My next work machine is going to reside within a big flower pot. I reckon you can easily get all the bits and bobs into the base, and still have room for 3 or 4 inches of compost to grow something in - maybe some grass!
a nice bit of heat at the roots should bring it on a treat. Have to be careful not to overwater though
Or if you say: You hear a monster behind the boulder
and they reply Perhaps that's why you cannot move it - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH BWAAA HAHAHAHAHAHA BWA BWA BWAAAAA HAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA A - WATCH OUTT You might DISPLACE MY CAT BWAAA AHAAAA HAAAA HAAAAAA
Before collapsing helplessly into tolk of Shrubberies and 'very naughty boy's
Not meaning to piss on the flames here - but how is this any different from Burger King opening an outlet in a cinema, or Alders opening a shop in an airport - I have to walk further around these things to get to my cinema screen / plane!
I don't have to buy from them - but its costing me shoe leather (or trainer rubber) and calories to avoid them!
This is just a sound business principle being implemented in a new commercial arena. If you use comercially oriented software you'll end up seeing sites you didn't want to - no getting around it.
What is the driver here? People actually buy stuff when they get spammed, redirected, BIG ad'd. Who are these people? I've only ever bought one thing on the back of a spam - and that was an animal book on special offer at amazon!
the google service seems to work pretty well - it certainly gets around the main weakness of google that its CRAP for finding information thats less than a week old.
As they add new sources to the service I reckon it will start to truly rock.
If I have a criticism its that I have to go to the original site to view the story - all I get at google is the headline. This means I have to wait about a MONTH for a CNN page to load when I want to know some more...
The beastie boys turn up in the strangest places - Adam Yauch stole my orange juice from my tent when I was camping in Holland a few years back, I gave chase, but that dude can run!
Combine this technology with a flat panel speaker in your LCD screen, and some batteries created using similar technologies where the case (dammit the KEYS) of your laptop ARE the battery and you get one hell of a light, dense piece of kit.
With an antenna of that area you'd get great reception even in MY house!
"I'm not the CFO - that's the person who tracks all of that data. I attempted to answer as best I could. If I had to say, 1.5 million is it. "
This is rapidly disolving into farce. I've operated companies for the past 8 years - and if I am asked a question which I feel inclined to answer I make sure as hell I give the CORRECT answer. Or I don't answer.
If this means asking the CFO, or commissioning an independent accountant to come up with the figures then so be it. But to shrug my shoulders and say "$1.5M - but thats a guess" would be to commit career suicide. In the most serious case putting false information about a company into the public domain can, in some instances, be a criminal act!
Either the readership gets in on this kind of info or not. Viability could be the difference between $1.4M and $1.6M - so "about $1.5M" is a worthless piece of information without context.
UNLESS the expected response from the humble reader is "Fuck me! I had no idea it was that much!" which should lead on to "better stump up or we'll lose/.".
My feeling is that without a genuine target most of us will feel like we are simply pissing into a pond if the guys running the show don't know what they even need the money for. If I keep my $5 I buy beer - if I give it to you will you buy beer? I get to drink beer that I buy! What do I get out of the beer YOU buy?
Not too many of us reading this get away with, or let people get away with, operating projects without justified budgets.
Why is/. any different?
I'll subscribe like a shot when I know that the site is being operated sustainably. I won't invest in a company I dont know about - I won't 'honesty pay' a company I don't know about.
This is a great site - one of the best - be careful not to let the business side of things piss on that. Open Business. Name of the game.
I think this is correct. Just like buying Cable or Sattelite TV you sign up for a 'package' of content.
The other end of the spectrum are the new sites launching with a pay element from day one. These are of high value to the user, offering information on stock prices, access to a valuable network, or some other information. They will often replace a telephone or paper based service that was charged at a premium previously.
The pay does model work, even paying thousands a year, if the content is of genuine value to the consumer and hasn't been freely available in the past.
Paying to remove banner ads is simply not going to make anyone money - why? - I can better spend the money upgrading to DSL or buying coffee. I don't get anything new.
Paying to 'support' a site could work. But only if a large enough minority actually put in some money. For something like a cancer patient support site this will work, for/. it won't as we all assume the guys running it are well off already. No one will get rich through a voluntary support system.
And as another poster points out - Google style ads are the way to go. When I read a mac story on/. show me mac ads, when I'm reading a book review link to the book on Amazon and get the (I think) 15% commission. There are genuine revenues to be earned out of these things - WITHOUT plastering the screen with monkeys to slap.
Most of the time these "advertisements" are more often useful things than typical gimmicks that you find with image banner ads (i.e. click the monkey - win cash!, if this is flashing you won $100,000, etc etc etc).
