Disney's head first jump into content delivery is absolutely no surprise in the business community. Robert Iger, The new Disney's CEO, has been under pressure to pick up the mess that Eisner left off. Iger's been talking about delivering digital content since day one on the job. And ABC is owned by Disney.
My one year old iAudio G3 has been through lots of abuse and no skin/case, and there's no noticible scratch marks. My 3 year old Casio watch has been through everything because it's always on my wrist. The wrist strap is broken beyond recognition, but the screen has no scratches whatsoever.
Truth is, MP3 players are supposed to be used, not pampered. iPod fans just don't demand better.
What happens, I bet, is that Dell realized that Ditty is going to be an utter failure following iPod Nano, and decided to save marketing dollars on it.
You mean, developers can buy the transition kit today, compile the new binary for the weekend, and wait for one year til the first intel based mac to test it next June?
RTFA. On Apple's press release, the very first paragraph says *ALL* macs will be using Intel microprocessors by the end of 2007. Wall street journal mentioned that the transition will start with lower end machines, like Mac mini, within one year.
You're not going to be able to fire up OS-X on your Dell, Acer, Gateway, or eMachines PC.
Says who? Do not claim the unknown.
I understand that Mac elitest are searching for the last piece of dignity right now, but today ain't the day.
That's absolutely true. I am a skateboarder and I was seriously swinging back and forth vigorously when I first step on it. I asked the salesperson and he told me it wasn't uncommon.
A few years ago, I worked at one of the biggest oilfield service corporation in the world. I was brought in to investigate wearable computing on oil rigs and other parts of the organization. One oilfield engineer veteran told me that all equipments on oil rigs must go through expensive, rigorous test to get approved in Europe because of a North Sea explosion that cost a lot of lives for that firm years ago.
He went on the explain that not only the sparks in electronics can ignite the fume, but antanna at certain frequencies may ignite the fume.
Do you really need high def VBR for Good Eats? Cuz I use snapstream near VHS quality wmv (i know i know) and yield just a little over 100 megs per episode. That's 6 episodes per CD. Of course that has something to do with my replayTV skiping all commercials.
I was just interviewed a six-figured job and the big boss asked me during the interview: "Do you want to be a slave for me?" (You should see his hand gestures when he said that.)
I didn't get the job. But your post make me feel much better. Your wisdom is precious in a community that is obsessed with quantifiables and ignores quality. So thank you.
My ibook's network interface died. Instead of swapping the entire board, i opted to use airport card. But than Panther is sooooooooooo sloooooww....anyone wants it for $350?
I'm not sure if you are a geek if you have an iPod these days. iPods are getting uncool. Anyone who gets arouse about this iPod jack idea, however, is probably a geek.
Marketing people call your way of thinking "comprose effect" which is already taken into consideration when the pricing of the line is done.
In other words, you have fallen into marketers' expectations and calculations.
Usually, middle of the line aren't really awesome deals, but you feel they are. Common practice is to raise the price of the middle of the line product in order to decrease the differential to sell higher end high margin products while boosting price differential to lower end (less margin) products to make them look like better deals.
---"... lazy immigrants who don't care about their jobs enough to actually clean the theaters properly on occasion."
1. Getting an asshole stamp before you make a point is a bad idea.
---"Starbucks"
2. Getting an idiot stamp before you make a point is also a bad idea.
-- "The smell" , "Hygene" , etc.
3. Talking like a gay man before you make a point is still another bad idea.
4. Bragging about your phat equipment don't make you an expert.
5. Learn before you talk. Full DVD images have been traded for a long time. DVD image traffic surpass DivX traffic. But you are too ignorant to know that.
After seeing a sample of the anti-piracy red dots,
http://www.vcdquality.com/image.php?id=18919
I saw it in Kill Bill 3 times last night. The are very obvious because part of the movie is black and white. It's rather distracting. I forgot to complain to the manager afterwards cuz I was upset about how the movie sucked, but if any of you are going to see the film, remember to complain about it.
Alan Cox has been dealing with a huge international team with conflicting interest; his daily routine was making decisions for others to follow; saying "no" when it's real hard; making judgement calls, etc. --In fact, he has been working as a manager for years. I am almost sure that Alan have found out the hard way that management skills are needed for anyone who wants to make a big difference.
