Where do you live that taxis are a viable alternative?
I saw someone at work wait 2 hours for a cab, uber had three drivers in 10 minute range (if I knew her I would have offered to call one).
My house has a thirty minute wait for cab, uber 5.
I've been areas where can companies have refused to route a ten minute drive, uber, shows up in ten, no complaints.
In the larger cities uber may be competing on price, but in much of the country, it's convenience and reliability.
When I was in New Orleans, $8 cab ride from bourbon st, I frequently paid uber surge of $15 to get into town (could flag a cab the other way, but took 30-60 minutes to call from where I was sleeping). In the college town I grew up (Newark, DE) cabs were useless, in Wilmington, DE where I love now, they're bad.
I fully expect uber to start creeping up prices in areas and make a killing, out side of downtown in million person plus cities, cabs aren't an option.
I'll be trying to compare products, and accidentally click something instead of opening a new tab, all if the sudden k need to scroll and let load and scroll and let it load, to get back to my place.
A CSV file didn't let me adjust import types in Excel (2007), but I did a tab delimited text and imported a column of numbers as text, then changed it to numbers, and the behavior was not as in Libre Office. I tested in Libre, and it was indeed a huge pain.
If it's imports from text files (where I've seen what you describe) what I'd like it them to all be treated as text, I can change the column when/if I need to, there's no reason to assume it's not text initially (as in I can't see a reason how that'd damaging).
I was really sad to see Buzz go, which I used with a small circle of friends.
If they had kept Buzz, slowly building it, I think they would have had a chance.
Use Buzz as the core, keeping it as a gmail folder (if wanted), thus making it hard to block, integrate Picassa, so it was an easy way to share and organize photos, maybe integrate Wave (with a touch less real timeness) for posting, and you end up with the core of a nice social network.
Instead they eliminated Buzz, turned Picassa into the confusing Google Photos, and put the social aspect somewhere else.
I don't know who's idea it was, but it was a stupid idea, and not how social networks grow (forcing everyone onto it and hoping they use it instead of making it something people want to use that fits into their life).
It's never happened to me, but it's something I'm away of happening (small pre-checked box to sign up for a savings club or some such).
It looks like Hey did actually do that in the past, so my feel of the site's vibe was correct.
One thing I do to mitigate risk is bit do business with what feels like fake businesses, and the constant ways they pushed extra discounts were part of that.
Also that they specifically wanted a debit card seemed a little shaky to me.
Shopping this weekend took me there, and something about it felt like a scam, I paid 30% more somewhere else rather than give them my payment info (I was worried I'd get subscribed to something).
But if what you need is space to put things, the bigger truck is far more valuable.
I suspect most people don't benifit from either though (people always ask how I use the screen with everything so small, I tell them I let my face closer when I can't read it), but the faster processor has limited use to me (I do low end video encoding at times, and wouldn't mind playing newer games), but screen real-estate was a big deal, and an ssd isn't bad.
Yeah, and you get a delete key, and lint screen, probably page up and down too.
I'd be unlikely to make the same choice today, but it's still a pretty serious improvement.
I haven't shopped for a while, and reading reviews is annoying (I've purchased "nice" product lines and got burned on screen quality resolution aside), but I suspect I could get a similar quality screen on a cheaper 13" or 14" thin laptop now. And even cheap screens are getting good of they're IPS.
I'd hardly call Retina Display merely a cosmetic difference.
I'm not defending the use of old CPU, but the display is a far bigger deal for me.
SSD could arguably be said to be more important too.
I'm not a fanboy either, I have an early 13" MBP retina I got simply for the display, it runs Windows 7. If I were to purchase today, I'd likely get a PC, but screens past 1080P weren't available at any price on non barely portable PCs at the time.
As someone in a smaller market, the cost is a very minor part of Uber.
There's also the fact that I can actually get a ride.
I've waited 90 minutes for a cab, while Uber in the same location same time of night is always under 10.
I'd happily pay 25% more than cabs for Uber (and when there's surge pricing I often pay more than that even), cabs aren't worth it (in Philadelphia outside of center city, in northern Delaware, and in New Orleans. In San Fransisco, I'd use the Uber app, but often just to hail a cab.)
I will admit, I am partial to F for weather, as 0-100 really is essentially the coldest and hottest weather where I live (and also because I'm familiar), but otherwise, I don't really care.
The feel of boiling water is not familiar to the typical person either.
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Fair enough, they won't come 20 mins out of a downtown in Delaware, unless it's an airport run, Philly and Nola were more 30 or so minutes.
Where do you live that taxis are a viable alternative?
I saw someone at work wait 2 hours for a cab, uber had three drivers in 10 minute range (if I knew her I would have offered to call one).
My house has a thirty minute wait for cab, uber 5.
I've been areas where can companies have refused to route a ten minute drive, uber, shows up in ten, no complaints.
In the larger cities uber may be competing on price, but in much of the country, it's convenience and reliability.
When I was in New Orleans, $8 cab ride from bourbon st, I frequently paid uber surge of $15 to get into town (could flag a cab the other way, but took 30-60 minutes to call from where I was sleeping). In the college town I grew up (Newark, DE) cabs were useless, in Wilmington, DE where I love now, they're bad.
