"You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?" -Armageddon
The problem with this is that you need to be outside the universe in order to do so
How about recursion? An atom is kind of like a solar system, a solar system is kind of like a galaxy, and a galaxy is kind of like the universe. (And perhaps the universe is kind of like the multiverse?)
What if Microsoft were to ban the installation of OpenOffice, LotusNotes, Word Perfect, etc. because they compete with their Office? I bet this would be a whole different conversation.
First, don't jump the second they need help. It may sound sadistic, but let them suffer for a while with their mistakes. Make them pay for the consequences of doing stupid things.
Second, if the first doesn't work, make them pay (money) for it. Make their mistake hit their wallet. If you don't want to charge them (i sure as hell wouldn't), make them buy expensive antivirus. Make them have consequences.
We have all seen spoiled children who are never disciplined. They never learn life lessons. They get everything they want. Make them live with their OWN mistakes. If they don't have consequences, what is their motivation to learn how to live on the web?
Yeah, Fox News is the ONLY biased television news organization. The rest of them are strictly objective.
The fact that Fox is the only new organization that leans to the right of the spectrum, while every other news organization in the US leans left easily explains why Fox is so popular.
Does that mean it would be a patent violation for any other manufacturer to limit capabilities? If so I'm all for it. Let Apple restrict their products if it means everybody else isn't allowed to!!!
When you don't know what a creature is, kill it
When you don't agree with a philosophy, burn the witch
If you don't like something, TAX IT
It makes about as much sense.
Why would I think the gov't know/cares more about my health than I do?
If I make dumb decisions about my own health, it is my problem, not the governments. That also means that I don't expect the government to pay for my health care. It is my problem, and my expense. I don't expect ANYBODY to play for my problems. They are my own.
I noticed something interesting when I worked as a projectionist while in college. I noticed that smart producers who knew they had a really good movie on their hands wouldn't market their movie at all (or very little). Producers who knew they had a crappy movie would market the crap out of it.
The biggest example of a good movie's lack of marketing was the 6th Sense. When the movie first came out, we had at best a single movie poster to advertise it's existence. No trailers, no t-shirts, no banners, etc. We started that movie in our smallest theater guessing it would do squat. The first week, it didn't do much, but warranted a slightly larger theater for the next weekend. The next weekend again, we moved it to yet a bigger theater, then a bigger, then a bigger until it resided in our biggest theater for 6 weeks. All this with zero marketing dollars spent.
Then you look at this weeks teeny-bopper-crappy-movie-of-the-week, and you the marketing machine is immense, but the movie dies in a week or 2.
I guess the moral of this story is, you only need to market if you know word of mouth will kill something. Otherwise let it ride it's own wave of success
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"You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?" -Armageddon
OO OO ME TOO ME TOO!!
The problem with this is that you need to be outside the universe in order to do so
How about recursion? An atom is kind of like a solar system, a solar system is kind of like a galaxy, and a galaxy is kind of like the universe. (And perhaps the universe is kind of like the multiverse?)
I kind of jest, but not necessarily.
What if Microsoft were to ban the installation of OpenOffice, LotusNotes, Word Perfect, etc. because they compete with their Office? I bet this would be a whole different conversation.
“I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail.”
Liberals want the government out of people's lives, smaller government, and no deficit budgets.
Wait....What?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Are you serious?
First, don't jump the second they need help. It may sound sadistic, but let them suffer for a while with their mistakes. Make them pay for the consequences of doing stupid things. Second, if the first doesn't work, make them pay (money) for it. Make their mistake hit their wallet. If you don't want to charge them (i sure as hell wouldn't), make them buy expensive antivirus. Make them have consequences. We have all seen spoiled children who are never disciplined. They never learn life lessons. They get everything they want. Make them live with their OWN mistakes. If they don't have consequences, what is their motivation to learn how to live on the web?
Yeah, Fox News is the ONLY biased television news organization. The rest of them are strictly objective. The fact that Fox is the only new organization that leans to the right of the spectrum, while every other news organization in the US leans left easily explains why Fox is so popular.
Does that mean it would be a patent violation for any other manufacturer to limit capabilities? If so I'm all for it. Let Apple restrict their products if it means everybody else isn't allowed to!!!
My hats off to probably the best open source package ever made
I like the new metric of DVDs per second. Do you think that will catch on?
When you don't know what a creature is, kill it When you don't agree with a philosophy, burn the witch If you don't like something, TAX IT It makes about as much sense. Why would I think the gov't know/cares more about my health than I do? If I make dumb decisions about my own health, it is my problem, not the governments. That also means that I don't expect the government to pay for my health care. It is my problem, and my expense. I don't expect ANYBODY to play for my problems. They are my own.
Perhaps the physicians during the Black Plague had their shit together afterall!
This reminds me of: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/end
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_long-living_organisms
NO one suspects the Spanish Inquisition!!
Will it be the default browser?
I noticed something interesting when I worked as a projectionist while in college. I noticed that smart producers who knew they had a really good movie on their hands wouldn't market their movie at all (or very little). Producers who knew they had a crappy movie would market the crap out of it. The biggest example of a good movie's lack of marketing was the 6th Sense. When the movie first came out, we had at best a single movie poster to advertise it's existence. No trailers, no t-shirts, no banners, etc. We started that movie in our smallest theater guessing it would do squat. The first week, it didn't do much, but warranted a slightly larger theater for the next weekend. The next weekend again, we moved it to yet a bigger theater, then a bigger, then a bigger until it resided in our biggest theater for 6 weeks. All this with zero marketing dollars spent. Then you look at this weeks teeny-bopper-crappy-movie-of-the-week, and you the marketing machine is immense, but the movie dies in a week or 2. I guess the moral of this story is, you only need to market if you know word of mouth will kill something. Otherwise let it ride it's own wave of success
Since Sun made Sparc cpus, and used Solaris for their OS, will they sell Solaris to HP to match their hardware?
As the old adage says: "Ignorance is bliss" I fervently believe that.
the failure rate of all consoles will be 100%
Who here wants to watch a 60 minute Microsoft commercial?