Will they mail you a hard copy at $9 a film? that would be the *only* way i'd consider it, at all. $9.99 for something I have to store on my drive. ha.
well, i shouldn't have said it is dead, but no one cares about it anymore. people have become so swamped with marketing that they have backlashed against it. Ad's treat us like we are idiots and we are bombarded with them, THAT is the problem.
Viral works on one thing alone: You have to have an AWESOME product that people will want to tell their friends about. You have a subpar product that is ho hum, people may use it, but they won't become your "free" market force that works for you.
and it will be dead forever. Look at places like myspace. It is pure viral marketing, friends tell friends and friends get friends to join. The amusing part is, myspace makes money off of the old, failed system of marketing, while myspace enjoys having no advertising budget of their own. they have millions of stupid kids out there spouting off how great their service is. it is an amazing feat.
if anyone is trying to market their business, i suggest they read "PyroMarketing" good stuff.
The 10th amendment allowed states to do whatever they pleased. The amendments were ONLY applied to the federal government, not the states.
The 14th amendment was the only way that the first 8 could be applied to the states, before then they couldn't. That was the way it was setup.
The idea was you could move to states that had the level of freedom that you desired. Some states were religious led, others totally free. This of course all ended after the Civil War.
To start a corporation in America all you have to do is file out a simple form and mail in a cheap fee. I started mine for a whole $100 in costs to the gov't. While it is more than I want to pay, it isn't bad. I pay less in taxes than foreign counterparts, so I have more to actually invest into my company to grow it, another great reason why it is easier to start a small business in America. Employment laws as well. In France it takes 2 years to fire someone. If someone is destroying my small business, they can be out the door that day (well, depends on the state really). THere are tons of other reasons, but ease of doing business, ability to put your own capital into your business is def up there. Look how many businesses are started by those w/o college educations, it isn't the schools.
They are not a natural monopoly. They are a govnerment granted monopoly. The only reason they have their monopoly status IS because local gov'ts limit who can access the "public access" property to lay the lines. More government isn't the solution to this problem, less is.
I am not for breaking up net neutrality, but his statement "Creativity, innovation and a free and open marketplace are all at stake in this fight." is sort of hypocritical to what he is fighting for. If he were truely for a free market, then the cable companies could do whatever they wanted with their product. (But then again, local gov'ts have created monopolies for cable/internet providers by only leasing the public right away to certain groups, limiting competition).
Do you not know when you go to buy iTunes that they only work on iPods? Is this not a well know fact or is this something that Apple hides from you? The terms are well known before hand, no one is a "victim"
While I don't disagree, I just think it is bad law. That is all. Norway will end up forcing apple to not open shop there, which will lead to less choices for the end user. I think that is the bigger problem.
No, I simply believe the socialist mindset of Europe is bad business practice. Europe will end up keeping Apple's iTunes out entirely, which is WORSE for consumers because they have LESS choices of what they can use to download MP3's. iTunes gives the consumer one more choice in where to purchase their music and their terms of use are clearly printed. Don't like them, shop somewhere else or start your own company to sell MP3's. Oh wait, you can't do that because the real monopoly, the RIAA, doesn't let you do that.
No, the only thing that prevents other individuals from starting new companies which provide music is the RIAA. Not apple. Apple isn't the problem, at all. Anyone who thinks apple is the problem is blind to the real issue, the monopolistic practices of the RIAA in not allowing other firms to sell music such as Apple.
Don't buy it. I fail to see where this gets complicated. Apple shouldn't be forced to make iTunes file format work on other players, no one forces GM's Corvette engine to work in a Civic.
Apple is an "opt in" monopoly, they force not one person to start using iTunes and their DRM. I use them because I don't really feel like searching the net for MP3's, it is all in one place. I would assume 99% of other apple iTune users do the same. Don't like Apples DRM, fine. Vote with your pocket book and don't shop there. This forcing everyone to do something because you don't like it is getting out of hand.
They aren't being "bypassed" they are straight up being IGNORED and no one is calling them out on it, no republican or democrat (not that there is 1 iota of difference between the two)
the Constitution. It wasn't written to protect us when time are good, it was written to protect us when times are bad. Sadly, most fail to grasp this simple concept. Instead they buy into the fear mongering.
I take it you haven't noticed the quasi-socialist bent to slashdot. toe the line of hating corporations and big business while enjoying the benefits of them! Big pay checks, fast computers, internet backbones, good jobs. See, it is ok to hate business but benefit from it, not hypocritical at all!
(or someone important for that matter). How hard would it be for an agent of the state to go edit your "dna profile" and swap you with a child molester?
because we have now been told for years that DNA is 100% infallible, it can never be wrong.
Say you dynamically create a checkbox the user has to check before they can submit the form. I wouldn't think tools that register on sites wouldn't be able to break this system, say if you were randomly naming the checkbox and having some sort of validation check to see if it is checked.
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Will they mail you a hard copy at $9 a film? that would be the *only* way i'd consider it, at all. $9.99 for something I have to store on my drive. ha.
well, i shouldn't have said it is dead, but no one cares about it anymore. people have become so swamped with marketing that they have backlashed against it. Ad's treat us like we are idiots and we are bombarded with them, THAT is the problem.
