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And what are they trying to show with the boats? These boats don't even represent known quantities (eg. size of a football stadium, milk container etc.), they only show that some catastrophes were worse, some were less bad.
The stadium misses the point, just as the oil reserve by comparison. A comparison of the affected surface area in the first case and a comparison of the production of Saudi Arabia during the same time-frame would be much more useful.
Now, the bumper-to-bumper of trucks and the SF-bay graphics are not bad.
Participants were 7744 men (20-89 yr) initially free of CVD who returned a mail-back survey during 1982. Time spent watching TV and time spent riding in a car were reported. Mortality data were ascertained through the National Death Index until December 31, 2003.
They noted that they adjusted for age. I presume other factors like the economic status correlate also with the time they watched tv. Don't know if they've adjusted for that as well.
I don't know what you think of the freemium model, but it could be an alternative to your free trail. It could make sense to introduce a free product category with maybe 10 free graphs and datasets with less than n elements. This way, customers aren't bound by the 30 days and have more time to warm to your product.
You write that there are differences in the design themes across the different products (basic, designer, premium)? I'd explain the difference in detail - you could use a check list of the available features - so that it's clear why premium is better.
Regarding your last point: How many people would change the inner workings of their device? I think a big selling point is the sleek look of the phone. You'd have to account for a lot of eventualities: What about a second camera, additional microphones etc.? How thick should it be, given that advances in technology could make it feasible to reduce the thickness significantly.
I'm not sure it's even possible to create a phone "for the ages". Even if you disregard the wear of the hardware: A phone design from even 5 years ago looks dated - maybe simply for the fact that it has been around for so long. And while you remain the same design, every company around you changes their designs.
At this point, the material cost of the outer shell of your phone is pretty insignificant compared to the rest of the hardware. You'd have to ramp up the value of the shell quite a bit to make it economical to keep the hull and change the innards.
And maybe you could show a little more information about the book when you click on it. I'm not sure what data Amazon provides - there must be more than just the picture, no?
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Either one would be great.
The salary that a company offers might not be listed in a job offering, but the culture and many other factors are neither. And even though they are not listed you probably heard of companies with a great culture etc. Don't you think the same is true for salaries?
It seems that people who grew up with high scoring games, exact time-taking and video referees often times feel the urge to "fix" the perceived flaws of soccer. I don't want to be snotty, but a lot of people love the game in it's current form. If you don't get what's fun about a good game that ends in a 1:0 that's fine, but please don't ruin it for the rest of us.
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One of the most popular demonstrations is browsing through a bunch of photos on a huge screen with large gestures. While this looks quite impressive it's inaccurate when performing specific tasks (e.g. the color-selection planes in the video), the gestures are limited and you have to learn somewhat unintuitive ones apart from the more obvious "select", "move left" and "zoom" gestures. His more real world example (the table and the globe) didn't quite work, but what he could show us wasn't a step up from using a mouse.
An other favorite is the "physical elements on a table" example. This works reasonable well but his examples again were not convincing. Using it as a wind tunnel without being able to rotate it in three dimensions? Calculating the shadows of buildings?
But what's holding us back? Processing power? Cost? Hardware requirements? Or a general lack of use cases, of areas where this really makes sense?
This is a great introduction to DFTs. I wish there were more write-ups like this. So if you missed it the first time around, check it out.
Also: I don't know who the target audience for the base-price is. If you know you have 10 and only 10 appointments per month, this plan may be fine, but otherwise? Why not change it to a "1$ for every appointment"-Plan?
This is unbelievable - he saved them millions, jet they were not willing to pay him the $4M he asked for.
Maybe this is based on a widespread model I am not aware of, maybe they are selling their consultancy services and this is part of it, but as a stand alone product I wonder how useful it is.
Why not suggest a playlist with songs you listen to the most instead of making the searchbox bigger? Why not suggest songs to listen to next instead of hiding the genius bar?
This is simply not true: Sales are not distributed evenly amongst customers. It could very well be that people who are pirating would usually buy a lot more apps than the usual customer. Sure, if you don't have to pay for stuff you consume more, but they are probably more likely to spend more than average in the first place.