Take Linux, for example. I believe the success of Linux owe to the fact that Linus is a great leader, not just that he is a great coder.
I found that your tone is very much like most of today's college students in CS - most people only care about the "certificate" or "degree" but have no interest in learning.
I understand that the community have issues with lame MBAs that bullshit all day. But I honestly think an MBA is a great experience for smart but ill-presented geeks in the journey of life. And that's most of us.
I have just finished my first year MBA and it was a painful decision to drop my PhD studies at UIUC to go for an MBA. Within a week into the program, I knew it's worth it. Now I am back to the CS grad program, I realize how much my MBA experience changed me. I honestly highly recommend my fellow geeks to drop the MBA-hater mentality and try it - you'll learn things that you won't learn in books.
Some of the most successful geeks I know are born with management skills. Most of us can use some help. I'll list some of the reasons, and I'm sure that flames will follow suit.
1. People skills. (Ever wonder why fewer people work on OpenBSD?) People skills will get you where you want to go. I cannot remember how many people I know decided to drop thier PhD because they couldn't get along with thier advisers. Professors need people skills to get research fundings. Any project leader need people skills to lead a group. Yeah I hated to deal with humans, too. But after some force training you will make it a habit. 60% of all jobs are never posted and done via friends and associates.
I still remember how hard it was for me to put up a smile, rev up the courage to say "hi" and shake hands with strangers when I first entered the program. One year later, I do it with ease. (This gets chix, too. I had a 5 year dateless drought until I started MBA.)
2. Communication skills. without it, you will not go far. Again, becoming a trained presenter of ideas will get you further. As a teaching assistant, I found my training in presentations incredibly helpful.
I remember when I interned with a big company and was asked to write a report. Well if I had been trained to write something formal, I wouldn't have written that big pile of code comment style shit that totally embarrases me today.
3. Ability to see things in different light.
One of my most valuable lesson in the MBA program is working to recruite a team. I learned how it feels to be on the other side of the job interview table. It was not at all what I thought it would be. Being a recruiter is just as stressful as looking for a job - worrying about whether the guy you'll get will turn out terrible, or get scooped by competitors.. It gave me an entirely different perspective when I'm being interviewed for jobs because I now have a clue about what the other guy thinks.
Being a manager ain't easy. That's why they pay so much. A great manager seem to make little effort and reap great rewards; a lousy manager go to work every day to put out fire.
4. Manage your life.
I know of a Math grad student that I didn't think qualify to be in the top grad school. So I asked him how he got here. He told me, "I am good at marketing yourself." If you know how to market your self, your ideas, your projects, you will have a good chance to succeed in whatever you are going after.
In fact, I think just the job interview coaching you will get in an MBA program will be worth it. You are more likely to get higher paid and better jobs if you present yourself professionally, instead of ac
I, too, decided to take a year off my big geeky life to go to an MBA, and I immediately started to get hot girls - can't get them off me. And I was single for 5 years as a UNIX geek before getting the MBA.
I truely believe that it's how we geeks treat women that makes them dislike us. Isolation from females make us treat them like Godesses/Aliens instead of humans, and it's evidently a big turn off.
Of all the higher moded post, this parent post is the only one that I found to have merit.
I'm a MS student in CS after giving up a PhD for an MBA, and my father has been a EE professor for 30 years. Everything he said was true and I can add a lot of stories.
"Also, one last tip: in computer science, you don't want to get a masters if you know you want to get a PhD. It's just an extra year wasted, and completely unnecessary. "
Bullshit.
I'm a grad student at a first tier school, and I can tell you that I have not heard of any problem getting jobs for master students, and plenty of BS don't get any jobs. There's a good reason for that.
If you talk to those undergrads, you'd know why. While many are smart, a lot of them are simply clueless dumb bastards with no interest in the field. They don't deserve a job.
Then again, there are always special cases. my friend who got his 2.9 GPA from a second tier school got $75 plus bonus and commision to start - in Texas, not Manhattan. A PhD in first ranked Commputer Engineering gets $95 to start which I thought was a scandle.
