Without original content they couldn't control their future. They played everything perfectly: build a user base with cheap licensed content. Content owners realize that Netflix is eating their lunch by outcompeting other licensees who had been paying more and runs up the costs. Netflix trims back and uses their cash to keep their user base via original content their algorithms said would be good.
We cancelled cable during football season, and found that, as college football fans, most of the games worth watching are on network TV, anyhow. The others I would listen to on the radio while doing chores. When the Big10 network was created and initially not available on TW Cable there was lots of fan bitching, but it was not at TW, it was at the Big10 for what was seen as a money grab. I would bet that if ESPN is feeling pinched, the smaller networks will feel it worse.
I may be wrong, but I vaguely recall reading that some responses, like pulling your hand from a flame, require only the nerves communicating with the spine. It may be with enough conditioning that some athletes are also using more optimized neural pathways.
It is interesting that as a male and a scientist, whenever I make small talk with a doctor they are always thrilled to hear I am a microbiologist and switch gears to discussing things with me as a peer. My wife has the same education but gets this response less frequently from what she's told me. When I was in school I started pre-vet, and working with a veterinarian he said that in that field, anyhow, you generally just treat symptoms and see if they get better since diagnostics are so expensive. For medicine anecdotally I think it is similar: it isn't like they regularly type out what kind of infection you have, they just give you a broad spectrum antibiotic and switch if it doesn't work. The vet also hated when people looked things up online as they were generally not educated enough to know if they were doing harm or not following some goofy protocol. Perhaps some basic medicine would be more useful in high school health class...
That's a good point and use case! Although apparently with the security of those things someone in Romania is going to ransom me for Bitcoins not to SWAT me while I'm eating breakfast.
One of the door to door sales guys even admitted to me that a dog was a better security system than a security system. I looked it up after he left and apparently due to false alarms home security alarm calls are lowest priority for police, so the thieves know they have a good 10 minutes at worst to grab your TV and jewelry before they split, but few want to risk a dog bite. The article had also said that the security system sign, on the other hand, is about as good a deterrent as actually having the system since some will pass on by just to be on the safe side.
I think you're onto it there... there's no way this marketing data is as valuable as companies who are buying it think it is... but if I'm only watching streaming TV and listening to streaming radio without commercials on either, don't subscribe to magazines, and have adblockers on my browsers I suppose I can see why they think this data is their best bet. I guess even coupons are kind of like that... if I buy the cheapest yogurt and then buy fancier yogurt because it is on sale and has a coupon, but switch back to the cheap stuff next time, I don't suppose they win much, either.
That's my wife's use case, she didn't care for the Garmin smart watch and traded it for an Apple Watch. Most of the positive thoughts above seem to be for fitness tracking, as well.
Amusingly she wore both the Apple Watch and her old Garmin GPS watch at the same time for her last big race. She likes the smart features but the older style GPS watches are more accurate, apparently.
It is funny how enforcement works in industry, I worked in a food QA lab for a while and was surprised at the number of competitors products we received. I found out that they ran chemistry authenticity on it and would report to the government if they were lying about the contents, nutrition info, etc.
The pro players practice constantly inputting commands even if they aren't useful so that when they need to do important commands they are already operating at a high tempo. The AI could probably win with a lower overall APM by being capable of higher burst speeds, once they teach it the strategies it needs.
If you have a newborn at home it is a lifesaver to not have to go to a store. We've let it lapse and just coordinate our purchases to hit the free shipping ($49 IIRC), but if you're not using the free 2 day shipping a lot then I agree that the other incentives are weak.
Agreed, my gaming computer is similar vintage. It'd have died if it was owned by a non-computer hobbyist, as I needed to replace the HDD and opted for an SSD. I just updated the video card and but in some more memory and it plays Fallout 4 on max, so for 'regular' computer use I'm sure much older equipment is still viable. HDDs seem to be the biggest cause of failure among people I know.
It may be that you have to supersaturate a person's whole body to get an active dose into whatever organ system the drug operates in. Pharmacokinetics can get pretty complicated.
I've had one dog that would watch TV. She enjoyed dogs and horses in particular, as well as R2D2 due to his sounds. The 'evil' horses in Fellowship of the Ring got growled at. For the horses and dogs she would walk around to look behind the TV when they ran out of frame, when she was younger. When she was older she seemed to figure out they weren't really there but enjoyed it if there were dogs interacting with one another on the screen.
Other dogs I've had were only interested in the sound the TV made, so being able to process the images is certainly not universal among dogs.
Well it'd have to do something with that carbon, so I'd suppose it'd grow very quickly... quickly growing timber is poor for lumber but if you make it able to be pulped for paper it could be useful. If the mature tree isn't useful then it'll end up like a kudzu or being burned and defeating the purpose of sequestering the carbon.
