Where do you draw the line at "violent"? For that matter, where do you draw the line at "pornography"? If I have a picture of a naked man being beheaded, is that violent pornography, or a snap from the Iraq Chamber of Commerce? Whose to say?
Wow, eBay is showing its age. Go figure. And no one saw this coming?
Let's say eBay is a mall. In a traditional mall, the owners redecorate twice a decade, throw out the tennants, do all sorts of things to try and keep the place vital. After a while the mall goes beyond the point of cosmetic or tennant-change repair. When the mall failes to be vital and the owners no longer care, you have the dirt-mall. The dirt-mall is the place where you can get a tatoo and a pair of used sneakers right next to the dollar store and the discount liquor shop. Sounds like eBay to me.
eBay is a real marketplace. It is subject to the exact same pressures as a real marketplace - just like a mall. The question seems to be - is eBay still vital, or is it time to set up shop elswhere?
Absolutely! All companies should evolve over time, otherwise the company will die. Simple economics. A typewriter company can't really soar today, but fifteen years ago that wasn't the case. The best companies are the ones that always look for new business - even outside of their current core functions.
Kudos to Mark for making a company work instead of cutting his losses and closing the doors.
I think it refers to the fact that the consumer is ALWAYS right when it comes to how a consumer will use a product. Marketroids are only occaisionally right.
Finally, someone beside Apple recognizes that there is a Way Forward in the digital age. It may not be all we want, but it is a start.
Give these guys credit. Anything that even smells like it would endanger the all powerful Bottom Line and drop share prices is taboo for all major corporations.
At my placed of employment we not only have two IBM 5150s running as production machines - but we just spent around $1000 fixing those and the wonderful Xerox 6135 DocuTech those feed. Our parent corp (world-wide, largest in field, blah, blah, blah) wanted these in operation becasue the 6135 does some strange thing with carbonless forms that newer DocuTechs won't.
By the way, older Nortel Meridian PBXs still run OS/2, so many more of you have OS/2 on sensitive machines than you might think.
Doesn't anyone see this? If Warner can't beat Apple, Warner will join Apple. Low quality iPod music files on the DVDs and hey, if you want the high quality ones for your iPod, just hop over to iTunes.
These DVDs are nothing more than a marketing scam from Warner for iTunes. They know from which way the wind blows.
I'm sorry, but there is nothing that stops the "truth" from being changed in any information outlet. Newspapers, television, magazines, and encylopedias all distort the facts to serve an agenda. Fact checking sources should be part of everyone's news reading.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with Apple, so just stop with all the "Apple just gets it" lines. This has to do with selling PCs to the XBox crowd.
1) Make Vista look like a video game (shiny-shiny) 2) Make OEMs design toy-like cases. 3) Marketeer magic/witchcraft (insert probable goat sacrifice here) 4) PROFIT!
Is this issue really about torture, or about breaking company policy? Although I wouldn't put it past the CIA to fire someone who crticises their policies, this looks like a simple case of workplace internet misuse.
And, you gottat be thinking "Would you want to piss off an organization that is sanctioned to perform 'waterboarding'?
If you hire someone to sit on a stool inside the door, give them a clipboard with paper printouts including people's names, photos, and some stupid factoid about them, then point a cheap web-cam at the "guard" so they know Big Brother is watching, I bet you get pretty good results. Throw in a tazer, couple of windowless steel fire doors without external key-holes and a big ol' sign that says "Use Other Door" so the poor bastard can take a break or go home, and you're covered.
Expensive? SURE! As expensive as losing data? Talk to your accountant first.
I don't know about anyone else, but as far as I'm concerned, the human brain is the LAST model I'd use for stability in a thinking machine. Do these guy have girlfriends? Do they interact with real people at ALL????
1) Someone gets paid some money by some group or project to write some code. 2) Another person who also wrote code for the project but didn't get paid says "I want mine!" 3) The whole project folds as some idiot starts equating pay to the number-of-lines-written multiplied by the moeny-per-line-of-code of the first person.
People, if you want to write software for money, get a job. If you want to write software because you think the project is neat and/or worth you while, donate your time.
Same goes for volunteering in other things. The world could use our help - for free.
As a favor to those who are not employed in the Print Industry, I will explain.
Customers = $ Fonts are confusing to the Customers ($). Customers ($) will usually forget to send a fnt and, if we have EVER printed ANYTHING of the customer's ($'s) before, they will assume we have the font. After all, we were able to print it, weren't we?
Since Customers ($) assume we have their fonts, we keep the fonts on file as a favor to the Customers ($) rather than telling them to pull their^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H find the fonts and send those to us (-$). After the seventh time in a day it becomes wearysome, much like this explanation.
Yes, we SHOULD delete the fonts from our servers, but then we would inconvenience the customer ($) which would eventually decrease the amount of money we would make (-$$$$). Printing is a SERVICE industry and keeping the fonts is a part of the service.
