I went to an interview last summer at a dot com. I walk in and see two huge dining room tables with workstations setup all around it. Each table had about 8-10 people. The place was eerie stale quiet except for people working.
About 13 of the first 15 minutes was the guy spouting off about what he's done and the graduate program he just got into. At minute 16, he gets a cell phone call. He scheduled another meeting at the same time. He apologized and said he wanted to schedule a second.
When the secretary called, I told her no thanks. Between the crappy space and the pompous asshole interviewer, it wasn't a hard decision.
Do you have any idea how Wall Street works? Who do you think the investors listen to? Maybe they're lazy, but an analyst has the power to change that rating into a sell.
Incidentally, you with 100 shares does not count as an investor who matters. The analysts' buddy down the street who's a portfolio manager representing 50,000 shares? That's the investor that matters.
See. Another one. WordPerfect, Netscape, etc. etc. Now we can add Google to the list. Sure, Microsoft illegally uses its monopoly, but their competitors keep doing stupid things.
Great, Google. Piss off the DOJ, piss off Wall Street, get more bad press by sending Chinese to labor camps. You think you'll get more capital by being silent to instituational investors? How are you going to grow and expand when your stock price is at $5.00? When Microsoft starts leveraging their monopoly on your search and ad business, do you think the DOJ will give a rat's ass when you complain to them?
That's great. The biggest hope we've had in 10 years for a valid competitor to Microsoft is now shooting themselves in the foot.
Even if they priced this at $350-$400, how many parents would balk at that price? Even worse, how many single moms making $40k a year will be able to buy this for their kids? Yes, you the AC in his parent's basement and no GF to spend money on will be able to buy it and every game that comes out, but thankfully, you are few and far between. Idiot.
If the price is what has been rumored, that's going to really hurt adoption rates. Who's going to buy the games if no one's buying a console that costs $800?
Most Mac TOSLink cables are getting plugged into Sony receivers to play music from Sony lables and movies from Sony-owned studios. If you buy a Mac instead of a Sony PVR, or an iPod instead of a Sony Walkman, they still make lots of money off you.
True, but Sony music and Sony movies are not physical devices sitting in your living room, which is what the original article describes. Sony's still going to make money from their studios, but in affect, they've been booted out of the living room.
The exception to what you describe is the receiver, but that could be just a matter of time...
What you describe is the electronics market of yesterday. Today, devices of all types are plugging into the PCs. The iPod's a music device... that's also a front end to a software program and an online store. We also have car stereos that download songs from your computer onto its own hard drive via 802.11x. PC-based DVRs are in its early stages.
This battlefield is suited for Apple, where they have control of software and hardware. Sony, not being an OS or software maker, is at a huge disadvantage. Brilliant of Steve Jobs to lead the computer industry into this arena.
Who in the world's going to use a torrent to listen to podcasts? iTunes and Podcast Alley are probably the two largest podcast directories. They pull the file directly. Moreover, you have tons of podcasters who talk about a variety of things like gardening and knitting. They can barely hit the record button on Audacity. You think they're going to set up trackers and torrents?
I agree, and it affects the podcasts, too. I've seen a lot of podcasts die because of the bandwidth costs. The producers hosts a small time operation, post a 20-30 meg mp3 file out there, then watch their ISP bills go through the roof. With no consistent and reliable donations, they have to go off the air. They become a victim of their own success.
The bathroom is missing this. I saw it in person at MacWorld in January. I believe we have now officially crossed the line on acceptable iPod accessories/gear.
Anyone interested in this topic should check out the work of Temple Gradin. She's an autistic professor of Animal Science. In addition to her main field of research, she's done a lot of study on autism and sciencey people.
She was on Science Friday last week. Podcast here.
A while ago, I read an interview with the Flying Spaghetti Monster creator (no pun intended). He said the biggest mistake that American academia has made was to ignore the ID movement. It was so absurd, academics thought that if they ignored them, they would go away, or they did not want to give attention to those nutjobs. That method, he said, obviously has not worked.
Everyone *must* attack anyone that even thinks ID has any sort of legitimacy. Mock them, ridicule them, call them lunatics and extremeists, accuse them of not caring for the education of children, call them bad parents, expose them, and God-forbid (oh, the irony) if they are elected, vote them out like they did in Dover, PA! Make it clear to your school boards that if ID is even mentioned as a "maybe," the board members will be ousted!
I had a friend/coworker that sat in the cubicle next to me for about three years. She was also a hypochondriac, even to the point where she slipped and fell on the stairs one day at work because she always refused to hold the railings.
I always came in half an hour before her. Occasionally, when she got in, I would say to her, "I sneezed on your phone this morning," or "I licked your keyboard when I came in."
The important question is if it was the default browser, or was it just installed?
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Two years ago, "Web 2.0" meant XML and RSSing everything. Last year, "Web 2.0" meant web services and putting up a WSDL/API to everything. Now, "Web 2.0" means AJAXing your site.
Which one is it? Fuck you, buzzword proponents and marketeers.
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I went to an interview last summer at a dot com. I walk in and see two huge dining room tables with workstations setup all around it. Each table had about 8-10 people. The place was eerie stale quiet except for people working.
About 13 of the first 15 minutes was the guy spouting off about what he's done and the graduate program he just got into. At minute 16, he gets a cell phone call. He scheduled another meeting at the same time. He apologized and said he wanted to schedule a second.
When the secretary called, I told her no thanks. Between the crappy space and the pompous asshole interviewer, it wasn't a hard decision.
