Takes me only a moment (upon landing at such a page) to hit my R bookmarklet. [Though there is now the pause while they process and resend from their server; I preferred the classic in-browser processing.]
After more than a year's use I've only had one failure of cheap CFL I bought in a package of 6 or so (for only about $60US at Wallys/Sams or some such). I wouldn't have paid $4/ea, but at <$2/ea they were hardly more expensive than tungsten.
This is about the same rate I'm getting on the CFL packs I'm getting from BJs. I'm wondering if there's a particular manufacturer or factory that is skimping on components. I have a couple CFLs that are used daily that have lasted 8 years and still going. They are in non-enclosed fixtures though.
Better than email, I've always liked the idea of using URL to my own web site as an identity.
Even if not everyone eventually obtained their own domain name, the idea of using some URI as a (self-chosen) identifier seems to me attractively powerful - as long as one is able to re-select at later time).
Couldn't find it at Amz, and thereby learned the title seems to be actually The Elements of Typographic Style 3rd edition, 2004 is ISBN 0881792063 --hope that helps
Even more confusingly, The Elements of Typographic Style actually has sub-editions. For example, I have version 3.2. However, none of the online booksellers seem to account for this, and simply say that they have the 3rd edition. Alas!
Here's a piece of the S1 that I haven't yet seen cited:
"To demonstrate the economics of our business model, we have compared the revenue and gross profit generated from the North American subscribers we acquired in the second quarter of 2010, which we refer to as our Q2 2010 cohort, to the online marketing expenses incurred to acquire such subscribers. The Q2 2010 cohort is illustrative of trends we have seen among our North American subscriber base. The Q2 2010 cohort included 3.7 million subscribers that we initially spent $18.0 million in online marketing to acquire in the second quarter of 2010. In that quarter, we generated $29.8 million in revenue and $12.8 million in gross profit from the sale of approximately 1.2 million Groupons to these subscribers. Through March 31, 2011, we generated an aggregate of $145.3 million in revenue and $61.7 million in gross profit from the sale of approximately 6.3 million Groupons to the Q2 2010 cohort. In summary, we spent $18.0 million in online marketing expense to acquire subscribers in the Q2 2010 cohort and generated $61.7 million in gross profit from this group of subscribers over four quarters."
A typical cohort that returned >3x what it cost? Sounds like a good business to me.
1. Costs to gain subscribers goes up each quarter
2. Costs to retain subscribers goes up each quarter
3. Marketing costs to get deals for subscribers goes up each quarter
Costs to retain subscribers is missing..what part of loss is that? Do not know have not finished reviewing the S1..
and other difference compared to Amazon..Amazon founders did not attempt a cash out during the loss years...
Which says, "The US bank on Wednesday revealed details of the breach...
And MarketPlace.com is similarly unforthcoming: "Citi reportedly said it discovered the breach in early May, and that it had affected about 1% of its card customers, according to a report in the Financial Times, citing a Citi statement." Link:
And is not (good) writing also about logic - even though sometimes it's fuzzy or the (twisted) logic of human psychology?
Writing requires "logicking out" the likely responses of the reader - and the pseudologic of parsing by the human brain (see Dan Ariely's "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions").
