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You're exactly right. Google's competitors are falling into a trap. All that space is good only if it's organized and easy to search. Hotmail and Yahoo are digging their own graves by incorporating only one piece of Google's business strategy. Google has made clear their philosophy of why they're giving users a whole gigabyte. Google wants to leverage its superior searching ability. The other email providers don't have this! What are they thinking?
Google has pulled off a perfect rope-a-dope scheme, perhaps unintentionally. At first, GMail appears vulnerable since Microsoft and Yahoo could easily match its 1 GB storage. But that's not GMail's real strength. By its competitors raising their storage limits, they are *emphasizing* their own strategic *weaknesses* (no automatic organization, lousy searching), and Google will pummel them in the webmail market with its arsenal of exclusive advantages.
Free sodas, water and perhaps pastries one day a week
You do realize that the cost/employee of these perks is taken into account when your salary is set, don't you? They aren't free. Look at it from the employer's perspective. Your salary is only part of the total cost of your employment. Your presence incurs expenses for the company, and the total figure is what's important.
When you slurp a Mountain Dew, that's coming out of your would've-been-higher salary. When the company "matches" your contribution to your 401k plan, guess what? You're paying the "company's contribution" too! That's money that would've been part of your salary.
Perks like sodas are fine with me, but I don't ask for gratuitous amenities from employers, because I understand whose wallet will be hit to pay for them. Of course, employers aren't going to show specific deductions on each pay stub or reduce existing salaries. They want to you to think, as you say, "we value you" loud and clear. Letting you see your opportunity cost would reduce the effect on your morale.
However, your employer might cut back on raises or bonuses. They might hire fewer people and force you to do the work of two or three employees because they can't afford the personal offices, all-you-can-eat junk food, 21-inch flat screens, and ergonomic yuppie chairs for each and every employee that you claimed would improve your work performance.
Depending on the code they will show (...) they will actually be "giving back" to the community.
Google can't be giving code "back" to the community since the community never owned or helped create Google's code. Google can give us their code, but it cannot be said that they are giving it back. It was never ours. We are not entitled to it.
Simple lie: "Much code for Linux was stolen, reverse engineered, or illegally copied from proprietary projects and other code was developed independently by Linux developers."
Slashdot's collaboration... ends with crowds of middle schoolers posting pointless inside jokes.
Yeah, I was a little mystified by a couple of lines in the article:
"... Slashdot... targets the niche of technology-savvy, highly-educated computer users. The vocabulary in most discussions is so technical that it constitutes another language."
It's not the business of some national conglomerate to decide what we can and can't listen to. That's up to individual listeners.
It's the business of the business to help its business. Listeners can turn it off? That's the whole point. The station company doesn't want people to turn off their station. They want you to hear their advertisers.
They also want to be in their listeners' good graces, thus, ensuring listeners for future advertisements and profits for the company. The company may have decided to not play songs that they thought would make a majority of its listeners want to turn off the radio. They would have been respecting the listeners by not playing music that was likely to be offensive during those super-sensitive post-9/11 days of raw pain and fear.
I think you've forgotten what it felt like back then. It was surreal and terrifying. Our nation's capital suffered a direct hit by enemy fire (literally). Our TV screens were full of explosions ("great balls of fire") and survivors who looked like they had just stepped out of black and white photos of WWII, dazed and confused in an urban war zone of mass wreckage and debris. We were grieving and crying for thousands of Americans who were burned alive or jumped to their deaths to escape the fire. We were all waiting for the next shoe to drop, another major attack, at any second. Offending some people during that time could have been so powerful and infuriating that they would have disavowed that station forever.
Imagine hearing Disco Inferno the day after 9/11.
To my surprise
one hundred storeys high
People getting loose now, getting down on the roof ("getting down" on the roof, praying sweat and blood for dear life, where people were waiting for a helicopter to save them; they perished) Folks screaming, out of control
It was so entertaining when the boogie started to explode
I heard somebody say
Disco Inferno
Burn that mother down
Disco Inferno
Burn that mother down
Satisfaction came in a chain reaction (satisfaction for the terrorists; two plane crashes, two towers collapsed)
I couldnt get enough, so I had to self-destruct
The heat was on (so hot from the plane fuel it melted the towers' structural beams), rising to the top
Everybody is going strong, and that is when my spark got hot
I heard somebody say
Disco Inferno...
Horrifying... a station could've gotten branded as "the anti-American station" (or something equally damaging to business) for years as a result of playing songs like that at that time.
Not only is this the Alpha release, but it is the Alpha 1 release. Yes, it's very buggy. There will be two Alpha releases from now on. Note the new milestone schedule.
