He's giving subsidized prices. Everyone imagines that phones cost anywhere from free to a few hundred dollars - i.e. the deposit on a phone from a carrier. Just like houses only cost 5% of their listing price.
Betting big to enter a well established market is risky. The iPod, iPhone and, to a lesser extent the iPad, were huge risks and exactly the sort of "distracting us from our core mission" that most MBAs would tell you is a bad thing.
It's religious people who care. If you're religious but not Christian you may not want to pronounce Jesus as your lord every time you write a date. I'm not religious but I can certainly understand that sentiment, and it's easier if we all just use the same thing. So CE it is.
CE proponents don't have anything against agriculture (they're not advocating changing the calendar). In modern times CE was used by people who, for religious reasons, didn't want to refer to Jesus as their lord every time they wrote a date. Many people who are not religious kind of feel the same way.
Those aren't excellent arguments. They're silly. Oh noes, if we stop saying AD we're going to eventually change the whole calendar! Their arguments are at least silly. The Southern Baptist Church appears to be trying to convince people to USE CE:
"The Southern Baptist Convention has criticized the use of BCE and CE as being the result of "secularization, anti-supernaturalism, religious pluralism, and political correctness"
The lower class is MUCH better off now than they were before too. By any realistic index, there are few to no countries in the world where people are as bad off as most people anywhere were as recently as the 1800s. Even in the worst third world hell hole, the people are better off than the poor in, say England in 1750.
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There's this crazy Protestant work ethic thing. So instead of everybody taking it easy we've converted all the excess workers who used to farm or do manual labour into people who sell us stuff, sue us, or entertain us.
Except we don't. Half the people are not unemployed.
People do tend to work a bit less than they did before (maybe not in the US). Long holidays are mandatory in much of Europe and other places. Also, if you live an early 1900s lifestyle you can work much less.
We don't work as little as expected because we want more as well as some impact from greed (but less than you suggest)
The original prohibitions against premarital sex were directed at women, and the crime of adultery is a property crime (despoiling another man's property - his wife). God, Allah, Buddha, whoever hating sex didn't enter into it. Well, maybe a bit for some of the eastern religions in a self-discipline sense.
But no, those rules, in any form, have never worked.
Yes, because people who can barely drive as it is should get a car where they have to worry about coordinated action of ANOTHER limb, in order to avoid an extremely rare fault.
Oh, and automatics have an even more reliable engine power cutoff - pushing the shifter forward to the stop will put the transmission in neutral... And it will stay there.
Looks like a fantastic controller for robotics projects or anything that needs more power than a typical ATMega based Arduino. Also, since it exposes things like the SPI port directly to a computer with a shell it would be awesome for electronics prototyping and learning.
Except you read it wrong too. 47% of laptops and desktops (somehow desktops got called "mobile devices") and 2/3 (i.e. 66%) of iPads were on 5 GHz. Which suggests that the biggest class of devices on their network is smart phones, even assuming none of them were making 5 GHz connections.
Have you met the teacher who can give instant feedback to an entire class at the same time?
If you can afford a personal teacher that's obviously the best solution. If you can't afford a teacher at all, you have to make do with a computer. If you're in the middle somewhere, you'll probably find the best approach is a BALANCED one with both.
Seriously? All the astronauts from all countries have given first hand accounts of their reaction to space. The robotics program does a lot of science and gets a lot of people interested, but it's the first hand accounts that really capture people's imaginations. To watch the short film "Yuri" or talk to someone who watched the first moon landing live. Or read one of the ISS astronauts' blogs.
Reference 4 is a review article that covers the (imaginary) link between autism and thiomersal.
The thiomersol-autism thing was entirely manufactured by a (former) physician in the UK who it was found violated ethical guidelines, falsified his results and had a vested interest in the outcome (he was involved with a company offering a vaccine alternative). The scientific evidence is clear - if you don't get your kids vaccinated you are needlessly endangering them. Along with everyone else.
As for your tobacco reference, scientific studies did NOT find that tobacco was safe. Tobacco companies insisted it was, for years, but they did not have scientific evidence backing them up. In fact, the reason they had to defend themselves was because scientific studies were showing that tobacco is in fact dangerous.
But hey, if you want to protect your kids from toxic elements you'd better check into the chlorine thing. We're CONSTANTLY ingesting chlorine! (Note: if you cut chlorine out of your kids' diet they'll die. Fairly quickly)
I was replying to your post where you were replying to the guy who said you couldn't live for a week relying only on corporate services. Nothing about state vs. federal powers.
Your own post said that the roads ARE government maintained, then claimed that prior to the building of the Interstate system goods travelled on state, municipal and local roads. Which seems completely irrelevant since those are ALSO government maintained.
So are you agreeing with the OP that nothing works without government services or not?
"The problem is it isn't at all clear that Apple has any right to do that. They're arguing consumer confusion. But nobody is going to the store and buying a Galaxy Tab thinking it's an iPad. Just making something similar is not illegal, it's the basis of the free market -- Apple has to have a valid and infringed monopoly right in order to prevent competition. And it isn't clear that they do."
They've managed to convince a few judges (you know, actual legal experts) that not only are Samsung's products probably infringing, but they certainly have a right to complain about it.
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He's giving subsidized prices. Everyone imagines that phones cost anywhere from free to a few hundred dollars - i.e. the deposit on a phone from a carrier. Just like houses only cost 5% of their listing price.
How is their single core, lower resolution screen phone as good as a dual core, high res iPhone 4? Maybe you meant the 3GS.
It sounds like they're two generations behind now.
