I predict that companies that find out what customers want right now and figure out how to deliver that to them at the greatest cost will have profitable futures.
The companies that will have a more profitable future are the ones that can find out what customers will want in X years, where X is the number of years it takes to get the product to market. If you wait until you can see what people are buying, you run the risk of not being able to catch up.
What bothers me is that not only is it so transparent what we're doing but that nobody particularity cares. You'd think Americans on all sides would be pretty angry that we're overthrowing gov'ts left and right.
Why would anyone think that? The US has been overthrowing governments for decades. Why would people on all sides suddenly be angry about it? The people that didn't like it 30 years ago still don't like it, and the people that didn't care 30 years ago still don't care.
It isn't sudden. The terms "moonquake" and "marsquake" have been in use for several decades, including in scientific publications (e.g. this 1972 paper about moonquakes).
I don't get how this is a monopoly without contorting the definition of the word into something utterly useless. If it was such a terrible deal for software vendors then why do they persist in using Apple's platform? There are alternatives which are actually considerably more popular by unit volume and more open to third parties.
Abuse of monopoly position doesn't require a specific percentage of some market (who would get to define the boundaries of a given market?), it simply requires the ability to use the position in one market to restrict competition in another market. The argument is that Apple uses its position as the hardware manufacturer to eliminate competition in the software sales/distribution (i.e. retail store) market and, to a lesser extent, the software creation market (since it's unreasonably difficult to sell any software that Apple doesn't approve of).
It's up to the courts to decide how strong that argument is.
The 19th century had the Gold Standard; Since the 20th century we have only fiat currencies, and inflation.
There's a reason for that change. It turns out that if you have deflation, people are more likely to sit on cash instead of spend it or invest it, which slows down your economy.
it's about the fact that a rectangular object can shatter if dropped on the point of a corner; rounding protects against that.
It's probably going to break in some way if it hits hard ground corner-first anyway. A bigger benefit is that if it hits your hand on the way down, you won't start bleeding.
Um, are you high? Perhaps the "Science Guy" should learn a little bit about Mars before talking about it. A large portion of the planet has permafrost at or near the surface.
I'm not actually that much of a Mars advocate, and think the simplicity of using water there is overplayed (people talk about it like it's some sort of pure snow that you just pick up and melt, but it's (mostly) a rock-hard toxic brine mixed with sand and clay) - but come on, if you're going to talk about something, learn the basics.
I would guess, being far too lazy to read the interview to see the context, that he meant usable water, in which case you seem to agree with him.
Why though? Why leave Earth other than to feel like you're important? (Hint: You aren't important, no one is)
Since I can't say it any better:
Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers. But there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes, and all of this... all of this... was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars.
You seemingly don't realize that this is just a tax on American citizens...
There is no "American-made" alternative to most of these components, so it will serve only to raise the prices Americans are forced to pay while the countries of production don't notice a difference.
Well, so much for that tax break everyone got last year.
I've started to wonder if this wasn't some evil-genius type of plan by the Republican Party. First, give a huge tax break that mostly goes to the upper class, but make sure there's enough going to the lower and middle classes that a majority of people will support it. After that, impose new tariffs that increase prices of consumer goods. If they get all the numbers correct, the total revenue from the tariffs equals the total amount of the tax breaks, prices go up by more than the tax break for the lower and middle classes, and they've successfully transferred more money from the lower and middle classes to the upper class.
I don't think a translated program is a derived work.
You (don't) think incorrectly. If you read someone's copyright-protected source code and use that as a guide for writing your own version, it is still copyright infringement. This is usually referred to as "non-literal similarity" (see, e.g. Wikipedia's article.
Putting your opinion straight into the headline and calling it news, that's how you do it. No fucking around, not even pretending to report neutrally. Love that kind of journalism.
You came here expecting journalism? You do know what site you're on, don't you?
HP -> Carle Fiorina -> Crashed
Yahoo -> Mellissa Mayer -> Crashed
etc.
Watch as Tesla crashes and burns in a gigantic Lithium fire!
Wait, Carly Fiorina and Melissa Mayer were really just Robyn Denholm in disguise? Or is "Robyn Denholm" yet another fake identity made up by some master criminal? That is some impressive Bond-villain-level evil genius.
To communicate 100 light years away instantaneously all it takes is a long stiff rod where very small movement back and forth can communicate.
Physics doesn't work that way. Force and motion propagate through a material at a finite speed. Perhaps the most well known example of this is the propagation of sound waves. So far, nobody has found a material for which the speed of sound is greater than the speed of light through a vacuum.
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I predict that companies that find out what customers want right now and figure out how to deliver that to them at the greatest cost will have profitable futures.
The companies that will have a more profitable future are the ones that can find out what customers will want in X years, where X is the number of years it takes to get the product to market. If you wait until you can see what people are buying, you run the risk of not being able to catch up.
What bothers me is that not only is it so transparent what we're doing but that nobody particularity cares. You'd think Americans on all sides would be pretty angry that we're overthrowing gov'ts left and right.
Why would anyone think that? The US has been overthrowing governments for decades. Why would people on all sides suddenly be angry about it? The people that didn't like it 30 years ago still don't like it, and the people that didn't care 30 years ago still don't care.
That's fine. The complaint, however, was that the term was just invented in the past week by some clueless reporter, which is factually incorrect.
