I think my shoe is going to stay where it is... I site this example because I've done it. Sure, if you start by calling the largest hospitals in your area, sure you're going to get a big cost. They only want to deal with insurance because it scales well, and they are in bed together.
Try calling the smaller medical centers. Do you have those where you're at? I'm talking about places with 5ish doctors. There's more than one place to get coverage.
Sure, if you need a CT scan you're going to have to go to the place with the million dollar piece of equipment. But if all you need is a tooth pulled, there's a lot of competition for your business there.
I don't think any entity should pay $30 for an aspirin, personal, business or government. I don't have the perfect solution. But I think we should work on reducing the $30, as opposed to goverment healthcare where the gov is going to agree to pay $30 for everyone to make it fair. A bad price is a bad price, regardless who's paying for it.
5. Ok, a few of you have valid points. The bigger problem is not paying for a few illegals or homeless, as you said its the immigration process. Its only slightly enforced at the borders, but part of the problem is free health care is a huge incentive to be an illegal. Catch-22, but we have to start somewhere. Take your pick, I don't care. (actually I do, I'd much rather start at the border itself than the hospital) But we should at least limit what they can be treated for. My wife did her nursing internship in the ER. 3/4th of the people there had minor wounds, or head-colds, and everyone that was there with minor problems had no proof of residency.
4. There are different types of HSAs, here's the one that we had. Each month you pay, say $100 into your HSA. $60 of that went into your savings account, $40 of it was used for insurance. Once you reached $2000 you stopped paying the $60, so your health insurance went down to $40. When you went to the doctor, you paid them out of the $2000. It benefit you to shop around and get the best price because you want to keep that $2000 topped off to keep your monthlys down. It also benefit you to not go to the doctor for anything frivolous, and to just keep yourself healthy. Anything that comes out of that account was tax free. It had the added benefit of, you can use it with any doctor that accepts cash. Right now my BCBS doesn't pay for vision because the company didn't opt for that. That sucks for me. If anything catastrophic happens that's when the $40 you've been paying kicks in. They'll wipe out the $2000 and start paying your bills via the insurance.
3. Ok, I stand corrected on why canada has such low prices... SO YES, kill drug advertising here.
2. Of course it'd be on a (very difficult, complicated, controversial) scale. Yeah, an accidently amputated leg would net you more than a finger.
1. Before I moved here I had great coverage (transfered in the same company) but now my insurance isn't as good because it's not available in this state. What good reason IS there for not allowing sales across state lines? Well, I do know one problem. Each state has it's own insurance commissions office... They have a lot to keep up with just in-state companies. This would mean more work for them. But hey, that means more hires and that's stimulating the economy;)
Speaking of hospitals not accepting government insurance... Did you hear that walreens is no longer going to accept Medicaid? Apparently they know what to expect and this is what's to come... http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=walgreens+stops+medicaid
Here's an idea, instead of forcing everyone to GET expensive health care, lets try lowering it's cost first. You realize that with the government paying for healthcare, the cost of that care is just going to go up? Prices that companies charge individuals are generally cheap. Prices they charge companies are high and prices they charge goverments are INSANE? We're all going to be getting $800 toilet seats.
So, instead of the current plan, lets try this first.
1. Buy insurance across state lines. This gives people the opportunity to search for cheap insurance. Right now you can only get insurance in your state... Imagine if you couldn't buy anything over the internet across state lines. 2. Limit lawsuit payouts. The lawyers (sharks with lasers) are making a KILLING on lawsuits. Reduce the payouts and the sharks will have less to feed on, there will be fewer ambulance chasers because the $$$ will become reasonable. 3. Reduce the FDA requirements. Wow, meds sure are expensive. Oh, they aren't in canada? Oh, and canada sells the same meds for much less and they don't have such a stringent approval process? Hmmm 4. Promote Savings Health Accounts (see 1. first) - If you put in $xxx dollars tax free into an account that's YOUR money. Once you cap it at a certain level you just pay the maintenance (the insurance part in case something catastrophic happens) Now, it's your task to shop around for an affordable healthcare provider. You'll think twice before paying $300 for a checkup. 5. This topic wasn't designed to discuss immigration, but guess what, that's a major cost in health care. The country will fail if the people paying into healthcare are expected to support every ILLEGAL immigrant that wants healthcare. Especially if the hospitals are charging those goverment rates for it ($30 for an aspirin anyone?) I'm just going to say, if you can't reasonably prove your an american, you don't get american health care, unless you can pay cash.
