Applecare contract boxes are on the store shelves today. No matter how well your computer model is put together on average, some problems are going to happen after the 90 day support window. Some of that contract value is just in getting support without having to worry about pay per incident.
Communism has been fighting against religion since Marx and has always attempted to purge its influence in whatever society it came to power. Sometimes it worked better than other times. The societal effect overall has always been negative. Communist morality works about as well as their economics, not well at all
What's supposed to happen is that people look around at their firm, industry, and sector and head for the door to someplace else *before* the tidal wave of low price foreign competition hits. The problem is that they have flatterers and union reps saying that no, it'll never happen in this [company | industry | sector] and not to worry.
Worry. If it's only a matter of a few years before your job can be shipped overseas, take the time to cross-train into something else, like maybe managing those outsourced programmers or even some sort of carer switch to a field that is not under the same pressure.
The reason some have to work for peanuts is that they're stupid or unskilled labor that is priced out of the market by foreign competition. Unfortunately, we've got a huge world oversupply of unskilled labor and that needs to be sopped up as soon as possible. Until it does, companies will continue to move their operations.
As for healthcare, most of the 'great' social healthcare systems in Europe are tearing at the seams because they either can't keep up with progress or are just too expensive to sustain. The US issue is that we don't have a loser pays legal system so doctors order many, many tests that are not required in order to avoid a career ending trip in front of a jury that might view them as a deep pocket and impoverish them, destroying their practice.
The major union problem we have is the teacher's union. We have a skills gap because we're not teaching well in the K-12 arena and we end up with university students who have to take remedial education courses to catch up.
Highly paid, rigid labor markets are on full display in France and Germany. Compared to our unemployment rate, they're perenially stuck at 10% give or take, a much worse figure. The union effect is real.
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This should have been your response after the 2nd round "Please pass me through to your supervisor. Whover is writing your support script has made an error"
1st level techs are highly scripted and you need to know how to break out quickly when the problem is something that isn't going to be in their scripts.
Don't be an ass. Some people have kids with strollers who would like a clear sign for that elevator too, not to mention that old people's money spends just as well as hip, cool 20 year olds.
I can understand some of the critique but what's the problem with adjusting shelves so you don't have to stoop to see what's there? And for impulse buy items while you're on line? I'd suggest applecare contracts (which come in a very nice box),.mac signup kits, and perhaps a booklet listing every mac shop, teaching center, and mac consultant within a hundred miles of the store.
There's no need for checkout tchochkes to be about bubble gum and the National Enquirer or for them to only be 4 bucks.
It might, however, be useful to know how much such a policy would cost per server, per company, and globally. If the numbers are low enough, there would be a business case for linux consultancies to provide it, or in the last case, for the community to pass the hat around.
Yes, yes, and Al Queda was behind some of the largest ME honey companies around. It's been amply demonstrated that terrorist funding is not just from illegal trade.
Besides being deeply bigoted and offensive it actually is true that the Vatican likes macs because they want their priests to use their computers to get work done, not fiddle with the OS.
Since you not only get a software CD but a unique serial number, media replacement policies will probably be identical to boxed software, return within 30 days with receipt.
As for EyeTV PVR, the smart move would be to replace some of the mac software title space with mac hardware peripherals. CompUSA *does* adjust space policies due to sales figures. If people buy more mac, they'll stock more mac.
The question is whether the cost of the kiosk storage exceeds the cost of serving your program data. You might, as a consumer, have access to broadband but if it costs a penny to push to the customer via the Internet and half a penny to distribute a copy via kiosks then kiosks will maintain their viability purely on a cost basis. They also offer some minimal marketing impact because searchers looking to buy will get a list of products, including yours that are available in the proper category. When was the last time you searched Google and got zero spurious hits?
GM's pretty convincingly demonstrated that once you get rid of things like engine compartments and drive trains you can create new and wonderful vehicles that were just not possible before. Look up GM's AUTOnomy.
The article, btw is a great exposition of a liberal approach to solving problems. A conservative might go for paying 30k/pump to create a bare bones national system for hydrogen pumps to feed cars on long trips (with home chargers for commuting use). The article wants a government funded hydrogen pump in every gas station. The article's cost is $5B but a bare bones solution that lets private initiative do most of the heavy hauling gives you the same results for well under $100M or 2% of the article's suggested cost.
Hydrogen is a great solution to our energy security problems because it has so many potential fuel sources creating a viable market for indirect competition to oil, robbing it of much of its pricing power. We don't need to go all Soviet in developing it though. It will come and be better for being developed at a more natural pace.
Price changes occur at the margin. Take Venezuela away from the oil market and watch prices spike in the US. Take away 10% of oil customers and watch prices crash.
I've seen old bills. They said various things but generally, that the note was redeemable in lawful money or some standard amount of gold and/or silver.
If we could cut our oil use in half by not needing it for fuel and lowering our lubrication needs (these fuel cell cars will have fewer moving parts) then we might end up being self-sufficient in oil once again. We still pump a lot of domestic oil out of the ground.
