Netflix's disc rental service gets newly released DVDs and Blurays long before the streaming side does (even though the studios have punished Netflix with several month delays to disc access compared to the discs being available at retail). And streaming availability comes and goes at the whims of the studio holders, where discs stay on the service until the physical media gets destroyed.
Anyone that thinks working for a major video game developer is a dream job has had some big time blinders on for a very long time. We've had numerous reports over the last decade about the crunch culture, overtime, stress, and etc that developers at major studios suffer from.
Question: Do the journalists make any money if no one can find their articles to read them?
I think the majority of people go to Google and type in search queries, hit the Google News Feed, or look to news aggregators like./
Few people go directly to joebobs247news.com to read up on the latest political scandals.
Now, if a news aggregator copy and pastes the entire article, then yeah, they should be liable for some copyright infringement. A quick summary of said article or the first couple sentences with a "read more here" is something completely different though. In that case the aggregator is generating traffic for the news site, not stealing it.
Plug-in hybrids use no gas for normal day to day driving
Not really. The gas engine, more complex transmission, gas tank and so on mean you lose a ton of battery space. So in a car that could support a 200mi range battery pack, you get a 30mi range battery pack. Which means unless your commuting is particularly short, you're going to regularly use some gas.
Source: I own a Volt.
As much as I hate Toyota's pathetic plug-in electric range, for many people that 25 mile range is sufficient to cover their daily commute. Toyota would be much better positioned to do so for more than the average person if they'd just double that range though. But, still, here's a bit of article to explain:
If you drive long distances to your job each day, you are not alone. According to ABC News, the average American drives 16 miles to work each way, with a daily commute totaling nearly an hour round trip.
While the average commute involves 30 minutes in the car each way, many people commute less than a mile to work each day. On the other hand, this number is tempered by "extreme commuters" who must drive more than 100 miles each way to work during the week.
Sounds like a moron salesman, try another dealership? "East of the Rockies" comprises a significantly large area of the country, and I can certainly tell you that there's plenty of Prius Primes on the road and in the Toyota showroom lot at the dealer I go to in PA. Worst case, pull a quote from their website and it should direct you to a dealer with units in stock.
If Progressives aren't on board with it (AOC, Ro Khanna, Sanders, etc), then it's going to be a load of corporate horse crap.
And if "progressives" are on board with it, then it's going to be a load of warm-fuzzy feel-good virtue-signaling technobabble that imposes social sanctions on technical problems.
There is undoubtedly some overlap between Progressives and SJWs but they are not the same thing. True Progressives actually value freedom of speech as opposed to many conservatives that weaponize it when it's convenient for them and ignore it when it's not.
Until we have the text of the bill, I remain skeptic of the content. There's no mention of who wrote the bill, or who's sponsoring or co-sponsoring it. If Progressives aren't on board with it (AOC, Ro Khanna, Sanders, etc), then it's going to be a load of corporate horse crap.
It probably also has something to do with the off-hand comments made by Brie Larson that caused the twitter trolls to have an aneurysm a week or two ago.
If they're so obsessed about "protecting the children", then just hide and disable comments across the entire site on the Youtube Kids interface. Then it's just up to the parents to ensure that Youtube is locked in the Kids mode on their devices.
There is no filtering software on the market that is anywhere near perfect at detecting pornographic material. This is just a lame cash grab after GOP Governor Sam Brownback bankrupted the state with his gigantic tax cuts.
And businesses like Amazon that are anticipated to again pay ZERO dollars in federal taxes AND get a $129 Billion dollar tax rebate this year have no business getting any further tax incentives. Once they actually start paying their fair share in taxes instead of hiding their profits offshore, then, and only then, can we talk about conceivably giving them some tax incentives to do stuff.
AOC can just keep right on trucking, because it's people like her that are finally going to close the corporate tax loopholes and stop these corporations from hiding all their profits on some fly spec island or foreign nation.
Or, NYC could take that $3 Billion dollars and hire 25,000 workers with $50K annual salaries for two years to rebuild and modernize the city's subway system which will provide much greater and longer term economic benefit to the city than an Amazon office building.