Exercise: Call 3 local providers and tell them that you have some common malady and tell them that you have Blue Cross insurance, ask them what it will cost you, and what they will bill BC. The next day, call them all back, same malady and tell them you're paying out of pocket. If day 2 isn't a third of day 1 I will eat my shoe.
It's the la raza members, and the ones who want to show how they are man enough by getting as drunk as possible and then seeing how fast they can drive. Oh, and not to forget the ones around here lately who are fond of HIT and RUN BEFORE THE I.N.S. arrests me! Yeah, I know there's no INS any more... And with the sorry 'sanctuary cities' if they were caught murdering babies, I'm sure they'd be released in fear of the ACLU retribution.
Danger Will Robinson is one I use. As well as "Thar be dragons here" You screwed up, no it's fine, no, it really was you Something is FUBAR Database is AWOL I throw in an ID10T error And a PEBCAK
There are more, just don't know off the top of my head.
Some of those errors don't necessicarily mean much to them, but they enjoy hearing what they stand for.
Wow, tough one, but for me pretty obvious. I'm in a business. Our job is to make money. This is somewhat like when we get chargebacks for our services. We have no cost of goods sold, are products are largely virtual. Like software, but something else.
Anyway, when a credit card company sends us a charge back we have a two options. If the customer wins, they get their money back and we are charged $25. So, we can fight it, and we might get to keep the money, but it costs us time (time=money) and we will more than likely loose the original payment +$35. Why? If a scrupulous customer wants their money back, they'll lie to credit card company to get it back. Or we can just give a refund, it takes much less time and then we can't be charged $35.
Yeah, morally the right thing to do is to fight it. If we delivered what we said, are up front, have a valued product, then we should never get a chargeback. But we're not in the business of making morally sound statements. We make sure that OUR actions are moral, but we can't afford to try to force that on others. We're in the business of making a profit, so NOT doing the wrong thing is the best way for us to stay in business.
Yes, this only works when charge backs is a small percentage of the overall business.
Pair has the same problem. They only make $n per customer. If they have to spend $5k on lawyers to defend YOUR rights, then they won't be making any money.
Yeah, I enjoyed starcraft. It was fun, yes... I could kick my coworkers asses. Blah Blah...
But I preferred diablo. So where's Diablo 3? Wasn't it announced first? Wasn't it started first? Anyone got sales numbers on their games? I guess they expect to make more $$ out of Starcraft, but I can't wait for D3.
What do you think that this says about version numbers? I'm not really taking any point of view here, other than that version numbers don't mean squat.
Here we have a book that's been produced on a less than 1.0 version, alpha? beta? what?
Google seems to keep beta on their products for a very long time, largely so they can't be held responsible for bugs.
The answers are going to vary wildly based on skill of the users, corporate environment and what they use the computers for. I've seen an insurance company that had 1 SA per 500 machines. They were all running a locked down version of XP, they were almost a kiosk. The users had 1, maybe 2 programs that they used, the insurance system and a mail client. It worked out well. Think blue collar behind a terminal.
On the other hand, an office full of 'empowered' users each with admin rights on their own vista machine, the need for using many various programs and various duties, you may see as low as 50 to 1... Executives constantly on the cutting edge...
Anyone here he says this is a stupid idea, and that global warming is CAUSED by man is a hypocrite.
