People realize that 111 million people tuned in for the superbowl in the US right? out of a population of 320 million? a good portion of that 1 in 3 americans loves the hell out of their cable package with sports.
Talk about a leap of logic. There's lots of people (myself included) for whom the Super Bowl is the only football game they're interested in watching.
To suggest that someone wants a year-round pay channel based on the viewership of a single night makes you sound like an ESPN shill.
Near the entrance of the chambers, they a found trove of strange artifacts: jade statues, jaguar remains, a box filled with carved shells and rubber balls.
What's strange about any of that?
After 1800 years of solitude, the rubber balls were still bouncing!
Ad money is how many of the websites finance themselves, pay their bills. From that point of view the AdBlock hating sites only want to show you the contents ONLY if you see the advertisements.
Expect further development of Ad pushing technologies, because the websites will need to get paid or they will go out of business.
Cry me a river.
I'm willing to pay for ad-free access to certain sites I frequent often, the problem is inevitably that every single site thinks they should get Netflix-level pricing for that access. $6-10/mo per site soon becomes much more expensive than my actual ISP bill. Paywall creators need to get real with their how much they think their content is worth.
Meh, it will becomes one of those things that's expected but never put on paper -- can't have surviving family suing the company for wrongful death, can we? Gotta keep it under the table, and entirely " the employee's personal choice* ".
*-- if they want to advance in their career with us
For a fixed dimension phone, smaller circuit board means more volume free for the battery pack.
Okay, I see where you're coming from. You're saying the "making it smaller" is referring to the circuit board, not the phone. That is one way to interpret it. Unfortunately, grammatically that's not what they said. Since the full sentence reads "That would reduce the cost of assembling a phone, and also free up some space to make it smaller." the pronoun "it" would be referring to the subject of the sentence -- the entire handset.
It's feasible Qualcomm could get Samsung to drop its own chips, because the Snapdragon 820 will have an onboard LTE modem. That would reduce the cost of assembling a phone, and also free up some space to make it smaller.
Yes, because the reason Android phones are so big is because they can't make the circuit boards smaller due to component count. It has nothing to do with stupid one-upsmanship on screen size.
Management in a tech company can't identify the "bottom 20 percent", because every engineer does different work.
Isn't that, like, exactly how Microsoft used to run things? There was always a "bottom performing" person or persons, and it didn't matter if the worst was better than the industry average, they weren't good enough and got penalized for it.
What made Google so great when it was still relatively new was the results were more relevant, i.e. they weren't just a bunch of advertisements. With the rise SEO that is less the case now, and looking for something on Google for me now means adding "-buy -purchase -price -shop" automatically.
It's suggested the new CEO has something to do with it. Perhaps he's doing a house-cleaning of folks who should have been fired for unrelated reasons long ago.
There's a difference between being fired and laid off (just ask your local unemployment office). But this summary seems to use the terms interchangeably. Since a reason has not been given for the workers losing their jobs, either one could apply. But they aren't the same.
Rather than distribute more proprietary services, how about ownCloud for Drive, K-9 Mail for Gmail, OsmAnd for Maps, and F-Droid for an app store? Mozilla and DuckDuckGo provide Free Software search providers for Android, too.
It's like whoever wrote this doesn't understand how modern software/device manufacturers think. Half their business plan involves data mining and vendor lock-in.
Sounds like it truly is one of "the oldest ones in the book": Working with Microsoft is a bad idea. Haven't we heard of multiple companies being screwed in partnerships with them over the years (long before Nokia)?
I don't want a huge phone. The current iPhone is too large even, I would stay with the 5S's size. The Z3 Compact's 4.6" screen is at least only as big as a normal iPhone 6.
I do not understand American politics in this sense. Where are the alternatives? Is it always the choice of either a 90% guaranteed wackjob on the Republican side (you know who), or a massively (Emperor-grade) corrupt Democrat?
Because of the electoral college system, it actually doesn't matter if there is an alternative. Everyone in my city, everyone in my county can vote Democrat and we'll still even up having voted for the republican candidate in the end. Unless you live in a swing state, your vote pretty much doesn't count.
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People realize that 111 million people tuned in for the superbowl in the US right? out of a population of 320 million? a good portion of that 1 in 3 americans loves the hell out of their cable package with sports.
Talk about a leap of logic. There's lots of people (myself included) for whom the Super Bowl is the only football game they're interested in watching.
To suggest that someone wants a year-round pay channel based on the viewership of a single night makes you sound like an ESPN shill.
So I don't know where you are getting 2 days.
I'm getting it from the story I linked about Ubuntu 15.04, the first version that uses systemd, being released -- two days ago.
