First off, you need to be making news. No news, no PR. Use marketing and sales instead.
If you have news, make a database of appropriate journals, both web and print. What really counts in this database is contacts. Build relationships with your contacts at these journals as time goes on. This is one reason why a decent PR agency works--they already have relationships with journalists and editors. Also, note that a good PR agency won't waste their good karma with decent contacts by promoting something that isn't newsworthy. If you are sending out minor news, don't bother with followup calls, just hope that soembody needs filler.
But don't be shy about sending out press releases about you landing some big sale! Always provide decent copy -- good enough to be used verbatim and slick photographic artwork (analog & digital) with a release. Have a press kit (you do have a press kit, don't you?) available on your website in pdf format, put up your logo in eps format & also high-rez jpegs. Make it available to anybody who wants. There's no reason to secret it away! It will help you sell your products, no matter who reads it.
Keep any reviews and articles and make them also available on your website, and put the good one's in your press kit (you do have a press kit, don't you?) The journal will be delighted that you put their name on your public website.
So we had Win95,98,ME versus NT,2000. Did that kill Micros**t?
There are plenty of developers working with both KDE and Gnome. It is really a non-issue since anybody with a mouse can use both KDE and Gnome apps simultaneously.
I couldn't agree more. Nations are a direct outgrowth of simian colony behavior.
Monkey colony --> tribal society --> fiefdoms --> states --> kingdoms --> nations.
Study the alpha male in a chimpanzee colony and you see a great resemblance to GWBush and/or Margaret Thatcher. National borders are one of the greatest hinderances to humanity. Until humanity is truly free to walk the earth in freedom from oppressive nationalism, we walk with a gun to our back.
So here's a quote for the conservatives, "Nationalism sucks! Burn your flags now!"
Trolling? No, I'm making what I understand to be a very valid point. It concerns freedom and the use of will, and the letting go of one's will and putting oneself in a cage under the promise that the cage will provide safety.
In this point, I'm talking about you as a caged monkey, not the criminal monkey.
I'm appalled at how shitty the US justice system is. It has taken much to long for a 1995 'restitution' order to be overturned by this byzantine system.
You're mistaken if you think Apple's OSX is BSD. There is only a compatibility layer to accept BSD system calls. There is no BSD kernel, there are only the usual set of utilities from the BSD tree.
I think OSX sucks too, but not for the reasons Linus gives. Steve Job's glittery eye candy provides little functionality and sucks (there's that word again) too many CPU cycles to render it.
The fact that it lacks stability means Apple has a piss-poor staff of people admining their programmers. The most stable operating system I've ever used was NeXTStep V2 series. Apple has been sitting on and kludging NextStep for many many years. There is NO EXCUSE for such a lame product!
ABout the only advantage to Mach I can think of is that one kernel can support multiple cpu architectures. Not much of a selling point, but NeXT made a computer called the NeXT Domension which had a 68040 for the main stuff and an i960 for the Display PostScript interpreter/display driver.
Other than that, I think Mach gives up much too much speed for its feature set. The rest of OSX could easily be ported to Linux or a BSD OS, and I think Apple should do so!
I live nrth of Napa, California. I'm out in the cvountry and the skies were perfect. I saw them at arounf 10 last night. At the peak, about 120 degrees from horizon to horizon. A couple of green streaks made it all the way overhead.
My girlsfiend said they were very romantioc and later that night I experienced a coronal mass ejection.
Custom COBOL software? Port it. After all, the Stuff you're using now was ported from a mainframe several years ago. Even if your company paid an oursider to do it, it would be cheaper in the long run.
Windows packaged accounting software? Just go to google and type in "linux accounting"
Groupware? It ALL came out of the UNIX world, starting with usenet news. You can even buy Notes, but then we're trying to get away from lame licenses, aren't we? Arent we?
As America moves further and futher away from God.
Unfortunately, it seems that country is moving much closer to the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant myth of God, and to no good end. Religion is largely responsible for much of the suffering in this world, including overpopulation.
When religion stops becoming an inner journey, and falls into the realms of social policy, then we get such treasures as the Taliban, Jerry Falwell, Iranian Ayatolas, etc.
