In order for workers to CONSUME there must be things for them to CONSUME. So workers must also PRODUCE. CC made a choice that these workers were not PRODUCING as much as they were CONSUMING and so laid them off.
Whether this is good business sense is debatable. Whether it is ethical is not.
Now, if someone comes in, and, by *NOT* following the script to the letter (he did say all the parts that the law requires creditors to say,) sets sales records two months in a row (he got a plastic slinky with the company name on it in thanks,) shouldn't you have the OTHER people follow his lead, rather than fire him?
No. What if he was lying? I'm not saying he was, but they have the scripts because they have been vetted for all sorts of different situations.
His job was not a salesman... his job was a human interface to a pre-recorded message.
This is actually not true for me. I love the multimedia stuff, and keep wanting to play GTA: Liberty Cities but I'm too "lazy" watching TV shows on it. I bittorrent the content, and encode it with PSP video 9. Very simple3-click process I let run overnight and it encodes an entire season which I can store on exactly 1 4 gig memory card.
I take the thing to the gym and watch it while I'm running. And on the places I don't have to take it out of my backpack for the damned TSA stormtroopers.
When my parents arrived at the uhaul rental place to pick up our large truck, they had none on the lot, and informed us that the nearest one was roughly 200km away, in the opposite direction from where I needed to go. They offered us a trailer that was 1/3rd the size as the best they could do.
"I made a reservation? Do you have my reservation?"
"Yes, we do. Unfortunately, we ran out of cars."
"But the reservation keeps the car here. That's why you have the reservations."
"I know why we have the reservations,"
"I don't think you do. If you did, I'd have a car. See, you know how to take the reservation. You just don't know how to hold the reservation. And that's really the most important part of the reservation, the holding. Anyone can just take them."
But they failed to do so and, in classic bad management fasion, he blames the engineer(s):
"But we couldn't get our people to understand software. And we are a music company. They saw digital media, panicked and didn't like it." In the end Sony designed a closed music system that didn't work.
Funny, I don't see the word "engineers" in your quote. Perhaps the "we" in "we couldn't" means the engineers and by "our people" he means management?
If you were an investor, who do you put your money in? The company whose income increased about 20% / yr over the last 5 years, or the company whose income has been more than doubling for the last four years? It's two completely different kinds of investment: stable, mature company or hot, rising star?
If I knew I was only going to live another six months, you can damn well bet that I wouldn't be showing up for work on Monday. It's not that I dislike my job, precisely, but I don't go there for entertainment. There are a whole lot of other things I'd like to do that would by far take priority.
If I only had 6 months to live, missing work on Monday still wouldn't let me watch my daughter graduate from college.
Problem is, he is not tech savvy in the least - so he'd get some cut-rate version of Windows one way or the other, try - and fail - to install it, then spend hours on the phone with Dell arguing over "why their computer is broken". I've tried helping him with tech problems over the phone before, and I'll tell you - it's like pulling teeth getting just basic information from him.
If I have to listen to one more friend/family member tell me "It doesn't work." when I ask them what's wrong I will go crazy. Perhaps this has already happened.
In the long term the common consumer and investor must approach this technology cautiously. We must remember the cycle that we went through with electronics. That cycle will be repeated with photonics. First they will create an AND gate, then an OR gate, then higher order functions, then the functions will be arranged on a die to make a processor, then the processors will begin to differentiate and will inherit different functions, then the processors will begin to aggregate and some processors will assimilate others. Eventually the architecture of processors will stabilize and they will begin to accelerate.
Next they develop their own intelligence. Then they attempt to throw off their human masters. We attack them to keep them from surpassing us. They fight back. The sun gets blotted out. Next thing you know we're all in a virtual world generating power for Agent Smith. Great job guys.
Let's say that you love ice cream but you hate herpes-sore covered cock. Some dude shows you his herpes-covered cock, but it's also smeared with delicious ice cream. "Hey man, I thought you loved ice cream, you weirdo!" he says as you run screaming.
Look you leave my persona life out of this!
I see what you mean... but I think your analogy stretches it a bit.;)
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Here's what consumers need to learn:
Consumers don't learn things from corporations... corporations learn things from consumers.
Well, the ones that want to stick around anyway.
In order for workers to CONSUME there must be things for them to CONSUME. So workers must also PRODUCE. CC made a choice that these workers were not PRODUCING as much as they were CONSUMING and so laid them off.
Whether this is good business sense is debatable. Whether it is ethical is not.
Yet another corporate management that views the bottom-end labor as a pure commodity.
I fail to see how the highest paid employees are the bottom-end labor?
Now, if someone comes in, and, by *NOT* following the script to the letter (he did say all the parts that the law requires creditors to say,) sets sales records two months in a row (he got a plastic slinky with the company name on it in thanks,) shouldn't you have the OTHER people follow his lead, rather than fire him?
No. What if he was lying? I'm not saying he was, but they have the scripts because they have been vetted for all sorts of different situations.
His job was not a salesman... his job was a human interface to a pre-recorded message.
It's called a television.
I don't work in the industry but I have to think that filling 9Gigs of data is a pretty impressive and expensive feet.
Also, 640K ought to be enough for everybody.
i just had to switch to gmail today ,as yahoo decided to start charging £12 a year for POP access.
assholes.
