Accenture, which used to be Arthur Andersen, the same assholes responsible for Enron. Why wasn't that company's back broken after that fiasco? They single handedly destroy the life savings of ten of thousands of Enron employees and now they're getting paid to tell US employers to outsource?
Basically I agree with you, except for the fact that Accenture used to be Andersen Consulting, which is not the same as Arthur Andersen accounting.
"Intuit has a long heritage of doing right by customers, and some of our customers didn't have the great experience they expect from Intuit," Bennett added.
Real reason:
"In addition, we didn't get the revenue and profit growth we expected. Therefore, we've decided to discontinue product activation next season."
HP is fine, but only for their high-end laser printers. I wouldn't touch their inkjets (or any inkjet for that matter) with a ten-foot pole. And their computers aren't so great either.
Their calculators used to be the best, bar none. I have an old "electronic slide rule" with the red LED display and rechargable battery from almost 30 years ago that is still going strong, and a HP 21s stat calculator from over 10 years ago. But lately, their calculators get feature glut at the expense of construction and usability. For example, the 48-series of graphing calculators. They may have more functions then I'd ever dream of using, but why does it take almost a full second to calculate 1+1? And the quality of materials has suffered -- the HP calculator keyboards had a nice, satisfying feel, one of their best features. Now they are as mushy as a Casio and feel like they will stop working at any time.
Sad to see what has happened to a once-proud company.
The NCR ATMs at my bank's branches appear to have been "upgraded" to Windows NT 3.51. The "benefits" appear to be Spanish language prompts and annoying colorful advertisements while my transaction is processing.
Unfortunately, this illogical policy goes much farther than just publications, where some giant publisher like Elsevier can claim the rights to US-taxpayer-financed research.
In fact, the taxpayers are being robbed blind at almost every corner. For the large defense contractors, the lion's share of their funding comes straight from Uncle Sam. Yet they have the right to deny the public's access to the results of their government-funded research, and slap the label of "Proprietary IP, Disclosure Prohibited" on everything. (note: this has nothing to do with whether the information is classified due to national security concerns.)
This is also done by the universities, which have the rights to the research done there, even if it happens to be funded by the public.
If it is capital provided by the taxpayers that funded, say, a certain type of microprocessor's development at a corporation, does that give said corporation the exclusive right to make money off of the idea commercially?
Agreed, I would like their sights to be set just a bit higher. However, the stats you are quoting refer to diesel vehicles, which, while getting great mileage, are horrible pollution emitters. While the latest VW TDi engines have gone a long way in reducing emissions, they are still some of the worst polluters on the road (among automobiles).
Look here and notice all the TDi VW's at the way bottom of the list.
If everyone in the country drove a diesel, we'd be relying less on foreign oil, but we wouldn't be able to breathe.
the hybrid cars of today require you to change the batteries every 3 yrs and it costs $6000-7000 to replace them and they are not as powerful now. But maybe all this will change by 2012.
Where'd you get that information?? Honda is giving an 8-year 80K mile warranty on its Hybrid batteries. Their claim is replacement at around 10 years, and about $1000 at today's prices ($1K price told to me by a Honda dealer), which will probably come down as the first hybrids need their replacements.
Heve you heard the word terrorist mentioned in news reports of this man AT ALL? Is this not entirely hypocritical?
Whoa. Before you go any farther, know that the local media in DC/MD/VA has not shied away from using the words "terrorist" or "terrorize". Every journalist and commentator has acknowledged that he (or she) does not have to be Muslim to be a terrorist. Please dismount the high horse.
On the day of his job interview, they asked him whether he could do the job. But poor Sergiu didn't think he could do it all himself.
So he went to Bechtel, and asked the rich well-dressed CEO to help him with the project. But the CEO said, "Can't you see that I just finished a big highway contract in North Carolina? I have to sit on my hands and milk their DOT for maintenance work. Can't you get someone else to help you?"
He said "I'll try" and continued on his way.
So he went to MIT, and asked the smart old professor to help with the Big Dig. And the professor said, "Can't you see that I have tenure, and that I'm old and tired? I'd rather get lots of money consulting than helping you on your impossible project. Can't you get someone else to help you?
Poor Sergiu was sorry, but he went on.
After a while he came to Honeywell Corp. He ran up to the president's office and said, "Can you help me build the Big Dig? It's so much work, and I don't think I can do it all by myself."
"Yes indeed!" said the president of Honeywell.
"I'll be glad to help you if I can."
So off they went together to Boston, puff puff, chug chug,
That was my idea. You're getting too close, gumshoe.
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Except that court ordered compromise has cost us surcharges on blank tape and Macrovision on VCRs. So I have to pay an extra tax, and buy a fancy RF modulator to get my DVD player to connect to my old-fashioned TV set.
One feature I'd really like to see is the User Agent configuration a la Konqueror, which allows me to inform websites that I am compatible with the leading browsers. It lets me view such web pages as Honda Cars [hand signing up for a Hotmail account . These websites now only "support" Netscape and IE.
Even if my browser is not supported by your website, I'd still like to be able to see it. I don't care if not all of your "special features" work! What a way to enforce browser homogeneity.
