I do wish BSA would somehow attack Harvard and then get such a whacking by 10,000 trust-fund wanna-be lawyers and their interns, that they give back the name to Boy Scouts of America. OTOH, i do buy games like Company of Heroes to promote good games so that the manufacturers make more such excellent games. Seriously why can't OS be prices at $39.39 instead of 129...
Nope. What is the guarantee that the 30 dollar flash card is the deciding authority for 50,000 dollar purchase? But, the chances of a 50,000 dollar order repeated with even lesser one are significantly higher. Economics is a game of priorities. It is also driving with your eyes on the rear-view mirror. If i had ordered 50,000 dollar equipment from amazon last year, and i contact amazon for a support or priority shipping of Transformers DVD, i EXCEPT my DVD is delivered earlier than the nerd next door who buys from newegg most of the time and uses amazon to get free shipping.
I agree with U whole heartedly. I have been ordering from amazon since 2000 for delivery to Australia, Singapore, India, USA. And i have signed up for amazon prime which guaranteed 2 day delivery. Preferential treatment for better customers is a business sense. Amazon tried preferential pricing as per economic terms, but the resulting outcry made them stop, which is a pity. Now they try preferential pricing much like Netflix delivery system (1 have a 5 DVD subscription to netflix, and they never were late by a day). Much like there is no reason for a large latte to cost twice as much as a small latte when it costs only 20 cents to make a large latte (generous). But it does, because the company knows people will pay for it.
If i were a shareholder of amazon, i would definitely support this move.
Makes much sense to ditch the freeloaders who use free shipping to waste 20 dollars of packaging on a 5 dollar ceramic.
I had a similar experience when i migrated my personal domain to google apps personal (no fee) from dotmac. I had a set of family groups for my dotmac domain and email IDs. When i moved it to Google Apps i ended up trouble shooting homepage and pages issues so much that i stopped with mail, docs and pages. The homepage is still hosted by my dotmac. Secondly google apps personal does not allow you to upload a custom-made homepage. I use a PDF as a homepage for my family newsletter as it is easier for all browsers (yeah, some nerds in my family do use Windows 98 SE and some use Nokia N95 internet tablet.).
The main issues i saw were the issues with domain rerouting, pages and some issues with docs.
We were also promised cheaper audio CDs' by RIAA which i remember swearing up and down that CDs are cheaper to manufacture and hence if we switched from tapes to CDs they would reduce it... Am still looking to it... It is just a gimmick. Except in world of electronics like ICs, CD Drives, Calculators which became a commodity so quickly that they HAD to reduce prices. Manufacturers are wiser now. They would rather sell a few at higher price rather than sell a lot at low prices and risk a few taiwan jockeys reducing prices. Few == rare == high prices == High profits More == commodity == low prices == Low profits
If you were a company what would you do? Sell more to earn same money or sell less to earn more per piece. BTW patents rock !
The Wii shortage is going to be the death of Wii. Come on man, with christmas fast approaching and MSFT seriously kicking Nintendo's AS$ in XBox 360 (they even offer a trade-in of $100 when you exchange any console for an XBox 360 in Asia)... Nintendo better ramp up production and try to push it in Asia outside of puny Japan. Else we can say good bye. I mean even after 1 year of launch i STILL can't walk into local NH keene walmart and pick one off the shelf... Damn you nintendo...may you burn in the fires of hell for delibrately shorting Wii...
Amazon never terminating a program??? Excuuuuse me ! I had bought a few Microsoft REader books (ST Khan story) about 4 years ago. I recently tried to redownload the same since i changed my PC (8600 GT SLI and all baby!) but found it missing. I shouted at Amazon and they blankly refunded my money. I wanted the book not the money... That said, i seriously wish i had used MsLit to print to PDF...
Ya i agree... i don't know whether it will use EVDO or the costlier CDMA for accessing the store outside USA. If it has WiFi, then iam saved. Iam willing to buy, but i don;t know whether it will access via wireless in singapore or india where am traveling now...
Size of screen? Palm is tiny. And secondly think about defraying the initial costs !!! Am sure during christmas, Amazon will offer a $50 off on this... and am waiting to buy this baby. Best is free EVDO. No plans, no crap. If they throw in DRM mobipocket reading, i would buy it now.
