There's a little flaw in your calculation: If you drive a car around with a sticker on it for an entire year, way more than 100 people will see it. Sure, you have a factor of "see it" vs. "pay attention to it", so if we go with "pay attention to it", then it's probably at least 3 people per day.
3 * 365 == 1,095 people per year. So with 100,000 cars with it, then you are looking at 109,500,000 people total, so that beats your 1/8th number. Plus the people who see it but don't pay attention to it are still worth something, it gets them at least familiar.
Facebook advertising is stupid. I don't click on any of them, because of the idiotic policy of Facebook that just because you click on an ad, that company gets all kinds of personal info about you AND your friends. That's invasive bullshit. I agree with GM, Facebook advertising is a ripoff, because most thinking people avoid it because of the invasiveness of the approach.
No clue what you are talking about there. You probably whined that older versions of Windows didn't just transfer a compressed DIFF across the network. Now that it does, you're whining that it does. Optimized operations take a little up front time, but the total time is decreased.
Stop whining.
And I think it wasn't programmers who redesigned Windows, it was pie-in-the-sky "UI Experts" who operate by the mantra "It's all gotta make sense to a moron" rather than "Most functional interface". But I'll stop talking about your mom...
I will happily take Windows 7 over Windows XP any day. Heck, I'll even take Vista over XP, as long as it's 64 bit Vista with Service Pack 2 installed.
It's all crap, a politically strategic move by the republicans in their unending attempts to allow their buddies to privatize each and every government function. They slammed thru a ridiculous edict forcing the USPS to PRE-FUND their retirement pool for almost a century called the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act — an incredible piece of ugliness requiring the agency to PRE-PAY the health care benefits not only of current employees, but also of all employees who'll retire during the next 75 years. Yes, that includes employees who're not yet born!
"Some popular things, like Gold Ingots, are just harder to steal because Fort Knox has better security. Even with a map, a tour, and three corrupt ex-guards on your payroll you aren't going to succeed."
You aren't going to succeed because all the money in Fort Knox has been gone for decades.
Oh cool, we are getting our old, trusted, loved boogieman back! Just in time for the Terrist Mooslim to be retired as the archetype bad guy. The Powers That Be must have realized it was safer working with Russia to keep the citizens in fear. The Taliban approach was cheaper, but was much harder to manage. Russia will cost more, but is more predictable.
So hopefully we'll start getting some good old school Megadeth songs again! (Although the last one was pretty good...)
It's a little bit of a longer game right now. Microsoft/Nokia haven't even fired up the main thrusters for this round. Until Windows 8 is ready, there's not going to be much happening. Once that is ready, and they come out with all guns blazing, it's going to be an interesting spectacle.
For a long while it's just been Microsoft wanting to maintain it's dominant position, but this time it's a battle for the basic survival of Microsoft. They are going to fight, and fight hard. They may win, they may lose. While Balmer's running the ship these days, I'm sure he's having lots of conversations with Bill Gates to plan strategy.
With Steve Jobs out of the picture, Apple is out of focus for this battle, but have the upper hand at this point. but executing further is going to be a test of Cook. Not the best strategic time for them to do a two front battle against Microsoft and Google.
Google/Android have serious clout in the #2 position, and I'm not quite sure where this is going to end up for them, especially with the current Oracle attack on the Java internals of the Android OS. Anything can happen there.
So there's a lot of chaos in the market, and Microsoft is good at harnessing chaos to find advantages.
So if I was this investor guy, I'd just shut up for now and enjoy the ride, and learn a little about long term investing. He's still got an excellent potential of making his money back and then some, if he just has patience. But sounds like he might be too impatient and focused on the next quarter. While there's easy money to be made in short term investing, the lion's share of the money goes to the long term investors - Just ask Warren Buffet.
The degree started off simply as a tool to get your feet in the door of a company. Now days many think that you must be functionally retarded if you don't have one, which is just foolish: After you've got the work experience, degrees don't mean shit. If you can get the work experience without the degree, you can make it thru your career without that stupid piece of paper.
So this is a whole bunch of thunder signifying nothing. Sure, probably shouldn't have lied about it, but of all the destructive corporate lies I've heard, the wrong degree is way under the threshhold of "Oh Noes!"
We have better things to worry about. This is a stupid distraction.
Regardless of your port forwarding and your ISP's limitations, it's still HTTP.
Damn, people are grumpy today!
Not saying HTTP is the best protocol for all situations, but if you've got HTTP and nothing else, you can pretty much do anything. You could even pre-encrypt your data and sent it over HTTP if you really had the need.
Be able to, sure... But they are more wise than that. Doing something asinine like that would kill them.
Microsoft isn't headed by a megalomaniac like Ellison who is unable to see that other companies are getting REALLY paranoid about further use of Java. (We've discussed dumping it where I work.) And Oracle DB as well.
Very strange to see the day when Microsoft is the 'nice guy'!
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It was a joke... "Women 18-25 followed closely by men 18-25", as if they are being stalked... :)
But if you ask it "Who's the sexiest man in the world ever?", it answers "Klom Dark"! :)
Back in my day, young one, keyboards didn't run on batteries...
What the hell are you babbling about? You old coot...
You sound like a desperate online advertising drone...
Are you saying that the men are stalkers by default?
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There's a little flaw in your calculation: If you drive a car around with a sticker on it for an entire year, way more than 100 people will see it. Sure, you have a factor of "see it" vs. "pay attention to it", so if we go with "pay attention to it", then it's probably at least 3 people per day.