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It's been tried already, with disastrous results. A documentary is available from the 1980s: https://www.hulu.com/watch/409...
Basically I agree with you, except for the fact that Accenture used to be Andersen Consulting, which is not the same as Arthur Andersen accounting.
In a single statement from Intuit-
Feel-good (fake) reason:
"Intuit has a long heritage of doing right by customers, and some of our customers didn't have the great experience they expect from Intuit," Bennett added.
Real reason:
"In addition, we didn't get the revenue and profit growth we expected. Therefore, we've decided to discontinue product activation next season."
Nah, you don't get shot....
just caned!
Actually I made it my business to get a 5 1/4" installed in my Athlon, just in case, you know, I want to run WordStar.
Their calculators used to be the best, bar none. I have an old "electronic slide rule" with the red LED display and rechargable battery from almost 30 years ago that is still going strong, and a HP 21s stat calculator from over 10 years ago. But lately, their calculators get feature glut at the expense of construction and usability. For example, the 48-series of graphing calculators. They may have more functions then I'd ever dream of using, but why does it take almost a full second to calculate 1+1? And the quality of materials has suffered -- the HP calculator keyboards had a nice, satisfying feel, one of their best features. Now they are as mushy as a Casio and feel like they will stop working at any time.
Sad to see what has happened to a once-proud company.
The NCR ATMs at my bank's branches appear to have been "upgraded" to Windows NT 3.51. The "benefits" appear to be Spanish language prompts and annoying colorful advertisements while my transaction is processing.
Unfortunately, this illogical policy goes much farther than just publications, where some giant publisher like Elsevier can claim the rights to US-taxpayer-financed research.
In fact, the taxpayers are being robbed blind at almost every corner. For the large defense contractors, the lion's share of their funding comes straight from Uncle Sam. Yet they have the right to deny the public's access to the results of their government-funded research, and slap the label of "Proprietary IP, Disclosure Prohibited" on everything. (note: this has nothing to do with whether the information is classified due to national security concerns.)
This is also done by the universities, which have the rights to the research done there, even if it happens to be funded by the public.
If it is capital provided by the taxpayers that funded, say, a certain type of microprocessor's development at a corporation, does that give said corporation the exclusive right to make money off of the idea commercially?
Look here and notice all the TDi VW's at the way bottom of the list.
If everyone in the country drove a diesel, we'd be relying less on foreign oil, but we wouldn't be able to breathe.
the hybrid cars of today require you to change the batteries every 3 yrs and
it costs $6000-7000 to replace them and they are not as powerful now. But maybe
all this will change by 2012.
Where'd you get that information?? Honda is giving an 8-year 80K mile warranty on its Hybrid batteries. Their claim is replacement at around 10 years, and about $1000 at today's prices ($1K price told to me by a Honda dealer), which will probably come down as the first hybrids need their replacements.
Whoa. Before you go any farther, know that the local media in DC/MD/VA has not shied away from using the words "terrorist" or "terrorize". Every journalist and commentator has acknowledged that he (or she) does not have to be Muslim to be a terrorist. Please dismount the high horse.
The site www.digitalidworld.com wants to set a cookie. Do you want to allow it?
Not me!
Then who?
to kill the snakeheads in that Maryland pond.
I wouldn't do that, he'll sue slashdot too!
Actually, it was more like this.
On the day of his job interview, they asked him whether he could do the job. But poor Sergiu didn't think he could do it all himself.
So he went to Bechtel, and asked the rich well-dressed CEO to help him with the project. But the CEO said, "Can't you see that I just finished a big highway contract in North Carolina? I have to sit on my hands and milk their DOT for maintenance work. Can't you get someone else to help you?"
He said "I'll try" and continued on his way.
So he went to MIT, and asked the smart old professor to help with the Big Dig. And the professor said, "Can't you see that I have tenure, and that I'm old and tired? I'd rather get lots of money consulting than helping you on your impossible project. Can't you get someone else to help you?
Poor Sergiu was sorry, but he went on.
After a while he came to Honeywell Corp. He ran up to the president's office and said, "Can you help me build the Big Dig? It's so much work, and I don't think I can do it all by myself."
"Yes indeed!" said the president of Honeywell.
"I'll be glad to help you if I can."
So off they went together to Boston, puff puff, chug chug,
"I think we can do it."
Actually they've sacked a few more:
6th: the right to a speedy trial. Which US citizens who the administration decides are "unlawful combatants don't get anymore.
8th: Cruel and unusual punishment -- such as previous situation
That was my idea. You're getting too close, gumshoe.
Except that court ordered compromise has cost us surcharges on blank tape and Macrovision on VCRs. So I have to pay an extra tax, and buy a fancy RF modulator to get my DVD player to connect to my old-fashioned TV set.
Even if my browser is not supported by your website, I'd still like to be able to see it. I don't care if not all of your "special features" work! What a way to enforce browser homogeneity.
Perhaps this patent can be overturned on the basis of bad proofreading. To wit:
perhaps at the expense of reduce efficiency but so as to maximum currency and accuracy.