Look at how MS gets sack time with multiple big name vendors using Windows CE. There are many companies out there with Windows CE devices, so why not multiple Android-based systems too?
Most of the Windows phones look so similar that they are primarily Windows phones with MS-brand images being larger than the manufacturers logos etc(Ooh look! A Windows phone, I wonder who makes it). The MS/Windows brand is the strongest brand on these devices.
The first one or two Android phones will get a lot of reflected Googleshine, just like the launch of the first few MS phones.
Making the dangerous seem harmless. That is the real problem about a product like this. It is hard to tell the difference between a harmless flashlight and a dangerous one.
The unfortunate thing about warning labels is that they are so prevalent for obvious cases that they no longer have impact for when they are really needed (Warning: If you heat this product to boiling point and pour it on yourself you may experience discomfort or burns). Like Windows "click through" warnings people just ignore them.
Because of their overuse, warning labels no longer have meaning and are mostly useless.
OK it can fire a round, but they say the rail and conductors etc can get distorted by firing. A gun that requires extensive repair after each shot is hardly functional.
There might be some cool theoretical replacements to explosive propellants, but it is difficult to see them being deployed meaningfully any time soon.
So what. Some people are good at starting things and setting a path (architect types) and others are good at following a lead and doing the detailed stuff to finish things off.
In the 1960s, space represented many things and was very successful in focussing the USA in many ways. However, once done it has served its purpose and cannot easily serve it again.
Sputnik put USA on the back foot. With the whole Communism vs capitalist theme going at the time, the space program was wrapped up tightly with the US national identity (gotta show those Russians who's boss). Space was patriotic. Space was exciting. The USA were the people doing the space thing. Space was completely intertwined in the national identity as well as the identity of a generation (the kids who grew up in the space era).
The whole national obsession with the space program drove the interest in science which bootstrapped a generation of scientists and engineers. It was not space per se that did this, but the obsession that saw Apollo models hanging from the ceiling in every second kid's bedroom. That obsession was linked not only to science, but to selling cars, pens, breakfast cerial etc.
Just rolling out another space program will do nothing to help education and science unless it is accompanied by the passion. What are the defining obsessions of today?
Thieves will still steal stuff with or without locks and people entering the house legitimately will have more problems trying to enter the house if the door is locked....
Otherwise, you're pretty much right. The main problem is that the music industry has changed. There is so much content and competitive material (video etc) out there that it is harder to make a biz selling music.
You ruined a perfectly good paranoia thread. I'm thinking of suing you for damage to my business. I was making a tidy profit by selling tinfoil hats, but you have gone and ruined it for me!
"Criminals love to target students". Huh? In most cases of attacks on students these have been a result of students attack their own co-students.
". Semi-automatic rifles are, in many situations, less likely to hurt bystanders than shotguns." and in many/most cases the shotgun is superior because it is less likely to cause unintended damage. A rifle bullet can travel many miles and can also go through walls etc. Not a good thing in a situation where there are a lot of innocents around.
Blackwater is pretty handy for the forces "visiting" Iraq mainly because they are above the law and don't get hobbled by pesky military laws like US soldiers do.
If he's asking the quesion on/. then he clearly does not understand how management works and what is important to be an effective IT manager.
As much as geeks and techies might slag off their PHB, management does actually serve a function and is a non-technical skillset. Stop asking questions about Mbits and Tbytes, start asking questions about costs, market share, critical business success factors... Or, but another way: where does the company want to be in 5 years time and what other managers want to achieve; not how much bandwidth they need in 5 years time.
The managers provide a service to the organisation and help it function. An IT manager is one step back from that: he provides service to those other managers by providing the IT tools they need to meet their goals.
5 instead of 4? Well that's a pretty good guess given that the previous generation of scientists did not have a lot of the tools that the new kids on the block have.
Science is a moving target which is one of the reasonse we should never use terms like "scientifically proven" and should never get ioverconfident.
I would recommend that one thing people need in an introductory course is to be able to quickly figure out if they're interested in the stuff. To achieve this needs a good mix of programming etc..
