I agree. Google holds *too* much sway on the Web. Their listings either make or break a web site. I know that Google does some very wierd things with some of my listings (first page one day, not in the directory the next), and there's literally nobody to contact, and nothing that I can do about it. I know that other people are in the same boat. I'm all for multiple search engines.
You're right. The little guy *is* getting screwed... the small retailer. With most states having a heavy sales tax, it's tough to compete against *any* Internet sales if you own any kind of shop. I think that *this* is what the politicians are trying to avoid... the complete death of retail business. Soon, the country is gonna become a nation of fat, pasty, lazy people sitting in front of their computers, buying shit, supporting nobody who actually *works* to build something other than a fucking web page. I own a store.
Same thing for IIS. Tell it only to process server-side scripting files of any kind only in specified directories. Not only will it help with security, but on older IIS boxes, it'll speed up page serving. In the most recent version of IIS, you can call a completely straight HTML/DHTML file ".asp", and supposedly there isn't a performance hit.
I completely agree. It's one thing to learn to use a keyboard (I want a "P", so I press the "P" button). It's one thing to learn Graffiti (I want a "P", so I have to have to draw a squiggly line that has no basis in the English language). Technology is supposed to make our lives easier. That's twice as true for PDA's. A PDA only saves so much time over pen & paper, they're hundreds of times more expensive, so it'd better damn well be intuitive to interest me at all. Graffitti was a completely brain dead move for them. So, in order to replace the oh-so-complicated paper & pen, I have to buy a $500 device, keep it stocked with batteries, AND learn a new way to write? I don't think so. Personally, I don't think that PDA's will be of any real value until they're a few hundred bucks, and I can just speak into them, and let them do the work of, say, a secretary. "Meeting with Bob at 10 tomorrow. Remind me 2 hours early". That's useful. scratching something like "~10 "BOB" : 1/15/2003 #%&^&*#!" is not.
I agree. Whether you liked or diskliked Gaffitti is irrelevant. What they did have was another way that they could differentiate themselves from Pocket PC's. Now, with one less difference, they're much closer to directly competing with Pocket PC which I predict will be the death of them. Palm has just been barely hanging on for years now, anyway.
+1 Interesting? This post starts by talking about being able to get to music online, then goes on to talk about retirement funds. It didn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense.
Actually, I won't use inkjet printers of any kind. The whole thing is a sham. The same amount (financially) of ink lasts nowhere near as long as the same money spent on toner. Nowhere even close. Sure, lots of places offer free printers, but then you're stuck buying ink cartridges daily. Screw that. If I need color, I'll buy a color LED or laser printer. A bit more up front, but *much* cheaper and reliable in the long run. Oh yeah, and I didn't even mention print quality with those goddamned ink jets...
All this will do is temporarily increase toner sales. Over the medium to long term, their business will drop significantly if people know that they can't get cheap toner cartridges. Yet another example of companies being incredibly short-sighted when considering the bottom line.
I'm just wondering what *exactly* the benefits are of affirmative action? Other than some nebulous idea like "diversity" or "equality", I don't see what the big benefit is to haveing 50% male, 50% female in college, in a field, etc. Do these universities considering male affirmative action also mandate boy-girl mixers, so they're making sure that everyone has a date?
True, it's not the tightest car, but if (when) I start workign on cars, I'd rather start with one that has a *lot* of potential. It already is set up to take a 5.8 L engine. It's already fiberglass. It's already rear-wheel drive. It's already got an incredible suspension. Whereas if I wanted to make fiberglass, rear-wheel drive Civic that you could squeeze a very large engine into, I'd have to spend many, many times the cost of a 'Vette. Fuck "street cred". The hopped up Civic thing is for 16 year old kids. If I want to tinker with a car, I want to do one *my* way for *me*. Not for anyone else. And if I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it right. In my mind, doing it right doesn't mean starting with a very, very common family/economy car. Realistically, my first real project is gonna be on a '68 GTO. Now that's a car with real potential!
I am pretty sure that most of their money is made on their crappy OS which I was forced to pay when I purchased my hardware to run BeOS and Linux...
