Alright... here's the deal with Coke, Pepsi, and Walmart.
There's the reglar walmart price, which will be a few cents less than the places that are on their list of folks who's prices they'll match automatically (large grocery chains, other bog box stores etc). They make a slim profit on this... but, they make more money when people come in, buy Coke/Pepsi and grab some munchies.
The Sale prices tend to be below the cost. This is to increase the number of customers in the store. Go in, load up on coke/pepsi, maybe grab some munchies, maybe a movie, or that DVD player...
A way to stop the spam from getting to the user in a clean, simple system. With no spam getting to the users, nobody can fall for the scams, making it more and more difficult to turn a profit.
Of course, implimenting such a system, is rather diffcult, with all the free mail providers, ISP's, and independant server operators providing e-mail acess.
What I'd like to see is a nice simple e-mail program that has at least 3 seperate spam identification systems built in (each of them a differnt but effective way of checking for spam) Have the program check the results, and if 2 of the 3 call it spam, toss it into a folder that gets periodically purged, just so those who want to look at spam, can look at it, and deliver te rest to the inbox.
Heck, there might even be software that does this, I don't know. I admitidly use Outlook Express for most of my POP3 mail, simply because I like how it handles multiple accounts, and I don't get much mail anyway (spam sticks out like a sore thumb, and is deleted, unread.)
Though, I only get, on average, maybe 4 spam e-mails a week.
I like a lot of sci-fi... though, some didn't work for me (like Asimov's foundation novels... his robot works were much better for me.)
I my favorites are so varied... E.E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" and "Skylark" series, David Webber's "Honor Harrington" books, David Drake's "Hammer's Slammers", the Metzda mercenary book by Joel Rosenburg, Pournelle's Falkenburg's Legion books. (I'm big on various military scifi)... nearly anything of Spider Robinson's...
But in the end, what makes sci-fi work for me is little fake explinations of how things work... fake, as in, it's pure BS that makes no sense... if you're going to do that, you might as well just gloss over and say "such and such exists" and good, deep characters, with unique motivations and flaws (I know, a number of the books i mentioned do have the "cookie cutter" characters syndrom... but some don't).
Homesite is a wonderful HTML Editor. You can get into the code, hit a tab, preview, make nessisary adjustments (either by code, or with the WYSIWYG editor)
I've been using it for a few years now, even the WYSIWYG editor makes clean, readable code. (Frontpage does not...)
The older bag phones do... my dad had one when he went out into the bush, plugged in an antenna and got service where the company claimed "no way in hell it would work" (well, not thier words exaclly...)
I can plug an external antenna to my cell, it's older (2 years or there abouts) although, I need to remove the antena on it to plug into it. never had a need to though... in the areas I travel the phone company has decent service.
I was trying so hard not to buy that book... Not that I don't like Weber's work... I like it a lot... but hard cover books here in canada cost an arm and a leg.../me goes looking for the saw, and someone willing to "donate" an arm and leg
Actually, clearance is reguarly reduced down with.50 or.00 at walmart... more often than not, it's.00...
Red tags can mean clearance, or they can mean a "rollback" (which means 1 of 2 things... a competitor has a lower price and they beat it, or they made a deal with the manufacturer to get a lower price)
Incidently, for anyone who wants to know... the average markup at Wal-mart is ~28%... though some items I've seen were 97% markup!
A few of the items that come from the manufacturers marked with prices end with.99... as I recall , there's certain numbers that unless it's a special case, Walmart doesn't want their prices to end with... 9, 5 and 0 are the ones that I recall the best....
Then there's the problem that comes up with transporting the harvested seed from the field to the lab again, and contaminating a unaltered crop of the same thing...
and then they sue the guy who has this feild of genetically altered whatever, because he never paid for the right to grow it...
...Porsche Design GmbH, the Austrian firm founded by F.A. Porsche, grandson of the famous engineer.
As in, it's not designed by the world famous car designing company, but someone's who's of the same family, and I'm thinking cashing in on the reputation that Porsche brings in this venture.
well a dialup user could have bought a linux distro retail, borrowed/was given a burned copy of a distro, or got it packaged with some other product.
although, i do agree with your point. 32 megs isn't that much. I've downloaded 100+ MB files on a 56k with little discomfort...(well, there was the instance when my ISP tried to over charge me for making use of thier no time restrictions plan...)
