Sometimes the guys with the brand new computers just have more money then sense. Another possibility is that they just got rid of a 3 year old machine and want to keep the new one for another 3 years.
The guys you really wonder about are the guys with the 91 Camaro that get pissed off when you close the door too hard and drive 85 out of the gas station parking lot. Those guys have some masculinity issues to deal with.
If journalists wrote articles with headlines like "Cool new toy released, things will be pretty much the same as they always have" they wouldn't be employed very long.
This is an awesome site for clips of old advertisements (mostly 50s and 60s). It has my two favorites of all time, Lucy and Desi shilling for Phillip Morris cigarettes at the end of the show, and the totally mutant Flintstones ad for Winstons.
This is already starting to happen. There was an article in the Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago about a new show on WB called "Young Americans" (IIRC). Coca Cola dropped 6 million bucks to be a "named sponsor" of the show, meaning that every time the show is mentioned it is always called "Young Amerians, brought to you by Coca Cola" and of course given many many regular commercial slots during the show. What made the arrangement newsworthy, was that the product placement was going to be heavy to the point of being shocking. From what the article made it out to be, every moment these photogenic teenagers were concious, they would be holding a refreshing Coca Cola product, label facing out. It may seem disgusting to have a show that's 60% Dawson's Creek and 40% Coke commercial, but if the show gets good ratings and kids 15-21 buy more Coke, the executives don't really care (nor should they). I havn't seen the show, but if anyone has, chime in and say just how heavy the placement is.
As a heavily-armed American, I assure you the government will take no more rights from me.
I hear this argument all the time, mostly from some of my intelligent, very normal coworkers. My favorite one is "Armed people are citizens, unarmed people are subjects". A got an email two days ago rattling of anecdotes about governments who either banned or confiscated guns and how many people were subsequently killed by the government.
My response is, "No matter how many hundreds of guns you own, if the government decides to kill you, they are going to do it. They have these new things called tanks and helicopters, and you don't."
Do all those NRA members seriously think that if 3 million people take up small arms against the US government that the Army would even have to miss lunch?
Feel free to own a gun. Shoot some targets, shoot some deer, shoot your cat, I don't care. Put please don't think of youself as some champion of justice and right, because you're not.
-B
Dear conservative moderators,
Yeah, it's off topic, I have 3 digit karma and just don't care.
Courtney Love's article on Salon.com actually does the math on this and it's ridiculous. She lays out a very reasonable scenario where a band can make two million dollars on a very popular album and owe two million dollars in recoupable costs to the label. Meanwhile the records label grosses 11 million, of which, over 6 are profit.
It's pretty long, but a great read at
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/lov e/
(Yes, It's the one that was on Slashdot about a month ago)
I have seen this quote in nearly every article I've read about this situation, "The labels say they started the MAP policy in an effort to help smaller music retailers compete with chains such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Circuit City Stores Inc. They say smaller retailers do not have the option of offsetting losses from cut-price CD sales with sales of other products." It makes you say to yourself, "Awww..those nice big record companies were just trying to help out little record stores, that's sweet."
My question is, why were they doing this? Why would juggernauts like Sony and Warner Brothers do a damn thing to help out small stores at the expense of huge business partners like Wal-Mart? What was in it for them?
Question 2: What kind of damages would they have to pay and to whom? The only case like this that I remember is when Nintendo was found to be price fixing (way back in the day). In the Nintendo case, they sent coupons to everyone that had bought games that were good towards the purchase of new games. What sucks about that system was that the company that was price fixing (Nintendo here) ends up making more money by mailing out coupons good for less than the profit margin of the product. Also, while you're at the store with a coupon, you are quite likely to pick up another game/CD at full price. Someone with some info, please chime in.
-B
The question that bring up is, why did it take 67 years to declassify information about Enigma? This stuff has not been critical to the security of the nation for two generations. Wasn't one of the original machines up for auction on ebay this year? I'm all for keeping secrets in order to protect our country, and I'm all for erring on the side of caution when it comes to those secrets, but this seems rediculous. Does anyone know of a particular aspect of the technology that would require it to be classified until now?
