"Let's add that product to my store... If I sell it for 25 cents a bottle I get over 1000% profit. if I chill it, I'm only getting 300% profit.."
I take it your own labor and the rent for your store is included in that calculation.
"Anyone here trying to justify the $1.00 a bottle for water is a complete and utter moron.... or just a scumbag at heart. "
I'm not trying to justify anything. I don't need to. The people selling and the people buying bottled water can do whatever they want. It's no skin off my back. I don't sell any of that stuff and I don't buy any of that stuff (even sodas). The real people who scare me are the ones who claim somekind of moral superiority upon the people who sell/buy such water bottles. Call me a scumbag if you will, but if someone wants bottled water, then I don't see anything wrong with fullfilling that desire.
I'm sorry but I don't see how any incoming call charge could ever be described as anything other than "a total and complete rip off".
The US government is responsible for that one. The idea is that the telephone provider can't charge extra to the person who's making the call to the cell phone. It's just a stupid law, designed to protect the existing telephone land line companies, against the emerging politically weak cell phone companies.
Personally, I would like to have both options open to me (just like what I've seen in the UK). I'd like to have a cell phone number I can give out to untrusted people and have them pay for the call. And I'd like to have a cell phone number for loved ones where I am the one who pays for the extra cost of using a cell phone.
"Which is the odd one out: (a) 4 (b) 15 (c) 9 (d) 12 (e) 5 (f) 8 (g) 30 (h) 18 (i) 24 (j) 10"
The odd one out is the unlucky person who fails this test. Mensa is but an elaborate role-playing game. The goal is recreate the parent-child relationship. The people who get to pass this test get to feel superior, they play the role of the parent, and the odd one out who fails this test gets to feel inferior, he plays the role of the child.
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I guess an history book talking about slavery would be offensive as well? Would you want this material covered under the rug?
How long before stores start installing photo-jammers?
All of modern technology seems to be going that way. A constant arms race between the people trying to sell a device to perform a function and the people trying to sell a device or service to prevent the function from being performed.
I would call it photolifting, it has a nice ring to it. Please noone use that word, I will put a trademark on it and rent the word out on a-per-use basis.
Actually, they are. They extract money from people who don't want to support them (taxes). They don't let you bring coffee. They don't let you talk. And unlike Barnes&Noble, they don't allow homeless people to go in.
This will turn into a hidden digital camera arms race. The techy consumer will be taking pictures of magazines and the magazine stand will be watching our every move just like they do in the Las Vegas Casinos.
No, seriously, this might actually enhance the word-of-mouth publicity for certain magazines. If I were a porno magazine owner in Japan, (let's face it, I bet porno is the first thing people are copying), I'd embed the magazine logo and its url in each photograph worth taking.
And before banning anything, I'd also run some numbers on the effect of digital cameras on the marketplace. Here in the US, Barnes&Noble and Borders let us open and read books for hours on end. In Europe, some book chains have started doing this as well (I've read many books that way). This practice seems profitable for them, otherwise, I don't think they would be doing it.
I understand why someone would want to be bug-compatible with something like Windows. But I don't understand why someone would want to be bug-compatible with a program which seems noone else is using.
I don't think we're a planet of spammers. Spamming implies that aliens would receive our message even if they didn't want to. And in order to receive our signals that way, the aliens would have to direct their dish accidently into our direction and tune in accidently into our frequencies.
Considering the distances involved, accidently directing their dish into our direction is not as easy as it sounds. And considering the infinity of the spectrum, in order to *accidently* tune in to our signals, they would need to be at the exact same political and technological crossroad as we are.
"Interference is a metaphor that paints an old limitation of technology as a fact of nature." So says David P. Reed, electrical engineer, computer scientist, and one of the architects of the Internet. If he's right, then spectrum isn't a resource to be divvied up like gold or parceled out like land. It's not even a set of pipes with their capacity limited by how wide they are or an aerial highway with white lines to maintain order.
Spectrum is more like the colors of the rainbow, including the ones our eyes can't discern. Says Reed: "There's no scarcity of spectrum any more than there's a scarcity of the color green. We could instantly hook up to the Internet everyone who can pick up a radio signal, and they could pump through as many bits as they could ever want. We'd go from an economy of digital scarcity to an economy of digital abundance."
