There really is no fretting involved. You could save $50 on a phone every two years (assuming you keep cell coverage) compounded at 5-10%, or not. Depending on your time frame and the actual return in that 5-10% range, you could easily have an extra $5,000 to $10,000 at retirement age. Not gonna change too much, but that is solely from choosing a cheaper phone. I wouldn't want your phone savvy friends to shun you though, so keep picking the pricier device.
Unless you provide a citation, I'm going with the "prior art" of the post you replied to:
For example, I remember Rovio a while back announcing that it was making more money through ad revenue from the free versions of its games on Android than the paid versions on iPhone.
emphasis mine.
"making more money" would imply more money on Android.
You're not reading between the lines of the post you are referring too. I don't think he's really referring to consumer software or even office work software. If you happen to have some computer controlled manufacturing equipment in 1995, there was a good chance it had windows only software. Perhaps you bought a CNC machine that worked with Windows, it's not like you can just go find a different CNC controller app for another OS. Perhaps you have some medical equipment that works with windows, or work in a research lab and your scanning electron microscope has windows software.
For consumer uses, any OS will work. You can find whatever software you need. If you have specialized hardware that has software that works with windows, you may be out of luck.
Of course that specialized hardware usually costs far more than the workstation that connects to it so it's not a huge issue.
Your talking about a 2% difference over two years. Lets cheat a little on the compounding of money and say that's a 1% per year difference. That's not a bad improvement. If there was a guaranteed way to increase the return on any retirement savings you have by 1% per year would you still think that's a minor factor?
Imagine how different two peoples lives would be, if they started out identically, but one took the lower cost route like this on everything and the other said it was a non factor and spent the extra money.
I agree with you that most apps are better than their web counterparts currently, but this doesn't have to be the case.
It's trivial to check the user agent and redirect a user to a mobile friendly version of the website with a much better layout for phones. Or in the case of some sites, IMDB comes to mind, when I browse to the site with an Android device, it prompts me that there is a native app and gives me a link to go get it, or I can go to the mobile friendly version of the website.
For more complex and javascript heavy things like Google maps, a native app probably is the best choice, but we definitely don't need apps for every popular website. Why is everyone trying to replace the browser bookmark menu with an insanely long list of apps that are in effect just the website launched directly from your phones OS?
You're trying really hard to twist that fact to a pro iOS slant, but it's not working. More money on Android (ads or from wherever) is better than less money off iOS. Unless there is another piece of data that hasn't been said that the total of iOS is higher because of the purchase plus ads, but I see no mention of that.
Let's not forget ad revenue will continue as long as people use the aps, but people only buy the aps once.
Although you did mention 300mm wafers. I don't think there are many (if any) fabs that have those handled by hand so breakage is not a big issue compared to yield loss from defects on the wafer.
I agree with you that knowing the information that someone assumes you know is better than not knowing it but someone assuming you know it anyway. I think that might be one of the worst sentences I've ever written.
Could they adapt? Sure, but that requires the company changing completely and going into a business they don't understand as well.
The issue is that a company that lived and breathed film is now in a world that doesn't use film. When there is some sort of paradigm shift in an industry, the old giants are set in their ways. Even if they have the resources to re-tool and get with the times, do they really have what it takes to stay relevant? And other than some nostalgia of a long known name disappearing, does it matter if new names take over as time goes by?
Well, learning some information that is of no value to you, but is a liability to you, as someone may try to extract said information from you is something you'd be better of not knowing. This usually doesn't apply to payrolls and other mundane office files. But I can imagine a small subset of situations where it is better to not know something.
In Ujibeckistan, or wherever you are thinking, they don't use English. The "honour" spelling is perfectly acceptable and, as far as I know, is standard spelling in the UK. If you were so worried about efficiency in words, you would have read the word "colour" determined you know it as "color" and be on your way. Instead you had to write this comment belittling its usage.
You are clearly a driver in an area with very nice mild winters and clear roads all the time. I'd love to see the look on your own face when you step on the brakes to avoid one of the ditches or walls or whatever, only to realize the roads are way too icy to stop in time.
There is no alternative that will work. The problem is caused by people hogging the left lane and not listening to reason, so any alternative needs to penetrate their thick skulls.
