I recently caught wind of some young people tossing about the idea of selling a vote on ebay. (!?)
The trick is: It's a method of pre-planning the vote without it being the blind activity we have today. In extreme circumstances it might be enough to haul in a dark horse third party, but only with a devastating candidate, which isn't present in this election.
Tom Clancy once wrote a book whereupon a character had to remake the government, and he nixed "all the bums". Already, we're discussing the First Woman and the First African-American in a serious run for President. Those are both non-tradtional candidates, but I don't know if we're ready for that at the gut level, despite our griping.
I thought I heard that Radio Shack was on Commission, though don't take my word on it.
But Commission is rough on the sales guy too. When the trend cycles the other way, he can fall into the trap of getting desperate to meet a quota, or just pay his bills. However junky the rate, X/hour means if some customer is dawdling, SalesGuy just shrugs and lets them do their thing.
I suggest you decide on the quality of the card you purchased. Everyone emails, which is why it is good to have a filter email which you expect to collect sales mail.
Same theme as the folks slamming the subject of the original topic, CompUSA. For the same reason that the Chain can be tarnished by bad stores, a good individual store... can be good.
I have become less price sensitive lately. I prefer to spend a few dollars to "shut down the conversation". For example, after running into a bizarre double-speaker failure that almost made me rip out my sound card, the Geek Squad guy convinced me it had to be speakers. I bought a $100 Bose set, and ordered the Squad guy to "humor me" and "prove they work". (They did. Meaning I have no idea what was wrong earlier, but now it was gone. So be it.)
I got the $13 2-year warranty plan, which says "if anything is wrong, we'll give you new ones". The "prove it" scenario would have uncovered "anything wrong", and armed with that warranty I'd run them through their entire store inventory before leaving if I had to.
What y'all are saying is that RAC is a buyer's market. I agree.
I tried it once and survived. My trick was to use it as a resource for non-experts looking to break conceptual logjams. I went into it knowing not to expect a clone to Yahoo for $1000.
All I needed was to fix an irritating spacing problem on a little website of mine. I made a point of going against the grain of the site and "overpaid" on purpose. For $100, I got 2.5 solutions (depending on if I wanted to use tables or CSS plus some tutorial PDF's so I could have a clue about how to muck around with it all afterward.)
I figured it would be something like 2 hour's work for the "warm-shots" here, so at a random $50/hr "Journeyman coder rate", $100 became my fee. I would like to be known for paying close to sensible value for jobs I post.
I'd use the service again because I'm sure I'll come up against another silly problem that I'm just not able to crack open. That's why I'm not a designer.
Because the Big Media Dinosaur has the Dinosaur's Consitution.
If some garage band called something like "The Giraffe's Spots" had one self-financed single, you could sink them pretty quickly if they pulled a stunt like seizing a computer.
On the other hand, any of the Big Media companies can survive for years on raw inertia, long enough for the "flash-in-the-pan" reaction to "no longer be kewl". Then the zealots subside, the media company makes some more media, and replenishes their war chest.
Same kinds of problems with "boycott". You can easily boycott that tiny band. The big company produces the entire contents of Room #1 at the cinema for the entire year. Some little movement with a thousand protesters isn't going to stop that.
Just like ISP's had to graduate from rapacious X/hr charge fees, Media will eventually come up with some kind of shifted subsidy to allow anyone "unlimited" access to media.
If we agree they are not "merely malevolent", maybe they are "incompetently malevolent"?
They are different adjectives, so they CAN be combined: Malevolent: Implementing grand plans against usability/standards, etc. Except: They then thrash around like bad movie villains and can't figure out WHICH malevolent trick to try!
"Let's make IE6 non-standard." "Let's make IE7 differently non-standard." "Let's make an incomplete format and pretend it's a standard." "Let's promote the upgrade." "Let's support the broken legacy lest someone defect to a standard." "Let's retire older versions." "Let's resurrect older versions when the new ones don't sell."
