...wanna give me a loan at 0.72% interest that matures in 100 years?
Buying a business and loaning money aren't exactly an apples to apples comparison. My point was that the physical assets were figured into that purchase price, what I did not say was that it was necessarily a good investment.
Ziff Davis publications include PC Magazine, eWeek, CIO Insight, Baseline, Extreme Tech, Official U.S. Playstation Magazine, Xbox Nation, Electronic Gaming Monthly, GameNow, Computer Gaming World, and Microsoft Watch.
So, they're going to start focusing more on gaming? Nearly 50% of their titles are game related now.
Even though recipes themselves aren't copyrightable...
Whaaa? What about the Colonel and his eleven herbs and spices, or the top secret Coca Cola recipe, or that baked bean company whose CEO protects the recipe from even his dog, or that Neiman Markups cookie.....oh, wait. That's a fake....
As digital cameras get bigger and better, I've noticed many using.tif as the file format. Sure it is a much larger file size, but is heads and shoulders above the.jpg format when it come to serious photography.
Actually it's only a factor if you're going to be tweaking the files or making larger (than snapshot) prints. For displaying on web pages and other computer applications.jpg is head and shoulders above.tif (as you give a passing nod to in your final statement). By your assessment only pics that make it to large prints can be considered 'serious'. Even serious photographers who print larger images will shoot in.jpg, offload to computer and convert to.tif before editing. Even the higher resolution cameras need to have their files interpolated by GIMP (or photoshop I guess) before printing larger images.
have everyone think you're a lamer when they visit your site with IE6 and see purple instead of transparent.
Or put a disc'lamer' on your site telling them that if they can't see the pretty picture it's because they are using IE which can't display these file types.
The random ones...now THAT is spam. These people may not have known you even existed before, let alone have any interest in your offerings.
That might be the point you were trying to make. If so, I didnt see it.
If you read the post they were replying to it makes sense. The original poster was comparing two kinds of lists as well as two sizes - one targeted and small, one random and large. The conclusion was that smaller lists work BECAUSE they are targeted which ain't necessarily so.
Spam doesn't actually have to work. It only has to give the APPEARANCE that it works.
Bingo! We've even seen the effect here with the "SPAM must work or we wouldn't keep seeing it in our inboxes" comments. Somebody out to make a quick buck comes to the same conclusion and buys either a list or a subscribes to a service and the myth is perpetuated. While there are some notable exceptions, the bulk of the SPAM sent comes from this sort of self-perpetuating myth.
A normal person would look at it from the perspective they want it to be usefull and not a burdon to use. I personally want my 5 9s and I want it to work even when I'm in a drunken stuper so when I make my daily sales calls I don't end up calling my boss.
Hmm. I'd avoid a spelling recognition phone if it comes out then.
What about your printer or modem? Or Palm? It could be used without another machine, but it loses a lot on its own. I think your logic is really quite flawed.
Seems to me you validated his point. Those things can all be used with other machines. Unless you were trying to say they can be used standalone in which case I'm really struggling to come up with uses for a disconnected printer or modem and if I read this right you can't use voice commands unless hooked up to a Windows box so this is worthless as a standalone device.
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Sorry if I lumped you in with the luddites, but you did take a statement about profitability of using open source software into an argument about profiting from the sale of open source software. You also asked where all the open source companies that were making money were. That seems adversarial in a business climate where even well established companies with good accounting practices are taking it in the shorts because of the few bad eggs. There are a few open source companies that are reasonably healthy given the current economy. The business models still need to be tweaked, but there are rays of hope for those who hang in there.
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...Open Source developments are a viable option for companies...
I'll probably get flamed for this, but where are all the open source Linux companies that are currently truely making a profit...
If you do get flamed it's probably because you chose to read into the post something that wasn't there in order to exercise your predisposed opinion. There's a significant difference between finding open source developments a viable option for your company and creating a company to make money from open source developments. The latter is difficult because we tend to think in terms of production rather than service but the former is clearly evident....(and not just using some creative accounting tricks)?
I think you're confusing RedHat with Enron or Worldcom.
What if the public outrage doesn't come because the bulk of them don't understand enough about technology to be alarmed and the governmental spin has convinced them that it is in the interest of public safety that these things are being done. Most Americans don't have a clue as to what protections exist in the Bill of Rights. To the vast majority, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness are in there right next to freedom of speech and that's all there is (except for their Miranda rights which most have memorized from watching COPS, crime dramas or personal experience).
