Most of the articles I've seen about this inevitable dropoff in popularity have had an underlying implication that Niantic had done something very wrong. What is often left unsaid is the second part of this headline: it is still INSANELY profitable. SIX TIMES more profitable than its nearest competitor. Pokemon Go is still an app developer's wet dream. Yes, Niantic has had some big stumbles in their rollout, and yes, the fad has died down a lot. But they're still raking in money hand over fist, and they've still got a pretty loyal fan base, and if they're smart they'll continue to roll out new features to keep people interested for some time.
Agreed. Here is a relevant Wondermark cartoon to accompany your thoughts. I long for the day when I don't have to hear internet pedants correcting people about the meaning of "begging the question".
For me, the initial purchase is NBD, but I have a mental barrier against re-paying for an app that I've already paid for if my wife or kids want it, even if it's only 99 cents.
They have something like this at the Denver Museums of Nature and Science robotics exhibit. It's these, actually.
The focus is more on electronics and robotics than logical structure, but similar. They were very fun to play with. My kids spent most of their time at that station.
I read on a Kindle every day, and it's almost entirely content not purchased from Amazon. I use SendToKindle and InstaPaper to send interesting articles to my Kindle, I get books from the public library, Project Gutenberg, or buy them from other DRM-free sellers. Sometimes you have to convert from ePub using Calibre, but if you're already using Calibre to manage your eBooks, it's easy and seamless.
3) his manager was completely incompetent and had no idea what he was supposed to be doing
I know people who have been in QA for a half a decade who feel like they've forgotten how to code, but I bet if they started doing it again they'd pick it back up very quickly.
Moving those early bitcoins would be a simple task that would satisfy everybody, and whatever "attacks" and "claims for more proof" that he's afraid of would become instantly irrelevant, so his logic makes no sense here.
Just out of curiosity, what are you missing by continuing to running homebrew channel on the vWii side? I guess you can't make use of the new controller (which everybody seems to agree doesn't add that much value anyway), and there's a little extra time switching modes, but otherwise it does pretty much what I want it to do, and homebrew is alive and well on Wii U.
I still enjoy playing mine. I just hope that they continue to support online play for a good, long time, because Mario Maker and Splatoon will be pretty worthless without it.
I mean, I get why they'd discontinue a marginal platform like this, but Nintendo lives and dies by brand loyalty, and it would make me feel WAY less loyal to have several of my favorite games suddenly become mostly unplayable.
It would be interesting to see a survey that also asked a few questions to determine how informed the survey taker is about this story and encryption in general. I bet if you could look at responses from people who met some moderate threshold of prior knowledge, you'd see huge support of Apple's stance. Maybe this is what they were trying to get at by looking at responses from people who owned a smartphone, but these days owning a smartphone doesn't really indicate any technical savvy.
So, the guy whose name is currently on the registration (Leon Shiman, from what I've gathered) doesn't want to turn over the domain, but also isn't going to renew it? Is he being uncooperative on purpose? I know he hasn't been involved for years, but is he being antagonistic, or can they just not get hold of him, or what? It seems like this should be relatively simple to clear up, so what am I missing?
Part of the genius of Amazon Prime is that it capitalizes on the sunk cost fallacy. I (happily) give them $100/yr to allow me to shop there with no shipping costs, and, by god, I'm going to get my money's worth. I'm not going to squander my sunk costs by shopping at some brick-and-mortar store! IMO, this is one of the biggest hurdles Walmart has to overcome.
I think Walmart is right that accessibility and immediacy is sometimes desirable. If I blow a tire on my bike and I want to ride to work tomorrow, I'm still heading to a brick-and-mortar store. I can grab a few groceries while I'm there.
I do also think they could leverage their distribution network. There's a Walmart on pretty much everybody's way home from work, and it's only a minor inconvenience to stop in to pick something up. I've done it before for larger items that Amazon wouldn't ship free.
But that Prime, though! I love it, and I wouldn't give it up, and there's no way I'd pay somebody else for a similar service in addition to it. That's where they've really got me. That's how Amazon went from something I only used for hard-to-find items to my go-to vendor for practically everything.
I kind of like the 30% iOS premium, if only because it makes it more visible that Apple is taking 30% off the top on services sold through their App store, which is pretty exorbitant, IMO. Google trying to pass that along to the consumer directly is kind of ballsy in that regard.
Of course, I'm not planning on using this new service, and I don't own any iOS devices, so I have no skin in the game there.
