Apple in 1997 actually had a viable roadmap, and succeeded. They also completely shook out the incompetent CEO once Jobs came back. Microsoft in 2006 had a metric shitload of money still sitting in the bank, and a lock on the desktop.
It is possible for a business to come back from the brink, but RIM has shown absolutely no sign that they'll be a business that does so. All they really have coming up is BlackBerryOS 10, and even that's not much to trumpet, considering the far more fluid competition. RIM has given zero indication that they're working to break new ground, nor any hint of innovation in any area which could be considered as having future potential.
Long story short, RIM is circling the toilet swirl, and shows no promise of doing anything but getting sucked into the drain.
Sadly, most folks won't even know about it (or they will have had it sold to them as a good thing(TM, pat.pending). )
This means that most folks will happily continue buying the stupid things as if nothing at all is wrong with doing so. Your only hope os to persuade otherwise, word-of-mouth.
Of course, if you spread this news on enough pr0n sites ("Cisco collects all your browsing information!"), I'm willing to bet that Cisco would likely have their small routers division go bankrupt almost overnight...
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Even better - it allows you to actually make the results efficient. While most CS grads these days likely expect hardware tech to keep up with the bloat, there are a few folks out there who know what it's like to economize like hell when it comes to CPU or memory.
Also, when you're seriously pushing limits, it's the performance difference between a 1982 Chevy Nova with a busted head gasket (.NET, I'm looking at YOU), and compiling yourself a Porsche 911 with all the Autobahn goodies included.
Some of us were developers at one point in our careers, some of us deal with tech that is extremely close to having to occasionally jump into source code, and some of us are hobbyists who just do it for the hell of it.
Personally, I dabble in it once in awhile, but cannot stand to do it professionally. Why? Because I'd rather dream of naked nubile young ladies (grits optional) than to spend all my sleeping hours mentally untangling someone else's poorly-built code (or worse, my own occasional bork-ups).
That, and it's kind of nice to not have to keep a laptop near the bed any more.:)
1) Once you start imposing your morality on what gets researched and what does not, you become no better than those who base their research on profit motive.
2) Why should those who got Type 2 Diabetes w/o being fat have to suffer? Because you say so?
Err, no. That was one massive disaster that hit multiple states, and centered around a city that was incompetently run (by a mayor more interested in politics than in actually helping his constituents), while being rescued by a half-incompetent agency (FEMA).
TBH, I'm surprised that civilization actually held up there in spite of that...
So Microsoft turned it into an easter egg? I honestly didn't know that clicking empty/unmarked space in the lower-left corner of the screen will bring up a start menu.
PS: If that's the case, UI design just went down the toilet. Yay?:/
They're likely too invested now to change it back (at least not without it looking like a total kludge).
They may be right when it comes to the typical grandma who only opens web browser, email, and maybe a genealogy app, but anyone who uses the things for mmore than that will have their most-used stuff on the taskbar, but uses the start menu for everything else.
I was just thinking... if Microsoft was truly stupid enough to rip off Unity w/r/t opening an application, they deserve what they get.
You both have it wrong. Here's how US public opinion on the matter actually works:
Average gasoline prices under $3.75/gal? "Bad oil company! No drill! NO DRILL! bad! bad! bad!"
Average gasoline prices over $4.50/gal? "I don't care if you have to line the well with baby seal fur and lubricate the rig with infant dolphin blood! Drill, damn you! DRILL!"
There will be exactly zero law enforcement there. You can kill your fellow crew members in a most spectacular way and then eat their brains. All on national TV and nobody will be able to do anything about that.
...well, they could stop sending supplies, then amp the ratings with a global betting pool/lottery put up as to the exact date and time that you die.
Never underestimate the depths of moral depravity to which television producers will plumb.
I think both sides of the argument fall wide of the mark.
"Life Insurance" is simply a wager between you and an actuary. The wager is simple: You bet that you will either die before the bond comes to maturity ("whole"), or before you stop paying the premium ("term"). If you do die, your heirs/beneficiaries 'win' the big pot of money without you having to pay into it by that much. If you 'lose', then you either get the bond that the actuary has been making huge interest rates off of ("whole"), or you simply stop making payments ("term") and get nothing.
With this trip? What would be the point? Not like funeral homes make 26-million-mile transports, and if you're going to Mars, you won't (okay, you really shouldn't) have a family behind on Earth that needs the money (now if you have a family on Mars by then, well okay, but nobody would need a monetary system on Mars for a hell of a long time to come).
