Why not pump number of delivered packages? It works for McDonald's. Are they immature, or insanely successful? Or both -- and if so, then what does maturity matter?
The bad editing of the post suggests that Jobs says the U.S. investigation is a bad move. In fact Jobs was saying that the attempts of record companies to pressure Apple to selectively raise prices on songs was bad.
I don't at all like the idea of mandatory anything for colleges. If you want to go to college while living in a 10x10 sublet, then you ought to be able to do it. The important part is the academic knowledge and the degree, and whatever experience you get from co-ops or internships, provided that's even helpful to your field.
Piling on mandatory needs which incur costs, such as mandatory freshman housing or laptops, only makes college less accessible to more people. Is a kid working his way out of the inner city on a scholarship going to get his $1000 expense covered? Maybe not. Will it mean his scholarship runs out before he matriculates? Maybe.
That's not good for anyone.
If laptops are really that important that they need to be mandatory (when campus or library computing labs could easily make up for them), then the schools should provide them, instead of foisting these sorts of expenses upon the students. The days of college only being for middle and upper classes were, I thought, ancient history.
I dunno how small your cubes are, but I don't agree. CRT size is not the sole factor in determining cube size.
After all the only space you are going to save in a cube going from CRT to LCD is depth; and cubes still need desk space for other items; phone; lighting, shelving, eating space, desk accessories, etc.
In my L-shaped cube, the space behind the screen is mostly lost anyway. Upgrading to LCD will only leave more empty space there. Moving the LCD back to gain desk space isn't going to help any, because the space in front of the screen is still going to need the same considerations as a closer CRT -- basically, it needs to be unencumbered. Maybe you can do away with keyboard trays, if you had them in the first place, but that doesn't save you and cube space. Furthermore, placing the screen further away from the viewer is not going to help anything; either the viewer will have to sit with their stomach on the edge of the table or screen space will go down as resolutions do, to gain the visibility available at the closer distance.
So sure, smaller footprint for LCD makes for less use of desk space. It sounds good to people who don't think about it.
Budget-minded consumers and offices are not blowing money on poor-price-point LCDs, except maybe in the front office to impress people.
Someday LCD will be competitive with CRT. This is not today. The only major downsides of CRT are footprint and disposal, followed by power. The upside is that a given size CRT is $200 or more cheaper than the same size LCD. Add in LCD's nightmares offaulty backlights, pixels going bad, and fragility, and you've got a losing option.
Y'know, part of me almost wishes that NTP managed to cause a shutdown of US BB service, because it would wake the US up about this software patent stupidity. Shutting down a service so broadly used in the business and political sector would have CEOs and senators literally climbing over each other to find a solution to prevent such a problem from happening again.
Meanwhile Canadia would continue to have BB service, causing a potentially embarrassing technological service imbalance on North America. While there are already one or two or so of these (digital radio much?), such a high-profile one would be a thorn in software patentry's side.
Oh, and maybe Canada would see the havoc in US over it and prevent the same thing from happening on its shores, likely before the US could fix it, spearheading patent sensibility in North America.
ASIDE from, you know, the normal things, that everyone else here (who probably neither have nor live with children) are assuming you aren't giving, here's what my house is like. Aside from a Tivo in the living room (which saves a LOT of "my show is on" fights), we put an old 300MHZ laptop on the end table which the children have limited access too. They are finding their own paths with nudging and monitoring; the eldest child is MySpacing and IMing, both children are surfing and emailing. The eldest child now also SMSes routinely.
Don't let kids NOT have access to tech, because they are at the age where not only will it be the norm for their future existence, but they also have the mental acuity to pick it up. Few technological matters are more than a few brief instructions with kids, once they have become used to it. Heck, the eldest kid had figured out 3-way calling -- and explained it to all the other kids -- years ago, and was routinely coordinating 8-person-large 3-way chains. I admit, I don't even know how to do that, and I've no excuse.
Wow. This is the most twisted thing I've ever heard.
You don't get out much.
