I have a question for you as well: What satisfies you? What fulfills you? Are you driven by the pleasure of providing for your family, of serving as an example, etc.? I'm very interested to learn what motivates you if not the rat-race.
Yes, the romantic rogue genius, the world-changing entrepreneur - these people will always innovate, no matter who tries to stop them. When people - that is to say, IP-dependent businesses - talk about "hindering innovation", they're saying that they'll invest less. As many people here point out, being a "scientist" is now a career path for most people instead of a "calling". To these businesses, less innovation means hiring fewer sound technicians, pharmacologists, graphic artists. Whether you agree that hiring more workers to solve a problem assembly-line style is actually innovation, or that "innovation" can be attributable to an entire company, is another issue entirely:)
Okay, so this guy lied about his credentials - but how many 24 year olds do you know who could pass for tenured professors of theology? This person may have only been 24, and he may be a liar, but he's certainly not "run of the mill".
Maybe you're joking (you were modded "Funny") but in some countries in Asia they use a different 0-point for their calendar.
Now go ahead and make a "WHOOSH JOKE WENT OVER YOUR HEAD LOLBBQ!!11one" comment.
Chain retailers work just fine. I used to work for CompuSmart, a Canadian PC/CE retailer. You can call pretty much any retailer with commissioned sales staff and get a volume discount, assuming you're buying a healthy amount of stuff (3+ of the same unit, etc.). Profitable add-ons (warranties) or financing options (in-store credit or lease) will also improve your discount, which works fine if you were going to buy the extra stuff or financing anyway. Commissioned sales staff have that extra incentive to work to "earn" your business and are personally invested in your buying decision, so they'll adopt the mentality of "better to make 10% less profit than none at all". However, as mentioned by a previous poster, it's all about the margins - I've sold $1500 laptops with $3 (that's right, three dollars) of margin.
Of course, that was before the extended warranty;)
A public servant...who owns a company that makes $25 mil / year and has been profitable since 1999. I don't know any public 'servants' with that sort of scratch. For his userbase, not "cashing in" is sound business sense.
Its almost impossible to set up two movies that would give identical results and know it ahead of time.
That's very true. But it sounds like (s)he's talking about DVD sales - so maybe this could be after box office sales, which could be used as a measure of similarity?
Hey Dude, you should move up to Canada. Shit's good up here. Ineffectual minority governments that can't actually do anything - universal health care - good schools - great weather (on the west coast) - lots of jobs. It's God's country:)
Seriously, all you American/.-ers who bitch and moan about America - I don't blame you, but why don't you just leave?
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I have a question for you as well: What satisfies you? What fulfills you? Are you driven by the pleasure of providing for your family, of serving as an example, etc.? I'm very interested to learn what motivates you if not the rat-race.
Innovators innovate. It's what they do.
:)
Yes, the romantic rogue genius, the world-changing entrepreneur - these people will always innovate, no matter who tries to stop them. When people - that is to say, IP-dependent businesses - talk about "hindering innovation", they're saying that they'll invest less. As many people here point out, being a "scientist" is now a career path for most people instead of a "calling". To these businesses, less innovation means hiring fewer sound technicians, pharmacologists, graphic artists. Whether you agree that hiring more workers to solve a problem assembly-line style is actually innovation, or that "innovation" can be attributable to an entire company, is another issue entirely
Don't forget about the other implication of your quote there: when stock prices drop, suddenly Microsoft's initial offer won't look so disagreeable.
"He's such a looser. his bloog is pointless."
:: ?? : Blog
Loose : Lose
How about Bluge? I think it would be more like "Bluge" (bluj) than "Bloog".
Did you know that twice as much wood is grown in Minnesota compared to harvesting?
So Minnesota imports lots of lumber?
I performed a bedroom coup and ran the hole in your mom's pretty vag.
Substitute the name of your favorite local mom-n-pop for 'WalMart.'
In Corporate America, you substitute WalMart for your local 'mom-n-pop'.
I just looked at her site, and my browser cached it. So I owe her $5,000 now...I called her to ask how she'd like to be paid.
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Okay, so this guy lied about his credentials - but how many 24 year olds do you know who could pass for tenured professors of theology? This person may have only been 24, and he may be a liar, but he's certainly not "run of the mill".
I RTFA looking for this juicy little quote and couldn't find it anywhere. Am I blind or did the submitter make up a quote for Mr. Morris?
B.How do you apply these new laws to all the porn from countries without such laws (answer: you cant)
Wrong. You just do it on the client-side....
Never mind your Cheetos. I'll be paying this thing once and only once - for a bag of gummy bears. Know what I'm saying?
Finnegan's Wake called. It wants page 20 back.
That's because you clicked through on a porn link and now the spammers know what you like.
You lika de sauce? I lika de sauce.
Maybe you're joking (you were modded "Funny") but in some countries in Asia they use a different 0-point for their calendar. Now go ahead and make a "WHOOSH JOKE WENT OVER YOUR HEAD LOLBBQ!!11one" comment.
Chain retailers work just fine. I used to work for CompuSmart, a Canadian PC/CE retailer. You can call pretty much any retailer with commissioned sales staff and get a volume discount, assuming you're buying a healthy amount of stuff (3+ of the same unit, etc.). Profitable add-ons (warranties) or financing options (in-store credit or lease) will also improve your discount, which works fine if you were going to buy the extra stuff or financing anyway. Commissioned sales staff have that extra incentive to work to "earn" your business and are personally invested in your buying decision, so they'll adopt the mentality of "better to make 10% less profit than none at all". However, as mentioned by a previous poster, it's all about the margins - I've sold $1500 laptops with $3 (that's right, three dollars) of margin.
;)
Of course, that was before the extended warranty
A public servant...who owns a company that makes $25 mil / year and has been profitable since 1999. I don't know any public 'servants' with that sort of scratch. For his userbase, not "cashing in" is sound business sense.
Also funny is the file format of the parody of Apple's 1984 commercial by the Royal We, linked off the iDont Propoganda page. (For the slow: it's a quicktime movie).
Its almost impossible to set up two movies that would give identical results and know it ahead of time.
That's very true. But it sounds like (s)he's talking about DVD sales - so maybe this could be after box office sales, which could be used as a measure of similarity?
It's the old "Are you still drowning kittens?" question, either 'yes' or 'no' paints you as a monster
Come on, fellow nerds - back me up here. The answer is mu.
there has been no reduction in slashdot readers.
:)
This is totally obvious. It's easy to see that the value of the user IDs here still haven't started decreasing.
Tool.
Hey Dude, you should move up to Canada. Shit's good up here. Ineffectual minority governments that can't actually do anything - universal health care - good schools - great weather (on the west coast) - lots of jobs. It's God's country :)
/.-ers who bitch and moan about America - I don't blame you, but why don't you just leave?
Seriously, all you American
>> they run fucking Linux Is that a source-based or binary-based distro?
I heard that Will Wright was already working on another franchise.