Twitter is nothing more than a walking failed-abortion. His was an accidental conception and his cheap-ass egg & sperm donor couldn't afford the coat hanger to terminate the unwanted pregnancy. This is why he claims to be such a huge proponent of 'FREE' software...if only that coat hanger were free...
He mentions science and God in a number of sentences...these are incompatible subjects, are they not? Islam and Islamic countries, by the very nature of religion would, and does, dispute, dispel and deny science...
What purpose does You Tube really serve? It seems to be nothing more than some place an average Joe Schmoe can upload some crap video shot on an even more crappier video medium; a service for the dumbass who can't figure out how to create their own blog and upload a video clip. Appeal to the least common denominator and they will come, along with those smart enough to know that a service like You Tube can be easily taken advantage of.
Build it and they will come...
I was most definately writing in the key of sarcasm, but kudos to you for having the guys in Adobe aware of your site and seemingly appreciative of your work. Nice going.
Until Adobe gets ahold of the fact that you registered FlashBeyond.com and tries to sue you under some lameass copyright/trademark infringement. Though I firmly believe Adobe would have no grounds to do so as you have not infringed on Fair Use provisions, that the domain name might be misconstrued is more than enough for some judge to declare your site to infringe on something or other provision of law.
Not only does squatting need to be addressed but also copyright/trademark laws.
..and some other loser can now afford to pay more than the original $750,000 the domain name was sold for, to E-Bay I believe. Of course E-Bay now needs to figure out how to finance the 4.2B purchase of Skype so maybe a sale of shopping.com might be next.
WTF? What does this mean? They drive vertical and local traffic by redirecing 90210.com to local Beverly Hills companies? Sure they do...when I want to perform a search for Beverly Hills (90210), for example, I type in the Zip Code instead of the city name. Dumba$$es. Let's test their theory of driving vertical and local traffic when I type my zipcode plus.com into IE and Firefox....
15 seconds later...in both Firefox (with Adblock) and IE 6 SP1...I get NOTHING but blank screen. Maybe Spysweeper is blocking whatever I see or is preventing a redirect to some sort of shitty ad or malware infested site. In either case, as long as users continue to implement antivirus, anti-malware/spyware and anti-spam software, squatters like Marchex will not make much money and eventually won't even be able to afford the domain renewal fees, even from Bob's Domains-R-Us type of registrars.
Approximately 110 million Chinese citizens are on the Internet. This represents roughly 10% of their total population. Assuming this 10% represents the percentage of the population who has enough disposable income to afford computers and/or Internet access, why is everyone making China out to be 'the' place to invest in? Just because there are over a billion Chinese citizens, does not mean the potential to market and sell to a billion Chinese citizens exists or will ever exist. China's affliction for near-complete control over its people, its desire to maintain strict control over what information the populace sees and its lack of ability to innovate any new idea, product or service greatly reduces future sales and investment potential in that country! Western businesses cannot ignore the existing consumer market of over 110 million people; however these businesses that operate and/or market their products in China need to remember one thing: If the Chinese can figure out how you do it (and they eventually will), they'll not only do it themselves, they'll do it a lot cheaper, using the other 1 billion or so Chinese citizens who remain oppressed. The Chinese government knows that the only reason they've made the financial gains they have is due to the incredibly large pool of cheap labor they can offer to manufacturers. In turn, they use these large cash inflows not on their citizenry, but on building up their military and industrial complexes, not on research and development. The Chinese government knows that knowledge is power and that a spread of knowledge will diminish their cheap labor pool and decrease their usefulness to the rest of the world. Everytime I read an article about the Communist Chinese government restricting access to information, I breathe a sigh of relief. It just means that they haven't smartened up enough to take their collective heads out of their collective asses and realize what the potential of having 1 billion plus educated, informed and knowledgeable citizens could really mean to the rest of the world.
Fortunately for the rest of the world is a Chinese Politburo formed of thirteen old men who are so afraid of losing their power that they will go to any length to keep as many of their citizens as oppressed and uninformed as possible.
You give the Chinese government an inch and they'll take the equivalent of the Great Wall in length. It's time for Western business to review their positions on China.
even if management could be convinced that online office apps are the way to go, they'd most likely pitch a huge fit once the internet connection goes south: "Now we can't browse the web, use e-mail AND run 'Word and Excel'?" Hate to be the person on the wrong end of THAT berating!
I've had the 'pleasure' of providing technical support to several high-profile personalities. In some cases, I dealt with an assistant and in others, with the actual 'star'. In both scenarios, I was promised payment by submitting an invoice to the appropriate person or agency. Good luck trying to collect on those invoices; while I billed at an hourly rate that I would any other client, it has been close to impossible to collect payment. I'm tempted to chalk it up to typical 'star' arrogance, but I'm just plain pissed that they feel they deserve free services simply because they are well known. If they asked for a favor, I would have done so, but in every case, I was promised payment. You just gotta wonder...
I have yet to come up with their determination of 6.5 million, but if we followed the maximum per violation fine of $250,000, there would only be 26 offenses; hardly worth pursuing in the real world. I would guess that the 6.5 million figure was based on lost revenue based on the actual retail value of each title found to have been distributed.
But then again, who can believe these lost 'revenue' figures that are often stated?
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20 bucks for continued free TV? How about you take up a collection for those poor folks who can't afford that...
Twitter is nothing more than a walking failed-abortion. His was an accidental conception and his cheap-ass egg & sperm donor couldn't afford the coat hanger to terminate the unwanted pregnancy. This is why he claims to be such a huge proponent of 'FREE' software...if only that coat hanger were free...
