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About Christopher GizziSeasoned corporate strategist with ten years of successful project, information, and operations management experience in the equities, derivatives, and commodities markets. Decision-making and project experience include software development, real estate planning, process management, business modeling, IT build-out, and policy design. |
Just reply with this:
Once a monkey can sign that, it might be a more legitimate request.
GL with that.
Dangerous
Not having looked into their finaincials myself, I'm led to believe there could be some questions around their business model. But it's funny (and dangerous) that Groupon has spawned so many competitors. And they've each raised a sizable amount of money.
I feel investors are more scared of missing out on an opportunity than understanding the fundamentals. The key that I've always had in my personal life is if I don't understand how they make their money... don't risk yours (mine... whatever).
People then talk of bubbles... the social discount bubble will burst or the social apartment lending will burst (especaillly when cities like NYC make it illegal to sublet like that). But I see it as the free market doing this thing. But the free market isn't always smart and I see this as another risky bet.
Won't somebody think of the children??
She's the parody of these types of arguments and, because I always think of those clips, I immediately discount whatever is said "for the children".
Settled
TorrentialRain.com is Out
Of course it can!
Has and will be
From news, to music, & software - someone is always going to hate Google and call them rogue no matter what the law really says. Even if someone passed a law that said Google and everything it does is completely legal, someone will want to block or stop it.
Re: I hope this sets an international precedent!
It isn't piracy
And Ballmer isn't a great CEO - which others have noted.
But the real issue is this: when you make a bad product, treat your customers poorly, don't adapt to different markets/consumers/customers in a way that the free market expects, you're bound to suffer.
That's the bottom line.
Make a better product, react to the market faster, & don't disrespect your customer base (and assume they're all criminals) and you might win some business back - even if its in a new form.
Turned to the Political Dark Side He Has
Franken was seduced by the Dark Side of Politics. He ceased to be Al Franken and "became" Senator Franken. When that happened, the good man who was Al was destroyed.
Not a big worry
But it's not going to be long when this doesn't matter. Smartphones and 3G connected netbooks and tablets are going to render this moot in a year or so. True, it's an extra expense for the employee. But if it means you can do just about whatever you want on your own equipment and save you the risk of an employer snooping into your affairs, why wouldn't you?
The fact of the matter remains that if you don't like the policies, don't work at a place that has them. It sucks, yes. But do what I do... use my iPhone and iPad to do my email. Hooking up a wireless keyboard to them (like many other phones and tablets can do) makes it almost like your desktop without any employer able to claim misuse of company property or network.
Just only do that sort of thing if you're getting your work done.
Why does this sound familiar?
If Obama doesn't want to be compared to "communists" why does his administration do this?
Re:
At least Apple addressed the "controversy" with a statement. Google doesn't say what it tracks and in these pages, we've discussed the weird tracking data they've obtained "by accident" or through questionable ways.
And, for what it's worth... they outlined what they're changing to address the concerns out there. Considering Apple has been more opt in than opt out, I'm siding with them on this.
They aren't evil and they don't have Google's obsession with ads but they would use this data if it served their purpose, I'm sure. And there is spin in the PR that raised a few more questions than it answered. But it's nowhere near as bad as their competitors.
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I agree it is from a certain point of view. But commodities, in the classic sense, are still scarce goods and bought & sold on the open market.
But if IP is, in fact, property as its proponents suggest, you can come up with a CME, NYBOT, ICE, NYMEX style of exchange around it just like the do coffee, sugar, oil, & nat gas.
If you tried, you'd see how quickly the prices would go to zero.
Promoting Art
Not sticking up for users.
That said, I'm sure they see an issue with the lack of security in plain text passwords but what makes you think those two companies aren't tracking that information already in some way? it just means they might have to keep it longer (again, not bad for them) and they have to give it up when asked.
It's not rights they're worried about. It's their burden.
Such a Great Idea
The way I consume my news is through RSS - I've created my own aggregation system via Google's Reader & the various iPhone/iPad apps that sync with it. I expect summaries before clicking on a full article or seeing the whole thing without restriction.
The Atlantic Wire is a perfect substitute. And by acting as a human filter, I can focus on news that actually might have more of an impact to me if someone outside of NYC thought it important to mention on their site.
I'm impressed and I'll be looking into their site more. I actually never heard of it until now but I can promise I'll be visiting often to get the summary of my (former) newspaper.
Odd Quotes from Yahoo
"They are a company, after all, and simply giving the product away for free for years and years doesn't make for good business."
I think many of us believe there is a way to compete with free. In fact, the author even highlights this as a failure on the NY Times' part:
"If you can't immediately roll out an unbeatable user experience, how can you expect people to thrown down several hundred dollars when there are dozens of other news outlets they can frequent instead for free?"
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