spot on brilliant. i rad a post a long time ago here on slashdot, and it stated the experience of the educated engineer that was able to rise above the fear of perceptions of self image, and how much happier he was doing other work.. bad story, but in any case your anecdote is appreciated.
worked for MSFT for 1.5 years as contractor and blue badge. killed myself working nights, weekends, etc. for months on end. slept in office, all the usual shit. summary? no raise, no bonus, no "stock options" or grants. me? middle finger to them, made more than double as a contractor for another company. i'll never work for them again. they were a grist mill for smart, fresh compsci people. more of a pyramid scheme (inwardly facing of course).. friend who was an internal recruiter for them knew of the hemorraging of talent due to wages being silly low + employees fed up with the lowballing. it was so bad at one point there were several policies put in place to try and 'used car salesman' hard sell employees trying to leave into staying. saw too many people lose relationships, health and brains working for them. sadly most of my smart friends that had no interest in computers 5-10 years ago are now all working for them. reminds me of how badly boeing owned the puget sound region decades before.
This one is easy: Apple will eventually announce all the products they were supposed to have announced at this week's MacWorld show, but didn't, including a bunch of media content deals, a huge expansion of.Mac to one TERABYTE per month of download capacity per user, a new version of the Front Row DVR application, and two new Intel Macs with huge plasma displays, but with keyboards and mice as options -- literally big-screen TVs that just happen to be computers, too.
all information that has been on the rumor sites for months.
2) The reason Apple changed its MacWorld announcements at the last minute was because the company sued little Burst.com a few days before, trying to invalidate the Burst patents. But since Apple sued Burst, Burst shares have gone UP by 30 percent. The market is rarely wrong. Suing Burst was an enormous mistake for Apple, casting a pall on their video strategy and potentially costing the company strategic alliances with networks and movie studios. Apple realizes this now and is struggling internally to find a way to change course and put a positive spin on the course correction. Apple will lose and Burst will win, and Apple won't be able to afford to wait for the courts to decide anything, since time is critical in staking out Internet video turf. I predict that Apple will eventually take a license from Burst, that is UNLESS SOME OTHER COMPANY (Google? Real? Yahoo?) doesn't snatch up Burst first.
mmmmaybe. but would apple jeapordise their macworld address in this timeline? do the head and the tail not talk anymore? doubtful..
3) But Apple WILL make some inroads against Microsoft. The new Intel Macs will run Windows XP unofficially, and Apple Support acknowledges that they are only days from running XP officially, too. So Apple finally has a solid argument why Windows-centric companies and homes should consider trying a Mac. The best case, though, says that Apple sells an additional million units, which aren't enough for Steve Jobs, so I see him going into a kind of stealth competition with Microsoft.
old news. been beaten here and on other websites to death.
4) Enough about Apple. Google will continue to roll out new products and services as it builds out its infrastructure for a huge push in 2007. They'll need money, of course, so I predict a supplemental stock offering timed with a 20-to-1 stock split. 2006 is a building year for Google.
bzzt! i doubt the google split will happen. they have lost traction on a few efforts last year, and are supposedly growing. diversity growth != profit ergo != rising stock prices.
5) Still no good news for Sun. Those Galaxy servers are very nice, but they aren't enough to support the company and Eric Schmidt is too smart (I hope) to bail out his old firm.
man. i hear a lot of fish in that barrel. sun has been on the hardware ropes for what, 3 years now?
6) IBM will get in trouble with its customers as it becomes clear that Sam Palmisano didn't learn much, if anything, from Lou Gerstner. Gerstner's fat-cutting is long forgotten, so all IBM knows how to cut these days is customer service.
*shrug* IBM is cost competitive in the low end.. they seem to be making money and are still on the short list of "laptops that just work"
7) Microsoft still sucks at security and users suffer for it. My best guess is they are planning on putting all this new technology in the "next" operating system, which seems to be yet another year behind schedule. The important question the world will soon be asking -- "Do we need another Windows operating system?" In 2006, Windows XP gets another service pack and/or facelift. Nothing more.