Now, if we could get everyone to agree to drive the same way, it wouldn't be so hard. Just drive in the far right lane all the time unless passing. When you come up against a driver in front of you going slower than you want, move one lane to the left and pass. Then move one lane back to the right whenever it is clear and you can. Continue to move lanes to the left as needed to get around the slower drivers. Of course that only works on limited access highways that don't merge into other highways and that have NO left side exits. Who is the genius that came up with those?
I just can't believe this. It may be true that the market for mobile games between $1 and $5 is growing rapidly, but I doubt that gamers that were buying brand new PC and console games for $60 are going to be satisfied with mobile games and are shifting to that. The overall market could very well skew towards mobile gaming, but the gamer crowd that buys brand new games will still be around.
I don't think you have a problem with players stopping during the commercials. If you look at your source at wikipedia, you will notice that all the commercials are worked in to times when the players would have stopped anyway. It sounds like you just want a game where the action doesn't break like this.
The toughness of the hits and athleticism of the players really is quite subjective. It's not like these are two clubs playing the same game that can go head to head to see who hits harder and who is more athletic. Obviously the rules of individual sports will determine what type of raw athleticism is desired in a player of that game, but I think it's hard to argue that the sheer amounts of money American football players (gridiron to some of you) earn is a huge driving factor to find athletes at the highest level possible for what they do.
I think you're not giving enough credit to a bow. A bow vs a rock is orders of magnitude better. You can actually do something with a bow; Hunt for game, compete for sport, fight wars and battles. I think the improvement was more akin to shooting rocks with a sling over just throwing them. Considerably better, but not Earth shattering.
There's nothing wrong with an income stock as long as it, you know, provides income. Qwikster would need to implement a dividend to entice buyers. I kind of doubt dividends are on the radar for this business anytime soon with the earnings reports they have been releasing. This would make Qwikster the unsexy member of the group of already unsexy income stocks.
I'm not weighing in one side or the other on whether being out in the cold will make you sick, but there is a flaw in your supposition #1. The body has finite energy.
The body has a limit on the rate of energy consumption that it can sustain from buring fats, carbs, etc. A person is not near that rate when they are sitting still or even just walking around outside. The cold air will cause your metabolic rate to increase to stay warm, but it is still far from tapping the limits of your body. If you are running sprints and carrying around weights outside you might be getting closer to your physical limits.
The only issue is the initial cost for an HTPC vs the ongoing rental costs for a DVR box. Power consumption is not a factor. I'm not saying don't worry about power consumption at all though. I had a DVR box from the local cable company. I plugged it into a power consumption meters at the outlet. The DVR used ~40 W of power constantly. This was whether it was "On" or "Off". Modern DVRs are in fact always on devices. They have to be to monitor if they need to start recording a show. When the box was actually turned on to watch something on the TV an extra ~3 W was used. I think it's very possible to get an HTPC that consumes that amount of power. In addition, if the HTPC uses comparable power to a cable DVR it would have comparable cooling requirements and comparable fan noise.
It would take a couple of years for the $8/month box fee to be more than the couple hundred for the HTPC, but if you are in an area with good broadcast signals, you could drop the cable completely, buy an HTPC for over air broadcast DVR, get netflix or a Roku box for additional content and be way ahead due to not paying for 200 cable channels that won't get watched. If we had ala carte cable pricing it would be a different story.
The cupcake bakery made a bad business decision with this Groupon and it bit them in the ass. Groupon is not to blame for this, but it is a tarnish to whatever reputation Groupon currently has. If Groupon wants to have a successful business with good relationships with the stores they work with, Groupon needs to analyze all this data from previous Groupons, talk to stores about their experiences, and give much better guidance to their clients to get good deals that don't cause a big loss or negative customer experiences.
Have no fear, your ability to tell the difference between skinny blondes is quite functional. That is Sarah Michelle Gellar. I think need4mospd is a Buffy purist that believes only the movie with Kristy Swanson matters.
My theory is that these self proclaimed "makers" are primarily interested in electronics and gadgetry. The don't do a lot of large scale wood and metal working. That sort of work would be at best just a box to hold the electronic goodies they are wiring up.
Don't take that the wrong way. I'm all for people building things and doing this sort of hands on "maker" work, but I don't know why traditional wood and metal work isn't as interesting to them.
