You have a yogurt container that says #1, and a green plastic strawberry container which also says #1, but they are actually two different kinds of plastic.
If you are "salaried" you are "Overtime Exempt". Your work week is not limited to 40 hours, nor is your work day limited to 8 hours, and as a result, there is no overtime.
If you are non-exempt, you earn overtime if you work more the 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week, or more then 7 consecutive days (But only in certain situations).
Here are two goodsummariesof California's overtime and exempt laws.
d) The officer dropped the gun, during a stuggle, through clumsiness, whatever.
In another post in this thread, someone pointed out that 7% of officers who were killed were killed with their own gun. I would assume that there was a greater number of officers who were shot but not killed (Following the trend that most people who are shot with a gun don't actually die).
To be fair, even the best, brightest, most well-trained police officer will drop his or her gun once in a while; and even the strongest, most-agile police officer can be overpowered by another person or group of people.
Mistakes happen even to the best. Any weapon can be used against you.
I don't see a good reason in your post to not use gun cords. Is there a reason, other then machismo, to not use these gun cords? Do they reduce the functionality somehow?
Actually, I've always throught that US cops should had the gun attached to their belt by a cable, just like they do in many European and Asian countries.
Drop your gun? Well, at least somebody can't pick it back up and shoot you. According to these guys, "10 percent of police who are shot are shot with their own guns".
No, Sun sued Microsoft to NOT INCLUDE the broken MS Version of Java with Windows. The MS Marketing machine then said "They won't allow us to use Java, Sniff! You poor users.".
Sun tried to force MS to use a modern version of Java (1.2 I believe), but MS wouldn't budge. Why would they? They are a monopoly.
It's part 1 of a 2+ part strategy. Today's ruling is part 2.
How can you have better than 20/20? Isn't that the most by definition?;-)
Nope. Some people can have better then 20/20 vision. Read this How Stuff Works article (One of the most useful sites I have ever seen!). An excerpt:
You can also have vision that is better than the norm. A person with 20/10 vision can see at 20 feet what a normal person can see when standing 10 feet away from the chart.
Many airplane pilots (and some astronauts) have vision that is better then 20/20, as I learned with dismay when I was 10 years old (I have like 20/999999 vision:).
I hate Flash Intros. They usually do not add any information whatsoever: It's usually something like Company logo rotating in some nicely rendered light while a woman states the mission statement and says "How can we help you!?".
Dumb dumb dumb.
A Flash ad is like being asked to watch a TV ad for 30 seconds before you visit the webpage. I would much rather spend 5 seconds reading a two-line mission statement on the homepage then wait through an ad. This is the web, it's about interactivity.
If it doesn't enhance the information or interactivity of the site, don't clutter your site with this nonsense.
Behind every Flash intro is some marketing nut who doesn't understand the nature of the web, and is trying to apply their TV experience to the web.
If a site uses a Flash intro, I leave the site immediately. If I need to use the site, I always hit the "Skip" button. I never, ever watch the intro.
Flash CAN be useful for certain features. I've seen some pretty inovative uses of Flash for displaying complex information, as in an interactive map of New York city or something similar. Shockwave is sometimes useful for something like "Games". Unfortunately, I cannot find a site that is an example of Good Flash Usage.
If you're interested in clients, check out the http://scm.tigris.org/ pages: There's a GTK and a cross-platform GUI in the works (And I've seen a few other GUIs on elsewhere (sourceforge?)
I believe that Baird invented a mechanical mechanical "television" (as well as Color TV, later on), but Farnsworth came up with the idea of using a Cathode Ray tubes instead of mechanical parts.
The years are mixed up, however. Some articles say that Baird created his TV in 1925, and Farnsworth did his part in 1923, 2 years before Baird.
Either way, it goes to show that alot of these "I invented it first" arguments are utter rubbish. We wouldn't have modern TV or monitors without either of these folks.
Why do you feed the need to claim the credit for everything?
I think you're just being paranoid.
For the vast majority of the inventions, no nationality is mentioned at all.
