You mean, the Standard Oil whose monopoly resulted in a massive decrease in oil price, and made many competitors rich as Standard Oil had to keep buying them out, and they just took the money and started a new company that Standard Oil had to buy out?
You mean that Standard Oil?
Back in the real world, the reason there are so few phone companies is because the government gives them a monopoly on use of radio frequencies. Then you complain that there aren't many phone companies, and the government MUST DO SOMETHING! It's because the government DID SOMETHING that the problem exists.
Regulation reduces competition and innovation, and creates monopolies. That's what it's for. That's why big corporations love it.
I question the electric turbopumps. In many ways it makes building the rocket much simpler but the performance hit will be brutal.
For many uses, performance doesn't matter, except to the extent that it increases costs. Fuel is cheap, fuel tanks are relatively cheap, rocket engines are expensive.... so reducing the cost of the engines can easily compensate for having to burn more fuel.
But New Zealand is on the underside of the Earth, so they have to use magnets to hold themselves to the ground. You just remove the magnets from the rocket, and it falls out into space.
Consumers don't care. Otherwise, they wouldn't buy the TV.
The winner!
All these 'tests' really do is keep bureaucrats and programmers employed. If we cared about TV power consumption, we'd turn off the power bar when we weren't using it.
No, it's more like "mumble, mumble, national air space, mumble, mumble.".
I just checked the Constitution, and I don't see "national air space" mentioned anywhere.
The Founders would look at you like a madman if you went back in time, showed them a drone, and asked whether the Federal government had the right to regulate them under the Constitution they just signed.
If there is no congressionally mandated penalty, it's not really a law.
Can they explain where the FAA gets any Constitutional authority to regulate drones? Even if you believe the 'waffle, waffle, interstate commerce, waffle, waffle,' nonsense, it clearly doesn't affect drones that don't cross state lines.
Pedestrians have the RoW where I currently live, and I think it's an insane policy
I remember the anti-car nutters constantly pushing for it when I was in the UK, so obviously it has to be an insane policy for them to be doing that. The goal isn't to help pedestrians, it's to penalize drivers.
Weird, isn't it? Amazon made their name by being 'the store that sold everything'. Now they're refusing to sell some things that compete with them.
IMHO they've really jumped the shark in the last year or two. I increasingly buy from specialist stores, because Amazon prices are no cheaper, and they keep pushing me to 'third party sellers' instead of selling me things themselves.
I forget where it was, but I got a 'Please rotate your device' black window on another site recently. I tried turning my laptop onto its side, but nothing changed.
You don't and they don't care. This is why I only buy Nexus phones and use AT&T.
But you can still buy a new Nexus 7 in the local electronics stores. Apparently that's getting one more OS upgrade next week, then security fixes for one more year. Then it's done.
Practically all medium to high-end devices got their first StageFright patch faster than APL fixes their bugs LOL
I think my phone got it last week. But I'm not sure, because my carrier doesn't even tell me what bugs their new OS updates have fixed. I may or may not have if on my Nexus 7. I know I don't have it on any of my other Android devices, because manufacturers have abandoned them.
I know I got the latest Apple bug-fixes on my iPad, because it downloaded last night, and said what it fixed.
Android security updates are a complete clusterfsck. Enough that my next phone is more likely to be Windows than Android (but more likely to be Apple than either).
Ad blocking is about security, it's about privacy, and it's about making the best use of a metered resource.
No, it's not. Script blocking is about all those things, ad blocking is simply about not wanting to see ads, but still wanting to use a site or an app.
Ads serve malware, track you, and waste your bandwidth. Which part of that are you claiming isn't true?
What about just blocking ads while using a metered service such as data? If it's on Wi-Fi, let them through. Well, as a compromise. Okay, mod me down now.
I sometimes had to browse the web on the Windows PC at work that was used for VPN to customer sites. Some web sites would take thirty seconds or more to load until I installed an ad blocker; then they were almost instant. Most of that time, the status bar was telling me it was 'looking up' some stupid ad site.
So, no, it's not just the data usage, malware and annoyance factor that make ads bad. They're a cancer on the Internet.
I've been considering a proxy-like service that allows a user to proxy through a server that strips out all the bad stuff like ads, beacons, tracking junk. I'd like to set this up and try it with my family and friends to test the viability.
That's what we used to do in the bad old days before web browsers included ad blockers.
How is this different to that streaming service that went bust a few years ago because there's no way you can play most games with the latency of an Internet connection?
At least, I think it went bust, I haven't heard anything about it in years.
It does rather sound like that's Microsoft's new model. Ship a new version of Windows 10 every day via mandatory updates, and fix the new problems tomorrow.
This time, it looks like it will be Europe and Russia against America. Putin seems to be the only politician who's taking the invasion of Europe seriously, and the new European leaders will inevitably turn to him for help after they kick out the 'we're all the same under the skin' liberals who currently run their countries.
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See standard oil.
You mean, the Standard Oil whose monopoly resulted in a massive decrease in oil price, and made many competitors rich as Standard Oil had to keep buying them out, and they just took the money and started a new company that Standard Oil had to buy out?
You mean that Standard Oil?
Back in the real world, the reason there are so few phone companies is because the government gives them a monopoly on use of radio frequencies. Then you complain that there aren't many phone companies, and the government MUST DO SOMETHING! It's because the government DID SOMETHING that the problem exists.
Regulation reduces competition and innovation, and creates monopolies. That's what it's for. That's why big corporations love it.
The more fuel you burn the more you have to lift the more you have to lift the more you have to burn......
You didn't even read my post, did you?
