"But, as a practical matter, no company can grow forever."
I would agree with you for the most part. I just think that if most of us were actually heads of Microsoft, that we'd be doing many of the same things that Microsoft is actually doing if we did our job right.
That doesn't mean that most of us "little people" like it or agree with it.
I wouldn't be surprised either. That's why I too use Google and would never use Microsoft's, AOL's or frankly even Yahoo's search. They all own too much web intelectual property that they would have trouble not ranking higher than others that should....
2. To cease to be brisk or active; to become dull or inactive; as, commerce stagnates; business stagnates....which I got from http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sta gnate& r=67
If a company shrinks, its not stagnating. While it might be fiscally wise for a company to shrink, it is rare that they are happy to do so.
A person isn't a company and if they were, you'd want them to grow into the Jolly Green Giant.
If I were investing in any company, I would want them to be as finacially sucessful as possible. If you are a company that didn't care about this, then you would likely not be publicly traded.
ok, I'll bite at the parent comment that I can't believe is modded up insightful.
Companies can either grow or stagnate. If Microsoft didn't venture into new areas, other companies would. Microsoft is interested in capitalizing in every area they can and they owe it to their stock holders to do so (I am not one and am not generally a Microsoft fan).
But to play devils advocate.... Remember when Apple concentrated on making computers and allowed others to make hardware that was compatable with their OS? Now they sell MP3 players, sell music online, drive businesses who made major software for their platform away by building competing products (Adobe and FCP), force all of us to use their hardware, ect...
To paraphrase your comment, "Can't they (Apple) be satisfied just making umpteen...dollars in profit a year on their operating system...and leave the rest of the industry to try to eek out a profit on the crumbs leftover?
Of course not, that would be silly and shortsighted, just like your comment...
He's talking about replacing the battery. Which you can't do on an Ipod.
YOu can guy a MP3 CD player that will play CD-RW for $40. That is compelling enough for me. I use clamshell cases for the cds so they fit in the same pocket as the mp3 player. I usually don't need an extra cd and if I am traveling, I have plenty of storage space for plenty of cds. Plus my music collection will work in any modern day, non-crappy cd player with no messy wires. Not just in the car - but at a party, at your friend's house, ect.
So now I bought an MP3 player and a PVR for the price of your MP3 player.
My sister wanted an MP3 player. I bought her an MP3 CD player that would play CD-RW. She is as happy as a pig in shit and I saved a lot of money.
Why spend a lot of money on something that sites in your pocket? Sure, maybe an IPOD owner can browse to a different song faster than you or she, but who cares? Now instead of trying to use your MP3 player to get laid (or thinking it could - I can't imagine posturing with an MP3 player), you can buy that hot chick a drink.
I know, I know, those with the most toys win, but pick your battles!! I'd rather go on a vacation than spend more on my MP3 player. Just my individual priorities I suppose.
While I am no fan of Dinsey's corporate tactics, you can't beat riding the coat tails that is Disney's name.
You think distribution is easy? If you want to push your video into every chain store, every rental store, slap Disney's name on it. We all recognize Disney as the ghestapo of the entertainment industry.
Its like Walmart - they make the rules of supply chain management these days. Its like one of that major record labels - if you aren't one, good luck getting much of your artist's work into heavy rotation. Disney still has the video industry by the short and curlies.
You hit the nail on the head. I haven't gotten a virus in years and I have no AV running (I do occasionally run a free web based scan from one of the AV companies before I have to send out a word doc resume). My wife and 3 year old share another box - neither canbe considered a geek - with no viruses. If you don't open email attachments from peple you don't know and don't install software from places you don't request or buy it from, where's the danger? I figure any open source stuff I install is safe as long as its well known enough that we'd all have heard about weirdo stuff in it. Never mind the router I am behind.
I recently helped a few non tech folks out with their machines. I was absolutely amazed at how they all live in fear that they will get viruses/hacked. The AV companies have done a great job instilling the fear of god into many of us. I will never, ever doubt that they have an underestimated hand in the production of viruses. It is only common sense. There are too many unscrupulous folks in the business world. And with all the money to be made by selling AV solutions, you can bet some project manager/C*O out there HAD TO HAVE HAD SOME PART IN SOME VIRUS PRODUCTION SOMEWHERE, SOMETIME.
