On Verizon's network, 1 GB costs $10, so 2 GB * 30 days * $10 = $600. That would be a big deal to me if my kids were playing this game with their 4G connection turned on.
which proves that this is not really happening in the wild, otherwise it'd be a much bigger deal. you'd be hearing about on the local news, not/.
Websites existed well before ads came around. There are other models to make revenue, be it subscriptions, microtransaction based clearinghouses [1], grants, or other ways.
the early web was experimental and non-profit, but that was really, really early. the internet boom has had ads since day one. there was never a time when websites were (primarily) supported by subscriptions, microTxs, etc.
but anyway, if people could make more money that way, do you think they would? or what, no one has thought of it yet, and the world's just waiting for your insight into website profitability? no, almost no one supports themselves in that manner because it's not viable. any web product i know of that has a subscription model does it as a side to the primary revenue stream: ads.
You can't just decide Monday morning that you're going to take a week off, but you can schedule it at your own pleasure, which if we translate, means whenever you want.
no, scheduling vacation weeks ahead of time during contract negotiations is not the same as "whenever you want".
and p.s., that's exactly how i've scheduled vacation, as a salaried, employee for 20+ years.
you are sucking the syphilitic cock of an unholy form of government
Nor does completely redefining what they said in order to make yourself look less ignorant. Which, btw, wasn't even a good try.
on the contrary, i was going on ONLY what was said, you're the one that's reading between the lines.
no more fucking waiting to *EARN* vacation hours...take them off when you want
contractors most certainly do not simply take vacation when they want. their clients need things done just as much as an employer needs things done from its employees.
sure you can take as much "vacation" as you want, as long as you don't need the pay. however, i wouldn't count unemployment as as vacation.
no more fucking waiting to *EARN* vacation hours...take them off when you want
you do understand that when a company offers vacation, you get PAID for the time off, right? what you are "earning" is paid time off, not simply the right to take time off.
i'm not sure you know what "universal app" means. it means a single binary that runs across multiple platforms. it doesn't mean the exact same UI, or the same UI stretched or shrunk to different screen sizes. the binary can inspect the device on which it's running and render different UIs and experiences.
Universal Windows is a contradiction. Especially coming from a company with an on-again off-again relationship with allowing backward compatibility on X-Box. Your customers quit caring about your apps for their devices when google came out with docs. Web is the universal app.
windows beats all in backwards compatibility, sorry. and the fact that MSFT announced a new feature that is XB360 game support on XB1 doesn't qualify as "on again off again". maybe you don't know what that means.
But really it doesn't take that much time to make an app
please link to the successful apps that you've authored that rival something like gmail or facebook in their complexity. writing a good, stable, easy to use, beautiful app is hard.
I'm sorry, but if you're taking over $7 billion in writedowns, maybe the decision to but it in the first place was stupid and misguided?
making a virtual profit of $.6B (by writing off more than they paid), and gaining all of Nokia's assets including patents, land, and buildings? doesn't sound stupid to me.
it's interesting how i joked about you copying my troll, and you get out of that that i take myself too seriously. it's like you have this rolodex of cliche phrases and you are throwing them out at random regardless of the context. your first response was barely intelligible by the way.
i live in silicon valley, where BMWs and Mercedes (US luxury cars) are the norm, so yeah, #2 is quite true. for #3, i realize i'm well off compared to much of the world, which is exactly my point. the observation that someone has something nicer than you isn't license to revolt against the system.
maybe english is not the first language here. do you know the term "whoosh"? it's the sound of an important contextual point passing quickly between your ears.
no, it's the realization that any large bureaucracy is going to lose some things in the exchange of hands, and that not everyone is going to agree on how taxes are used. people use the "they are wasting my money" argument constantly. let's be honest. it's mainly about rationalizing not paying your fair share.
Instead of asking for austerity, what the EU SHOULD be doing is saying to the Greeks "you wont get any more money from us unless you get rid of the corruption and collect the taxes your laws say you are supposed to be collecting". If Greece actually collected all the tax the laws say they are entitled to collect, they wouldn't be in the trouble they are in.
unreasonable. i seriously doubt greece knows how it's elite class gangsters are evading the law. let alone the EU's ability to prove or deny that through some sort of an audit.
yet you criticize Greece for asking to borrow a tiny fraction of the amount you borrowed?
why do lenders make loans? because they are good people and want to help? no, it's too make a profit. they lend when they expect to be repaid with interest. the EU banks have a very high chance of repaying a debt, which is why credit was opened to them.
greece has very low chance of repaying their existing loans, let alone repaying a new loan.
same reason when an individual walks into get a new car on a loan their rate is going to be highly variable based on their credit history, or they'll be denied all together.
so, yes, they should be in the EU, but it should not have been the same EU, but a second EU, "EU light" or AKA EU-second class as you call it? yeah sounds reasonable.
