I agree... but would like to add something... A *LOT* of OS developers develop their software until it works for them... they never really put in that last 10% of effort that makes the program useful for everyone.
I work in the semi industry. My company is so fucked up that marketing lies and promises customers products that DON'T EXIST, and somehow RND (my dept) is held to a timeline that someone literally invented.
Dude, you don't have to go to China or Korea to find people who are unhappy with their lives and substituting their life for a less destitute one with a videogame. I dated a "Geek" girl for a while who was hopelessly addicted to MUDs... My brother has a masters degree and can't get a job, he plays WoW in my parents back room 18 hours a day.
Can I bitch to? Im sick of XML worship. XML is a useful container that holds information, and saves people from having to write a parser themselves. It's not some panacea, and its not some thing that enables all of these technologies.
The Soviet Union proved withuot question that when *EVERYTHING* is provided to you, you have no incentive to work hard, learn or better yourself.
You don't understand capitalism at all. Money represents labor *AND* the ability to make decisions ("dollar votes"). In your perfect world where you fix computers everyday -- I have no ability to make a decision about *WHO* fixes my computer, because I have no money with which to provide an incentive for someone to provide a service I need. Therefore, you have no incentive to upgrade your skills, do anything in a timely manner, or even be competent. Whereas in capitalism, your incentive to remain relavant is the consequence of not working.
Leading up to the video game crash... I recall buying Atari games that just made no god damned sense at all. Not even a little. They were just blotches on the screen whose movements sometimes coresponded to your use of the joystick.
However, Nintendo has a history of keeping very strict controls over games up front, and then as a system ages gradually loosening up controls until they will allow ANY piece of crap to be published. Remember the later years of the nes 8 bit?
The company I work for makes equipment used in the manufacture of semiconductors... We literally do a 48 hour burn in test where our PCB's are subjected to temperature cycling between 0 and 50 degrees C. It catches like 98% of all failures, but not *EVERY* last failure.
The manufacturing process for these XBOX's is probably not very mature, I think the real question is the nature of the problem. Are the errors distributed randomly across all devices and thus indicates a systemic/design problem? Are only certain units failing? If so this indicates a manufacturing or component level problem most likely. You can design the best product in the world but if its built incorrectly, or some retard in purchasing buys poor quality parts... you're still screwed. Lastly, these boxes could just be outliers.
I really hate MS, but we don't have enough info to bash them yet, until we do, its intellectually dishonest to bash them:)
As I understand it, one of the reasons word formats are so hard to use is they are basically marshalled com objects. Meaning even once you know the "Format" you are still totally screwed.
This is a *HUGE* problem in the electronics industry. My company bought some Samsung memory chips to use in our products... They turned out to be counterfit, and failed like crazy. A run of 1000 pcb's was ruined, and Somehow 4 units escaped into the field (did I mention these things can destroy hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment if they fail?). The ram chips were samsung, but they had been remarked -- they were 20 years old!
And lets not forget the motherboard counterfit capactior thing -- I lost two motherboards in that:)
Subway franchises have similar "deals" where, if you have a certain number of stores, then nobody else is allowed to put a store in your area... frequently store owners get the required number of stores, then build a store 25 miles away from your other stores to cut a swath where nobody else can build a store.
Has nintendo every released a defective console? Has Microsoft? Remeber the dead CDROMS in most xbox v1.0 systems... I have one at my house if you've forgotten.
Do you actually get any value out of it? Half the things I look at say, "this item is not available for Amazon Prime" which makes me think I'm better off without it.
Well, my original thought was this... I work 50 - 60 hours a week, and commute about 15 - 20 hours a week. I am also very well paid for this, but it basically leaves me no free time whatsoever. I buy a LOT of albums (about 150 a quarter or so) because I listen to music all day at work, which has the effect of keeping me sane and therefore I consider the cost of these albums to be a business expense.
I buy perhaps 75% of the albums used, and ones I cant find used, I buy on amazon. In that regard, the amazon prime was awesome. I dont have to wait and make a big order of cds, I hear an album I like, I order it that very second, and it shows up in a day or to -- and I dont have time to go to the store anyways.
However now the service has gotten terrible on Amazon. Products are constantly shipped late, sometimes weeks late. Ive had albums mysteriously disappear off my orders and entirely off the amazon website. Add that to the fact that videogames don't qualify for prime, and the CD prices have been through the roof, and you basically I am pretty much done with amazon altogether.
One thing that irritates me about Amazon is that it will not tell you which book comes next in a series.
The thing that irritates me about amazon are the constant price increases. I signed up for amazon prime and their f***ing prices keep going up. Its now actually cheaper for me to order music on bn.com and pay tax AND shipping than to order on amazon with my "free" amazon prime shippnig. *very pissed customer*
The US is outsourcing everything that can be done more cheaply elsewhere. At this point everyone that is a leaf node in their organization (ie, you don't manage anyone) is at risk of being outsourced.
