It is much easier paying $20 a year than setting up a server on your own.
You save money on hardware and don't have to waste your time maintaining your server. The cloud is also going to be more reliable than what most people would set up on their own.
With prices like that I bet they start encouraging tethering (or maybe even give it away for free).
Why would carriers charge $40 for 3GB when they can charge $30 for 600MB?
Carriers base their pricing models on what the amount of data the average user uses.
The goal of the overages is to prevent people from using too much data rather than gouging customers money. If you are using 5GB a month, Verizon would be just as happy if you used your wifi as if you paid for the overages. Their best customers are those who pay the $30 and use little data.
Uhhh, why stop there? Why doesn't everyone just pay for what they use? My electricity company is totally cool with charging me at the end of the month for a very specific usage figure... and you know what? I've never complained about or felt like I was getting the raw end of a deal. There could be a set of people that would actually pay more in this scenario but at least the charges would feel justified (I don't even know if I would be in that set).
It's psychology. People don't want to be worrying about being billed every time they look something up on the Internet, even if it costs less money. It is easier for consumers just to pay one price and never think about the costs of data for another month. The caps are high enough so it creates the illusion of an unlimited data plan for the majority of customers, so it isn't different than the broadband service they receive at home. Being billed per actual usage brings them back to the days of dial up modems.
The Fed changes interest rates to control the money supply. That is what it does. If you want evidence, go study monetary economics and follow the financial news.
The stock market does not measure the amount of credit being issued by banks. It is based off the market value of public companies and the short term pricing is as volatile as any other commodity.
It is also impossible to get 100 trillion and debt and 28 of credit because for every debit, there is a credit. It's accounting 101
Every major economy in the world has a fiat money system controlled by a central bank, so there must be a good reason behind it. Just because you don't understand how it works, doesn't mean others don't. If having money backed by a commodity is superior, then you would see more countries using it.
That is why we have the Federal Reserve which job is to ensure that it goes into a steady state. They increase interest rates during booming time to slow down the amount of loans being issued. When banks aren't issuing enough loans, the Fed lowers the rates to encourage lending.
Commodities and other currencies not backed by a central bank fare much worst because there is no controls to stabilize the currency if it gets unbalanced. There will be even greater cycles of boom and bust just like the US experienced before it got off the gold standard.
When one person pays off their loan, banks will issue another loan to someone else. Banks don't like sitting on idle money not earning interest, so the net effect is that no money is destroyed.
If the caps start affecting more than the 5% of the users, companies will raise the them to accommodate the demand
Internet companies want to make sure that the majority of the users are happy. They will place caps on the top 2% of users because those users take away excessive bandwidth from the other 98% of its paying customers. They don't want the majority to complain about how slow their data connection is during peak hours and switch to another service.
ISP's used to cap internet by the hour during the 1990s. Customers preferred unlimited Internet plans so that is what ISP's gave them. 98% of the customers still think they have an "unlimited" plan and it is in the ISP's interest to keep it that way.
If these data caps start to affect the average a customer, then they will complain about that and switch to another service. Advertisements will focus on bandwidth caps instead of Internet speed like they currently do. ISP's who advertise that their services are "Could Ready" will gain more customers.
He is just saying that Android's tablet app ecosystem sucks compared to Apple's, which is hard to argue against.
A fair review would compare hardware and how each OS performs. If the hardware and OS can compete with the iPad, it will attract the developers to give Android an experience competitive to Apple's.
If it is a well known company, I expect a.com address or a.org for a non-profit to show up for the search result. If I see cars.ford, ford.biz, ford.co or any other gimmick TLD, I will question if it could be spam. They are pointless and just cheapen the brand
Just implement an approximation of the traveling salesman solution. Problem solved.
The business isn't asking you to solve the traveling salesman problem. They are asking you how to decrease the costs associated with traveling. If you can't find a way to get it done, they will find someone else who can.
If an idea is stupid, explain to the manager why that idea won't work and propose an alternative solution to the business problem. When you deliver, managers will trust your opinion and think of you as part of solution instead on part of the problem. It is the best way to secure your job.
Let the citizens vote for our policies that are obviously popular, while we decide we find new ways to censor the Internet behind closed doors. Democracy in action.
This doesn't set any new precedents. If you are being wrongfully accused, you can defend yourself in court like you could in the past.
If there was just one photo of you standing in the background, it probably won't be enough evidence to convict you. If there are multiple pictures from multiple people including video, it can demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that you committed the crime. This is why the police is using crowdsourcing techniques to gather evidence.
p>The argument for Java is that it performs as well as C++ when you either do not have the time to do these optimisations, or do not have the skill to do these optimisations. There is a further argument that in this day and age there is no point doing such optimisations because the performance edge is small enough to be not worth investing the time in.
Most of the performance bottlenecks occur in a small section of the code base. A smart developer would spend their time optimizing those section that produce the best bang for the buck.
I agree that Java and C# is better for developing most applications but C++ has its niche. If your application requires serious number crunching then C++ is the way to go.