3 * 365 == 1,095 people per year. So with 100,000 cars with it, then you are looking at 109,500,000 people total, so that beats your 1/8th number. Plus the people who see it but don't pay attention to it are still worth something, it gets them at least familiar.
Facebook advertising is stupid. I don't click on any of them, because of the idiotic policy of Facebook that just because you click on an ad, that company gets all kinds of personal info about you AND your friends. That's invasive bullshit. I agree with GM, Facebook advertising is a ripoff, because most thinking people avoid it because of the invasiveness of the approach.
No clue what you are talking about there. You probably whined that older versions of Windows didn't just transfer a compressed DIFF across the network. Now that it does, you're whining that it does. Optimized operations take a little up front time, but the total time is decreased.
Stop whining.
And I think it wasn't programmers who redesigned Windows, it was pie-in-the-sky "UI Experts" who operate by the mantra "It's all gotta make sense to a moron" rather than "Most functional interface". But I'll stop talking about your mom...
I will happily take Windows 7 over Windows XP any day. Heck, I'll even take Vista over XP, as long as it's 64 bit Vista with Service Pack 2 installed.
0/10, try harder.
How much were you paid to post that lame shill?
Couldn't buy your kid the book instead? Audiobooks lead to illiteracy.
I think the goats have something to do with avoiding sec...
It's all crap, a politically strategic move by the republicans in their unending attempts to allow their buddies to privatize each and every government function. They slammed thru a ridiculous edict forcing the USPS to PRE-FUND their retirement pool for almost a century called the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act — an incredible piece of ugliness requiring the agency to PRE-PAY the health care benefits not only of current employees, but also of all employees who'll retire during the next 75 years. Yes, that includes employees who're not yet born!
The more you know...
Why?
Drugs == False Reality
Movies == False Reality
Unfortunately, at this time you can only torrent movies, you cannot torrent drugs...
> And then it becomes required that you cannot rip a legitimate copy without those government-imposed blurbs.
*snork*
Next they will find out that I don't actually have that GED in CS that I put on my resume.
Dammit, it worked when I got that job at PayPal while Scott was there...
Now what I am I gonna do? Any ideas?
"Some popular things, like Gold Ingots, are just harder to steal because Fort Knox has better security. Even with a map, a tour, and three corrupt ex-guards on your payroll you aren't going to succeed."
You aren't going to succeed because all the money in Fort Knox has been gone for decades.
Either the Annunaki have harvested it, or mistaken for tungsten and made into light bulbs. Dominique Strauss-Kahn was jailed and humiliated simply because he discovered it was gone...
Oh cool, we are getting our old, trusted, loved boogieman back! Just in time for the Terrist Mooslim to be retired as the archetype bad guy. The Powers That Be must have realized it was safer working with Russia to keep the citizens in fear. The Taliban approach was cheaper, but was much harder to manage. Russia will cost more, but is more predictable.
So hopefully we'll start getting some good old school Megadeth songs again! (Although the last one was pretty good...)
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It's a little bit of a longer game right now. Microsoft/Nokia haven't even fired up the main thrusters for this round. Until Windows 8 is ready, there's not going to be much happening. Once that is ready, and they come out with all guns blazing, it's going to be an interesting spectacle.
For a long while it's just been Microsoft wanting to maintain it's dominant position, but this time it's a battle for the basic survival of Microsoft. They are going to fight, and fight hard. They may win, they may lose. While Balmer's running the ship these days, I'm sure he's having lots of conversations with Bill Gates to plan strategy.
With Steve Jobs out of the picture, Apple is out of focus for this battle, but have the upper hand at this point. but executing further is going to be a test of Cook. Not the best strategic time for them to do a two front battle against Microsoft and Google.
Google/Android have serious clout in the #2 position, and I'm not quite sure where this is going to end up for them, especially with the current Oracle attack on the Java internals of the Android OS. Anything can happen there.
So there's a lot of chaos in the market, and Microsoft is good at harnessing chaos to find advantages.
So if I was this investor guy, I'd just shut up for now and enjoy the ride, and learn a little about long term investing. He's still got an excellent potential of making his money back and then some, if he just has patience. But sounds like he might be too impatient and focused on the next quarter. While there's easy money to be made in short term investing, the lion's share of the money goes to the long term investors - Just ask Warren Buffet.
The degree started off simply as a tool to get your feet in the door of a company. Now days many think that you must be functionally retarded if you don't have one, which is just foolish: After you've got the work experience, degrees don't mean shit. If you can get the work experience without the degree, you can make it thru your career without that stupid piece of paper.
So this is a whole bunch of thunder signifying nothing. Sure, probably shouldn't have lied about it, but of all the destructive corporate lies I've heard, the wrong degree is way under the threshhold of "Oh Noes!"
We have better things to worry about. This is a stupid distraction.
be == being
Learn what the acronym means, and quit be so insecure. You sound like a whiny baby.
Grow up
Regardless of your port forwarding and your ISP's limitations, it's still HTTP.
Damn, people are grumpy today!
Not saying HTTP is the best protocol for all situations, but if you've got HTTP and nothing else, you can pretty much do anything. You could even pre-encrypt your data and sent it over HTTP if you really had the need.
Be able to, sure... But they are more wise than that. Doing something asinine like that would kill them.
Microsoft isn't headed by a megalomaniac like Ellison who is unable to see that other companies are getting REALLY paranoid about further use of Java. (We've discussed dumping it where I work.) And Oracle DB as well.
Very strange to see the day when Microsoft is the 'nice guy'!