Perhaps YouTube could match commercials to videos: only four-star commercials (heh heh) can appear with four-star videos. Want your ad to work? Make it a good ad.
When AM2 was first announced it seemed like it was going to be a guaranteed hit.
No. In order to get the funding to prevent the company from being starved out of business, someone had to be told it would be a "guaranteed hit" because
a) Businesses cannot understand failure and why it is important any more b) Businesses cannot understand moderate success and why it is important any more c) Middle managers need someone to blame for their own fuckups
this platform would be moving the tremendously successful socket 939 into the future with its use of DDR2 memory, a greatly increased memory bandwidth, hardware virtualization, and a number of exciting new CPUs.
Oops. Powerpoint slides can't have four points. Only three allowed. Someone must be fired now. In fact, just fire the whole department.
The question now is, what happened?
Office politics. Treachery. Lying. Cheating. Irrational requirements. Unworkable schedules. Insufficient capital. Constant meetings. Constant distractions. Insistence on unnecessary documentation. All the smart people who said it wouldn't work were fired for not being team players. Brands instead of products. Concepts instead of ideas. Buzzwords instead of knowledge. Management was unavailable for explanations of why it wouldn't work because they were too busy stuffing their fat asses at the salad bar or talking about golf on the phone.
How did AMD go from record growth and being the darling of enthusiasts to having a new platform which failed to impress?"
Disney's animation division is a perfect illustration of what is wrong with today's workplace and businesses. Let's recap for those who didn't get it the first time:
1. Disney, as a company, depends entirely on the development of new animated characters. As an illustration of this, just prior to the release of the Little Mermaid, Disney was very close to being bought out. 2. Disney made billions, and continues to make billions from their second major series of animated releases: The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Lilo and Stitch, Pocahontas and Mulan. 3. Then suddenly, Disney decides (arbitrarily and without a shred of support or proof) that 2D animation is doomed after incompetent management influence screws up several of their feature animation releases. 4. So they close approximately a dozen animation studios worldwide, including the studios in Florida that were DIRECTLY responsible for approximately ONE BILLION DOLLARS IN DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE REVENUE. 5. Thousands of IRREPLACEABLE PROFESSIONALS watch their careers, which they have been working towards their entire lives, destroyed utterly.
Disney's claim is that 2D animation is too expensive, and that it has been made obsolete by 3D animation from companies like Pixar. This is nonsense, of course, swept aside by the fact there are 400 animation studios operating in Japan today that have no significant revenue problems, and which are producing profitable DVDs, television series, OVAs and animated features by the dozens.
Disney's complaints about cost lose all their credibility in light of the fact Disney paid seven BILLION dollars for Pixar. If they can afford to spend ten figures to buy Pixar, why can't they afford to spend far less to avoid destroying the careers of the people responsible for the vast majority of their revenues, including theme parks, licensing, retail, home video, toys, games, publishing and feature animation?
It's really rather simple, actually. Businesses claim that employees that provide value to a company don't have to worry about layoffs, a claim which is also directly and conclusively refuted by this example (and the many others like it). They claim that marketable skills insulate employees from layoffs, another claim which is obliterated by this example (and many others). The truth is, nothing matters any more. There is nothing an employee can do to keep their job, because there is nobody at the company that gives a fuck.
Is that logically cohesive enough for you, or would you prefer a map?
Companies where there are deadlines, budgets, time constraints, and customers.
And Google does business in some kind of inter-dimensional utopia zone?
Do not expect the same kind of environment working for H&R Block.
Yes. We should expect the workplace to be a joyless shithole. That way middle management cannot be faulted for depriving people of their dignity, or blamed for destroying their careers in order to steal their salaries.
Have health care costs stayed level (when adjusted for inflation) over that entire 100 year period, too?
Nope. Then again, neither have the retail prices of vehicles ($70,000 SUVs?), upper management compensation, the off-loading of retirement costs to 401k accounts, taxes, the costs of financing a vehicle purchase, ripoff warranties or the use of mass layoffs as a cost control measure. The original article was about pensions, not health care.
There's a very real reason why companies are moving away from defined benefit retirement plans and towards defined contribution retirement plans
1. So they can pocket the difference in cost.
2. Health care is not a free market.
is not a sustainable practice
Prices cannot rise to unsustainable levels in a free market.
Oh, salad-bar-ordering management, Disney fired all their animators for no reason and film at 11.
