Governments are not idiot as to put silicon valleys, industrial centers in regions that are prone to any problems. But outsourcing enemies are idiot as to use every single shit for ranting against outsourcing.
um...no...isn't Silicon Valley somewhat dangerously close to a little thing called the San Andreas Fault?
Humans are often in a state of wishful thinking and denial, and property developers are a special breed of snake oil salesmen - people build homes and industry in earthquake zones, near active volcanoes and on flood plains all the time, and have done so for millennia.
I completely agree with you. But note that it seems to matter to eBay shareholders. Their share price seems to be off on one of its regular weekly slides again.
My guess is Meg Whitman is hanging on by her nails...
That's very true. And also anyone doing any kind of screen writing or play writing should be using Final Draft or similar type of text editor. Final Draft is 1000 times superior to Word for this type of work.
Actually come to think of it, while it can at a push be used for anything text based, Word is really best used for business type applications. There are better apps for anything outside of that realm.
CEO Steve Ballmer was unavailable for comment at his Geneva hotel room today, however in the early hours of this morning Swiss police discovered this...
No, it is a bit more of a deal than just the face value.
Mud sticks. The EU has declared that MS should be punished for breaking the law. This does also negatively affect the MS brand by reducing consumer confidence and encouraging corporations to think twice.
Admittedly that's still not yet enough to really really hurt MS, but it will sting a little more than it looks.
How can we learn from this to make our sites better. Can we translate this type of activity to the 30+ crowd instead of just the teens?
I think the bad news is that the technology is fine. The problem is the people. I realized a while back that the Myspace website isn't what I don't like, it's the users. I'm just a grumpy old man I guess.
However, if anyone wants to build a "B Ark" offering free seats to Myspace users and then blast them all off into space, they would have my full support.
The Guardian is an UK newspaper. And yes, it most certainly needs to lighten up. It's been guardian of extreme political correctness in the UK for at least 30 years.
Though, her confusion is understandable. I'm not sure if either language has a word for sorry. At least I don't know if Klingon has such a word. German doesn't, Germans have to use the English word pronounced in a germanic way on the rare occasions that they feel an apology is absolutely necessary and unavoidable. Otherwise the German words in place of sorry seem to be "Vorsicht!" or "Tut!".
My guess is that Klingon is equally as friendly...
..is a verb. Then, just for fun, and not intending to troll particularly, would anyone care to offer definitions for similar verbs for "to eBay" and "to MySpace"?
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Google's best remaining chance to take PayPal on, head-on, would be to setup Google Auctions, and even then, eBay really has captured a frightening amount of loyalty and dedication from hundreds of thousands of buyers and sellers...it would be an interesting fight.
...this was an anticipated move, predicted it almost 2 years ago now. eBay needs to protect their business for the upcoming storm. I fully expect eBay to be remembered in a few years similarly to the Modem (remember those?).. yeah people still use 'em, but most everybody's got a broadband connection.
As regards the first quote, patience will lead to Google's victory. They don't need to set up anything big or anything quickly. As with the scond quote, the writing was on the wall for this for a long time. eBay did nothing but overspend on the Skype purchase, when they could have spent time investing and innovating in their core business.
eBay's core business is stagnant. Growth has slowed in the US and in EU. Japan, the second biggest world ecomony, was a complete failure - they were unable to complete with a 6 month start Yahoo had on them. China is slowly heading the same way, eBay has only a tiny market share there.
eBay's share price has been on a slow downward spiral for the past 20 months or so.
eBay's brand is synonymous with fraud to many buyers, and with overcharging to many sellers.
eBay is ripe for takeover or serious competition, or at the very least, major change. Google just has to be patient and pick the spoils. eBay's act in banning Google checkout is one of quiet desperation, one they could have foreseen and prepared alternatives for a long time ago if they were more competetive, and innovative.
Company policy all of a sudden not allowing him to be evil must be quite a thing to adapt to after Microsoft.