Gee, now that Slashdot has become a Microsoft interest site, I get to be inundated with big pop-up windows that say, "Sorry! Macromedia can't find a player for YOUR COMPUTER!"
So the real question is, "Do you feel Slashdot is becoming more like the Microsoft world?"
I'm expecting a couple of mod downs on THIS posting! Flamebait! Offtopic! Redundant!!!
Makes me wonder if the radio stations are going to mind Realnetworks copying their broadcasts for profit. Or do the radio stations get a cut of the $20 million? The broadcasts aren't the exclusive property of MLB, they are jointly owned by the broadcaster and MLB.
Anyway, no way is Real going to get close to pulling $20 million out of subscribers for thewir crappy service.
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First off, you need to be making news. No news, no PR. Use marketing and sales instead.
If you have news, make a database of appropriate journals, both web and print. What really counts in this database is contacts. Build relationships with your contacts at these journals as time goes on. This is one reason why a decent PR agency works--they already have relationships with journalists and editors. Also, note that a good PR agency won't waste their good karma with decent contacts by promoting something that isn't newsworthy. If you are sending out minor news, don't bother with followup calls, just hope that soembody needs filler.
But don't be shy about sending out press releases about you landing some big sale! Always provide decent copy -- good enough to be used verbatim and slick photographic artwork (analog & digital) with a release. Have a press kit (you do have a press kit, don't you?) available on your website in pdf format, put up your logo in eps format & also high-rez jpegs. Make it available to anybody who wants. There's no reason to secret it away! It will help you sell your products, no matter who reads it.
Keep any reviews and articles and make them also available on your website, and put the good one's in your press kit (you do have a press kit, don't you?) The journal will be delighted that you put their name on your public website.
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blessings,
There is no reason to assume Micros**t will not control the consumer PC market within 5 years.
blessings,
There are plenty of developers working with both KDE and Gnome. It is really a non-issue since anybody with a mouse can use both KDE and Gnome apps simultaneously.
blessings,
blessings,
Monkey colony --> tribal society --> fiefdoms --> states --> kingdoms --> nations.
Study the alpha male in a chimpanzee colony and you see a great resemblance to GWBush and/or Margaret Thatcher. National borders are one of the greatest hinderances to humanity. Until humanity is truly free to walk the earth in freedom from oppressive nationalism, we walk with a gun to our back.
So here's a quote for the conservatives, "Nationalism sucks! Burn your flags now!"
blessings,
blessings,
In this point, I'm talking about you as a caged monkey, not the criminal monkey.
blessings,
blessings,
Right. And just think how difficult it would be to pick one's nose if they knew they were being watched!
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The fact that it lacks stability means Apple has a piss-poor staff of people admining their programmers. The most stable operating system I've ever used was NeXTStep V2 series. Apple has been sitting on and kludging NextStep for many many years. There is NO EXCUSE for such a lame product!
blessings,
Other than that, I think Mach gives up much too much speed for its feature set. The rest of OSX could easily be ported to Linux or a BSD OS, and I think Apple should do so!
blessings,
My girlsfiend said they were very romantioc and later that night I experienced a coronal mass ejection.
blessings,
blessings,
Windows packaged accounting software? Just go to google and type in "linux accounting"
Groupware? It ALL came out of the UNIX world, starting with usenet news. You can even buy Notes, but then we're trying to get away from lame licenses, aren't we? Arent we?
blessings,
Unfortunately, it seems that country is moving much closer to the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant myth of God, and to no good end. Religion is largely responsible for much of the suffering in this world, including overpopulation.
When religion stops becoming an inner journey, and falls into the realms of social policy, then we get such treasures as the Taliban, Jerry Falwell, Iranian Ayatolas, etc.
blessings,
So the real question is, "Do you feel Slashdot is becoming more like the Microsoft world?"
I'm expecting a couple of mod downs on THIS posting! Flamebait! Offtopic! Redundant!!!
blessings,
blessings,
Anyway, no way is Real going to get close to pulling $20 million out of subscribers for thewir crappy service.
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blessings,