well then if "Cost of Media" is a factor for you, what do you do when you are a Home User and you want a "weekly backup"?
£4.00 a week for DVDs = 25 weeks of Backups
now you are out of money and you have spent £100 and you could have had an external Hard Drive for that amount
with the external Drive, your first backup takes awhile , then each time you do a Backup, only the files changed get backed up and you always have a current backup.
and after a year, you've saved £100, so the external Hard Drive wins again, both on Cost of Media and Ease of Use.
The Article was about Home Use Backup and the frustrations involved with Backing up over Multiple DVDs
If your time is worth £0.00 (or $0.00) then you can spend hours swapping out DVDs if you want.
but for most every Home User I know, they don't want to bother with that.
they generally don't think about Backups until it is too late, then they will pay ANYTHING to get their PRICELESS stuff back!
No one I know places any "value" on their Data until it is Lost.
Cost of Media is not really a factor. Ease of Use and Transparency is.
8 DVDs to back up 30GB or....
uh
21,240 Floppy Disks
either way you try it once and then....Never Again!
you are using the wrong media for your "EZ BACKUP"
as others have pointed out, use an External HD with something like Retrospect installed.
Push a Button, you're done.
"Professional carpenters will just find a way of disabling this, like the blade guards on circular saws and the 'safety' on nailguns."
All they have to do is turn the key on the side of the unit that "disables" the safety feature.
It comes standard on the saw.
Some friends of mine own a Scene Shop that makes sets for Stage Productions and they bought a pair of these a couple of years ago.
Being a Scene Shop, they don't just use the saws to cut wood, they also cut Acrylic and Aluminum.
They HAVE to disable the safety feature to cut Acrylic and Aluminum or it triggers a False Positive and that quick cut ends up costing $150 to replace the blade and the soft aluminum block that slams into the blade to stop it so fast.
so far ALL the replacements have had to be done because the employee forgot to DISABLE the safety system when they were cutting something other than wood.
"...Apple would be asking its customers to spend hundreds of dollars (?) on a piece of hardware that would be doing more or less the same job as the DVD player they already own."
Change DVD player to CD player and go back a few years. Now how does this blurb about the iPod sound:
Apple would be asking its customers to spend hundreds of dollars (?) on a piece of hardware that would be doing more or less the same job as the CD player they already own.
After many months of evaluating feedback and deliberating, we've decided to institute a $10 fee for each listing posted to the broker apartment categories on the New York site (both "fee" and "no fee"), starting March 1, 2006.
So again- Craigslist has NOT and DOES not currently charge ANYTHING for Housing Listings.
If it was free service as in Slashdot posting free, sure, it shouldn't matter what crackpot ads are on Craigslist. SO that's not the case. Craigslist DOES NOT take money for posting HOUSING ads by collecting fee from HOUSING ad posters.
Hence Craigslist is NOT responsible for allowing discriminatory ads.
This is particular to the Real Estate Section, maybe flagging works elsewhere, but the Real Estate Section is SATURATED with:
Agents posting Services (and not listing actual Real Estate, there is a separate section for Services)
Spam advertising cheap Housing, but its really Affiliate links to endless Popup Windows of ads.
"Browse the MLS Free!" postings which you have to sign up for, but then they sell your name to Real Estate Agents "looking for leads" (there is a guy in my wife's office who pays for these.....)
Ads for Florida Investments
Ads for Vegas Investments
I place ONE ad a week for my wife's Real Estate Listings there and I would be happy to pay if people did not have to wade through all the garbage just to get to her listing.
The Flag System does not work for Real Estate, Nothing I have EVER flagged has been removed. NOTHING.
And I am ONLY flagging the really spammy crap, not the actual listings. My time is worth way more than the $10 they will charge.
Let's suppose you own a small company, you have 10 employees.
Wal-Mart is a major source of your income and they demand you start using a new technology (like RFID...), but you have to pay all the R&D costs for implementing this technology AND you can't pass the costs on to your customers in the form of slightly higher prices. (Wal-Mart makes you LOWER prices each year, you can't raise them or you don't do business with them...)
