What about the cost of finding the person? The lawyers they had to hire, the IT guys to log IP addresses, the cost of legal documents and court fees etc. Also, let's not forget that the lawsuits are filed to act as a deterrence for future wanna be file sharers.
They can spend millions in trying to integrate office in to hotmail and yet every time I enter my user-id I have to put the "@hotmail.com" Really? You couldn't check to see if I put in hotmail.com in my address bar and then just assume that? I can understand if I linked from MSN.com and you gave a drop down for it. At least make it a drop down so I don't have to type the damn thing out.
We've talked about this before but why do people in OSS community accept odd names? Guacamole? Would you consider this to be a serious product for home use even?
Evidence: http://www.suntimes.com/news/2127966,CST-NWS-cameras29.article
They resist EVERYTHING that could possibly catch them doing something they shouldn't be...you know like sounding like hard-asses when people ask them basic questions such as "what am I being stopped for?" What is their problem with every technology that gets introduced? 911 operators have all their calls recorded, why can't these men and women agree to this? It looks like they're trying to hide things. The recent news reports of off-duty cops beating women, getting in to bar fights etc. isn't exactly helping their case either. Again, my two cents, but based on actually reading the news!
I'll say it anyway. Man, shut the f*ck up already!
I get that this is Slahdot and bitching is a way of life here, but can we please just put this shit to rest. People use whatever technology is good for them. Each has costs, each has benefits, each has security issues, each has usability issues, each has moron users, each has technical users that can hack it to make it work, each is attacked by criminals to exploit, each can be used by governments where they see fit, each can be used by non-profits where it fits, and each can cost whatever the f*ckin' money it wants, each can be bought by whomever in a box, DVD, flash drive, ftp, torrent, or whatever...
I like to see lists of how your use of it has benefited you..."I use it and I like it because I can do x,y, and z which is what I needed" This shit of, "your dick is small so we can't really talk about my man-boobs" argument is starting to annoy me.
Do you use Office 2007 everyday? I use 2007 at work and it actually is easier to work with that Office 2003 and its menus that I use at home. The UI is not hard to get use to...just annoying for the first two weeks. After that, you wonder why it wasn't this way from the beginning.
It's like working on a laptop with a touchpad and then switching to a TrackPoint. You'll complain for two weeks and miss it dearly once it's taken away.
The Wall Street Journal is a newspaper that's been charging for online content since as long as I can remember their site. Crain's Chicago Business is another site that charges. I pay for that site since it covers Chicago business news much better than any TV station in Chicago does.
See some sort of pattern? People will pay for the content if it is valuable enough. If it's Perez Hilton's blog, no one cares to pay for it. Many times, WSJ is the first one to break some sort of major news story. Crain's covers Chicago Business in depth and has access to local business leaders because of it.
It doesn't matter that others in their peer group give crap away for free. If you put some effort in to making a good product, people will buy it.
They ignore it because the price of it is volatile. Look at the price of oil. It's $100 off it's high mark from barely five months. If you included it in, the numbers would be wild. Their assumption is that if the price goes up a lot, it will trickle down in to the rest of the economy. Remember DuPont and Dow saying they would raise prices for their chemicals because the fuel to deliver was getting higher? You can't count the cost of fuel rise AND the cost of chemical price rise. If you do that, you're just counting the inflation twice.
He called Bill Clinton the Democratic nominee early for the '92 election...called Florida the "must win" state in 2000, and you could always count on him saying something that sounded like it was from left feild but would come true in a few months.
A few days ago, after Obama secured the nomination, I saw him smile a little while talking about him on Nightly News. Smiling not for the candidate, but I think he was really, really, really excited that he would might see a black man get elected president of his great country in HIS lifetime. He looked like a little kid...sad he did not live to see what will be.
Didn't know him personally, but great journalist. A lot will miss him.
Because the professor's time is more expensive than the money your University paid a tech support guy to do part time student work. Sometimes I hate being on the phone too. It's not a condescending thing. It's just quicker if you get your ass over here and do it rather than explain this shit to me over and over. If I am an English professor, wtf do I care about windows drivers and reinstalling them.
It works because you are able to target the audience. If you post ads for diabetes medicine randomly, not everyone will click on it. If, however, you HAVE diabetes and you are on WebMd you are more likely to click on it to find out more information. So you post your ad on WebMd. No one wants random people to click on diabetes ads. The people who have diabetes are more likely to click and more likely to buy than those that just watch an ad on TV in the background.
I thought I'd never click on ads either, but just the other day I clicked on a Yahoo ad offering cheap ticket prices to Six Flags parks. It was targeted to me because I entered my zip code to find the weather in my city and they thought I might be interested in this.
I can go on and on... how about every Thursday afternoon offering a coupon on Metromix for a local Happy Hour place near your zip code. Are you doing research on used cars before you buy? I put in an add for a car insurance company you may not have heard of but is the fourth largest insurance company in your state and insures the type of car you are buying.
First, I don't know which Starbucks you go to get coffee, but what you said is not true! If you bring in your own mug, it's only.10 cents off the price of the coffee. Once you buy coffee and then ask for a re-fill, then it's like.50 cents or something.
