Same old story. Am I the only one who noticed how long it took for Macintosh to support multiple full-screen programs and easy switching between them, which Amiga had already done starting in 1985?
True but last time I looked, it was Windows 10 that finally added virtual desktops as a built-in feature pretty recently but let's point an accusing finger at Apple who released spaces in 2009. One of Microsoft's excuses was (and having introduced several fairly clueless 'users' to virtual desktops I can tell you this excuse is not without merit) the increased costs incurred due to clueless users calling into callcentres where a support person then had to blow 45 minutes explaining to each one on the phone (not really the easiest thing to do when your user has no concept of virtual anything) what virtual desktops were and that their icons had not disappeared and that their Word and Excel windows had not crashed. I suppose Apple decided its user base had grown tech savvy enough by 2009 to be able to handle this. Microsoft on the other hand decided to wait another 8 years.
The sentence from the article which set off my "put this in the maybe column" reaction was this one "Only 1 to 2 percent of the collected DNA was human," When combined with my knowledge from other sources that, in general, DNA older than 10,000 years is unrecoverable makes me wonder how reliable these DNA tests were. The final thing which keeps this in the "maybe" column is the fact that the central argument for the Clovis people being from Europe is that there are tools with similar design features to the distinctive "Clovis" tools in Europe, but not in Asia.
I beg to differ, one can recover DNA much older than 10k years. The Frauenhofer institute has sequenced Neanderthal DNA from fossilised bone and teeth that is at least 35-40k years old. The Frauenhofer team sequenced the Denisovan genome from a single finger bone not much bigger than a blueberry. Such old DNA is very fragmented and has lots of errors but if you sequence the same specimen often enough (IIRC they sequenced their first Neanderthal genome something like 30 times) you can eliminate the vast majority of errors.
We often see the EU drag Google and Microsoft on to the carpet for another kangaroo court session, but does the EU actually do anything more than just be an instrument of xenophobic anti-Americanism? They need to clean their own house.
A good example: If VW were an American company and was discovered breaking the diesel emissions requirements, how long would they exist in Europe before being fined out of existence?
Getting a kick out of feeling like the perpetual victim are we? This only looks unfair to US corporations if you limit your field of view to subset of American companies that get fined and conveniently ignore the fact that European companies get monster fines from the EU too. The question you should be asking is why the EU is fining these guys while the US govt. sits happily by and does nothing while they screw US consumers in the same exact way? One of the things I like about the EU is that once in a while it actually kicks abusive mega corporations in the nuts with monster fines that actually get these assholes to pay attention and modify their behaviour. Meanwhile US politicians are still peddling re-packaged and re-branded versions of the old bullshit about 'voluntary self regulation by industry' and that a soulless corporation is a person with a sound set of christian moral values whose chief concern is the well being of the consumer.
Could Apple use the same tech and make the entire Track Pad double as a screen?
You mean capacitive touch screen technology? How cutting edge! I don't have a pocket sized device that can do that, nor have I had one for the past decade, so that would be totes amaze!
Wait...
Yeah because PC's with touch pads that double as programmable MFD's are a dime a dozen out there.
Apple has always made its customers pay for high-end features that they did not want.
I agree. Back when I owned Macs it was sad to see how many features they forced down our throats.
First it was USB. They took away my awesome ADB, Modem and Printer ports.
Then they added Gigabit ethernet to all of their machines.
Finally they shoved out this thing they called 'Airport' back when I was happy dragging around my 10-BaseT ethernet cord around the dorm room.
We can add some to that list can't we? Those evil bastards cut the weight of a laptop from a feather light 4 kilograms to a spine distorting 1 kilogram, they reduced the thickness of a laptop from that of an average Unix programming manual to an utterly unacceptable one and a half centimetres and they had the unmitigated gall to shove UHD laptop displays down our reluctant throats. I feel your pain brother! We all do...
Yes all apple phones are injected with magic fairy farts for complex processing.
If I had to guess I'd say they probably use a dedicated face recognition chip, at least they have been reported to be working on something like that along with voice and 3D processing hardware, but you can call it an injection of magic fairy farts if it floats your boat, the rest of us will continue to call them 'chips' and 'sensors'.
