Yeah? But how much are each of those 15 people spending? If they are only sending letters. I bet not very much. And if they are sending packages, who cares. UPS and Fed Ex are more than willing to fill that void.
For Real. These days, I bet, anyone who is willing to pay $0.45 to mail something, would also be willing to pay $1 or two.. The only people that would be hurt by a dramatic increase in postage prices would be the bulk-junk mailers. And they can go to hell.
Disclaimer: I worked for a junk mail company once.
As an iPhone user, this is one of the reasons I give the iPhone four out of five stars. You can't run multiple aps at once, and if you accidentally exit out of your GPS application while driving (which include inbound calls) you lose the cache, and you are now lost unless you have enough cell phone service to download the map again.
It is not about what you and I want. If i had my way, I would never see an advertisement.
Instead it is what the marketing people want. They want ads that reaches their audience and makes them money. And as long as targeted ads make them money, that is what we are going see.
Rather than modding you Troll for calling American football a pussy sport I am going to try to defend American Football. (I will be using the term Football to refer to American Football for the rest of this post)
First of all I have to say that in my humble opinion Football is the most exciting/interesting sport to watch as a spectator. The goal off football, unlike soccer, and rugby isn't only about endorse and brute strength, but also relies heavily on strategy and skill. The stoppages between plays is not because the players are wimpy and require a break, they are there so that each side can play their strategy for the next play based upon the current situation.
Yes they wear pads and rugby don't. They ware pads is because when a 350lb linemen hits you it hurts. In football different players are different shapes and sizes, and have different abilities depending on their potion. If they all had the same abilities, it would be boring, and less strategy. Pads allow the 145lb running back to go up against a 350lb linebacker with out being killed.
As far as game play goes. I think what makes football so great is the first down. You have an ultimate goal of scoring a touch down, but you also have intermediate goals, You need to advance the ball 10 yards in 4 plays or you lose possession. Soccer and rugby lacks this intermediate objective, and makes it more boring to watch.
Calling American football a wussy sport is a bit of a disservice. Yes, I am sure American football players would not be very good at rugby. But I also would bet rugby players wouldn't be equally as bad at American football, because, they are different sports, with different objectives and focuses with different rules.
An other hurdle to usability is when you have multiple systems at work place that require a rotating complex password where you can't remember what password belongs to what system.
Where I use to work we would have a password for the NT/domain PC login, and a password for the UNIX terminal thing everyone had to log into do anything. And withing the software on the UNIX terminal they used, for certain subsystems there was "shared" passwords that never changed, while remembered, they was still semi-complex, e.g. real word that substitutes a couple numbers for letters.
I counted once, I had to know 25 different passwords, two-personal, and two "shared" to do my job, and I wasn't even working in a IT or IT-like postion.
You really think a blind person can use an iphone? the iphone has to be the least blind-friendly phone in the existence of the human race.
I guess your voice-search might be useful for the blind if it was the only app on the iphone and the iphone was set to boot straight into that app.
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It would be more useful if it only played the chainsaw sound once every 80,500ish pages it takes before you used enough paper to consume one full tree.
firefox..
first try
ftp.firefox.com --nope don't work
2nd try
ftp.mozila.com --works
chrome
first try
ftp.Chrome.com --works
Opera
first try
ftp.Opera.com --works
Can you call the gov't up when you get lost and ask them for directions?
"Help! I don't know where am I, but i see a kangaroo and the toilets are flushing backwords"
I saw the commercial during the Giants game last night. To be honest, if it wasn't for the Microsoft logo at the end, i wouldn't even know what the commercial was for. To be honest I still don't know. I think it was for the shoe carnival store or whatever it was called. Sadly I don't think they have one around here.
sector continues apace.
It is stupid to assume any rapid growth in any sector will last that long. On the other hand, it is stupid to assume it will not.
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Yeah? But how much are each of those 15 people spending? If they are only sending letters. I bet not very much. And if they are sending packages, who cares. UPS and Fed Ex are more than willing to fill that void.
For Real. These days, I bet, anyone who is willing to pay $0.45 to mail something, would also be willing to pay $1 or two.. The only people that would be hurt by a dramatic increase in postage prices would be the bulk-junk mailers. And they can go to hell. Disclaimer: I worked for a junk mail company once.
