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  1. Re:architecture and design approach on Why Hiring the 'Best' People Produces the Least Creative Results (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    .I'm glad to hear Amazon eschews MBA types , but I'd like to hear of other business grasping the value of a design approach. We've mistakenly use the word "success" for business that make a lot of money, but I see it defined by the usefulness of solutions, individual growth of their employees, long term (>25 years) contributions to their communities, strong consumer reputation, safety and durability of their products, and a noble reputation across several continents. It's a scam that a phone becomes unusable after three years. Is that how we define a successful company?!

    Fortunately, the US is still hanging on to a culture that encourages scrappy, non-linear entrepreneurship. I'm frustrated by universities that value grades above creativity, and the current trend where our youth have to compete on such shallow metrics. (Against youth raised by helicopter parents from other cultures with no other purpose than to have the highest GPA.) Fortunately, these are short term problems and creativity triumphs in the long view. It always will. And that's the original American way. But I wonder why so many businesses grow out of this skill to their ultimate decline?

    Jeff Bezos has ten direct reports at Amazon. Seven of them have MBA's. Another has a MS in business. The other two are the lawyer and the press relations guy. The rest of your posting is just as uninformed....

  2. Re: Seems feasible on Is Elon Musk Greatly Exaggerating Tesla's Battery Technology? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Here are the 6600V power cables used to power ocean freighters, they are already installed at the port of Long Beach/Los Angeles.1000's of trucks go through these ports every day. Pretty sure that would charge a truck, while waiting in line for it's load, real quick. http://www.polb.com/environmen...

  3. Companies run by MBAs and have become wildly successful: Google, Apple , Tesla, Space X, Paypal, Amazon, Netflix... Google CEO has MBA Apple CEO has MBA Tesla COO, CFO, VP EMEA, VP sales, basically everyone except the CTO and Elon had MBA's. Paypal CEO has MBA Amazon - entire executive team except Jeff including CFO, CCO, CTO, CEO of AWS have MBA netflix CEO quoted in the fucking article has MBA

    So if you are a CEO and you don't have an MBA you surround yourself with them. As Elon and Jeff have done.

    All these guys have big buck MBAs, Wharton, Harvard, Stanford etc too.. I am guessing you don't. The GMAT was harder then you thought huh? Can't run with the big dogs so you just like to piss all over them with your *astounding* ignorance ? Keep coding dude, keep on coding.

  4. Re:Smart watch? on Swatch Takes on Google, Apple With Watch Operating System (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I too would be proud to own a mostly non-functional $14 watch. Congrats. Now where were we?

  5. Re: Leftist regulation run amok. on 20,000 Worldclass University Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them (lbry.io) · · Score: 0

    Yes, George H W Bush was the greatest Leftard President of all time!

  6. Re:Leftist regulation run amok. on 20,000 Worldclass University Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them (lbry.io) · · Score: 3

    Oh fuck off with your ridiculous 'anything I dissgree with must be leftist' bullshit. The ADA act was written by the Republicans, and signed into law by one George H.W. Bush. How is that for 'leftist', huh?

  7. Re:Perfect is the enemy of good on Microsoft Has Cancelled the Second-Gen HoloLens, Working on Third-Gen For 2019 Launch (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, if the next release is ready or so close to it that the double upgrade wouldn't justify it. Not the case here....

  8. Re:Good Is the enemy of the Crappy on Microsoft Has Cancelled the Second-Gen HoloLens, Working on Third-Gen For 2019 Launch (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not let the customers decide whether v2 is 'just an incremental upgrade' ? is Microsoft so smart that they know every possible use for this tech and can definitively declare that v2 would help no one? That has never been true of any technology to date. from DEC being amazed at what people were doing with the first PDP's, the instant market created by the ISA bus standard, no one can see the future. Not even microsoft.

  9. Re:If Apple built a Hololens we'd never hear about on Microsoft Has Cancelled the Second-Gen HoloLens, Working on Third-Gen For 2019 Launch (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure but the first cell phones were actually released to the public. I don;t recall a manufacturer sending out a press release announcing they weren't going to deliver anything. usually, they announced they were delivering new features early, or releasing yet another model. This is bizarre, and coming from MSFT they clearly have no idea what to do this tech, so they should be getting as many lens out the door as possible so someone can discover a great use case. This is the opposite of that...

  10. Goldman Sachs does this everyday on 'Flash Crash' Trader Pleads Guilty, Facing Up To 30 Years In Prison (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They are just more subtle about it. And they make more money doing it.And they are too big to fail. And they don't like any lone rangers stepping on their turf.

