That is mostly untrue. The state of the union today is a pretty sad affair of ignorance and who can yell the loudest...IMHO that's a mob. Things like creationism and intelligent design are getting back in schools. Equal rights for same sex marriage is still opposed by the majority (in some places). American Idol is still on TV.
I think George Carlin said it best..."Think of how stupid the average American is, now realize that half the people are dumber than that." Those people vote unfortunately. They typically do so at the bidding of their pastor, local leaders, or whatever the popular guy on Fox News tells them to do.
I think that's mob rule. I just wish I could take torches and pitchforks to the voting booth.
Um...no...someone posted Apple's 3rd quarter statement on here in another thread and no, they aren't profitable without the iPhone / iPad. The iDevice market in combination with iTunes makes up 80% plus of Apple's sales right now. If you take away the iDevices, I think iTunes folds as IMHO there's much better music and content markets online (Amazon, Netflix, Russia, etc...).
Unless Apple can stay on top of the phone and tablet market, or create yet another market, their future isn't as bright as their immediate past.
IBM doesn't make money with quality products. They make money by selling shoddy products that come with consultants (or are generally also shoddy). Those consultants come with multi-million dollar multi-year contracts. By the time you realize IBM may not have been the best call, they own your infrastructure.
Problem for me anyway...it is very difficult to measure the communication gap, quality difference, and delays between those 3 coders and the 1 guy in the US. All the big wigs get to see is guy X costs 45$ an hour and guy Y costs 15$. On the balance sheet it looks like they're saving millions.
10 years later there's a quality gap and customer dissatisfaction...the answer...get even more 15$ guys and more big wigs...
I disagree...it was probably 10 developers and 990 managers. 1000 developers would have gotten something done (granted less than.01% of the world would have understood what it did, but it would have been beautiful).
Unlikely, when I kill one person I'm up for life or the death penalty. When I kill one million, it's probably a regulatory white collar crime that will land me a couple years and a heafty fine.
As a car driver, I back that statement. Typically the "serious" bikers are the ones that won't move over and let people pass, or worse, agressively lane split to get in front of everyone in heavy traffic, just to slow it down further. I haven't seen that behavior very often from the casual bikers.
Grain of salt: I'm probably one of the Jerks this guy is talking about.
To me this seems like it was written from the perspective of a higher-up who can't get his way. I've been that person (I work at a LARGE corporation). An example of this was our leadership telling us to use a particular set of tools for our work. I was excited at the new suite of stuff because it was going to fill some gaping holes in our processes.
However, after taking them out for a spin (usability and performance) we realized that this set of tools were going to fold under the load we were going to put them under. We had several other teams also working with the tools, but they were doing a fraction of the work we were doing.
My team wrote papers, talked to upper management, and pulled every string we could to not pursue that contract. Because of that, I kind of committed career suicide, I was pushing the hardest not to use the new toolsI was labeled not a team player, and not being supportive of our corporate overlords.
Thus, I shut up and put my head down to work and changed areas. (I have a house and kids, so switching jobs outright would be rough). It’s now 4 years later, and at the cost of hundreds of millions, we’ve dropped and transitioned that particular tool suite.
TL;DR: The Jerks typically do have good ideas, they just don’t jive with leadership.
Nah...we'll nuke everyone to bits before we become un-awesome. Luckily, our general populace won't realize their unawesomeness on the world stage until we run out of oil, beer, and guns (probably in that order). You're safe for another 50-100 years.
I had an HTC surround that died of asphalt poisoning and my inability to discern a tiny ribbon of wires from the tape holding it in the case.
I'm a big fan of the W7 os for daily stuff. Getting to Maps, my calendar, music and such was a much better experience than I've had with either iPhone or Android. Metro is one of the best advances in mobile tech in a while IMHO. I don’t have to focus on my phone to find that one app I use all the timeor even unlock the phone to see missed calls or messages. Cutting off the text makes it much faster and easier to read.