Of course global warming is effected by man. And every other damn thing on the planet, both in positive and negative ways. To the point that chaos theory says that every time a butterfly farts the world warms a little. But it works the other way to.
And, considering that plants LIKE CO2 and the world is overall GREENER than it was 50 year ago, who's to say warming wouldn't be a good thing? Oh yeah, people who stand to get rich selling carbon credits (gore) and idiots who built their homes.3ft above sea level.
So, think about it, what's the REAL reason someone's trying to push a cell phone label? Is there a huge LABEL MAKING industry in Maine? Is there a company there trying to come out with a EM FREE cell phone? Or is this guy about to start selling EM credits to offset your cell phone?
Since his site is down, I guess AT&T has launched it's own DDoS, or at least a DoS. When you're as big as ATT, you don't really need much help from others. Just point an OC-768 at them and run "ab -c 999999 -n 999999999999999 https://www.fakesteve.net/"
Your definitions seem accurate, but your assumption that there's more denial that than there is skepticism is pure conjecture, nothing more. I guess you could say that you're 2 out of 3, and in govermnent work, that's good enough.:)
Rest assured, they will not be using their prep period to do lesson plans of any sort.
1. Parent teacher conferences. Yes, some parents care. 2. Cleaning the classroom. Those buggers make a big mess, and janitors don't come until after school. 3. Eating their own lunch. 20 kids go to the cafeteria and have 25 minutes to Get food, get seated, open their food, eat, pick up, get back to class. With the teacher having to open 30+ packets of ketchup, stabbing the straw in 20 capri suns, and cleaning up a splt drink or 2, they don't GET to eat. 4. If they're LUCY they'll have some time to grade papers. 5. Other administrative duties.
So no, lesson plans are not getting done on the clock.
Are you limiting your argument tot he university level? I don't see this applying to grade school.
Works Made for Hire. -- (1) a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment;
Yes, a teacher is expected to do lesson plans. And if those lesson plans were done at school, then they belong to the school A college professor DOES have time to do this, gradeschool no. Teachers put in more non-paid hours than many other professional level jobs. They require an extreme level of dedication,and in general the teachers are under paid.
So, yes, teachers are expected to do lesson plans, however no provisions are made to give them time to do so. I would say that it's understood they are to use their personal time to do that, therefore they are NOT work for hire.
There have been a number of sites where teachers SHARE curricula for a while now. I see no problem with some of them finding a way to profit a bit from it. Two of the females in my family are K-5 teachers with over 30 years between them. They have spent countless hours doing lesson plans at home,grading tests at home, buying the supplies that the system doesn't cover, going to fall festivals, spring festivals, etc, getting calls from parents 24/7 about why johnny isn't doing well. For most, when a teacher becomes a teacher, they commit their life to it, and will always be a teacher, whether they are at school or not.
What I don't want to see is some federally mandated curriculum. This is a matter for the states. Let the people decide. If Kansas, or whoever it was wants to teach Intelligent Design in their schools, go for it. If California wants to teach gay rights to Kindergardeners, that's their prerogative.
Teachers are already paid poorly, as are police. I applaud the teachers that have found a way to recoup some of the time.
Bruce, I'm not disagreeing that there should be OS curriculum, I just don't believe that teachers should be banned from selling/buying curriculum.
As for school systems owning the work... When the school system begin to give the teachers the time needed to creating lesson plans then I can consider it work for hire. Right now they are no where close. Remember those 1 hour breaks that SOME teachers get are taken up with parent conferences, their own lunch and things as simple as cleaning up the room.
How can you practically identify the affiliate of a returning visitor 3 days after they initially used that link, considering that they have NOT created a login, to log back into?
You must realize that most sales are NOT from the first visit, but average around the 3rd. The higher ticket the item, the more touches it takes.
Keep in mind that referrer tracking is unreliable because a link from an email either has no referrer or it's from the webmail provider.
