Someone else has already explained in detail why you're wrong. I will do it briefly:
"Free Music" (aka pirated music) isn't really free. It's actually a pain in the ass. My unscientific guess is that it takes me 5 minutes more to download a "Free" version of a song then it does to download the iTunes version.
So by my advanced calculations, if a person makes more then $12 an hour--and a majority of Americans do--it becomes economical for them to BUY the music.
It's my personal belief that in addition to technical savvy and copius amounts of free time, this is a factor that contributes to teenagers pirating music far more then adults.
"If you are worried that Max Cady might be out there in the shadows, teach your daughters not to be stupid about sex."
Right. The staggering number of sexual crimes against women and girls are because the victim is "stupid about sex" This MUST be why 1 in 5 female undergrads are sexually assulted sometime during their 4(+) years at university.
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As long as Skype defeats this in court, the little guys won't have to worry about it.
Actually, this is a healthy process. Being awarded a patent is only half the battle. This case is as much a referendum on the patent as it is a tort against Skype.
"These aren't products from a company where the Chinese government has direct control of operations"
Just because they hired U.S. execs doesn't mean that they are in the know.
This sort of thing wouldn't be very difficult. Chineese gov't works with Lenovo and a domestic chip maker to produce an ethernet card that looks exactly like the ones currently being used. The chineese managers simply tell any curious exec's that they've found a cheaper, superior, chinese manufacturer. The guys working the production lines don't even notice.
This sounds interesting and all, but why do we care about these people making friends and building social networks? Plus, how many REALLY have cell phones, and do they even work inside the cell blocks? That's a lot of concrete.
I guess I don't understand the market behind this. And isn't there liability giving potential predators a chance to gain someones trust?
Just one clarification: SVG is a new-ish technology. It's new to the web. Firefox started supporting it in it's most recent Major revision. AFAIK there's no plan to support it in IE7.
This may have been covered in a comment already, but I didn't see it.
People are discussing the mechanisms in the UK and Canada to pass a law w/o running it thru parliment, and my understanding of these mechanisms is that they work much like "Executive Orders" do in the US.
The president can sign an executive order and it becomes the law of the land. It can be circumvented by Congress and the Supreme Court, but not easily.
>3. Paper records for the voter. Worst case, every voter has a copy of their own >vote. Hard to use for a recount, but could help identify irregularities.
>>Absolutely, uncategorically, under no circumstances. Proof of vote makes >>wholesale coercion, vote-buying and vote-selling methods practical."
You fix this by COMBINING the two steps of government paper trail and user paper verification.
The voting machine prints you a receipt with a serial number on it. You can read it. Examine it. Put it under a a magnifying lense and check for microscopic defects in the paper. Then drop it in a box and walk out the door.
The gov't keeps the receipts, of course, and checks a statistically sufficient sample and compares that to the computer count. In cases of too much variation, a full count of the receipts is done.
And, as an aside, how hard can it be to build a voting application? I'm a software developer. Although I haven't worked on any open source projects, I have to think that I could build a voting application MYSELF before the november election.
I know that you need it way before then, but if you add a couple more programmers, maybe a dedicated testing team, and how could this be more then a 6-8 week project?
All I can say is "yeah right." But there could be a nugget of truth here. I know of a lot of people--of which I, of course, am not included-- that downloaded thousands of songs and THEN bought an iPod.
So yes, they don't download music. Because they don't have to. They already have every fricken song.
I installed it. Maybe I'm just missing it, but the last version of Konfabulator is basically 99.9% the same as this. The tag line for this release should be:
All New! Now with Global Brand Awarness!
It seems like they walked into the Yahoo Marketing department and said "OK, Release a new version of Konfabulator. No, you don't need programmers."
There *are* some new Yahoo widgets but that's not news. Widgets are created every day.
Wow... you've GOT to be in the SEO industry. There's NO WAY you'd take my post that personally if you didn't.
We didn't lie to the SEO companies we contacted. We simply obtained 2 quotes. One for the site that we actually needed optimized and another for a site that didn't, and that also happened to be smaller. We did this for the purpose of comparison. My worry was that the first thing these little scumbags would do is plug my URL into Alexa and charge me what they THINK i can afford. I was correct.
As for your contention of it being easier to optimize smaller sites. Well, we had no problem optimizing our large sites in-house. We didn't have any issues with the link difficulties you speak of. And as to your asertion that we optimized "uncompetitive" phrases, you're nuts. We optimized the phrases that most people were searching for. We used readily available, free information--from Overature--to pick these phrases.
