Yep. In a free market system the value of goods or services is whatever the buyer is willing to pay and whatever the seller is willing to accept. Economics 101.
Apple is blurring the lines between software and SAAS.
I expect to pay a one time purchase price for an mobile application that has no additional maintenance besides support for OS upgrades. The developer is going to make those anyway to continue selling their app on my chosen platform. There's no reason I should have to pay just to keep the lights on. Patches should also be included. I paid for a working app, not a bundle of bugs. If you're going to add a bundle of new features and sell it as a "pro" version of the app, or whatever, I'll give it a look, but I may be perfectly happy with my original purchase and have no desire to "upgrade". I'll keep using the one I bought until you stop supporting it, and then I'll delete it an find a replacement that may or may not be your product.
SAAS is a different story. Say I install an app like MLB At Bat. There is an annual subscription for content (similar to buying a season of NFL Sunday Ticket). The app is secondary because what I'm primarily paying for is the content. If the content provider is doing their job then the subscription should cover the cost of the product, product improvements, and patches.
The bottom line is that not all software is a service even though money-grubbing Apple would like to treat it that way.
Future societies will hold the American system in almost all things as a cautionary tail rather than as the triumph it could have been.
The term is "cautionary tale", as in a story that provides a warning. A "cautionary tail" would be more akin to a baboon's ass or a skunk's raised tail.
As for the "American system", it has been one of the greatest engines for prosperity that the world has ever seen.
For people to wake the fuck up and realize that short-term profit-driven ideology is not going to work in the long term while sacrificing investment in and opportunities for young people.
The problem is not the "people" (i.e. "we the people", or the country as a whole). The problem, in this particular discussion, is students feeling entitled to a free ride. College is not a right. It is not even a necessity. There are plenty of trades that pay exceedingly well and do not require a degree. Taking on the challenge of college also means accepting responsibility for the cost. Ultimately that is on the student. Don't have the funds? Can't get a loan or a grant? Take some time off and get a job the way past generations did. No one owed them a thing, and they still made something of themselves. The entitlement bullshit needs to stop. That's what's killing the "American system". We have a couple of generations that think the world owes them. In truth, it owes them fuck all. If they're not willing to put something into it, then they should get nothing out of it.
Whoa there buddy. You are all over the radar and trying to tie things that don't go together. Let's unpack it just a bit.
...says the guy doing the same thing.
See if we can get people who immigrate to the United States to respect the laws, learn the language, and integrate into the culture and society.
See you are making your argument here that not speaking English is against the law and well that's not true.
In fact, he listed "respect the laws" as a distinct action separate from "learn the language" and 'integrate into the culture". Your insistence that he is lumping all of these traits under "against the law" is complete bollocks.
Why indeed? Of course to make the solution complete they will also need to ban food delivery services and bringing food from home. A new city Bureau of Lunch Investigation and Meal Planning (B.L.I.M.P.) will need to be formed, and checkpoints will need to be established at the Mid-Market perimeter. When the B.L.I.M.P. goes up all employed in Mid-Market will be prohibited from leaving the area during working hours unless their papers are in proper order. Freight will be impounded and inspected when entering and leaving the zone. Anyone caught smuggling consumables into the zone will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Repeat offenders will be sent to the newly established re-education camps located on Alcatraz Island. Government employees in the zone are, of course, exempt.
Wow, dirk. You completely missed his point and accused him of bias that's just not there. He said the problem wasn't Riri's identity. The problem was that she was a horribly written character. He pointed to another POC that was well written as a example of how that character had previously been changed in a more plausible manner.
I didn't read the series, so I can't say whether she was a good character or not.
So his point may be valid regarding poor writing, but since you haven't read it you're just going to piss all over it? Go do your homework first and quit shouting "racism" and "sexism" where none exists.
This might be a bit of an aside, but it's a sad state of affairs that a parasite like a streamer is now considered a 'business partner' with the gaming company. A 'golden customer' who 'the staff' should not be allowed to displease.
We have progressed beyond the point where companies like Blizzard sell 'level-boost tokens' that allow people to not have to actually play the game they (apparently) regret having written, which interferes with 'the endgame.'
