Here's why they're so expensive: Amazon takes 30 - 60%. It really costs near nothing to print and ship a paperback, maybe $0.60 or so. The Amazon fees on paperbooks are 15-30%. The math is simple to the publishers - they get $4.40 contribution toward covering fixed costs for a seven buck paperback and $4 for a ten dollar eBook. While some paperbacks are destroyed as not sold, most of them will sell for more than $0.60 as remainders.
Add in that they probably look at eBooks as eating into the hardcover market (which is much higher margin) more than paperback and you can see the logic. That being said, Baen has managed to sell eBooks at $3 a pop (webscriptions - 5-7 books at a time admittedly) for many years.
FTA it sounds like the salesmen lied and the contract didn't include the lies. The court found EDS liable for what the salesmen said (and prolifically emailed) rather than the signed contract. If that holds it's not outsourcing that will become difficult but selling many complex and high priced products. Each sales meeting could be a contract negotiation with legal implications as well as a demo or whatever. You sales guys might need to drag the lawyer to all your customer meetings going forward. Sales support would become a major pain as well.
1) Thank you for trying to save me money. Your recommendations are welcome as I'm paying you for your expertise and opinions.
2) If you're going to try to have me sign something like that I'm going to have a talk with you about bureaucracy and how we can't afford a BS cover your ass mentality in a small company. You may rest assured that if I don't back up and there's a crash there are two possible results: If I'm a bad manager I'm going to come back at you and no little piece of paper will stop me from firing you (though I'd expect you would receive unemployment as it's not really for cause). If I'm a good manager I'm going to write the check to cover the damages, feel foolish and accept your recommendation going forward.
3) If it's a dumbass relative that thinks they can ignore the rules because they're family working in a family business (and they don't sign the checks) then I expect to see their name (and possibly mine if I'm doing it too) on the report of IT security scofflaws that you periodically (though infrequently) prepare for me.
In a company controlled by a single or few owners it is reasonable to recommend, cajole, suggest or encourage proper owner behavior, but if you dictate it and attempt to threaten (for instance by saying in a confrontational manner 'ok, but I'm not taking responsibility then') you are writing checks that your expertise may not be able to cash. As an owner it's important that my IT works right, but it's absolutely imperative that I don't lose control of the company. Don't make me think that you're trying to take it away from me or lord your technical expertise over me unless you have a VERY secure position.
Some true some false there. Electrons aren't created during power generation, but they are moved around. They don't come from mass. There does have to be a power plant and saying 'use hydrogen and there won't be any pollution' is definitely missing the issue.
Algae biofuel = solar power harvesting via photosynthesis. The algae contain more energy once grown, but it might not be worthwhile to do all the extra work to get that energy into a useful form. It is theoretically possible, but so are highly efficient solar cells. Only time will actually tell.
This, definitely. Does anyone actually think users remember all of their twenty or so ideally ideally special character, varying length hopefully different passwords used at infrequent but varying intervals? Obviously they would be written down somewhere and that place is probably not secure.
We've got to get people to change to better solutions en mass and with a single standard.
Why is he dead wrong? Because his definition of a business is a 'arms length relationship' between customer and provider. His IT 'business' targets delivering the lowest possible acceptable product and uses monopoly power to set the price. While there are definitely IT shops run like this it is a terrible model for an actual business. You will never hear a successful non-monopoly business pushing a strategy of separation from the customer and merely adequate service.
This might be a guerrilla movement to change things and certainly IT shops run as he describes should be change, but that change should be reorientation of IT toward supporting business operations and integration of custom IT skills into business projects. It should include education within business units about the capabilities (and costs!) of a professional IT department. Abandoning the concept of IT being a business relegates it to what... a hobby? In any case it's the first thing on the chopping block when the budget cuts come down.
Thanks - didn't know the impact factor facts and they didn't provide any link or explanation of how they derived it.
So it sounds like there's some weakness but no outright trash in the journal choice.
I suspect and hope it's an honest attempt at an objective study. If it's not then the agenda driven science emulation crowd has gotten much better at playing their games.
It doesn't look like the 'impact factor' relates to anything. Its in the header whether you're looking at an article or their contact information. No explanation there.
This note on the front page: This Journal is ranked among the top 2.1% of journals (29/1380) according to SCImago in the area of Agricultural and Biological Sciences...details Indexed/covered by MEDLINE, PubMed, Science Citation Index (SCI) Expanded, Current Contents®/Life Sciences, EMBASE, CAS, CABI, Scopus
Plus there isn't much anti-GM crapvertising elsewhere on the website. I'm normally among the first to call bs, but this could very well be the ideal journal for the paper as it seems specifically dedicated to issues in the biological/agricultural sciences.