Also, it does have an elitist attitude. Have you ever been to a local diner or something and bought a cup of coffee? It's still under $1 and they don't force feed you hippy music and call the f*kin' coffee "Americana" It's still ordered coffee with cream and sugar.
Don't hate the desi brothers at Dunkin... I take you it you never eat at McDonald's or Subway either because they take your order and make the sandwich WITHOUT asking you for a TIP to do their damn job. peeesshhh...
As for the Wi-Fi... nothing is free. Get used to it. Leeches!
Exactly! Next year, get an internship where they have project managers running an implementation of something. Sit, shut up, and watch. Learn what is going right, what went wrong, who was complaining and why, who didn't do what they were suppose to do and what e-mail the PM wrote to get that fool to start working, what words are commonly used in the office, how to operate within the cubicle social rules, what steps did people take to correct a wrong, was the wrong I.T. related, business related, or just a clash of personalities, who documented what and why, take notes during meetings even if you know no one will be reading them etc. You do that and I can tell you for sure, you've got a head start.
Second, figure out what your likes outside of programming are. In business, do you like HR, Finance, Accounting, manufacturing, service, retail, or something else. Get a niche understanding of a specific business function. I can't tell you how many recent grad developers we hire and put them in the HR space and they look at us like we are crazy. What? HR needs programming too and no, we don't need you to tell us to recompile some kernel of anything. Help us solve this issue! If you think you are going to be given some hard written requirements and be expected to code off that, be prepared to buy a ticket to India in your free time next year since that is the only place that happens.
I didn't tell you to learn any programming languages. I know I'm going to probably get chewed for this, but I believe that once you know one language, you know programming. Different languages are just tools to help you solve problems in different ways. If you can't even figure out the solution to a business problem, knowing C, C++, Java, ASM, FORTRAN, Perl, Python, or any of the 4,302,013 languages isn't going to help you any.
I heard about this a few weeks ago. I also heard that Japanese car makers, US car makers, and even domestic car makers (in partnership with the foreign companies) were going to come out with their own cars to compete direclty with TATA in India.
I would like to see Toyota use their hybrid technology on this type of car. I know it won't meet the Detroit lobbyists' requirements for "safety" , but getting a country with so many drivers to reduce their Carbon output has to have a benefit for all. I'm sure China won't be far behind India if this works well.
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What about the cost of finding the person? The lawyers they had to hire, the IT guys to log IP addresses, the cost of legal documents and court fees etc. Also, let's not forget that the lawsuits are filed to act as a deterrence for future wanna be file sharers.
hahhaaa... I wish I had mod points. I don't know if they got the Bill Gates joke.
They can spend millions in trying to integrate office in to hotmail and yet every time I enter my user-id I have to put the "@hotmail.com" Really? You couldn't check to see if I put in hotmail.com in my address bar and then just assume that? I can understand if I linked from MSN.com and you gave a drop down for it. At least make it a drop down so I don't have to type the damn thing out.
We've talked about this before but why do people in OSS community accept odd names? Guacamole? Would you consider this to be a serious product for home use even?
Evidence: http://www.suntimes.com/news/2127966,CST-NWS-cameras29.article They resist EVERYTHING that could possibly catch them doing something they shouldn't be...you know like sounding like hard-asses when people ask them basic questions such as "what am I being stopped for?" What is their problem with every technology that gets introduced? 911 operators have all their calls recorded, why can't these men and women agree to this? It looks like they're trying to hide things. The recent news reports of off-duty cops beating women, getting in to bar fights etc. isn't exactly helping their case either. Again, my two cents, but based on actually reading the news!
I'll say it anyway. Man, shut the f*ck up already!
I get that this is Slahdot and bitching is a way of life here, but can we please just put this shit to rest. People use whatever technology is good for them. Each has costs, each has benefits, each has security issues, each has usability issues, each has moron users, each has technical users that can hack it to make it work, each is attacked by criminals to exploit, each can be used by governments where they see fit, each can be used by non-profits where it fits, and each can cost whatever the f*ckin' money it wants, each can be bought by whomever in a box, DVD, flash drive, ftp, torrent, or whatever...
I like to see lists of how your use of it has benefited you..."I use it and I like it because I can do x,y, and z which is what I needed" This shit of, "your dick is small so we can't really talk about my man-boobs" argument is starting to annoy me.
Do you use Office 2007 everyday? I use 2007 at work and it actually is easier to work with that Office 2003 and its menus that I use at home. The UI is not hard to get use to...just annoying for the first two weeks. After that, you wonder why it wasn't this way from the beginning.
It's like working on a laptop with a touchpad and then switching to a TrackPoint. You'll complain for two weeks and miss it dearly once it's taken away.
Use things first..compare..and then whine!
The Wall Street Journal is a newspaper that's been charging for online content since as long as I can remember their site. Crain's Chicago Business is another site that charges. I pay for that site since it covers Chicago business news much better than any TV station in Chicago does.
