Yet, despite some little things like Office 365, Microsoft still makes its bread and butter via selling software to OEM's and volume customers that runs on hardware, both of which many of us are increasingly not wanting to own. I f*cking hate installing an OS on a server and then making sure the damn thing stays running. I'd much rather rent the VM in the cloud. Even better, just let me subscribe to your web service.
Is there an irony here? I think a non-insignificant people *don't* want to be on the subscription software track (e.g. people buying the versions of Adobe apps right before it was available only via their cloud).
Office 2000 can still read files created with the newest version of office so as far as I'm concerned nobody can claim they were forced to move forward.
Isn't this only true if the person on the newer version explicitly saves them in 'old' format?
This sounds very similar to rules that have been in place for contractors for a long time (i.e. since the early 1990s). Contractors at many tech companies (in the Silicon Valley at least) are limited to a certain period of time, so as others have said, they aren't "effectively" employees.
You don't have to watch cable TV with commercials.. Get a DVR.. or jeez, a VCR. I was skipping commercials well over 20 years ago with my own VCRs, close to 30 with my parents' VCR... and now with DVRs..
(Note, I *do* use On Demand once in a while, and that DOES have unskippable commercials for SOME channels.. Though after a couple of days, the commercials are often skippable [for non-broadcast stations], but even broadcast stations sometimes, e.g. Enlisted, had shows with NO commercials on On Demand.)
Why would they freeze ALL of your accounts all of a sudden? Use a different credit card (cabs take CCs nowadays, right?). Or go to an ATM and get some cash that way if absolutely necessary.
Your money in the bank is already "directly traced via some technological means". It's numbers in a computer.
Heck, even if you have a pile under your mattress, the value of it is due to everyone else thinking it has value too... You can't eat it.. and no, I don't think gold has more inherent value in itself either, except for conductive properties when society rebuilds itself after whatever imagined doomsday scenario you come up with.
What protection existed that allowed Amazon to be created in the 1990s as a tiny company (ran out of his garage) that became a behemoth due to its own success?
Why can't _another_ company do something better and put Amazon out of business?
Mules are the quintessential example of two species being close enough to produce offspring but distinct enough that the offspring is never fertile. However, fertile mules have been found.
Aren't you contradicting yourself? The wikipedia page says pregnancy can occur naturally. Also, due to the # of chromosomes issue, couldn't the 'rare' fertile mules produce offspring? (i.e. a male mule & female mule)
I had a 105 meg external drive by 1992 (I think it might have been easily 1-2 years before that). Actually, I had an 80 meg external before that (put into a case).. the 105 was a prebuilt "external" drive.
Yeah, wow, I didn't realize that form was so relatively recent. I had thought that's what soccer balls were "always" like. (From the Wikipedia page, they actually came out before 1970..)
This is only because the practice isn't well established.
I was being more general, of the practice of people 'picking the default'. I can't provide citations admittedly, but people sure seem to think most accept the default button in computer dialogs, for example. If that is true (and I personally think it is), I don't see why that wouldn't be the same for other things, except for the comparative fringe who is on the no monitoring/privacy end of the spectrum.
His fund has an impressive trading record. He had the big advantage of starting early, in 1982, when almost nobody was doing automated trading or using advanced statistical methods. Their best years were 1982-1999. Now everybody grinds on vast amounts of data, and it's much tougher to find an edge. Performance for the last few years has been very poor, below the S&P 500. That's before fees.
Congratulations, you get to go to the ATM, carry around cash, and pay more(*) for your stuff.
(*) Yes, there are the credit card company fees, but at each individual purchase(**), the price is the same. So I am getting at least 1% back, AND it's faster and more convenient than using cash. (**) Gasoline (back when I drove a gas car as my primary car) was the single exception I'd run into frequently, but even then, AFTER the cash back portion, paying at a gas station next door that did take a credit card was at most the same price as Arco.. so still more convenient.
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Wait, you're commenting in the wrong article. You must have been meaning to comment in an Apple article.
