What about the super secret nuclear plant at Recende which even the normally craven IAEA says is bizarrely inaccessible? What about Brazil's SNI and ABIN intelligence agencies which are literally only answerable to the person of the President and even that only nominally and that they had been caught wiretapping every single person in the Federal government in 2008?
Yeah all these decisions are made by clueless execs, lawyers and accountants, but come on - a regulated utility? The inertia of civil service with even less accountability. Their IT is a cube farm of drones that stretches to the horizon where everyone's worked hard to do the same job the same way for the last 25 years.
So you're saying accidental side effects is more efficient? That too bad they weren't trying to Pasteurize milk better because then we would heart transplants in 1930?
BTW Krazy Glue was discovered accidentally THREE times by the same people before they figured out what they were working with.
Because if you want to specifically do those things you can do those things directly w/o waiting for some other programs to shed them as a side effect.
The argument that there's a technology dividend is stupid. Just aim for what you want to do in the first place. No, we should simply kill off all space science altogether. We tried it, no one like it very much, we're done.
There is no network. Been sitting here in Raleigh for 2 full years listening to them tell me they're 'improving' and 'rolling out' LTE. If anything it's gotten worse. Of course no data but now dialtone is an iffy thing.
IBM stopped making stuff years ago. It buys companies that make stuff. When Brad talks about spending a billion on Linux he means purchasing a billion dollars worth of companies that do stuff in or for Linux.
As expensive as they are here they're 5x the price there. The government gets huge taxes out of the IT industry. For decades you couldn't buy a computer that wasn't built in Brazil.
One would necessarily have to squint a bit at the Guardian regarding any story having to do with Israel. The Guardian is publicly and proudly the most anti Israeli newspaper printed in English today and, they have often been caught in a lie and making up stories before.
After all Sudan's President Omar al Bashir is an indicted war criminal and genocidist and the UN ferries him all over Africa to peace conferences by luxury jet in order, quote 'to ensure his safety' unquote.
Snowden? give the prize to Putin himself. He's only murders journalists he doesn't jail them.
It's bullshit. It's paying your workforce a hundred bucks to come up with the next million dollar idea. And senior management gets to decide which idea is the one they like apart from any sane rational or even free market factors.
What you fail to understand is we are in a new era of corporate 'customer care' where they literally don't give a shit. They hired some consultants, commissioned a study, talked to their marketing people and determined the the old adage that it costs more to get new customers than it does to retain their existing ones is nonsense. It's cheaper to treat all your customers like shit, tell them all to fuck the fuck off and behind them are sufficient numbers of new people waiting to experience their product and/or service.
They don't give a shit. And they have the math to back it up. Not just airlines - but the traditional companies that offer near-Auschwitz levels of customer satisfaction: cable companies, phone companies, car rental firms, home service companies, dry cleaners, supermarkets, internet providers, internet phone, TV on demand, car dealerships......all of them. If you're a customer today and tomorrow they decide it's cheaper to cut off your service for no reason, mess up your repair or more typically delay it for weeks for no clear reason then that's what they will do.
Lose your luggage? Airlines aren't in the luggage or transport business they're in the fees and fines business. They're in the business of shaving fractions of a penny off the cost of something because what are you going to do? Walk? What are you going to do? Complain? What good will that do?
It's a massive race to the bottom for everyone and the big joke is that there's no bottom at all. They discovered that not being in business makes more money than anything else. Decades from now business schools will be studying the NYNEX strike of 1989 and see it as the gospel of the ages, a holy grail of business. When NYNEX workers went on strike in 1989 the company made MORE money than ever. Management discovered that not paying their workforce and continuing to send out bills while service fell off the cliff had no repercussions, no downside, and more importantly, no one, no state or regulatory agency would ever pressure them to improve once the strike ended so it just continued 'offering' worsening levels of non-service until the company we bought up in the AT&T recreation of the 1990's.
So complain all you like, tweet your anger, shake your fist at a distant and indifferent god. They don't give a fuck.
Slashdot Mirror
What about the super secret nuclear plant at Recende which even the normally craven IAEA says is bizarrely inaccessible? What about Brazil's SNI and ABIN intelligence agencies which are literally only answerable to the person of the President and even that only nominally and that they had been caught wiretapping every single person in the Federal government in 2008?
Someone in state gov figures out that they're used mostly for sex and drug deals.
Yeah all these decisions are made by clueless execs, lawyers and accountants, but come on - a regulated utility? The inertia of civil service with even less accountability. Their IT is a cube farm of drones that stretches to the horizon where everyone's worked hard to do the same job the same way for the last 25 years.
