You do realize that you often times see advertisements for cable on satellite and advertisements for satellite on cable. Not to mention advertisements for shows on a different channel.
The reason why they should be forced to sell the ads at a fair rate is because advertising is heavily dependent upon audience, if you control 60% of the advertising space, then you have a significant advantage over the competition as you can place ads in places where others can't place them, and you have a much bigger pool of places to put ads where they're more likely to be seen by somebody interested in the service.
If the allegations prove to be true, this would pretty much necessitate Google be broken up or in some way be required to reduce it's influence on the market. Considering that Google still gets nearly all of its revenue from the ad business, I think it's something they should be very worried about.
Well, for one thing, Google violated Clayton when it bought out it's next closest rival in its advertising business. And the competition was severely hurt as a result. I'm a bit shocked that nobody had the wherewithal to do something about it at the time.
It shouldn't be, and yet it is. Which is the problem, as the US dismantles the tools that the poor use to better their situation you find more and more people making a career out of busting their asses for low pay and little to no benefits.
You're definitely right, nobody should be making a career out of it, but in practice there's plenty of folks who bust their humps for an entire career at minimum wage.
Citations necessary. The benefits they offer were paltry last I checked and in many areas the state is effectively subsidizing Wal-Mart employees because the wage is below the poverty line. Employees are cut off from further raises after only 5 years and the last thing you want is for your employer to be keeping the cost of goods down and being efficient by undervaluing your work and ensuring that nobody else can afford to pay more.
And so do solar panels. Unless of course they've developed ones that work at night, at which case I'll shut up as they've clearly contributed something amazing to humanity.
They desperately need the kind of PR that solar panels bring. It should theoretically help appease some of the liberals that are fighting to keep them from opening stores in their areas. Although, I'm not sure that the difference between almost completely evil and completely evil is really enough of a distinction to be worthwhile.
Yes, but Wal-Mart stores are still typically far enough away that I wouldn't be surprised if the amount of emissions these save are offset by the amount of extra emissions by placing large stores where people have to drive a ways to go to. Rather than the shorter distances needed to get supplies at the stores that Wal-Mart drives out of business.
The reason to buy into GMO hysteria is that if something goes wrong, it can't be undone. I'm sure there are plenty of upsides, but the research needs to be done under laboratory conditions to ensure that nothing escapes into the environment where it can combine with random other genes in ways that haven't been fully considered.
Except for a small portion of the populace, all of those things are better controlled via diet and exercise. Ultimately, if you're too lazy to take care of yourself, perhaps you shouldn't expect to live to be a hundred.
I'm sorry, but that's bullshit semantics. It doesn't matter whether spending is to the DoD if the purpose is clearly defense it's still defense spending. The Intelligence services wouldn't exist if not as a means of supplying the information necessary for the DoD to conduct its affairs. Consequently, I have a really hard time buying the notion that it isn't defense spending.
Unless of course you're implying that the intelligence they get isn't any good or isn't being provided for use in defending the country.
The liquidity that the banks have now, is primarily the result of quantitative easement. They don't really have any more assets than they did in 2006, but they were able to suck up nearly all the money that the Fed injected into the economy. Which is why you haven't seen much, if any, inflation even though the Fed injected literally trillions of dollars into the economy.
Ultimately, it's a false sort of liquidity, because they can't use those funds to buy things, the funds are primarily there as security in case people decide to remove their assets from the bank. Most of it is already spoken for and if by some chance they were able to use the funds, you'd rapidly see significant inflation.
The assets themselves are still greatly inflated over what they're really worth. The housing market still has fictitious pricing as a result of government meddling. And we're already well into another bubble spurred on by incompetent policy set by the Fed to make sure that investors don't flee the scene. Literally the market is awash in capital with no place to spend it, even as the consumers and workers that are needed to pull things out of the toilet are worried about having a job next month.
So, yes, there's a huge correction on the way. Theoretically we could avoid it with a long term period of stagflation stretching into the distant future. I'm guessing that it will end up with a correction, there's just way too much competence and discipline necessary for the stagflation option and the Fed is still tinkering with the economy as if it has any clue as to fix it.
Except that water is a lot heavier that hydrogen gas is. You're carrying around an additional ~16 grams per Mole and water itself is really difficult to compress.
