Aside from porn sites, how does the company intend on selling such a service? Everyone knows that pop ups are a hated thing by all users. So why would a in your face, take over the screen approach be that much better?
How would you sell this? If I were a company the last thing I would want is to take over the screen or use pop ups. It seems it would hurt the company's reputation or brand recognition more than help them.
Friend of mine goes to Fry's Electronics a glorified West Coast Radio Shack for computer folks for present day. Anyway, he always buys their $5.00 warranty and has so far burned 3 AMD's because of his own stupidity, no thermal compound, forgot to attach heatsink, and cracked the core. Each time they replaced it no questions. Im sure they send it back to AMD. So how long before AMD's policy alters their in store $5.00 policy?
I say it busts. I dont know that it has proliferated enough to be of enough interest that should have generated that type of investment. I guess what I am saying is, I consider myself a geek of new technologies and Im too cheap to shell out $19-50.00 a/month of Wifi Access at hotspots.
This is somethign that is also done by a synthetic oil company called "Amsoil" If you try to do a search on any info regarding synthetic oil you will get pages and pages of results that point you to Amsoil or one of their multi level marketers, regardless of which search engine you use.
Well being that he is 21. He may not know Apple's history. But he will soon find out that Apple doesnt take kindly to anything copying them and will pursue him legally harder than M$ ever would. I guess drawing 5% of the computer world doesnt get much attention but Apple is worse than M$ in many ways that it protects its property.
MSN is more Yahoo than Google. It seems their natural competitor would be closer to Yahoo. Considering all the crap they have on their site, Autos, Maps, Home Gardening, Orgami, Personal Diets, Footcare, bla blah blah they (Yahoo, MSN) are trying to be the free version of AOL. Whereas Google is just search and thats all they do.
Does D/L equal the speed of the U/L? I have a downstream of 1.5mbs my up is 128k. So does this mean my down will be at 128k as well. While I know its not fair for me to take more than I give, what can I say Im American.
All I have to say is I hope it goes through. Too many times whether contract, part time, or fulltime I see the H1's slowly taking all the jobs in an office where to regular John and Jane jobs start dwindling. H1's are to supplement a workforce that is not able to meet demand, but if we have huge supply like right now then there is no reason to hire the H1.
What with California now firing its elementary school teachers, being charged the highest per gallon for gas, and highest level of unemployment, its nice to see people putting their foot down. Hopefully something happens for the better of the average Joe.
With this type of scenario if it actually pans out we have the Las Vegas effect. Droves of people with decent paying jobs but little or no education (college wise), and a community demanding that people be educated and attend college. Why, when you get out of H.S. and work 4 years starting at $30K you still make more than your college counterpart in the long run?
I havent done Apple Service in some years but wow, has AppleCare extended to covering the Im a dumbass area? In the past if you sneezed weird on your powerbook the warranty would be void and need to be sent to Apple at the customers expense for warranty inspection.
I would say the longevity of a career in IT, considering the path its on now, is about the same as trying to be a musician. There are some one hit wonders, some with staying power, some that have made it and lost it, but most just trying to stay in but keep getting kicked back out after a few years to either regroup trying to do something else and trying again or going a different route in life completely.
Perhaps they should go the porn route and freedom of speech or art approach. If they went the porn route they could possibly get the help of the porn industry which according to Diane Sawyer is a $10 bill / year industry. Saying they make their money from pop ups and spyware is kinda hokey and just makes people more irritated with them.
They have been gunning for his since day one. Entertainment biz has a entirely different culture than Internet/Technology. Where at AOL he was viewed as a god, at Time Warner he was a loud mouth, blunt speaking, jerk of sorts. It also doesnt help that he helped reduce many Time Warner execs, pensions, and people stocks at Time Warner from something in the 50's per share to its current 14 per share. Including helping Ted Turner turn his fortune from $8 billion to $2, sure its still a crap load of money but single handedly making $6 billion disappear is no small feat.
Well at a user group that I frequent the running joke is about $175-200.00 for a internal HD. Doesnt matter when in time or size of drives get it always $175-200.00, starting from the mid-1990's. As prices of everything else falls one thing is certain is HD prices will remain constant.
Another example of how Apple gets ahead of itself. While on ocassion they introduce a great product, or at least a product that earns them a nice chunk of revenue. They get ahead of themselves and the public by releasing a product that is not ready for primetime then proceed to loose millions on it. MP3 player good, established market. iPod video player, bad. How many people go around sharing videos or ripping movies off newly DVD's like they are with MP3's? Very very few.
I had a original IBM XT, Commodore 64, Mac Plus, and other peripherals that went with those machines, keyboards, mice, joysticks, modems, etc... Figured one day I was going to make a lobby museum or something in my office building while on my road to global domination.
But sadly last month I found out my mom said that it had been sitting in her garage for the last 10 years so she figured it was safe to toss and she did so to make room for her Xmas decoration boxes which consist of Jingle Bell Rock dancing Santa, Fish on the wall with SAnta hat, X-Mas decorations, outside lights, and other festive crap...
