... it would be already selling for big-bucks to paralysis patients.
Just imagine, if you are paralyze neck down, how much would you be willing to pay for a gadget that allows you to have effective control a computer from just your thoughts? That basically means you can now communicate easily with the world, control anything electrical in your house, and possibly even customized mechanical devices such as one that can give you water without having to ask someone for help? Not to mention the possibility of exo-skeleton that can let one move around.
If anyone can make such a thing, they just need to take a prototype and take a tour around rich, paralyzed patients, and they would have no lack of funding. That people are thinking about making games showed you just how useless these things are.
... shares gas through an app, you enter how much gas you want and pay a fee through the app, some non-employee third party will drive over, share that much gas from his tank to yours. No, these are NOT gas stations and so are NOT subject to any kind of safety regulations.
... shares money through an app, you can put money into them and earn a small fee every month, then they will share it to other people for a small fee every month. But no, these are NOT banks and are NOT subject to any banking regulations.
... shares pizza through an app, you can choose what kind of toppings you want and pay a "fee" through the app, some non-employee third party will make the pizza and deliver to your location. The fee is about the same as ordering pizza elsewhere. But no, these are NOT pizza restaurants and NOT subject to any food service regulations. You can down rate the pizza in the app if you got food poisoning, or pay a tip if the pizza was good.
... shares anything through an app, you can browse and pick what you want and pay a "fee" through the app, some non-employee third party will deliver the goods to you. The fee is about the same as the price of ordering the same stuff from any other online store. But no, these are NOT online stores and so they don't need to collect sales taxes and are NOT subject to any consumer protection laws. Down rate in the app if the stuff doesn't work.
The Sharing Economy, just like the old economy but without pesky laws and regulations. Pure profit without any responsibility.
So now you no longer have the "right to repair" that special part. Special part breaks, you lose the network service.
Just watch and wait for that "special part" get integrated into a big lump that became 90% of Widget X, you now only have the "right to repair" the case, if that much.
Next up, all new widgets now come with critical functions requiring the network service to work. Enjoy your "right to repair" the case.
Widget X comes with a free network service where all Widget X users can do certain things. The service is included in the price of Widget X.
I have the "right to repair" Widget X, so I "repair" my Widget X one part at a time, Ship of Theseus style, until no original component is left. All the original components now put back together to form the original Widget X.
Now I have 2 Widget X, an extra one for the cost of materials only, should the extra one enjoy the free network service?
If yes, then what's stopping me from selling, er, SHARING, the extra widget to you at a price cheaper than the original Widget X and make a nice profit?
Why not go all the way? Give me an app so I can order AND pay from my phone. Save them the cost of the kiosks and save me from wasting time queuing for a kiosk.
Show me how long it would take for the order, so I can order even before I go there, and arrive just in time to pick it up.
Is this the new beta? Guess/. hired too many programmers and web "designers" who have nothing better to do, and got to keep redesigning over and over to justify their pay.
Oh, yeah, the new look SUCKS, I guess everyone already knew that.
No amount of uploading your mind will produce an immortal "you". It will only produce a copy of you.
Only if you needlessly insist on doing the "uploading" in a one-off transfer/copy style. No, you do it in a "Ship of Theseus" style.
First you link up your brain with a computer directly to expand your brain's capabilities. After all, neurons transmits and receive electronic signals, there is no fundamental reason (so far known to man) that a computer cannot pretend to another bunch of neurons. Once linked you, your concept of "self" will slowly include the computer.
Then as your brain slowly degenerates as it ages, the computer slowly pick up the slack. Eventually, more and more of "you" would be running on the computer, until the last bit of your brain ceases to function.
If that doesn't work, then we would have found out where in the brain "self" or "soul" resides, that would be the discovery of the century.
Well if you said it will take 3 months and he figured he could do it in 2 days, and he has the ability to do it in 2 days. I would probably look at yourself and your team.
If the team said 3 months and the manager thinks he could do it in 2 days, the manager should have done it in 2 days and let the team work on something else.