"We can't milk this for licensing money anymore, so we no longer want to invest in it"
"Yay, if Oracle hands Java EE over to a FOSS foundation we can finally fix all the things that are wrong with Java and that we've been bitching about Oracle being unwilling to fix for years."
Yes Disney has some nice content. But looking over things it's not that much compared to what I get from Netflix in terms of original programs...
Also the stuff from Disney tends to be in a certain style, while the Netflix content has been way more varied and differing in topic or target.
I wish Disney good fortune in striking out on their own but I wonder if these days they are as valuable a content commodity as they imagine themselves to be... especially with Netflix spending some percent of that money on original YA programming with more freedom of creative control than Disney is willing to give.
It's kind of like the iTunes/iPod thing is happening all over again except in TV world and this time more people saw the writing on the wall and there are more players than Apple in the game at the ground level. I have cancelled my cable TV subscriptions and mostly watch Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube on an Apple TV connected to a TV whose tuner circuitry's only use is to get cursed at whenever I switch to it by mistake when flipping between HDMI inputs. However I could be using any number of other TV streaming boxes which is nice plus you can play games on these things even if they are no high powered consoles. Hulu gets no use because: 'Hulu is unfortunately not available in your region'. I think Amazon Prime and Netflix hit the jackpot when they went for their own content in a big way, didn't license it to the TV mafia but rather offered their services in all regions and relied on original content made by independent contractors to sell their service rather than the old establishment. Netflix/Amazon original content is half of what I watch on those two services even if their original content is still a fairly small portion of their total content catalog.
The Electoral College operates the exact same way the Congress does. It prevents the bigger states from being big bullies and pushing everyone around. Otherwise, the smaller states would have no interest in being part of the Union.
If you are butt hurt about the Electoral College then you should be equally butt hurt about the Congress. They are both designed the same way for the same reason.
In that case the system works exactly as intended because the way it works now is that the small bankrupt states bully the bigger solvent ones.
A core tenant of Nazis is violence against certain people. Therefore, promotion of Nazi ideas is inherently incitement to violence, which is not protected by speech.
uh huh, everyone you dont like is a nazi, and here's my mainstream article about why violence against nazis is ok, but everyone i dont like shouldn't be able to speak because thats violence
just wanted to sum up your retarded opinion
If only I had a penny for every time some right wing nut made that exact same case he did that lefties and liberals should have their freedom of speech restricted by law. Never mind some of the right wing's other favourite masturbation fantasies, such as the one that votes from California should not count in congressional or presidential elections (but California's taxes should of course continue to flow into federal coffers so they can be used to subsidise red states). I'm afraid that the sword of hypocrisy is double edged and it swings both left and right.
1) The state did not outlay any cash.
2) The state gets thousands of new jobs, not including the thousands of secondary jobs that will benefit from the hundreads of millions in salaries/expenses provided by foxconn.
3) Thousands of people with decent jobs, means less draw on public funds.
4) Income tax revenue to the federal goverment coming from everyone involved as opposed to nothing if they left the country.
They alternative, they dont setup shop and none of the above happens. This is an amazing deal for the state.
I was tempted to post one of my "Donald is that you?" quips as a response to your post but then I noticed that the coherence of your sentence structuring as well as your spelling and grammar, while not perfect, are on a level that is way above anything Donald Trump will ever master. Still, extra credit is awarded for the very Donald-esque use of the word 'amazing'.
Colour me cynical but with the long term future of automotive propulsion increasingly looking as if it lies in various kinds of electric car, isn't pouring lots of resources into a 30% more efficient petrol engine in 2017 somewhat akin to inventing 'a better buggy whip' in 1888 (the year Mrs. Benz made her famous 106 km 'automobil' journey in case you slept through history class)?
With android all you need is a photograph of the persons face to unlock.
Not so secure, eh?
How much you want to bet Apple gets it right, again?
