I transfer money and split bills between my friends with my phone.
How much does use of your phone away from home and open hotspots cost you per month? How much does use of the current account (also called a checking account or demand deposit account) cost you per month?
I've seen the world shift in very dramatic ways to cashless transactions to the point where finding a business that doesn't support cashless transactions (including small stuff like buying a coffee from a food van standing outside a festival) is an incredibly oddity.
The price of the coffee probably already shot up to cover the fee of 30 cents per transaction that the bank charges to process credit or debit transactions.
If a merchant is paying 5%, then they should change payment processor. I help some small association from time to time, we have a card reader and the entry level fee is only 1.85%.
Plus how much per transaction? I ask on behalf of merchants that do most of their business in transactions under $10.
Or perhaps little boxes sprinkled all over the city that let you withdraw from your bank account, like some kind of automatic bank teller but as a machine?
For a nominal $4 fee per withdrawal: $2 to your bank and $2 to the owner of the ATM. Your bank offers a fee-free ATM, but it's across town, and you need to spend a half hour on your bike each way to get there and back.
Interchange fees work out to a few percent in the majority of transactions.
A few percent plus 30 cents. When paying for a $1 diet soda, the 30 cents dominate.
Cashless economies do not list Credit Cards as the alternatives. We use debit cards
In the USA, it's a distinction without a difference, as debit cards carry the same Visa and MasterCard logos as credit cards. I can't name a single brick and mortar business near me that accepts debit cards but not credit cards.
The world of cashless payments is much bigger than credit cards
Perhaps in the "world". But Slashdot's headquarters is in the USA, and the USA of cashless payments is Visa and MasterCard, with some stores also offering Discover and American Express. I haven't seen more than a handful of chains that accept Interlink and Maestro debit cards but not Visa and MasterCard credit cards.
Not if the user has chosen to disable script on your site for any of several reasons:
- Wanting to maintain a sense of separation between documents, which ought to be static on the client side (even if they are dynamic on the server side), and applications, which ought to be native and downloadable - Fear of being tracked, particularly through the subpoena exception in every privacy policy - Your scripts not having been marked as licensed under a free software license
If you're using it for animation, you're using the wrong tool for the job.
Then what is the right tool for the job, particularly if you're site's audience includes the sort of "I don't want any script in the browser, ever" tech purists who inhabit Slashdot?
What kind of data caps will we be seeing on 5G networks? How quickly will it be (would it have been) better to download and install than stream?
Let's assume for a moment that 5G pricing tiers will resemble those of 4G. The major U.S. carriers offer "unlimited", with about 30 GB per month of high-speed priority data, so long as the packets are sent or received by an application running on the phone. Packets sent or received by an application running on a different device connected through the phone's "mobile hotspot" or "USB tethering" feature are subject to a separate 10 GB per month quota, with overages on the order of $10 per GB for exceeding this. (Carriers' way of detecting fee evasion include TTL/hop count field, SNI domains of OS update services, and User-agent on cleartext HTTP sites.)
So one advantage of streaming is playing titles not ported to your phone. For example, an Android device can play a game that's released only for Windows or only for Windows and iOS. Downloading such a game to a Windows PC would eat into the 10 GB of monthly hotspot data. (For the moment, I'm ignoring input mismatches for games that heavily use a keyboard or joystick.)
You appear to miss blahplusplus's point. The primary reason that some games were engineered to involve "thousands of players" in the first place was as an excuse for tightening digital restrictions management. Otherwise, a private server could handle a few dozen players at once.
But if they're a vegan at a steakhouse they won't ever be pleased, you can either try to make water not wet or have one token vegan dish and blow them off.
Steakhouses have buffets for precisely this reason. If a group is all eating together, and a minority are vegan, the minority are less likely to veto a steakhouse if it has a decent salad bar.
At this point, I'd guess that Comcast has not received more than $10,000 from me, since I kicked them to the curb for their poor customer service.
Is kicking Comcast to the curb worth downgrading to satellite or cellular with its 10 GB/mo cap? Is it worth quitting your job, selling your house, and seeking employment and a house in a different city where an ISP other than Comcast offers affordable home Internet service with a cap more than 100 GB/mo if any?
A monopoly exists when, and only when, there is some specific reason for your success that your competitors are not able to use.
And that "specific reason" was US Patent 5,960,411. From September 1999 (grant) through September 2017 (expiration), Amazon held a legal monopoly on 1-Click ordering in the United States.
A medallion taxi company, though minuscule in comparison to Walmart, is a monopoly because it is illegal for any other ride for hire company to compete in their city.
Different taxi companies can compete for different cities' franchises, much as with electric power, water, natural gas, and other public utilities. Amazon's patent was nationwide.
Anyone who wants to can already compete, so what exactly do you think would be different? Do you really imagine that there are, today, people who say "we cannot compete against AWS because Amazon also has online shopping?"
That wasn't as clearly the case while Amazon still owned the 1-Click patent.
