That was exactly my thinking as well. Especially, if you combine such efforts with some children perhaps needing more fatty acids in their diets than others.
There have been recent studies that seem to identify the actual cause. There were several recent reports that suggest a connection between essential fatty acids and autism. In particular, the studies suggest that autism is the result of either a nutritional deficiency when it comes to essential fatty acids or a failure of the body to properly metabolize essential fatty acids. Initial studies have shown a marked improvement in symptons of autism from giving autistic children supplements of essential fatty acids. This is the first line of research suggesting a cause of autism that makes sense to me.
When you consider our society's recent fad toward low fat diets, if a deficiency of fatty acids is the cause of autism, it would explain the increase in autism recently (although some of that increase can also be explained by the increased range of symptoms being diagnosed as autistic). This would be especially true if autism is caused by a failure of the body to properly metabolize fatty acids. A diet that might be perfectly fine for one child, may cause problems in another child that does not process fatty acids as efficiently.
That used to happen in the U.S. until some "genius" had the bright idea of making recycling mandatory. Now we pay someone to collect recycling and recycling has started to consume more energy and resources than it saves.
That's not true, while the 4th amendment only prevents the government from doing it, every state in the union has its own wiretap law on the books which bars this sort of covert surveillance.
No, it is true. While, depending on state law, it could conceivably be a crime to have captured the data, it is not a violation of the 4th Amendment, nor is sharing it with the police a crime (at least, I am unaware of any states that have laws that would make it a crime to share it with the police). Further, while it may be possible to construe the laws of some states to make this a crime, receiving stolen property is explicitly a crime in every state. Generally, all they have to do to secure a conviction is prove that the item was stolen and that you should have known that from the circumstances under which you purchased it.
Well, the reason that Apple gets a "pass" on DRM is because the overwhelming majority of people on here who oppose DRM don't even consider an Apple product because of the cult-like nature that Apple has promulgated for years.
The preventable flooding of the Mississipi was a bigger deal than this storm and should have been a bigger story. The Mississipi floods this spring/summer were more significant than this storm and the government could have prevented them. The Army Corps of Engineers was tasked with flood control, yet they failed to release a sufficient amount of water from the upstream dams to allow them to control the runoff from the unusually heavy snowfall last winter. Several regional managers for the Army Corps of Engineers reported to the decision maker that they had extremely heavy snow in their region and that if something was not done there would be bad flooding when the spring snow melt came. The decision maker chose to follow the "book" on what water levels should be in the various dams rather than release extra water so as to make room for the snow melt. If the person responsible had listened to the regional managers, the flooding would have been significantly reduced (or perhaps even prevented), yet there was very little news coverage of this fact.
I don't need a touch screen, give me a keyboard. At sub $200 price points, the performance does not need to be impressive. It sounds like you work for a company that would buy these at what you listed as the wholesale price and then sell them to retailers. If that is correct, it explains part of the problem. There are too many people who need a cut in the supply chain from manufacturer to end-user. If that is not correct, wholesaling an item for $80 leaves plenty of room for the retailer to make money at a sub $200 price (on the other hand, there is no way a retailer can afford to pay $160 and sell for $200 in the long run).
If I was in your position, I would be looking for something I could make enough to cover my costs and sell for $200 (or less). Put it out there, set expectations low and not upgrade any of the components (except when the upgrade is actually cheaper than what was originally used) until the cost of manufacturing drops below the point where I make my target margin on selling the device for $100. When that happens introduce a new model with upgrades at the $200 price point while continuing to sell the original model for $100.
The difference is that when IBM was a hardware company people bought their hardware for the software and services that came with it. In its heyday as a hardware vendor, the type of software and services that it sold were thought of as part of the hardware. It made the switch from a primarily hardware company to a software and services company when it realized that all of its hardware competitors had gone out of business and all of the companies that it was competing with for business were software and service companies. HP does not, as far as I am aware, have a reputation for business software and services. I am aware that they own EDS, however, EDS has lost quite a bit of its luster under HP stewardship.