Do you have any idea how Wall Street works? Who do you think the investors listen to? Maybe they're lazy, but an analyst has the power to change that rating into a sell.
Incidentally, you with 100 shares does not count as an investor who matters. The analysts' buddy down the street who's a portfolio manager representing 50,000 shares? That's the investor that matters.
See. Another one. WordPerfect, Netscape, etc. etc. Now we can add Google to the list. Sure, Microsoft illegally uses its monopoly, but their competitors keep doing stupid things.
Great, Google. Piss off the DOJ, piss off Wall Street, get more bad press by sending Chinese to labor camps. You think you'll get more capital by being silent to instituational investors? How are you going to grow and expand when your stock price is at $5.00? When Microsoft starts leveraging their monopoly on your search and ad business, do you think the DOJ will give a rat's ass when you complain to them?
That's great. The biggest hope we've had in 10 years for a valid competitor to Microsoft is now shooting themselves in the foot.
$800+ for the components.
Even if they priced this at $350-$400, how many parents would balk at that price? Even worse, how many single moms making $40k a year will be able to buy this for their kids? Yes, you the AC in his parent's basement and no GF to spend money on will be able to buy it and every game that comes out, but thankfully, you are few and far between. Idiot.
If the price is what has been rumored, that's going to really hurt adoption rates. Who's going to buy the games if no one's buying a console that costs $800?
Well what would you like us to do? Blow up Parliament?
I've already contacted my Assemblymen.
Meh. At least the state will collect a buttload of revenue from all the tolls.
Most Mac TOSLink cables are getting plugged into Sony receivers to play music from Sony lables and movies from Sony-owned studios. If you buy a Mac instead of a Sony PVR, or an iPod instead of a Sony Walkman, they still make lots of money off you.
True, but Sony music and Sony movies are not physical devices sitting in your living room, which is what the original article describes. Sony's still going to make money from their studios, but in affect, they've been booted out of the living room.
The exception to what you describe is the receiver, but that could be just a matter of time...
What you describe is the electronics market of yesterday. Today, devices of all types are plugging into the PCs. The iPod's a music device... that's also a front end to a software program and an online store. We also have car stereos that download songs from your computer onto its own hard drive via 802.11x. PC-based DVRs are in its early stages.
This battlefield is suited for Apple, where they have control of software and hardware. Sony, not being an OS or software maker, is at a huge disadvantage. Brilliant of Steve Jobs to lead the computer industry into this arena.
Microsoft has rivals?
Are you that naive to think the parent's not thinking religion when he's slamming Utah?
Who would have thought it would take more than five posts to bring out the first prejudiced, anti-religion post on Slashdot?
About four years ago, they had Python as the FoM. Anyone try it? I bet it tasted like chicken. I'm a vegetarian, so I didn't try it.
Now we know that "a long time ago" was 440 million years ago and "far, far away" means 440 million light years away.
Who in the world's going to use a torrent to listen to podcasts? iTunes and Podcast Alley are probably the two largest podcast directories. They pull the file directly. Moreover, you have tons of podcasters who talk about a variety of things like gardening and knitting. They can barely hit the record button on Audacity. You think they're going to set up trackers and torrents?
I agree, and it affects the podcasts, too. I've seen a lot of podcasts die because of the bandwidth costs. The producers hosts a small time operation, post a 20-30 meg mp3 file out there, then watch their ISP bills go through the roof. With no consistent and reliable donations, they have to go off the air. They become a victim of their own success.
You must live in China!
The bathroom is missing this. I saw it in person at MacWorld in January. I believe we have now officially crossed the line on acceptable iPod accessories/gear.
Anyone interested in this topic should check out the work of Temple Gradin. She's an autistic professor of Animal Science. In addition to her main field of research, she's done a lot of study on autism and sciencey people.
She was on Science Friday last week. Podcast here.
Google stands up to the US government's order to turn over search results, yet bends over to the Chinese government when it comes to censorship.
Anyone that doesn't deny Google's abandonment of "Do No Evil" is deluding themselves at best, a hypocrite at worst.
A while ago, I read an interview with the Flying Spaghetti Monster creator (no pun intended). He said the biggest mistake that American academia has made was to ignore the ID movement. It was so absurd, academics thought that if they ignored them, they would go away, or they did not want to give attention to those nutjobs. That method, he said, obviously has not worked.
Everyone *must* attack anyone that even thinks ID has any sort of legitimacy. Mock them, ridicule them, call them lunatics and extremeists, accuse them of not caring for the education of children, call them bad parents, expose them, and God-forbid (oh, the irony) if they are elected, vote them out like they did in Dover, PA! Make it clear to your school boards that if ID is even mentioned as a "maybe," the board members will be ousted!
I had a friend/coworker that sat in the cubicle next to me for about three years. She was also a hypochondriac, even to the point where she slipped and fell on the stairs one day at work because she always refused to hold the railings.
I always came in half an hour before her. Occasionally, when she got in, I would say to her, "I sneezed on your phone this morning," or "I licked your keyboard when I came in."
Good times, good times.
The important question is if it was the default browser, or was it just installed?
Exactly.
Two years ago, "Web 2.0" meant XML and RSSing everything.
Last year, "Web 2.0" meant web services and putting up a WSDL/API to everything.
Now, "Web 2.0" means AJAXing your site.
Which one is it? Fuck you, buzzword proponents and marketeers.
Yeah, right. Come on...
Still, three out of four ain't bad.