I used to think like you. Then I thought about what the Pharma industry would do if drugs were free ("Buy Kudkerless, won't cure your cancer, but sure will make you forget about it"), and now I'm for prohibition. I've thought about a middle ground and cannot find it. If you legalize, billions of research dollars would go to devise ways of addicting us to some chemical. You have to put the line somewhere or face a dystopian future.
Fuel efficiency tests are for comparison purposes. If all makers cheat equally, comparisons are still meaningful. When legislators set an standard, they'll probably take that into account and make the standard a bit tighter.
That's pure trolling, baiting us to come shouting that the webs of Spiderman ain't no superpower, but a device. I for one won't fall into the trap. At least I won't shout.
And about how long will take them, between Office file format changes that render them incompatible with previous versions? That's the most exciting feature of Office updates, and all customers look forward to these special moments. That's the thing that should happen every quarter to keep people involved in Office and shouting: For Innovation!
Now the weakest link will be the comm link. Not sure which one I prefer.
However, I suppose the future points that way. Next step, as a further method of savings, I suggest outsourcing of piloting to India. Then, after a time, when everybody has unmanned fighters, it'll be seen as a waste to really go to the cost of building the fighters. Wars will be fought virtually in probably the same Indian subcontractor war room, elbowing telecom service personnel and telemarketers. The loser will demolish some buildings and bridges in its own country, and promptly surrender to the winner.
It takes a week for a programmer to learn COBOL. A month at most to be proficient. Of course depending on dialect and environment, it can take more to be productive, but that's true also for COBOL programmers coming from other backgrounds. That means there will be no big shortage of programmers as big companies can train in-house in a matter of days.
The problem with COBOL is that it will erode your sanity with mindless repetition and superfluous verbosity. If you are put to make COBOL programs, make a generator for the most common tasks. It won't save you perhaps such a big amount of time, but it'll make life more interesting.
And Nexus 10 too. How long is it to be "Temporarily" out of stock? I guess until there are better options on the market and nobody is interested anymore. It seems like a curious marketing system, but hey! I'm no MBA.
If they detect that you are a woman, a much higher percentage of tampons ads appear. Simply insulting! If they detect that you are old (by having a name like Grover, for example) they will bomb you with ads for nursery homes. There is no end to it! It's almost like if they were targeting the ads to what their databases say your interests will be. They should call it targeted advertising then!
There's lots of potential problems with the implementation of this policy
I can think of a big one. In five to ten years we would have ads with the slogan "Take Fakitol, it won't cure your cancer, but will make sure you don't give a shit about it". Once you legalize all drugs, there is a humongous incentive for big pharma to find the most addictive stuff they can and sell it to you, preferably when you are young and inexperienced. I'm not sure I want to live in that world.
It's clearly stated that this is a record for "thin-film copper indium gallium (di)selenid (or CIGS) based solar cells on flexible polymer foils". Now if we talk about non flexible polymer foils, that's a whole different business:-)
Well, of course, if you only have one e-mail address, that may be the way to go. If you have six, from different providers, the client has clear advantages. If you want portability, an encrypted USB-stick and Thunderbird Portable are your friends.
LibreOffice Base is a good start, but is far from offering the ease of prototyping and reporting of Access. Also the forms are clunky in my experience. I've tried using it and found it very lacking. I had high hopes in it when it was announced, and hoped to replace Access with it, but I had to come back to Access shaking my head. One would say it isn't so difficult! Access offers a "good enough" RAD from Access 97, that is... 15 years ago! Somebody should have stitched together a scripting language, a database explorer, a form and a report development environment. And yes, the forms should use native controls, please. And every time I go to a new client, they end up asking us for some side application that ends up being done in Access because there is nothing half as good in OSS. And they get more and more locked in Windows.
I just helped a medium sized company shed off Office. They practically had no problems, apart from some Excel wizardies. Access apps were put into Access runtimes, to avoid paying Office licenses. But they cannot leave Windows, because these runtimes run only in Windows, and there is no easy way of porting these apps.