I was going to tell you that there was no longer a Supreme Court Corporate Five, but I see that Anthony Kennedy did indeed side with the "liberals" in Kelo V. New London where they decided that eminent domain allows the government to take private property for the purpose of giving it to a corporation. Everything I have heard about Sotomayer and Kagan lead me to believe that they would rule in favor of the corporations in a similar case. Just as everything I have heard (and in particular their rulings since they have been on the Court) suggest that Alito and Roberts would rule against them in that sort of case.
How did you get from tablespoons to gills? The difficulty comes in when you have to convert teaspoons to gallons. This of course points out why most people don't see a reason to convert. How often does to the average person need to convert teaspoons to gallons? It, also, explains why "progressives" want to convert, the metric system makes it easier for government functionaries to figure out how much material different companies of different sizes are using, thus (theoretically) making it easier for them to allocate resources.
Here is why it is a stupid idea. Under the current system, if I talk about scheduling a teleconference at a particular time for people in different timezones and someone says, "You realize it will be 10 PM at point A?" I know exactly how inconvenient it will be for the people at point A to be part of that teleconference. Under this system, the person would have to say, "You realize that to the people at point A, 3 PM is like 10 PM for us?" to convey the same information. Since we have computers, and usually schedule such meetings using email (or other electronic scheduling methods) isn't it simpler to just program those things to convert the times when we send a meeting invite (actually, I am pretty sure that MS Outlook already does this)?
The thing is this system does not actually solve the problem it is trying to address, 1 PM GMT is still too early to schedule a phone call with someone in California whether the people in California call that time 5 AM or 1 PM.
Wow, you are right, that is an even stupider idea than doing away with timezones!. Not only would the length of an hour vary from day to day, but an hour between sunset and sunrise would be a different length than an hour between sunrise and sunset.
You miss the fact that it is easier to convert 1/2 ounce to 1 1/2 ounces than it is to convert 14 grams to 42 grams when you want to triple the recipe. Which is the point the poster you replied to was making. English Units are better for things like cooking because they were created for that sort of use. The area where they start to lose out is when you need to convert from one to another, say teaspoons to tablespoons to ounces to cups to quarts to gallons. However, if all you need to do is work within the scale of that particular unit (which is generally the case when cooking), they are more natural to use.
I am confused as to what this has to do with the Test Ban Treaty. The primary argument against the Test Ban Treaty is that it does not allow for the testing of new designs of nuclear weapons. It, also, does not allow for the testing of existing stockpiles to see if they are still functional.
It has been U.S. policy from the beginning to maintain a nuclear stockpile that can function as a deterrent against the use of nuclear weapons by any and all others that have them. If the U.S. does not know whether or not their weapons are functional, why would anyone believe that they have the means to retaliate?
I agree. I am very disappointed in the manufacturers who did not understand (or chose to not understand) what the market for netbooks was. The market for netbooks was (and is) for an inexpensive portable computing device. The funny thing is that until the first netbook came out, the PC manufacturers had been tryign to develop a market for "ultra portable mobile computers" that would sell at a premium over the price of other laptops. They couldn't figure out why that market never took off. Then netbooks came out and were all the buzz. The buzz was because of the price, not because of the form factor (although the form factor played a role as well). I still think there is a fairly large market for a computing device with a 7-9 inch screen that will access the internet and sells for less than $200.
Well, that "ignorance" comes from having worked in retail. I have never had a laptop that suffered damage that would have justified the price of an extended warranty. Not only that, none of the people I have known personally has had a problem that would have justified the cost of an extended warranty.
I was assuming the recruitment would be of those raised Amish who decided not to join the Amish. I gave the OP the benefit of the doubt guessing that he was aware that practicing Amish would not serve in this capacity. Unfortunately for his idea, it is unlikely that any Amish youth who chose not to join the Amish Church would not have a Facebook profile.
As a born, raised and practicing Mennonite, I am quite familiar with the tenets of the Mennonite Church (and its current shortcomings in living up to those tenets).
