Well, the customer does have a say in it, in that they discontinue subscribing to traditional pay-TV. They cut the cord.
ESPN's foolishness was expecting the forced gravy-train to run forever, especially in the face of ever-growing costs to the consumer for subscription combined with other means of accessing content generally. Why should a customer pay close to a C-note a month for only a few networks that they actually want to watch? Why should a customer pay lots of money to access old reruns from broadcast networks? Why should a customer pay for more than the connection to the cable company for non-premium networks, especially when there are ads on those non-premium networks?
We got rid of cable when networks like TCM moved to the digital side and we couldn't receive them without paying extra. It's been some time since this happened. I don't really miss them either, and that's without even buying some Internet-based content service.
Depends. Unfortunately airline stock tends to perform almost regardless of what an airline does simply because when people need to travel there are only so many options and among all airlines across the planet there are only so many seats going so many directions. As long as people want or need to travel the airlines will generate revenue, even those that make terrible mistakes or do terrible things to passengers from time to time, so long as they manage to get flying again.
Basically any application where the primary user is not an IT hobbyist, and where it is expected to work right out of the box and presumably in somewhat harsh environments.
We have a Caterpillar generator the size of a schoolbus (and given its coloring I've had to restrain myself from sticking a stop-sign on the side as a prank) and a sophisticated transfer switch with power monitoring. When we lose power the batteries hold the DC over until the generator kicks in, and then when power is restored we do not switch back to grid immediately. I am not the person that deals with the power, but as I understand it, the generator and transfer switch monitors the grid for some time before switching back to grid, and there are power conditioners in between. On top of that, the system monitors grid power continuously and will intentionally island the system if there's a significant enough fault.
This is not for something as critical as an airline's control system either. I do not find any reasonable excuse to blame power; you're supposed to assume that power is dirty and unreliable and to work around it.
Unfortunately that only works if everyone is willing to play-ball. The Soviets and the Chinese have both demonstrated that there will always be people that seek more and will find ways to get that more even if the system is supposed to be equitable.
The other side-effect of especially the Soviet system is that if one is not in the group that benefits disproportionately, and one sees that one cannot benefit, it's much easier to just stop caring and to let one's self be supported by the dole rather than to apply one's self.
Without cooperation we do not get very far, but without competition we also do not get very far. We have to work collectively to achieve goals, but we have to have incentive to help motivate us to work, and for a lot of people that incentive comes from avoiding abject poverty rather than some special internal motivation to do well.
Part of why I support the progressive income tax (ie, dollar-amount brackets with disproportionally higher and higher tax rates as one moves up the income scale) is because generally the futher up the income ladder people find themselves, the better they are poised to manipulate the system itself. I don't want to see a 91% tax rate for the top bracket like we saw post-WWII, but it is not unreasonable to increasingly tax personal incomes for the superwealthy as they earn more and more money, and for those taxes to pay for the social programs that keep the bottom from falling-out for those worst-off.
If you remember the initial commercial Android phone, the HTC Dream sold as the T-Mobile G1 in the US, it was fairly substantially different than Apple's physical design. Slide-open with physical keyboard, four buttons, physical trackball, curved bottom section, plus it was a lot thicker than an iPhone.
Simply rounding-off corners in-general is probably not enough, and I have to wonder if even using the same arc-length would really be enough.
Why would Google or Alphabet or whatever they're called have to prove that Uber conspired? They may well be able to get injunctions against Uber's use of the stolen technology and require Uber to prove it, which probably would mean having to fire the entire team, scrap the entire project, destroy all of the project's documentation and equipment, and starting from scratch.
That's because for the moment it is a dream. This device was not designed with you in mind. It was designed to replace devices that have historically been serial controlled such that a full-featured computer can be used in their stead. HVAC controllers, lighting controllers, digital signboards, point of sale registers, kiosks, etc. Raw computing power is not the goal, having a computer at all is; expanding the Internet of Things.
My concern is that after-the-sale support will be scant to nonexistent, and we will have even more unpatched IoT things live in the wild, but now we're adding more and more computing power to the mix. I could see these being co-opted for illcit cryptocurrency mining, or as part of botnets set up as parallel-distributed computing to try to break crypto passwords from stolen hashes in a brute-force technique, or any number of other nefarious uses where computing power would help.
I think that the GP post was wondering why no one had made new refills that were compatible with the Gillette handles.
My guess is that the Gillette mounting system has a patent, so anyone trying to making a blade that mounts to the Gillette handle would be sued unless their mount was significantly different while somehow remaining compatible.
Around here the schools have parts of the campus that are open late hours so that kids that don't have access at home don't have to go pay to be at coffee shops or restaurants in order to have access.
I guess that if I see any complaint, it should not be due to the reimplemented function, but due to Facebook's status as effectively being a monopoly.
A good comparison is probably looking at Microsoft through its history. Microsoft was sought to effectively be a horizontal monopoly with its OS in that they worked very hard to dominate the OS market to the near-exclusion of just about every other OS from the average consumer's point of view, and to be a vertical monopoly in that every time some third-party software became wildly succcessful, Microsoft duplicated its functionality into their OS, and they used their dominant positions in both OS and in productivity software to reinforce the other.
