Unless I'm gravely mistaken, they've got some excellent talkers working there. I don't see the business case, but apparently someone managed to convince the management enough for this to make the news.
Actually, there is nothing new here. Nokia already invested big on mapping when it acquired NavTeq and NavTeq already had most of these relationships in place at the time it was acquired by Nokia in 2008.
The only new item I'm noticing here is the relationship with Oracle, but my guess is that this isn't new either and that we're only getting this bit of news because of the current JavaOne conference.
Nokia aren't not exactly first to market, so they better get it right. Because they've got some fantastic competitors in Tom Tom, OpenStreetMaps, Google and yes, even Apple. Unless they "Get it right" and come up with a bloody good reason for people to switch from their cost-free-and-good Android Google Maps, they're just throwing money into a bottomless pit.
What are you talking about? NavTeq was already (and is still) the largest mapping OEM in the World. NavTeq data was already being used by TomTom, Microsoft, Apple, and even Google in some parts. Part of the issue here is that few companies possess all the mapping data in the world, so they have to license a patchwork of maps from a bunch of different mapping vendors and NavTeq was already the largest amalgamation of many of those mapping companies.
Now if you want to talk about how NavTeq is consolidating itself more and more, but now is mostly standing still technology-wise -- compared to many of its competitors. Then yes, we can talk about that, but don't ever say that the problem isn't that NavTeq wasn't the first to market. Technically, I don't think anyone can claim to be first in mapping technology, even Christopher Columbus can't claim that. But if anything in this case, I'd say the opposite was true, and that for a time, NavTeq was first to market, mostly in the 90s, and it's still the biggest right now, but now unfortunately, the people running NavTeq are currently either too old, too arrogant, or too set in their ways, to adapt to the rapidly changing landscape of diverging mapping technologies. Their only strategy right now seems to buy out their competition, so they can maintain their old prices, but that strategy doesn't seem to be working, that's why they were eventually bought themselves by Nokia.
You can easily screw up your device trying to get CM on it...
Hopefully, you'll have made a backup of your original image before doing that.
In my case however, I've actually saved my device from sending it back for warranty repairs because I actually had it rooted.
...and on some devices will lose functionality.
Yes, but that's usually not a problem. Once you've rooted your device and installed one ROM, trying different ROMs is super trivial.
CM may not be the ROM for you, for instance it wasn't the ROM for me, so I just moved on until I found a ROM that had all the functionality I desired and all the wrinkles ironed out. Of course, the availability of good ROMs for your device will depend on the popularity of your phone model, and its first initial public release date.
If your device just came out, like the iPhone 5 for instance, you may have to wait a couple of weeks before you'll find the right customized Android ROM for it. So please be patient.
First off, the free drinks and snacks are a good idea, but make sure those food items are healthy. Cut down on the sugar, the carbs, the caffeine, and the junk food (thought, do not get rid of the coffee machine, you do not want a revolt on your hands). Stock up on fresh fruits everyday. And get rid of cake day. Also, if your developers/ITs time is worth a lot of money to the company, make sure they work with the best equipment possible. Do the math and minimize the time they need to go home. Hire them a free concierge service and a free laundry service. Give them free dinners if they stay until 7 PM. Bring in subsidized car repairs, dentistry, hair cuts, remote grocery shopping, on site, to minimize the time they have to leave the company. Don't think of luxury items. Think of the every day mundane necessary things that we all have to deal with anyway.
Also, be prepared to lead by example yourselves. If IT sees some of the top brass only showing up at 10 am and leaving at 4 pm (even if they have supposedly a good reason that others do not know about), don't expect any of them to put in 60 hours a week (I know not everyone does that, but the few that do can be a huge demoralizers to the rest of the company).
Then, read books like "Mythical Man Month" by Brooks and "Peoplesoft" by De Marco. Make sure the entire management reads those books. Also, read books by Edward Deming, who actually recommends not to pay people individual bonuses, but team/department bonuses instead. Paying bonuses for passing exams also sounds like a bad idea (since 90% of the technical exams out there have been gamed and the answers can easily be found on torrent sites, or can be purchased for $99)
Promote from within, not necessarily from outside. Rotate people's roles. Do not overdo the praise and the flattery when we do something that you don't understand. We're not magicians, rock stars, or wizards. Conversely, learn a little bit about the complexity of software production and IT, so that's where my recommended reading list comes in. Behavior comes from belief. Belief comes from understanding. First, it's your understanding that needs to change, before you can even hope to change the underlying understandings and behaviors of others.
Of course, not everyone will agree with my list of suggestions, nor will you be able to implement all of those ideas, and that's fine, hopefully, you'll be able to implement at least a few ideas from our different lists of suggestions.