Hear Hear! Quite often when I do a search its the Ads that show up what Im after. As keywords get ever more generic it can be difficult to find products in the sea of information. On the odd occassion when I can't find a companies web address chances are they'll show up in the Ads as often as the search results. The day google take the money of the 'slap the monkey' guys is the day I give up on the web for good.
Dunno about the US - but in the UK cars have been getting cheaper for years. Or rather, the cars at a given price point - £18,000 for example - have been getting a higher and higher spec.
And if you seriously think the cost of your car is an indicator of your quality of life your a seriously sad man!
I'd pay an extra 2-3 bucks per showing if I could get all digital, that's how much better I think it is.
NOOOO - never OFFER to pay more!!!
I don't pay mare for my next car or computer - but it will be better. My last car had handle wind windows, my current car has electric windows and Air Conditioning, my next car will likely have a navigation system.
They all cost the same new.
Cinemas relying on old technology have no right to charge the same as those with new - and those with new have no right to charge me a premium to watch the film just because they bought a new projector.
The NME is renowned for this kind of thing - reviewing gigs that were cancelled, or talking about the atmosphere when there were only 10 people there.
Its the NMEs annaversary year this year - 50th I think - so theres a book out about it. I heard about it on the radio - but cant find it on amazon.
Mainly its reprints of reviews of gigs that never happenned as far as I can tell
Get some artist to produce an album and then market it and distribute it entirely over the Internet.
U2 are a pretty cool band for this kind of thing - Bonos into redistribution of wealth - he's rich as fuck - and he's said plenty of times that he's cool with people bootlegging U2 gigs.
Everyone email them from their site suggesting they do a charity gig for amnesty or greenpeace or netaid or Drop The Debt, and then sell an MP3 album of the gig from their site for $3, or a physical CD for $10. Get them to send the sales info to the chart compilers world wide and see if they can chart with it. Allow Amazon, and the other online music retailers to sell it - but do not licence it for sale on the streets. And limit the money Amazon can make by only allowing a 10% mark up on cost price 'to ensure the money goes to a good cause'.
This could be bonos live aid - let him look Bob Geldolf in the face without thinking 'flash bastard'. And we get a proof of principle that people want to buy music cheaper, and more directly.
Most worthwhile debates do take on a life similar to religious debates. People have a fundamental feel for what is right and wrong - and no matter what evidence is put forward they don't, on the whole, change their minds.
Thats why a debate is required, because if you say to most people - will we ban people squashing their dog under their car for fun on a friday night - most will say 'of course' but a few will say 'hell no! thats all I have left since you banned squirrel baiting'.
Ask about sharing music and you get a 50:50 split of people who think its great, and people who think its a first step twards lawless anarchy!
As our friend above reminds us with his Simpsons Quote there are two things that sell - sports and tits.
Cartoons just dont have enough tits in 'em. Even SouthPark never has real tits in it. Now if Futurama had a mix of animation and gratuitous live action titty girls it would run forever.
Just bolt 'Warning - this program is rated R - because of all the tits' on the front of any show to increase ratings 100% - they'd never over run football into that!
"If you charge $3.99 for one of these movies, I assume that Blockbuster is going to walk away with $2 per disk. That is a 100% return. On the other hand, if Blockbuster buys a new DVD for $20 and rents it 15 times at $4/rent, that is Blockbuster walking away with a 300% return on the investment. "
The problem with this is that it rates the cost of operations at zero. It takes a lot more work (i.e. hours of labour) to deal with re-renting a disc over and over than it does to simply hand over a use-once. It may also be done in a smaller premesis, or by mail / phone / web ordering like pizza.
The $2 profit per disc versus $200 per disc is of no relevence. Much like the recent discussion about Google using RAM instead of HD for storage. Its cost of ownership, ROI, and unlimately Profitability that counts.
I promise you, in 2 years this is all you'll get at blockbuster
Slashdot Mirror
Fair doos!
Lucky you don't have a dog!
My next work machine is going to reside within a big flower pot. I reckon you can easily get all the bits and bobs into the base, and still have room for 3 or 4 inches of compost to grow something in - maybe some grass!
a nice bit of heat at the roots should bring it on a treat. Have to be careful not to overwater though
I HAVE to know what you needed a teardrop shaped lump of hard foam for!
Or if you say:
You hear a monster behind the boulder
and they reply
Perhaps that's why you cannot move it - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH BWAAA HAHAHAHAHAHA BWA BWA BWAAAAA HAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA A - WATCH OUTT You might DISPLACE MY CAT BWAAA AHAAAA HAAAA HAAAAAA
Before collapsing helplessly into tolk of Shrubberies and 'very naughty boy's
Not meaning to piss on the flames here - but how is this any different from Burger King opening an outlet in a cinema, or Alders opening a shop in an airport - I have to walk further around these things to get to my cinema screen / plane!
