They aren't dialects, they are artificial affections whose "features" do nothing more than provide a sense if differentiation for a group wanting to separate itself from the rest of society. (and that cuts across all sorts of racial and socio-economic strata, btw)
Out of all the "celebrities" that one could imitate, why pick one that can barely talk, much less sing? Should, through some cosmic sense of humor, I ever interview anyone like this, the interview would effectively be over within seconds.Our teams do not need to add affected speech to raise yet more barriers to communications.
Carly didn't deep-six HP, that would be Apotheker. He almost single-handedly killed the company, doing more harm in a week than even Reed Hastings to a viable business. He should win some sort of award for that... wait, that would be wrong. The only person I can think of that was worse was Darl McBride, of SCO infamy.
If you're going to accuse someone of screwing up a company, at least get the right someone.
btw, my first digital camera which was also the first I found acceptable was a 5MP Olympus with a 128MB card. It was such an improvement from film that I didn't look back after the first trip we took with it. I did have a second 512MB card that became the primary, and a lot of good pictures came out of that system. I had looked at the 3MP Nikon before that, but the resolution really affected the appearance of prints, so I waited until it got higher. The point and shoot Olympus in many cases took better pictures than those I saw out of the 3MP Nikon. There really was a threshold somewhere between 3 and 5 MP where pictures all of a sudden became "good".
Indeed - never before have so many people been able to take so many bad photos that will mostly never be seen again. "Spray and Pray." Btw, those digital photos aren't "free" if you have prints made. The death of film has in some ways meant the death of prints. I find the real impact of a photo is when a good print is made.
Yes, it has meant the death of the 36 4x6 prints of which maybe 1 would ever be seen again, or perhaps 5 or 6 in a blurry family album.
The entire point of the digital camera is you can try many compositions, angles, etc, and they're essentially free. You would only print those that pass muster on your computer (I wouldn't trust the tiny LCD for anything other than ditching truly bad shots)
while it's true that jumping on a bad fad could bankrupt you, only an idiot would have continued to believe that digital wasn't going to succeed. The prices for digital cameras was low enough that instamatics just couldn't compete, on original price alone. Granted, the early digital cameras pictures sucked in quality, but knowing the speed of new tech improving that was solely limited by manufacturing process would quickly let you guess about when the image quality would be close to film. Moore's law and all - it was only a couple of years after the initial 1-2 MP cameras came out that the 3 and 5 MPs came out, and 5MP was good enough for a pocket camera to rival the print of a cheap 35mm camera, and that's pretty much the beginning of the real end for film. Digital didn't add on the processing costs for film, you could take 100 pictures, "process" them on the spot, and take another 100, pretty much for "free". The best film could do was 1 hour processing at a relatively high cost, and 36 max pics per roll. (I can take over 1000 in RAW mode on my current DSLR and the way oversized Compact Flash card I have)
As for tablets, I think the market will continue to grow. There's a distinct use case for tablets, and it more than meets the needs for a large majority of the populace. Think all the current phone texters that make do with 140 characters or less thumb typing on a screen keyboard far too small for their fingers being able to enjoy much larger real estate of the tablet.
The real issue with the tablet "fad" is a bunch of companies that think throwing some hardware together in a roughly tablet sized package is sufficient keep failing, and they'll continue to fail. It's more than just hardware, if they want to even enter the edge of the iPad market.
Yes, I'm well aware of the concept - we'll buy lots of their hardware to do something other than support them, thus hurting them because they lose $10/unit.
The problem is this activity still adds to their perceived marketshare and boosts their efforts and also reduces stock for items they're building anyways, and it also hurts their competition by reducing their revenue, demand, and perceived marketshare.
Buy someone else's hardware, and support them, rather than reducing Sony's potential losses. After all, if the units sit on the shelves in warehouses, they will have even bigger losses since they have to make 'x' anyways to support their factory(ies)
I believe that should there be confidential transactions of any sort, such as client attorney privs, done over the phone that CIQ would log would be illegal regardless of whatever "contractual" terms you sign. After all, the phone is presented as a communications device, not a device to eavesdrop on everything you do.
A DX2 66 486 with 64MB RAM, two 1GB SCSI disks and a CDROM with a 4MB VRAM card. But, that was just the desktop machine. It only clocked in at about $8K (work really sprung for that one) Then there was the decked out Indigo 2. Don't recall the RAM, but the MIPS 4400 upgrade was around 8K alone, and that was small potatoes compared to the $25K 256 layer Z-buffer video card that was added in. That's right - $25K for a video card that today is probably outpaced by pretty much anything you pull out of the recycling pile. And it was the low price of $25K because we bought 2 in a bundle with the upgrades. Originally they went for $38K.
