MS Marketing budget in 2018 = 1.6 Billion
Canonical total income for 2017 was 130 million at a $500k loss so the total they spent at all was 130.5 million and that includes headcount
Linux will be on the desktops when a company can spend 1.6 billion telling people it should be...
You mean having few children (one) means your parents can provide a safety net with more income and you can get out of poverty?
Something must be wrong with that...
That teachers were in the top wage earners at over 80 paid days off a year...
Oh wait...
In all the tech companies I have interviewed for they offered 15 paid days a year minimum.
In the various retail jobs I worked at they had maybe 5
Mostly it comes down to, when you work by the hour, companies can pay you... by the hour, once you move to a salaried position vacation gets factored into that pay.
For the corporations... to limit their liability for "going rogue" that can be, security breach, malfunction and the like.
It makes perfect sense for manufactures to want to make sure they are not liable for any damages. Doesn't make sense for the consumer who will be stuck with the bill, as inevitably it will then be the responsibility of the current owner for any damages of a robot going the very fuzzy definition of going rouge.
Of course the other people that benefit greatly from this are lawyers since they will get paid the big bucks to decide if what the robot did was in fact going rouge.
in short:
Winners:
Lawyers, manufactures, software companies
Losers:
Consumers ... it seems inevitable they will be granted person-hood, and consumers will have to take out robot insurance.
For inexpensive or necessary things there are price tags. No one wants to haggle over the 5c gum.
However, once the price goes up.. or it is a leisure item haggling is back on the radar, or dynamic pricing
That includes:
Travel (Airfare, cruises, hotels)
Cars (fixed price hahahahhaha)
Houses (never saw a price tag affixed to a house)
Jewelry (not at Target)
Appliances
and the list goes on... clearly the NPR person just has someone else do the shopping for them... or believes that appliances have price tags
I guess that is the irony that the price tag was introduced to even the field, and now is used to separate the suckers from the hagglers.
They have a whole range of them from the low end to the really high end depending on what your fitness is
(running, swimming, biking, competitive biking...)
I use the 230 and yes having a phone track is ok, but when you are doing a 10 mile run it is nice to see who is trying to call you, or txt you or email you so you can respond.
if you are doing sprints, or 17 min 5k you will not want to take a bulky phone with you.
Yugo were in production for over 40 years, they had to stop briefly because NATO bombed their manufacturing plant, however, that did not stop them (despite an obvious sign from God).
That is a high level of longevity for a vehicle that you could replace most of the parts with tinfoil and duct tape.
It has even won an award in Car Talk magazine (ok granted it was worst car of the century)
Only a very limited viewpoint would consider it flop
Although mentioned in passing that Lego is a private company, that very fact is what has kept them around for so long. The customers of Lego are the actual people that buy the products and services, not the boardroom. This has given them far more flexibility then quarterly earning reports would.
Clearly the TSA feels they need new laptops at home and no the Airline is not responsible when the TSA steal your stuff...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Bomb resistance and fire resistance are two separate things. There is not a concern that a small bomb in the current cargo hold design that will blow up a plane. However, a fire in one of the holds will damage lots of peoples bags and thus the airline will be on the hook
It is not so much of a falling out as someone else is paying the right people... this gem from the article itself..
"Ford has reportedly invested $1 billion in a Pittsburgh-based self-driving car startup, which could meet more of the city's need for written agreements and data sharing"
I wonder if that came with... try to kick uber out instructions;)
That is incorrect... Most airlines will rebook you without a fee if you had some issue on the way to the airport (you still need to arrive to the airport), if you don't show up at all and call them they might be less forgiving, even then.
Non-refundable means very different things in different countries. In the USA it most of the time it means you will not get cash, but it can be used as credit on another flight (minus a change fee).
It really comes down to what do you do? P50 can have 64 gig of ECC memory, an Intel Xeon processor. the GPU is the NVIDIA Quadro M2000M
Very important if you need to do large file video edits on airplanes or on the road to remote locations.
It has room for 3 HD 2x SDDs PCIe NVMe -- not soldered into the board, and 1 standard 2.5 inch (put in a 4TB disk if needed)
This will run you $3000 all in all and it is not the lightest laptop. If you light is more important there is the P50s lighter but not as powerful.
Of people with no math skills... or ability to save.
You can get amazon prime, free shipping, discounts AND streaming for $8.25/month.... with one lump sum or pay significantly more by paying per month of a low rate of 10.99....
But 10.99 is less then 99.00 so it is such a great deal:)
I read the article looking for some form of redemption but found none...
I will summarize for you so you can save your self.
