He said that America will be on the right side of history... and it probably will.
You have to remember that "History is written by the winners." - George Orwell
Admittedly, retail profit margins are pretty thin, however, they aren't uniformly thin. There are certain product that are loss leaders, and there are some that have a healthy profit margin. (Like electrical wire at Home Depot is historically relatively cheap, but the wire nuts that you use as connectors aren't.)
Something like this would be a one time investment that you could amortize over many months, if not years... making it very cheap in the long run. And even if it only steers 1% of the public to a higher profit item, it'll pay for itself... on top of that, it can be a "upsell" to products that don't have good shelf space, they could pay to advertise their product more often than others. And that would be considered gravy...
You know what would stop the "principled" leaking of information?
Maybe Governments should stop doing unprincipled things... Wow, now there's something...
-D
Really... 33 million in 8 hands. Obviously the marks at the table had the cash to lose if they so desired. If I were them, I would be mad at the casino that their security was so weak, but if I'm betting and losing 33mil in eight hands, I'm really going to be more mad at myself.
(Let's be realistic though, if I lost $33 in 8 hands I would probably walk away from the table.:-)
How the hell is this news for nerds? How many times has the Palin or Bush or Wikipedia pages been defaced? Don't recall it being trumpeted here...
At least a pretense of impartiality would be welcome...
Actually, the changing of a wikipedia entry kind of makes it news for nerds. They didn't post the plethora of articles about the Palin gaffe, they posted the one that pertained to geek culture, i.e. the one about wikipedia. I'd say that answers the "How the hell is this news for nerds?" question.
Partiality? Please... to begin with, ever since Fox "news" started broadcasting opinion rather than facts, mainstream media has pretty much went into the crapper. And expecting impartiality amongst nerds? With the Mac acolytes, the Windows vs Linux wars, and the emacs vs vi vs ed neverending debates, you sir, are WAY more of an optimist than I am.
PS Full disclosure... Macs are good for graphics and layout, not real business; Linux; Vi all the way; Palin is a tool.
Good question... I'm not a lawyer, but I doubt it. It probably falls under circumstantial evidence. It's kind of like ramming a file down the barrel of a gun you just shot someone with. They can't use ballistics to prove it, but they might be able to use hair/fiber/residue something else that you might find on one of the CSI:Hoboken shows... (It seems like they have one for every other city...why _not_ Hoboken?)
More likely than not, it just gives the police reason to fixate on you, (and try and build a better case,) than eliminating other suspects.
-D
You know there are going to be some hilarious easter eggs programmed into this game... the only thing that would have made this better would be if it was done by R*S* games. Then you know they would have crossed the line.
-D
Yeah, you better. The "average" can still be low. Let's take a 6th grade class taking a calculus exam. The class "average" would be somewhere around 10%, (if that,) which is considered "low."
I'm not sure about Canadian IQ, but right now, American IQ average is right at 98... a little lower than the "average" for all people.
-D
I think that Acer is reiterating what is said in the article, not doing an apples to oranges comparison.
Due to his lower cost of living, and the ability to do the work equally well, it's driving down the cost for that labor to be done.
(From the article - The intense global competition for work means wages are driven so low that people labour for hours on repetitive, menial tasks, turning employment opportunities into online sweat shops.)
This isn't a new idea... I'm kind of surprized that there was a recent article about it. (I mean Freidman talked about it back around 2004-2005 in his book "The World is Flat.")
Have you tried The International Music Score Library project? http://imslp.org/ A friend of mine suggested it, it looks like you can search by instrument...
-D
Hay is actually different from Straw. (And most of us would rather be called "Good old boy's" rather than "rednecks." Though, to be honest, I can't get to that link from work, so they might just be rednecks...)
We may find it annoying, but we absolutely should not avoid it. In fact, we should being doing it more often.
While your point is valid... as a sometimes "asker of novice questions," I can tell you that the only thing worse than not getting the answers you need, is being made to feel like crap for asking the question in the first place. And if someone doesn't want to answer questions, that's usually what comes across, whether it's intended or not.
Here's a real-life example that happened to a buddy of mine... (noob) "I'm on system (x) running (y) and I've tried (a), (b), and (c)... What do you think I should do?" (a-hole guru) "Learn to troubleshoot."
Now, I'm not saying that people shouldn't help, I'm just saying that if they don't want to help, they shouldn't... sometimes it helps the open source movement more if some people just stick to whatever it is they do best, and leave the human interaction to those that actually like people.
That's just my $.02, feel free to disregard.
-D
Actually, for an accurate accounting of how outsourcing came into being, you should read "The World is Flat." It's a good read, or, if you have a commute, get the audio book and listen to it on the way to work.
