Brand devaluation. They still harbour a hope of making the Microsoft brand a premium brand in the mobile space. If they sold all their devices off at firesale prices, they'd quickly get a reputation as a cheap, low-end brand, which could dog their market positioning for years. Of course, sucking is likely to dog it even more, but they don't seem to be looking at that as a factor.
Which is why you're encouraged to read the entirety of the post you respond to, instead of just shooting off after the first paragraph. The OP already addressed your point:
As for those who are going to say, "Let the user encrypt it with a password!"... most don't do that. Most people won't put one in, many will forget it if they do, you can't link it to a phone identifier because part of the purpose is in case the phone is lost
(It calls itself "Sexy Stuf", and the ex and I don't patronize places that can't spell, but it looked open when we stopped at the Smoky Mountain Knife Museum (It's like a four story mall full of knife dealers, with taxidermied animals and indoor waterfalls, and I'd bet Mr. Sevier would love it if he can stop focusing on sex so much).
You bastard. That missing parenthesis is going to bug me all day.
Given that the US has the largest military in the world, has been involved in every major conflict of the last 50 years, and instigated a couple of them, it sounds like a pretty decent heuristic to me.
You and he are referring to different systems - you to the complete system, including the central database, and he to the system of matching license plates and performing database lookups with that data, which he (presumably) is responsible for.
If the legislators plates aren't in the database, then there's no conceivable way for the "system" to function correctly, and it's entirely in the hands of the people who maintain the database, not the people who write frontends that can't query non-existent data.
The right for them not to be arrested during voting is in the constitution - the implementation that includes distinctive license plates that may form a disincentive to prosecution in any circumstance is not.
That snippet doesn't actually seem to say what it claims it does. The claim is that many small earthquakes can prevent larger ones, which it labels as fiction. But when you read into the rationale, it seems to say exactly the opposite: large quake can be prevented by many small ones, but it takes an impractical number of them: 1000 mag-3s to offset a mag-6.
The author concludes from the research: "“If more science graduates are desired, the findings suggest the importance of policies at younger ages that lead students to enter college better prepared to study science."
That's quite the spin. If I could be so bold as to suggest a different conclusion...
Kids these days don't understand the meaning of the word fortitude.
Actually, I don't see a great difference between the author's conclusion and yours - he just phrased his more diplomatically. It's quite possible that the development of intellectual fortitude is one of the things that needs to be encouraged to better prepare students to study science.
He's saying that trying to push more kids through a STEM course isn't doing them any favours, due to the job market (and, presumably, no native interest in the subject). The "hate" is a sort of ironic overstatement.
The big thing with stuff like Dropbox/Google Drive is that you can take a photo with your fun, have it automatically upload itself to the cloud, and then all your other devices automatically synchronise with it. Doing that with a physical drive requires extra effort. Seamlessness is what Dropbox offers.
Pretty much the only thing I keep on dropbox is an encrypted Keepass file - but it means that whether I add a password to it at work, on my mobile, or at home, I have access to it at any of those places in the future.
At this point you will likely point out one or two of those exceptions as some sort of straw man argument.
You know that pre-empting an argument isn't the same as countering it, right? And that calling something a straw-man doesn't make it so? You argue that self-publishing has an incredibly high failure rate - pointing out counter-examples is not a straw-man, it directly addresses your argument.
Speaking of straw-men though...I never said that self-publishing is better than traditional publishing, ot that doing it yourself will make you rich or successful. I said that if you're upset about other's controlling the pricing of your work then you have the option of doing it yourself, and that it's now more viable to do it yourself than it has been in the history of publishing.
Making a deal with a publisher is a trade - your control for money and services. If you don't want to make that trade, then you don't have to. But if you do make that trade, then don't come around bitching that someone is pricing your work in a way you don't like. You can have your cake, or you can eat it. Not both.
Authors control the supply... I'm going to laugh about that one for a while.
What, you've been working in the industry for decades and haven't figured out where books come from? Do we need to have that talk about babies too?
