Sorry bub, nobody's gonna call. You're not the mass market, you're a niche. Funny how things change over time. Tablets are becoming the mass market Internet device. Professionals will still buy PCs but everyone else, all those people who bought a PC to get 'online' in the 90s and upgraded to play games in 2000, they just don't need a PC anymore (they never did but it was the only good option).
It's just the way it is. The PC industry is going to consolidate soon. Hardware makers will still make servers and workstations and some will make tablets but the general purpose home PC is going away.
So because some bad things happened before, we should just ignore entirely avoidable bad things that have become possible with the introduction of new technologies?
The law is unnecessary to begin with. It's only there to make writing tickets easier. We have laws about reckless driving which fully cover any and all distractions, but they require an officer to show up and testify that the behavior was reckless. Much more he said / she said. So they added a quick buck law that is black and white (supposedly).
Maybe they need to build in a support framework as well to address this. The system knows how much RAM, CPU, GPU etc. so just have different ratings internally that developers can target.
Rated for Rhino systems = 1 spec
Rated for Velociraptor systems is a faster spec
Etc
If the consoles send this info back then devs will know the current market, the trends and the marketplace can let players know if a game is supported on their system or if they need to upgrade it.
Most games will get made for the current middle of the road or lowest spec. Some will push the limits or have a hi-fi version available.
That was also my impression. The mechanical nature of it seems to do just that. It also seems to avoid other issues that current aids have as its not an indirect digital amplifier. It's a direct amplifier, meaning that it doesn't attempt to reproduce sound that has been amplified, it amplifies the original analog signal.
This would mean no signal loss at all (up to 120db).
It sounds like this was a structured data review system which has little if anything to do with the format the plans came in. It's very likely that each reviewer did in fact read the proposals. Then instead of sitting together and trying the debate the merits of each they instead used a review system to grade them for some set of criteria.
This is not soliciting resumes people. It's a business plan RFP to run the program.
It will have a budget, a hiring plan, a schedule with milestones and target goals. There will be a pro forma p&l to show how the budget will work and what the taxpayers will have to pick up the tab for. It will also have to work within the legal guidelines, which complicates things a lot.
An RFP for a complicated consulting job can be 50 pages long or more with additional addendums and appendixes.
I wrote an RFP for a project with a medical device company and it was 30+ pages.
These are dense pages also. We're basically talking about a draft project plan or business plan. Milestones, deliverables, ROI calculations, tables of data, lists of requirements, software, hardware, etc
100 applications would be at minimum 1000 pages of details.
R&D is a deductible expense when working on a product. Pharma works on products and rarely does any basic research.
So the costs are already accounted for.
The trials and testing are not accounted for as deductible expenses however.
A plan would need to a) make tests tax deductible or b) reduce the costs of testing / quality control.
I would argue that without accurate trial data to prove that the Pharma product is a viable product it would never go to market and therefore should be considered research on the product, fully deductible. If that is the case then we're all getting screwed twice and something should be done to fix that. If not then making it deductible in a sane way to reduce costs in the market would make sense.
But if you nationalize so many industries they might not be as profitable and then they couldn't pay as many people high salaries and those people would not have enough disposable income to buy iPhones and data contracts. Please before you make any drastic changes, think of the poor iPhones - they need owners to care for them. Think of the baby iPhones who will never taste the sweet sweet data from the cloud.
Try out Don't Starve. Indie game on Steam or as a Chrome app. It's a work in progress but the production value is really great. They are working on the story part of it but the sandbox area is quite nice (generative worlds) and the game mechanics are pretty solid at this point.
Features crafting from components, mob algos, npc recruiting, weather systems, r/t combat (not turn based), multiple characters you can switch out, hunger, health and insanity meters you have to maintain (pick flowers, play music, make fancy clothes and eat candy to boost your sanity up). This list doesn't do it justice.
When they get adventure mode completed its going to be even better.