And I would feel sorry for the American automobile industry, but I just can't... They brought it on themselves. You can't blame consumers for not buying your product. If there's something wrong with the product, you change the product. And then there's the UAW. My sister is currently laid off from GM, but is going to receive 95% of her pay FOR A YEAR, to sit at home. When I was laid off from a dot-com, I got unemployment and the promise of a good recommendation, (which I never actually got.) My father on the other hand retired from GM, and he gets a monthly stipend from them as a "consultant" on the outdated equipment that he used to repair. He doesn't actually have to do anything, but he gets it anyways. This is on top of his pension and 401k, IRA's and whatnot.
Now, I don't want to be flame-bait, but there isn't any business out there that can handle that kind of overhead and an unwillingness to change their product mix and expect to survive. It's just bad business.
-D
But these days it sometimes pays to be a little paranoid.
I noticed that most of the posts were about politics/social commentary/corporate evil, etc. etc. (And not really answering your question.
I wouldn't worry too much about it, but if the Assistant Principle comes back with anything but, "We want to make sure that they stay within the min/max HR for their age range during PE," then I would start to worry.
You've got two things on your side. So far, it doesn't seem like a mandatory program, and the only thing more screwed up than trying to share data with all the insurance companies would be the goverment doing the collection via the educational system.
-D
Well, if you are only making *one* of the products in your schematic, then yeah, your math is probably right.
But what if your company makes a couple hundred thousand or a million of them? Then that's 650 bucks well spent...
And a better BF quote would be an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure... or in other words, spend the 650 now, and save thousands later. A little spending on the front end will save you on the back end.
-D
I would say yes to both of those, but also include The Unix Philosophy by Mike Gancarz... But then again, I think that every SysAdmin or programmer should read that book. It's short, but a good read.
And yes, it's the New Razr that has the iTunes interface too...
http://www.store.motorola.com/mot/en/US/adirect/mo torola?cmd=catProductDetail
And the new Razr allows streaming videos and phoneTV...
Now, you might be right that the Apple interface might be more usable than the Razr. But 400 dollars more usable? That would be someone with way more money than brains IMHO... but hey, there is probably a market.
But I still haven't seen the "Wow" factor yet... and Apple's going to need it to be more than a one-hit wonder.
Don't worry, I won't be an executive. I just don't have the work/life imbalance needed to be an exec... to quote Eastwood, "A man's got to know his limitations."
But to call the iPhone innovative?
Ahhh, I dunno... they aren't "attacking an underrepresented portion of the cell phone market."
What Nintendo did was offer an innovation currently not offered, not rolling the dice on their brand name. I don't see any "innovation" in the iPhone, heck, they're using EDGE for goodness sake! (I know what you're thinking, "But they have the cool touch screen!" I think that LG Prada has been in stores for a couple of months now...(sadly not he US market, but we always worse phones than Japan and Europe...) "But they have iTunes!" Yeah, and so does the Razr. Actually, it's getting harder to not find a phone these days that doesn't support mp3's.)
Really, what is their innovation or competitive advantage?
By the way, those aren't risk management models, they're marketing models. You have to look at the world as it is, and make decisions based on that... Well, you don't _have_ to, but then you come up with products like the Lisa...
(For the record, I hope that the iPhone does open up a blue ocean market, and sells 66 million phones like the Razr did last year... but then again, I'm biased because of where I work.)
Actually, I am a MBA student, and I have a team presentation on Motorola in the next few days, and he is very much correct.
On the Industry Attractiveness index, we rated the Mobile Devices Business Unit as a Low/Average, meaning the industry was rated "low", and Motorola was rated as "average" competitively in the market. (Which means that they need to adopt a "harvest" position, boosting short term cash flow, until their competitiveness slips to "low" as well, then they need to divest the business unit... But I digress...)
In the Porter Five Forces model, we rated the Barriers to Entry "High" as there are high fixed costs, steep learning curve for the industry, and economies of scale in manufacturing, as well as high switching costs, and a couple of other factors that you probably don't care about...:-)
Using Motorola as an example, Dvorak is correct in saying that they need to have other phones in the pipeline... Motorola came out with the Razr, and that became the largest selling phone in the world. The problem has been that they haven't come up with anything else lately that matches it, and they are seeing their market share dwindle and their revenues slip, as their production costs remain the same, but now I think you can get a Razr with five box tops of Lucky Charms... (with SASE.)
Now, I'm not saying that he isn't yanking on the Brotherhood of Apple's chain a bit, because he might very well be. But unfortunately, he might also be right. -D
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He said that America will be on the right side of history... and it probably will. You have to remember that "History is written by the winners." - George Orwell
Admittedly, retail profit margins are pretty thin, however, they aren't uniformly thin. There are certain product that are loss leaders, and there are some that have a healthy profit margin. (Like electrical wire at Home Depot is historically relatively cheap, but the wire nuts that you use as connectors aren't.)
