Your problem here is that most registrations will shoot you to your article once you hit submit. Unless they install a timer for how long a user viewed the article page, or printed it, they are just going to get a count of how many people viewed it. I suggest not registering. Hear news, search news, and look it up on news.google.com. Also, may I recommend bloomberg.com, forbes.com, newscientist.com, guardian.co.uk, economist.co.uk. Granted, not all articles are free here, but do you really want to get the Ask Amy column from the Tribune?
Since MS now has 90% market share in the computer world, props to Windows and Office 2000/2003 ease of use, thecompany realizes that their heady income of 1 billion per month is going to slow. So what do you do?
1. Stop sitting on all that cash, and begin paying out $75 billion as well as buy back large portion of outstanding shares, thereby reverting to an image of a company greatful for its stockholders, that pays out. 2. Continue creating media presence with the money pit that is MSNBC 3. Reemerge as a product standard in other markets where computers are replacing current devices (television, applicances)
Let's just see how Microsoft can compete.
I doubt that will happen. Google is currently built into firefox, hands down the best way to incorporate a search engine into a browser i've ever seen. And I test 'em all, if worthy...hehe.
People will deviate from searches clogged with ads. Google has already pushed its limits with sponsored links and amazon.com showing up at the top 5 of every search. Even if Google was to disappear due to some financial blunder or complete mismanagement of marketing strategy, another would take it's place, and its roots would be in the non-M$ world.
How the hell did he have time to make all that cashish if he's chilling in the moutains all his life. Suddenly decide to go to Brooks Brothers and take a bath?
Hopefully they make it as epic as the first one, and not a farce...
My fam in EU has had Skype since july 1, but then it was beta, now 1.0. Theyare very satisfied. Just have to moderate DC++ to keep quality up. Of course, over there each household gets 8 Mbits Tx rate...
I'm surprised at the desktops your "work" uses. Many small businesses rely on dumb terminals, some loaded with windows 98. I think the biggest upset here is the graphics card. Gamers will have to expend an additional $200 just to run the game in 'OK' mode?
Think about all the subsidized phones customers are offered if they switch carriers. Since last November when that law took effect, companies lose huge amounts on advertising and equipment costs to get people to join, only to havwe them leave three months later for a better deal.
In South Korea the governemnt recently imposed another ban on carriers signing up new customers for as long as forty (40) days to prevent the massive waste of resources going to advertising and stealing customers.
Games on cell-phones, which I consider less entertaining than Leisure Suit Larry on DOS, are just another way to hog customers. Those carriers that sign deals forcertain mfg.'s cell-phones will have an upper hand for that arket for a few months. Only to face a huge loss once a better deal comes along. I guess my point is that this stop-and-go promotional stuff over something as unproductive as games is only hurtful to the evolution of these companies.
If Cingular, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint spent less money on advertising, which is in the billions, we would be much closer to 3G, lobbying for higher bandwidth, and other advantages wireless technologies can provide. Instead we're stuck battling it out about who gets more subscribers by luring them with GAMES?!
Riiiiight... Because we voluntarily comply... with anything? Laws are in place for a reason. In RIAAs case, it's to protect their revenue generated from a crap commodity they call music, as it is valuable and can only be performed by a specific person or group of persons, and by law whatever holder of licensing to such commodity has exclusive rights to authorize distribution of it. This has obviously not been followed since the consumer got its greasy hands on the CD-R.
To stick to the point, woudl we really sit at red lights if it was voluntary? Would your kid refrain from buying liquor if compliance was voluntary? Would you pay the subscription fee to your local newspaper if it was voluntary. "voluntary"...I hardly see a solution there.
...but it's not like it helps his credibility...Sure, he's involved, but as a veteran/player, not as an up-and-coming musician.
RTFAs! That's why the PBS story will focus on up-and coming artists as well, thereby making their production well-rounded and more interesting. 35-years in the music industry as an artist awards you plenty of credibility in this focus. It's not like Crosby is running for mayor here!
Treat ALL your customers like criminals = You fail.
More like: make all your clients criminals = You fail
All the hype these days is about dumbfucks like lil' jon being promoted for a period of time, only to be swept off the top ten list sometime later. They have no fan base. Once they're back where they started, noone will care. BTW, anyone remember Ja Rule?
the homogenous nature of Windows makes it a lot easier for worms to affect machines in a wide range.
Very true. If 50% of all businesses, schools and homes in the Americas alone were running linux servers, what kind of effort would we have to prevent the spread of viruses then? Would it be simple for all linux users to implement patches despite the many different configurations? Which patch would be the one your business would be willing to download and bet its days data on?
Don't count on it. Anyone who is into that will not be ewager to reveal their identity so easily. Rather, look for a rise in the demand for personal information numbers and names, anything to disguise or "alternate" their identity. Big poofoo on China gov't part.
Isn't it ironic that China's Ministry of Culture has the purpose of restricting culture? Like Orwell's Ministry of Truth, which had the sole purpose of changing history.
The tags do not tell the store WHO you are. They can't see you walk out and say, "Joe took a walk-man out of the store" they can only say that one left
The tags don't give your name away, but your credit card does. Personally, I use cash whenver it's not too incovnenient, but the mjoriy of purchases, especially those over $40, are made with credit cards. The store then has the ability to see what RFID tags you bought (along with the products) and see where you take them.
I once heard that by leaving a computer with a measely 150 watt power supply (minute by today's standards) on 24 hours a day like most people do, it consumes more energy than the common refrigerator.