People who have not gone to grad school do not understand that the MS and PhD only differs by a couple of classes and a thesis. In most schools, you are freely transferable between the two degrees. I think second tier schools usually show a huge difference between the level of PhD and masters students.
I do think that a PhD in CS isn't worth much financially. I am finishing up a degree in the MBA, well I'm almost sure that this will be worth more than a PhD in the long run.
I assume that most geeks have downloaded Gigli out of curiosity then quickly realize the mistake. That's what I did after reading the reviews. It is every bit as bad as they say. The most memorable line, when Lopez opens her crouch and say, "It's turkey time. Gobble, Gobble!" makes Eric Cartman's hand puppet looks like a noble Oscar hopeful.
However, Gigli has created some of the most entertaining movie reviews I have ever seen. People are so pissed off about watching the movie that they get creative writing reviews. Check out Yahoo Movies user review of Gigli and laugh yourself silly. Two people claimed to break up with thier girlfriends after being forced to watch it.
I would not see another film with Lopez or Affleck because the 20 million each of them got from the film makes me want to puke. Without the doubt, "Gigli" is aimed at the lower class who have to work hard to earn the bucks to go to a movie, and the movie is a torture.
I remember last year when the school chopped off my connection telling me that my box is compromised and the "net tech" must come in to clean it before they will hook me back up.
The dumb piece of sh*t have never known of a computer with two monitors in his life, and therefore insist that I have two contaminated computers..
Then he insisted that I have run illegal P2P programs because I have a lot of hard drives laying around.
Then he ran the virus program and deleted files.now the box wouldn't reboot he insisted that I must reformat all my hard drives: more than 200G worth of data!
Upon hearing that, I booted him out of my place telling him to ask his boss to call. That guy is a piece of work, in this huge engineering school full of jobless geeks... I still want to kick his ass everytime I see him.
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Wow. You, sir, understand my pain. Your precise description of what's happening to me makes it feel a little better.
Disney's head first jump into content delivery is absolutely no surprise in the business community. Robert Iger, The new Disney's CEO, has been under pressure to pick up the mess that Eisner left off. Iger's been talking about delivering digital content since day one on the job. And ABC is owned by Disney.
My one year old iAudio G3 has been through lots of abuse and no skin/case, and there's no noticible scratch marks. My 3 year old Casio watch has been through everything because it's always on my wrist. The wrist strap is broken beyond recognition, but the screen has no scratches whatsoever.
Truth is, MP3 players are supposed to be used, not pampered. iPod fans just don't demand better.
http://www.dellditty.com/
What happens, I bet, is that Dell realized that Ditty is going to be an utter failure following iPod Nano, and decided to save marketing dollars on it.
You mean, developers can buy the transition kit today, compile the new binary for the weekend, and wait for one year til the first intel based mac to test it next June?
That's brilliant!
RTFA. On Apple's press release, the very first paragraph says *ALL* macs will be using Intel microprocessors by the end of 2007. Wall street journal mentioned that the transition will start with lower end machines, like Mac mini, within one year.
You're not going to be able to fire up OS-X on your Dell, Acer, Gateway, or eMachines PC.
Says who? Do not claim the unknown.
I understand that Mac elitest are searching for the last piece of dignity right now, but today ain't the day.
That's absolutely true. I am a skateboarder and I was seriously swinging back and forth vigorously when I first step on it. I asked the salesperson and he told me it wasn't uncommon.
A few years ago, I worked at one of the biggest oilfield service corporation in the world. I was brought in to investigate wearable computing on oil rigs and other parts of the organization. One oilfield engineer veteran told me that all equipments on oil rigs must go through expensive, rigorous test to get approved in Europe because of a North Sea explosion that cost a lot of lives for that firm years ago.
He went on the explain that not only the sparks in electronics can ignite the fume, but antanna at certain frequencies may ignite the fume.
Do you really need high def VBR for Good Eats? Cuz I use snapstream near VHS quality wmv (i know i know) and yield just a little over 100 megs per episode. That's 6 episodes per CD. Of course that has something to do with my replayTV skiping all commercials.
I was just interviewed a six-figured job and the big boss asked me during the interview: "Do you want to be a slave for me?" (You should see his hand gestures when he said that.)
I didn't get the job. But your post make me feel much better. Your wisdom is precious in a community that is obsessed with quantifiables and ignores quality. So thank you.