...how many are cost-cutting cord-cutters supposed to maintain at once?
One. Or zero. Or five. Your choice. That's what the free market is all about.
If I didn't know better, I'd say it sounds like you're arguing against competition. If that's your thing, then just pay your money to Comcast or whoever, and ignore all the others. For myself, I'd prefer to use Netflix for now, and then if I get bored of their content, maybe try Hulu for a while, or Amazon, or maybe a couple of 'em at the same time...
The point is that I get to choose. I won't be choosing YouTube Red unless they bring more to the table, but I still welcome them to come and try to compete for my business.
I have a Linux box with a RAID array full of media. I run Plex server on it, and stream to a couple Rokus running the Plex client on a couple different TVs, as well as the Plex app on phones/tablets/laptops.
I sound like a Plex app, but it really is fantastic software.
Your assessment is right on the money. I do think that e-Ink reader absolutely can survive in the market, though the market landscape will likely change over time.
Amazon has a corner on the market for eReaders right now, but mostly because they're selling them cheaply and hoping to sell content. If that stops being profitable, I don't think it means the death of eReaders, it just means that those of us who love the experience of reading on an e-ink screen will have to pay more for the privilege.
I'm a prolific reader, and I love my Kindle but most of my eBooks come from the public library. I also use their "Send to Kindle" feature to read a lot of long-form articles on there. When I do buy books, I first try to find them from a source that will sell them DRM-free. So, of the hundreds of books I've read on Kindles over the years, probably less than a dozen were purchased from Amazon. Maybe it's a generational thing, but I feel way more comfortable spending my money on a tangible thing than on intangible digital content, especially an eBook, which I'll read once and probably never re-visit.
So, I get that I'm not really the cash cow they were hoping for when they sold me the device, but I've bought a half-dozen of the devices over the years, for myself and as gifts, and I think I'd have probably paid more for them than I did if given no other choice. I have an 8" tablet as well, but it mostly stays home as a toy, while the Kindle comes with me pretty much everywhere. I think the market is there for these things, they may just need to change their approach.
Newer phones like the Galaxy Note 3 have a USB 3 micro connecter that supports charging with a USB 2 cable. So, make the standard USB3, and smart manufacturers will do it right.
Actually, I won't buy a phone that doesn't have a pretty standard charging port. The market tends to do a better job at sorting these things out in the long run, but codifying a standard like this into law feels too inflexible.
This also assumes that a person wanting to make a purchase on Amazon will not just wait an hour for Amazon to come back up, and will instead make the purchase elsewhere. In some cases that's probably true, but if it were me I'd probably just try again when Amazon came back up. I shop at Amazon out of laziness as much as anything else.
Right. It seems like a really bad idea to set the precedent that it's totally OK for employers to ask employees to submit to brain scanning. Sure, they can't get much from it now besides a metric for your fatigue, but as the technology starts getting better...
Disagree. Nobody is saying that their piracy "causes" them to pay for more media. However, regardless of the causal relationship, this correlation serves as refutation of the image of a pirate as a freeloading, non-contributing jerk. Statistically, they are buying things. In fact, more than the average person.
"You're assuming that performance -- or, more precisely, CPU usage -- is important; in many cases, reliability (and being able to track down bugs after a crash) are far more important than CPU usage."
I work on a real-time embedded medical device, where both performance and reliability are vital. We've got constrained resources, and the system must be extremely responsive.
Our logging scheme is pretty cool. It's written so that two computers can log to a single hard drive, and each logging statement must define a log level. So, for example, if I'm writing GUI code, I can log to log_level_gui_info, log_level_gui_debug, log_level_gui_error, or any of a number of more specific log levels.
The idea is
Some of these log levels we can turn off before a production release.
We have a special tool for reading these logs (they're encrypted), and in this tool you can check off which log levels you care to see, and which you don't
So, we have two ways to filter out extraneous logging that we don't care about (one actually keeps the logging from happening, and one just filters it out during analysis), and we can log as freely as we like as long as we're smart about which levels we're using.
As much faith as we all have in our own code, nothing's as frustrating as trying to analyze a log that came in from the field where there's just no information about what went wrong.
Why redo the first book in the series when there are many more in the service. The current Dune is a great film anyway.
The first movie was pretty cool if viewed as a David Lynch movie (with a hilariously dated Toto soundtrack). I own it on DVD and still bust it out from time to time. My wife hates it because she doesn't know the story, finds it boring and difficult to follow, and hates all the corny internal monologue. All valid criticism, but I still love it in that same weird way I love the rest of Lynch's catalogue.
