Doing business means you have to expect that the other party is working in good faith. You can't be wary of everyone you do business with. In fact, *not* every supplier (be it goods or services) is out there to fuck you - most of them figured it's more profitable to play fair.
Hell, even drug dealers know better than killing you after selling you weed, to get their weed back *and* your money.
Let's put the article's point (legitimacy of clicks) aside for a bit, and go back to your specific point: Facebook lets you set an maximum budget (in fact, by default, it asks you for one). It's their problem if they didn't set a limit. I set my campagins with $1 MAX per DAY and run it for 10 days. That's $10 max.
Once it hits the $1/day limit, ads get paused until the next day, automatically.
it depends on what you're advertising. FB makes a quotation on the fly, based on the keywords, tastes, age range you're targeting, etc. My max CPC is 3 cents per click (usually 1 cent), I'm a comic book store in Argentina, specifically targeting people in my area and neighboring cities, who speak spanish, like a specific subset of anime and manga, and who aren't already fans of my business page.
There's lots of things I'd like to do, but can't either because I can't afford it, or it's not available in this area. Like, maybe I'd love to bungie jump off the golden gate bridge, but the bridge doesn't offer that service.I could drive a few hours away and find a bridge where it offered, but dammit, I'm tired of that bridge, I want the GGB and I want it now! I'm even willing to pay! (but only as much as I want to, I want to set the price)
That's a technical or logistic limtation. Hollywood's region-locking mechanism is a purely arbitrary measure.
I've managed a store in the past and found that the customer is often not right - if every customer got to decide how I do business, the store wouldn't stay in business. "I wanna return this shirt, it doesn't fit." "But your wore it" "Only to try it on" "It has a ketchup stain" "Well I only wore it to one dinner party". There are clear rules on what is returnable, and a stained shirt does not qualify. Sure, maybe if I'd let him return the shirt he'd turn into a lifelong customer and tell all of his friends, but more likely, the next time he wanted to go to a dinner party he'd "borrow" another shirt from me and return it afterwards.
That's exactly my point. "The customer is always right" means you should GIVE the customer what he wants. If he wants AMD, you give him AMD, and not tell him why Intel is better. Or vice versa. "Customer is always right" doesn't mean the customer can make stupid demands.
There's no technical reason why McDonalds can't sell me a coke for their actual cost of 25 cents instead of making me pay $1.29, but they still do, because that's their business model.
Yes, there is, and it's called profit. If they didn't charge you extra they would go out of business. I thought you said you managed a store? You seem to know nothing about businesses.
Just like Hollywood's business model is to restrict what movies are available in different media and markets.
Status quo. Defend it all you want, but the world keeps moving forward. There are hundreds of business models that became obsolete with technology. Like photo developing shops.
But if you satisfy your desire for movies by downloading pirated copies, they still lose revenue from you since it's likely that you're purchasing less legitimate content than you would have if you purchased your content legally.
No, they don't. Because I don't like what they offer, and I won't buy that anyway. If I liked what they offered, I'd buy it. Let's suppose it's not hollywood, let's talk about japanese anime. They are just not interested in licensing a lot of series outside japan. So the only way to get them is either move to japan and speak japanese, or download a fansub (fan-made subtitled version).
This is exactly the whole point of all this: CHOICE. I don't want to have the options someone else chose for me. I want to have ALL the options, and chose for myself. Just like I can do on the internet.
There's no reason for you to pay for Netflix streaming if you're willing to get your content elsewhere, but if pirated movies were not available (or you were morally unwilling to download them), then maybe you'd find content on Netflix worth watching and find that it's worth the monthly fee.
No, because hollywood's business models also tells me what I should watch. If I want to watch "Avengers" because hollywood and all the media apparatus that surrounds it has told me to, why doesn't Hollywood make it easily available and convenient?
