Actually thats the idea behind mutual insurers. AFAIK State Farm is the last major carrier thats still run that way. I got a rebate check from them a few years ago because they made too much money that year and as a mutual they had to give it back.
The unintended consequence (for drivers in general) is that good drivers will see a modest improvement in rates, and less good drivers will see sharp increases. As a result the latter will be forced to leave for an insurance company that doesnt do monitoring, which changes the odds/profits for their driver pool. By effectively cherry picking their customers, insurance companies that monitor are gaming the system to improve profits at the expense of all the companies that dont. This isnt sustainable and can only result in all insurance companies instituting monitoring to keep the playing field level.
The only way to be safe from the US shutting it down would be to host it in a country willing to stand up against the US to protect it. I don't think there are very many countries on that list.
There are plenty. Iran, North Korea, China to name a few. Except they all take a very dim view of free unrestricted information. Wikileaks cant exist without the *relatively* unfettered access to the internet provided by the Western nations they want to expose. Ahh sweet irony.
I dont think so. Everyone wants to sell content. I wouldnt say "even Apple" but rather "especially Apple". The walled garden exists mostly to drive content revenue to Apple-controlled outlets. All hardware that Apple produces and is planning (AppleTV anyone?) is tightly coupled to Apple-supplied content. Amazon is just more up front about it.
Actually there was a poll a while back that said 20% of people think they are in the top 1% and 40% think they will be soon. Do your own Googling but it looks like $250k will get you in the top 2%, which isnt unobtainable for most/.'ers
Also, does anyone else think it's anticompetitive for a company with monopoly share to PAY people to use their services?
Well, its anticompetetive to let everyone *except* them pay to use the service. By your argument, if Google didnt bid then Microsoft would be underpaying for Firefox which would be proof of Microsofts harmful monopoly. If everyone is free to bid, no monopoly, and no one underpaid anyone.
Having played with the touchscreen a lot at this point, I dont think the apparent lack of sensitivity has anything to do with the lack of sensitivity. Looks to me like scrolling operations tend to drift near the end and not quite snap the screen or objects into position. When that happens a tap is unresponsive. Gestures work fine. It's still annoying, but I'd bet money that it isnt hardware and that it needs a software tweak. After reading the reviews I expected a lot worse.
If Samsung had changed a single thing on their products there would be no case.
Bullshit. Samsung changed quite a few things, but Apple conveniently ignores all the differences. If Samsung changed one of these "single things" then Apple would have ignored that single thing and still sued on the rest. And that is the point here... that Apple's laundry list of similarities, both individually and in sum, are self-servingly arbitrary. Samsung was going to get sued no matter what they came out with, not because of their similarity but because of their success in the market, and Jobs' obsession with killing Android.
Seems like both... YouTube stats seem to batch update, AND there was no spike in views from posting on/. which is not that surprising. The only interesting inference is how little traffic it must take to/. your average server
Weasel words from you too. "At current prices" and "at current rate of growth" and "assuming whatever assumptions are convenient for your argument" and so on. The point maybe we can agree on is that its an ass-load more complicated than "we're out of oil in 40 years" and its probably safe to say the answer is somewhere between "we're fucking doomed" and "nothing to worry about". You seem like a smart guy, dont you think posting links to "googleityoulazyfuck" is a little counterproductive to rational discussion?
“We are looking at more than four and a half trillion barrels of potentially recoverable oil. That number translates into 140 years of oil at current rates of consumption, or to put it anther way, the world has only consumed about 18 percent of its conventional oil potential.
...and it seems that it doesn't loose signal strength
And you know this because the nice software told you so? Handset vendors have been 'fixing' signal strength problems for years by simply redefining the scale of bars to signal. Apple included,
But, actually, they do. Dont know if they're naive or overconfident or just dont give a shit, but when I look at attacks on my firewall on a given day the source IP's all trace back to China. Maybe a couple from Korea or Eastern Europe, but 95% of the stuff I see is from China. Maybe its haxorz in Iowa using compromised servers in Beijing but... well, no, its not. Its China attacking from their own IP addresses.
