Anyone claiming such in advertising should be required by law to report the percentage.
While it's not an exact percentage, some companies do something similar (and I'd wager they wouldn't if not required to). Buck Knives for example has various models of different quality levels.
Some that are wholly made in the US are marked "Made in the USA" (usually with an indicator that the sheath was Made in Mexico as they seem to always outsource their leather work there). Some are marked "Made in China". Others are marked "Made in the USA of USA and Imported Parts".
I don't think they'd put the "imported parts" bit on the packages if they weren't required to.
I have to agree. Granted, I generally don't buy anything I'm TOO concerned about from China, but if I can get something for a dollar or two from China off Ebay (when ordering domestic costs 5-10x as much, AND the item is usually still "Made in China" anyways), then I'll do it.
In many, many years of ordering (I've been on ebay for 20 years but I'd say my first order from China was probably 12 years ago), I've never had a package not show up. It might take 2-3 months sometime, but they've always gotten here.
Kids love those games and won't accept PC's without them.
Kids will accept whatever they're given, because the alternative is nothing.
That said - my 8 and 6 year old wouldn't even know what to do with a PC. Though they're quite comfortable using an iPad, they have no interest in using a traditional PC.
There is no "search" option in a catalog. You had to manually flip through a bazillion pages looking for what you wanted, THEN write out an order form in pen, mail a check, and wait the somewhat standard "Allow 4-6 weeks for delivery".
With Amazon I can go online and for anything under the threshold where I'm going to comparison shop, I can find it in under 30 seconds, click a few buttons, and it'll show up to my door within two days.
There are VERY few things that I need faster than that, and only in those rare cases do I go to a brick and mortar store - and even when I do I've started using the pickup options (ie, for Walmart, I filter to items in stock at the local store, order, and then go pick the order up).
Judging by the way the market has been going, it seems that for most consumers the result trending the same: brick and mortar is increasingly becoming the last resort option rather than the primary one.
Prime is great, but it seems that it's led many people to just buying a ton of random one-off items by themselves that they otherwise would have batched into a larger purchase.
As a result, even if they're taking a loss sometimes, Amazon is pricing many items such that they'll take a smaller hit on the "free" shipping. Items that Wal-mart sells for $4 might be $7-8 at Amazon, because they have to account for the shipping.
On more expensive items it's a crap shoot. With TV's I've recently seen Wal-mart and even Best Buy offering better prices. Where Amazon still does win out though it selection. It's just not realistic for a brick and mortar store to stock the same # of items as Amazon does.
I don't care to eat or drink when I go to the movies, so I don't factor the cost of popcorn or soda into a trip to the movies. The ticket prices at the place I usually go to are $6.50 for an adult ticket. It'd be peanuts to go a few times a week.
That said - i go to the theater MAYBE 3 times a year, and that's simply because it's a movie that I really want to see NOW and not in a few months.
While I can understand their passion, for me (and I think a large number of people), a trip to the theater isn't some holy cathartic experience. It's not magical. It's just a dark room with a big screen and decent speakers - which I've got at home.
Put it this way: if I could pay the same price of a movie ticket, and could watch the movie once on release day BUT I had my choice to watch it in a theater or at home, I can guarantee I'd never step foot in a theater again.
They said right in the summary - he was ALREADY on the drugs due to the kidney transplant he received earlier. If he has to take them anyways he might as well have the hand transplant surgery as well.
I've always been a fan of AMD's processors and still have used them in my Linux machine, but I had to go Intel for my gaming system for the last few upgrades. Granted I never spend this much on a CPU so I'll need to tech to "trickle down" to their budget line, but seeing a good performance option from AMD will be good again.
That was true 10 years ago when high data users meant "bittorrent users".
These days a ton of people are watching all of their TV via Netflix, Youtube, Hulu, and other streaming services. While they may not have a good feel for how much a given amount of data is, the average user can certainly be affected by a cap now.
Digital data isn't the same. As long as you're not paying for storage space it's not worth the time to delete it - old emails certainly don't get in the way of reading new emails and their contents often times can come in handy.
That said - 30 days is plenty of time to setup a new account and use an IMAP transfer utility to migrate every single message - even if it is 20 years worth. It's also plenty of time to change all of his online accounts for services (about 6 months ago I decided to switch primary email addresses and I was able to list and transfer every account I could think of within 2 evenings).
The only real problem would be personal acquaintances that contact him via that address. In that case though I'd setup an "out of office" or the equivalent immediately and just have it respond with a message indicating that his address will be changing soon.
