1. Apple buyers are stupid enough to wait in line for an over priced and over hyped product; whereas, others have a life and realize that there will be product for them and that they really don't give a shit about being the one of the first to have the "new" and "cool" product. Or they have better things to do with their money.
2. Microsoft products are not worth waiting in line.
(I'm just joking of course - though I better say it, else someone might mark me "troll" - it's funny.)
That statement kind of took away some of the humor of the first part of your post. You should have left that out. For every "Troll" mod you got there would have been 4 "Funny" and at least 1 "Insightful" or "Interesting" to counteract the net -1 karma hit for the "Troll" mod.
That's assuming you really give a shit. I don't. Many folks who get points are so over sensitive or over zealous that they mod like shit.
You know, when I was in school, my textbooks were always over $100 a piece - business textbooks - and some were less than 200 pages. Now, I'm pretty sure that there isn't much groundbreaking research being done in business where a textbook has to be updated every decade let alone every year. But yet, we had to have the latest edition. My group psychology textbook has shit from the 60s up to the 80s.
Then there's the cost. Why do much? Yet, graze in the computer programming section of any book store and you'll see up to date books that are less than $50.
But let's go back to business. There are Schaum Outline's for just about every topic and they cover every thing that's in a textbook for less than $20. It's the same with the first couple of years of science and engineering, math, english, economics, etc...
Why aren't they used?
In my school career, there were only 2 professors that used their own book and one of them just had us get a Kinko's version of his book at cost.
College costs are getting to the point where an average kid can't afford it. And no, borrowing money to pay for school doesn't count as affording it.Textbooks just add to the burden.
The next career to disappear in the U.S. is programming. There are no more entry level jobs, they've all been outsourced. Hence, there is no new generation of programmers in the U.S.
That means any new innovation in computer software will be coming from India or another of the up-coming outsourcing countries.
Actually what will happen is that India's wages will increase (they are now) making them too expensive, so the big multinationals are moving to cheaper parts of the World, like Eastern Europe, and then they will get too expensive. This will continue as software jobs move around the World to the point when one day, the US will be the cheapest country (we'll be spiraling down economically while this is happening) to develop software and it will all come back to us - India will be outsourcing to us.
There's almost 7 billion people on Earth which means there are what, several hundred million - a billion, that are capable of programming? Supply and demand.
Some in the audience where he gave his talk pointed out that Intel, the company he remains chairman of, is a big part of the outsourcing trend, and Grove responds with something of a cop-out, saying that without public policy assistance they have no choice but to export jobs
Still trying to find more... most of the intarweb is all what a great guy and genius he is and crap promoting his books.
You got that right! And what really pisses me off to no end is when CEO's, many who are also PhDs, say that they have to go offshore because they can't get "qualified" Americans. Andy Groves said that when he moved a bunch of R&D jobs to India (I'm trying to find a cite but F'n A, it's amazing how fast things get buried on the internet!).
The youngest and brightest are being sucked up by the field that pays: structured finance. As a country you've put financial innovation ahead of scientific and this is the natural outcome.
Might be better for little Timmy to plan on being a televangelist instead of a climatologist
There's definately more money in it.
Joel feels our pain and has made himself wealthy (reportedly earning $13 million for his last book advance alone) and his church prosperous ($75 million and counting in annual revenue) by urging us to let go of it, to turn it over to God, to accept God’s favor so that we may be as prosperous as Joe
I don't understand this, the people who wrote this 'letter' to the president are rich, look at the names. So they can start a company to create new energy production facilities etc. but they decide to write to the administration as if it is as urgent as a nuclear weapon about to be created and unleashed by a warmonger.
Because they want Government to finance the R&D (socialize the risks and costs of R&D) and then let the private sector reap the rewards - just like what was done with the banks.
America: risks, losses and costs are socialized: profits privatized. It's only for folks who are connected. For you and me, the peons, we get the bill but not the profits. Not even the jobs because you know this shit will be made over-seas.
The world's uber capitalist talks about how the government should do this and that
Well if the f*cking free market was so teh awesome, we'd already be the world leader, now wouldn't me ? We're the goddamn free market capital of the world, next to Somalia, that is.
Dishonest F*cker.
Holy shit man! This is the first time I have ever felt spit hit my face through the monitor!
Chances are we'd still intervene in foreign wars for humanitarian and business reasons, for as long as we have the economic and military prominence allowing us to do so.
Considering the issues with fresh water in the present (water wars in the South East and out West), Global Warming and what that will do to fresh water supplies, and our increasing population, I see us invading Canada over water in the near future.
