But then again, if it is like local auto-theft (in this city anyway) where 5 thieves are responsible for over 80% of the auto-related crime, it could make a difference
These six spammers *may* be responsible for (say) 50% of the spams. It is at least a good 'chunk' to make an impact (if that were the case of course)
There are some intangibles related to 'getting your name out there' tho'. This is referred to as 'branding' in marketing lingo. There are also tangibles related to the cost of printing business cards, promotional items, flyers, etc
If you have spent time and money designing your logo, printing it, bulding your image, etc., there is gotta be some compensation for that effort at the very least.
I am using Firebird and see no probs with/. Just for the record, Firebird is the browser I use 99% of the time and there is not many sites that it cannot handle.
Generally, if a site 'requires' IE, switching the agent in Firebird (via the Agent Switcher plug-in) does the job (tricking the site into believing you are using IE and serving the content). Firebird then renders the page correctly.
When this does not work, then I use IE (which is the remaining 1% percent of the time that I don't use Firebird), very rare though...
We have supersonic aicrafts, we have spaceships, we can dig more than 10km deep into the Earth, we can move from the ocean surface into the Mariana trench in the same craft, we can build moving objects weighting million tons! Can the nature do that? Did the evolution do that? The answer is a resounding no!
Ah, but does nature need to?
I mean, sure our earthlings cannot travel at supersonic speeds, or travel to space, or dig more than 10km deep into the earth, or move from the ocean surface into the Mariana trench, or create moving objects weighting millions of tons (not anymore, anyhow), but do they need to?
Just because you can does not mean you have evolved better. I think evolution wraps around a complex mix of design, functionality, and need (to survive). And nature does not need to do all those things to survive. Us humans (and our crazy needy, greedy ways) do.
I do agree with you in all the important progress all scientists around the world are making to mimic, and sometimes better, the efforts of nature and evolution. I, for one, find it fascinating. I think us humans want to learn from nature, and, to a certain degree, kinda have to
Because even is you telecommute, an employer has to pay you a minimun wage which in your country may translate to 3 times (or more, or less) the minimum wage of a similar employee in another country.
Not to mention health care and other benefits paid by the employeer
I have been using Mozilla for a couple of years now and decided to download Firebird (Phoenix 0.4 at the time) to try it out.
I must say I am very pleased. It has a simpler, get-to-the-point interface that's is highly customizable not to mention the much-smaller, simpler installer (around 6MB)
If I understand correctly, there will be (or are already) tons of plug-ins for it to do things like mouse gestures, and such.
I know you already can block pop-up windows, do image re-sizing, and skin the browser with your favourite theme(s) but these are considered 'standard' nowadays.
I am pretty sure I will be using this browser more often and eventually replacing any other on my desktop.
A new variant of the "Hi!, you have been e-mooned" chain letter will be born...
(nothing stopped people from using the photocopier at work, this will just be another amuzement toy)
Ahh!, the memmories...
...and people seem to forget what it was said when they start ranting about the PC clone killing IBM...
I said that if Apple was smarted than IBM and did things differently (with much more control over what they allow) it could work.
The IBM PC sells (regardless of who makes it). It also sells the brand, it sells services, they even sell PCs to corporations (in decent numbers I may add), it sells to the market-niche they cater. They may not make any money from hardware sales, but that's because of the way they dealt with their allowance of PC cloning which made the market ubber-competitive. The point is there is a market for it if (big if) they do it right.
I agree with you that software packages for $120 is not going to help Apple (or any company for that matter) in the long run, but the option of opening up a (very small) bit to gain market-share and become more profitable is still a viable one.
You mean the same way the PC clone market "supported" IBM? I agree with you. It did not help IBM much (yet the IBM PC is not dead, there is a market for them)
However, there is other answers... If they are smarter than IBM, they will not let go off certain copyrights. I.e. let others manufacture and sell those parts (in theory they would still control that the way it's done today).
The article also states that customers would supply their own OS (if I get an iBox I would have to buy the OS from Apple)
Customers also supply other hardware components such as memory, hard-drive, etc (more stuff for me to buy from Apple)
Customers get "hooked" into Macs (and buy more software, more hardware, tell others, hopefully even buy the real thing from Apple direclty, etc)
A little bit similar to the bait-and-switch approach (only that the bait here is not FREE-as-in-beer(tm) but only slightly cheaper than the original option).
Yes, it cuts into Apple's hardware sales (for whole systems) but it may increase their customer base (market-share) and thus it may increase their overall revenue.
(notice I said: it may increase their customer base and it may increase the overall revenue)
I think Taco wanted to say "Napster Incest"
You know, referring to the weird incarnation / re-birth of Napster created out of messing up with its parent (or related-cousin) company (Roxio)
just my 0.02 canadian
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In the exact same sense where Saddam was ruling in a democracy...
Tell me, what's a democracy but a name when people cannot exercise their rights?
when there is no freedom of speech, thought, or travel?
It's almost a dictatorship under the veil of another name to not scare off investors and not draw the world's attention to it.
Sir/Madam:
If I had a thousand mod points, they would all go to your post undoubtedly.
Well said....
I am tho thorry...
LOL
(OUCH)
I guess I'd better figure out a way to come up with the money then... That's too much to lose...
I don't think I could afford FOURTHY thousand dollars (American or otherwise) ;)
You are 100% correct.