Warning: I use the term "I" as an example subject. I don't really do these things. I haven't downloaded a movie in years, and the last time I rented a movie, that I remember, was probably in 95. it was "Speed". I don't have time to actually "sit down and watch a movie" anyways.
Well, there's always the other answer: "Where's my movie?" "You have to wait". "Fuck that shit, I'm not going to watch it." Why do you feel that you have to watch a movie created by someone that apparently doesn't want you to watch it? Is there really nothing better to do do with your time?
Simple: BECAUSE I FUCKING WANT TO WATCH IT. Why do I have to give any more explanations? I want to watch a movie, I can pay por it. I have the money, just give me the fucking movie! What I do or not do in my free time is not your problem, or hollywood's, or anyone else's.
I own a store, and through the years I've learned that "the customer is always right" means that you shouldn't give a fuck about the customer's tastes. Just get him what he wants, or else he'll go somewhere else and get it anyway. Don't try to convince them that their taste is bad, because that just makes things worse.
I'm not playing Hollywood's game, you are - for me, if the movie isn't in Netflix's streaming catalog, I don't watch it.
Dude, you couldn't have chosen a worse example. The netflix streaming catalog is like 20 movies that have been on basic cable for ages, and TV series from the season before, only after the new season has started.
You are just limiting your options to a catalog Hollywood has picked for you, purely because they CAN. What technical limitation is there that won't let Netflix stream a movie that they can actually rent to you on DVD? How about european, asian, or south american cinema? I haven't seen much of that on NF's catalog when I had the 30 day trial. I liked the service, but I didn't renew it as the options weren't interesting enough for me. The DVD rental store near my house has a much more varied catalog, and they have the movies on DVD as soon as they're out in that format.
Simply because it assumes you can get something elsewhere. Point is: you can't, just because MAFIAA doesn't want you to. Why isn't there a service where you can get just everything? Why does it have to be so complicated, "licensing", "distribution rights", and a lot of other BULLSHIT, like "region coding" on DVDs. Why do I, down here in Argentina, have to wait several months for a DVD release, while someone in the US got it long before? What's the point? Money talks, and the price of the DVD here is pretty much the same down here than over there. So the "people will order from other countries to pay less" argument doesn't apply either.
Here's the thing: I want to watch that movie now. I know it's out in the US. I have the money. Where's my movie? "You have to wait". Fuck that shit, I'll get it elsewhere.
Really, you are just playing Hollywood's game, and in that game, you'll always be their bitch.
Nice troll. But I disassembled an 80s frequency counter yesterday. Some chips were USA, some were Germany, and there was on made in Italy!
I'm from Argentina and i also looked at a regulable PSU my dad built back in the 80s: The voltage regs (TI ones) were made in Argentina, and the capacitors in Brazil.
It's simple: everyone's hearing is different. The shape of your ear, tinnitus, wax in your ear canal, and hearing defficiencies are all parameters that make it basically impossible to exactly replicate the source of a sound with "just" timing and sound differences between left and right. Using 62 channels with speakers placed all around you makes it easier. It also doesn't rotate when you turn your head.
That said, I'm happy with my stereo speakers. Maybe a subwoofer for extra rumble, but I don't have the place (or time) to sit down and "enjoy" multichannel sound.
The point wasn't about pretty landmarks tho, it was about the fact that, if there *ARE* buildings like that, then the economy can't be that bad. If there are cars filling the streets, and if the roads are nice to drive on, then the economy isn't that terrible (again: "yet"). I can see we're going straight to hell if Cristina doesn't react soon - it's going the same way as De La Rua: refusing to admit the economy is going down and do something about it.
As I said: I'm completely against Cristina's policies (I don't buy that "we have to close imports and make everything here" bullshit). But saying the economy is as terrible as the poorest countries is just plain typical Porteño exaggeration (well, those skyscrapers are in fact typical megalomaniac Porteño exaggeration too. The good kind of exaggeration, tho - don't get mad, porteños, I'm not hatin'! ).
