the younger, more tech-savvy Facebook generation isn't going to buy into their rent-seeking model -- they'll just find another "free" option and use that until it's gone or crapified to the point of being useless
Isn't that the same generation that buys virtual dolls and turnips to improve their score in Farmville?
We saw similar in the late 90s, those applications that measured mouse cursor movement and showed a banner at the bottom of the screen. I've never heard of anyone who actually received any money from them, so for this one I'll wait until someone else confirms that the payments indeed coming though before any commitment. If I do sign up it won't be with my normal email and phone number. Plenty of free SIM cards I can use like a hole in the ground for advertisers to yell into.
Similar thing happened with a new Android tablet I got my hands on. The minute I visited a sports/news website (legit, major in the country where it's from), a "virus alert" replaced the webpage, and the tablet wouldn't stop beeping until I closed that Chrome window. Firefox and adblock it is, thank you very much.
I prefer not to reply to AC, I'll just add here that with ZEV your choice of upstream can be away from the usual war zones in and around oil producing countries.
Hiya I thought of suggesting that if you want to see personal trainers and actual athletes who choose to eat vegan diets, you can easily find them (usually preaching vegan goodness) on Instagram. Tags like: #veganathlete and #veganbobybuilding are obvious starting points.
This is to say that people with strenuous physical activity in their jobs or otherwise can carry on doing so with vegetable based food, it will just be bulkier (like you said) and have more fibre, which is not a terrible thing for 1st-world-style diets. In my case, I found it's also cheaper. Sourcing suitably vegan food will depend on where you are, as it happens with any other type of diet, but in my experience in the UK, it's easy: I still go to Tesco which is one of 4 major and mainstream supermarket chains here. Would the whole world be able to do the same? It's unlikely we'll ever know, but I think physical strength/endurance requirements and the time/effort to choose and cook the right food are not the deal breakers you suggest.
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. Somehow I thought this quote was from Jobs during his first time at Apple Computer inc.? wow. I haven't had a Mac since 2005 and the distortion field is still strong... (source)
More on point, it seems that not only it is true that hardware+OS+applications are a good way to make money, the control over more of these 3 is a good insurance policy against the other vendors closing down app stores or their hardware on you. I certainly don't mind that NVidia, Steam, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Nintendo, Sony and mr Goatse all have separate app stores and compatible hardware to go with them, I just hope that in the future it will be possible to play games and use applications/files across platforms without having to own several consoles and owing monthly rents to each of them.
This doesn't look good for Microsoft. It should be easy to confirm, as all installations should behave in the same way at the very least if they are running the same edition of Windows7/8/8.1
The fact that they can't give a simple Yes or No answer and a few screenshots about how this works makes it look like there is some sort of dodgy affair going on, like what was described earlier that the way to cancel is to use a tiny Close button instead of a proper Cancel button.
My PC hasn't tried to install anything by itself, possibly because it knows that when I tried to do it (on day 1 after release!) it failed on hardware/BIOS stuff. Now the right way to get Win 10 on this PC is probably to wipe out the current installation, but I certainly don't plan on being the one idiot who pays for a licence when others are fighting their machines to not get the upgrade.
I use Windows Photo Gallery but would not recommend to new users feeling abandoned by Google/Picasa. Windows Live Essentials was last released in 2012, all you get from the website right now is a 1.2MB WLSetup.exe that will find the right packages to download itself, and Windows 8 and 10 have new apps that replace Live Essentials. This software is as good as dead. Sooner or later, Microsoft is going to delete it from their websites and users will have to move on, just like what is happening with Picasa.
We wanted to focus on the browsers that have made serious security improvements in the last year
Rather than giving Mozilla some bad press they could have stated in the rules that exploit A, B and C have already been done last year and don't count for the 2016 edition of the contest. Even if they haven't changed whatever these guys think is "serious" since last year that doesn't mean the whole thing is bad.
Amazon has been in business for long enough that I think by now it should be clear that printing paper is not the most important cost component for anything printed.
As for the case in question, 2016 might be the year when everyone who has a website starts asking for money and then we'll what kind of business models work with what kind of online media.
Hi. I'll be the new type of shill and say that this is not a very detailed research on what Windows is doing and how it was set up.