You are insinuating that there is a concerted effort to discredit critics here in the US. I would submit that nowhere else in the world are people allowed to say whatever they want without being "ostracized".
No, that's a straw man you just made up. I never said any such thing. PRC's main error perhaps is in being direct instead of fomenting an environment that would accomodate their censorious and etcetera methods of populace control.
Anyway, no, this is not a country where you can say whatever you want without being ostracized. Maybe you can do it, usually, without being arrested, probably without being jailed, and perhaps certainly without being deported or executed.
Of course, the odds of this upon you are dependent on which whatevers you personally want to say. I could argue that you can say "whatever you want" in China, too; provided that the only things you want to say are OK things to say. I guess it comes down to how you decide your wants. Perhaps I don't want to say something that will get me arrested -- and then everything's OK, right?
OK, so Bush decides that he will dock the pay of reporters whose stories he doesn't agree with. You actually think anyone would be okay with that?
Would they hear about it after the reporters were fired and blackballed? Anyway, see straw man comment above.
This is where you are exactly wrong. The Chinese people don't care enough. They need to be more selfish. They need to tell their leaders that they won't work in a coal mine for a dollar a day without safety equipment. They need to care more about themselves.
Everyone knows how well labor organization works nowadays. I.e. not at all, unless regulated into puppetry for illusory purposes.
It seems that people cared more about security than these issues.
Yeah, but *why* that is is a relevant question.
People aren't dumb, they made a "lesser of two evils" type choice.
I fail to see why concerns about physical security has prevented them from also having concerns about economic or social security. Is there room for only one concern in the American populace? Or is discriminating against gays really a more important priority than wages and social services?
At any rate, this situation is light years ahead of China. They don't have any choice with their current government.
This still follows from your straw man that supposes that I mean that the US is a direct manipulator of the populace. But I didn't. In any case, see "fomenting an environment" comment above.
Clearly China does not do a good enough job of discrediting and ostracizing its critics in the public sphere. And clearly it has not done a good job at making the Chinese people self-centered and aloof from each other.
Play the same scenario in the story out in the US in your head, and imagine what would happen. Major media would ignore it. Mass populace would ignore it, writing it off as crackpottery, bolstered by the lack of media coverage. Most people would delete the message as an "obvious spam" or "liberal bullshit" or some such. Result effect: zero.
The Chinese people actually *care about* and *believe* these sorts of things. That's where the PRC has clearly failed. They have not properly desensitized and disinterested their public. They need a heavy dose of selfishness injected into their population. Then they could get away with an awful lot more.
Screwing US tech and CRM workers with offshoring? Who cares? Screwing the working poor with no benefits? Who cares? Screwing the poor with social service cuts? Who cares? Screwing the economy, international affairs, and budget with a poorly defensible war? Who cares?
I wish Google would buy Tivo. It would seem to be symbotic for both companies -- since Tivo is trying to get into broadband video delivery, and Google is trying to collect a corpus of video for Google Video. Plus, Tivo would elevate above PVR and into (i know, I know, but it's different this time) set-top box, going beyond the TV recording focus. Plus, the companies would then fare better against MS's assaults on both fronts.
by a 14 year old that learned a new word on the playground that day [my bold]
I'm always amazed by people who simply seem to never have been young at all, ever.
Or else, there is some condition or secret government experiment that causes people's brains to be wiped of all experiences had before age 22.
Earth to shut-in researchers: Most kids know all such words well before age 12.
Maybe some parents don't manage to hear them until 14, but that's because they are uninvolved with their children's lives, or else drastically shelter them.
Are you sure you're not running at a resolution that doesn't match the capabilities of your LCD? It sounds a lot like bad aliasing is going on between your display res and the true pixel res of your LCD.
What is being proposed is more like building two roads into every town and up to every house, one smooth and well-maintained tarmac and the other a dirt track, and then letting Tesco and Waitrose bid for the right to use the good road.
