For those who'd like to be able to trace their car or boat, I just got
this promotional offer in the mail.

http://findmespot.com/downloads/SPOT2015_FreeTraceJunePush_rebate.pdf?utm_source=B enchmarkEmail&utm_campaign=04_Taken__Get_It_Back_W ith_a_FREE_Trace&utm_medium=email

Caveat emptor: Even though the device is being offered free I'm sure
you'll be required to buy a subscription plan to activate it.

On 6/25/2015 11:23 AM, Wayne.B wrote:
For those who'd like to be able to trace their car or boat, I just got
this promotional offer in the mail.

http://findmespot.com/downloads/SPOT2015_FreeTraceJunePush_rebate.pdf?utm_source=B enchmarkEmail&utm_campaign=04_Taken__Get_It_Back_W ith_a_FREE_Trace&utm_medium=email

Caveat emptor: Even though the device is being offered free I'm sure
you'll be required to buy a subscription plan to activate it.


You won't get your rebate unless you have "Activate(d) your SPOT
device(s) at FindMeSPOT.com"
That's the second item under, "To be eligible for this rebate, you must:"
Mikek

On 6/25/15 12:29 PM, amdx wrote:
On 6/25/2015 11:23 AM, Wayne.B wrote:
For those who'd like to be able to trace their car or boat, I just got
this promotional offer in the mail.

http://findmespot.com/downloads/SPOT2015_FreeTraceJunePush_rebate.pdf?utm_source=B enchmarkEmail&utm_campaign=04_Taken__Get_It_Back_W ith_a_FREE_Trace&utm_medium=email


Caveat emptor: Even though the device is being offered free I'm sure
you'll be required to buy a subscription plan to activate it.


You won't get your rebate unless you have "Activate(d) your SPOT
device(s) at FindMeSPOT.com"
That's the second item under, "To be eligible for this rebate, you must:"
Mikek




Apple and others offer no extra cost software with their computers and
devices that provide location services. It's not a biggy.

Greg, that's also true with Diabetic readers, they'll practically give you the tester then hold you up on the strips!

On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 12:13:36 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

Greg, that's also true with Diabetic readers, they'll practically give you the tester then hold you up on the strips!

===

Gilette Razors practically wrote the book on that business model.

I can belive it , Wayne.

Greg, I've seen lots of good comments on that razor "dollar club" then you have Netflix a
Taking on the DVD industry too...

I suppose it's all in the evolution of business and marketing...

Keyser Söze wrote:
On 6/25/15 12:29 PM, amdx wrote:
On 6/25/2015 11:23 AM, Wayne.B wrote:
For those who'd like to be able to trace their car or boat, I just got
this promotional offer in the mail.

http://findmespot.com/downloads/SPOT2015_FreeTraceJunePush_rebate.pdf?utm_source=B enchmarkEmail&utm_campaign=04_Taken__Get_It_Back_W ith_a_FREE_Trace&utm_medium=email


Caveat emptor: Even though the device is being offered free I'm sure
you'll be required to buy a subscription plan to activate it.


You won't get your rebate unless you have "Activate(d) your SPOT
device(s) at FindMeSPOT.com"
That's the second item under, "To be eligible for this rebate, you must:"
Mikek




Apple and others offer no extra cost software with their computers and
devices that provide location services. It's not a biggy.

You also pay 2x or ore for the apple device.

On 6/25/15 3:37 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:28:33 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 12:13:36 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

Greg, that's also true with Diabetic readers, they'll practically give you the tester then hold you up on the strips!

===

Gilette Razors practically wrote the book on that business model.

I saw an article in the WSJ the other day saying the internet is
taking a bite out of that business.


I spent a pre-college summer working as a truck loader at the Shick
razor company in Milford, Connecticut. We used forklifts and our arms,
legs and backs to pack 40 and 35-foot trailers with goods made in the
factory (blades), made elsewhere and assembled in the factory, et
cetera. The pay was good and the factory was properly and safely
operated. Unusual benefit: a daily 15-20 minute "shave break" to test
product. I don't recall whether the women who worked in the factory got
a similar break to shave their legs. We could also buy packs of
injector blades for 5 cents a pack, a price that probably eliminated
pilfering. I think they were selling for $2 a pack at the stores. I
bought at least several dollars worth of packs a week to take back to
college, where I resold them for a $1 a pack.

The next summer, I got a job loading trucks at Hulls Export Beer in New
Haven. Much harder work, paid better, outdoor loading dock,
and...freebie beer...significant for an underaged college student.

Also had a job one summer at Bigelow Boiler in New Haven, at a factory
whose skeleton remains. Learned how to weld, and spent my days inside
used boilers, stripping out their parts and making repairs to the tubes.
I kept up with apprenticeship classes after that summer when I could and
eventually passed a journeyman welder's exam.

My last summer of college before graduation, I got a white collar job at
The Kansas City Star.

On 6/25/15 4:59 PM, Califbill wrote:
Keyser Söze wrote:
On 6/25/15 12:29 PM, amdx wrote:
On 6/25/2015 11:23 AM, Wayne.B wrote:
For those who'd like to be able to trace their car or boat, I just got
this promotional offer in the mail.

http://findmespot.com/downloads/SPOT2015_FreeTraceJunePush_rebate.pdf?utm_source=B enchmarkEmail&utm_campaign=04_Taken__Get_It_Back_W ith_a_FREE_Trace&utm_medium=email


Caveat emptor: Even though the device is being offered free I'm sure
you'll be required to buy a subscription plan to activate it.


You won't get your rebate unless you have "Activate(d) your SPOT
device(s) at FindMeSPOT.com"
That's the second item under, "To be eligible for this rebate, you must:"
Mikek




Apple and others offer no extra cost software with their computers and
devices that provide location services. It's not a biggy.

You also pay 2x or ore for the apple device.



Really. Gee, I paid $0.00 out of pocket for my big new iPhone, thanks to
a generous trade-in offer from Verizon. Of course, I had to renew my
contract, but I would have done that anyway. My wife has two iPhones,
neither of which required a cash outlay.

On 6/25/15 5:27 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 13:12:21 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

Greg, I've seen lots of good comments on that razor "dollar club" then you have Netflix a
Taking on the DVD industry too...

CDs and DVDs are going the way of the 8 track.
Digital content is going to be delivered online and they really want
you to store it in the cloud. In this regard, I agree with Hillary. I
want my data spinning on my disk drives (or whatever media we will be
using next in the 21st century)
I have not jumped on the SSD bandwagon with Harry yet. I just don't
like the fact that they tell you these things have a finite life
(10,000 writes). On a system drive, that might happen pretty fast.
(something like the page files)
Disk drives are so cheap these days that there is no reason not to
have plenty of backups.
I have made a backup machine, another PC that is a mirror of the one I
use regularly. I hook it up and synchronize all of the "data" drives
once a week or so after doing virus scans from a couple of programs.If
I have a catastrophic failure, I will be back going in minutes.




Neither of my computers with SSDs, nor our iPhones with SSDs have
hiccuped...yet. But we also back up to an assortment of external drives,
a server and two separate "clouds."