Exactly. It's like saying "One of these prostitutes as herpes and the other is clean! If you can't tell the difference, you need to buy one of our prostitute STD test kits before leaving the house or you WILL be infected!!!"
Yeah...I hear the minute a developer is hired at Microsoft, they get the name of the project they are on tatooed on their forehead so that they can never accidently be moved to another one.
Microsoft wasn't giving away IE free to get ad-revenue on their home page. Microsoft was giving IE away in hopes that they could translate a monopoly in the web browser market into a monopoly in the web server market. IE wasn't intended to make money off of end-users. It was intended to make money off of big corporations. In that sense, IIS sales should go on its profit-and-loss balance sheet.
If you have kids, then your home office needs to be a door with a lock. You also need a spouse that understands that when you are in your home office, working, you are not available.
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Without Jobs there would be no Apple,
That's like saying "without your left leg, you couldn't walk".
It's the basic problem with IQ tests. They don't measure overall intelligence, but rather, one particular sort of intelligence. Hell, there probably isn't any way to assign a single number to overall intelligence just like you can't assign a single number to overall strength. Some people have more upper-body strength, some more lower-body strength, some more endurance, etc.
Often, it goes like this: Manager finds someone (company transfer, coworker recommendation, etc.) and goes to HR and says "I want to hire $Foo". HR comes back and says "We are required to go through the entire process for our records. Please give us job requirements so we can start a search." Manager then creates a job description that is either impossible ("ten years of C#") or extremely specific ("must have two years experience with $ObscureSoftware version 1.512a") in order to keep resumes to a minimum. All resumes that actually arrive are round-filed and the job goes to $Foo.
It isn't all about money. Flash has advantages over hard drives, and some people will likely pay for those advantages. (Just look at the number of iPod Nanos that sell.) I suspect a fair number of people would buy a laptop with flash memory despite the premium as it'd be lighter and have much better battery life.
One thing to understand about a "hit" is that in a broad market like games, books, movies, etc., only a small part of the audience has to buy something to be a "hit". If 25% of gamers love GTA-type games and 75% hate GTA-type games, it can still be a huge hit because no game sells to anywhere near 25% of potential buyers. It's why a game like "Civilization IV" can be a "hit" in the same year GTA is. (I know they are from different years, but you get the point.) They aren't necessarily being made a hit by the same buyers.
It's one reason why copying the big hit is often a bad idea. What you really want to do is find what part of the market that is being underserved and make something that appeals to them.
Such a system means that your employees will likely be able to get better salaries at their competitors. (If you pay everyone the industry average or less than the rest of the industry must be paying the industry average or more.) The end result of this is that employees who can quit and get better jobs will eventually quit and get better jobs. The end result of that is that your employees will generally be less competent than your competitors.
Yes, outsourcing (to anywhere, locally or internationally) does result in poorer service. Why? Because someone who is not employed by you has less interest in the success of your company.
It's been ready for many years. I've been reading books on Palm devices for a decade and O'Reilly has a great web-based subscription service.
The only issue has been that the "real" ebook readers have all utterly sucked because the idiots that make them are so concerned with controlling what their users read that they produce a product no one wants to buy.
What they need to succeed is not new technology. What they need is to give up on stupid pricing models and idiotic DRM schemes.
I've read 20-30 books on my Clie...but only because they sell for less than a physical book and don't "expire" or have other idiotic restrictions. I won't buy one of the new Sony units (despite actually working for Sony) because I don't trust it not to put idiotic restrictions on my reading.)
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Exactly. It's like saying "One of these prostitutes as herpes and the other is clean! If you can't tell the difference, you need to buy one of our prostitute STD test kits before leaving the house or you WILL be infected!!!"
Yeah...I hear the minute a developer is hired at Microsoft, they get the name of the project they are on tatooed on their forehead so that they can never accidently be moved to another one.
Microsoft wasn't giving away IE free to get ad-revenue on their home page. Microsoft was giving IE away in hopes that they could translate a monopoly in the web browser market into a monopoly in the web server market. IE wasn't intended to make money off of end-users. It was intended to make money off of big corporations. In that sense, IIS sales should go on its profit-and-loss balance sheet.
Ok...then decode this: "XFARBUN"
Higher job growth is a way of saying "more demand", which for people with the jobs (the "supply") means lower unemployment and higher salaries.
One problem with tenure is that it is a trap in that you lose it if you switch jobs.
If you have kids, then your home office needs to be a door with a lock. You also need a spouse that understands that when you are in your home office, working, you are not available.
That's like saying "without your left leg, you couldn't walk".
Speaking as a software engineer who understands supply and demand, I would say on no acocunt should anyone embark on a career in software.
It's the basic problem with IQ tests. They don't measure overall intelligence, but rather, one particular sort of intelligence. Hell, there probably isn't any way to assign a single number to overall intelligence just like you can't assign a single number to overall strength. Some people have more upper-body strength, some more lower-body strength, some more endurance, etc.
Misinterpretation of data? On slashdot!? Never!
Heh. I've got two Apple converts and I don't even use Apple's myself.
Often, it goes like this: Manager finds someone (company transfer, coworker recommendation, etc.) and goes to HR and says "I want to hire $Foo". HR comes back and says "We are required to go through the entire process for our records. Please give us job requirements so we can start a search." Manager then creates a job description that is either impossible ("ten years of C#") or extremely specific ("must have two years experience with $ObscureSoftware version 1.512a") in order to keep resumes to a minimum. All resumes that actually arrive are round-filed and the job goes to $Foo.
It doesn't matter. With a random-access storage mechanism, there's no cost if the blocks that are in a file are not sequential.
It isn't all about money. Flash has advantages over hard drives, and some people will likely pay for those advantages. (Just look at the number of iPod Nanos that sell.) I suspect a fair number of people would buy a laptop with flash memory despite the premium as it'd be lighter and have much better battery life.
"Defragging" is a hard drive concept. It makes no sense with a random access storage system.
It's one reason why copying the big hit is often a bad idea. What you really want to do is find what part of the market that is being underserved and make something that appeals to them.
That makes sense. A single parent is probably more likely to use the TV/Video game console to parent.
Sounds like bleeding someone to cure anemia.
Such a system means that your employees will likely be able to get better salaries at their competitors. (If you pay everyone the industry average or less than the rest of the industry must be paying the industry average or more.) The end result of this is that employees who can quit and get better jobs will eventually quit and get better jobs. The end result of that is that your employees will generally be less competent than your competitors.
In other words, you get what you pay for.
Yes, outsourcing (to anywhere, locally or internationally) does result in poorer service. Why? Because someone who is not employed by you has less interest in the success of your company.
How is that different from Sony, which produces content and has an online store?
It's been ready for many years. I've been reading books on Palm devices for a decade and O'Reilly has a great web-based subscription service.
The only issue has been that the "real" ebook readers have all utterly sucked because the idiots that make them are so concerned with controlling what their users read that they produce a product no one wants to buy.
I've read 20-30 books on my Clie...but only because they sell for less than a physical book and don't "expire" or have other idiotic restrictions. I won't buy one of the new Sony units (despite actually working for Sony) because I don't trust it not to put idiotic restrictions on my reading.)
Yeah, and I recall playing Lemonade Stand in 1982.
Me too. I'm on Speakeasy. I'm three hops to google, and nothing I traceroute seems to go through Verizon.