Intel and co. don't make a good case for WHY you should pay TWICE as much for one. I have a couple of 1 and 2 year old Lenovos and Toshibas at home and they're pretty good. I'd be hard pressed to understand how paying TWICE as much for something would be TWICE as good.
Because it frees you from having to use a phone at all. You can stick your head out the window and shout at more people than mere 'phones' on Sprint can reach.
Indian and African cell phone service is pretty good, better than the US in many places. The US is 15 years BEHIND most of the rest of the world in terms of utility, speeds, service and offerings. And the reason for that is the FCC allows them to be backwards so they can overcharge. If the US gave away free voice, which quite a few carriers do anyway, they'd simply rape you on the data 'plan' they force you to get.
Who the fuck cares? In my company we grind out 40 page outlines on the template for writing a document everyday. Any document that's 30 pages long, once you strip out the cover page, change history, authors, approvers, ToC and glossary it's 8 pages. And 4 of them are textual repeats of the flowcharts on the other 4 pages.
A manual? Dear lord, any manual more than 5 pages long no one will ever read and any manual less than 5 pages long, is irrelevant make work.
Anything that is not money is not an incentive. For example; no money, no training, no promotion, no job mobility, are not in fact incentives. Also yearly or semi annual self appraisals where every single bullet item is handed to you by management and then you're supposed to write a book report on each one 'quantifying' even though that's impossible to do, on how strenuously you adhere to the corporate goals, that's not an incentive either. And of course when you're done with that massive effort and the manager gets everyone together for a team review and the bottom line is that there's no money and no one's getting an increase again, for the 12th year in a row, that's not an incentive either. And when you don't allow lateral movement in the company because you have no ability to fill that job vacancy because we're all such special snowflakes and unless you find your own replacement, who in turn has to find their own replacement and so on, you can't even apply for that job, that's not an incentive either.
But mostly it's about money. Don't let anyone con you. My former CEO was given a 41 million dollar bonus in his next to last year for sending 50,000 US jobs to Asia and his retirement agreement is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The VP level officers of this company are millionaires, on paper. But these losers can't even reimburse the staff for their home office expenses like a telephone. So it's just about the money. Get as much money as you can for as long as you can and don't pay attention to any stupid team building bullshit or internal conventions or seminars on feeling good about feeling good about it. And always remember; HR is your enemy. Their job is to hate you and treat you like shit so you leave and they can replace you with someone 10 cents cheaper if they even replace you at all. Because to them the perfect company is one with zero employees. You're nothing but an overpriced replaceable part to them.
Money. It's about the money. Real money - cash or stocks that can be sold that day. Options aren't money. Promises aren't money. Fake job titles aren't money. Deferred comp contingent on you growing a fucking unicorn horn on your head in the year 2031 aren't money. And to be brutally honest, not even pensions are money - not any more. More and more companies are wriggling their way out of paying those too. So fuck them and sweet sounding bullshit they blather. It's the money. Documented in writing put in your hand money.
We need to broadcast mass murder. We need to broadcast exploding flaming Syrian women and children. It would be more entertaining than any 'talent show' we've got now.
Apple has literally gone full Caligula insane and has deemed the entire universe unworthy of all but giving them their money. If Apple could patent the alphabet and sue the entire human race it would.
First off most Android apps suck. Second, they're built for touch screens. Third most Android apps suck. Fourth, most Android apps are built to circumvent limitations in the phones browser and the download speed. Fifth most Android apps suck.
Brazilian politicians regularly go out in the rural areas and trade free abortions for votes. This is the saintly law abiding system they're protecting.
Has anyone ever actually read NIST 800? I just had to review 800 30 and 800 39 yesterday. Hand to god they're designed to put you in a coma. There is not enough ritalin on the the planet for that.
You can't run a company when every year someone successfully sues you for hundreds of millions of dollars over and over and over. I'm kind of hoping Apple does that no only to Samsung but to everyone everywhere and the whole cell phone market including all the carriers go under and we go back 30 or 40 years in terms of technology.
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Like I said, fair enough. If your Chinese toothpaste is radioactive, that's your problem.
Intel and co. don't make a good case for WHY you should pay TWICE as much for one. I have a couple of 1 and 2 year old Lenovos and Toshibas at home and they're pretty good. I'd be hard pressed to understand how paying TWICE as much for something would be TWICE as good.
Because it frees you from having to use a phone at all. You can stick your head out the window and shout at more people than mere 'phones' on Sprint can reach.
For being less than Apple compliant eye-wise.
Your love of NH isn't inspired or related in any way by safety or benefit.
