Ideo is the most innovative company I have ever seen. First, they say so right there on their web site, so if it's written on their web site, I'll assume it has got to be true. And second, instead of designing products that consumers want, they're designing products that consumers would _never_ever_ possibly want. Frankly, if that's not innovation, I don't know what is.
It's working. People who frequently eat at McDonalds are substracting years off their life. I'll give you odds two to one, the fellow you encountered there will have developed Diabetes before he turns 40.
"So the fat woman at the grocery store who just has to gossip with her friend while trying to write a check and neglecting to bag her groceries, the cell phone might be vital for her social life, but a pain in the ass for all of us who wait behind her. "
You don't live in the US. Do you? In the US, the overwhelming majority of the supermarkets have a store employee pack your bags. If the store doesn't handle this type of situation very well, then you have the option to go to another store. Based on your post, I'll assume that your government has gone overboard and mandated some laws that would prevent this. Am I right?
"There will always be people who "have" to be reachable for one reason or another - on call, babysitter, etc etc."
I know an old house, a tunnel, and an old mountain range that blocks most of cell phone transmissions. Would you suggest that we tear down that house, ban the use of the tunnel, and flatten that mountain range, because someone has to be reachable by cell phone at all times?
How about a cell phone that knows when the car is parked (or in driving mode). The cell phone would have an (optional) safe driving setting. When set and when driving, the cell phone would automatically go into voice mail and once in a parking position it would start ringing only once the car was safely in a parking position. This shouldn't be too hard to implement, when the power is cut off to the engine, there is already a small power variation going to the cigarette lighter.
If this idea (or another idea) works commercially, my only concern is that the government might try to jump on it and make it mandatory. The government has the tendency to ruin good ideas. Eventually, our technological advances and our own self-interest in making our own cars safer will solve these kinds of problems (without coercion).
What about development platforms like.NET? These unifeid environments aim to resolve many programming languages, and resources in a unified bundle.
Yes, both.Net and the Java VM would qualify. It's no coincidence that many of the people, who have worked on.Net and Java, are some of the same people who brought us several iterations of SmallTalk.
This article describes a universal characteristic of most seminal languages that most of us had to learn. The fact that the author just figured this out tells me something about his age.
It's no wonder the "2nd World" nations resent the West. We hold them down and put them down at any chance.
Third World you mean. The term Third World was coined by a French journalist. It came from the French term Third State ("Tiers Etat"). The Third State represented the People. The Second State represented the Church. The First State represented the Nobility. It was called the Third State because it included most of the people, but a fraction of the wealth. The Second State and the First State on the other hand included a fraction of the population, but they possessed almost all the wealth. Personally, I wouldn't take this as a term of disrespect, since eventually the Third State revolted and took over.
.Net is an umbrella brand for many of their brands. The brands under that umbrella are usually related to each other and they are usually related to web services, but they don't necessarily need to be. Brands aren't designed to make sense. They're designed to make money.
"As one who fixes his own car, _EVERY TIME_ someone else works on it, they mess something up. If I didnt fix my own computer, I am sure I would see the same."
How does one go about learning to fix cars? I know this is probably a dumb question to ask. I own an 89 Ford Taurus. I use its corresponding Chilton book. I can change its oil filter and I can replace some minor electrical parts, but that's as far as I've gone.
Is there a Mueller equivalent for fixing cars? For fixing computers, the Mueller book has never let me down, and I was wondering if there was a book of the same caliber for fixing cars.
"Obscure tools and a couple of weekends of hacking? You really have *no* idea what you are talking about. [...] if you don't know what you are talking about, keep your mouth shut. It is certainly better than making thousands of people dumber for the experience of listening to your uneducated drivel."
You're right, the guy who posted this doesn't know how to do this and he is probably making all of us dumber by his very post. But you've got to admit, based on the original post of the anonymous coward, his assumptions were pretty reasonable (even if they were incorrect). There are plenty of Sourceforge projects that don't work and there are plenty of people who like to make us feel dumber for not knowing how to install them. It has gotten so bad, some people will go ahead and actually lie about the simplicity and the usability of a particular project. And please don't get me wrong, I am not saying that you would lie about this. I am just saying it would be reasonable for anyone to assume that the first anonymous poster lied or exagerrated about the simplicity and the "excellence" of the tools mentioned.