Actually this modle does have a basis... although, it's more like this... (in the case of Baen)
1- Free books 1a- Make sure free books are either old, or the first books in a series, to set a hook in people, to want to read more 2- allow word of mouth to get people interested. 3- interested people buy dead tree books to get the rest of the series 4-profit
Baen's done a wonderful job, with their free library, and their webscription service for new books (small fee, 4 books as they're edited, and a final digital copy... before the book's in dead tree form). And it's been up since 2000.
It's interesting to read Mr. Flint's views on the subject of free ebooks, and the ultimate reasons for doing it... demonstration of princible... and profit, from free word of mouth advertising and to get people hooked on a series, and they pick up the dead tree edition of books that are currently unpublished in digital form.
Take a read of Mr. Flint's views on everything at the site, you'll laugh and cry at how stupid some people can be.
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Funny thing is, if they're in a central location (Like North Dakota as per the example) then they effectively are protected by the US miliraty, against all outside threats save for the US Military and well, us Canadians (like we're a big threat).
As for the trade issues. Simply maintain good relations with Canada. Canada doesn't always follow the trade policy set forth by the USA.
Uuuh. One thing to remember when talking about standards, and Phillips.
Phillips had a hand in both the CD and DVD standards and holds a number of patnets for both the disks and the players...
Seems to me, that they're fairly good with creating and maintaining standards... (anyone remember Phillips flexing it's muscles over the CD protection issue? Not that they did much, but still...)
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Hmm.. around here, in the older part of town, the Hydro poles already have the cable and phone lines running on 'em anyway.
An attempted slashdotting of a physical address?
Got to admit though, it's rather funny...
Alright... here's the deal with Coke, Pepsi, and Walmart.
There's the reglar walmart price, which will be a few cents less than the places that are on their list of folks who's prices they'll match automatically (large grocery chains, other bog box stores etc). They make a slim profit on this... but, they make more money when people come in, buy Coke/Pepsi and grab some munchies.
The Sale prices tend to be below the cost. This is to increase the number of customers in the store. Go in, load up on coke/pepsi, maybe grab some munchies, maybe a movie, or that DVD player...
A way to stop the spam from getting to the user in a clean, simple system. With no spam getting to the users, nobody can fall for the scams, making it more and more difficult to turn a profit.
Of course, implimenting such a system, is rather diffcult, with all the free mail providers, ISP's, and independant server operators providing e-mail acess.
What I'd like to see is a nice simple e-mail program that has at least 3 seperate spam identification systems built in (each of them a differnt but effective way of checking for spam) Have the program check the results, and if 2 of the 3 call it spam, toss it into a folder that gets periodically purged, just so those who want to look at spam, can look at it, and deliver te rest to the inbox.
Heck, there might even be software that does this, I don't know. I admitidly use Outlook Express for most of my POP3 mail, simply because I like how it handles multiple accounts, and I don't get much mail anyway (spam sticks out like a sore thumb, and is deleted, unread.)
Though, I only get, on average, maybe 4 spam e-mails a week.
Those were good, thought provoking books. kinda makes a person go "Wow"
I like a lot of sci-fi... though, some didn't work for me (like Asimov's foundation novels... his robot works were much better for me.)
I my favorites are so varied... E.E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" and "Skylark" series, David Webber's "Honor Harrington" books, David Drake's "Hammer's Slammers", the Metzda mercenary book by Joel Rosenburg, Pournelle's Falkenburg's Legion books. (I'm big on various military scifi)... nearly anything of Spider Robinson's...
But in the end, what makes sci-fi work for me is little fake explinations of how things work... fake, as in, it's pure BS that makes no sense... if you're going to do that, you might as well just gloss over and say "such and such exists" and good, deep characters, with unique motivations and flaws (I know, a number of the books i mentioned do have the "cookie cutter" characters syndrom... but some don't).
