The media picked up on it because it was hypocrisy in action. GOP has taken a position that even closing loop holes is a tax increase that cannot be tolerated. The so-called Bush Tax cuts must be made permeant because you cannot add more taxes to the job creators. And while you are saying that there was never a disagreement over the holiday, that's not true. There was plenty of disagreement about if the middle class "needed" the tax cut. House Tea Party caucus leader Michelle Bachmann called the Tax Holiday a "mistake" and was against it no matter how it was funded. That was a popular position held by the rest of the Tea Party House Caucus, and a good chunk of the GOP presidential hopefuls are they canvased Iowa.
Let's call a spade a spade, the legislative output of the GOP primally helps the wealthy and large businesses. If you are middle class or poor, if you are a small business, putting the GOP in power, in particularly those that subscribe to the extreme right (Tea Party) is not in your economic interest.
1) There wasn't a massive switch from iPhone. AT&T had an exclusive for how many years? Most of the carriers didn't have an iPhone to switch from. 2) iPad price - Most people predicted the Apple Tablet to come in at $999. When it showed up at $499 everyone was blown away. And let's face it, the first contenders at the $499 price point were pretty weak sauce. Now things are starting to change, but I wouldn't count Apple out with a iPad 3 in the pipeline. Apple will maintain the price point, but will certainly have pressure on them to be bold about features.
In the end, I think it's good for the consumer to have competition, but none of the droid tablets really blow me away.
I don't care for the oversized screen. It seems like a good idea, but I'd prefer a smaller screen above large hard buttons. In particular for common functions like climate control.
Seriously, neat wall design, although it seems more like an office than a living space. Perhaps if the monitors where some sort of wall "art" when not in use for the parties.
That's great for your company, but it's the exception, not the rule. I consult at a lot of companies in my market. Mostly with web facing application programming. I can think of once in the last 10 years I had a college hire in the department. The low-mid level programming jobs were almost all H1B or Offshore.
I think you hit on something, even if you haven't realized it. Companies don't hire first year students. The numbers have been dropping for almost a decade now. Companies get it into their head "why deal with college hires when we can use experienced off-shore". Well you can't keep a pipeline of experienced programmers in the US unless you make the investments in the next generation of programmers.
I blame Michael Bay. His stories are just vehicles for his elaborate FX sequences. And I blame the general public for seeing his crappy films enough where he'll keep scoring great sci-fi franchises that deserve a better director. It's not that I don't enjoy his FX serquences, but the plot, dialog and direction aren't even as good as the Star Wars prequels. That's a pretty low bar to start with. DO NOT WANT.
I think you're missing the point. ARM clearly lost to x86 in terms of the PC and I think it's fair to contend that they would have become a footnote in computing if not for the capabilities they developed while working with Apple. Specifically the reason arm continues it success today is because the Newton needed ultra-low (for it's time) power consumption. Apple spent almost 5 years working with ARM on that processor before releasing the Newton with the ARM6. I think it's fair to say there are bits of the BBC Micro technology in millions of devices today, but I think you also have to consider that if Apple had joined up with a different manufacturer they may have ended up the spot ARM is in today.
The battery life on this new Asus pad is quite low, even compared to legacy Droid tablets like the Galaxy and Xoom. This is where Apple traditionally does well and they will continue to. It's a big deal for customers. So the iPad 3 is already listed in the latest iOS. It will be out mid 2012 and with 4 cores, some fancy new display and who knows what else. It will likely sell more in a month than the entire product run of the Asus Eee Pad.
The current ARM has little to do with the BBC micro. Apple purchased a stake in Acorn with the goal of getting them to FAB a low powered CPU to power the Newton. While the Newton was never a success as a device, the technology and patents that resulted from the project set ARM on it's current trajectory. In a round-about way the Newton did save Apple. At it's darkest hour the sale of Apple's holding in Arm netted $800m in hard cold cash when Apple needed it most. Without the Newton Apple wouldn't be what it is today and neither would Arm Holdings.