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With Man and HowTo pages all over these books are not that necessary. While I have always felt HowTo and Man pages sometimes being too thorough and making me search for info these "bibles" seem to be too brief, they touch on a topic and move on with the reader wanting more, ironically it also points to websites for more info that are not created by the author of the book, but developers or people that have done a good job creating a How To page.
I will admit I used to own a Mac bible during the OS 7 days and it was fun just because it didnt teach you anything but listed easter eggs and tidbits of trivia on Apple. But when the internet hit with specialized sites it turned those books into a monitor stand.
I recently did the switch although I knew it was to my detriment one day. So far I had some choices on what premium Yahoo services I wanted. I opted for additional briefcase storage for photos and files, and premium games ( which seems to just be so that I can enter tournaments with other Yahoo users that paid to play the free games) Plus it helps appease my wife since she can have 8 additional premium email boxes from Yahoo with POP access, vs SBC only giving us 2.
I think the incessant bombarding of commercials may have brainwashed me for an instant as well "My wife didnt even know I liked Salsa music..."
They can sue for anything in this legal system. After the.com bust a friend that worked for a startup that never was, got sued along with half of the other employees for $1 million being that they didnt work hard enough as employees and caused the companies failure.
Most of the others worked something out, some ran and disappeared, but my friend felt he did nothing wrong so he decided to fight. After a year of delays, depositions, recusements, etc... and laywer fee's the plaintiff drops the suit, now my friend owe's $50k in legal fee's and is still unemployed with lawyers representing him going after him now. He talked to former employees and apparently the plaintiff did it because he was bitter and wanted everyone to pay for the millions he thought he deserved.
So yes, they may not get money out of him but they can get frustration and disillusionment out of him for ever talking to NBC.
Always have been always will, who else is allowed to change contracts to customers, resellers, and vendors at will and not be penalized? Plus they control our communication grid and infrastructure, which is one reason why taxpayers must bear the burden of Worldcom or risk losing a portion of our communications system.
Can you tell I have a dislike for telephone companies?
Is it that Dell the hardware Microsoft is starting to lose profit? And have to now expand their offerings to stay afloat without massive layoffs? I am guessing the Compaq HP hail Mary merger has actually got them a little nervous.
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Aside from porn sites, how does the company intend on selling such a service?
Everyone knows that pop ups are a hated thing by all users. So why would a in your face, take over the screen approach be that much better?
How would you sell this? If I were a company the last thing I would want is to take over the screen or use pop ups. It seems it would hurt the company's reputation or brand recognition more than help them.
Friend of mine goes to Fry's Electronics a glorified West Coast Radio Shack for computer folks for present day. Anyway, he always buys their $5.00 warranty and has so far burned 3 AMD's because of his own stupidity, no thermal compound, forgot to attach heatsink, and cracked the core. Each time they replaced it no questions. Im sure they send it back to AMD.
So how long before AMD's policy alters their in store $5.00 policy?
I say it busts. I dont know that it has proliferated enough to be of enough interest that should have generated that type of investment.
I guess what I am saying is, I consider myself a geek of new technologies and Im too cheap to shell out $19-50.00 a/month of Wifi Access at hotspots.
This is somethign that is also done by a synthetic oil company called "Amsoil"
If you try to do a search on any info regarding synthetic oil you will get pages and pages of results that point you to Amsoil or one of their multi level marketers, regardless of which search engine you use.
Well being that he is 21. He may not know Apple's history. But he will soon find out that Apple doesnt take kindly to anything copying them and will pursue him legally harder than M$ ever would.
I guess drawing 5% of the computer world doesnt get much attention but Apple is worse than M$ in many ways that it protects its property.
MSN is more Yahoo than Google. It seems their natural competitor would be closer to Yahoo.
Considering all the crap they have on their site, Autos, Maps, Home Gardening, Orgami, Personal Diets, Footcare, bla blah blah they (Yahoo, MSN) are trying to be the free version of AOL.
Whereas Google is just search and thats all they do.
Does D/L equal the speed of the U/L? I have a downstream of 1.5mbs my up is 128k.
So does this mean my down will be at 128k as well. While I know its not fair for me to take more than I give, what can I say Im American.
All I have to say is I hope it goes through. Too many times whether contract, part time, or fulltime I see the H1's slowly taking all the jobs in an office where to regular John and Jane jobs start dwindling. H1's are to supplement a workforce that is not able to meet demand, but if we have huge supply like right now then there is no reason to hire the H1.
What with California now firing its elementary school teachers, being charged the highest per gallon for gas, and highest level of unemployment, its nice to see people putting their foot down. Hopefully something happens for the better of the average Joe.
This sounds familiar to the premise behind Michael Crichtons latest book Prey.
With this type of scenario if it actually pans out we have the Las Vegas effect. Droves of people with decent paying jobs but little or no education (college wise), and a community demanding that people be educated and attend college.
Why, when you get out of H.S. and work 4 years starting at $30K you still make more than your college counterpart in the long run?