Beyond that, lowering world-wide demand for oil and shifting its use to durable goods means that it loses much of its potency as an economic weapon.
Already done, google hydrogen and algae for a list of links. They seem to be currently at 10% efficiency but essentially it's hydrogen farming and depending on the quality of land could be a reasonable cash crop in brightly lit, marginally fertile land.
Actually, some bright folks at Berkeley have figured out how to farm hydrogen so renewable hydrogen production is here. From the link you get production cycles of about a week with 10% of whatever mass of algae you're farming coming out in hydrogen in each cycle. The algae doesn't die either but is metabolically switched between an oxygen producing pathway and a hydrogen producing pathway.
Hint, it doesn't cost $100B. Infrastructure buildout should cost less than $100M. In the article, it's budgeted at $5B. The hydrogen storage system has to provide 300 miles in range not 400 as this article says is necessary. Honda currently ships a fuel cell car that has a range of 220 miles so we're already 2/3rds of the way there. The article says that Detroit is already gearing up for fuel cell mass production. If they're already doing that, they have no need of the taxpayer's $10B. As for renewables, this is just a bolt on and has nothing to do intrinsicly with hydrogen. Scratch another $10B for that (or at least put it in its own program). $25B to shove uneconomic hydrogen cars down the consumer's throat? I don't think so. $10B for the oil companies to make hydrogen pipelines? Again, no way. Let them pay their own way. When you strip out the unnescessary expenses and just leave the technical problems of fuel tanks and a bare bones national hydrogen infrastructure, you end up with less than $20B in federal spending. Kicking it off with $1.2B this year doesn't seem unreasonable all of a sudden.
PR would have a longer time cycle. On the GM decision, we're talking three years keyed to a business decision they have to make. Last year GM showed a hydrogen powerplant called the AUTOnomy. This year they're showing another car that's more developed. Both years they talked about the same time frame, decision point in 2006 deployment in 2009 for the 2010 model year.
This sounds like hard and fast deadlines. Pay attention to the auto shows and see if they show a more advanced prototype next year with the same '06 and '09 dates. That should prove it's not PR.
Bio-algae pretty much looks like it's going to be a winner here. 1 week producton cycles generating 10% of the algae mass as hydrogen by volume. And that's before they've had the geneticists take a crack at them to improve the photosynthesis speed.
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Applecare contract boxes are on the store shelves today. No matter how well your computer model is put together on average, some problems are going to happen after the 90 day support window. Some of that contract value is just in getting support without having to worry about pay per incident.
Communism has been fighting against religion since Marx and has always attempted to purge its influence in whatever society it came to power. Sometimes it worked better than other times. The societal effect overall has always been negative. Communist morality works about as well as their economics, not well at all
What's supposed to happen is that people look around at their firm, industry, and sector and head for the door to someplace else *before* the tidal wave of low price foreign competition hits. The problem is that they have flatterers and union reps saying that no, it'll never happen in this [company | industry | sector] and not to worry.
Worry. If it's only a matter of a few years before your job can be shipped overseas, take the time to cross-train into something else, like maybe managing those outsourced programmers or even some sort of carer switch to a field that is not under the same pressure.
The Senator's name was George McGovern and I've seen him personally tell the story on national TV.
The reason some have to work for peanuts is that they're stupid or unskilled labor that is priced out of the market by foreign competition. Unfortunately, we've got a huge world oversupply of unskilled labor and that needs to be sopped up as soon as possible. Until it does, companies will continue to move their operations.
As for healthcare, most of the 'great' social healthcare systems in Europe are tearing at the seams because they either can't keep up with progress or are just too expensive to sustain. The US issue is that we don't have a loser pays legal system so doctors order many, many tests that are not required in order to avoid a career ending trip in front of a jury that might view them as a deep pocket and impoverish them, destroying their practice.
The major union problem we have is the teacher's union. We have a skills gap because we're not teaching well in the K-12 arena and we end up with university students who have to take remedial education courses to catch up.
Highly paid, rigid labor markets are on full display in France and Germany. Compared to our unemployment rate, they're perenially stuck at 10% give or take, a much worse figure. The union effect is real.
This should have been your response after the 2nd round
"Please pass me through to your supervisor. Whover is writing your support script has made an error"
1st level techs are highly scripted and you need to know how to break out quickly when the problem is something that isn't going to be in their scripts.
Don't be an ass. Some people have kids with strollers who would like a clear sign for that elevator too, not to mention that old people's money spends just as well as hip, cool 20 year olds.
.mac signup kits, and perhaps a booklet listing every mac shop, teaching center, and mac consultant within a hundred miles of the store.
I can understand some of the critique but what's the problem with adjusting shelves so you don't have to stoop to see what's there? And for impulse buy items while you're on line? I'd suggest applecare contracts (which come in a very nice box),
There's no need for checkout tchochkes to be about bubble gum and the National Enquirer or for them to only be 4 bucks.
Maybe you ought to look at the last major attempt to get rid of religion.
