Different prices for different people have existed forever. Frequent shopper cards, Buy x Get y free discounts, sales, special handshakes, etc.
Amazon isn't doing anything new, in fact, they're not even the first to do dynamic pricing on the Internet. However, their investors are pissed that Amazon is _still_ losing money, and they haven't had any PR for a while.
Thus, the new pricing schemes. How many people have already gone to Amazon.com to see if they qualify for a low price? How many of those people bought stuff because they felt 3l33t with their "lower" prices?
This is simply another cheesy ploy by Amazon, pity the fools who fell for it:)
That's a rip off. You can get a 10 foot projection (note: not rear-projection) television for that much. Does 800x600, too.
Yeah, but the plasma TV is going to have a higer contrast ratio, and thus can be viewed with more ambient light in the room. It will also not be as noisy as the projector (no big-ass heat/light source to cool with a loud fan).
Now why are Toshiba and IBM willing to sell that licence back to Transmeta? The amount coudn't be that much because the company doesn't
exactly look overrun with cash (indeed, about -$127M, if I remember that other/. article).
We don't know that they were willing to sell their license back. Perhaps it was part of the original contractual agreement. All we really know is that to date the only tangible goods that Transmeta has produced have been hats/shirts/pens for trade-shows.
Their processor could end up being the greatest thing in the last 20 years, or it could be an also-ran. However, at the very least, it's caused the Tortoise (Intel) and the Hare (AMD) to take notice.
It seems that Intel thinks the only thing we care about is raw speed. Trying to one-up AMD is simply going to get them into a hole in terms of public perception. I'm surprised that a company as big and diverse as Intel would stake their reputation on a speed pissing-contest.
These statements from Sony are the words of a worried and dying man. Sony realizes that they cannot do the things they threaten to, and still be viewed positively by consumers. This is merely a hollow, useless rant from a company that knows it is powerless.
If you want to be really pedantic about it, that's what they're doing. They are not changing what you're saying. They're adding something that, due to the nature of a Usenet posting (a non-MIME-fubared one anyway), you couldn't have put in there yourself, and is thus, quite obviously, something added after the fact
With the massive ingress of Usenet newbies, "quite obviously" is (IMO) a gross overestimation. Deja is newbie-friendly, and I can easily see these newbies thinking that the original author put these links in the message. The last thing I need/want is some newbie asking me questions about the IBM Modem I referenced.
I also run an on-line store, and answer a LOT of questions in a particular newsgroup or two, I also don't like the idea of Deja picking up on product keywords in MY posts and linking them to THEIR sales engine. I've taken the time to compose a helpful message with references to individual products or product types and now Deja is going to sponge off of that to make links to THEIR store.
I wouldn't call this brokering or squatting. Your company (supposedly) registered the name with a legitimate business purpose in mind. Now, as time has passed the name has become very valuable, and should be considered an asset to the company.
Squatting (to me) is a company or individual sitting on a name like coca-cola.com that for the most part has only 1 real use. Brokering is buying and then re-selling names like TV.com or drugs.com that are very generic.
If I were you, you might try contacting any companies that you think would be interested in the name privately, and hold a sealed bid auction. This would circumvent some of the hype and whatnot associated with eBay-type auctions, and still get you a fair price for the name. Your company should have only paid $100 for the name, so in all fariness, anything over about $150 is a decent return on investment.
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The SL-9000 is probably what you're looking for. I hate to drop in a shameless plug, but we sell it online at http://www.futurestandard.com for $95. It is a pre-programmed remote that can learn over 300 additional codes. It supports macros, has keys for practically everything you need, and can control up to 8 devices. Yadda yadaa yadda... It puts most other remotes to shame. The same company will have a touchscreen version out in about 4 weeks. Street price should be around $200. This remote will have several 'hard' buttons, with a configurable touchscreen at the top.
BTW, the TakeControl is bulky and clunky, we sell those too, but not too many.
1500 pics/sec, so that means that there's a fair amount of processing power IN the mouse. So, if it has a track record like any standard processor driven by 'instructions' from Microsloth, we'll now have to reboot our mice occasionally:)
I wouldn't mind so much that M$ has a new product, if they'd just fix the old ones. I mean, really, does the world need another mouse?
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Different prices for different people have existed forever. Frequent shopper cards, Buy x Get y free discounts, sales, special handshakes, etc.
:)
Amazon isn't doing anything new, in fact, they're not even the first to do dynamic pricing on the Internet. However, their investors are pissed that Amazon is _still_ losing money, and they haven't had any PR for a while.