Systemd has been standard on distributions for about 2 years.
Yeah, that's why Ubuntu just switched two days ago.
Near the entrance of the chambers, they a found trove of strange artifacts: jade statues, jaguar remains, a box filled with carved shells and rubber balls.
What's strange about any of that?
After 1800 years of solitude, the rubber balls were still bouncing!
I think James Bond beat him to it....will that ball come with a foxy KGB agent inside?
No. Sadly, the Survival Ball will only come with a Companion Cube.
replying to undo mod. ignore.
Ad money is how many of the websites finance themselves, pay their bills. From that point of view the AdBlock hating sites only want to show you the contents ONLY if you see the advertisements.
Expect further development of Ad pushing technologies, because the websites will need to get paid or they will go out of business.
Cry me a river.
I'm willing to pay for ad-free access to certain sites I frequent often, the problem is inevitably that every single site thinks they should get Netflix-level pricing for that access. $6-10/mo per site soon becomes much more expensive than my actual ISP bill. Paywall creators need to get real with their how much they think their content is worth.
I'm not touching that.
That's what she said.
Meh, it will becomes one of those things that's expected but never put on paper -- can't have surviving family suing the company for wrongful death, can we?
Gotta keep it under the table, and entirely " the employee's personal choice* ".
*-- if they want to advance in their career with us
For a fixed dimension phone, smaller circuit board means more volume free for the battery pack.
Okay, I see where you're coming from. You're saying the "making it smaller" is referring to the circuit board, not the phone. That is one way to interpret it. Unfortunately, grammatically that's not what they said. Since the full sentence reads "That would reduce the cost of assembling a phone, and also free up some space to make it smaller." the pronoun "it" would be referring to the subject of the sentence -- the entire handset.
It's feasible Qualcomm could get Samsung to drop its own chips, because the Snapdragon 820 will have an onboard LTE modem. That would reduce the cost of assembling a phone, and also free up some space to make it smaller.
Yes, because the reason Android phones are so big is because they can't make the circuit boards smaller due to component count. It has nothing to do with stupid one-upsmanship on screen size.
Why did they have the smash physical beer bottles - isn't there an App for that?? ;)
Responding to each other's talking points with the fart app might have been a contributing factor to things escalating.
Management in a tech company can't identify the "bottom 20 percent", because every engineer does different work.
Isn't that, like, exactly how Microsoft used to run things? There was always a "bottom performing" person or persons, and it didn't matter if the worst was better than the industry average, they weren't good enough and got penalized for it.
What made Google so great when it was still relatively new was the results were more relevant, i.e. they weren't just a bunch of advertisements. With the rise SEO that is less the case now, and looking for something on Google for me now means adding "-buy -purchase -price -shop" automatically.
It's suggested the new CEO has something to do with it. Perhaps he's doing a house-cleaning of folks who should have been fired for unrelated reasons long ago.
There's a difference between being fired and laid off (just ask your local unemployment office). But this summary seems to use the terms interchangeably.
Since a reason has not been given for the workers losing their jobs, either one could apply. But they aren't the same.
What, and scare away tourists? Think of the local economy!
+1 underrated.
Here it is, everyone. Your escape pod!
The only downside is it's kinda cramped in there with RMS.
Rather than distribute more proprietary services, how about ownCloud for Drive, K-9 Mail for Gmail, OsmAnd for Maps, and F-Droid for an app store? Mozilla and DuckDuckGo provide Free Software search providers for Android, too.
It's like whoever wrote this doesn't understand how modern software/device manufacturers think.
Half their business plan involves data mining and vendor lock-in.
With tiny fiber-optic networking it would be a Beowulf hairball of those.
Sounds like it truly is one of "the oldest ones in the book": Working with Microsoft is a bad idea.
Haven't we heard of multiple companies being screwed in partnerships with them over the years (long before Nokia)?
If he can argue his way out of the charges, he might be a masterdebater, though.
If you're buying a case for it, why not get a wireless charging case and hit two birds with one stone?
I don't want a huge phone. The current iPhone is too large even, I would stay with the 5S's size.
The Z3 Compact's 4.6" screen is at least only as big as a normal iPhone 6.
I do not understand American politics in this sense. Where are the alternatives? Is it always the choice of either a 90% guaranteed wackjob on the Republican side (you know who), or a massively (Emperor-grade) corrupt Democrat?
Because of the electoral college system, it actually doesn't matter if there is an alternative.
Everyone in my city, everyone in my county can vote Democrat and we'll still even up having voted for the republican candidate in the end.
Unless you live in a swing state, your vote pretty much doesn't count.