If somebody forced you to buy something, you should go to the police. That's assault and possibly battery. Because after all, somebody held a gun to your head and forced you to buy the particular computers you did, right?
You haven't studies business very much have you? It happens literally billions a times a day all over the planet. It's commonly known (or so I thought) that most fast food places make zero or actually make a loss on their food products, but make giant profits on their soft drink sales. I haven't seen an independent burger stand in many, many years.
Also, I hope you don't patronize Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc. Every single one of those companies do the same thing.
And you forgot the most important part... so does the consumer. The consumer gets cheaper prices. Would it be better if the MPEG4 group colluded with other companies creating competing products to keep prices artifically high? Last I checked, that was called collusion and is illegal for a good reason: it hurts the consumer.
The fastest Celica (in the same class as a Civic, you can say), runs at 1000 BHP
And you're telling me that if somehow it's possible to make a 10x increase in horsepower (which I think is complete bullshit, but that's not my point), you should be able to get a Vette up to 3500 bhp. You're talking about starting with an economy plastic & steel car with a what? 1.6 L engine vs. starting with a fiberglass & aluminum sportscar with a 5.8L engine. Seems like a no-brainer to me. It's kinda' like people who spend thousands to mod their P II 750 instead of just going to Walmart and buying something that's 4 times as fast for a fraction of the price of all of the mods. Seems silly to me.
What keeps you from putting a V6 in a Civic and start from there? Sure, it takes more $$$ to mod a Civic to the same performace as a 350Z. But if money is not an issue (or a minor issue), the Civic will be faster most the time, because its chassis is a bit lighter.
Well, then, why not start with a Corvette? Fiberglass body with a (350 HP?) stock engine these days, and you're starting above where the Civic tops out. Put chrome, a spoiler, and neon lights on a piece of shit and all you've got is just a piece of shit with chrome, a spoiler, and neon lights.
Fuck wireless Internet. That's still a toy. There *has* been real progress. 5 years ago I had a shitty, expensive analog cell phone. Today, I have a cheap digital cell phone that provides excellent service across the country. That's called progress. Just because wireless Net isn't here yet doesn't mean there's no competition. There also aren't flying cars yet, but that doesn't mean that it's due to a lack of competition. Ever turn on a TV? See the hundreds and hundreds of cell phone ads? That's called c-o-m-p-e-t-i-t-i-o-n.
A. VOIP isn't that simple. Not yet. I can't buy anything at Wal-Mart and plug it into the wall. Until it's that easy, people won't do it.
B. You need broadband. Broadband is far from ubiquitous, and will probably remain so for a good while until customers (such as myself) see a real need for it.
C. My options now are to pay $50/month for broadband plus some amount for software and hardware, or pay $25/month for phone service plus $5 for a phone.
D. VOIP is moot as cell phones are becoming increasingly better and cheaper. I can call anyone in the country from anywhere in the country as part of the minutes I buy every month. Why would I want to step backwards to be tied down to a land line (ie: Net connection)? I don't.
I always hear the MySQL is supposed to be a very heavy duty, yet basic "database", yet I see this error often on several different sites fairly regularly. Is this due to just a setting, or is the database really bottoming out here?
I disagree. Not everyone even uses computers. Even those who do, an infetesimally small number *have* to write their own program because none exists commercially. But everyone uses cars. Everyone's car breaks down, and everyone relies on cars. Everyone should be taught auto mechanics in school. Much more useful and practical.
I agree in that I see my competition with them as being darwinistic. Absolutely. But at the same time, not everyone everywhere wants the rock bottom cheapest. That's especially true in the town where I live. I *am* competing. There's more to competition that just price. In fact, in any business school that teaches anything about entrepreneurship, they teach that competing on price alone is a losing proposition. While I *do* compete on price on the few items that we overlap on, I compete by offering much, much better products in a much better atmosphere with more helpful salespeople.
But yes Virginia, you *can* compete against the category killers in some places and succeed.
