Microsoft TV is very much there and alive despite all the misinformation and rumours out theer
Sorry, my mis-information (or mis-writing of the facts).
You are perfectly right, Microsft TV is alive. Microsoft has not jumped out of the iTV field...and I doubt they will. They have though had some major draw-backs, cuts, and changes.
But please correct me if I'm wrong...but the Microsoft TV division that was in Silicon Valley...that's been closed right? And the employees moved to part of the x-box division?
I'm attempting to find the press-releases etc, and will post them when I find them.
I'm keen to hear how MS TV is going, for though I now work on the Liberate platform, I have a real beleif in iTV, and am very keen to see it go nuts. And so I love to hear whats happening in the industry.
I've worked within iTV for 2 years now, in Oz. Have worked with Liberate, OpenTV and MHP. Have seen roll-outs of iTV in both the USA, and many Southern Hemi-sphere nations. Unfortunatly I have only heard about the success of iTV in the UK.
iTV is slated to be the next "big" thing. Direct response advertising, directed advertising, direct shopping, and adding value to TV shows. Of course, all in a setting where people are comfortable. Most families in the western world are more then comfortable with their TV, and consider it part of their family.
In fact, surveys have shown that while only something like 12% of the general public are comfortable ordering something over the internet, 92% would be comfortable ordering a product from their TV (in response to an Advert). Yes, those in the know can point out that the security problems are the same, but the general public views computers and the internet with fear, and their TVs with a nice warm fuzzy feeling.
why is this important? Microsoft want to be at the base of iTV. And so far they have failed.
At the moment the three big players in iTV are Liberate, OpenTV and MHP. OpenTV is going real well, Liberate is going well (but may be struggling), and MHP (run by Sun and others) are begging for customers (vaporware).
Microsoft attempted to get in on the ground floor with Microsoft TV. After spending multiple-millions investing in AT&T, they were going to roll out Microsoft TV over their network. But failed. Basically, after months and months of delays, AT&T said screw you, and went to Liberate.
In the end, MS closed down their TV department (in truth, the campus is still there in the Valley, but is not being used...just waiting for the right time), and moved their employees over to the X-box team.
So, the next move for Microsoft is setting up some sort of network (X-box live), then deliverying content over this network.
At first it will be games, then applications (ASP), then actual content (such as movies etc).
And thus MS will be on their way to taking over your loungroom. And surplanting your cable company (providing you with TV), internet provider (through their network), Applications (only MS stuff on the X-box...or MS approved stuff), and of course your hardware (only X-boxes).
MS will join with various cable companies to provide cable TV with your X-box (STB).
And if they do it right (and they are in a VERY good position to do it right), the average joe will only see something like a games machine/Set Top Box for Cable being added to their TV. Consumers will be completely happy, without having to spend big-bucks on those scary expensive PCs.
The current market that MS has does not compare to the potential size of the iTV market.
And don't think that MS is the only company wanting this. Liberate, OpenTV and Sun are also trying to do the same. Oh, and yes, Sony (with the PS2) is also doing simular things.
The PS2 is currently undergoing trials WRT replacing your STB to provide you with Cable TV (as well as gaming). Why? Look at the costs. In Australia, Digital STBes (to see Digital TV) cost $800 (AU) each (typically charged to the cable provider and rented to the consumer). A PS2 costs $500 (upfront to the consumer). You can put in an extension with your PS2 to watch DTV. So Sony joins up with a Cable company, and rolls out a PS2 to each home on the network who wants CableTV. Consumer gets a cheaper service, a free (or very cheap) PS2. Cable Company saves bucketloads on the STB. Sony wins the STB/iTV/Game Station race. Many consumers buy more games.
This is *happening* people. Watch the wars between cable companies, telcos, STB makers, middleware and content creators to see who wins the Fight for YOUR Loungeroom!
I hope you can sleep at night. Because after they pick off the guys at Blizzard they are coming for us. Blizzard just happened to be an easy target.
I sleep well at night. Theft is wrong. I don't do theft. Giving away someone elses property is theft.
What the Blizzard employees were doing was hardly "Fair Use".
Don't get me wrong. I hate the way the Music Industry (as well as others) attempt to take away our fair use. Yes, I should be allowed to store my CDs on Computer. Yes, I should be allowed to listen to them at work. Yes, P2P networking is no problems (for legal use). No, I shouldn't be allowed to hand out copies of the music to everyone on the internet.
