Because if we bring manufacturing jobs back to the US, it decreases the leverage that corporations have when extorting government benefits. Plus it might lead to the unfortunate situation where poor people can afford to live without having to beg for scraps.
Because the studios have no incentive to give Netflix the best deal. Netflix is the largest site at the moment in terms of subscribers and you better believe that they're going to get squeezed harder than any of the other sites are. Mainly because the industry is almost certain to use those sites as leverage to put the screws to Netflix.
Especially now that Netflix is spinning of its DVD rental business to Qwikster.
Only 4% left, but a bunch of other people switched to less expensive plans and as a result, Netflix is getting less revenue from them. On top of that, the move has been a God send to Blockbuster and a few of the other services which would otherwise have had a really hard time getting the initial subscribers to get going.
That's why I switched to Blockbuster, none of the streaming services have much content compared with either Netflix's or Blockbuster's DVD library. And several of the ones that do exist are free. I might have kept the subscription with Netflix for streaming, but the library sucks. I wanted to watch a few back episodes of Eureka on streaming and only specific seasons were available for streaming. And the same often goes for other series as well.
They can still pull out of their recent tailspin, but it's going to require them to recognize that they're losing their monopoly and are going to have to give people something that's compelling. It's relatively easy for them to spend $30m a title when they have so many fewer titles than they do in their DVD library and yet charge the same amount.
It's likely to get worse. They lost about 4% of their customers with rather anemic competition, just imagine how many they're likely to lose in the future as the somewhat moribund Blockbuster keeps making progress. Dish has apparently decided to add a better streaming plan to the Blockbuster offerings, right now it's Dish subscribers only, but they are reportedly planning on offering something to everybody else in the near future.
Not to mention the streaming options that are starting to appear to suck up any and all money that Netflix leaves on the table
No, however, it does affect what what the shareholders think and how they vote when the shareholders meeting pops up and the executives come up for a vote. Vaporizing half the share price by making some pretty mind blowingly stupid mistakes and then giving us Qwikster is unlikely to be conducive to them winning their elections or getting any slack from the shareholders.
It would be a foregone conclusion if monkeys were indeed randomly typing on a keyboard. But in practice, they tend to like certain keys leading to at best a pseudo random distribution of keystrokes. On top of that, many of the characters needed to produce the works require not just one keystroke, but a shift and a keystroke to work.
Consequently, simulating this with virtual monkeys is almost sure to come up with a result that differs substantively from using actual monkeys to do the project.
Yes, and ultimately, I have a feeling that it has less to do with changes to the Democratic party and more to do with the combination of changes to the Democratic party and changes to the GOP. I doubt that it would have happened so quickly if not for the GOP changing.
Also, during 60s or there abouts, much of the racist presence in the Democratic party left for the GOP. They weren't particularly liberal to begin with, but the changes were just enough to make them leave. IIRC that had something to do with some of the civil rights legislation that Johnson signed into law.
Typically employers that need foreign born applicants to be able to communicate in cases like this will require a TOEFL score and these days there is a verbal component. Between that and an interview you'll probably figure it out pretty quickly.
FWIW, accent is hardly the only factor, I've had instructors from Canada that were educated in the UK saying things like anti-parallel and using terms like four fold that aren't in standard American English. Those folks should be of equal concern if this is about something other than pressuring racial minorities out.
It's one thing to be able to reproduce the correct sound when one is laser focused on replicating the sound and quite another to be able to create the sounds properly whilst handling the other aspects of effective communication.
Some individuals will have an accent as a result of not being able to hear or reproduce the sounds necessary to have a native like accent. But more commonly people will only be able to create the correct sound with great effort and will have to make other trade offs for it to happen.
There is a minority of people out there that have an especially good ear for accents and more control over the muscles necessary to create the sounds, but they are very much in the minority and most folks just can't maintain it for long periods of time.
I don't think it's been established completely the reason why some people can and others can't, one of the suggestions I've seen is that it's related to mirror neurons and empathy, but I don't believe that's at a point where we can say conclusively that is the case. But, whatever the means, the reality is that it's highly unlikely to involve the same pathway that one uses for other aspects of verbal communication.
Government versus private entity isn't relevant, however US versus Indian law is very important indeed. Given what a cash cow call centers are in India, I'd be surprised if it wasn't legal.
That's bullshit and trying to engage in that in the US would definitely end with an eventual discrimination law suit. An accent is a part of a person and ultimately, corporations that pressure employees to drop their accent run the risk of being sued.
Now, in cases where it's a very thick accent that is demonstrably getting in the way of conducting business, as the employer you might be able to get away with it, but even then it's risky business.
OTOH, when call centers do that in India or other countries, US law doesn't have anything to do with it.
Republicans, you mean the same ones that want to roll back various civil rights legislation and voting protections? Don't you think that the repeated attempts to disenfranchise minority voters has something to do with the interpretation?