The dev environment for W7 is top notch. If I ever see XCode again, I'll cry. I can deal with eclipse/java, but it's overall just not as elegant to code in as Visual Studio and.Net. (I used to do Mobile QA for a large corporation and have a lot of experience testing and writing code for all 3 platforms)
The bad, as everyone said, is the lack of apps. Chess with friends brought me unwillingly back to the iPhone. Draw Something kept me there. Until Microsoft gives Zynga a monstrous subsidiary to start writing apps for the phone, it's not going to catch on mainstream. Alas
On that vein, at a particular Radio Shack, the store manager would put returned defective items back on the shelf. 1 in 3 customers would buy the given items and not return them. Thus, Profit!!!
Take that story with a grain of salt though, that was 15 years ago, and one shady manager.
We saw how McDonald’s worked out in Supersize Me. Sure, it’s cheap and very fast, but it will also destroy your body in the long run if you eat it every day.
Outsourcing has the same sort of cancerous effect. When you’ve realized you’ve offshored all your technical talent and critical thinking needs it’s either too late, or going to be very costly to recover.
Yea, nothing is more fun than bashing a multi-billion dollar satellite into Mars to prove someone's math is wrong. Field experiments are FUN! Math is hard.
just upload your notebook and let Wolfram's cluster crunch it for you And for Wolfram to very easily crunch your work into a New Kind of Science 2: Electric Boogaloo
My gameboy had some pretty bad experiences (I remeber dropping it on concrete in Jr. High, and it still works around 20 years later.
However, I think the gameboy pales in comparison to the horror stories I've heard and experienced with the Nokia phones. One of my friends ran over his with his car and it still worked, and the screen didn't crack. I've shot mine across the room during a failed breakdancing experiment onto concrete / tile, only to be kicked by several other party goers. 5 years later and several drops it's still my go to phone when my trendy new phone breaks (which has happened at least 3 times).
Since both teams win every game, does that mean I always win my bets? I guess I'd really get hosed on odds though.
On a better note, the Cubs would finally have a shot.
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I just want to know how this will taste on coco-puffs.
"It is not a pure, mob rule democracy."
That is mostly untrue. The state of the union today is a pretty sad affair of ignorance and who can yell the loudest...IMHO that's a mob. Things like creationism and intelligent design are getting back in schools. Equal rights for same sex marriage is still opposed by the majority (in some places). American Idol is still on TV.
I think George Carlin said it best..."Think of how stupid the average American is, now realize that half the people are dumber than that." Those people vote unfortunately. They typically do so at the bidding of their pastor, local leaders, or whatever the popular guy on Fox News tells them to do.
I think that's mob rule. I just wish I could take torches and pitchforks to the voting booth.
Um...no...someone posted Apple's 3rd quarter statement on here in another thread and no, they aren't profitable without the iPhone / iPad. The iDevice market in combination with iTunes makes up 80% plus of Apple's sales right now. If you take away the iDevices, I think iTunes folds as IMHO there's much better music and content markets online (Amazon, Netflix, Russia, etc...).
Unless Apple can stay on top of the phone and tablet market, or create yet another market, their future isn't as bright as their immediate past.
IBM doesn't make money with quality products. They make money by selling shoddy products that come with consultants (or are generally also shoddy). Those consultants come with multi-million dollar multi-year contracts. By the time you realize IBM may not have been the best call, they own your infrastructure.
Problem for me anyway...it is very difficult to measure the communication gap, quality difference, and delays between those 3 coders and the 1 guy in the US. All the big wigs get to see is guy X costs 45$ an hour and guy Y costs 15$. On the balance sheet it looks like they're saving millions.
10 years later there's a quality gap and customer dissatisfaction...the answer...get even more 15$ guys and more big wigs...
I disagree...it was probably 10 developers and 990 managers. 1000 developers would have gotten something done (granted less than .01% of the world would have understood what it did, but it would have been beautiful).
Easiest would be to just watermark the original layers.
Unlikely, when I kill one person I'm up for life or the death penalty. When I kill one million, it's probably a regulatory white collar crime that will land me a couple years and a heafty fine.
As a car driver, I back that statement. Typically the "serious" bikers are the ones that won't move over and let people pass, or worse, agressively lane split to get in front of everyone in heavy traffic, just to slow it down further. I haven't seen that behavior very often from the casual bikers.
Does that mean the earth will float away into space when the crust fills up with all that steam?
Grain of salt: I'm probably one of the Jerks this guy is talking about.
