What you call network effect should be called vendor lock-in. The more people are using Uber, more they will be able to raise fees and the city will be in a shitty situation. Plus I'd be really pissed off as a Uber competitor (Lift or regular cab) if my taxes subsidized my competitor without even an open bid process. Sounds like a good plan to get sued.
So your logic is that since we can't calculate the exact value of the vendor lock-in, let's use $0 as an estimate. I never said the federal government should be involved. They could however not use a mobile phone software if it's too expensive. 20% is very expensive.
They could let their police department dispatcher handle the calls from a list of drivers on a sheet of paper for a fraction of the cost.
Or they could hire someone else to do that job, and call him a taxi dispatcher. And outsource that to a private company. Like taxi companies have been doing for decades. No need for that 20% cut to Uber.
Did they factor the cost of being vendor locked-in to Uber? I don't think so. Sounds like a good use case for an open source application. Development costs could be shared among different cities.
Well, yes...but a half decent RAID controller evens the score pretty quickly.
Most people who need storage don't need that. Software raid and/or fake raid works just fine. I use the Intel RAID I don't see what I am lacking. I doubt those low end NAS box have great RAID controllers anyways.
A typical "Pro" desktop computer should have the room for at least 4 hard drives. Apple doesn't offer any product in this category. They only offer a desktop with laptops components (iMac) or a non-expendable desktop (Mac Pro / Mac Mini).
If high storage capacity is a requirement, external devices tend to be a better be regardless.
Unless you often need to connect the drives to different computers (and no, network file sharing doesn't count), internal storage is much better than external. Less expensive, less cables, less bulky, no need for a second power supply, you get the full speed of the native hard drive bus.
Instead of having a dedicated NAS device it's often a better idea to get a tower with built-in hard drives, and share them over the network.
If you need external hard drives, then the iMac isn't made for you. You should get a tower with 4-5 hard drives slots. Unfortunately if you like Apple, Apple doesn't offer any.
Old games, especially FPS, could scale at pretty much any resolution, you just had to change the resolution setting. The first thing I'd ask is why doesn't starcraft already works in 4k resolution. Is it because of an artificial limitation in the game? What was the maximum resolution supported?
A phone has a price, say $700. No matter how you split it up to months, weeks, days or milliseconds, it is not going to be any cheaper. So any calculation of the sort is useless. Most people are not being paid by the day anyways.
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What you call network effect should be called vendor lock-in. The more people are using Uber, more they will be able to raise fees and the city will be in a shitty situation.
Plus I'd be really pissed off as a Uber competitor (Lift or regular cab) if my taxes subsidized my competitor without even an open bid process. Sounds like a good plan to get sued.
But 1000x as expensive?
So your logic is that since we can't calculate the exact value of the vendor lock-in, let's use $0 as an estimate.
I never said the federal government should be involved. They could however not use a mobile phone software if it's too expensive. 20% is very expensive.
You are being conservative, it's closer to 97%.
Hitler was backed by over 90% of the people.
No, he wasn't. He only won 44% of the vote in his election in 1933, and less in previous elections.
They could let their police department dispatcher handle the calls from a list of drivers on a sheet of paper for a fraction of the cost.
Or they could hire someone else to do that job, and call him a taxi dispatcher. And outsource that to a private company. Like taxi companies have been doing for decades. No need for that 20% cut to Uber.
Did they factor the cost of being vendor locked-in to Uber? I don't think so.
Sounds like a good use case for an open source application. Development costs could be shared among different cities.
Good idea, except that they will be giving 20% of that money to Uber. Have they used their own application, they could end up saving a lot.
Well, yes...but a half decent RAID controller evens the score pretty quickly.
Most people who need storage don't need that. Software raid and/or fake raid works just fine. I use the Intel RAID I don't see what I am lacking. I doubt those low end NAS box have great RAID controllers anyways.
A typical "Pro" desktop computer should have the room for at least 4 hard drives. Apple doesn't offer any product in this category. They only offer a desktop with laptops components (iMac) or a non-expendable desktop (Mac Pro / Mac Mini).
I've had dozens of laptops. Never seen that happen, and none of them had a mag safe connector.
If high storage capacity is a requirement, external devices tend to be a better be regardless.
Unless you often need to connect the drives to different computers (and no, network file sharing doesn't count), internal storage is much better than external.
Less expensive, less cables, less bulky, no need for a second power supply, you get the full speed of the native hard drive bus.
Instead of having a dedicated NAS device it's often a better idea to get a tower with built-in hard drives, and share them over the network.
If you need external hard drives, then the iMac isn't made for you. You should get a tower with 4-5 hard drives slots. Unfortunately if you like Apple, Apple doesn't offer any.
For example if the landlord is right, he can file for damage later on etc
Good luck with that. Just the fees along makes it worthless.
aggressive landlords who would put a family on the street just as soon as the first payment was missed.
Why is the landlord supposed to act as a bank with 0% interest?
Except that it's often easier to book through the bargain web site instead of registering to the loyalty club
if true you can usually get some lowest price warranty on the bargain web site
but Windows has overtaken Android as the most evil.
iOS wins that one hands down, by being so locked down
What is the discount in exchange for having all these Microsoft programs pre-installed? 50%?
and aren't most tvs not connected to an over the air antenna anyway? Lots of people on cable, satellite, or Netflix
Old games, especially FPS, could scale at pretty much any resolution, you just had to change the resolution setting.
The first thing I'd ask is why doesn't starcraft already works in 4k resolution. Is it because of an artificial limitation in the game? What was the maximum resolution supported?
So the chat tab within Gmail and the hangouts Android application remain, right? Only the windows Gtalk executable is being phased out?
1% of what? Certainly not of the world. $700k puts you in the top 0.01% of the world.
Following the law is not cheating. If you don't like the law as written petition congress to change it.
In most democracies this would be correct, but in the US corporations can literally buy the congress, so democracy is an illusion.
A phone has a price, say $700. No matter how you split it up to months, weeks, days or milliseconds, it is not going to be any cheaper. So any calculation of the sort is useless. Most people are not being paid by the day anyways.
When you are calculating the daily cost of a phone, you are doing it wrong. Just like those calculating the weekly cost of a car.