My bitcoin's on 'frell'. The kind of self-styled nerd who isn't familiar with the use of wildcards and chooses to self-censor with them is often the same sort that thinks swearing like they do in shows like Battlestar Galactica or Farscape is clever.
Sorry, but that global warming crack is about as ignorant as ones about the value of the loonie (which has actually gone above par with the greenback more than once in the last few years). Geographically, most of us are clustered along the border in the temperate zone we share with the northern states.
On the other hand, Alberta is a financial powerhouse thanks to those oil reserves and the tar sands, and it spends a lot on balancing payments to help keep some of the poorer provinces running. Our current Prime Minister comes from there, so his interest is very much in keeping things running smoothly back home. Something that most people don't know is that he's an unreformed Dominionist-- doing whatever the fuck we want with our resources, and fuck the environment because God put everything here for us, and if anything really fucks up, He'll fix it, is literally part of his religion.
This isn't the twentysomethings. This is their forty, fifty year old bosses, fresh from the change of life, desperate to look 'with it' and feel young again, trying to adopt their kids' lingo like the dads in a bad sitcom. You know, the people who have had the time and opportunity to rise to their level of incompetence in management.
That's right. There is no guarantee that you will get anything out of a project you've pledged money to, even if they go fifty times over their minimum and they've promised you your choice of knit keyboard cozies when they roll off the machines. And you know what? That's how Kickstarter's designed. You're not buying anything-- you've made a pledge, a donation toward getting the project staffed and completed. Promises of goods are 100% on the project team to deliver-- Kickstarter is totally, completely unrelated to fulfillment in any way, shape or form... which is going to cause some squawking when the first big project fails after it's been funded. There has already been at least one fraudulent computer game project, with pledge levels lifted entirely from another project, and photographs of the developers' HQ stolen from an unrelated company, that has fortunately been eliminated by the Kickstarter staff.
Bottom line is, Kickstarter isn't a storefront. If you're going to pledge money to a project, don't drop more on it than you're comfortable giving away to a school fundraiser, or a local charity.
No matter what we suggest here (and I suggest that it's a bad idea from a user comfort and utility angle), if she doesn't like what you're selling to her then it's going to be a waste before this article falls off the front page.
Searching for recipes and surfing the web? I guarantee that printing something off from a PC that she can actually relax at is going to be more appealing.
Television? It really sounds like you're trying to justify the cost of getting the rest of your house wired up. How much time does anyone spend in there?
Video chat? Come on. A wireless phone with speaker function would sell itself much more easily, and wouldn't try to drag her into the scheme (or the kitchen) for novelty value.
I am too! I've been waiting more than ten years to finally squat www.clownpenis.fart, and now they're making excuses? Who else is going to go after that domain, Lorne Michaels?
Your credibility will go straight down the toilet, as will that of your company.
Certain sites and communities will ban your sorry ass for abusing their trust.
Fuck the marketing department. If they want people to astroturf, they can do it themselves (hilariously badly) or they can hire people to do it (which will also go over hilariously badly).
If they actually keep tabs on who 'turfed for your app and who didn't, I strongly suggest looking for a new job, because your current one is only going to become increasingly filled with paranoid, unethical bullshit as time goes on.
I hate to break it to you, but theft and bogus returns cut into profits. You know what else cuts into profits? Markedly lower retail prices. Any savings here will be passed along not to you, but to the executives.
Tsk. I was expecting something at least as maddening as spending an hour trying to cancel an AOL account, or involving disused lavatories filled with leopards.
Yes, and all of that is why only some of the submitted ideas are granted a pitch meeting, and of those only some of those are granted any degree of funding. This isn't some internal dot-com craze where everyone gets a million shares and an Aeron chair just for showing up.
You're making the wild assumption that every school and board will get together, manage to squeeze a buck or two out of their local taxes, and agree upon a single organization to develop and provide the system. That's even before the cost of hardware and infrastructure-- affluent school boards aren't exactly leaping at the opportunity to help schools that can't afford to supply paper and pencils, let alone computer labs.
Sing this to the heavens. Inscribe it on the side of every mountain. Drill it into the mind of every student and budding artist, journalist or otherwise creative person out there.
Once upon a time, 'Did X for Y' for free may have looked good on your resume. Now, it's barely more than a comma. Now, it's a comma that you paid for in sweat equity, because you were good enough to ask a favour of, but not good enough to pay.
If you really want to put your stuff out there, and think you've got the chops to get attention (and good, because that's the attitude you need), do it yourself. Start a blog, or a specialist news site. Roll your own webcomic, there's plenty of frameworks out there. Throw your band's tracks up on its very own website. Just don't give it away for free to outfits that can afford to pay you for the privilege. They'll be all too happy to put their stamp on it and leave you with shit-all attribution.
I've got several terabytes of space across my assorted drives, but I only back up a gig or two of data. Of that, 80% is plaintext e-mail archives, and the rest is personal documents, stories, old essays and papers, and things that I absolutely can't replace.
For actual backup, I use an old freebie Mozy account. I don't recommend them these days-- apparently there's better for the money if you look. I've tried Spideroak, but christ almighty their client runs like puke under Windows.
The vast majority of gamers won't give a shit. They didn't give a damn about DLC or DRM, and they won't about this.
