"it's a great idea to get people's addresses and then email them as much crap as you can" because it will be good business sense.
I've never bought a single thing from a company that's annoyed me. In fact, emailing a person as much crap as you can is a great way for them to hit "This is Junk Mail" on their favorite client, basically locking you out.
I guess i'm in the "it's a fair trade" group. I mean, I don't pay for the NYTimes and their site isn't that news-heavy. I give them my email and name and they let me see their news which costs them oodles of $$ to produce for free.
It's funny, everyone complains about how unsubscribe never works, but it always works for me and it didn't in the past. I think companies are getting more ethical with their spam.
Now, we have recordable cd's and dvd's, and they are freaked. Who will buy music/movies if people can copy it over the internet?
I believe I am sounding like a broken record, but these folks are obtuse.::sigh::
The difference is if you want to record a song to a cassette, you need to find a friend who has it, drive to his house and pick it up, drive to the record store and buy a blank cassette, record them over (taking a sizeable amount of time) and then return the tape to your friend.
When I want a new song with mp3's, I type into what I'm using "Britney's New Cookie-Cutter Song," I click download, and I'm done. That said, I'm starting to believe in an eye for an eye in response to their tactics, which is a very scary thought.
I agree with their thoughts on counter-offers. My suggestion is once you get an offer, go to your boss and ask for a raise for that amount. If you get it, great. If not, go with the other job.
If you get the raise, everything's fine. If not, your employer will know that he couldn't afford to keep a talented employee like you and will know in the future that everyone *but* him knew how valuable you were.
Maybe you come back in a year and you're pulling twice his salary.
Maybe you already bought a copy of windows (or were given one) and don't want to have to pay for it again?
It's funny, MS makes everyone sell comp's with MS tax, and now everyone's whining when Walmart is selling PC's without Windows installed.
You sure its not meant to be free?
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I mean, when I ordered AT&T, the guy installed it and then asked if I wanted the basic cable too. I said "It comes with it?" "yes" "I don't have to pay anything extra?" "no" "alrighty then". I mean, i don't even get any channels of worth (no ESPN, USA, etc) I just get the networks and stuff like WB and MTV2.
The correct thing to do is support a standard. That is what they are for.
Agreed. Also, have you noticed Apple is slowly developing products as replacements to office? Appleworks can do everything that I need out of a Word Processor. It's Spreadsheet is vastly inferior to Excel, but it's coming along. It's presentation isn't bad but is only feasible if you're using a laptop (good luck finding a mac in a presentation room). Mail is getting beefed up (and I just replaced Entourage with it in anticipation of an open contact list to work better with my IM clients) and Mozilla/Chimera/Omniweb are coming along very nicely. Did I mention AW can read.doc's? Oh yeah, let's not forget all the Linux office variants now making their way to OS X.
These aren't good solutions to the no-office problem, but Apple is definitely aware of the possibility of office getting pulled.
so what are the odds that some company can produce a product that does what Outlook/Project/Excel can do (plenty of products could replace word, nobody uses 90% of its features anyways) and not have all the gaping security holes it presents? I can't remember the last time a friend of mine upgraded Office to get more features. THey just upgrade because they save a file on the new office at work/school and then can't open it at home.
It's because he's put out good stuff before, and earned TRUST that his new shit will be good. I've liked all the new star wars more than the shitty movies that i've spent money to go see lately.
Don't pull that holier than thou movie bull with me. I *know* you spent money to go see Tomb Raider.
Every Star Wars movie has been entertaining to me, and until he puts together a couple shitty ones in a row, I'll keep going to see it because odds are it's gonna entertain me.
Did ya read the article? This isn't about free speech for companies vs. free speech for individuals really. It's about whether you're allowed to claim something to the public (any statement that deals with your product or company image specifically = advertising) this is untrue. If Nike wants to tell me Communism rocks and Democracy sucks, that's fine. If Nike wants to tell me their shoes are made by naked vestial virgins being paid in sex wax, they better be able to prove it.