Make sure you run 20 or 30 or more of these on every webpage and nest them 4 layers deep so that every browser in the world slowly chokes to death.
No helmets for motorcycles, no seatbelt laws, in fact people should be encouraged to cross highways at night on foot in the rain.
Indian and African cell phone service is pretty good, better than the US in many places. The US is 15 years BEHIND most of the rest of the world in terms of utility, speeds, service and offerings. And the reason for that is the FCC allows them to be backwards so they can overcharge. If the US gave away free voice, which quite a few carriers do anyway, they'd simply rape you on the data 'plan' they force you to get.
Who the fuck cares? In my company we grind out 40 page outlines on the template for writing a document everyday. Any document that's 30 pages long, once you strip out the cover page, change history, authors, approvers, ToC and glossary it's 8 pages. And 4 of them are textual repeats of the flowcharts on the other 4 pages.
A manual? Dear lord, any manual more than 5 pages long no one will ever read and any manual less than 5 pages long, is irrelevant make work.
Anything that is not money is not an incentive. For example; no money, no training, no promotion, no job mobility, are not in fact incentives. Also yearly or semi annual self appraisals where every single bullet item is handed to you by management and then you're supposed to write a book report on each one 'quantifying' even though that's impossible to do, on how strenuously you adhere to the corporate goals, that's not an incentive either. And of course when you're done with that massive effort and the manager gets everyone together for a team review and the bottom line is that there's no money and no one's getting an increase again, for the 12th year in a row, that's not an incentive either. And when you don't allow lateral movement in the company because you have no ability to fill that job vacancy because we're all such special snowflakes and unless you find your own replacement, who in turn has to find their own replacement and so on, you can't even apply for that job, that's not an incentive either.
But mostly it's about money. Don't let anyone con you. My former CEO was given a 41 million dollar bonus in his next to last year for sending 50,000 US jobs to Asia and his retirement agreement is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The VP level officers of this company are millionaires, on paper. But these losers can't even reimburse the staff for their home office expenses like a telephone. So it's just about the money. Get as much money as you can for as long as you can and don't pay attention to any stupid team building bullshit or internal conventions or seminars on feeling good about feeling good about it. And always remember; HR is your enemy. Their job is to hate you and treat you like shit so you leave and they can replace you with someone 10 cents cheaper if they even replace you at all. Because to them the perfect company is one with zero employees. You're nothing but an overpriced replaceable part to them.
Money. It's about the money. Real money - cash or stocks that can be sold that day. Options aren't money. Promises aren't money. Fake job titles aren't money. Deferred comp contingent on you growing a fucking unicorn horn on your head in the year 2031 aren't money. And to be brutally honest, not even pensions are money - not any more. More and more companies are wriggling their way out of paying those too. So fuck them and sweet sounding bullshit they blather. It's the money. Documented in writing put in your hand money.
Except no fucking substitutes.
It's all 100% complete bullshit and it can't ever and will never make any sort of sense about anything.
There's an idiot I see who leaf blows his pool. Not around the pool, THE pool. I say gas every last one of them.
When they trot out an iPad 2 (which has more LINPACK compute power than a Cray-2 BTW)
That works. And if a few slip through, kill the people who have them. Again, that worked fine for the CCCP.
We can like Yoda read better
We need to broadcast mass murder. We need to broadcast exploding flaming Syrian women and children. It would be more entertaining than any 'talent show' we've got now.
As well they should. It's Tim Cook's world, we just live in it.
Apple has literally gone full Caligula insane and has deemed the entire universe unworthy of all but giving them their money. If Apple could patent the alphabet and sue the entire human race it would.
First off most Android apps suck. Second, they're built for touch screens. Third most Android apps suck. Fourth, most Android apps are built to circumvent limitations in the phones browser and the download speed. Fifth most Android apps suck.
We tried modernity, now it's time to return to the good old dark days of South American Fascism.
Brazilian politicians regularly go out in the rural areas and trade free abortions for votes. This is the saintly law abiding system they're protecting.
Has anyone ever actually read NIST 800? I just had to review 800 30 and 800 39 yesterday. Hand to god they're designed to put you in a coma. There is not enough ritalin on the the planet for that.
Now that the OWS crowd all has their iPhone 5's they should be free to scream and pout and whine about the evils of Apple.
Smithers, Release the Hounds!
You can't run a company when every year someone successfully sues you for hundreds of millions of dollars over and over and over. I'm kind of hoping Apple does that no only to Samsung but to everyone everywhere and the whole cell phone market including all the carriers go under and we go back 30 or 40 years in terms of technology.
That's stupid even by hippie standards.