I'm still using an old CRT TV. I used to have the TV turned on all the time as background noise. After I put the TV and everything connected to it on the power strip, I discovered that I only watch TV for three or four hours per week. Hence, my monthly electric bill got cut in half.
So the core of cutting your electric bill in half wasn't from using a power strip to eliminate power use from electronics while they are in standby, but instead was from turning things off when they weren't in use. I laud your cut in consumption but I think you are attributing it to the wrong change.
Here are the movies in the IMDB Top 250 grouped and counted by year:
Year Total
2002 4
Isn't it amazing how the year with the highest box office revenues was tied for 2nd lowest number of movies that showed up in the top 250? (also, from the ones listed in the summary, which all were great revenue producers, only LotR Two Towers made it to the top 250 list)
It's almost as if a movie being critically acclaimed (or IMDB user acclaimed) doesn't have a direct relation to how likely people are to go out and pay to see it.
I would think, if the stuff kept flying off the shelf like that (even is only due to one customer), you would just stock more of it and then sell more of it. Stock enough to let her buy all she wants and still have enough left over for everyone else who wants to buy it to get theirs too.
You're not quite familiar with the concept of a loss leader, are you? You put a product in at a price where you're losing money but advertise it heavily in order to drive traffic to your store. You have a limited volume so that it doesn't cost you too much, and you accept the problem that customers who come in looking for that product after it's sold out will be dissatisfied. By putting a limit on the number of items that one person could purchase, you end up with one pissed off customer who isn't really generating you any profit anyways, and a lot of more satisfied higher value customers. If the goal is to get more happy customers, and the options are to put up more product you're losing money on or pissing off one person who's costing you money, you'll quickly find out that you don't feel so bad about pissing off that one person.
Netflix actually does a similar thing with their mailed DVD service. Let's say Bob and Fred both have HotSummerRelease on their wish list. Bob watches tons of movies, about 10 a month, returning the movies every 3 days. Fred doesn't watch nearly as many, usually only 2 a month, keeping the movies for 2 weeks at a time. You only have one copy of HotSummerRelease, who do you send it to? Most efficient and logically minded people will instantly say Bob. He's only going to keep the movie for 3 days, so you'll get it back sooner and can then send it to Fred.
That's not what Netflix does, though. They send the movie to Fred. Why? Because with all the movies that Bob goes through, he costs the company more money in terms of postage. Since Fred and Bob pay Netflix the same amount, but Bob costs more, Fred is a more valuable customer. Fred gets the movie first because Netflix wants to make sure that Fred is happy.
tl;dr: Not all customers are equal, and it's a fairly standard business practice to give preferential treatment to higher value customers and to tell expensive ones to shove off.
"This report documents the environmental impact of our facilities and our efforts to reduce their impact. In particular, this report documents:
â How we generate and use energy across our worldwide facilities including our corporate offices, data centers, and retail stores by highlighting our fiscal 2012 accomplishments"
Ahem? Ahem yourself. The quote being discussed, and the 75% claim is:
And for all of Apple’s corporate facilities worldwide, we’re at 75 percent, and we expect that number to grow as the amount of renewable energy available to us increases.
Now see page 10 of the report linked above. Notice how retail stores is a separate category than corporate offices.
The 75% figure doesn't include manufacturing, or Apple stores
It doesn't include most manufacturing, because that is mostly third party companies. But why would you say it doesn't include Apple Stores? Of course it does.
Because "corporate space" does not include "retail space".
One option is to put the onus on the retailers to maintain a database of all the different sales tax rates in the country, so they can collect the appropriate amount on the purchase.
That is already what is expected for brick and mortar stores. You need to track all sales in all counties and collect all relevant sales taxes. If K-Mart can handle this, I'm sure Amazon can.
Another avenue is to put the onus on the buyer to calculate and remit the appropriate taxes to the authorities.
This is the current state of affairs. It's called a use tax. People ignore it.
NewEgg is contacted by the NY Department of Taxation and Finance and ordered to turn over their NY sales records. No warrant is required, since the request is for tax compliance purposes. DTF runs the records through their computer system and looks up the tax records of each NewEgg customer. If the customer didn't report the sale, they're in big trouble. If it's a significant amount that they didn't report, or there's a pattern of non-compliance, off to private prison with you!
