The linked New York Times article mentions that it will need an internet connection.
So the Apple TV will be competing with non-internet TVs and people watching TV on laptops, desktops and tablets.
Quite why somebody would buy another device to do what their other devices already do (other than it being Apple) I'm not quite sure?
Yes it's fictional money, but people spend real money (each month) to play the game.
Once people are spending real money, they expect certain safeguards. How much you can safeguard against human behaviour I don't know.
However I do remember a story about the company that runs EVE Online employing an economist to deal with the ingame currency ISK.
Most of what is described though is part of the game and learning not to get scammed etc.
I've been called out many times to clients complaining of slow computers. The reason they're slow is bloatware software like McAfee or Norton has been installed. These companies just prey on the gullible, then milk their victims yearly with extortionate amounts for yearly virus definition updates.
I've lost track of the times people have called saying their computer is suffering from a virus, when it isn't and it's a hardware related fault. The media unfortunately help companies like McAfee spread so much fear about viruses that some consumers are frightened into buying their product.
There are free options out there, many of which don't have such deleterious effects on computer performance and don't pop up with nagging messages each time the user wants to do something simple.
At least here in the UK there's a shortage of maths and science graduates who teach, because they can get higher salaries in the private sector. There's no controversy here about evolution. It's part of the curriculum they have to teach kids for their exams as well as related areas such as genetics.
You also have to take into account gravity though if you want a breathable atmosphere. At low gravities any lighter gases will merely rise (hence the lack of atmosphere at the moon).
By tolerate slight variations, certain amounts (even in small quantities) of gases like carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide or other things we find toxic would quickly make a breathable atmosphere unbreathable.
The pressures and oxygen quantites you refer to are only for short term use. If people were to live and colonise these places, it'd have to be with a broadly similar atmosphere to that which we have on Earth as breathing for example 100% oxygen is eventually damaging.
Sounds how I put it but better!:D
If you look into any court case taken against licence dodgers you'll find that even though £1000 is a maximum fine the judge never fines them more than the cost of the relevant licence (eg B&W or colour).
"but the guy's attitude when he was telling me this was completely unacceptable."
Yeah, but you don't need customer service when you run a monopoly do you? From what I remember like many things in this country some of it is outsourced to a private company (whose aim is to make as much money as possible).
An atmosphere can be generated from what's there at the moon with the appropriate equipment.
It's also far quicker to get to the moon than Mars.
Mars doesn't have a breathable atmosphere either, although given enough time it could be terraformed. Mars is 95% CO2, 3% Nitrogen, 2% Argon + traces of Oxygen, Carbon Monoxide and water.
Humans need it to be about (we can tolerate slight variations) 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, 1% Argon and traces of others.
Yes, as their letter actually suggested it. However you just get a form letter back stating they don't believe it because people lie to them.
At the time the property had an aerial, I had terrible neighbours and was standing for local council.
I suppose the frequency of spurious visits by TV licencing and the police might have been done for political purposes.
Don't worry I've since moved, although my uncle and Dad still have this problem.
The TV licencing letters are twice as long in Wales though as they insist on making them bilingual.
I really didn't mind them coming, I just found it disruptive and annoying (especially when at the time I was working from home and was losing money in the time it took me to deal with them).
Yes, but do we need to listen to Vogon poetry as a result!?:P
"Oh freddled gruntbuggly/thy micturations are to me/As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes. And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!"
It seems that the BBC on this "slash and burn" of its websites (or bonfire of its websites) is keeping its core audience (all the kids stuff and stuff aimed at teens stays).
However this client group isn't the one that pays the TV licence. In many cases people pay a TV licence and don't use the BBC's website or other offering (eg radio). The TV licence also goes to fund enforcement. As (when I lived on my own) I had no licence every so often a succession of strange men would come round, inviting themselves in to look for the "mythical" TV they thought was there.
Each time the "quest for mythical TV" costing the licence payer 3.5% extra on their TV licence was a failure. Those engaged on the quest, left with sad faces, downcast and demoralised by yet another visit.
In addition vast forests of trees were chopped down and red ink used for threatening letters, seemingly every few weeks. In this "Alice in Wonderland" fantasy TV licencing exists in they said "We can't trust people when they tell us they don't have a TV licence as some lie to us". Instead the humble people without TVs got persecuted by letter and people. Up was down, the ministry of the truth was the ministry of lies and Great Britain went on as it did before.
There is already geotargeted of videos online done on commercial grounds. If different types of traffic get "throttled" it'll only make it harder on the users of any high-bandwidth activity whether video, gaming or anything else where the ISPs are likely to be costed more than these consumers are paying.
