OK...so it's grainy footage and doesn't show anything clearly, but where is the plane? If a commercial airliner hit the building at that angle, with that amount of open space in front, it would be sitting in the grass. There's no debris, no fuselage, no tail assembly, no cloud of dust, no nothin'
Please note that the OP said "Even when that foe is as evil as Sony."
There was no mention that Microsoft is evil. That point shouldn't even be up for debate.
From a page on IBM Developer Works: "The phrase was coined by Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path... and is, according to Jesse, not meant to be an acronym." (emphasis in the article).
Good analogy. However, it is missing one more option. What about the Buicks, Pontiacs, Chevrolets, Cryslers, etc. of the world? People want a computer that "just works," that has A/C and that doesn't have all of the bells and whistles of the luxury cars.
I think those will soon become the new Consumer-level Intel Macs and the Pro-level Intel Macs will suit your luxury car analogy.
Mine too. That would have been around '79 that I got it. Black & White television with an Apple multi-color sticker on top. Integer BASIC was a pain so some friends and I put together (breadboarded) a card that made the ][ a ][+. That was my first experience burning EPROMS. Very cool.
In fact, that computer is still sitting in my basement. I'll have to pull it out and dust it off one day.
The title of this New York Post article - Don't Buy the Xbox 360 - pretty much sums up that paper's attitude toward the system. It's another interesting read.
Yes, but Cliff Notes are writting in a grammatically-correct language. (I would say "English" but I don't know if there are other versions of Cliff Notes.
Granted, I've been known to use CNs before (especially for Moby Dick), but at least those volumes explain the book. MadwyfSetsFyr2Haus says nothing for Jane Eyre.
Well, first of all, I refresh/. more times per day than I look at the clock and since I'm going home to play AD&D tonight, I think I still rate my nerd card.
Ahem...I happen to be one of those nerds who does things in IT besides writing code. I'm also a newly-minted PMP. Also, by coincidence, I've been reading Berkun's book this morning. I'd say that it is probably one of the best IT-related PM books that I've read (and I've read quite a few).
P.S. I also have my MBA so either of the GP's sites would appeal to me.
Ohhhhh...so it's complete fiction, is it? Fantasy is probably the correct genre. Even assuming that the employees are programmers, it couldn't be considered Science Fiction since it has to be at plausible.
It's interesting that Jobs says "[t]his stuff doesn't change the world" when (right or wrong) the quote "[d]o you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?" is attributed to him as part of his offer to get John Sculley to join Apple from Pepsi.
That's quite the opposite of the Zen (and Taoist) view of the past and the future. While many think that it is important to look to the past to predict the future, that is as effective as examining the wake of a ship to determine where it is going.
Even looking at the wake to determine where it has been is only effective for a short time.
Remember, the past does not exist anymore and the future has never existed. There is only now.
I'll agree to your points about Microsoft. Growing up, I had just that sort of an uncle. He has tried to keep up with the "younger generation" and has done an admirable job of up. Now, twenty years on, he's no longer the "cool uncle" but the uncle that we go to for advice.
I'll also agree to your points about Ballmer. There should be a/. poll "Most Likely to Blow a Gasket During a Presentation." Ballmer would certainly win, hands down.
However, I don't think that my comment former v. current employees in any way validates your original posit. Taken to the extreme, you can also say that there are more "dead Americans" today than there are "live Americans." The point is that just because Microsoft loses employees doesn't mean that the death knell is sounding.
Not likely. Despite the exodus of high-profile indidivuals such as Cunningham, an organization such as Microsoft (or Apple or IBM, &c.) have constant turnover. In some cases it is from disgruntled employees, but in others it is simply a desire to expand one's horizons and move on to different things.
I suspect that there are more "former Microsoft employees" than there are "current Microsoft employees."
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Check out 1994. At the bottom of the page it says:
"According to 1980's atrocious The Apple in the future world of 1994 the music industry is ruled by an evil, scheming conglomerate set on monopolizing the business (hey, wait a minute....)"
It just occurred to me, after reading Cuban's blog, that Soap Operas may be the next download on the horizon. Think of all the millions of working women that tape or DVR their "stories" every day.
If they can get the day's episode and watch it at work on their iPods, all of us husbands that have to find something else to do while the TV is occupied can actually take control of our remotes again.
I've been a RUP user/proponent for several years. This may be, as the article alludes, a shot in the arm for improved processes. However, it remains to be seen just what the "subset" of RUP entails. RUP can be an unwieldy process that, if used in the (lowercase "e") extreme, make development slower and more "process-laden."
However, from what I've seen lately out of some shops that are using more "modern" approaches (and failing miserably) this could be welcome relief.
One of the articles I read said that Negroponte wanted a design that was so distinctive it would be easily recognized and that it would be a stigma to carry one if you weren't a teacher or a student...like "filching a mail truch or taking something from a church."
There was a lengthy discussion about that this morning. Every shuttle is damaged in one way or another but until this trip, when they scanned every inch of the orbiter, they couldn't tell if the damage came from launch, orbit or reentry.
This new data will prove invaluable not only for the remaining shuttle flights, but also for the replacement vehicle.
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OK...so it's grainy footage and doesn't show anything clearly, but where is the plane? If a commercial airliner hit the building at that angle, with that amount of open space in front, it would be sitting in the grass. There's no debris, no fuselage, no tail assembly, no cloud of dust, no nothin'
There's also some horizontal scrolling at 1024x768.