Sure, some link lists etc in Java/whatever are fine, but also introduce them to some assembler etc.
If the kids are going to make a career of programming then an appreciation of what is going on under the hood is valuable.
I live rurally. Without tech, I could not work internationally and live at home. I have wireless broadband which is expensive, but I get 2Mbps which is fine so long as I don't try stream video etc. In other words it is fine for almost all work stuff. I don't have cell reception, but if you're at home then landline typically works or I could VoIP. I probably get more power outages than cityfolks, but I have UPSs to give me a clean shutdown.
I can do this because of the internet + phone etc. Because I work from home it is easy for me to schedule international conference calls late at night etc. So yes, geographic distance is reduced. Where I work does not have to be where I live.
But what about personal/relationship distance? Communications via email, text etc does seem to be replacing quality relationship time with a higher quantity of low-quality interactions. At a personal level we're drifting further apart. People no longer see themselves as members of a tight-knit local community but more as members of a global community. This defitiely impacts negatively on local neighbourhoods.
The only responsible answer to this question is to get someone in that has a track record of fixing problems like this. Don't expect to get a reasonable answer from a sketchy problem definition in a place like slashdot.
So the guy can tell you which factory your phone was built in, how much the people in the factory get paid and the value or resistor R607?
I think more likely they're going to be like trained line wine stewards: trying to upsell customers to get them to to spend more than they would normally.
"Ah, I see sir has chosen the black briefcase, may I recommend the Nokia 7745 to go with that."
My father is a so-called wine guru. In reality he's just an alcoholic who has a way with words. Around him you can't use straight forward terms like sweet, dry, fruity etc and just enjoy the taste. Nope, it's hazelnuts, apple,....
While the wine snobs might think this is all great, it is just wankery that does not help the average Joe enjoy their wine. In fact it often detracts from Joe's enjoyment because he's stressing as to whether that's blackberry or raspberry he's tasting.
Doing the same for phones will not help Joe public.
About 15 years ago I worked for a company doing, amongst other things, VR for telephone use. These systems had localised dictionaries to handle accents. We struggled to get the stuff going properly and the only combination we got to work reliably was a Fijian Indian person talking to a British accest VR system. Go figure!
The fakes were made by the same people who faked the moon landings, so what do you expect?
But really, I'm disappointed. How many millions of dollars and how much waiting just to see more photos of a vaguely spherical object with lots of cratering. This is not the 90s folks. They really need to make flashier pictures if they want to get the public interest.
Real engineers wouldn't care if it was called project 11-A-004. Likely the name came for manager/spin-people spending hours and hours in meetings and focus groups, costing tax payers about $5.7 million.
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Most of the Windows phones look so similar that they are primarily Windows phones with MS-brand images being larger than the manufacturers logos etc(Ooh look! A Windows phone, I wonder who makes it). The MS/Windows brand is the strongest brand on these devices.
The first one or two Android phones will get a lot of reflected Googleshine, just like the launch of the first few MS phones.
The unfortunate thing about warning labels is that they are so prevalent for obvious cases that they no longer have impact for when they are really needed (Warning: If you heat this product to boiling point and pour it on yourself you may experience discomfort or burns). Like Windows "click through" warnings people just ignore them.
Because of their overuse, warning labels no longer have meaning and are mostly useless.
Hello sir.... so you looked into the light beam and now you are blind in that eye. Can you tell us if the problem is repeatable?... Sir, sir...
There might be some cool theoretical replacements to explosive propellants, but it is difficult to see them being deployed meaningfully any time soon.
Read some of Belbin's stuff to see how this works. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Belbin
Just like hoover == vacuum cleaner, the iphone is probably also set for stardom.
Sputnik put USA on the back foot. With the whole Communism vs capitalist theme going at the time, the space program was wrapped up tightly with the US national identity (gotta show those Russians who's boss). Space was patriotic. Space was exciting. The USA were the people doing the space thing. Space was completely intertwined in the national identity as well as the identity of a generation (the kids who grew up in the space era).
