Well the current tethering option for the iPhone 3.0 is via bluetooth or connect to your computer via USB. however each iPhone and iPod touch has a normal Wi-Fi support I think it is G so you could take your Edge/G3 network connection and broadcast it so your laptop and any other device that uses Wi-Fi connection can pick it up.
That is all well and good. However that isn't the case, they are looking at the US and showing the differences and any tight regulation rule to show how much better we are then them. Your vision is very noble however people everywhere are rather petty. And focus so much on showing how they are better then the US then focusing what is happening underneath their own feet.
However there are also things that may make you sick by your moral compass however you should let it slide and see that that particular area needs to do it that way.
Lets use Fur coats and Russia. Living in the North East US (Where it does get cold) I wouldn't think about buying myself a fur coat to keep warm, there are so many non-killing animal related alternatives for me to choose from that will keep me warm. However in Russia nearly everyone wears fur. Why first it is a cultural norm. Secondly Russia gets very cold and for longer time, then where I live. So to keep warm either you need the high end high tech coats or animal skins which are more economical for that area. And that Russia economy isn't as large as the US its people will need to economize.
We could say how horrible Russians are for choosing to where the pelt of dead animals or we could realize their culture and conditions makes it necessary.
You do realize that MBA's are people with a Masters Degree in Business Management. And a lot of them have very different Undergrad Degrees, Including Computer Science, Engineering, and all those other geeky areas of study. Heck some of them have advanced degrees in those areas too. But got an MBA to further their careerer, as it says on your Resume I am not just a whiny geek.
Most of the stupid management like that happens around the middle say with a team of sales people (with undergrad business degrees, or just "real life experience") who are trying to fight their way up the ladder.
That was the point of my post. There is this snotty Europe is better then America because of X.
However we are really very different in countries. So if you see something in America you don't like you shouldn't really debate if that is good or bad for America but you should make sure it doesn't happen in your country and vice versa. Heck some thinks work in America that will not work in Europe and things work the Europe that would never work in America.
My experience with dealing with geeks seem to show me that the distribution of intelligence is about on par with the rest of the population, in its normal distribution. We like to see our selfs better then everyone else but that really isn't the case.
I have found that people who are on the manufacturing floor of a factory are just as likely to pick up an abstract explanation as a geek would. Sure geeks have memorized some terms and vocabulary however for the most part their ability to understand is about the same as everyone else. Conversely there are a lot of people who know things that it is difficult for me to comprehend who are not geeks about the same amount who are geeks.
You analogy is off. Because geeks are a sub-culture Nobel Prise Winners are people who won an award for their excellence. What does it take to be a geek. Watch a lot of Star Trek, or Sci-Fi, Read Comic Books, Write code (I was able to do then when I was 6 years old) none of this requires a high intelligence, to preform at some level.
Well half of the geeks have below average intelligence. Just because you think tech stuff and science is neat it doesn't mean you are any smarter then the rest of the population.
We don't want Microsoft owning Linux, and every Unix out there. Then they will own all the OS's that have a marketshare that can be represented with up to 2 decimal points.
However your worst case scenario would have a backlash effect. People would avoid using that that store to prevent institution. So the store will either face closing down, or be more particular to who they give information too.
We actually have a lot more privacy shopping now then we ever did. Back in them old days you go to the mom and pop store they know who you are and are often hubs of gossip. So the entire community would know what stuff you are buying and make guesses on why you are buying such things.
Today we are just a number most of the data goes back and forth without a person analysis the data. Customer 24601 has purchased strawberries consistently throwout the month of June and July. Statistics show that people like Strawberries and blueberries, so lets give Customer 24601 a coupon for blueberries. Kinda heartless and calculating, but most individuals don't care about your data as your self but in aggregate. But back in them old days your data was about you and the aggregate was to complex to calculate.
You shouldn't use Any rating system as a fixed in stone, however more of a guide line.
I have seen some fairly disturbing G movies. as well some tame R. However you should see them as a normal curve line where the peaks are at different parts of the scale.
There was a checklist of VMware "innovations" which we had metrics to measure how well VirtualPC didn't stack up against.
If you don't do this, you don't know why your product is better than your competitor's
That is all well and good, until there is one or two metrics which beat you. It could loose in all the metrics however if it is $40.00 cheaper it just might be what the people go for. Or there is that one feature that people really want more then the rest of your metrics.
