They do care if their employees can't work while on the road.
I'd recommend reading "All Marketers are Liars" by Seth Godin. Not only does it cover this topic very well, but it is also written in a style that one would do well to emulate. The book basically explains how to tell stories that match people's worldviews. For example, Fiji water sells for twice as much as Poland Spring because it has a story on the bottle.
I think my biggest problem as a writer has been just learning to get over myself. Adding chiasmus and clever literary trope seems clever to me at the time, but doesn't really do anything for whoever is reading my stuff.
Another weird habit I have is writing everything as if it were going to be read out loud. This makes many of my sentences unreasonably short. Which is good, when read it my voice. But most people on the web don't read in my voice.
(you can see what I'm talking about if you check out the newer writing on my website)
Rule of thumb: Anything that allows you to "level up" is out to fuck you, take your money, or both. Examples: School, military, corporate hierarchy, catholic church, world of warcraft, scientology, etc.
Now if you're both in the military and addicted to WoW then you're really in trouble. That's either the second or the fourth circle of hell, depending on how the maths work. Either way it isn't good.
Rule of thumb: Anything that allows you to "level up" is out to fuck you, take your money, or both. Examples: School, military, corporate hierarchy, catholic church, world of warcraft, scientology, etc.
Clearly the submitter has never been to the Apple store. All the mall needs to do is combine Sephora (with all the hot girls) and the Apple store and it would be like a black hole that no one could ever leave from.
Rule of thumb: Anything that allows you to "level up" is out to fuck you, take your money, or both. Examples: School, military, corporate hierarchy, catholic church, world of warcraft, scientology, etc.
Yeah, I agree. It's not like they will be able to propagate anyways.
Wearing pink for a guy shows self-confidence, the trait most attractive to women. If you are able to wear a pink shirt and no one gives you shit about it, it shows that you are a dominant male. It is a great way to show value to women. It's completely true, I read it in a magazine once. I think it was in PC Gamer.
Doesn't anyone have values anymore? I'm not against all consumption, or even against all conspicuous consumption, but when it gets to the point where there's no longer even any pretext I think it shows a lack of character.
I used to think that Vista would be a turning point for mac adoption, but now I'm not so sure. I no longer have faith that Vista will ever be released.
Your analogy is broken because Firefox doesn't take advantage of the network effect. The more people that use a particular online social bookmarking service, the more value there is for each user. I'm not saying there shouldn't be different approaches, but it would be nice if there was some sort of standard so that they could interoperate with each other.
Exactly, all this is doing is splitting the online bookmarks sharing market into even smaller and smaller silos, subtracting value from end users. Why doesn't Slashdot just work out a deal with del.icio.us so that Slashdotters can mark the fact that they have a Slashdot account in their del.icio.us preferences, and then have those bookmarks be minable by the Slashdot editors. That way it would be easier for the Slashdot editors, better for del.icio.us, and would actually add value to the Internet instead of further splintering the market.
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I'm actually starting a blog. It's called "urban asceticism". It will be more or less dedicated to achieving Buddha-nature in the city.
They do care if their employees can't work while on the road.
I'd recommend reading "All Marketers are Liars" by Seth Godin. Not only does it cover this topic very well, but it is also written in a style that one would do well to emulate. The book basically explains how to tell stories that match people's worldviews. For example, Fiji water sells for twice as much as Poland Spring because it has a story on the bottle.
I think my biggest problem as a writer has been just learning to get over myself. Adding chiasmus and clever literary trope seems clever to me at the time, but doesn't really do anything for whoever is reading my stuff.
Another weird habit I have is writing everything as if it were going to be read out loud. This makes many of my sentences unreasonably short. Which is good, when read it my voice. But most people on the web don't read in my voice.
(you can see what I'm talking about if you check out the newer writing on my website)
I had a geocities webpage when I was 12 and I was never gang raped by strangers. What exactly has changed in the last nine years?
Haha not too many people left with UIDs low enough to remember the Natalie Portman troll now adays.
Will they let me listen to standup comedy? It's rare that I ever would want to listen to the same sketch more than five times anyway.
My mom's catholic.
Spoken like someone whose in denial about being conned out of a lot of time and money.
Well logically it would be either level three or level eight. Hopefully level eight, I hear it has way better loot.
Rule of thumb: Anything that allows you to "level up" is out to fuck you, take your money, or both. Examples: School, military, corporate hierarchy, catholic church, world of warcraft, scientology, etc.
Now if you're both in the military and addicted to WoW then you're really in trouble. That's either the second or the fourth circle of hell, depending on how the maths work. Either way it isn't good.
I was hoping for +1 insightful, but I guess some things are so serious you can only +1 funny them.
Rule of thumb: Anything that allows you to "level up" is out to fuck you, take your money, or both. Examples: School, military, corporate hierarchy, catholic church, world of warcraft, scientology, etc.
Clearly the submitter has never been to the Apple store. All the mall needs to do is combine Sephora (with all the hot girls) and the Apple store and it would be like a black hole that no one could ever leave from.
Rule of thumb: Anything that allows you to "level up" is out to fuck you, take your money, or both. Examples: School, military, corporate hierarchy, catholic church, world of warcraft, scientology, etc.
Yeah, I agree. It's not like they will be able to propagate anyways.
Wearing pink for a guy shows self-confidence, the trait most attractive to women. If you are able to wear a pink shirt and no one gives you shit about it, it shows that you are a dominant male. It is a great way to show value to women. It's completely true, I read it in a magazine once. I think it was in PC Gamer.
What the hell is this doing on Slashdot? What next, Slashvertising for Russian kiddy porn makers?
I'm putting a gold star on every webpage I own, whether it's porn or not. Let the king of denmark serve as an example.
Did anyone else notice the submitter's name was Heywood J. Blaume?
TextPayMe already provides this exact same service. I wonder if they have a patent on it.
Since when does Jimbo delete articles? Jimbo doesn't even edit.
Doesn't anyone have values anymore? I'm not against all consumption, or even against all conspicuous consumption, but when it gets to the point where there's no longer even any pretext I think it shows a lack of character.
But is truth the death of social conformity?
I used to think that Vista would be a turning point for mac adoption, but now I'm not so sure. I no longer have faith that Vista will ever be released.
Your analogy is broken because Firefox doesn't take advantage of the network effect. The more people that use a particular online social bookmarking service, the more value there is for each user. I'm not saying there shouldn't be different approaches, but it would be nice if there was some sort of standard so that they could interoperate with each other.
Exactly, all this is doing is splitting the online bookmarks sharing market into even smaller and smaller silos, subtracting value from end users. Why doesn't Slashdot just work out a deal with del.icio.us so that Slashdotters can mark the fact that they have a Slashdot account in their del.icio.us preferences, and then have those bookmarks be minable by the Slashdot editors. That way it would be easier for the Slashdot editors, better for del.icio.us, and would actually add value to the Internet instead of further splintering the market.