Google is a corporation, and as such is obligated by federal law to work in the interests of their shareholders and stakeholders accordingly to increase profit both quarterly and yearly in dividend and share-price form.
What federal law is that? Microsoft, famously, refused to pay any dividends for the longest time. Furthermore, shareholders are but one interested party in a corporation. Balancing that with community and workers rights is also part of the board of directors jobs.
Too many choices, is like too much money. It is a problem we should all be so lucky to have.
I don't see how.
Too many choices have a negative impact on happiness. Decision paralysis means that we have to intentionally downplay the effects of choice, through heurtistics and other mechanisms. Analysis of decisions can make unchosen options more attractive and chosen options less attractive.
Decisions aren't free. If Linux is your hobby, customizing it involves time... time that you want to spend. But if you're using your computer to getlaid, you want something that just works.
No, Google is proposing a set of web technologies (markup + JavaScript API) that will allow websites to advertise that they support certain actions, allow you to choose to install those websites as options to handle those actions, and then allow other websites to specify that they want one of those actions performed, at which point you will be presented by your browser with an opportunity to choose which of the sites you've installed as a handler for the action your browser should invoke to handle the action.
Copyright and patents are different issues with different ramifications.
And PageRank is protected by both. Seriously, Google filed for a patent on the basic PageRank concept (using links from other pages to determine rank, based on the rank of those pages). Implementation details are still protected both by copyright and as trade secrets of course.
With the 10.3% reserve in the US, you can have nearly a million dollars generated in loans from $100k in deposits
Well, let's state a 10% reserve, and simply state that 100k in initial deposits will eventually cause 1M to be loaned out. Further, for the sake of numbers, let's pretend both loan and savings interest rates are 0%.
To start with the bank owes 100k to people, and has 100k in cash. After the numerous cycles of the bank loaning money to someone, that person spending it, and the recipient depositing money back in the bank, the bank owes 1M to people, has 100k in cash and is owed 0.9M by other people (possibly some people both owe money and are owed money... they may have a mortgage and a checking account.) So, the bank expects that that 100k will allow them to pay anyone who wants cash relatively soon, and the payments on the loans will allow them to pay people in the future.
Note that the same effect can happen when people are willing to accept IOUs for money, just the bank essentially provides insurance (if one person cannot pay, the losses are spread throughout everyone, and the bank builds some expectation of deadbeatness into its interest rates), and liquidity (I can expect to withdraw any amount of money I want, so long as not too everyone wants all their money at once.)
Since I'm sure you have no objection to the cobbler giving me a pair of shoes for $10 next week, where in the amalgamation does the principle break down.
But here's an important rub. That 100k to 1M is determined by the reserve level. The legislation that introduced a "fractional reserve" was operating against a status quo... and in that status quo the "fractional reserve" was 0% (unlimited) not 100%.
Fractional reserve banking is pretty amazing when you dig into it.
Huh? I never understood why people were upset with banking, or why people always refer to the banking they dislike as "fractional reserve". If you think banks should loan money, and banks should take deposits (what I would consider the minimum for something to be defined as a bank) then all fractional reserve banking does is place restrictions upon that. And if you don't think that's a good idea, surely person A can loan money to person B. And person A can pay person C to figure out which applicant (B, B', B'') should get a load at what rate (given the likelihood of paying it back) and deal with all the paperwork on his behalf. Is the problem when person C offers insurance by selling pieces of loans to many people that you have a problem?
Now, you can state that those people C have been horribly negligent in their duties from like 2005-2009, and I would agree.
No, really, please tell me what is it that Apple innovated?
Well, multitouch screens... oh no, that was Microsoft. Maybe tablet PCs? Oh, no wait, the first one of those I saw ran Windows. Well they at least created a whole new OS a few years ba... damn.
You bought a new house right after it was built. A few years later you find out that you need to replace all the wiring because it is too old, since while the house was new, the wire used was made 50 years ago.
