My cat was very picky, wouldn't use the cat box unless the litter was unscented. Our local stores didn't carry any decent unscented litter, so we bought it on Amazon, for $7 for a 40 pound bucket, delivered free in two days.
Amazon eventually figured out that this wasn't working for them, so they changed it to an "add-on item," requiring you to buy $35-worth of stuff for it to qualify for Prime. So I bought 5 buckets. The delivery guy wasn't too happy, but I got my cat litter!
My job requires me to have a smart phone. I make significantly more than $100K per year. I'll keep my job and let somebody else have the prize, thank you!
The Amiga was great. It had lots of features that didn't come out on other systems for many years. The problem Commodore had was not the technology, but the execution.
Steve Jobs didn't invent the smart phone. What he really did was 1) package it in a slick package, and 2) convince everyone that they needed one!
Commodore made great stuff, they just excepted their products to become popular by word of mouth. Unfortunately, it takes more than word of mouth, it takes lots of money and marketing, to explain to people why they need the gadget, regardless of how far "ahead of its time" it is.
Computers deal with this problem all the time, within their own circuitry. On one hand, it makes sense to split up the work among multiple processors or cores. But the more parallelism that is applied to a job, the more communication overhead is required. The trick is to find the right balance. That is why, for example, database servers let you set the maximum degree of parallelism--Max DOP--so that you get the optimal balance between multiple tasks being done at once, and not too much communication overhead.
It's really the same problem with teams. Balance is key.
Businesses have been tracking us since before the smart phone. They've just gotten better at it.
Basically, we swim in a sea of surveillance. Take or leave the smart phone, it doesn't matter. They track every Web page, every purchase. You're on camera everywhere you go.
So, people think, what's the point of fighting it? What good is fighting it going to do anyway?
So you think a dumb phone would fix the tracking problem? Good luck!
Cell towers still track your every move. Merchants still tie your credit or debit card number to every transaction, and share promiscuously with each other. You probably still have a computer, which you use to browse the Web. Every move you make is tracked there too. Yes, those merchants can tie your purchase history to your browser activity. It doesn't matter if you "deleted facebook." They can still track you.
So why NOT use a smart phone? You can't avoid the tracking anyway!
I think every big company has at least one group like that, that has a "do nothing" task.
At SimDesk, a now-defunct tech company, they called that department "R&D". If somebody got moved to R&D, you knew they couldn't quite cut it, but they didn't want to fire them. R&D didn't actually do any research or development, they just messed around.
Many companies just call this department "the executive suite."
If I'm searching Google for: - Java Programming - Visual Basic Programming - JavaScript Programming
What am I looking for? Clearly, I'm a student, or someone just curious about programming.
If I'm a programmer, experienced in writing code, these are not things I would search for. Instead, I'm looking for: - Java Serialize JSON - C# REST API call - JavaScript Ajax Mathod
The methodology of this "study" self-selects students, or curious people who don't know about programming. JavaScript is everywhere, like the air, but nobody outside of programming thinks of it as a "language," and most probably don't even know that it exists. Visual Basic, on the other hand, is limited to legacy code in large corporations. It had big marketing dollars behind it, so lots of non-programmers heard about it at one point or another.
It's not surprising that the analysis came up with the ranking that it did.
The rendering engine is just one piece of what makes a browser. You know they will have to make major tweaks to it to implement the corporate Active Directory security policies. Then they'll try to find a way to make it compatible with SharePoint, and ActiveX. By the time they're done, it won't look or act anything like Chrome.
Maybe the MS browser is dead, but not the company. What they have realized (for now anyway) is that they aren't going to win the browser war. Might as well cut losses.
A similar silly conclusion based on math is the concept of a "4th dimension" (or more). Math allows this. But in the physical universe, there IS NO "one" dimension, or "two" dimensions. These do not exist in physical form, they are only abstract concepts. Nor can there be "four" dimensions, for the same reason. Any number of dimensions in the physical realm, other than three, is purely abstract.
Yes, it's a choice. Stability, or more income. It's everyone's privilege to make this choice. But don't choose to stay put, and then complain about not making enough money, or ask Uncle Sam to help pay you not to move!
That's all great, but then I don't want to hear complaining about low standard of living, and needing more government programs to help people who can barely get by!
