Well, for those who are wondering how it went from 4 billion to 8 billion overnight, it probably didn't. The index, as I understand it, is built repetitively and incrementally. The size of the index has probably been accumulating for who knows how long, and they just decided to announce the milestone 8 billion mark today.
Sounds like a pretty bad marketing strategy to me. Any sentence with "customer" and "bad" within 10 words of each other will carry a very negative connotation. Best Buy needs to learn from these guys and realize that, although the customer isn't always right, you want people to think you uphold that belief.
What do you guys think?
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Do you think that people buy the Xbox just for Halo? Or do they buy Halo because it's on the Xbox?;)
I think the points made the artcile are quite intuitive and obvious. Rather, it is the context of formulation of the subject at hand that makes the way we think about cities as entities interesting. Any geographical entity, be it a city, state, or nation state, are essentially borderless. The spatial ontology of such geographical entities is predicated on the artificially constructed boundaries that are set in order to structurally delimit the start of an entity and the end of another. Such borders, however, are non-existent when it comes to social and cultural forces that span across multiple geographic entities. When the internet and the world wide web emerged, such boundaries were rendered virtually meaningless. People can transcend geographical borders and visit faraway places half way across the globe in the comfort of their homes. Like I said, most of this is already quite intuitive to all of us who participate in activities on the internet on a daily basis. The most interesting points that are highlighted by the article, however, have to do with how the globalization trend affects the global economy. It isn't farfetched to consider the internet as its own geographical entity.
Rather than have these "geek consultants" off site and ready for call-in support, why not just train soldiers with engineering backgrounds? I think a geek with technical prowess coupled with decent physical training under his/her belt would r0x0r anyone's b0x0rs:D
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The iPod touch 8 GB is $40 cheaper and the iPod touch 16 GB is also $40 cheaper.
Why does Apple have such a high markup? Totally unnecessary, IMHO.
Actually, I read this book. it's pretty good. the reviewer was right on about all the points. great review.
The article forgot to mention that Jobs was dressed as an iPod.
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P.S. Stanfurd sucks!
Isn't it ironic that there's a link to the Lena picture right above Utah's attempt at blocking porn?
Yet another reason to move to Canada.
Well, for those who are wondering how it went from 4 billion to 8 billion overnight, it probably didn't. The index, as I understand it, is built repetitively and incrementally. The size of the index has probably been accumulating for who knows how long, and they just decided to announce the milestone 8 billion mark today.
FYI, Amazon is also selling the book here. You save more than $10!
Yet another way for the ETS to make money by gathering some useless statistics. Sigh...
And down goes my grades for the entire semester.... d'oh!
Doesn't that make the robot program the first computer program in history?
Sounds like a pretty bad marketing strategy to me. Any sentence with "customer" and "bad" within 10 words of each other will carry a very negative connotation. Best Buy needs to learn from these guys and realize that, although the customer isn't always right, you want people to think you uphold that belief.
Do you think that people buy the Xbox just for Halo? Or do they buy Halo because it's on the Xbox? ;)
I think the points made the artcile are quite intuitive and obvious. Rather, it is the context of formulation of the subject at hand that makes the way we think about cities as entities interesting. Any geographical entity, be it a city, state, or nation state, are essentially borderless. The spatial ontology of such geographical entities is predicated on the artificially constructed boundaries that are set in order to structurally delimit the start of an entity and the end of another. Such borders, however, are non-existent when it comes to social and cultural forces that span across multiple geographic entities. When the internet and the world wide web emerged, such boundaries were rendered virtually meaningless. People can transcend geographical borders and visit faraway places half way across the globe in the comfort of their homes. Like I said, most of this is already quite intuitive to all of us who participate in activities on the internet on a daily basis. The most interesting points that are highlighted by the article, however, have to do with how the globalization trend affects the global economy. It isn't farfetched to consider the internet as its own geographical entity.
They are fixing it, that's why the server is down.
Hmm, a good way to start scoping out some prime real estate for my retirement :)
Rather than have these "geek consultants" off site and ready for call-in support, why not just train soldiers with engineering backgrounds? I think a geek with technical prowess coupled with decent physical training under his/her belt would r0x0r anyone's b0x0rs :D
Looks like the game is doing pretty well in terms of ranking and reviews over here
Save a few bucks by purchasing the book here!
Considering the high amount, this could be considered a new form of spam ;)