But Canada is not completely defenseless. They do grow pot and the invading armies would light up, give up, and have a beer with their Canadian toke buddies.
So, as an American, I strongly suggest that you learn the Canadian national anthem (O Cananda) because the Canadians are invincible.
It also helps that their economy is in much better shape than ours - even with their evil government run health care.
I was shopping for cameras on BHPhotoVideo.com (B&H). I go directly to that website - I type the URL in the browser - no google first.
Upon finishing, websites that I also go directly to, started showing ads for B&H and the cameras that I was looking at. I also started seeing "sale" prices from other camera vendors for the cameras I was looking at.
I'm thinking it's Google.Who else has access to my browser's URL bar? Doesn't whatever I type there pass though Google? And we know that's how Google is getting so damn rich: targeted advertising.
Browsers I use: Firefox and Chrome.
Oh, Adblock doesn't block everything. Some websites have found a way around it - it's as though the ad is part of their content or something.
I've used all three and with the inclusion of "free" they are, in my not so humble opinion, the best option for each platform.
There's also digiKam which happens to work quite well Gnome even though it is targeted for KDE.
I evaluated many photo programs for Linux last year and digiKam came on tops. But, if you're doing HDR when editing, FSpot had that capability built in whereas digiKam didn't nor does Gimp for that matter - at the time I looked at them.
Don't blame the tools for your inability to use them correctly.
That's bullshit and you know it and it's that attitude that gives IT people a reputation of being immature and arrogant.
When I had those problems I googled quite a bit and you know what? The problems I mentioned are very common; which means that it's a design and implementation problem with all of those development tools.
So, I am blaming the tools for their poor design. You can be as condescending and insulting all you want but it doesn't change the fact that the tools have problems.
Usage of Windows by developers declined from 64.3 percent in 2009 to 58.3 percent in 2010. The decline of Windows is mirrored by a nearly equivalent growth in Linux usage on developer desktops
F/OSS dev tools on Windows just don't work well (there was so much shit that wouldn't work together well that I gave up) ; granted I haven't tried again since 2008 and maybe things are better. And even then, you're basically stuck with Win32 C/C++ applications or Java. No thank you, I'm over writing mindless UI boiler plate code - thank-you-very-much.
* - The Visual Studio Express editions don't allow you to redistribute very easily. Yeah, I tried installing the some of the runtimes and other things that it requires but I've never gotten an app I've written to work on another machine.
This type of trading provides liquidity and makes a market.
In a very narrow range of market trading. When the shit hits the fan, though, everyone including the computers want to sell or buy (usually panic selling); thereby greatly limiting one's ability to trade - that's why the market crashed a couple of months ago and it wasn't a trader accidentally moving a decimal place.
Isn't the rationale something along the lines that this kind of high volume, quick selling flattens out the (inherent) irrationality of the market? I'm not sure I buy it completely either, but I do believe there are some benefits.
In theory but the fact of the matter is that when others start to sell or buy, everyone starts to do the same. These trading strategies actually increase the volatility of the market.
This obsession of tech companies with co-opting or coining their own verbs is pretty annoying. If you really must make words up, stick to proper nouns and quit polluting the rest of the namespace.
I disagree! When I was a marketing director at a tech company, I coined a term that would have made them memorable and then they fired me for: sexual harassment, offending people, and making the workplace "hostile". Sons of bitches! All because I wanted to call our technology "Fuck". It was catchy too! The ad copyright went like this:
Having IT problems? Need a boost in productivity? Then you need to get Fucked!
The customers loved it! But the company hated it....
The company could have been: Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, etc...
By making the data available, it allows for easy connections of said data.
Connecting a bunch of innocuous sets of data can create a story line about a person - you would know everything about them.
Here in the States: It's amazing what you tell about an individual just from their credit report. Add in Lexus-Nexus and I'll know just about everything about you.
Everyone has something to hide and for good reason.
Slashdot Mirror
I wouldn't worry too much unless Slashdot starts posting stories like the National Enquirer type of stuff.
"Aliens bought all of the iPods!"
"Brad and Angelina adopt an iPod 4!"
"Katie dumps Tom for iPod!"
"Katie caught in secret tryst with iPod! Tom consults Xanu!"
"Scientology is controlling Tom through his iPod 4!"
It goes on....
1. Apple buyers are stupid enough to wait in line for an over priced and over hyped product; whereas, others have a life and realize that there will be product for them and that they really don't give a shit about being the one of the first to have the "new" and "cool" product. Or they have better things to do with their money.
