It's the latter. In fact, making an announcement like that early on in Q1 is probably a way of increasing the stock price today (assuming they are traded). Since traders often purchase stock in companies during the summer or spring that they believe will increase in value during the winter due to the "christmas craze" that always causes a spike in sales volume for many kinds of companies, advertising a sort of "christmas product lineup" is a good way to make your company look attractive to speculators who will buy stock 6-8 months before Q4, pushing up the stock price. And since investors buy that early in the yearly cycle, making the announcement this early makes sense from that perspective.
I'd have a happier holiday if you weren't so PC about it by not acknowledging its existence by calling it "holiday".
I'd have a happier holiday if you assholes didn't say "merry christmas" to me twelve times a day, every day, during the month of December. I'm an agnostic, you insensitive clods!
Because I don't make assumptions. I am a devout agnostic, and I think the "big bang" theory is just as stupid and unprovable as your "big guy in the sky" theory.
You're right, nobody KNOWS what happened 15 billion years ago. That's the point. If you don't know, and you admit that you don't know, then why do you even bother making up an answer to an unanswerable question?
Easy to say when you aren't being murdered, looted or raped
Yes. That's kind of implied.
none of the athiests were honest about it either
I actually thought this to myself after I posted, but you know how/. is about multiple posts. Anyway, yeah, nobody who wars is honest about it. But at least an atheist can wage war without implicitly being a hypocrite then and there on the spot. It isn't fundamentally opposed to the basic tenets of their adopted philosophy.
Yeah, but at least the atheists killing people aren't hypocrites. I mean, I can stand murdering, looting, and raping, but my god man, at least be honest about it.
For the seller of the product, it doesn't matter if you click or not. Simply getting the name and logo of the product can increase sales through the mere exposure effect.
But I really shouldn't try to take you seriously here, since I know and you know that you're just being pedantic to look cool. You're saying they don't want you to watch the ads, but they want you to click on them and buy the product? Seeing the ad at all ("watching it") is a precursor to those two activities. You can't have them without it. You basically said "they don't want me to see the advertisements, they want me to buy their stuff!"
I don't think he was talking about ads in your quotation. I think he was saying that almost as soon as someone is done with a webpage, they whisk away to go do something else. Webpages always have hyperlinks to other parts of their page, videos, sound bites, other affiliated pages, and so forth. All of THAT freedom is competing with the advertisements, and the desire of the advertisers to sit you down and force you to watch their stuff.
That certainly had something to do with it, but there were a great deal of contributing factors, particularly depending on which effects of the credit meltdown you are concentrating on (bank insolvency, the decline in value of subprime mortgage assets, the decline in value of residential real estate, etc). For example (and this plays into your point) when primary lenders were distributing mortgage-backed securities to secondary lenders (other banks who would buy mortgages packaged together), they were able to pass the risk of lending the money onto another bank. This doesn't just mean that the people didn't care about the performance of their bank in order to fatten their paychecks; they were so interested in fattening their paychecks that they ingeniously passed all of their commission-incentive dodgy loans onto OTHER banks, where they would damage the performance there!
In other words, don't try to boil it down to a single issue. You just can't.
It is loose. You should adjust it, or else the CIA will be able to use their alien-technology brain wave scanners to read your thoughts and learn that you have betrayed their secret!
You need to join the Marine Corps, get YOUR ass over and get is shot at for awhile -- just cause you are an infidel
Ever heard of the idea of a "cycle of violence?" I think there's more to the conflict than some people simply deciding on their own that Marines are infidels. How do you think Americans would react if their government was overthrown and their country was occupied by the armed forces of a more powerful nation, from a different part of the world with different political and moral beliefs? Say, China perhaps?
I think they would react with violence. Anyone would.
Agile has it's merits for sure, but you're being incredibly narrow-minded here. Your "breakdown" of tech companies basically presumes that Agile is "the one and only" way and that is just as fallacious as thinking that the waterfall design process is "the one and only" way. Choosing a design methodology without reasons for choosing that methodology that are specific to YOUR project is asking for a disaster. Don't choose a design process because you worship it as a religion; choose it because it's right for you. Try taking a look at some of the writing done by Fred Brooks, an author who comes highly recommended from a graduate-level software engineering and architecture professor.
You were doing great until you started talking about "race invasion." The fact of the matter is that people of color are more likely to have lower incomes and less assets than white people. Race doesn't breed crime and squalor, poverty breeds it.
Then that will give them the motivation to get a summer job in order to build their OWN gaming machine. They'll appreciate it more and learn the value of work.
Besides, even a hand-me-down can probably manage to play Counter-Strike, Fallout, or Decker.
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ye syes we will pay them wiht worthless american money that they all end up lending back to the usa
So your evil plan is to pay them back, with interest? How nefarious.
It's the latter. In fact, making an announcement like that early on in Q1 is probably a way of increasing the stock price today (assuming they are traded). Since traders often purchase stock in companies during the summer or spring that they believe will increase in value during the winter due to the "christmas craze" that always causes a spike in sales volume for many kinds of companies, advertising a sort of "christmas product lineup" is a good way to make your company look attractive to speculators who will buy stock 6-8 months before Q4, pushing up the stock price. And since investors buy that early in the yearly cycle, making the announcement this early makes sense from that perspective.