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There really is no fretting involved. You could save $50 on a phone every two years (assuming you keep cell coverage) compounded at 5-10%, or not. Depending on your time frame and the actual return in that 5-10% range, you could easily have an extra $5,000 to $10,000 at retirement age. Not gonna change too much, but that is solely from choosing a cheaper phone. I wouldn't want your phone savvy friends to shun you though, so keep picking the pricier device.
For example, I remember Rovio a while back announcing that it was making more money through ad revenue from the free versions of its games on Android than the paid versions on iPhone.
emphasis mine.
"making more money" would imply more money on Android.
You're not reading between the lines of the post you are referring too. I don't think he's really referring to consumer software or even office work software. If you happen to have some computer controlled manufacturing equipment in 1995, there was a good chance it had windows only software. Perhaps you bought a CNC machine that worked with Windows, it's not like you can just go find a different CNC controller app for another OS. Perhaps you have some medical equipment that works with windows, or work in a research lab and your scanning electron microscope has windows software.
For consumer uses, any OS will work. You can find whatever software you need. If you have specialized hardware that has software that works with windows, you may be out of luck.
Of course that specialized hardware usually costs far more than the workstation that connects to it so it's not a huge issue.
Your talking about a 2% difference over two years. Lets cheat a little on the compounding of money and say that's a 1% per year difference. That's not a bad improvement. If there was a guaranteed way to increase the return on any retirement savings you have by 1% per year would you still think that's a minor factor?
Imagine how different two peoples lives would be, if they started out identically, but one took the lower cost route like this on everything and the other said it was a non factor and spent the extra money.
I agree with you that most apps are better than their web counterparts currently, but this doesn't have to be the case.
It's trivial to check the user agent and redirect a user to a mobile friendly version of the website with a much better layout for phones. Or in the case of some sites, IMDB comes to mind, when I browse to the site with an Android device, it prompts me that there is a native app and gives me a link to go get it, or I can go to the mobile friendly version of the website.
For more complex and javascript heavy things like Google maps, a native app probably is the best choice, but we definitely don't need apps for every popular website. Why is everyone trying to replace the browser bookmark menu with an insanely long list of apps that are in effect just the website launched directly from your phones OS?
You're trying really hard to twist that fact to a pro iOS slant, but it's not working. More money on Android (ads or from wherever) is better than less money off iOS. Unless there is another piece of data that hasn't been said that the total of iOS is higher because of the purchase plus ads, but I see no mention of that.
Let's not forget ad revenue will continue as long as people use the aps, but people only buy the aps once.
Although you did mention 300mm wafers. I don't think there are many (if any) fabs that have those handled by hand so breakage is not a big issue compared to yield loss from defects on the wafer.
That price drops dramatically if you drop the wafer and break it.
The point is yours.
I agree with you that knowing the information that someone assumes you know is better than not knowing it but someone assuming you know it anyway. I think that might be one of the worst sentences I've ever written.
I don't understand. If young people don't buy cable, why wouldn't they watch broadcast TV. It's free OTA.
Could they adapt? Sure, but that requires the company changing completely and going into a business they don't understand as well.
The issue is that a company that lived and breathed film is now in a world that doesn't use film. When there is some sort of paradigm shift in an industry, the old giants are set in their ways. Even if they have the resources to re-tool and get with the times, do they really have what it takes to stay relevant? And other than some nostalgia of a long known name disappearing, does it matter if new names take over as time goes by?
Well, learning some information that is of no value to you, but is a liability to you, as someone may try to extract said information from you is something you'd be better of not knowing. This usually doesn't apply to payrolls and other mundane office files. But I can imagine a small subset of situations where it is better to not know something.
In Ujibeckistan, or wherever you are thinking, they don't use English. The "honour" spelling is perfectly acceptable and, as far as I know, is standard spelling in the UK. If you were so worried about efficiency in words, you would have read the word "colour" determined you know it as "color" and be on your way. Instead you had to write this comment belittling its usage.
You are clearly a driver in an area with very nice mild winters and clear roads all the time. I'd love to see the look on your own face when you step on the brakes to avoid one of the ditches or walls or whatever, only to realize the roads are way too icy to stop in time.
There is no alternative that will work. The problem is caused by people hogging the left lane and not listening to reason, so any alternative needs to penetrate their thick skulls.
