Out of curiosity, what is your website? What kind of CPM are you getting? I own a website called JetPunk.com that gets over 250,000 page views a day, and I am not able to sell ads. If you have a very specific topic, then maybe you can sell your own ads. If you get general traffic, then selling ads is very very difficult.
The company with the largest market capitalization in the world undergoing positive growth of 20-30% in under six months? Keep dreaming, buddy.
It was the already world's largest company before it's recent run up, from $450 to $600. So, not only is it possible, it's already happened once before. Obviously there are limits to how big a company can get, but Apple is not even approaching those limits.
First class people like to board early so that the rest of us regular chumps get to see them and think "wow, these people are so cool, they are flying first class and are therefore clearly our superiors." Why be better than everyone else if nobody knows it?
For selling books, you are required to ship in 1-2 business days, and shipping is $3.49 for media mail (more for priority or international).
Maybe for other things you can set shipping costs, but not for books.
Of course, you can get away with shipping pretty much whenever you damn well please.
Same with cross-promotion. Technically, it's against the rules, but who's going to stop you?
The rules with Amazon seem to be very lightly enforced. There are big-time sellers out there who have a rating of 4.5 or lower. Trust me when I say that you have to perform very poorly to earn a rating that low.
There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again
Unfortunately, as countries develop, they consume more resources, not less.
Increasing wealth in places like China is the reason for a lot of the environmental destruction we are seeing now.
The world simply can't support 6.5 billion people living at 1st world standards. So, in the long run, more humans = lower standard of living for everyone.
He definitely WILL get paid by google. There are sites which are complete junk out there - a million times worse than this - which are still getting paid by google.
Check out http://www.dentistlocater.com/. This piece of crap site makes it look like the ads are part of the site. I reported them to google a few weeks ago, got an e-mail from google saying "thanks", and now nothing. If you want to punish them a little, go to google, search for "find an affordable dentist", and click on their sponsored link a few times.:)
Probably the EULA had some catch-all, like "By clicking 'Agree', you agree that Intuit can make any changes to this agreement without further consent or notification".
I think that google allocates "real estate" based on total revenue generated per visit, not CPC. So, if you bid for a high CPC, but you don't get any clicks, your ad won't necessarily be displayed more often.
Okay, I'll bite.
First of all, Forex, or currency trading is a win-lose game. If I make money, someone else has to lose. It is not like the stock market where wealth is being created. So long term, unless you are smarter than the average currency trader, you can expect to make nothing - actually less than nothing when you factor in commissions.
Secondly, precious metals, are you kidding?!?! Maybe as a short term hedge, but in the long term precious metals have generally grown at about the rate of inflation, where stocks and bonds have grown much, much faster.
You'd do better putting your money in a CD than listening to this joker.
Don't know if I'm responding to a clever troll, but I'll take my chances...
Regardless of whether there was or wasn't a violation of trademark, shouldn't these sort of trademark disputes be handled in the courts? Why doesn't Rubik's Cube go after the manufacturer in court, if they have such a great case, according to you.
Or maybe SCO should call the department of Homeland Security and have them take down your Linux box. I'm sure you can find several websites that claim that Linux infringes on SCO's copyrights. So it has to be true, right?
That's why we have courts, to sort this stuff out.
I always wondered why candidates ran negative advertisements. It might make us dislike the target, but it also makes us dislike the person who ran the ad. It seems like a waste of money, right?
Here's the answer. One thing negative ads are proven to do is to depress the turnout on both sides. People get fed up and don't vote, and that's exactly what one candidate wants you to do. Run a negative campaign in the area of the state where you are behind. Run a positive campaign where you are ahead. Win the turnout battle, win the election.
The 'real money' and 'play money' tables are categorically different. It is not just that the 'play money' tables are filled with beginners. Players will almost always stay in, since they have nothing to lose. Here is an algorithm that would probably break even at the play tables:
if ( goodstartinghand )
stayin( nomatterwhat );
else fold();
Good luck trying that with the real money tables.
Do you have any evidence to back this up? It could work if two or more bots teamed up at the same table. It is difficult though to write a good multi-player poker program. The University of Alberta's program only plays one on one. Not to mention the difficulty of screen-scraping or decrypting the communications between the client and server.
I seriously doubt that there are many bots out there.
>There comes a point when even the low-life scum
>won't bother with something with low profits
In America, at least, this is because of the "illegality cost". Why do illegal drugs cost so much on the street, when they cost so little to produce? The answer is all the money spent avoiding detection, paying bribes, etc... Not to mention that the risk of being imprisoned means that you have to have high profits to justify it.
Besides being theoretically impossible to drive it more than a few miles a day, it is a waste of energy to carry the solar panels around with the truck at all times.
It would be better to build a much bigger hydrogen-generating solar panel on your property, and then use the fuel to power the truck.
Having taken a stab at selling books on Amazon, I doubt the library book sale is going away any time soon. Most books on Amazon that are more than a couple of years old sell for $2. Now, take into account the time it takes to list the books, package the books, answer questions, handle returns, go to the post office, periodically re-price your items and you probably send about 10-20 minutes on each book you sell. So, about $6-$12 dollars an hour - not so great. The libraries might do well selling only the most valuable books online and dumping the rest for a quarter a piece at the book sale.
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Out of curiosity, what is your website? What kind of CPM are you getting? I own a website called JetPunk.com that gets over 250,000 page views a day, and I am not able to sell ads. If you have a very specific topic, then maybe you can sell your own ads. If you get general traffic, then selling ads is very very difficult.
