"Most sales people do. They don't hit the pavement and generate sales they expect people to come to them when they are interested in what they are selling. The getting people interested part is driven by marketing/advertising/engineers these days and not sales."
A corollary to this is the adage that the salesperson has to ask five times to get the sale.
Rotten Tomatoes caters to trolls that love to have certain actors, directors, or genres. They also cater to the effete that are above the fray of mere entertainment.
Rotten Tomatoes gets no views form me, and when I see the rating, a low score ensures I will be entertained and go through an extra half bucket of popcorn. the lower the better. I just want to be fascinated, or at least overwhelmed by the spectacle.
Sometimes I agree, such as with La La Land, but sometimes we disagree; Keeping Up With the Joneses was funny enough, and I was entertained.
But, but, the movie industry may not know what is appealing beyond comic-book universes and sex. I know too many who do not care to go to a movie. Reserved seating and recliners are both reducing room size and revenue. Concessions will price people out soon. 4K HD may be good enough for direct-to-home releases. Oh, wait, that's called Netflix. Woops.
I use Feedly also, and Bloglines. So long as I'm choosing my sources, I'll accept the scorn of others for being misinformed. But if you're reading Facebook, Google News, even Yahoo! News, and thinking you're getting comprehensive news sources, you're wrong. And if you're happy with that, you're biased.
Nothing wrong with being biased towards the truth. All else is problematic.
I've walked 5 times in a softball game, and for my troubles got the shortstop to yell at me 'Don't you ever swing?" My answer was "If your pitcher threw me a strike, I would swing". He did not like that. Despite batting.953 that season, he's convinced. We go to extra innings, they strike out (yes, 2 strikeouts, consecutively, hwo do you do that?), and I stand in, single to right field, the runner sprints home. Our seventh championship in a row.
Which of these are trends, which are merely events, which indicate normal processes?
- I don't walk a lot, but I virtually never swing at the first pitch, despite softball being a hitter's game. - Some pitchers cannot pitch to lefties. I do not know why. - Some players complain about everything. They are sometimes not right even twice a day. - If I had not batted in that run, the man behind me in the order would. He batted.996, and hit every ball where he said he would. His bat was illegal, but no one figured it out for 5 or 6 seasons. - Blaming the other team for striking out? That's funny.
- Two Cat 5 hurricanes within days of each other. SO the hurricane nursery out there in the Atlantic was working. I'm looking for the third to appear tomorrow. Past this Friday, anecdotal. Let ti go. - Global Warming evidence is under credible assault, despite the believers' insistence otherwise. The numbers are not accurate, so why are we going to blindly follow these questionable studies, rather than force disclosure? Oh, right, err on the side of caution. So long as it's not your money, sure. - I seem to recall twice, in 2004 and 2005, Florida got hit with Cat 3 hurricanes, terrible. In 1932, 1933, 1961, 2005, and 2007, Cat 5 hurricanes were spawned, though not all made landfall as Cat 5, and not all hit the US. Powerful storms are not common, but not rare either. - September is far aw away the month with the most storm activity in the Atlantic hurricane zone. Multiple storms are more common in September than other months.
If you do not, already, know that your perfect phone exists, and where to buy it, then having Google make one will not fix your inability to scan the market and find it now.
But, to pick a few nits:
- Reasonable size; 5 inches, or 5.5? That's a fairly big stretch. Be specific, or bigger will be better.
- Six years of OS updates is not merely pointless (the OS will grow beyond your phone's capacity in 3 years) but specious. Your battery will not last six years.
- Oh, and a replaceable battery, making the sis year OS update promise feasible.
- Oh, and 3GB RAM MINIMUM, to make your six year OS updates feasible. 4GB really.
- After four years there will only be, at best, three-year-old batteries on the shelf to be purchased. You want one of these?
- If you are serious about GUI and video capabilities, those phones exist right now. Be prepared to buy one from the same site that sells incontinence supplies, but you don't care, you just want the phone.
A Vivo 5 or 5R seems close to what you wanted, sans replaceable battery. Or a Blade V8 Pro. I can do this all morning, your phone exists, just not with the Google logo on it. Or suck it up and go for an iPhone SE, reasonable screen size and a screwdriver almost changes the battery by itself, and the iOS universe isn't quite as bleak as it used to be, since rooting your V8 Pro isn't nearly as much fun as it could be, but then you probably don;t need Android Pay or any enterprise apps, so feh, root on bro.
Full disclosure, I've owned An Oki 123 bag phone, NEC 820, Nokia 5165 (fabulous), Siemens S46 (Satan's personal phone, Sony T637 (way ahead of its time), BlackBerry 7105t, HTC G1, Sensation 4G, M7, M8, Blu R1HD (underrated stopgap phone), and now a U11.