Yes, this could be a challenge, especially considering his MS job title - General Manager for Platform Evangelism.
I find it hard enough to view "evangelism" as being a positive concept in any context; to my mind it seems closely akin to brainwashing. So to be in charge of that for MS... urg...it just sends shivers down my spine...
How many lights can you see...drink the Koolaid...how many lights...Bill is your friend...how many lights...
1. How does the RIAA control the media so well? Are the big papers and news channels really lazy enough to only report things that have press releases?
Possibly because the RIAA has direct and indirect connections to the media.
The MPAA most certainly does. For example: 20th Century Fox is part of http://www.newscorp.com/operations/other.html which owns the NY Post, The Sun and the Times in the UK, and many many many more news outlets all over the world. There is not a snowball's chance in Hell of getting negative publicity over any MPAA action in a News Corp media business.
And so on with Time Warner and the rest...
While they are not the RIAA per se - there are connections between all these players, and a joint vested interest.
PayPal and eBay are pretty good bed buddies, and PayPal is already accepted on thousands of other websites. People know the name, people have used it before, people know it works.
In the US perhaps this may be true. The rest of the world is wide open. Paypal does exist outside of the US, but has only started developing limited local services within the past 2 years, with mixed success. Paypal does not have any significant market control outside of the US, and the Google name is likely much better known and trusted in most countries. Google stands a great chance of winning if they choose to expand this service.
This is not an article about People Who Don't Matter. This is an article about People of Whom We Disapprove or People Whose Current Operations Don't Impress Us Much or some such thing.
I agree! And the opposite is true for the list of "People Who Matter" some of whom are simply "Oh look! Shiny!". Just flavor of the moment. The Digg guy, the YouTube guys etc, may not even be remembered in 5 years (or less!).
However, I wonder if society really needs those willing to take an extreme stance on something. Such guys move the goalposts way off center, allowing more moderate people to come in and succeed since society would subsequently view their position as a reasonable compromise.
Perhaps, without the extremists any progress would be a much longer process of attrition, if successful at all.
You are correct, many countries in Europe are likely just as bad if not worse.
For example:
Britons do not actually have the right to free speech, and speech has been publicly censored - Northern Ireland being one case in point.
France will do what is required to protect her interests regardless. Ask Greenpeace.
Germans are generally microcontrolled and over-regulated by their government. In addition, anything related to the Nazi's is censored (albeit that's understandable and sadly still necessary admittedly). Germany also has their "Minority Report" law which they are using freely and gleefully right now during the World Cup. With this law they can detain anyone who they think MIGHT be about to cause trouble.
And so we could go on. The good thing about the US is that these things are coming out into the open. However, it's unfortunate that everyone seems to be powerless to prevent such things happening, or to bring their Government back into line.
In theory in most EU countries it is possible for popular opinion to bring down a Government before the end of its term is up - even though that public power is seldom used. Is that even possible in the US where no actual "crime" has been committed?
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Humans are often in a state of wishful thinking and denial, and property developers are a special breed of snake oil salesmen - people build homes and industry in earthquake zones, near active volcanoes and on flood plains all the time, and have done so for millennia.
I completely agree with you. But note that it seems to matter to eBay shareholders. Their share price seems to be off on one of its regular weekly slides again.
My guess is Meg Whitman is hanging on by her nails...
I'm guessing that we can still count on Murphy's Law?
That's very true. And also anyone doing any kind of screen writing or play writing should be using Final Draft or similar type of text editor. Final Draft is 1000 times superior to Word for this type of work.
Actually come to think of it, while it can at a push be used for anything text based, Word is really best used for business type applications. There are better apps for anything outside of that realm.
CEO Steve Ballmer was unavailable for comment at his Geneva hotel room today, however in the early hours of this morning Swiss police discovered this...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mar-s/3148634/
No, it is a bit more of a deal than just the face value.
