In addition to the hypothetical, there is also the actual case of the Malaysian extradition of columnist Hamza Kashgari to face blasphemy charges in Saudi Arabia.
Take the money. Hopefully a lot but anything. Just take it. After a decade of bad mergers at least HP can shed itself of Palm. Maybe it will pay for the Meg Whitman exit package.
Nope. It isn't a question of credit; it's a question of payment and price.
If the unwashed poor have bad credit and they pay up front with their Go Phone account then they should pay the same rate as anyone else since ATT is incurring no risk by taking their money ahead of time. Or perhaps given the fact that they are prepaying and in fact extending credit to ATT maybe they should pay a little less.
Or you could just rip off the poor. You could do that.
This sort of reminds me of that Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon (I think) where they speed up the car by moving the speedometer. Alternatively, Google could just concentrate on building a platform that doesn't suck.
If they didn't limit this to the single user, then Google bombing would be even more effective. I suppose they can still use negative votes for spam research.
It is hard to have a sense of mission when the administration has been so anti-science. I think that Robert Gates is changing this, he being a former chancellor of the University of Texas A+M. But the seven going on eight years of the anti-intellectual anti-science Bush administration has pushed a management ethos into place. Tough to be inspired under this.
Hopefully Obama will win and change this because Senator graduated 894 out of 899 McCain would probably be worse than even Bush.
How I wish that were true, but you miss a fundamental difference between economic theory and the reality.
In a theoretical Econ 101 world, a company makes a widget and finds a customer willing to pay for it. If the negotiated price is greater than the manufacturing cost, the company makes money. If it isn't or if the customer fails to appreciate the utility, then there is no sale. No sale, and before long no company.
In the real world, an established company can resort to rent seeking. Rent seeking occurs when an individual, organization or firm seeks to make money by manipulating the economic and/or legal environment rather than by trade and production of wealth. Lobbying (protected by the right to petition) is the classic example. Eisenhower (that lunatic liberal) was talking about rent seeking when he warned of the dangers attached to the military industrial complex.
Homework assignment:
Did Sioux Manufacturing resort to rent seeking in order to win a new armor contract after producing sub-standard helmets?
This technology goes way way back. The Aeschylus play Agamemnon (458 BC) opens with a watchman waiting at an optical telegraph tower for the outcome of the siege of Troy.
Beta is a format and plasma is a technology. The principle of competitive exclusion applies to formats.
The law of supply and demand applies to technologies.
If you ask today, then the moon *is* a moon.
If you were to ask again in a billion years, then the moon 'will be' a planet.
Or rather, it might be a planet.
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Because the installed base of Luddites were still using Firefox 3.6.x?
In addition to the hypothetical, there is also the actual case of the Malaysian extradition of columnist Hamza Kashgari to face blasphemy charges in Saudi Arabia.
This is not Slashdot level news.
That would be Texas.
They become the intended target. Next question.
Take the money. Hopefully a lot but anything. Just take it. After a decade of bad mergers at least HP can shed itself of Palm. Maybe it will pay for the Meg Whitman exit package.
Nope. It isn't a question of credit; it's a question of payment and price. If the unwashed poor have bad credit and they pay up front with their Go Phone account then they should pay the same rate as anyone else since ATT is incurring no risk by taking their money ahead of time. Or perhaps given the fact that they are prepaying and in fact extending credit to ATT maybe they should pay a little less. Or you could just rip off the poor. You could do that.
This sort of reminds me of that Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon (I think) where they speed up the car by moving the speedometer. Alternatively, Google could just concentrate on building a platform that doesn't suck.
You can't name a single example so you suppose that this example exists but that it's a secret. Ya got nuthin.
have you scored a -1 on Slashdot for someone else?
Let's hope the Republicans and other ne'er-do-wells get the message that we're tired of paying for this.
Sorry, but this just stinks of a payola article.
If they didn't limit this to the single user, then Google bombing would be even more effective. I suppose they can still use negative votes for spam research.
#include void main() { printf("Hello Mars\n"); }
Hopefully Obama will win and change this because Senator graduated 894 out of 899 McCain would probably be worse than even Bush.
No, that isn't arguable.
Tex got started in 1977 after Unix (1974), well after SPICE (1973), and about even with BSD.
In a theoretical Econ 101 world, a company makes a widget and finds a customer willing to pay for it. If the negotiated price is greater than the manufacturing cost, the company makes money. If it isn't or if the customer fails to appreciate the utility, then there is no sale. No sale, and before long no company.
In the real world, an established company can resort to rent seeking. Rent seeking occurs when an individual, organization or firm seeks to make money by manipulating the economic and/or legal environment rather than by trade and production of wealth. Lobbying (protected by the right to petition) is the classic example. Eisenhower (that lunatic liberal) was talking about rent seeking when he warned of the dangers attached to the military industrial complex.
Homework assignment:
Did Sioux Manufacturing resort to rent seeking in order to win a new armor contract after producing sub-standard helmets?
Mod parent up. Good analysis.
This technology goes way way back. The Aeschylus play Agamemnon (458 BC) opens with a watchman waiting at an optical telegraph tower for the outcome of the siege of Troy.
This would matter only if I cared. I put Jon Katz on my omit list when that was possible. Luckily he doesn't post anymore.
Because even nerds need news.
Beta is a format and plasma is a technology.
The principle of competitive exclusion applies to formats.
The law of supply and demand applies to technologies.
If you ask today, then the moon *is* a moon.
If you were to ask again in a billion years, then the moon 'will be' a planet.
Or rather, it might be a planet.
Wow. Flock + GoogleOptions + GMailNotifier is awesome. Please tell me where I can download more hype like this.
Alternatively, you can get a discount for less secure software.