Your competitors that can afford to absorb the cost will do so, those that cannot may have to close up shop.
Or, instead of closing shop you may end up eliminating 2 employees simply to stay open. Net gain for the small business: -2 employees, no extra income
Implementing RFID is saving WAL-MART money and allowing WAL-MART to eliminate jobs.
They call the shots now, not the suppliers.
I don't disagree with your comments about using technology to make money while eliminating jobs, its just that the market has changed now. The tail wags the dog.
"...why is the world pointed in the direction of RFID?
for the same reason manufacturing is moving to China: WAL-MART
ASFAIK- Wal-Mart is the primary push behind RFID and they making suppliers foot the bill.
It starts out with an RFID tag on each Pallet, once that works out
Then it moves to an RFID tag on each Box, once that works out
Then it moves to an RFID tag on each ITEM
As others have pointed out, the goal is to make inventory more efficient, but as a multi-millionaire business owner friend of mine pointed out to me, the PRIMARY goal for Wal-Mart is to Eliminate Jobs.
Anyone who has read Fast Food Nation knows this is also the goal behind places like McDonalds. If they could just be giant vending machines, they would.
my 3 grandkids (8, 10,11) actually like this thing!
Someone gave us a little box of "Olde Tyme" Wooden Toys and in addition to the cork "pop gun", there was...Ball In A Cup!
The boys will actually fight over it.
The "winner" sits there for a half hour or so tallying up how many consecutive "catches" he makes, then when he is "done", he passes it on, saying "Beat THAT SCORE!" to his brother.
and of course I will sit there (with a beer) and watch them play "Ball In A Cup".
you guys are going to really screw up big time and there will be an opening for a "new" Mythbuster.
Case In Point: The "Will Water Stop Bullets" episode
You make a tank INDOORS
Fill it with WATER
It LEAKS
You patch it up
Then you bring in the Lighting gear and with Cables and Connectors all over the Floor:
You fire a Shotgun into it!
And there is "surprise" when the tank fails?
"Quick! Turn off the Power!"
wtf kids?
You go to the Desert or the Parking Lot for many things, but you choose to fire off a NitrousOxide/Wax Fuel Rocket in the Shop and you are surprised at the amount HEAT and SMOKE generated?
after years of signing up with different on-line thingies that insist on making me use a "secret" question and answer and won't let me leave it blank I now have a separate ID for on-line anonymous usage.
Different Year/Month/Day Born
Different town I was BORN in (yes that was one of the "secret" questions)
Different Mother's Maiden Name (actually I have several of these and rotate them or combine them...)
Different Town and ZipCode where I live
A non-existant Favorite Pet
Same Gender though....
I did sign on to Classmates.com as one of the kids I hated.
I started getting emails from all the girls that would never go out with me in High School!
I couldn't reply though because it was the "free" version of Classmates.com, however, I took comfort knowing the guy I was impersonating could not sign up as himself as I had already taken that position!
They pull out because Apple wouldn't allow them to Charge More
Fine
So now what happens?
They have to pull the same stunt on every other joint that is distributing music on-line, Rhapsody, Napster, the Windows Music box or whatever they will call it, Wal-Mart, etc etc
So all of a sudden no more 99 songs at ITMS and the price is $1.99 everywhere else! And the subscription prices will probably Double! How many people will just CANCEL their subscription services?
Guess who loses? (you already know)
Oh, and if they pull this on Wal-Mart, they'll just pull the plug, Wal-Mart won't play along.
don't be fooled by the Video Content available from ITMS, I didn't spend $10K to fill up my iPod, it all my own CDs, ripped into MP3s/
People are already taking pics and movies with their cell phones and sharing them by watching them on their tiny screens.
If people are using the iPod Photo for their Photos, I bet the push is to allow users to put their OWN Content that THEY create onto the Video iPod.
Import your Video to your Mac, edit it down with iMovie, export for iPod Video.
* Look, here's my grandkids!
* Look, here's our new Puppy!
* Look, here's our new BABY!
* Look, here's....whoops, you're not supposed to see that one...
* Lets see that Puppy again!
