I see "hotted up" appearing more and more, especially in mainstream media (as in "the debate hotted up after Mr. Smith alleged foul play"). This is a reverse evolution: the current (and still correct, I hope) form is, of course, "heated up".
Are there any other verbs that are turning into an irregular form for specific phrases? What's the rate for those?
Send registered mail to your lawyer which contains inside a sealed, timestamped envelope with your stuff in it (digitally or dead-tree based) and instruct your lawyer to store it somewhere safe.
When you;re fighting copyers, you can have this opened in the presence of a lawayer or court, have everything verified and checked and then have it re-sealed in the same venue and have all proceedings officially recorded.
The worst thing that will hit you is that, as a manager, you'll find your time much, much more fragmented than before: you'll handle hundreds of request, projects and queries each day so managing your time effectively in very small chunks becomes much more important.
Read up on things like the "Gettings Things Done" (GTD) methodology. It will save you many a headache if you use something like that right from the start.
The alternative is that you'll be overwhelmed and will fail to do anything well.
Nah, it's because we are all (somewhat paranoid) nerds: we extrapolate instinctively so what we respond to is the direction or motion, not the state at any given time.
(Assumption for the below: open is good, closed is bad)
So closed company goes open a bit, therefore company is moving in good direction, we applaud
Open company goes closed a bit, therefore company is moving in bad direction, we boo them
But if they force this and J&J's competitors are no longer allowed to use it, then J&J will be the only brand using this very recognisable, associated with charity relief and aid, world-wide logo.
There's the promise of a point in your reply, but it's incomplete.
I may be interested in the latest Britney Spaz album, but I may not be willing to bear the costs and effort to get it (45 euro plus a trip to the store or an online order which raises the costs even more).
However, I might just be willing to buy this album as a downloadable for let's say 5 euro.
So, I'm not in the target market for the physical album, but I may be in a target market for the cheap download version.
Since nobody is offering to to sell the thing to me as a download for 5 euros (RIP allofmp3.com) I may be tempted to get it in some other way if I'd be willing to risk the RIAA's ire.
OTOH, I'd be prefectly willing to shell out 45 euro for music that I find engaging rather than merely entertaining; in which case I would be in the (physical CD) target market for that particular album.
"Target market" is a fluid concept: it's not just about people being interested or not, but about the level of interest weighed against cost, convenience (DRM counts against a product here), legality, etc.
What I find sad in all this is that the producers/distributors/retailers are not jumping through hoops to offer different media in different ways to capture different markets; they could increase their profits substantially if they did as the cost of providing alternative media is minimal (just like the costs of copying and downloading it is).
Note: there are a few brave but minor attempts here and there (EMI comes to mind) so I'm perfectly confortable waiting things out to see what happens; we may get something that makes sense after all and all this will go away (well, I can dream, can't I?)
Speaking from complete ignorance here, but I doubt that difference is relevant. I don't think the definition of "Möbius strip" includes instructions on how to take a material and bend it in such-and-such a way to get this form. I rather suspect it's simply defined by it's shape and nothing else (same as with a circle, doughnut, pyramid and any other shape).
Even better: suppose I take a strip of perfect paper, i.e. a strip with perfect uniform density and internal stress. I then twist the strip to get a 180 degree turn at one end very carefully such that the twist is uniformly distributed along the entire length of the strip (i.e. exact same degree of twist for equal lengths of paper).
I then bend the strip very carefully to make the ends meet such that the bend is uniformly distributed along the entire length of the strip (i.e. the exact same degree of bending for equal lengths of paper).
This will give me a Möbius strip with uniform stresses throughout (except where the ends meet but that's left as an exercise for the reader). I mean, just because when turn a strip into a Möbius strip using our usual crude ways (i.e. hands) and get a localised bend-and-twist, doesn't mean it can't be done uniformly.
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Are there any other verbs that are turning into an irregular form for specific phrases? What's the rate for those?
Send registered mail to your lawyer which contains inside a sealed, timestamped envelope with your stuff in it (digitally or dead-tree based) and instruct your lawyer to store it somewhere safe.
When you;re fighting copyers, you can have this opened in the presence of a lawayer or court, have everything verified and checked and then have it re-sealed in the same venue and have all proceedings officially recorded.
The worst thing that will hit you is that, as a manager, you'll find your time much, much more fragmented than before: you'll handle hundreds of request, projects and queries each day so managing your time effectively in very small chunks becomes much more important.
Read up on things like the "Gettings Things Done" (GTD) methodology. It will save you many a headache if you use something like that right from the start.
The alternative is that you'll be overwhelmed and will fail to do anything well.
(Assumption for the below: open is good, closed is bad)
So closed company goes open a bit, therefore company is moving in good direction, we applaud
Open company goes closed a bit, therefore company is moving in bad direction, we boo them
Simple, really.
Would that then not be unfair competition?
I may be interested in the latest Britney Spaz album, but I may not be willing to bear the costs and effort to get it (45 euro plus a trip to the store or an online order which raises the costs even more).
However, I might just be willing to buy this album as a downloadable for let's say 5 euro.
So, I'm not in the target market for the physical album, but I may be in a target market for the cheap download version.
Since nobody is offering to to sell the thing to me as a download for 5 euros (RIP allofmp3.com) I may be tempted to get it in some other way if I'd be willing to risk the RIAA's ire.
OTOH, I'd be prefectly willing to shell out 45 euro for music that I find engaging rather than merely entertaining; in which case I would be in the (physical CD) target market for that particular album.
"Target market" is a fluid concept: it's not just about people being interested or not, but about the level of interest weighed against cost, convenience (DRM counts against a product here), legality, etc.
What I find sad in all this is that the producers/distributors/retailers are not jumping through hoops to offer different media in different ways to capture different markets; they could increase their profits substantially if they did as the cost of providing alternative media is minimal (just like the costs of copying and downloading it is).
Note: there are a few brave but minor attempts here and there (EMI comes to mind) so I'm perfectly confortable waiting things out to see what happens; we may get something that makes sense after all and all this will go away (well, I can dream, can't I?)
Speaking from complete ignorance here, but I doubt that difference is relevant. I don't think the definition of "Möbius strip" includes instructions on how to take a material and bend it in such-and-such a way to get this form. I rather suspect it's simply defined by it's shape and nothing else (same as with a circle, doughnut, pyramid and any other shape).
Even better: suppose I take a strip of perfect paper, i.e. a strip with perfect uniform density and internal stress. I then twist the strip to get a 180 degree turn at one end very carefully such that the twist is uniformly distributed along the entire length of the strip (i.e. exact same degree of twist for equal lengths of paper).
I then bend the strip very carefully to make the ends meet such that the bend is uniformly distributed along the entire length of the strip (i.e. the exact same degree of bending for equal lengths of paper).
This will give me a Möbius strip with uniform stresses throughout (except where the ends meet but that's left as an exercise for the reader). I mean, just because when turn a strip into a Möbius strip using our usual crude ways (i.e. hands) and get a localised bend-and-twist, doesn't mean it can't be done uniformly.
Ben.