Not hardly. I volunteer with an inner city mission, helping low income people who struggle just to get food on the table. These people move ALL THE TIME. Rarely do they stay in the same house or apartment for more than one year. They certainly aren't getting richer or moving up.
I get your point. So I'd be OK with a per-user charge, but a flat fee per user, not one based on your sales price. Not all apps are created equal, some deserve a higher price, and that does not necessarily justify a higher fee to the store.
Why should the app store need to take a percentage? The only pricing model I would be happy with is a flat fee model, where you pay a fixed amount to be listed. Whether it's 30% or 12%, they are still gouging you.
If vegans aren't interested in eating anything that looks like meat, and if meat-eaters aren't interested in eating anything that looks like meat (but isn't)...
Then WHO is left? Who exactly is it that wants this faux-meat?
When Walmart moves in, many small shops go out of business because they can't compete with Walmart's prices.
BUT not ALL stores are harmed by Walmart. Some find ways to offer services or products that Walmart can't. For example: - Car parts stores. You can buy some car parts at Walmart, but good luck trying to get help figuring out which one fits your car! - Hardware stores. You can buy hardware at Walmart, but again, good luck getting help finding the exact tool you need. - Specialty shops that carry a deep selection in one category, such as pool supplies.
Many of the small shops that are killed by Walmart failed to keep up with changes in the way people do business.
Innovate, or die!
This is true for these "competing" search engines too. Offer something Google doesn't, or die. No, Google is not good at EVERYTHING.
A man with two watches is never really quite sure.
This new clock demonstrates a sort of high-tech version of this problem. Two of these clocks might not agree because they are in different locations, where gravity is stronger or weaker. At least in this case, the clock can help solve its own problem by helping refine the map that it needs to be more accurate.
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My cat was very picky, wouldn't use the cat box unless the litter was unscented. Our local stores didn't carry any decent unscented litter, so we bought it on Amazon, for $7 for a 40 pound bucket, delivered free in two days.
Amazon eventually figured out that this wasn't working for them, so they changed it to an "add-on item," requiring you to buy $35-worth of stuff for it to qualify for Prime. So I bought 5 buckets. The delivery guy wasn't too happy, but I got my cat litter!
The tap water where I live, in suburban Houston, tastes terrible even if I DO filter it.
My job requires me to have a smart phone. I make significantly more than $100K per year. I'll keep my job and let somebody else have the prize, thank you!
The Amiga was great. It had lots of features that didn't come out on other systems for many years. The problem Commodore had was not the technology, but the execution.
Steve Jobs didn't invent the smart phone. What he really did was 1) package it in a slick package, and 2) convince everyone that they needed one!
Commodore made great stuff, they just excepted their products to become popular by word of mouth. Unfortunately, it takes more than word of mouth, it takes lots of money and marketing, to explain to people why they need the gadget, regardless of how far "ahead of its time" it is.
Computers deal with this problem all the time, within their own circuitry. On one hand, it makes sense to split up the work among multiple processors or cores. But the more parallelism that is applied to a job, the more communication overhead is required. The trick is to find the right balance. That is why, for example, database servers let you set the maximum degree of parallelism--Max DOP--so that you get the optimal balance between multiple tasks being done at once, and not too much communication overhead.
It's really the same problem with teams. Balance is key.
Cable TV was never free. That was the proposition: Pay for your TV, skip the commercials.
Businesses have been tracking us since before the smart phone. They've just gotten better at it.
Basically, we swim in a sea of surveillance. Take or leave the smart phone, it doesn't matter. They track every Web page, every purchase. You're on camera everywhere you go.
So, people think, what's the point of fighting it? What good is fighting it going to do anyway?
So you think a dumb phone would fix the tracking problem? Good luck!
Cell towers still track your every move.
Merchants still tie your credit or debit card number to every transaction, and share promiscuously with each other.
You probably still have a computer, which you use to browse the Web. Every move you make is tracked there too.
Yes, those merchants can tie your purchase history to your browser activity.
It doesn't matter if you "deleted facebook." They can still track you.
So why NOT use a smart phone? You can't avoid the tracking anyway!
I think every big company has at least one group like that, that has a "do nothing" task.
At SimDesk, a now-defunct tech company, they called that department "R&D". If somebody got moved to R&D, you knew they couldn't quite cut it, but they didn't want to fire them. R&D didn't actually do any research or development, they just messed around.