And here is more from Christians who recognize what is right and where all this is leading Group: Bush's Foreign Policy 'Dangerous'
That article is about the National Council of Churches, which aligns itself with the World Council of Churches, a despicable, corrupt organization. Those people are liberal apostates. They are enemies of America and Israel. They don't believe in most of the Bible and are Christians in name only, in my opinion.
did they have good reasons to migrate to other countries including palestine? yes
Palestine was not a country/state/kingdom or any sovereign entity. When was it founded? Who was one of its Kings/Dictators/PMs/Presidents? (There are Jewish kings buried all over "Palestine.") Where are its ancient ruins? (There are Jewish ruins all over "Palestine.") Where are its ancient artifacts from the land? What was its currency? Tell me anything about it. It is fantasy. You have no credibility to discuss Israel until you admit that.
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The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity... In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism. It has also been a 'conceptual' war for the ownership of the term 'Palestinian' which has been transferred over to the Arabs, whereas before 1967, 'Palestine' has always been synonymous with the land of Israel."
- Zahir Muhsein, PLO Executive Committee member, to Dutch newspaper Trouw, March 31, 1977
alaaosh, you gotta wake up and smell the falafel. Palestine as an Arab state is a myth. Yassir Arafat was born in Cairo. He's no more Palestinian than you are. Ariel Sharon, on the other hand, was born in "Palestine" in the 1920s.
Jews used to be the ones called Palestinians. Tourism posters in the early 20th century said: "Come to Palestine." Palestine was known to the Christian West as the Holy Land because it was the land of the Jews and the birthplace of Y'shua, our Messiah/Christ, Who incidentally was born in Bethlehem of Y'huda, not "Bethlehem of Palestine/West Bank."
The Jewish people have not encroached upon an existing Palestinian Arab state. Most of what you are claiming was Palestine was part of Transjordan. Don't you see? There was no Palestine. It's a modern invention to push the Jewish people out of their homeland in the Middle East.
It's not a sign of retreat. It's a sign of ignorance. The term microevolution is a misnomer meant to refer to "evolution" among similar species. This is not really evoution, so no ground has been given up. Creationists believe in speciation, but evolutionists try to call this evolution though they are different things.
Btw, the reality of speciation is crucial to the feasibility of all those animals fitting on the Ark, e.g., there weren't as many as you think. "Kinds" != species.
well they should have fought for their rights to stay in Europe then
Well, there was this thing called the Holocaust...
but thats beside the point anyway, the demand is not for anyone to leave the country anymore.
the original goal of the PLO was one secular democratic state to hold both people (this seems like an impossible dream now).
I think most Palestinians would be very offended if you told them that Jews should be allowed to live in a future Arab-controlled Palestine. You'd probably get killed if you advocated that in Gaza.
The current demands of almost every Arab and of UN resolution if for Israel to return to its 1967 borders
Oh, come on. How old are you? How can you think that? It's just not true. You would definitely get killed if you advocated that in Gaza.
Arabs have 22 countries and 22 arab people want to live in their own country, I don't see what kind of an argument this is.
That's not what I said. Arabs have many countries in the land they've traditionally lived on (and beyond). Jews don't have any countries in the land they've traditionally lived on. Arabs are trying to usurp the one tract of land in the world that the Jewish people have a legitimate, historical claim to as their homeland.
The UN refers to the area as the occupied territories
According to international law, land can be considered occupied only if it belongs to a "foreign sovereign." Since no state of Palestine exists or has ever existed, there is no occupied territory that so-called Palestinians can lay claim to.
hell even the Israeli government refers to it as so
It was uttered once by the flailing Prime Minister in a moment of extraordinary stupor. It is not an official position of the government.
ask any palestinian if they're living under occupation or not when settlers can and do take your land,
In the 1930s, European anti-Semites used to sneer, "Jews, go to Palestine." Now, they say, "Jews, get out of Palestine." Where do you propose they go? Arabs have 22 countries and 11,796,381 sq km of land. Jews can't have 1 country and 20k sq km? Eretz Yisrael is their traditional homeland. They were there thousands of years before Mohammad lived.
then armies stop you from moving freely and living your daily life
After Arab terrorists in the area murder Israelis, the Israeli forces temporarily stop them from moving freely. If 80% of the PA-run areas' population (according to a recent survey) didn't support the intifada and if the Arabs didn't use their freedom to murder Jews in their homes, Israeli forces wouldn't be compelled to restrict their movement.
when you're not allowed to go to your school
What, so they can be brainwashed and taught to hate and learn songs like "Arabs Our Beloved and Jews Our Dogs"? They'd be better off if they never went to those schools again. But again, the temporary clampdowns are to tighten security after Arab terror attacks.
or visit your friends and relatives in your land then your land is occupied.
They should quit launching mortars and rockets into homes from "their land."