I'd have a happier holiday if you weren't so PC about it by not acknowledging its existence by calling it "holiday".
I'd have a happier holiday if you assholes didn't say "merry christmas" to me twelve times a day, every day, during the month of December. I'm an agnostic, you insensitive clods!
Because I don't make assumptions. I am a devout agnostic, and I think the "big bang" theory is just as stupid and unprovable as your "big guy in the sky" theory.
You're right, nobody KNOWS what happened 15 billion years ago. That's the point. If you don't know, and you admit that you don't know, then why do you even bother making up an answer to an unanswerable question?
I would think you would want to look forward to a brighter possibility than yours but I guess you must be a pessimist at heart
Maybe he's a scientist at heart who doesn't feel the need to believe in fairy tales in order to cope with the trials and tribulations of life.
Easy to say when you aren't being murdered, looted or raped
Yes. That's kind of implied.
none of the athiests were honest about it either
I actually thought this to myself after I posted, but you know how /. is about multiple posts. Anyway, yeah, nobody who wars is honest about it. But at least an atheist can wage war without implicitly being a hypocrite then and there on the spot. It isn't fundamentally opposed to the basic tenets of their adopted philosophy.
Yeah, but at least the atheists killing people aren't hypocrites. I mean, I can stand murdering, looting, and raping, but my god man, at least be honest about it.
less than minimum wage selling drugs
I take it you've never sold drugs before.
That is true. "Clicks" are easy to track and quantify. "Views" are a little fuzzier.
For the seller of the product, it doesn't matter if you click or not. Simply getting the name and logo of the product can increase sales through the mere exposure effect.
But I really shouldn't try to take you seriously here, since I know and you know that you're just being pedantic to look cool. You're saying they don't want you to watch the ads, but they want you to click on them and buy the product? Seeing the ad at all ("watching it") is a precursor to those two activities. You can't have them without it. You basically said "they don't want me to see the advertisements, they want me to buy their stuff!"
I don't think he was talking about ads in your quotation. I think he was saying that almost as soon as someone is done with a webpage, they whisk away to go do something else. Webpages always have hyperlinks to other parts of their page, videos, sound bites, other affiliated pages, and so forth. All of THAT freedom is competing with the advertisements, and the desire of the advertisers to sit you down and force you to watch their stuff.
Despite its portfolio diversity -- including operating systems, antivirus software, and video game consoles
Those are all technology related. I would hardly call that a "diverse" set of assets.
I'd kill a man for a single mod point at this moment.
Okay, maybe not. But I would for a million dollars!
Well, let's be realistic. I'd probably do it for just a hundred grand.
That certainly had something to do with it, but there were a great deal of contributing factors, particularly depending on which effects of the credit meltdown you are concentrating on (bank insolvency, the decline in value of subprime mortgage assets, the decline in value of residential real estate, etc). For example (and this plays into your point) when primary lenders were distributing mortgage-backed securities to secondary lenders (other banks who would buy mortgages packaged together), they were able to pass the risk of lending the money onto another bank. This doesn't just mean that the people didn't care about the performance of their bank in order to fatten their paychecks; they were so interested in fattening their paychecks that they ingeniously passed all of their commission-incentive dodgy loans onto OTHER banks, where they would damage the performance there!
In other words, don't try to boil it down to a single issue. You just can't.
You sir, are quite a well-articulated gentleman.
Your parody is a derivative work. It should fall under the "fair use" clause.
It is loose. You should adjust it, or else the CIA will be able to use their alien-technology brain wave scanners to read your thoughts and learn that you have betrayed their secret!
Yeah, try telling that to my 8gb of system RAM.
What WAS he saying? You can't just insult people if you want to get your ideas out there, you have to say WHY you disagree.
You need to join the Marine Corps, get YOUR ass over and get is shot at for awhile -- just cause you are an infidel
Ever heard of the idea of a "cycle of violence?" I think there's more to the conflict than some people simply deciding on their own that Marines are infidels. How do you think Americans would react if their government was overthrown and their country was occupied by the armed forces of a more powerful nation, from a different part of the world with different political and moral beliefs? Say, China perhaps?
I think they would react with violence. Anyone would.
Agile has it's merits for sure, but you're being incredibly narrow-minded here. Your "breakdown" of tech companies basically presumes that Agile is "the one and only" way and that is just as fallacious as thinking that the waterfall design process is "the one and only" way. Choosing a design methodology without reasons for choosing that methodology that are specific to YOUR project is asking for a disaster. Don't choose a design process because you worship it as a religion; choose it because it's right for you. Try taking a look at some of the writing done by Fred Brooks, an author who comes highly recommended from a graduate-level software engineering and architecture professor.
You were doing great until you started talking about "race invasion." The fact of the matter is that people of color are more likely to have lower incomes and less assets than white people. Race doesn't breed crime and squalor, poverty breeds it.
this people shoudl not be talking about airplanes and engines
For an American, you sure don't seem to put very much stock in the first amendment.
While that isn't a common game design, it wouldn't be an innovation either. Try Diablo 2 or Hinterland on "hardcore" mode.
Then that will give them the motivation to get a summer job in order to build their OWN gaming machine. They'll appreciate it more and learn the value of work.
Besides, even a hand-me-down can probably manage to play Counter-Strike, Fallout, or Decker.