This all depends on how the user has their Hotmail account set up. I got mine back in the ancient past, and still use it as my primary email. The filter is set to allow only my Safe List members to send email to my inbox, the rest goes to Junk.
The only thing that gets into my inbox that isn't specifically added to my whitelist is the Hotmail Staff messages, so even if this guy pays some service to get him "certified" with Hotmail, that won't do the trick.
IANATE, but at the very least they wouldn't be able to deduct the retail value of the software donation, only what their cost was. If I made a desk for $500, that I would normally sell it for $1000, if I were to donate it instead I believe you could only deduct the $500.
The groceries are available for free shipping when you order $25 or more, so no worries there from the consumer side - and Amazon drives such high volume through UPS, et al that they get fantastically discounted rates.
I could see this being really useful for bulk sizes of items. Things like cereal, laundry detergent, etc. As long as the price is competitive, it could make a portion of the grocery shopping that much easier.
That's an excellent point, one that's often referred to as "channel conflict" in the wholesale biz. You don't to piss off your current customer base (bookstores and gaming stores) unless you're sure the new form (PDF's) will bring in more profit than you lose with the existing base.
I once had the opportunity to attend a technology resellers workshop (think barcode scanners, RF terminals, etc.) and sat in on a consulting lecture where the theme, printed big & bold on a banner, was basically "Customer Ignorance = Profit Opportunity". I felt like a sheep in wolf's clothing, having snuck into the wolf den. I can't say I was surprised at the message, but the frank and open manner in which the resellers talked about exploiting customer ignorance was astounding.
Dragon's Lair made for some nice eye candy at the time, but as a game, it totally stunk. Despite sharing my first name with the gallant hero, it held my interest for about 15 minutes before going back to the rest of the arcade.
Dragon's Lair was a very early example of the game that looks so much better than it plays.
If you check out their methodology, it's basically built around Nobel/Field prize awards won by alumni and faculty, and article citations in various journals. In other words, it seems to be entirely built on the research accomplishments of faculty, and alumni who have gone on to academic careers. It totally leaves out the performance of alumni who go into non-academic life (98%?), so while interesting, these rankings just provide a partial view.
That said, it's good to see my alma mater at #21 - Go Blue!
Actually, the entire premise you're building on there is bass-ackwards. If such a transition is properly managed, the gains are long-term: a fundamental change in the IT cost structure. The trick is that these arrangements aren't a slam-dunk, and they require rock-solid management. They're difficult, but they can work - and when done properly, they do provide long-term benefit to shareholders.
Basically, the telecoms want to send a few boys in black suits and hats over to Google. "Those are some nice packets you're streaming across the backbone there... It'd be a shame if anything happened to them..."
An unfortunate thing about parenting (and for mothers in particular) is that you'll get frowned at by some people no matter what you do. Whether you work or stay at home, whether you send your kids to public school or homeschool them, somebody will find fault with that and make no bones about expressing that to you.
The challenge is trusting your own instincts and not letting other peoples' attitudes get in your way.
Or worse yet, what about them gathering info about merely suspected bad guys? I recall several years back there was a serial rapist in Ann Arbor, and the police requested that men fitting the general description of the suspect ("black male") submit DNA samples to ensure their innocence. After the culprit was caught, police intending on retaining those DNA samples for future use. It took years before the resulting lawsuits from the innocents forced the police to give up that information, but even back in 1994, there was an intention towards building a broad-based DNA pool built not on convicted criminals, but on the broader public...
Frankly, I'm a little surprised that Washington is the first state to go down this road, as opposed to more conservative areas of the country like the Bible Belt. Perhaps they'll go right past jail time to public floggings...
Yeah, but have you considered the bonus of being able to use such a battery for self-defense purposes if necessary? You could probably put a good dent in an assailant's skull with that thing...
You're correct - I used the term "balance the budget", where my point (more precisely) was that taxing to fund current spending is more responsible in most cases than borrowing. What many suspect, and I think we'll see come true in the next couple years, is that the Republican strategy is to slash taxes, create a budget crisis, and propose major cuts in government spending as the solution. In other words, hobble various departments, then point to them as incurably diseased.
What we have here is a good demonstration as to what's common to the two major parties, and what is horribly wrong with our current system of government. When one party controls the White House and both arms of Congress, it's like a spending spree as all the majority lawmakers seek to secure their advantage by "bringing home the bacon."
20 years ago, my father used to complain about "tax and spend" Democrats. Now, it's clear that at least they knew how to balance a budget, as opposed to "borrow and spend" Republicans...
Hopefully the mobile browsers can add in a feature to add the prefix and TLD by default, so you could just type "google" and it would surf to http://www.google.mobi.../
This means that concerts will increasingly become the past time of the rich, yes, and they will leave some of their best fans, the teenagers, out in the cold.
Bzzzzzzzzztttt!!! This won't affect the end cost of the tickets, just the fact that Ticketmaster (I like the term TicketBastard that was used above) will get the end price instead of a broker who scalps the ticket for a higher price.
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This all depends on how the user has their Hotmail account set up. I got mine back in the ancient past, and still use it as my primary email. The filter is set to allow only my Safe List members to send email to my inbox, the rest goes to Junk.
