I was recently looking at an item at Best Buy. Local store price $39.99. The exact same item from Amazon was $22.50. Ignoring the idiotic sale tax argument, why should I pay more for the base price?
For the same reasons overnight shipping costs more than 3-day delivery: instant gratification, and the logistics cost more. Someone who orders online doesn't need instant gratification, so Best Buy should pass on the cost savings to those customers.
If they don't, they only have themselves to blame for losing to online retailers.
If it costs 20% more to deliver to a residential address, then one strategy brick and mortar retailers can use to save on shipping is to allow people to pick up their shipments at the store. This would have the added benefit of getting more people into the stores. A customer could order tonight and pick up their order tomorrow or the day after at a convenient location.
It's not quite as convenient as home delivery, but at least you don't have to run around to different stores and hope they have what you're looking for.
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every Galaxy, every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition, and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of bunny cake. (Paraphrased from HHGTTG)
More importantly, how much would it cost per driver license applicant? If you can't afford to be properly tested, why should you be allowed to operate deadly machinery in the presence of others?
Real-life driving tests are very limited in what they can test. Does the driver continue to drive the speed limit on a slippery road or when visibility is poor? Does the driver stop for pedestrians in unmarked crosswalks? If the car starts hydroplaning, does the driver let off the gas or slam on the brakes?
We have the technology to test all of these situations and more. Why are we still in the 1950s in driver testing?
That's a nonsensical phrase unless you're discussing a change in power over time (such as, "every hour, power rises by x gigawatts"). You could say gigawatt-hours (GWh), which is a unit of energy, or you could say gigawatt-hours per hour (GWh/h), shortened to gigawatts (GW), which is a unit of power. It all depends on what you mean. But I don't think you really mean gigawatts per hour.
But the first link I hit on google says only 12,211GW of solar energy hits the whole Earth.
No, it says 12,211 GWh per day of solar energy hits one square mile.
In general, Phoenix is a boring place, and boring doesn't attract talent. For some reason, Phoenicians chose to build themselves a flat, heat-magnifying city of asphalt and concrete in an already hot location, instead of shade trees and tall buildings to help block the sunlight. Consequently, there are few vibrant, walkable areas (downtown Tempe is/was a notable exception), and there's not much to do in the summer except watch TV or go to the theater, the mall, or a water park.
No, Phoenix isn't a good tech incubator. Phoenix is where you move your company after you've completed the real innovation and you just need cheap labor to keep the business running.
My CM4228 sits right next to the window, aimed towards the nearest major city 55 miles away. It was a piece of cake to setup & then run the cord under the rug to the TV.
I have the smaller 2-bay version of that antenna, and I do basically the same thing as you. It's awesome. Now I get about 10 digital channels where I used to receive only one with my indoor Terk amplified antenna.
The bandwidth caps ended cord cutting as a viable tactic for any home where the TV runs a lot, i.e. children are involved.
ISPs need to waive the caps during off-peak periods, similar to free unlimited nights and weekends on cell phone plans. Let people download all they want overnight. A megabyte of data transfer doesn't cost the ISP nearly as much at 3am as it does at 7pm. Then we'll stream our videos less and download more, but planning ahead like that is only a minor inconvenience.
Every year I investigate, and every year Amtrak is about three times the cost of a plane ticket, with a journey time around 30 hours vs 43 minutes of flight time.
By air: 1h 30m in the air, plus be at the airport 1h before departure, plus spend 15m retrieving your luggage. Total time: 2h 45m. Average airfare: $83.60 one-way, according to gofox.com.
By Amtrak: 16h on the train, plus be at the station 30m before departure. Total time: 16h 30m. $145.
So it isn't quite as bad as you claim. But I agree, it's still not a very efficient way to travel.
For fun, let's add another potential option: high speed rail. 3h 45m, $69.40 one-way, and you can use your laptop and cell phone the whole time, and get up and walk around whenever you want, and there's even a restaurant car. Would you ride it?
Here's a very good antenna. Before I got it, my old Terk indoor antenna only received one digital channel. Now I get about 10, even with the antenna mounted indoors next to the TV.
HBO costs a lot more than $10 per month. To get it, I have to subscribe to basic cable, plus digital cable, plus the cable box, and then finally I can pay $10 on top of that to get HBO.
I already have the 10Mbps Internet connection and a Roku box that supports HBOGo. All I want is to be able to subscribe to HBOGo for $10 per month without having to pay another $50 per month on top of that.
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For the same reasons overnight shipping costs more than 3-day delivery: instant gratification, and the logistics cost more. Someone who orders online doesn't need instant gratification, so Best Buy should pass on the cost savings to those customers.
If they don't, they only have themselves to blame for losing to online retailers.
