Otherwise, what's the point of removing it. It's trivial for users to search the Google index of other counties. I can search Google France by simply going to Google.fr. If "the right to be forgotten" does not extend outside your own country's borders, are you really forgotten?
This. What exactly does one gain by being able to develop games in the web browser? Why not just download and run the executable. Sure the user is afraid of viruses, so they don't want to download and run an executable, but putting all the functionality into something like a web browser creates a huge vector in the first place. If all a browser had to do was display static content, perhaps with a little bit of Javascript for DOM manipulation, it would be a lot easier to secure web browsers. There's other ways of securing applications such as running them in a sandbox, that don't require making a web browser way more complicated than it needs to be.
Last I heard from some interview with physicists working at the LHC, there aren't actually any particles, but that they are just a convenient way of describing what's going on. They are no particles, only fields. Whether that makes the world analog or digital, I'm not sure as my physics isn't up to that level. I guess it doesn't matter what the smallest thing is, be it atom, proton, quark, or something else, but rather that the smallest unit is actually something that can't be broken down any further.
Personally, I find android to be not so great for tablets. I can understand Samsung wanting to use a custom UI as the stock one doesn't allow multiple apps onscreen at the same time. Personally, I really like the UI on my Surface 2. My only major complaint is the lack of apps.
start selling non-luxury consumer products, where the real market is
You should tell that to Apple. Maybe they'll start selling low end devices. It's working out so great for HP, Samsung, HTC, Dell, and all the other device manufacturers. Oh. wait, it isn't. Apple is raking in tons of profits selling only high end devices, while all the other device manufacturers are fighting for the bottom of the market trying to figure out how to make a buck off people who don't want to spend money.
I'd love to have a cheap phone option available for when I'm going places I'd rather not bring my expensive smart phone. Going to the beach, take the cheap phone. Going skiing, take the cheap phone. Going out to the bar, take the cheap phone. There's a lot of situations where having a cheap phone that doesn't cost so much to replace could come in useful.
cannot use cell phone location data as evidence in a criminal proceeding without first obtaining a warrant
So they can't use the tracking data as evidence, but if they use the tracking data to find it where you are, and then sent out some agents to see what you were up to, and found other incriminating evidence, they could present that evidence in court. They could always just say they happened to be in the area. Just the data of you being somewhere probably wouldn't be compelling evidence on it's own anyway, so there probably isn't much of a need to present your cell phone location as evidence if they have real evidence anyway.
Not really. An area code, in the US and Canada at least, is 3 digits. Going from IPV4 to IPV6 adds a lot more than 3 digits. An actual example of an IPV6 address is as follows:
2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334
which is a lot longer than an IPV4 Address such as:
123.123.123.123
And IPV6 address has 4 times as many digits as an IPV6 address, if you write it in the same base. That's way more than just adding and "area code"
I'm not sure why a person would want a hovercraft for general use. It's way more efficient to just have car that rolls on wheels. Lifting the entire car off the ground with a cushion of air is terribly inefficient. Not that there aren't any uses at all, but as a general purpose vehicle on public roadways, it seems like a terrible idea.
Not really. In most areas that Comcast serves, they're basically a monopoly and charge the prices that one would expect of a monopoly. GoDaddy on the other hand isn't a monopoly, but instead sells a commodity product at rock bottom prices. Probably too low to generate a profit. The only reason most people go with them is because of their low prices and aggressive marketing which usually means that people who don't know much about hosting services except that they need hosting services come upon Go Daddy as one of the options and just choose the cheapest one, as they have no other criteria for discerning the difference between providers.
Not just a registrar, but hosting services. Still hard to imagine being $200 million in the red. Although they are one of the lower tier providers, so I can see how trying to push for the absolute lowest prices have pushed them into the point of being completely unprofitable. When they are charging less than half of what good web hosts are charging, they've either found some efficiencies that others haven't, or they're selling a product at below cost.
I grew up in Canada, and I don't recall having textbooks at all until high school, and even then, they were limited. Lots of textbooks in university of course. Personally, I never really saw much value in text books. They tend to contain a lot of material not covered in the course, and also missed out on some material that was covered in the course. The best "text books" I ever had were from professors who provided us with about 100-200 pages of course notes which were just printed off by the university printing department, on large photocopiers. Way cheaper than text books. Way lighter than text books, and contained exactly the material they needed to contain for the course.
As long as Nintendo doesn't lose money on the hardware, I don't see a problem with them selling the console so that people can play 4 or 5 different games. I only had about 8 games for my original Nintendo because they were expensive. In reality I probably played about 4 of them 80% of the time. I have a Wii now and have got countless hours of entertainment out of around 4 games. I've heard a lot of good stuff about Mario Kart 8 and I will probably buy a Wii U.