Mud sticks. The EU has declared that MS should be punished for breaking the law. This does also negatively affect the MS brand by reducing consumer confidence and encouraging corporations to think twice.
Admittedly that's still not yet enough to really really hurt MS, but it will sting a little more than it looks.
However, if anyone wants to build a "B Ark" offering free seats to Myspace users and then blast them all off into space, they would have my full support.
...which January?
Lawyers have blood?
The Guardian is an UK newspaper. And yes, it most certainly needs to lighten up. It's been guardian of extreme political correctness in the UK for at least 30 years.
Though, her confusion is understandable. I'm not sure if either language has a word for sorry. At least I don't know if Klingon has such a word. German doesn't, Germans have to use the English word pronounced in a germanic way on the rare occasions that they feel an apology is absolutely necessary and unavoidable. Otherwise the German words in place of sorry seem to be "Vorsicht!" or "Tut!".
My guess is that Klingon is equally as friendly...
that would have to be a verb too I assume? "To cowboyneal ..."
..is a verb. Then, just for fun, and not intending to troll particularly, would anyone care to offer definitions for similar verbs for "to eBay" and "to MySpace"?
eBay's core business is stagnant. Growth has slowed in the US and in EU. Japan, the second biggest world ecomony, was a complete failure - they were unable to complete with a 6 month start Yahoo had on them. China is slowly heading the same way, eBay has only a tiny market share there.
eBay's share price has been on a slow downward spiral for the past 20 months or so.
eBay's brand is synonymous with fraud to many buyers, and with overcharging to many sellers.
eBay is ripe for takeover or serious competition, or at the very least, major change. Google just has to be patient and pick the spoils. eBay's act in banning Google checkout is one of quiet desperation, one they could have foreseen and prepared alternatives for a long time ago if they were more competetive, and innovative.
There, finished that sentence.
...is now Rupert Murdoch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch
BE AFRAID!
...do not welcome our old clueless overlords...
I find it hard enough to view "evangelism" as being a positive concept in any context; to my mind it seems closely akin to brainwashing. So to be in charge of that for MS... urg...it just sends shivers down my spine...
How many lights can you see...drink the Koolaid...how many lights...Bill is your friend...how many lights...
Oh to be a shareholder in Chairs-r-us Redmond!
The MPAA most certainly does. For example: 20th Century Fox is part of http://www.newscorp.com/operations/other.html which owns the NY Post, The Sun and the Times in the UK, and many many many more news outlets all over the world. There is not a snowball's chance in Hell of getting negative publicity over any MPAA action in a News Corp media business.
And so on with Time Warner and the rest...
While they are not the RIAA per se - there are connections between all these players, and a joint vested interest.
My position is the same as yours.
However, I wonder if society really needs those willing to take an extreme stance on something. Such guys move the goalposts way off center, allowing more moderate people to come in and succeed since society would subsequently view their position as a reasonable compromise.
Perhaps, without the extremists any progress would be a much longer process of attrition, if successful at all.
For example:
- Britons do not actually have the right to free speech, and speech has been publicly censored - Northern Ireland being one case in point.
- France will do what is required to protect her interests regardless. Ask Greenpeace.
- Germans are generally microcontrolled and over-regulated by their government. In addition, anything related to the Nazi's is censored (albeit that's understandable and sadly still necessary admittedly). Germany also has their "Minority Report" law which they are using freely and gleefully right now during the World Cup. With this law they can detain anyone who they think MIGHT be about to cause trouble.
And so we could go on. The good thing about the US is that these things are coming out into the open. However, it's unfortunate that everyone seems to be powerless to prevent such things happening, or to bring their Government back into line.In theory in most EU countries it is possible for popular opinion to bring down a Government before the end of its term is up - even though that public power is seldom used. Is that even possible in the US where no actual "crime" has been committed?
True, but they will however capitalize on the teenage girl market if they call themselves "OOsoft!"
And here's the obligatory, OMG PONIES!!!