People will reason why they need the junk that they really don't need. Humans naturally seek evidence that support their reasoning while they ignore contradictory evidence. People are looking for reasons why they made the correct decision rather than admitting that they could be wrong.
The study of behavioral economics shows that even very intelligent people behave in a way that defies logic in predictable ways. You give someone a gift of $100 bottle of wine and ask them if they would want to sell it, and most people would say no. You then ask them if they would buy the bottle of wine for a $100, then they say it is a waste of money. Logically both cases are the equivalent, but people will behave in completely different ways and have their own reasoning to support their decision.
Seeing someone sell a newsletter online tells me that he makes more money selling the newsletter than following his own advice.
There is big money that researches these types of statistics and trends in the market everyday, because they can exploit it to make money. They know what to invest in when there is high inflation and what to hold during deflation. If everyone believes that inflation will be low but you know that it will be high, you can make a shit load of money. If you are consistent in your predictions, big money will throw cash at you to invest their money in a hedge fund. There are billions that can be made.
Predicting what is going to happen to the economy is damn hard. If you always preach doom and gloom, you will be correct some of the time, but that doesn't mean that you know what your are doing. People who spend their whole lives researching this aren't much better than chance.
Money market accounts pay almost nothing because people pay for safety. Gold would be a great investment if the global economy collapses, but a poor investment if things turn around.
But the real smart money focuses its energy on how to earn more money in the future rater than preserving what they made in the past. A well managed business can be the best investment you can make
The folks who invest in bubbles aren't doing it because they are protecting their wealth. They are trying to get rich quick. People who are risk adverse will invest in CDs, money markets or Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities.
If you are a skilled electrician and have an idea for a business, you can get other people to invest in you by giving you a loan. You have the opportunity to make a lot more money on your lifetime, stimulate the economy and benefit from inflation because the value of your loan payments will get less and less.
It's possible to maintain a relatively steady prices. The Federal reserve manipulates interest rates to keep inflation at a steady 2-3% for the past 20 years. The ECB uses similar controls to limit inflation for the euro.
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It is much easier paying $20 a year than setting up a server on your own.
You save money on hardware and don't have to waste your time maintaining your server. The cloud is also going to be more reliable than what most people would set up on their own.
With prices like that I bet they start encouraging tethering (or maybe even give it away for free).
Why would carriers charge $40 for 3GB when they can charge $30 for 600MB?
Carriers base their pricing models on what the amount of data the average user uses.
The goal of the overages is to prevent people from using too much data rather than gouging customers money. If you are using 5GB a month, Verizon would be just as happy if you used your wifi as if you paid for the overages. Their best customers are those who pay the $30 and use little data.
Uhhh, why stop there? Why doesn't everyone just pay for what they use? My electricity company is totally cool with charging me at the end of the month for a very specific usage figure ... and you know what? I've never complained about or felt like I was getting the raw end of a deal. There could be a set of people that would actually pay more in this scenario but at least the charges would feel justified (I don't even know if I would be in that set).
It's psychology. People don't want to be worrying about being billed every time they look something up on the Internet, even if it costs less money. It is easier for consumers just to pay one price and never think about the costs of data for another month. The caps are high enough so it creates the illusion of an unlimited data plan for the majority of customers, so it isn't different than the broadband service they receive at home. Being billed per actual usage brings them back to the days of dial up modems.
The title is misleading. Best Buy is defending uses of the word Geek in a context that can be confused with the brand Geek Squad.
Here is a photo of the alleged infringement.
After looking at the logos, it doesn't look like Best Buy has much of a case. I don't see how a reasonable person can confuse the two usages.
The Fed changes interest rates to control the money supply. That is what it does. If you want evidence, go study monetary economics and follow the financial news.
The stock market does not measure the amount of credit being issued by banks. It is based off the market value of public companies and the short term pricing is as volatile as any other commodity.
It is also impossible to get 100 trillion and debt and 28 of credit because for every debit, there is a credit. It's accounting 101
Every major economy in the world has a fiat money system controlled by a central bank, so there must be a good reason behind it. Just because you don't understand how it works, doesn't mean others don't. If having money backed by a commodity is superior, then you would see more countries using it.
That is why we have the Federal Reserve which job is to ensure that it goes into a steady state. They increase interest rates during booming time to slow down the amount of loans being issued. When banks aren't issuing enough loans, the Fed lowers the rates to encourage lending.
Commodities and other currencies not backed by a central bank fare much worst because there is no controls to stabilize the currency if it gets unbalanced. There will be even greater cycles of boom and bust just like the US experienced before it got off the gold standard.
When one person pays off their loan, banks will issue another loan to someone else. Banks don't like sitting on idle money not earning interest, so the net effect is that no money is destroyed.
The banks will lend that money out again or give it to share holders. It is not destroyed
If the caps start affecting more than the 5% of the users, companies will raise the them to accommodate the demand
Internet companies want to make sure that the majority of the users are happy. They will place caps on the top 2% of users because those users take away excessive bandwidth from the other 98% of its paying customers. They don't want the majority to complain about how slow their data connection is during peak hours and switch to another service.
