Again, this is the procurement version of it. You have a procurement manager who knows jack shit about routers. But you, in IT, can't simply go and purchase a sensible access point when you need one. You have to go through procurement. And procurement will buy the "most economic" solution. Which usually means the cheapest shit that fits the bill. And if you find different cheap shit, the one with the most filled tick boxes get bought.
You know those checkboxes. From your local electronics big box mart. With every appliance, there's this sticker that has a lot of checkboxes next to the name of features. And some are checked and some are not, depending on whether the appliance has the feature or not. Which ones sell? The ones with features of course. If appliance A costs about as much as appliance B, how will the average person tell the difference? By counting ticked checkboxes, of course. Do they need those features? Hell no. In 9 out of 10 cases they don't even know what those features mean. But A has it and B doesn't, so A is better!
Why do you think the average procurement manager works differently?
One patent troll gone. Good riddance. How many more to go?
The problem with patent trolls is that you cannot win against them. If you lose, you pay a fortune. If you win, they have no assets, go poof and tomorrow you have the next patent troll come into existence, with the same shysters, the same office and a new "creative" name.
I can't believe that it really matters to you. Why, do you by default try to hit on every female in the workplace and are afraid that you'd hit on a guy?
What information do you get that you don't also get from a phone book? Unless of course you get a lot of people named Fakya Too and Nonafja Bizniz, that's something you sure don't get from the average phone book.
Would you really? I don't. I could probably afford it, but I can't see a good reason to do it. Besides, BMWs suck, never had a worse car.
But what you describe is an extreme. Moderation is the key. We're currently heading for the other extreme, where nobody has anything except a small sliver of individuals who have more than they could possibly use. Care to explain the sensibility in this? This is killing any economy. An economy needs to have a population to sell to. If there's nobody I can sell to except a handful of individuals that instantly saturate the market, there is no market to sustain an economy.
What we need is a level that allows enough people to consume enough. We may debate what's "enough" in this context, but I can tell you that we're far from that today. The level of the 1960s to 1980s would be more sensible.
But now that Flash is dead and Oracle is doing its best to kill Java with some ridiculous licensing plans, Javascript remains the only sensible vector.
Ok, aside of VB, but for that you also need to download and open Office files.
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There is a better place for that.
I feel a bit nostalgic, it's almost like the old /. was back.
Ok, only the bad memes of the old /., but ... hey, I take what I can get.
Bend a pin on a CPU and watch what happens.
They do what they can so no hacker can sell your most intimate details.
That's already their own business model, dammit! Who wouldn't fight competition when possible?
Again, this is the procurement version of it. You have a procurement manager who knows jack shit about routers. But you, in IT, can't simply go and purchase a sensible access point when you need one. You have to go through procurement. And procurement will buy the "most economic" solution. Which usually means the cheapest shit that fits the bill. And if you find different cheap shit, the one with the most filled tick boxes get bought.
So you radiated the rats way more than even a cellphone addict teen could be and they're not conclusive because of that?
Then why the fuck did you do it?
The bit where it's of any additional value to anyone but the company selling this junk.
It's a checkbox in the bullshit-feature game.
You know those checkboxes. From your local electronics big box mart. With every appliance, there's this sticker that has a lot of checkboxes next to the name of features. And some are checked and some are not, depending on whether the appliance has the feature or not. Which ones sell? The ones with features of course. If appliance A costs about as much as appliance B, how will the average person tell the difference? By counting ticked checkboxes, of course. Do they need those features? Hell no. In 9 out of 10 cases they don't even know what those features mean. But A has it and B doesn't, so A is better!
Why do you think the average procurement manager works differently?
It is called "a joke". Look it up when you get the chance.
The only people who don't get jokes are the ones that take them serious. So I have to wonder... you really think that's true?
One patent troll gone. Good riddance. How many more to go?
The problem with patent trolls is that you cannot win against them. If you lose, you pay a fortune. If you win, they have no assets, go poof and tomorrow you have the next patent troll come into existence, with the same shysters, the same office and a new "creative" name.
And as long as this is legal, it will continue.
I guess that's the best then.
If the rest of the world could just agree, it would be a much better place.
The Macbook sucks so much now that it's not even more powerful than an iPad?
Ah, so it's the bone that we dogs get thrown so we swallow the next thing where we get to foot the bills for his cronies.
Already wondered why Trump gives a shit who shits where.
Ah, it starts to make sense.
I can't believe that it really matters to you. Why, do you by default try to hit on every female in the workplace and are afraid that you'd hit on a guy?
Tolerating? I'm happily ignoring them and really can't see why I should give a fuck about it.
And it really matters to regular boys? I mean, unless they want to take the girl or guy to bed with them?
Care to elaborate why? I can't really see the big importance.
Oh please, not that guy's bullshit again.
I agree.
I just think we have different opinions about the head in question.
America must be doing awesome if THAT is the problem the president keeps himself busy with.
What information do you get that you don't also get from a phone book? Unless of course you get a lot of people named Fakya Too and Nonafja Bizniz, that's something you sure don't get from the average phone book.
By having a container that's about as tight as the average string bag.
Let's agree on something: You keep your propaganda, I keep my European socialism. Deal?
Would you really? I don't. I could probably afford it, but I can't see a good reason to do it. Besides, BMWs suck, never had a worse car.
But what you describe is an extreme. Moderation is the key. We're currently heading for the other extreme, where nobody has anything except a small sliver of individuals who have more than they could possibly use. Care to explain the sensibility in this? This is killing any economy. An economy needs to have a population to sell to. If there's nobody I can sell to except a handful of individuals that instantly saturate the market, there is no market to sustain an economy.
What we need is a level that allows enough people to consume enough. We may debate what's "enough" in this context, but I can tell you that we're far from that today. The level of the 1960s to 1980s would be more sensible.
But now that Flash is dead and Oracle is doing its best to kill Java with some ridiculous licensing plans, Javascript remains the only sensible vector.
Ok, aside of VB, but for that you also need to download and open Office files.