IBM management hollowed out IBM to boost their compensation and share price at the cost of customer satisfaction, employee stability and ultimately, sales. R.I.P. Another corporate suicide.
I see this as the inevitable consequence of political science becoming more acceptable in climate study than, well, science. When lemming-like behavior is all that remains among climate scientists because all of the dissenting views have either been fired, unfunded or shunned into silence, you get a gestalt of sameness. Science is the messy pursuit of all theories in the effort to explain observed data. No mess, no science - no science, no scientists..
I'm remembering ~20 years back when HP made MO disk jukeboxes. All was well until they started mis-filing disks and randomly erasing data that was supposed to be kept. Ugly. Maybe Panasonic can overcome this, but I'm skeptical of the value.
Let's turn his comment and audience around. If an up-and-coming ISIS leader said "America isn't necessarily evil. It is made up of people doing what they think is best for their community. Violence is not the answer, though." what would happen? You'd find his corpse being used as an illustration for others who question their ideology of violence. When you have no right to speak freely without fear, you have no rights at all.
(Some) Luddites in academia will still object if you show up in class and pull out a tablet with the book digitized on it. The dead-tree-textbook-publishing racket will die a slow and painful death as the publishing professors and companies seek to maintain their monopoly. $400 for a "new" Calculus textbook printed this year when the previous edition of that same book was in print for only 2 years? In most other areas of life this would be called extortion.
These are some of the same climate scientists openly discussing geo-engineering of the climate. Just as you can't automate what you don't understand, you can't 'fix' something if you can't accurately describe how and why it's broken. Hands off until they can please..
Interesting observation. My sample size is 5 children, and though it's not statistically significant, it does offer some insights. My children who came of age before ubiquitous connectivity are better conversationalists and are more connected with "tribal knowledge" of the spoken and relational kinds, whereas my youngest are totally connected to the Internet teat and are more disconnected from familial and "tribal" inputs. It will be interesting to see what they and millions of their peers do to the political and social institutions of the US. If you're not a little scared by that prospect, you're not paying attention.
If tech companies didn't use H-1B visas to hire in low wage foreign workers at the very same time they're forcing out existing skilled workers I'd totally agree with you. I have no issues with offering "educated, hungry, motivated people" from the rest of the world access to US labor markets, but some sanity needs to be injected into the process. As it stands, we have many (HP/IBM/MS/FB, etc..) companies essentially lying that there's a "STEM shortage" on one hand and hard data supporting there's no STEM shortage on the other. There's a balance to be struck with the variables of pay, availability, education, residency and motivation that's been out of whack for some time now. Companies need to be forced to be more selective and to provide better justification before hiring tens of thousands of otherwise ineligible foreign nationals to fill jobs in the US while at the same time some efforts beed to be made to ensure those who get hired aren't wage slaves to their visa status.
Optimized to solve the problems of 1995. Architecting for the IOT will demand integrated approaches using commodity systems, not re-hashed monolithic 60's architectures. IBM has a new hammer and everything looks like a nail, if you ask them.
We can't even explain the current "non-warming" period or its causes, what makes us think that man-handling the climate will do more good than harm? Also, who decides who gets the rain and who gets the drought? Vast conclusions from half-vast data..
The Apple fanboi brigade would faint at the sight of an iPone 6 regardless of what was actually in it or the screen size. They'd buy a brick if it had the Apple logo on it.
IBM has morphed into a shell company with more emphasis on selling contracts than crafting solutions. They've sold or are selling off anything resembling their traditional HW offerings. IBM's value-add is what, exactly?
Economists, as a whole, make climate science seem precise by comparison. What other field can give a Nobel Prize to someone who's never had a single correct prediction? Other than Climate Science.. and, well, there's that whole Nobel Peace Prize thing.. Never mind.
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New Tzar just like the old Tzar..
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IBM management hollowed out IBM to boost their compensation and share price at the cost of customer satisfaction, employee stability and ultimately, sales. R.I.P. Another corporate suicide.
