Dear NYT, I just let my WSJ subscription lapse. Why? because of the total lock-down of discussing the conntent with others. The Economist on the other hand I am renewing, even though most of the content is free. Why? I value the content, and the material is open for others to see, with the exception of specific business intelligence.
Where do you stand dear NYT? I would say with the Economist. If you keep the news free, open up the past, and charge for all of the other stuff--arts, magazine...--I would likely pay and more importantly, continue to pay.
Do not do focus groups on this! Find out the retention rate--renewals--for these publications, and find the model that fits. Lets hope that it's not the WSJ! One year relationships suck.
I just configured a top of the line PowerMac with a 30" display! Nearly $10K... It's like the days of the Mac FX! Only, you know, with a thirty inch display, and two 400 gig hard drives.
Get of the consumer tread mill! Stop buying useless crap, and gaze blankly upon the newest tech or the latest drm enabled highly produced movie barely worth the money of a blank dvd-r! there are lessons in the command line, and in the beginnings of the net, they just got lost in the Flash...
If I want to watch a television show, which is easier, playing with a Tivo, recording it, tuning in to channel X, or searching for it and downloading it? Also, which is easier typing in a domain name or Googling it?
Google gets lots and lots of hits for people who simply search for a domain by entering the domain name... Why?
This is exactly Google's/search's strength. Ask, and thou shall receive.
Unfortunately, the IRS schedule for computers is 5 years... So, being able to lease equipment and deduct it immediately is important. Additionally, by setting a low buy-out price, you essentially buy the equipment, but are able to deduct it in say two years as opposed to five. This saves deductions for other capital expenses.
Is this perhaps an extreme example of building code from language, which is perhaps notoriously sloppy? I just gave my son an old copy of Code Complete so that he could learn to go from what he wants to do to code, all while developing documented code. He is in the introductory C++ programming class. He has a professor asking him to draw flow charts.
As with the mobile devices, convergence is key. If you can simply and elegantly incorporate video, imaging, games, etc... people will follow, at least occassionally. The iPod photo requires engagement. Look at mobile games, for so many a cell phone is too little and a PSP is too much. If Apple can gaqrner a few more sales out of those who lust for all things electronic, but who only game occassionally, they will gain some significant revenue.
I am intereszted in developing games on the platform.
BMW recreated Mini out of the ground and may certainly have actually paid for the copyrights to the name, but engineered everything and built the factories. They wish they could get hold of the Austin name for the same reason. Mercedes essentially engineered a purchase of Chrysler, but should have waited a year for a much better deal. Fiat I am unable to comment on, though with their problems does anybody really give them any number of years...
Certainly, the number of car companies will be reduced and limited to a handful, but can one really say that BMW isn't pprofitable, and successful in its nitch, which is the point.
It should work like the Economist.com. Most material is free excepting the business intelligence (Oxymoron? You decide.), but everything else is available for viewing. Like/. most newspapers could market timeliness, and make everything else available without a subscription.
Ives likely makes more like three to five hundred thousand a year. He drives a Bentley...
But custom as opposed to commodity parts cost quite a bit of coin. Of course, not the amount that would make up for a large cost diference, perhaps fifty bucks per. I remember going to the plant that produced the NeXT cube and well as Linn tonearms, and the mold was pretty amazing. The final piece also required custom finishing, as molds have seams, and Steve wanted a seamless design. The stuff is more costly than you think. Which is exactly why so few companies invest in the processes, people, and long term commitments to producing excellent design.
While I have a blog, doesn't everybody, my thoughts are that it simply refers to external events, topics, and provides my thoughts at the time. It is also searchable through external search services. I get a lot of hits on topics, which when I was looking for the same information, there was little if any. This IMHO is exactly the purpose of blogs.
It seems to me that Tivo is another intermediary, just the sort of thing that the internet was designed to replace. Sure it's a cool intermediary, but why would I want a piece of quasi-computer equipment, when my computer would very easily do the exact same thing? Granted, I don't really watch television, and watch movies on my laptop, but I fail to see the attraction. I actually find the possibility of watching, or downloading, movies on my mobile!
So, what can Tivo do form me, that a Mac-Mini-profile computer cannot? This is the crux of the discussion in my oppinion.
"Crichton then goes on to make the classic error of confusing 'weather" and "climate.'"
I had read their responses to Crichton several weeks ago, and nothing seemed "ad-hominem." These are detailed rebuttals to fiction. Whereas the non-detailed fiction is not supported by real science. It's sad when biographies matter more than the science, but your response is hollow. Can you site an scientists working with conflicting models of climate?
"Cell was co-designed by IBM which has an interest in selling workstations etc with that chip..."
That's conjecture... IBM makes money designing, and fabbing chips more than in PCs, as the selling of the division attests. But, could Sony be one of the PC outfits interested in licensing a compatible version of OS X for the living room? Network workstations running the beast might be of interest to IBM however. Does your cash register really need Windows?
