None of those involved failure on a scale of 80% of offices. Thousands at gmail is nothing, and practically nobody uses.mac for business reasons.
A few thousand or even 100's of thousands is survivable. Losing data or access for an entire geographic region risks a class-action lawsuit of death.
But that will only happen if they cut out offline versions of Office to drag us kicking and screaming through the Age of the Fruitbat. If they just make an online version available, then most will ignore it and keep using what works.
It's nice, except it hogs 100 megs of ram and its definitions are unfortunately about 3 days to late to prevent anything my users will catch.
I had to block any mail from UPS except for employees actually in shipping because everyone else kept opening fake UPS invoices instead of just forwarding them to the right person(who would have deleted them because it didn't fit the correct format).
Blocking them, of course, pissed off anyone tracking a personal package.
Suddenly having hundreds of millions more fertile women in this world would cause lots o' problems.
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We'll still have boots and stairs, right?
Seriously, though, we'd probably go back to what we used to do: tansy & other poisons mild enough that they'll kill the baby before they kill the mother(if you're lucky).
You could easily do so, but adding such padding either further limits the capacity of an already limited space, or greatly increases the file size needed to hide your message.
The first time the file serving cloud takes a nosedive, everyone will scream and run away.
Sure, Microsoft already eats files on a regular basis, but not in a coordinated mini-apocalypse. And yes, Google Docs could do(has done) that too, but people aren't yet using it on the same scale. (Plus it is in beta, ha-ha, not their fault)
Rank bullshit. perhaps the most gender-neutral in the middle east, I don't think anyone would argue with that, but I think you'll find most European nations (and nations who were settled by Europeans) to be far more gender neutral. In the US, the third in the Presidential sucession is a woman, speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
Israel was letting chicks into the military, giving them guns, and sticking them out to be shot at way ahead of the US.
Plus, they let in hot chicks and put them on calendars. Can't do that in the US.
But at least in the case of libel and slander, the USians require the words to be false. In the UK, you can be sued for slander/libel even if the words are true.
And they can put out press gag orders because it is a state secret that Minister Important-Wanker was pulled over while intoxicated. Oops, sorry: he's "tired and emotional" because saying someone is drunk, even while visibly intoxicated, is slander/libel.
Then yes, it will be spammed to oblivion. Any method of transmitting information is a potential source of spam and becomes an actual one as soon as the potential ROI nears the cost of abusing it.
God, that is so true. That's why I'm a former marketer, nobody ever listened and now that campaign is run by a close cousin of the genius algorithm that causes Ebay to buy on "slave" and other embarrassingly stupid ads on google.
I spent years crafting a non-annoying campaign that wouldn't get added to everyone's block list, but Mgmt wasn't satisfied with ROI, they wanted blinky flash ads made by four year olds and wanted them shown on the Microsoft ad network instead of google(because google wouldn't stand for that).
Now I'm back to IT and I won't leave again if I can help it.
I always get a kick out of these sorts of articles.
Advertising on the internet comes from the same premises as advertising anywhere else. Either you are building awareness or you are inciting the viewer to action, preferably both.
You buy ads based solely on if they are acheiving those two objectives. The value of an ad is from that alone. If your ads don't perform, pay less or stop. If they succeed, keep paying or even pay more to guarantee that they will continue to do so.
Sure, you can do interactive ad games, popups, popunders, little folding corner things, etc, but who cares unless your name sticks in their mind or it causes them to buy your stuff.
Sure, website operators will plaster their pages with ads, but who cares as long as your name stands out and people buy your stuff.
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The main benefit for online ads over any other kind of ad is that the advertiser can have enormous feedback on the success of the ad that would normally take hundreds of hours of focus groups and thousands of dollars of wasted money.
The key failing of online ads is that advertisers are morons that think that internet ads are some magical moneymaking device that will work by itself. You have to use that wonderful deluge of information to guide your purchases and campaigns.
If advertisers, as a whole, stay ignorant, the market will boom and crash. Just like ignorant stock traders, just like any herd of morons that think they've found a golden goose and then cook it.
That being said (worthy goal notwithstanding), this sure sounds like a lot of hubris, calling it an "accident-proof" car, or that "no one should die in a Volvo."
Yup. No one should die in a Volvo, they get ejected through the windshield before cessation of brain activity.
Slashdot Mirror
Meteor showers in June
Unless it is a blackberry, then verizon rolls over.
None of those involved failure on a scale of 80% of offices. Thousands at gmail is nothing, and practically nobody uses .mac for business reasons.
A few thousand or even 100's of thousands is survivable. Losing data or access for an entire geographic region risks a class-action lawsuit of death.
But that will only happen if they cut out offline versions of Office to drag us kicking and screaming through the Age of the Fruitbat. If they just make an online version available, then most will ignore it and keep using what works.