Caller: I need help opening a document. Help Desk: What seems to be the problem. C: I dunno. I just can't open it. HD: What format is it? C: I can't tell. The icon thingy looks wierd. HD: Like a padlock or a safe? C: Yes! How did you know? HD: It's encrypted, sir. C: How do I unencrypt it? HD: You need your decryption keys. Do you know what those are? C: Is that the really long number they gave me when I started? HD: Yes sir. Do you have that? C: Hold on. I taped it to my monitor. HD: Stay right where you are, sir. Two gentlemen will be at your desk to *help* you. C: Gee, thanks. Hey there they are now. Wait. Don't hand cuff me. Ouch! *beep* *beep* *click*
11,000 fonts? come on. At a normal pub firm 11,000 is probably what they found just on the FONT SERVER. At a printing firm you'd find way more than that, because every job comes in with its own fonts and each font is unique.
Each. Font.
I have seen two jobs from two different clients use the SAME font from the same provider but with different creation dates and the fonts were just different enough that we couldn't use one font for both jobs.
Please, for the love of all that the BSA holds dear to its little black heart, don't start checking font licenses or we're ALL DOOOOOMED!
Bill gets challenged in court and dies and THEN yet another pseudo-government oversight body steps into the "void left in the law by the liberal courts" and "fights to protect our children from violence, pr0n, and" whatever else is in games.
If you listen closely you can hear the protest signs being printed up as you read.
This is a VERY safe political topic for Republicans. Kids don't vote. Parents don't (for the most part) play violent games. Parents are OVERWHELMINGLY conservitive when it comes to their kids. Slam dunk.
I remember when Open Source meant you could download the source with the binaries, change the source, and recompile the app yourself - if you knew how. You could then redistribute the new binaries (with the changed source)and any additional documentation you wanted.
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Where do you draw the line at "violent"? For that matter, where do you draw the line at "pornography"? If I have a picture of a naked man being beheaded, is that violent pornography, or a snap from the Iraq Chamber of Commerce? Whose to say?
Wow, eBay is showing its age. Go figure. And no one saw this coming?
Let's say eBay is a mall. In a traditional mall, the owners redecorate twice a decade, throw out the tennants, do all sorts of things to try and keep the place vital. After a while the mall goes beyond the point of cosmetic or tennant-change repair. When the mall failes to be vital and the owners no longer care, you have the dirt-mall. The dirt-mall is the place where you can get a tatoo and a pair of used sneakers right next to the dollar store and the discount liquor shop. Sounds like eBay to me.
eBay is a real marketplace. It is subject to the exact same pressures as a real marketplace - just like a mall. The question seems to be - is eBay still vital, or is it time to set up shop elswhere?
Absolutely! All companies should evolve over time, otherwise the company will die. Simple economics. A typewriter company can't really soar today, but fifteen years ago that wasn't the case. The best companies are the ones that always look for new business - even outside of their current core functions.
Kudos to Mark for making a company work instead of cutting his losses and closing the doors.
I think it refers to the fact that the consumer is ALWAYS right when it comes to how a consumer will use a product. Marketroids are only occaisionally right.
My appologise. You are absolutely right.
Finally, someone beside Apple recognizes that there is a Way Forward in the digital age. It may not be all we want, but it is a start.
Give these guys credit. Anything that even smells like it would endanger the all powerful Bottom Line and drop share prices is taboo for all major corporations.
At my placed of employment we not only have two IBM 5150s running as production machines - but we just spent around $1000 fixing those and the wonderful Xerox 6135 DocuTech those feed. Our parent corp (world-wide, largest in field, blah, blah, blah) wanted these in operation becasue the 6135 does some strange thing with carbonless forms that newer DocuTechs won't.
By the way, older Nortel Meridian PBXs still run OS/2, so many more of you have OS/2 on sensitive machines than you might think.
Isn't DHS concerned about the threat against the install base of *nix OS boxes?
When they suggested immediate pathing of ALL boxes, I will take this serriously, otherwise . . .
It's a trick. Get an axe.
They? Vacation? I'm pretty sure the "team" consists of a dog tied to the "testing PC" and trained to bite anyone who approches.
Doesn't anyone see this? If Warner can't beat Apple, Warner will join Apple. Low quality iPod music files on the DVDs and hey, if you want the high quality ones for your iPod, just hop over to iTunes.
These DVDs are nothing more than a marketing scam from Warner for iTunes. They know from which way the wind blows.
I'm sorry, but there is nothing that stops the "truth" from being changed in any information outlet. Newspapers, television, magazines, and encylopedias all distort the facts to serve an agenda. Fact checking sources should be part of everyone's news reading.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with Apple, so just stop with all the "Apple just gets it" lines. This has to do with selling PCs to the XBox crowd.
1) Make Vista look like a video game (shiny-shiny)
2) Make OEMs design toy-like cases.