The worst part? I constantly hear porteños (of middle class!) whining about the economy, and yet Roger Waters fills stadiums 10 times in a row.
Well, Mexico is technically in North America. Nevertheless, what's happening in mexico (drug killings) isn't new.
I'm not saying Argenina is a great economy, but I hate being compared to Somalia or whatever. Whenever someone mentions that living in Argentina is "bad" I just let pictures talk:
1) Argentina was quite prosperous at one time, but the past decade or so has been really hard on them. Their economic problems have caused a significant drop in the standard of living for many of its citizens, and crime has become much more of an issue. Today, it is much more akin to an African nation than it is to a Western nation.
We're not quite down to African levels yet. We're getting there, though.
Sounds like you're just bitter at an incompetent IT department. None of your excuses cut it for me. IT doesn't need to "support" the business. It's 2012. IT is part of the business. "Getting things done" is not how it works, because that only ends up with desktop switches in a tangle of cat5. Planning is how it works.
And the whole argument is stupid, because: how did the user end up with 6 computers in his offices and only 2 drops? Didn't IT provide the computers? Did the guy decide to get random computers from somewhere else? Why does he need 6 computers? IT isn't supposed to support computers they didn't provide. If IT did provide the computers, why didn't they provide network drops? They are just incompetent if they did.
IT is there to keep the business running. Not to keep users happy by doing whatever they want.
You beat me to it. The guy is whining about "usability" and yet:
his website is a horrible mix of:
Late 2000's Rounded edges
Late 1990's Awful Blue and thick lines
Early 2000's OS X style rounded button menu
Text in the buttons not vertically centered
Corners around the silly rounded "logo" aren't transparent
I had to move the jQuery picture window to see the stuff, and scroll horizontally to close it clicking on a tiny X
"Picture window -> click X to close". Really, usability guy?
I could go on but I think I've pointed enough mistakes. I can't believe someone with a website like that has the nerve to criticize Microsoft (or anyone) for using uppercase menus.
A print made in a 9-ink large format printer has a wider gamut and more durability than RA-4 paper. Not saying that you will get your print done from one of those machines at any shop, just pointing out that chemical paper is good, but there are newer processes as well.
Arguably, you could get good results at home from a decent (6 ink) printer, sometimes better than what you get at a photo lab (sometimes labs reuse chemicals. that's no good). Others don't dry the pics as supposed, etc. There are many factors that can make a chemical print sub-optimal.
Drones that replace chemical tanks on minilabs at walmart are usually better than lab technicians that "know what they're doing". Cause the drones just do as the machine instructs them. Techs know how much they can "stretch" a batch of developer, etc.
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fuck beowulf clusters... think an array of LCD with built-in controller and wireless communication!
1. Create ugly environment
2. ???
3. Profit
4. Become irrelevant
5. Open source it
Doing business means you have to expect that the other party is working in good faith. You can't be wary of everyone you do business with. In fact, *not* every supplier (be it goods or services) is out there to fuck you - most of them figured it's more profitable to play fair.
Hell, even drug dealers know better than killing you after selling you weed, to get their weed back *and* your money.
That's why i started my comment with: "Let's put the article's point (legitimacy of clicks) aside for a bit".
Let's put the article's point (legitimacy of clicks) aside for a bit, and go back to your specific point: Facebook lets you set an maximum budget (in fact, by default, it asks you for one). It's their problem if they didn't set a limit. I set my campagins with $1 MAX per DAY and run it for 10 days. That's $10 max.
Once it hits the $1/day limit, ads get paused until the next day, automatically.
it depends on what you're advertising. FB makes a quotation on the fly, based on the keywords, tastes, age range you're targeting, etc. My max CPC is 3 cents per click (usually 1 cent), I'm a comic book store in Argentina, specifically targeting people in my area and neighboring cities, who speak spanish, like a specific subset of anime and manga, and who aren't already fans of my business page.
So you buy Cisco and are subject to US backdoors.