My ibook's network interface died. Instead of swapping the entire board, i opted to use airport card. But than Panther is sooooooooooo sloooooww....anyone wants it for $350?
... which is why iPods are too lame for real geeks.
I sold my iPod for an iRiver and never looked back. Better sound, better interface, AA batteries, excellent FM tuners and recorder.
When everybody has an iPod, you know there's something better out there. Many iPod fans are simply too excited about the idea that they can afford it.
The article says your eyes need to 21 inches from the screen and perfectly centered.
You'd look like a big retarded hunch back if you do that in front of a laptop.
I'm not sure if you are a geek if you have an iPod these days. iPods are getting uncool. Anyone who gets arouse about this iPod jack idea, however, is probably a geek.
Marketing people call your way of thinking "comprose effect" which is already taken into consideration when the pricing of the line is done.
In other words, you have fallen into marketers' expectations and calculations.
Usually, middle of the line aren't really awesome deals, but you feel they are. Common practice is to raise the price of the middle of the line product in order to decrease the differential to sell higher end high margin products while boosting price differential to lower end (less margin) products to make them look like better deals.
---"... lazy immigrants who don't care about their jobs enough to actually clean the theaters properly on occasion."
1. Getting an asshole stamp before you make a point is a bad idea.
---"Starbucks"
2. Getting an idiot stamp before you make a point is also a bad idea.
-- "The smell" , "Hygene" , etc.
3. Talking like a gay man before you make a point is still another bad idea.
4. Bragging about your phat equipment don't make you an expert.
5. Learn before you talk. Full DVD images have been traded for a long time. DVD image traffic surpass DivX traffic. But you are too ignorant to know that.
After seeing a sample of the anti-piracy red dots,
http://www.vcdquality.com/image.php?id=18919
I saw it in Kill Bill 3 times last night. The are very obvious because part of the movie is black and white. It's rather distracting. I forgot to complain to the manager afterwards cuz I was upset about how the movie sucked, but if any of you are going to see the film, remember to complain about it.
Alan Cox has been dealing with a huge international team with conflicting interest; his daily routine was making decisions for others to follow; saying "no" when it's real hard; making judgement calls, etc. --In fact, he has been working as a manager for years. I am almost sure that Alan have found out the hard way that management skills are needed for anyone who wants to make a big difference.
Take Linux, for example. I believe the success of Linux owe to the fact that Linus is a great leader, not just that he is a great coder.
I found that your tone is very much like most of today's college students in CS - most people only care about the "certificate" or "degree" but have no interest in learning.
I understand that the community have issues with lame MBAs that bullshit all day. But I honestly think an MBA is a great experience for smart but ill-presented geeks in the journey of life. And that's most of us.
I have just finished my first year MBA and it was a painful decision to drop my PhD studies at UIUC to go for an MBA. Within a week into the program, I knew it's worth it. Now I am back to the CS grad program, I realize how much my MBA experience changed me. I honestly highly recommend my fellow geeks to drop the MBA-hater mentality and try it - you'll learn things that you won't learn in books.
Some of the most successful geeks I know are born with management skills. Most of us can use some help. I'll list some of the reasons, and I'm sure that flames will follow suit.
1. People skills. (Ever wonder why fewer people work on OpenBSD?)
People skills will get you where you want to go. I cannot remember how many people I know decided to drop thier PhD because they couldn't get along with thier advisers. Professors need people skills to get research fundings. Any project leader need people skills to lead a group. Yeah I hated to deal with humans, too. But after some force training you will make it a habit. 60% of all jobs are never posted and done via friends and associates.
I still remember how hard it was for me to put up a smile, rev up the courage to say "hi" and shake hands with strangers when I first entered the program. One year later, I do it with ease. (This gets chix, too. I had a 5 year dateless drought until I started MBA.)
2. Communication skills. without it, you will not go far. Again, becoming a trained presenter of ideas will get you further. As a teaching assistant, I found my training in presentations incredibly helpful.
I remember when I interned with a big company and was asked to write a report. Well if I had been trained to write something formal, I wouldn't have written that big pile of code comment style shit that totally embarrases me today.
