How can you compare 1 type of handset (the iPhone) with about a THOUSAND different handsets from different manufacturers running Android?
If anything, you should compare the iPhone to a specific brand or manufacturer for instance, the HTC Nexus One - which not only has been getting ALL the android updates officially, but also has INCREDIBLE community support and car run a host of custom ROMs!
How is a customer supposed to know apriori which handset among the above-said thousands is going to get good support going forward?
I've noticed that whenever sites start using CSS absolute-position styles, the rendering speed when scrolling is awful. This is using Firefox 3.6 on Linux with a decent machine underneath (Intel Xeon multiple-core 2.33 GHz).
Same thing happened with Google News on an even more powerful machine.
When everyone buys index funds, the index managers have huge leverage to manipulate. The high freq traders have more leverage to manipulate the fund traders. The market as a whole becomes more correlated.
I'm not following this argument. Index funds, by definition, rarely trade. A total-market fund would almost never trade. If they are not trading, they wouldn't be contributing to correlation one way or the other. I would actually suspect that index funds should help facilitate less correlations since there is less liquidity for stock-picking active managers to make use of, causing more volatility in individual stocks.
I could possibly seen an argument regarding ETFs, not mutual funds, however. Buy and sell pressures likely grow and fade in ETFs much more than index mutual funds, and this causes the underlyings to move in tandem. I'm not sure how to reconcile this with my first paragraph, though. Perhaps correlations increase if people are only interested in making sector/asset-class bets with index funds, but decrease if they are more interested in making stock-picks.
The majority, led by Justice Ming Chin, relied on decisions in the 1970s by the nation's high court upholding searches of cigarette packages and clothing that officers seized during an arrest and examined later without seeking a warrant from a judge.
Cellphones == cigarette packages? Is BadAnalogyGuy a California Supreme Court Justice?
For as long as I can remember (practically since deregulation) the airlines' approach has been to maximize profits through increased pricing complexity - or "efficient yield management" as they are more likely to label it.
This seems to happen in most commodotized industries where there are few suppliers: they increase the number of axes on from the final price is determined. Another good example is credit cards with rebate systems. By introducing dimensions such as "which quarter is it" and "how much have you spent this year", creating high "foreign exchange fees" it becomes more difficult to compare the final value of the card.
Seriously, has this really ever worked for you? If a brick and mortar site can offer a cheaper price, how come they aren't publishing their price online via some method (perhaps not Orbitz, but something similar). When you've entered a travel agent or other brick and mortar site, you're in a world where it becomes difficult to price-compare. There is little incentive for them to have low prices once they control your environment.
It's rare, very rare, when I can find a cheaper price for anything at a brick and mortar site.
The answer to every problem is *not* more laws and regulation. This should be an absolute last resort, and personally I do not believe we are there yet.
It can be useful to have laws that prevent other non-governmental entities from exercising power that can be de-facto laws.
If an entity has enough power to preventing me from behaving a certain way (let's deem it moral for now), it doesn't really matter if it's government or a corporation stopping me -- I'd like to prevent both.
The ways to restrain corporations are through either laws or competition, the latter of which may 1) work too slowly or 2) be almost non-existent, as it appears to be in the telecom industry.
As to your last question. YES IT IS WORTH IT. Liberty is always worth the penalty for it, the other option is to acquiesce to slavery. This is no different. Tyranny must be fought with everything we have, because the other options aren't pretty.
The liberty is worth it in if the penalty is paid by the aggregate. Prisoner's Dilemma.
It'll be a relief for the roughly 500,000 BlackBerry users in the UAE [...]
I'm not sure where this relief is supposed to come from. Most people are not relieved when its hinted that the UAE will now be capable of relieving them of personal and commercial secrets.
A buy-and-hold investor has to buy or sell at some point. I'm not sure what you mean by the flash crash was "largely erased"; there were plenty of obscene trades that were not broken. If you happened to selling your position in SPY to rebalance your portfolio you could have lost a great deal of capital.
You imply that HFT adds liquidity. You should note in the report that over half of the trades the HFT firms did the week prior to the crash were removing liquidity, not adding.