I see plenty of inventions that mention "Royal [University|airforce] of such and such", or "Invented by Sir So-and-so". Sure, there are plenty of references to companies like "Raytheon invented the microwave" or something, but I rarely see nationality mentioned.
Find a c64 or Apple emulator for Linux, and find the Apple or c64 images.
Not sure about the c64 part, but for the Apple emulator and ROM (Or should I say image?), look here. You should be able to find the Apple II for Linux emulator if you look on Google.
So what I am interested in is if there is any research done on the demographic spread of viral style ads as defined by the previous poster and whether or not they have been effective in terms of a return on the investment.
Your marketing people should have some demographic data on the spread of viral campaigns. There was alot of research into this in 1998-2000 during the dotcom boom. Of course, most of those businesses went out of business. If your marketters don't have this data, they aren't doing their job. And the good studies probably aren't free either.
As for ROI, it sounds like your marketters want to violate one of the fundamental rules of viral marketing: Keep it scalable. The main point behind viral marketing is that it's supposed to be cheap.
Forwarding an email newsletter where the graphic elements refer to your website is usually cheap, because the newsletters are usually lightweight, and the elements don't require alot of dynamic or DB-driven content (Which simplifies the scalability issues).
Forwarding a movie file (Like the channel 4 stuff) is also cheap (for you), because the processing all happens on someone elses mail system (But it probably sucks for those ISPs).
But it sounds like your marketters want to combine the two: Use a "forwarded email"-type of marketing, but where the big elements reside on your servers in your office. That is not cheap.
Ah, and sometimes bribes are involved, such as the following email that I just got from my sister-in-law.
They paid her to promote the product. She even appologizes for sending the email, but now I know about Snapfish, the online photo company, and that if I want to go look at photo's of my 2-year-old newphew, I need to go to Snapfish.
Still, this reeks of a dotcom money making strategy:
Sorry I get up to 50 free photos if you guys register with Snapfish and thought you should know that new photos will be over here at Snapfish So if want to see 's growing obsession with horses: Check out Snapfish! They'll develop your film and send you a full set of prints on Kodak paper, starting at just $2.99 a roll. You can also upload photos from your digital camera and order film-quality prints for as low as $0.25 each. As a special introduction, your first roll will be developed for FREE and your first 10 digital camera prints are FREE! Plus, I'll get 5 free prints for referring you.
In my mind, "Viral Marketing" is similar to "word-of-mouth" marketing. It's one of the oldest marketing schemes around.
You promote products to your customers, and then your customers promote the product to their friends via email ("Hey Barbara, I get this newsletter from xxx.com, and I think you'll find it useful), over coffee ("Oh, I found this great new website...", whatever.
It has very little to do with large email attachments. It's all about focusing on a small, tight-knit community who communicates alot, and then exploiting those communication channels. Word of mouth.
My former employeer (A large new-parent oriented website with millions of unique visitors a month) was the queen of viral marketting. They probably had the best word-of-mouth promotion of any site on the planet. Why? Because new parents communicate alot. They NEED information, and want to help out the other new parents as much as possible, and end up promoting the website just like they say "Have you checked out Penelope Leach's new baby book?". Big bang for the marketing buck.
So, in this case, viral marketing was working pretty good, but not good enough, because some of us got laid off a few months ago.
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And what's worse, is alot of plastic isn't recyclable.
You have a yogurt container that says #1, and a green plastic strawberry container which also says #1, but they are actually two different kinds of plastic.
Not true.
If you are "salaried" you are "Overtime Exempt". Your work week is not limited to 40 hours, nor is your work day limited to 8 hours, and as a result, there is no overtime.
If you are non-exempt, you earn overtime if you work more the 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week, or more then 7 consecutive days (But only in certain situations).
Here are two good summariesof California's overtime and exempt laws.
Nokia obviously wants me to buy a new phone- but mine is perfectly good, except for want of a 35-cent part with some additional metal bits attached.
I'm a little confused... didn't you just point us to the battery that you need?
The link that you referenced points to the DL2025 Duracell battery. If this really is the battery that you want, they are pretty darn common.
