When the bloated shitware OEMs have been putting on machines becomes the bloated shitware shipped by Microsoft... it's basically a sign that Microsoft is doing such a bad job at getting people to care they have to essentially resort to affiliate programs and paid product placement.
I'm afraid Microsoft has lost the plot so badly they will never be able to recover... because for those many of us who simply don't want or need Office, and have noticed that while Apple adds stuff like movie editing software Microsoft is removing Solitaire... there's not much beyond the OS to run other people's software on that MS brings to the table.
Except for notepad, Windows Explorer, and Calculator... there's not a damned piece of Microsoft software which adds value to my home machine.
If the once biggest software company is reduced to adware, they'd jumped the shark so badly as to be doomed. Because they'll have almost stopped being relevant.
You mean besides the realization people will never pay for a service like Twitter? Or that the world was never going to rise and fall with the fortunes of Twitter? Or that today's hot trend is next year's thing of the past?
I'm sure except for the breathless anticipation of when Kim Kardashian is taking her next shit, the vast majority of people who used Twitter used it for about 2 months before they and their friends realized Tweeting that you were buying socks was a fairly meaningless endeavor.
On behalf of someone who has never used it, always blocked it, and never cared... whatever, the world keeps spinning, and nothing has changed.
The reality is, Twitter never had a business model other than "ZOMG, it's Twitter!".
Yet another service which made billions when it went IPO but which nonetheless has no real business model.
I mean, why do people keep valuing these things as being worth zillions of dollars when they have no meaningful revenue? It's not like this is the first one of these.
These things were never worth billions, and then all of a sudden people start to realize that, and everyone panics and goes all boo hoo... on behalf of those of us who always thought Twitter was just another overhyped stock... ha ha.
That $18 billion IPO? That was always bullshit. And, as usual, the big financial institutions cashed out on day one, and the poor schmucks left holding the bag now can't understand why they're not making huge profits.
I'm sorry, but if the stock market is going to continue to ignore basics like revenue, I'm going to keep laughing when people realize they've been conned.
The IPO of a tech company like Twitter is a fucking ponzi scheme, and this was entirely predictable.
Though I would like to hear what their plans for the site are.
Leverage their synergies to increasingly monetize the user experience while pretending to provide a platform providing interesting content while using unskilled editors to shill for various products, increase their exposure through emerging analytics, and generally fail to understand who the actual readership is... as exemplified by the new feature section on hair and makeup, as well as the "Ask an MBA" advice column.
Their plans are like any company who buys another company... to make some more fucking money.
What, point it at the ground and check focus before you send it into space? How do you propose doing that??
For Hubble someone forgot to account for change in shape of the lens due to gravity, because, you know, it's a complicated thing to make.
Why does everybody act like the stuff NASA does any moron can do? These are hard things to do, with complex engineering involved... and often being done for the first time.
So, it's a crime to not report evidence of wrong doing to the people who are committing the wrong doing so they can bury the evidence of the wrong doing?
Right, that totally makes fucking sense.
This is why Bush refused to give whistle blower protection to government employees.. so nothing would change.
In other words... are online courses just another business model being pushed by those who stand to profit from them, but being passed off as the future of education?
I've learned not to put much trust in the people who are telling us what the future is when their personal wealth is tied to that coming true -- they tend to be less than objective about it.
hmm.... what you are saying would not impress the U.S. military. You are not allowed to have electronics of any kind in certain classified areas. If you are caught with said electronics you can go to jail for a very long time.
And yet I wonder what a real world audit would reveal about what actually happens.
Because, really, how much do we believe they have 100% success in enforcing it? I don't.
Well, when the computers completely wipe out the financial system or go hysterical with automated trading it will be further proof that the market is already so far removed from reality as to be dangerous.
This is just another example in a long line of hubris by the idiots who think they run the financial system, but who otherwise don't really know what the fuck it's doing.
I predict within a year at least one trading halt/panic, and a massive government sponsored do-over to undo what this stuff screws up.
High frequency trading is little more than theft by entities who feel entitled to a cut of everything. It's bound to fail, it's only a matter of how long.
" so it'll be tough to build an internal team quickly enough "
This smells of failure.
It is failure, but it's unrealized failure, and management may not understand how bad of a failure it is. Having a company which no longer employs the resources to fix and maintain their products means someone has already harmed the company beyond easy repair and failed to do anything about it.
If you need this remediated within months, you're probably months past the point where you should have done something about it.
No longer having the skillset to maintain your product means you are so deeply screwed it isn't funny. You're just pretending you still have that product.
So, which is it? They laid off everybody who could do this? Or they pissed off everybody who could do this and they left on their own?
Because, really, if you don't have the internal skills to fix it... how can you possibly be qualified to evaluate, hire, and oversee the external skills in that impossible timeline?
