While this is not my area of expertise I actually know of an example. Several years ago when jet fuel prices skyrocketed and all the airlines started charging fees on everything to stay afloat Southwest Airlines didn't even raise their fares because they had hedged long term fuel oil at ~$50 barrel. At the time they set up the hedge the median price was much lower so it meant they were paying more than any of the other airlines for their fuel but it also meant that when the price shot up to >$90 barrel they were still paying ~$50.
We fired all our quants and got a pretty girl to create power point presentations and display them in meetings every morning. It seems to be just as effective and a damn site more enjoyable.
I'd buy the first tab that lets me read book-quality text, Apple, Android, or whatever.
Have you looked at the Barnes and Noble Nook Color? Sure it has to be rooted to become the full tablet it was destined to be but the display is simply fantastic IMO. And at $199 on eBay right now it's definitely the lowest priced good quality tablet around. You don't get a camera or cellular data and you have to depend on XDA devs for blue-tooth and upgrades but I haven't regretted getting one.
/. car analogy time. Let's say Microsoft sells cars. You open a car dealership down the road from Microsoft. Shortly thereafter you have several cars stolen and find them for sale on Microsoft's lot. You go to court to get your cars back and by the time it actually goes to trial the cars in question have already been sent to the junk yard they are so old. Microsoft pays you a small percentage of the money it cost you over the last 15 years to end the suite.
Meanwhile cars have evolved and now travel through tubes. Another company starts selling tube conversion kits for Microsoft and other cars. Microsoft caught off guard by the new tube cars buys a company that makes the tube conversions and starts giving them away for free all but killing the tube conversion market and destroying any competition for years.
Now they hire a mechanic who used to work on the competitions cars and say they are a new kinder gentler Microsoft and to please trust them when they say they no longer consider the competitor a virus.
I can't see why anyone would possibly doubt their sincerity/s
Let's see...There was DOS then Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 98, BOB, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7. I think that's a little more than 20 years actually.
Don't get me wrong Farscape was my favorite show and I petitioned along with everyone else. I'm sure there were other factors. The makeup for all but Ben and Claudia was probably a nightmare to get into every day. That's why Virginia Hey (Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan) finally left the series. I hated that she left but completely understand why she decided she had to.
Sometimes ratings don't always equate to money. Since Farscape was mentioned I'll use it as an example. The show was a success in every sense of the word EXCEPT where profit was concerned. The production costs were so expensive that the ad revenue couldn't sustain it.
Actually, you have to be pretty ignorant to be a prejudice fuck
Then I guess every human being on the planet is ignorant because we are all prejudiced. You see the word has been co-opted to mean racial prejudice but in fact it only means you are predisposed for or against something regardless of empirical data. To use a car analogy (strange on/. I know) a perfect example is the love of a certain brand of car over another regardless of whether said brand is in fact "superior" is prejudice FOR the particular brand. In fact I wouldn't dare mention a specific superior brand (Dodge) because I would be inundated with hate replies from people prejudiced to their inferior (Chevy) brand.
Rasicm: Black people are better at playing basketball
Prejudice: Porch monkeys are better at basketball cause they are used to swinging from the trees in the jungle.
See how one is perfectly acceptable and the other clearly isn't?
Actually Racism is a form of prejudice and as such can also be for or against. Being proud your Irish is a form a racism and is celebrated the world over by Irish and non-Irish alike while in Africa different tribes hate each other because they are different shades of brown. Being proud of your heritage is good and healthy but belittling or looking down on someone for their heritage is bad. They are still both forms of racism.
I believe the first solution is for everyone to stop talking about racism like we do. Our children grow up prejudice because we start beating into their heads at an early age that its not okay to point out differences in people like skin color, and that we're all equal... WE AREN'T, AND THATS OKAY. We need to stop making it such a point to children, stop forcing race issues in their face as their trying to form an opinion and view of the world.
Stop making race an issue and it'll stop being such an issue, but the last bit of your post is the important part. If we all just go back to treating people the way we want to be treated the world would be much better off.
I understand your point but don't see it ever actually happening. There will always be people who feel they are superior to other people and will pass that on to their children. We must be vigilant with our own children and help them grow to maturity with a healthy sense of self while preventing them from feeling entitled or superior. it will always be a delicate balance
Or there are more people who support the dictator than oppose him. There are quite a few North Koreans (and Chinese) who believe the propaganda of their government and fully support them.
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Or perhaps get the Texas court in question called into question for questionable proceedings?
Rich senior citizens from the US actually. They are opting to buy villas in Mexico now rather than move to South Florida.
Microsoft and Google working together for good?
Quite right! It's the damned Electoral college's fault. Where's my pitchfork?