I don't have to buy from them - but its costing me shoe leather (or trainer rubber) and calories to avoid them!
This is just a sound business principle being implemented in a new commercial arena. If you use comercially oriented software you'll end up seeing sites you didn't want to - no getting around it.
What is the driver here? People actually buy stuff when they get spammed, redirected, BIG ad'd. Who are these people? I've only ever bought one thing on the back of a spam - and that was an animal book on special offer at amazon!
the google service seems to work pretty well - it certainly gets around the main weakness of google that its CRAP for finding information thats less than a week old.
As they add new sources to the service I reckon it will start to truly rock.
If I have a criticism its that I have to go to the original site to view the story - all I get at google is the headline. This means I have to wait about a MONTH for a CNN page to load when I want to know some more...
The beastie boys turn up in the strangest places - Adam Yauch stole my orange juice from my tent when I was camping in Holland a few years back, I gave chase, but that dude can run!
"applications sound mighty nice"
Combine this technology with a flat panel speaker in your LCD screen, and some batteries created using similar technologies where the case (dammit the KEYS) of your laptop ARE the battery and you get one hell of a light, dense piece of kit.
With an antenna of that area you'd get great reception even in MY house!
"I'm not the CFO - that's the person who tracks all of that data. I attempted to answer as best I could. If I had to say, 1.5 million is it. "
/.".
/. any different?
This is rapidly disolving into farce. I've operated companies for the past 8 years - and if I am asked a question which I feel inclined to answer I make sure as hell I give the CORRECT answer. Or I don't answer.
If this means asking the CFO, or commissioning an independent accountant to come up with the figures then so be it. But to shrug my shoulders and say "$1.5M - but thats a guess" would be to commit career suicide. In the most serious case putting false information about a company into the public domain can, in some instances, be a criminal act!
Either the readership gets in on this kind of info or not. Viability could be the difference between $1.4M and $1.6M - so "about $1.5M" is a worthless piece of information without context.
UNLESS the expected response from the humble reader is "Fuck me! I had no idea it was that much!" which should lead on to "better stump up or we'll lose
My feeling is that without a genuine target most of us will feel like we are simply pissing into a pond if the guys running the show don't know what they even need the money for. If I keep my $5 I buy beer - if I give it to you will you buy beer? I get to drink beer that I buy! What do I get out of the beer YOU buy?
Not too many of us reading this get away with, or let people get away with, operating projects without justified budgets.
Why is
I'll subscribe like a shot when I know that the site is being operated sustainably. I won't invest in a company I dont know about - I won't 'honesty pay' a company I don't know about.
This is a great site - one of the best - be careful not to let the business side of things piss on that. Open Business. Name of the game.
$10,000
Breakdown:
Changing 2 lines of code = $1
Knowing which 2 lines =$9,999
zigakly
I like habitat.co.uk, I like google.com these couldn't be further apart in terms of approach.
I quite like jackson pollock, I quite like degas
I love the Quo, and Moby, and John Lee Hooker, and Gershwin. I also have a couple of Groove Armada CDs.
All of these things are good. Britney sounds shit, but you wouldn't kick her out of bed!
There is no good or bad. Almost everything has a purpose.
I think this is correct. Just like buying Cable or Sattelite TV you sign up for a 'package' of content.
/. it won't as we all assume the guys running it are well off already. No one will get rich through a voluntary support system.
/. show me mac ads, when I'm reading a book review link to the book on Amazon and get the (I think) 15% commission. There are genuine revenues to be earned out of these things - WITHOUT plastering the screen with monkeys to slap.
The other end of the spectrum are the new sites launching with a pay element from day one. These are of high value to the user, offering information on stock prices, access to a valuable network, or some other information. They will often replace a telephone or paper based service that was charged at a premium previously.
The pay does model work, even paying thousands a year, if the content is of genuine value to the consumer and hasn't been freely available in the past.
Paying to remove banner ads is simply not going to make anyone money - why? - I can better spend the money upgrading to DSL or buying coffee. I don't get anything new.
Paying to 'support' a site could work. But only if a large enough minority actually put in some money. For something like a cancer patient support site this will work, for
And as another poster points out - Google style ads are the way to go. When I read a mac story on
Thats what they thought in Jurrasic Park!
Then what happenned? Running and chasing and screaming! Thats what happened!
We built a parallel port onto a dartboard. We connected the dartboard to an old laptop, which we call the dartboard server
I'd have thought they could have come up with a better name than 'the dartboard server'. How about 'Jocky', 'Eric', or 'Tricia'
Most of the time these "advertisements" are more often useful things than typical gimmicks that you find with image banner ads (i.e. click the monkey - win cash!, if this is flashing you won $100,000, etc etc etc).
