...The scene outside the offices of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, home to the legendary VC John Doerr..Day and night, groups of eager dot-com executives, male and female, loiter near the entrance. They are waiting for a prospective backer, what they've come to call a "John Doerr." Whenever one of the venture partners walks by, the soliciting begins:
"Hey, money boy, you want No. 1 clicky-clicky?"
"Say baby, you've got the seed I need!"
The partners usually ignore these crass come-ons, and for most hopefuls, the day ends at around 11 p.m. Then they are picked up in a van driven by their "management consultant," usually the head of a Net incubator that has several companies it's trying to get funded...
--- "And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
X-files in its debut season wasn't watched by many, it was 2-3 years before the storm really picked up. X-files did have better writing to its benefit. But the premise of Lone Gunmen was good, and at least something slightly different than the rest of current television. There is unlikely something better that fox can come up with to replace it...perhaps a situation comedy with a bunch of urban 30 somethings getting into all kinds of crazy hijinx, or a new show following the highs and lows of a fake emergency ward, or maybe a staged quiz show where contenstants can vote each other out.
This is reminiscent of Fox's pulling of "Get A Life", which was by far and away the most creative sitcom of its time, and just replacing it with crap emulating things that were on TV elsewhere. Get A Life episodes are now out on DVD, for people to see what television can be before Fox pulls the plug on innovation.
--- "And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
They are indeed putting out less, this is well-known. Here is an excerpt of the most relevant research.
...The scene outside the offices of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, home to the legendary VC John Doerr, illustrates the sad story. Day and night, groups of eager dot-com executives, male and female, loiter near the entrance. They are waiting for a prospective backer, what they've come to call a "John Doerr." Whenever one of the venture partners walks by, the soliciting begins:
"Hey, money boy, you want No. 1 clicky-clicky?"
"Say baby, you've got the seed I need!"
The partners usually ignore these crass come-ons, and for most hopefuls, the day ends at around 11 p.m. Then they are picked up in a van driven by their "management consultant," usually the head of a Net incubator that has several companies it's trying to get funded..."
I curate a non-profit site that has been fortunate enough to have to look at the problem of scaling to high bandwidth usage. These are the ways costs of bandwidth were planned and managed:
Very sparse graphics, and in small palette of colours to reduce size of.gifs.
HTML code on a page kept as simple as possible. No chaff.
Cascading style sheet instead of formatting inline or styles redeclared on each page.
Information per page kept as concise as possible. Extra information that is not always wanted isn't sent down unrequested (eg: details popup on the listing).
An AvantGo channel with caches set many days ahead: it will download from AvantGo's cached server 99% of the time, not here.
A PalmOS application of the content which will only run up the bandwidth for the tiny initial download and then subsequent update packs.
A WML port, which only draws only a trickle of bandwidth, since pages are so tiny.
And no banner ads (they suck up bandwidth too, as well as slow things down especially if offsite).
Best of luck with your free website, Robert
--- "And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
WIPO can do their own decisions on which party or any should get the.wipo for any string of characters.
A.wipo name does what it says, it is what the WIPO says is the owner of that name. If want to find a world company with a company that has a near-global trademarked name, typing theirname.wipo will get you there. It can have its own fun playing with disputed case, and the winner of the case is still representative of what it is: who the WIPO thinks the name should go to.
This is beyond RealNames, since that system is crippled by requiring certain browsers, and also the RealNames authority makes glaring exceptions on its policy (such as if it is a content partner, then we will break our rules of name distribution). Also, as a private company, it may be more likely run up the renewal rates if it became popular. Google has a nice bypass as well, as the most referenced site will often be the official one, but this is an extra step in a search, the most referenced isn't always the official one.
--- "And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
A sample excerpt from the above news report: BELGRADE--Serbian president Vojislav Kostunica deployed more than 30,000 peacekeeping troops to the U.S. Monday, pledging full support to the troubled North American nation as it struggles to establish democracy.
"We must do all we can to support free elections in America and allow democracy to gain a foothold there," Kostunica said. "The U.S. is a major player in the Western Hemisphere and its continued stability is vital to Serbian interests in that region."
