One word: competition. Only if they have a legal monopoly (e.g. patent) can someone charge what the market will bear. Once that expires, the market will be open and competitors will appear based on how excessive the first company's mark-up is. Once the mark-up drops to a reasonable profit level, no new competitors will come in. Then you have stable pricing. Like in laptops and desktops today, for example.
As to your beverage example, I'm pretty sure soda companies advertise. Yet a recent article said that 70% of marketing costs are spent to ensure shelf space. So there are plenty of other costs besides the bottle, flavors, sugar and things like RO filtering etc.
As a lover of stand-up, I can understand why they're strict about this: the tickets to the show cost nearly 60 euros and essentially people are paying that to hear new material. It's different from music and other performing arts where most often people know what they're going to see. AC/DC won't lose any ticket sales if a few dozen guys upload a shitty quality video of Thunderstruck from midfield. But a recording - even audio only - of the new material by a stand up performer will probably hurt ticket sales.
This is it in a nutshell. Our family went to see Brian Regan and it was great to hear new material live. Conversely, if we knew every joke, why would we go? With comedy, laughter is the end goal -- it either comes out naturally or lube is required. Since I stopped drinking 35 years ago, I'm fine with Yondr. Besides, the quality of live performance is so far below that of a CD or DVD, why would anyone want to rewatch/relisten to it?
We support Brian Regan, have bought all the DVDs and CDs, and have one memorable live experience. All except our youngest who slept through most of it.
The article had a lot of content, and detail. Just not the kind of detail I was looking for -- it sounds like part of itself might be reducing memory usage by 0.25MB on a page, for example. That is obviously nothing, but maybe there are other more substantial gains. Who knows.
Also, I submitted this story to find out if this is a hot concern in general, or particular. Someone above this comment posted that they had 32GB of RAM and who cares. Fair enough. But how many admin systems that are memory starved? And how starved are they? I've seen 4GB laptops slowed to a non-responding crawl by Chrome, so to me this new version is potentially a big deal.
Name a single movie that simply must be in 4K to be worth watching.
99+% of movies are not worth watching at any quality.
Good, or great, movies are worth re-watching but after you have watched it once, you don't need to glue your eyeballs to the screen to re-watch it. What you end up doing, more and more with each re-watch, is listen to it.
How high a quality do you need for re-listening? Personally, DVD is more than good enough for anything I like to re-watch, including masterpieces like Lawrence of Arabia, Gandhi...or Elf.
Yahoo (YHOO) said it recently identified a coordinated effort by hackers who tried to log into many email accounts with stolen usernames and passwords.
It is a matter of convenience. For example, on my main system I use BiggerCalc [Size comparison]. I don't want to type "biggercalc" or "calc2", so I renamed the default one and renamed BiggerCalc as calc. But I imagine I couldn't do that on Windows 10 Alpha, until today, whoopdedoo!
Is anyone developing a Cortana Killer? Some always-running application who's only purpose is to kill Cortana when it pops-up (or whatever it does...I'll never know as I have yet to use the Windows 10 Alpha).
Right. Getting a dog probably achieves more than any other method. Dogs have a high desire to exercise, can be annoying nags if you don't exercise them and help you get out of your basement so that you can be rejected by more women. I have sixteen of them.
(1) he chose alternative treatments
(2) he died
(3) therefore...he might have died in the same amount of time, or died earlier, or died later with conventional cancer treatments
Speaking of Amazon and Yelp in the same post -- both have removed the unhelpful mod (Amazon doing this only a few months ago). So now one can't down-mod a comment. Some end up with a suspicious lack of up-mods, but that is all the information we get.
This all sounds a lot like FaceBooge. Down-mods hurt sales, apparently.
Case #1 - send "rate us" email a day or two after the product should have arrived. The product arrives a day late, and the email comes an hour later -- customer fires off a nasty review.
Case #2 - send "rate us" email a day or two early. Product arrives early to some percentage of people, the email comes an hour later -- customer can't believe how awesome service from this company was, and fires off a "fabulous!" review.
What are you talking about? That is just a single story every 267,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Planck seconds. Clearly we could be publishing a quarter million, million, million, million, million, million, million, million times more often. Some people have no sense of perspective. Frustrating!
