It is about making money with as little investment into anything else BUT making money. Screw diversification, screw research, screw tax-shelters, screw quality improvement, screw employees...
Say you develop a free online service for free storage of pumpkin photos - and it becomes a hit. He is advising against broadening your business into free grape photo business. Or even improving much on your pumpkin photo business model other than scaling it up. And when another player in the pumpkin photo market comes along, and he also hosts free photos of grapes, corn and potatoes, - don't waste energy or money fighting him. Just concentrate on making money for as long as you can. Don't be the best. Heck, don't even try to hard to be adequate. Just make sure that you are making money until a significantly better competitor comes along.
And when he offers to buy you out - accept it and move one. Let him fight the guy who will come along doing the same thing, only he will have cute kittens holding the above mentioned vegetable in the photos.
Maybe google could use the money from bad videos to give small rebates to people with good videos.
Wait... You are suggesting monetary moderation based on taste and tastefulness? On D interwebz? You are one of those "green people" parent poster speaks of, aren't you? This site should prove insightful for your further understanding of the nature of the internet.
Microsoft killed his parents, his dog, two goldfishes and his pet cucumber (to whom he refers as Reginald). He has been fuming about anything remotely connected to Microsoft ever since.
Only SJVN is older, has less hair on his scalp and more on his face, and I assume his Asheville, North Carolina residence is not his parents' basement.
A "normal" 2-year-old with hernia pain, which won't go away even after it gets tired of crying and falls asleep. Aaaand... besides the pain it also has an addiction to a chemical stimulant.
So yeah... kinda like a kid you take a toy away from - if by "toy" you mean body part, and by "take away" you mean cut off. Yeah... very similar. Not QUITE the same though.
...from another source (since this story is at least a weak old) the kid starts to yell, scream and generally goes apeshit without the cigarettes. See... he is an addict, but with a health problem that his addiction makes bearable.
Guarantied to attract at least 8 fanbois since 1972.
As an added bonus, the above offtopic flamebait has people replying to it about the value of their time. There is more unintentional comedy in this thread than in an average Turkish remake of a famous action movie.
Doesn't really sound like that one, but I assume that they are somewhat similar.
SotC deals with various "online jobs that anyone could do", from taking thousands of photos hoping some of them will be bought for photo stocks (and paid in pennies), through Amazon's mTurk (and their policy to only pay Americans and Indians in cash, while others get gift certificates) all the way to Chinese who build custom characters and farm gold (I only assume that they do gold farming part as well, though the film only shows what seems to be like character leveling).
Actual work is being done by kids coming in to the cities from provincial towns and villages for about 95 Euros a month (~135$). Their daily lunch costs about 0.35 Euros, so in average they end up with about 60 Euros (~85$) earned each month. Their employers try very hard to show in front of the camera how they only hire kids older than 18, but they don't really succeed in that as they hire the minors (right in front of the camera) for "a trial period". Workload of such establishments where kids work their nearly entire waking day (in front of the camera we are shown that they work 12 hours a day) is bought off by a company situated in Shanghai.
Which is actually an outpost of ige (Internet Gaming Entertainment Ltd.) - an L.A. based MMORPG gold-selling company founded and run at the time by Brock Pierce - of Mighty Ducks and First Kid fame. He has since sold the company - but kept the shares. BTW, they have been failing to pay their employees in their gold-digging sweatshops for months. And while "Find excuses first, attack and insult later" tactic works on some, others take a more aggressive approach when asking to be paid.
Namely - they come to their Shanghai HQ with guns.
The best part is, that while the local SWAT team arrives to handle the guy holding a gun to the secretary's face - journalists get a confirmation from another female employee that things like that happen all the time. Oh, and once confronted with tale of their disgruntled subcontractor coming to their Shanghai offices with a gun, Brock Pierce and John Maffei used the same "Excuses, attacks and insults" combo.
One would think that someone in the MMORPG business would understand a practice of having secondary attack skills.
Yes. It made news because he was a famous musician.
It made BIG NEWS because it was a sudden and unexpected death - particularly for someone who slept in an oxygen tank and danced like he did. And 50 years is by no account an age at which one is expected to just die. I mean look at Gary Busey. Today is his 65th birthday. Now, if there is one person (besides Amy Winehouse and Keith Richards) you would expect to be long dead from all the drugs and booze - that would be him.
You haven't been around on this planet for very long, have you?
Although... The parent does seem to miss the point. It is not that Michael Jackson died. It is that he died suddenly and unexpectedly. McCartney does have that extra weird bonus of being the only Beatle who came back from the dead, but still - his death would be kinda expected nowadays.