I like to use the death of the Mainframe industry (Yes they are still around, and yes IBM Still makes new stuff, but for the most part it is dead, compared to the 70's until early 90's) Many of these companies weren't dumb and closely monitored the rise of the PC and did such metrics. And they found out that their Mainframes are more powerful then PCs on all factors, even price/power ratio shows that mainframes had a higher return on value. However they didn't see the fact that a small company could afford $2000 for a PC but not Millions for a Mainframe. And even with reduced power and overall value you could leverage your business with the minimal Horsepower of the old desktops.
Coding good interfaces is hard even for able people. and thinking about disabled people creates far more of a challenges, as different disabilities my conflict with each other.
Text to speech and voice interface great for the blind worthless for the deaf. Making a Text to speech UI where you get good speech commands may not make a good visual interface. (A one dimensional UI model represented in 2d, is not efficient.
The best we really can do is offer a good UI for the able person and sadly a way for disabled people to muddle their way threw, so they can get it done.
Even with modern electronic equipment. I don't see why you cant just Tap the signal after it has been decoded and before it goes to the display. Sure it is a hardware hack but like all DRM technology it just needs to be broken once for it to be useless and spread on the Internet.
Even if they do. You can get use to it. Unless you get uptight about some odd natural order of thing that are not natural or in order. Why does TV and Movies break their own cannon, well to keep the current story more entertaining. Oh no they changed actors, we for God sake try to pretend that this is the same person, and don't try to explain it in some odd way. Ill bet you will be much happier. And just enjoy the show and live the rest of your life.
Well that is the problem of a Communism and even socialism to some extent. Sometimes people deserve to to be rich, and sometimes people deserve to be poor (sad but true).
Install Linux with FVWM remove all the menus except for xterm and run all apps threw the terminal. For your own sanity make a bunch of cryptic commands symbolic links and shell scripts to do what you want but you will be the only one who really know and cares to remember the scripts.
So when they use you computer they will be so perplexed on how to use it as nothing will be intuitive that they just won't ask you to use it.
There is already a lot of information out there about business models HR concepts and the like. Heck many MBA programs encourage students to use them and experiment with them to find the best model. But real life makes it much harder. Long term growth is difficult for people. (are you really putting enough money away for retirement). The same thing with business, are you willing to invest your money in testing new models, which will overall have a better effect or put money what seems to get the best investment at the time. Unfortunately people are naturally short sided and will go for the short term benefit. Secondarily we get the problems of running such tests in an HR view point.
What happens if your theory fails? Do you get fired? if so the risk of failure is high so you will take safer methods. Thus hindering the overall effect of experimentation. If you don't get fired, what is the limit do you just pay people a lot of money to try and try stupid ideas and tests, that will never work.
OK say you found a way to fix the HR problem. Now how about if the Theory fails? Sometimes a business model will not work for a while then make a big boom later on. Lets use the old Time Sharing Computing model, It was big until the 80's as computers were so big and expensive time sharing offered excellent value. During the 90's everyone had their own computers even remote hosting was limited. Then the 2000 decade SaaS which is in essence Time Sharing again and Remote Hosting is big again, as business now realize that all this effort in maintaining their IT infrastructure was in essence a waist of money. As IT specialty companies can do it better and cheaper then they can.
The instrument sounded Ok, They players themselves were off. It was basically having a professional choir/orchestra with some good high schoolers musicians playing the instrument. But these people haven't put their life into learning these instruments they probably were brass players winging it on the instrument, which has a different response and a different delay before it leaves the instrument.
As for the sound it makes it is actually kinda pretty. Kinda a mix between a trumpet and a french horn. There are a lot of factors why instruments go extinct, and it has little to do about the actual instrument but the styles/forces of the times. I think the reason why that instrument went extinct is because of the political forces of the time. Rome being sacked, people on the move. There was little permanency in Europe during this time. This instrument was too clumsy to move around/got easily broken. Thus gave way for the modern Brass instruments which are bent to allow a similar effect but in a smaller size. They used the instrument for centuries before so it wasn't like a quick fad that died.
As for some of the unreleased songs a lot of them don't get published because of the quality. Sometimes they get left out because they didn't fit on the record and that song didn't go with the others on that album. The song covered something that was politically incorrect at the time or just in bad taste (say publishing an Anti-American song right after 9-11). Music that didn't go with your perceived style.
