It happened to gain popularity because cell phone providers made it easier than email
You really think so? When SMS became popular, many folk still weren't regularly using email and most of those who did have addresses wouldn't have push email access on their phone.
What made SMS popular was that it's nearly instantaneous and, particularly at a time when people paid for phone calls or had a limited bundle of minutes, it was generally low-cost.
They are bringing in $400 per trip. It will only take 2.5 million trips to break even. (Not counting running costs. electricity, taxes, employees, etc).
Or, looking at it another way, if the system can handle 2,000 passengers in each direction, we have 4,000 passengers each paying $25 or $100,000 of income per hour at capacity. So, 10,000 capacity hours would pay for the system (excluding maintenance and wear and tear). Assuming six capacity hours per day it would take 4.5 years to get the initial $1 billion in revenue, with the other 18 hours per day providing income for operating, maintenance and ROI.
I'd think that, if it's doable at even twice the cost, it could work. But whether it can be done for even a couple of billion is anyone's guess.
Also, if they self report, lies/truth bending are a thing. Like, if I were to lose $300 for saying I bummed a smoke at the bar two weeks ago, I'd never admit it, but if it was to test the effectiveness of vapes, I'd be completely honest.
The article is available at the NEJM. It says "Participants assigned to the rewards and redeemable deposit groups were eligible to earn $100, $200, and $300 if at 1, 3, and 6 months after the quit date, respectively, they submitted blood or urine samples for testing and the samples were negative for nicotine metabolites"
So self-reporting bias doesn't seem to be a concern for this group.
AI has a great many purposes. I'd argue that many of those Google implement it for are indeed to serve the customer. When I look at my phone in the morning, it telling me my commute to work is backed up and here's an alternate route isn't serving Google or showing me more ads. It's making my phone more useful which might make me stick with Android when I next upgrade.
Recognizing that I'm at work and might want to listen to instrumental music offers a better service.
Arguing that AI by Google is currently only used for the purpose of increasing ad views is to distract from the many ways it's used that don't increase ad views but simply make their services better and more useful than those of the competition.
The purpose of the AI is to serve *Google's* interest, and Google earn money by selling your eyeballs to advertisers (with the exception of a couple of paid service like the non-free Youtube Music and Youtube Premium), which means the AI optimizes for one single thing : - make you stay as much as possible on youtube (thus prolonging your exposure to lucrative ads).
You do realize that the purpose of the subscription is to get ad free access?
Device manufacturers pay royalties when they sell a device that supports GPS. There might be an exception for cell phones that only use GPS for 911 calls - but GPS is not free.
10 U.S.C. 2281(b) states that GPS shall be provided without direct user fees. A royalty would be a user fee. Can you point to any evidence of such royalties being charged to anyone for civil use of the GPS signal?
Obviously there could be royalties payable to mapmakers but that's for something far beyond identifying your coordinates.
A car at 10mph feels incredibly slow to a driver. It will, however, do a whole lot of damage to a person (or indeed bend some metal on another car) if there's an impact. A bicycle has much less mass so will therefore do a lot less damage at the same speeds, in addition to being more maneuverable, having better visibility for the cyclist as opposed to the driver, and having a shorter stopping distance.
just re-release the nexus 5x with updated internals (and same nexus 5x price)
As someone who purchased four Nexus 5x phones, each of which is now bricked due to the bootloop fault, I think Google would rather that phone be forgotten. Honestly it was an embarrassment the way in which Google knew of issues with that device and didn't stand behind their customers.
Also, they're free services and apps that you can't fucking uninstall even if you want to - the best you can do is revert all upgrades to the installed but unwanted google app.
Can't you just root your phone and remove these apps? Or did you buy a phone from someone other than Google that doesn't let you and now you're complaining about the app maker, not the phone maker?
MS is a winner in schools now because they have leveraged their corporate management tools to the classroom.
All the schools around here use Chromebooks. They're massively successful in education because of their low upfront costs, long battery life, low power and very easy management. Google Docs is a staple tool in education.