I don't think it will be as simple to crack this as it was to crack that Android feature. Apple is reportedly adding a 3D scanner which is a key component when doing hard-to-crack facial recognition and which would defeat something as simple as snapping a photo of your mark with your iPad (you being an evil Apple user of course) and then using it to unlock his Android phone. So let's just wait and see how Apple does with this. They seem to have done OK with their fingerprint scanner, at least I have not seen any reports of mobile phone thieves lifting people's fingerprints off their stolen iPhones on an industrial scale and then spending a few hours making latex fingerprint casts and using them to unlock iPhones. In the mean time, if it really pans out that Apple is adding a 3D scanner to the iPhone I can't wait to see what other things that scanner can do. If it can scan a face it should be able to scan objects which opens up interesting possibilities for 3D printing. At the very least, if this feature turns out to be reasonably hard to crack it would make for a quick and easy to use one half of a very effective two factor login procedure.
It has nothing to do with "shady" site placement and everything to do with the fact digital advertising simply by and large doesn't work. Seems like YouTube and Spotify, sites with a captive user, are the only ones that can even get their ads noticed (albeit marginally) with most other ads being completely ignored. Though sometimes they really try and force you to look at an ad (covers the page, countdown to proceed) which then causes people to find active ways to remove them from their online experience.
Oh, digital advertising works. When booking.com showed me an ad not that long ago saying that the price of a guest house I had checked out a couple of days earlier had gone down I booked a room for three days. That ad worked because it was correctly targeted. Youtube on the other hand can't seem to get it right despite all the brainpower of all those aspiring Nobel laureates and alpha type power-management types they have collected together on their campus. The only correctly targeted ad I've seen on YouTube for a long time is a 5 second Game of Thrones teaser, which is incidentally the first YouTube ad I've seen whose makers had picked up on the simple and obvious fact any content beyond 5 seconds in a YouTube ad is wasted and I don't think YouTube/AdSense finally got their ad targeting right, they just finally got lucky with their indiscriminate carpet bombing. The problem with digital/online ads is that in order to be effective they should not appear on objectionable sites and they should be interesting to the viewer, otherwise people just get irritated. That requires (a) categorising sites into objectionable and non-objectionable sites which irks people because inevitably something gets mis-classified in somebody's opinion and (b) in order to show each site visitor something he/she finds interesting you need to engage in Orwellian tracking of that user's activity which people object to even more than having their website mis-classified as objectionable. It's kind of a catch-22...
All of those things you named, you knew about already. With the ads, you now now of the existence of the other things, too. Technically, they're succeeding.
The measure of success for an ad is if it shows me something I'm interested in. An ad that tries to sell me stuff that I don't want is a waste of the advertisers money no matter how well I remember it.
It's not a matter of attention span but the time it takes to remind yourself "I wouldn't have time for this and I'm broke anyway."
If I recall correctly 4 (or is it 5?) seconds is the time you have to endure a commercial on YouTube before you can skip the ad so a 5-6 second attention span sounds about right. If I were trying to advertise under those time constraints the first two thirds of the ad would consist of a loud commanding voice saying: "Do you need X? Well then get off your ass and buy Y!" or something to that effect. The remainder of the ad time would be consumed by a voice quickly blurting out the following: "And here is an extra second of ad for you to skip so you don't feel cheated.". The problem with all these ad services is that they don't show me what I'm interested in even when they manage to cram their message into a 4-5 second package. I sit there watching documentaries about sword fighting, medieval history, Classical history, palaeontology, relativistic space travel, documentaries about all manner of phenomena in space,.... etc. I'm usually logged in on YouTube so you'd think Google ingenious advertising algorithms would be able to target ads at my interests given my very specific YouTube viewing history. You'd think I'd be flooded with ads trying to sell me swords, armour, history books, the collective works of Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert, trips to Florida or French Guiana to tour the NASA/ESA space ports but nooooooo... I get ads for ridiculous online games, Chinese pop music, Illumibowl toilet lights....
I can't imagine many people will want to even work for the Administration.
The Administration can't even fill 500+ top-level positions because job candidates are automatically disqualified if they have ever said anything negative about Trump.
Automatically disqualified? Some of these people seem to think that if it ever got out that they had been even so much as considered for a position by the Trump administration it would be damaging to their careers so they are calling in and preemptively asking to be removed from all lists of people under consideration by the Trump admin.
Hell, we don't even have to investigate. An election has never been hacked, and cases of attacks are so few and far between that it doesn't make sense to even try to figure out how often this happens.
Machine learning is literally taking a list of numbers and multiplying by some inputs over and over and over. Humans aren't good at that kind of long-term number crunching.
