I find drinking with my friends while getting some fresh air quite entertaining. The trick is to not take the golf part seriously. I haven't kept a scorecard in years.
I would like to see some data comparing the number of hours worked weekly by these NYC carriage horses and your brother's horse. When it was particularly hot or cold one day, I would bet that your brother gave the horse the day off.
An electric vehicle powered entirely by a coal plant still produces less air pollution than a Prius.
West of the Mississippi River our power largely comes from natural gas, hyrdo, nuclear power, and increasingly wind and solar. The entire US grid is moving away from coal.
I've played on tons of perfectly good courses for under $40. They're not as nice as the $100 courses, but they usually easier- which is good for non-experts.
To get decent, you just need to go to the driving range. That's a lot cheaper and quicker than playing full rounds.
In 1900, most people fundamentally didn't understand what a car was or was capable of- having never seen on.
In 2001, it was the same deal with tablets. Although there were some earlier pseudo-tablets from Palm and Apple.
Market research works very well for improving established existing products. People can answer "what do you like and not like about the product you currently use".
He was the head of Data Systems Development at Solomon Brothers. When that company got bought out, he started a company selling Bloomberg Terminals, which were extremely innovative. He parlayed that into the Bloomberg News service. He grew up middle class with no family connections or a leg up, and now has $33B. That doesn't happen to dumb people.
Once you're in, you find that you can't, for all practical purposes, go beyond a certain point without spending money and how much further beyond that you can go depends on how much you can afford to spend. It's why the derisive term is "pay-to-win".
Far too many gamers paint all Free To Play games with the same brush. Everyone should check out the games Loadout (FPS) and Paths of Exile (Action RPG). Both are more polished than many traditional model games. Paths of Exile has absolutely no way of paying for an in-game advantage. My objection was that their cosmetic items are obscenely priced. Turning your town portal from blue to orange is like 9 bucks. Adding a cosmetic lightning effect to your weapon is more than $20. Loadout offers an array of hilarious cosmetic stuff, plus short term double XP periods as part of a larger package. The thing is that a good player can earn 1500+ XP per match while a shitty player earns 500-800 per match. So a shitty player who pays for double XP isn't going to surpass a good player who pays nothing.
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It's a shame that a dumbass like me knows more about economics than 90% of the users on this site.
Money is constantly being printed and people are constantly being born. So, no.
In what was is the market finite?
I find drinking with my friends while getting some fresh air quite entertaining. The trick is to not take the golf part seriously. I haven't kept a scorecard in years.
I would like to see some data comparing the number of hours worked weekly by these NYC carriage horses and your brother's horse. When it was particularly hot or cold one day, I would bet that your brother gave the horse the day off.
I would absolutely pay to ride in an old fashioned carriage pulled by a robotic horse. That's some "Diamond Age" shit.
How are wild animals forced to walk around constantly in the heat of the day? When it gets too hot they take a nap under a tree.
People have been getting smarter and more educated for as long as we've been keeping records.
100 years ago, people would line up around the block to pay a nickel to see deformed animal fetuses in jars.
$40 is a lot cheaper than the $100 price mentioned in the previous post. Plenty of people can afford $40 for 4 hours of entertainment.
An electric vehicle powered entirely by a coal plant still produces less air pollution than a Prius.
West of the Mississippi River our power largely comes from natural gas, hyrdo, nuclear power, and increasingly wind and solar. The entire US grid is moving away from coal.
I've played on tons of perfectly good courses for under $40. They're not as nice as the $100 courses, but they usually easier- which is good for non-experts.
To get decent, you just need to go to the driving range. That's a lot cheaper and quicker than playing full rounds.
Timing is very important. If the first to market always won, we would all be using Apple Newton 17s.
But marketing is critically important too.
In 1900, most people fundamentally didn't understand what a car was or was capable of- having never seen on.
In 2001, it was the same deal with tablets. Although there were some earlier pseudo-tablets from Palm and Apple.
Market research works very well for improving established existing products. People can answer "what do you like and not like about the product you currently use".
Arrested on what charges?
Yeah. But unfortunately the money for Iraq and Afghanistan has already been spent.
Good luck getting even $4B for science based R&D out a Republican controlled House.
I'm sure that seemed like a stinging political commentary in your head.
You think that a commercial scale Thorium reactor could be developed and built for $4B? You're about an order of magnitude off.
I'm not sure why I'm bothering to correct someone who thinks that Obama created the TSA.
I was not a fan of Steve Jobs at all.
How many people do you think had a conversation with Jobs and left thinking "Man, that guy is stupid"?
There are plenty of dumb millionaires. Please name one dumb self-made billionaire.
We have hired women coders and they do as good a job as men.
When did those women first get interested in computers and coding? I'll bet 8th grade at the latest.
Go find a 50 year old waitress and turn her into a professional programmer. Then you'll have a point.
He was the head of Data Systems Development at Solomon Brothers. When that company got bought out, he started a company selling Bloomberg Terminals, which were extremely innovative. He parlayed that into the Bloomberg News service. He grew up middle class with no family connections or a leg up, and now has $33B. That doesn't happen to dumb people.
If you like Stephen Colbert, go watch Strangers With Candy. It was one of the first Comedy Central shows and it's just amazing.
His bank account will see a significant step up.
True, but I've noticed that the F2P games that use that model are now trying to entice players back into monthly subscriptions.
What games are those?
Once you're in, you find that you can't, for all practical purposes, go beyond a certain point without spending money and how much further beyond that you can go depends on how much you can afford to spend. It's why the derisive term is "pay-to-win".
Far too many gamers paint all Free To Play games with the same brush. Everyone should check out the games Loadout (FPS) and Paths of Exile (Action RPG). Both are more polished than many traditional model games. Paths of Exile has absolutely no way of paying for an in-game advantage. My objection was that their cosmetic items are obscenely priced. Turning your town portal from blue to orange is like 9 bucks. Adding a cosmetic lightning effect to your weapon is more than $20. Loadout offers an array of hilarious cosmetic stuff, plus short term double XP periods as part of a larger package. The thing is that a good player can earn 1500+ XP per match while a shitty player earns 500-800 per match. So a shitty player who pays for double XP isn't going to surpass a good player who pays nothing.