Of course if you look at many 3rd world countries, growing is itself a problem. Take a look at Malaysia and Indonesia. The palm oil that they produce is in many products at our grocery stores, causing economic growth and development. However, the plantations are replacing rain forest, which the Orangutan and Sumatran Tiger need to survive.
For every one an american/european school buys for $300, two get shipped to a third world country. However... They all automatically have an email/IM attached, with links for all three laptops to message each other out of the box. This way, the schoolchildren in america/europe can pen pal with the children were given laptops due to their $200.
Actually a Dell reseller friend told me how Dell makes money on the low end, as well as the high end...
They first have a large amounts of storage space around their assembly plant. This storage space is owned and maintained by their suppliers. The product is owned and maintained by their suppliers. When you place an order, you buy the computer, and pay. They receive the money immediately. The product is "bought" from the supplier, brought into the assembly plant, assembled, and shipped out. The key here is that Dell's terms are NET 120 or longer. That means that they have your money in a bank for at least 120 days collecting interest before they have to pay out the suppliers' portions.
My friend was telling me that this is why they have crazy deals on occasion. They promise their suppliers a certain amount of sales each period for putting up with this business model. If they don't meet this quota, their price skyrockets for that product.
Not to mention that this is the type of thing a copywriter at a marketing firm gets big bucks to do, so essentially you are doing their job for free for Amazon.
You missed what the actual problem is. The house is supposed to be equal representation for every American. Unfortunately, this is an impossible number of people to fit in the capital, which is why the house should not actually meet in the capital.
They should meet virtually at their own state capital. Meetings of congress are so well regulated in terms of protocol that it would work well.
Here are the benefits of this...
- Equal representation. Every representative once again represents a set number of people. - With so much fewer people per representative, it increases the chance of third parties getting elected, not to mention that filling all of those seats will strain the party ranks, possibly forcing them to back third party candidates for some seats. - Distributed Government. Every representative is near the constituents that they are representing. - Distributed Government. There now become fifty locations that lobbyists must travel to meet with representatives. This means that local constituents now have the possibility of having more ear time than the lobbyists.
The best criminals get their friends elected President. That way they don't have to acquire money through "illegal" means, they just get it allocated from the government.
Geeks are missing the point, although the interface is part of the underlying reason (advertising dollars is the rest)...
Oprah.
As soon as Oprah started giving away ipods, they became the "in" thing to have. I was surprised when my aunt got one, but Oprah said it was a must have. This was a clincher for non-technical, middle aged women everywhere.
Then the teen shows started talking about iPods, and they became the thing to have with the teens.
Yes, the interface played into it. It allows the soccer moms to use them without asking their kids how to do it. However, the reason that they are so ubiquitous is because of Oprah.
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Considering that Springfield has been both confirmed and disproved from every state in the union, maybe it is a Al Queda training camp.
They didn't change the internals of the 12", except for the modular portions (Hard drive and SuperDrive). The $1499 computer, which is the price I paid after price protection, is exactly the same computer as what I paid $1699 for two days ago.
Actually, it is the exact same specs as the $1699 machine that I bought yesterday (80 GB hard drive instead of 60, superdrive instead of combo). Fortunately, Apple has a 15 day price protection, so they credited me $200 today.
Actually, it did lose firewire. That's a deal breaker for me. I use my iPod primarily as a music player, but a close second is the ability to firewire boot from it. Without that feature, I have little interest in a video ipod, even if it does have similar features to the 3g+video.
Would it be a bad time to mention that all recorded (and heard) audio is by definition lossy?
There are plenty of sounds that we do not record, because we are not supposed to be able to hear them. However, I know of people that say that recordings sound different because the high tones are missing completely. This is on analog recordings.
Wal-Mart is requiring every item in the store to have an RFID tag. The purpose of this is so they can collect inventory by running a machine down the aisles.
However, I think it should be used for another purpose...
When a box gets thrown in the dumpster, the manufacturer of said box should have to pay rent for the space it is taking up. They made it. They can pay for it until it gets destroyed. If they don't want to pay rent for their garbage, they will have to come up with better recycling and reusing policies.
With the advent of RFID, it would be easy to determine how much space is used by a particular manufacturer, and the western world would be a cleaner place.
We already had Vista running. We called it Jaguar, though.
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Actually, a couple of those allow you to load maps. I made sure of it before I posted. I don't recall which ones offhand, because I've never bothered acquiring a cable for my GPS, but there are ones that load maps.
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You do realize that "Vibe" in the room could get you six months to a year, right?
Then of course strip search all of the (female) images that come in through the firewall.
Of course if you look at many 3rd world countries, growing is itself a problem. Take a look at Malaysia and Indonesia. The palm oil that they produce is in many products at our grocery stores, causing economic growth and development. However, the plantations are replacing rain forest, which the Orangutan and Sumatran Tiger need to survive.
