I wonder if in an extreme case would the use of normal limbs become difficult? Kind of like when you're in zero g your muscles atrophy. If we did have this 'mind control' ability for machines/tools, would we lose dexterity and motor skills?
I hate to admit it, but the things I like about Firefox are the knick knacks like skins and the UI (the Find feature). I also like the multiple tabs although I know Netscape has this as well.
The first commercial I think is a good one because this is the first time to my knowledge that "office people" (non technical people) have become excited over a browser. At my former company, the Sales people were downloading Firefox because they had heard about it in the news and it gave them a feeling of technical 'leetness that however undeserved, is important for FF to permeate the mainstream. While the commercial is a bit abstract, for the European audience perhaps it has more meaning. (?)
All this smoking talk makes me want to go smoke right now. I'm especially salivating over the idea of standing in line for SW for hours and smoking. j/k... in CA you would be brutally blugeoned for smoking in line, unless everyone was drunk, and then you would have to listen to everyone talking and yelling loudly, which is more annoying than cigarette smoke any day.
In fact the bozo in the cube over the wall is talking on his speaker phone and affecting my productivity. I can't concentrate, so am reading slashdot. It's not time for my smoke break yet (which is not every hour - I don't know how bosses put up with that frequency)
In a non-tech oriented company, the "saving money" aspect will get the upper management to listen in the first place. The second thing that gets them to listen is OSS maleability and non-dependence on a 3rd party to make updates and changes (again, the $ argument), and lastly, the "it's a better system" helps in convincing corp business types as well. But alas, it's 3rd or 4th on the list, like much of corporate America - money savings talks.
Do you know what kinds of medications for adults work for this kind of condition? A friend of mine takes ritalin which seems to help but coming off of it is a bad side effect of extreme grouchiness. Have you heard of Seroquil? My friend is trying that but it too has a bad saide oeefect of making one super tired.
My first time was when I checked out the book Planet of the Apes from the local library because I was captivated by the TV movies. I remember being really surprised at the book because the beginning of it describes a solar ship and my adolescent mind being disapointed that it really did not match the movie at all.
From:Planetary.org/solarsail/science_fiction.html
"Neither film based on the novel incorporates much of its satirical content, and both entirely omit its frame story: a "wealthy leisured couple" taking a holiday in space, in a ship described as "a sort of sphere with an envelope - the sail - which was miraculously fine and light and moved through space propelled by the pressure of light-radiation. . . . Furthermore, this elastic envelope could be stretched or contracted as the navigator pleased," to increase or decrease the craft's speed [translation by Xan Fielding]. The craft's direction is controlled by changing the "reflective power of certain sections" of the spherical envelope. Other aspects of the craft's operation sound more literary than scientific in origin. But Boulle clearly had in mind at least the basics of a light-powered sailship."
I don't care if Star Trek is considered real Sci-Fi or not, it was entertaining and imaginative. I wonder why he reads books, or watches TV or movies for? Informational purposes, only? No wonder when I think of Ender the scent of hospitals always lingers in my imagination.
I've experienced that before. I convinced the lass corp that I worked for to try using an open source content management system. They agreed, but then the corporate "Voice of God" (who lives in NY) issued a memo dictating we would use the "corporate hosting service" just because they had a acquired one. Along with the rigid templates and managed CMS it came with:/ Meanwhile, the exects are shopping at town square and gone for hours on end and can't even use Office's most simple features. They just get paid to look good and talk on the phone I guess.
I don't think I wuold reject working at a company due to lack of femenine products but you and she are right that if they couldn't afford that considering the minimal usage that doesn't say good things for them. I think the worst for me is to have something like that or other freebies and then have it taken away. Then the lack seems more acute.
I don't know about anyone else but I'm so damaged from the bust if I ever bite into a free bagel I think "How much did this bagel cost? Shouldn't we be lean and mean? Why are they spending money on this crap?"
It's like a bad flashback would happen and I would remember at my former company the CEO standing in front of us saying all of these positive things about profitability and being numero uno while we ate our free food. We had free free sodas as well. There were even free tampons in the ladies bathroom. When it all started to end all of a sudden there was no more free lunch day, no more free sodas, or feminine products.
It's laughable, but I think any company that spends such an amount on a perk seems foolish and this again is my damaged self feeling this after so long you would think I could once again bite a free bagel and not feel the pinch of foreboding.
But I do.
As a motorcyclist it doesn't sound very thrilling at all to have the silent motor and lack of acceleration.
However, I'm glad they're doing this. Anytime someone tries to do this kind of thing with cars, such as would involve big oil money and car manufacturers (who are all in bed together) the research seems to go slower. I suppose because we're told we don't want that kind of thing and therefor they do not find it "cost effective."
Let them come up with an efficient and useful fuel cell for a moto and maybe the mfg's of bigger machines will have to take notice.
I think this is a good way as well.
There are 3rd parties out there who solely specialize in "contesting." Within a contest environment you can reward users for filling out surveys with "points" that they can redeem for prizes. As mabu mentions, there are lots of nefarious exploits of contesting, so using things like requiring a login (a subription to your "rewards program") kind of thing may help with that.
The contesting works well with media (radio, newspaper, tv) websites, and entertainment related. If your business is not in that market, consider doing a snail mail survey of past customers and attaching coupons redeemable for product purchases.