Sure, keep the pressure up, cant hurt much. But with Apple going lawsuit-happy and their ultimate target is clearly Android, Google has to be thinking that sharing anything has a bigger downside risk, both in terms of potential liability and in exposing planned features. Google had to reconsider their stance because the landscape has become hostile in the last 12 months, and the blame falls squarely on Apple (and Microsoft and Oracle and their DOJ lackeys) for aggressively trying to kill off a competitor for being successful. If I were Google I'd be adopting a siege mentality too.
I dont really care about them releasing source. As a consumer I'm a lot more interested in having a viable alternative to iPad in the marketplace, and as a developer Im a lot more interested in having better tablet support in Ubuntu. Lack of Android source code hasnt hindered me in any way from developing Android apps, while lack of drivers and decent libraries for Ubuntu tablets *has*.
Yep, my first computer we called the "Plywood Ranch"; a few PCB's a PS and 2x 8" SSSD floppy disks, screwed to a 2' square bit of scrap plywood, running CPM/80. I still have it and it still powers up (and powers up faster than any current Windows or Linux). I even added a kitchen slicer to the floppy motors one time, just so it really *could* slice, dice, and make exciting julienne fries. If Shat's computer looked like skateboards then his came out better than mine!
So when Apple adopts and popularizes an existing technology its a brilliant radical hybrid of marketing and engineering genius, but if Amazon does it its boring?
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Interestingly, in that movie the computer he was trying to talk to was a Mac :-)
Actually thats the idea behind mutual insurers. AFAIK State Farm is the last major carrier thats still run that way. I got a rebate check from them a few years ago because they made too much money that year and as a mutual they had to give it back.
...as long as civilians get to use drones to watch the police, members of congress, etc. You know, the stuff we're supposed to do in a democracy.
The unintended consequence (for drivers in general) is that good drivers will see a modest improvement in rates, and less good drivers will see sharp increases. As a result the latter will be forced to leave for an insurance company that doesnt do monitoring, which changes the odds/profits for their driver pool. By effectively cherry picking their customers, insurance companies that monitor are gaming the system to improve profits at the expense of all the companies that dont. This isnt sustainable and can only result in all insurance companies instituting monitoring to keep the playing field level.
So, like, Lucy is available now?
The only way to be safe from the US shutting it down would be to host it in a country willing to stand up against the US to protect it. I don't think there are very many countries on that list.
There are plenty. Iran, North Korea, China to name a few. Except they all take a very dim view of free unrestricted information. Wikileaks cant exist without the *relatively* unfettered access to the internet provided by the Western nations they want to expose. Ahh sweet irony.
It will just cut off any useful Facebook access. Oh, wait... never mind.
The story says that he's Chinese, not that he's a Chinese citizen.
The Bloomberg article states that he is in fact a Chinese citizen
since he "stole" the code for his own private training business
No, he claims he stole it for his own private business. May or may not be true, but it sure sounds better than admitting espionage.
I dont think so. Everyone wants to sell content. I wouldnt say "even Apple" but rather "especially Apple". The walled garden exists mostly to drive content revenue to Apple-controlled outlets. All hardware that Apple produces and is planning (AppleTV anyone?) is tightly coupled to Apple-supplied content. Amazon is just more up front about it.
Actually there was a poll a while back that said 20% of people think they are in the top 1% and 40% think they will be soon. Do your own Googling but it looks like $250k will get you in the top 2%, which isnt unobtainable for most /.'ers
Also, does anyone else think it's anticompetitive for a company with monopoly share to PAY people to use their services?
Well, its anticompetetive to let everyone *except* them pay to use the service. By your argument, if Google didnt bid then Microsoft would be underpaying for Firefox which would be proof of Microsofts harmful monopoly. If everyone is free to bid, no monopoly, and no one underpaid anyone.
