The problem is that you can't just fill out some forms, meet a bunch of requirements, pay a fee and become a licensed taxi service. In many places, the currently operating taxi companies are the only companies allowed to operate taxis. There's a government controlled monopoly. I'm all fine for everybody operating under the same rules, but government shouldn't make it impossible for a potential competitor to enter into the market.
While there is a need for people to be able to support their families, not every job out there should be required to be a job that someone can support their family on. I can't imagine how hard it must be for kids in highschool or college to get a part time job now that the minimum wage is so high. Some people just want a little money, and want to keep busy. they don't need to buy food, pay for housing, or do any of the other things you need to support a family. If you want to raise a family, your aspirations should be much higher than working at Walmart. If you're working at Walmart, and trying to live off that income, try taking a tip from students, and get some roommates. Putting 4-5 people in a rental townhouse can really bring down the cost of living if you all chip in your fair share.
Well, there's no point in signing up for a payment card that you can't use anywhere. I have enough cards in my wallet. It's really hard to break into the credit card and payment market at this point, because for anybody, retailer or customer, you have to reach critical mass before it becomes useful. PayPal was able to sneak in because the credit card companies were completely ignoring the need for individuals and very small businesses to collect credit card payments.
Bitcoin might be a bit extreme, as most of their customers have no idea what it is, but why not encourage customers to use cash then? Make some checkout lines cash only. If you want to pay with Visa, you get the slow line. Give customers a cash discount. Visa tries to make people not pay extra for using their card, but I've seen plenty of businesses get around the rules by offering cash discounts.
I don't see why they couldn't have ebooks. Give them a kindle with a bunch of books on it. You should probably make sure there's no WIFi networks available in the prison anyway, since I'm sure it's not unheard of for cell phones to be snuck in. Sure you could probably break the Kindle into pieces and make a shiv out of it, but you can do that with toothbrushes or even paper.
I think the general idea is that the game had to be free to try, but not that it had to be free to play the whole thing. This is actually one of the aspects that I really like about the Microsoft App store (for my Surface 2 - not pro). Many apps have a free trial period where you can download and try them out for free, so you can decide if they are really worth the money. I've used this feature more than a few times and often this is what gets them the sale. If an app doesn't have a free trial, I'm very cautious about buying the app, because all sales are final. I like the idea of pushing all apps to have a free trial period, so that people can get a sense of what the app is really about.
Because this way, assuming they didn't notice the actual hardware in there, you could dispense cash for a long period of time, and get more money. Taking all the cash at once and they would probably notice it. Take $20 once a day, and they might just attribute it to the machine miscounting the bills.
Yeah, that gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "remote exploit". First you have to have unsupervised physical access to the machine and hook up additional hardware, then you do the remote expliot. If that's the definition of remote exploit, I don' think there's a system on the planet that isn't vulnerable.
Another reason why the patent system is broken. Only large companies can afford to hire a patent attorney and actually be granted a patent. Little guys, who really need the protections, can't get patents anyway.
6 years is too long. Most products don't even stay on the market for that long anymore. Most companies don't sell the same products year after year, because they have to innovate. You shouldn't be able to come around after 3 years of a product selling all over the world and claim they were infringing on your patent all along.
I'm tired of hearing about patent holders coming out years (maybe a decade in this case?) after something has already been in common use, and declare that they invented it. Patents should be like trademarks in this regard in that if you don't protect it from the beginning, you lose it. You shouldn't be able to make claims about something that's already being used for year by hundreds of millions of people around the world. It's not just this case, but many others, and it doesn't just affect small time guys but big time guys too. I remember some company coming around years after a game console was released (can't remember which one) saying they had a patent on the controller. You shouldn't be allowed to let somebody infringe on your patent for years and then demand all the backpay. There are too many patents for the people making the products to know if they are infringing. If you have so many patents that you can't keep track of whether or not people are infringing, maybe it's time to let a few of them go.
The reason most individual health insurance plans don't cover them is because the only people who would pay for such insurance are those who know they need glasses. Needing glasses (for the most part) isn't something that just appears out of no where. Nobody is going to pay for insurance that includes glasses if they don't need glasses.
While verifiable facts are important, I generally don't want to read over all the sources and do the verification of all the content myself. And that is where reputation comes in. If a journalist, blogger, or news organization has a good reputation, I can be somewhat confident that I don't have to verify the story that I'm reading, or at least not verify it so thoroughly.
