We would be without useful radio, television, cell phones--or any other RF-based utility--as we know them today. The airwaves are a finite [public] resource that requires strict regulation to maintain usefulness. If you don't like the way they're governed, change the government. Until then, I applaud enforcing the existing laws.
Salt Lake City, liberal for Utah but not exactly a leftist utopia, proved a solution that nearly ended chronic homelessness in their city.... While chronic homelessness is basically a fact of life in major urban areas, SLC saw reductions of 91%. And they did it with lower costs than any other program.
Chronic homelessness is a politically defined subcategory of homeless in general. If you look at the chart on page 5 of their report...
https://jobs.utah.gov/housing/...
It is clear that they did not move the actual homeless needle much at all. Overall homelessness in Utah steadily floats between.05%-.06% of population since 2005. So of their overall homeless population of ~15k, only ~2k are counted as chronic, and they reduced that number by ~90% to ~200.
But the other ~90% of the overall homeless remain homeless so the effect was to reduce homelessness in general from ~.6% to.5% of the population. Given their change in the accounting method during the study period combined with sme pretty tall error bars, I'd say their solution statistically meaningless.
According to Tevanian, Apple executive Peter Hoddie asked Microsoft officials, "'Are you asking us to kill playback? Are you asking us to knife the baby?'" He said Microsoft official Christopher Phillips responded, "'Yes, we want you to knife the baby.' It was very clear."
$9.99 for 12-Months
Plus taxes & fees, with 1-year agreement.
The taxes and fees are going to be ~$12, itemized...
Taxes
Communications Sales Tax $1.67
Federal Excise Tax* $0.91
E911 Tax* $0.75
Total Taxes $3.33
Fees and Surcharges
FCC Access Charge $6.41
Carrier Cost Recovery Fee $1.49
Federal Universal Service Fund* $1.44
Total Fees and Surcharges $9.34 Total Telephone Taxes, Fees and Surcharges $12.67
So call it a spade and say ~$22 a month. Which is still ~$10 less than I pay ISP for my phone service, but it only lasts a year, and then it is the same price as my current phone service. And certainly not as good as my current phone service, given my experience with listening to the [sometimes very] garbled reception I hear when talking on the phone to those that have it.
They could build and market it for general use and not require any approval whatsoever. FDA approval as a 'medical device' means that it is eligible for government subsidies and opens the door for private insurers also. Even wheelchairs have to be FDA approved.
Suppliers charge by the number of times a stream is started and by the popularity of the streamed work.
Are you sure about that? My understanding is that most content is contracted on flat fixed fee basis. Here's an example contract (PDF, Wikileaks) between Columbia Pictures (Sony) and Netflix for a package of content. All flat fixed fee with incremental increases. Nothing based on the number of times streamed.
... may mean that EPUB continues to be seen as a 'baked' format.
The original quote was...
Because of this, the general perception of the EPUB-formatted e-book is that of a ‘baked and finished’ product, to be consumed rather than amended.
Which is a good perception in that it generally is. A better fit for novels and leisurely reading on a dedicated device. A lesser fit for anything technical or presentational. Every format has its niche.
What KGIII said +plus+ don't take it so personally. Especially since you post as a very impersonal Anonymous Coward. Besides, it could be that someone was trying to up-mod you and just down-moded you by accident; it is easy to do given the way the mod selections are arranged in the mod dropdown: underrated is right below overratted, for example. I think they should be rearranged so that all the up mods are at the bottom [or top] and all the down mods are at the top [or bottom]. And once done it can't be easily corrected. When I err that way I usually just say, 'fuck em'.
That is true, the bus was behind the google car while the car was blocked from advancing. Then the light turned green and the bus and the rest of traffic started moving and the the google car tried to switch lanes...
That's the nuance previously referred to. Technically it did not try to switch lanes. It tried to move to the left side of the lane it already occupied. According to California law...
Pass traffic on the left. You may pass on the right only when:
An open highway is clearly marked for two or more lanes of travel in your direction.
