w’s Economic Miracle
The nationwide average for regular unleaded is now $2.78 per gallon, or 55 cents higher than last year, according to the Energy Department.
You judge who is benefitting.
Economics
Can Shareware Make Money?
The answer is yes. Of course the product must have some specialized functionality that consumers want and that hasn’t been preempted by Microbloat $ware.
Take, for example, Winzip: in 2004 the company had $15.5 million profits on an income of $24.9 million. Pretty damn good!
Thomas Warfield has more here and here.
Will the Price of Ice Cream Be Going Up?
Most likely.
Prepare for Aging or Prepare for Living?
I know my choice!
Nevertheless, the belief that aging is an immutable process, programmed by evolution, is now known to be wrong. In recent decades, our knowledge of how, why, and when aging processes take place has progressed so much that many scientists now believe that this line of research, if sufficently promoted, could benefit people alive today.Indeed, the science of aging has the potential to do what no drug, surgical procedure, or behavior modification can do-extend our years of youthful vigor and simultaneously postpone all the costly, disabling, and lethal conditions expressed at later ages.
These writers are on the modest end of gerontology research but even the programs they propose will do more to solve the problems with health care systems here and abroad than all the quibbling going on over how to get someone else to pay for your health care costs. Let’s earn the longevity dividend.
Of Dell and Dopes
I apologize in advance if you saw this absolutely hilarious and ever so been there, done that take down of Dell Tech Support last week in the NYT. I missed it, just read it and must share:
Preparatory Work
So it has happened: you have fired up your Dell PC, and – nothing. Or the dreaded “cannot find boot drive” or something like that. Now you are forced into the unenviable position of having to call Dell Off-shore Hardware Support. Look at it as a journey, one on which you will be tested, much like Job or Arthur Dent. You will descend into the ninth circle, but with the proper preparation, tools and attitude, you will return, a better person for it.
Enjoy the rest!
If you are a Dell owner who ever had a problem you’ve probably talked to a DOPE. Remember, if they had not been absorbed by Dell they would probably be quite nice, intelligent and helpful folks.