when I look at the value of Google and Facebook, who might provide slightly better ways to convince people to buy your product
I don't think it's to do with convincing so much as just number of eyeballs. I don't have stats, but Google and Facebook are some of the top visited websites - probably actually the top two websites visited today.
If I didn't have adblock, then most of the ads I see would be from Facebook. Considering I don't watch TV or listen to the radio, the only other ads I'd really see are the ones before movies.
And actually, on my phone, which I'm starting to use more and more, I don't have adblock, so I have seen a couple of ads on Facebook there (I tend to use the actual website rather than the Facebook app). Of course, the ads don't really interest me anyway. I know what I want, and whether I'm going to buy it or not. Mostly movies, music, and games. I'm not sure if I've ever bought anything from a clickable ad on a website. Viral marketing is a better way to go IMO. Create a useful or fun product, create a bit of buzz around it, and people will buy it. Word of mouth is much more valuable when deciding whether to buy a product. Though of course everyone is different, so what might be great for one person is not for another.
He's probably not smart enough for that. He's a troll who must have felt grievously offended at the real MK for some reason and now posts all this bullshit to discredit the real account. I'm guessing some of the cut and paste stuff was originally said by the real MK too.
Yes. I consider being a hypocrite worse than being a douche or even a criminal. Not that they're mutually exclusive.
It's confusing now because I may be being a hypocrite by "illegally" downloading music, but I may also be being a hypocrite by buying it if that endorses their actions, and especially if the music I'm buying isn't even legally licensed. FFS.
I wish all bands just released their music online through sites like Bandcamp. It would mean much more money for the artists, and cut out all the bullshit in the middle.
Not until Intel provide some real low power CPU options. And if nVidia just license out their patents to some other company that creates the actual ARM/nVidia chips then that should avoid Intel getting their grubby mits on it surely?
It seems that you don't have much experience of what we call "the real world". Browsers are easily interchangeable.
Email clients and messenger programs, slightly more awkward but still possible sure. I use either Thunderbird or Evolution myself, but they both have issues with Exchange server.
And the rest of those over Photoshop and MS Office? Again technically possible (and again I use both of these myself), but good luck doing it in practice in a real business. It's often just not worth even trying, though I do reconsider it from time to time of course.
Android OS was never designed for tablets and Google has admitted so, leaving the need for "something" to compete with iPads down the road.
Obviously not an important point to quibble, but the iPad runs iOS, which was designed for phones too.. and I like Android fine on my Dell Streak (which is basically halfway between a phone and a tablet). I think it would run fine on a tablet. It's certainly better than Windows, and I would expect on a par with iOS.
I've had very little experience with iOS, but I found its lack of a "back" button to be extremely annoying. I think that's one of the nicest features of Android, being able to go back not just in browser pages, but across whole applications.
"It is absolutely wrong" isn't exactly an argument, it sounds more like a learned belief or an opinion.
Why is it wrong? I'd rather have a discussion than just have people spout what they think. I used to believe it was wrong too, but after thinking about it I couldn't see much reason not to store passwords in a more accessible format.
For example do you also think that users should never write down their passwords, even if there is a strong password policy in place and the passwords change regularly? I remember some interesting discussions on this over the years, and I think it's fine for people to store their passwords in their wallet for example.
OP was joking. I didn't get it at first, of course. Sometimes when the reply to a joke post takes it seriously I can't help taking it seriously too, though usually I catch them and wonder how those who missed it can be so dumb.
No, I meant logical. I was thinking of life from the smallest organism up to us. Life is selfish. I don't have to kill my neighbour to survive. I probably would if I had to though. It's better for most of us to leave our neighbours alive to help out the economy, phone the emergency services if there's a fire, etc.
Selfishness is doing what is best for yourself. I said life is a selfish competition, and it is true. Any branch of life that doesn't look out for its own interests will die off pretty quick. You're thinking it from a far too individual point of view. Sexual reproduction is not "unselfish", because it perpetuates life. If life can't perpetuate itself, it's no longer life. 'Self' in the case of life is the an organic system that can reproduce and perpetuate itself via use of external energy, rather than giving in to entropy and failing like every other chemical reaction eventually does.
I don't think of life like that from day to day of course, but when you get down to things like eating, that's exactly what it is. Larger organisms have to eat other living things to survive, there's no way around it.
Thinking about it now, the original post I replied to was making an anti-joke by saying the opposite of what a lot of vegetarians would say, it was quite funny. Guess I hadn't woken up yet.
