That's not actually the sense you get from the article being discussed. The sense one gets is that it's this year's dotcom micromanaged by the founder. Which is fine for small companies where no one wants to actually delegate. And companies that hire exclusively from graduate schools and the like, which is what this sounds like are selling themselves short in the long run. Sorry but it really does sound like age discrimination. But don't feel bad, all the management consulting firms do the same thing. In fact in the last 10 years the average tenure of IBM employees has dropped from 15 years to 4. We're all doing it in the tech/services field.
Good to know. Thanks. Saves me the effort of wasting my time talking to some snotnosed hotshot who imagines that imagining he's real smart is the same thing as actually having done it. The upside of this is of course that with a continually increasing stock price you can entice young people to work in a place with an aura of becoming something magical in the future. The downside is that when the stock price flattens out, the idea of being interviewed in a cow costume, especially when you just graduated Stanford with a 4.0 won't seem that interesting. And coupled with the fact that your employee base has no depth it will mean retention falls through the floor.
Good job Google. Good to know that we greybeards are at least as disposable to you as your Indian help desk.
And if you are from Google please ignore this posting as I have nothing to offer someone as young and brash as you are.
When dear Lord will MS finally understand that we don't want to operate our computers. We want them to operate themselves. I want fewer controls, fewer buttons. I want the software to figure out what's the right way to do something, the right app to start, the right place to put an object. I don't want to be an AUDITOR for my system anymore. I'm sick of it. I don't really care about this years trendy glassy stylistic trend which will be as old as dirt in about 3 years anyway. I don't want rearranged controls that map out everything I could possibly do. I want all of that transparent to my use. I want for instance to be able to simply start typing on the desktop and have it popup the last 4 choices of applications, have me quickly pick one, and load what I just typed into the appropriate area. And if the input is unique enough, I want the software to know what the application is supposed to be and take appropriate action. I want a blank canvas. I don't want to start Adobe to read a PDF. I want a window to open up with the PDF and keep the application absolutely in the background. I don't care what it is. And I don't want to hear about codecs, plugins or patches. Just make it work or let me know how long it will be before you, the system is ready to do that. I want you remember all the little tweaky settings. Print still means print even if the last time I printed it went to email instead, just do that unless and until I tell you otherwise.
Then I want it run faster and quieter with fewer interruptions to update, fix and patch. The system can do that but it has to be completely quiet and unobtrusive about it. I want virtual reboots that allow me to keep working even when the system has to be restarted. I don't want to do storage management, that's your job.
I don't want to hear from firewalls, spyware blockers, AV or malware tools. Please do have them but if they are worth anything at all they will do 99% of their job with ZERO human intervention or notification of any kind.
And then what I want you to do is precreate a large array of batch scheduled housekeeping procs to run off hours, again, w/o me knowing about them to do the little things they need to do: update, defrag, clean off garbage, memory cleanup, patches etc etc etc etc. Take a few hours if you like, take more, do it at night or whichever schedule I give you and bring the system back to WHATEVER state or condition it was in before including all open applications and objects.
It has to be MORE brainless than an iPod
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And the iPod is pretty guldurn brainless, aint it? I mean there are some weird things about the interface and how it works with Window, but all in all ok. If Zune is even the slightest bit harder to use or the slightest bit less seamless then I'm afraid most people will abandon it. Even with the iPod all those PDA like functions - I know anyone who uses them, it's too hard to use. But the real iPod media functions are very simple. If I had to relearn a new UI one that was even a little bit clunkier then I would quickly go back to my iPod.
With an expanded memory card because the base option is only 50MB for everything. So I can store I think up to 1GB on it which accounting for other system requirements is about 200 tunes @128bit. I'm not sure what the relative difference in battery life is versus an iPod but it's sure not going to make me run out and buy one. The problem as always is the quality of the codecs. Some are good, some not so good and the quality can be crappy from mp3 player to mp3 player. I would have to assume this is something Apple would stress so the quality has to be pretty darn good. In either case, it's a tough market. You can a Nano for pretty cheap and the phone probably doesn't have a hard drive, or, if it does you don't want it. So unless the phone is very price competitive I can't see who would get one, especially since so many people already have iPods. If someone were to give me one - sure. But if I'm paying for it I might prefer a pocketPC type phone that can some business like functions and such.
