I'm Brazilian, too, so here's my take: the problems is not that Cisco is doing that, but all other competitors are doing it too - they just haven't been caught yet.
Cisco execs take that as "usual business practices" and do it, too. Otherwise they cannot plausibly explain why their products can cost up to 5 times more than competitors' at the same FOB price.
For the first time in human history, the earth's population is more urban than rural.
I really do not see that there'll be a second time when the earth's population will be come more urban than rural. This trend is pretty much irreversible and, unless a mega-disease wipes out major urban centers, there'll be no second, third, fourth time.
A better way to write that should be:
Finally, the earth's population is more urban than rural.
Too bad Palm is going south. However, the worst is that there are no apparent replacements for it.
I need something fairly stable, to manage contacts telephones and calendar, but that's it. It should retain its memory when the battery runs out (the later Palm devices had it), and should be simple.
None of the newer PDAs satisfy this criteria, IMHO, but I could be wrong.
Go Toyota, show em how its done. Can you believe that the US had actually started working on hybrid vehicle in 1993? Yup, but good ole George Dubya Bush terminated government backing/involvement once he/Dick created the hydrogen program?
Is it really Dubya's fault? Or is it government's fault? Toyota is doing it without any government backing or incentives of any sort. They believe it is right and made a bet some years ago that is starting to pay off.
Maybe the problem, as I see, is that US carmakers are too accostumed to milk their customers in the current way of doing it because the shareholders also expect it, as they too milk the companies for profits. Shareholders are afraid of changes unless someone else prove it is the right way (Toyota) and, if they are not convinced of it, they may also take CEOs down and so on. There you have it: a self-sustaining cycle of mediocrity in the name of "value to the shareholders". No changes are justifiable unless someone else proves it works.
Toyota, at least, has got balls and a corporate structure that supports its bet in a consumer-centric strategic vision, while US corps have to deal with profit-oriented strategies, at the expense of customers, environment, etc.
I, for the life of me, cannot understand, but in South Korea, the default icon used in IM is of a sad face:-(
I was quite shocked at its widespread usage at first, but then some one told me that it was the default setting. So I wonder if they're really depressed or if it is just a social norm where displaying a happy state would be held as "impolite" or "unwise"....
Google pointed me to this, where HP introduces their "electronic slide rule".
From the ad:
The HP-35 Shirt Pocket Calculator lets you make complex calculations like this one approximately five times faster than with your slide rule... with 10 place accuracy... and without a scratch note!
The HP-35 took 60 seconds to compute the formula shown on the page and it cost $395. $395 in 1972!
When I look at stuff like that I appreciate how computing has come a long way. Except for the Pentium bug.
And then Google could spin off the mass transportation company. At that point Google is already a holding company - or even a Japanese-style conglomerate (zaibatsu) - and has investments spanning from their basic search engine to stuff like oil extraction and shipyards.
Truly, necessity is the mother of invention, and Google cannot stop from making money!
Regardless of the altitude it reached, given that the technology for both uses is deemed similar by experts, I belive that the caption to a picture found on an old article says it all:
"Why develop a Rolls Royce to only deliver pizza?"
According to this article, there is a lot of brain-damaged people out there, being perpetuated by the mechanism of capitalism instead of natural selection, but I digress.
You have to look at this through the needs of a child [in the developing world]. A child doesn't want to play the latest video games. he wants to be able to read a book.
It seems that they got the design requirements wrong! Where I came from, people couldn't care less about books as long as they could play Tetris....
Considering that rational and educated people should be less than 2% of world's population, I'm not sure of which kind of improvement you're talking about.
Science indeed improved living standards, increased average lifespan, but I can't see evidence of improvement on general stupidity levels (for the remaining 98%) over the centuries... We (as humans) are born with a baseline rationality and education level that take a lot of investment to improve and, unfortunately, is not carried forward along the generations. If the investment ever stops, we're back at ancient Egypt.
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That's exactly why 3M markets a privacy filter for your screen!
Cisco execs take that as "usual business practices" and do it, too. Otherwise they cannot plausibly explain why their products can cost up to 5 times more than competitors' at the same FOB price.
you missed the point. the problem is that computing became an end to itself, instead of being used to liberate people from little value-added work.
Oh my... this statement is killing me:
I really do not see that there'll be a second time when the earth's population will be come more urban than rural. This trend is pretty much irreversible and, unless a mega-disease wipes out major urban centers, there'll be no second, third, fourth time.
A better way to write that should be:
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I need something fairly stable, to manage contacts telephones and calendar, but that's it. It should retain its memory when the battery runs out (the later Palm devices had it), and should be simple.
None of the newer PDAs satisfy this criteria, IMHO, but I could be wrong.
Any suggestions?
Is it really Dubya's fault? Or is it government's fault? Toyota is doing it without any government backing or incentives of any sort. They believe it is right and made a bet some years ago that is starting to pay off.
Maybe the problem, as I see, is that US carmakers are too accostumed to milk their customers in the current way of doing it because the shareholders also expect it, as they too milk the companies for profits. Shareholders are afraid of changes unless someone else prove it is the right way (Toyota) and, if they are not convinced of it, they may also take CEOs down and so on. There you have it: a self-sustaining cycle of mediocrity in the name of "value to the shareholders". No changes are justifiable unless someone else proves it works.
Toyota, at least, has got balls and a corporate structure that supports its bet in a consumer-centric strategic vision, while US corps have to deal with profit-oriented strategies, at the expense of customers, environment, etc.
I, for the life of me, cannot understand, but in South Korea, the default icon used in IM is of a sad face :-(
I was quite shocked at its widespread usage at first, but then some one told me that it was the default setting. So I wonder if they're really depressed or if it is just a social norm where displaying a happy state would be held as "impolite" or "unwise"....
I'm claiming ownership of 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01. This should make life miserable for everyone!
The dollar has devalued so much, indeed. Why not call it the 100 sterling pound laptop and make a profit?
"finger-friendly"... heheheh... uh.. heheheheheheheh!
Yes, digital sounds flatter than vinyl. But can't this be circumvented using a valve amp on the output?
From the ad:
The HP-35 took 60 seconds to compute the formula shown on the page and it cost $395. $395 in 1972!
When I look at stuff like that I appreciate how computing has come a long way. Except for the Pentium bug.
One thing I still do not get is why is she attracting so much hatred? Does she advocate something unpopular?
Please check again!
Truly, necessity is the mother of invention, and Google cannot stop from making money!
where?
in this context... what does "aggressive timing" means?
That's all we need now.
I mean, why microwave oven? Does it get hotter than boiling water?
Now I have compile time hell, but that's quite more manageable than crazy RPMs all over the place.
meh. Newton was just ahead of his time. By a lot. :)
Science indeed improved living standards, increased average lifespan, but I can't see evidence of improvement on general stupidity levels (for the remaining 98%) over the centuries... We (as humans) are born with a baseline rationality and education level that take a lot of investment to improve and, unfortunately, is not carried forward along the generations. If the investment ever stops, we're back at ancient Egypt.
-jl