"Then how does Microsoft get away with doing the same thing as well even though they're not the sole creator? In fact, they go one further by forbidding the user from changing the default search engine on their platform, in addition to giving it away for free. This whole lawsuit was spurred by Microsoft's "FairSearch" campaign over exactly that issue; this is all about making more people use Bing."/quote?
by their platform being essentially dead.
Google has the dominant smartphone operating system, that's why this matters..
Apple gets away with it by.. well I guess they don't require even a special search provider. but mostly Apple gets away with requiring safari as default on ios is quite simply because it has such a small fraction of overall sales.
On the other hand, taxi companies almost almost comply willingly with law enforcement.
..yeah when it suits them. so same situation as with uber.
anyway don't hold that attitude when traveling. in thailand you are far more likely to be ripped off by a normal taxi and left on the side of the road to boot when the car "breaks" when you don't agree to pay 10x the fee instead of the one on the meter.
look, everyone knows in full why taxi companies and state regulation is up in arms against uber and not only in the usa. taxi medallions/permits are worth more than the cars they are put into. it's practically a license to print money. it literally would not be an issue at all if those licenses were not amount regulated. it's not like you just pay the city for a lump sum, insurance etc. no, instead you wait in line, potentially decades, or purchase one from an existing holder - and this phenomena is the same everywhere that uber is in legal hot trouble. it's NEVER about the insurances, taxes or anything like that - it's about that NO MATTER WHAT FEES you would pay you wouldn't be allowed to poach on the cab companies territory.
it used to be completely legal almost everywhere to run a car hire service where people called you up and you drove them where they wanted. sticking up a free taxi light and a sign and picking up people from dedicated taxi pickup points however you needed the taxi license for.
I believe nyc still has black cabs. you cannot hail them from the street - however having an app available changes that dynamic completely because you can hail them from the street with your app which technically goes to a central dispatcher. so that system is going to have to change as well in coming years as the yellow medallion holders notice it.
finding such phone numbers for private drivers was not easy and there was no easy organization to handle it all. now it just happens to be so easy so the taxi companies are riled up about it because it's stepping on their legally given exclusivity license to print money.
I'd argue the opposite. It seems these days that the military are just about the only ones actually training people. If you want to be a mechanic, electrician or a pile of other trades including aviation ones it's the choice that's most likely to actually get you there instead of having to wait for a lucky break. Friends and relatives that took the military path had a far smoother career track than I did.
before acquiring hs papers? I mean, you actually get a better crack at getting into such training in usa military?
anyways, in my country(not usa) the military is just a thing everyone(man) gets drafted for 6-12 months and.. well, the military decides where you go, though you have more oppurtunities if you have your highschool papers already or better yet are already in the university. the point being that it's better to move the enrollment beyond you having finished high school.
that and.. well the thing about military(usa too afaik) having the ability to order you where they want not the other way around, potentially to a warzone. potentially to get shot.
still, any one of those post-highschool options you would be better off (and some requiring) you to have actually finished high school so it does sound a bit of a chicken and egg thing. I would understand if they were to use it to withheld some social security benefits or shit like that instead of the piece of paper.
like, I am not totally opposite the idea - just the thing of using the diploma of what you did for past 3 years as the ransom - it doesn't make any sense, unless there is some connection to local universities, mcjobs etc. which actually let you gain admittance without presenting proof of passing high school(due to getting the _information_ that you passed high school through some state system)...like, if you get admitted to university, wtf do you need the diploma for more anyways?
some country recently blocked xhamster domain for xxx censorship reasons. the people used to going there for their mobile porn fix instead end up on the wikipedia page.
if you duckduckgo xhamster the FIRST LINK is the wikipedia page.
as much as I dislike corporate conspiracy loonies, in this case he does have a point: 1) you either have to enroll into a "gap program" which I guess is more counseling or some shit like that or work practice for free etc bullshit, 2) enroll in the military. 3) get a job 4) get admitted to an university(not entirely sure if you have to pay for it as well).
like it is not that far off from starting to have mandatory work practice in walmart and mcd (or just straight up pay mit for extra courses) in order to graduate.
look.. it all just sounds stupid. you fucking need to have graduated your high school to get a good shot at any of them! and I really can see some guy thinking they should "steer" people into these options, without thinking that people might have to, you know, graduated high school and seen their diploma/grades before getting on with it.
