Well done, sir. I was about to reply since I, like you, have seen the unemployment line in my day through no fault of my own. But it looks like you beat me to it. I tip my hat.
Like the 95% evangelical community I live among here in the Bible belt. Go ask those people, just like the rich powerful Scientologists, they whine that they're oppressed. Screw them.
I don't get it... screw them because they're oppressed?
Oh. My. God. Seriously, if I see one more damn iPhone story on here talking about the trademark issue, I'm going to buy an iPhone when it comes out, just so I can smash it to a million bits.
Nobody cares. Let me know when there's something *meaningful* to report.
Okay, so I took your advice and looked in a dictionary. Likely nobody but you will see this, but for posterity's sake. . .
Wordnet says (and if Princeton isn't good enough for you, then I don't know what else to say):
Noun
* S: (n) misprint, erratum, typographical error, typo, literal error, literal (a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind)
Adjective
* S: (adj) actual, genuine, literal, real (being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something) "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma"
* S: (adj) literal (without interpretation or embellishment) "a literal depiction of the scene before him"
* S: (adj) literal (limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text) "a literal translation"
* S: (adj) literal (avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis)) "it's the literal truth"
Could you point out to me which of those definitions fits the atricle's usage?
Far too late for many to see this, but I thought I should point out that your reasoning is a little out of touch with accounting.
Lets just say it costs them $700 to make the system
Ok, let's say Sony starts, on paper, with $0 cash and $0 assets within the PS3 realm: their balance sheet looks like this:
Cash $0
Assets $0
Now, they make a PS3. Their sheet looks like: and it costs $600 for the person to buy it.
Cash $-700
Assets $600 (saleable price)
This means if someone buys it, they lose $100. If nobody buys it they lose $700.
If nobody buys it, they *still* lose only $100, for a time. Their stock of PS3s will not immediately (say, within the fiscal year) have such a dramatic decline in price that they would lose $700 by not selling. In fact, I can't think of any sane situations in which that might be the case.
If you look at it that way, they could still have a decent-looking balance sheet. The problem will be whether or not they can offload this stuff down the road, before the cost of components - or other gaming innovations - drive the relative worth of the PS3 down the tubes for good.
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"I hardly think this is a time to be fooling around." "Stop touching me!"
Huh, sounds strangely like a number of young ladies I used to date. . . .
No, this is a very old issue. Many states have these so-called Shield Laws to protect the press' sources.
One of the main arguments for shield laws is that nobody inside a corrupt organization (read: corrupt government) would speak to a reporter for fear of retribution.
Students with a diagnosis of asthma are permitted to possess and self-administer inhaled asthma medications in accordance with this policy during the school day, at school-sponsored activities, or while on a school bus or other school property. In order for a student to possess and self-administer asthma medication, the following conditions must be met:
*written parental consent that the student may self-administer inhaled asthma medications must be on file with the school;
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Not Asprin, but you might think that possession of an inhaler is de facto evidence of need... it isn't as if you can get high off one.
Parents should not have the right to raise their children 'no matter how much some may disagree with your parenting tactics.'
Why not?
How about parents who want to teach their childred from birth that religion X is th eonly true way and that everyone else is a sinner and needs to be converted? What about parents who teach their children to be sexist? racist?
What about them?
I find no compelling argument here; rather, there is no argument of any kind.
I was about to respond with the typical "parents' responsibility" blather, but then I thought about it some more and realized it's more insidious than that.
It really is about parental control, and parents should be up in arms about this. As it stands (in America, at least), once your kids are waiting on the corner for the public school bus in the morning, your kids belong to the State. A child student has to have parent's permission for an asprin, but not for an abortion.
Parental rights are increasingly in jeopardy in America.
This is one step down a slippery slope, and a good time to make a stand. The bottom line is that your kids are yours to raise -- no matter how much some may disagree with your parenting tactics -- and we are standing to lose that right. This is only the first step.
The successful candidate will possess the following skills:
* 3 years of ASP.NET, with 2 years of C# (This was years ago before O'Reilly had a book on C#)
* Minimum 2 years of PHP, Perl and Python
* 2 years Linux, Apache and Administration
* 3-4 Years of Flash, including Actionscript
* 3 years of CSS, Javascript, XML, XSL, XHTML, DHTML, DSL, DS9
* 3 or more years of PostGreSQL, Oracle, MySQL and DB2. SQL Server experience helpful (note the 'and')
* 5 Years of graphic design (Portfolio required) (Forget that most of the websites I worked on have evaporated)
* E-commerce experience helpful
And here's the clincher...
* Excellent written and verbal skills, including customer-facing skills. Interface with external vendors required.
