Wrong. If you buy a plan, you get 2GB of data for $25, and $10 for GB if you go over (http://www.virginmobile.ca/en/features/features-summary.html#deviceType_DATASMRT)
At Verizon, not only is id $50 for the first GB, but it's $15/GB after that. The only way to get it cheaper is to guarantee the plan each month, up to $100 for 12GB. You have to use more than 8GB per month for the Verizon plan to be cheaper per GB.
Which is great if you use a lot of text or voice or tethering on your non-iPad devices (since tethering is free on iPads already). Adding a $20 texting or $40 unlimited minutes plan is like adding tits on a boar - it's just a useless waste of money.
Now, if you are an unlimited kind of person and you have a hotspot or want to tether your phone (and don't want to cheat), this is fantastic. It's like they've offered you lube after raping you dry for so many years. You're still getting fucked, and now it's mostly just humiliating instead of being both humiliating AND painful.
I have two smartphones with data on AT&T for $100/mo. I could add any additional dumb phones for $10 each and any smart phone for $25 under the plan I'm on ($10 phone + $15 minimum data plan).
The new V plan is $130 for the two phones, plus $40 for every extra smart phone. I'd say the $360/yr extra for a family with 2 phones is not a great deal, nor is the extra $180 for every additional smart phone. To be fair, every phone on my ATT plan shares the original pool of voice minutes (which is north of 3000-4000 with rollover), but on V that $40 for a smart phone buys you exactly zero extra data.
It's $40 for a smartphone, whether you use data or voice or texting. Plus the cost of data. They are requiring everyone to have an unlimited voice+text plan (ex: neither my wife or I have texting - it's actually blocked at our request - and we share 700 minutes and have never gone over) regardless of whether you use it or not. They understand that there are other services (like iMessage and Google Voice) which are cutting into their texting revenue and voice revenue, so now they're going to require you pay the full price just to turn the handset on.
2GB for $60 is close to what you pay for two individual 1GB plans (presuming you weren't on the double your data plan), so that's ever so marginally better.
Now, I actually have ATT right now, and was considering switching to Verizon (both iPads are Verizon - better terms for payg data). I pay $60 (less $10 corp discount) for my "family" plan with no texts and 700 minutes. Every additional phone is $10, regardless of type. Smartphones require a data plan, and we each have the $15/mo plan (200MB; enough 11 out of 12 months of the year, since we don't stream). So a dumb phone is $10 extra and a smart phone is $25 extra. The verizon plan is going to be $50 minimum data per month and $40 per smart phone? Ouch.
Why not use an external battery solution? I would expect a Hyperjuice pack to work. It's not like you're going to be freed from carrying an extra battery around, so unless you're in a place where you just can't be tethered to your backpack you'll be okay.
I'd be more disappointed that the new MBP consumes 50% more power than the previous version (7h runtime with a 94Wh battery vs the old MBP at 7h with a 60 wh battery)
Not only will it drive a 2560x1600 display, but will drive three displays with a combined resolution of 4960x1600. I know because I'm typing on it now - Dell 30" with a portrait 20" 4:3 (1200x1600) on either side. Heck, $150 is what I paid for my 5750 at least 2 years ago, I presume they're less now.
Taxes are infinitely dipped. You get paid, and 1/3 goes to taxes, then you buy a car and (aside from paying sales and registration taxes) the dealership pays taxes, then the dealership owner gets his profits and pays 1/3 of that in taxes and then buys a boat and (aside from paying the luxury tax and sales tax) the boat salesman gets his commission and pays taxes, then buys dinner and (aside from liquor and sales and meals taxes) the server gets a tip (and won't claim it, so won't pay taxes) and the restaurant makes money, and the restaurant owner gets his profit and pays 1/3 of that in taxes...
The taxes on a single dollar could, taken this logic, cost $10 in taxes for a year. The point is that for every transaction, someone has benefitted from the protections and advantages afforded by the programs which are government funded. It might be safety from invasion (military), or maybe the person spending the money is on welfare (money straight from the gov't), or the land you own is protected through zoning laws from being used in a way that is incompatible with your business, or the item you sell (like a car) would be useless without government-maintained roads, or you sell American Widgets, which are protected from foreign competition by the Widget Importation Limitation Act.
Every time you buy or sell stock, or a home, or anything that uses a broker, the people who made that transaction possible get paid. Twice, actually, since the buyer and the seller pay their brokers respectively for the same transaction, even if that broker is the same person/entity. The government works the same way, after a fashion. The idea being that if you are benefiting from the governments services, and you have the resources to pay (i.e. you make money), you are expected to put a certain percentage back in the master kitty.
