"One recent instance occurred in Dallas, Texas earlier this week, when a six-year-old asked her family’s new Amazon Echo “can you play dollhouse with me and get me a dollhouse?” The device readily complied, ordering a KidKraft Sparkle mansion dollhouse," ...
"The story could have stopped there, had it not ended up on a local morning show on San Diego’s CW6 News. At the end of the story, Anchor Jim Patton remarked: “I love the little girl, saying ‘Alexa ordered me a dollhouse,’” According to CW6 News, Echo owners who were watching the broadcast found that the remark triggered orders on their own devices."
Or more simply: all streaming video metered at $10/GB, except if you use your ISP's own streaming video service -- meaning that becomes pretty much impossible for the next netflix-style company to disrupt the existing market and offer something better since it's extremely hard to reach a critical mass of users that way.
Charge $20 a month like HBO. and get their worthless channels off my lineup.
They would lose a ton of money over that: ESPN is the most expensive channel in most provider's lineup, and you typically don't have a plan option that doesn't include it. They currently charge providers about $7.50 a month to carry the channel for each of their customers, whether or not they have any interest in ESPN.
I seriously doubt they could convince a full 1/3+ of the cable/satellite customers to fork over extra money to continue to receive it. I actually blocked the channel in my DVR channel guide so I don't even have have to scroll past that crap, but am still paying for the 'privilege' of receiving it
The Steam Hardware Survey shows 0.23% of users having a Vive, vs. 0.11% with an Oculus Rift and 0.2% with the older Rift DK2 development kit http://store.steampowered.com/...
Many moons ago, the music + movie industries managed to convince the Dutch government to get legislation passed that put a levy on any blank CD/DVD media which increased their costs, which was collected and paid to the movie + music cartels to get reimbursement for 'missed revenues' due to unauthorized copying. (Which is rather annoying when you only use discs for personal use with your own content)
An somewhat unintended side-effect of that was that it more or less legalized downloading and copying for personal use as well, since the content industry already received the levy for the discs. When they later tried suing people for unauthorized downloading/copying, they had a very hard time getting anything to stick because "we already paid for it".
Now they are claiming that the Dutch government's slow response to the 'problem' is costing them a bazillion dollars, and want to hold them liable for missed revenues.
The root of the problem is that the music + movie industries are having buyers remorse for the initial legislation they forced through.
For live data, some Nas devices like synology have a 'scrubbing' option where it can rewrite your dataset once a month to prevent magnetic levels from degrading too much, and prevent bit rot by doing so.
It's a questionable benefit for whoever gets to sit at the 'perfect' spot directly in front of it, but a definite downgrade for all other seats in the room who will all get more image distortion and weird reflections.
All things being equal, personally I'd pay extra NOT to have a curved screen.
But in the process of going after some Sales Force money, they'll undoubtedly make many other existing customers very nervous, and may convince potential customers that it's a bad idea to use SAP -- long term, they may have royally shot themselves in their feet by aggressively pursuing this.
Not really, as long as there are sufficient females from other, non-genetically altered branches, those strains should be more 'successful' in the quest for survival and eventually the genetically engineered ones will die out,
Um... No.
You are misunderstanding how this works:
The whole POINT of this is that is tips the balance of the scales: you start with countless non-genetically altered mice, and throw in a handful of engineered ones that only breed males, and will pass on the trait to their offspring.
The starting point on the island will be roughly 50% male, 50% female. All of the engineered mice will only create more males, no females. They will mostly breed with random, non-engineered mice, creating more engineered male mice in the process.
Now all of a sudden the the balance of mice on the island a generation later is 51% male, 49% female. Those 1% extra males will also pass on the all-male feature to their offspring as well, increasing the percentage of engineered mice and decreasing the percentage of 'normal' mice. The generation after that may be 53% male, 47% female. A few dozen generations later you will be close to seeing 100% male and 0% female. The chances of any random pairing of mice birthing female offspring becomes vanishingly small.
Existing females die of old age or predation without new females to replace them. Population numbers crash, and the species dies off completely on the island, except for maybe some small, physically isolated groups
Don't forget that each mice can create TONS of offspring, and those all interbreed again. They typically have 5-8 offspring at a time, and can have 5-10 litters a year. This happens FAST. The engineered feature will spread exponentially across the population, with no stopping it. It's an avalanche.