Viral works on one thing alone: You have to have an AWESOME product that people will want to tell their friends about. You have a subpar product that is ho hum, people may use it, but they won't become your "free" market force that works for you.
and it will be dead forever. Look at places like myspace. It is pure viral marketing, friends tell friends and friends get friends to join. The amusing part is, myspace makes money off of the old, failed system of marketing, while myspace enjoys having no advertising budget of their own. they have millions of stupid kids out there spouting off how great their service is. it is an amazing feat.
if anyone is trying to market their business, i suggest they read "PyroMarketing" good stuff.
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The 10th amendment allowed states to do whatever they pleased. The amendments were ONLY applied to the federal government, not the states.
The 14th amendment was the only way that the first 8 could be applied to the states, before then they couldn't. That was the way it was setup.
The idea was you could move to states that had the level of freedom that you desired. Some states were religious led, others totally free. This of course all ended after the Civil War.
To start a corporation in America all you have to do is file out a simple form and mail in a cheap fee. I started mine for a whole $100 in costs to the gov't. While it is more than I want to pay, it isn't bad. I pay less in taxes than foreign counterparts, so I have more to actually invest into my company to grow it, another great reason why it is easier to start a small business in America. Employment laws as well. In France it takes 2 years to fire someone. If someone is destroying my small business, they can be out the door that day (well, depends on the state really). THere are tons of other reasons, but ease of doing business, ability to put your own capital into your business is def up there. Look how many businesses are started by those w/o college educations, it isn't the schools.
I always think back to the Arrested Development episode where Buster feeds the Romba because it is hungry
It is copyrighted.
Would hell be considered "vendor lock-in"?
They are not a natural monopoly. They are a govnerment granted monopoly. The only reason they have their monopoly status IS because local gov'ts limit who can access the "public access" property to lay the lines. More government isn't the solution to this problem, less is.
I am not for breaking up net neutrality, but his statement "Creativity, innovation and a free and open marketplace are all at stake in this fight." is sort of hypocritical to what he is fighting for. If he were truely for a free market, then the cable companies could do whatever they wanted with their product. (But then again, local gov'ts have created monopolies for cable/internet providers by only leasing the public right away to certain groups, limiting competition).
If you actually knew your history, in the United States big business WERE the ones that lobbied FOR anti-monopoly laws to ensure state protection OF their monopolies.
The gov't doesn't protect you from business, they are bought off by other businesses for state sponsored protectionism.
Do you not know when you go to buy iTunes that they only work on iPods? Is this not a well know fact or is this something that Apple hides from you? The terms are well known before hand, no one is a "victim"
While I don't disagree, I just think it is bad law. That is all. Norway will end up forcing apple to not open shop there, which will lead to less choices for the end user. I think that is the bigger problem.
No, I simply believe the socialist mindset of Europe is bad business practice. Europe will end up keeping Apple's iTunes out entirely, which is WORSE for consumers because they have LESS choices of what they can use to download MP3's. iTunes gives the consumer one more choice in where to purchase their music and their terms of use are clearly printed. Don't like them, shop somewhere else or start your own company to sell MP3's. Oh wait, you can't do that because the real monopoly, the RIAA, doesn't let you do that.
No, the only thing that prevents other individuals from starting new companies which provide music is the RIAA. Not apple. Apple isn't the problem, at all. Anyone who thinks apple is the problem is blind to the real issue, the monopolistic practices of the RIAA in not allowing other firms to sell music such as Apple.
Don't buy it. I fail to see where this gets complicated. Apple shouldn't be forced to make iTunes file format work on other players, no one forces GM's Corvette engine to work in a Civic.
Apple is an "opt in" monopoly, they force not one person to start using iTunes and their DRM. I use them because I don't really feel like searching the net for MP3's, it is all in one place. I would assume 99% of other apple iTune users do the same. Don't like Apples DRM, fine. Vote with your pocket book and don't shop there. This forcing everyone to do something because you don't like it is getting out of hand.
You could at least post the update that the Vet's are now suing the VA.
They aren't being "bypassed" they are straight up being IGNORED and no one is calling them out on it, no republican or democrat (not that there is 1 iota of difference between the two)
the Constitution. It wasn't written to protect us when time are good, it was written to protect us when times are bad. Sadly, most fail to grasp this simple concept. Instead they buy into the fear mongering.
I take it you haven't noticed the quasi-socialist bent to slashdot. toe the line of hating corporations and big business while enjoying the benefits of them! Big pay checks, fast computers, internet backbones, good jobs. See, it is ok to hate business but benefit from it, not hypocritical at all!
(or someone important for that matter). How hard would it be for an agent of the state to go edit your "dna profile" and swap you with a child molester?
because we have now been told for years that DNA is 100% infallible, it can never be wrong.
Say you dynamically create a checkbox the user has to check before they can submit the form. I wouldn't think tools that register on sites wouldn't be able to break this system, say if you were randomly naming the checkbox and having some sort of validation check to see if it is checked.