One big difference is that Square isn't taking a buck fifty off the top, no fees at all to transfer money. As I mentioned earlier on twitter, they are probably eating the transaction costs to encourage people to sign up and put in their banking info so that the square network grows.
If Apple was seriously interested in this company's tech, they'd have purchased the company and not a couple of units.
I'd say a much more reasonable explanation is that Apple has has a Human Factors Engineering lab where they'd like to track where people are looking when using their products, so they can better place things like menus, icons, and buttons.
Well, it really is a pity for you, but did you realize that Ontario was also officially bilingual?
Quebec's Bill 22 of '74 and of course Bill 101 of '77 state Quebec's official language as French, and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms states that New Brunswick is bilingual. Ontario has the French Language Services Act, stating provincial services are to be available in the parts of Ontario where there is a large French-speaking population, as well as legislation declaring French an official language of the courts, but afaik, the province is not officially bilingual. If you've got a reference to Federal or Provincial legislation regarding Ontario's official language that I've missed, please let me know.
I am very sorry that you felt it necessary to leave your home place, but frankly, the bilingual people in Quebec don't really miss your kind of people...
I am very sorry that you feel the need to finish with a comment like this. This is the sort of divisive and unfortunate comment that plagues this issue, and issues like this around the world. I don't know what you meant by your kind of people, but there is no responding to generalizing statements like that.
It's more likely that the Office quebecois de la langue francaise (OLF), aka the Language Police, would be more upset with the fact that they used English at all.
Quebec is NOT a bilingual province, the only official language is French. New Brunswick is the only constitutionally bilingual province.
Check out the very recent bruhaha caused by an Irish Pub in Montreal having Guinness posters on the wall that didn't have French on them. I'm a anglophone born and raised in Montreal, who has since moved down the river to Ottawa, and man, I don't miss that shit.
even though I don't quite understand the comment of feeding the meters, wouldn't people just park for free anyways?, THERE ARE NO METERS!
They installed these all over downtown a couple of years ago, to much complaining all around.
You go to a station and pay for your spot number, so if a new person comes to your spot after you paid for 2 hours and left after 5 minutes, they can't know how long has already been paid, so they pay again!
The city has already hiked the prices a couple of times, you now 5 minutes for a quarter... from a meter!
You have to sort of look at these numbers from the right point of view.
What is the marginal cost for one more product from each of these companies? For Google and Microsoft, one more ad served or one more cd pressed has a tiny marginal cost, once they hit a certain number, each sale is almost pure profit. Then look at IBM which actually sells expensive computers which have a significant marginal cost, and who also bring in huge amounts of revenue from their consulting divisions (IGS,BCS,...) which also have a significant marginal cost, paying the consultants.
Just my thoughts as to why these numbers aren't exactly comparable straight up.
Here in Quebec our cable provider is Videotron. These guys have always been at the forefront with cable tech and options, and they offer a la carte subscriptions with their digital cable package.
There are a base set of channels for $10/month, then you can pick 20 more for $20, or 30 more for $30 (or something to that effect). You can change channels any time you want, either through the cable box or through their website, as long as the channel you no longer wish to pay for has been subscribed to for at least one month.
It's a nice little deal. Hell, they offer this with 'high speed internet' and phone service over the cable network (it's VoIP) for $70/month.
From TFA: "Ottawa will spend $700 million over the coming years in a two-pronged initiative to make it easier for skilled immigrants to stay in the country while at the same tackling a big backlog of people waiting to get into Canada."
Also: "Immigration Minister Joe Volpe will join the flurry of pre-election promises with his announcement today."
The minority government in Canada is about to fall, this is just one of the many, many promises the Liberal Party is making before they lose a no confidence vote next week, think of all these spending promises as the beginning of their campaign and react accordingly.
I saw this last night at the opening show of their Holiday tour in Montreal.
They key contains an album of Holiday songs in mp3 format that was released last holiday season in CD format. It also contains all of the extras like movies and pictures and whatnot, so it's probably just worth it for the big fans.
One other thing you might want to think about is how they let you go download recordings of their live concerts just days after they were preformed, for something like $14.
check it out
After you said that writing code is a whole lot harder than writing a memo, I got to thinking:
When was the last time Bill Gates coded anything?
I mean I was just wondering. For all the supposedly evil things his company has done, albeit with him at the helm, he started out as a geek. Geeks like to do geeking things, I don't care how old you are... what do you think he's done recently?
One thing I've never figured out - why aren't there more companies mass-marketting and selling these?
Because then you would be competing with TiVo. I've got a myth setup going and it's fecking awesome. It also took a ton of time to get working, but that was mostly because I'm using a shitty old Compaq and had non-MythTV related setup problems.
So even if these systems were all set up nicely by, say, Phillips, there are still tons of maintenance issues with MythTV. First off, there is the problem of channel listings. In North America Zap2It has been nice enough to offer free (with registration) listings to Myth users, and many other countries are left to scrape webpages for their listings with XMLTV. Then you come to the problem of tuners for different signal types... e.g. North America vs. Europe...and last but not least, cost. You are using generic components for a very specific task, this does not make things cheap. It is almost impossible to get TiVo size, style, and functionality for the price of a TiVo, starting from scratch...but for many geeks, and Do It Yourselfers, it's quite rewarding and worth it in the long run.
basically checking if I sent the message to myself. If this is the case, it's filed under the "notes to self" label. Quite handy, although searching for what I want usually gets me there too.
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One big difference is that Square isn't taking a buck fifty off the top, no fees at all to transfer money. As I mentioned earlier on twitter, they are probably eating the transaction costs to encourage people to sign up and put in their banking info so that the square network grows.