Sony was not objecting to Blizzard employees listening to music at work. Nor were they protesting against P2P. They were warning Blizzard that their employees were engaged in ILLEGAL activities. Distributing Stolen Goods.
Surely there should be warning labels put on these pretend CDs, as well as big signs in the store?
I mean, people are buying these things thinking they are CDs, but in reality they AREN'T CDs! They are designed to look and act LIKE cds, in most situations.
In fact, isn't this fraud....selling things to us deliberately made to LOOK like a CD, but isn't a CD (and thus may not work in any device that claims to play CDs!)
I find it hard to argue that Sony is wrong in this instance.
They own those songs. People are illegally distributing them over the internet. They shouldn't be.
This isn't an internal MP3 server at Blizzard that employees can backup/store their songs on and play. This is people in Blizzard who are publically sharing songs over the internet.
Sony is sending Blizzard a warning message IE "just in case you didn't know, people on your network (details provided) are engaged in illegal activities".
The scientists looked through "millions" of records of earthquakes, and find two examples where a disturbance occurs kinda on the other side of the world, approx 20 seconds later.
And from this they are able to determine the speed, size and effects of the particles.
The lack of specific data disturbs me, as does the jumps in logic.
Does anyone have links to anything with more specifics?
I use to work for a small ISP that did chug-all you can Internet account for something like $20 a month (Australian).
If a customer needed more then 5 minutes of phone time a month, they weren't worth having, so my boss encouraged me to encourage them to go elsewhere...eitehr by telling them to rack off....or hanging up on them.
It meant over a period of time, clueless customers were weeded out, and as our ISP grew, our support costs didn't.
It is amazing when you realise that only a very small percentage of customers will repeatedly call support. We kept the profitable customers, and dumped the others.
Sure, maybe not the most customer friendly thing to do (for a clueless customer), but my boss was realistic. Our low cost meant we couldn't afford support.
After working tech support (and managing a Help Desk) for many years, I am convinced the problem lies with management.
For a Company, they have a product.
Money is spent on Developing a product. A product means people will have something to buy. This means money for the company.
Money is spent on employing sales people. This sells the product. Money for the company.
Both these can be easily measured.
But when doing "free" support, most companies see it as a black hole. They throw money in, and don't get direct, supported proof that it brings them money. There is no direct corelation between good support POST-SALEs, and more Sales...
So the company attempts to minimise support costs. Hire non-trained staff, pay minimal wages, have salery caps, have minimum staff on duty, minimal training etc.
In times where cash is hard to come by, the company needs to stop spending money. It has no choice (or thinks it has no choice) but to stop bleeding money, and Tech Support is the obvious choice. No immediate drop in sales or new products.
Yes....we do know that bad support will end up hurting sales, but you have to be thinking long term to see that, not short term.
Also, think of ISPs who do $20 a month unlimmited internet, with 24 hour support. $20 a month will hardly cover network and infrastructure costs, let alone 24/7 support. It is SO competitive, with such low margins, that something has to go. And Support goes first.
I do believe that whatever product you go for, be it hardware, Software or an ISP, if you want support, be prepared to pay for it. You get what you pay for. If you want high quality support, pay the premium.
Putting things very bluntly (and missing all the intracities of both systems), it breaks down like.
Christianity Teaches that a human is sinful, and needs their sins forgiven by Jesus.
Whilst on earth, they are to now live in Love, putting others before themselves. They live this in a response for what Christ has done for them, and they live this way by following Christ's example, and trusting him.
Communism teaches that man is basically good (not sinful), and if you give him the right social system (such as communism), everyone sharing everything works. IE Others are EQUAL to yourself.
Capitalism teaches that man is basically selfish, and the only system that will work is if men look after themselves first, and others second.
Communism will never work, as men do look after themselves first.
Capitalism works for the same reasons.
Capitalism doesn't work for the same reasons. A system that is set up to promote individuals above all others, creates cracks.
So, Capitolism doesn't work, but Communism works worse.
Communism is closer to Christianity in actions (putting others equal or before yourself), but the basis of it is totally wrong.
And Christian Morality, without Christ is useless. They sound nice, but they don't work. Look around.
Sorry for my over-simplification of Communism and Capitolism, I do know there are many more areas to cover, and it just ain't that simple!
Members of the early church gave all their belongings to the church, which was then used to support all the members of the church.
