Well noted. Did you get all that from the numerous statements out there from Apple that they don't give the tiniest bit about business, and would rather focus on the big market, the average joes?
Why go for a market that is harder to work with, easier to annoy, demands discounts, etc. When you could just as well sell everything, at original price, whenever you want, however you want?
It's not just an (unpaid) hour and a half of your life that you get back.
It's an hour and a half of your life back, every workday.
And it'll be 45 minutes twice when you want it, not just at the end of the day, attached to it: the first months all days will feel like you're sleeping in, you'll have time for that proper breakfast again, you'll be able to plan different activities in the evening since a) you have more time in the evening and b) don't have to get up as early in the morning, if you have any, it'll be time your kids aren't sleeping, etc.
Even if it was just the commute it would be worth considering if you ask me.
So consider the time you're gaining and don't forget you're not just loyal to your current job, you're also on a friendly basis. They know you, and considering that, will probably understand and either accept or compensate (maybe flexible hours? overwork more properly payed in days off, etc.).
So it's up to you really. What advice do we need to give really, you're obviously taking the time to consider the consequences which means you care enough to. Whatever you decide, it'll be the right thing.
Nobody said anything about shipping them to their employees either.
TEA PARTY: Yes, but NOT the things we benefit off of.
Making that into a Tea Party-only sentiment is a little dishonest.
Making that into a politician-only sentiment is a little dishonest too.
"Every cell phone is directly associated with a credit card."
Really? Let's see some facts and figures here. My iPhone isn't
That's the way it works for us.
The 'technical' people work for customers either in the home office or on site at the customer. We enter each hour we work into the hour registration system, which is then used to see if we work enough, or too much, and to prepare invoices to the customer.
When we help Sales with their work, we get a reduction of our target amount of hours we need to be able to be invoiced to a customer (usually 93% of a fulltime). So it works out for us if we spend time doing Sales, we don't 'have' to do as much IT work. Of course we can do both and push our billable hours way up which is good for our end-year evaluation.
Also, we have a yearly evaluation form that's filled out by and for us. It contains a special area where you can write down everything you did for sales, etc. and it will be taken into account for your possible promotion, payraise, sacking, whatever
This is not true in the US? In most countries there's a difference between:
- Credit cards, work on credit. Draw cash, it'll always be (a ridiculously high) fee
- Bank cards, draw directly from your account, possibly with credit, but payed direct. And they usually don't have fees. At least in our little governementless country called Belgium and the rest of Western Europe
"And FCC engineer T.A.M. Craven was absolutely certain back in 1961 that there was 'no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States."
And in a sense, he's completely right. It hasn't really improved
That's a touch shortsighted. Even for a newspaper with a million readers, who supposedly all bought their newspaper. Do you have any idea how much it costs to:
- Pay the journalists or pay freelancers for articles
- Pay for copyright on photography, or your own photographes, or freelancers
- Pay for the editors who make the texts into what they are
- Pay the layouters who make the pages
- Pay for a couple middle mgmt people to decide what goes on which page, and how
- Pay for all the materials used in that process
- Have dozens of seperate people who do regional editions and news, with their own layouters, etc.
Then, when you've got your newspaper, you need to pay for:
- A printing press
- A full shift of employees for the press, who are payed for working a night shift, which doesn't make things cheaper
- Keep extra folk on the redaction to make sure there are no mistakes in the newspaper, and who stay there till 1 in the night to make sure no 'big news' is missed for tomorrow's newspaper
And that's just the beginning, then other companies come in and take their grabs of profit, as the papers don't get distributed and picked up again if not sold, for free
Besides, newspapers have contained adds since day 1, and it's always been the primary source of income for written media. (that and biased opinion pieces
Your several dollars / month, times a million for all the readers, is let's say 3 million dollar per month. You think that's viable? For, there's a sunday edition, 26 editions of 60 pages? We haven't even started counting stuff like electricity, heating, lease on the building, etc.
This is the so-manieth post about cheating in single player mode gets you banned.
No, cheating in single player mode does NOT get you banned. It's allowed, been implemented and done.
Cheating to get ACHIEVEMENTS however, is an entirely different matter. Since you're bypassing the built-in system that when you cheat (which can be a hell-lot-of-fun) achievements are disabled for you
And here I am sitting with my Fallout 3 Collector's edition, slam in the middle of Ghent, slam in the middle the Benelux.
Good deal? Yes. Did I want to buy it? Yes. Did I try to order it? Yes. Can I? Yes. Do I have it? Yes.
Why? Because there is such a thing as Amazon. Also, Amazon Germany ships for free to Belgium *cough*
True, but it's all a bit one-sided
Why so aggressive? Nobody is 'making' you 'do' anything.
Your job, your paycheck, your money, your acquisition, your choice.
Always look over your shoulder because everyone is watching and plotting against you.