It all depends on the are of the country. While not as drastic as comparing any part of the USA to say, India, there are still extreme differences in the cost of living depending on where you're at in the USA.
Someone living in Silicon Valley who makes $45k/year may be dumpster diving for food. A guy with the same salary in rural Tennessee probably owns a house, car, and maybe a boat.
Yes - a house built nearly one hundred years ago may use use different sized lumber than a modern home.
Anything built within the last 50-60 years will use the modern size, which you're FAR more likely to encounter these days.
Changing to ACTUAL 2x4's for the common size would not only cost a lot, but it would screw things up so badly that buying lumber would be a pain. The vast majority of people are going to WANT 1.5x3.5 for repairs in existing construction (not to mention nearly every recent blueprint has been drawn with that lumber size in mind).
They absolutely won't change the size - if successful all this will make them to is relabel them to 1.5x3.5's - and just about every knowledgeable person coming in will still ask for a "2x4" - the same as people still ask for pints and half-pints at the liquor store despite the sizes you get being nothing close to the real measurements.
If you need an actual honest to goodness 2" x 4" board for old construction - go to a lumber yard and you can get them rough-cut in that size.
People have been asking "have all the good stories already been told" for centuries, yet new ground continues to be broken.
"Star Trek" is merely a starting point - and a limited one at that given that this is a brand new series. I'm sure they've got plenty of opportunity for good stores. That doesn't mean they'll deliver - it could be crap - but the chance is there.
Then again I've always been of the opinion that even bad sci-fi can still be worth watching. I actually mildly enjoyed watching Andromeda . . .
Because unfortunately there is more than one issue on the table. I'm a Republican, and I support net neutrality (and I also believe in global warming). I'm trying to convince my representatives of its merits,however, realistically even if they end up scraping it I still will vote Republican, because there are other issues that I care about more that they DO line up with me ideologically on.
That's the reasonable thing. Rarely in life are you presented with perfect choices. You're presented limited imperfect options and you make the best choice from what you're given.
There's enough of an enthusiast segment to support that market. Prices may go up a bit, but not to the point of putting it out of reach. Just look at other specialized pursuits like auto racing and such where the vast majority of the general populace doesn't by the parts but enthusiasts do.
Personally, even outside of gaming I doubt I'll ever give up my desktop. Granted, I've got a laptop too for my portable needs, but when I'm at home I can't STAND the laptop form factor to the point that when my desktop broke a year or two ago and I had to wait a week for replacement parts to arrive, I used my laptop connected to the desktop mouse, keyboard, and monitor so that it still "felt" like a desktop aside from the speed.
That's what sells it for us. There's no question that the iPad is a superior device, but we have a lot of users that have jumped on the tablet bandwagon and want to have "tablets in the field!?!?!" when there's a whole host of legacy applications they want to use that don't have iPad clients (and likely never will - some of these apps are from companies that are now defunct).
With a Surface, as long as we can get them working on Windows, they can VPN in and use whatever they of the desktop apps they want to. Sure they interface sucks, but when the user insists that we "make it work" you do what you have to.
I didn't, for one very important reason: we don't get to "cash" in any unused days at the end of the year, but instead roll them over. Unused vacation time is only paid out on separation.
My accumulated vacation time (over 115 days worth) is essentially my severance package if anything were to go wrong with work (ie, layoffs, firing, outsourcing etc - it's a government job so the organization can't really "go out of business")..
It's not like I never take a day off, but I try to take fewer than I earn for sure.
Yeah, I have a feeling this one will pop too. I bought during the absolute lowest point of the last crash. My house is now worth about 60% more than what I paid for it.
I've debating selling it for a profit but if you do that while prices are still high you're stuck paying those prices for a new home too.
On the plus side, if prices crash again without me selling I'm not really any worse off.
It's trite but true, but "Two wrongs don't make a right".
We shouldn't accept more violations because some are in place - we should work to push back those that are already a problem.
I don't get it - Twitter has no problem allowing "adult" content and there's no huge backlash. If you don't want to see that content don't follow that account. Facebook shouldn't be practicing any form of censorship.
And yes, I completely understand that as a private entity they have no LEGAL requirement to allow free speech, however when it comes down to it it's a matter of if you consider the first amendment truly a good idea, or some pesky technicality from a few hundred years ago that the government just has to still obey. If you actually support the spirit of the law, then you should also encourage companies to avoid censorship on their networks - even if they're not legally required to do so.
Well, the reality people like to see "new" movies. Even though most stuff (though not all) from the 90's onwards is started to hold up pretty well over time, an old film still feels "old". Even if the quality of the filming is good the cars and clothing styles - still start to feel a little dated. Heck technology even starts to show that a film is old (seeing someone pull out an old Nokia or even a Blackberry looks odd these days).