Personally, I think the problem is the way they price out the connections. With my ISP, you get 80 GB of transfer on a 25 mbit connection. This means over the entire month, I only have 8.9 hours of full speed downloading before I reach the cap. In order to get more throughput, I must buy a faster connection. Next tier up is 120 GB and a 35 mbit connection. Now I'm up to 9.5 hours of full speed downloading. Next just is 150GB/45mbit, back down to 9.3 hours at full speed. The most expensive is 2TB/350mbit. Next up is 1TB/250mbit, which brings us up to 11.1 hours. That's a little better, but still not great. No matter how much you pay, you always get less than half a day of full speed transfer. It would be really nice if they offered a 25 mbit connection, which is enough to stream 3 or 4 video streams, and just give you more throughput, such that you could watch videos for a few hours a day, without having to worry about going over your cap.
There's always questions around this about "how much restriction is too much restriction?". There's places that don't allow barbs on fishing hooks. Also, hunting isn't just a sport, for many it's also a source of food. Fishing can be a sport because you can do catch and release. Most other forms of hunting I'm aware of aim to kill the animal. So while they may be "sport", there's very real consequences for the animals in question. As long as there are limits on how many animals you're allowed to kill in a season, should it really matter how you went about tracking and killing said animal?
Shouldn't the size of the club head also be accounted for in the rules? I know it's not, but isn't that something that should be addressed? I guess you couldn't make it too big, or air resistance on the club head would start to become a noticeable factor, but there should be very specific limits on what the size and shape of the club head should be. To me it seems like tennis and golf forgot to update their rule books with changes in technology, and hence, the sports have completely changed from what they once were.
Yeah, but if Comcast has a CDN, then the data only needs to be transferred once from Apple to the local Comcast offices. At which point it can be streamed to all the local Comcast customers without additional traffic. At least if it's designed correctly anyway. Once one person watches a show on Netflix, the CDN should retain a copy so that other users can watch the same movie. I guess there's some problems with privacy and the ISP knowing which customers are watching which movies, but they can probably figure that out already anyway.
Possibly, but if the content is going to start coming from my ISPs own network, it better not be counted in my monthly usage either. This would be a nice way for it to turn out, but I'm pessimistic that it will actually work out that way.
I don't play golf, but titanium clubs sounds like the pinnacle of solutions to a problem that doesn't exist. Does using titanium really make the club that much lighter that one would get a significant head speed increase? Are the properties of the metal such that it makes the ball "bounce" off the club that much better? Most people who play golf have very little problem with hitting the ball far, but have a much bigger problem with accuracy. Titanium most likely won't fix the problem. I've one ever played one 9 hole round in my life, but from my experience, you can do a lot better by trying to make short accurate shots than trying to squeeze an extra 50 yards out of your drive, and ending up in the bush half the time.
World of Warcraft is to Warcraft as JavaScript is to Java. They arenrelated by name only. Warcraft 1 and 2 were real time strategies, while world of Warcraft is an RPG. Also, Warcraft 2 (don't know about 1), did have multiplayer, although it wasn't massively multiplayer. Still remember playing that game over modem with my friends.
Yep. My next phone is going to be the simplest phone I can get with tethering. If I want a mobile computer, I'll use my tablet or laptop. I want a phone I don't have to worry about, and that has a battery that lasts more than 16 hours.
I don't even get why they'd switch to Linux. Something like QNX or VXWorks (I'm sure people will chime in with other/better examples) would make much more sense for something as simple as a bank machine. A bank machine has to do very little. Why would something as complex as Windows or Linux be used.
It's a lot easier to get water from earth, then it is to launch a rocket to the moon, gather up sparsely distributed water or elements that make up water, and get it back to earth. Even desalination of sea water would be many times more efficient than going to the moon to get water. There's a lot of water on earth, the problem is that it's badly distributed.
I would say that it's entirely likely that the amount of water you could get from a single rocket trip to the moon, would be less than that which you could get from the rocket fuel itself, which is just hydrogen and oxygen anyway.
There's a huge difference between "lots of people want to do that work", and "lots of people are qualified to do that work" I'm sure if you put out a job posting, you'd get hundreds of resumes. But 99% of them would be completely unqualified to do the job. The few resumes you got from people who were qualified would be from people who were already employed, and they would probably just be looking to move up in payscale, rather than getting away from a bad job. The unemployment level of people in this sector is extremely low. A very low unemployment level, combined with anecdotal evidence that a lot of people working in the field don't have the skills necessary anyway, shows that there is quite a big possiblity that the shortage is real.
I imagine it only costs out to $1500 if your time is free. If Tesla or any other car company wanted to make commercials, they would have to pay actors, writers, camera operators, and a plethora of other people. Its one thing to get a single commercial for free, but if you want a whole series, people are gonna want to get paid.
