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It definitely does, but the magnitude of the affect varies based on the clientele. For example, the affect on a web-based business would probably be much greater.

For example - I ran a file hosting site a number of years ago using a pre-built php script, and the default template with a few modifications. I ran it with this template for a few years, until I was making enough profit to warrant hiring someone to make a new site template for me. I hired someone off of rent-a-coder for less than $100, and within a week of installing the new theme my pageviews increased about 20% overnight, and stayed there.
This links redirects me to the local language version with the Language=mylanguage in the url. This is beyond annoying.
Having a genuine interest in the other party makes all the difference. (Lack sincerity going in and you'll sound like a polished politician at best.) When you really care about the person you're meeting, your external focus leaves you no room to worry what they think of you -- an all too common distraction -- and leads to a self-reinforcing confidence that aids the exchange more than any pre-scripted techniques can.
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Getty Images is all over the web. And while initially it might be like you say, I think it will eventually become some sort of branding that people will learn to use.
France had a similar policy in the mid 90s. I recall SSL had a renegotiation to allow banking sites to upgrade from the weak key to a stronger one. Over time, this policy went away.

There are companies that do disallow ssh or require you use a null cipher/key to a gateway before going to the outside world.

I'm not sure how this will be enforced, however from prior comments, it looks like it may be an old policy?
http://? What's that? My Firefox and Chrome don't show that.
The difference here is that no one carries around the amount necessary to tip the balance of the economy, which is very much the case with Bitcoin sites such as Bitconica
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You can't just say the founders were wrong on slavery. You have to say which were wrong. They had to make a compromise to get states to agree to the Constitution, which states perceived as threatening their rights more than the Articles of Confederation. They compromised with the understanding that the problem will be resolved later, and it ultimately was decided 70 years later in the bloodiest war in American history.
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Some value, yes, but that baseline is rather low compared to the value-as-money.
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So has Microsoft been giving away their Visual Studio IDE for a while? I haven't used it in years, but back when I did it was a paid product...
I think that an over-polished website for a small business can seem suspicious. E.g. when looking for small restaurants or family owned hotels, an average website with average photos is fine and they are obviously not trying to hide something, it shows the real thing. However, a super-professional website with high-quality, photoshop-retouched photos... I know it won't be as good as it looks in the photos.

Then again, a web / mobile startup with bad graphics or design will suffer a lot from it because that should be one of their core competencies.
At the top of the website, in very small text:

Warning: This is a preview for Bottle-0.11.dev, which is not released yet. Switch to the latest stable release?

Just something to be aware of.
I just start by saying something outrageous and politically incorrect. I also go in with the mindset that nothing really matters in the long run. life is absurd, so just be absurd
The watermark is primarily for the web-developers and web-masters that have not yet paid for a licensed copy of the image and are just marking things up on the page.

If you're smart enough to find the image, download it, embed it in your website, you're smart enough to figure out the rest.

It's not ment to be used on a production/deployed website to drive traffic to getty. It's just a reminder to you.
When you buy something do you look at how it looks, presents and is put together? How much does that factor in for you when you're buying something for the first time?
Slightly off-topic, but isn't it interesting how often news like this is broken with MIT as the subject of the headline: "MIT builds…", "MIT discovers…", etc?

In general, reports originating from universities tend to be billed as "Scientists discover…, "A report from Harvard suggests…", and the like.

Its indicative of, and certainly amplifies, the MIT brand.
How many times have you not done business with a company because of the quality of its website? If its an online transaction I will generally try (not very hard) to find another vendor, but in person, I doubt anyone has losty business for this reason.
Syntactic differences in the URLs stump dupe detection:

http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/
vs
http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/index.html
Here are some examples.

Having less stuff: http://joshuaspodek.com/less_please. By this point I cringe when someone gives me a material gift, knowing I'll want to get rid of it soon. Most friends have learned I prefer a bottle of wine or scotch as a gift to anything to stick on a shelf.