"Interference is a metaphor that paints an old limitation of technology as a fact of nature." So says David P. Reed, electrical engineer, computer scientist, and one of the architects of the Internet. If he's right, then spectrum isn't a resource to be divvied up like gold or parceled out like land. It's not even a set of pipes with their capacity limited by how wide they are or an aerial highway with white lines to maintain order.
Spectrum is more like the colors of the rainbow, including the ones our eyes can't discern. Says Reed: "There's no scarcity of spectrum any more than there's a scarcity of the color green. We could instantly hook up to the Internet everyone who can pick up a radio signal, and they could pump through as many bits as they could ever want. We'd go from an economy of digital scarcity to an economy of digital abundance."
...which I hear is enforced with vans that drive around and somehow detect if you are running an unlicenced set.
Those vans are greatly overrated. When my mother lived in London, she was harrassed by those guys and she didn't even have a TV.
Luckily she had a security chain, apparently, they were ready to push their way inside, but they were not willing to go all the way and break the door down.
It's easy to make a sweeping generalization like that. Any example of application I bring up. You'll say that you're not using it, or you'll say that the Linux equivalent is just as good as the Windows version.
"Just out of curiousity, what exact message did your actions convey your employer? "
That I was an adult serious about my work environment. I know it's silly, but I feel some employers refuse a simple low-cost request just to show you who is boss. It's as if some employers try to recreate a parent-child relationship with their employees. But thankfully, most employers are not like that.
Keyboards start at $5 + shipping. Why don't you save up your soda money, find one three times as expensive, and order one yourself?
Seriously, I'm not just simply making fun of you. When I worked as a temp and my employer refused to buy needed peripheral equipment (I don't think your job could be any worse) I ended up bringing some of my own. It made my job easier and it sent a subtle message to my employer.
Seeing as Cisco is considered the industry leader, it was highly desirable to copy the Cisco CLI commands, down to the exact command syntax (where possible).
It's a good theory, but it's not applicable to this case. It's obvious from the article that the original programmer of this application wasn't the industry leader. May be there is another perfectly good explanation to copy his errors, but personally I just don't see it.
By this logic, you should be able to take apart your car to see what kind of pieces it's made of. God forbid.
No, by this logic, it only means you shouldn't reproduce the exact same mistakes your competitor made when you design your own car, otherwise it's going to look mightily suspicious.
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I take it your own labor and the rent for your store is included in that calculation.
"Anyone here trying to justify the $1.00 a bottle for water is a complete and utter moron.... or just a scumbag at heart. "
I'm not trying to justify anything. I don't need to. The people selling and the people buying bottled water can do whatever they want. It's no skin off my back. I don't sell any of that stuff and I don't buy any of that stuff (even sodas). The real people who scare me are the ones who claim somekind of moral superiority upon the people who sell/buy such water bottles. Call me a scumbag if you will, but if someone wants bottled water, then I don't see anything wrong with fullfilling that desire.
A video game. That's the way I learned some my Vi commands.
The US government is responsible for that one. The idea is that the telephone provider can't charge extra to the person who's making the call to the cell phone. It's just a stupid law, designed to protect the existing telephone land line companies, against the emerging politically weak cell phone companies.
Personally, I would like to have both options open to me (just like what I've seen in the UK). I'd like to have a cell phone number I can give out to untrusted people and have them pay for the call. And I'd like to have a cell phone number for loved ones where I am the one who pays for the extra cost of using a cell phone.
The odd one out is the unlucky person who fails this test. Mensa is but an elaborate role-playing game. The goal is recreate the parent-child relationship. The people who get to pass this test get to feel superior, they play the role of the parent, and the odd one out who fails this test gets to feel inferior, he plays the role of the child.
I guess an history book talking about slavery would be offensive as well? Would you want this material covered under the rug?
I guess you're really bothered by people talking on the phone while you're shoplifting content from magazines.
How long before stores start installing photo-jammers?