Sad thing is that this applies to medical help also (at least in the US). Some doctors will not help a person dying in the street out of fear of being sued for trying to save their life!?!
This is a lie perpetred by doctors who don't want to help people and people who don't like our legal system. There is no judge/jury in the world that would rule against a doctor trying to help.
Let's face it. Doctors, and most people for that matter, don't want to be bothered. We leave in an apathetic world where we would much rather ignore the problem of a fellow human being rather than take charge of their problem. I am not condemning doctors, I'm just calling it as I see it. I know this is a twisted thing to say, but in many cases I agree that we can't help every person that appears on our doorstep.
HP makes money by selling underpriced printers that can only recognize and only work with their own overpriced proprietary ink cartridges. I wonder if they will use the same successful business model for their Media box.
"I personally would like something that requires certain basic certifications for the techs themselves, and possibly something to do with retail shop areas (use of static mats, data backup procedures, etc). And enforced at the State level similar to most small business type codes. "
We already have a law that encourages technicians to look into our hard drives. Now you want the government to enforce a regulation that would force technicians to backup our hard drives everytime we get our PCs repaired.
If you really want to get rid of the riff raff in your industry. Differentiate yourself. Put a guarantee into the contract you give your costumers. Tell them you guarantee you won't lose their data, or you will pay them X amount of dollars. And if you're afraid they will give you a bad hard drive to begin with. Run your diagnostic and your backup in front of the costumer and offer them this guarantee only once the hard drive has been completely backed up.
If you claim to be half as good as you say you are. You shouldn't be upset that your competitors are screwing up. You should be happy about it. The more they screw up and the more you offer costumers straightforward guarantees -- the more money you will make in the end.
Please note that I was only trying to show the irony in the previous posters' comment and whatever question you have about my comment -- you can ask the same question to the previous poster. In any case, I didn't realize that anyone would be pedantic enough or manipulative enough, to ignore the general meaning of my words, but now that you did, you've given me the license to become as pedantic as you are.
We are indeed reducing some of our stockpile for our bigger nukes, that's correct, but we are also developing and producing lots and lots of smaller tactical nukes, so in the end, the answer is no. The total number of nukes is indeed "probably" rising. I say "probably", because our current number of smaller nukes seems to be around 1,100, our ability to make smaller and smaller nukes is improving, and since Bush wants more and more of them -- our overall number of nukes is "probably" rising.
For me, I depend on Amazon.com and my two local friendly superchains of bookstores for my selection.
I usually sort all my results from Amazon by costumer reviews. I look at all the books that have five-star ratings. I read all the reader reviews given on those books. I roughly guess which books have legitimate reviews, and then I usually run down to the bookstore with my shortlist of top candidates to make my final selection.
Doing it this way, I found that an O'Reilly book is not consistently the best book out there. It may be pretty good (as in Programming C#), it may be the best of its kind (as in Learning Perl), but it can also be pretty awful (such as in Ruby in a Nutshell [not to slam Matz/Ruby because I actually love Ruby and without Matz there wouldn't be a Ruby anyhow]).
At least, three articles out of ninety + articles were insightful. Compared to the three years of news headlines I've seen at Slashdot, that's pretty good.
Now, if edge.org could only have some slashcode running in the backend for each one of those articles, the overall result and the resulting insights would be a lot better than Slashdot.
I simply dont see the connection between violent games and violent behaviors.
Until I babysat some kids and showed them Terminator II, I didn't see a connection between a violent movie and violent behavior, but now I am certain there is one.
It may be insulting to you that people think something as simple as movies could affect the way you behave, but this happens. Obviously, people are not all going to respond the same way to the same stimuli and obviously, there is an infinite number of other factor that could affect ones behavior and obviously, most people who talk about the violence of popular culture usually have insidious plans and impractical plans to control popular culture, but my main point remains: violent culture does affect the way we behave to some extent.
Can you even name one thing that Bush has done since he usurped power through his brother's treason in Florida by disenfranchising 10s of thousands of voters that doesn't show hatred and contempt for the freedom we claim to stand for?
