since the 70s. About the only thing keeping wages going up in that time has been union action and increases in the minimum wage. Since the min wage certainly has not been keeping up with inflation _and_ unions are at an all time low, none of this is a surprise.
For those of you who want the world to be better without a government acting as the means to corral all of us cats wandering around need to start showing us who think otherwise how that's going to work. Because the ideas you've espoused so far have failed. Profits as an end goal only promote avarice and greed as valued traits. This is where such thinking has lead us.
Complaining to the wrong people. You need to talk to the guys running the numbers in Hollywood these days. They're the ones setting ticket prices and how much the venues get from the ticket sales. Which, last I checked, was zero.
Yeah. Theaters get bupkis for the first three or four weeks from ticket sales If the film stays that long. So in order to have a chance at making any money, they shove advertisement everywhere now. And it's working. Go look at AMC's profit numbers.
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That would seem to cover everything.
Everyone! Pack it in. We still have a mystery to solve.
This is exactly what was said was going to happen when it came to light that Intel was sticking extra shit to motherboards no one was asking for. And at the time, Intel said no one would be capable of getting to it. Guess what?
So tired of this crap.
and if you don't change with them then maybe you're the one wrong. This has Skinner meme written all over it.
If you're going to be selling temporary housing to people, then focus on that business. Make it a great experience. Or a cheap experience if that's the market you decide to be in. Just focus on that and let someone else worry about getting people to you.
Conversely, if you want to be in the business of helping people find temporary housing then focus on doing that. Get out of the housing portion if it's causing you a headache/heartburn because of conflicts with the first part of your business. Get really good at matching people's price point with those willing to house there. Let someone else worry about making the ends meet on the housing side.
TL,DR; Pick a business and get good at only that business.
One might even feel like the court, with it's unanimity is trying to tell the Federal Circuit that it really wants to stop having to hear all these patent cases. The opinion was delivered by the Chief Justice who spared no words in telling the Federal Circuit that it needs to do a much better job.
This venerable principle is not, as the Federal Circuit dismissively viewed it, merely "one common-law jurisdiction's general judicial policy at one time toward antialienation restrictions."
And
The Federal Circuit reached a different result largely because it got off on the wrong foot.
That sounds like a place where they need to hire more people because there's no excuse for single coverage of anything.
But this being the US, it means that if the company can get away with it (for various values of "get away") they will. Hope no one suddenly quits for a better job or has some sort of crippling accident because it sounds like everyone is going to be screwed if that happens.
It's another disinformation campaign that's been going on for some time. There are a few congressional members who have been aiming to rid us of the Post Office and sell off pieces of it to their buddies. They've been making sure that the PO's budget can't balance through making them pre-pay pensions for a very unreasonable amount of time as well as shrinking the amount they can charge for stamps.
That doesn't even get into the political battle over letting the PO act as a bank for low income people. Which it did at one time but was removed in the late sixties and completely shut down by 1984.
as he does, it's going to have knock-on effects that go beyond the political sphere.
And those companies and people directly affected by this turmoil better speak up about it. The more voices in the political arena, the better our democracy.
So let me get this right.
Instead of having a text renderer built into the player and the subtitles just be stored in a file with the appropriate timecodes, the DVD people decided that the best way to go was to slap subtitles in as a transparent image overlay?
Guessing it has something to do with how it synchs up with the video. Also guessing that instead of including timestamps on the text data, it's some sort of interpreted system using xml.
Splice in some javascript or whatever language the player is using and there you go. A nice side channel hack.
If people did not want that they would not pay for it and it would die off.
That only works if there are viable alternatives or when the market isn't one of a natural monopoly. But neither one of those things need to have been said, since you were citing reality to begin with.
It is the fact that we are dealing with natural monopolies that make this a big deal and one which requires the utmost scrutiny.
If he's not been paid off somehow, then there's a deal in place for when he leaves the FCC for some nice, well paid, well heeled position with some ISP megacorp.
He's made it clear that he's not having any counter argument to the point of holding his hands against his head and screaming "LALALALALAICAN'THEARYOU!" as he runs from interviews with journalists. Later, when they catch him going to lunch he'll have his goonish bodyguards pin the stray ones against the wall so they can't ask questions.
It's not like these companies are entrusted with anything special. Millions of people don't use their smart phones for anything more than calling and texting family or friends. And there's absolutely nothing which can be done with that information. So who cares about privacy? This is just enough for you to feel like there's security in place. Just like with the fingerprint scanner. There's no way those could have flaws which allow someone to bypass it with one of twenty possible fake fingerprints.
That'd be stupid and open up the company to allegations of fraud. No one's greedy enough to let that happen!
Because it's not really about connecting people who should be friends. Don't let Zuck fool you.
