I haven't seen a project with proper requirements ever since I left the waterfall world of plodding corporate I.T. and joined the unicorn land of Digital Interactive.
I'd love to see this thing up against my clients, who give requirements like "It just doesn't pop for me, can we make it more awesome?" or "How much to make a more useful KPI screen?" or the ever popular "I want a website/mobile app/ecomm platform that looks just like this one, but has our branding"
Yep, and one only has to look at the poster - msmash - who's every submission is immediately posted. And every submission furthers the leftist agenda.
As an experiment, right after Trump got elected for a week I submitted stories from newspapers, etc. that leaned to the right, and big surprise they were all rejected. It's very sad because I used to spend a lot of time here talking to smart people about tech.
CPI payout is so absurdly low you'll starve trying to make money on it. CPC pays depending on a wide number of factors.
Marketing is less and less about "brand awareness" and more and more about Cost per Acquisition and Cost per Conversion. This is probably what the original poster was thinking about. The idea that you track the content a person views is very much last decade, when everyone was going about saying things like "Content is King" and we needed to track people's "Content Journeys". The idea was that you could trigger actions (email sends, different ads, etc.) based on people's consumption of content - Amazon was and is the king of this. But for all the hoopla and money spent it really didn't increase conversion that much.
The idea that you can micro-target people - particularly geo targeting - is the hot buzz at the moment. The next revolution will probably be beacons on Bluetooth that micro target your mobile device within a few hundred yards. There's also the idea that you can be micro targeted based on ALL your digital interactions, but nobody has perfected this quite yet as it requires that your input (the things you write) is analyzed.
For products where the marketing funnel begins and ends with search, traditional marketing is completely dead.
And for those of you who think you're smarter than "marketers" I urge you to join the profession, you'd be quite surprised at what a science it actually is.
I run a virtual company, which has been in business for just over six years. We're literally scattered about the planet - Texas, Illinois, Detroit, Poland, Ukraine, the UK. We're very successful, very green, and extremely productive.
All our systems are cloud based, we use multiple communications tools (Skype, Uber Conference, Google Hangouts, Goto Meeting, etc.) .
The way you make this work is by hiring "A" players who are passionate about the work, and are quick to fire whiney complainers who carry a sense of entitlement.
Huh? The frequency has nothing to do with the bandwidth - the bandwidth is a function of the emission type. Double carrier AM is 4.5 Khz wide. FM, 16 Khz. Doesn't matter if you transmitting on 800 meters or 1 nano meter. Waveguides are used at microwave frequencies, what you are describing is a ground plane. You get directional antennas by using more than one vertical and feeding them at different phasing.
The amateur 2 meter band, at 144 Mhz, is just above the commercial FM band. Note the distance record - 1,353 miles. Amateurs have a maximum power output of 1500w to a 200' tower where as your normal commercial broadcaster is running 50,000 watts or more to a 1,000 foot tower.
Elon Musk's primary talent is fleecing us, the taxpayers. He is the world's largest recipient of government grants, hand outs, and subsidies - more than any human that ever lived on earth.
Shut off your flaming machine. This is the truth, and it's a compliment, it's not that easy to steal that kind of money legally. His closest competitor would be General Electric's Jeffrey Immelt.
But you can be certain that there are government grants to be made in the tunneling business, or this would not be happening.
Obama signed an executive order - the NDAA - that allows the government to arrest anyone, at any time, for no reason other than being declared a terrorist and detain them indefinitely. Where was the liberal outrage? Hint: There wasn't any.
Respectfully, Sir, you have it all wrong. What you are seeing is a strategy designed to throw the left into a howling, immature, tizzy that eventually tires out the supporters and stems the flow of donations. It's working spectacularly, and it's brilliant.
If you want to defeat the left, it's really simple:
Stop the flow of money from the left's money laundering operation: Federal Workers Union, Teachers Union, Workers Union. First thing he did was meet with Union leaders.
Break up the special interest groups that reliably vote left: Blacks, Hispanics, Women, LGBT. More Blacks voted for Trump than have voted for a Republican in a long time, more women voted...