My armchair economist ideas align with yours: I've always thought that a good unemployment solution would be to pay those qualified to build up some nuclear power plants. It'd probably not go over well with entrenched power companies and not all the unemployed would be qualified to help, but it'd be at least as useful as some of the public works that have been built in the past as stimulus activities.
The simplest answer to your concern is that if everyone is vaccinated then the virus can't spread and then you don't have to worry about your suggested virally induced auto-immune syndrome.
It should be noted that the mother's immune system cannot infiltrate to the fetus, although her antibodies can, so an autoimmune syndrome within the fetus is extremely unlikely. The reason the fetuses are affected more (by most any disease that can reach them) is because they have a poor immune response. Given its viral family it is most likely that the virus is directly attacking the fetal neural tissue.
They're still trying to figure this sort of thing out. Likewise it is sexually transmissible from men to women but they don't really know for how long. Current recommendations are to use barrier prophylactics for 6 months, but they're just guessing.
Once a vaccine is available it would be likely (although perhaps not certain) that being vaccinated and having occasional boosters would prevent any latent infection from blooming.
My wife has had workout GPS watches and was very excited for the latest Garmin smartwatch, but found it frustrating in use and featureset. The screen was also not as nice as she was hoping. She ended up exchanging it for the Apple watch and enjoys it. She did look sort of crazy when testing it out, wearing it and her old GPS watch to see how accurate it was and all. She'd been carrying her phone for music anyhow, so that it required a smartphone for full functionality wasn't ideal for all situations but worked for her. The biggest downside is probably battery life: the old style Garmin GPS watches can be forgotten in a drawer for months and still have enough charge to be used for a weeklong camping/hiking trip, whereas she generally charges the Apple watch each evening.
The most useful feature for me is that the watch can ping her phone so she no longer needs help finding it every 4 minutes. Unlike younger folks, I actually almost always wear a watch but I've not felt compelled to get a smart watch myself.
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Without original content they couldn't control their future. They played everything perfectly: build a user base with cheap licensed content. Content owners realize that Netflix is eating their lunch by outcompeting other licensees who had been paying more and runs up the costs. Netflix trims back and uses their cash to keep their user base via original content their algorithms said would be good.
We cancelled cable during football season, and found that, as college football fans, most of the games worth watching are on network TV, anyhow. The others I would listen to on the radio while doing chores. When the Big10 network was created and initially not available on TW Cable there was lots of fan bitching, but it was not at TW, it was at the Big10 for what was seen as a money grab. I would bet that if ESPN is feeling pinched, the smaller networks will feel it worse.
I may be wrong, but I vaguely recall reading that some responses, like pulling your hand from a flame, require only the nerves communicating with the spine. It may be with enough conditioning that some athletes are also using more optimized neural pathways.
It is interesting that as a male and a scientist, whenever I make small talk with a doctor they are always thrilled to hear I am a microbiologist and switch gears to discussing things with me as a peer. My wife has the same education but gets this response less frequently from what she's told me. When I was in school I started pre-vet, and working with a veterinarian he said that in that field, anyhow, you generally just treat symptoms and see if they get better since diagnostics are so expensive. For medicine anecdotally I think it is similar: it isn't like they regularly type out what kind of infection you have, they just give you a broad spectrum antibiotic and switch if it doesn't work. The vet also hated when people looked things up online as they were generally not educated enough to know if they were doing harm or not following some goofy protocol. Perhaps some basic medicine would be more useful in high school health class...
That's a good point and use case! Although apparently with the security of those things someone in Romania is going to ransom me for Bitcoins not to SWAT me while I'm eating breakfast.
One of the door to door sales guys even admitted to me that a dog was a better security system than a security system. I looked it up after he left and apparently due to false alarms home security alarm calls are lowest priority for police, so the thieves know they have a good 10 minutes at worst to grab your TV and jewelry before they split, but few want to risk a dog bite. The article had also said that the security system sign, on the other hand, is about as good a deterrent as actually having the system since some will pass on by just to be on the safe side.
Yeast extract would probably be your easiest starting point.
I think you're onto it there... there's no way this marketing data is as valuable as companies who are buying it think it is... but if I'm only watching streaming TV and listening to streaming radio without commercials on either, don't subscribe to magazines, and have adblockers on my browsers I suppose I can see why they think this data is their best bet. I guess even coupons are kind of like that... if I buy the cheapest yogurt and then buy fancier yogurt because it is on sale and has a coupon, but switch back to the cheap stuff next time, I don't suppose they win much, either.