You want to scare the shit out of Google? Shoot Madonna with a rocket launcher in the middle of the street in broad daylight.
Oh, so it is "It ain't the fall but the sudden stop" logic? Or in this case "It wasn't the asteroid impact blocking the sunlight, but Sun's rays being blocked by the asteroid impact".
Earth even changes the climate itself by slight variations in the orbit around the Sun. That was my point.
No. No, that was not your point. Let me remind you what you said:
Ok once more for those people playing along in Rio Linda Any change in the earths temperature, heat wave or ice age, is cause by that great big ball of gas 93 million miles away it's a little thing we like to call the SUN!
Sun, only Sun, and nothing but the Sun.
I find it funny the mods liked your post and missed mine completely.
Actually, they didn't. You were noticed. It is just that you got modded down cause your post sounded rather trollish.
Might have been that condescending euphemism for "dumb people" that you used to characterize anyone who might disagree with you regarding your following (poorly thought through) statement about Sun and its influence on the climate changes on Earth.
Here is a hint. Rush Limbaugh is not a great philosopher nor orator. He also lacks expertise in just about any discipline except being what is commonly called a "jerk". As any other shock-jock, his popularity mainly stems from his ability to use the position he is in to shout louder than other people - which many confuse with wit and humor. As you lack the backing and resources at his disposal, using his lingo will only make you sound like a jerk - without receiving any benefits that he may experience.
At least try being original. In absence of originality, being honest when calling people dumb may at least give you some character.
3:53 Not the best version of the story but the message is quite appropriate. You get out of there, you stand aside, you make room - who do you think will take your place? Mr. and Mrs. Nice?
Unless one of them kills all of their partners like in The Dark Knight that ain't much of a prize.
Yeah, but if they deliver him to the competition in a body bag they get another 500 hundred grand. A million if alive, so they can teach him some manners first.
He is merely referring to the fact that the man was kicked out of Garden of Eden for eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. Which was the first recorded case of theft of Intellectual Property.
I was actually going to write a broader reply to your troll, but I have more important things to do. I'll just instruct you to read Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi which should hopefully help you to realize how nearly any (progressive) Iranian woman finds chadors and maghnaeh a burden and a joke.
Energy from a source of light is NOT measured by its heat? FUCK! So that is why my solar battery charger won't work when I boil it!
I was talking energy equivalents and what you get from "regular sunlight". Grandparent post started with that whole "couple of times stronger than sunlight" deal when actually talking about directed microwave radiation (and not sunlight) and it went from there.
Mostly, you seem to have forgotten in general that the Celsius temperature scale has an arbitrary zero point, so doing any kind of multiplication on it will almost always give you a rubbish answer.
Well fuck! Woe is me! I guess any multiplication of 0C should be done in Kelvin. I mean, if you want to go into all those unmeasurable subjective values such as "hot" or "cold". No instrument will give you those values though. It will give you a measured value compared to A SCALE of predetermined values! Temperatures bellow 0 are not unmeasurable anti-temperatures - they only have an arbitrary negative value. You CAN multiply, divide, add and subtract those values, but it isn't exactly linear - since thermodynamics does not exactly work that way (poring a liter of 50C water over another liter of 50C water, won't make those 2 liter of water boil).
Frankly the idea is a bit of a waste of time in my eyes. There's plenty of empty sunny desert where solar collection systems can be set up. Cheaper to create a 10km^2 grid on the ground that produces much more, than to try and put a 0.1km^2 array in orbit and try to beam power down somehow...
May be. But... The same solar cell is far more efficient in space than on Earth (no atmosphere), and you get more working hours out of it (In geostationary orbit it would be illuminated over 99% of the time).
But screw that. That is all fine and dandy, but that is not the reason anyone is interested in this. The main reason to put these things in orbit is the same as for putting any other thing in orbit - military application. Not as a weapon though, but as a power source for remote bases. Just raise the antenna in the middle (or on top) of your desert fortress and call the HQ to direct a satellite at it. Instant (nearly indestructible since the main part is in space) power source. And you don't have to worry about leaving it behind for the enemy - since it is just wire mesh.
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It is not about making money.
It is about making money with as little investment into anything else BUT making money.
Screw diversification, screw research, screw tax-shelters, screw quality improvement, screw employees...
Say you develop a free online service for free storage of pumpkin photos - and it becomes a hit.
He is advising against broadening your business into free grape photo business. Or even improving much on your pumpkin photo business model other than scaling it up.
And when another player in the pumpkin photo market comes along, and he also hosts free photos of grapes, corn and potatoes, - don't waste energy or money fighting him.
Just concentrate on making money for as long as you can.