Faxes on that number are silently routed to email where they are filtered with a white list. Everything else: bitbucket. Someone sending me a fax needs my permission before I see it. I got tired of my fax machine printing junk faxes and misrouted 20 page mortgage applications. Not only is it annoying, it's expensive. So I pulled it out and print to the network printer. I use the regular fax machine for outbound only.
Anyway I can do the same thing with any VoIP number so if I see a number I don't want I just filter it out. Sure there are limits on the number of numbers though.
On topic - I really don't see any point in emotive software. Not when everything has the same annoying menus and if you're lucky enough to get to a person it's usually someone from India pretending to be "Mary" or "Eric". They can't understand me and I can't understand them.
They're not allowed to call me. And those who are: cops, fundraisers and politicians, I generally tell them to scream in boiling atomic hell while they fuck themselves. Then I hang up. I wonder what their emotional software reads when I do that?
Great news. Everytime some bunch of retards wants to stop knowledge it can only work out well for everyone else. I hope they ban literacy soon too. Let them all fucking starve.
Why are page developers STILL making their websites non browser indifferent. C'mon how many of you are finding websites that just don't work with Mozilla forcing you to use things like IE Tab extension? Hell we have to write extensions to Mozilla at work just to make it work with our OWN website applications.
The real bullies, the selfimportant soccermom twits are going to litigate videogames out of existence soon. Pretty much like what they have done to cigarette companies.
Please do some reasearch. Libya is a huge thinly populated country with oil. It has the highest or second highest std of living in Africa. Most middle class people speak Italian (former colony). If anyone in a '3rd world' country can make use of cheap computers, it's them.
When you're taking off or landing. That way it's a Federal Crime if you get up to fix it. The loud noise will of course be construed to be terrorism. Old people and soccermoms will freak out. Some swarthy dude will get tasered. A fun time will be had by all. Let's Roll, Bitches.
Zune is not a product, at least not a product worth a damn. It's a testbed for the pain threshold people have in putting up with different DRM schemes. Then MS will take that information and build it into some version of Vista. Expect Zune to exist as a product for about 18 months then it will be withdrawn and you will hear "Zune functionality on Vista" or some equally facile nonsense.
This seems like a technical solution to an unknown problem. While I appreciate that it's entirely vogue to claim that there are 137 child molestors per every minor online and that approximately 100% of all children are raped or kidnapped perhaps we need to examine that whole risk versus return equation. Are we entirely happy we're turning our relationships with our children into an armed camp based on this somewhat vaporous claim? Just because it's technically feasible to micromanage your kids, is it a good thing to do? Aren't you going to give them cell phones, and god forbid, car keys some day? Then what? LoJack and GPS everything? DNA samples from all their dates? Background checks?
Yes. No one has ever survived believing prerelease product information from MS. Ever. Whatever they tell you about what it's GOING to do is wrong, incomplete, a future statement or a lie. The fact is that Zune will be a 1.0 product. It will be incomplete, broken or worse. MS really doesn't care about the Zune because Zune is no more than a temporary 'product' that's meant to slow Apple down and no more.
Neon cases? Someone else's $700 video card? Is the game nerd segment of the market really that large? Or is it more of a case where you game nerds haven't realized what a huge margin premium you've been paying for that extra little performance bump?
7 had performance problems including running over 90% CPU just sitting there doing nothing, not even playing a track. A couple of things to note:
Apple needs to do a better of job of documenting versions, e.g. what's different or fixed. This is particular relevant with iPod code. Usually every new version is called "Bug fixes". Ok, what bugs? What's fixed?
Apple needs to do a better job with backwards compatibility or provide a rollback. Going from iTunes 7 to 6 requires you to delete the library and start over. So if the code recognizes that the library is a newer version it should be able to create an older version.
