Many huge businesses run on tiny profit margins. if you do enough business then it compensates and google does a ton of business.
And thus are huge percentage increases. 20% more cost to operate the hardware and 10% more to build? That would of turned a healthy profit margin into a non existent one (don't forget we are talking about the beginning of Google so I doubt that they had so many employees to make hardware cost insignificant).
I don't know, seems reasonable to me. Profit margins can be pretty slim and it does not take much to go from making a cent per user to losing a cent per user and no business is built on losing money.
You are completely right, at the most he will sell his media empire and buy another lower key empire or simple not advertise that he controls the news as much as he currently does.
I am really surprised he is the only one, I think everyone thought that he had a good chance of getting shot and really I would not have thought too hard about posting about it, but then I would not have called him any racial slurs or expressed anything but regret at that occurring.
Actually no, if you remembered anything from statistics class then you would know that if all the results from the 24 people had a strong correlation then the research team could easily end up having a certainty value in the very high 90s
In fact as long as you are not seeing any real outlines in then data then everyone after like the 21st person really only contributes to a tiny-tiny bump in certainty.
"Goblins’ eyes appear as red quotation marks; if you shoot out an eye with an arrow, the symbol becomes an apostrophe."
Where do you see anyone's eyes in DF? I have played it a moderate amount (10s of hours). and all characters are portrayed as a single ascii characters, not multiple.
And no it really does not have a sparse elegance, even with tilesets (the only reason it is moderately playable).
OK finally got out the dictionary and a definition for sub... fits perfectly: "To authorize (someone) to receive or access..." + google has in-numeral hits of "subscribe medication"
Well if you are as confident as you sound then I guess there is no reason say anything other then "I disagree"
But just just because I am a fan of logic I would like to point your circular argument.
You "prove" that modern medicine has a handle on nutrition because modern medicine knows of no nutritional based diseases that are prevalent and can treat all that it finds. But you fail to take into account that if modern medicine knows nothing/little about nutrition then it might not diagnosis a disease as nutritional based in the first place.
Basically you have already taken as a fact what you are trying to prove, so of course you end up proving it.
Well luckily there seems to be a lot of places you could take research money from without stinting technological or knowledge advancement. I used to work in the Psychology department of a university and I dare you to come up with a reason why it benefits anyone to do another study on how harmful smoking is or the dynamics of a relationship.
Currently nutrition is alt. medicine. Doctors don't understand it and as long as big pharma controls the industry they never will and no one else will be allowed to use it to help people.
Of course there are snake oil sales men out there, but that does not mean that some people that are outside of the accepted practises of doctors are not treating and curing people.
And even snake oil is better then half of the current system, there are drugs out there that are being subscribed daily that have less then or equal the effect of a placebo and lots of side effects.
First off that would be illegal and also quite expensive, cheaper then a new copy but possibly more expensive then renting or buying used and reselling afterwards.
I have never heard of a school that had more then a handful of copies for courses with hundreds of students and always very limited time borrowing so unless you are the type to just go to the library and do all your homework in a afternoon then it is useless, and never around when you need them anyways.
And text books are already a huge percentage of school fees, so no school out of the goodness of their hearts are not just going to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars each year keeping the latest edition of every text book in stock.
Since when is "failure to 'adequately and consistently monitor social networking activity,'" something that is required? Sounds more like something that would be illegal then something that they are legally bound to do.
I would disagree, and say that "acts of terror" is pretty much a meaningless phrase anyways.
Sure you have "terrorists" killing civilians in a meaningless or near meaningless manner, but the US military does that on a even larger scale and throw in all the torture and it is pretty easy to see which side are the bad guys and who is actually engaged in the the worst acts of terror.
terror is used by everyone to wage war, keep the peace, or just get noticed. It is even a huge part of our judicial system (that is what making an example out of someone means). But gorilla tactics have been used effectively against larger forces throughout history and at its core gorilla tactics might not rely on terror but they sure can inspire it.
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You sure the humble bundle does not allow you to pay $0?
I know I have purchased games that did allow you to do that.
Many huge businesses run on tiny profit margins. if you do enough business then it compensates and google does a ton of business.
And thus are huge percentage increases. 20% more cost to operate the hardware and 10% more to build? That would of turned a healthy profit margin into a non existent one (don't forget we are talking about the beginning of Google so I doubt that they had so many employees to make hardware cost insignificant).
I don't know, seems reasonable to me. Profit margins can be pretty slim and it does not take much to go from making a cent per user to losing a cent per user and no business is built on losing money.