And, at the end of the day, what matters is that we no longer are paying $2K a day in ad-words and our sales didn't go down.
I know it must suck to be stuck in such a filthy industry. I feel for ya, man.
We have a number of websites, and a couple of "crown jewels" aka "profit centers." We were getting absolutely RAPED on adwords, but they were also driving ALL of the traffic that was actually BUYING from us.
So after months of trial-and-error with Google we decided it might be time to hire someone. The first thing we decided is to approach every prospective company with two simultaneous requests, from seperate subsidiaries. One RFQ for our "high profile" site that we needed a quote on, and another RFQ for a seperate website without an Alexa ranking.
Time after time, the quote was 2, 3, 4, even once 10x higher for the site with an alexa ranking in the top 250,000.
These people are scum.
So we decied that hey, we're no slouches. If **these people** can learn this trade, than we can too. So we did. And now we're number 1 organically on the our first and third most important phrases and number 3 on our second and fifth most important. We're still working on that "number 4." But we did this without SPENDING A DIME. And, I admit, we had a little help from Jagger. Especially Jagger 3. All my love to Matt Cutts and his family this glorius season.
The moral of the story: Caveot Emptor. These people don't know anything that isn't readily available if you're willing to spend the time. It's not trivial but if you're worrying about SEO then you've probably mastered things more difficult then this.
And, a tip: Most of these SEO guys have a copy of "Boiler Room" for home and an extra one for the office. Once you call them and make contact, play a little coy. Make him think his usual pitch will work on you. See, he's going to want to prove that he's got this encyclopedic knowledge that justifies his $15,000 quote. If you just shut up and let him talk, he'll explain everything to you. Every phone call-- and this can be many. These sales guys will talk to you as long as you let them-- can yeild real nuggets of useful knowledge. And it's all totally free. Just ask a lot of open-ended questions and prepare to wade thru some BS.
The fastest growing job in the space industry has got to be doing concept drawings.
Ohhhhh yeeeaaaah, we have a surrrrging aerospace industry. Our engineers drew almost 1.2 Trillion--with a T--dollars worth of spaceships, last quarter alone. This is a *10% increase* over the same period last year, where only 1,120,234,323 tons of spaceship were drawn.
Analysts are expecting another great year of spaceship drawing in 2006. Even amid these boom years, some are warning against irrational exuberence. "It may seem crazy now, but we could reach a point where people actually stop responding to concept drawings of spaceships and may want actual spaceships." You be the judge.
I trust that now that we know about this mammal we'll begin working immediately to destroy it's natural habitat and poison its food source. But don't worry, little fella. There'll be plenty of room for you in our labratories, zoos & untested rockets.
... but this is the only place people might understand.
I've always been a windows developer and 6 mos. ago I took a job and started learning and writing PHP on day 1. Over the past 2 mos. I've been using the command line more and more on my dedicated server. Two mos ago I asked for sudo access and ever since there's been no looking back.
I LOVE SSH. I LOVE THE COMMAND LINE.
It's just so easy to GET THINGS DONE. I love that VI doesn't choke on a 65MB SQL file. I love that it barely flinched. I love how easy Linux is to understand once you just sit there and force yourself to figure out how to navigate in the strange land of no c-prompt.
The answer, of course, is with a BASH prompt.
Anyway, I'm SURE i'll be modded offtopic, but I don't mind. It's worth it. I was going to post about Flushing the toilet but after I clicked "reply" I saw PuTTY just sitting there, idle, in the tool bar. Hanging on every word I say. Waiting patiently for the next command I send it. It made me fuzzy in my stomache and I just couldn't think about anything else.
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Someone else has already explained in detail why you're wrong. I will do it briefly:
"Free Music" (aka pirated music) isn't really free. It's actually a pain in the ass. My unscientific guess is that it takes me 5 minutes more to download a "Free" version of a song then it does to download the iTunes version.
So by my advanced calculations, if a person makes more then $12 an hour--and a majority of Americans do--it becomes economical for them to BUY the music.
It's my personal belief that in addition to technical savvy and copius amounts of free time, this is a factor that contributes to teenagers pirating music far more then adults.
For example:
- Remove the &id=24097 from the Querystring. The page still loads this press release. Releasedetail.cfm is nothing but a static page
- Now mess w/ the URL to generate a 404. You'll get this error:
> 404
> [...]
> because Bill Gates is a Jehovah's witness and so nothing can work on St. Swithin's day.
