The ASUS sub on Reddit is filled with stories detailing horrible customer support. If the new CEO doesnâ(TM)t put some effort into improvements in that area their time selling expensive components to gamers will not last very long.
This has been pretty obvious from the outside, but it's nice to have confirmation from the inside. Innovation at Apple is dead. 'Pro' products have become a synonym for Expensive, while lacking the features pro users came to depend on. There are a number of things Jobs would not have tolerated:
1) Dongles. He would have fired anyone who tried to replace all the ports on a pro laptop and suggested users buy dongles.
2) Grinding out new products and releases on a deadline, quality be damned. He had no problems dragging out a release date until a product was perfect.
3) Micro-iterations flogged as innovation. Can anyone here imagine Steve Jobs wiggling a mouse and proclaiming that the pointer getting bigger was an Innovation only Apple could bring you?
I've been an Apple user since the 80's, and a 'fanboi' since the early 2000's, but I may be typing this post on the last Mac I'll ever buy if Apple doesn't get their heads out of their arses. Sadly, with the way they are raking in money hand over fist, their current approach is being vindicated by the market and the Apple we once loved is never going to re-emerge.
Amazon pays its employees pretty well. I've known a few, and I've been hit up my Amazon recruiters.
The people known as 'Amazon workers' are not Amazon employees. They are temps, managed by a third party. Amazon isn't the direct employer. Amazon has done some amazing legal gymnastics to keep from being these people's employer, and in doing so will likely have shielded themselves from the effects of this bill.
Sign the NDA; so nvidia feels confident in their control of the flow of information. Then, just stop writing about nvidia. Nothing.
Some new autonomous car maker is using an nvidia processor? Refer it to as a 'generic industry ML engine'. When writing about AMD, refer to the competitors as 'unspecific reference cards'. Don't give them a single word of free advertising.
Let them choke on their own attempt to smother the media.
In metropolitan markets, moving to another ISP is an option. In my area, I have three providers that offer bandwidth in the 100MBps to 1Gbps range. If Netflix can strong-arm the big providers in metropolitan areas where there is competition, they can shape the way those providers behave in rural areas where they have no competition.
My point is that things like tiered service levels are swords that can cut both ways, if the big players are willing to risk revenue in the short term to ensure long term benefits for themselves and their customers.
Everyone is worried that ISPs will start charging more money for faster content. So, Netflix should beat them to the punch. Netflix should create NIPP (Netflix ISP Partner Program), where partners pledge to not charge customers more money for decent bandwidth, and that they will not charge Netflix a premium transit fee to keep from slowing them down. ISPs that don't sign up for NIPP get videos to their IP space automatically downgraded to a lower quality. If it is impossible to get full resolution videos on Comcast, you can bet I'll be moving to AT&T Fiber, or Sonic, or somebody who is partnered with Netflix.
"Stu Gale, who just so happens to be a computer security expert"
There is no way a 'security expert' left their laptop in a state where a random thief could log into it. Password on sleep, password on screen saver, full-disk encryption, no guest account... These are thing EVERY 'security expert' has configured.
If you stole my laptop, you'd have to wipe it and install a new OS, and then I'm not going to be able to remote into it anymore.
Black Rock City Subway categorically denies that these craters are a result of our sandworm breeding program. Scurrilous reports in The Daily Mail fail to take into account that sandworms react poorly to moist environments. Sometimes they even explode when exposed to water. Oh, wait...
Seems like James Duane needs to update his lecture to include not handing 128GB of personal information to a cop who is going to take it back to his car to 'verify' it.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
No matter how many times I read that, I can't seem to find the clause that says "Except when..."
I thought this is why we have so many Regional Gatherings? I'll wager a higher success rate for three days at HalloweeM vs a year long match.com account any day.
The actions of this cabal of companies has had a lasting effect on everyone working the tech sector. The normal cycle of hiring employees out of their existing position with an offer of more money helps to drive the average salary for a position up. Years of refusing do to that caused average salaries to stagnate. When I was offered a position at Apple in 2007 I scoffed at the rate I was offered, and I was told that Apple prided themselves in paying industry median salaries. What they neglected to mention was that they were actively working to keep the industry median down. I never took the position at Apple, and am not eligible in the suit; but that doesn't mean I wasn't affected. Many companies gauge offer salaries and raises against industry salary reports like those generated by Glass Door and other wage survey groups. Because some of the biggest employers in tech were working to keep wages down, and their rates significantly contributed to those salary reports, they effectively kept an entire employment sector's wages low.
How do you compensate for that? You can't. No court settlement will make up for the damage caused by this.
A friend of mine was recently mugged, on the doorstep of her home. While the police were in her house asking questions she pulled up the current location of her phone on her laptop. The police did not care. Did. Not. Care. For an hour her phone drifted around a park that was a known after-hours teenager hangout, while the officer asked inane questions. She fumed for weeks. Getting mugged was bad enough, but feeling like the police didn't really care, that all they wanted to do was get the report filled out, made her feel truly helpless.
If the police are unwilling to react to these thefts because they are low priority for them, they have to expect that citizens will have to take it into their own hands. People don't like someone else telling them their problems are trivial. People don't like feeling helpless. They need to believe that there is always something they can do.
The 70's are full of TV shows that had evil computer episodes. The plot would revolve around a billing error, and when the protagonist would bring it up with the store they would be told that computers don't make mistakes. Then they would trigger an error in their favor, and comedy would ensue. Partridge family, Eight is Enough, and I think the Brady Bunch. Those are the easy ones that come to mind.
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The ASUS sub on Reddit is filled with stories detailing horrible customer support. If the new CEO doesnâ(TM)t put some effort into improvements in that area their time selling expensive components to gamers will not last very long.
This has been pretty obvious from the outside, but it's nice to have confirmation from the inside. Innovation at Apple is dead. 'Pro' products have become a synonym for Expensive, while lacking the features pro users came to depend on. There are a number of things Jobs would not have tolerated: 1) Dongles. He would have fired anyone who tried to replace all the ports on a pro laptop and suggested users buy dongles. 2) Grinding out new products and releases on a deadline, quality be damned. He had no problems dragging out a release date until a product was perfect. 3) Micro-iterations flogged as innovation. Can anyone here imagine Steve Jobs wiggling a mouse and proclaiming that the pointer getting bigger was an Innovation only Apple could bring you? I've been an Apple user since the 80's, and a 'fanboi' since the early 2000's, but I may be typing this post on the last Mac I'll ever buy if Apple doesn't get their heads out of their arses. Sadly, with the way they are raking in money hand over fist, their current approach is being vindicated by the market and the Apple we once loved is never going to re-emerge.
Amazon pays its employees pretty well. I've known a few, and I've been hit up my Amazon recruiters. The people known as 'Amazon workers' are not Amazon employees. They are temps, managed by a third party. Amazon isn't the direct employer. Amazon has done some amazing legal gymnastics to keep from being these people's employer, and in doing so will likely have shielded themselves from the effects of this bill.
Walmart's digital services haven't worked out so good for consumers in the past. https://boingboing.net/2008/09...
Sign the NDA; so nvidia feels confident in their control of the flow of information. Then, just stop writing about nvidia. Nothing. Some new autonomous car maker is using an nvidia processor? Refer it to as a 'generic industry ML engine'. When writing about AMD, refer to the competitors as 'unspecific reference cards'. Don't give them a single word of free advertising. Let them choke on their own attempt to smother the media.
In metropolitan markets, moving to another ISP is an option. In my area, I have three providers that offer bandwidth in the 100MBps to 1Gbps range. If Netflix can strong-arm the big providers in metropolitan areas where there is competition, they can shape the way those providers behave in rural areas where they have no competition. My point is that things like tiered service levels are swords that can cut both ways, if the big players are willing to risk revenue in the short term to ensure long term benefits for themselves and their customers.