As such - particularly with many movie-goers being younger, people seem pretty content to watch "their" version of a particular franchise. For the really big stuff I'm sure it'll be profitable for quite a while to just reboot it every 15 years or so.
And honestly, while I certainly enjoy new content, I don't mind the reboots either. Lord knows I've gone back and watched a movie that I've seen before or even re-read a book (I think I've read "The Martian Chronicles" 4 times now) - seeing a rebooted franchise is just another method to get a new take on a familiar story.
I have to agree there. I remember the first time seeing such an effect - many years ago at the Terminator attraction in Universal Studios.
For a brief "ride", it's a neat trick, but I have no desire to see a whole film using that effect - and certainly not all the action movies that ever come out. After Avatar (the first full movie I saw in 3D) the only one I've intentionally watched in 3D afterwards has been The Force Awakens - and that was ONLY after first seeing it in normal mode. I wanted to make sure I experienced it both ways but still considered the standard format the "real" film that I wanted to see first.
Honestly after 2 chances I doubt I'll ever bother with a 3D movie again.
Indeed - if take my mid-size pickup truck with a V6, it has more horsepower & torque than a full-size with a V8 from 20 years ago - and has better gas mileage.
The thing is though, it's still a pickup truck. It might get 25 MPG compared to the old truck getting 17 MPG, but its still not gonna get the fuel economy of a Prius.
Personally, I'm happy that I am able to drive a more efficient vehicle and if they can get the efficiency up higher (while maintaining a decent towing capacity) I'd be all for it, but I'm never going to be able to make due with a small car. To a large degree I think it may come down to a lifestyle issue. People who live in the city generally just need to travel from one parking lot to another. Cars are fine for that. People in more rural settings tend to have more rural hobbies (hunting, fishing,etc) and are more likely to own a home than rent an apartment, which means more maintenance and hauling of stuff to and from the house.
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Anyone claiming such in advertising should be required by law to report the percentage.
While it's not an exact percentage, some companies do something similar (and I'd wager they wouldn't if not required to). Buck Knives for example has various models of different quality levels.
Some that are wholly made in the US are marked "Made in the USA" (usually with an indicator that the sheath was Made in Mexico as they seem to always outsource their leather work there). Some are marked "Made in China". Others are marked "Made in the USA of USA and Imported Parts".
I don't think they'd put the "imported parts" bit on the packages if they weren't required to.
I have to agree. Granted, I generally don't buy anything I'm TOO concerned about from China, but if I can get something for a dollar or two from China off Ebay (when ordering domestic costs 5-10x as much, AND the item is usually still "Made in China" anyways), then I'll do it.
In many, many years of ordering (I've been on ebay for 20 years but I'd say my first order from China was probably 12 years ago), I've never had a package not show up. It might take 2-3 months sometime, but they've always gotten here.
Kids love those games and won't accept PC's without them.
Kids will accept whatever they're given, because the alternative is nothing.
That said - my 8 and 6 year old wouldn't even know what to do with a PC. Though they're quite comfortable using an iPad, they have no interest in using a traditional PC.
Catalog sales were much less efficient.
There is no "search" option in a catalog. You had to manually flip through a bazillion pages looking for what you wanted, THEN write out an order form in pen, mail a check, and wait the somewhat standard "Allow 4-6 weeks for delivery".
With Amazon I can go online and for anything under the threshold where I'm going to comparison shop, I can find it in under 30 seconds, click a few buttons, and it'll show up to my door within two days.
There are VERY few things that I need faster than that, and only in those rare cases do I go to a brick and mortar store - and even when I do I've started using the pickup options (ie, for Walmart, I filter to items in stock at the local store, order, and then go pick the order up).
Judging by the way the market has been going, it seems that for most consumers the result trending the same: brick and mortar is increasingly becoming the last resort option rather than the primary one.
This seems to be mostly a result of Prime.
Prime is great, but it seems that it's led many people to just buying a ton of random one-off items by themselves that they otherwise would have batched into a larger purchase.
As a result, even if they're taking a loss sometimes, Amazon is pricing many items such that they'll take a smaller hit on the "free" shipping. Items that Wal-mart sells for $4 might be $7-8 at Amazon, because they have to account for the shipping.
On more expensive items it's a crap shoot. With TV's I've recently seen Wal-mart and even Best Buy offering better prices. Where Amazon still does win out though it selection. It's just not realistic for a brick and mortar store to stock the same # of items as Amazon does.