They key as the original poster indicated is to offer some kind of incentive to filling out the survey.
Another option is to perhaps use an ad server that has geotargeting ability. Run ads ROS for 3-6 months and geotarget them and see how many impressions you deliver to the particular areas. Need not serve up real ads, you could use just a pixel. Some adservers spit out cookies and people block them so it isn't super accurate but it could give a general number.
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I actually was commenting half blind since I was viewing at work, and had the sound off. Kind of neat the message minus sound is different :)
I wonder if in an extreme case would the use of normal limbs become difficult? Kind of like when you're in zero g your muscles atrophy. If we did have this 'mind control' ability for machines/tools, would we lose dexterity and motor skills?
The first commercial I think is a good one because this is the first time to my knowledge that "office people" (non technical people) have become excited over a browser. At my former company, the Sales people were downloading Firefox because they had heard about it in the news and it gave them a feeling of technical 'leetness that however undeserved, is important for FF to permeate the mainstream. While the commercial is a bit abstract, for the European audience perhaps it has more meaning. (?)
Is it a loss of productivity or "absenteeism" if you actually planned with your manager to take that day off?
In fact the bozo in the cube over the wall is talking on his speaker phone and affecting my productivity. I can't concentrate, so am reading slashdot. It's not time for my smoke break yet (which is not every hour - I don't know how bosses put up with that frequency)
In a non-tech oriented company, the "saving money" aspect will get the upper management to listen in the first place. The second thing that gets them to listen is OSS maleability and non-dependence on a 3rd party to make updates and changes (again, the $ argument), and lastly, the "it's a better system" helps in convincing corp business types as well. But alas, it's 3rd or 4th on the list, like much of corporate America - money savings talks.
Do you know what kinds of medications for adults work for this kind of condition? A friend of mine takes ritalin which seems to help but coming off of it is a bad side effect of extreme grouchiness. Have you heard of Seroquil? My friend is trying that but it too has a bad saide oeefect of making one super tired.
From:Planetary.org/solarsail/science_fiction.html
"Neither film based on the novel incorporates much of its satirical content, and both entirely omit its frame story: a "wealthy leisured couple" taking a holiday in space, in a ship described as "a sort of sphere with an envelope - the sail - which was miraculously fine and light and moved through space propelled by the pressure of light-radiation. . . . Furthermore, this elastic envelope could be stretched or contracted as the navigator pleased," to increase or decrease the craft's speed [translation by Xan Fielding]. The craft's direction is controlled by changing the "reflective power of certain sections" of the spherical envelope. Other aspects of the craft's operation sound more literary than scientific in origin. But Boulle clearly had in mind at least the basics of a light-powered sailship."
I don't care if Star Trek is considered real Sci-Fi or not, it was entertaining and imaginative. I wonder why he reads books, or watches TV or movies for? Informational purposes, only? No wonder when I think of Ender the scent of hospitals always lingers in my imagination.
oh but levity in the corporate world is priceless :)
I wish my boyfriend would do that for me, just like it says in the commercial. Now that's love
I've experienced that before. I convinced the lass corp that I worked for to try using an open source content management system. They agreed, but then the corporate "Voice of God" (who lives in NY) issued a memo dictating we would use the "corporate hosting service" just because they had a acquired one. Along with the rigid templates and managed CMS it came with :/ Meanwhile, the exects are shopping at town square and gone for hours on end and can't even use Office's most simple features. They just get paid to look good and talk on the phone I guess.
well thankfully water is still free... or is it ; >
I don't think I wuold reject working at a company due to lack of femenine products but you and she are right that if they couldn't afford that considering the minimal usage that doesn't say good things for them. I think the worst for me is to have something like that or other freebies and then have it taken away. Then the lack seems more acute.
I don't know about anyone else but I'm so damaged from the bust if I ever bite into a free bagel I think "How much did this bagel cost? Shouldn't we be lean and mean? Why are they spending money on this crap?" It's like a bad flashback would happen and I would remember at my former company the CEO standing in front of us saying all of these positive things about profitability and being numero uno while we ate our free food. We had free free sodas as well. There were even free tampons in the ladies bathroom. When it all started to end all of a sudden there was no more free lunch day, no more free sodas, or feminine products. It's laughable, but I think any company that spends such an amount on a perk seems foolish and this again is my damaged self feeling this after so long you would think I could once again bite a free bagel and not feel the pinch of foreboding. But I do.
However, I'm glad they're doing this. Anytime someone tries to do this kind of thing with cars, such as would involve big oil money and car manufacturers (who are all in bed together) the research seems to go slower. I suppose because we're told we don't want that kind of thing and therefor they do not find it "cost effective."
Let them come up with an efficient and useful fuel cell for a moto and maybe the mfg's of bigger machines will have to take notice.
The contesting works well with media (radio, newspaper, tv) websites, and entertainment related. If your business is not in that market, consider doing a snail mail survey of past customers and attaching coupons redeemable for product purchases.
They key as the original poster indicated is to offer some kind of incentive to filling out the survey.
Another option is to perhaps use an ad server that has geotargeting ability. Run ads ROS for 3-6 months and geotarget them and see how many impressions you deliver to the particular areas. Need not serve up real ads, you could use just a pixel. Some adservers spit out cookies and people block them so it isn't super accurate but it could give a general number.