In my experience, one thing blocking the adoption of Linux in corporate environments are MS-Access applications. Not only legacy ones, that could be moved, but the fact that there is nowhere to move them to. There is simply nothing that remotely approaches Access in the Linux world, and it's a pity.
1) When selecting your area of operation, select low competition sectors.
2) Select, create, or maneuver into, a position of high bargaining power against clients and suppliers. That is, you can apply price pressure to suppliers and the client has not much leverage with your prices.
3) And last but not least: Thou shalt not go against macro trends in Economy, Demography or Technology.
I think your friend's business fails in the the three rules of basic strategy, specially sinning against the Third. There is nothing much to be said, except trying to reinvent the shop, preferably as other kind of shop. If keeping it as a video rental is paramount, I'd specialize, perhaps in terror-gore films, or European films, or black and white. But of course only if the shop is in a big metropolitan area, not in a mall.
I find much more coherent the explanation that says that humor is a signal of no-danger. If somebody falls down and hurts himself, you don't laugh. If you laugh, the rest of the members of the tribe know is nothing dangerous.
WikiLeaks is using to distribute its illegally seized material That's an idea! Sue Wikileaks for copyright infringement. I wonder why they haven't done it yet.
Disadvantages of no-cash: - All your transactions are tracked. Your money privacy goes down the toilet.
Advantages of no-cash: - You cannot be robbed, at least not of you cash. Even if someone forces a transaction on you, you can track it. - All taxes will be paid. Think about it. Really think about it. All the rich people would have to pay all their taxes. That would be a revolution. That would change the world. That's the reason this will NEVER happen.
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I used to think like you. Then I thought about what the Pharma industry would do if drugs were free ("Buy Kudkerless, won't cure your cancer, but sure will make you forget about it"), and now I'm for prohibition. I've thought about a middle ground and cannot find it. If you legalize, billions of research dollars would go to devise ways of addicting us to some chemical. You have to put the line somewhere or face a dystopian future.
Fuel efficiency tests are for comparison purposes. If all makers cheat equally, comparisons are still meaningful. When legislators set an standard, they'll probably take that into account and make the standard a bit tighter.
as important a superpower as slinging webs
That's pure trolling, baiting us to come shouting that the webs of Spiderman ain't no superpower, but a device. I for one won't fall into the trap. At least I won't shout.
Reporting from Europe. Can confirm life.
And about how long will take them, between Office file format changes that render them incompatible with previous versions? That's the most exciting feature of Office updates, and all customers look forward to these special moments. That's the thing that should happen every quarter to keep people involved in Office and shouting: For Innovation!
Now the weakest link will be the comm link. Not sure which one I prefer.
However, I suppose the future points that way. Next step, as a further method of savings, I suggest outsourcing of piloting to India. Then, after a time, when everybody has unmanned fighters, it'll be seen as a waste to really go to the cost of building the fighters. Wars will be fought virtually in probably the same Indian subcontractor war room, elbowing telecom service personnel and telemarketers. The loser will demolish some buildings and bridges in its own country, and promptly surrender to the winner.
...till the first foggy day.
It takes a week for a programmer to learn COBOL. A month at most to be proficient. Of course depending on dialect and environment, it can take more to be productive, but that's true also for COBOL programmers coming from other backgrounds. That means there will be no big shortage of programmers as big companies can train in-house in a matter of days.
The problem with COBOL is that it will erode your sanity with mindless repetition and superfluous verbosity. If you are put to make COBOL programs, make a generator for the most common tasks. It won't save you perhaps such a big amount of time, but it'll make life more interesting.
And Nexus 10 too. How long is it to be "Temporarily" out of stock? I guess until there are better options on the market and nobody is interested anymore. It seems like a curious marketing system, but hey! I'm no MBA.