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The problem is that you can't just fill out some forms, meet a bunch of requirements, pay a fee and become a licensed taxi service. In many places, the currently operating taxi companies are the only companies allowed to operate taxis. There's a government controlled monopoly. I'm all fine for everybody operating under the same rules, but government shouldn't make it impossible for a potential competitor to enter into the market.
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While there is a need for people to be able to support their families, not every job out there should be required to be a job that someone can support their family on. I can't imagine how hard it must be for kids in highschool or college to get a part time job now that the minimum wage is so high. Some people just want a little money, and want to keep busy. they don't need to buy food, pay for housing, or do any of the other things you need to support a family. If you want to raise a family, your aspirations should be much higher than working at Walmart. If you're working at Walmart, and trying to live off that income, try taking a tip from students, and get some roommates. Putting 4-5 people in a rental townhouse can really bring down the cost of living if you all chip in your fair share.
Well, there's no point in signing up for a payment card that you can't use anywhere. I have enough cards in my wallet. It's really hard to break into the credit card and payment market at this point, because for anybody, retailer or customer, you have to reach critical mass before it becomes useful. PayPal was able to sneak in because the credit card companies were completely ignoring the need for individuals and very small businesses to collect credit card payments.
Bitcoin might be a bit extreme, as most of their customers have no idea what it is, but why not encourage customers to use cash then? Make some checkout lines cash only. If you want to pay with Visa, you get the slow line. Give customers a cash discount. Visa tries to make people not pay extra for using their card, but I've seen plenty of businesses get around the rules by offering cash discounts.
I don't see why they couldn't have ebooks. Give them a kindle with a bunch of books on it. You should probably make sure there's no WIFi networks available in the prison anyway, since I'm sure it's not unheard of for cell phones to be snuck in. Sure you could probably break the Kindle into pieces and make a shiv out of it, but you can do that with toothbrushes or even paper.
I think the general idea is that the game had to be free to try, but not that it had to be free to play the whole thing. This is actually one of the aspects that I really like about the Microsoft App store (for my Surface 2 - not pro). Many apps have a free trial period where you can download and try them out for free, so you can decide if they are really worth the money. I've used this feature more than a few times and often this is what gets them the sale. If an app doesn't have a free trial, I'm very cautious about buying the app, because all sales are final. I like the idea of pushing all apps to have a free trial period, so that people can get a sense of what the app is really about.
Because this way, assuming they didn't notice the actual hardware in there, you could dispense cash for a long period of time, and get more money. Taking all the cash at once and they would probably notice it. Take $20 once a day, and they might just attribute it to the machine miscounting the bills.
Yeah, that gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "remote exploit". First you have to have unsupervised physical access to the machine and hook up additional hardware, then you do the remote expliot. If that's the definition of remote exploit, I don' think there's a system on the planet that isn't vulnerable.
Another reason why the patent system is broken. Only large companies can afford to hire a patent attorney and actually be granted a patent. Little guys, who really need the protections, can't get patents anyway.
6 years is too long. Most products don't even stay on the market for that long anymore. Most companies don't sell the same products year after year, because they have to innovate. You shouldn't be able to come around after 3 years of a product selling all over the world and claim they were infringing on your patent all along.
I'm tired of hearing about patent holders coming out years (maybe a decade in this case?) after something has already been in common use, and declare that they invented it. Patents should be like trademarks in this regard in that if you don't protect it from the beginning, you lose it. You shouldn't be able to make claims about something that's already being used for year by hundreds of millions of people around the world. It's not just this case, but many others, and it doesn't just affect small time guys but big time guys too. I remember some company coming around years after a game console was released (can't remember which one) saying they had a patent on the controller. You shouldn't be allowed to let somebody infringe on your patent for years and then demand all the backpay. There are too many patents for the people making the products to know if they are infringing. If you have so many patents that you can't keep track of whether or not people are infringing, maybe it's time to let a few of them go.
The reason most individual health insurance plans don't cover them is because the only people who would pay for such insurance are those who know they need glasses. Needing glasses (for the most part) isn't something that just appears out of no where. Nobody is going to pay for insurance that includes glasses if they don't need glasses.
While verifiable facts are important, I generally don't want to read over all the sources and do the verification of all the content myself. And that is where reputation comes in. If a journalist, blogger, or news organization has a good reputation, I can be somewhat confident that I don't have to verify the story that I'm reading, or at least not verify it so thoroughly.