Kostunica urged Al Gore, the U.S. opposition-party leader who is refusing to recognize the nation's Nov. 7 election results, to "let the democratic process take its course."...
Can also refer to the red "Mayhem 2000" sidebar on the article for the rest of their election coverage.
--- "And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
Two claims in the above post are a bit misleading in regards to programming for the Palm:
"If you don't like the way the Planner works, you can modify it for yourself. You can't do this for other PDA's."
Palm gives out away the source code for all of the built-in applications for free, and without royalty. You can customize them and recompile them, or use them as a foundation to start off a new project, since most of the capabilities like database read/write of database, beaming, add/delete/records, preferences are already in there. Free software: This goes with being open source. If you've ever looked through the Palm program archives, there are many shareware apps that cost about 10 bucks each. While some of those might be worth the money, many are not. A linux PDA encourages developers to write free software. This will certainly benefit the end user.
Actually, the vast majority of programs that most people would use are available for free, as its been about 5 years now of Palm apps being made, and every good idea has been written again for free, examples: BugMe($) is available as DiddleBug(free), a free gameboy emulator instead of Liberty, free doc readers instead of TealDoc, Free databases like db to compete with the commercial ones like HanDBase.
Palm employs some people full-time to help maintain often the free, open-source GCC-PRCTools toolchain which is used makes a lion-share of the solid freeware open source apps. The result is that any fan of free software who has skill and who wishes to write and share a program can do so with zero barrier to entry versus the makers of the commercial software.
--- "And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
As an interesting aside to this post:
Some while back, some of you may recall Microsoft was making a few back-page headlines with their development plans for a card swipe for credit cards that is integrated into the side of the computer, and would be part of a future version of Windows. The purpose of this device was to aid in simplifying secure online commerce transactions. Now it seems it would be also a convenient way to renew M$ software subscriptions. A coinbox is likely forthcoming, though in a digital format.
--- "And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
In the spec sheet, I see that the thing that controls the AT-AT is called a Microcomputer(TM).
Do they feel bad that Lucas owns almost all the other trademark on the product that they had to come up with their own?
As they say in wrestling, "Is that legal?"
--- "And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
This is correct. Its Cystic Fibrosis, with the extra mucous in the GI tract giving an ability to survive things like cholera and dsyentery. Carrier frequency is 1/20 here in Ireland, since that defect helped the population get through some tough times. Other biggy is sickle cell anemia. When malaria infects the blood cells, the blood cells with sickle-cell anemia sickle up, and the spleen destroys those cells, helping clear the virus. There may be new unchallenged plagues on the horizon. If a Stephen King's The Stand scenario comes around, currently undesired genetic traits are a way to create different types of humans that may be at an advantage to survive.
--- "And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
Regarding an earlier post about vulgarity in movies, I watched "Dumb and Dumber" in the theatre. If you watch it, you will note Jim Carrey's old lover was called "Freida Felcher". Absolutely no effect at all on the rest of the audience, I guess since felch probably has yet to penetrate [sic] the mainstream's vocabulary.
--- "And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
Posting in case others don't get the joke of what the domain/logo/concept is parodying: Fast Company is a rah-rah newspaper that tells how wonderous all the dot-com companies are doing and how successful they all are. F*cked Company is a rather logical nomenclature for FC's antithesis newsletter during these months of cleaning out the dot-com failures.
Fast Company actually has a feature headline today: "When the going gets tough, the tough get real". Those flipping through the dot-com carnage at F*cked Company may beg to differ.
--- "And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
The new Guiness Record of World Records hardcover hit the store shelves here in Ireland this week (Guiness Records being started by the Irish beer company of same name, meaning it always get prominent display here).
Flipping through it, on the computer page, was a nice big colour picture of a Commodore 64, which a decade and a half later, still was the most popular computer of all time.
--- "And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
I like the things Corel are doing, especially WINE support, but alot of the negative image of the company lately is derived from his personality at the helm in the Linux era at the end of 1999: frothing at the mouth at tradeshows, showing stock graphs of Corel versus RedHat, and his insider trading scandals following him. I like Corel as a company: they put out pretty good software at fairly reasonable price, sold their prior version numbers of software at steep discounts, and gave free software out to the business offices of most non-profit charities I was a part of. Cowpland, though, just isn't a good front man to represent the company at this time.