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That's not actually the sense you get from the article being discussed. The sense one gets is that it's this year's dotcom micromanaged by the founder. Which is fine for small companies where no one wants to actually delegate. And companies that hire exclusively from graduate schools and the like, which is what this sounds like are selling themselves short in the long run. Sorry but it really does sound like age discrimination. But don't feel bad, all the management consulting firms do the same thing. In fact in the last 10 years the average tenure of IBM employees has dropped from 15 years to 4. We're all doing it in the tech/services field.
Good to know. Thanks. Saves me the effort of wasting my time talking to some snotnosed hotshot who imagines that imagining he's real smart is the same thing as actually having done it. The upside of this is of course that with a continually increasing stock price you can entice young people to work in a place with an aura of becoming something magical in the future. The downside is that when the stock price flattens out, the idea of being interviewed in a cow costume, especially when you just graduated Stanford with a 4.0 won't seem that interesting. And coupled with the fact that your employee base has no depth it will mean retention falls through the floor.
Good job Google. Good to know that we greybeards are at least as disposable to you as your Indian help desk.
And if you are from Google please ignore this posting as I have nothing to offer someone as young and brash as you are.
IT's meaningless nonsense.
When dear Lord will MS finally understand that we don't want to operate our computers. We want them to operate themselves. I want fewer controls, fewer buttons. I want the software to figure out what's the right way to do something, the right app to start, the right place to put an object. I don't want to be an AUDITOR for my system anymore. I'm sick of it. I don't really care about this years trendy glassy stylistic trend which will be as old as dirt in about 3 years anyway. I don't want rearranged controls that map out everything I could possibly do. I want all of that transparent to my use. I want for instance to be able to simply start typing on the desktop and have it popup the last 4 choices of applications, have me quickly pick one, and load what I just typed into the appropriate area. And if the input is unique enough, I want the software to know what the application is supposed to be and take appropriate action. I want a blank canvas. I don't want to start Adobe to read a PDF. I want a window to open up with the PDF and keep the application absolutely in the background. I don't care what it is. And I don't want to hear about codecs, plugins or patches. Just make it work or let me know how long it will be before you, the system is ready to do that. I want you remember all the little tweaky settings. Print still means print even if the last time I printed it went to email instead, just do that unless and until I tell you otherwise.
Then I want it run faster and quieter with fewer interruptions to update, fix and patch. The system can do that but it has to be completely quiet and unobtrusive about it. I want virtual reboots that allow me to keep working even when the system has to be restarted. I don't want to do storage management, that's your job.
I don't want to hear from firewalls, spyware blockers, AV or malware tools. Please do have them but if they are worth anything at all they will do 99% of their job with ZERO human intervention or notification of any kind.
And then what I want you to do is precreate a large array of batch scheduled housekeeping procs to run off hours, again, w/o me knowing about them to do the little things they need to do: update, defrag, clean off garbage, memory cleanup, patches etc etc etc etc. Take a few hours if you like, take more, do it at night or whichever schedule I give you and bring the system back to WHATEVER state or condition it was in before including all open applications and objects.
And the iPod is pretty guldurn brainless, aint it? I mean there are some weird things about the interface and how it works with Window, but all in all ok. If Zune is even the slightest bit harder to use or the slightest bit less seamless then I'm afraid most people will abandon it. Even with the iPod all those PDA like functions - I know anyone who uses them, it's too hard to use. But the real iPod media functions are very simple. If I had to relearn a new UI one that was even a little bit clunkier then I would quickly go back to my iPod.
With an expanded memory card because the base option is only 50MB for everything. So I can store I think up to 1GB on it which accounting for other system requirements is about 200 tunes @128bit. I'm not sure what the relative difference in battery life is versus an iPod but it's sure not going to make me run out and buy one. The problem as always is the quality of the codecs. Some are good, some not so good and the quality can be crappy from mp3 player to mp3 player. I would have to assume this is something Apple would stress so the quality has to be pretty darn good. In either case, it's a tough market. You can a Nano for pretty cheap and the phone probably doesn't have a hard drive, or, if it does you don't want it. So unless the phone is very price competitive I can't see who would get one, especially since so many people already have iPods. If someone were to give me one - sure. But if I'm paying for it I might prefer a pocketPC type phone that can some business like functions and such.
That's pretty much the only function I can think of for something like this. The cheatastic options are limitless.
