DWI’s and DUI’s are no joke — you would hope that the UFC’s Golden Boy would know better.
I just wonder if this will affect the amount of press that he gets from the UFC, or if he will be largely silenced by Dana White.
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I loved video games as much as the next guy when I was growing up, but this is over-the-top.
Department stores continue to lose ground. They accounted for 10% of retail spending in the 1980s, 5% in 2000 and around 2.5% currently, according to consulting firm Customer Growth Partners.
I do most of my shopping online for a number of different reasons. The selection you can find online is typically much better than you’d ever find in a particular store (or even a mall), not to mention that you can comparison shop once you’ve figured out what you want to buy.
I typically dislike going to showroom style retail stores, namely because of the poor customer service (i.e. Best Buy).
The only downside to purchasing online is not being able to try on clothing/etc, but using sizing charts provided on product pages can work wonders. In the event that something does not fit, I simply return the item for a size that does fit – I always check for a return policy that does not charge a re-stocking fee.
Now that purchasing items online is commonplace for most people, it’s going to be difficult for department stores to get customers to come back to their stores, unless they really begin to *INNOVATE*.
Source: Smart Money
So the current Apple TV, the little thing, the hockey puck, really doesn’t do anything to help enable you to get Internet material on your TV.
Apparently, the head of Time Warner Cable is completely unaware of AirPlay for the AppleTV.
As someone who uses their AppleTV daily, I have to say that AirPlay is an amazing feature that allows you to stream output from your iOS device onto your television by piping the output to your television.
This works wonders for content providers who do not have native iOS apps on the AppleTV, such as Vimeo, ESPN, and others services.
I’m not sure that Apple has used this as a selling point for their devices, and Glenn Britt’s (and let’s face it, most consumers period) lack of awareness of the technology is a result.
“We are now facing a $16 billion hole, not the $9 billion we thought in January" ... "This means we will have to go much further and make cuts far greater than I asked for at the beginning of the year.” -Jerry Brown
Looks like we’re taking it on the chin again. According to this article, an increase of 0.25% to our already astronomically high sales tax is on the ballot in November. I really hope there’s another solution that they’re working through, for the sake of this great state.
Source : NY Times
More than 1,300 tubes that carry radioactive water inside the San Onofre nuclear plant in Southern California are so damaged that they will be taken out of service, the utility that runs the plant said Tuesday.
Not concerning in the least, despite this being about 40 miles away from where I live.
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/1300-tubes-damaged-ailing-cal-reactors-16304993
San Francisco did a survey and found that 0.6 percent of its litter was from plastics. After they had a ban, plastics accounted for 0.64 percent of their litter. It made no difference.
Good to know that everything else is running so smoothly in LA that they are now going after secondary problems like plastic bags, using the straw-man justification that it is a move to reduce litter.
P.S. These bags can be recycled.
Source : The Weekly Standard
My own daughter, a college freshman, was distraught. “How am I supposed to study when one of the Beastie Boys died. Now I’ll never get to live my dream of seeing them!”
Direct quote from an article in the Washington Times (source).
The quote above really sums up the article as a whole: off-base & completely over-the-top. It’s hard to believe that Joseph Curl’s daughter said such a thing, unless she’s openly mocking/trolling him.
Pictured above : Behaving yourself is as important as getting good marks.
I stumbled across an article on Forbes, titled “Nine Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School“. The article includes plenty of life lessons, and is a great reminder to keep your eyes on the prize.
There was a major uproar yesterday because of an application in the Google Chrome store that allowed users to download a copy of any song they wanted from the Spotify catalog.
If you look at some of the headlines, you’d would guess that Spotify would be closing its doors the following day because of it.
When I initially saw the story last night, I held off on posting about it until today because it was relatively late. I checked in on this a couple of hours ago, and it seems that Spotify has since patched this vulnerability. (Kudos to them for patching such a huge issue so quickly)
But, for the purpose of this article, suppose that Spotify had not patched this issue. Do you think that Spotify would be rocked by this? Do you think the number of subscribers would be affected?
Personally, I don’t think so.
Think about your friends who are Spotify users (both free & paid subscribers) and ask yourself why they use the service. While I’m painting in broad strokes here, it seems that most of the users enjoy the service because of the selection of music (which they can play at any time), the mobile application (which gives its users access to that amazing collection), and the overall ease of use.
In reality, even a user went through the effort of downloading a song (or a handful of songs) from Spotify using the plugin, it still wouldn’t be enough for the user to stop using Spotify. Unless they can predict all of the music they’ll want to listen to for the foreseeable future, they will want to listen to at least a few songs that they have not already purchased, and would likely end up using the Spotify service again.
Desktop users likely would not change their listening habits if this issue did not get patched so quickly; though I do think there would be some users on the mobile side that would download individual tracks & put them those tracks into their MP3 player or smartphone. Those users are likely also desktop users, and even if they are not paid subscribers, they would likely continue to use the free, ad-supported version of Spotify.
I’m sure that there would be some level of drop-off for users, but it’s safe to assume that the drop-off would be minuscule – which is very far off from the Doomsday predictions that made the rounds on the tech blogs last night.
Source : The Verge