Regardless of all the selling fees and paypal issues, eBay has done so well with their branding that they will probably get (if they don't already have it) a dictionary entry like google has. Even Weird Al did a song about eBay.
50% of the items I find for sale on eBay come from google searches.
eBay is slow! Fees aside, eBay's biggest challenge is how time consuming it is to sell stuff on there. I am sure Google will find a way to speed up the whole buying and selling process. They seem to have sped up most everything else.
An interesting move would be if google just bought eBay, although the feds would probably block the deal. Google could make the site faster, cheaper and easier to use.
Hopefully the move will result in a better eBay and another place to sell/buy our useless crap.
Seeing how much porn is on the Internet, and assuming Internet porn addicts have fun with it, I am suprized to hear that only 33% of the US surfers use the internet for fun
Thank you! It suprised me when reading these threads to see how often we forget that a company's real motivation is the bottom line. And we all know that the bottom line is money.
While this "research" may be hysterical, we shouldn't laugh it off. If the RIAA keeps bombarding the media with this garbage, many people will take it at face value. When you toss in the fact that many television news networks' parent companies own a major label or two, we could wind up with a very calculated campaign of mass deception.
This is disguised as a way for parents to spy on their kids, when the RIAA and friends are really using parents (or employers perhaps?) as pawns for their own spy attacks. Talk about spyware, this thing is the king of them all! I sincerely hope that Adaware and other spyware removal apps objectively look at this and add it to their lists. This thing needs to be exposed for what it truly is: a privacy invasion on multiple fronts.
They are just trying to get something for nothing, and they have a deadline. They obviously need to get this done quickly, and cannot afford to pay a developer team to write it.
Do they really think anyone in the open source community will be their personal slave for a few thousand dollars? Nice try, but anyone talented and fast enough to write this thing in 15 days doesn't need their money.
I agree. We always defining and redefining which words are considered "bad" or "curses." Bottom line is that words are just that... words. Consider the person who says "Gosh Darn It?" which I think we can all agree is far from a swear. Is this just because they aren't using "God" or "Damn?" What if they are thinking "God" and saying "Gosh?" Did the team of scientists consider this scenerio when computing their statistics?
I've been running a small independent label for 6 years. From the sound of it, the reason your brother's band is thinking about an alternative to the small indie label because their last release didn't sell or even get into stores. But, perhaps they should take a closer look at the reasons why instead of just trying to put a band-aid on the situation.
Self-releasing a CD, whether digitally or through a place like CDBaby, will not fix the problem. These days, there's a million bands out there all pushing their music on the P2P networks, on sites like Interpunk (local section), and myspace. Changing their M.O. won't change the final outcome.
They need to start seeing fans as friends. Can a person really call all 1250 "friends" on their myspace site friends, let alone fans? To make real fans, the band needs go out and spend the time getting to know them personally. I'm not saying you can't do this online, but nothing beats meeting someone in real life.
What to know how to make fans? Get out and find them. You can play shows, or if that's a problem, try parking the van in a teenage hangout and talk to the kids. Play your music for them. Give them a burned CD to take away, along with stickers and a good conversation. Those people will tell their friends about you, and nothing beats word of mouth.
Sounds like a lot of work doesn't it? Well, it is. But rest assured that that kind of promotion will lead to a real dedicated following of people who will buy all your CDs, merchandise and anything else.
Maybe they are taking a hint from Google with releasing products as beta. I understand a news search being released as beta, but a file system (or filesyste add-on) ?? . This way they can escape any responsibility for the thing if it compromises systems, causes data loss or sucks in any other way.
This sounds a bit like a stroke of good luck, or just good timing (depending when in 2000 you got the new job). If memory serves, programmers and systems people jobs were a dime a dozen most of that year. What I'd like to know is if anyone has had this type of experience after 2000, and more specifically after 9/11
Perhaps it's my impatience, but Firefox seems to launch slower w/each update. Sometimes it takes up to 3 or 4 minutes. It's not necessarily the extensions . On 3 similar machines, one with 14 ext, another w/none and another w/ 3, Firefox launches slow on all.
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I got sucked into the whole Java "write once, run anywhere," back in 1996 only to find out that it was "write once, debug (or should be re-write) everywhere." Now you just have the "Java Platform," which really isn't much different from any other platform. What a nightmare.
Moving forward and wanting to get away from Cold Fusion development for the web, I must say that C#/.NET infrastructure looks very appealing. The programming IDE is nice, and the language/classes look very easy to get started with. So what if it's platform dependent? My servers are on Windows boxes and they run great. It's not like people running UNIX or Macs cannot view web programs written with.NET technology.
Is this whole thing really about Linux/Unix is cool and Windows is not? Give it up! We're talking about computers and operating systems! Who cares what color your iMac is or what flavor of UNIX is the best? Am I being selfish when I say that all I care is that it works, and that there will be a company around next year to support it?
And please, spare me the php speech. I don't know why, but I'm just don't like it. It reminds me of Perl, and if I never write Perl again, it will be too soon.
Bottom line is that they are just trying to resell the same product with new control panels that allows the average idiot to set a few more registry settings. They need to rethink the registry, and replace it with a simplier, more secure system.
