Някой с чуство за хумор е направил това онагледяващо процеса на забременяване клипче. Има какво да се научи за обща култура (може би за средите на гинеколозите), но е готин подхода с анимацията и разговора с насмешки м/у г-н Курелов и г-жа Вагинална:
Сегашното Dubai International airport, в близост до стария квартал Deira, също е големичко, като вероятно само пътническия терминал е повече от 1км дълъг! Шейха, престолонаследник, министър и вице-президент и господстващ владетел на Дубай - шейх Ал Мактум е инициирал поредния си грандиозен замисъл със строежа на летище няколко пъти по-голямо от кое да е съществуващо в момента. Скромните им амбиции включват да поема 120мил. пътници годишно (при по-малко от 70мил. на Heathrow, London), най-големия карго-хъб за товари, който да е 3 пъти по-голям от хъба в Мемфис, САЩ - сегашната най-голяма въздушна товарителница в света, 100хил. подземни и наземни парко-места и най-голям брой паралелни пътеки за кацане и излитане - 6 на брой, при 5 на Heathrow и други огромни летища, като това в Атланта, Чикаго и др. Цената за конструкция разбира се е в стратосферата, но за целта ще ни повишат данъка “цена на барел петрол” 
Повече за новото летище в Wikipedia
Ей, Богу, доживях да излекуват блога ми от летаргията, предизвикана от някакъв iframe-malicious код. Даже google маркираха в търсачката си скромния ми блог, като опасен за посещаване сайт и не след дълго тотално сдаде богу духа, някъде през изминалата пролет. Та и от тогава до този прекрасен октомврийки ден и с неоценимата намеса на мой уважаван колега - Благомир Иванов, успяхме да възкресим от мъртвите тази почва виртуална обетована земя на познание и емоции. Вина за болестното състояние имаше и самата версия на wordpress, която не бях ъпдейтвал от лето господне 2005, а в ерата на Интернет за такъв период се извъртат цели поколения услуги, през което време спам-индистрията е еволюирала до начини да инжектира серума си из всякакви блог-платформи - Akismet е техния сребърен коршум.
Благодарение на хора, като Благо, има шанс и лаици, като мен да се радват за по-дълги интервали от време на безаварийно блогване и еквилибристика с думи и символи.
Да се свети името ти, да се прославят делата ти, да се връщат добрините ти, Блажко!
Аминнн.
… коментарите към темите в блога отново са факт!
Нечовешкият размер спам, който ме засипваше редовно ме принуди преди повече от година просто да спра всякакви коментари, докато намеря прилично решение. Блогът ми за съжаление не е бил особен приоритет, чак до днес, в ранната утрин на 6 юни 2007, придружена от гръмотевична буря и валежи, като по време на потоп. Ъпгрейднах се към последната версия на Wordpress 2.2. Активирах и модула Akismet, който се очаква да е толкова анти-спам успешен, колкото google се справя с най-честите търсения при повечето потребители. Алгоритъмът му се базира на простички действия, като това, когато модерирам коментарите си, да посочвам кои са спам при което се синхронизират с онлайн база и благодарение съвкупния интелект на тълпата се получават, обикновено, едни впечатляващи резултати (aka the wisdom of crowds).
In a sign of the growing importance of the mobile gaming sector, market researchers at GfK M² today revealed that consumers in the U.K. are spending more to download games to their handsets than they are on downloading ringtones, music or video content. In fact, according to GfK’s data, the mobile gaming market is worth nearly four times the current market value of full music tracks, and eight times the current video download market.
For the last fiscal year ended March 31, 2007, GfK found that consumers in the U.K. spent £83 million (about $165 million) on mobile games, compared to £76 million (about $151 million) on ringtones and just £23 million (around $46 million) on music. Trailing the mobile pack were video downloads at £11 million and wallpapers at £10 million.
GfK also noted that mobile network operators are dominating the market. Almost 90 percent of games downloaded/sold in the last year were through this channel. In addition, GfK said the top 10 games account for a third of the total revenue of the mobile gaming market and just three games published in the last year accounted for 60 percent of total sales of games.
“A year ago there was less activity in the mobile gaming market as well as poor phone functionality, limited game offerings and perceived high prices,” commented Aaron Rattue, Business Group Director GfK M². “In the last year mobile gaming has really taken off and now leads the mobile content market in terms of the amount of money consumers are spending. Clearly, gamers are happy to pay to download, with half of all the games downloaded to a mobile phone in the last year costing £5 or more.”
RETAIL is supposed to be hard. Apple has made it seem ridiculously easy. And yet it must be harder than it appears, or why hasn’t the Windows side of the personal computer business figured it out?
Of the many predictions in the world of technology that have turned out to be spectacularly wrong, a prominent place should be made for what the pundits said in 2001 when Apple opened its first retail store in Tysons Corner, Va. “It’s completely flawed,” one analyst said, and that was the conventional wisdom. Commercial rent and furnishings would be expensive, inventory tricky and margins slim. Experienced computer resellers were struggling, and no computer manufacturer had ever found success operating its own branded stores. Analysts predicted at the time that Apple would shut down the stores and write off the huge losses in two years.