Acutally, the idea that guns are a big no-no is part of the twisting of traditional Mennonite tenets. Mennonites have traditionally owned guns for hunting and the control of wild life that interferes with farming/vegetable gardens. It is funny, but my experience is that those congregations that have the largest percentage of "guns are a no-no" attitude are, also, those that have the least problem with members serving in the police, or other gun carrying authority positions.
Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the Amish start getting recruitment drives for this sort of work.
The problem with that is that Amish teens are encouraged (well, not quite, but pretty close to) to go out and explore the world of the "English" before they join the Church. I would not be surprised if the percentage of Amish youth with Facebook profiles is even higher than that of the general public.
You know when netbooks first came out, I thought the same thing would happen, prices would gradually fall. Except, they didn't, prices went up. Now I don't expect tablet prices to go up, but I suspect they are going to stay at the current price for a while. I hope I am wrong. A tablet for between $100-$200 would be cool, of course, a netbook in that price range would be cool too. At the current prices, I am not interested.
Disclaimer: I'm an Apple shareholder and I want you to fall in love with Apple products so I can retire earlier.
No, you want someone else to think that Apple stock are cool so that you can sell your stocks, since you don't make a dime off of owning Apple stocks. You can only make money on Apple stocks by selling them. If I invest in a company, I want a share of the profits, Apple shareholders don't get that.
That's because the manufacturers of netbooks did not want to stay in the true netbook market. They wanted the margins of laptops, so they upsized netbooks to a point where they could charge prices similar to those of regular notebooks. Basically, netbook makers started making "netbooks" as slightly smaller, slightly cheaper notebooks. I think there is still a market for netbooks in the sub 10" range that sell for sub $200 prices. The thing is if you go that way, you have to compete primarily on price which means you will have a wafer thin margin.
Of course, your friend will probably never buy from them again. At least that would be my response to that sort of warranty coverage. Of course, if I had three separate problems with a laptop within the warranty period, I probably wouldn't be buying from that vendor again, no matter how well the warranty service treated me.
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That was exactly my thinking as well. Especially, if you combine such efforts with some children perhaps needing more fatty acids in their diets than others.
There have been recent studies that seem to identify the actual cause. There were several recent reports that suggest a connection between essential fatty acids and autism. In particular, the studies suggest that autism is the result of either a nutritional deficiency when it comes to essential fatty acids or a failure of the body to properly metabolize essential fatty acids. Initial studies have shown a marked improvement in symptons of autism from giving autistic children supplements of essential fatty acids. This is the first line of research suggesting a cause of autism that makes sense to me.
When you consider our society's recent fad toward low fat diets, if a deficiency of fatty acids is the cause of autism, it would explain the increase in autism recently (although some of that increase can also be explained by the increased range of symptoms being diagnosed as autistic). This would be especially true if autism is caused by a failure of the body to properly metabolize fatty acids. A diet that might be perfectly fine for one child, may cause problems in another child that does not process fatty acids as efficiently.
People need to learn that being wrong isn't something bad
No, people need to learn that having been wrong isn't something bad, but that being wrong can be.
That used to happen in the U.S. until some "genius" had the bright idea of making recycling mandatory. Now we pay someone to collect recycling and recycling has started to consume more energy and resources than it saves.
That's not true, while the 4th amendment only prevents the government from doing it, every state in the union has its own wiretap law on the books which bars this sort of covert surveillance.
No, it is true. While, depending on state law, it could conceivably be a crime to have captured the data, it is not a violation of the 4th Amendment, nor is sharing it with the police a crime (at least, I am unaware of any states that have laws that would make it a crime to share it with the police). Further, while it may be possible to construe the laws of some states to make this a crime, receiving stolen property is explicitly a crime in every state. Generally, all they have to do to secure a conviction is prove that the item was stolen and that you should have known that from the circumstances under which you purchased it.
Well, the reason that Apple gets a "pass" on DRM is because the overwhelming majority of people on here who oppose DRM don't even consider an Apple product because of the cult-like nature that Apple has promulgated for years.
