That's not necessarily true. A lot of these services are successful because they can charge less and still profit because they don't have the overhead of a full time business. Renting a room or two in your house carries no downside potential. If the rooms stay empty all month, it's no different from before you signed up on AirBNB. In contrast, a hotel has substantial salary costs to cover each month. If they stay empty a whole month, they're in debt and have to make that up next month somehow.
If this gets implemented, all of the sudden we will find out that all of these mega banks are making peanuts in net income, just as we found out that Apple pays 1% tax rate and Romney pays a mystery very low tax rate that we are not privy to know exactly.
Regardless, when we are dealing with multi-national corporations, do we want to punish them or do we want to help them? A lot of people want to punish them without realizing that they are punishing themselves in the end.
Do we want NYC and our country to be the center of big banking - providing tons and tons of high income banking jobs - or do we want to give that up to London and Hong Kong because they offer a better working environment to these MNCs?
How much do you expect to be said in a 30 second commercial?
For anyone actually interested - and not just complaining - they can visit candidate web pages to read their 100 page policy papers on all sorts of issues.
Google knows that its business is going to get a lot harder if they actually have to take some responsibility for the information they disseminate.
They can't just cache everyone's content, scan it, link it - make billions of dollars off of it - and then tell someone else to shove it when they are asked not to distribute illegal content.
FTC is already investigating Google for anti-competitive practice, but not on this front.
They are more concerned about organic results being squeezed out in favor of Google properties. Instead of being redirected to natural results, half the first page results are taken up by ads and Google shopping properties. FTC is not keen on this, and they will supposedly sue if they don't get an acceptable agreement in place.
But there is a 'gotcha': the service is ideal for archival storage and long term backup. It is not just for random cloud storage. Retrieval request takes 3-5 hours to fulfill and if you start downloading/retrieving too much, too often, you pay substantially more.
Unless you're a single-minded baboon, can any job be that much fun after you do the same things for 8 hours per day, 5 days per week, most of the year?
It's very hard to turn fun into a job. When you start introducing the 'job', it usually starts to kill the 'fun'. You might be just trying to quantify bearability of a job, rather than actual 'fun'.
Since we are talking about mobile apps, we need to compare smartphone prevalence, not number of mobile subscribers.
In poor countries, mobile phones are very popular for a number of reasons. But most of those phones are not smartphones and won't be unless someone designs a $100 smartphone. (without contract price.)
On Aug. 16, 1960, US military Col. Kittinger stepped from a balloon-supported gondola at the altitude of 102,800 feet to test the use of a parachute for escape from a space capsule or high-altitude aircraft. In free-fall for 4.5 minutes at speeds up to 614 mph and temperatures as low as -94 degrees Fahrenheit, Col. Kittinger opened his parachute at 18,000 feet.
The jump set records that still stand today: the highest ascent in a balloon, the highest parachute jump, the longest free-fall, and the fastest speed by a man through the atmosphere.
I hate knowing that they are storing all my buying habits and I hate juggling 10 different cards in my wallet for different store. So this is what I do:
Sign up with fake-everything, except that I use my office phone number. (Or another number you can remember) Throw those cards out, and each time you check out, tell them you don't have your card. They will either use a generic store card, or ask for your phone number.
This way, I get the discounts, and they get nothing, save for a random, easy to remember phone number.
Sure, the device is neat, but the only time I look at my gauges is to check the trip meeter/odometer/time.
As riders, we're supposed to pay attention to the road and adjust speed accordingly. Likewise, we already know where we are on the RPM range based on feel.
...Their owners don't have anything to say. I think I'm going to puke if I read yet another forced daily post about someone finding a "neat looking building" or "feeling bored" or "seeing a cool movie last night".
The only reason why personal web pages were ever "in favor" is because there was nothing else on the net.
This country runs on apathy. High turnout may sound all warm and fuzzy, but what is more important than turnout is smart, researched, and educated voting.
People that are too damn lazy to even go to polls or vote by mail are not the type of people that you want voting in the first place.
I have a 20gig Archos Jukebox. It's a souped up mp3 player. In additition to storing and playing mp3s, the thing has a little LCD screen, and it plays MOVIES! Or it can output the signal to a TV.
Additionally, it has compact flash and SD adaptors, so you can download the pictures from your camera to the device. This is handy when travelling: you can empty your CF cards and browse photos on the Archos whenever you feel like.
Best of all, it's easy hackable so you can stick a 60gig drive in there.
Revolutionary? Hardly. I've had mine more than 1 year. Currently, there's bigger and better Archos players out there, and doing more for less. Compared to Ipod hype and price, Archos stuff is a steal.
All of the arguments made here against the 'black boxes' are equally valid - or not valid - when applied to license plates. I just wanted to see how you guys make a distinction between the two, and accept license plates, but not black boxes.
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That's not necessarily true. A lot of these services are successful because they can charge less and still profit because they don't have the overhead of a full time business. Renting a room or two in your house carries no downside potential. If the rooms stay empty all month, it's no different from before you signed up on AirBNB. In contrast, a hotel has substantial salary costs to cover each month. If they stay empty a whole month, they're in debt and have to make that up next month somehow.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50146679n
Google+ launched on June 28, 2011.
They will stop trying to shove it down our throats on estimated June 28, 2015.
We are half way there.
If this gets implemented, all of the sudden we will find out that all of these mega banks are making peanuts in net income, just as we found out that Apple pays 1% tax rate and Romney pays a mystery very low tax rate that we are not privy to know exactly.
