Based on what Apple's streaming music service has been able to slay competitors, Netflix has nothing to worry about.
Netflix already has a install base on just about everything out there. Apple's streaming service would likely be limited to Apple TV, iPads, and iPhones, and would go up against established players Ruku, Chromecast, and Fire TV as well as all the little guys, embedded applications, tablets/phones (including Apple's own), etc that work with Netflix. Again, I don't think Netflix has anything to worry about.
Netflix already has issues trying to get content agreements from producers. I doubt those producers are going to be climbing all over themselves to work with an even larger company that has a long history of having ridiculous demands and a our-way-or-the-highway mentality when working with others. Again, Netflix doesn't have anything to worry about.
See, they don't drive the car, and measure the mileage you get. As I understand it, they hook it up to a test rig, do some tests, and then calculate the mileage.
The problem is that just jumping in the car and driving it has too many variables. Was the real terrain uphill? downhill? Was their a headwind or a tailwind? If it was a city test were the lights timed exactly the same? What was the temperature? humidity? road conditions?
Testing in a lab on a machine is suppose to control all those variables as much as possible so that different vehicles at different times all have the same base test conditions for comparison. It's no different than anything else that is performance/energy tested or benchmarked like appliances, HVAC, computers...
No the tests may not exactly match what you'll get with your usage, but hopefully it's a accurate baseline for comparison. And THAT's where Volkswagon screwed up.
Doesn't seem to be a problem on most forum software out there, Facebook, Discus, etc. Even if it only let you edit your post for 5-15 minutes would go a extremely long way of fixing one major missing feature.
I may be stretching into hyperbole a bit here, but this is one of the result of McCarthyism: by merely being accused of association, the court of public opinion will judge that person guilty quickly-- even if investigation reveals no ties to said association.
Pretty much every reasonable news site/blog/facebook wall/etc that I've seen has done pretty much the opposite with the list. They've pointed out the several names that are almost definitely not KKK members and questioning the legitimacy of the entire list as a result.
My city's mayor was also identified even though he's a democratic mayor with fairly liberal leanings. The supporting evidence isn't as strong with him as it is with the others that they are NOT members of the KKK, but it's pretty hard to believe.
If only Slashdot had some type of crutch to tell you when you didn't properly close your <blockquote>.
I've done it too so I'm not innocent either, but sometimes even people who do use their brains can benefit from relying on tools to help them out from time to time.
It's going to be horrible for those kids that learned from the "alternate" linear algebra course when they get out in the real world. Employers are going to expect students to have learned the Fullerton's Linear Algebra and not some other linear algebra. Even later courses those poor students are going to struggle.
I had a $150 textbook for an Analysis of Algorithms course in 2000. It was on like it's 18th edition as there was a new edition at least every year and it was an ancient text book to begin with. It accidentally got destroyed and I needed to find another copy for half a semester. I found an old 2nd edition for like $8 at a used online bookstore. Never found a single difference in the book aside from the edition number on the first couple pages.
It's doing exactly what you asked. You asked for the nearest gas station, not the one that's the shortest deviation of your existing or complete route. If your low gas light just came on, you likely just want whatever is the shortest deviation of your existing route. But if say nature is calling, then you probably really do want the nearest gas station, even if it means backtracking.
Depending on it's condition, it might have just looked like a backyard project or a "dune buggy" type vehicle. Based on the picture in the Motherboard link, I wouldn't have guessed it was a lunar rover prototype. Now maybe if it had NASA painted in giant letters across it...
How is this different than any other major metropolitan area where car ownership isn't necessary within the city limits? It's all great when you have two major rail lines and half a dozen bus lines within a 10 minute walk. If you're a fast runner 20 minutes will get you almost anywhere within the Evanston, IL city limits. But it just isn't possible in 99.9% of the rest of the country that doesn't have major rail lines and multiple bus lines. I live in a Metropolitan area of 300k people and it's a 3 mile walk just to the nearest bus stop.
NASA dragged its feet contacting the new owner, who apparently didn't know its value.
Sure NASA dragged it's feet. But I wonder if the historian walked over to the neighbor's house, knocked on the door, and mentioned that he though the guy had a piece of priceless artifact from NASA's history just sitting there. Even if the guy wasn't interested in contacting NASA right then, at least he would have known before he just scrapped it.
But do you really want to take it to court, along with the costs that entails, in order to find out that you were right all along? Or would you rather just settle it upfront and not have to worry about it at all?
The one instance that comes up most often is the RIAA (of which Sony has a signifiant controlling interest) suing Launch.com, which was operated by Sony Technology and Business unit.
The RIAA also went after manufacturers that "encouraged" music piracy activites with their products, such as portable music players, CD burners, etc. Sony of course also makes CD burners.
