Given all this nature vs nuture crap, upbringing, envrionment, blah blah blah, wait about 20 years, and we'll see what happens.
My daughter is 2 years old, and she watches me play computer games, has her own keyboard and mouse, likes to chase me around, and be chased by me, with nerf guns, but also likes to play with her big-ass doll house, her tea set, and all that stuff. I'm just as likely to read to her from a C programming guide as I am from 3 Little Pigs, and she knows exactly how her DVD of A Bug's Life works.
So, in 20 years, when she's as old as I am now, she either will play VGs, because she learned it from Daddy, or she won't, because her personal temperment or her female temperment doesn't jive with it.
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They really really didn't want to stop working with PPC, but Apple started playing on again/off again with them, and wouldn't hand over processor specs that they needed. Be decided not to reverse engineer or get the info from LinuxPPC, because Apple basically slapped them in the face by doing that.
I can't fault Be for making that decision, either. Of course, I still boggle at Apple pulling two years of profitability simply by coloring their cases.
As for technology as a double-edged sword... but the implication of using the word "sword" is a violent one.... science in general (esp. math!) as a natural resource.
A quick aside; science, sword, scissors, even shit, all come from the same root, meaning 'to cut, to separate.' Western science is violent separating, dissecting, tearing apart of something to discover it's workings.
In the history of music sales, before Jan 1, 2000, only two albums ever sold 1 million or more copies in their first week of sales. In the year 2000 alone, five albums sold 1 million plus in their first week.
It makes me wonder if stockholders should start the class action lawsuits; properly embracing online sales would definately 'enhance shareholder value.' Crushing it, though, probably hurts the bottom line, in so many ways.
Through all the companies I've been in, in several departments and several positions, I've consistantly seen one thing that would improve things dramatically:
Accountability.
The consistant and regular application of accountability to anything you do as part of that company, weather you're a grunt or a VP.
If you're a QA tech, say, and you sign off that, say, the COM loading interface of your product works, and it ships, and it turns out not to work, in trivial and stupid ways, then you should be held accountable. Even if it's just a weekly 'wall of shame' intranet site for your co-workers to look at, fine.
Similarly, if a VP makes an obviously stupid decision, ignoring the advise of everybody who knows better, when the shit hits the fan, it should be made known.
Conversely, success reports need to go out on a regular and consistant basis. Carrot and stick.
which doesn't mean 70 hour weeks - you can be committed and go home at 5pm every day
If one is spending that much overtime, on anything aproaching a regular basis, or outside of EXTERME emergencies, unless strictly out of personal desire (sometimes I WANT to keep working until I'm done that algo...) then either a) you need to improve your time management skills, b) you have VERY poor management or c) both.:-)
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Given all this nature vs nuture crap, upbringing, envrionment, blah blah blah, wait about 20 years, and we'll see what happens.
My daughter is 2 years old, and she watches me play computer games, has her own keyboard and mouse, likes to chase me around, and be chased by me, with nerf guns, but also likes to play with her big-ass doll house, her tea set, and all that stuff. I'm just as likely to read to her from a C programming guide as I am from 3 Little Pigs, and she knows exactly how her DVD of A Bug's Life works.
So, in 20 years, when she's as old as I am now, she either will play VGs, because she learned it from Daddy, or she won't, because her personal temperment or her female temperment doesn't jive with it.
I can't fault Be for making that decision, either. Of course, I still boggle at Apple pulling two years of profitability simply by coloring their cases.
DVD isn't intended to replace VCRs much the same way an audio CD was never intended to replace a cassette deck.
I'm on an @home cable modem, and I say good! If @home won't be good neighbours, then they shouldn't be allowed into Fred's backyard for beer and BBQ.
I'll be calling and emailing tech support telling them to clean up their act, be assured of that.
In the history of music sales, before Jan 1, 2000, only two albums ever sold 1 million or more copies in their first week of sales. In the year 2000 alone, five albums sold 1 million plus in their first week. It makes me wonder if stockholders should start the class action lawsuits; properly embracing online sales would definately 'enhance shareholder value.' Crushing it, though, probably hurts the bottom line, in so many ways.
Through all the companies I've been in, in several departments and several positions, I've consistantly seen one thing that would improve things dramatically: Accountability. The consistant and regular application of accountability to anything you do as part of that company, weather you're a grunt or a VP. If you're a QA tech, say, and you sign off that, say, the COM loading interface of your product works, and it ships, and it turns out not to work, in trivial and stupid ways, then you should be held accountable. Even if it's just a weekly 'wall of shame' intranet site for your co-workers to look at, fine. Similarly, if a VP makes an obviously stupid decision, ignoring the advise of everybody who knows better, when the shit hits the fan, it should be made known. Conversely, success reports need to go out on a regular and consistant basis. Carrot and stick.
Not a life guard, just a good shot of chlorine.