No human driver could have seen that woman in time to stop, but a car equipped with infrared lidar should be able to. Time to update the sensors on the test fleet.
Any evidence for that statement? You can't rely on the video - digital cameras have much, much poorer dynamic range than the human eye. When you drive at night, you don't have nearly as dramatic a cut-off in your vision as is shown in the video. That's just one reason why you couldn't rely on digital cameras alone (at least those relying on visible light) to detect obstacles in a moving car. You could use a camera operating outside the visible spectrum and therefore could illuminate much higher without dazzling oncoming drivers.
Seems like a strange attitude. Google have been publishing their support cycle and end of life for years - certainly since we'll before the Nexus 5x and 6p.
The likes of MyTinyTodo uses obsolete mysql calls. You can't even run it with an up-to-date MySQL server. Of course I have the source, so could update it, but it leaves you wondering if there are other flaws. Since the environment it's running on will change over time, it's useful to know the software might survive it.
Also, I see updates (even infrequent ones) as some evidence of an active user base. Again, that means that if there's some significant change required, it's more likely to happen.
Do you actually need to self-host, or is it just necessary due to your own philosophical predilections?
Yeah, possibly sensitive information, so it needs to be self-hosted.
As the AC said, it's probably not that unusual a requirement for a To-Do list, which left me a little surprised at just how much this has moved to the cloud in recent years. I can imagine a whole host of folk from doctors and lawyers through IT security folks would want to have easy access to their to-do list, but wouldn't want a copy of it living anywhere they don't control (and for some it might even be illegal to do so).
For full self-driving you need some mechanism to clear the sensors if they get obscured. That usually means wipers for rain/snow and heaters for frost/snow.
And not just for full self-driving. Why do automakers continue to place the back up camera in a location that's not covered by the rear wiper? Have they never driven on roads covered with salt and melting snow?
In which case there would be no contract, no agreement to sell. Without a contract of sale, Redbox would have no license at all.
But there was a sale. Redbox paid for the item it purchased. The meeting of the minds is between the seller, say Walmart, and the purchaser, Redbox. Walmart said "I have this box and I'll sell it to you for $14.99", an offer Redbox accepted.
The judge appears to have found that Disney's language was insufficient to create a binding shrinkwrap contract.
“The phrase “Codes are not for sale or transfer” cannot constitute a shrink wrap contract because Disney’s Combo Pack box makes no suggestion that opening the box constitutes acceptance of any further license restrictions,” the judge wrote.
So absent a shrinkwrap agreement with Disney, you're left with regular copyright law in its place. Alongside that, the purchaser, Redbox, has all the rights that go with the First Sale Doctrine.
Phlex creates a voice interface for Plex. Or, as also suggested, you can upload your own music to Google Play and pay only for storage. $24/year is pretty reasonable for 100GB.
I imagine it's supposed to compete with the similarly priced Google Home Max. However, the Max exists in an ecosystem, not as an island. So I can have a Google Home Mini in rooms where a voice assistant is useful, but I don't need music. I can have a Google Home for $100 in rooms where I'd like music, but it doesn't need to be loud. And I can put a Max in rooms where I might host a party.
And, if I already have a hifi, I can use a Chromecast Audio and a Google Home Mini to get excellent quality sound with voice control for under $100. Google also has the advantage of by far the best voice recognition and natural language parsing of all the available assistants.
Apple have a long way to go if they want to catch up. Unless those already inside their walled garden buy these things by the lorry load, I'm not sure they ever will.
That's what I dislike about echo and its "skills" you have to talk to it like you're building a command at the command line for it to get anything right. Google home on the other hand handles commands more like natural conversation.
Yeah I was an early Alexa adopter but last year switched them out and now own a Google Home or Mini for pretty much every room. The voice interaction is better and the answers are more accurate.
The only thing I miss is the inter-device intercom which is much better than Google's "Broadcast".
I have a whole bunch around the house. Let's think what information they are gathering...