Perhaps they could climate Saturday delivery for letter mail. Do I really need junk mail and bills six days a week?
...Louisville ranks number one in the nation for amount of fast food consumed per month per person. I wonder if there is a correlation.
As an iPhone user, this is one of the reasons I give the iPhone four out of five stars. You can't run multiple aps at once, and if you accidentally exit out of your GPS application while driving (which include inbound calls) you lose the cache, and you are now lost unless you have enough cell phone service to download the map again.
you could move to Vermont. Billboards are illegal here.
It is not about what you and I want. If i had my way, I would never see an advertisement. Instead it is what the marketing people want. They want ads that reaches their audience and makes them money. And as long as targeted ads make them money, that is what we are going see.
You really think Americans can't multiply by 3ish in our head?
Rather than modding you Troll for calling American football a pussy sport I am going to try to defend American Football. (I will be using the term Football to refer to American Football for the rest of this post) First of all I have to say that in my humble opinion Football is the most exciting/interesting sport to watch as a spectator. The goal off football, unlike soccer, and rugby isn't only about endorse and brute strength, but also relies heavily on strategy and skill. The stoppages between plays is not because the players are wimpy and require a break, they are there so that each side can play their strategy for the next play based upon the current situation. Yes they wear pads and rugby don't. They ware pads is because when a 350lb linemen hits you it hurts. In football different players are different shapes and sizes, and have different abilities depending on their potion. If they all had the same abilities, it would be boring, and less strategy. Pads allow the 145lb running back to go up against a 350lb linebacker with out being killed. As far as game play goes. I think what makes football so great is the first down. You have an ultimate goal of scoring a touch down, but you also have intermediate goals, You need to advance the ball 10 yards in 4 plays or you lose possession. Soccer and rugby lacks this intermediate objective, and makes it more boring to watch. Calling American football a wussy sport is a bit of a disservice. Yes, I am sure American football players would not be very good at rugby. But I also would bet rugby players wouldn't be equally as bad at American football, because, they are different sports, with different objectives and focuses with different rules.
Everybody around here hates Fair Point. Thank God for reliable, fast, and consistent Comcast. Sadly, I don't think I am being sarcastic.
Don't worry, all the extra C02 in the atmosphere will cause more vegatation to grow.
What are you talking about, the war of 1812 wasn't over until 194 years ago.
re-enter is a subset of de-orbit. So most probably yes.
An other hurdle to usability is when you have multiple systems at work place that require a rotating complex password where you can't remember what password belongs to what system. Where I use to work we would have a password for the NT/domain PC login, and a password for the UNIX terminal thing everyone had to log into do anything. And withing the software on the UNIX terminal they used, for certain subsystems there was "shared" passwords that never changed, while remembered, they was still semi-complex, e.g. real word that substitutes a couple numbers for letters. I counted once, I had to know 25 different passwords, two-personal, and two "shared" to do my job, and I wasn't even working in a IT or IT-like postion.
You really think a blind person can use an iphone? the iphone has to be the least blind-friendly phone in the existence of the human race. I guess your voice-search might be useful for the blind if it was the only app on the iphone and the iphone was set to boot straight into that app.
It would be more useful if it only played the chainsaw sound once every 80,500ish pages it takes before you used enough paper to consume one full tree.
firefox.. first try ftp.firefox.com --nope don't work 2nd try ftp.mozila.com --works chrome first try ftp.Chrome.com --works Opera first try ftp.Opera.com --works
Everybody knows this. Nobody cares, except for Richard Stallman.
I read the headline as "bit torrent" blocks pirate bay.
Really? You just saved me an expensive ticket on an international flight.
Can you call the gov't up when you get lost and ask them for directions? "Help! I don't know where am I, but i see a kangaroo and the toilets are flushing backwords"
I saw the commercial during the Giants game last night. To be honest, if it wasn't for the Microsoft logo at the end, i wouldn't even know what the commercial was for. To be honest I still don't know. I think it was for the shoe carnival store or whatever it was called. Sadly I don't think they have one around here.
or "auto-saved" in their web browser.
Now, Who put metal in the microwave?
sector continues apace. It is stupid to assume any rapid growth in any sector will last that long. On the other hand, it is stupid to assume it will not.