Months?! I am still bitching and moaning about how much worse Word is today than WP5.1. Aaah, the ease of writing... and formatting... a 100+ page document!
Word is getting better in terms of making things look pretty, if you don't puke on the ribbon...
The catch is it should be 20% of the growth above a market index or zero, which ever is greater. The S&P was up 16-17%, so their bonus really should have only been $50MM, or a total compensation of $187MM. Some contracts are even done with the base fees taken out of the bonus fees, but I think the bonus rate is higher.
Well, many Apple phone users are AAPL stock holders, but that isn't much of the issue just as app prices aren't.
For an Apple user, upgrading your phone can be as simple as entering your iCloud credentials and connecting to wifi to restore your setting, apps, and data to the new phone. Presto: new phone, no hassle. The fact that it syncs with an iPad and a Mac with no additional intervention is just gravy.
For me, the replacement cost of apps would be around $150, but that isn't nearly as much of a barrier as the other things.
Seems to come down to accounting. There is no value to the carrier to subsidize a phone, but it does have a drain on their balance sheet/profits, especially in quarters where a new iPhone is released. This lets them avoid that issue, at the cost of profits for people who upgrade more slowly than every 24 months. When the percentage of people that keep the phone for 30-36 months drops below some critical point it isn't worth the hassle or risk of regulatory issues.
An average 4-person household was likely to have 1 computer 10 years, 4 devices 5 years ago, and maybe as many as 8-12 today. In a few years, this could grow to 20-50 devices. While not average, my two-person household has over 26 active DHCP leases today, which will grow with a security camera upgrade. Granted, some of the devices are vlan'd off from the public internet, but needs change over time.
Not that paying $200 for this device would make much sense, but it is cheaper than having a proper dedicated router/firewall plus 802.11ac access point with equal capabilities... And much more approachable for the average consumer.
Specific to New Years Eve, Uber is a great solution. Getting a taxi in San Francisco (or almost anywhere) after midnight is hopeless, which should drive up rates and incentivize additional drivers to participate. This is a specific failure of the regulated taxi industry.
If your goal is to be off-grid and not on-propane, you want to run as much as possible off renewable power. You can fit almost 2kW of PV on a roof now, and at 5h average annual production that is 10kWh/day. To store it you would need 6-8 8D batteries.
Using a gas generator you would need about 15 gallons of gas a week; propane you would need about 50# per week.
If your power needs are much lower then it isn't an issue either way. If you can get by on less than 1kWh/day then who really cares...
Uber provides the same coverage of service as a Taxi in most areas: if there is no money/safety in it for a Taxi driver, an Uber driver won't miraculously be encouraged to serve an area. The only exception is areas that have no viable taxi service (rural), and the on-call nature makes it something attractive for someone to get some extra cash.
Gads!! Don't use cigarette lighter outlets for DC! Huge fire/shock risk. Much better to go with Anderson plugs or something that can be mildly tamper resistant! How do you fuse the outlets?!
Actually we pay top dollar. Person in question makes ~$90k for a skill set worth $60-70k and a billing rate of $110/(billable)hour. When you factor in overhead rates his cost is $90/billable hour. Problem is there is safely 20% re-work.
A more reasonable question is why we are paying him more than he is worth; that is one I don't have a good answer for. Our only solution has been the prospect of firing him rather than cutting his pay...
The problem is half the people in the workforce are below average.
As an employer, the issue isn't greed: the next person I am going to have to fire doesn't perform at a level that I can break even on his time. If I could command higher billing rates for him, I might be able to just barely break even, but ultimately he isn't able to do anything that a new graduate would, at 35% lower salary. He will be able to get another job, but he will have a real pay cut.
When margins get compressed a business cannot carry dead weight.
It will just transition to general liability insurance being mandatory, so your homeowner's policy goes up a bit and Renter's insurance becoming mandatory. It is just liability insurance that is mandatory, damage to your own car would still need to be covered if you haven't paid off the car, and frankly that is where companies provide value-- making it easier to get damage fixed.
