The above referenced wikipedia article indicates that as of May 2013, the Play Store had somewhere in the realm of 48 billion downloads (up from 40 billion in April 2013). It would be relatively safe to assume that if the number of downloads went up by 8 billion in one month, that exceeding 50 billion by today's date (over a month later) would not be far fetched.
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
-Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
False again. The value of the money didn't change, the purchasing power of the money changed. The paper is still worth $150,000 regardless of year. The purchasing power of $150,000 will go up or down as inflation and de-inflation change the purchasing power of the paper money.
Going back to when you grandfather was your age, that same $12 (assuming a $10 bill and 2 $1 bills) would still be worth $12 in todays economy. However, the purchasing power of $12 is vastly less today than it was 90 years ago.
Purchasing power is where we derive things like the CPI, so we can track how it changes over time.
I find it interesting that they categorize traditional business management roles in with computer science. Perhaps the university I went to was something of a novelty, but there were two distinctly different majors. One was Information Technology, and one was Computer Science. They were not even in the same college within the university. IT was more business (classes like managerial communications, data communications, and ITIL), while CS was programming.
I have watched people drift out of their lane and run lights and so on while holding that phone against their head. I have had to honk at them while slamming on the brakes because they decided to pull into my lane without looking to see if I was already there. I have wished that someone would take that damn phone away from them so they could drive without crashing into me!
I have had to do this to people who weren't holding phones to their head... more times than I care to count... it happens whether people talk on a phone or not.
It's even worse when on my motorcycle.
If a driver isn't paying attention anyway, it doesn't matter if they are talking on the phone or not.
The did what they told the customers they would do (IANAL, but whether or not the customer read the EULA is not up to Symantec, but when the customer agreed to that EULA, they were giving consent for Symantec to charge their card on a recurring basis), and now they are getting fined for it? That seems slightly out of whack to me...
For all those people living in the greater Portland area, who don't have a GPS in their car and dont want to pay the higher gas tax, what would keep those people from just driving to Vancouver, WA (or any surrounding state for that matter) and purchasing their gas from there?
I drive down to Portland all the time to save sales tax on expensive items. Wouldn't it stand to reason that the people driving new cars would do the same, but drive to WA/ID/CA/NV to avoid the per mile gas tax?
Why don't we just do away with grades totally. If grades that bring down their average get dropped anyway, whats the point of having them at all?
We might as well just rename all the schools to "regonal daycares", because essentially, thats what they will turn into.
you may also consider your alien mind-reader blocking hat as an external antenna, since i know all of us on/. wear them everywhere... just run a wire from the hat to the phone.
or maybe there is a reason all my "friends" refust to hang out with me anymore...
im not sure about anyone else, but the college i went to (Central Washington University) had two very different departments. CS was one department, and was in the college of the sciences (COTS). the department i was in, (Information Technology and Administrative Management) was in the college of education and professional studies(CEPS).
it was impossible to graduate from that school with a degree in Information Technology without taking at least 4 business classes, with a couple other ones for general electives. i have a degree in Information Technology with a focus on networking, and a "certificate" (basically a minor because we couldnt have a major and a minor in the same dept, so they had these certificates) in Administrative Management because i enjoyed the business side so much. it was a great experience, and i liked the business classes a lot more than the IT classes i took. they have definately helped me in the long run.
Time to endgame competency really depends on if you can find a good group/guild or not. the guild i was in had many ties to other guilds who would let us PL with them. i could have a character to 65 in 2 nights, 75 on the 3rd .
and if you did tell Arkhubar to "lol, stop peekaying me in the desert" he would call you a dirty firk and then track you down and kill you again. he was one of my favorite Virakar members.
RR4L
i work in the automotive industry and this doesnt seem all that out of place. the company i work for sends flyers out all the time advertising a super low price on certain models. based on that one price, many customers show up and look for that car. only one of the cars in that exact price/model/options package existed, and was sold already, so they show them another model and usually sell them on a more expensive one.
whats the difference?
as long as best buy sold at least ONE at the retail price of $399, cant they sell the rest of them at any other price (assuming the add didnt say 1230 in stock at this price or whatever)?
so youre saying that if i own a shop of some sort, and i put up a sign in said shop that says "business owner reserves right to refuse service to anyone of his choosing" that i dont have the right to not serve people if i think and/or know they are gay? i think you are wrong. its a disclaimer. i dont NEED a reason to not provide you with my service. its my discression. this is if this were irl. WoW on the other hand, is a world created by this company, and that company can do whatever they want in it. they are not required to provide any service to these people, and if they feel like giving someone a warning because they didnt like something they did/said in game, thats their right as owners of the virtual environment.
few if any, of the community-oriented online PC games are as consumer-friendly as Xbox Live, which has standardized and automated the process of selecting servers and competitors for the best game playing experience."
so because we dont need a computer to judge us and pick out who we should play makes the games on PC "less consumer friendly"??
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The above referenced wikipedia article indicates that as of May 2013, the Play Store had somewhere in the realm of 48 billion downloads (up from 40 billion in April 2013). It would be relatively safe to assume that if the number of downloads went up by 8 billion in one month, that exceeding 50 billion by today's date (over a month later) would not be far fetched.
It never said he accepted it. He just said that is what was offered, not that he accepted the offer.
