A simple concept a lot of Slashdotter's forget is that people "hire" the right tool for the right job. The overwhelming majority of consumers "hire" an OS for jobs such as - browsing web, writing email, downloading music on iTunes and playing video games, etc., and in those cases windows does just fine, or performs better that other OS'. In Wall St, they demand low-latency, real time OS' and need to create supercomputers out of grids. In that case they "hire" Linux or some other OS to do that job. If the consumer's job ever changes, and they need an different OS to do that job, I guarantee they'll "hire" a new OS. But for now it's just not the case.
Once a person moves from attacking and debating the ideas to attacking the person, they've ran out of intelligent things to say and have to resort to that kind of talk. I don't stoop to your level, and seeing your past comments, you seem to argue a lot. Was fun to watch you slip and slide though.
You're wrong. There are systems out that that can track what people look at, judge how long lines are (and take action like page employee to open another register, etc). Check out http://www.brickstream.com/.
You're wrong. I wasn't commenting on the digital distribution, as I said before, I was adding to the comment above that Wal-Mart isn't a zero-value middleman. Why don't you get that?m Everything else you bring up is just changing the topic.
I'd argue that through their IT systems, Wal-Mart can sense demand as well as any e-commerce shop, and because they have less leeway for mistakes when predicting and responding to demand, they're much more sophisticated at response and fulfillment. Furthermore, since they see a bigger slice of the market, their data is more complete and accurate than any specialty website who sees a small segment of the same market.
The e-commerce sites have cheaper distribution channels, can respond to demand faster (by changing graphics on their website overnight vs shipping and laying out product in a store) and offer superior personalization.
Not sure what you mean about the me too AOL comment or why you had to attack me, I was merely responding to the above comment that Wal-Mart was a no-value middleman.
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No disagreements with the article here. I'm shocked that she didn't resign or that she wasn't fired the day she stepped down from the chair. Instead she stayed on the board another 3 weeks!! In another, even bigger joke, HP is co-sponsoring a privacy award!!
And WalMart also knows what sells and what consumers want (because of their sense and respond/just-in-time retail system and supply chain) better than the manufacturers do. Because of this, they don't just stock shelves, they participate in product development on some products.
"...Condoleezza Rice tried to put an end to the controversy Monday evening.
"We've had elections in this country when we were at war, even when we were in civil war, and we should have the elections on time. That's the view of the president. That's the view of the administration," she said. "No one is thinking of postponing the elections."
But if I remember - and I'm too lazy to look it up - SCCP stands for SKINNY Client Control Protocol, and is a modified, scaled-down (skinny) version of H.323. The original Selsius (company Cisco bought in 1998 which gave us Call Manager) designers didn't have a SIP or other protocol to use back then and H.323 was too much, hence why SCCP was first created.
Bundling 3rd party apps may be unfair, but it's not illegal. Hyperterminal (another 3rd party utility) is also bundled, but that's not illegal. It's only when MS bundles it's own apps and gives them away for free tha they run into trouble.
Good point, but most of the networking industry moved from just passing packets fast to doing it intelligently with things like integrated QOS, Security, etc., which keeps most of the routing companies from commoditizing their product. And as networks become more and more intelligent, such as offloading basic or repetitive tasks from servers and applications, networks will continue to not commoditize. Historically, any company that tried to commoditize routing/switching died as customers don't see any value in it. There are some in the 3rd world that are seeing success (Huawei), but for the most part they are niche players that probably wouldn't last more than a few years going off past history.
Anyone knows that they wouldn't buy a 7200 for that kind of traffic; they'd look at a 7600 or higher. It's like saying my desktop PC can't run an enterprise ERP system. Duh.
... But I just don't accept these finding as fact. I can't imagine a native Aborigine (who migrated out of Africa to their islands around 40000 years ago and didn't have much contact with the rest of the world until the past 500-600 years) and a native American, or Chinese as having the same parents 5000 years ago. It doesn't add up.
Agreed 10,000% percent that innovation is hard and it's the hottest topic in business today. If I knew what to add to Office, I'd already be doing a startup (and hoping to get bought).:P Seriously though, I haven't really thought about it too much.
The big problem I'd like to solve is that I'd like to leverage the collective intelligence of my co-workers, past work/projects so that I don't have to work in a vacuum or re-invent the wheel unknowingly. How many problems or situations have I come across that have already been solved/encountered? How can technology help in this area? Given that we operate in a world with advanced search technologies, shared/networked storage, ubiquitous networks and lightning-fast processors, how can an office application tie it all together? My current office application mainly operates within the confines of my HD/PC and is very "me" centric. As I write this, who else has had this thought, what ideas have they had to solve this problem and how can I access what they wrote to borrow ideas from?
