"racing to match the features of competitors is less important than providing a stable, reliable product" So that makes racing to match features as job 22?
It's not about them winning or losing. It's fairness. If they can fix a problem with their OS - the main profit center - they should fix it. Are the security holes a feature we get for free and the patches a fix we need to pay for? What is to stop them from adding more holes to increase the number of patches needed?
Newspapers have always been a local media. In the age of the internet it is even more so. National advertising - which would fund a national newspaper - does not focus on newspapers. The lowest rated network TV show can provide more eyeballs than the highest circulated newspaper.
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I can explain: your actions are the corporation's responsiblity. You may not care that your actions will result in the corporation paying a $500,000 fine, but the corporation does.
If some pee-on prirates Windows, MS wants $125,000 from the corporation the pee-on works for. The blade cuts both ways - they want corps to be responsible for the actions of all their employees, so they need to take responsiblity for theirs.
The Geneva Convention is an idea. The U.S. Consititution is an idea. Both are based on the notion that people are capable of great good and great evil and should be very much encourage to the greater good. Evil is easy and often popular, but it gets no where. If we justify our evil because their evil is worse - who wins?
Never ceases to amaze me that a company like Microsoft which defends it's intellectual property to the death, just expects other company's to surrend their intellectual property. How about radio stations patent thier playlists? Make as much sense as MS patents, maybe more.
The notion of an ever expanding OS must die and be replaced by the notion of an ever improving OS. They are not the same and the latter will not make MS any money.
Perhaps it is how we define genius? Is genius coming up with something someone else has not thought of? or it coming up with a better way to do something? Discover vs. invention. Enstein vs. Edison. If it is coming up with something new - a breaktrough - then the young are at an advantage. They have not learned you can't do that.
Corp. America is about getting the job done. The job doesn't have to be done right, just done. Go ahead and walk off the job. You won't be missed. Things at work may be worse than when you were there but life will go on. If the place is run so poorly that it will suffer you r loss, it will probably fail with or without you. Get the resume together - NOW.
Sure, there might be three big news web sites in 15 years. But do you really think Joe's Barber shop will advertise on them? Fastest growing newspapers are the weeklies that are ultra-local newspapers. They deliever the right audience to the adverstiser.
Having worked for a newspaper for 18 years, I have heard the 15 year time line for 17 of those years. What people don't understand is the basic economics of the situation. Newspapers cost alot of money to produce - most of it has nothing to with gathering the news. Lionshare of the cost is personel and then delivery and consumables - newsprint. It also takes alot of capital to produce what is a persishible product. All this investment yields product that is cheap to the end user - provided there are alot of end users. Moving to internet takes the major costs of production from the newspaper and places it on the consumer - must have computer and internet connection. Until we reach the day of disposal computers, newspapers will continue to exist in print. As John Prine wrote: We are living in the future I'll tell you how I know I read it in the paper Fifteen years ago We're all driving rocket ships And talking with our minds And wearing turquoise jewelry And standing in soup lines We are standing in soup lines
Having worked in a newsroom both before and after digital photography, she raises valid points about photographers behavior but it has little if nothing to say about digital media.
Photographers have always pre-edited what they turn into editors. Digital cameras add nothing new here.
Saving outtakes for later use? Some photographers are very good at keeping all their negatives and now cdroms. Others could care less - they save their award winners or favorites, not much else. Again digital does not change the landscape.
Paper is forever -- don't make me laugh. Unless you use acid-free paper and special handling all photos die. Newspapers don't spend that kind of money - cheap paper, film and chemicals will destory most of the 80's and 90's photos unless they are moved to digital storage.
Meanwhile, search the internet for an Atari emulator.
This is a six-year-old story (times change - people don't). Our former security/IT manager who regularly wrote up people for note using their key cards was promoted to production vp. The pete principle kicked in and one day the finance vp took him to lunch. When they got back to the office, the finance vp claimed to have forgotten his key card so the production vp pull his out but it does not work. After a while the security guard opens the door. Finance vp tells production vp to see the human resources vp to reem him out about his card not working. Security guard escorts production manger to HR where he finds all his belonging in a box and a severance agreement.
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"racing to match the features of competitors is less important than providing a stable, reliable product"
So that makes racing to match features as job 22?
It's not about them winning or losing.
It's fairness.
