If that's the case then it sounds ripe for "larger" companies to split off into smaller divisions that have less than 5 mil revenue. "Oh, you want NewEgg Hard Drives, that's a different company". I'm sure there are loopholes for this sort of thing.
Or, online buyers will flock to the smaller internet stores, and will give smaller internet stores an advantage. Would I buy from a smaller store over a bigger one to save on sales tax? Hell yes. Actually, I buy based on total shipped price and then reputation. I see the bigger stores either having to lower their base prices or finding some other way to compete if this goes through. Or, we can just start up a directory of "sales tax free" estores!
God I hate taxes...
"Why is innovation important and why isn't our company innovative? Why does it seem like everyone else is innovating while we aren't?"
Slightly off topic, but comments like these from businesses drive me nuts. This is coming as I recently had to attend an "innovation" seminar that was "voluntary" but still mandated that I attend. While there, the majority of the people saw it as a waste of time, while management saw it as "encouraging" innovation in the company. I understand that as a business, a company wants to know of possible ideas stuck somewhere within it's interior that might not normally be shown. However, I feel that trying to force innovation, or leadership, or any of those other intangibles is doing nothing more than lining the pockets of those BS business management companies and motivational speakers. Innovation isn't taught, it's cultivated. You can't send people to workshops and all of a sudden have an influx of new innovative ideas. I believe you have to run your company in an atmosphere that caters to that. It doesn't help if you're in a stagnant industry that is resistant to change, either. And I don't believe that rampant innovation can happen anywhere, in any industry.
The same goes to all the BS leadership training that is everywhere. You can't teach leadership - you either possess the skills or you don't. It's a personality thing. Trying to force morons to lead who aren't good at it winds you up with all of the PHB horror stories. Let's just face it, we can't all be great leaders in anything. Some of us are destined to only be cogs in the greater machine, and the sooner we all realize that and management stops trying to shove crap down my throat, the sooner we can go back to work and actually *do something productive*.
Wouldn't this actually be news if instead it was some OSS app or group that was hiring a GUI person? Microsoft has its faults, but it's products are arguably only behind Apple in terms of design interfaces. Whether you like it or not, the majority of the users out there are used to the MS designed way of doing things. Both MS and Apple have huge budgets just for usablity research. Now of some of the OSS projects out there could get someone who knows an inkling about GUI's and usability (instead of developers making it in their own image), then we can talk!
Will we see sports scores for individual teams and focused TV listings?
Those are the two things I miss most since leaving my.yahoo, but everything else seems to work well.
Maybe I'm just missing where they are on google....
Or actually, can it run games? The reviewed laptop is crap, but the point was to run the latest games on a "laptop". You can get the smallest, sleekest whatever, but have fun with solitaire and your basic web games!
What are the alternatives since everyone (both here and digg) seem to be bitching a whole lot about it? Is there a free/open source something you can install on your own server? It seems like a simple enough concept, I would think someone had already copied it by now.
I agree with what everyone has said about the lyrics - I can't fathom how people looking up the words to songs loses anybody money. I, too, have caught a line on the radio, jotted it down, and looked it up later so I could get it.
I *can* see how posting sheet music online would be a problem, though. But where are all these sheet music sites? I guess I haven't looked around lately, but back in the day there were some songs I wanted piano music for, or at least something I could use to try and read the music to play it on some instrument. I didn't have much luck finding what I thought were fairly popular songs.
What about MIDI files? Sometimes I would be able to take those, load it into a program that displayed the notes, and it would print it out. There was a ton of shareware out that did this exact thing.
Or guitar tabs? There's TONS of guitar sites out there with tabs for every song imagineable. These will fall under this idiocy, too, right?
I personally can back this up. We have a Samsung HDTV, Comcast digital cable, yet not the HD part of the package. Last I checked, there's only like 6 total channels they offer in HD here, and of those, I think only two or 3 of those were local stations. Most of the TV that we do watch isn't available in HD, and the ones that are, we wouldn't use. I don't think we're about to START watching stuff we don't want to just because it looks nicer. Eventually I'd like to get it for the sports (maybe around the time of the Superbowl or March Madness), but I just can't justify the extra cost just to "have it".
Heck, I still haven't gone and gotten a nice DVD player (still using s-video) because we just don't watch enough movies. It was one of those things where we wanted a new TV, and might as well get one that supported HD. There's just not enough content yet to make full use of it. This is probably the case in a lot of places. Or maybe I'm just incredibly lazy and cheap.