Those mice got onto the islands accidentally in the past, and one of them can just as easily accidentally end up on another island/continent where they can instigate those populations to crash as well. May take longer if it's just a single individual, but if the effects do indeed persist across future generations then it will grow into a tidal wave over time. Very hard to stop if let loose in an unintended area, and can end up crashing entire ecosystems.
If your history showed that you made significantly more than the job you are applying for, the employer may be hesitant to make an offer because they will expect you to keep looking and leave again shortly.
One way around that without rigid DRM is have several different language versions with different pricing. People in the US typically wouldn't buy the Greek version even though it may be cheaper than English.
(of course the English version would have global appeal, so that would preclude a low-cost English language version)
If you check out the Kennewick address in the FCC application in Google maps you will find a dumpy strip mall and in the back is a small sign labeled Amazon and a big back-up gennerator.
It's actually pretty big -- they took over the bulk of an empty Walmart store, and converted it to an Amazon tech support call center.
Amazon has pulled tons of comics from their Kindle Unlimited subscription services as well in the past:
http://goodereader.com/blog/e-...
Apparently the big 'problem' with comics (compared to novels) is that the average reader can/will read a few of them in an hour, as opposed to be a few days/weeks for a novel, which really skews the payments and projections, making them too expensive to cover costs under the subscription. Plus there's often extra deals with the publishers like no cost if the reader reads less than 10% of the book which is not uncommon with novels, but for the average comic books that's only a couple of pages so pretty much every reader hits the threshold.
I went to retrieve a package from a UPS truck that had pulled up in front of my house. It was remarkable to see that nearly every box in the truck had an Amazon logo.
...Which gives them an insane leverage over UPS when they are negotiating rates.
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...they just gave up complaining because it seemed pointless, even though they still hate it with the burning passion of a thousand suns?
Already been done --
...
http://www.theverge.com/2017/1...
"One recent instance occurred in Dallas, Texas earlier this week, when a six-year-old asked her family’s new Amazon Echo “can you play dollhouse with me and get me a dollhouse?” The device readily complied, ordering a KidKraft Sparkle mansion dollhouse,"
"The story could have stopped there, had it not ended up on a local morning show on San Diego’s CW6 News. At the end of the story, Anchor Jim Patton remarked: “I love the little girl, saying ‘Alexa ordered me a dollhouse,’” According to CW6 News, Echo owners who were watching the broadcast found that the remark triggered orders on their own devices."
Or more simply: all streaming video metered at $10/GB, except if you use your ISP's own streaming video service -- meaning that becomes pretty much impossible for the next netflix-style company to disrupt the existing market and offer something better since it's extremely hard to reach a critical mass of users that way.
Charge $20 a month like HBO. and get their worthless channels off my lineup.
They would lose a ton of money over that: ESPN is the most expensive channel in most provider's lineup, and you typically don't have a plan option that doesn't include it. They currently charge providers about $7.50 a month to carry the channel for each of their customers, whether or not they have any interest in ESPN.
I seriously doubt they could convince a full 1/3+ of the cable/satellite customers to fork over extra money to continue to receive it. I actually blocked the channel in my DVR channel guide so I don't even have have to scroll past that crap, but am still paying for the 'privilege' of receiving it
Yet somehow the PC game section at Walmart is ten times the size of the PC gaming section at gamestop...
Some airports (like Amsterdam schiphol) have an underground train station, with escalators straight into the departure halls.
The Steam Hardware Survey shows 0.23% of users having a Vive, vs. 0.11% with an Oculus Rift and 0.2% with the older Rift DK2 development kit
http://store.steampowered.com/...
... Healthy people are more likely to get pregnant/have kids than those who are less healthy?
Many moons ago, the music + movie industries managed to convince the Dutch government to get legislation passed that put a levy on any blank CD/DVD media which increased their costs, which was collected and paid to the movie + music cartels to get reimbursement for 'missed revenues' due to unauthorized copying. (Which is rather annoying when you only use discs for personal use with your own content)
An somewhat unintended side-effect of that was that it more or less legalized downloading and copying for personal use as well, since the content industry already received the levy for the discs. When they later tried suing people for unauthorized downloading/copying, they had a very hard time getting anything to stick because "we already paid for it".
Now they are claiming that the Dutch government's slow response to the 'problem' is costing them a bazillion dollars, and want to hold them liable for missed revenues.
The root of the problem is that the music + movie industries are having buyers remorse for the initial legislation they forced through.
