Well, if you interpose the entire Fedex package tracking approach, you'd have to put them on conveyor belts and run them through distribution facilities.
Well, you know, I'm from an area where exactly that has already been done some 70 years ago, and it didn't turn out to be very popular. So you can't exactly rely on that comparing people to a piece of freight is only rhetorical hyperbole. It has been done before.
Not quite. They need an ESTA registration instead of a visa. "Visa Waiver" is the name of the program that allowed citizens of certain countries to visit the US without a visa (usually bilateral) and has been around much longer than the ESTA stuff.
What your ESTA registration acutally replaces is that white I-94 form that you have to fill out while on the airplane. So the border and costums patrol knows that you're not planning to visit the states with criminal intent 72 hours before you're boarding the plane compared to checking that nonsensical form at your destination airport.
I still suspect the whole idea of that is that after years into the visa waiver program, some bean counter noticed that by that program, the US is also waiving billions of visa fees and the found a way to have tourists pay an admission fee even if they don't need a visa. All under the guise of "modernizing" beurocrazy and moving paperwork that used to be ignored for free to a electronic system that earns them $14 per tourist.
Because there are still lots of words left that don't have an emojii yet. And without emojii they would be lost forever, like tears in the reain, when we finally reach the state of "Idiocracy"
The state run Met Office equivalent lost their contracts with (public) TV station after failing to predict a severe storm that was forecasted correctly by another TV weather forecasting company:http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-21662473.html
IIRC, as a result, the DWD underwent some restructering
It's the C*Os job to make those strategic descisions and these should be based on experience. So have a techie as CIO and your MBA as CEO. And don't mix them up.
at some point you have to stop applying market adaptation. no one wants to submit a sealed bid to buy a banana or a bar of soap.
But still prices for bananas and soap is still regulated by supply and demand. Just not for each individual transaction.
if i'm going to rely on Uber to get to work, and a lot of people here do, then not having it cost $50 some random day has value in and of itself.
And maybe I don't want to support a business which relies on zero margins to attract customers and remain competitive, but then really applies the screws when it happens that i don't have any other choice.
Well, that's the difference between "supporting" a buisness (which would mean you let them have the bigger cut out of your deal) and becoming dependant on a business, (vendor lock-in). But to start things, if you have to rely on a taxi-like service to get to work, first of all that's a clean symptom of crappy public transport.
Wrong, as an investment is something you do to have a profit in the long run.
For most people, a car is noting but a major money sink, Or, as still anyone and his dog decide to have one, perhaps a "loss leader". So even if being an uber driver does not make enough to make owning a car profitable (what regular taxi companies have to do) it may be enough to reduce the loss you're making by buying a car in the first place.
That's a huge difference and the reason why you can't compare that 1:1
How would you like it if your grocery store had "surge pricing"?
Don't want to rain on your parade, but grocery stores have set their prices based on demand and supply for ages, probably since they were called "ye olde grocery shoppe".
Never notices that prices for, say strawberries go down when they're in season and go up when they are not? Demand higher than supply --> higher prices.
Public transit usually has peak and off-peak rates. The idea is that if you don't care when you make the trip, then you tend to save money by doing it off-peak.
One more way to rip of the working guy who has to be at the office on time.
The needs may not be infinite, but the desire is. That's what called greed. And unlike eating hamburgers, there is no limit on how fast the numbers on your account could grow. And with the current state of the financial markets, while you may not want to keep your billions on your checking account, there is no incentive to re-invest it into the actual economy rather than gambling with complex financial products.
While it's a nice idea that that may save you from carrying a book AND a water filter (in whatever rare circumstances this might matter) this finally allows for text books that are consumed and can't be handed down from one generation to the next.
Next step: Water quality at US colleges is reduced to levels that require filtering with textbook pages.
Of course it was stupid to use trademarked names and symbols without caring about the trademark holders.
On the other hand, selling trademarks without the actual products is a scam in itself. Since the 90s, a whole bunch of domestic TV makers went belly up. And without exempt, the trademarks were bought up by asian scammers that now slap these trademarks on cheap chinese TVs tricking elderly people (like my late uncle) into buying them at inflated prices as they thing they're buying some local quality products.
But I'd prefer to limit the "inventor" label to people who actually have build or constructed something (ready to be build). Visionaries? To quote former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt: "If you have visions, you should see your doctor about it." Dreams and "Visions" are cheap. Jule Verne had visions about submarines and rocketsm 40 yras ago everyone had a vision about nuclear flying cars by year 2000, every good SF author pens down visions.
No. You didn't get my point. Apple is more innovative than Facebook.
But Zuckerberg is more innovative than Jobs.
