Google play has scads of 'free apps' that are either severely crippled or time limited. Moreover, is it a 'free' app when there's popups telling you to 'remove advertising' eg. buy the "pro" version?
Most of MS's 18,000 terminations are in the Czech Republic and Finland per Nokia. So most people are in fact getting a little bent out of shape, ideologically, over something that won't affect them. That's why.
There are fewer than 90,000 US employees. The vast bulk of all IBM employees is in India. And as far as those 90K US employees is concerned IBM is phenomenally overstaffed with middle managers and 'program managers' who's only job is to report on the status of status reporting reporting via enormous spreadsheets and multi hundred slide Powerpoints. IBM is a company that wants to cut costs to prosperity and eventually they will have no workers and only a few hundred lawyers and accountants reporting to executives and they will finally get their way.
IBM research appears to be little more than a marketing arm of their high end sales organization. Dazzle the suits with bullshit about Jeopardy winning super computers so that you can sell a super computer to someone. Anyway, IBM's core technologies are being sold off because it's more profitable to buy someone else's smaller company, gut it of its intellectual property and toss the dead husk in the trash. This month they slap the word 'cloud' on everything. Next month it's something else.
Like all large tech companies, MS does not give a shit about what you or anyone else thinks, wants, needs, feels, says or does. MS does what is good for MS senior management. Like all large tech and and IT companies, MS is a firm run by pirates for their own sole benefit. That which is good for political turf and compensation is good. Everything else is the enemy. Lost in this weeks announcement of bloodletting is that the new CEO decapitated all his rivals and awarded his flunkies.
The organizational beast survives for the benefits of its rulers. That is all.
It's neither fish nor fowl. It's too small to use for more than 5 minutes and it's too big to be easily portable unless you're a woman with a handbag. The only plausible good use to put to an 8" tablet is an industry or business specific app designed for a single purpose. Think, ticket sales, restaurant management, TSA security checks, mobile cash register, that sort of thing. Where the app is designed to one thing.
The French or Japanese trains are electric which means they don't carry their own fuel. A jet powered train has to carry a huge amount of jet fuel just like a diesel engine or a coaler. Which is practical only where fuel is very cheap and you have a large capacity storage tank AND there's no electrified option.
IBM is a hedge fund run by pirates. All Ginni does is look at which companies to buy and which divisions to sell like an investment portfolio. And when they're lucky they manage not to ruin their acquisition in 2 years. Either way they sell it off again and find someone new to kill. In the meantime they a few thousand employees, offshore some more work to Asia and pay the executives ever more absurd compensation.
For $3 billion dollars Ginni will see maybe an increase in Apple's presence in the corporate space from 1% to 3%. Apple will continue to do whatever the fuck they like whether it's compatible with IBM apps or not. And because the core of their business is still consumer sales, if that conflicts with The Diktat from On High IBM Grand Plan, they won't care.
Meanwhile IBM will become even more top heavy with hundreds of new directors and VP's who's job it is is to grind out huge spreadsheets tallying the metrics to report on the reporting of the status of their status reporting reporting. According to Roadkill 2015, in order for Ginni to make her EPS promises she'll have to fire 100% of US employment except for the executives. So good luck getting their new Apple partnership off the ground from India.
The costs of attempting to BE compliant to these vague horrible laws is far higher than the cost of losing control over something. This is why HIPAA is a huge waste of time and effort. It costs millions to 'comply' with the law but the downside is near zero because, and this is important
YOU HAVE TO PROVE INTENT
So any law is going to be ineffectual on its face when it looks only at intent. And specifically, the intent to profit from it. Target didn't intend to break something. They goofed up. So the law doesn't really cover mistakes. If Target was part of this vast scheme to rob people that's a different matter.
Because using their cell towers as cell towers is pretty much a complete fucking waste of time. (yes I know cell towers are owned and operated by 3rd parties)
It's just more COP-RULES where everything everyone does everywhere at all times is HyperMegaSuperFelony where you run the risk of exterminating all life on earth if you're not arrested and given a trillion dollar bail. Jeez don't you follow the news? Can't even FILM cops w/o the Antarctic Ice Sheet falling the fuck off and drowning 1 million babies.
No no not the CHIPS - the foundries which make them. A Korean chipfab or Intel for that matter, will invest more than a BILLION dollars a year in the manufacturing process just to keep current. IBM does not. This results in much higher costs per unit and a much higher reject rate.
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Just in case you were wondering, most of the layoffs are in the Czech republic.
which is the cash industry for most of the UN member states
Google play has scads of 'free apps' that are either severely crippled or time limited. Moreover, is it a 'free' app when there's popups telling you to 'remove advertising' eg. buy the "pro" version?