Check out Acts (don't have the exact reference with me). For those who may not know, Acts is the book of the bible that describes what happens to Christianity straight after Jesus Leaves the Diciples. It shows how the church grew and spread through the world.
For those who know no better....realise that this is a statement of fact by the author of Acts, and in no way does it promote nor demote Communisim.
Any "preacher" who claims that Christianity supports capitalism (or communism) has no idea what the bible says (or doesn't say).
Remember when they gave away all those Alpha Dec Multias?
Me and a couple of others organised a group of people (mainly Linux geeks from our Uni) who wanted them, and ended up importing 150 of them to Australia (shipping costs were terrible, $75 USD for one, but only $15 USD for 150 of them).
In the end, we had about 30 left over (yes..some people decided "no"), so we auctioned them on an Australian auction site (dutch auction).
The advert in the Auction was VERY explicit. IE the Multia's were Alpha, not complete, did NOT run windows, suitible ONLY for computer experts wanting a system to play with...complete details on what it could and could not do, links to web sites with more info, huge blinking warnings that they were not HOME INTEL COMPUTERs. That they came WITHOUT RAM, HardDrives, Monitor, etc etc
Thankfully one person took 20 of them or so. The other 10 went to 5 people around Australia. Of those 5 people, 3 ended up pulling out.
After much email exchanged with these people, 2 of them kept asking if I could install Windows on them before we mailed it, and if it would run Windows 98, and if they could upgrade the processor to a Pentium II 600Mhz (or whatever it was then). It was disgusting. The third person did not reply for 6 weeks, and eventually emailed me and went "oh sorry, I found a better deal, and forgot to tell you".
All these for a flamin' $20US computer!
Of 6 buyers, only 3 actually wanted the product, and paid.
To make it worse, because it took so long to settle the accounts (Sending 20 boxes COD to a remote post office in Oz is not the easiest), it was about 6-8 weeks before anything was actually paid. The Auction site charged my credit card (without my permission) for their cut of the auction. Even though at that stage I had received no money (According to them, it was a successful auction, and thus I owed them their percent and should have paid it within 2 weeks)
I have never used an auction place again. To much hassle, pain, and stupid people.
Once again Slashdot demonises the Australian Government without actually reading the article.
"The Age shows that the Defence Signals Directorate listens to just about every bit of communications in Australia"
The situation that this "spying" occured in was when an international cargo ship rescued some people attempting to cross illegally into Australian territory. The ship was in international waters. Good work for saving the refugees lives.
The "refugees" then threatened the security of the ship, threatening violence and acts of piracy unless the Ships captain did what they wanted.
The Australian military got involved, boarding the ship, bringing medical supplies and order.
The Australian government as part of intelligence gathering for the safty of the mission listened to phone calls to and from the ship. The ship was in international waters, and part of a military operation. I don't see why it was wrong for the military to attempt to have as much information as possible.
Don't pretend this was something it is not. It was not about winning an election, but about the saftey of everyone involved.
Nor is it the Australian Government spying on its citizens.
You don't see people from the USA complaining about the violation of privacy when the US government monitors radio transmissions in Alfganistan.
Please Note: I don't agree with the way the refugee crisis is being handled. Nor do I agree with people smugglers. Neither the goverment nor the refugees are without blame, it is useless and wrong to demonise either of them.
I'm not convinced online stores are cheaper. Often if you shop around you can get as cheap, or cheaper prices. Also, even when an online store is cheaper...once you add in postage etc, it often works out more expensive.
I still shop online though...its definately more conveniant!
It states that:
"Please be aware such links require that a formal Agreement exist between our two parties, as mandated by our organization's Web Link Policy."
IE, to link between sites, you need a formal agreement between each party.
Yet later in the email, they blatently link to:
http://www.corporateanthems.raettig.org
So KPMG just broke their own policy! They linked to another site without a formal agreement!
Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft TV is very much there and alive despite all the misinformation and rumours out theer
Sorry, my mis-information (or mis-writing of the facts).
You are perfectly right, Microsft TV is alive. Microsoft has not jumped out of the iTV field...and I doubt they will. They have though had some major draw-backs, cuts, and changes.
But please correct me if I'm wrong...but the Microsoft TV division that was in Silicon Valley...that's been closed right? And the employees moved to part of the x-box division?
I'm attempting to find the press-releases etc, and will post them when I find them.
I'm keen to hear how MS TV is going, for though I now work on the Liberate platform, I have a real beleif in iTV, and am very keen to see it go nuts. And so I love to hear whats happening in the industry.