ZzZZzzzZZ... oh sorry you were saying something?
8) Sony's PS3 hits the market with a dearth of games. Howard Stringer loses his job, not because of the game problems but because he's undermined by the Japanese parts of his company. But there is good news for Sony, too. Interne
I have been going there on and off for the last 4 years, and every time i go, i pick up industry rags, employment papers and all that lot, and check out the local IT scene there for software/IT work. let me tell you, its damn thin on the ground there, wages are laughable, and australia has a ton of overqualified people that cannot get a job. the worst problem is, not once did i see any evidence of an environment that fostered a silicon valley or whatever type of rampant innovation and development. maybe there is some geographic area that i am missing there, but if there is a bay area, or redmond, or boston there, i couldnt find it. it made me sad, cos i love the country, the people, and most everything else, but after 15 years in the IT industry in most of the hottest markets in the US, i'm fully accepting of the fact that i *will* have to change industries radically in order to keep my head afloat, should i decide to relocate.
i used to work for myspace and i can assure you every single thread, email, posting, picture, instant messenger message was saved and archived in their (increasingly unstable) SQL based database system. even if you deleted messages, they were a permanent (as permanent as data can be on a SQL systme) record in that database. forever.
remember when we thought newsgroup postings just went off into the ether? and then all of a sudden newsgroup archives popped up?
guess whats gonna happen to myspace?
tell your kid to pull his head out.
common tactic in pushing an agenda is to first give legitimacy by name dropping 800 pound gorillas in the same sentence as your bandwagoned advertising agenda. by throwing the microsoft name around in the same breath, the PR flack that submitted this story just got what she wanted: eyeballs on her pitch.
was the fact that a touring band has to get in new blood, because, as their audience ages out of going to clubs, etc.. how do they grow their audience, or at least stop churn of their fanbase? so how do you get eyeballs in front of your game? street teams? done. confrences? done? grassroots evangelism? over... what are people doing now? word of mouth works, but.. i'd be interested to hear what anyone has come up with to innovate past what have become tired and avoided promotional tools.
he rebutted several claims made by the article in a salient and reasoned tone. i didnt really detect much 'blasting'. probably why hes a CEO, and not a programmer.
if the EC did force M$ to embrace interoperability. it would be a boon for open source, and other software companies wanting to not get stomped on with each new rev of OS/application suite.
http://www.virgindigital.com/ virgin digital's player still seems to support the rio family of products. i dont think they are going to disappear overnight.
i worked at MS in the mid 1990's and i worked on campus in redmond, right alongside LYCOS employees that were incorporating their tech into the then-infant MSN.com. did it work completely? no. was it the first time microsoft "really" did search engine? yes.
the women here in LA should *own* on this game. they are to be feared. they are the "hee hee" girls of today. big hair +5 to attack. white belt +2. wearing last years clothes -4 to attack.
Living with them for a few months taught me more about how to think about living than any number of survival books and hiking expeditions had ever done.
1. this is an opportunity
2. PLEASE WRITE THIS INFORMATION DOWN!!
3. PUBLISH IT! so we ALL can
4. profit!! from it.
that some of these titles would be allowed to die off. i'm glad someone has made the coin-op people see the light. too bad there isn't a copyright sunset thats more realistic for software.
umm ever hear of maturing markets? entropy? little businesses always get squashed by the biggies in the name of saving a few bucks by joe average.. quality and service are the only shields available.. but even those cant hold up all the time
apple continuing the march of leaving older hardware and software users out in the cold. their life cycle was one of the best in the industry, i hope this decreased timeline for upgrade viability isnt an indicator of things to come..