Slashdot Mirror
"U2" was already taken
Spontaneous Human Combustion
£4.00 a week for DVDs = 25 weeks of Backups
now you are out of money and you have spent £100 and you could have had an external Hard Drive for that amount
with the external Drive, your first backup takes awhile , then each time you do a Backup, only the files changed get backed up and you always have a current backup.
and after a year, you've saved £100, so the external Hard Drive wins again, both on Cost of Media and Ease of Use.
If your time is worth £0.00 (or $0.00) then you can spend hours swapping out DVDs if you want.
but for most every Home User I know, they don't want to bother with that.
they generally don't think about Backups until it is too late, then they will pay ANYTHING to get their PRICELESS stuff back!
No one I know places any "value" on their Data until it is Lost.
Cost of Media is not really a factor. Ease of Use and Transparency is.
uh
21,240 Floppy Disks
either way you try it once and then ....Never Again!
you are using the wrong media for your "EZ BACKUP"
as others have pointed out, use an External HD with something like Retrospect installed.
Push a Button, you're done.
All they have to do is turn the key on the side of the unit that "disables" the safety feature.
It comes standard on the saw.
Some friends of mine own a Scene Shop that makes sets for Stage Productions and they bought a pair of these a couple of years ago.
Being a Scene Shop, they don't just use the saws to cut wood, they also cut Acrylic and Aluminum.
They HAVE to disable the safety feature to cut Acrylic and Aluminum or it triggers a False Positive and that quick cut ends up costing $150 to replace the blade and the soft aluminum block that slams into the blade to stop it so fast.
so far ALL the replacements have had to be done because the employee forgot to DISABLE the safety system when they were cutting something other than wood.
its a mistake, it was supposed to read BUTTLE....
Change DVD player to CD player and go back a few years.
Now how does this blurb about the iPod sound:
Apple would be asking its customers to spend hundreds of dollars (?) on a piece of hardware that would be doing more or less the same job as the CD player they already own.
terrible business model....
After many months of evaluating feedback and deliberating, we've decided to institute a $10 fee for each listing posted to the broker apartment categories on the New York site (both "fee" and "no fee"), starting March 1, 2006.
So again- Craigslist has NOT and DOES not currently charge ANYTHING for Housing Listings.
I stand by my original post.
You really should try reading the links you post.
If it was free service as in Slashdot posting free, sure, it shouldn't matter what crackpot ads are on Craigslist. SO that's not the case. Craigslist DOES NOT take money for posting HOUSING ads by collecting fee from HOUSING ad posters.
Hence Craigslist is NOT responsible for allowing discriminatory ads.
Get the facts.
Agents posting Services (and not listing actual Real Estate, there is a separate section for Services)
Spam advertising cheap Housing, but its really Affiliate links to endless Popup Windows of ads.
"Browse the MLS Free!" postings which you have to sign up for, but then they sell your name to Real Estate Agents "looking for leads" (there is a guy in my wife's office who pays for these.....)
Ads for Florida Investments
Ads for Vegas Investments
I place ONE ad a week for my wife's Real Estate Listings there and I would be happy to pay if people did not have to wade through all the garbage just to get to her listing.
The Flag System does not work for Real Estate, Nothing I have EVER flagged has been removed. NOTHING.
And I am ONLY flagging the really spammy crap, not the actual listings.
My time is worth way more than the $10 they will charge.
Let's suppose you own a small company, you have 10 employees.
Wal-Mart is a major source of your income and they demand you start using a new technology (like RFID...), but you have to pay all the R&D costs for implementing this technology AND you can't pass the costs on to your customers in the form of slightly higher prices.
(Wal-Mart makes you LOWER prices each year, you can't raise them or you don't do business with them...)
Your competitors that can afford to absorb the cost will do so, those that cannot may have to close up shop.
Or, instead of closing shop you may end up eliminating 2 employees simply to stay open.
Net gain for the small business: -2 employees, no extra income
Implementing RFID is saving WAL-MART money and allowing WAL-MART to eliminate jobs.
They call the shots now, not the suppliers.
