Yes. You're pre-buying the product (and swag), not investing in the company. There is still the risk of the second thing you said, but the contributions are also very low, so your liability is limited in that case (and you probably will still get the swag....)
"Real" americans would do the work if the farmer (a.k.a giant farming corporation) was willing to pay more than slave wages. Of course, the problem is that the other farmers are doing the same thing, so then he can't compete.
Actually, it's problematically too long of a wait period. If the broadcasters prefer you to watch the show on the air, then a delay of longer than the new-show interval works against that goal by keeping viewers who want to watch shows in the correct order from catching up after a missed episode until the hiatus.
It's almost as if their business plan is to punish viewers who fall behind for even a single episode...
You can't accurately FF at 200x and reliably hit the show when it comes back. I guess they figure that the last 15s of the last ad are going to be enough.
Still, PVRs should be *required* to have automated commercial skip functionality. That way the ad producers would be motivated to make the commercials have no obvious, mechanically easily detectible differences from the shows themselves.
If commercial skip were a common feature, ads at 10x the volume of the show would not have been the problem that it has become.
i.e. to be able to have have more stuff you don't need and which generally brings you no increase in happiness over what you already had
Are you speaking from experience, or sour grapes?
Even if you don't get any more stuff, just having the security of not having to worry about making ends meet - 178k/yr is more than sufficient to significantly exceed housing costs in many areas - is not something to scoff at. Having the option for one spouse to quit may be more valuable than actually quitting.
Oh, One hopes they try to use him as a poster boy. They've been able to get away with the shenanigans so far because they've kept them under the radar. If people thought that the ridiculous fines in the unskippable FBI warnings were realistic, they'd be a lot more fearful of the inexplicably severe powers of such a tiny (but vocal) industry.
Also, if they literally use him as a poster boy, then he has standing to sue over the unauthorized use of his likeness...
Non-glossy screens are for people who don't know how to do geometry, or who are unfortunate enough to have to use them in a well-lit area where the lights are evenly distributed throughout the space.
If you intend to use the laptop anywhere else, and don't mind possibly adjusting the angle whenever you shift position, you're going to get better results out of a glossy screen. Matte screens don't work too well in sunlight unless there is a lot of power behind the backlight. Glossy screens are visible in sunlight (provided you angle the screen so you don't get the sun's reflection..).
Depending on the screen images may be even be visible even at the lowest brightness setting. At least, mine is, though I'm not sure how this effect works. My suspicion is that since I'm not angling the screen at the critical angle for total internal reflection for an air-glass interface, some or even most of the sun's light is hitting the phosphors and getting diffused and modulated by the LCD, allowing me to see a faint image as the screen is not dominated by the diffused reflection of the sun on the screen's surface.
Not just for ergonomic reasons but for general health reasons. The prolonged heating can cause tissue damage and depending on how close it is to your gamete cells, can cause deleterious effects to them as well..
Then the fracking is doing you a favor. They're not pumping with enough energy to actually run an earthquake, so the only plausible mechanism is that the tracking fluid is acting as a lubricant and allowing the geology to relieve some accumulated stress.
In other words, fracking is actually preventing "the big one."
Instead of passing a law that requires commercials to be the same volume as the rest of the show, they should have just strengthened the laws requiring cable companies to accept third party DVRs. Also, attempting automatic commercial detection/skip should be a protected right.
Then the problem solves it self as companies spring up using volume as nice, easy, commercial detection for commercial skip programs for their DVRs.
Also.. where are the TIVO competitors. $15 a month is an awful lot of money just for a small file every week with a couple hundred shows, maybe five of which I'm remotely interested in...
Pac-Man is from an era when RAM was not cheap. According to a quick googling, the game fit on a 16k ROM, and had only 2k of RAM available for actual program use.
To be equivalent, pac-man on iPod would have to be a a 1-gigabyte app...
That kind of thinking is why whenever you buy a computer or even an Android phone, you have a ton of things loaded in memory at startup that you don't even like, let alone actually use.
The problem with that isn't those things are occupying memory. Memory unused is wasted. The problem is that those things have to be loaded from a disk. RAM is cheap, but disk is slow.
The wild swings in price are a pretty good indication that the petroleum demand curve is pretty inelastic, at least over the variations in supply we have seen so far.
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Yes. You're pre-buying the product (and swag), not investing in the company. There is still the risk of the second thing you said, but the contributions are also very low, so your liability is limited in that case (and you probably will still get the swag....)
"Real" americans would do the work if the farmer (a.k.a giant farming corporation) was willing to pay more than slave wages. Of course, the problem is that the other farmers are doing the same thing, so then he can't compete.
That was the first $1.2 million payment. The loan was for $75 million.
No, they are trying to kick Netflix to the curb using Hulu.