When the normally reasonable Opportunist gives a reply like this, you know this world has no chance.
Let's break down, point by point, what he dumped on:
Imagine the following way to help your own folks, and the victims of your elite:
That there is an elite is not debatable. Also called the 1%, they have HALF the money in the world. If anyone should be doing great things with tech and everything else, it is the 1%. End Of Thread.
Score one for "batshit crazy"
Just expose the lies of the 1%, the war industry, the Cultural Marxists and their fellow Devil Worshippers. Those who literally want to make our children cut off their own balls:
Once again, none of this is debatable. 1%? Check. War industry? Check. Cultural Marxists? Check. Devil Worshippers? Check.
Anyone on slashdot claiming that any of these don't exist is part of the problem, or stupid. But you know what? Slashdot has less stupid people than any other place on the net. So back to the more likely possibility.
Ok, I took one for the team and loaded this link. Title is "Hillary Clinton lying for 13 minutes straight." The only quibble I have with stuff like this is, why don't they make a 26 minute youtube and give equal time to both parties of the duopoly? Maybe even show them both making the same lies. That would be fun.
How do you know when a politician is lying?
Right, when their YouTube is streaming.
Score 1 for Opportunist, because Dr. Crazy didn't provide equal time.
Obama and his goons tortured this boy until he wanted his own testicles to be cut off:
Once again, into the valley of YouTube... Video is called "Gender Transformation In A US Military Prison".
Didn't play the video but simple point to be made. We'll never know. Stranger and sicker things have happened. In China, prisoners get their organs harvested while they are still alive.
Calling this "idiot conspiracy nutter" material is unbecoming, Opportunist. You. Don't. Know. (in part because I'm sure you, like me, didn't watch it).
Points awarded? None, because none of us will ever watch the video. Even though it could be as great as the Vimeo suggestion I watched some four years ago now. Found on Slashdot, it truly and profoundly changed my life. Thanks "thoughtlover", whoever you are.
So, something that is bin spam to you, may be priceless to someone else.
Score another point for the batlover.
Regarding Computers, they are Insecure By Design. The 1% want them to be hackable:
Probably the most obviously factual points of the whole post. No additional comment needed.
Score: Two more points to the batshit crazy idiot conspiracy nutter. Who obviously cares. It is a thankless path these days. Whistleblowers used to be protected, today they get fired. People used to have "ABC sucks" web pages. Facebook routinely removes such "hate speech" today.
The people more batshit crazy than this alleged idiot conspiracy nutter are the 1% shills or karma whores who say there aren't conspiracies.
Life is saturated with conspiracies. Do something about them and you will be improving the world.
I'm disappointed. I scrolled the rest of the comments and didn't find any more top posts from Moblaster. I mean, after the second or third post it was obvious what he was up to -- one post for every photon.
Yesterday I was walking around a mall to kill some time. Got a little tired, saw some massage chairs, sat on one. Comfy. After 1 or 2 minutes, it activated, pushing out the back massage rollers to their fullest, them left them there. Message sent, and received.
There must be ways to limit or alter access just enough to sour the milk as an old trekkie once said.
Restaurants and retail businesses should get together and start an anti-Yelp campaign. Come up with a sign you put in the front window of your restaurant -- "We don't pay Yelp for advertisements because we don't think Yelp is fair in their reviews of businesses. As a result you may find that Yelp displays overly negative reviews of our business. We don't care and we don't think you should either."
Once a high percentage of businesses display that in their window, people will get the message and lose interest in Yelp.
I particularly agree with your mention of Isaac Asimov in general, and his Foundation series in particular.
Recently I've been working on an extended project that involves reading a lot of quotes about science from a lot of people. The result of filtering through almost 10,000 quotes is a resounding +1 for Asimov. And G.K. Chesterton.
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The work on one's own time should involve theorizing, not experiments. Once you have a good new theory, then you can ask for the funds to test it.
I'm leaning toward uncertainty, on principle.
