There was a company ( here is a link to a story Cringley did on it at the time) that gave away a desktop system with a program that loaded a "frame" around the Windows desktop that streamed advertising. You basically filled out a questionnaire about your interests and if you fit their profile you got a PC. A coworker checked everything ( I ridiculously actually put the things I was interested in) and got one of the first PC's. I think that venture lasted about six months.
I worked with an electrical engineer like that. Every engineering tech that ever worked for him ended up getting reprimanded for the projects shortcomings. Fortunately another engineer there taught me how to use bcc: in ALL communication with him so when the project I was on went to hell upper management already knew who to blame. Of course that doesn't work as well when your boss is the nephew or some such of an executive. I did end up getting reprimanded for something else. I had a grin ear to ear as my boss dressed me down because I had just been offered a new position making about 20% more annually and just hadn't put in my notice yet.
Some have accused the portrayal of the Ferengi of being antisemitic. In the book Religions of Star Trek, Ross S. Kraemer wrote that "Ferengi religion seems almost a parody of traditional Judaism... Critics have pointed out a disturbing correlation between Ferengi attributes (love of profit that overrides communal decency; the large, sexualized head feature, in this case ears) and negative Jewish stereotypes." Commentator Jonah Goldberg wrote that Ferengi were portrayed in The Next Generation as "runaway capitalists with bullwhips who looked like a mix between Nazi caricatures of Jews and the original Nosferatu." The fact that the four most notable Ferengi characters, Quark, Nog, Rom and Zek, are played by Jewish actors Armin Shimerman, Aron Eisenberg, Max Grodénchik and Wallace Shawn contributes to this theory.
Actually the first episode I saw them in the first thing that popped in my mind was that they were bashing republicans or capitalists in general. I guess I wasn't too far off.
AT&T consumer grade internet customers get an email address "Powered by Yahoo" and are directed to the My Yahoo portal page when they install the starter kit that comes with the service. How many of those consumers do you think even know they can change it? Let alone actually want to mess with it.
I know HUH! I mean I have the Atari STe chugging away crunching my MIDI files while I play Populous and they don't even mention the Atari crowd. What's up with that?
I think you hit on something there. According to sources laid out here The upper middle class (high 5 figure to well over $100,000 range) is about 15% of the population. Since Apple has about a 12% market share it could be extrapolated (hypothetically since we would need more empirical data to corroborate) that a good portion of that 12% are, in fact, upper middle class and thus are more likely to have the funds to spend on multiple computing devices. With the middle, lower middle, and working class making up the bulk of America it does indeed seem to support your suggestion that Apple lower it's prices to garner a larger piece of the demographic pie, as it were.
Battery pack? Pshaw! This thing is state of the art. The battery is implanted and the device comes with a Touchstone so she can charge her heart and her Pre at the same time.
I don't understand why they don't do anything to stop the cold patent war.
'better the devil you know than the devil you don't'
Funny thing about change. You may have started it. You may have even been heavily involved in steering the entire process. At the end of the day you may still find that the new regime is much worse for you than the previous. If you know the current system and how to maneuver it why risk losing ground to "fix" it.
Except that the ISP should remain neutral and in the case of ESPN 360 they are not. They either pay or their clients don't get to access the site. They could just as easily charge me directly.
I'm curious how services like ESPN 360 will be affected being that they are the content provider and not the ISP. They are still blocking content to you unless you are on the "right" ISP.
H. Ross Perot starts a company (EDS), grows it into a huge business and sells it to GM in 1984. He presumably gets bored spending his billions on trivial things like yachts and mansions and uses it to start Perot Systems in 1988. HP, looking to pick up some of that IBM Global Services kind of action, purchases EDS in 2008 and to counter Dell acquires Perot Systems. Looks like Perot is nothing but an IT services arms dealer!
I believe you are referring to citizens of the People's Republic of China which are not all of the same race. So to call it racial profiling is inaccurate. It would be more accurate to call it nationalism profiling. It is clear from the replies you have received so far that racist/nationalist bashing is en vogue so here goes my karma. There is no way to guarantee safety 100% of the time but to ignore the fact that a foreign government that, while not openly hostile, is known for its intense dislike of your countries policies would be derelict. So basically I agree with what I think you were trying to say but not what you said.
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There was a company ( here is a link to a story Cringley did on it at the time) that gave away a desktop system with a program that loaded a "frame" around the Windows desktop that streamed advertising. You basically filled out a questionnaire about your interests and if you fit their profile you got a PC. A coworker checked everything ( I ridiculously actually put the things I was interested in) and got one of the first PC's. I think that venture lasted about six months.
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Don't know how easy it would be to reverse engineer your idea but if it would be prohibitively difficult you could always take the WD-40 route.
WD-40's formula is a trade secret. The product is not patented in order to avoid completely disclosing its ingredients.
I expect you should be sued shortly for disclosing that information.