Except the accountants working for the MPAA and RIAA. That's how you go from making an illegal copy of a $20 CD/DVD to $20 trillion dollars in damages.
There are still actually people outside of a computer museum who uses CDs and DVDs?
I think that China is holding all the aces here, right? Doesn't hurt China if the world's car manufacturers pull out (less competition in the market for their domestic manufacturers).
Seems to me like something the US should have done a long time ago.
This is basically an opportunity to grab market share from conservative players with petrified business models and a religious belief in the 'don't fix what ain't broke the gasoline engine is the future of the auto industry' mantra. Apple did this with the iPod and iTunes and a whole bunch of companies that used to make electric devices did this when digital cameras became a viable technology and many of the big camera manufacturers hesitated or bet the house on film. Alluvasudden Apple was a big player in the music business and companies you had never heard of were making first rate digital cameras while some established brands struggled and others just disappeared. Electric cars is where things are going to end up eventually. Internal combustion engine technology is going to go the same way that steam engine technology did. Whoever takes the plunge first and starts the transition early will be able to grab a lot of market share, everybody else will be playing catchup. If Chinese companies can use their domestic market to build a large electric car production capacity, other car manufacturers who bet their bottom dollar on the future being in gasoline engines will be playing catch up and they will not just be in trouble because they are late to market with their electric car designs but also because whichever makers were first to market with electric cars will have contractually secured a lot of the global battery production capacity which will limit the newcomer's ability to increase their production and force them into expensive investments in battery factories (witness Tesla's pre-emptive efforts in that arena). If I was China I'd pour a lot of money into incentivising battery factory building, boosting my car industry (especially with a mind to increasing quality), suck up to countries with large Lithium deposits and then sit down and write a series of politely worded "A thousand apologies but slowing down China's e-veichle transition isn unfortunately not possible." responses to those letters from the international car industry.
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Same old story. Am I the only one who noticed how long it took for Macintosh to support multiple full-screen programs and easy switching between them, which Amiga had already done starting in 1985?
True but last time I looked, it was Windows 10 that finally added virtual desktops as a built-in feature pretty recently but let's point an accusing finger at Apple who released spaces in 2009. One of Microsoft's excuses was (and having introduced several fairly clueless 'users' to virtual desktops I can tell you this excuse is not without merit) the increased costs incurred due to clueless users calling into callcentres where a support person then had to blow 45 minutes explaining to each one on the phone (not really the easiest thing to do when your user has no concept of virtual anything) what virtual desktops were and that their icons had not disappeared and that their Word and Excel windows had not crashed. I suppose Apple decided its user base had grown tech savvy enough by 2009 to be able to handle this. Microsoft on the other hand decided to wait another 8 years.
The sentence from the article which set off my "put this in the maybe column" reaction was this one "Only 1 to 2 percent of the collected DNA was human," When combined with my knowledge from other sources that, in general, DNA older than 10,000 years is unrecoverable makes me wonder how reliable these DNA tests were. The final thing which keeps this in the "maybe" column is the fact that the central argument for the Clovis people being from Europe is that there are tools with similar design features to the distinctive "Clovis" tools in Europe, but not in Asia.
I beg to differ, one can recover DNA much older than 10k years. The Frauenhofer institute has sequenced Neanderthal DNA from fossilised bone and teeth that is at least 35-40k years old. The Frauenhofer team sequenced the Denisovan genome from a single finger bone not much bigger than a blueberry. Such old DNA is very fragmented and has lots of errors but if you sequence the same specimen often enough (IIRC they sequenced their first Neanderthal genome something like 30 times) you can eliminate the vast majority of errors.
You answered your own question.
Putin's dick isn't going to suck itself.
Maybe somebody should introduce him to Steve Bannon?
We often see the EU drag Google and Microsoft on to the carpet for another kangaroo court session, but does the EU actually do anything more than just be an instrument of xenophobic anti-Americanism? They need to clean their own house.
A good example: If VW were an American company and was discovered breaking the diesel emissions requirements, how long would they exist in Europe before being fined out of existence?
