>> How do poor people get mail, then?...pay their bills?
1) Centralized and postbox mail pickup would still be daily. 2) If you're waiting until the last possible day to pay your bill, that's dumb for another reason: mail isn't guaranteed to be delivered by a certain time even it it's received. 3) The mail would still arrive every OTHER day, and we know that's no problem already because (wait for it) sometimes we already SKIP TWO DAYS in a row (e.g., Sunday + a federal holiday on a Monday) and nothing bad happens.
>> snail mail traffic has seen a huge drop. Because of this...mail delivery organization...will not be delivering letters and magazines on [day] anymore
Seems reasonable: it you have less volume, reduce your costs by dropping your capacity. Coming soon to USPS I hope? (Even every other day might be worth it - the USPS's "no Saturdays" plan actually leaves a three-day gap in most weeks.)
Insightful, eh? This looks like an article from 1995 about web vs. desktop apps.
>> (web apps) don't work without internet access
Check out what HTML5 does and get back to us.
>> uses can block ads on web apps, not generally not regular apps, which is probably be biggest reason many companies push apps
Yes, and that native apps can easily scour your information and upload it to the mothership. (Though it doesn't make sense for "brand" apps - it's the entertainment apps that benefit from higher-viewed ads.) However, many web apps scour information too, even with "ad blocking," because they either use a central tracking system (e.g., "sign on with Google") or reconcile (generally unblockable) site-specific tracking information with their mothership on the backend.
Where would our customers be if we didn't call the number on the radio telling us our little business could have its own APP for "less than $10K"? Think of the doze^b^b^b^b THOUSANDS of relativ^b^b^b^b^b^b^b CUSTOMERS who will install it and igno^b^b^b^b disab^b^b^b^b^b LOVE our incessant notifications for offers and coupons from the store they used to just like and patronize, but now feel much more passionately about.
I'm pretty sure the curve between maximizing movie-in-theatre revenue and then DVD-before-everyone-forgets-about-it revenue is already well-understood by the entertainment industry.
But, I still don't understand NEW MOVIE piracy in developed countries. Sure, I pirate every new GoT episode within hours of the official air date, but it's TV that I watch on a 23-inch monitor where quality doesn't really matter. Same thing with a 10+ year-old movie or cartoons that I watch with my kids. However, when I want to watch something with cutting-edge special effects and sound on my home theater (or any 32"+ TV with separate sound system), dropping the $3 to rent a high-quality edition that is guaranteed not to crap out halfway through (which tends to drive off my wife if she's watching) suddenly becomes worth it.
if (isModel(surroundingCars.inFront, Models.Buick) || isOwnerHomeState(surroundingCars.inFront, States.Florida)) {
externalSpeaker.play(new voiceToSound("Get the fuck off my road asshole! I'm driving here."));
surroundingCars.inFront.aggroPoints++; }
for each car in surroundingCars {
if (car.aggroPoints > 3) {
if(car.occupants.lookHarmless) {
car.flipOff();
}
} }...
No, not zero. Most affluent populations are at NEGATIVE population growth, dropping down to 2.0 or less (where the replacement rate is about 2.1-2.3) when GDP hit $30K per capita. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility
>> Why do you even need a 'smart TV' in the first place? We live in an age where media-center computers and DVRs are ubiquitous, and all your TV really needs to be is a high-def monitor to connect to these devices.
The author seems to assume that we're talking about the big TVs in the living room or family room where you might have a separate audio setup. For other TVs in workout areas, kitchens and bedroom, the built-in speakers and "low cord-ness" of no separate media center or DVR is a big plus.
>> Windows 10 is not an upgrade and no reasonable person install it "happily!"
"Happily" because the start-up time (especially on old machines) is worth the upgrade. I typically use these machines to hop on line, stream a movie or some TV episodes down to a TV, and that's about it. The automatic updates don't bother me - I want those because I sometimes access some pretty shady sites to get my material - and I know how to turn the telemetry information off. And what I really want - the ability to run this hardware until it dies, rather than Microsoft eventually pulls patch support for Windows 7/8 - is now a couple of years closer to reality.
The only thing I don't understand is no Vista->Windows 10 upgrades. Some of my machines really are that old, and I'm considering burning some of the Windows 7 licenses I never used just to get those rebuilt and into the modern era. (Meanwhile, I'm teaching my kids about Raspberry Pi-based Linux systems and getting them to do as much work as they can on Google docs, so hopefully Windows 10 will be the last Windows generation my home network has to support.)