And in that case, of course I blame the wiring manufacturer, not the contractor that couldn't be bothered to use the (same cost) new wiring. Or maybe he used the wiring I demanded because I already knew how to use it and didn't want to figure out a fancy new circuit breaker. Actually, a circuit breaker panel is probably a better example because, while a pain, you can replace it without having to worry about screwing up the rest of the value of the house.
I'm glad you understand that labratory results always perfectly generalize to the real world.
I'm not saying for most people it's not a good idea, I'm saying for my house they don't work. It's probably because of the wiring/grid. Maybe it's something else. But I wasn't saying "no one should use it", I was saying "watch out for universal declarations". Much like, "Adults should drink a glass of red wine every day for their hearts" (not sure if that's still the recommendation) would be a bad idea to apply to alcoholics.
Under the typical operating environment for which they were intended to be used modern CFLs such as the common stock at a Home Depot last substantially longer than a few months
Applications for which they are designed must not include my outlets.
I seriously went through a box of six bulbs in one outlet in less than a year. They may work well for you, and that's great. They may work well in the average situation. But they don't in my outlets.
It's probably the fault of the electric company... but I can tell you I have enough to do in my life without having to troubleshoot fucking lightbulbs.
. I think they've shot themselves in the foot but without a great alternative they will probably get away with it.
Blockbuster? They have DVDs by mail either flat rate for all you want or some per-movie charge. I don't know about streaming. They claim that they have some deals to get new content from studios a month before Netflix too.
I have very low quality power in the neighborhood and in the house. I've lost a non-significant number of electronics to lightning storms...router, air conditioner, tv (although that was my fault... powered signal amplifier plugged unprotected into an outlet, frying the TV from its input.) I figure the traffic lights get reset 20+ times a year.
But these were either 1st or 2nd generation bulbs. Maybe I should try the new ones out.
Out of curiosity, ever have to use the equipment replacement guarantees for a surge protector? I theoretically have one that will cover everything I've plugged into it, but I always wondered if when push comes to shove, it was worth the big letters on the box.
. If you do a life cycle comparison between the power consumed by both bulbs, the resultant mercury released by coal fired power plants and the mercury dumped into the environment by the bulb itself you will find that the CFL still comes out far better than and common incandescent.
Incandecent bulbs in my house last for a long time. CFLs burn out in less than a few months. Care to redo your math?
But the bulbs are cheaper. Bulbs burn out fairly often in my house... to the point where, for one outlet, a compact florescent had to be changed 6 times in a year.
But, consider - do you throw yourself out of bed and transport yourself to a designated location at a designated time 5 days a week? This doesn't bother you? How about standing in line for 20 minutes just for the privilege of paying for some trivial thing? Or, giving 50 percent of your income away to a half a dozen taxing agencies who mostly do things with it that you don't care for or approve of?
No, no, no and no.
Life the way you're living it sounds like it sucks.
So I get it was not Jeff Koplow who developed it, but the Air Bearing Heat Exchanger did develop it. The Air Bearing Heat Exchanger in turn was developed by Jeff Koplow.
Well, technically, the pronoun used ("That" in the original and "it" in your rephrasing) would refer to the act of rotating the heat exchanger from the previous sentence (where said act was also referred to as "it") or the benefits obtained therefrom. Hence, Jeff Koplow developed the ABHE which developed the benefits of having a rotating heat exchanger.
It's weird. The labor cost of passing out the tiny snacks must exceed the cost of the tiny snacks.
The labor cost is free. Instead of doing nothing, the steward(ess) is passing out snacks. It's not like they'll hire more people to pass out snacks... but the FAA requires them to have so many people onboard already.
Now, if you don't get your 2nd snack b/c the steward(ess) is busy, then they don't give a damn.
Besides, every time you ask for a refill is another attempt to get you to buy an alcoholic beverage/meal/whatever other upcharge.
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What possible reason could you have not to finish switching to metric?