On this same note, one thing I was thinking about is the 'always on' aspect of filming these astronauts.
Hopefully the mission will give them some privacy. Not everyone wants (okay, needs) to see a guy take a crap on Mars. If you have mixed-gender couples, I'm very sure they'll be wanting some 'alone time' to get their hormones on, so to speak. To top all that off, after seven months of living cheek-to-jowl, they'll most definitely want to get some space to re-collect their own personalities.
So how exactly does one fit that need for privacy into the schedule and mission?
...not to be too facetious here, but how often does someone from India or Russia sneak in over the Arizona/Mexico border?
Seriously - this state law was built to stem the tide of one particular group of people. Forget your position on it and all, but consider that Montana certainly has no such laws, even though it borders a different nation as well.
That's the thing - no one knows for certain (no diary entries, notes, conversations with friends, etc) that would indicate either way, and yet it's being pushed as direct causation.
OTOH, I don't like how quickly and easily correlation instantly becomes causation and gets pressed into an ideological cause... no matter who does it, or why they do it.
Be aware: There are likely to be some heavy politics attached to this one. There's a little LGBT politi-blurb making the rounds in Facebook now that claims Turing committed suicide because he was discovered to be gay. Leaving the politics aside, he died a couple of years after the (grossly wrong) conviction/oestrogen injections, but it hasn't stopped certain political groups from using his history to further their own agenda.
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Some small differences:
Apple in 1997 actually had a viable roadmap, and succeeded. They also completely shook out the incompetent CEO once Jobs came back.
Microsoft in 2006 had a metric shitload of money still sitting in the bank, and a lock on the desktop.
It is possible for a business to come back from the brink, but RIM has shown absolutely no sign that they'll be a business that does so. All they really have coming up is BlackBerryOS 10, and even that's not much to trumpet, considering the far more fluid competition. RIM has given zero indication that they're working to break new ground, nor any hint of innovation in any area which could be considered as having future potential.
Long story short, RIM is circling the toilet swirl, and shows no promise of doing anything but getting sucked into the drain.
CEO: "But this ship can't sink!"
CFO: "She's made of iron, sir! I assure you, she can... and she will. It is a mathematical certainty."
CEO (to shareholders and public): " Everything will be juuuuuust fine, folks! "
I'm at the same altitude ASL, less than 10 blocks from the Pacific Ocean.
In spite of winter storms which can shove a decent surge, only a full-blown tsunami is getting up here in the next 100 years or so.
Actually, water does expand due to temperature... err, but only when it freezes.
Just food for thought...
Sadly, most folks won't even know about it (or they will have had it sold to them as a good thing(TM, pat.pending). )
This means that most folks will happily continue buying the stupid things as if nothing at all is wrong with doing so. Your only hope os to persuade otherwise, word-of-mouth.
Of course, if you spread this news on enough pr0n sites ("Cisco collects all your browsing information!"), I'm willing to bet that Cisco would likely have their small routers division go bankrupt almost overnight...
Even better - it allows you to actually make the results efficient. While most CS grads these days likely expect hardware tech to keep up with the bloat, there are a few folks out there who know what it's like to economize like hell when it comes to CPU or memory.
Also, when you're seriously pushing limits, it's the performance difference between a 1982 Chevy Nova with a busted head gasket (.NET, I'm looking at YOU), and compiling yourself a Porsche 911 with all the Autobahn goodies included.
Not necessarily.
Some of us were developers at one point in our careers, some of us deal with tech that is extremely close to having to occasionally jump into source code, and some of us are hobbyists who just do it for the hell of it.
Personally, I dabble in it once in awhile, but cannot stand to do it professionally. Why? Because I'd rather dream of naked nubile young ladies (grits optional) than to spend all my sleeping hours mentally untangling someone else's poorly-built code (or worse, my own occasional bork-ups).
That, and it's kind of nice to not have to keep a laptop near the bed any more. :)
One problem... well, two actually:
1) Once you start imposing your morality on what gets researched and what does not, you become no better than those who base their research on profit motive.
2) Why should those who got Type 2 Diabetes w/o being fat have to suffer? Because you say so?
Err, no. That was one massive disaster that hit multiple states, and centered around a city that was incompetently run (by a mayor more interested in politics than in actually helping his constituents), while being rescued by a half-incompetent agency (FEMA).