I havent done Apple Service in some years but wow, has AppleCare extended to covering the Im a dumbass area?
In the past if you sneezed weird on your powerbook the warranty would be void and need to be sent to Apple at the customers expense for warranty inspection.
How will I upgrade the bios? Through Windows like how many companies are trying to get people to do? Risky endeavor at best.
I would say the longevity of a career in IT, considering the path its on now, is about the same as trying to be a musician. There are some one hit wonders, some with staying power, some that have made it and lost it, but most just trying to stay in but keep getting kicked back out after a few years to either regroup trying to do something else and trying again or going a different route in life completely.
Perhaps they should go the porn route and freedom of speech or art approach.
If they went the porn route they could possibly get the help of the porn industry which according to Diane Sawyer is a $10 bill / year industry.
Saying they make their money from pop ups and spyware is kinda hokey and just makes people more irritated with them.
They have been gunning for his since day one. Entertainment biz has a entirely different culture than Internet/Technology. Where at AOL he was viewed as a god, at Time Warner he was a loud mouth, blunt speaking, jerk of sorts.
It also doesnt help that he helped reduce many Time Warner execs, pensions, and people stocks at Time Warner from something in the 50's per share to its current 14 per share. Including helping Ted Turner turn his fortune from $8 billion to $2, sure its still a crap load of money but single handedly making $6 billion disappear is no small feat.
If your only worried about failure then backing up a TeraByte should not be an issue since RAID's will also probably be the standard.
I have never had a hard drive fail causing all my data to be lost, now data corruption, virus, and OS failure is another story.
Well at a user group that I frequent the running joke is about $175-200.00 for a internal HD. Doesnt matter when in time or size of drives get it always $175-200.00, starting from the mid-1990's.
As prices of everything else falls one thing is certain is HD prices will remain constant.
Another example of how Apple gets ahead of itself. While on ocassion they introduce a great product, or at least a product that earns them a nice chunk of revenue. They get ahead of themselves and the public by releasing a product that is not ready for primetime then proceed to loose millions on it.
MP3 player good, established market. iPod video player, bad. How many people go around sharing videos or ripping movies off newly DVD's like they are with MP3's? Very very few.
This thing is going to go the way of the Newton.
I had a original IBM XT, Commodore 64, Mac Plus, and other peripherals that went with those machines, keyboards, mice, joysticks, modems, etc...
Figured one day I was going to make a lobby museum or something in my office building while on my road to global domination.
But sadly last month I found out my mom said that it had been sitting in her garage for the last 10 years so she figured it was safe to toss and she did so to make room for her Xmas decoration boxes which consist of Jingle Bell Rock dancing Santa, Fish on the wall with SAnta hat, X-Mas decorations, outside lights, and other festive crap...
With Man and HowTo pages all over these books are not that necessary. While I have always felt HowTo and Man pages sometimes being too thorough and making me search for info these "bibles" seem to be too brief, they touch on a topic and move on with the reader wanting more, ironically it also points to websites for more info that are not created by the author of the book, but developers or people that have done a good job creating a How To page.
I will admit I used to own a Mac bible during the OS 7 days and it was fun just because it didnt teach you anything but listed easter eggs and tidbits of trivia on Apple. But when the internet hit with specialized sites it turned those books into a monitor stand.
Sounds like the 40 acres and a mule thing. Do something now for something later, but that something later never comes or is upheld.
I recently did the switch although I knew it was to my detriment one day. So far I had some choices on what premium Yahoo services I wanted. I opted for additional briefcase storage for photos and files, and premium games ( which seems to just be so that I can enter tournaments with other Yahoo users that paid to play the free games) Plus it helps appease my wife since she can have 8 additional premium email boxes from Yahoo with POP access, vs SBC only giving us 2.
I think the incessant bombarding of commercials may have brainwashed me for an instant as well "My wife didnt even know I liked Salsa music..."
They can sue for anything in this legal system. After the .com bust a friend that worked for a startup that never was, got sued along with half of the other employees for $1 million being that they didnt work hard enough as employees and caused the companies failure.
Most of the others worked something out, some ran and disappeared, but my friend felt he did nothing wrong so he decided to fight. After a year of delays, depositions, recusements, etc... and laywer fee's the plaintiff drops the suit, now my friend owe's $50k in legal fee's and is still unemployed with lawyers representing him going after him now.
He talked to former employees and apparently the plaintiff did it because he was bitter and wanted everyone to pay for the millions he thought he deserved.
So yes, they may not get money out of him but they can get frustration and disillusionment out of him for ever talking to NBC.
Always have been always will, who else is allowed to change contracts to customers, resellers, and vendors at will and not be penalized? Plus they control our communication grid and infrastructure, which is one reason why taxpayers must bear the burden of Worldcom or risk losing a portion of our communications system.
Can you tell I have a dislike for telephone companies?
Is it that Dell the hardware Microsoft is starting to lose profit? And have to now expand their offerings to stay afloat without massive layoffs?
I am guessing the Compaq HP hail Mary merger has actually got them a little nervous.