Again, I don't like Bush and I certainly don't appreciate him appointing Kissinger as his chief investigator, but I believe he won Florida fair and square. The democrats had no business asking for a recount only in the democratic Counties and they had no business criticizing the ballots when their party designed and approved the ballots.
'Now substitute "employers" for "consumers" and "employees" for "businesses". Still like the way it sounds?'
Like this you mean:
As [employers], it isn't our responsibility and it isn't possible for us to make sure the [employees] we [employ] from are "viable".
No, I don't like your substitution. The viability of a bloated organizational structure is not equivalent to the viability of a human being. If a human can't feed himself, he will starve and die. If a organizational structure can't feed itself, it might die, but its human employees will join other organizations. As I said those two types of "viability" are not equivalent.
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Ideo is the most innovative company I have ever seen. First, they say so right there on their web site, so if it's written on their web site, I'll assume it has got to be true. And second, instead of designing products that consumers want, they're designing products that consumers would _never_ever_ possibly want. Frankly, if that's not innovation, I don't know what is.
It's working. People who frequently eat at McDonalds are substracting years off their life. I'll give you odds two to one, the fellow you encountered there will have developed Diabetes before he turns 40.
In the US, cell phone disrupters are illegal, but cell phone wall insulation is not. I don't know about the UK thought.
You don't live in the US. Do you? In the US, the overwhelming majority of the supermarkets have a store employee pack your bags. If the store doesn't handle this type of situation very well, then you have the option to go to another store. Based on your post, I'll assume that your government has gone overboard and mandated some laws that would prevent this. Am I right?
I know an old house, a tunnel, and an old mountain range that blocks most of cell phone transmissions. Would you suggest that we tear down that house, ban the use of the tunnel, and flatten that mountain range, because someone has to be reachable by cell phone at all times?
If this idea (or another idea) works commercially, my only concern is that the government might try to jump on it and make it mandatory. The government has the tendency to ruin good ideas. Eventually, our technological advances and our own self-interest in making our own cars safer will solve these kinds of problems (without coercion).
Yes, both .Net and the Java VM would qualify. It's no coincidence that many of the people, who have worked on .Net and Java, are some of the same people who brought us several iterations of SmallTalk.
This article describes a universal characteristic of most seminal languages that most of us had to learn. The fact that the author just figured this out tells me something about his age.
Third World you mean. The term Third World was coined by a French journalist. It came from the French term Third State ("Tiers Etat"). The Third State represented the People. The Second State represented the Church. The First State represented the Nobility. It was called the Third State because it included most of the people, but a fraction of the wealth. The Second State and the First State on the other hand included a fraction of the population, but they possessed almost all the wealth. Personally, I wouldn't take this as a term of disrespect, since eventually the Third State revolted and took over.
Would this mean Kissinger could be sued civily?
How does this dual licensing scheme compare with a BSD license? What's the difference?
Did anyone notice the reference to 'Chicago' the musical? It's a great movie by the way, I just saw it last night.
.Net is an umbrella brand for many of their brands. The brands under that umbrella are usually related to each other and they are usually related to web services, but they don't necessarily need to be. Brands aren't designed to make sense. They're designed to make money.
How does one go about learning to fix cars? I know this is probably a dumb question to ask. I own an 89 Ford Taurus. I use its corresponding Chilton book. I can change its oil filter and I can replace some minor electrical parts, but that's as far as I've gone.
Is there a Mueller equivalent for fixing cars? For fixing computers, the Mueller book has never let me down, and I was wondering if there was a book of the same caliber for fixing cars.
You're right, the guy who posted this doesn't know how to do this and he is probably making all of us dumber by his very post. But you've got to admit, based on the original post of the anonymous coward, his assumptions were pretty reasonable (even if they were incorrect). There are plenty of Sourceforge projects that don't work and there are plenty of people who like to make us feel dumber for not knowing how to install them. It has gotten so bad, some people will go ahead and actually lie about the simplicity and the usability of a particular project. And please don't get me wrong, I am not saying that you would lie about this. I am just saying it would be reasonable for anyone to assume that the first anonymous poster lied or exagerrated about the simplicity and the "excellence" of the tools mentioned.