I think Corel, after an initial jitter, will be better off without Cowpland right now. I hope that they can get someone with the right attitude and direction with some degree of star power to be the front man for the company as Linus is to Transmeta.
--- "And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
Lets see, they are unrolling.NET which runs their COM objects. I wonder how long before the ORG product line hits shelves. Gotta love the Microsoft marketing machine to try to subliminally link Microsoft to the creators of the Internet. Suppose thats what you gotta do when all you can do for innovation is make some cosmetic changes to java, and herald it as the dawn of a new era...
--- "And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
For works such as these where there is a loyal fan base getting an expected product, and there is an ability for some users to get away without paying but want to reward the good users, this is the model matrix I would like to see:
Fixed price for work to be completed is $800,000. Don't Pay: $0. Pay: $3.
If payment breaks threshold: credit a distributed refund of by how much broke the $800,000 mark. With serial formula base novels like King this credit is easily enough kept within Amazon.com to be used towards a future online King book preventing a frivolous credit card refund charge. Amazon is a macro bookseller so the credit could just also as well be used towards another book.
--- "And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
Reasons why pinball still draws a crowd
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To raise money for charity, I cut a deal with the local amusement operator to put some pins in some local buildings, usually in a ground floor or basement of a ~300 occupant apartment near the washing machines. 50% to charity, 50% to amusemnt operator who picks it up, and takes it away.
Results were outstanding. Machines were turning over thousands. Best I can see, here were the reasons, why:
1. There is never a 'home' version. Mortal Kombat, Crazy Taxi, you could buy a copy that mirrors the arcade and play it at home for free. Pinball is something that isn't in the home, unless have serious funds. Also, to buy a pinball at home would also require space as well as room. These were apartments.
3. Early 90's pinball not dated with time. Video games that are genre based like a racer, or fighting game, have had graphics improved greatly since 1992. People would have better racing games at home on their console than a 1992 arcade machine. Pinball from early 90's is same if not better than 2000 models.
4. Age group. These were apartment owners, in the 19 to 40 group usually. Old enough to know how to play pinball, have enough memories of enjoying playing one.
5. Inclusivity. Male/female numbers looked about 60%/40%. Seemed to draw in significant females as well as males to play repeatedly. Also, no new learning curve really needed for initial good game. To get anywhere in Mortal Kombat types, need to have memorized new long button sequences, in Racing genres have to have memorized the new tracks. In pinball, can transfer your old skill of how to flip and shake to a new table that you've never seen, making for a good game off the bat--important for bringing in new users for a repeat experience.
6. Replayability. It was niche, there would be about 10-15% of the population that would keep playing the game, due to a unique game each time. Put it a Time Crisis and once those 15% of people in the building beat it, the numbers fall as repeating the same exact sequence gets tiresome.
--- "And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
Conversation with my mother (age 59 at the time), when she was watching a Windows desktop for the first time to see how they worked. Her: "So how do I turn it off the computer if someone leaves it on?" Her:..."So I press the 'Start' button to shut the computer off?"
--- "And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
"...most widely read in the British Commonwealth in the 1950s"
Hadn't heard the Commonwealth bit before. Sort of makes sense now though looking at the two locations that are left in the book's world: Labrador (which is part of Newfoundland, a Canadian province), and "New Sealand", both Commonwealth countries. Guess he knew who his audience was and played 'em up a bit.
--- "And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
This is an issue and does need to be addressed in all workplaces, not just tech. But before people get their torches and pitchforks to the Internet companies, there is one point that seemed to have been left out of the article.
Premise 1: Men, on average in the US, are earlier adopters of technology, often translating to more men at a company with experience with the specific technologies of the Internet used in the position, and possibly with the company. Premise 2: Pay is commensurate with experience.
Claims of unequal pay need to have careful attention to stratify their comparisons based on experience, rather than to simply state "I am paid less than my males collegues" and expect a settlement.