Something like this would be a one time investment that you could amortize over many months, if not years... making it very cheap in the long run. And even if it only steers 1% of the public to a higher profit item, it'll pay for itself... on top of that, it can be a "upsell" to products that don't have good shelf space, they could pay to advertise their product more often than others. And that would be considered gravy...
You know what would stop the "principled" leaking of information? Maybe Governments should stop doing unprincipled things... Wow, now there's something... -D
Really... 33 million in 8 hands. Obviously the marks at the table had the cash to lose if they so desired. If I were them, I would be mad at the casino that their security was so weak, but if I'm betting and losing 33mil in eight hands, I'm really going to be more mad at myself. (Let's be realistic though, if I lost $33 in 8 hands I would probably walk away from the table. :-)
As far as your tag goes, I'd say that your english is also better than most people's english.
How the hell is this news for nerds? How many times has the Palin or Bush or Wikipedia pages been defaced? Don't recall it being trumpeted here...
At least a pretense of impartiality would be welcome...
Actually, the changing of a wikipedia entry kind of makes it news for nerds. They didn't post the plethora of articles about the Palin gaffe, they posted the one that pertained to geek culture, i.e. the one about wikipedia. I'd say that answers the "How the hell is this news for nerds?" question.
Partiality? Please... to begin with, ever since Fox "news" started broadcasting opinion rather than facts, mainstream media has pretty much went into the crapper. And expecting impartiality amongst nerds? With the Mac acolytes, the Windows vs Linux wars, and the emacs vs vi vs ed neverending debates, you sir, are WAY more of an optimist than I am.
PS Full disclosure... Macs are good for graphics and layout, not real business; Linux; Vi all the way; Palin is a tool.
Good question... I'm not a lawyer, but I doubt it. It probably falls under circumstantial evidence. It's kind of like ramming a file down the barrel of a gun you just shot someone with. They can't use ballistics to prove it, but they might be able to use hair/fiber/residue something else that you might find on one of the CSI:Hoboken shows... (It seems like they have one for every other city...why _not_ Hoboken?)
More likely than not, it just gives the police reason to fixate on you, (and try and build a better case,) than eliminating other suspects.
-D
You know there are going to be some hilarious easter eggs programmed into this game... the only thing that would have made this better would be if it was done by R*S* games. Then you know they would have crossed the line.
-D
Yeah, you better. The "average" can still be low. Let's take a 6th grade class taking a calculus exam. The class "average" would be somewhere around 10%, (if that,) which is considered "low."
I'm not sure about Canadian IQ, but right now, American IQ average is right at 98... a little lower than the "average" for all people.
-D
IANALBIHADIL (I Am Not a Lawyer But I Hold a Degree in Law, there must be a shorter one for this - any suggestions?)
ISHAS
"I still have a soul." or maybe LDWMF? (Law Degree with moral fiber?)
Just kidding, some of my best minions are lawyers...
-D
I think that Acer is reiterating what is said in the article, not doing an apples to oranges comparison.
Due to his lower cost of living, and the ability to do the work equally well, it's driving down the cost for that labor to be done.
(From the article - The intense global competition for work means wages are driven so low that people labour for hours on repetitive, menial tasks, turning employment opportunities into online sweat shops.)
This isn't a new idea... I'm kind of surprized that there was a recent article about it. (I mean Freidman talked about it back around 2004-2005 in his book "The World is Flat.")
Anywho, that's just my $.02
-D
Have you tried The International Music Score Library project? http://imslp.org/ A friend of mine suggested it, it looks like you can search by instrument... -D
Hay is actually different from Straw. (And most of us would rather be called "Good old boy's" rather than "rednecks." Though, to be honest, I can't get to that link from work, so they might just be rednecks...)
-D
To further explain the differences between hay and straw, here's a link.
http://www.delsjourney.com/travels_2001-02/story_list/us/hay_and_straw.htm
We may find it annoying, but we absolutely should not avoid it. In fact, we should being doing it more often.
While your point is valid... as a sometimes "asker of novice questions," I can tell you that the only thing worse than not getting the answers you need, is being made to feel like crap for asking the question in the first place. And if someone doesn't want to answer questions, that's usually what comes across, whether it's intended or not.
Here's a real-life example that happened to a buddy of mine... (noob) "I'm on system (x) running (y) and I've tried (a), (b), and (c)... What do you think I should do?" (a-hole guru) "Learn to troubleshoot."
Now, I'm not saying that people shouldn't help, I'm just saying that if they don't want to help, they shouldn't... sometimes it helps the open source movement more if some people just stick to whatever it is they do best, and leave the human interaction to those that actually like people. That's just my $.02, feel free to disregard. -D
Actually, for an accurate accounting of how outsourcing came into being, you should read "The World is Flat." It's a good read, or, if you have a commute, get the audio book and listen to it on the way to work.