Manly American Football is played on a 100 yard field. Sissy Canadian Football is played on a 100 meter field. I refuse to see our beloved sports (e.g. Baseball is defined in yards as well) redefined, therefor causing old records to be irrelevant.
More realistically, I have no idea why base 10 is a great idea. Imperial has binary units (volume/mass) and base twelve units (hello 1/3!). Either standard seems better than base 10.
Now, if you said we need to make imperial conversions more uniform, I whole-heartedly agree. But I'd rather start doing all mathes in base 12 or 2 or 16 then switch units to base 10.
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What federal law is that? Microsoft, famously, refused to pay any dividends for the longest time. Furthermore, shareholders are but one interested party in a corporation. Balancing that with community and workers rights is also part of the board of directors jobs.
I don't see how.
Too many choices have a negative impact on happiness. Decision paralysis means that we have to intentionally downplay the effects of choice, through heurtistics and other mechanisms. Analysis of decisions can make unchosen options more attractive and chosen options less attractive.
Decisions aren't free. If Linux is your hobby, customizing it involves time... time that you want to spend. But if you're using your computer to get laid, you want something that just works.
So ActiveX then?
And PageRank is protected by both. Seriously, Google filed for a patent on the basic PageRank concept (using links from other pages to determine rank, based on the rank of those pages). Implementation details are still protected both by copyright and as trade secrets of course.
Well, let's state a 10% reserve, and simply state that 100k in initial deposits will eventually cause 1M to be loaned out. Further, for the sake of numbers, let's pretend both loan and savings interest rates are 0%.
To start with the bank owes 100k to people, and has 100k in cash. After the numerous cycles of the bank loaning money to someone, that person spending it, and the recipient depositing money back in the bank, the bank owes 1M to people, has 100k in cash and is owed 0.9M by other people (possibly some people both owe money and are owed money... they may have a mortgage and a checking account.) So, the bank expects that that 100k will allow them to pay anyone who wants cash relatively soon, and the payments on the loans will allow them to pay people in the future.
Note that the same effect can happen when people are willing to accept IOUs for money, just the bank essentially provides insurance (if one person cannot pay, the losses are spread throughout everyone, and the bank builds some expectation of deadbeatness into its interest rates), and liquidity (I can expect to withdraw any amount of money I want, so long as not too everyone wants all their money at once.)
Since I'm sure you have no objection to the cobbler giving me a pair of shoes for $10 next week, where in the amalgamation does the principle break down.
But here's an important rub. That 100k to 1M is determined by the reserve level. The legislation that introduced a "fractional reserve" was operating against a status quo... and in that status quo the "fractional reserve" was 0% (unlimited) not 100%.
It's been back for years (literal years, not hyperbole) now. At least 2.6ish.
Huh? I never understood why people were upset with banking, or why people always refer to the banking they dislike as "fractional reserve". If you think banks should loan money, and banks should take deposits (what I would consider the minimum for something to be defined as a bank) then all fractional reserve banking does is place restrictions upon that. And if you don't think that's a good idea, surely person A can loan money to person B. And person A can pay person C to figure out which applicant (B, B', B'') should get a load at what rate (given the likelihood of paying it back) and deal with all the paperwork on his behalf. Is the problem when person C offers insurance by selling pieces of loans to many people that you have a problem?
Now, you can state that those people C have been horribly negligent in their duties from like 2005-2009, and I would agree.
No, I meant multitouch capacitance touchscreens. You know, what phones use.
*cough* Newton *cough*
Also, my windows smartphone from 2006 would like to chime in as well.
Well, multitouch screens... oh no, that was Microsoft. Maybe tablet PCs? Oh, no wait, the first one of those I saw ran Windows. Well they at least created a whole new OS a few years ba... damn.
And in that case, of course I blame the wiring manufacturer, not the contractor that couldn't be bothered to use the (same cost) new wiring. Or maybe he used the wiring I demanded because I already knew how to use it and didn't want to figure out a fancy new circuit breaker. Actually, a circuit breaker panel is probably a better example because, while a pain, you can replace it without having to worry about screwing up the rest of the value of the house.
