but hardly to the extent grammar nazis will insist
they have the communication problem, NOT the kid who spells definitely "definately"
Grammar nazis are one thing, and they really are everywhere. I'm norwegian myself and there are a few words I insist on spelling wrongly as I believe their current spelling is flat out stupid.
I am also fairly appaled at how bad my little brother (14 years old now) are at writing correctly as he makes a lot of really, really stupid mistakes that should have been weeded out a long time ago. Not very surprisingly, he also has some trouble with the finer points of spelling. What worries me though, is that he's getting top grades, and are one of the best in his class. Language detoration seems to be universal at the moment.
However, that is nothing compared to some of the idiocy is see some americans sprouting. It goes way beyond 20 posts in a row mispelling relevant as relevent; I can live with those. There are plenty of Americans on various forums I honestly have serious problems even understanding. No punctuation, bad spelling and an attitude to communication that's just horrible. Sure, I understood what you said, after reading through it twice slowly.
Honestly, just a little bloody effort, and reading would be sooo bloody easier.
It's like a condom with the capability to have semen smeared on the outside. Utterly fucking stupid.
Not be picky or anything..
1. I have yet to see any vendors applying techniques making the smearing of cement on condoms impossible.
2. Smearing a condom with cement would make it useless, although extremely secure. I think would most people would agree that this is not a description which can be aptly applied to Microsoft.
Forget the jargon and use some common sense. If all Slashdot readers stop viewing ads and their ad revenue disappears, Rob will or will not keep offering free access?
Of course they would, they're not stupid, nor do they lack common sense.
Going exclusive paid content will trap some of your userbase, however the site will turn from a mass-market into an elitist one. This in itself might be ok, but it's not what the original userbase signed up for, so you're risking another mass-exodus of members.
Lastly, it's extremely hard to attract new members on exclusivly paid sites. Going pure pay would be suicide.
Book certainly looks interesting, but all the comments so far have been moderatly off-topic.
Anybody actually read the book and can tell me wether it actually is good, or is this is another case of an auther/publisher writing a review for their own book?
http://www.neteller.com/ is what took over the electronic money market for pokersites after paypal decided it was immoral and they didn't want to support it.
Transfers between members/pokersites are free. Only fees paid are when sending money to/from real accounts. From what I've seen yet, it seems damn reasonable.
Bah. It's more like:
The people who sacked the people who were hired to read the outgoing email of the first group of people hired to read outgoing email, have given themselves a fat wage-raise to make up for all the saved money.
You're the one who brought up the car analogy. Try to keep up please.
I was merely pointing out that it failed, as I don't drunk-drive, nor do I know anybody who have drunk-driven. I haven't even heard any stories of friends of friends who have drunk-driven.
Regard the 'car-obsessed'; Regardless of your personal opinion, fact remains; its far more common for young people to have cars in the US compared to any other place. By referring to 'you guys' I was of course usen the extremely broad meaning of 'you', since I have no clue who you are, nor do I want it.
No, X will not 'kill off' Y. As long as X and Y are two different products with different strengths; No X has ever outright killed off Y, nor will it ever.
Y's userbase may however, given time, dwindle away to nothing as they gradually move on to better alternatives. However, a lot may happen before then.
I get enough sensationalism elsewhere. Please don't add to it here too.
No, X will not 'kill off' Y. As long as X and Y are two different products with different strengths; No X has ever outright killed off Y, nor will it ever.
Y's userbase may however, given time, dwindle away to nothing as they gradually move on to better alternatives. However, a lot may happen before then.
I get enough sensationalism elsewhere. Please don't add to it here too.
In fact, I think I said just the opposite. That corporate officers will generally try to avoid that sort of thing, becaus it's bad for profits.
Well, it's a direct inference from your statements.
Just because something is bad long-term for a community doesn't necessarily mean it's bad for the company. While the 'bad publicity' argument you're basically using holds most of the time, it won't hold always. Sometimes there just ain't any negative side-effects to being the bad boy. I'll try to make an example:
Company A is selling asthma medicine. Their patent expires soon, new medicines are on the verge of being introduced so they are planning to milk the last profits and then salvage the facilities.
They could, for the last years of operation, switch out current raw-materials with a slightly cheaper ones, but this would cause the waste to be non-bio-degradable causing massive long-term damage to the water-supplies in the area. They would not be required to report in the toxins they release, so by the time it would be noticed they'd be long out of business. They would not fear any legal persecution, because everything they did was 100% legal.
Goverment pension funds are more than adequate here in Norway, and as far as I can tell the same holds for most of Europe.
Granted alot the money I have to pay to it will ultimatly be placed in stocks, but the fund has extremely strict ethical rules (basically, don't invest in anything anybody finds controversial (which for contrast, does not rule out abortion but does rule out most military stocks)), and they are required by law to be passive owners (ie; don't vote)(from a 100% justified fear of them becoming too large a financial player in our fairly small stock-market)
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they have the communication problem, NOT the kid who spells definitely "definately"
Grammar nazis are one thing, and they really are everywhere. I'm norwegian myself and there are a few words I insist on spelling wrongly as I believe their current spelling is flat out stupid.
