I saw a post on some site recently about how Motorola spent $100 on DROID ads per sale in the first couple weeks. Are you sure a single user isn't worth $150? Hell, you could probably make that back in a couple months, with smart targeting.
If advertisers had access to a single user's entire computer, they could orchestrate entire rich campaigns alongside your content and workflow. Don't forget, ads pay for TV, and that shit's expensive. A car company, for instance, would probably gladly pay $150 for the opportunity to gradually present the case for a car or line of cars to a single user - show feature comparisons, pictures, testimonials, reviews, dynamically updated content; track a single campaign for a specific user to make sure it's always fresh. You would have the unique opportunity to deliver a compelling and truly targeted campaign. And then you just jack the price of the car up $50 to offset costs. Assuming even a modest success rate, that pays for itself pretty quickly.
Same goes for cell providers and the like. What if Comcast could pay for your laptop in exchange for guaranteed exclusivity (your laptop will never display Verizon ads or Qwest ads or Dish ads) and the opportunity to continually advertise their best deals, upgrade packages, etc? Hell, they could sell existing users on a new channel or two and pay for the laptop in a year.
I keep hearing people dismissing this, but if it were done tactfully, the opportunity is definitely there. You could even attach these netbooks to premium goods like TVs, cars, or subscriptions as a "bonus" to increase brand loyalty. You buy a Prius, and Toyota subsidizes your "free" Prius netbook which has all kinds of nerdy green hippie widgets, wallpapers, etc. Direct ROI might be hard to measure, but you can bet Toyota would love if everyone who drove a Prius appeared to love it so much that their wallpaper was a Prius wallpaper, their laptop had a Prius tattoo, etc...
The business model is solid. The execution has never been pulled off before. This needs the technology behind Google as well as some extremely clever advertisers and branding experts to make sure the entire package, from lid design to the desktop wallpaper, is simultaneously stylish and an advertisement. There are plenty of companies who have high enough prices and high enough margins that $150 is worth it to make a sale. Hell, it's cheaper than telemarketing.
From that page... "that the bombing was the first time the public in Allied countries seriously questioned the military actions used to defeat the Nazis."
We were bitched at internationally then, too. That bombing probably didn't alter the outcome of the war or save 25,000 Allied lives to match the 25,000 of their lives we took.
Maybe it's good that we don't have the "stomach" to act on primal vengeance in quite that capacity, though I think you'd be surprised if the situation came up again.
I think the Pre has been dead in the water for quite some time now. The buzz pretty much collapsed on review day. My hopes are higher for the Droid based on software and build quality, though...
I don't mean to come across as saying we should all pity the poor airline pilots - they chose their profession, and many of them did it because they had a unique skillset and the fortune of opportunity (pilot training from military, family, etc.), and are stickign through the tedious to get to the fantastically overpaid. I think the system is stupid, but that's why I didn't choose to go beyond my private pilot license.
Just pointing out that it's entirely plausible to suppose pilots without seniority would be begrudgingly arguing over a new pay scale system in-cockpit since they don't have time anywhere else. Not defensible, but plausible.
What you need to get is that to make Senior Captain, you need seniority. Not skill, experience, recommendations, or flight time. 100% seniority. And if you ever are laid off and change airlines, you start over at the bottom of the paygrade. So yes, some old guys make a shit-ton of money, but it's next to impossible to break into the industry, military or not, because everyone else (cargo pilots, regional airline pilots, corporate pilots) are paid very little considering the debt, demands of the schedule, and impossibility of finding a second job if you ever fail a checkride.
You can disable location services on the phone (or even just the "Find my iPhone" feature), at which point MobileMe doesn't work. Alternatively, they could have just turned the phones off.
You know, that's a damn solid point, and I retract my post. Where it gets shady is if you are one of the many who makes out to his wife like everything is in the clear, and won't face up to the fact that it's not. But if, as you suggest, both partners are clear that it's not "all-in" as far as disclosure goes, fine.
I personally think that's a shitty way to live (it's nice to be all-in with someone, but to each his own.
I'm fully aware of that. I didn't say that it's in beta, I just pointed out that it's very definitively at the "you have to care to get it" stage. It certainly didn't come preinstalled on his Dell.
Enables you to: - Feel self righteous - Spend most of your time configuring bullshit
Restricts you from: - Running anything supported by any work environment ever - Most niche computing scenarios (tablets? accessibility? professional production software?) - "Those stupid games" - "Those stupid industry-standard productivity suites" - Owning a computer that your family, friends, roommates can use - Interacting responsibly with the modern realities of digital entertainment (as in, legitimately purchasing media and games)
Look, I've had systems based on everything from Red Hat in high school to Sabayon and Ubuntu in college. I own two MacBooks, I've built countless PCs running everything from ME to W7. I love Linux for what it is, but what it isn't is perfectly clear. It isn't "designed to enable" you to do jack shit unless you are a developer, have tons of free time, or are a total ideologue. Nothing has ever been more convenient under Linux than it is under appropriate consumer software.
