Paying a premium and enjoying every minute of the luxury. Thinkpads, et al can never beat the feel of the trackpad, it's multi touch gesture, the contrast ratio, the smooth key action with backlighting the solid but subtle case design, silent operation, etc.
Yes it's like buying a Lexus vs. A Toyota. I prefer a Lexus fit and finish myself.
FYI they have a docking station. It's built into the display. Every Apple Display has several USB ports and FireWire ports as well as a good resolution camera. The only thing it does not provide is a power source (which would be nice but that'd need a male/male MagSafe connector, still could be done).
Yeah but for this to be as profitable as possible first they have to move to XP then they have to pay someone to transition them to Win7. See if they just jumped over to 7 that whole consulting gig for the transition goes away and someone's cousin doesn't make millions.
Relevancy isn't related to how big your brand is directly, only to the number of in-bound links where the text of the link or the surrounding content has a high keyword relationship to the query string.
If your page or site is popular you will get relevancy. If not, it's no different than any other form of obscurity. Big brands spend a lot (millions at minimum) annually to become popular household terms. If they stop they lose relevance. Are you spending that kind of dough on traditional media? No? Okay then.
Unfortunately at that point I just need to isolate the noise from the signal and I have a really accurate profile of the paranoid geeks who think they can't be profiled. No pattern is a pattern.
Actually yes, I'd much rather hire someone who can hide their indiscretions. Essentially that is the meaning of the word. Indescretions are things you were not discreet about, you got caught or bragged about them, etc. If you are smart enough not to get caught and still come off as a cool person (as opposed to a BS artist), good enough for me.
Biggest problem is being impersonated on some site you might have an account but never bothered. Could cause some mischief. If you are l33t you can defend yourself, otherwise you have to beg ignorance and play the victim card pretty heavy.
And really if it's such a straightforward idea that you can't even describe it for fear of revealing the secret he should only get a few years before he needs to come up with a) something new or b) cheaper and cheaper manufacturing eg completely automated.
From a web dev POV I don't care if you use XP - I do care if you use IE6. It costs me 2-3 times as much effort to support a non-standard browser. That is pointless effort. The costs can not be reclaimed. IE6 is unsustainable and has been adding a web tax for half a decade. MS should be sued IMHO.
I wonder what the dad whose auto job was outsourced would have decided if given the chance to set up said project as his new job? I think he would have taken the job. Sounds like this guy still has the luxury of principles. Clearly he doesnt yet need the money enough.
I'll play opposition advocate. If rural America is unsustainable economically without subsidies it should go away. If the international market does Crete demand even if only political then that should be incorporated into the market value for those commodities. If not, again, let it collapse. Super farms for grains and vegetables make a lot of sense, why not let them take over? The alternatives for small farmers is to buy land closer to cities and specialize in organic or other niche varieties or move more heavily into livestock where there is a higher margin, etc.
It's not the public's responsibility to keep families on their ancestral lands so they don't have to change their lives or those of their children. It's also not our responsibility to keep Iowa's a viable state economy. It sounds like corn is sustainable but not at the yields which are being grown. So the farmers need to grow something else or do something else with the land which is currently growing subsidized crops.
I feel little sympathy for farmers plight you describe. If it's not profitable it's because it is so heavily subsidized that the value of their labor is artificially reduced. Stop taking the handouts and the value will rise, competition will be fierce, many will go out of business but those who survive will have a viable business again.
In short let the market do it's dirty work. The rest of us have to live with it, why should farmers be any different.
So the telcos would agree as well that the contractors who laid the lines should get a cut and the cities that handed over the land? What about the mailing services that handle advertising flyers and bills?
On a similar vein should UPS and FedEx get a cut of profits from everything they ship?
Maybe my underwear manufacturer should get part of my paycheck each month since their product obviously contributes to my productivity.
Essentially anyone can make an argument for a stake in all profits everywhere. Thieves and bandits do the same thing to justify their trade, doesn't make it right fair or acceptable.
Craigslist is the ultimate recycler for things like toys. I have kids. I buy maybe 5 toys a year at retail, mostly impulse buys. My kids have hundreds small and large.
IE6 was fine when it was released. Nothing wrong with it now except that it is based on 10 year old tech and standards. MS did not update it. That's the real problem. They had a lot of opportunity. Even when they did update it they did all the wrong things and for all this time the Windows default browser has been holding back the web in all kinds of ways and still is.
If this was kept as simple as possible it could work really well. Just goods (food and dry goods), nothing alive, no chemicals- nothing reactive or toxic. Air and water tight tube and canisters. Follow major existing routes. Allow for last mile deliveries so more than just major chains could use it. Last mile branches are funded by the receiver but they can sublet their line for local smaller businesses to offset cost.
Not true. You are ideally suited to managing fast paced processes. You just apparently haven't found the niche that pays off yet. I can do both. Probably not as good as some at either.
I believe at the moment that it is a left vs right brain activity.
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Paying a premium and enjoying every minute of the luxury. Thinkpads, et al can never beat the feel of the trackpad, it's multi touch gesture, the contrast ratio, the smooth key action with backlighting the solid but subtle case design, silent operation, etc.
Yes it's like buying a Lexus vs. A Toyota. I prefer a Lexus fit and finish myself.
FYI they have a docking station. It's built into the display. Every Apple Display has several USB ports and FireWire ports as well as a good resolution camera. The only thing it does not provide is a power source (which would be nice but that'd need a male/male MagSafe connector, still could be done).