--- "And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
Relating this story to todays story of why AOL won
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One of the primary reason's why AOL stayed on top despite bumbling errors, is because they were the first out the door with the product. Is a high bandwidth news widget ready for the consumers now? Probably now, but Internet2 is coming, and it will be one day. When that day hits, it will have been in the broadcasters best interests to have been the first one to have grabbed large sections of the market and they can build from there. Really, Slashdot foresaw the same future: was there millions of people a few years back that wanted a solid opensource/misc discussion forum? Probably not, but there is now, and Slashdot now has a huge slice of their eyeballs, making it tougher for any latecomers now who suddenly realize its a good idea.
--- "And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
Slashdot Mirror
Just a few of their findings:
...The scene outside the offices of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, home to the legendary VC John Doerr..Day and night, groups of eager dot-com executives, male and female, loiter near the entrance. They are waiting for a prospective backer, what they've come to call a "John Doerr." Whenever one of the venture partners walks by, the soliciting begins:
"Hey, money boy, you want No. 1 clicky-clicky?"
"Say baby, you've got the seed I need!"
The partners usually ignore these crass come-ons, and for most hopefuls, the day ends at around 11 p.m. Then they are picked up in a van driven by their "management consultant," usually the head of a Net incubator that has several companies it's trying to get funded...
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"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
Sounds like a very sound idea. Perhaps a slogan of "More than meets the iPaq"... :)
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"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
This is reminiscent of Fox's pulling of "Get A Life", which was by far and away the most creative sitcom of its time, and just replacing it with crap emulating things that were on TV elsewhere. Get A Life episodes are now out on DVD, for people to see what television can be before Fox pulls the plug on innovation.
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"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
"Hey, money boy, you want No. 1 clicky-clicky?"
"Say baby, you've got the seed I need!"
The partners usually ignore these crass come-ons, and for most hopefuls, the day ends at around 11 p.m. Then they are picked up in a van driven by their "management consultant," usually the head of a Net incubator that has several companies it's trying to get funded..."
Full story at www.satirewire.com/features/prostidots.shtml
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"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
- Very sparse graphics, and in small palette of colours to reduce size of
.gifs.
- HTML code on a page kept as simple as possible. No chaff.
- Cascading style sheet instead of formatting inline or styles redeclared on each page.
- Information per page kept as concise as possible. Extra information that is not always wanted isn't sent down unrequested (eg: details popup on the listing).
- An AvantGo channel with caches set many days ahead: it will download from AvantGo's cached server 99% of the time, not here.
- A PalmOS application of the content which will only run up the bandwidth for the tiny initial download and then subsequent update packs.
- A WML port, which only draws only a trickle of bandwidth, since pages are so tiny.
- And no banner ads (they suck up bandwidth too, as well as slow things down especially if offsite).
Best of luck with your free website, Robert---
"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
WIPO can do their own decisions on which party or any should get the .wipo for any string of characters.
A .wipo name does what it says, it is what the WIPO says is the owner of that name. If want to find a world company with a company that has a near-global trademarked name, typing theirname.wipo will get you there. It can have its own fun playing with disputed case, and the winner of the case is still representative of what it is: who the WIPO thinks the name should go to.
This is beyond RealNames, since that system is crippled by requiring certain browsers, and also the RealNames authority makes glaring exceptions on its policy (such as if it is a content partner, then we will break our rules of name distribution). Also, as a private company, it may be more likely run up the renewal rates if it became popular. Google has a nice bypass as well, as the most referenced site will often be the official one, but this is an extra step in a search, the most referenced isn't always the official one.
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"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
Especially their "Serbia Deploys Peacekeeping Forces to US" coverage.
A sample excerpt from the above news report:
BELGRADE--Serbian president Vojislav Kostunica deployed more than 30,000 peacekeeping troops to the U.S. Monday, pledging full support to the troubled North American nation as it struggles to establish democracy.
"We must do all we can to support free elections in America and allow democracy to gain a foothold there," Kostunica said. "The U.S. is a major player in the Western Hemisphere and its continued stability is vital to Serbian interests in that region."
Kostunica urged Al Gore, the U.S. opposition-party leader who is refusing to recognize the nation's Nov. 7 election results, to "let the democratic process take its course."...
Can also refer to the red "Mayhem 2000" sidebar on the article for the rest of their election coverage.