More info on the deal with AT&F see:5 /inter active.television.idg/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/09/2
And it was more than a few millions...try $5 billion!
This is not a suprising move at all.
I've worked within iTV for 2 years now, in Oz. Have worked with Liberate, OpenTV and MHP. Have seen roll-outs of iTV in both the USA, and many Southern Hemi-sphere nations. Unfortunatly I have only heard about the success of iTV in the UK.
iTV is slated to be the next "big" thing. Direct response advertising, directed advertising, direct shopping, and adding value to TV shows. Of course, all in a setting where people are comfortable. Most families in the western world are more then comfortable with their TV, and consider it part of their family.
In fact, surveys have shown that while only something like 12% of the general public are comfortable ordering something over the internet, 92% would be comfortable ordering a product from their TV (in response to an Advert). Yes, those in the know can point out that the security problems are the same, but the general public views computers and the internet with fear, and their TVs with a nice warm fuzzy feeling.
why is this important? Microsoft want to be at the base of iTV. And so far they have failed.
At the moment the three big players in iTV are Liberate, OpenTV and MHP. OpenTV is going real well, Liberate is going well (but may be struggling), and MHP (run by Sun and others) are begging for customers (vaporware).
Microsoft attempted to get in on the ground floor with Microsoft TV. After spending multiple-millions investing in AT&T, they were going to roll out Microsoft TV over their network. But failed. Basically, after months and months of delays, AT&T said screw you, and went to Liberate.
In the end, MS closed down their TV department (in truth, the campus is still there in the Valley, but is not being used...just waiting for the right time), and moved their employees over to the X-box team.
So, the next move for Microsoft is setting up some sort of network (X-box live), then deliverying content over this network.
At first it will be games, then applications (ASP), then actual content (such as movies etc).
And thus MS will be on their way to taking over your loungroom. And surplanting your cable company (providing you with TV), internet provider (through their network), Applications (only MS stuff on the X-box...or MS approved stuff), and of course your hardware (only X-boxes).
MS will join with various cable companies to provide cable TV with your X-box (STB).
And if they do it right (and they are in a VERY good position to do it right), the average joe will only see something like a games machine/Set Top Box for Cable being added to their TV. Consumers will be completely happy, without having to spend big-bucks on those scary expensive PCs.
The current market that MS has does not compare to the potential size of the iTV market.
And don't think that MS is the only company wanting this. Liberate, OpenTV and Sun are also trying to do the same. Oh, and yes, Sony (with the PS2) is also doing simular things.
The PS2 is currently undergoing trials WRT replacing your STB to provide you with Cable TV (as well as gaming). Why? Look at the costs. In Australia, Digital STBes (to see Digital TV) cost $800 (AU) each (typically charged to the cable provider and rented to the consumer). A PS2 costs $500 (upfront to the consumer). You can put in an extension with your PS2 to watch DTV. So Sony joins up with a Cable company, and rolls out a PS2 to each home on the network who wants CableTV. Consumer gets a cheaper service, a free (or very cheap) PS2. Cable Company saves bucketloads on the STB. Sony wins the STB/iTV/Game Station race. Many consumers buy more games.
This is *happening* people. Watch the wars between cable companies, telcos, STB makers, middleware and content creators to see who wins the Fight for YOUR Loungeroom!
Good Call.
Leave the Ranting to the comments, not when posting a story!
I mean...soon we're going to have goatsx or whatever being posted in the actual story....not in the comments where it belongs!
Yeah, I remember that.
and it sucks. In a big way.
I think it is fair use to have a common storage area in your company (unofficial of course) to store either your CDs or MP3s of your CDs.
Yeah, it is a sticky topic, but thats just too far.
I hope you can sleep at night. Because after they pick off the guys at Blizzard they are coming for us. Blizzard just happened to be an easy target.
I sleep well at night. Theft is wrong. I don't do theft. Giving away someone elses property is theft.
What the Blizzard employees were doing was hardly "Fair Use".
Don't get me wrong. I hate the way the Music Industry (as well as others) attempt to take away our fair use. Yes, I should be allowed to store my CDs on Computer. Yes, I should be allowed to listen to them at work. Yes, P2P networking is no problems (for legal use). No, I shouldn't be allowed to hand out copies of the music to everyone on the internet.