I can't watch it on my tablet without Internet and the HBO app, so Internet is a part of it. How else would that work? I don't have a TV btw so any cost for cable is too much. Why is a TV required to enjoy GOT? No TV means no DVR, an extra $10 monthly, which is where basic cable becomes $50 monthly.
So to watch GOT I'd have to buy a TV, order cable with a DVR tax and upgrade to an HBO plan.
That's a large investment.
Think ill stick with an RSS feed from my seedbox and a laptop running a media center app to get it on my tablet. Ill buy a box set next year when it's available but would rather just pay them now (without all of that extra crap I don't want).
Don't forget the extra $50 / month for access to download and with HBO it's another $50 / month for a subscription on top of the $50 / month for base cable.
So to watch GOT on demand (rather than in a predefined timeslot) and on a device like a tablet it costs $150 / month both during the show season and before/after unless you jump through hoops to sub/unsub HBO (not actually sure if you can).
Now of course you get additional content with that but it's like wanting to eat a salad and having to pay for the full buffet.
All apps from the Mac App Store are both signed and sandboxed. Incredibly more secure by design for the very things you mentioned than an app installed and run from anywhere else.
We'll find a good use for hydrogen one day. The idea of sunshine + sea water + rust = hydrogen + ??? = portable energy sounds so good though. We just need to solve for ???
Maybe it's not portable though, maybe it's just a temporary store that then takes more sunshine to convert back to electricity.
Not terribly efficient but if the hard components are cheap enough it's really just wasting a little sunshine. Not too bad as a trade off for base load from solar/wind power. It has its uses in any case.
This. Don't be a data hoarder. Go through them if you must and re-mail the best/important ones. Then dump it to dev/null and move on.
Do the same with movies, books, bookmarks, photos, apps, docs, etc. you'll be happier without all that baggage. Music of course is another story. Keep that forever and only toss out the dreck (those extra songs on that album you bought because singles didn't exist yet).
When it becomes an appliance it will be mainstream. Prior to that it will continue to be something for enthusiasts, artists, home professionals and made to order providers.
To be an appliance it will need to have a catalog of stock products. The expensive versions will have customization options and use more expensive or better quality materials and higher quality output. Very likely it will not allow original creations though there will be hacks to enable it (rootkits) - think mobile devices and media players. There will still be a market for enthusiast machines of course but they will be more expensive (still less than today's prices).
With access to this data (even if its through an abstraction API), I could match back a profile created based on one device (using a device ID) with a new device owned by the same person.
So lets say I'm a retailer and I want to track your visits to my stores based on your device ID. That works and is anonymous assuming that I'm not allowed to access your PI directly (as is the case). I can of course ask you to identify yourself through an app or whatnot to attach a name/email to you and match that to my CRM system.
Now the problem is that when you change devices, pow, I'm out of luck for the anonymous tracking (the app would transition easily enough and could be cross platform, assuming you have an incentive to get it again).
However with this abstracted "fingerprint" API I could conceivably request a match back for your new device against the database and get your old device ID in response, voila - anonymous transition of the profile to your new device. I can now continue tracking you with no lost history.
Maybe someone should try it though. Would be pretty cool looking. A field of solars trickle charging batteries. A farmer sits at a monitor watching his "produce" develop and goes out to harvest when the batteries are full. He collects them and packs them on trucks, on their way to the market to be sold at an energy futures price decided in a contract earlier that year.
p.s. the batteries would likely be in a water-tight long shed nearby (don't want to lose energy in long transmission lines).
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"turn of phrase" is equally dated and obscure.
Sorry bub, nobody's gonna call. You're not the mass market, you're a niche. Funny how things change over time. Tablets are becoming the mass market Internet device. Professionals will still buy PCs but everyone else, all those people who bought a PC to get 'online' in the 90s and upgraded to play games in 2000, they just don't need a PC anymore (they never did but it was the only good option).
