No, but it does mean that I'm not going to pay $4 for the name brand on a cupcake when I could get the same cupcake for $0.89 at the no frills mom and pop bakery around the corner from my house except that it came in a plain paper cup.
He probably meant to say "Lawn Mowing companies". I work pretty close to this industry and I can tell, there are really two types of 'Landscapers'. The ones who really are, who maintain landscapes, including garden beds, trees, lawns, and the rest, and actually understand Xeriscapes, Then there are the ones who are just 'tree service' or 'lawn mowing' but call themselves 'landscapers' because it sounds better on paper.
I can't decide if you're being sarcastic or not, but in either case, Douglass Adams was heavily involved in writing the screenplay for the movie and stated on numerous occasions he had no intention of making any two incarnations of the Guide be the same.
What gets me, from reading the article and from reading through FitBit's website, it doesn't "know" you're involved in sexual activity, you have to TELL it. So, to me, telling your fitbit profile that you had sex is the same damn thing as telling your facebook profile that you had sex, and if your profile is public, well gee.
You could always just put it down as 'vigerous physical activity' and let other people's dirty little minds interpret it as they wish.
I think you hit the nail on the head there with the Silverlight comment. M$ could probably care less about Flash but they're not fond of any new players in that market.
This.
Seriously, what harm is it WHO produced the Public Service Announcement (PSA)? are they getting any benefit from it? IF you have to go digging to find out who produced it, then really what benefit is it to them? Most of the time, you see PSAs that have the logo of the company that created it, or a comment at the end, because the company who produced it is also trying to get some 'goodwill for us' out of it.
I'll admit, some people here on/. may disagree with the content of the PSA and feel that Piracy is NOT BAD, but that's not really what this article is claiming. This article is claiming that a PSA produced 'in secret' by a company that might benefit from it because it benefits that company's industry as a whole is bad. A much better example than the one given would be one secretly run by McDonalds that said fried food wasn't so bad for you, or one by goldman sachs that says 'support your banking industry'.
Again, what real benefit would the company in question get from it? sure they might see some, but so would their competitors. And most of the 'big evil corporations' aren't really in to doing anything that benefits their competitors.
TL;DR : What benefit does being anonymous on this public service announcement really give NBC, aside from whatever the government paid them to make it?
lots of blather about the 'next dimmension' of computer chips... 3d Inside or some such.
Still, nice to see that moore's law still holds... at least for now...
This is me, wishing I still had mod points.....
That being said, following the links back to the mfr's website here seems to indicate that it's a kitchen chemistry kit. So, it's a Mr. Wizard book with come cheap "glassware" and safety equipment. Saves the company the problem of properly packaging and labeling the reagents, they can leave the warning labels to other manufacturers. Still, a bit of a cop out.
If there are that many people gullible enough to fall for it... someone should totally come up with a chemical sterilization drug and distribute it that way......
So what, the government should let them be treated different because they threaten it? A protest is one thing but curses could be considered terroristic threats. Besides, they are using their skills as a profession, why should they be different than anyone else in that regard? (In this case I'm saying skills as in skill to convince people to give them money in return for some action on their part, not necessarily that they have any mystical abilities or not). Sounds to me like the government wants them to behave as citizens just like everyone else.
I work at a large business that often negotiates with vendors for the best prices
See, reference the part where I said Mom and Pop. by that I mean small business, held by some to be the foundation of the American opportunity. Admittedly not the way business is going these days, and this article is highlighting another nail in that coffin.
[quote] Be creative? Negotiate better wholesale costs so that you can offer your customers lower prices? If not, someone else will.[/quote]
And that someone else is Wal-Mart, with their huge market share and buying power to force the manufacturers into giving them a better price than Mom and Pop could ever hope to negotiate.
Upper managament was the one accusing the supervisors of not trying hard enough. They just never understood, they thought casual weekends were perks enough to help offset this.
I used to work for an answering service. Our desks in our cubicle were just wide enough to have the cpu BEHIND the monitor. There was a space on the right of the keyboard that was about big enough for the mouse pad and a narrow note pad (talking a 3x5 notepad here) and a slightly narrower space on the left of the keyboard. The cube walls were attached to either side of the desk. There was a shelf above the monitor that we could put our bags and coats on. If you rolled back in your chair, the walls extended back about two feet, and then you were in the isle between the chairs. We were not permitted to do anything but answer calls, have a sports bottle (That we had to buy from the company) of WATER (we weren't allowed to bring sodas on the call floor or put them in your sports bottle). We were not allowed to eat at our desks. We were not permitted to access the internet. We could have conversations with our co-workers in the neighboring cubicles as long as we were not showing any behavior that was designed to avoid taking calls (so can't forget to close a call after you're done with it, can't open and close a disconnected call to manipulate the queue, and really can't not answer a ringing call.)
They wondered why they had such a high turnover. Every training class they hired would loose 60-70% after their first week on the floor. They put pressure on the shift supervisors to 'work with' the employees more to try to keep them and were constantly telling them that they weren't trying hard enough to make the training worthwhile.
Gee, I wonder what the problem was.....
The question, though, is "can you really call it comparable?" and that's the problem. Sure, it's a word processor. But will it DO everything that Office does?
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No, but it does mean that I'm not going to pay $4 for the name brand on a cupcake when I could get the same cupcake for $0.89 at the no frills mom and pop bakery around the corner from my house except that it came in a plain paper cup.