Yeah. I seem to remember some Henry Ford vs. Shareholders case where he wanted to sell autos cheaper for the good of the nation. He lost, because every public corporations only legal goal is to make profits.
Glad to see at least SOME of the judges have their head on straight.
If anyone's got a more detailed/more correct version of the Ford case, please bring me up to speed.
That.. and making "stiff" import fees would piss off just about every other free trade nation in the world. Then they'd tariff the hell outta us, and we'd lose a lot more than everyone else.
Let's hope someone at Apple can "Think Different" enough to realize the huge untapped market the eMac could mean to that company.
If this is true, why didn't companies flock to the original iMac? People said the same thing when that hit the market. Face it, business's aren't interested in going completely mac. Maybe in 2-3 years when XP and.Net have been fully developed and people like/dislike it we can revisit it, but anything else at this time is just extremely optimistic thinking.
Some people here are worse than Republicans or gun control advocates in thinking that anyone who disagrees with them has to be getting something for it and couldn't possibly believe it themselves.
Good one. You do realize that you just did what you accused "republican or gun control advocates" of, don't you?
"What? You disagree with me? You're closed minded! Ban Guns I say!"
"What? You think we should ban guns? You're closed minded!"
On the one hand, you've got to protect minors. You've also got to make sure that you have the ability to enforce laws that protect minors.
On the other, you've got the natural defense of the first amendment and the argument "we're not hurting anyone." Which I feel the/. group will take.
There's a few issues I have with this (I only read the article and some of the Act) one of them being using pictures of real kids? That doesn't seem fair to the kid. I'd be kinda pissed if there was child porn going around of me out there, even if it was just my face pasted onto something else.
Then again, I'd be pissed if someone pasted my face on the guys at goatse, so what does that matter.
I'm not sure. I think the worst part of OSX is the finder. It's a slow, clunky, piece of shit. And why would you implement copy commands yet not implement cut? If you're going to make me copy and then dig through to paste, you don't have to be a double bastard and force me to tunnel back to the originals to delete them./rant
First up, Apple (and I better be right about this) will never integrate a browser into its OS.
1) Steve is against it (good) 2) It's crap. Good for browsing the web, bad for browsing my hard drive.
Now, the browser wars on OSX. Omniweb's winning. The latest version of OW is faster than just about everything except Opera (which can't do anything). Mozilla still has some CSS issues (hoping they'll be worked out by 1.0) and it's UI is crap. IE and Omniweb load the fastest, and OW even loads some pages correctly that IE doesn't. Now OW runs all the java apps I need correctly, and if they can just get some Javascript issues worked out it'll be flawless. That, and tabbed browsing.
OpenOffice. I'd start using it if it can read word doc's, do everything entourage can, do everything excel can, do everything powerpoint can, and do 1/3rd of the things word can. Oh yeah, and run with a superb GUI that blends in with OSX (like MS Office). Really, All of the office X apps are the best in their categories (Except Microsoft Messenger). I don't see anything on the current market that would make me consider switching...
Have you checked out both the Mac OSX versions of office and the Office2k versions (Haven't tried XP). I swear every time I try to use a powerpoint slide from my mac to the lab pc's all my effects fade because there's a lot more offered in the X version than the 2k version.
But then again, none of these machines are running XP.
I agree with the general sentiment of this board that you should normally blame the individual, the parents, and partially the individual's "friends" for occurances like this.
However, if it was my kid, I'd still want to know exactly what was the straw that broke the camel's back.
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Even in that magazine example, if your business is based solely on the help of one of your partners you are:
1) Fucked
2) Stupid
Or might it be because you used to get your ass drafted and now you have to sign up for the job?
Find a way to show your boss's boss what you're doing :)
"it's a great idea to get people's addresses and then email them as much crap as you can" because it will be good business sense.
I've never bought a single thing from a company that's annoyed me. In fact, emailing a person as much crap as you can is a great way for them to hit "This is Junk Mail" on their favorite client, basically locking you out.