Well, it's not just cost.
I don't care to eat or drink when I go to the movies, so I don't factor the cost of popcorn or soda into a trip to the movies. The ticket prices at the place I usually go to are $6.50 for an adult ticket. It'd be peanuts to go a few times a week.
That said - i go to the theater MAYBE 3 times a year, and that's simply because it's a movie that I really want to see NOW and not in a few months.
While I can understand their passion, for me (and I think a large number of people), a trip to the theater isn't some holy cathartic experience. It's not magical. It's just a dark room with a big screen and decent speakers - which I've got at home.
Put it this way: if I could pay the same price of a movie ticket, and could watch the movie once on release day BUT I had my choice to watch it in a theater or at home, I can guarantee I'd never step foot in a theater again.
They said right in the summary - he was ALREADY on the drugs due to the kidney transplant he received earlier. If he has to take them anyways he might as well have the hand transplant surgery as well.
I've always been a fan of AMD's processors and still have used them in my Linux machine, but I had to go Intel for my gaming system for the last few upgrades. Granted I never spend this much on a CPU so I'll need to tech to "trickle down" to their budget line, but seeing a good performance option from AMD will be good again.
I don't think you understand how percentages work . . . yes it's a small percentage, but it's pretty much the polar opposite of "flat".
They're in favor of SMALL (ie, less) government moreso than local government.
In general most conservatives have no issue with a higher level of government saying to a lower level "No, you can't do that".
You know how when Linux geeks say "I just want the OS to be unobtrusive and stay out of the way so I can work."? Apply the same logic to government.
That was true 10 years ago when high data users meant "bittorrent users".
These days a ton of people are watching all of their TV via Netflix, Youtube, Hulu, and other streaming services. While they may not have a good feel for how much a given amount of data is, the average user can certainly be affected by a cap now.
Digital data isn't the same. As long as you're not paying for storage space it's not worth the time to delete it - old emails certainly don't get in the way of reading new emails and their contents often times can come in handy.
That said - 30 days is plenty of time to setup a new account and use an IMAP transfer utility to migrate every single message - even if it is 20 years worth. It's also plenty of time to change all of his online accounts for services (about 6 months ago I decided to switch primary email addresses and I was able to list and transfer every account I could think of within 2 evenings).
The only real problem would be personal acquaintances that contact him via that address. In that case though I'd setup an "out of office" or the equivalent immediately and just have it respond with a message indicating that his address will be changing soon.
It all depends on the are of the country. While not as drastic as comparing any part of the USA to say, India, there are still extreme differences in the cost of living depending on where you're at in the USA.
Someone living in Silicon Valley who makes $45k/year may be dumpster diving for food. A guy with the same salary in rural Tennessee probably owns a house, car, and maybe a boat.
Yes - a house built nearly one hundred years ago may use use different sized lumber than a modern home.
Anything built within the last 50-60 years will use the modern size, which you're FAR more likely to encounter these days.
Changing to ACTUAL 2x4's for the common size would not only cost a lot, but it would screw things up so badly that buying lumber would be a pain. The vast majority of people are going to WANT 1.5x3.5 for repairs in existing construction (not to mention nearly every recent blueprint has been drawn with that lumber size in mind).
They absolutely won't change the size - if successful all this will make them to is relabel them to 1.5x3.5's - and just about every knowledgeable person coming in will still ask for a "2x4" - the same as people still ask for pints and half-pints at the liquor store despite the sizes you get being nothing close to the real measurements.
If you need an actual honest to goodness 2" x 4" board for old construction - go to a lumber yard and you can get them rough-cut in that size.
People have been asking "have all the good stories already been told" for centuries, yet new ground continues to be broken.
"Star Trek" is merely a starting point - and a limited one at that given that this is a brand new series. I'm sure they've got plenty of opportunity for good stores. That doesn't mean they'll deliver - it could be crap - but the chance is there.
Then again I've always been of the opinion that even bad sci-fi can still be worth watching. I actually mildly enjoyed watching Andromeda . . .
Because unfortunately there is more than one issue on the table. I'm a Republican, and I support net neutrality (and I also believe in global warming). I'm trying to convince my representatives of its merits,however, realistically even if they end up scraping it I still will vote Republican, because there are other issues that I care about more that they DO line up with me ideologically on.
That's the reasonable thing. Rarely in life are you presented with perfect choices. You're presented limited imperfect options and you make the best choice from what you're given.
There's enough of an enthusiast segment to support that market. Prices may go up a bit, but not to the point of putting it out of reach. Just look at other specialized pursuits like auto racing and such where the vast majority of the general populace doesn't by the parts but enthusiasts do.
