Having participated extensively in both, I can confirm that neither golf nor pool should ever be considered a sport. Although both games require skill to be played at a high level, they are simply social activities which give men something to do while drinking a lot of beer and telling lies. The main difference between the two is that in pool your object is to pick up women and in golf it is to avoid the women you previously picked up. You may notice a few similarities with yet another ball game in which one drinks a lot of beer and tells lies - bowling. Bowling is generally practiced by men and women who are hopelessly trapped in a relationship with each other. The fact that bowlers have the bigger balls is a sad conundrum.
On the other hand, skydiving falls under my personal definition of sport: Sport - an individual or group competitive activity involving physical exertion and skill, sometimes practiced while wearing a helmet which provides little or no protection from massive trauma if one fucks up.
Having also participated in the sport of skydiving, I can confirm that beer and lies are universal. Hell, skydiving has Beer Rules. http://www.skydiving.org.vt.edu/Beer.htm Skydiving is certainly more fun than either golf or pool and the sport is full of attractive, fit women, unlike bowling or video games. It's also not uncommon for three female skydivers to approach a male skydiver when looking for someone to fill out a four-way formation called a horny gorilla!
Is it ironic if someone displays their incompetence while rambling about others' loss of education time, or am I just being sardonic? NoMercy, indeed. ; )
Great extension but, with Firefox at less than 10% of the browser market; only 2 million total downloads of this extension; many of those 2 million trashing the extension because it conflicts with scripting; most likely a large percentage of the remaining users leave the default setting to not block ads; it doesn't appear that Google has anything to worry about from CustomizeGoogle.
BTW, I love this extension because it does many other useful things. Blocking ads is probably its least spectacular feature. I just don't feel the need to block ads from Google since they are so unobtrusive and often times useful.
There are both passive (Gen 1) and active (Gen 2) tags. Active tags are now being sold as a means to protect high value items from shoplifting since they can have data written to them or be turned off.
The mindset behind Gen 1 was for it to be a replacement for bar codes. In Gen 1 systems, you can read a tag just like you would a bar code. In Gen 2, though, you also have bidirectional communication; not only can you read a tag, but you can also turn around and lock it, kill it or write new data to it.
Cost of a DVD or set of CD's : 5 bucks Cost of a Manual and a nice little box : 5 bucks Retail cost of an OS: 139.99 - 299.99 profit margin: 1300-2900%
Confusing the difference between markup and margin - priceless.
Uh, let's see. Additional customer base sort of implies additional revenue with which to support them with. Hardware I covered but maybe you didn't read that far. Your last point is sort of mute if OSX is as great as it's supposed to be and "it just works." TM
Please explain to me how selling additional software is less profitable than selling hardware. You have somewhat fixed development cost for both but the similarities end there. Each additional copy of software sold is going to return higher and higher margins. Compared to expensive hardware, your incremental cost on additional software sales are almost non-existent for things such as raw materials, warehousing, shipping, and even support.
A lot of people keep saying that Apple would never want to support all the various hardware out there, but they wouldn't have to. Simply list the required specs on the back of the box and only offer support for that list of hardware. Let someone else offer paid support for everything else, with part of that support fee going back to Apple for access to their code.
If you could buy the OSX for X86, would you still buy Apple hardware?
I would eventually buy the Mac hardware, if all the hype is to be believed. It would be nice however if I could get OSX to run on the new hardware I already own. Me using OSX side by side with Windows would only benefit Apple, again if I am to believe all the noise. Sell me the OS now for $150 and profit while the OS wins me over. Otherwise, Apple gets nothing from me until I choose to upgrade my 1 year old pc. This would make the decision to switch easier for people like me. I care much more about how the OS works and whether or not it will run my existing applications than I do about shiny designer boxes.
I wouldn't expect your stash to get turned over to the police; but I would suspect you may be missing part/all of your stash when you go back to pick up your car.
and even WORSE, twenty people will point out that it's a dupe. Don't people have anything better to do? Why fill up the first page with useless comments, yelling dupe about stories which many readers may not have seen before, instead of just skipping over the story completely? What do people get out of it? Does it in some way help them to point this out? Why isn't there a lameness filter to eliminate annoying dupe comments? Why are these comments sometimes modded insightful and informative instead of redundant? Why can't people go to lunch without fear that a story may be posted without their prior approval? Why don't people RTFA before posting misinformation? Why is my karma smoking?
interview some of their own in-house computer security experts*. Check start showing silly screenshots of a windows error box. Check ask stupid questions like how many computers are affected. Check try to somehow relate it to their daily war on terrorism. Check
*who apparently don't spend any time securing their own systems.
