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It's critical for owners to identify both economic and functional obsolescence in order to fight unfair property tax assessments.

This webinar recording, with our guest career expert Marc Miller, founder of Career Pivot, talks about what to do if you find yourself facing obsolescence in your career and ways to stay relevant in your chosen industry or switch your skills to a new line of work.

Planned obsolescence in an Apple product isn't a new suggestion, but Apple's confirmation that it slows down older iPhones (in a feature that was introduced last year, and is present on devices as recent as the iPhone 7) has raised a lot of concerns.

Given the speed of Android development, that basically dooms those devices to obsolescence in a year or two.

Sealed batteries, forced updates that slow down the device and as is the case with Android OEMs, not providing updates at all — everyone is guilty of factoring in some element of obsolescence in their releases.

With hundred of thousand of line of code to modify every aspect of the phone you really believe that Apple made this without planned obsolescence in mind?

Failing to understand that each legal engagement can be more efficiently (and profitably) managed by resorting to our legacy knowledge, formats and processes, is insuring obsolescence in this digital age.

One hit right on the industry's 1,000 - pound gorilla — asked what most concerns her about her firm, this lawyer responded: «Law firm competition and potential future obsolescence in general.»

Hence, the loose - leaf medium has had an active life of nearly 100 years while CD / DVD have reached obsolescence in 30 years.

But with the rise of cheaply mass - produced plastics, increased levels of consumerism, and planned obsolescence in many products, our modern culture now creates waste on an unsustainable scale.

In his Silver series, Brandt extends the limits of black and white photography (in its near obsolescence in the digital age) by utilizing the materials that are inherent to that process and experimenting with the elements» shape shifting nature.

In this light old standards show their age and obsolescence in the face of the new, and with each new wave of informational overload we are further alienated by the system, that revolves around an economy of monetary circulation.

From Richard Hughes's monuments to obsolescence in Glasgow to a retrospective of Frank Auerbach's work in London, find out what's happening in art around the country

Sure, Donald Judd and Frank Stella had announced the medium's obsolescence in a famous radio interview in 1964, and Clement Greenberg's directives had purified it to a shadow of its formalist self.

Finally, it is not only public libraries that are in danger of obsolescence in the eBook world — it is publishers as well.

The insatiable desire for ever more and ever newer forms of convenience that drives our global economy and our technological culture leaves a scattered trail of obsolescence in its wake.

It's critical for owners to identify both economic and functional obsolescence in order to fight unfair property tax assessments.

Not exact matches

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

The 128 - year - old beauty company, known for products such as Skin - So - Soft and ANEW skincare, has been hit by a triple whammy: the rise in sales of low - priced beauty products at mass - market chains such as Walgreen (WAG) and Dollar General (DG), the apparent obsolescence of its direct - selling model for beauty items, and ill - advised forays into fashion, jewelry and pricier skincare products that alienated many customers.

Well, IBM could learn a thing or two from Yellow Media, a company that doesn't know the meaning of «quitting in the face of obsolescence.»

This improves the in - stock position of a fast - moving product and prevents obsolescence for one that is not selling.

In other words, obsolescence is playing a role here.

Additionally, Service Chemical's Total Chemical Management Program (TCM) solution can help you in reducing storage, inventory - carrying cost, regulatory reporting and waste minimization due to obsolescence.

In a video posted to Youtube on December 12, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu predicted that banks would eventually disappear once their role as financial middlemen became redundant, adding that this obsolescence might result from market changes wrought by cryptocurrencies, namely bitcoin.

Internet companies are subject to rapid changes in technology, worldwide competition, rapid obsolescence of products and services, loss of patent protections, evolving industry standards and frequent new product productions.

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company's life cycle.

We talked in the last hour on the whole Foxconn equation, and James talked about our cost reduction and purchasing obligation, and inventory clearing costs, and obsolescence.

Some users saw the announcement as proof that the company had engaged in «planned obsolescence,» a scheme to degrade the old devices to force users to upgrade.

What they have to say about the stimulation of needs through advertising and artificial obsolescence can in any case not be adequately explained by the hypnotic pull exerted on the wage - earners by mass consumption.