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I agree. Google holds *too* much sway on the Web. Their listings either make or break a web site. I know that Google does some very wierd things with some of my listings (first page one day, not in the directory the next), and there's literally nobody to contact, and nothing that I can do about it. I know that other people are in the same boat. I'm all for multiple search engines.
You're right. The little guy *is* getting screwed... the small retailer. With most states having a heavy sales tax, it's tough to compete against *any* Internet sales if you own any kind of shop. I think that *this* is what the politicians are trying to avoid... the complete death of retail business. Soon, the country is gonna become a nation of fat, pasty, lazy people sitting in front of their computers, buying shit, supporting nobody who actually *works* to build something other than a fucking web page. I own a store.
Same thing for IIS. Tell it only to process server-side scripting files of any kind only in specified directories. Not only will it help with security, but on older IIS boxes, it'll speed up page serving. In the most recent version of IIS, you can call a completely straight HTML/DHTML file ".asp", and supposedly there isn't a performance hit.
I completely agree. It's one thing to learn to use a keyboard (I want a "P", so I press the "P" button). It's one thing to learn Graffiti (I want a "P", so I have to have to draw a squiggly line that has no basis in the English language). Technology is supposed to make our lives easier. That's twice as true for PDA's. A PDA only saves so much time over pen & paper, they're hundreds of times more expensive, so it'd better damn well be intuitive to interest me at all. Graffitti was a completely brain dead move for them. So, in order to replace the oh-so-complicated paper & pen, I have to buy a $500 device, keep it stocked with batteries, AND learn a new way to write? I don't think so. Personally, I don't think that PDA's will be of any real value until they're a few hundred bucks, and I can just speak into them, and let them do the work of, say, a secretary. "Meeting with Bob at 10 tomorrow. Remind me 2 hours early". That's useful. scratching something like "~10 "BOB" : 1/15/2003 #%&^&*#!" is not.
I agree. Whether you liked or diskliked Gaffitti is irrelevant. What they did have was another way that they could differentiate themselves from Pocket PC's. Now, with one less difference, they're much closer to directly competing with Pocket PC which I predict will be the death of them. Palm has just been barely hanging on for years now, anyway.
+1 Interesting? This post starts by talking about being able to get to music online, then goes on to talk about retirement funds. It didn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense.
Actually, I won't use inkjet printers of any kind. The whole thing is a sham. The same amount (financially) of ink lasts nowhere near as long as the same money spent on toner. Nowhere even close. Sure, lots of places offer free printers, but then you're stuck buying ink cartridges daily. Screw that. If I need color, I'll buy a color LED or laser printer. A bit more up front, but *much* cheaper and reliable in the long run. Oh yeah, and I didn't even mention print quality with those goddamned ink jets...
All this will do is temporarily increase toner sales. Over the medium to long term, their business will drop significantly if people know that they can't get cheap toner cartridges. Yet another example of companies being incredibly short-sighted when considering the bottom line.
I'm just wondering what *exactly* the benefits are of affirmative action? Other than some nebulous idea like "diversity" or "equality", I don't see what the big benefit is to haveing 50% male, 50% female in college, in a field, etc. Do these universities considering male affirmative action also mandate boy-girl mixers, so they're making sure that everyone has a date?
True, it's not the tightest car, but if (when) I start workign on cars, I'd rather start with one that has a *lot* of potential. It already is set up to take a 5.8 L engine. It's already fiberglass. It's already rear-wheel drive. It's already got an incredible suspension. Whereas if I wanted to make fiberglass, rear-wheel drive Civic that you could squeeze a very large engine into, I'd have to spend many, many times the cost of a 'Vette. Fuck "street cred". The hopped up Civic thing is for 16 year old kids. If I want to tinker with a car, I want to do one *my* way for *me*. Not for anyone else. And if I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it right. In my mind, doing it right doesn't mean starting with a very, very common family/economy car. Realistically, my first real project is gonna be on a '68 GTO. Now that's a car with real potential!
I am pretty sure that most of their money is made on their crappy OS which I was forced to pay when I purchased my hardware to run BeOS and Linux...