You are completely right, at the most he will sell his media empire and buy another lower key empire or simple not advertise that he controls the news as much as he currently does.
No actually the N word is pretty much universally accepted to not be acceptable to write/say.
I am really surprised he is the only one, I think everyone thought that he had a good chance of getting shot and really I would not have thought too hard about posting about it, but then I would not have called him any racial slurs or expressed anything but regret at that occurring.
Actually no, if you remembered anything from statistics class then you would know that if all the results from the 24 people had a strong correlation then the research team could easily end up having a certainty value in the very high 90s
In fact as long as you are not seeing any real outlines in then data then everyone after like the 21st person really only contributes to a tiny-tiny bump in certainty.
"Goblins’ eyes appear as red quotation marks; if you shoot out an eye with an arrow, the symbol becomes an apostrophe."
Where do you see anyone's eyes in DF? I have played it a moderate amount (10s of hours). and all characters are portrayed as a single ascii characters, not multiple.
And no it really does not have a sparse elegance, even with tilesets (the only reason it is moderately playable).
OK finally got out the dictionary and a definition for sub... fits perfectly: "To authorize (someone) to receive or access ..."
+ google has in-numeral hits of "subscribe medication"
Ya and you can but a 20" laptop for $3K as well, so what is your point?
Now all they need to do is have a fold out keyboard and laptops don't have to be so annoying.
I think this is the technology of the future, that way laptops can continue to get smaller but have the same or bigger screen size.
What? Since when did film start being considered a long form of narrative?
Hmm, you might be right but I suspect that both are used.
You really have never heard of a doctor subscribing drugs to a patient?
Am I mixing up subscribe with some similar sounding word or do you just not live in North America?
And yet my computer does not have all of those and they still allow me on G+.
Well if you are as confident as you sound then I guess there is no reason say anything other then "I disagree"
But just just because I am a fan of logic I would like to point your circular argument.
You "prove" that modern medicine has a handle on nutrition because modern medicine knows of no nutritional based diseases that are prevalent and can treat all that it finds.
But you fail to take into account that if modern medicine knows nothing/little about nutrition then it might not diagnosis a disease as nutritional based in the first place.
Basically you have already taken as a fact what you are trying to prove, so of course you end up proving it.
Well luckily there seems to be a lot of places you could take research money from without stinting technological or knowledge advancement.
I used to work in the Psychology department of a university and I dare you to come up with a reason why it benefits anyone to do another study on how harmful smoking is or the dynamics of a relationship.
Still they get millions in grants.
Currently nutrition is alt. medicine. Doctors don't understand it and as long as big pharma controls the industry they never will and no one else will be allowed to use it to help people.
Of course there are snake oil sales men out there, but that does not mean that some people that are outside of the accepted practises of doctors are not treating and curing people.
And even snake oil is better then half of the current system, there are drugs out there that are being subscribed daily that have less then or equal the effect of a placebo and lots of side effects.
Well as long as you would not be photocopying everything.
Still not an optimum solution, but all it might would out pretty good for a lot of courses.
First off that would be illegal and also quite expensive, cheaper then a new copy but possibly more expensive then renting or buying used and reselling afterwards.
And if it is actually around 80% cheaper then buying new then that is better then buying used and reselling.
I have never heard of a school that had more then a handful of copies for courses with hundreds of students and always very limited time borrowing so unless you are the type to just go to the library and do all your homework in a afternoon then it is useless, and never around when you need them anyways.
And text books are already a huge percentage of school fees, so no school out of the goodness of their hearts are not just going to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars each year keeping the latest edition of every text book in stock.
Since when is "failure to 'adequately and consistently monitor social networking activity,'" something that is required?
Sounds more like something that would be illegal then something that they are legally bound to do.
"This is the way it was done when we were great."
Actuality taxes used to be a hell of a lot higher beck when America was great.
I would disagree, and say that "acts of terror" is pretty much a meaningless phrase anyways.
Sure you have "terrorists" killing civilians in a meaningless or near meaningless manner, but the US military does that on a even larger scale and throw in all the torture and it is pretty easy to see which side are the bad guys and who is actually engaged in the the worst acts of terror.
terror is used by everyone to wage war, keep the peace, or just get noticed. It is even a huge part of our judicial system (that is what making an example out of someone means).
But gorilla tactics have been used effectively against larger forces throughout history and at its core gorilla tactics might not rely on terror but they sure can inspire it.