A real manager should treat his own time as part of the team's entire resource pool, it is not special, it may cost more, but it would be definitely cheaper overall for the manager to complete the work himself than for an entire team to do it.
OTOH, if the OP really meant "2 days for a team with everyone the same caliber as the manager", then it is the manager's fault for not accounting for the ability of his team.
Have you forgotten/. live on clicks? Asking the editors to stop posting these is the same asking them to stop eating, unless you submit something even more clickbaity than Trump.
Every year, just before Apple announced new iPhones, there would be articles after articles speculating what would be in the new iPhones, then after the announcement, there would articles complaining this change or that, and then in less than a month, there would be articles speculating what the *next* iPhone would have.
These Trump news are just like the speculating pieces just after an iPhone release. Everything worth saying, plus a whole bunch that isn't, has already been said many time over. How else could you keep the clicks coming, if not to speculate what *might* come?
Do you know what "market dominance" means? Don't Android fan like to say Android has the majority of the smartphone market? How could *any* Android competitor, having only minority market share, abuse any market dominance?
The money was withdrawn WITHOUT proper authorization by the customers, it was not the customers who loses the money, but the bank.
This is in UK, not the US where banks just push all its losses to its customers (really, why do you guys in the US still put money into banks? They can just set your balance to zero and claim "identity theft"!), this quote in the article already made it very clear.
"Any financial loss that results from this fraudulent activity will be borne by the bank," Mr Higgins said. "Customers are not at financial risk."
Pressing harder on the screen for extra functions, kind of like using right-click with a mouse.
For example, instead of simply touching a message notification to open the Whatsapp app to reply, you press harder on the notification and you can reply in-situ from the lock screen. Or pressing harder on the Whatsapp app icon to bring up a menu with some frequently used actions.
Same experience here. When I heard about the Apple Watch, especially the price, I thought "who would pay so much for it?! Maybe I'll consider when it is half the price." And I thought I would never want one... right until I played with one in an Apple Store, then I bought one immediately.
Exactly the same general points as yours -
1. Haptic feedback. You never needed it, until you used it, then you don't ever want to go without it. I have my phone on vibrate most of the time, so I most easily miss calls or text is at home when I leave my phone on my desk, so unexpectedly the Apple Watch is most useful at home!
2 & 3. Same, seeing the weather on the watch is so useful that, again, one wouldn't thought it would be that useful until one had it. And able to see text messages by just lifting my wrist, same with reminders and alerts, is very convenient. I never thought that would be a big deal until I got used to it.
4. Health - it might be just a fad, and sure, fitbit might work better. But I would never have bought a wearable device just to track my exercise (which happens too infrequently to worth a dedicated device), but as an added bonus on top of the above, it does add value.
Talk to them about photocopying books, they're all familiar with that, and it's exactly the same thing.
It is not even that, using VPN to access Netflix is like ordering books from India because it was much cheaper there. You did pay for a legitimate copy, but from a country other than where you physically were.
Obviously, your local distributor would not be happy about that, for exactly the same reason. And any layman would understand the situation correctly.
So judges should just get into the habit of asking specific questions about Stingray, and anything similarly illegal, EVERY TIME law enforcement asks for a warrant. Force the cops to make a choice between lying to a judge and violating an NDA with the FBI.
Remind me again, why would any judge want to make cops' life difficult?
If a judge signed a warrant which subsequently led to the illegal use of Stingray, would there be any penalty for the judge? The answer is most likely no, and therein lies the root of the problem.
While it looks real nice, but that means any damage to the windshield now means a more costly replacement. Is that really a sound engineering decision?
Plus, unless you are up north, there are many places where the summer sun will literally cook you in the car with the now very pronounced greenhouse effect. Having an option for a more conventional roof which helps to reflect sunlight make more sense.
So no matter how bad you think Trump might be for the economy, the more-of-the-same alternative is probably a pathway to crushing debts and financial doom.
By this logic, cancer patients should try jumping off cliffs. "Since you are going to die anyway, anything is worth trying!" only sounds logical to fools.
The correct thinking is -- "No matter how bad you think things are now, it definitely could get worse." This applies to everything as long as you live, you could only hit "rock bottom" when you are dead.
