Both the 787 and A380 pressurize to 6,000 feet instead of the usual 8,000 feet.
I heard this on the news today and paused to consider how, since my house is at 7,500 feet, the new pressurization is likely to leave me feeling *more* invigorated when I'm in the air than I'll feel when I land.
The last branch that I used charged me late fees for movies returned punctually, and once sent collections after me to charge for a movie that I returned to them but they lost. Some other branches weren't so bad, but I gave up on them after the collections incident.
Honestly, I've got enough bad associations with the Blockbuster name that it would turn me away from a new product, whatever the features or terms. I can't be the only one, am I?
My first job out of college, the company did a "how things work around here" lunch talk where they explained that they billed most of us out at $125/hour, and then went into some handwavy benefits-taxes-downtime analysis and concluded that for the company to be making a profit they needed to be billing us at about three times our hourly rate. I was perfectly willing to accept that. What I struggled with was the difference between their profit point ($40/hour) and my salary ($20/hour) weren't even remotely close, and I felt pretty ripped off. Especially when the "benefits" only included 3 sick days/year.
Bah. There's nothing inherently wrong with writing for the purpose of making money. As you note it's generally not nearly as efficient as a lot of other methods of earning money, but "writing for the sake of the art" isn't all it's cracked up to be, either.
Be warned that search tool is apparently clunky. I searched for my city/state and was told "no matches." Backing up I tried our zip code and my local library showed right up along with two others in the area. I'd recommend sticking with zip code.
No kidding. I managed to use a catchall for a couple of years, but it eventually became unbearable. I had a couple of cases of spam being sent out that bounced back to me, but also many cases of systematic name-guessing at my domain. I'd get a series of messages for aaron@, adam@, bo@, bob@, carl@.... and on down the list for hundreds of the same thing.
I got on Stonewall Kitchen's mailing list once when I ordered a gift for my mom. They started sending me emails about every three days. I tried repeatedly to unsubscribe, and the page kept saying the unsubscribe was confirmed, but I kept getting email. After about two months (and three tries with their contact us form, the first two never got replied to) I got someone who said, "Oh, sorry, our unsubscribe page is broken. I've taken you off the list."
I can't really imagine a situation where they'd leave a broken page up for two months without a) fixing it, or b) changing the message to at least say "sorry, this doesn't work right now" unless it was intentional. It's a shame, too, because I like their stuff, but their combination of aggressive and sleazy marketing methods is not something I want to support.
Yeah, I had something similar the other day. Wanted to try a piece of software, they insisted on taking my email address as part of the download/key process. It's a company we already do business with, just a different piece of software, so I considered them moderately reputable. They did NOT provide any opt-out checkbox, either.
Took me all of a couple minutes to test the software, realize it didn't do what I thought it did, and get rid of it. But by the time I'd deleted it I'd already gotten spam email telling me about other products from that company, and I had to follow links in those emails to go to their site and unsubscribe.
This is not a reasonable way to do business. They neither informed me I was being added to a mailing list (though requiring the email address makes it obvious enough -- I'm not dumb) nor gave me the chance to opt out until I'd received their first piece of spam.
It's not just Denmark. Business taxes are only on profits, not total income. So if you pull in $2 million in sales but it costs you $1.5 million in expenses, you're only taxed on the remaining $500k. This tax would only affect a small business that was putting $1 million directly into the pocket of its owner. And if you're pocketing $1mil annually, you are by definition NOT suffering from a lack of resources to expand and hire more employees. I don't know how people consistently fail to understand this, or why the grandparent is 5 Informative.
I'm half-tempted to steal their marketing gimmick just from hearing about this. Or I would be, if I had downloadable software. There's no real sensible way to torrent a browser game, so I'm out of luck.
Interesting to look back. The thing that jumps out at me there is how many bands released multiple albums in a given year. Seems like you have to wait years between albums these days.
Of all of those listed, I own 3: Kraftwerk's Computer World, Queen's greatest hits, and Blondie's greatest hits. All were purchased back in the 90's when I was in college. Queen was on tape, and broke some time ago, so while I feel entitled to the songs I no longer have a means of playing them. I've probably got several dozen other singles from albums from that year, which have been mashed into a handful of 80's greatest hits (nearly all purchased in the late 90's).
Then again, I don't really buy any music these days (radio here, music via cable television channels there, streaming online, plus reliance on my college-age collection basically covers all my wants). I think I pick up maybe 3 albums a year on average now, all through iTunes.
How likely am I to ever buy anything else from that year? Not very. I suppose if I didn't already own what I own, I might pick up one or two individual songs from iTunes, but to not have that music I'd have to be much younger (still in college, say) and then I'd wager I wouldn't have a taste for the older stuff anyway.
I'm all for writing them down, and agree with you. I'd still suggest, at minimum, NOT taping it directly to your monitor, though (like one former dean of Engineering did at the university I worked at). Also, if your password is just your initials and the year of your birth, do you REALLY need to write it down? (Looking at that same dean of Engineering, again).
