It's good to read this. You always think you've seen the most stupid stuff anyone can do (such as my work day). It's good to be remembered stupidity has no bottom.
Unless you're working to get android on your hardware, you might as well pack it up and go home right now.
Yeah, being a "me too" player in a crowded market with a second-rate OS is a great plan. A shame that they're sticking with the most advanced mobile OS in the industry. That'll kill 'em to be sure...
Honestly, what on earth could possibly make you think moving to Android would be a good move for RIM?
You're right. I don't think anything can be a good move at that point. It's just over.
If you compare the revenue made out from software, I can tell you open source software is a heck of a lot lower than closed source software. By a huge margin! By any measure, open source software is lowering the value of software in terms of $$$. Now, I'm not saying it's a bad thing.
But not everyone is out there for ideological reasons, and we have no legitimacy thinking everyone should encompass our ideology about software. Most people are out there to put food on the table and a roof over their heads. It's been that way forever and I don't think it'll stop overnight.
You'd call 5% of your revenue a "blip" !!!! Let's say I earn 100K a year, for simplicity. I can tell you I'd think twice about letting down 5K just for ideological reasons. That would be $417 a month I nee to take out of my budget, and I can tell you I'd have to make more than minor adjustments.
There are other things to consider. Would you be happy, as a CEO, to work your butt off 24/7 for years to invent something great, and just when it catches up and start making real money, see Google make the *very exact same thing* (with a different logo) on a much much much larger scale (because they're so much bigger) and make you go back into mothingness?
I guess not.
Patents are here for a reason, and that reason is perfectly valid. Of course, the process can be perfected. For example, I think patents should be adapted to the field they apply to. For instance, software patents should last 5 years max.
But remove patents altogether and all hell will break lose.
if I was Samsung I wouldn't sell them so much as a screw.
You'd shoot yourself in the foot for banning your biggest customer. Hopefully, that's not *your* revenue stream we're talking about, so that you can easily say you wouldn't sell them a screw.
Hint: If Sammy drops Apple as a customer, they'd need a major restructuring and they'd also need something to do with the 100 plants they have serving Apple.
Do you know of a phone that didn't have rounded corners at the time? It's like saying my Tercel is like your Camaro because they both have four wheels.
Hmmm. Let's test that statement. Can you tell me which part of the Prada they copied? Because frankly, those two phones had nothing to do with one another.
Don't show her this video. It serves no purpose. This video only proves one thing: That the guys that made it don't have the first clue what science is all about.
I can already imagine the big manager / politician saying to his underling: "Get me cool pictures of science" Underling: Uhhh, what? Cretin: You know, something beautiful that catches the eye... U: Uhhhh, like something that explodes with colors? C: Yeah, that's it! That and girls. Get me sexy girls too. U: Uhhh, ok boss. Whataver you say. U (leaving the room, to himself) God oh God... I need another job.
Yes I've been. And you apparently are under the impression that I am discarding those jobs as being of no value while that's not at all what I'm saying.
Anyone can be a bad salesman by replacing a salesman in case of an emergency. Anyone can be a bad file clerk. Anyone can be a bad cashier.
That's easy. Now being a good salesman/cashier/clerk is not easy at all. And there's value to that.
But take a cashier and tell him to fix your critical application that just failed. You'll see the difference btw taking a computer scientist and tell him to replace the cashier for a few days.
You think I cannot be any of those roles in any kind of structure? You would be wrong.
Use me as a CEO of any company. I'd do a bad job at it no doubt, but I'm pretty sure I won't run the company into the ground in a year. Use me as a salesman for anything. I'll sell some. Use me as a cashier. I'll do it. Legal I may be very wrong.
Remember the context: I need to be in this role at a company for which I've built the IT.
The bottom line is: IT is a very very very technical job. Normal people cannot start to understand what's at stake. There are other jobs like that (see my comment about legal) but they seldom are the key part of any company. IT is at the heart of many many businesses now. All distributors, insurances, banks, etc cannot make a dime if their IT fails.
I honestly don't think you're right. I've worked in enough "brack & mortar" companies that have slowly over time transferred all of their operations and value to IT so that nobody in the company outside of IT clearly knows how the system is supposed to be working.
This would all be well and good if only the management - the very people that ordered the transfer - were aware of it. But no, they still see the value in all the little people doing nothing in their offices. After all, IT is a cost and doesn't bring money in ! Need to cut costs? Lay off those geeks. They serve no purpose.
And all of a sudden, you've lost the only people that keep the entire company afloat.