The actual joke is "Did you hear Amazon.com is going to change their name? Yeah...they're changing to Amazon.org because aparently they're a non-profit." I got a few good laughs out of that one a while ago. Now that I think about it, if turing a profit was a real requirment of a.com address, the TLD would consist entirely of Ebay and porn.
The Coke reps call up the McDonalds honchos and say "We'll sell you Coke super cheap if you promise us that we'll be your only suplier of soft drinks." It's good for McDonalds because they get the syrup cheaper and it's good for Coke because they have assured future sales and still make a profit.
McDonalds is free to tell Coke to screw off and fill their stores with RC and Tab. They just have to answer to the customers.
I've seen tons of smaller restaurants that serve both Coke and Pepsi because they aren't big enough to warrant exclusive deals.
Don't go around screaming "Monopoly" at the sky if you don't know what it means.
The Philip Morris family of companies is the largest and most profitable producer and marketer of consumer packaged goods in the world. With total 1999 operating revenues of over $78 billion, our diverse lines of business include some of the world's most successful companies:
Kraft Foods North America and Kraft Foods International, which together form the world's second-largest food company.
Philip Morris U.S.A. (America's leading cigarette maker) and Philip Morris International, makers of the world's best-selling cigarette brand.
Miller Brewing Company, America's second-largest brewer.
Philip Morris Capital Corporation, second largest industrial affiliate leasing company in the U.S.A.
-end paste-
Most people don't go a week without giving Philip Morris money.
KFC and Taco Bell, along with Pizza Hut, used to be part of PepsiCo (which owns Pepsi, Frito Lay, and Tropicana). Several years ago, the three restaurants were spun off as Tricon Global Restaurants, so they're technically related, but not part of the same company. I don't believe that Coke and McDonalds have any official business relationship.
Of course I can't find a link right now, so file this under "I read somewhere":
A year or two ago, a Phoenix evening news show ran a story about how a group of "hackers" had gotten ahold of the credit card numbers of all AOL subscribers. The source for the story was a forwarded email.
I read the WSJ about once a week and I've seen quite a lot of tech-oriented articles right on page 1. Napster has gotten a lot of coverage lately (obvious business impact there). I've also seen several articles about Outlook security holes that have been pretty harsh against MS. I'm pretty sure they put an article about the backdoor in HotMail a few months ago on page 1. They definately have good tech reporting because Slashdot links stories to WSJ.com all the time.
It's a risky PR move. As it stands, geeks laugh at them because a site that should be the flagship of the MSN empire doesn't run MS software. But then geeks laugh at them anyway.
If/when they move to Win2K (I would assume Datacenter, does anyone know for sure?), and it works, then the marketing folks can point at it and say, "HotMail runs Win2K and it will surely work for your smaller site". The danger is there because the whole site could just crumble if Win2K isn't up to the task. If that happens, mainstream press like the Wall Street Journal will run front page articles saying that Win2K choked in the face of major hits. That damage could be irreperable. I know the the adoption of 2000 has been modest (to put it nicely). This could be a very important move for MS.
-B
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They don't actively participate in the transfer of the materials now do they?
Someone could present a good argument that Napster participates actively enough to violate the law. Using your bar analogy, if you ran a bar and a guy came up to you and said, "I really wish I could have sex with a tall redhead," and you proceeded to take him by the wrist, walk him up to a tall redheaded prostitute and say, "This is Tina, she'll take care of you," you would be arrested. You could get up in front of a judge and say, "I'm just trying to match up people, what they actually do is their business," and you would still go to jail. At least pimps make money off of hooking people up. I don't see Napster ever making a dime.
