I'm amazed that some people haven't done the simple math to figure out the "free phone" scam. Phone $49 + 24 month contract at $100/month = $2449. This is not "free" in any sense of the word. It is a scam. Compare this to: Phone $500 + 24 month (no contract) at $50 (or less)/month = $1700. I personally have an even cheaper T-Mobile plan which costs me about $10/month since I use WiFi most of the time. My actual costs for past 24 months with my Android Nexus phone: Phone $539 + $230 service charges = $769. Plus, I can tether as much as I want so I've saved at least $500 in hotel WiFi access charges. This is the real way to get a "free phone"... not the phone company way. My phone is paid for and works great. I love it and it should keep me happy for quite a while.
The Kindle Fire is easy to open. The device is easy to slip out of the case by gently prying around the edges. There's no need for Apple to glue the ipad together. They could have done the same thing as the Fire.
The "owners" are the shareholders who were clueless about the risks. Everyone told them everything was just fine. The owners trusted their assets to the "managers" who put their short term interests (profit) ahead of protecting the assets. This is how modern capitalism works. The managers (high paid execs) get the profits, everyone else gets the shaft. (Wall street managers did very well before and after the 2008 crash... asset owners... not so well.)
Yes, you do sound like a shill. The "audits" are a joke. Yes, all of the corporations which use Chinese slave labor should take a hard look at the factories. (Ever been to WalMart?) Perhaps if corporations really were people, they wouldn't be so quick to ship US manufacturing jobs overseas to slave labor countries.
? Abandoned wind farms? You'll need to cite some references for this. Since the main cost of wind farms is the initial capital cost and not the very small annual maintenance cost, it would make no sense to abandon a wind farm once it was running. It's literally free electricity after installation.
Looks like Apple is working hard to counter all of the bad publicity from their Chinese slave labor factories. For the world's most valuable company, this is peanuts.
moh-nutr-no:~ mark$ python Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jun 24 2010, 21:47:49) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> print "Hello World" 'Hello World'
The summary said nothing about sacrifices. It does say:
"The "breaking away" strategy starts with small nation states building a new economic paradigm based upon the environmental perspective, rejecting the flawed and elitist global institutions we have now (the WTO, World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund), and even developing new currency systems. The nation states will be supported by a grassroots activist movement which will create local eco-communities and more self-reliant economies while lobbying existing political powers to get on board with the new paradigm. The measurements of success will not be GNP or GDP but the broader-based measures of social happiness and human rights. (Take the case of the nation of Bhutan which measures its activity by a standard called "Gross National Happiness Index.")"
It looks like it is proposing a system based on strengthening local economies and freeing them from the tyranny of corporations while at the same time causing less damage to the environment. If you measure happiness by how much petrol you burn or how much cheap shit from China slave labor you consume, then I guess you might consider this a sacrifice. Many other people measure their happiness by health, security, family and friends as well as having adequate food and shelter. I believe this is what the book is proposing, not sacrifices.
The current 7" Kindle Fire has as many pixels as the iPad2 in a more compact form. I assume that the iPad3 will add more pixels to make a better screen. I also expect a 10" Kindle Fire will probably up the pixel count. What else could the iPad3 add to up the ante? Everything else I've read is just incremental improvements.
Steak tartare (aka steak à l'Americaine) consists of raw beef and is regularly consumed in many European countries. It is often served with onions, tartare sauce (hence the name) or other seasonings.
It is a polite "lawyer talk" letter which points out they they have already sued the US Government to suppress the results of the study and they have lined up some well paid congressmen to suppress the results of the study and they are "just sayin" that it would really be a shame for anything bad to happen to that nice journal you have there and that if you all go along with the game here to suppress the results of the study then we will leave you alone... for now.
I can tell the difference between the audio on my cell phone calls and my Skype calls. The Skype calls have much better quality. I can use Skype over 3G from the South Pacific to the US and the quality is fantastic... better than a local call. The only problem is a bit of lag due to the distance.
ATT 4G is not real 4G but kind of 3G "plus" and isn't even available in a lot of locations. Many users seem to be finding disappointing performance on the iPhone. I think this is just ATT marketing hype...
This works! I use T-Mobile pay as you go and put in $100 a year ago (Gold status good for a year of 10 cents a minute calls and texts). At the end of my first year I still had $34 credit so I added $10 and now have another full year to use my $47 balance (they give you bonus credit for Gold status). They used to have a nice "Day pass" feature for data at $1.49 for 24 hours (unlimited but throttled) but they discontinued that plan (upset me and a lot of other people). In it's place you can buy a $2/day (2G) or $3/day(3G) plan but you have to start and stop it manually each day and it only runs til midnight (not 24 hours). If you don't turn it off before midnight, it will charge you for another day. This is a PITA so I don't use it much. I used the old day pass more.
It seems that the second link in the summary is being ignored (by both/. and industry). The concentration of rare earth elements in used electronics (cell phones, displays, computers, etc.) is many thousand times higher than their concentrations in rare earth ores. Rather than tearing up and polluting large areas of the earth with new mining, it would seem to be much more cost efficient and easier on the environment to "mine" used electronics.
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I'm amazed that some people haven't done the simple math to figure out the "free phone" scam. /month = $2449. This is not "free" in any sense of the word. It is a scam. /month = $1700.
Phone $49 + 24 month contract at $100
Compare this to:
Phone $500 + 24 month (no contract) at $50 (or less)
I personally have an even cheaper T-Mobile plan which costs me about $10/month since I use WiFi most of the time.
My actual costs for past 24 months with my Android Nexus phone:
Phone $539 + $230 service charges = $769.
