Doctors are responsible for peoples' lives. If pay follows trust and responsibility, then doesn't it logically follow that they should make way more than CEOs? Then come fire, police, military (solders not generals). Then come the teachers we entrust with our children's education, farmers that grow our food, engineers and technicians that keep the country running, etc. Somewhere at the bottom of the trust and responsibility scale are the CEOs (after actors and athletes but before politicians).
For a purely digital product with no physical media or distribution cost (other than Apple's cut) you make the biggest profit by setting the price where you get the maximum number of downloads. You don't need big margins if you can make it up in volume (and as a pleasant side-effect, you remove a major incentive for piracy). App makers figured this out pretty fast, I just wish music/movie/ebook makers would figure it out also.
If they plan to be the Uber of trucking, they would start at something slightly less than 15% and then jack it up after they drive their competitors out of business and become the monopoly provider.
Conceivably they could buy the Yahoo! brand without buying the company's other assets (the brand/logo and it's 90's nostalgia are about the only thing of value left at Yahoo). That would presumably limit their liability (for example, if my Atari 2600 burns down my house due to a latent design flaw, I'm pretty sure I won't be able to sue whoever it is that currently puts out shovelware games under the Atari brand that had nothing to do with the old hardware company).
This will be different in that it will likely be less universally compatible, requiring a custom DRM-encumbered app that is available only on certain approved platforms and they will charge a monthly subscription fee for it. Win-win.
more importantly, they are not offering anything in return for that data. Facebook is offering a free social network. Google offers free email, search, maps, etc. What are the telcos offering in exchange for the data they want to collect?
The problem isn't how far north you are (British Columbia gets satellite TV just fine). The problem is your city is at sea level and surrounded by very high mountains to the south and east. Move to the top of Mt. Rainer and you'll get beautiful reception.
On Wednesday, the European Space Agency sought to become the second entity to successfully land a spacecraft on Mars with its Schiaparelli lander.
USA/NASA has had many successful landers and the Soviets had a lander survive for 14.5 seconds after touch down. That's not great, but considering the ESA lander lost contact after firing the retro rockets before touch down, I wouldn't celebrate just yet.
How does it feel to be so hated that even Donald Trump won't accept your endorsement (though he's fine with David Duke and Vladimir Putin endorsing him)?
What's different here is that the messages are being scanned in real time, rather than scanning a database of saved messages. Maybe this explains why Yahoo Mail is so damn slow.
Who knows that E-Bay has the most optimal solution for online auctions sites? Maybe there is something else to be learned? The only way you kick the huge guys like E-Bay off center is to innovate around them. The problem is that innovation is not always successful, often it isn't, but that's what makes this whole thing keep working.
No argument here. I'm sure some scrappy little startup with a great idea will innovate eBay into obsolescence. However, Facebook is NOT a scrappy little startup and leveraging your success in one area to try and force your way into another area is NOT innovation, it's desperation. It's the same reason why Google will never have a successful social network (unless they buy one and even then, they risk destroying it by "integrating" it into the Google "ecosystem"), and Microsoft will never have a successful search engine.
It's the height of hubris for Facebook to assume that can rely on the network effect from their huge membership to quickly and easily reproduce what took eBay, Amazon and Craigslist decades to develop (and even they still mess it up on a fairly frequent basis). In a year this mess will join the likes of Facebook Deals, Facebook Credits & Facebook Gifts on the scrapheap of Facebook's attempts to expand beyond social networking by creating a poor implementation of someone else's idea.
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Doctors are responsible for peoples' lives. If pay follows trust and responsibility, then doesn't it logically follow that they should make way more than CEOs? Then come fire, police, military (solders not generals). Then come the teachers we entrust with our children's education, farmers that grow our food, engineers and technicians that keep the country running, etc. Somewhere at the bottom of the trust and responsibility scale are the CEOs (after actors and athletes but before politicians).
