I suspect it's an artifact of the local climate, but here in the Denver area i've never had much issue growing tomatoes. They are the first plant i've ever started from seed and the fruit they produce is well worth it.
Lettuce and strawberries were a complete failure for me. Cucumber and zuccini worked fairly well.
It's definitely interesting, though hardly unsurprising - i'm pretty cautious about the prices i pay for the things I buy. When i built my new computer i had a spreadsheet tracking the prices of the parts and got over $200 back by using bing.
In some cases i did pay more up front for something, but the cashback more than made up the difference.
The education problem is huge. I was roughly fed the line of "If you try pot, even once, then before you know it you'll be on the streets selling your body for crack"
That statement in itself didn't do much to overcome peer pressure, but when it dawns on you that you haven't thrown your life away you become inclined to ignore everything else that was said. I got online and tried to inform myself, but not everyone did.
Obviously the costs of operating a search engine are pretty significant and the market for people who'd pay for privacy is quite small. I suspect it'd need to be in the $20-50/month range, and i think that would deter a lot of people.
Little in life is free, and businesses that run on millions of dollars of hardware and fast internet connections are going to need to finance that.
In any event, if i'm going to have to deal with ads online then i'd PREFER that they were tailored to things i'm interested in.
It's happened before and probably will again, but at the end of the day I'm confident in my skills and my ability to sell myself.
I'm moving into a role where i work with clients to understand their business and figure out what tools they need to buy/develop to solve the problems they face. I've got a solid track record and am not intimidated by the competition.
Granted i'm an application developer and slowly morphing into more business practice consulting, but I love learning new things and meeting new challenges.
If i weren't working in new technologies every few years then i think i'd grow tired and want to do other things.
\though if you'd told me when i was 6 that if i learned basic then i'd still have to use it nearly a quarter of a century later, i may never have started
Can you clarify how that works? If it just asks you to enter the 3rd 9th and 12th digits from your card then it seems like it would be susceptible to a classic MIM attack
I think that's absolutely true. If my ISP set a 100GB/month limit, then i'd make damn sure i used that each month. I'd probably finally get my crap together and find an online backups service and start streaming my 400 gigs of digital photos to somewhere else.
I suspect home users are quite similar, i'm sure plenty of cable internet users use less than 5 gigs a month. If they were to see a bill that showed them that they used 5% of their available capacity that month, they'd probably consider downgrading.
A fair number of my professors photocopied the relevant sections from their own books and handed them out to the class. One mentioned that he made enough selling it elsewhere that he didn't need to burden his own students when we'd only need a few chapters from it.
Granted we're still on VS2005 but even with Resharper it's still significantly slower and harder to work with for C# development than eclipse has been for Java development for the last 4 years.
Consider a professional landscape photographer working with an assistant.
He can have the assistant drive them to the location He can have the assistant set up the camera He can have the assistant push the shutter Canon's work turns the photons into a jpeg which the photographer owns copyright on.
I think the bar for "creating" something is pretty damn low. In fact, you could easily replace the photographer with a computer that uses public datasets to make the decisions about where to drive and which direction to point the camera.
Would that software (or the owner of that software) own the resultant photos - you could certainly make a case for it
At this point i'd say they were using their itunes monopoly to unfairly keep their digital music player monopoly.
Lets face it, if itunes were an independent company then it'd be in their interests to support as many players as possible as it would increase their market share. Instead, itunes are expending resources that reduce their marketshare with the goal of benefiting iphone sales.
That really bothers me about the hardware industry. Apple no doubt have a stack of patents that palm are violating and palm probably have a reciprocal collection. Many of these patents might not stand up to thorough scrutiny, but it effectively promotes a stalemate between the large players.
This stalemate means that even if palms patent has no worth, the people who could afford to overthrow it have no interest in doing so. However it makes it very hard for new players to break into the market because they can't afford to take on unfair patents and dont have a portfolio of their own to strike back with.
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Probably the same reason you didn't have a computer until the mid 80s.
I have a feeling that increasing their desirability will increase their market share and that will inevitably reduce the price.
Was it mantled in the 70s?
I'd say that determining your fuel utilization is basic competency for driving a car
I suspect it's an artifact of the local climate, but here in the Denver area i've never had much issue growing tomatoes. They are the first plant i've ever started from seed and the fruit they produce is well worth it.
Lettuce and strawberries were a complete failure for me. Cucumber and zuccini worked fairly well.
It's definitely interesting, though hardly unsurprising - i'm pretty cautious about the prices i pay for the things I buy. When i built my new computer i had a spreadsheet tracking the prices of the parts and got over $200 back by using bing.
In some cases i did pay more up front for something, but the cashback more than made up the difference.