I want free software to succeed and thrive, but what that requires is that people stop this vapid pulpit bullshit every time a consumer OS does something less-than-perfect. You know what regular people think of Linux people as? A slightly nerdier version of that guy in the camo pants with the beard and a "THE END IS NEAR" sign outside the office. Nobody cares until you have something useful.
Apple didn't "drop" sync support for it through iTunes. Palm tried to sneak support in by spoofing an iPod vendor ID, which Apple undid. Nothing about iTunes gives competitors the right to use it as a selling point for their phones.
I think it's pretty shitty of Apple to refuse to play nice, but it's not like Palm didn't have it coming when they tried to pass off a pasted-on hack as some kind of official feature.
Trust issues much? I haven't used a non-shared password on a home computer since I left a dorm. My wife knows every password I have, and so do some trusted friends.
The old adage that social engineering is the best security hole in the world goes both ways; a little bit of trust is a hell of a lot better than a lifetime of looking over your shoulder. If you're afraid of your wife seeing things, maybe you should (a) not do those things, or (b) talk to your wife about why you think it shouldn't be a problem, or (c) remain single. Hiding shit is not a good long-term plan.
It's a matter of prosecutorial efficiency. They want to get you with the charge, but they know that if they can't, they might at least get you with conspiracy because you tried (or took some concrete step towards trying).
Rather than losing the first charge and then trying to get you on conspiracy, they just throw the whole book at you and see what the jury is willing to give them.
No, that's like awarding a sentence for "attempted" murder.
Or should we always wait until irreversible damage is done before we prosecute criminals? You'll find that every legal jurisdiction in the world has some concept of conspiracy culpability.
The requirements for a successful "conspiracy" conviction are pretty demanding. Go browse your local law library and read the chapter on "inchoate" crimes. It should give you an idea of (a) the necessity for such a system and (b) how relatively reasonable the rules actually are.
Head into a cat adoption center in the springtime and tell me most domesticated cats are neutered. There are alarming amounts of "homeless" cats and kittens.
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I saw a post on some site recently about how Motorola spent $100 on DROID ads per sale in the first couple weeks. Are you sure a single user isn't worth $150? Hell, you could probably make that back in a couple months, with smart targeting.
If advertisers had access to a single user's entire computer, they could orchestrate entire rich campaigns alongside your content and workflow. Don't forget, ads pay for TV, and that shit's expensive. A car company, for instance, would probably gladly pay $150 for the opportunity to gradually present the case for a car or line of cars to a single user - show feature comparisons, pictures, testimonials, reviews, dynamically updated content; track a single campaign for a specific user to make sure it's always fresh. You would have the unique opportunity to deliver a compelling and truly targeted campaign. And then you just jack the price of the car up $50 to offset costs. Assuming even a modest success rate, that pays for itself pretty quickly.
Same goes for cell providers and the like. What if Comcast could pay for your laptop in exchange for guaranteed exclusivity (your laptop will never display Verizon ads or Qwest ads or Dish ads) and the opportunity to continually advertise their best deals, upgrade packages, etc? Hell, they could sell existing users on a new channel or two and pay for the laptop in a year.
I keep hearing people dismissing this, but if it were done tactfully, the opportunity is definitely there. You could even attach these netbooks to premium goods like TVs, cars, or subscriptions as a "bonus" to increase brand loyalty. You buy a Prius, and Toyota subsidizes your "free" Prius netbook which has all kinds of nerdy green hippie widgets, wallpapers, etc. Direct ROI might be hard to measure, but you can bet Toyota would love if everyone who drove a Prius appeared to love it so much that their wallpaper was a Prius wallpaper, their laptop had a Prius tattoo, etc...
The business model is solid. The execution has never been pulled off before. This needs the technology behind Google as well as some extremely clever advertisers and branding experts to make sure the entire package, from lid design to the desktop wallpaper, is simultaneously stylish and an advertisement. There are plenty of companies who have high enough prices and high enough margins that $150 is worth it to make a sale. Hell, it's cheaper than telemarketing.
From that page... "that the bombing was the first time the public in Allied countries seriously questioned the military actions used to defeat the Nazis."
We were bitched at internationally then, too. That bombing probably didn't alter the outcome of the war or save 25,000 Allied lives to match the 25,000 of their lives we took.
Maybe it's good that we don't have the "stomach" to act on primal vengeance in quite that capacity, though I think you'd be surprised if the situation came up again.
I think the Pre has been dead in the water for quite some time now. The buzz pretty much collapsed on review day. My hopes are higher for the Droid based on software and build quality, though...
Litigation is a business strategy.
I don't mean to come across as saying we should all pity the poor airline pilots - they chose their profession, and many of them did it because they had a unique skillset and the fortune of opportunity (pilot training from military, family, etc.), and are stickign through the tedious to get to the fantastically overpaid. I think the system is stupid, but that's why I didn't choose to go beyond my private pilot license.