I will wait 10 months for it in the rain in the cold, standing in line.
So you're saying accidental side effects is more efficient? That too bad they weren't trying to Pasteurize milk better because then we would heart transplants in 1930?
BTW Krazy Glue was discovered accidentally THREE times by the same people before they figured out what they were working with.
Most of this stuff is targeted at precisely the demographic of people who DO NOT CARE how its used.
Because if you want to specifically do those things you can do those things directly w/o waiting for some other programs to shed them as a side effect.
The argument that there's a technology dividend is stupid. Just aim for what you want to do in the first place. No, we should simply kill off all space science altogether. We tried it, no one like it very much, we're done.
There is no network. Been sitting here in Raleigh for 2 full years listening to them tell me they're 'improving' and 'rolling out' LTE. If anything it's gotten worse. Of course no data but now dialtone is an iffy thing.
Space science is over. Screw it. First manned spaceflight died off now we can kill this off 'for the greater good'. Who cares anymore.
It will dwarf this and it will never be completed or work at all. And 98% of the world will be done in China and India. All Hail Dear Leader.
IBM stopped making stuff years ago. It buys companies that make stuff. When Brad talks about spending a billion on Linux he means purchasing a billion dollars worth of companies that do stuff in or for Linux.
As expensive as they are here they're 5x the price there. The government gets huge taxes out of the IT industry. For decades you couldn't buy a computer that wasn't built in Brazil.
Poof, oh we made a mistake. No more chems? Magic?
Which resolutely refuses modernization and sees itself as the employer of first and last recourse.
One would necessarily have to squint a bit at the Guardian regarding any story having to do with Israel. The Guardian is publicly and proudly the most anti Israeli newspaper printed in English today and, they have often been caught in a lie and making up stories before.
There is no difference between success and failure with MS.
After all Sudan's President Omar al Bashir is an indicted war criminal and genocidist and the UN ferries him all over Africa to peace conferences by luxury jet in order, quote 'to ensure his safety' unquote.
Snowden? give the prize to Putin himself. He's only murders journalists he doesn't jail them.
Putin/Snowden 2016 The REAL Liberal alternative.
A quarter of Americans can't speak English.
It's bullshit. It's paying your workforce a hundred bucks to come up with the next million dollar idea. And senior management gets to decide which idea is the one they like apart from any sane rational or even free market factors.
What you fail to understand is we are in a new era of corporate 'customer care' where they literally don't give a shit. They hired some consultants, commissioned a study, talked to their marketing people and determined the the old adage that it costs more to get new customers than it does to retain their existing ones is nonsense. It's cheaper to treat all your customers like shit, tell them all to fuck the fuck off and behind them are sufficient numbers of new people waiting to experience their product and/or service.
They don't give a shit. And they have the math to back it up. Not just airlines - but the traditional companies that offer near-Auschwitz levels of customer satisfaction: cable companies, phone companies, car rental firms, home service companies, dry cleaners, supermarkets, internet providers, internet phone, TV on demand, car dealerships......all of them. If you're a customer today and tomorrow they decide it's cheaper to cut off your service for no reason, mess up your repair or more typically delay it for weeks for no clear reason then that's what they will do.
Lose your luggage? Airlines aren't in the luggage or transport business they're in the fees and fines business. They're in the business of shaving fractions of a penny off the cost of something because what are you going to do? Walk? What are you going to do? Complain? What good will that do?
It's a massive race to the bottom for everyone and the big joke is that there's no bottom at all. They discovered that not being in business makes more money than anything else. Decades from now business schools will be studying the NYNEX strike of 1989 and see it as the gospel of the ages, a holy grail of business. When NYNEX workers went on strike in 1989 the company made MORE money than ever. Management discovered that not paying their workforce and continuing to send out bills while service fell off the cliff had no repercussions, no downside, and more importantly, no one, no state or regulatory agency would ever pressure them to improve once the strike ended so it just continued 'offering' worsening levels of non-service until the company we bought up in the AT&T recreation of the 1990's.
So complain all you like, tweet your anger, shake your fist at a distant and indifferent god. They don't give a fuck.
Microsoft will exit the phone business again in 12 months.
Close down NASA. Close down all space science. The liberal social engineers have other priorities.
.....cleaning this mess up afterwards. Which is kind of the only thing that matters.
Criticism of Dear Leader is of course, treason. All Hail Barry.