Jobs for Americans mean nothing if it's not a job for you and your friends. The US has added something like 2-3 million jobs in the last 3 years, but unless you go to the towns where those jobs were added, most people will say that there are no jobs to be had.
These men are not remembered for their ruthless business tactics or their domination of the oil and steel industries, but for the legacy of philanthropic work they left behind.
That's the biggest problems with this kind of tax - it just ends up in the General Fund and they use it for whatever. It's like lottery proceeds, which are supposed to go to the schools. Well, they do. Except that as a result they don't have to pay as much out of the general fund for schools - it's not like they determine a realistic budget for schools, and then say "and we have $3 Billion extra from the lottery, so we're going to so these special projects this year."
Their idea is sound, but in three years it will just be another revenue source.
My question is if they'll try to pull a tobacco settlement out of this: tax the problem, then double dip by suing the product makers for the public healthcare costs.
Actually, you should hire smart programmers with good social skills. For all the useless shills in sales, the true gems are the ones that excel in both. You'll find that the best freelancers are actually these people because they can do the work and sell their services.
Sadly, this isn't what the OP wanted. It sounds like he's got a gaggle of salespeople who are not doing terribly well and the meager feedback that they are getting is that their salespeople just can't connect with the end users enough to close the sale. Nobody likes to fire a bunch of people and look for new hires.
My daughter just finished 4th grade (9 years old), and I recall the topics in science being:
Chemical elements - descriptions of common types Phases of matter Astronomy and planetary makeup Magnetism, electromagnetism, and simple circuit theory
This is in a regular public curriculum and standard stuff for Virginia leading to the states standardized testing in science at the end of 5th grade. Heck, last year we did the science fair and she chose to do a short presentation on echolocation. Granted, her favorite part was picking out pictures of dolphins, but she chose the topic based on non-fiction books she chose by herself in the school library. She also did all the math for dividing the time of flight of a clap (measured in seconds, scaled off of the printout of an Audacity screenshot) to estimate the speed of sound in air, in decimals.
This year they did more work in decimals, and a huge unit on fractions, including lowest common denominator, equivalent fractions, and addition, subtraction and multiplication of fractions.
The honors group does a lot more math, but that's not her forte - she excels in language arts and history, for which there is no honors program at her school. Not that it matters. We do stuff with her to foster those talents, along with helping her keep up with the math whizes.
Really? I thought all the expensive ones were drug-ridden. Not the crack-smoking in the halls between the gang shootouts, but the I-have-the-money-to-buy-the-stuff-and-mom-and-dad-are-never-around weed/coke/pills/sex party stuff that is just pervasive in expensive religious schools. It's all fun and games until they're hocking their (and your) fancy electronics to pay for their habit.
...or mortgage insurance in case the buyers fail to repay their mortgages and the buildings cannot be resold for more than the outstanding lien. There was a huge market in reinsurance for that product, and that turned out just fine!
Facebook has their market share because they were available and easy when the great unwashed masses of old people decided it would be cool to get on a social site. Right place, right time.
The reason facebook will fail is because someone will not just make a better site - it could be argued that Google has done a technically "better" site at least twice now. Facebook should be worried when all of the old people are at another site. MySpace died because they hung their hat on youth - and youth is very trendy and fickle. It's no big deal for them to change overnight, and they adapt very quickly. Facebook has all the people for whom moving to another site that's "better" has no payoff unless all of their friends are already there as well.
The momentum is strong with the facebook users. These are the folks who still have aol and yahoo email accounts. Until you get them all to move, none of them will bother.
300? I think my sister shoots that while they're eating breakfast. A typical day for her is probably north of 1000. Kids these days.
*geezer mode* Why I remember when I went to Europe for three weeks as a teen, and shot nearly a dozen rolls of film - nearly 300 pictures in all. I though I'd go broke developing all the film. */geezer mode*
Using the shopping function is really a desperation measure - the prices are rarely "good" and the vendor list is exceedingly short. Anything that looks interesting is usually wrong. This is really on loss, since it's one of the few google services that simply isn't worth your time unless you need something obscure and you don't care where is comes from or how much it costs.
Have you seen how many kids these crazy fundamentalists are having? They're multiplying like fucking rabbits, and they're "homeschooling" to ensure that they don't learn any of this blasphemy we call science. I worry what the world will look like in 50 years.
46% of the US population rejects the entire foundation of modern life (science), and you wonder why it's news for nerds? It shows exactly how small a space the technologically literate occupy in this world.
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Wrong. If you buy a plan, you get 2GB of data for $25, and $10 for GB if you go over (http://www.virginmobile.ca/en/features/features-summary.html#deviceType_DATASMRT)
At Verizon, not only is id $50 for the first GB, but it's $15/GB after that. The only way to get it cheaper is to guarantee the plan each month, up to $100 for 12GB. You have to use more than 8GB per month for the Verizon plan to be cheaper per GB.
