Justify to me that my money isn't just stuffing the pockets of people who really didn't create the thing I want.
Can't. Everyone except the author makes money. That's the way it is. Then again, most authors are quitting the bullshit system and publishing direct now anyways, so it's a moot point.
and the deal is that after some time the bookstore can rip the covers off the ones it haasn't sold and sell them back for some large fraction of the original sale price.
Yeah, that makes perfect sense. sigh... Physically destroying the books serves only one purpose: to express the distribution system's contempt for authors.
So that $4 book also has to cover the manufacturing costs for the other 9 copies that didn't sell.
Sure! That way, the author gets nothing. You see, publishers are happy under only one condition: the author gets zero. Anything else is a failure. They get really happy when some poor misinformed but really talented author signs away their licensing rights. "Oh we get all the money from the $100 million movie I'm afraid." Publishers love that.
Because it brilliantly and accurately illustrates how quick people are to dismiss new ideas by haphazardly flinging one nonsense question after another at them until everyone is so confused that nobody knows what the fuck the idea was in the first place.
I think there are some valid concerns that need to be addressed.
Concerns? Forest fires are valid concerns. This is a car that runs on electricity.
Everything sux. Cue 500 comments about how TLDs suck, computers suck and websites suck. Throw in a smartass comment about Flash just for spite. Season with bitching about spam and blogs to taste. Stir lightly. Serve with vegetable side.
And what do they consist of? How will this affect the power grids of large United States cities? What are possible cost implications here? My point was that they're not listing the total cost of making this switch.
Stop thinking! No progress allowed! Be a team player! Team players get food. People who think and speak get fired! Be a team player! No progress!
Yeah, but how do I know that capacitors that perform at the $9 per 500 miles aren't exponentially more expensive? How well do these capacitors retain their charge? How many charges are they good for?
It'll NEVER WORK!! Never Never Never Never!
la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la!!
No visions! No progress! No new ideas! Be a team player! Join the crowd! Be quiet! Do what the manager wants! Never think! Never try! Never achieve! Because it'll never work! Never Never Never Never!!
Skeptics are always smarter than everyone else! No visions! No progress! No new ideas! Be a team player! Join the crowd! Be quiet! Do what the manager wants! Never think! Never try! Never achieve! Because it'll never work!
Thank you I've heard enough. Don't call us, we'll call you
And there you have it folks. The fuckitude of the workplace in 11 words. Now let's all sing the company song while our "interviewers" wait for a Nobel-Prize-winning astronaut with four PhDs and an Olympic Gold Medal to respond to our ad for a "self-starter with a winning personality" to work 12/7 for $15 an hour while some phone-flipping crouton-stuffing fuck tells them how their education doesn't have anything to do with the real world.
The Sims online, has a larger marketshare, and sony called that game a failure.
If a golden blimp the size of metropolitan Minneapolis emerged from Mount Vesuvius by the light of a silver sunrise and floated gently to Sony Headquarters, then hovered momentarily over the front parking lot before a gigantic sphincter parted from within the blimp and disgorged a pile of cash that blotted out the sun so completely that it caused an ice age for 100 years, Sony would probably call it a failure.
Seriously? You've never used Billywindows before? That's the whole reason people BUY new versions of Windows: so they can get the new light blue/yellow/lime green stack of little interconnected blocks icon that makes them feel like they are the Lawnmower man while they try to get their fucking video card installed.
I've seen more than a few domestic $200+/hr developers make basic security mistakes.
Ok, so you started with "I have innate brilliance that allowed me to transcend a Computer Science curriculum," and now its "guys making $1600 a day can't find their ass with a search party."
Let me guess, you're the smartest guy on Earth, right?
If its icon isn't a clicky-clicky new shiny multi-colored latte-cup stack of glass-office wire-rimmed flowchart shapes (short description: a link to a windows program) it must be non-standard.
Including bar and pie charts labeled "pure flowing bullshit" would still make any phone-flipping corporate hairpiece fuck nod their head and say "it supports our core synergies."
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When you have a computer that can beat you at chess without having a chess program installed, it's time to be concerned.
Wins the thread.
Drive safely.
I'd be very interested to see a pie chart of the percentages from a paperback vs an e-book.
Well, both are one color. In the paperback chart, that color is labled "publisher." In the e-book chart, that color is labeled "author."
Thank you.
Justify to me that my money isn't just stuffing the pockets of people who really didn't create the thing I want.
Can't. Everyone except the author makes money. That's the way it is. Then again, most authors are quitting the bullshit system and publishing direct now anyways, so it's a moot point.
and the deal is that after some time the bookstore can rip the covers off the ones it haasn't sold and sell them back for some large fraction of the original sale price.
Yeah, that makes perfect sense. sigh... Physically destroying the books serves only one purpose: to express the distribution system's contempt for authors.
So that $4 book also has to cover the manufacturing costs for the other 9 copies that didn't sell.
Sure! That way, the author gets nothing. You see, publishers are happy under only one condition: the author gets zero. Anything else is a failure. They get really happy when some poor misinformed but really talented author signs away their licensing rights. "Oh we get all the money from the $100 million movie I'm afraid." Publishers love that.