You view on music extinction seems like bad understanding of evolution and extinction in biology that a lot of people make. Animal X became extinct while Animal Y survived so Animal Y is superior. Which isn't the case. Animal Y could be inferior to X in all ways but one. And that one fact allowed it to survive by chance. Say the Animal X cannot survive in presence of excess UV rays while Animal Y can. Well animal H somehow put a hole in the ozone layer and killed of X.
It isn't giving up. It is making a realization that Scientists are human, they are effected by stresses, desire, ambition, and all the other factors that effect everyone else. The problem is that the culture makes scientists seem like objective and truthful people who are somehow better then the rest of humanity. Even the Scientists themselves believe in this. This cultural mind set has created the rash of Scientific Misconduct.
The system for advancement and recognition for scientist are for the most part based on that these people are some how better then everyone else. Even the peer review system it assumes that all the scientists will objectively look at all the problems and give honest feedback. That is not the case though, if there is a popular theory going around and say a "rogue" scientist found a disprove to the theory. The peer review may just rip it to shreds for various human reasons. 1. You need to change your college lecture. 2. It disproves your own work. 3. If you are wrong too then you get a bad name. 4. All the smarter scientists are following the theory...
When you make rules to prevent such things you need to take the fact that everyone is human into consideration and adjust the rules to minimize such occurrences.
Even though I personally dislike the teachers union. My post wasn't about abolishing the teachers union or their personal stance. It was response to the question on Why not get rid of the bad teachers, vs giving the kids more drugs. The fact is, it is hard to fire Unioned Teachers no matter what their quality is. And if you are going to to try to weed out bad teacher the Teacher Unions will fight back really hard.
I don't care if you are Pro-Union or Anti-Union. A Union (as its was designed) is a powerful force to reckon.
Palm exec: I thank you for all your effort in giving us the inside scoop on how Apple work. No I will have to fire you because you have shown yourself to not be a trust full person and we have no confidence that you will honor our NDA, as you have shown not to honor your previous employer.
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Well the current tethering option for the iPhone 3.0 is via bluetooth or connect to your computer via USB. however each iPhone and iPod touch has a normal Wi-Fi support I think it is G so you could take your Edge/G3 network connection and broadcast it so your laptop and any other device that uses Wi-Fi connection can pick it up.
That is all well and good. However that isn't the case, they are looking at the US and showing the differences and any tight regulation rule to show how much better we are then them. Your vision is very noble however people everywhere are rather petty. And focus so much on showing how they are better then the US then focusing what is happening underneath their own feet.
However there are also things that may make you sick by your moral compass however you should let it slide and see that that particular area needs to do it that way.
Lets use Fur coats and Russia. Living in the North East US (Where it does get cold) I wouldn't think about buying myself a fur coat to keep warm, there are so many non-killing animal related alternatives for me to choose from that will keep me warm. However in Russia nearly everyone wears fur. Why first it is a cultural norm. Secondly Russia gets very cold and for longer time, then where I live. So to keep warm either you need the high end high tech coats or animal skins which are more economical for that area. And that Russia economy isn't as large as the US its people will need to economize.
We could say how horrible Russians are for choosing to where the pelt of dead animals or we could realize their culture and conditions makes it necessary.
You do realize that MBA's are people with a Masters Degree in Business Management. And a lot of them have very different Undergrad Degrees, Including Computer Science, Engineering, and all those other geeky areas of study. Heck some of them have advanced degrees in those areas too. But got an MBA to further their careerer, as it says on your Resume I am not just a whiny geek.
Most of the stupid management like that happens around the middle say with a team of sales people (with undergrad business degrees, or just "real life experience") who are trying to fight their way up the ladder.
That was the point of my post.
There is this snotty Europe is better then America because of X.
However we are really very different in countries. So if you see something in America you don't like you shouldn't really debate if that is good or bad for America but you should make sure it doesn't happen in your country and vice versa. Heck some thinks work in America that will not work in Europe and things work the Europe that would never work in America.
Does that mean us Americans can be Smug and Snotty to Europeans again?
yehe, dem sai dat eyem sisks standird dieaveations twu da leaft
My experience with dealing with geeks seem to show me that the distribution of intelligence is about on par with the rest of the population, in its normal distribution. We like to see our selfs better then everyone else but that really isn't the case.