1. graphical personal computing revolution: the original Mac 2. portable music player revolution: the iPod 3. smartphone revolution: the iPhone 4. table revolution: the iPad
And exactly which of these was build, developed, programmed, soldered or packaged by Steve Jobs?
The article is about the myth of the "Great Man" who transforms technology as a single inventor. Granted, Zuckerberg invented less than Apple, but he did it himself rather than paying a huge R&D department.
As a side note: I fully agree with your list of Apple's achievements, but would like to point out that you used the word revolution, not invention as none of these were actually invented by Apple. These are huge merits on their own, but different from the urban legend of Jobs, the electronics inventor.
If there's anything that Steve Jobs wasn't it's "inventor". I wouldn't restrict his role to "sales guy" as perhaps Bill Gates was, but he had other merits. He realized that design (which includes user experience and user interface and is more technical skill than the artistic skill of designing a nice case) can be more important than any technical invention.
Jobs, even Apple as a company, never invented anything. Their merit is taking some existing niche technology and making it usable for the first time.
Zuckerberg, on the other hand, I'd give credit as an actual inventor. because creating a website with basic facebook features is well within range of what a technical guy could design and develop singlehanded.
If patients needs to increase or decrease their dosage, the hospital can do so without changing the appearance of the pills,
translating to it's not possible to know a pills's dosage from their appearance, there is also smaller pills mentioned in the summary.
While I agree that the standard size gelatin capsule is hard to swallow sometimes, there is also a minimum size. The pill should still be large enough that it can be handled by elderly people and moved from the storage to hand to mouth without dropping it to the floor twice. Whoever had the joy of switching nano sims in your phone while traveling internationally (optional. waiting at some airport gate without even a proper table) knows what I'm talking about.
yes of course that's more complicated than swallowing a pill, but that's why pills could be sized smaller than a sim card.
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Well, if you interpose the entire Fedex package tracking approach, you'd have to put them on conveyor belts and run them through distribution facilities.
Well, you know, I'm from an area where exactly that has already been done some 70 years ago, and it didn't turn out to be very popular. So you can't exactly rely on that comparing people to a piece of freight is only rhetorical hyperbole. It has been done before.
That may be reasonable, but is NOT how FedEx-style tracking works. And that, and not something reasonable, was the key point.
Ever checked into a hotel in modern days Germany? Hotels are still required to note your home address and passport number (for tourists).
Not quite. They need an ESTA registration instead of a visa. "Visa Waiver" is the name of the program that allowed citizens of certain countries to visit the US without a visa (usually bilateral) and has been around much longer than the ESTA stuff.
What your ESTA registration acutally replaces is that white I-94 form that you have to fill out while on the airplane. So the border and costums patrol knows that you're not planning to visit the states with criminal intent 72 hours before you're boarding the plane compared to checking that nonsensical form at your destination airport.
I still suspect the whole idea of that is that after years into the visa waiver program, some bean counter noticed that by that program, the US is also waiving billions of visa fees and the found a way to have tourists pay an admission fee even if they don't need a visa. All under the guise of "modernizing" beurocrazy and moving paperwork that used to be ignored for free to a electronic system that earns them $14 per tourist.
Why are people taking this raving by a candidate with not much chance of getting elected so seriously?
In fact it tells a lot about the society where a candidate may hope to get votes with such ravings.
Yes, we do.
Because there are still lots of words left that don't have an emojii yet. And without emojii they would be lost forever, like tears in the reain, when we finally reach the state of "Idiocracy"
It's not part of windows, which is the very thing you want it to protect you from.
That may be similar to the situation in Germany.
The state run Met Office equivalent lost their contracts with (public) TV station after failing to predict a severe storm that was forecasted correctly by another TV weather forecasting company:http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-21662473.html
IIRC, as a result, the DWD underwent some restructering
There's a simple answer:
Get a techie into the position of CIO.
It's the C*Os job to make those strategic descisions and these should be based on experience. So have a techie as CIO and your MBA as CEO. And don't mix them up.
Wait....
"Which would make it very possible to conduct a Third World War in which the American people would believe could not be won"
Does that mean anyone in the FBI was crazy enough that a 3rd world war could actually be "won" in some kind?
at some point you have to stop applying market adaptation. no one wants to submit
a sealed bid to buy a banana or a bar of soap.
But still prices for bananas and soap is still regulated by supply and demand. Just not for each individual transaction.
if i'm going to rely on Uber to get to work, and a lot of people here do, then not
having it cost $50 some random day has value in and of itself.
And maybe I don't want to support a business which relies on zero margins to attract
customers and remain competitive, but then really applies the screws when it
happens that i don't have any other choice.