Perhaps the survey you are referring to was measuring energy consumption of a mini-fridge for a single 12 oz.can of beer (served ice cold), but the common refridgerator, and I mean modern, not the one's from the 70s and 80s, as they improve with time, but the modern fridge draws about 700 - 750W. This is about double that of a computer loaded with hardware doing average browsing or word processing. The ratio is less when UT2004 is activated (W00T).
Unfortunately current statistics show that U.S. companies, outside of the bio-medical fields, are spending the lowest percentages of their revenues on R&D than they ever have.
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Your problem here is that most registrations will shoot you to your article once you hit submit. Unless they install a timer for how long a user viewed the article page, or printed it, they are just going to get a count of how many people viewed it. I suggest not registering. Hear news, search news, and look it up on news.google.com. Also, may I recommend bloomberg.com, forbes.com, newscientist.com, guardian.co.uk, economist.co.uk. Granted, not all articles are free here, but do you really want to get the Ask Amy column from the Tribune?
1. Stop sitting on all that cash, and begin paying out $75 billion as well as buy back large portion of outstanding shares, thereby reverting to an image of a company greatful for its stockholders, that pays out.
2. Continue creating media presence with the money pit that is MSNBC
3. Reemerge as a product standard in other markets where computers are replacing current devices (television, applicances) Let's just see how Microsoft can compete.
Yea, it's gotten so bad that when I have a question, my professor just tells me to "google it".
People will deviate from searches clogged with ads. Google has already pushed its limits with sponsored links and amazon.com showing up at the top 5 of every search. Even if Google was to disappear due to some financial blunder or complete mismanagement of marketing strategy, another would take it's place, and its roots would be in the non-M$ world.
Hopefully they make it as epic as the first one, and not a farce...
My fam in EU has had Skype since july 1, but then it was beta, now 1.0. Theyare very satisfied. Just have to moderate DC++ to keep quality up. Of course, over there each household gets 8 Mbits Tx rate...
Might as well stock up... Can never have too much RAM!
I'm surprised at the desktops your "work" uses. Many small businesses rely on dumb terminals, some loaded with windows 98. I think the biggest upset here is the graphics card. Gamers will have to expend an additional $200 just to run the game in 'OK' mode?
Will they be shipped using UPS or FedEx?
Games on cell-phones, which I consider less entertaining than Leisure Suit Larry on DOS, are just another way to hog customers. Those carriers that sign deals forcertain mfg.'s cell-phones will have an upper hand for that arket for a few months. Only to face a huge loss once a better deal comes along. I guess my point is that this stop-and-go promotional stuff over something as unproductive as games is only hurtful to the evolution of these companies.
If Cingular, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint spent less money on advertising, which is in the billions, we would be much closer to 3G, lobbying for higher bandwidth, and other advantages wireless technologies can provide. Instead we're stuck battling it out about who gets more subscribers by luring them with GAMES?!
Riiiiight... Because we voluntarily comply ... with anything?
Laws are in place for a reason. In RIAAs case, it's to protect their revenue generated from a crap commodity they call music, as it is valuable and can only be performed by a specific person or group of persons, and by law whatever holder of licensing to such commodity has exclusive rights to authorize distribution of it. This has obviously not been followed since the consumer got its greasy hands on the CD-R.
To stick to the point, woudl we really sit at red lights if it was voluntary? Would your kid refrain from buying liquor if compliance was voluntary? Would you pay the subscription fee to your local newspaper if it was voluntary. "voluntary"...I hardly see a solution there.
RTFAs! That's why the PBS story will focus on up-and coming artists as well, thereby making their production well-rounded and more interesting. 35-years in the music industry as an artist awards you plenty of credibility in this focus. It's not like Crosby is running for mayor here!
More like: make all your clients criminals = You fail
All the hype these days is about dumbfucks like lil' jon being promoted for a period of time, only to be swept off the top ten list sometime later. They have no fan base. Once they're back where they started, noone will care. BTW, anyone remember Ja Rule?
I'll stick to my homemade keggerator, it runs on it's own generator, but atleast the beer's good for a month.
Very true. If 50% of all businesses, schools and homes in the Americas alone were running linux servers, what kind of effort would we have to prevent the spread of viruses then? Would it be simple for all linux users to implement patches despite the many different configurations? Which patch would be the one your business would be willing to download and bet its days data on?
...Food for thought, I'm no expert.
A good one form the 2002 list was: A CT scan of a Furby (206 points; 75 bonus points for visible tumors or hemorrhages)
Hmmm...I bet 10,000 of the hits on that 'Visits' counter are a direct result of this Slashdot posting.
The old geezers had to figure out how to power a computer first, then they were shocked by all the nekkidness and stripping geishas. aaaahNO!
Don't count on it. Anyone who is into that will not be ewager to reveal their identity so easily. Rather, look for a rise in the demand for personal information numbers and names, anything to disguise or "alternate" their identity. Big poofoo on China gov't part.
Isn't it ironic that China's Ministry of Culture has the purpose of restricting culture? Like Orwell's Ministry of Truth, which had the sole purpose of changing history.
The tags don't give your name away, but your credit card does. Personally, I use cash whenver it's not too incovnenient, but the mjoriy of purchases, especially those over $40, are made with credit cards. The store then has the ability to see what RFID tags you bought (along with the products) and see where you take them.
Is this the end of water-cooler-talk? Now what's my excuse for leaving my desk and walking around?
Perhaps the survey you are referring to was measuring energy consumption of a mini-fridge for a single 12 oz.can of beer (served ice cold), but the common refridgerator, and I mean modern, not the one's from the 70s and 80s, as they improve with time, but the modern fridge draws about 700 - 750W. This is about double that of a computer loaded with hardware doing average browsing or word processing. The ratio is less when UT2004 is activated (W00T).
What's your source?