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Target needs to re-evaluate their purpose for having a website - do they want to use the website to place cookies on peoples' disks? Or does target want to use the website to sell merchandise?
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Target needs to re-evaluate their purpose for having a website - do they want to use the website to place cookies on peoples' disks? Or does target want to use the website to sell merchandise?
So do LEDs bother your eyes?
You need to do double-blind testing to see whether you are really bothered by the LED flicker, or you just think you are bothered by the flicker.
...has increasingly started to bug me: backlight flicker...
Perhaps it has increasingly started to bug you because you are becoming increasingly aware of it, and not vice versa.
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It is a common marketing ploy to create a perceived problem, then magically have a product available for sale that just happens to assuage that newly perceived problem.
...a whopping $125.1 million....
With the ever-increasing price of tickets, using revenue as a judge of "record-breaking" is grossly inaccurate, as it erroneously compares unequal ticket prices and ignores the effect of inflation over the years.
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It would be more accurate (though still not completely accurate) to use the number of tickets sold as the basis for judging whether all-time records have been broken.
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WHITElist = good
BLACKlist = bad
Instead of trying to put the label of political correctness on the attempts to rid software of racial bias, why not just rid software of racial bias?
It really would be a lot easier than to engage in an artificial political battle.
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Male-dominant sexism, and the rejection of anything 'different,' seems to be actively encouraged in the gaming industry, the customers of which I suspect make up a large part of the
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A few years ago I was looking for genealogy software. One of my requirements was the need to handle a F-F marriage with kids in the family.
Fortunately, The Master Genealogist was up to the task. Amazingly, there were few choices that met an important requirement that I had.
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The looming retirement of Windows XP won't stem the dramatic drop in PC sales this year, but it may help bolster Microsoft's revenue, analysts said today. Although experts expect some business laggards to buy new hardware as they try to replace the 12-year-old XP before it's retired in April 2014, the quantities won't be enough to move the PC shipment needle to the positive side of the meter. "Replacements for Windows XP won't be enough to offset the declines on the consumer side," said David Daoud, an analyst with IDC.
a hypothetical company that makes >1billion profit in a year is not "sustaining".
As I mentioned, those profit levels are new to EDD. The Xbox had been a loss-leader for Microsoft, only recently becoming profitable.
Except that the Xbox div loses tons of money.
It always amazes me how many people actually think that the Xbox is a highly profitable endeavor for Microsoft. While it has turned profitable recently, the Entertainment & Devices Division (where XBox is accounted for) is only mildly profitable. Nowhere near the profit rate of Microsoft's enterprise and desktop cash-cows. It is a stretch to call the Xbox a fiscal "success", at best one could now say it is not "money-losing". It is highly unlikely that Microsoft could expand the revenues and margins of EDD into a company-sustaining business.
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That said...
Microsoft has everything to worry about,.
Unless and until Mr. Ballmer is removed from CEO, Microsoft will never know how to compete in a profitable manner without having the benefit of a dominant, monopolistic marketshare to leverage.
Wikipedia entry on sports:
If you are trying to justify your assertion by quoting Wikipedia entries, you've lost the debate before you even started.
All sports are a game no matter how you try and word it.
But all games are not a sport, no matter how you try to justify it.
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