where im from, you call a turd by its real name ; turd. i refuse to name it anything, but turd.
Re:something going mainstream does not become bad
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your examples are valid for stuff with financial aspects. heavy aspects even. lets take a more valid example - computers are mainstream now. even rural ma and pas are using it, as well as a lot of wannabees, low quality people, trolls, turds, every kind of person deviating them to almost every end.
are you quitting using computers because of that ? no. so ?
there is nothing philosophical about it or nothing complex. feeling unique by trying to be different is a very common psychological inclination in people, and most utilized method for doing so is not doing what the majority does. its as simple as that. no 'different job' analogy is relevant either. jobs have to be different not by choice, but because necessity.
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if you are someone who tries to find your self-value and distinction in being different by doing stuff that majority does not, that implies a problem with your self-awareness, not what you are refusing to do.
with your logic, one has to go evil, if the majority of people becomes good. its absurd.
some fanboi who modded parent post troll come up and explain me how you can fail in selling something if you forcefully bundle them with new computers.
you do it local, and bring it bundled with website design and development. the web hosting field is rather overcrowded, and big companies are offering ridiculous (and unrealistic) amounts of resources to catch clients. and they succeed. dont count on adwords. adwords's roi is sucking tit since 2004. big corps are paying ridiculous bids for web hosting keywords and its impossible to compete with them. its google's bad game. in order to make more money they increased the weight of bid in ad placement and decreased weight of ad quality, clickthrough rate. result has been disaster for small businesses that have high competition in their field.
by going local you can still do good business. many people need reliable and cheap all in one bundles of web design, domain registration and hosting.
get a linux box, apache, php, mysql, get cPanel on top of it. that is the most widespread used setup. when we take on a new customer its very high chance that they already know how to use a cPanel site control panel. DONT ever think of getting plesk, it has a very shitty and confusing user interface.
if they didnt count on having cooperative people in the nations they are dealing with, (like the pirate bay raid last year) they wouldnt go ahead with it.
and tbh, i do not see the need for watching 'special' editions of anything. they throw in some sh@t that was cut in mass release, because they werent seen as too necessary or vital, they add those crap into the mass release version, and then push it to idiots. a lot of garbage in 'special edition' dvds in the from of 'special features'.
what i think is, that guy put his thoughts as they felt it. in contrast to many people who exactly feel that way, but put that into words in neatly and rationally compiled paragraphs.
(im not a fanboi of anything. neither i am socialist. - im at times conservative even - )
microsoft is in bed with the big buck corps. those big buck corps, who are also generally business partners of microsoft, do not like what companies like google, yahoo and the others are representing - the new, more liberal trends that give more freedom to both customers and entrepreneurs. they dont like what they cant control.
everything was ship shape in the world up until internet revolution. there hasnt been any means for many 'small' people to hit it big, make big bucks and become a problem because they havent passed through the hallways of power (starts from your local chamber of commerce) to be approved and made a part of the existing machine. people started just setting up some websites with some bright ideas and voila - instant insane $$$. so fast that the machine havent found the time to assimilate those upstarts before the upstarts had made big buck to the level that they were impossible to assimilate.
google is one example. it was a nuisance at the start, then it became so effective and far reaching that establishment got really annoyed with it. what to do ? enter microsoft.
a company, irrationally, totally absurdly, defying all teachings of economics and business management, jumps into an area that it is weak, unestablished, and stubbornly tries to make progress in that area AT THE EXPENSE OF ITS CORE business. which is, software, windows.
how can this happen ? are gates, balmer, and others total idiots ?
hell no. if they were, there wouldnt be a microsoft in the first place. so what is the reason ?
they have been TOLD to do it, pressurized to doing it by the establishment that they have been members of, long before. you know, old boys alliance. you grease my back i grease yours. i cut a deal for you you cut a deal for me. i donate to your pretty little charity you do something for me and so on. even fanbois here cant deny that microsoft is much entangled with the old style, monolithic, dinosaur big buck corporations.
so they are told to fight google. because the establishment hasnt been able to contain it. because google basically controls efficient access to information. and google has been non compliant with the usual workings of the machine too, for example the censorship, control of information etc is way below the level establishment would like to have, on any google service. they are, therefore a detriment to the control.