If I kill someone by hitting them over a kead with a palm piolt, is it any different from hacking there car and causing there breaks to fail, or just cutting hte break cable.. NO...
Well, actually, a blow to the kead might be very well untraceable. I'm sure if you ask most forensic pathologists they wouldn't begin to know how to detect any damage to a kead.
Well, yes and no. The size of the ball is pretty well fixed, but this 'pie' can continually reproduce some of its resources (food) but not others (water).
Once oil production starts to decline, prices for all goods including food will skyrocket, unless an energy source is found to take its place.
And there's the key. These doomsayers paint a black and white picture and don't take into account other abundant resources. Just as oil upped production in the past, other technologies may very well allow us to increase yields in food supplies, tap solar, wind, geothermal, etc. for energy resources and many other possibilities we've yet to work out. Far too many variables exist for these to be hard predictions.
Maybe they'd understand that deep linking is similar to something they don't have a problem with - or would they sic their lawyers on somebody who said, "Can I see the Sports Page?" Someone mentioned the rationale could be that readers skip past some of the ads. That's no rationale at all though. The paper could claim a more tightly focused demographic by putting ads on the same page as a related story and actually drive up their advertising rates because of the tighter focus. I mean, would you rather pay based on general circulation or pay a higher rate per set of eyeballs to target mostly those who might be interested in your product?
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c) Start over with compotent people
Would these people be able to spell?
...wanna give me a loan at 0.72% interest that matures in 100 years?
Buying a business and loaning money aren't exactly an apples to apples comparison. My point was that the physical assets were figured into that purchase price, what I did not say was that it was necessarily a good investment.
Translation: At the current rate of profit, it will take over a hundred years to make up the initial investment.
Some of that investment is in the physical assets of the company, not just future profits.
Ziff Davis publications include PC Magazine, eWeek, CIO Insight, Baseline, Extreme Tech, Official U.S. Playstation Magazine, Xbox Nation, Electronic Gaming Monthly, GameNow, Computer Gaming World, and Microsoft Watch.
So, they're going to start focusing more on gaming? Nearly 50% of their titles are game related now.
Yeah, but I wanna know what's in the miracle pill... besides the chocolate coating that makes it go down easier.
Even though recipes themselves aren't copyrightable...
Whaaa? What about the Colonel and his eleven herbs and spices, or the top secret Coca Cola recipe, or that baked bean company whose CEO protects the recipe from even his dog, or that Neiman Markups cookie.....oh, wait. That's a fake....
As digital cameras get bigger and better, I've noticed many using .tif as the file format. Sure it is a much larger file size, but is heads and shoulders above the .jpg format when it come to serious photography.
.jpg is head and shoulders above .tif (as you give a passing nod to in your final statement). By your assessment only pics that make it to large prints can be considered 'serious'. Even serious photographers who print larger images will shoot in .jpg, offload to computer and convert to .tif before editing. Even the higher resolution cameras need to have their files interpolated by GIMP (or photoshop I guess) before printing larger images.
Actually it's only a factor if you're going to be tweaking the files or making larger (than snapshot) prints. For displaying on web pages and other computer applications
have everyone think you're a lamer when they visit your site with IE6 and see purple instead of transparent.
Or put a disc'lamer' on your site telling them that if they can't see the pretty picture it's because they are using IE which can't display these file types.
The random ones...now THAT is spam. These people may not have known you even existed before, let alone have any interest in your offerings.
That might be the point you were trying to make. If so, I didnt see it.
If you read the post they were replying to it makes sense. The original poster was comparing two kinds of lists as well as two sizes - one targeted and small, one random and large. The conclusion was that smaller lists work BECAUSE they are targeted which ain't necessarily so.
Spam doesn't actually have to work. It only has to give the APPEARANCE that it works.
Bingo! We've even seen the effect here with the "SPAM must work or we wouldn't keep seeing it in our inboxes" comments. Somebody out to make a quick buck comes to the same conclusion and buys either a list or a subscribes to a service and the myth is perpetuated. While there are some notable exceptions, the bulk of the SPAM sent comes from this sort of self-perpetuating myth.