For example I used to be able to watch The Daily Show on the Comedy Channel's website from the UK. Since they sold the rights to E4, that isn't possible without going through a proxy.
Well you're very talented at parody lyrics then! I do have the musical talents (church organist amongst other things); but unfortunately I don't have the sheet music for Bohemian Rhapsody or a kareoke tape of it.
Maybe if I can get the tune worked out in a singable key I'll record myself singing your lyrics and upload it to youtube for a laugh.:)
>I have no say in how my society is governed; I >doubt very much you do either.
I do through voting and standing in public elections. I did hold public office for two years. This year I got 699 votes (roughly 1 in 6 of people voting).
Although some politicians ignore me, I do have influence in affecting decisions.
Unless you don't live in a democracy ultranova; in which case why not change your society to something that gives the public more of a say?
From what I remember card skimming has been going on locally here in the UK too. I remember a report from the police into it a while ago; although they didn't go into as much detail about the devices used.
Here most cards are "chip and pin" so you need the magstripe, chip and PIN to make a transaction.
However in foreign countries, especially over the phone or internet where a PIN can't be entered, the information on the magstripe eg card number/expiry date can be enough. The trouble with foreign transactions is they can take days after the transaction before the bank reports them.
Many people with high limits wouldn't notice until the end of the month, or if their card gets declined for hitting its limit. There are people who can view their credit card statements online; which reduces the risk of a fraud going unnoticed for longer periods.
Either way its fraud, which banks have systems in place to detect, however fraud/Identity theft is hard for the police to investigate and prosecute without evidence eg fingerprints, mobile phone numbers, details of where the fraudulent sales were sent to etc.
I've known fraudsters use stolen card details to top up a mobile phone; others have just gone on a spending spree. A similar con is writing cheques that'll bounce (although that does at least give the retailer (and in States District Attorney) a name or names as well as address (from the bank or cheque) to prosecute.
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The linked New York Times article mentions that it will need an internet connection. So the Apple TV will be competing with non-internet TVs and people watching TV on laptops, desktops and tablets. Quite why somebody would buy another device to do what their other devices already do (other than it being Apple) I'm not quite sure?
Well it just goes to show the lengths some companies will go to in the persuit of profit.
Yes it's fictional money, but people spend real money (each month) to play the game. Once people are spending real money, they expect certain safeguards. How much you can safeguard against human behaviour I don't know. However I do remember a story about the company that runs EVE Online employing an economist to deal with the ingame currency ISK. Most of what is described though is part of the game and learning not to get scammed etc.
Yes, but art is subjective. Some people love it, some people hate it. Describing something as kitsch is just one person's opinion.
They'll just give them Farmville credit or Facebook advertising credit instead. ;)
And there was me thinking it was a chocolate bar. :P ;)
I've been called out many times to clients complaining of slow computers. The reason they're slow is bloatware software like McAfee or Norton has been installed. These companies just prey on the gullible, then milk their victims yearly with extortionate amounts for yearly virus definition updates. I've lost track of the times people have called saying their computer is suffering from a virus, when it isn't and it's a hardware related fault. The media unfortunately help companies like McAfee spread so much fear about viruses that some consumers are frightened into buying their product. There are free options out there, many of which don't have such deleterious effects on computer performance and don't pop up with nagging messages each time the user wants to do something simple.
At least here in the UK there's a shortage of maths and science graduates who teach, because they can get higher salaries in the private sector. There's no controversy here about evolution. It's part of the curriculum they have to teach kids for their exams as well as related areas such as genetics.
You also have to take into account gravity though if you want a breathable atmosphere. At low gravities any lighter gases will merely rise (hence the lack of atmosphere at the moon). By tolerate slight variations, certain amounts (even in small quantities) of gases like carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide or other things we find toxic would quickly make a breathable atmosphere unbreathable. The pressures and oxygen quantites you refer to are only for short term use. If people were to live and colonise these places, it'd have to be with a broadly similar atmosphere to that which we have on Earth as breathing for example 100% oxygen is eventually damaging.
You only need a licence to watch online if its live. If it's prerecorded (eg BBC Iplayer) - you don't. See http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/faqs/FAQ104/ .
Sounds how I put it but better! :D
If you look into any court case taken against licence dodgers you'll find that even though £1000 is a maximum fine the judge never fines them more than the cost of the relevant licence (eg B&W or colour).
"but the guy's attitude when he was telling me this was completely unacceptable."
Yeah, but you don't need customer service when you run a monopoly do you? From what I remember like many things in this country some of it is outsourced to a private company (whose aim is to make as much money as possible).