whoooopssssss. in comes the 'bright boyz of the old boyz club' - microsoft. they start fighting google. they neglect their core product, software, and even their other well performing products (even hardware, peripherals), but stubbornly fight in a field that has become SO identified with the name of their competitor that, it looks surreal. people say 'google' it, not 'search' it. even 60 year old people say that. they know google. 'microsoft has a search engine ? how about that ?'
so is the state of things. bad for microsoft shareholders, bad for microsoft, for they are being a mere tool at the hands of the establishment, bad for internet community, who is basically 'the people', 'us, all, everyone', because old establishment is still refusing to die and give way to the new, and hacking back at us again and again, this time using some company of the new tech age.
how will this work out ? microsoft will lose. because it is evident that some party is backing google. its definitely not the big buck corps, for there is none affiliated with google, not any celebrity names with huge wealth, but some very strong financial source. reason ? hell, if they didnt have such a good backing, they would have been eliminated, 'handled' in some way LOOOOONG ago. the financial power of the establishment is big. just check the top 100 financial entity list, you will find many companies, ahead of many countries there. but it didnt happen. my bet is, some financial source in europe is supporting them, and deterring any hostile financial moves against them.
5 bucks over 100 bucks is not going to make me take any hassles of doing a msn search for example. i readily donate that amount to open source projects from time to time for example, even though im not making big bucks yet.
the idiot who used wasted his/her mod points on fanboi-modding down parent post, please take time to explain us, the/., why the hell did you waste your mod points to slight any opinion ?
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badass wannabees were always around throughout history.
where im from, you call a turd by its real name ; turd. i refuse to name it anything, but turd.
your examples are valid for stuff with financial aspects. heavy aspects even. lets take a more valid example - computers are mainstream now. even rural ma and pas are using it, as well as a lot of wannabees, low quality people, trolls, turds, every kind of person deviating them to almost every end.
are you quitting using computers because of that ? no. so ?
there is nothing philosophical about it or nothing complex. feeling unique by trying to be different is a very common psychological inclination in people, and most utilized method for doing so is not doing what the majority does. its as simple as that. no 'different job' analogy is relevant either. jobs have to be different not by choice, but because necessity.
if you are someone who tries to find your self-value and distinction in being different by doing stuff that majority does not, that implies a problem with your self-awareness, not what you are refusing to do.
with your logic, one has to go evil, if the majority of people becomes good. its absurd.
some fanboi who modded parent post troll come up and explain me how you can fail in selling something if you forcefully bundle them with new computers.
if you forcefully bundled your turd with the new pc, by using laws you have bought in the countries you sell them.
thats how your vista is selling.
never ever advice anyone 1and1. i have had to bail many clients out of their hellhole.
you do it local, and bring it bundled with website design and development. the web hosting field is rather overcrowded, and big companies are offering ridiculous (and unrealistic) amounts of resources to catch clients. and they succeed. dont count on adwords. adwords's roi is sucking tit since 2004. big corps are paying ridiculous bids for web hosting keywords and its impossible to compete with them. its google's bad game. in order to make more money they increased the weight of bid in ad placement and decreased weight of ad quality, clickthrough rate. result has been disaster for small businesses that have high competition in their field.
by going local you can still do good business. many people need reliable and cheap all in one bundles of web design, domain registration and hosting.
get a linux box, apache, php, mysql, get cPanel on top of it. that is the most widespread used setup. when we take on a new customer its very high chance that they already know how to use a cPanel site control panel. DONT ever think of getting plesk, it has a very shitty and confusing user interface.
if they didnt count on having cooperative people in the nations they are dealing with, (like the pirate bay raid last year) they wouldnt go ahead with it.
you didnt vote for the other guy, who might have been better by even a little bit, and we have this on our hands now.
life is always a choice between the better of worse.
you vote SHIT like these into power, just because they ranted about conservative values, and they make a total crap out of everything.
thats why world hates you. nothing else.
and tbh, i do not see the need for watching 'special' editions of anything. they throw in some sh@t that was cut in mass release, because they werent seen as too necessary or vital, they add those crap into the mass release version, and then push it to idiots. a lot of garbage in 'special edition' dvds in the from of 'special features'.
