Amazon looses money on many of its book sales as well. They sell new releases for $9.99 below the wholesale price. Many of their app sales are also discounted.
I would argue that Calvinism is not that pervasive in America. The largest denomination that is Calvinist here is Presbyterian. It makes up about 4% of protestants. If you consider the large amount of Catholics, Mormans, and Athiest then you cant say it is very popular.
Wow I was totally wrong. Republic means so much less than I thought it did. Why anyone say the united states is a republic and not a democracy is wierd. By their very nature most democracies would be republics.
I also wonder how you control for improvement in speed from practice. The first time someone runs thier speed will be different from the the 10th time they run. There would need to be controls on time of day, and food. Plus a large sample size. A percentage is meaningless without details of the test. The guy could be from a survery he handed out to handfull of people he showed the shoes too. Question 1: How much faster did my shoe make you? A) 3.5% B) 10% C) 50%
Yeah 3.5% compared to what? What shoe was it compared against? Did he test it agaisnt runners who run barefoot? The Royal College of Art doesn't sound like a engineering school. (It could be, sometimes Art means sciences)
Republic means the country is devided into states who have representatives involved in goverment. Large countries(empires) need some form of additional structure. Republic is on of the ways to structure an empire. Democracy is about how decisisons are made. Those representatives are selected by voters and they decide policy between each other by voting. Plus the president is selected by voters. Federalism means that the states each have their own goverments and those goverements have power. In each state those goverements are selected by voters. In some of the states policy is decided directly by voting. So the USA is a Democracy. The USA is a Republic. It is a Federation. It isn't Wigg, Communist, Socialist, or Green though.
He finished with a gpa of 2.3 out of 4. It is possible there was course work and he simply didn't do all of it. But I am guessing the college was a diploma mill with 300 people per class, online courses, and multiple choice scan tron exams
EU likely has laws about renting things as well. I wouldn't be surprised if they have laws requiring unused months be prorated back to the customer when a rental period is ended early. Renting also is not marketing friendly. Why rent from company A when I can buy from company B.
No, that is not why I use steam. I use it because it is conveniant. Gamestop is doing fine by the way. Apparently millions of customers flee into their stores everyday to buy games used.
Ideas have a shelf life. If Zuckerburg, Gates, or Jobs had waited then they would of missed the boat. You simply can't wait two years on any piece of tech. There are 9 billion people on the earth. If you wait, one of those other people will have the same idea and attempt it first.
I don't see people going to a hackerspace to print something out. This tech will take off when it gets adopted by home improvement stores. Then you can get your printed plastic at the same place you get your cut glass and timber.
There not designed for that. From what I read they are designed to offload the data. They have some memory but not enough that it wouldn't fill up after a day.
I think the issue for Netflix is how it worked in the past. Instead of the content providers creating the captions the distributors created them in order to comply with the law. Because of this, the captions are not owned by the content creators and can't be licensed to Netflix. The distributors are not interested in selling the captions at anything less than cost. Where cost is something like $5 to $9 a minute. The distributors would also like to slow Netflix down so they can compete.
Not even a drop in a bucket. In order to translate the film into other languages they need to CC it first. Those translations result in billions of dollars in sales.
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Or you could pay someone to drive your around. Why go with a robot if money isn't an issue?
It is called a proffesional driver. Rich people don't need an expensive robot to drive for them when a cheap employee will do.
Amazon looses money on many of its book sales as well. They sell new releases for $9.99 below the wholesale price. Many of their app sales are also discounted.
There could be a combined Dropbox Keepass attack. Would have same effect of a lastpass hack.
I would argue that Calvinism is not that pervasive in America. The largest denomination that is Calvinist here is Presbyterian. It makes up about 4% of protestants. If you consider the large amount of Catholics, Mormans, and Athiest then you cant say it is very popular.
Wow I was totally wrong. Republic means so much less than I thought it did. Why anyone say the united states is a republic and not a democracy is wierd. By their very nature most democracies would be republics.
I also wonder how you control for improvement in speed from practice. The first time someone runs thier speed will be different from the the 10th time they run. There would need to be controls on time of day, and food. Plus a large sample size. A percentage is meaningless without details of the test. The guy could be from a survery he handed out to handfull of people he showed the shoes too. Question 1: How much faster did my shoe make you? A) 3.5% B) 10% C) 50%
Yeah 3.5% compared to what? What shoe was it compared against? Did he test it agaisnt runners who run barefoot? The Royal College of Art doesn't sound like a engineering school. (It could be, sometimes Art means sciences)
Republic means the country is devided into states who have representatives involved in goverment. Large countries(empires) need some form of additional structure. Republic is on of the ways to structure an empire. Democracy is about how decisisons are made. Those representatives are selected by voters and they decide policy between each other by voting. Plus the president is selected by voters. Federalism means that the states each have their own goverments and those goverements have power. In each state those goverements are selected by voters. In some of the states policy is decided directly by voting. So the USA is a Democracy. The USA is a Republic. It is a Federation. It isn't Wigg, Communist, Socialist, or Green though.
He finished with a gpa of 2.3 out of 4. It is possible there was course work and he simply didn't do all of it. But I am guessing the college was a diploma mill with 300 people per class, online courses, and multiple choice scan tron exams
EU likely has laws about renting things as well. I wouldn't be surprised if they have laws requiring unused months be prorated back to the customer when a rental period is ended early. Renting also is not marketing friendly. Why rent from company A when I can buy from company B.
It isn't just the court. The actual law as written says it is a EU right. The court wasn't just making crap up based on what they feel is fair.
No, that is not why I use steam. I use it because it is conveniant. Gamestop is doing fine by the way. Apparently millions of customers flee into their stores everyday to buy games used.
Maybe if you totatlly ignore history. Used Game sales have existed for years and single-player games have thrived.
Ideas have a shelf life. If Zuckerburg, Gates, or Jobs had waited then they would of missed the boat. You simply can't wait two years on any piece of tech. There are 9 billion people on the earth. If you wait, one of those other people will have the same idea and attempt it first.
I would think it would have to expire prior to the copyright expiring otherwise it is effectivily a non-expiring license.
I don't see people going to a hackerspace to print something out. This tech will take off when it gets adopted by home improvement stores. Then you can get your printed plastic at the same place you get your cut glass and timber.
Those people are not working in factories making dumb audio equipment.
Why in the fuck is the Q so expensive? No way that thing will sell against Roku, AppleTV, the consoles (this gen and next) etc.
Look at it Dennis! It's a perfect sphere!
The articles seem to think its expensive becasue it is made in America.
Someone will come out non functioning look a like. Cheap hipster will wear them.
There not designed for that. From what I read they are designed to offload the data. They have some memory but not enough that it wouldn't fill up after a day.
Wait they mentioned Batman.... Well I don't know. I still think this is marketing.
This article is viral marketing ploy for the new Spider-man movie. They are not going to mention the compitition.
I think the issue for Netflix is how it worked in the past. Instead of the content providers creating the captions the distributors created them in order to comply with the law. Because of this, the captions are not owned by the content creators and can't be licensed to Netflix. The distributors are not interested in selling the captions at anything less than cost. Where cost is something like $5 to $9 a minute. The distributors would also like to slow Netflix down so they can compete.
Not even a drop in a bucket. In order to translate the film into other languages they need to CC it first. Those translations result in billions of dollars in sales.