Patreon shares the same incremental sticker shock issue as individual website subscriptions. Just as your New York Times subscription doesn't let you view a Wall Street Journal article that your friend cited to you, viewing a single patron-only article from each of five different publishers on Patreon incurs a charge for an entire month's subscription to each of those five publishers. The a la carte price structure of Contributor and the flat monthly fee of Adult Check avoid(ed) the problem of it being more expensive to read from multiple publishers.
I was one of the few who really like Google Contributor. It allowed me to give back to the websites I frequent in a really convenient way. I was pretty bummed when they shut it down.
Apart from the data sharing between Contributor and AdSense/DoubleClick, the other nitpick I have with Contributor is that it bills viewers per page view, not per unique monthly article. This means a reload when a page fails to load is charged at full price, as are cache misses when viewing an article days later or on another device logged into the same Google Account.
The moderation mechanism described in xkcd #810 already resembles that in use on various forums and Q&A sites, such as Slashdot and Stack Overflow.
1. Each newly registered user sees a page of what Stack Overflow calls "review audits". This resembles Slashdot metamoderation: does what the new user sees as constructive align with what established users see as constructive? 2. Anyone who gets most of the review audits correct has posts placed in "awaiting moderation" state. Only established users can see such a post until at least one established user upvotes the post. 3. Once a user is firmly in positive reputation/karma, the user's posts skip the "awaiting moderation" state.
Yet this hasn't led to any artificial intelligence breakthroughs on the part of the spam industry. Instead, I've noticed that spammers on forums.nesdev.com appear to be humans in low-exchange-rate countries. They search for an old post, reword it, start a discussion, and days later edit the post to include off-topic commercial links. A user who isn't paying close attention is unlikely to see this karma whoring for what it is.
Why can't the operators of these servers join a multi-publisher subscription network? Two decades ago, such a network called Adult Check was popular, founded on the principle that adults can pay for nice things. One $10/mo payment bought access to all sites that took Adult Check, and the network paid publishers per page view. This helped to alleviate the sticker shock from each website charging a separate subscription.
More recently, Google Contributor could have been that network. The biggest problem with Contributor is lack of privacy, as it shares a parent company with AdSense and DoubleClick. This means Google can use page history gathered through Contributor to infer interests of a Contributor user for use on sites using Google adtech.
I hate the whole Ap software culture, where what a web browser can do has been split into 1,000 diferent programs.
Other people hate the web application culture, where a web browser will automatically download and execute unvetted JavaScript and WebAssembly software written by who knows whom.
Last I checked, one of the CDD requirements for getting the Google Play Store app on an Android device is that the device allow the user to enable Android Debug Bridge. So yes, if you have Android TV with Google Play, you can probably adb install your own program into a device's user space.
Samsung tablets are made by the same manufacturer and run the same version of Android as Samsung phones. The only differences are screen size and inability to dial the PSTN or receive SMS. What "debugging" was needed just to turn off the flag that blocks Google Play Store from offering the application to users of devices with large screens?
That's new. Until this month (December 2018), Apple Music worked on Android phones but was deliberately incompatible with Android tablets. (Source: Engadget)
The difference is that if someone wanted to upgrade from "do nothing more than play games and browse the web" to use as a workstation, he could do so by installing free software. Upgrading from a phone or tablet, on the other hand, generally requires purchasing new hardware.
If someone wants to define a country called Kurdistan, or Palestine, or Candyland on a map, can't they extend to the users the ability to define such a country?
Hasbro might object to one of those.
As for the other two, I'd find it justified to map "historic Kurdish lands" and "historic Palestine", but "country" is a stretch. Just because you call something a country doesn't make it one. Recall a story that appears in the 1909 book Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln edited by Allen Thorndike Rice: If you call a tail a leg, a kangaroo has five legs but a cow only four. This is because a leg bears weight, and a cow's tail does not. Likewise, Kurdistan and Palestine fail international treaty organizations' tests for what makes a sovereign state.
Would the map of Kurdish regions have been removed if its author eschewed the disputed name "Kurdistan" in favor of "Historically Kurdish regions of modern-day Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria"?
kids learned programming by reading magazines and books
Buying the book in the first place requires either a parent's money or perfect school attendance and outstanding grades to qualify for a work permit. Trying the exercises in the book still requires screen time. Or what am I missing?
employers expect college graduates to have known more than one programming language before finishing high school
take a class in college
How can this be done "before finishing high school"?
What US prestigious universities have to do is send a message to all students. Want to enter a prestigious university? Study hard, pass your exams and show you can study.
Want a job after completing a software engineering degree at a prestigious university so that you can pay off student loans incurred at a prestigious university? You'd better have had enough screen time to study programming before graduating from high school.