I guess i'm in the "it's a fair trade" group. I mean, I don't pay for the NYTimes and their site isn't that news-heavy. I give them my email and name and they let me see their news which costs them oodles of $$ to produce for free.
It's funny, everyone complains about how unsubscribe never works, but it always works for me and it didn't in the past. I think companies are getting more ethical with their spam.
Whoops. Did I just express optimism here?
What's a good name for two of something we're always looking at?
Boobies!
Now, we have recordable cd's and dvd's, and they are freaked. Who will buy music/movies if people can copy it over the internet?
::sigh::
I believe I am sounding like a broken record, but these folks are obtuse.
The difference is if you want to record a song to a cassette, you need to find a friend who has it, drive to his house and pick it up, drive to the record store and buy a blank cassette, record them over (taking a sizeable amount of time) and then return the tape to your friend.
When I want a new song with mp3's, I type into what I'm using "Britney's New Cookie-Cutter Song," I click download, and I'm done. That said, I'm starting to believe in an eye for an eye in response to their tactics, which is a very scary thought.
I agree with their thoughts on counter-offers. My suggestion is once you get an offer, go to your boss and ask for a raise for that amount. If you get it, great. If not, go with the other job.
If you get the raise, everything's fine. If not, your employer will know that he couldn't afford to keep a talented employee like you and will know in the future that everyone *but* him knew how valuable you were.
Maybe you come back in a year and you're pulling twice his salary.
Maybe you already bought a copy of windows (or were given one) and don't want to have to pay for it again?
It's funny, MS makes everyone sell comp's with MS tax, and now everyone's whining when Walmart is selling PC's without Windows installed.
I mean, when I ordered AT&T, the guy installed it and then asked if I wanted the basic cable too. I said "It comes with it?" "yes" "I don't have to pay anything extra?" "no" "alrighty then". I mean, i don't even get any channels of worth (no ESPN, USA, etc) I just get the networks and stuff like WB and MTV2.
Heh, and this is a "hack" rofl.
The correct thing to do is support a standard. That is what they are for.
.doc's? Oh yeah, let's not forget all the Linux office variants now making their way to OS X.
Agreed. Also, have you noticed Apple is slowly developing products as replacements to office? Appleworks can do everything that I need out of a Word Processor. It's Spreadsheet is vastly inferior to Excel, but it's coming along. It's presentation isn't bad but is only feasible if you're using a laptop (good luck finding a mac in a presentation room). Mail is getting beefed up (and I just replaced Entourage with it in anticipation of an open contact list to work better with my IM clients) and Mozilla/Chimera/Omniweb are coming along very nicely. Did I mention AW can read
These aren't good solutions to the no-office problem, but Apple is definitely aware of the possibility of office getting pulled.
so what are the odds that some company can produce a product that does what Outlook/Project/Excel can do (plenty of products could replace word, nobody uses 90% of its features anyways) and not have all the gaping security holes it presents? I can't remember the last time a friend of mine upgraded Office to get more features. THey just upgrade because they save a file on the new office at work/school and then can't open it at home.
It's because he's put out good stuff before, and earned TRUST that his new shit will be good. I've liked all the new star wars more than the shitty movies that i've spent money to go see lately.
Don't pull that holier than thou movie bull with me. I *know* you spent money to go see Tomb Raider.
Every Star Wars movie has been entertaining to me, and until he puts together a couple shitty ones in a row, I'll keep going to see it because odds are it's gonna entertain me.
Heaven forbid we discuss anything over a week old
And here I was thinking this was a news page.
Did ya read the article? This isn't about free speech for companies vs. free speech for individuals really. It's about whether you're allowed to claim something to the public (any statement that deals with your product or company image specifically = advertising) this is untrue. If Nike wants to tell me Communism rocks and Democracy sucks, that's fine. If Nike wants to tell me their shoes are made by naked vestial virgins being paid in sex wax, they better be able to prove it.
