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But does it blend?
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And when is this weekend?[^] 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Mozilla’s reportedly set to launch a premium version of its revered Firefox browser this fall. After all, it worked so well for Opera?
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Interesting - it explains why each upgrade makes it less and less likeable. Maybe they'll enable the add-ons they disabled in the pay version.
I'll keep my eye on this - with my WaterFox browser.
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Seems that they're really selling a VPN service, but worded their press release extremely badly.
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It's not exactly true that it's a paid version.
.. Because sales will be close to zero that they'll probably round down to a negative number.
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In an attempt to analyze the myth -- or not -- of the chubby gamer, scientists reach a simple conclusion. Press the jump button more
 some researchers
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Who paid for this study? Belly-wheel[^] manufacturers?
Like Spike Milligan said: Don't worry about falling; it's the ground that kills you.
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Python's ascent continues among software developers, bolstered by its usability compared with Java and C. Because lines on graphs always go straight. Forever.
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After years of uncertainty, Microsoft has made the decision to officially hand off control of Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and server-side Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to the community. Oh... Uh, thanks?
Anyone else want to re-gift it? Maybe the Java folk could use it?
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No, they'll try to flick that bugger onto someone else.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Google earned $4.7bn from news organizations in 2018, says study — RT World News[^]
So google sat on its collective @rse and let its bots rape news sites and reel in money for nothing, while the news organisations themselves only made $5.1bn for their work -- out of which, they had to pay everyone for their contributions, their work, etc.
And note that the 4.7bn is probably an extremely low estimate.
Damn those greedy, avaricious copyright holders!
Don't they know that google deserves their money more they they deserve it?
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It's somewhat distorting to compare Google's worldwide ad revenue with that of US news agencies alone, I'd have thought.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: It's somewhat distorting to compare Google's worldwide ad revenue with that of US news agencies alone, I'd have thought.
That's not what they've done.
google's worldwide ad revenue is over 100bn.
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As far as I can tell from the article, Google's global ad revenue from news is $4.7 billion whereas US news agencies make $5.1 billion, so that is very much what they've done. Apples vs. pears.
I'm not defending Google (total ad revenue for last year, an utterly terrifying $116 billion), just pointing out some rather disingenuous journalism.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Quote: disingenuous journalism.
Is there any other kind these days?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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There is, but it's getting harder to find.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: There is, but it's getting harder to find.
Yes, because hundreds of news providers have been driven out of business, and tens of thousands of good journalists have lost their jobs (and those who still have jobs are paid less and less year over year), because so much of the money that should have flowed into the industry has been stolen by google and facebook.
The relationship between the tech industry and journalism should have been symbiotic, where journalists fed google and facebook, and google and facebook contributed to the costs of the work, but google and facebook decided on a purely parasitic relationship, where they suck the life's blood out of the news industry, and, in return, they keep all the money.
It's getting to the point where even good journalists have to debase themselves by producing clickbait, just to scrape a few pennies -- it is destroying the news industry, and destroying the ethics of the news industry.
Soon enough, there will be no decent journalists left, but google and facebook won't care; they can just pay a few cheap hacks to make sh1t up, and they'll be perfectly happy with the moral and financial destruction they've caused, as long as they still get paid to dump ads on the same pages as the garbage.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: . . because so much of the money that should have flowed into the industry has been stolen by google and facebook.
Not that I have any love for Google or Facebook, but how was the stolen? If there were no Google or Facebook, the journalists would have had their stories shown once, probably just locally, with no, or almost no, additional monies coming in for any particular story.
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GenJerDan wrote: but how was the stolen?
You're missing the point. Google is a big company and therefore bad.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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GenJerDan wrote: If there were no Google or Facebook, the journalists would have had their stories shown once, probably just locally, with no, or almost no, additional monies coming in for any particular story.
Yes, that's why so many news outlets that were thriving have been going out of business more and more since google and facebook started stealing all the revenues that previously went to the news outlets.
So many journalists are now out of work because half the money to pay for them is being stolen -- or do you honestly believe that massive unemployment and ever-lowering salaries in the industry are because google and facebook are pouring so much money into the industry?
With the Internet, news is bigger than it has ever been, and record amounts of money are being raked in for news -- but somehow there is not enough money to even maintain the size of workforce that was in place twenty years ago.
But I suppose you think that these stupid journalists don't realise how good they've got it -- I mean, google and facebook make their stories available for them, and all they demand is most of the money for doing so.
At least the few of them that are left can almost afford to feed their children.
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"News" never made any money. Television stations hated having to provide it, but it was included in the "contract" they had, to be allowed to broadcast. Public service, and all that.
Newspapers were dying for a long time before the internet. People don't like to read them these days, except maybe on Sunday, and that "these days" long precedes the internet, too.
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Apparently that news report is fiction. The dollar figure was derived from a made up valuation of the Google news search division in 2008. In other words, it wasn't a "study" at all, but some quick projections based on a valuation, not earnings.
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A group at the University of Massachusetts Amherst set out to assess the energy consumption that is needed to train four large neural networks. What if my machine-learning is a hybrid?
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So a green AI will end up being too green?
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