If you lie to get a mortgage [join the Euro-zone], it's your own fault when things go wrong. What if the bank knows that you are lying? It was common knowledge that the figures Greece used to justify joining the Euro-zone were not realistic. Those bureaucrats must have known. Who is at fault now?
it's at least partially the lender's fault, but it doesn't mean the borrower should get free money.
i'm sure a lot of greeks used that money to make investments and earn profits where they wouldn't have otherwise had the opportunity. greece should be happy that they were allowed to live beyond their means for so long, not mad that the gravy train is ending.
It's not run by geeks for geeks under some informal geek code of honor anymore. It's a commercial marketplace run by corporations for a profit.
no way. i thought that the massive server farms, thousands of developers and QA engineers, millions in hardware, millions in R&D, et. al. were funded out of the magical money tree?
And anyone with a clue and any exposure
and you are the only one that apparently thinks this information isn't so obvious that you need to repeat it here like you're talking to a bunch of children. i also don't expect target to be there tomorrow and i won't go screaming if it isn't. i'll buy my socks somewhere else. done.
i think you forgot to tell everyone that with Google WE ARE THE PRODUCT OMFG!
Consider if you had already been seated at a table at a restaurant, and were given the bum's rush because a known big spender just walked in. You were there first. It's just shoddy practice.
i'd probably go somewhere else and not come back. he has that option.
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On Verizon's network, 1 GB costs $10, so 2 GB * 30 days * $10 = $600. That would be a big deal to me if my kids were playing this game with their 4G connection turned on.
which proves that this is not really happening in the wild, otherwise it'd be a much bigger deal. you'd be hearing about on the local news, not /.
Websites existed well before ads came around. There are other models to make revenue, be it subscriptions, microtransaction based clearinghouses [1], grants, or other ways.
the early web was experimental and non-profit, but that was really, really early. the internet boom has had ads since day one. there was never a time when websites were (primarily) supported by subscriptions, microTxs, etc.
but anyway, if people could make more money that way, do you think they would? or what, no one has thought of it yet, and the world's just waiting for your insight into website profitability? no, almost no one supports themselves in that manner because it's not viable. any web product i know of that has a subscription model does it as a side to the primary revenue stream: ads.
I am a regular full time employee where I work.
so i guess you know what you're talking about then.
Vacations that any company gives you are not free time or vacations. You are paying for them by getting a lower salary/rate.
weird. everywhere i've worked, i've always made significantly more than the contractors.
roughly 1.8% more pay per hour
references? no? okay then.
You can't just decide Monday morning that you're going to take a week off, but you can schedule it at your own pleasure, which if we translate, means whenever you want.
no, scheduling vacation weeks ahead of time during contract negotiations is not the same as "whenever you want".
and p.s., that's exactly how i've scheduled vacation, as a salaried, employee for 20+ years.
you are sucking the syphilitic cock of an unholy form of government
yep, you are clever.
The fact that you can't understand
ooooh here comes the troll!
Nor does completely redefining what they said in order to make yourself look less ignorant. Which, btw, wasn't even a good try.
on the contrary, i was going on ONLY what was said, you're the one that's reading between the lines.
no more fucking waiting to *EARN* vacation hours...take them off when you want
contractors most certainly do not simply take vacation when they want. their clients need things done just as much as an employer needs things done from its employees.
sure you can take as much "vacation" as you want, as long as you don't need the pay. however, i wouldn't count unemployment as as vacation.
That was the point of the parents comments.
so negotiating a fixed amount of vacation ahead of time in your contract qualifies, as the parent post states, "taking time off when you want"?
good try.
no more fucking waiting to *EARN* vacation hours...take them off when you want
you do understand that when a company offers vacation, you get PAID for the time off, right? what you are "earning" is paid time off, not simply the right to take time off.
they unfortunately THINK they do
i'm not sure you know what "universal app" means. it means a single binary that runs across multiple platforms. it doesn't mean the exact same UI, or the same UI stretched or shrunk to different screen sizes. the binary can inspect the device on which it's running and render different UIs and experiences.