Because what these people need to realise is that the ONLY people needed in the company are the IT. You can layoff ALL OF THE REST OF THEM and the company will keep on running. Badly, not as efficient, maybe at 10% of its capacity. But the IT people can take over as a cashier, delivery boy, salesmen, etc. Those jobs are complex, if you want to be efficient at them. But anybody can do them badly.
Lay off ALL OF IT. You company dies right there. End of the story. Because nobody else in the company can understand the first thing about IT. They wouldn't even know how to log in the production servers.
They outsourcedtheir IT? Equivalent of selling off the company. They outsourced to some random dudes in some place they cannot even reach? They killed themselves.
Maybe thats the point, trying to give cinema's an advantage?
No, the point is to give Dolby an advantage, and make sure more cinemas are buying their stuff.
It just remains to be seen if the cinemas will pony up for something like this.
They will, but not for the reason you would expect. All of a sudden, DD and dts on DVDs and Blu-Rays are going to suck ass, because mixed in a horrible fashion. But in the cinema !!! Ahhhhh, these 62 speakers !!!
Of course, your dts or DD track will be perfectly able to render the same sound. But for some reason, both tracks will sound terribly different and the 62.2 track will sound better.
Go figure. There must be some truth about this after all.
Not trying to force feed them the book is one thing. One can always let the book around, when the kid asks vaguely answer "bah, it's just one of my books". You'll see.
By the way, the OP is asking which books are suitable, not how to make his son like it. The thing is, if he starts with sloppy SciFi books, he will be put off.
Apple changed chipsets twice for its computers, all with maintaining backward compatibility.
Intel alone cannot do anything to kill x86. Not without proper support from Microsoft that is. And even then, the Windows market is so fragmented that it may be impossible. Apple has a hold on its hardware and software giving them a big advantage here.
IE4 was the first DOM-based browser, marking a new era of browser design and DHTML. It was one entire generation ahead of Netscape. That is the reason it prevailed.
Today IE is still installed on every PC sold on the planet. Yet, it's not prevailing anymore. So what gives?
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Your naivety is refreshing.
It's good to read this. You always think you've seen the most stupid stuff anyone can do (such as my work day). It's good to be remembered stupidity has no bottom.
It's not a COOL feature, but unbelievably useful. I work with a lot of documents, Spotlight is indispensable.
I hate it.
Ok. Cool.
From my experience, you also need to do it from different IPs.
Unless you're working to get android on your hardware, you might as well pack it up and go home right now.
Yeah, being a "me too" player in a crowded market with a second-rate OS is a great plan. A shame that they're sticking with the most advanced mobile OS in the industry. That'll kill 'em to be sure...
Honestly, what on earth could possibly make you think moving to Android would be a good move for RIM?
You're right. I don't think anything can be a good move at that point. It's just over.
If you compare the revenue made out from software, I can tell you open source software is a heck of a lot lower than closed source software. By a huge margin! By any measure, open source software is lowering the value of software in terms of $$$. Now, I'm not saying it's a bad thing.
But not everyone is out there for ideological reasons, and we have no legitimacy thinking everyone should encompass our ideology about software. Most people are out there to put food on the table and a roof over their heads. It's been that way forever and I don't think it'll stop overnight.
You'd call 5% of your revenue a "blip" !!!! Let's say I earn 100K a year, for simplicity. I can tell you I'd think twice about letting down 5K just for ideological reasons. That would be $417 a month I nee to take out of my budget, and I can tell you I'd have to make more than minor adjustments.
There are other things to consider. Would you be happy, as a CEO, to work your butt off 24/7 for years to invent something great, and just when it catches up and start making real money, see Google make the *very exact same thing* (with a different logo) on a much much much larger scale (because they're so much bigger) and make you go back into mothingness?
I guess not.
Patents are here for a reason, and that reason is perfectly valid. Of course, the process can be perfected. For example, I think patents should be adapted to the field they apply to. For instance, software patents should last 5 years max.
But remove patents altogether and all hell will break lose.
The problem is, everything can be invented twice...
if I was Samsung I wouldn't sell them so much as a screw.
You'd shoot yourself in the foot for banning your biggest customer. Hopefully, that's not *your* revenue stream we're talking about, so that you can easily say you wouldn't sell them a screw.
Hint: If Sammy drops Apple as a customer, they'd need a major restructuring and they'd also need something to do with the 100 plants they have serving Apple.
Enough alike that I doubt an IP lawyer could tell the difference from across a courtroom.
Which proves nothing but the utter stupidity of said lawyer.
Do you know of a phone that didn't have rounded corners at the time? It's like saying my Tercel is like your Camaro because they both have four wheels.