It's easy to pretend like motivation doesn't have anything to do with it, but at the end of the day if you come from a party that's known for racist behavior it can take a long time for the reputation to die. Even longer if you're actively encouraging it with overtly xenophobic rhetoric.
The Tea Party members of congress mostly signed a fealty pledge to Grover Norquist not to raise taxes no matter what. Technically speaking, they ought to have been tried and convicted for sedition. You can't sign a pledge of that nature which has the effect of subverting democracy and expect to get away with it.
Of course, seditious activities tend to be tolerated when it's a GOP pol that does it.
I don't have much sympathy for FB users when it comes to privacy. However, I do have a great deal of sympathy for folks like myself that have to go out of our way not to be tracked by FB, even though we don't have an account. If we wanted to be tracked or consented, we'd probably create an account.
Not really, that's sort of like saying that when ASUS brought out the initial netbook model that they were competing with the makers of desktop replacements. They're superficially the sane, but they're completely different market segments.
It's probably a case of them not really caring what you do with their product and wanting to make sure that they get a piece of the market. Plus, I'm sure they want to ensure that there are plenty of devices out there that can read their books. That's not as big of a concern now that epub has some steam behind it.
As it is, you can bet that B&N does make a profit on each Nook sold, even if the profit isn't huge.
Google did a study awhile back and came to the conclusion that when you start seeing SMART errors that the disks are 10x or so more likely to fail than ones without. But, when it comes to HDD, or really any storage medium, when you stop having complete faith in the unit, it's time to get a new one.
I have a few HDD that probably will work for some time, but since I don't trust them and I can't prove them to be reliable, they're going to be recycled.
It kind of sucks, but the disks are a lot less expensive to replace than they are to do data recovery on.
Those folks typically die before they reach adulthood. If you can get yourself laid, then you can get yourself married. It's not like it's that hard to find somebody that is as desperate as the person who hypothetically isn't ever going to marry because they can't.
The only major exception I can think of is where the law prohibits marriage and those folks usually end up partnering up for life without the documents.
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Because if we bring manufacturing jobs back to the US, it decreases the leverage that corporations have when extorting government benefits. Plus it might lead to the unfortunate situation where poor people can afford to live without having to beg for scraps.
Mom's basement isn't necessarily safe either, don't forget about carbon monoxide poisoning and exposure to radon. Not to mention what happens if you're trapped down there when there's a sudden flood. http://www.seattlepi.com/default/article/Woman-dies-in-flooded-basement-1222646.php
Because the studios have no incentive to give Netflix the best deal. Netflix is the largest site at the moment in terms of subscribers and you better believe that they're going to get squeezed harder than any of the other sites are. Mainly because the industry is almost certain to use those sites as leverage to put the screws to Netflix.
Especially now that Netflix is spinning of its DVD rental business to Qwikster.
Only 4% left, but a bunch of other people switched to less expensive plans and as a result, Netflix is getting less revenue from them. On top of that, the move has been a God send to Blockbuster and a few of the other services which would otherwise have had a really hard time getting the initial subscribers to get going.
That's why I switched to Blockbuster, none of the streaming services have much content compared with either Netflix's or Blockbuster's DVD library. And several of the ones that do exist are free. I might have kept the subscription with Netflix for streaming, but the library sucks. I wanted to watch a few back episodes of Eureka on streaming and only specific seasons were available for streaming. And the same often goes for other series as well.
They can still pull out of their recent tailspin, but it's going to require them to recognize that they're losing their monopoly and are going to have to give people something that's compelling. It's relatively easy for them to spend $30m a title when they have so many fewer titles than they do in their DVD library and yet charge the same amount.
It's likely to get worse. They lost about 4% of their customers with rather anemic competition, just imagine how many they're likely to lose in the future as the somewhat moribund Blockbuster keeps making progress. Dish has apparently decided to add a better streaming plan to the Blockbuster offerings, right now it's Dish subscribers only, but they are reportedly planning on offering something to everybody else in the near future.
Not to mention the streaming options that are starting to appear to suck up any and all money that Netflix leaves on the table
No, however, it does affect what what the shareholders think and how they vote when the shareholders meeting pops up and the executives come up for a vote. Vaporizing half the share price by making some pretty mind blowingly stupid mistakes and then giving us Qwikster is unlikely to be conducive to them winning their elections or getting any slack from the shareholders.
I think it started about the time they introduced the floppy dik drive.
It would be a foregone conclusion if monkeys were indeed randomly typing on a keyboard. But in practice, they tend to like certain keys leading to at best a pseudo random distribution of keystrokes. On top of that, many of the characters needed to produce the works require not just one keystroke, but a shift and a keystroke to work.
Consequently, simulating this with virtual monkeys is almost sure to come up with a result that differs substantively from using actual monkeys to do the project.
