Did you ever think this environment was created because the security policies simply do not scale? There's a difference between best practices that keep information secure and having everyone use a dongle and a password that changes weekly to check their fucking e-mail. In my experience, also at a Fortune XX company, "security" is simply a one-size-fits-all plan to cover your ass, which usually results in the least convenient and productive practices possible for average Joe-user. For that matter, security "experts" are rarely experts in security at all; they've just survived the longest by sticking to kneejerk strategies. Because this is Slashdot, let me add that any shop that uses Microsoft in its security platform deserves a shareholder lawsuit. So there.
"On Tuesday, March 27, there was a serious failure in a high-pressure test at CERN of a Fermilab-built "inner-triplet" series of three quadrupole magnets in the tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider. The magnets focus the particle beams prior to collision at each of four interaction points around the accelerator. Safety precautions were followed during the test, and no one was injured."
May I pass along my congratulations for your great interdimensional breakthrough. I am sure, in the miserable annals of the Earth, you will be duly enshrined.
. . . if the candidate, technical skills notwithstanding, has other characteristics that would make him or her a good employee. Trustworthiness, a good work ethic, and someone who doesn't drool on the clients are much more valuable qualities in the long term than someone who can just "perform Task X in Period Y." You can't train those kinds of qualities, but companies who do are better for it.
This is assuming we're talking about a real company with a business plan and goals that are both human and financial.
[1] Either flood the country with U.S. troops,
[2] be prepared to occupy it for several years until things calm down,
[3] or start to withdraw the troops.
There was a time, believe it or not, when Rolling Stone magazine was relevant. More recently, MTV was the voice of generation that, for better or worse, "killed the radio star." This MS/MTV relationship reminds me how utterly pointless MTV has become (and no, I haven't been in its demographic, for, um, several, years). MTV, meet the shark. (Might as well) Jump!
Copycat tech happens so fast they probably wanted to slow the process by not making the form factor similar to the smallish DVD players already saturating the market. That's my guess.
I think Palm/USR went down the tubes when it abandoned the crisp (relatively) scratch-proof glass screens. Compare the Vx (the high watermark of the genre, IMO) to any of the current Zires, Tungstens, etc., and you'll see the difference. Palm used to make solid, fetish-worthy hardware. Now crappy hardware and failing to recognize cross-platform differences have made them a has-been except for the Treo, which most users haven't a clue how to utilize to their full capacity.
"What else could be done to get to space with minimal harm to the planet?"
STEP #1: LEAVE PLANET.
Seriously, why do most of these discussions center around how much energy it takes to get into orbit? Build the freakin' space platform and fuhgettaboutit!
Has no one considered that if Apple wants to stay in the hardware business, it might make sense for them to make dedicated hardware for Linux? That would make a lot more sense than waving the "We're number three!" banner at the annual OS track meet. . .
I agree completely. They've basically shat themselves with poor customer service and lack of innovation. The ?#%@! registration process (on Mac OSX anyway) could consume the resources of a full-time admin (assuming he or she had played a lot of Myst). I also remember when they required a floppy for installation . . . . Bwahaha!
Maybe this will inspire the Firefox team to one-up this achievement. I'm thinking something that completely uninstalls IE forever. Nothing like competition to encourage innovation, I say.
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BTW, what's with the post captcha?
Sure, iPod/iTunes is all marketing, but that's the point. The *device* is the totem of the trend, and therefore carries with it cultural significance (it's cool to own an iPod; it's not-quite-as-cool to own an MP3 player). Apple will continue to update the iPod to keep people buying them (thus, the forays into photos, video, games??). Microsoft has utterly failed at making its products cool. I fail to see how shoehorning a music player in an already antiquated form factor is going to set the world on fire.
Welcome to the world of big media. Smaller, competitive markets pitted publications against one another, so a paper would always have an adversary looking for mistakes (not just the spel-ing kind). Big media is more likely to put blinders on in respect to major shortcomings, which is why it's always "too late" by the time the public handwringing begins. The InnnerWeb (a la blogs) works much the same as those small, competitive markets, albeit on a global scale.
Speaking of spelling, blame it on spellchecking software. Nary a human actual proofs text for spelling anymore. It's so bad, some newsrooms resort to using people who "proof" content before a story is "edited." Writers can't be held accountable anymore for spelling and grammar.
Yeah, I worked in newspapers. And I can't spell worth a flip, either.
Unlike Windows, Mac OS X doesn't ship on over 50 million PCs a year, so Tiger's retail success is far more important to Apple than Windows' retail success is to Microsoft.
It seems to me that the hardware requirements for Longhorn will benefit Apple. Faced with having to buy new hardware and a new OS, I bet more than a few folks (iPod users?) would consider jumping over to OSX. Tiger may be mostly marketing, but it comes along at the right time.
