Raise their salaries by, say, 50 times. It's distasteful, but if it wipes out corruption, so what?
It won't. If anything, the 1% in this country have clearly shown that the old dictum "You can't be too thin or have too much money" is true. Give a Congressperson 50X, they'll take the money to make sure they have 51X. And, even if you raise it to 1,000,000X, they'll want that 1,000,001X they can get by taking bri... campaign contributions. Hell, people with tens of billions of dollars in this country don't stop looking for ways of making more. Why do you even think that your solution would come close to working?
If everyone were like "Village People" overpopulation would not be a problem. On the other hand, YMCA's would be overcrowded. And you'd have to put up with disco. So I'm not sure this would be of overall benefit...
Bill Gates would never have allowed this opportunity to languish for MS like it has.
Yeah. It was as obvious as the internet was to Bill.
In reality, Microsoft's strengths have always been in copying the newcomers in the business market, doing it a bit more right/connectedly in the context of their existing dominant business market and, when that didn't work, crushing the competition via lockout or other (often extra-legal) means. As such, you're dead on about your idea that they should have started from their strength.
However, with the growth of consumerization in workplace technology, it's not clear that there will be such a thing as a mass "business market" for much longer. There's just a consumer market that now gets to be used by business, too. Maybe they see this and understand that, unless they get hold of the consumer, they're dead meat. On the other hand, that would imply that they have a modicum of insight - something that I would be hard-pressed to infer from past performance.
If you want to be a fanboi, at least become one about something that matters - maybe people in your life? But devoting energy to things like this article proposes is simply a waste of precious time. A computer is a computer; a phone is a phone. You get one and you use it. It's not like any of them are particularly special. I don't see anyone obsessing over their toaster like this...
Which is why one iether does not let them get too big or restricts them so that they cannot engage in practices and businesses likely to make the fail. The fact that we spent the last twenty or so years removing these constraints were at the root of this particular downturn. The fact that this problem has not been addressed as a result is our shame.
Three that seemed odd to me were Taylor Guitars, Monster Cable and Peavey. Unless knockoffs are a big problem for Taylor, I see little direct benefit for being on the list. As for Monster, they're overpriced and suck compared to Mogami (hell, they suck compared to drawing my own wire from a metal bar) so I don't think anyone's copying them. And Peavey's stuff sounds so bad, no one would want to copy them.
I guess they all think that if they support this bill the entertainment industry will thrive and lure in evermore aspiring artists who buy their products. This is very sad, because the likelihood that these companies will benefit from this are very, very small.
The collapse of the party oligarchy in the Soviet Union only brought about the rise of a new criminal-based oligarchy (many of whose members were also members of the original oligarchy). Why do you think things would be different here?
What a nice letter! I'm so glad our Senators are so responsive! You know, they are really busy people and, still, your Senator took time from his busy schedule to respond with letter sent directly to you. It must be because of our wonderful democratic system of government where a Senator knows he or she can be voted out at any election. God bless America!
Yes. And you are a child of someone. That does not stop. EVER!
Should we make sure your parents keep you under lock and key? From your comment, I sure think you didn't learn certain lessons - say, about compassion, maybe. You sure don't understand the limits of parents' control over children. What else didn't you learn? Being so stupid, maybe you do need to be locked up for your own safety. Don't worry - we'll keep the toys having rare earth magnets away from you.
But if you plan on only passive supervision then you also have the responsibility to make sure the child does not have access to non-age appropriate items as well.
Easier said than done. Humans, even small ones, are remarkably clever and difficult to monitor intensely on an ongoing basis. As a parent who has raised two children to adult age, I know how difficult this is. And I don't think that a child sneaking into his older brother's room is as easily preventable as you seem to think.
As a good parent you should also be reasonably versed on what is and isn't safe to eat.
Most AlNiCo magnets and their ferrous cousins are relatively safe and will pass through the system with little or no complications. Rare earth magnets are relatively new and many adult's exposure to them and their knowledge of their dangers are limited.
My daughter is 8 years old and I've known for longer than that, that there is a danger in swallowing powerful magnets.
You are not everyone. Being on Slashdot, you have been exposed to stories about strong rare earth magnets. You may have even played with them. Believe it or not, most people haven't. Unless you believe parents become omniscient at the birth of their children, you can't (and won't) know of every danger in their environment.
More irritating to me, I detect a fairly scolding tone in your voice, desperately wanting to blame the parents for this occurance. Having raised my children I know how limited my control over their environment was. Because of this, I'm able to cut other parents some slack - you should, too. I'll even go out on a limb and say that the only reason that your daughter hasn't had unsupervised play with her older sibling's toys is that she doesn't have one. From your statements, she obviously doesn't have friends whom she visits where she comes into contact with things you have no knowledge of, either (after all, you make sure that you personally inspect every nook and cranny of every place she goes). I don't know, maybe you keep her in a dog collar and leash. That would be great for her development. Sorry for being harsh, but you shouldn't be such an ass.
The fact is Android was designed to run on multiple platforms.