There's also:
d) The officer dropped the gun, during a stuggle, through clumsiness, whatever.
In another post in this thread, someone pointed out that 7% of officers who were killed were killed with their own gun. I would assume that there was a greater number of officers who were shot but not killed (Following the trend that most people who are shot with a gun don't actually die).
To be fair, even the best, brightest, most well-trained police officer will drop his or her gun once in a while; and even the strongest, most-agile police officer can be overpowered by another person or group of people.
Mistakes happen even to the best. Any weapon can be used against you.
I don't see a good reason in your post to not use gun cords. Is there a reason, other then machismo, to not use these gun cords? Do they reduce the functionality somehow?
Great. Thanks for the stats, I couldn't find the numbers.
But still, 46 of 594 is 7%. Still alot.
But still, most criminals won't be walking around with a big HERF gun in their pocket either.
Actually, I've always throught that US cops should had the gun attached to their belt by a cable, just like they do in many European and Asian countries.
Drop your gun? Well, at least somebody can't pick it back up and shoot you. According to these guys, "10 percent of police who are shot are shot with their own guns".
Java ISN'T broken on Windows, its a seperate add-on.
The version of Java that Microsoft included with Windows was broken (It didn't comply with the Java spec), and was included with Windows.
Why are THEY special.
Because THEY signed a contract, and MS must obey the contract.
No, Sun sued Microsoft to NOT INCLUDE the broken
MS Version of Java with Windows. The MS Marketing machine then said "They won't allow us to use Java, Sniff! You poor users.".
Sun tried to force MS to use a modern version of Java (1.2 I believe), but MS wouldn't budge. Why would they? They are a monopoly.
It's part 1 of a 2+ part strategy. Today's ruling is part 2.
Haven't there been some recent cases resulting in local cable monopolies being required to carry certain local stations?
If you signed a contract stating that you would give away competitors products, then you need to honor that contract.
Don't like it? Don't sign the contract.
Congrat your wife for me. I read every cartoon, and every pane was a good example and very relevant to the topic.
How can you have better than 20/20? Isn't that the most by definition? ;-)
:).
Nope. Some people can have better then 20/20 vision. Read this How Stuff Works article (One of the most useful sites I have ever seen!). An excerpt:
You can also have vision that is better than the norm. A person with 20/10 vision can see at 20 feet what a normal person can see when standing 10 feet away from the chart.
Many airplane pilots (and some astronauts) have vision that is better then 20/20, as I learned with dismay when I was 10 years old (I have like 20/999999 vision
I hate Flash Intros. They usually do not add any information whatsoever: It's usually something like Company logo rotating in some nicely rendered light while a woman states the mission statement and says "How can we help you!?".
Dumb dumb dumb.
A Flash ad is like being asked to watch a TV ad for 30 seconds before you visit the webpage. I would much rather spend 5 seconds reading a two-line mission statement on the homepage then wait through an ad. This is the web, it's about interactivity.
If it doesn't enhance the information or interactivity of the site, don't clutter your site with this nonsense.
Behind every Flash intro is some marketing nut who doesn't understand the nature of the web, and is trying to apply their TV experience to the web.
If a site uses a Flash intro, I leave the site immediately. If I need to use the site, I always hit the "Skip" button. I never, ever watch the intro.
Flash CAN be useful for certain features. I've seen some pretty inovative uses of Flash for displaying complex information, as in an interactive map of New York city or something similar. Shockwave is sometimes useful for something like "Games". Unfortunately, I cannot find a site that is an example of Good Flash Usage.
If you're interested in clients, check out the http://scm.tigris.org/ pages: There's a GTK and a cross-platform GUI in the works (And I've seen a few other GUIs on elsewhere (sourceforge?)
That is super-handy, and brings it up to par with Perforce
Wait, I thought Perforce was heavily based on CVS? Was I wrong?
I believe that Baird invented a mechanical mechanical "television" (as well as Color TV, later on), but Farnsworth came up with the idea of using a Cathode Ray tubes instead of mechanical parts.