To me this seems like it was written from the perspective of a higher-up who can't get his way. I've been that person (I work at a LARGE corporation).
An example of this was our leadership telling us to use a particular set of tools for our work. I was excited at the new suite of stuff because it was going to fill some gaping holes in our processes.
However, after taking them out for a spin (usability and performance) we realized that this set of tools were going to fold under the load we were going to put them under. We had several other teams also working with the tools, but they were doing a fraction of the work we were doing.
My team wrote papers, talked to upper management, and pulled every string we could to not pursue that contract.
Because of that, I kind of committed career suicide, I was pushing the hardest not to use the new toolsI was labeled not a team player, and not being supportive of our corporate overlords.
Thus, I shut up and put my head down to work and changed areas. (I have a house and kids, so switching jobs outright would be rough).
It’s now 4 years later, and at the cost of hundreds of millions, we’ve dropped and transitioned that particular tool suite.
TL;DR: The Jerks typically do have good ideas, they just don’t jive with leadership.
My first reaction to this was I use my android in desktop mode 70% of the time. I'd think I'd do the same with a tablet if I owned one.
According to that report, look at the bottom, if I'm reading that right...
Macs are only $4B of the $35B Apple made over that reporting period.
86% of Apple's revenue over the reporting period was iPhone, iPad, and related services.
(If I read that right).
Windows 8 likely can if you are on an RT version. (If I remember correctly, all RT apps must be metro and must come through the Windows app store).
Nah...we'll nuke everyone to bits before we become un-awesome. Luckily, our general populace won't realize their unawesomeness on the world stage until we run out of oil, beer, and guns (probably in that order). You're safe for another 50-100 years.
"energy companies, or the US government" Aren't those the same entity these days?
I had an HTC surround that died of asphalt poisoning and my inability to discern a tiny ribbon of wires from the tape holding it in the case. I'm a big fan of the W7 os for daily stuff. Getting to Maps, my calendar, music and such was a much better experience than I've had with either iPhone or Android. Metro is one of the best advances in mobile tech in a while IMHO. I don’t have to focus on my phone to find that one app I use all the timeor even unlock the phone to see missed calls or messages. Cutting off the text makes it much faster and easier to read. The dev environment for W7 is top notch. If I ever see XCode again, I'll cry. I can deal with eclipse/java, but it's overall just not as elegant to code in as Visual Studio and .Net. (I used to do Mobile QA for a large corporation and have a lot of experience testing and writing code for all 3 platforms)
The bad, as everyone said, is the lack of apps. Chess with friends brought me unwillingly back to the iPhone. Draw Something kept me there. Until Microsoft gives Zynga a monstrous subsidiary to start writing apps for the phone, it's not going to catch on mainstream. Alas
On that vein, at a particular Radio Shack, the store manager would put returned defective items back on the shelf. 1 in 3 customers would buy the given items and not return them. Thus, Profit!!! Take that story with a grain of salt though, that was 15 years ago, and one shady manager.
Apparently the void or reject button under the bar just wasn't complicated enough.
We saw how McDonald’s worked out in Supersize Me. Sure, it’s cheap and very fast, but it will also destroy your body in the long run if you eat it every day. Outsourcing has the same sort of cancerous effect. When you’ve realized you’ve offshored all your technical talent and critical thinking needs it’s either too late, or going to be very costly to recover.
Yea, nothing is more fun than bashing a multi-billion dollar satellite into Mars to prove someone's math is wrong. Field experiments are FUN! Math is hard.
As a representative of the asshats that tailgate...try to go a little faster than the speedlimit in the left lane, you won't get tailgated as much.
My gameboy had some pretty bad experiences (I remeber dropping it on concrete in Jr. High, and it still works around 20 years later.
However, I think the gameboy pales in comparison to the horror stories I've heard and experienced with the Nokia phones. One of my friends ran over his with his car and it still worked, and the screen didn't crack. I've shot mine across the room during a failed breakdancing experiment onto concrete / tile, only to be kicked by several other party goers. 5 years later and several drops it's still my go to phone when my trendy new phone breaks (which has happened at least 3 times).
Since both teams win every game, does that mean I always win my bets? I guess I'd really get hosed on odds though. On a better note, the Cubs would finally have a shot.