And steve balmer aint gonna throw any more chairs.
they would still form a 60 man deep line queuing outside the Apple box ...
that kind of thinking allowed nazis what they did.
its not necessarily republicans. current administration probably.
frequency matters. it is $5 return on a few seconds, but it happens only twice or so every year.
$100 k for an acting gig that lasts a few weeks. i.t. people are rotting away 6 months of their life in datacenter masoleums to earn that amount.
bollocks i say.
what i think is, that guy put his thoughts as they felt it. in contrast to many people who exactly feel that way, but put that into words in neatly and rationally compiled paragraphs.
(im not a fanboi of anything. neither i am socialist. - im at times conservative even - )
microsoft is in bed with the big buck corps. those big buck corps, who are also generally business partners of microsoft, do not like what companies like google, yahoo and the others are representing - the new, more liberal trends that give more freedom to both customers and entrepreneurs. they dont like what they cant control.
everything was ship shape in the world up until internet revolution. there hasnt been any means for many 'small' people to hit it big, make big bucks and become a problem because they havent passed through the hallways of power (starts from your local chamber of commerce) to be approved and made a part of the existing machine. people started just setting up some websites with some bright ideas and voila - instant insane $$$. so fast that the machine havent found the time to assimilate those upstarts before the upstarts had made big buck to the level that they were impossible to assimilate.
google is one example. it was a nuisance at the start, then it became so effective and far reaching that establishment got really annoyed with it. what to do ? enter microsoft.
a company, irrationally, totally absurdly, defying all teachings of economics and business management, jumps into an area that it is weak, unestablished, and stubbornly tries to make progress in that area AT THE EXPENSE OF ITS CORE business. which is, software, windows.
how can this happen ? are gates, balmer, and others total idiots ?
hell no. if they were, there wouldnt be a microsoft in the first place. so what is the reason ?
they have been TOLD to do it, pressurized to doing it by the establishment that they have been members of, long before. you know, old boys alliance. you grease my back i grease yours. i cut a deal for you you cut a deal for me. i donate to your pretty little charity you do something for me and so on. even fanbois here cant deny that microsoft is much entangled with the old style, monolithic, dinosaur big buck corporations.
so they are told to fight google. because the establishment hasnt been able to contain it. because google basically controls efficient access to information. and google has been non compliant with the usual workings of the machine too, for example the censorship, control of information etc is way below the level establishment would like to have, on any google service. they are, therefore a detriment to the control.
whoooopssssss. in comes the 'bright boyz of the old boyz club' - microsoft. they start fighting google. they neglect their core product, software, and even their other well performing products (even hardware, peripherals), but stubbornly fight in a field that has become SO identified with the name of their competitor that, it looks surreal. people say 'google' it, not 'search' it. even 60 year old people say that. they know google. 'microsoft has a search engine ? how about that ?'
so is the state of things. bad for microsoft shareholders, bad for microsoft, for they are being a mere tool at the hands of the establishment, bad for internet community, who is basically 'the people', 'us, all, everyone', because old establishment is still refusing to die and give way to the new, and hacking back at us again and again, this time using some company of the new tech age.
how will this work out ? microsoft will lose. because it is evident that some party is backing google. its definitely not the big buck corps, for there is none affiliated with google, not any celebrity names with huge wealth, but some very strong financial source. reason ? hell, if they didnt have such a good backing, they would have been eliminated, 'handled' in some way LOOOOONG ago. the financial power of the establishment is big. just check the top 100 financial entity list, you will find many companies, ahead of many countries there. but it didnt happen. my bet is, some financial source in europe is supporting them, and deterring any hostile financial moves against them.
good for us.
5 bucks over 100 bucks is not going to make me take any hassles of doing a msn search for example. i readily donate that amount to open source projects from time to time for example, even though im not making big bucks yet.
there has been 2 instances of ms fanboi modding of posts up to the point you have posted yours. are you posting without reading the goddamn threads ?
"Vista capable"
that should give you a doctorate thesis's worth material.
the idiot who used wasted his/her mod points on fanboi-modding down parent post, please take time to explain us, the /., why the hell did you waste your mod points to slight any opinion ?
jerk ?