Anyone familiar with the journal or practices in submitting in the field?
I'd say buy it quick before it's gone, but given it hooks to a service there is really no point. There's a commentary on the viability of the service model that everyone seems to be running toward there.
Actually I think this might just be against the law and the researcher may have painted a big bullseye on his wallet for any one of these people who think they've been 'harmed' by believing they were actually invited by Bill Gates.
There are a lot of stupid internet laws out there and I'm sure the prosecutors/"victims" like nothing more than someone who provides all the evidence in a nice research report ready for prosecution.
Somehow when its time for the CRIA/RIAA to pay up in Canada I doubt they will want to use the same mathematics.
Say all the copyright fans do recognize that those copyrights are government monopolies granted from society for the benefit of society, right? There is no self evident natural right to not have your stuff copied.
Challenge is a relative term and I think you should make a good case, but once its decided (especially on 'policy' grounds where responsibility and liability rest more with him than you) accept the decision. Persistently bringing up an issue without any new data simply because you don't like what decision was made is not only a great way to show disrespect but also says you can't be trusted to accept a decision that is not yours to make.
If somebody started pushing me like that I'd recognize it as an attempt to push me around and respond appropriately. That kind of thing is not a firing issue but push too hard and you get a quiet talk. Keep pushing and you get a temporary assignment that gets you out of my hair, possibly relating to organizing the controversial office Christmas party without a budget or explaining to each person why there won't be bonuses this year. I would certainly never assign you to write up proper documentation for the cranky mission critical seven million line COBOL program made by dyslexic autistic hippies in the 80s.
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Here's why they're so expensive: Amazon takes 30 - 60%. It really costs near nothing to print and ship a paperback, maybe $0.60 or so. The Amazon fees on paperbooks are 15-30%. The math is simple to the publishers - they get $4.40 contribution toward covering fixed costs for a seven buck paperback and $4 for a ten dollar eBook. While some paperbacks are destroyed as not sold, most of them will sell for more than $0.60 as remainders.
Add in that they probably look at eBooks as eating into the hardcover market (which is much higher margin) more than paperback and you can see the logic. That being said, Baen has managed to sell eBooks at $3 a pop (webscriptions - 5-7 books at a time admittedly) for many years.
FTA it sounds like the salesmen lied and the contract didn't include the lies. The court found EDS liable for what the salesmen said (and prolifically emailed) rather than the signed contract. If that holds it's not outsourcing that will become difficult but selling many complex and high priced products. Each sales meeting could be a contract negotiation with legal implications as well as a demo or whatever. You sales guys might need to drag the lawyer to all your customer meetings going forward. Sales support would become a major pain as well.
I'm sure celebrity nude sunbathing shots are expected to be the primary revenue generation source.
Given how successful the ten jillion cameras in London have been at preventing crime I expect this will finish the criminals off.
1) Thank you for trying to save me money. Your recommendations are welcome as I'm paying you for your expertise and opinions.
2) If you're going to try to have me sign something like that I'm going to have a talk with you about bureaucracy and how we can't afford a BS cover your ass mentality in a small company. You may rest assured that if I don't back up and there's a crash there are two possible results: If I'm a bad manager I'm going to come back at you and no little piece of paper will stop me from firing you (though I'd expect you would receive unemployment as it's not really for cause). If I'm a good manager I'm going to write the check to cover the damages, feel foolish and accept your recommendation going forward.
3) If it's a dumbass relative that thinks they can ignore the rules because they're family working in a family business (and they don't sign the checks) then I expect to see their name (and possibly mine if I'm doing it too) on the report of IT security scofflaws that you periodically (though infrequently) prepare for me.
In a company controlled by a single or few owners it is reasonable to recommend, cajole, suggest or encourage proper owner behavior, but if you dictate it and attempt to threaten (for instance by saying in a confrontational manner 'ok, but I'm not taking responsibility then') you are writing checks that your expertise may not be able to cash. As an owner it's important that my IT works right, but it's absolutely imperative that I don't lose control of the company. Don't make me think that you're trying to take it away from me or lord your technical expertise over me unless you have a VERY secure position.
Some true some false there. Electrons aren't created during power generation, but they are moved around. They don't come from mass. There does have to be a power plant and saying 'use hydrogen and there won't be any pollution' is definitely missing the issue.
Algae biofuel = solar power harvesting via photosynthesis. The algae contain more energy once grown, but it might not be worthwhile to do all the extra work to get that energy into a useful form. It is theoretically possible, but so are highly efficient solar cells. Only time will actually tell.