Getting a kick out of feeling like the perpetual victim are we? This only looks unfair to US corporations if you limit your field of view to subset of American companies that get fined and conveniently ignore the fact that European companies get monster fines from the EU too. The question you should be asking is why the EU is fining these guys while the US govt. sits happily by and does nothing while they screw US consumers in the same exact way? One of the things I like about the EU is that once in a while it actually kicks abusive mega corporations in the nuts with monster fines that actually get these assholes to pay attention and modify their behaviour. Meanwhile US politicians are still peddling re-packaged and re-branded versions of the old bullshit about 'voluntary self regulation by industry' and that a soulless corporation is a person with a sound set of christian moral values whose chief concern is the well being of the consumer.
Could Apple use the same tech and make the entire Track Pad double as a screen?
You mean capacitive touch screen technology? How cutting edge! I don't have a pocket sized device that can do that, nor have I had one for the past decade, so that would be totes amaze! Wait...
Yeah because PC's with touch pads that double as programmable MFD's are a dime a dozen out there.
Apple has always made its customers pay for high-end features that they did not want.
I agree. Back when I owned Macs it was sad to see how many features they forced down our throats.
First it was USB. They took away my awesome ADB, Modem and Printer ports.
Then they added Gigabit ethernet to all of their machines.
Finally they shoved out this thing they called 'Airport' back when I was happy dragging around my 10-BaseT ethernet cord around the dorm room.
We can add some to that list can't we? Those evil bastards cut the weight of a laptop from a feather light 4 kilograms to a spine distorting 1 kilogram, they reduced the thickness of a laptop from that of an average Unix programming manual to an utterly unacceptable one and a half centimetres and they had the unmitigated gall to shove UHD laptop displays down our reluctant throats. I feel your pain brother! We all do...
...removing Iranian food delivery and shopping apps, and on Thursday, it removed Snapp, an Uber-like ride hailing app that is popular in Iran.
Thus neutralising yet another key component of Iran's uranium enrichment industry's supply chain ... or not.
Yes all apple phones are injected with magic fairy farts for complex processing.
If I had to guess I'd say they probably use a dedicated face recognition chip, at least they have been reported to be working on something like that along with voice and 3D processing hardware, but you can call it an injection of magic fairy farts if it floats your boat, the rest of us will continue to call them 'chips' and 'sensors'.
"We can't milk this for licensing money anymore, so we no longer want to invest in it"
"Yay, if Oracle hands Java EE over to a FOSS foundation we can finally fix all the things that are wrong with Java and that we've been bitching about Oracle being unwilling to fix for years."
Yes Disney has some nice content. But looking over things it's not that much compared to what I get from Netflix in terms of original programs...
Also the stuff from Disney tends to be in a certain style, while the Netflix content has been way more varied and differing in topic or target.
I wish Disney good fortune in striking out on their own but I wonder if these days they are as valuable a content commodity as they imagine themselves to be... especially with Netflix spending some percent of that money on original YA programming with more freedom of creative control than Disney is willing to give.
It's kind of like the iTunes/iPod thing is happening all over again except in TV world and this time more people saw the writing on the wall and there are more players than Apple in the game at the ground level. I have cancelled my cable TV subscriptions and mostly watch Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube on an Apple TV connected to a TV whose tuner circuitry's only use is to get cursed at whenever I switch to it by mistake when flipping between HDMI inputs. However I could be using any number of other TV streaming boxes which is nice plus you can play games on these things even if they are no high powered consoles. Hulu gets no use because: 'Hulu is unfortunately not available in your region'. I think Amazon Prime and Netflix hit the jackpot when they went for their own content in a big way, didn't license it to the TV mafia but rather offered their services in all regions and relied on original content made by independent contractors to sell their service rather than the old establishment. Netflix/Amazon original content is half of what I watch on those two services even if their original content is still a fairly small portion of their total content catalog.
The Electoral College operates the exact same way the Congress does. It prevents the bigger states from being big bullies and pushing everyone around. Otherwise, the smaller states would have no interest in being part of the Union.
If you are butt hurt about the Electoral College then you should be equally butt hurt about the Congress. They are both designed the same way for the same reason.
In that case the system works exactly as intended because the way it works now is that the small bankrupt states bully the bigger solvent ones.