The situation I describe covers the majority of internet sales, a workable alternative would be great.
Passing the information in the URL is great, we do it all the time. The problem is that most people do NOT buy on the first visit. And secondly, they don't create an account until they buy. By not having a cookie, we have no idea what affiliate to attribute the sale to.
You can see up above that I already agreed that I misspoke about knowing the computer. Yes, for every sale I make, the ONLY thing I need to hold onto is a cookie with WHO the affiliate is.
And to make it clear, what I'm promoting is NOT 3rd party cookies. I don't want to look at OTHER people's cookies. When someone follows an affiliate link from A to B, I create my OWN cookie for MY domain, and I store $_GET['affiliateID'] in it.
In an economy like we have now, there are few impulse buys. Everything depends on you having a good product at a good price, and even then, EVERYONE wants to think about it. The chance that they get back to the product listing the same way the found it the first time is slim. They're going to start at the site they were on and search, maybe look at their history. They may bookmark the product itself, but it's not a given that that's going to have the affiliateID
Referral is not a good method. A lot of people market with email'd newsletter. The referral from these would be nothing, or gmail.com, hotmail.com, yahoo.com.
Here we present a model with multiple levels of non-linear dynamic adaptive components based directly on the known or suspected responses of neurons within the visual motion pathway of the fly brain. By testing the model under realistic high-dynamic range conditions we show that the addition of these elements makes the motion detection model robust across a large variety of images, velocities and accelerations
Did anyone else's head hurt after reading that?
Shouldn't "these elements makes" drop the last 's'? If so, what a dumbass.;)
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I think my shoe is going to stay where it is... I site this example because I've done it. Sure, if you start by calling the largest hospitals in your area, sure you're going to get a big cost. They only want to deal with insurance because it scales well, and they are in bed together.
Try calling the smaller medical centers. Do you have those where you're at? I'm talking about places with 5ish doctors. There's more than one place to get coverage.
Sure, if you need a CT scan you're going to have to go to the place with the million dollar piece of equipment. But if all you need is a tooth pulled, there's a lot of competition for your business there.
I'll start at the bottom and go up...
I don't think any entity should pay $30 for an aspirin, personal, business or government. I don't have the perfect solution. But I think we should work on reducing the $30, as opposed to goverment healthcare where the gov is going to agree to pay $30 for everyone to make it fair. A bad price is a bad price, regardless who's paying for it.
5. Ok, a few of you have valid points. The bigger problem is not paying for a few illegals or homeless, as you said its the immigration process. Its only slightly enforced at the borders, but part of the problem is free health care is a huge incentive to be an illegal. Catch-22, but we have to start somewhere. Take your pick, I don't care. (actually I do, I'd much rather start at the border itself than the hospital) But we should at least limit what they can be treated for. My wife did her nursing internship in the ER. 3/4th of the people there had minor wounds, or head-colds, and everyone that was there with minor problems had no proof of residency.
4. There are different types of HSAs, here's the one that we had. Each month you pay, say $100 into your HSA. $60 of that went into your savings account, $40 of it was used for insurance. Once you reached $2000 you stopped paying the $60, so your health insurance went down to $40. When you went to the doctor, you paid them out of the $2000. It benefit you to shop around and get the best price because you want to keep that $2000 topped off to keep your monthlys down. It also benefit you to not go to the doctor for anything frivolous, and to just keep yourself healthy. Anything that comes out of that account was tax free. It had the added benefit of, you can use it with any doctor that accepts cash. Right now my BCBS doesn't pay for vision because the company didn't opt for that. That sucks for me. If anything catastrophic happens that's when the $40 you've been paying kicks in. They'll wipe out the $2000 and start paying your bills via the insurance.
3. Ok, I stand corrected on why canada has such low prices... SO YES, kill drug advertising here.
2. Of course it'd be on a (very difficult, complicated, controversial) scale. Yeah, an accidently amputated leg would net you more than a finger.
