No, it makes millions because millions of kids are hooked on their smart phones. They don't hate taxis, but they think using an app is so much cooler even though essentially the services are identical.
The solution to that is for Taxi companies to produce and promote the use of smart phone apps to contact and dispatch conventional taxis to people who need them. I'm surprised the taxi companies haven't latched onto that and made good use of apps in this way.
Yes. The word is dumb. Using this particular one seems like a marketing campaign.
This is perhaps a meta-comment about Slashdot in general, but it seems more and more like the people running Slashdot have decided on a story formula that reads: "Muckraking sensational stories bring in eyes."
Most of the topics on the front page today seem to be that kind of thing: "Organization X is doing awful this!"
Groupon's business model involved giving horizon-level reports of 'deals' for consumers, who then helicopter in to the business offering the deal, get it, and swoop out, often never to return. Any idiot would figure this out quickly. It's the whole point of their business plan, from the POV of the consumer.
It really doesn't take much to 'shake up' as runty a market as the electric car market. Next you'll be telling us that if Apple comes out with a skateboard, it will shake up the skateboard market.
Apple specializes in selling to the hipster market, so their hipstermobile will probably have more in common with a Smart Car than a traditional automobile.
Maybe they'll have a contest here and a fresh new Apple car will be the second generation Slashdot Cruiser!
They've probably removed the evidence tape around the Unabomber shack's site. If I remember correctly, the actual shack was removed as evidence. The land is probably still there and you can probably wrangle up some two-by-fours and OSB sheeting. Then, move right in, dude.
The guts of an old alarm clock that somebody takes out of it's enclosure and puts into a pencil box, without really even knowing which what of the alarm clock parts do which or what isn't really a spiffy new electronic toy.
At best, the little punk is a poseur and should be called out by anybody in his community who actually knows anything about making home-brew electronic devices.
At worst, his dad, who is an 'Islamic' activist in the community, put him up to it to get as much 'play' out of it as has occurred so far.
There were a considerable number of white people lynched, too. No race 'owns' victim-hood.
In the first half of the twentieth century, when the Ku Klux Klan controlled almost all of the political offices in the state of Indiana, blacks weren't even the main focus of the KKK. The blacks were already pretty 'kept down' to be certain, but the KKK mainly focused on attacking Jews and Roman Catholics.
There was probably at least one aluminum electrolytic capacitor in the clock circuit board that the kid took out of it's case and put into his own case. Now, he probably knows little or nothing at all about soldering, or circuits, or aluminum electrolytic capacitors, since all he did was take the insides of a factory made clock and pretend he had anything to do with building it, but if he did know any of that stuff, he could have reversed the polarity of one of the capacitors and it would immediately become an explosive device.
If the kid was a geek who had figured out how to work with his shit, it wouldn't simply have been the insides of a factory-made digital clock, that he took out of one enclosure and put into his own enclosure.
His Maker group should suspend him as a poseur.
But, then, his activist dad probably put him up to it.
Right. It's their 'human rights' and nothing the rest of the world can or should do about it. Just like in Europe in the 1940's. You're a really swell fellow. How do I subscribe to your newsletter?
Colonialism is a complex matter, and one that isn't easily resolved. We don't even have the proper language to describe the conditions many post-colonial parts of the world exist in.
However, the word 'tribe' the way you use it is an extremely racist term.
The fact that we had daily body counts in Vietnam kinda argues against that.
No, that just shows that journalists needed something to talk about. Regularly reported body counts weren't driven by the military, they were ordered by politicians pandering to the media.
When the Cold War ended, government agencies couldn't keep ordering HP equipment with bottomless budgets the way they did in HP's heyday. Lots of companies had to cope with a lot of big changes. It affected a lot of companies that made a lot of cool things, i.e. Tektronix, Wavetek, and many others.
Boomer-age techies who had climbed into the bowels of these big tech companies and expected to ride their seats to retirement didn't do well. And it's easier to blame people like Carly than to acknowledge the taxpaying public doesn't need to keep funding the gravy train.
I've been tempted to hang a big pair of tin snips off the hitch of my Ford Ranger. Problem is, those guys with the big metal nuts or the hitch ball sack take that shit serious.
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No, it makes millions because millions of kids are hooked on their smart phones. They don't hate taxis, but they think using an app is so much cooler even though essentially the services are identical.
The solution to that is for Taxi companies to produce and promote the use of smart phone apps to contact and dispatch conventional taxis to people who need them. I'm surprised the taxi companies haven't latched onto that and made good use of apps in this way.
Yes. The word is dumb. Using this particular one seems like a marketing campaign.
This is perhaps a meta-comment about Slashdot in general, but it seems more and more like the people running Slashdot have decided on a story formula that reads: "Muckraking sensational stories bring in eyes."