Homesite is a wonderful HTML Editor. You can get into the code, hit a tab, preview, make nessisary adjustments (either by code, or with the WYSIWYG editor)
I've been using it for a few years now, even the WYSIWYG editor makes clean, readable code. (Frontpage does not...)
I think you might have hit on just why the birtish have developed this...
(kidding of course... now how long before someone hits me with a troll mod)
The older bag phones do... my dad had one when he went out into the bush, plugged in an antenna and got service where the company claimed "no way in hell it would work" (well, not thier words exaclly...)
I can plug an external antenna to my cell, it's older (2 years or there abouts) although, I need to remove the antena on it to plug into it. never had a need to though... in the areas I travel the phone company has decent service.
Don't for get that it's bigger too...
The library here is the pits in terms of Sci-fi and fantasy novels... so I'm stuck with buying anything that looks interesting.
Ah well, looks like Mr. Baen is going to get some more of my money next time I hit the bookstore.
(though honestly if I really wanted to, I could probably pick up the entire CD on IRC...)
It's Military Sci-Fi, wouldn't call it a space epic really...
I was trying so hard not to buy that book... Not that I don't like Weber's work... I like it a lot... but hard cover books here in canada cost an arm and a leg... /me goes looking for the saw, and someone willing to "donate" an arm and leg
Actually, clearance is reguarly reduced down with .50 or .00 at walmart... more often than not, it's .00...
Red tags can mean clearance, or they can mean a "rollback" (which means 1 of 2 things... a competitor has a lower price and they beat it, or they made a deal with the manufacturer to get a lower price)
Incidently, for anyone who wants to know... the average markup at Wal-mart is ~28%... though some items I've seen were 97% markup!
A few of the items that come from the manufacturers marked with prices end with .99... as I recall , there's certain numbers that unless it's a special case, Walmart doesn't want their prices to end with... 9, 5 and 0 are the ones that I recall the best....
Then there's the problem that comes up with transporting the harvested seed from the field to the lab again, and contaminating a unaltered crop of the same thing...
and then they sue the guy who has this feild of genetically altered whatever, because he never paid for the right to grow it...
Typical Windows user: Bent over, hands grasping ankles.
Slashdot windows user: at the fastest run possible, to get away from the goons enforcing various microsoft EULA and/or anti piracy measures.
well a dialup user could have bought a linux distro retail, borrowed/was given a burned copy of a distro, or got it packaged with some other product.
although, i do agree with your point. 32 megs isn't that much. I've downloaded 100+ MB files on a 56k with little discomfort...(well, there was the instance when my ISP tried to over charge me for making use of thier no time restrictions plan...)
While you sleep is a wonderful time to download.
Actually this modle does have a basis... although, it's more like this... (in the case of Baen)
1- Free books
1a- Make sure free books are either old, or the first books in a series, to set a hook in people, to want to read more
2- allow word of mouth to get people interested.
3- interested people buy dead tree books to get the rest of the series
4-profit
Baen's done a wonderful job, with their free library, and their webscription service for new books (small fee, 4 books as they're edited, and a final digital copy... before the book's in dead tree form). And it's been up since 2000.
It's interesting to read Mr. Flint's views on the subject of free ebooks, and the ultimate reasons for doing it... demonstration of princible... and profit, from free word of mouth advertising and to get people hooked on a series, and they pick up the dead tree edition of books that are currently unpublished in digital form.
Take a read of Mr. Flint's views on everything at the site, you'll laugh and cry at how stupid some people can be.
Funny thing is, if they're in a central location (Like North Dakota as per the example) then they effectively are protected by the US miliraty, against all outside threats save for the US Military and well, us Canadians (like we're a big threat).
As for the trade issues. Simply maintain good relations with Canada. Canada doesn't always follow the trade policy set forth by the USA.
Uuuh. One thing to remember when talking about standards, and Phillips.
Phillips had a hand in both the CD and DVD standards and holds a number of patnets for both the disks and the players...
Seems to me, that they're fairly good with creating and maintaining standards... (anyone remember Phillips flexing it's muscles over the CD protection issue? Not that they did much, but still...)
You've go one hell of a big paper weight.
Naw, they seem to be more racers than anything else... racing to make a FP, raceing to flood new topics with crap...