Don't call those parts antique toys and she might let you touch and play with them while she's awake.
No, that's eastern Europe.
Actually, this isn't a bad model...
For every one an american/european school buys for $300, two get shipped to a third world country. However... They all automatically have an email/IM attached, with links for all three laptops to message each other out of the box. This way, the schoolchildren in america/europe can pen pal with the children were given laptops due to their $200.
Actually a Dell reseller friend told me how Dell makes money on the low end, as well as the high end...
They first have a large amounts of storage space around their assembly plant. This storage space is owned and maintained by their suppliers. The product is owned and maintained by their suppliers.
When you place an order, you buy the computer, and pay. They receive the money immediately. The product is "bought" from the supplier, brought into the assembly plant, assembled, and shipped out. The key here is that Dell's terms are NET 120 or longer. That means that they have your money in a bank for at least 120 days collecting interest before they have to pay out the suppliers' portions.
My friend was telling me that this is why they have crazy deals on occasion. They promise their suppliers a certain amount of sales each period for putting up with this business model. If they don't meet this quota, their price skyrockets for that product.
Not to mention that this is the type of thing a copywriter at a marketing firm gets big bucks to do, so essentially you are doing their job for free for Amazon.
http://developer.apple.com/darwin/
Now that I gave you that, you have to find the source code to the Application and GUI layers.
You missed what the actual problem is. The house is supposed to be equal representation for every American. Unfortunately, this is an impossible number of people to fit in the capital, which is why the house should not actually meet in the capital.
They should meet virtually at their own state capital. Meetings of congress are so well regulated in terms of protocol that it would work well.
Here are the benefits of this...
- Equal representation. Every representative once again represents a set number of people.
- With so much fewer people per representative, it increases the chance of third parties getting elected, not to mention that filling all of those seats will strain the party ranks, possibly forcing them to back third party candidates for some seats.
- Distributed Government. Every representative is near the constituents that they are representing.
- Distributed Government. There now become fifty locations that lobbyists must travel to meet with representatives. This means that local constituents now have the possibility of having more ear time than the lobbyists.
The best criminals get their friends elected President. That way they don't have to acquire money through "illegal" means, they just get it allocated from the government.
Geeks are missing the point, although the interface is part of the underlying reason (advertising dollars is the rest)...
Oprah.
As soon as Oprah started giving away ipods, they became the "in" thing to have. I was surprised when my aunt got one, but Oprah said it was a must have. This was a clincher for non-technical, middle aged women everywhere.
Then the teen shows started talking about iPods, and they became the thing to have with the teens.
Yes, the interface played into it. It allows the soccer moms to use them without asking their kids how to do it. However, the reason that they are so ubiquitous is because of Oprah.
Considering that Springfield has been both confirmed and disproved from every state in the union, maybe it is a Al Queda training camp.
They didn't change the internals of the 12", except for the modular portions (Hard drive and SuperDrive). The $1499 computer, which is the price I paid after price protection, is exactly the same computer as what I paid $1699 for two days ago.
Actually, it is the exact same specs as the $1699 machine that I bought yesterday (80 GB hard drive instead of 60, superdrive instead of combo). Fortunately, Apple has a 15 day price protection, so they credited me $200 today.
Sorry, but Apple's iPod tech specs do not mention firewire as a connectivity option. Therefore, it is not possible to connect using firewire.
http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html
Actually, it did lose firewire. That's a deal breaker for me. I use my iPod primarily as a music player, but a close second is the ability to firewire boot from it. Without that feature, I have little interest in a video ipod, even if it does have similar features to the 3g+video.
You must be slashdotted too. I couldn't find the document, then when I did a portscan on you, there were too many security flaws to count.
Would it be a bad time to mention that all recorded (and heard) audio is by definition lossy?
There are plenty of sounds that we do not record, because we are not supposed to be able to hear them. However, I know of people that say that recordings sound different because the high tones are missing completely. This is on analog recordings.
Wal-Mart is requiring every item in the store to have an RFID tag. The purpose of this is so they can collect inventory by running a machine down the aisles.
However, I think it should be used for another purpose...
When a box gets thrown in the dumpster, the manufacturer of said box should have to pay rent for the space it is taking up. They made it. They can pay for it until it gets destroyed. If they don't want to pay rent for their garbage, they will have to come up with better recycling and reusing policies.
With the advent of RFID, it would be easy to determine how much space is used by a particular manufacturer, and the western world would be a cleaner place.
Damn, that was supposed to be posted as an AC.
Marilyn Manson is in the church.
I repeat,
Marilyn Manson is in the church.
Mr Smith,
The burrito has left the liquor store.
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- Jones
Yet again some malicious code that is not Mac-compatible.
We already had Vista running. We called it Jaguar, though.
Actually, a couple of those allow you to load maps. I made sure of it before I posted. I don't recall which ones offhand, because I've never bothered acquiring a cable for my GPS, but there are ones that load maps.