Hear Hear!
Quite often when I do a search its the Ads that show up what Im after. As keywords get ever more generic it can be difficult to find products in the sea of information. On the odd occassion when I can't find a companies web address chances are they'll show up in the Ads as often as the search results.
The day google take the money of the 'slap the monkey' guys is the day I give up on the web for good.
"Curing cancer, in many ways, is just as big a task as SETI@Home.... I don't have any problem with, say, searching [for] a cure for cancer."
I would like to go to the moon. That would be cool. Watching alien TV would be cool too.
It would have been somewhat cooler however if I hadn't lost 4 relatives under 50 to cancer in the last 5 years.
ET or Cancer... ET or Cancer... ET or Cancer... we have to ask???
Dunno about the US - but in the UK cars have been getting cheaper for years. Or rather, the cars at a given price point - £18,000 for example - have been getting a higher and higher spec.
And if you seriously think the cost of your car is an indicator of your quality of life your a seriously sad man!
http://www.nme.com/
its a paper!
I'd pay an extra 2-3 bucks per showing if I could get all digital, that's how much better I think it is.
NOOOO - never OFFER to pay more!!!
I don't pay mare for my next car or computer - but it will be better. My last car had handle wind windows, my current car has electric windows and Air Conditioning, my next car will likely have a navigation system.
They all cost the same new.
Cinemas relying on old technology have no right to charge the same as those with new - and those with new have no right to charge me a premium to watch the film just because they bought a new projector.
Even if it IS that much better.
The NME is renowned for this kind of thing - reviewing gigs that were cancelled, or talking about the atmosphere when there were only 10 people there.
Its the NMEs annaversary year this year - 50th I think - so theres a book out about it. I heard about it on the radio - but cant find it on amazon.
Mainly its reprints of reviews of gigs that never happenned as far as I can tell
On further roaming the U2 site I found this -
http://www.u2.com/homepage/news110601_detail.html where you get free music from those fine irish chaps!
Get some artist to produce an album and then market it and distribute it entirely over the Internet.
U2 are a pretty cool band for this kind of thing - Bonos into redistribution of wealth - he's rich as fuck - and he's said plenty of times that he's cool with people bootlegging U2 gigs.
Everyone email them from their site suggesting they do a charity gig for amnesty or greenpeace or netaid or Drop The Debt, and then sell an MP3 album of the gig from their site for $3, or a physical CD for $10. Get them to send the sales info to the chart compilers world wide and see if they can chart with it. Allow Amazon, and the other online music retailers to sell it - but do not licence it for sale on the streets. And limit the money Amazon can make by only allowing a 10% mark up on cost price 'to ensure the money goes to a good cause'.
This could be bonos live aid - let him look Bob Geldolf in the face without thinking 'flash bastard'. And we get a proof of principle that people want to buy music cheaper, and more directly.
It seems to be a religious debate at this point
Most worthwhile debates do take on a life similar to religious debates. People have a fundamental feel for what is right and wrong - and no matter what evidence is put forward they don't, on the whole, change their minds.
Thats why a debate is required, because if you say to most people - will we ban people squashing their dog under their car for fun on a friday night - most will say 'of course' but a few will say 'hell no! thats all I have left since you banned squirrel baiting'.
Ask about sharing music and you get a 50:50 split of people who think its great, and people who think its a first step twards lawless anarchy!
As our friend above reminds us with his Simpsons Quote there are two things that sell - sports and tits.
Cartoons just dont have enough tits in 'em. Even SouthPark never has real tits in it. Now if Futurama had a mix of animation and gratuitous live action titty girls it would run forever.
Just bolt 'Warning - this program is rated R - because of all the tits' on the front of any show to increase ratings 100% - they'd never over run football into that!
"If you charge $3.99 for one of these movies, I assume that Blockbuster is going to walk away with $2 per disk. That is a 100% return. On the other hand, if Blockbuster buys a new DVD for $20 and rents it 15 times at $4/rent, that is Blockbuster walking away with a 300% return on the investment. "
The problem with this is that it rates the cost of operations at zero. It takes a lot more work (i.e. hours of labour) to deal with re-renting a disc over and over than it does to simply hand over a use-once. It may also be done in a smaller premesis, or by mail / phone / web ordering like pizza.
The $2 profit per disc versus $200 per disc is of no relevence. Much like the recent discussion about Google using RAM instead of HD for storage. Its cost of ownership, ROI, and unlimately Profitability that counts.
I promise you, in 2 years this is all you'll get at blockbuster