It often gets worse in motion pictures, where big studios take the American insurance company method of cutting costs-- find every excuse known to man to avoid paying the very people who worked on their blockbuster titles.
Yep, I mentioned in among other things one of my rejected Slashdot submissions that the insurance industry is one of the worst industries to apply shareholder value to, second only to the medical industry.
By the time IE8 came out and managed to catch up with Firefox, Opera, Safari, and all of the other browsers it was chasing, they had already moved on and further improved performance and standards compliance.
I think a lot of it was because the tying of IE releases with Windows releases. IE 5.01 was tied with Windows 2000, IE 5.5 was tied with Windows Me, IE 6 was tied with XP, IE 7 was tied with Vista, and IE 8 was tied with Windows 7.
I know, I have been doing research on the problems of shareholder value and agency theory for a while, I even submitted articles to Slashdot and Reddit about it. We need to move away from shareholder value! I most recently read about it on http://hbr.org, which has articles about the problems. I even submitted one of them to Slashdot and Reddit too, see my Firehose.
Anyone who works for a bureaucracy knows there are rules about what you are allowed to talk about and what you aren't. I certainly could say honest, non-embarrassing things about my employer that would get me fired instantly, just on general principles, and I know far less sensitive information that a state CISO.
AMD didn't put CPUs on a huge cartridge package (slot 1 and the truly massive slot 2!) in order to try to bundle SRAM memory (cache) chips into your CPU purchase to increase sales.
What actually happened here with the five CPU models (E7400, E7500, Q8300, E5300, E5400) where Intel did this was that they originally did not have VT. Later, around mid-2009, Intel transitioned to new S-Specs for these CPU models that added VT first for tray processors, then later for boxed processors. This was documented in Intel Product Change Notifications that are publicly available and can be looked up.
I know, and we need to move away from that, but that is a different mess and this is only the tip of the iceberg of the harms of it. In fact, I did a lot of research about it BTW, and even did Slashdot/Reddit submissions about it. See my Firehose and my account with the same name on Reddit
Yea, even today I still wonder what would have happened if IBM was able to license CP/M-86 from Digital Research instead of having to ask MS for an OS. MS were already going to provide BASIC for the IBM PC (like they already did for other home computers like the Apple II) and I read would have gladly ported it to CP/M-86 had IBM been able to license it from DR.
Slashdot Mirror
Yea, I tried to submit this to Slashdot and got rejected. Soon after, I submitted a similar article from The Huffington Post and got accepted.
Even worse, shareholder value is fundamentally flawed, see my Slashdot submissions, particularly these ones:
http://slashdot.org/submission/1168626/The-flaws-of-shareholder-value-and-agency-theory?art_pos=12
http://slashdot.org/submission/1188074/Why-Modern-Business-Is-Bad-for-Your-Mental-Health
http://slashdot.org/submission/1194740/What-We-All-Lost-When-Business-Lost-Respect
Except that it isn't either.
Agreed, I would not go that far.
The next step would be to officially allow anyone at Google to speak to the press, allowing the source to be identified.
Funny play on words title, BTW!
It often gets worse in motion pictures, where big studios take the American insurance company method of cutting costs-- find every excuse known to man to avoid paying the very people who worked on their blockbuster titles.
Yep, I mentioned in among other things one of my rejected Slashdot submissions that the insurance industry is one of the worst industries to apply shareholder value to, second only to the medical industry.
By the time IE8 came out and managed to catch up with Firefox, Opera, Safari, and all of the other browsers it was chasing, they had already moved on and further improved performance and standards compliance.
I think a lot of it was because the tying of IE releases with Windows releases. IE 5.01 was tied with Windows 2000, IE 5.5 was tied with Windows Me, IE 6 was tied with XP, IE 7 was tied with Vista, and IE 8 was tied with Windows 7.
I know, I have been doing research on the problems of shareholder value and agency theory for a while, I even submitted articles to Slashdot and Reddit about it. We need to move away from shareholder value! I most recently read about it on http://hbr.org, which has articles about the problems. I even submitted one of them to Slashdot and Reddit too, see my Firehose.
One half of parent, I agree. The second half, I would not go that far.
What do you mean?
Yep, I had a slashdot submission on this that got accepted. In fact, just yesterday this got published by the WSJ:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703447104575118092158730502.html
Yea, I still remember discussing the "The admin is an idiot" articles:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/05/08/2470753.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2007/07/06/is-there-a-difference-between-an-administrator-and-a-person-with-an-admin-account.aspx
And that is another mess altogether.
Except that this isn't murder.
Anyone who works for a bureaucracy knows there are rules about what you are allowed to talk about and what you aren't. I certainly could say honest, non-embarrassing things about my employer that would get me fired instantly, just on general principles, and I know far less sensitive information that a state CISO.
PR 2.0 will reduce that of course, but still...
Yep, he is hitting what I call "legacy" PR, which is based on controlling the message.
Yep, Intel's AC' 97 and later High Definition Audio.
And if you think Intel Lynnfield's integrated northbridge was new, Transmeta did that first.
AMD didn't put CPUs on a huge cartridge package (slot 1 and the truly massive slot 2!) in order to try to bundle SRAM memory (cache) chips into your CPU purchase to increase sales.
They did, with the Slot A Athlons.
What actually happened here with the five CPU models (E7400, E7500, Q8300, E5300, E5400) where Intel did this was that they originally did not have VT. Later, around mid-2009, Intel transitioned to new S-Specs for these CPU models that added VT first for tray processors, then later for boxed processors. This was documented in Intel Product Change Notifications that are publicly available and can be looked up.
The Intel Core i5 and i7 have AES crypto extensions with the AES-NI
Actually, on the desktop side, only the i5 600 series.
I know, and we need to move away from that, but that is a different mess and this is only the tip of the iceberg of the harms of it. In fact, I did a lot of research about it BTW, and even did Slashdot/Reddit submissions about it. See my Firehose and my account with the same name on Reddit
Indeed, that is exactly what Windows/386 did to Windows 2.x.
Yea, even today I still wonder what would have happened if IBM was able to license CP/M-86 from Digital Research instead of having to ask MS for an OS. MS were already going to provide BASIC for the IBM PC (like they already did for other home computers like the Apple II) and I read would have gladly ported it to CP/M-86 had IBM been able to license it from DR.