Unless the technology for electrolysis comes a long way in a very short period of time, water isn't likely to be a viable source of hydrogen for a fuel cell. Ethanol OTOH, has somewhat less extra mass per Mole of hydrogen, but has other downsides such as volatility and flammability.
There hasn't been a major accident in the US in decades. And worldwide the two major incidents in my lifetime were the result of negligence and incompetence. The risks are known and the US Navy has had nuclear reactors in much of its fleet for decades without problems.
The problem is one that can be solved, throwing out the industry and eliminating humans isn't going to solve the problem, and it just means that we'll have to go back to coal and oil power until we do find another replacement. Chernobyl wouldn't have happened at all if the people running it had stuck to established protocols rather than experimenting with removing control rods.
Fukushima shouldn't have happened. In fact, had they kept and maintained a secondary back up generator this largely would have been avoided. Considering that the plant was hit by a significant earth quake and tsunami and was ultimately undone by the lack of a spare back up generator, I'd say that this is a good sign over all. It just means that plant operators need to be more closely regulated for things like that. And most plants are not in a position to be exposed to those sorts of conditions.
Painless? Hells no, I want it to be dragged along the road for about a mile, then dipped in tar and set alight before finally being dumped over a cliff into the ocean.
For the same reason that it's really hard to find a laptop which offers an OS other than Windows or OSX installed by a major maker or that isn't greatly overpriced compared to a comparably specced Windows or OSX computer.
My personal preference would be to have a jumper that would have to be changed in order to install a new bootloader, but that's not likely to work as a lot of computers have their warranty voided if you open the case.
Which works as long as you don't mind giving up your Linux laptop or are willing to lug a desktop around with you when you go on vacation.
If it's implemented in a way that prevents people from installing other OSes on a computer, you can be pretty sure that there's going to be at least a few antitrust violations involved.
I doubt they'd do that. But one might scan the barcode and see if one can get the item cheaper elsewhere. In practice, unless it's substantially cheaper it's probably best to just buy it from the store you're in, rather than driving elsewhere or ordering it online.
Also. WTF is up with the page and all those strange points.
I've often times thought that Microsoft ought to pay people to use Microsoft products. Like recently when my MBR went bad and I had to spend several hours figuring out how to fix the damage that came because MS won't allow you to set the drive letter without booting into the same Windows install or using their stupid utility.
I'm just waiting for somebody to fork it and just apply a version fix patch and re-release it. If I didn't have better things to do than troll Mozilla devs, I'd probably do it myself.
Years is going overboard, but there's no reason why we need several new major releases in a year, without any actual justification for doing so. Or at very least they need to release an LTS equivalent where they only update it every year or so. Testing things like this to make sure they don't introduce a bug that's going to prevent workers from working is surprisingly important for IT workers wanting to keep their jobs.
Precisely. Having a point release every 6 weeks or two months isn't something that's going to annoy people, but having a major release several times a year mostly just serves to break extensions. Granted they are working on fixing that, but until that's been fixed, I don't see any reason why they need to vanity bump the version numbers without releasing anything significant enough to justify it.
Also, they need to stop fucking with the UI. It's nice on small screens, but for desktop users with large screens it's getting kind of ridiculous.
To be fair, most commercial projects don't seem to care about documentation either. I haven't had a chance to dig into the Vista or 7 docs, but the XP documentation was a complete mess. AFAICT MS was too cheap to break it out into separate versions for the various versions of the OS that they were selling. The last time I recall their documentation being good was DOS 5, and that was largely because few people had the internet and it wasn't yet realistic to include it all in online documentation.
The book was huge, but it was actually pretty useful as well.
Companies that don't strike out for new markets inevitably end up becoming irrelevant and out of business. Which is the main reason why you see Google and Apple going after so many markets that aren't considered they're core business. Well, technically, Apple already did that, but that's why they did it. Focusing on one area of business amplifies the risk from something going wrong.
Which goes to show how little you know. It's a Nook, you don't hack it, B&N let's you load alternate firmware from a MicroSD card. And at any rate for the purposes of what the government is talking about, you wouldn't even have to do that in order to just replace documents. Also, you can install apps to it, without any modifications of the hardware.
So, how's it feel being one upped by somebody that actually knows something about the topic?