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"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
Two claims in the above post are a bit misleading in regards to programming for the Palm:
"If you don't like the way the Planner works, you can modify it for yourself. You can't do this for other PDA's."
Palm gives out away the source code for all of the built-in applications for free, and without royalty. You can customize them and recompile them, or use them as a foundation to start off a new project, since most of the capabilities like database read/write of database, beaming, add/delete/records, preferences are already in there.
Free software: This goes with being open source. If you've ever looked through the Palm program archives, there are many shareware apps that cost about 10 bucks each. While some of those might be worth the money, many are not. A linux PDA encourages developers to write free software. This will certainly benefit the end user.
Actually, the vast majority of programs that most people would use are available for free, as its been about 5 years now of Palm apps being made, and every good idea has been written again for free, examples: BugMe($) is available as DiddleBug(free), a free gameboy emulator instead of Liberty, free doc readers instead of TealDoc, Free databases like db to compete with the commercial ones like HanDBase.
Palm employs some people full-time to help maintain often the free, open-source GCC-PRCTools toolchain which is used makes a lion-share of the solid freeware open source apps. The result is that any fan of free software who has skill and who wishes to write and share a program can do so with zero barrier to entry versus the makers of the commercial software.
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"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
As an interesting aside to this post:
Some while back, some of you may recall Microsoft was making a few back-page headlines with their development plans for a card swipe for credit cards that is integrated into the side of the computer, and would be part of a future version of Windows.
The purpose of this device was to aid in simplifying secure online commerce transactions. Now it seems it would be also a convenient way to renew M$ software subscriptions. A coinbox is likely forthcoming, though in a digital format.
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"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
In the spec sheet, I see that the thing that controls the AT-AT is called a Microcomputer(TM).
Do they feel bad that Lucas owns almost all the other trademark on the product that they had to come up with their own?
As they say in wrestling, "Is that legal?"
---
"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
This is correct. Its Cystic Fibrosis, with the extra mucous in the GI tract giving an ability to survive things like cholera and dsyentery. Carrier frequency is 1/20 here in Ireland, since that defect helped the population get through some tough times.
Other biggy is sickle cell anemia. When malaria infects the blood cells, the blood cells with sickle-cell anemia sickle up, and the spleen destroys those cells, helping clear the virus.
There may be new unchallenged plagues on the horizon. If a Stephen King's The Stand scenario comes around, currently undesired genetic traits are a way to create different types of humans that may be at an advantage to survive.
---
"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
Regarding an earlier post about vulgarity in movies, I watched "Dumb and Dumber" in the theatre. If you watch it, you will note Jim Carrey's old lover was called "Freida Felcher". Absolutely no effect at all on the rest of the audience, I guess since felch probably has yet to penetrate [sic] the mainstream's vocabulary.
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"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
Posting in case others don't get the joke of what the domain/logo/concept is parodying:
Fast Company is a rah-rah newspaper that tells how wonderous all the dot-com companies are doing and how successful they all are. F*cked Company is a rather logical nomenclature for FC's antithesis newsletter during these months of cleaning out the dot-com failures.
Fast Company actually has a feature headline today: "When the going gets tough, the tough get real". Those flipping through the dot-com carnage at F*cked Company may beg to differ.
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"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
The new Guiness Record of World Records hardcover hit the store shelves here in Ireland this week (Guiness Records being started by the Irish beer company of same name, meaning it always get prominent display here).
Flipping through it, on the computer page, was a nice big colour picture of a Commodore 64, which a decade and a half later, still was the most popular computer of all time.
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"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
I like the things Corel are doing, especially WINE support, but alot of the negative image of the company lately is derived from his personality at the helm in the Linux era at the end of 1999: frothing at the mouth at tradeshows, showing stock graphs of Corel versus RedHat, and his insider trading scandals following him. I like Corel as a company: they put out pretty good software at fairly reasonable price, sold their prior version numbers of software at steep discounts, and gave free software out to the business offices of most non-profit charities I was a part of. Cowpland, though, just isn't a good front man to represent the company at this time.
I think Corel, after an initial jitter, will be better off without Cowpland right now. I hope that they can get someone with the right attitude and direction with some degree of star power to be the front man for the company as Linus is to Transmeta.