  11. Re: So maybe... on New MacBook Pro Has Already Outsold All Other Laptops This Year (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    UH, they stop selling last years models when the news one come out. OP though that was obvious. So if the 2018 F150 was turned into a mustang, how would you buy a 2017 f150? they aren't making them anymore. analogy stands.

  12. Re:Revenue NOT Sales Volume on New MacBook Pro Has Already Outsold All Other Laptops This Year (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Due to no apps the touch screen on the SP/SB line is nearly. I have the pen, and it's still mostly useless. The pen costs extra, BTW. If I really wanted I guess I could buy a $600 touchscreen monitor and call it even. But why? I would trade touchscreen on my SP3 for a better mousepad in a heart beat - something like in the new MBP would be great.

  13. Re: Really..not on New MacBook Pro Has Already Outsold All Other Laptops This Year (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    So,what you are saying is you *cant* actually get the Macbook pro for '1/2' the price? Got it.

  14. Microsoft hosts cloud implementations of many different EMR's on their Azure platform. They have some of the strongest privacy policies in the industry. They have their own, private, search engine to use for W10 searches. Good luck stirring up 'legal troubles' against them.

  15. Public search engine? Uhm, no. No expectation of Privacy? Have you read MSFT privacy policy? Have you read what they do with the data? Didn't think so, even through it is on the links you yourself provided. Your customers need actual advice, not scare hilarious scare mongering As someone in the IT profession you have two choices: Get used to Windows 10, or retire, because it isn't going anywhere.

  16. Here's a tip that might save you some money: "if you ask a lawyer if you should so something, they ALWAYS say no". That protects them, not you. If you are big enough to have teams of lawyers giving you advice that serves their interest, not yours, then you are big enough to spring for the $84/yr Enterprise licenses of Windows 10.

  17. Lol, you clearly don't understand enterprise software. Microsoft breaks stuff. It takes vendors a long time to fix it. None of the major EMR vendors support W10 yet - they don't have to because none of their customers use it.

  18. Re:Pushback-Virtualization on Microsoft Stops Selling Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 To Computer Makers (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    We're going the other way - all the apps run off the citrix server farm so you local OS is irrelevant. Only Microsoft products run locally (office, outlook, IE)

  19. Ah we're on the full schedule then. I assume you concede that individually vaccines are both safe and effective then? Thank you!

  20. Must be a coincidence.

  21. Re:Don't care; Do not want. on Google's Autonomous Car Passes 2 Million Miles · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's why I never use subways, airplanes or trains. If I can't drive, I ain't getting in!

  22. Re:This is great on Google's Autonomous Car Passes 2 Million Miles · · Score: 1
    Whatever: one driver and one engineer. Two humans, OK? Got that?

    Like in the olden days when you raced with a mechanic on board....

  23. Re:Software? Really? on BlackBerry Says It's Done Designing and Building Its Own Phones (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes. My users love the Z30/passport software, the HUB, the calendar and email management, intelligent CC'ing, intelligent meeting mode, quick notification for late meetings, quick delete of read messages it is all very well thought out. As a productivity tool it blows everything else out of the water. You can't play your games on it, sorry.

  24. Re:Our financial foundation is strong on BlackBerry Says It's Done Designing and Building Its Own Phones (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    The reality is you are hopelessly wrong. They had +257M cash flow from Operations last fiscal. Their investments cash flow (which is where asset selling/purchasing would occur) was down 439M - ie they invested MORE in assets then they sold. They have been buying assets with cash. Buying. Not selling. They have a profitable software business. They are out of the unprofitable hardware business, good for them. They will wind up like Novell - once dominant, nearly wiped out, but still chugging along as multi-billion dollar business.

  25. Just rename windows 8 ... on Windows 10 Now On 400 Million Active Devices, Says Microsoft (thurrott.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So they are calling the Xbox version of "Windows 10" the same as the phone version of "Windows 10" the same as the Surface RT version of "Windows 10"? Even though they have different interfaces, requirements, CPU's etc? Why not just rename Windows 8 and Windows 7 to " Windows 10"? They could leap another 100M+ devices that way. The delta between 8.1 and 10 can't be any great than that between Mobile and xboxone, right? rename hotmail to "Windows 10" to, pick up another 100M users there. They can hit a Billion quickly if they just rebrand everything "Window 10". It's been done before. MSN, Live, Windows10.