The preventable flooding of the Mississipi was a bigger deal than this storm and should have been a bigger story. The Mississipi floods this spring/summer were more significant than this storm and the government could have prevented them. The Army Corps of Engineers was tasked with flood control, yet they failed to release a sufficient amount of water from the upstream dams to allow them to control the runoff from the unusually heavy snowfall last winter. Several regional managers for the Army Corps of Engineers reported to the decision maker that they had extremely heavy snow in their region and that if something was not done there would be bad flooding when the spring snow melt came. The decision maker chose to follow the "book" on what water levels should be in the various dams rather than release extra water so as to make room for the snow melt. If the person responsible had listened to the regional managers, the flooding would have been significantly reduced (or perhaps even prevented), yet there was very little news coverage of this fact.
I don't need a touch screen, give me a keyboard. At sub $200 price points, the performance does not need to be impressive. It sounds like you work for a company that would buy these at what you listed as the wholesale price and then sell them to retailers. If that is correct, it explains part of the problem. There are too many people who need a cut in the supply chain from manufacturer to end-user. If that is not correct, wholesaling an item for $80 leaves plenty of room for the retailer to make money at a sub $200 price (on the other hand, there is no way a retailer can afford to pay $160 and sell for $200 in the long run).
If I was in your position, I would be looking for something I could make enough to cover my costs and sell for $200 (or less). Put it out there, set expectations low and not upgrade any of the components (except when the upgrade is actually cheaper than what was originally used) until the cost of manufacturing drops below the point where I make my target margin on selling the device for $100. When that happens introduce a new model with upgrades at the $200 price point while continuing to sell the original model for $100.
The difference is that when IBM was a hardware company people bought their hardware for the software and services that came with it. In its heyday as a hardware vendor, the type of software and services that it sold were thought of as part of the hardware. It made the switch from a primarily hardware company to a software and services company when it realized that all of its hardware competitors had gone out of business and all of the companies that it was competing with for business were software and service companies. HP does not, as far as I am aware, have a reputation for business software and services. I am aware that they own EDS, however, EDS has lost quite a bit of its luster under HP stewardship.
I was going to tell you that there was no longer a Supreme Court Corporate Five, but I see that Anthony Kennedy did indeed side with the "liberals" in Kelo V. New London where they decided that eminent domain allows the government to take private property for the purpose of giving it to a corporation. Everything I have heard about Sotomayer and Kagan lead me to believe that they would rule in favor of the corporations in a similar case. Just as everything I have heard (and in particular their rulings since they have been on the Court) suggest that Alito and Roberts would rule against them in that sort of case.
Ok, then it is easier to convert 1/2 oz to 4 oz when you multiply a recipe by 8 then it is to convert 15 g to 120 g.
How did you get from tablespoons to gills? The difficulty comes in when you have to convert teaspoons to gallons. This of course points out why most people don't see a reason to convert. How often does to the average person need to convert teaspoons to gallons? It, also, explains why "progressives" want to convert, the metric system makes it easier for government functionaries to figure out how much material different companies of different sizes are using, thus (theoretically) making it easier for them to allocate resources.
Here is why it is a stupid idea. Under the current system, if I talk about scheduling a teleconference at a particular time for people in different timezones and someone says, "You realize it will be 10 PM at point A?" I know exactly how inconvenient it will be for the people at point A to be part of that teleconference. Under this system, the person would have to say, "You realize that to the people at point A, 3 PM is like 10 PM for us?" to convey the same information. Since we have computers, and usually schedule such meetings using email (or other electronic scheduling methods) isn't it simpler to just program those things to convert the times when we send a meeting invite (actually, I am pretty sure that MS Outlook already does this)?
The thing is this system does not actually solve the problem it is trying to address, 1 PM GMT is still too early to schedule a phone call with someone in California whether the people in California call that time 5 AM or 1 PM.
Wow, you are right, that is an even stupider idea than doing away with timezones!. Not only would the length of an hour vary from day to day, but an hour between sunset and sunrise would be a different length than an hour between sunrise and sunset.
