"...Let's open a company storefront down there - we can sell for less than our franchise and make more money".
There were times when those company-owned stations would sell gas for cheaper than they would sell it to him wholesale
This is actually really good for the consumer, and thus for the economy.
This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy.
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/Currency/Pages/legal-tender.aspx
features a 16-megapixel CMOS sensor, 21x super zoom lens
I, for one, welcome our social cloud overlords, and look forward to sharing my pictures to [G+ | Facebook | Twitter | Picasa] directly from the camera.
how the added-value of millisecond liquidity is substantially superior to having exchanges post transactions in 1-sec.
"640K should be enough for everybody"
What good is market share if you aren't making any money?
Microsoft made 54.37 billion dollars last year. Hardly "not making any money."
IE9 is the first browser where Microsoft actually tried. It's not perfect by far, but at least it's trying.
Sorry, but I have to nitpick here. IE3 was the first browser where Microsoft actually tried. It was so beyond anything that Netscape/Mozilla offered, feature- and interface- wise. IE3 is the reason why IE is still in the lead 10-15 years later. Posting this from Chrome
While tablets can't replace laptops outright, they can replace enough functionality where a person buys a tablet instead of a 2nd computer.
Absolutely not true. Most users will be more than OK with a tablet. These things are designed for web, e-mail, and casual games; and let's face it, this is all the average user wants to do. Spreadsheets and word processing? Save that for a desktop at work. Getting back to topic, this is not to say that Intel won't be able to capture the market. With the best r&d in the market, I believe they will soon become number one chip maker in the mobile world.
If I was where they were, passing off (useless) programs to end users and selling the (useless) end user data to advertisers so that the advertisers can eventually annoy the end users with ads for stuff they don't want, then I'd feel guilty.
Obviously the users of these programs didn't find them "useless," as they chose to use them. It seems like you're trying to paint anything as useless if it has no utilitarian value. However, there are tons of things in the word that have no utilitarian value, but people chose to use everyday. Think jewelery, sports television, theater. The people who produce them are not evil in any way, they just fulfill the market demands. If it wouldn't be this MBA class it would be someone else.
No joke. Get rich quick! Don't worry about making something you're proud of. Be proud of the money you tricked people into giving you for broken functionality. Then call them morons for ever trusting you.
Jealous much?
"Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core." -- Hannah Arendt.
