The real reason they don't like digital music is that they won't be able to distribute it again on a different medium. Take a band like The Rolling Stones. Their fans originally bought their music on 8 tracks, then tapes, CDs, and finally from some digital store. But once you buy from a digital store there is no reason ever buy the same content again.
I'm waiting for the service that remembers all of the content I buy and lets me use it anytime I want. That way if my computer dies or I get a new device I can pull the content down again put it on my device. iTunes would be great for this, but apparently they only keep track of the last 100 songs you buy and only do it unofficially. So, for now I'll stick with buying my digital tracks off of Amazon DRM free.
Store brand tennis shoes...ouch. I buy athletic shoes based on comfort alone. After finding Nike Frees, it's pretty much the only tennis shoe I wear unless I'm playing basketball (I have a specific pair for that). The Frees are so comfortable I often forget I have them on lol...
I agree. Just be who you are and you'll be 'cool'. I have a MBP because, to me anyways, it's a nice machine.
But, to add to what you said... Many people today define themselves by their possessions. This is uncool and very shallow. What people fail to realize is that possessions only serve to hold you back. They are a noose around your neck that ends up determining your future for you. Don't fall victim to the consumerist society we have become!
Anyone they need to talk to for work is within shouting distance. I don't mind personal IMing/email to set up plans, say hey, etc... it's just that sometimes it can seem excessive. And that's the problem, it's hard to define excessive, and brand new grads usually don't have the 'feeling' as what's too much or little yet in the business world. Anyways, you're right, I'm going to address the situation before taking the steps to block IM.
IM is open where I work because some of us actually use it for work. With the new grads we've been hiring though I'm thinking I may have to block it now. I'm pretty sure they IM all day long. I've tried just being more aggressive with timelines (so they don't have time to IM), but that doesn't seem to work. Plus a lot of the work we do is new stuff, so some timelines are hard to build and enforce.
I'm currently getting my MSCS. While it doesn't suck, many of the textbooks could be improved. A recent example I found in an algorithms book. Instead of having all of the closure properties for regular languages in the section of the book labeled 'Closure Properties', the authors thought they should put some there and then bury some other ones in the questions at the end of the chapter. To me this is purposely misleading. Why not put them in the section in the chapter with the other closure properties? Am I supposed to know that they are buried in some questions in the back of the book? I'm not looking for anything to be 'easy' or grades to be inflated, but to ignore that many CS or engineering books suck isn't looking at reality.
Apple may not announce new laptops right when Intel announces their new chips they usually update their lines to the new Intel chips within a couple months. The pro lines generally get the updates first, so you may have a case there.
Sounds like you had a user problem and not necessarily a mac user problem. I could tell plenty of similar stories from users using a mac, windows, or linux.
The problem with Macs is that you need to buy right after an update. Every other computer maker out there lowers their price over time as the component prices go down. Apple doesn't do that and it shows. I'm using a 2.4ghz SR MBP that I bought the day they were updated. Before I bought this machine, I priced out HPs, Dells, Thinkpads, etc... and when I put in all of the same hardware, the prices were about the same.
Most companies try to identify a market segment, work out what people in that segment want to buy, and then produce a product for that market.
I agree with you. The most important part of a project of any size is having a single, passionate person hold and drive the 'vision' of the project. This person needs charisma* to communicate the vision, intelligence to understand what's required, and the authority to make the decisions. Jobs is that guy for Apple, Linus is that guy for Linux, Carmack is that guy for iD, etc...
* Linux and Carmack aren't generally known for their social charisma, but in geek circles (ones that matter for their respective projects) they talk and people listen:)
Then why every time I mention that the limits Apple is imposing on developing for the iPhone I get told "It's a phone not a portable computer!"? If the iPhone really is meant to be a portable computer that can also make phone calls, then Apple needs to step up and remove any restrictions around the 3rd party software that can be developed for it.
You're assuming that when you override this function that Apple will still let you put your app in their store so it can be distributed (the *only* way to distribute the app btw). I have a feeling they are going to be pretty draconian about what they let come through their store.
EA offered to buy them a couple weeks ago. Take Two refused. So now EA is pissed and wants in before the next release of GTA. IMO, this is a bad move for EA. GTA has been a good franchise, but it is all TT has. Plus, how many times can you rehash the same thing (whoops that's what EA is famous for lol). I'm not so sure I would value GTA in it's current state at 2B. The GTA franchise has sold 66M game to date. At $50/each that's 3.3B over the life of the franchise. You have to assume the franchise will continue to grow for a 2B price tag. Speaking of growth, will Nintendo even let a game like GTA on the wii?
