Too bad they decided to make a space pornoseries... I can't watch the show with my two and four year old kids in the room... Which means I can't watch the show at all.
Fact is, things just aren't that bad. The supreme court will ballance the congress' encroachment on our rights, and things will work out. America has never been more free than today... Look what has happened in the last 60 years versus what is happening now:
I think all these guys missed the boat. Give me a $150-$200 device that works with WHATEVER ISP I WANT! The $99 + Activation + 24.95/MO is just stupid.
I've been carrying a Kyocera Smartphone for a while. It's a palm-os based cell phone. I like it but would love to know where I can get a keyboard for it... Looks like Visor is playing catch up.
Sooner or later, the Supreme Court is going to have to rule in favor of freedom of speech. The congress has eroded our freedom of speech to much, and ironically, we are watching our kids being turned into criminals for trading music and movies? WTF? I wonder what will happen when the law starts being enforced wholesale and those nice men and women in black jumpsuits with FBI on the back start kicking in our doors and dragging our MP3 playing kids off at the request of intellectual squatters?
Don't go off on some "Copyright infringement is stealing" tangent either. If anything, intellectual squatters like the members of RIAA are stealing my right to say what I want, write what I want, and use products I buy. I venture that if this keeps up, copyright, as a concept and as a plurality will go away.My teenage daughter is not a criminal and in reality hurts no one when she downloads an MP3 -- especially given she buys CDs like they are going out of style!
As a sales and marketing manager, I often use analyst reports from IDC or Gartner when working with the CEO or CFO of a prospective customer because they trust the source. It amazes me how quickly a CEO will abandon the advice of an IT staffer based on a report from IDC or Gartner.
If you were the CEO of a company faced with a long term technology decision, how much would you rely on analysts? What sources other than analysts would you look to to aid you in making your decision?
P2P exists so far as I can tell because there is an urgent need to protect freedom of speech for the masses. The ability to post a file without disclosing your identity or that of the author has extreme value when considering the publication of ideas not popular to the majority, or critical of the government or critical of a powerful corporation. Individuals cannot afford to prosecute or defend intellectual property cases, effectively nullifying the right to free speech where corporations are concerned.
P2P technologies have risen to address the need for a way for an individual to communicate with the online community with minimal fear of harassment. Would this country exist without the unpopular, anti-crown handbils and pamphlets published in anomitity and distributed person to person?
1. Do not seek press if you are not ready for dealing with lots of inquiries or if your company is a "consumer advocate" story waiting to happen!
2. Execute press releases for hires, promotions and deal wins. They are the easiest to get published and people do read the business section. Releases that try to educate the press rarely work.
3. Avoid referring to technology. Point out benefits your customers experience and the business results that occur!
4. Have a full press kit ready to email to interested parties. Doing so allows editors and writers to do their job better.
5. Do not evaluate the success of PR in the number of leads it generates. PR does one thing well things: it creates brand awareness for your company.
I've never used a PR firm, for one reason, I believe most of them don't get the job done well.
Preface: I've been selling technology to corporations for years
Heres how it works:
CIO: Reponsible for Information Systems operateions. Rolls up to Chief Financial Office or Controller in well run companies. Rolls up to CEO in other cases with wildly different results.
CTO: Provides technology vision for company and generally is more of an advisor to the CEO in most cases. In other cases the CTO is the "head engineer" in charge of anything that is to technical for the other executives to manage.
The most powerful executive where IT is concerned is usually the Cheif Financial Office as the CFO's accounting system and databases are usually the prime raison d'etre for Information Technology.
My impression of banner ads is that they are not for products I care to buy. Nor are they always products I care to see the ad for. If you want click throughs, you have to show me something worth taking 10 minutes out of my day to explore or something that I will instantly want to buy. People's time is worth more than their money and all net adds require a time investment prior to a financial investment. Taking people's time turns them off.
Corel reminds me of many dotcoms... cool product, cool image and yet they can't sell their products.
The essential function of any business is SALES.
Had Corel learned to SELL their desktop Linux, they would have been wildly successful. Instead they left it to a retail channel that DID NOT KNOW LINUX to sell it...
No sales = no revenue.
You can put in all the features in the world, and good sales & marketing will win every time.
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Right now we pay for:
* Food
* Shelter
* Water
* Security (to some degree or the other)
If the theory of Mematics are correct:
Human intellegence's primary function is to replicate memes (kind of like a mini-idea).
Media allows mass reproduction of memes. Media fills your need to get more memes (like this one). Why not charge utility rates for a flow of memes?
