No, selling things costs money too. After all, your salesmen aren't doing it out of the goodness of their heart. The concept you're struggling towards is 'core business', and all the departments I mentioned are part of it. IT, HR, Finance aren't.
This isn't because of not wanting to change, it's because Vista sucks that bad.
If it was because vista sucked, you'd be using XP instead. It's really because you're a linux advocate. Which is cool, I know kids today like to use linux on the desktop, but please be honest.
Ok, so your Sega CD was from a good batch. I'm not sure where you're going with that. Any mass produced item can have bad batches slip through QA. (Or pass QA and later revealed to be slightly out of tolerance)
*boom tish* Well, based on what I've read I can't really argue with that. There's apparently a new model of xbox360 coming out soon in Australia. Same price, etc, just a newer hardware revision.
I only recently bought a PS2 and a bunch of old JRPG's, but since my yearly bonus comes down from 'on high' soon, I'm considering buying 1) An Xbox360, 2) A PS3, or 3) A giant stack of ham, which I'll then cover with petrol and burn in some kind of weird effigy.
I wish one of the consoles would hurry up and win so I could make a decision:P
If all of them failed (and he bought them all at the same time for his xbox emporium), perhaps he just got a bad batch? We bought a bunch of Dell Poweredges and now 2 years later, they're all flaking out with CPU errors - 3 in the last week.
Exactly, because we give judges discretion when sentencing. I wouldn't expect this guy to get the full 10 years either. He might, but I'll save my outrage until after sentencing rather than flipping out because OMG PIRATES GET MORE TIME THAN MURDERERS.
When first degree murder should be punished with a suspended sentance perhaps?
If the range for murder is 0 to life, and the range for copy infringement is 0-10, or even 0 to 1 month, you will have the risk of copyright infringers getting more time than convicted murderers. Is this bad? No, it's by design.
What the hell are you talking about? First degree murder can get you up to life in prison. The fact that it doesn't is because the judges have discretion in sentencing.. just like like they do in this case. Reporters always give the maximum, because it would be stupid to say "He has been charged with second degree murder, which averages a 3.76 year sentence"
What are the advantages of electronic voting over paper, Mr. Gore? Besides saving more trees for you to hug...
Well, when you finally get your shit together and legislate mandatory voting like we've (Australia) done, it won't impact you so badly. The craziest part about your whole electoral system is you don't realise how fucked up it is. Seriously, electoral colleges? What's up with that?
The second could be an issue even if there are other means of casting your vote. If the plan is for 50% of the (voting) population to vote online, the polling centers would likely be ill prepared for a rush of voters when the site goes down. This could be resolved by having online-voting available during the same period absentee voters receive their ballots - if there is a problem with the web site, the polling center could be more prepared.
Have your voting period over the course of a week. There's no reason why it all has to be crammed into one day.
Yes, but likewise you don't just disregard something out of hand because 'everyone is doing it'. Adults tend to look at the pros and cons before assessing anything. What are your specific objections to internet voting, Mr Cheyney?
What right does the IT department have to grade employees by their status?
The one delegated to them by the CEO?
When your CEO said to the CIO "You're now responsible for Information Security. Go make a team." is when they got the right to do that. If enough people complained, the CEO might rethink his stance... but I doubt it.
I disagree, all of those departments (well maybe not marketing) are key components of 'product delivery'.
Without manufacturing, you've got no product to sell, without shipping you'll lose your sales as soon your mark realises you can't deliver it and without support the best salesman won't be able to convince them to buy a second widget.
It's conceivable that with a good enough product, you'll make money without a sales team (not as much as you would otherwise).. but you'll never make money without a manufacturing team.
If enough people want to pay for it, we'd still see something like that, payment would be arranged in a different way of course.
These movies require up-front capital. Very few people are going to put up a few hundred million dollars in the hope that people will pay for things they could download off the internet for free (legally).
They would do work for hire, and get payed for the amount of work they did. This would in fact work out better for the large majority of artists.
We'd never see a movie with the scope of Lord of the Rings again though. There is too much upfront cost for no guaranteed return. Now, you might not like movies but Joe Public does, and watching the latest video blog on youtube probably won't satisfy them.
If I drink half has much water as everyone else in the country, I don't get to freeze half of the difference and shoot it into space just because "I don't use as much as everyone else". It's good that you cut your usage, but that's no excuse for waste.
Of course, the only reason you're actually saying that is because you live in a first world nation where there is no chance of you getting malaria. I'll go you one step further and say "I wouldn't use one of Bill Gates patented 'anti-dinosaur' clubs if there was a dinosaur chewing on my legs right now."
Sure, except there's no fucking gameplay in Second Life. I play WoW because I want to kill dragons with morons, if I wanted to stand around with morons I'd go outside.
You're looking at it the wrong way: "No one got fired for destroying our credibility and risking our customer base?" Well, I am shocked. Cheating GM's in WoW or any other MMO are caught almost immediately and shown the door even faster, because if you don't keep your credibility you might keep your existing addictbase, but you're not going to get any new players any time soon.