See some sort of pattern? People will pay for the content if it is valuable enough. If it's Perez Hilton's blog, no one cares to pay for it. Many times, WSJ is the first one to break some sort of major news story. Crain's covers Chicago Business in depth and has access to local business leaders because of it.
It doesn't matter that others in their peer group give crap away for free. If you put some effort in to making a good product, people will buy it.
They ignore it because the price of it is volatile. Look at the price of oil. It's $100 off it's high mark from barely five months. If you included it in, the numbers would be wild. Their assumption is that if the price goes up a lot, it will trickle down in to the rest of the economy. Remember DuPont and Dow saying they would raise prices for their chemicals because the fuel to deliver was getting higher? You can't count the cost of fuel rise AND the cost of chemical price rise. If you do that, you're just counting the inflation twice.
I'd buy it if not for that awkward looking track ball
He called Bill Clinton the Democratic nominee early for the '92 election...called Florida the "must win" state in 2000, and you could always count on him saying something that sounded like it was from left feild but would come true in a few months.
A few days ago, after Obama secured the nomination, I saw him smile a little while talking about him on Nightly News. Smiling not for the candidate, but I think he was really, really, really excited that he would might see a black man get elected president of his great country in HIS lifetime. He looked like a little kid...sad he did not live to see what will be.
Didn't know him personally, but great journalist. A lot will miss him.
Jim Oberweis. He wanted Bill Foster to go back to his old job before November.
Because the professor's time is more expensive than the money your University paid a tech support guy to do part time student work. Sometimes I hate being on the phone too. It's not a condescending thing. It's just quicker if you get your ass over here and do it rather than explain this shit to me over and over. If I am an English professor, wtf do I care about windows drivers and reinstalling them.
It works because you are able to target the audience. If you post ads for diabetes medicine randomly, not everyone will click on it. If, however, you HAVE diabetes and you are on WebMd you are more likely to click on it to find out more information. So you post your ad on WebMd. No one wants random people to click on diabetes ads. The people who have diabetes are more likely to click and more likely to buy than those that just watch an ad on TV in the background.
I thought I'd never click on ads either, but just the other day I clicked on a Yahoo ad offering cheap ticket prices to Six Flags parks. It was targeted to me because I entered my zip code to find the weather in my city and they thought I might be interested in this.
I can go on and on... how about every Thursday afternoon offering a coupon on Metromix for a local Happy Hour place near your zip code. Are you doing research on used cars before you buy? I put in an add for a car insurance company you may not have heard of but is the fourth largest insurance company in your state and insures the type of car you are buying.
First, I don't know which Starbucks you go to get coffee, but what you said is not true! If you bring in your own mug, it's only .10 cents off the price of the coffee. Once you buy coffee and then ask for a re-fill, then it's like .50 cents or something.
Also, it does have an elitist attitude. Have you ever been to a local diner or something and bought a cup of coffee? It's still under $1 and they don't force feed you hippy music and call the f*kin' coffee "Americana" It's still ordered coffee with cream and sugar.
Don't hate the desi brothers at Dunkin... I take you it you never eat at McDonald's or Subway either because they take your order and make the sandwich WITHOUT asking you for a TIP to do their damn job. peeesshhh...
As for the Wi-Fi... nothing is free. Get used to it. Leeches!
The cables will be plugged in when this game reaches the X Games.
Exactly! Next year, get an internship where they have project managers running an implementation of something. Sit, shut up, and watch. Learn what is going right, what went wrong, who was complaining and why, who didn't do what they were suppose to do and what e-mail the PM wrote to get that fool to start working, what words are commonly used in the office, how to operate within the cubicle social rules, what steps did people take to correct a wrong, was the wrong I.T. related, business related, or just a clash of personalities, who documented what and why, take notes during meetings even if you know no one will be reading them etc. You do that and I can tell you for sure, you've got a head start.
Second, figure out what your likes outside of programming are. In business, do you like HR, Finance, Accounting, manufacturing, service, retail, or something else. Get a niche understanding of a specific business function. I can't tell you how many recent grad developers we hire and put them in the HR space and they look at us like we are crazy. What? HR needs programming too and no, we don't need you to tell us to recompile some kernel of anything. Help us solve this issue! If you think you are going to be given some hard written requirements and be expected to code off that, be prepared to buy a ticket to India in your free time next year since that is the only place that happens.
I didn't tell you to learn any programming languages. I know I'm going to probably get chewed for this, but I believe that once you know one language, you know programming. Different languages are just tools to help you solve problems in different ways. If you can't even figure out the solution to a business problem, knowing C, C++, Java, ASM, FORTRAN, Perl, Python, or any of the 4,302,013 languages isn't going to help you any.
I heard about this a few weeks ago. I also heard that Japanese car makers, US car makers, and even domestic car makers (in partnership with the foreign companies) were going to come out with their own cars to compete direclty with TATA in India. I would like to see Toyota use their hybrid technology on this type of car. I know it won't meet the Detroit lobbyists' requirements for "safety" , but getting a country with so many drivers to reduce their Carbon output has to have a benefit for all. I'm sure China won't be far behind India if this works well.