It's "Just Typical" that someone as smart as Ms. Mayer would see this as an indictment of telecommuting and not see it as what it is: A failure of management.
This is all about helping poor managers keep their jobs.
"We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!" -- Blazing Saddles
Most publicly traded U.S. companies are driven more by what effect decisions have on stock price. This drives them to do things that stock buyers perceive as good for a company's bottom line. Sadly, one of the better things one can do for this is to lay people off. In the human resources field, outsourcing is almost as good (though not as good because you still have costs), then hiring lower paid foreign nationals. So, while this seems to be saying the same thing as your a) and b), it's really a little more subtle because it's really about shareholder perceptions. This, in turn, is about marketing people in ways such as selling yourself.
That drives a lot of other things (E.g.: Executive salaries going up while a company loses money) peripherally related to TFA.
I've distinctly gotten the impression that American's have a heck of a lot stronger (almost zealous) "my home is my castle, my own little personal country where no one is allowed, if they're a tresspassn' I'm allowed to shoot em" fantasy.
So, seriously? You don't lock the doors or windows of your home? Or do you, too, have an "(almost zealous) 'my home is my castle, my own little personal country where no one is allowed'..." fantasy, enforced by lock and key?
Everything else is really just a means to that end. They want to control the music, but that's still purely capitalistic: They want to control the music because they want to be sure they get your money. They'd like to make you pay for humming a tune they think they own or singing it in the shower. Heck, the owners of "Happy Birthday" control whether the waiters in a restaurant can sing it and I'm sure they'd like to make you pay every time you sing it at home.
We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!
-- Blazing Saddles (and yes, Mel Brooks wants to protect his phoney baloney job, too, and he's in his 80s.)
They don't run Windows. They won't run your Windows apps. It'll only run apps from the Surface Store, same way iPads only run apps from the Apple Store.
Not hater, just trying to save you some money.
Thanks. Actually, the Surface Pro version will, and I should have been more clear in my first comment to that effect.
I Don't Own An iPad or Android Device, nor am I Clairvoyant. But I think these may sell well.
I will probably buy one of these. They run Windows. They have a USB port. They will run a piece of software I want to run that will not run on IOS or Android, although it also has a version for OS-X. Apple does not sell an iPad-like device that runs OS-X.
Ok, I know there are now less expensive data plans. But the point is the same: I just don't see the value in the data plans. If/when things are reasonably priced, I may consider it.
My wife and I both used Palm Pilots before we could get them bundled with our phone. We both had Palm phones until they broke (screens - yeah, we shoulda had cases) and Verizon insisted we could not replace them without a data plan. @#$% you, Verizon.
As others have noted, javascript burning down the house:
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If you click on the "Open Store" link at the top then the "Buy Now" link, you'll see a couple of versions of the Asia. You do not have to log in to do this - I didn't even create an account.
I think part of the problem is that he keeps attempting to equate Computer Science with Software Engineering.
That's like expecting a guy with BS in Chemistry to be successful working as a Chemical Engineer. Yeah, some guys figure it out and make really good Chemical Engineers. Most don't.
If they're serious about making Engineers, they need to align their curriculae with the other engineering disciplines. They need to require the fundamental CS courses *PLUS* the broad exposure to the other engineering disciplines (by requiring them to take basic civil engineering, mechanical engineering, circuits and maybe *more* digital electrical engineering) *PLUS* real world software engineering, including project management.
I hope that they don't settle. This would be a great chance to set a precedent.
It is *not* the content owner's decision as to what constitutes fair use and what does not. 20 seconds is laughable enough that the "content owner" should be begging to settle at this point if they want to continue having folks arrested for this.
They said, "expect that bad people are happy to do bad things to them just like if you leave kids running around in public places unattended then bad people may do bad things to them as well with the odds basically being the same for all of it all happening."
Well, since the actual odds of anything happening to your children even if you were irresponsible enough to leave them "running around in public places unattended" are practically nil, I guess we're ok then.
If there's any discrimination against any group to be found here, it will be in the non-functioning kiosk and that they therefore do not provide a way for those without Internet access to apply for a job. A sharp and lucky attorney could at least argue that, if certain minorities have less access to the Internet, then requiring Internet access discriminates against those minorities by not providing a functional method to apply.
More information would be needed, but there could be a case.
For example:
Is the failure a problem with the machine in the kiosk, or does everyone's computer fail miserably to get past the second page?
If it is the machine, how long has it been broken? Maybe it was working two days ago. Maybe it will work again if someone just reboots (it is a Dell and is therefore likely running Windows, right?).
"However, the real point I'd like to make is this. By their nature, consumer satisfaction reports tend to be way out of date. This is because the records relate to models that have been around for a while, which in a rapidly moving industry means they may not relate to what is on the shelves at all."
