Microsoft promoted the Kinect as intuitive. But being intuitive is not enough for motion controls. The motion itself must be fun to do. Thus your dance games are very popular because dancing is fun. Aerobics is fun for some people and painfull for others. Running in place is not very fun. The Kinect is succesfull if all it does is replace dance pads. That is a big enough market for gaming companies to put out games.
According to the report the United States and the U.K. are number 1 and 2 on the list. Canada is number 3. Considering the shared culture between the UK, USA, and Canada it is not surprising that customers in these countries behave the same.
What does an employed person care if their customer is foreign or not? If I change a tire on a foreigners car I still get paid the same. A foreigner eats the same fast food, rents the same property, and uses the same movies theaters as a citizen. Bringing them into the country levels the playing field for American workers. A foreigner earns the same wage and recieves the same benifits when here. At home they get paid less and regulations are looser for the environment and safety. At home their paychecks go to foriegn buisnesses for foriegn goods. More people does not equal less jobs. More people normally equals more jobs.
If we imported a bunch of poor people we would have factories again. Cheap labor would bring them back. About 100 million people want to imigrate to the united states. We have plenty of room and food for them. Not sure if we have water for that many people. Short term you would have a lot of disruption. People would lose jobs. Wages would go down. There would be deflation on the dollar. Lots of oppurtoonity as well. Local buisnesses would be able to sell goods and services to these people.
Testing is about verifing the method you chose is teaching children. It is about verifing that children have learned what you tought them. It is about seperating ignorant children from educated children. It is basic scientific method stuff. The summary of this article is stupid. Of course no learning is going on test day. But even if we switch to have children build rockets we still need to test them. If we don't test them we don't know if we are making progress or waisting time and money.
Take a village with nothing but farmers and no outside trade. A farmer in this village would have enough food to eat but would lack many things. In real terms we would consider him poor. If you add a farmer to the village the quality of life remains unchanged. Now add a service job such as a singer. The singer trades his songs for the farmers excess food. The farmer lives have improved. They now have enough food to eat and music. The service job created wealth. In day to day terms the farmers are one step closer to living like kings. Farmers create potential wealth. But that wealth doesn't become actual wealth unless the food is eaten by someone doing something useful.
For the general public, it will be a site where they can view upcoming events, filter them by type, date etc. and view details of events they're interested in. There will also be an admin section to the app where organizations who want to post their events can log in and set them up.
Doesn't Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and RSS feeds already have this down? You may want to consider using API's that hook into existing infrastructure rather than reinventing the wheel.
There's a difference between actual productive jobs that produce wealth by by building useful things from raw materials, and service jobs that just move existing wealth around.
That is not how wealth works. Wealth is generated by trade. Taking something of little value to person a and moving it to person b who will value it more. Production jobs generate very little wealth by themselves. A farmer has no personal use for a silo of wheat. They can only eat so much bread. A miner has almost no use for several tons of iron ore. Value is created when these items are moved about.
True if you have an Api where commands are unique and there are no namespaces then you could be sued if you copied the SSO. But in that case there would be no reason to copy the SSO.
Sony doesn't want to lock out used games. Sony is still making good money off the PSP and PS2. These consoles run nothing but used games at this point.
Well I am a consultant so I have two work email addresses. The one from my consuting firm contains nothing but work spam. The one from the client is all work related. Nothing from my boss, ceo, or hr. It works out good. I can basically ignore the consulting email. We are supposed to check it daily but I check it about once twice a month.
Chances are your email doesn't need to be connected to the outside world. My favorite email account is my work one. It contains no spam. Just emails from my coworkers. It is a closed world of usefulness. Of course some people have to interface with customers or vendors. Maybe don't use email for that.
Paperless Offices work great. I have worked in one for 6 years. I print one document out a year that I then sign and fax to my consulting firms HR department. The client is an insurance company. The really experienced people bring out photos of what the place looked like before they stated going paperless some 15 to 20 years ago. Desks after desk covered in folders filled with paper. They would show us conference rooms that used to be storage for filing cabinets. The place was dirty with paper. Paperless for an insurance company means the following. When you buy insurance from an agent the agent types your info into a computer. When you get in a accident the claim handler pulls up that information and adds more information to the database. At no point is any paper produced internally. Paper leaves the company in the form of bills, policy documents, and ads. Paper comes in the system via mail from police departments, vendors, and policy holders. This paper is given to a data entry person and inputted into the database. It may get scanned. If the company is not legally required to hang on to it the paper is trashed. This is what paperless office means.
It's not the government's job to make sure that prices stay low, either. They're just around to make sure the playing field is level.
I would disagree with your statement. If you look at the law the government's job is specifically not to level the playing field but to lower prices. After all fixed pricing is a level playing field.
The purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act was, to quote Sherman:"To protect the consumers by preventing arrangements designed, or which tend, to advance the cost of goods to the consumer"
The law is about protecting buyers not about protecting sellers. Another goal of anti-trust law is to keep businesses weak and disorganized so they can't overthrow the government.
Editors, Proof Readers, and Marketing are different professions from publishers. Those people add value so of course they should get paid. A publisher does none of those things. So what are they getting paid for? In the physical book world they were businessmen who made deals between stores and authors. They are not needed for this anymore. That simply leaves advances. An advance is nothing but a loan. If banks or retailers step in and start guaranteeing loans against ebooks then publishers have nothing left.
Did that actually happen or are you making stuff up. From what I remember Amazon quarterly statements show it making a ton of profit off the Kindle. I also don't remember any competition going out of business under the wholesale model. Instead we had a bunch of new ebook retailers crop up under the wholesale model. The only ebook retailer that started selling books under the Agency model was Google. Google hasn't made a dent in the market share. If Google could of lowered prices maybe they could have gained some share.
What competition were they trying to quash? Their only competition between 2007 and 2009 was Sony. Sony wasn't exactly marketing their ebook reader. I didn't realize they even made one until B&N started selling the Nook. That is when Borders started putting Sony readers on display in response to B&N. In a loss leading strategy they their profits would go down in the short term. But that never happened. Amazon reported making a lot of profit on the Kindle and ebooks. Basically Apple is just sour that because they were three years late to the party. They had two choices, lower prices further and lower margins, or collude with the publishers to fix prices.
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Dildonics is so last century! Teledildonics, now that is where it's at!
Its actually the truth. The PS2 had a Trance Vibrator released for REZ.
Microsoft promoted the Kinect as intuitive. But being intuitive is not enough for motion controls. The motion itself must be fun to do. Thus your dance games are very popular because dancing is fun. Aerobics is fun for some people and painfull for others. Running in place is not very fun. The Kinect is succesfull if all it does is replace dance pads. That is a big enough market for gaming companies to put out games.
According to the report the United States and the U.K. are number 1 and 2 on the list. Canada is number 3. Considering the shared culture between the UK, USA, and Canada it is not surprising that customers in these countries behave the same.
What does an employed person care if their customer is foreign or not? If I change a tire on a foreigners car I still get paid the same. A foreigner eats the same fast food, rents the same property, and uses the same movies theaters as a citizen. Bringing them into the country levels the playing field for American workers. A foreigner earns the same wage and recieves the same benifits when here. At home they get paid less and regulations are looser for the environment and safety. At home their paychecks go to foriegn buisnesses for foriegn goods. More people does not equal less jobs. More people normally equals more jobs.
If we imported a bunch of poor people we would have factories again. Cheap labor would bring them back. About 100 million people want to imigrate to the united states. We have plenty of room and food for them. Not sure if we have water for that many people. Short term you would have a lot of disruption. People would lose jobs. Wages would go down. There would be deflation on the dollar. Lots of oppurtoonity as well. Local buisnesses would be able to sell goods and services to these people.
Testing is about verifing the method you chose is teaching children. It is about verifing that children have learned what you tought them. It is about seperating ignorant children from educated children. It is basic scientific method stuff. The summary of this article is stupid. Of course no learning is going on test day. But even if we switch to have children build rockets we still need to test them. If we don't test them we don't know if we are making progress or waisting time and money.
PETA is for killing pet animals. In 2010 their animal shelter killed 1,911 animals and adopted out 24.
Take a village with nothing but farmers and no outside trade. A farmer in this village would have enough food to eat but would lack many things. In real terms we would consider him poor. If you add a farmer to the village the quality of life remains unchanged. Now add a service job such as a singer. The singer trades his songs for the farmers excess food. The farmer lives have improved. They now have enough food to eat and music. The service job created wealth. In day to day terms the farmers are one step closer to living like kings. Farmers create potential wealth. But that wealth doesn't become actual wealth unless the food is eaten by someone doing something useful.
For the general public, it will be a site where they can view upcoming events, filter them by type, date etc. and view details of events they're interested in. There will also be an admin section to the app where organizations who want to post their events can log in and set them up.
Doesn't Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and RSS feeds already have this down? You may want to consider using API's that hook into existing infrastructure rather than reinventing the wheel.
Given the description of what he wants to do I would encourage him to use a framework. Web Frameworks are setup to do what he described.
There's a difference between actual productive jobs that produce wealth by by building useful things from raw materials, and service jobs that just move existing wealth around.
That is not how wealth works. Wealth is generated by trade. Taking something of little value to person a and moving it to person b who will value it more. Production jobs generate very little wealth by themselves. A farmer has no personal use for a silo of wheat. They can only eat so much bread. A miner has almost no use for several tons of iron ore. Value is created when these items are moved about.