On the one hand I can't say there's anything demonstrably wrong with what you said here. On the other hand, stories like these make me think of Jerry Lawson. He was the sole black member of the Homebrew Computer Club (Think Woz and Jobs), invented the Video Game Cartage, and was the chief engineer for Fairchild's video game division (The Fairchild Channel F most notably). He nearly died in obscurity and I can't help to wonder why he remained an unknown while others of that Era became recognizable names among the video game community.
It's not the first time for this in silicon valley. Vulcan ventures fired Leo laporte when he refused to turn over shares when they sold TechTv to comcast. I think Laporte had vested shares at least but it's not unheard of for a VC to fire a bunch of people before their vesting date.
I take the author at his word that IBM had a contract for weather related activities. It may be more accurate to say they were using tabulating power. That's not to say IBM provided quality output or even useful output, only that they were one of the few entities that knew the date.
As the old joke goes, Why is it the British don't make computers? Because they have found a way to make them leak oil yet.
One of the interesting aspects of globalization is a lot of restaurant food (Mostly Asian for now) is starting to come from china. There's no disclosure requirements there. Makes one think twice before heading off to the low cost Chinese buffet.
I would also say, don't assume organics gets you out of dodgy Chinese agricultural goods. At one point Whole Foods was sourcing their frozen "Organic" vegetables from China. An acquaintance of mine with USDA out of Beijing mission finds that extremely laughable. Since it's their job to visit farms and see the conditions they won't eat any of the food in China. Everything they eat is imported from US or Europe.
Back in WWII IBM's Brazilian division kept working with and suppling IBM's German division. The IBM's Hollerith punch card system was updated to be the workflow system for the holocaust. According to the author of the book IBM and the Holocaust when IBM USA found out IBM Brazil was still working with German division their response was a request no longer to be told of the activities. At the same time IBM was one of the few companies that knew when the D-Day invasion would be as it was actively using computer power to predict the best weather for the invasion.
Voice Commands for Android is pretty rudimentary compared to the Apple offering. Google's voice technology is very good at raw voice recognition (as are many programs on the market today.) But in the end it's a very simplistic command syntax engine. It doesn't understand natural language at all. You would have a better argument that Siri is close to some of the natural recognition systems Microsoft has developed or Vlingo. But comparing Google VCA to Siri is Apples to Oranges.
Be that as it may, both Apple and Google use a similar back end approach to process the requests. Audio is sent into the cloud and the results are sent back to the phone. So the two years bit is a very large over statement. More interesting questions to me are if Google is going to buy Vlingo, which some people think does a better job than Siri when having to deal with accents.
Knowing Java ins't good enough anymore. For instance, a developer who just does AWT or SWING is going to limited use for potential employers. You have to keep up to date on the common frameworks. What's SpringSource, Hibernate, Apache, etc. up to lately in the Java Space? What about other languages that execute in the JVM (i.e. JRuby, Clojure).
I'm a bit hesitant to even say Republicans are skeptics. Polling shows most of them no idea on the prevailing thoughts in the climate science community. How can you be skeptical of facts and assertions you don't even know. I would say most republicans are just ignorant on climate change. Though the talking point on climate science continues to be that it's unsettled science. This is 5-6 years after George Bush went on record saying he believed in Global Warming. Be that as it may I find skeptics tend to be 1) professional skeptics unrelated to party (most likely to wear a tin foil hat). 2) People who have a financial stake. 3) People with knee jerk party position.
"We developed this theory that occasionally there were these brilliant people out there who hadn't found their way to Silicon Valley"
A lot of folks don't make it to the SV. The chances of making it huge are pretty slim. Even if you work for a company like Facebook, but the time the majority of people have joined cheap stock options are claimed. So that leaves you with long days, astronomical costs of living, and the opertunity to get stuck with over priced property every time a bubble bursts. Or you could leave other places in the US that have lower costs of living that more than make up for the slightly lower pay.
