If the shoe fits, wear it. If the software sells, sell it.
But you can only fix up and re-sell the same shoe brand before the customers start wanting something different.
I don't really trust any entity but myself to make sure I have important information archived/encrypted/etc. For reasons like this, and this recent Slashdot story
I completely agree; the reason I've also argued pro-cloning research, pro-nano tech research, etc, is to compare it to the invention of flight. Yeah, bad things have come from it, but compare that to what it's done for mankind as a whole...could we ever see it's invention as a bad thing?
I think this entire 'unlimited' offering is silly...it seems we're seeing more and more cases of some group of customers that basically exceed whatever the company expects the realistic extreme to be, and the company simply creates a cap.
An ISP might offer unlimited bandwidth, the the minute a few people start managing to pull down 20gig a day, or say, a phone company customer base starts sending 10,000 text messages a day, we start seeing things like this.
We know there's a reasonable extreme to be expected in any service like this, and it'd be nice of the companies responsbile just gave a good limit (1 gig of free e-mail, anyone?) that most people won't get close to hitting, but is big enough to keep users coming in.
This kinda reminds of of the idea that the more you punish a child, the stricter you get, that sometimes it just makes them rebel even more.
I understand this is their billion-dollar industry, but can't they see every step they take is doing so little good, and that they'd try a different philosophy?
Do I not? No, I do not receive any. Well, technically everyone still 'receives' it at some point, but most e-mail software is already adept and handling what's junk and what is not. It doesn't really have any 'staying power' just because a handful respond to it. remember the RIAA's reprieve offer a while back? It obviously has NO staying power, even though it was reported that some did take them up on it.
I don't think it'll ever really go away in the literal sense, but I think over the next 1-3 years we'll be to the point where it's presence is almost entirely invisible.
Or does the whole pop-up/spam phenemenon remind anyone else, at least in it's probable lifespan, as just another tech fad? It's becoming a large issue because of its annoyance value, but as many people are saying, it's dying out...almost all major browsers have or will soon have (IE in SP 2 I believe) blockers, which will adapt just as quickly as the people creating the ads in the first place--and mail most mail servers and programs already handle spam (for the most part) extremely well, and will only get better at what they do. If you're in the field of creating all this glut, I'd suggest a career change; not simply because I think you should rot in all 7 layers of hell for making computer harder on my mother than it already was, but because you'll soon be out of a job.
When it'd cost ~375 to go to a store and buy 25 albums, this is still a decent deal for those that have morals, although I think there other online services with better rates.
Glad to see the Justice system taking on important matters. I mean, since we started throwing the death penalty around as a deterrent, look how little murder occurs!
Oh wait...
In all seriousness, this does smell a little of impending market dominance. With Google already standing fairly tall over other engines, showing goals as lofty yet plausible as voice recognition / instant translation / etc, might we be seeing the MSFT of search engines about to lock in it's position? And if so...does it seem like such a bad thing in this case?
This week, not only will we have answered the question of just how much of our knowledge we base from the Internet (Google, by and large), but how we can make it even easier to use. Anyone see any searchable database on the Web with the potential to topple what Google has become / could become?
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Go to Wired and check out their Cult of Mac blog, and I think get have some pics/more info on this.
If the shoe fits, wear it. If the software sells, sell it. But you can only fix up and re-sell the same shoe brand before the customers start wanting something different.
I don't really trust any entity but myself to make sure I have important information archived/encrypted/etc. For reasons like this, and this recent Slashdot story
I completely agree; the reason I've also argued pro-cloning research, pro-nano tech research, etc, is to compare it to the invention of flight. Yeah, bad things have come from it, but compare that to what it's done for mankind as a whole...could we ever see it's invention as a bad thing?
I think this entire 'unlimited' offering is silly...it seems we're seeing more and more cases of some group of customers that basically exceed whatever the company expects the realistic extreme to be, and the company simply creates a cap. An ISP might offer unlimited bandwidth, the the minute a few people start managing to pull down 20gig a day, or say, a phone company customer base starts sending 10,000 text messages a day, we start seeing things like this. We know there's a reasonable extreme to be expected in any service like this, and it'd be nice of the companies responsbile just gave a good limit (1 gig of free e-mail, anyone?) that most people won't get close to hitting, but is big enough to keep users coming in.
What!? No way! Damn it! I'm taking this POS back! ...
Who cares? /tear
This kinda reminds of of the idea that the more you punish a child, the stricter you get, that sometimes it just makes them rebel even more. I understand this is their billion-dollar industry, but can't they see every step they take is doing so little good, and that they'd try a different philosophy?
Do I not? No, I do not receive any. Well, technically everyone still 'receives' it at some point, but most e-mail software is already adept and handling what's junk and what is not. It doesn't really have any 'staying power' just because a handful respond to it. remember the RIAA's reprieve offer a while back? It obviously has NO staying power, even though it was reported that some did take them up on it. I don't think it'll ever really go away in the literal sense, but I think over the next 1-3 years we'll be to the point where it's presence is almost entirely invisible.
Yes, you're right, and it's very unfortunate; luckily, most geeks can just install Firefox on mom's computer, and that will probably be Good Enough(C)
Or does the whole pop-up/spam phenemenon remind anyone else, at least in it's probable lifespan, as just another tech fad? It's becoming a large issue because of its annoyance value, but as many people are saying, it's dying out...almost all major browsers have or will soon have (IE in SP 2 I believe) blockers, which will adapt just as quickly as the people creating the ads in the first place--and mail most mail servers and programs already handle spam (for the most part) extremely well, and will only get better at what they do.
If you're in the field of creating all this glut, I'd suggest a career change; not simply because I think you should rot in all 7 layers of hell for making computer harder on my mother than it already was, but because you'll soon be out of a job.
Yes, but try getting your boss to buy you more than one. =/
When it'd cost ~375 to go to a store and buy 25 albums, this is still a decent deal for those that have morals, although I think there other online services with better rates.
Glad to see the Justice system taking on important matters. I mean, since we started throwing the death penalty around as a deterrent, look how little murder occurs!
Oh wait...
I swear, it was funnier before I posted it. In Soviet Russia, pants display you! Alright, I'm done.
/me glances over today's headlines So, what we can look forward to seeing are t-shirts that can answer homework questions. Rock on!
In all seriousness, this does smell a little of impending market dominance. With Google already standing fairly tall over other engines, showing goals as lofty yet plausible as voice recognition / instant translation / etc, might we be seeing the MSFT of search engines about to lock in it's position? And if so...does it seem like such a bad thing in this case?
This week, not only will we have answered the question of just how much of our knowledge we base from the Internet (Google, by and large), but how we can make it even easier to use. Anyone see any searchable database on the Web with the potential to topple what Google has become / could become?