I'm not a tin foil hat kind of guy. It just makes way way way to much sense that the AV companies play a much bigger part in it all than we all figure. Statistically, the most likely answer to the problem is the answer to the problem.
Of course they wont - my father did it for 20 years. You can have a phone that you "split" between business and personal, even if the split isn't an even one.
If I weren't stuck in the meta mod black hole, I would mod you up.
Everyone thinks they need to order a business version of this service or that. You don't. Why pay double or more for phone service when you can use a residential service. You just don't get to claim it on your business's taxes (I think). Get a company calling card and use it for your long distance expenses.
Well, I see youa re getting flamed cause you couldn't get it all up and running in 30 minutes.
I guess what it comes down to is that some will say, "I make $50 an hour and could have bought 2 TIVOs/ReplayTVs if I worked instead of rolling my own).
But really, I too feel like this guy was a bit dumb. I have had to deal with ReplayTV and dealt with the same issues he did. I didn't have a problem at all. It almost seemed like he was looking for an excuse to roll his own and even defame ReplayTV a hair.
When I saw what lackluster effort he put into setting up his Replay, I stopped reading the article.
It wouldn't surprise me that he had problems rolling his won if he couldn't simply ask Replay to add his cable lineup, which they routinely do within 2 days if you ask them. It took them 24 hours for me to get a new lineup in Boston for one of the newer competing cable companies.
Replay TV now has a three year subscription included. After that, it is $.99 a month. That's right, not $12 a MONTH, $12 a YEAR.
One year ago, I recommended that my sister buy a ReplayTV. Right after that, it was announced they were getting sold. I nearly crapped myself at getting her to make an investment in what seemed to now be a shaky product. I had heard of the outsourcing CS to India and that it was BAD.
Well, it took her nearly 6 months to hook it up properly (from her own laziness) and when she did, she found she had thrown away the IR blaster (which lets ReplayTV change channels for you). She called them up and within 5 minutes, they were sending her one free.
Also, I have found that Replay's channel guide service is great. They have had new channel lineups before my cable system impliments it. And I am not in a merto area. 4 years ago, when my cable company got sold and the channel lineup got tweaked, I did have to call in to let them know I had a new cable company and it wasn't available in the choices. Within 24 hours, the new choice was up there. I certainly didn't expect that.
Replay is also known for swapping out units even after warranties expire.
While I am a faithful Replay owner (5 years and my 2020 is still running perfectly) I would certainly recommend a TIVO before I would suggest to anyone I know (other than myself and one other person) that they roll their own.
I always tell the cashier that I "forgot" my card and she scans in her card.
Funny to think of her getting hundreds of recall notices... Because you know the store would do something inane like send out a recall for every beef purchase and not just one per customer. Direct mailings just don't cost enough without sending 300% more than you should...
First, what a strange looking car. I like boxy looking cars, but there seems to be something disproportional about this one. I'm not sure I can put my finger on it.
Secondly, with all of the technology and money put inot this car, what's up with the car cell phone from the 80's? Where's the bluetooth integrated wireless mumbo jumbo?
Or is that cell phone modded to dispense Pez or joints or Jolt? That'd be cool...
Perhaps notifying them that they are wasting his time can open the doors for a countersuit? If he shows they have no claim and they keep harrasing him...
While it might not be illegal, you would be foolish to think that you wouldn't be put on a "list" for attending.
Now would this list make you less likely to get a higher level govt job? Would it get you a different color for the homeland's flight database? Will it not allow you to attend the next presidential visit in your area? Will it get you a phone/internet tap?
Who can say for sure, but it is a lot more likely than if you didn't go.
I am not encouraging people NOT to attend. It IS your right to go. But don't think they aren't taking a laundry list of those attending/facial records, ect.
I am not usually a conspiracy theorist, but its shocking to see the parent modded up as funny and not interesting.
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"But, as a practical matter, no company can grow forever."
I would agree with you for the most part. I just think that if most of us were actually heads of Microsoft, that we'd be doing many of the same things that Microsoft is actually doing if we did our job right.
That doesn't mean that most of us "little people" like it or agree with it.
I wouldn't be surprised either. That's why I too use Google and would never use Microsoft's, AOL's or frankly even Yahoo's search. They all own too much web intelectual property that they would have trouble not ranking higher than others that should....
It was version 5 that was god awful. Worst piece of trash Adobe has put out, that I have had the displeasure of using.