One word: competition. Only if they have a legal monopoly (e.g. patent) can someone charge what the market will bear. Once that expires, the market will be open and competitors will appear based on how excessive the first company's mark-up is. Once the mark-up drops to a reasonable profit level, no new competitors will come in. Then you have stable pricing. Like in laptops and desktops today, for example.
As to your beverage example, I'm pretty sure soda companies advertise. Yet a recent article said that 70% of marketing costs are spent to ensure shelf space. So there are plenty of other costs besides the bottle, flavors, sugar and things like RO filtering etc.
This is it in a nutshell. Our family went to see Brian Regan and it was great to hear new material live. Conversely, if we knew every joke, why would we go? With comedy, laughter is the end goal -- it either comes out naturally or lube is required. Since I stopped drinking 35 years ago, I'm fine with Yondr. Besides, the quality of live performance is so far below that of a CD or DVD, why would anyone want to rewatch/relisten to it?
We support Brian Regan, have bought all the DVDs and CDs, and have one memorable live experience. All except our youngest who slept through most of it.
The article had a lot of content, and detail. Just not the kind of detail I was looking for -- it sounds like part of itself might be reducing memory usage by 0.25MB on a page, for example. That is obviously nothing, but maybe there are other more substantial gains. Who knows.
Also, I submitted this story to find out if this is a hot concern in general, or particular. Someone above this comment posted that they had 32GB of RAM and who cares. Fair enough. But how many admin systems that are memory starved? And how starved are they? I've seen 4GB laptops slowed to a non-responding crawl by Chrome, so to me this new version is potentially a big deal.
Name a single movie that simply must be in 4K to be worth watching.
99+% of movies are not worth watching at any quality.
Good, or great, movies are worth re-watching but after you have watched it once, you don't need to glue your eyeballs to the screen to re-watch it. What you end up doing, more and more with each re-watch, is listen to it.
How high a quality do you need for re-listening? Personally, DVD is more than good enough for anything I like to re-watch, including masterpieces like Lawrence of Arabia, Gandhi...or Elf.
I was wondering why a big deal was being made out of the 2014 breach not being disclosed now, when everyone knew about it in 2014. Now I understand...
It is a matter of convenience. For example, on my main system I use BiggerCalc [Size comparison]. I don't want to type "biggercalc" or "calc2", so I renamed the default one and renamed BiggerCalc as calc. But I imagine I couldn't do that on Windows 10 Alpha, until today, whoopdedoo!
Is anyone developing a Cortana Killer? Some always-running application who's only purpose is to kill Cortana when it pops-up (or whatever it does...I'll never know as I have yet to use the Windows 10 Alpha).
Right. Getting a dog probably achieves more than any other method. Dogs have a high desire to exercise, can be annoying nags if you don't exercise them and help you get out of your basement so that you can be rejected by more women. I have sixteen of them.
Correlation is not causation.
(1) he chose alternative treatments
(2) he died
(3) therefore...he might have died in the same amount of time, or died earlier, or died later with conventional cancer treatments
Speaking of Amazon and Yelp in the same post -- both have removed the unhelpful mod (Amazon doing this only a few months ago). So now one can't down-mod a comment. Some end up with a suspicious lack of up-mods, but that is all the information we get.
This all sounds a lot like FaceBooge. Down-mods hurt sales, apparently.
Oh, look, rose-colored glasses are on sale!
Case #1 - send "rate us" email a day or two after the product should have arrived. The product arrives a day late, and the email comes an hour later -- customer fires off a nasty review.
Case #2 - send "rate us" email a day or two early. Product arrives early to some percentage of people, the email comes an hour later -- customer can't believe how awesome service from this company was, and fires off a "fabulous!" review.
What are you talking about? That is just a single story every 267,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Planck seconds. Clearly we could be publishing a quarter million, million, million, million, million, million, million, million times more often. Some people have no sense of perspective. Frustrating!
"Make the world's worst cup of coffee so that people stampede to better coffee?"
So are we sending lawyers, or members of government?
get the hydrogen, burn the hydrogen with oxygen, get no more free oxygen
FTFY
Let's break down, point by point, what he dumped on:
That there is an elite is not debatable. Also called the 1%, they have HALF the money in the world. If anyone should be doing great things with tech and everything else, it is the 1%. End Of Thread.
