So they have mice designed for gamers, and now a keyboard designed for gamers. When will they get with the program and design a joystick especially for gamers?
Not anymore. Blockbuster is raising their fee to $17.99 as of August 19. Unless Netflix is raising their rates and I haven't heard about it, they are now the same price.
What if you think about the population of Los Angeles County? That's more than twice the population of Louisiana. I think most people lump the suburbs of Los Angeles in with the city. Especially when they say "LA city", it makes me think maybe they mean South Pasadena or something.
No, see, the fuel tank is full right now. Banging on it only works when the tank is empty but your gauge says it's full. At least, that's how it works in the movies when an airplane runs out of gas.
C) a great increase in religious school enrollment.
Why is this a problem? Currently there is a great deal of time and money wasted in our schools and legal system fighting over what should be in the curriculum (evolution, intelligent design, sexual eduaction, etc.). Vouchers wouldn't eliminate this altogether, but would reduce it since people could more easily send their kids to a school with a curriculum they are happy with.
To me, this seems like separation of church and state at its best. Rather than having to take a secular stance (which many people will feel is anti-religious), the government gets to be neutral by giving people a choice.
The key is that the $1.8 billion is 20% of their earnings. That kind of drop would correspond to a 20% drop in share price, assuming Wall Street wants to keep the same P/E ratio, which is big from anybody's point of view. Bill Gates would personally lose $5 billion, and Ballmer would lose $2 billion.
They should do the prorated warranty thing like Sears does with their car batteries. The batteries never last as long as the warranty, but with the prorated warranty, they essentially have you paying a fixed price per year for the batteries.
For example, say the batteries cost more like $2500 and have a 10 year/100k mile warranty. If it craps out at 80000 miles, who cares as long as you're paying $2000 for it.
Then you know you're just paying an extra $0.025 per mile for the battery. You could compare this to the price you're paying for gas, and the difference in mileage, and see if it ends up saving you money.
By reading your odometer, they have no way of knowing how many miles you drove out-of-state. It would be unfair to pay state taxes for miles you drove somewhere else. They could also figure out where you drove them and charge you different rates, e.g., interstates, state highways, city roads, etc. They could even charge different rates for rush hour traffic, etc, to help manage traffic issues. They need more lanes because of rush hour, so people who drive in rush hour traffic should pay for the extra lanes.
I'm not pulling this out of my butt, there was a story about this on NPR a while back. Also, I'm not saying this is a good idea, I'm just repeating their rationale.
No, treat them the way they want to be treated. Different people want to be treated different ways (some want lots of guidance, while others want to work very independently, etc.). This requires lots of extra empathy and understanding of personality types, but should work a lot better.
Ironically the article pointed out that there were no cars at that time.
Well, apparently National Geographic hasn't heard of a little place called Atlantis. They had cars. Flying ones. And what happened to them? They got flooded. Hmmmm... sounds like global warming to me. And who told us about them? Oh yeah, that's right. The Egyptians.
Depending on the safety code for the area, you probably need an electrician to run power. You probably have to have conduit, junction boxes, run it back to the circuit breaker (which may be in a different place than your network switch), etc. If it's just Ethernet cable, you can probably have just about anyone run plenum rated cable wherever you want, without the extra hardware.
So for new construction, it's probably not a big deal. But for adding new devices to an existing facility, it could be a lot easier/cheaper.
Well, they did make their analysis software available. Assuming data for previous years is readily available in the same format, it shouldn't be too hard for anyone with the inclination to do it.
Looks like all of the top 25 schools there are in states that have pretty cold winters. I wonder if that has an effect. In warmer places, people are probably more willing to walk to libraries and labs, etc.
But aren't they (mostly) just following the same path as Yahoo!? Start with a search engine, and start adding other services people want. I mean, people were probably worried about Yahoo! becoming an internet monopoly a few years ago.
Google showed up with a better search engine, and is adding new services with that as a good foundation. But what's to stop somebody else from doing the same to Google? If Google doesn't continue to provide the best product, somebody will replace them. So if they stay on top, great. If somebody else comes along, hooray from the new guy.