Why go through all that hassle when you can simply legislate that the merchant has to collect, report, and pay the sales tax on every purchase directly? That by itself will already generate more revenue for you, and that's what politicians love
Yes, there are many MUD's that have been running even longer. But that's citing the *exception*, not the *norm*. Most MMO's, like most MUD's, have a certain shelf-life.
True, and the *norm* for shelf life is typically when the expenses start to outweigh the income. It sounds like the plug was pulled on this far earlier, if they're taking in $900k/mo.
"The use of words expressing something other than their literal intention." Now THAT is irony!
2.Happening in the opposite way to what is expected, thus typically causing wry amusement.
I would guess that if most people were asked if the DRM-included version or the DRM-free version would be the most pirated, they would have said the DRM-free. That is the expectation. The opposite happened.
Shooting somebody is worse than any disks, so yes, a few, compared to your bank manager or other legal thiefs anyway.
There's no question that murder is worse than mass marketing copied media. I just felt the need to point out that this wasn't just some guy making copies for his friends.
“The Smart and the Fiat 500 have high sticker prices, and people buy them because they are small cars,”
Fiat, maybe, but people aren't buying Smart cars because they want a tiny car. Smart cars are small because that's what the technology required for electric cars at the time.
Facebook allows other people to add you to groups - in other words, your 'friends' can basically edit an aspect of your profile. It's bizarrely stupid, and has been a common complaint for a long time, and this wouldn't have happened if Facebook didn't do this, but Facebook defends this practice.
To be honest, the same effect would result if one of her friends posted "Hey, what's it like being a lesbian?" on her wall. I don't see anyone advocating a way to prevent that from happening.
The easier lesson from all this is that if you're going to try to keep secrets, but be active on social media, eventually you're going to get burned.
Here's the problem with your example: You could injure yourself crossing the street, too. You could trip and fall. You could get hit by a car. Your story could have just as easily been about when you tripped and fell down the stairs and hit your head on a radiator.
Does that mean we should wear protective gear everywhere at all times? Or could we maybe accept that life isn't a completely safe activity?
Here's the problem with your response: It's about the risk level. Riding a bike is riskier than walking down the stairs, even if there is a radiator at the bottom. Yes I'm aware that there is a significant number of elderly people who fall down stairs and are injured. It's simply rational to take precautions when certain levels of risk are met. Given that people have differing opinions on when that is met, it's natural to expect that people have different opinions on when helmets are needed. Now, as to whether or not government has to mandate it is a completely different story.
The question is simple, why should I buy a Windows phone? What does it give me that I cannot get from Android or Apple? After all, if there is no big reason to choose Windows phone, then I would lean towards one with a broader base of apps. Once they're able to get a compelling mainstream reason why to move to Windows phone, they need to market it. Right now they think having a unified experience between desktop and phone is that killer feature. We'll see if they're right.
...since when did everyone's purchasing habits depend on you?
When people want to buy something (short of an impulse buy), they research it. During their research they will ask the opinions of people they respect and feel are knowledgeable on the subject. I'm sorry if your friends and family don't consider you an expert (or consider you too much of a jerk to approach) but there's a rather significant number of people on Slashdot who routinely get asked for computer/electronics purchase advise.
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I'm still using an old CRT TV. I used to have the TV turned on all the time as background noise. After I put the TV and everything connected to it on the power strip, I discovered that I only watch TV for three or four hours per week. Hence, my monthly electric bill got cut in half.
So the core of cutting your electric bill in half wasn't from using a power strip to eliminate power use from electronics while they are in standby, but instead was from turning things off when they weren't in use. I laud your cut in consumption but I think you are attributing it to the wrong change.
You know what they call the person that graduates from med school at the very bottom of their class? Doctor.
You know what they call the person that flunked out of med school? Homeopathic Doctor.
Here are the movies in the IMDB Top 250 grouped and counted by year:
Isn't it amazing how the year with the highest box office revenues was tied for 2nd lowest number of movies that showed up in the top 250? (also, from the ones listed in the summary, which all were great revenue producers, only LotR Two Towers made it to the top 250 list) It's almost as if a movie being critically acclaimed (or IMDB user acclaimed) doesn't have a direct relation to how likely people are to go out and pay to see it.