HOW THE FUCK DO YOU GET ADMITTED TO UNIVERSITY WITHOUT GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL ANYWAYS!?!? seriously, throw me a bone here. with 30 000 of cash? yes I realize that you can apply probably during the last spring of your high school, but that's with the expectation that you graduate and your final grades(in my country anyways) that are in the paper you graduate with affect admittance...
it's stupid and only serves local colleges, mcjobs and military.
also. they should be able to get the diploma as just as the paperwork from pretty much any accredited high school if they have achieved all the necessary student credits to finish high school, shouldn't they?
they left the loophole in there though: "I am having a gap year tending to my sick grandma and listening to old timey stories".
never mind that you can cancel any of those plans (apart from military, maybe, if they require that you have already drafted yourself, which would be stupid _before_ acquiring the high school finishing papers).
they also have shitloads of hydroelectric. if they use that hydroelectricity for heating instead and export the oil, it's a win on the national deficit/surplus for them.
but anyways. oil is not gas so wtf the article stub is even talking about is a bit of a mystery.
oil is a liquid. the oil is similar to diesel. it goes into a burner and that heats up water and that circulates around in tubes in the house to make it warm. it's not natural gas, propane or whatever, it's not petrol..
this is just an extension of the "all opinions are just as good" method from fox etc.
basically.. in order to be "neutral, unbiased" you have to provide both sides of a discussion equally. basically, what it means that if someone says that they should teach that the sun is made of cheddar and the moon out of marshmallow, they should get just as much of a platform to present this opinion.
it's fucking stupid and it makes stupid people even more stupid so there's that.. and it fits the binary notion.
like, about the composition and how the moon came to be.. there are like 100 scientific, kind of sense making theories. if people were sensible about unbiased they would present 1000 of those theories and the 40 DIFFERENT "god made it" arguments. in any case it would be pretty great to teach that if you teach the religious explanation, then you would also tell of the 100 OTHER RELIGIOUS EXPLANATIONS.
because basically, the quickest way to make an atheist or at least an agnostic is to simply teach that, hey, there's these fucking 100 different religious views that are totally incompatible with each other.
I would reckon than 3 percent of porn consumers pay for the lot.
but because it's basically 3 percent of all people on the planet, it's still quite a lot of money to go around.
it's not that easy to make money with random copied porno though so there's that against tumblr.
the money is in how much money you can take in and how much it costs to run it. clearly the guys at tumblr should have just focused on cost optimization.
twitter guys should have focused on that too like a fucking decade ago.
profitable would be something that has recouped the investment put into it....you know why it matters to speak about it so? you know how fucking annoying it's to see arguments that "his" idea of x or y is a good idea because he is such a genius inventor businessman.
he has made that public image on purpose so that he can get even more money for even more things that may or may not make a profit some day.
"profitable periods" is not the thing on the table, it's just just the plain profit. anyone can make a company have a profitable period, but it's a lot harder to have a self sustaining company.
the only reason to use gas service for other than cooking is if you can steal it.
look, you didn't think to install a few solar cells or fake cells, run the 100kw v8 at 100% ALL THE TIME and sell the electricity back to the grid?
the generator cost isn't an issue. 200 bucks buys you nowadays a small gene that could be converted to run on natural gas.
like, your plan makes complete sense until you consider that you could just chuck off the solar panels totally and just use gas, which if it isn't metered still sure isn't meant for you to use like that anyways. and if it's metered, just buy electricity from the same company that is providing the gas..
your tube radio is likely to have parts available that can be used and it likely has the schematic inside it to fix it.
now if a resistor on the charge circuit on your apple board goes bad you're much more screwed over since there is no schematic available and apple is actively trying all it can to hide what is broken with it and is trying to make it so that if it has an unauthorized fix it will brick itself...and also trying to make it illegal to break the encryption on the parts drm, to have a stranglehold on replacement parts(and guess what, they are not selling them! ). the official repair prices being so high anyways that it makes more sense to buy a new device instead.
and it does kinda matter when the same company denies warranty on the basis that you left a window open on a rainy day.
