One time Bill stumbled in on me and the old lady during a party & scared off a peeping Tom at the window, now we just have Bill stand there & watch us every time for safety.
If their "SEO" & "Website builder" strategies are any indication of how their government operates, I bet Microsofts' real reaction to this would be more along the lines of "Don't let the door hit you on the way out, ya cheap bastards !".
This scares me, it means that the guy in Highschool that said he was going to patent his nut sack might not have been kidding, which means he could actually become rich enough to hunt me down & demand the $5 I bet him that he couldn't.
Your calculation assumes that the profit margins on CFs and incandescent bulbs are the same.
That's because every business owner I've talked to uses the same markup percentage for all products untill demand/lackof produces reason to do otherwise.
Theoreticly 8 times as long.
That doesn't take into account when the wife buys new lamps & throws the "old" bulbs away, accidental breakage, & other "oops factors".
Fool !
Only an imbecile would buy Walmart stock before bribing the youngsters that hang out there all hours of the nite to take pictures of the lightbulb shelves !
Being a large consumer of electricity for lighting & display models, the savings they would see on reduced energy costs is also in their favor to do this.
If it succeeds in selling 100 million compact fluorescent bulbs a year by 2008
They will also have converted about 28% (nearly a third) of their yearly lightbulb sales to somthing that is 8 times as expensive.
Given that profit margins normally work on percentages, that should roughly octuple 28% of their profit margin on lightbulbs.
They should be making 2.96 times as much selling light bulbs, of course they want to push this.
But how did the seasoned professional come to know "it's a bad boss" ?
Surely they've been in this situation before & have pushed through in the past.
The new person on the other hand, gave up, maybe they did waste their parents' money & will enjoy working at Starbucks.
I've seen a handfull of people wondering how they would pay such a fine if ruled against, simple, they wouldn't.
Suits of this nature are filed knowing full well there's no way the entity could possibly fullfill the terms, which cripples the entity & ensures they can not recover & continue business as usual.
Funny thing is, if ruled against, I could see allofmp3 flipflopping & silently going bankrupt through their US counterpart somehow, then starting all over again.
A HTML generated captcha would prevent that, since there is no image file to copy.
Someone could go to Microsoft.com & download Visual C++ Express Edition for free & put together somthing that uses Internet Explorer to render the entire page & save a bitmap of it in less than a day.
If they already had somthing to recognise a CAPTCHA, I bet they could dig the CAPTCHA image out of that bitmap while they're there.
Screw trying to solve it, it would be easier to use that 218kb chunk of junk that's no doubt going to need a bunch of dynamic processing against them, thus forcing them to wish they never used it in the first place.
And a Corona, make that 2 Coronas, and a lime, and some ice, better grab a cooler & just make it a 12 pack of Coronas, better get extra ice too, I bet it's prety hot there.
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One time Bill stumbled in on me and the old lady during a party & scared off a peeping Tom at the window, now we just have Bill stand there & watch us every time for safety.
No I didn't miss that part, I also didn't miss the part that lets me know there's going to be an undertrained staff using this stuff in the beginning.
That is, unless India just naturally has technically gifted people working in all government positions.
That was funny & you know it.
Well hell, if there's that much to drive us, why do we need patents in the first place ?
If it wasn't for patents, what would drive people to look for alternate treatments ?
If their "SEO" & "Website builder" strategies are any indication of how their government operates, I bet Microsofts' real reaction to this would be more along the lines of "Don't let the door hit you on the way out, ya cheap bastards !".
I can't wait to get that first email from the Governor of Tamil Nadu telling me how Viagra changed their life.
Perhaps, but the most important thing in the world happens to like guys with big, profits.
This scares me, it means that the guy in Highschool that said he was going to patent his nut sack might not have been kidding, which means he could actually become rich enough to hunt me down & demand the $5 I bet him that he couldn't.
That's because every business owner I've talked to uses the same markup percentage for all products untill demand/lackof produces reason to do otherwise.
Theoreticly 8 times as long.
That doesn't take into account when the wife buys new lamps & throws the "old" bulbs away, accidental breakage, & other "oops factors".
Fool !
Only an imbecile would buy Walmart stock before bribing the youngsters that hang out there all hours of the nite to take pictures of the lightbulb shelves !
I thought about that, but they plan to sell that many bulbs EVERY YEAR according to the article.
Being a large consumer of electricity for lighting & display models, the savings they would see on reduced energy costs is also in their favor to do this.
They will also have converted about 28% (nearly a third) of their yearly lightbulb sales to somthing that is 8 times as expensive.
Given that profit margins normally work on percentages, that should roughly octuple 28% of their profit margin on lightbulbs.
They should be making 2.96 times as much selling light bulbs, of course they want to push this.
But how did the seasoned professional come to know "it's a bad boss" ?
Surely they've been in this situation before & have pushed through in the past.
The new person on the other hand, gave up, maybe they did waste their parents' money & will enjoy working at Starbucks.
No, you're thinking of the random Vote generator.
If a Scientist fails their polygraph, does that mean there's a chance that all of their scientificly proven facts are actually bullshit ?
I've seen a handfull of people wondering how they would pay such a fine if ruled against, simple, they wouldn't.
Suits of this nature are filed knowing full well there's no way the entity could possibly fullfill the terms, which cripples the entity & ensures they can not recover & continue business as usual.
Funny thing is, if ruled against, I could see allofmp3 flipflopping & silently going bankrupt through their US counterpart somehow, then starting all over again.
Finally, we'll get to see what that thing can really do.
I wonder how long untill it will get Mother Approved.
Someone could go to Microsoft.com & download Visual C++ Express Edition for free & put together somthing that uses Internet Explorer to render the entire page & save a bitmap of it in less than a day.
If they already had somthing to recognise a CAPTCHA, I bet they could dig the CAPTCHA image out of that bitmap while they're there.
Screw trying to solve it, it would be easier to use that 218kb chunk of junk that's no doubt going to need a bunch of dynamic processing against them, thus forcing them to wish they never used it in the first place.
I wonder if any of them took a second to realize what that brown stain was worth wrapped in plastic & sold in Bed Bath & Beyond.
Natural Virgin Pumice Foot Scrubbers complete with Special Snake Oil -- $19.99 ea
And a Corona, make that 2 Coronas, and a lime, and some ice, better grab a cooler & just make it a 12 pack of Coronas, better get extra ice too, I bet it's prety hot there.
Now that, would be miles away from ordinary.
Silly consumer, in the retail world, you would simply buy a bigger desk, one with a coffee holder, to solve that problem. :)
Man: Is that a new set of pots and pans ?
Woman: Oh theese old things ? Heavens no.
Stove 3000 : *coughbullshitcough*