The point is it isn't a base unit - it's a fixed cost. A fuel price increase, or an electricity price increase would have the affect you mention - though of course an X% rise in the component cost will only cause a N*X% increase in final price, where N is the proportion of the total cost the component makes up. For domain name costs N is 0 is my argument.
Remember, domain names are the base unit of property on the internet. The blocks on which EVERYTHING rests. Therefore, increasing costs there causes that cost to trickle down to EVERYTHING else. Imagine that since the prices are going up 7%, that EVERYTHING being sold or offered via the web went up 7%.
I suspect you're the one in need of an Economics 101 refresher. It's a fixed cost and hence doesn't affect "EVERYTHING", is is amortised across everything.
Because Amazon has to pay an extra 7% on their $10 domain registration doesn't mean that the price of a $7000 camera at amazon also goes up 7%. It means it goes up ($0.70 / TOTAL_SALES_AT_AMAZON) * 7000 which I'm going to go out on a limb and say rounds to $0.00.
That depends on jurisdiction. There are some places where truth alone is not a defense against libel. In the US it's a defense (in fact substantial truth is all that's needed) but not everyone is in the US.
The key advantage of hiring Chinese entry-level engineers was cost savings, whereas a few respondents cited strong education or training and a willingness to work long hours. Similarly, cost savings were cited as a major advantage of hiring Indian entry-level engineers, whereas other advantages were technical knowledge, English language skills, strong education or training, ability to learn quickly, and a strong work ethic.
Surely "strong education or training" really means "stronger education or training than a similarly paid American worker", I really doubt you can't find anyone in the US with the required education/training.
"work long hours" realy means "we need fewer and hence the cost is lower".
"English language skills" I really doubt the average Indian engineer has better English than the average American engineer.
"learn quickly and work ethic" maybe those count, but again I suspect it's just a price point difference.
Hence it's all about cost.
But when the US dollar devalues to a more reasonable level Indian and Chinese labour won't be cheaper anymore so the problem will go away - to be replaced by a few other more serious ones...
Do you seriously consider their monarchs to have any relevance outside of tabloid newspapers?
But you claimed: "The King of Thailand is the only exception, and I think you'll find that in any country who has a King or Queen.
England has a Queen and does not jail people for a decade for making fun of her, so your statement is clearly false. If you meant to claim "you'll find that in any country who treats their King or Queen like a deity", then you're just being redundant, so what claim were you trying to make?
VoIP over WiFi is very different than voIP over Ethernet. Sure you can pretend it isn't and in low interference situations all will be fine. But WiFi has some retransmission stuff built into the low levels of the protocol - at the frame level. If a WLAN frame is not acked it will be retransmitted often at a lower rate. So one 11Mbps frame gets dropped and the device ends tries again with a 5.5Mbps frame - since the data rate just halved this triples the transmission time for that frame. But it's just sending a UDP packet in an audio stream, it would be better to just drop it and not retransmit. But this is being done at the physical layer so the fact that it's UDP is irrelevant.
So the naive approach of just using it as standard old TCP/IP doesn't work so well (in congested areas).
However, the work arounds and fixes are not patent-worthy by any stretch...
There are a number of industrial uses for gold: corrosion-resistant plating, wiring in integrated circuits, etc.; its use in jewelry, too, is partially due to its material properties (including appearance) and not just its price. It can even be formed into an aerogel and employed in supercapacitors and some kinds of filters.
In monetary terms gold has value (apart from its marketability) both because it has a naturally limited supply and because its alternate uses tend to set a floor on its value. Fiat currencies can be devalued without limit; their scarcity is purely artificial and they have no significant uses besides exchange.
Other than jewelry none of this utility uses were at all useful when gold was initially used as currency or as a back end value to currency. Of course there were more ancient uses - medicine (rather low efficacy I suspect...) for example.
My unresearched naive guess would be:
1. It's scarce enough, but not too scarce to have supply issues 2. It's durable - it doesn't go off, rot, rust, etc 3. It has a number of easy to check properties which make faking it reasonably difficult 4. It's very malleable making it easy to create a gold "bar" of some given weight.
There's nothing backing your real world money either. And unless it's cash stashed under your mattress or in your wallet then it too is just a mysql column...
It's not that they have no sense of humour. Some of the cops I know do have a sense of humour (not all of them I must admit). It's one of two things:
1. You lucked out and got the all common bastard cops - most likely since most of them are (possibly that's because they seriously deal with the dark side of humanity all day long and hence end up seeing everyone as being like the people they usually deal with, possibly it's just the type of person that also sees "cop" as a good career choice).
