It's not just price that will get electric cars used... it's the dork factor. The first company to figure out how to make electric cars less dorky (marketing, design, I don't know) will be the winner. I don't care if gas goes to $20/gallon. I wouldn't be caught dead in one of those things.
Call me nuts, but Microsoft isn't going to be intimidated by one guy, no matter who he is. If MS even notices this guy, they'll just send their lawyers after him, and he'll regret being such a smary ass reeeel fast.
You're right. Now that a bunch of middle management has gotten the boot, it'll be up to engineers to now: maintain their own buildings, do their own payroll, manage their own benefits, create their own marketing, develop their own packaging, do their own manufacturing, sell their own products....
You're either incredibly naive, or you've never held a real job if you think that a company like Intel canget by with "Very minimal management".
But, as other posters have pointed out, Intel isn't stupid. You can't just fire 1000 managers, and expect the technical people to "do their own thing". Expect a few thousand engineers to be canned soon (or gradually so that they don't have to report it to the public, like IBM has been doing for the past few years).
Bookstores, sure. But, as usual, the porn industry figured out that per click doesn't work many, mayn years ago, also. You really can't find any porn sites that pay per click any more. Based on the porn industry, Google may very well be fucked if they can't figure out a way to go "per signup" as the porn sites call it. Google's money stream is going to get turned off really quickly if they don't fix this. As is, they're not going to make as much as they make now because they're going to have to partner with advertisers and set up a "per sale" type of thing, instead of just letting anybody advertise as it is now.
It'll happen. As with the rest of the Net history, the porn industry always leads the way, and the porn industry dumped per click a long time ago. It's just a matter of how quickly Google can do it before they lose enough advertisers that they're in serious trouble.
You and me both. Actually, I would have preferred that there was some solid evidence that the War in Iraq would be effective and would eliminate a threat before the government poured trillions of dollars into it. I'm guessing that they'll drop a few billion of your tax dollars on this without another thought. A few billion is a drop in the bucket as far as defense is concerned.
Now, if we could only get our duly elected officials to protect us from REAL threats... like broken levies in major metropolitan areas, lack of affordable healthcare, homelessness, etc.
Not that my post was particularly intelligent, but it's tough to argue with somebody who says things like "Jet Skis are made from ham sandwiches", "Human beings breathe primarily argon gas", and of course, "The public hates Microsoft". You can't argue with people like that.
What you're saying is why Slashdot "doesn't matter" any more to the Web community, and why it's becoming increasingly marginalized. I've been reading and posting here for many years, but I'm just about fed up with it, altogether.
"Urban" means "urban culture". I don't know where you're getting the whole race thing. That's your thing. Last I checked, "urban culture" doesn't have anything to do with race... it has to do with social and economic class.
Are you delusional? Are you off your meds? Buddy, go to Wal-Mart in anytown USA and ask people what they care about. They care about American Idol or whatever TV show is on this week, MySpace, their friends and family in Iraq, their jobs, the new rims on their car, etc. Real people couldn't give two shits about Microsoft. Real people don't even know what "Open Source" is or what it means. And if you explained it to them, most people still don't give a shit. The only people obsessed with Microsoft are the Slashdotters and the OSS fanboys. Somehow, I think that if people really did care, they wouldn't be the largest company in the US, and Bill Gates wouldn't be the richest person in the world, don't cha' think?
I can't really debate this with you. You're just going to have to leave your cubicle and go out into the real world and meet real people to see what I'm talking about.
I will not give money to a company that hurts my industry and the overall economy if I don't need to.
Wow. Do you seriously think that the company that made it so that every retard on the planet can and does use a computer is "hurting your industry"? Do you have two brain cells to rub together? How, exactly, do they "hurt the economy"? By creating billions of dollars in revenue every year which is paid out to the shareholders? By creating hundreds of thousands of jobs? Try using your brain. The biggest threat to "your industry" and "your economy" is Open Source Software. Yo'uve got legions of clueless fanboys (like yourself) giving perfectly good code away for some stupid, bullshit, short-sighted idealistic ideas that actually put people like you out of work. Try using your brain, buddy. You're an unthinking drone.
The public perception is still Microsoft as a weapon of war.
No, that's the fringe geek perception. The regular public perception of Microsoft is that they make Windows, and it ends there. I tell ya', every day the fringe Slashdotters become more and more disconnected from reality, and (according to Business 2.0/CNN/CNN Money) matter less and less.
