Wine in restaurants generally has a 2x-3x markup over the grocery store. The best way to get the most value for a bottle of wine in a restaurant is not to buy the cheapest one since they tend to have the most mark up. Get something middle of the road and the mark up will be less.
As for the car thing, if you think it's easy to make a S-class Mercedes and sell them for less than $90k go for it.
With all due respect, I'd rather eat glass than become an AT&T customer ever again.
I'm pretty sure you can find old customers from any provider saying the same thing;-)
I agree it has it's shortcomings with the primary one being the size of the text. Size of the device is also one of the its big advantages though. Personally I don't want to carry another device as a dedicated reader and I'm not sure I want a larger all in one phone type device either.
I was skeptical when Stanza came out, but it's very customizable and you turn pages with a simple tap on the screen. I read many more books now because I always have all of my books with me. I no longer have to think about grabbing a book as I leave the house.
High ambient light makes them difficult to read. Oh, and that insane $2400 contract you signed to get your iPhone has nothing to do with it.
Did you read my comment? I've read for hours at the beach in the sun. I'm not sure if the ambient light could get any brighter than at a sunny beach. Like I said, it's not perfect, but was readable. I've had more trouble with paper books before at the beach because the white paper can reflect quite a bit of light. Each person is different thought.
If cost is an issue, get a Touch then. And who pays $100/month for their iPhone anymore? Look up fan codes and use one of them (pretty easy to find a -15%), or if you're already an ATT customer just add data and use your grandfathered plan. I have one friend only paying $60/month for his iPhone plan.
Really? I've read a ton of books easily with Stanza on my iPhone. Even in the sun at the beach as long as it was not directly reflecting on the screen it was quite readable.
Google newsreader makes it easy to bring all the stories to the phone that you want to read. I already used google newsreader on my computer so all I had to do was log in.
In fact, if you want a 'coffee cup in hand' the iPhone should be easier to use because you should be able to go through many stories using only 1 hand. Seems like dealing with something the size and flimsiness of a newspaper would be more of a PITA single handed than scrolling around on the iPhone.
It's not perfect, but if Apple ever releases an iPhone like netbook (double the size of the current iphone), I think they will have effectively killed the Kindle market.
The other part of the problem (and this is for internet TV too) is that the internet has taken away a lot of the 'voodoo' math for advertising rates. A newspaper can say that X people read their paper so lets assume that some made up % of X read your ad. On the internet you know EXACTLY how many people saw your ad, and EXACTLY how many thought enough of it to click the ad. This is the same for TV shown over the internet versus the traditional means.
Print and TV advertising (rates, expectations, etc...) are giant pieces of the puzzle that also need to change.
The iPhone already does what you ask pretty well. I use the google reader software on it to scan and read stories and then star ones that I want to follow up with later on the computer.
I do this now with my iPhone and the google reader software. It's not perfect, but works well with my current devices and a setup I was already using (google reader).
Excuse me for saying so, but I think that your employer may be a bit out of date with the technology that is currently available.
Not really. All offices already have multiple wired connections. Going wireless doesn't buy anyone anything except to add one more potential security hole.
All HDs are already encrypted with a TrueCrypt type of product.
Politics aside, I prefer MSNBC, not because of their ideology or anything, but rather because they tend to be more sarcastic and funny, and Fox is just angry.
True, although Olberman is pissed at something. I'm just not sure he knows what it is.
What kind of companies do you deal with? I've never worked at a company that did not require badged/fob access to the building. After that I've experienced varying degrees of additional security from very little to your laptop must be pre-registered for the segment it is plugging into or the entire segment gets taken off the network.
If you are just walking randomly into companies and plugging into their network then they have a lot more problems than network security.
Corporate populism is just as bad. For decades the government has slowly been getting filled with people from wall street. That's all they know, and they seem to think that what's good for wall street is good for main street. Well to the normal person it's obvious that that isn't not true.
The government needs to grow some balls and understand that there are things they are going to need to do that very few people will agree with, even though they will be the right thing to do.
Removing slavery is an example of the government going against much of the population for the moral betterment of the country. If we had waited for the populist views on slavery to come around we would have had slavery going on much longer than it did. Just look at how long it took and is still taking to remove peoples prejudices.
You're right that values and social mores did change over time. Do they change on their own or do they change with a combination on their own and with and government intervention?
Isn't the government supposed to be accountable to the people? Then why on earth is it a bad thing when they listen to them and not publish something?
Since when did populism become such a good thing? The government should be holding up the values that created the country and not caving to every populist whim. Accountable to the people means balancing between a vocal minority (and often a vocal majority) and the values in a country. I'm sure there is a large majority of people who would love the government to cut everyone checks for a 100k. When government refuses are they not being 'accountable to the people?'
