When you make an extraordinary claim, you need to be able to back it up. Someone claimed that the Affordable Care Act gave the IRS full access to our medical records. He was asked for proof. They replied "if you read it you'd know". That reply means one of two things- they read it already and know where it states this, or they've never read it and are trying to get out from under the burden of proof. I asked where it was in order to figure out which it was. Based on the lack of response, its the second.
Also, you don't seem to know this, but there's a legal document (its even online) called the US Code. Its the sum of all laws from the federal government. All of those "change section X to read Y" parts are talking about section X of this code. Its constantly updated to be current with laws passed by Congress- there may be a delay of a few weeks/months, but the ACA is long since added. So if the law actually says it, its in there. You don't need to worry about what's amending what, just point to the section in the US Code.
As for regulations by federal agencies- those are also all published. However, they don't matter here- no federal agency has the authority to order you to hand over your medical records to the IRS, that would require an act of Congress. So once again, it would be in US Code.
Except there are ways to get around that. Ever known anyone who got a loan from parents/friends/ to start a business? Spin it as debt rather than equity. Although you could make a decent argument for waiving those restrictions for very small investments (say sub-100 dollars per investor with a cap on total investment as well).
But that's fine- if you can't do it you can't do it legally. That still doesn't mean that Kickstarter is anything other than a complete rip-off, transfering risk from the business to the buyer. The way its supposed to be is you make a product, taking the risk, and profiting for doing so. Its not supposed to be you con people into giving you money, let them take the risk that you can't complete development (or that you're just a scam), and then profit as well.
They're more of an investment than stocks are (outside of public offerings). But buying an item at a discount isn't an investment. It's like coming home from the mall with 20 shirts you didn't intend to buy and saying "but I saved money, they were on sale!"
Then let me invest, rather than prebuy. Let me buy a tiny part of the profits. But I'm not going to pay to pre-purchase an item that doesn't exist yet from a company with little to no track record. That puts all the risk on me, the consumer, rather than the entrepeneur. That's ass backwards.
Which is why I'll never do a kickstarter- I'm not going to pay extra for early access to a product that I can't test and may never be made. I'd be willing to invest for a share of the profits, but not pay extra for a presale.
Except it hasn't. There's a reason why empathy and altruism exist, and both have shown positive correlation with the ability of the species to survive.
Having taken a few of them- they're a good overview, but they don't provide anywhere near the depth I expect of a college undergrad course, much less grad school. MITX is much better, and even coursera is better. The only "advantage" of udacity is celebrity teachers and a slightly better website.
Sure, they'd love to have you pay them and not use it. But given a choice between low usage low pay and high usage high pay with the ability to sell additional services, they want the second. They really don't care about the bandwidth used by the messaging app, which was all they could talk about.
No, they weren't. This was happening TWO YEARS AGO. At a meeting with TELECOMs. Telecoms want people to use more data, not less- they want to sell streaming video services, extra gigabytes, exclusive content, etc. Basically they were trying to push their phones by touting that their customers would make the telecom less money than other phones. It was ridiculous.
First off, BB was never the king- Symbian was. It always crushed BB worldwide.
Secondly, do you know how ridiculous you sound claiming that 1 billion people jump on anything in a heartbeat? These numbers don't grow fast, it took years to grow when smartphones had a huge advantage in features vs the competition (feature phones) and are only just now overtaking them in total. Moving those numbers when comparing apples to apples between smartphones is nearly impossible- Android only overtook Apple by creating a low end market.
Secondly, it was totally to do with features. BB was a powerful company that rested on their laurels. They didn't try to drive to the mass market, they were happy with the business market. When they got piledriven by Apple and Android they didn't react quickly. People wanted a great web browser, apps, a responsive touch screen UI, etc. BB took a long time to deliver, and arguably still doesn't. They tried dumb ideas like a tablet that needed to be connected to a BB phone to work. And it didn't even have email when it released!
They have enough cash that a resurrection is possible, they aren't going to dissolve in the next year or so. But for that to happen upper management needs to realize that the market has passed them up and that they need to respond. I've seen no recognition of that from them. And as time goes on it will be harder and harder to catch up, as they'll be so far behind in app ecosystems that they'll be unable to capture new consumers.
The almost 1 billion people using Android and the nearly equal amount on iOS beg to disagree. Heck 189 million feature phones shipped last quarter- even they dwarf you. Your platform is irrelevant, and that's not even counting how out of touch with technology its management is (I work in the industry- as everyone else was touting how amazing the new smart phones were they were touting as a feature how little data their users used as a selling point).