For live data, some Nas devices like synology have a 'scrubbing' option where it can rewrite your dataset once a month to prevent magnetic levels from degrading too much, and prevent bit rot by doing so.
Somehow, adding "storytelling" by actively trying to distract drivers sounds like it's likely to decrease road safety.
It's a questionable benefit for whoever gets to sit at the 'perfect' spot directly in front of it, but a definite downgrade for all other seats in the room who will all get more image distortion and weird reflections. All things being equal, personally I'd pay extra NOT to have a curved screen.
If they were to ban the sale of Win10 in the EU, Microsoft would magically have a non-privacy-violating version read the next day.
The EU is a much larger market than North America, Microsoft couldn't afford to ignore it.
But in the process of going after some Sales Force money, they'll undoubtedly make many other existing customers very nervous, and may convince potential customers that it's a bad idea to use SAP -- long term, they may have royally shot themselves in their feet by aggressively pursuing this.
Not really, as long as there are sufficient females from other, non-genetically altered branches, those strains should be more 'successful' in the quest for survival and eventually the genetically engineered ones will die out,
Um... No.
You are misunderstanding how this works:
The whole POINT of this is that is tips the balance of the scales: you start with countless non-genetically altered mice, and throw in a handful of engineered ones that only breed males, and will pass on the trait to their offspring.
The starting point on the island will be roughly 50% male, 50% female. All of the engineered mice will only create more males, no females. They will mostly breed with random, non-engineered mice, creating more engineered male mice in the process.
Now all of a sudden the the balance of mice on the island a generation later is 51% male, 49% female. Those 1% extra males will also pass on the all-male feature to their offspring as well, increasing the percentage of engineered mice and decreasing the percentage of 'normal' mice. The generation after that may be 53% male, 47% female. A few dozen generations later you will be close to seeing 100% male and 0% female. The chances of any random pairing of mice birthing female offspring becomes vanishingly small.
Existing females die of old age or predation without new females to replace them. Population numbers crash, and the species dies off completely on the island, except for maybe some small, physically isolated groups
Don't forget that each mice can create TONS of offspring, and those all interbreed again. They typically have 5-8 offspring at a time, and can have 5-10 litters a year. This happens FAST. The engineered feature will spread exponentially across the population, with no stopping it. It's an avalanche.
...keeping it contained.
Those mice got onto the islands accidentally in the past, and one of them can just as easily accidentally end up on another island/continent where they can instigate those populations to crash as well. May take longer if it's just a single individual, but if the effects do indeed persist across future generations then it will grow into a tidal wave over time. Very hard to stop if let loose in an unintended area, and can end up crashing entire ecosystems.
1) because they can 2) it takes a while to recoup the investment money of the $$$$ fabrication equipment
Personally, when I am interviewing people, it is helpful to better understand how previous employers valued the candidate.
True -- and in that case even the exact amounts aren't as important as whether your previous employer gave you any raises during your stay there.
If your history showed that you made significantly more than the job you are applying for, the employer may be hesitant to make an offer because they will expect you to keep looking and leave again shortly.
One way around that without rigid DRM is have several different language versions with different pricing. People in the US typically wouldn't buy the Greek version even though it may be cheaper than English. (of course the English version would have global appeal, so that would preclude a low-cost English language version)
If you check out the Kennewick address in the FCC application in Google maps you will find a dumpy strip mall and in the back is a small sign labeled Amazon and a big back-up gennerator.
It's actually pretty big -- they took over the bulk of an empty Walmart store, and converted it to an Amazon tech support call center.
Amazon has pulled tons of comics from their Kindle Unlimited subscription services as well in the past: http://goodereader.com/blog/e-... Apparently the big 'problem' with comics (compared to novels) is that the average reader can/will read a few of them in an hour, as opposed to be a few days/weeks for a novel, which really skews the payments and projections, making them too expensive to cover costs under the subscription. Plus there's often extra deals with the publishers like no cost if the reader reads less than 10% of the book which is not uncommon with novels, but for the average comic books that's only a couple of pages so pretty much every reader hits the threshold.
...Is this just US, or worldwide? If it includes non-US as well, I would have expected Whatsapp to be somewhere in the top 5.
I went to retrieve a package from a UPS truck that had pulled up in front of my house. It was remarkable to see that nearly every box in the truck had an Amazon logo.
...Which gives them an insane leverage over UPS when they are negotiating rates.
Of course, but then they couldn't get more money out of you next couple of years when they release version 2/3/4 with new/different games.
/You don't kill the golden goose