But they relate to the actual corporate culture and where, in a Q.A. world that still targets a quality level attempting to minimize "product giveaway" (that's making a product that is better than needed), past history is often a pretty fair predictor of future quality. Now that I've been an amateur photographer for over 30 years (I worked two jobs in high school to buy my first Minolta SRT-201), I hope I get some creds when I remember avoiding Pentax because they were cheaply made (and I actually rolled my car *over* that Minolta with no ill effects, but this is all anecdotal too:) ). Pentax, if they *wanted* to could make highly reliable digital cameras, but folks who are looking for highly reliable digital cameras are not their market - at this juncture, Nikon and Canon have much to lose.
IOW, some companies just don't care about quality. It takes more than a year to fix a culture like that and, when it does happen, organizations like Consumers Union tend to notice. E.g.: they've noticed the change in a couple of Korean auto makers. And implying that they (using C.U. as the example here) predict Volvo's quality based on a single model is just plain ignorant.
Certainly, it would be better if they could actually inject themselves into the operations of a company (as many corporations do to their suppliers), but "way out of date" is "way overstated."
This issue is really calling for some regulatory protection measures.
If we can make them put Parental Advisory stickers because some guy said the F*** word, then we certainly can make these guys put something that says, in large print:
"WARNING! This CD will not play on many CD players."
Please. I'm sure the Mises family has made Emperor Franz Joseph I proud for ennobling their ancestor. Of course, Franzie is famous for, when someone suggested his army could use tanks (in WW!, where they sided with Germany), he said, "Absolutely not. The horses will be startled!".
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It's "Just Typical" that someone as smart as Ms. Mayer would see this as an indictment of telecommuting and not see it as what it is: A failure of management.
This is all about helping poor managers keep their jobs.
"We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!" -- Blazing Saddles
Most publicly traded U.S. companies are driven more by what effect decisions have on stock price. This drives them to do things that stock buyers perceive as good for a company's bottom line. Sadly, one of the better things one can do for this is to lay people off. In the human resources field, outsourcing is almost as good (though not as good because you still have costs), then hiring lower paid foreign nationals. So, while this seems to be saying the same thing as your a) and b), it's really a little more subtle because it's really about shareholder perceptions. This, in turn, is about marketing people in ways such as selling yourself.
That drives a lot of other things (E.g.: Executive salaries going up while a company loses money) peripherally related to TFA.
I've distinctly gotten the impression that American's have a heck of a lot stronger (almost zealous) "my home is my castle, my own little personal country where no one is allowed, if they're a tresspassn' I'm allowed to shoot em" fantasy.
So, seriously? You don't lock the doors or windows of your home? Or do you, too, have an "(almost zealous) 'my home is my castle, my own little personal country where no one is allowed'..." fantasy, enforced by lock and key?
Well, what they really only dream about is
2: Paying for each listen to tracks.
Everything else is really just a means to that end. They want to control the music, but that's still purely capitalistic: They want to control the music because they want to be sure they get your money. They'd like to make you pay for humming a tune they think they own or singing it in the shower. Heck, the owners of "Happy Birthday" control whether the waiters in a restaurant can sing it and I'm sure they'd like to make you pay every time you sing it at home.
We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!
-- Blazing Saddles (and yes, Mel Brooks wants to protect his phoney baloney job, too, and he's in his 80s.)
They don't run Windows. They won't run your Windows apps. It'll only run apps from the Surface Store, same way iPads only run apps from the Apple Store.
Not hater, just trying to save you some money.
Thanks. Actually, the Surface Pro version will, and I should have been more clear in my first comment to that effect.
Yes, I understood that it was the "Pro" version that would run X86 software and should have been less succinct in my first comment.
I Don't Own An iPad or Android Device, nor am I Clairvoyant. But I think these may sell well.
I will probably buy one of these. They run Windows. They have a USB port. They will run a piece of software I want to run that will not run on IOS or Android, although it also has a version for OS-X. Apple does not sell an iPad-like device that runs OS-X.
Yeah, or not quite the exact "opposite" trolls out for lulz... Kinda funny, if so... :)
Ok, I know there are now less expensive data plans. But the point is the same: I just don't see the value in the data plans. If/when things are reasonably priced, I may consider it.
My wife and I both used Palm Pilots before we could get them bundled with our phone. We both had Palm phones until they broke (screens - yeah, we shoulda had cases) and Verizon insisted we could not replace them without a data plan. @#$% you, Verizon.
As others have noted, javascript burning down the house:
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The photog only authorized PRIVATE use of the picture. Why don't you respect that and take it off your site?