Dude... Did it find proof of saddam's WMD? Did it find proof of Iran's nucelar arsenal and take photos of the same? Did it find the location of Osama BL? (no, scratch that out. That is not a priority).
If it didn't any of these things, then it is useless.
Why should the billionaires support it? is there a tax break involved? Does it mean the US military can force a regime-change in Puerto Rico? There are very few real billionaire philanthropists like Bill gates (all ye go ahead and flame me).
Maybe if The telescope should change itself to detecting intelligent life on Earth before it tries to do in stars.
Or just say to Bush that Yellow cakes seemingly were found on Mars / Ceti Alpha V and that they saw a couple of bearded mullahs negotiating... That ought to get funding real quick.
I can imagine Patrick Henry of Modern days saying: "Give me liberty or give me... $10,000". Apart from the joke, corporations bribing is not anything new. They have been doing that from 1800s East India Company, Amaranth, Credit Lyonnais, Enron, Parmalat... the list goes on...
Nope. It would NOT be smacked down like in WWF. It would be "settled". The company would pay a visible compensation and an invisible large contribution to campaign funds and the matter would be closed; without the company ever admitting it did wrong.
When am convicted of a crime, am forced to wear a badge [of honor] and municipalities would not allow me to setup business if am an ex-convict. The same rules never apply to corporates. Municipalities like Mass Turnpike authorities welcome Bechtel with open arms.
Until Senator Leahy introduces a legislation (on the sly) that prevents counties from ALL convicts from establishing a business, this will go on.
You don't understand their mentality. They are perfectly happy to support Iraq because: 1. Their own offspring do not fight in it. 2. Campaign contributions from Blackwater, etc.
They are interested in stopping video games because: 1. Their own single-digit-IQ offspring still play games. 2. No campaign contributions from gaming companies like Nintendo.
Am sure if cheney's daughter and Leiberman's daughter Hana, are drafted, the war would be halted tomorrow.
Dude, get this straight: In good ol' USA senators and congressman are the new royalty and are excluded from everything.
... campaign contributions from Nintendo, Sony, etc. considering that another election is due in a year, they are probably wondering why gaming companies are NOT paying any protection money.
Senators REALLY concerned about their citizens are almost as rare as Bush acknowledging that he was treating the constitution as toilet paper and resign.
Suddenly you would see a spike in their campaign contributions from these gaming companies... Once done, this matter would be referred to a procedural committee just like cheney's impeachment.
Mod me down if you want, but you will see a spike in their contributions same time next year.
Dude its not that bad. Win 2000 was strong on security. XP can be made strong, but weak on default security. Vista?? If you can make it run on what hardware you have, let me know
I read it with interest. It was well researched and written. Unfortunately i don't think the japs will change much. Yes, they are in dire need of new people as Economist and TIME magazine have repeatedly pointed out, but the people will not change. My friend's experiences in Tokyo were very illuminating. They don't even sit next to you on a crowded subway nor do they shake hands with you much. Instead they bow. And when you move inland, children point fingers at you, pull your shirt and trousers and point at you as if you were a different beast, since they never have seen someone from outside their puny little island. It is MUCH worse inland rather than in Tokyo.
They never have changed since 1930s and will never.
Let them decline slowly into obscurity so that a hundred years from now, our grand-children will read about the threatened tribe of the japs who number about a hundred.
Is it true? How come my friend's never worked? He moved to vancouver and before he left US he bought an iPhone like you said from Apple Store in CT (damn, the taxes are killing there) and just tried installing a Telus SIM card and it refused to work....
Slashdot Mirror
its 100 and 50 in CT respectively.
I do wish BSA would somehow attack Harvard and then get such a whacking by 10,000 trust-fund wanna-be lawyers and their interns, that they give back the name to Boy Scouts of America.
OTOH, i do buy games like Company of Heroes to promote good games so that the manufacturers make more such excellent games.
Seriously why can't OS be prices at $39.39 instead of 129...
Good one!
In fact poor people are a majority nowadays more than ever.
Nope. What is the guarantee that the 30 dollar flash card is the deciding authority for 50,000 dollar purchase?
