when it doesn't rely on ads, you, not the advertisers become the customer.
No.
The BBC get their revenue from a government monopoly. They schmooze the government of the day when their charter comes up for renewal. They pay zero attention to customer complaints.
Last year, many accredited the success to cultural influences, such as the “Brian Cox effect”.
New data, however, suggest a network designed to help science teachers inspire students with the wonder of physics, called the Stimulating Physics Network (SPN), has played a major part in translating this nascent inspiration into A-level entries.
You could just as easily blame lack of intellectual curiosity among children/society.
I've just finished reading Made to Stick in which they tell the story of a teacher successfully winning students over to algebra being useful to them by describing it as mental weight training. "you do math exercises so that you can improve your ability to think logically" (ch.5, p.194).
Advertising is not optional. Every business requires it. It's cheaper than employing sales reps, or telesales staff, and if you have a good product, like Avis, it pays off. If you do not have a good product then telling people about it is pointless.
I've often thought that advertising, all advertising is hugely overvalued,
Advertising brings in new customers, the alternative is hiring salespeople to cold-call.
In 1962, just before the first 'We try harder' ads launched, Avis was an unprofitable company with 11% of the car rental business in the USA. Within a year of launching the campaign Avis was making a profit, and by 1966 Avis had tripled its market share to 35%.
the semantic HTML tags are less than useless, because they're based on a now obsolete statistical analysis of common ids/classes.
Schema.org does much the same thing, labelling headers, footers, navigation etc.
I believe Mr Hickson used to work for Google, perhaps the HTML5 semantic tags were just a search engine wishlist, that they've now decided to push via schema.org?
...once buoyant Western export markets are in ragged retreat, and just how much more investment can the Chinese economy take before knocking up against already manifest levels of industrial overcapacity?
Also discussed is the company's loyalty to Windows and Office, which induced a myopia that repeatedly kept Microsoft from jumping on emerging technologies like e-readers and other technology that was effective for consumers.
They'd be foolish not to be loyal to windows and office. Those were/are two fabulously successful products.
I think there is a strong case for MS ignoring any options for broadening their product range, and just focussing on their existing winners.
The Government says it needs £110bn of investment in new energy production plant to keep the lights on. That's slightly down from the £120bn figure the Department had cited earlier, but it needs to be qualified. That sum is "needed" to meet EU climate change target of a 20 per cent reduction in CO2 emission by 2020 using renewable energy production. Given the worldwide retreat from carbon dioxide mitigation policies, and the current financial situation within the EU, it's unlikely that a single European government will adopt a similar commitment, with a similar kind of energy mix.
So why the scare quotes around "need" - just how necessary is that £110bn? It's a good question. The cost of building new open-cycle gas-fired plant to meet the requirement is £13bn. What inflates the figure by a factor of eight is the commitment to do it using renewable energy and nuclear.
the majority of people who are *literate* in science and math (including, what, about 95% of climate scientists?) agree that global warming is real and we need to do something about it.
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There is some talk of them subsidising the price manufacturers pay for energy. If they just repealed the subsidies to the 'green' power companies, they wouldn't have to.
Leo was developed by Lyons, a food manufacturer/wholesaler/retailer. There's a very nice book about about it, A Computer called Leo.
No.
The BBC get their revenue from a government monopoly. They schmooze the government of the day when their charter comes up for renewal. They pay zero attention to customer complaints.
The gizmos on CSI are pretty cool too. :-)
Perhaps not.
A BBC engineer gave an interesting talk about their web platform at the PHP UK Conference 2012: "Monitoring your back end for speed and profit"
Netgear offer something similar with their replicate software.
You could just as easily blame lack of intellectual curiosity among children/society.
I've just finished reading Made to Stick in which they tell the story of a teacher successfully winning students over to algebra being useful to them by describing it as mental weight training. "you do math exercises so that you can improve your ability to think logically" (ch.5, p.194) .
I thought the current UK government were trying to reintroduce maths and science as a basic requirement for all school children.
Both true and relevent
Advertising is not optional. Every business requires it. It's cheaper than employing sales reps, or telesales staff, and if you have a good product, like Avis, it pays off. If you do not have a good product then telling people about it is pointless.
No, I'm not a salesman.
The return depends on your offer, and your performance. Advertising brings the new customers, it doesn't close the sale.
I'm a big fan of Amazon's recommendations too. Coupled with the customer reviews, it's driven a lot of my book/gizmo buying.
Advertising brings in new customers, the alternative is hiring salespeople to cold-call.
http://www.grabinerhall.com/press-detail.php?a=17
http://www.avis.co.uk/blog/we-try-harder-the-legacy-of-robert-townsend/
Schema.org does much the same thing, labelling headers, footers, navigation etc.
I believe Mr Hickson used to work for Google, perhaps the HTML5 semantic tags were just a search engine wishlist, that they've now decided to push via schema.org?
Maybe they've just produced more than they can use?
They'd be foolish not to be loyal to windows and office. Those were/are two fabulously successful products.
I think there is a strong case for MS ignoring any options for broadening their product range, and just focussing on their existing winners.
It is easier to grow an existing business than build one from scratch.
Children are a pension plan. Family, churches, neighbours are welfare insurance.
Nothing involving the British Government is done 'cheaper'. They strive to find the most expensive option. However perverse.
Not true.
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The point is, the UK gov't cannot stop it, or change it.
It may well have been instigated by a previous UK gov't, but it is regulation from the EU.
The UK data retension legislation on this is set at the EU level.
I'm toying with the idea of dropping IE6 support, it's down to 2.8%.
What problems does IE7 cause you?
For markets to work, it is only necessary to punish bad behaviour. Belief in hell would satisfy that.