...someone will have hacked up a free version to use in place of the pay one...
Yeah. Let's take a giant shit on Opera over what, ten bucks?
So we reached the pinnacle of technology in 1902. Whew. That's a relief. Now we can play Boggle.
insightful moderation?
Because it brilliantly and accurately illustrates how quick people are to dismiss new ideas by haphazardly flinging one nonsense question after another at them until everyone is so confused that nobody knows what the fuck the idea was in the first place.
I think there are some valid concerns that need to be addressed.
Concerns? Forest fires are valid concerns. This is a car that runs on electricity.
Everything sux. Cue 500 comments about how TLDs suck, computers suck and websites suck. Throw in a smartass comment about Flash just for spite. Season with bitching about spam and blogs to taste. Stir lightly. Serve with vegetable side.
And what do they consist of? How will this affect the power grids of large United States cities? What are possible cost implications here? My point was that they're not listing the total cost of making this switch.
Stop thinking! No progress allowed! Be a team player! Team players get food. People who think and speak get fired! Be a team player! No progress!
Yeah, but how do I know that capacitors that perform at the $9 per 500 miles aren't exponentially more expensive?
How well do these capacitors retain their charge?
How many charges are they good for?
It'll NEVER WORK!! Never Never Never Never!
la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la!!
No visions! No progress! No new ideas! Be a team player! Join the crowd! Be quiet! Do what the manager wants! Never think! Never try! Never achieve! Because it'll never work! Never Never Never Never!!
Skeptics are always smarter than everyone else! No visions! No progress! No new ideas! Be a team player! Join the crowd! Be quiet! Do what the manager wants! Never think! Never try! Never achieve! Because it'll never work!
Progress is exciting, isn't it?
Cue non-stop flood of "It'll never work" spam.
she won't have any marketable skills either
Fashion design isn't a marketable skill? Huh?
Thank you I've heard enough. Don't call us, we'll call you
And there you have it folks. The fuckitude of the workplace in 11 words. Now let's all sing the company song while our "interviewers" wait for a Nobel-Prize-winning astronaut with four PhDs and an Olympic Gold Medal to respond to our ad for a "self-starter with a winning personality" to work 12/7 for $15 an hour while some phone-flipping crouton-stuffing fuck tells them how their education doesn't have anything to do with the real world.
The Sims online, has a larger marketshare, and sony called that game a failure.
If a golden blimp the size of metropolitan Minneapolis emerged from Mount Vesuvius by the light of a silver sunrise and floated gently to Sony Headquarters, then hovered momentarily over the front parking lot before a gigantic sphincter parted from within the blimp and disgorged a pile of cash that blotted out the sun so completely that it caused an ice age for 100 years, Sony would probably call it a failure.
Person who uses computer for work wants to buy food. Controversy erupts. Film at 11.
Seriously? You've never used Billywindows before? That's the whole reason people BUY new versions of Windows: so they can get the new light blue/yellow/lime green stack of little interconnected blocks icon that makes them feel like they are the Lawnmower man while they try to get their fucking video card installed.
It's all about the marketing.
I've found that school teaches very little about programming in the real world.
Let's shut them all down, huh? Why do we continue to bullshit ourselves about education? We value education about as much as we value crotch fungus.
I've seen more than a few domestic $200+/hr developers make basic security mistakes.
Ok, so you started with "I have innate brilliance that allowed me to transcend a Computer Science curriculum," and now its "guys making $1600 a day can't find their ass with a search party."
Let me guess, you're the smartest guy on Earth, right?
If its icon isn't a clicky-clicky new shiny multi-colored latte-cup stack of glass-office wire-rimmed flowchart shapes (short description: a link to a windows program) it must be non-standard.
Nice troll. A little thick with the "so whats."
I challenge everyone to take 80% of the time they spend complaining about Microsoft and devote it to something else
Yeah but for those people who have Macs, what other chance do they get to gripe about Billywindows?
Including bar and pie charts labeled "pure flowing bullshit" would still make any phone-flipping corporate hairpiece fuck nod their head and say "it supports our core synergies."
Get a Mac
Thank you.
'equivalent pay to what other stores offer' need to help decide which 2/3 of the WalMart staff should be fired.
Ooh, nice false dilemma. Now do a red herring.
To me this proves that you don't have to fuck your suppliers, employees and ultimately customers left right and center in order to turn a buck.
Every once in a while, truth rings, and it is a mighty thing to behold.
Nobody forces people to do business with Wal-Mart.
After all the other stores have been run out of business?
Nobody forces people to work at Wal-Mart.
After all the other stores have been run out of business?
Nobody forces people to shop at Wal-Mart.
After all the other stores have been run out of business?
Don't do business with Wal-Mart
After all the other stores have been run out of business?
If you made a product that you wanted everyone to have, you'd be salivating if Wal-Mart wanted to distribute your product.
After all the other stores have been run out of business.
At least to get to the negotiating phase.
After all the other stores have been run out of business?