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The media picked up on it because it was hypocrisy in action. GOP has taken a position that even closing loop holes is a tax increase that cannot be tolerated. The so-called Bush Tax cuts must be made permeant because you cannot add more taxes to the job creators. And while you are saying that there was never a disagreement over the holiday, that's not true. There was plenty of disagreement about if the middle class "needed" the tax cut. House Tea Party caucus leader Michelle Bachmann called the Tax Holiday a "mistake" and was against it no matter how it was funded. That was a popular position held by the rest of the Tea Party House Caucus, and a good chunk of the GOP presidential hopefuls are they canvased Iowa.
Let's call a spade a spade, the legislative output of the GOP primally helps the wealthy and large businesses. If you are middle class or poor, if you are a small business, putting the GOP in power, in particularly those that subscribe to the extreme right (Tea Party) is not in your economic interest.
You can tear apart the article pretty easily.
1) There wasn't a massive switch from iPhone. AT&T had an exclusive for how many years? Most of the carriers didn't have an iPhone to switch from.
2) iPad price - Most people predicted the Apple Tablet to come in at $999. When it showed up at $499 everyone was blown away. And let's face it, the first contenders at the $499 price point were pretty weak sauce. Now things are starting to change, but I wouldn't count Apple out with a iPad 3 in the pipeline. Apple will maintain the price point, but will certainly have pressure on them to be bold about features.
In the end, I think it's good for the consumer to have competition, but none of the droid tablets really blow me away.
I don't care for the oversized screen. It seems like a good idea, but I'd prefer a smaller screen above large hard buttons. In particular for common functions like climate control.
The real measure of a Korean Internet Master is their abilities with Star Craft!
The bigger issue for me is, who still has LAN parties. We live in the internet age Yo!
LAN Party? Looks more like a Sausage Party.
Seriously, neat wall design, although it seems more like an office than a living space. Perhaps if the monitors where some sort of wall "art" when not in use for the parties.
That's great for your company, but it's the exception, not the rule. I consult at a lot of companies in my market. Mostly with web facing application programming. I can think of once in the last 10 years I had a college hire in the department. The low-mid level programming jobs were almost all H1B or Offshore.
I think you hit on something, even if you haven't realized it. Companies don't hire first year students. The numbers have been dropping for almost a decade now. Companies get it into their head "why deal with college hires when we can use experienced off-shore". Well you can't keep a pipeline of experienced programmers in the US unless you make the investments in the next generation of programmers.
I'm not saying you can't have CG or FX. I'm saying the plot and dialog shouldn't be second to it.
I blame Michael Bay. His stories are just vehicles for his elaborate FX sequences. And I blame the general public for seeing his crappy films enough where he'll keep scoring great sci-fi franchises that deserve a better director. It's not that I don't enjoy his FX serquences, but the plot, dialog and direction aren't even as good as the Star Wars prequels. That's a pretty low bar to start with. DO NOT WANT.
I think you're missing the point. ARM clearly lost to x86 in terms of the PC and I think it's fair to contend that they would have become a footnote in computing if not for the capabilities they developed while working with Apple. Specifically the reason arm continues it success today is because the Newton needed ultra-low (for it's time) power consumption. Apple spent almost 5 years working with ARM on that processor before releasing the Newton with the ARM6. I think it's fair to say there are bits of the BBC Micro technology in millions of devices today, but I think you also have to consider that if Apple had joined up with a different manufacturer they may have ended up the spot ARM is in today.
The battery life on this new Asus pad is quite low, even compared to legacy Droid tablets like the Galaxy and Xoom. This is where Apple traditionally does well and they will continue to. It's a big deal for customers. So the iPad 3 is already listed in the latest iOS. It will be out mid 2012 and with 4 cores, some fancy new display and who knows what else. It will likely sell more in a month than the entire product run of the Asus Eee Pad.
The current ARM has little to do with the BBC micro. Apple purchased a stake in Acorn with the goal of getting them to FAB a low powered CPU to power the Newton. While the Newton was never a success as a device, the technology and patents that resulted from the project set ARM on it's current trajectory. In a round-about way the Newton did save Apple. At it's darkest hour the sale of Apple's holding in Arm netted $800m in hard cold cash when Apple needed it most. Without the Newton Apple wouldn't be what it is today and neither would Arm Holdings.