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Did you ever think this environment was created because the security policies simply do not scale? There's a difference between best practices that keep information secure and having everyone use a dongle and a password that changes weekly to check their fucking e-mail. In my experience, also at a Fortune XX company, "security" is simply a one-size-fits-all plan to cover your ass, which usually results in the least convenient and productive practices possible for average Joe-user. For that matter, security "experts" are rarely experts in security at all; they've just survived the longest by sticking to kneejerk strategies. Because this is Slashdot, let me add that any shop that uses Microsoft in its security platform deserves a shareholder lawsuit. So there.
May I pass along my congratulations for your great interdimensional breakthrough. I am sure, in the miserable annals of the Earth, you will be duly enshrined.
featuring Bob, of course, or "Smilin' Ivan" as he's known in Soviet Russia.
2^10 months salary . . . . ?
. . . if the candidate, technical skills notwithstanding, has other characteristics that would make him or her a good employee. Trustworthiness, a good work ethic, and someone who doesn't drool on the clients are much more valuable qualities in the long term than someone who can just "perform Task X in Period Y." You can't train those kinds of qualities, but companies who do are better for it. This is assuming we're talking about a real company with a business plan and goals that are both human and financial.
. . . Stevesy got his stock options in ITMS gift cards.
The very act of observation causes the cars ("particles") to clump up. Conversely, if everyone drove blindfolded, there would be no traffic jams.
Damn, I thought I was gonna find out about getting a free Wii.
No. They will be called Zubunti, which is also Swahili for "tribe of horse-faced linux geeks."
. . . for some freakin' hierarchical content markup?
NT bwahahaha
Is if MS somehow finds a way to credit user for all the songs they bought on iTMS.
There was a time, believe it or not, when Rolling Stone magazine was relevant. More recently, MTV was the voice of generation that, for better or worse, "killed the radio star." This MS/MTV relationship reminds me how utterly pointless MTV has become (and no, I haven't been in its demographic, for, um, several, years). MTV, meet the shark. (Might as well) Jump!
Copycat tech happens so fast they probably wanted to slow the process by not making the form factor similar to the smallish DVD players already saturating the market. That's my guess.
>So I suspect that Google isn't any better at parsing Office formats than is >anyone else.
Gee, I wonder how *that* might change now?
I think Palm/USR went down the tubes when it abandoned the crisp (relatively) scratch-proof glass screens. Compare the Vx (the high watermark of the genre, IMO) to any of the current Zires, Tungstens, etc., and you'll see the difference. Palm used to make solid, fetish-worthy hardware. Now crappy hardware and failing to recognize cross-platform differences have made them a has-been except for the Treo, which most users haven't a clue how to utilize to their full capacity.
"What else could be done to get to space with minimal harm to the planet?"
STEP #1: LEAVE PLANET.
Seriously, why do most of these discussions center around how much energy it takes to get into orbit? Build the freakin' space platform and fuhgettaboutit!
Has no one considered that if Apple wants to stay in the hardware business, it might make sense for them to make dedicated hardware for Linux? That would make a lot more sense than waving the "We're number three!" banner at the annual OS track meet. . .
I agree completely. They've basically shat themselves with poor customer service and lack of innovation. The ?#%@! registration process (on Mac OSX anyway) could consume the resources of a full-time admin (assuming he or she had played a lot of Myst). I also remember when they required a floppy for installation . . . . Bwahaha!
Maybe this will inspire the Firefox team to one-up this achievement. I'm thinking something that completely uninstalls IE forever. Nothing like competition to encourage innovation, I say.
--
BTW, what's with the post captcha?
Sure, iPod/iTunes is all marketing, but that's the point. The *device* is the totem of the trend, and therefore carries with it cultural significance (it's cool to own an iPod; it's not-quite-as-cool to own an MP3 player). Apple will continue to update the iPod to keep people buying them (thus, the forays into photos, video, games??). Microsoft has utterly failed at making its products cool. I fail to see how shoehorning a music player in an already antiquated form factor is going to set the world on fire.
Welcome to the world of big media. Smaller, competitive markets pitted publications against one another, so a paper would always have an adversary looking for mistakes (not just the spel-ing kind). Big media is more likely to put blinders on in respect to major shortcomings, which is why it's always "too late" by the time the public handwringing begins. The InnnerWeb (a la blogs) works much the same as those small, competitive markets, albeit on a global scale. Speaking of spelling, blame it on spellchecking software. Nary a human actual proofs text for spelling anymore. It's so bad, some newsrooms resort to using people who "proof" content before a story is "edited." Writers can't be held accountable anymore for spelling and grammar. Yeah, I worked in newspapers. And I can't spell worth a flip, either.
. . . to get people to cut-and-paste articles from Wikipedia. Hey, instant content!