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... it would be already selling for big-bucks to paralysis patients.
Just imagine, if you are paralyze neck down, how much would you be willing to pay for a gadget that allows you to have effective control a computer from just your thoughts? That basically means you can now communicate easily with the world, control anything electrical in your house, and possibly even customized mechanical devices such as one that can give you water without having to ask someone for help? Not to mention the possibility of exo-skeleton that can let one move around.
If anyone can make such a thing, they just need to take a prototype and take a tour around rich, paralyzed patients, and they would have no lack of funding. That people are thinking about making games showed you just how useless these things are.
Soon we will have companies that...
The Sharing Economy, just like the old economy but without pesky laws and regulations. Pure profit without any responsibility.
So now you no longer have the "right to repair" that special part. Special part breaks, you lose the network service.
Just watch and wait for that "special part" get integrated into a big lump that became 90% of Widget X, you now only have the "right to repair" the case, if that much.
Next up, all new widgets now come with critical functions requiring the network service to work. Enjoy your "right to repair" the case.
So, where do you draw the line?
Widget X comes with a free network service where all Widget X users can do certain things. The service is included in the price of Widget X.
I have the "right to repair" Widget X, so I "repair" my Widget X one part at a time, Ship of Theseus style, until no original component is left. All the original components now put back together to form the original Widget X.
Now I have 2 Widget X, an extra one for the cost of materials only, should the extra one enjoy the free network service?
If yes, then what's stopping me from selling, er, SHARING, the extra widget to you at a price cheaper than the original Widget X and make a nice profit?
If no, then where do you draw the line?
Why not go all the way? Give me an app so I can order AND pay from my phone. Save them the cost of the kiosks and save me from wasting time queuing for a kiosk.
Show me how long it would take for the order, so I can order even before I go there, and arrive just in time to pick it up.
Is this the new beta? Guess /. hired too many programmers and web "designers" who have nothing better to do, and got to keep redesigning over and over to justify their pay.
Oh, yeah, the new look SUCKS, I guess everyone already knew that.
No amount of uploading your mind will produce an immortal "you". It will only produce a copy of you.
Only if you needlessly insist on doing the "uploading" in a one-off transfer/copy style. No, you do it in a "Ship of Theseus" style.
First you link up your brain with a computer directly to expand your brain's capabilities. After all, neurons transmits and receive electronic signals, there is no fundamental reason (so far known to man) that a computer cannot pretend to another bunch of neurons. Once linked you, your concept of "self" will slowly include the computer.
Then as your brain slowly degenerates as it ages, the computer slowly pick up the slack. Eventually, more and more of "you" would be running on the computer, until the last bit of your brain ceases to function.
If that doesn't work, then we would have found out where in the brain "self" or "soul" resides, that would be the discovery of the century.
Well if you said it will take 3 months and he figured he could do it in 2 days, and he has the ability to do it in 2 days. I would probably look at yourself and your team.
If the team said 3 months and the manager thinks he could do it in 2 days, the manager should have done it in 2 days and let the team work on something else.
A real manager should treat his own time as part of the team's entire resource pool, it is not special, it may cost more, but it would be definitely cheaper overall for the manager to complete the work himself than for an entire team to do it.
OTOH, if the OP really meant "2 days for a team with everyone the same caliber as the manager", then it is the manager's fault for not accounting for the ability of his team.
So either way, it is the manager's fault.
Google is reactivating the accounts so long as the users promise not to do it again.
This IS a story, since when did Google become law enforcement?
Imagine the outrage here if Apple did the same thing.
Have you forgotten /. live on clicks? Asking the editors to stop posting these is the same asking them to stop eating, unless you submit something even more clickbaity than Trump.
Every year, just before Apple announced new iPhones, there would be articles after articles speculating what would be in the new iPhones, then after the announcement, there would articles complaining this change or that, and then in less than a month, there would be articles speculating what the *next* iPhone would have.
These Trump news are just like the speculating pieces just after an iPhone release. Everything worth saying, plus a whole bunch that isn't, has already been said many time over. How else could you keep the clicks coming, if not to speculate what *might* come?