If you're going to invest in crypto currencies, then, you better be prepared to lose it all. It's no different than if you invested all your money in one company's stock and then that company went belly up the next day. Crypto currencies are not banks or credit unions, they are most likely not insured like a bank/credit union inside the US would be.
They could easily get around the racial/ethnic complaint by hiring the people of those communities that want to make a difference in them to police them. Could advocacy groups really run around claiming that the arrests are racially motivated if the arresting officer and presiding judges are the same ethnicity as the person being arrested? Side point: giving people jobs with a living wage is one of the fastest ways to reduce crime.
If the effects of climate change are going to be anywhere remotely as bad as scientists predict and yet we maintain our current course of fossil fuel usage, then yeah, humans are going to start dying off in large numbers.
Disease, famine, drought, inhospitably extreme temperatures, severe and catastrophic weather events, systemic collapses in the food chain, mass extinction of insect populations, forced migrations, wars over remaining resources. A cockroaches' paradise.
So, they expect you to just leave this probably $1000+ robot and charging station sitting outside your house so someone can walk up and steal it while you're at work?
Just because your life doesn't appear to be directly affected doesn't mean the lives of others aren't. Rising sea levels are affecting island nations. Significant portions of the great barrier reef around Australia have died off. Severe droughts in various regions around the world are forcing people to relocate. Huge numbers of insects populations and species are dying off which is going to have detrimental effects on the food chain in those regions.
Droughts and abnormal temperatures also affect crop yields, which affects the price of everything at the grocery store. Sure, there are other factors that affect grocery store prices, but climate change is certainly a contributing one.
1. For every turbine erected, cut down a tree, so the total wind blockage remains constant. Ban the planting of new trees.
Even if your comment wasn't completely absurd in the first place, the Earth loses 18.7 million acres of forests per year.
So yeah, there's already plenty of "wind changing" going on, more so than we could ever erect enough windmills to counteract.
True enough, giving kids an expensive smart phone they can easily smash isn't the best idea in the world, or even financially viable for many people.
The app shouldn't require you to manually launch it to check for messages, it should be able to monitor and display notifications as needed. But as you said, not everyone has a smart phone.
Verizon's actions in this regard are why we can't just leave services up to the free market with no regulation. This is what happens when we let industry lobbyists bribe the heck out of politicians and get their own people appointed to seats in the FCC and elsewhere.
Verizon and others need to stop trying to pretend that text messages cost them huge amounts of money. The maximum data size of a text message is 1120 bits! That's barely over 1Kbit (and that's bits not bytes!)
"Remind" could easily spin up it's own "Reminders" app, get students/parents to install it on their phones, and have it periodically check for notifications like any other messaging app on the planet over the phone's data connection (and if they roll their own, then they can store/archive the messages sent as per any government regulation requirements). And doing so would allow them to appropriately whip the finger and Verizon and any other service provider that decides it wants to charge for text messages. The only problem with this approach is that it's yet another app that has to remain resident in your's/your kid's smartphone memory eating up battery life.
Yeash, you cable TV trolls just never stop do you.
#1: Advertising is absolute shit, I'd sooner not watch anything than go back to being brainwashed by ad networks
#2: Cable TV is broadcast on it's schedule and that's it. Miss a show/forget to DVR it? Too bad, so sad - better hope they decide to re-air it at a later date and time. Streaming let's you pick anything from the library to watch whenever and wherever you want it.
#3: Cable TV is f'ing expensive, and most people are paying for high speed internet service regardless of whether they want video entertainment to watch or not.
#4: Signing up for multiple streaming services is no different than deciding you want to pay for HBO, and Cinemax, and Showtime, and Starz, and etc. Except that most streaming services also offer huge libraries of other content, not just original content.
#5: You want ad supported streaming? Guess what, that exists! You can watch stuff on Hulu, Crunchyroll, Funimation, and I'll bet several other streaming services for free if you're willing to sit through some ads.
