He is probably talking about the nigerian bastars, who spam/scam you when you advertise anything for sale.
And it is a shame, usually warning signs would go up when I got an email from yahoo (or less often hotmail). Hopefully they will all still stay at yahoo.
It would theoretically take 5 minutes to initiate this change, by someone who knows the itunes backend. Probably even less. (That is, if they add DRM on the fly, as someone early suggested, which seems crazy) If they encode all files as they get them, it would probably take a few days longer. None of this is technically difficult. Surely someone on slashdot should be able to see that.
Yes, because it is silly to expect them to continue working on the system and improve it. Obviously they would have all moved onto some other projects, and never before considered these statistics. Thanks for that.
Sound to me like it would have been better to build this facade out the front of someone elses house entirely. You are welcome to ship it to me, in the UK, and I will set it up for you. I have a first floor flat, of course, but we can figure something out.
Yes, technology should really be used to solve these complicated issues such as this one. Otherwise, you might have had to get up and look, or ask someone around you. And I am guessing, it was not THAT sort of party.
I'm not so sure of Apple's dominance. I'd like to see some statistics about this market, but I got the impression that the Xbox 360 HD Download service is very popular- possibly more than iTunes?
So, never have seen any statistics, how can you possible back up your claim? What the hell is your impression based on, school yard talk?
I think this is incorrect. I think there are a lot of really smart people, but the ones in power seem to be pretty dumb. This is because smart people don't lust for power, they want for more than that. Dumb people need power to make themselves feel superior. So it is easy to judge the majority as stupid, because most people we see are.
The funny thing is for Coke, is that they were in a major war with Pepsi, which was continuing to take market share. This is the reason they developed New Coke in the first place. When they switched back to the Classic coke after the new coke debacle, they actually managed to recover some of their market share. Some people conclude that the whole thing was planned by Coke.
The internet can still win, by not providing as high quality, but making it easy to buy and use. The question is, do people really care about high quality?
And broadband speeds and limits will increase, as they have every day.
This, together with managers egos, is one of the major problems with big beurocracies, especially government departments. Since each department has this theolisophy, spending will never decrease, and waste happens on a huge scale. Departments need to be rewarded for reducing spending, and complete control needs to be taken away.
Would you have given the same advice to Sony a few years ago? Or Apple when they were thinking about the ipod? Probably.
Nokia is the biggest makers of Mobile phones in the world, with a huge market share. It is pretty obvious for them to expand in this direction. Some products succeed, and some products fail, for a number of complicated reasons. But nothing new would ever happen if you were in charge. Lets hope that never happens!
AND they are always bidding for the same person. What is the difficulty in understanding this. Doing one thing is not bad in itself, only when you do two things does it start to look bad.
Ebay discourages this behavious, by actually charging you more for putting on a reserve price, and for having a "normal" starting price. You end up paying more for the actual item.
And don't discount the psychological factor, if you have two items, one at $1 and another at $30, which one are you going to bid on. If you can't be bothered following two auctions (or 20), then you will just go with the first one, and hope for the best. It is not like you can bid on both of them, what happens if you win both - you are expected to pay.
Yes, ebay ignores everything said online, until a story actually makes it to regular TV. I have seen this for things like cricket ticket and concert tickets, they only ever respond when it might give them a negative image to the majority of people. They can afford to do this, since they are so huge.
Ban an account which only bids on one persons goods. Pretty simple. Sure, you can't tell straight away, but after a weeks activities you can gather some useful statistics. They could also check IP addresses.
I buy computers of UK ebay. Sellers their are a lot more obvious in their scamming. They will sell you a computer, but hype up one or two parts of it, like the hard drive and the memory. Then claim ignorance when you challenge then, and require you to send the parcel back - so you lose the initial postage, plus whatever it costs to return it. Bastards. It is funny how whenever they make a mistake, it is always in the higher region, rather than the lower region (ie. I have never gotten a computer which listed with a 20GB harddrive, and actually had 30GB)
Ha, just don't unpack everything. Don't sign a lease. Don't start your phone and internet contract. Don't buy a whole lot of furniture. It is a lot easier moving the 2nd time, than the first.
Unless you have kids, then it a whole other ballgame.
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He is probably talking about the nigerian bastars, who spam/scam you when you advertise anything for sale.
And it is a shame, usually warning signs would go up when I got an email from yahoo (or less often hotmail). Hopefully they will all still stay at yahoo.
It would theoretically take 5 minutes to initiate this change, by someone who knows the itunes backend. Probably even less. (That is, if they add DRM on the fly, as someone early suggested, which seems crazy) If they encode all files as they get them, it would probably take a few days longer. None of this is technically difficult. Surely someone on slashdot should be able to see that.