Regardless, when we are dealing with multi-national corporations, do we want to punish them or do we want to help them? A lot of people want to punish them without realizing that they are punishing themselves in the end.
Do we want NYC and our country to be the center of big banking - providing tons and tons of high income banking jobs - or do we want to give that up to London and Hong Kong because they offer a better working environment to these MNCs?
How much do you expect to be said in a 30 second commercial?
For anyone actually interested - and not just complaining - they can visit candidate web pages to read their 100 page policy papers on all sorts of issues.
Not a bad flamebait to get tons and tons of backlinks from outraged sites and raise their Google Pagerank and rank higher in the SERPS.
Google knows that its business is going to get a lot harder if they actually have to take some responsibility for the information they disseminate.
They can't just cache everyone's content, scan it, link it - make billions of dollars off of it - and then tell someone else to shove it when they are asked not to distribute illegal content.
FTC is already investigating Google for anti-competitive practice, but not on this front.
They are more concerned about organic results being squeezed out in favor of Google properties. Instead of being redirected to natural results, half the first page results are taken up by ads and Google shopping properties. FTC is not keen on this, and they will supposedly sue if they don't get an acceptable agreement in place.
You think this doesn't go on already? This is the CURRENT state of USA manufacturing already for many people, including my parents.
Yes, all 3 points.
16 hour days are considered optional overtime both in China and in the USA. Breaks are minimal and tightly controlled in both China and the USA.
Read up on Foxconn practices and you will find that they are not that much different from non-union jobs in the USA.
I'm surprised no one mentioned recently started Amazon Glacier service.
They do the same thing - probably more reliably.
The pricing is $0.01 per GB / month. pricing
But there is a 'gotcha': the service is ideal for archival storage and long term backup. It is not just for random cloud storage. Retrieval request takes 3-5 hours to fulfill and if you start downloading/retrieving too much, too often, you pay substantially more.
Unless you're a single-minded baboon, can any job be that much fun after you do the same things for 8 hours per day, 5 days per week, most of the year?
It's very hard to turn fun into a job. When you start introducing the 'job', it usually starts to kill the 'fun'. You might be just trying to quantify bearability of a job, rather than actual 'fun'.
Since we are talking about mobile apps, we need to compare smartphone prevalence, not number of mobile subscribers.
In poor countries, mobile phones are very popular for a number of reasons. But most of those phones are not smartphones and won't be unless someone designs a $100 smartphone. (without contract price.)
Maybe he means tobacco.
No social cost there, either.
On Aug. 16, 1960, US military Col. Kittinger stepped from a balloon-supported gondola at the altitude of 102,800 feet to test the use of a parachute for escape from a space capsule or high-altitude aircraft. In free-fall for 4.5 minutes at speeds up to 614 mph and temperatures as low as -94 degrees Fahrenheit, Col. Kittinger opened his parachute at 18,000 feet.
The jump set records that still stand today: the highest ascent in a balloon, the highest parachute jump, the longest free-fall, and the fastest speed by a man through the atmosphere.
Video of the story
Traditional newspapers are heading in the Huffpost direction as well.
This is an industry where we are watching a race to the top, as well as a race to the bottom - with the middle squeezed from both sides.
Part2 of this week's This American Life profiles one company trying to bring the Huffpost model to traditional newspapers.
I would like to check them out as an investment opportunity, but my last search came up short on prospects.
Anyone know of any?
I hate knowing that they are storing all my buying habits and I hate juggling 10 different cards in my wallet for different store. So this is what I do:
Sign up with fake-everything, except that I use my office phone number. (Or another number you can remember) Throw those cards out, and each time you check out, tell them you don't have your card. They will either use a generic store card, or ask for your phone number.
This way, I get the discounts, and they get nothing, save for a random, easy to remember phone number.
Witold
www.witold.org
Sure, the device is neat, but the only time I look at my gauges is to check the trip meeter/odometer/time.
As riders, we're supposed to pay attention to the road and adjust speed accordingly. Likewise, we already know where we are on the RPM range based on feel.
There is lots of talk on the Street about nanotechnology, but are there any legitimate, publicly traded companies working on nanotechnology?
I know of not one good one. Some throw out the word, but only to pad their press releases.
Witold
Calling this a 1 gigapixel image is akin to calling 100 stacked 20 inch monitors a 2000inch x 2000 inch monitor.
The only reason why personal web pages were ever "in favor" is because there was nothing else on the net.
This country runs on apathy. High turnout may sound all warm and fuzzy, but what is more important than turnout is smart, researched, and educated voting.
People that are too damn lazy to even go to polls or vote by mail are not the type of people that you want voting in the first place.
Witold
www.witold.org
I have a 20gig Archos Jukebox. It's a souped up mp3 player. In additition to storing and playing mp3s, the thing has a little LCD screen, and it plays MOVIES! Or it can output the signal to a TV.
Additionally, it has compact flash and SD adaptors, so you can download the pictures from your camera to the device. This is handy when travelling: you can empty your CF cards and browse photos on the Archos whenever you feel like.
Best of all, it's easy hackable so you can stick a 60gig drive in there.
Revolutionary? Hardly. I've had mine more than 1 year. Currently, there's bigger and better Archos players out there, and doing more for less. Compared to Ipod hype and price, Archos stuff is a steal.
Witold
www.witold.org
All of the arguments made here against the 'black boxes' are equally valid - or not valid - when applied to license plates. I just wanted to see how you guys make a distinction between the two, and accept license plates, but not black boxes.
Witold
www.witold.org