We will demonstrate that the only way the masses can find worthwhile content on the web is by linking to it.
Tell that to my father who spends all his time on the internet adding www. and.com to everything he can think of. I think most people who are looking for NPR's website would try npr.com or a href="http://www.npr.org">npr.org - both of which take you to the correct site.
You do of course realize that these two things are not mutually exclusive. Not-for-profit does no mean no advertising. Not-for-profit only means that the organization is not in the business of making money. Any excess money that a regular company may consider profit is considered surplus by a not-for-profit and must be put back into the business.
Take for example PBS (you know - it's where you watch Sesame Street when you aren't watching Jerry Springer). They have several sponsors which is a fancy way of saying advertisers. I have even seen the occasional commercial between shows.
What is even more interesting is that Time Square is hardly all of New York City and you'd be suprised how quiet things are on an early Sunday morning in the summer. Very few people live in Times Square (unless they occupy a box). Either way, most residents are in the Hamptons, the Jersey Shore, or Connecticut and tourists are easily shepherded out of the way.
I'm not sure what you don't understand here. The music and movie industries don't have a problem with you selling or giving away your cd or movie to somebody else. Blockbuster has a very large selection of used vidoes as do most video stores. When you sell a physical copy you no longer possess a copy. With online music you continue to possess a copy.
So much for pre-announcing the product almost 1 year in advance:-(
Talking about rounding up. When last I checked, Q4 starts in October. It is now pretty much June and we are only 4 months from Q4 which is not even close to a year.
See I disagree. This is obviously aimed at the home/small business user as opposed to a corporate user. Companies that are going to adopt RedHat are going to be using bulk licensing anyway.
Go after existing users is a fruitless exercise. The more prolific a person becomes with Linux the more they realize they don't need to buy the latest version. They can either download it or just upgrade individual apps as they see fit. This is especially true since most current Linux users are fairly advanced computer users.
If you want to make money you have to chip away at the Windows market. These are the people who are used to upgrading every year or two. These are the people who would never recompile the kernel or install from source. What they should do is tell people that if they send in their Windows disks they get RedHat for free. Just make sure that they don't donate their computers afterwards.
I realize that Redhat is a business but this seems a little underhanded. What is more important to them - encouraging Windows users to "upgrade" to RedHat or taking existing customers away from other distributors.
I personally use SuSE on my notebook and Slackware on my mail server. There is something about RedHat that makes me think that they would like to be the next evil empire.
I knew somebody would call me on that. Like I said we don't use Outlook here anymore so I forgot the preview pane. I do however tell everybody to disable the preview pane immediately. Although, if I remember correctly, Norton covers your ass on that said as long as you keep it updated also.
Something along the lines of "teach a man to fish..." comes to mind. You are mistaking ignorance for stupidity. People do learn. Sometimes it is only after getting burned but other times it is just from pounding them over the head with it.
It is also not just up to companies to educate their employees. It is up to you and me and everybody else who reads this. The trick is NOT to treat people like idiots. Stop thinking that you are better than they all are - because I am willing to be that you are not. As much as you know about technology they may know about accounting or marketing or Taw Kwon Do.
How about you just educate yourself and your coworkers instead? Email viruses are not just about the program used - they are also about ignornace. Here is a hint to get you started:
1) Apply all security patches from Microsoft.
I was just interupted as I was typing this by a coworker asking me about a virus (talk about synchronicity). We don't use Outlook and she wasn't infected but she printed out the email and showed it to me. Sure enough - whatever.scr. I told her to delete it immediately.
Why did she ask me first and not print it? Because we have a policy here - which brings me to point 2:
2) Don't open anything that isn't work related. 3) All computers show all extensions on files. 4) Only open files that you expected with.xls or.doc extensions only (no.doc.js, etc.). 5) If you get anything else - then ask me or somebody else informed about the latest viruses. 6) When in doubt, call the sender and ask if they intended to send the email.
With all of these in place, when a virus is sent to one of our employees it does not propogate.
I leave you with this thought. A few weeks ago somebody in another department received an email warning about a virus go around. The email said to email this warning to EVERYBODY IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. One of my coworkers received the email and asked me about it. Of course it was a hoax and I wrote an email back to the original sender telling her that she basically just sent out a manual email. If everybody sent out that email to everybody in their address book it would be a disaster. The moral of the story - ignorance is the worst virus.
Actually, most of these are after the fact. Small business owners that are near bankruptcy will often band together and try to fight Walmart. Unfortunately, as these things usually go, Walmart has much more money to spend and they usually settle for a token amount.
