It's not that simple. Human employees are there to influence the customers to buy things they did not intend to buy when they came in the store;). Things like accessories, additional chargers and maybe a MacBook to go with your iPad. Also as many already know if you work for a company you are more likely to become the company's evangelist on your own time praising the greatness of your employers goods. If they replaced every employee with a glorified vending machine most of that would go out the window and the products sales go down like a rock. So it's more than what you think.
Instead of working from the bottom up you can work from the top down. Trying to set up a filter or algorithm to turn all the garbage on the internet into kid safe material would be a god-like feat but working with organizations already devoted to promoting education and child welfare would be an excellent start. By charging parents for access you could then pass off monetary reward to those who contribute. Make anyone who contributes liable for their content and advertise the boundaries to the parents. If it gets popular enough you could even have parents pay for content tailored to their own cultures and support the content through out their community.
Look at McDonalds, they make most of their profit off of the Happy Meal. Set up something that parents have to pay for, tv shows, interactive content, etc and charge monthly.
The vast majority of blogs or "news sites" don't even make enough to cover their domain registration. If you are one of the few that get enough to consider which way to go then we have progress. Out of the few (which in internet terms is still in the hundreds/thousands) that are passionate enough about producing news content then I think that is amazing and beneficial for us all, provided you take the leap and devote your self to it rather than just moon lighting.
What I don't understand is why they wouldn't want as much independent coverage of the incident / whatever as possible. Wouldn't it make it much easier to prove in court as well as save paperwork documenting the scene? Eye witnesses are a very weak link to almost any case having a video or possibly multiple videos of the same event would just give them harder evidence to their case.
I completely agree. Most sales departments scare off customers because it is the second or third person they are talking to about the same product. The tech guys are normally nice people but have brutal call control, letting the client drag them around spilling beans all over the place about stuff that makes the company money. Techs like to be known as the nice guys but at the end of the day it just pits the sales dept vs tech which serves no good for any company. Of course you have the first timer that starts answering questions about a setup and starts talking about projects that aren't even being confirmed as go ahead or making modifications to the product that haven't been 'blessed' and monitized. In most cases if you let the sales guys/gals do their jobs and give them workshops on the 'shop talk' aspect then the company and it's employees are in better shape.
I agree this is getting to be a bit much. Every time a wrist watch goes out of sync "Anonymous" gets the blame. It's just too easy for anyone with any motivation to say "ummm Anonymous did it!!". My guess is every country will be getting "hacked" under this guise because it's convenient and because well they want to stay anonymous;) It will be even easier now to scare Joe Sixpack into going along with stupid laws because the internet is out to get them. Most of these companies get hacked not because of their status as a target but because of their amateur level of security standards. I'm surprised stuxnet didn't get blamed on Anonymous as well there would have been lots of lulz involved in that one.
When it comes to gadgets like this it is mostly word of mouth that spreads its success. Right now most people identify with either Apple or Android. If the choose Apple, well that's about it, but if they choose Android you have many sub-selections to go through. People who are curious will ask the tech they know at work or family member and they usually will offer the most rounded option they don't have to babysit. By HTC allowing custom ROMs the consumer is able to get the best of both worlds as well HTC will likely be able to tap into community resources to update their own branch even easier. It's like what I call the Vista effect, enough people who blindly wander into big box stores refused to purchase a machine with Vista that it made Microsoft look kinda stupid. There was enough of the world with an opinion which is relatively very small to influence a massive amount of purchasers to change their minds when it came to making their purchase. I will be looking seriously at HTC's offerings when my contract is up in the next 6 months and the boot loader will be a very important aspect of my purchase. I will also advise anyone who asks to look for the same.
I have to second that. Once you have a decent setup with a nice screen it's hard to watch something longer than a couple minutes on a 4" screen. Having a tv with built in wifi would be a good start but being able to manage the functions via remote. Make mobile rentals just like renting a movie, your phone is in the same area as the tv and it plays what ever you have access to, NetFlix, Hulu,etc. It would be like bringing relatively large collections on your mobile and being able to watch them on any screen you are close to. What would be really sweet would be if manufacturers would just add a short-range radio that can handle 1080p and switch through inputs like we do with video1,2,etc. You could literally sit down at any equipped monitor and run a desktop off it maybe in a dual screen setup./rant
If this is for commercial plants then why not have the company acknowledge beforehand that they will allow for random searches? This type of law makes the whole situation so ambiguous that it make very little sense. It would be similar to a resturant owner having random inspections. This does not fall under the fourth because it is a condition of their operation and is signed and agreed to well beforehand. This interpretation just means the police get to descide whether your business is suitable to be inspected which make little to no sense at all. If that is indeed the interpretation then it really is just a blanket bill that allows for random searches isn't it?
Just because they aren't clicked doesn't mean the information wasn't consumed, he still read it before. Maybe he read supportive comments on one and offered counter points based on those to the other group. Since it is up to the owners to do as they please they could even eliminate more text or add it if they wish. I would like to be able to see a fold marker or some type of indicator how much and where it's missing.
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Touche.
It's not that simple. Human employees are there to influence the customers to buy things they did not intend to buy when they came in the store ;). Things like accessories, additional chargers and maybe a MacBook to go with your iPad. Also as many already know if you work for a company you are more likely to become the company's evangelist on your own time praising the greatness of your employers goods. If they replaced every employee with a glorified vending machine most of that would go out the window and the products sales go down like a rock. So it's more than what you think.
