But content is just another one of those many costs. Given the quality of a radio station is heavily coupled to its content, and its audience heavily drawn to the content, is it really fair to expect the budget for content to be a mere 0.05% of revenues?
No, but I can challenge why the fuck I have to pay to use an Elvis song. Exactly how does society benefit from this artificial restriction on use of cultural artefacts.
Something like an Apple Watch has a cleaner look, but it's still a smartwatch so it projects sophistication. It's really the only piece of jewelry a man can pull off in professional situations, except for maybe cufflinks and a wedding band.
A whole section of the luxury watch market caters to that need, and looks a whole lot more sophisticated than a smartwatch.
You can get some very slim mechanical watches, let alone the quartz options in the "elegant and built from nice materials" range.
Highly complicated mechanical watches and mechanical chronographs range in price from 'expensive' to 'my lifetime earnings', but basic clockwork is affordable.
About $4000 plus room and board for the time it takes to learn the material, some hands-on experience, done. As a bonus, no exposure to depraved fellow students.
Oh, you miss the point of going to university entirely.
You get the books, you learn the material, you skip the lectures, you get the qualification. The rest of the time is _for_ exposure to depraved fellow students.
You have evidence of this? Just that the EFF can wheel out a long list of games that people paid good money for and now can't play purely and only because it would be illegal to build a new server to support them.
No, we're in a golden age of gaming and have been continuously since the mid-80s.
Alpha Centauri and Civilisation have been updated, expanded and released in newer versions every few years and are now the entry level into grand strategy, with a wealth of far more complex games with significantly more depth.
Quake3 and UT2004 are primitive compared to the Battlefield series - they don't even have usable vehicles!
Some videogames are indeed interactive movies, but many are not. There's more choice than I can remember, games are more affordable than they've ever been and there are multiple high quality options in almost any genre you want to play.
Maybe you're constrained to a platform that doesn't enjoy the diversity and variety available on a PC, but the games exist, they're available, they're very playable and please, get a Dwarf Fortress fortress surviving for a decade before claiming "there are actually less things to do" because trust me, no game before it has even tried to come close.
I have 100 dollars to spend on a game. I can spend 10 dollars on each of ten complete games, or make ten transactions to acquire all of the content for a single game.
It's a pretty fucking easy choice. Your business model just earned zero dollars from me.
As a tremendous admirer of photojournalism I'm aware this is a very difficult ethical situation.
Save one victim, or produce the evidence that will change a culture and save many? Detached observer or culpable participant? Sometimes as basic as dead or alive.
On this occasion, not really viable to intervene - too far away, no time, and any attempt would be interpreted as an aggressive act.
It's always going to be situational, and it's always going to be challenged by someone that wasn't there, and my personal view is that I wish I had the level of detachment needed to objectively record what's happening rather than ineffectively try to prevent it.
Blacks commit crimes at rates higher than whites. Any public policy that ignores this fundamental fact is doomed to failure.
22% of residents in New York are black. 33% are white.
So lets check actual stop and search statistics, from 2014: 24,777 black people stopped and searched - 55% of the total 5,536 white people stopped and searched - 12% of the total.
So in a city of over 8 million, if every stop is a different resident (a flawed assumption), 1.3% of the black residents were stopped and searched, and 0.2% of the white residents were stopped and searched.
With some crude rounding, this means black people in New York are over six times more likely to be stopped and searched than white people.
By your logic then, public policy based on logical crime prevalence rates would indicate that black people commit six times as much crime as white people.
I don't believe this.
Incidentally, given that 82% of people stopped and searched are innocent, even if every single guilty person were black three times as many innocent black people get stopped and searched as the total number of white people.
You're asking me for evidence that people who go to prison have committed a crime? Seriously?
No, he was asking for evidence that crime rates vary by race.
Given that black men in America are incarcerated at higher rates than white men on a per-identical-crime basis the prison population is already a skewed sample anyway.
Tasering him as he was running away would have acceptable though.
Ooh! Can I use potentially lethal force to torture you because you wont obey my every command too?
How about letting him fucking run away? Or chasing after him. What exactly is it about 'running away' that causes such severe danger that it justifies electrocuting someone?
As someone that generates no revenue for the company no doubt your friend would demand that I get no pay.
Good luck getting his own when the payroll system is switched off, and indeed in keeping his team's revenue figures up when we sell the building he works in and the equipment they use, because those are all corporate costs and not winning any revenue.
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What, getting fucked by men from Rome?
Well, I guess it's your choice. Enjoy.
If I was in the US I'd be a one man religion and enjoying all the tax breaks.
But content is just another one of those many costs. Given the quality of a radio station is heavily coupled to its content, and its audience heavily drawn to the content, is it really fair to expect the budget for content to be a mere 0.05% of revenues?
Sounds pretty cheapskate to me.
No, but I can challenge why the fuck I have to pay to use an Elvis song. Exactly how does society benefit from this artificial restriction on use of cultural artefacts.
Their strategy is basically to say, "oooo! watch!" with an, "*iphone 5 or greater required"
Yeah, I find that bemusing. I'd have to downgrade my phone or carry two if I wanted to use an Apple Watch.
Seems a bit silly really.
Something like an Apple Watch has a cleaner look, but it's still a smartwatch so it projects sophistication. It's really the only piece of jewelry a man can pull off in professional situations, except for maybe cufflinks and a wedding band.
A whole section of the luxury watch market caters to that need, and looks a whole lot more sophisticated than a smartwatch.
