How do you think they got rich in the first place? With honesty and self-sacrifice?
Usually, with using Steve Jobs as an extreme example, willing to do what it takes to succeed, even if doing those things hurts others
I'm rather certain that's the way nature works, the big lion didn't get that way by excusing himself from eating a hundred zebras to eat nuts and berries instead.
But only because they don't interact with peasants.
Spoken like a true Howell.
I think they're differently moral, they don't want to think about problems that are beneath them and therefore it's OK to trample a few hands every day.
Rubicon Trail Edition would have been more meaningful - as in tested on The Rubicon Trail. The name Rubicon all by itself keeps making me think it's named for getting into points of no return on a regular basis. Outside of California and Nevada, I'm surprised people have heard of this trail, but not the River or common use of 'Crossing The Rubicon.'
Image. Marketing. Associating with something which is successful or desireable. That's all you need to know.
So, did it work? Did the existence of the Apple and iphone logos on their stove make them want to buy an iphone?
Made the police want them;)
I was in Athens, at the Sunday bazaar, years ago and was amazed how many shoes I could buy with such instantly recognizable names as Rebbok, Nikke, Abibas and so on. Same principle, if the buyer believes it's 'Cool' it can be utter rubbish and they'll still queue up to buy the products.
So long as they are good quality tablets, not a bunch of the bottom of the market cheepies. I want Android Ice Cream Sandwich with 4G for a good, low price.
Considering Kenya/Tanzania/Uganda being more Western friendly and advanced over their neighbors it makes them hot spots for radical islamic groups. I'm sure all the new updated monitoring hardware on the other servered cables will be matched here as well.
I recall a political science class with a circular diagram... something about extreme fascism and extreme socialism going about achieving their ends using the same methods. Ironic these people are so in favor of going backward 1,600 years and using all this modern, western developed technology to do a lot of their communicating - they pass it off as more 'Ends justifying the means' BS Hard for me to consider them anything more than they really are on the surface - murderers, power hungry, dictatorial, etc.
Another bunch of accidental cable disruptions clustered in space and time? Am I paranoid to wonder if something's going on here? Or is it like how earthquakes get more press when they come in bunches?
Dang.. where's that quote about never ascribing something to conspiracy where idiocy will suffice... too many nostrums around here these days, can't keep it all straight.
Names are generally applied to products... rarely having anything directly to do with the product itself. The philosophy behind doing that is up for debate, but unrelated here. I'm more curious as to why having Apple's logo on a stove would do anything to increase sales of that stove. It's definitely not an iPhone, or made by Apple. Are they actually fooling people into thinking it's an Apple product or better yet, an actual iPhone? Surely not..
Image. Marketing. Associating with something which is successful or desireable. That's all you need to know.
Now what would really make these stoves hot would be the Apple iPhone Gas Stove Swedish Bikini Team!!!
Did it really work to increase sales of a gas stove? Would sticking an apple logo on something just automatically increase sales in China?
Consider this is only new in China, back decades ago you could expect the same in Japan - anything with English or an American Brand Name associated with it was considered good marketing in Japan. Consider how utterly ridiculous the marketing is in America before laughing at the Chinese. Trucks and Cars named after towns, cities and areas. Honestly, what exactly is 'Silverado' or 'Sonoma' about a vehicle? It certainly wasn't made there. Jeep Rubicon? Excuse me, but that's an Italian river and more familiar with the phrase 'Crossing the Rubicon' akin to making a move from which there is no return, as Julius Caesar took his legion across the river (I'm sure they didn't have Jeeps then). How utterly preposterous, isn't it? I think to succeed in marketing one must have no idea what they heck they are talking about, but absolute belief it's the right thing to name something.
That's one of the reasons I gave up meat 12 years ago. The allowances for turning "animal" into "food" are so absurd and frankly disgusting that I went cold... uh... tofu?
The next trick is keeping a fair amount of Organic in your diet, so you don't have concentrations of some ag-chemicals. Nothing presently warning they are uber bad, but I'm not taking chances.
A great example of how organisms which prey upon a specific host prosper is the Phylloxera epidemic in Napa Valley of California. Lots of vines in close proximity is heaven for the little fly, which damages roots and makes the vines vulernable to fungal infections, which eventually kill the vine. Driving past an affected vinyard the circles of dead or removed vines are easy to spot.
I usually associated the impending death of shopping centers with the presence of video stores, like Blockbuster. Dollar stores are also a sign things are less than fashionable in the prospective renter department.
RIM going in this direction is effectively encouraging undesirable, unfashionable business, which could be their death knell. Sure, there's a market for such things, but it's not going to be in the board room, sensitive as business is regarding Harrassment claims.
Seriously, why was it considered ok to dump antibiotics into animal feed? It seems like total idiocy from this angle, regardless of the short term benefits.