And the fact is that anything that is designed to run on multiple platforms will almost certainly run poorly on your particular platform in some way, shape, or form. The fact is that Apple has made the proper decision in limiting the number and kind of devices they run on. Will Apple always have the highest number of units shipped? No. Will they have better customer satisfaction and less support costs leading to higher margins? Yes.
Why you would tell your enemy how you did it publicly is beyond me.
They probably tried it a couple more times on other drones and it didn't work these times, indicating that the US and/or Israel had figured out what they were doing and added countermeasures to prevent the same. As such, the Iranians decided to do a tell-all, gaining some "techno-cred" while giving the US a black eye. If their method of downing drones was still working, they'd just be bringing down more of them.
Or maybe they decided they'd collected the whole set and figured it was time to kick the US a bit... Frankly, it does show a bit of incompetency on the part of the US.
Iran shows a small bit of technological prowess. US looks a bit bad. Big whoop. It actually changes very little in the balance of power.
So, why is it a good idea to waste money on these massive bullseyes?
Why? Not all conflicts are against enemies who have the wherewithal to attack you from 1000 miles away. If you're going up against a small country in another part of the world, you can park it far enough away that they can't bring it down with their resources and you can still fly your aircraft over them with impunity.
Why else? Because they let high-ranking military personnel feel important when they're allowed to drive one.
Want more reasons? Transfer payments to corporations and other associated entities. Jobs.
I could go on but, chances are, I've proved my point. There are many reasons (both good and not) for building these dinosaurs.
...but IT World would rather poo-poo Ron Paul because they... would rather cut their nose to spite their face...
No, they "pooh-pooh" Ron Paul because he is a Libertarian nut case whose policies would crater the economy and destroy the small amount of control the government provides its citizenry against the power of the corporations in this country. If you actually read his policies without drinking the Libertarian KoolAid, you'd know just how batcrap crazy they were.
The more senior helpdesk person usually gets the hard problems...
But they probably get paid more, too! So if I lay him off, my costs go down and my average number of calls finished per hour go up (because people get tired of trying to talk with idiots) and I get promoted and I win!!!
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Raise their salaries by, say, 50 times. It's distasteful, but if it wipes out corruption, so what?
It won't. If anything, the 1% in this country have clearly shown that the old dictum "You can't be too thin or have too much money" is true. Give a Congressperson 50X, they'll take the money to make sure they have 51X. And, even if you raise it to 1,000,000X, they'll want that 1,000,001X they can get by taking bri... campaign contributions. Hell, people with tens of billions of dollars in this country don't stop looking for ways of making more. Why do you even think that your solution would come close to working?
He used " when he meant '.
If everyone were like "Village People" overpopulation would not be a problem. On the other hand, YMCA's would be overcrowded. And you'd have to put up with disco. So I'm not sure this would be of overall benefit...
Looks more like jumpcrashing to me.
Bill Gates would never have allowed this opportunity to languish for MS like it has.
Yeah. It was as obvious as the internet was to Bill.
In reality, Microsoft's strengths have always been in copying the newcomers in the business market, doing it a bit more right/connectedly in the context of their existing dominant business market and, when that didn't work, crushing the competition via lockout or other (often extra-legal) means. As such, you're dead on about your idea that they should have started from their strength.
However, with the growth of consumerization in workplace technology, it's not clear that there will be such a thing as a mass "business market" for much longer. There's just a consumer market that now gets to be used by business, too. Maybe they see this and understand that, unless they get hold of the consumer, they're dead meat. On the other hand, that would imply that they have a modicum of insight - something that I would be hard-pressed to infer from past performance.
Which is something you'll never hear from the deniers.
It was understood that the aristocracy was no more chosen by god than a CEO is chosen by god.
Blasphemy! Especially about the CEO part! We all know our corporate leaders (and the politicians who serve them) are anointed by God... otherwise, they wouldn't be CEOs, would they?
I do not believe in pink dragons that fart nerve gas.
Of course not! Pink dragons fart candy bars, pink unicorns fart rainbows, and pink griffins fart nerve gas!
If you want to be a fanboi, at least become one about something that matters - maybe people in your life? But devoting energy to things like this article proposes is simply a waste of precious time. A computer is a computer; a phone is a phone. You get one and you use it. It's not like any of them are particularly special. I don't see anyone obsessing over their toaster like this...
"Too big to fail" is a sobering thought...
Which is why one iether does not let them get too big or restricts them so that they cannot engage in practices and businesses likely to make the fail. The fact that we spent the last twenty or so years removing these constraints were at the root of this particular downturn. The fact that this problem has not been addressed as a result is our shame.
Three that seemed odd to me were Taylor Guitars, Monster Cable and Peavey. Unless knockoffs are a big problem for Taylor, I see little direct benefit for being on the list. As for Monster, they're overpriced and suck compared to Mogami (hell, they suck compared to drawing my own wire from a metal bar) so I don't think anyone's copying them. And Peavey's stuff sounds so bad, no one would want to copy them.
I guess they all think that if they support this bill the entertainment industry will thrive and lure in evermore aspiring artists who buy their products. This is very sad, because the likelihood that these companies will benefit from this are very, very small.