The author states:
Aside from installing Windows 10 Enterprise, and verifying the internet connection through ipconfig and ping yahoo.com, I have not used the Windows 10 installation at all (the basis for the first part of this analysis)
and
I have installed Virtualbox on the Linux Mint laptop, and installed Windows 10 EnterprisePNG on Virtualbox. I have chosen the customized installation option where I disabled three pages of tracking options.
The connections to Bing, MSN and Akamai can be explained by Windows Update and by built-in apps that may update a news feed. My work PC has W10 Enterprise and while there aren't as many of these apps compared to Home edition, there's Weather, Maps, Cortana and I don't know if Skype was pre-installed or added later. "Disabling 3 pages of tracking options" is IMHO too vague for someone trying to demonstrate something wrong with Windows 10 communicating with Microsoft HQ.
It would be stupid to say "nothing to see here, move along", but also stupid to go the other way completely and be all outraged before seeing this sort of experiment properly documented.
The lack of empathy is quite remarkable, but I'll give that a miss and just suggest that the size of servings is influenced by bad habits and by expectations from food sellers. In the same way that toothpaste manufacturers hoped to increase sales by increasing the size of the toothpaste lid opening, food suppliers are can adjust the size of servings to promote sales growth.
Have a look at the sizes of servings in restaurants in different countries and you might see correlation with obesity in the population. I'm not having a go at Americans, but *everyone* I know who visits the USA notices that all restaurant servings are huge. Imagine if those sizes are seen as normal from an early age, how can people not adjust their expectations (and feelings of satiety) to regularly eating enough food to obtain 3000 or 4000kcals per day?
Add to that the composition of foods offered and the logistics of food, and you'll see that it's easier to get people to eat larger pizzas than it is to overeat fish with salad. In the UK, for example, I see any shop front offering Coca Cola and many types of chocolate bars as snacks (400kcals+ per unit). The retailer can stock up on those products and not worry about wastage for several years. However, if they wanted to have less kcal-dense food on offer, their margin would be lower due to logistics and waste even if the chocolates were significantly more expensive and offered slower or less intense brain rewards than the "healthy snack" alternatives.
I suggest you all come back to this thread in 1-2 years.
Sometimes I do that, I actually bookmark authors and posts to read them again in 5 years. It's funny when the calendar reminder pops up and I have to think "why was this interesting?". Now, in your case, can I please have some directions to the research, rather than having to search for whatever is filed under "research" and "anonymous coward"?
Interesting. Where did you download VLC from? (URL please).
As for the "list service" that vets what software can be installed and what cannot, Windows RT worked exclusively like that. People didn't like it much even if they use it on all other non-Windows OSs.
Possibly. The way I see it, MS used to have 90%+ of share of a much smaller market than what exists today. If they end up with, say, 20% of paying customers for Mobile/PC+Gaming, it will be more than enough for them to be bigger and more profitable than they've been so far.
Amazon seems to be comfortably building vertical integration in their role as the biggest retail (and logistics) operation in the world, so I'd expect them to stick around in the top 5 for a long time until China comes up with the biggest retail operation ever.
Apple might take over a nice upmarket slice of the auto market and remain on the list.
Google is so weird they might split into 4 companies and take more than one place in the top 5.
I have this feeling that Facebook might be the least difficult to displace, as Netflix and other games&media companies develop the "social" side to what they offer today. then again, FB should at some point add a consumer electronics component to what they do and become a BIG player in an expanding VR+gaming market.
I'll set a calendar reminder to review this post in 5 years so I can laugh at myself.
The Peugeot-Citroen group has some but this configuration is quite niche. While you can google for these models, these deep links are not necessarily connected to the main page of the car model. Probably these cars did not sell enough in the UK and are on the way out. I'm sure in France it will be different:
yep. Adding lobbying power and helping new regulations come into place is the other reason why Tesla wants to cooperate with the established motor industry players. Selling batteries is just one part of the story.
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They are at an advantage in Iceland: if they threaten to drop someone in a volcano, they actually might do it.
the younger, more tech-savvy Facebook generation isn't going to buy into their rent-seeking model -- they'll just find another "free" option and use that until it's gone or crapified to the point of being useless
Isn't that the same generation that buys virtual dolls and turnips to improve their score in Farmville?
Yeah, Anonymous Coward is a much more trustworthy source.