Exactly. I started employment with a new web/software development company several years ago. After I had been there over a year and they had grown some, I was told I needed to sign a non-compete agreement. I forget the exact wording, but it was to the effect of any related field of employment within the area would be prohibited for an extended period of time. It was about that vague.
We were primarily a web development company, but did general purpose development too for corporations, non-profits, agencies...you name it. Prohibiting me from "competing" with them would basically rule out any type of development work in the area. Since that had been my entire career up to that point, I refused to sign.
Eventually the owner/my boss demanded why I wouldn't sign it. I told him that it was way too overly broad and while I was very confident that it wasn't legally enforceable on the grounds that I have a right to earn a living, I rather just not sign it to remove all ambiguity. He said that he was very hurt that I would think that he (and his wife who co-owned the company) would attempt to use it that way. I simply pointed out that it didn't matter how I thought they would use it, all that mattered was how they could use it.
It turned out that they had copied it from some website and never ran it by an actual lawyer. Once they did that and the lawyer said that it was a worthless agreement, it was never mentioned again.
Why would I buy something online and then drive to pick it up?
To have it NOW, or as soon as now as I can. If I can pay a competitive ecommerce price and have it now, why would I wait 2 days for Amazon Prime to deliver it?
If I don't need it now, then I can have it shipped just like any other ecommerce site.
Where the ISP identifies that they can't make that possible, rather than both of us suffer I'm comfortable with some intelligent prioritisation.
I'm not. Who am I, you, some network engineer, or some pencil pusher at determining the importance of one packet over another?
You clearly do want option 1, where your traffic is given priority and fuck everyone else.
No. I was being facetious with my comment. I want my packets to be treated exactly the same as every other packet. No more. No less. If my traffic causes your traffic to be slightly delayed, sorry, but so be it. If your traffic causes my traffic to be slightly delayed, so be it as well.
I'm very comfortable with my ISP choosing not to take option 1 if it means that packets for online gamers get low latency, video streams don't buffer and web browsing remains interactive. If that means someone's Linux distribution takes another two minutes to download, then that's a reasonable use of the available resources.
I'm very comfortable with my ISP choosing not to take option 1 if it means that packets for my Linux distribution download get low latency, my porn movies don't buffer and whatever the hell I want remains interactive. If that means someone's online game has higher latency, their video stream stutters, or their web browsing isn't quite as fast, then tough shit. I pay the same amount for internet as you do. My use of the internet for whatever I want is just as reasonable as your use of the internet. As soon as your traffic takes priority over my traffic, that's the very definition of not being neutral.
Are the prison phone companies actually the ones doing all that though? I was under the impression that the phone companies involved were glorified calling cards that handled the finances of the phone call, but the security was up to the prison/jail/DOC still.
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It's cute how you think that a warrant is going to stop them, or that it's not trivially easy for them to get if they want one.
Based on what Apple's streaming music service has been able to slay competitors, Netflix has nothing to worry about.
Netflix already has a install base on just about everything out there. Apple's streaming service would likely be limited to Apple TV, iPads, and iPhones, and would go up against established players Ruku, Chromecast, and Fire TV as well as all the little guys, embedded applications, tablets/phones (including Apple's own), etc that work with Netflix. Again, I don't think Netflix has anything to worry about.
Netflix already has issues trying to get content agreements from producers. I doubt those producers are going to be climbing all over themselves to work with an even larger company that has a long history of having ridiculous demands and a our-way-or-the-highway mentality when working with others. Again, Netflix doesn't have anything to worry about.
The problem is that just jumping in the car and driving it has too many variables. Was the real terrain uphill? downhill? Was their a headwind or a tailwind? If it was a city test were the lights timed exactly the same? What was the temperature? humidity? road conditions?
Testing in a lab on a machine is suppose to control all those variables as much as possible so that different vehicles at different times all have the same base test conditions for comparison. It's no different than anything else that is performance/energy tested or benchmarked like appliances, HVAC, computers...
No the tests may not exactly match what you'll get with your usage, but hopefully it's a accurate baseline for comparison. And THAT's where Volkswagon screwed up.
Doesn't seem to be a problem on most forum software out there, Facebook, Discus, etc. Even if it only let you edit your post for 5-15 minutes would go a extremely long way of fixing one major missing feature.
Pretty much every reasonable news site/blog/facebook wall/etc that I've seen has done pretty much the opposite with the list. They've pointed out the several names that are almost definitely not KKK members and questioning the legitimacy of the entire list as a result.
My city's mayor was also identified even though he's a democratic mayor with fairly liberal leanings. The supporting evidence isn't as strong with him as it is with the others that they are NOT members of the KKK, but it's pretty hard to believe.
If only Slashdot had some type of crutch to tell you when you didn't properly close your <blockquote>.
I've done it too so I'm not innocent either, but sometimes even people who do use their brains can benefit from relying on tools to help them out from time to time.