Betting big to enter a well established market is risky. The iPod, iPhone and, to a lesser extent the iPad, were huge risks and exactly the sort of "distracting us from our core mission" that most MBAs would tell you is a bad thing.
It's religious people who care. If you're religious but not Christian you may not want to pronounce Jesus as your lord every time you write a date. I'm not religious but I can certainly understand that sentiment, and it's easier if we all just use the same thing. So CE it is.
CE proponents don't have anything against agriculture (they're not advocating changing the calendar). In modern times CE was used by people who, for religious reasons, didn't want to refer to Jesus as their lord every time they wrote a date. Many people who are not religious kind of feel the same way.
Take a celestial navigation course. It all makes sense.
Those aren't excellent arguments. They're silly. Oh noes, if we stop saying AD we're going to eventually change the whole calendar! Their arguments are at least silly. The Southern Baptist Church appears to be trying to convince people to USE CE:
"The Southern Baptist Convention has criticized the use of BCE and CE as being the result of "secularization, anti-supernaturalism, religious pluralism, and political correctness"
How about if your local supermarket owner sells your shopping list to the highest bidder?
Google sending cars out to take pictures is fantastic. Google collecting information about everyone to sell advertising needs careful scrutiny.
You say that as if products and productivity are opposite directions.
More productivity means more products with less work.
The lower class is MUCH better off now than they were before too. By any realistic index, there are few to no countries in the world where people are as bad off as most people anywhere were as recently as the 1800s. Even in the worst third world hell hole, the people are better off than the poor in, say England in 1750.
There's this crazy Protestant work ethic thing. So instead of everybody taking it easy we've converted all the excess workers who used to farm or do manual labour into people who sell us stuff, sue us, or entertain us.
Except we don't. Half the people are not unemployed.
People do tend to work a bit less than they did before (maybe not in the US). Long holidays are mandatory in much of Europe and other places. Also, if you live an early 1900s lifestyle you can work much less.
We don't work as little as expected because we want more as well as some impact from greed (but less than you suggest)
I doubt very much there's NO test. Most likely there is no cheap, easy test that could be given casually.
The original prohibitions against premarital sex were directed at women, and the crime of adultery is a
property crime (despoiling another man's property - his wife). God, Allah, Buddha, whoever hating sex didn't enter into it. Well, maybe a bit for some of the eastern religions in a self-discipline sense.
But no, those rules, in any form, have never worked.
Yes, because people who can barely drive as it is should get a car where they have to worry about coordinated action of ANOTHER limb, in order to avoid an extremely rare fault.
Oh, and automatics have an even more reliable engine power cutoff - pushing the shifter forward to the stop will put the transmission in neutral... And it will stay there.
Can it run on a couple of AAs?
Looks like a fantastic controller for robotics projects or anything that needs more power than a typical ATMega based Arduino. Also, since it exposes things like the SPI port directly to a computer with a shell it would be awesome for electronics prototyping and learning.
Except you read it wrong too. 47% of laptops and desktops (somehow desktops got called "mobile devices") and 2/3 (i.e. 66%) of iPads were on 5 GHz. Which suggests that the biggest class of devices on their network is smart phones, even assuming none of them were making 5 GHz connections.
Sure it is. The 99% just has to learn to vote.
Have you met the teacher who can give instant feedback to an entire class at the same time?
If you can afford a personal teacher that's obviously the best solution. If you can't afford a teacher at all, you have to make do with a computer. If you're in the middle somewhere, you'll probably find the best approach is a BALANCED one with both.
They didn't when they started.
Seriously? All the astronauts from all countries have given first hand accounts of their reaction to space. The robotics program does a lot of science and gets a lot of people interested, but it's the first hand accounts that really capture people's imaginations. To watch the short film "Yuri" or talk to someone who watched the first moon landing live. Or read one of the ISS astronauts' blogs.
How's the New England Journal of Medicine for you? http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp078187
Reference 4 is a review article that covers the (imaginary) link between autism and thiomersal.
The thiomersol-autism thing was entirely manufactured by a (former) physician in the UK who it was found violated ethical guidelines, falsified his results and had a vested interest in the outcome (he was involved with a company offering a vaccine alternative). The scientific evidence is clear - if you don't get your kids vaccinated you are needlessly endangering them. Along with everyone else.
As for your tobacco reference, scientific studies did NOT find that tobacco was safe. Tobacco companies insisted it was, for years, but they did not have scientific evidence backing them up. In fact, the reason they had to defend themselves was because scientific studies were showing that tobacco is in fact dangerous.
But hey, if you want to protect your kids from toxic elements you'd better check into the chlorine thing. We're CONSTANTLY ingesting chlorine! (Note: if you cut chlorine out of your kids' diet they'll die. Fairly quickly)
I was replying to your post where you were replying to the guy who said you couldn't live for a week relying only on corporate services. Nothing about state vs. federal powers.
Your own post said that the roads ARE government maintained, then claimed that prior to the building of the Interstate system goods travelled on state, municipal and local roads. Which seems completely irrelevant since those are ALSO government maintained.
So are you agreeing with the OP that nothing works without government services or not?
"The problem is it isn't at all clear that Apple has any right to do that. They're arguing consumer confusion. But nobody is going to the store and buying a Galaxy Tab thinking it's an iPad. Just making something similar is not illegal, it's the basis of the free market -- Apple has to have a valid and infringed monopoly right in order to prevent competition. And it isn't clear that they do."
They've managed to convince a few judges (you know, actual legal experts) that not only are Samsung's products probably infringing, but they certainly have a right to complain about it.