It's like buying a car with 12 cylinders and having a switch hidden under the hood somewhere that controls the number of cylinders used. You buy the budget model, still have to cart around the weight of all 12 cylinders, but only get to use 4 of them.
Several automakers already do this, in a way. Most of the time when you're at cruising speed you don't need all cylinders firing to maintain speed. Chrysler's MDS (Multiple Displacement System), along with similar systems from GM and Honda, will shut down 2-4 cylinders in the engine (2 and 4 on V8s, 3 on V6s) to reduce fuel consumption when you don't need the full engine's power.
If you're talking about Bill Romanowski, he had issues beyond what his various concussions may have caused. He did steroids & other substances which screwed him up bad.
The concussions definitely didn't help his mental condition, but they are not solely to blame for where he ended up.
Now, if you are going to try Bush and company, then I'd say that almost every single American president of the 20th century must be dragged into court as well, except the newly elected Obama (but we'll see).
Neither Bush 43 nor Obama are "presidents of the 20th century". Check your calendar.
The point being why should he be required to go out and purchase a $500 Office suite to comply with a sixth-grade teacher's demands?
What if he didn't have MacOS in the house, only Linux?
As long as the paper meets the content & formatting requirements, the application used to create it should be irrelevant to the teacher. Marking a kid all the way down to a D just for having the wrong font used is petty.
I work for a smaller company (our IT department, including management and helpdesk, is under 3 dozen people). I work maybe 1 hour of OT a month (OT defined as having to stay past 5 or working from home), get great benefits, and good pay. The entire chain of management (not just IT, all the way to the top) is aware of the positive contributions I've been making and my manager reminds me of that weekly.
There are a few individuals who are on-call and working crazier hours, but that's more by their own choice than need.
You mean like the "California Emissions" regulations that increase the prices of cars and completely prevent the sale of new diesel cars (and some trucks) in the Northeast states that also follow those regulations?
When is cable going to switch to à la carte programming and not forcing hundreds of wasted bandwidth and channels on the consumer?
I suspect it'll happen as soon as the content providers (like Viacom) do the same and stop forcing companies like TW to take all 20 channels even if they (or their customers) only want 10 of them.
IOW, TW can't give you á la carte because Viacom doesn't make it reasonable to do so, or doesn't allow it at all. Viacom will get $2.25/subscriber/month regardless of whether all the subscribers take 1 or 20 of the Viacom channels. So why bother with the extra overhead of letting the subscriber choose when it doesn't reduce any costs for TW?
I take online surveys fairly regularly and have encountered quite a few which refuse to work on anything but IE and/or Windows. The most recent one told me that "Netscape" wasn't supported when I attempted both Firefox and Safari.
I've asked them a few times why they discriminate against non-IE and non-Windows users, but have yet to get an answer.
Toyota-Lexus.... Nissan-Infiniti.... Honda-Acura.... US consumers actually are a bit dumb like that... though it's hard to say whether it's a cause or an effect of Detroit's attitude.
Toyota created the Lexus brand because people would have balked at paying $40K for a Toyota. Same with the other 2 examples you give. There's actually very little overlap between the luxury and non-luxury nameplates for the Japanese cars.
GM, Ford & Chrysler have not done this. They've taken the same exact car, slapped a different grille, trim package & badge on it, maybe a little body work, and sold it as 4 different "brands". The most egregious of these is the Jeep Patriot & Compass - mechanically identical, they're just different bodies on the same fucking car. They didn't even bother changing the brand. And the interiors on both SUCK.
So why can't I go take a test every couple years and get myself an "E" which means I'm experienced enough to understand when exceeding the speed limit is "prudent and safe"?
Because no matter how good a driver you are, it only takes one asshole with a lesser license making an unsignaled lane change from the center lane to the left lane where you are, without looking, to make your day really, really shitty.
If something "breaks" in the middle of the class such that the student can't continue the lesson with the computer, the teacher won't have the knowledge or tools to fix it regardless of the OS or hardware. Nor should they attempt to; if your textbook is missing pages, the teacher doesn't take instructional time away from the entire class just to "fix" your book - either you get a loaner for the class period, or you look on with someone else.
When I was in high school calculus, everyone was required to have a TI-85 calculator. I, and one of my classmates, had bought TI-81s a year or so earlier and couldn't justify replacing them at the prices those calculators were going for then ($100 or so). Our teacher gave us information on how we could program the 81s to perform functions the 85s had built in, but didn't take time out of the class to wait for us to program them. And if anyone's batteries died mid-class, too bad - the teacher didn't stop class and root around in her desk for a fresh pair.
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Several automakers already do this, in a way. Most of the time when you're at cruising speed you don't need all cylinders firing to maintain speed. Chrysler's MDS (Multiple Displacement System), along with similar systems from GM and Honda, will shut down 2-4 cylinders in the engine (2 and 4 on V8s, 3 on V6s) to reduce fuel consumption when you don't need the full engine's power.