This is a pretty epic fail... and in my experience that means management usually dropped the ball along the way. This is like a company making rocket engines suddenly realizing they don't have any rocket scientists.
It kinda sounds like they are outsourcing to somewhere that they think an NDA will be impossible to enforce, or where the source will be leaked and they won't be able to prove anything due.
Then.. they're doing it wrong.
If you think either of those things, why the hell would you hire them? That would be idiotic, if not outright irresponsible.
I'll bill you at triple my usual rate to pretend to have fixed your code, and you continue to pretend I could have done so without seeing your code.
If you quadruple my rate, I won't even admit to ever have done so.
I think it sounds perfectly equitable.
More seriously, that is what contracts are for. If you can't write a contract and hire people you can trust, you can't accomplish this task. At the end of the day, they'll see your code, and it will enter their brain.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, this is what NDAs with big penalties are for.
If it were saying those things it might be an interesting article.
Well except that it is saying those things, because calories is highly dependent on how or if you cook something:
Wrangham found that mice fed raw peanuts, for instance, lost significantly more weight than mice fed the equivalent amount of roasted peanut butter. The same effect holds true for meat: there are many more usable calories in a burger than in steak tartare. Different cooking methods matter too. In 2015, Sri Lankan scientists discovered that they could more than halve the available calories in rice by adding coconut oil during cooking and then cooling the rice in the refrigerator.
Wrangham's findings have significant consequences for dieters. If Nash likes his porterhouse steak bloody, for example, he will likely be consuming several hundred calories less than if he has it well-done. Yet the FDA's methods for creating a nutrition label do not for the most part account for the differences between raw and cooked food, or pureed versus whole, let alone the structure of plant versus animal cells. A steak is a steak, as far as the FDA is concerned.
If you can halve the amount of calories in rice, or shave a few hundred calories off steak by how you cook it... and the FDA only allows one way of listing it, then the way of listing it is fundamentally broken.
It really is a guess, with such a huge margin of error as to be useless.
Tons of it if you're not an old man with a closed mind ranting about how it's all been fucking downhill since Guy Lombardo or that all good music stopped after 1968.
If you are that guy, you need to recognize nobody else acknowledges your opinion on what's good.;-)
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When the bloated shitware OEMs have been putting on machines becomes the bloated shitware shipped by Microsoft ... it's basically a sign that Microsoft is doing such a bad job at getting people to care they have to essentially resort to affiliate programs and paid product placement.
I'm afraid Microsoft has lost the plot so badly they will never be able to recover ... because for those many of us who simply don't want or need Office, and have noticed that while Apple adds stuff like movie editing software Microsoft is removing Solitaire ... there's not much beyond the OS to run other people's software on that MS brings to the table.
Except for notepad, Windows Explorer, and Calculator ... there's not a damned piece of Microsoft software which adds value to my home machine.
If the once biggest software company is reduced to adware, they'd jumped the shark so badly as to be doomed. Because they'll have almost stopped being relevant.
Their "viable business model" is .. what, ads or subscription?
If people won't pay for subscriptions, and their ads hasn't been working, what other options are there?
Maybe Facebook values the Apple users more?
Don't piss and moan about Apple for Facebook's choices ... wah wah wah ... my Android didn't get published first.
Seriously, get over it.
Is your life seriously hampered by not having fucking emojis in a Facebook app? Do you even have the app? Or is this just whining for no good reason?
You mean besides the realization people will never pay for a service like Twitter? Or that the world was never going to rise and fall with the fortunes of Twitter? Or that today's hot trend is next year's thing of the past?
I'm sure except for the breathless anticipation of when Kim Kardashian is taking her next shit, the vast majority of people who used Twitter used it for about 2 months before they and their friends realized Tweeting that you were buying socks was a fairly meaningless endeavor.
On behalf of someone who has never used it, always blocked it, and never cared ... whatever, the world keeps spinning, and nothing has changed.
The reality is, Twitter never had a business model other than "ZOMG, it's Twitter!".
Yet another service which made billions when it went IPO but which nonetheless has no real business model.
I mean, why do people keep valuing these things as being worth zillions of dollars when they have no meaningful revenue? It's not like this is the first one of these.
These things were never worth billions, and then all of a sudden people start to realize that, and everyone panics and goes all boo hoo ... on behalf of those of us who always thought Twitter was just another overhyped stock ... ha ha.
That $18 billion IPO? That was always bullshit. And, as usual, the big financial institutions cashed out on day one, and the poor schmucks left holding the bag now can't understand why they're not making huge profits.
I'm sorry, but if the stock market is going to continue to ignore basics like revenue, I'm going to keep laughing when people realize they've been conned.
The IPO of a tech company like Twitter is a fucking ponzi scheme, and this was entirely predictable.