They called it communism. It didn't work out so nice.
It might, however, be useful to know how much such a policy would cost per server, per company, and globally. If the numbers are low enough, there would be a business case for linux consultancies to provide it, or in the last case, for the community to pass the hat around.
Yes, yes, and Al Queda was behind some of the largest ME honey companies around. It's been amply demonstrated that terrorist funding is not just from illegal trade.
Besides being deeply bigoted and offensive it actually is true that the Vatican likes macs because they want their priests to use their computers to get work done, not fiddle with the OS.
Since you not only get a software CD but a unique serial number, media replacement policies will probably be identical to boxed software, return within 30 days with receipt.
As for EyeTV PVR, the smart move would be to replace some of the mac software title space with mac hardware peripherals. CompUSA *does* adjust space policies due to sales figures. If people buy more mac, they'll stock more mac.
The question is whether the cost of the kiosk storage exceeds the cost of serving your program data. You might, as a consumer, have access to broadband but if it costs a penny to push to the customer via the Internet and half a penny to distribute a copy via kiosks then kiosks will maintain their viability purely on a cost basis. They also offer some minimal marketing impact because searchers looking to buy will get a list of products, including yours that are available in the proper category. When was the last time you searched Google and got zero spurious hits?
GM's pretty convincingly demonstrated that once you get rid of things like engine compartments and drive trains you can create new and wonderful vehicles that were just not possible before. Look up GM's AUTOnomy.
The article, btw is a great exposition of a liberal approach to solving problems. A conservative might go for paying 30k/pump to create a bare bones national system for hydrogen pumps to feed cars on long trips (with home chargers for commuting use). The article wants a government funded hydrogen pump in every gas station. The article's cost is $5B but a bare bones solution that lets private initiative do most of the heavy hauling gives you the same results for well under $100M or 2% of the article's suggested cost.
Hydrogen is a great solution to our energy security problems because it has so many potential fuel sources creating a viable market for indirect competition to oil, robbing it of much of its pricing power. We don't need to go all Soviet in developing it though. It will come and be better for being developed at a more natural pace.
Price changes occur at the margin. Take Venezuela away from the oil market and watch prices spike in the US. Take away 10% of oil customers and watch prices crash.
I've seen old bills. They said various things but generally, that the note was redeemable in lawful money or some standard amount of gold and/or silver.
If we could cut our oil use in half by not needing it for fuel and lowering our lubrication needs (these fuel cell cars will have fewer moving parts) then we might end up being self-sufficient in oil once again. We still pump a lot of domestic oil out of the ground.
Beyond that, lowering world-wide demand for oil and shifting its use to durable goods means that it loses much of its potency as an economic weapon.
Natural gas is about 97% methane so there's 0% extra infrastructure needed for this one.
Already done, google hydrogen and algae for a list of links. They seem to be currently at 10% efficiency but essentially it's hydrogen farming and depending on the quality of land could be a reasonable cash crop in brightly lit, marginally fertile land.
Actually, some bright folks at Berkeley have figured out how to farm hydrogen so renewable hydrogen production is here. From the link you get production cycles of about a week with 10% of whatever mass of algae you're farming coming out in hydrogen in each cycle. The algae doesn't die either but is metabolically switched between an oxygen producing pathway and a hydrogen producing pathway.
Hint, it doesn't cost $100B. Infrastructure buildout should cost less than $100M. In the article, it's budgeted at $5B. The hydrogen storage system has to provide 300 miles in range not 400 as this article says is necessary. Honda currently ships a fuel cell car that has a range of 220 miles so we're already 2/3rds of the way there. The article says that Detroit is already gearing up for fuel cell mass production. If they're already doing that, they have no need of the taxpayer's $10B. As for renewables, this is just a bolt on and has nothing to do intrinsicly with hydrogen. Scratch another $10B for that (or at least put it in its own program). $25B to shove uneconomic hydrogen cars down the consumer's throat? I don't think so. $10B for the oil companies to make hydrogen pipelines? Again, no way. Let them pay their own way. When you strip out the unnescessary expenses and just leave the technical problems of fuel tanks and a bare bones national hydrogen infrastructure, you end up with less than $20B in federal spending. Kicking it off with $1.2B this year doesn't seem unreasonable all of a sudden.
PR would have a longer time cycle. On the GM decision, we're talking three years keyed to a business decision they have to make. Last year GM showed a hydrogen powerplant called the AUTOnomy. This year they're showing another car that's more developed. Both years they talked about the same time frame, decision point in 2006 deployment in 2009 for the 2010 model year.
This sounds like hard and fast deadlines. Pay attention to the auto shows and see if they show a more advanced prototype next year with the same '06 and '09 dates. That should prove it's not PR.
Bio-algae pretty much looks like it's going to be a winner here. 1 week producton cycles generating 10% of the algae mass as hydrogen by volume. And that's before they've had the geneticists take a crack at them to improve the photosynthesis speed.
It's cheap, it's renewable, it's hydrogen producing pond scum.