Faxes on that number are silently routed to email where they are filtered with a white list. Everything else: bitbucket. Someone sending me a fax needs my permission before I see it. I got tired of my fax machine printing junk faxes and misrouted 20 page mortgage applications. Not only is it annoying, it's expensive. So I pulled it out and print to the network printer. I use the regular fax machine for outbound only.
Anyway I can do the same thing with any VoIP number so if I see a number I don't want I just filter it out. Sure there are limits on the number of numbers though.
On topic - I really don't see any point in emotive software. Not when everything has the same annoying menus and if you're lucky enough to get to a person it's usually someone from India pretending to be "Mary" or "Eric". They can't understand me and I can't understand them.
Call up Bangalore U. That's where the DoD contractors are investing money.
They're not allowed to call me. And those who are: cops, fundraisers and politicians, I generally tell them to scream in boiling atomic hell while they fuck themselves. Then I hang up. I wonder what their emotional software reads when I do that?
Great news. Everytime some bunch of retards wants to stop knowledge it can only work out well for everyone else. I hope they ban literacy soon too. Let them all fucking starve.
Why are page developers STILL making their websites non browser indifferent. C'mon how many of you are finding websites that just don't work with Mozilla forcing you to use things like IE Tab extension? Hell we have to write extensions to Mozilla at work just to make it work with our OWN website applications.
The real bullies, the selfimportant soccermom twits are going to litigate videogames out of existence soon. Pretty much like what they have done to cigarette companies.
Yippee - now Chinerr can be stoopid like us.
Please do some reasearch. Libya is a huge thinly populated country with oil. It has the highest or second highest std of living in Africa. Most middle class people speak Italian (former colony). If anyone in a '3rd world' country can make use of cheap computers, it's them.
Me with my TA behind my router I think I have less to worry about.
You have to sign up for some insanely overprived Verizon service. $10/day or by the month. They're going to cut their own throats with this.
40 years ago Boeing engineers experimented with HIBEX missiles that achieved 400g 3km/s.
When you're taking off or landing. That way it's a Federal Crime if you get up to fix it. The loud noise will of course be construed to be terrorism. Old people and soccermoms will freak out. Some swarthy dude will get tasered. A fun time will be had by all. Let's Roll, Bitches.
Zune is not a product, at least not a product worth a damn. It's a testbed for the pain threshold people have in putting up with different DRM schemes. Then MS will take that information and build it into some version of Vista. Expect Zune to exist as a product for about 18 months then it will be withdrawn and you will hear "Zune functionality on Vista" or some equally facile nonsense.
This seems like a technical solution to an unknown problem. While I appreciate that it's entirely vogue to claim that there are 137 child molestors per every minor online and that approximately 100% of all children are raped or kidnapped perhaps we need to examine that whole risk versus return equation. Are we entirely happy we're turning our relationships with our children into an armed camp based on this somewhat vaporous claim? Just because it's technically feasible to micromanage your kids, is it a good thing to do? Aren't you going to give them cell phones, and god forbid, car keys some day? Then what? LoJack and GPS everything? DNA samples from all their dates? Background checks?
Yes. No one has ever survived believing prerelease product information from MS. Ever. Whatever they tell you about what it's GOING to do is wrong, incomplete, a future statement or a lie. The fact is that Zune will be a 1.0 product. It will be incomplete, broken or worse. MS really doesn't care about the Zune because Zune is no more than a temporary 'product' that's meant to slow Apple down and no more.
Neon cases? Someone else's $700 video card? Is the game nerd segment of the market really that large? Or is it more of a case where you game nerds haven't realized what a huge margin premium you've been paying for that extra little performance bump?
7 had performance problems including running over 90% CPU just sitting there doing nothing, not even playing a track. A couple of things to note:
Apple needs to do a better of job of documenting versions, e.g. what's different or fixed. This is particular relevant with iPod code. Usually every new version is called "Bug fixes". Ok, what bugs? What's fixed?
Apple needs to do a better job with backwards compatibility or provide a rollback. Going from iTunes 7 to 6 requires you to delete the library and start over. So if the code recognizes that the library is a newer version it should be able to create an older version.
It's leveraging. No really. It is.