I don't get an app unless the reviewers appear to have a broad range of written styles and names. It's pretty obvious that most of the first hundred/thousand reviews of an app are family/friends/bots
I'm amazed and slightly nostalgic that such a horrible and unfashionable product can still be mentioned on a tech site, wow!
What this this mean for the remaining twelve users?!!
Good points. China may feel it is sufficiently secure that they can now sit on their own IP and use it as a cash cow.
Of course, other IP may still be 'gathered' by more entrepreneurial routes - untraceable.
How do they dose hormones for the vast range of body types? If you're a little guy, will you end up getting bodybuilder-level doses?
Our bodies have pretty decent regulation of levels - a gel is a pretty crude delivery system.
In the old days students lived in hovels, smoked roll-ups and drank cheap pints.
Now they all want modern gadgets, plus a car that's a minimum of a few years old.
They've grown up in a much more consumerist society though.
Western companies particularly cannot compete once their IP is being produced in sweatshop conditions - which is ironic because a lot of them set up different sweatshops in the same country in the first place.
Our friend the mosquito is responsible for adding years to the lifespan of the human race as a whole... see what will happen to the lungs of the planet when population growth and travel is unchecked.
I was making a slightly tongue-in-cheek comment that the thing that helps prevent violent crime is a stable (wealthy) society and also good policing - something that tax avoidance is harming.
10 years of services being slashed in the UK has left police resources at a low point. - with no visible presence in most cities.
We all know the specific profiles of people who commit the bulk of certain crime in the UK but if we target those groups there will be outcry...
I'm talking about tax avoidance.
It's fucking WHITE people, in higher tax brackets. The ones who send their money offshore, pay their nannies less than minimum wage, set up complex trust funds.... sort that out and there might be some money for proper policing.
The actual police know exactly who is a problem, they just don't have resources to tackle it. As a bonus, if more rich folk paid taxes there might be better education, which would resolve a lot of problems at the source.
Ah yes, I'll just take my laptop to the store so that I can use my electronic wallet, because all the online wallets are regularly hacked and offer none of the protection of an actual bank account!
Until you can get Bitcoin from a shop or bank it will never be adopted as a currency. Frankly, it's a pain in the ass to buy and even more so when it's depreciating by the day. On this basis it's useless as a currency for casual shoppers.
I'm really interested in the dynamics of a new colony, any advice on where to start reading?
Presumably all applicants would be screened extensively but what mix would you choose? Aside from book-related stabbings, scientists in remote areas seem to do well... I guess there is actually very little use for overly practical people though, who would likely be bored shitless for 90% of the time.
Ok, it's great to have free films made available but sounds like most of these are leftovers from the Blockbuster bargain bin.
You can't give away most DVDs now, they are literally worthless.
Unless Netflix has some sort of luxury-good status, I would be very surprised if lowering costs did not lead to increased market share... except you piss off your loyal customer base, who now pay more than new customers!
Clearly there will be fewer older workers willing to work 60+ hour weeks, just as there are fewer 'natives' willing to match the occasionally-terrible hourly rates of migrants....
so how do we stop older folk being penalised because they won't work for peanuts?
Part-time work is probably preferable but it needs to lose the stigma.
I'll risk my job so that I can download some prank software to put on a colleague's PC?
Assuming I can get an untrusted exe onto that machine in the first place!
What I particularly like about social media platforms is when I'm one of only a handful of users.... oh wait, no actually I like having my entire circle of friends, colleagues and old school chums on the same network, otherwise what's the point!
Who wants a system where you have to hook up a load of bulky peripherals AND sit in isolation?
Maybe Nintendo could make something of it but Sony and all the others have no clue
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I thought we were all going to be working shorter weeks? That'd probably sort the problem!
Maybe millennials did the sums and realised their hourly pay was somewhat closer to burger-flippers after finishing their 100 hour weeks!