This is about advertisement. Back a couple years ago, FB threw up its collective hands and told us we had to put people into categories since they couldn't get people to click on a nag-button. This is the next step in that. You've already been analyzed and habits tracked. Now you're going to be put into discrete groups so that the advertisers can target better.
See? This isn't about connecting people or bettering communications. This is about how FB makes money and returning all those billions that's been invested in it.
You and now the various groups you belong to are the product. Funny how the wheel has already turned from micro-targeting individuals to targeting broader groups. It's almost as if broadcasting was the best way to get potential customers' attention in the first place. Who knew we could and would ignore the individuation of advertisement?
Oh, wait. Everyone.
another skill that's also part talent. Only in this case the talent portion seems to be taken up with the ability for public performance and not so much with the ability to manage.
Look, common suffering only goes so far when you don't do anything to alleviate the conditions which lead to the suffering. So sleeping on the concrete is easily seen as nothing but a show for the workers not solidarity with them. Solidarity with them would to open examine why they're having to work so many extra hours and to find some way to reduce them. But I'm willing to bet that solution would have been along the lines of reducing hours which would have put the factory behind the artificial targets that were arrived at in order to influence the market-makers on Wall Street. And we can't disappoint Wall Street now can we?
For as much as a maverick Musk puts himself out there as, he sure is as tied to the hip to Wall Street as everyone else is these days. If he was actually interested in making his worker's lives better he'd be the first one to proclaim that the quality of the work is far important than the number of hours dedicated to it.
Up is down! Left is Right! Freedom is servitude!
Again, this is another case where these people are being paid to misunderstand the situation because it profits someone else much more if they do. The sad part is that they've been put in a position of power. Hopefully this bill never makes it out of committee, let alone gets scheduled for a vote.
you allow avarice and greed dictate national policy.
fucking itself over as of late but I didn't realize it had moved on to fucking itself over using a baseball bat with rusty nails sticking out of it.
That's an easy one to answer.
The reason the good content has fled for cable and/or the Internet is because of commercial concerns. The first concern is the palette of the masses. You don't want to be too controversial or too radical or you don't get the broadest audience. Or if you go too far in the opposite direction and have too narrow of an audience. Both of those are a problem for the second concern, selling the commercial space. These programs aren't created to be entertaining, they're created to pass the time between swaths of 30-second sale pitches. Now, they can be entertaining and being entertaining helps since in theory that could get the commercials a larger audience, which is the whole point.
Now the twist is that TV execs are figuring out audience statistics better, so a show doesn't necessarily have to have the broadest of audiences to survive. An equally acceptable one is a predictable, identifiable audience. Anything which makes it easy to sell commercial time is the key. So if you have a show which has a fairly narrow but easily identifiable audience you have an easier time targeting your broadcast commercials to them.
For TV execs, the ideal choice is either Friends or Supernatural.
That's the beginning and the end of this conversation.
The only way to get airlines to stop doing it is to make it unprofitable to do so either through fines and/or regulations which increase the compensation for those bumped from flights to the point where it's not worth it to do.
Stop fucking around with the API and stop fucking around with access to it. You need to build trust and you can't do that when you change rules willy-nilly all the time.
The reason why developers fled your platform is because you never let it stabilize long enough for people to do things with it. Then, if memory serves, you closed it. And then you sold it.
So the question becomes one of why would anyone want to invest the time to figure the API and platform out if you're just going to pull the football away without warning?
And doing their lawyerly best to shield Uber from the worst of the storm that's brewing.
If you go read Ars' article on the same, you'll find that the judge is having none of Uber's bullshit and is forcing them to confront the employee who has their own lawyer and is pleading the fifth about what happened to the documents in question and when.
Uber already has enough trouble on it's plate and apparently didn't do enough due diligence when they bought this guy's company out. I'm going to guess that someone's leadership position is in severe trouble if this trial goes the wrong way for them.
No. This is a case where his future plans of employment are contingent upon his to understanding reality from your's or my perspective. So he doesn't. He believes what his likely future employers want him to believe.
Wage stagnation has taken the earnings of the middle class since the 70s. About the only thing keeping wages going up in that time has been union action and increases in the minimum wage. Since the min wage certainly has not been keeping up with inflation _and_ unions are at an all time low, none of this is a surprise.
For those of you who want the world to be better without a government acting as the means to corral all of us cats wandering around need to start showing us who think otherwise how that's going to work. Because the ideas you've espoused so far have failed. Profits as an end goal only promote avarice and greed as valued traits. This is where such thinking has lead us.
Complaining to the wrong people. You need to talk to the guys running the numbers in Hollywood these days. They're the ones setting ticket prices and how much the venues get from the ticket sales. Which, last I checked, was zero.
Yeah. Theaters get bupkis for the first three or four weeks from ticket sales If the film stays that long. So in order to have a chance at making any money, they shove advertisement everywhere now. And it's working. Go look at AMC's profit numbers.