Step 1: Start a JV with a non-controlling stake in China
Step 2: Hand over all of your intellectual property
Step 3: ????
Step 4: Profit
China is a red herring, because outsiders do not win. The companies that realize this sooner and move on to other markets like India and Brazil/South America will be better off in the long run.
Here the problem is not that website are doing *stastistics* (they can the information is trivial).
The problem is that, in order to compute said stats, the websites *forwards* the data to google : a 3rd party which has nothing to do in the first palce.
The solution : Use adblock and/or noscript.
The problem (based on your description above) is that Gemany is outlawing SaaS. There is no way a small time web site owner could roll his own and host an analytics platform as useful as Google Analytics. Website owners will be hurt by this. Too bad Germany does not regulate what Google does with the information instead of blocking a useful tool for web site owners. It must be a b!tch to start a business in Germany.
Does Google Analytics collect *personally identifiable* information. Was was not aware that I could see the names or unique identifiers of people visiting my site.
You are quite possibly the most awesome poster in Slashdot history.
Agreed. Pizzas - awesome. Analogies - awesome. Recycled jokes on/. - awesome (at least to modders). Why is this guy's comment score at 0? This could only be explained by another pizza analogy...
... this is a protection measure to make sure that any company stupid enough to try and set this precedent (advertising in the OS) will have to pay through the nose to Apple. It is in fact, the quintessential poison pill.
Wow. I admire Steve Jobs, but not to the point of denial. Jobs cares about athletics... almost as much as he cares about making money. I could easily imagine Apple selling top billing in the ap store or iTunes store to the highest bidder -- or running an ad before you get into the stores.
Advertisers, if they are thinking about it rationally, love this because unlike with newspapers and magazines, they know exactly how many people viewed an ad, how many people clicked it, and they may know a great deal more about that person, demographically, than they ever knew about any individual or group of individuals that made up a newspaper's subscriber base.
Another reason content publishers are screwed. They can't lie about how many people read their content anymore.
If you're in the military, you waive your right to even know what they're injecting you with. NO THANKS. I am not a number, I am getting the fuck out of here.
Plam could also work with a different media player that accepts plug-ins and distribute it with the phone. That's got to be a lot easier than rolling your own song library app. iTunes could use a little competition.
The problem with the above analogy is that Chevrolet *makes* Cadillac, and Chevrolet makes a LOT of cheaper versions of the Caddy. On the other hand, Apple is trying to do the "Caddy" thing with no alternate cheaper versions.
You can get an OS X machine for 1/5th the cost of their cheapest lap top.
The bulk of the cost is not for hardware and software. It's probably for standardizing spending data from 50 byzantine state bureaucracies. Each state probably needs to build some infrastructure and systems to aggregate and feed the spending data to a central warehouse to drive the web site.
"$18 million to redesign a web site," is an over simplistic headline that does not take into account all of the work that goes into tracking and displaying almost a trillion dollars worth of spending.
So, how much do you think a system and web site that keeps track of and displays how nearly a trillion dollars gets spent should cost? Your banking site and the systems needed to view your account details and transactions probably cost more than $18 MM to build from scratch.
I think your right. Just a wild guess here, but you probably went to a public school in a rich suburb, and the GP probably teaches in the ghetto, where the "bad" end of the behavior spectrum has different motivations and higher stakes. Think John Hughes vs. Spike Lee.
We're tired of waiting for docs to adopt EMRs, so we're about to roll out a claims-based PHR for our members to keep track of basic things like physician encounters, vaccinations, drug lists and interactions, etc -- basically anything you can get from an insurance claim. I'm not looking forward to the switchboard lighting up on day one when they discover they've been diagnosed (a.k.a up-coded) with conditions for re-reimbursement reasons rather than actual diagnostic reasons.
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Because online game developers now have web platform options for the iphone/iPad
Step 1: Start a JV with a non-controlling stake in China Step 2: Hand over all of your intellectual property Step 3: ???? Step 4: Profit China is a red herring, because outsiders do not win. The companies that realize this sooner and move on to other markets like India and Brazil/South America will be better off in the long run.
Does anyone have examples of "ready-to-use opensource packages" as easy to use and administer as GA or Google Optimizer?
