Amazon.co.uk sold both downloads as loss leaders. The 40p limit applies to the wholesale price, not the retail price.
- I pay Amazon 29p
- Amazon pays Sony 40p (or more?)
- It counts towards the chart
- Amazon hopes my retail experience was good, and I'll come back for more music downloads in future. This time at a profitable price.
Everybody's happy.
It really doesn't matter whether you make your site follow the lowest common denominator or, as you suggest, maintain multiple versions for different browsers. What it comes down to is spending time on creating new features or spending time catering to the bugs of IE6.
Yes, not supporting IE6 may cost you some part of your visitors, but how many visitors are you losing because of lack of development and modern features? That's not as easily measured and obviously depending on the type of site we're discussing, but in many cases I bet it's a lot more than 5-10%.
If the manager's first job is to facilitate the work of her programmers, then, yes, she should stay if it makes a contribution.
depends. right now were're surface mining lithium salts from exposed salt flats. theres no telling how many rich veins of lithium salts are hiding in valleys or near aquifers. i'm sure someone is working on that, but until someone runs analysis on where those veins might be i doubt anyone could tell you. more than likely battery technology will move beyond lithium long before (100 years?) we run out of lithium "ore" you can just shovel off the ground and into the back of a truck (Seriously, do a google image search for "lithium ore" - they literally shovel it right off the ground into piles, and later into pickup trucks)
On an anecdote: A friend of mine told me that in South Africa, you see groups of monkeys roaming the streets like gangs. They come to the house, steal the food, and destroy everything.
But he saw them on the street, and a poor dog got into their way. They literally ripped the dog into pieces!
Bear in mind that they have a pull strength up to 1700 pounds!
So you can imagine the mess and gore of it. With blood and bowels all over the place.
No messin’ around with those little bastards! ^^
(Think about it: If we still were cavemen, then we'd be able to overpower even them. Sad that humans got so weak.
"It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it." -- Henry Allen