Of course the Amazon site would communicate using computers with the Amazon warehouse. In fact, they already do. The difference is the API would be open and JacksAwesomeEcommerceSite.com could also communicate with the Amazon warehouse via the same APIs
You mean like how PhilsHobbyShop.com already communicates with Amazon using the Marketplace Web Service API? In fact, the reports and feeds on "Seller Central", Amazon's web application for third-party sellers, are a fairly thin layer around MWS.
The difference is that HPHT, CVD, and other methods of making diamonds make close substitutes. There isn't quite as much of a close substitute for Disney movies. For example, though Golden Films made an animated adaptation of The Adventures of Pinocchio, it's nowhere near the production values of Disney's 1941 animated film.
I doubt we'll see another copyright term extension bill in the USA before 2024 for several reasons.
- First, Authors Guild actually opposes it, as authors have realized how keeping things out of the public domain causes authors to have to walk on eggshells to avoid infringing third parties' copyrights. - Second, the 1998 extension was predicated on harmonizing copyright terms to those of the European Union. In its opinion in Eldred v. Ashcroft, the Supreme Court recognized the possibility of "legislative misbehavior" but allowed the 1998 extension through because of harmonization. But no major developed anglophone market has extended the term further than the EU's life plus 70. - Third, the US Trade Representative doesn't appear interested in extending the U.S. copyright term. The USMCA treaty, which replaced NAFTA at the end of 2018, extended the Canadian term but did not extend the U.S. term.
I mention 2024 because that's when U.S. copyright in "Steamboat Willie", The House on Pooh Corner, and Ravel's "Bolero" expires under current law.
To me, a cuck is someone who knows his limits in bed and understands that for less common, more demanding scenes, his partner might need to bring in a specialist surrogate. Is there really anything wrong with that?
Based on the transition of commercial use of Java 8 to a pay model, I think Oracle wants home and small business users to use OpenJDK builds of the JRE.
A university is not a vocational school. It's not your job to teach what's popular.
Employers expect recent graduates to have both university knowledge and vocational school knowledge. They'll choose to hire at job fairs at universities that give both kinds of knowledge over those that don't prepare students for work.
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bank tied "push" payment systems for electronic payment without transaction fees.
Who will pay for the servers, electric power, datacenter space, and network connections to keep these fee-free "push" payment systems running?
I transfer money and split bills between my friends with my phone.
How much does use of your phone away from home and open hotspots cost you per month? How much does use of the current account (also called a checking account or demand deposit account) cost you per month?
I've seen the world shift in very dramatic ways to cashless transactions to the point where finding a business that doesn't support cashless transactions (including small stuff like buying a coffee from a food van standing outside a festival) is an incredibly oddity.
The price of the coffee probably already shot up to cover the fee of 30 cents per transaction that the bank charges to process credit or debit transactions.
If a merchant is paying 5%, then they should change payment processor.
I help some small association from time to time, we have a card reader and the entry level fee is only 1.85%.
Plus how much per transaction? I ask on behalf of merchants that do most of their business in transactions under $10.
Or perhaps little boxes sprinkled all over the city that let you withdraw from your bank account, like some kind of automatic bank teller but as a machine?
For a nominal $4 fee per withdrawal: $2 to your bank and $2 to the owner of the ATM. Your bank offers a fee-free ATM, but it's across town, and you need to spend a half hour on your bike each way to get there and back.
Interchange fees work out to a few percent in the majority of transactions.
A few percent plus 30 cents. When paying for a $1 diet soda, the 30 cents dominate.
Cashless economies do not list Credit Cards as the alternatives. We use debit cards
In the USA, it's a distinction without a difference, as debit cards carry the same Visa and MasterCard logos as credit cards. I can't name a single brick and mortar business near me that accepts debit cards but not credit cards.
The world of cashless payments is much bigger than credit cards
Perhaps in the "world". But Slashdot's headquarters is in the USA, and the USA of cashless payments is Visa and MasterCard, with some stores also offering Discover and American Express. I haven't seen more than a handful of chains that accept Interlink and Maestro debit cards but not Visa and MasterCard credit cards.
If consumers don't like "no-cash" businesses, then they'll choose to spend their money elsewhere.
The problem comes with no-cash government or when all businesses in a particular class that serve a particular area all go no-cash.
Prescriptivists would claim that the existence of "trigonometric" makes it nonstandard to use "trigonometry" as an adjunct noun.
We _already_ have requestAnimationFrame
Not if the user has chosen to disable script on your site for any of several reasons:
- Wanting to maintain a sense of separation between documents, which ought to be static on the client side (even if they are dynamic on the server side), and applications, which ought to be native and downloadable
- Fear of being tracked, particularly through the subpoena exception in every privacy policy
- Your scripts not having been marked as licensed under a free software license
If you're using it for animation, you're using the wrong tool for the job.
Then what is the right tool for the job, particularly if you're site's audience includes the sort of "I don't want any script in the browser, ever" tech purists who inhabit Slashdot?
What kind of data caps will we be seeing on 5G networks? How quickly will it be (would it have been) better to download and install than stream?
