Comment Re:We are back to square one (Score 1) 212
Well, yes. That's the point. One of the largest reasons for breaking up huge vertical monopolies is that the cost of entry for other participants is too high because the monopoly can subsidize one side of the business with the others. Can anyone else create a viable mapping, searching, or other business competing with them? No, not really. The only competitor they have in any of these is in Smartphone Mobile OS -- which is a duopoly with Apple.
So are you proposing a consumer pay-per search model, or a monthly subscription? Or is the search company supposed to be taking money from the sites who'll pay for higher rankings? Mapping probably only makes sense as a consumer subscription service.
Comment Re:Never saw this coming (Score 1) 168
Comment Re:Long range space probes? (Score 1) 156
Comment Re:you think it won't get worse? (Score 1) 79
To be 100% accurate, Nexus devices are yours.
It's a shame they've taken that away with their new Pixel line.
Air Force Says F-35 Glitches Mean the A-10 Will Keep Flying 'Indefinitely' (jalopnik.com) 325
Air Force Materiel Command chief Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski told AviationWeek in a interview, "Our command, anyway, is approaching this as another airplane that we are sustaining indefinitely." While the beancounters and product planners are trying to push the A-10 off the board, Materiel Command is going to keep on keeping the planes in peak condition, which will give the A-10 it's best chance of proving its worth over and over again. And it seems to be working -- the A-10 posted a 5% increase in its availability rate from 2014 to 2015, and the Air Force seems to keep postponing its demise.
In Congress one representative has even suggested an operational testing "fly-off" between the two aircraft -- a jet-vs-jet competition to determine whether any more A-10s get retired.
Comment Re:Because their pointless. (Score 1) 330
Comment Re: People probably realized.. (Score 1) 330
Comment Re:People probably realized.. (Score 1) 330
People finally realized most smart watches are useless unless you're also carrying the phone it's connected to, in which case, yeah, what's the point?
Because it's quicker and a little more discreet to glance at a wrist than pull out a phone? Because they don't actually need to be connected to the phone to have a lot of functionality (Sony has built in GPS, 4 GB of storage for music, almost like it was meant to be able to be used when working out or running) Because it's kind of nice to has watch where I can play with the way it looks. Because a vibrating/buzzing watch wakes me up nicely without waking up my wife. Because voice control via a watch allows me to control my phone when I'm driving and the phone is connected to the head unit of my car.
Comment Re:Just let it fold and be done with it (Score 1) 254
Comment Re:Why no link to the catalog? How to access this? (Score 1) 60
Comment Re: So that's unlimited data with limits (Score 1) 36
free overage protection
You mean overage protection included in the price, right? Or overage protection at no additional charge. There's a difference between those things and free (I'm not even talking about the free/libre differences).
Comment Re: Privacy (Score 0) 90
Comment Re:The real issue is lack of transparency (Score 1) 228
to simply see if it uncovers some of the "poorly understood" and "sloppily formulated" parts of our justice systems
Given the immense amount of laws and court cases, I can guarantee that there are contradictions and inconsistencies in our legal system. I don't know if you'd really want to find them all. I've often wondered what it would take to codify contracts and contract law, but I don't know if we'd really want that for criminal law.
Comment Re:Duh... (Score 1) 228
Sorry but that's ageist and sexist
But it's also statistically correct