Unfortunately as we saw through the years when Microsoft's position as a monopoly was litigated, even favorable rulings do not necessarily mean judgements that will help. Microsoft's position as OS vendor and basically integrating the functions of those that wrote software for its platform is well documented, and even when there were rulings that stated Microsoft had overstepped its position that did not mean that Microsoft was forced to stop developing in that market, or that they were forced to write software for other platforms. If anything, Microsoft's position vis-a-vis Apple and the Macintosh was partially one of personal friendship with Steve Jobs and partially one that allowed Microsoft to cite that it did make software for other platforms so it wasn't a true monopoly. Ultimately many of the rulings against Microsoft simply required it to make-available choices for other companies' software, or for on new computers, to provide links to download those other companies' software, which probably led to the crapware that became so popular to preload on so many new PCs, because it could be cited as a form of choice for the consumer to deflect from the monopoly label.
Facebook is not doing anything differently than Microsoft did, or arguably Google does. They're theoretically not the only player as a social platform (dominant and near-monopoly but could cite Google+, MySpace, LiveJournal, Blogger, Tumblr, etc), and theoretically these third-party applications are not entirely blocked (though I gather that sometimes APIs are yanked-out and third-party developers have to scramble to fix) so they're probably protected from the arguments about copying because these are normal industry practices. The only difference is that it's a different platform (ie social media) but that doesn't mean that it's anything special.
Is that part of the Thinkpad line though? There's a rather large difference between the build quality of the Thinkpad line and the rest of Lenovo's products, and even within the Thinkpad line it's not always consistent between distinct product lines.
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I've been using a Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga with the 12.5" screen as a work-issued laptop for about three years. It was good enough that when my wife needed a new laptop we bought a similar model but with more RAM and the i7 processor, works great for her too.
The rest of Lenovo's portable products don't seem to be doing so well and their parts availability has gone to hell, but these machines seem to be pretty solid.
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Well, the customer does have a say in it, in that they discontinue subscribing to traditional pay-TV. They cut the cord.
ESPN's foolishness was expecting the forced gravy-train to run forever, especially in the face of ever-growing costs to the consumer for subscription combined with other means of accessing content generally. Why should a customer pay close to a C-note a month for only a few networks that they actually want to watch? Why should a customer pay lots of money to access old reruns from broadcast networks? Why should a customer pay for more than the connection to the cable company for non-premium networks, especially when there are ads on those non-premium networks?
We got rid of cable when networks like TCM moved to the digital side and we couldn't receive them without paying extra. It's been some time since this happened. I don't really miss them either, and that's without even buying some Internet-based content service.
Given the popularity of Survivor and The Real Housewives of $City I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with you.
My argument is not a false-dilemma at all. My argument is in favor of some position between the two.
Depends. Unfortunately airline stock tends to perform almost regardless of what an airline does simply because when people need to travel there are only so many options and among all airlines across the planet there are only so many seats going so many directions. As long as people want or need to travel the airlines will generate revenue, even those that make terrible mistakes or do terrible things to passengers from time to time, so long as they manage to get flying again.
Basically any application where the primary user is not an IT hobbyist, and where it is expected to work right out of the box and presumably in somewhat harsh environments.
Yep.
We have a Caterpillar generator the size of a schoolbus (and given its coloring I've had to restrain myself from sticking a stop-sign on the side as a prank) and a sophisticated transfer switch with power monitoring. When we lose power the batteries hold the DC over until the generator kicks in, and then when power is restored we do not switch back to grid immediately. I am not the person that deals with the power, but as I understand it, the generator and transfer switch monitors the grid for some time before switching back to grid, and there are power conditioners in between. On top of that, the system monitors grid power continuously and will intentionally island the system if there's a significant enough fault.
This is not for something as critical as an airline's control system either. I do not find any reasonable excuse to blame power; you're supposed to assume that power is dirty and unreliable and to work around it.
Unfortunately that only works if everyone is willing to play-ball. The Soviets and the Chinese have both demonstrated that there will always be people that seek more and will find ways to get that more even if the system is supposed to be equitable.
The other side-effect of especially the Soviet system is that if one is not in the group that benefits disproportionately, and one sees that one cannot benefit, it's much easier to just stop caring and to let one's self be supported by the dole rather than to apply one's self.
Without cooperation we do not get very far, but without competition we also do not get very far. We have to work collectively to achieve goals, but we have to have incentive to help motivate us to work, and for a lot of people that incentive comes from avoiding abject poverty rather than some special internal motivation to do well.
Part of why I support the progressive income tax (ie, dollar-amount brackets with disproportionally higher and higher tax rates as one moves up the income scale) is because generally the futher up the income ladder people find themselves, the better they are poised to manipulate the system itself. I don't want to see a 91% tax rate for the top bracket like we saw post-WWII, but it is not unreasonable to increasingly tax personal incomes for the superwealthy as they earn more and more money, and for those taxes to pay for the social programs that keep the bottom from falling-out for those worst-off.