The driver ahead of you is turning left and you do not drive off the roadway to pass.
Never pass on the left if the driver is signaling a left turn.
Exactly. While "one touch make ready" seems economical, google (or any other contractor) has no right to touch/move/reconfigure ATT equipment without prior notice and consent. The complaint is pretty clear; the city has no right to make this determination. All of which is not to say that ATT aren't still a bunch of dicks.
Could just be that someone goofed in selecting a mod reason. I've done that a couple of times; under vs overated for example. Once done you can't undo. Don't take it so personal.
When I was 12 I went to the county fair with my friend Billy. There was a girlie show. You had to be 18 to get in. Me and Billy went behind the tent and poked our heads underneath. We saw boobies. Real boobies. Real girl boobies. I must have seen 27 boobies. By mpaa reckoning, what do I owe?
So long as property includes intellectual property, downloading is stealing, at least by law. Just like what Billy and I did by poking our heads under the tent. But you have to be realistic as to the penalties. When great-grandma owes hundreds of thousands because someone downloaded a porn movie off her IP, something is terribly wrong. When every-single-teen over the age of 10 is guilty of piracy--and technically libel for 10's if not 100's of thousands in damages--something is very wrong.
I don't have a solution.
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We would be without useful radio, television, cell phones--or any other RF-based utility--as we know them today. The airwaves are a finite [public] resource that requires strict regulation to maintain usefulness. If you don't like the way they're governed, change the government. Until then, I applaud enforcing the existing laws.
Edit to correct. The .05 and .06 number in para 1 should read 0.5 and 0.6.
Salt Lake City, liberal for Utah but not exactly a leftist utopia, proved a solution that nearly ended chronic homelessness in their city. ... While chronic homelessness is basically a fact of life in major urban areas, SLC saw reductions of 91%. And they did it with lower costs than any other program.
Chronic homelessness is a politically defined subcategory of homeless in general. If you look at the chart on page 5 of their report ...
.05%-.06% of population since 2005. So of their overall homeless population of ~15k, only ~2k are counted as chronic, and they reduced that number by ~90% to ~200.
.5% of the population. Given their change in the accounting method during the study period combined with sme pretty tall error bars, I'd say their solution statistically meaningless.
https://jobs.utah.gov/housing/...
It is clear that they did not move the actual homeless needle much at all. Overall homelessness in Utah steadily floats between
But the other ~90% of the overall homeless remain homeless so the effect was to reduce homelessness in general from ~.6% to
According to Tevanian, Apple executive Peter Hoddie asked Microsoft officials, "'Are you asking us to kill playback? Are you asking us to knife the baby?'" He said Microsoft official Christopher Phillips responded, "'Yes, we want you to knife the baby.' It was very clear."
http://www.businessweek.com/mi...
So the baby has finally been knifed, some 18 years later.
If you subsidize it, it will grow.
$9.99 for 12-Months
Plus taxes & fees, with 1-year agreement.
The taxes and fees are going to be ~$12, itemized ...
Taxes
Communications Sales Tax $1.67
Federal Excise Tax* $0.91
E911 Tax* $0.75
Total Taxes $3.33
Fees and Surcharges
FCC Access Charge $6.41
Carrier Cost Recovery Fee $1.49
Federal Universal Service Fund* $1.44
Total Fees and Surcharges $9.34
Total Telephone Taxes, Fees and Surcharges $12.67
So call it a spade and say ~$22 a month. Which is still ~$10 less than I pay ISP for my phone service, but it only lasts a year, and then it is the same price as my current phone service. And certainly not as good as my current phone service, given my experience with listening to the [sometimes very] garbled reception I hear when talking on the phone to those that have it.
Also
...in the latest stage of a bitter war with rivals Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.
I'm not sure why the drama was necessary.
Edit to add: you can really see the politics in that map.
Here's a Google Map of world's undersea cables.
http://www.cablemap.info/
I'm not certain of the accuracy but it looks cool.
A truly great advance. No longer will man be subject to the tedium that is the game of go.