I'm waiting for the foldup phone, not a flip but an actual folding screen. And GB LTE, proximity charging, and wireless cast capability. Walk into the house and my fantasy phone would ask if I want to cast to the nearest screen, charge within a few feet of a proximity charger, and pair up the keyboard/mouse on the countertop, shared with other phones just by me entering my PIN and it's mine for now. Wireless LTE being faster than my ISP, I don't have one. Netflix, etc is my entertainment provider, OTA HD is cast back to my phone and is *the only reason* I have a home ISP, this TV has Tivo/Sling functionality built in, along with PVR and casts to my phone. Apps for work live within this. Voice integration is completed. I can dream.
The PLATO systems were using email, instant messaging, chat rooms, and blogs in the mid 70s (1976 for e-mail).
Along with, not much later, plasma display terminals and minimal graphics, a rudimentary GUI, and all of this getting leveraged not only for instructional courseware but games, games, games... I still play one...
Some of PLATO was shown to some guys from Xerox PARC. They knew what to do. Don Bitzer was so far ahead of the possible technology even money could not have helped. Ayyadurai should be spanked and sent to bed.
Um, asking for the heater down and inside give the catcher a better chance of handling the ball than guessing where that 98mph fastball is going. High in his eyes? Low and outside? Oh, wait, the pitcher changes his mind and it becomes a straight change?
The only pitch you aren't trying to call for anticipated location and speed is the knuckler, and that's a catcher's skill to field.
And if you've watched much baseball, you know what happens when the catcher and pitcher get crossed up. Woops to the backstop.
Baseball is a uniquely strategic game with pitch calls, pitchouts, infield and outfield shifts, throwing behind the runner, stealing bases, bunting (a volume could be written on this, and the Yankees are really, REALLY butthurt that the Red Sox bunted on their lame pitcher last week, exposing his weakness fielding and playing good. fundamental. baseball.), multiple substitutions (except in the AL, where the DH has tarnished the game), delayed steals, hit-and-run, and the rare but always fun decoy plays.
Baseball is so unlike any other game it's remarkable. Soccer and hockey are also unique, soccer less so. American football, Rugby, Aussie Rules, similarities abound. Cricket is like Baseball as Field Hockey is like Ice Hockey.
This argument is naive. Baseball is complex.Very. The pace of the game enhances this, and the rules are actually simple-ish.
However, the current PDF available from mlb.mlb.com, actually doesn't include any text for Rule 3.14 (b) other than:
"The use of any markers on the field that create a tangible reference system on the field is prohibited."
This is Deep Baseball. If there is a game rule prohibiting using electronic devices on the field or in the dugout, but it isn't, as of today, visible nor published.
The iPad deal seems to be a corporate MLB deal, so we may be seeing a corporate rule process where MLB imposes additional rules on the game which are not specified in the Official Baseball Rules. And this 'rule must be an MLB agreement to prevent the use of *unapproved* 'electronic devices' in the dugout or on the field.
But stealing signs has been a 'problem' since the beginning of Major League Baseball. From this story in 2011, "Stealing signs is as old as signal-calling itself. In 1876, the very first year of the National League, opponents of the Hartford Dark Blues claimed the club was somehow using a shack hung off a telegraph pole outside its home park to relay signals."
And, "Decades after the Giants stormed back to win the memorable 1951 NL pennant race, backup catcher Sal Yvars revealed that the team had deployed a clubhouse telescope, an electrician and a buzzer to pass stolen signs to its batters."
Also, "Just last year (2010), after the Rockies spotted a Phillies bullpen coach using binoculars, Colorado accused Philadelphia of stealing signs. Bud Selig downplayed the controversy, saying, "Stealing signs has been around for 100 years," before letting the Phillies off with a reprimand.""
This should be interesting, because the Yankee hate is so palpable, and they are pretty annoyed in New York that they cannot somehow beat the Red Sox. Yay team.
The trick is to guess card numbers, get balances, then write a card with the track 1 days and spend the 'money'. The actual card gets debited, the actual owner is confused, and nobody asks for the CSC CVV2 on a swipe.
Require the CSC or CVV2 for balance requests. THAT is not predictable, so far as I can see.
There are a multitude of reasons why cards have predictable numbering, and none of these are going away. Just use the existing security (CVV2CSC) and let the fraud checking and auth systems do their work.
"Kik also allows developers to publish games and services within the platform, a hook meant to keep users on the app for longer."
Kik *is* a game. And the ICO will be their first virtual currency for use inside the game.