Well, that's the difference between "supporting" a buisness (which would mean you let them have the bigger cut out of your deal) and becoming dependant on a business, (vendor lock-in). But to start things, if you have to rely on a taxi-like service to get to work, first of all that's a clean symptom of crappy public transport.
For most people, a car is a major investment.
Wrong, as an investment is something you do to have a profit in the long run.
For most people, a car is noting but a major money sink, Or, as still anyone and his dog decide to have one, perhaps a "loss leader". So even if being an uber driver does not make enough to make owning a car profitable (what regular taxi companies have to do) it may be enough to reduce the loss you're making by buying a car in the first place.
That's a huge difference and the reason why you can't compare that 1:1
How would you like it if your grocery store had "surge pricing"?
Don't want to rain on your parade, but grocery stores have set their prices based on demand and supply for ages, probably since they were called "ye olde grocery shoppe".
Never notices that prices for, say strawberries go down when they're in season and go up when they are not? Demand higher than supply --> higher prices.
Public transit usually has peak and off-peak rates. The idea is that if you don't care when you make the trip, then you tend to save money by doing it off-peak.
One more way to rip of the working guy who has to be at the office on time.
The needs may not be infinite, but the desire is. That's what called greed. And unlike eating hamburgers, there is no limit on how fast the numbers on your account could grow. And with the current state of the financial markets, while you may not want to keep your billions on your checking account, there is no incentive to re-invest it into the actual economy rather than gambling with complex financial products.
While this is mostly right, we're now seeing people sueing the ice cream vendor.
...which requires permission from the original artist.
One more thing the lawyers already took care of.
They check for something that we call warrant.
You mean, like the US government? /That was way too easy.
No. Democracies. /* And that was like shooting fish in a barrel...*/
While it's a nice idea that that may save you from carrying a book AND a water filter (in whatever rare circumstances this might matter) this finally allows for text books that are consumed and can't be handed down from one generation to the next.
Next step: Water quality at US colleges is reduced to levels that require filtering with textbook pages.
Of course it was stupid to use trademarked names and symbols without caring about the trademark holders.
On the other hand, selling trademarks without the actual products is a scam in itself. Since the 90s, a whole bunch of domestic TV makers went belly up. And without exempt, the trademarks were bought up by asian scammers that now slap these trademarks on cheap chinese TVs tricking elderly people (like my late uncle) into buying them at inflated prices as they thing they're buying some local quality products.
Lacking a better word.... ok.
But I'd prefer to limit the "inventor" label to people who actually have build or constructed something (ready to be build). Visionaries? To quote former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt: "If you have visions, you should see your doctor about it." Dreams and "Visions" are cheap. Jule Verne had visions about submarines and rocketsm 40 yras ago everyone had a vision about nuclear flying cars by year 2000, every good SF author pens down visions.
So Facebook is more innovative than Apple?
No. You didn't get my point. Apple is more innovative than Facebook.
But Zuckerberg is more innovative than Jobs.
1. graphical personal computing revolution: the original Mac
2. portable music player revolution: the iPod
3. smartphone revolution: the iPhone
4. table revolution: the iPad
And exactly which of these was build, developed, programmed, soldered or packaged by Steve Jobs?
The article is about the myth of the "Great Man" who transforms technology as a single inventor. Granted, Zuckerberg invented less than Apple, but he did it himself rather than paying a huge R&D department.
As a side note: I fully agree with your list of Apple's achievements, but would like to point out that you used the word revolution, not invention as none of these were actually invented by Apple. These are huge merits on their own, but different from the urban legend of Jobs, the electronics inventor.
If there's anything that Steve Jobs wasn't it's "inventor". I wouldn't restrict his role to "sales guy" as perhaps Bill Gates was, but he had other merits. He realized that design (which includes user experience and user interface and is more technical skill than the artistic skill of designing a nice case) can be more important than any technical invention.
Jobs, even Apple as a company, never invented anything. Their merit is taking some existing niche technology and making it usable for the first time.
Zuckerberg, on the other hand, I'd give credit as an actual inventor. because creating a website with basic facebook features is well within range of what a technical guy could design and develop singlehanded.
Besides the already mentioned
If patients needs to increase or decrease their dosage, the hospital can do so without changing the appearance of the pills,
translating to it's not possible to know a pills's dosage from their appearance, there is also smaller pills mentioned in the summary.
While I agree that the standard size gelatin capsule is hard to swallow sometimes, there is also a minimum size. The pill should still be large enough that it can be handled by elderly people and moved from the storage to hand to mouth without dropping it to the floor twice. Whoever had the joy of switching nano sims in your phone while traveling internationally (optional. waiting at some airport gate without even a proper table) knows what I'm talking about.
yes of course that's more complicated than swallowing a pill, but that's why pills could be sized smaller than a sim card.