Here's a list https://www.accessdata.fda.gov...
They could build and market it for general use and not require any approval whatsoever. FDA approval as a 'medical device' means that it is eligible for government subsidies and opens the door for private insurers also. Even wheelchairs have to be FDA approved.
Thanks for that. You should be bumped up to the first post.
7054 according to instantwatcher http://instantwatcher.com/sear...
I don't think it is in Netflix's interest to give you just any ol' sort.
Instant Watcher is one of the few third party sites that still has access to the Netflix content API. You can sort by most anything.
Suppliers charge by the number of times a stream is started and by the popularity of the streamed work.
Are you sure about that? My understanding is that most content is contracted on flat fixed fee basis. Here's an example contract (PDF, Wikileaks) between Columbia Pictures (Sony) and Netflix for a package of content. All flat fixed fee with incremental increases. Nothing based on the number of times streamed.
https://wikileaks.org/sony/doc...
Perhaps other content is contracted by the number of times streamed but you gotta show evidence.
... may mean that EPUB continues to be seen as a 'baked' format.
The original quote was ...
Because of this, the general perception of the EPUB-formatted e-book is that of a ‘baked and finished’ product, to be consumed rather than amended.
Which is a good perception in that it generally is. A better fit for novels and leisurely reading on a dedicated device. A lesser fit for anything technical or presentational. Every format has its niche.
What KGIII said +plus+ don't take it so personally. Especially since you post as a very impersonal Anonymous Coward. Besides, it could be that someone was trying to up-mod you and just down-moded you by accident; it is easy to do given the way the mod selections are arranged in the mod dropdown: underrated is right below overratted, for example. I think they should be rearranged so that all the up mods are at the bottom [or top] and all the down mods are at the top [or bottom]. And once done it can't be easily corrected. When I err that way I usually just say, 'fuck em'.
Just posting to correct an errant mod
I agree. One might 'fit' in the pipe, even with scuba gear, but it would be tight. No sane diver would enter that pipe.
That is true, the bus was behind the google car while the car was blocked from advancing. Then the light turned green and the bus and the rest of traffic started moving and the the google car tried to switch lanes...
That's the nuance previously referred to. Technically it did not try to switch lanes. It tried to move to the left side of the lane it already occupied. According to California law ...
Pass traffic on the left. You may pass on the right only when: An open highway is clearly marked for two or more lanes of travel in your direction.
The driver ahead of you is turning left and you do not drive off the roadway to pass.
Never pass on the left if the driver is signaling a left turn.
https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/...
By that time the google car was signally left.
The bus should have yielded.
OTOH, never, ever cut off a bus. Which the google car did.
The problem with 4K is that, unless you strap the screen to your face, you do not have 4k-worthy eyes.
It is more than just resolution, it is color space. Compare and contrast
HD
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
UHD
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
Exactly. While "one touch make ready" seems economical, google (or any other contractor) has no right to touch/move/reconfigure ATT equipment without prior notice and consent. The complaint is pretty clear; the city has no right to make this determination. All of which is not to say that ATT aren't still a bunch of dicks.
Yea, but you know, fuck 'em. :)
Could just be that someone goofed in selecting a mod reason. I've done that a couple of times; under vs overated for example. Once done you can't undo. Don't take it so personal.
When I was 12 I went to the county fair with my friend Billy. There was a girlie show. You had to be 18 to get in. Me and Billy went behind the tent and poked our heads underneath. We saw boobies. Real boobies. Real girl boobies. I must have seen 27 boobies. By mpaa reckoning, what do I owe? So long as property includes intellectual property, downloading is stealing, at least by law. Just like what Billy and I did by poking our heads under the tent. But you have to be realistic as to the penalties. When great-grandma owes hundreds of thousands because someone downloaded a porn movie off her IP, something is terribly wrong. When every-single-teen over the age of 10 is guilty of piracy--and technically libel for 10's if not 100's of thousands in damages--something is very wrong. I don't have a solution.