The very old famous hand-wringing used to be "the Publishers don't want me because I'm not sacrificing my story for cheap marketeting, so I'll never be famous".
In other threads, we complain that "no one even reads anyway, so why bother at all?"
Therefore, since I am not certain to make any money at all, why not release a book for free "that anyone could copy..." - because that would mean they WANTED IT.
The true horror is making it free... and no one even BOTHERS to copy it.
I'm always on the Tortoise side of the race. The classic split is "super-bright kids who become bored, and don't learn how to grind out long projects." Then they get F's in school, which doesn't know what to do.
I learned decades ago that sometimes you can just haul through the problem even without genius abilities.
But an entire class of people who fall prey to groupthink don't care that a gossip seed was originally "anonymous". It's tantalizing, and once they tell the story enough time themselves, they decide it's true by default.
When anonymous is combined with permitted lies, social structure breaks down because it opens the way for people to accuse each other of saying it. Trolling indeed.
The masses are slowly grasping technology. Even the staunchest holdbacks are at least mumbling "Eh, I'm too old to learn that stuff, but my kid is good at it". Kinda the Augie Doggie Daddy wistful tone.
An iconic movie of the 1980's was "Revenge of the Nerds". Here we are. I enjoy teaching what little I know, because every discussion of "There are three file types that contain text that you will see often..." is about a new user trying to understand.
The good managers know when they're cooked, and set out to hire an IT whiz to *recommend* solutions. "I kinda want to do that unified thing, you know, that server thingie. Where do I start?"
Turbo Clueless guys aren't doing so well in consulting anymore. In any good sized company is often an undiscovered Computer Guy (who may or may not thunder "You're Welcome!") who pipes up when a bogus pseudo-salesman is full of it. If the Senior Team is listening, they'll give him one of those "You saved our company money" pizza parties and promote him to BS detector.
I would call the "old" definition of correspondence "conversation recorded and transmitted". Since everyone now has video cell phones, and people make blogs, convresations are being captured more now.
Borrowing from Heinlein & several USA Network shows, someone with a trained eidetic memory is undetectible, and society may need to begin exploring scope.
Elsewhere Michael D. Crawford posted the following:
by MichaelCrawford (610140) on Tuesday November 27, @12:52AM (#21488871) (http://www.geometricvisions.com/ | Last Journal: Monday May 02 2005, @05:35PM) You don't have to pay the iTunes Music Store to download music legally. Many musicians offer free downloads of their music as a way to promote themselves. I'm one such artist [geometricvisions.com]. You could really help me out if you shared my music over the Internet.
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If we were to talk about the scientific method, we'd need "unknown artists" (zero initial expected sales) who actively encourage such promotion and then report later linked sales. Does your firm have any suggestions about a kind of standardized document that describes this kind of "license to promote" but would protect him should an aggressive media company were to usurp his music as alleged in the Timbaland/Nelly Furtado situation?
There was at least one other discussion here about some company patenting a Bad Practice. (Who thinks of patenting bad practices? - So, it was available)
Wasn't the discussion about using a Negative Patent to stop bully actions by competitors?
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I recently caught wind of some young people tossing about the idea of selling a vote on ebay. (!?)
The trick is: It's a method of pre-planning the vote without it being the blind activity we have today. In extreme circumstances it might be enough to haul in a dark horse third party, but only with a devastating candidate, which isn't present in this election.
Tom Clancy once wrote a book whereupon a character had to remake the government, and he nixed "all the bums". Already, we're discussing the First Woman and the First African-American in a serious run for President. Those are both non-tradtional candidates, but I don't know if we're ready for that at the gut level, despite our griping.
There are limits to Word-Of-Mouth.
In the Soda wars, about 75 years ago Moxie once nuked their marketing budget to pay for manufacturing costs, and eventually lost out to Coca-Cola.
We're having these discussions because only education/marketing can overturn things like a Chinese Banking IE Lock.
Chalk this one up to diversity of opinion. Along with the emails, I "expect" a share of misleading/optimized emails.
After a rash of consecutive such experiences, I ran out of companies to boycott and gave up in exhaustion.
