Never forget than 50% of management is below median. You might think they would want to dispose of the deadweight, but they may be idiots.
You're not thinking it through. 50% of management will always be below median, however the median may change. It only makes sense to fire-and-replace if you actually believe you will end up with a higher median. Consider you are likely to end up with a lower median if your company earns a reputation for suddenly sacking 50% of its workforce. There is also wisdom in the saying better the devil you know.
You laugh, but I've heard more than once that VMware is actively pursuing virtualization for smartphones.
VMware is. Mobile phone vendors aren't. Myself I am actively pursuing getting filthy stinkin rich and pregnant.
With the licensing fees VMware are getting they are org*sming from the thought of getting revenues from 10M+ devices. It will never happend because mobile phone vendors are passionately pursuing lower licensing costs, not higher.
Classic PR tick to fake scarcity to make a bad deal appear better than it is. 99% of customers would only buy 1 anyway. It means that they've changed from hi-tech marketing to commodity marketing like your grocery store always uses.
Somehow I am not bothered by this, I mean other than the fact it will be prohibitively expensive and for that reason wont happen, it will also be trivial to circumvent for those who really want to.
I'm flabbergasted by your statement. You seem to be saying that you're not bothered that the government may log everything a citizen reads online, because criminals who really want to can circumvent the child pornography log device if they really want to.
I am very bothered by this device because no government should have access to a list of everything it's citizens read. We can be certain that at some point in the future, the contents will be used maliciously. The only way to prevent this is not to compile the list at all.
Separate lines for lunch? Who could ever think this was a good idea. Sure, let the students doing well get some perks, just don't go around printing "Dumb" on the lesser achieving kids' foreheads.
I think we should implement separate lines for lunch in Anaheim City Hall, but I quickly realised it would be pointless as they would all be in the dumb line.
And this is what it all comes down to: Money. Adding heat camouflage to a tank doesn't make it invulnerable, but it increases the investment the enemy needs to make in order to defeat it. It might make it impossible to win, for a poor enemy. Considering that the US most of the time is fighting some of the poorest countries in the world (Korea,Vietnam,Afghanistan,Somalia etc) making warfare expensive makes sense.
Stop glorifying criminal acts. What these people calling themselves Anonymous are doing are crimes. As IT professionals and geeks, we do not endorse crime. We hate crime. I find it is absolutely horrendous that crime seems to be regarded as justified by some, just because it is IT crime. Crime is crime--if you want to change society, you do live in a democracy and are supposed to change it by voting. Crime is not OK. Stop crime!
If one was to fight a cyber war, it would make sense to target the financial system and the stock market, to cause panic and confusion and hit the enemy where it hurts the most: in the wallet...
Apparenty they found a computer model that infuses people with a desire to walk and bike:
After running the model, planners discovered a positive feedback loop: More walking and biking would lead to lower obesity rates for Portlanders. In turn, a fitter population would find walking and biking a more attractive option.
I find it very hard to believe that this feedback loop exists in real life to any significant degree. If it really was true, the professional sports athletes would prefer walking and biking over driving their cars, and the sport stars seem to be preferring their luxury sports cars today.
IBM's model must be missing one or more important variables to why people choose cars over walking.
If that is a sign of failure, the Web has failed long ago, when everyone started to make his own homepage without having anything worthwhile to offer. I guess 99.99% of those home pages were never read by anyone, too.
It's neither a sign of success, not failure. The sign of success will be when the right stuff is read and the other stuff is unread. The ratio between read/unread is irrelevant.
They're hoping to get the cost down for a total organism sequence to around $1000. That's one hell of an expensive hobby even before you start asking yourself what you plan to do with that rather impressive amount of information.
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Never forget than 50% of management is below median. You might think they would want to dispose of the deadweight, but they may be idiots.
You're not thinking it through. 50% of management will always be below median, however the median may change. It only makes sense to fire-and-replace if you actually believe you will end up with a higher median. Consider you are likely to end up with a lower median if your company earns a reputation for suddenly sacking 50% of its workforce. There is also wisdom in the saying better the devil you know.
I agree. I believe my investment is in safe hands.
Do you realise that everything you say in a phone call is transmitted to AT&T, Sprint or whatever?
There are privacy issues with phones, and Siri isn't the biggest.