I have found that people who are on the manufacturing floor of a factory are just as likely to pick up an abstract explanation as a geek would. Sure geeks have memorized some terms and vocabulary however for the most part their ability to understand is about the same as everyone else.
Conversely there are a lot of people who know things that it is difficult for me to comprehend who are not geeks about the same amount who are geeks.
You analogy is off. Because geeks are a sub-culture Nobel Prise Winners are people who won an award for their excellence.
What does it take to be a geek. Watch a lot of Star Trek, or Sci-Fi, Read Comic Books, Write code (I was able to do then when I was 6 years old) none of this requires a high intelligence, to preform at some level.
Well half of the geeks have below average intelligence. Just because you think tech stuff and science is neat it doesn't mean you are any smarter then the rest of the population.
Does that mean if we go to the "wrong" web site we can enable Wi-Fi tethering without have to pay extra?
We don't want Microsoft owning Linux, and every Unix out there. Then they will own all the OS's that have a marketshare that can be represented with up to 2 decimal points.
However your worst case scenario would have a backlash effect. People would avoid using that that store to prevent institution. So the store will either face closing down, or be more particular to who they give information too.
We actually have a lot more privacy shopping now then we ever did. Back in them old days you go to the mom and pop store they know who you are and are often hubs of gossip. So the entire community would know what stuff you are buying and make guesses on why you are buying such things.
Today we are just a number most of the data goes back and forth without a person analysis the data. Customer 24601 has purchased strawberries consistently throwout the month of June and July. Statistics show that people like Strawberries and blueberries, so lets give Customer 24601 a coupon for blueberries. Kinda heartless and calculating, but most individuals don't care about your data as your self but in aggregate. But back in them old days your data was about you and the aggregate was to complex to calculate.
Could you replace a DLP chip with a flash drive taking the inputs.
You shouldn't use Any rating system as a fixed in stone, however more of a guide line.
I have seen some fairly disturbing G movies. as well some tame R. However you should see them as a normal curve line where the peaks are at different parts of the scale.
There was a checklist of VMware "innovations" which we had metrics to measure how well VirtualPC didn't stack up against.
If you don't do this, you don't know why your product is better than your competitor's
That is all well and good, until there is one or two metrics which beat you. It could loose in all the metrics however if it is $40.00 cheaper it just might be what the people go for. Or there is that one feature that people really want more then the rest of your metrics.
I like to use the death of the Mainframe industry (Yes they are still around, and yes IBM Still makes new stuff, but for the most part it is dead, compared to the 70's until early 90's) Many of these companies weren't dumb and closely monitored the rise of the PC and did such metrics. And they found out that their Mainframes are more powerful then PCs on all factors, even price/power ratio shows that mainframes had a higher return on value. However they didn't see the fact that a small company could afford $2000 for a PC but not Millions for a Mainframe. And even with reduced power and overall value you could leverage your business with the minimal Horsepower of the old desktops.
Coding good interfaces is hard even for able people. and thinking about disabled people creates far more of a challenges, as different disabilities my conflict with each other.
Text to speech and voice interface great for the blind worthless for the deaf. Making a Text to speech UI where you get good speech commands may not make a good visual interface. (A one dimensional UI model represented in 2d, is not efficient.
The best we really can do is offer a good UI for the able person and sadly a way for disabled people to muddle their way threw, so they can get it done.
But you have to pay for damages.
Even with modern electronic equipment. I don't see why you cant just Tap the signal after it has been decoded and before it goes to the display. Sure it is a hardware hack but like all DRM technology it just needs to be broken once for it to be useless and spread on the Internet.
Even if they do. You can get use to it. Unless you get uptight about some odd natural order of thing that are not natural or in order. Why does TV and Movies break their own cannon, well to keep the current story more entertaining. Oh no they changed actors, we for God sake try to pretend that this is the same person, and don't try to explain it in some odd way. Ill bet you will be much happier. And just enjoy the show and live the rest of your life.
Well that is the problem of a Communism and even socialism to some extent. Sometimes people deserve to to be rich, and sometimes people deserve to be poor (sad but true).
Install Linux with FVWM remove all the menus except for xterm and run all apps threw the terminal. For your own sanity make a bunch of cryptic commands symbolic links and shell scripts to do what you want but you will be the only one who really know and cares to remember the scripts.
So when they use you computer they will be so perplexed on how to use it as nothing will be intuitive that they just won't ask you to use it.