I still don't get why people do not assume this is the case by default. While being far from a networking guru, this is what pushed me into learning about how to configure VLANs and OpenVPN so I could put these things into appropriate jails. While I don't doubt I have made errors in configuring the firewall for outbound traffic, it is at least better than nothing, and what testing I can think to do seems to work.
Ubiquity might be able to make some money with a security appliance that automates and simplifies the process for home users...
And who really needed apps for their phone before 2007? All you needed was a good browser, email, calendar, phone, and SMS. It takes time for the use cases to develop.
Most developers haven't figured out how to make a watch app *work*. I like Zillow, Redfin, and ZonePlayer (a Sonos remote). The rest of my third party apps are a disappointment. The apps all require the developer to re-think what the app needs to do on the watch, and how to use the space effectively. If they aren't making money off of it, why bother. Advertising would be hard, and getting the word out is very tricky with the much smaller installed base.
OSX supports versioning natively since Lion in 2011(?). TextEdit does it for sure, and the API is open to all apps, but they have to enable it. (MS Office does NOT support versions.)
As someone who does not own a car, I doubt cost of public transportation is not a factor in its adoption. People don't ride public transportation for fairly specific reasons: wanting personal/dedicated space, wanting control of schedule, wanting to get from point A to point B faster, etc. The reasons why people *do* choose to ride public transportation are generally more dependent on financial limitations: parking is too expensive, don't own a car, tolls, etc.
To increase adoption of public transportation you need to make it faster and more convenient: no transfers, high frequency, easily understood route system, stops close to origins and destinations, etc. Where I live there is one commuter bus line and one "neighborhood" bus line that I use periodically. The limitations on increased use really come down to increasing frequency and making sure there are viable alternatives in off-peak times.
Provided records what is sent, phone records what is received. That is why I dumped ATT; they indicated I used 1GB in a month while the device indicated 120MB, consequently charging me for substantial overages. They actually have an incentive to provide bad coverage.
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Months?! I am still bitching and moaning about how much worse Word is today than WP5.1. Aaah, the ease of writing... and formatting... a 100+ page document!
Word is getting better in terms of making things look pretty, if you don't puke on the ribbon...
The catch is it should be 20% of the growth above a market index or zero, which ever is greater. The S&P was up 16-17%, so their bonus really should have only been $50MM, or a total compensation of $187MM. Some contracts are even done with the base fees taken out of the bonus fees, but I think the bonus rate is higher.
Well, many Apple phone users are AAPL stock holders, but that isn't much of the issue just as app prices aren't.
For an Apple user, upgrading your phone can be as simple as entering your iCloud credentials and connecting to wifi to restore your setting, apps, and data to the new phone. Presto: new phone, no hassle. The fact that it syncs with an iPad and a Mac with no additional intervention is just gravy.
For me, the replacement cost of apps would be around $150, but that isn't nearly as much of a barrier as the other things.
Seems to come down to accounting. There is no value to the carrier to subsidize a phone, but it does have a drain on their balance sheet/profits, especially in quarters where a new iPhone is released. This lets them avoid that issue, at the cost of profits for people who upgrade more slowly than every 24 months. When the percentage of people that keep the phone for 30-36 months drops below some critical point it isn't worth the hassle or risk of regulatory issues.
An average 4-person household was likely to have 1 computer 10 years, 4 devices 5 years ago, and maybe as many as 8-12 today. In a few years, this could grow to 20-50 devices. While not average, my two-person household has over 26 active DHCP leases today, which will grow with a security camera upgrade. Granted, some of the devices are vlan'd off from the public internet, but needs change over time.
Not that paying $200 for this device would make much sense, but it is cheaper than having a proper dedicated router/firewall plus 802.11ac access point with equal capabilities... And much more approachable for the average consumer.
Specific to New Years Eve, Uber is a great solution. Getting a taxi in San Francisco (or almost anywhere) after midnight is hopeless, which should drive up rates and incentivize additional drivers to participate. This is a specific failure of the regulated taxi industry.
If your goal is to be off-grid and not on-propane, you want to run as much as possible off renewable power. You can fit almost 2kW of PV on a roof now, and at 5h average annual production that is 10kWh/day. To store it you would need 6-8 8D batteries.
Using a gas generator you would need about 15 gallons of gas a week; propane you would need about 50# per week.