Still, as a whole, it's totally clear to me that there's room for another movie. One that's more cohesive and sticks to the original source better than the Lynch version, and with a bigger budget, and better acting and effects than the miniseries. If done well, a Dune movie could be epic.
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Most of the articles I've seen about this inevitable dropoff in popularity have had an underlying implication that Niantic had done something very wrong. What is often left unsaid is the second part of this headline: it is still INSANELY profitable. SIX TIMES more profitable than its nearest competitor. Pokemon Go is still an app developer's wet dream. Yes, Niantic has had some big stumbles in their rollout, and yes, the fad has died down a lot. But they're still raking in money hand over fist, and they've still got a pretty loyal fan base, and if they're smart they'll continue to roll out new features to keep people interested for some time.
Agreed. Here is a relevant Wondermark cartoon to accompany your thoughts. I long for the day when I don't have to hear internet pedants correcting people about the meaning of "begging the question".
For me, the initial purchase is NBD, but I have a mental barrier against re-paying for an app that I've already paid for if my wife or kids want it, even if it's only 99 cents.
The sad truth is that we're already there, because drug prohibitions in sports have proven to be largely unenforceable.
They have something like this at the Denver Museums of Nature and Science robotics exhibit. It's these, actually.
The focus is more on electronics and robotics than logical structure, but similar. They were very fun to play with. My kids spent most of their time at that station.
I read on a Kindle every day, and it's almost entirely content not purchased from Amazon. I use SendToKindle and InstaPaper to send interesting articles to my Kindle, I get books from the public library, Project Gutenberg, or buy them from other DRM-free sellers. Sometimes you have to convert from ePub using Calibre, but if you're already using Calibre to manage your eBooks, it's easy and seamless.
This is maybe possible, provided
I know people who have been in QA for a half a decade who feel like they've forgotten how to code, but I bet if they started doing it again they'd pick it back up very quickly.
Moving those early bitcoins would be a simple task that would satisfy everybody, and whatever "attacks" and "claims for more proof" that he's afraid of would become instantly irrelevant, so his logic makes no sense here.
Just out of curiosity, what are you missing by continuing to running homebrew channel on the vWii side? I guess you can't make use of the new controller (which everybody seems to agree doesn't add that much value anyway), and there's a little extra time switching modes, but otherwise it does pretty much what I want it to do, and homebrew is alive and well on Wii U.
I still enjoy playing mine. I just hope that they continue to support online play for a good, long time, because Mario Maker and Splatoon will be pretty worthless without it.
I mean, I get why they'd discontinue a marginal platform like this, but Nintendo lives and dies by brand loyalty, and it would make me feel WAY less loyal to have several of my favorite games suddenly become mostly unplayable.
It would be interesting to see a survey that also asked a few questions to determine how informed the survey taker is about this story and encryption in general. I bet if you could look at responses from people who met some moderate threshold of prior knowledge, you'd see huge support of Apple's stance. Maybe this is what they were trying to get at by looking at responses from people who owned a smartphone, but these days owning a smartphone doesn't really indicate any technical savvy.
So, the guy whose name is currently on the registration (Leon Shiman, from what I've gathered) doesn't want to turn over the domain, but also isn't going to renew it? Is he being uncooperative on purpose? I know he hasn't been involved for years, but is he being antagonistic, or can they just not get hold of him, or what? It seems like this should be relatively simple to clear up, so what am I missing?
Part of the genius of Amazon Prime is that it capitalizes on the sunk cost fallacy. I (happily) give them $100/yr to allow me to shop there with no shipping costs, and, by god, I'm going to get my money's worth. I'm not going to squander my sunk costs by shopping at some brick-and-mortar store! IMO, this is one of the biggest hurdles Walmart has to overcome.
I think Walmart is right that accessibility and immediacy is sometimes desirable. If I blow a tire on my bike and I want to ride to work tomorrow, I'm still heading to a brick-and-mortar store. I can grab a few groceries while I'm there.
I do also think they could leverage their distribution network. There's a Walmart on pretty much everybody's way home from work, and it's only a minor inconvenience to stop in to pick something up. I've done it before for larger items that Amazon wouldn't ship free.
But that Prime, though! I love it, and I wouldn't give it up, and there's no way I'd pay somebody else for a similar service in addition to it. That's where they've really got me. That's how Amazon went from something I only used for hard-to-find items to my go-to vendor for practically everything.