Yes, it does work out over the course of hours depending on how much your average bet is, etc... Plus, Casino Royale offers $2 minimum bet craps with 100x odds. It's a fun, cheap place to gamble. It doesn't hurt that they also have almost no 'edge' in the game.
Those who do understand the odds tend to either play games like blackjack which is the only game in the casino which has positive odds
Positive odds is only true if you are counting cards and are good at it. Even if you play blackjack perfectly the casino still has the odds favor. See here.
People who understand odds aren't playing blackjack, but craps. Properly played craps has the lowest house advantage than any other game in the casino. Plus it's actually fun! Every time I go to LV I play craps at Casino Royale. It's a crappy casino, but they have the lowest house advantage that I've found. In fact this chart shows I'm at the right place:)
So you'll be okay when Apple adds to the OSX licensing that you can only use apps approved by them and bought from their app store? So, Safari is the only web browser you can use. Not just the preferred one that's included in the OS, but the only one they legally will allow on a machine running OSX. This is worse than anything MS ever did with respect to IE.
I don't feel threatened at all. Why would I? I don't attempt to stump the candidate at all. I don't ask any trick questions. My usual questioning takes something I'm currently working on and explore how the candidate would solve the problem. Many times I haven't even come up with a solution yet, so there is no right answer. I just want to see how someone will go about problem solving. If you think that's trying to intimidate, then fine. I don't know how else to evaluate someone without giving some fixed test which would end up being more like a quiz. I also don't care how well someone knows a particular language since I'm of the camp that if you know one, you can learn any other.
I don't expect my colleagues to be my out of work buddies. I'd rather them not be my outside of work friends for the most part. But, I've worked with some real jerks in the past. They were smart guys, but a huge pain to work with, which always led to the projects to suffer.
From my experience of hiring and trying to hire people the shortage isn't manufactured. I work for a fairly large company and hiring managers do nothing but pull groups of resumes that I specify and send them to me to go over.
My interviews routinely turn into some sort of geek dick size war (and the candidate must be polite) or a beauty pagent (where did you go to university, my professors are more glamorous than yours) or some other stupid diversion rather than the job at hand.
My least favorite is: are you kewl enough to work in our clubhouse? It's just a job, I get all the love I want at home.
Well, since I don't expect a candidate to know all of the technologies we use I focus on 2 things. Aptitude and personality. For aptitude we ask questions/problems and work through them together. If you consider that a dick size war so be it. Our team is fairly small so personality is a big deal. If you're a dick, I don't care how talented you are. I don't want to have to deal with you every day so I won't hire you.
A lot of bottled water starts with muni tap water somewhere. That doesn't mean that it's the same thing as the tap water. There was a show once that showed where a certain companies bottled water came from. They started with muni tap, then it was filtered a ton of different ways to the most pure water you could get. At this point they actually had to add 'stuff' back because pure water actually has a bad taste.
As far as Dasani goes they actually add sodium to the water, I'm guessing for taste.
You may not agree with the reasons given and believe it is for marketing reasons, but this means you think Mr. Jobs is directly and purposefully trying to deceive the buying public when he said they were waiting for more efficient 3g chipsets. Why would he lie about such a thing if it were so easily disproved? He would risk his entire "believability capital" on such a silly thing? This is highly unlikely as it is such a trivial thing for one to risk their reputation on, yet your "feeling" over rides any attempt at being logical about the real reason.
Jobs does this so often there is a name for it. He knows that he has a fairly large fan base that will believe anything he says, even when it screws them over. Look at the fiasco with the AEBS and TM or the keyboard issues on the MBP that they have finally attempted to fix after nearly a year. It will be a bad day for Apple if people are ever logical about most anything they sell.
I would like to think one day in the future someone may invent a replicator. At that moment everyone just sells stuff is suddenly out of a job. Only the people who actually create new things/ideas/etc... will be valued.
The ATT iphone plans aren't that bad. It seems that ATT has eaten much of the cost of Apple's cut. You can get unlimited iPhone data added to your existing ATT plan for only $20/month, which seems reasonable compared to other cell data plans.