If your power needs are much lower then it isn't an issue either way. If you can get by on less than 1kWh/day then who really cares...
Uber provides the same coverage of service as a Taxi in most areas: if there is no money/safety in it for a Taxi driver, an Uber driver won't miraculously be encouraged to serve an area. The only exception is areas that have no viable taxi service (rural), and the on-call nature makes it something attractive for someone to get some extra cash.
...not that either would protect you from trojaned network card or bios though...
Gads!! Don't use cigarette lighter outlets for DC! Huge fire/shock risk. Much better to go with Anderson plugs or something that can be mildly tamper resistant! How do you fuse the outlets?!
Actually we pay top dollar. Person in question makes ~$90k for a skill set worth $60-70k and a billing rate of $110/(billable)hour. When you factor in overhead rates his cost is $90/billable hour. Problem is there is safely 20% re-work.
A more reasonable question is why we are paying him more than he is worth; that is one I don't have a good answer for. Our only solution has been the prospect of firing him rather than cutting his pay...
The problem is half the people in the workforce are below average.
As an employer, the issue isn't greed: the next person I am going to have to fire doesn't perform at a level that I can break even on his time. If I could command higher billing rates for him, I might be able to just barely break even, but ultimately he isn't able to do anything that a new graduate would, at 35% lower salary. He will be able to get another job, but he will have a real pay cut.
When margins get compressed a business cannot carry dead weight.
It will just transition to general liability insurance being mandatory, so your homeowner's policy goes up a bit and Renter's insurance becoming mandatory. It is just liability insurance that is mandatory, damage to your own car would still need to be covered if you haven't paid off the car, and frankly that is where companies provide value-- making it easier to get damage fixed.
I still don't get why people do not assume this is the case by default. While being far from a networking guru, this is what pushed me into learning about how to configure VLANs and OpenVPN so I could put these things into appropriate jails. While I don't doubt I have made errors in configuring the firewall for outbound traffic, it is at least better than nothing, and what testing I can think to do seems to work.
Ubiquity might be able to make some money with a security appliance that automates and simplifies the process for home users...
The same thing could likely be said of all obtrusive advertising: it is a nuisance not a benefit.
"Reasonably well" is difficult to qualify in an HR Memo
Think of the Advertisers! Without gigabit residential service, how can they add all that garbage to useful content?!
And who really needed apps for their phone before 2007? All you needed was a good browser, email, calendar, phone, and SMS. It takes time for the use cases to develop.
Charge it for two hours at some other point in the day. Not rocket science...
Most developers haven't figured out how to make a watch app *work*. I like Zillow, Redfin, and ZonePlayer (a Sonos remote). The rest of my third party apps are a disappointment. The apps all require the developer to re-think what the app needs to do on the watch, and how to use the space effectively. If they aren't making money off of it, why bother. Advertising would be hard, and getting the word out is very tricky with the much smaller installed base.
OSX supports versioning natively since Lion in 2011(?). TextEdit does it for sure, and the API is open to all apps, but they have to enable it. (MS Office does NOT support versions.)
As someone who does not own a car, I doubt cost of public transportation is not a factor in its adoption. People don't ride public transportation for fairly specific reasons: wanting personal/dedicated space, wanting control of schedule, wanting to get from point A to point B faster, etc. The reasons why people *do* choose to ride public transportation are generally more dependent on financial limitations: parking is too expensive, don't own a car, tolls, etc.
To increase adoption of public transportation you need to make it faster and more convenient: no transfers, high frequency, easily understood route system, stops close to origins and destinations, etc. Where I live there is one commuter bus line and one "neighborhood" bus line that I use periodically. The limitations on increased use really come down to increasing frequency and making sure there are viable alternatives in off-peak times.
Provided records what is sent, phone records what is received. That is why I dumped ATT; they indicated I used 1GB in a month while the device indicated 120MB, consequently charging me for substantial overages. They actually have an incentive to provide bad coverage.
You are both leftovers. ;)
The divorce rates for marrying in your major would be a much more interesting study. I would think engineering and CS would top that list.
For the "grossly underrepresented group," though dating in your major is like shooting fish in a barrel.