Anyone know what it means to be 'Notrious'? Is that 'not nutritious'? Damned editors...
He mentions science and God in a number of sentences...these are incompatible subjects, are they not? Islam and Islamic countries, by the very nature of religion would, and does, dispute, dispel and deny science...
...Cue the stealth busted chair bomber with payload ready for release over 400 7th Street, S.W.Washington, D.C.
What purpose does You Tube really serve? It seems to be nothing more than some place an average Joe Schmoe can upload some crap video shot on an even more crappier video medium; a service for the dumbass who can't figure out how to create their own blog and upload a video clip. Appeal to the least common denominator and they will come, along with those smart enough to know that a service like You Tube can be easily taken advantage of. Build it and they will come...
Look as good? I think what your Dad meant was 'I know that cable is better but that might affect the resale value'.
A crude form of mesh networking?
I was most definately writing in the key of sarcasm, but kudos to you for having the guys in Adobe aware of your site and seemingly appreciative of your work. Nice going.
Until Adobe gets ahold of the fact that you registered FlashBeyond.com and tries to sue you under some lameass copyright/trademark infringement. Though I firmly believe Adobe would have no grounds to do so as you have not infringed on Fair Use provisions, that the domain name might be misconstrued is more than enough for some judge to declare your site to infringe on something or other provision of law. Not only does squatting need to be addressed but also copyright/trademark laws.
I was referring to shopping.com that E-Bay now holds...
..and some other loser can now afford to pay more than the original $750,000 the domain name was sold for, to E-Bay I believe. Of course E-Bay now needs to figure out how to finance the 4.2B purchase of Skype so maybe a sale of shopping.com might be next.
WTF? What does this mean? They drive vertical and local traffic by redirecing 90210.com to local Beverly Hills companies? Sure they do...when I want to perform a search for Beverly Hills (90210), for example, I type in the Zip Code instead of the city name. Dumba$$es. Let's test their theory of driving vertical and local traffic when I type my zipcode plus .com into IE and Firefox....
15 seconds later...in both Firefox (with Adblock) and IE 6 SP1...I get NOTHING but blank screen. Maybe Spysweeper is blocking whatever I see or is preventing a redirect to some sort of shitty ad or malware infested site. In either case, as long as users continue to implement antivirus, anti-malware/spyware and anti-spam software, squatters like Marchex will not make much money and eventually won't even be able to afford the domain renewal fees, even from Bob's Domains-R-Us type of registrars.
Approximately 110 million Chinese citizens are on the Internet. This represents roughly 10% of their total population. Assuming this 10% represents the percentage of the population who has enough disposable income to afford computers and/or Internet access, why is everyone making China out to be 'the' place to invest in? Just because there are over a billion Chinese citizens, does not mean the potential to market and sell to a billion Chinese citizens exists or will ever exist. China's affliction for near-complete control over its people, its desire to maintain strict control over what information the populace sees and its lack of ability to innovate any new idea, product or service greatly reduces future sales and investment potential in that country! Western businesses cannot ignore the existing consumer market of over 110 million people; however these businesses that operate and/or market their products in China need to remember one thing: If the Chinese can figure out how you do it (and they eventually will), they'll not only do it themselves, they'll do it a lot cheaper, using the other 1 billion or so Chinese citizens who remain oppressed. The Chinese government knows that the only reason they've made the financial gains they have is due to the incredibly large pool of cheap labor they can offer to manufacturers. In turn, they use these large cash inflows not on their citizenry, but on building up their military and industrial complexes, not on research and development. The Chinese government knows that knowledge is power and that a spread of knowledge will diminish their cheap labor pool and decrease their usefulness to the rest of the world. Everytime I read an article about the Communist Chinese government restricting access to information, I breathe a sigh of relief. It just means that they haven't smartened up enough to take their collective heads out of their collective asses and realize what the potential of having 1 billion plus educated, informed and knowledgeable citizens could really mean to the rest of the world.
Fortunately for the rest of the world is a Chinese Politburo formed of thirteen old men who are so afraid of losing their power that they will go to any length to keep as many of their citizens as oppressed and uninformed as possible.
You give the Chinese government an inch and they'll take the equivalent of the Great Wall in length. It's time for Western business to review their positions on China.
I'm offering a forum for the opposition of AT&T's purchase of BellSouth. If anyone is interested, contact me. This buyout nonsense has GOT to go.
even if management could be convinced that online office apps are the way to go, they'd most likely pitch a huge fit once the internet connection goes south: "Now we can't browse the web, use e-mail AND run 'Word and Excel'?" Hate to be the person on the wrong end of THAT berating!
I've had the 'pleasure' of providing technical support to several high-profile personalities. In some cases, I dealt with an assistant and in others, with the actual 'star'. In both scenarios, I was promised payment by submitting an invoice to the appropriate person or agency. Good luck trying to collect on those invoices; while I billed at an hourly rate that I would any other client, it has been close to impossible to collect payment. I'm tempted to chalk it up to typical 'star' arrogance, but I'm just plain pissed that they feel they deserve free services simply because they are well known. If they asked for a favor, I would have done so, but in every case, I was promised payment. You just gotta wonder...
I have yet to come up with their determination of 6.5 million, but if we followed the maximum per violation fine of $250,000, there would only be 26 offenses; hardly worth pursuing in the real world. I would guess that the 6.5 million figure was based on lost revenue based on the actual retail value of each title found to have been distributed. But then again, who can believe these lost 'revenue' figures that are often stated?