2. Microsoft products are not worth waiting in line.
I'm going with #1.
(I'm just joking of course - though I better say it, else someone might mark me "troll" - it's funny.)
That statement kind of took away some of the humor of the first part of your post. You should have left that out. For every "Troll" mod you got there would have been 4 "Funny" and at least 1 "Insightful" or "Interesting" to counteract the net -1 karma hit for the "Troll" mod.
That's assuming you really give a shit. I don't. Many folks who get points are so over sensitive or over zealous that they mod like shit.
I should write an article about Z-order and be on the first page of slashdot...
Don't forget the pretty colorful graphs!
10 times faster? Yawn. Wake me up when it's 11 times faster.
Director: "Yeah but, why not just make each parts of the algorithm a little faster and that way 10x faster is faster than the old ten times faster."
You: "But this goes up to 11 times faster."
Then there's the cost. Why do much? Yet, graze in the computer programming section of any book store and you'll see up to date books that are less than $50.
But let's go back to business. There are Schaum Outline's for just about every topic and they cover every thing that's in a textbook for less than $20. It's the same with the first couple of years of science and engineering, math, english, economics, etc...
Why aren't they used?
In my school career, there were only 2 professors that used their own book and one of them just had us get a Kinko's version of his book at cost.
College costs are getting to the point where an average kid can't afford it. And no, borrowing money to pay for school doesn't count as affording it.Textbooks just add to the burden.
The next career to disappear in the U.S. is programming. There are no more entry level jobs, they've all been outsourced. Hence, there is no new generation of programmers in the U.S.
That means any new innovation in computer software will be coming from India or another of the up-coming outsourcing countries.
Actually what will happen is that India's wages will increase (they are now) making them too expensive, so the big multinationals are moving to cheaper parts of the World, like Eastern Europe, and then they will get too expensive. This will continue as software jobs move around the World to the point when one day, the US will be the cheapest country (we'll be spiraling down economically while this is happening) to develop software and it will all come back to us - India will be outsourcing to us.
There's almost 7 billion people on Earth which means there are what, several hundred million - a billion, that are capable of programming? Supply and demand.
Some in the audience where he gave his talk pointed out that Intel, the company he remains chairman of, is a big part of the outsourcing trend, and Grove responds with something of a cop-out, saying that without public policy assistance they have no choice but to export jobs
Still trying to find more ... most of the intarweb is all what a great guy and genius he is and crap promoting his books.
You got that right! And what really pisses me off to no end is when CEO's, many who are also PhDs, say that they have to go offshore because they can't get "qualified" Americans. Andy Groves said that when he moved a bunch of R&D jobs to India (I'm trying to find a cite but F'n A, it's amazing how fast things get buried on the internet!).
The youngest and brightest are being sucked up by the field that pays: structured finance. As a country you've put financial innovation ahead of scientific and this is the natural outcome.
What about medicine?
Might be better for little Timmy to plan on being a televangelist instead of a climatologist
There's definately more money in it.
Joel feels our pain and has made himself wealthy (reportedly earning $13 million for his last book advance alone) and his church prosperous ($75 million and counting in annual revenue) by urging us to let go of it, to turn it over to God, to accept God’s favor so that we may be as prosperous as Joe
Read more: http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2008/07/16/Megachurch-Preacher-Joel-Osteen#ixzz0qrDeHFqK
I don't understand this, the people who wrote this 'letter' to the president are rich, look at the names. So they can start a company to create new energy production facilities etc. but they decide to write to the administration as if it is as urgent as a nuclear weapon about to be created and unleashed by a warmonger.
Because they want Government to finance the R&D (socialize the risks and costs of R&D) and then let the private sector reap the rewards - just like what was done with the banks.
America: risks, losses and costs are socialized: profits privatized. It's only for folks who are connected. For you and me, the peons, we get the bill but not the profits. Not even the jobs because you know this shit will be made over-seas.
The world's uber capitalist talks about how the government should do this and that
Well if the f*cking free market was so teh awesome, we'd already be the world leader, now wouldn't me ? We're the goddamn free market capital of the world, next to Somalia, that is.
Dishonest F*cker.
Holy shit man! This is the first time I have ever felt spit hit my face through the monitor!
Chances are we'd still intervene in foreign wars for humanitarian and business reasons, for as long as we have the economic and military prominence allowing us to do so.
Considering the issues with fresh water in the present (water wars in the South East and out West), Global Warming and what that will do to fresh water supplies, and our increasing population, I see us invading Canada over water in the near future.