I thought I heard that Radio Shack was on Commission, though don't take my word on it.
But Commission is rough on the sales guy too. When the trend cycles the other way, he can fall into the trap of getting desperate to meet a quota, or just pay his bills. However junky the rate, X/hour means if some customer is dawdling, SalesGuy just shrugs and lets them do their thing.
I suggest you decide on the quality of the card you purchased. Everyone emails, which is why it is good to have a filter email which you expect to collect sales mail.
Same theme as the folks slamming the subject of the original topic, CompUSA. For the same reason that the Chain can be tarnished by bad stores, a good individual store... can be good.
I have become less price sensitive lately. I prefer to spend a few dollars to "shut down the conversation". For example, after running into a bizarre double-speaker failure that almost made me rip out my sound card, the Geek Squad guy convinced me it had to be speakers. I bought a $100 Bose set, and ordered the Squad guy to "humor me" and "prove they work". (They did. Meaning I have no idea what was wrong earlier, but now it was gone. So be it.)
I got the $13 2-year warranty plan, which says "if anything is wrong, we'll give you new ones". The "prove it" scenario would have uncovered "anything wrong", and armed with that warranty I'd run them through their entire store inventory before leaving if I had to.
Someone refresh me on the history of this.
In what order was the phrase "Broken (MS) Windows" consciously linked to the Broken Window Fallacy? That's a phenomenal mnemonic.
What y'all are saying is that RAC is a buyer's market. I agree.
I tried it once and survived. My trick was to use it as a resource for non-experts looking to break conceptual logjams. I went into it knowing not to expect a clone to Yahoo for $1000.
All I needed was to fix an irritating spacing problem on a little website of mine. I made a point of going against the grain of the site and "overpaid" on purpose. For $100, I got 2.5 solutions (depending on if I wanted to use tables or CSS plus some tutorial PDF's so I could have a clue about how to muck around with it all afterward.)
I figured it would be something like 2 hour's work for the "warm-shots" here, so at a random $50/hr "Journeyman coder rate", $100 became my fee. I would like to be known for paying close to sensible value for jobs I post.
I'd use the service again because I'm sure I'll come up against another silly problem that I'm just not able to crack open. That's why I'm not a designer.
Because the Big Media Dinosaur has the Dinosaur's Consitution.
If some garage band called something like "The Giraffe's Spots" had one self-financed single, you could sink them pretty quickly if they pulled a stunt like seizing a computer.
On the other hand, any of the Big Media companies can survive for years on raw inertia, long enough for the "flash-in-the-pan" reaction to "no longer be kewl". Then the zealots subside, the media company makes some more media, and replenishes their war chest.
Same kinds of problems with "boycott". You can easily boycott that tiny band. The big company produces the entire contents of Room #1 at the cinema for the entire year. Some little movement with a thousand protesters isn't going to stop that.
Just like ISP's had to graduate from rapacious X/hr charge fees, Media will eventually come up with some kind of shifted subsidy to allow anyone "unlimited" access to media.
"No, it's not DougDoug, it's TomTom".
"Everquest Recommends Microsoft Vista!"
Bad software loves Root.
When I decided to actually uninstall AOL from a machine several years back, it played PacBeast on non-exclusive files and hosed my Satellite ISP.
I'll see your point and raise you one.
If we agree they are not "merely malevolent", maybe they are "incompetently malevolent"?
They are different adjectives, so they CAN be combined:
Malevolent: Implementing grand plans against usability/standards, etc. Except:
They then thrash around like bad movie villains and can't figure out WHICH malevolent trick to try!
"Let's make IE6 non-standard."
"Let's make IE7 differently non-standard."
"Let's make an incomplete format and pretend it's a standard."
"Let's promote the upgrade."
"Let's support the broken legacy lest someone defect to a standard."
"Let's retire older versions."
"Let's resurrect older versions when the new ones don't sell."
Add your own further ones.
This is a thundering mis-representation. I just got my passport earlier this year in six weeks.
