It's the Boiling Lobster principle. You carefully word the first announcement as a "compromise", then later when it's OldHat, you "modifiy certain ancillary factors". (Nice juicy words sure to bore the public.)
Nah, they just need to roll out Turbo grade Print On Demand.
They would crush Amazon if you could walk away with the book, rather than waiting for shipping.
For a long time the quality problems needed about 5 years of research, but they almost have it solved now. Harvard Bookstore has one. It's like Redbox on superhero stats. They just need a hardbound version to seal the deal. That would make the shelves "welcoming examples" and then experts could get their obscure texts in 15 min flat.
You patent the "sexy" form of the Patent concept, but you implement it 1-X. "Draw a burst radius around what you moved your mouse away from to read and correlate with subsequent clicks".
It's brilliant, really. We're just complaining about "unified branding". People are forgetting that the prior marketing disaster was "My". My documents, Myspace, yecch.
"e" was taken and done to death. e-mail, e-zines, etc.
Are they going to press charges? Do you think that *if that site handed over everything to the media companies, the RIAA has the legal resources to do that* against that many offenders with little more than a screenshot of someone's junk and their IP address?
I was *Phone-illiterate*. I am solid enough on desktop Windows, but I was basically furious that Windows Mobile 6 didn't "do anything right". So being the absolutely perfect candidate customer, when my upgrade coupon came due, I said, "Hell, why not?" and grabbed an iPhone 3GS. I did spend just enough care to think a little long term, so that the GS bit proved important for the emergence of iOS 4.
So yeah, when iOS gets end-of-lifed, I'll decide about Android, but I didn't buy it for the hipness.
Can they put "Eden Incentives" which only work if your phone is locked? It's like an inverse phrasing of Apple Lock. "Sure, you can have a phone, but if you set your 'i on us' we'll give you goodies!"
You say you just use an adblocker. Maybe you have tried AdBlock Plus. We would like you to take a short 1-question survey: which filter list is more effective for English viewers - Fanboy's List or EasyList?"
I really dread the rise of Micro-Audience ads, because if they're written smartly they'll be indistinguishable from Informative +1.
For nonfiction research hardbacks are completely the way to go. A shelf full of Trade Paper becomes a domino cascade every time you take 5 out of the 40 off the shelf.
I also just happen to like hardback for heavy fiction sets, like Tom Clancy.
(Snark) "Hai Apple. Nice job getting Shareware to actually work! You earned your $." (/Snark)
They got all my respect for doing business right. Everyone, take your $200 and buy your favorite apps. (Waits)
Okay, everyone back? Everyone got your nice little 50 apps at $4 each? Good. Where were we... Oh yes, the web. Watch what happens when 50% of companies stop maintaining the back end of their apps. We'll see 12 lawsuits from critical cases, and then it will all shake out into the top 100 apps that everyone will want, and we'll go back to *basic* info wanting to be free.
Let the teachers focus on creativity and the rest. If you want your kids to have great spelling and grammar tell them that they have two months to learn it cold and then you'll give them $100 each. Why? Because those are measurable, *low level* skills.
No I will NOT get off your lawn. I'll take the grass blades from your lawn and teach your kids how to make hand-reed instruments with it, the range of which varies proportionally with the size of the grass. As for you, $250 later ($50 in supplies) your kids will know grammar and spelling well enough for MS Word to fix it like everyone else who's not in IT does.
Yes, two grammar errors were deliberately included with this post to piss you off. Please diagram them.
" Your Rights Online: Berkeley Says College Attendees' Information Was Leaked Posted by Someone on Thursday September 08, @03:26PM from the hopefully-no-dropped-rows-on-the-grade report dept. [ Security ] NoelCoward writes "Thousands of people got a nasty e-mail this morning from Berkely. The comllege was warning people that its attendee DNA database for its semester 2010 event was hacked. If it's not embarrassing enough for a college to get hacked, the e-mail also went out to people who didn't register and didn't attend the school. That raises questions about exactly what database was pried open and how bad the damage is. Berkeley's e-mail said the hole was quickly closed and only goatse-type humor was exposed."/PseudoQuote
PseudoQuote: "Unfortunately, the RIAA's Allies were not reasonable enough to turn a blind eye to all the small fish and tried to prosecute each and every copyright infringer, despite being out of proportion. It was a goal to get everyone."
(Can I claim the copyright on Reverse-Godwin, the art of taking threads about Nazis and steering them into MAFIAA discussions?)
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2/3 of people with money to burn!
AKA poor people don't count!
Aren't "agreements" awesome?
It's the Boiling Lobster principle. You carefully word the first announcement as a "compromise", then later when it's OldHat, you "modifiy certain ancillary factors". (Nice juicy words sure to bore the public.)
Nah, they just need to roll out Turbo grade Print On Demand.
They would crush Amazon if you could walk away with the book, rather than waiting for shipping.
For a long time the quality problems needed about 5 years of research, but they almost have it solved now. Harvard Bookstore has one. It's like Redbox on superhero stats. They just need a hardbound version to seal the deal. That would make the shelves "welcoming examples" and then experts could get their obscure texts in 15 min flat.