Everyone is worried that ISPs will start charging more money for faster content. So, Netflix should beat them to the punch. Netflix should create NIPP (Netflix ISP Partner Program), where partners pledge to not charge customers more money for decent bandwidth, and that they will not charge Netflix a premium transit fee to keep from slowing them down. ISPs that don't sign up for NIPP get videos to their IP space automatically downgraded to a lower quality. If it is impossible to get full resolution videos on Comcast, you can bet I'll be moving to AT&T Fiber, or Sonic, or somebody who is partnered with Netflix.
In a business environment, where users are not allowed to be admins on their boxes, this is a frak'ng nightmare.
Meeting their funding goals isn't the hard part, delivering a product is. Let us know if they manage that. http://www.thegamer.com/failur...
Do you want Morlocks? Because that's how you get Morlocks.
"Stu Gale, who just so happens to be a computer security expert" There is no way a 'security expert' left their laptop in a state where a random thief could log into it. Password on sleep, password on screen saver, full-disk encryption, no guest account... These are thing EVERY 'security expert' has configured. If you stole my laptop, you'd have to wipe it and install a new OS, and then I'm not going to be able to remote into it anymore.
Two cups of wine, with a dash (or two) of Iocane powder.
Please, please, please... No more Bennett Haselton monologs!
I have a sneaky suspicion that this post was stuck in the moderation queue for just short of 60 days.
Wasn't this the plot of the first Superman movie with Christopher Reeves?
Black Rock City Subway categorically denies that these craters are a result of our sandworm breeding program. Scurrilous reports in The Daily Mail fail to take into account that sandworms react poorly to moist environments. Sometimes they even explode when exposed to water. Oh, wait...
Seems like James Duane needs to update his lecture to include not handing 128GB of personal information to a cop who is going to take it back to his car to 'verify' it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
FIFY: "Joke's on you. It's FappyCoins."
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
No matter how many times I read that, I can't seem to find the clause that says "Except when..."
For fifteen years, our launch codes were a string of zeros. Only poorly placed Dippy Bird and we would have all died.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
I thought this is why we have so many Regional Gatherings? I'll wager a higher success rate for three days at HalloweeM vs a year long match.com account any day.
The actions of this cabal of companies has had a lasting effect on everyone working the tech sector. The normal cycle of hiring employees out of their existing position with an offer of more money helps to drive the average salary for a position up. Years of refusing do to that caused average salaries to stagnate. When I was offered a position at Apple in 2007 I scoffed at the rate I was offered, and I was told that Apple prided themselves in paying industry median salaries. What they neglected to mention was that they were actively working to keep the industry median down. I never took the position at Apple, and am not eligible in the suit; but that doesn't mean I wasn't affected. Many companies gauge offer salaries and raises against industry salary reports like those generated by Glass Door and other wage survey groups. Because some of the biggest employers in tech were working to keep wages down, and their rates significantly contributed to those salary reports, they effectively kept an entire employment sector's wages low.
How do you compensate for that? You can't. No court settlement will make up for the damage caused by this.
A friend of mine was recently mugged, on the doorstep of her home. While the police were in her house asking questions she pulled up the current location of her phone on her laptop. The police did not care. Did. Not. Care. For an hour her phone drifted around a park that was a known after-hours teenager hangout, while the officer asked inane questions. She fumed for weeks. Getting mugged was bad enough, but feeling like the police didn't really care, that all they wanted to do was get the report filled out, made her feel truly helpless.
If the police are unwilling to react to these thefts because they are low priority for them, they have to expect that citizens will have to take it into their own hands. People don't like someone else telling them their problems are trivial. People don't like feeling helpless. They need to believe that there is always something they can do.
Huzzah! If only my high school physics teacher was still alive. We frequently argued this point.
The 70's are full of TV shows that had evil computer episodes. The plot would revolve around a billing error, and when the protagonist would bring it up with the store they would be told that computers don't make mistakes. Then they would trigger an error in their favor, and comedy would ensue. Partridge family, Eight is Enough, and I think the Brady Bunch. Those are the easy ones that come to mind.