I fully expect uber to start creeping up prices in areas and make a killing, out side of downtown in million person plus cities, cabs aren't an option.
When I first used Google Maps it was mind blowing.
Not because I thought they invented it, but because I could zoom in and out and pan far quicker.
I don't think google pretended they invented mapping, they made it awesome.
I'm pretty sure that's what they're doing, weighing rank on mobile devices.
I hate the auto load so much.
I'll be trying to compare products, and accidentally click something instead of opening a new tab, all if the sudden k need to scroll and let load and scroll and let it load, to get back to my place.
I just tested this,
A CSV file didn't let me adjust import types in Excel (2007), but I did a tab delimited text and imported a column of numbers as text, then changed it to numbers, and the behavior was not as in Libre Office. I tested in Libre, and it was indeed a huge pain.
If it's imports from text files (where I've seen what you describe) what I'd like it them to all be treated as text, I can change the column when/if I need to, there's no reason to assume it's not text initially (as in I can't see a reason how that'd damaging).
So, I pay $60 for 25/5mbps.
You have the 1000x faster, but only about 50% cheaper.
Natural Monopolies do exist? shocking!
Interesting, thanks!
I'd think your biggest issue would be lack of water, or hydrogen in general.
Not worth it to me.
I pay Hulu $4/month to remove ads, and don't regret it at all. Their ads were way more annoying than Facebook's too, but $7 seems a little ridiculous.
Honestly, I don't mind Facebook ads much at all, and even have seen some useful ones. They let you block advertisers that suck too.
Google+ failed because it was too forced.
I was really sad to see Buzz go, which I used with a small circle of friends.
If they had kept Buzz, slowly building it, I think they would have had a chance.
Use Buzz as the core, keeping it as a gmail folder (if wanted), thus making it hard to block, integrate Picassa, so it was an easy way to share and organize photos, maybe integrate Wave (with a touch less real timeness) for posting, and you end up with the core of a nice social network.
Instead they eliminated Buzz, turned Picassa into the confusing Google Photos, and put the social aspect somewhere else.
I don't know who's idea it was, but it was a stupid idea, and not how social networks grow (forcing everyone onto it and hoping they use it instead of making it something people want to use that fits into their life).
And it's a 30 second commercial in the front and back.
They intentionally made it as commercial free as possible. Less commercial than on an HBO show.
It's never happened to me, but it's something I'm away of happening (small pre-checked box to sign up for a savings club or some such).
It looks like Hey did actually do that in the past, so my feel of the site's vibe was correct.
One thing I do to mitigate risk is bit do business with what feels like fake businesses, and the constant ways they pushed extra discounts were part of that.
Also that they specifically wanted a debit card seemed a little shaky to me.
Shopping this weekend took me there, and something about it felt like a scam, I paid 30% more somewhere else rather than give them my payment info (I was worried I'd get subscribed to something).
But if what you need is space to put things, the bigger truck is far more valuable.
I suspect most people don't benifit from either though (people always ask how I use the screen with everything so small, I tell them I let my face closer when I can't read it), but the faster processor has limited use to me (I do low end video encoding at times, and wouldn't mind playing newer games), but screen real-estate was a big deal, and an ssd isn't bad.
Yeah, and you get a delete key, and lint screen, probably page up and down too.
I'd be unlikely to make the same choice today, but it's still a pretty serious improvement.
I haven't shopped for a while, and reading reviews is annoying (I've purchased "nice" product lines and got burned on screen quality resolution aside), but I suspect I could get a similar quality screen on a cheaper 13" or 14" thin laptop now. And even cheap screens are getting good of they're IPS.
I'd hardly call Retina Display merely a cosmetic difference.
I'm not defending the use of old CPU, but the display is a far bigger deal for me.
SSD could arguably be said to be more important too.
I'm not a fanboy either, I have an early 13" MBP retina I got simply for the display, it runs Windows 7. If I were to purchase today, I'd likely get a PC, but screens past 1080P weren't available at any price on non barely portable PCs at the time.
PA sales tax doesn't apply to food or clothes.
I'm not convinced it hits the poor hardest.
I believe it's mostly people that were retroactively put on when the registry was created.
Plea to a slap on the wrist for indecent exposure, all done, then new rules.
I would expect most pissing in public lands you a drunk and disorderly now.
Absolutely.
It looks to me like spending 2,000,000,000 got them a lot more over a couple years.
By being credible competition they won big. They're also getting additional money at a decent valuation of their own company.
Seems like Uber won big doing business in China.
As someone in a smaller market, the cost is a very minor part of Uber.
There's also the fact that I can actually get a ride.
I've waited 90 minutes for a cab, while Uber in the same location same time of night is always under 10.
I'd happily pay 25% more than cabs for Uber (and when there's surge pricing I often pay more than that even), cabs aren't worth it (in Philadelphia outside of center city, in northern Delaware, and in New Orleans. In San Fransisco, I'd use the Uber app, but often just to hail a cab.)
As to the summary, the editor should have included F (and the opposite if the original source was in F).
The site is diverse enough that it really should include both.
but 7C isn't cold.
I will admit, I am partial to F for weather, as 0-100 really is essentially the coldest and hottest weather where I live (and also because I'm familiar), but otherwise, I don't really care.
The feel of boiling water is not familiar to the typical person either.