JWSmythe accepts the service charge in advance rather than retrospectively.
Which is what a tip is. T.I.P.S. = To Insure Prompt Service. I think "ensure" makes more grammatical sense, but TEPS just doesn't have the same ring to it.;)
Haha... Well in my (and possibly your) defense, it's not the money or the object that I would be upset losing. It's the time I spent making the money to buy the object. Time I could better spend with family or friends rather than at work.
I totally agree. I think that the post I was making fun of was totally bogus. Anything I spend money on matters to me. I spent time making my money, and I don't want to shell out more for a new phone no matter how much it costs. Even if it was a free warranty replacement, I wouldn't be happy at all that a phone broke. I had about 10 free replacements in the period of about a year due to Motorola's crappy quality phones (and maybe a little due to my clumsiness, but I never had a problem with non-Moto phones) so I can attest to how much that sucks. It's not only going without being able to call people, it's having to explain to people that they have to call you at a different number and all the lost messages in the meantime.
Ok, maybe cell phones wasn't the best example, but apply the same concept to whatever it is that AT&T DOES do R&D on... cellular technology? 3G systems? No matter how you try to slice it, you DO benefit from their R&D. If you didn't there would be no point in them even doing it, as it wouldn't bring them any benefit either.
I worked at QuikTrip for a few years and i can attest to this. There were even some days that we LOST a couple cents per gallon on gas simply because the station across the street was still using gas they purchased weeks before and could afford the lower price. This was when prices were rising and because we had to refill our fuel tanks more often (we were busier than "the other guys"), the gas we were selling was actually more expensive than the gas they were selling. But we made up for that with selling fountain drinks inside which have a huge profit margin. It was the middle of the summer in Arizona, so we sold a LOT of drinks.
Ilimitado: redução de velocidade ao atingir 2GB de dados trafegados.
AT&T is offering _unlimited_ meaning no cap for US$35.
According to that quote, the 2GB is not a cap, it's a point where speed can be reduced: "redução de velocidade ao atingir 2GB de dados trafegados" roughly translated means (if my guess is correct) "reduced velocity after 2GB of data traffic"
Is AT&T truly unlimited 3G or do they do this as well? I have an ADP1 with T-Mobile and I know that T-Mobile reserves the right (but does not always exercise the right) to limit bandwidth after "excessive" use.
But if you crashed your new Ford Focus, would you be upset over the loss of the instrument itself? If so, then you paid too much.
Here is a general rule of thumb: If your car is crushed in an accident 15 minutes after your last upgrade purchase and those upgrades are safe, you should only be upset over the inconvenience of not being able to drive for a few hours and having to move your custom Pokemon steering wheel cover and floor mats to the new vehicle. If the loss of the vehicle itself is a cause for concern, you paid too much.
Hard drive space? Boot up time? Are these negligible? Probably. But install every add-on ever made for Firefox and "disable" them all and I'm sure you'll notice a huge difference.
With regards to burial and the like, I agree completely. I'm all for having a funeral and a time of mourning, but marking the location of a lifeless body and regularly visiting it (him? her? Not anymore...)? Kinda pointless in my opinion. My mom has always joked with us that she wants to be useful when she dies. She wants to be stuffed and posed with her arms out and hands pointed upward and used as a coat rack. Every year or so she would be moved from house to house to "visit" each of her children. So creepy...
If cars lasted 3 years and then had a resale value of $0, they wouldn't cost anywhere near what they do.
I can't see how the resale value affects the costs of inputs - raw materials, labour etc.
No, but if a car lasted only 3 years, it would obviously be made of cheaper raw materials or have a lot less r&d or lower quality labor put into it, so it would be possible to sell for a lower price. The resale value doesn't affect the costs of inputs, but the cost (or rather, the quality) of inputs definitely affects the resale value.
Why can't people read other posts before replying? I've answered this three times already. I was mistaken about the calculator in Bing. But Google's calculator is still way better.
See my reply to the FIRST post that countered my calculator point. I was mistaken about the calculator in Bing, but Google's calculator is still WAY more flexible...
I guess I was mistaken again:) But my point still stands. Google understands more flexible commands than Bing, as you explained in your post. So I will continue to have Google as my homepage rather than Bing. Plus, the personalized Google homepage helps me keep up on/. and other sites as well as my email, etc.
Sorry, I didn't realize they had 35 gigs of memory in computers back in 1998. Heck, I didn't even know that ME was 64-bit to address that amount of memory.
Some of the things I use quite a bit on google search are the calculator feature, as well as just asking a basic trivia question that comes up while I'm browsing. Both such examples fail on bing. "1+1=?" returned a bunch of nonsense, which is expected because bing doesn't have a calculator, but "How tall is Steve Nash?" returned his stats in the first result with a picture, which is nice, but it is not his height. You have to look to the third result to see how tall he is. Google on the other hand returns this as the first result: Steve Nash â" Height: 6 FT 3 in. Very simple, quick answer. This is the reason I will stick with Google for the time being.
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JWSmythe accepts the service charge in advance rather than retrospectively.
Which is what a tip is. T.I.P.S. = To Insure Prompt Service. I think "ensure" makes more grammatical sense, but TEPS just doesn't have the same ring to it. ;)
Or stuffs their employees into the ballot box...
Time I could better spend with family or friends or on slashdot rather than at work.
Fixed. ;)
Haha... Well in my (and possibly your) defense, it's not the money or the object that I would be upset losing. It's the time I spent making the money to buy the object. Time I could better spend with family or friends rather than at work.