It's going to be horrible for those kids that learned from the "alternate" linear algebra course when they get out in the real world. Employers are going to expect students to have learned the Fullerton's Linear Algebra and not some other linear algebra. Even later courses those poor students are going to struggle.
I had a $150 textbook for an Analysis of Algorithms course in 2000. It was on like it's 18th edition as there was a new edition at least every year and it was an ancient text book to begin with. It accidentally got destroyed and I needed to find another copy for half a semester. I found an old 2nd edition for like $8 at a used online bookstore. Never found a single difference in the book aside from the edition number on the first couple pages.
So what you're saying is unlimited growth isn't unlimited. It's ultimately self regulating, just like with everything else in nature.
It's doing exactly what you asked. You asked for the nearest gas station, not the one that's the shortest deviation of your existing or complete route. If your low gas light just came on, you likely just want whatever is the shortest deviation of your existing route. But if say nature is calling, then you probably really do want the nearest gas station, even if it means backtracking.
Depending on it's condition, it might have just looked like a backyard project or a "dune buggy" type vehicle. Based on the picture in the Motherboard link, I wouldn't have guessed it was a lunar rover prototype. Now maybe if it had NASA painted in giant letters across it...
How is this different than any other major metropolitan area where car ownership isn't necessary within the city limits? It's all great when you have two major rail lines and half a dozen bus lines within a 10 minute walk. If you're a fast runner 20 minutes will get you almost anywhere within the Evanston, IL city limits. But it just isn't possible in 99.9% of the rest of the country that doesn't have major rail lines and multiple bus lines. I live in a Metropolitan area of 300k people and it's a 3 mile walk just to the nearest bus stop.
You say that like it can't be both. It most definitely is both.
Sure NASA dragged it's feet. But I wonder if the historian walked over to the neighbor's house, knocked on the door, and mentioned that he though the guy had a piece of priceless artifact from NASA's history just sitting there. Even if the guy wasn't interested in contacting NASA right then, at least he would have known before he just scrapped it.
Depending on your definition of "long range", birds might disagree on how innocuous it is.
But do you really want to take it to court, along with the costs that entails, in order to find out that you were right all along? Or would you rather just settle it upfront and not have to worry about it at all?
Keep trying. Not Charlie. And how's your wife doing these days?
The one instance that comes up most often is the RIAA (of which Sony has a signifiant controlling interest) suing Launch.com, which was operated by Sony Technology and Business unit.
The RIAA also went after manufacturers that "encouraged" music piracy activites with their products, such as portable music players, CD burners, etc. Sony of course also makes CD burners.
Exactly. I started employment with a new web/software development company several years ago. After I had been there over a year and they had grown some, I was told I needed to sign a non-compete agreement. I forget the exact wording, but it was to the effect of any related field of employment within the area would be prohibited for an extended period of time. It was about that vague.
We were primarily a web development company, but did general purpose development too for corporations, non-profits, agencies...you name it. Prohibiting me from "competing" with them would basically rule out any type of development work in the area. Since that had been my entire career up to that point, I refused to sign.
Eventually the owner/my boss demanded why I wouldn't sign it. I told him that it was way too overly broad and while I was very confident that it wasn't legally enforceable on the grounds that I have a right to earn a living, I rather just not sign it to remove all ambiguity. He said that he was very hurt that I would think that he (and his wife who co-owned the company) would attempt to use it that way. I simply pointed out that it didn't matter how I thought they would use it, all that mattered was how they could use it.
It turned out that they had copied it from some website and never ran it by an actual lawyer. Once they did that and the lawyer said that it was a worthless agreement, it was never mentioned again.
To have it NOW, or as soon as now as I can. If I can pay a competitive ecommerce price and have it now, why would I wait 2 days for Amazon Prime to deliver it?
If I don't need it now, then I can have it shipped just like any other ecommerce site.
I'm not. Who am I, you, some network engineer, or some pencil pusher at determining the importance of one packet over another?
No. I was being facetious with my comment. I want my packets to be treated exactly the same as every other packet. No more. No less. If my traffic causes your traffic to be slightly delayed, sorry, but so be it. If your traffic causes my traffic to be slightly delayed, so be it as well.
Wait...you mean a company would do something that would good for PR? I'm shocked that this could ever happen!
I'm very comfortable with my ISP choosing not to take option 1 if it means that packets for my Linux distribution download get low latency, my porn movies don't buffer and whatever the hell I want remains interactive. If that means someone's online game has higher latency, their video stream stutters, or their web browsing isn't quite as fast, then tough shit. I pay the same amount for internet as you do. My use of the internet for whatever I want is just as reasonable as your use of the internet. As soon as your traffic takes priority over my traffic, that's the very definition of not being neutral.
Are the prison phone companies actually the ones doing all that though? I was under the impression that the phone companies involved were glorified calling cards that handled the finances of the phone call, but the security was up to the prison/jail/DOC still.