Which is great if you use a lot of text or voice or tethering on your non-iPad devices (since tethering is free on iPads already). Adding a $20 texting or $40 unlimited minutes plan is like adding tits on a boar - it's just a useless waste of money.
Now, if you are an unlimited kind of person and you have a hotspot or want to tether your phone (and don't want to cheat), this is fantastic. It's like they've offered you lube after raping you dry for so many years. You're still getting fucked, and now it's mostly just humiliating instead of being both humiliating AND painful.
I have two smartphones with data on AT&T for $100/mo. I could add any additional dumb phones for $10 each and any smart phone for $25 under the plan I'm on ($10 phone + $15 minimum data plan).
The new V plan is $130 for the two phones, plus $40 for every extra smart phone. I'd say the $360/yr extra for a family with 2 phones is not a great deal, nor is the extra $180 for every additional smart phone. To be fair, every phone on my ATT plan shares the original pool of voice minutes (which is north of 3000-4000 with rollover), but on V that $40 for a smart phone buys you exactly zero extra data.
It's $40 for a smartphone, whether you use data or voice or texting. Plus the cost of data. They are requiring everyone to have an unlimited voice+text plan (ex: neither my wife or I have texting - it's actually blocked at our request - and we share 700 minutes and have never gone over) regardless of whether you use it or not. They understand that there are other services (like iMessage and Google Voice) which are cutting into their texting revenue and voice revenue, so now they're going to require you pay the full price just to turn the handset on.
2GB for $60 is close to what you pay for two individual 1GB plans (presuming you weren't on the double your data plan), so that's ever so marginally better.
Now, I actually have ATT right now, and was considering switching to Verizon (both iPads are Verizon - better terms for payg data). I pay $60 (less $10 corp discount) for my "family" plan with no texts and 700 minutes. Every additional phone is $10, regardless of type. Smartphones require a data plan, and we each have the $15/mo plan (200MB; enough 11 out of 12 months of the year, since we don't stream). So a dumb phone is $10 extra and a smart phone is $25 extra. The verizon plan is going to be $50 minimum data per month and $40 per smart phone? Ouch.
Why not use an external battery solution? I would expect a Hyperjuice pack to work. It's not like you're going to be freed from carrying an extra battery around, so unless you're in a place where you just can't be tethered to your backpack you'll be okay.
I'd be more disappointed that the new MBP consumes 50% more power than the previous version (7h runtime with a 94Wh battery vs the old MBP at 7h with a 60 wh battery)
Not only will it drive a 2560x1600 display, but will drive three displays with a combined resolution of 4960x1600. I know because I'm typing on it now - Dell 30" with a portrait 20" 4:3 (1200x1600) on either side. Heck, $150 is what I paid for my 5750 at least 2 years ago, I presume they're less now.
Taxes are infinitely dipped. You get paid, and 1/3 goes to taxes, then you buy a car and (aside from paying sales and registration taxes) the dealership pays taxes, then the dealership owner gets his profits and pays 1/3 of that in taxes and then buys a boat and (aside from paying the luxury tax and sales tax) the boat salesman gets his commission and pays taxes, then buys dinner and (aside from liquor and sales and meals taxes) the server gets a tip (and won't claim it, so won't pay taxes) and the restaurant makes money, and the restaurant owner gets his profit and pays 1/3 of that in taxes...
The taxes on a single dollar could, taken this logic, cost $10 in taxes for a year. The point is that for every transaction, someone has benefitted from the protections and advantages afforded by the programs which are government funded. It might be safety from invasion (military), or maybe the person spending the money is on welfare (money straight from the gov't), or the land you own is protected through zoning laws from being used in a way that is incompatible with your business, or the item you sell (like a car) would be useless without government-maintained roads, or you sell American Widgets, which are protected from foreign competition by the Widget Importation Limitation Act.
Every time you buy or sell stock, or a home, or anything that uses a broker, the people who made that transaction possible get paid. Twice, actually, since the buyer and the seller pay their brokers respectively for the same transaction, even if that broker is the same person/entity. The government works the same way, after a fashion. The idea being that if you are benefiting from the governments services, and you have the resources to pay (i.e. you make money), you are expected to put a certain percentage back in the master kitty.
Jobs for Americans mean nothing if it's not a job for you and your friends. The US has added something like 2-3 million jobs in the last 3 years, but unless you go to the towns where those jobs were added, most people will say that there are no jobs to be had.
Rockefeller
Carnegie
Nobel
These men are not remembered for their ruthless business tactics or their domination of the oil and steel industries, but for the legacy of philanthropic work they left behind.
