yup, free like MIT free: opencourseware
Actually, it is really great. Some of the MIT courses have videos of the lectures. Have a look at the video lectures in Professor Lewin's Physics I course of 1999--pretty entertaining stuff!
True. I have never seen the value of AOL once broadband became fairly saturated. (I know only one person that still has dialup, and he is on aol) Eventually, AOL will be worthless...but for now, they seem to have a lot of pull in the market. You are correct in saying that the grey dollar is important, but that dollar will only last about 10 years, along with aol.
funny you should ask: skypes rates for calls to land lines and cell phones are $.02/min. That's not just to north america, but most of europe, australia, and a few other places as well. Not only is it cheap, but the sound quality is better than phone lines. (way better than cell phones)
(not to be a skype fanboy, but he/she asked, and I'm just giving an answer)
Yeah, flip them the bird...but that's really all you can do. But that stuff about respect is off base, because he was the one who gave notice. It says nothing about how he was treated while on the job. IT professionals have a lot of responsibility and a lot of power, and can seriously f-up a company with a few clicks. Any sane employer doesn't want that to happen.
The lesson is: give a month notice next time, and hope they will do the same thing. I'd rather have a month's severance than 2 weeks.
Theft is something that the big box stores build into their margins. For example, they know that some percentage (surprisingly large) will walk out the door, either in customer's or employee's hands (i call it shrinkage). They will price their products that much higher to make up for the loss. Usually, they dont spend that much on theft deterrance, because it really is a loosing battle, and they risk alienating their real customers.
So, the moral of the story is: if you must steal, steal from the big box stores because they have already accounted for you.
That's the point: specific advertising can not be tracked directly to sales. Online ads are probably just as effective as tv ads, billboards, radio... It just has to do with the number of impressions each ad gets, not the number of people who see the ads buy the product.
right on. Not to start a flame, but I've been keeping my mouth shut about halo, but I really don't see it as f-ing amazing.
Anyway, the CNN review doesn't really get the point of a hyped-up release. Of course the games aren't going to be great yet. The developers haven't really had the chance to see what the 360 can do, let alone code for it. Therefore, the games are going to be like xbox 1.5, but the idea is that the 360 is a new piece of hardware, and everyone who calls themselves a gamer has to get one in order to brag to his friends at work about it.
It doesn't matter if is a revolutionary step or not, its new and thats enough.
" NBC makes $0.00 if you record with MythTV NBC makes $0.99 if you buy/rent/beg for it the next day " Actually, NBC makes ~$0.39 if you record with mythtv, through advertising, which is who should be paying for the content, NOT consumers.
You guys don't get it. Advertisements are here to stay, so why bother with seeing ads for stuff you aren't going to buy? Also, your life is _not_ private. If you are on the internet, or have a bank account, or have windows in your house, people can see what you are doing.
People have to stop thinking of Google as an evil empire trying to steal our souls, and start looking at it as a way to fund tecnological advances. Because, when advertisements are more effective, companies pay more for them, so we as consumers can pay less for our media.
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yup, free like MIT free: opencourseware Actually, it is really great. Some of the MIT courses have videos of the lectures. Have a look at the video lectures in Professor Lewin's Physics I course of 1999--pretty entertaining stuff!
True. I have never seen the value of AOL once broadband became fairly saturated. (I know only one person that still has dialup, and he is on aol) Eventually, AOL will be worthless...but for now, they seem to have a lot of pull in the market. You are correct in saying that the grey dollar is important, but that dollar will only last about 10 years, along with aol.
funny you should ask: skypes rates for calls to land lines and cell phones are $.02/min. That's not just to north america, but most of europe, australia, and a few other places as well. Not only is it cheap, but the sound quality is better than phone lines. (way better than cell phones)
(not to be a skype fanboy, but he/she asked, and I'm just giving an answer)
Yeah, flip them the bird...but that's really all you can do. But that stuff about respect is off base, because he was the one who gave notice. It says nothing about how he was treated while on the job. IT professionals have a lot of responsibility and a lot of power, and can seriously f-up a company with a few clicks. Any sane employer doesn't want that to happen.
The lesson is: give a month notice next time, and hope they will do the same thing. I'd rather have a month's severance than 2 weeks.
Theft is something that the big box stores build into their margins. For example, they know that some percentage (surprisingly large) will walk out the door, either in customer's or employee's hands (i call it shrinkage). They will price their products that much higher to make up for the loss. Usually, they dont spend that much on theft deterrance, because it really is a loosing battle, and they risk alienating their real customers.
So, the moral of the story is: if you must steal, steal from the big box stores because they have already accounted for you.
That's the point: specific advertising can not be tracked directly to sales. Online ads are probably just as effective as tv ads, billboards, radio... It just has to do with the number of impressions each ad gets, not the number of people who see the ads buy the product.
right on. Not to start a flame, but I've been keeping my mouth shut about halo, but I really don't see it as f-ing amazing.
Anyway, the CNN review doesn't really get the point of a hyped-up release. Of course the games aren't going to be great yet. The developers haven't really had the chance to see what the 360 can do, let alone code for it. Therefore, the games are going to be like xbox 1.5, but the idea is that the 360 is a new piece of hardware, and everyone who calls themselves a gamer has to get one in order to brag to his friends at work about it.
It doesn't matter if is a revolutionary step or not, its new and thats enough.
"
NBC makes $0.00 if you record with MythTV
NBC makes $0.99 if you buy/rent/beg for it the next day
"
Actually, NBC makes ~$0.39 if you record with mythtv, through advertising, which is who should be paying for the content, NOT consumers.
You guys don't get it. Advertisements are here to stay, so why bother with seeing ads for stuff you aren't going to buy? Also, your life is _not_ private. If you are on the internet, or have a bank account, or have windows in your house, people can see what you are doing. People have to stop thinking of Google as an evil empire trying to steal our souls, and start looking at it as a way to fund tecnological advances. Because, when advertisements are more effective, companies pay more for them, so we as consumers can pay less for our media.