Many companies just call this department "the executive suite."
If I'm searching Google for:
- Java Programming
- Visual Basic Programming
- JavaScript Programming
What am I looking for? Clearly, I'm a student, or someone just curious about programming.
If I'm a programmer, experienced in writing code, these are not things I would search for. Instead, I'm looking for:
- Java Serialize JSON
- C# REST API call
- JavaScript Ajax Mathod
The methodology of this "study" self-selects students, or curious people who don't know about programming. JavaScript is everywhere, like the air, but nobody outside of programming thinks of it as a "language," and most probably don't even know that it exists. Visual Basic, on the other hand, is limited to legacy code in large corporations. It had big marketing dollars behind it, so lots of non-programmers heard about it at one point or another.
It's not surprising that the analysis came up with the ranking that it did.
The rendering engine is just one piece of what makes a browser. You know they will have to make major tweaks to it to implement the corporate Active Directory security policies. Then they'll try to find a way to make it compatible with SharePoint, and ActiveX. By the time they're done, it won't look or act anything like Chrome.
MS is dead. Maybe that explains why Microsoft just surpassed Apple as the most valuable company on the planet.
https://www.marketwatch.com/st...
Maybe the MS browser is dead, but not the company. What they have realized (for now anyway) is that they aren't going to win the browser war. Might as well cut losses.
I need some "negative money" where the more I spend, the more I have!
Yes.
A similar silly conclusion based on math is the concept of a "4th dimension" (or more). Math allows this. But in the physical universe, there IS NO "one" dimension, or "two" dimensions. These do not exist in physical form, they are only abstract concepts. Nor can there be "four" dimensions, for the same reason. Any number of dimensions in the physical realm, other than three, is purely abstract.
Yes, it's a choice. Stability, or more income. It's everyone's privilege to make this choice. But don't choose to stay put, and then complain about not making enough money, or ask Uncle Sam to help pay you not to move!
That's all great, but then I don't want to hear complaining about low standard of living, and needing more government programs to help people who can barely get by!
Moving is a sign of upward mobility
Not hardly. I volunteer with an inner city mission, helping low income people who struggle just to get food on the table. These people move ALL THE TIME. Rarely do they stay in the same house or apartment for more than one year. They certainly aren't getting richer or moving up.
I get your point. So I'd be OK with a per-user charge, but a flat fee per user, not one based on your sales price. Not all apps are created equal, some deserve a higher price, and that does not necessarily justify a higher fee to the store.
McDonald's DID have a burger meant to mimic the Whopper. It was called the McDLT.
https://www.seriouseats.com/20...
Like Edge, that copycat went basically nowhere.
Why should the app store need to take a percentage? The only pricing model I would be happy with is a flat fee model, where you pay a fixed amount to be listed. Whether it's 30% or 12%, they are still gouging you.
I think you missed the point.
If vegans aren't interested in eating anything that looks like meat,
and if meat-eaters aren't interested in eating anything that looks like meat (but isn't)...
Then WHO is left? Who exactly is it that wants this faux-meat?
even as their jobs are outsourced to H1B coders
Must be a California thing. In Texas, I hardly ever run into H1Bs. Few companies want to hire them, too much hassle, not enough quality.
When Walmart moves in, many small shops go out of business because they can't compete with Walmart's prices.
BUT not ALL stores are harmed by Walmart. Some find ways to offer services or products that Walmart can't. For example:
- Car parts stores. You can buy some car parts at Walmart, but good luck trying to get help figuring out which one fits your car!
- Hardware stores. You can buy hardware at Walmart, but again, good luck getting help finding the exact tool you need.
- Specialty shops that carry a deep selection in one category, such as pool supplies.
Many of the small shops that are killed by Walmart failed to keep up with changes in the way people do business.
Innovate, or die!
This is true for these "competing" search engines too. Offer something Google doesn't, or die. No, Google is not good at EVERYTHING.
A man with a watch can tell you what time it is.
A man with two watches is never really quite sure.
This new clock demonstrates a sort of high-tech version of this problem. Two of these clocks might not agree because they are in different locations, where gravity is stronger or weaker. At least in this case, the clock can help solve its own problem by helping refine the map that it needs to be more accurate.
Now we will FINALLY know what time it really is!