ISP's used to cap internet by the hour during the 1990s. Customers preferred unlimited Internet plans so that is what ISP's gave them. 98% of the customers still think they have an "unlimited" plan and it is in the ISP's interest to keep it that way.
If these data caps start to affect the average a customer, then they will complain about that and switch to another service. Advertisements will focus on bandwidth caps instead of Internet speed like they currently do. ISP's who advertise that their services are "Could Ready" will gain more customers.
It is simple supply and demand.
He is just saying that Android's tablet app ecosystem sucks compared to Apple's, which is hard to argue against.
A fair review would compare hardware and how each OS performs. If the hardware and OS can compete with the iPad, it will attract the developers to give Android an experience competitive to Apple's.
The only thing this will do is give Go Daddy another gimmicky TLD to upsell
If it is a well known company, I expect a .com address or a .org for a non-profit to show up for the search result. If I see cars.ford, ford.biz, ford.co or any other gimmick TLD, I will question if it could be spam. They are pointless and just cheapen the brand
I should patent my custom implementation of Google Analytics
The data mining tells the engineers what type of problems need to be solved.
Just implement an approximation of the traveling salesman solution. Problem solved.
The business isn't asking you to solve the traveling salesman problem. They are asking you how to decrease the costs associated with traveling. If you can't find a way to get it done, they will find someone else who can.
If an idea is stupid, explain to the manager why that idea won't work and propose an alternative solution to the business problem. When you deliver, managers will trust your opinion and think of you as part of solution instead on part of the problem. It is the best way to secure your job.
Let the citizens vote for our policies that are obviously popular, while we decide we find new ways to censor the Internet behind closed doors. Democracy in action.
This doesn't set any new precedents. If you are being wrongfully accused, you can defend yourself in court like you could in the past.
If there was just one photo of you standing in the background, it probably won't be enough evidence to convict you. If there are multiple pictures from multiple people including video, it can demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that you committed the crime. This is why the police is using crowdsourcing techniques to gather evidence.
Someone who conducts themselves professionally knows not to post pictures of themselves doing keg stands.
p>The argument for Java is that it performs as well as C++ when you either do not have the time to do these optimisations, or do not have the skill to do these optimisations. There is a further argument that in this day and age there is no point doing such optimisations because the performance edge is small enough to be not worth investing the time in.
Most of the performance bottlenecks occur in a small section of the code base. A smart developer would spend their time optimizing those section that produce the best bang for the buck.
I agree that Java and C# is better for developing most applications but C++ has its niche. If your application requires serious number crunching then C++ is the way to go.
People will reason why they need the junk that they really don't need. Humans naturally seek evidence that support their reasoning while they ignore contradictory evidence. People are looking for reasons why they made the correct decision rather than admitting that they could be wrong.
The study of behavioral economics shows that even very intelligent people behave in a way that defies logic in predictable ways. You give someone a gift of $100 bottle of wine and ask them if they would want to sell it, and most people would say no. You then ask them if they would buy the bottle of wine for a $100, then they say it is a waste of money. Logically both cases are the equivalent, but people will behave in completely different ways and have their own reasoning to support their decision.
Seeing someone sell a newsletter online tells me that he makes more money selling the newsletter than following his own advice.
There is big money that researches these types of statistics and trends in the market everyday, because they can exploit it to make money. They know what to invest in when there is high inflation and what to hold during deflation. If everyone believes that inflation will be low but you know that it will be high, you can make a shit load of money. If you are consistent in your predictions, big money will throw cash at you to invest their money in a hedge fund. There are billions that can be made.
Predicting what is going to happen to the economy is damn hard. If you always preach doom and gloom, you will be correct some of the time, but that doesn't mean that you know what your are doing. People who spend their whole lives researching this aren't much better than chance.
Money market accounts pay almost nothing because people pay for safety. Gold would be a great investment if the global economy collapses, but a poor investment if things turn around.
But the real smart money focuses its energy on how to earn more money in the future rater than preserving what they made in the past. A well managed business can be the best investment you can make
The shadow stats is just sell fear and panic so that you will give them money.
The real wealthy who are risks adverse put their money in boring money market accounts because it carries the least risk.
If you think gold and silver is a better investment, then you have the freedom to invest in it. If your theories are correct, you will be rich.
The folks who invest in bubbles aren't doing it because they are protecting their wealth. They are trying to get rich quick. People who are risk adverse will invest in CDs, money markets or Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities.
If you are a skilled electrician and have an idea for a business, you can get other people to invest in you by giving you a loan. You have the opportunity to make a lot more money on your lifetime, stimulate the economy and benefit from inflation because the value of your loan payments will get less and less.
It's possible to maintain a relatively steady prices. The Federal reserve manipulates interest rates to keep inflation at a steady 2-3% for the past 20 years. The ECB uses similar controls to limit inflation for the euro.