The problem was always Gateway the company, not Gateway the stores. For a good period, the Country stores were the best thing going for the corporation, from a perspective *and* a financial situation.
1. Big Company assumes no matter what, people will come to store.
2. Big Company pisses off customers by getting way too aggressive with a very small minority of bad customers.
3. Big Company loses customers.
4. Big Company slashes prices more to bring people back, forgetting the price wasn't why people left.
5. Big Company loses more money, wonders why.
It's the SERVICE, stupid. It's why the Gateway store in my town always was best in its district... it was the only Gateway in such close proximity to a Best Buy. They couldn't help but look like geniuses in comparison to the untrained warrany-whores placed in the computer department at BB.
TMBG have had Dial-A-Song since they started (and still do!). It doesn't surprise me at all that they'd find yet another way to get their product direct to their fans.
Just give me Ana Ng and Minimum Wage, and i'm as sound as a pound.
-Chris
Part of the agreement the three made to get their life story made was to keep the remake out of major distribution for legal reasons. They have screenings pretty rarely, but they're out there. Thus why this showing in Mass is such a big deal.
Yeah, but you're forgetting if that person has 500 contacts, which would you rather he did: Write One automated message and have the program do everything for him, or have him write 500 "quick notes"? It's all about taking the hard work away from him and saving him time.
Not to sound like a salesman or anything, i don't have plaxo and don't know much about it, just pointing out some obvious logic.
I'm holding out for other Slashdot marketing producets... like the Slashdot Home Enema Kit, Slashdot Hair Removal System, and of course, the Slashdot Herbal Penile Enlargement system.
"Slashdot the FLAME THROWER! The kids love this one."
Yeah, papers like the New York Times tend to stockpile Obituaries for people they know are going to kick the bucket soon. Obviously, Teller hung around a lot longer than they expected.
IIRC, there was a website slipup where obituaries for people who weren't dead yet suddenly appeared in a code glitch. I think Ronald Reagan was one of them... pretty amusing how poignant they read.
...since he was referred to as "Dr. Strangelove" by some, i only thought it appropriate to quote a line that Teller would have found quite appropriate...
"Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world!?"
Even if a lot of our technology being developed is for nasty icky warfare, doesn't 75% find its way back into the private sector for practical uses? Isn't there some kind of figure for this?
Also, if someone can help remind me, there's a show called "Tactical to Practical"... Discovery channel, maybe? (shrug)
It's called a slippery slope. One law gets passed, all the muckey mucks start patting each other on the backs, see the poll numbers get a raise, and the saliva starts dripping for the next way to get the current enemy of the day. I know that the List generators have nothing to do with SA's problems, i'm just pointing out that usually one thing leads to another.
Sorry if i came off as a rabid SA leg-humper (as some can).
This could lead to the same kind of subnet-blocking that Something Awful was the victim of... all of their email being blocked by anyone using really nasty spam filters that had worse manners than the spammers in the first place.
Okay, so it's not 100% true... but think about it. Let's get one step closer to truely owning our data... soon, the chip they implant in your head could be a mass storage device with the ability to communicate with any station you access.
Someone asks where the cover sheets for your TPS reports are, you'll truely be able to point at your brain and say, "It's all right here.":)
...thank goodness we're not in the Federation yet, or we might have to worry about that.
Seriously, our ability to send any kind of material close to effecting another civilization of any kind is nil. We can't even get next door without hyperventilating, let alone outside the solar system to throw garbage on Spock's lawn.
Let's just have this conversation again in 100 years, k?
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I'm sure this is just a move to free up his schedule for more Donkey Konga.
The problem was always Gateway the company, not Gateway the stores. For a good period, the Country stores were the best thing going for the corporation, from a perspective *and* a financial situation.
1. Big Company assumes no matter what, people will come to store.
2. Big Company pisses off customers by getting way too aggressive with a very small minority of bad customers.
3. Big Company loses customers.
4. Big Company slashes prices more to bring people back, forgetting the price wasn't why people left.
5. Big Company loses more money, wonders why.
It's the SERVICE, stupid. It's why the Gateway store in my town always was best in its district... it was the only Gateway in such close proximity to a Best Buy. They couldn't help but look like geniuses in comparison to the untrained warrany-whores placed in the computer department at BB.
TMBG have had Dial-A-Song since they started (and still do!). It doesn't surprise me at all that they'd find yet another way to get their product direct to their fans. Just give me Ana Ng and Minimum Wage, and i'm as sound as a pound. -Chris
Part of the agreement the three made to get their life story made was to keep the remake out of major distribution for legal reasons. They have screenings pretty rarely, but they're out there. Thus why this showing in Mass is such a big deal.
A lot of the fanfilms being shown are available at Fanfilms.com for download.
But let us not forget their ancient ancestor, the Bar Napkin.
Yeah, but you're forgetting if that person has 500 contacts, which would you rather he did: Write One automated message and have the program do everything for him, or have him write 500 "quick notes"? It's all about taking the hard work away from him and saving him time. Not to sound like a salesman or anything, i don't have plaxo and don't know much about it, just pointing out some obvious logic.
"Slashdot the FLAME THROWER! The kids love this one."
It's innovations like this that get me all weepy, not unlike Homer over his properly rotating toilet-water in Australia... :-D
A mod done inside a Commodore 64/128, please! Extra points for turning a VIC-20 tape deck into a firewire drive. :)
IIRC, there was a website slipup where obituaries for people who weren't dead yet suddenly appeared in a code glitch. I think Ronald Reagan was one of them... pretty amusing how poignant they read.
"Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world!?"
Just a hunch. *shrug*
Also, if someone can help remind me, there's a show called "Tactical to Practical"... Discovery channel, maybe? (shrug)
Besides, i can just walk into the local B&N and sit and read half of any book before the store closes. :) Gotta love those comfy chairs.
Sorry if i came off as a rabid SA leg-humper (as some can).
Oh yeah... i forgot... there's more money to be made by keeping the problem there than trying to take it down. Hurray for the American way! :P
This could lead to the same kind of subnet-blocking that Something Awful was the victim of... all of their email being blocked by anyone using really nasty spam filters that had worse manners than the spammers in the first place.
...please try not to pass on your genetic map to offspring, and do us all a favor. Thank you for your cooperation.
What?! How do you know that?! WHO SENT YOU!??!
:-D
Someone asks where the cover sheets for your TPS reports are, you'll truely be able to point at your brain and say, "It's all right here." :)
Seriously, our ability to send any kind of material close to effecting another civilization of any kind is nil. We can't even get next door without hyperventilating, let alone outside the solar system to throw garbage on Spock's lawn.
Let's just have this conversation again in 100 years, k?
Ironically, the astronaut's luggage would accidentaly be rerouted to Topeka.