How about removing the franchise monopoly provisions. Make it like any other product. You don't need to go to the Coke store vs Pepsi store to get the respective products. You can choose from both at the same store. Car's should be no different. Let whoever wants to open a car store open one. Let me open a shop where I sell you any brand of car under one roof. Heck let costco, walmart, target etc sell cars if they wanted to. Its not Dealers vs Direct sales which is a problem. Its Dealers vs everyone else (including direct sales) that is the problem.
This does not really make any difference if you use any other google services like gmail. I want my real name to show up as my gmail "from" address. But I want to use a pseudonym on the G+ profile. This pseudonym is one given to me by my friends but It does not make sense to have it on gmail or anywhere other than G+. In a way its a win for facebook. Since they are a different service and I don't use that account for any other services I can use whatever name over there.
I guess I can always create a separate account for G+ vs Gmail. But that's too much hassle.
The manager was awesome and everyone on the team loved him. The product the team produced became a hit and all the career managers in the organization wanted that on their list of successes. They played political games (re-org) and stole the project from under the good manager. The team withered away and all the best people left under the new leadership. The product carried on the previous momentum for a while and then joined a whole list of other mediocre products the company produced.
When A bit-torrent user gets Linux ISO's or Creative Commons movies or what not they are more willing to let the torrent seed because that is the price you are paying for the downloaded content. So for any other paid content Why would the user give away their paid for bandwidth to some company which is already charging them money. Now if we got a discount for our share ratio maybe that would be a game changer. For every 100% you upload you get 5-10% off the price of the content. I would sign up immediately.
Social networks should soon start seeing interoperability like email. Because like TFA says people are not interested to go join every new site that pops up but would love to be in touch with the people who are on that site and not the one they am on. Just like we are begining to see the consolidation of IM networks (Yahoo talking to MSN, Jabber servers talkin to each other etc) there'd better start a move to interconnect the social networks soon. They dont all have to have the exact same features but agree to interoperate on a minimum set of them should not be a big problem.
I have been toying with this idea for a long time. I would love to see a service where i can upload a vmware image and have them host it for me. Its my blackbox running whatever i want it to run. They wouldnt need to or care to know about it. I would love to see such a service pop up. It could be like conventional hosting as far as billing goes.(charge for disk space/bandwidth) But I would like to have complete control of whats inside the blackbox. I find many uses for it. Like moving my home Asterisk server to take advantage of the bandwidth (incoming is ok but outgoing sucks on home connections) and not have to worry about the damn cable company messing up. I am sure there could be more applications. Today there are datacenters which offer to give you your own virtual server but its not an option to just upload a server image and have it running instantly.
I am an Indian. And I agree with the grand-parent about the crappy infrastructure comment. Cell phones are only a small part of what counts as infrastructure and the DSL connections you boast about have a much larger downtime than acceptable. Also at 100$ a month the 1Mbps connection is restricted to 2GB/month. Its too damn costly. The more important parts of Infrastructure like Roads and running water are messed up. Talk about electricity. With most of India facing an electricity shortage where powercuts span hours on a daily basis. Ya things are improving and yes its home and we love it but we should acknowledge what is wrong with it and try to fix it.
I was under the same impression. Untill i discovered that there is hidden text in the email (white font on white background). The text is as described here taken from some novel or something.
On the contrary I want my PC such that i can open it up and poke around. Add more stuff to it. Cant imagine doing that to a laptop. If you want a PC like a laptop. Doh!!! get a laptop.
You can buy them. Just like you can buy cellphones in the US. But even then they could make it so that ur non trusted computing OS and apps dont work with the network. I say this in light of the fact that with the merging of the Telcos soon there will be a monopoly or at least an oligopoly like the cellphone companies. Where u can only run their apps(with spyware on them) on your PC or u dont get on the(non neutral) net. Sounds far fetched? I know but thats what RIAAT&TMicrosoft wants. And they have lots of money and lawyers.
Where do you live?? In the past 3 years i have been in 4 different cities in 4 different states in the US. At no place did i have more than 1 choice of phone and cable providers. (The local bell and one cable company) what else have you got?? (not counting cell phone service as they cant deliver same kind of service)
Somebody Mark the parent Funny because You have to be kidding. The nokia's have the most intutive interface out there. And they are fast. Less cluttered. I have a Nokia phone I own and a Motorola phone given to me by my employers. Using the Motorola is a nightmare compared to the Nokia.
Its like Locks or DRM. Then can never ever stop a dedicated person from doing that. But it does stop the majority of "joe nextdoor" users from doing it.
They have been giving people network locked Cell phones. Everyone knows its possible to unlock them. However few take the pain to do so. Thats what they want. I bet they never ever even thot about 100% compliance.
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How about removing the franchise monopoly provisions.
Make it like any other product. You don't need to go to the Coke store vs Pepsi store to get the respective products. You can choose from both at the same store. Car's should be no different.
Let whoever wants to open a car store open one. Let me open a shop where I sell you any brand of car under one roof. Heck let costco, walmart, target etc sell cars if they wanted to.
Its not Dealers vs Direct sales which is a problem. Its Dealers vs everyone else (including direct sales) that is the problem.
This does not really make any difference if you use any other google services like gmail.