3. Ability to see things in different light.
One of my most valuable lesson in the MBA program is working to recruite a team. I learned how it feels to be on the other side of the job interview table. It was not at all what I thought it would be. Being a recruiter is just as stressful as looking for a job - worrying about whether the guy you'll get will turn out terrible, or get scooped by competitors.. It gave me an entirely different perspective when I'm being interviewed for jobs because I now have a clue about what the other guy thinks.
Being a manager ain't easy. That's why they pay so much. A great manager seem to make little effort and reap great rewards; a lousy manager go to work every day to put out fire.
4. Manage your life.
I know of a Math grad student that I didn't think qualify to be in the top grad school. So I asked him how he got here. He told me, "I am good at marketing yourself." If you know how to market your self, your ideas, your projects, you will have a good chance to succeed in whatever you are going after.
In fact, I think just the job interview coaching you will get in an MBA program will be worth it. You are more likely to get higher paid and better jobs if you present yourself professionally, instead of ac
It's true. It happened to me!
I, too, decided to take a year off my big geeky life to go to an MBA, and I immediately started to get hot girls - can't get them off me. And I was single for 5 years as a UNIX geek before getting the MBA.
I truely believe that it's how we geeks treat women that makes them dislike us. Isolation from females make us treat them like Godesses/Aliens instead of humans, and it's evidently a big turn off.
Of all the higher moded post, this parent post is the only one that I found to have merit.
I'm a MS student in CS after giving up a PhD for an MBA, and my father has been a EE professor for 30 years. Everything he said was true and I can add a lot of stories.
"Also, one last tip: in computer science, you don't want to get a masters if you know you want to get a PhD. It's just an extra year wasted, and completely unnecessary. "
Bullshit.
I'm a grad student at a first tier school, and I can tell you that I have not heard of any problem getting jobs for master students, and plenty of BS don't get any jobs. There's a good reason for that.
If you talk to those undergrads, you'd know why. While many are smart, a lot of them are simply clueless dumb bastards with no interest in the field. They don't deserve a job.
Then again, there are always special cases. my friend who got his 2.9 GPA from a second tier school got $75 plus bonus and commision to start - in Texas, not Manhattan. A PhD in first ranked Commputer Engineering gets $95 to start which I thought was a scandle.
People who have not gone to grad school do not understand that the MS and PhD only differs by a couple of classes and a thesis. In most schools, you are freely transferable between the two degrees. I think second tier schools usually show a huge difference between the level of PhD and masters students.
I do think that a PhD in CS isn't worth much financially. I am finishing up a degree in the MBA, well I'm almost sure that this will be worth more than a PhD in the long run.
Well, Ben Affleck does have an unusually large head...
Between Affleck's huge head and J-Lo's giant ass, thier children are gona look like barbells.
I assume that most geeks have downloaded Gigli out of curiosity then quickly realize the mistake. That's what I did after reading the reviews. It is every bit as bad as they say. The most memorable line, when Lopez opens her crouch and say, "It's turkey time. Gobble, Gobble!" makes Eric Cartman's hand puppet looks like a noble Oscar hopeful.
However, Gigli has created some of the most entertaining movie reviews I have ever seen. People are so pissed off about watching the movie that they get creative writing reviews. Check out Yahoo Movies user review of Gigli and laugh yourself silly. Two people claimed to break up with thier girlfriends after being forced to watch it.
I would not see another film with Lopez or Affleck because the 20 million each of them got from the film makes me want to puke. Without the doubt, "Gigli" is aimed at the lower class who have to work hard to earn the bucks to go to a movie, and the movie is a torture.
I remember last year when the school chopped off my connection telling me that my box is compromised and the "net tech" must come in to clean it before they will hook me back up.
The dumb piece of sh*t have never known of a computer with two monitors in his life, and therefore insist that I have two contaminated computers..
Then he insisted that I have run illegal P2P programs because I have a lot of hard drives laying around.
Then he ran the virus program and deleted files.now the box wouldn't reboot he insisted that I must reformat all my hard drives: more than 200G worth of data!
Upon hearing that, I booted him out of my place telling him to ask his boss to call. That guy is a piece of work, in this huge engineering school full of jobless geeks... I still want to kick his ass everytime I see him.
... and why do you spill the beans?