The years are mixed up, however. Some articles say that Baird created his TV in 1925, and Farnsworth did his part in 1923, 2 years before Baird.
Either way, it goes to show that alot of these "I invented it first" arguments are utter rubbish.
We wouldn't have modern TV or monitors without either of these folks.
Why do you feed the need to claim the credit for everything?
I think you're just being paranoid.
For the vast majority of the inventions, no nationality is mentioned at all.
I see plenty of inventions that mention "Royal [University|airforce] of such and such", or "Invented by Sir So-and-so". Sure, there are plenty of references to companies like "Raytheon invented the microwave" or something, but I rarely see nationality mentioned.
Find a c64 or Apple emulator for Linux, and find the Apple or c64 images.
Not sure about the c64 part, but for the Apple emulator and ROM (Or should I say image?), look here. You should be able to find the Apple II for Linux emulator if you look on Google.
Er, maybe he worked at Maxis tech support before EA gobbled up Maxis?
So what I am interested in is if there is any research done on the demographic spread of viral style ads as defined by the previous poster and whether or not they have been effective in terms of a return on the investment.
Your marketing people should have some demographic data on the spread of viral campaigns. There was alot of research into this in 1998-2000 during the dotcom boom. Of course, most of those businesses went out of business. If your marketters don't have this data, they aren't doing their job. And the good studies probably aren't free either.
As for ROI, it sounds like your marketters want to violate one of the fundamental rules of viral marketing: Keep it scalable. The main point behind viral marketing is that it's supposed to be cheap.
Forwarding an email newsletter where the graphic elements refer to your website is usually cheap, because the newsletters are usually lightweight, and the elements don't require alot of dynamic or DB-driven content (Which simplifies the scalability issues).
Forwarding a movie file (Like the channel 4 stuff) is also cheap (for you), because the processing all happens on someone elses mail system (But it probably sucks for those ISPs).
But it sounds like your marketters want to combine the two: Use a "forwarded email"-type of marketing, but where the big elements reside on your servers in your office. That is not cheap.
Ah, and sometimes bribes are involved, such as the following email that I just got from my sister-in-law.
They paid her to promote the product. She even appologizes for sending the email, but now I know about Snapfish, the online photo company, and that if I want to go look at photo's of my 2-year-old newphew, I need to go to Snapfish.
Still, this reeks of a dotcom money making strategy:
Sorry I get up to 50 free photos if you guys register with Snapfish and thought you should know that new photos will be over here at Snapfish So if want to see 's growing obsession with horses: Check out Snapfish! They'll develop your film and send you a full set of prints on Kodak paper, starting at just $2.99 a roll. You can also upload photos from your digital camera and order film-quality prints for as low as $0.25 each. As a special introduction, your first roll will be developed for FREE and your first 10 digital camera prints are FREE! Plus, I'll get 5 free prints for referring you.
https://www.someurlhere.com/blah/blah
Huh? You need to clarify the definition.
In my mind, "Viral Marketing" is similar to "word-of-mouth" marketing. It's one of the oldest marketing schemes around.
You promote products to your customers, and then your customers promote the product to their friends via email ("Hey Barbara, I get this newsletter from xxx.com, and I think you'll find it useful), over coffee ("Oh, I found this great new website...", whatever.
It has very little to do with large email attachments. It's all about focusing on a small, tight-knit community who communicates alot, and then exploiting those communication channels. Word of mouth.
My former employeer (A large new-parent oriented website with millions of unique visitors a month) was the queen of viral marketting. They probably had the best word-of-mouth promotion of any site on the planet. Why? Because new parents communicate alot. They NEED information, and want to help out the other new parents as much as possible, and end up promoting the website just like they say "Have you checked out Penelope Leach's new baby book?". Big bang for the marketing buck.
So, in this case, viral marketing was working pretty good, but not good enough, because some of us got laid off a few months ago.
Have you talked to a Frenchman or German lately?
And then speak to someone who is Jewish, Basque, Sinti or Roma (Gypsies), and the same thing about many of the dominant Europeans.