Whitehouse.com certainly is a non-obvious way to find porn. I just wasted several minutes clicking their links and they appear to be nothing more than a link farm of sponsored ads for ebay, orbitz, expedia, peoplefinders, etc... but no porn! I bet you're just one of those evil viral marketers I've been reading about.
It's mostly about public relations. Think of the Coke and Budweiser commercials airing around Christmas in the US. They are usually heartwarming, nostalgic type commercials. They want you to associate their products with fond memories.
Another huge part of it has to do with capturing the lifetime consumer. If Coke can positively connect with a young person enough times to leave a good impression, they will likely have that person as a loyal customer for life. Young people are more likely to initially choose brands based on some perceived coolness factor. They then acquire a taste for that product as they grow older. There is always a segment of the population in this stage of their life, so there will always be Coke and Budweiser ads playing to them even without a new item introduction.
Like you, I prefer the taste of Coke to Pepsi. I don't drink diet soft drinks. My own preference for Coke amounts to more than $50,000 in lifetime sales to them. That's calculated on 2 soft drinks a day for 50 years, not unreasonable assumptions even though I know I shouldn't drink them. I can't think of any other consumables company which can expect that kind of cash from me. Sad actually; I think I'll give up soft drinks now. BTW, my lifetime sales to Budweiser amount to exactly nada.
But remember, the goal of advertising is to change the behavior of a person.
Strange. I always thought the goal of advertising was to sell a product. Granted most advertising today is pure junk, just like the products they promote, but there are ads which are simply informative and promote useful products. Products which I would like to know about.
So you are exploiting pyschological traits to pressure the consumer into buying the product using color, suggestive imagry, playing on their insecurities and desires.
Guess what, most people you interact with every day also use color (makeup, dress shirts?) and suggestive imagery (low cut necklines, tailored suits?) to play on your insecurities and desires. Are these people pressuring you into something? I believe the term enticing is probably more appropriate for both scenarios.
You may in fact be changing people's habits who have no use for your product or could not truely afford it. You defend yourself by saying that they have a choice.
Dear god, won't someone think of the consumer? People who buy stuff which they have no use for and which they also can not afford absolutely do have a choice. They can buy the product or not.
Looking at it more realistically, I equate it to stealing someone's credit card. Essentially, you are exploiting the way the brain works to cause a behavior. Yeah, real ethical.
Um, if a person can't avoid handing over their credit card every time they see an ad for something, they have a much bigger problem than being in debt up to their ears. In reality everyone exploits the way the brain works to cause certain behaviors in everyone else they ever encounter and many they don't. This is not even exclusively a human trait, as all beings with brains do it.
Viral ads are MUCH better because they are opt in. I can seek out an ad which I want to see (subjecting myself to all the pyschological tricks).
Oh, now I see. You're only referring to ads on the internet. Or have they figured out an opt in system for TV, radio, and print ads? For the internet use Adblock and you won't be subjected to as many random physiological tricks, but you already knew that. Then all you will have to worry about is the true intent of that cool avi you found on Usenet.
So while individulally you might be delluded, your industry is as inherently evil as the spam industry. You are just dulluding yourself.
That's hilarious. Spam is a form of advertising. It just so happens to be the worst type of online advertising. The advertising industry encompasses much more than just the internet. Remember that any advertising is only as evil as the company which pays for the advertising to promote their own product. If you want to stay deluded yourself that's your choice, but you really should be directing your paranoia in the right direction to have any effect.
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Having participated extensively in both, I can confirm that neither golf nor pool should ever be considered a sport. Although both games require skill to be played at a high level, they are simply social activities which give men something to do while drinking a lot of beer and telling lies. The main difference between the two is that in pool your object is to pick up women and in golf it is to avoid the women you previously picked up. You may notice a few similarities with yet another ball game in which one drinks a lot of beer and tells lies - bowling. Bowling is generally practiced by men and women who are hopelessly trapped in a relationship with each other. The fact that bowlers have the bigger balls is a sad conundrum.
