The market is consolidating along three (perhaps four) vertical stacks. Apple and Google are well along in understanding and pursuing this. Yahoo finally figured it out but they're running a poor third. Amazon seems to have stumbled into a configuration that's competing with Apple and Google but I don't see that they really grasp what's happening, i.e. no power centers, no mobile presence. Facebook has money and users but I'm skeptical they can grow along vertical dimensions to survive. I imagine Twitter will be absorbed by one of the Big Three (or Four) at some point.
I can't find a reference but at a "coming out" party for Pure Nacional chocolate, one of the presenters implied that it died out so quickly because of monoculture.
"Pure Nacional, with its complex fruit and floral flavors, once dominated the fine chocolate market worldwide. In 1916, diseases struck the Pure Nacional population in Ecuador and within three years 95% of the trees were destroyed. The prized chocolate was thought to be lost, until now."
Ive done quite innovative stuff (datamining/meme manipulation) for the past fifteen years but few companies want to hire me, so Ive done contracting for the past eight years. Most companies pay lip service to innovation but few truly recognize it or desire it.
Managers advance by minimizing risk, not by innovating. Thats just the nature of business and people.
And yet pursuit of more women is stifling innovation and thinking, forcing men into a smaller box, eliminating anything except political correct responses.
How very interesting that the attempt to foster diversity defeats its purpose.
Thought whoever was still reading this might be interested in this video from Richards in 2011 about dating in the Bay Area.
A lot of insight into her personality. Kind of sad, actually, in light of the controversy. She just doesn't have much life experience, I wouldn't be surprised if her sexual experience is pretty limited.
"In 2010, the ratio stood at 1.89-to-1, compared to 2.05-to-1 in 2000. Not a radical shift, but a notable one. The action is largely on the marriage side of the equation: the marriage rate has dropped 17 percent in 10 years, while the divorce rate has dropped 10 percent. The two tend to rise and fall together, but clearly not tightly so. People are being more selective about marrying, likely, and as a result there are fewer divorces"
Slashdot Mirror
I doubt it.
I did some of the early tablet software from 1992-1996.
The real obstacles were cost and weight.
iPad is about 1/5th the cost in nominal terms, and 1/10th in real terms.
Weight difference is 1/5th, too.
Users liked the tablets overall, they just didn't like the cost.
The Big Four - Google, Apple, Amazon and the NSA.
The market is consolidating along three (perhaps four) vertical stacks. Apple and Google are well along in understanding and pursuing this. Yahoo finally figured it out but they're running a poor third. Amazon seems to have stumbled into a configuration that's competing with Apple and Google but I don't see that they really grasp what's happening, i.e. no power centers, no mobile presence. Facebook has money and users but I'm skeptical they can grow along vertical dimensions to survive. I imagine Twitter will be absorbed by one of the Big Three (or Four) at some point.
Sometimes geeks have an abysmal grasp of history.
http://www.carhistory4u.com/the-last-100-years/car-production
"During the period 1896 to 1930 over 1,800 car manufacturers were believed to have existed in America"
How many now?
Basically three, although there's a few niche makers like Tesla.
Mature industries consolidate into oligopolies.
Welcome to the end of the IT Boom.
GMO!
GMO!
I like being a "self-important, hippie, too-cool-for-you douchebag".
Come join us,
it's only $5.
I can't find a reference but at a "coming out" party for Pure Nacional chocolate, one of the presenters implied that it died out so quickly because of monoculture.
http://worldfamousdesignjunkies.com/food/rare-near-extinct-fine-chocolate-rediscovered-in-peru/
"Pure Nacional, with its complex fruit and floral flavors, once dominated the fine chocolate market worldwide. In 1916, diseases struck the Pure Nacional population in Ecuador and within three years 95% of the trees were destroyed. The prized chocolate was thought to be lost, until now."
make better decisions than 5 smart people.
Ive done quite innovative stuff (datamining/meme manipulation) for the past fifteen years but few companies want to hire me, so Ive done contracting for the past eight years. Most companies pay lip service to innovation but few truly recognize it or desire it.
Managers advance by minimizing risk, not by innovating.
Thats just the nature of business and people.
There's a very Old Testament view of crime and punishment in the USA.
Your use of testament is offensive sexual harassment,
the root of testament coming from "the holding of testicles"
during an oath.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080817143757AAC640j
Where's PyCon and Adria when you really need them?!
Darinbob's post is still a complete fallacy
You misspelled "phallus-y"
And yet pursuit of more women is stifling innovation and thinking,
forcing men into a smaller box,
eliminating anything except political correct responses.
How very interesting that the attempt to foster diversity defeats its purpose.
Thought whoever was still reading this might be interested in this video from Richards in 2011 about dating in the Bay Area.
A lot of insight into her personality.
Kind of sad, actually, in light of the controversy.
She just doesn't have much life experience,
I wouldn't be surprised if her sexual experience is pretty limited.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF2rq6WaC_4
And she is not a bitch she's a human being.
Hitler was a human being.
Bad comparison.
Hitler was a man.
The Wicked Witch of the West and her flying monkeys (twitter crowd) is a more appropriate analogy.
I can almost imagine her at the conference now...
"I"ll GET YOU, my pretties, and your little dongle, too!"
My first Internet account was 1989.
Go away, tiresome toady, neither men nor women will respect your pandering, and neither will grant you sex for it.
But then how would she get into situations which provoke outrage?
The ones that don't end in divorce usually ends with someone dying!
I think I dodged a bullet (literally) by moving 1000 miles away before I filed. :)
Look the correlation. Percent of population married has declined steadily since 1970,
inversely related to rise of feminism.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/2012/05/marriage-and-divorce-statistics/
"In 2010, the ratio stood at 1.89-to-1, compared to 2.05-to-1 in 2000. Not a radical shift, but a notable one. The action is largely on the marriage side of the equation: the marriage rate has dropped 17 percent in 10 years, while the divorce rate has dropped 10 percent. The two tend to rise and fall together, but clearly not tightly so. People are being more selective about marrying, likely, and as a result there are fewer divorces"
Being an asshole no one likes isn't a disorder and it sure as fuck doesn't make you special.
It does if you're a woman!
Lady needs to get a grip
Yeah... on a dongle or something.
Because some woman made sure that the whole point of this entire joke debacle was about women beforehand.
Pre-loading misogyny into the bake.
Accuse a man of misogyny long enough
and he finally shrugs his shoulders and
conforms to the archetype you forced upon him.
Perhaps the transgression occurred BECAUSE Pycon is pursuing "diversity"?
And thank god none of us work with Adria! :)
I am close to giving up on Slashdot
Fair enough since I already gave up on women. :)
Honestly, they're just too much of a problem now.
Look at the marriage stats.
Really, who do you think is making the decision to not marry anymore?
Women?
hahahaha.
To deny our dick jokes is to deny our dicks.
And to deny our dicks is to deny the very core of our being,
our hopes (sex)
and our future (pregnancies).
You can't expect the Code to be very good.
After all, it IS a scripting language.