Yeah but for this to be as profitable as possible first they have to move to XP then they have to pay someone to transition them to Win7. See if they just jumped over to 7 that whole consulting gig for the transition goes away and someone's cousin doesn't make millions.
This /. right? Did I wander into Digg all of a sudden?
Localhost anyone? Who is not running a server on their Dev machine?
Relevancy isn't related to how big your brand is directly, only to the number of in-bound links where the text of the link or the surrounding content has a high keyword relationship to the query string.
If your page or site is popular you will get relevancy. If not, it's no different than any other form of obscurity. Big brands spend a lot (millions at minimum) annually to become popular household terms. If they stop they lose relevance. Are you spending that kind of dough on traditional media? No? Okay then.
Unfortunately at that point I just need to isolate the noise from the signal and I have a really accurate profile of the paranoid geeks who think they can't be profiled. No pattern is a pattern.
Actually yes, I'd much rather hire someone who can hide their indiscretions. Essentially that is the meaning of the word. Indescretions are things you were not discreet about, you got caught or bragged about them, etc. If you are smart enough not to get caught and still come off as a cool person (as opposed to a BS artist), good enough for me.
Biggest problem is being impersonated on some site you might have an account but never bothered. Could cause some mischief. If you are l33t you can defend yourself, otherwise you have to beg ignorance and play the victim card pretty heavy.
And really if it's such a straightforward idea that you can't even describe it for fear of revealing the secret he should only get a few years before he needs to come up with a) something new or b) cheaper and cheaper manufacturing eg completely automated.
Look into chrome runtime options (add the arguments to the alias) and/or compile your own from source.
From a web dev POV I don't care if you use XP - I do care if you use IE6. It costs me 2-3 times as much effort to support a non-standard browser. That is pointless effort. The costs can not be reclaimed. IE6 is unsustainable and has been adding a web tax for half a decade. MS should be sued IMHO.
I wonder what the dad whose auto job was outsourced would have decided if given the chance to set up said project as his new job? I think he would have taken the job. Sounds like this guy still has the luxury of principles. Clearly he doesnt yet need the money enough.
Or better yet, hit the options link and just turn them off!
I'll play opposition advocate. If rural America is unsustainable economically without subsidies it should go away. If the international market does Crete demand even if only political then that should be incorporated into the market value for those commodities. If not, again, let it collapse. Super farms for grains and vegetables make a lot of sense, why not let them take over? The alternatives for small farmers is to buy land closer to cities and specialize in organic or other niche varieties or move more heavily into livestock where there is a higher margin, etc.
It's not the public's responsibility to keep families on their ancestral lands so they don't have to change their lives or those of their children. It's also not our responsibility to keep Iowa's a viable state economy. It sounds like corn is sustainable but not at the yields which are being grown. So the farmers need to grow something else or do something else with the land which is currently growing subsidized crops.
I feel little sympathy for farmers plight you describe. If it's not profitable it's because it is so heavily subsidized that the value of their labor is artificially reduced. Stop taking the handouts and the value will rise, competition will be fierce, many will go out of business but those who survive will have a viable business again.
In short let the market do it's dirty work. The rest of us have to live with it, why should farmers be any different.
Not too mention what he's alluding to is rape. Maybe he should be worried if the military history on addressing rape cases is taken into account.
Seems highly unlikely. I have a coworker who went through his 200MB in 4 days. Apps, music, video - all adds up pretty quick.
Ecommerce sites are always free and 99% free of advertising.
So the telcos would agree as well that the contractors who laid the lines should get a cut and the cities that handed over the land? What about the mailing services that handle advertising flyers and bills?
On a similar vein should UPS and FedEx get a cut of profits from everything they ship?
Maybe my underwear manufacturer should get part of my paycheck each month since their product obviously contributes to my productivity.
Essentially anyone can make an argument for a stake in all profits everywhere. Thieves and bandits do the same thing to justify their trade, doesn't make it right fair or acceptable.
Craigslist is the ultimate recycler for things like toys. I have kids. I buy maybe 5 toys a year at retail, mostly impulse buys. My kids have hundreds small and large.
IE6 was fine when it was released. Nothing wrong with it now except that it is based on 10 year old tech and standards. MS did not update it. That's the real problem. They had a lot of opportunity. Even when they did update it they did all the wrong things and for all this time the Windows default browser has been holding back the web in all kinds of ways and still is.
Go here: http://www.caniuse.com/
Scroll down and see how IE stacks up. Then think about the installed base of IE 6/7/8 users.
It will be another 3-5 years before we can implement many of those methods because IE is so far behind.
If this was kept as simple as possible it could work really well. Just goods (food and dry goods), nothing alive, no chemicals- nothing reactive or toxic. Air and water tight tube and canisters. Follow major existing routes. Allow for last mile deliveries so more than just major chains could use it. Last mile branches are funded by the receiver but they can sublet their line for local smaller businesses to offset cost.
Amazon is still recouping it's costs. It's not as profitable as it can be. That said 60 times is still fairly speculative.
Not true. You are ideally suited to managing fast paced processes. You just apparently haven't found the niche that pays off yet. I can do both. Probably not as good as some at either.
I believe at the moment that it is a left vs right brain activity.
Honestly in most office environments they don't upgrade. They install from a volume license and apply security patches so more money isn't the issue.