The problem with your analogy is that there is some New Business-man reading that and saying. "Hey! That's a fucking GREAT idea! (If I weren't a opportunist monkey, I might have thought of it myself!)"
Yeah. You'd better have your documentation tip fucking top. Or in some cases, it is enough to say you'd better have documentation at all.:P
Except now instead of worrying about misinterpretation from incomplete documentation, you now have to worry about misinterpretation from an actual mass language barrier.
My philosophy so far with a new offsite aspect is that I'll be damned if I'm going to micromanage them. They have their own teams, and they will have their own leads, and they are going to write their own tech docs and test plans. We keep the OKing keys and review those docs and then give them the go ahead.
I don't intend to shift my work hours more than maybe one or two hours before or after normal hours in order to have just enough overlap to touch base when needed.
To be honest -- Language and distance barrier notwithstanding, the time zone barrier with offsite shops is not much different then when I had to manage a three-shift department. My predecessor came in a few hours early one day a week for a weekly meeting with the night shift; I usually stayed extra late one night a week (hey, i worked at a well-connected ISP, who am I kidding, I stayed late a lot anyway) for the same purpose.
I think that, in general, anyone through history who has had to manage things at a distance or across other communication barriers has eventually realized that devolution -- i.e. giving some autonomy to the far end -- is the only efficient and sane way to do it.
Now, if I could convince my company to trust the far ends the same as near-end employees, not only could we give the remote ends more empowerment, but they'd actually be able to take on more of the load.
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Why not pump number of delivered packages? It works for McDonald's. Are they immature, or insanely successful? Or both -- and if so, then what does maturity matter?
The bad editing of the post suggests that Jobs says the U.S. investigation is a bad move. In fact Jobs was saying that the attempts of record companies to pressure Apple to selectively raise prices on songs was bad.
Then you train your employees not to turn it on, and punish them if they do.
Most users don't f*** with stuff because most users have no idea how to.
I don't at all like the idea of mandatory anything for colleges. If you want to go to college while living in a 10x10 sublet, then you ought to be able to do it. The important part is the academic knowledge and the degree, and whatever experience you get from co-ops or internships, provided that's even helpful to your field.
Piling on mandatory needs which incur costs, such as mandatory freshman housing or laptops, only makes college less accessible to more people. Is a kid working his way out of the inner city on a scholarship going to get his $1000 expense covered? Maybe not. Will it mean his scholarship runs out before he matriculates? Maybe.
That's not good for anyone.
If laptops are really that important that they need to be mandatory (when campus or library computing labs could easily make up for them), then the schools should provide them, instead of foisting these sorts of expenses upon the students. The days of college only being for middle and upper classes were, I thought, ancient history.
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This presumes he is a CS student. While that may seem obvious, it is not at all a given.
I knew plenty of philosophy majors that were admins in their spare time, and currently work with an Oracle developer who is studying Latin.
I dunno how small your cubes are, but I don't agree. CRT size is not the sole factor in determining cube size.
After all the only space you are going to save in a cube going from CRT to LCD is depth; and cubes still need desk space for other items; phone; lighting, shelving, eating space, desk accessories, etc.
In my L-shaped cube, the space behind the screen is mostly lost anyway. Upgrading to LCD will only leave more empty space there. Moving the LCD back to gain desk space isn't going to help any, because the space in front of the screen is still going to need the same considerations as a closer CRT -- basically, it needs to be unencumbered. Maybe you can do away with keyboard trays, if you had them in the first place, but that doesn't save you and cube space. Furthermore, placing the screen further away from the viewer is not going to help anything; either the viewer will have to sit with their stomach on the edge of the table or screen space will go down as resolutions do, to gain the visibility available at the closer distance.
So sure, smaller footprint for LCD makes for less use of desk space. It sounds good to people who don't think about it.
Really, the dim lighting and trickling flicker in your peripheral vision and limited viewing angle doesn't bother you at all?
Budget-minded consumers and offices are not blowing money on poor-price-point LCDs, except maybe in the front office to impress people.