Guy who feels he knows better then everyone went on a rant since he didn't like the "others" dirtying his beloved place with their presence without ever interacting with them. Most people were outraged his name went through the mud and he was shunned for his views. He then decided it was time to show he knew better then everyone and failed totally and completely and befriends a token homeless guy.
Now he is back at work someplace irrelevant, yet still has done nothing to show he learned to respect their plight and ends with how everyone else is wrong (ie the people he (*&^%$^ elected to run the place) he is right if only people would listen.... sounds like the same guy to me, I was looking for something he did that worked, something he did that made a difference and found just a fluff piece.
I can see the unintended consequence
IRS
They better be current on all their reporting to the IRS before making any claims for or against anyone. Day labors tend to not be so vigilant in this area
I suspect what is starting to happen is COX is starting to realize that before it was fairly passive, all they had to do was hand over info. However, with TIPP and other programs being pushed through it will cost them actual dollars to police for the entertainment industry, payments that can not be so easy to extract from users. They want to now make sure that burden is placed on the entertainment industry and not themselves.
There is no altruistic goal here, just who has to pay.
If only it was this simple and true.
I would suggest you read a little of American history.
At the peak of the Railroad boom there were 187 different rail companies each running their own lines (comparisons to Telco today is quite similar). This did a few things:/n
1) barrier to entry was very high/n
2) many companies couldn't keep up and largerr/n companies could sweep in and buy the rails and right of way on the cheep (Ie a little fraud going on.. just like Telcos today. Start a "new" company get a whole bunch of suckers to invest, build out, go bust and then sell it to your real company on the cheep)/n/n
in Baltimore for example they HAD trains (Street cars) that went all over, and where highly efficient bringing people from outside the city and into the city. It was all torn up, disposed of and removed to make way for Oil... (as in rubber tires) there are no more street cars instead lots of cars and no decent transit system./n
However, the USA DID invest in highways and roads, go to other countries (such as your perfect example of Russia) and you can see the huge difference in road quality. Instead of trains the USA built roads and continues to fund them, perfect example of that in my state of Maryland is the ICC it cost 4 billion to build and did nothing to help with traffic or congestion, what it did manage to do is jack up all tolls in the sate to pay for a road no one needed. If instead they built a train to connect BWI --> Wheaton --> Sandy Spring Metro that would have been a massive boon to commuters to not use 495. The cost would have been the same. (since it would have been the same corridor the ICC used)
So clearly they did not feel spending 4 billion for the "public good" was a waste they just spent it on a project that was not good for that many of the public.
This is a mixed bag, on the one hand you need some form of regulation for safety and responsibility. On the other hand taxi cabs don't effectively serve many areas with no real incentive to change (For example mine... if I want a traditional cab company to pick me up I need to call the day before, and pray that they show up on time... if they show up 15 min late oh well.. If I am 5 min late I get charged per min)
Some of the laws are protectionist to keep others from offering the same service but better. Others are to protect consumers. When there are bad laws on the books that are profiting the people representing us they are almost impossible to remove without a serious shakeup of the industry and massive consumer awareness that it doesn't have to be this way.
Seriously ask yourself, before Uber did you even know how much the price of medallion was? Did you even know what the relevant laws were? Since there was no other option we just accepted it. Yes people complained and small fixes were done like flat rate to airports from major cities and the like, but no serious major look at the system. Now people are aware, and uber (and others) is getting the voters geared up to change. Traditional taxi cab companies are not happy and will use all of their power to fight the change in major cities since it means a significant cut into their profits. In smaller areas the smart thing to do is for the taxi companies to work with Uber (or another) and find a way to team up (As uber grows that will be a more likely outcome) so that everyone benefits in a new system.
Yes the pass the taxes along to the consumers... in a market where most stores has to charge taxes for one reason or another, to have a store that doesn't creates unfair competition.
The law needs to be changed one way or the other but a change is needed.
This is also the labor issue and many other ones that come to light with global presence
Yes and no: You could be considered an accessory to the crime. You would have to:
1) Divulge the person responsible
2) Have the court fail to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that when lending your keys to the person you were not aware of the consequences
3) you would still be on the hook for the insurance for civil damages
Now onto Red light and Speeding cameras, the tickets issues are parking tickets, just like the car can get a ticket for being parked in an illegal sport and the owner of the car is responsible (unless they rat out the responsible party) the same is true with speeding cameras. What that means is that if you drive your car cross country you are free to speed and run red lights all you want since other states have no way to collect (Doesn't apply to rental cars)... unless you get pulled over and then you will have
to pay up.
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MS Marketing budget in 2018 = 1.6 Billion ...