It isn't sudden. The terms "moonquake" and "marsquake" have been in use for several decades, including in scientific publications (e.g. this 1972 paper about moonquakes).
I don't get how this is a monopoly without contorting the definition of the word into something utterly useless. If it was such a terrible deal for software vendors then why do they persist in using Apple's platform? There are alternatives which are actually considerably more popular by unit volume and more open to third parties.
Abuse of monopoly position doesn't require a specific percentage of some market (who would get to define the boundaries of a given market?), it simply requires the ability to use the position in one market to restrict competition in another market. The argument is that Apple uses its position as the hardware manufacturer to eliminate competition in the software sales/distribution (i.e. retail store) market and, to a lesser extent, the software creation market (since it's unreasonably difficult to sell any software that Apple doesn't approve of).
It's up to the courts to decide how strong that argument is.
Just wait for self driving car to make errors like this
And do what, stop before it hits the side of a bus?
Bitcoin is a store of value
Bitcoin is a store of value in the same way that /dev/null is a place to store all your data.
The 19th century had the Gold Standard; Since the 20th century we have only fiat currencies, and inflation.
There's a reason for that change. It turns out that if you have deflation, people are more likely to sit on cash instead of spend it or invest it, which slows down your economy.
it's about the fact that a rectangular object can shatter if dropped on the point of a corner; rounding protects against that.
It's probably going to break in some way if it hits hard ground corner-first anyway. A bigger benefit is that if it hits your hand on the way down, you won't start bleeding.
That's nothing, in the year 2025 we'll have phones that sport 25 cameras.
Fuck it, we're going to fiv- oh. Damnit.
Um, are you high? Perhaps the "Science Guy" should learn a little bit about Mars before talking about it. A large portion of the planet has permafrost at or near the surface.
I'm not actually that much of a Mars advocate, and think the simplicity of using water there is overplayed (people talk about it like it's some sort of pure snow that you just pick up and melt, but it's (mostly) a rock-hard toxic brine mixed with sand and clay) - but come on, if you're going to talk about something, learn the basics.
I would guess, being far too lazy to read the interview to see the context, that he meant usable water, in which case you seem to agree with him.
Why though? Why leave Earth other than to feel like you're important? (Hint: You aren't important, no one is)
Since I can't say it any better:
Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers. But there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes, and all of this... all of this... was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars.
Google Philosophy: "Make 57 different apps to do 40 different things in mediocre fashion...
Fixed that for you. Some things need 3 different apps to do it, each in slightly different and completely incompatible ways.
I'm looking at you, messaging.
If it effected 80% of the population...
Wow, I guess I have some pretty major misunderstands of the reproductive system.
You seemingly don't realize that this is just a tax on American citizens... There is no "American-made" alternative to most of these components, so it will serve only to raise the prices Americans are forced to pay while the countries of production don't notice a difference.
Well, so much for that tax break everyone got last year.
I've started to wonder if this wasn't some evil-genius type of plan by the Republican Party. First, give a huge tax break that mostly goes to the upper class, but make sure there's enough going to the lower and middle classes that a majority of people will support it. After that, impose new tariffs that increase prices of consumer goods. If they get all the numbers correct, the total revenue from the tariffs equals the total amount of the tax breaks, prices go up by more than the tax break for the lower and middle classes, and they've successfully transferred more money from the lower and middle classes to the upper class.
I don't think a translated program is a derived work.
You (don't) think incorrectly. If you read someone's copyright-protected source code and use that as a guide for writing your own version, it is still copyright infringement. This is usually referred to as "non-literal similarity" (see, e.g. Wikipedia's article.
Putting your opinion straight into the headline and calling it news, that's how you do it. No fucking around, not even pretending to report neutrally. Love that kind of journalism.
You came here expecting journalism? You do know what site you're on, don't you?
HP -> Carle Fiorina -> Crashed Yahoo -> Mellissa Mayer -> Crashed etc.
Watch as Tesla crashes and burns in a gigantic Lithium fire!
Wait, Carly Fiorina and Melissa Mayer were really just Robyn Denholm in disguise? Or is "Robyn Denholm" yet another fake identity made up by some master criminal? That is some impressive Bond-villain-level evil genius.
It's not false, Musk has been AWOL from Tesla since the whole SEC fiasco.
How can he be Absent With Out Leave? He's the CEO; pretty much by definition, he can grant himself a leave of absence whenever he wants.
Who the fuck modded this offtopic? The 3rd world Slashdot "editors" need to learn basic English.
Are you trying to imply that native English speakers never make this kind of mistake?
This is great! This is basically a-la-carte.
I can change subscriptions on a monthly or shorter basis. Drop one, add another.
For now. If the service providers see enough people doing this, they'll start only selling year-long subscriptions.
Or both! "Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package."
How efficient, huh?
Bull. Fucking. Shit. The Earth is FLAT!
No it isn't, Nazi.
To communicate 100 light years away instantaneously all it takes is a long stiff rod where very small movement back and forth can communicate.
Physics doesn't work that way. Force and motion propagate through a material at a finite speed. Perhaps the most well known example of this is the propagation of sound waves. So far, nobody has found a material for which the speed of sound is greater than the speed of light through a vacuum.
things you can do with linux: - open a browser
That's probably enough for a majority of users.