I have Win2K at work and have not seen it either (in at least three years)
What about the server side of things? What are your thoughts on that?
stability? (of course I didn't RFTA) ;)
But then again, if it is like local auto-theft (in this city anyway) where 5 thieves are responsible for over 80% of the auto-related crime, it could make a difference
These six spammers *may* be responsible for (say) 50% of the spams. It is at least a good 'chunk' to make an impact (if that were the case of course)
imho
Yes, mostly.
There are some intangibles related to 'getting your name out there' tho'. This is referred to as 'branding' in marketing lingo. There are also tangibles related to the cost of printing business cards, promotional items, flyers, etc
If you have spent time and money designing your logo, printing it, bulding your image, etc., there is gotta be some compensation for that effort at the very least.
IMO, of course.
You are correct...
my bad!
Apple's iTunes just works... it's that simple.
I am using Firebird and see no probs with /.
Just for the record, Firebird is the browser I use 99% of the time and there is not many sites that it cannot handle.
Generally, if a site 'requires' IE, switching the agent in Firebird (via the Agent Switcher plug-in) does the job (tricking the site into believing you are using IE and serving the content). Firebird then renders the page correctly.
When this does not work, then I use IE (which is the remaining 1% percent of the time that I don't use Firebird), very rare though...
It must be hard for all Cow orkers of the world to not have a choice of cow orking tool... ;)
Happy New Year!
P.S. Firebird Rocks...!
will I be able to view my p0rn collection with it?
I believe image uploading is free ever since Google bought them out...
AFAIK, blogger now is completely free....
and yes, it is pretty easy to use...
Where's my modpoints when I need them...?/
Great comment! props to you...!
It never fails, someone is always trying to correct my French...
Can't you see I am trying at least?
French people can be so arrogant sometimes ;o)
Before I get clubbed for saying something rude about French people, hint: It's a joke!
Ah, but does nature need to?
I mean, sure our earthlings cannot travel at supersonic speeds, or travel to space, or dig more than 10km deep into the earth, or move from the ocean surface into the Mariana trench, or create moving objects weighting millions of tons (not anymore, anyhow), but do they need to?
Just because you can does not mean you have evolved better. I think evolution wraps around a complex mix of design, functionality, and need (to survive). And nature does not need to do all those things to survive. Us humans (and our crazy needy, greedy ways) do.
I do agree with you in all the important progress all scientists around the world are making to mimic, and sometimes better, the efforts of nature and evolution. I, for one, find it fascinating. I think us humans want to learn from nature, and, to a certain degree, kinda have to
Because even is you telecommute, an employer has to pay you a minimun wage which in your country may translate to 3 times (or more, or less) the minimum wage of a similar employee in another country.
Not to mention health care and other benefits paid by the employeer
IMHO
This is harder than it seems, I made a LOT of mistakes on my first try. This is my original typed message:
i Wolud have fad the FO but i don't type fsad with my tuhmbs
I have been using Mozilla for a couple of years now and decided to download Firebird (Phoenix 0.4 at the time) to try it out.
I must say I am very pleased. It has a simpler, get-to-the-point interface that's is highly customizable not to mention the much-smaller, simpler installer (around 6MB)
If I understand correctly, there will be (or are already) tons of plug-ins for it to do things like mouse gestures, and such.
I know you already can block pop-up windows, do image re-sizing, and skin the browser with your favourite theme(s) but these are considered 'standard' nowadays.
I am pretty sure I will be using this browser more often and eventually replacing any other on my desktop.
A new variant of the "Hi!, you have been e-mooned" chain letter will be born...
(nothing stopped people from using the photocopier at work, this will just be another amuzement toy)
Ahh!, the memmories...
I said that if Apple was smarted than IBM and did things differently (with much more control over what they allow) it could work.
The IBM PC sells (regardless of who makes it). It also sells the brand, it sells services, they even sell PCs to corporations (in decent numbers I may add), it sells to the market-niche they cater. They may not make any money from hardware sales, but that's because of the way they dealt with their allowance of PC cloning which made the market ubber-competitive. The point is there is a market for it if (big if) they do it right.
I agree with you that software packages for $120 is not going to help Apple (or any company for that matter) in the long run, but the option of opening up a (very small) bit to gain market-share and become more profitable is still a viable one.
However, there is other answers... If they are smarter than IBM, they will not let go off certain copyrights. I.e. let others manufacture and sell those parts (in theory they would still control that the way it's done today).
The article also states that customers would supply their own OS (if I get an iBox I would have to buy the OS from Apple) Customers also supply other hardware components such as memory, hard-drive, etc (more stuff for me to buy from Apple)
Customers get "hooked" into Macs (and buy more software, more hardware, tell others, hopefully even buy the real thing from Apple direclty, etc)
A little bit similar to the bait-and-switch approach (only that the bait here is not FREE-as-in-beer(tm) but only slightly cheaper than the original option).
Yes, it cuts into Apple's hardware sales (for whole systems) but it may increase their customer base (market-share) and thus it may increase their overall revenue.
(notice I said: it may increase their customer base and it may increase the overall revenue)
just an opinion
I think Taco wanted to say "Napster Incest"
You know, referring to the weird incarnation / re-birth of Napster created out of messing up with its parent (or related-cousin) company (Roxio)
just my 0.02 canadian