If somebody forced you to buy something, you should go to the police. That's assault and possibly battery. Because after all, somebody held a gun to your head and forced you to buy the particular computers you did, right?
Sounds like .Net = COM objects. If that's the case, why don't people just describe .NET this way?
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You haven't studies business very much have you? It happens literally billions a times a day all over the planet. It's commonly known (or so I thought) that most fast food places make zero or actually make a loss on their food products, but make giant profits on their soft drink sales. I haven't seen an independent burger stand in many, many years.
Also, I hope you don't patronize Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc. Every single one of those companies do the same thing.
Microsoft wins!
And you forgot the most important part... so does the consumer. The consumer gets cheaper prices. Would it be better if the MPEG4 group colluded with other companies creating competing products to keep prices artifically high? Last I checked, that was called collusion and is illegal for a good reason: it hurts the consumer.
The fastest Celica (in the same class as a Civic, you can say), runs at 1000 BHP
And you're telling me that if somehow it's possible to make a 10x increase in horsepower (which I think is complete bullshit, but that's not my point), you should be able to get a Vette up to 3500 bhp. You're talking about starting with an economy plastic & steel car with a what? 1.6 L engine vs. starting with a fiberglass & aluminum sportscar with a 5.8L engine. Seems like a no-brainer to me. It's kinda' like people who spend thousands to mod their P II 750 instead of just going to Walmart and buying something that's 4 times as fast for a fraction of the price of all of the mods. Seems silly to me.
What keeps you from putting a V6 in a Civic and start from there? Sure, it takes more $$$ to mod a Civic to the same performace as a 350Z. But if money is not an issue (or a minor issue), the Civic will be faster most the time, because its chassis is a bit lighter.
Well, then, why not start with a Corvette? Fiberglass body with a (350 HP?) stock engine these days, and you're starting above where the Civic tops out. Put chrome, a spoiler, and neon lights on a piece of shit and all you've got is just a piece of shit with chrome, a spoiler, and neon lights.
After working on the site for a few hours, the *last* thing I want to do is to look at porn!
Fuck wireless Internet. That's still a toy. There *has* been real progress. 5 years ago I had a shitty, expensive analog cell phone. Today, I have a cheap digital cell phone that provides excellent service across the country. That's called progress. Just because wireless Net isn't here yet doesn't mean there's no competition. There also aren't flying cars yet, but that doesn't mean that it's due to a lack of competition. Ever turn on a TV? See the hundreds and hundreds of cell phone ads? That's called c-o-m-p-e-t-i-t-i-o-n.
A. VOIP isn't that simple. Not yet. I can't buy anything at Wal-Mart and plug it into the wall. Until it's that easy, people won't do it.
B. You need broadband. Broadband is far from ubiquitous, and will probably remain so for a good while until customers (such as myself) see a real need for it.
C. My options now are to pay $50/month for broadband plus some amount for software and hardware, or pay $25/month for phone service plus $5 for a phone.
D. VOIP is moot as cell phones are becoming increasingly better and cheaper. I can call anyone in the country from anywhere in the country as part of the minutes I buy every month. Why would I want to step backwards to be tied down to a land line (ie: Net connection)? I don't.
I always hear the MySQL is supposed to be a very heavy duty, yet basic "database", yet I see this error often on several different sites fairly regularly. Is this due to just a setting, or is the database really bottoming out here?
I disagree. Not everyone even uses computers. Even those who do, an infetesimally small number *have* to write their own program because none exists commercially. But everyone uses cars. Everyone's car breaks down, and everyone relies on cars. Everyone should be taught auto mechanics in school. Much more useful and practical.
I agree in that I see my competition with them as being darwinistic. Absolutely. But at the same time, not everyone everywhere wants the rock bottom cheapest. That's especially true in the town where I live. I *am* competing. There's more to competition that just price. In fact, in any business school that teaches anything about entrepreneurship, they teach that competing on price alone is a losing proposition. While I *do* compete on price on the few items that we overlap on, I compete by offering much, much better products in a much better atmosphere with more helpful salespeople.
But yes Virginia, you *can* compete against the category killers in some places and succeed.