A core tenant of Nazis is violence against certain people. Therefore, promotion of Nazi ideas is inherently incitement to violence, which is not protected by speech.
uh huh, everyone you dont like is a nazi, and here's my mainstream article about why violence against nazis is ok, but everyone i dont like shouldn't be able to speak because thats violence
just wanted to sum up your retarded opinion
If only I had a penny for every time some right wing nut made that exact same case he did that lefties and liberals should have their freedom of speech restricted by law. Never mind some of the right wing's other favourite masturbation fantasies, such as the one that votes from California should not count in congressional or presidential elections (but California's taxes should of course continue to flow into federal coffers so they can be used to subsidise red states). I'm afraid that the sword of hypocrisy is double edged and it swings both left and right.
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Am I the only one who read that sentence and let fly a clearly audible: DUUUUUHHHHH!!!! ???
1) The state did not outlay any cash. 2) The state gets thousands of new jobs, not including the thousands of secondary jobs that will benefit from the hundreads of millions in salaries/expenses provided by foxconn. 3) Thousands of people with decent jobs, means less draw on public funds. 4) Income tax revenue to the federal goverment coming from everyone involved as opposed to nothing if they left the country.
They alternative, they dont setup shop and none of the above happens. This is an amazing deal for the state.
I was tempted to post one of my "Donald is that you?" quips as a response to your post but then I noticed that the coherence of your sentence structuring as well as your spelling and grammar, while not perfect, are on a level that is way above anything Donald Trump will ever master. Still, extra credit is awarded for the very Donald-esque use of the word 'amazing'.
Colour me cynical but with the long term future of automotive propulsion increasingly looking as if it lies in various kinds of electric car, isn't pouring lots of resources into a 30% more efficient petrol engine in 2017 somewhat akin to inventing 'a better buggy whip' in 1888 (the year Mrs. Benz made her famous 106 km 'automobil' journey in case you slept through history class)?
With android all you need is a photograph of the persons face to unlock.
Not so secure, eh?
How much you want to bet Apple gets it right, again?
I don't think it will be as simple to crack this as it was to crack that Android feature. Apple is reportedly adding a 3D scanner which is a key component when doing hard-to-crack facial recognition and which would defeat something as simple as snapping a photo of your mark with your iPad (you being an evil Apple user of course) and then using it to unlock his Android phone. So let's just wait and see how Apple does with this. They seem to have done OK with their fingerprint scanner, at least I have not seen any reports of mobile phone thieves lifting people's fingerprints off their stolen iPhones on an industrial scale and then spending a few hours making latex fingerprint casts and using them to unlock iPhones. In the mean time, if it really pans out that Apple is adding a 3D scanner to the iPhone I can't wait to see what other things that scanner can do. If it can scan a face it should be able to scan objects which opens up interesting possibilities for 3D printing. At the very least, if this feature turns out to be reasonably hard to crack it would make for a quick and easy to use one half of a very effective two factor login procedure.
iOS has had this feature for quite a while now ***ducks for cocer***
It has nothing to do with "shady" site placement and everything to do with the fact digital advertising simply by and large doesn't work. Seems like YouTube and Spotify, sites with a captive user, are the only ones that can even get their ads noticed (albeit marginally) with most other ads being completely ignored. Though sometimes they really try and force you to look at an ad (covers the page, countdown to proceed) which then causes people to find active ways to remove them from their online experience.
Oh, digital advertising works. When booking.com showed me an ad not that long ago saying that the price of a guest house I had checked out a couple of days earlier had gone down I booked a room for three days. That ad worked because it was correctly targeted. Youtube on the other hand can't seem to get it right despite all the brainpower of all those aspiring Nobel laureates and alpha type power-management types they have collected together on their campus. The only correctly targeted ad I've seen on YouTube for a long time is a 5 second Game of Thrones teaser, which is incidentally the first YouTube ad I've seen whose makers had picked up on the simple and obvious fact any content beyond 5 seconds in a YouTube ad is wasted and I don't think YouTube/AdSense finally got their ad targeting right, they just finally got lucky with their indiscriminate carpet bombing. The problem with digital/online ads is that in order to be effective they should not appear on objectionable sites and they should be interesting to the viewer, otherwise people just get irritated. That requires (a) categorising sites into objectionable and non-objectionable sites which irks people because inevitably something gets mis-classified in somebody's opinion and (b) in order to show each site visitor something he/she finds interesting you need to engage in Orwellian tracking of that user's activity which people object to even more than having their website mis-classified as objectionable. It's kind of a catch-22...