Third, and MOST IMPORTANT screw up the left's biggest weapon: Emotionally charged righteous indignation. This is what gets people to send money. Every opponent of the left is branded a racist, xenophobic, insane, un-educated, country bumpkin, radical, dangerous for America that MUST BE STOPPED send money today... Well, if you create a new righteously indignant moment EVERY DAY and all the protesting, wailing, and howling Accomplishes Nothing, then the money, it will stop flowing.
You just don't get it. When talking Electric Cars the end justifies the means and outright lying is completely acceptable. It's a religion, not a technology.
Anybody that buys AGM or Li-Ion batteries knows that while the density has improved, the price hasn't come down much. And that pesky problem of thermal runaway under conditions of pressure (like what happens when cars crash) has not been solved. Here's one of thousands of examples https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Interesting how they forgot to mention the two lawyers who got busted by putting porn files on TOR, and when the copyright alarm went off shaking down scared surfers at $1,000 a pop, that turned out to be a fraud.... Which was the driving force behind the ISP's getting off the program.
But that wouldn't bring out the intellectual property whiners, we've already seen today's story about how Trump is destroying the galaxy, we've already seen the story about solar energy jobs, and a Windows bashing story, and we need more traffic... Wait, how about another MBP bashing? Nuclear Energy? Surely we can drive more traffic, surely....
All my liberal friends resort to name calling when I refuse to engage in what I call the "Endless diatribe of righteous indignation". The instant one topic has been laid to rest there must be another.
And now you've done it. I suppose "moron" is better than "racist" but you have succeeded in ending this thread. Try to be happy, will you? So many of my liberal friends seem to live in a state of perpetual angst, they are highly susceptible to the emotional arguments that are the staple of liberal echo chambers, and they just seem so unhappy all the time. Such a sad way to spend the one life you have.
On the Web, UI's appear to suck to most folks because they don't understand the creative director / client relationship. The client demands a web site that looks "more creative" and "more awesome" than last year. Sprinkle in the need for responsive/adaptive with three snap points and all websites look like stack able boxes. So what is a creative director to do? Well, get creative...
On the desktop the cost for Microsoft or Apple to redesign the UX is huge, and no matter what they do everybody will hate it because it's different.
On tablets/phones it's impossible to do any better than iOS for the "average joe" and as that belongs to Apple what's everyone else to do?
The folks with Linux have the best of all worlds, but Linux is not for the average Joe. There's no Linux support line, no Linux Genius Bar, no Linux Geek Squad.
The only place they got it right was in One Note. Yes, One Note is quirky as hell, and clearly designed by people who were either taking large amounts of drugs or managed by same... In One note I get to create my OWN little ribbon of the 20 things out of the 5,000 available that I actually use. It uses small plain solid color icons, in white, on a colored background, and since I put them there, I know what they do.
MS Orifice ribbons have the additional feature of making help useless. Telling users on the such and such ribbon, chose the such and such group - when entire ribbons can be hidden - requires the user to search and search for the damn ribbon, and then search and search for the smallest item there - the group name.
You're not old enough to know jack about WW2 Sir. You're entire diatribe is a collection of left wing talking points, you might as well have cut and pasted it off HuffPo, or Think Progress. I'm not worried, I was young and passionate once. Just be careful who you go around preaching civil insurrection to... for your own sake.
And here lies the essence of the problem. You see the world through a single lens, where your actions are justified - no matter how counterproductive, offensive, insulting, crude, and rude they are -- but when the opposition acts even remotely the same as you we hear the cries of indignation.
Instilling people with this kind of mindset ensures they are easily controlled, because they are thinking with their emotions, not their brains.
Calling anyone a Nazi - when they aren't committing genocide - is extremely racist. Think about it.
This isn't how you get shit done, and it certainly isn't how you get along with people.
I respectfully disagree. In 2008 the "public" believed a "Sea Change" was underway, there were going to be HUGE changes, everything was going to be better.
Eight years later and the blue party screwed the pooch so badly they are now in the worst shape since the Red party forced them to free their slaves, give women the vote, and repeal all the Jim Crow laws they wrote.