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spot on brilliant. i rad a post a long time ago here on slashdot, and it stated the experience of the educated engineer that was able to rise above the fear of perceptions of self image, and how much happier he was doing other work.. bad story, but in any case your anecdote is appreciated.
the bloody games industry pays worse than the entertainment industry, and yet, makes more money on its titles than movies do link HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?
worked for MSFT for 1.5 years as contractor and blue badge. killed myself working nights, weekends, etc. for months on end. slept in office, all the usual shit. summary? no raise, no bonus, no "stock options" or grants. me? middle finger to them, made more than double as a contractor for another company. i'll never work for them again. they were a grist mill for smart, fresh compsci people. more of a pyramid scheme (inwardly facing of course).. friend who was an internal recruiter for them knew of the hemorraging of talent due to wages being silly low + employees fed up with the lowballing. it was so bad at one point there were several policies put in place to try and 'used car salesman' hard sell employees trying to leave into staying. saw too many people lose relationships, health and brains working for them. sadly most of my smart friends that had no interest in computers 5-10 years ago are now all working for them. reminds me of how badly boeing owned the puget sound region decades before.
all information that has been on the rumor sites for months.
2) The reason Apple changed its MacWorld announcements at the last minute was because the company sued little Burst.com a few days before, trying to invalidate the Burst patents. But since Apple sued Burst, Burst shares have gone UP by 30 percent. The market is rarely wrong. Suing Burst was an enormous mistake for Apple, casting a pall on their video strategy and potentially costing the company strategic alliances with networks and movie studios. Apple realizes this now and is struggling internally to find a way to change course and put a positive spin on the course correction. Apple will lose and Burst will win, and Apple won't be able to afford to wait for the courts to decide anything, since time is critical in staking out Internet video turf. I predict that Apple will eventually take a license from Burst, that is UNLESS SOME OTHER COMPANY (Google? Real? Yahoo?) doesn't snatch up Burst first.
mmmmaybe. but would apple jeapordise their macworld address in this timeline? do the head and the tail not talk anymore? doubtful..
3) But Apple WILL make some inroads against Microsoft. The new Intel Macs will run Windows XP unofficially, and Apple Support acknowledges that they are only days from running XP officially, too. So Apple finally has a solid argument why Windows-centric companies and homes should consider trying a Mac. The best case, though, says that Apple sells an additional million units, which aren't enough for Steve Jobs, so I see him going into a kind of stealth competition with Microsoft.
old news. been beaten here and on other websites to death.
4) Enough about Apple. Google will continue to roll out new products and services as it builds out its infrastructure for a huge push in 2007. They'll need money, of course, so I predict a supplemental stock offering timed with a 20-to-1 stock split. 2006 is a building year for Google.
bzzt! i doubt the google split will happen. they have lost traction on a few efforts last year, and are supposedly growing. diversity growth != profit ergo != rising stock prices.
5) Still no good news for Sun. Those Galaxy servers are very nice, but they aren't enough to support the company and Eric Schmidt is too smart (I hope) to bail out his old firm.
man. i hear a lot of fish in that barrel. sun has been on the hardware ropes for what, 3 years now?
6) IBM will get in trouble with its customers as it becomes clear that Sam Palmisano didn't learn much, if anything, from Lou Gerstner. Gerstner's fat-cutting is long forgotten, so all IBM knows how to cut these days is customer service.
*shrug* IBM is cost competitive in the low end.. they seem to be making money and are still on the short list of "laptops that just work"
7) Microsoft still sucks at security and users suffer for it. My best guess is they are planning on putting all this new technology in the "next" operating system, which seems to be yet another year behind schedule. The important question the world will soon be asking -- "Do we need another Windows operating system?" In 2006, Windows XP gets another service pack and/or facelift. Nothing more.
ZzZZzzzZZ... oh sorry you were saying something?
8) Sony's PS3 hits the market with a dearth of games. Howard Stringer loses his job, not because of the game problems but because he's undermined by the Japanese parts of his company. But there is good news for Sony, too. Interne
its surprising soley for the lack of actualy rooting for specific suppliers, even at this late state of the story being posted.
historically with all things, it the asshats that over charge by at least 20% that are the ones that come through for last minute emergencies.
why?
because they are the only ones with stock rotting on the shelves.