* Salary will be $30-36K, with excellent benefits package, including free Jolt Turbo
Actually, aside from the.NET (I have fewer years) and other DBs (MySQL & MSSQL only), I fit this description really well, and I imagine I'm not alone. I am more surprised that your gripe wasn't "$30-36k?!?!? HELL no!!".
Ever been to the grocery store (or Costco) when they're handing out free samples? They don't make the free samples taste like moldy dung because they're "not making any money" on them -- they just make the samples smaller. Samples are (theoretically) a small, yet indicative representation of what you'd get for your purchase. . . whether it's food or music.
I see your point, but it doesn't map particularly well. There isn't any sense in offering a ten-second clip of a song that's encoded at a fairly high bit rate. Sure, those ten seconds may be highly indicative of how well the song is recorded, but there's no way to tell whether it's worth purchasing or not with such a small sample.
I hear what you're saying -- I think it must depend on the purpose for having the sample. If you're attempting to convert tire-kickers to customers with your *service*, I think a representation of what the process looks like is appropriate (eg. this is how you choose your song, this is how you download it, and this is the kind of quality you can expect). If you're trying to sell the *music on its own merits*, a low-quality sample is (as you say) more appropriate.
Since this is a store in the genre of iTMS, I would conclude with some confidence that the first explaination is correct. However, I don't know the details of their marketing plan, so I cannot say with certainty.
I'd disagree about the sound-quality of samples from a functional perspective: why would you expect a free sample to sound particularly crystal-clear?
Ever been to the grocery store (or Costco) when they're handing out free samples? They don't make the free samples taste like moldy dung because they're "not making any money" on them -- they just make the samples smaller. Samples are (theoretically) a small, yet indicative representation of what you'd get for your purchase. . . whether it's food or music.
The creature's 'cuteness' and helpfulness will ingratiate the software with the child, so that he or she will respect it and listen to it, or even find it as a likable companion.
Worked great for MS Office, right?
No no, this is for *children*. . . ohhhhhh. . . . nevermind, I see your point.
I can see no reasonable argument why this data can't be public record. In fact, if it was public record, that would negate the "fears" the FCC has of it being a competitive advantage to one company over another.
I think probably the whole mission of the FCC is more in iconic thing -- "don't worry, the government is in control!" -- and this data getting out would result in a lot of people asking WTF is up with the FCC if they can't put together a proper report.
should standards of ethics and non-monetary issues be forced onto corporations by society (government)?
They already do. Antitrust laws exist because it's (supposedly) unethical to monopolize a market and then leverage that monopolization to penetrate other markets. If it were all left to the fickle finger of the free market, bad products simply would not last, in theory, as consumers would vote with their wallets. Even so, the government regulates this activity because it's unethical.
Right, that's the bummer. The reason is that RIM just basically doesn't support Macs, even as far as desktop software goes. You can sync iCal with your BB only with a 3rd party piece of software, I believe.
If you haven't already, google around about Pulse, its inception is kind of interesting. Basically, a bunch of users were bitching about not being able to use their BBs as bluetooth modems, so one of them opened a bounty for a developer who wanted to write it, on the condition that either a) the software was free, or b) anyone who donated to the bounty got a copy for free. Apparently, they chose b).
- will Apple work out a deal with Cingular to offer a reasonable data plan? No one will be happy with the Internet Communicator of the Future if it costs $100/month to do anything with. For this to really, really work, there has to be reasonably-fast, reasonably-priced data. If it becomes a situation of "Oh, I can't use Safari until I get to Starbucks or Panera" that will be a big buzzkill.
I do most of my communicating via email and IM. My Blackberry is my only phone, and I try and use it sparingly. However, it still costs me >$100/mo with Verizon's unlimited data plan.
Perhaps the bugdet shoppers using the free phones and rollover minutes won't be happy, but there are plenty of us who have been paying the premium for a long time. I'm guessing that Apple's target market isn't the first group.
Wow. Running in debt, passenger cabins that aren't clean, meals that have been cut from shorter flights, and all on top of *higher ticket prices*. Now they want to install frickin' laser beams? That'll do wonders for affordability. Maybe a nice fat Government subsidy is in order?
It's not Jobs per se that they need. It isn't Jobs himself that's important, it's the role of his position. He's far more publically involved than a lot of CEOs are. Apple has successfully turned the CEO position, and consequently Jobs, into the mouthpiece for Apple -- into the spokesgeek people adore. Jobs' successor would have to fill that role well, but it's silly to think that Jobs alone is the only one who can do the... uh, job.
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Well done, sir. I was about to reply since I, like you, have seen the unemployment line in my day through no fault of my own. But it looks like you beat me to it. I tip my hat.
