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I'm sorry, but you have two major players in the smart phone market, along with a third minor player, and you bet the bank on a non-entity in the market? That stinks of a hail mary. By itself, that is less than encouraging. Their choice of MS, given MS's history in the mobile arena, should immediately call into question the sanity of the decision makers. Or at the very least, their bias.
Were I trying to save the company, I would have thrown my lot in with a line of android devices which had distinctive features. Maybe aimed at the mobile market. Hell, maybe I would have even approached RIM about developing a secure platform for corporate users to pair with my hardware devices.
Figure the one time set up cost for a home brew: ~250 bucks. Hops kit required: ~50bucks
Result: 5 gallons of GOLD. As it's difficult to guess the breakdown on the startup costs per batch, let's ignore it for a moment and focus on simply the cost of the materials to make a batch. At 10bucks/gallon for whatever quality you want, that's pretty damn spiffy ( of course, I'm ignoring labor too. Because it's a labor of LOVE ).
Do you want someone who is passionate about windows, or a decent Windows Admin ( or indeed, a decent admin in general )?
I'll tell you right now, I am always highly suspicious of any admin that is "passionate" about their subject matter. They tend to put their bias first, compromising their ability to deliver the best product available.
The best admins I have ever worked with were technology agnostic; they chose the best tools for the job, regardless of their own preferences.
I disagree. They have every right to *block* any top level domain of their choice, but they have no right to enforce their society values on the rest of the world. And no, the creation of a specific top level domain does not constitute "enforcing the world's values on their society", given that they can block them at will.
Anymore, everyone's child is a special snow flake who's failures aren't his or her fault, but rather society's and their own designer mental illness ( ADD, ADHD, autism ).
That's just what we need; to arm these arm chair shrinks with more reasons why their special little one is fucked up, and get them amped up on the latest "Make Normal" drug.
I am far from an expert on this subject, but it's shocking how easy it is to tell who has or hasn't made a study of math. Usually at any rate.
Those that study math and really took the time to comprehend what they were looking at seem to be much more capable of the more abstract problem solving.
Please give me what I want at a price point I want it at, and I will buy your product. I have no loyalty to any specific vendor, indeed, why would anyone show brand loyalty?
If it works and it's cost effective, I'll buy it. Maybe you should try competing against MS on those grounds. Us consumers would appreciate that, i think.
Sincerely, me.
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No it doesn't. If this is a conspiracy by the/. team, then why use an obvious account? Presumably, they would have accounts for just such a purpose.
If it's not an astroturf campaign ( given what I've seen on the various message boards out there, I suspect it is a paid for ad campaign from MS ), then it's just a troll.
While you make a good point, it's equally important to have a grounded and objective base from which to make such arguments. Too often people get caught up in "Merica, FUCK YA!" mentality without considering what we've done, and why. Too often I have seen stories like this where people go off about how horrible a foreign country is for doing exactly what we have done, or are doing.
Perspective is important. If you want to move forward, you need to know your starting point first.
I use wiki software for network documentation. Tied it in to nagios, actually, so on the device listing page I can jump right to the documentation page.
Not offline, I know, so it doesn't directly match the job requirements. But I think "offline" is a bad requirement anyway.
Perhaps I should have been clearer; while she can certain experience whatever epiphany she wishes, she does not get to dictate those decisions for her child; the father has just as much right to those decisions as she does, and like I said; she obviously was OK with it at some point.
Now I can't stand scientology..or indeed...any religion. But what's going on here is a selfish mother trying to cut out the father after she decided she couldn't be civil anymore. The courts are not, generally speaking, amused by this behavior.
It's hard to feel sympathy here; she chose Tom and his wacky religion. She decided he was good father material. Now she's changed her mind, but you know what? She doesn't get to do that. That's not how it works.
Her decision that scientology sucks NOW does not negate her decision that scientology was ok back THEN.
I have always been the disruptive influence, everywhere I've worked. I don't like answers like, "that's just the way we've always done it", they've never gone over well with me.
That said, you have to learn how to do it politely. You are still going to annoy people, but generally people feel good doing the best job they can. The folks that really don't like you...well, they aren't worth worrying about.
At what point does this cross the line between religious freedom and child abuse?
I'm all for protecting the rights of a citizen, but we do act in the cases of faith healing; this is almost as severe an abuse of authority. If we feel compelled to act in faith healing cases, this should be considered fair game as well.
I have a large screen, and while yes you can tell the difference, I don't consider the increased fidelity to be all that noteworthy. Unless I'm looking for it, I don't notice it. Most people are the same way.
I don't have a sound system worth anything though, nor will I be purchasing one. So on that point I could see it.
...as I, and most people I talk to, won't pay extra for the gimmicks. I draw the line at anything more than 11 bucks a ticket; otherwise I am quite capable of waiting for the movie to come out on DVD. Yes, DVD. Bluray is remarkably unremarkable.
As a network administrator/system operator/analyst/jack of all, I want an x86 tablet please. Why? Because I need a windows tablet in the enterprise that I can manage like a computer.
RT is nice...for the consumer space...I guess. But I really want a windows tablet for the enterprise space please.
I'm a big fan of standardized solutions from a name big enough to provide consistent support. That said, sometimes 2 hours spent writing a script is cheaper than 20,000 spent to your vendor to accomplish the same thing.
It's a balance, and it's up to the manager to determine the best financial choice.
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I'm sorry, but you have two major players in the smart phone market, along with a third minor player, and you bet the bank on a non-entity in the market? That stinks of a hail mary. By itself, that is less than encouraging. Their choice of MS, given MS's history in the mobile arena, should immediately call into question the sanity of the decision makers. Or at the very least, their bias.