It seems like users of free internet services are pretty fickle. It's easy to switch. You don't have to worry about compatibility with your other software. You don't have to use the same search engine as other people in your office, or your clients. Some of the factors that allow Microsoft's monopoly are just not there with internet services. Thus, I think even if Google maintains a huge majority of the market share, they have to keep their eye on the ball, keep improving their software, and not get too evil. Otherwise, somebody better will come along.
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So they have mice designed for gamers, and now a keyboard designed for gamers. When will they get with the program and design a joystick especially for gamers?
Not anymore. Blockbuster is raising their fee to $17.99 as of August 19. Unless Netflix is raising their rates and I haven't heard about it, they are now the same price.
It's just this kind of vigilante altruism that is against everything we stand for!
What if you think about the population of Los Angeles County? That's more than twice the population of Louisiana. I think most people lump the suburbs of Los Angeles in with the city. Especially when they say "LA city", it makes me think maybe they mean South Pasadena or something.
If everyone stops having sex, I hope they implement those Social Security private accounts.
I would compare the internet to the telephone network rather than radio spectrum and satellite slots.
No, see, the fuel tank is full right now. Banging on it only works when the tank is empty but your gauge says it's full. At least, that's how it works in the movies when an airplane runs out of gas.
Why is this a problem? Currently there is a great deal of time and money wasted in our schools and legal system fighting over what should be in the curriculum (evolution, intelligent design, sexual eduaction, etc.). Vouchers wouldn't eliminate this altogether, but would reduce it since people could more easily send their kids to a school with a curriculum they are happy with.
To me, this seems like separation of church and state at its best. Rather than having to take a secular stance (which many people will feel is anti-religious), the government gets to be neutral by giving people a choice.
The key is that the $1.8 billion is 20% of their earnings. That kind of drop would correspond to a 20% drop in share price, assuming Wall Street wants to keep the same P/E ratio, which is big from anybody's point of view. Bill Gates would personally lose $5 billion, and Ballmer would lose $2 billion.
For example, say the batteries cost more like $2500 and have a 10 year/100k mile warranty. If it craps out at 80000 miles, who cares as long as you're paying $2000 for it.
Then you know you're just paying an extra $0.025 per mile for the battery. You could compare this to the price you're paying for gas, and the difference in mileage, and see if it ends up saving you money.
I'm not pulling this out of my butt, there was a story about this on NPR a while back. Also, I'm not saying this is a good idea, I'm just repeating their rationale.
No, treat them the way they want to be treated. Different people want to be treated different ways (some want lots of guidance, while others want to work very independently, etc.). This requires lots of extra empathy and understanding of personality types, but should work a lot better.
Well, apparently National Geographic hasn't heard of a little place called Atlantis. They had cars. Flying ones. And what happened to them? They got flooded. Hmmmm... sounds like global warming to me. And who told us about them? Oh yeah, that's right. The Egyptians.
So for new construction, it's probably not a big deal. But for adding new devices to an existing facility, it could be a lot easier/cheaper.
Well, they did make their analysis software available. Assuming data for previous years is readily available in the same format, it shouldn't be too hard for anyone with the inclination to do it.
Looks like all of the top 25 schools there are in states that have pretty cold winters. I wonder if that has an effect. In warmer places, people are probably more willing to walk to libraries and labs, etc.
because cars are too expensive. Talk about your high hardware costs. How long until Ballmer pushes for $100 cars?
Google showed up with a better search engine, and is adding new services with that as a good foundation. But what's to stop somebody else from doing the same to Google? If Google doesn't continue to provide the best product, somebody will replace them. So if they stay on top, great. If somebody else comes along, hooray from the new guy.
It seems like users of free internet services are pretty fickle. It's easy to switch. You don't have to worry about compatibility with your other software. You don't have to use the same search engine as other people in your office, or your clients. Some of the factors that allow Microsoft's monopoly are just not there with internet services. Thus, I think even if Google maintains a huge majority of the market share, they have to keep their eye on the ball, keep improving their software, and not get too evil. Otherwise, somebody better will come along.
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