Because launching an Uber competitor is easier for Google, and they'd own the Goose that lays the Golden Eggs, instead of licensing the Goose to someone who pays a percentage.
hehe. that sounds plausible... until you consider what google has been up to. they are far more likely to try some rent a driver and then just get out of the business in 1 year.
google/alphabet has been terrible at copying products from competition. they failed with google video, they failed with google+ despite bolstering its numbers artificially through forced + joins from youtube users(done only for meeting a bonus quota).
they failed with motorola. pixel isn't exactly selling like hotcakes either.
now consider a success from google - android. and it's licensed out.
however if google could frame uber to be less valued via exec infiltration they could just buy it out.
it's just not silicon valley.. it's all big companies. that's the problem.
the car industry is a lot better legislated about this than the electronics industry though! like, you can get tools and docs to fix cars.
otoh, the only people who have apple diagnostic tools for current apple products are apple themselves and apple has a policy of NO REPAIR - if the diagnostic tool tells them that a single resistor needs to be changed, they will change the entire board and that will mean repairs that are worth more than the device for anything older than 2 years for apples products. it's planned that way.
if you called home depot and asked for TWO INCHES BY FOUR INCHES planks and they sold you 1.5 inches by whatever.. yes there is a problem.
I mean, they could try to rectify it some way rather easily.
I mean, right now, you call them and ask them to deliver 2 inches and they deliver 1.5 with 2 inch labels? look, if an industry has a quirk of selling something 25% smaller than they label it as they might want to rectify that quirk.. sooner or later they will do that anyways.
and you'll buy the phone for 123423 bucks or some shit like that.
and being american, the data is sure as fuck not going to be unlimited - plus are they just fucking going to ban androids? I guess it would work if they were only allowing phones sold by them. you wouldn't get away with one dollar though. more like paying 40 bucks for the phone per month and 1 for service..
I guess his idea would be to use multiple brands of packet scanners and shit....which sounds just fine, except that.. uh. those scanners suck and if you only want to move files between them anyways, why not just set up a network where the raspberry pi is a ftp or smb or whatever share.
basically that's what he wants anyways. a file share between the two machines.
here's another idea though, just make a bluetooth obex file share from the computer that you browse the internet with. or a 3rd computer. enable bt when you want to transfer files. doesn't need you to buy more shit to fix a paranoidicity problem that doesn't get fixed with buying more shit.
don't enable tcp/ip bluetooth networking though.
he doesn't want to browse the internet from the isolated machine anyways, only to move files, and to scan them while moving.
or just use IRDA to send files over. what he wants, apparently, is a file box that sits between the machine that has access to internet and one that doesn't have internet access and the machine with internet access shouldn't have direct access to the machine that is isolated and the only USE CASE is to ferry files around.
so setting up a fileshare where he can upload files from the internet enabled machine and where they then get scanned(again) before being visible to the isolated one.
but really, if you're doing something that needs such a level of isolation, why the fuck are you moving files to it from the outside anyways that much. if it's cad or whatever you're doing on it, just have a different computer to look at the reference data you need for doing your thing.
dude ringtones were popular from around 97 or whatever the year nokia introduced the sms deliverable beep tones was to.. well, up to phones having mp3 and a little while beyond. itunes probably has still some ringtones.. but.
RINGBACK tones are an OPERATOR SERVICE where instead of the beep pause beep tones you can force people calling you to listen a very shitty quality song - and typically, afaik, you only get to select from a list from the operator. and since it is a business where they can then bill you monthly for it or whatever..
it's still somewhat popular in asia. they think novelty like that is cool.
and because it's an operator service it can be tricky to turn off if you're too stupid to browse the sms codes for your operator.
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"Then how does Microsoft get away with doing the same thing as well even though they're not the sole creator? In fact, they go one further by forbidding the user from changing the default search engine on their platform, in addition to giving it away for free. This whole lawsuit was spurred by Microsoft's "FairSearch" campaign over exactly that issue; this is all about making more people use Bing."/quote?
by their platform being essentially dead.
Google has the dominant smartphone operating system, that's why this matters..
Apple gets away with it by.. well I guess they don't require even a special search provider. but mostly Apple gets away with requiring safari as default on ios is quite simply because it has such a small fraction of overall sales.
with videos that are actually on youtube.
it's a youtube link list.
the answer is youtube. netflix implies that you would pay for it. which implies the writer wants cash to start up a business.