Here the problem is not that website are doing *stastistics* (they can the information is trivial). The problem is that, in order to compute said stats, the websites *forwards* the data to google : a 3rd party which has nothing to do in the first palce.
The solution : Use adblock and/or noscript.
The problem (based on your description above) is that Gemany is outlawing SaaS. There is no way a small time web site owner could roll his own and host an analytics platform as useful as Google Analytics. Website owners will be hurt by this. Too bad Germany does not regulate what Google does with the information instead of blocking a useful tool for web site owners. It must be a b!tch to start a business in Germany.
Does Google Analytics collect *personally identifiable* information. Was was not aware that I could see the names or unique identifiers of people visiting my site.
You are quite possibly the most awesome poster in Slashdot history.
Agreed. Pizzas - awesome. Analogies - awesome. Recycled jokes on /. - awesome (at least to modders). Why is this guy's comment score at 0? This could only be explained by another pizza analogy...
...here in the EU it [bribery] is still frowned upon.
+5 HILARIOUS!
comes with a free camera phone.
... this is a protection measure to make sure that any company stupid enough to try and set this precedent (advertising in the OS) will have to pay through the nose to Apple. It is in fact, the quintessential poison pill.
Wow. I admire Steve Jobs, but not to the point of denial. Jobs cares about athletics... almost as much as he cares about making money. I could easily imagine Apple selling top billing in the ap store or iTunes store to the highest bidder -- or running an ad before you get into the stores.
Because the JAVA creator is not running interference as the ars article cites.
It's not about Solaris. It's about MySQL
Advertisers, if they are thinking about it rationally, love this because unlike with newspapers and magazines, they know exactly how many people viewed an ad, how many people clicked it, and they may know a great deal more about that person, demographically, than they ever knew about any individual or group of individuals that made up a newspaper's subscriber base.
Another reason content publishers are screwed. They can't lie about how many people read their content anymore.
If you're in the military, you waive your right to even know what they're injecting you with. NO THANKS. I am not a number, I am getting the fuck out of here.
Source?
...the people who didnt would only be harming themselves.
Not so with healthcare workers. If a nurse or physician becomes infected, he/she would be a vector for the virus -- infecting other people.
Don't forget non-working honkies, hillbillies, and rednecks who sit on their asses and post racial slurs on slash dotall day.
Mod parent up.
Plam could also work with a different media player that accepts plug-ins and distribute it with the phone. That's got to be a lot easier than rolling your own song library app. iTunes could use a little competition.
The problem with the above analogy is that Chevrolet *makes* Cadillac, and Chevrolet makes a LOT of cheaper versions of the Caddy. On the other hand, Apple is trying to do the "Caddy" thing with no alternate cheaper versions.
You can get an OS X machine for 1/5th the cost of their cheapest lap top.
Not sure how that would change the used market. You'll just have $30 new games selling for $15 used.
In Soviet Russia, censors fnck you!
The bulk of the cost is not for hardware and software. It's probably for standardizing spending data from 50 byzantine state bureaucracies. Each state probably needs to build some infrastructure and systems to aggregate and feed the spending data to a central warehouse to drive the web site.
"$18 million to redesign a web site," is an over simplistic headline that does not take into account all of the work that goes into tracking and displaying almost a trillion dollars worth of spending.
So, how much do you think a system and web site that keeps track of and displays how nearly a trillion dollars gets spent should cost? Your banking site and the systems needed to view your account details and transactions probably cost more than $18 MM to build from scratch.
Maybe your experiences are different to mine.
I think your right. Just a wild guess here, but you probably went to a public school in a rich suburb, and the GP probably teaches in the ghetto, where the "bad" end of the behavior spectrum has different motivations and higher stakes. Think John Hughes vs. Spike Lee.
IHNRTFA, but aren't there fewer ads per online episode? If FOX sells 10 spots at $40 vs. 4 spots at $60, TV is still more lucrative.
We're tired of waiting for docs to adopt EMRs, so we're about to roll out a claims-based PHR for our members to keep track of basic things like physician encounters, vaccinations, drug lists and interactions, etc -- basically anything you can get from an insurance claim. I'm not looking forward to the switchboard lighting up on day one when they discover they've been diagnosed (a.k.a up-coded) with conditions for re-reimbursement reasons rather than actual diagnostic reasons.