1. Before I moved here I had great coverage (transfered in the same company) but now my insurance isn't as good because it's not available in this state. What good reason IS there for not allowing sales across state lines? Well, I do know one problem. Each state has it's own insurance commissions office... They have a lot to keep up with just in-state companies. This would mean more work for them. But hey, that means more hires and that's stimulating the economy ;)
Speaking of hospitals not accepting government insurance... Did you hear that walreens is no longer going to accept Medicaid? Apparently they know what to expect and this is what's to come...
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=walgreens+stops+medicaid
Here's an idea, instead of forcing everyone to GET expensive health care, lets try lowering it's cost first. You realize that with the government paying for healthcare, the cost of that care is just going to go up? Prices that companies charge individuals are generally cheap. Prices they charge companies are high and prices they charge goverments are INSANE? We're all going to be getting $800 toilet seats.
So, instead of the current plan, lets try this first.
1. Buy insurance across state lines. This gives people the opportunity to search for cheap insurance. Right now you can only get insurance in your state... Imagine if you couldn't buy anything over the internet across state lines.
2. Limit lawsuit payouts. The lawyers (sharks with lasers) are making a KILLING on lawsuits. Reduce the payouts and the sharks will have less to feed on, there will be fewer ambulance chasers because the $$$ will become reasonable.
3. Reduce the FDA requirements. Wow, meds sure are expensive. Oh, they aren't in canada? Oh, and canada sells the same meds for much less and they don't have such a stringent approval process? Hmmm
4. Promote Savings Health Accounts (see 1. first) - If you put in $xxx dollars tax free into an account that's YOUR money. Once you cap it at a certain level you just pay the maintenance (the insurance part in case something catastrophic happens) Now, it's your task to shop around for an affordable healthcare provider. You'll think twice before paying $300 for a checkup.
5. This topic wasn't designed to discuss immigration, but guess what, that's a major cost in health care. The country will fail if the people paying into healthcare are expected to support every ILLEGAL immigrant that wants healthcare. Especially if the hospitals are charging those goverment rates for it ($30 for an aspirin anyone?) I'm just going to say, if you can't reasonably prove your an american, you don't get american health care, unless you can pay cash.
Exercise: Call 3 local providers and tell them that you have some common malady and tell them that you have Blue Cross insurance, ask them what it will cost you, and what they will bill BC. The next day, call them all back, same malady and tell them you're paying out of pocket. If day 2 isn't a third of day 1 I will eat my shoe.
Amen
No, those mexicans are fine...
It's the la raza members, and the ones who want to show how they are man enough by getting as drunk as possible and then seeing how fast they can drive. Oh, and not to forget the ones around here lately who are fond of HIT and RUN BEFORE THE I.N.S. arrests me! Yeah, I know there's no INS any more... And with the sorry 'sanctuary cities' if they were caught murdering babies, I'm sure they'd be released in fear of the ACLU retribution.
Sounds like stuff I do.
Danger Will Robinson is one I use.
As well as "Thar be dragons here"
You screwed up, no it's fine, no, it really was you
Something is FUBAR
Database is AWOL
I throw in an ID10T error
And a PEBCAK
There are more, just don't know off the top of my head.
Some of those errors don't necessicarily mean much to them, but they enjoy hearing what they stand for.
Wow, tough one, but for me pretty obvious. I'm in a business. Our job is to make money. This is somewhat like when we get chargebacks for our services. We have no cost of goods sold, are products are largely virtual. Like software, but something else.
Anyway, when a credit card company sends us a charge back we have a two options. If the customer wins, they get their money back and we are charged $25. So, we can fight it, and we might get to keep the money, but it costs us time (time=money) and we will more than likely loose the original payment +$35. Why? If a scrupulous customer wants their money back, they'll lie to credit card company to get it back. Or we can just give a refund, it takes much less time and then we can't be charged $35.