I totally agree. I think that the post I was making fun of was totally bogus. Anything I spend money on matters to me. I spent time making my money, and I don't want to shell out more for a new phone no matter how much it costs. Even if it was a free warranty replacement, I wouldn't be happy at all that a phone broke. I had about 10 free replacements in the period of about a year due to Motorola's crappy quality phones (and maybe a little due to my clumsiness, but I never had a problem with non-Moto phones) so I can attest to how much that sucks. It's not only going without being able to call people, it's having to explain to people that they have to call you at a different number and all the lost messages in the meantime.
Ok, maybe cell phones wasn't the best example, but apply the same concept to whatever it is that AT&T DOES do R&D on... cellular technology? 3G systems? No matter how you try to slice it, you DO benefit from their R&D. If you didn't there would be no point in them even doing it, as it wouldn't bring them any benefit either.
It was a joke. See this post.
I worked at QuikTrip for a few years and i can attest to this. There were even some days that we LOST a couple cents per gallon on gas simply because the station across the street was still using gas they purchased weeks before and could afford the lower price. This was when prices were rising and because we had to refill our fuel tanks more often (we were busier than "the other guys"), the gas we were selling was actually more expensive than the gas they were selling. But we made up for that with selling fountain drinks inside which have a huge profit margin. It was the middle of the summer in Arizona, so we sold a LOT of drinks.
Ilimitado: redução de velocidade ao atingir 2GB de dados trafegados.
AT&T is offering _unlimited_ meaning no cap for US$35.
According to that quote, the 2GB is not a cap, it's a point where speed can be reduced: "redução de velocidade ao atingir 2GB de dados trafegados" roughly translated means (if my guess is correct) "reduced velocity after 2GB of data traffic"
Is AT&T truly unlimited 3G or do they do this as well? I have an ADP1 with T-Mobile and I know that T-Mobile reserves the right (but does not always exercise the right) to limit bandwidth after "excessive" use.
things like R&D and advertising make the margin seem smaller on paper, even thou they don't contribute directly to bringing you service.
How does R&D not contribute to bringing you service? Without R&D there would be no cell phones, and without cell phones, there would be no service.
But if you crashed your new Ford Focus, would you be upset over the loss of the instrument itself? If so, then you paid too much.
Here is a general rule of thumb: If your car is crushed in an accident 15 minutes after your last upgrade purchase and those upgrades are safe, you should only be upset over the inconvenience of not being able to drive for a few hours and having to move your custom Pokemon steering wheel cover and floor mats to the new vehicle. If the loss of the vehicle itself is a cause for concern, you paid too much.
Hard drive space? Boot up time? Are these negligible? Probably. But install every add-on ever made for Firefox and "disable" them all and I'm sure you'll notice a huge difference.
With regards to burial and the like, I agree completely. I'm all for having a funeral and a time of mourning, but marking the location of a lifeless body and regularly visiting it (him? her? Not anymore...)? Kinda pointless in my opinion. My mom has always joked with us that she wants to be useful when she dies. She wants to be stuffed and posed with her arms out and hands pointed upward and used as a coat rack. Every year or so she would be moved from house to house to "visit" each of her children. So creepy...
I can't see how the resale value affects the costs of inputs - raw materials, labour etc.
No, but if a car lasted only 3 years, it would obviously be made of cheaper raw materials or have a lot less r&d or lower quality labor put into it, so it would be possible to sell for a lower price. The resale value doesn't affect the costs of inputs, but the cost (or rather, the quality) of inputs definitely affects the resale value.
the big sauropod dinosaurs held...their heads down low
Wait for it... wait for it... there ya go! You get it now!
Why can't people read other posts before replying? I've answered this three times already. I was mistaken about the calculator in Bing. But Google's calculator is still way better.
See my reply to the FIRST post that countered my calculator point. I was mistaken about the calculator in Bing, but Google's calculator is still WAY more flexible...
I guess I was mistaken again :) But my point still stands. Google understands more flexible commands than Bing, as you explained in your post. So I will continue to have Google as my homepage rather than Bing. Plus, the personalized Google homepage helps me keep up on /. and other sites as well as my email, etc.
7mb is about 0.02% of 35gb
Sorry, I didn't realize they had 35 gigs of memory in computers back in 1998. Heck, I didn't even know that ME was 64-bit to address that amount of memory.
On the contrary, more than 50% of computers had less than 128mb of memory in the year 2000, so 12mb was over 10% of memory available in the majority of computers and about 30% of memory available in about 1/6 of all computers...
See my response to previous poster here
My mistake about the calculator. It just didn't recognize "1+1=?" or "5kg = ?g" or similar queries, which google does.
There is one thing Google can't search for though: Chuck Norris
Steve Nash â" Height: 6 FT 3 in.
That was supposed to read: Steve Nash -- Height: 6 FT 3 in.
Some of the things I use quite a bit on google search are the calculator feature, as well as just asking a basic trivia question that comes up while I'm browsing. Both such examples fail on bing. "1+1=?" returned a bunch of nonsense, which is expected because bing doesn't have a calculator, but "How tall is Steve Nash?" returned his stats in the first result with a picture, which is nice, but it is not his height. You have to look to the third result to see how tall he is. Google on the other hand returns this as the first result: Steve Nash â" Height: 6 FT 3 in. Very simple, quick answer. This is the reason I will stick with Google for the time being.
...marginally more resource usage...from 5mb to 12mb memory usage...
How is a 140% increase described as "marginal"?