As far as I'm concerned, Ubuntu and the other Linux'es are already this. I never figured out how to install *anything* on the damn things. If it wasn't in the catalog, then you had to be a full-time dork to get it working.
All in all, the experience wasn't bad. There were some good programs in the list. However, maybe just because I've been around PC's for so long, there are certain programs that I wanted to use, and was frustrated that they never worked. I don't know if this would bother regular people.
The only problem with this is sometimes (often), the catalog titles didn't even work right, then you're stuck with no alternative, and a new, expensive doorstop.
The Apple was, as it is now, prohibitively expensive for 99% of the planet. Big business is what made computers cheap and ubiquitous. Personal computing as we know it was terribly fragmented and difficult for a regular person to understand before IBM and MS. Hate to say it even further, but the reason that PC's got so big so quickly wasn't because of the games or any silly littler personal stuff... it was BECAUSE of business... Lotus 123, specificially.
Speak for yourself. With no big business to pay an IT department, you're relegated to programming after your pizza delivery job. Actually, without big business, there wouldn't even be PC's.
Care to name one piece of software that is even close to as complicated as Windows XP is? I honestly can't think of one. Windows is everything to everyone, and by and large, they pull it off.
Good luck running a business with freebie software! I hope the IRS doesn't mind that you keep your books in a spreadsheet, because that's all there is on Ubuntu!
How's the Kool-aid taste? Hell, I've got even neater features on Windows now, such as the fact that I can go to the store, buy a program, put it in my computer, and it will WORK! (mmm, a functional OS...). Let's see you try that under Linux or OSX.
Thanks for all of that useful information in your post! I'm so happy to know that you like your Mac! Do you have anything substantial to add to this conversation? I wasn't aware that this article was intended to be a manual count of the personal preferences of every geek on the planet.
Considering that Vista will be once of the most complicated computer programs in computer history, designed to support more hardware and more third party programs than any other app or OS in history, I don't really think that you can call this "pitiful". I can't think of any other app or OS that comes even close to doing what they're doing. Nothing else is even *close*.
OK, let me get this straight.... there's a "war" going on, and MS is "Evil", and Nix is "good", right? Dude, you need to get out and maybe see a movie or something.
It's no surprise, which is why I don't even care about digital format wars. Eventually, somebody ALWAYS starts combining them all together, so a few years after adoption, everything supports everything. DVD players that you can get in the grocery store for $49.99 play audio CD's, MP3 CD's, DVD single layer, DVD dual layer, DVD +R, DVD-R, DVD +RW, etc. Hell, My $100 PS2 does even better than that.! (I use My PS2 exclusively for entertainment. Love how easy it is.) As long as there's no physical difference in the format, the digital differences amount to just a few lines of code, which ends up being very cheap to combine on a tiny chip, even after those licensing fees. As long as the media doesn't physically change, there will be increasing convergence all of the time. Eventually, those cheap players that you can get at Wal-Mart will read HD, Blu-Ray, OGG, and WMA's. Just give it time. It'll happen.
The US government and all law enforcement is busy tracking down pissed off retards who sit in one of their mothers' basements and talk about blowing things up in order to prove that they're stopping "terrorism". Now, call these people "terrorists" and get some news media to cover it, and I can guarantee that Gonzalex will be all over it, calling it a victory against terrorism, and Bush will say, "See? We need to spend billions of dollars a day bombing a foreign country in order to keep you SAFE!"
If you think tha their articles are bad, then why are you at Slashdot? I actually enjoyed reading that article. I read the whole thing, and actually got some info out of it (I saw the Nintendo controller.... ugh!!!) Slashdot articles are, by comparison... well... if I was really interested, I'd check a thesaurus for the words "bad, redundant, and horribly biased"
This is the THIRD FUD article about the Sony PS3 today! THIRD! What I want to know is who is paying for this? Any suggestions? The Slashdot FUDmeisters seem to only slam Sony, but consistently praise the XBox 360 and Nintendo. Are they being paid by MS AND Nintendo for this crap-ola? Could the Slashdot editors really be this stupid without being paid?
I had just posted this same rant in the last anti-PS3 article less than an hour ago. I then proceeded to register at digg. Then I came back out of pure habit, and here it is again!
Am I going crazy, or are the editors here getting geometrically worse over time?
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That's not something that "major website admins" do. That's something that 12 year olds, and crazy W3C/OSS zealots do. It ain't gonna happen.