I know, how do they expect you to pay when you go to your job for free?
What do you mean you don't work for free?
asshole!
More fodder for quantum computing?... another NP complete problem to add to the list...
The multimedia stuff is impractical,
This is actually not true for me. I love the multimedia stuff, and keep wanting to play GTA: Liberty Cities but I'm too "lazy" watching TV shows on it. I bittorrent the content, and encode it with PSP video 9. Very simple3-click process I let run overnight and it encodes an entire season which I can store on exactly 1 4 gig memory card.
I take the thing to the gym and watch it while I'm running. And on the places I don't have to take it out of my backpack for the damned TSA stormtroopers.
When my parents arrived at the uhaul rental place to pick up our large truck, they had none on the lot, and informed us that the nearest one was roughly 200km away, in the opposite direction from where I needed to go. They offered us a trailer that was 1/3rd the size as the best they could do.
"I made a reservation? Do you have my reservation?"
"Yes, we do. Unfortunately, we ran out of cars."
"But the reservation keeps the car here. That's why you have the reservations."
"I know why we have the reservations,"
"I don't think you do. If you did, I'd have a car. See, you know how to take the reservation. You just don't know how to hold the reservation. And that's really the most important part of the reservation, the holding. Anyone can just take them."
But then wouldn't it cost more?
But they failed to do so and, in classic bad management fasion, he blames the engineer(s):
"But we couldn't get our people to understand software. And we are a music company. They saw digital media, panicked and didn't like it." In the end Sony designed a closed music system that didn't work.
Funny, I don't see the word "engineers" in your quote. Perhaps the "we" in "we couldn't" means the engineers and by "our people" he means management?
Now that a machine can translate thoughts into words, how long before it's used in interrogations?
Think of the FIRST letter of your contact's name?!!! Ok, now think of the SECOND letter of your contact's name!!!??
Seriously though, this a thought-controlled computer, not a thought-control computer. I think it would be better than torture.
If you were an investor, who do you put your money in? The company whose income increased about 20% / yr over the last 5 years, or the company whose income has been more than doubling for the last four years? It's two completely different kinds of investment: stable, mature company or hot, rising star?
Whichever one has a better forward P/E.
If I knew I was only going to live another six months, you can damn well bet that I wouldn't be showing up for work on Monday. It's not that I dislike my job, precisely, but I don't go there for entertainment. There are a whole lot of other things I'd like to do that would by far take priority.
If I only had 6 months to live, missing work on Monday still wouldn't let me watch my daughter graduate from college.
Problem is, he is not tech savvy in the least - so he'd get some cut-rate version of Windows one way or the other, try - and fail - to install it, then spend hours on the phone with Dell arguing over "why their computer is broken". I've tried helping him with tech problems over the phone before, and I'll tell you - it's like pulling teeth getting just basic information from him.
If I have to listen to one more friend/family member tell me "It doesn't work." when I ask them what's wrong I will go crazy. Perhaps this has already happened.
"Sony's Searchles Steals Content from Grouper"
And the summary would contain a link to Grouper, but not Searchles.
Telling.
Okay, so save your money, and then when you need the drug you die, too bad..
Yes... but he'll have won. No corporation is going to get his spare change!
This is exactly what is wrong with our country today. We are so afraid of someone else winning that we will hurt anyone to stop them.
I suppose if you define "owner" to include "recipient of a gift paid for by someone else", I could see those numbers being fairly accurate.
How the hell else would you consider a recipient of a gift paid for by someone else?
In the long term the common consumer and investor must approach this technology cautiously. We must remember the cycle that we went through with electronics. That cycle will be repeated with photonics. First they will create an AND gate, then an OR gate, then higher order functions, then the functions will be arranged on a die to make a processor, then the processors will begin to differentiate and will inherit different functions, then the processors will begin to aggregate and some processors will assimilate others. Eventually the architecture of processors will stabilize and they will begin to accelerate.
Next they develop their own intelligence. Then they attempt to throw off their human masters. We attack them to keep them from surpassing us. They fight back. The sun gets blotted out. Next thing you know we're all in a virtual world generating power for Agent Smith. Great job guys.
All from a stupid AND gate. STOP THEM NOW!
Hey, don't feel bad, I hate that guy too. Next time I'm going to tell him that I just love things that are on fire. Should be good for a laugh.
You don't understand... I AM that guy.
If people don't want to see my penis... they should tell me ahead of time.
Let's say that you love ice cream but you hate herpes-sore covered cock. Some dude shows you his herpes-covered cock, but it's also smeared with delicious ice cream. "Hey man, I thought you loved ice cream, you weirdo!" he says as you run screaming.
;)
Look you leave my persona life out of this!
I see what you mean... but I think your analogy stretches it a bit.
That's what I've always found weird.
Slashdot appears to hate the PS3 and love Linux... yet which console runs Linux out of the box as a freaking menu option?
I'll repeat myself - Give me what I want, or you don't get any revenue from me.
Someone mark this as informative. I keep buying shit I don't want and it's getting really old.
Every time some piece of microsoft infrastructure breaks, I replace it with linux.
What happens when a piece of linux infrastructure breaks?