You miss the fact that it is easier to convert 1/2 ounce to 1 1/2 ounces than it is to convert 14 grams to 42 grams when you want to triple the recipe. Which is the point the poster you replied to was making. English Units are better for things like cooking because they were created for that sort of use. The area where they start to lose out is when you need to convert from one to another, say teaspoons to tablespoons to ounces to cups to quarts to gallons. However, if all you need to do is work within the scale of that particular unit (which is generally the case when cooking), they are more natural to use.
I am confused as to what this has to do with the Test Ban Treaty. The primary argument against the Test Ban Treaty is that it does not allow for the testing of new designs of nuclear weapons. It, also, does not allow for the testing of existing stockpiles to see if they are still functional.
It has been U.S. policy from the beginning to maintain a nuclear stockpile that can function as a deterrent against the use of nuclear weapons by any and all others that have them. If the U.S. does not know whether or not their weapons are functional, why would anyone believe that they have the means to retaliate?
I agree. I am very disappointed in the manufacturers who did not understand (or chose to not understand) what the market for netbooks was. The market for netbooks was (and is) for an inexpensive portable computing device. The funny thing is that until the first netbook came out, the PC manufacturers had been tryign to develop a market for "ultra portable mobile computers" that would sell at a premium over the price of other laptops. They couldn't figure out why that market never took off. Then netbooks came out and were all the buzz. The buzz was because of the price, not because of the form factor (although the form factor played a role as well). I still think there is a fairly large market for a computing device with a 7-9 inch screen that will access the internet and sells for less than $200.
Well, that "ignorance" comes from having worked in retail. I have never had a laptop that suffered damage that would have justified the price of an extended warranty. Not only that, none of the people I have known personally has had a problem that would have justified the cost of an extended warranty.
I was assuming the recruitment would be of those raised Amish who decided not to join the Amish. I gave the OP the benefit of the doubt guessing that he was aware that practicing Amish would not serve in this capacity. Unfortunately for his idea, it is unlikely that any Amish youth who chose not to join the Amish Church would not have a Facebook profile.
As a born, raised and practicing Mennonite, I am quite familiar with the tenets of the Mennonite Church (and its current shortcomings in living up to those tenets).
Acutally, the idea that guns are a big no-no is part of the twisting of traditional Mennonite tenets. Mennonites have traditionally owned guns for hunting and the control of wild life that interferes with farming/vegetable gardens. It is funny, but my experience is that those congregations that have the largest percentage of "guns are a no-no" attitude are, also, those that have the least problem with members serving in the police, or other gun carrying authority positions.
Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the Amish start getting recruitment drives for this sort of work.
The problem with that is that Amish teens are encouraged (well, not quite, but pretty close to) to go out and explore the world of the "English" before they join the Church. I would not be surprised if the percentage of Amish youth with Facebook profiles is even higher than that of the general public.
You know when netbooks first came out, I thought the same thing would happen, prices would gradually fall. Except, they didn't, prices went up. Now I don't expect tablet prices to go up, but I suspect they are going to stay at the current price for a while. I hope I am wrong. A tablet for between $100-$200 would be cool, of course, a netbook in that price range would be cool too. At the current prices, I am not interested.
Disclaimer: I'm an Apple shareholder and I want you to fall in love with Apple products so I can retire earlier.
No, you want someone else to think that Apple stock are cool so that you can sell your stocks, since you don't make a dime off of owning Apple stocks. You can only make money on Apple stocks by selling them. If I invest in a company, I want a share of the profits, Apple shareholders don't get that.
That's because the manufacturers of netbooks did not want to stay in the true netbook market. They wanted the margins of laptops, so they upsized netbooks to a point where they could charge prices similar to those of regular notebooks. Basically, netbook makers started making "netbooks" as slightly smaller, slightly cheaper notebooks. I think there is still a market for netbooks in the sub 10" range that sell for sub $200 prices. The thing is if you go that way, you have to compete primarily on price which means you will have a wafer thin margin.
Buying the extended warranty is betting that you bought a bad product. If you think it is a bad product, why don't you buy something else.
Of course, your friend will probably never buy from them again. At least that would be my response to that sort of warranty coverage. Of course, if I had three separate problems with a laptop within the warranty period, I probably wouldn't be buying from that vendor again, no matter how well the warranty service treated me.