If it costs 20% more to deliver to a residential address, then one strategy brick and mortar retailers can use to save on shipping is to allow people to pick up their shipments at the store. This would have the added benefit of getting more people into the stores. A customer could order tonight and pick up their order tomorrow or the day after at a convenient location.
It's not quite as convenient as home delivery, but at least you don't have to run around to different stores and hope they have what you're looking for.
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every Galaxy, every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition, and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of bunny cake. (Paraphrased from HHGTTG)
More importantly, how much would it cost per driver license applicant? If you can't afford to be properly tested, why should you be allowed to operate deadly machinery in the presence of others?
Real-life driving tests are very limited in what they can test. Does the driver continue to drive the speed limit on a slippery road or when visibility is poor? Does the driver stop for pedestrians in unmarked crosswalks? If the car starts hydroplaning, does the driver let off the gas or slam on the brakes?
We have the technology to test all of these situations and more. Why are we still in the 1950s in driver testing?
That's a nonsensical phrase unless you're discussing a change in power over time (such as, "every hour, power rises by x gigawatts"). You could say gigawatt-hours (GWh), which is a unit of energy, or you could say gigawatt-hours per hour (GWh/h), shortened to gigawatts (GW), which is a unit of power. It all depends on what you mean. But I don't think you really mean gigawatts per hour.
No, it says 12,211 GWh per day of solar energy hits one square mile.
In general, Phoenix is a boring place, and boring doesn't attract talent. For some reason, Phoenicians chose to build themselves a flat, heat-magnifying city of asphalt and concrete in an already hot location, instead of shade trees and tall buildings to help block the sunlight. Consequently, there are few vibrant, walkable areas (downtown Tempe is/was a notable exception), and there's not much to do in the summer except watch TV or go to the theater, the mall, or a water park.
No, Phoenix isn't a good tech incubator. Phoenix is where you move your company after you've completed the real innovation and you just need cheap labor to keep the business running.
I heard the FAA has been tracking airplanes for years!
That's very easy to fix, even without adding supply.
If the ad comes from facebook.com and I've unblocked Facebook, then I would see it.
Or maybe the only people brave enough to click on the links are the ones who run NoScript.
I know that I'm more likely to click on suspicious links now that I run NoScript.
Your scores would also improve if you didn't have to worry about air currents randomly altering the course of the ball.
Heavy users can shift some of their usage to off-peak. Light users don't need to.
I have the smaller 2-bay version of that antenna, and I do basically the same thing as you. It's awesome. Now I get about 10 digital channels where I used to receive only one with my indoor Terk amplified antenna.
ISPs need to waive the caps during off-peak periods, similar to free unlimited nights and weekends on cell phone plans. Let people download all they want overnight. A megabyte of data transfer doesn't cost the ISP nearly as much at 3am as it does at 7pm. Then we'll stream our videos less and download more, but planning ahead like that is only a minor inconvenience.
I'm not sure, but with the way fuel prices are heading up, it will still be cheaper than flying.
By air: 1h 30m in the air, plus be at the airport 1h before departure, plus spend 15m retrieving your luggage. Total time: 2h 45m. Average airfare: $83.60 one-way, according to gofox.com.
By Amtrak: 16h on the train, plus be at the station 30m before departure. Total time: 16h 30m. $145.
So it isn't quite as bad as you claim. But I agree, it's still not a very efficient way to travel.
For fun, let's add another potential option: high speed rail. 3h 45m, $69.40 one-way, and you can use your laptop and cell phone the whole time, and get up and walk around whenever you want, and there's even a restaurant car. Would you ride it?
Then a controlled dive could eliminate the need for afterburners completely.
So 5/1 is free for at least 7 years (with a $300 connection fee), or pay $70/month for 1000/1000.
What if I need more than 5 Mbps down but less than 1000 and I don't want to pay $70/month? Even 50/10 would be awesome!
As they say, "if you aren't paying for it, then you are the product."
When we're the product, we should all demand a high quality service as payment.
Here's a very good antenna. Before I got it, my old Terk indoor antenna only received one digital channel. Now I get about 10, even with the antenna mounted indoors next to the TV.
HBO costs a lot more than $10 per month. To get it, I have to subscribe to basic cable, plus digital cable, plus the cable box, and then finally I can pay $10 on top of that to get HBO.
I already have the 10Mbps Internet connection and a Roku box that supports HBOGo. All I want is to be able to subscribe to HBOGo for $10 per month without having to pay another $50 per month on top of that.
...using organic video and audio sensors, onto a storage medium consisting of neurons and synapses. Does this mean they would throw me out, too?
In poorly factored code, the scope of a change touches more parts of the code than in well factored code, and that bloats the size of the RC.
Sounds like the kernel could use a good refactoring.