The problem is, I'm not sure I would buy that business. Imagine you sell it to me for 48k. That would mean I would be working for you, for free, for the next 4 years. Unless I could take that business and increase the profits I would be better off working with my own business. (I also run a small online business, selling downloadable files)
Fair point. In this case, I think increased profits are likely. I've been running out of steam after 5 years of evenings and weekends, and new enthusiasm is likely to lead to more development. There's been a pretty direct correlation between profits and development activity, so I think there's lots of potential for growth. Of course the real trick is convincing a potential buyer that's the truth.
I've actually been wondering about the process of a business putting itself up for sale. Out of pure self interest, I've got an online business I've been thinking about selling, and I wasn't really sure how to go about it. In part I don't know how to advertise without causing panic amongst the customers. I'm also not really sure what sort of valuation process applies to an online business.
That's my primary use of them. I've been playing fantasy baseball and football for a decade now. I do still have an email account, but it's mostly backup/failover. I don't even know what other services they have.
Yeah, I had a player from my game accuse me of selling his email address because of a single piece of spam. The address in question was a two-letter abbreviation for the game (TH) at his domain. I suggested that was pretty vulnerable to dictionary spam. Not sure if he believed me, but it was the truth. I don't even look at email addresses unless I have a specific need to contact a particular individual.
If anything, I like the current trend towards Free to Play in MMO's supplemented with a cash store.
Definitely. Particularly with smaller indie games, they may not have a choice but to offer the game free if they want to get anyone to try it at all. Who's going to fork over payment information, let alone commit to a monthly fee before they know anything about a company? I've got a smallish superhero MMO, and if I demanded a monthly fee to play, I simply wouldn't have any players. But a pure donation model, with no benefit to the player, also won't cut it. My only option is to have something like a microtransaction process.
Pretty sure the dollar store I worked at didn't have a resealing machine. At that level I think they just throw things away if they're not visibly fit for reselling. Nor did the bookstore, but most books aren't sealed anyway.
I remember picking up a copy of Wizardry in the late 90's (playing for nostalgia's sake; a childhood friend had it and I'd never owned it) that shipped a CD in a paper sleeve, and the sleeve was affixed with a sticker that read "by breaking this seal you agree to the terms of the EULA"... with said EULA being on a file in the CD that I hadn't opened yet. I had to call tech support with some install troubles (really, really lousy port to the Mac had a lot of trouble) and gave the guy some crap about the impossibility of agreeing to terms I couldn't even read, and the tech good-naturedly agreed with me about the issue.
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Uh, you know what? You can have my geek card, I'm going home, because I have no idea what this means.
Both the 787 and A380 pressurize to 6,000 feet instead of the usual 8,000 feet.
I heard this on the news today and paused to consider how, since my house is at 7,500 feet, the new pressurization is likely to leave me feeling *more* invigorated when I'm in the air than I'll feel when I land.
The last branch that I used charged me late fees for movies returned punctually, and once sent collections after me to charge for a movie that I returned to them but they lost. Some other branches weren't so bad, but I gave up on them after the collections incident.
Honestly, I've got enough bad associations with the Blockbuster name that it would turn me away from a new product, whatever the features or terms. I can't be the only one, am I?
My first job out of college, the company did a "how things work around here" lunch talk where they explained that they billed most of us out at $125/hour, and then went into some handwavy benefits-taxes-downtime analysis and concluded that for the company to be making a profit they needed to be billing us at about three times our hourly rate. I was perfectly willing to accept that. What I struggled with was the difference between their profit point ($40/hour) and my salary ($20/hour) weren't even remotely close, and I felt pretty ripped off. Especially when the "benefits" only included 3 sick days/year.
throat-warbler mangrove, I think.
Bah. There's nothing inherently wrong with writing for the purpose of making money. As you note it's generally not nearly as efficient as a lot of other methods of earning money, but "writing for the sake of the art" isn't all it's cracked up to be, either.
Be warned that search tool is apparently clunky. I searched for my city/state and was told "no matches." Backing up I tried our zip code and my local library showed right up along with two others in the area. I'd recommend sticking with zip code.
That's funny coming from someone named after a game system from the 70's.
No kidding. I managed to use a catchall for a couple of years, but it eventually became unbearable. I had a couple of cases of spam being sent out that bounced back to me, but also many cases of systematic name-guessing at my domain. I'd get a series of messages for aaron@, adam@, bo@, bob@, carl@ .... and on down the list for hundreds of the same thing.
I got on Stonewall Kitchen's mailing list once when I ordered a gift for my mom. They started sending me emails about every three days. I tried repeatedly to unsubscribe, and the page kept saying the unsubscribe was confirmed, but I kept getting email. After about two months (and three tries with their contact us form, the first two never got replied to) I got someone who said, "Oh, sorry, our unsubscribe page is broken. I've taken you off the list."
I can't really imagine a situation where they'd leave a broken page up for two months without a) fixing it, or b) changing the message to at least say "sorry, this doesn't work right now" unless it was intentional. It's a shame, too, because I like their stuff, but their combination of aggressive and sleazy marketing methods is not something I want to support.