It's ballooned to 5 megs? 10 years ago, RedHat did the same thing in only one or two floppies - 3 megs at the most.
If you're talking about Bill Romanowski, he had issues beyond what his various concussions may have caused. He did steroids & other substances which screwed him up bad.
The concussions definitely didn't help his mental condition, but they are not solely to blame for where he ended up.
Really? What we've seen in the past year is that the already too-rich want more money than they already have, regardless of how they get it.
Neither Bush 43 nor Obama are "presidents of the 20th century". Check your calendar.
Will his casket be lined with soft Corinthian leather?
The point being why should he be required to go out and purchase a $500 Office suite to comply with a sixth-grade teacher's demands?
What if he didn't have MacOS in the house, only Linux?
As long as the paper meets the content & formatting requirements, the application used to create it should be irrelevant to the teacher. Marking a kid all the way down to a D just for having the wrong font used is petty.
No, you have 76 movies of "virgins" on your USB hard drive.
Not all small companies are that way.
I work for a smaller company (our IT department, including management and helpdesk, is under 3 dozen people). I work maybe 1 hour of OT a month (OT defined as having to stay past 5 or working from home), get great benefits, and good pay. The entire chain of management (not just IT, all the way to the top) is aware of the positive contributions I've been making and my manager reminds me of that weekly.
There are a few individuals who are on-call and working crazier hours, but that's more by their own choice than need.
You mean like the "California Emissions" regulations that increase the prices of cars and completely prevent the sale of new diesel cars (and some trucks) in the Northeast states that also follow those regulations?
I suspect it'll happen as soon as the content providers (like Viacom) do the same and stop forcing companies like TW to take all 20 channels even if they (or their customers) only want 10 of them.
IOW, TW can't give you á la carte because Viacom doesn't make it reasonable to do so, or doesn't allow it at all. Viacom will get $2.25/subscriber/month regardless of whether all the subscribers take 1 or 20 of the Viacom channels. So why bother with the extra overhead of letting the subscriber choose when it doesn't reduce any costs for TW?
I take online surveys fairly regularly and have encountered quite a few which refuse to work on anything but IE and/or Windows. The most recent one told me that "Netscape" wasn't supported when I attempted both Firefox and Safari.
I've asked them a few times why they discriminate against non-IE and non-Windows users, but have yet to get an answer.
None of your gas pumps have canopies over them?
I don't recall the last time I saw an operating gas station without a canopy.
Toyota created the Lexus brand because people would have balked at paying $40K for a Toyota. Same with the other 2 examples you give. There's actually very little overlap between the luxury and non-luxury nameplates for the Japanese cars.
GM, Ford & Chrysler have not done this. They've taken the same exact car, slapped a different grille, trim package & badge on it, maybe a little body work, and sold it as 4 different "brands". The most egregious of these is the Jeep Patriot & Compass - mechanically identical, they're just different bodies on the same fucking car. They didn't even bother changing the brand. And the interiors on both SUCK.
This is by far the best suggestion I've seen thus far. Hours of entertainment!
If she's reading the newspaper daily, and not getting a special large-print edition, then the iMac screen should be fine.
Because no matter how good a driver you are, it only takes one asshole with a lesser license making an unsignaled lane change from the center lane to the left lane where you are, without looking, to make your day really, really shitty.
Bottom-feeding scum? Intermediate pages? The only link in the summary points to the same URL you give.
Holy shit! We're in trouble! It's probably in the phone book and all manner of public records too!
If something "breaks" in the middle of the class such that the student can't continue the lesson with the computer, the teacher won't have the knowledge or tools to fix it regardless of the OS or hardware. Nor should they attempt to; if your textbook is missing pages, the teacher doesn't take instructional time away from the entire class just to "fix" your book - either you get a loaner for the class period, or you look on with someone else.
When I was in high school calculus, everyone was required to have a TI-85 calculator. I, and one of my classmates, had bought TI-81s a year or so earlier and couldn't justify replacing them at the prices those calculators were going for then ($100 or so). Our teacher gave us information on how we could program the 81s to perform functions the 85s had built in, but didn't take time out of the class to wait for us to program them. And if anyone's batteries died mid-class, too bad - the teacher didn't stop class and root around in her desk for a fresh pair.
Every time I try to lay pipe near/inside volcanoes, she tells me "not tonight, I have a headache."
I think I read that there will be taxes on non-diet sodas proposed as well.
Of course, the stores and/or soda companies will just jack the price on diet soda by the same amount and pocket the profits.
New York != NYC. There's thousands of square miles north of Westchester which are classified as "New York."
NYC has their own tax scheme on top of the state taxes. Even so far as to have questions specific to the Borough of Yonkers in TurboTax.
Perhaps he dislikes being unable to pay his mortgage on time each month more?
It's crosslinked polyethylene. http://www.pexinfo.com/