I am also fairly appaled at how bad my little brother (14 years old now) are at writing correctly as he makes a lot of really, really stupid mistakes that should have been weeded out a long time ago. Not very surprisingly, he also has some trouble with the finer points of spelling. What worries me though, is that he's getting top grades, and are one of the best in his class. Language detoration seems to be universal at the moment.
However, that is nothing compared to some of the idiocy is see some americans sprouting. It goes way beyond 20 posts in a row mispelling relevant as relevent; I can live with those. There are plenty of Americans on various forums I honestly have serious problems even understanding. No punctuation, bad spelling and an attitude to communication that's just horrible. Sure, I understood what you said, after reading through it twice slowly.
Honestly, just a little bloody effort, and reading would be sooo bloody easier.
Not be picky or anything..
1. I have yet to see any vendors applying techniques making the smearing of cement on condoms impossible.
2. Smearing a condom with cement would make it useless, although extremely secure. I think would most people would agree that this is not a description which can be aptly applied to Microsoft.
Yay, you end up paying 80% more! Big discount, indeed.
1 * 200% * 80% = 1.6
Seriously, I'll never understand what's up with you and super-happy cliche endings.
I'm willing to bet their income from subcripers far supersede their ad-revenue.
Of course they would, they're not stupid, nor do they lack common sense.
Going exclusive paid content will trap some of your userbase, however the site will turn from a mass-market into an elitist one. This in itself might be ok, but it's not what the original userbase signed up for, so you're risking another mass-exodus of members.
Lastly, it's extremely hard to attract new members on exclusivly paid sites. Going pure pay would be suicide.
What's up with everybody talking about weather applications all the time? You guys don't have windows or something?
Book certainly looks interesting, but all the comments so far have been moderatly off-topic.
Anybody actually read the book and can tell me wether it actually is good, or is this is another case of an auther/publisher writing a review for their own book?
Posting from Dell Inspiron using Mandrake. I too gave up on Debian / Redhat. Mandrake / SUSE both worked wonders though.
It's all a matter of scale.
Transfers between members/pokersites are free. Only fees paid are when sending money to/from real accounts. From what I've seen yet, it seems damn reasonable.
Stupid is who stupid does.
Bah. It's more like:
The people who sacked the people who were hired to read the outgoing email of the first group of people hired to read outgoing email, have given themselves a fat wage-raise to make up for all the saved money.
I was merely pointing out that it failed, as I don't drunk-drive, nor do I know anybody who have drunk-driven. I haven't even heard any stories of friends of friends who have drunk-driven.
Regard the 'car-obsessed'; Regardless of your personal opinion, fact remains; its far more common for young people to have cars in the US compared to any other place. By referring to 'you guys' I was of course usen the extremely broad meaning of 'you', since I have no clue who you are, nor do I want it.
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No, X will not 'kill off' Y. As long as X and Y are two different products with different strengths; No X has ever outright killed off Y, nor will it ever.
Y's userbase may however, given time, dwindle away to nothing as they gradually move on to better alternatives. However, a lot may happen before then.
I get enough sensationalism elsewhere. Please don't add to it here too.
No, X will not 'kill off' Y. As long as X and Y are two different products with different strengths; No X has ever outright killed off Y, nor will it ever. Y's userbase may however, given time, dwindle away to nothing as they gradually move on to better alternatives. However, a lot may happen before then. I get enough sensationalism elsewhere. Please don't add to it here too.
Did YOU ever drive while drunk?
No, of course not, that would be bloody stupid (and pointless).
The rest of the world ain't as car-obsessed as you guys you know.
Hey, I bought condoms once.
Boring buggers if you ask me, I'm still trying to figure at what to use them for.
Ah, that explains your foreign policy. Those pesky arabs heh?
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sorry :)
Well, it's a direct inference from your statements.
Just because something is bad long-term for a community doesn't necessarily mean it's bad for the company. While the 'bad publicity' argument you're basically using holds most of the time, it won't hold always. Sometimes there just ain't any negative side-effects to being the bad boy. I'll try to make an example:
Company A is selling asthma medicine. Their patent expires soon, new medicines are on the verge of being introduced so they are planning to milk the last profits and then salvage the facilities.
They could, for the last years of operation, switch out current raw-materials with a slightly cheaper ones, but this would cause the waste to be non-bio-degradable causing massive long-term damage to the water-supplies in the area. They would not be required to report in the toxins they release, so by the time it would be noticed they'd be long out of business. They would not fear any legal persecution, because everything they did was 100% legal.
Should they switch?
Wow.. that's fucked up
No, they are suggesting you eat the brain of somenone smarter than you.
Kinda slow on the uptake aren't you? Eaten any Bush lately mayhap?
Goverment pension funds are more than adequate here in Norway, and as far as I can tell the same holds for most of Europe.
Granted alot the money I have to pay to it will ultimatly be placed in stocks, but the fund has extremely strict ethical rules (basically, don't invest in anything anybody finds controversial (which for contrast, does not rule out abortion but does rule out most military stocks)), and they are required by law to be passive owners (ie; don't vote)(from a 100% justified fear of them becoming too large a financial player in our fairly small stock-market)