Someday LCD will be competitive with CRT. This is not today. The only major downsides of CRT are footprint and disposal, followed by power. The upside is that a given size CRT is $200 or more cheaper than the same size LCD. Add in LCD's nightmares offaulty backlights, pixels going bad, and fragility, and you've got a losing option.
Y'know, part of me almost wishes that NTP managed to cause a shutdown of US BB service, because it would wake the US up about this software patent stupidity. Shutting down a service so broadly used in the business and political sector would have CEOs and senators literally climbing over each other to find a solution to prevent such a problem from happening again.
Meanwhile Canadia would continue to have BB service, causing a potentially embarrassing technological service imbalance on North America. While there are already one or two or so of these (digital radio much?), such a high-profile one would be a thorn in software patentry's side.
Oh, and maybe Canada would see the havoc in US over it and prevent the same thing from happening on its shores, likely before the US could fix it, spearheading patent sensibility in North America.
ASIDE from, you know, the normal things, that everyone else here (who probably neither have nor live with children) are assuming you aren't giving, here's what my house is like. Aside from a Tivo in the living room (which saves a LOT of "my show is on" fights), we put an old 300MHZ laptop on the end table which the children have limited access too. They are finding their own paths with nudging and monitoring; the eldest child is MySpacing and IMing, both children are surfing and emailing. The eldest child now also SMSes routinely.
Don't let kids NOT have access to tech, because they are at the age where not only will it be the norm for their future existence, but they also have the mental acuity to pick it up. Few technological matters are more than a few brief instructions with kids, once they have become used to it. Heck, the eldest kid had figured out 3-way calling -- and explained it to all the other kids -- years ago, and was routinely coordinating 8-person-large 3-way chains. I admit, I don't even know how to do that, and I've no excuse.
Wow. This is the most twisted thing I've ever heard.
You don't get out much.
You are insinuating that there is a concerted effort to discredit critics here in the US. I would submit that nowhere else in the world are people allowed to say whatever they want without being "ostracized".
No, that's a straw man you just made up. I never said any such thing. PRC's main error perhaps is in being direct instead of fomenting an environment that would accomodate their censorious and etcetera methods of populace control.
Anyway, no, this is not a country where you can say whatever you want without being ostracized. Maybe you can do it, usually, without being arrested, probably without being jailed, and perhaps certainly without being deported or executed.
Of course, the odds of this upon you are dependent on which whatevers you personally want to say. I could argue that you can say "whatever you want" in China, too; provided that the only things you want to say are OK things to say. I guess it comes down to how you decide your wants. Perhaps I don't want to say something that will get me arrested -- and then everything's OK, right?
OK, so Bush decides that he will dock the pay of reporters whose stories he doesn't agree with. You actually think anyone would be okay with that?
Would they hear about it after the reporters were fired and blackballed? Anyway, see straw man comment above.
This is where you are exactly wrong. The Chinese people don't care enough. They need to be more selfish. They need to tell their leaders that they won't work in a coal mine for a dollar a day without safety equipment. They need to care more about themselves.
Everyone knows how well labor organization works nowadays. I.e. not at all, unless regulated into puppetry for illusory purposes.
It seems that people cared more about security than these issues.
Yeah, but *why* that is is a relevant question.
People aren't dumb, they made a "lesser of two evils" type choice.
I fail to see why concerns about physical security has prevented them from also having concerns about economic or social security. Is there room for only one concern in the American populace? Or is discriminating against gays really a more important priority than wages and social services?
At any rate, this situation is light years ahead of China. They don't have any choice with their current government.
This still follows from your straw man that supposes that I mean that the US is a direct manipulator of the populace. But I didn't. In any case, see "fomenting an environment" comment above.
Nope.
Bummer.
Anyway.
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Good jobs?
That pay decently?
With info about them so that I can do my own research?
And uh, enough of them?
Clearly China does not do a good enough job of discrediting and ostracizing its critics in the public sphere. And clearly it has not done a good job at making the Chinese people self-centered and aloof from each other.