Gee, thanks for getting him to take down a mirror of a slashdotted image. I actually wanted to see the thing.
Moron.
So, really, you mean to say that "This is not a constitutional issue. This is a contract issue." Right?
Oh, wait...
Between you, me (Flashblock myself), and 2 million iPad owners, "its 'write once, play everywhere' functionality" seems to have lost its luster...
If you click on the "Open Store" link at the top then the "Buy Now" link, you'll see a couple of versions of the Asia. You do not have to log in to do this - I didn't even create an account.
I think part of the problem is that he keeps attempting to equate Computer Science with Software Engineering.
That's like expecting a guy with BS in Chemistry to be successful working as a Chemical Engineer. Yeah, some guys figure it out and make really good Chemical Engineers. Most don't.
If they're serious about making Engineers, they need to align their curriculae with the other engineering disciplines. They need to require the fundamental CS courses *PLUS* the broad exposure to the other engineering disciplines (by requiring them to take basic civil engineering, mechanical engineering, circuits and maybe *more* digital electrical engineering) *PLUS* real world software engineering, including project management.
Until they do, they're NOT engineers of any kind.
Mark
I hope that they don't settle. This would be a great chance to set a precedent.
It is *not* the content owner's decision as to what constitutes fair use and what does not. 20 seconds is laughable enough that the "content owner" should be begging to settle at this point if they want to continue having folks arrested for this.
They said, "expect that bad people are happy to do bad things to them just like if you leave kids running around in public places unattended then bad people may do bad things to them as well with the odds basically being the same for all of it all happening."
Well, since the actual odds of anything happening to your children even if you were irresponsible enough to leave them "running around in public places unattended" are practically nil, I guess we're ok then.
That *is* what they're trying to say here, right?
If there's any discrimination against any group to be found here, it will be in the non-functioning kiosk and that they therefore do not provide a way for those without Internet access to apply for a job. A sharp and lucky attorney could at least argue that, if certain minorities have less access to the Internet, then requiring Internet access discriminates against those minorities by not providing a functional method to apply.
More information would be needed, but there could be a case.
For example:
Is the failure a problem with the machine in the kiosk, or does everyone's computer fail miserably to get past the second page?
If it is the machine, how long has it been broken? Maybe it was working two days ago. Maybe it will work again if someone just reboots (it is a Dell and is therefore likely running Windows, right?).
Mark
Did I miss something, or wasn't this the exact point of the article the original poster linked to?
Hey! What about my kids?
If you have the original Squeezebox, the later ones have a bigger buffer (40mb vs 8).
BUT, if you're using it wirelessly, the stuttering is more than likely caused by interruptions in this and may be fixed by running wired.
Mark, happy original Squeezebox owner
"However, the real point I'd like to make is this. By their nature, consumer satisfaction reports tend to be way out of date. This is because the records relate to models that have been around for a while, which in a rapidly moving industry means they may not relate to what is on the shelves at all."
:) ). Pentax, if they *wanted* to could make highly reliable digital cameras, but folks who are looking for highly reliable digital cameras are not their market - at this juncture, Nikon and Canon have much to lose.
But they relate to the actual corporate culture and where, in a Q.A. world that still targets a quality level attempting to minimize "product giveaway" (that's making a product that is better than needed), past history is often a pretty fair predictor of future quality. Now that I've been an amateur photographer for over 30 years (I worked two jobs in high school to buy my first Minolta SRT-201), I hope I get some creds when I remember avoiding Pentax because they were cheaply made (and I actually rolled my car *over* that Minolta with no ill effects, but this is all anecdotal too
IOW, some companies just don't care about quality. It takes more than a year to fix a culture like that and, when it does happen, organizations like Consumers Union tend to notice. E.g.: they've noticed the change in a couple of Korean auto makers. And implying that they (using C.U. as the example here) predict Volvo's quality based on a single model is just plain ignorant.
Certainly, it would be better if they could actually inject themselves into the operations of a company (as many corporations do to their suppliers), but "way out of date" is "way overstated."
Mark
This issue is really calling for some regulatory protection measures.
If we can make them put Parental Advisory stickers because some guy said the F*** word, then we certainly can make these guys put something that says, in large print:
"WARNING! This CD will not play on many CD players."
Mark
Please. I'm sure the Mises family has made Emperor Franz Joseph I proud for ennobling their ancestor. Of course, Franzie is famous for, when someone suggested his army could use tanks (in WW!, where they sided with Germany), he said, "Absolutely not. The horses will be startled!".
Mark
Honestly, because of the reason for the article, I found it to be clever and find google's actions to be at best hypocritical.
Just another reason to switch to Yahoo search. Google is too big for their britches.
Mark