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by cosmie 11y ago
The 52 hours is meant to be spent exploring inside of an LMS (Learning Management System). You aren't simply reading a manual, but rather going through lessons, taking quizzes on them, working through different scenarios, etc. It'
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by cosmie 11y ago
Due to the way they leverage their foreign subsidiaries, they're able to play accounting games that drastically lower the perceived (and taxable) profit of those US sales. Such as this mentioned at [1]: "ASI [an Irish Apple subsid
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by cosmie 11y ago
As far as contact records go, that's not an unreasonable price, especially so at such a low quantity.
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by cosmie 11y ago
Because streaming isn't the pie, it's just a piece. As streaming cannibalizes other, more profitable, pieces of the revenue pie, the copyright holders want a larger share of the streaming portion to offset those loses.
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by cosmie 11y ago
Thanks for catching that. You're correct that overall revenue is much higher, but the cost of traffic acquisition eats into that significantly. It's actually Adjusted OIBDA that's $10mm for the Brands group, which is arguably
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by cosmie 11y ago
That's probably not that common. Much of their membership attrition likely comes from the inverse of that: people passing away and as their estate is wound down their account will be shut down. What's fascinating is that Verizon
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by cosmie 11y ago
>90% of AOL's ~$150mm annual revenue comes from their dialup customers. They're not really getting new customers, but their average customer lifetime is 14 years. It's basically elderly people who have had autopay set up f
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by cosmie 11y ago
It sounds like a group of people abused the Social Group feature of vBulletin[1] to piggyback off of his forum to have their own little area without having to host their own forum/server. Depending on how vBulletin is configured, you c
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by cosmie 11y ago
>> OTOH since the price is given for the lower payload which covers all/most the cost of the hardware, one may be a bit angry if the price per kg doesn't drop a lot after that. That's not necessarily true. The Falcon 9
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by cosmie 11y ago
> This scenario strikes me as counter-intuitive from a savings perspective, because now there's two layers involved: Instructors and IT Support. Actually, it sounds like a terrible waste of overhead and expense the University is lay
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by cosmie 11y ago
With no intention of making it a consumer brand, that very well could have been by design.
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by cosmie 11y ago
You're presuming their decision to self insure was based on an actuarial assessment. From my experience, it's also plausible that some poor schlep in the accounting department was tasked with looking into self insuring, and create
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by cosmie 11y ago
The article is completely missing an important factor: franchise vs. corporate pricing. McDonalds has been running national promotions for $5 20-piece McNuggets. While franchise stores aren't always bound to follow national promotions
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by cosmie 12y ago
Exactly! Which is the exact scenario the recent update attempted to address: getting rid of the no harm aspect.
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by cosmie 12y ago
Oh definitely! I like the fact that my top results aren't always dominated by eHow, Wikipedia, WikiAnswers, and Yahoo Answers now. It's the denial about false positives that is frustrating. If you're going to build in logic t
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by cosmie 12y ago
> At the same time google should be extra careful that it does now allow good websites to be penalized by activities from even shadier SEO types that turn around and use these facilities against their competitors (rather than to avo
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by cosmie 12y ago
I bought my original Surface Pro from the Microsoft Store website[1], and have had fantastic service on the few occasions that I've taken advantage of it. No phone trees, no waiting times, and no bullshit (they took me at my word on wh
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by cosmie 12y ago
Keep in mind this is a brand-specific change. Unilever, the owner of Breyer's, is the worlds largest ice cream manufacturer and also owns Ben & Jerry's, Klondike, Popsicle, Magnum, and a host of other brands. Breyer's bei
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by cosmie 12y ago
Those are shared/team offices, not open offices. And I agree: it has been the most effective configuration I've worked in. I used to work in an environment with 4-5 people per (large) office. It worked out really well, and we&#x27
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by cosmie 12y ago
> Its nice to say "we stopped doing it because we love our users" but I always feel like there is something more behind the scenes that makes these things happen. The decision very well was probably made because they love their
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by cosmie 13y ago
I use melatonin supplements on a fairly regular basis over the past year to regulate my sleep cycle, as recommended by my doctor to counteract Ritalin-induced insomnia. Studies have shown no reduction in efficacy after three months of use,
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by cosmie 13y ago
To be fair, they're not really jazzing up how great of an experience Windows 7 is, but rather referring to enabling the Desktop Experience feature[1] of Windows Server 2008 that installs/enables standard desktop features and allow
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by cosmie 13y ago
It's really not that different from other internal audit teams. Financial audit doesn't exist to make the accountants happy, and IT audit teams won't hesitate to rip into the IT groups. This is basically a comprehensive, proa
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by cosmie 13y ago
After spending 6 months there for an internship, I'd have to agree. Even the roads you explicitly pay for with tolls are crap. My car will never be the same again.
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by cosmie 13y ago
Think of how much better the roads would (well, could) be if the mandatory cost of the attendant was deferred into additional tax revenue, while gas remains dirt-cheap.
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by cosmie 13y ago
The device design not working for you is understandable. It does have some unexpected/unusual quirks owing to it's form. But I still don't see the correlation between a single browser share and the fate of the client OS. Wi
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by cosmie 13y ago
>"Finally, and perhaps a contributor to my decision to return the Surface Pro, the recent browser usage statistics from New Relic show that IE is down to a paltry 14.8% share across more than 2 million application instances. If that
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by cosmie 13y ago
No problem! At many US high schools, you'll have up to three levels of a class offered: standard, honors (advanced), and Advanced Placement (college level). Some schools may only offer one or two AP classes (depending on student intere
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by cosmie 13y ago
I believe the parent was referring to the AP Calculus exam, based off of his 2 out of 5 score[1]. For non-Americans, AP exams are standardized tests administered by the College Board (company behind the SAT university entrance exams)[2]. Mo

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