Let me repeat:
Fuel is cheap. Fuel tanks are cheap.
Engines are expensive.
Trading cheaper engines for more fuel can save $$$$$.
Get it now?
I question the electric turbopumps. In many ways it makes building the rocket much simpler but the performance hit will be brutal.
For many uses, performance doesn't matter, except to the extent that it increases costs. Fuel is cheap, fuel tanks are relatively cheap, rocket engines are expensive.... so reducing the cost of the engines can easily compensate for having to burn more fuel.
For manned missions, you need six nines (99.9999%) reliability.
That'll be why the space shuttle broke up and killed its crew about 1.5% of the time.
But New Zealand is on the underside of the Earth, so they have to use magnets to hold themselves to the ground. You just remove the magnets from the rocket, and it falls out into space.
Consumers don't care. Otherwise, they wouldn't buy the TV.
The winner!
All these 'tests' really do is keep bureaucrats and programmers employed. If we cared about TV power consumption, we'd turn off the power bar when we weren't using it.
No, it's more like "mumble, mumble, national air space, mumble, mumble.".
I just checked the Constitution, and I don't see "national air space" mentioned anywhere.
The Founders would look at you like a madman if you went back in time, showed them a drone, and asked whether the Federal government had the right to regulate them under the Constitution they just signed.
At least not without their expressed consent. That should be rule number one.
Why?
A one-ounce drone crashing into you will hurt a heck of a lot less than a cricket ball. Probably less than a football or tennis ball.
The only thing such nonsensical 'rules' will do is ensure the drone industry takes off in sane countries, while American companies are left behind.
If there is no congressionally mandated penalty, it's not really a law.
Can they explain where the FAA gets any Constitutional authority to regulate drones? Even if you believe the 'waffle, waffle, interstate commerce, waffle, waffle,' nonsense, it clearly doesn't affect drones that don't cross state lines.
Pedestrians have the RoW where I currently live, and I think it's an insane policy
I remember the anti-car nutters constantly pushing for it when I was in the UK, so obviously it has to be an insane policy for them to be doing that. The goal isn't to help pedestrians, it's to penalize drivers.
Weird, isn't it? Amazon made their name by being 'the store that sold everything'. Now they're refusing to sell some things that compete with them.
IMHO they've really jumped the shark in the last year or two. I increasingly buy from specialist stores, because Amazon prices are no cheaper, and they keep pushing me to 'third party sellers' instead of selling me things themselves.
I forget where it was, but I got a 'Please rotate your device' black window on another site recently. I tried turning my laptop onto its side, but nothing changed.
So many web developers are just retards.
Because web ads have become so intrusive that pretty much everyone has installed an ad blocker.
The advertising piggies shat in the trough, and now they're whining because we won't go back to feed them any more.
You don't and they don't care. This is why I only buy Nexus phones and use AT&T.
But you can still buy a new Nexus 7 in the local electronics stores. Apparently that's getting one more OS upgrade next week, then security fixes for one more year. Then it's done.
Google don't support their devices, either.
Practically all medium to high-end devices got their first StageFright patch faster than APL fixes their bugs LOL
I think my phone got it last week. But I'm not sure, because my carrier doesn't even tell me what bugs their new OS updates have fixed. I may or may not have if on my Nexus 7. I know I don't have it on any of my other Android devices, because manufacturers have abandoned them.
I know I got the latest Apple bug-fixes on my iPad, because it downloaded last night, and said what it fixed.
Android security updates are a complete clusterfsck. Enough that my next phone is more likely to be Windows than Android (but more likely to be Apple than either).
Ad blocking is about security, it's about privacy, and it's about making the best use of a metered resource.
No, it's not.
Script blocking is about all those things, ad blocking is simply about not wanting to see ads, but still wanting to use a site or an app.
Ads serve malware, track you, and waste your bandwidth. Which part of that are you claiming isn't true?
What about just blocking ads while using a metered service such as data? If it's on Wi-Fi, let them through. Well, as a compromise. Okay, mod me down now.
I sometimes had to browse the web on the Windows PC at work that was used for VPN to customer sites. Some web sites would take thirty seconds or more to load until I installed an ad blocker; then they were almost instant. Most of that time, the status bar was telling me it was 'looking up' some stupid ad site.
So, no, it's not just the data usage, malware and annoyance factor that make ads bad. They're a cancer on the Internet.
I've been considering a proxy-like service that allows a user to proxy through a server that strips out all the bad stuff like ads, beacons, tracking junk. I'd like to set this up and try it with my family and friends to test the viability.
That's what we used to do in the bad old days before web browsers included ad blockers.
Indeed. It's just awful that people who didn't break the law can't be punished for not doing so.
How is this different to that streaming service that went bust a few years ago because there's no way you can play most games with the latency of an Internet connection?
At least, I think it went bust, I haven't heard anything about it in years.
It does rather sound like that's Microsoft's new model. Ship a new version of Windows 10 every day via mandatory updates, and fix the new problems tomorrow.
True. Windows itself is now 'highly suspicious'. If this continues, I wouldn't do real work on it ever again.
Perhaps it's just me, but on days like this it almost looks like sacking thousands of QA employees might not have been the smartest idea ever.
The number of immigrants coming is way over the assimilation ability of Germany and other popular countries.
Assimilation is racist and culturalist. Who is to say that Western culture is better than non-Western culture, and force it on immigrants?
This time, it looks like it will be Europe and Russia against America. Putin seems to be the only politician who's taking the invasion of Europe seriously, and the new European leaders will inevitably turn to him for help after they kick out the 'we're all the same under the skin' liberals who currently run their countries.