Also, you have to wonder how many people fill that stuff out truthfully. I put down that I was a 65 year old female with a grade school education that made 200k+ a year. All I can hope is that some junior executive makes a presentation one day and says "Senior citizen women appear to downloading quite a bit of Wu-Tang. I think it could be a new market for us."
A guy interviewed at the company I work for about 6 months ago. On his resume, he put down the programming work he had done on a Diablo cheat. At least one other company offered him a job, because he took that one for more money.
Remember kids, cheating does pay off. Just be good at it.
Other people are going to yell "monopoly", but I have a different take on it. I work at a small company, and on occasion I develop custom software for our clients. My bosses are really cool guys that understand the work I do, and if I tell them that I don't have 100% confidence in something I wrote, it doesn't leave the door. At MS, it seems that marketing is completely running the show and they have no clue what the nerds are doing. I can see things like fiscal years and competitor release dates causing MS managers to yank unfinished software away from the engineers. It's a good way to make lots of money and produce really aweful software.
This next season, and the series, will end with Scully in a hospital bed, having just given birth to a little girl, and Scully will announce that her name is "Samantha". At that point, I will empty a handgun into my TV like Elvis did.
Yes, except that you can buy pens and notebooks at stores other than Office Depot and Office Max. Also, we had a price matching policy with any competitor, and people called us on it all the time.
He is the best character on the show and he needs to step up as the lead. He can either stay a quasi-bad guy (which I think would be great), or become a full on good guy (which would be a more traditional tv show). Since Gillian Anderson also wants to leave, team Krycek with Diana Fowley and you have a great show. I love Bruce Campbell as much as anyone, but I just think he's too goofy to be a lead on X Files.
Plan B: Skinner, Smoking Man, and a monkey ride around in van solving mysteries.
Slashdot Mirror
Sometimes the guys with the brand new computers just have more money then sense. Another possibility is that they just got rid of a 3 year old machine and want to keep the new one for another 3 years.
The guys you really wonder about are the guys with the 91 Camaro that get pissed off when you close the door too hard and drive 85 out of the gas station parking lot. Those guys have some masculinity issues to deal with.
-B
If journalists wrote articles with headlines like "Cool new toy released, things will be pretty much the same as they always have" they wouldn't be employed very long.
-B
http://www.dreamsandbones.com/museum/exhibits.htm
This is an awesome site for clips of old advertisements (mostly 50s and 60s). It has my two favorites of all time, Lucy and Desi shilling for Phillip Morris cigarettes at the end of the show, and the totally mutant Flintstones ad for Winstons.
-B
I give it 3 days before someone maps Jennifer Aniston's t-shirt to be no t-shirt at all.
-B
This is already starting to happen. There was an article in the Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago about a new show on WB called "Young Americans" (IIRC). Coca Cola dropped 6 million bucks to be a "named sponsor" of the show, meaning that every time the show is mentioned it is always called "Young Amerians, brought to you by Coca Cola" and of course given many many regular commercial slots during the show. What made the arrangement newsworthy, was that the product placement was going to be heavy to the point of being shocking. From what the article made it out to be, every moment these photogenic teenagers were concious, they would be holding a refreshing Coca Cola product, label facing out. It may seem disgusting to have a show that's 60% Dawson's Creek and 40% Coke commercial, but if the show gets good ratings and kids 15-21 buy more Coke, the executives don't really care (nor should they). I havn't seen the show, but if anyone has, chime in and say just how heavy the placement is.
-B
I hear this argument all the time, mostly from some of my intelligent, very normal coworkers. My favorite one is "Armed people are citizens, unarmed people are subjects". A got an email two days ago rattling of anecdotes about governments who either banned or confiscated guns and how many people were subsequently killed by the government.
My response is, "No matter how many hundreds of guns you own, if the government decides to kill you, they are going to do it. They have these new things called tanks and helicopters, and you don't."
Do all those NRA members seriously think that if 3 million people take up small arms against the US government that the Army would even have to miss lunch?