2. They didn't happen to have the same sense of humour of you, and hence didn't know about the sources of the items in question. They certainly aren't going to take you at your word about it since if you go out and blow something up or whatever next week they are going to get their asses handed to them. Hence it's self preservation.
Still both those cases are good reasons to always "lawyer up" as they say in the TV shows (always implying that's a bad thing of course) and say no more than necessary.
I don't know anyone who has had a pleasant experience with the police...
What I want to know is can they possibly claim as the causative product of this toxicity.
Certainly it cannot be the modification process itself, since it uses natural enzymes.
Certainly it cannot be the carbohydrates and fats that cannot have changed.
Certainly it cannot be the proteins that were not altered.
Oh yes, because there are no things in nature that are toxic, hence if it's natural it must be good!
And dosage means nothing, if 1 ppm of protein X in your corn doesn't hurt you then 1000 ppm won't either!
And of course the genetic modification itself is to make the plant express the Cry3Bb1 protein, don't let the fact that it's a delta-endotoxin - that's just a name the last five letters mean nothing. (Well if you're not a beetle it probably doesn't but clearly the proteins have been altered).
It just seems to me that Greenpeace is following the formula of the religions - find something that is mysterious and unsettling to the average person, vilify it, then profit.
Yes because a peer reviewed study that comes to a different conclusion about statistical significance than the company trying to market the stuff is just vilification by religious nutjobs.
Wow you're the guru of predictions. You were only 2 weeks behind the often linked rant.
Actually, did anyone not predict this?
1. Website blatantly infringes copyright of big media companies, but company has no capital or profits 2. Said company is bought by huge internet company. 3. Website blatantly infringes copyright of big media companies, owner has huge amounts of capital stuffed under the couch 4. ??? No one could predict what goes here ???
It's like software patents, it's so patently (haha) obvious that most other people don't think it's worth mentioning.
Some other people prefer those expenses to come out of their pretax income, so that their take home income is higher at the same cost to their employer. You know tax evasion, the entire reason for perks in the first place.
You can read boot files from the flash before the hard drive has finished spinning up - more memory cache doesn't help there.
You can leave the drive spun down with writes going to flash until you run out of flash or need to read something not in the flash. You can't do that with memory cache since you'll lose data if power is lost (battery goes flat, whatever)
Might list Australian states rather than "Non-US" and the US states. What with the requirement of the offer being "for Australian uni student only" and all...
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988738/12227 =~ 81
Just saying...
Congratulations on coming up with the exact opposite meaning to the one that the statement obviously is supposed to convey.
The point is it isn't a base unit - it's a fixed cost. A fuel price increase, or an electricity price increase would have the affect you mention - though of course an X% rise in the component cost will only cause a N*X% increase in final price, where N is the proportion of the total cost the component makes up. For domain name costs N is 0 is my argument.
It's just the name of a US Senator from the 1800s, it's hardly slashdot's fault you're a pervert.
I suspect you're the one in need of an Economics 101 refresher. It's a fixed cost and hence doesn't affect "EVERYTHING", is is amortised across everything.
Because Amazon has to pay an extra 7% on their $10 domain registration doesn't mean that the price of a $7000 camera at amazon also goes up 7%. It means it goes up ($0.70 / TOTAL_SALES_AT_AMAZON) * 7000 which I'm going to go out on a limb and say rounds to $0.00.
That depends on jurisdiction. There are some places where truth alone is not a defense against libel. In the US it's a defense (in fact substantial truth is all that's needed) but not everyone is in the US.
Surely "strong education or training" really means "stronger education or training than a similarly paid American worker", I really doubt you can't find anyone in the US with the required education/training.
"work long hours" realy means "we need fewer and hence the cost is lower".
"English language skills" I really doubt the average Indian engineer has better English than the average American engineer.
"learn quickly and work ethic" maybe those count, but again I suspect it's just a price point difference.
Hence it's all about cost.
But when the US dollar devalues to a more reasonable level Indian and Chinese labour won't be cheaper anymore so the problem will go away - to be replaced by a few other more serious ones...
But you claimed: "The King of Thailand is the only exception, and I think you'll find that in any country who has a King or Queen.
England has a Queen and does not jail people for a decade for making fun of her, so your statement is clearly false. If you meant to claim "you'll find that in any country who treats their King or Queen like a deity", then you're just being redundant, so what claim were you trying to make?
