Word: modeles
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...talking on the regular phone. We want to TiVo our lives, avoiding real time by texting or e-mailing people when we feel like it. "Skype, which was the fantasy of our childhood, gets you back to sitting there and being available in that old-fashioned way. Our model of what it was to be present to each other, we thought we liked that," she said. "But it turns out that time shifting is our most valued product. This new technology is about control. Emotional control and time control." You'd be shocked by how many times two people talking...
...course, losing subscribers is not exactly going to help beef up the Times's copydesk. But as a consumer, she had a point: Why pay for a product that disappoints her? So what if the newspaper business model is challenging. That's not her problem. Just fix it! (See pictures of Judd Apatow's war on Jay Leno...
...revert back to the flush 20th century days. Instead, NBC will focus not on inventing TV's next business plan but on trying to be one of the networks left standing when the old plan finally craps out. Simple tooth-and-claw survival: it's the oldest business model...
...implications for this trend will be felt most acutely in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia, Kahn says he also has concerns for his home city of San Francisco. "California is broke, and the state is invading city finances to help itself out. I look at our model and what it predicts for San Francisco over the next few years in terms of antiretroviral resistance, and I do become concerned that funding is on the chopping block," he says...
...nominally by Taiwan, and resemble a Risk game board with territories grabbed pell-mell over the years in a scramble for land and influence. Malaysia has set up a diving resort on one of its own reefs, while most other nations have military posts on their islands. "The ASEAN model has been more or less useless," says Simon Shen, a professor of international relations at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. "The official discourse is [for claimant nations] to co-develop [the islands], but this is almost impossible given the nationalism the dispute inspires...