Of course, all of those prices are totally blown away by the $8K 430MB WORM drive we purchased. To truly get how expensively stupid this purchase was, you have to understand how WORM drives operate. They basically had their own controller internally that worked with the internal hardware to position the write/read head as you progressed along the spiral. The problem was, there was no segmentation of the disk, no error correction, no guide tracks, or anything else. So, the entire process was based on the head placement mechanism being in the right place at the right point of the spin to write/read the data. The problem was, these parts would wear, so a disk was good across about 250-400 read-write cycles of the drive. Read that again - the drive could only be used less than 250 times reliably between the writing of a disk and the current reading. After 250, it got dicey, after 400, you could no longer read it. Oh, and just to compare it to today's BD disks, a WORM disk at the time sold for roughly $100 a piece in lots of 100.
Au contraire.... Skype keeps a nice log of everything you type (no idea about the calls though)
Ever wonder how your multiple clients always have the ability to see all messages, even if they were logged off for a bit, even if the one you were using was not set to logging and you chatted from it?
It's the primary reason I don't use it. Well, that and the fact that it's an incredible POS software client that crashes unpredictably and causes issues with other applications wanting access to the camera/microphone.
Email is still highly useful - the problem these people have is no discipline in how to handle email - first, turn off all notifications. Second, only check a couple of times a day. Email is not instant, so don't treat it like it is. Do the same for IM. This removes the disruption of your daily tasks. If it's really important, someone will call....
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Neither, as you apparently are.
They aren't dialects, they are artificial affections whose "features" do nothing more than provide a sense if differentiation for a group wanting to separate itself from the rest of society. (and that cuts across all sorts of racial and socio-economic strata, btw)
Out of all the "celebrities" that one could imitate, why pick one that can barely talk, much less sing? Should, through some cosmic sense of humor, I ever interview anyone like this, the interview would effectively be over within seconds.Our teams do not need to add affected speech to raise yet more barriers to communications.
Carly didn't deep-six HP, that would be Apotheker. He almost single-handedly killed the company, doing more harm in a week than even Reed Hastings to a viable business. He should win some sort of award for that... wait, that would be wrong. The only person I can think of that was worse was Darl McBride, of SCO infamy.
If you're going to accuse someone of screwing up a company, at least get the right someone.
btw, my first digital camera which was also the first I found acceptable was a 5MP Olympus with a 128MB card. It was such an improvement from film that I didn't look back after the first trip we took with it. I did have a second 512MB card that became the primary, and a lot of good pictures came out of that system. I had looked at the 3MP Nikon before that, but the resolution really affected the appearance of prints, so I waited until it got higher. The point and shoot Olympus in many cases took better pictures than those I saw out of the 3MP Nikon. There really was a threshold somewhere between 3 and 5 MP where pictures all of a sudden became "good".
Amazingly, Nikon happens to be a big player in the digital market. I think that says all that needs to be said about Kodak's lack of vision.
Indeed - never before have so many people been able to take so many bad photos that will mostly never be seen again. "Spray and Pray." Btw, those digital photos aren't "free" if you have prints made. The death of film has in some ways meant the death of prints. I find the real impact of a photo is when a good print is made.
Yes, it has meant the death of the 36 4x6 prints of which maybe 1 would ever be seen again, or perhaps 5 or 6 in a blurry family album.
The entire point of the digital camera is you can try many compositions, angles, etc, and they're essentially free. You would only print those that pass muster on your computer (I wouldn't trust the tiny LCD for anything other than ditching truly bad shots)
I'm actually in the process of becoming Adobe free. No Reader, no Flash, and hopefully my system will run better.
while it's true that jumping on a bad fad could bankrupt you, only an idiot would have continued to believe that digital wasn't going to succeed. The prices for digital cameras was low enough that instamatics just couldn't compete, on original price alone. Granted, the early digital cameras pictures sucked in quality, but knowing the speed of new tech improving that was solely limited by manufacturing process would quickly let you guess about when the image quality would be close to film. Moore's law and all - it was only a couple of years after the initial 1-2 MP cameras came out that the 3 and 5 MPs came out, and 5MP was good enough for a pocket camera to rival the print of a cheap 35mm camera, and that's pretty much the beginning of the real end for film. Digital didn't add on the processing costs for film, you could take 100 pictures, "process" them on the spot, and take another 100, pretty much for "free". The best film could do was 1 hour processing at a relatively high cost, and 36 max pics per roll. (I can take over 1000 in RAW mode on my current DSLR and the way oversized Compact Flash card I have)
As for tablets, I think the market will continue to grow. There's a distinct use case for tablets, and it more than meets the needs for a large majority of the populace. Think all the current phone texters that make do with 140 characters or less thumb typing on a screen keyboard far too small for their fingers being able to enjoy much larger real estate of the tablet.
