It can't happen.
1. it's not handicap compatible nor does it offer wheelchair assistance that a driver would.
2. while driver expense will go down the maintenance expense will rise on account of shorter maintenance cycles to check damages from a bump in the road etc.
3. Rider safety is decreased on the van level as you can't protect passengers from each other.
What can happen,
primary is that Drivers can be paid less because they now do less.
But questions will remain
1. to sub out liability can they make it so when passengers are present one of them will be behind the wheel and driving with aid of computer unless passenger is intoxicated
2. what happens when passenger falls asleep and doesn't leave the car
3. what happens if passenger dies during travel.
4. what happens when passenger needs emergency assistance
I can't really see a city like san francisco being all about the money in this case. It's really all about following the rules that everyone else does. If you airBNB your place you increase stress on city services, traffic, parking, sewer, Police, fire, etc. You also run the risk of safety violations and you are basically increasing the rent pricing of which the city has very specific rent control over. Which if you took advantage of the rent controlled apartments in the city you could technically make a killing on those apartments through AIRBNB. Those rent controls are there to help low income households live in the city they wouldn't be able to otherwise or continue to live in a home they've rented for 30 years etc. keeping people a part of the community rather than ripping it apart.
Cupertino is pretty small, and the number of actual stores in cupertino is pretty low. You would think they'd promote more apple buying within the city.
Yea, they have money, and they have a responsibility to their investors. They also brought a ton of money into the city simply through sheer number of jobs created in the local city. Should they get tax breaks? Yes. Should they pay taxes. not more than anyone else in the city.
It does to some extent, I think it more or less requires and understanding an experience of how to plumb pipes in the way the buyer wants to do the project.
It's not that hard to see a beam. There are a number of different devices that would give you this ability for under 500 bucks. Even if it was outside the visible spectrum, it wouldn't be hard to get vision devices that would allow a user to understand what they were seeing.
I figure someone will simply macgyver it using mirrors to bypass mirrors or just well polished steel and basically just make themselves a hole through the fence.
I'd also wonder what happens if the reflective part of a potatoe chip bag went through. Would it set off false positives.
Video, an update of any kind these days. If you have more than 2 IP entertainment devices. 20Mbps is reasonably good for up to around 3-5 users. Once you get beyond that, you have to enable QOS in order to maintain a consistent user experience.
Am I the only one that thinks they should have named the Mobile Operating System Cortana? This would do a wonderful number of things.
1. it sets the expectation that this is a mobile OS with a voice interface
2. All UI improvements and integration can be focused on Cortana, and Cortana integration. Today it's windows or Microsoft, and with that carries a certain ahh man among developers product marketing managers, C levels, etc. It's not that Microsoft is bad, it's just associated with a lot of work. Cortana can be the Catalyst for windows mobile cross platform development. Just like iOS brought people to MAC Cortana can bring people to windows. Just like Continuum which sounds cool but really can't be associated with Microsoft by a normal user. Whereas if the name were used with Xbox user adoption would be much much higher.
3. Refreshes the product marketing, ideas, platform and creates something that Microsoft could ultimately spin off.
The real difference comes when you become a power user. IE the person who can actually use all 16gb of ram with just office applications and chrome. Or if you go the direction of Video and photo editing.
This contract is better than most cell phone companies. Because if you pay it off sooner you pay less, and the interest rate equivalent that you are paying is roughly about 5-10 percent which is nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Only if you pay retail pricing. You can get aftermarket drive on ebay for a bit less than retail, and its the same damn drive. I used to work for Microsoft and it was cheaper for me to get one on ebay than to buy through the msft store.
I think we need to take a gander at interest rates. At the retail prices you pay roughly 50-60 bucks more over 2 years. Considering that the bundle is roughly about 400 when you take tax into account. You are paying roughly 5-10 percent interest. Thats better than some student loans these days. So in reality, this bundle deal isn't all that bad. Basically Microsoft is making 5-10 percent on their money invested in you as the consumer. If you ETF you pay less pretty simple setup. It's actually better than most of the cell phone deals out there.