True if you have an Api where commands are unique and there are no namespaces then you could be sued if you copied the SSO. But in that case there would be no reason to copy the SSO.
Sony doesn't want to lock out used games. Sony is still making good money off the PSP and PS2. These consoles run nothing but used games at this point.
Bitches be all up in your ores. Sniffin and licken.
The black hole is our galaxy. Everything falls to the center. When there is enough mass boom star. When more mass boom black hole.
What makes a black hole dormant? Lack of gamma ray jets... ?
Well I am a consultant so I have two work email addresses. The one from my consuting firm contains nothing but work spam. The one from the client is all work related. Nothing from my boss, ceo, or hr. It works out good. I can basically ignore the consulting email. We are supposed to check it daily but I check it about once twice a month.
Chances are your email doesn't need to be connected to the outside world. My favorite email account is my work one. It contains no spam. Just emails from my coworkers. It is a closed world of usefulness. Of course some people have to interface with customers or vendors. Maybe don't use email for that.
Paperless Offices work great. I have worked in one for 6 years. I print one document out a year that I then sign and fax to my consulting firms HR department. The client is an insurance company. The really experienced people bring out photos of what the place looked like before they stated going paperless some 15 to 20 years ago. Desks after desk covered in folders filled with paper. They would show us conference rooms that used to be storage for filing cabinets. The place was dirty with paper. Paperless for an insurance company means the following. When you buy insurance from an agent the agent types your info into a computer. When you get in a accident the claim handler pulls up that information and adds more information to the database. At no point is any paper produced internally. Paper leaves the company in the form of bills, policy documents, and ads. Paper comes in the system via mail from police departments, vendors, and policy holders. This paper is given to a data entry person and inputted into the database. It may get scanned. If the company is not legally required to hang on to it the paper is trashed. This is what paperless office means.
The margin numbers I give are on the whole company. Amazon does not break out the ebooks separately,.
So the report you state doesn't apply at all. It doesn't support your argument and it doesn't support mine either. http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Amazon.com_(AMZN)/Data/Net_Margin/2008
Chart shows that net margin for amazon went up in 2007 from 1% to 3% and then sat at 3% till 2010. Then its net margin went back down to 1%. Here is Walmart and Target for reference.
http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Wal-Mart_(WMT)/Data/Net_Margin/2008
http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Target_(TGT)/Data/Net_Margin/2008
So Amazon's net profit is pretty normal compared to other retailers. The fact that it made a profit at all is commendable during a recession. Take a look at Sony http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Sony_(SNE)/Data/Net_Margin/2008
Amazons profits in 2012 are not applicable. Those are its profits under the Agency model.
2008 Amazon's profit doubles, shares decline http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2004155275_amazon31.html
2009 Amazon profit surges 69% http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/22/technology/Amazon_earnings/index.htm
2010 Amazon Profits Climb 71% http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-205_162-6151729.html
It's not the government's job to make sure that prices stay low, either. They're just around to make sure the playing field is level.
I would disagree with your statement. If you look at the law the government's job is specifically not to level the playing field but to lower prices. After all fixed pricing is a level playing field.
The purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act was, to quote Sherman:"To protect the consumers by preventing arrangements designed, or which tend, to advance the cost of goods to the consumer"
The law is about protecting buyers not about protecting sellers. Another goal of anti-trust law is to keep businesses weak and disorganized so they can't overthrow the government.
Editors, Proof Readers, and Marketing are different professions from publishers. Those people add value so of course they should get paid. A publisher does none of those things. So what are they getting paid for? In the physical book world they were businessmen who made deals between stores and authors. They are not needed for this anymore. That simply leaves advances. An advance is nothing but a loan. If banks or retailers step in and start guaranteeing loans against ebooks then publishers have nothing left.
Did that actually happen or are you making stuff up. From what I remember Amazon quarterly statements show it making a ton of profit off the Kindle. I also don't remember any competition going out of business under the wholesale model. Instead we had a bunch of new ebook retailers crop up under the wholesale model. The only ebook retailer that started selling books under the Agency model was Google. Google hasn't made a dent in the market share. If Google could of lowered prices maybe they could have gained some share.
What competition were they trying to quash? Their only competition between 2007 and 2009 was Sony. Sony wasn't exactly marketing their ebook reader. I didn't realize they even made one until B&N started selling the Nook. That is when Borders started putting Sony readers on display in response to B&N. In a loss leading strategy they their profits would go down in the short term. But that never happened. Amazon reported making a lot of profit on the Kindle and ebooks. Basically Apple is just sour that because they were three years late to the party. They had two choices, lower prices further and lower margins, or collude with the publishers to fix prices.