I'm headed out to a show in a few days in LA that I've been invited to a few...last time I was out there, I thought I was meeting up with the pres of an overseas company to see his products, and it ended up being a suite full of scantily dressed hookers and coke. Only speaking broken Japanese, I apologized to the gentleman as I figured I had the wrong room.
not to them. anybody who is only making $1 when they could be making $2 is just not sticking it up the consumer's ass hard enough. with the transition from CDs to digital, they lost a huge portion of their profits. when greed and regulation is the primary driving force, consumer services will always take a back seat, and you'll never get anything close to a sane delivery/efficient system.
after that infringement is just part of the cost of doing business.
sane people make the same argument for things like, people dieing in airplane crashes, freak fork accidents, etc.. now try telling the government that, and they say "oh no no, 2 people died because of blah blah, we have to fix this. too much regulation? oh no no, not at all, can't put a price on your safety." now replace government with the recording industry. "lose $1 in profit because 13 y.o. timmy downloaded our song illegally? oh no no, we have to fix this. we want to fine him a gazillion dollars and propose a jail sentence of 262.5 years."
If you're in a hotel, say, and want to watch a video you've already purchased, the video service provider for that hotel can just check your record to see if you've already purchased it, instantaneously and invisibly.
cue hotel ads tailored to a trolling of my entire purchase history. uh, no thanx.
I concur wholeheartedly. Evil's out there, it always will be. Innocent people will die. Unfortunately, it's the cost of doing business. It's amazing it took until 9/11 for it to happen on our soil. But instead of addressing the source of the problem, we're patching things up. You hate us, we hate you, therefore you're gonna bomb us and so we're gonna run back and forth hoping we don't get hit. If i had the choice of a 1 in 1000 chance of dying on a plane with no security checks and a 1 in 100000 chance of dying on a plane with current security checks, i choose the former without question. Otherwise the people who hate us win. They're probably all looking at us like cockroaches when the lights come on. Scattering all over to protect ourselves. Jefferson puts it best with his famous quote. "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
i dont know, i'd rather rocky than 100% covered with methane oceans. i'm exaggerating of course.
surely, taking in account the size of the universe and what we've found already, statistics would suggest that there's another earth-like planet out there, if not more.
now if only we could figure out either: 1. faster than light travel so we wouldn't be on death's door by the time we get there/transport people there. 2. figure out how to make humans live to thousands of years old so faster than light travel doesn't matter. granted, who wants to be on a trip for 40 years? are we there yet? how about now? ok, how about now? 3. perfect hypersleep. still, what if you have a nightmare? could be a 40 year one.
it's not like it's an earth shattering idea. lot of manufacturers should be having this in the works. take a 7-9" netbook, pull off the keyboard, give it a virtual keyboard, cell modem and wifi and a touchscreen and you're done. technically it's fairly simple and i'd buy it in a minute to travel with or take home with me. i have a 12" thinkpad touchscreen tablet, but it's a little thick still with the keyboard i could do without, windowx xp tablet isn't very intuitive, not to mention to use the internal cell-modem i have to pay $60 to verizon for a plan even when i already have a data plan on my phone. i end up just tethering.
i'll conceed to your 'logic' argument, but then use your "Men (tend to) solve problems mechanically. Women (tend to) solve problem socially." point, which is more poignant, to just rephrase my original statement under the premise that being 'social' takes huge back seat in IT to being 'mechanical', so that is why women aren't in IT.
"free is free"? man, that's profound. who was the genius that thought that one up? probably the same guy that is implying that mcdonald's isn't greedy anymore. greasy, maybe.
it's not sexism, it's simply a job where more men thrive than women, for obvious reasons. IT is a field based primarily on logic. a greater percentage of men are logical than women. it's like someone else said with babysitting. that's a highly emotional job. which is why women tend to be better at it. next thing they'll say is there's not enough black-over-40-used-to-be-a-man-originally-from-the-arctic-circle IT people.
bitch of it is, nowadays they call everything terrorism. you could steal a candy bar from a 7-11 and they'd call it domestic terrorism. and with that one word they just up the prisoner sentences into the stratosphere.