He's a college dropout who became a billionaire. I thought Red State America loved that? Or do you also have to be a racist?
But don't worry, hate-filled racist "jokes" and biased fake news stories are still A-OK. Facebook has it's priorities straight.
Great! Now when my phone is dropped, lost, stolen or explodes (we are talking about Samsung), I don't just lose my phone but also my PC.
Typical unrealistic Hollywood. Everyone knows Macs can't get viruses.
Ford Drivers So Committed That Exploding Pintos Did Little To Help Mercedes Benz.
It may have taken 30 years, but finally the Mac team now knows what it felt like to be on the Apple ][ team.
For a purely digital product with no physical media or distribution cost (other than Apple's cut) you make the biggest profit by setting the price where you get the maximum number of downloads. You don't need big margins if you can make it up in volume (and as a pleasant side-effect, you remove a major incentive for piracy). App makers figured this out pretty fast, I just wish music/movie/ebook makers would figure it out also.
If they plan to be the Uber of trucking, they would start at something slightly less than 15% and then jack it up after they drive their competitors out of business and become the monopoly provider.
"Failing Up" is a strategy that's not common to most CEOs, regardless of gender.
Conceivably they could buy the Yahoo! brand without buying the company's other assets (the brand/logo and it's 90's nostalgia are about the only thing of value left at Yahoo). That would presumably limit their liability (for example, if my Atari 2600 burns down my house due to a latent design flaw, I'm pretty sure I won't be able to sue whoever it is that currently puts out shovelware games under the Atari brand that had nothing to do with the old hardware company).
This will be different in that it will likely be less universally compatible, requiring a custom DRM-encumbered app that is available only on certain approved platforms and they will charge a monthly subscription fee for it. Win-win.
Since you aren't using yours, it won't be much of a loss.
more importantly, they are not offering anything in return for that data. Facebook is offering a free social network. Google offers free email, search, maps, etc. What are the telcos offering in exchange for the data they want to collect?
a) Whether the code could be easily decrypted by human codebreakers.
b) Whether the codebreaking AI is able to break codes designed by humans.
The problem isn't how far north you are (British Columbia gets satellite TV just fine). The problem is your city is at sea level and surrounded by very high mountains to the south and east. Move to the top of Mt. Rainer and you'll get beautiful reception.
USA/NASA has had many successful landers and the Soviets had a lander survive for 14.5 seconds after touch down. That's not great, but considering the ESA lander lost contact after firing the retro rockets before touch down, I wouldn't celebrate just yet.
Sorry, LinuxPay is currently only available on MeeGo phones.
I hate these filthy Neutrals. With an enemy you know where you stand, but with Neutrals, who knows. It sickens me.
How does it feel to be so hated that even Donald Trump won't accept your endorsement (though he's fine with David Duke and Vladimir Putin endorsing him)?
What's different here is that the messages are being scanned in real time, rather than scanning a database of saved messages. Maybe this explains why Yahoo Mail is so damn slow.
No argument here. I'm sure some scrappy little startup with a great idea will innovate eBay into obsolescence. However, Facebook is NOT a scrappy little startup and leveraging your success in one area to try and force your way into another area is NOT innovation, it's desperation. It's the same reason why Google will never have a successful social network (unless they buy one and even then, they risk destroying it by "integrating" it into the Google "ecosystem"), and Microsoft will never have a successful search engine.
It's the height of hubris for Facebook to assume that can rely on the network effect from their huge membership to quickly and easily reproduce what took eBay, Amazon and Craigslist decades to develop (and even they still mess it up on a fairly frequent basis). In a year this mess will join the likes of Facebook Deals, Facebook Credits & Facebook Gifts on the scrapheap of Facebook's attempts to expand beyond social networking by creating a poor implementation of someone else's idea.
I realize you're joking but the truth is actually not that different with many in the north relying on snail mail for internet.
Sorry, it should say, "Paving the way for forced upgrades to proprietary, Apple-branded EarPod wireless headphones".