Having played with the touchscreen a lot at this point, I dont think the apparent lack of sensitivity has anything to do with the lack of sensitivity. Looks to me like scrolling operations tend to drift near the end and not quite snap the screen or objects into position. When that happens a tap is unresponsive. Gestures work fine. It's still annoying, but I'd bet money that it isnt hardware and that it needs a software tweak. After reading the reviews I expected a lot worse.
If Samsung had changed a single thing on their products there would be no case.
Bullshit. Samsung changed quite a few things, but Apple conveniently ignores all the differences. If Samsung changed one of these "single things" then Apple would have ignored that single thing and still sued on the rest. And that is the point here... that Apple's laundry list of similarities, both individually and in sum, are self-servingly arbitrary. Samsung was going to get sued no matter what they came out with, not because of their similarity but because of their success in the market, and Jobs' obsession with killing Android.
Seems like both... YouTube stats seem to batch update, AND there was no spike in views from posting on /. which is not that surprising. The only interesting inference is how little traffic it must take to /. your average server
Not first post, but close. So when TFA posted YouTube page had 123963 views, 5158 likes and 33 dislikes, so we can see traffic sent by /.
Weasel words from you too. "At current prices" and "at current rate of growth" and "assuming whatever assumptions are convenient for your argument" and so on. The point maybe we can agree on is that its an ass-load more complicated than "we're out of oil in 40 years" and its probably safe to say the answer is somewhere between "we're fucking doomed" and "nothing to worry about". You seem like a smart guy, dont you think posting links to "googleityoulazyfuck" is a little counterproductive to rational discussion?
Thanks for the link disproving the parent statement. 3rd hit: http://www.radford.edu/wkovarik/oil/ from which I quote:
“We are looking at more than four and a half trillion barrels of potentially recoverable oil. That number translates into 140 years of oil at current rates of consumption, or to put it anther way, the world has only consumed about 18 percent of its conventional oil potential.
"...oh my God, its full of Lego's..."
...and it seems that it doesn't loose signal strength
And you know this because the nice software told you so? Handset vendors have been 'fixing' signal strength problems for years by simply redefining the scale of bars to signal. Apple included,
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. ~P.J. O'Rourke
But, actually, they do. Dont know if they're naive or overconfident or just dont give a shit, but when I look at attacks on my firewall on a given day the source IP's all trace back to China. Maybe a couple from Korea or Eastern Europe, but 95% of the stuff I see is from China. Maybe its haxorz in Iowa using compromised servers in Beijing but... well, no, its not. Its China attacking from their own IP addresses.
And I'll buy it for my Android-based Kindle tablet as soon as it comes in.
Sure, keep the pressure up, cant hurt much. But with Apple going lawsuit-happy and their ultimate target is clearly Android, Google has to be thinking that sharing anything has a bigger downside risk, both in terms of potential liability and in exposing planned features. Google had to reconsider their stance because the landscape has become hostile in the last 12 months, and the blame falls squarely on Apple (and Microsoft and Oracle and their DOJ lackeys) for aggressively trying to kill off a competitor for being successful. If I were Google I'd be adopting a siege mentality too.
I dont really care about them releasing source. As a consumer I'm a lot more interested in having a viable alternative to iPad in the marketplace, and as a developer Im a lot more interested in having better tablet support in Ubuntu. Lack of Android source code hasnt hindered me in any way from developing Android apps, while lack of drivers and decent libraries for Ubuntu tablets *has*.
Yep, my first computer we called the "Plywood Ranch"; a few PCB's a PS and 2x 8" SSSD floppy disks, screwed to a 2' square bit of scrap plywood, running CPM/80. I still have it and it still powers up (and powers up faster than any current Windows or Linux). I even added a kitchen slicer to the floppy motors one time, just so it really *could* slice, dice, and make exciting julienne fries. If Shat's computer looked like skateboards then his came out better than mine!
So when Apple adopts and popularizes an existing technology its a brilliant radical hybrid of marketing and engineering genius, but if Amazon does it its boring?