I disagree. Companies can try to be cool and earn the reputation for being cool. Apple is the perfect example. They just know what the fuck they are doing, so it doesn't wind up a tragic, sorry mess.
When a corporation that doesn't know what the fuck it is doing tries to be cool, it ends up making a disaster of a product. And it's not because they tried to be cool. It's because they tried and didn't know what the fuck they were doing.
Again, Apple and Google succeed at being cool because they are operated by people who know how to create that image. On the other hand, Microsoft, Exxon-Mobile, Walmart, et al. fail miserably, because they apparently have MBAs running their creative departments. They don't do shabbily, obviously, but their market appeal is more based on a utilitarian need rather than an aesthetic want.
Now, one can make the argument that a corporation, as an entity, is intrinsically uncool, but that's all a matter of ideological persuasion. I'm merely talking empirically about what the broad appeal of these corporations seems to be.
Not many use the word "squirt" in a bar without intending to follow it up with some form of fluid exchange. This can too often be misinterpreted as a bad pick-up line, and in some cases might actually get you tossed out of the bar like some kind of pariah.
Not that, uh, I know about this, uh...first-hand....
Not a bit like drug dealers...exactly like drug dealers...The RIAA is trying to be the middle man in an agreement that's just between a grassroots 'pirate'(distributor) and an artist.
This is the music-industry equivalent of the mafia harassing someone because they are importing drugs straight from Colombia and selling them on their territories, bypassing the mafia's trade route and therefore removing them from the deal.
This not only proves that the RIAA is unnecessary, and their role in discovering and distributing music by new artists extremely overvalued, but that they are more or less now just a music cartel. Their claim to domination over music production is merely nominal and contractual. It is obsolete as well - the means of production and distribution are now commodities, accessible to laypeople. Fortunately, thanks to the internet and the long tail effect, the market will eventually correct itself by locking the existing record industry out of music production and distribution, and the new record industry will mostly just consist of artists and fans.
He asked the question. The problem is that he also tried to answer it. And his answer("Women aren't as good at men at math and science,") was offensive and incorrect, and rightly struck a blow to his reputation among the faculty.
The question this women is asking is more like, "Given that there are no inherent disparities in aptitude between men and women, why aren't as many women appearing in engineering positions?"
I find it easier to make people understand using slightly simplified explanations which use esoteric terms, instead of trying to "bring it down to their level." People don't like to be coddled like that. If you start saying, "The internet is like a series of tubes, not like a dumptruck." you run the risk of people feeling like you're being a condescending prick. "I'm not 12." That's what sounded so off about the Stevens explanation to most people who had even a passing familiarity with the Internet.
People are good at picking out the definitions of words from context. We had to learn English without knowing any other language, didn't we? What makes us so frightened of "hard-sounding" words? We have a native facility for that, so it doesn't hurt to use terms in your lay explanations.
Apple has faced mixed opinions since Steve Jobs came back on board. The negative part of the mix was always wrong. As for price, the iPod was overpriced to begin with, but its overwhelming demand and Apple's ingenius ways of lowering prices made it unbelievably successful . True, the phone might not be as revolutionary as the iPod, but even at a small fraction of the cell phone market it will still qualify as a hit.
Not to mention Indiana Jones is a much more physically demanding role, assuming the movie isn't just about Dr. Jones becoming a crotchety, washed up academic.
From what I've seen, at least in Physics, the courses are only posted to OpenCourseWare after completion of the semester in which the course is offered at MIT.
How do you ship profits overseas? Do you believe there is a magic wand which allows the transformation of one currency into another?
Uhm. Yeah. It's called the foreign exchange market. It's not quite magic, but it allows currencies to be traded for one another. Money is just like any other commodity, it can be sent and received across any geographic boundary without trade restrictions.
The reason BSE exists is because some protein is not just protein. A special protein called a prion becomes misfolded, in a way that makes it become infectious, mutating other prions around it, causing cell death and eventually accumulating in sufficient degree to bore small Swiss cheese holes in your brain tissue.
So perhaps "protein is protein" doesn't really do justice to the nuances of the issue.
I don't want to be the one to start on this first, and I'm not sure whether you gave all the details and you didn't really give a clear narrative of what actually happened....but
From what I gather it sounds like you didn't give it at all enough of a chance to work. A few days? That's nothing. There are logistical problems with open sourcing your software, just as there might be with any transition. It takes a little bit of work and time to actually make sure the cooperation with the open source community is fruitful.
You shouldn't have fired someone for merely suggesting something to you. Didn't you make that decision?
Of course, if he was in charge of the transition and let it fail that's another story. If this is the case, then don't blame open source for your employee's failures.
Could someone please like, read....something before they post a summary? I found no indication that Gutmann is a medical imaging specialist from his web page or report. He's a computer scientist who specializes in compression and encryption, which actually makes him a little bit qualified to perform a professional review of the new operating system.
The only thing remotely medicine related here is a quote from 'Brad Steffler MD.', a surgeon who claims that Microsoft's restrictive DRM methodologies make it more difficult for him to do his job.
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I disagree. Companies can try to be cool and earn the reputation for being cool. Apple is the perfect example. They just know what the fuck they are doing, so it doesn't wind up a tragic, sorry mess.
When a corporation that doesn't know what the fuck it is doing tries to be cool, it ends up making a disaster of a product. And it's not because they tried to be cool. It's because they tried and didn't know what the fuck they were doing.
Again, Apple and Google succeed at being cool because they are operated by people who know how to create that image. On the other hand, Microsoft, Exxon-Mobile, Walmart, et al. fail miserably, because they apparently have MBAs running their creative departments. They don't do shabbily, obviously, but their market appeal is more based on a utilitarian need rather than an aesthetic want.