VoIP over WiFi is very different than voIP over Ethernet. Sure you can pretend it isn't and in low interference situations all will be fine. But WiFi has some retransmission stuff built into the low levels of the protocol - at the frame level. If a WLAN frame is not acked it will be retransmitted often at a lower rate. So one 11Mbps frame gets dropped and the device ends tries again with a 5.5Mbps frame - since the data rate just halved this triples the transmission time for that frame. But it's just sending a UDP packet in an audio stream, it would be better to just drop it and not retransmit. But this is being done at the physical layer so the fact that it's UDP is irrelevant.
So the naive approach of just using it as standard old TCP/IP doesn't work so well (in congested areas).
However, the work arounds and fixes are not patent-worthy by any stretch...
In samples sent to school science fairs anyway...
Yes, but why did they decide to not put the $0.0025 worth of vitamin C in the damn drink? They managed to do that in other countries it would seem...
Other than jewelry none of this utility uses were at all useful when gold was initially used as currency or as a back end value to currency. Of course there were more ancient uses - medicine (rather low efficacy I suspect...) for example.
My unresearched naive guess would be:
1. It's scarce enough, but not too scarce to have supply issues
2. It's durable - it doesn't go off, rot, rust, etc
3. It has a number of easy to check properties which make faking it reasonably difficult
4. It's very malleable making it easy to create a gold "bar" of some given weight.
Silver has a similar set of properties.
There's nothing backing your real world money either. And unless it's cash stashed under your mattress or in your wallet then it too is just a mysql column...
Whereas I guess you have the following meaning: http://www.answers.com/luck+out
So I agree, it'd just be less confusing if I spoke Chinese or something that wouldn't have such fun exact opposites...
Sounds exactly like you lucked out to me.
It's not that they have no sense of humour. Some of the cops I know do have a sense of humour (not all of them I must admit). It's one of two things:
1. You lucked out and got the all common bastard cops - most likely since most of them are (possibly that's because they seriously deal with the dark side of humanity all day long and hence end up seeing everyone as being like the people they usually deal with, possibly it's just the type of person that also sees "cop" as a good career choice).
2. They didn't happen to have the same sense of humour of you, and hence didn't know about the sources of the items in question. They certainly aren't going to take you at your word about it since if you go out and blow something up or whatever next week they are going to get their asses handed to them. Hence it's self preservation.
Still both those cases are good reasons to always "lawyer up" as they say in the TV shows (always implying that's a bad thing of course) and say no more than necessary.
I don't know anyone who has had a pleasant experience with the police...
Oh yes, because there are no things in nature that are toxic, hence if it's natural it must be good!
And dosage means nothing, if 1 ppm of protein X in your corn doesn't hurt you then 1000 ppm won't either!
And of course the genetic modification itself is to make the plant express the Cry3Bb1 protein, don't let the fact that it's a delta-endotoxin - that's just a name the last five letters mean nothing. (Well if you're not a beetle it probably doesn't but clearly the proteins have been altered).
Yes because a peer reviewed study that comes to a different conclusion about statistical significance than the company trying to market the stuff is just vilification by religious nutjobs.
Wow you're the guru of predictions. You were only 2 weeks behind the often linked rant.
Actually, did anyone not predict this?
1. Website blatantly infringes copyright of big media companies, but company has no capital or profits
2. Said company is bought by huge internet company.
3. Website blatantly infringes copyright of big media companies, owner has huge amounts of capital stuffed under the couch
4. ??? No one could predict what goes here ???
It's like software patents, it's so patently (haha) obvious that most other people don't think it's worth mentioning.
It's only tax avoidance if you don't do it enough...
Some other people prefer those expenses to come out of their pretax income, so that their take home income is higher at the same cost to their employer. You know tax evasion, the entire reason for perks in the first place.
That was for February so it's more like an hour and 51 minutes :) And people call me too.
I do my yakking on the phone while I get things done. The wife also does some of it.
You can read boot files from the flash before the hard drive has finished spinning up - more memory cache doesn't help there.
You can leave the drive spun down with writes going to flash until you run out of flash or need to read something not in the flash. You can't do that with memory cache since you'll lose data if power is lost (battery goes flat, whatever)
My February Vonage invoice:
In-Plan Minutes used: 3121
In-Plan Minutes remaining: Unlimited
Regional Minutes Used: 0
Free In-Network Minutes used: 16
Free In-Account Minutes used: 0
Free Minutes used: 42
It's not hard at all...
Might list Australian states rather than "Non-US" and the US states. What with the requirement of the offer being "for Australian uni student only" and all...