Play the same scenario in the story out in the US in your head, and imagine what would happen. Major media would ignore it. Mass populace would ignore it, writing it off as crackpottery, bolstered by the lack of media coverage. Most people would delete the message as an "obvious spam" or "liberal bullshit" or some such. Result effect: zero.
The Chinese people actually *care about* and *believe* these sorts of things. That's where the PRC has clearly failed. They have not properly desensitized and disinterested their public. They need a heavy dose of selfishness injected into their population. Then they could get away with an awful lot more.
Screwing US tech and CRM workers with offshoring? Who cares? Screwing the working poor with no benefits? Who cares? Screwing the poor with social service cuts? Who cares? Screwing the economy, international affairs, and budget with a poorly defensible war? Who cares?
Clearly, the Chinese people care far too much.
a company like Tivo or Google
I wish Google would buy Tivo. It would seem to be symbotic for both companies -- since Tivo is trying to get into broadband video delivery, and Google is trying to collect a corpus of video for Google Video. Plus, Tivo would elevate above PVR and into (i know, I know, but it's different this time) set-top box, going beyond the TV recording focus. Plus, the companies would then fare better against MS's assaults on both fronts.
a lot of potential positions ask for what you are currently making
And at least as many existing positions require you not to divulge that to anyone. So use that as a bargaining chip.
by a 14 year old that learned a new word on the playground that day [my bold]
I'm always amazed by people who simply seem to never have been young at all, ever.
Or else, there is some condition or secret government experiment that causes people's brains to be wiped of all experiences had before age 22.
Earth to shut-in researchers: Most kids know all such words well before age 12.
Maybe some parents don't manage to hear them until 14, but that's because they are uninvolved with their children's lives, or else drastically shelter them.
Are you sure you're not running at a resolution that doesn't match the capabilities of your LCD? It sounds a lot like bad aliasing is going on between your display res and the true pixel res of your LCD.
That hurts my eyes (on an Optiquest Q95 CRT)
IHNMTS
What is being proposed is more like building two roads into every town and up to every house, one smooth and well-maintained tarmac and the other a dirt track, and then letting Tesco and Waitrose bid for the right to use the good road.
The problem with your analogy is that there is some New Business-man reading that and saying. "Hey! That's a fucking GREAT idea! (If I weren't a opportunist monkey, I might have thought of it myself!)"
The thing that always worked for my fellow IT friends is the tangible offer of mad loot and crazy benefits.
Yeah. You'd better have your documentation tip fucking top. Or in some cases, it is enough to say you'd better have documentation at all. :P
Except now instead of worrying about misinterpretation from incomplete documentation, you now have to worry about misinterpretation from an actual mass language barrier.
My philosophy so far with a new offsite aspect is that I'll be damned if I'm going to micromanage them. They have their own teams, and they will have their own leads, and they are going to write their own tech docs and test plans. We keep the OKing keys and review those docs and then give them the go ahead.
I don't intend to shift my work hours more than maybe one or two hours before or after normal hours in order to have just enough overlap to touch base when needed.
To be honest -- Language and distance barrier notwithstanding, the time zone barrier with offsite shops is not much different then when I had to manage a three-shift department. My predecessor came in a few hours early one day a week for a weekly meeting with the night shift; I usually stayed extra late one night a week (hey, i worked at a well-connected ISP, who am I kidding, I stayed late a lot anyway) for the same purpose.
I think that, in general, anyone through history who has had to manage things at a distance or across other communication barriers has eventually realized that devolution -- i.e. giving some autonomy to the far end -- is the only efficient and sane way to do it.
Now, if I could convince my company to trust the far ends the same as near-end employees, not only could we give the remote ends more empowerment, but they'd actually be able to take on more of the load.
There literally hundreds if not thousands of books on how to write a business plan.
You make it sound like making money by writing a book on business plans is a bad business plan.
If you're overdue for a raise, would getting an office make up for it?