So the country has, for the most part, turned from blue to red. The blues are a local, municipal party for the moment.
We should all be hoping the red party does good, for the good of us all. I never met a politician I trusted, or liked... EVER. But I would like to see things improve...
In the last two years of the Clinton Administration a Republican Senate/House worked with Clinton and all kinds of good things happened. The Democrats took credit for all of it, of course, and still do.
The Democrats blocked Bush at every turn, treated him like shit, attacked endlessly, suggested he should be assassinated... They set new lows for respecting the Presidency.
Then they won the White House and declared ANY opposition to them to be RACIST. The war of words that you are taking five words out of context from, and declaring to to be the policy of the Republicans, is, of course, a talking point. It's the same old tired strawman. The truth is that plenty of bipartisan bills have been crafted and signed into law during the Obama years. The big exception being the ACA, which passed without a single Republican vote.
Now the Democrats are in the minority party, just like the Republicans were in 2008, and big surprise they are working even harder to stop Trump, and de-legitimatize his Presidency than anyone has ever done before. They tried to stop Trump before he was even inaugurated, and are blocking everything, stalling, and generally being petty, immature, and childish. The first lawsuits have already been filed!
This is what everyone who doesn't live in a blue bubble remembers. If you get all your news from said bubbles, GREAT! You're entitled to your opinion, Sir. But don't expect the rest of us to buy what you're selling.
Your observation seems true on the surface, but election results tell a different story if viewed in the aggregate. Right now the Republicans hold stunning majorities in all but a few, regional areas. The Democrats - who are really good at making noise - are doing their very best to make everyone believe otherwise.
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I haven't seen a project with proper requirements ever since I left the waterfall world of plodding corporate I.T. and joined the unicorn land of Digital Interactive.
I'd love to see this thing up against my clients, who give requirements like "It just doesn't pop for me, can we make it more awesome?" or "How much to make a more useful KPI screen?" or the ever popular "I want a website/mobile app/ecomm platform that looks just like this one, but has our branding"
Yep, and one only has to look at the poster - msmash - who's every submission is immediately posted. And every submission furthers the leftist agenda.
As an experiment, right after Trump got elected for a week I submitted stories from newspapers, etc. that leaned to the right, and big surprise they were all rejected. It's very sad because I used to spend a lot of time here talking to smart people about tech.
From someone who is in the business.
CPI payout is so absurdly low you'll starve trying to make money on it. CPC pays depending on a wide number of factors.
Marketing is less and less about "brand awareness" and more and more about Cost per Acquisition and Cost per Conversion. This is probably what the original poster was thinking about. The idea that you track the content a person views is very much last decade, when everyone was going about saying things like "Content is King" and we needed to track people's "Content Journeys". The idea was that you could trigger actions (email sends, different ads, etc.) based on people's consumption of content - Amazon was and is the king of this. But for all the hoopla and money spent it really didn't increase conversion that much.
The idea that you can micro-target people - particularly geo targeting - is the hot buzz at the moment. The next revolution will probably be beacons on Bluetooth that micro target your mobile device within a few hundred yards. There's also the idea that you can be micro targeted based on ALL your digital interactions, but nobody has perfected this quite yet as it requires that your input (the things you write) is analyzed.
For products where the marketing funnel begins and ends with search, traditional marketing is completely dead.
And for those of you who think you're smarter than "marketers" I urge you to join the profession, you'd be quite surprised at what a science it actually is.
I run a virtual company, which has been in business for just over six years. We're literally scattered about the planet - Texas, Illinois, Detroit, Poland, Ukraine, the UK. We're very successful, very green, and extremely productive.
All our systems are cloud based, we use multiple communications tools (Skype, Uber Conference, Google Hangouts, Goto Meeting, etc.) .
The way you make this work is by hiring "A" players who are passionate about the work, and are quick to fire whiney complainers who carry a sense of entitlement.
Huh? The frequency has nothing to do with the bandwidth - the bandwidth is a function of the emission type. Double carrier AM is 4.5 Khz wide. FM, 16 Khz. Doesn't matter if you transmitting on 800 meters or 1 nano meter. Waveguides are used at microwave frequencies, what you are describing is a ground plane. You get directional antennas by using more than one vertical and feeding them at different phasing.