My kids are 5th, 7th, and 9th grade. We've felt that 2 hours of screen time (Netflix, computer/console gaming, tablet usage) was a healthy upper limit per day.
This idea was based on how my wife and I were raised during the 80's and 90's where most of our childhood was spent outdoors with friends. I know it's quaint these days
Particularly when stranger danger hysteria causes neighbors to report free-range parents as neglecting their unaccompanied children.
By "file" I meant a file or a related set of files.
It's still beside my point though. If you're giving a person a copy of one file or a related set of files, and it is small enough to fit on a cheap medium such as a floppy or a CD, and you don't expect to see the medium returned to you afterward, a more expensive medium is a waste of money.
Where I live, I can get WBOI (NPR news), WBNI (NPR classical), and a couple Christian stations, but everything else is nonstop ads. Or ought one news station and one classical station to be enough for anyone, like 640K?
the first time anyone heard the term "deep state" was in [The New York Times'] reporting on Egypt. Now they claim anyone who mentions "deep states" is a paranoid nutter.
Wherever you see "deep state," read it as "institutional memory of the civil service" and see if the article still makes sense. Is that a good rule of thumb?
requires foreign companies like Visa, Mastercard and American Express to store all data about Indians on computers inside the country.
implementing such a policy isn't protectionist. It is just common sense. After all, as an American living in the US, I wouldn't want my US financial data being stored anywhere else but the US.
The summary lacks a citation to the statute or regulation in question, and my subscription package happens not to include The New York Times. But if information about transactions involving Americans must be stored only in America, and information about transactions involving Indians must be stored only in India, that appears to leave nowhere to store information about a transaction between an American and an Indian.
Slashdot Mirror
Patreon shares the same incremental sticker shock issue as individual website subscriptions. Just as your New York Times subscription doesn't let you view a Wall Street Journal article that your friend cited to you, viewing a single patron-only article from each of five different publishers on Patreon incurs a charge for an entire month's subscription to each of those five publishers. The a la carte price structure of Contributor and the flat monthly fee of Adult Check avoid(ed) the problem of it being more expensive to read from multiple publishers.
I was one of the few who really like Google Contributor. It allowed me to give back to the websites I frequent in a really convenient way. I was pretty bummed when they shut it down.
Contributor appears to still be in operation, at least in my part of the United States.
Apart from the data sharing between Contributor and AdSense/DoubleClick, the other nitpick I have with Contributor is that it bills viewers per page view, not per unique monthly article. This means a reload when a page fails to load is charged at full price, as are cache misses when viewing an article days later or on another device logged into the same Google Account.
The moderation mechanism described in xkcd #810 already resembles that in use on various forums and Q&A sites, such as Slashdot and Stack Overflow.
1. Each newly registered user sees a page of what Stack Overflow calls "review audits". This resembles Slashdot metamoderation: does what the new user sees as constructive align with what established users see as constructive?
2. Anyone who gets most of the review audits correct has posts placed in "awaiting moderation" state. Only established users can see such a post until at least one established user upvotes the post.
3. Once a user is firmly in positive reputation/karma, the user's posts skip the "awaiting moderation" state.
Yet this hasn't led to any artificial intelligence breakthroughs on the part of the spam industry. Instead, I've noticed that spammers on forums.nesdev.com appear to be humans in low-exchange-rate countries. They search for an old post, reword it, start a discussion, and days later edit the post to include off-topic commercial links. A user who isn't paying close attention is unlikely to see this karma whoring for what it is.
Why can't the operators of these servers join a multi-publisher subscription network? Two decades ago, such a network called Adult Check was popular, founded on the principle that adults can pay for nice things. One $10/mo payment bought access to all sites that took Adult Check, and the network paid publishers per page view. This helped to alleviate the sticker shock from each website charging a separate subscription.
More recently, Google Contributor could have been that network. The biggest problem with Contributor is lack of privacy, as it shares a parent company with AdSense and DoubleClick. This means Google can use page history gathered through Contributor to infer interests of a Contributor user for use on sites using Google adtech.
I hate the whole Ap software culture, where what a web browser can do has been split into 1,000 diferent programs.
Other people hate the web application culture, where a web browser will automatically download and execute unvetted JavaScript and WebAssembly software written by who knows whom.
Can I write my own program that runs?
Last I checked, one of the CDD requirements for getting the Google Play Store app on an Android device is that the device allow the user to enable Android Debug Bridge. So yes, if you have Android TV with Google Play, you can probably adb install your own program into a device's user space.
Samsung tablets are made by the same manufacturer and run the same version of Android as Samsung phones. The only differences are screen size and inability to dial the PSTN or receive SMS. What "debugging" was needed just to turn off the flag that blocks Google Play Store from offering the application to users of devices with large screens?