When Iranians, Iraqis, Afghans... fly planes into American buildings, I'll worry. Until then, we could act like the rational, peace-loving country we aspire to be. Perhaps we could begin by not telling the Iranians that they are evil, when moderate forces are at work changing the country. Shortly thereafter, moderates are eliminated from the ballots! Shocking...
We are proving to be extremely inept at preventing Nuclear proliferation, and it has all arrived under the current administration.
You can find their music, as well as a host of others, on OHM: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music... I'm sure that this available at your favorite place of purchase. I bought it a year or two ago. Uneven but pretty interesting.
A can't believe that people in this country aren't developing an ebook like computer for the education market. Something along the lines of Apple's old laptop-like Newton, or Psion's NetBook would be examples of good platforms. These things would weigh less than 50 lbs of books...
And, why does not our glisteny little OS-that-could not enter into the conversation here? BSD based, command-line tools, rapid fixes, missing large holes, and able to run just all of the necessary open-source applications, if they aren't already included...
I'm about ready to just move my server in-house using a Mac Mini with OS X Server. It's not like it gets huge amounts of traffic, and less than a grand isn't bad at all. Last time I ran the servers inside, they were Cobalt boxen, which illustrates my level of capability...
Hell if most users would not like more power, a larger screen, a full card slot... Let alone what would be in the device by now. My Tablet PC was in many ways too big, and problematic for all of the standard reasons that windows facilitates, but the last Newton was still a bit too small--in screen size anyway. Imagine what the device would be like today!
One problem with this scenario is a budget surplus. Although we are not likely to see on again soon, you might recall that during the last administration, they ceased to offer treasuries for a while. They weren't needed. Another similar issue is a market where there is too much capitalization. Those who thought that the market would hit 30,000 assumed that continued bidding on stocks would continue forever. What happens when too much money is in the market, and it is no longer efficient? You're not likely to keep up with inflation, let alone make money.
My fairly recent change from surfing to RSS has changed my surfing habits substantially. Although I am trying a second RSS reader on OS X, most of the syndicated sites are blogs, with a few real news outlets. Groups of bloggers with varying interests filter so much information effectively, that the time required to actually find the information through casual browsing is prohibitive. While I read the bloggers critically, they help to get the news and interesting material to the surface. They're a filter rather than journalists, but a very valuable filter.
Newspapers are many times filters also, by posting breaking news from Reuters and such.
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Dear NYT,
I just let my WSJ subscription lapse. Why? because of the total lock-down of discussing the conntent with others. The Economist on the other hand I am renewing, even though most of the content is free. Why? I value the content, and the material is open for others to see, with the exception of specific business intelligence.
Where do you stand dear NYT? I would say with the Economist. If you keep the news free, open up the past, and charge for all of the other stuff--arts, magazine...--I would likely pay and more importantly, continue to pay.
Do not do focus groups on this! Find out the retention rate--renewals--for these publications, and find the model that fits. Lets hope that it's not the WSJ! One year relationships suck.
I just configured a top of the line PowerMac with a 30" display! Nearly $10K... It's like the days of the Mac FX! Only, you know, with a thirty inch display, and two 400 gig hard drives.
so uninstall IE!
Get of the consumer tread mill! Stop buying useless crap, and gaze blankly upon the newest tech or the latest drm enabled highly produced movie barely worth the money of a blank dvd-r! there are lessons in the command line, and in the beginnings of the net, they just got lost in the Flash...
If I want to watch a television show, which is easier, playing with a Tivo, recording it, tuning in to channel X, or searching for it and downloading it? Also, which is easier typing in a domain name or Googling it?
Google gets lots and lots of hits for people who simply search for a domain by entering the domain name... Why?
This is exactly Google's/search's strength. Ask, and thou shall receive.
Unfortunately, the IRS schedule for computers is 5 years... So, being able to lease equipment and deduct it immediately is important. Additionally, by setting a low buy-out price, you essentially buy the equipment, but are able to deduct it in say two years as opposed to five. This saves deductions for other capital expenses.
Is this perhaps an extreme example of building code from language, which is perhaps notoriously sloppy? I just gave my son an old copy of Code Complete so that he could learn to go from what he wants to do to code, all while developing documented code. He is in the introductory C++ programming class. He has a professor asking him to draw flow charts.
As with the mobile devices, convergence is key. If you can simply and elegantly incorporate video, imaging, games, etc... people will follow, at least occassionally. The iPod photo requires engagement. Look at mobile games, for so many a cell phone is too little and a PSP is too much. If Apple can gaqrner a few more sales out of those who lust for all things electronic, but who only game occassionally, they will gain some significant revenue.
I am intereszted in developing games on the platform.
BMW recreated Mini out of the ground and may certainly have actually paid for the copyrights to the name, but engineered everything and built the factories. They wish they could get hold of the Austin name for the same reason. Mercedes essentially engineered a purchase of Chrysler, but should have waited a year for a much better deal. Fiat I am unable to comment on, though with their problems does anybody really give them any number of years...
Certainly, the number of car companies will be reduced and limited to a handful, but can one really say that BMW isn't pprofitable, and successful in its nitch, which is the point.