I would think, if the stuff kept flying off the shelf like that (even is only due to one customer), you would just stock more of it and then sell more of it. Stock enough to let her buy all she wants and still have enough left over for everyone else who wants to buy it to get theirs too.
You're not quite familiar with the concept of a loss leader, are you? You put a product in at a price where you're losing money but advertise it heavily in order to drive traffic to your store. You have a limited volume so that it doesn't cost you too much, and you accept the problem that customers who come in looking for that product after it's sold out will be dissatisfied. By putting a limit on the number of items that one person could purchase, you end up with one pissed off customer who isn't really generating you any profit anyways, and a lot of more satisfied higher value customers. If the goal is to get more happy customers, and the options are to put up more product you're losing money on or pissing off one person who's costing you money, you'll quickly find out that you don't feel so bad about pissing off that one person.
Netflix actually does a similar thing with their mailed DVD service. Let's say Bob and Fred both have HotSummerRelease on their wish list. Bob watches tons of movies, about 10 a month, returning the movies every 3 days. Fred doesn't watch nearly as many, usually only 2 a month, keeping the movies for 2 weeks at a time. You only have one copy of HotSummerRelease, who do you send it to? Most efficient and logically minded people will instantly say Bob. He's only going to keep the movie for 3 days, so you'll get it back sooner and can then send it to Fred.
That's not what Netflix does, though. They send the movie to Fred. Why? Because with all the movies that Bob goes through, he costs the company more money in terms of postage. Since Fred and Bob pay Netflix the same amount, but Bob costs more, Fred is a more valuable customer. Fred gets the movie first because Netflix wants to make sure that Fred is happy.
tl;dr: Not all customers are equal, and it's a fairly standard business practice to give preferential treatment to higher value customers and to tell expensive ones to shove off.
Ahem.
"This report documents the environmental impact of our facilities and our efforts to reduce their impact. In particular, this report documents: â How we generate and use energy across our worldwide facilities including our corporate offices, data centers, and retail stores by highlighting our fiscal 2012 accomplishments"
Ahem? Ahem yourself. The quote being discussed, and the 75% claim is:
And for all of Apple’s corporate facilities worldwide, we’re at 75 percent, and we expect that number to grow as the amount of renewable energy available to us increases.
Now see page 10 of the report linked above. Notice how retail stores is a separate category than corporate offices.
Bottom line: No, the 75% does not include stores.
The 75% figure doesn't include manufacturing, or Apple stores
It doesn't include most manufacturing, because that is mostly third party companies. But why would you say it doesn't include Apple Stores? Of course it does.
Because "corporate space" does not include "retail space".
humanity does need to wake the fuck up and start getting serious about colonizing other planets.
Irony: the next planet we end up colonizing ends up getting hit by a meteor and is destroyed.
One option is to put the onus on the retailers to maintain a database of all the different sales tax rates in the country, so they can collect the appropriate amount on the purchase.
That is already what is expected for brick and mortar stores. You need to track all sales in all counties and collect all relevant sales taxes. If K-Mart can handle this, I'm sure Amazon can.
Another avenue is to put the onus on the buyer to calculate and remit the appropriate taxes to the authorities.
This is the current state of affairs. It's called a use tax. People ignore it.
NewEgg is contacted by the NY Department of Taxation and Finance and ordered to turn over their NY sales records. No warrant is required, since the request is for tax compliance purposes. DTF runs the records through their computer system and looks up the tax records of each NewEgg customer. If the customer didn't report the sale, they're in big trouble. If it's a significant amount that they didn't report, or there's a pattern of non-compliance, off to private prison with you!
Why go through all that hassle when you can simply legislate that the merchant has to collect, report, and pay the sales tax on every purchase directly? That by itself will already generate more revenue for you, and that's what politicians love
How Boeing talked the FAA into allowing this on the plane (in multiple locations) is beyond me.
$$$$$
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulinum_toxin#Links_to_deaths
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulinum_toxin#Side_effects
Woah that's bad. Good thing nobody's ever been harmed by a bee sting!