I don't get an app unless the reviewers appear to have a broad range of written styles and names. It's pretty obvious that most of the first hundred/thousand reviews of an app are family/friends/bots
It's not racist if it's true
I'm amazed and slightly nostalgic that such a horrible and unfashionable product can still be mentioned on a tech site, wow! What this this mean for the remaining twelve users?!!
Good points. China may feel it is sufficiently secure that they can now sit on their own IP and use it as a cash cow. Of course, other IP may still be 'gathered' by more entrepreneurial routes - untraceable.
How do they dose hormones for the vast range of body types? If you're a little guy, will you end up getting bodybuilder-level doses? Our bodies have pretty decent regulation of levels - a gel is a pretty crude delivery system.
In the old days students lived in hovels, smoked roll-ups and drank cheap pints. Now they all want modern gadgets, plus a car that's a minimum of a few years old. They've grown up in a much more consumerist society though.
Western companies particularly cannot compete once their IP is being produced in sweatshop conditions - which is ironic because a lot of them set up different sweatshops in the same country in the first place.
Our friend the mosquito is responsible for adding years to the lifespan of the human race as a whole... see what will happen to the lungs of the planet when population growth and travel is unchecked.
I was making a slightly tongue-in-cheek comment that the thing that helps prevent violent crime is a stable (wealthy) society and also good policing - something that tax avoidance is harming. 10 years of services being slashed in the UK has left police resources at a low point. - with no visible presence in most cities.
We all know the specific profiles of people who commit the bulk of certain crime in the UK but if we target those groups there will be outcry... I'm talking about tax avoidance. It's fucking WHITE people, in higher tax brackets. The ones who send their money offshore, pay their nannies less than minimum wage, set up complex trust funds.... sort that out and there might be some money for proper policing. The actual police know exactly who is a problem, they just don't have resources to tackle it. As a bonus, if more rich folk paid taxes there might be better education, which would resolve a lot of problems at the source.
Ooopsy, only a year late to the party :)
Anything can be currency if enough people recognise it and arrive at a consistent valuation
Western politics only worries about the next 5 years unfortunately and is therefore unable to formulate any meaningful response to impending disaster.
Ah yes, I'll just take my laptop to the store so that I can use my electronic wallet, because all the online wallets are regularly hacked and offer none of the protection of an actual bank account!
Until you can get Bitcoin from a shop or bank it will never be adopted as a currency. Frankly, it's a pain in the ass to buy and even more so when it's depreciating by the day. On this basis it's useless as a currency for casual shoppers.
I'm really interested in the dynamics of a new colony, any advice on where to start reading? Presumably all applicants would be screened extensively but what mix would you choose? Aside from book-related stabbings, scientists in remote areas seem to do well... I guess there is actually very little use for overly practical people though, who would likely be bored shitless for 90% of the time.
Ok, it's great to have free films made available but sounds like most of these are leftovers from the Blockbuster bargain bin. You can't give away most DVDs now, they are literally worthless.
Unless Netflix has some sort of luxury-good status, I would be very surprised if lowering costs did not lead to increased market share... except you piss off your loyal customer base, who now pay more than new customers!
Clearly there will be fewer older workers willing to work 60+ hour weeks, just as there are fewer 'natives' willing to match the occasionally-terrible hourly rates of migrants.... so how do we stop older folk being penalised because they won't work for peanuts? Part-time work is probably preferable but it needs to lose the stigma.
I'll risk my job so that I can download some prank software to put on a colleague's PC? Assuming I can get an untrusted exe onto that machine in the first place!
What I particularly like about social media platforms is when I'm one of only a handful of users.... oh wait, no actually I like having my entire circle of friends, colleagues and old school chums on the same network, otherwise what's the point!
Uh, really not selling it! Just imagining the horrific teabag celebration you would experience playing CoD.
Who wants a system where you have to hook up a load of bulky peripherals AND sit in isolation? Maybe Nintendo could make something of it but Sony and all the others have no clue