TBH, I'm surprised that civilization actually held up there in spite of that...
So Microsoft turned it into an easter egg? I honestly didn't know that clicking empty/unmarked space in the lower-left corner of the screen will bring up a start menu.
PS: If that's the case, UI design just went down the toilet. Yay? :/
In this case, Microsoft put it in the trunk, under the spare tire.
Good luck with that...
Must be nice. Thanks to you and Microsoft for borking things up for the rest of us. :/
They're likely too invested now to change it back (at least not without it looking like a total kludge).
They may be right when it comes to the typical grandma who only opens web browser, email, and maybe a genealogy app, but anyone who uses the things for mmore than that will have their most-used stuff on the taskbar, but uses the start menu for everything else.
I was just thinking... if Microsoft was truly stupid enough to rip off Unity w/r/t opening an application, they deserve what they get.
The only thing it proved is that if you have enough money and connections you can get out of anything.
My point exactly.
Screw that - I'll believe the FCC has some teeth when they start revoking $MEGACORP company charters for doing $STUPIDSHIT
Until then, DOJ v. Microsoft proved that no govenment agency has the balls nowadays to go up against a major corporation - no matter how bad they get.
You both have it wrong. Here's how US public opinion on the matter actually works:
Average gasoline prices under $3.75/gal? "Bad oil company! No drill! NO DRILL! bad! bad! bad!"
Average gasoline prices over $4.50/gal? "I don't care if you have to line the well with baby seal fur and lubricate the rig with infant dolphin blood! Drill, damn you! DRILL!"
Depends - is at least one of the other crewmembers (of your gender preference) hot?
There will be exactly zero law enforcement there. You can kill your fellow crew members in a most spectacular way and then eat their brains. All on national TV and nobody will be able to do anything about that.
...well, they could stop sending supplies, then amp the ratings with a global betting pool/lottery put up as to the exact date and time that you die.
Never underestimate the depths of moral depravity to which television producers will plumb.
I think both sides of the argument fall wide of the mark.
"Life Insurance" is simply a wager between you and an actuary. The wager is simple: You bet that you will either die before the bond comes to maturity ("whole"), or before you stop paying the premium ("term"). If you do die, your heirs/beneficiaries 'win' the big pot of money without you having to pay into it by that much. If you 'lose', then you either get the bond that the actuary has been making huge interest rates off of ("whole"), or you simply stop making payments ("term") and get nothing.
With this trip? What would be the point? Not like funeral homes make 26-million-mile transports, and if you're going to Mars, you won't (okay, you really shouldn't) have a family behind on Earth that needs the money (now if you have a family on Mars by then, well okay, but nobody would need a monetary system on Mars for a hell of a long time to come).
On this same note, one thing I was thinking about is the 'always on' aspect of filming these astronauts.
Hopefully the mission will give them some privacy. Not everyone wants (okay, needs) to see a guy take a crap on Mars. If you have mixed-gender couples, I'm very sure they'll be wanting some 'alone time' to get their hormones on, so to speak. To top all that off, after seven months of living cheek-to-jowl, they'll most definitely want to get some space to re-collect their own personalities.
So how exactly does one fit that need for privacy into the schedule and mission?
So, umm, what about those of us who put Linux on their old PowerMacs, and will happily Hackintosh a PC?
Which, when inverted, spells...
...not to be too facetious here, but how often does someone from India or Russia sneak in over the Arizona/Mexico border?
Seriously - this state law was built to stem the tide of one particular group of people. Forget your position on it and all, but consider that Montana certainly has no such laws, even though it borders a different nation as well.
That's the thing - no one knows for certain (no diary entries, notes, conversations with friends, etc) that would indicate either way, and yet it's being pushed as direct causation.
Plausible? Maybe. Possible? Certainly. Probable? Unknown.
OTOH, I don't like how quickly and easily correlation instantly becomes causation and gets pressed into an ideological cause... no matter who does it, or why they do it.
Be aware: There are likely to be some heavy politics attached to this one. There's a little LGBT politi-blurb making the rounds in Facebook now that claims Turing committed suicide because he was discovered to be gay. Leaving the politics aside, he died a couple of years after the (grossly wrong) conviction/oestrogen injections, but it hasn't stopped certain political groups from using his history to further their own agenda.