While this is not my area of expertise I actually know of an example. Several years ago when jet fuel prices skyrocketed and all the airlines started charging fees on everything to stay afloat Southwest Airlines didn't even raise their fares because they had hedged long term fuel oil at ~$50 barrel. At the time they set up the hedge the median price was much lower so it meant they were paying more than any of the other airlines for their fuel but it also meant that when the price shot up to >$90 barrel they were still paying ~$50.
We fired all our quants and got a pretty girl to create power point presentations and display them in meetings every morning. It seems to be just as effective and a damn site more enjoyable.
I'd buy the first tab that lets me read book-quality text, Apple, Android, or whatever.
Have you looked at the Barnes and Noble Nook Color? Sure it has to be rooted to become the full tablet it was destined to be but the display is simply fantastic IMO. And at $199 on eBay right now it's definitely the lowest priced good quality tablet around. You don't get a camera or cellular data and you have to depend on XDA devs for blue-tooth and upgrades but I haven't regretted getting one.
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/. car analogy time. Let's say Microsoft sells cars. You open a car dealership down the road from Microsoft. Shortly thereafter you have several cars stolen and find them for sale on Microsoft's lot. You go to court to get your cars back and by the time it actually goes to trial the cars in question have already been sent to the junk yard they are so old. Microsoft pays you a small percentage of the money it cost you over the last 15 years to end the suite.
Meanwhile cars have evolved and now travel through tubes. Another company starts selling tube conversion kits for Microsoft and other cars. Microsoft caught off guard by the new tube cars buys a company that makes the tube conversions and starts giving them away for free all but killing the tube conversion market and destroying any competition for years.
Now they hire a mechanic who used to work on the competitions cars and say they are a new kinder gentler Microsoft and to please trust them when they say they no longer consider the competitor a virus.
I can't see why anyone would possibly doubt their sincerity /s
Let's see...There was DOS then Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 98, BOB, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7. I think that's a little more than 20 years actually.
Don't get me wrong Farscape was my favorite show and I petitioned along with everyone else. I'm sure there were other factors. The makeup for all but Ben and Claudia was probably a nightmare to get into every day. That's why Virginia Hey (Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan) finally left the series. I hated that she left but completely understand why she decided she had to.
Why not chase the ratings and the money?
Sometimes ratings don't always equate to money. Since Farscape was mentioned I'll use it as an example. The show was a success in every sense of the word EXCEPT where profit was concerned. The production costs were so expensive that the ad revenue couldn't sustain it.
This is great news! Now I can pull up that copy of VisiCalc.
Damn you! That's the fourth keyboard this month.
I think it is more like the character George Clooney played in The Men Who Stare at Goats.
Does anyone else cringe when they here Itanium? The early chips still give me nightmares.
Here's your sign
Is that near Fantasy Island? If it is I could fly there and swim over since I can't afford to go directly.
I didn't know AC's had their own domain! How do they register?
Actually, you have to be pretty ignorant to be a prejudice fuck
Then I guess every human being on the planet is ignorant because we are all prejudiced. You see the word has been co-opted to mean racial prejudice but in fact it only means you are predisposed for or against something regardless of empirical data. To use a car analogy (strange on /. I know) a perfect example is the love of a certain brand of car over another regardless of whether said brand is in fact "superior" is prejudice FOR the particular brand. In fact I wouldn't dare mention a specific superior brand (Dodge) because I would be inundated with hate replies from people prejudiced to their inferior (Chevy) brand.
Rasicm: Black people are better at playing basketball
Prejudice: Porch monkeys are better at basketball cause they are used to swinging from the trees in the jungle.
See how one is perfectly acceptable and the other clearly isn't?
Actually Racism is a form of prejudice and as such can also be for or against. Being proud your Irish is a form a racism and is celebrated the world over by Irish and non-Irish alike while in Africa different tribes hate each other because they are different shades of brown. Being proud of your heritage is good and healthy but belittling or looking down on someone for their heritage is bad. They are still both forms of racism.
I believe the first solution is for everyone to stop talking about racism like we do. Our children grow up prejudice because we start beating into their heads at an early age that its not okay to point out differences in people like skin color, and that we're all equal ... WE AREN'T, AND THATS OKAY. We need to stop making it such a point to children, stop forcing race issues in their face as their trying to form an opinion and view of the world.
Stop making race an issue and it'll stop being such an issue, but the last bit of your post is the important part. If we all just go back to treating people the way we want to be treated the world would be much better off.
I understand your point but don't see it ever actually happening. There will always be people who feel they are superior to other people and will pass that on to their children. We must be vigilant with our own children and help them grow to maturity with a healthy sense of self while preventing them from feeling entitled or superior. it will always be a delicate balance
to stay away from web sites that steal their data.
Or there are more people who support the dictator than oppose him. There are quite a few North Koreans (and Chinese) who believe the propaganda of their government and fully support them.
POKE!
Or blood is thicker than water.
I mean come on! if your gonna use a meme at least use it right.
Will MUSE release a followup called "Not So Supermassive - Black Hole"