I worked with an electrical engineer like that. Every engineering tech that ever worked for him ended up getting reprimanded for the projects shortcomings. Fortunately another engineer there taught me how to use bcc: in ALL communication with him so when the project I was on went to hell upper management already knew who to blame. Of course that doesn't work as well when your boss is the nephew or some such of an executive. I did end up getting reprimanded for something else. I had a grin ear to ear as my boss dressed me down because I had just been offered a new position making about 20% more annually and just hadn't put in my notice yet.
Which was owned by a Ferengie who were not part of the Federation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi#Reception
Some have accused the portrayal of the Ferengi of being antisemitic. In the book Religions of Star Trek, Ross S. Kraemer wrote that "Ferengi religion seems almost a parody of traditional Judaism... Critics have pointed out a disturbing correlation between Ferengi attributes (love of profit that overrides communal decency; the large, sexualized head feature, in this case ears) and negative Jewish stereotypes." Commentator Jonah Goldberg wrote that Ferengi were portrayed in The Next Generation as "runaway capitalists with bullwhips who looked like a mix between Nazi caricatures of Jews and the original Nosferatu." The fact that the four most notable Ferengi characters, Quark, Nog, Rom and Zek, are played by Jewish actors Armin Shimerman, Aron Eisenberg, Max Grodénchik and Wallace Shawn contributes to this theory.
Actually the first episode I saw them in the first thing that popped in my mind was that they were bashing republicans or capitalists in general. I guess I wasn't too far off.
I've often wondered who actually uses Yahoo.
For starters AT&T
AT&T consumer grade internet customers get an email address "Powered by Yahoo" and are directed to the My Yahoo portal page when they install the starter kit that comes with the service. How many of those consumers do you think even know they can change it? Let alone actually want to mess with it.
I know HUH! I mean I have the Atari STe chugging away crunching my MIDI files while I play Populous and they don't even mention the Atari crowd. What's up with that?
There's WAY too many assumptions in your hypothesis's.
there FTFY
Oh...and *WHOOSH*
My tongue was firmly in cheek when I penned that response despite sharing the OP sentiments.
BTW
How does one submit a comment and then mod replies to oblivion?
I think you hit on something there. According to sources laid out here The upper middle class (high 5 figure to well over $100,000 range) is about 15% of the population. Since Apple has about a 12% market share it could be extrapolated (hypothetically since we would need more empirical data to corroborate) that a good portion of that 12% are, in fact, upper middle class and thus are more likely to have the funds to spend on multiple computing devices. With the middle, lower middle, and working class making up the bulk of America it does indeed seem to support your suggestion that Apple lower it's prices to garner a larger piece of the demographic pie, as it were.
I don't think I am aware of any non-one-letter vowels. Please enlighten me.
Did anyone else read the headline and look for the picture to go with the lolcats caption?
Battery pack? Pshaw! This thing is state of the art. The battery is implanted and the device comes with a Touchstone so she can charge her heart and her Pre at the same time.
I don't understand why they don't do anything to stop the cold patent war.
'better the devil you know than the devil you don't'
Funny thing about change. You may have started it. You may have even been heavily involved in steering the entire process. At the end of the day you may still find that the new regime is much worse for you than the previous. If you know the current system and how to maneuver it why risk losing ground to "fix" it.
Breaking news!
There just "might" have been a little "insider" trading before Dell announced the purchase of Perot Systems.
It just gets better and better.
I had no idea it was April already.
Except that the ISP should remain neutral and in the case of ESPN 360 they are not. They either pay or their clients don't get to access the site. They could just as easily charge me directly.
I want to set up a Hackintosh in Hyper-V so I can run parallels.
I'm curious how services like ESPN 360 will be affected being that they are the content provider and not the ISP. They are still blocking content to you unless you are on the "right" ISP.
H. Ross Perot starts a company (EDS), grows it into a huge business and sells it to GM in 1984. He presumably gets bored spending his billions on trivial things like yachts and mansions and uses it to start Perot Systems in 1988. HP, looking to pick up some of that IBM Global Services kind of action, purchases EDS in 2008 and to counter Dell acquires Perot Systems. Looks like Perot is nothing but an IT services arms dealer!
*PHEW*
for a minute there I thought we would never get that NAZI reference in there.
*chirp* *chirp*
I can't get that damn sound out of my head. Stop it!
MOD points JUST expired! Kaahhhnn
I believe you are referring to citizens of the People's Republic of China which are not all of the same race. So to call it racial profiling is inaccurate. It would be more accurate to call it nationalism profiling. It is clear from the replies you have received so far that racist/nationalist bashing is en vogue so here goes my karma. There is no way to guarantee safety 100% of the time but to ignore the fact that a foreign government that, while not openly hostile, is known for its intense dislike of your countries policies would be derelict. So basically I agree with what I think you were trying to say but not what you said.