It's just the way it is. The PC industry is going to consolidate soon. Hardware makers will still make servers and workstations and some will make tablets but the general purpose home PC is going away.
So because some bad things happened before, we should just ignore entirely avoidable bad things that have become possible with the introduction of new technologies?
The law is unnecessary to begin with. It's only there to make writing tickets easier. We have laws about reckless driving which fully cover any and all distractions, but they require an officer to show up and testify that the behavior was reckless. Much more he said / she said. So they added a quick buck law that is black and white (supposedly).
Maybe they need to build in a support framework as well to address this. The system knows how much RAM, CPU, GPU etc. so just have different ratings internally that developers can target.
Rated for Rhino systems = 1 spec
Rated for Velociraptor systems is a faster spec
Etc
If the consoles send this info back then devs will know the current market, the trends and the marketplace can let players know if a game is supported on their system or if they need to upgrade it.
Most games will get made for the current middle of the road or lowest spec. Some will push the limits or have a hi-fi version available.
Doesn't have to be confusing.
That was also my impression. The mechanical nature of it seems to do just that. It also seems to avoid other issues that current aids have as its not an indirect digital amplifier. It's a direct amplifier, meaning that it doesn't attempt to reproduce sound that has been amplified, it amplifies the original analog signal.
This would mean no signal loss at all (up to 120db).
It sounds like this was a structured data review system which has little if anything to do with the format the plans came in. It's very likely that each reviewer did in fact read the proposals. Then instead of sitting together and trying the debate the merits of each they instead used a review system to grade them for some set of criteria.
This is not soliciting resumes people. It's a business plan RFP to run the program.
It will have a budget, a hiring plan, a schedule with milestones and target goals. There will be a pro forma p&l to show how the budget will work and what the taxpayers will have to pick up the tab for. It will also have to work within the legal guidelines, which complicates things a lot.
An RFP for a complicated consulting job can be 50 pages long or more with additional addendums and appendixes.
I wrote an RFP for a project with a medical device company and it was 30+ pages.
These are dense pages also. We're basically talking about a draft project plan or business plan. Milestones, deliverables, ROI calculations, tables of data, lists of requirements, software, hardware, etc
100 applications would be at minimum 1000 pages of details.
Who cares. Nobody encodes to WebM.
So you are refuting the entire findings of the report from NASA? Hmmm okay.
http://taxation.lawyers.com/income-tax/Tax-Deductions-for-Research-and-Experimental-Costs.html
R&D is a deductible expense when working on a product. Pharma works on products and rarely does any basic research.
So the costs are already accounted for.
The trials and testing are not accounted for as deductible expenses however.
A plan would need to a) make tests tax deductible or b) reduce the costs of testing / quality control.
I would argue that without accurate trial data to prove that the Pharma product is a viable product it would never go to market and therefore should be considered research on the product, fully deductible. If that is the case then we're all getting screwed twice and something should be done to fix that. If not then making it deductible in a sane way to reduce costs in the market would make sense.
But if you nationalize so many industries they might not be as profitable and then they couldn't pay as many people high salaries and those people would not have enough disposable income to buy iPhones and data contracts. Please before you make any drastic changes, think of the poor iPhones - they need owners to care for them. Think of the baby iPhones who will never taste the sweet sweet data from the cloud.
Try out Don't Starve. Indie game on Steam or as a Chrome app. It's a work in progress but the production value is really great. They are working on the story part of it but the sandbox area is quite nice (generative worlds) and the game mechanics are pretty solid at this point.
Features crafting from components, mob algos, npc recruiting, weather systems, r/t combat (not turn based), multiple characters you can switch out, hunger, health and insanity meters you have to maintain (pick flowers, play music, make fancy clothes and eat candy to boost your sanity up). This list doesn't do it justice.
When they get adventure mode completed its going to be even better.
http://www.dontstarvegame.com/
I can't watch it on my tablet without Internet and the HBO app, so Internet is a part of it. How else would that work? I don't have a TV btw so any cost for cable is too much. Why is a TV required to enjoy GOT? No TV means no DVR, an extra $10 monthly, which is where basic cable becomes $50 monthly.