Personally, even outside of gaming I doubt I'll ever give up my desktop. Granted, I've got a laptop too for my portable needs, but when I'm at home I can't STAND the laptop form factor to the point that when my desktop broke a year or two ago and I had to wait a week for replacement parts to arrive, I used my laptop connected to the desktop mouse, keyboard, and monitor so that it still "felt" like a desktop aside from the speed.
That's what sells it for us. There's no question that the iPad is a superior device, but we have a lot of users that have jumped on the tablet bandwagon and want to have "tablets in the field!?!?!" when there's a whole host of legacy applications they want to use that don't have iPad clients (and likely never will - some of these apps are from companies that are now defunct).
With a Surface, as long as we can get them working on Windows, they can VPN in and use whatever they of the desktop apps they want to. Sure they interface sucks, but when the user insists that we "make it work" you do what you have to.
I didn't, for one very important reason: we don't get to "cash" in any unused days at the end of the year, but instead roll them over. Unused vacation time is only paid out on separation.
My accumulated vacation time (over 115 days worth) is essentially my severance package if anything were to go wrong with work (ie, layoffs, firing, outsourcing etc - it's a government job so the organization can't really "go out of business")..
It's not like I never take a day off, but I try to take fewer than I earn for sure.
Yeah, I have a feeling this one will pop too. I bought during the absolute lowest point of the last crash. My house is now worth about 60% more than what I paid for it.
I've debating selling it for a profit but if you do that while prices are still high you're stuck paying those prices for a new home too.
On the plus side, if prices crash again without me selling I'm not really any worse off.
But "soon will be" would not explain any problems that already exist, unless you're saying the effect is preceding the cause.
It's trite but true, but "Two wrongs don't make a right".
We shouldn't accept more violations because some are in place - we should work to push back those that are already a problem.
I don't get it - Twitter has no problem allowing "adult" content and there's no huge backlash. If you don't want to see that content don't follow that account. Facebook shouldn't be practicing any form of censorship.
And yes, I completely understand that as a private entity they have no LEGAL requirement to allow free speech, however when it comes down to it it's a matter of if you consider the first amendment truly a good idea, or some pesky technicality from a few hundred years ago that the government just has to still obey. If you actually support the spirit of the law, then you should also encourage companies to avoid censorship on their networks - even if they're not legally required to do so.
Well, the reality people like to see "new" movies. Even though most stuff (though not all) from the 90's onwards is started to hold up pretty well over time, an old film still feels "old". Even if the quality of the filming is good the cars and clothing styles - still start to feel a little dated. Heck technology even starts to show that a film is old (seeing someone pull out an old Nokia or even a Blackberry looks odd these days).
As such - particularly with many movie-goers being younger, people seem pretty content to watch "their" version of a particular franchise. For the really big stuff I'm sure it'll be profitable for quite a while to just reboot it every 15 years or so.
And honestly, while I certainly enjoy new content, I don't mind the reboots either. Lord knows I've gone back and watched a movie that I've seen before or even re-read a book (I think I've read "The Martian Chronicles" 4 times now) - seeing a rebooted franchise is just another method to get a new take on a familiar story.
I have to agree there. I remember the first time seeing such an effect - many years ago at the Terminator attraction in Universal Studios.
For a brief "ride", it's a neat trick, but I have no desire to see a whole film using that effect - and certainly not all the action movies that ever come out. After Avatar (the first full movie I saw in 3D) the only one I've intentionally watched in 3D afterwards has been The Force Awakens - and that was ONLY after first seeing it in normal mode. I wanted to make sure I experienced it both ways but still considered the standard format the "real" film that I wanted to see first.
Honestly after 2 chances I doubt I'll ever bother with a 3D movie again.
Indeed - if take my mid-size pickup truck with a V6, it has more horsepower & torque than a full-size with a V8 from 20 years ago - and has better gas mileage.
The thing is though, it's still a pickup truck. It might get 25 MPG compared to the old truck getting 17 MPG, but its still not gonna get the fuel economy of a Prius.
Personally, I'm happy that I am able to drive a more efficient vehicle and if they can get the efficiency up higher (while maintaining a decent towing capacity) I'd be all for it, but I'm never going to be able to make due with a small car. To a large degree I think it may come down to a lifestyle issue. People who live in the city generally just need to travel from one parking lot to another. Cars are fine for that. People in more rural settings tend to have more rural hobbies (hunting, fishing,etc) and are more likely to own a home than rent an apartment, which means more maintenance and hauling of stuff to and from the house.