"Can I take a glance at your code?" - If applying for an programming position, this is one of the leading indicators of how well the team works regarding refactoring, communication, and their philosophy towards coding.
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I'm not sure I would sell - $170m seems rather low. Furthermore, they have so much room for expansion, which only will be crippled by working under a tax software company. They might be trying to automagically do your taxes for you, but they don't have enough relevant information without having it to be the same hassle as using the software.
LG does manufactures portable hard drives and has a partnership with Hitachi to manufacture internal hds. ( http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/21/lg-reveals-xd1-family-of-... )
Here is a list of Dell displays with their respective manufacturers, including LG/Philips ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_monitors )
From my friend's point of view, your service will not be considered without cheat-protection so I don't think it should be appropriate as a premium feature. I may be wrong, but my take on freemium is to allow the user to recognize the value when under the free plan and the use of premium to make things faster, larger, or better. In that vein, I would suggest automated grading for absolute or relatively absolute answers as a premium feature (i.e. integral x = (x^2)/2 or a single US founding founder would be part of a set {Thomas Jefferson, James Adams, ... }). That way, grading is completely automated. I'm sure teachers will pay for such a feature.
A potential idea would be to have students do there assignment online, and have a "playback" button to show the student working. A crude cheating measurement (or genius measurement) would be the time between answer submission and the time to completion.
Acer, Asus, MSI, LG, Levono, HTC were OEMs for popular brands who decided to strike off on their own.
This is not the case for laptops. Due to running different programs, there are differing memory and processing allocations which cause different hardware elements to be accessed. Chrome and Firefox (same use case) have vastly different memory footprints and certain versions of Photoshop (same program) will utilize the GPU, increasing current drain. Since programs are constantly under development and will use different amounts of resources, a manufacturer cannot say that browsing the internet or using a specific program will be a certain amount of time.
Mainstream laptop batteries are Lithium-Ion, which degrades with time (faster with use). Unless retailers begin to throw out older batteries (by manufacturing date), there will be no standardization for consumers.
fyi, here's a discussion on the name change http://joshblog.net/2009/05/16/adobe-announces-flex-builder-...
Also, as a side note, Starbucks might not be the best fit since it's a relatively low-price-point commodity. Both previous examples were high-price-point, luxury experiences, which would benefit from 1) the lack of a bad reaction 2) receipt as a marketing tool since you create worth through creating a souvenir. Starbucks on the other hand, would only benefit through the latter, where you create worth through impressions (kind of like those annoying magazine signup forms). This is actually not helpful since Starbucks doesn't need any more impressions due to their many stores, and when you throw them away from the back seat of your car, you'll indirectly attribute the brand to junk.
It would be nice to see online services mimic retail merchandising techniques.
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Regardless, my previous comment applies to the article.
As the article pointed out, CEOs taking a PR role will follow the same rules as PR, which justifies the stock dip. Others will steer towards management, optimization, or new-venture roles - but this isn't saying they replace all management, optimization or new venture initiatives. CEOs merely approach things on a larger scale and must balance the relationships between each component of the business.
So, Yes we need CEOs and No, CEOs don't need shouldn't require more compensation and definitely not adoration. There are CEOs as equally successful whom are loathed.
- if they're leveraging any new algorithms (categorical, semantic, or otherwise) and hopefully he could briefly explain the new ideas involved.
- any shifts in research and development regarding semantic search algorithms, semantic web and how Wolfram|Alpha plans to contribute to these trends.
- specific types of research information (DNA, relevant research information) and use cases for businesses (i find that the service is novel, but not particularly useful to businesses)
- how frequent they will be updating the existing data, and how frequenty they will be adding data
- shout out to U of I?
btw - can you guys focus more on the startups instead of how-to's? i miss the days when sites actually reported on new startups and not about gossip or top 10 lists.