Are you on crack? Are you not reading what I am typing here? This isn't about having a week of sales for Grand Opening. This is about slashing prices below cost, because you can afford to, until the competition is squashed. Then you raise your prices back to a reasonable level.
Based on your arguments I can only assume that you are a Microsoft sympathizer also. After all, if they want to give away their browser for free then more power to them.
No, I just support their right to provide a better deal.
Let me explain predatory pricing to you. When Walmart moves into a town they offer very low prices sometimes even lower than cost. After the smaller competitors are forced out of business they return to their regular prices. They may call it Grand Opening prices or whatever. This is illegal in many jurisdictions and unethetical in other areas.
I'd like to see your statistic for total mom-n-pop revenue compared to Walmart in areas that Walmart services. Does it beat $200 Billion? I doubt it very highly. Saying that there are a greater number of mom-n-pops is just ignorant.
As for forcing - I could also say that Microsoft did not force anybody to use their product. Walmart did not come out and say that you had to produce two versions of every album. They only said that they will not carry albums with parental warning labels. You decide whether that is forcing or not.
I can assume that you have some association with Walmart to be so blindly patriotic to a company that has left so many businesses in ruin in its climb to the top. Do a search on Google for Walmart and predatory pricing and then come back here and post.
That is probably because Walmart, number one on the fortune 500 with $220 Billion (with a B) in annual revenue (compared to Microsoft which is 72nd with $25 Billion), has sucessfully used predatory pricing to drive out of business all of the small mom-n-pop businesses and most of their larger competitors.
Before we all jump on the WalMart bandwagon just because we think they are taking a swipe at Microsoft, we must remember that this is the company that used its power to force record labels to produce two copies of every album (one nice for Walmart and one naughty for everyone else).
As an email administrator with users that use Windows it is definitely big "worries" even thought the server is Slackware and qmail. I really need to get off my lazy ass and install qmail scanner or something or that sort.
"You" aren't actually infected and sending the virus. The virus is sending itself from another infecting individual using your email address as the from: field. Take a look at the Symantec site linked in the article or read the guys post above.
Well stated. I've had the same experiences both myself and with my friends. I use Slackware as my email server and nothing could be more stable. If I didn't have UPS problems it would have months uptime. When it comes to day to day work though I am hooked on Windows. I put SuSE on an old 400mhz laptop and brought it with me on a business trip. Everything worked great but it still was missing that something that made we want to continue using it. It is very hard to define, though.
My percentage is not pulled out of the air. It is right around what Apple's market share is right now. Apple is not doing anything new. They have always (at least since I was in grade school 20 years ago) focused on the educational market. If they stopped focusing on the educational market then they would probably lose market share. Unless Apple starts donating free computers to every school in the country they are not going to gain too much ground in this area.
Also, reread my other comments for a justification of the 6 or 7%.
The merger was an excuse for a big dividend payout to the chiefs at TimeWarner as well as AOL. It was the shareholders of TimeWarner that got taken. The big boys in the board room made out JUST FINE.
Dividends are payouts to all shareholders, not just shareholders who are chief executives. They may have gotten huge amounts in the form of bonuses but most of them also took huge hits from the decrease in stock value. I know that Steve Case dropped off of the billionaire list (poor baby).
What don't you understand? 6 or 7% is 6 or 7% no matter what the population is. I only quoted the number from the original poster. Also, grade school students are not about to go out and buy a computer anytime soon. As I pointed out, may of these children already have computers that their parent's bought.
US High-School age population is around 20M according the census bureau. I was just using the number the original poster used. Either way, 6 or 7% is still 6 or 7%.
Ok. You did your estimate. Now let's do one that is more realistic. Let's figure first that probably 30% of those kids go to city schools that can't afford new computers. 50% of them have bought computers in the last two or three years and find them satisfactory for what they are doing.
Now the remaining 20% that MAY buy new computers this year MAY buy Macs but many of the children in those schools aren't going to be making the buying decisions in their family any time soon. Most of them probably already have PC's in their house because their parents use them at work. Some of them will just not like the Mac (yes it happens) and will go with something else.
In the end, maybe 6-7% of those 15M will end up buying Macs which is right inline with Apple's current market share.
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We will demonstrate that the only way the masses can find worthwhile content on the web is by linking to it.
.com to everything he can think of. I think most people who are looking for NPR's website would try npr.com or a href="http://www.npr.org">npr.org - both of which take you to the correct site.