This. I've been happily upgrading to Windows 10 on all kinds of shitbox hardware lying around the house (especially laptops I use for, er, "on-demand" streaming on far-flung TVs). To have a hardware vendor this unprepared for a shipping OS after the fact tells you that Samsung isn't a real hardware vendor.
>> While security experts think the ($90K) zero-day may be overpriced
As a security expert and occasional entrepreneur, let me tell you why this isn't overpriced. Let's say you could deliver 10,000 phishing emails that lead to installation of $70/unlock ransomware screens, of which 50% of victims usually pay. That's $350K of revenue, minus costs of the initial phishing campaign ($5K-ish), bitcoin exchange fees (maybe $10K) and the $90K for your zero day. That leaves a profit of about $250K - not bad for a few days of work.
As a developer, "1 in 4" seems low based on usage stats. I know I almost never install "the app" for any brand - if/when I want something from them I just pull up the web site (and if their site doesn't work on my mobile device, fuck 'em). However, I'm happy to see corporations continue to pour money into the "we need our own app" hole.
>> Please rest assured that the data is safe with me. It was extracted for proof only. Honestly, I do this job for a living, not for fun
If that's true, then these enterprising young job creators are missing a viable revenue stream: also selling copies of the data. (In other words, anyone who says this is still full of it.)
If mere citizens got to approve all the stupid stuff governments do, there wouldn't be much government left.
However, in the case of this poster I'm OK if he goes lost and no one bothers to look for him - the naivety it took to develop his original posting is truly Slashdot-worthy.
>> Google To Bring Official Android Support To the Raspberry Pi 3 >> Google Steps Up Pressure on Partners Tardy in Updating Android
OK, Google. Which is it? (Because I'm pretty sure there will be a lot of Pi "makers" who never touch a thing once they get their shoestring operations working.)
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>> How do poor people get mail, then? ...pay their bills?
1) Centralized and postbox mail pickup would still be daily.
2) If you're waiting until the last possible day to pay your bill, that's dumb for another reason: mail isn't guaranteed to be delivered by a certain time even it it's received.
3) The mail would still arrive every OTHER day, and we know that's no problem already because (wait for it) sometimes we already SKIP TWO DAYS in a row (e.g., Sunday + a federal holiday on a Monday) and nothing bad happens.
>> snail mail traffic has seen a huge drop. Because of this...mail delivery organization...will not be delivering letters and magazines on [day] anymore
Seems reasonable: it you have less volume, reduce your costs by dropping your capacity. Coming soon to USPS I hope? (Even every other day might be worth it - the USPS's "no Saturdays" plan actually leaves a three-day gap in most weeks.)
Insightful, eh? This looks like an article from 1995 about web vs. desktop apps.
>> (web apps) don't work without internet access
Check out what HTML5 does and get back to us.
>> uses can block ads on web apps, not generally not regular apps, which is probably be biggest reason many companies push apps
Yes, and that native apps can easily scour your information and upload it to the mothership. (Though it doesn't make sense for "brand" apps - it's the entertainment apps that benefit from higher-viewed ads.) However, many web apps scour information too, even with "ad blocking," because they either use a central tracking system (e.g., "sign on with Google") or reconcile (generally unblockable) site-specific tracking information with their mothership on the backend.
Where would our customers be if we didn't call the number on the radio telling us our little business could have its own APP for "less than $10K"? Think of the doze^b^b^b^b THOUSANDS of relativ^b^b^b^b^b^b^b CUSTOMERS who will install it and igno^b^b^b^b disab^b^b^b^b^b LOVE our incessant notifications for offers and coupons from the store they used to just like and patronize, but now feel much more passionately about.
Apps!</snark>
I'm pretty sure the curve between maximizing movie-in-theatre revenue and then DVD-before-everyone-forgets-about-it revenue is already well-understood by the entertainment industry.
But, I still don't understand NEW MOVIE piracy in developed countries. Sure, I pirate every new GoT episode within hours of the official air date, but it's TV that I watch on a 23-inch monitor where quality doesn't really matter. Same thing with a 10+ year-old movie or cartoons that I watch with my kids. However, when I want to watch something with cutting-edge special effects and sound on my home theater (or any 32"+ TV with separate sound system), dropping the $3 to rent a high-quality edition that is guaranteed not to crap out halfway through (which tends to drive off my wife if she's watching) suddenly becomes worth it.