Hmmm. Let's test that statement. Can you tell me which part of the Prada they copied? Because frankly, those two phones had nothing to do with one another.
Don't show her this video. It serves no purpose. This video only proves one thing: That the guys that made it don't have the first clue what science is all about.
I can already imagine the big manager / politician saying to his underling: "Get me cool pictures of science"
Underling: Uhhh, what?
Cretin: You know, something beautiful that catches the eye...
U: Uhhhh, like something that explodes with colors?
C: Yeah, that's it! That and girls. Get me sexy girls too.
U: Uhhh, ok boss. Whataver you say.
U (leaving the room, to himself) God oh God... I need another job.
+1
Yes I've been. And you apparently are under the impression that I am discarding those jobs as being of no value while that's not at all what I'm saying.
Anyone can be a bad salesman by replacing a salesman in case of an emergency. Anyone can be a bad file clerk. Anyone can be a bad cashier.
That's easy. Now being a good salesman/cashier/clerk is not easy at all. And there's value to that.
But take a cashier and tell him to fix your critical application that just failed. You'll see the difference btw taking a computer scientist and tell him to replace the cashier for a few days.
You think I cannot be any of those roles in any kind of structure? You would be wrong.
Use me as a CEO of any company. I'd do a bad job at it no doubt, but I'm pretty sure I won't run the company into the ground in a year.
Use me as a salesman for anything. I'll sell some.
Use me as a cashier. I'll do it.
Legal I may be very wrong.
Remember the context: I need to be in this role at a company for which I've built the IT.
The bottom line is: IT is a very very very technical job. Normal people cannot start to understand what's at stake. There are other jobs like that (see my comment about legal) but they seldom are the key part of any company. IT is at the heart of many many businesses now. All distributors, insurances, banks, etc cannot make a dime if their IT fails.
Adobe has to be the most annoying updater in the software world. I think I see that update screen for Flash and Reader more than I do my login screen.
If only it didn't need an update every day...
I honestly don't think you're right. I've worked in enough "brack & mortar" companies that have slowly over time transferred all of their operations and value to IT so that nobody in the company outside of IT clearly knows how the system is supposed to be working.
This would all be well and good if only the management - the very people that ordered the transfer - were aware of it. But no, they still see the value in all the little people doing nothing in their offices. After all, IT is a cost and doesn't bring money in ! Need to cut costs? Lay off those geeks. They serve no purpose.
And all of a sudden, you've lost the only people that keep the entire company afloat.
Because what these people need to realise is that the ONLY people needed in the company are the IT. You can layoff ALL OF THE REST OF THEM and the company will keep on running. Badly, not as efficient, maybe at 10% of its capacity. But the IT people can take over as a cashier, delivery boy, salesmen, etc. Those jobs are complex, if you want to be efficient at them. But anybody can do them badly.
Lay off ALL OF IT. You company dies right there. End of the story. Because nobody else in the company can understand the first thing about IT. They wouldn't even know how to log in the production servers.
They outsourcedtheir IT? Equivalent of selling off the company. They outsourced to some random dudes in some place they cannot even reach? They killed themselves.
No, the point is to give Dolby an advantage, and make sure more cinemas are buying their stuff.
It just remains to be seen if the cinemas will pony up for something like this.
They will, but not for the reason you would expect. All of a sudden, DD and dts on DVDs and Blu-Rays are going to suck ass, because mixed in a horrible fashion. But in the cinema !!! Ahhhhh, these 62 speakers !!!
Of course, your dts or DD track will be perfectly able to render the same sound. But for some reason, both tracks will sound terribly different and the 62.2 track will sound better.
Go figure. There must be some truth about this after all.
Not trying to force feed them the book is one thing. One can always let the book around, when the kid asks vaguely answer "bah, it's just one of my books". You'll see.
By the way, the OP is asking which books are suitable, not how to make his son like it. The thing is, if he starts with sloppy SciFi books, he will be put off.
They might prohibit certain services altogether to prevent spread of lewdness, but they won't spy on you.
Wanna bet? If it suits their interest, they will. There is no doubt about it.
... Moreover MS continues to develop the Windows CE product ...
I almost choked on that one !
Apple changed chipsets twice for its computers, all with maintaining backward compatibility.
Intel alone cannot do anything to kill x86. Not without proper support from Microsoft that is. And even then, the Windows market is so fragmented that it may be impossible. Apple has a hold on its hardware and software giving them a big advantage here.
IE4 was the first DOM-based browser, marking a new era of browser design and DHTML. It was one entire generation ahead of Netscape. That is the reason it prevailed.
Today IE is still installed on every PC sold on the planet. Yet, it's not prevailing anymore. So what gives?