Certain traits may cause other creatures with other traits that previously weren't detrimental to die out due to competition. That seems to be "advantageous".
Many years ago, when I was using a recruiter, I once spent nearly a full day interviewing over two days only to find out at the end that their max salary was about 70% of my minimum. Because the recruiter screwed up, and didn't figure that out at the outset, I ended up wasting a hell of a lot my own time, as did the company I was interviewing at.
"Passionate" may be too strong a word, but as an interviewer, I don't want to hire you for a C++/OpenGL position only to have you quit in three months because you really wanted to write device drivers. It's not about being "passionate" about the job...it's about having preferences for what you want to be doing for 40 hours a week. *Everybody* has preferences. A good interviewer's job is to make sure that the person who gets hired is someone who actually prefers that sort of job.
"Getting the offer" should never be the entire goal. You should have the twin goals of getting the offer and determining if you actually *want* to work for the company.
"Full blown" computer in the sense that a 1998 era PC is a full blown computer. Yes, it may be Linux inside, but it's Linux running on 64 MB of RAM, 64 MB of Flash, and with most of/usr/bin deleted to save space Expecting it to have Samba or NFS is actually quite a bit more ignorant than the grandparent.
Because it is extremely doubtful that Tesla Motors will make a steady $1 million every year for the foreseeable future. There are two likely scenarios.
1) Tesla will be successful, and rapidly expand into a moderate sized care company, where $100 million in profits in a year is reasonable. 2) Tesla will go bankrupt.
For a startup, it is more about projected profits than current profits. At this stage in its growth, Tesla should not be concerned about profits at all. Best case for it is to funnel all money into growth and have $0 in profit.
All Japanese companies are seeing sales slowdowns. The Yen is strong against the dollar, which means costs for Japanese companies are higher, which means that they can't reduce prices to the extent their non-Japanese counterparts can. This, coupled with a huge recession which is already causing consumers to belt tighten leads to huge sales decreases. In other words, this has little or nothing to do with the games industry in particular.
Hitachi, Toyota, Honda and Mitsubishi also all saw sales decreases of the same magnitude as Sony and Nintendo.
You have to also figure out the impact of having retail stores in the US. If you don't have an Apple store around, you don't get one important Apple feature: the ability to take it in and have someone look at it.
Apple's appeal is that OSX is a generally better OS than Windows, particularly in the area of usability. That, not "marketing" or "aesthetics" is why people will pay more for the same hardware.
I find it amusing that people don't understand that the software itself has value.
Google's model of giving people free content and making money on advertising is nearly a century old. Look at network TV. Look at radio. Look at free newspapers. These have been around forever.
It'd work best as a second car in a two car family. Neither my wife or I even remotely get close to 100 miles in a day. We only go longer on vacations, in which case we'd be together.
So yeah...I'd buy one of these and use my wife's gas powered car for long trips.
I'm not sure you can say "consumers don't agree" because consumers haven't really had the opportunity to buy an electric car that performed like a gas one, even ignoring range.
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Certain traits may cause other creatures with other traits that previously weren't detrimental to die out due to competition. That seems to be "advantageous".
Darwin's theory explains how evolution occurs due to mutation and natural selection. Mutation is a core part of the theory.
AAC is an open standard not owned by Apple.
You are likely thinking of "Fairplay", which is Apple's DRM scheme, and which was discontinued.
Many years ago, when I was using a recruiter, I once spent nearly a full day interviewing over two days only to find out at the end that their max salary was about 70% of my minimum. Because the recruiter screwed up, and didn't figure that out at the outset, I ended up wasting a hell of a lot my own time, as did the company I was interviewing at.
"Passionate" may be too strong a word, but as an interviewer, I don't want to hire you for a C++/OpenGL position only to have you quit in three months because you really wanted to write device drivers. It's not about being "passionate" about the job...it's about having preferences for what you want to be doing for 40 hours a week. *Everybody* has preferences. A good interviewer's job is to make sure that the person who gets hired is someone who actually prefers that sort of job.
"Getting the offer" should never be the entire goal. You should have the twin goals of getting the offer and determining if you actually *want* to work for the company.
What is your full name would sound creepy to an interviewer. Ask for a business card instead.
Also, a good question is "how long have you been with the company and how do you like it".
Tell that to Amazon.com circa 1996.
"Full blown" computer in the sense that a 1998 era PC is a full blown computer. Yes, it may be Linux inside, but it's Linux running on 64 MB of RAM, 64 MB of Flash, and with most of /usr/bin deleted to save space Expecting it to have Samba or NFS is actually quite a bit more ignorant than the grandparent.
Because it is extremely doubtful that Tesla Motors will make a steady $1 million every year for the foreseeable future. There are two likely scenarios.
1) Tesla will be successful, and rapidly expand into a moderate sized care company, where $100 million in profits in a year is reasonable.
2) Tesla will go bankrupt.
For a startup, it is more about projected profits than current profits. At this stage in its growth, Tesla should not be concerned about profits at all. Best case for it is to funnel all money into growth and have $0 in profit.
All media has this issue. Look at the IMDB top 20 movies. All twenty star white men. If anything, games do much better than movies.
All Japanese companies are seeing sales slowdowns. The Yen is strong against the dollar, which means costs for Japanese companies are higher, which means that they can't reduce prices to the extent their non-Japanese counterparts can. This, coupled with a huge recession which is already causing consumers to belt tighten leads to huge sales decreases. In other words, this has little or nothing to do with the games industry in particular.
Hitachi, Toyota, Honda and Mitsubishi also all saw sales decreases of the same magnitude as Sony and Nintendo.
If we're being pedantic: This was a punishment commanders used *on* the Roman army, not something they told the Roman army to use on populations.
That has little to do with genetics and everything to do with modern diets.
I am old enough to remember when "some spirituals", such as Christians, believed that in vitro fertilization was "like playing God".
You have to also figure out the impact of having retail stores in the US. If you don't have an Apple store around, you don't get one important Apple feature: the ability to take it in and have someone look at it.
Apple's appeal is that OSX is a generally better OS than Windows, particularly in the area of usability. That, not "marketing" or "aesthetics" is why people will pay more for the same hardware.
I find it amusing that people don't understand that the software itself has value.
If you think that "theoretically possible" == "complete in the next ten years", I've got a bridge to sell you.
This is yet another iteration of the "True AI will be here in 10-20 years" that we've been hearing since around 1950.
Note that NBC + Comcast as a cable provider is almost identical to Google + Comcast as an ISP.
But "free" content is older than television. Just look at radio. Just look at free newspapers.
If you look beyond the "technology industry", it is easy to find companies that have operated for decades giving free content to customers.
Google's model of giving people free content and making money on advertising is nearly a century old. Look at network TV. Look at radio. Look at free newspapers. These have been around forever.
It'd work best as a second car in a two car family. Neither my wife or I even remotely get close to 100 miles in a day. We only go longer on vacations, in which case we'd be together.
So yeah...I'd buy one of these and use my wife's gas powered car for long trips.
I'm not sure you can say "consumers don't agree" because consumers haven't really had the opportunity to buy an electric car that performed like a gas one, even ignoring range.
Why do you expect that to happen when the exact opposite happened with music? When CDs were the norm, a "cheap" CD was $15.99.
Not just yellow...we don't know what color martian pee is.
Because the Kindle isn't a laptop.
It's like saying that an iPod is stupid because your laptop can hold the same number of songs.
(You can also transfer Gutenberg books to the Kindle just fine.)
Best part, you can use them to trade music with your friends, just like the Metallica guys did before they got famous.