On the other hand, taxi companies almost almost comply willingly with law enforcement.
..yeah when it suits them. so same situation as with uber.
anyway don't hold that attitude when traveling. in thailand you are far more likely to be ripped off by a normal taxi and left on the side of the road to boot when the car "breaks" when you don't agree to pay 10x the fee instead of the one on the meter.
look, everyone knows in full why taxi companies and state regulation is up in arms against uber and not only in the usa. taxi medallions/permits are worth more than the cars they are put into. it's practically a license to print money. it literally would not be an issue at all if those licenses were not amount regulated. it's not like you just pay the city for a lump sum, insurance etc. no, instead you wait in line, potentially decades, or purchase one from an existing holder - and this phenomena is the same everywhere that uber is in legal hot trouble. it's NEVER about the insurances, taxes or anything like that - it's about that NO MATTER WHAT FEES you would pay you wouldn't be allowed to poach on the cab companies territory.
it used to be completely legal almost everywhere to run a car hire service where people called you up and you drove them where they wanted. sticking up a free taxi light and a sign and picking up people from dedicated taxi pickup points however you needed the taxi license for.
I believe nyc still has black cabs. you cannot hail them from the street - however having an app available changes that dynamic completely because you can hail them from the street with your app which technically goes to a central dispatcher. so that system is going to have to change as well in coming years as the yellow medallion holders notice it.
finding such phone numbers for private drivers was not easy and there was no easy organization to handle it all. now it just happens to be so easy so the taxi companies are riled up about it because it's stepping on their legally given exclusivity license to print money.
I'd argue the opposite. It seems these days that the military are just about the only ones actually training people. If you want to be a mechanic, electrician or a pile of other trades including aviation ones it's the choice that's most likely to actually get you there instead of having to wait for a lucky break. Friends and relatives that took the military path had a far smoother career track than I did.
before acquiring hs papers? I mean, you actually get a better crack at getting into such training in usa military?
anyways, in my country(not usa) the military is just a thing everyone(man) gets drafted for 6-12 months and.. well, the military decides where you go, though you have more oppurtunities if you have your highschool papers already or better yet are already in the university. the point being that it's better to move the enrollment beyond you having finished high school.
that and.. well the thing about military(usa too afaik) having the ability to order you where they want not the other way around, potentially to a warzone. potentially to get shot.
still, any one of those post-highschool options you would be better off (and some requiring) you to have actually finished high school so it does sound a bit of a chicken and egg thing. I would understand if they were to use it to withheld some social security benefits or shit like that instead of the piece of paper.
like, I am not totally opposite the idea - just the thing of using the diploma of what you did for past 3 years as the ransom - it doesn't make any sense, unless there is some connection to local universities, mcjobs etc. which actually let you gain admittance without presenting proof of passing high school(due to getting the _information_ that you passed high school through some state system). ..like, if you get admitted to university, wtf do you need the diploma for more anyways?
an actual theory.
some country recently blocked xhamster domain for xxx censorship reasons. the people used to going there for their mobile porn fix instead end up on the wikipedia page.
if you duckduckgo xhamster the FIRST LINK is the wikipedia page.
as much as I dislike corporate conspiracy loonies, in this case he does have a point: 1) you either have to enroll into a "gap program" which I guess is more counseling or some shit like that or work practice for free etc bullshit, 2) enroll in the military. 3) get a job 4) get admitted to an university(not entirely sure if you have to pay for it as well).
like it is not that far off from starting to have mandatory work practice in walmart and mcd (or just straight up pay mit for extra courses) in order to graduate.
look.. it all just sounds stupid. you fucking need to have graduated your high school to get a good shot at any of them! and I really can see some guy thinking they should "steer" people into these options, without thinking that people might have to, you know, graduated high school and seen their diploma/grades before getting on with it.
