Oh my. All economic sense means is that you get more out of it than you put into it. Everything you do should make economic sense (it doesn't have to make economic sense in terms of dollars, but if you don't see any value (of any kind) in doing something, I'm pretty sure you don't do it!).
It could be that the problem GM is having is short term (that is, over a long enough time period, the idea would make economic sense), but batteries are, compared to gasoline, expensive, heavy and weak, so it isn't that surprising that it isn't particularly worth it to put a big battery and big electric motor inside of a small car that already has a gasoline engine.
Well, actually, I think it is bullshit that phone companies can advertise the base rates without including the fees. And it is somewhat dishonest, but it is a different dishonesty than what the op was proposing (they are playing word games and the op is misrepresenting his actions).
The musician thing is tougher, and I don't think it is right that the music companies get away with it, but it isn't exactly a secret that they right the contracts for themselves, and it isn't exactly the case that anybody has done anything about it (I'm actually in a situation where I signed a royalty contract without getting a lawyer involved, and I'm regretting it; time will tell how much I regret it (the work is done, with no royalties to show for yet)).
(Anyway, I bet in situations where the contract is much more than ass-covery, the OP would find out that the contract didn't get countersigned, like situations where he is doing work and someone is paying him for it)
I would think, for 'PC' applications, that the 80% of the market that wants binary compatibility is a much bigger problem.
If you show someone a $500 laptop that has great battery life, and you show them the laptop doing a good job doing the tasks they want it to do, some of them won't care that the $700 has a bigger number (and I think this is going to get more true, as computers are 'way fast enough' for a greater and greater percentage of tasks).
I don't see any reason to sign a contract if the terms of the contract are such that I need to deceive the other party just to feel like it is reasonable.
I would hope that a reasonable court would decide that his intent is to make the other party believe he has signed, which, for me, is good enough to treat him as if he signed it.
Going further: the modern definition of evolution doesn't care if there are 10 species on planet earth, or if there are 10 trillion species on planet earth, it concerns itself with populations that reproduce in some fashion. It makes note of the fact that some populations interbreed and some do not, but there is nothing fundamental that arises from that distinction (it is more of an interesting consequence...).
In (at least) Reader9, there is an "Attach to email" item in the file menu. It does use the system email client rather than sending itself, so we could argue about whether it is really sending email.
The shell extension should be running with very limited rights (I can't really think of a reason that the shell extension should be able to write arbitrary data to disk, or execute an arbitrary process).
For a long time, there was a prevalent attitude that sandboxing was less important than user convenience (this attitude relies on everybody worrying about security, so you get crazy vulnerabilities like this).
The good news is that it is straightforward to disable the plugin (I wanted to say that it is easy, but it isn't easy unless you have lots of otherwise useless, Windows specific knowledge and experience).
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Perhaps they stopped leasing them because they predicted that it would be cheaper to stop than it would be to continue?
Unless you make a perfect language, there would still be mischief (because the mischief is intentional...).
Bigger letters are more important.
What if it is more a matter of them not trying very hard?
(I do agree that the tax code is needlessly complex...)
Oh my. All economic sense means is that you get more out of it than you put into it. Everything you do should make economic sense (it doesn't have to make economic sense in terms of dollars, but if you don't see any value (of any kind) in doing something, I'm pretty sure you don't do it!).
It could be that the problem GM is having is short term (that is, over a long enough time period, the idea would make economic sense), but batteries are, compared to gasoline, expensive, heavy and weak, so it isn't that surprising that it isn't particularly worth it to put a big battery and big electric motor inside of a small car that already has a gasoline engine.
They were leasing them at a loss. People didn't want them at a price where GM could make money on them.
What's the price difference between the hybrid and the pure ICE equivalent?
Also, how does the used car market look, and what kind of shape is my present vehicle in?
They already spent $8 billion more than they have:
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/03/02/ap6115002.html
What more would you like them to do?
Well, actually, I think it is bullshit that phone companies can advertise the base rates without including the fees. And it is somewhat dishonest, but it is a different dishonesty than what the op was proposing (they are playing word games and the op is misrepresenting his actions).
The musician thing is tougher, and I don't think it is right that the music companies get away with it, but it isn't exactly a secret that they right the contracts for themselves, and it isn't exactly the case that anybody has done anything about it (I'm actually in a situation where I signed a royalty contract without getting a lawyer involved, and I'm regretting it; time will tell how much I regret it (the work is done, with no royalties to show for yet)).
(Anyway, I bet in situations where the contract is much more than ass-covery, the OP would find out that the contract didn't get countersigned, like situations where he is doing work and someone is paying him for it)
I would think, for 'PC' applications, that the 80% of the market that wants binary compatibility is a much bigger problem.
If you show someone a $500 laptop that has great battery life, and you show them the laptop doing a good job doing the tasks they want it to do, some of them won't care that the $700 has a bigger number (and I think this is going to get more true, as computers are 'way fast enough' for a greater and greater percentage of tasks).
How 'bout you pay attention to what you are buying, and other people who want a cheap, lower power chip have more choices?
Don't worry, I have no intention of trying it.
I don't see any reason to sign a contract if the terms of the contract are such that I need to deceive the other party just to feel like it is reasonable.
I would hope that a reasonable court would decide that his intent is to make the other party believe he has signed, which, for me, is good enough to treat him as if he signed it.
Has this worked yet, or are you just, you know, hopeful?
Going further: the modern definition of evolution doesn't care if there are 10 species on planet earth, or if there are 10 trillion species on planet earth, it concerns itself with populations that reproduce in some fashion. It makes note of the fact that some populations interbreed and some do not, but there is nothing fundamental that arises from that distinction (it is more of an interesting consequence...).
Evolution isn't controversial in the science community.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom
In (at least) Reader9, there is an "Attach to email" item in the file menu. It does use the system email client rather than sending itself, so we could argue about whether it is really sending email.
ShellExView makes it pretty easy:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
The shell extension should be running with very limited rights (I can't really think of a reason that the shell extension should be able to write arbitrary data to disk, or execute an arbitrary process).
For a long time, there was a prevalent attitude that sandboxing was less important than user convenience (this attitude relies on everybody worrying about security, so you get crazy vulnerabilities like this).
The good news is that it is straightforward to disable the plugin (I wanted to say that it is easy, but it isn't easy unless you have lots of otherwise useless, Windows specific knowledge and experience).
Just recompile your Latex environment without support for scripting.
Then you don't have to worry about it.
Or use plain text.
9 is quite a lot better than 7 and 8.
You could have just deleted the url from your bookmarks and history. The awesome bar isn't so awesome that it can use data that doesn't exist.
Except the people who point out that it is now possible to embed the OO.org document inside of the pdf, to enable editing of the original document.