The education problem is huge. I was roughly fed the line of "If you try pot, even once, then before you know it you'll be on the streets selling your body for crack"
That statement in itself didn't do much to overcome peer pressure, but when it dawns on you that you haven't thrown your life away you become inclined to ignore everything else that was said. I got online and tried to inform myself, but not everyone did.
Though i really don't think that many people would ever bother to grow it legally.
How many people grow tomatoes? They aren't exactly difficult to cultivate but a relatively small percentage of the population can be bothered with it.
Plus if you throw a weed plant in your garden then you surely will have to deal with teenagers stealing it.
I'm old enough (and european enough) that i was able to drink in bars at 16. I don't really know that it did any long term harm.
Obviously the costs of operating a search engine are pretty significant and the market for people who'd pay for privacy is quite small. I suspect it'd need to be in the $20-50/month range, and i think that would deter a lot of people.
Little in life is free, and businesses that run on millions of dollars of hardware and fast internet connections are going to need to finance that.
In any event, if i'm going to have to deal with ads online then i'd PREFER that they were tailored to things i'm interested in.
I actually prefer Bing's product search to googles, i think they do a better job of presenting stuff. Otoh i use google for all my searching.
That being said, I wouldn't have used bing in the first place if it weren't for the cashback. Earned $455 to date.
I suspect they could indeed mutate each copy in an orthogonal fashion.
If you are talking about entire books then it really shouldn't be terribly difficult to pull that off.
It's happened before and probably will again, but at the end of the day I'm confident in my skills and my ability to sell myself.
I'm moving into a role where i work with clients to understand their business and figure out what tools they need to buy/develop to solve the problems they face. I've got a solid track record and am not intimidated by the competition.
Granted i'm an application developer and slowly morphing into more business practice consulting, but I love learning new things and meeting new challenges.
If i weren't working in new technologies every few years then i think i'd grow tired and want to do other things.
\though if you'd told me when i was 6 that if i learned basic then i'd still have to use it nearly a quarter of a century later, i may never have started
Can you clarify how that works? If it just asks you to enter the 3rd 9th and 12th digits from your card then it seems like it would be susceptible to a classic MIM attack
Honestly, you'd be as good if not better with a windows XP bootable PE disk. It's a factory minted CD that's been time tested.
Wouldn't that just lead to a chain of mouse clicks that could be recorded my a mouse logger in the host os?
I think that's absolutely true. If my ISP set a 100GB/month limit, then i'd make damn sure i used that each month. I'd probably finally get my crap together and find an online backups service and start streaming my 400 gigs of digital photos to somewhere else.
I suspect home users are quite similar, i'm sure plenty of cable internet users use less than 5 gigs a month. If they were to see a bill that showed them that they used 5% of their available capacity that month, they'd probably consider downgrading.
A fair number of my professors photocopied the relevant sections from their own books and handed them out to the class. One mentioned that he made enough selling it elsewhere that he didn't need to burden his own students when we'd only need a few chapters from it.
Granted we're still on VS2005 but even with Resharper it's still significantly slower and harder to work with for C# development than eclipse has been for Java development for the last 4 years.
Consider a professional landscape photographer working with an assistant.
He can have the assistant drive them to the location
He can have the assistant set up the camera
He can have the assistant push the shutter
Canon's work turns the photons into a jpeg which the photographer owns copyright on.
I think the bar for "creating" something is pretty damn low. In fact, you could easily replace the photographer with a computer that uses public datasets to make the decisions about where to drive and which direction to point the camera.
Would that software (or the owner of that software) own the resultant photos - you could certainly make a case for it
At this point i'd say they were using their itunes monopoly to unfairly keep their digital music player monopoly.
Lets face it, if itunes were an independent company then it'd be in their interests to support as many players as possible as it would increase their market share. Instead, itunes are expending resources that reduce their marketshare with the goal of benefiting iphone sales.
That really bothers me about the hardware industry. Apple no doubt have a stack of patents that palm are violating and palm probably have a reciprocal collection. Many of these patents might not stand up to thorough scrutiny, but it effectively promotes a stalemate between the large players.
This stalemate means that even if palms patent has no worth, the people who could afford to overthrow it have no interest in doing so. However it makes it very hard for new players to break into the market because they can't afford to take on unfair patents and dont have a portfolio of their own to strike back with.
Apple have 90% of the hard drive music player market and about 70% of the overall market.
Windows has about an 88% market share and by most standards that's enough to restrict microsoft from using it to force its way into other markets
So if microsoft released an update that deliberately degraded mac and linux access to windows shared files, you'd similarly agree that was legal.
That's undoubtedly a valid opinion, although i don't feel unbridled capitalism is the best course of action.