Now, if we could get everyone to agree to drive the same way, it wouldn't be so hard. Just drive in the far right lane all the time unless passing. When you come up against a driver in front of you going slower than you want, move one lane to the left and pass. Then move one lane back to the right whenever it is clear and you can. Continue to move lanes to the left as needed to get around the slower drivers. Of course that only works on limited access highways that don't merge into other highways and that have NO left side exits. Who is the genius that came up with those?
I just can't believe this. It may be true that the market for mobile games between $1 and $5 is growing rapidly, but I doubt that gamers that were buying brand new PC and console games for $60 are going to be satisfied with mobile games and are shifting to that. The overall market could very well skew towards mobile gaming, but the gamer crowd that buys brand new games will still be around.
I don't think you have a problem with players stopping during the commercials. If you look at your source at wikipedia, you will notice that all the commercials are worked in to times when the players would have stopped anyway. It sounds like you just want a game where the action doesn't break like this.
The toughness of the hits and athleticism of the players really is quite subjective. It's not like these are two clubs playing the same game that can go head to head to see who hits harder and who is more athletic. Obviously the rules of individual sports will determine what type of raw athleticism is desired in a player of that game, but I think it's hard to argue that the sheer amounts of money American football players (gridiron to some of you) earn is a huge driving factor to find athletes at the highest level possible for what they do.
I think you're not giving enough credit to a bow. A bow vs a rock is orders of magnitude better. You can actually do something with a bow; Hunt for game, compete for sport, fight wars and battles. I think the improvement was more akin to shooting rocks with a sling over just throwing them. Considerably better, but not Earth shattering.
There's nothing wrong with an income stock as long as it, you know, provides income. Qwikster would need to implement a dividend to entice buyers. I kind of doubt dividends are on the radar for this business anytime soon with the earnings reports they have been releasing. This would make Qwikster the unsexy member of the group of already unsexy income stocks.
I'm not weighing in one side or the other on whether being out in the cold will make you sick, but there is a flaw in your supposition #1. The body has finite energy.
The body has a limit on the rate of energy consumption that it can sustain from buring fats, carbs, etc. A person is not near that rate when they are sitting still or even just walking around outside. The cold air will cause your metabolic rate to increase to stay warm, but it is still far from tapping the limits of your body. If you are running sprints and carrying around weights outside you might be getting closer to your physical limits.
The only issue is the initial cost for an HTPC vs the ongoing rental costs for a DVR box. Power consumption is not a factor. I'm not saying don't worry about power consumption at all though. I had a DVR box from the local cable company. I plugged it into a power consumption meters at the outlet. The DVR used ~40 W of power constantly. This was whether it was "On" or "Off". Modern DVRs are in fact always on devices. They have to be to monitor if they need to start recording a show. When the box was actually turned on to watch something on the TV an extra ~3 W was used. I think it's very possible to get an HTPC that consumes that amount of power. In addition, if the HTPC uses comparable power to a cable DVR it would have comparable cooling requirements and comparable fan noise.
It would take a couple of years for the $8/month box fee to be more than the couple hundred for the HTPC, but if you are in an area with good broadcast signals, you could drop the cable completely, buy an HTPC for over air broadcast DVR, get netflix or a Roku box for additional content and be way ahead due to not paying for 200 cable channels that won't get watched. If we had ala carte cable pricing it would be a different story.
The cupcake bakery made a bad business decision with this Groupon and it bit them in the ass. Groupon is not to blame for this, but it is a tarnish to whatever reputation Groupon currently has. If Groupon wants to have a successful business with good relationships with the stores they work with, Groupon needs to analyze all this data from previous Groupons, talk to stores about their experiences, and give much better guidance to their clients to get good deals that don't cause a big loss or negative customer experiences.
Have no fear, your ability to tell the difference between skinny blondes is quite functional. That is Sarah Michelle Gellar. I think need4mospd is a Buffy purist that believes only the movie with Kristy Swanson matters.
My theory is that these self proclaimed "makers" are primarily interested in electronics and gadgetry. The don't do a lot of large scale wood and metal working. That sort of work would be at best just a box to hold the electronic goodies they are wiring up.
Don't take that the wrong way. I'm all for people building things and doing this sort of hands on "maker" work, but I don't know why traditional wood and metal work isn't as interesting to them.
come on dude. the oblig xkcd should at least have the oblig "a" tag around it.