Feel free to own a gun. Shoot some targets, shoot some deer, shoot your cat, I don't care. Put please don't think of youself as some champion of justice and right, because you're not.
-B
Dear conservative moderators, Yeah, it's off topic, I have 3 digit karma and just don't care.
Courtney Love's article on Salon.com actually does the math on this and it's ridiculous. She lays out a very reasonable scenario where a band can make two million dollars on a very popular album and owe two million dollars in recoupable costs to the label. Meanwhile the records label grosses 11 million, of which, over 6 are profit.
v e/
It's pretty long, but a great read at
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/lo
(Yes, It's the one that was on Slashdot about a month ago)
-B
I have seen this quote in nearly every article I've read about this situation, "The labels say they started the MAP policy in an effort to help smaller music retailers compete with chains such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Circuit City Stores Inc. They say smaller retailers do not have the option of offsetting losses from cut-price CD sales with sales of other products." It makes you say to yourself, "Awww..those nice big record companies were just trying to help out little record stores, that's sweet."
My question is, why were they doing this? Why would juggernauts like Sony and Warner Brothers do a damn thing to help out small stores at the expense of huge business partners like Wal-Mart? What was in it for them?
Question 2: What kind of damages would they have to pay and to whom? The only case like this that I remember is when Nintendo was found to be price fixing (way back in the day). In the Nintendo case, they sent coupons to everyone that had bought games that were good towards the purchase of new games. What sucks about that system was that the company that was price fixing (Nintendo here) ends up making more money by mailing out coupons good for less than the profit margin of the product. Also, while you're at the store with a coupon, you are quite likely to pick up another game/CD at full price. Someone with some info, please chime in.
-B
I can save you and your great-grandkids some time:
1) Nothing
2) Lee Harvey Oswald
3) Vince Foster
-B
The question that bring up is, why did it take 67 years to declassify information about Enigma? This stuff has not been critical to the security of the nation for two generations. Wasn't one of the original machines up for auction on ebay this year? I'm all for keeping secrets in order to protect our country, and I'm all for erring on the side of caution when it comes to those secrets, but this seems rediculous. Does anyone know of a particular aspect of the technology that would require it to be classified until now?
-B
The actual joke is "Did you hear Amazon.com is going to change their name? Yeah...they're changing to Amazon.org because aparently they're a non-profit." I got a few good laughs out of that one a while ago. Now that I think about it, if turing a profit was a real requirment of a .com address, the TLD would consist entirely of Ebay and porn.
-B
I smell a troll here, but I'll bite anyway.
The Coke reps call up the McDonalds honchos and say "We'll sell you Coke super cheap if you promise us that we'll be your only suplier of soft drinks." It's good for McDonalds because they get the syrup cheaper and it's good for Coke because they have assured future sales and still make a profit.
McDonalds is free to tell Coke to screw off and fill their stores with RC and Tab. They just have to answer to the customers.
I've seen tons of smaller restaurants that serve both Coke and Pepsi because they aren't big enough to warrant exclusive deals.
Don't go around screaming "Monopoly" at the sky if you don't know what it means.
-B
I'll paste this right from philipmorris.com:
The Philip Morris family of companies is the largest and most profitable producer and marketer of consumer packaged goods in the world. With total 1999 operating revenues of over $78 billion, our diverse lines of business include some of the world's most successful companies:
Kraft Foods North America and Kraft Foods International, which together form the world's second-largest food company.
Philip Morris U.S.A. (America's leading cigarette maker) and Philip Morris International, makers of the world's best-selling cigarette brand.
Miller Brewing Company, America's second-largest brewer.
Philip Morris Capital Corporation, second largest industrial affiliate leasing company in the U.S.A.
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Most people don't go a week without giving Philip Morris money.
-B
KFC and Taco Bell, along with Pizza Hut, used to be part of PepsiCo (which owns Pepsi, Frito Lay, and Tropicana). Several years ago, the three restaurants were spun off as Tricon Global Restaurants, so they're technically related, but not part of the same company. I don't believe that Coke and McDonalds have any official business relationship.