Canonical total income for 2017 was 130 million at a $500k loss so the total they spent at all was 130.5 million and that includes headcount
Linux will be on the desktops when a company can spend 1.6 billion telling people it should be
You mean having few children (one) means your parents can provide a safety net with more income and you can get out of poverty? Something must be wrong with that ...
That teachers were in the top wage earners at over 80 paid days off a year ... ... ... by the hour, once you move to a salaried position vacation gets factored into that pay.
Oh wait
In all the tech companies I have interviewed for they offered 15 paid days a year minimum.
In the various retail jobs I worked at they had maybe 5
Mostly it comes down to, when you work by the hour, companies can pay you
For the corporations ... to limit their liability for "going rogue" that can be, security breach, malfunction and the like.
... it seems inevitable they will be granted person-hood, and consumers will have to take out robot insurance.
It makes perfect sense for manufactures to want to make sure they are not liable for any damages. Doesn't make sense for the consumer who will be stuck with the bill, as inevitably it will then be the responsibility of the current owner for any damages of a robot going the very fuzzy definition of going rouge.
Of course the other people that benefit greatly from this are lawyers since they will get paid the big bucks to decide if what the robot did was in fact going rouge.
in short:
Winners:
Lawyers, manufactures, software companies Losers:
Consumers
For inexpensive or necessary things there are price tags. No one wants to haggle over the 5c gum. .. or it is a leisure item haggling is back on the radar, or dynamic pricing ... clearly the NPR person just has someone else do the shopping for them ... or believes that appliances have price tags
However, once the price goes up
That includes:
Travel (Airfare, cruises, hotels)
Cars (fixed price hahahahhaha)
Houses (never saw a price tag affixed to a house)
Jewelry (not at Target)
Appliances
and the list goes on
I guess that is the irony that the price tag was introduced to even the field, and now is used to separate the suckers from the hagglers.
They have a whole range of them from the low end to the really high end depending on what your fitness is (running, swimming, biking, competitive biking ...)
I use the 230 and yes having a phone track is ok, but when you are doing a 10 mile run it is nice to see who is trying to call you, or txt you or email you so you can respond.
if you are doing sprints, or 17 min 5k you will not want to take a bulky phone with you.
Use Notepad++ and just convert all the Tabs to 4 spaces so they get paid more and work less ...
Yugo were in production for over 40 years, they had to stop briefly because NATO bombed their manufacturing plant, however, that did not stop them (despite an obvious sign from God).
That is a high level of longevity for a vehicle that you could replace most of the parts with tinfoil and duct tape.
It has even won an award in Car Talk magazine (ok granted it was worst car of the century)
Only a very limited viewpoint would consider it flop
Although mentioned in passing that Lego is a private company, that very fact is what has kept them around for so long. The customers of Lego are the actual people that buy the products and services, not the boardroom. This has given them far more flexibility then quarterly earning reports would.
Clearly the TSA feels they need new laptops at home and no the Airline is not responsible when the TSA steal your stuff ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Bomb resistance and fire resistance are two separate things. There is not a concern that a small bomb in the current cargo hold design that will blow up a plane. However, a fire in one of the holds will damage lots of peoples bags and thus the airline will be on the hook
It is not so much of a falling out as someone else is paying the right people ... this gem from the article itself ..
... try to kick uber out instructions ;)
"Ford has reportedly invested $1 billion in a Pittsburgh-based self-driving car startup, which could meet more of the city's need for written agreements and data sharing"
I wonder if that came with
That is incorrect ... Most airlines will rebook you without a fee if you had some issue on the way to the airport (you still need to arrive to the airport), if you don't show up at all and call them they might be less forgiving, even then.
Non-refundable means very different things in different countries. In the USA it most of the time it means you will not get cash, but it can be used as credit on another flight (minus a change fee).
Based on the title I think we know exactly who is behind this Malware don't have to look farther then MPAA for the funding of this program.
It really comes down to what do you do? P50 can have 64 gig of ECC memory, an Intel Xeon processor. the GPU is the NVIDIA Quadro M2000M Very important if you need to do large file video edits on airplanes or on the road to remote locations.
It has room for 3 HD 2x SDDs PCIe NVMe -- not soldered into the board, and 1 standard 2.5 inch (put in a 4TB disk if needed)
This will run you $3000 all in all and it is not the lightest laptop. If you light is more important there is the P50s lighter but not as powerful.
Of people with no math skills ... or ability to save. .... with one lump sum or pay significantly more by paying per month of a low rate of 10.99 .... :)
You can get amazon prime, free shipping, discounts AND streaming for $8.25/month
But 10.99 is less then 99.00 so it is such a great deal
I read the article looking for some form of redemption but found none ...
I will summarize for you so you can save your self.