The thing is.. the US is really the only first world country where this viewpoint exists. Most of the other first world countries do have national healthcare. In Australia, our healthcare system is far from perfect, but it's still there and that's important.
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Sure, except I never heard of a biological imperative for teenagers to go and mug people's brains out.
I did, that doesn't explain why he isn't using XP on his 'main box'.?
No, selling things costs money too. After all, your salesmen aren't doing it out of the goodness of their heart. The concept you're struggling towards is 'core business', and all the departments I mentioned are part of it. IT, HR, Finance aren't.
If it was because vista sucked, you'd be using XP instead. It's really because you're a linux advocate. Which is cool, I know kids today like to use linux on the desktop, but please be honest.
Ok, so your Sega CD was from a good batch. I'm not sure where you're going with that. Any mass produced item can have bad batches slip through QA. (Or pass QA and later revealed to be slightly out of tolerance)
*boom tish* Well, based on what I've read I can't really argue with that. There's apparently a new model of xbox360 coming out soon in Australia. Same price, etc, just a newer hardware revision.
:P
I only recently bought a PS2 and a bunch of old JRPG's, but since my yearly bonus comes down from 'on high' soon, I'm considering buying 1) An Xbox360, 2) A PS3, or 3) A giant stack of ham, which I'll then cover with petrol and burn in some kind of weird effigy.
I wish one of the consoles would hurry up and win so I could make a decision
If all of them failed (and he bought them all at the same time for his xbox emporium), perhaps he just got a bad batch? We bought a bunch of Dell Poweredges and now 2 years later, they're all flaking out with CPU errors - 3 in the last week.
Exactly, because we give judges discretion when sentencing. I wouldn't expect this guy to get the full 10 years either. He might, but I'll save my outrage until after sentencing rather than flipping out because OMG PIRATES GET MORE TIME THAN MURDERERS.
When first degree murder should be punished with a suspended sentance perhaps?
If the range for murder is 0 to life, and the range for copy infringement is 0-10, or even 0 to 1 month, you will have the risk of copyright infringers getting more time than convicted murderers. Is this bad? No, it's by design.
What the hell are you talking about? First degree murder can get you up to life in prison. The fact that it doesn't is because the judges have discretion in sentencing.. just like like they do in this case. Reporters always give the maximum, because it would be stupid to say "He has been charged with second degree murder, which averages a 3.76 year sentence"
Well, when you finally get your shit together and legislate mandatory voting like we've (Australia) done, it won't impact you so badly. The craziest part about your whole electoral system is you don't realise how fucked up it is. Seriously, electoral colleges? What's up with that?
Have your voting period over the course of a week. There's no reason why it all has to be crammed into one day.
Yes, but likewise you don't just disregard something out of hand because 'everyone is doing it'. Adults tend to look at the pros and cons before assessing anything. What are your specific objections to internet voting, Mr Cheyney?
The one delegated to them by the CEO?
When your CEO said to the CIO "You're now responsible for Information Security. Go make a team." is when they got the right to do that. If enough people complained, the CEO might rethink his stance... but I doubt it.
I disagree, all of those departments (well maybe not marketing) are key components of 'product delivery'.
Without manufacturing, you've got no product to sell, without shipping you'll lose your sales as soon your mark realises you can't deliver it and without support the best salesman won't be able to convince them to buy a second widget.
It's conceivable that with a good enough product, you'll make money without a sales team (not as much as you would otherwise).. but you'll never make money without a manufacturing team.
.. for making a hundred million dollar movie? I'm not familiar, but I'm willing to listen!
I notice you didn't tell us the rest of the spec - It was a P3 400 and 1GB of RAM, wasn't it.
If enough people want to pay for it, we'd still see something like that, payment would be arranged in a different way of course. These movies require up-front capital. Very few people are going to put up a few hundred million dollars in the hope that people will pay for things they could download off the internet for free (legally).
We'd never see a movie with the scope of Lord of the Rings again though. There is too much upfront cost for no guaranteed return. Now, you might not like movies but Joe Public does, and watching the latest video blog on youtube probably won't satisfy them.
If I drink half has much water as everyone else in the country, I don't get to freeze half of the difference and shoot it into space just because "I don't use as much as everyone else". It's good that you cut your usage, but that's no excuse for waste.
Of course, the only reason you're actually saying that is because you live in a first world nation where there is no chance of you getting malaria. I'll go you one step further and say "I wouldn't use one of Bill Gates patented 'anti-dinosaur' clubs if there was a dinosaur chewing on my legs right now."
Sure, except there's no fucking gameplay in Second Life. I play WoW because I want to kill dragons with morons, if I wanted to stand around with morons I'd go outside.
You're looking at it the wrong way: "No one got fired for destroying our credibility and risking our customer base?" Well, I am shocked. Cheating GM's in WoW or any other MMO are caught almost immediately and shown the door even faster, because if you don't keep your credibility you might keep your existing addictbase, but you're not going to get any new players any time soon.
The thing is.. the US is really the only first world country where this viewpoint exists. Most of the other first world countries do have national healthcare. In Australia, our healthcare system is far from perfect, but it's still there and that's important.
Use offline mode? If your offline mode doesn't work, then it's broken and you should fix it.