So to watch GOT I'd have to buy a TV, order cable with a DVR tax and upgrade to an HBO plan.
That's a large investment.
Think ill stick with an RSS feed from my seedbox and a laptop running a media center app to get it on my tablet. Ill buy a box set next year when it's available but would rather just pay them now (without all of that extra crap I don't want).
Trademark's not the same as copyright derp.
Try again.
Don't forget the extra $50 / month for access to download and with HBO it's another $50 / month for a subscription on top of the $50 / month for base cable.
So to watch GOT on demand (rather than in a predefined timeslot) and on a device like a tablet it costs $150 / month both during the show season and before/after unless you jump through hoops to sub/unsub HBO (not actually sure if you can).
Now of course you get additional content with that but it's like wanting to eat a salad and having to pay for the full buffet.
All apps from the Mac App Store are both signed and sandboxed. Incredibly more secure by design for the very things you mentioned than an app installed and run from anywhere else.
I can almost watch the video. Come on ny times is an mp4 really that hard? 30% of all Internet traffic is on a mobile device.
We'll find a good use for hydrogen one day. The idea of sunshine + sea water + rust = hydrogen + ??? = portable energy sounds so good though. We just need to solve for ???
Maybe it's not portable though, maybe it's just a temporary store that then takes more sunshine to convert back to electricity.
Not terribly efficient but if the hard components are cheap enough it's really just wasting a little sunshine. Not too bad as a trade off for base load from solar/wind power. It has its uses in any case.
This. Don't be a data hoarder. Go through them if you must and re-mail the best/important ones. Then dump it to dev/null and move on.
Do the same with movies, books, bookmarks, photos, apps, docs, etc. you'll be happier without all that baggage. Music of course is another story. Keep that forever and only toss out the dreck (those extra songs on that album you bought because singles didn't exist yet).
When it becomes an appliance it will be mainstream. Prior to that it will continue to be something for enthusiasts, artists, home professionals and made to order providers.
To be an appliance it will need to have a catalog of stock products. The expensive versions will have customization options and use more expensive or better quality materials and higher quality output. Very likely it will not allow original creations though there will be hacks to enable it (rootkits) - think mobile devices and media players. There will still be a market for enthusiast machines of course but they will be more expensive (still less than today's prices).
Just recycle. They'll be brand new every time.
Here's what it does mean.
With access to this data (even if its through an abstraction API), I could match back a profile created based on one device (using a device ID) with a new device owned by the same person.
So lets say I'm a retailer and I want to track your visits to my stores based on your device ID. That works and is anonymous assuming that I'm not allowed to access your PI directly (as is the case). I can of course ask you to identify yourself through an app or whatnot to attach a name/email to you and match that to my CRM system.
Now the problem is that when you change devices, pow, I'm out of luck for the anonymous tracking (the app would transition easily enough and could be cross platform, assuming you have an incentive to get it again).
However with this abstracted "fingerprint" API I could conceivably request a match back for your new device against the database and get your old device ID in response, voila - anonymous transition of the profile to your new device. I can now continue tracking you with no lost history.
Nope. Corporate will do just fine with 8. It's mostly web apps, outlook and excel docs that haven't been converted to dashboards yet.
They mostly set meetings, take notes, read reports, enter data and write emails with a little web research when needed (rarely).
Sure there's IT and the creative folks but that's less than 30%.
Maybe someone should try it though. Would be pretty cool looking. A field of solars trickle charging batteries. A farmer sits at a monitor watching his "produce" develop and goes out to harvest when the batteries are full. He collects them and packs them on trucks, on their way to the market to be sold at an energy futures price decided in a contract earlier that year.
p.s. the batteries would likely be in a water-tight long shed nearby (don't want to lose energy in long transmission lines).