Why let the exception case (removing an external drive quickly) ruin the main use case?
going forward it seems reasonable to assume ubiquitous network connectivity, so you can simply treat external drives as a cache and show a non-modal alert "please reconnect for sync, expected to finish within X minutes" iff the amount of data synced is large enough to matter via a 3G connection.
Because it's not really the exception. I rarely copy or move files except when I want to transfer them to a USB key. Otherwise,they mostly stay where I created or initially downloaded them to.
It's basically search engine spam generated from SEC docs. Adds needless verbosity to when people want the info in a concise format. When looking for actionable financial info I hate having to read through sentences when a table or graph will do. Consider why audio podcasts never really caught on for non-entertainment.
I don't know how to read an S1, which is why I go to places like CNBC and the sort in the first place. Granted, I'm not a financial services kind of guy, but it's useful to have that info generated in a digestible format. I don't think the podcast analog works quite right... it's more like taking a blog post from tech crunch, and automagically repurposing it for usa today by adding relevant context programmatically. There's definitely value in that, but I don't think it's "Bloomberg" money.
Keep in mind that Double Recall works with news publishers. The number one thing that publishers need is more money to pay for content production. Most publishers are toying with a paywall model right now. I hope they go the Double Recall route. I'd rather type in two words once a day and have an advertiser pay for my content than pull out my credit card to hop over a paywall.
So, here's the alternative. If the Double Recalls have figured out a nice sustainable way to pay for a good chunk of the journalism you enjoy, wouldn't that make the world a better place?
"I hope they go the Double Recall route. I'd rather type in two words once a day and have an advertiser pay for my content than pull out my credit card to hop over a paywall."
Well, that depends on the price of the paywall, the quality of the content and how much you value your time, right?
Well, what people value more depends on each individual. Some people have more time than money, so DoubleRecall is perfect for them, while others have money and no time.
What DoubleRecall does, is give a chance to everyone to view the article. If you take a look at a DoubleRecall client Finance, where people can still choose to pay monthly fees to get the content without DoubleRecall. Other people, like myself, can now still view the premium content without having to pay anything. I may still later decide to but a subscription and have uninterrupted access, but I probably wont, when someone else might.
There are a few cases where Double Recall wouldn't be so bad. For example, if I had to pick between a Double Recall interstitial and watching a commercial before a video starts, I'd go with Double Recall. I'd also prefer them to pop under ads (which, BTW, I hadn't seen in years until I switched from FF to Chrome).
i do not think it is as clear-cut that brand advertisers will pay higher rates or even accept the format as they may think. sure, conversion/recall etc might be higher but company X making me do some annoying work is not exactly endearing them to me and tarnishes their brand. people are lazy.
Among the revealed ones I am most excited about (and would invest in) Parse -- solves a real problem, it is easy to see how it can be commercially viable, and there is very little technology risk. Kind of wish I had thought of it. An obvious target to be acqhired by one of the PaaS vendors.
Good story. Wouldn't a better hack have been to draw input values in both countries, then communicate this input to the other location and XOR the results to determine the final outcome, so the drawing will actually have happened in both territories? This would also scale to n>2 countries.
i did go to law school and am thus reasonably well aware of how laws work ;)
having no specific knowledge about sweepstakes regulations, i does not appear completely unreasonable to me that a random drawing in each territory completely changing the outcome might satisfy the requirements.
as a practical matter, when $1m in extra payouts are at stake it could be reasonable to accept a fine from regulators while at the same time avoiding civil liability to participants.
It works even with a US delivery address in your account that is separate from a possibly non-US billing address. You can simply switch back and forth the country in your profile to optimize for catalog availability and pricing.
Out of curiosity: might the fact that - as revealed in this story - there has been an outstanding warrant for the guest at the time of booking have any bearing on airbnb's liability? Can a host reasonably expect that some basic verification on guests is performed against criminal background databases?
Same here. Laid out the estimated added cost of enforcing payment via the court system besides interest to them, received payment soon after. Somehow the psychology of getting a "discount" from avoiding litigation seems to work.
My take is that it seems like easy money for the people who create these incubators. They don't risk much cash and they hope that they'll find the next Zuck and make a packet. Given the strong FS sector in the UK it's not surprising that there's money chasing ideas.
If you look at the list of mentors etc. involved in these incubators they tend to be second-rate. I got invited to be a mentor in one of these programs and the participation required from me was really minimal yet my name would be all over the thing. I wasn't able to take part because of other commitments, but it strikes me that there's a real quantity over quality problem.
My (jaded) view is that it's a version of new adage: "those that can do, those that can't incubate". That may be unfair to these specific folks, but until we see some success from these incubators. Compare, for example, all the effort in branding/marketing these programs to the effort YC spends on the same. You do not need a slick web site and list of mentors to make this stuff work. Hello, you can even use HTML tables for layout and still get people who do cutting edge web work in your program. What you need are quality principals.
I'd be happy to work for a real YC-like in London (actually, it would probably have to be YC itself) because you'd be working in a really small team of really smart people. Not in some massive team of 'mentors' who aren't providing a great deal of value.
going forward it seems reasonable to assume ubiquitous network connectivity, so you can simply treat external drives as a cache and show a non-modal alert "please reconnect for sync, expected to finish within X minutes" iff the amount of data synced is large enough to matter via a 3G connection.