Not true at all. The only ones that are having trouble getting loans are those that are credit risks and most likely should not have gotten loans in the first place. This includes businesses and individuals.
A more populist government, it seems, would naturally follow from changing the voting structure to something other than FPTP.
Is a more populist government really what you want though? I'm sure it would be popular to never have to work and have the government send you a weekly check, but is that what's best for the country?
Kids would think it's popular to skip school all the time, but their parents do what's right for their long term future and make them go anyways. We need people in the government who are willing to do the unpopular thing if they think that it's better for the country in the long term.
Hmm...I used to work in a place that had upwards of 100 T1s coming in the door and I don't remember anytime that the network went down. Power on the other hand was terrible. For months, at least once/day we would have everything go dark for a minute or so. Who knows if the power company was every able to find the problem. It did give us regular testing of our battery backup systems though lol.
Given that I used to write software for call centers, the phone is far from dead and still THE most important item for a majority of businesses. It's fun to think that everyone is like us and trolls slashdot all day, but most people still would rather pick up the phone and call someone than trying to find something on the internet.
For most people and small business I bet running in the cloud is a lot more reliable than running on some single machine that is rarely if ever backed up.
People keep saying what happens if your internet connection is down, but what happens when your HD fails or you lose your computer or worse, get it stolen? For many people the cloud is the more reliable way to go even if it means the risk of sometimes not having access to the data because of a loss of internet event.
You can't use your computer when the power goes out and you can't use your phone when the phone line (cell or land) goes down. Does this stop you from owning a phone or using a computer?
Maybe we shouldn't rely on phone service or power service either then. Last time I checked phones were more critical to most companies than being able to access the internet.
You simply need to recognize the risk if you internet goes down and have back up plans to work around it.
Well MADD is really just a cover for modern day prohibitionists. They'll find any injury related to alcohol and attempt to make the laws stricter because of it.
every day all the time. In fact some of the best cost analyst in the world work for the government. Nice attempt to propagate that myth.
Considering I've worked in the government and private sector and have seen the government waste first hand it is definitely not a myth. I remember how on Fridays after 2pm I would be the only person still in office. Working from 9-3ish seemed to be very common. Obviously there were people who were exceptions and did very good work, and those people mostly carried everyone else. In my experience I have seen much less of this in the private sector, and those that do generally end up jobless eventually.
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Wine in restaurants generally has a 2x-3x markup over the grocery store. The best way to get the most value for a bottle of wine in a restaurant is not to buy the cheapest one since they tend to have the most mark up. Get something middle of the road and the mark up will be less.
As for the car thing, if you think it's easy to make a S-class Mercedes and sell them for less than $90k go for it.
I'm pretty sure you can find old customers from any provider saying the same thing ;-)
I agree it has it's shortcomings with the primary one being the size of the text. Size of the device is also one of the its big advantages though. Personally I don't want to carry another device as a dedicated reader and I'm not sure I want a larger all in one phone type device either.
I was skeptical when Stanza came out, but it's very customizable and you turn pages with a simple tap on the screen. I read many more books now because I always have all of my books with me. I no longer have to think about grabbing a book as I leave the house.
Did you read my comment? I've read for hours at the beach in the sun. I'm not sure if the ambient light could get any brighter than at a sunny beach. Like I said, it's not perfect, but was readable. I've had more trouble with paper books before at the beach because the white paper can reflect quite a bit of light. Each person is different thought.
If cost is an issue, get a Touch then. And who pays $100/month for their iPhone anymore? Look up fan codes and use one of them (pretty easy to find a -15%), or if you're already an ATT customer just add data and use your grandfathered plan. I have one friend only paying $60/month for his iPhone plan.
Really? I've read a ton of books easily with Stanza on my iPhone. Even in the sun at the beach as long as it was not directly reflecting on the screen it was quite readable.
Google newsreader makes it easy to bring all the stories to the phone that you want to read. I already used google newsreader on my computer so all I had to do was log in.
In fact, if you want a 'coffee cup in hand' the iPhone should be easier to use because you should be able to go through many stories using only 1 hand. Seems like dealing with something the size and flimsiness of a newspaper would be more of a PITA single handed than scrolling around on the iPhone.
It's not perfect, but if Apple ever releases an iPhone like netbook (double the size of the current iphone), I think they will have effectively killed the Kindle market.
