Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 1) 197
In that case the engineering drawings for a 777 (or anything else) should also be open to public scrutiny. Is that reasonable?
In that case the engineering drawings for a 777 (or anything else) should also be open to public scrutiny. Is that reasonable?
Honestly, I find this "magic" marketing strategy to be a complete turnoff.
The fact that you're on Slashdot makes you Not The Target Market.
To most people, virtually any computer thingie is sufficiently advanced.
"Acts of God" is a legal term encompassing chance events, sudden natural disasters, and other unforeseeable and uncontrollable happenings. Forest fires, lightning, earthquakes, meteor strikes, volcanic eruptions, sudden sinkholes, etc.
The lawyers and judges understand what it means. It's a standard part of contracts and has nothing to do with any deity or religious belief whatsoever.
Jesus! God has individual control over each nut?
He must. They all claim to either know him or be him
(By the way, The Times didn't exist in the 12th century).
Freudian typo. It's still stuck in the 11th, obviously.
"WhichTimes"? This article is really tagged "WhichTimes"? It's the real and proper Times, damnit. The one that's called "The Times" (unless it is a Sunday, at which point it is called "The Sunday Times").
You mean, it's the one that's so out of touch with reality that it doesn't recognize that, in the last 220 years, some real and legitimate competition has arisen? No wonder they're having trouble adjusting to the 12st century
Luckily, if things keep going the way they are, there will only be one Times again. Though probably not that one.
It may shock some people, but there was an Internet (and a web) before there were commercially supported websites.
It was smaller, but it worked just fine. In fact, it worked beautifully. Many of us want it back.
How about you just sell the product and let the market sort it out?
Sounds like you need to re-read the thread above. What product? What market? Exactly. Those simply don't exist without marketing. Word of mouth is a form of marketing.
Basically what you're saying is, you've never bought anything and don't know anything about any product. All you know about is a hypothetical product called a "widget", and you have no idea where these things called, computers, originate.
Good lord, you're stupid. What is this, the Chewbacca Defense school of marketing?
"We have something, you need it, but it's so amazing we can't even tell you what it might be. Be glad we're telling you about it at all!"
You couldn't sell crack to an addict.
Everyone I know with an iPhone 4 has the issue(s) but NONE of them have called AppleCare or gone to the Apple store to complain. They have all been patiently waiting for Apple to take care of them.
In other words, thave unrealistic expectations about their partner's emotional sensitivity.
"Why haven't you fixed the issues I haven't told you I'm experiencing?"
The humans get their energy from the nutrient filled goo. DUH. Where do they get the nutrients for the goo you ask? From the dead humans! DUH.
Obviously it's a depleting system with fewer and fewer humans to be gotten each time around. But one can also assume that when the sky was blacked out there was vegetation and vegetable and animal organics. The machines could have found a way to convert that into sugars (along with the other dead humans of course) and nutrients to feed the humans.
There is quite a bit of organic energy already here.
The original idea was that the matrix was a distributed system using human brains as nodes. That's why the humans were jacked in. When you think about it that way, the whole movie becomes at least two times better.
The hollywood people decided that would be too confusing to the audience, and thus the reason for the humans to be hooked in became a thermodynamic WTF.
If I'm interested in a product, I don't need to be told about it. If I want to find it, I'll find it
My head just exploded.
In general terms, the point of most advertising is to either introduce an unknown or new product to the public or to inform the public of benefits of using said product. As such, if you don't know about a product, how would you know you don't need to be told about it? Which means, you know you don't know so you don't need to know, therefore not knowing means you know enough about it to not need to know. WTF?!
*Boom* There it went again.
How about you just sell the product and let the market sort it out?
People (or "consumers," as marketers prefer to think of them) are actually quite capable of finding products to meet their needs. They talk to friends, consult experts and reference works, and visit retail stores.
Most products are not new. Most of them are only slightly altered versions of existing products...or worse, restyled versions of existing products (eg. clothes, MS Office releases.) In the exceptionally rare case that a truly new product is introduced, it's typically covered by the media (news, trade press, blogs, Slashdot) to some degree or another. And then there's word of mouth again.
Personally, I don't watch a lot of TV, and I block ads on the Internet. In spite of this, and to the confusion of marketing students everywhere, I manage to live a remarkably normal life. I'm not, as you marketers might assume, rocking back and forth in a bare, empty room, crying to myself and wondering if anyone has developed a consumable substance to satisfy the terrible hunger pangs that I periodically feel, cover my naked form, or entertain myself.
Ah... now here's someone who has been paying attention
Obviously, the Russians were after something other than the Windows source code. Microsoft does a lot more than Windows; maybe this had to do with Office, Microsoft's online service offerings, Exchange Server, SQL Server etc. You know, stuff that wouldn't be in the WIndows 7 source code (bear in mind that Windows 7 is a client OS)
Or more likely, business strategy, research & development direction, or contract bid pricing. Only a geek would assume he was in it for teh codez.
But, seriously Apple, you did a recall with the MacBook battery issue. You replaced batteries and even though it cost you some money your karma was helped by it.
Karma nothing. Recalls of dangerous products are mandated by US law. Even "voluntary" recalls aren't; the company either does them voluntarily when the company or CPSC finds a defect, or it risks being sued and paying a penalty in addition to doing a recall.
For that matter, selling a defective product that is not a safety hazard does not trigger a "recall." Unless these iPhones are strangling small children, catching fire, or are poisonous if touched, there's no recall potential here.
Uhhh.. that will show them?
"If you don't give in to our demands...we'll give up & stop existing?"
It's not like they can really threaten Oracle into submission. Sometimes, you just have to roll over and ask, "Honey, are you really in this for the long run, or are you just screwing me?" If you don't like the answer, you just pack up and leave. No need to go all psycho.
What were we talking about again? Oh yeah. If the organization disbands, Solaris loses some of its credibility as an open platform with a healthy, involved community. Not a death blow, but better than prolonging a charade.
Perhaps a better question is why does almost every other first world country have a longer life expectancy than the US? (not a huge margin, but there is some).
How does Cuba have a longer life expectancy? Why do the majority of first world nations, and again, Cuba, have lower infant mortality than the US?
What is something most all of those countries have, and yet spend less (per capita) on than the US. hrm...
A lack of subsidized corn.
Subsidized corn means the USA has lots of cheap, shitty food sweetened with high fructose corn syrup and fried in corn oil. In other words, lots of Calories. Lots of Calories means lots of obesity (borne out by statistics.) Lots of obesity means earlier death and higher infant mortality.
In fact, it's a wonder we live as long as we do. Americans are the most overweight people on the planet. Keeping lardasses like us alive so long demonstrates that we have a fantastic health care system...and really fucked up national priorities.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