Now, game companies consider 'streamers' who potential customers can simply watch playing the game to be 'partners.' Some beancounter must have done a study that showed that "Lottery Box" sales aren't impacted if people don't actually play the game.
Your ignorance is astounding. A popular streamer is marketing the game. Some have even become esports commentators. Those are the players/fans that game companies reach out to and cultivate a relationship with. Any game company that is not appreciative of the exposure would be (as the old saying goes) "cutting off their nose to spite their face". It is a "sad state of affairs" when a super-fan is considered to be a parasite. *smdh*
You also apparently have no understanding whatsoever of Blizzard's player base. The bulk of WoW gamers are long time players they are looking to retain who have fully leveled mains and don't want to grind another toon up to max level just to try a new class. Instead they can choose to skip ahead to minimum level for the current expansion and continue from there. Skipping levels is a godsend when you have a dozen or so toons of each faction. A lot are also only focused on end-game raid content, so again, this gives them the opportunity to get (almost) directly to the content they most enjoy.
The fact is in the Age of Internet Shaming there is no such thing as "off-the-clock". I don't think this is a good thing. I think people should be allowed to have time when they aren't responsible to their employers, even if they use that time to be assholes.
The problem is that while she was communicating outside of normal work channels she was still acting a company representative by:
1) identifying herself as an employee of that company
2) identifying as a developer of a particular product
3) interacting with that company's fans/player base as a representative of the company
She essentially put herself back on the clock and communicated in a way that made her answerable to her employer. In that context the company had good cause to fire her for generating negative publicity outside of normal community feedback channels that could harm the company's reputation and sales. This is why game companies have marketing departments and player forums with community managers. The company's response here is entirely appropriate.
If she had never identified herself as an employee of that company and been fired for doing something unrelated to her occupation or her employer then we'd be having a completely different conversation.
That idea gets thrown around a lot and taken for fact, and I'm sure some of the people saying it believe it. Your artist friend may believe that it doesn't matter what he thinks the painting is of.
However, that's not a universal view, and many artist very much have a view of what their art means. In fact, some artists will even refuse to talk about their work for the exact opposite reason. Although they had a particular message or idea they were trying to convey, they don't want to explain it further for fear of muddying the waters. They feel that their art a precise expression of what they want to express, and that further explanation would make it less clear.
Also, a lot of times, even if an artist says "it doesn't matter what I think it means", they'll still get upset if you interpret it to mean something they don't like.
What you point out is true of people in a broader sense. Some are more comfortable with ambiguity than others. Literalists? Not so much, and it seems to me that they are the ones more likely to have a specific interpretation of their art (or other methods of communication), and expect others to have that same interpretation.
Great pull. "The Prisoner" was definitely in a different head space than the other spy movies, TV shows, and books of the time. It was more psychedelic than hard boiled and gritty.
I'm going to have to pull out the boxed set again and give it a watch.
His anger is centred on Roddenberry's temerity in changing what was submitted AND his (irrational) belief that he should get a acknowledgement/royalty of all time-travelling stories (including "The Terminator").
I'm sure if he could have gone back in time and sued H.G. Wells for "The Time Machine" that he would have. He was one pissed off cat.
...to this single article which focuses on Western Antarctica there are a number of recent scholarly articles, including findings by NASA ( https://principia-scientific.o... ), that show ice growth Eastern Antarctica that offsets the loss in the west for a net gain.
Skew the data by not providing all the facts and you too can go full Chicken Little about anything. *smdh*
Or prohibit personal electronic devices in the testing area. That is the standard for the CPA exam in CA. Simple calculators are supplied to each examinee by the proctors. No advanced electronic devices are allowed. If you don't already know the math then a simple calculator isn't going to help you.
Also, "gut and amend" is pretty common practice in California politics. It gets around the normal period required for public comment. Bills in California often have nothing whatsoever to do with their original content by the time they come up for vote.
The biggest problem I can see with paper straws is that if you take too long to finish your drink, then you can end up with pulp in your soda or juice or what have you from the straw, and putting a coating on the straws to prevent this usually makes the straw not significantly better than plastic from a recycling point of view.
