I was just getting my head around memorizing all the different G's and all the countries within them and you toss me back to the "world" ranking? I knew I shouldn't have thrown those 80's school books away!
This is not at all "nostalgia": it's not something I'm making up. It is not an opinion, it is a *fact*. You cannot argue with a fact.
It could be argued that your fact is not really a fact. Or, even, a fact of relevance to the whole discussion. Or it could be argued that, yes, you can most certainly argue with a fact, in fact, some people call it a discussion, and/or politics, and/or television.
The old MP3 topic comes around once again. It's a pity the article doesn't give more data and how the research was conducted.
Indeed, people probably prefer what they're used to. No matter how many times people pronounce the death of high quality audio because of increasing sales MP3 players and music, an interesting side effect happens. Vinyl sales and turntables keep on going up. Sure, the new vinyl sales numbers are not stratospheric compared to digital distribution, it's, nonetheless, amazing that not only vinyl has survived, but it's growing amid all this. (Steve Guttenberg from CNet wrote about this today.)
Mal Waldrom used to hang out in a 2nd hand audio store and no matter how hard the owner of the store tried to give him a proper hifi system, he persisted on listening to his portable CD player with plastic Sony speakers. He said that the music system was only there to remind him of the music that existed in his head. Admittedly, he had the advantage of having played with jazz greats and no matter which system, the music in his head was indeed better.
Facebook [...] says it could make a billion dollars a year from advertising
Go on then.
I'm pretty sure they're referring to the amounts of money they'll get if/when they sell all the users' private data to those online pharmacies and the likes.
Ithink I have enough of this. A toy company will make laws on my country?
You mean, they're lobbying the government? I wonder in which country you live that seems to have successfully rid itself of lobbying.
LinkedIn through the eyes of a headhunter
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I work for one of the top executive search companies in the world and LinkedIn is an indispensable tool.
In the past, headhunting was very much about who you knew, the company's own database, thrashing through newsfeeds, list of associations, etc., and a lot of cold calling. LinkedIn has, in a very short time, topped them all.
LinkedIn provides a headhunter with a database that updates itself and that constantly grows without much effort (each connection who adds a connection "expands" my network). It also gives direct access to top executives and allows the headhunter to read the executive's profile before speaking with him/her.
Through the eyes of the user, indeed, the entry price is a little loss of privacy, but I believe the gains outweigh the losses. A LinkedIn user enters the radar screen of headhunters, allows you to stay in touch with former colleagues and friends, and, who knows?!, lands you a job.
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I was just getting my head around memorizing all the different G's and all the countries within them and you toss me back to the "world" ranking? I knew I shouldn't have thrown those 80's school books away!
This is not at all "nostalgia": it's not something I'm making up. It is not an opinion, it is a *fact*. You cannot argue with a fact.
It could be argued that your fact is not really a fact. Or, even, a fact of relevance to the whole discussion. Or it could be argued that, yes, you can most certainly argue with a fact, in fact, some people call it a discussion, and/or politics, and/or television.
The old MP3 topic comes around once again. It's a pity the article doesn't give more data and how the research was conducted.
Indeed, people probably prefer what they're used to. No matter how many times people pronounce the death of high quality audio because of increasing sales MP3 players and music, an interesting side effect happens. Vinyl sales and turntables keep on going up. Sure, the new vinyl sales numbers are not stratospheric compared to digital distribution, it's, nonetheless, amazing that not only vinyl has survived, but it's growing amid all this. (Steve Guttenberg from CNet wrote about this today.)
Mal Waldrom used to hang out in a 2nd hand audio store and no matter how hard the owner of the store tried to give him a proper hifi system, he persisted on listening to his portable CD player with plastic Sony speakers. He said that the music system was only there to remind him of the music that existed in his head. Admittedly, he had the advantage of having played with jazz greats and no matter which system, the music in his head was indeed better.
Go on then.
I'm pretty sure they're referring to the amounts of money they'll get if/when they sell all the users' private data to those online pharmacies and the likes.
Ithink I have enough of this. A toy company will make laws on my country?
You mean, they're lobbying the government? I wonder in which country you live that seems to have successfully rid itself of lobbying.
I work for one of the top executive search companies in the world and LinkedIn is an indispensable tool.
In the past, headhunting was very much about who you knew, the company's own database, thrashing through newsfeeds, list of associations, etc., and a lot of cold calling. LinkedIn has, in a very short time, topped them all.
LinkedIn provides a headhunter with a database that updates itself and that constantly grows without much effort (each connection who adds a connection "expands" my network). It also gives direct access to top executives and allows the headhunter to read the executive's profile before speaking with him/her.
Through the eyes of the user, indeed, the entry price is a little loss of privacy, but I believe the gains outweigh the losses. A LinkedIn user enters the radar screen of headhunters, allows you to stay in touch with former colleagues and friends, and, who knows?!, lands you a job.
Hollywood style poetic justice would name a justice Tango and the other Cash.