Boutique retailers dug their grave when they made used games the bulk of their income, and adopted the pre-order scheme to keep their purchases down to absolute minimums. It's been pissing off console developers and game publishers for years, and now that Wal-Mart, other big box stores and even grocery stores stock games in wide variety, they don't have to play nice with outfits that do their damnedest to screw them.
I find it incredibly ironic that the guy behind Gawker is the one to make this suggestion.
Personally, I've been using manual div hacks and ABP's element hider plugin to remove comment sections from virtually every site I visit. Except for sites with a very focused interest, I find the average comment to be ignorant, mean-spirited, racist, or otherwise not worth wasting any time or bandwidth on.
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Frimping kiddies.
On the other hand, Alberta is a financial powerhouse thanks to those oil reserves and the tar sands, and it spends a lot on balancing payments to help keep some of the poorer provinces running. Our current Prime Minister comes from there, so his interest is very much in keeping things running smoothly back home. Something that most people don't know is that he's an unreformed Dominionist-- doing whatever the fuck we want with our resources, and fuck the environment because God put everything here for us, and if anything really fucks up, He'll fix it, is literally part of his religion.
This isn't the twentysomethings. This is their forty, fifty year old bosses, fresh from the change of life, desperate to look 'with it' and feel young again, trying to adopt their kids' lingo like the dads in a bad sitcom. You know, the people who have had the time and opportunity to rise to their level of incompetence in management.
Nah, this pays far, far better than being a school teacher.
Bottom line is, Kickstarter isn't a storefront. If you're going to pledge money to a project, don't drop more on it than you're comfortable giving away to a school fundraiser, or a local charity.
Searching for recipes and surfing the web? I guarantee that printing something off from a PC that she can actually relax at is going to be more appealing.
Television? It really sounds like you're trying to justify the cost of getting the rest of your house wired up. How much time does anyone spend in there?
Video chat? Come on. A wireless phone with speaker function would sell itself much more easily, and wouldn't try to drag her into the scheme (or the kitchen) for novelty value.
Also, that giant flash video that goes where the text should be is making me so glad that I have NoScript installed.
Clearly this indicates that travelers should be tipping their screeners more, and more often.
I am too! I've been waiting more than ten years to finally squat www.clownpenis.fart, and now they're making excuses? Who else is going to go after that domain, Lorne Michaels?
The answer is clear: send Marketing to Detroit.
Your credibility will go straight down the toilet, as will that of your company.
Certain sites and communities will ban your sorry ass for abusing their trust.
Fuck the marketing department. If they want people to astroturf, they can do it themselves (hilariously badly) or they can hire people to do it (which will also go over hilariously badly).
If they actually keep tabs on who 'turfed for your app and who didn't, I strongly suggest looking for a new job, because your current one is only going to become increasingly filled with paranoid, unethical bullshit as time goes on.
I hate to break it to you, but theft and bogus returns cut into profits. You know what else cuts into profits? Markedly lower retail prices. Any savings here will be passed along not to you, but to the executives.
The powers that be in Vegas refused to license Fizzbin tables.
Tsk. I was expecting something at least as maddening as spending an hour trying to cancel an AOL account, or involving disused lavatories filled with leopards.
Yes, and all of that is why only some of the submitted ideas are granted a pitch meeting, and of those only some of those are granted any degree of funding. This isn't some internal dot-com craze where everyone gets a million shares and an Aeron chair just for showing up.
You're making the wild assumption that every school and board will get together, manage to squeeze a buck or two out of their local taxes, and agree upon a single organization to develop and provide the system. That's even before the cost of hardware and infrastructure-- affluent school boards aren't exactly leaping at the opportunity to help schools that can't afford to supply paper and pencils, let alone computer labs.
Speaking of flawed assumptions...
Once upon a time, 'Did X for Y' for free may have looked good on your resume. Now, it's barely more than a comma. Now, it's a comma that you paid for in sweat equity, because you were good enough to ask a favour of, but not good enough to pay.
If you really want to put your stuff out there, and think you've got the chops to get attention (and good, because that's the attitude you need), do it yourself. Start a blog, or a specialist news site. Roll your own webcomic, there's plenty of frameworks out there. Throw your band's tracks up on its very own website. Just don't give it away for free to outfits that can afford to pay you for the privilege. They'll be all too happy to put their stamp on it and leave you with shit-all attribution.
For actual backup, I use an old freebie Mozy account. I don't recommend them these days-- apparently there's better for the money if you look. I've tried Spideroak, but christ almighty their client runs like puke under Windows.
Boutique retailers dug their grave when they made used games the bulk of their income, and adopted the pre-order scheme to keep their purchases down to absolute minimums. It's been pissing off console developers and game publishers for years, and now that Wal-Mart, other big box stores and even grocery stores stock games in wide variety, they don't have to play nice with outfits that do their damnedest to screw them.
Seriously? Given how many people happily make wall posts that range from the simply offensive to the downright illegal?
Just goes to show: It Takes a Child to Raze a Village.
Orkut has actually been hugely popular. Just not in English-speaking populations.
No, no, you need to read between the lines: he's suggesting that we eat the Irish.
Personally, I've been using manual div hacks and ABP's element hider plugin to remove comment sections from virtually every site I visit. Except for sites with a very focused interest, I find the average comment to be ignorant, mean-spirited, racist, or otherwise not worth wasting any time or bandwidth on.