All of those things you named, you knew about already. With the ads, you now now of the existence of the other things, too. Technically, they're succeeding.
The measure of success for an ad is if it shows me something I'm interested in. An ad that tries to sell me stuff that I don't want is a waste of the advertisers money no matter how well I remember it.
It's not a matter of attention span but the time it takes to remind yourself "I wouldn't have time for this and I'm broke anyway."
If I recall correctly 4 (or is it 5?) seconds is the time you have to endure a commercial on YouTube before you can skip the ad so a 5-6 second attention span sounds about right. If I were trying to advertise under those time constraints the first two thirds of the ad would consist of a loud commanding voice saying: "Do you need X? Well then get off your ass and buy Y!" or something to that effect. The remainder of the ad time would be consumed by a voice quickly blurting out the following: "And here is an extra second of ad for you to skip so you don't feel cheated.". The problem with all these ad services is that they don't show me what I'm interested in even when they manage to cram their message into a 4-5 second package. I sit there watching documentaries about sword fighting, medieval history, Classical history, palaeontology, relativistic space travel, documentaries about all manner of phenomena in space, .... etc. I'm usually logged in on YouTube so you'd think Google ingenious advertising algorithms would be able to target ads at my interests given my very specific YouTube viewing history. You'd think I'd be flooded with ads trying to sell me swords, armour, history books, the collective works of Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert, trips to Florida or French Guiana to tour the NASA/ESA space ports but nooooooo... I get ads for ridiculous online games, Chinese pop music, Illumibowl toilet lights....
I can't imagine many people will want to even work for the Administration.
The Administration can't even fill 500+ top-level positions because job candidates are automatically disqualified if they have ever said anything negative about Trump.
Automatically disqualified? Some of these people seem to think that if it ever got out that they had been even so much as considered for a position by the Trump administration it would be damaging to their careers so they are calling in and preemptively asking to be removed from all lists of people under consideration by the Trump admin.
Hell, we don't even have to investigate. An election has never been hacked, and cases of attacks are so few and far between that it doesn't make sense to even try to figure out how often this happens.
Donald? Is that you?
Except the accountants working for the MPAA and RIAA. That's how you go from making an illegal copy of a $20 CD/DVD to $20 trillion dollars in damages.
There are still actually people outside of a computer museum who uses CDs and DVDs?
I think that China is holding all the aces here, right? Doesn't hurt China if the world's car manufacturers pull out (less competition in the market for their domestic manufacturers).
Seems to me like something the US should have done a long time ago.
This is basically an opportunity to grab market share from conservative players with petrified business models and a religious belief in the 'don't fix what ain't broke the gasoline engine is the future of the auto industry' mantra. Apple did this with the iPod and iTunes and a whole bunch of companies that used to make electric devices did this when digital cameras became a viable technology and many of the big camera manufacturers hesitated or bet the house on film. Alluvasudden Apple was a big player in the music business and companies you had never heard of were making first rate digital cameras while some established brands struggled and others just disappeared. Electric cars is where things are going to end up eventually. Internal combustion engine technology is going to go the same way that steam engine technology did. Whoever takes the plunge first and starts the transition early will be able to grab a lot of market share, everybody else will be playing catchup. If Chinese companies can use their domestic market to build a large electric car production capacity, other car manufacturers who bet their bottom dollar on the future being in gasoline engines will be playing catch up and they will not just be in trouble because they are late to market with their electric car designs but also because whichever makers were first to market with electric cars will have contractually secured a lot of the global battery production capacity which will limit the newcomer's ability to increase their production and force them into expensive investments in battery factories (witness Tesla's pre-emptive efforts in that arena). If I was China I'd pour a lot of money into incentivising battery factory building, boosting my car industry (especially with a mind to increasing quality), suck up to countries with large Lithium deposits and then sit down and write a series of politely worded "A thousand apologies but slowing down China's e-veichle transition isn unfortunately not possible." responses to those letters from the international car industry.
Given how many people put a little bit of coffee in their cup of sugar, what's the big difference?
They'd probably use less sugar but even if they don't both cola and orange juice are considerably more acidic than coffee.