You are dumb. There's already a reason to not murder authors. It's called life in prison or death penalty depending on jurisdiction. Pre-meditated murder gets the harshest sentence possible.
Huh, that's interesting. I leave with 100k+ of revenue each year while giving Apple ~$200, 50% in music, games and other soft goods the rest amortized from a MacBook Pro and 30 in Display I've had for 4+ years each.
I make stuff with my Mac. It makes me money. Apple doesn't get a cut of any of it.
Yes and you can put a high end motor in a compact car (rice rocket) - doesn't make it a high end car. The fit and finish, the wholistic integration of the components - that is what makes a product high quality, not the components themselves.
Or maybe you completely biased her against a Mac with misinformation.
First you don't need a USB DVD (optical drive) to install anything anymore ever. That's just dumb. Every software is available for download. Office to Adobe to drivers to games.
Second, if she has a windows system, a Mac support person will copy that over to a bootcamp partition as part of the sale. No loss of any software, she'd only have to re-register/put in license keys (new hardware and all that Windows stuff).
Then for $70 she could get VMware or Parallels added to allow direct access without leaving OS X.
She is NOT going to find an ultra book equivalent to an Air for $700. Sure she can get another run-of-the-mill laptop (don't kid yourself, of course it's better because it's new but it's still going to be a generic Windows laptop).
I suspect that with a very little hand holding this person would have been ecstatic with an Air and is now just going to be ho-hum satisfied.
Good job taking her down a notch and helping her accept mediocrity.
Privacy invading trackers? You mean the ones they use to know if they have any traffic and if so is it getting where it wants to go on the site?
Analytics software is used to quantify behavior so the people building and operating the site can make decisions. Nobody cares about you as an individual in this regard. You are just part of an aggregate segment of traffic.
Build a cool ass steam punk enclosure for it. Make it a table top phone with a handset using a mic and headphones (hide them inside the ear and mouth piece). Keep the display but root it and get some brass typeset graphics for the number keys, etc.
If it can do Skype or video chat try that too.
Make the enclosure big and brass with lots of adjustable levers for positioning it (3 arms would do).
OR
Make a Jukebox out of it and enclose it in something with cool speakers.
Rich media ads actually do get paid by impression BECAUSE they are more visual and convey branding and emotional content. Text ads require a click to verify that they were even noticed.
You are forgetting their entire store portfolio, their patent portfolio (disputed as it is, it's still very large), their supply chain which is not to be sniffed at, their R&D facilities, their media contracts, their data centers and a whole host of other lucrative sidelines.
All totaled, Apple isn't nearly as undiversified as you imply. Yes the iOS ecosystem and Mac platform are linchpins but without them Apple could easily transform itself to focus on any of the above given adequate leadership.
Of course they have directly created tens of thousands of service, creative and management jobs. Add to that the indirect employment of extra corporate help desk, external repair, supply chain and sales.
Apple is a major US economic contributor. Manufacturing is a big deal but it is not the largest segment of Apple employees.
Only if by spending it there is a high probability of a nice return. The more spent though the less of a return is needed ( but has to be higher than just a plain old security bond).
I wear flip-flops because you have to take your shoes off at security. Yes. For that convenience alone. When they stop making us all remove our damn shoes I'll wear shoes.
BTW, I've never been pulled aside or made to wait for a review. Flip flops tells security you've got nothing to hide, you're not going to run and that you are relaxed and comfortable.
I believe the "parent" was suggesting that when two consenting adults agree not to have children and select female contraceptives as the means to ensure that decision, the female is responsible for applying the contraceptive. This was the agreement. If said female chooses to break the agreement then the resulting pregnancy was her choice, not her male partners choice.
When this or another reliable male contraceptive is available both parties will be able to ensure the agreement is respected without resorting to an irreversible procedure.
If the game was deficient in content then it required a "patch". Next up, games that come with no content. You have to buy it all, no discount on the "game".
It's easy. Invest hundreds of billions into infrastructure. Pay people to build roads, highways, waterways, dams, sewers, water reservoirs, water treatment plants, energy conduits, pipelines for gas and oil, bridges, railways, airports, harbors.
That will do it. Then you'll have clean water anywhere you want it.
Banks and othe high risk sites have two factor. You have to call or have a txt sent with one time pass code to your phone. Can't change the phone number without logging in.
I don't agree. Family or school connections make things much much easier but making those same connections without a privileged background is certainly not out of reach. You do have to be arrogant, determined and willing to take risks while keeping your reputation clean (no powerful family to back you up).
The American Dream btw was not that anyone could become an elite power broker. It was that anyone can make their own destiny. There are a million millionaires in America that prove that one.
And those are the walls that keep the pirates out. No not pirates, they will still make a profit. It's the brigands who just want an easy buck. The walls keep out the brigands and the freeloaders.
It's no different than a midieval town. No walls and you are an easy mark. Walls and it takes much more effort.
Learning is easy. Making time to learn is inconvenient for people who do not enjoy knowledge as its own reward.
Many want the fruit of the tree but don't want the labor and time required to plant, nurture and cultivate. They also do not want the risk of the tree not bearing fruit after they have invested the time.
People want a free, no risk lunch. That is why they say learning is hard.
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Turn off cookies then. Seems like an easy fix for you.
You are dumb. There's already a reason to not murder authors. It's called life in prison or death penalty depending on jurisdiction. Pre-meditated murder gets the harshest sentence possible.
Huh, that's interesting. I leave with 100k+ of revenue each year while giving Apple ~$200, 50% in music, games and other soft goods the rest amortized from a MacBook Pro and 30 in Display I've had for 4+ years each.
