The point on a mobile device is pretty dubious, actually. Who in the world would like to watch a move on the tiny little screen? I know that people these days think that's the way to watch, but really: it isn't.
I always bring my laptop on travel, so I'd watch movies on that, if they were available. But often the wifi you get at a hotel is pretty ratty.
People under 30. It's they way they want to watch stuff. I don't get it myself but I'm not going to tell someone they are watching TV wrong.
Also, what crappy hotels do you stay at that don't have TV in the rooms? Every hotel I've been in for the past few years has had a TV with HDMI in. I just either hook up my laptop or if it's a long trip I'll bring a Shield TV or Roku stick (both can navigate hotel WiFi logins). Laptop screens are too damn small.
Netflix still has to get permissions to distribute those discs.
No, actually they do not. Not in the US at least. Discs being physical items they can rent them as they see fit, as long as they are original media. Streaming, on the other hand, does require it. I mean, do you honestly think they have a bunch of DVDs setting around they also have the rights to stream without paying more and they just went "Nope!".
I don't know about 15, but I've gotten over 2 minutes from netflix after a network outage before. They do buffer quite a bit if the device allows for it. On slower internet they also throttle the bitrate at the beginning of the show to allow for buffering, then you will see the resolution climb to it's max after the buffer is established.
Increase the streaming catalog to include everything they have in their mailing only DVD catalog.
And you will be OK with paying $100 per month for the subscription then, right? It's not like that content is free. They can't just rip the DVDs they have and put it online for you to watch.
If it only lets you download in a format that only plays on their proprietary player, then it's not an improvement at all. Give users the ability to download actual video.
How is it not an improvement? You already have to use their player. There isn't a chance in hell of any studio (including the ones that actually make the "Netflix Originals") allowing unencrypted downloads that play outside the player so that will never happen. At least this way you can take the content offline, which you could not before. That is, by definition, an improvement.
Even if he does roll a "DO" on his presidential dice-of-deciding, it doesn't mean the rest of the government will allow him to. There are plenty of congressmen and women on both sides of the aisle taking money from companies that profit from H1B abuse to block any attempts to reign them in.
Note that all Trump has to do is enforce the law to reign in the most serious of the abuses like the Disney IT one. That requires no creative new executive order, no "I have a pen", just a willingness to enforce the law as written. Just the threat of the DoJ looking into a deal will likely scuttle most H-1B proposals.
Of course, if that ticks off enough of the Congress they can pass a new law, but I somehow doubt that very many politicians are going to willingly jump to support that. It's one thing to vote to enlarge the program, it's quite another to pass a law removing safeguards. It's not impossible to do, especially in a budget reconciliation, but it will be rather more difficult given the divisions in this political environment.
Then why are they not enforced now if what is happening is actually in violation of the current laws? The DOJ is part of the executive branch but the DOJ is fairly autonomous on how they enforce the law. Are you saying they are just ignoring it now? The fact of the matter is that case law around H1Bs currently favors the way it's being used now and it will take legislative action to actually rein it in.
As with all things Trump, you'll never know until he does it. The best "advice" I saw was to ignore the mouth in front of the man.
Even if he does roll a "DO" on his presidential dice-of-deciding, it doesn't mean the rest of the government will allow him to. There are plenty of congressmen and women on both sides of the aisle taking money from companies that profit from H1B abuse to block any attempts to reign them in.
You are correct, I left off a zero. It was supposed to cost around 80K per round, around the same cost as a weapon system the army has with similar capabilities, but the order cut drove the price up to the point that they might as well just toss it and fire tomahawk missiles. At this point the navy is stuck with the ships. I think they are going to use them as tech demonstrators to shake out what does and doesn't work. That's about the only value they can get out of them at this point.
Well a lot of that is R&D costs that was supposed to be spread out over 32 ships, but the order was dropped to 3. They cost $7.5 Billion per ship, but the cost excluding R&D was a mere $3.96 billion. It's the same reason it's guns ammo costs $80,000 per round. The R&D costs were supposed to have been spread out over enough rounds to cover 32 ships, but at just 3 ships, the cost skyrocketed as the order size dropped.
Honestly, the DoD needs to decide to scrap a program before they start building the damn things and are stuck with a few really expensive systems. Or just figure out they don't really want the damn things before they even start development. But this is the USGov, so that will never happen.
I'm only worried about them and don't give a shit about the drones. Can they get hurt by the attacks?
Not likely. The drones in the article are lightweight, mostly plastic and composites. Without seeing them up close it's hard to appreciate just how big an eagle can be, and those talons are no joke. The drones wouldn't stand a chance.
Not really. The reduction in user printing (and the time associated with just that activity) more than makes up for the extra time required to print with a badge swipe.
Apple isn't an "ad company" because they failed with iAds. They tried, they tried really hard - but couldn't pull it off.