This, definitely. Does anyone actually think users remember all of their twenty or so ideally ideally special character, varying length hopefully different passwords used at infrequent but varying intervals? Obviously they would be written down somewhere and that place is probably not secure.
We've got to get people to change to better solutions en mass and with a single standard.
Expect a long wait
I think it's clearly spend or make your customers suffer and there's plenty of evidence which way they'll probably go.
Why is he dead wrong? Because his definition of a business is a 'arms length relationship' between customer and provider. His IT 'business' targets delivering the lowest possible acceptable product and uses monopoly power to set the price. While there are definitely IT shops run like this it is a terrible model for an actual business. You will never hear a successful non-monopoly business pushing a strategy of separation from the customer and merely adequate service.
This might be a guerrilla movement to change things and certainly IT shops run as he describes should be change, but that change should be reorientation of IT toward supporting business operations and integration of custom IT skills into business projects. It should include education within business units about the capabilities (and costs!) of a professional IT department. Abandoning the concept of IT being a business relegates it to what... a hobby? In any case it's the first thing on the chopping block when the budget cuts come down.
Thanks - didn't know the impact factor facts and they didn't provide any link or explanation of how they derived it.
So it sounds like there's some weakness but no outright trash in the journal choice.
I suspect and hope it's an honest attempt at an objective study. If it's not then the agenda driven science emulation crowd has gotten much better at playing their games.
It doesn't look like the 'impact factor' relates to anything. Its in the header whether you're looking at an article or their contact information. No explanation there.
This note on the front page: This Journal is ranked among the top 2.1% of journals (29/1380) according to SCImago in the area of Agricultural and Biological Sciences ...details
Indexed/covered by MEDLINE, PubMed, Science Citation Index (SCI) Expanded, Current Contents®/Life Sciences, EMBASE, CAS, CABI, Scopus
Plus there isn't much anti-GM crapvertising elsewhere on the website. I'm normally among the first to call bs, but this could very well be the ideal journal for the paper as it seems specifically dedicated to issues in the biological/agricultural sciences.
Anyone familiar with the journal or practices in submitting in the field?
Sure, they could sell advertising in the form of big black boxes pasted over the materials
Honor Harrington by Weber anyone? I mean come on series was almost born for movies.
I'd say buy it quick before it's gone, but given it hooks to a service there is really no point. There's a commentary on the viability of the service model that everyone seems to be running toward there.
Not to mention a Danish study covering over 400k people over periods of up to 12 years that showed no correlation at solid confidence intervals.
http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/98/23/1707
Actually I think this might just be against the law and the researcher may have painted a big bullseye on his wallet for any one of these people who think they've been 'harmed' by believing they were actually invited by Bill Gates.
There are a lot of stupid internet laws out there and I'm sure the prosecutors/"victims" like nothing more than someone who provides all the evidence in a nice research report ready for prosecution.
anything its to take business math. It has to take some amazing math to turn - X billion in profits into +xx million in bonuses.
Somehow when its time for the CRIA/RIAA to pay up in Canada I doubt they will want to use the same mathematics.
Say all the copyright fans do recognize that those copyrights are government monopolies granted from society for the benefit of society, right? There is no self evident natural right to not have your stuff copied.
No published price and 'for sale to researchers' means $100k+. That's competitive with the current robot hand market such as it is.
No, the depth of the impact crater
What was your address again?
If that's what the health plan covers that's what the health plan covers. No refunds
Challenge is a relative term and I think you should make a good case, but once its decided (especially on 'policy' grounds where responsibility and liability rest more with him than you) accept the decision. Persistently bringing up an issue without any new data simply because you don't like what decision was made is not only a great way to show disrespect but also says you can't be trusted to accept a decision that is not yours to make.
If somebody started pushing me like that I'd recognize it as an attempt to push me around and respond appropriately. That kind of thing is not a firing issue but push too hard and you get a quiet talk. Keep pushing and you get a temporary assignment that gets you out of my hair, possibly relating to organizing the controversial office Christmas party without a budget or explaining to each person why there won't be bonuses this year. I would certainly never assign you to write up proper documentation for the cranky mission critical seven million line COBOL program made by dyslexic autistic hippies in the 80s.
Dude, your name is Akido37 of course exercise stimulates endorphins in your brain. I'm named BigSlowTarget, exercise stimulates pain in my ass.
Even when I was young and fit exercise and pleasure never went together - people are wired in different ways.
All your HIPAA rights are waived in the TOS. Did you click 'I agree'?