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You do realize that you often times see advertisements for cable on satellite and advertisements for satellite on cable. Not to mention advertisements for shows on a different channel.
The reason why they should be forced to sell the ads at a fair rate is because advertising is heavily dependent upon audience, if you control 60% of the advertising space, then you have a significant advantage over the competition as you can place ads in places where others can't place them, and you have a much bigger pool of places to put ads where they're more likely to be seen by somebody interested in the service.
If the allegations prove to be true, this would pretty much necessitate Google be broken up or in some way be required to reduce it's influence on the market. Considering that Google still gets nearly all of its revenue from the ad business, I think it's something they should be very worried about.
Well, for one thing, Google violated Clayton when it bought out it's next closest rival in its advertising business. And the competition was severely hurt as a result. I'm a bit shocked that nobody had the wherewithal to do something about it at the time.
It shouldn't be, and yet it is. Which is the problem, as the US dismantles the tools that the poor use to better their situation you find more and more people making a career out of busting their asses for low pay and little to no benefits.
You're definitely right, nobody should be making a career out of it, but in practice there's plenty of folks who bust their humps for an entire career at minimum wage.
Citations necessary. The benefits they offer were paltry last I checked and in many areas the state is effectively subsidizing Wal-Mart employees because the wage is below the poverty line. Employees are cut off from further raises after only 5 years and the last thing you want is for your employer to be keeping the cost of goods down and being efficient by undervaluing your work and ensuring that nobody else can afford to pay more.
And so do solar panels. Unless of course they've developed ones that work at night, at which case I'll shut up as they've clearly contributed something amazing to humanity.
They desperately need the kind of PR that solar panels bring. It should theoretically help appease some of the liberals that are fighting to keep them from opening stores in their areas. Although, I'm not sure that the difference between almost completely evil and completely evil is really enough of a distinction to be worthwhile.
Yes, but Wal-Mart stores are still typically far enough away that I wouldn't be surprised if the amount of emissions these save are offset by the amount of extra emissions by placing large stores where people have to drive a ways to go to. Rather than the shorter distances needed to get supplies at the stores that Wal-Mart drives out of business.
The reason to buy into GMO hysteria is that if something goes wrong, it can't be undone. I'm sure there are plenty of upsides, but the research needs to be done under laboratory conditions to ensure that nothing escapes into the environment where it can combine with random other genes in ways that haven't been fully considered.
Except for a small portion of the populace, all of those things are better controlled via diet and exercise. Ultimately, if you're too lazy to take care of yourself, perhaps you shouldn't expect to live to be a hundred.
Wow, eating a lot of junk food makes your junk bigger. You heard it here first.
I'm sorry, but that's bullshit semantics. It doesn't matter whether spending is to the DoD if the purpose is clearly defense it's still defense spending. The Intelligence services wouldn't exist if not as a means of supplying the information necessary for the DoD to conduct its affairs. Consequently, I have a really hard time buying the notion that it isn't defense spending.
Unless of course you're implying that the intelligence they get isn't any good or isn't being provided for use in defending the country.
The liquidity that the banks have now, is primarily the result of quantitative easement. They don't really have any more assets than they did in 2006, but they were able to suck up nearly all the money that the Fed injected into the economy. Which is why you haven't seen much, if any, inflation even though the Fed injected literally trillions of dollars into the economy.
Ultimately, it's a false sort of liquidity, because they can't use those funds to buy things, the funds are primarily there as security in case people decide to remove their assets from the bank. Most of it is already spoken for and if by some chance they were able to use the funds, you'd rapidly see significant inflation.
The assets themselves are still greatly inflated over what they're really worth. The housing market still has fictitious pricing as a result of government meddling. And we're already well into another bubble spurred on by incompetent policy set by the Fed to make sure that investors don't flee the scene. Literally the market is awash in capital with no place to spend it, even as the consumers and workers that are needed to pull things out of the toilet are worried about having a job next month.
So, yes, there's a huge correction on the way. Theoretically we could avoid it with a long term period of stagflation stretching into the distant future. I'm guessing that it will end up with a correction, there's just way too much competence and discipline necessary for the stagflation option and the Fed is still tinkering with the economy as if it has any clue as to fix it.
Except that water is a lot heavier that hydrogen gas is. You're carrying around an additional ~16 grams per Mole and water itself is really difficult to compress.