Sony was not objecting to Blizzard employees listening to music at work. Nor were they protesting against P2P. They were warning Blizzard that their employees were engaged in ILLEGAL activities. Distributing Stolen Goods.
And so, in this case, Sony may be right.
Surely there should be warning labels put on these pretend CDs, as well as big signs in the store?
I mean, people are buying these things thinking they are CDs, but in reality they AREN'T CDs! They are designed to look and act LIKE cds, in most situations.
In fact, isn't this fraud....selling things to us deliberately made to LOOK like a CD, but isn't a CD (and thus may not work in any device that claims to play CDs!)
this is just unbeliveable.
I find it hard to argue that Sony is wrong in this instance.
They own those songs. People are illegally distributing them over the internet. They shouldn't be.
This isn't an internal MP3 server at Blizzard that employees can backup/store their songs on and play. This is people in Blizzard who are publically sharing songs over the internet.
Sony is sending Blizzard a warning message IE "just in case you didn't know, people on your network (details provided) are engaged in illegal activities".
The scientists looked through "millions" of records of earthquakes, and find two examples where a disturbance occurs kinda on the other side of the world, approx 20 seconds later.
And from this they are able to determine the speed, size and effects of the particles.
The lack of specific data disturbs me, as does the jumps in logic.
Does anyone have links to anything with more specifics?
Yeah, I took a look on google for best seller, bible, and I got that site.
But, unfortunately, they don't look like they are holding "official" information, or just passing on info they heard...somewhere!
I'm told that the Bible has been the top book sold for many many many many years, so much so that they leave it off the list now.
Can anyone confirm/deny this? Also, is it generally the bible, or is it a particular version (NIV, KJV etc etc)
thanks
I use to work for a small ISP that did chug-all you can Internet account for something like $20 a month (Australian).
If a customer needed more then 5 minutes of phone time a month, they weren't worth having, so my boss encouraged me to encourage them to go elsewhere...eitehr by telling them to rack off....or hanging up on them.
It meant over a period of time, clueless customers were weeded out, and as our ISP grew, our support costs didn't.
It is amazing when you realise that only a very small percentage of customers will repeatedly call support. We kept the profitable customers, and dumped the others.
Sure, maybe not the most customer friendly thing to do (for a clueless customer), but my boss was realistic. Our low cost meant we couldn't afford support.
After working tech support (and managing a Help Desk) for many years, I am convinced the problem lies with management.
For a Company, they have a product.
Money is spent on Developing a product. A product means people will have something to buy. This means money for the company.
Money is spent on employing sales people. This sells the product. Money for the company.
Both these can be easily measured.
But when doing "free" support, most companies see it as a black hole. They throw money in, and don't get direct, supported proof that it brings them money. There is no direct corelation between good support POST-SALEs, and more Sales...
So the company attempts to minimise support costs. Hire non-trained staff, pay minimal wages, have salery caps, have minimum staff on duty, minimal training etc.
In times where cash is hard to come by, the company needs to stop spending money. It has no choice (or thinks it has no choice) but to stop bleeding money, and Tech Support is the obvious choice. No immediate drop in sales or new products.
Yes....we do know that bad support will end up hurting sales, but you have to be thinking long term to see that, not short term.
Also, think of ISPs who do $20 a month unlimmited internet, with 24 hour support. $20 a month will hardly cover network and infrastructure costs, let alone 24/7 support. It is SO competitive, with such low margins, that something has to go. And Support goes first.
I do believe that whatever product you go for, be it hardware, Software or an ISP, if you want support, be prepared to pay for it. You get what you pay for. If you want high quality support, pay the premium.
Putting things very bluntly (and missing all the intracities of both systems), it breaks down like.
Christianity Teaches that a human is sinful, and needs their sins forgiven by Jesus.
Whilst on earth, they are to now live in Love, putting others before themselves. They live this in a response for what Christ has done for them, and they live this way by following Christ's example, and trusting him.
Communism teaches that man is basically good (not sinful), and if you give him the right social system (such as communism), everyone sharing everything works. IE Others are EQUAL to yourself.
Capitalism teaches that man is basically selfish, and the only system that will work is if men look after themselves first, and others second.
Communism will never work, as men do look after themselves first.
Capitalism works for the same reasons.
Capitalism doesn't work for the same reasons. A system that is set up to promote individuals above all others, creates cracks.
So, Capitolism doesn't work, but Communism works worse.
Communism is closer to Christianity in actions (putting others equal or before yourself), but the basis of it is totally wrong.