The EU plans on the other hand are crazy. You can almost see a 1 for 1 relationship between a normal phone plan costing $x and a plan with the Apple tax added (x$ + Apple Tax).
They are all related, but I think risk tolerance is in addition to the ones you listed. For example, confidence can make someone feel like they've mitigated some of the risk, but they still have to take that chance. It's very interesting to think about in a personal context and honestly evaluate if you have these traits or not.
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The real reason they don't like digital music is that they won't be able to distribute it again on a different medium. Take a band like The Rolling Stones. Their fans originally bought their music on 8 tracks, then tapes, CDs, and finally from some digital store. But once you buy from a digital store there is no reason ever buy the same content again.
I'm waiting for the service that remembers all of the content I buy and lets me use it anytime I want. That way if my computer dies or I get a new device I can pull the content down again put it on my device. iTunes would be great for this, but apparently they only keep track of the last 100 songs you buy and only do it unofficially. So, for now I'll stick with buying my digital tracks off of Amazon DRM free.
Store brand tennis shoes...ouch. I buy athletic shoes based on comfort alone. After finding Nike Frees, it's pretty much the only tennis shoe I wear unless I'm playing basketball (I have a specific pair for that). The Frees are so comfortable I often forget I have them on lol...
I agree. Just be who you are and you'll be 'cool'. I have a MBP because, to me anyways, it's a nice machine.
But, to add to what you said... Many people today define themselves by their possessions. This is uncool and very shallow. What people fail to realize is that possessions only serve to hold you back. They are a noose around your neck that ends up determining your future for you. Don't fall victim to the consumerist society we have become!
Anyone they need to talk to for work is within shouting distance. I don't mind personal IMing/email to set up plans, say hey, etc... it's just that sometimes it can seem excessive. And that's the problem, it's hard to define excessive, and brand new grads usually don't have the 'feeling' as what's too much or little yet in the business world. Anyways, you're right, I'm going to address the situation before taking the steps to block IM.
IM is open where I work because some of us actually use it for work. With the new grads we've been hiring though I'm thinking I may have to block it now. I'm pretty sure they IM all day long. I've tried just being more aggressive with timelines (so they don't have time to IM), but that doesn't seem to work. Plus a lot of the work we do is new stuff, so some timelines are hard to build and enforce.
I'm currently getting my MSCS. While it doesn't suck, many of the textbooks could be improved. A recent example I found in an algorithms book. Instead of having all of the closure properties for regular languages in the section of the book labeled 'Closure Properties', the authors thought they should put some there and then bury some other ones in the questions at the end of the chapter. To me this is purposely misleading. Why not put them in the section in the chapter with the other closure properties? Am I supposed to know that they are buried in some questions in the back of the book? I'm not looking for anything to be 'easy' or grades to be inflated, but to ignore that many CS or engineering books suck isn't looking at reality.
Apple may not announce new laptops right when Intel announces their new chips they usually update their lines to the new Intel chips within a couple months. The pro lines generally get the updates first, so you may have a case there.
Sounds like you had a user problem and not necessarily a mac user problem. I could tell plenty of similar stories from users using a mac, windows, or linux.
The problem with Macs is that you need to buy right after an update. Every other computer maker out there lowers their price over time as the component prices go down. Apple doesn't do that and it shows. I'm using a 2.4ghz SR MBP that I bought the day they were updated. Before I bought this machine, I priced out HPs, Dells, Thinkpads, etc... and when I put in all of the same hardware, the prices were about the same.
I agree with you. The most important part of a project of any size is having a single, passionate person hold and drive the 'vision' of the project. This person needs charisma* to communicate the vision, intelligence to understand what's required, and the authority to make the decisions. Jobs is that guy for Apple, Linus is that guy for Linux, Carmack is that guy for iD, etc...
* Linux and Carmack aren't generally known for their social charisma, but in geek circles (ones that matter for their respective projects) they talk and people listen
Then why every time I mention that the limits Apple is imposing on developing for the iPhone I get told "It's a phone not a portable computer!"? If the iPhone really is meant to be a portable computer that can also make phone calls, then Apple needs to step up and remove any restrictions around the 3rd party software that can be developed for it.
You're assuming that when you override this function that Apple will still let you put your app in their store so it can be distributed (the *only* way to distribute the app btw). I have a feeling they are going to be pretty draconian about what they let come through their store.