It should work like the Economist.com. Most material is free excepting the business intelligence (Oxymoron? You decide.), but everything else is available for viewing. Like /. most newspapers could market timeliness, and make everything else available without a subscription.
Ives likely makes more like three to five hundred thousand a year. He drives a Bentley...
But custom as opposed to commodity parts cost quite a bit of coin. Of course, not the amount that would make up for a large cost diference, perhaps fifty bucks per. I remember going to the plant that produced the NeXT cube and well as Linn tonearms, and the mold was pretty amazing. The final piece also required custom finishing, as molds have seams, and Steve wanted a seamless design. The stuff is more costly than you think. Which is exactly why so few companies invest in the processes, people, and long term commitments to producing excellent design.
While I have a blog, doesn't everybody, my thoughts are that it simply refers to external events, topics, and provides my thoughts at the time. It is also searchable through external search services. I get a lot of hits on topics, which when I was looking for the same information, there was little if any. This IMHO is exactly the purpose of blogs.
It seems to me that Tivo is another intermediary, just the sort of thing that the internet was designed to replace. Sure it's a cool intermediary, but why would I want a piece of quasi-computer equipment, when my computer would very easily do the exact same thing? Granted, I don't really watch television, and watch movies on my laptop, but I fail to see the attraction. I actually find the possibility of watching, or downloading, movies on my mobile!
So, what can Tivo do form me, that a Mac-Mini-profile computer cannot? This is the crux of the discussion in my oppinion.
"Crichton then goes on to make the classic error of confusing 'weather" and "climate.'"
I had read their responses to Crichton several weeks ago, and nothing seemed "ad-hominem." These are detailed rebuttals to fiction. Whereas the non-detailed fiction is not supported by real science. It's sad when biographies matter more than the science, but your response is hollow. Can you site an scientists working with conflicting models of climate?
"Cell was co-designed by IBM which has an interest in selling workstations etc with that chip..."
That's conjecture... IBM makes money designing, and fabbing chips more than in PCs, as the selling of the division attests. But, could Sony be one of the PC outfits interested in licensing a compatible version of OS X for the living room? Network workstations running the beast might be of interest to IBM however. Does your cash register really need Windows?
When Iranians, Iraqis, Afghans... fly planes into American buildings, I'll worry. Until then, we could act like the rational, peace-loving country we aspire to be. Perhaps we could begin by not telling the Iranians that they are evil, when moderate forces are at work changing the country. Shortly thereafter, moderates are eliminated from the ballots! Shocking...
We are proving to be extremely inept at preventing Nuclear proliferation, and it has all arrived under the current administration.
You can find their music, as well as a host of others, on OHM: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music... I'm sure that this available at your favorite place of purchase. I bought it a year or two ago.
Uneven but pretty interesting.
A can't believe that people in this country aren't developing an ebook like computer for the education market. Something along the lines of Apple's old laptop-like Newton, or Psion's NetBook would be examples of good platforms. These things would weigh less than 50 lbs of books...
And, why does not our glisteny little OS-that-could not enter into the conversation here? BSD based, command-line tools, rapid fixes, missing large holes, and able to run just all of the necessary open-source applications, if they aren't already included...
I'm about ready to just move my server in-house using a Mac Mini with OS X Server. It's not like it gets huge amounts of traffic, and less than a grand isn't bad at all. Last time I ran the servers inside, they were Cobalt boxen, which illustrates my level of capability...
You have shown yourself to be untrue to the iFaith...
Hell if most users would not like more power, a larger screen, a full card slot... Let alone what would be in the device by now. My Tablet PC was in many ways too big, and problematic for all of the standard reasons that windows facilitates, but the last Newton was still a bit too small--in screen size anyway. Imagine what the device would be like today!
I miss mine already.
Just like a real Turing Machine! Hopefully the giant peice of text wasn't on the slowest component...
Sometimes I think that Windows runs like this, and it simply gets to the little blue end of the tape... and, like no more memory!
Anybody know how these relate to possible data uses? It would be nice to see comm chips for cell/wi-fi built inot laptops.
One problem with this scenario is a budget surplus. Although we are not likely to see on again soon, you might recall that during the last administration, they ceased to offer treasuries for a while. They weren't needed. Another similar issue is a market where there is too much capitalization. Those who thought that the market would hit 30,000 assumed that continued bidding on stocks would continue forever. What happens when too much money is in the market, and it is no longer efficient? You're not likely to keep up with inflation, let alone make money.
My fairly recent change from surfing to RSS has changed my surfing habits substantially. Although I am trying a second RSS reader on OS X, most of the syndicated sites are blogs, with a few real news outlets. Groups of bloggers with varying interests filter so much information effectively, that the time required to actually find the information through casual browsing is prohibitive. While I read the bloggers critically, they help to get the news and interesting material to the surface. They're a filter rather than journalists, but a very valuable filter.
Newspapers are many times filters also, by posting breaking news from Reuters and such.