Actually, I only emitted the idea as a joke. Not only that, but what they're really talking about is not a futures market for bitcoins as the summary tries to imply, but a futures market for oil and gold in which the transactions are done in bitcoins.
That's hardly the same idea, so I'm not sure if I should be offended that they took my half-baked idiotic idea and tried to implement it, or that I should be offended that they took my half-baked idiotic idea and tried to copy it badly.
Either way, I'd recommend against investing in this market, and as the inventor -- I should really be the one to know.
He adds that providers of new technology should be forced to apply to Congress to prove they don't upset existing business models.
Also, don't you love his thinking. He's asking that new tech companies be required to prove a negative.
With that kind of thinking: the iPhone, the iPod, the internet, the photocopy machine, the phonograph, the telegraph, the telephone, the television, the radio, penicillin, aspirin, etc. could never have seen the light of day (or all those technologies would just have become black market technology, and that policy would just have turned all of us into criminals for even using them).
Appeasing the Muslim lunatic fringe is not a "win" for anyone.
But he is part of the Muslim lunatic fringe. Creating a Jewish-Israeli straw man + "100 of his Jewish friends who supposedly gave him 5 million dollars" to receive the blame for the movie seems to have been his main goal. It reminds me of the gay high school girl who purposefully vandalized her own LGBT posters with nazi swastikas and then lied to the police about it.
Arrest him, or release him, it doesn't matter much now anyway. That being said, if I was one of the ones he still owed $800,000 in restitution money to, I'd be crying bloody murder, and aside from lobbying to try to get him back to prison, I'd be trying to repossess any leftover video equipment/computers he had at his place plus any leftover money from his family sent to him from Egypt.
No, the lesson here was. Next time, don't let them find out the evidence that will be used against them.
"American authorities are appealing against a New Zealand court decision that Dotcom should be allowed to see the evidence on which the extradition hearing will be based."
Would the New Zealand court not insist on seeing all that evidence in the first place? I doubt the PM would have apologized for anything.
And actually, if you read what Snopes actually had to say about the story, they didn't say that he was joking either. Snopes basically said that Romney didn't express genuine confusion about why planes windows don't open, which is kind of true enough. First Romney criticized the fact that plane windows couldn't open, he was quite serious about it since he was talking about his wife's incident, and then he kind of just dismissed any of the reasoning behind the design decisions.
So yes, he did say a pretty stupid thing, and Snopes agrees with me on that, but is this really important at all?
Even smart people say stupid things some times. And Mitt Romney is definitely not stupid. Personally, Mitt Romney scares me and he doesn't scare me because he's stupid (as some of the candidates in the past have scared me). Mitt Romney scares me precisely because he's a very smart and shrewd experienced corporate raider, and it scares the hell out of me that the Republican base would even consider such a candidate in the first place.
They are going to resume operation and earn money via trading fees. Assuming they get enough volume the profits will eventually be able to replay the depositors. In other words they will try to earn their way out of insolvency.
Hopefully, there won't be a run on the bank as soon as it reopens.
Either that, or they'll have to furnish future IOUs to the people who've lost money, and so a bond/futures market for bitcoins where you can sell your IOU at a discount will probably open up as well.
If Google had a mapping app ready now, they could have got a significant percentage - say 10-20 percent - of them back as Google Maps users.
Yes, but what's the use of those 10% to 20% if most of those people couldn't act as data points for up-to-date real-time traffic information. It's silly. Isn't it? Apple allows Waze to crowdsource its iPhone users for better map and traffic information, but it doesn't let Google Maps Navigation do the same.
Longer term Apple will be able to use a large number of people to rapidly improve map quality.
Longer term people will find that apps are providing better transit guidance than Google is able to give, and third party transit apps are integrated into Apple maps in a way that Google is unlikely to follow with since Google is trying to gather data about what you want to do, and they are blind if you go into a third-party app for transit.
Actually, Google currently sees into most third party apps on Android since most third party apps use Google Maps APIs, or at least, they use AdMob SDKs. Plus, Google Maps and Google AdMob try to be OS-agnostic, so you'll find them on as many other mobile platforms as they can be on.
Also, Android is also pretty good about letting other apps share location information with them, to save on battery life, and to make the experience better for android users. In other words, it's a company that's well known to play with others with their APIs, and unfortunately, Apple doesn't have the same kind of mindset, or expertise, in this area.
The word 'jerk' is just a label we use for others, never ourselves.
That's what makes this topic so fruitless. Go ask the biggest jerks you know of if they believe they're jerks. Most don't think they are, but they'll probably volunteer a list of many "others" that fit the label.