If they detect that you are a woman, a much higher percentage of tampons ads appear. Simply insulting! If they detect that you are old (by having a name like Grover, for example) they will bomb you with ads for nursery homes. There is no end to it! It's almost like if they were targeting the ads to what their databases say your interests will be. They should call it targeted advertising then!
...your new serfdom.
There's lots of potential problems with the implementation of this policy
I can think of a big one. In five to ten years we would have ads with the slogan "Take Fakitol, it won't cure your cancer, but will make sure you don't give a shit about it". Once you legalize all drugs, there is a humongous incentive for big pharma to find the most addictive stuff they can and sell it to you, preferably when you are young and inexperienced. I'm not sure I want to live in that world.
It's clearly stated that this is a record for "thin-film copper indium gallium (di)selenid (or CIGS) based solar cells on flexible polymer foils". Now if we talk about non flexible polymer foils, that's a whole different business :-)
... to be reused.
Well, of course, if you only have one e-mail address, that may be the way to go. If you have six, from different providers, the client has clear advantages. If you want portability, an encrypted USB-stick and Thunderbird Portable are your friends.
LibreOffice Base is a good start, but is far from offering the ease of prototyping and reporting of Access. Also the forms are clunky in my experience. I've tried using it and found it very lacking. I had high hopes in it when it was announced, and hoped to replace Access with it, but I had to come back to Access shaking my head. One would say it isn't so difficult! Access offers a "good enough" RAD from Access 97, that is... 15 years ago! Somebody should have stitched together a scripting language, a database explorer, a form and a report development environment. And yes, the forms should use native controls, please. And every time I go to a new client, they end up asking us for some side application that ends up being done in Access because there is nothing half as good in OSS. And they get more and more locked in Windows.
I just helped a medium sized company shed off Office. They practically had no problems, apart from some Excel wizardies. Access apps were put into Access runtimes, to avoid paying Office licenses. But they cannot leave Windows, because these runtimes run only in Windows, and there is no easy way of porting these apps.
In my experience, one thing blocking the adoption of Linux in corporate environments are MS-Access applications. Not only legacy ones, that could be moved, but the fact that there is nowhere to move them to. There is simply nothing that remotely approaches Access in the Linux world, and it's a pity.
1) When selecting your area of operation, select low competition sectors.
2) Select, create, or maneuver into, a position of high bargaining power against clients and suppliers. That is, you can apply price pressure to suppliers and the client has not much leverage with your prices.
3) And last but not least: Thou shalt not go against macro trends in Economy, Demography or Technology.
I think your friend's business fails in the the three rules of basic strategy, specially sinning against the Third. There is nothing much to be said, except trying to reinvent the shop, preferably as other kind of shop. If keeping it as a video rental is paramount, I'd specialize, perhaps in terror-gore films, or European films, or black and white. But of course only if the shop is in a big metropolitan area, not in a mall.
Anybody knows how efficient is that? As compared with storage in water reservoirs for example?
I find much more coherent the explanation that says that humor is a signal of no-danger. If somebody falls down and hurts himself, you don't laugh. If you laugh, the rest of the members of the tribe know is nothing dangerous.
although they are free to walk out at any time
That kind of makes everything different, doesn't it.
"Don't worry, Mr.Gates, I'll use all my influence to make them replace that software with free alternatives. Would that satisfy you?"
WikiLeaks is using to distribute its illegally seized material
That's an idea! Sue Wikileaks for copyright infringement. I wonder why they haven't done it yet.
Disadvantages of no-cash:
- All your transactions are tracked. Your money privacy goes down the toilet.
Advantages of no-cash:
- You cannot be robbed, at least not of you cash. Even if someone forces a transaction on you, you can track it.
- All taxes will be paid. Think about it. Really think about it. All the rich people would have to pay all their taxes. That would be a revolution. That would change the world. That's the reason this will NEVER happen.
You can give them socks and underwear. That will surely provoke thoughts of murder in their minds. I know it did in mine.