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So what happens if someone suggests an idea but changes his/her mind later and wants to implement it after all? Perhaps it would be better to just ask people for ideas that they are willing to share -- without any implication/suggestion as to whether they plan to implement it?
That would make the guy in question an idiot.
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If you stay in one of the Disney-owned hotels, you get to skip the lines on all the rides. It's a little more expensive, but it's worth it, since you wait five minutes, tops, for any ride.
No, if you stay at a Universal owned hotel you get to skip the lines on all rides at Universal theme parks as many times as you want. Outside guests can buy this feature for around $40 a day but you are only allowed to skip the line in each ride once. Disney's virtual queuing system, called Fastpass, does not create different classes of users. The only people that get special privileges are those that are doing somet…
Slate has a good (though somewhat old) explanation of both Universal and Disney's systems (http://www.slate.com/id/2067672/sidebar/2067676/). If its numbers are still more or less right, using Fastpass reduces your wait time to about 15 minutes when you come back to the ride during the window you've been assigned.
Lots of room for mapping apps, GIS, route finding, and an enormous capability to handle traffic spikes.
Slashing the risk of financial transactions in the developing world through a free-market inclusive biometric digital ID standard:
http://guptaoptions.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php
Just too big for a start up - they really need BigCo involvement to get going.
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Natural American Spirit helps native americans, right? "[they] purportedly donate a portion of their revenues to Native American charities." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_American_Spirit That isn't too far off. Either way, with taxes, lots of money goes to government mandated campaigns against smoking, tort damages, and miscellaneous government pork. You can't really control that.
Certainly taxes help, but this would target the money that isn't going into taxes -- I think there's still enough profit in the tobacco industry for a project like this to have a shot at working. Thanks for the interesting link. I like their idea a little, but I see donating some portion of revenues to Native American charities as a far cry from hitting the nail directly on the head with a "real" mission-driven non-p…
Non-Profit Tobacco. Find a way to give that majority of smokers, those who don't like what they do (but do it anyway), the ability to purchase high-quality cigarettes whose 'profits' go to cancer research and as-effective-as-possible anti-smoking campaigns.
For the software developers who won't change to the new installer, you should at least provide a feature that notifies the user when an update is available and downloads it in the background.