I should point out that majorities are insufficient to pass a bill. While a majority is all that is required in the House, the Senate require a super-majority of 60 votes for all practical purposes.
I wouldn't mind looking into credit unions but their locale-specific membership restrictions seem quite pointless, and given where I live (Charleston, SC) I haven't found one that offers better services than my current bank (First IB) that I've had for 10 years and throughout 6 moves. I have no reason to tie my financial institutions to my current area of residence.
We could all use less things to have to remember in life. Furthermore, you are only considering one financial institution; I have about a dozen or so financial accounts (banks, investment accounts, credit cards, etc), and I expect this number to increase throughout my lifetime.
I find it interesting that people are dismissing Whirlpool, while Consumer Reports has consistently reported it as being a manufacturer requiring fewer repairs than other brands.
Having a bumper would be a wart. Apple clearly has style in the forefront of their minds when they design a mobile device; it is part of their brand image. Anything interrupting the sleekness of the product would tarnish perception of the company. It would be a constant physical reminder of a flaw.
I think it is most likely in Apple's best interest to get new phones out to people with a redesigned antenna solution.
The whole point of a petition is to show that X individuals chose to sign a petition, and unlike voting there's no process to make sure each person only gets one vote. The closest you can come is scrutiny of the list and you can't assume the government will - particularly if it supports the government's position. So if you want to post a scathing opinion on the subject, I'll support your anonymity. If you want to count in a petition I won't.
If your only problem is trying to verify that people don't get double-counted in a petition, or that the people really exist, there are other ways to solve that problem. Disclosing identities is a very crude way of accomplishing this, and has significant downsides associated with it.
i've heard this tired argument time and time again, painting mining companies as the devil who sneaks in and steals the wealth and gives nothing back.
This article from the Atlantic would beg to differ. Basically, the benefits to the economy are extremely short-lived for the populace, with all long-term possible gain from the natural resources going to the mining companies. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/05/the-next-empire/8018/
I don't see why it would be so hard for Firefox to simply report to the user a warning when they begin to send a particular password to a "new" site, one that they haven't sent a password to before, and even more-so if the password is generally sent to another site.
I think this solution fits the problem well, as you're trying to prevent yourself from sending passwords to places that shouldn't get them.
Indeed, as the French revolution(s!) showed, and later Communism in the USSR and China showed, democracies founded on secular principles ultimately fail in their supposed aims, often becoming machines of the very oppression they rail against.
Just in case you are confused, the USSR and China are not and have not been democracies.
Gatorade in the past has had high fructose corn syrup, but over the past several months have begun phasing in a sucrose/dextrose blend. I've actually begun switching from Powerade to Gatorade because of this, even though it's 15% or so more expensive.
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How is a customer supposed to know apriori which handset among the above-said thousands is going to get good support going forward?
I've noticed that whenever sites start using CSS absolute-position styles, the rendering speed when scrolling is awful. This is using Firefox 3.6 on Linux with a decent machine underneath (Intel Xeon multiple-core 2.33 GHz).
Same thing happened with Google News on an even more powerful machine.
I'm not following this argument. Index funds, by definition, rarely trade. A total-market fund would almost never trade. If they are not trading, they wouldn't be contributing to correlation one way or the other. I would actually suspect that index funds should help facilitate less correlations since there is less liquidity for stock-picking active managers to make use of, causing more volatility in individual stocks.
I could possibly seen an argument regarding ETFs, not mutual funds, however. Buy and sell pressures likely grow and fade in ETFs much more than index mutual funds, and this causes the underlyings to move in tandem. I'm not sure how to reconcile this with my first paragraph, though. Perhaps correlations increase if people are only interested in making sector/asset-class bets with index funds, but decrease if they are more interested in making stock-picks.
Cellphones == cigarette packages? Is BadAnalogyGuy a California Supreme Court Justice?
This seems to happen in most commodotized industries where there are few suppliers: they increase the number of axes on from the final price is determined. Another good example is credit cards with rebate systems. By introducing dimensions such as "which quarter is it" and "how much have you spent this year", creating high "foreign exchange fees" it becomes more difficult to compare the final value of the card.