On the other hand, skydiving falls under my personal definition of sport:
Sport - an individual or group competitive activity involving physical exertion and skill, sometimes practiced while wearing a helmet which provides little or no protection from massive trauma if one fucks up.
Having also participated in the sport of skydiving, I can confirm that beer and lies are universal. Hell, skydiving has Beer Rules. http://www.skydiving.org.vt.edu/Beer.htm Skydiving is certainly more fun than either golf or pool and the sport is full of attractive, fit women, unlike bowling or video games. It's also not uncommon for three female skydivers to approach a male skydiver when looking for someone to fill out a four-way formation called a horny gorilla!
keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
everything's relative, I guess.
Is it ironic if someone displays their incompetence while rambling about others' loss of education time, or am I just being sardonic?
NoMercy, indeed. ; )
Great extension but, with Firefox at less than 10% of the browser market; only 2 million total downloads of this extension; many of those 2 million trashing the extension because it conflicts with scripting; most likely a large percentage of the remaining users leave the default setting to not block ads; it doesn't appear that Google has anything to worry about from CustomizeGoogle.
BTW, I love this extension because it does many other useful things. Blocking ads is probably its least spectacular feature. I just don't feel the need to block ads from Google since they are so unobtrusive and often times useful.
There are both passive (Gen 1) and active (Gen 2) tags. Active tags are now being sold as a means to protect high value items from shoplifting since they can have data written to them or be turned off.
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http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/17
The mindset behind Gen 1 was for it to be a replacement for bar codes. In Gen 1 systems, you can read a tag just like you would a bar code. In Gen 2, though, you also have bidirectional communication; not only can you read a tag, but you can also turn around and lock it, kill it or write new data to it.
Cost of a DVD or set of CD's : 5 bucks
Cost of a Manual and a nice little box : 5 bucks
Retail cost of an OS: 139.99 - 299.99
profit margin: 1300-2900%
Confusing the difference between markup and margin - priceless.
Uh, let's see. Additional customer base sort of implies additional revenue with which to support them with. Hardware I covered but maybe you didn't read that far. Your last point is sort of mute if OSX is as great as it's supposed to be and "it just works." TM
Please explain to me how selling additional software is less profitable than selling hardware. You have somewhat fixed development cost for both but the similarities end there. Each additional copy of software sold is going to return higher and higher margins. Compared to expensive hardware, your incremental cost on additional software sales are almost non-existent for things such as raw materials, warehousing, shipping, and even support.
A lot of people keep saying that Apple would never want to support all the various hardware out there, but they wouldn't have to. Simply list the required specs on the back of the box and only offer support for that list of hardware. Let someone else offer paid support for everything else, with part of that support fee going back to Apple for access to their code.
And the XBOX would be a system designed to sell a lot more soft----ware.
If you could buy the OSX for X86, would you still buy Apple hardware?
I would eventually buy the Mac hardware, if all the hype is to be believed. It would be nice however if I could get OSX to run on the new hardware I already own. Me using OSX side by side with Windows would only benefit Apple, again if I am to believe all the noise. Sell me the OS now for $150 and profit while the OS wins me over. Otherwise, Apple gets nothing from me until I choose to upgrade my 1 year old pc. This would make the decision to switch easier for people like me. I care much more about how the OS works and whether or not it will run my existing applications than I do about shiny designer boxes.
Link to their english translation. http://hardmac.com/news/2005-08-17/#4367
I wouldn't expect your stash to get turned over to the police; but I would suspect you may be missing part/all of your stash when you go back to pick up your car.
Oh, wait. Wrong stash.
Clerks don't need to know where RFID tags are in a garment. Radio frequency turns them on and off.
and even WORSE, twenty people will point out that it's a dupe. Don't people have anything better to do? Why fill up the first page with useless comments, yelling dupe about stories which many readers may not have seen before, instead of just skipping over the story completely? What do people get out of it? Does it in some way help them to point this out? Why isn't there a lameness filter to eliminate annoying dupe comments? Why are these comments sometimes modded insightful and informative instead of redundant? Why can't people go to lunch without fear that a story may be posted without their prior approval? Why don't people RTFA before posting misinformation? Why is my karma smoking?
no harm. I was just being a smartass; or as you put it a typical /. poster.