It ushered in the means of its own obsolescence.

Other fathers slip away into a premature obsolescence, a retirement that is nothing more than irresponsibility in golf shoes.

Whether Gerrard returns in glory and steers Liverpool to the promised land of fourth place doesn't matter; in football, the only certainty is obsolescence.

What bothers me most is that, after all these years of women fighting for equality, with all our demands that we have an «equal partner,» why wouldn't we want to support men in their freedom, too — freedom to be stay - at - home dads, freedom to work part - time so they can maybe find the elusive work - live balance we women obsess about — instead of dooming them to obsolescence?

Like in the past, new policy innovations are currently being explored to find new ways to deal with the social pressure resulting from the increasing obsolescence of manual labour, as can be seen in the experimenting with Universal Basic Income in Finland.

Is the rising power and capital accumulation of FAMGA (Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon) together with advances in block chains and artificial intelligence leading to the concentration of wealth in ever fewer hands, obsolescence of manual labour and even the destruction of capitalism, as Karl Marx believed in the 19th century?

Charlotte Warburton, global head of rail at technology firm PA Consulting, told the Accelerate Rail event in London: «If we can't offer seamlessly integrated journeys that guarantee us a seat, adapt with connections and give us the best journeys that avoid delays then we risk something far greater than complaints and frustration: we risk obsolescence.»

A larger drive to consumption with the explosion of advertisement (in order to create «percieved obsolescence» for instance, make people buy more stuff)

And the yes voters, 73 % of whom are apparently in the market for a second referendum within five years, might well reflect that all the commissions thus far — from the constitutional convention which delivered devolution through Labour's Calman commission updating the Scotland Act, to the latest Smith proposals, share one arresting component: all appear to have a built - in obsolescence — as the independence debate stubbornly refuses to shut down.

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With the central motif of the gradual obsolescence of the steel - mill and simplistic vision of «better days» that it represents, Out of the Furnace is an intentionally slow - burning examination of white masculinity and its place (or lack thereof) in modern America.

Opening with brash alpha - male Roger Swanson (Campbell Scott) lecturing his white - collar colleagues about the imminent obsolescence of the male species, «Roger Dodger» is about one man's terrible defeat in the battle between the sexes.

Swimming upstream against the vehicle's obsolescence is Connie Nielsen, the wife of a Danish soldier, Michael (Ulrich Thomsen), downed in Afghanistan while his no - account brother Jannik (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) is left stoking the home fires.

Sadly, it's the start of a journey into self - realization and obsolescence gilded in the effortless filmmaking of a master craftsman.

There's a moment where Pops recognizes his coming obsolescence that could possibly feed into a pretty interesting, Sylvester Stallone - ian introspection about aging and relevance — but then there's a coda where, in a legendarily - stupid film's stupidest moment, Pops announces that he's been upgraded.

The topic of old warhorses ritualistically revisiting their old stomping grounds to, at least for a moment, deny the passage of adolescent glory into mature obsolescence is ritualistically explored in the late Jason Miller's adaptation of his own Pulitzer prize - winning play, That Championship Season.

Floored (Unrated) Obsolescence expose» examines automation's impact on workers at the Chicago Board of Trade as the commodity market's primary method of operation shifts from frenzied, man - a-mano action in the pits on the floor of the exchange to impersonal electronic trading on computers.

And so «While We're Young» is essentially a riff on Murphy's «I'm Losing My Edge,» his super witty and self - effacing dance single about a hipster fearing his creeping obsolescence as a newer, more savvy, more wired - in generation redefines what's cool.

Ken Loach's socially enraged drama, a worthy winner at Cannes Film Festival last May, has a proud character at its core: a North England construction worker (Dave Johns) in his late fifties approaching obsolescence.

But a closer examination of the Coen Brothers «film reveals an exploration of evil and a study in obsolescence, all with the fraternal filmmakers» trademark wit and sense of style.

There's a lot in the interactions between them about human arrogance and frailty and ultimately obsolescence, but mostly it's about David being the Vampire Willow to Walter's regular Willow during that one Buffy episode.