We saw similar in the late 90s, those applications that measured mouse cursor movement and showed a banner at the bottom of the screen. I've never heard of anyone who actually received any money from them, so for this one I'll wait until someone else confirms that the payments indeed coming though before any commitment. If I do sign up it won't be with my normal email and phone number. Plenty of free SIM cards I can use like a hole in the ground for advertisers to yell into.
Similar thing happened with a new Android tablet I got my hands on. The minute I visited a sports/news website (legit, major in the country where it's from), a "virus alert" replaced the webpage, and the tablet wouldn't stop beeping until I closed that Chrome window. Firefox and adblock it is, thank you very much.
I prefer not to reply to AC, I'll just add here that with ZEV your choice of upstream can be away from the usual war zones in and around oil producing countries.
"The main reason for its removal is the fact that Google's metrics show little to no usage for the Chrome app launcher."
There you have it, telemetry. Where are the angry crowds with torches and pitchforks?
Hiya
I thought of suggesting that if you want to see personal trainers and actual athletes who choose to eat vegan diets, you can easily find them (usually preaching vegan goodness) on Instagram. Tags like: #veganathlete and #veganbobybuilding are obvious starting points.
This is to say that people with strenuous physical activity in their jobs or otherwise can carry on doing so with vegetable based food, it will just be bulkier (like you said) and have more fibre, which is not a terrible thing for 1st-world-style diets.
In my case, I found it's also cheaper. Sourcing suitably vegan food will depend on where you are, as it happens with any other type of diet, but in my experience in the UK, it's easy: I still go to Tesco which is one of 4 major and mainstream supermarket chains here. Would the whole world be able to do the same? It's unlikely we'll ever know, but I think physical strength/endurance requirements and the time/effort to choose and cook the right food are not the deal breakers you suggest.
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Somehow I thought this quote was from Jobs during his first time at Apple Computer inc.? wow. I haven't had a Mac since 2005 and the distortion field is still strong... (source)
More on point, it seems that not only it is true that hardware+OS+applications are a good way to make money, the control over more of these 3 is a good insurance policy against the other vendors closing down app stores or their hardware on you.
I certainly don't mind that NVidia, Steam, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Nintendo, Sony and mr Goatse all have separate app stores and compatible hardware to go with them, I just hope that in the future it will be possible to play games and use applications/files across platforms without having to own several consoles and owing monthly rents to each of them.
This doesn't look good for Microsoft. It should be easy to confirm, as all installations should behave in the same way at the very least if they are running the same edition of Windows7/8/8.1
The fact that they can't give a simple Yes or No answer and a few screenshots about how this works makes it look like there is some sort of dodgy affair going on, like what was described earlier that the way to cancel is to use a tiny Close button instead of a proper Cancel button.
My PC hasn't tried to install anything by itself, possibly because it knows that when I tried to do it (on day 1 after release!) it failed on hardware/BIOS stuff.
Now the right way to get Win 10 on this PC is probably to wipe out the current installation, but I certainly don't plan on being the one idiot who pays for a licence when others are fighting their machines to not get the upgrade.
We call it "freemium model". Try to keep up. Bonus: Here's a text editor for £0.99 if you want it without advertising banners :)
Good call! thanks.
I use Windows Photo Gallery but would not recommend to new users feeling abandoned by Google/Picasa. Windows Live Essentials was last released in 2012, all you get from the website right now is a 1.2MB WLSetup.exe that will find the right packages to download itself, and Windows 8 and 10 have new apps that replace Live Essentials. This software is as good as dead. Sooner or later, Microsoft is going to delete it from their websites and users will have to move on, just like what is happening with Picasa.
We wanted to focus on the browsers that have made serious security improvements in the last year
Rather than giving Mozilla some bad press they could have stated in the rules that exploit A, B and C have already been done last year and don't count for the 2016 edition of the contest. Even if they haven't changed whatever these guys think is "serious" since last year that doesn't mean the whole thing is bad.
Amazon has been in business for long enough that I think by now it should be clear that printing paper is not the most important cost component for anything printed.
As for the case in question, 2016 might be the year when everyone who has a website starts asking for money and then we'll what kind of business models work with what kind of online media.
Hi. I'll be the new type of shill and say that this is not a very detailed research on what Windows is doing and how it was set up.
