I get that perhaps a lot of people dropped half the service for a 20% (10/8) price cut.
so if a combo at 10$, they had to both stream to me, and mail me discs.
so if they lost 20% of revenue, but ended up only providing half the service? Damn... I'd still think they'd be net ahead after factoring in cost savings. either postage savings or bandwidth/hardware requirements.....
is that it's 650,000 households with a very late teen/young adult still at home and responsible for the warning.
I also wager this therefore represents 650,000 young adults that will vote to oust the lawmakers involved. countered by 1,300,000 parents to vote back in the lawmakers involved, to get junior the hell out of the house/basement....
sure it was in humor/jest but did it rub you the wrong way when it was suggested that 76,800,000,000 lifeforms thought JT kirk is a douchebag, or did it warm your heart to find out only two of his friends agreed?
" So such a media should have two interfaces. One like USB which is ubiquitous and fast enough today, and one which is dead simple to build an interface for no matter the available technology."
infrared blinking... like tv remotes.
binary transmitted as pulsing IR to a sensor... I had a casio watch that had contacts & other data programmed into it (one way transmission only) by the blinking of near whole computer screen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocall Robocalls are made by all political parties in the United States, including but not limited to both the Republican and Democratic parties as well as unaffiliated campaigns, 527 organizations, unions, and individual citizens. Political robocalls are exempt from the United States National Do Not Call Registry. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations prohibit telemarketers from using automated dialers to call cell phone numbers. However, political groups are excluded from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) definition of telemarketer, thus robocalls from or on behalf of political organizations are still permitted on the federal level.[1]
imagine you have the ability to increase and decrease gravity localized to me by 1 percent.
if I'm lying down, and you range gravity from.99 to 1.01 of normal, I may notice something weird. if I'm doing a straight bike riding on a bumpy road I may not.
on a trampoline, it may well depend on how you time the changes, but I may never notice.
consider, even if it takes 4 machines to 1 cashier they don't take breaks they work from open to close they don't take days off
a 24 hour store needs 168 hours per week in labor (not counting someone to cover breaks) at say, $10 an hour,+ 20% for employee tax markup that is 2,016 per week. $104,832 per year
4 machines at 30k, cost 120k ten years? maybe two with maintenance & electricity and the technician to support them. a store that's only open 8a-midnight reduces that by a third, so two and a half years
http://www.freebooks4u.net/ScienceFiction/Radiant_Doors.html --and a snippit-- "It was automation that did it or, rather, hyperautomation. That old bugaboo of fifty years ago had finally come to fruition. People were no longer needed to mine, farm, or manufacture. Machines made better administrators, more attentive servants. Only a very small elite–the vics called them simply their Owners–were required to order and ordain. Which left a lot of people who were just taking up space."
I'm not one, but for some reason, I've never felt the need to block Slashdot ads.
I even have a little box appear that offers me the option to opt out of ads because of my supposed 'contribution' but I've never felt the urge to tick it.
half the time I wonder if it's a trap, some times I think it'll take me to the subscription sign up page, but mostly I feel like the occasional ad (which may be relevant, may not) that catches my eye is not such a 'annoyance' or detriment for what I get in exchange being here.
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I get that perhaps a lot of people dropped half the service for a 20% (10/8) price cut.
so if a combo at 10$, they had to both stream to me, and mail me discs.
so if they lost 20% of revenue, but ended up only providing half the service?
Damn... I'd still think they'd be net ahead after factoring in cost savings.
either postage savings or bandwidth/hardware requirements.....
the LA times says http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/10/consumer-confidential-netflix-shares-plunge-subscribers-food-prices-grocery-bill-meat-grain-halloween-masks-recall-target-fro.html they lost 800,000 ending with 23.8 MILLION subscribers.
so they went from 24.2 to 23.2 million subscribers... and the rate change -huffington post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/12/netflix-price-subscription-plan_n_895779.html was from 9.99 to 15.98?
so before, they had 24.2 million at ten bucks a month, now they have 23.2 million at 15.98?
hell, my local county Sherrifs department has one of these
I've played with it at a police function....
bad news
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/hp-molds-itself-an-entry-into-the-3d-printer-market/
they don't "check" the maiden name supplied, they just record it on a per business basis
they use it later to confirm against what you supply originally.