Just my $.02.
would I want the hit songs to cost more, and increase in costs as they get more popular?!? So the "google" of pop rock or some crap comes out, and all of a sudden it jumps from 50 cents to 5 dollars? Is it so those people who got in on it early can say, "I got in with band X when their songs were only 25 cents apiece". What's the incentive to buy the music if the more you buy it, the more expensive it gets?
Now, if you could buy and sell "songs", and get credit for it, that might be interesting:-). Like getting paid for your torrent ratio?
I want to give it a variety of what I listen to, and have it offer suggestions from all those categories, mixed up together. For instance, my main favorites are 90s alt rock groups, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Weezer, Rancid, Metallica, Reel Big Fish (heck even in that group there's a bunch of variety) come to mind. But I also listen to hiphop/rap (lately it seems I'm on an old-school kick, but some of the eclectic newer stuff is good, too). I'll also listen to country and the occasional techno. I want new or unheard of music in all of those genres without having to track down each one separately. I want to seed it with say, 50 (100?) songs, and have it base it on that. I don't really want to listen to all of my music that is based on a single song. Just my $.02.
Will they finally at least put a windows key on the things??! I love my T42, but its *so* annoying not having the windows key, and why can't you use the Fn key instead??
when I can have my comics listed (and more than 3, please) as well as specific sports scores. Oh yeah, and TV and movie listings for my area. Short of RSS news feeds, what else can it do?
Instead of a separate program/interface, why can't we have a plugin for winamp or wmp or something? I'd love for a way to find new music, but browsing shoutcast and its billion and a half techno stations that don't interest me is a pain in the butt. Plus I don't necessarily want to be limited to just indy rock music...I'd like to be exposed to new or underground rap/hiphop, rock, maybe even country, who knows? But I'd also like to not have to download a new media player for all of these.
I've never understood the argument that the more people that user firefox (or linux for that matter), then hackers will begin to target those users, too. Isn't the point of OSS that ANYBODY can see the source code? If a vulnerability is found, why would anyone think it will stay there?!? It will be reviewed and fixed by any number of people in a timely manner. I think that's the core of what makes firefox and the like "more secure". What am I missing here?
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I don't understand...why would you ever NOT fill up a glass all the way to the top? Maybe I'm just going to the wrong parties...
If that's the case then it sounds ripe for "larger" companies to split off into smaller divisions that have less than 5 mil revenue. "Oh, you want NewEgg Hard Drives, that's a different company". I'm sure there are loopholes for this sort of thing. Or, online buyers will flock to the smaller internet stores, and will give smaller internet stores an advantage. Would I buy from a smaller store over a bigger one to save on sales tax? Hell yes. Actually, I buy based on total shipped price and then reputation. I see the bigger stores either having to lower their base prices or finding some other way to compete if this goes through. Or, we can just start up a directory of "sales tax free" estores! God I hate taxes...
"Why is innovation important and why isn't our company innovative? Why does it seem like everyone else is innovating while we aren't?"
Slightly off topic, but comments like these from businesses drive me nuts. This is coming as I recently had to attend an "innovation" seminar that was "voluntary" but still mandated that I attend. While there, the majority of the people saw it as a waste of time, while management saw it as "encouraging" innovation in the company. I understand that as a business, a company wants to know of possible ideas stuck somewhere within it's interior that might not normally be shown. However, I feel that trying to force innovation, or leadership, or any of those other intangibles is doing nothing more than lining the pockets of those BS business management companies and motivational speakers. Innovation isn't taught, it's cultivated. You can't send people to workshops and all of a sudden have an influx of new innovative ideas. I believe you have to run your company in an atmosphere that caters to that. It doesn't help if you're in a stagnant industry that is resistant to change, either. And I don't believe that rampant innovation can happen anywhere, in any industry.
The same goes to all the BS leadership training that is everywhere. You can't teach leadership - you either possess the skills or you don't. It's a personality thing. Trying to force morons to lead who aren't good at it winds you up with all of the PHB horror stories. Let's just face it, we can't all be great leaders in anything. Some of us are destined to only be cogs in the greater machine, and the sooner we all realize that and management stops trying to shove crap down my throat, the sooner we can go back to work and actually *do something productive*.
Heh, there's my rant for the day....
Wouldn't this actually be news if instead it was some OSS app or group that was hiring a GUI person? Microsoft has its faults, but it's products are arguably only behind Apple in terms of design interfaces. Whether you like it or not, the majority of the users out there are used to the MS designed way of doing things. Both MS and Apple have huge budgets just for usablity research. Now of some of the OSS projects out there could get someone who knows an inkling about GUI's and usability (instead of developers making it in their own image), then we can talk!
Will we see sports scores for individual teams and focused TV listings? Those are the two things I miss most since leaving my.yahoo, but everything else seems to work well. Maybe I'm just missing where they are on google....