HOW THE FUCK DO YOU GET ADMITTED TO UNIVERSITY WITHOUT GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL ANYWAYS!?!? seriously, throw me a bone here. with 30 000 of cash? yes I realize that you can apply probably during the last spring of your high school, but that's with the expectation that you graduate and your final grades(in my country anyways) that are in the paper you graduate with affect admittance...
it's stupid and only serves local colleges, mcjobs and military.
also. they should be able to get the diploma as just as the paperwork from pretty much any accredited high school if they have achieved all the necessary student credits to finish high school, shouldn't they?
they left the loophole in there though: "I am having a gap year tending to my sick grandma and listening to old timey stories".
never mind that you can cancel any of those plans (apart from military, maybe, if they require that you have already drafted yourself, which would be stupid _before_ acquiring the high school finishing papers).
they also have shitloads of hydroelectric. if they use that hydroelectricity for heating instead and export the oil, it's a win on the national deficit/surplus for them.
but anyways. oil is not gas so wtf the article stub is even talking about is a bit of a mystery.
oil is a liquid. the oil is similar to diesel. it goes into a burner and that heats up water and that circulates around in tubes in the house to make it warm. it's not natural gas, propane or whatever, it's not petrol..
this is just an extension of the "all opinions are just as good" method from fox etc.
basically.. in order to be "neutral, unbiased" you have to provide both sides of a discussion equally. basically, what it means that if someone says that they should teach that the sun is made of cheddar and the moon out of marshmallow, they should get just as much of a platform to present this opinion.
it's fucking stupid and it makes stupid people even more stupid so there's that.. and it fits the binary notion.
like, about the composition and how the moon came to be.. there are like 100 scientific, kind of sense making theories. if people were sensible about unbiased they would present 1000 of those theories and the 40 DIFFERENT "god made it" arguments. in any case it would be pretty great to teach that if you teach the religious explanation, then you would also tell of the 100 OTHER RELIGIOUS EXPLANATIONS.
because basically, the quickest way to make an atheist or at least an agnostic is to simply teach that, hey, there's these fucking 100 different religious views that are totally incompatible with each other.
some recent interview with linus was that every now and then he gets submissions in places he thought didn't have much to improve or fix bugs.
you don't put those on the changelogs though.
I would reckon than 3 percent of porn consumers pay for the lot.
but because it's basically 3 percent of all people on the planet, it's still quite a lot of money to go around.
it's not that easy to make money with random copied porno though so there's that against tumblr.
the money is in how much money you can take in and how much it costs to run it. clearly the guys at tumblr should have just focused on cost optimization.
twitter guys should have focused on that too like a fucking decade ago.
uh.. since nightshift people are a minority of course average of x is going to be mostly about people sleeping in the night.
Why would you want a highly divergent fork away from mainstream development?
to attract some investor money. why the fuck do you think ubuntu did the exact same thing?
profitable would be something that has recouped the investment put into it. ...you know why it matters to speak about it so? you know how fucking annoying it's to see arguments that "his" idea of x or y is a good idea because he is such a genius inventor businessman.
he has made that public image on purpose so that he can get even more money for even more things that may or may not make a profit some day.
"profitable periods" is not the thing on the table, it's just just the plain profit. anyone can make a company have a profitable period, but it's a lot harder to have a self sustaining company.
the only reason to use gas service for other than cooking is if you can steal it.
look, you didn't think to install a few solar cells or fake cells, run the 100kw v8 at 100% ALL THE TIME and sell the electricity back to the grid?
the generator cost isn't an issue. 200 bucks buys you nowadays a small gene that could be converted to run on natural gas.
like, your plan makes complete sense until you consider that you could just chuck off the solar panels totally and just use gas, which if it isn't metered still sure isn't meant for you to use like that anyways. and if it's metered, just buy electricity from the same company that is providing the gas..
probably not always.
just long enough that you don't care about the downsizing anymore because everyone has that already.
your tube radio is likely to have parts available that can be used and it likely has the schematic inside it to fix it.
now if a resistor on the charge circuit on your apple board goes bad you're much more screwed over since there is no schematic available and apple is actively trying all it can to hide what is broken with it and is trying to make it so that if it has an unauthorized fix it will brick itself. ..and also trying to make it illegal to break the encryption on the parts drm, to have a stranglehold on replacement parts(and guess what, they are not selling them! ). the official repair prices being so high anyways that it makes more sense to buy a new device instead.
and it does kinda matter when the same company denies warranty on the basis that you left a window open on a rainy day.