Score one for "batshit crazy"
Once again, none of this is debatable. 1%? Check. War industry? Check. Cultural Marxists? Check. Devil Worshippers? Check.
Anyone on slashdot claiming that any of these don't exist is part of the problem, or stupid. But you know what? Slashdot has less stupid people than any other place on the net. So back to the more likely possibility.
Score 4 more for "B. Crazy"
Ok, I took one for the team and loaded this link. Title is "Hillary Clinton lying for 13 minutes straight." The only quibble I have with stuff like this is, why don't they make a 26 minute youtube and give equal time to both parties of the duopoly? Maybe even show them both making the same lies. That would be fun.
How do you know when a politician is lying?
Right, when their YouTube is streaming.
Score 1 for Opportunist, because Dr. Crazy didn't provide equal time.
Once again, into the valley of YouTube... Video is called "Gender Transformation In A US Military Prison".
Didn't play the video but simple point to be made. We'll never know. Stranger and sicker things have happened. In China, prisoners get their organs harvested while they are still alive.
Calling this "idiot conspiracy nutter" material is unbecoming, Opportunist. You. Don't. Know. (in part because I'm sure you, like me, didn't watch it).
Points awarded? None, because none of us will ever watch the video. Even though it could be as great as the Vimeo suggestion I watched some four years ago now. Found on Slashdot, it truly and profoundly changed my life. Thanks "thoughtlover", whoever you are.
So, something that is bin spam to you, may be priceless to someone else.
Score another point for the batlover.
Probably the most obviously factual points of the whole post. No additional comment needed.
Score: Two more points to the batshit crazy idiot conspiracy nutter. Who obviously cares. It is a thankless path these days. Whistleblowers used to be protected, today they get fired. People used to have "ABC sucks" web pages. Facebook routinely removes such "hate speech" today.
The people more batshit crazy than this alleged idiot conspiracy nutter are the 1% shills or karma whores who say there aren't conspiracies.
Life is saturated with conspiracies. Do something about them and you will be improving the world.
I'm disappointed. I scrolled the rest of the comments and didn't find any more top posts from Moblaster. I mean, after the second or third post it was obvious what he was up to -- one post for every photon.
I spent about 5 minutes trying to figure out who you thought the Big Three (or Four) were.
From Wikipedia's List of the largest information technology companies:
(1) Apple
(2) Samsung
(3) Foxconn
(4) Amazon
I think only one of your Big Three (or Four) is on that list...
The rest of the list:
(5) HP
(6) Microsoft
(7) IBM
(8) Google
(9) Dell
(10) Sony
(11) Panasonic
(12) Huawei
(13) Intel
Facebook's revenue is one-third of #13's
The List of largest Internet companies is even more unrecognizable. Twitter was #19 on the second list, Yahoo #13...
More than one way to skin a cat...
Yesterday I was walking around a mall to kill some time. Got a little tired, saw some massage chairs, sat on one. Comfy. After 1 or 2 minutes, it activated, pushing out the back massage rollers to their fullest, them left them there. Message sent, and received.
There must be ways to limit or alter access just enough to sour the milk as an old trekkie once said.
The whole point is to encourage *everyone* to show the sign so this handles the "Only our restaurant is bad" concern.
To facilitate this, title the sign "Businesses Against Yelp", or "Proud to be part of the Businesses Against Yelp" (some clever acronym).
And have a "Learn more" or "What you can do to help stamp out Yelp" action link.
Restaurants and retail businesses should get together and start an anti-Yelp campaign. Come up with a sign you put in the front window of your restaurant -- "We don't pay Yelp for advertisements because we don't think Yelp is fair in their reviews of businesses. As a result you may find that Yelp displays overly negative reviews of our business. We don't care and we don't think you should either."
Once a high percentage of businesses display that in their window, people will get the message and lose interest in Yelp.
I particularly agree with your mention of Isaac Asimov in general, and his Foundation series in particular.
Recently I've been working on an extended project that involves reading a lot of quotes about science from a lot of people. The result of filtering through almost 10,000 quotes is a resounding +1 for Asimov. And G.K. Chesterton.