Sounds like he follows this saying:
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
-Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
wow, did I really just type "de-inflation"? my finance professor would have my head if he saw that...
de-inflation should be just deflation
False again. The value of the money didn't change, the purchasing power of the money changed. The paper is still worth $150,000 regardless of year. The purchasing power of $150,000 will go up or down as inflation and de-inflation change the purchasing power of the paper money.
Going back to when you grandfather was your age, that same $12 (assuming a $10 bill and 2 $1 bills) would still be worth $12 in todays economy. However, the purchasing power of $12 is vastly less today than it was 90 years ago.
Purchasing power is where we derive things like the CPI, so we can track how it changes over time.
I find it interesting that they categorize traditional business management roles in with computer science. Perhaps the university I went to was something of a novelty, but there were two distinctly different majors. One was Information Technology, and one was Computer Science. They were not even in the same college within the university. IT was more business (classes like managerial communications, data communications, and ITIL), while CS was programming.
The machines aren't meant to be serviced, they are disposable. Once you fill one up with crap, you wrap it up, toss it away, and get a nice clean one.
The article mentions specifically the iPod Touch.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isnt Apple suing HTC over, among other patents, multi-touch? Now Apple is being sued over the same thing?
So who actually owns this patent?
OMG THE MISSING STEP!!!
1. Collect Underpants
2. Sue makers of electronic underpants for patent infringement
3. Profit!
How could we all have been so blind... its the Underpants Gnomes Mafiaa
... spending more time in class is going to help the kids perform better?
How about we require them to actually pass the classes they do attend before letting them move on...
I have watched people drift out of their lane and run lights and so on while holding that phone against their head. I have had to honk at them while slamming on the brakes because they decided to pull into my lane without looking to see if I was already there. I have wished that someone would take that damn phone away from them so they could drive without crashing into me!
I have had to do this to people who weren't holding phones to their head... more times than I care to count... it happens whether people talk on a phone or not.
It's even worse when on my motorcycle.
If a driver isn't paying attention anyway, it doesn't matter if they are talking on the phone or not.
The did what they told the customers they would do (IANAL, but whether or not the customer read the EULA is not up to Symantec, but when the customer agreed to that EULA, they were giving consent for Symantec to charge their card on a recurring basis), and now they are getting fined for it? That seems slightly out of whack to me...
For all those people living in the greater Portland area, who don't have a GPS in their car and dont want to pay the higher gas tax, what would keep those people from just driving to Vancouver, WA (or any surrounding state for that matter) and purchasing their gas from there?
I drive down to Portland all the time to save sales tax on expensive items. Wouldn't it stand to reason that the people driving new cars would do the same, but drive to WA/ID/CA/NV to avoid the per mile gas tax?
Why don't we just do away with grades totally. If grades that bring down their average get dropped anyway, whats the point of having them at all? We might as well just rename all the schools to "regonal daycares", because essentially, thats what they will turn into.
you may also consider your alien mind-reader blocking hat as an external antenna, since i know all of us on /. wear them everywhere... just run a wire from the hat to the phone.
or maybe there is a reason all my "friends" refust to hang out with me anymore...
im not sure about anyone else, but the college i went to (Central Washington University) had two very different departments. CS was one department, and was in the college of the sciences (COTS). the department i was in, (Information Technology and Administrative Management) was in the college of education and professional studies(CEPS). it was impossible to graduate from that school with a degree in Information Technology without taking at least 4 business classes, with a couple other ones for general electives. i have a degree in Information Technology with a focus on networking, and a "certificate" (basically a minor because we couldnt have a major and a minor in the same dept, so they had these certificates) in Administrative Management because i enjoyed the business side so much. it was a great experience, and i liked the business classes a lot more than the IT classes i took. they have definately helped me in the long run.
Time to endgame competency really depends on if you can find a good group/guild or not. the guild i was in had many ties to other guilds who would let us PL with them. i could have a character to 65 in 2 nights, 75 on the 3rd . and if you did tell Arkhubar to "lol, stop peekaying me in the desert" he would call you a dirty firk and then track you down and kill you again. he was one of my favorite Virakar members. RR4L
the greatest RTS game to ever be made (imo) how is StarCraft/BroodWar not up there yet?
i work in the automotive industry and this doesnt seem all that out of place. the company i work for sends flyers out all the time advertising a super low price on certain models. based on that one price, many customers show up and look for that car. only one of the cars in that exact price/model/options package existed, and was sold already, so they show them another model and usually sell them on a more expensive one. whats the difference? as long as best buy sold at least ONE at the retail price of $399, cant they sell the rest of them at any other price (assuming the add didnt say 1230 in stock at this price or whatever)?
while im not positive, i think it means gay/lesbian/bi/trans
so youre saying that if i own a shop of some sort, and i put up a sign in said shop that says "business owner reserves right to refuse service to anyone of his choosing" that i dont have the right to not serve people if i think and/or know they are gay? i think you are wrong. its a disclaimer. i dont NEED a reason to not provide you with my service. its my discression. this is if this were irl. WoW on the other hand, is a world created by this company, and that company can do whatever they want in it. they are not required to provide any service to these people, and if they feel like giving someone a warning because they didnt like something they did/said in game, thats their right as owners of the virtual environment.
i got all the background i ever wanted to know, or didnt as the case may be, by watching Hotel Rawanda. i see this game failing miserably.
few if any, of the community-oriented online PC games are as consumer-friendly as Xbox Live, which has standardized and automated the process of selecting servers and competitors for the best game playing experience."
so because we dont need a computer to judge us and pick out who we should play makes the games on PC "less consumer friendly"??