I find it highly disturbing that the US recoils in revulsion at the brutal beheading of one of its own, but bats nary an eyelid when superweapons designed to kill MILLIONS are announced
Did you read the article? If our objective was simply to kill a lot of people, we might as well keep using old-fashioned carpet bombing. Or nuclear bombs. These weapons are designed with the focus of killing the right people, not more people, thus ending violent conflicts more quickly and with fewer casualties on both sides.
Did you read the article? There was nothing about bombs in there. The point was basically that we're moving to a post-bomb era. A major objective with these projectiles and laser weapons is to make them accurate enough to kill terrorists without killing the children and other civilians they surround themselves with when they attack.
For every terrorist, there will be a hundred people in the same society that feel very strongly about the same issues, but not enough to become a terrorist. That is, until you drop a bomb on their children.
If your logic is correct, then these weapons will result in fewer people becoming terrorists as we wipe out those who already are.
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Developers Techno Remix
The link vivek7006 gave is not a "monster-remix."
Google has pulled off a perfect rope-a-dope scheme, perhaps unintentionally. At first, GMail appears vulnerable since Microsoft and Yahoo could easily match its 1 GB storage. But that's not GMail's real strength. By its competitors raising their storage limits, they are *emphasizing* their own strategic *weaknesses* (no automatic organization, lousy searching), and Google will pummel them in the webmail market with its arsenal of exclusive advantages.
You do realize that the cost/employee of these perks is taken into account when your salary is set, don't you? They aren't free. Look at it from the employer's perspective. Your salary is only part of the total cost of your employment. Your presence incurs expenses for the company, and the total figure is what's important.
When you slurp a Mountain Dew, that's coming out of your would've-been-higher salary. When the company "matches" your contribution to your 401k plan, guess what? You're paying the "company's contribution" too! That's money that would've been part of your salary.
Perks like sodas are fine with me, but I don't ask for gratuitous amenities from employers, because I understand whose wallet will be hit to pay for them. Of course, employers aren't going to show specific deductions on each pay stub or reduce existing salaries. They want to you to think, as you say, "we value you" loud and clear. Letting you see your opportunity cost would reduce the effect on your morale.
However, your employer might cut back on raises or bonuses. They might hire fewer people and force you to do the work of two or three employees because they can't afford the personal offices, all-you-can-eat junk food, 21-inch flat screens, and ergonomic yuppie chairs for each and every employee that you claimed would improve your work performance.
Google can't be giving code "back" to the community since the community never owned or helped create Google's code. Google can give us their code, but it cannot be said that they are giving it back. It was never ours. We are not entitled to it.
Cool, Mohamud quotes Jesus.
David Koresh was not a Christian. He claimed to be God! (IIRC)
Condoning evil is also a slippery slope.
Complex truth: "Linus created Linux."
Yeah, I was a little mystified by a couple of lines in the article:
Uh, what site is he reading?Set up us the bomb! w00t! What you say? HA HA HA HA !! In Soviet Russia set up the bomb YOU!
He must be new here. (I'll admit, it does kind of constitute another language.)
It doesn't work at all for me on Mozilla (1.7 RC2).
It's the business of the business to help its business. Listeners can turn it off? That's the whole point. The station company doesn't want people to turn off their station. They want you to hear their advertisers.
They also want to be in their listeners' good graces, thus, ensuring listeners for future advertisements and profits for the company. The company may have decided to not play songs that they thought would make a majority of its listeners want to turn off the radio. They would have been respecting the listeners by not playing music that was likely to be offensive during those super-sensitive post-9/11 days of raw pain and fear.
I think you've forgotten what it felt like back then. It was surreal and terrifying. Our nation's capital suffered a direct hit by enemy fire (literally). Our TV screens were full of explosions ("great balls of fire") and survivors who looked like they had just stepped out of black and white photos of WWII, dazed and confused in an urban war zone of mass wreckage and debris. We were grieving and crying for thousands of Americans who were burned alive or jumped to their deaths to escape the fire. We were all waiting for the next shoe to drop, another major attack, at any second. Offending some people during that time could have been so powerful and infuriating that they would have disavowed that station forever.
Imagine hearing Disco Inferno the day after 9/11.
Horrifying... a station could've gotten branded as "the anti-American station" (or something equally damaging to business) for years as a result of playing songs like that at that time.Not only is this the Alpha release, but it is the Alpha 1 release. Yes, it's very buggy. There will be two Alpha releases from now on. Note the new milestone schedule.
Why would Christians be against it?
"Mission Accomplished" was for the troops who were riding home on the carrier Bush was on when he said it. For them, their mission was accomplished.
After a little investigation, I realized that W3Schools is not run by the W3C. Still, its numbers are interesting. I'd like to know how they got them.
According to this W3 site, IE 5 and 6 combined is down to 82.3%, and Mozilla is up to 10.7%.