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Netflix's disc rental service gets newly released DVDs and Blurays long before the streaming side does (even though the studios have punished Netflix with several month delays to disc access compared to the discs being available at retail). And streaming availability comes and goes at the whims of the studio holders, where discs stay on the service until the physical media gets destroyed.
Anyone that thinks working for a major video game developer is a dream job has had some big time blinders on for a very long time. We've had numerous reports over the last decade about the crunch culture, overtime, stress, and etc that developers at major studios suffer from.
IIRC in at least one of these rounds of mass layouts it was a lot of marketing and PR staff, rather than development staff.
Question: Do the journalists make any money if no one can find their articles to read them?
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I think the majority of people go to Google and type in search queries, hit the Google News Feed, or look to news aggregators like
Few people go directly to joebobs247news.com to read up on the latest political scandals.
Now, if a news aggregator copy and pastes the entire article, then yeah, they should be liable for some copyright infringement. A quick summary of said article or the first couple sentences with a "read more here" is something completely different though. In that case the aggregator is generating traffic for the news site, not stealing it.
Plug-in hybrids use no gas for normal day to day driving
Not really. The gas engine, more complex transmission, gas tank and so on mean you lose a ton of battery space. So in a car that could support a 200mi range battery pack, you get a 30mi range battery pack. Which means unless your commuting is particularly short, you're going to regularly use some gas.
Source: I own a Volt.
As much as I hate Toyota's pathetic plug-in electric range, for many people that 25 mile range is sufficient to cover their daily commute. Toyota would be much better positioned to do so for more than the average person if they'd just double that range though. But, still, here's a bit of article to explain:
https://itstillruns.com/far-am...
If you drive long distances to your job each day, you are not alone. According to ABC News, the average American drives 16 miles to work each way, with a daily commute totaling nearly an hour round trip. While the average commute involves 30 minutes in the car each way, many people commute less than a mile to work each day. On the other hand, this number is tempered by "extreme commuters" who must drive more than 100 miles each way to work during the week.
Sounds like a moron salesman, try another dealership? "East of the Rockies" comprises a significantly large area of the country, and I can certainly tell you that there's plenty of Prius Primes on the road and in the Toyota showroom lot at the dealer I go to in PA. Worst case, pull a quote from their website and it should direct you to a dealer with units in stock.
If Progressives aren't on board with it (AOC, Ro Khanna, Sanders, etc), then it's going to be a load of corporate horse crap.
And if "progressives" are on board with it, then it's going to be a load of warm-fuzzy feel-good virtue-signaling technobabble that imposes social sanctions on technical problems.
There is undoubtedly some overlap between Progressives and SJWs but they are not the same thing. True Progressives actually value freedom of speech as opposed to many conservatives that weaponize it when it's convenient for them and ignore it when it's not.
Until we have the text of the bill, I remain skeptic of the content. There's no mention of who wrote the bill, or who's sponsoring or co-sponsoring it. If Progressives aren't on board with it (AOC, Ro Khanna, Sanders, etc), then it's going to be a load of corporate horse crap.
It probably also has something to do with the off-hand comments made by Brie Larson that caused the twitter trolls to have an aneurysm a week or two ago.
If they're so obsessed about "protecting the children", then just hide and disable comments across the entire site on the Youtube Kids interface. Then it's just up to the parents to ensure that Youtube is locked in the Kids mode on their devices.
There is no filtering software on the market that is anywhere near perfect at detecting pornographic material. This is just a lame cash grab after GOP Governor Sam Brownback bankrupted the state with his gigantic tax cuts.
And businesses like Amazon that are anticipated to again pay ZERO dollars in federal taxes AND get a $129 Billion dollar tax rebate this year have no business getting any further tax incentives. Once they actually start paying their fair share in taxes instead of hiding their profits offshore, then, and only then, can we talk about conceivably giving them some tax incentives to do stuff.
AOC can just keep right on trucking, because it's people like her that are finally going to close the corporate tax loopholes and stop these corporations from hiding all their profits on some fly spec island or foreign nation.
Or, NYC could take that $3 Billion dollars and hire 25,000 workers with $50K annual salaries for two years to rebuild and modernize the city's subway system which will provide much greater and longer term economic benefit to the city than an Amazon office building.