I have been going there on and off for the last 4 years, and every time i go, i pick up industry rags, employment papers and all that lot, and check out the local IT scene there for software/IT work. let me tell you, its damn thin on the ground there, wages are laughable, and australia has a ton of overqualified people that cannot get a job. the worst problem is, not once did i see any evidence of an environment that fostered a silicon valley or whatever type of rampant innovation and development. maybe there is some geographic area that i am missing there, but if there is a bay area, or redmond, or boston there, i couldnt find it. it made me sad, cos i love the country, the people, and most everything else, but after 15 years in the IT industry in most of the hottest markets in the US, i'm fully accepting of the fact that i *will* have to change industries radically in order to keep my head afloat, should i decide to relocate.
i used to work for myspace and i can assure you every single thread, email, posting, picture, instant messenger message was saved and archived in their (increasingly unstable) SQL based database system. even if you deleted messages, they were a permanent (as permanent as data can be on a SQL systme) record in that database. forever. remember when we thought newsgroup postings just went off into the ether? and then all of a sudden newsgroup archives popped up? guess whats gonna happen to myspace? tell your kid to pull his head out.
common tactic in pushing an agenda is to first give legitimacy by name dropping 800 pound gorillas in the same sentence as your bandwagoned advertising agenda. by throwing the microsoft name around in the same breath, the PR flack that submitted this story just got what she wanted: eyeballs on her pitch.
they are bots. derrr!
was the fact that a touring band has to get in new blood, because, as their audience ages out of going to clubs, etc.. how do they grow their audience, or at least stop churn of their fanbase? so how do you get eyeballs in front of your game? street teams? done. confrences? done? grassroots evangelism? over... what are people doing now? word of mouth works, but.. i'd be interested to hear what anyone has come up with to innovate past what have become tired and avoided promotional tools.
he rebutted several claims made by the article in a salient and reasoned tone. i didnt really detect much 'blasting'. probably why hes a CEO, and not a programmer.
how can they handle that? i wish you could make a physically morphable environment and ditch the spacehelmets and eyewear.
if the EC did force M$ to embrace interoperability. it would be a boon for open source, and other software companies wanting to not get stomped on with each new rev of OS/application suite.
stock dell kb. acetone to them. no problem.
http://www.virgindigital.com/ virgin digital's player still seems to support the rio family of products. i dont think they are going to disappear overnight.
i worked at MS in the mid 1990's and i worked on campus in redmond, right alongside LYCOS employees that were incorporating their tech into the then-infant MSN.com. did it work completely? no. was it the first time microsoft "really" did search engine? yes.
brand new relay kit, LUCAS ELECTRIC - ENGLAND. (only car people will get this joke)
the women here in LA should *own* on this game. they are to be feared. they are the "hee hee" girls of today. big hair +5 to attack. white belt +2. wearing last years clothes -4 to attack.
A. the apples i am attempting to eat at my picnic.
B. the flies at my picnic.
C. violation of airspace?
link to billg's toy car story.
Living with them for a few months taught me more about how to think about living than any number of survival books and hiking expeditions had ever done.
1. this is an opportunity
2. PLEASE WRITE THIS INFORMATION DOWN!!
3. PUBLISH IT! so we ALL can
4. profit!! from it.
congratulations you rebel scumm.
that some of these titles would be allowed to die off. i'm glad someone has made the coin-op people see the light. too bad there isn't a copyright sunset thats more realistic for software.
umm ever hear of maturing markets? entropy? little businesses always get squashed by the biggies in the name of saving a few bucks by joe average.. quality and service are the only shields available.. but even those cant hold up all the time
apple continuing the march of leaving older hardware and software users out in the cold. their life cycle was one of the best in the industry, i hope this decreased timeline for upgrade viability isnt an indicator of things to come..