One reason I became a vegetarian was because I learned about all the antibiotics in Pork/Beef/Poultry. I suffered severe Streptococcus infections in the respiratory system. When learning I was effectively on Antibotics, constantly, due to my diet, thus prescription antibiotics were having no observable effect, I realized I was fighting Streptococcus which was already resistant, thus I was getting these painful and long duration infections.
Understand this: Antibiotics are targeted toxins, most likely to have a greater effect upon certain organisims, while there would be some collateral effect upon the host, including degradation of the immune system.
After about 2 years without antibiotic-laden foods I found I stave off these infections more effectively and when I have them the duration is significantly decreased.
Keeping like livestock (or plants) in a dense concentration provides an ideal breeding ground for organisms to prey upon them, further, to mutate as the turnover can be far more rapid than in the wild. Add to that antibiotics and you have the ideal incubator for super-bugs. Victims of our own way of production. Won't get better with bigger factory farms, either, it's a cycle which builds upon itself.
If the network is so limited, they should be trying to upgrade the network.
Building your infrastructure does nothing good for short-term profit, which is what Wall Street and Electronic Trading are all about.
Great for long-term, but it's all about leaving that for the next CEO to wheedle out of banks and assauge fears of robo-investors to raise capital for investment. Us landlubbers are mostly still on copper because it costs money to upgrade to glass. And why upgrade when you can make the same money on the same old crap?
Now, if there were real competition in the market, AT&T would be going at it hammer and tongs. Thanks government oversight, for letting the pieces of the T-1000 come back together...
It would be nice to think that rulings like this might have some effect on the traditional corporate practice of making new users sign "contracts" that basically give one party the right to change the terms any damn time they want and in any damn way they want, while giving the other party the right to pay their money and shut up.
The contract can say anything that isn't illegal.
But you can't market your service as "unlimited" when it clearly isn't - that is FRAUD.
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How do you think they got rich in the first place? With honesty and self-sacrifice?
Usually, with using Steve Jobs as an extreme example, willing to do what it takes to succeed, even if doing those things hurts others
I'm rather certain that's the way nature works, the big lion didn't get that way by excusing himself from eating a hundred zebras to eat nuts and berries instead.
But only because they don't interact with peasants.
Spoken like a true Howell.
I think they're differently moral, they don't want to think about problems that are beneath them and therefore it's OK to trample a few hands every day.
"Were you an Android or an Apple?"
"I was kindling and frequenly on fire."
Rubicon Trail Edition would have been more meaningful - as in tested on The Rubicon Trail. The name Rubicon all by itself keeps making me think it's named for getting into points of no return on a regular basis. Outside of California and Nevada, I'm surprised people have heard of this trail, but not the River or common use of 'Crossing The Rubicon.'
Image. Marketing. Associating with something which is successful or desireable. That's all you need to know.
So, did it work? Did the existence of the Apple and iphone logos on their stove make them want to buy an iphone?
Made the police want them ;)
I was in Athens, at the Sunday bazaar, years ago and was amazed how many shoes I could buy with such instantly recognizable names as Rebbok, Nikke, Abibas and so on. Same principle, if the buyer believes it's 'Cool' it can be utter rubbish and they'll still queue up to buy the products.
So long as they are good quality tablets, not a bunch of the bottom of the market cheepies. I want Android Ice Cream Sandwich with 4G for a good, low price.
no more Nigerian scams!
I'd consider it funny if Nigeria were in East Africa, but they isn't.
Likely the Nigeria traffic goes through Spain or, since Nigeria has considerable economic clout, satellites.
Considering Kenya/Tanzania/Uganda being more Western friendly and advanced over their neighbors it makes them hot spots for radical islamic groups. I'm sure all the new updated monitoring hardware on the other servered cables will be matched here as well.
I recall a political science class with a circular diagram... something about extreme fascism and extreme socialism going about achieving their ends using the same methods. Ironic these people are so in favor of going backward 1,600 years and using all this modern, western developed technology to do a lot of their communicating - they pass it off as more 'Ends justifying the means' BS Hard for me to consider them anything more than they really are on the surface - murderers, power hungry, dictatorial, etc.
Another bunch of accidental cable disruptions clustered in space and time? Am I paranoid to wonder if something's going on here? Or is it like how earthquakes get more press when they come in bunches?
Dang.. where's that quote about never ascribing something to conspiracy where idiocy will suffice ... too many nostrums around here these days, can't keep it all straight.
Together, the four fiber-optic cables channel thousands of gigabytes of information per second
They're called petabytes.
Sure. I know this. You know this. But if you say 'Peta' anything the media think you're against animal abuse.
How can they make their ransom demands known without the modern benefit of high speed digital traffic on fibre?
Perhaps they could mail them the old fashioned way.
That would be "Ebi Odori" which I had in Japan once.
Did you have to duel a Samurai to claim the right?