Don't make the website angry. You wouldn't like the website when it's angry!
Of course they do.
Welcome to the art of Inverse Patents.
You patent the "sexy" form of the Patent concept, but you implement it 1-X. "Draw a burst radius around what you moved your mouse away from to read and correlate with subsequent clicks".
It's brilliant, really. We're just complaining about "unified branding". People are forgetting that the prior marketing disaster was "My". My documents, Myspace, yecch.
"e" was taken and done to death. e-mail, e-zines, etc.
Are they going to press charges? Do you think that *if that site handed over everything to the media companies, the RIAA has the legal resources to do that* against that many offenders with little more than a screenshot of someone's junk and their IP address?
Fixed that for you.
Gives new meaning to "this dick is a pirate".
I was *Phone-illiterate*. I am solid enough on desktop Windows, but I was basically furious that Windows Mobile 6 didn't "do anything right". So being the absolutely perfect candidate customer, when my upgrade coupon came due, I said, "Hell, why not?" and grabbed an iPhone 3GS. I did spend just enough care to think a little long term, so that the GS bit proved important for the emergence of iOS 4.
So yeah, when iOS gets end-of-lifed, I'll decide about Android, but I didn't buy it for the hipness.
Can they put "Eden Incentives" which only work if your phone is locked? It's like an inverse phrasing of Apple Lock. "Sure, you can have a phone, but if you set your 'i on us' we'll give you goodies!"
Ray Stevens Mississippi Squirrel - GoodyGoody's , 1-0.
Sign me up!
I wanna see the ads next to today's Fark article "Zombie Porn Movie banned from film festival".
"Hi Somersault.
You say you just use an adblocker. Maybe you have tried AdBlock Plus. We would like you to take a short 1-question survey: which filter list is more effective for English viewers - Fanboy's List or EasyList?"
I really dread the rise of Micro-Audience ads, because if they're written smartly they'll be indistinguishable from Informative +1.
Not necessarily 2001 -
Sometimes hardware devices can create really weird dates. I have a music converter that produces stuff tagged as 2002.
This means you buy mostly fiction.
For nonfiction research hardbacks are completely the way to go. A shelf full of Trade Paper becomes a domino cascade every time you take 5 out of the 40 off the shelf.
I also just happen to like hardback for heavy fiction sets, like Tom Clancy.
Bravo
I read TFS a certauin way, and then searched for exactly your post... here it is!
"I think the problem would be finding a Tolkien Ring..."
PRECIOUSSSS!!!
I'm just having fun that Apps are so much better than Windows Mobile 6. After I get all my shinies, I'll just go back to my life.
(Snark)
"Hai Apple. Nice job getting Shareware to actually work! You earned your $."
(/Snark)
They got all my respect for doing business right. Everyone, take your $200 and buy your favorite apps. (Waits)
Okay, everyone back? Everyone got your nice little 50 apps at $4 each? Good. Where were we ... Oh yes, the web. Watch what happens when 50% of companies stop maintaining the back end of their apps. We'll see 12 lawsuits from critical cases, and then it will all shake out into the top 100 apps that everyone will want, and we'll go back to *basic* info wanting to be free.
Here we go. Prepare to be frustrated.
Let the teachers focus on creativity and the rest. If you want your kids to have great spelling and grammar tell them that they have two months to learn it cold and then you'll give them $100 each. Why? Because those are measurable, *low level* skills.
No I will NOT get off your lawn. I'll take the grass blades from your lawn and teach your kids how to make hand-reed instruments with it, the range of which varies proportionally with the size of the grass. As for you, $250 later ($50 in supplies) your kids will know grammar and spelling well enough for MS Word to fix it like everyone else who's not in IT does.
Yes, two grammar errors were deliberately included with this post to piss you off. Please diagram them.
PseudoQuote:
" /PseudoQuote
Your Rights Online: Berkeley Says College Attendees' Information Was Leaked
Posted by Someone on Thursday September 08, @03:26PM
from the hopefully-no-dropped-rows-on-the-grade report dept.
[ Security ]
NoelCoward writes "Thousands of people got a nasty e-mail this morning from Berkely. The comllege was warning people that its attendee DNA database for its semester 2010 event was hacked. If it's not embarrassing enough for a college to get hacked, the e-mail also went out to people who didn't register and didn't attend the school. That raises questions about exactly what database was pried open and how bad the damage is. Berkeley's e-mail said the hole was quickly closed and only goatse-type humor was exposed."
Oh Oh! I know this one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IcEFOLJARI
Jim Meskimen's Cartoon Caption Contest
PseudoQuote: "Unfortunately, the RIAA's Allies were not reasonable enough to turn a blind eye to all the small fish and tried to prosecute each and every copyright infringer, despite being out of proportion. It was a goal to get everyone."
(Can I claim the copyright on Reverse-Godwin, the art of taking threads about Nazis and steering them into MAFIAA discussions?)
Slashdot's daily quote:
Art is anything you can get away with. -- Marshall McLuhan.
Can we get some custom mowers that short when they're not mowing every second, and try to box each other into mowed lines on your lawn?
I wanna see the Skeksi interface!
The Dark Crystal (1982)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083791/plotsummary