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"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
Lets see, they are unrolling .NET which runs their COM objects. I wonder how long before the ORG product line hits shelves. Gotta love the Microsoft marketing machine to try to subliminally link Microsoft to the creators of the Internet. Suppose thats what you gotta do when all you can do for innovation is make some cosmetic changes to java, and herald it as the dawn of a new era...
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"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
For works such as these where there is a loyal fan base getting an expected product, and there is an ability for some users to get away without paying but want to reward the good users, this is the model matrix I would like to see:
Fixed price for work to be completed is $800,000.
Don't Pay: $0.
Pay: $3.
If payment breaks threshold: credit a distributed refund of by how much broke the $800,000 mark. With serial formula base novels like King this credit is easily enough kept within Amazon.com to be used towards a future online King book preventing a frivolous credit card refund charge. Amazon is a macro bookseller so the credit could just also as well be used towards another book.
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"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
Results were outstanding. Machines were turning over thousands. Best I can see, here were the reasons, why:
1. There is never a 'home' version. Mortal Kombat, Crazy Taxi, you could buy a copy that mirrors the arcade and play it at home for free. Pinball is something that isn't in the home, unless have serious funds. Also, to buy a pinball at home would also require space as well as room. These were apartments.
3. Early 90's pinball not dated with time. Video games that are genre based like a racer, or fighting game, have had graphics improved greatly since 1992. People would have better racing games at home on their console than a 1992 arcade machine. Pinball from early 90's is same if not better than 2000 models.
4. Age group. These were apartment owners, in the 19 to 40 group usually. Old enough to know how to play pinball, have enough memories of enjoying playing one.
5. Inclusivity. Male/female numbers looked about 60%/40%. Seemed to draw in significant females as well as males to play repeatedly. Also, no new learning curve really needed for initial good game. To get anywhere in Mortal Kombat types, need to have memorized new long button sequences, in Racing genres have to have memorized the new tracks. In pinball, can transfer your old skill of how to flip and shake to a new table that you've never seen, making for a good game off the bat--important for bringing in new users for a repeat experience.
6. Replayability. It was niche, there would be about 10-15% of the population that would keep playing the game, due to a unique game each time. Put it a Time Crisis and once those 15% of people in the building beat it, the numbers fall as repeating the same exact sequence gets tiresome.
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"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
Conversation with my mother (age 59 at the time), when she was watching a Windows desktop for the first time to see how they worked. Her: "So how do I turn it off the computer if someone leaves it on?" Her: ..."So I press the 'Start' button to shut the computer off?"
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"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
Hadn't heard the Commonwealth bit before. Sort of makes sense now though looking at the two locations that are left in the book's world: Labrador (which is part of Newfoundland, a Canadian province), and "New Sealand", both Commonwealth countries. Guess he knew who his audience was and played 'em up a bit.
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"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
There will be some fun times in alt.conspiracy.microsoft for the next few days over this one.
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"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
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"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
This is an issue and does need to be addressed in all workplaces, not just tech. But before people get their torches and pitchforks to the Internet companies, there is one point that seemed to have been left out of the article.
Premise 1: Men, on average in the US, are earlier adopters of technology, often translating to more men at a company with experience with the specific technologies of the Internet used in the position, and possibly with the company. Premise 2: Pay is commensurate with experience.
Claims of unequal pay need to have careful attention to stratify their comparisons based on experience, rather than to simply state "I am paid less than my males collegues" and expect a settlement.
---
"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
One of the primary reason's why AOL stayed on top despite bumbling errors, is because they were the first out the door with the product. Is a high bandwidth news widget ready for the consumers now? Probably now, but Internet2 is coming, and it will be one day. When that day hits, it will have been in the broadcasters best interests to have been the first one to have grabbed large sections of the market and they can build from there. Really, Slashdot foresaw the same future: was there millions of people a few years back that wanted a solid opensource/misc discussion forum? Probably not, but there is now, and Slashdot now has a huge slice of their eyeballs, making it tougher for any latecomers now who suddenly realize its a good idea.
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"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."
All the best,
Robert O'Connor
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"And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold."