Comment Re:Bitcoins built-in failure (Score 2) 600
How is 5%/year (compound) growth not an example of exponential growth?
How Steve Jobs Changed Google Plus 243
Anthony_Cargile writes "Everyone thinks of Google Plus as a social networking website competing with Facebook, but that is no longer the case — even Google recognizes its failure in that regard. But in a meeting with Sergey Brin and Larry Page shortly before his death, Steve Jobs gave key advice as to what direction to take their company with regards to Google Plus, as is evidenced by their controversial new 'umbrella' privacy policy that went in effect this year. Privacy advocates beware, as the problem is almost certainly worse than ever anticipated."
Comment Re:one simple solution (Score 1) 471
AFAIK, in the UK, free incoming calls is so much of a given that no company could even think of charging.
But in the UK it costs about 10 times as much to call a mobile phone (from a landline or a different network) as it does to call a landline. In the US mobile phones have standard geographic numbers (rather than 07xxx as in the UK) and it costs no more to call a mobile than to call a landline in the same area.
The flipside, of course, is that you pay the same for incoming calls on your mobile as you do for outgoing calls. But this means that the owner of the phone is acutely aware of the cost of mobile calls (in the UK it's the incoming callers who are aware of the cost) and so there's heavy pressure amongst the phone companies to offer cheaper deals to customers (as anyone can switch their number to a different network to save money). Most plans now give you unlimited night/weekend minutes and a few hundred daytime minutes per month, which is enough for almost all casual use. Paul
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