Because launching an Uber competitor is easier for Google, and they'd own the Goose that lays the Golden Eggs, instead of licensing the Goose to someone who pays a percentage.
hehe. that sounds plausible...
until you consider what google has been up to. they are far more likely to try some rent a driver and then just get out of the business in 1 year.
google/alphabet has been terrible at copying products from competition. they failed with google video, they failed with google+ despite bolstering its numbers artificially through forced + joins from youtube users(done only for meeting a bonus quota).
they failed with motorola. pixel isn't exactly selling like hotcakes either.
now consider a success from google - android. and it's licensed out.
however if google could frame uber to be less valued via exec infiltration they could just buy it out.
it's just not silicon valley.. it's all big companies.
that's the problem.
the car industry is a lot better legislated about this than the electronics industry though! like, you can get tools and docs to fix cars.
otoh, the only people who have apple diagnostic tools for current apple products are apple themselves and apple has a policy of NO REPAIR - if the diagnostic tool tells them that a single resistor needs to be changed, they will change the entire board and that will mean repairs that are worth more than the device for anything older than 2 years for apples products. it's planned that way.
it's just the same pos they have already.
besides, they HAVE ALREADY FUCKING WEB ORDERING IN MOST COUNTRIES THEY DO DELIVERY IN.
extending the delivery to be inside the store shouldn't be that big of a deal really.
and it's _still_ better than handing your card over to be photoed both sides.. with your frequent customer account address shown...
look,
if you called home depot and asked for TWO INCHES BY FOUR INCHES planks and they sold you 1.5 inches by whatever.. yes there is a problem.
I mean, they could try to rectify it some way rather easily.
I mean, right now, you call them and ask them to deliver 2 inches and they deliver 1.5 with 2 inch labels? look, if an industry has a quirk of selling something 25% smaller than they label it as they might want to rectify that quirk.. sooner or later they will do that anyways.
..with a very limited circle.
and you'll buy the phone for 123423 bucks or some shit like that.
and being american, the data is sure as fuck not going to be unlimited - plus are they just fucking going to ban androids? I guess it would work if they were only allowing phones sold by them. you wouldn't get away with one dollar though. more like paying 40 bucks for the phone per month and 1 for service..
samples? as in.. the same stuff again?
no wonder stuff keeps getting slower. imagine that every one of those takes only 4 bytes. that's 438 megabytes per year.
or is that 300 000 new builds of software from sw developers... any software.
I guess his idea would be to use multiple brands of packet scanners and shit. ...which sounds just fine, except that.. uh. those scanners suck and if you only want to move files between them anyways, why not just set up a network where the raspberry pi is a ftp or smb or whatever share.
basically that's what he wants anyways. a file share between the two machines.
here's another idea though, just make a bluetooth obex file share from the computer that you browse the internet with. or a 3rd computer. enable bt when you want to transfer files. doesn't need you to buy more shit to fix a paranoidicity problem that doesn't get fixed with buying more shit.
don't enable tcp/ip bluetooth networking though.
he doesn't want to browse the internet from the isolated machine anyways, only to move files, and to scan them while moving.
or just use IRDA to send files over. what he wants, apparently, is a file box that sits between the machine that has access to internet and one that doesn't have internet access and the machine with internet access shouldn't have direct access to the machine that is isolated and the only USE CASE is to ferry files around.
so setting up a fileshare where he can upload files from the internet enabled machine and where they then get scanned(again) before being visible to the isolated one.
but really, if you're doing something that needs such a level of isolation, why the fuck are you moving files to it from the outside anyways that much. if it's cad or whatever you're doing on it, just have a different computer to look at the reference data you need for doing your thing.
dude ringtones were popular from around 97 or whatever the year nokia introduced the sms deliverable beep tones was to.. well, up to phones having mp3 and a little while beyond. itunes probably has still some ringtones.. but.
RINGBACK tones are an OPERATOR SERVICE where instead of the beep pause beep tones you can force people calling you to listen a very shitty quality song - and typically, afaik, you only get to select from a list from the operator. and since it is a business where they can then bill you monthly for it or whatever..
it's still somewhat popular in asia. they think novelty like that is cool.
and because it's an operator service it can be tricky to turn off if you're too stupid to browse the sms codes for your operator.