That's a technical or logistic limtation. Hollywood's region-locking mechanism is a purely arbitrary measure.
That's exactly my point. "The customer is always right" means you should GIVE the customer what he wants. If he wants AMD, you give him AMD, and not tell him why Intel is better. Or vice versa. "Customer is always right" doesn't mean the customer can make stupid demands.
Yes, there is, and it's called profit. If they didn't charge you extra they would go out of business. I thought you said you managed a store? You seem to know nothing about businesses.
Status quo. Defend it all you want, but the world keeps moving forward. There are hundreds of business models that became obsolete with technology. Like photo developing shops.
No, they don't. Because I don't like what they offer, and I won't buy that anyway. If I liked what they offered, I'd buy it. Let's suppose it's not hollywood, let's talk about japanese anime. They are just not interested in licensing a lot of series outside japan. So the only way to get them is either move to japan and speak japanese, or download a fansub (fan-made subtitled version).
This is exactly the whole point of all this: CHOICE. I don't want to have the options someone else chose for me. I want to have ALL the options, and chose for myself. Just like I can do on the internet.
No, because hollywood's business models also tells me what I should watch. If I want to watch "Avengers" because hollywood and all the media apparatus that surrounds it has told me to, why doesn't Hollywood make it easily available and convenient?
Warning: I use the term "I" as an example subject. I don't really do these things. I haven't downloaded a movie in years, and the last time I rented a movie, that I remember, was probably in 95. it was "Speed". I don't have time to actually "sit down and watch a movie" anyways.
Simple: BECAUSE I FUCKING WANT TO WATCH IT. Why do I have to give any more explanations? I want to watch a movie, I can pay por it. I have the money, just give me the fucking movie! What I do or not do in my free time is not your problem, or hollywood's, or anyone else's.
I own a store, and through the years I've learned that "the customer is always right" means that you shouldn't give a fuck about the customer's tastes. Just get him what he wants, or else he'll go somewhere else and get it anyway. Don't try to convince them that their taste is bad, because that just makes things worse.
Dude, you couldn't have chosen a worse example. The netflix streaming catalog is like 20 movies that have been on basic cable for ages, and TV series from the season before, only after the new season has started.
You are just limiting your options to a catalog Hollywood has picked for you, purely because they CAN. What technical limitation is there that won't let Netflix stream a movie that they can actually rent to you on DVD? How about european, asian, or south american cinema? I haven't seen much of that on NF's catalog when I had the 30 day trial. I liked the service, but I didn't renew it as the options weren't interesting enough for me. The DVD rental store near my house has a much more varied catalog, and they have the movies on DVD as soon as they're out in that format.
Your point is stupid.
Simply because it assumes you can get something elsewhere. Point is: you can't, just because MAFIAA doesn't want you to. Why isn't there a service where you can get just everything? Why does it have to be so complicated, "licensing", "distribution rights", and a lot of other BULLSHIT, like "region coding" on DVDs. Why do I, down here in Argentina, have to wait several months for a DVD release, while someone in the US got it long before? What's the point? Money talks, and the price of the DVD here is pretty much the same down here than over there. So the "people will order from other countries to pay less" argument doesn't apply either.
Here's the thing: I want to watch that movie now. I know it's out in the US. I have the money. Where's my movie? "You have to wait". Fuck that shit, I'll get it elsewhere.
Really, you are just playing Hollywood's game, and in that game, you'll always be their bitch.
Nice troll. But I disassembled an 80s frequency counter yesterday. Some chips were USA, some were Germany, and there was on made in Italy!
I'm from Argentina and i also looked at a regulable PSU my dad built back in the 80s: The voltage regs (TI ones) were made in Argentina, and the capacitors in Brazil.
And let's not forget Japan, which is not in SEA.
It's simple: everyone's hearing is different. The shape of your ear, tinnitus, wax in your ear canal, and hearing defficiencies are all parameters that make it basically impossible to exactly replicate the source of a sound with "just" timing and sound differences between left and right. Using 62 channels with speakers placed all around you makes it easier. It also doesn't rotate when you turn your head.