true..the geico ads are hilarious, but you know what? i never thought about switching my insurance to geico. every time the commercial starts i'd be thinking "oh great, it's that funny little gecko again, this should be good" instead of "how much are they going to save me this time? should i check it out?"
so that begs the question..can a commercial be so good it's bad? Does too good a commercial, i.e. clever, funny, intriguing, hurt the message the advertiser is trying to send by distracting the viewer with humor and wit and maybe a little cleavage? So that the viewer is hoping for more humor, wit, and cleavage the next time around? Sure, they may remember your company name. The gecko for Geico, He went to Jared, blah blah.. but that doesn't mean it gets them anything. Everybody knows the name McDonalds; doesn't mean they have great burgers. But at least they show juicy nice-looking burgers on the commercials. They don't show scantily clad women on the commercials. It would dilute the product.
To get back on-topic, i can count on one hand the number of ads i've seen on tv or online that interested me. Especially online. I've never bought anything online that was through an ad. I don't care what they say, targeting ads either tv or online still needs a lot of work. When they start hooking smart people, then i'll believe. It's easy to hook the dumb ones. And that's their bread and butter right now until they perfect targeting.
Since the fossilized creature found in Germany didn't have features like a tooth comb or grooming claw, it could be argued that it gave rise to monkeys, apes and humans, which don't have these features either.
humans don't have a grooming claw? I've got 2 of them!
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40K a month for colo? come on, he wasn't serving the content, how much could his bill be? maybe 3K? 5K TOPS
-Tony
2.2 characters per second on QWERTY? that's not fast. maybe if you're 'high' it would be.
-Tony
I'm headed out to a show in a few days in LA that I've been invited to a few...last time I was out there, I thought I was meeting up with the pres of an overseas company to see his products, and it ended up being a suite full of scantily dressed hookers and coke. Only speaking broken Japanese, I apologized to the gentleman as I figured I had the wrong room.
wrong room??? what's the right room!? ;-)
but some money is better than no money.
not to them. anybody who is only making $1 when they could be making $2 is just not sticking it up the consumer's ass hard enough.
with the transition from CDs to digital, they lost a huge portion of their profits.
when greed and regulation is the primary driving force, consumer services will always take a back seat, and you'll never get anything close to a sane delivery/efficient system.
after that infringement is just part of the cost of doing business.
sane people make the same argument for things like, people dieing in airplane crashes, freak fork accidents, etc..
now try telling the government that, and they say "oh no no, 2 people died because of blah blah, we have to fix this. too much regulation? oh no no, not at all, can't put a price on your safety."
now replace government with the recording industry. "lose $1 in profit because 13 y.o. timmy downloaded our song illegally? oh no no, we have to fix this. we want to fine him a gazillion dollars and propose a jail sentence of 262.5 years."
-Tony
If you're in a hotel, say, and want to watch a video you've already purchased, the video service provider for that hotel can just check your record to see if you've already purchased it, instantaneously and invisibly.
cue hotel ads tailored to a trolling of my entire purchase history. uh, no thanx.
that'll leave a lot of empty seats. works for me.
Even though the program is "basically free" in terms of CIA involvement
nothing's free. man hours aren't free. somebody has to task those satellites. this isn't SkyNet.
I concur wholeheartedly. Evil's out there, it always will be. Innocent people will die. Unfortunately, it's the cost of doing business. It's amazing it took until 9/11 for it to happen on our soil. But instead of addressing the source of the problem, we're patching things up. You hate us, we hate you, therefore you're gonna bomb us and so we're gonna run back and forth hoping we don't get hit.
If i had the choice of a 1 in 1000 chance of dying on a plane with no security checks and a 1 in 100000 chance of dying on a plane with current security checks, i choose the former without question. Otherwise the people who hate us win. They're probably all looking at us like cockroaches when the lights come on. Scattering all over to protect ourselves.
Jefferson puts it best with his famous quote. "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
i dont know, i'd rather rocky than 100% covered with methane oceans. i'm exaggerating of course.
surely, taking in account the size of the universe and what we've found already, statistics would suggest that there's another earth-like planet out there, if not more.
now if only we could figure out either:
1. faster than light travel so we wouldn't be on death's door by the time we get there/transport people there.