Now that media is directly affected, they will
interview some of their own in-house computer security experts*. Check
start showing silly screenshots of a windows error box. Check
ask stupid questions like how many computers are affected. Check
try to somehow relate it to their daily war on terrorism. Check
*who apparently don't spend any time securing their own systems.
Dude, if you're actually using a credit card to get your porn, you have a few things to learn.
The only thing that forcing a porn surfer to use valid cc #s will do is increase the market for stolen cc #s.
Whitehouse.com certainly is a non-obvious way to find porn. I just wasted several minutes clicking their links and they appear to be nothing more than a link farm of sponsored ads for ebay, orbitz, expedia, peoplefinders, etc... but no porn! I bet you're just one of those evil viral marketers I've been reading about.
Hey, I resent^Wresemble that remark!
Blogs are the realm of internet kooks ranting about the latest conspiracy behind secret intelligence memos
It's official then, Slashdot is the mother of all blogs.
Hmmm, a question about iTunes gets posted in a story about iTunes and that question gets modded offtopic.
Me thinks the modds are the ones on crack.
It's mostly about public relations. Think of the Coke and Budweiser commercials airing around Christmas in the US. They are usually heartwarming, nostalgic type commercials. They want you to associate their products with fond memories.
Another huge part of it has to do with capturing the lifetime consumer. If Coke can positively connect with a young person enough times to leave a good impression, they will likely have that person as a loyal customer for life. Young people are more likely to initially choose brands based on some perceived coolness factor. They then acquire a taste for that product as they grow older. There is always a segment of the population in this stage of their life, so there will always be Coke and Budweiser ads playing to them even without a new item introduction.
Like you, I prefer the taste of Coke to Pepsi. I don't drink diet soft drinks. My own preference for Coke amounts to more than $50,000 in lifetime sales to them. That's calculated on 2 soft drinks a day for 50 years, not unreasonable assumptions even though I know I shouldn't drink them. I can't think of any other consumables company which can expect that kind of cash from me. Sad actually; I think I'll give up soft drinks now. BTW, my lifetime sales to Budweiser amount to exactly nada.
random psychological tricks
Informative?
But remember, the goal of advertising is to change the behavior of a person.
Strange. I always thought the goal of advertising was to sell a product. Granted most advertising today is pure junk, just like the products they promote, but there are ads which are simply informative and promote useful products. Products which I would like to know about.
So you are exploiting pyschological traits to pressure the consumer into buying the product using color, suggestive imagry, playing on their insecurities and desires.
Guess what, most people you interact with every day also use color (makeup, dress shirts?) and suggestive imagery (low cut necklines, tailored suits?) to play on your insecurities and desires. Are these people pressuring you into something? I believe the term enticing is probably more appropriate for both scenarios.
You may in fact be changing people's habits who have no use for your product or could not truely afford it. You defend yourself by saying that they have a choice.
Dear god, won't someone think of the consumer? People who buy stuff which they have no use for and which they also can not afford absolutely do have a choice. They can buy the product or not.
Looking at it more realistically, I equate it to stealing someone's credit card. Essentially, you are exploiting the way the brain works to cause a behavior. Yeah, real ethical.
Um, if a person can't avoid handing over their credit card every time they see an ad for something, they have a much bigger problem than being in debt up to their ears. In reality everyone exploits the way the brain works to cause certain behaviors in everyone else they ever encounter and many they don't. This is not even exclusively a human trait, as all beings with brains do it.
Viral ads are MUCH better because they are opt in. I can seek out an ad which I want to see (subjecting myself to all the pyschological tricks).
Oh, now I see. You're only referring to ads on the internet. Or have they figured out an opt in system for TV, radio, and print ads? For the internet use Adblock and you won't be subjected to as many random physiological tricks, but you already knew that. Then all you will have to worry about is the true intent of that cool avi you found on Usenet.
So while individulally you might be delluded, your industry is as inherently evil as the spam industry. You are just dulluding yourself.
That's hilarious. Spam is a form of advertising. It just so happens to be the worst type of online advertising. The advertising industry encompasses much more than just the internet. Remember that any advertising is only as evil as the company which pays for the advertising to promote their own product. If you want to stay deluded yourself that's your choice, but you really should be directing your paranoia in the right direction to have any effect.
an insignificant other would be nice too