All you do is pay the extra fee for expedited processing, which anyone with a job can afford after a couple weeks savings.
Something is bothering me here.
... and no one even BOTHERS to copy it.
The very old famous hand-wringing used to be "the Publishers don't want me because I'm not sacrificing my story for cheap marketeting, so I'll never be famous".
In other threads, we complain that "no one even reads anyway, so why bother at all?"
Therefore, since I am not certain to make any money at all, why not release a book for free "that anyone could copy..." - because that would mean they WANTED IT.
The true horror is making it free
My watch contains Mp3's.
If a Doctor left that watch inside a patient, would that be "making those songs available" so the doctor can then pay $9250 per song to the patient?
Aesop was prescient.
I'm always on the Tortoise side of the race. The classic split is "super-bright kids who become bored, and don't learn how to grind out long projects." Then they get F's in school, which doesn't know what to do.
I learned decades ago that sometimes you can just haul through the problem even without genius abilities.
Modified weight, maybe.
But an entire class of people who fall prey to groupthink don't care that a gossip seed was originally "anonymous". It's tantalizing, and once they tell the story enough time themselves, they decide it's true by default.
When anonymous is combined with permitted lies, social structure breaks down because it opens the way for people to accuse each other of saying it. Trolling indeed.
I respectfully disagree.
The masses are slowly grasping technology. Even the staunchest holdbacks are at least mumbling "Eh, I'm too old to learn that stuff, but my kid is good at it". Kinda the Augie Doggie Daddy wistful tone.
An iconic movie of the 1980's was "Revenge of the Nerds". Here we are. I enjoy teaching what little I know, because every discussion of "There are three file types that contain text that you will see often..." is about a new user trying to understand.
The good managers know when they're cooked, and set out to hire an IT whiz to *recommend* solutions. "I kinda want to do that unified thing, you know, that server thingie. Where do I start?"
Turbo Clueless guys aren't doing so well in consulting anymore. In any good sized company is often an undiscovered Computer Guy (who may or may not thunder "You're Welcome!") who pipes up when a bogus pseudo-salesman is full of it. If the Senior Team is listening, they'll give him one of those "You saved our company money" pizza parties and promote him to BS detector.
Is this distinction about to fall?
I would call the "old" definition of correspondence "conversation recorded and transmitted". Since everyone now has video cell phones, and people make blogs, convresations are being captured more now.
Borrowing from Heinlein & several USA Network shows, someone with a trained eidetic memory is undetectible, and society may need to begin exploring scope.
Ray,
Elsewhere Michael D. Crawford posted the following:
by MichaelCrawford (610140) on Tuesday November 27, @12:52AM (#21488871)
(http://www.geometricvisions.com/ | Last Journal: Monday May 02 2005, @05:35PM)
You don't have to pay the iTunes Music Store to download music legally. Many musicians offer free downloads of their music as a way to promote themselves. I'm one such artist [geometricvisions.com]. You could really help me out if you shared my music over the Internet.
--
If we were to talk about the scientific method, we'd need "unknown artists" (zero initial expected sales) who actively encourage such promotion and then report later linked sales. Does your firm have any suggestions about a kind of standardized document that describes this kind of "license to promote" but would protect him should an aggressive media company were to usurp his music as alleged in the Timbaland/Nelly Furtado situation?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV2fTEeP6GM
Is there precedent for different types of encouraging licenses similar to the software world? (Share only, derivatives allowed, etc.)
So far on my list are Mr. Crawford and Adam Dada who actively promote sharing of their material. But how can we standardize this?
"Checkout Clerk to Register for Customer Service."
AKA adjust volatile peak staffing.
What if they knew what they were doing?
There was at least one other discussion here about some company patenting a Bad Practice. (Who thinks of patenting bad practices? - So, it was available)
Wasn't the discussion about using a Negative Patent to stop bully actions by competitors?
Of course.
"You can't be famous & anonymous at the same time".
With the rise of the Culture of Faux Friends it's easy to become quite confused.