2. To cease to be brisk or active; to become dull or inactive; as, commerce stagnates; business stagnates. ...which I got froma gnate& r=67
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=st
If a company shrinks, its not stagnating. While it might be fiscally wise for a company to shrink, it is rare that they are happy to do so.
A person isn't a company and if they were, you'd want them to grow into the Jolly Green Giant.
If I were investing in any company, I would want them to be as finacially sucessful as possible. If you are a company that didn't care about this, then you would likely not be publicly traded.
ok, I'll bite at the parent comment that I can't believe is modded up insightful.
Companies can either grow or stagnate. If Microsoft didn't venture into new areas, other companies would. Microsoft is interested in capitalizing in every area they can and they owe it to their stock holders to do so (I am not one and am not generally a Microsoft fan).
But to play devils advocate....
Remember when Apple concentrated on making computers and allowed others to make hardware that was compatable with their OS? Now they sell MP3 players, sell music online, drive businesses who made major software for their platform away by building competing products (Adobe and FCP), force all of us to use their hardware, ect...
To paraphrase your comment, "Can't they (Apple) be satisfied just making umpteen...dollars in profit a year on their operating system...and leave the rest of the industry to try to eek out a profit on the crumbs leftover?
Of course not, that would be silly and shortsighted, just like your comment...
The only geek gear my wife has ever REALLY appreciated was a ReplayTV
I refuse to believe that anyone with a sig that says:
:P
gnaughty [sourceforge.net] - easy free porn
Doesn't own a tv to watch porn.
"You can recharge the iPod from any AC outlet"
He's talking about replacing the battery. Which you can't do on an Ipod.
YOu can guy a MP3 CD player that will play CD-RW for $40. That is compelling enough for me. I use clamshell cases for the cds so they fit in the same pocket as the mp3 player. I usually don't need an extra cd and if I am traveling, I have plenty of storage space for plenty of cds. Plus my music collection will work in any modern day, non-crappy cd player with no messy wires. Not just in the car - but at a party, at your friend's house, ect.
So now I bought an MP3 player and a PVR for the price of your MP3 player.
gad damn, finally....
My sister wanted an MP3 player. I bought her an MP3 CD player that would play CD-RW. She is as happy as a pig in shit and I saved a lot of money.
Why spend a lot of money on something that sites in your pocket? Sure, maybe an IPOD owner can browse to a different song faster than you or she, but who cares? Now instead of trying to use your MP3 player to get laid (or thinking it could - I can't imagine posturing with an MP3 player), you can buy that hot chick a drink.
I know, I know, those with the most toys win, but pick your battles!! I'd rather go on a vacation than spend more on my MP3 player. Just my individual priorities I suppose.
While I am no fan of Dinsey's corporate tactics, you can't beat riding the coat tails that is Disney's name.
You think distribution is easy? If you want to push your video into every chain store, every rental store, slap Disney's name on it. We all recognize Disney as the ghestapo of the entertainment industry.
Its like Walmart - they make the rules of supply chain management these days. Its like one of that major record labels - if you aren't one, good luck getting much of your artist's work into heavy rotation. Disney still has the video industry by the short and curlies.
David Spade is this generation's Martin Short.
While Clifford (Martin Short as an anoying child) is so utterly annoying, it is also crap my pants funny.
" isn't the virus problem then vastly overrated?"
You hit the nail on the head. I haven't gotten a virus in years and I have no AV running (I do occasionally run a free web based scan from one of the AV companies before I have to send out a word doc resume). My wife and 3 year old share another box - neither canbe considered a geek - with no viruses. If you don't open email attachments from peple you don't know and don't install software from places you don't request or buy it from, where's the danger? I figure any open source stuff I install is safe as long as its well known enough that we'd all have heard about weirdo stuff in it. Never mind the router I am behind.
I recently helped a few non tech folks out with their machines. I was absolutely amazed at how they all live in fear that they will get viruses/hacked. The AV companies have done a great job instilling the fear of god into many of us. I will never, ever doubt that they have an underestimated hand in the production of viruses. It is only common sense. There are too many unscrupulous folks in the business world. And with all the money to be made by selling AV solutions, you can bet some project manager/C*O out there HAD TO HAVE HAD SOME PART IN SOME VIRUS PRODUCTION SOMEWHERE, SOMETIME.