Not to mention the whole front page is reduced to linking to this single press release? The site has no navigation.
"If you are worried that Max Cady might be out there in the shadows, teach your daughters not to be stupid about sex."
Right. The staggering number of sexual crimes against women and girls are because the victim is "stupid about sex" This MUST be why 1 in 5 female undergrads are sexually assulted sometime during their 4(+) years at university.
As long as Skype defeats this in court, the little guys won't have to worry about it.
Actually, this is a healthy process. Being awarded a patent is only half the battle. This case is as much a referendum on the patent as it is a tort against Skype.
"These aren't products from a company where the Chinese government has direct control of operations"
Just because they hired U.S. execs doesn't mean that they are in the know.
This sort of thing wouldn't be very difficult. Chineese gov't works with Lenovo and a domestic chip maker to produce an ethernet card that looks exactly like the ones currently being used. The chineese managers simply tell any curious exec's that they've found a cheaper, superior, chinese manufacturer. The guys working the production lines don't even notice.
You're right on a lot of details, but you seem to misunderstand the relationship between "Hayflick's Limit" and the longevity of a species.
w ww.senescence.info/cells.html+%22mouse+cells+divid e+roughly+15+times%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1[Goo gle Cache]
Read around the higlighted area of this page:
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:9GiRpofmvSgJ:
This sounds interesting and all, but why do we care about these people making friends and building social networks? Plus, how many REALLY have cell phones, and do they even work inside the cell blocks? That's a lot of concrete.
I guess I don't understand the market behind this. And isn't there liability giving potential predators a chance to gain someones trust?
Just another reason to stay away from MySpace.
Just one clarification: SVG is a new-ish technology. It's new to the web. Firefox started supporting it in it's most recent Major revision. AFAIK there's no plan to support it in IE7.
"Be the change that you want to see in the world" - Ghandi.
Actually, I think it was lumped-in a long long time ago and he's just bringing it up. Besides, not all drugs are narcotics.
Just ask Lucy.. maybe she knew him.
This may have been covered in a comment already, but I didn't see it.
People are discussing the mechanisms in the UK and Canada to pass a law w/o running it thru parliment, and my understanding of these mechanisms is that they work much like "Executive Orders" do in the US.
The president can sign an executive order and it becomes the law of the land. It can be circumvented by Congress and the Supreme Court, but not easily.
"Harper in Canada"
He was elected, what, 2 months ago? What exactly has he done in the past 2 months that you consider so abhorrent?
I'm just curious. Personally, I don't like the guys politics, but I think you're just trying to be a smartypants.
>3. Paper records for the voter. Worst case, every voter has a copy of their own >vote. Hard to use for a recount, but could help identify irregularities.
>>Absolutely, uncategorically, under no circumstances. Proof of vote makes >>wholesale coercion, vote-buying and vote-selling methods practical."
You fix this by COMBINING the two steps of government paper trail and user paper verification.
The voting machine prints you a receipt with a serial number on it. You can read it. Examine it. Put it under a a magnifying lense and check for microscopic defects in the paper. Then drop it in a box and walk out the door.
The gov't keeps the receipts, of course, and checks a statistically sufficient sample and compares that to the computer count. In cases of too much variation, a full count of the receipts is done.
And, as an aside, how hard can it be to build a voting application? I'm a software developer. Although I haven't worked on any open source projects, I have to think that I could build a voting application MYSELF before the november election.
I know that you need it way before then, but if you add a couple more programmers, maybe a dedicated testing team, and how could this be more then a 6-8 week project?
All I can say is "yeah right." But there could be a nugget of truth here. I know of a lot of people--of which I, of course, am not included-- that downloaded thousands of songs and THEN bought an iPod.
So yes, they don't download music. Because they don't have to. They already have every fricken song.
First Post?
"The process of making sure that no one can apply for credit in my name is something I do not want to repeat."
Tell me about it.
It's taken me *years* to build-up enough late-payments and charge-off accounts to sufficiently protect my good credit from these thieves.
...that MySpace is also having "database issues" today. There was (is?) a message up preventing me from logging on about an hour ago...
Shane
I installed it. Maybe I'm just missing it, but the last version of Konfabulator is basically 99.9% the same as this. The tag line for this release should be:
All New! Now with Global Brand Awarness!
It seems like they walked into the Yahoo Marketing department and said "OK, Release a new version of Konfabulator. No, you don't need programmers."