The collapse of the party oligarchy in the Soviet Union only brought about the rise of a new criminal-based oligarchy (many of whose members were also members of the original oligarchy). Why do you think things would be different here?
What a nice letter! I'm so glad our Senators are so responsive! You know, they are really busy people and, still, your Senator took time from his busy schedule to respond with letter sent directly to you. It must be because of our wonderful democratic system of government where a Senator knows he or she can be voted out at any election. God bless America!
You are a parent. That does not stop. EVER!
Yes. And you are a child of someone. That does not stop. EVER!
Should we make sure your parents keep you under lock and key? From your comment, I sure think you didn't learn certain lessons - say, about compassion, maybe. You sure don't understand the limits of parents' control over children. What else didn't you learn? Being so stupid, maybe you do need to be locked up for your own safety. Don't worry - we'll keep the toys having rare earth magnets away from you.
But if you plan on only passive supervision then you also have the responsibility to make sure the child does not have access to non-age appropriate items as well.
Easier said than done. Humans, even small ones, are remarkably clever and difficult to monitor intensely on an ongoing basis. As a parent who has raised two children to adult age, I know how difficult this is. And I don't think that a child sneaking into his older brother's room is as easily preventable as you seem to think.
As a good parent you should also be reasonably versed on what is and isn't safe to eat.
Most AlNiCo magnets and their ferrous cousins are relatively safe and will pass through the system with little or no complications. Rare earth magnets are relatively new and many adult's exposure to them and their knowledge of their dangers are limited.
My daughter is 8 years old and I've known for longer than that, that there is a danger in swallowing powerful magnets.
You are not everyone. Being on Slashdot, you have been exposed to stories about strong rare earth magnets. You may have even played with them. Believe it or not, most people haven't. Unless you believe parents become omniscient at the birth of their children, you can't (and won't) know of every danger in their environment.
More irritating to me, I detect a fairly scolding tone in your voice, desperately wanting to blame the parents for this occurance. Having raised my children I know how limited my control over their environment was. Because of this, I'm able to cut other parents some slack - you should, too. I'll even go out on a limb and say that the only reason that your daughter hasn't had unsupervised play with her older sibling's toys is that she doesn't have one. From your statements, she obviously doesn't have friends whom she visits where she comes into contact with things you have no knowledge of, either (after all, you make sure that you personally inspect every nook and cranny of every place she goes). I don't know, maybe you keep her in a dog collar and leash. That would be great for her development. Sorry for being harsh, but you shouldn't be such an ass.
... to "authoritarian" governments, citizen?
The fact is Android was designed to run on multiple platforms.
And the fact is that anything that is designed to run on multiple platforms will almost certainly run poorly on your particular platform in some way, shape, or form. The fact is that Apple has made the proper decision in limiting the number and kind of devices they run on. Will Apple always have the highest number of units shipped? No. Will they have better customer satisfaction and less support costs leading to higher margins? Yes.
Why you would tell your enemy how you did it publicly is beyond me.
They probably tried it a couple more times on other drones and it didn't work these times, indicating that the US and/or Israel had figured out what they were doing and added countermeasures to prevent the same. As such, the Iranians decided to do a tell-all, gaining some "techno-cred" while giving the US a black eye. If their method of downing drones was still working, they'd just be bringing down more of them.
Or maybe they decided they'd collected the whole set and figured it was time to kick the US a bit... Frankly, it does show a bit of incompetency on the part of the US.
Iran shows a small bit of technological prowess. US looks a bit bad. Big whoop. It actually changes very little in the balance of power.
So, why is it a good idea to waste money on these massive bullseyes?
Why? Not all conflicts are against enemies who have the wherewithal to attack you from 1000 miles away. If you're going up against a small country in another part of the world, you can park it far enough away that they can't bring it down with their resources and you can still fly your aircraft over them with impunity.
Why else? Because they let high-ranking military personnel feel important when they're allowed to drive one.
Want more reasons? Transfer payments to corporations and other associated entities. Jobs.
I could go on but, chances are, I've proved my point. There are many reasons (both good and not) for building these dinosaurs.
...but IT World would rather poo-poo Ron Paul because they... would rather cut their nose to spite their face...
No, they "pooh-pooh" Ron Paul because he is a Libertarian nut case whose policies would crater the economy and destroy the small amount of control the government provides its citizenry against the power of the corporations in this country. If you actually read his policies without drinking the Libertarian KoolAid, you'd know just how batcrap crazy they were.
The more senior helpdesk person usually gets the hard problems...
But they probably get paid more, too! So if I lay him off, my costs go down and my average number of calls finished per hour go up (because people get tired of trying to talk with idiots) and I get promoted and I win!!!
That's what they call management, my friends!
I guess that means I'll have to settle for one of the unpopular ones.
Were I in charge of MS, my first standing order would be to...
... get rid of Balmer. And give everyone a pony.
Anyone else want to play?
So what you're saying is that PHP was originally named "AFM"?
No language is perfect.
Wrong!