The author states:
Aside from installing Windows 10 Enterprise, and verifying the internet connection through ipconfig and ping yahoo.com, I have not used the Windows 10 installation at all (the basis for the first part of this analysis)
and
I have installed Virtualbox on the Linux Mint laptop, and installed Windows 10 EnterprisePNG on Virtualbox. I have chosen the customized installation option where I disabled three pages of tracking options.
The connections to Bing, MSN and Akamai can be explained by Windows Update and by built-in apps that may update a news feed. My work PC has W10 Enterprise and while there aren't as many of these apps compared to Home edition, there's Weather, Maps, Cortana and I don't know if Skype was pre-installed or added later. "Disabling 3 pages of tracking options" is IMHO too vague for someone trying to demonstrate something wrong with Windows 10 communicating with Microsoft HQ.
It would be stupid to say "nothing to see here, move along", but also stupid to go the other way completely and be all outraged before seeing this sort of experiment properly documented.
The lack of empathy is quite remarkable, but I'll give that a miss and just suggest that the size of servings is influenced by bad habits and by expectations from food sellers. In the same way that toothpaste manufacturers hoped to increase sales by increasing the size of the toothpaste lid opening, food suppliers are can adjust the size of servings to promote sales growth.
Have a look at the sizes of servings in restaurants in different countries and you might see correlation with obesity in the population. I'm not having a go at Americans, but *everyone* I know who visits the USA notices that all restaurant servings are huge. Imagine if those sizes are seen as normal from an early age, how can people not adjust their expectations (and feelings of satiety) to regularly eating enough food to obtain 3000 or 4000kcals per day?
Add to that the composition of foods offered and the logistics of food, and you'll see that it's easier to get people to eat larger pizzas than it is to overeat fish with salad. In the UK, for example, I see any shop front offering Coca Cola and many types of chocolate bars as snacks (400kcals+ per unit). The retailer can stock up on those products and not worry about wastage for several years. However, if they wanted to have less kcal-dense food on offer, their margin would be lower due to logistics and waste even if the chocolates were significantly more expensive and offered slower or less intense brain rewards than the "healthy snack" alternatives.
I suggest you all come back to this thread in 1-2 years.
Sometimes I do that, I actually bookmark authors and posts to read them again in 5 years. It's funny when the calendar reminder pops up and I have to think "why was this interesting?". Now, in your case, can I please have some directions to the research, rather than having to search for whatever is filed under "research" and "anonymous coward"?
That's why I never go to South London...
Interesting. Where did you download VLC from? (URL please).
As for the "list service" that vets what software can be installed and what cannot, Windows RT worked exclusively like that. People didn't like it much even if they use it on all other non-Windows OSs.
Possibly. The way I see it, MS used to have 90%+ of share of a much smaller market than what exists today. If they end up with, say, 20% of paying customers for Mobile/PC+Gaming, it will be more than enough for them to be bigger and more profitable than they've been so far.
Amazon seems to be comfortably building vertical integration in their role as the biggest retail (and logistics) operation in the world, so I'd expect them to stick around in the top 5 for a long time until China comes up with the biggest retail operation ever.
Apple might take over a nice upmarket slice of the auto market and remain on the list.
Google is so weird they might split into 4 companies and take more than one place in the top 5.
I have this feeling that Facebook might be the least difficult to displace, as Netflix and other games&media companies develop the "social" side to what they offer today. then again, FB should at some point add a consumer electronics component to what they do and become a BIG player in an expanding VR+gaming market.
I'll set a calendar reminder to review this post in 5 years so I can laugh at myself.
Ubuntu on Surfaces runs better than Windows? Care to expand on that? Sounds like a fun afternoon project.
The Peugeot-Citroen group has some but this configuration is quite niche. While you can google for these models, these deep links are not necessarily connected to the main page of the car model. Probably these cars did not sell enough in the UK and are on the way out. I'm sure in France it will be different:
http://www.citroen.co.uk/new-c... (Citroen DS5)
http://www.peugeot.co.uk/showr... (Peugeot 508)
http://www.peugeot.co.uk/showr... (Peugeot 3008)
It's sad but these days the business model seems to revolve around selling tech companies, not selling the output of said tech companies.
yep. Adding lobbying power and helping new regulations come into place is the other reason why Tesla wants to cooperate with the established motor industry players. Selling batteries is just one part of the story.