This problem was already solved when paper straws existed back in the sixties and seventies. They had a wax coating. And wax, being a natural, biodegradable substance, shouldn't be a major environmental issue. Unlike plastic (a non-renewable resource) it doesn't have to be recycled.
Charge $5 for the cup, don't charge for the soda, or charge a nominal amount. People will start bringing their own reusable cups or bottles very quickly.
quote>
Or they'll stop coming at all. Consumers don't take kindly to corporate bullying and will take their business someplace where they have choice.
I just can't wait for those straws that went flat after the 3rd good pull on a beverage.
Good times, the sixties,
You may recall the other feature that paper straws boasted: wax. A thicker, larger diameter, wax-coated straw should perform better than the narrow, flimsy versions we had in the sixties and seventies. Of course I'm no hydraulic engineer, so I provide no warranty as to this w.a.g.
... the company started testing the alternative to plastic straws earlier this year
Some of us Slashdoters are old enough to remember a time before plastic straws. Yep, such a thing existed. Guess what we used, youngsters? That's right. Paper straws.
So you might say that plastic straws are the alternative to paper straws, and not the other way around.
Quite the illiterate tantrum. This is the drivel that moderators ignore on game forums. Hyperbolic whining is counterproductive.
The dev here is describing diagnostics specific to his in-development game, and nothing else. He's not spying on the pr0n you have stashed in that hidden partition, spamming you with ads, or sussing out other devious ways to twist your already mobius-like grey matter.
Seriously, quit pissing and moaning, and have the balls to post under your own log-in, and not as an AC.
You get modded a a troll because your command of the English language sucks, and perhaps you should work on your command of that before you trry other languages.
Your argument that a party does not hold to a particular economic policy because it allegedly holds to a particular nationalist/immigration policy does not hold water. The two are not indivisible, nor are they interchangeable.
...but the signs probably WILL be required on every solar panel. Solar panels use a variety of toxic materials in the manufacturing process and in their actual makeup.
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How much you pay doesn't equal it's value.
That's exactly what it equals!
Yep. In a free market system the value of goods or services is whatever the buyer is willing to pay and whatever the seller is willing to accept. Economics 101.
Atari. Of course it was shared. I had two controllers.
Apple is blurring the lines between software and SAAS.
I expect to pay a one time purchase price for an mobile application that has no additional maintenance besides support for OS upgrades. The developer is going to make those anyway to continue selling their app on my chosen platform. There's no reason I should have to pay just to keep the lights on. Patches should also be included. I paid for a working app, not a bundle of bugs. If you're going to add a bundle of new features and sell it as a "pro" version of the app, or whatever, I'll give it a look, but I may be perfectly happy with my original purchase and have no desire to "upgrade". I'll keep using the one I bought until you stop supporting it, and then I'll delete it an find a replacement that may or may not be your product.
SAAS is a different story. Say I install an app like MLB At Bat. There is an annual subscription for content (similar to buying a season of NFL Sunday Ticket). The app is secondary because what I'm primarily paying for is the content. If the content provider is doing their job then the subscription should cover the cost of the product, product improvements, and patches.
The bottom line is that not all software is a service even though money-grubbing Apple would like to treat it that way.
Future societies will hold the American system in almost all things as a cautionary tail rather than as the triumph it could have been.
The term is "cautionary tale", as in a story that provides a warning. A "cautionary tail" would be more akin to a baboon's ass or a skunk's raised tail. As for the "American system", it has been one of the greatest engines for prosperity that the world has ever seen.
For people to wake the fuck up and realize that short-term profit-driven ideology is not going to work in the long term while sacrificing investment in and opportunities for young people.
The problem is not the "people" (i.e. "we the people", or the country as a whole). The problem, in this particular discussion, is students feeling entitled to a free ride. College is not a right. It is not even a necessity. There are plenty of trades that pay exceedingly well and do not require a degree. Taking on the challenge of college also means accepting responsibility for the cost. Ultimately that is on the student. Don't have the funds? Can't get a loan or a grant? Take some time off and get a job the way past generations did. No one owed them a thing, and they still made something of themselves. The entitlement bullshit needs to stop. That's what's killing the "American system". We have a couple of generations that think the world owes them. In truth, it owes them fuck all. If they're not willing to put something into it, then they should get nothing out of it.
