Basically, they put hoardes of kids fresh out of school on the project, and billed their time as if they were competent professionals. I worked for ATTWS in Paramus for a couple of months on the deployment of the NeXTSTEP app they used to activate customer cell accounts. By the time I got there, McCaw had easily spent $20M developing an app that should have cost no more than $2M to develop, had it been done by people who knew what they were doing. (There were a handful of people on that gig who did know what they were doing, but senior management listened to the AA sales reptiles instead of their own staff.)
It was the worst example I'd ever seen first-hand of a body shop flooding a customer with useless bodies, which was standard operating procedure for AA, and continues to this day at "accenture".
This is another great example of the resurgence of reputation as a means of social pressure. Before we had the web, advertising could completely drown out the occasional TV report from your local consumer affairs reporter. Today though, anyone who cares about getting what they pay for can trivially check up on the vendor in question.
All of the spawn of AA shared a common corporate culture of sleaze. Andersen Consulting split off because the partners in the consulting side of the business didn't like paying their partners on the accounting side of the house what they were due under the terms of their operating agreements. The accountants were plently sleazy themselves (as the enron debacle demonstrates), but the consultants were willing to ignore the fact that the arthur andersen name is what got them in the door.
After seeing how AA fucked over McCaw Cellular in the mid-90's, I wouldn't let them within a hundred miles of any job I'm running.
Your calculations ignore the effect of the aircraft's crumpling as it strikes the ground, and also assumes that the impact is perpendicular to the ground. So, if the plane goes into a power dive straight down, or hits a granite cliff at its maximum crusing speed, you might have that level of impact.
It's not how far it falls, it's how much shock it takes at the end. Doesn't take much high-density foam to trim the impact shock to something the drive can tolerate. Surviving a fire, on the other hand...
Well, if you're going to resort to the buzzer, then you must be right.
I asked you to look at IBM's server revenue
That woud be the portion of their business which has been declining in profitability since the mid-1980's, which is why they're shifting to services. Thanks for playing, but you're still wrong.
For homework, look up the difference between revenues and profits.
IMHO, the only dumb thing you did was to try to be helpful to a client who wasn't worth any extra effort in the first place. Glad to hear you can finally put it all behind you, and thanks for serving as a warning to all the other people who might otherwise have accepted Intel as a client.
I agree. It's bad enough when a show-biz bubblehead gets elected, but when his widow gets to inherit his job because people feel sorry for her, it just makes me want to hurl.
How about licensing their version of the DRM to other companies? Is the RIAA preventing that as well?
Apple has a contract with the recording companies that requires them to patch any breaches in their DRM. How do you propose that they fulfill that obligation if they've let every Tom, Dick, and Rob Glaser use it? So yes, the RIAA is indeed preventing Apple from selling their DRM technology to other vendors.
He never said he was a victim. He said that Apple implemented DRM because the labels wouldn't let them sell downloads without it, which happens to be true. He also said that Apple has contractural obligations to patch their DRM if it's breached, which is also true.
If given the choice to ditch DRM or not, you had better believe Apple would choose not to.
Want to bet?
They make more money the way it is now.
Nope. The iPod was a runaway hit before the iTMS, and if the music store went way today the iPod would still sell like crazy, as it does in all the countries where the iTMS isn't available.
However, your example of the server market was Sun, who comprise a 10th of the server market.
Your example of IBM doesn't support your position, because IBM is in the process of shifting their business from the server market to the body-shop market. Try again.
I believe you need some remedial english comprehension courses sonny.
My English is quite sufficient for me to see how wrong you are.
what I'm seeing the tools are still lacking, no snmp support for instance
You're not just out of date, you apparently didn't read the first page I linked to. Look at the column on the right. Look at the third item there, titled 'SNMP support".
So you know your individual XRAID is doing by you have to go to each of them to make sure they're all good
IBM is a vast services business, whose position derives from their historical domination of the mainframe computer industry. How exactly do you suggest that Apple gain the advantage of bulk that IBM enjoys and jump into the body-shopping business that's keeping IBM afloat?
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Thanks for that enlightening perspective, Mr. Ballmer.
-jcr
Windows keeps the hardware clock on local time.
Are you serious? I mean, it sounds like the kind of thing MS would do, but that's really mind-bogglingly stupid.
-jcr
First, the income tax is progressive.
Hook. line, sinker, rod, reel, basket, boots, and copy of Angling Times.
John Kerry's exceptionally rich wife pays about 10% of her income in taxes. What's your rate?
-jcr
Basically, they put hoardes of kids fresh out of school on the project, and billed their time as if they were competent professionals. I worked for ATTWS in Paramus for a couple of months on the deployment of the NeXTSTEP app they used to activate customer cell accounts. By the time I got there, McCaw had easily spent $20M developing an app that should have cost no more than $2M to develop, had it been done by people who knew what they were doing. (There were a handful of people on that gig who did know what they were doing, but senior management listened to the AA sales reptiles instead of their own staff.)
