I really enjoy mine and the more people that use it the more developers can start taking advantage of some of the half-tablet half-laptop features that make it a damn good travel companion - aside from battery consumption.
What will determine Jobs' perceived success going forward is if Apple continues to innovate, or that it falls apart without his guidance.
A great leader creates success around them. Does Apple in 10 years look the same or worse than it does now? If worse, why? Cook is a capable performer, but was Jobs the lynchpin that kept things moving or did he create his 'legacy' in a stable enough fashion that Apple continues as if he never left.
Jobs must have gone to the same low rent executive training program that we send our executives too because making products people want to buy so that you can make money isn't really earth shattering.
Laying off thousands of people, cutting hundreds of product lines to focus on three main products which are beginning to stagnate is hardly 'innovative'. It's hardly a good idea either. Give Apple another 10 years and we'll see if this "culture of innovation" supposedly created at Apple continues, or it was just one man with a plan that drove their share price.
Not more successful, just that offering a greater supply (Of less popular music) doesn't increase the demand - Which gets a great big "Duh" from Economists around the world.
Sorry Tom, you are 25 years old. Most people don't get to be IT managers until their mid-30s. Try working for a couple more years until you get more experience on the IT side of it before worrying about managing other people. Especially with your jumping around from position to position, it would take a large leap for a company to trust you with managing their IT staff. My advice: Continue doing good work in what you're doing now and take some extra outside courses in management to see if you even have the aptitude to become a manager, or it would even interest you.
It seems the younger generation doesn't want to put in the time doing the work before they become the boss, and I say this as a 27 year old...
After the dotcom implosion, a flood of 'highly-trained' prima-donnas entered the workforce, many of them with A+ Certification or an MCSE and an expectation that they should be running the joint within 5 years. On top of that, wages dropped. Why would I want to slave for 12 hours a day in a data centre when I can leverage the skills I learned as a techie to improve the job I do in other departments? Computers ARE just tools, and the idea that a career in computers should be something to aspire to, is like saying a career in waste management is something to aspire to. People should aspire to a career that they will enjoy, not necessarily a career that someone expects you to be interested in.
Me? I dropped IT given my first opportunity and have yet to look back.
An iPod Touch, with almost the same feature set as the iPhone, without the stupid Phone part, at a much cheaper price. Tough choice there... Feel sorry for the people who actually bought the iPhone now:/
Now that game was F'ing hard. I could finish every other game on the NES we had in my youth, except that one. Getting to the technodrome, with it's one hit kills and various baddies was hard enough. Shredder then would proceed to live up to his namesake and spit out a gutted turtle corpse. It wouldn't be so bad if you could restart from where you lost your original turtle, but no such luck. Back to the beginning of the level you went, often with the weakest turtle to fight Shredder with.
For the record, lead levels in Trail are now the lowest in BC because of the updated processes used in the smelter, not to mention very exacting testing and monitoring of lead levels throughout children in Trail.
I'm glad you quoted "study" because it sure doesn't seem like it to me.
I don't see why 'equality' has to equate with 'equal everything'. If there are few women in IT, could it be that it doesn't interest women in general? Wouldn't true equality dictate that we all have the equal chance to obtain these positions, not that we have to have equal representation in those positions? Why are few men in hairdressing? Because in all honesty, it probably doesn't interest men, in general, enough to require any kind of schooling. Hairdressing schools, however, do not explicitly or implicitly coerce men to not take part. Frankly, IT is a unforgiving, boring, mind-challenging but body-destructive position that is quite well suited for the under-social lone male, just as Marketing is an unforgiving, thick-skinned, truth-challenged and outward-appearance focussed position well-suited for the toned hardbodies of blonde airheads.
Instead of trying to attract women to IT, try attracting IT to women; they'll naturally gravitate to those things that interest them. As TFA mentions in one of its cases, money and power can be very powerful motivators.
Do they bring some kind of sixth sense to programming? Does their design layout match the office decor? Does the female mind somehow intuit complex operations?
Wouldn't a more important "study" reveal what QUALITY WORKERS want from IT jobs, not just women?
That said, I work in the marketing department, and I'm surrounded by attractive women:D
Judging from the best-in-class Phishing and Spam Filter, I wouldn't be able to tell, as everything remotely interesting gets immediately sent to the Junk Mail filter, which then requires me to drag and drop them all back to the folder structure I had to meticulously create in order to categorize said important information.
Even the opportunity to use such a fantastic product is payment enough! Hell, I should be paying them for some of these innovative and web-definitive systems.
Despite the long development time (and I've been using the new Hotmail for as long as it's been tested), it definitely is an improvement. Outlook itself is a fantastic e-mail client, and moving Hotmail to that kind of look and feel is definitely a bonus. I wouldn't mind being able to customize it a bit more but in terms of just being able to access my email in a quick and easy fashion, it's definitely ranking quite high in my books.
Dragging and dropping emails Quick Preview of Emails Equaling Google's mail storage
It's like there's a party in my mailbox and everyone's invited!
He usually pardons them relatively quick, within a week or so of him finding out about it. The thing is, he can't change the law, he can only retroactively unenforce it. Such is the life of a King.
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I really enjoy mine and the more people that use it the more developers can start taking advantage of some of the half-tablet half-laptop features that make it a damn good travel companion - aside from battery consumption.
What will determine Jobs' perceived success going forward is if Apple continues to innovate, or that it falls apart without his guidance.
A great leader creates success around them. Does Apple in 10 years look the same or worse than it does now? If worse, why? Cook is a capable performer, but was Jobs the lynchpin that kept things moving or did he create his 'legacy' in a stable enough fashion that Apple continues as if he never left.