For root passwords that's fine, but what about things like logins on various websites, and various services? I'm thinking a KeePassX database after someone else mentioned it. We're a small-medium engineering firm. Data security is of course important, but I don't get why storing passwords on the network is such a bad idea. If someone can get into a share that only the Administrators group has access to, they can access basically all of our other important data as well. With further login details they could of course cause us some trouble, but I'd be a lot more wary of people quietly syphoning off data rather than trying to cause any real trouble. Someone who can quietly get access to our data over long periods of time is in a much better position to gain than someone who is blowing stuff up for shits and giggles.
Hopefully. I heard that Linux was getting pretty usable on PS3 compared to when I first tried it, so it would be worth my while trying it again.
Turns out that 3.21 was in fact the first version which had Other OS removed, so I'm not entirely sure what's going on here. I CBA RTFA though. If they ever come out with it for the latest firmware then I'll have a look, but in the meantime I like being on PSN too much. And my netbook and phone already run Linux..
I keep a log of usernames and passwords for everything in a file in a shared area accessible only by Administrators. A couple of directors have access to it, and one other IT guy.
Not really. It's fun to think I could do anything I wanted, but I don't want to. I like my job, I like the people I work with, I don't want to screw them over. It's nice to have an employer that trusts you too. If I wasn't trusted, I would probably just leave. If they want me to be able to administer and troubleshoot everything, I obviously need full access.
I can imagine a lot of people wanting to vote to get rid of (or at least severely reduce) taxes for example, and if they didn't correct that quickly then it could cause the country to fall apart as emergency services lacked funds or went on strike, etc, and that could lead to anarchy.
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when I look at the value of Google and Facebook, who might provide slightly better ways to convince people to buy your product
I don't think it's to do with convincing so much as just number of eyeballs. I don't have stats, but Google and Facebook are some of the top visited websites - probably actually the top two websites visited today.
If I didn't have adblock, then most of the ads I see would be from Facebook. Considering I don't watch TV or listen to the radio, the only other ads I'd really see are the ones before movies.
And actually, on my phone, which I'm starting to use more and more, I don't have adblock, so I have seen a couple of ads on Facebook there (I tend to use the actual website rather than the Facebook app). Of course, the ads don't really interest me anyway. I know what I want, and whether I'm going to buy it or not. Mostly movies, music, and games. I'm not sure if I've ever bought anything from a clickable ad on a website. Viral marketing is a better way to go IMO. Create a useful or fun product, create a bit of buzz around it, and people will buy it. Word of mouth is much more valuable when deciding whether to buy a product. Though of course everyone is different, so what might be great for one person is not for another.
If you know what KDE is, the headline should have parsed correctly.
Neither were the rest of us, for that matter.
He's probably not smart enough for that. He's a troll who must have felt grievously offended at the real MK for some reason and now posts all this bullshit to discredit the real account. I'm guessing some of the cut and paste stuff was originally said by the real MK too.
Hello, this is the news at 10. In headlines tonight: an enormously large object squashes a rich person.
Something makes me think that you don't really believe the quote in your signature.
Yes. I consider being a hypocrite worse than being a douche or even a criminal. Not that they're mutually exclusive.
It's confusing now because I may be being a hypocrite by "illegally" downloading music, but I may also be being a hypocrite by buying it if that endorses their actions, and especially if the music I'm buying isn't even legally licensed. FFS.
I wish all bands just released their music online through sites like Bandcamp. It would mean much more money for the artists, and cut out all the bullshit in the middle.
Not until Intel provide some real low power CPU options. And if nVidia just license out their patents to some other company that creates the actual ARM/nVidia chips then that should avoid Intel getting their grubby mits on it surely?
It seems that you don't have much experience of what we call "the real world". Browsers are easily interchangeable.
Email clients and messenger programs, slightly more awkward but still possible sure. I use either Thunderbird or Evolution myself, but they both have issues with Exchange server.
And the rest of those over Photoshop and MS Office? Again technically possible (and again I use both of these myself), but good luck doing it in practice in a real business. It's often just not worth even trying, though I do reconsider it from time to time of course.
Android OS was never designed for tablets and Google has admitted so, leaving the need for "something" to compete with iPads down the road.
Obviously not an important point to quibble, but the iPad runs iOS, which was designed for phones too.. and I like Android fine on my Dell Streak (which is basically halfway between a phone and a tablet). I think it would run fine on a tablet. It's certainly better than Windows, and I would expect on a par with iOS.
