When your fan base can spot even a minor continuity error from a mile away
Then why not hire several members of your fan base to be continuity editors? I never understood not hiring a knowledgeable fan to handle continuity between shows and episodes instead of just between episodes. Especially when your franchise has such a strong fan base as this one does. Consider the fact that most Star Trek fans would be willing to do this for free...
What IBM is doing is good for business, but not to sell hardware. IBM primarily sells three things: hardware, software and services. They saw their profits begin to errode in hardware, so they began to move to software. They are starting to see their profits erode in software, so they are selling services, in particular consulting service, and that is where the money's at.
Based on their '03 financial statement http://www.ibm.com/annualreport/2003/noflash/fr_cf s_cse.shtml, their Global Services rose from $34.9 billion in '01 to $42.6 billion in '03 while hardware slid from $30.6 billion in '01 to $28.2 billion in '03.
Hardware is still up their, but it is slowly declining.
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When your fan base can spot even a minor continuity error from a mile away
Then why not hire several members of your fan base to be continuity editors? I never understood not hiring a knowledgeable fan to handle continuity between shows and episodes instead of just between episodes. Especially when your franchise has such a strong fan base as this one does. Consider the fact that most Star Trek fans would be willing to do this for free...
What IBM is doing is good for business, but not to sell hardware. IBM primarily sells three things: hardware, software and services. They saw their profits begin to errode in hardware, so they began to move to software. They are starting to see their profits erode in software, so they are selling services, in particular consulting service, and that is where the money's at. Based on their '03 financial statement http://www.ibm.com/annualreport/2003/noflash/fr_cf s_cse.shtml, their Global Services rose from $34.9 billion in '01 to $42.6 billion in '03 while hardware slid from $30.6 billion in '01 to $28.2 billion in '03.
Hardware is still up their, but it is slowly declining.
WCET, PBS in Cincinnati Ohio, has been playing Dr. Who in order for over a year and has skipped all the Dalek episodes as well.