I'm glad you understand that labratory results always perfectly generalize to the real world.
I'm not saying for most people it's not a good idea, I'm saying for my house they don't work. It's probably because of the wiring/grid. Maybe it's something else. But I wasn't saying "no one should use it", I was saying "watch out for universal declarations". Much like, "Adults should drink a glass of red wine every day for their hearts" (not sure if that's still the recommendation) would be a bad idea to apply to alcoholics.
Applications for which they are designed must not include my outlets.
I seriously went through a box of six bulbs in one outlet in less than a year. They may work well for you, and that's great. They may work well in the average situation. But they don't in my outlets.
It's probably the fault of the electric company... but I can tell you I have enough to do in my life without having to troubleshoot fucking lightbulbs.
Blockbuster has unlimited DVD rentals -or- pay per (mailed) DVD rental. I was addressing GGP's point about only wanting a DVD once every few months.
As I said then, I had no idea about Blockbusters streaming or lack thereof.
Blockbuster? They have DVDs by mail either flat rate for all you want or some per-movie charge. I don't know about streaming. They claim that they have some deals to get new content from studios a month before Netflix too.
I have very low quality power in the neighborhood and in the house. I've lost a non-significant number of electronics to lightning storms...router, air conditioner, tv (although that was my fault... powered signal amplifier plugged unprotected into an outlet, frying the TV from its input.) I figure the traffic lights get reset 20+ times a year.
But these were either 1st or 2nd generation bulbs. Maybe I should try the new ones out.
Out of curiosity, ever have to use the equipment replacement guarantees for a surge protector? I theoretically have one that will cover everything I've plugged into it, but I always wondered if when push comes to shove, it was worth the big letters on the box.
Or those of us who try not to use the heat/ac too much. Enviromentally friendly my ass.
Incandecent bulbs in my house last for a long time. CFLs burn out in less than a few months. Care to redo your math?
But the bulbs are cheaper. Bulbs burn out fairly often in my house... to the point where, for one outlet, a compact florescent had to be changed 6 times in a year.
Sometimes they'll go through. Sometimes they'll confiscate them. Although, in that case, I'd just drink them all.
No, no, no and no.
Life the way you're living it sounds like it sucks.
Well, technically, the pronoun used ("That" in the original and "it" in your rephrasing) would refer to the act of rotating the heat exchanger from the previous sentence (where said act was also referred to as "it") or the benefits obtained therefrom. Hence, Jeff Koplow developed the ABHE which developed the benefits of having a rotating heat exchanger.
The labor cost is free. Instead of doing nothing, the steward(ess) is passing out snacks. It's not like they'll hire more people to pass out snacks... but the FAA requires them to have so many people onboard already.
Now, if you don't get your 2nd snack b/c the steward(ess) is busy, then they don't give a damn.
Besides, every time you ask for a refill is another attempt to get you to buy an alcoholic beverage/meal/whatever other upcharge.
Manly American Football is played on a 100 yard field. Sissy Canadian Football is played on a 100 meter field. I refuse to see our beloved sports (e.g. Baseball is defined in yards as well) redefined, therefor causing old records to be irrelevant.
More realistically, I have no idea why base 10 is a great idea. Imperial has binary units (volume/mass) and base twelve units (hello 1/3!). Either standard seems better than base 10.
Now, if you said we need to make imperial conversions more uniform, I whole-heartedly agree. But I'd rather start doing all mathes in base 12 or 2 or 16 then switch units to base 10.
Close:
RandomCompany: Nvidia, we want to buy you for $5 billion.
Nvidia: No
RandomCompany: How about $10 billion
Nvidia: Yes
Microsoft: We'll take Nvidia for $10 billion
DEAL DONE.
Once Nvidia accepts an offer, the price is set. The only question is who gets to pay it and buy the company.