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Too bad they decided to make a space pornoseries... I can't watch the show with my two and four year old kids in the room... Which means I can't watch the show at all.
Fact is, things just aren't that bad. The supreme court will ballance the congress' encroachment on our rights, and things will work out. America has never been more free than today... Look what has happened in the last 60 years versus what is happening now:
What I wonder about is the real question -- are we going to deal with the real issues that are causing terrorism:
I think all these guys missed the boat. Give me a $150-$200 device that works with WHATEVER ISP I WANT! The $99 + Activation + 24.95/MO is just stupid.
I've been carrying a Kyocera Smartphone for a while. It's a palm-os based cell phone. I like it but would love to know where I can get a keyboard for it... Looks like Visor is playing catch up.
Sooner or later, the Supreme Court is going to have to rule in favor of freedom of speech. The congress has eroded our freedom of speech to much, and ironically, we are watching our kids being turned into criminals for trading music and movies? WTF? I wonder what will happen when the law starts being enforced wholesale and those nice men and women in black jumpsuits with FBI on the back start kicking in our doors and dragging our MP3 playing kids off at the request of intellectual squatters?
Don't go off on some "Copyright infringement is stealing" tangent either. If anything, intellectual squatters like the members of RIAA are stealing my right to say what I want, write what I want, and use products I buy. I venture that if this keeps up, copyright, as a concept and as a plurality will go away.My teenage daughter is not a criminal and in reality hurts no one when she downloads an MP3 -- especially given she buys CDs like they are going out of style!
As a sales and marketing manager, I often use analyst reports from IDC or Gartner when working with the CEO or CFO of a prospective customer because they trust the source. It amazes me how quickly a CEO will abandon the advice of an IT staffer based on a report from IDC or Gartner.
If you were the CEO of a company faced with a long term technology decision, how much would you rely on analysts? What sources other than analysts would you look to to aid you in making your decision?
P2P exists so far as I can tell because there is an urgent need to protect freedom of speech for the masses. The ability to post a file without disclosing your identity or that of the author has extreme value when considering the publication of ideas not popular to the majority, or critical of the government or critical of a powerful corporation. Individuals cannot afford to prosecute or defend intellectual property cases, effectively nullifying the right to free speech where corporations are concerned.
P2P technologies have risen to address the need for a way for an individual to communicate with the online community with minimal fear of harassment. Would this country exist without the unpopular, anti-crown handbils and pamphlets published in anomitity and distributed person to person?
Here are a few things I've learned the hard way:
1. Do not seek press if you are not ready for dealing with lots of inquiries or if your company is a "consumer advocate" story waiting to happen!
2. Execute press releases for hires, promotions and deal wins. They are the easiest to get published and people do read the business section. Releases that try to educate the press rarely work.
3. Avoid referring to technology. Point out benefits your customers experience and the business results that occur!
4. Have a full press kit ready to email to interested parties. Doing so allows editors and writers to do their job better.
5. Do not evaluate the success of PR in the number of leads it generates. PR does one thing well things: it creates brand awareness for your company.
I've never used a PR firm, for one reason, I believe most of them don't get the job done well.
Preface: I've been selling technology to corporations for years
Heres how it works:
CIO: Reponsible for Information Systems operateions. Rolls up to Chief Financial Office or Controller in well run companies. Rolls up to CEO in other cases with wildly different results.
CTO: Provides technology vision for company and generally is more of an advisor to the CEO in most cases. In other cases the CTO is the "head engineer" in charge of anything that is to technical for the other executives to manage.
The most powerful executive where IT is concerned is usually the Cheif Financial Office as the CFO's accounting system and databases are usually the prime raison d'etre for Information Technology.
My impression of banner ads is that they are not for products I care to buy. Nor are they always products I care to see the ad for. If you want click throughs, you have to show me something worth taking 10 minutes out of my day to explore or something that I will instantly want to buy. People's time is worth more than their money and all net adds require a time investment prior to a financial investment. Taking people's time turns them off.
Corel reminds me of many dotcoms... cool product, cool image and yet they can't sell their products.
The essential function of any business is SALES.
Had Corel learned to SELL their desktop Linux, they would have been wildly successful. Instead they left it to a retail channel that DID NOT KNOW LINUX to sell it...No sales = no revenue.
You can put in all the features in the world, and good sales & marketing will win every time.
Right now we pay for: * Food * Shelter * Water * Security (to some degree or the other) If the theory of Mematics are correct: Human intellegence's primary function is to replicate memes (kind of like a mini-idea). Media allows mass reproduction of memes. Media fills your need to get more memes (like this one). Why not charge utility rates for a flow of memes?