The contention comes from the verbiage. Pinterest doesn't like other companies calling their links "pins".
I kind of like the 30% iOS premium, if only because it makes it more visible that Apple is taking 30% off the top on services sold through their App store, which is pretty exorbitant, IMO. Google trying to pass that along to the consumer directly is kind of ballsy in that regard.
Of course, I'm not planning on using this new service, and I don't own any iOS devices, so I have no skin in the game there.
...how many are cost-cutting cord-cutters supposed to maintain at once?
One. Or zero. Or five. Your choice. That's what the free market is all about.
If I didn't know better, I'd say it sounds like you're arguing against competition. If that's your thing, then just pay your money to Comcast or whoever, and ignore all the others. For myself, I'd prefer to use Netflix for now, and then if I get bored of their content, maybe try Hulu for a while, or Amazon, or maybe a couple of 'em at the same time...
The point is that I get to choose. I won't be choosing YouTube Red unless they bring more to the table, but I still welcome them to come and try to compete for my business.
I have a Linux box with a RAID array full of media. I run Plex server on it, and stream to a couple Rokus running the Plex client on a couple different TVs, as well as the Plex app on phones/tablets/laptops.
I sound like a Plex app, but it really is fantastic software.
Your assessment is right on the money. I do think that e-Ink reader absolutely can survive in the market, though the market landscape will likely change over time. Amazon has a corner on the market for eReaders right now, but mostly because they're selling them cheaply and hoping to sell content. If that stops being profitable, I don't think it means the death of eReaders, it just means that those of us who love the experience of reading on an e-ink screen will have to pay more for the privilege. I'm a prolific reader, and I love my Kindle but most of my eBooks come from the public library. I also use their "Send to Kindle" feature to read a lot of long-form articles on there. When I do buy books, I first try to find them from a source that will sell them DRM-free. So, of the hundreds of books I've read on Kindles over the years, probably less than a dozen were purchased from Amazon. Maybe it's a generational thing, but I feel way more comfortable spending my money on a tangible thing than on intangible digital content, especially an eBook, which I'll read once and probably never re-visit. So, I get that I'm not really the cash cow they were hoping for when they sold me the device, but I've bought a half-dozen of the devices over the years, for myself and as gifts, and I think I'd have probably paid more for them than I did if given no other choice. I have an 8" tablet as well, but it mostly stays home as a toy, while the Kindle comes with me pretty much everywhere. I think the market is there for these things, they may just need to change their approach.
I replied to the wrong parent. Oops.
Newer phones like the Galaxy Note 3 have a USB 3 micro connecter that supports charging with a USB 2 cable. So, make the standard USB3, and smart manufacturers will do it right.
Actually, I won't buy a phone that doesn't have a pretty standard charging port. The market tends to do a better job at sorting these things out in the long run, but codifying a standard like this into law feels too inflexible.
This also assumes that a person wanting to make a purchase on Amazon will not just wait an hour for Amazon to come back up, and will instead make the purchase elsewhere. In some cases that's probably true, but if it were me I'd probably just try again when Amazon came back up. I shop at Amazon out of laziness as much as anything else.
Right. It seems like a really bad idea to set the precedent that it's totally OK for employers to ask employees to submit to brain scanning. Sure, they can't get much from it now besides a metric for your fatigue, but as the technology starts getting better...
Disagree. Nobody is saying that their piracy "causes" them to pay for more media. However, regardless of the causal relationship, this correlation serves as refutation of the image of a pirate as a freeloading, non-contributing jerk. Statistically, they are buying things. In fact, more than the average person.
I work on a real-time embedded medical device, where both performance and reliability are vital. We've got constrained resources, and the system must be extremely responsive.
Our logging scheme is pretty cool. It's written so that two computers can log to a single hard drive, and each logging statement must define a log level. So, for example, if I'm writing GUI code, I can log to log_level_gui_info, log_level_gui_debug, log_level_gui_error, or any of a number of more specific log levels.
The idea is
So, we have two ways to filter out extraneous logging that we don't care about (one actually keeps the logging from happening, and one just filters it out during analysis), and we can log as freely as we like as long as we're smart about which levels we're using.
As much faith as we all have in our own code, nothing's as frustrating as trying to analyze a log that came in from the field where there's just no information about what went wrong.
Still, as a whole, it's totally clear to me that there's room for another movie. One that's more cohesive and sticks to the original source better than the Lynch version, and with a bigger budget, and better acting and effects than the miniseries. If done well, a Dune movie could be epic.