Which is why Netflix is starting to fight back by producing their own content....
Actually, it's problematically too long of a wait period. If the broadcasters prefer you to watch the show on the air, then a delay of longer than the new-show interval works against that goal by keeping viewers who want to watch shows in the correct order from catching up after a missed episode until the hiatus.
It's almost as if their business plan is to punish viewers who fall behind for even a single episode...
You can't accurately FF at 200x and reliably hit the show when it comes back. I guess they figure that the last 15s of the last ad are going to be enough.
Still, PVRs should be *required* to have automated commercial skip functionality. That way the ad producers would be motivated to make the commercials have no obvious, mechanically easily detectible differences from the shows themselves.
If commercial skip were a common feature, ads at 10x the volume of the show would not have been the problem that it has become.
You pay the same as netflix, but get ads anyway? And still no Game of Thrones?
i.e. to be able to have have more stuff you don't need and which generally brings you no increase in happiness over what you already had
Are you speaking from experience, or sour grapes?
Even if you don't get any more stuff, just having the security of not having to worry about making ends meet - 178k/yr is more than sufficient to significantly exceed housing costs in many areas - is not something to scoff at. Having the option for one spouse to quit may be more valuable than actually quitting.
Oh, One hopes they try to use him as a poster boy. They've been able to get away with the shenanigans so far because they've kept them under the radar. If people thought that the ridiculous fines in the unskippable FBI warnings were realistic, they'd be a lot more fearful of the inexplicably severe powers of such a tiny (but vocal) industry.
Also, if they literally use him as a poster boy, then he has standing to sue over the unauthorized use of his likeness...
He waited until after the IPO. I wonder if there's a reason for that...
If you are both making $178K, maybe one of you should quit. What's the point of making this much money?
To be able to have more stuff.
Non-glossy screens are for people who don't know how to do geometry, or who are unfortunate enough to have to use them in a well-lit area where the lights are evenly distributed throughout the space.
If you intend to use the laptop anywhere else, and don't mind possibly adjusting the angle whenever you shift position, you're going to get better results out of a glossy screen. Matte screens don't work too well in sunlight unless there is a lot of power behind the backlight. Glossy screens are visible in sunlight (provided you angle the screen so you don't get the sun's reflection..).
Depending on the screen images may be even be visible even at the lowest brightness setting. At least, mine is, though I'm not sure how this effect works. My suspicion is that since I'm not angling the screen at the critical angle for total internal reflection for an air-glass interface, some or even most of the sun's light is hitting the phosphors and getting diffused and modulated by the LCD, allowing me to see a faint image as the screen is not dominated by the diffused reflection of the sun on the screen's surface.
Not just for ergonomic reasons but for general health reasons. The prolonged heating can cause tissue damage and depending on how close it is to your gamete cells, can cause deleterious effects to them as well..
Dragon or Duck?
I'm surprised g_earth = pi^2 wasn't one of those.
That one actually becomes relevant when back-of-the-enveloping orbital calculations....
Then the fracking is doing you a favor. They're not pumping with enough energy to actually run an earthquake, so the only plausible mechanism is that the tracking fluid is acting as a lubricant and allowing the geology to relieve some accumulated stress.
In other words, fracking is actually preventing "the big one."
Instead of passing a law that requires commercials to be the same volume as the rest of the show, they should have just strengthened the laws requiring cable companies to accept third party DVRs. Also, attempting automatic commercial detection/skip should be a protected right.
Then the problem solves it self as companies spring up using volume as nice, easy, commercial detection for commercial skip programs for their DVRs.
Also.. where are the TIVO competitors. $15 a month is an awful lot of money just for a small file every week with a couple hundred shows, maybe five of which I'm remotely interested in...
How does the 6" sub fare if you have it with, say, an apple?
Which you could then run on the PowerPC you bought from....
Wait, who other than Apple was selling PCs with Power chips?
I really fail to see how the success of one entity can rationally depend on another entity enjoying the benefits of its effort.....
Pac-Man is from an era when RAM was not cheap. According to a quick googling, the game fit on a 16k ROM, and had only 2k of RAM available for actual program use.
To be equivalent, pac-man on iPod would have to be a a 1-gigabyte app...
That kind of thinking is why whenever you buy a computer or even an Android phone, you have a ton of things loaded in memory at startup that you don't even like, let alone actually use.
The problem with that isn't those things are occupying memory. Memory unused is wasted. The problem is that those things have to be loaded from a disk. RAM is cheap, but disk is slow.
Wait.. why would low level Microsoft utilities be written in vimscript?
RAM is cheap. Why not use it?
"Speedup" features that waste time writing stuff to disk are very poorly named....
The wild swings in price are a pretty good indication that the petroleum demand curve is pretty inelastic, at least over the variations in supply we have seen so far.