And I would feel sorry for the American automobile industry, but I just can't... They brought it on themselves. You can't blame consumers for not buying your product. If there's something wrong with the product, you change the product. And then there's the UAW. My sister is currently laid off from GM, but is going to receive 95% of her pay FOR A YEAR, to sit at home. When I was laid off from a dot-com, I got unemployment and the promise of a good recommendation, (which I never actually got.) My father on the other hand retired from GM, and he gets a monthly stipend from them as a "consultant" on the outdated equipment that he used to repair. He doesn't actually have to do anything, but he gets it anyways. This is on top of his pension and 401k, IRA's and whatnot.
Now, I don't want to be flame-bait, but there isn't any business out there that can handle that kind of overhead and an unwillingness to change their product mix and expect to survive. It's just bad business. -D
But these days it sometimes pays to be a little paranoid. I noticed that most of the posts were about politics/social commentary/corporate evil, etc. etc. (And not really answering your question. I wouldn't worry too much about it, but if the Assistant Principle comes back with anything but, "We want to make sure that they stay within the min/max HR for their age range during PE," then I would start to worry. You've got two things on your side. So far, it doesn't seem like a mandatory program, and the only thing more screwed up than trying to share data with all the insurance companies would be the goverment doing the collection via the educational system. -D
Well, if you are only making *one* of the products in your schematic, then yeah, your math is probably right. But what if your company makes a couple hundred thousand or a million of them? Then that's 650 bucks well spent... And a better BF quote would be an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure... or in other words, spend the 650 now, and save thousands later. A little spending on the front end will save you on the back end. -D
I would say yes to both of those, but also include The Unix Philosophy by Mike Gancarz... But then again, I think that every SysAdmin or programmer should read that book. It's short, but a good read.
It was tested on the Cingular/AT&T network, but was not added to the list of phones carried.
-D
Trust me on this...h one-details/?q_list=true&q_phoneName=MOTORAZR+V3i+ with+iTunes&q_sku=sku1000028-0
http://www.cingular.com/cell-phone-service/cell-p
And yes, it's the New Razr that has the iTunes interface too...o torola?cmd=catProductDetail
http://www.store.motorola.com/mot/en/US/adirect/m
And the new Razr allows streaming videos and phoneTV...
Now, you might be right that the Apple interface might be more usable than the Razr. But 400 dollars more usable? That would be someone with way more money than brains IMHO... but hey, there is probably a market.
But I still haven't seen the "Wow" factor yet... and Apple's going to need it to be more than a one-hit wonder.
Don't worry, I won't be an executive. I just don't have the work/life imbalance needed to be an exec... to quote Eastwood, "A man's got to know his limitations." But to call the iPhone innovative? Ahhh, I dunno... they aren't "attacking an underrepresented portion of the cell phone market." What Nintendo did was offer an innovation currently not offered, not rolling the dice on their brand name. I don't see any "innovation" in the iPhone, heck, they're using EDGE for goodness sake! (I know what you're thinking, "But they have the cool touch screen!" I think that LG Prada has been in stores for a couple of months now...(sadly not he US market, but we always worse phones than Japan and Europe...) "But they have iTunes!" Yeah, and so does the Razr. Actually, it's getting harder to not find a phone these days that doesn't support mp3's.) Really, what is their innovation or competitive advantage? By the way, those aren't risk management models, they're marketing models. You have to look at the world as it is, and make decisions based on that... Well, you don't _have_ to, but then you come up with products like the Lisa... (For the record, I hope that the iPhone does open up a blue ocean market, and sells 66 million phones like the Razr did last year... but then again, I'm biased because of where I work.)
Actually, I am a MBA student, and I have a team presentation on Motorola in the next few days, and he is very much correct.
On the Industry Attractiveness index, we rated the Mobile Devices Business Unit as a Low/Average, meaning the industry was rated "low", and Motorola was rated as "average" competitively in the market. (Which means that they need to adopt a "harvest" position, boosting short term cash flow, until their competitiveness slips to "low" as well, then they need to divest the business unit... But I digress...)
In the Porter Five Forces model, we rated the Barriers to Entry "High" as there are high fixed costs, steep learning curve for the industry, and economies of scale in manufacturing, as well as high switching costs, and a couple of other factors that you probably don't care about...:-)
Using Motorola as an example, Dvorak is correct in saying that they need to have other phones in the pipeline... Motorola came out with the Razr, and that became the largest selling phone in the world. The problem has been that they haven't come up with anything else lately that matches it, and they are seeing their market share dwindle and their revenues slip, as their production costs remain the same, but now I think you can get a Razr with five box tops of Lucky Charms... (with SASE.)
Now, I'm not saying that he isn't yanking on the Brotherhood of Apple's chain a bit, because he might very well be. But unfortunately, he might also be right.
-D