I posted the above thing about selling them on eBay (and messed up my password so I turned into Anonymous Coward).
What I meant was that people who do the two for one and get one in the US will decide they don't know what to do with it and sell it here. I did not mean to imply that there would be any corruption about it in the target countries (as someone else here implied).
I plan to do it myself and I actually don't know if my fingers are small enough to type on the thing. And I don't have any children. So I might sell mine, if I can keep it away from my nieces and nephews.
I love the way you guys set this up: Why the PC Market is declining... and then, as an answer, a big ad for Visual Studio 2005. And you probably got those idiots at Microsoft to pay for this! Keep up the good work!
Well, I know that, I was one of the poseurs laid off in 1993. (I spent the rest of the 90s in startups. A few of them made money. I got to keep some of it.)
Someone at Apple told me that when Apple bought Next, it had a reverse brain transplant (from Next to Apple). (I was long gone from there by then.)
I interviewed at SGI in the early 90s (for a compiler job). I was really impressed by the quality of the people there. But their stock performance was very, very mediocre, and I wondered why so many smart people could do things that don't shine in terms of corporate results.
I have heard it said of Microsoft that they have so many really smart people, and you don't see it in the products that they actually release to us normal humans. (I have even heard people who work there say it: they say they have really cool stuff in house, that somehow never gets out, or when it gets out, the cool has been removed.)
I'd be interested in hearing other examples of "really smart engineers working there but the results that outsiders see are mediocre". Amazon.com is another example that comes to mind (I used to work there).
I do not have an explanation for why this happens so often.
A counterexample: I worked at Apple in the early 90s and, given the amount of really dim or useless people we had there, we had really GREAT products.
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I posted the above thing about selling them on eBay (and messed up my password so I turned into Anonymous Coward). What I meant was that people who do the two for one and get one in the US will decide they don't know what to do with it and sell it here. I did not mean to imply that there would be any corruption about it in the target countries (as someone else here implied). I plan to do it myself and I actually don't know if my fingers are small enough to type on the thing. And I don't have any children. So I might sell mine, if I can keep it away from my nieces and nephews.
I love the way you guys set this up: Why the PC Market is declining... and then, as an answer, a big ad for Visual Studio 2005. And you probably got those idiots at Microsoft to pay for this! Keep up the good work!
Someone at Apple told me that when Apple bought Next, it had a reverse brain transplant (from Next to Apple). (I was long gone from there by then.)
I have heard it said of Microsoft that they have so many really smart people, and you don't see it in the products that they actually release to us normal humans. (I have even heard people who work there say it: they say they have really cool stuff in house, that somehow never gets out, or when it gets out, the cool has been removed.)
I'd be interested in hearing other examples of "really smart engineers working there but the results that outsiders see are mediocre". Amazon.com is another example that comes to mind (I used to work there).
I do not have an explanation for why this happens so often.
A counterexample: I worked at Apple in the early 90s and, given the amount of really dim or useless people we had there, we had really GREAT products.