Personally, I think the problem is the way they price out the connections. With my ISP, you get 80 GB of transfer on a 25 mbit connection. This means over the entire month, I only have 8.9 hours of full speed downloading before I reach the cap. In order to get more throughput, I must buy a faster connection. Next tier up is 120 GB and a 35 mbit connection. Now I'm up to 9.5 hours of full speed downloading. Next just is 150GB/45mbit, back down to 9.3 hours at full speed. The most expensive is 2TB/350mbit. Next up is 1TB/250mbit, which brings us up to 11.1 hours. That's a little better, but still not great. No matter how much you pay, you always get less than half a day of full speed transfer. It would be really nice if they offered a 25 mbit connection, which is enough to stream 3 or 4 video streams, and just give you more throughput, such that you could watch videos for a few hours a day, without having to worry about going over your cap.
There's always questions around this about "how much restriction is too much restriction?". There's places that don't allow barbs on fishing hooks. Also, hunting isn't just a sport, for many it's also a source of food. Fishing can be a sport because you can do catch and release. Most other forms of hunting I'm aware of aim to kill the animal. So while they may be "sport", there's very real consequences for the animals in question. As long as there are limits on how many animals you're allowed to kill in a season, should it really matter how you went about tracking and killing said animal?
Shouldn't the size of the club head also be accounted for in the rules? I know it's not, but isn't that something that should be addressed? I guess you couldn't make it too big, or air resistance on the club head would start to become a noticeable factor, but there should be very specific limits on what the size and shape of the club head should be. To me it seems like tennis and golf forgot to update their rule books with changes in technology, and hence, the sports have completely changed from what they once were.
Yeah, but if Comcast has a CDN, then the data only needs to be transferred once from Apple to the local Comcast offices. At which point it can be streamed to all the local Comcast customers without additional traffic. At least if it's designed correctly anyway. Once one person watches a show on Netflix, the CDN should retain a copy so that other users can watch the same movie. I guess there's some problems with privacy and the ISP knowing which customers are watching which movies, but they can probably figure that out already anyway.
Possibly, but if the content is going to start coming from my ISPs own network, it better not be counted in my monthly usage either. This would be a nice way for it to turn out, but I'm pessimistic that it will actually work out that way.
I don't play golf, but titanium clubs sounds like the pinnacle of solutions to a problem that doesn't exist. Does using titanium really make the club that much lighter that one would get a significant head speed increase? Are the properties of the metal such that it makes the ball "bounce" off the club that much better? Most people who play golf have very little problem with hitting the ball far, but have a much bigger problem with accuracy. Titanium most likely won't fix the problem. I've one ever played one 9 hole round in my life, but from my experience, you can do a lot better by trying to make short accurate shots than trying to squeeze an extra 50 yards out of your drive, and ending up in the bush half the time.
World of Warcraft is to Warcraft as JavaScript is to Java. They arenrelated by name only. Warcraft 1 and 2 were real time strategies, while world of Warcraft is an RPG. Also, Warcraft 2 (don't know about 1), did have multiplayer, although it wasn't massively multiplayer. Still remember playing that game over modem with my friends.
Yep. My next phone is going to be the simplest phone I can get with tethering. If I want a mobile computer, I'll use my tablet or laptop. I want a phone I don't have to worry about, and that has a battery that lasts more than 16 hours.
I don't even get why they'd switch to Linux. Something like QNX or VXWorks (I'm sure people will chime in with other/better examples) would make much more sense for something as simple as a bank machine. A bank machine has to do very little. Why would something as complex as Windows or Linux be used.
It's a lot easier to get water from earth, then it is to launch a rocket to the moon, gather up sparsely distributed water or elements that make up water, and get it back to earth. Even desalination of sea water would be many times more efficient than going to the moon to get water. There's a lot of water on earth, the problem is that it's badly distributed.
I would say that it's entirely likely that the amount of water you could get from a single rocket trip to the moon, would be less than that which you could get from the rocket fuel itself, which is just hydrogen and oxygen anyway.
There's a huge difference between "lots of people want to do that work", and "lots of people are qualified to do that work" I'm sure if you put out a job posting, you'd get hundreds of resumes. But 99% of them would be completely unqualified to do the job. The few resumes you got from people who were qualified would be from people who were already employed, and they would probably just be looking to move up in payscale, rather than getting away from a bad job. The unemployment level of people in this sector is extremely low. A very low unemployment level, combined with anecdotal evidence that a lot of people working in the field don't have the skills necessary anyway, shows that there is quite a big possiblity that the shortage is real.
I imagine it only costs out to $1500 if your time is free. If Tesla or any other car company wanted to make commercials, they would have to pay actors, writers, camera operators, and a plethora of other people. Its one thing to get a single commercial for free, but if you want a whole series, people are gonna want to get paid.