Current VHF distance records achieved by amateurs:
http://www.arrl.org/files/file...
The amateur 2 meter band, at 144 Mhz, is just above the commercial FM band. Note the distance record - 1,353 miles. Amateurs have a maximum power output of 1500w to a 200' tower where as your normal commercial broadcaster is running 50,000 watts or more to a 1,000 foot tower.
Elon Musk's primary talent is fleecing us, the taxpayers. He is the world's largest recipient of government grants, hand outs, and subsidies - more than any human that ever lived on earth.
Shut off your flaming machine. This is the truth, and it's a compliment, it's not that easy to steal that kind of money legally. His closest competitor would be General Electric's Jeffrey Immelt.
But you can be certain that there are government grants to be made in the tunneling business, or this would not be happening.
Obama signed an executive order - the NDAA - that allows the government to arrest anyone, at any time, for no reason other than being declared a terrorist and detain them indefinitely. Where was the liberal outrage? Hint: There wasn't any.
Clearly you don't travel much. Been to any actual hot spots? Done customs in Israel, or Russia, China or the Philippines?
I have traveled extensively, U.S. customs is a breeze. I think you're just trying to stir the pot here.
Respectfully, Sir, you have it all wrong. What you are seeing is a strategy designed to throw the left into a howling, immature, tizzy that eventually tires out the supporters and stems the flow of donations. It's working spectacularly, and it's brilliant.
If you want to defeat the left, it's really simple:
Stop the flow of money from the left's money laundering operation: Federal Workers Union, Teachers Union, Workers Union. First thing he did was meet with Union leaders.
Break up the special interest groups that reliably vote left: Blacks, Hispanics, Women, LGBT. More Blacks voted for Trump than have voted for a Republican in a long time, more women voted...
Third, and MOST IMPORTANT screw up the left's biggest weapon: Emotionally charged righteous indignation. This is what gets people to send money. Every opponent of the left is branded a racist, xenophobic, insane, un-educated, country bumpkin, radical, dangerous for America that MUST BE STOPPED send money today... Well, if you create a new righteously indignant moment EVERY DAY and all the protesting, wailing, and howling Accomplishes Nothing, then the money, it will stop flowing.
It's brilliant,
You just don't get it. When talking Electric Cars the end justifies the means and outright lying is completely acceptable. It's a religion, not a technology.
Anybody that buys AGM or Li-Ion batteries knows that while the density has improved, the price hasn't come down much. And that pesky problem of thermal runaway under conditions of pressure (like what happens when cars crash) has not been solved. Here's one of thousands of examples https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Interesting how they forgot to mention the two lawyers who got busted by putting porn files on TOR, and when the copyright alarm went off shaking down scared surfers at $1,000 a pop, that turned out to be a fraud.... Which was the driving force behind the ISP's getting off the program.
But that wouldn't bring out the intellectual property whiners, we've already seen today's story about how Trump is destroying the galaxy, we've already seen the story about solar energy jobs, and a Windows bashing story, and we need more traffic... Wait, how about another MBP bashing? Nuclear Energy? Surely we can drive more traffic, surely....
This is the same agency that lists "Green Jobs" as people who drive garbage trucks.
Best wait until the swamp is drained, and agencies are pushed to reporting actual facts rather than driving a political agenda.
All my liberal friends resort to name calling when I refuse to engage in what I call the "Endless diatribe of righteous indignation". The instant one topic has been laid to rest there must be another.
And now you've done it. I suppose "moron" is better than "racist" but you have succeeded in ending this thread. Try to be happy, will you? So many of my liberal friends seem to live in a state of perpetual angst, they are highly susceptible to the emotional arguments that are the staple of liberal echo chambers, and they just seem so unhappy all the time. Such a sad way to spend the one life you have.
On the Web, UI's appear to suck to most folks because they don't understand the creative director / client relationship. The client demands a web site that looks "more creative" and "more awesome" than last year. Sprinkle in the need for responsive/adaptive with three snap points and all websites look like stack able boxes. So what is a creative director to do? Well, get creative...