I've had very little experience with iOS, but I found its lack of a "back" button to be extremely annoying. I think that's one of the nicest features of Android, being able to go back not just in browser pages, but across whole applications.
Well, what might only create one or two antiprotons in the US can actually create a whole beam of them in Europe, because of unit conversion.
"It is absolutely wrong" isn't exactly an argument, it sounds more like a learned belief or an opinion.
Why is it wrong? I'd rather have a discussion than just have people spout what they think. I used to believe it was wrong too, but after thinking about it I couldn't see much reason not to store passwords in a more accessible format.
For example do you also think that users should never write down their passwords, even if there is a strong password policy in place and the passwords change regularly? I remember some interesting discussions on this over the years, and I think it's fine for people to store their passwords in their wallet for example.
Good point.
I currently buy all my music legally.
This is making me reconsider, at least when buying music published by these douchebags.
OP was joking. I didn't get it at first, of course. Sometimes when the reply to a joke post takes it seriously I can't help taking it seriously too, though usually I catch them and wonder how those who missed it can be so dumb.
No, I meant logical. I was thinking of life from the smallest organism up to us. Life is selfish. I don't have to kill my neighbour to survive. I probably would if I had to though. It's better for most of us to leave our neighbours alive to help out the economy, phone the emergency services if there's a fire, etc.
Selfishness is doing what is best for yourself. I said life is a selfish competition, and it is true. Any branch of life that doesn't look out for its own interests will die off pretty quick. You're thinking it from a far too individual point of view. Sexual reproduction is not "unselfish", because it perpetuates life. If life can't perpetuate itself, it's no longer life. 'Self' in the case of life is the an organic system that can reproduce and perpetuate itself via use of external energy, rather than giving in to entropy and failing like every other chemical reaction eventually does.
Sorry, I didn't even notice the joke until I started thinking about typical vegetarian viewpoints, I was a bit distracted earlier. Well played :)
I don't think of life like that from day to day of course, but when you get down to things like eating, that's exactly what it is. Larger organisms have to eat other living things to survive, there's no way around it.
Thinking about it now, the original post I replied to was making an anti-joke by saying the opposite of what a lot of vegetarians would say, it was quite funny. Guess I hadn't woken up yet.
For root passwords that's fine, but what about things like logins on various websites, and various services? I'm thinking a KeePassX database after someone else mentioned it. We're a small-medium engineering firm. Data security is of course important, but I don't get why storing passwords on the network is such a bad idea. If someone can get into a share that only the Administrators group has access to, they can access basically all of our other important data as well. With further login details they could of course cause us some trouble, but I'd be a lot more wary of people quietly syphoning off data rather than trying to cause any real trouble. Someone who can quietly get access to our data over long periods of time is in a much better position to gain than someone who is blowing stuff up for shits and giggles.
What would your ideal solution be? I suppose a printout would be okay.
Hopefully. I heard that Linux was getting pretty usable on PS3 compared to when I first tried it, so it would be worth my while trying it again.
Turns out that 3.21 was in fact the first version which had Other OS removed, so I'm not entirely sure what's going on here. I CBA RTFA though. If they ever come out with it for the latest firmware then I'll have a look, but in the meantime I like being on PSN too much. And my netbook and phone already run Linux..
Perhaps a stupid question, but if you're in the Administratos group, can't you change the Administrator password anyway?
Probably he's changed the security permissions for that account, I just am interested!
I keep a log of usernames and passwords for everything in a file in a shared area accessible only by Administrators. A couple of directors have access to it, and one other IT guy.
Not really. It's fun to think I could do anything I wanted, but I don't want to. I like my job, I like the people I work with, I don't want to screw them over. It's nice to have an employer that trusts you too. If I wasn't trusted, I would probably just leave. If they want me to be able to administer and troubleshoot everything, I obviously need full access.
rue democracy is just once step away from anarchy
I was thinking something similar earlier.
I can imagine a lot of people wanting to vote to get rid of (or at least severely reduce) taxes for example, and if they didn't correct that quickly then it could cause the country to fall apart as emergency services lacked funds or went on strike, etc, and that could lead to anarchy.
The important part of what he said was:
Sony Playstation 3 Fat, firmware version 3.21
ie, you can only get this through the "Other OS" function, which has been able to run Linux all along. The summary was updated to include this fact.