Most of the topics on the front page today seem to be that kind of thing: "Organization X is doing awful this!"
It's bait for the marks, not news for nerds.
Groupon's business model involved giving horizon-level reports of 'deals' for consumers, who then helicopter in to the business offering the deal, get it, and swoop out, often never to return. Any idiot would figure this out quickly. It's the whole point of their business plan, from the POV of the consumer.
Apple customers enjoy paying more than others. What you suggest would wreck the whole Apple culture. Won't happen.
For the mainstream market, just the F-150 so far. But it's looking promising.
Actually, Palm Pilot phones, with their Dragonball processor, were a computer in 2000.
Quit trying to be a fucking visionary. We know that hindsight is 20/20.
The iPod and iPhone also entered markets that were perceived to be saturated.
Huh? Perceived to be saturated by whom? I wouldn't say the smartphone market was saturated by PalmOS and Win Phones.
It really doesn't take much to 'shake up' as runty a market as the electric car market. Next you'll be telling us that if Apple comes out with a skateboard, it will shake up the skateboard market.
The Apple Car will be more like the Apple Watch than the iPhone.
I don't see Main Street lining up to buy the iWatch.
Also: I notice you said 'an entire spectrum' rather than 'the full spectrum.' Wise choice.
Apple specializes in selling to the hipster market, so their hipstermobile will probably have more in common with a Smart Car than a traditional automobile.
Maybe they'll have a contest here and a fresh new Apple car will be the second generation Slashdot Cruiser!
It's a Baby Milk Factory.
They've probably removed the evidence tape around the Unabomber shack's site. If I remember correctly, the actual shack was removed as evidence. The land is probably still there and you can probably wrangle up some two-by-fours and OSB sheeting. Then, move right in, dude.
The guts of an old alarm clock that somebody takes out of it's enclosure and puts into a pencil box, without really even knowing which what of the alarm clock parts do which or what isn't really a spiffy new electronic toy.
At best, the little punk is a poseur and should be called out by anybody in his community who actually knows anything about making home-brew electronic devices.
At worst, his dad, who is an 'Islamic' activist in the community, put him up to it to get as much 'play' out of it as has occurred so far.
What a disappointing and dumb response, from a prejudiced jerk, no less.
We're supposed to nod and laugh at your response to having your bigotry called out, right?
There were a considerable number of white people lynched, too. No race 'owns' victim-hood.
In the first half of the twentieth century, when the Ku Klux Klan controlled almost all of the political offices in the state of Indiana, blacks weren't even the main focus of the KKK. The blacks were already pretty 'kept down' to be certain, but the KKK mainly focused on attacking Jews and Roman Catholics.
There was probably at least one aluminum electrolytic capacitor in the clock circuit board that the kid took out of it's case and put into his own case. Now, he probably knows little or nothing at all about soldering, or circuits, or aluminum electrolytic capacitors, since all he did was take the insides of a factory made clock and pretend he had anything to do with building it, but if he did know any of that stuff, he could have reversed the polarity of one of the capacitors and it would immediately become an explosive device.
If the kid was a geek who had figured out how to work with his shit, it wouldn't simply have been the insides of a factory-made digital clock, that he took out of one enclosure and put into his own enclosure.
His Maker group should suspend him as a poseur.
But, then, his activist dad probably put him up to it.
Right. It's their 'human rights' and nothing the rest of the world can or should do about it. Just like in Europe in the 1940's. You're a really swell fellow. How do I subscribe to your newsletter?
Colonialism is a complex matter, and one that isn't easily resolved. We don't even have the proper language to describe the conditions many post-colonial parts of the world exist in.
However, the word 'tribe' the way you use it is an extremely racist term.
Well, there's a civil war going on in Syria. Also one in Iraq.
The fact that we had daily body counts in Vietnam kinda argues against that.
No, that just shows that journalists needed something to talk about. Regularly reported body counts weren't driven by the military, they were ordered by politicians pandering to the media.
When the Cold War ended, government agencies couldn't keep ordering HP equipment with bottomless budgets the way they did in HP's heyday. Lots of companies had to cope with a lot of big changes. It affected a lot of companies that made a lot of cool things, i.e. Tektronix, Wavetek, and many others.
Boomer-age techies who had climbed into the bowels of these big tech companies and expected to ride their seats to retirement didn't do well. And it's easier to blame people like Carly than to acknowledge the taxpaying public doesn't need to keep funding the gravy train.
Speaking of politicians, though, wasn't the former owner of EDS Ross Perot?
I doubt if your smartphone has an I/O backplane to compete with the IBM Mainframe.
All that processing power doesn't move bits like a mainframe. It can probably spray out a little stream faster, but just along one data path.
I've been tempted to hang a big pair of tin snips off the hitch of my Ford Ranger. Problem is, those guys with the big metal nuts or the hitch ball sack take that shit serious.