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It can't happen. 1. it's not handicap compatible nor does it offer wheelchair assistance that a driver would. 2. while driver expense will go down the maintenance expense will rise on account of shorter maintenance cycles to check damages from a bump in the road etc. 3. Rider safety is decreased on the van level as you can't protect passengers from each other. What can happen, primary is that Drivers can be paid less because they now do less. But questions will remain 1. to sub out liability can they make it so when passengers are present one of them will be behind the wheel and driving with aid of computer unless passenger is intoxicated 2. what happens when passenger falls asleep and doesn't leave the car 3. what happens if passenger dies during travel. 4. what happens when passenger needs emergency assistance
I can't really see a city like san francisco being all about the money in this case. It's really all about following the rules that everyone else does. If you airBNB your place you increase stress on city services, traffic, parking, sewer, Police, fire, etc. You also run the risk of safety violations and you are basically increasing the rent pricing of which the city has very specific rent control over. Which if you took advantage of the rent controlled apartments in the city you could technically make a killing on those apartments through AIRBNB. Those rent controls are there to help low income households live in the city they wouldn't be able to otherwise or continue to live in a home they've rented for 30 years etc. keeping people a part of the community rather than ripping it apart.
Cupertino is pretty small, and the number of actual stores in cupertino is pretty low. You would think they'd promote more apple buying within the city.
Yea, they have money, and they have a responsibility to their investors. They also brought a ton of money into the city simply through sheer number of jobs created in the local city. Should they get tax breaks? Yes. Should they pay taxes. not more than anyone else in the city.
It does to some extent, I think it more or less requires and understanding an experience of how to plumb pipes in the way the buyer wants to do the project.
It's not that hard to see a beam. There are a number of different devices that would give you this ability for under 500 bucks. Even if it was outside the visible spectrum, it wouldn't be hard to get vision devices that would allow a user to understand what they were seeing.
I figure someone will simply macgyver it using mirrors to bypass mirrors or just well polished steel and basically just make themselves a hole through the fence. I'd also wonder what happens if the reflective part of a potatoe chip bag went through. Would it set off false positives.
Video, an update of any kind these days. If you have more than 2 IP entertainment devices. 20Mbps is reasonably good for up to around 3-5 users. Once you get beyond that, you have to enable QOS in order to maintain a consistent user experience.
Am I the only one that thinks they should have named the Mobile Operating System Cortana? This would do a wonderful number of things. 1. it sets the expectation that this is a mobile OS with a voice interface 2. All UI improvements and integration can be focused on Cortana, and Cortana integration. Today it's windows or Microsoft, and with that carries a certain ahh man among developers product marketing managers, C levels, etc. It's not that Microsoft is bad, it's just associated with a lot of work. Cortana can be the Catalyst for windows mobile cross platform development. Just like iOS brought people to MAC Cortana can bring people to windows. Just like Continuum which sounds cool but really can't be associated with Microsoft by a normal user. Whereas if the name were used with Xbox user adoption would be much much higher. 3. Refreshes the product marketing, ideas, platform and creates something that Microsoft could ultimately spin off.
The best part though, press hold, remove. Bloatware is gone easy and fast.
The real difference comes when you become a power user. IE the person who can actually use all 16gb of ram with just office applications and chrome. Or if you go the direction of Video and photo editing.
This contract is better than most cell phone companies. Because if you pay it off sooner you pay less, and the interest rate equivalent that you are paying is roughly about 5-10 percent which is nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Only if you pay retail pricing. You can get aftermarket drive on ebay for a bit less than retail, and its the same damn drive. I used to work for Microsoft and it was cheaper for me to get one on ebay than to buy through the msft store.
I think we need to take a gander at interest rates. At the retail prices you pay roughly 50-60 bucks more over 2 years. Considering that the bundle is roughly about 400 when you take tax into account. You are paying roughly 5-10 percent interest. Thats better than some student loans these days. So in reality, this bundle deal isn't all that bad. Basically Microsoft is making 5-10 percent on their money invested in you as the consumer. If you ETF you pay less pretty simple setup. It's actually better than most of the cell phone deals out there.