Beau, you should be ashamed of yourself. Either you aren't doing your job and being an editor, or you are abusing your job and being a jackass.
See how many comments and clicks this piece generated? That's /. editor doing his job.
Do you know what "market dominance" means? Don't Android fan like to say Android has the majority of the smartphone market? How could *any* Android competitor, having only minority market share, abuse any market dominance?
The money was withdrawn WITHOUT proper authorization by the customers, it was not the customers who loses the money, but the bank.
This is in UK, not the US where banks just push all its losses to its customers (really, why do you guys in the US still put money into banks? They can just set your balance to zero and claim "identity theft"!), this quote in the article already made it very clear.
"Any financial loss that results from this fraudulent activity will be borne by the bank," Mr Higgins said. "Customers are not at financial risk."
3D touch? What is that?
Pressing harder on the screen for extra functions, kind of like using right-click with a mouse.
For example, instead of simply touching a message notification to open the Whatsapp app to reply, you press harder on the notification and you can reply in-situ from the lock screen. Or pressing harder on the Whatsapp app icon to bring up a menu with some frequently used actions.
Same experience here. When I heard about the Apple Watch, especially the price, I thought "who would pay so much for it?! Maybe I'll consider when it is half the price." And I thought I would never want one... right until I played with one in an Apple Store, then I bought one immediately.
Exactly the same general points as yours -
1. Haptic feedback. You never needed it, until you used it, then you don't ever want to go without it. I have my phone on vibrate most of the time, so I most easily miss calls or text is at home when I leave my phone on my desk, so unexpectedly the Apple Watch is most useful at home!
2 & 3. Same, seeing the weather on the watch is so useful that, again, one wouldn't thought it would be that useful until one had it. And able to see text messages by just lifting my wrist, same with reminders and alerts, is very convenient. I never thought that would be a big deal until I got used to it.
4. Health - it might be just a fad, and sure, fitbit might work better. But I would never have bought a wearable device just to track my exercise (which happens too infrequently to worth a dedicated device), but as an added bonus on top of the above, it does add value.
Talk to them about photocopying books, they're all familiar with that, and it's exactly the same thing.
It is not even that, using VPN to access Netflix is like ordering books from India because it was much cheaper there. You did pay for a legitimate copy, but from a country other than where you physically were.
Obviously, your local distributor would not be happy about that, for exactly the same reason. And any layman would understand the situation correctly.
I was going to post exactly the same thing.
After I bought a set of good BT headset last year, I plugged my phone's jack with a plastic dust plug, and haven't pulled it out since.
Posting to undo a mis-clicked mod.
Thought you were going to say "Windows 10".
149F = 65C, guess which unit was used originally?
Why would I want to install Google spyware on my Google-free iPhone?
So judges should just get into the habit of asking specific questions about Stingray, and anything similarly illegal, EVERY TIME law enforcement asks for a warrant. Force the cops to make a choice between lying to a judge and violating an NDA with the FBI.
Remind me again, why would any judge want to make cops' life difficult?
If a judge signed a warrant which subsequently led to the illegal use of Stingray, would there be any penalty for the judge? The answer is most likely no, and therein lies the root of the problem.
While it looks real nice, but that means any damage to the windshield now means a more costly replacement. Is that really a sound engineering decision?
Plus, unless you are up north, there are many places where the summer sun will literally cook you in the car with the now very pronounced greenhouse effect. Having an option for a more conventional roof which helps to reflect sunlight make more sense.
So no matter how bad you think Trump might be for the economy, the more-of-the-same alternative is probably a pathway to crushing debts and financial doom.
By this logic, cancer patients should try jumping off cliffs. "Since you are going to die anyway, anything is worth trying!" only sounds logical to fools.
The correct thinking is -- "No matter how bad you think things are now, it definitely could get worse." This applies to everything as long as you live, you could only hit "rock bottom" when you are dead.
Seconded. I skip /. the whole day of 1st April every year for that reason.
Maybe they will care when they see the hit rates drop to the bottom, otherwise I don't hold any hope it will change.