Most of MS's 18,000 terminations are in the Czech Republic and Finland per Nokia. So most people are in fact getting a little bent out of shape, ideologically, over something that won't affect them. That's why.
If you were an IBM staffer in the mid 90's you were about 5 levels from the CEO. Today doing the same job you're at least 11
There are fewer than 90,000 US employees. The vast bulk of all IBM employees is in India. And as far as those 90K US employees is concerned IBM is phenomenally overstaffed with middle managers and 'program managers' who's only job is to report on the status of status reporting reporting via enormous spreadsheets and multi hundred slide Powerpoints. IBM is a company that wants to cut costs to prosperity and eventually they will have no workers and only a few hundred lawyers and accountants reporting to executives and they will finally get their way.
IBM research appears to be little more than a marketing arm of their high end sales organization. Dazzle the suits with bullshit about Jeopardy winning super computers so that you can sell a super computer to someone. Anyway, IBM's core technologies are being sold off because it's more profitable to buy someone else's smaller company, gut it of its intellectual property and toss the dead husk in the trash. This month they slap the word 'cloud' on everything. Next month it's something else.
Like all large tech companies, MS does not give a shit about what you or anyone else thinks, wants, needs, feels, says or does. MS does what is good for MS senior management. Like all large tech and and IT companies, MS is a firm run by pirates for their own sole benefit. That which is good for political turf and compensation is good. Everything else is the enemy. Lost in this weeks announcement of bloodletting is that the new CEO decapitated all his rivals and awarded his flunkies.
The organizational beast survives for the benefits of its rulers. That is all.
That's really the only thing you're talking about.
It's neither fish nor fowl. It's too small to use for more than 5 minutes and it's too big to be easily portable unless you're a woman with a handbag. The only plausible good use to put to an 8" tablet is an industry or business specific app designed for a single purpose. Think, ticket sales, restaurant management, TSA security checks, mobile cash register, that sort of thing. Where the app is designed to one thing.
Another company eats its own buzzwords and kills over tons more jobs.
The French or Japanese trains are electric which means they don't carry their own fuel. A jet powered train has to carry a huge amount of jet fuel just like a diesel engine or a coaler. Which is practical only where fuel is very cheap and you have a large capacity storage tank AND there's no electrified option.
IBM is a hedge fund run by pirates. All Ginni does is look at which companies to buy and which divisions to sell like an investment portfolio. And when they're lucky they manage not to ruin their acquisition in 2 years. Either way they sell it off again and find someone new to kill. In the meantime they a few thousand employees, offshore some more work to Asia and pay the executives ever more absurd compensation.
For $3 billion dollars Ginni will see maybe an increase in Apple's presence in the corporate space from 1% to 3%. Apple will continue to do whatever the fuck they like whether it's compatible with IBM apps or not. And because the core of their business is still consumer sales, if that conflicts with The Diktat from On High IBM Grand Plan, they won't care.
Meanwhile IBM will become even more top heavy with hundreds of new directors and VP's who's job it is is to grind out huge spreadsheets tallying the metrics to report on the reporting of the status of their status reporting reporting. According to Roadkill 2015, in order for Ginni to make her EPS promises she'll have to fire 100% of US employment except for the executives. So good luck getting their new Apple partnership off the ground from India.
The costs of attempting to BE compliant to these vague horrible laws is far higher than the cost of losing control over something. This is why HIPAA is a huge waste of time and effort. It costs millions to 'comply' with the law but the downside is near zero because, and this is important
YOU HAVE TO PROVE INTENT
So any law is going to be ineffectual on its face when it looks only at intent. And specifically, the intent to profit from it. Target didn't intend to break something. They goofed up. So the law doesn't really cover mistakes. If Target was part of this vast scheme to rob people that's a different matter.
The sparks will fly but first they will need to have a regular status meeting to determine the color of said sparks.
And reincorporate overseas. Thanks, Obama.
Because using their cell towers as cell towers is pretty much a complete fucking waste of time. (yes I know cell towers are owned and operated by 3rd parties)
For true equality we need collectivization, or genocide, whichever comes first.
Sounds good. To Malaysia and Beyond!
All Hail
It's not voodoo. It's science. When you stop doing what works, bad things happen again.
We live in a new era where quality is shit and no one cares. Fuck it.
It's just more COP-RULES where everything everyone does everywhere at all times is HyperMegaSuperFelony where you run the risk of exterminating all life on earth if you're not arrested and given a trillion dollar bail. Jeez don't you follow the news? Can't even FILM cops w/o the Antarctic Ice Sheet falling the fuck off and drowning 1 million babies.
So it's all good.
No no not the CHIPS - the foundries which make them. A Korean chipfab or Intel for that matter, will invest more than a BILLION dollars a year in the manufacturing process just to keep current. IBM does not. This results in much higher costs per unit and a much higher reject rate.