But, the chances of a 50,000 dollar order repeated with even lesser one are significantly higher.
Economics is a game of priorities.
It is also driving with your eyes on the rear-view mirror.
If i had ordered 50,000 dollar equipment from amazon last year, and i contact amazon for a support or priority shipping of Transformers DVD, i EXCEPT my DVD is delivered earlier than the nerd next door who buys from newegg most of the time and uses amazon to get free shipping.
I agree with U whole heartedly.
I have been ordering from amazon since 2000 for delivery to Australia, Singapore, India, USA.
And i have signed up for amazon prime which guaranteed 2 day delivery.
Preferential treatment for better customers is a business sense.
Amazon tried preferential pricing as per economic terms, but the resulting outcry made them stop, which is a pity.
Now they try preferential pricing much like Netflix delivery system (1 have a 5 DVD subscription to netflix, and they never were late by a day).
Much like there is no reason for a large latte to cost twice as much as a small latte when it costs only 20 cents to make a large latte (generous).
But it does, because the company knows people will pay for it.
If i were a shareholder of amazon, i would definitely support this move.
Makes much sense to ditch the freeloaders who use free shipping to waste 20 dollars of packaging on a 5 dollar ceramic.
I had a similar experience when i migrated my personal domain to google apps personal (no fee) from dotmac.
I had a set of family groups for my dotmac domain and email IDs.
When i moved it to Google Apps i ended up trouble shooting homepage and pages issues so much that i stopped with mail, docs and pages.
The homepage is still hosted by my dotmac.
Secondly google apps personal does not allow you to upload a custom-made homepage.
I use a PDF as a homepage for my family newsletter as it is easier for all browsers (yeah, some nerds in my family do use Windows 98 SE and some use Nokia N95 internet tablet.).
The main issues i saw were the issues with domain rerouting, pages and some issues with docs.
Verizon is lying to you and they get an immunity from prosecution for it,
Grow up kid. This is not your 1960s USA.
This is 2007. What the companies and government say is false.
Sorry. And thanks for correcting me.
Funding the war enables halliburton to profit.
Funding Arecibo means zero profits to halliburton.
This is the Bush administration logic
Yeah the story was by Issac Asimov in 1950s.. and won an award.
One billion names of God
We were also promised cheaper audio CDs' by RIAA which i remember swearing up and down that CDs are cheaper to manufacture and hence if we switched from tapes to CDs they would reduce it...
Am still looking to it...
It is just a gimmick. Except in world of electronics like ICs, CD Drives, Calculators which became a commodity so quickly that they HAD to reduce prices.
Manufacturers are wiser now. They would rather sell a few at higher price rather than sell a lot at low prices and risk a few taiwan jockeys reducing prices.
Few == rare == high prices == High profits
More == commodity == low prices == Low profits
If you were a company what would you do? Sell more to earn same money or sell less to earn more per piece.
BTW patents rock !
The Wii shortage is going to be the death of Wii.
Come on man, with christmas fast approaching and MSFT seriously kicking Nintendo's AS$ in XBox 360 (they even offer a trade-in of $100 when you exchange any console for an XBox 360 in Asia)...
Nintendo better ramp up production and try to push it in Asia outside of puny Japan.
Else we can say good bye.
I mean even after 1 year of launch i STILL can't walk into local NH keene walmart and pick one off the shelf...
Damn you nintendo...may you burn in the fires of hell for delibrately shorting Wii...
Amazon never terminating a program??? Excuuuuse me !
I had bought a few Microsoft REader books (ST Khan story) about 4 years ago. I recently tried to redownload the same since i changed my PC (8600 GT SLI and all baby!) but found it missing.
I shouted at Amazon and they blankly refunded my money. I wanted the book not the money...
That said, i seriously wish i had used MsLit to print to PDF...
Ya i agree... i don't know whether it will use EVDO or the costlier CDMA for accessing the store outside USA.
If it has WiFi, then iam saved.
Iam willing to buy, but i don;t know whether it will access via wireless in singapore or india where am traveling now...
Size of screen? Palm is tiny.
And secondly think about defraying the initial costs !!!
Am sure during christmas, Amazon will offer a $50 off on this... and am waiting to buy this baby.