Were I trying to save the company, I would have thrown my lot in with a line of android devices which had distinctive features. Maybe aimed at the mobile market. Hell, maybe I would have even approached RIM about developing a secure platform for corporate users to pair with my hardware devices.
Why the hell would I share it?
Pride plays second fiddle to gluttony in my world.
Ya, I over estimated the startup costs on purpose. Even at 250, that's damn cheap.
Figure the one time set up cost for a home brew: ~250 bucks.
Hops kit required: ~50bucks
Result: 5 gallons of GOLD. As it's difficult to guess the breakdown on the startup costs per batch, let's ignore it for a moment and focus on simply the cost of the materials to make a batch. At 10bucks/gallon for whatever quality you want, that's pretty damn spiffy ( of course, I'm ignoring labor too. Because it's a labor of LOVE ).
Do you want someone who is passionate about windows, or a decent Windows Admin ( or indeed, a decent admin in general )?
I'll tell you right now, I am always highly suspicious of any admin that is "passionate" about their subject matter. They tend to put their bias first, compromising their ability to deliver the best product available.
The best admins I have ever worked with were technology agnostic; they chose the best tools for the job, regardless of their own preferences.
I disagree. They have every right to *block* any top level domain of their choice, but they have no right to enforce their society values on the rest of the world. And no, the creation of a specific top level domain does not constitute "enforcing the world's values on their society", given that they can block them at will.
Anymore, everyone's child is a special snow flake who's failures aren't his or her fault, but rather society's and their own designer mental illness ( ADD, ADHD, autism ).
That's just what we need; to arm these arm chair shrinks with more reasons why their special little one is fucked up, and get them amped up on the latest "Make Normal" drug.
I am far from an expert on this subject, but it's shocking how easy it is to tell who has or hasn't made a study of math. Usually at any rate.
Those that study math and really took the time to comprehend what they were looking at seem to be much more capable of the more abstract problem solving.
On such optimism are quotas met.
Dear Acer ( and everyone else ):
Please give me what I want at a price point I want it at, and I will buy your product. I have no loyalty to any specific vendor, indeed, why would anyone show brand loyalty?
If it works and it's cost effective, I'll buy it. Maybe you should try competing against MS on those grounds. Us consumers would appreciate that, i think.
Sincerely, me.
No it doesn't. If this is a conspiracy by the /. team, then why use an obvious account? Presumably, they would have accounts for just such a purpose.
If it's not an astroturf campaign ( given what I've seen on the various message boards out there, I suspect it is a paid for ad campaign from MS ), then it's just a troll.
While you make a good point, it's equally important to have a grounded and objective base from which to make such arguments. Too often people get caught up in "Merica, FUCK YA!" mentality without considering what we've done, and why. Too often I have seen stories like this where people go off about how horrible a foreign country is for doing exactly what we have done, or are doing.
Perspective is important. If you want to move forward, you need to know your starting point first.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/08/AR2005110801211.html
I was being sarcastic, sure. But my point was that we need to use examples like the story to make sure our own house is clean.
What kind of backwards country would modify their curriculum to fit religious ideals?
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/03/12/texas-removes-thomas-jefferson-from-teaching-standard/
I use wiki software for network documentation. Tied it in to nagios, actually, so on the device listing page I can jump right to the documentation page.
Not offline, I know, so it doesn't directly match the job requirements. But I think "offline" is a bad requirement anyway.
Perhaps I should have been clearer; while she can certain experience whatever epiphany she wishes, she does not get to dictate those decisions for her child; the father has just as much right to those decisions as she does, and like I said; she obviously was OK with it at some point.
Now I can't stand scientology..or indeed...any religion. But what's going on here is a selfish mother trying to cut out the father after she decided she couldn't be civil anymore. The courts are not, generally speaking, amused by this behavior.
It's hard to feel sympathy here; she chose Tom and his wacky religion. She decided he was good father material. Now she's changed her mind, but you know what? She doesn't get to do that. That's not how it works.
Her decision that scientology sucks NOW does not negate her decision that scientology was ok back THEN.
I have always been the disruptive influence, everywhere I've worked. I don't like answers like, "that's just the way we've always done it", they've never gone over well with me.
That said, you have to learn how to do it politely. You are still going to annoy people, but generally people feel good doing the best job they can. The folks that really don't like you...well, they aren't worth worrying about.
These are complicated electronic data devices geared and aimed at the government sector.
That they don't kill all puppies, kittens and babies in a 10 mile radius is amazing. We should consider that a win.
At what point does this cross the line between religious freedom and child abuse?
I'm all for protecting the rights of a citizen, but we do act in the cases of faith healing; this is almost as severe an abuse of authority. If we feel compelled to act in faith healing cases, this should be considered fair game as well.
I have a large screen, and while yes you can tell the difference, I don't consider the increased fidelity to be all that noteworthy. Unless I'm looking for it, I don't notice it. Most people are the same way.
I don't have a sound system worth anything though, nor will I be purchasing one. So on that point I could see it.
...as I, and most people I talk to, won't pay extra for the gimmicks. I draw the line at anything more than 11 bucks a ticket; otherwise I am quite capable of waiting for the movie to come out on DVD. Yes, DVD. Bluray is remarkably unremarkable.
As a network administrator/system operator/analyst/jack of all, I want an x86 tablet please. Why? Because I need a windows tablet in the enterprise that I can manage like a computer.
RT is nice...for the consumer space...I guess. But I really want a windows tablet for the enterprise space please.
I'm a big fan of standardized solutions from a name big enough to provide consistent support. That said, sometimes 2 hours spent writing a script is cheaper than 20,000 spent to your vendor to accomplish the same thing.
It's a balance, and it's up to the manager to determine the best financial choice.
They can capture the light from a star, but they can't catch a cab.
( sorry )