My exercise regiment has me in as good physical shape as I've ever been (including when I ran marathons and competed at Nationals level in Ultimate Frisbee). Here's how I work out every day with no gym membership, cost, or equipment, enjoying it: http://joshuaspodek.com/how-begin-workout-routine and http://joshuaspodek.com/knew-minute-day-workout

Personal development for free, the equal of any multi-thousand-dollar seminar: http://joshuaspodek.com/vipassana-meditation

Lots of other examples if you dig through my blog.
Are there other use cases you can think of aside from tracking spammers that would incent your bank to invest in the overhead to maintain special/bogus card #s? (And what about bogus card #s used against legitimate vendors that get cheated out of money owed to them?)
I don't know about this... Anonymous blocked access to twitter and facebook, surely that is censorship in itself?
What better solution do you have, there's no way to make an image file hold a clickable link. And the URL isn't meant to be an advertisement, it's not meant to "entice" you, it's meant to be an easy option for if you already want to go to the place where you can buy, or get more information about, the image.
Scatterplots are the tools of choice for displaying time-dependent data that doesn't necessarily makes a smooth curve. Often you only have one value per time stamp, so overlap is not a problem.

In fact, the wikipedia article even says "A scatter plot is used when a variable exists that is under the control of the experimenter". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scatter_plot

If the author had read that part of the wikipedia article, I guess his claim would have been more specific :-)
Having spent quite a bit of time looking at geospatial data in density plots, I'd warn that visualizing overlapping point data as a density plot is not a panacea for this problem. As it turns out, the distribution of colors along the density vector is also critically important.

e.g.
Support you have lots of data where there are overlaps that aggregate to a value of 2, then a few that overlap to 5, and one or two that overlap to a value of 9.

Depending on how you distribute the colors you may either:

1. Only really see the colors at the low end and the high end of the spectrum, thus missing the 5 values (or they may be so near the color for 2 that you can't perceive them).

2. Clearly delinieate between the 2s the 5s and the 9s, but it's not clear that the 5s are more than magnitude than the 2s, while the 9s are not as big of a multiplier from the 5s.

3. Some other distribution that shows a different story on the magnitude of the density, but can be interpreted wildly differently.

Different color gradients can also be perceived by our visual systems differently, blue-to-red doesn't always cut it.
National Informatics Center(http://www.nic.in/) is what's wrong with the IT in government here.

NIC acts as a complete "mean guard at the door" for anyone trying to get work in government. NIC insists on doing things "their way" or you just take "the highway".

Here is an example of a few thing we have to deal with every day. There is a small Java Swings app built by a government department which generates a few reports everyday. A few beauties:

- Hard coded mysql host(localhost), db name, username(root) and no password.

- Run it from command line(java -jar) and you can see a hellish amount of debugging statements scroll by(e.g. "I am here", "Inside Xyz.abc", "asdasdasd" etc). A lot of sensitive info is also printed out on the console that even, we vendors, might not be supposed to know.

- This app requires a 0777 permission on '/home' directory. Yes '/home', not '/home/<someuser>'

- If it's 1 minute past midnight there is absolutely no way to generate day's report. According to Cheif Programmer of that department this is a security feature. Oh wait, we just change the system date.

- When our project in-charge (politely) confronted this "Chief Programmer" about this he just said that I was lying and there is absolutely no problem in 'sudo chmod 777 /home'. "we do it all the time"

I know this because we have been working with the government on some quite big projects.
Ask yourself, has Jon Ive (DESIGNER!!) helped Apple in business at all ? Of course it does !
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Early working life of McAfee is "interesting" / "weird".

Aggressive and perhaps misleading self-promotion and scare-mongering of viruses; the virus ambulance; and perhaps most unpleasant (maybe with benefit of hindsight) was the "HIV free certificated sex club".
You can tell this is another overly optimistic, Gee Whiz! future:

2058 - The Beatles' music catalogue enters the public domain

It'll never happen. Mickey Mouse will enter the public domain centuries before The Beatles do.
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I imagine the intent is if you have a bunch of these saved in a folder or someone took the image and put it somewhere else, you have an easy reference as to where to go to the official source (and get pricing information, etc.). It's link info that works even outside an HTML context.
The govt. was not responsible for the IT revolution, it was mostly just entrepreneurs taking advantage of the opportunity. Don't expect much help/facilitation from them. However, once it was clear that IT was a job creator, many state govt. did start promoting it; but the extent is still unclear to me.
Were there any HTML changes that might have helped you with SEO ? Because that could be a big factor too.
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> There are companies that do disallow ssh...

How are these companies still in business? You're just asking to get cracked.
This is one of those questions where human psychology is the predominant factor driving decisions.

Many managers look at the cost differential of hiring a high-end designer versus getting their back end dev to mock something up, and ask themselves "Will I get another $X,XXX amount of business in return for this investment?" Depending on their personality, they will then answer "yes" or "no", and act accordingly.

