come from this part : "Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same (my emphasis).
While the study was not designed to test that hypothesis, it provides evidence that weight change is affected by factors other than caloric intake, at least in rats. This study is thus a serious blow to the "a calorie is a calorie is a calorie" paradigm of obesity research.
What? TFS is about Yahoo actually censoring adult search results. The question of how successful they are is not especially relevant. They're able to filter at least some results; anyone who has had to deal with the safe search filters at Yahoo of Google can agree that they do work a great majority of the time. So like I said, they can't "claim that filtering porn is infeasible".
Variable costs !- total costs. Just because a cost has already occurred (dvd printing or automating your warehouse) doesn't mean the company should not pass it to its customers. How else are they supposed to recoup these costs? Pricing should account for total costs in the long term.
I think in this situation, the major argument against charging s&h costs is that customers have already paid for them when buying Vista, when what they really wanted (and were promised) in the first place was 7.
But hey, if you feel "ripped off", then don't buy it.
Thing is, the customers in question here think they've already bought Windows 7. They got a computer with Vista, which they don't want, with a promise of a free upgrade. They don't care what shipping and handling cost the retailers, they've already had to live with Vista for 3 months and now can finally get what they really paid for in the first place.
Sure they'll pay the fee. Better pay 17$ than losing your 300$ purchase, yet it's still a huge PITA.
Markets have a way to circumvent these monopolies. It's called innovation. Wanna bet that 20 million dissatisfied broadband Internet customers are a tremendous incentive for smaller companies to offer a wireless Internet solution? Or something new altogether? Investment in alternative technologies will without a doubt increase if Bell and Telus don't allow competitors to have their slice of profits.
For the quantitative aspect of the situation, you should examine their offer and try to figure out how they came to this figure. What is it in your company that can make them money? What synergies would you provide them? Do they have a solid marketing team to sell your product? What can they do that you can't, and what can you do that they can't? That way you'll have an idea if their offer is reasonable.
Now, let's reverse the question. How do you value your own company? Do you have the resources and know-how to make it into a $5M company? $100M? You've worked hard up to this point, but this is in the past now. Are you confident enough that you'll be able to get to a point where you actually make good profit?
Now the important point is that if they value your company higher than you do, you should sell. Period. The fact that they are offering something for your company is no guarantee that you'll be able to make nearly as much on your own. They might be willing to give you a lot because you're worth a lot to them. You might not be worth so much without outside help.
As you mentionned, money is but one factor in your decision. Still I hope this helps a little...
This is not the federal government, average employment time at CC must have been less than a year. In fact they must have many many more ex-employees than current ones. I know a few and indeed the stories can be horrific. Well like any other company when I think about it...
I see what you mean in that the same games as on the other 2 won't be released on the Wii because the hardware just can't handle it. This is fine.
However this really should not be a problem in itself for the Wii. In other industries suppliers usually adapt to the major market players even when they need to design more basic products. Take the Korean car manufacturers for example. We don't see them having shortages of features like gas tanks or cup holders because Toyota, Honda and Renault have higher quality requirements than they do. Why is this such an issue in the console market? Why can't the software designers make custom software for the Wii when they know they'd have a good chance of selling millions of copies?
Can't keep up in what respect? Graphical power? That's definitely not the main factor anymore in the success of games.
The Wii has been outpacing the competition in console sales, which should be enough for third party software makers. They're not in business to make the most powerful games, they're in this business to sell games and the Wii would allow them to do just that.
Who's more likely not to respect the law? Drunken idiots or smart, innocent people?
This particular drunken idiot already was idiotic enough that he broke the current drunk-driving law. What makes you think he would have respected the alcohol prohibition law? We know how easy to find illegal drugs are now. Alcohol would be the same.
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Maybe the UK government had suspicions on this guy. A former Navy Seal travelling the world teaching martial arts? Seems like a nice cover.
Let me tell you, as an accountant I warmly applaud this fine moment of payback.
Fars ("farce") actually means "joke" in french, so that might be a clue. :P
come from this part : "Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same (my emphasis).
While the study was not designed to test that hypothesis, it provides evidence that weight change is affected by factors other than caloric intake, at least in rats. This study is thus a serious blow to the "a calorie is a calorie is a calorie" paradigm of obesity research.
Seems like Gary Taubes was right all along.
What? TFS is about Yahoo actually censoring adult search results. The question of how successful they are is not especially relevant. They're able to filter at least some results; anyone who has had to deal with the safe search filters at Yahoo of Google can agree that they do work a great majority of the time. So like I said, they can't "claim that filtering porn is infeasible".