That's new. Until this month (December 2018), Apple Music worked on Android phones but was deliberately incompatible with Android tablets. (Source: Engadget)
The difference is that if someone wanted to upgrade from "do nothing more than play games and browse the web" to use as a workstation, he could do so by installing free software. Upgrading from a phone or tablet, on the other hand, generally requires purchasing new hardware.
What special power did they have over any other music seller?
A three-letter brand. Just as there had been the anarcho-punk slogan "DIY not EMI", there could have been "HMV not DRM".
When moving slowly, a kangaroo uses arms, legs, and tail all for weight bearing.
If someone wants to define a country called Kurdistan, or Palestine, or Candyland on a map, can't they extend to the users the ability to define such a country?
Hasbro might object to one of those.
As for the other two, I'd find it justified to map "historic Kurdish lands" and "historic Palestine", but "country" is a stretch. Just because you call something a country doesn't make it one. Recall a story that appears in the 1909 book Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln edited by Allen Thorndike Rice: If you call a tail a leg, a kangaroo has five legs but a cow only four. This is because a leg bears weight, and a cow's tail does not. Likewise, Kurdistan and Palestine fail international treaty organizations' tests for what makes a sovereign state.
How about if Google showed a map of Mexico that included Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California? USA wouldn't be happy.
I doubt the United States would object to a historic map labeled "Mexico prior to American intervention". If it did, then a map of Mexico as of 1824 would already have been removed from an article about American intervention in Mexico on an American website.
Would the map of Kurdish regions have been removed if its author eschewed the disputed name "Kurdistan" in favor of "Historically Kurdish regions of modern-day Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria"?
Most of the population doesn't see the benefit of paying for a domain and email hosting for the rest of their lives over just using Gmail.
kids learned programming by reading magazines and books
Buying the book in the first place requires either a parent's money or perfect school attendance and outstanding grades to qualify for a work permit. Trying the exercises in the book still requires screen time. Or what am I missing?
employers expect college graduates to have known more than one programming language before finishing high school
take a class in college
How can this be done "before finishing high school"?
What US prestigious universities have to do is send a message to all students.
Want to enter a prestigious university? Study hard, pass your exams and show you can study.
Want a job after completing a software engineering degree at a prestigious university so that you can pay off student loans incurred at a prestigious university? You'd better have had enough screen time to study programming before graduating from high school.
My kids are 5th, 7th, and 9th grade. We've felt that 2 hours of screen time (Netflix, computer/console gaming, tablet usage) was a healthy upper limit per day.
If your older ones end up taking up an interest in learning to program, do you plan to limit how much time they can spend on self-study of computer science on weekends and school vacations? When employers expect college graduates to have known more than one programming language before finishing high school, such a move could limit your kids' careers.
Last I checked, WP was still written in PHP.
"Do you mean WordPress or Wikipedia?"
Yes.
This idea was based on how my wife and I were raised during the 80's and 90's where most of our childhood was spent outdoors with friends. I know it's quaint these days
Particularly when stranger danger hysteria causes neighbors to report free-range parents as neglecting their unaccompanied children.
You can set the MX record to whatever you want.
Provided you pay the recurring fee for the domain and the email hosting.
Oh you always have one file per drive?
By "file" I meant a file or a related set of files.
It's still beside my point though. If you're giving a person a copy of one file or a related set of files, and it is small enough to fit on a cheap medium such as a floppy or a CD, and you don't expect to see the medium returned to you afterward, a more expensive medium is a waste of money.
Where I live, I can get WBOI (NPR news), WBNI (NPR classical), and a couple Christian stations, but everything else is nonstop ads. Or ought one news station and one classical station to be enough for anyone, like 640K?
the first time anyone heard the term "deep state" was in [The New York Times'] reporting on Egypt. Now they claim anyone who mentions "deep states" is a paranoid nutter.
Wherever you see "deep state," read it as "institutional memory of the civil service" and see if the article still makes sense. Is that a good rule of thumb?
So if an Indian buys something from a resident of the European Union or vice versa, where is the personal data associated with the transaction stored?
requires foreign companies like Visa, Mastercard and American Express to store all data about Indians on computers inside the country.
implementing such a policy isn't protectionist. It is just common sense. After all, as an American living in the US, I wouldn't want my US financial data being stored anywhere else but the US.
The summary lacks a citation to the statute or regulation in question, and my subscription package happens not to include The New York Times. But if information about transactions involving Americans must be stored only in America, and information about transactions involving Indians must be stored only in India, that appears to leave nowhere to store information about a transaction between an American and an Indian.