Yes, and ultimately, I have a feeling that it has less to do with changes to the Democratic party and more to do with the combination of changes to the Democratic party and changes to the GOP. I doubt that it would have happened so quickly if not for the GOP changing.
Also, during 60s or there abouts, much of the racist presence in the Democratic party left for the GOP. They weren't particularly liberal to begin with, but the changes were just enough to make them leave. IIRC that had something to do with some of the civil rights legislation that Johnson signed into law.
Typically employers that need foreign born applicants to be able to communicate in cases like this will require a TOEFL score and these days there is a verbal component. Between that and an interview you'll probably figure it out pretty quickly.
FWIW, accent is hardly the only factor, I've had instructors from Canada that were educated in the UK saying things like anti-parallel and using terms like four fold that aren't in standard American English. Those folks should be of equal concern if this is about something other than pressuring racial minorities out.
I don't know about you, but I hate it when I can't see the blackboard because the teacher's speaking.
It's one thing to be able to reproduce the correct sound when one is laser focused on replicating the sound and quite another to be able to create the sounds properly whilst handling the other aspects of effective communication.
Some individuals will have an accent as a result of not being able to hear or reproduce the sounds necessary to have a native like accent. But more commonly people will only be able to create the correct sound with great effort and will have to make other trade offs for it to happen.
There is a minority of people out there that have an especially good ear for accents and more control over the muscles necessary to create the sounds, but they are very much in the minority and most folks just can't maintain it for long periods of time.
I don't think it's been established completely the reason why some people can and others can't, one of the suggestions I've seen is that it's related to mirror neurons and empathy, but I don't believe that's at a point where we can say conclusively that is the case. But, whatever the means, the reality is that it's highly unlikely to involve the same pathway that one uses for other aspects of verbal communication.
Wow, some country has an inferiority complex.
Government versus private entity isn't relevant, however US versus Indian law is very important indeed. Given what a cash cow call centers are in India, I'd be surprised if it wasn't legal.
That's bullshit and trying to engage in that in the US would definitely end with an eventual discrimination law suit. An accent is a part of a person and ultimately, corporations that pressure employees to drop their accent run the risk of being sued.
Now, in cases where it's a very thick accent that is demonstrably getting in the way of conducting business, as the employer you might be able to get away with it, but even then it's risky business.
OTOH, when call centers do that in India or other countries, US law doesn't have anything to do with it.
Republicans, you mean the same ones that want to roll back various civil rights legislation and voting protections? Don't you think that the repeated attempts to disenfranchise minority voters has something to do with the interpretation?
It's easy to pretend like motivation doesn't have anything to do with it, but at the end of the day if you come from a party that's known for racist behavior it can take a long time for the reputation to die. Even longer if you're actively encouraging it with overtly xenophobic rhetoric.
The Tea Party members of congress mostly signed a fealty pledge to Grover Norquist not to raise taxes no matter what. Technically speaking, they ought to have been tried and convicted for sedition. You can't sign a pledge of that nature which has the effect of subverting democracy and expect to get away with it.
Of course, seditious activities tend to be tolerated when it's a GOP pol that does it.
I don't have much sympathy for FB users when it comes to privacy. However, I do have a great deal of sympathy for folks like myself that have to go out of our way not to be tracked by FB, even though we don't have an account. If we wanted to be tracked or consented, we'd probably create an account.
Not really, that's sort of like saying that when ASUS brought out the initial netbook model that they were competing with the makers of desktop replacements. They're superficially the sane, but they're completely different market segments.
It's probably a case of them not really caring what you do with their product and wanting to make sure that they get a piece of the market. Plus, I'm sure they want to ensure that there are plenty of devices out there that can read their books. That's not as big of a concern now that epub has some steam behind it.
As it is, you can bet that B&N does make a profit on each Nook sold, even if the profit isn't huge.
Amazon's competition here is B&N or rather Amazon is introducing a product to compete with B&N's offering. Apple is in a completely different area.
Most likely, Kindle color will be similar to Nook color, which probably means that any locking they do will be easily removed.
Personally, that's fine by me, since I don't consider SSDs to be cost effective for a desktop, the ones I get always go in laptops for that reason.
Google did a study awhile back and came to the conclusion that when you start seeing SMART errors that the disks are 10x or so more likely to fail than ones without. But, when it comes to HDD, or really any storage medium, when you stop having complete faith in the unit, it's time to get a new one.
I have a few HDD that probably will work for some time, but since I don't trust them and I can't prove them to be reliable, they're going to be recycled.
It kind of sucks, but the disks are a lot less expensive to replace than they are to do data recovery on.
Those folks typically die before they reach adulthood. If you can get yourself laid, then you can get yourself married. It's not like it's that hard to find somebody that is as desperate as the person who hypothetically isn't ever going to marry because they can't.
The only major exception I can think of is where the law prohibits marriage and those folks usually end up partnering up for life without the documents.