It can always plausibly deny control of its results and claim that filtering porn is infeasible.
Well it's obviously feasible if they're actually doing it.
Gold today sells for $1,192 per once, or more than $40,000 per kg. Sure gold is "heavy", but you need much less to hide a few thousand dollars.
Yeah... which is exactly what I said in the rest of my (unquoted) comment...
Variable costs !- total costs. Just because a cost has already occurred (dvd printing or automating your warehouse) doesn't mean the company should not pass it to its customers. How else are they supposed to recoup these costs? Pricing should account for total costs in the long term.
I think in this situation, the major argument against charging s&h costs is that customers have already paid for them when buying Vista, when what they really wanted (and were promised) in the first place was 7.
But hey, if you feel "ripped off", then don't buy it.
Thing is, the customers in question here think they've already bought Windows 7. They got a computer with Vista, which they don't want, with a promise of a free upgrade. They don't care what shipping and handling cost the retailers, they've already had to live with Vista for 3 months and now can finally get what they really paid for in the first place.
Sure they'll pay the fee. Better pay 17$ than losing your 300$ purchase, yet it's still a huge PITA.
Markets have a way to circumvent these monopolies. It's called innovation. Wanna bet that 20 million dissatisfied broadband Internet customers are a tremendous incentive for smaller companies to offer a wireless Internet solution? Or something new altogether? Investment in alternative technologies will without a doubt increase if Bell and Telus don't allow competitors to have their slice of profits.
It takes the form of a plug-in to Firefox and Internet Explorer
What, Google aren't even releasing plug-ins for their own browser first? What kind of endorsement is that?
How much do you want to bet the RIAA will push exactly that claim?
If I take the bet and you win, make sure to report the gain on your tax return.
For the quantitative aspect of the situation, you should examine their offer and try to figure out how they came to this figure. What is it in your company that can make them money? What synergies would you provide them? Do they have a solid marketing team to sell your product? What can they do that you can't, and what can you do that they can't? That way you'll have an idea if their offer is reasonable.
Now, let's reverse the question. How do you value your own company? Do you have the resources and know-how to make it into a $5M company? $100M? You've worked hard up to this point, but this is in the past now. Are you confident enough that you'll be able to get to a point where you actually make good profit?
Now the important point is that if they value your company higher than you do, you should sell. Period. The fact that they are offering something for your company is no guarantee that you'll be able to make nearly as much on your own. They might be willing to give you a lot because you're worth a lot to them. You might not be worth so much without outside help.
As you mentionned, money is but one factor in your decision. Still I hope this helps a little...
Why don't you install the distro originally made for the AA1, Linpus linux? You can find good instructions on how to do this here.
I've also removed the search box since I can type "g slashdot" in the address bar to search for slashdot on Google anyway.
Even faster
*cough* Maybe he meant this game?
The reign of the dark side is coming.
This is not the federal government, average employment time at CC must have been less than a year. In fact they must have many many more ex-employees than current ones. I know a few and indeed the stories can be horrific. Well like any other company when I think about it...
They mention in the FAQ that only IE is supported. I wonder if using IE in WINE is working?
I see what you mean in that the same games as on the other 2 won't be released on the Wii because the hardware just can't handle it. This is fine.
However this really should not be a problem in itself for the Wii. In other industries suppliers usually adapt to the major market players even when they need to design more basic products. Take the Korean car manufacturers for example. We don't see them having shortages of features like gas tanks or cup holders because Toyota, Honda and Renault have higher quality requirements than they do. Why is this such an issue in the console market? Why can't the software designers make custom software for the Wii when they know they'd have a good chance of selling millions of copies?
Can't keep up in what respect? Graphical power? That's definitely not the main factor anymore in the success of games.
The Wii has been outpacing the competition in console sales, which should be enough for third party software makers. They're not in business to make the most powerful games, they're in this business to sell games and the Wii would allow them to do just that.
They also decided to support openSuse 10.3 for some reason. Opensuse 11.1 was released today, two releases and 14 months after 10.3.
Seems like Linux is on top of the list of priorities at Adobe!
If only I hadn't wasted all my mod points in Idle... Sorry AC.
Who's more likely not to respect the law? Drunken idiots or smart, innocent people?
This particular drunken idiot already was idiotic enough that he broke the current drunk-driving law. What makes you think he would have respected the alcohol prohibition law? We know how easy to find illegal drugs are now. Alcohol would be the same.