Whoa there buddy. You are all over the radar and trying to tie things that don't go together. Let's unpack it just a bit.
...says the guy doing the same thing.
See if we can get people who immigrate to the United States to respect the laws, learn the language, and integrate into the culture and society.
See you are making your argument here that not speaking English is against the law and well that's not true.
In fact, he listed "respect the laws" as a distinct action separate from "learn the language" and 'integrate into the culture". Your insistence that he is lumping all of these traits under "against the law" is complete bollocks.
Why indeed? Of course to make the solution complete they will also need to ban food delivery services and bringing food from home. A new city Bureau of Lunch Investigation and Meal Planning (B.L.I.M.P.) will need to be formed, and checkpoints will need to be established at the Mid-Market perimeter. When the B.L.I.M.P. goes up all employed in Mid-Market will be prohibited from leaving the area during working hours unless their papers are in proper order. Freight will be impounded and inspected when entering and leaving the zone. Anyone caught smuggling consumables into the zone will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Repeat offenders will be sent to the newly established re-education camps located on Alcatraz Island. Government employees in the zone are, of course, exempt.
I didn't read the series, so I can't say whether she was a good character or not.
So his point may be valid regarding poor writing, but since you haven't read it you're just going to piss all over it? Go do your homework first and quit shouting "racism" and "sexism" where none exists.
This might be a bit of an aside, but it's a sad state of affairs that a parasite like a streamer is now considered a 'business partner' with the gaming company. A 'golden customer' who 'the staff' should not be allowed to displease.
We have progressed beyond the point where companies like Blizzard sell 'level-boost tokens' that allow people to not have to actually play the game they (apparently) regret having written, which interferes with 'the endgame.'
Now, game companies consider 'streamers' who potential customers can simply watch playing the game to be 'partners.' Some beancounter must have done a study that showed that "Lottery Box" sales aren't impacted if people don't actually play the game.
Your ignorance is astounding. A popular streamer is marketing the game. Some have even become esports commentators. Those are the players/fans that game companies reach out to and cultivate a relationship with. Any game company that is not appreciative of the exposure would be (as the old saying goes) "cutting off their nose to spite their face". It is a "sad state of affairs" when a super-fan is considered to be a parasite. *smdh*
You also apparently have no understanding whatsoever of Blizzard's player base. The bulk of WoW gamers are long time players they are looking to retain who have fully leveled mains and don't want to grind another toon up to max level just to try a new class. Instead they can choose to skip ahead to minimum level for the current expansion and continue from there. Skipping levels is a godsend when you have a dozen or so toons of each faction. A lot are also only focused on end-game raid content, so again, this gives them the opportunity to get (almost) directly to the content they most enjoy.
The fact is in the Age of Internet Shaming there is no such thing as "off-the-clock". I don't think this is a good thing. I think people should be allowed to have time when they aren't responsible to their employers, even if they use that time to be assholes.
The problem is that while she was communicating outside of normal work channels she was still acting a company representative by:
1) identifying herself as an employee of that company
2) identifying as a developer of a particular product
3) interacting with that company's fans/player base as a representative of the company
She essentially put herself back on the clock and communicated in a way that made her answerable to her employer. In that context the company had good cause to fire her for generating negative publicity outside of normal community feedback channels that could harm the company's reputation and sales. This is why game companies have marketing departments and player forums with community managers. The company's response here is entirely appropriate.
If she had never identified herself as an employee of that company and been fired for doing something unrelated to her occupation or her employer then we'd be having a completely different conversation.
That idea gets thrown around a lot and taken for fact, and I'm sure some of the people saying it believe it. Your artist friend may believe that it doesn't matter what he thinks the painting is of.
However, that's not a universal view, and many artist very much have a view of what their art means. In fact, some artists will even refuse to talk about their work for the exact opposite reason. Although they had a particular message or idea they were trying to convey, they don't want to explain it further for fear of muddying the waters. They feel that their art a precise expression of what they want to express, and that further explanation would make it less clear.