1) Breaking immigration laws by working while on a tourist visa.
Who says that's breaking the immigration law? Foreigners with "L" tourist visas inside Mainland China can certainly earn income outside of Mainland China if they so desire. They would not be breaking any laws.
Of course, I'm not a lawyer, so take my words with a grain of salt.
Drat! If only there was someone on the scene with a smartphone with a really good camera and fast data connection!
You mean like an Android Lenovo 750? Hopefully, that person had the presence of mind to steal someone else's phone before taking and posting pictures for everyone to see, because otherwise he certainly doesn't seem to be covering his tracks very well.
I don't really see how this is a news story. I mean it makes completely sense to try and lure away experienced professionals away from another company on a similar project.
It's only news, because it's a rare event when corporations actually follow the law -- instead of just paying lip service to it.
Finally, Apple and Google are now poaching each other's employees/contractors. Remember this story.
Perhaps now, this will force Google to offer permanent positions and better salaries to some of its better contract programmers. Also now that Apple is going after Google's employees, Apple can't really complain if Google makes a targeted effort to hire away some of Apple's top designers.
So let's clarify this a bit: No internet-based company has ever won a war against its living and breathing human products.
If Facebook really wanted to know our real names without antagonizing us too much, it should just allow us to create profiles with pseudonyms and separate friend's lists, and also have something akin to Amazon's "Verified Real Name" profile for the times when having a verified real name gives us more credibility and trustworthiness, so it will be taken more seriously if we sign a petition, post a review, or post a comment on a company's facebook page.
If they actually did try to do that, they would know even more about us and could productize us even more easily, and they could even advertise to all our profiles at the same time knowing that it was just one person sitting behind all those profiles.
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Unless I'm gravely mistaken, they've got some excellent talkers working there. I don't see the business case, but apparently someone managed to convince the management enough for this to make the news.
Actually, there is nothing new here. Nokia already invested big on mapping when it acquired NavTeq and NavTeq already had most of these relationships in place at the time it was acquired by Nokia in 2008.
The only new item I'm noticing here is the relationship with Oracle, but my guess is that this isn't new either and that we're only getting this bit of news because of the current JavaOne conference.
Nokia aren't not exactly first to market, so they better get it right. Because they've got some fantastic competitors in Tom Tom, OpenStreetMaps, Google and yes, even Apple. Unless they "Get it right" and come up with a bloody good reason for people to switch from their cost-free-and-good Android Google Maps, they're just throwing money into a bottomless pit.
What are you talking about? NavTeq was already (and is still) the largest mapping OEM in the World. NavTeq data was already being used by TomTom, Microsoft, Apple, and even Google in some parts. Part of the issue here is that few companies possess all the mapping data in the world, so they have to license a patchwork of maps from a bunch of different mapping vendors and NavTeq was already the largest amalgamation of many of those mapping companies.
Now if you want to talk about how NavTeq is consolidating itself more and more, but now is mostly standing still technology-wise -- compared to many of its competitors. Then yes, we can talk about that, but don't ever say that the problem isn't that NavTeq wasn't the first to market. Technically, I don't think anyone can claim to be first in mapping technology, even Christopher Columbus can't claim that. But if anything in this case, I'd say the opposite was true, and that for a time, NavTeq was first to market, mostly in the 90s, and it's still the biggest right now, but now unfortunately, the people running NavTeq are currently either too old, too arrogant, or too set in their ways, to adapt to the rapidly changing landscape of diverging mapping technologies. Their only strategy right now seems to buy out their competition, so they can maintain their old prices, but that strategy doesn't seem to be working, that's why they were eventually bought themselves by Nokia.
You can easily screw up your device trying to get CM on it...
Hopefully, you'll have made a backup of your original image before doing that.
In my case however, I've actually saved my device from sending it back for warranty repairs because I actually had it rooted.
...and on some devices will lose functionality.
Yes, but that's usually not a problem. Once you've rooted your device and installed one ROM, trying different ROMs is super trivial.
CM may not be the ROM for you, for instance it wasn't the ROM for me, so I just moved on until I found a ROM that had all the functionality I desired and all the wrinkles ironed out. Of course, the availability of good ROMs for your device will depend on the popularity of your phone model, and its first initial public release date.
If your device just came out, like the iPhone 5 for instance, you may have to wait a couple of weeks before you'll find the right customized Android ROM for it. So please be patient.