Tell that to my father who spends all his time on the internet adding www. and
they have *no* ads they are a fucking nonprofit!
You do of course realize that these two things are not mutually exclusive. Not-for-profit does no mean no advertising. Not-for-profit only means that the organization is not in the business of making money. Any excess money that a regular company may consider profit is considered surplus by a not-for-profit and must be put back into the business.
Take for example PBS (you know - it's where you watch Sesame Street when you aren't watching Jerry Springer). They have several sponsors which is a fancy way of saying advertisers. I have even seen the occasional commercial between shows.
What is even more interesting is that Time Square is hardly all of New York City and you'd be suprised how quiet things are on an early Sunday morning in the summer. Very few people live in Times Square (unless they occupy a box). Either way, most residents are in the Hamptons, the Jersey Shore, or Connecticut and tourists are easily shepherded out of the way.
They actually do a ton of filming in the city. There is a city agency dedicated to it - Mayor's office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting.
I'm not sure what you don't understand here. The music and movie industries don't have a problem with you selling or giving away your cd or movie to somebody else. Blockbuster has a very large selection of used vidoes as do most video stores. When you sell a physical copy you no longer possess a copy. With online music you continue to possess a copy.
So much for pre-announcing the product almost 1 year in advance :-(
Talking about rounding up. When last I checked, Q4 starts in October. It is now pretty much June and we are only 4 months from Q4 which is not even close to a year.
See I disagree. This is obviously aimed at the home/small business user as opposed to a corporate user. Companies that are going to adopt RedHat are going to be using bulk licensing anyway.
Go after existing users is a fruitless exercise. The more prolific a person becomes with Linux the more they realize they don't need to buy the latest version. They can either download it or just upgrade individual apps as they see fit. This is especially true since most current Linux users are fairly advanced computer users.
If you want to make money you have to chip away at the Windows market. These are the people who are used to upgrading every year or two. These are the people who would never recompile the kernel or install from source. What they should do is tell people that if they send in their Windows disks they get RedHat for free. Just make sure that they don't donate their computers afterwards.
I realize that Redhat is a business but this seems a little underhanded. What is more important to them - encouraging Windows users to "upgrade" to RedHat or taking existing customers away from other distributors.
I personally use SuSE on my notebook and Slackware on my mail server. There is something about RedHat that makes me think that they would like to be the next evil empire.
everybody to disable the preview pane immediately - "on their home systems". First post of the morning error. Sorry.
Tick Tick - waiting for two minutes to pass.
I knew somebody would call me on that. Like I said we don't use Outlook here anymore so I forgot the preview pane. I do however tell everybody to disable the preview pane immediately. Although, if I remember correctly, Norton covers your ass on that said as long as you keep it updated also.
Something along the lines of "teach a man to fish..." comes to mind. You are mistaking ignorance for stupidity. People do learn. Sometimes it is only after getting burned but other times it is just from pounding them over the head with it.
It is also not just up to companies to educate their employees. It is up to you and me and everybody else who reads this. The trick is NOT to treat people like idiots. Stop thinking that you are better than they all are - because I am willing to be that you are not. As much as you know about technology they may know about accounting or marketing or Taw Kwon Do.
How about you just educate yourself and your coworkers instead? Email viruses are not just about the program used - they are also about ignornace. Here is a hint to get you started:
.xls or .doc extensions only (no .doc.js, etc.).
1) Apply all security patches from Microsoft.
I was just interupted as I was typing this by a coworker asking me about a virus (talk about synchronicity). We don't use Outlook and she wasn't infected but she printed out the email and showed it to me. Sure enough - whatever.scr. I told her to delete it immediately.
Why did she ask me first and not print it? Because we have a policy here - which brings me to point 2:
2) Don't open anything that isn't work related.
3) All computers show all extensions on files.
4) Only open files that you expected with
5) If you get anything else - then ask me or somebody else informed about the latest viruses.
6) When in doubt, call the sender and ask if they intended to send the email.
With all of these in place, when a virus is sent to one of our employees it does not propogate.
I leave you with this thought. A few weeks ago somebody in another department received an email warning about a virus go around. The email said to email this warning to EVERYBODY IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. One of my coworkers received the email and asked me about it. Of course it was a hoax and I wrote an email back to the original sender telling her that she basically just sent out a manual email. If everybody sent out that email to everybody in their address book it would be a disaster. The moral of the story - ignorance is the worst virus.