I want my real name to show up as my gmail "from" address. But I want to use a pseudonym on the G+ profile. This pseudonym is one given to me by my friends but It does not make sense to have it on gmail or anywhere other than G+.
In a way its a win for facebook. Since they are a different service and I don't use that account for any other services I can use whatever name over there.
I guess I can always create a separate account for G+ vs Gmail. But that's too much hassle.
I have seen this in three multiple previous jobs.
The manager was awesome and everyone on the team loved him. The product the team produced became a hit and all the career managers in the organization wanted that on their list of successes. They played political games (re-org) and stole the project from under the good manager. The team withered away and all the best people left under the new leadership. The product carried on the previous momentum for a while and then joined a whole list of other mediocre products the company produced.
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The forensic analysis of the Housing Bubble and how Wall street and Corporations contributed.
Its the giant ships in prepration for 2012. Million$$ per head to get in!
When A bit-torrent user gets Linux ISO's or Creative Commons movies or what not they are more willing to let the torrent seed because that is the price you are paying for the downloaded content.
So for any other paid content Why would the user give away their paid for bandwidth to some company which is already charging them money.
Now if we got a discount for our share ratio maybe that would be a game changer. For every 100% you upload you get 5-10% off the price of the content. I would sign up immediately.
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Social networks should soon start seeing interoperability like email. Because like TFA says people are not interested to go join every new site that pops up but would love to be in touch with the people who are on that site and not the one they am on. Just like we are begining to see the consolidation of IM networks (Yahoo talking to MSN, Jabber servers talkin to each other etc) there'd better start a move to interconnect the social networks soon. They dont all have to have the exact same features but agree to interoperate on a minimum set of them should not be a big problem.
I have been toying with this idea for a long time. I would love to see a service where i can upload a vmware image and have them host it for me. Its my blackbox running whatever i want it to run. They wouldnt need to or care to know about it. I would love to see such a service pop up.
It could be like conventional hosting as far as billing goes.(charge for disk space/bandwidth) But I would like to have complete control of whats inside the blackbox.
I find many uses for it. Like moving my home Asterisk server to take advantage of the bandwidth (incoming is ok but outgoing sucks on home connections) and not have to worry about the damn cable company messing up.
I am sure there could be more applications.
Today there are datacenters which offer to give you your own virtual server but its not an option to just upload a server image and have it running instantly.
What about iSardines? you like those?
No but Bob is Microsoft Bob http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob so he could just as easily
"Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all"
How about Lynx. Why doesnt the whole web work with Lynx?
I am an Indian. And I agree with the grand-parent about the crappy infrastructure comment. Cell phones are only a small part of what counts as infrastructure and the DSL connections you boast about have a much larger downtime than acceptable. Also at 100$ a month the 1Mbps connection is restricted to 2GB/month. Its too damn costly.
The more important parts of Infrastructure like Roads and running water are messed up.
Talk about electricity. With most of India facing an electricity shortage where powercuts span hours on a daily basis.
Ya things are improving and yes its home and we love it but we should acknowledge what is wrong with it and try to fix it.
Its all a bunch of tubes i tell you.
what if someone chops off your finger and uses it? huh! huh!! huh!!!
UP Next: How Muggers cut away their victims fingers and make sure it lives long enough to make a withdrawal.
I was under the same impression. Untill i discovered that there is hidden text in the email (white font on white background). The text is as described here taken from some novel or something.
On the contrary I want my PC such that i can open it up and poke around. Add more stuff to it. Cant imagine doing that to a laptop.
If you want a PC like a laptop. Doh!!! get a laptop.
You can buy them. Just like you can buy cellphones in the US.
But even then they could make it so that ur non trusted computing OS and apps dont work with the network.
I say this in light of the fact that with the merging of the Telcos soon there will be a monopoly or at least an oligopoly like the cellphone companies. Where u can only run their apps(with spyware on them) on your PC or u dont get on the(non neutral) net. Sounds far fetched? I know but thats what RIAAT&TMicrosoft wants. And they have lots of money and lawyers.
i think you are looking for this http://www.spamcannibal.org/
you should use http://www.booksfree.com/ :)
its Netflix for books
Even if you dont use the email address. Your IM address is still xxxx@yahoo.com (yyyy@yahoo.co.zz if you signup with yahoo in your local country)
Where do you live?? In the past 3 years i have been in 4 different cities in 4 different states in the US. At no place did i have more than 1 choice of phone and cable providers. (The local bell and one cable company) what else have you got?? (not counting cell phone service as they cant deliver same kind of service)
Somebody Mark the parent Funny because You have to be kidding. The nokia's have the most intutive interface out there. And they are fast. Less cluttered. I have a Nokia phone I own and a Motorola phone given to me by my employers. Using the Motorola is a nightmare compared to the Nokia.
Its like Locks or DRM.
Then can never ever stop a dedicated person from doing that. But it does stop the majority of "joe nextdoor" users from doing it.
They have been giving people network locked Cell phones. Everyone knows its possible to unlock them. However few take the pain to do so. Thats what they want. I bet they never ever even thot about 100% compliance.
Yes but that induces additional bounces and lag and you go back 5 years on the voip evolution scale.