Guy who feels he knows better then everyone went on a rant since he didn't like the "others" dirtying his beloved place with their presence without ever interacting with them. Most people were outraged his name went through the mud and he was shunned for his views. He then decided it was time to show he knew better then everyone and failed totally and completely and befriends a token homeless guy. Now he is back at work someplace irrelevant, yet still has done nothing to show he learned to respect their plight and ends with how everyone else is wrong (ie the people he (*&^%$^ elected to run the place) he is right if only people would listen.... sounds like the same guy to me, I was looking for something he did that worked, something he did that made a difference and found just a fluff piece.
I can see the unintended consequence
IRS
They better be current on all their reporting to the IRS before making any claims for or against anyone. Day labors tend to not be so vigilant in this area
I suspect what is starting to happen is COX is starting to realize that before it was fairly passive, all they had to do was hand over info. However, with TIPP and other programs being pushed through it will cost them actual dollars to police for the entertainment industry, payments that can not be so easy to extract from users. They want to now make sure that burden is placed on the entertainment industry and not themselves. There is no altruistic goal here, just who has to pay.
If only it was this simple and true. I would suggest you read a little of American history. At the peak of the Railroad boom there were 187 different rail companies each running their own lines (comparisons to Telco today is quite similar). This did a few things: /n
1) barrier to entry was very high /n
2) many companies couldn't keep up and largerr /n companies could sweep in and buy the rails and right of way on the cheep (Ie a little fraud going on .. just like Telcos today. Start a "new" company get a whole bunch of suckers to invest, build out, go bust and then sell it to your real company on the cheep) /n /n
in Baltimore for example they HAD trains (Street cars) that went all over, and where highly efficient bringing people from outside the city and into the city. It was all torn up, disposed of and removed to make way for Oil ... (as in rubber tires) there are no more street cars instead lots of cars and no decent transit system. /n
However, the USA DID invest in highways and roads, go to other countries (such as your perfect example of Russia) and you can see the huge difference in road quality. Instead of trains the USA built roads and continues to fund them, perfect example of that in my state of Maryland is the ICC it cost 4 billion to build and did nothing to help with traffic or congestion, what it did manage to do is jack up all tolls in the sate to pay for a road no one needed. If instead they built a train to connect BWI --> Wheaton --> Sandy Spring Metro that would have been a massive boon to commuters to not use 495. The cost would have been the same. (since it would have been the same corridor the ICC used)
So clearly they did not feel spending 4 billion for the "public good" was a waste they just spent it on a project that was not good for that many of the public.
This is a mixed bag, on the one hand you need some form of regulation for safety and responsibility. On the other hand taxi cabs don't effectively serve many areas with no real incentive to change (For example mine ... if I want a traditional cab company to pick me up I need to call the day before, and pray that they show up on time ... if they show up 15 min late oh well .. If I am 5 min late I get charged per min)
Some of the laws are protectionist to keep others from offering the same service but better. Others are to protect consumers. When there are bad laws on the books that are profiting the people representing us they are almost impossible to remove without a serious shakeup of the industry and massive consumer awareness that it doesn't have to be this way.
Seriously ask yourself, before Uber did you even know how much the price of medallion was? Did you even know what the relevant laws were? Since there was no other option we just accepted it. Yes people complained and small fixes were done like flat rate to airports from major cities and the like, but no serious major look at the system. Now people are aware, and uber (and others) is getting the voters geared up to change. Traditional taxi cab companies are not happy and will use all of their power to fight the change in major cities since it means a significant cut into their profits. In smaller areas the smart thing to do is for the taxi companies to work with Uber (or another) and find a way to team up (As uber grows that will be a more likely outcome) so that everyone benefits in a new system.
I introduced my son (15) to Zork and the Enchanter series this year ... he finished them all with no game guides ;)
Yes the pass the taxes along to the consumers ... in a market where most stores has to charge taxes for one reason or another, to have a store that doesn't creates unfair competition.
The law needs to be changed one way or the other but a change is needed.
This is also the labor issue and many other ones that come to light with global presence
$1000 that is way too generous ... they will each get a $50 gift card for Apple products ...
Yes and no: You could be considered an accessory to the crime. You would have to:
... unless you get pulled over and then you will have
to pay up.
1) Divulge the person responsible
2) Have the court fail to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that when lending your keys to the person you were not aware of the consequences
3) you would still be on the hook for the insurance for civil damages
Now onto Red light and Speeding cameras, the tickets issues are parking tickets, just like the car can get a ticket for being parked in an illegal sport and the owner of the car is responsible (unless they rat out the responsible party) the same is true with speeding cameras. What that means is that if you drive your car cross country you are free to speed and run red lights all you want since other states have no way to collect (Doesn't apply to rental cars)