Now, one can make the argument that a corporation, as an entity, is intrinsically uncool, but that's all a matter of ideological persuasion. I'm merely talking empirically about what the broad appeal of these corporations seems to be.
Sounds are energetic compressions in a medium - a physical solid.
Electrical impulses are the flow of electric charge.
They are completely, 100% different physical phenomena.
Those tiles really tied the spacecraft together.
Windows stops working *before* you look at the computer running it.
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Correction: did I say 'misinterpreted?' I meant 'interpreted.'
Not many use the word "squirt" in a bar without intending to follow it up with some form of fluid exchange. This can too often be misinterpreted as a bad pick-up line, and in some cases might actually get you tossed out of the bar like some kind of pariah.
Not that, uh, I know about this, uh...first-hand....
Shit.
Not a bit like drug dealers...exactly like drug dealers...The RIAA is trying to be the middle man in an agreement that's just between a grassroots 'pirate'(distributor) and an artist.
This is the music-industry equivalent of the mafia harassing someone because they are importing drugs straight from Colombia and selling them on their territories, bypassing the mafia's trade route and therefore removing them from the deal.
This not only proves that the RIAA is unnecessary, and their role in discovering and distributing music by new artists extremely overvalued, but that they are more or less now just a music cartel. Their claim to domination over music production is merely nominal and contractual. It is obsolete as well - the means of production and distribution are now commodities, accessible to laypeople. Fortunately, thanks to the internet and the long tail effect, the market will eventually correct itself by locking the existing record industry out of music production and distribution, and the new record industry will mostly just consist of artists and fans.
Nonsense. Bush would never believe that the Iranians are behind something as wonderful as global warming.
He asked the question. The problem is that he also tried to answer it. And his answer("Women aren't as good at men at math and science,") was offensive and incorrect, and rightly struck a blow to his reputation among the faculty.
The question this women is asking is more like, "Given that there are no inherent disparities in aptitude between men and women, why aren't as many women appearing in engineering positions?"
The rest of the media (mostly) report facts, while Fox News reports "facts". Facts have a liberal bias, while "facts" can have any bias you want.
I find it easier to make people understand using slightly simplified explanations which use esoteric terms, instead of trying to "bring it down to their level." People don't like to be coddled like that. If you start saying, "The internet is like a series of tubes, not like a dumptruck." you run the risk of people feeling like you're being a condescending prick. "I'm not 12." That's what sounded so off about the Stevens explanation to most people who had even a passing familiarity with the Internet.
People are good at picking out the definitions of words from context. We had to learn English without knowing any other language, didn't we? What makes us so frightened of "hard-sounding" words? We have a native facility for that, so it doesn't hurt to use terms in your lay explanations.
Latin is just a theory.
Apple has faced mixed opinions since Steve Jobs came back on board. The negative part of the mix was always wrong. As for price, the iPod was overpriced to begin with, but its overwhelming demand and Apple's ingenius ways of lowering prices made it unbelievably successful . True, the phone might not be as revolutionary as the iPod, but even at a small fraction of the cell phone market it will still qualify as a hit.
Not to mention Indiana Jones is a much more physically demanding role, assuming the movie isn't just about Dr. Jones becoming a crotchety, washed up academic.
From what I've seen, at least in Physics, the courses are only posted to OpenCourseWare after completion of the semester in which the course is offered at MIT.
Uhm. Yeah. It's called the foreign exchange market. It's not quite magic, but it allows currencies to be traded for one another. Money is just like any other commodity, it can be sent and received across any geographic boundary without trade restrictions.
. (or was it written in FUD?)
Sadly, no. The FUD compiler was written in Javascript, and was hijacked.
I'm probably way off on grammar
Nope, that sounds like something our president would write.
The reason BSE exists is because some protein is not just protein. A special protein called a prion becomes misfolded, in a way that makes it become infectious, mutating other prions around it, causing cell death and eventually accumulating in sufficient degree to bore small Swiss cheese holes in your brain tissue.
So perhaps "protein is protein" doesn't really do justice to the nuances of the issue.
I don't want to be the one to start on this first, and I'm not sure whether you gave all the details and you didn't really give a clear narrative of what actually happened ....but
From what I gather it sounds like you didn't give it at all enough of a chance to work. A few days? That's nothing. There are logistical problems with open sourcing your software, just as there might be with any transition. It takes a little bit of work and time to actually make sure the cooperation with the open source community is fruitful.
You shouldn't have fired someone for merely suggesting something to you. Didn't you make that decision?
Of course, if he was in charge of the transition and let it fail that's another story. If this is the case, then don't blame open source for your employee's failures.
It actually involves quantum mechanics, so it can suck and blow at the same time.
I'm pretty sure the biggest question has already been asked, namely: "WTF is up with Britain becoming a surveillance state?"
Once the barriers to surveillance are being eroded, everything else - while not besides the point - pretty much follows by matter of course.
People act differently when they're being watched. How can it be a free state if they are being watched, then?
This seems to suggest that Peter Guttman is a medical imaging specialist.
Could someone please like, read....something before they post a summary? I found no indication that Gutmann is a medical imaging specialist from his web page or report. He's a computer scientist who specializes in compression and encryption, which actually makes him a little bit qualified to perform a professional review of the new operating system.
The only thing remotely medicine related here is a quote from 'Brad Steffler MD.', a surgeon who claims that Microsoft's restrictive DRM methodologies make it more difficult for him to do his job.