Thus, the new pricing schemes. How many people have already gone to Amazon.com to see if they qualify for a low price? How many of those people bought stuff because they felt 3l33t with their "lower" prices?
This is simply another cheesy ploy by Amazon, pity the fools who fell for it
That's a rip off. You can get a 10 foot projection (note: not rear-projection) television for that much. Does 800x600, too.
Yeah, but the plasma TV is going to have a higer contrast ratio, and thus can be viewed with more ambient light in the room. It will also not be as noisy as the projector (no big-ass heat/light source to cool with a loud fan).
Now why are Toshiba and IBM willing to sell that licence back to Transmeta? The amount coudn't be that much because the company doesn't exactly look overrun with cash (indeed, about -$127M, if I remember that other /. article).
We don't know that they were willing to sell their license back. Perhaps it was part of the original contractual agreement. All we really know is that to date the only tangible goods that Transmeta has produced have been hats/shirts/pens for trade-shows.
Their processor could end up being the greatest thing in the last 20 years, or it could be an also-ran. However, at the very least, it's caused the Tortoise (Intel) and the Hare (AMD) to take notice.
That's what "fabless" means :)
I think this proves that everything we know about space is potentially false...
It seems that Intel thinks the only thing we care about is raw speed. Trying to one-up AMD is simply going to get them into a hole in terms of public perception. I'm surprised that a company as big and diverse as Intel would stake their reputation on a speed pissing-contest.
These statements from Sony are the words of a worried and dying man. Sony realizes that they cannot do the things they threaten to, and still be viewed positively by consumers. This is merely a hollow, useless rant from a company that knows it is powerless.
Piss off, Sony.
The difference between Hunkapiller and Gates is that no one envisions a world with a gene sequencer on every desktop!
Perhaps we should...
And Deja has taken the time, *and*money* to make your post accessible to more people.
This argument holds about as much water as me handing out pirated copies of Win2K on CD (printed with *my* money) and saying that I am helping M$.
If Deja is providing links that would lure shoppers *away* from my store, then they are using *my* content to line *their* pockets.
This is not (IMO) a Good Thing for me.
If you want to be really pedantic about it, that's what they're doing. They are not changing what you're saying. They're adding something that,
due to the nature of a Usenet posting (a non-MIME-fubared one anyway), you couldn't have put in there yourself, and is thus, quite obviously, something added after the fact
With the massive ingress of Usenet newbies, "quite obviously" is (IMO) a gross overestimation. Deja is newbie-friendly, and I can easily see these newbies thinking that the original author put these links in the message. The last thing I need/want is some newbie asking me questions about the IBM Modem I referenced.
I also run an on-line store, and answer a LOT of questions in a particular newsgroup or two, I also don't like the idea of Deja picking up on product keywords in MY posts and linking them to THEIR sales engine. I've taken the time to compose a helpful message with references to individual products or product types and now Deja is going to sponge off of that to make links to THEIR store.
Bottom line, I think it sucks...
I wouldn't call this brokering or squatting. Your company (supposedly) registered the name with a legitimate business purpose in mind. Now, as time has passed the name has become very valuable, and should be considered an asset to the company.
Squatting (to me) is a company or individual sitting on a name like coca-cola.com that for the most part has only 1 real use. Brokering is buying and then re-selling names like TV.com or drugs.com that are very generic.
If I were you, you might try contacting any companies that you think would be interested in the name privately, and hold a sealed bid auction. This would circumvent some of the hype and whatnot associated with eBay-type auctions, and still get you a fair price for the name. Your company should have only paid $100 for the name, so in all fariness, anything over about $150 is a decent return on investment.
The SL-9000 is probably what you're looking for. I hate to drop in a shameless plug, but we sell it online at http://www.futurestandard.com for $95.
It is a pre-programmed remote that can learn over 300 additional codes. It supports macros, has keys for practically everything you need, and can control up to 8 devices. Yadda yadaa yadda...
It puts most other remotes to shame. The same company will have a touchscreen version out in about 4 weeks. Street price should be around $200. This remote will have several 'hard' buttons, with a configurable touchscreen at the top.
BTW, the TakeControl is bulky and clunky, we sell those too, but not too many.
1500 pics/sec, so that means that there's a fair amount of processing power IN the mouse. So, if it has a track record like any standard processor driven by 'instructions' from Microsloth, we'll now have to reboot our mice occasionally :)
I wouldn't mind so much that M$ has a new product, if they'd just fix the old ones. I mean, really, does the world need another mouse?