On the one hand I can't say there's anything demonstrably wrong with what you said here. On the other hand, stories like these make me think of Jerry Lawson. He was the sole black member of the Homebrew Computer Club (Think Woz and Jobs), invented the Video Game Cartage, and was the chief engineer for Fairchild's video game division (The Fairchild Channel F most notably). He nearly died in obscurity and I can't help to wonder why he remained an unknown while others of that Era became recognizable names among the video game community.
It's not the first time for this in silicon valley. Vulcan ventures fired Leo laporte when he refused to turn over shares when they sold TechTv to comcast. I think Laporte had vested shares at least but it's not unheard of for a VC to fire a bunch of people before their vesting date.
I take the author at his word that IBM had a contract for weather related activities. It may be more accurate to say they were using tabulating power. That's not to say IBM provided quality output or even useful output, only that they were one of the few entities that knew the date.
As the old joke goes, Why is it the British don't make computers? Because they have found a way to make them leak oil yet.
One of the interesting aspects of globalization is a lot of restaurant food (Mostly Asian for now) is starting to come from china. There's no disclosure requirements there. Makes one think twice before heading off to the low cost Chinese buffet.
I would also say, don't assume organics gets you out of dodgy Chinese agricultural goods. At one point Whole Foods was sourcing their frozen "Organic" vegetables from China. An acquaintance of mine with USDA out of Beijing mission finds that extremely laughable. Since it's their job to visit farms and see the conditions they won't eat any of the food in China. Everything they eat is imported from US or Europe.
Back in WWII IBM's Brazilian division kept working with and suppling IBM's German division. The IBM's Hollerith punch card system was updated to be the workflow system for the holocaust. According to the author of the book IBM and the Holocaust when IBM USA found out IBM Brazil was still working with German division their response was a request no longer to be told of the activities. At the same time IBM was one of the few companies that knew when the D-Day invasion would be as it was actively using computer power to predict the best weather for the invasion.
Voice Commands for Android is pretty rudimentary compared to the Apple offering. Google's voice technology is very good at raw voice recognition (as are many programs on the market today.) But in the end it's a very simplistic command syntax engine. It doesn't understand natural language at all. You would have a better argument that Siri is close to some of the natural recognition systems Microsoft has developed or Vlingo. But comparing Google VCA to Siri is Apples to Oranges.
Be that as it may, both Apple and Google use a similar back end approach to process the requests. Audio is sent into the cloud and the results are sent back to the phone. So the two years bit is a very large over statement. More interesting questions to me are if Google is going to buy Vlingo, which some people think does a better job than Siri when having to deal with accents.
There, fixed it for you.
Re-read the article dude. Seriously.
Yeah, mod the parent up. Everyone knew the next iPhone was coming and it suppressed sales. The next quarter will be a blow out.
Knowing Java ins't good enough anymore. For instance, a developer who just does AWT or SWING is going to limited use for potential employers. You have to keep up to date on the common frameworks. What's SpringSource, Hibernate, Apache, etc. up to lately in the Java Space? What about other languages that execute in the JVM (i.e. JRuby, Clojure).
I'm a bit hesitant to even say Republicans are skeptics. Polling shows most of them no idea on the prevailing thoughts in the climate science community. How can you be skeptical of facts and assertions you don't even know. I would say most republicans are just ignorant on climate change. Though the talking point on climate science continues to be that it's unsettled science. This is 5-6 years after George Bush went on record saying he believed in Global Warming. Be that as it may I find skeptics tend to be 1) professional skeptics unrelated to party (most likely to wear a tin foil hat). 2) People who have a financial stake. 3) People with knee jerk party position.
"We developed this theory that occasionally there were these brilliant people out there who hadn't found their way to Silicon Valley"
A lot of folks don't make it to the SV. The chances of making it huge are pretty slim. Even if you work for a company like Facebook, but the time the majority of people have joined cheap stock options are claimed. So that leaves you with long days, astronomical costs of living, and the opertunity to get stuck with over priced property every time a bubble bursts. Or you could leave other places in the US that have lower costs of living that more than make up for the slightly lower pay.