Yeah, I had something similar the other day. Wanted to try a piece of software, they insisted on taking my email address as part of the download/key process. It's a company we already do business with, just a different piece of software, so I considered them moderately reputable. They did NOT provide any opt-out checkbox, either.
Took me all of a couple minutes to test the software, realize it didn't do what I thought it did, and get rid of it. But by the time I'd deleted it I'd already gotten spam email telling me about other products from that company, and I had to follow links in those emails to go to their site and unsubscribe.
This is not a reasonable way to do business. They neither informed me I was being added to a mailing list (though requiring the email address makes it obvious enough -- I'm not dumb) nor gave me the chance to opt out until I'd received their first piece of spam.
It's not just Denmark. Business taxes are only on profits, not total income. So if you pull in $2 million in sales but it costs you $1.5 million in expenses, you're only taxed on the remaining $500k. This tax would only affect a small business that was putting $1 million directly into the pocket of its owner. And if you're pocketing $1mil annually, you are by definition NOT suffering from a lack of resources to expand and hire more employees. I don't know how people consistently fail to understand this, or why the grandparent is 5 Informative.
I'm half-tempted to steal their marketing gimmick just from hearing about this. Or I would be, if I had downloadable software. There's no real sensible way to torrent a browser game, so I'm out of luck.
Of all of those listed, I own 3: Kraftwerk's Computer World, Queen's greatest hits, and Blondie's greatest hits. All were purchased back in the 90's when I was in college. Queen was on tape, and broke some time ago, so while I feel entitled to the songs I no longer have a means of playing them. I've probably got several dozen other singles from albums from that year, which have been mashed into a handful of 80's greatest hits (nearly all purchased in the late 90's).
Then again, I don't really buy any music these days (radio here, music via cable television channels there, streaming online, plus reliance on my college-age collection basically covers all my wants). I think I pick up maybe 3 albums a year on average now, all through iTunes.
How likely am I to ever buy anything else from that year? Not very. I suppose if I didn't already own what I own, I might pick up one or two individual songs from iTunes, but to not have that music I'd have to be much younger (still in college, say) and then I'd wager I wouldn't have a taste for the older stuff anyway.
I'm all for writing them down, and agree with you. I'd still suggest, at minimum, NOT taping it directly to your monitor, though (like one former dean of Engineering did at the university I worked at). Also, if your password is just your initials and the year of your birth, do you REALLY need to write it down? (Looking at that same dean of Engineering, again).
The problem is, I'm not sure I would buy that business. Imagine you sell it to me for 48k. That would mean I would be working for you, for free, for the next 4 years. Unless I could take that business and increase the profits I would be better off working with my own business. (I also run a small online business, selling downloadable files)
Fair point. In this case, I think increased profits are likely. I've been running out of steam after 5 years of evenings and weekends, and new enthusiasm is likely to lead to more development. There's been a pretty direct correlation between profits and development activity, so I think there's lots of potential for growth. Of course the real trick is convincing a potential buyer that's the truth.
I've actually been wondering about the process of a business putting itself up for sale. Out of pure self interest, I've got an online business I've been thinking about selling, and I wasn't really sure how to go about it. In part I don't know how to advertise without causing panic amongst the customers. I'm also not really sure what sort of valuation process applies to an online business.
That's my primary use of them. I've been playing fantasy baseball and football for a decade now. I do still have an email account, but it's mostly backup/failover. I don't even know what other services they have.
Yeah, I had a player from my game accuse me of selling his email address because of a single piece of spam. The address in question was a two-letter abbreviation for the game (TH) at his domain. I suggested that was pretty vulnerable to dictionary spam. Not sure if he believed me, but it was the truth. I don't even look at email addresses unless I have a specific need to contact a particular individual.
If anything, I like the current trend towards Free to Play in MMO's supplemented with a cash store.
Definitely. Particularly with smaller indie games, they may not have a choice but to offer the game free if they want to get anyone to try it at all. Who's going to fork over payment information, let alone commit to a monthly fee before they know anything about a company? I've got a smallish superhero MMO, and if I demanded a monthly fee to play, I simply wouldn't have any players. But a pure donation model, with no benefit to the player, also won't cut it. My only option is to have something like a microtransaction process.
Only if I can also fee, fie and fum it, will I foe it.
I think it's StarDot. Me, I'll have a SoyLatteCursive.
Pretty sure the dollar store I worked at didn't have a resealing machine. At that level I think they just throw things away if they're not visibly fit for reselling. Nor did the bookstore, but most books aren't sealed anyway.
I remember picking up a copy of Wizardry in the late 90's (playing for nostalgia's sake; a childhood friend had it and I'd never owned it) that shipped a CD in a paper sleeve, and the sleeve was affixed with a sticker that read "by breaking this seal you agree to the terms of the EULA" ... with said EULA being on a file in the CD that I hadn't opened yet. I had to call tech support with some install troubles (really, really lousy port to the Mac had a lot of trouble) and gave the guy some crap about the impossibility of agreeing to terms I couldn't even read, and the tech good-naturedly agreed with me about the issue.