The whole national obsession with the space program drove the interest in science which bootstrapped a generation of scientists and engineers. It was not space per se that did this, but the obsession that saw Apollo models hanging from the ceiling in every second kid's bedroom. That obsession was linked not only to science, but to selling cars, pens, breakfast cerial etc.
Just rolling out another space program will do nothing to help education and science unless it is accompanied by the passion. What are the defining obsessions of today?
Otherwise, you're pretty much right. The main problem is that the music industry has changed. There is so much content and competitive material (video etc) out there that it is harder to make a biz selling music.
The study was fine. It got the result that the MPAA wanted, so how could you call it botched?
GPL uses copyright law to give it teeth. BSD is effectively anti-copyright and would survive fine without any copyright law.
You ruined a perfectly good paranoia thread.
I'm thinking of suing you for damage to my business. I was making a tidy profit by selling tinfoil hats, but you have gone and ruined it for me!
"Criminals love to target students". Huh? In most cases of attacks on students these have been a result of students attack their own co-students.
". Semi-automatic rifles are, in many situations, less likely to hurt bystanders than shotguns." and in many/most cases the shotgun is superior because it is less likely to cause unintended damage. A rifle bullet can travel many miles and can also go through walls etc. Not a good thing in a situation where there are a lot of innocents around.
Blackwater is pretty handy for the forces "visiting" Iraq mainly because they are above the law and don't get hobbled by pesky military laws like US soldiers do.
As much as geeks and techies might slag off their PHB, management does actually serve a function and is a non-technical skillset. Stop asking questions about Mbits and Tbytes, start asking questions about costs, market share, critical business success factors... Or, but another way: where does the company want to be in 5 years time and what other managers want to achieve; not how much bandwidth they need in 5 years time.
The managers provide a service to the organisation and help it function. An IT manager is one step back from that: he provides service to those other managers by providing the IT tools they need to meet their goals.
Science is a moving target which is one of the reasonse we should never use terms like "scientifically proven" and should never get ioverconfident.
Sure, some link lists etc in Java/whatever are fine, but also introduce them to some assembler etc.
If the kids are going to make a career of programming then an appreciation of what is going on under the hood is valuable.
He means checking the actual magnetic core. You can do this with a magnetic compass from your Boy Scout kit.
I live rurally. Without tech, I could not work internationally and live at home.
I have wireless broadband which is expensive, but I get 2Mbps which is fine so long as I don't try stream video etc. In other words it is fine for almost all work stuff.
I don't have cell reception, but if you're at home then landline typically works or I could VoIP.
I probably get more power outages than cityfolks, but I have UPSs to give me a clean shutdown.
But what about personal/relationship distance? Communications via email, text etc does seem to be replacing quality relationship time with a higher quantity of low-quality interactions. At a personal level we're drifting further apart. People no longer see themselves as members of a tight-knit local community but more as members of a global community. This defitiely impacts negatively on local neighbourhoods.
The only responsible answer to this question is to get someone in that has a track record of fixing problems like this. Don't expect to get a reasonable answer from a sketchy problem definition in a place like slashdot.
"When we first met we just clicked."
I think more likely they're going to be like trained line wine stewards: trying to upsell customers to get them to to spend more than they would normally.
"Ah, I see sir has chosen the black briefcase, may I recommend the Nokia 7745 to go with that."
While the wine snobs might think this is all great, it is just wankery that does not help the average Joe enjoy their wine. In fact it often detracts from Joe's enjoyment because he's stressing as to whether that's blackberry or raspberry he's tasting.
Doing the same for phones will not help Joe public.
About 15 years ago I worked for a company doing, amongst other things, VR for telephone use. These systems had localised dictionaries to handle accents. We struggled to get the stuff going properly and the only combination we got to work reliably was a Fijian Indian person talking to a British accest VR system. Go figure!
But really, I'm disappointed. How many millions of dollars and how much waiting just to see more photos of a vaguely spherical object with lots of cratering. This is not the 90s folks. They really need to make flashier pictures if they want to get the public interest.
Real engineers wouldn't care if it was called project 11-A-004. Likely the name came for manager/spin-people spending hours and hours in meetings and focus groups, costing tax payers about $5.7 million.