He probably meant to say "Lawn Mowing companies". I work pretty close to this industry and I can tell, there are really two types of 'Landscapers'. The ones who really are, who maintain landscapes, including garden beds, trees, lawns, and the rest, and actually understand Xeriscapes, Then there are the ones who are just 'tree service' or 'lawn mowing' but call themselves 'landscapers' because it sounds better on paper.
A rather timely comment. Escape pod just ran a short story dealing with this very concept.... http://escapepod.org/2011/11/10/ep318-the-prize-beyond-gold/
I can't decide if you're being sarcastic or not, but in either case, Douglass Adams was heavily involved in writing the screenplay for the movie and stated on numerous occasions he had no intention of making any two incarnations of the Guide be the same.
I think he's probably tired of saying the word 'Beta'.
http://www.beehive.xxx?
I'm sure some scientist could justify a breeding program...
Depending on the geeks... possibly Robo Shakespeare...
Perhaps, but the manual does make the default view pretty clear, if you bother to read the part about setting up your profile.
What gets me, from reading the article and from reading through FitBit's website, it doesn't "know" you're involved in sexual activity, you have to TELL it. So, to me, telling your fitbit profile that you had sex is the same damn thing as telling your facebook profile that you had sex, and if your profile is public, well gee. You could always just put it down as 'vigerous physical activity' and let other people's dirty little minds interpret it as they wish.
...before someone thought to use something other than plastic pellets in their RepRap.....
I think you hit the nail on the head there with the Silverlight comment. M$ could probably care less about Flash but they're not fond of any new players in that market.
This. Seriously, what harm is it WHO produced the Public Service Announcement (PSA)? are they getting any benefit from it? IF you have to go digging to find out who produced it, then really what benefit is it to them? Most of the time, you see PSAs that have the logo of the company that created it, or a comment at the end, because the company who produced it is also trying to get some 'goodwill for us' out of it. I'll admit, some people here on /. may disagree with the content of the PSA and feel that Piracy is NOT BAD, but that's not really what this article is claiming. This article is claiming that a PSA produced 'in secret' by a company that might benefit from it because it benefits that company's industry as a whole is bad. A much better example than the one given would be one secretly run by McDonalds that said fried food wasn't so bad for you, or one by goldman sachs that says 'support your banking industry'.
Again, what real benefit would the company in question get from it? sure they might see some, but so would their competitors. And most of the 'big evil corporations' aren't really in to doing anything that benefits their competitors.
TL;DR : What benefit does being anonymous on this public service announcement really give NBC, aside from whatever the government paid them to make it?
One wonders if it got the message across to the bank.....
I'm surprised that nobody has commented on the line about taking Science on Faith.....
lots of blather about the 'next dimmension' of computer chips... 3d Inside or some such. Still, nice to see that moore's law still holds... at least for now...
This is me, wishing I still had mod points..... That being said, following the links back to the mfr's website here seems to indicate that it's a kitchen chemistry kit. So, it's a Mr. Wizard book with come cheap "glassware" and safety equipment. Saves the company the problem of properly packaging and labeling the reagents, they can leave the warning labels to other manufacturers. Still, a bit of a cop out.
If there are that many people gullible enough to fall for it... someone should totally come up with a chemical sterilization drug and distribute it that way......
So what, the government should let them be treated different because they threaten it? A protest is one thing but curses could be considered terroristic threats. Besides, they are using their skills as a profession, why should they be different than anyone else in that regard? (In this case I'm saying skills as in skill to convince people to give them money in return for some action on their part, not necessarily that they have any mystical abilities or not). Sounds to me like the government wants them to behave as citizens just like everyone else.
I work at a large business that often negotiates with vendors for the best prices
See, reference the part where I said Mom and Pop. by that I mean small business, held by some to be the foundation of the American opportunity. Admittedly not the way business is going these days, and this article is highlighting another nail in that coffin.
Not to self. Preview is your friend.
[quote] Be creative? Negotiate better wholesale costs so that you can offer your customers lower prices? If not, someone else will.[/quote] And that someone else is Wal-Mart, with their huge market share and buying power to force the manufacturers into giving them a better price than Mom and Pop could ever hope to negotiate.
Upper managament was the one accusing the supervisors of not trying hard enough. They just never understood, they thought casual weekends were perks enough to help offset this.
I used to work for an answering service. Our desks in our cubicle were just wide enough to have the cpu BEHIND the monitor. There was a space on the right of the keyboard that was about big enough for the mouse pad and a narrow note pad (talking a 3x5 notepad here) and a slightly narrower space on the left of the keyboard. The cube walls were attached to either side of the desk. There was a shelf above the monitor that we could put our bags and coats on. If you rolled back in your chair, the walls extended back about two feet, and then you were in the isle between the chairs. We were not permitted to do anything but answer calls, have a sports bottle (That we had to buy from the company) of WATER (we weren't allowed to bring sodas on the call floor or put them in your sports bottle). We were not allowed to eat at our desks. We were not permitted to access the internet. We could have conversations with our co-workers in the neighboring cubicles as long as we were not showing any behavior that was designed to avoid taking calls (so can't forget to close a call after you're done with it, can't open and close a disconnected call to manipulate the queue, and really can't not answer a ringing call.) They wondered why they had such a high turnover. Every training class they hired would loose 60-70% after their first week on the floor. They put pressure on the shift supervisors to 'work with' the employees more to try to keep them and were constantly telling them that they weren't trying hard enough to make the training worthwhile. Gee, I wonder what the problem was.....
The question, though, is "can you really call it comparable?" and that's the problem. Sure, it's a word processor. But will it DO everything that Office does?