When I look around my office most colleagues are at least 35, if any group of people has been hit by the economic meltdown that is 20 somethings.
So if you as a 20 something have a job, don't piss of your older colleagues: they are in control of the situation with a vengeance, not only they are the bosses, but they are also getting most of the well paid jobs.
Younger people have an image problem, behaving like over developed teenagers won't endear them with the old timers holding the reigns of power.
Didn't Billy Gates, Steve Jobs and Bezos didn't happen? What about Gogglers?
Even in the City of London, a place where everybody used to wear a neck tie and a suite, that is old advise. I have not worn a suit or necktie for 20 years, and when interviewing people for high tech positions the last thing I, and other hiring personnel, was thinking about was the candidate's attire.
As long as people are clean the topic isn't even talked about (in some localities is even illegal to impose a dress code).
Those talking about revenue are condemned to misunderstand profits.
Also China isn't just any market for reasons that should be obvious.
Finally this is part of a clear downward spiral for Apple. It may be elitist talk about expensive gadgets, but that is the topic of the thread, isn't it?
Your definition of "sympathetic" implies some degree of submissive masochism.
None of the comments I have seen show much sympathy for the quasi monopoly of Redmond.
As for hating Microsoft they did earn the hate. It all started with Bill Gates not playing ball with early software developers, legitimizing closed source software at a time when hackers were sharing. Many people never forgave him, and by extension his company, for that (and as it turned out sharing in the long them would have been the most profitable option for *all* the industry, the open Internet running in open technologies by free software opened many new business opportunities for all, Microsoft included ).
Later on they became a company that wasn't shy to use questionable practices that lacked morals and integrity and which in several situations where plain illegal, so no wonder many of the affected parties feel wronged and hateful towards them.
In the real world pretty much every major company continued using Linux and most startups, some now household names, got of tge ground thanks to Linux and GPL software.
My point being that most people have not believed the fud...
Otherwise is not effective, it becomes just er, disobedience.
Here in London the people that occupied a space in front of St Pauls Cathedral and later on in Finsbury Park (both at the heart of the financial heart of London) were demonized, but in all honesty their nonsensical antics, purposeless rantings on national TV and lack of clear political aims and grievances made it a piece of cake to portrait them like a bunch of nutcases.
You may say whatever you want about the Tea Parters, but you can't say the money is what makes them stand. They know what they want, they organize and fight for it, and they have shaped part of the political landscape in the US (to the point that their pressure has lost the Republicans 2 Presidential elections. May that continue).
Political organization requires far more than a flash mob called with Facebook.
I recently attended a meetup about another topic in which the organizers were trying to stablish a new group.
The intention was to show cool toys and then show a work flow to obtain results. They had 4 working prototypes of the gadgets, one area with 2 big screens, a chill out area (with drinks and sandwiches) and 4 people that could have provided a guided tour through the topic of interest (we were supposed to leave with a present built there and then, which would have been a nice touch).
First of all they could not control who was assisting.
Then they just said "oh well, just follow one of us and we will make four groups" without making sure all the groups were about the same size.
They didn't have a plan of action, which meant people began to wander from one group to the next until they felt comfortable, this meant one guy, perceived as more informed, had way too many people (and because he was better looking, all the women stayed with him) while another guy, far more knowledgeable but a bit shy, ended standing almost on his own.
One of the guys supposed to organize things was hysterical because he knew it was all a mess and made everybody else moody.
They haven't tested that they could use the screens for a presentation,they didn't work which mean they resorted to sit with their laptops (Apple ones of course) on their knees "showing" others how things are done (how many people can stand close by and see anything at all?)
You see, some basic planning (dividing groups, assigning them leaders, sketching a plan for the meeting, testing equipment) would have made a success of the meeting.
As it is I am pretty sure they will be lucky to have half of the people back (several of them were actually investors interested in the technology, talk about wasted opportunities, I saw several of those people shaking their heads in disbelief).
We techies forget about these things, but they are important, this fashion of "unconferences" and doing things in the spur of the moment are great in paper, but frankly only scream "our group is lazy and disorganized", if you are organizing a LUG, do it properly, it will take lots of time and effort, but if you can't put this then you shouldn't bother at all, but if you do it properly you will make friends for life and connections for the future who will remember you as the organized guy that kept things going.
Lots of people have pointed out already that more complicated surgeries are scheduled for Fridays so doctors are fully available to deal with complications.
A replicated system may be less reliable, but is more available.
That means that in your single computer scenario, if your server goes down, you are toast.
But in a replicated environment although you will have more failures overall, they won't kill the service, since the redundancy will give you a higher degree of certainty that whatever you are running keeps ticking.