If they can fix a problem with their OS - the main profit center - they should fix it.
Are the security holes a feature we get for free and the patches a fix we need to pay for? What is to stop them from adding more holes to increase the number of patches needed?
Newspapers have always been a local media. In the age of the internet it is even more so.
National advertising - which would fund a national newspaper - does not focus on newspapers.
The lowest rated network TV show can provide more eyeballs than the highest circulated newspaper.
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Tell that to the BSA!
I can explain: your actions are the corporation's responsiblity.
You may not care that your actions will result in the corporation paying a $500,000 fine, but the corporation does.
It's not magic - it's LAW. You Steal something and LEGALLY you CANNOT profit from it.
Isn't anyone checking? Why should this be in the RELEASED version of the software?
$250 is for the right to use - NOT resell.
If some pee-on prirates Windows, MS wants $125,000 from the corporation the pee-on works for.
The blade cuts both ways - they want corps to be responsible for the actions of all their employees, so they need to take responsiblity for theirs.
The Geneva Convention is an idea. The U.S. Consititution is an idea. Both are based on the notion that people are capable of great good and great evil and should be very much encourage to the greater good. Evil is easy and often popular, but it gets no where. If we justify our evil because their evil is worse - who wins?
1. Load Gun
2. Shoot foot
3. Profit
Never ceases to amaze me that a company like Microsoft which defends it's intellectual property to the death, just expects other company's to surrend their intellectual property.
How about radio stations patent thier playlists? Make as much sense as MS patents, maybe more.
The notion of an ever expanding OS must die and be replaced by the notion of an ever improving OS.
They are not the same and the latter will not make MS any money.
Perhaps it is how we define genius?
Is genius coming up with something someone else has not thought of? or it coming up with a better way to do something? Discover vs. invention. Enstein vs. Edison.
If it is coming up with something new - a breaktrough - then the young are at an advantage. They have not learned you can't do that.
Corp. America is about getting the job done.
The job doesn't have to be done right, just done.
Go ahead and walk off the job. You won't be missed.
Things at work may be worse than when you were there but life will go on.
If the place is run so poorly that it will suffer you r loss, it will probably fail with or without you.
Get the resume together - NOW.
Sure, there might be three big news web sites in 15 years. But do you really think Joe's Barber shop will advertise on them? Fastest growing newspapers are the weeklies that are ultra-local newspapers. They deliever the right audience to the adverstiser.
Having worked for a newspaper for 18 years, I have heard the 15 year time line for 17 of those years. What people don't understand is the basic economics of the situation. Newspapers cost alot of money to produce - most of it has nothing to with gathering the news. Lionshare of the cost is personel and then delivery and consumables - newsprint. It also takes alot of capital to produce what is a persishible product. All this investment yields product that is cheap to the end user - provided there are alot of end users.
Moving to internet takes the major costs of production from the newspaper and places it on the consumer - must have computer and internet connection.
Until we reach the day of disposal computers, newspapers will continue to exist in print.
As John Prine wrote:
We are living in the future
I'll tell you how I know
I read it in the paper
Fifteen years ago
We're all driving rocket ships
And talking with our minds
And wearing turquoise jewelry
And standing in soup lines
We are standing in soup lines
Having worked in a newsroom both before and after digital photography, she raises valid points about photographers behavior but it has little if nothing to say about digital media.
Photographers have always pre-edited what they turn into editors. Digital cameras add nothing new here.
Saving outtakes for later use? Some photographers are very good at keeping all their negatives and now cdroms. Others could care less - they save their award winners or favorites, not much else. Again digital does not change the landscape.
Paper is forever -- don't make me laugh. Unless you use acid-free paper and special handling all photos die. Newspapers don't spend that kind of money - cheap paper, film and chemicals will destory most of the 80's and 90's photos unless they are moved to digital storage.
Meanwhile, search the internet for an Atari emulator.
This is a six-year-old story (times change - people don't). Our former security/IT manager who regularly wrote up people for note using their key cards was promoted to production vp. The pete principle kicked in and one day the finance vp took him to lunch. When they got back to the office, the finance vp claimed to have forgotten his key card so the production vp pull his out but it does not work. After a while the security guard opens the door. Finance vp tells production vp to see the human resources vp to reem him out about his card not working. Security guard escorts production manger to HR where he finds all his belonging in a box and a severance agreement.