It's not just price that will get electric cars used... it's the dork factor. The first company to figure out how to make electric cars less dorky (marketing, design, I don't know) will be the winner. I don't care if gas goes to $20/gallon. I wouldn't be caught dead in one of those things.
Call me nuts, but Microsoft isn't going to be intimidated by one guy, no matter who he is. If MS even notices this guy, they'll just send their lawyers after him, and he'll regret being such a smary ass reeeel fast.
You're right. Now that a bunch of middle management has gotten the boot, it'll be up to engineers to now: maintain their own buildings, do their own payroll, manage their own benefits, create their own marketing, develop their own packaging, do their own manufacturing, sell their own products....
You're either incredibly naive, or you've never held a real job if you think that a company like Intel canget by with "Very minimal management".
But, as other posters have pointed out, Intel isn't stupid. You can't just fire 1000 managers, and expect the technical people to "do their own thing". Expect a few thousand engineers to be canned soon (or gradually so that they don't have to report it to the public, like IBM has been doing for the past few years).
Bookstores, sure. But, as usual, the porn industry figured out that per click doesn't work many, mayn years ago, also. You really can't find any porn sites that pay per click any more. Based on the porn industry, Google may very well be fucked if they can't figure out a way to go "per signup" as the porn sites call it. Google's money stream is going to get turned off really quickly if they don't fix this. As is, they're not going to make as much as they make now because they're going to have to partner with advertisers and set up a "per sale" type of thing, instead of just letting anybody advertise as it is now.
It'll happen. As with the rest of the Net history, the porn industry always leads the way, and the porn industry dumped per click a long time ago. It's just a matter of how quickly Google can do it before they lose enough advertisers that they're in serious trouble.
You and me both. Actually, I would have preferred that there was some solid evidence that the War in Iraq would be effective and would eliminate a threat before the government poured trillions of dollars into it. I'm guessing that they'll drop a few billion of your tax dollars on this without another thought. A few billion is a drop in the bucket as far as defense is concerned.
Now, if we could only get our duly elected officials to protect us from REAL threats... like broken levies in major metropolitan areas, lack of affordable healthcare, homelessness, etc.
Not that my post was particularly intelligent, but it's tough to argue with somebody who says things like "Jet Skis are made from ham sandwiches", "Human beings breathe primarily argon gas", and of course, "The public hates Microsoft". You can't argue with people like that.
What you're saying is why Slashdot "doesn't matter" any more to the Web community, and why it's becoming increasingly marginalized. I've been reading and posting here for many years, but I'm just about fed up with it, altogether.
"Urban" means "urban culture". I don't know where you're getting the whole race thing. That's your thing. Last I checked, "urban culture" doesn't have anything to do with race... it has to do with social and economic class.
Are you delusional? Are you off your meds? Buddy, go to Wal-Mart in anytown USA and ask people what they care about. They care about American Idol or whatever TV show is on this week, MySpace, their friends and family in Iraq, their jobs, the new rims on their car, etc. Real people couldn't give two shits about Microsoft. Real people don't even know what "Open Source" is or what it means. And if you explained it to them, most people still don't give a shit. The only people obsessed with Microsoft are the Slashdotters and the OSS fanboys. Somehow, I think that if people really did care, they wouldn't be the largest company in the US, and Bill Gates wouldn't be the richest person in the world, don't cha' think?
I can't really debate this with you. You're just going to have to leave your cubicle and go out into the real world and meet real people to see what I'm talking about.
I will not give money to a company that hurts my industry and the overall economy if I don't need to.
Wow. Do you seriously think that the company that made it so that every retard on the planet can and does use a computer is "hurting your industry"? Do you have two brain cells to rub together? How, exactly, do they "hurt the economy"? By creating billions of dollars in revenue every year which is paid out to the shareholders? By creating hundreds of thousands of jobs? Try using your brain. The biggest threat to "your industry" and "your economy" is Open Source Software. Yo'uve got legions of clueless fanboys (like yourself) giving perfectly good code away for some stupid, bullshit, short-sighted idealistic ideas that actually put people like you out of work. Try using your brain, buddy. You're an unthinking drone.
The public perception is still Microsoft as a weapon of war.
No, that's the fringe geek perception. The regular public perception of Microsoft is that they make Windows, and it ends there. I tell ya', every day the fringe Slashdotters become more and more disconnected from reality, and (according to Business 2.0/CNN/CNN Money) matter less and less.