On a real keyboard, it's all about technique. Putting your fingers where they're supposed to go can speed you up quite a bit. I've known people who practiced a lot with two fingers on ICQ or MSN back in the day, and could probably get close to 30-40 WPM, but that still doesn't compare to someone using good technique. I'm not sure that's there's really any technique you can use on phone keyboards. They all pretty much suck. The best onscreen keyboard I've ever used was on my surface. The arrow keys help a lot when correcting mistakes. But there isn't enough room for such useful features on a small phone screen.
Most of the art, literature and music I see is not being produced by those with a humanities Ph.D. Most of it is being produced by those who are passionate about the art/music/literature. Most people I met taking humanities in university were not passionate about much a all. A select few were, and they probably went on to do something interesting with their lives. But for the most part, people in the humanities were just there because they were told to go to university, and humanities offered the easiest route to a degree. Easy admission standards, easy courses. They picked it by default because it was easier than getting a science/engineering/math/business degree.
Similarly, It's amazing that people put so much effort into becoming pro sports players when there is such little market for it. Parents will spend thousands of dollars per year, and countless hours bringing their kids to game and practice, all for that very small chance that they will become one of the top 1000 players in the world, and have a chance at playing pro. If they spent the same amount of time, effort, and money pursuing academic achievements, they kid would most likely end up capable of working in many high paying jobs. Even just a mediocre programmer can make a decent wage. A mediocre hockey player can't really make any money. It's only the pros who get paid.
That's the trick though. They charge you $700. You call them, they charge you $70. You are happy because they dropped "most of" the charges. Really they should have only charged you $7 in the first place. They made themselves look like good guys, while at the same time overcharging you. And for every once in a while there's somebody who doesn't call in to get the charges reduced and just pays the bill (like a corporate account), and they make a huge amount of money for nothing.
Except in the case of Netflix, they really aren't multi-platform. You have to install plugins such as Silverlight anyway, so why not just skip Silverlight and install the Netflix client? If it was truly a multi-platform solution that worked on any standards compliant browser, I would give them a little leeway. If it just ran under Flash, I could understand, as just about everybody already has that installed, and it works on most major platforms. But I've known very few people who had Silverlight installed for any purpose other than watching Netflix. The browser version only works on Windows and Mac. So it really isn't multi-platform at all.
I really don't see why they just don't abandon the whole "watch video in your web browser" scenario. Since Netflix only supports paying customers, it isn't really much to expect that people will download an app/application to play the videos. They already have apps for Android, iOS, Windows, XBox 360/One, Playstation 3/4, Wii (U), a bunch of apps integrated into various smart TVs. There's probably a few that I'm missing here. I don't know why they just wouldn't require that you install an application to view videos on Mac, Windows 7, or Linux. If the Linux client was a pre-compiled binary, it could probably be made reasonably secure against people trying to copy content. At least as secure as a DVD or BluRay anyway.
They are locking you in because phones that run iOS are only available from Apple. If I buy an Android phone, and buy my apps from the Google Play store, then when it comes time to buy my next phone, I still have to buy an Android phone if I want to use all my apps, but I can get a phone from Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Google, and many others. If I bought an iPhone, and I want to upgrade my phone, and maintain usage of my old apps, I have to get another iPhone. You're always locked into the operating system. but with Apple/iPhone, you're locked into the hardware manufacturer as well.
Again, this depends on where you live. In some places, businesses don't have to charge sales tax at all if they have less than a certain amount in revenue. Where I live, I think it's close to $20,000. This allows for people to run really small businesses without having to worry about the complications of paying taxes.
This is so true. Everybody likes to say the big companies are doing such a bad job. But the worst places I have worked have all been small businesses. They don't have enough employees to even think about benefits being affordable. They don't have the buying power to get good prices from their suppliers. This means can't make enough money to pay their employees well, while still asking a reasonable price for their products. If often cheaper for small business owners to buy their products off Walmart than it is to buy it off their own suppliers.
What else can you really compete on when you're selling basics like toilet paper and laundry detergent. Walmart isn't actually that bad when it comes to service either, at least the ones I frequent. They seem to get you through the checkout line quickly. The stores are clean and well stocked. There are employees around to ask for assistance What else could you ask for? I've seen more expensive department stores run much worse. You could try to stock higher quality products. This makes sense for things like sports equipment (bikes, skateboards, fishing equipment), machinery (lawnmowers, snowblowers), and electronics (high end audio/video gear), but for basics like soap and toothpaste, there is very little difference between the products, all stores sell the same brands, and the only real discernable purchasing criteria is price.