Unless the technology for electrolysis comes a long way in a very short period of time, water isn't likely to be a viable source of hydrogen for a fuel cell. Ethanol OTOH, has somewhat less extra mass per Mole of hydrogen, but has other downsides such as volatility and flammability.
There hasn't been a major accident in the US in decades. And worldwide the two major incidents in my lifetime were the result of negligence and incompetence. The risks are known and the US Navy has had nuclear reactors in much of its fleet for decades without problems.
The problem is one that can be solved, throwing out the industry and eliminating humans isn't going to solve the problem, and it just means that we'll have to go back to coal and oil power until we do find another replacement. Chernobyl wouldn't have happened at all if the people running it had stuck to established protocols rather than experimenting with removing control rods.
Fukushima shouldn't have happened. In fact, had they kept and maintained a secondary back up generator this largely would have been avoided. Considering that the plant was hit by a significant earth quake and tsunami and was ultimately undone by the lack of a spare back up generator, I'd say that this is a good sign over all. It just means that plant operators need to be more closely regulated for things like that. And most plants are not in a position to be exposed to those sorts of conditions.
Painless? Hells no, I want it to be dragged along the road for about a mile, then dipped in tar and set alight before finally being dumped over a cliff into the ocean.
For the same reason that it's really hard to find a laptop which offers an OS other than Windows or OSX installed by a major maker or that isn't greatly overpriced compared to a comparably specced Windows or OSX computer.
My personal preference would be to have a jumper that would have to be changed in order to install a new bootloader, but that's not likely to work as a lot of computers have their warranty voided if you open the case.
Which works as long as you don't mind giving up your Linux laptop or are willing to lug a desktop around with you when you go on vacation.
If it's implemented in a way that prevents people from installing other OSes on a computer, you can be pretty sure that there's going to be at least a few antitrust violations involved.
I doubt they'd do that. But one might scan the barcode and see if one can get the item cheaper elsewhere. In practice, unless it's substantially cheaper it's probably best to just buy it from the store you're in, rather than driving elsewhere or ordering it online.
Also. WTF is up with the page and all those strange points.
I've often times thought that Microsoft ought to pay people to use Microsoft products. Like recently when my MBR went bad and I had to spend several hours figuring out how to fix the damage that came because MS won't allow you to set the drive letter without booting into the same Windows install or using their stupid utility.
I'm just waiting for somebody to fork it and just apply a version fix patch and re-release it. If I didn't have better things to do than troll Mozilla devs, I'd probably do it myself.
Years is going overboard, but there's no reason why we need several new major releases in a year, without any actual justification for doing so. Or at very least they need to release an LTS equivalent where they only update it every year or so. Testing things like this to make sure they don't introduce a bug that's going to prevent workers from working is surprisingly important for IT workers wanting to keep their jobs.
Precisely. Having a point release every 6 weeks or two months isn't something that's going to annoy people, but having a major release several times a year mostly just serves to break extensions. Granted they are working on fixing that, but until that's been fixed, I don't see any reason why they need to vanity bump the version numbers without releasing anything significant enough to justify it.
Also, they need to stop fucking with the UI. It's nice on small screens, but for desktop users with large screens it's getting kind of ridiculous.
To be fair, most commercial projects don't seem to care about documentation either. I haven't had a chance to dig into the Vista or 7 docs, but the XP documentation was a complete mess. AFAICT MS was too cheap to break it out into separate versions for the various versions of the OS that they were selling. The last time I recall their documentation being good was DOS 5, and that was largely because few people had the internet and it wasn't yet realistic to include it all in online documentation.
The book was huge, but it was actually pretty useful as well.
Companies that don't strike out for new markets inevitably end up becoming irrelevant and out of business. Which is the main reason why you see Google and Apple going after so many markets that aren't considered they're core business. Well, technically, Apple already did that, but that's why they did it. Focusing on one area of business amplifies the risk from something going wrong.
Which goes to show how little you know. It's a Nook, you don't hack it, B&N let's you load alternate firmware from a MicroSD card. And at any rate for the purposes of what the government is talking about, you wouldn't even have to do that in order to just replace documents. Also, you can install apps to it, without any modifications of the hardware.
So, how's it feel being one upped by somebody that actually knows something about the topic?