Best is free EVDO. No plans, no crap.
If they throw in DRM mobipocket reading, i would buy it now.
Dude... Did it find proof of saddam's WMD?
Did it find proof of Iran's nucelar arsenal and take photos of the same?
Did it find the location of Osama BL? (no, scratch that out. That is not a priority).
If it didn't any of these things, then it is useless.
And who the heck was Fermi? Was he a terrorist?
Why should the billionaires support it? is there a tax break involved? Does it mean the US military can force a regime-change in Puerto Rico?
There are very few real billionaire philanthropists like Bill gates (all ye go ahead and flame me).
Maybe if The telescope should change itself to detecting intelligent life on Earth before it tries to do in stars.
Or just say to Bush that Yellow cakes seemingly were found on Mars / Ceti Alpha V and that they saw a couple of bearded mullahs negotiating...
That ought to get funding real quick.
I can imagine Patrick Henry of Modern days saying: "Give me liberty or give me... $10,000".
Apart from the joke, corporations bribing is not anything new.
They have been doing that from 1800s East India Company, Amaranth, Credit Lyonnais, Enron, Parmalat... the list goes on...
Nope. It would NOT be smacked down like in WWF.
It would be "settled".
The company would pay a visible compensation and an invisible large contribution to campaign funds and the matter would be closed; without the company ever admitting it did wrong.
During 1800s many local counties had laws which prevented convicted companies from doing/establishing business in that locality.
But then now convicted companies like Deibold http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031217/APN/312170634 and Microsoft http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2118681/microsoft-convicted-software-piracy
not to mention Bechtel http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/reconstruct/2006/0905profiteers.htm Custer Battles do business with impunity in all states.
When am convicted of a crime, am forced to wear a badge [of honor] and municipalities would not allow me to setup business if am an ex-convict.
The same rules never apply to corporates. Municipalities like Mass Turnpike authorities welcome Bechtel with open arms.
Until Senator Leahy introduces a legislation (on the sly) that prevents counties from ALL convicts from establishing a business, this will go on.
You don't understand their mentality. They are perfectly happy to support Iraq because:
1. Their own offspring do not fight in it.
2. Campaign contributions from Blackwater, etc.
They are interested in stopping video games because:
1. Their own single-digit-IQ offspring still play games.
2. No campaign contributions from gaming companies like Nintendo.
Am sure if cheney's daughter and Leiberman's daughter Hana, are drafted, the war would be halted tomorrow.
Dude, get this straight: In good ol' USA senators and congressman are the new royalty and are excluded from everything.
... campaign contributions from Nintendo, Sony, etc.
considering that another election is due in a year, they are probably wondering why gaming companies are NOT paying any protection money.
Senators REALLY concerned about their citizens are almost as rare as Bush acknowledging that he was treating the constitution as toilet paper and resign.
Suddenly you would see a spike in their campaign contributions from these gaming companies...
Once done, this matter would be referred to a procedural committee just like cheney's impeachment.
Mod me down if you want, but you will see a spike in their contributions same time next year.
Dude its not that bad.
Win 2000 was strong on security.
XP can be made strong, but weak on default security.
Vista?? If you can make it run on what hardware you have, let me know
I read it with interest. It was well researched and written.
Unfortunately i don't think the japs will change much.
Yes, they are in dire need of new people as Economist and TIME magazine have repeatedly pointed out, but the people will not change.
My friend's experiences in Tokyo were very illuminating. They don't even sit next to you on a crowded subway nor do they shake hands with you much. Instead they bow.
And when you move inland, children point fingers at you, pull your shirt and trousers and point at you as if you were a different beast, since they never have seen someone from outside their puny little island.
It is MUCH worse inland rather than in Tokyo.
They never have changed since 1930s and will never.
Let them decline slowly into obscurity so that a hundred years from now, our grand-children will read about the threatened tribe of the japs who number about a hundred.
Is it true? How come my friend's never worked? He moved to vancouver and before he left US he bought an iPhone like you said from Apple Store in CT (damn, the taxes are killing there) and just tried installing a Telus SIM card and it refused to work....
Well, my company wanted me to goto Japan but i kept refusing... now i have a legitimate reason.
I will invoke 5th Amendment.