They've never been in space. It was a domestic spy drone. It's just another one of the Obamalist coverups, wrapped in a NASA conspiracy.
It's like you don't know anything. ;-)
Don't let some goofy scientist tell you otherwise.
That's the biggest problems with this kind of tax - it just ends up in the General Fund and they use it for whatever. It's like lottery proceeds, which are supposed to go to the schools. Well, they do. Except that as a result they don't have to pay as much out of the general fund for schools - it's not like they determine a realistic budget for schools, and then say "and we have $3 Billion extra from the lottery, so we're going to so these special projects this year."
Their idea is sound, but in three years it will just be another revenue source.
My question is if they'll try to pull a tobacco settlement out of this: tax the problem, then double dip by suing the product makers for the public healthcare costs.
Actually, you should hire smart programmers with good social skills. For all the useless shills in sales, the true gems are the ones that excel in both. You'll find that the best freelancers are actually these people because they can do the work and sell their services.
Sadly, this isn't what the OP wanted. It sounds like he's got a gaggle of salespeople who are not doing terribly well and the meager feedback that they are getting is that their salespeople just can't connect with the end users enough to close the sale. Nobody likes to fire a bunch of people and look for new hires.
Have someone with a 3 digit UID die and leave their dot.com fortune to the Slashdot Trust.
My daughter just finished 4th grade (9 years old), and I recall the topics in science being:
Chemical elements - descriptions of common types
Phases of matter
Astronomy and planetary makeup
Magnetism, electromagnetism, and simple circuit theory
This is in a regular public curriculum and standard stuff for Virginia leading to the states standardized testing in science at the end of 5th grade. Heck, last year we did the science fair and she chose to do a short presentation on echolocation. Granted, her favorite part was picking out pictures of dolphins, but she chose the topic based on non-fiction books she chose by herself in the school library. She also did all the math for dividing the time of flight of a clap (measured in seconds, scaled off of the printout of an Audacity screenshot) to estimate the speed of sound in air, in decimals.
This year they did more work in decimals, and a huge unit on fractions, including lowest common denominator, equivalent fractions, and addition, subtraction and multiplication of fractions.
The honors group does a lot more math, but that's not her forte - she excels in language arts and history, for which there is no honors program at her school. Not that it matters. We do stuff with her to foster those talents, along with helping her keep up with the math whizes.
Really? I thought all the expensive ones were drug-ridden. Not the crack-smoking in the halls between the gang shootouts, but the I-have-the-money-to-buy-the-stuff-and-mom-and-dad-are-never-around weed/coke/pills/sex party stuff that is just pervasive in expensive religious schools. It's all fun and games until they're hocking their (and your) fancy electronics to pay for their habit.
...or mortgage insurance in case the buyers fail to repay their mortgages and the buildings cannot be resold for more than the outstanding lien. There was a huge market in reinsurance for that product, and that turned out just fine!
Facebook has their market share because they were available and easy when the great unwashed masses of old people decided it would be cool to get on a social site. Right place, right time.
The reason facebook will fail is because someone will not just make a better site - it could be argued that Google has done a technically "better" site at least twice now. Facebook should be worried when all of the old people are at another site. MySpace died because they hung their hat on youth - and youth is very trendy and fickle. It's no big deal for them to change overnight, and they adapt very quickly. Facebook has all the people for whom moving to another site that's "better" has no payoff unless all of their friends are already there as well.
The momentum is strong with the facebook users. These are the folks who still have aol and yahoo email accounts. Until you get them all to move, none of them will bother.
300? I think my sister shoots that while they're eating breakfast. A typical day for her is probably north of 1000. Kids these days.
*geezer mode* Why I remember when I went to Europe for three weeks as a teen, and shot nearly a dozen rolls of film - nearly 300 pictures in all. I though I'd go broke developing all the film. */geezer mode*
So sync into a truecrypt file locally. Or use SpiderOak instead.
Using the shopping function is really a desperation measure - the prices are rarely "good" and the vendor list is exceedingly short. Anything that looks interesting is usually wrong. This is really on loss, since it's one of the few google services that simply isn't worth your time unless you need something obscure and you don't care where is comes from or how much it costs.
Have you ever programmed a genetic algorithm for optimization of a physical process? Ever wonder where we got the idea from?
...and thanks for playing.
Have you seen how many kids these crazy fundamentalists are having? They're multiplying like fucking rabbits, and they're "homeschooling" to ensure that they don't learn any of this blasphemy we call science. I worry what the world will look like in 50 years.
46% of the US population rejects the entire foundation of modern life (science), and you wonder why it's news for nerds? It shows exactly how small a space the technologically literate occupy in this world.