Jobs must have gone to the same low rent executive training program that we send our executives too because making products people want to buy so that you can make money isn't really earth shattering.
Laying off thousands of people, cutting hundreds of product lines to focus on three main products which are beginning to stagnate is hardly 'innovative'. It's hardly a good idea either. Give Apple another 10 years and we'll see if this "culture of innovation" supposedly created at Apple continues, or it was just one man with a plan that drove their share price.
Not more successful, just that offering a greater supply (Of less popular music) doesn't increase the demand - Which gets a great big "Duh" from Economists around the world.
Sorry Tom, you are 25 years old. Most people don't get to be IT managers until their mid-30s. Try working for a couple more years until you get more experience on the IT side of it before worrying about managing other people. Especially with your jumping around from position to position, it would take a large leap for a company to trust you with managing their IT staff. My advice: Continue doing good work in what you're doing now and take some extra outside courses in management to see if you even have the aptitude to become a manager, or it would even interest you.
It seems the younger generation doesn't want to put in the time doing the work before they become the boss, and I say this as a 27 year old...
Creative design. Audio, video, etc. I still use computers, but as Tools, not Career-choice.
Slashdot hasn't focussed purely on IT matters since...ever.
After the dotcom implosion, a flood of 'highly-trained' prima-donnas entered the workforce, many of them with A+ Certification or an MCSE and an expectation that they should be running the joint within 5 years. On top of that, wages dropped. Why would I want to slave for 12 hours a day in a data centre when I can leverage the skills I learned as a techie to improve the job I do in other departments? Computers ARE just tools, and the idea that a career in computers should be something to aspire to, is like saying a career in waste management is something to aspire to. People should aspire to a career that they will enjoy, not necessarily a career that someone expects you to be interested in.
Me? I dropped IT given my first opportunity and have yet to look back.
Plus a contract with AT&T...that's significant ching right there. I'm definitely up for the Touch.
TOUCH ME PLEASE!
An iPod Touch, with almost the same feature set as the iPhone, without the stupid Phone part, at a much cheaper price. Tough choice there... Feel sorry for the people who actually bought the iPhone now :/
Now that game was F'ing hard. I could finish every other game on the NES we had in my youth, except that one. Getting to the technodrome, with it's one hit kills and various baddies was hard enough. Shredder then would proceed to live up to his namesake and spit out a gutted turtle corpse. It wouldn't be so bad if you could restart from where you lost your original turtle, but no such luck. Back to the beginning of the level you went, often with the weakest turtle to fight Shredder with.
For the record, lead levels in Trail are now the lowest in BC because of the updated processes used in the smelter, not to mention very exacting testing and monitoring of lead levels throughout children in Trail.
How do you think metal are recycled exactly? Does Superman come in and bend broken motherboards into brand new steel?
No, they're melted down and leeched into seperate metals.
HOME TOWN SHOUT OUT! WOOT WOOT...
That said, hahhaha, BCers, we get all your tax money now!
Yes
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And Flamebait you're given.
A lot of people think IT work = cubicles, fat and creepy nerds, impersonal, stressful, long hours, and high turnover or layoffs.
A lot of IT IS cubicles, fat and creepy nerds, impersonal, stressful, long hours, and high turnover or layoffs, unfortunately.
I'm glad you quoted "study" because it sure doesn't seem like it to me.
I don't see why 'equality' has to equate with 'equal everything'. If there are few women in IT, could it be that it doesn't interest women in general? Wouldn't true equality dictate that we all have the equal chance to obtain these positions, not that we have to have equal representation in those positions? Why are few men in hairdressing? Because in all honesty, it probably doesn't interest men, in general, enough to require any kind of schooling. Hairdressing schools, however, do not explicitly or implicitly coerce men to not take part. Frankly, IT is a unforgiving, boring, mind-challenging but body-destructive position that is quite well suited for the under-social lone male, just as Marketing is an unforgiving, thick-skinned, truth-challenged and outward-appearance focussed position well-suited for the toned hardbodies of blonde airheads.
Instead of trying to attract women to IT, try attracting IT to women; they'll naturally gravitate to those things that interest them. As TFA mentions in one of its cases, money and power can be very powerful motivators.
I'm not misogynistic, I hate whiny bitches of both sexes.
Do they bring some kind of sixth sense to programming? Does their design layout match the office decor? Does the female mind somehow intuit complex operations?
:D
Wouldn't a more important "study" reveal what QUALITY WORKERS want from IT jobs, not just women?
That said, I work in the marketing department, and I'm surrounded by attractive women
...computer waste contains 17 times more gold than gold ore, 40 times more copper than copper ore...
:( I think I'm going to have to level up recycling.
I'm lucky if I get 4 Thorium ore from one mine
Judging from the best-in-class Phishing and Spam Filter, I wouldn't be able to tell, as everything remotely interesting gets immediately sent to the Junk Mail filter, which then requires me to drag and drop them all back to the folder structure I had to meticulously create in order to categorize said important information.
Even the opportunity to use such a fantastic product is payment enough! Hell, I should be paying them for some of these innovative and web-definitive systems.
Despite the long development time (and I've been using the new Hotmail for as long as it's been tested), it definitely is an improvement. Outlook itself is a fantastic e-mail client, and moving Hotmail to that kind of look and feel is definitely a bonus. I wouldn't mind being able to customize it a bit more but in terms of just being able to access my email in a quick and easy fashion, it's definitely ranking quite high in my books.
Dragging and dropping emails
Quick Preview of Emails
Equaling Google's mail storage
It's like there's a party in my mailbox and everyone's invited!
He usually pardons them relatively quick, within a week or so of him finding out about it. The thing is, he can't change the law, he can only retroactively unenforce it. Such is the life of a King.