Maybe by leveraging collaboration, better search technologies and AI to bring ideas and relevant information to the forefront that I could reference (as opposed to facts) when writing a paper or preparing a report. I'd like this text box to know what I'm thinking about or who to contact to help me develop my thoughts better, cross reference facts, etc. I'd like my office applications to become a productivity hub/portal that I could use for tasks/project management work, online collaboration, historical and real time communication and for it to respond to my voice much more naturally.
Just some thoughts off the top of my head, but you get the picture. In the 1990's when PC's were developing, office applications took advantage of them and made us all more productive. But that was 10-15 years ago. Why is the current state of office still stuck inside my pc? Who will free it to take advantage of today's IT environment?
Psychologically speaking, calling it Office (next version such as 2007) just sounds like an upgrade, and upgrades are tough ways to get companies to shell out money as MS has seen first hand. From a marketing perspective, Office Simple or Office Vista sounds like something new and might get companies to buy.
If it were me, I'd call it Office Live or something else to promote its collaborative features. In fact I'd call it anything but Office (next version) to try and break out of the upgrade cycle. I'd probably do studies and conduct research and find the optimal work that most consumers and business favorably responded to. Didn't they just hire some Walmart and Proctor & Gamble execs?
(of course, they could always be "old fashioned" and add some ground-breaking innovative features and functionality that create a new market so they wouldn't have to rely on marketing tricks).
Either they'll smash upon landing or attach a grenade to the stuff and activate it as your throw it out the window. That's another option if you ask me and they American's flying over the water could have tossed their gear into the ocean before landing. We must have subs and battle groups that could recover it if we were that worried.
on paper I woud agree that those parameters would make for a crappy voip call, but I decided to play with it on one flight and it worked awesome. I actually called my CEO to show him and even got a call back.
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A simple concept a lot of Slashdotter's forget is that people "hire" the right tool for the right job. The overwhelming majority of consumers "hire" an OS for jobs such as - browsing web, writing email, downloading music on iTunes and playing video games, etc., and in those cases windows does just fine, or performs better that other OS'. In Wall St, they demand low-latency, real time OS' and need to create supercomputers out of grids. In that case they "hire" Linux or some other OS to do that job. If the consumer's job ever changes, and they need an different OS to do that job, I guarantee they'll "hire" a new OS. But for now it's just not the case.
You lose. Conversation over.
Once a person moves from attacking and debating the ideas to attacking the person, they've ran out of intelligent things to say and have to resort to that kind of talk. I don't stoop to your level, and seeing your past comments, you seem to argue a lot. Was fun to watch you slip and slide though.
You're wrong, RFC 1149 isn't a derogatory comment implying slow PC's or anything else. RFC 1149 was an April Fools joke.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFC_1149
You're wrong. There are systems out that that can track what people look at, judge how long lines are (and take action like page employee to open another register, etc). Check out http://www.brickstream.com/.
You're wrong. I wasn't commenting on the digital distribution, as I said before, I was adding to the comment above that Wal-Mart isn't a zero-value middleman. Why don't you get that?m Everything else you bring up is just changing the topic.
I'd argue that through their IT systems, Wal-Mart can sense demand as well as any e-commerce shop, and because they have less leeway for mistakes when predicting and responding to demand, they're much more sophisticated at response and fulfillment. Furthermore, since they see a bigger slice of the market, their data is more complete and accurate than any specialty website who sees a small segment of the same market.
The e-commerce sites have cheaper distribution channels, can respond to demand faster (by changing graphics on their website overnight vs shipping and laying out product in a store) and offer superior personalization.
Not sure what you mean about the me too AOL comment or why you had to attack me, I was merely responding to the above comment that Wal-Mart was a no-value middleman.
No disagreements with the article here. I'm shocked that she didn't resign or that
she wasn't fired the day she stepped down from the chair. Instead she stayed on the board another 3
weeks!! In another, even bigger joke, HP
is co-sponsoring a privacy award!!
And WalMart also knows what sells and what consumers want (because of their sense and respond/just-in-time retail system and supply chain) better than the manufacturers do. Because of this, they don't just stock shelves, they participate in product development on some products.
But they didn't think it or do it, hence why I said chill. Disclaimer, I'm not a Bush fan at all, just appreciate rational thinking on all sides.
Cool the rhetoric dude.
From the article:
"...Condoleezza Rice tried to put an end to the controversy Monday evening.
"We've had elections in this country when we were at war, even when we were in civil war, and we should have the elections on time. That's the view of the president. That's the view of the administration," she said. "No one is thinking of postponing the elections."