And yet even then it wasn't their primary source of revenue or their main focus. Google is the one interested in customer data so they can push ads on them. Apple has never shown any interest in mass data collection from their users outside what they need to have to provide their services (such as cross-device call history sync, as is the case here), and they certainly are not making money off selling it, as the OP suggested.
One of my customers has reduced their printing by ~90% by simply requiring a badge-swipe at the printer to actually print their documents and using reporting to work with heavy printer users to reduce their usage. When the user knows that their usage is being monitored they start to ask "Do I really need to print this?" Most of the time the answer is no. Paper records are still kept where required, but all those transient documents that everyone printed out of habit dropped off drastically. This allowed the company to reduce their printer count, reduce consumables costs, reduce maintenance costs, reduce document disposal costs, and increased security (the custom deals with a lot of sensitive financial information, so reduced printing reduced the effort required to make sure users disposed of their documents correctly and reduced the chances that a document with sensitive information ended up in a dumpster and not a shredder truck).
Maybe someday we can finally get rid of fax machines.
Good luck. The legal profession (and extensions of them, such as courts, mortgage brokers, etc) refuse to move on from them. And the medical profession to a lesser extent.
CNN, ABC, MSNBC, Huffpo, and every other media outlet in the country. Lie and Deny has worked pretty well against the masses for a long time. People do eventually catch on though. Hence, just before the election 76% of people said that the US was going the wrong way, media has a 6% trustworthy rating (probably lower now). The first stat was a dead giveaway that Hillary did not have a 99.8% chance of winning as polsters proclaimed on those same media outlets.
In fairness, there is certainly some bias in the little tiny bit of Right leaning media (Kelly and O'Reilly are left of center but for the sake of argument lets call them "fair"). It's so little though, very few people noticed.
And so does Gizmodo and the other former Gawker sites still operating, which seems somewhat ironic now.
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The point on a mobile device is pretty dubious, actually. Who in the world would like to watch a move on the tiny little screen? I know that people these days think that's the way to watch, but really: it isn't.
I always bring my laptop on travel, so I'd watch movies on that, if they were available. But often the wifi you get at a hotel is pretty ratty.
People under 30. It's they way they want to watch stuff. I don't get it myself but I'm not going to tell someone they are watching TV wrong.
Also, what crappy hotels do you stay at that don't have TV in the rooms? Every hotel I've been in for the past few years has had a TV with HDMI in. I just either hook up my laptop or if it's a long trip I'll bring a Shield TV or Roku stick (both can navigate hotel WiFi logins). Laptop screens are too damn small.
Netflix still has to get permissions to distribute those discs.
No, actually they do not. Not in the US at least. Discs being physical items they can rent them as they see fit, as long as they are original media. Streaming, on the other hand, does require it. I mean, do you honestly think they have a bunch of DVDs setting around they also have the rights to stream without paying more and they just went "Nope!".
Ok, cool - you got any names for decent fibre suppliers in Togo ?
http://www.fibers1.com/fiber-s...
I don't know about 15, but I've gotten over 2 minutes from netflix after a network outage before. They do buffer quite a bit if the device allows for it. On slower internet they also throttle the bitrate at the beginning of the show to allow for buffering, then you will see the resolution climb to it's max after the buffer is established.
Increase the streaming catalog to include everything they have in their mailing only DVD catalog.
And you will be OK with paying $100 per month for the subscription then, right? It's not like that content is free. They can't just rip the DVDs they have and put it online for you to watch.
If it only lets you download in a format that only plays on their proprietary player, then it's not an improvement at all. Give users the ability to download actual video.
How is it not an improvement? You already have to use their player. There isn't a chance in hell of any studio (including the ones that actually make the "Netflix Originals") allowing unencrypted downloads that play outside the player so that will never happen. At least this way you can take the content offline, which you could not before. That is, by definition, an improvement.
Did Amazon just invent a tablet?
Sounds more like the tablet equivalent of an old fashioned console TV.
Even if he does roll a "DO" on his presidential dice-of-deciding, it doesn't mean the rest of the government will allow him to. There are plenty of congressmen and women on both sides of the aisle taking money from companies that profit from H1B abuse to block any attempts to reign them in.
Note that all Trump has to do is enforce the law to reign in the most serious of the abuses like the Disney IT one. That requires no creative new executive order, no "I have a pen", just a willingness to enforce the law as written. Just the threat of the DoJ looking into a deal will likely scuttle most H-1B proposals.
Of course, if that ticks off enough of the Congress they can pass a new law, but I somehow doubt that very many politicians are going to willingly jump to support that. It's one thing to vote to enlarge the program, it's quite another to pass a law removing safeguards. It's not impossible to do, especially in a budget reconciliation, but it will be rather more difficult given the divisions in this political environment.
Then why are they not enforced now if what is happening is actually in violation of the current laws? The DOJ is part of the executive branch but the DOJ is fairly autonomous on how they enforce the law. Are you saying they are just ignoring it now? The fact of the matter is that case law around H1Bs currently favors the way it's being used now and it will take legislative action to actually rein it in.