These kind of redundancy solutions are normally sold as Highly Available, not highly reliable. The clue is in the name,
Hints: it is mostly silent, black and white and most definitively 2D.
3D is the overall strategy of the big studios to keep milking the blockbuster, a cinematic product whose cost is spiraling out of control and will continue to make money only as long as the average public is shown new shiny gimmicks.
The assumptions made, the supposed rights implied and what appears reasonable are completely alien to most other people, this reasonings avoid the patently obvious: in other places people don't need guns to defend themselves or to feel safe, and certainly don't harbour the ridiculous notion that you need them just in case you have to fight by violent means your own government (in a civilb war situation guns will be readily available, you don't need to stockpile weapons during peace time) or a foreign invader (wouldn't your armed forces fight in home soil ? Or what is the deal?)
I take the bus regularly in London, most times in the upper floor of a double decker.
From there one can follow the progress of individual cyclists, and is undeniable that most of them move pretty much at the same speed as the motorized vehicles, even some runners can keep up with traffic speed for a while.
Most of the world is or will be urban, so fast vehicles will be completely redundant to the actual needs of urban dwellers.
I'm sure you all have seen those cheap pens with multiple colors, German manufacturer Lamy used that concept and produces pens with 2, 3 or 4 functions.
I have the 4 functions one, currently black ink pen, red ink pen, mechanic pencil and PDA stylus (not of much use anymore... fortunately one can put another ink cartridge instead).
The pens are metallic ball point cartridges, because they have to fit in a very small space the ball point is small, producing neat writing.
Slashdot Mirror
... worked great for BlackBerry.
What a great idea you have got there!
When I look around my office most colleagues are at least 35, if any group of people has been hit by the economic meltdown that is 20 somethings.
So if you as a 20 something have a job, don't piss of your older colleagues: they are in control of the situation with a vengeance, not only they are the bosses, but they are also getting most of the well paid jobs.
Younger people have an image problem, behaving like over developed teenagers won't endear them with the old timers holding the reigns of power.
Didn't Billy Gates, Steve Jobs and Bezos didn't happen? What about Gogglers?
Even in the City of London, a place where everybody used to wear a neck tie and a suite, that is old advise. I have not worn a suit or necktie for 20 years, and when interviewing people for high tech positions the last thing I, and other hiring personnel, was thinking about was the candidate's attire.
As long as people are clean the topic isn't even talked about (in some localities is even illegal to impose a dress code).
People deride copying as a dirty word.
Copying is how we humans learn, what you just said is what people used to say of Japanese industry in the 60s.
China has risen from a rural backwards society in the 70s to a society that can manufacture pretty much any high tech stuff you care to mention.
But if sprouting that quasi racist nonsense gives you some comfort all the power to you.
Those talking about revenue are condemned to misunderstand profits.
Also China isn't just any market for reasons that should be obvious.
Finally this is part of a clear downward spiral for Apple. It may be elitist talk about expensive gadgets, but that is the topic of the thread, isn't it?
He said they are like Acer, that is not saying Acer us USian if you read carefully.
Lets hope companies keep peddling this secure boot nonsense and have to write off entire lots of unsold stuff.
Shame about the environment tough....
Your definition of "sympathetic" implies some degree of submissive masochism.
None of the comments I have seen show much sympathy for the quasi monopoly of Redmond.
As for hating Microsoft they did earn the hate. It all started with Bill Gates not playing ball with early software developers, legitimizing closed source software at a time when hackers were sharing. Many people never forgave him, and by extension his company, for that (and as it turned out sharing in the long them would have been the most profitable option for *all* the industry, the open Internet running in open technologies by free software opened many new business opportunities for all, Microsoft included ).
Later on they became a company that wasn't shy to use questionable practices that lacked morals and integrity and which in several situations where plain illegal, so no wonder many of the affected parties feel wronged and hateful towards them.
https://www.google.com/finance?q=msft&ei=iyXrUYjTG8LBqAHJnwE
https://www.google.com/finance?q=msft&ei=iyXrUYjTG8LBqAHJnwE
https://www.google.com/finance?q=msft&ei=iyXrUYjTG8LBqAHJnwE
... that the growth is negative .... (damn economists and their lingo)...
The iphone isn't outselling Samsung in any niche market you try to make up.
Oh well, maybe in amount of units sold in Apple shops, I concede they may be losing there.
In the real world pretty much every major company continued using Linux and most startups, some now household names, got of tge ground thanks to Linux and GPL software.
My point being that most people have not believed the fud. ..
Otherwise is not effective, it becomes just er, disobedience.