Yeah, morally the right thing to do is to fight it. If we delivered what we said, are up front, have a valued product, then we should never get a chargeback. But we're not in the business of making morally sound statements. We make sure that OUR actions are moral, but we can't afford to try to force that on others. We're in the business of making a profit, so NOT doing the wrong thing is the best way for us to stay in business.
Yes, this only works when charge backs is a small percentage of the overall business.
Pair has the same problem. They only make $n per customer. If they have to spend $5k on lawyers to defend YOUR rights, then they won't be making any money.
Found my own answer, if vgchartz.com is correct.
Starcraft 1 sales 12million.
Diablo2 sales 5million.
Guess I'm just going to have to wait.
Yeah, I enjoyed starcraft. It was fun, yes... I could kick my coworkers asses. Blah Blah...
But I preferred diablo. So where's Diablo 3? Wasn't it announced first? Wasn't it started first? Anyone got sales numbers on their games? I guess they expect to make more $$ out of Starcraft, but I can't wait for D3.
What do you think that this says about version numbers? I'm not really taking any point of view here, other than that version numbers don't mean squat.
Here we have a book that's been produced on a less than 1.0 version, alpha? beta? what?
Google seems to keep beta on their products for a very long time, largely so they can't be held responsible for bugs.
Yall chime in.
The answers are going to vary wildly based on skill of the users, corporate environment and what they use the computers for. I've seen an insurance company that had 1 SA per 500 machines. They were all running a locked down version of XP, they were almost a kiosk. The users had 1, maybe 2 programs that they used, the insurance system and a mail client. It worked out well. Think blue collar behind a terminal.
On the other hand, an office full of 'empowered' users each with admin rights on their own vista machine, the need for using many various programs and various duties, you may see as low as 50 to 1... Executives constantly on the cutting edge...
You have this all wrong.
Yes, TG does have the uniform, however this is the correct one...
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/frustrations/388b/
And since they've already said that not all of the shirts have to be the same...
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/frustrations/ad98/
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/itdepartment/5cb5/
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/frustrations/59fe/
Hell, just go visit the category pages...
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/frustrations/
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/itdepartment/
And for christmas this year, someone got me
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/frustrations/31fb/
Anyone here he says this is a stupid idea, and that global warming is CAUSED by man is a hypocrite.
Of course global warming is effected by man. And every other damn thing on the planet, both in positive and negative ways. To the point that chaos theory says that every time a butterfly farts the world warms a little. But it works the other way to.
And, considering that plants LIKE CO2 and the world is overall GREENER than it was 50 year ago, who's to say warming wouldn't be a good thing? Oh yeah, people who stand to get rich selling carbon credits (gore) and idiots who built their homes .3ft above sea level.
So, think about it, what's the REAL reason someone's trying to push a cell phone label? Is there a huge LABEL MAKING industry in Maine? Is there a company there trying to come out with a EM FREE cell phone? Or is this guy about to start selling EM credits to offset your cell phone?
Since his site is down, I guess AT&T has launched it's own DDoS, or at least a DoS. When you're as big as ATT, you don't really need much help from others. Just point an OC-768 at them and run "ab -c 999999 -n 999999999999999 https://www.fakesteve.net/"
Your definitions seem accurate, but your assumption that there's more denial that than there is skepticism is pure conjecture, nothing more. I guess you could say that you're 2 out of 3, and in govermnent work, that's good enough. :)
Rest assured, they will not be using their prep period to do lesson plans of any sort.
1. Parent teacher conferences. Yes, some parents care.
2. Cleaning the classroom. Those buggers make a big mess, and janitors don't come until after school.
3. Eating their own lunch. 20 kids go to the cafeteria and have 25 minutes to Get food, get seated, open their food, eat, pick up, get back to class. With the teacher having to open 30+ packets of ketchup, stabbing the straw in 20 capri suns, and cleaning up a splt drink or 2, they don't GET to eat.