All of modern technology seems to be going that way. A constant arms race between the people trying to sell a device to perform a function and the people trying to sell a device or service to prevent the function from being performed.
I would call it photolifting, it has a nice ring to it. Please noone use that word, I will put a trademark on it and rent the word out on a-per-use basis.
Actually, they are. They extract money from people who don't want to support them (taxes). They don't let you bring coffee. They don't let you talk. And unlike Barnes&Noble, they don't allow homeless people to go in.
No, seriously, this might actually enhance the word-of-mouth publicity for certain magazines. If I were a porno magazine owner in Japan, (let's face it, I bet porno is the first thing people are copying), I'd embed the magazine logo and its url in each photograph worth taking.
And before banning anything, I'd also run some numbers on the effect of digital cameras on the marketplace. Here in the US, Barnes&Noble and Borders let us open and read books for hours on end. In Europe, some book chains have started doing this as well (I've read many books that way). This practice seems profitable for them, otherwise, I don't think they would be doing it.
PS: And the only game I play is actually on my Linux box.
I understand why someone would want to be bug-compatible with something like Windows. But I don't understand why someone would want to be bug-compatible with a program which seems noone else is using.
Considering the distances involved, accidently directing their dish into our direction is not as easy as it sounds. And considering the infinity of the spectrum, in order to *accidently* tune in to our signals, they would need to be at the exact same political and technological crossroad as we are.
Could it be that the audience Hollywood is catering for doesn't want original stuff.
BILL GATES: There's no consideration of that at this point.
It's like Amway on Steroids.
"Interference is a metaphor that paints an old limitation of technology as a fact of nature." So says David P. Reed, electrical engineer, computer scientist, and one of the architects of the Internet. If he's right, then spectrum isn't a resource to be divvied up like gold or parceled out like land. It's not even a set of pipes with their capacity limited by how wide they are or an aerial highway with white lines to maintain order.
Spectrum is more like the colors of the rainbow, including the ones our eyes can't discern. Says Reed: "There's no scarcity of spectrum any more than there's a scarcity of the color green. We could instantly hook up to the Internet everyone who can pick up a radio signal, and they could pump through as many bits as they could ever want. We'd go from an economy of digital scarcity to an economy of digital abundance."
For the rest of the the article.
"Interference is a metaphor that paints an old limitation of technology as a fact of nature." So says David P. Reed, electrical engineer, computer scientist, and one of the architects of the Internet. If he's right, then spectrum isn't a resource to be divvied up like gold or parceled out like land. It's not even a set of pipes with their capacity limited by how wide they are or an aerial highway with white lines to maintain order.
Spectrum is more like the colors of the rainbow, including the ones our eyes can't discern. Says Reed: "There's no scarcity of spectrum any more than there's a scarcity of the color green. We could instantly hook up to the Internet everyone who can pick up a radio signal, and they could pump through as many bits as they could ever want. We'd go from an economy of digital scarcity to an economy of digital abundance."
For the rest of the the article.
Those vans are greatly overrated. When my mother lived in London, she was harrassed by those guys and she didn't even have a TV.
Luckily she had a security chain, apparently, they were ready to push their way inside, but they were not willing to go all the way and break the door down.
It's easy to make a sweeping generalization like that. Any example of application I bring up. You'll say that you're not using it, or you'll say that the Linux equivalent is just as good as the Windows version.
That I was an adult serious about my work environment. I know it's silly, but I feel some employers refuse a simple low-cost request just to show you who is boss. It's as if some employers try to recreate a parent-child relationship with their employees. But thankfully, most employers are not like that.
Is there an example of a company not doing this already?
Seriously, I'm not just simply making fun of you. When I worked as a temp and my employer refused to buy needed peripheral equipment (I don't think your job could be any worse) I ended up bringing some of my own. It made my job easier and it sent a subtle message to my employer.
It's a good theory, but it's not applicable to this case. It's obvious from the article that the original programmer of this application wasn't the industry leader. May be there is another perfectly good explanation to copy his errors, but personally I just don't see it.
No, by this logic, it only means you shouldn't reproduce the exact same mistakes your competitor made when you design your own car, otherwise it's going to look mightily suspicious.