In this context, 'the game' is Kik, using Kik, being interested in Kik, rewards (your credit card company calls these 'loyalty' programs...), and intra-app bonuses/kickbacks/spiffs.
Fun times. But having people buy with Ether is interesting. A kickback there maybe? Or they are using an Ethereum blockchain or contracts?
Anyways, this is essentially a game, with in-game currency and all.
And that has cost some banks money. Let's see if this meets the courts' tests for redlining, and how much they may force AT&T to both build out and actually offer/provide equally capable services to all customers regardless of location... Fining them is not a solution, and being forced to build is a tacit fine, not allowing them to use excessive fees for inadequate services and poor physical plants to subsidize services in apparently more affluent locations.
I've had a G1, Sensation 4G, M7. M8, and now a U11. All superb for their times, the G1 surviving through Android DI think, and since it was released without working Bluetooth or an on-screen keyboard it grew up well. Cyanogenmod did the trick. The Sensation was surprisingly ho-hum, but the M7 on were superb. Apple should have used the M7 design. Sense is indeed the best manufacturer skin. My U11 is really, really nice. Ultimately nothing about the Galaxy S8 was worth $100 more, and the G7 is too late for me.
Battery longevity is big problem, but I see no phones I want with removable batteries. Sad.
HTC could live on if it had more capital, perhaps, but they are trapped in an interesting niche, with Samsung able to hit market with their own new chips early sand capture mindshare.
- Overcharge - Good charging apparatus. - Drain it completely - Good charging apparatus and battery management, as noted in the article. - Puncture - Stop puncturing your powerwall cells, please, just as you don't twist off the natural gas connectors to see want's inside. Darwinian problem. - Overheat - battery management, and a thermostat - Make your own battery with cells you found around, and not use a good controller - yeah, doing it right is pretty much a Darwinian problem.
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"many colleges encourage Econ 101 students to buy (or rent) expensive textbooks, which can cost up to three hundred dollars, or even more"
at the bookstore.
Spell check
Ditto. Double Ditto.
"Most sales people do. They don't hit the pavement and generate sales they expect people to come to them when they are interested in what they are selling. The getting people interested part is driven by marketing/advertising/engineers these days and not sales."
A corollary to this is the adage that the salesperson has to ask five times to get the sale.
Most stop at three.
Which manufacturer?
And, there ya go. Competition.
Rotten Tomatoes caters to trolls that love to have certain actors, directors, or genres. They also cater to the effete that are above the fray of mere entertainment.
Rotten Tomatoes gets no views form me, and when I see the rating, a low score ensures I will be entertained and go through an extra half bucket of popcorn. the lower the better. I just want to be fascinated, or at least overwhelmed by the spectacle.
Sometimes I agree, such as with La La Land, but sometimes we disagree; Keeping Up With the Joneses was funny enough, and I was entertained.
But, but, the movie industry may not know what is appealing beyond comic-book universes and sex. I know too many who do not care to go to a movie. Reserved seating and recliners are both reducing room size and revenue. Concessions will price people out soon. 4K HD may be good enough for direct-to-home releases. Oh, wait, that's called Netflix. Woops.
I use Feedly also, and Bloglines. So long as I'm choosing my sources, I'll accept the scorn of others for being misinformed. But if you're reading Facebook, Google News, even Yahoo! News, and thinking you're getting comprehensive news sources, you're wrong. And if you're happy with that, you're biased.
Nothing wrong with being biased towards the truth. All else is problematic.
Two storms, One week. This is not yet a trend.
I've walked 5 times in a softball game, and for my troubles got the shortstop to yell at me 'Don't you ever swing?" My answer was "If your pitcher threw me a strike, I would swing". He did not like that. Despite batting .953 that season, he's convinced. We go to extra innings, they strike out (yes, 2 strikeouts, consecutively, hwo do you do that?), and I stand in, single to right field, the runner sprints home. Our seventh championship in a row.
Which of these are trends, which are merely events, which indicate normal processes?
- I don't walk a lot, but I virtually never swing at the first pitch, despite softball being a hitter's game. .996, and hit every ball where he said he would. His bat was illegal, but no one figured it out for 5 or 6 seasons.
- Some pitchers cannot pitch to lefties. I do not know why.
- Some players complain about everything. They are sometimes not right even twice a day.
- If I had not batted in that run, the man behind me in the order would. He batted
- Blaming the other team for striking out? That's funny.
- Two Cat 5 hurricanes within days of each other. SO the hurricane nursery out there in the Atlantic was working. I'm looking for the third to appear tomorrow. Past this Friday, anecdotal. Let ti go.