Yes, because it is silly to expect them to continue working on the system and improve it. Obviously they would have all moved onto some other projects, and never before considered these statistics. Thanks for that.
I hope it was side talking as well!
Sound to me like it would have been better to build this facade out the front of someone elses house entirely. You are welcome to ship it to me, in the UK, and I will set it up for you. I have a first floor flat, of course, but we can figure something out.
Yes, technology should really be used to solve these complicated issues such as this one. Otherwise, you might have had to get up and look, or ask someone around you. And I am guessing, it was not THAT sort of party.
I'm not so sure of Apple's dominance. I'd like to see some statistics about this market, but I got the impression that the Xbox 360 HD Download service is very popular- possibly more than iTunes?
So, never have seen any statistics, how can you possible back up your claim? What the hell is your impression based on, school yard talk?
I think this is incorrect. I think there are a lot of really smart people, but the ones in power seem to be pretty dumb. This is because smart people don't lust for power, they want for more than that. Dumb people need power to make themselves feel superior. So it is easy to judge the majority as stupid, because most people we see are.
The funny thing is for Coke, is that they were in a major war with Pepsi, which was continuing to take market share. This is the reason they developed New Coke in the first place. When they switched back to the Classic coke after the new coke debacle, they actually managed to recover some of their market share. Some people conclude that the whole thing was planned by Coke.
Ha, if that is not the definition of cynical, I don't know what is. Have you ever felt of working at a nicer place?
The internet can still win, by not providing as high quality, but making it easy to buy and use. The question is, do people really care about high quality?
And broadband speeds and limits will increase, as they have every day.
Because we are not all idiots.
This, together with managers egos, is one of the major problems with big beurocracies, especially government departments. Since each department has this theolisophy, spending will never decrease, and waste happens on a huge scale. Departments need to be rewarded for reducing spending, and complete control needs to be taken away.
Don't believe in switching of the lights, heh? Just like my gf, but at least she is scared of the dark, what is your excuse.
Would you have given the same advice to Sony a few years ago? Or Apple when they were thinking about the ipod? Probably.
Nokia is the biggest makers of Mobile phones in the world, with a huge market share. It is pretty obvious for them to expand in this direction. Some products succeed, and some products fail, for a number of complicated reasons. But nothing new would ever happen if you were in charge. Lets hope that never happens!
Ok, lets try not to understand. Moron.
You are worried that they might go the same way as Pin and Chip. These adds aren't a huge jump from the regular characters that they have played.
AND they are always bidding for the same person. What is the difficulty in understanding this. Doing one thing is not bad in itself, only when you do two things does it start to look bad.
What a load of rubbish. "Oh, they are serious actors, they can't do commercials."You, sir, are an imbecile...an imbecile.
And I agree with the original poster, these ads do not betray their characters at all.
No, because she buys clothes. She completes the transaction, she hands over the money, the seller pays their amount to ebay.
If they only bid, and never actually complete a transaction, then they are suspicious.
No shiller is going to buy thing of themselves, if the transaction goes through, they will get out of paying it.
You only need to make it harder for them, they are not making huge piles of cash here. They are more being annoying.
Trying something is better that nothing.
I am beginning to think that maybe their are shill bidders on slashdot, how else do you explain getting to 5??
Ebay discourages this behavious, by actually charging you more for putting on a reserve price, and for having a "normal" starting price. You end up paying more for the actual item.
And don't discount the psychological factor, if you have two items, one at $1 and another at $30, which one are you going to bid on. If you can't be bothered following two auctions (or 20), then you will just go with the first one, and hope for the best. It is not like you can bid on both of them, what happens if you win both - you are expected to pay.
Yes, ebay ignores everything said online, until a story actually makes it to regular TV. I have seen this for things like cricket ticket and concert tickets, they only ever respond when it might give them a negative image to the majority of people. They can afford to do this, since they are so huge.
Ban an account which only bids on one persons goods. Pretty simple. Sure, you can't tell straight away, but after a weeks activities you can gather some useful statistics. They could also check IP addresses.
I buy computers of UK ebay. Sellers their are a lot more obvious in their scamming. They will sell you a computer, but hype up one or two parts of it, like the hard drive and the memory. Then claim ignorance when you challenge then, and require you to send the parcel back - so you lose the initial postage, plus whatever it costs to return it. Bastards. It is funny how whenever they make a mistake, it is always in the higher region, rather than the lower region (ie. I have never gotten a computer which listed with a 20GB harddrive, and actually had 30GB)
Ha, just don't unpack everything. Don't sign a lease. Don't start your phone and internet contract. Don't buy a whole lot of furniture. It is a lot easier moving the 2nd time, than the first.
Unless you have kids, then it a whole other ballgame.