I would agree until I get arrested for "Jaywalking" to save a child in the street. They take advantage of it to get my DNA. Then they reproduce it and frame me for treason. Within a year I am executed.
To point (3). Does that mean scanning a dollar bill, resizing in Gimp, and posting on the internet require me to uninstall the browser, erase the image from the HD, remove Gimp, destroy the scanner, and burn the original dollar bill?
I think the parent has excellent insight into what happened. Britannica felt like they were the Tiffany's, Prada, or Ferrari of their industry. They were selling status, not a product. They don't have to compete. They have brand.
The problem is around the real functionality of the product. In the case of Tiffany, Prada, and Ferrari, their products are at or near the top of their industry. The exude quality. Although the content of Britannica was first-class, it could not compete with the usability brought by full-text searching, physical space utilization, speed, and large subject count of its electronic form over PCs, the Internet, and Wikipedia.
Sometimes the strategy works. Add Rolex (you don't really need a watch today) to the mix too.
This is why I think the current taxonomy system is outdated. Everything has already evolved, even if a little bit from their parents. It is altogether different.
They have many more projects that drive traffic (Maps, Mail, Android, etc...) and make their ads more effective (Location Services, Trends, G+). They are more important than the ads themselves. You don't put an ad for an Indian Festival on a farm in Bismark, ND.
I am not stating specifics. I am talking about personal experiences (for the MBAs) and general corporate strategy (for Google). You can run a company that takes no risks and doesn't innovate in any way. Or you can be a risk taker...like Google. MBAs, in my experience, try to minimize risk. It is seen as the biggest threat to everything they do. Often, their job depends on it.
Because that profit was weighed into their investment decisions. Now they made a smaller profit margin, which would have shifted their investments elsewhere if they had known about it.
What if you had two ideas. You project one will bring you $10,000 and the other will bring you $1,000. Then someone with authority comes along and says "well, that's too much" and takes $9,700. You just lost $700.
What's worse, if companies will stop taking risks if successful risky investments get taxed at extremely amounts on a whim.
Legalized DTC? Is the default in these other countries to make everything illegal and it must be legalized before you can do it? In the USA we have a think called freedom of speech and press, and although we don't follow it to a T in some cases, we have been pretty good about it.
It is to me. I have proven it by going on and off different sources of aspartame to figure out why I got major anxiety and heart palpitation issues. Within 24 hours after I consume aspartame, I experience those issues. I have since stopped chewing gum and drinking most diet drinks. When I experience the issue again, I think back over 24 hours, investigate what I ate that was different than usual, and that thing ALWAYS contains aspartame.
I can't help but think an MBA made the conclusion that they are "wasting" profits.
Google has been successful because they take risks. All MBAs want to do is minimize risk. For every 99 failed projects at Google, 1 makes up for that and reaps profits that make the 100 projects operate at a 50% profit margin as a whole.
I hope you aren't suggesting we tyrannically send a bunch of bankers to jail. Only those committing fraud should go to jail. Not those that simply worked within the law. That would be like throwing someone in jail for finding $100 on the street and picking it up.
IBM Content Manager has had annotation layers on documents since at least version 7.0. They even created a format to store it (this was before SVG). I don't have any idea when 7.0 was released, but they are currently on 8.5 and 8.1 was release before 2003. My guess is that they have had it since at least 1999.
I've never believed in dark matter or dark energy. Physicists made it up to explain something that could not be explained by our current theories. The fact that they needed to be made up shows that our current model of the universe is wrong. It is patchwork science. It may work for now, but the more patches you add, the further you will get from the real truth.
In a free market, the roads would be private. Each road, in order to improve customer satisfaction, will have standards. They will only accept drivers with a certain certification demonstrating their ability to drive a car. If you don't get that certification or can't afford the toll, then you don't get on the road.
The more I think about it, I want it to be that way.:-)
I know it is sarcastic, but a license is more than about driving. It doesn't even have to do with driving. In most States it is required to have identification, and that is handled by their DMV-like institution. You don't have to drive. You don't have to drink alcohol. You don't have to vote. But you still need an identification.
If you never used credit, then you simply won't have a credit history. Your potential employer will ask why. You will say that you don't believe one should rely on debt. Any employer that refuses someone because they don't have a credit history is foolish. Remember, it isn't a bad credit history; it is NO credit history.
You can get a phone and Internet without credit. It is just month-by-month and requires a large deposit.
All these examples can do all the credit checking they want. They will just find no history with a lot of inquiries. Most places understand the difference.
The only problem will be around purchasing online, booking a flight, or getting a hotel room.
Very true. It happens in all systems with similar ideas. The different here is that with the DMV, you don't have a choice. In a way it is like being forced into military service. You can disagree with the idea all you want, you would be forced into it. Hence the moral issue with government. It is giant trade-off between freedom and services.
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I would agree until I get arrested for "Jaywalking" to save a child in the street. They take advantage of it to get my DNA. Then they reproduce it and frame me for treason. Within a year I am executed.
To point (3). Does that mean scanning a dollar bill, resizing in Gimp, and posting on the internet require me to uninstall the browser, erase the image from the HD, remove Gimp, destroy the scanner, and burn the original dollar bill?