You can get some very slim mechanical watches, let alone the quartz options in the "elegant and built from nice materials" range.
No reason an inductive charging watch couldn't be properly sealed.
Although yes, would be lovely to get a combination of rotor and solar panel to keep a smart watch fully operational indefinitely.
Not transistors, but definitely tubes:
http://www.cathodecorner.com/n...
Note the excellent quote from Slashdot :)
generally out of the price range most people set for watches
What, £42? http://www.watchshop.com/Mecha...
Highly complicated mechanical watches and mechanical chronographs range in price from 'expensive' to 'my lifetime earnings', but basic clockwork is affordable.
He must be from down south.
Although I can't criticise, I drink coffee..
If it stops, it can notify someone (assuming no one is with you).
Thanks, I needed a good giggle.
$400 is NOT "impulse buy" territory.
Erm. Yeah, for some people it is. My sous vide oven was an impulse buy, at $440. I don't need one, I just decided it rocked and bought it.
Good call in the end, I use it 2-3 times a week, but that's luck not research.
$400 for a watch? Easily pocket change for a lot of people.
About $4000 plus room and board for the time it takes to learn the material, some hands-on experience, done. As a bonus, no exposure to depraved fellow students.
Oh, you miss the point of going to university entirely.
You get the books, you learn the material, you skip the lectures, you get the qualification. The rest of the time is _for_ exposure to depraved fellow students.
Wait? Don't go with anything under patch 3 - so basically refusing to ever update to software that works first time, or need just a single patch.
That's bloody stupid to start with. But then you admit that you're using beta software.
You have no clue. You're inept. You're stupid. You're fucking scaring me. How is it possible to be that fucking incompetent?
Look you twat, there is post after post of people bitching that they have issues. One person points out that he's been fine, and you lay into him?
He didn't say that nobody had the issue, he's highlighting that not everybody has the issue.
Fix your own fucking Nexus 5.
Ah, apologies - I was thinking of UT from '99, which is the Quake3 era.
UT03 was so awful it put me off even trying '04 - I was onto the Battlefield series by then and enjoying its mix of environments and play styles.
The irony is that I agree with you without changing a single statement that I made.
Non-lethal force could be reasonable. Electrocuting them still feels excessive.
You have evidence of this? Just that the EFF can wheel out a long list of games that people paid good money for and now can't play purely and only because it would be illegal to build a new server to support them.
No, we're in a golden age of gaming and have been continuously since the mid-80s.
Alpha Centauri and Civilisation have been updated, expanded and released in newer versions every few years and are now the entry level into grand strategy, with a wealth of far more complex games with significantly more depth.
Quake3 and UT2004 are primitive compared to the Battlefield series - they don't even have usable vehicles!
Some videogames are indeed interactive movies, but many are not. There's more choice than I can remember, games are more affordable than they've ever been and there are multiple high quality options in almost any genre you want to play.
Maybe you're constrained to a platform that doesn't enjoy the diversity and variety available on a PC, but the games exist, they're available, they're very playable and please, get a Dwarf Fortress fortress surviving for a decade before claiming "there are actually less things to do" because trust me, no game before it has even tried to come close.
I have 100 dollars to spend on a game. I can spend 10 dollars on each of ten complete games, or make ten transactions to acquire all of the content for a single game.
It's a pretty fucking easy choice. Your business model just earned zero dollars from me.
As a tremendous admirer of photojournalism I'm aware this is a very difficult ethical situation.
Save one victim, or produce the evidence that will change a culture and save many?
Detached observer or culpable participant?
Sometimes as basic as dead or alive.
On this occasion, not really viable to intervene - too far away, no time, and any attempt would be interpreted as an aggressive act.
It's always going to be situational, and it's always going to be challenged by someone that wasn't there, and my personal view is that I wish I had the level of detachment needed to objectively record what's happening rather than ineffectively try to prevent it.
Blacks commit crimes at rates higher than whites. Any public policy that ignores this fundamental fact is doomed to failure.
22% of residents in New York are black.
33% are white.
So lets check actual stop and search statistics, from 2014:
24,777 black people stopped and searched - 55% of the total
5,536 white people stopped and searched - 12% of the total.
So in a city of over 8 million, if every stop is a different resident (a flawed assumption), 1.3% of the black residents were stopped and searched, and 0.2% of the white residents were stopped and searched.
With some crude rounding, this means black people in New York are over six times more likely to be stopped and searched than white people.
By your logic then, public policy based on logical crime prevalence rates would indicate that black people commit six times as much crime as white people.
I don't believe this.
Incidentally, given that 82% of people stopped and searched are innocent, even if every single guilty person were black three times as many innocent black people get stopped and searched as the total number of white people.
That sounds like a fundamental fact to me.
You're asking me for evidence that people who go to prison have committed a crime? Seriously?
No, he was asking for evidence that crime rates vary by race.
Given that black men in America are incarcerated at higher rates than white men on a per-identical-crime basis the prison population is already a skewed sample anyway.
Tasering him as he was running away would have acceptable though.
Ooh! Can I use potentially lethal force to torture you because you wont obey my every command too?
How about letting him fucking run away? Or chasing after him. What exactly is it about 'running away' that causes such severe danger that it justifies electrocuting someone?
As someone that generates no revenue for the company no doubt your friend would demand that I get no pay.
Good luck getting his own when the payroll system is switched off, and indeed in keeping his team's revenue figures up when we sell the building he works in and the equipment they use, because those are all corporate costs and not winning any revenue.
What a cunt.