The reality is the manager is a very bad person to make that call - as they are intimately familiar with the business, and therefore generally very bad at judging how a person who is encountering the business for a first time will respond to a design.

Testing the new design is expensive though, as it requires an outlay of $X,XXX without any guarantee return of results; therefore the manager takes the conservative approach and hires the cheaper designer, as at least that way she/he won't have the issue of having spent money and not being able to show any results from the investment.
Quite a few times!

Normally I'm looking for items which are pretty much the same cost among different sellers, with the same delivery costs.

I don't yet know the quality of customer service.

All I can go on at the moment is ease of use of the site. That's often tied to good design.
I guess you are right, graphing y=f(x) by plotting points does meet the definition of a scatterplot. Go ahead and use it for those cases.
Does the board have a say in this? Or are dividends something the CEO decides on?
Doesn't every corporation with a CEO face this same conflict? I think that is what compensation committees of the board of directors are for.
Can you explain why this is wrong? I appreciate this was never intended, but what is actually wrong here?
I find it distressing that even PT has succumbed to this Orwellian use of the word "clean." CO2 isn't dirt.

The human instinct for hygiene is one of our most basic. When, as a calculated public-relations maneuver, you connect a scientific hypothesis (such as a climate model) to this instinct, you'd better make damn sure you're doing the right thing in every way, shape or form. I hope those models are well validated.
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Good find.

"In 2010 stockpiled NK-33 engines were successfully tested for use by the Orbital Sciences Antares light-to-medium-lift launcher."

If I'm not mistaken, isn't the Antares lifter the other lifter by Orbital that's currently in parallel production to SpaceX's (but not almost never talked about in the media)?
There are many roads to the cheese. Cold calling, for example, works. I've never done it and if I suggested it to my (very successful) clients they'd laugh in my face, but it is an enormous business.

A lot of businesses can get away with terrible websites for the same reason I can get away with terrible business cards: 99.8% of the business is elsewhere. If you're Nobu your website could be done by a 4th grader in Flash and you'd still sell sushi at $100 a plate.

That's the part of the answer you won't mind hearing. The other part is designers vastly overestimate the importance of design and that what designers like about designs is in many cases orthogonal to their effectiveness in convincing customers to enter business relationships. (I'd say a variant of that regarding programmers, too.)
Looks like the background is adaptive:

http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/chiufen-village-high...
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"there's no way to make an image file hold a clickable link"

Not true since the days of TIFF. JPEG has application-specific tag and Exif data. PNG files are often abused to contain non-image data (i.e. Adobe Fireworks stores vector data after the end of the image). Even GIF files have a comment field!

So, stick the hyperlinks links inside JPEG tags. Use Exif so others can read them. Or make a Photoshop plugin that will display them and let the user click on them.

You could also stick the tags in using steganography, which is more in line with how a "watermark" should work.
There's another lesser factor here that can determine the success of business: are your employees proud to work on it?

If people are proud of the product - both functionally and visually - they're more likely to be happy and want to stay. As a potential employee joining your company, if your website looks crummy, it would definitely not cast you in good light, even if it's a financially justifiable ugly design.
None of those ways are widely-enough used, the solution needs to be such that more than just a few people can a.) realise the link is there and b.) work out what it is.
Sorry for being pedantic, but please don't use the word "differential" when what you mean is "difference".
Exactly. I found that everyone has something interesting to say, although most of them do not even know it. By taking "genuine interest" you'll help them find something they were not really aware of, and then all you have to do is shut up. They'll talk for the whole time and end up finding you the most interesting person around.
>With very few exceptions, phones and video game consoles have always been "walled gardens".

True. The problem comes when people try to use them as general computing devices. Or even, when manufacturers treat general computing devices like phones and consoles.
Wow, as of this writing the vast majority of comments are just so negative! Do we have to hate on everything? I like it! It looks way less tacky than their old watermark. In fact, it actually makes the photos look better compared to the old watermark and others' watermarks. They did a great job and they're not dummies. I'm sure a lot of thought went into how this would look or change when it was laid over light, dark, or patterned photos. Kudos to them. Getty Images preview photos now look way more attractive.
"When you share that little piece of your story you'll get one of two responses: a question about how it was or a disinterested, "Oh cool."

In regards to this, speaking to the underlying subject (sports, as per the article's kayaking example) and expanding from there can open more doors than simply mentioning a particular sport which few people do. So, expand kayaking to sports or what is so great about kayaking (ie, "it's great to get out of the office."), therefore the other person can have more things to talk with you about than just kayaking.