4. If they're LUCY they'll have some time to grade papers.
5. Other administrative duties.
So no, lesson plans are not getting done on the clock.
Are you limiting your argument tot he university level? I don't see this applying to grade school.
Works Made for Hire. -- (1) a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment;
Yes, a teacher is expected to do lesson plans. And if those lesson plans were done at school, then they belong to the school A college professor DOES have time to do this, gradeschool no. Teachers put in more non-paid hours than many other professional level jobs. They require an extreme level of dedication,and in general the teachers are under paid.
So, yes, teachers are expected to do lesson plans, however no provisions are made to give them time to do so. I would say that it's understood they are to use their personal time to do that, therefore they are NOT work for hire.
There have been a number of sites where teachers SHARE curricula for a while now. I see no problem with some of them finding a way to profit a bit from it. Two of the females in my family are K-5 teachers with over 30 years between them. They have spent countless hours doing lesson plans at home,grading tests at home, buying the supplies that the system doesn't cover, going to fall festivals, spring festivals, etc, getting calls from parents 24/7 about why johnny isn't doing well. For most, when a teacher becomes a teacher, they commit their life to it, and will always be a teacher, whether they are at school or not.
What I don't want to see is some federally mandated curriculum. This is a matter for the states. Let the people decide. If Kansas, or whoever it was wants to teach Intelligent Design in their schools, go for it. If California wants to teach gay rights to Kindergardeners, that's their prerogative.
Teachers are already paid poorly, as are police. I applaud the teachers that have found a way to recoup some of the time.
Bruce, I'm not disagreeing that there should be OS curriculum, I just don't believe that teachers should be banned from selling/buying curriculum.
As for school systems owning the work... When the school system begin to give the teachers the time needed to creating lesson plans then I can consider it work for hire. Right now they are no where close. Remember those 1 hour breaks that SOME teachers get are taken up with parent conferences, their own lunch and things as simple as cleaning up the room.
How can you practically identify the affiliate of a returning visitor 3 days after they initially used that link, considering that they have NOT created a login, to log back into?
You must realize that most sales are NOT from the first visit, but average around the 3rd. The higher ticket the item, the more touches it takes.
Keep in mind that referrer tracking is unreliable because a link from an email either has no referrer or it's from the webmail provider.
The situation I describe covers the majority of internet sales, a workable alternative would be great.
Passing the information in the URL is great, we do it all the time. The problem is that most people do NOT buy on the first visit. And secondly, they don't create an account until they buy. By not having a cookie, we have no idea what affiliate to attribute the sale to.
You can see up above that I already agreed that I misspoke about knowing the computer. Yes, for every sale I make, the ONLY thing I need to hold onto is a cookie with WHO the affiliate is.
And to make it clear, what I'm promoting is NOT 3rd party cookies. I don't want to look at OTHER people's cookies. When someone follows an affiliate link from A to B, I create my OWN cookie for MY domain, and I store $_GET['affiliateID'] in it.
Affiliate links do NOT infer 3rd party cookies.
Finally, someone 'gets it.'
In an economy like we have now, there are few impulse buys. Everything depends on you having a good product at a good price, and even then, EVERYONE wants to think about it. The chance that they get back to the product listing the same way the found it the first time is slim. They're going to start at the site they were on and search, maybe look at their history. They may bookmark the product itself, but it's not a given that that's going to have the affiliateID
Referral is not a good method. A lot of people market with email'd newsletter. The referral from these would be nothing, or gmail.com, hotmail.com, yahoo.com.
Here we present a model with multiple levels of non-linear dynamic adaptive components based directly on the known or suspected responses of neurons within the visual motion pathway of the fly brain. By testing the model under realistic high-dynamic range conditions we show that the addition of these elements makes the motion detection model robust across a large variety of images, velocities and accelerations
Did anyone else's head hurt after reading that?
Shouldn't "these elements makes" drop the last 's'? If so, what a dumbass. ;)