I see this as the inevitable consequence of political science becoming more acceptable in climate study than, well, science. When lemming-like behavior is all that remains among climate scientists because all of the dissenting views have either been fired, unfunded or shunned into silence, you get a gestalt of sameness. Science is the messy pursuit of all theories in the effort to explain observed data. No mess, no science - no science, no scientists..
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Asshat. But in a race with others ranging from liars to loons, he somehow fits right in. Reminds me of Huey Long.
I'm remembering ~20 years back when HP made MO disk jukeboxes. All was well until they started mis-filing disks and randomly erasing data that was supposed to be kept. Ugly. Maybe Panasonic can overcome this, but I'm skeptical of the value.
And still you come across sites that demand to be read only with IE 8. Stupidity is apparently a widely held human trait.
I guess it really is true that you can write Fortran in any language.
Let's turn his comment and audience around. If an up-and-coming ISIS leader said "America isn't necessarily evil. It is made up of people doing what they think is best for their community. Violence is not the answer, though." what would happen? You'd find his corpse being used as an illustration for others who question their ideology of violence. When you have no right to speak freely without fear, you have no rights at all.
(Some) Luddites in academia will still object if you show up in class and pull out a tablet with the book digitized on it. The dead-tree-textbook-publishing racket will die a slow and painful death as the publishing professors and companies seek to maintain their monopoly. $400 for a "new" Calculus textbook printed this year when the previous edition of that same book was in print for only 2 years? In most other areas of life this would be called extortion.
Because trucks, rail cars and ships are sooo much less risky. BZZZZT!!!
These are some of the same climate scientists openly discussing geo-engineering of the climate. Just as you can't automate what you don't understand, you can't 'fix' something if you can't accurately describe how and why it's broken. Hands off until they can please..
Interesting observation. My sample size is 5 children, and though it's not statistically significant, it does offer some insights. My children who came of age before ubiquitous connectivity are better conversationalists and are more connected with "tribal knowledge" of the spoken and relational kinds, whereas my youngest are totally connected to the Internet teat and are more disconnected from familial and "tribal" inputs. It will be interesting to see what they and millions of their peers do to the political and social institutions of the US. If you're not a little scared by that prospect, you're not paying attention.
If tech companies didn't use H-1B visas to hire in low wage foreign workers at the very same time they're forcing out existing skilled workers I'd totally agree with you. I have no issues with offering "educated, hungry, motivated people" from the rest of the world access to US labor markets, but some sanity needs to be injected into the process. As it stands, we have many (HP/IBM/MS/FB, etc..) companies essentially lying that there's a "STEM shortage" on one hand and hard data supporting there's no STEM shortage on the other. There's a balance to be struck with the variables of pay, availability, education, residency and motivation that's been out of whack for some time now. Companies need to be forced to be more selective and to provide better justification before hiring tens of thousands of otherwise ineligible foreign nationals to fill jobs in the US while at the same time some efforts beed to be made to ensure those who get hired aren't wage slaves to their visa status.
Optimized to solve the problems of 1995. Architecting for the IOT will demand integrated approaches using commodity systems, not re-hashed monolithic 60's architectures. IBM has a new hammer and everything looks like a nail, if you ask them.
Yep. Every time..
We can't even explain the current "non-warming" period or its causes, what makes us think that man-handling the climate will do more good than harm? Also, who decides who gets the rain and who gets the drought? Vast conclusions from half-vast data..
At minimum, he should have been recognized with the rest of them. To snub him this way is disgraceful.
The Apple fanboi brigade would faint at the sight of an iPone 6 regardless of what was actually in it or the screen size. They'd buy a brick if it had the Apple logo on it.
Larry was heard laughing and saying "Oregon confused selling with delivering.."
IBM has morphed into a shell company with more emphasis on selling contracts than crafting solutions. They've sold or are selling off anything resembling their traditional HW offerings. IBM's value-add is what, exactly?
Seeking leadership from Obama? More likely to get blood from a stone..
Economists, as a whole, make climate science seem precise by comparison. What other field can give a Nobel Prize to someone who's never had a single correct prediction? Other than Climate Science.. and, well, there's that whole Nobel Peace Prize thing.. Never mind.
Welcome back Ambassador Spock..