Actually, most of these are after the fact. Small business owners that are near bankruptcy will often band together and try to fight Walmart. Unfortunately, as these things usually go, Walmart has much more money to spend and they usually settle for a token amount.
Are you on crack? Are you not reading what I am typing here? This isn't about having a week of sales for Grand Opening. This is about slashing prices below cost, because you can afford to, until the competition is squashed. Then you raise your prices back to a reasonable level.
Based on your arguments I can only assume that you are a Microsoft sympathizer also. After all, if they want to give away their browser for free then more power to them.
Actually I don't just say predatory pricing - so do all the lawsuits that follow them.
No, I just support their right to provide a better deal.
Let me explain predatory pricing to you. When Walmart moves into a town they offer very low prices sometimes even lower than cost. After the smaller competitors are forced out of business they return to their regular prices. They may call it Grand Opening prices or whatever. This is illegal in many jurisdictions and unethetical in other areas.
I'd like to see your statistic for total mom-n-pop revenue compared to Walmart in areas that Walmart services. Does it beat $200 Billion? I doubt it very highly. Saying that there are a greater number of mom-n-pops is just ignorant.
As for forcing - I could also say that Microsoft did not force anybody to use their product. Walmart did not come out and say that you had to produce two versions of every album. They only said that they will not carry albums with parental warning labels. You decide whether that is forcing or not.
I can assume that you have some association with Walmart to be so blindly patriotic to a company that has left so many businesses in ruin in its climb to the top. Do a search on Google for Walmart and predatory pricing and then come back here and post.
I see Wal-Marts everywhere
That is probably because Walmart, number one on the fortune 500 with $220 Billion (with a B) in annual revenue (compared to Microsoft which is 72nd with $25 Billion), has sucessfully used predatory pricing to drive out of business all of the small mom-n-pop businesses and most of their larger competitors.
Before we all jump on the WalMart bandwagon just because we think they are taking a swipe at Microsoft, we must remember that this is the company that used its power to force record labels to produce two copies of every album (one nice for Walmart and one naughty for everyone else).
As an email administrator with users that use Windows it is definitely big "worries" even thought the server is Slackware and qmail. I really need to get off my lazy ass and install qmail scanner or something or that sort.
"You" aren't actually infected and sending the virus. The virus is sending itself from another infecting individual using your email address as the from: field. Take a look at the Symantec site linked in the article or read the guys post above.
Well stated. I've had the same experiences both myself and with my friends. I use Slackware as my email server and nothing could be more stable. If I didn't have UPS problems it would have months uptime. When it comes to day to day work though I am hooked on Windows. I put SuSE on an old 400mhz laptop and brought it with me on a business trip. Everything worked great but it still was missing that something that made we want to continue using it. It is very hard to define, though.
My percentage is not pulled out of the air. It is right around what Apple's market share is right now. Apple is not doing anything new. They have always (at least since I was in grade school 20 years ago) focused on the educational market. If they stopped focusing on the educational market then they would probably lose market share. Unless Apple starts donating free computers to every school in the country they are not going to gain too much ground in this area.
Also, reread my other comments for a justification of the 6 or 7%.
The merger was an excuse for a big dividend payout to the chiefs at TimeWarner as well as AOL. It was the shareholders of TimeWarner that got taken. The big boys in the board room made out JUST FINE.
Dividends are payouts to all shareholders, not just shareholders who are chief executives. They may have gotten huge amounts in the form of bonuses but most of them also took huge hits from the decrease in stock value. I know that Steve Case dropped off of the billionaire list (poor baby).
What don't you understand? 6 or 7% is 6 or 7% no matter what the population is. I only quoted the number from the original poster. Also, grade school students are not about to go out and buy a computer anytime soon. As I pointed out, may of these children already have computers that their parent's bought.
US High-School age population is around 20M according the census bureau. I was just using the number the original poster used. Either way, 6 or 7% is still 6 or 7%.
Ok. You did your estimate. Now let's do one that is more realistic. Let's figure first that probably 30% of those kids go to city schools that can't afford new computers. 50% of them have bought computers in the last two or three years and find them satisfactory for what they are doing.
Now the remaining 20% that MAY buy new computers this year MAY buy Macs but many of the children in those schools aren't going to be making the buying decisions in their family any time soon. Most of them probably already have PC's in their house because their parents use them at work. Some of them will just not like the Mac (yes it happens) and will go with something else.
In the end, maybe 6-7% of those 15M will end up buying Macs which is right inline with Apple's current market share.