It was the worst example I'd ever seen first-hand of a body shop flooding a customer with useless bodies, which was standard operating procedure for AA, and continues to this day at "accenture".
-jcr
It's impossible to do business with the public and not piss people off.
Sure, but I read the complaints, and judge whether the complainer is right, or is acting like an idiot. It's not that hard to tell.
-jcr
This is another great example of the resurgence of reputation as a means of social pressure. Before we had the web, advertising could completely drown out the occasional TV report from your local consumer affairs reporter. Today though, anyone who cares about getting what they pay for can trivially check up on the vendor in question.
-jcr
IBM's server revenues and profits are growing. Have been for the last five years.
Growing like iPod sales? Like I said, Apple can make more money elsewhere. I don't know why you're so incensed by that simple fact.
Run along now sonny
Do you actually believe that your snotty attitude supports your position in any way?
-jcr
Fraud was already illegal in the 1880's.
-jcr
All of the spawn of AA shared a common corporate culture of sleaze. Andersen Consulting split off because the partners in the consulting side of the business didn't like paying their partners on the accounting side of the house what they were due under the terms of their operating agreements. The accountants were plently sleazy themselves (as the enron debacle demonstrates), but the consultants were willing to ignore the fact that the arthur andersen name is what got them in the door.
After seeing how AA fucked over McCaw Cellular in the mid-90's, I wouldn't let them within a hundred miles of any job I'm running.
-jcr
Your calculations ignore the effect of the aircraft's crumpling as it strikes the ground, and also assumes that the impact is perpendicular to the ground. So, if the plane goes into a power dive straight down, or hits a granite cliff at its maximum crusing speed, you might have that level of impact.
-jcr
IE7 is a complete heap of shit.
Well, since they killed NetScape, why should they care?
-jcr
It's not how far it falls, it's how much shock it takes at the end. Doesn't take much high-density foam to trim the impact shock to something the drive can tolerate. Surviving a fire, on the other hand...
-jcr
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt! Incorrect.
Well, if you're going to resort to the buzzer, then you must be right.
I asked you to look at IBM's server revenue
That woud be the portion of their business which has been declining in profitability since the mid-1980's, which is why they're shifting to services. Thanks for playing, but you're still wrong.
For homework, look up the difference between revenues and profits.
-jcr
Randall,
IMHO, the only dumb thing you did was to try to be helpful to a client who wasn't worth any extra effort in the first place. Glad to hear you can finally put it all behind you, and thanks for serving as a warning to all the other people who might otherwise have accepted Intel as a client.
-jcr
I agree. It's bad enough when a show-biz bubblehead gets elected, but when his widow gets to inherit his job because people feel sorry for her, it just makes me want to hurl.
-jcr
How about licensing their version of the DRM to other companies? Is the RIAA preventing that as well?
Apple has a contract with the recording companies that requires them to patch any breaches in their DRM. How do you propose that they fulfill that obligation if they've let every Tom, Dick, and Rob Glaser use it? So yes, the RIAA is indeed preventing Apple from selling their DRM technology to other vendors.
-jcr
Apple should just close their music store entirely and watch every single record label file for Chapter 11 by the end of the year.
Apple's a very big revenue source for them, but not quite that big.
-jcr
He never said he was a victim. He said that Apple implemented DRM because the labels wouldn't let them sell downloads without it, which happens to be true. He also said that Apple has contractural obligations to patch their DRM if it's breached, which is also true.
If given the choice to ditch DRM or not, you had better believe Apple would choose not to.
Want to bet?
They make more money the way it is now.
Nope. The iPod was a runaway hit before the iTMS, and if the music store went way today the iPod would still sell like crazy, as it does in all the countries where the iTMS isn't available.
-jcr
However, your example of the server market was Sun, who comprise a 10th of the server market.
Your example of IBM doesn't support your position, because IBM is in the process of shifting their business from the server market to the body-shop market. Try again.
I believe you need some remedial english comprehension courses sonny.
My English is quite sufficient for me to see how wrong you are.
-jcr
Are they going to have frickin' "Lasers" on their heads?
-jcr
your assumption about Apple's motivations for doing so is absurd.
The motivation is that they can make more money elsewhere. If that seems absurd to you, then you need some remedial business courses.
-jcr
what I'm seeing the tools are still lacking, no snmp support for instance
You're not just out of date, you apparently didn't read the first page I linked to. Look at the column on the right. Look at the third item there, titled 'SNMP support".
So you know your individual XRAID is doing by you have to go to each of them to make sure they're all good
Nope. Guess again.
-jcr
How about comparing IBM & Apple?
IBM is a vast services business, whose position derives from their historical domination of the mainframe computer industry. How exactly do you suggest that Apple gain the advantage of bulk that IBM enjoys and jump into the body-shopping business that's keeping IBM afloat?
-jcr
How would a DS9 movie break such a rule?
-jcr
Was it Raibert that built the pogo-stick robot? I seem to remember seeing that on Nova or some show like that in the early 80's.
-jcr