EA offered to buy them a couple weeks ago. Take Two refused. So now EA is pissed and wants in before the next release of GTA. IMO, this is a bad move for EA. GTA has been a good franchise, but it is all TT has. Plus, how many times can you rehash the same thing (whoops that's what EA is famous for lol). I'm not so sure I would value GTA in it's current state at 2B. The GTA franchise has sold 66M game to date. At $50/each that's 3.3B over the life of the franchise. You have to assume the franchise will continue to grow for a 2B price tag. Speaking of growth, will Nintendo even let a game like GTA on the wii?
Yes, it does work out over the course of hours depending on how much your average bet is, etc... Plus, Casino Royale offers $2 minimum bet craps with 100x odds. It's a fun, cheap place to gamble. It doesn't hurt that they also have almost no 'edge' in the game.
Positive odds is only true if you are counting cards and are good at it. Even if you play blackjack perfectly the casino still has the odds favor. See here.
People who understand odds aren't playing blackjack, but craps. Properly played craps has the lowest house advantage than any other game in the casino. Plus it's actually fun! Every time I go to LV I play craps at Casino Royale. It's a crappy casino, but they have the lowest house advantage that I've found. In fact this chart shows I'm at the right place
So you'll be okay when Apple adds to the OSX licensing that you can only use apps approved by them and bought from their app store? So, Safari is the only web browser you can use. Not just the preferred one that's included in the OS, but the only one they legally will allow on a machine running OSX. This is worse than anything MS ever did with respect to IE.
I don't feel threatened at all. Why would I? I don't attempt to stump the candidate at all. I don't ask any trick questions. My usual questioning takes something I'm currently working on and explore how the candidate would solve the problem. Many times I haven't even come up with a solution yet, so there is no right answer. I just want to see how someone will go about problem solving. If you think that's trying to intimidate, then fine. I don't know how else to evaluate someone without giving some fixed test which would end up being more like a quiz. I also don't care how well someone knows a particular language since I'm of the camp that if you know one, you can learn any other.
I don't expect my colleagues to be my out of work buddies. I'd rather them not be my outside of work friends for the most part. But, I've worked with some real jerks in the past. They were smart guys, but a huge pain to work with, which always led to the projects to suffer.
LOL, I'm the architect on my team. But since the team is so small, I'm also a 'gut level coder.' Where would that leave me?
Well, since I don't expect a candidate to know all of the technologies we use I focus on 2 things. Aptitude and personality. For aptitude we ask questions/problems and work through them together. If you consider that a dick size war so be it. Our team is fairly small so personality is a big deal. If you're a dick, I don't care how talented you are. I don't want to have to deal with you every day so I won't hire you.
A lot of bottled water starts with muni tap water somewhere. That doesn't mean that it's the same thing as the tap water. There was a show once that showed where a certain companies bottled water came from. They started with muni tap, then it was filtered a ton of different ways to the most pure water you could get. At this point they actually had to add 'stuff' back because pure water actually has a bad taste.
As far as Dasani goes they actually add sodium to the water, I'm guessing for taste.
Jobs does this so often there is a name for it. He knows that he has a fairly large fan base that will believe anything he says, even when it screws them over. Look at the fiasco with the AEBS and TM or the keyboard issues on the MBP that they have finally attempted to fix after nearly a year. It will be a bad day for Apple if people are ever logical about most anything they sell.
So do you prevent the creation of replicators?
I would like to think one day in the future someone may invent a replicator. At that moment everyone just sells stuff is suddenly out of a job. Only the people who actually create new things/ideas/etc... will be valued.
The ATT iphone plans aren't that bad. It seems that ATT has eaten much of the cost of Apple's cut. You can get unlimited iPhone data added to your existing ATT plan for only $20/month, which seems reasonable compared to other cell data plans.
The EU plans on the other hand are crazy. You can almost see a 1 for 1 relationship between a normal phone plan costing $x and a plan with the Apple tax added (x$ + Apple Tax).
They are all related, but I think risk tolerance is in addition to the ones you listed. For example, confidence can make someone feel like they've mitigated some of the risk, but they still have to take that chance. It's very interesting to think about in a personal context and honestly evaluate if you have these traits or not.
That's a cop out answer. What idea do you have that's currently being prevented by an existing patent?
Companies like Google and Facebook show you that anyone with a good idea and the willingness to work at it can still do their own thing.