But if I remember - and I'm too lazy to look it up - SCCP stands for SKINNY Client Control Protocol, and is a modified, scaled-down (skinny) version of H.323. The original Selsius (company Cisco bought in 1998 which gave us Call Manager) designers didn't have a SIP or other protocol to use back then and H.323 was too much, hence why SCCP was first created.
Good question. I'm going to call it Skippy from now on.
Bundling 3rd party apps may be unfair, but it's not illegal. Hyperterminal (another 3rd party utility) is also bundled, but that's not illegal. It's only when MS bundles it's own apps and gives them away for free tha they run into trouble.
With GPS, your phone could at least have "location awareness" to know you are in a strip club.
Don't forget the rooftop parties in SF on weekends. Who was that, Red Herring if I remember correctly?
Actually think milliseconds now. These traders care about ms and are shooting for microseconds now.
They can't even cure athlete's foot. Forget about curing AIDS.
If they raised it before, the terrorsts would suspect something, potentially flee, hide and wait to strike another day, etc..
Good point, but most of the networking industry moved from just passing packets fast to doing it intelligently with things like integrated QOS, Security, etc., which keeps most of the routing companies from commoditizing their product. And as networks become more and more intelligent, such as offloading basic or repetitive tasks from servers and applications, networks will continue to not commoditize. Historically, any company that tried to commoditize routing/switching died as customers don't see any value in it. There are some in the 3rd world that are seeing success (Huawei), but for the most part they are niche players that probably wouldn't last more than a few years going off past history.
Anyone knows that they wouldn't buy a 7200 for that kind of traffic; they'd look at a 7600 or higher. It's like saying my desktop PC can't run an enterprise ERP system. Duh.
Or you could adopt the RFC in my Sig.
... But I just don't accept these finding as fact. I can't imagine a native Aborigine (who migrated out of Africa to their islands around 40000 years ago and didn't have much contact with the rest of the world until the past 500-600 years) and a native American, or Chinese as having the same parents 5000 years ago. It doesn't add up.
Agreed 10,000% percent that innovation is hard and it's the hottest topic in business today. If I knew what to add to Office, I'd already be doing a startup (and hoping to get bought). :P Seriously though, I haven't really thought about it too much.
The big problem I'd like to solve is that I'd like to leverage the collective intelligence of my co-workers, past work/projects so that I don't have to work in a vacuum or re-invent the wheel unknowingly. How many problems or situations have I come across that have already been solved/encountered? How can technology help in this area? Given that we operate in a world with advanced search technologies, shared/networked storage, ubiquitous networks and lightning-fast processors, how can an office application tie it all together? My current office application mainly operates within the confines of my HD/PC and is very "me" centric. As I write this, who else has had this thought, what ideas have they had to solve this problem and how can I access what they wrote to borrow ideas from?
Maybe by leveraging collaboration, better search technologies and AI to bring ideas and relevant information to the forefront that I could reference (as opposed to facts) when writing a paper or preparing a report. I'd like this text box to know what I'm thinking about or who to contact to help me develop my thoughts better, cross reference facts, etc. I'd like my office applications to become a productivity hub/portal that I could use for tasks/project management work, online collaboration, historical and real time communication and for it to respond to my voice much more naturally.
Just some thoughts off the top of my head, but you get the picture. In the 1990's when PC's were developing, office applications took advantage of them and made us all more productive. But that was 10-15 years ago. Why is the current state of office still stuck inside my pc? Who will free it to take advantage of today's IT environment?
Psychologically speaking, calling it Office (next version such as 2007) just sounds like an upgrade, and upgrades are tough ways to get companies to shell out money as MS has seen first hand. From a marketing perspective, Office Simple or Office Vista sounds like something new and might get companies to buy.
If it were me, I'd call it Office Live or something else to promote its collaborative features. In fact I'd call it anything but Office (next version) to try and break out of the upgrade cycle. I'd probably do studies and conduct research and find the optimal work that most consumers and business favorably responded to. Didn't they just hire some Walmart and Proctor & Gamble execs?
(of course, they could always be "old fashioned" and add some ground-breaking innovative features and functionality that create a new market so they wouldn't have to rely on marketing tricks).
Either they'll smash upon landing or attach a grenade to the stuff and activate it as your throw it out the window. That's another option if you ask me and they American's flying over the water could have tossed their gear into the ocean before landing. We must have subs and battle groups that could recover it if we were that worried.
Just my $.02.
Is SMB3 really considered retro nowadays?
on paper I woud agree that those parameters would make for a crappy voip call, but I decided to play with it on one flight and it worked awesome. I actually called my CEO to show him and even got a call back.