Let's assume for a moment that 5G pricing tiers will resemble those of 4G. The major U.S. carriers offer "unlimited", with about 30 GB per month of high-speed priority data, so long as the packets are sent or received by an application running on the phone. Packets sent or received by an application running on a different device connected through the phone's "mobile hotspot" or "USB tethering" feature are subject to a separate 10 GB per month quota, with overages on the order of $10 per GB for exceeding this. (Carriers' way of detecting fee evasion include TTL/hop count field, SNI domains of OS update services, and User-agent on cleartext HTTP sites.)
So one advantage of streaming is playing titles not ported to your phone. For example, an Android device can play a game that's released only for Windows or only for Windows and iOS. Downloading such a game to a Windows PC would eat into the 10 GB of monthly hotspot data. (For the moment, I'm ignoring input mismatches for games that heavily use a keyboard or joystick.)
You appear to miss blahplusplus's point. The primary reason that some games were engineered to involve "thousands of players" in the first place was as an excuse for tightening digital restrictions management. Otherwise, a private server could handle a few dozen players at once.
But if they're a vegan at a steakhouse they won't ever be pleased, you can either try to make water not wet or have one token vegan dish and blow them off.
Steakhouses have buffets for precisely this reason. If a group is all eating together, and a minority are vegan, the minority are less likely to veto a steakhouse if it has a decent salad bar.
At this point, I'd guess that Comcast has not received more than $10,000 from me, since I kicked them to the curb for their poor customer service.
Is kicking Comcast to the curb worth downgrading to satellite or cellular with its 10 GB/mo cap? Is it worth quitting your job, selling your house, and seeking employment and a house in a different city where an ISP other than Comcast offers affordable home Internet service with a cap more than 100 GB/mo if any?
A monopoly exists when, and only when, there is some specific reason for your success that your competitors are not able to use.
And that "specific reason" was US Patent 5,960,411. From September 1999 (grant) through September 2017 (expiration), Amazon held a legal monopoly on 1-Click ordering in the United States.
A medallion taxi company, though minuscule in comparison to Walmart, is a monopoly because it is illegal for any other ride for hire company to compete in their city.
Different taxi companies can compete for different cities' franchises, much as with electric power, water, natural gas, and other public utilities. Amazon's patent was nationwide.
Anyone who wants to can already compete, so what exactly do you think would be different? Do you really imagine that there are, today, people who say "we cannot compete against AWS because Amazon also has online shopping?"
That wasn't as clearly the case while Amazon still owned the 1-Click patent.
Of course the Amazon site would communicate using computers with the Amazon warehouse. In fact, they already do. The difference is the API would be open and JacksAwesomeEcommerceSite.com could also communicate with the Amazon warehouse via the same APIs
You mean like how PhilsHobbyShop.com already communicates with Amazon using the Marketplace Web Service API? In fact, the reports and feeds on "Seller Central", Amazon's web application for third-party sellers, are a fairly thin layer around MWS.
The difference is that HPHT, CVD, and other methods of making diamonds make close substitutes. There isn't quite as much of a close substitute for Disney movies. For example, though Golden Films made an animated adaptation of The Adventures of Pinocchio, it's nowhere near the production values of Disney's 1941 animated film.
Maybe you should only subscribe to one or two at time and switch them up every few months.
Unless Disney decides to encourage annual subscriptions by jacking up the monthly rate so high that a subscriber can buy 2 months and get 10 free.
I doubt we'll see another copyright term extension bill in the USA before 2024 for several reasons.
- First, Authors Guild actually opposes it, as authors have realized how keeping things out of the public domain causes authors to have to walk on eggshells to avoid infringing third parties' copyrights.
- Second, the 1998 extension was predicated on harmonizing copyright terms to those of the European Union. In its opinion in Eldred v. Ashcroft, the Supreme Court recognized the possibility of "legislative misbehavior" but allowed the 1998 extension through because of harmonization. But no major developed anglophone market has extended the term further than the EU's life plus 70.
- Third, the US Trade Representative doesn't appear interested in extending the U.S. copyright term. The USMCA treaty, which replaced NAFTA at the end of 2018, extended the Canadian term but did not extend the U.S. term.
I mention 2024 because that's when U.S. copyright in "Steamboat Willie", The House on Pooh Corner, and Ravel's "Bolero" expires under current law.
To me, a cuck is someone who knows his limits in bed and understands that for less common, more demanding scenes, his partner might need to bring in a specialist surrogate. Is there really anything wrong with that?
Based on the transition of commercial use of Java 8 to a pay model, I think Oracle wants home and small business users to use OpenJDK builds of the JRE.
A university is not a vocational school. It's not your job to teach what's popular.
Employers expect recent graduates to have both university knowledge and vocational school knowledge. They'll choose to hire at job fairs at universities that give both kinds of knowledge over those that don't prepare students for work.
What is the procedure for devising a meaningful name for those methods that have not yet "proven important enough to give a name to"?
I went to file this on webcompat.com, but it looks like it's already been filed as #27392.
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