No, smart cars are made/owned by Daimler AG, not Mercedes.
(I drive a smart electric, and it goes just fine on the freeway.)
...non-insignificant number of people...
Is there an irony here? I think a non-insignificant people *don't* want to be on the subscription software track (e.g. people buying the versions of Adobe apps right before it was available only via their cloud).
Isn't this only true if the person on the newer version explicitly saves them in 'old' format?
This sounds very similar to rules that have been in place for contractors for a long time (i.e. since the early 1990s). Contractors at many tech companies (in the Silicon Valley at least) are limited to a certain period of time, so as others have said, they aren't "effectively" employees.
You don't have to watch cable TV with commercials.. Get a DVR.. or jeez, a VCR. I was skipping commercials well over 20 years ago with my own VCRs, close to 30 with my parents' VCR... and now with DVRs..
(Note, I *do* use On Demand once in a while, and that DOES have unskippable commercials for SOME channels.. Though after a couple of days, the commercials are often skippable [for non-broadcast stations], but even broadcast stations sometimes, e.g. Enlisted, had shows with NO commercials on On Demand.)
Why would they freeze ALL of your accounts all of a sudden? Use a different credit card (cabs take CCs nowadays, right?). Or go to an ATM and get some cash that way if absolutely necessary.
Your money in the bank is already "directly traced via some technological means". It's numbers in a computer.
Heck, even if you have a pile under your mattress, the value of it is due to everyone else thinking it has value too... You can't eat it.. and no, I don't think gold has more inherent value in itself either, except for conductive properties when society rebuilds itself after whatever imagined doomsday scenario you come up with.
What protection existed that allowed Amazon to be created in the 1990s as a tiny company (ran out of his garage) that became a behemoth due to its own success?
Why can't _another_ company do something better and put Amazon out of business?
Aren't you contradicting yourself? The wikipedia page says pregnancy can occur naturally. Also, due to the # of chromosomes issue, couldn't the 'rare' fertile mules produce offspring? (i.e. a male mule & female mule)
Who are you calling we, kemosabe?
I had a 105 meg external drive by 1992 (I think it might have been easily 1-2 years before that). Actually, I had an 80 meg external before that (put into a case).. the 105 was a prebuilt "external" drive.
Yeah, wow, I didn't realize that form was so relatively recent. I had thought that's what soccer balls were "always" like. (From the Wikipedia page, they actually came out before 1970..)
I was being more general, of the practice of people 'picking the default'. I can't provide citations admittedly, but people sure seem to think most accept the default button in computer dialogs, for example. If that is true (and I personally think it is), I don't see why that wouldn't be the same for other things, except for the comparative fringe who is on the no monitoring/privacy end of the spectrum.
I think ARM Holdings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Holdings) and its licensees would like a word with you.
So then was it a fluke or not?
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How do you know I am?
Plus, if, as the buyer, I don't care about that, why not let me buy whatever I want?
We are... the companies from which we're buying the products.
Clinton *WAS* impeached. He wasn't *convicted*.
Because sometimes costs (catastrophic illness) go beyond one's means?
I agree with you in general, though... and even after buying a new car, have the minimum amount of car insurance.
FYI: Currently only in Illinois, Oregon, and Washington.
5-15% is "very little"?
I didn't know Mitt Romney was posting on Slashdot!
I presume you're actually referring to Jay Leno's "Jaywalking" segment. (One of the relatively few funny things Jay did as regular host..)
Congratulations, you get to go to the ATM, carry around cash, and pay more(*) for your stuff.
(*) Yes, there are the credit card company fees, but at each individual purchase(**), the price is the same. So I am getting at least 1% back, AND it's faster and more convenient than using cash.
(**) Gasoline (back when I drove a gas car as my primary car) was the single exception I'd run into frequently, but even then, AFTER the cash back portion, paying at a gas station next door that did take a credit card was at most the same price as Arco.. so still more convenient.