If you remember the initial commercial Android phone, the HTC Dream sold as the T-Mobile G1 in the US, it was fairly substantially different than Apple's physical design. Slide-open with physical keyboard, four buttons, physical trackball, curved bottom section, plus it was a lot thicker than an iPhone.
Simply rounding-off corners in-general is probably not enough, and I have to wonder if even using the same arc-length would really be enough.
Why would Google or Alphabet or whatever they're called have to prove that Uber conspired? They may well be able to get injunctions against Uber's use of the stolen technology and require Uber to prove it, which probably would mean having to fire the entire team, scrap the entire project, destroy all of the project's documentation and equipment, and starting from scratch.
That's because for the moment it is a dream. This device was not designed with you in mind. It was designed to replace devices that have historically been serial controlled such that a full-featured computer can be used in their stead. HVAC controllers, lighting controllers, digital signboards, point of sale registers, kiosks, etc. Raw computing power is not the goal, having a computer at all is; expanding the Internet of Things.
My concern is that after-the-sale support will be scant to nonexistent, and we will have even more unpatched IoT things live in the wild, but now we're adding more and more computing power to the mix. I could see these being co-opted for illcit cryptocurrency mining, or as part of botnets set up as parallel-distributed computing to try to break crypto passwords from stolen hashes in a brute-force technique, or any number of other nefarious uses where computing power would help.
Makes me wonder if they got one of those national security letters warning them against fixing the vulnerability that allows this to happen.
Use a registry hack to tell your XP that it's an embedded computer, much like an ATM or POS:
But Windows XP was already known to be a POS.
More like they found out.
Not really. I mean, one attempted to appeal to someone in a position of pretty high authority, and the other was Monica Lewinski.
I think that the GP post was wondering why no one had made new refills that were compatible with the Gillette handles.
My guess is that the Gillette mounting system has a patent, so anyone trying to making a blade that mounts to the Gillette handle would be sued unless their mount was significantly different while somehow remaining compatible.
Around here the schools have parts of the campus that are open late hours so that kids that don't have access at home don't have to go pay to be at coffee shops or restaurants in order to have access.
I guess that if I see any complaint, it should not be due to the reimplemented function, but due to Facebook's status as effectively being a monopoly.
A good comparison is probably looking at Microsoft through its history. Microsoft was sought to effectively be a horizontal monopoly with its OS in that they worked very hard to dominate the OS market to the near-exclusion of just about every other OS from the average consumer's point of view, and to be a vertical monopoly in that every time some third-party software became wildly succcessful, Microsoft duplicated its functionality into their OS, and they used their dominant positions in both OS and in productivity software to reinforce the other.
Unfortunately as we saw through the years when Microsoft's position as a monopoly was litigated, even favorable rulings do not necessarily mean judgements that will help. Microsoft's position as OS vendor and basically integrating the functions of those that wrote software for its platform is well documented, and even when there were rulings that stated Microsoft had overstepped its position that did not mean that Microsoft was forced to stop developing in that market, or that they were forced to write software for other platforms. If anything, Microsoft's position vis-a-vis Apple and the Macintosh was partially one of personal friendship with Steve Jobs and partially one that allowed Microsoft to cite that it did make software for other platforms so it wasn't a true monopoly. Ultimately many of the rulings against Microsoft simply required it to make-available choices for other companies' software, or for on new computers, to provide links to download those other companies' software, which probably led to the crapware that became so popular to preload on so many new PCs, because it could be cited as a form of choice for the consumer to deflect from the monopoly label.
Facebook is not doing anything differently than Microsoft did, or arguably Google does. They're theoretically not the only player as a social platform (dominant and near-monopoly but could cite Google+, MySpace, LiveJournal, Blogger, Tumblr, etc), and theoretically these third-party applications are not entirely blocked (though I gather that sometimes APIs are yanked-out and third-party developers have to scramble to fix) so they're probably protected from the arguments about copying because these are normal industry practices. The only difference is that it's a different platform (ie social media) but that doesn't mean that it's anything special.
All first posts in this thread are copies.
Apparently yours included.
Is that part of the Thinkpad line though? There's a rather large difference between the build quality of the Thinkpad line and the rest of Lenovo's products, and even within the Thinkpad line it's not always consistent between distinct product lines.
Or a new marketing campaign.
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Noted.
And attempt to circumvent Secure Boot or whatever they're calling it (UFIA?) and botch it and you'll have a brick on your hands too.
I've been using a Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga with the 12.5" screen as a work-issued laptop for about three years. It was good enough that when my wife needed a new laptop we bought a similar model but with more RAM and the i7 processor, works great for her too.
The rest of Lenovo's portable products don't seem to be doing so well and their parts availability has gone to hell, but these machines seem to be pretty solid.
Microsoft's hardware historically was pretty good actually. Their keyboards, mice, and joysticks were excellent.
So if you wanted an input device, Microsoft had your back.
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