Maybe because it's not illegal to change your prices?
And it's authors who are complaining? Authors are the ones who control the supply - if they're upset about other people controlling the pricing of their work, then maybe they shouldn't have sold that right off. The barrier to entry for distributing e-books is minuscule - if an author wants to maintain control over the distribution of their work, there is absolutely nothing stopping them these days.
That's not 10% faster overall, that's only 10% of the protocol, which is a tiny, tiny, fraction of the overall work a machine does for a protocol as simple as HTTP.
Except that our population isn't outpacing anything much any more. In Australia, we've been below replacement rate of fertility for the last 40 years. The only thing that keeps our population growing is immigration. I know that a lot of developed nations are in the same boat - as technology has developed, the average number of children per family has dropped from 6-7 in the pre-industrial era, to 1-2 now.
We're in exactly the opposite boat here in Australia - the reason the government encourages high immigration, is that it needs a bigger taxbase than natural population growth can provide in order to generate enough revenue to provide services to the large number of people moving out of the workforce.
Why use a mirror when you can capture an image with your front-facing camera, digitise it, route it through state-of-the-art computing and image processing trips, break it into millions of pieces and feed it simultaneous to an equal number of tiny diodes.
The supply isn't infinite, because the ability to reproduce is limited by law. If copyright were repealed, then yes, ebooks would be for free. That may in turn cause the supply of new ebooks to shrink, as authors stop writing if they can't make a profit. The future of ebooks would depend on a different business model.
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Brand devaluation. They still harbour a hope of making the Microsoft brand a premium brand in the mobile space. If they sold all their devices off at firesale prices, they'd quickly get a reputation as a cheap, low-end brand, which could dog their market positioning for years. Of course, sucking is likely to dog it even more, but they don't seem to be looking at that as a factor.
Because we all know the population of the world is hierarchically organised into platoons...
Which is why you're encouraged to read the entirety of the post you respond to, instead of just shooting off after the first paragraph. The OP already addressed your point:
As for those who are going to say, "Let the user encrypt it with a password!" ... most don't do that. Most people won't put one in, many will forget it if they do, you can't link it to a phone identifier because part of the purpose is in case the phone is lost
A quick Wikipedia-ing says 50%
Without preimplantation genetic diagnosis, approximately half of the offspring of someone with Down syndrome also have the syndrome themselves.
Males are, not females
Chemistry is applied physics
http://xkcd.com/435/
but doing as the topic says would end the damage to various citizens caused by these leaks
If by "end" you mean "hide", then yes.
(It calls itself "Sexy Stuf", and the ex and I don't patronize places that can't spell, but it looked open when we stopped at the Smoky Mountain Knife Museum (It's like a four story mall full of knife dealers, with taxidermied animals and indoor waterfalls, and I'd bet Mr. Sevier would love it if he can stop focusing on sex so much).
You bastard. That missing parenthesis is going to bug me all day.
Given that the US has the largest military in the world, has been involved in every major conflict of the last 50 years, and instigated a couple of them, it sounds like a pretty decent heuristic to me.
You and he are referring to different systems - you to the complete system, including the central database, and he to the system of matching license plates and performing database lookups with that data, which he (presumably) is responsible for.
If the legislators plates aren't in the database, then there's no conceivable way for the "system" to function correctly, and it's entirely in the hands of the people who maintain the database, not the people who write frontends that can't query non-existent data.
The right for them not to be arrested during voting is in the constitution - the implementation that includes distinctive license plates that may form a disincentive to prosecution in any circumstance is not.
That snippet doesn't actually seem to say what it claims it does. The claim is that many small earthquakes can prevent larger ones, which it labels as fiction. But when you read into the rationale, it seems to say exactly the opposite: large quake can be prevented by many small ones, but it takes an impractical number of them: 1000 mag-3s to offset a mag-6.
If the drones are landing on carriers in the middle of a carrier group, they're probably not too worried about being targeted.