2. figure out how to make humans live to thousands of years old so faster than light travel doesn't matter. granted, who wants to be on a trip for 40 years? are we there yet? how about now? ok, how about now?
3. perfect hypersleep. still, what if you have a nightmare? could be a 40 year one.
-Tony
it's not like it's an earth shattering idea. lot of manufacturers should be having this in the works.
take a 7-9" netbook, pull off the keyboard, give it a virtual keyboard, cell modem and wifi and a touchscreen and you're done. technically it's fairly simple and i'd buy it in a minute to travel with or take home with me.
i have a 12" thinkpad touchscreen tablet, but it's a little thick still with the keyboard i could do without, windowx xp tablet isn't very intuitive, not to mention to use the internal cell-modem i have to pay $60 to verizon for a plan even when i already have a data plan on my phone. i end up just tethering.
-Tony
i'm betting it's going to have a brain interface. Using your fingers is so 6 months ago.
-Tony
except that they estimate the surface temp. of the planet is 200 deg. C. how is that in the Goldilocks zone?
-Tony
and WTF is the gold microphone on his passenger side door for? his limited edition 'michael jackson' karaoke machine?
-Tony
the taxis are operated hands free? it's no wonder they're such bad drivers! ;-)
-Tony
bin laden's pimped out escalade has that.
for hookers?
i'll conceed to your 'logic' argument,
but then use your "Men (tend to) solve problems mechanically. Women (tend to) solve problem socially." point, which is more poignant, to just rephrase my original statement under the premise that being 'social' takes huge back seat in IT to being 'mechanical', so that is why women aren't in IT.
-Tony
"free is free"? man, that's profound. who was the genius that thought that one up?
probably the same guy that is implying that mcdonald's isn't greedy anymore. greasy, maybe.
you meant 'sturdiness', right? not heft.
it's not sexism, it's simply a job where more men thrive than women, for obvious reasons. IT is a field based primarily on logic. a greater percentage of men are logical than women.
it's like someone else said with babysitting. that's a highly emotional job. which is why women tend to be better at it.
next thing they'll say is there's not enough black-over-40-used-to-be-a-man-originally-from-the-arctic-circle IT people.
-Tony
Aliens eating at the fly-through taco bell way too much
bitch of it is, nowadays they call everything terrorism. you could steal a candy bar from a 7-11 and they'd call it domestic terrorism.
and with that one word they just up the prisoner sentences into the stratosphere.
-Tony
true..the geico ads are hilarious, but you know what? i never thought about switching my insurance to geico. every time the commercial starts i'd be thinking "oh great, it's that funny little gecko again, this should be good" instead of "how much are they going to save me this time? should i check it out?"
so that begs the question..can a commercial be so good it's bad?
Does too good a commercial, i.e. clever, funny, intriguing, hurt the message the advertiser is trying to send by distracting the viewer with humor and wit and maybe a little cleavage? So that the viewer is hoping for more humor, wit, and cleavage the next time around?
Sure, they may remember your company name. The gecko for Geico, He went to Jared, blah blah.. but that doesn't mean it gets them anything. Everybody knows the name McDonalds; doesn't mean they have great burgers. But at least they show juicy nice-looking burgers on the commercials. They don't show scantily clad women on the commercials. It would dilute the product.
To get back on-topic, i can count on one hand the number of ads i've seen on tv or online that interested me. Especially online. I've never bought anything online that was through an ad. I don't care what they say, targeting ads either tv or online still needs a lot of work. When they start hooking smart people, then i'll believe. It's easy to hook the dumb ones. And that's their bread and butter right now until they perfect targeting.
-Tony
while i scratch my crotch?
chalk one up for the 'evolution' naysayers? :-)
Since the fossilized creature found in Germany didn't have features like a tooth comb or grooming claw, it could be argued that it gave rise to monkeys, apes and humans, which don't have these features either.
humans don't have a grooming claw? I've got 2 of them!