An atmosphere can be generated from what's there at the moon with the appropriate equipment. It's also far quicker to get to the moon than Mars. Mars doesn't have a breathable atmosphere either, although given enough time it could be terraformed. Mars is 95% CO2, 3% Nitrogen, 2% Argon + traces of Oxygen, Carbon Monoxide and water. Humans need it to be about (we can tolerate slight variations) 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, 1% Argon and traces of others.
Do most TV licence holders have the understanding to decrypt a television channel though?
Yes I did try. Wasn't worth the price of a stamp for the response though.
Yes, as their letter actually suggested it. However you just get a form letter back stating they don't believe it because people lie to them. At the time the property had an aerial, I had terrible neighbours and was standing for local council. I suppose the frequency of spurious visits by TV licencing and the police might have been done for political purposes.
Don't worry I've since moved, although my uncle and Dad still have this problem. The TV licencing letters are twice as long in Wales though as they insist on making them bilingual. I really didn't mind them coming, I just found it disruptive and annoying (especially when at the time I was working from home and was losing money in the time it took me to deal with them).
How about the moon?
Yes, but do we need to listen to Vogon poetry as a result!? :P
"Oh freddled gruntbuggly/thy micturations are to me/As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes. And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!"
It seems that the BBC on this "slash and burn" of its websites (or bonfire of its websites) is keeping its core audience (all the kids stuff and stuff aimed at teens stays). However this client group isn't the one that pays the TV licence. In many cases people pay a TV licence and don't use the BBC's website or other offering (eg radio). The TV licence also goes to fund enforcement. As (when I lived on my own) I had no licence every so often a succession of strange men would come round, inviting themselves in to look for the "mythical" TV they thought was there. Each time the "quest for mythical TV" costing the licence payer 3.5% extra on their TV licence was a failure. Those engaged on the quest, left with sad faces, downcast and demoralised by yet another visit. In addition vast forests of trees were chopped down and red ink used for threatening letters, seemingly every few weeks. In this "Alice in Wonderland" fantasy TV licencing exists in they said "We can't trust people when they tell us they don't have a TV licence as some lie to us". Instead the humble people without TVs got persecuted by letter and people. Up was down, the ministry of the truth was the ministry of lies and Great Britain went on as it did before.
I thought the fun was in trying to solve it yourself, not through having a machine give you the correct answer.
Sorry that should read geotargeting not geogtargeted. I blame it on the wife watching TV next to me taking my mind off my train of thought!
There is already geotargeted of videos online done on commercial grounds. If different types of traffic get "throttled" it'll only make it harder on the users of any high-bandwidth activity whether video, gaming or anything else where the ISPs are likely to be costed more than these consumers are paying. For example I used to be able to watch The Daily Show on the Comedy Channel's website from the UK. Since they sold the rights to E4, that isn't possible without going through a proxy.
Well you're very talented at parody lyrics then! I do have the musical talents (church organist amongst other things); but unfortunately I don't have the sheet music for Bohemian Rhapsody or a kareoke tape of it. Maybe if I can get the tune worked out in a singable key I'll record myself singing your lyrics and upload it to youtube for a laugh. :)
>I have no say in how my society is governed; I >doubt very much you do either. I do through voting and standing in public elections. I did hold public office for two years. This year I got 699 votes (roughly 1 in 6 of people voting). Although some politicians ignore me, I do have influence in affecting decisions. Unless you don't live in a democracy ultranova; in which case why not change your society to something that gives the public more of a say?
From what I remember card skimming has been going on locally here in the UK too. I remember a report from the police into it a while ago; although they didn't go into as much detail about the devices used.
Here most cards are "chip and pin" so you need the magstripe, chip and PIN to make a transaction.
However in foreign countries, especially over the phone or internet where a PIN can't be entered, the information on the magstripe eg card number/expiry date can be enough. The trouble with foreign transactions is they can take days after the transaction before the bank reports them.
Many people with high limits wouldn't notice until the end of the month, or if their card gets declined for hitting its limit. There are people who can view their credit card statements online; which reduces the risk of a fraud going unnoticed for longer periods.
Either way its fraud, which banks have systems in place to detect, however fraud/Identity theft is hard for the police to investigate and prosecute without evidence eg fingerprints, mobile phone numbers, details of where the fraudulent sales were sent to etc.
I've known fraudsters use stolen card details to top up a mobile phone; others have just gone on a spending spree. A similar con is writing cheques that'll bounce (although that does at least give the retailer (and in States District Attorney) a name or names as well as address (from the bank or cheque) to prosecute.