I've never used my mothers maiden name, the person I suspect would be most likely to try and drain my accounts has the same mother as me.
they don't sell new anymore, but that is what they did once setup.
you hit a button on the harddrive, and it ran a backup process.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1230418,00.asp#fbid=t9YT9-CRkJe
found this from 2003....
apparently, they didn't last.. (nor maxtor)
WTF happened while I was napping?
some places (UK) merchants do charge more for credit cards -surcharges are legal
in the US, some merchants offer cash discounts. (I'm one)
21 cents, plus a possible 1 cent for security measures + .05% of the ticket price
additionally, that is what the bank may charge the next step in the process known as the MSO.
the MSO that provides cc terminals may still charge what they will to the end merchant.
is that it's 650,000 households with a very late teen/young adult still at home and responsible for the warning.
I also wager this therefore represents 650,000 young adults that will vote to oust the lawmakers involved.
countered by 1,300,000 parents to vote back in the lawmakers involved, to get junior the hell out of the house/basement....
as seen here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kNs4pxhRvc&feature=player_detailpage#t=59s
sure it was in humor/jest but did it rub you the wrong way when it was suggested that
76,800,000,000 lifeforms thought JT kirk is a douchebag, or did it warm your heart to find out only two of his friends agreed?
I can see the equatable defense.
Jeez your honor, it's not like I'm a school teacher.
I only had access to my sisters kid.
yeah, that should make it ok.
every time a hacker bricks his unit and cries for replacement/repair under warranty.
damn expensive, not vendors fault.
" So such a media should have two interfaces. One like USB which is ubiquitous and fast enough today, and one which is dead simple to build an interface for no matter the available technology."
infrared blinking... like tv remotes.
binary transmitted as pulsing IR to a sensor...
I had a casio watch that had contacts & other data programmed into it (one way transmission only) by the blinking of near whole computer screen
they are already exempt from the restriction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocall
Robocalls are made by all political parties in the United States, including but not limited to both the Republican and Democratic parties as well as unaffiliated campaigns, 527 organizations, unions, and individual citizens. Political robocalls are exempt from the United States National Do Not Call Registry. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations prohibit telemarketers from using automated dialers to call cell phone numbers. However, political groups are excluded from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) definition of telemarketer, thus robocalls from or on behalf of political organizations are still permitted on the federal level.[1]
as in- subject perception?
imagine you have the ability to increase and decrease gravity localized to me by 1 percent.
if I'm lying down, and you range gravity from .99 to 1.01 of normal, I may notice something weird.
if I'm doing a straight bike riding on a bumpy road I may not.
on a trampoline, it may well depend on how you time the changes, but I may never notice.
consider, even if it takes 4 machines to 1 cashier
they don't take breaks
they work from open to close
they don't take days off
a 24 hour store needs 168 hours per week in labor (not counting someone to cover breaks) at say, $10 an hour,+ 20% for employee tax markup that is 2,016 per week. $104,832 per year
4 machines at 30k, cost 120k
ten years? maybe two with maintenance & electricity and the technician to support them.
a store that's only open 8a-midnight reduces that by a third, so two and a half years
http://www.freebooks4u.net/ScienceFiction/Radiant_Doors.html
--and a snippit--
"It was automation that did it or, rather, hyperautomation. That old bugaboo of fifty years ago had finally come to fruition. People were no longer needed to mine, farm, or manufacture. Machines made better administrators, more attentive servants. Only a very small elite–the vics called them simply their Owners–were required to order and ordain. Which left a lot of people who were just taking up space."
doesn't negate your argument, but I find the amount amusing..
http://www.akdart.com/postrate.html
you apparently haven't mailed something since May 12, 2008
starts at 44 now.....;
Y92146
Swimming-pool of prison as the place of occurrence of the external cause
how many swimming pools in prisons anyway?
some are called subscribers.
I'm not one, but for some reason, I've never felt the need to block Slashdot ads.
I even have a little box appear that offers me the option to opt out of ads because of my supposed 'contribution' but I've never felt the urge to tick it.
half the time I wonder if it's a trap, some times I think it'll take me to the subscription sign up page, but mostly I feel like the occasional ad (which may be relevant, may not) that catches my eye is not such a 'annoyance' or detriment for what I get in exchange being here.
tanstaafl
my machine will print a confirmation with date, time, # of pages, length of call, # called and a 85%ish sized copy of the first page as sent..
it's the neatest bit of engineering in your every day life.
it's calculated to change from the mirror's silvered reflection (dead on) to the natural reflection angle of plate glass...
and this fact? this surprises you? really?
in my state, books are taxed, magazines aren't
in my state, sugar soda is taxed, bread isn''t
you have to maintain a list of what is, and isn't taxed, in each zipcode...