On the desktop the cost for Microsoft or Apple to redesign the UX is huge, and no matter what they do everybody will hate it because it's different.
On tablets/phones it's impossible to do any better than iOS for the "average joe" and as that belongs to Apple what's everyone else to do?
The folks with Linux have the best of all worlds, but Linux is not for the average Joe. There's no Linux support line, no Linux Genius Bar, no Linux Geek Squad.
An interesting perspective to be sure but the actual goal of every business on earth is attracting customers, otherwise they die.
The only place they got it right was in One Note. Yes, One Note is quirky as hell, and clearly designed by people who were either taking large amounts of drugs or managed by same... In One note I get to create my OWN little ribbon of the 20 things out of the 5,000 available that I actually use. It uses small plain solid color icons, in white, on a colored background, and since I put them there, I know what they do.
MS Orifice ribbons have the additional feature of making help useless. Telling users on the such and such ribbon, chose the such and such group - when entire ribbons can be hidden - requires the user to search and search for the damn ribbon, and then search and search for the smallest item there - the group name.
I think you have to wait and see what actually HAPPENS instead of being worried about what MIGHT HAPPEN.
You're not old enough to know jack about WW2 Sir. You're entire diatribe is a collection of left wing talking points, you might as well have cut and pasted it off HuffPo, or Think Progress. I'm not worried, I was young and passionate once. Just be careful who you go around preaching civil insurrection to... for your own sake.
Rasmussen has Trump approval rating today at 59%.
And here lies the essence of the problem. You see the world through a single lens, where your actions are justified - no matter how counterproductive, offensive, insulting, crude, and rude they are -- but when the opposition acts even remotely the same as you we hear the cries of indignation.
Instilling people with this kind of mindset ensures they are easily controlled, because they are thinking with their emotions, not their brains.
Calling anyone a Nazi - when they aren't committing genocide - is extremely racist. Think about it.
This isn't how you get shit done, and it certainly isn't how you get along with people.
I respectfully disagree. In 2008 the "public" believed a "Sea Change" was underway, there were going to be HUGE changes, everything was going to be better.
Eight years later and the blue party screwed the pooch so badly they are now in the worst shape since the Red party forced them to free their slaves, give women the vote, and repeal all the Jim Crow laws they wrote.
So the country has, for the most part, turned from blue to red. The blues are a local, municipal party for the moment.
We should all be hoping the red party does good, for the good of us all. I never met a politician I trusted, or liked... EVER. But I would like to see things improve...
In the last two years of the Clinton Administration a Republican Senate/House worked with Clinton and all kinds of good things happened. The Democrats took credit for all of it, of course, and still do.
The Democrats blocked Bush at every turn, treated him like shit, attacked endlessly, suggested he should be assassinated... They set new lows for respecting the Presidency.
Then they won the White House and declared ANY opposition to them to be RACIST. The war of words that you are taking five words out of context from, and declaring to to be the policy of the Republicans, is, of course, a talking point. It's the same old tired strawman. The truth is that plenty of bipartisan bills have been crafted and signed into law during the Obama years. The big exception being the ACA, which passed without a single Republican vote.
Now the Democrats are in the minority party, just like the Republicans were in 2008, and big surprise they are working even harder to stop Trump, and de-legitimatize his Presidency than anyone has ever done before. They tried to stop Trump before he was even inaugurated, and are blocking everything, stalling, and generally being petty, immature, and childish. The first lawsuits have already been filed!
This is what everyone who doesn't live in a blue bubble remembers. If you get all your news from said bubbles, GREAT! You're entitled to your opinion, Sir. But don't expect the rest of us to buy what you're selling.
I could have sworn we just had 8 years where not a single bipartisan moment happened
This is a great "talking point" but it is completely false. Look at the record instead of getting your information from blue bubbles.
Your observation seems true on the surface, but election results tell a different story if viewed in the aggregate. Right now the Republicans hold stunning majorities in all but a few, regional areas. The Democrats - who are really good at making noise - are doing their very best to make everyone believe otherwise.
If this was reality it would have happened in 2009.