That assuredly would have been the Apple store’s fate had Steve Jobs permitted aesthetic and design considerations to trump all else. But while guiding the planning for the stores in 2000 and 2001, Mr. Jobs took on a more ambitious challenge than building freestanding museums of design that would show the Apple flag and do little else. He set out to create the conditions most likely to convert museum visitors into actual customers, and then to make those customers feel that they were being pampered long after the sale was consummated.
At the time, retail stores seemed passé. Gateway Country Stores were trying to make a go of a combination of old and new, inviting customers to come in, touch, order — and then go home and wait patiently, because the stores did not carry any inventory. Dell’s build-on-demand model dispensed with stores altogether and seemed to embody the future.
Mr. Jobs understood, however, that his stores would sell not merely products but also gratification. He told the trade magazine Chain Store Age Executive in 2001: “When I bring something home to the kids, I want to get the smile. I don’t want the U.P.S. guy to get the smile.”
The stores were born fully formed and have not required any fundamental changes. The best innovation was present on Day One: the “Genius Bar,” with a staff of diagnostic wizards whose expertise is available in one-on-one consultations — free. Pure genius. More than half of the retail store’s staff is assigned to post-sales service.
Customer response is told in the numbers. Last month, Apple released results for the quarter ended March 31. More than 21.5 million people visited its stores, which now number more than 180. Store sales were $855 million, up 34 percent from the quarter a year earlier, and they contributed more than $200 million in profits.
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Основната идея, е че собствените вериги от магазини на производители, особено за консуматорска електроника, трябва да създават и провокират комуникацията дори м/у самите купувачи; отзивчив персонал, с главна роля ангажиране с въпросите и любопитството на клиентите в неформални атмосфера; възможност да си поиграеш свободно и неограничено с цялата изложена електроника.
В България, пример в това отношение могат да вземат вериги, като Техномаркет, Технополис и пр., където макар да продават всякаква електроника, могат да работят за изграждането на много по-приветлива и отворена за комуникация атмосфера. Имам пресни спомени, при покупка в Технополис, колко апатия ги тресе всичките им продавачи.
Няма празен Apple store, защото са проектирани да създават комуникация! Когато съм в САЩ с удоволствие посещавам магазините им, защото е пълно с динамика, неформалната атмосфера с бара и редовножо прожектиране на Tips&Tricks свързани с предлаганите им продукти, възможността да се докосна до всичко и да го “човъркам” необезпокояван, и често, за да релаксирам на футуристично проектираните им цветни, огромни седящи топки, които внасят много ведрина в иначе осветените, като болница магазини
Last year, digital singles outsold plastic CD’s for the first time. So far this year, sales of digital songs have risen 54 percent, to roughly 189 million units, according to data from Nielsen SoundScan. Digital album sales are rising at a slightly faster pace, but buyers of digital music are purchasing singles over albums by a margin of 19 to 1.
Because of this shift in listener preferences — a trend reflected everywhere from blogs posting select MP3s to reviews of singles in Rolling Stone — record labels are coming to grips with the loss of the album as their main product and chief moneymaker.
The race is on to turn your TV into an open content platform. This will bring more programming to your set and much of it won’t come from the traditional networks. Conspicuously absent from the game are your local cable and satellite providers. Should they fail to act, they all run the risk of turning into commodity services.
If you wanted to, you can already ditch your cable or satellite provider. Wired news ran an experiment a few months back showing that it is possible to get a lot of content on your set without them, though there are still lots of caveats. As the big technologies players continue to refine their IPTV strategy, the need for cable TV programming will diminish.
Already, some of the highest quality content created by users is finding its way on to your set. Rocketboom, for example, has long been available on your TiVo. Further, there’s a lot of new gizmos that will hit the market this year to bring even more stuff to your TV. Microsoft, an Edelman client, is turning the Xbox 360 into an IPTV receiver. Every TV set sold from Sony will be able to connect up to “the cloud” through home wireless networks. And of course, Apple has their own solution - Apple TV.
Today’s demographic trend is impossible to ignore and has big implications for workplaces across America. Seventy million Americans who belong to Generation Y (born between 1977 to 2002) are entering the workforce in massive waves. Add Generation Xers, who are now in their 30s and early 40s, and you have millions of employees whose visions for their jobs differ from their parents’ and most of their bosses’ old command-and-control management theories.
According to research compiled by RainmakerThinking and quoted in USA Today, Gen Y—the millennium generation—has high expectations for itself and its employers, seeking highly engaged managers to help them grow and develop their professional skills.
This finding reinforces the insights I learned from a fascinating conversation with Adelson, who has given a lot of thought to motivating, inspiring, and engaging young colleagues.
Empower Them
Adelson argues that younger workers are transforming the workplace from the “get rich quick” attitude of the ’90s to a culture of empowerment and contribution. At the end of the day, he says, these employees want to feel as though they are part of something essential and that they have contributed to its achievement.
“Am I important, and am I offering value? Those are the questions young people are asking themselves,” says Adelson. A key to managing this generation is to create excitement about the company’s achievements, but more important, to help employees recognize their role in accomplishing that mission.