That article is about the National Council of Churches, which aligns itself with the World Council of Churches, a despicable, corrupt organization. Those people are liberal apostates. They are enemies of America and Israel. They don't believe in most of the Bible and are Christians in name only, in my opinion.
Palestine was not a country/state/kingdom or any sovereign entity. When was it founded? Who was one of its Kings/Dictators/PMs/Presidents? (There are Jewish kings buried all over "Palestine.") Where are its ancient ruins? (There are Jewish ruins all over "Palestine.") Where are its ancient artifacts from the land? What was its currency? Tell me anything about it. It is fantasy. You have no credibility to discuss Israel until you admit that.
alaaosh, you gotta wake up and smell the falafel. Palestine as an Arab state is a myth. Yassir Arafat was born in Cairo. He's no more Palestinian than you are. Ariel Sharon, on the other hand, was born in "Palestine" in the 1920s.Jews used to be the ones called Palestinians. Tourism posters in the early 20th century said: "Come to Palestine." Palestine was known to the Christian West as the Holy Land because it was the land of the Jews and the birthplace of Y'shua, our Messiah/Christ, Who incidentally was born in Bethlehem of Y'huda, not "Bethlehem of Palestine/West Bank."
The Jewish people have not encroached upon an existing Palestinian Arab state. Most of what you are claiming was Palestine was part of Transjordan. Don't you see? There was no Palestine. It's a modern invention to push the Jewish people out of their homeland in the Middle East.
Btw, the reality of speciation is crucial to the feasibility of all those animals fitting on the Ark, e.g., there weren't as many as you think. "Kinds" != species.
Well, there was this thing called the Holocaust...
but thats beside the point anyway, the demand is not for anyone to leave the country anymore.
the original goal of the PLO was one secular democratic state to hold both people (this seems like an impossible dream now).
I think most Palestinians would be very offended if you told them that Jews should be allowed to live in a future Arab-controlled Palestine. You'd probably get killed if you advocated that in Gaza.
The current demands of almost every Arab and of UN resolution if for Israel to return to its 1967 borders
Oh, come on. How old are you? How can you think that? It's just not true. You would definitely get killed if you advocated that in Gaza.
Arabs have 22 countries and 22 arab people want to live in their own country, I don't see what kind of an argument this is.
That's not what I said. Arabs have many countries in the land they've traditionally lived on (and beyond). Jews don't have any countries in the land they've traditionally lived on. Arabs are trying to usurp the one tract of land in the world that the Jewish people have a legitimate, historical claim to as their homeland.
According to international law, land can be considered occupied only if it belongs to a "foreign sovereign." Since no state of Palestine exists or has ever existed, there is no occupied territory that so-called Palestinians can lay claim to.
hell even the Israeli government refers to it as so
It was uttered once by the flailing Prime Minister in a moment of extraordinary stupor. It is not an official position of the government.
ask any palestinian if they're living under occupation or not when settlers can and do take your land,
In the 1930s, European anti-Semites used to sneer, "Jews, go to Palestine." Now, they say, "Jews, get out of Palestine." Where do you propose they go? Arabs have 22 countries and 11,796,381 sq km of land. Jews can't have 1 country and 20k sq km? Eretz Yisrael is their traditional homeland. They were there thousands of years before Mohammad lived.
then armies stop you from moving freely and living your daily life
After Arab terrorists in the area murder Israelis, the Israeli forces temporarily stop them from moving freely. If 80% of the PA-run areas' population (according to a recent survey) didn't support the intifada and if the Arabs didn't use their freedom to murder Jews in their homes, Israeli forces wouldn't be compelled to restrict their movement.
when you're not allowed to go to your school
What, so they can be brainwashed and taught to hate and learn songs like "Arabs Our Beloved and Jews Our Dogs"? They'd be better off if they never went to those schools again. But again, the temporary clampdowns are to tighten security after Arab terror attacks.
or visit your friends and relatives in your land then your land is occupied.
They should quit launching mortars and rockets into homes from "their land."
Did you read the article? If our objective was simply to kill a lot of people, we might as well keep using old-fashioned carpet bombing. Or nuclear bombs. These weapons are designed with the focus of killing the right people, not more people, thus ending violent conflicts more quickly and with fewer casualties on both sides.
Did you read the article? There was nothing about bombs in there. The point was basically that we're moving to a post-bomb era. A major objective with these projectiles and laser weapons is to make them accurate enough to kill terrorists without killing the children and other civilians they surround themselves with when they attack.
For every terrorist, there will be a hundred people in the same society that feel very strongly about the same issues, but not enough to become a terrorist. That is, until you drop a bomb on their children.
If your logic is correct, then these weapons will result in fewer people becoming terrorists as we wipe out those who already are.
If your audience was a bunch of morons you would say, "we must be nice to these people because they don't like our foreign policy."