Please note that the OP said "Even when that foe is as evil as Sony." There was no mention that Microsoft is evil. That point shouldn't even be up for debate.
Remember...it's running Windows XP. I think MS expects people to run Outlook for their calendar.
From a page on IBM Developer Works: "The phrase was coined by Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path ... and is, according to Jesse, not meant to be an acronym." (emphasis in the article).
Good analogy. However, it is missing one more option. What about the Buicks, Pontiacs, Chevrolets, Cryslers, etc. of the world? People want a computer that "just works," that has A/C and that doesn't have all of the bells and whistles of the luxury cars.
I think those will soon become the new Consumer-level Intel Macs and the Pro-level Intel Macs will suit your luxury car analogy.
Mine too. That would have been around '79 that I got it. Black & White television with an Apple multi-color sticker on top. Integer BASIC was a pain so some friends and I put together (breadboarded) a card that made the ][ a ][+. That was my first experience burning EPROMS. Very cool.
In fact, that computer is still sitting in my basement. I'll have to pull it out and dust it off one day.
Actually, if you look closely, their left arms are the "brackets" (for lack of a better term) that hold paint rollers. I smell a coverup.
Are we getting close to the moving photographs in the Harry Potter movies?
Seeing Nick Nolte's mug shot scowling out at me from a post office wall would be most disconcerting.
Then again, a moving poster of [insert favorite model here] would be most intriguing.
The title of this New York Post article - Don't Buy the Xbox 360 - pretty much sums up that paper's attitude toward the system. It's another interesting read.
At first I thought =:) but that looks too much like Zippy the Pinhead.
Yes, but Cliff Notes are writting in a grammatically-correct language. (I would say "English" but I don't know if there are other versions of Cliff Notes.
Granted, I've been known to use CNs before (especially for Moby Dick), but at least those volumes explain the book. MadwyfSetsFyr2Haus says nothing for Jane Eyre.
Well, first of all, I refresh /. more times per day than I look at the clock and since I'm going home to play AD&D tonight, I think I still rate my nerd card.
Ahem...I happen to be one of those nerds who does things in IT besides writing code. I'm also a newly-minted PMP. Also, by coincidence, I've been reading Berkun's book this morning. I'd say that it is probably one of the best IT-related PM books that I've read (and I've read quite a few).
P.S. I also have my MBA so either of the GP's sites would appeal to me.
Ohhhhh...so it's complete fiction, is it? Fantasy is probably the correct genre. Even assuming that the employees are programmers, it couldn't be considered Science Fiction since it has to be at plausible.
It's interesting that Jobs says "[t]his stuff doesn't change the world" when (right or wrong) the quote "[d]o you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?" is attributed to him as part of his offer to get John Sculley to join Apple from Pepsi.
That's quite the opposite of the Zen (and Taoist) view of the past and the future. While many think that it is important to look to the past to predict the future, that is as effective as examining the wake of a ship to determine where it is going.
Even looking at the wake to determine where it has been is only effective for a short time.
Remember, the past does not exist anymore and the future has never existed. There is only now.
You can always move to greener pastures, but you still have to mow the grass.
I'll agree to your points about Microsoft. Growing up, I had just that sort of an uncle. He has tried to keep up with the "younger generation" and has done an admirable job of up. Now, twenty years on, he's no longer the "cool uncle" but the uncle that we go to for advice.
/. poll "Most Likely to Blow a Gasket During a Presentation." Ballmer would certainly win, hands down.
I'll also agree to your points about Ballmer. There should be a
However, I don't think that my comment former v. current employees in any way validates your original posit. Taken to the extreme, you can also say that there are more "dead Americans" today than there are "live Americans." The point is that just because Microsoft loses employees doesn't mean that the death knell is sounding.
Not likely. Despite the exodus of high-profile indidivuals such as Cunningham, an organization such as Microsoft (or Apple or IBM, &c.) have constant turnover. In some cases it is from disgruntled employees, but in others it is simply a desire to expand one's horizons and move on to different things.
I suspect that there are more "former Microsoft employees" than there are "current Microsoft employees."
Check out 1994. At the bottom of the page it says:
"According to 1980's atrocious The Apple in the future world of 1994 the music industry is ruled by an evil, scheming conglomerate set on monopolizing the business (hey, wait a minute....)"
Prophetic?
It just occurred to me, after reading Cuban's blog, that Soap Operas may be the next download on the horizon. Think of all the millions of working women that tape or DVR their "stories" every day.
If they can get the day's episode and watch it at work on their iPods, all of us husbands that have to find something else to do while the TV is occupied can actually take control of our remotes again.
I've been a RUP user/proponent for several years. This may be, as the article alludes, a shot in the arm for improved processes. However, it remains to be seen just what the "subset" of RUP entails. RUP can be an unwieldy process that, if used in the (lowercase "e") extreme, make development slower and more "process-laden."
However, from what I've seen lately out of some shops that are using more "modern" approaches (and failing miserably) this could be welcome relief.
One of the articles I read said that Negroponte wanted a design that was so distinctive it would be easily recognized and that it would be a stigma to carry one if you weren't a teacher or a student...like "filching a mail truch or taking something from a church."
There was a lengthy discussion about that this morning. Every shuttle is damaged in one way or another but until this trip, when they scanned every inch of the orbiter, they couldn't tell if the damage came from launch, orbit or reentry.
This new data will prove invaluable not only for the remaining shuttle flights, but also for the replacement vehicle.