I'm not a tin foil hat kind of guy. It just makes way way way to much sense that the AV companies play a much bigger part in it all than we all figure. Statistically, the most likely answer to the problem is the answer to the problem.
um, the troll part was calling it superblow, not your ininuation that the commercials were the best part.
consoles ar elike printers - they drop rapidly in price, but they still pork you for ink... I mean games
Of course they wont - my father did it for 20 years. You can have a phone that you "split" between business and personal, even if the split isn't an even one.
If I weren't stuck in the meta mod black hole, I would mod you up.
Everyone thinks they need to order a business version of this service or that. You don't. Why pay double or more for phone service when you can use a residential service. You just don't get to claim it on your business's taxes (I think). Get a company calling card and use it for your long distance expenses.
"You obviously have no experiance in theater"
:P
You obviously have no sense of humor. Or spelling.
Well, I see youa re getting flamed cause you couldn't get it all up and running in 30 minutes.
I guess what it comes down to is that some will say, "I make $50 an hour and could have bought 2 TIVOs/ReplayTVs if I worked instead of rolling my own).
But really, I too feel like this guy was a bit dumb. I have had to deal with ReplayTV and dealt with the same issues he did. I didn't have a problem at all. It almost seemed like he was looking for an excuse to roll his own and even defame ReplayTV a hair.
When I saw what lackluster effort he put into setting up his Replay, I stopped reading the article.
It wouldn't surprise me that he had problems rolling his won if he couldn't simply ask Replay to add his cable lineup, which they routinely do within 2 days if you ask them. It took them 24 hours for me to get a new lineup in Boston for one of the newer competing cable companies.
There is no date for the article.
Replay TV now has a three year subscription included. After that, it is $.99 a month. That's right, not $12 a MONTH, $12 a YEAR.
One year ago, I recommended that my sister buy a ReplayTV. Right after that, it was announced they were getting sold. I nearly crapped myself at getting her to make an investment in what seemed to now be a shaky product. I had heard of the outsourcing CS to India and that it was BAD.
Well, it took her nearly 6 months to hook it up properly (from her own laziness) and when she did, she found she had thrown away the IR blaster (which lets ReplayTV change channels for you). She called them up and within 5 minutes, they were sending her one free.
Also, I have found that Replay's channel guide service is great. They have had new channel lineups before my cable system impliments it. And I am not in a merto area. 4 years ago, when my cable company got sold and the channel lineup got tweaked, I did have to call in to let them know I had a new cable company and it wasn't available in the choices. Within 24 hours, the new choice was up there. I certainly didn't expect that.
Replay is also known for swapping out units even after warranties expire.
While I am a faithful Replay owner (5 years and my 2020 is still running perfectly) I would certainly recommend a TIVO before I would suggest to anyone I know (other than myself and one other person) that they roll their own.
This guy didn't seem to try very hard at all.
I always tell the cashier that I "forgot" my card and she scans in her card.
Funny to think of her getting hundreds of recall notices...
Because you know the store would do something inane like send out a recall for every beef purchase and not just one per customer. Direct mailings just don't cost enough without sending 300% more than you should...
Thanks for the mirror.
First, what a strange looking car. I like boxy looking cars, but there seems to be something disproportional about this one. I'm not sure I can put my finger on it.
Secondly, with all of the technology and money put inot this car, what's up with the car cell phone from the 80's? Where's the bluetooth integrated wireless mumbo jumbo?
Or is that cell phone modded to dispense Pez or joints or Jolt? That'd be cool...
Perhaps notifying them that they are wasting his time can open the doors for a countersuit? If he shows they have no claim and they keep harrasing him...
While it might not be illegal, you would be foolish to think that you wouldn't be put on a "list" for attending.
Now would this list make you less likely to get a higher level govt job? Would it get you a different color for the homeland's flight database? Will it not allow you to attend the next presidential visit in your area? Will it get you a phone/internet tap?
Who can say for sure, but it is a lot more likely than if you didn't go.
I am not encouraging people NOT to attend. It IS your right to go. But don't think they aren't taking a laundry list of those attending/facial records, ect.
I am not usually a conspiracy theorist, but its shocking to see the parent modded up as funny and not interesting.
"my brother won the box of porn in a raffle"
another twist to the term booby prize.
If you eat fish from Mickey D's, you have much larger problems than invasion of privacy...:P