This is a lie perpetred by doctors who don't want to help people and people who don't like our legal system. There is no judge/jury in the world that would rule against a doctor trying to help.
Let's face it. Doctors, and most people for that matter, don't want to be bothered. We leave in an apathetic world where we would much rather ignore the problem of a fellow human being rather than take charge of their problem. I am not condemning doctors, I'm just calling it as I see it. I know this is a twisted thing to say, but in many cases I agree that we can't help every person that appears on our doorstep.
HP makes money by selling underpriced printers that can only recognize and only work with their own overpriced proprietary ink cartridges. I wonder if they will use the same successful business model for their Media box.
We already have a law that encourages technicians to look into our hard drives. Now you want the government to enforce a regulation that would force technicians to backup our hard drives everytime we get our PCs repaired.
If you really want to get rid of the riff raff in your industry. Differentiate yourself. Put a guarantee into the contract you give your costumers. Tell them you guarantee you won't lose their data, or you will pay them X amount of dollars. And if you're afraid they will give you a bad hard drive to begin with. Run your diagnostic and your backup in front of the costumer and offer them this guarantee only once the hard drive has been completely backed up.
If you claim to be half as good as you say you are. You shouldn't be upset that your competitors are screwing up. You should be happy about it. The more they screw up and the more you offer costumers straightforward guarantees -- the more money you will make in the end.
Please note that I was only trying to show the irony in the previous posters' comment and whatever question you have about my comment -- you can ask the same question to the previous poster. In any case, I didn't realize that anyone would be pedantic enough or manipulative enough, to ignore the general meaning of my words, but now that you did, you've given me the license to become as pedantic as you are.
We are indeed reducing some of our stockpile for our bigger nukes, that's correct, but we are also developing and producing lots and lots of smaller tactical nukes, so in the end, the answer is no. The total number of nukes is indeed "probably" rising. I say "probably", because our current number of smaller nukes seems to be around 1,100, our ability to make smaller and smaller nukes is improving, and since Bush wants more and more of them -- our overall number of nukes is "probably" rising.
For me, I depend on Amazon.com and my two local friendly superchains of bookstores for my selection.
I usually sort all my results from Amazon by costumer reviews. I look at all the books that have five-star ratings. I read all the reader reviews given on those books. I roughly guess which books have legitimate reviews, and then I usually run down to the bookstore with my shortlist of top candidates to make my final selection.
Doing it this way, I found that an O'Reilly book is not consistently the best book out there. It may be pretty good (as in Programming C#), it may be the best of its kind (as in Learning Perl), but it can also be pretty awful (such as in Ruby in a Nutshell [not to slam Matz/Ruby because I actually love Ruby and without Matz there wouldn't be a Ruby anyhow]).
At least, three articles out of ninety + articles were insightful. Compared to the three years of news headlines I've seen at Slashdot, that's pretty good.
Now, if edge.org could only have some slashcode running in the backend for each one of those articles, the overall result and the resulting insights would be a lot better than Slashdot.
Until I babysat some kids and showed them Terminator II, I didn't see a connection between a violent movie and violent behavior, but now I am certain there is one.
It may be insulting to you that people think something as simple as movies could affect the way you behave, but this happens. Obviously, people are not all going to respond the same way to the same stimuli and obviously, there is an infinite number of other factor that could affect ones behavior and obviously, most people who talk about the violence of popular culture usually have insidious plans and impractical plans to control popular culture, but my main point remains: violent culture does affect the way we behave to some extent.
Again, I don't like Bush and I certainly don't appreciate him appointing Kissinger as his chief investigator, but I believe he won Florida fair and square. The democrats had no business asking for a recount only in the democratic Counties and they had no business criticizing the ballots when their party designed and approved the ballots.
Now look where US is... trying to build *more* nukes and pissing off everyone in the world except Bin Laden.
Like this you mean:
As [employers], it isn't our responsibility and it isn't possible for us to make sure the [employees] we [employ] from are "viable".
No, I don't like your substitution. The viability of a bloated organizational structure is not equivalent to the viability of a human being. If a human can't feed himself, he will starve and die. If a organizational structure can't feed itself, it might die, but its human employees will join other organizations. As I said those two types of "viability" are not equivalent.