it's those crazy conversion rates, you can go to a foreign country and hand them 0 dollars and they exchange it for thousands of bills/coins in their local denomination. how do they make money doing this? volume
There are over 6 million millionaires (google it if you don't believe me) in the US alone.
you don't have to make a 6-figure salary to have a million dollars in assets, you just need to avoid wasting your money on crap like $5 coffee on a daily basis
But an interest-free loan of, say, $100,000 - even if just stuck in a savings account - generates several percent interest that the "borrower" keeps.
that's fine, but that savings account and whatever else you might buy with that money would be an asset so it'd offset (i'm sure there are obscure examples of things that might not count as an asset, but that's surely not the norm). i'm not arguing going to argue the point that "having money makes money", because it surely does. and there are lots of intangible items like political power/influence that can't be valued, but most times when you see people floating off the wealthy radar it's not because of low assets but because of low income.
that's only true if the revenue gained from the advertisement is the same as their fee would have been (if there are figures stating that then i'm sure that their adsense customers will be interested to read how they're buying ads for no reason at all). what they're really paying for these ads is the difference between what they earn using the slot themselves and what they'd earn having someone else use it, and although google is not selling a email product for real dollars with their keyword ad they are getting even more eyes on their ads when you use their mail service.
personally i think this guy has qualified his view of the advertising marketplace to make Google look more dominant than they are. the advertising marketplace for the term "email" is not just search engines, an advertisement like that could fit on websites across the internet in all niches. therefore even if you prove that they hold a monopoly on search, if they don't hold a monopoly on advertising across all sites on the internet, then you can't say that they hold a monopoly on internet advertising. the narrow scope of "advertisements that appear on a search engine" is not really a market in itself
starting them out at assembler is jumping the gun. surely they should learn to use an abacus and a slide rule before moving on to Babbage's mechanical computer and then assembler programming on punch cards
they'll make it fit, this is one of those over-their-dead-body issues where they'll make it work somehow.
the lesson here is that they had to be clearly losing this opportunity in order to get their ass in gear, whereas in a true competitive environment having the opportunity to get their product in front of so many eyes should have made them drool. MS is the 800lb gorilla that felt they didn't have to. they felt that this would fail without them, so they chose not to take part...til now, when it might work.
there are also several tools that will change DVR-MS files to WMV or AVI format thanks to the DVRMSToolkit, AVI in particular makes for much smaller files and is a much more portable format
Not everywhere takes credit/debit: try using one on a coke machine or at a hot dog stand and prepare to go thirsty/hungry
i don't think it's fair to count vending machines due to the fact that : 1. many take coins which blind people can sort out just fine, 2. the machine won't take one bill and say it's another
This does open up an interesting concept of work. If you create something (online game artifact, video, animation, shareware application) which you do in your spare time while abroad, then market it online, does that constitute work?
i'm not sure if that's really relevant. if you like your job you might not consider it to be "work" either, but these are "income taxes" and not "work taxes" so it shouldn't matter if you're using spare time and/or out of the country.
While kids in US where taking "typing" classes in High School we were taught about spanning trees, while the U.S. kids spent their time finding what sport club they wanted to join, we learned discrete math. Children in U.S. are babied and spoiled when it comes to science, parents never studied it much and never see a need to push their children to study it. (I am talking about the average here, of course there are schools like Harvard, Caltech, Yale and so on that does have exceptional students).
that's interesting, because on several occasions i was told by graduate students from foreign countries that exactly the opposite thing happens in college in those countries. you (and lots of other foreign students attending US colleges) are in an interesting situation where you were a participant in the hardest parts of both education systems
i dunno, there had to be people like me who figure they're not going to be able to get either of them for 4/5 months and just bought one of the easily available xbox 360s instead. that doesn't seem like a marketing "win"
You see, most blokes, you know, will be marking all their pages at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your priority. Where can you go from there? Where?
I don't know.
Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Slashdot Mirror
it's those crazy conversion rates, you can go to a foreign country and hand them 0 dollars and they exchange it for thousands of bills/coins in their local denomination. how do they make money doing this? volume
that's only true if the revenue gained from the advertisement is the same as their fee would have been (if there are figures stating that then i'm sure that their adsense customers will be interested to read how they're buying ads for no reason at all). what they're really paying for these ads is the difference between what they earn using the slot themselves and what they'd earn having someone else use it, and although google is not selling a email product for real dollars with their keyword ad they are getting even more eyes on their ads when you use their mail service.
personally i think this guy has qualified his view of the advertising marketplace to make Google look more dominant than they are. the advertising marketplace for the term "email" is not just search engines, an advertisement like that could fit on websites across the internet in all niches. therefore even if you prove that they hold a monopoly on search, if they don't hold a monopoly on advertising across all sites on the internet, then you can't say that they hold a monopoly on internet advertising. the narrow scope of "advertisements that appear on a search engine" is not really a market in itself
starting them out at assembler is jumping the gun. surely they should learn to use an abacus and a slide rule before moving on to Babbage's mechanical computer and then assembler programming on punch cards
they'll make it fit, this is one of those over-their-dead-body issues where they'll make it work somehow.
the lesson here is that they had to be clearly losing this opportunity in order to get their ass in gear, whereas in a true competitive environment having the opportunity to get their product in front of so many eyes should have made them drool. MS is the 800lb gorilla that felt they didn't have to. they felt that this would fail without them, so they chose not to take part...til now, when it might work.
there are also several tools that will change DVR-MS files to WMV or AVI format thanks to the DVRMSToolkit, AVI in particular makes for much smaller files and is a much more portable format
i seem to recall that there were some "equal-access for the handicapped" advocates that didn't have a buck to make off of MS Office that had concerns
exactly, just look at MS Bob 2.0 for an example
i meant ADD, the disorder that causes trouble paying attention to minute details in games
maybe he has Alpha Delta Delta
quick, let's update wikipedia to say she did, then you'll have a source for your paper
i dunno, there had to be people like me who figure they're not going to be able to get either of them for 4/5 months and just bought one of the easily available xbox 360s instead. that doesn't seem like a marketing "win"
I'll squirt to that!
You see, most blokes, you know, will be marking all their pages at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your priority. Where can you go from there? Where?
I don't know.
Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Put it up to eleven.
Eleven. Exactly. One higher.
that's what you get for trying to sit down in a chair that's hurtling across the room
if you're not online i'll just squirt you an upgrade and you'll be good to go
but Anakin knew about them, and both he and the Emporer had a lot to gain by continuing to test children for them in order to suppress new Jedis