Plus, I can tether as much as I want so I've saved at least $500 in hotel WiFi access charges.
This is the real way to get a "free phone"... not the phone company way.
My phone is paid for and works great. I love it and it should keep me happy for quite a while.
Like plutonium with a half life of 24,000 years?
Or cesium with an ecologic half life of 240 years?
The Kindle Fire is easy to open. The device is easy to slip out of the case by gently prying around the edges. There's no need for Apple to glue the ipad together. They could have done the same thing as the Fire.
OK. The usual question. Does this run on Linux? (or Mac)?
It mentions a DLL which is Windows only so I assume Windows only?
Nevada (in the US) and many cities in Europe have legal prostitution run by "non-thugs". It is legitimate.
The US tends to worship corporations and profit. Actual religion is just a background show.
The "owners" are the shareholders who were clueless about the risks. Everyone told them everything was just fine. The owners trusted their assets to the "managers" who put their short term interests (profit) ahead of protecting the assets.
This is how modern capitalism works. The managers (high paid execs) get the profits, everyone else gets the shaft. (Wall street managers did very well before and after the 2008 crash... asset owners... not so well.)
Yes, you do sound like a shill.
The "audits" are a joke.
Yes, all of the corporations which use Chinese slave labor should take a hard look at the factories. (Ever been to WalMart?)
Perhaps if corporations really were people, they wouldn't be so quick to ship US manufacturing jobs overseas to slave labor countries.
I hate daylight savings time, too.
? Abandoned wind farms?
You'll need to cite some references for this.
Since the main cost of wind farms is the initial capital cost and not the very small annual maintenance cost, it would make no sense to abandon a wind farm once it was running. It's literally free electricity after installation.
Apple invented rounded corners!
Apple OWNS rounded corners!
No one else can make a tablet with rounded corners!
Steve is a (rounded corner) genius!
Looks like Apple is working hard to counter all of the bad publicity from their Chinese slave labor factories.
For the world's most valuable company, this is peanuts.
moh-nutr-no:~ mark$ python
Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jun 24 2010, 21:47:49)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print "Hello World"
'Hello World'
This seems like an "unreasonably deadly" program.
Sounds like you've been spending too much time with Rush.
The summary said nothing about sacrifices. It does say:
"The "breaking away" strategy starts with small nation states building a new economic paradigm based upon the environmental perspective, rejecting the flawed and elitist global institutions we have now (the WTO, World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund), and even developing new currency systems. The nation states will be supported by a grassroots activist movement which will create local eco-communities and more self-reliant economies while lobbying existing political powers to get on board with the new paradigm. The measurements of success will not be GNP or GDP but the broader-based measures of social happiness and human rights. (Take the case of the nation of Bhutan which measures its activity by a standard called "Gross National Happiness Index.")"
It looks like it is proposing a system based on strengthening local economies and freeing them from the tyranny of corporations while at the same time causing less damage to the environment. If you measure happiness by how much petrol you burn or how much cheap shit from China slave labor you consume, then I guess you might consider this a sacrifice. Many other people measure their happiness by health, security, family and friends as well as having adequate food and shelter. I believe this is what the book is proposing, not sacrifices.
Yeah! ...
let them use a pencil!
Make them clean bathrooms also!
damn kids today
You don't think rich people work hard, do you?
The current 7" Kindle Fire has as many pixels as the iPad2 in a more compact form. I assume that the iPad3 will add more pixels to make a better screen. I also expect a 10" Kindle Fire will probably up the pixel count. What else could the iPad3 add to up the ante? Everything else I've read is just incremental improvements.
Steak tartare (aka steak à l'Americaine) consists of raw beef and is regularly consumed in many European countries. It is often served with onions, tartare sauce (hence the name) or other seasonings.
It is a polite "lawyer talk" letter which points out they they have already sued the US Government to suppress the results of the study and they have lined up some well paid congressmen to suppress the results of the study and they are "just sayin" that it would really be a shame for anything bad to happen to that nice journal you have there and that if you all go along with the game here to suppress the results of the study then we will leave you alone... for now.
I can tell the difference between the audio on my cell phone calls and my Skype calls. The Skype calls have much better quality.
I can use Skype over 3G from the South Pacific to the US and the quality is fantastic... better than a local call. The only problem is a bit of lag due to the distance.
So... you all huddle 20" away from your 10" tablet (recommended viewing distance)?
Who holds the tablet?
Sounds very cozy for the three of you.
ATT 4G is not real 4G but kind of 3G "plus" and isn't even available in a lot of locations. Many users seem to be finding disappointing performance on the iPhone.
I think this is just ATT marketing hype...
I didn't think iphone offered LTE or 4G. Maybe someday?
This works!
I use T-Mobile pay as you go and put in $100 a year ago (Gold status good for a year of 10 cents a minute calls and texts). At the end of my first year I still had $34 credit so I added $10 and now have another full year to use my $47 balance (they give you bonus credit for Gold status).
They used to have a nice "Day pass" feature for data at $1.49 for 24 hours (unlimited but throttled) but they discontinued that plan (upset me and a lot of other people). In it's place you can buy a $2/day (2G) or $3/day(3G) plan but you have to start and stop it manually each day and it only runs til midnight (not 24 hours). If you don't turn it off before midnight, it will charge you for another day. This is a PITA so I don't use it much. I used the old day pass more.
It seems that the second link in the summary is being ignored (by both /. and industry). The concentration of rare earth elements in used electronics (cell phones, displays, computers, etc.) is many thousand times higher than their concentrations in rare earth ores. Rather than tearing up and polluting large areas of the earth with new mining, it would seem to be much more cost efficient and easier on the environment to "mine" used electronics.