You completely fail to understand how the law works. Copyright material is available for downloading at The Pirate Bay. Plenty.
Reference Case number B 4041-09 [2010-11-26] Svea hovrätt (Court of Appeals)
Having worked in IT for 15 years, I can tell you that most people don't listen to Angry Nerds either.
True nerds do not harbour emotions, as they are most illogical.
You laugh, but I've heard more than once that VMware is actively pursuing virtualization for smartphones.
VMware is. Mobile phone vendors aren't. Myself I am actively pursuing getting filthy stinkin rich and pregnant.
With the licensing fees VMware are getting they are org*sming from the thought of getting revenues from 10M+ devices. It will never happend because mobile phone vendors are passionately pursuing lower licensing costs, not higher.
It's good vapor though.
it is not a matter of Apple having developed anything original at all.
The wheel is invented, but it damn better should't stop people from making better tires.
Classic PR tick to fake scarcity to make a bad deal appear better than it is. 99% of customers would only buy 1 anyway.
It means that they've changed from hi-tech marketing to commodity marketing like your grocery store always uses.
I have never been to google+ and i don't see a need to go to it. All of my friends (wife) use facebook, why go?
Facebook CEO calling users 'dumb fucks' is a compelling reason.
I'm flabbergasted by your statement. You seem to be saying that you're not bothered that the government may log everything a citizen reads online, because criminals who really want to can circumvent the child pornography log device if they really want to.
I am very bothered by this device because no government should have access to a list of everything it's citizens read. We can be certain that at some point in the future, the contents will be used maliciously. The only way to prevent this is not to compile the list at all.
You're completely missing the target.
An unjust law should not be tolerated by citizens because there might be technological means to circumvent the law.
It's also quite easy to simply outlaw encryption.
Siri would just send you to
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1998-08-14/
I think we should implement separate lines for lunch in Anaheim City Hall, but I quickly realised it would be pointless as they would all be in the dumb line.
And this is what it all comes down to: Money. Adding heat camouflage to a tank doesn't make it invulnerable, but it increases the investment the enemy needs to make in order to defeat it. It might make it impossible to win, for a poor enemy. Considering that the US most of the time is fighting some of the poorest countries in the world (Korea,Vietnam,Afghanistan,Somalia etc) making warfare expensive makes sense.
Stop glorifying criminal acts. What these people calling themselves Anonymous are doing are crimes. As IT professionals and geeks, we do not endorse crime. We hate crime.
I find it is absolutely horrendous that crime seems to be regarded as justified by some, just because it is IT crime. Crime is crime--if you want to change society, you do live in a democracy and are supposed to change it by voting. Crime is not OK.
Stop crime!
Are you sure?
If one was to fight a cyber war, it would make sense to target the financial system and the stock market, to cause panic and confusion and hit the enemy where it hurts the most: in the wallet...
Ring a bell?
We have never been at war with Oceania.
Apparenty they found a computer model that infuses people with a desire to walk and bike:
After running the model, planners discovered a positive feedback loop: More walking and biking would lead to lower obesity rates for Portlanders. In turn, a fitter population would find walking and biking a more attractive option.
I find it very hard to believe that this feedback loop exists in real life to any significant degree. If it really was true, the professional sports athletes would prefer walking and biking over driving their cars, and the sport stars seem to be preferring their luxury sports cars today.
IBM's model must be missing one or more important variables to why people choose cars over walking.
If that chart is to be believed, all of the men on Twitter are actually just URL fields masquerading as people.
Could very well be the truth. Maybe they are detecting spam bots, not men.
It's neither a sign of success, not failure. The sign of success will be when the right stuff is read and the other stuff is unread. The ratio between read/unread is irrelevant.
You know what most people would call embarassingly parallel sex? Infidelity.
They're hoping to get the cost down for a total organism sequence to around $1000. That's one hell of an expensive hobby even before you start asking yourself what you plan to do with that rather impressive amount of information.
www.meet-your-genetic-match.com
You heard it here first.
In Sweden "Bredbandskollen" from PTS has done this for years.
Proper granite slabs are really the prefered long-term storage facility for such codes.
Ender's game? Pretty much a great story based on Space Invaders.
This is the first time I've ever seen it said on Slashdot that Apple's price on something is justified.
Their marketing department has learned about this site, it appears.