Where I live and how interested I am in knowing the weather and whether Target is still open. My musical preferences My dog's musical preferences - they get music when I'm not home My radio preferences Random questions about every interest a child in the house has. How long does xxx animal live?
Pretty much everything I ask of the Google Home is something I'd otherwise ask Google in the browser except the odd automation related thing - turn that lamp on/that lamp off.
Tracking cookies on websites are much more concerning to me than anything I tell a smart speaker.
Then you can sell them on your music subscription.
Even for those with a substantial music collection, subscriptions are likely to offer value just because of their breadth.
The problem as I see it is that while the big subscription offerings truly are enormous in the size of their catalog, they are by no means complete. If you own a CD that's not in their catalog, you are going to be prevented from easily listening to it on an echo. I think that's a big mistake.
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You really think so? When SMS became popular, many folk still weren't regularly using email and most of those who did have addresses wouldn't have push email access on their phone.
What made SMS popular was that it's nearly instantaneous and, particularly at a time when people paid for phone calls or had a limited bundle of minutes, it was generally low-cost.
Or, looking at it another way, if the system can handle 2,000 passengers in each direction, we have 4,000 passengers each paying $25 or $100,000 of income per hour at capacity. So, 10,000 capacity hours would pay for the system (excluding maintenance and wear and tear). Assuming six capacity hours per day it would take 4.5 years to get the initial $1 billion in revenue, with the other 18 hours per day providing income for operating, maintenance and ROI.
I'd think that, if it's doable at even twice the cost, it could work. But whether it can be done for even a couple of billion is anyone's guess.
Are you suggesting they borrowed clean blood samples from a co-worker to get $600?
The article is available at the NEJM. It says "Participants assigned to the rewards and redeemable deposit groups were eligible to earn $100, $200, and $300 if at 1, 3, and 6 months after the quit date, respectively, they submitted blood or urine samples for testing and the samples were negative for nicotine metabolites"
So self-reporting bias doesn't seem to be a concern for this group.
Okay, but I missed out your first line:
AI has a great many purposes. I'd argue that many of those Google implement it for are indeed to serve the customer. When I look at my phone in the morning, it telling me my commute to work is backed up and here's an alternate route isn't serving Google or showing me more ads. It's making my phone more useful which might make me stick with Android when I next upgrade.
Recognizing that I'm at work and might want to listen to instrumental music offers a better service.
Arguing that AI by Google is currently only used for the purpose of increasing ad views is to distract from the many ways it's used that don't increase ad views but simply make their services better and more useful than those of the competition.
You do realize that the purpose of the subscription is to get ad free access?
10 U.S.C. 2281(b) states that GPS shall be provided without direct user fees. A royalty would be a user fee. Can you point to any evidence of such royalties being charged to anyone for civil use of the GPS signal?
Obviously there could be royalties payable to mapmakers but that's for something far beyond identifying your coordinates.
A car at 10mph feels incredibly slow to a driver. It will, however, do a whole lot of damage to a person (or indeed bend some metal on another car) if there's an impact. A bicycle has much less mass so will therefore do a lot less damage at the same speeds, in addition to being more maneuverable, having better visibility for the cyclist as opposed to the driver, and having a shorter stopping distance.
As someone who purchased four Nexus 5x phones, each of which is now bricked due to the bootloop fault, I think Google would rather that phone be forgotten. Honestly it was an embarrassment the way in which Google knew of issues with that device and didn't stand behind their customers.
It was widely announced and isn't exactly hidden. [link only works on Chrome 65]
Can't you just root your phone and remove these apps? Or did you buy a phone from someone other than Google that doesn't let you and now you're complaining about the app maker, not the phone maker?
All the schools around here use Chromebooks. They're massively successful in education because of their low upfront costs, long battery life, low power and very easy management. Google Docs is a staple tool in education.