You won't have to. A third party will write their own software that will integrate with those 50 state APIs. You'll then be able to call their one API and get the tax rate, for a fee. If nobody else writes this I will and rake in the money.
There are other things we can do. For example, transmit in quadnary instead of binary (4 possible values per timeslice, instead of 2. Basically doubles your bandwidth). Remember that frequency is only one of the factors in bandwidth. There will be technical limits on that too (requires new hardware, increased problems from noise) but I think there's a lot of room there that we haven't been forced to try yet.
It was a heck of a lot of fun in vanilla, before there was honor or any pvp rewards. You could go ganking as a 60 in a level 50+ zone and know they'd call in guildies and you'd get a good fight. Or you could get a fuildie or two and camp Booty Bay. Or upper Stranglethorn and hold it for your faction. Or ride the boats in Menethil Harbor with a pirate disguise on and parrot pets out, while killing anyone who tried to take the boat until they fight you off. Or the time I snuck my warlock into the portal room in the main human city and summoned in 50 horde, then we started killing everyone who came.
I don't think graphics really caused anyone to quit. I know a lot of people who used to play Wow, thats never in the top 10 reasons. Really, graphics were good enough a decade ago, improving them farther doesn't improve fun. The main reasons I hear, in no particular order are:
1)World PvP is dead 2)Too much grind 3)Too much catering to casuals 4)Not enough time 5)Just bored of it 6)Expansion X sucked 7)Class X sucks now 8)Too little focus on PvP 9)Too much focus on raiding 10)Too slow content 11)Too fast content
Nothing there has to do with the game, its more the gameplay.
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When you make an extraordinary claim, you need to be able to back it up. Someone claimed that the Affordable Care Act gave the IRS full access to our medical records. He was asked for proof. They replied "if you read it you'd know". That reply means one of two things- they read it already and know where it states this, or they've never read it and are trying to get out from under the burden of proof. I asked where it was in order to figure out which it was. Based on the lack of response, its the second.
Also, you don't seem to know this, but there's a legal document (its even online) called the US Code. Its the sum of all laws from the federal government. All of those "change section X to read Y" parts are talking about section X of this code. Its constantly updated to be current with laws passed by Congress- there may be a delay of a few weeks/months, but the ACA is long since added. So if the law actually says it, its in there. You don't need to worry about what's amending what, just point to the section in the US Code.
As for regulations by federal agencies- those are also all published. However, they don't matter here- no federal agency has the authority to order you to hand over your medical records to the IRS, that would require an act of Congress. So once again, it would be in US Code.
If you weren't making it up, you could link to the exact part of the law.
Except there are ways to get around that. Ever known anyone who got a loan from parents/friends/ to start a business? Spin it as debt rather than equity. Although you could make a decent argument for waiving those restrictions for very small investments (say sub-100 dollars per investor with a cap on total investment as well).
But that's fine- if you can't do it you can't do it legally. That still doesn't mean that Kickstarter is anything other than a complete rip-off, transfering risk from the business to the buyer. The way its supposed to be is you make a product, taking the risk, and profiting for doing so. Its not supposed to be you con people into giving you money, let them take the risk that you can't complete development (or that you're just a scam), and then profit as well.
They're more of an investment than stocks are (outside of public offerings). But buying an item at a discount isn't an investment. It's like coming home from the mall with 20 shirts you didn't intend to buy and saying "but I saved money, they were on sale!"
I'm going to hope that was a joke. I don't have the heart to explain all of economics tonight.
Then let me invest, rather than prebuy. Let me buy a tiny part of the profits. But I'm not going to pay to pre-purchase an item that doesn't exist yet from a company with little to no track record. That puts all the risk on me, the consumer, rather than the entrepeneur. That's ass backwards.
Which is why I'll never do a kickstarter- I'm not going to pay extra for early access to a product that I can't test and may never be made. I'd be willing to invest for a share of the profits, but not pay extra for a presale.
Except it hasn't. There's a reason why empathy and altruism exist, and both have shown positive correlation with the ability of the species to survive.
Only against future gambling winnings. And I'm not sure how it crosses over years, I've never lost enough in 1 year to have to care.
Having taken a few of them- they're a good overview, but they don't provide anywhere near the depth I expect of a college undergrad course, much less grad school. MITX is much better, and even coursera is better. The only "advantage" of udacity is celebrity teachers and a slightly better website.