The real issue with the tablet "fad" is a bunch of companies that think throwing some hardware together in a roughly tablet sized package is sufficient keep failing, and they'll continue to fail. It's more than just hardware, if they want to even enter the edge of the iPad market.
patents only last 20 years....
Not 100+ (life!) and 75 more like copyrights.
Yes, I'm well aware of the concept - we'll buy lots of their hardware to do something other than support them, thus hurting them because they lose $10/unit.
The problem is this activity still adds to their perceived marketshare and boosts their efforts and also reduces stock for items they're building anyways, and it also hurts their competition by reducing their revenue, demand, and perceived marketshare.
Buy someone else's hardware, and support them, rather than reducing Sony's potential losses. After all, if the units sit on the shelves in warehouses, they will have even bigger losses since they have to make 'x' anyways to support their factory(ies)
4 years of losses and they're still around. Talk to me when they actually disappear.
Yep, and wouldn't it be better if they could just revert the genetic modifications that cause the female mosquito to need blood?
You know what would be even cooler? If they could revert the genetic modifications that cause humans to need food and water!
It would certainly stop you from posting such incredibly illuminating repartees.
Yep, and wouldn't it be better if they could just revert the genetic modifications that cause the female mosquito to need blood?
Or just provide better feedback to photo editing programs to create better pictures.
Even the call telling you to come to his office is "confidential"
I believe that should there be confidential transactions of any sort, such as client attorney privs, done over the phone that CIQ would log would be illegal regardless of whatever "contractual" terms you sign. After all, the phone is presented as a communications device, not a device to eavesdrop on everything you do.
OK, if we want to talk about fun hardware:
A DX2 66 486 with 64MB RAM, two 1GB SCSI disks and a CDROM with a 4MB VRAM card. But, that was just the desktop machine. It only clocked in at about $8K (work really sprung for that one) Then there was the decked out Indigo 2. Don't recall the RAM, but the MIPS 4400 upgrade was around 8K alone, and that was small potatoes compared to the $25K 256 layer Z-buffer video card that was added in. That's right - $25K for a video card that today is probably outpaced by pretty much anything you pull out of the recycling pile. And it was the low price of $25K because we bought 2 in a bundle with the upgrades. Originally they went for $38K.
Of course, all of those prices are totally blown away by the $8K 430MB WORM drive we purchased. To truly get how expensively stupid this purchase was, you have to understand how WORM drives operate. They basically had their own controller internally that worked with the internal hardware to position the write/read head as you progressed along the spiral. The problem was, there was no segmentation of the disk, no error correction, no guide tracks, or anything else. So, the entire process was based on the head placement mechanism being in the right place at the right point of the spin to write/read the data. The problem was, these parts would wear, so a disk was good across about 250-400 read-write cycles of the drive. Read that again - the drive could only be used less than 250 times reliably between the writing of a disk and the current reading. After 250, it got dicey, after 400, you could no longer read it. Oh, and just to compare it to today's BD disks, a WORM disk at the time sold for roughly $100 a piece in lots of 100.
Probably better than AC land
If it's really important, someone will call....
damn i hate that! why the heck are you calling me?
So you don't ignore my email or IM...
IIRC, Allegra, still under patent, went OTC and profits shot up even as the price went down. The only thing required for a big money maker is demand.
I have yet to see an 'educate the people' campaign that isn't dead on arrival.
That's because we don't use a large enough Board of Education. An 8 foot 2X4 would work wonders.
I find 8 ft too hard to swing. 34 inches seems just about right.
You must....not hit... the.... period key!
Provably false.
I can forgive ICQ.... but Trillian?
Au contraire.... Skype keeps a nice log of everything you type (no idea about the calls though)
Ever wonder how your multiple clients always have the ability to see all messages, even if they were logged off for a bit, even if the one you were using was not set to logging and you chatted from it?
It's the primary reason I don't use it. Well, that and the fact that it's an incredible POS software client that crashes unpredictably and causes issues with other applications wanting access to the camera/microphone.
Email is still highly useful - the problem these people have is no discipline in how to handle email - first, turn off all notifications. Second, only check a couple of times a day. Email is not instant, so don't treat it like it is. Do the same for IM. This removes the disruption of your daily tasks. If it's really important, someone will call....