I think the parent has excellent insight into what happened. Britannica felt like they were the Tiffany's, Prada, or Ferrari of their industry. They were selling status, not a product. They don't have to compete. They have brand.
The problem is around the real functionality of the product. In the case of Tiffany, Prada, and Ferrari, their products are at or near the top of their industry. The exude quality. Although the content of Britannica was first-class, it could not compete with the usability brought by full-text searching, physical space utilization, speed, and large subject count of its electronic form over PCs, the Internet, and Wikipedia.
Sometimes the strategy works. Add Rolex (you don't really need a watch today) to the mix too.
Don't you know that 100 companies have already patented just that? The patent system doesn't even check prior patents, let alone prior art.
This is why I think the current taxonomy system is outdated. Everything has already evolved, even if a little bit from their parents. It is altogether different.
I think you are both over-complicating the matter. It is the ratio between PI and 1.
I choose to procrastinate, so don't expect a phone call.
I access the internet tethered...my head to my arm to my phone. What makes electronic tethering different than allowing a friend to use your phone?
They actually know how to integrate those acquisitions into their current line; unlike IBM.
And the "All MBAs...is" was a typo. It was supposed to be "All that MBAs want...is". Hence the use of the word "is" and not "are".
They have many more projects that drive traffic (Maps, Mail, Android, etc...) and make their ads more effective (Location Services, Trends, G+). They are more important than the ads themselves. You don't put an ad for an Indian Festival on a farm in Bismark, ND.
I am not stating specifics. I am talking about personal experiences (for the MBAs) and general corporate strategy (for Google). You can run a company that takes no risks and doesn't innovate in any way. Or you can be a risk taker...like Google. MBAs, in my experience, try to minimize risk. It is seen as the biggest threat to everything they do. Often, their job depends on it.
Because that profit was weighed into their investment decisions. Now they made a smaller profit margin, which would have shifted their investments elsewhere if they had known about it.
What if you had two ideas. You project one will bring you $10,000 and the other will bring you $1,000. Then someone with authority comes along and says "well, that's too much" and takes $9,700. You just lost $700.
What's worse, if companies will stop taking risks if successful risky investments get taxed at extremely amounts on a whim.
Legalized DTC? Is the default in these other countries to make everything illegal and it must be legalized before you can do it? In the USA we have a think called freedom of speech and press, and although we don't follow it to a T in some cases, we have been pretty good about it.
It is to me. I have proven it by going on and off different sources of aspartame to figure out why I got major anxiety and heart palpitation issues. Within 24 hours after I consume aspartame, I experience those issues. I have since stopped chewing gum and drinking most diet drinks. When I experience the issue again, I think back over 24 hours, investigate what I ate that was different than usual, and that thing ALWAYS contains aspartame.
I can't help but think an MBA made the conclusion that they are "wasting" profits.
Google has been successful because they take risks. All MBAs want to do is minimize risk. For every 99 failed projects at Google, 1 makes up for that and reaps profits that make the 100 projects operate at a 50% profit margin as a whole.
I hope you aren't suggesting we tyrannically send a bunch of bankers to jail. Only those committing fraud should go to jail. Not those that simply worked within the law. That would be like throwing someone in jail for finding $100 on the street and picking it up.
How about Mr. Patent themselves: IBM
IBM Content Manager has had annotation layers on documents since at least version 7.0. They even created a format to store it (this was before SVG). I don't have any idea when 7.0 was released, but they are currently on 8.5 and 8.1 was release before 2003. My guess is that they have had it since at least 1999.
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But there is a risk of being arrested.
I've never believed in dark matter or dark energy. Physicists made it up to explain something that could not be explained by our current theories. The fact that they needed to be made up shows that our current model of the universe is wrong. It is patchwork science. It may work for now, but the more patches you add, the further you will get from the real truth.
In a free market, the roads would be private. Each road, in order to improve customer satisfaction, will have standards. They will only accept drivers with a certain certification demonstrating their ability to drive a car. If you don't get that certification or can't afford the toll, then you don't get on the road.
The more I think about it, I want it to be that way. :-)
I know it is sarcastic, but a license is more than about driving. It doesn't even have to do with driving. In most States it is required to have identification, and that is handled by their DMV-like institution. You don't have to drive. You don't have to drink alcohol. You don't have to vote. But you still need an identification.
If you never used credit, then you simply won't have a credit history. Your potential employer will ask why. You will say that you don't believe one should rely on debt. Any employer that refuses someone because they don't have a credit history is foolish. Remember, it isn't a bad credit history; it is NO credit history.
You can get a phone and Internet without credit. It is just month-by-month and requires a large deposit.
All these examples can do all the credit checking they want. They will just find no history with a lot of inquiries. Most places understand the difference.
The only problem will be around purchasing online, booking a flight, or getting a hotel room.
Very true. It happens in all systems with similar ideas. The different here is that with the DMV, you don't have a choice. In a way it is like being forced into military service. You can disagree with the idea all you want, you would be forced into it. Hence the moral issue with government. It is giant trade-off between freedom and services.