First off, the free drinks and snacks are a good idea, but make sure those food items are healthy. Cut down on the sugar, the carbs, the caffeine, and the junk food (thought, do not get rid of the coffee machine, you do not want a revolt on your hands). Stock up on fresh fruits everyday. And get rid of cake day. Also, if your developers/ITs time is worth a lot of money to the company, make sure they work with the best equipment possible. Do the math and minimize the time they need to go home. Hire them a free concierge service and a free laundry service. Give them free dinners if they stay until 7 PM. Bring in subsidized car repairs, dentistry, hair cuts, remote grocery shopping, on site, to minimize the time they have to leave the company. Don't think of luxury items. Think of the every day mundane necessary things that we all have to deal with anyway.
Also, be prepared to lead by example yourselves. If IT sees some of the top brass only showing up at 10 am and leaving at 4 pm (even if they have supposedly a good reason that others do not know about), don't expect any of them to put in 60 hours a week (I know not everyone does that, but the few that do can be a huge demoralizers to the rest of the company).
Then, read books like "Mythical Man Month" by Brooks and "Peoplesoft" by De Marco. Make sure the entire management reads those books. Also, read books by Edward Deming, who actually recommends not to pay people individual bonuses, but team/department bonuses instead. Paying bonuses for passing exams also sounds like a bad idea (since 90% of the technical exams out there have been gamed and the answers can easily be found on torrent sites, or can be purchased for $99)
Promote from within, not necessarily from outside. Rotate people's roles. Do not overdo the praise and the flattery when we do something that you don't understand. We're not magicians, rock stars, or wizards. Conversely, learn a little bit about the complexity of software production and IT, so that's where my recommended reading list comes in. Behavior comes from belief. Belief comes from understanding. First, it's your understanding that needs to change, before you can even hope to change the underlying understandings and behaviors of others.
Of course, not everyone will agree with my list of suggestions, nor will you be able to implement all of those ideas, and that's fine, hopefully, you'll be able to implement at least a few ideas from our different lists of suggestions.
Actually, I only emitted the idea as a joke. Not only that, but what they're really talking about is not a futures market for bitcoins as the summary tries to imply, but a futures market for oil and gold in which the transactions are done in bitcoins.
That's hardly the same idea, so I'm not sure if I should be offended that they took my half-baked idiotic idea and tried to implement it, or that I should be offended that they took my half-baked idiotic idea and tried to copy it badly.
Either way, I'd recommend against investing in this market, and as the inventor -- I should really be the one to know.
He adds that providers of new technology should be forced to apply to Congress to prove they don't upset existing business models.
Also, don't you love his thinking. He's asking that new tech companies be required to prove a negative.
With that kind of thinking: the iPhone, the iPod, the internet, the photocopy machine, the phonograph, the telegraph, the telephone, the television, the radio, penicillin, aspirin, etc. could never have seen the light of day (or all those technologies would just have become black market technology, and that policy would just have turned all of us into criminals for even using them).
How does one make a mistake like that?
Drunk Texting.
It's even more dangerous than Drunk Dialing, since you can reach that many more females before you stop dialing and pass out in your own vomit.
He could have made a group alias for the entire group. I don't have a BlackBerry, but I could envision this being possible.
Appeasing the Muslim lunatic fringe is not a "win" for anyone.
But he is part of the Muslim lunatic fringe. Creating a Jewish-Israeli straw man + "100 of his Jewish friends who supposedly gave him 5 million dollars" to receive the blame for the movie seems to have been his main goal. It reminds me of the gay high school girl who purposefully vandalized her own LGBT posters with nazi swastikas and then lied to the police about it.
Arrest him, or release him, it doesn't matter much now anyway. That being said, if I was one of the ones he still owed $800,000 in restitution money to, I'd be crying bloody murder, and aside from lobbying to try to get him back to prison, I'd be trying to repossess any leftover video equipment/computers he had at his place plus any leftover money from his family sent to him from Egypt.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to close down the Australian stock exchange? Or just monitor the people who actively trade?
Not that this will prevent people from encrypting messages, or passing insider messages face-to-face.
When I die, I'm getting my body cremated (just in case).
No, the lesson here was. Next time, don't let them find out the evidence that will be used against them.
"American authorities are appealing against a New Zealand court decision that Dotcom should be allowed to see the evidence on which the extradition hearing will be based."
Would the New Zealand court not insist on seeing all that evidence in the first place? I doubt the PM would have apologized for anything.
And actually, if you read what Snopes actually had to say about the story, they didn't say that he was joking either. Snopes basically said that Romney didn't express genuine confusion about why planes windows don't open, which is kind of true enough. First Romney criticized the fact that plane windows couldn't open, he was quite serious about it since he was talking about his wife's incident, and then he kind of just dismissed any of the reasoning behind the design decisions.
So yes, he did say a pretty stupid thing, and Snopes agrees with me on that, but is this really important at all?