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Otherwise, what's the point of removing it. It's trivial for users to search the Google index of other counties. I can search Google France by simply going to Google.fr. If "the right to be forgotten" does not extend outside your own country's borders, are you really forgotten?
This. What exactly does one gain by being able to develop games in the web browser? Why not just download and run the executable. Sure the user is afraid of viruses, so they don't want to download and run an executable, but putting all the functionality into something like a web browser creates a huge vector in the first place. If all a browser had to do was display static content, perhaps with a little bit of Javascript for DOM manipulation, it would be a lot easier to secure web browsers. There's other ways of securing applications such as running them in a sandbox, that don't require making a web browser way more complicated than it needs to be.
Actually, in many places, alcoholism and other forms of addiction are labeled as a disease, and are covered under discrimination laws.
Last I heard from some interview with physicists working at the LHC, there aren't actually any particles, but that they are just a convenient way of describing what's going on. They are no particles, only fields. Whether that makes the world analog or digital, I'm not sure as my physics isn't up to that level. I guess it doesn't matter what the smallest thing is, be it atom, proton, quark, or something else, but rather that the smallest unit is actually something that can't be broken down any further.
Personally, I find android to be not so great for tablets. I can understand Samsung wanting to use a custom UI as the stock one doesn't allow multiple apps onscreen at the same time. Personally, I really like the UI on my Surface 2. My only major complaint is the lack of apps.
Why not just a standard power outlet, or perhaps one with USB ports.
You should tell that to Apple. Maybe they'll start selling low end devices. It's working out so great for HP, Samsung, HTC, Dell, and all the other device manufacturers. Oh. wait, it isn't. Apple is raking in tons of profits selling only high end devices, while all the other device manufacturers are fighting for the bottom of the market trying to figure out how to make a buck off people who don't want to spend money.
I'd love to have a cheap phone option available for when I'm going places I'd rather not bring my expensive smart phone. Going to the beach, take the cheap phone. Going skiing, take the cheap phone. Going out to the bar, take the cheap phone. There's a lot of situations where having a cheap phone that doesn't cost so much to replace could come in useful.
So they can't use the tracking data as evidence, but if they use the tracking data to find it where you are, and then sent out some agents to see what you were up to, and found other incriminating evidence, they could present that evidence in court. They could always just say they happened to be in the area. Just the data of you being somewhere probably wouldn't be compelling evidence on it's own anyway, so there probably isn't much of a need to present your cell phone location as evidence if they have real evidence anyway.
Not really. An area code, in the US and Canada at least, is 3 digits. Going from IPV4 to IPV6 adds a lot more than 3 digits. An actual example of an IPV6 address is as follows:
2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334
which is a lot longer than an IPV4 Address such as:
123.123.123.123
And IPV6 address has 4 times as many digits as an IPV6 address, if you write it in the same base. That's way more than just adding and "area code"
I'm not sure why a person would want a hovercraft for general use. It's way more efficient to just have car that rolls on wheels. Lifting the entire car off the ground with a cushion of air is terribly inefficient. Not that there aren't any uses at all, but as a general purpose vehicle on public roadways, it seems like a terrible idea.
Not really. In most areas that Comcast serves, they're basically a monopoly and charge the prices that one would expect of a monopoly. GoDaddy on the other hand isn't a monopoly, but instead sells a commodity product at rock bottom prices. Probably too low to generate a profit. The only reason most people go with them is because of their low prices and aggressive marketing which usually means that people who don't know much about hosting services except that they need hosting services come upon Go Daddy as one of the options and just choose the cheapest one, as they have no other criteria for discerning the difference between providers.
Not just a registrar, but hosting services. Still hard to imagine being $200 million in the red. Although they are one of the lower tier providers, so I can see how trying to push for the absolute lowest prices have pushed them into the point of being completely unprofitable. When they are charging less than half of what good web hosts are charging, they've either found some efficiencies that others haven't, or they're selling a product at below cost.
I grew up in Canada, and I don't recall having textbooks at all until high school, and even then, they were limited. Lots of textbooks in university of course. Personally, I never really saw much value in text books. They tend to contain a lot of material not covered in the course, and also missed out on some material that was covered in the course. The best "text books" I ever had were from professors who provided us with about 100-200 pages of course notes which were just printed off by the university printing department, on large photocopiers. Way cheaper than text books. Way lighter than text books, and contained exactly the material they needed to contain for the course.
As long as Nintendo doesn't lose money on the hardware, I don't see a problem with them selling the console so that people can play 4 or 5 different games. I only had about 8 games for my original Nintendo because they were expensive. In reality I probably played about 4 of them 80% of the time. I have a Wii now and have got countless hours of entertainment out of around 4 games. I've heard a lot of good stuff about Mario Kart 8 and I will probably buy a Wii U.
