Another pseudo-economist out to tell us that an increase in productivity and a lowering living costs will be a net loss for society. Michio Kaku can you please take an economics 101 class before writing a book about the economic impact of anything. The general population is already economically illiterate and this only fuels the problem.
Thanks.
I cannot imagine this taking off in any significant way. Can you imagine the sales person walking into ID Software and saying something like "What if gamers could smell Rage as well as see it? Huh? Huh? *Shrugs Eyebrows*
Anybody else starting to be a little freaked out about how ubiquitous Google is becoming? I thought phones were cool, but this is starting to scare me. Especially considering the amount of data they collect on us.
Hellgate London (with Founders), Tabula Rasa and now APB...
The next time I purchase an MMO I'll let you guys know ahead of time so you know that it will fail.
I use to be a high-school student. You'd be amazed at how stupid some teachers truly are, and how empathetical, uninterested and downright robotic they sometimes act. If that is how they behaved with us, it's hard to imagine any meaningful life outside of school.
Also, because of the forced near slave relationship with our teachers (Do everything you are told, you must satisfy me and only my feelings matter. And the diametrically opposed student situation where you have no say in what happens in the classroom, your satisfaction is unimportant and how you feel about any subject matter is irrelevant now sit down and do your work.) predictably our only form of self-empowerment was trough passive aggressive acts.
The only way those ads stay on the site is because the readers click on them and purchase whatever product is on the other side. Otherwise whoever is placing ads there would not continue. So in a way, the ads being placed on the site do have some value to the clients there. I do agree that some sites go overkill and alienate their readers though. Not everyone is a good entrepreneur.
As a Canadian this angers me. The real reform we need is to allow outside cellphone carriers to compete in our market because we are tired of paying $35 dollars per month for 500 minutes and zero features. (Yes I know they are advertised as $20-$25 on their sites but just wait till you receive your first bill with all the "service" charges.) This is just some political move to look good all the while avoiding the real issue.
I don't really understand how you are giving me a "reality check". I'm saying that this is not the first time that Google does this to clients. They tend to boot clients and blacklist them without warning. They are alienating their clients and it's going to bite them in the butt.
>when you base your business on someone elses business, you are at their whim
I completly agree. That's why online marketers avoid Google like the plague. Because while other companies would foster a relationship with a client who spends $100,000+ per month with them. Google has no qualms in cutting them off with little to no warning.
In the online advertising world you generally try and avoid Google. Not only is it really expensive but they change their rules at every turn, blacklist some of their good clients without notice and offer vague to no reasons as to why they have done so.
We think "CougarLife will just have to advertise somewhere else, no biggie." But what we must realize is that they surely have spent lots of money researching what forms advertising work on Google's system. It's quite an expensive process to research and to optimize a campaign so that you are not just bleeding money. And now Google simply says "not our problem". I realize it's their systems and they can boot who they wish. But disposing of their clients as they please is catching up to them.
I'm all for supporting open formats but this is a stupid move on Microsoft's part. Already people are moving from IE and, without flash video support, this will only make more people shift towards browsers who support the tech.
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>What if GE got into the drug trade?
Then the money would go towards creating jobs instead of bailing out banks?
Another pseudo-economist out to tell us that an increase in productivity and a lowering living costs will be a net loss for society. Michio Kaku can you please take an economics 101 class before writing a book about the economic impact of anything. The general population is already economically illiterate and this only fuels the problem. Thanks.
And at least pretend to want to balance the budget?
I cannot imagine this taking off in any significant way. Can you imagine the sales person walking into ID Software and saying something like "What if gamers could smell Rage as well as see it? Huh? Huh? *Shrugs Eyebrows*
Don't give it away, invest it! We need jobs not temporary handouts!
Anybody else starting to be a little freaked out about how ubiquitous Google is becoming? I thought phones were cool, but this is starting to scare me. Especially considering the amount of data they collect on us.
Nope, facing the ceiling. But, I have a mirror installed up there so it all works out.
My second screen is tilted 90 degrees. It's great for coding.
What to do with your iPhone now that you've got an Android.
Whatever.
Hellgate London (with Founders), Tabula Rasa and now APB ...
The next time I purchase an MMO I'll let you guys know ahead of time so you know that it will fail.
Hey well look at that, we finally we agree on something. Although we probably disagree on the direction we should be taking to fix it.
I use to be a high-school student. You'd be amazed at how stupid some teachers truly are, and how empathetical, uninterested and downright robotic they sometimes act. If that is how they behaved with us, it's hard to imagine any meaningful life outside of school.
Also, because of the forced near slave relationship with our teachers (Do everything you are told, you must satisfy me and only my feelings matter. And the diametrically opposed student situation where you have no say in what happens in the classroom, your satisfaction is unimportant and how you feel about any subject matter is irrelevant now sit down and do your work.) predictably our only form of self-empowerment was trough passive aggressive acts.
The only way those ads stay on the site is because the readers click on them and purchase whatever product is on the other side. Otherwise whoever is placing ads there would not continue. So in a way, the ads being placed on the site do have some value to the clients there. I do agree that some sites go overkill and alienate their readers though. Not everyone is a good entrepreneur.
"it was a labor of love"
Damn people for trying to monetize their passions so that they can do what they love for a living.
Does it have a negative impact on their education or their schooling?
As a Canadian this angers me. The real reform we need is to allow outside cellphone carriers to compete in our market because we are tired of paying $35 dollars per month for 500 minutes and zero features. (Yes I know they are advertised as $20-$25 on their sites but just wait till you receive your first bill with all the "service" charges.) This is just some political move to look good all the while avoiding the real issue.
I don't really understand how you are giving me a "reality check". I'm saying that this is not the first time that Google does this to clients. They tend to boot clients and blacklist them without warning. They are alienating their clients and it's going to bite them in the butt.
>when you base your business on someone elses business, you are at their whim
I completly agree. That's why online marketers avoid Google like the plague. Because while other companies would foster a relationship with a client who spends $100,000+ per month with them. Google has no qualms in cutting them off with little to no warning.
In the online advertising world you generally try and avoid Google. Not only is it really expensive but they change their rules at every turn, blacklist some of their good clients without notice and offer vague to no reasons as to why they have done so. We think "CougarLife will just have to advertise somewhere else, no biggie." But what we must realize is that they surely have spent lots of money researching what forms advertising work on Google's system. It's quite an expensive process to research and to optimize a campaign so that you are not just bleeding money. And now Google simply says "not our problem". I realize it's their systems and they can boot who they wish. But disposing of their clients as they please is catching up to them.
I'm all for supporting open formats but this is a stupid move on Microsoft's part. Already people are moving from IE and, without flash video support, this will only make more people shift towards browsers who support the tech.