Even smart people say stupid things some times. And Mitt Romney is definitely not stupid. Personally, Mitt Romney scares me and he doesn't scare me because he's stupid (as some of the candidates in the past have scared me). Mitt Romney scares me precisely because he's a very smart and shrewd experienced corporate raider, and it scares the hell out of me that the Republican base would even consider such a candidate in the first place.
They are going to resume operation and earn money via trading fees. Assuming they get enough volume the profits will eventually be able to replay the depositors. In other words they will try to earn their way out of insolvency.
Hopefully, there won't be a run on the bank as soon as it reopens.
Either that, or they'll have to furnish future IOUs to the people who've lost money, and so a bond/futures market for bitcoins where you can sell your IOU at a discount will probably open up as well.
If Google had a mapping app ready now, they could have got a significant percentage - say 10-20 percent - of them back as Google Maps users.
Yes, but what's the use of those 10% to 20% if most of those people couldn't act as data points for up-to-date real-time traffic information. It's silly. Isn't it? Apple allows Waze to crowdsource its iPhone users for better map and traffic information, but it doesn't let Google Maps Navigation do the same.
Longer term Apple will be able to use a large number of people to rapidly improve map quality.
Yes, a large number, but not as large a number as Google's.
Longer term people will find that apps are providing better transit guidance than Google is able to give, and third party transit apps are integrated into Apple maps in a way that Google is unlikely to follow with since Google is trying to gather data about what you want to do, and they are blind if you go into a third-party app for transit.
Actually, Google currently sees into most third party apps on Android since most third party apps use Google Maps APIs, or at least, they use AdMob SDKs. Plus, Google Maps and Google AdMob try to be OS-agnostic, so you'll find them on as many other mobile platforms as they can be on.
Also, Android is also pretty good about letting other apps share location information with them, to save on battery life, and to make the experience better for android users. In other words, it's a company that's well known to play with others with their APIs, and unfortunately, Apple doesn't have the same kind of mindset, or expertise, in this area.
The word 'jerk' is just a label we use for others, never ourselves.
That's what makes this topic so fruitless. Go ask the biggest jerks you know of if they believe they're jerks. Most don't think they are, but they'll probably volunteer a list of many "others" that fit the label.
brilliant business people are the opposite of productive.
What do you mean by that?
Jerk in any way shape or form is not needed in any business.
Steve Jobs was a jerk. Was he really not needed?
Maybe not some "shady" roll your own linux vpn...but some Cisco product? Why not?
It's funny you should say that, but to the Chinese authorities, and to everyone else who's not american, Cisco is now the poster boy of shadiness.
1) Breaking immigration laws by working while on a tourist visa.
Who says that's breaking the immigration law? Foreigners with "L" tourist visas inside Mainland China can certainly earn income outside of Mainland China if they so desire. They would not be breaking any laws.
Of course, I'm not a lawyer, so take my words with a grain of salt.
Drat! If only there was someone on the scene with a smartphone with a really good camera and fast data connection!
You mean like an Android Lenovo 750? Hopefully, that person had the presence of mind to steal someone else's phone before taking and posting pictures for everyone to see, because otherwise he certainly doesn't seem to be covering his tracks very well.
At least with Google employees, Apple won't need to email them a pdf map of their office location.
I don't really see how this is a news story. I mean it makes completely sense to try and lure away experienced professionals away from another company on a similar project.
It's only news, because it's a rare event when corporations actually follow the law -- instead of just paying lip service to it.
Finally, Apple and Google are now poaching each other's employees/contractors. Remember this story.
Perhaps now, this will force Google to offer permanent positions and better salaries to some of its better contract programmers. Also now that Apple is going after Google's employees, Apple can't really complain if Google makes a targeted effort to hire away some of Apple's top designers.
That's not his fault. He never got the notification.
So let's clarify this a bit: No internet-based company has ever won a war against its living and breathing human products.
If Facebook really wanted to know our real names without antagonizing us too much, it should just allow us to create profiles with pseudonyms and separate friend's lists, and also have something akin to Amazon's "Verified Real Name" profile for the times when having a verified real name gives us more credibility and trustworthiness, so it will be taken more seriously if we sign a petition, post a review, or post a comment on a company's facebook page.
If they actually did try to do that, they would know even more about us and could productize us even more easily, and they could even advertise to all our profiles at the same time knowing that it was just one person sitting behind all those profiles.
Of course they would have to do it before someone else (China) lands on it and claims it.
Sorry, Putin already claimed the moon. He claimed Russian scientists carbon dated a bunch of rocks in Siberia and found a connection with the moon.