Don't be the best. Heck, don't even try to hard to be adequate. Just make sure that you are making money until a significantly better competitor comes along.
And when he offers to buy you out - accept it and move one.
Let him fight the guy who will come along doing the same thing, only he will have cute kittens holding the above mentioned vegetable in the photos.
Maybe google could use the money from bad videos to give small rebates to people with good videos.
Wait... You are suggesting monetary moderation based on taste and tastefulness? On D interwebz?
You are one of those "green people" parent poster speaks of, aren't you?
This site should prove insightful for your further understanding of the nature of the internet.
Microsoft killed his parents, his dog, two goldfishes and his pet cucumber (to whom he refers as Reginald).
He has been fuming about anything remotely connected to Microsoft ever since.
Only SJVN is older, has less hair on his scalp and more on his face, and I assume his Asheville, North Carolina residence is not his parents' basement.
That could be a Star Trek's Starfleet uniform he is wearing though.
A "normal" 2-year-old with hernia pain, which won't go away even after it gets tired of crying and falls asleep.
Aaaand... besides the pain it also has an addiction to a chemical stimulant.
So yeah... kinda like a kid you take a toy away from - if by "toy" you mean body part, and by "take away" you mean cut off.
Yeah... very similar. Not QUITE the same though.
...from another source (since this story is at least a weak old) the kid starts to yell, scream and generally goes apeshit without the cigarettes.
See... he is an addict, but with a health problem that his addiction makes bearable.
Unlike some other kids out there.
I guess he is probably injecting 3D movie-juice into his eyes already?
Actually, his name being something like Tux on speed, make that VERY probably...
Keeps your hands warm in the winter.
It is just that all testing is done by a team of Eskimos. iNuit to be precise.
Guarantied to attract at least 8 fanbois since 1972.
As an added bonus, the above offtopic flamebait has people replying to it about the value of their time.
There is more unintentional comedy in this thread than in an average Turkish remake of a famous action movie.
Imagine her dressed as a Wookiee.
Doesn't really sound like that one, but I assume that they are somewhat similar.
SotC deals with various "online jobs that anyone could do", from taking thousands of photos hoping some of them will be bought for photo stocks (and paid in pennies), through Amazon's mTurk (and their policy to only pay Americans and Indians in cash, while others get gift certificates) all the way to Chinese who build custom characters and farm gold (I only assume that they do gold farming part as well, though the film only shows what seems to be like character leveling).
Actual work is being done by kids coming in to the cities from provincial towns and villages for about 95 Euros a month (~135$).
Their daily lunch costs about 0.35 Euros, so in average they end up with about 60 Euros (~85$) earned each month.
Their employers try very hard to show in front of the camera how they only hire kids older than 18, but they don't really succeed in that as they hire the minors (right in front of the camera) for "a trial period".
Workload of such establishments where kids work their nearly entire waking day (in front of the camera we are shown that they work 12 hours a day) is bought off by a company situated in Shanghai.
Which is actually an outpost of ige (Internet Gaming Entertainment Ltd.) - an L.A. based MMORPG gold-selling company founded and run at the time by Brock Pierce - of Mighty Ducks and First Kid fame.
He has since sold the company - but kept the shares.
BTW, they have been failing to pay their employees in their gold-digging sweatshops for months.
And while "Find excuses first, attack and insult later" tactic works on some, others take a more aggressive approach when asking to be paid.
Namely - they come to their Shanghai HQ with guns.
The best part is, that while the local SWAT team arrives to handle the guy holding a gun to the secretary's face - journalists get a confirmation from another female employee that things like that happen all the time.
Oh, and once confronted with tale of their disgruntled subcontractor coming to their Shanghai offices with a gun, Brock Pierce and John Maffei used the same "Excuses, attacks and insults" combo.
One would think that someone in the MMORPG business would understand a practice of having secondary attack skills.
Yes. It made news because he was a famous musician.
It made BIG NEWS because it was a sudden and unexpected death - particularly for someone who slept in an oxygen tank and danced like he did.
And 50 years is by no account an age at which one is expected to just die.
I mean look at Gary Busey. Today is his 65th birthday.
Now, if there is one person (besides Amy Winehouse and Keith Richards) you would expect to be long dead from all the drugs and booze - that would be him.
Not Michael Jackson. At least not yet.
You haven't been around on this planet for very long, have you?
Although... The parent does seem to miss the point.
It is not that Michael Jackson died. It is that he died suddenly and unexpectedly.
McCartney does have that extra weird bonus of being the only Beatle who came back from the dead, but still - his death would be kinda expected nowadays.
You want to scare the shit out of Google?