Also, a lot of times, even if an artist says "it doesn't matter what I think it means", they'll still get upset if you interpret it to mean something they don't like.
What you point out is true of people in a broader sense. Some are more comfortable with ambiguity than others. Literalists? Not so much, and it seems to me that they are the ones more likely to have a specific interpretation of their art (or other methods of communication), and expect others to have that same interpretation.
Great pull. "The Prisoner" was definitely in a different head space than the other spy movies, TV shows, and books of the time. It was more psychedelic than hard boiled and gritty.
I'm going to have to pull out the boxed set again and give it a watch.
His anger is centred on Roddenberry's temerity in changing what was submitted AND his (irrational) belief that he should get a acknowledgement/royalty of all time-travelling stories (including "The Terminator").
I'm sure if he could have gone back in time and sued H.G. Wells for "The Time Machine" that he would have. He was one pissed off cat.
... straight up illegal wire-tapping? Facebook is effing evil.
...to this single article which focuses on Western Antarctica there are a number of recent scholarly articles, including findings by NASA ( https://principia-scientific.o... ), that show ice growth Eastern Antarctica that offsets the loss in the west for a net gain.
Skew the data by not providing all the facts and you too can go full Chicken Little about anything. *smdh*
Or prohibit personal electronic devices in the testing area. That is the standard for the CPA exam in CA. Simple calculators are supplied to each examinee by the proctors. No advanced electronic devices are allowed. If you don't already know the math then a simple calculator isn't going to help you.
Also, "gut and amend" is pretty common practice in California politics. It gets around the normal period required for public comment. Bills in California often have nothing whatsoever to do with their original content by the time they come up for vote.
The biggest problem I can see with paper straws is that if you take too long to finish your drink, then you can end up with pulp in your soda or juice or what have you from the straw, and putting a coating on the straws to prevent this usually makes the straw not significantly better than plastic from a recycling point of view.
This problem was already solved when paper straws existed back in the sixties and seventies. They had a wax coating. And wax, being a natural, biodegradable substance, shouldn't be a major environmental issue. Unlike plastic (a non-renewable resource) it doesn't have to be recycled.
Charge $5 for the cup, don't charge for the soda, or charge a nominal amount. People will start bringing their own reusable cups or bottles very quickly.
quote> Or they'll stop coming at all. Consumers don't take kindly to corporate bullying and will take their business someplace where they have choice.
I just can't wait for those straws that went flat after the 3rd good pull on a beverage.
Good times, the sixties,
You may recall the other feature that paper straws boasted: wax. A thicker, larger diameter, wax-coated straw should perform better than the narrow, flimsy versions we had in the sixties and seventies. Of course I'm no hydraulic engineer, so I provide no warranty as to this w.a.g.
... the company started testing the alternative to plastic straws earlier this year
Some of us Slashdoters are old enough to remember a time before plastic straws. Yep, such a thing existed. Guess what we used, youngsters? That's right. Paper straws.
So you might say that plastic straws are the alternative to paper straws, and not the other way around.
Quite the illiterate tantrum. This is the drivel that moderators ignore on game forums. Hyperbolic whining is counterproductive. The dev here is describing diagnostics specific to his in-development game, and nothing else. He's not spying on the pr0n you have stashed in that hidden partition, spamming you with ads, or sussing out other devious ways to twist your already mobius-like grey matter. Seriously, quit pissing and moaning, and have the balls to post under your own log-in, and not as an AC.
You get modded a a troll because your command of the English language sucks, and perhaps you should work on your command of that before you trry other languages.
Pot. Kettle. Learn to proofread, you troll.
Your argument that a party does not hold to a particular economic policy because it allegedly holds to a particular nationalist/immigration policy does not hold water. The two are not indivisible, nor are they interchangeable.
Mussolini, the originator of fascism, was lionized by the left, both in Europe and in America, during the 1920s.
Close. Giovani Gentile was the originator of Fascist philosophy. Mussolini adopted his ideas/ideals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Gentile
...but the signs probably WILL be required on every solar panel. Solar panels use a variety of toxic materials in the manufacturing process and in their actual makeup.
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
The end-of-life cleanup impact of this decision will be staggering.