-B
Of course I can't find a link right now, so file this under "I read somewhere":
A year or two ago, a Phoenix evening news show ran a story about how a group of "hackers" had gotten ahold of the credit card numbers of all AOL subscribers. The source for the story was a forwarded email.
-B
I read the WSJ about once a week and I've seen quite a lot of tech-oriented articles right on page 1. Napster has gotten a lot of coverage lately (obvious business impact there). I've also seen several articles about Outlook security holes that have been pretty harsh against MS. I'm pretty sure they put an article about the backdoor in HotMail a few months ago on page 1. They definately have good tech reporting because Slashdot links stories to WSJ.com all the time.
-B
It's a risky PR move. As it stands, geeks laugh at them because a site that should be the flagship of the MSN empire doesn't run MS software. But then geeks laugh at them anyway.
If/when they move to Win2K (I would assume Datacenter, does anyone know for sure?), and it works, then the marketing folks can point at it and say, "HotMail runs Win2K and it will surely work for your smaller site". The danger is there because the whole site could just crumble if Win2K isn't up to the task. If that happens, mainstream press like the Wall Street Journal will run front page articles saying that Win2K choked in the face of major hits. That damage could be irreperable. I know the the adoption of 2000 has been modest (to put it nicely). This could be a very important move for MS.
-B
They don't actively participate in the transfer of the materials now do they?
Someone could present a good argument that Napster participates actively enough to violate the law.
Using your bar analogy, if you ran a bar and a guy came up to you and said, "I really wish I could have sex with a tall redhead," and you proceeded to take him by the wrist, walk him up to a tall redheaded prostitute and say, "This is Tina, she'll take care of you," you would be arrested. You could get up in front of a judge and say, "I'm just trying to match up people, what they actually do is their business," and you would still go to jail.
At least pimps make money off of hooking people up. I don't see Napster ever making a dime.
-B
Also, you have to wonder how many people fill that stuff out truthfully. I put down that I was a 65 year old female with a grade school education that made 200k+ a year. All I can hope is that some junior executive makes a presentation one day and says "Senior citizen women appear to downloading quite a bit of Wu-Tang. I think it could be a new market for us."
-B
A guy interviewed at the company I work for about 6 months ago. On his resume, he put down the programming work he had done on a Diablo cheat. At least one other company offered him a job, because he took that one for more money.
Remember kids, cheating does pay off. Just be good at it.
-B
Has there been any historical mention of what was happening 4000 years before the films? How long did the Old Republic last?
-B
Other people are going to yell "monopoly", but I have a different take on it. I work at a small company, and on occasion I develop custom software for our clients. My bosses are really cool guys that understand the work I do, and if I tell them that I don't have 100% confidence in something I wrote, it doesn't leave the door. At MS, it seems that marketing is completely running the show and they have no clue what the nerds are doing. I can see things like fiscal years and competitor release dates causing MS managers to yank unfinished software away from the engineers. It's a good way to make lots of money and produce really aweful software.
-B
This next season, and the series, will end with Scully in a hospital bed, having just given birth to a little girl, and Scully will announce that her name is "Samantha". At that point, I will empty a handgun into my TV like Elvis did.
-B
Yes, except that you can buy pens and notebooks at stores other than Office Depot and Office Max. Also, we had a price matching policy with any competitor, and people called us on it all the time.
-B
Alex Krycek
He is the best character on the show and he needs to step up as the lead. He can either stay a quasi-bad guy (which I think would be great), or become a full on good guy (which would be a more traditional tv show). Since Gillian Anderson also wants to leave, team Krycek with Diana Fowley and you have a great show. I love Bruce Campbell as much as anyone, but I just think he's too goofy to be a lead on X Files.
Plan B: Skinner, Smoking Man, and a monkey ride around in van solving mysteries.
-B