Universal Windows is a contradiction. Especially coming from a company with an on-again off-again relationship with allowing backward compatibility on X-Box. Your customers quit caring about your apps for their devices when google came out with docs. Web is the universal app.
windows beats all in backwards compatibility, sorry. and the fact that MSFT announced a new feature that is XB360 game support on XB1 doesn't qualify as "on again off again". maybe you don't know what that means.
But really it doesn't take that much time to make an app
please link to the successful apps that you've authored that rival something like gmail or facebook in their complexity. writing a good, stable, easy to use, beautiful app is hard.
I'm sorry, but if you're taking over $7 billion in writedowns, maybe the decision to but it in the first place was stupid and misguided?
making a virtual profit of $.6B (by writing off more than they paid), and gaining all of Nokia's assets including patents, land, and buildings? doesn't sound stupid to me.
it's interesting how i joked about you copying my troll, and you get out of that that i take myself too seriously. it's like you have this rolodex of cliche phrases and you are throwing them out at random regardless of the context. your first response was barely intelligible by the way.
That woosh you hear is the wind whistling through your head.
oh come on at least you can do is come up with your own troll. how lazy are you?
i live in silicon valley, where BMWs and Mercedes (US luxury cars) are the norm, so yeah, #2 is quite true. for #3, i realize i'm well off compared to much of the world, which is exactly my point. the observation that someone has something nicer than you isn't license to revolt against the system.
maybe english is not the first language here. do you know the term "whoosh"? it's the sound of an important contextual point passing quickly between your ears.
no, it's the realization that any large bureaucracy is going to lose some things in the exchange of hands, and that not everyone is going to agree on how taxes are used. people use the "they are wasting my money" argument constantly. let's be honest. it's mainly about rationalizing not paying your fair share.
Instead of asking for austerity, what the EU SHOULD be doing is saying to the Greeks "you wont get any more money from us unless you get rid of the corruption and collect the taxes your laws say you are supposed to be collecting". If Greece actually collected all the tax the laws say they are entitled to collect, they wouldn't be in the trouble they are in.
unreasonable. i seriously doubt greece knows how it's elite class gangsters are evading the law. let alone the EU's ability to prove or deny that through some sort of an audit.
yet you criticize Greece for asking to borrow a tiny fraction of the amount you borrowed?
why do lenders make loans? because they are good people and want to help? no, it's too make a profit. they lend when they expect to be repaid with interest. the EU banks have a very high chance of repaying a debt, which is why credit was opened to them.
greece has very low chance of repaying their existing loans, let alone repaying a new loan.
same reason when an individual walks into get a new car on a loan their rate is going to be highly variable based on their credit history, or they'll be denied all together.
sure, bail out, forgive. that will teach those SOBs a lesson! it'll never happen again after that.
so, yes, they should be in the EU, but it should not have been the same EU, but a second EU, "EU light" or AKA EU-second class as you call it?
yeah sounds reasonable.
but try telling that to someone "you can't all have nice cars like the tourrerists"
Sorry, no sympathy here. I see hundreds of cards every day that are nicer than my 2010 Honda Fit with a dent in the door. Somehow I manage to go on.
If you lie to get a mortgage [join the Euro-zone], it's your own fault when things go wrong. What if the bank knows that you are lying? It was common knowledge that the figures Greece used to justify joining the Euro-zone were not realistic. Those bureaucrats must have known. Who is at fault now?
it's at least partially the lender's fault, but it doesn't mean the borrower should get free money.
i'm sure a lot of greeks used that money to make investments and earn profits where they wouldn't have otherwise had the opportunity. greece should be happy that they were allowed to live beyond their means for so long, not mad that the gravy train is ending.
When's the last time you encountered an open wifi network that didn't have a web-based authentication scheme in place?
I must be missing something.
oh boy.
It's not run by geeks for geeks under some informal geek code of honor anymore. It's a commercial marketplace run by corporations for a profit.
no way. i thought that the massive server farms, thousands of developers and QA engineers, millions in hardware, millions in R&D, et. al. were funded out of the magical money tree?
And anyone with a clue and any exposure
and you are the only one that apparently thinks this information isn't so obvious that you need to repeat it here like you're talking to a bunch of children. i also don't expect target to be there tomorrow and i won't go screaming if it isn't. i'll buy my socks somewhere else. done.
i think you forgot to tell everyone that with Google WE ARE THE PRODUCT OMFG!
Consider if you had already been seated at a table at a restaurant, and were given the bum's rush because a known big spender just walked in. You were there first. It's just shoddy practice.
i'd probably go somewhere else and not come back. he has that option.
Who decides which company gets this nice short URL and which doesn't?
it's right in the subject of TFA. the youtube algorithm.