Any evidence for that statement? You can't rely on the video - digital cameras have much, much poorer dynamic range than the human eye. When you drive at night, you don't have nearly as dramatic a cut-off in your vision as is shown in the video. That's just one reason why you couldn't rely on digital cameras alone (at least those relying on visible light) to detect obstacles in a moving car. You could use a camera operating outside the visible spectrum and therefore could illuminate much higher without dazzling oncoming drivers.
Seems like a strange attitude. Google have been publishing their support cycle and end of life for years - certainly since we'll before the Nexus 5x and 6p.
The likes of MyTinyTodo uses obsolete mysql calls. You can't even run it with an up-to-date MySQL server. Of course I have the source, so could update it, but it leaves you wondering if there are other flaws. Since the environment it's running on will change over time, it's useful to know the software might survive it.
Also, I see updates (even infrequent ones) as some evidence of an active user base. Again, that means that if there's some significant change required, it's more likely to happen.
Yeah, possibly sensitive information, so it needs to be self-hosted.
As the AC said, it's probably not that unusual a requirement for a To-Do list, which left me a little surprised at just how much this has moved to the cloud in recent years. I can imagine a whole host of folk from doctors and lawyers through IT security folks would want to have easy access to their to-do list, but wouldn't want a copy of it living anywhere they don't control (and for some it might even be illegal to do so).
And not just for full self-driving. Why do automakers continue to place the back up camera in a location that's not covered by the rear wiper? Have they never driven on roads covered with salt and melting snow?
But there was a sale. Redbox paid for the item it purchased. The meeting of the minds is between the seller, say Walmart, and the purchaser, Redbox. Walmart said "I have this box and I'll sell it to you for $14.99", an offer Redbox accepted.
The judge appears to have found that Disney's language was insufficient to create a binding shrinkwrap contract.
Deadline has this by way of explanation:
So absent a shrinkwrap agreement with Disney, you're left with regular copyright law in its place. Alongside that, the purchaser, Redbox, has all the rights that go with the First Sale Doctrine.
At least Chrome limits background tabs to 1% of CPU and will, in future, pause javascript entirely in those pages.
Phlex creates a voice interface for Plex. Or, as also suggested, you can upload your own music to Google Play and pay only for storage. $24/year is pretty reasonable for 100GB.
I imagine it's supposed to compete with the similarly priced Google Home Max. However, the Max exists in an ecosystem, not as an island. So I can have a Google Home Mini in rooms where a voice assistant is useful, but I don't need music. I can have a Google Home for $100 in rooms where I'd like music, but it doesn't need to be loud. And I can put a Max in rooms where I might host a party.
And, if I already have a hifi, I can use a Chromecast Audio and a Google Home Mini to get excellent quality sound with voice control for under $100. Google also has the advantage of by far the best voice recognition and natural language parsing of all the available assistants.
Apple have a long way to go if they want to catch up. Unless those already inside their walled garden buy these things by the lorry load, I'm not sure they ever will.
I'm now eagerly awaiting the submission for "Yelp rebrands itself YelpCoin"
Yeah I was an early Alexa adopter but last year switched them out and now own a Google Home or Mini for pretty much every room. The voice interaction is better and the answers are more accurate.
The only thing I miss is the inter-device intercom which is much better than Google's "Broadcast".
I have a whole bunch around the house. Let's think what information they are gathering...
Where I live and how interested I am in knowing the weather and whether Target is still open.
My musical preferences
My dog's musical preferences - they get music when I'm not home
My radio preferences
Random questions about every interest a child in the house has. How long does xxx animal live?
Pretty much everything I ask of the Google Home is something I'd otherwise ask Google in the browser except the odd automation related thing - turn that lamp on/that lamp off.
Tracking cookies on websites are much more concerning to me than anything I tell a smart speaker.
Even for those with a substantial music collection, subscriptions are likely to offer value just because of their breadth.
The problem as I see it is that while the big subscription offerings truly are enormous in the size of their catalog, they are by no means complete. If you own a CD that's not in their catalog, you are going to be prevented from easily listening to it on an echo. I think that's a big mistake.