And Christian Morality, without Christ is useless. They sound nice, but they don't work. Look around.
Sorry for my over-simplification of Communism and Capitolism, I do know there are many more areas to cover, and it just ain't that simple!
In practise, obviously not in name.
Members of the early church gave all their belongings to the church, which was then used to support all the members of the church.
Check out Acts (don't have the exact reference with me). For those who may not know, Acts is the book of the bible that describes what happens to Christianity straight after Jesus Leaves the Diciples. It shows how the church grew and spread through the world.
For those who know no better....realise that this is a statement of fact by the author of Acts, and in no way does it promote nor demote Communisim.
Any "preacher" who claims that Christianity supports capitalism (or communism) has no idea what the bible says (or doesn't say).
Are we now going to be posting stories every time a Nazi claims the holocast didn't happen?
Leave this crud alone.
Post real stories Slashdot...please!
Remember when they gave away all those Alpha Dec Multias?
Me and a couple of others organised a group of people (mainly Linux geeks from our Uni) who wanted them, and ended up importing 150 of them to Australia (shipping costs were terrible, $75 USD for one, but only $15 USD for 150 of them).
In the end, we had about 30 left over (yes..some people decided "no"), so we auctioned them on an Australian auction site (dutch auction).
The advert in the Auction was VERY explicit. IE the Multia's were Alpha, not complete, did NOT run windows, suitible ONLY for computer experts wanting a system to play with...complete details on what it could and could not do, links to web sites with more info, huge blinking warnings that they were not HOME INTEL COMPUTERs. That they came WITHOUT RAM, HardDrives, Monitor, etc etc
Thankfully one person took 20 of them or so. The other 10 went to 5 people around Australia. Of those 5 people, 3 ended up pulling out.
After much email exchanged with these people, 2 of them kept asking if I could install Windows on them before we mailed it, and if it would run Windows 98, and if they could upgrade the processor to a Pentium II 600Mhz (or whatever it was then). It was disgusting. The third person did not reply for 6 weeks, and eventually emailed me and went "oh sorry, I found a better deal, and forgot to tell you".
All these for a flamin' $20US computer!
Of 6 buyers, only 3 actually wanted the product, and paid.
To make it worse, because it took so long to settle the accounts (Sending 20 boxes COD to a remote post office in Oz is not the easiest), it was about 6-8 weeks before anything was actually paid. The Auction site charged my credit card (without my permission) for their cut of the auction. Even though at that stage I had received no money (According to them, it was a successful auction, and thus I owed them their percent and should have paid it within 2 weeks)
I have never used an auction place again. To much hassle, pain, and stupid people.
Once again Slashdot demonises the Australian Government without actually reading the article.
"The Age shows that the Defence Signals Directorate listens to just about every bit of communications in Australia"
The situation that this "spying" occured in was when an international cargo ship rescued some people attempting to cross illegally into Australian territory. The ship was in international waters. Good work for saving the refugees lives.
The "refugees" then threatened the security of the ship, threatening violence and acts of piracy unless the Ships captain did what they wanted.
The Australian military got involved, boarding the ship, bringing medical supplies and order.
The Australian government as part of intelligence gathering for the safty of the mission listened to phone calls to and from the ship. The ship was in international waters, and part of a military operation. I don't see why it was wrong for the military to attempt to have as much information as possible.
Don't pretend this was something it is not. It was not about winning an election, but about the saftey of everyone involved.
Nor is it the Australian Government spying on its citizens.
You don't see people from the USA complaining about the violation of privacy when the US government monitors radio transmissions in Alfganistan.
Please Note: I don't agree with the way the refugee crisis is being handled. Nor do I agree with people smugglers. Neither the goverment nor the refugees are without blame, it is useless and wrong to demonise either of them.
It sounds about right.
I'm not convinced online stores are cheaper. Often if you shop around you can get as cheap, or cheaper prices. Also, even when an online store is cheaper...once you add in postage etc, it often works out more expensive.
I still shop online though...its definately more conveniant!
From reading their policy letter at:
http://chris.raettig.org/email/jnl00036.html
It states that:
"Please be aware such links require that a formal Agreement exist between our two parties, as mandated by our organization's Web Link Policy."
IE, to link between sites, you need a formal agreement between each party.
Yet later in the email, they blatently link to:
http://www.corporateanthems.raettig.org
So KPMG just broke their own policy! They linked to another site without a formal agreement!