There is already a lot of information out there about business models HR concepts and the like. Heck many MBA programs encourage students to use them and experiment with them to find the best model. But real life makes it much harder. Long term growth is difficult for people. (are you really putting enough money away for retirement). The same thing with business, are you willing to invest your money in testing new models, which will overall have a better effect or put money what seems to get the best investment at the time. Unfortunately people are naturally short sided and will go for the short term benefit. Secondarily we get the problems of running such tests in an HR view point.
What happens if your theory fails? Do you get fired? if so the risk of failure is high so you will take safer methods. Thus hindering the overall effect of experimentation.
If you don't get fired, what is the limit do you just pay people a lot of money to try and try stupid ideas and tests, that will never work.
OK say you found a way to fix the HR problem. Now how about if the Theory fails? Sometimes a business model will not work for a while then make a big boom later on. Lets use the old Time Sharing Computing model, It was big until the 80's as computers were so big and expensive time sharing offered excellent value. During the 90's everyone had their own computers even remote hosting was limited. Then the 2000 decade SaaS which is in essence Time Sharing again and Remote Hosting is big again, as business now realize that all this effort in maintaining their IT infrastructure was in essence a waist of money. As IT specialty companies can do it better and cheaper then they can.
The instrument sounded Ok, They players themselves were off. It was basically having a professional choir/orchestra with some good high schoolers musicians playing the instrument. But these people haven't put their life into learning these instruments they probably were brass players winging it on the instrument, which has a different response and a different delay before it leaves the instrument.
As for the sound it makes it is actually kinda pretty. Kinda a mix between a trumpet and a french horn.
There are a lot of factors why instruments go extinct, and it has little to do about the actual instrument but the styles/forces of the times. I think the reason why that instrument went extinct is because of the political forces of the time. Rome being sacked, people on the move. There was little permanency in Europe during this time. This instrument was too clumsy to move around/got easily broken. Thus gave way for the modern Brass instruments which are bent to allow a similar effect but in a smaller size. They used the instrument for centuries before so it wasn't like a quick fad that died.
As for some of the unreleased songs a lot of them don't get published because of the quality. Sometimes they get left out because they didn't fit on the record and that song didn't go with the others on that album. The song covered something that was politically incorrect at the time or just in bad taste (say publishing an Anti-American song right after 9-11). Music that didn't go with your perceived style.
You view on music extinction seems like bad understanding of evolution and extinction in biology that a lot of people make. Animal X became extinct while Animal Y survived so Animal Y is superior. Which isn't the case. Animal Y could be inferior to X in all ways but one. And that one fact allowed it to survive by chance. Say the Animal X cannot survive in presence of excess UV rays while Animal Y can. Well animal H somehow put a hole in the ozone layer and killed of X.
It isn't giving up. It is making a realization that Scientists are human, they are effected by stresses, desire, ambition, and all the other factors that effect everyone else. The problem is that the culture makes scientists seem like objective and truthful people who are somehow better then the rest of humanity. Even the Scientists themselves believe in this. This cultural mind set has created the rash of Scientific Misconduct.
The system for advancement and recognition for scientist are for the most part based on that these people are some how better then everyone else. Even the peer review system it assumes that all the scientists will objectively look at all the problems and give honest feedback. That is not the case though, if there is a popular theory going around and say a "rogue" scientist found a disprove to the theory. The peer review may just rip it to shreds for various human reasons. 1. You need to change your college lecture. 2. It disproves your own work. 3. If you are wrong too then you get a bad name. 4. All the smarter scientists are following the theory...
When you make rules to prevent such things you need to take the fact that everyone is human into consideration and adjust the rules to minimize such occurrences.
Even though I personally dislike the teachers union. My post wasn't about abolishing the teachers union or their personal stance. It was response to the question on Why not get rid of the bad teachers, vs giving the kids more drugs. The fact is, it is hard to fire Unioned Teachers no matter what their quality is. And if you are going to to try to weed out bad teacher the Teacher Unions will fight back really hard.
I don't care if you are Pro-Union or Anti-Union. A Union (as its was designed) is a powerful force to reckon.
and soon to be ex-Palm engineers.
Palm exec: I thank you for all your effort in giving us the inside scoop on how Apple work. No I will have to fire you because you have shown yourself to not be a trust full person and we have no confidence that you will honor our NDA, as you have shown not to honor your previous employer.