Or actually, can it run games? The reviewed laptop is crap, but the point was to run the latest games on a "laptop". You can get the smallest, sleekest whatever, but have fun with solitaire and your basic web games!
What are the alternatives since everyone (both here and digg) seem to be bitching a whole lot about it? Is there a free/open source something you can install on your own server? It seems like a simple enough concept, I would think someone had already copied it by now.
I agree with what everyone has said about the lyrics - I can't fathom how people looking up the words to songs loses anybody money. I, too, have caught a line on the radio, jotted it down, and looked it up later so I could get it. I *can* see how posting sheet music online would be a problem, though. But where are all these sheet music sites? I guess I haven't looked around lately, but back in the day there were some songs I wanted piano music for, or at least something I could use to try and read the music to play it on some instrument. I didn't have much luck finding what I thought were fairly popular songs. What about MIDI files? Sometimes I would be able to take those, load it into a program that displayed the notes, and it would print it out. There was a ton of shareware out that did this exact thing. Or guitar tabs? There's TONS of guitar sites out there with tabs for every song imagineable. These will fall under this idiocy, too, right?
I personally can back this up. We have a Samsung HDTV, Comcast digital cable, yet not the HD part of the package. Last I checked, there's only like 6 total channels they offer in HD here, and of those, I think only two or 3 of those were local stations. Most of the TV that we do watch isn't available in HD, and the ones that are, we wouldn't use. I don't think we're about to START watching stuff we don't want to just because it looks nicer. Eventually I'd like to get it for the sports (maybe around the time of the Superbowl or March Madness), but I just can't justify the extra cost just to "have it". Heck, I still haven't gone and gotten a nice DVD player (still using s-video) because we just don't watch enough movies. It was one of those things where we wanted a new TV, and might as well get one that supported HD. There's just not enough content yet to make full use of it. This is probably the case in a lot of places. Or maybe I'm just incredibly lazy and cheap. Just my $.02.
would I want the hit songs to cost more, and increase in costs as they get more popular?!? So the "google" of pop rock or some crap comes out, and all of a sudden it jumps from 50 cents to 5 dollars? Is it so those people who got in on it early can say, "I got in with band X when their songs were only 25 cents apiece". What's the incentive to buy the music if the more you buy it, the more expensive it gets? Now, if you could buy and sell "songs", and get credit for it, that might be interesting :-). Like getting paid for your torrent ratio?
I want to give it a variety of what I listen to, and have it offer suggestions from all those categories, mixed up together. For instance, my main favorites are 90s alt rock groups, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Weezer, Rancid, Metallica, Reel Big Fish (heck even in that group there's a bunch of variety) come to mind. But I also listen to hiphop/rap (lately it seems I'm on an old-school kick, but some of the eclectic newer stuff is good, too). I'll also listen to country and the occasional techno. I want new or unheard of music in all of those genres without having to track down each one separately. I want to seed it with say, 50 (100?) songs, and have it base it on that. I don't really want to listen to all of my music that is based on a single song. Just my $.02.
I'm a transplant to the area...and apologies for the pic :-) It was at the tailgate two years ago right before MSU neutered tailgating for good!
Whoa, both from South Bend?
When will it have Palm/PocketPC/PDA support? Thats the big thing keeping me from switching from Palm Desktop and/or Outlook.
Will they finally at least put a windows key on the things??! I love my T42, but its *so* annoying not having the windows key, and why can't you use the Fn key instead??
How many "this is why linux is failing..." articles will we have? Come on!
When did /. become an RSS feed for Dvorak and other tech writers out there?
when I can have my comics listed (and more than 3, please) as well as specific sports scores. Oh yeah, and TV and movie listings for my area. Short of RSS news feeds, what else can it do?
of wasting time on K-whatever?
Instead of a separate program/interface, why can't we have a plugin for winamp or wmp or something? I'd love for a way to find new music, but browsing shoutcast and its billion and a half techno stations that don't interest me is a pain in the butt. Plus I don't necessarily want to be limited to just indy rock music...I'd like to be exposed to new or underground rap/hiphop, rock, maybe even country, who knows? But I'd also like to not have to download a new media player for all of these.
I've never understood the argument that the more people that user firefox (or linux for that matter), then hackers will begin to target those users, too. Isn't the point of OSS that ANYBODY can see the source code? If a vulnerability is found, why would anyone think it will stay there?!? It will be reviewed and fixed by any number of people in a timely manner. I think that's the core of what makes firefox and the like "more secure". What am I missing here?
How do you know if they have info about you contained in their database? Or does it have info on EVERYBODY?