Leverage their synergies to increasingly monetize the user experience while pretending to provide a platform providing interesting content while using unskilled editors to shill for various products, increase their exposure through emerging analytics, and generally fail to understand who the actual readership is ... as exemplified by the new feature section on hair and makeup, as well as the "Ask an MBA" advice column.
Their plans are like any company who buys another company ... to make some more fucking money.
What, point it at the ground and check focus before you send it into space? How do you propose doing that??
For Hubble someone forgot to account for change in shape of the lens due to gravity, because, you know, it's a complicated thing to make.
Why does everybody act like the stuff NASA does any moron can do? These are hard things to do, with complex engineering involved ... and often being done for the first time.
So, it's a crime to not report evidence of wrong doing to the people who are committing the wrong doing so they can bury the evidence of the wrong doing?
Right, that totally makes fucking sense.
This is why Bush refused to give whistle blower protection to government employees .. so nothing would change.
You are all spherical cows of uniform density in a vacuum ... moo you damned spherical cows of uniform density in a vacuum. MOO!!
Hey, you're right!!
The "consumer" is defined as people who want the wifi, the people whose power bill is being leeched off .. well, tough.
Don't you know corporate profits and business models trump having everyone else pay for their infrastructure?
Socialize the costs, privatize the profits.
In a sentence immediately following the statement that the browser plugin was going away ... do you understand the difference?
Java in the browser is all but dead. Java, outside of the browser, is not.
All I can say is good riddance to the piece of shit browser plugins, which have been terrible security risks for years now.
This story was on the front-page yesterday, do you guys not even TRY to keep track of this shit?
In other words ... are online courses just another business model being pushed by those who stand to profit from them, but being passed off as the future of education?
I've learned not to put much trust in the people who are telling us what the future is when their personal wealth is tied to that coming true -- they tend to be less than objective about it.
And yet I wonder what a real world audit would reveal about what actually happens.
Because, really, how much do we believe they have 100% success in enforcing it? I don't.
Hey, Tom Cruise isn't that short.
LOL .. hear that occamboy? Cover your ass very thoroughly.
Well, when the computers completely wipe out the financial system or go hysterical with automated trading it will be further proof that the market is already so far removed from reality as to be dangerous.
This is just another example in a long line of hubris by the idiots who think they run the financial system, but who otherwise don't really know what the fuck it's doing.
I predict within a year at least one trading halt/panic, and a massive government sponsored do-over to undo what this stuff screws up.
High frequency trading is little more than theft by entities who feel entitled to a cut of everything. It's bound to fail, it's only a matter of how long.
It is failure, but it's unrealized failure, and management may not understand how bad of a failure it is. Having a company which no longer employs the resources to fix and maintain their products means someone has already harmed the company beyond easy repair and failed to do anything about it.
If you need this remediated within months, you're probably months past the point where you should have done something about it.
No longer having the skillset to maintain your product means you are so deeply screwed it isn't funny. You're just pretending you still have that product.
So, which is it? They laid off everybody who could do this? Or they pissed off everybody who could do this and they left on their own?
Because, really, if you don't have the internal skills to fix it ... how can you possibly be qualified to evaluate, hire, and oversee the external skills in that impossible timeline?
This is a pretty epic fail ... and in my experience that means management usually dropped the ball along the way. This is like a company making rocket engines suddenly realizing they don't have any rocket scientists.
Then .. they're doing it wrong.
If you think either of those things, why the hell would you hire them? That would be idiotic, if not outright irresponsible.
I mostly agree, except you forgot one thing ... but it will cost you.
I'll bill you at triple my usual rate to pretend to have fixed your code, and you continue to pretend I could have done so without seeing your code.
If you quadruple my rate, I won't even admit to ever have done so.
I think it sounds perfectly equitable.
More seriously, that is what contracts are for. If you can't write a contract and hire people you can trust, you can't accomplish this task. At the end of the day, they'll see your code, and it will enter their brain.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, this is what NDAs with big penalties are for.
Have you not being paying attention lately?
In a lot of countries someone could have a loud fart and the threat alert would ratchet up ... the world is jumping at shadows these days.
Israel has just been doing it longer.
And, given the widespread belief Israel was involved in Stuxnet ... to suddenly be bit by this seems a little shortsighted,
I mean, if you (allegedly) did this to someone else, why would you be surprised if it happens to you?
Well except that it is saying those things, because calories is highly dependent on how or if you cook something:
If you can halve the amount of calories in rice, or shave a few hundred calories off steak by how you cook it ... and the FDA only allows one way of listing it, then the way of listing it is fundamentally broken.
It really is a guess, with such a huge margin of error as to be useless.
Tons of it if you're not an old man with a closed mind ranting about how it's all been fucking downhill since Guy Lombardo or that all good music stopped after 1968.
If you are that guy, you need to recognize nobody else acknowledges your opinion on what's good. ;-)