My feeling on the ground here is that managers are getting burned outsourcing.
This whole internet governance is just an excuse to provide a framework for censorship. Besides that it will also destroy innovation and research.
Don't forget taxes. The UN wants the power to tax things so it can pursue income redistribution. Why does the UN want to redistribute income? Because without money flowing through the UN there is nothing to steal.
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I agree ... but would like to add something ... A *LOT* of OS developers develop their software until it works for them... they never really put in that last 10% of effort that makes the program useful for everyone.
I work in the semi industry. My company is so fucked up that marketing lies and promises customers products that DON'T EXIST, and somehow RND (my dept) is held to a timeline that someone literally invented.
Dude, you don't have to go to China or Korea to find people who are unhappy with their lives and substituting their life for a less destitute one with a videogame. I dated a "Geek" girl for a while who was hopelessly addicted to MUDs... My brother has a masters degree and can't get a job, he plays WoW in my parents back room 18 hours a day.
Nobody worships other data formats.
You don't understand capitalism at all. Money represents labor *AND* the ability to make decisions ("dollar votes"). In your perfect world where you fix computers everyday -- I have no ability to make a decision about *WHO* fixes my computer, because I have no money with which to provide an incentive for someone to provide a service I need. Therefore, you have no incentive to upgrade your skills, do anything in a timely manner, or even be competent. Whereas in capitalism, your incentive to remain relavant is the consequence of not working.
The dot com bust and 9/11 was VERY hard on even the top 5%.
However, Nintendo has a history of keeping very strict controls over games up front, and then as a system ages gradually loosening up controls until they will allow ANY piece of crap to be published. Remember the later years of the nes 8 bit?
The manufacturing process for these XBOX's is probably not very mature, I think the real question is the nature of the problem. Are the errors distributed randomly across all devices and thus indicates a systemic/design problem? Are only certain units failing? If so this indicates a manufacturing or component level problem most likely. You can design the best product in the world but if its built incorrectly, or some retard in purchasing buys poor quality parts... you're still screwed. Lastly, these boxes could just be outliers.
I really hate MS, but we don't have enough info to bash them yet, until we do, its intellectually dishonest to bash them :)
Probably has something to do with resurrecting the dead in Ohio who then voted for him.
As I understand it, one of the reasons word formats are so hard to use is they are basically marshalled com objects. Meaning even once you know the "Format" you are still totally screwed.
I work in the semi industry ... And you are right, thats how it works. However this is still crap :)
And lets not forget the motherboard counterfit capactior thing -- I lost two motherboards in that :)
Subway franchises have similar "deals" where, if you have a certain number of stores, then nobody else is allowed to put a store in your area ... frequently store owners get the required number of stores, then build a store 25 miles away from your other stores to cut a swath where nobody else can build a store.
I knew a guy who had that. Very nice guy, but imagine going through life sounding like bobcat goldwig ...
The defective dvdroms ... another story entirely.
Has nintendo every released a defective console? Has Microsoft? Remeber the dead CDROMS in most xbox v1.0 systems ... I have one at my house if you've forgotten.
Well, my original thought was this ... I work 50 - 60 hours a week, and commute about 15 - 20 hours a week. I am also very well paid for this, but it basically leaves me no free time whatsoever. I buy a LOT of albums (about 150 a quarter or so) because I listen to music all day at work, which has the effect of keeping me sane and therefore I consider the cost of these albums to be a business expense.
I buy perhaps 75% of the albums used, and ones I cant find used, I buy on amazon. In that regard, the amazon prime was awesome. I dont have to wait and make a big order of cds, I hear an album I like, I order it that very second, and it shows up in a day or to -- and I dont have time to go to the store anyways.
However now the service has gotten terrible on Amazon. Products are constantly shipped late, sometimes weeks late. Ive had albums mysteriously disappear off my orders and entirely off the amazon website. Add that to the fact that videogames don't qualify for prime, and the CD prices have been through the roof, and you basically I am pretty much done with amazon altogether.
Amazon was caught doing differential pricing before ... You'd think they'd be more clever about it this time around.
I'm thinking thats exactly whats going on. But I have no way to prove it.
The thing that irritates me about amazon are the constant price increases. I signed up for amazon prime and their f***ing prices keep going up. Its now actually cheaper for me to order music on bn.com and pay tax AND shipping than to order on amazon with my "free" amazon prime shippnig. *very pissed customer*
My feeling on the ground here is that managers are getting burned outsourcing.
All I said was the UN is hopelessly corrupt. This is a fact.
I hope you know that quote is from Moby Dick? Not Star Trek II? :)
Don't forget taxes. The UN wants the power to tax things so it can pursue income redistribution. Why does the UN want to redistribute income? Because without money flowing through the UN there is nothing to steal.
I dont know about the UK, but in the US people live in the city because thats where the JOBS are.