I don't disagree with your comments about using technology to make money while eliminating jobs, its just that the market has changed now. The tail wags the dog.
for the same reason manufacturing is moving to China: WAL-MART
ASFAIK- Wal-Mart is the primary push behind RFID and they making suppliers foot the bill.
It starts out with an RFID tag on each Pallet, once that works out
Then it moves to an RFID tag on each Box, once that works out
Then it moves to an RFID tag on each ITEM
As others have pointed out, the goal is to make inventory more efficient, but as a multi-millionaire business owner friend of mine pointed out to me, the PRIMARY goal for Wal-Mart is to Eliminate Jobs.
Anyone who has read Fast Food Nation knows this is also the goal behind places like McDonalds.
If they could just be giant vending machines, they would.
Flashlights
Every year I give new ones (cheap ones) because the ones I gave them last year are:
Lost
or
Broken
Someone gave us a little box of "Olde Tyme" Wooden Toys and in addition to the cork "pop gun", there was...Ball In A Cup!
The boys will actually fight over it.
The "winner" sits there for a half hour or so tallying up how many consecutive "catches" he makes, then when he is "done", he passes it on, saying "Beat THAT SCORE!" to his brother.
and of course I will sit there (with a beer) and watch them play "Ball In A Cup".
Case In Point:
The "Will Water Stop Bullets" episode
You make a tank INDOORS
Fill it with WATER
It LEAKS
You patch it up
Then you bring in the Lighting gear and with Cables and Connectors all over the Floor:
You fire a Shotgun into it!
And there is "surprise" when the tank fails?
"Quick! Turn off the Power!"
wtf kids?
You go to the Desert or the Parking Lot for many things, but you choose to fire off a NitrousOxide/Wax Fuel Rocket in the Shop and you are surprised at the amount HEAT and SMOKE generated?
I guess I don't have a question, sorry.
Love your show, biggest fan, etc etc
uh....mod myself up on Slashdot?
hey, it works!
Different Year/Month/Day Born
Different town I was BORN in (yes that was one of the "secret" questions)
Different Mother's Maiden Name (actually I have several of these and rotate them or combine them...)
Different Town and ZipCode where I live
A non-existant Favorite Pet
Same Gender though....
I did sign on to Classmates.com as one of the kids I hated.
I started getting emails from all the girls that would never go out with me in High School!
I couldn't reply though because it was the "free" version of Classmates.com, however, I took comfort knowing the guy I was impersonating could not sign up as himself as I had already taken that position!
karma's a bitch ain't it?
*bzzzttt*
that one doesn't even register on the chart as having moved.
Call me a Luddite, but if Flipbook support is not there, I'm not opening my wallet.
except to watch my credit cards flip back and forth...flipflipflipflipflipflipflipflipflip.....
Moller's website offers it for a list price of $995,000
You can't fly either one yet. Is he just hoping to sell the Prototype as a Garage Trophy?
Or is this just a publicity stunt? (hey, it worked)
Fine
So now what happens?
They have to pull the same stunt on every other joint that is distributing music on-line, Rhapsody, Napster, the Windows Music box or whatever they will call it, Wal-Mart, etc etc
So all of a sudden no more 99 songs at ITMS and the price is $1.99 everywhere else!
And the subscription prices will probably Double! How many people will just CANCEL their subscription services?
Guess who loses? (you already know)
Oh, and if they pull this on Wal-Mart, they'll just pull the plug, Wal-Mart won't play along.
If so, they've been sacked and your Exchange servers can cool down now.
Police, baffled by the lack of a blue "e" can't figure out how they used the Internet.
"And there's no START button! How are we supposed to find anything?"
People are already taking pics and movies with their cell phones and sharing them by watching them on their tiny screens.
If people are using the iPod Photo for their Photos, I bet the push is to allow users to put their OWN Content that THEY create onto the Video iPod.
Import your Video to your Mac, edit it down with iMovie, export for iPod Video.
* Look, here's my grandkids!
* Look, here's our new Puppy!
* Look, here's our new BABY!
* Look, here's....whoops, you're not supposed to see that one...
* Lets see that Puppy again!