That's my wife's use case, she didn't care for the Garmin smart watch and traded it for an Apple Watch. Most of the positive thoughts above seem to be for fitness tracking, as well. Amusingly she wore both the Apple Watch and her old Garmin GPS watch at the same time for her last big race. She likes the smart features but the older style GPS watches are more accurate, apparently.
It is funny how enforcement works in industry, I worked in a food QA lab for a while and was surprised at the number of competitors products we received. I found out that they ran chemistry authenticity on it and would report to the government if they were lying about the contents, nutrition info, etc.
Excellent response. For other readers desired more detailed information, the CDC has an excellent infographic here: http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/abo...
The pro players practice constantly inputting commands even if they aren't useful so that when they need to do important commands they are already operating at a high tempo. The AI could probably win with a lower overall APM by being capable of higher burst speeds, once they teach it the strategies it needs.
It is sort of odd that this would be with games and movies where the prices rarely fluctuate much between vendors until they are rather old.
If you have a newborn at home it is a lifesaver to not have to go to a store. We've let it lapse and just coordinate our purchases to hit the free shipping ($49 IIRC), but if you're not using the free 2 day shipping a lot then I agree that the other incentives are weak.
Agreed, my gaming computer is similar vintage. It'd have died if it was owned by a non-computer hobbyist, as I needed to replace the HDD and opted for an SSD. I just updated the video card and but in some more memory and it plays Fallout 4 on max, so for 'regular' computer use I'm sure much older equipment is still viable. HDDs seem to be the biggest cause of failure among people I know.
It may be that you have to supersaturate a person's whole body to get an active dose into whatever organ system the drug operates in. Pharmacokinetics can get pretty complicated.
My metro library has ebooks, and it works as you describe ie no concurrent access to titles. It is powered by a service called Overdrive.
I've had one dog that would watch TV. She enjoyed dogs and horses in particular, as well as R2D2 due to his sounds. The 'evil' horses in Fellowship of the Ring got growled at. For the horses and dogs she would walk around to look behind the TV when they ran out of frame, when she was younger. When she was older she seemed to figure out they weren't really there but enjoyed it if there were dogs interacting with one another on the screen. Other dogs I've had were only interested in the sound the TV made, so being able to process the images is certainly not universal among dogs.
Well it'd have to do something with that carbon, so I'd suppose it'd grow very quickly... quickly growing timber is poor for lumber but if you make it able to be pulped for paper it could be useful. If the mature tree isn't useful then it'll end up like a kudzu or being burned and defeating the purpose of sequestering the carbon.
My armchair economist ideas align with yours: I've always thought that a good unemployment solution would be to pay those qualified to build up some nuclear power plants. It'd probably not go over well with entrenched power companies and not all the unemployed would be qualified to help, but it'd be at least as useful as some of the public works that have been built in the past as stimulus activities.
The simplest answer to your concern is that if everyone is vaccinated then the virus can't spread and then you don't have to worry about your suggested virally induced auto-immune syndrome. It should be noted that the mother's immune system cannot infiltrate to the fetus, although her antibodies can, so an autoimmune syndrome within the fetus is extremely unlikely. The reason the fetuses are affected more (by most any disease that can reach them) is because they have a poor immune response. Given its viral family it is most likely that the virus is directly attacking the fetal neural tissue.
They're still trying to figure this sort of thing out. Likewise it is sexually transmissible from men to women but they don't really know for how long. Current recommendations are to use barrier prophylactics for 6 months, but they're just guessing. Once a vaccine is available it would be likely (although perhaps not certain) that being vaccinated and having occasional boosters would prevent any latent infection from blooming.
Why would you? The whole idea of a laser is that it stays cohesive. It isn't like you'd see the beam like using a laser in atmosphere.
I did notice that their method would leave out hooking up his dear husband's brother. Do you have a link to any interesting bloodbank studies?
My wife has had workout GPS watches and was very excited for the latest Garmin smartwatch, but found it frustrating in use and featureset. The screen was also not as nice as she was hoping. She ended up exchanging it for the Apple watch and enjoys it. She did look sort of crazy when testing it out, wearing it and her old GPS watch to see how accurate it was and all. She'd been carrying her phone for music anyhow, so that it required a smartphone for full functionality wasn't ideal for all situations but worked for her. The biggest downside is probably battery life: the old style Garmin GPS watches can be forgotten in a drawer for months and still have enough charge to be used for a weeklong camping/hiking trip, whereas she generally charges the Apple watch each evening. The most useful feature for me is that the watch can ping her phone so she no longer needs help finding it every 4 minutes. Unlike younger folks, I actually almost always wear a watch but I've not felt compelled to get a smart watch myself.