I'm curious, what phone do you have? I'm seeing slowdowns like this on my iPhone 4, I'll give turning off iCloud a try. Thanks.
EASA
Wait wait wait, I wonder what kind of degree this guy had?
The Oatmeal explains "literally"
If Apple was seriously interested in this company's tech, they'd have purchased the company and not a couple of units. I'd say a much more reasonable explanation is that Apple has has a Human Factors Engineering lab where they'd like to track where people are looking when using their products, so they can better place things like menus, icons, and buttons.
Here's a company that's doing just that.
Quebec's Bill 22 of '74 and of course Bill 101 of '77 state Quebec's official language as French, and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms states that New Brunswick is bilingual. Ontario has the French Language Services Act, stating provincial services are to be available in the parts of Ontario where there is a large French-speaking population, as well as legislation declaring French an official language of the courts, but afaik, the province is not officially bilingual. If you've got a reference to Federal or Provincial legislation regarding Ontario's official language that I've missed, please let me know.
I am very sorry that you felt it necessary to leave your home place, but frankly, the bilingual people in Quebec don't really miss your kind of people...
I am very sorry that you feel the need to finish with a comment like this. This is the sort of divisive and unfortunate comment that plagues this issue, and issues like this around the world. I don't know what you meant by your kind of people, but there is no responding to generalizing statements like that.
Quebec is NOT a bilingual province, the only official language is French. New Brunswick is the only constitutionally bilingual province.
Check out the very recent bruhaha caused by an Irish Pub in Montreal having Guinness posters on the wall that didn't have French on them. I'm a anglophone born and raised in Montreal, who has since moved down the river to Ottawa, and man, I don't miss that shit.
I tried but couldn't find anything official...
even though I don't quite understand the comment of feeding the meters, wouldn't people just park for free anyways?, THERE ARE NO METERS!
They installed these all over downtown a couple of years ago, to much complaining all around.
You go to a station and pay for your spot number, so if a new person comes to your spot after you paid for 2 hours and left after 5 minutes, they can't know how long has already been paid, so they pay again!
The city has already hiked the prices a couple of times, you now 5 minutes for a quarter... from a meter!
Anyways, the new flagship store should be cool, although we have one just off the island, in a mall already.
Oblig Dilbert: http://www.random.org/analysis/dilbert.jpg
This one makes me think that whoever wrote the Photoshop class has some work to do on the horizontal flip slides. =)
RIGHT?!
What is the marginal cost for one more product from each of these companies? For Google and Microsoft, one more ad served or one more cd pressed has a tiny marginal cost, once they hit a certain number, each sale is almost pure profit. Then look at IBM which actually sells expensive computers which have a significant marginal cost, and who also bring in huge amounts of revenue from their consulting divisions (IGS,BCS,...) which also have a significant marginal cost, paying the consultants.
Just my thoughts as to why these numbers aren't exactly comparable straight up.
Do you know what FUD actually means?
and give them a subscription to O'Reilly's Safari Bookshelf.
There are a base set of channels for $10/month, then you can pick 20 more for $20, or 30 more for $30 (or something to that effect). You can change channels any time you want, either through the cable box or through their website, as long as the channel you no longer wish to pay for has been subscribed to for at least one month.
It's a nice little deal. Hell, they offer this with 'high speed internet' and phone service over the cable network (it's VoIP) for $70/month.
s/world/country/
"Ottawa will spend $700 million over the coming years in a two-pronged initiative to make it easier for skilled immigrants to stay in the country while at the same tackling a big backlog of people waiting to get into Canada."
Also:
"Immigration Minister Joe Volpe will join the flurry of pre-election promises with his announcement today."
The minority government in Canada is about to fall, this is just one of the many, many promises the Liberal Party is making before they lose a no confidence vote next week, think of all these spending promises as the beginning of their campaign and react accordingly.
I saw this last night at the opening show of their Holiday tour in Montreal. They key contains an album of Holiday songs in mp3 format that was released last holiday season in CD format. It also contains all of the extras like movies and pictures and whatnot, so it's probably just worth it for the big fans. One other thing you might want to think about is how they let you go download recordings of their live concerts just days after they were preformed, for something like $14. check it out
After you said that writing code is a whole lot harder than writing a memo, I got to thinking: When was the last time Bill Gates coded anything? I mean I was just wondering. For all the supposedly evil things his company has done, albeit with him at the helm, he started out as a geek. Geeks like to do geeking things, I don't care how old you are... what do you think he's done recently?
Ready, set, go!
Because then you would be competing with TiVo. I've got a myth setup going and it's fecking awesome. It also took a ton of time to get working, but that was mostly because I'm using a shitty old Compaq and had non-MythTV related setup problems.
So even if these systems were all set up nicely by, say, Phillips, there are still tons of maintenance issues with MythTV. First off, there is the problem of channel listings. In North America Zap2It has been nice enough to offer free (with registration) listings to Myth users, and many other countries are left to scrape webpages for their listings with XMLTV. Then you come to the problem of tuners for different signal types... e.g. North America vs. Europe...and last but not least, cost. You are using generic components for a very specific task, this does not make things cheap. It is almost impossible to get TiVo size, style, and functionality for the price of a TiVo, starting from scratch...but for many geeks, and Do It Yourselfers, it's quite rewarding and worth it in the long run.
I have a filter set up that checks for
"From:kejaed@gmail.com" and "To:kejaed@gmail.com"
basically checking if I sent the message to myself. If this is the case, it's filed under the "notes to self" label. Quite handy, although searching for what I want usually gets me there too.