With shrinking cable television viewership, and the talk of making internet a utility, of course many of these companies want to find new ways to make money. The customers don't really get a choice - not enough people can get up and move to actually hurt many of these companies in any significant fashion. Look at cell phone plans. The real question is if there is collusion in the industry...
To be certain: consumers don't get a real choice when the players are so few and so big.
It's an easy plan I've layed out in the case I get wealthy, depending on level of wealth:
1) Pay off all my debt
2) Moderately Upgrade items I use (No Supercars, lavish houses or jets, that just encourages isolation)
3) Put enough money in retirement accounts to live a comfortable lifestyle into retirement (so I can also blow most of the rest of the money)
4) Fill college funds for my kids
5) set aside money for my family, only help with most pressing items
- This also lets me know who in my life is a gold digger, and who will continue to treat me the same. I don't want to be a bank, but "everyone gets one"
6) Setup a scholarship for kids to go to school (most average student, best manners in a video game, whatever)
7) Setup funds for charities like homeless shelters, work programs and other items to get people on their feet
8) Continue working in fields I love (life needs challenges)
9) give away random gifts to strangers
- my favorite atm is giving $5 starbucks gift cards to parents when their kids are being obnoxious in public, sometimes you just need a break!
- paying electric bills for all customers who are behind
- buying groceries for the people who are clearly just trying to get by
- paying for all the kids in the school to go to sea world, local zoo, etc
in the case of billions, I like the Musk idea - improve the world, help build what you've always wanted. Things get hard and frustrating, but I think remembering to be a normal human and not flaunt your money or lifestyle goes a long way. I also think those hard parts of life is what gives us the most return - accomplishing something hard is far more satisfying than doing something easy.
This really isn't anything new. A few years ago I worked on an advertising project that involved tracking your preferences which pulled information from your profile to tailor the ads that you received. It was smart advertising, because it led to higher click-through rates. We didn't pass your information on to other firms unless it was noted in our privacy contract - and even that was a completely separate process. For ads, it was a lot wiser to fill your sidebar and popups with age/sex/interest specific advertising than to show a 14 year old ads for geritol.
Am I the only one who thought the article said "in-flight robots" ? I was imagining things like a robot stewardess serving drinks "Would you like some pretzels?" or perhaps a small army of spider sized robots for hull repair or something. No wonder its taking so long for this project!
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I do amateur video editing myself, and I recently bought a new system for ~$600 USD for that purpose. They system is IDE RAID w/ AMD 1700 and 512mb of PC2700 ram. I use 2 WD 8mb Buffer 80gb drives in RAID-0 and my throughput for that is enough to record at full HALF FRAME rates (~60fps) AND surf the web (without dropping frames). If your friend is having problems with RAID performance, perhaps they should dump thier RAID card and buy the Epox 8k5a board with dual raid... (its a hell of a lot cheaper than a cluster too)
If your looking for an electric Vehicle, maybe you should consider the Th!nk City. It doesn't quite reach 65 MPH, but it does qualify for HOV lane stickers and you can help bring the car to market by participating in their special testing lease.
There is a bug in the ODBC module for perl that will populate all of the fields with the same name, with the same value. If your SQL has a.name and b.name, they will both get the same value, even if the selection would pull different ones. I guess you could call this a feature, but it sure gave me a headache before I found it.
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With shrinking cable television viewership, and the talk of making internet a utility, of course many of these companies want to find new ways to make money. The customers don't really get a choice - not enough people can get up and move to actually hurt many of these companies in any significant fashion. Look at cell phone plans. The real question is if there is collusion in the industry... To be certain: consumers don't get a real choice when the players are so few and so big.
- This also lets me know who in my life is a gold digger, and who will continue to treat me the same. I don't want to be a bank, but "everyone gets one"
- my favorite atm is giving $5 starbucks gift cards to parents when their kids are being obnoxious in public, sometimes you just need a break!
- paying electric bills for all customers who are behind
- buying groceries for the people who are clearly just trying to get by
- paying for all the kids in the school to go to sea world, local zoo, etc
in the case of billions, I like the Musk idea - improve the world, help build what you've always wanted. Things get hard and frustrating, but I think remembering to be a normal human and not flaunt your money or lifestyle goes a long way. I also think those hard parts of life is what gives us the most return - accomplishing something hard is far more satisfying than doing something easy.
This really isn't anything new. A few years ago I worked on an advertising project that involved tracking your preferences which pulled information from your profile to tailor the ads that you received. It was smart advertising, because it led to higher click-through rates. We didn't pass your information on to other firms unless it was noted in our privacy contract - and even that was a completely separate process. For ads, it was a lot wiser to fill your sidebar and popups with age/sex/interest specific advertising than to show a 14 year old ads for geritol.
Yes, but no user will ever need more than 3 degrees of freedom.
Am I the only one who thought the article said "in-flight robots" ? I was imagining things like a robot stewardess serving drinks "Would you like some pretzels?" or perhaps a small army of spider sized robots for hull repair or something. No wonder its taking so long for this project!
I do amateur video editing myself, and I recently bought a new system for ~$600 USD for that purpose. They system is IDE RAID w/ AMD 1700 and 512mb of PC2700 ram. I use 2 WD 8mb Buffer 80gb drives in RAID-0 and my throughput for that is enough to record at full HALF FRAME rates (~60fps) AND surf the web (without dropping frames). If your friend is having problems with RAID performance, perhaps they should dump thier RAID card and buy the Epox 8k5a board with dual raid... (its a hell of a lot cheaper than a cluster too)
If your looking for an electric Vehicle, maybe you should consider the Th!nk City. It doesn't quite reach 65 MPH, but it does qualify for HOV lane stickers and you can help bring the car to market by participating in their special testing lease.
There is a bug in the ODBC module for perl that will populate all of the fields with the same name, with the same value. If your SQL has a.name and b.name, they will both get the same value, even if the selection would pull different ones. I guess you could call this a feature, but it sure gave me a headache before I found it.