The other part of the problem (and this is for internet TV too) is that the internet has taken away a lot of the 'voodoo' math for advertising rates. A newspaper can say that X people read their paper so lets assume that some made up % of X read your ad. On the internet you know EXACTLY how many people saw your ad, and EXACTLY how many thought enough of it to click the ad. This is the same for TV shown over the internet versus the traditional means.
Print and TV advertising (rates, expectations, etc...) are giant pieces of the puzzle that also need to change.
The iPhone already does what you ask pretty well. I use the google reader software on it to scan and read stories and then star ones that I want to follow up with later on the computer.
I do this now with my iPhone and the google reader software. It's not perfect, but works well with my current devices and a setup I was already using (google reader).
Not really. All offices already have multiple wired connections. Going wireless doesn't buy anyone anything except to add one more potential security hole.
All HDs are already encrypted with a TrueCrypt type of product.
True, although Olberman is pissed at something. I'm just not sure he knows what it is.
What kind of companies do you deal with? I've never worked at a company that did not require badged/fob access to the building. After that I've experienced varying degrees of additional security from very little to your laptop must be pre-registered for the segment it is plugging into or the entire segment gets taken off the network.
If you are just walking randomly into companies and plugging into their network then they have a lot more problems than network security.
Bingo!
Because of security concerns my employer does not and will never have (that I can see) wireless access to the network.
It's just too large of a security risk when you have any sort of sensitive information floating around.
Corporate populism is just as bad. For decades the government has slowly been getting filled with people from wall street. That's all they know, and they seem to think that what's good for wall street is good for main street. Well to the normal person it's obvious that that isn't not true.
The government needs to grow some balls and understand that there are things they are going to need to do that very few people will agree with, even though they will be the right thing to do.
Removing slavery is an example of the government going against much of the population for the moral betterment of the country. If we had waited for the populist views on slavery to come around we would have had slavery going on much longer than it did. Just look at how long it took and is still taking to remove peoples prejudices.
You're right that values and social mores did change over time. Do they change on their own or do they change with a combination on their own and with and government intervention?
Wow, you're watching way too much MSNBC. That's makes you just as bad as those who watch FOX all day.
Neither group knows what's really going on.
Since when did populism become such a good thing? The government should be holding up the values that created the country and not caving to every populist whim. Accountable to the people means balancing between a vocal minority (and often a vocal majority) and the values in a country. I'm sure there is a large majority of people who would love the government to cut everyone checks for a 100k. When government refuses are they not being 'accountable to the people?'
Not true at all. The only ones that are having trouble getting loans are those that are credit risks and most likely should not have gotten loans in the first place. This includes businesses and individuals.
Is a more populist government really what you want though? I'm sure it would be popular to never have to work and have the government send you a weekly check, but is that what's best for the country?
Kids would think it's popular to skip school all the time, but their parents do what's right for their long term future and make them go anyways. We need people in the government who are willing to do the unpopular thing if they think that it's better for the country in the long term.
Then you're paying the grocery store for the calories needed to operate the pump...unless you grow your own food.
Hmm...I used to work in a place that had upwards of 100 T1s coming in the door and I don't remember anytime that the network went down. Power on the other hand was terrible. For months, at least once/day we would have everything go dark for a minute or so. Who knows if the power company was every able to find the problem. It did give us regular testing of our battery backup systems though lol.
Given that I used to write software for call centers, the phone is far from dead and still THE most important item for a majority of businesses. It's fun to think that everyone is like us and trolls slashdot all day, but most people still would rather pick up the phone and call someone than trying to find something on the internet.
For most people and small business I bet running in the cloud is a lot more reliable than running on some single machine that is rarely if ever backed up.
People keep saying what happens if your internet connection is down, but what happens when your HD fails or you lose your computer or worse, get it stolen? For many people the cloud is the more reliable way to go even if it means the risk of sometimes not having access to the data because of a loss of internet event.
You can't use your computer when the power goes out and you can't use your phone when the phone line (cell or land) goes down. Does this stop you from owning a phone or using a computer?
Maybe we shouldn't rely on phone service or power service either then. Last time I checked phones were more critical to most companies than being able to access the internet.
You simply need to recognize the risk if you internet goes down and have back up plans to work around it.
Well MADD is really just a cover for modern day prohibitionists. They'll find any injury related to alcohol and attempt to make the laws stricter because of it.
Considering I've worked in the government and private sector and have seen the government waste first hand it is definitely not a myth. I remember how on Fridays after 2pm I would be the only person still in office. Working from 9-3ish seemed to be very common. Obviously there were people who were exceptions and did very good work, and those people mostly carried everyone else. In my experience I have seen much less of this in the private sector, and those that do generally end up jobless eventually.