- Global Warming evidence is under credible assault, despite the believers' insistence otherwise. The numbers are not accurate, so why are we going to blindly follow these questionable studies, rather than force disclosure? Oh, right, err on the side of caution. So long as it's not your money, sure.
- I seem to recall twice, in 2004 and 2005, Florida got hit with Cat 3 hurricanes, terrible. In 1932, 1933, 1961, 2005, and 2007, Cat 5 hurricanes were spawned, though not all made landfall as Cat 5, and not all hit the US. Powerful storms are not common, but not rare either.
- September is far aw away the month with the most storm activity in the Atlantic hurricane zone. Multiple storms are more common in September than other months.
Anecdotal. I'm looking for the third storm.
Profit covers over a multitude of mistakes.
If you do not, already, know that your perfect phone exists, and where to buy it, then having Google make one will not fix your inability to scan the market and find it now.
But, to pick a few nits:
- Reasonable size; 5 inches, or 5.5? That's a fairly big stretch. Be specific, or bigger will be better.
- Six years of OS updates is not merely pointless (the OS will grow beyond your phone's capacity in 3 years) but specious. Your battery will not last six years.
- Oh, and a replaceable battery, making the sis year OS update promise feasible.
- Oh, and 3GB RAM MINIMUM, to make your six year OS updates feasible. 4GB really.
- After four years there will only be, at best, three-year-old batteries on the shelf to be purchased. You want one of these?
- If you are serious about GUI and video capabilities, those phones exist right now. Be prepared to buy one from the same site that sells incontinence supplies, but you don't care, you just want the phone.
A Vivo 5 or 5R seems close to what you wanted, sans replaceable battery. Or a Blade V8 Pro. I can do this all morning, your phone exists, just not with the Google logo on it. Or suck it up and go for an iPhone SE, reasonable screen size and a screwdriver almost changes the battery by itself, and the iOS universe isn't quite as bleak as it used to be, since rooting your V8 Pro isn't nearly as much fun as it could be, but then you probably don;t need Android Pay or any enterprise apps, so feh, root on bro.
Full disclosure, I've owned An Oki 123 bag phone, NEC 820, Nokia 5165 (fabulous), Siemens S46 (Satan's personal phone, Sony T637 (way ahead of its time), BlackBerry 7105t, HTC G1, Sensation 4G, M7, M8, Blu R1HD (underrated stopgap phone), and now a U11.
I'm waiting for the foldup phone, not a flip but an actual folding screen. And GB LTE, proximity charging, and wireless cast capability. Walk into the house and my fantasy phone would ask if I want to cast to the nearest screen, charge within a few feet of a proximity charger, and pair up the keyboard/mouse on the countertop, shared with other phones just by me entering my PIN and it's mine for now. Wireless LTE being faster than my ISP, I don't have one. Netflix, etc is my entertainment provider, OTA HD is cast back to my phone and is *the only reason* I have a home ISP, this TV has Tivo/Sling functionality built in, along with PVR and casts to my phone. Apps for work live within this. Voice integration is completed. I can dream.
The PLATO systems were using email, instant messaging, chat rooms, and blogs in the mid 70s (1976 for e-mail).
Along with, not much later, plasma display terminals and minimal graphics, a rudimentary GUI, and all of this getting leveraged not only for instructional courseware but games, games, games... I still play one...
Some of PLATO was shown to some guys from Xerox PARC. They knew what to do. Don Bitzer was so far ahead of the possible technology even money could not have helped. Ayyadurai should be spanked and sent to bed.
Um, asking for the heater down and inside give the catcher a better chance of handling the ball than guessing where that 98mph fastball is going. High in his eyes? Low and outside? Oh, wait, the pitcher changes his mind and it becomes a straight change?
The only pitch you aren't trying to call for anticipated location and speed is the knuckler, and that's a catcher's skill to field.
And if you've watched much baseball, you know what happens when the catcher and pitcher get crossed up. Woops to the backstop.
Baseball is a uniquely strategic game with pitch calls, pitchouts, infield and outfield shifts, throwing behind the runner, stealing bases, bunting (a volume could be written on this, and the Yankees are really, REALLY butthurt that the Red Sox bunted on their lame pitcher last week, exposing his weakness fielding and playing good. fundamental. baseball.), multiple substitutions (except in the AL, where the DH has tarnished the game), delayed steals, hit-and-run, and the rare but always fun decoy plays.
Baseball is so unlike any other game it's remarkable. Soccer and hockey are also unique, soccer less so. American football, Rugby, Aussie Rules, similarities abound. Cricket is like Baseball as Field Hockey is like Ice Hockey.
This argument is naive. Baseball is complex.Very. The pace of the game enhances this, and the rules are actually simple-ish.