Seriously, has this really ever worked for you? If a brick and mortar site can offer a cheaper price, how come they aren't publishing their price online via some method (perhaps not Orbitz, but something similar). When you've entered a travel agent or other brick and mortar site, you're in a world where it becomes difficult to price-compare. There is little incentive for them to have low prices once they control your environment.
It's rare, very rare, when I can find a cheaper price for anything at a brick and mortar site.
It can be useful to have laws that prevent other non-governmental entities from exercising power that can be de-facto laws.
If an entity has enough power to preventing me from behaving a certain way (let's deem it moral for now), it doesn't really matter if it's government or a corporation stopping me -- I'd like to prevent both.
The ways to restrain corporations are through either laws or competition, the latter of which may 1) work too slowly or 2) be almost non-existent, as it appears to be in the telecom industry.
I would not assume that past revenue models will have the same value going forward.
There are multiple axes of power.
The liberty is worth it in if the penalty is paid by the aggregate. Prisoner's Dilemma.
I'm not sure where this relief is supposed to come from. Most people are not relieved when its hinted that the UAE will now be capable of relieving them of personal and commercial secrets.
A buy-and-hold investor has to buy or sell at some point. I'm not sure what you mean by the flash crash was "largely erased"; there were plenty of obscene trades that were not broken. If you happened to selling your position in SPY to rebalance your portfolio you could have lost a great deal of capital.
You imply that HFT adds liquidity. You should note in the report that over half of the trades the HFT firms did the week prior to the crash were removing liquidity, not adding.
I should point out that majorities are insufficient to pass a bill. While a majority is all that is required in the House, the Senate require a super-majority of 60 votes for all practical purposes.
I get up to $6 per month of ATM charges rebated at my bank (First IB).
I wouldn't mind looking into credit unions but their locale-specific membership restrictions seem quite pointless, and given where I live (Charleston, SC) I haven't found one that offers better services than my current bank (First IB) that I've had for 10 years and throughout 6 moves. I have no reason to tie my financial institutions to my current area of residence.
We could all use less things to have to remember in life. Furthermore, you are only considering one financial institution; I have about a dozen or so financial accounts (banks, investment accounts, credit cards, etc), and I expect this number to increase throughout my lifetime.
I find it interesting that people are dismissing Whirlpool, while Consumer Reports has consistently reported it as being a manufacturer requiring fewer repairs than other brands.
Having a bumper would be a wart. Apple clearly has style in the forefront of their minds when they design a mobile device; it is part of their brand image. Anything interrupting the sleekness of the product would tarnish perception of the company. It would be a constant physical reminder of a flaw.
I think it is most likely in Apple's best interest to get new phones out to people with a redesigned antenna solution.
If your only problem is trying to verify that people don't get double-counted in a petition, or that the people really exist, there are other ways to solve that problem. Disclosing identities is a very crude way of accomplishing this, and has significant downsides associated with it.
This article from the Atlantic would beg to differ. Basically, the benefits to the economy are extremely short-lived for the populace, with all long-term possible gain from the natural resources going to the mining companies.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/05/the-next-empire/8018/
I don't see why it would be so hard for Firefox to simply report to the user a warning when they begin to send a particular password to a "new" site, one that they haven't sent a password to before, and even more-so if the password is generally sent to another site.
I think this solution fits the problem well, as you're trying to prevent yourself from sending passwords to places that shouldn't get them.
Just in case you are confused, the USSR and China are not and have not been democracies.
Thanks for the tip! I've recently thought about switching to a re-usable bottle for my situation, and using the mix would fall in-line with this plan.
Your presupposition that only long distance runners can have benefit from such a drink is faulty, and you have no knowledge of my lifestyle.
Gatorade in the past has had high fructose corn syrup, but over the past several months have begun phasing in a sucrose/dextrose blend. I've actually begun switching from Powerade to Gatorade because of this, even though it's 15% or so more expensive.