3) Marketeer magic/witchcraft (insert probable goat sacrifice here)
4) PROFIT!
See, that wasn't so hard, was it?
Is this issue really about torture, or about breaking company policy? Although I wouldn't put it past the CIA to fire someone who crticises their policies, this looks like a simple case of workplace internet misuse.
And, you gottat be thinking "Would you want to piss off an organization that is sanctioned to perform 'waterboarding'?
If you hire someone to sit on a stool inside the door, give them a clipboard with paper printouts including people's names, photos, and some stupid factoid about them, then point a cheap web-cam at the "guard" so they know Big Brother is watching, I bet you get pretty good results. Throw in a tazer, couple of windowless steel fire doors without external key-holes and a big ol' sign that says "Use Other Door" so the poor bastard can take a break or go home, and you're covered.
Expensive? SURE! As expensive as losing data? Talk to your accountant first.
I don't know about anyone else, but as far as I'm concerned, the human brain is the LAST model I'd use for stability in a thinking machine. Do these guy have girlfriends? Do they interact with real people at ALL????
If a law is written in such a way that it cannot possibly be abused, it will be abused.
The law will only be changed AFTER it is abused in an effort to screw the people who wrote it.
It means you need to buy a new Mac, too.
Let's see. I think it would break down like this:
1) Someone gets paid some money by some group or project to write some code.
2) Another person who also wrote code for the project but didn't get paid says "I want mine!"
3) The whole project folds as some idiot starts equating pay to the number-of-lines-written multiplied by the moeny-per-line-of-code of the first person.
People, if you want to write software for money, get a job. If you want to write software because you think the project is neat and/or worth you while, donate your time.
Same goes for volunteering in other things. The world could use our help - for free.
As a favor to those who are not employed in the Print Industry, I will explain.
Customers = $
Fonts are confusing to the Customers ($). Customers ($) will usually forget to send a fnt and, if we have EVER printed ANYTHING of the customer's ($'s) before, they will assume we have the font. After all, we were able to print it, weren't we?
Since Customers ($) assume we have their fonts, we keep the fonts on file as a favor to the Customers ($) rather than telling them to pull their^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H find the fonts and send those to us (-$). After the seventh time in a day it becomes wearysome, much like this explanation.
Yes, we SHOULD delete the fonts from our servers, but then we would inconvenience the customer ($) which would eventually decrease the amount of money we would make (-$$$$). Printing is a SERVICE industry and keeping the fonts is a part of the service.
Caller: I need help opening a document.
Help Desk: What seems to be the problem.
C: I dunno. I just can't open it.
HD: What format is it?
C: I can't tell. The icon thingy looks wierd.
HD: Like a padlock or a safe?
C: Yes! How did you know?
HD: It's encrypted, sir.
C: How do I unencrypt it?
HD: You need your decryption keys. Do you know what those are?
C: Is that the really long number they gave me when I started?
HD: Yes sir. Do you have that?
C: Hold on. I taped it to my monitor.
HD: Stay right where you are, sir. Two gentlemen will be at your desk to *help* you.
C: Gee, thanks. Hey there they are now. Wait. Don't hand cuff me. Ouch! *beep* *beep* *click*
11,000 fonts? come on. At a normal pub firm 11,000 is probably what they found just on the FONT SERVER. At a printing firm you'd find way more than that, because every job comes in with its own fonts and each font is unique.
Each. Font.
I have seen two jobs from two different clients use the SAME font from the same provider but with different creation dates and the fonts were just different enough that we couldn't use one font for both jobs.
Please, for the love of all that the BSA holds dear to its little black heart, don't start checking font licenses or we're ALL DOOOOOMED!
If holding/carrying a cellphone/PDA/$electronic_device doesn't actually INCREASE the odds of being struck by lightning, then WHO CARES?
There are only two really important outcomes of a lightning strike on a human being:
You live and still have some control over most of your body.
Or you die (or become a very limited live person).
The degree to which you are burned will always vary. That's why people with brains come out of the rain.
The odds are still 3,000,000 to 1 (http://www.davehitt.com/april00/lightning.html) unless you carry a lightning rod of some kind.
You are probably correct, but what if ...
Bill gets challenged in court and dies and THEN yet another pseudo-government oversight body steps into the "void left in the law by the liberal courts" and "fights to protect our children from violence, pr0n, and" whatever else is in games.
If you listen closely you can hear the protest signs being printed up as you read.
This is a VERY safe political topic for Republicans. Kids don't vote. Parents don't (for the most part) play violent games. Parents are OVERWHELMINGLY conservitive when it comes to their kids. Slam dunk.
How many of you are posting from work?? Come on, we all know who we are.
I remember when Open Source meant you could download the source with the binaries, change the source, and recompile the app yourself - if you knew how. You could then redistribute the new binaries (with the changed source)and any additional documentation you wanted.
Ah, childhood.