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Salon Asks for Help
Henry V .009 writes "Salon.com is appealing to the community for help. They haven't been able to pay the rent since December. To date, they've lost about $80 million dollars. A cause of rejoicing for some. But their many readers are understandably sorry to see them in such desperate straits. Personally I hope they stick around, I think they are one of the best sources of independant journalism on the web--even if I happen to agree with less than 10% of what they have to say. I also think that it would be a shame for them to close now that they've finally created an advertising scheme that has a snowball's chance in hell of working on the web. I can actually recall some of the adverts I've seen on Salon--what other web site can you say that about? Salon says that if they get another 50,000 subscriptions (they currently have 50,000) they'll break even for the year." In the old role-playing game "Paranoia", there was a nice quote about what would happen when the player characters (who had never been outside of their enclosed city complex) made an attempt to swim in water over their heads: "delaying drowning".
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Looks like I'm the first...
But I just got a haircut!
nough said.
I actually like MS VC. The IDE's niceish. I could deal with a Vi-like IDE though (which is to say a text editor with syntax higlighting). The compiler is garbage, given. The linker sucks too. But man, MSDN is the shit. If you don't know something, highlight it and press F1, and presto: everything you ever wanted to know about Foo() and then some. Man pages are good and all, but when I program for windows I'm not unhappy that they're missing. MSDN is one of the only really good things MS has done. If MS were to go belly up, it'd be the one thing It'd be the one thing I'd miss.
And where is capitalism obligated to keep a site which rarely posts good content (I'm talking sub-Slashdot quality, fer chrissakes!) afloat?
LEARN TO SPELL ASSHAT!
In Apple's latest numbers released in January for its fiscal first quarter of 2003, revenue fell from a year earlier and all of the company's major computer lines saw diminished numbers. PowerMac sales were down 20%, while iBook sales fell 8%.
At the same time Apple's sales were falling, PC sales rose, though just slightly, according to figures from IDC released last month.
The last time Apple was in this state, it brought back co-founder Steve Jobs to fix its issues. He fostered the development of the iMac and secured a US$150-million investment from Microsoft. But there aren't any new iMacs in Apple's future and Microsoft, bolstered by its victory over the U.S. Department of Justice, is clearly not going to help the beleaguered computer maker this time.
So what have you got left? Apple is a company that controls around 3% of the computer market, has recently undergone a restructuring and is slowly fading into nothingness. Software makers don't even have Mac users on their radar and it's not like Apple can bring Mr. Jobs back to right the ship this time -- he's already there.
Stick a fork in 'em -- this Apple is cooked.
It's not a troll. Salon is failing, see the uber-parent. Why? Not enough people paying? For what? Liberal garbage. Liberalism does enslave. Communism, socialism, fascism, these are all variants of liberalism. And they weren't exactly known for freedom. *Classical* Liberalism, on the other hand...
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