I make stuff with my Mac. It makes me money. Apple doesn't get a cut of any of it.
Clearly YMMV.
Yes and you can put a high end motor in a compact car (rice rocket) - doesn't make it a high end car. The fit and finish, the wholistic integration of the components - that is what makes a product high quality, not the components themselves.
Or maybe you completely biased her against a Mac with misinformation.
First you don't need a USB DVD (optical drive) to install anything anymore ever. That's just dumb. Every software is available for download. Office to Adobe to drivers to games.
Second, if she has a windows system, a Mac support person will copy that over to a bootcamp partition as part of the sale. No loss of any software, she'd only have to re-register/put in license keys (new hardware and all that Windows stuff).
Then for $70 she could get VMware or Parallels added to allow direct access without leaving OS X.
She is NOT going to find an ultra book equivalent to an Air for $700. Sure she can get another run-of-the-mill laptop (don't kid yourself, of course it's better because it's new but it's still going to be a generic Windows laptop).
I suspect that with a very little hand holding this person would have been ecstatic with an Air and is now just going to be ho-hum satisfied.
Good job taking her down a notch and helping her accept mediocrity.
Undoing overly paranoid moderation. Apologies, too well done. Cheers.
Privacy invading trackers? You mean the ones they use to know if they have any traffic and if so is it getting where it wants to go on the site?
Analytics software is used to quantify behavior so the people building and operating the site can make decisions. Nobody cares about you as an individual in this regard. You are just part of an aggregate segment of traffic.
Build a cool ass steam punk enclosure for it. Make it a table top phone with a handset using a mic and headphones (hide them inside the ear and mouth piece). Keep the display but root it and get some brass typeset graphics for the number keys, etc.
If it can do Skype or video chat try that too.
Make the enclosure big and brass with lots of adjustable levers for positioning it (3 arms would do).
OR
Make a Jukebox out of it and enclose it in something with cool speakers.
Maybe even both.
Rich media ads actually do get paid by impression BECAUSE they are more visual and convey branding and emotional content. Text ads require a click to verify that they were even noticed.
You are forgetting their entire store portfolio, their patent portfolio (disputed as it is, it's still very large), their supply chain which is not to be sniffed at, their R&D facilities, their media contracts, their data centers and a whole host of other lucrative sidelines.
All totaled, Apple isn't nearly as undiversified as you imply. Yes the iOS ecosystem and Mac platform are linchpins but without them Apple could easily transform itself to focus on any of the above given adequate leadership.
Of course they have directly created tens of thousands of service, creative and management jobs. Add to that the indirect employment of extra corporate help desk, external repair, supply chain and sales.
Apple is a major US economic contributor. Manufacturing is a big deal but it is not the largest segment of Apple employees.
Only if by spending it there is a high probability of a nice return. The more spent though the less of a return is needed ( but has to be higher than just a plain old security bond).
It might work for a year or two then it would flip around and the charter companies would become the airlines.
They'd get bigger jets to accommodate all the new demand. Then to maintain profit margins they'd have to cut down service, etc etc.
I wear flip-flops because you have to take your shoes off at security. Yes. For that convenience alone. When they stop making us all remove our damn shoes I'll wear shoes.
BTW, I've never been pulled aside or made to wait for a review. Flip flops tells security you've got nothing to hide, you're not going to run and that you are relaxed and comfortable.
I believe the "parent" was suggesting that when two consenting adults agree not to have children and select female contraceptives as the means to ensure that decision, the female is responsible for applying the contraceptive. This was the agreement. If said female chooses to break the agreement then the resulting pregnancy was her choice, not her male partners choice.
When this or another reliable male contraceptive is available both parties will be able to ensure the agreement is respected without resorting to an irreversible procedure.
If the game was deficient in content then it required a "patch". Next up, games that come with no content. You have to buy it all, no discount on the "game".
It's easy. Invest hundreds of billions into infrastructure. Pay people to build roads, highways, waterways, dams, sewers, water reservoirs, water treatment plants, energy conduits, pipelines for gas and oil, bridges, railways, airports, harbors.
That will do it. Then you'll have clean water anywhere you want it.
Don't you mean:
"Siri, we got an asteroid that will hit us!"
"I'm sorry, I didn't quite get that. Would you like me to search the web?"
This. All too frequently.
Banks and othe high risk sites have two factor. You have to call or have a txt sent with one time pass code to your phone. Can't change the phone number without logging in.
I don't agree. Family or school connections make things much much easier but making those same connections without a privileged background is certainly not out of reach. You do have to be arrogant, determined and willing to take risks while keeping your reputation clean (no powerful family to back you up).
The American Dream btw was not that anyone could become an elite power broker. It was that anyone can make their own destiny. There are a million millionaires in America that prove that one.
Change "cheaper" to "more profitable". Now do the comparisons. I'm certain you will find us doing the "more profitable" option every time.
The only option that will be adopted in USA is the profitable option. Selfish altruism is the only philosophy that works for both the 1% and the 99%.
If you want any kind of change you have to find the profitable way to make that change happen.
And those are the walls that keep the pirates out. No not pirates, they will still make a profit. It's the brigands who just want an easy buck. The walls keep out the brigands and the freeloaders.
It's no different than a midieval town. No walls and you are an easy mark. Walls and it takes much more effort.
If you work from home you should get a business line and write it off. Just don't use it for personal stuff.
This.
Learning is easy. Making time to learn is inconvenient for people who do not enjoy knowledge as its own reward.
Many want the fruit of the tree but don't want the labor and time required to plant, nurture and cultivate. They also do not want the risk of the tree not bearing fruit after they have invested the time.
People want a free, no risk lunch. That is why they say learning is hard.