Frankly its even worse that implied in the article. The commonality of the coffee/tea mug is only actually on their barista blend. They use a cup of some sort across all of their oat milks, but the type of glass varies product to product.
If you are not too being pedantic click the link, but the crux of it is ' Some grammarians label try and as incorrect when really it is just very informal and best used in conversation.'
Of course they will still want it. They suffer under the delusion that it is possible to make a back door that only the 'good guys' can use. They will call for the back door, and given it the second it is used against them will cry foul at the tech companies and blame them for the insecurity. Never mind it is an insecurity they had inserted in the first place.
The other thing they leave out, even if you eventually want to see everything, is the concept of rotating. Most of the streaming services keep their core offerings the same month after month after month. So you run Netflix for a few months perhaps, drop it and move onto Hulu for a bit while they phase in and out some more material. Before John Oliver came along we were subscribing to HBO purely for the GoT months and dropping it the remainder of the year. I would bet a large number of them include the cost of Amazon Prime towards their cord cutting math, ignoring the fact that many were subscribing to prime for the free shipping well before Prime Video became a thing and just view that service as a nice bonus... Anyway you look at it though, even if it was the exact same $$s per month its worth it just to not hand the money over to comcast.
Realized I didn't obviously include the link to the free book publishing commentary and analysis. For those in the know I guess our names are the link, but I didn't figure that out until a few moments ago. For anyone interested in a more obvious link to the Letters to the Librarian Ebook http://www.baen.com/readonline/index/read/sku/9781625791214
Chapter 6 is especially interesting as an author shared the sales history of a book. The discussion shows the traditional heavy sales at publication followed by rapid drop off. After he posted the book for free in the library however there was an increase in sales of the book, not a further decline. Almost as if people encountering the free e-book and finding value/entertainment in it felt the desire to own a print copy...
Yet another person coming to point out that Baen has been publishing, at minimum, 3 chapters from all their books for MANY years, as well as having hundreds of free books posted from many of their authors longer series. The oldest ebook purchase I have through them dates back to 2000, though I have no memory if the program was brand new or had been around for awhile at that point. Took me awhile to hunt down how they had archived it, but the link above was to Eric Flints write ups called 'Letters to the Librarian' in the early days of the Free Library and discusses the fact that having the library has boosted sales. I highly advise reading the whole thing, it isn't long, but the important line I've copied below.
'Income doesn't derive from preventing theft, it comes from making sales. A certain amount of loss due to theft is simply one of the overhead costs. Obviously, taking simple measures to eliminate as much theft as possible is sensible. But at a certain point -- and much sooner than you might think -- the measures you take to prevent theft can start cutting your income.'
Show both averages. Steam only average and then all reviews average. Besides somewhat placating peoples concerns it may help make obvious who is trying to game the system. Steam is 3 stars all is 4? Fair enough, opinions vary. Steam is 1 star and all is 4.5? Looks a little more suspect.
In every case where google shuts down a service they NEED to list the contact info for the politicians behind the shutdown. Let them field the angry calls on why google image search is gone.
The main issue though, as much as we all understand that this is legally bullshit is that they CAN enforce their 'no medal for you' policy. So yes a company I am certain could totally get away with tweeting about their supported athlete and win whatever legal backlash came at them. Threatening the very athletes the IOC is pretending to protect, while objectively horrible, will also be effective. If you were shooting for reprehensible but effective than job done guys, congrats.
End this simply, and in a similar manner to when Euro newspapers tried charging Google to link to them. Have google sense country of origin for people from France. Pull up a 404 listing why google is not available to the French, along with the contact information for the policos involved. Let them explain to their populous why they no longer have access to google.
And, yet again, DRM will introduce many people to the world of piracy when they look into getting back something they already paid for. And once they discover quite how easy it is.... DRM, flying the flag for piracy yet again.
I'd say its an amazing commentary on the world we live in that you don't see a spin on the movie where a brave NSA agent is hunting an 'Enemy of the State' and saving the day. Clearly not the movie that was made and my version is more high fantasy, but by name alone you could easily go either way.
Flat out Google needs to simply turn off functions to France for a few days, with a nice little 404 explaining why and which politicians are responsible. The polis feel entitled up against google, lets see how they feel when a few million angry citizens contact them. If they cave this will come up again elsewhere. Show that they are not going to allow countries to apply extra territorial laws somewhere big enough to notice but small enough not to be missed.
The problem with a totally open review process was you open yourselves up to people with political axes to grind. For reference on that look up any discussion regarding wiki edits on evolution or climate change. You'd end up with similar issues on peer review papers. Having said that an open site where reviewers are somehow verified and could review anything in their fields wouldn't be a bad idea.
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Frankly its even worse that implied in the article. The commonality of the coffee/tea mug is only actually on their barista blend. They use a cup of some sort across all of their oat milks, but the type of glass varies product to product.
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http://www.baen.com/readonline/index/read/sku/9781625791214
Chapter 6 is especially interesting as an author shared the sales history of a book. The discussion shows the traditional heavy sales at publication followed by rapid drop off. After he posted the book for free in the library however there was an increase in sales of the book, not a further decline. Almost as if people encountering the free e-book and finding value/entertainment in it felt the desire to own a print copy...
Baen Free Library
Took me awhile to hunt down how they had archived it, but the link above was to Eric Flints write ups called 'Letters to the Librarian' in the early days of the Free Library and discusses the fact that having the library has boosted sales. I highly advise reading the whole thing, it isn't long, but the important line I've copied below.
'Income doesn't derive from preventing theft, it comes from making sales. A certain amount of loss due to theft is simply one of the overhead costs. Obviously, taking simple measures to eliminate as much theft as possible is sensible. But at a certain point -- and much sooner than you might think -- the measures you take to prevent theft can start cutting your income.'
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Nuclear option
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