Instead of working from the bottom up you can work from the top down. Trying to set up a filter or algorithm to turn all the garbage on the internet into kid safe material would be a god-like feat but working with organizations already devoted to promoting education and child welfare would be an excellent start. By charging parents for access you could then pass off monetary reward to those who contribute. Make anyone who contributes liable for their content and advertise the boundaries to the parents. If it gets popular enough you could even have parents pay for content tailored to their own cultures and support the content through out their community.
Look at McDonalds, they make most of their profit off of the Happy Meal. Set up something that parents have to pay for, tv shows, interactive content, etc and charge monthly.
The vast majority of blogs or "news sites" don't even make enough to cover their domain registration. If you are one of the few that get enough to consider which way to go then we have progress. Out of the few (which in internet terms is still in the hundreds/thousands) that are passionate enough about producing news content then I think that is amazing and beneficial for us all, provided you take the leap and devote your self to it rather than just moon lighting.
Your post and your study of UI design hints of a Socialiagist Major telling me it is mathematically impossible for me to like strawberry ice cream.
What I don't understand is why they wouldn't want as much independent coverage of the incident / whatever as possible. Wouldn't it make it much easier to prove in court as well as save paperwork documenting the scene? Eye witnesses are a very weak link to almost any case having a video or possibly multiple videos of the same event would just give them harder evidence to their case.
Just saying it will take an astronomical amount of time to bruteforce the entire key space does not imply your key will be the last one guessed ;)
As a Leafs fan, could anyone really blame him?
What is Toronto?
I completely agree. Most sales departments scare off customers because it is the second or third person they are talking to about the same product. The tech guys are normally nice people but have brutal call control, letting the client drag them around spilling beans all over the place about stuff that makes the company money. Techs like to be known as the nice guys but at the end of the day it just pits the sales dept vs tech which serves no good for any company. Of course you have the first timer that starts answering questions about a setup and starts talking about projects that aren't even being confirmed as go ahead or making modifications to the product that haven't been 'blessed' and monitized. In most cases if you let the sales guys/gals do their jobs and give them workshops on the 'shop talk' aspect then the company and it's employees are in better shape.
How can I get any work done if I'm hitting refresh every 5 seconds!
I agree this is getting to be a bit much. Every time a wrist watch goes out of sync "Anonymous" gets the blame. It's just too easy for anyone with any motivation to say "ummm Anonymous did it!!". My guess is every country will be getting "hacked" under this guise because it's convenient and because well they want to stay anonymous ;) It will be even easier now to scare Joe Sixpack into going along with stupid laws because the internet is out to get them. Most of these companies get hacked not because of their status as a target but because of their amateur level of security standards. I'm surprised stuxnet didn't get blamed on Anonymous as well there would have been lots of lulz involved in that one.
Nuff said.
To the Japanese the kamikaze were the heroes. Reading comprehension is hard.
When it comes to gadgets like this it is mostly word of mouth that spreads its success. Right now most people identify with either Apple or Android. If the choose Apple, well that's about it, but if they choose Android you have many sub-selections to go through. People who are curious will ask the tech they know at work or family member and they usually will offer the most rounded option they don't have to babysit. By HTC allowing custom ROMs the consumer is able to get the best of both worlds as well HTC will likely be able to tap into community resources to update their own branch even easier. It's like what I call the Vista effect, enough people who blindly wander into big box stores refused to purchase a machine with Vista that it made Microsoft look kinda stupid. There was enough of the world with an opinion which is relatively very small to influence a massive amount of purchasers to change their minds when it came to making their purchase. I will be looking seriously at HTC's offerings when my contract is up in the next 6 months and the boot loader will be a very important aspect of my purchase. I will also advise anyone who asks to look for the same.
It's called Google do you use it?
Over here when it comes to old memes, we put that shit on everything !
I have to second that. Once you have a decent setup with a nice screen it's hard to watch something longer than a couple minutes on a 4" screen. Having a tv with built in wifi would be a good start but being able to manage the functions via remote. Make mobile rentals just like renting a movie, your phone is in the same area as the tv and it plays what ever you have access to, NetFlix, Hulu,etc. It would be like bringing relatively large collections on your mobile and being able to watch them on any screen you are close to. What would be really sweet would be if manufacturers would just add a short-range radio that can handle 1080p and switch through inputs like we do with video1,2,etc. You could literally sit down at any equipped monitor and run a desktop off it maybe in a dual screen setup. /rant
Ma Bell is that you?
If this is for commercial plants then why not have the company acknowledge beforehand that they will allow for random searches? This type of law makes the whole situation so ambiguous that it make very little sense. It would be similar to a resturant owner having random inspections. This does not fall under the fourth because it is a condition of their operation and is signed and agreed to well beforehand. This interpretation just means the police get to descide whether your business is suitable to be inspected which make little to no sense at all. If that is indeed the interpretation then it really is just a blanket bill that allows for random searches isn't it?
I've never needed an excuse before.
They already outlawed murder what's the difference if you outlaw guns?
Just die already, slow and painfully.
Just because they aren't clicked doesn't mean the information wasn't consumed, he still read it before. Maybe he read supportive comments on one and offered counter points based on those to the other group. Since it is up to the owners to do as they please they could even eliminate more text or add it if they wish. I would like to be able to see a fold marker or some type of indicator how much and where it's missing.