I don't save 5% or 10% online, I often end up saving 30% or more even after taking shipping and handling into account. Remember, the cost to send it via UPS is offset at least partially by the cost of going to the store and picking it up myself.
Charging sales tax won't make physical businesses any more attractive outside of situations where I want the product right now, all it will do is ensure I buy less things from brick and mortar shops to make up the difference.
If local governments want to save money, they should actually shop for low prices instead of taking kickbacks. Or just giving the money to contractors who don't do the job and refusing to fine and/or prosecute them.
Corporations collaborate to create a new wall to bar entry into the video codec arena. A surprisingly number of obvious implementations will be covered by at least one of the VP8 patents, and the judges chosen to try the cases will not have a clue how either video codecs or patents work.
Today's top story is that Saudi Oil reserves are actually critically lo, and we will need to transition to use more renewable energy sources to replace it.
In related news, NIMBY groups are opposing the construction of everything other than oil and coal plants on the basis that everything else is ugly and might even let the poor have enough electricity to survive the weather conditions of the coming years.
Insulting children in a public forum causes parents to complain and get the teacher in trouble. In related news, the new model of ship, the trireme is entering production.
A prominent company, Apple, told investors today that it was not in their best interests to know the company's plans for the time after Steve. Unsurprisingly, this is causing questions as to why knowing who is planned to be the next CEO is a bad thing, and hurting stock prices.
Don't mice cause terror in a(n exaggeratedly) large segment of the population? I wonder how long it will take for the screams and panic to start once the mice run up to them.
Of course, this implies that mice are weapons of terror.
You seem to have misspelled "tax heavily" there. Because if there's one thing any congressman who actually wants to balance the budget needs, it's something new that they can get tax money from.
If more companies replaced their defective products at their own expense, this would be a better world. And people would be more focused on making things work before they ship the product.
$A_GAME_COMPANY has managed to get OnLive's domains seized via the DMCA on the basis that they are violating copyright by allowing people to play games without buying them in the manner prescribed by $A_GAME_COMPANY's business model.
No matter how paranoid I get about where I live, you always manage to be worse than that. It just makes my life easier knowing a country like this exists and it's not mine.
Oh wait, I'm fairly certain it has already started. Too bad I'm not going to Kuwait so I can snub these people. Still, they have all the bad publicity they could ever wish to avoid.
Today's top story is that companies are plagiarizing things they find on the internet. Not only will they steal your recipe and sell it, they will reverse-engineer your search algorithms in an attempt to more effectively take over the market.
Next on the news, Egypt gets a reminder of what the Streisand effect is, and why you don't want to be the focus of it. Also cats.
Years after $Trading_Houses intentionally create a bubble to trick gullible people into giving them money, people finally admit that maybe there were actual people involved in the stock market crash. As opposed to it being the fault of the inanimate objects designed and put into place at the behest of the trading houses
Kind of like with the dutch tulip bubble, but less pretty.
If I publish a book that has a section with someone else's copyright notice printed in it, can I blame the person who holds that copyright for any issues it causes? And if not, why can Google do it?
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I don't save 5% or 10% online, I often end up saving 30% or more even after taking shipping and handling into account. Remember, the cost to send it via UPS is offset at least partially by the cost of going to the store and picking it up myself.
Charging sales tax won't make physical businesses any more attractive outside of situations where I want the product right now, all it will do is ensure I buy less things from brick and mortar shops to make up the difference.
If local governments want to save money, they should actually shop for low prices instead of taking kickbacks. Or just giving the money to contractors who don't do the job and refusing to fine and/or prosecute them.
Corporations collaborate to create a new wall to bar entry into the video codec arena. A surprisingly number of obvious implementations will be covered by at least one of the VP8 patents, and the judges chosen to try the cases will not have a clue how either video codecs or patents work.
Today's top story is that Saudi Oil reserves are actually critically lo, and we will need to transition to use more renewable energy sources to replace it.
In related news, NIMBY groups are opposing the construction of everything other than oil and coal plants on the basis that everything else is ugly and might even let the poor have enough electricity to survive the weather conditions of the coming years.
Insulting children in a public forum causes parents to complain and get the teacher in trouble. In related news, the new model of ship, the trireme is entering production.
A company well known for releasing new models of its products will release a new model of one of its newest products! Gasp!
Also, will it have video-out capability yet? Or possibly video-in so I can use it to pretend I have a portable DVD player?
37% of reported statistics are obviously fake, the other 73% manage to get by without the audience noticing.
Also, in an unrelated story, a remarkably large number of people say they have never practiced the percussive school of maintenance.
A prominent company, Apple, told investors today that it was not in their best interests to know the company's plans for the time after Steve. Unsurprisingly, this is causing questions as to why knowing who is planned to be the next CEO is a bad thing, and hurting stock prices.
Don't mice cause terror in a(n exaggeratedly) large segment of the population? I wonder how long it will take for the screams and panic to start once the mice run up to them.
Of course, this implies that mice are weapons of terror.
You seem to have misspelled "tax heavily" there. Because if there's one thing any congressman who actually wants to balance the budget needs, it's something new that they can get tax money from.
If more companies replaced their defective products at their own expense, this would be a better world. And people would be more focused on making things work before they ship the product.
$A_GAME_COMPANY has managed to get OnLive's domains seized via the DMCA on the basis that they are violating copyright by allowing people to play games without buying them in the manner prescribed by $A_GAME_COMPANY's business model.
No matter how paranoid I get about where I live, you always manage to be worse than that. It just makes my life easier knowing a country like this exists and it's not mine.
Oh wait, I'm fairly certain it has already started. Too bad I'm not going to Kuwait so I can snub these people. Still, they have all the bad publicity they could ever wish to avoid.
People often don't know about things before they were became mainstream. It's not like AOL was at its advertising height, you know.
(Also, I didn't know that @ meant at until I got my first email address in ~'96.)
Today's top story is that companies are plagiarizing things they find on the internet. Not only will they steal your recipe and sell it, they will reverse-engineer your search algorithms in an attempt to more effectively take over the market.
Next on the news, Egypt gets a reminder of what the Streisand effect is, and why you don't want to be the focus of it. Also cats.
This just in - people still make vinyl records, and people buy them because (they think) vinyl records sound better than any other recording medium.
Also, all those 386 processors that are still in active use need to be replaced occasionally.
So long as rampant fanboyism lurks in the hearts of men, Steve Job's vision will never die.
(Seriously, look at how much people are willing to spend on iAnything.)
Phantomation: Kinect, I am your Father.
Kinect: That's impossible!
Phantomation: Look into your source code, you know it to be true!
Kinect: Nooooooo!!!!!
Years after $Trading_Houses intentionally create a bubble to trick gullible people into giving them money, people finally admit that maybe there were actual people involved in the stock market crash. As opposed to it being the fault of the inanimate objects designed and put into place at the behest of the trading houses
Kind of like with the dutch tulip bubble, but less pretty.
Logic? In the justice system? Please let this continue!
Today's theme is "Messages that should have been made 20 years ago."
They already do. Just not on the shows non-environmentalists watch, for the most part.
What does she sound like now, anyway? And what was her voice like before?
If I publish a book that has a section with someone else's copyright notice printed in it, can I blame the person who holds that copyright for any issues it causes? And if not, why can Google do it?
Name a monopoly that is not harmful or preventing competition.
I'll give you situations where competition is impractical, but ISPs are not in such a situation.