Like the 95% evangelical community I live among here in the Bible belt. Go ask those people, just like the rich powerful Scientologists, they whine that they're oppressed. Screw them.
I don't get it... screw them because they're oppressed?
Oh. My. God. Seriously, if I see one more damn iPhone story on here talking about the trademark issue, I'm going to buy an iPhone when it comes out, just so I can smash it to a million bits.
Nobody cares. Let me know when there's something *meaningful* to report.
Wordnet says (and if Princeton isn't good enough for you, then I don't know what else to say):
Could you point out to me which of those definitions fits the atricle's usage?
Far too late for many to see this, but I thought I should point out that your reasoning is a little out of touch with accounting.
Lets just say it costs them $700 to make the system
Ok, let's say Sony starts, on paper, with $0 cash and $0 assets within the PS3 realm: their balance sheet looks like this:
Cash $0
Assets $0
Now, they make a PS3. Their sheet looks like:
and it costs $600 for the person to buy it.
Cash $-700
Assets $600 (saleable price)
This means if someone buys it, they lose $100.
If nobody buys it they lose $700.
If nobody buys it, they *still* lose only $100, for a time. Their stock of PS3s will not immediately (say, within the fiscal year) have such a dramatic decline in price that they would lose $700 by not selling. In fact, I can't think of any sane situations in which that might be the case.
If you look at it that way, they could still have a decent-looking balance sheet. The problem will be whether or not they can offload this stuff down the road, before the cost of components - or other gaming innovations - drive the relative worth of the PS3 down the tubes for good.
Don't forget the epilepsy warnings, repetitive stress warnings, ergonomic tips, very long legal disclaimer, and credits!
Oh wait, how do you actually *play* the game? That's not what a manual's for!
No, this is a very old issue. Many states have these so-called Shield Laws to protect the press' sources.
One of the main arguments for shield laws is that nobody inside a corrupt organization (read: corrupt government) would speak to a reporter for fear of retribution.
I find no compelling argument here; rather, there is no argument of any kind.
As long as the photos don't come back at 640x480 in 8-bit color with a "safe mode" watermark in each corner...
I was about to respond with the typical "parents' responsibility" blather, but then I thought about it some more and realized it's more insidious than that.
It really is about parental control, and parents should be up in arms about this. As it stands (in America, at least), once your kids are waiting on the corner for the public school bus in the morning, your kids belong to the State. A child student has to have parent's permission for an asprin, but not for an abortion.
Parental rights are increasingly in jeopardy in America.
This is one step down a slippery slope, and a good time to make a stand. The bottom line is that your kids are yours to raise -- no matter how much some may disagree with your parenting tactics -- and we are standing to lose that right. This is only the first step.
Since this is a store in the genre of iTMS, I would conclude with some confidence that the first explaination is correct. However, I don't know the details of their marketing plan, so I cannot say with certainty.
I can see no reasonable argument why this data can't be public record. In fact, if it was public record, that would negate the "fears" the FCC has of it being a competitive advantage to one company over another.
I think probably the whole mission of the FCC is more in iconic thing -- "don't worry, the government is in control!" -- and this data getting out would result in a lot of people asking WTF is up with the FCC if they can't put together a proper report.
Right, that's the bummer. The reason is that RIM just basically doesn't support Macs, even as far as desktop software goes. You can sync iCal with your BB only with a 3rd party piece of software, I believe.
If you haven't already, google around about Pulse, its inception is kind of interesting. Basically, a bunch of users were bitching about not being able to use their BBs as bluetooth modems, so one of them opened a bounty for a developer who wanted to write it, on the condition that either a) the software was free, or b) anyone who donated to the bounty got a copy for free. Apparently, they chose b).
I do most of my communicating via email and IM. My Blackberry is my only phone, and I try and use it sparingly. However, it still costs me >$100/mo with Verizon's unlimited data plan.
Perhaps the bugdet shoppers using the free phones and rollover minutes won't be happy, but there are plenty of us who have been paying the premium for a long time. I'm guessing that Apple's target market isn't the first group.
Wow. Running in debt, passenger cabins that aren't clean, meals that have been cut from shorter flights, and all on top of *higher ticket prices*. Now they want to install frickin' laser beams? That'll do wonders for affordability. Maybe a nice fat Government subsidy is in order?
Fantastic. Just fantastic.
It's not Jobs per se that they need. It isn't Jobs himself that's important, it's the role of his position. He's far more publically involved than a lot of CEOs are. Apple has successfully turned the CEO position, and consequently Jobs, into the mouthpiece for Apple -- into the spokesgeek people adore. Jobs' successor would have to fill that role well, but it's silly to think that Jobs alone is the only one who can do the ... uh, job.
...and later the other probe leaves, after being declared the winner.