Names are generally applied to products... rarely having anything directly to do with the product itself. The philosophy behind doing that is up for debate, but unrelated here. I'm more curious as to why having Apple's logo on a stove would do anything to increase sales of that stove. It's definitely not an iPhone, or made by Apple. Are they actually fooling people into thinking it's an Apple product or better yet, an actual iPhone? Surely not..
Image. Marketing. Associating with something which is successful or desireable. That's all you need to know.
Now what would really make these stoves hot would be the Apple iPhone Gas Stove Swedish Bikini Team!!!
Real men grill with charcoal.
Real men cook over a wood fire.
Did it really work to increase sales of a gas stove? Would sticking an apple logo on something just automatically increase sales in China?
Consider this is only new in China, back decades ago you could expect the same in Japan - anything with English or an American Brand Name associated with it was considered good marketing in Japan. Consider how utterly ridiculous the marketing is in America before laughing at the Chinese. Trucks and Cars named after towns, cities and areas. Honestly, what exactly is 'Silverado' or 'Sonoma' about a vehicle? It certainly wasn't made there. Jeep Rubicon? Excuse me, but that's an Italian river and more familiar with the phrase 'Crossing the Rubicon' akin to making a move from which there is no return, as Julius Caesar took his legion across the river (I'm sure they didn't have Jeeps then). How utterly preposterous, isn't it? I think to succeed in marketing one must have no idea what they heck they are talking about, but absolute belief it's the right thing to name something.
Now, see, a native gas grill attachment included with the phone MIGHT make me want to buy an iPhone.
I'm sure there's an app for it already.
That's one of the reasons I gave up meat 12 years ago. The allowances for turning "animal" into "food" are so absurd and frankly disgusting that I went cold ... uh... tofu?
The next trick is keeping a fair amount of Organic in your diet, so you don't have concentrations of some ag-chemicals. Nothing presently warning they are uber bad, but I'm not taking chances.
A great example of how organisms which prey upon a specific host prosper is the Phylloxera epidemic in Napa Valley of California. Lots of vines in close proximity is heaven for the little fly, which damages roots and makes the vines vulernable to fungal infections, which eventually kill the vine. Driving past an affected vinyard the circles of dead or removed vines are easy to spot.
Shouldn't he get a free game at 100?
Replays for eternity.
I usually associated the impending death of shopping centers with the presence of video stores, like Blockbuster. Dollar stores are also a sign things are less than fashionable in the prospective renter department.
RIM going in this direction is effectively encouraging undesirable, unfashionable business, which could be their death knell. Sure, there's a market for such things, but it's not going to be in the board room, sensitive as business is regarding Harrassment claims.
Seriously, why was it considered ok to dump antibiotics into animal feed? It seems like total idiocy from this angle, regardless of the short term benefits.
One reason I became a vegetarian was because I learned about all the antibiotics in Pork/Beef/Poultry. I suffered severe Streptococcus infections in the respiratory system. When learning I was effectively on Antibotics, constantly, due to my diet, thus prescription antibiotics were having no observable effect, I realized I was fighting Streptococcus which was already resistant, thus I was getting these painful and long duration infections.
Understand this: Antibiotics are targeted toxins, most likely to have a greater effect upon certain organisims, while there would be some collateral effect upon the host, including degradation of the immune system.
After about 2 years without antibiotic-laden foods I found I stave off these infections more effectively and when I have them the duration is significantly decreased.
Keeping like livestock (or plants) in a dense concentration provides an ideal breeding ground for organisms to prey upon them, further, to mutate as the turnover can be far more rapid than in the wild. Add to that antibiotics and you have the ideal incubator for super-bugs. Victims of our own way of production. Won't get better with bigger factory farms, either, it's a cycle which builds upon itself.
If the network is so limited, they should be trying to upgrade the network.
Building your infrastructure does nothing good for short-term profit, which is what Wall Street and Electronic Trading are all about.
Great for long-term, but it's all about leaving that for the next CEO to wheedle out of banks and assauge fears of robo-investors to raise capital for investment. Us landlubbers are mostly still on copper because it costs money to upgrade to glass. And why upgrade when you can make the same money on the same old crap?
Now, if there were real competition in the market, AT&T would be going at it hammer and tongs. Thanks government oversight, for letting the pieces of the T-1000 come back together...
In Capitalist America Government act for Freedom of Information on YOU!
Stuff that matters?
In Soviet Russia books scan YOU!
It would be nice to think that rulings like this might have some effect on the traditional corporate practice of making new users sign "contracts" that basically give one party the right to change the terms any damn time they want and in any damn way they want, while giving the other party the right to pay their money and shut up.
The contract can say anything that isn't illegal.
But you can't market your service as "unlimited" when it clearly isn't - that is FRAUD.
No, that's deception.
we shouldn't expect mobile products from MS with names like "Zune Messiah" or "Children of Zune" either.
In Soviet Russia Zune cancels YOU!