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An interesting move would be if google just bought eBay, although the feds would probably block the deal. Google could make the site faster, cheaper and easier to use.
Hopefully the move will result in a better eBay and another place to sell/buy our useless crap.
Seeing how much porn is on the Internet, and assuming Internet porn addicts have fun with it, I am suprized to hear that only 33% of the US surfers use the internet for fun
Thank you! It suprised me when reading these threads to see how often we forget that a company's real motivation is the bottom line. And we all know that the bottom line is money.
With their unrelenting policy changes, is seems that the RIAA's main objective is to keep people in constant fear of breaking the law.
While this "research" may be hysterical, we shouldn't laugh it off. If the RIAA keeps bombarding the media with this garbage, many people will take it at face value. When you toss in the fact that many television news networks' parent companies own a major label or two, we could wind up with a very calculated campaign of mass deception.
This is disguised as a way for parents to spy on their kids, when the RIAA and friends are really using parents (or employers perhaps?) as pawns for their own spy attacks. Talk about spyware, this thing is the king of them all! I sincerely hope that Adaware and other spyware removal apps objectively look at this and add it to their lists. This thing needs to be exposed for what it truly is: a privacy invasion on multiple fronts.
Nothing is totally impossible.
They are just trying to get something for nothing, and they have a deadline. They obviously need to get this done quickly, and cannot afford to pay a developer team to write it.
Do they really think anyone in the open source community will be their personal slave for a few thousand dollars? Nice try, but anyone talented and fast enough to write this thing in 15 days doesn't need their money.
I agree. We always defining and redefining which words are considered "bad" or "curses." Bottom line is that words are just that... words. Consider the person who says "Gosh Darn It?" which I think we can all agree is far from a swear. Is this just because they aren't using "God" or "Damn?" What if they are thinking "God" and saying "Gosh?" Did the team of scientists consider this scenerio when computing their statistics?
I can't wait until the day comes when I can send someone an instant electric shock through the internet.
I've been running a small independent label for 6 years. From the sound of it, the reason your brother's band is thinking about an alternative to the small indie label because their last release didn't sell or even get into stores. But, perhaps they should take a closer look at the reasons why instead of just trying to put a band-aid on the situation.
Self-releasing a CD, whether digitally or through a place like CDBaby, will not fix the problem. These days, there's a million bands out there all pushing their music on the P2P networks, on sites like Interpunk (local section), and myspace. Changing their M.O. won't change the final outcome.
They need to start seeing fans as friends. Can a person really call all 1250 "friends" on their myspace site friends, let alone fans? To make real fans, the band needs go out and spend the time getting to know them personally. I'm not saying you can't do this online, but nothing beats meeting someone in real life.
What to know how to make fans? Get out and find them. You can play shows, or if that's a problem, try parking the van in a teenage hangout and talk to the kids. Play your music for them. Give them a burned CD to take away, along with stickers and a good conversation. Those people will tell their friends about you, and nothing beats word of mouth.
Sounds like a lot of work doesn't it? Well, it is. But rest assured that that kind of promotion will lead to a real dedicated following of people who will buy all your CDs, merchandise and anything else.
They display your account balance in Euros.
Maybe they are taking a hint from Google with releasing products as beta. I understand a news search being released as beta, but a file system (or filesyste add-on) ?? . This way they can escape any responsibility for the thing if it compromises systems, causes data loss or sucks in any other way.
This sounds a bit like a stroke of good luck, or just good timing (depending when in 2000 you got the new job). If memory serves, programmers and systems people jobs were a dime a dozen most of that year. What I'd like to know is if anyone has had this type of experience after 2000, and more specifically after 9/11
RIP man. Your character continues to inspire me to make the impossible possible
Perhaps it's my impatience, but Firefox seems to launch slower w/each update. Sometimes it takes up to 3 or 4 minutes. It's not necessarily the extensions . On 3 similar machines, one with 14 ext, another w/none and another w/ 3, Firefox launches slow on all.
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Software: Win 2003 Standard, OSX 10.3.9
I got sucked into the whole Java "write once, run anywhere," back in 1996 only to find out that it was "write once, debug (or should be re-write) everywhere." Now you just have the "Java Platform," which really isn't much different from any other platform. What a nightmare.
Moving forward and wanting to get away from Cold Fusion development for the web, I must say that C#/.NET infrastructure looks very appealing. The programming IDE is nice, and the language/classes look very easy to get started with. So what if it's platform dependent? My servers are on Windows boxes and they run great. It's not like people running UNIX or Macs cannot view web programs written with .NET technology.
Is this whole thing really about Linux/Unix is cool and Windows is not? Give it up! We're talking about computers and operating systems! Who cares what color your iMac is or what flavor of UNIX is the best? Am I being selfish when I say that all I care is that it works, and that there will be a company around next year to support it?
And please, spare me the php speech. I don't know why, but I'm just don't like it. It reminds me of Perl, and if I never write Perl again, it will be too soon.
Bottom line is that they are just trying to resell the same product with new control panels that allows the average idiot to set a few more registry settings. They need to rethink the registry, and replace it with a simplier, more secure system.