Wait, the bowler doesn't signal his team as to what he will in fact do?
Really? You play a game I am unfamiliar with.
The index included this reference:
Electronic Equipment on Field—3.14(b)
However, the current PDF available from mlb.mlb.com, actually doesn't include any text for Rule 3.14 (b) other than:
"The use of any markers on the field that create a tangible reference system on the
field is prohibited."
This is Deep Baseball. If there is a game rule prohibiting using electronic devices on the field or in the dugout, but it isn't, as of today, visible nor published.
The iPad deal seems to be a corporate MLB deal, so we may be seeing a corporate rule process where MLB imposes additional rules on the game which are not specified in the Official Baseball Rules. And this 'rule must be an MLB agreement to prevent the use of *unapproved* 'electronic devices' in the dugout or on the field.
But stealing signs has been a 'problem' since the beginning of Major League Baseball. From this story in 2011, "Stealing signs is as old as signal-calling itself. In 1876, the very first year of the National League, opponents of the Hartford Dark Blues claimed the club was somehow using a shack hung off a telegraph pole outside its home park to relay signals."
And, "Decades after the Giants stormed back to win the memorable 1951 NL pennant race, backup catcher Sal Yvars revealed that the team had deployed a clubhouse telescope, an electrician and a buzzer to pass stolen signs to its batters."
Also, "Just last year (2010), after the Rockies spotted a Phillies bullpen coach using binoculars, Colorado accused Philadelphia of stealing signs. Bud Selig downplayed the controversy, saying, "Stealing signs has been around for 100 years," before letting the Phillies off with a reprimand.""
This should be interesting, because the Yankee hate is so palpable, and they are pretty annoyed in New York that they cannot somehow beat the Red Sox. Yay team.
The trick is to guess card numbers, get balances, then write a card with the track 1 days and spend the 'money'. The actual card gets debited, the actual owner is confused, and nobody asks for the CSC CVV2 on a swipe.
Requiring the CSC or CVV2 stops this. Simple.
Require the CSC or CVV2 for balance requests. THAT is not predictable, so far as I can see.
There are a multitude of reasons why cards have predictable numbering, and none of these are going away. Just use the existing security (CVV2CSC) and let the fraud checking and auth systems do their work.
"Kik also allows developers to publish games and services within the platform, a hook meant to keep users on the app for longer."
Kik *is* a game. And the ICO will be their first virtual currency for use inside the game.
In this context, 'the game' is Kik, using Kik, being interested in Kik, rewards (your credit card company calls these 'loyalty' programs...), and intra-app bonuses/kickbacks/spiffs.
Fun times. But having people buy with Ether is interesting. A kickback there maybe? Or they are using an Ethereum blockchain or contracts?
Anyways, this is essentially a game, with in-game currency and all.
Is it worth building a custom console for Kerbal?
this seems like redlining.
And that has cost some banks money. Let's see if this meets the courts' tests for redlining, and how much they may force AT&T to both build out and actually offer/provide equally capable services to all customers regardless of location... Fining them is not a solution, and being forced to build is a tacit fine, not allowing them to use excessive fees for inadequate services and poor physical plants to subsidize services in apparently more affluent locations.
I've had a G1, Sensation 4G, M7. M8, and now a U11. All superb for their times, the G1 surviving through Android DI think, and since it was released without working Bluetooth or an on-screen keyboard it grew up well. Cyanogenmod did the trick. The Sensation was surprisingly ho-hum, but the M7 on were superb. Apple should have used the M7 design. Sense is indeed the best manufacturer skin. My U11 is really, really nice. Ultimately nothing about the Galaxy S8 was worth $100 more, and the G7 is too late for me.
Battery longevity is big problem, but I see no phones I want with removable batteries. Sad.
HTC could live on if it had more capital, perhaps, but they are trapped in an interesting niche, with Samsung able to hit market with their own new chips early sand capture mindshare.
Will thi saplly to Verizon Channel on USTREAM?
"dimensioned to melt"
Functional equivalent: fuses. Problem solved.
- Overcharge - Good charging apparatus.
- Drain it completely - Good charging apparatus and battery management, as noted in the article.
- Puncture - Stop puncturing your powerwall cells, please, just as you don't twist off the natural gas connectors to see want's inside. Darwinian problem.
- Overheat - battery management, and a thermostat
- Make your own battery with cells you found around, and not use a good controller - yeah, doing it right is pretty much a Darwinian problem.
And the coming wave of cars to tinker with that have THREE batteries. In different places.For different purposes.
Great fun. Next, sourcing new dash screens in 14 years
While I'm waiting at the drive thru so you all can finish your cockfight.