>> Here in Portland Oregon
That's interesting. Maybe someone should make a show about your city.
if (isModel(surroundingCars.inFront, Models.Buick) || isOwnerHomeState(surroundingCars.inFront, States.Florida)) {
...
externalSpeaker.play(new voiceToSound("Get the fuck off my road asshole! I'm driving here."));
surroundingCars.inFront.aggroPoints++;
}
for each car in surroundingCars {
if (car.aggroPoints > 3) {
if(car.occupants.lookHarmless) {
car.flipOff();
}
}
}
if (location - evilcorpHQ < 100) {
horn.honk(5000);
}
if (location - tinderuser.closest < 50) {
horn.honk(50);
horn.honk(50);
}
>> Fewer kids, but not zero population growth.
No, not zero. Most affluent populations are at NEGATIVE population growth, dropping down to 2.0 or less (where the replacement rate is about 2.1-2.3) when GDP hit $30K per capita.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility
>> many religions want their followers to go forth and multiply
Find me a successful religion that DOESN'T reward parents for carpeting the earth with their indoctrinated offspring.
>> we don't want to live in a retrograde world where "we have to freeze population growth.
We're already at a point where the more educated/affluent you are, the fewer kids you have. Why is the converse so bad?
Step 1: buy the box Step 2: wipe, install clean OS
I had had enough with bloatware years ago, so now it's nothing but OEM Windows (if not Linux) for me.
>> Why do you even need a 'smart TV' in the first place? We live in an age where media-center computers and DVRs are ubiquitous, and all your TV really needs to be is a high-def monitor to connect to these devices.
The author seems to assume that we're talking about the big TVs in the living room or family room where you might have a separate audio setup. For other TVs in workout areas, kitchens and bedroom, the built-in speakers and "low cord-ness" of no separate media center or DVR is a big plus.
>> Windows 10 is not an upgrade and no reasonable person install it "happily!"
"Happily" because the start-up time (especially on old machines) is worth the upgrade. I typically use these machines to hop on line, stream a movie or some TV episodes down to a TV, and that's about it. The automatic updates don't bother me - I want those because I sometimes access some pretty shady sites to get my material - and I know how to turn the telemetry information off. And what I really want - the ability to run this hardware until it dies, rather than Microsoft eventually pulls patch support for Windows 7/8 - is now a couple of years closer to reality.
The only thing I don't understand is no Vista->Windows 10 upgrades. Some of my machines really are that old, and I'm considering burning some of the Windows 7 licenses I never used just to get those rebuilt and into the modern era. (Meanwhile, I'm teaching my kids about Raspberry Pi-based Linux systems and getting them to do as much work as they can on Google docs, so hopefully Windows 10 will be the last Windows generation my home network has to support.)
This. I've been happily upgrading to Windows 10 on all kinds of shitbox hardware lying around the house (especially laptops I use for, er, "on-demand" streaming on far-flung TVs). To have a hardware vendor this unprepared for a shipping OS after the fact tells you that Samsung isn't a real hardware vendor.
>> While security experts think the ($90K) zero-day may be overpriced
As a security expert and occasional entrepreneur, let me tell you why this isn't overpriced. Let's say you could deliver 10,000 phishing emails that lead to installation of $70/unlock ransomware screens, of which 50% of victims usually pay. That's $350K of revenue, minus costs of the initial phishing campaign ($5K-ish), bitcoin exchange fees (maybe $10K) and the $90K for your zero day. That leaves a profit of about $250K - not bad for a few days of work.
As a developer, "1 in 4" seems low based on usage stats. I know I almost never install "the app" for any brand - if/when I want something from them I just pull up the web site (and if their site doesn't work on my mobile device, fuck 'em). However, I'm happy to see corporations continue to pour money into the "we need our own app" hole.
>> Please rest assured that the data is safe with me. It was extracted for proof only. Honestly, I do this job for a living, not for fun
If that's true, then these enterprising young job creators are missing a viable revenue stream: also selling copies of the data. (In other words, anyone who says this is still full of it.)
>> many bugs have been fixed (squashed)
Kind of like squashed bugs in real life, can we assume that the crap code's still in there, but now no longer as noticable?
Er...whoosh?
Not true - the OP said ORANGE :)
If mere citizens got to approve all the stupid stuff governments do, there wouldn't be much government left.
However, in the case of this poster I'm OK if he goes lost and no one bothers to look for him - the naivety it took to develop his original posting is truly Slashdot-worthy.
I already do pay for upgrades - they're called "new phones" in Android-world.
>> Google To Bring Official Android Support To the Raspberry Pi 3
>> Google Steps Up Pressure on Partners Tardy in Updating Android
OK, Google. Which is it? (Because I'm pretty sure there will be a lot of Pi "makers" who never touch a thing once they get their shoestring operations working.)
Easy fix: continue to ignore genius.it. Or just put "sh" in front of the "it" to get a better result.