It's "bully pulpit" btw. Although in this case....
Silly America. One day they'll learn
Friday a group of protesters picketed Amazon's warehouse in Dunfermline, Scotland
How did all of those silly Americans get to Scotland?
Booze Cruise gone awry is my guess.
Silly America. One day they'll learn
Friday a group of protesters picketed Amazon's warehouse in Dunfermline, Scotland
Amazon is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company, founded in July 5, 1994 by Jeff Bezos and based in Seattle, Washington.
Yes, but the customers and employees of the Dunfermline, Scotland warehouse are not.
As with all things Trump, you'll never know until he does it. The best "advice" I saw was to ignore the mouth in front of the man.
Even if he does roll a "DO" on his presidential dice-of-deciding, it doesn't mean the rest of the government will allow him to. There are plenty of congressmen and women on both sides of the aisle taking money from companies that profit from H1B abuse to block any attempts to reign them in.
Silly America. One day they'll learn
Friday a group of protesters picketed Amazon's warehouse in Dunfermline, Scotland
You are correct, I left off a zero. It was supposed to cost around 80K per round, around the same cost as a weapon system the army has with similar capabilities, but the order cut drove the price up to the point that they might as well just toss it and fire tomahawk missiles. At this point the navy is stuck with the ships. I think they are going to use them as tech demonstrators to shake out what does and doesn't work. That's about the only value they can get out of them at this point.
Well a lot of that is R&D costs that was supposed to be spread out over 32 ships, but the order was dropped to 3. They cost $7.5 Billion per ship, but the cost excluding R&D was a mere $3.96 billion. It's the same reason it's guns ammo costs $80,000 per round. The R&D costs were supposed to have been spread out over enough rounds to cover 32 ships, but at just 3 ships, the cost skyrocketed as the order size dropped.
Honestly, the DoD needs to decide to scrap a program before they start building the damn things and are stuck with a few really expensive systems. Or just figure out they don't really want the damn things before they even start development. But this is the USGov, so that will never happen.
Tangles in the brain? They make it sound like the brain is just made up of several million coat hangers!
Nope, it's made up of long strings of used Christmas lights.
The battery slowly swelled up and busted the case.
Did you take it to an Apple store or open a ticket on it? What did they tell you?
I'm only worried about them and don't give a shit about the drones. Can they get hurt by the attacks?
Not likely. The drones in the article are lightweight, mostly plastic and composites. Without seeing them up close it's hard to appreciate just how big an eagle can be, and those talons are no joke. The drones wouldn't stand a chance.
Not really. The reduction in user printing (and the time associated with just that activity) more than makes up for the extra time required to print with a badge swipe.
Apple isn't an "ad company" because they failed with iAds. They tried, they tried really hard - but couldn't pull it off.
And yet even then it wasn't their primary source of revenue or their main focus. Google is the one interested in customer data so they can push ads on them. Apple has never shown any interest in mass data collection from their users outside what they need to have to provide their services (such as cross-device call history sync, as is the case here), and they certainly are not making money off selling it, as the OP suggested.
One of my customers has reduced their printing by ~90% by simply requiring a badge-swipe at the printer to actually print their documents and using reporting to work with heavy printer users to reduce their usage. When the user knows that their usage is being monitored they start to ask "Do I really need to print this?" Most of the time the answer is no. Paper records are still kept where required, but all those transient documents that everyone printed out of habit dropped off drastically. This allowed the company to reduce their printer count, reduce consumables costs, reduce maintenance costs, reduce document disposal costs, and increased security (the custom deals with a lot of sensitive financial information, so reduced printing reduced the effort required to make sure users disposed of their documents correctly and reduced the chances that a document with sensitive information ended up in a dumpster and not a shredder truck).
Maybe someday we can finally get rid of fax machines.
Good luck. The legal profession (and extensions of them, such as courts, mortgage brokers, etc) refuse to move on from them. And the medical profession to a lesser extent.
You seem to be confusing Apple, a hardware/software/content company, with Google, an ad agency.
Somebody may be getting sued again...
Gawker is no more (praise be the Hulkster and his buddy Thiel). Gizmodo and the other surviving Gawker sites are owned by Univision now.
CNN, ABC, MSNBC, Huffpo, and every other media outlet in the country. Lie and Deny has worked pretty well against the masses for a long time. People do eventually catch on though. Hence, just before the election 76% of people said that the US was going the wrong way, media has a 6% trustworthy rating (probably lower now). The first stat was a dead giveaway that Hillary did not have a 99.8% chance of winning as polsters proclaimed on those same media outlets.
In fairness, there is certainly some bias in the little tiny bit of Right leaning media (Kelly and O'Reilly are left of center but for the sake of argument lets call them "fair"). It's so little though, very few people noticed.
And so does Gizmodo and the other former Gawker sites still operating, which seems somewhat ironic now.