Shoot Madonna with a rocket launcher in the middle of the street in broad daylight.
Hrrm and that blocked out what? Oh THE SUN!
Oh, so it is "It ain't the fall but the sudden stop" logic?
Or in this case "It wasn't the asteroid impact blocking the sunlight, but Sun's rays being blocked by the asteroid impact".
Earth even changes the climate itself by slight variations in the orbit around the Sun. That was my point.
No.
No, that was not your point. Let me remind you what you said:
Ok once more for those people playing along in Rio Linda
Any change in the earths temperature, heat wave or ice age, is cause by that great big ball of gas 93 million miles away it's a little thing we like to call the SUN!
Sun, only Sun, and nothing but the Sun.
I find it funny the mods liked your post and missed mine completely.
Actually, they didn't. You were noticed. It is just that you got modded down cause your post sounded rather trollish.
Might have been that condescending euphemism for "dumb people" that you used to characterize anyone who might disagree with you regarding your following (poorly thought through) statement about Sun and its influence on the climate changes on Earth.
Here is a hint.
Rush Limbaugh is not a great philosopher nor orator.
He also lacks expertise in just about any discipline except being what is commonly called a "jerk".
As any other shock-jock, his popularity mainly stems from his ability to use the position he is in to shout louder than other people - which many confuse with wit and humor.
As you lack the backing and resources at his disposal, using his lingo will only make you sound like a jerk - without receiving any benefits that he may experience.
At least try being original.
In absence of originality, being honest when calling people dumb may at least give you some character.
3:53
Not the best version of the story but the message is quite appropriate.
You get out of there, you stand aside, you make room - who do you think will take your place? Mr. and Mrs. Nice?
Unless one of them kills all of their partners like in The Dark Knight that ain't much of a prize.
Yeah, but if they deliver him to the competition in a body bag they get another 500 hundred grand.
A million if alive, so they can teach him some manners first.
You mean like that time that big ball of burning gas shot down and all dinosaurs died? Or did it just burn colder for a while back then?
Responsible wallabies don't let their friends drive under the influence.
If you time it right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Direct
Check out Mars Underground for details.
He is merely referring to the fact that the man was kicked out of Garden of Eden for eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge.
Which was the first recorded case of theft of Intellectual Property.
I was actually going to write a broader reply to your troll, but I have more important things to do.
I'll just instruct you to read Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi which should hopefully help you to realize how nearly any (progressive) Iranian woman finds chadors and maghnaeh a burden and a joke.
I for one laughed WITH them.
American Gladiators
and scantily clad women.
You've said it!
You should see some of the new burqas and chadors they are shipping to the stores. Sexy as hell.
You can almost see the eyebrows.
Energy from a source of light is NOT measured by its heat? FUCK!
So that is why my solar battery charger won't work when I boil it!
I was talking energy equivalents and what you get from "regular sunlight".
Grandparent post started with that whole "couple of times stronger than sunlight" deal when actually talking about directed microwave radiation (and not sunlight) and it went from there.
Mostly, you seem to have forgotten in general that the Celsius temperature scale has an arbitrary zero point, so doing any kind of multiplication on it will almost always give you a rubbish answer.
Well fuck! Woe is me! I guess any multiplication of 0C should be done in Kelvin.
I mean, if you want to go into all those unmeasurable subjective values such as "hot" or "cold". No instrument will give you those values though.
It will give you a measured value compared to A SCALE of predetermined values! Temperatures bellow 0 are not unmeasurable anti-temperatures - they only have an arbitrary negative value.
You CAN multiply, divide, add and subtract those values, but it isn't exactly linear - since thermodynamics does not exactly work that way (poring a liter of 50C water over another liter of 50C water, won't make those 2 liter of water boil).
Frankly the idea is a bit of a waste of time in my eyes. There's plenty of empty sunny desert where solar collection systems can be set up. Cheaper to create a 10km^2 grid on the ground that produces much more, than to try and put a 0.1km^2 array in orbit and try to beam power down somehow...
May be. But...
The same solar cell is far more efficient in space than on Earth (no atmosphere), and you get more working hours out of it (In geostationary orbit it would be illuminated over 99% of the time).
But screw that. That is all fine and dandy, but that is not the reason anyone is interested in this.
The main reason to put these things in orbit is the same as for putting any other thing in orbit - military application.
Not as a weapon though, but as a power source for remote bases.
Just raise the antenna in the middle (or on top) of your desert fortress and call the HQ to direct a satellite at it. Instant (nearly indestructible since the main part is in space) power source.
And you don't have to worry about leaving it behind for the enemy - since it is just wire mesh.