As far as I'm concerned, Ubuntu and the other Linux'es are already this. I never figured out how to install *anything* on the damn things. If it wasn't in the catalog, then you had to be a full-time dork to get it working.
All in all, the experience wasn't bad. There were some good programs in the list. However, maybe just because I've been around PC's for so long, there are certain programs that I wanted to use, and was frustrated that they never worked. I don't know if this would bother regular people.
The only problem with this is sometimes (often), the catalog titles didn't even work right, then you're stuck with no alternative, and a new, expensive doorstop.
Suffice to say, I now use Windows.
The Apple was, as it is now, prohibitively expensive for 99% of the planet. Big business is what made computers cheap and ubiquitous. Personal computing as we know it was terribly fragmented and difficult for a regular person to understand before IBM and MS. Hate to say it even further, but the reason that PC's got so big so quickly wasn't because of the games or any silly littler personal stuff... it was BECAUSE of business... Lotus 123, specificially.
Speak for yourself. With no big business to pay an IT department, you're relegated to programming after your pizza delivery job. Actually, without big business, there wouldn't even be PC's.
Care to name one piece of software that is even close to as complicated as Windows XP is? I honestly can't think of one. Windows is everything to everyone, and by and large, they pull it off.
Good luck running a business with freebie software! I hope the IRS doesn't mind that you keep your books in a spreadsheet, because that's all there is on Ubuntu!
How's the Kool-aid taste?
Hell, I've got even neater features on Windows now, such as the fact that I can go to the store, buy a program, put it in my computer, and it will WORK! (mmm, a functional OS...). Let's see you try that under Linux or OSX.
Thanks for all of that useful information in your post! I'm so happy to know that you like your Mac! Do you have anything substantial to add to this conversation? I wasn't aware that this article was intended to be a manual count of the personal preferences of every geek on the planet.
Considering that Vista will be once of the most complicated computer programs in computer history, designed to support more hardware and more third party programs than any other app or OS in history, I don't really think that you can call this "pitiful". I can't think of any other app or OS that comes even close to doing what they're doing. Nothing else is even *close*.
That's funny.... I use Windows and I dont' worry about any of that, either.
OK, let me get this straight.... there's a "war" going on, and MS is "Evil", and Nix is "good", right? Dude, you need to get out and maybe see a movie or something.
It's no surprise, which is why I don't even care about digital format wars. Eventually, somebody ALWAYS starts combining them all together, so a few years after adoption, everything supports everything. DVD players that you can get in the grocery store for $49.99 play audio CD's, MP3 CD's, DVD single layer, DVD dual layer, DVD +R, DVD-R, DVD +RW, etc. Hell, My $100 PS2 does even better than that.! (I use My PS2 exclusively for entertainment. Love how easy it is.) As long as there's no physical difference in the format, the digital differences amount to just a few lines of code, which ends up being very cheap to combine on a tiny chip, even after those licensing fees. As long as the media doesn't physically change, there will be increasing convergence all of the time. Eventually, those cheap players that you can get at Wal-Mart will read HD, Blu-Ray, OGG, and WMA's. Just give it time. It'll happen.
The US government and all law enforcement is busy tracking down pissed off retards who sit in one of their mothers' basements and talk about blowing things up in order to prove that they're stopping "terrorism". Now, call these people "terrorists" and get some news media to cover it, and I can guarantee that Gonzalex will be all over it, calling it a victory against terrorism, and Bush will say, "See? We need to spend billions of dollars a day bombing a foreign country in order to keep you SAFE!"
If you think tha their articles are bad, then why are you at Slashdot? I actually enjoyed reading that article. I read the whole thing, and actually got some info out of it (I saw the Nintendo controller.... ugh!!!) Slashdot articles are, by comparison... well... if I was really interested, I'd check a thesaurus for the words "bad, redundant, and horribly biased"
This is the THIRD FUD article about the Sony PS3 today! THIRD! What I want to know is who is paying for this? Any suggestions? The Slashdot FUDmeisters seem to only slam Sony, but consistently praise the XBox 360 and Nintendo. Are they being paid by MS AND Nintendo for this crap-ola? Could the Slashdot editors really be this stupid without being paid?
I had just posted this same rant in the last anti-PS3 article less than an hour ago. I then proceeded to register at digg. Then I came back out of pure habit, and here it is again!
Am I going crazy, or are the editors here getting geometrically worse over time?