The only thing that gets into my inbox that isn't specifically added to my whitelist is the Hotmail Staff messages, so even if this guy pays some service to get him "certified" with Hotmail, that won't do the trick.
IANATE, but at the very least they wouldn't be able to deduct the retail value of the software donation, only what their cost was. If I made a desk for $500, that I would normally sell it for $1000, if I were to donate it instead I believe you could only deduct the $500.
The groceries are available for free shipping when you order $25 or more, so no worries there from the consumer side - and Amazon drives such high volume through UPS, et al that they get fantastically discounted rates.
I could see this being really useful for bulk sizes of items. Things like cereal, laundry detergent, etc. As long as the price is competitive, it could make a portion of the grocery shopping that much easier.
That's an excellent point, one that's often referred to as "channel conflict" in the wholesale biz. You don't to piss off your current customer base (bookstores and gaming stores) unless you're sure the new form (PDF's) will bring in more profit than you lose with the existing base.
I once had the opportunity to attend a technology resellers workshop (think barcode scanners, RF terminals, etc.) and sat in on a consulting lecture where the theme, printed big & bold on a banner, was basically "Customer Ignorance = Profit Opportunity". I felt like a sheep in wolf's clothing, having snuck into the wolf den. I can't say I was surprised at the message, but the frank and open manner in which the resellers talked about exploiting customer ignorance was astounding.
Dragon's Lair made for some nice eye candy at the time, but as a game, it totally stunk. Despite sharing my first name with the gallant hero, it held my interest for about 15 minutes before going back to the rest of the arcade.
Dragon's Lair was a very early example of the game that looks so much better than it plays.
If you check out their methodology, it's basically built around Nobel/Field prize awards won by alumni and faculty, and article citations in various journals. In other words, it seems to be entirely built on the research accomplishments of faculty, and alumni who have gone on to academic careers. It totally leaves out the performance of alumni who go into non-academic life (98%?), so while interesting, these rankings just provide a partial view.
That said, it's good to see my alma mater at #21 - Go Blue!
Actually, the entire premise you're building on there is bass-ackwards. If such a transition is properly managed, the gains are long-term: a fundamental change in the IT cost structure. The trick is that these arrangements aren't a slam-dunk, and they require rock-solid management. They're difficult, but they can work - and when done properly, they do provide long-term benefit to shareholders.
Basically, the telecoms want to send a few boys in black suits and hats over to Google. "Those are some nice packets you're streaming across the backbone there... It'd be a shame if anything happened to them..."
Just think of the color-based opportunities. RIM and UPS could get together on a Dingleberry...
An unfortunate thing about parenting (and for mothers in particular) is that you'll get frowned at by some people no matter what you do. Whether you work or stay at home, whether you send your kids to public school or homeschool them, somebody will find fault with that and make no bones about expressing that to you.
The challenge is trusting your own instincts and not letting other peoples' attitudes get in your way.
Or worse yet, what about them gathering info about merely suspected bad guys? I recall several years back there was a serial rapist in Ann Arbor, and the police requested that men fitting the general description of the suspect ("black male") submit DNA samples to ensure their innocence. After the culprit was caught, police intending on retaining those DNA samples for future use. It took years before the resulting lawsuits from the innocents forced the police to give up that information, but even back in 1994, there was an intention towards building a broad-based DNA pool built not on convicted criminals, but on the broader public...
Frankly, I'm a little surprised that Washington is the first state to go down this road, as opposed to more conservative areas of the country like the Bible Belt. Perhaps they'll go right past jail time to public floggings...
Well, there are Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela, for example...
You forgot Central and South America, which boast several high-quality baseball countries.
Yeah, but have you considered the bonus of being able to use such a battery for self-defense purposes if necessary? You could probably put a good dent in an assailant's skull with that thing...
You're correct - I used the term "balance the budget", where my point (more precisely) was that taxing to fund current spending is more responsible in most cases than borrowing. What many suspect, and I think we'll see come true in the next couple years, is that the Republican strategy is to slash taxes, create a budget crisis, and propose major cuts in government spending as the solution. In other words, hobble various departments, then point to them as incurably diseased.
What we have here is a good demonstration as to what's common to the two major parties, and what is horribly wrong with our current system of government. When one party controls the White House and both arms of Congress, it's like a spending spree as all the majority lawmakers seek to secure their advantage by "bringing home the bacon."
20 years ago, my father used to complain about "tax and spend" Democrats. Now, it's clear that at least they knew how to balance a budget, as opposed to "borrow and spend" Republicans...
It's in the top 5, so you can't complain about that. After all, that's some pretty stiff competition.
So when did the nuggets and fingers come into play?
Woohoo! That means Web ME and Web XP are still available...
Hopefully the mobile browsers can add in a feature to add the prefix and TLD by default, so you could just type "google" and it would surf to http://www.google.mobi.../
This means that concerts will increasingly become the past time of the rich, yes, and they will leave some of their best fans, the teenagers, out in the cold.
Bzzzzzzzzztttt!!! This won't affect the end cost of the tickets, just the fact that Ticketmaster (I like the term TicketBastard that was used above) will get the end price instead of a broker who scalps the ticket for a higher price.
Oh sure, blame those IV drug-using, homosexually orgiastic circus chimps for the whole AIDS crisis? That's convenient...
I just make sure to wear my raincoat before "logging in". Gotta use protection!