If you're going to invest in crypto currencies, then, you better be prepared to lose it all. It's no different than if you invested all your money in one company's stock and then that company went belly up the next day. Crypto currencies are not banks or credit unions, they are most likely not insured like a bank/credit union inside the US would be.
The next step: Minority Report.
They could easily get around the racial/ethnic complaint by hiring the people of those communities that want to make a difference in them to police them. Could advocacy groups really run around claiming that the arrests are racially motivated if the arresting officer and presiding judges are the same ethnicity as the person being arrested? Side point: giving people jobs with a living wage is one of the fastest ways to reduce crime.
If the effects of climate change are going to be anywhere remotely as bad as scientists predict and yet we maintain our current course of fossil fuel usage, then yeah, humans are going to start dying off in large numbers.
Disease, famine, drought, inhospitably extreme temperatures, severe and catastrophic weather events, systemic collapses in the food chain, mass extinction of insect populations, forced migrations, wars over remaining resources. A cockroaches' paradise.
So, they expect you to just leave this probably $1000+ robot and charging station sitting outside your house so someone can walk up and steal it while you're at work?
Just because your life doesn't appear to be directly affected doesn't mean the lives of others aren't. Rising sea levels are affecting island nations. Significant portions of the great barrier reef around Australia have died off. Severe droughts in various regions around the world are forcing people to relocate. Huge numbers of insects populations and species are dying off which is going to have detrimental effects on the food chain in those regions.
Droughts and abnormal temperatures also affect crop yields, which affects the price of everything at the grocery store. Sure, there are other factors that affect grocery store prices, but climate change is certainly a contributing one.
If they do this, then, someone is just going to fork it and take restrictions right back out.
1. For every turbine erected, cut down a tree, so the total wind blockage remains constant. Ban the planting of new trees.
Even if your comment wasn't completely absurd in the first place, the Earth loses 18.7 million acres of forests per year .
So yeah, there's already plenty of "wind changing" going on, more so than we could ever erect enough windmills to counteract.
True enough, giving kids an expensive smart phone they can easily smash isn't the best idea in the world, or even financially viable for many people.
The app shouldn't require you to manually launch it to check for messages, it should be able to monitor and display notifications as needed. But as you said, not everyone has a smart phone.
Verizon's actions in this regard are why we can't just leave services up to the free market with no regulation. This is what happens when we let industry lobbyists bribe the heck out of politicians and get their own people appointed to seats in the FCC and elsewhere.
Verizon and others need to stop trying to pretend that text messages cost them huge amounts of money. The maximum data size of a text message is 1120 bits! That's barely over 1Kbit (and that's bits not bytes!)
"Remind" could easily spin up it's own "Reminders" app, get students/parents to install it on their phones, and have it periodically check for notifications like any other messaging app on the planet over the phone's data connection (and if they roll their own, then they can store/archive the messages sent as per any government regulation requirements). And doing so would allow them to appropriately whip the finger and Verizon and any other service provider that decides it wants to charge for text messages. The only problem with this approach is that it's yet another app that has to remain resident in your's/your kid's smartphone memory eating up battery life.
Yeash, you cable TV trolls just never stop do you.
#1: Advertising is absolute shit, I'd sooner not watch anything than go back to being brainwashed by ad networks
#2: Cable TV is broadcast on it's schedule and that's it. Miss a show/forget to DVR it? Too bad, so sad - better hope they decide to re-air it at a later date and time. Streaming let's you pick anything from the library to watch whenever and wherever you want it.
#3: Cable TV is f'ing expensive, and most people are paying for high speed internet service regardless of whether they want video entertainment to watch or not.
#4: Signing up for multiple streaming services is no different than deciding you want to pay for HBO, and Cinemax, and Showtime, and Starz, and etc. Except that most streaming services also offer huge libraries of other content, not just original content.
#5: You want ad supported streaming? Guess what, that exists! You can watch stuff on Hulu, Crunchyroll, Funimation, and I'll bet several other streaming services for free if you're willing to sit through some ads.
So what happens if dust gets in the way?