There *are* some new Yahoo widgets but that's not news. Widgets are created every day.
Yawn.
Wow... you've GOT to be in the SEO industry. There's NO WAY you'd take my post that personally if you didn't.
We didn't lie to the SEO companies we contacted. We simply obtained 2 quotes. One for the site that we actually needed optimized and another for a site that didn't, and that also happened to be smaller. We did this for the purpose of comparison. My worry was that the first thing these little scumbags would do is plug my URL into Alexa and charge me what they THINK i can afford. I was correct.
As for your contention of it being easier to optimize smaller sites. Well, we had no problem optimizing our large sites in-house. We didn't have any issues with the link difficulties you speak of. And as to your asertion that we optimized "uncompetitive" phrases, you're nuts. We optimized the phrases that most people were searching for. We used readily available, free information--from Overature--to pick these phrases.
And, at the end of the day, what matters is that we no longer are paying $2K a day in ad-words and our sales didn't go down.
I know it must suck to be stuck in such a filthy industry. I feel for ya, man.
We have a number of websites, and a couple of "crown jewels" aka "profit centers." We were getting absolutely RAPED on adwords, but they were also driving ALL of the traffic that was actually BUYING from us.
So after months of trial-and-error with Google we decided it might be time to hire someone. The first thing we decided is to approach every prospective company with two simultaneous requests, from seperate subsidiaries. One RFQ for our "high profile" site that we needed a quote on, and another RFQ for a seperate website without an Alexa ranking.
Time after time, the quote was 2, 3, 4, even once 10x higher for the site with an alexa ranking in the top 250,000.
These people are scum.
So we decied that hey, we're no slouches. If **these people** can learn this trade, than we can too. So we did. And now we're number 1 organically on the our first and third most important phrases and number 3 on our second and fifth most important. We're still working on that "number 4." But we did this without SPENDING A DIME. And, I admit, we had a little help from Jagger. Especially Jagger 3. All my love to Matt Cutts and his family this glorius season.
The moral of the story: Caveot Emptor. These people don't know anything that isn't readily available if you're willing to spend the time. It's not trivial but if you're worrying about SEO then you've probably mastered things more difficult then this.
And, a tip: Most of these SEO guys have a copy of "Boiler Room" for home and an extra one for the office. Once you call them and make contact, play a little coy. Make him think his usual pitch will work on you. See, he's going to want to prove that he's got this encyclopedic knowledge that justifies his $15,000 quote. If you just shut up and let him talk, he'll explain everything to you. Every phone call-- and this can be many. These sales guys will talk to you as long as you let them-- can yeild real nuggets of useful knowledge. And it's all totally free. Just ask a lot of open-ended questions and prepare to wade thru some BS.
Shane
Hey man, got a cigarette?
The fastest growing job in the space industry has got to be doing concept drawings.
Ohhhhh yeeeaaaah, we have a surrrrging aerospace industry. Our engineers drew almost 1.2 Trillion--with a T--dollars worth of spaceships, last quarter alone. This is a *10% increase* over the same period last year, where only 1,120,234,323 tons of spaceship were drawn.
Analysts are expecting another great year of spaceship drawing in 2006. Even amid these boom years, some are warning against irrational exuberence. "It may seem crazy now, but we could reach a point where people actually stop responding to concept drawings of spaceships and may want actual spaceships." You be the judge.
I trust that now that we know about this mammal we'll begin working immediately to destroy it's natural habitat and poison its food source. But don't worry, little fella. There'll be plenty of room for you in our labratories, zoos & untested rockets.
... but this is the only place people might understand.
I've always been a windows developer and 6 mos. ago I took a job and started learning and writing PHP on day 1. Over the past 2 mos. I've been using the command line more and more on my dedicated server. Two mos ago I asked for sudo access and ever since there's been no looking back.
I LOVE SSH. I LOVE THE COMMAND LINE.
It's just so easy to GET THINGS DONE. I love that VI doesn't choke on a 65MB SQL file. I love that it barely flinched. I love how easy Linux is to understand once you just sit there and force yourself to figure out how to navigate in the strange land of no c-prompt.
The answer, of course, is with a BASH prompt.
Anyway, I'm SURE i'll be modded offtopic, but I don't mind. It's worth it. I was going to post about Flushing the toilet but after I clicked "reply" I saw PuTTY just sitting there, idle, in the tool bar. Hanging on every word I say. Waiting patiently for the next command I send it. It made me fuzzy in my stomache and I just couldn't think about anything else.