This goes back to something, of all things, I overheard on Dr. Phil when the show came on the air. The topic was about getting to the heart of a problem and the "hack" he spoke of went like this,

So, you're middle-aged and thinking of getting a red sports car. Ask yourself why you really want it. The answer might be, "because I want to feel young." Well then, what you want is not the sports car but the underlying feeling it can give you. Now, start over and ask yourself why you want to feel young.

Rinse, repeat until you find out what you really are after and I'll bet there are many more avenues to your destination than just getting a sports car.
Most of the bisnesmem out there dont have a clue about webdesign and if their company is not tech-related i think its quite natural for some very awful websites to exist!
Designers use these images in photoshop for clients to decide if and which photos to acquire. The watermark is to prevent clients just wanting to steal the images (happens a lot). I think including a url (making the pricing transparent) and including the artist (making it less anonymous) is pretty smart.
Can confirm that the thermometers on Obama fundraising pages (MyBo and others) are real (not simulated and not manipulable). It's a feature of the donation software they use.

(My employer develops it.)
Sort of, but they necessarily approach the problem from different vectors.

An operating system design with a seamless, straightforward, easy-to-use mechanism for handling all potential dependency conflicts on a multi-purpose, multi-user system is a very hard problem. Any solution is likely to be complex and potentially confusing to users, such as debian alternatives or the modules environment system. Every language has its own library management system: cpan, pip, rubygems, leiningen, etc., and they all profit off the assumption that they are managing a single set of requirements and dependencies. Operating Systems do not have that luxury.

On the other hand from the user perspective, they may not even have root on a system and as such may not even be able to install libraries without contacting a system administrator. Maybe it's a shared hosting environment, maybe it's a research compute cluster, maybe there are SOX restrictions on developers, whatever. Virtual environments focus directly on giving the user/app what they need and isolating that user from everything else.

100 different users can use virtualenv to create 100 different, completely not-compatible python environments and they're all happy. How would an Operating System do that, without essentially duplicating what virtualenv already does? (Not saying that OS developers aren't going to try, which Zed Shaw will then ridicule, but that's another story). For sandboxing in general, at what point do you create the sandbox? Usually for each individual app and usedr you don't want to have to answer questions about whether you still want the C++ compiler available or whether a virtualized /etc/passwd is needed. Those are the sort of questions you have to answer when designing OS-level sandboxes.
This is the silliest argument ever. You have to have a watermark, and you can't force it to link somewhere. That doesn't mean you can't make the watermark marginally more useful. I am so tired of people arguing in the comments for the sake of feeling like they had something to say.
As far as I know, only the board of a company has the power to issue dividends. However, it is often the case that a chief executive officer is also a member of the board, thus giving him power to issue dividends.

Tim Cook serves on Apple's board of directors according to this page: http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/tim-cook.html
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I always enjoy reading what Musk has to say.

Insufferable nitwit interviewers at New Scientist, not so much.

I am really sick of interviewers using language as a weapon and having hostile confrontational interviews with scientists and entrepreneurs, when the same interviewers and periodicals don't have the balls to even ask questions of the various criminals in society who are actually worthy of such contempt in an interview.

In particular, the interview starts with the phrase "You claim to be...". This phrasing establishes that the subject is suspected of lying. A respectful neutral question is "You have said that..." Such language use is not unintentional. It is designed to impeach the credibility of the subject in the reader's view by painting him as someone who is dishonest and can not be trusted.
Wait -- you deleted Bitcoins worth around 14,000 USD when there are exchanges (like Mt. Gox) who are very openly trying to comply with any applicable regulations, local and international, and who would have gladly exchanged your Bitcoins for real USD? Unless you're trolling or lying, that's not something I would so proudly admit. It's says a lot more about your common sense than whatever ideological statement you were trying to make.

BTW, I completely agree with your thesis that BTC will continue to fail until it stops attracting so many thieves, crackers, and get-rich-quick con men. That's actually why I pulled out of the game. But delete 14,000 USD worth of BTC? Common on, man.
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Apple is not a charity. Even though things are going well today in 2012, doesn't mean that things will be going equally well in 2018. In any case, I think there will be issuing of dividends down the line. The shareholders can then themselves decide whether to use the dividends for the purpose of charity or not. I feel this is the most fair way to run a company. (I am not saying that Apple should stay entirely away from charities though.)