It's nice, except it hogs 100 megs of ram and its definitions are unfortunately about 3 days to late to prevent anything my users will catch.
I had to block any mail from UPS except for employees actually in shipping because everyone else kept opening fake UPS invoices instead of just forwarding them to the right person(who would have deleted them because it didn't fit the correct format).
Blocking them, of course, pissed off anyone tracking a personal package.
.
We'll still have boots and stairs, right?
Seriously, though, we'd probably go back to what we used to do: tansy & other poisons mild enough that they'll kill the baby before they kill the mother(if you're lucky).
You could easily do so, but adding such padding either further limits the capacity of an already limited space, or greatly increases the file size needed to hide your message.
The first time the file serving cloud takes a nosedive, everyone will scream and run away.
Sure, Microsoft already eats files on a regular basis, but not in a coordinated mini-apocalypse.
And yes, Google Docs could do(has done) that too, but people aren't yet using it on the same scale. (Plus it is in beta, ha-ha, not their fault)
The article thinks a google search takes 15 minutes.
They aren't incompetent estimators, they are incompetent searchers.
Note to self, after encrypting secret plans, XOR with my digital library. Claim it was DRM for ebooks.
I'd add a new cron job to email a random 32 bit integer to a freshly created gmail account and have it run as frequently as possible.
I wonder how long it would take them to arrest me, assuming I wasn't just shot in the back during my morning commute.
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Especially in a cream sauce.
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R?
That would be a symptom of LIH, Legally Induced Honesty.
"We accidently emailed your information to Indonesia! There, we said it. You can't fault us, we were honest about it!"
Israel was letting chicks into the military, giving them guns, and sticking them out to be shot at way ahead of the US.
Plus, they let in hot chicks and put them on calendars. Can't do that in the US.
I just got a Storm with an All-you-can-eat(but don't go over 5 GB/month or else!) data plan, but I think it explicitly excepts using it as a modem.
But at least in the case of libel and slander, the USians require the words to be false. In the UK, you can be sued for slander/libel even if the words are true.
And they can put out press gag orders because it is a state secret that Minister Important-Wanker was pulled over while intoxicated. Oops, sorry: he's "tired and emotional" because saying someone is drunk, even while visibly intoxicated, is slander/libel.
It's just a pointer, not a "pointer, VOIP handset, and tv remote"
Probably cheaper, too. If it ever comes out.
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So is a handgrenade in the mouth, to continue the retort:)
Besides that, please put one in my backyard. The rental revenue is greater than what I'd lose in property value.
Then yes, it will be spammed to oblivion. Any method of transmitting information is a potential source of spam and becomes an actual one as soon as the potential ROI nears the cost of abusing it.
God, that is so true. That's why I'm a former marketer, nobody ever listened and now that campaign is run by a close cousin of the genius algorithm that causes Ebay to buy on "slave" and other embarrassingly stupid ads on google.
I spent years crafting a non-annoying campaign that wouldn't get added to everyone's block list, but Mgmt wasn't satisfied with ROI, they wanted blinky flash ads made by four year olds and wanted them shown on the Microsoft ad network instead of google(because google wouldn't stand for that).
Now I'm back to IT and I won't leave again if I can help it.
I always get a kick out of these sorts of articles.
Advertising on the internet comes from the same premises as advertising anywhere else. Either you are building awareness or you are inciting the viewer to action, preferably both.
You buy ads based solely on if they are acheiving those two objectives. The value of an ad is from that alone. If your ads don't perform, pay less or stop. If they succeed, keep paying or even pay more to guarantee that they will continue to do so.
Sure, you can do interactive ad games, popups, popunders, little folding corner things, etc, but who cares unless your name sticks in their mind or it causes them to buy your stuff.
Sure, website operators will plaster their pages with ads, but who cares as long as your name stands out and people buy your stuff.
---
The main benefit for online ads over any other kind of ad is that the advertiser can have enormous feedback on the success of the ad that would normally take hundreds of hours of focus groups and thousands of dollars of wasted money.
The key failing of online ads is that advertisers are morons that think that internet ads are some magical moneymaking device that will work by itself. You have to use that wonderful deluge of information to guide your purchases and campaigns.
If advertisers, as a whole, stay ignorant, the market will boom and crash. Just like ignorant stock traders, just like any herd of morons that think they've found a golden goose and then cook it.
Heh, 4/5 for funny 1/5 for originality.
To the tune of "There was an old lady"
So we dump Fe into the water
To make the planet
a little less hotter
And....
Then we spray Agent Orange ...
to cut back on the O2
Shit, you can't rhyme Orange with anything to do with oxygen fires...
Yup. No one should die in a Volvo, they get ejected through the windshield before cessation of brain activity.
In a calm part of africa, 16k people.
In a worse part, 2-4k people.