Yeah. I seem to remember some Henry Ford vs. Shareholders case where he wanted to sell autos cheaper for the good of the nation. He lost, because every public corporations only legal goal is to make profits.
Glad to see at least SOME of the judges have their head on straight.
If anyone's got a more detailed/more correct version of the Ford case, please bring me up to speed.
That.. and making "stiff" import fees would piss off just about every other free trade nation in the world. Then they'd tariff the hell outta us, and we'd lose a lot more than everyone else.
AOL didn't acquire Netscape for its browser, it acquired Netscape for the right to sue MS.
I mean, other than that, what did Netscape have left? It'd already "lost" the browser war, so the browser wasn't too useful.
Let's hope someone at Apple can "Think Different" enough to realize the huge untapped market the eMac could mean to that company.
.Net have been fully developed and people like/dislike it we can revisit it, but anything else at this time is just extremely optimistic thinking.
If this is true, why didn't companies flock to the original iMac? People said the same thing when that hit the market. Face it, business's aren't interested in going completely mac. Maybe in 2-3 years when XP and
A lesson I learned the hard way.
Does anyone else remember in? Interactive Network.
Damn I loved that thing. Too bad they went under. Was lots of fun predicting what plays football teams would run.
/.ers commenting on fashion.
The world is definitely doomed.
Some people here are worse than Republicans or gun control advocates in thinking that anyone who disagrees with them has to be getting something for it and couldn't possibly believe it themselves.
Good one. You do realize that you just did what you accused "republican or gun control advocates" of, don't you?
"What? You disagree with me? You're closed minded! Ban Guns I say!"
"What? You think we should ban guns? You're closed minded!"
On the one hand, you've got to protect minors. You've also got to make sure that you have the ability to enforce laws that protect minors.
/. group will take.
On the other, you've got the natural defense of the first amendment and the argument "we're not hurting anyone." Which I feel the
There's a few issues I have with this (I only read the article and some of the Act) one of them being using pictures of real kids? That doesn't seem fair to the kid. I'd be kinda pissed if there was child porn going around of me out there, even if it was just my face pasted onto something else.
Then again, I'd be pissed if someone pasted my face on the guys at goatse, so what does that matter.
I'm not sure. I think the worst part of OSX is the finder. It's a slow, clunky, piece of shit. And why would you implement copy commands yet not implement cut? If you're going to make me copy and then dig through to paste, you don't have to be a double bastard and force me to tunnel back to the originals to delete them. /rant
First up, Apple (and I better be right about this) will never integrate a browser into its OS.
1) Steve is against it (good)
2) It's crap. Good for browsing the web, bad for browsing my hard drive.
Now, the browser wars on OSX. Omniweb's winning. The latest version of OW is faster than just about everything except Opera (which can't do anything). Mozilla still has some CSS issues (hoping they'll be worked out by 1.0) and it's UI is crap. IE and Omniweb load the fastest, and OW even loads some pages correctly that IE doesn't. Now OW runs all the java apps I need correctly, and if they can just get some Javascript issues worked out it'll be flawless. That, and tabbed browsing.
OpenOffice.
I'd start using it if it can read word doc's, do everything entourage can, do everything excel can, do everything powerpoint can, and do 1/3rd of the things word can. Oh yeah, and run with a superb GUI that blends in with OSX (like MS Office). Really, All of the office X apps are the best in their categories (Except Microsoft Messenger). I don't see anything on the current market that would make me consider switching...
Just be thankful nobody uses MSN.
Have you checked out both the Mac OSX versions of office and the Office2k versions (Haven't tried XP). I swear every time I try to use a powerpoint slide from my mac to the lab pc's all my effects fade because there's a lot more offered in the X version than the 2k version.
But then again, none of these machines are running XP.
I agree with the general sentiment of this board that you should normally blame the individual, the parents, and partially the individual's "friends" for occurances like this.
However, if it was my kid, I'd still want to know exactly what was the straw that broke the camel's back.