The company with the largest market capitalization in the world undergoing positive growth of 20-30% in under six months? Keep dreaming, buddy.
It was the already world's largest company before it's recent run up, from $450 to $600. So, not only is it possible, it's already happened once before. Obviously there are limits to how big a company can get, but Apple is not even approaching those limits.
Google is like the rich kid with too many toys.
How long before Google shuts down Zagat? This can be nothing but a drop in the bucket of their global strategy. Why bother?
As a stockholder, I'd be ticked about their endless wasteful acquisitions and distractions.
First class people like to board early so that the rest of us regular chumps get to see them and think "wow, these people are so cool, they are flying first class and are therefore clearly our superiors." Why be better than everyone else if nobody knows it?
ESPN may be a high profile site, but that doesn't mean all their pages are worth advertising on.
f ull&page=sponsored&searchString=Detroit+flights
They've got millions of pages of garbage like this:
http://search.espn.go.com/keyword/search?src=bowl
For some reason, Google actually indexes this crap, and it ranks fairly well.
Maybe for other things you can set shipping costs, but not for books.
Of course, you can get away with shipping pretty much whenever you damn well please.
Same with cross-promotion. Technically, it's against the rules, but who's going to stop you?
The rules with Amazon seem to be very lightly enforced. There are big-time sellers out there who have a rating of 4.5 or lower. Trust me when I say that you have to perform very poorly to earn a rating that low.
The value of GM would be much higher than google if not for the debt.
There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again
Increasing wealth in places like China is the reason for a lot of the environmental destruction we are seeing now.
The world simply can't support 6.5 billion people living at 1st world standards. So, in the long run, more humans = lower standard of living for everyone.
In the Ivy League, after all, admission has everything to do with your family connections.
Check out http://www.dentistlocater.com/. This piece of crap site makes it look like the ads are part of the site. I reported them to google a few weeks ago, got an e-mail from google saying "thanks", and now nothing. If you want to punish them a little, go to google, search for "find an affordable dentist", and click on their sponsored link a few times. :)
Now, if you don't pay the employees while they wait for their machines to boot...
Probably the EULA had some catch-all, like "By clicking 'Agree', you agree that Intuit can make any changes to this agreement without further consent or notification".
It seems that www.tekwrks.com is not a valid web address.
Also, monsterinkjets is apparently having serious customer service problems
I think that google allocates "real estate" based on total revenue generated per visit, not CPC. So, if you bid for a high CPC, but you don't get any clicks, your ad won't necessarily be displayed more often.
Okay, I'll bite. First of all, Forex, or currency trading is a win-lose game. If I make money, someone else has to lose. It is not like the stock market where wealth is being created. So long term, unless you are smarter than the average currency trader, you can expect to make nothing - actually less than nothing when you factor in commissions. Secondly, precious metals, are you kidding?!?! Maybe as a short term hedge, but in the long term precious metals have generally grown at about the rate of inflation, where stocks and bonds have grown much, much faster. You'd do better putting your money in a CD than listening to this joker.
Wouldn't it be interesting to actually patent something along these lines, i.e, "Method for Enforcing Employee Retention and Compliance".
Then we could sue EA and other exploitative companies if they didn't license our "technology".
Who says two wrongs don't make a right?
Of course we don't know what will happen in the future, but this election is important because:
Just my $0.02
Regardless of whether there was or wasn't a violation of trademark, shouldn't these sort of trademark disputes be handled in the courts? Why doesn't Rubik's Cube go after the manufacturer in court, if they have such a great case, according to you.
Or maybe SCO should call the department of Homeland Security and have them take down your Linux box. I'm sure you can find several websites that claim that Linux infringes on SCO's copyrights. So it has to be true, right?
That's why we have courts, to sort this stuff out.
Here's the answer. One thing negative ads are proven to do is to depress the turnout on both sides. People get fed up and don't vote, and that's exactly what one candidate wants you to do. Run a negative campaign in the area of the state where you are behind. Run a positive campaign where you are ahead. Win the turnout battle, win the election.
The 'real money' and 'play money' tables are categorically different. It is not just that the 'play money' tables are filled with beginners. Players will almost always stay in, since they have nothing to lose. Here is an algorithm that would probably break even at the play tables: if ( goodstartinghand ) stayin( nomatterwhat ); else fold(); Good luck trying that with the real money tables.
Do you have any evidence to back this up? It could work if two or more bots teamed up at the same table. It is difficult though to write a good multi-player poker program. The University of Alberta's program only plays one on one. Not to mention the difficulty of screen-scraping or decrypting the communications between the client and server.
I seriously doubt that there are many bots out there.
>won't bother with something with low profits
In America, at least, this is because of the "illegality cost". Why do illegal drugs cost so much on the street, when they cost so little to produce? The answer is all the money spent avoiding detection, paying bribes, etc... Not to mention that the risk of being imprisoned means that you have to have high profits to justify it.
Besides being theoretically impossible to drive it more than a few miles a day, it is a waste of energy to carry the solar panels around with the truck at all times.
It would be better to build a much bigger hydrogen-generating solar panel on your property, and then use the fuel to power the truck.
Having taken a stab at selling books on Amazon, I doubt the library book sale is going away any time soon. Most books on Amazon that are more than a couple of years old sell for $2. Now, take into account the time it takes to list the books, package the books, answer questions, handle returns, go to the post office, periodically re-price your items and you probably send about 10-20 minutes on each book you sell. So, about $6-$12 dollars an hour - not so great. The libraries might do well selling only the most valuable books online and dumping the rest for a quarter a piece at the book sale.