That said, I'm happy with my stereo speakers. Maybe a subwoofer for extra rumble, but I don't have the place (or time) to sit down and "enjoy" multichannel sound.
Nice troll, but I would also feel safer in a rural town in Argentina than in New York.
I know. I live in Resistencia, Chaco, so this is a common sight for me: http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/15908735.jpg
The point wasn't about pretty landmarks tho, it was about the fact that, if there *ARE* buildings like that, then the economy can't be that bad. If there are cars filling the streets, and if the roads are nice to drive on, then the economy isn't that terrible (again: "yet"). I can see we're going straight to hell if Cristina doesn't react soon - it's going the same way as De La Rua: refusing to admit the economy is going down and do something about it.
As I said: I'm completely against Cristina's policies (I don't buy that "we have to close imports and make everything here" bullshit). But saying the economy is as terrible as the poorest countries is just plain typical Porteño exaggeration (well, those skyscrapers are in fact typical megalomaniac Porteño exaggeration too. The good kind of exaggeration, tho - don't get mad, porteños, I'm not hatin'! ).
The worst part? I constantly hear porteños (of middle class!) whining about the economy, and yet Roger Waters fills stadiums 10 times in a row.
Well, Mexico is technically in North America. Nevertheless, what's happening in mexico (drug killings) isn't new.
I'm not saying Argenina is a great economy, but I hate being compared to Somalia or whatever. Whenever someone mentions that living in Argentina is "bad" I just let pictures talk:
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/1020/catalinas2.jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/3406/096catalinasnorte.jpg
https://ayudabuenosaires.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/obelisco-av-9-de-julio.jpg
I know that's just the capital, and things are MUCH better there. But I'll start to worry the day it stops looking as shiny as now.
We're not quite down to African levels yet. We're getting there, though.
Sounds like you're just bitter at an incompetent IT department. None of your excuses cut it for me. IT doesn't need to "support" the business. It's 2012. IT is part of the business. "Getting things done" is not how it works, because that only ends up with desktop switches in a tangle of cat5. Planning is how it works.
And the whole argument is stupid, because: how did the user end up with 6 computers in his offices and only 2 drops? Didn't IT provide the computers? Did the guy decide to get random computers from somewhere else? Why does he need 6 computers? IT isn't supposed to support computers they didn't provide.
If IT did provide the computers, why didn't they provide network drops? They are just incompetent if they did.
IT is there to keep the business running. Not to keep users happy by doing whatever they want.
You beat me to it. The guy is whining about "usability" and yet:
his website is a horrible mix of:
I could go on but I think I've pointed enough mistakes. I can't believe someone with a website like that has the nerve to criticize Microsoft (or anyone) for using uppercase menus.
policies. LOL. 802.1x is what you need.
Sorry, i didn't understand your example. Can you use a car analogy? Thanks.
So does this mean a Windows computer can now be self-powered?
Is this even a real question? Personalism has nothing to do with city planning. It's all about efficiency.
9-ink inkjet has wider gamut than RA-4 paper. And doesn't fade.
A print made in a 9-ink large format printer has a wider gamut and more durability than RA-4 paper. Not saying that you will get your print done from one of those machines at any shop, just pointing out that chemical paper is good, but there are newer processes as well.
Arguably, you could get good results at home from a decent (6 ink) printer, sometimes better than what you get at a photo lab (sometimes labs reuse chemicals. that's no good). Others don't dry the pics as supposed, etc. There are many factors that can make a chemical print sub-optimal.
Drones that replace chemical tanks on minilabs at walmart are usually better than lab technicians that "know what they're doing". Cause the drones just do as the machine instructs them. Techs know how much they can "stretch" a batch of developer, etc.
Wire wrap is not aerospace grade? You might want to google for the apollo computer... :P