On a real keyboard, it's all about technique. Putting your fingers where they're supposed to go can speed you up quite a bit. I've known people who practiced a lot with two fingers on ICQ or MSN back in the day, and could probably get close to 30-40 WPM, but that still doesn't compare to someone using good technique. I'm not sure that's there's really any technique you can use on phone keyboards. They all pretty much suck. The best onscreen keyboard I've ever used was on my surface. The arrow keys help a lot when correcting mistakes. But there isn't enough room for such useful features on a small phone screen.
Most of the art, literature and music I see is not being produced by those with a humanities Ph.D. Most of it is being produced by those who are passionate about the art/music/literature. Most people I met taking humanities in university were not passionate about much a all. A select few were, and they probably went on to do something interesting with their lives. But for the most part, people in the humanities were just there because they were told to go to university, and humanities offered the easiest route to a degree. Easy admission standards, easy courses. They picked it by default because it was easier than getting a science/engineering/math/business degree.
Similarly, It's amazing that people put so much effort into becoming pro sports players when there is such little market for it. Parents will spend thousands of dollars per year, and countless hours bringing their kids to game and practice, all for that very small chance that they will become one of the top 1000 players in the world, and have a chance at playing pro. If they spent the same amount of time, effort, and money pursuing academic achievements, they kid would most likely end up capable of working in many high paying jobs. Even just a mediocre programmer can make a decent wage. A mediocre hockey player can't really make any money. It's only the pros who get paid.
That's the trick though. They charge you $700. You call them, they charge you $70. You are happy because they dropped "most of" the charges. Really they should have only charged you $7 in the first place. They made themselves look like good guys, while at the same time overcharging you. And for every once in a while there's somebody who doesn't call in to get the charges reduced and just pays the bill (like a corporate account), and they make a huge amount of money for nothing.
Except in the case of Netflix, they really aren't multi-platform. You have to install plugins such as Silverlight anyway, so why not just skip Silverlight and install the Netflix client? If it was truly a multi-platform solution that worked on any standards compliant browser, I would give them a little leeway. If it just ran under Flash, I could understand, as just about everybody already has that installed, and it works on most major platforms. But I've known very few people who had Silverlight installed for any purpose other than watching Netflix. The browser version only works on Windows and Mac. So it really isn't multi-platform at all.
I really don't see why they just don't abandon the whole "watch video in your web browser" scenario. Since Netflix only supports paying customers, it isn't really much to expect that people will download an app/application to play the videos. They already have apps for Android, iOS, Windows, XBox 360/One, Playstation 3/4, Wii (U), a bunch of apps integrated into various smart TVs. There's probably a few that I'm missing here. I don't know why they just wouldn't require that you install an application to view videos on Mac, Windows 7, or Linux. If the Linux client was a pre-compiled binary, it could probably be made reasonably secure against people trying to copy content. At least as secure as a DVD or BluRay anyway.
They are locking you in because phones that run iOS are only available from Apple. If I buy an Android phone, and buy my apps from the Google Play store, then when it comes time to buy my next phone, I still have to buy an Android phone if I want to use all my apps, but I can get a phone from Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Google, and many others. If I bought an iPhone, and I want to upgrade my phone, and maintain usage of my old apps, I have to get another iPhone. You're always locked into the operating system. but with Apple/iPhone, you're locked into the hardware manufacturer as well.
Again, this depends on where you live. In some places, businesses don't have to charge sales tax at all if they have less than a certain amount in revenue. Where I live, I think it's close to $20,000. This allows for people to run really small businesses without having to worry about the complications of paying taxes.
This is so true. Everybody likes to say the big companies are doing such a bad job. But the worst places I have worked have all been small businesses. They don't have enough employees to even think about benefits being affordable. They don't have the buying power to get good prices from their suppliers. This means can't make enough money to pay their employees well, while still asking a reasonable price for their products. If often cheaper for small business owners to buy their products off Walmart than it is to buy it off their own suppliers.
What else can you really compete on when you're selling basics like toilet paper and laundry detergent. Walmart isn't actually that bad when it comes to service either, at least the ones I frequent. They seem to get you through the checkout line quickly. The stores are clean and well stocked. There are employees around to ask for assistance What else could you ask for? I've seen more expensive department stores run much worse. You could try to stock higher quality products. This makes sense for things like sports equipment (bikes, skateboards, fishing equipment), machinery (lawnmowers, snowblowers), and electronics (high end audio/video gear), but for basics like soap and toothpaste, there is very little difference between the products, all stores sell the same brands, and the only real discernable purchasing criteria is price.