Thats ok, I hear they are making special troll phones so you won't be left out.
Troll calls are too expensive.
A normal person would look at it from the perspective they want it to be usefull and not a burdon to use. I personally want my 5 9s and I want it to work even when I'm in a drunken stuper so when I make my daily sales calls I don't end up calling my boss.
Hmm. I'd avoid a spelling recognition phone if it comes out then.
What about your printer or modem? Or Palm? It could be used without another machine, but it loses a lot on its own. I think your logic is really quite flawed.
Seems to me you validated his point. Those things can all be used with other machines. Unless you were trying to say they can be used standalone in which case I'm really struggling to come up with uses for a disconnected printer or modem and if I read this right you can't use voice commands unless hooked up to a Windows box so this is worthless as a standalone device.
Sorry if I lumped you in with the luddites, but you did take a statement about profitability of using open source software into an argument about profiting from the sale of open source software. You also asked where all the open source companies that were making money were. That seems adversarial in a business climate where even well established companies with good accounting practices are taking it in the shorts because of the few bad eggs. There are a few open source companies that are reasonably healthy given the current economy. The business models still need to be tweaked, but there are rays of hope for those who hang in there.
...Open Source developments are a viable option for companies...
...(and not just using some creative accounting tricks)?
I'll probably get flamed for this, but where are all the open source Linux companies that are currently truely making a profit...
If you do get flamed it's probably because you chose to read into the post something that wasn't there in order to exercise your predisposed opinion. There's a significant difference between finding open source developments a viable option for your company and creating a company to make money from open source developments. The latter is difficult because we tend to think in terms of production rather than service but the former is clearly evident.
I think you're confusing RedHat with Enron or Worldcom.
What if the public outrage doesn't come because the bulk of them don't understand enough about technology to be alarmed and the governmental spin has convinced them that it is in the interest of public safety that these things are being done. Most Americans don't have a clue as to what protections exist in the Bill of Rights. To the vast majority, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness are in there right next to freedom of speech and that's all there is (except for their Miranda rights which most have memorized from watching COPS, crime dramas or personal experience).
If I kill someone by hitting them over a kead with a palm piolt, is it any different from hacking there car and causing there breaks to fail, or just cutting hte break cable..
NO...
Well, actually, a blow to the kead might be very well untraceable. I'm sure if you ask most forensic pathologists they wouldn't begin to know how to detect any damage to a kead.
Just look at the average /. post for confirmation.
Which CC is the ad for? I listen to KBAQ on occasion but haven't heard them.
The size of the pie is fixed...
Well, yes and no. The size of the ball is pretty well fixed, but this 'pie' can continually reproduce some of its resources (food) but not others (water).
Once oil production starts to decline, prices for all goods including food will skyrocket, unless an energy source is found to take its place.
And there's the key. These doomsayers paint a black and white picture and don't take into account other abundant resources. Just as oil upped production in the past, other technologies may very well allow us to increase yields in food supplies, tap solar, wind, geothermal, etc. for energy resources and many other possibilities we've yet to work out. Far too many variables exist for these to be hard predictions.
BTW, your overuse of profanity and inability to spell or type does not give your opinion much credence.
Whereas your judicious use of profanity elevates your opinion to stratospheric heights?
They often are of no opinion on anything, state nothing clearly....
I haven't blocked them because reading his stories are a great way to learn how NOT to write.
You have much more to learn it seems....
Uh, the names are not Kay and Jay and Sid. They are Zed, K and J.
Actually, the print media says Kay and Jay. You're right about Zed though. One step forward, two steps back.
The agents are named after letters, with Zed being the European way to say Z.
Oh, I thought it was the Canadian way...
...CmdrTaco simple 3 line review completely contrasts and pretty much cuts down JonKatz's review...
Hey, for Katz that was pretty close to a 3 line review.....
Maybe they'd understand that deep linking is similar to something they don't have a problem with - or would they sic their lawyers on somebody who said, "Can I see the Sports Page?" Someone mentioned the rationale could be that readers skip past some of the ads. That's no rationale at all though. The paper could claim a more tightly focused demographic by putting ads on the same page as a related story and actually drive up their advertising rates because of the tighter focus. I mean, would you rather pay based on general circulation or pay a higher rate per set of eyeballs to target mostly those who might be interested in your product?