You see, you can claim to want a gun for self defense but how many do you need? What did she need that arsenal for? Why so much ammo?
The better question would be why did she feel it was safe to store the guns in the same building as someone who she knows is mentally unstable.
Yes, there are many MUD's that have been running even longer. But that's citing the *exception*, not the *norm*. Most MMO's, like most MUD's, have a certain shelf-life.
True, and the *norm* for shelf life is typically when the expenses start to outweigh the income. It sounds like the plug was pulled on this far earlier, if they're taking in $900k/mo.
But when you buy a MMO, you have to know that it's not a permanent thing.
Yet amazingly, Everquest and even Ultima Online are still running, after 13 and 15 years respectively.
That's not ironic, it's coincidental.
"The use of words expressing something other than their literal intention." Now THAT is irony!
2.Happening in the opposite way to what is expected, thus typically causing wry amusement.
I would guess that if most people were asked if the DRM-included version or the DRM-free version would be the most pirated, they would have said the DRM-free. That is the expectation. The opposite happened.
Shooting somebody is worse than any disks, so yes, a few, compared to your bank manager or other legal thiefs anyway.
There's no question that murder is worse than mass marketing copied media. I just felt the need to point out that this wasn't just some guy making copies for his friends.
It seems you got more chance to get a minimal sentence when you shoot your procecutor than copy a few disks.
10,500 disks is more than a few.
“The Smart and the Fiat 500 have high sticker prices, and people buy them because they are small cars,”
Fiat, maybe, but people aren't buying Smart cars because they want a tiny car. Smart cars are small because that's what the technology required for electric cars at the time.
Facebook allows other people to add you to groups - in other words, your 'friends' can basically edit an aspect of your profile. It's bizarrely stupid, and has been a common complaint for a long time, and this wouldn't have happened if Facebook didn't do this, but Facebook defends this practice.
To be honest, the same effect would result if one of her friends posted "Hey, what's it like being a lesbian?" on her wall. I don't see anyone advocating a way to prevent that from happening.
The easier lesson from all this is that if you're going to try to keep secrets, but be active on social media, eventually you're going to get burned.
If SkyNET developed a conscience, it would cancel third world debt and cut spending from pork-barrel programs, and would also be vegetarian.
Or at least it may feel bad about it. Simply having a conscience doesn't mean you listen to it.
There was no purple flare camera issue on the iPhone 4 / 4S
Not true. There was just no hysterical news vomit about it.
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People tried to call in to report it, but their calls kept dropping.
Here's the problem with your example: You could injure yourself crossing the street, too. You could trip and fall. You could get hit by a car. Your story could have just as easily been about when you tripped and fell down the stairs and hit your head on a radiator.
Does that mean we should wear protective gear everywhere at all times? Or could we maybe accept that life isn't a completely safe activity?
Here's the problem with your response: It's about the risk level. Riding a bike is riskier than walking down the stairs, even if there is a radiator at the bottom. Yes I'm aware that there is a significant number of elderly people who fall down stairs and are injured. It's simply rational to take precautions when certain levels of risk are met. Given that people have differing opinions on when that is met, it's natural to expect that people have different opinions on when helmets are needed. Now, as to whether or not government has to mandate it is a completely different story.
OK, so why wouldn't any home user choose a free LibreOffice download over a $100/year msoffice subscription tax?
Because when they go to the store, they don't see LibreOffice. Yes, many people still go to stores.
The question is simple, why should I buy a Windows phone? What does it give me that I cannot get from Android or Apple? After all, if there is no big reason to choose Windows phone, then I would lean towards one with a broader base of apps. Once they're able to get a compelling mainstream reason why to move to Windows phone, they need to market it. Right now they think having a unified experience between desktop and phone is that killer feature. We'll see if they're right.
As with most (all?) engineered wood products - what about when it gets wet?
So it's not really bulletproof against a watergun?
...since when did everyone's purchasing habits depend on you?
When people want to buy something (short of an impulse buy), they research it. During their research they will ask the opinions of people they respect and feel are knowledgeable on the subject. I'm sorry if your friends and family don't consider you an expert (or consider you too much of a jerk to approach) but there's a rather significant number of people on Slashdot who routinely get asked for computer/electronics purchase advise.