But Canada is not completely defenseless. They do grow pot and the invading armies would light up, give up, and have a beer with their Canadian toke buddies.
So, as an American, I strongly suggest that you learn the Canadian national anthem (O Cananda) because the Canadians are invincible.
It also helps that their economy is in much better shape than ours - even with their evil government run health care.
Upon finishing, websites that I also go directly to, started showing ads for B&H and the cameras that I was looking at. I also started seeing "sale" prices from other camera vendors for the cameras I was looking at.
I'm thinking it's Google.Who else has access to my browser's URL bar? Doesn't whatever I type there pass though Google? And we know that's how Google is getting so damn rich: targeted advertising.
Browsers I use: Firefox and Chrome.
Oh, Adblock doesn't block everything. Some websites have found a way around it - it's as though the ad is part of their content or something.
You mean like how everything he films with his camera will become covered under the MPEG-LA patents and thus forbidden to share?
MPEG? That's for movies. The poster was talking about stills. Did you mean JPEG or TIFF? JPEG and TIFF aren't in MPEGLA.
I thought the parent was funny, btw.
There is only one choice ... ... per OS.
Linux: F-Spot
I've used all three and with the inclusion of "free" they are, in my not so humble opinion, the best option for each platform.
There's also digiKam which happens to work quite well Gnome even though it is targeted for KDE.
I evaluated many photo programs for Linux last year and digiKam came on tops. But, if you're doing HDR when editing, FSpot had that capability built in whereas digiKam didn't nor does Gimp for that matter - at the time I looked at them.
Don't blame the tools for your inability to use them correctly.
That's bullshit and you know it and it's that attitude that gives IT people a reputation of being immature and arrogant .
When I had those problems I googled quite a bit and you know what? The problems I mentioned are very common; which means that it's a design and implementation problem with all of those development tools.
So, I am blaming the tools for their poor design. You can be as condescending and insulting all you want but it doesn't change the fact that the tools have problems.
The apps "Just work"
You're saying I can take an .exe compiled with an Express edition and just run it on another machine?
Nope.
I got a shit load of .dll and manifest errors that I could never get to work. And it's not me.
Usage of Windows by developers declined from 64.3 percent in 2009 to 58.3 percent in 2010. The decline of Windows is mirrored by a nearly equivalent growth in Linux usage on developer desktops
Look at the price of Visual Studio 2010 Professional (you need that to redistribute your stuff*).$549!! Whereas to develop for Linux is free.
F/OSS dev tools on Windows just don't work well (there was so much shit that wouldn't work together well that I gave up) ; granted I haven't tried again since 2008 and maybe things are better. And even then, you're basically stuck with Win32 C/C++ applications or Java. No thank you, I'm over writing mindless UI boiler plate code - thank-you-very-much.
* - The Visual Studio Express editions don't allow you to redistribute very easily. Yeah, I tried installing the some of the runtimes and other things that it requires but I've never gotten an app I've written to work on another machine.
This type of trading provides liquidity and makes a market.
In a very narrow range of market trading. When the shit hits the fan, though, everyone including the computers want to sell or buy (usually panic selling); thereby greatly limiting one's ability to trade - that's why the market crashed a couple of months ago and it wasn't a trader accidentally moving a decimal place.
Isn't the rationale something along the lines that this kind of high volume, quick selling flattens out the (inherent) irrationality of the market? I'm not sure I buy it completely either, but I do believe there are some benefits.
In theory but the fact of the matter is that when others start to sell or buy, everyone starts to do the same. These trading strategies actually increase the volatility of the market.
This obsession of tech companies with co-opting or coining their own verbs is pretty annoying. If you really must make words up, stick to proper nouns and quit polluting the rest of the namespace.
I disagree! When I was a marketing director at a tech company, I coined a term that would have made them memorable and then they fired me for: sexual harassment, offending people, and making the workplace "hostile". Sons of bitches! All because I wanted to call our technology "Fuck". It was catchy too! The ad copyright went like this:
Having IT problems? Need a boost in productivity? Then you need to get Fucked!
The customers loved it! But the company hated it....
The company could have been: Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, etc...
I won't name names.
Connecting a bunch of innocuous sets of data can create a story line about a person - you would know everything about them.
Here in the States: It's amazing what you tell about an individual just from their credit report. Add in Lexus-Nexus and I'll know just about everything about you.
Everyone has something to hide and for good reason.
People are cruel, shallow and small minded.
Just out of curiosity - were the bathroom stalls always occupied and was there panting cum..coming from them?