Sounds great to me. I always paid my taxes on online poker winnings anyway. I just want to be able to play a tourney at night every now and again.
And they'd like a pony too. Pink if possible.
Sure, they'd love to have you pay them and not use it. But given a choice between low usage low pay and high usage high pay with the ability to sell additional services, they want the second. They really don't care about the bandwidth used by the messaging app, which was all they could talk about.
Android is hitting the 1 billion point inside of a few months. They're seeing 1.5M activations per day. 357M Android devices were shipped in 2012.
http://bgr.com/2012/09/12/android-cumulative-shipments-2013-1-billion-units/
http://news.yahoo.com/googles-schmidt-sees-1-billion-android-phones-9-162220903--sector.html
No, they weren't. This was happening TWO YEARS AGO. At a meeting with TELECOMs. Telecoms want people to use more data, not less- they want to sell streaming video services, extra gigabytes, exclusive content, etc. Basically they were trying to push their phones by touting that their customers would make the telecom less money than other phones. It was ridiculous.
First off, BB was never the king- Symbian was. It always crushed BB worldwide.
Secondly, do you know how ridiculous you sound claiming that 1 billion people jump on anything in a heartbeat? These numbers don't grow fast, it took years to grow when smartphones had a huge advantage in features vs the competition (feature phones) and are only just now overtaking them in total. Moving those numbers when comparing apples to apples between smartphones is nearly impossible- Android only overtook Apple by creating a low end market.
Secondly, it was totally to do with features. BB was a powerful company that rested on their laurels. They didn't try to drive to the mass market, they were happy with the business market. When they got piledriven by Apple and Android they didn't react quickly. People wanted a great web browser, apps, a responsive touch screen UI, etc. BB took a long time to deliver, and arguably still doesn't. They tried dumb ideas like a tablet that needed to be connected to a BB phone to work. And it didn't even have email when it released!
They have enough cash that a resurrection is possible, they aren't going to dissolve in the next year or so. But for that to happen upper management needs to realize that the market has passed them up and that they need to respond. I've seen no recognition of that from them. And as time goes on it will be harder and harder to catch up, as they'll be so far behind in app ecosystems that they'll be unable to capture new consumers.
So yeah, BB is a joke.
The almost 1 billion people using Android and the nearly equal amount on iOS beg to disagree. Heck 189 million feature phones shipped last quarter- even they dwarf you. Your platform is irrelevant, and that's not even counting how out of touch with technology its management is (I work in the industry- as everyone else was touting how amazing the new smart phones were they were touting as a feature how little data their users used as a selling point).
Thank goodness, I can now finally text the last two people on earth who own a blackberry.
They probably do. Its too obvious an idea for one of the big players not to be ready for it.
You either do the work yourself or you pay someone else to do it for you. Like anything else in the world.
You won't have to. A third party will write their own software that will integrate with those 50 state APIs. You'll then be able to call their one API and get the tax rate, for a fee. If nobody else writes this I will and rake in the money.
There are other things we can do. For example, transmit in quadnary instead of binary (4 possible values per timeslice, instead of 2. Basically doubles your bandwidth). Remember that frequency is only one of the factors in bandwidth. There will be technical limits on that too (requires new hardware, increased problems from noise) but I think there's a lot of room there that we haven't been forced to try yet.
Launched with very low content, for months thereafter you had about a dozen quests you could do.
It was a heck of a lot of fun in vanilla, before there was honor or any pvp rewards. You could go ganking as a 60 in a level 50+ zone and know they'd call in guildies and you'd get a good fight. Or you could get a fuildie or two and camp Booty Bay. Or upper Stranglethorn and hold it for your faction. Or ride the boats in Menethil Harbor with a pirate disguise on and parrot pets out, while killing anyone who tried to take the boat until they fight you off. Or the time I snuck my warlock into the portal room in the main human city and summoned in 50 horde, then we started killing everyone who came.
Most fun times in the game.
They come from different people.
I don't think graphics really caused anyone to quit. I know a lot of people who used to play Wow, thats never in the top 10 reasons. Really, graphics were good enough a decade ago, improving them farther doesn't improve fun. The main reasons I hear, in no particular order are:
1)World PvP is dead
2)Too much grind
3)Too much catering to casuals
4)Not enough time
5)Just bored of it
6)Expansion X sucked
7)Class X sucks now
8)Too little focus on PvP
9)Too much focus on raiding
10)Too slow content
11)Too fast content
Nothing there has to do with the game, its more the gameplay.