The management at Experts Exchange is stupid. They alienated the contributors and now are marketing to the employers of contributors with a message that says: Fire your consultants and IT folk and just use Experts Exchange to solve your IT challenges.
Well, this may work for a while but once the Technology moves forward and their body of knowledge becomes more or less, obsolete, they will have no business and no way to collect all those valuable and insightful solutions!
Ever notice how the techies almost always rail against remote storage while the normal computer users think it is a great idea ?
What is really interesting is that Google could, in theory, link duplicate files. For example if 10,000 people have the Will Farrel "SNL/Blue Oyster Cult" video in their storage area, Google could soft link to just one copy and break the link if one particular user ever edited it.
I have two guesses as to why Stuart Scott was fired. They are worth what you paid!
1. He was running some kind of online side business on microsoft infrastructure.
2. Perhaps his academic credentials were not real. In other words, he did not really earn one of the degrees he claimed before he was hired by M$.
I agree with this standpoint. Why does it seem to be so difficult for some people to admit/understand that if dozens of companies are adding code to a product.... invariably... the product will have more complexity and therefore increased variability of operation. In other words, it crashes more.
There is no evil here. Apple wants to absolutely minimize the unexpected behaviour of their product.
Microsoft copied the Apple Mac Computing metaphor (that was copied from xerox)
They can do it again and again. In fact, this is the way of American Business today. Let the competition innovate and then offer the truly good ideas to the marketplace at a reduced cost. The courts said it is ok to do that.
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In not very long, all software will be accessed via the web only. No pay, no play. Problem solved.
The management at Experts Exchange is stupid. They alienated the contributors and now are marketing to the employers of contributors with a message that says: Fire your consultants and IT folk and just use Experts Exchange to solve your IT challenges.
Well, this may work for a while but once the Technology moves forward and their body of knowledge becomes more or less, obsolete, they will have no business and no way to collect all those valuable and insightful solutions!
Ever notice how the techies almost always rail against remote storage while the normal computer users think it is a great idea ?
What is really interesting is that Google could, in theory, link duplicate files. For example if 10,000 people have the Will Farrel "SNL/Blue Oyster Cult" video in their storage area, Google could soft link to just one copy and break the link if one particular user ever edited it.
I have two guesses as to why Stuart Scott was fired. They are worth what you paid! 1. He was running some kind of online side business on microsoft infrastructure. 2. Perhaps his academic credentials were not real. In other words, he did not really earn one of the degrees he claimed before he was hired by M$.
I agree with this standpoint. Why does it seem to be so difficult for some people to admit/understand that if dozens of companies are adding code to a product .... invariably... the product will have more complexity and therefore increased variability of operation. In other words, it crashes more.
There is no evil here. Apple wants to absolutely minimize the unexpected behaviour of their product.
End of story.
Microsoft copied the Apple Mac Computing metaphor (that was copied from xerox) They can do it again and again. In fact, this is the way of American Business today. Let the competition innovate and then offer the truly good ideas to the marketplace at a reduced cost. The courts said it is ok to do that.