Just pointing out that it's entirely plausible to suppose pilots without seniority would be begrudgingly arguing over a new pay scale system in-cockpit since they don't have time anywhere else. Not defensible, but plausible.
What you need to get is that to make Senior Captain, you need seniority. Not skill, experience, recommendations, or flight time. 100% seniority. And if you ever are laid off and change airlines, you start over at the bottom of the paygrade. So yes, some old guys make a shit-ton of money, but it's next to impossible to break into the industry, military or not, because everyone else (cargo pilots, regional airline pilots, corporate pilots) are paid very little considering the debt, demands of the schedule, and impossibility of finding a second job if you ever fail a checkride.
You can disable location services on the phone (or even just the "Find my iPhone" feature), at which point MobileMe doesn't work. Alternatively, they could have just turned the phones off.
You know, that's a damn solid point, and I retract my post. Where it gets shady is if you are one of the many who makes out to his wife like everything is in the clear, and won't face up to the fact that it's not. But if, as you suggest, both partners are clear that it's not "all-in" as far as disclosure goes, fine.
I personally think that's a shitty way to live (it's nice to be all-in with someone, but to each his own.
I'm fully aware of that. I didn't say that it's in beta, I just pointed out that it's very definitively at the "you have to care to get it" stage. It certainly didn't come preinstalled on his Dell.
Enables you to:
- Feel self righteous
- Spend most of your time configuring bullshit
Restricts you from:
- Running anything supported by any work environment ever
- Most niche computing scenarios (tablets? accessibility? professional production software?)
- "Those stupid games"
- "Those stupid industry-standard productivity suites"
- Owning a computer that your family, friends, roommates can use
- Interacting responsibly with the modern realities of digital entertainment (as in, legitimately purchasing media and games)
Look, I've had systems based on everything from Red Hat in high school to Sabayon and Ubuntu in college. I own two MacBooks, I've built countless PCs running everything from ME to W7. I love Linux for what it is, but what it isn't is perfectly clear. It isn't "designed to enable" you to do jack shit unless you are a developer, have tons of free time, or are a total ideologue. Nothing has ever been more convenient under Linux than it is under appropriate consumer software.
I want free software to succeed and thrive, but what that requires is that people stop this vapid pulpit bullshit every time a consumer OS does something less-than-perfect. You know what regular people think of Linux people as? A slightly nerdier version of that guy in the camo pants with the beard and a "THE END IS NEAR" sign outside the office. Nobody cares until you have something useful.
Apple didn't "drop" sync support for it through iTunes. Palm tried to sneak support in by spoofing an iPod vendor ID, which Apple undid. Nothing about iTunes gives competitors the right to use it as a selling point for their phones.
I think it's pretty shitty of Apple to refuse to play nice, but it's not like Palm didn't have it coming when they tried to pass off a pasted-on hack as some kind of official feature.
One wonders why you have been running it with such apparent fervor (it's not out yet, nobody's making you...).
Trust issues much? I haven't used a non-shared password on a home computer since I left a dorm. My wife knows every password I have, and so do some trusted friends.
The old adage that social engineering is the best security hole in the world goes both ways; a little bit of trust is a hell of a lot better than a lifetime of looking over your shoulder. If you're afraid of your wife seeing things, maybe you should (a) not do those things, or (b) talk to your wife about why you think it shouldn't be a problem, or (c) remain single. Hiding shit is not a good long-term plan.
Someone mod this gentleman up. The entire premise of TFS is flawed; words, by design, suggest a single meaning. Numbers, by design, do not.
Beat me to it. But seriously, guys.
Not enough minerals!
Additional supply depots required!
In fact, there's the F18 to replace pretty much that entire list.
It's a matter of prosecutorial efficiency. They want to get you with the charge, but they know that if they can't, they might at least get you with conspiracy because you tried (or took some concrete step towards trying).
Rather than losing the first charge and then trying to get you on conspiracy, they just throw the whole book at you and see what the jury is willing to give them.
No, that's like awarding a sentence for "attempted" murder.
Or should we always wait until irreversible damage is done before we prosecute criminals? You'll find that every legal jurisdiction in the world has some concept of conspiracy culpability.
The requirements for a successful "conspiracy" conviction are pretty demanding. Go browse your local law library and read the chapter on "inchoate" crimes. It should give you an idea of (a) the necessity for such a system and (b) how relatively reasonable the rules actually are.
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I'm stepping through the door...
Tom
Head into a cat adoption center in the springtime and tell me most domesticated cats are neutered. There are alarming amounts of "homeless" cats and kittens.
I don't know, the "owner as mother" theory goes a lot farther towards explaining why both my cats always try to suckle at my armpit.
That's what I was thinking the entire time.
Your username is LinuxOverWindows, your UID is 1549895, and you can't use basic grammar and mechanics. You have no credibility. Try again later.