And most adults would agree that being deceitful, mean, vindictive, or heartless is wrong, and yet everyone has done something of the kind.
The fact that you can't live up to moral perfection isn't an indication that your moral code is false; it's an indication that you're not perfect.
The author concludes from the research: "“If more science graduates are desired, the findings suggest the importance of policies at younger ages that lead students to enter college better prepared to study science."
That's quite the spin. If I could be so bold as to suggest a different conclusion...
Kids these days don't understand the meaning of the word fortitude.
Actually, I don't see a great difference between the author's conclusion and yours - he just phrased his more diplomatically. It's quite possible that the development of intellectual fortitude is one of the things that needs to be encouraged to better prepare students to study science.
He's saying that trying to push more kids through a STEM course isn't doing them any favours, due to the job market (and, presumably, no native interest in the subject). The "hate" is a sort of ironic overstatement.
Synchronization.
The big thing with stuff like Dropbox/Google Drive is that you can take a photo with your fun, have it automatically upload itself to the cloud, and then all your other devices automatically synchronise with it. Doing that with a physical drive requires extra effort. Seamlessness is what Dropbox offers.
Pretty much the only thing I keep on dropbox is an encrypted Keepass file - but it means that whether I add a password to it at work, on my mobile, or at home, I have access to it at any of those places in the future.
Yes, we know; I'm sure you also don't even own a TV.
At this point you will likely point out one or two of those exceptions as some sort of straw man argument.
You know that pre-empting an argument isn't the same as countering it, right? And that calling something a straw-man doesn't make it so? You argue that self-publishing has an incredibly high failure rate - pointing out counter-examples is not a straw-man, it directly addresses your argument.
Speaking of straw-men though...I never said that self-publishing is better than traditional publishing, ot that doing it yourself will make you rich or successful. I said that if you're upset about other's controlling the pricing of your work then you have the option of doing it yourself, and that it's now more viable to do it yourself than it has been in the history of publishing.
Making a deal with a publisher is a trade - your control for money and services. If you don't want to make that trade, then you don't have to. But if you do make that trade, then don't come around bitching that someone is pricing your work in a way you don't like. You can have your cake, or you can eat it. Not both.
Authors control the supply ... I'm going to laugh about that one for a while.
What, you've been working in the industry for decades and haven't figured out where books come from? Do we need to have that talk about babies too?
Maybe because it's not illegal to change your prices?
And it's authors who are complaining? Authors are the ones who control the supply - if they're upset about other people controlling the pricing of their work, then maybe they shouldn't have sold that right off. The barrier to entry for distributing e-books is minuscule - if an author wants to maintain control over the distribution of their work, there is absolutely nothing stopping them these days.
That's not 10% faster overall, that's only 10% of the protocol, which is a tiny, tiny, fraction of the overall work a machine does for a protocol as simple as HTTP.
Except that our population isn't outpacing anything much any more. In Australia, we've been below replacement rate of fertility for the last 40 years. The only thing that keeps our population growing is immigration. I know that a lot of developed nations are in the same boat - as technology has developed, the average number of children per family has dropped from 6-7 in the pre-industrial era, to 1-2 now.
We're in exactly the opposite boat here in Australia - the reason the government encourages high immigration, is that it needs a bigger taxbase than natural population growth can provide in order to generate enough revenue to provide services to the large number of people moving out of the workforce.
Why use a mirror when you can capture an image with your front-facing camera, digitise it, route it through state-of-the-art computing and image processing trips, break it into millions of pieces and feed it simultaneous to an equal number of tiny diodes.
So much simpler!
They won the case, but looking at the current state of computer communications and unwarranted government invasion, they've lost the war.
Did SJG ever get back their seized hardware?
The supply isn't infinite, because the ability to reproduce is limited by law. If copyright were repealed, then yes, ebooks would be for free. That may in turn cause the supply of new ebooks to shrink, as authors stop writing if they can't make a profit. The future of ebooks would depend on a different business model.