Here in London the people that occupied a space in front of St Pauls Cathedral and later on in Finsbury Park (both at the heart of the financial heart of London) were demonized, but in all honesty their nonsensical antics, purposeless rantings on national TV and lack of clear political aims and grievances made it a piece of cake to portrait them like a bunch of nutcases.
You may say whatever you want about the Tea Parters, but you can't say the money is what makes them stand. They know what they want, they organize and fight for it, and they have shaped part of the political landscape in the US (to the point that their pressure has lost the Republicans 2 Presidential elections. May that continue).
Political organization requires far more than a flash mob called with Facebook.
The ones that tell you when you are wrong and don't partake in your idiocies.
I recently attended a meetup about another topic in which the organizers were trying to stablish a new group.
The intention was to show cool toys and then show a work flow to obtain results. They had 4 working prototypes of the gadgets, one area with 2 big screens, a chill out area (with drinks and sandwiches) and 4 people that could have provided a guided tour through the topic of interest (we were supposed to leave with a present built there and then, which would have been a nice touch).
First of all they could not control who was assisting.
Then they just said "oh well, just follow one of us and we will make four groups" without making sure all the groups were about the same size.
They didn't have a plan of action, which meant people began to wander from one group to the next until they felt comfortable, this meant one guy, perceived as more informed, had way too many people (and because he was better looking, all the women stayed with him) while another guy, far more knowledgeable but a bit shy, ended standing almost on his own.
One of the guys supposed to organize things was hysterical because he knew it was all a mess and made everybody else moody.
They haven't tested that they could use the screens for a presentation,they didn't work which mean they resorted to sit with their laptops (Apple ones of course) on their knees "showing" others how things are done (how many people can stand close by and see anything at all?)
You see, some basic planning (dividing groups, assigning them leaders, sketching a plan for the meeting, testing equipment) would have made a success of the meeting.
As it is I am pretty sure they will be lucky to have half of the people back (several of them were actually investors interested in the technology, talk about wasted opportunities, I saw several of those people shaking their heads in disbelief).
We techies forget about these things, but they are important, this fashion of "unconferences" and doing things in the spur of the moment are great in paper, but frankly only scream "our group is lazy and disorganized", if you are organizing a LUG, do it properly, it will take lots of time and effort, but if you can't put this then you shouldn't bother at all, but if you do it properly you will make friends for life and connections for the future who will remember you as the organized guy that kept things going.
Lots of people have pointed out already that more complicated surgeries are scheduled for Fridays so doctors are fully available to deal with complications.
A replicated system may be less reliable, but is more available.
That means that in your single computer scenario, if your server goes down, you are toast.
But in a replicated environment although you will have more failures overall, they won't kill the service, since the redundancy will give you a higher degree of certainty that whatever you are running keeps ticking.
These kind of redundancy solutions are normally sold as Highly Available, not highly reliable. The clue is in the name,
I can't believe they are still people so naive.
Do your work properly because is morally correct to do so just don't expect job security in exchange.
Oh, I see. Microsoft is now a de facto authority without which we can't use a computer. Who gave them that prerogative?
Which film won all accolades last year?
Hints: it is mostly silent, black and white and most definitively 2D.
3D is the overall strategy of the big studios to keep milking the blockbuster, a cinematic product whose cost is spiraling out of control and will continue to make money only as long as the average public is shown new shiny gimmicks.
Playing games on a phone? Unlikely.
.... as watching USians debate gun safety.
The assumptions made, the supposed rights implied and what appears reasonable are completely alien to most other people, this reasonings avoid the patently obvious: in other places people don't need guns to defend themselves or to feel safe, and certainly don't harbour the ridiculous notion that you need them just in case you have to fight by violent means your own government (in a civilb war situation guns will be readily available, you don't need to stockpile weapons during peace time) or a foreign invader (wouldn't your armed forces fight in home soil ? Or what is the deal?)
The risk is so small that most people, rightly, choose to ignore overbearing advice about the handling of "sensitive" electronic equipment.
I take the bus regularly in London, most times in the upper floor of a double decker.
From there one can follow the progress of individual cyclists, and is undeniable that most of them move pretty much at the same speed as the motorized vehicles, even some runners can keep up with traffic speed for a while.
Most of the world is or will be urban, so fast vehicles will be completely redundant to the actual needs of urban dwellers.
I'm sure you all have seen those cheap pens with multiple colors, German manufacturer Lamy used that concept and produces pens with 2, 3 or 4 functions.
I have the 4 functions one, currently black ink pen, red ink pen, mechanic pencil and PDA stylus (not of much use anymore... fortunately one can put another ink cartridge instead).
The pens are metallic ball point cartridges, because they have to fit in a very small space the ball point is small, producing neat writing.