In the real world, there are two ways to get rewarded
1 - Do real work 2 - Lie
Because doing things worth being rewarded for is actually difficult, you can often get better rewards and more often, simply by talking people into giving them to you, rather than doing any real work.
And in the process become a phone-flipping lying rat fuck ass-molded hairpiece. Congratulations.
No it isn't. The unwiped ass of the workplace is like that. Life is entirely different.
While it'd be nice if promotion and salary were neatly tied to ability and achievements, that ain't the case.
Used to be. But see, that was back when we could actually build something. That was back when we weren't destroying people's educations and careers. Middle managers produce nothing except carbon dioxide and methane. They are utterly incompetent, repulsive, hateful people who take great delight in draining every last molecule of joy and goodness from the world in order to stuff their own pockets with everyone else's paychecks.
You either need start playing by their rules in order to compete with them, or stop thinking of yourself as "the bottom doing real work".
In other words, everyone should stop doing real work in order to "compete" with some salad-bar-ordering fuck? Not likely, chunky.
Gartner urges managers to consider better process control
Which is why managers are lying rat fuck incompetent hairpieces.
Part of this discipline is 'killing development projects early and often.'
And firing everyone in order to take their paycheck, thereby destroying their career, education and home. Wouldn't have to cancel the project if you didn't approve it in the first place. There's cake in the conference room you lying asscrack molded-ass air-conditioned rancid crotch.
Ah, are we forgetting that the asscrack high level managers have already done a cost/benefit analysis of this 'telecommuting' of which you speak and decided to let your replacement telecommute in from Bangalore?
While refusing to allow the few remaining non-Bangalore employees to telecommute implying they are too unprofessional/expensive/untrustworthy to telecommute? Of course not.
The key word in all of this is "asscrack" of course.
The businesses need the credit so they'll have a reason to tell the rat fuck lying bloated hairpiece phone-flipping rancid asscrack to shut the fuck up about 7AM donut meetings.
How about a tax credit for telecommuting? Ding! Traffic goes away.
But see, that would take control away from asscrack middle managers who insist on being able to penalize people for failing to leave for work two and a half hours early (and therefore miss breakfast and time with family) to overcome miles of 5 MPH traffic and unreasonable traffic signals. All we have to do to solve 21st century traffic problems is to get the fuck OUT of the 19th century workplace.
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Perhaps YouTube could match commercials to videos: only four-star commercials (heh heh) can appear with four-star videos. Want your ad to work? Make it a good ad.
"Somebody puts up something really good and you get, what, 60,000 viewers?" Cuban added during the event at Advertising Week in New York.
Somebody hasn't read the Long Tail yet.
So I guess the ads are free on YouTube?
When AM2 was first announced it seemed like it was going to be a guaranteed hit.
No. In order to get the funding to prevent the company from being starved out of business, someone had to be told it would be a "guaranteed hit" because
a) Businesses cannot understand failure and why it is important any more
b) Businesses cannot understand moderate success and why it is important any more
c) Middle managers need someone to blame for their own fuckups
this platform would be moving the tremendously successful socket 939 into the future with its use of DDR2 memory, a greatly increased memory bandwidth, hardware virtualization, and a number of exciting new CPUs.
Oops. Powerpoint slides can't have four points. Only three allowed. Someone must be fired now. In fact, just fire the whole department.
The question now is, what happened?
Office politics. Treachery. Lying. Cheating. Irrational requirements. Unworkable schedules. Insufficient capital. Constant meetings. Constant distractions. Insistence on unnecessary documentation. All the smart people who said it wouldn't work were fired for not being team players. Brands instead of products. Concepts instead of ideas. Buzzwords instead of knowledge. Management was unavailable for explanations of why it wouldn't work because they were too busy stuffing their fat asses at the salad bar or talking about golf on the phone.
How did AMD go from record growth and being the darling of enthusiasts to having a new platform which failed to impress?"
Greed.
Disney and their animation division.
Disney's animation division is a perfect illustration of what is wrong with today's workplace and businesses. Let's recap for those who didn't get it the first time:
1. Disney, as a company, depends entirely on the development of new animated characters. As an illustration of this, just prior to the release of the Little Mermaid, Disney was very close to being bought out.
2. Disney made billions, and continues to make billions from their second major series of animated releases: The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Lilo and Stitch, Pocahontas and Mulan.
3. Then suddenly, Disney decides (arbitrarily and without a shred of support or proof) that 2D animation is doomed after incompetent management influence screws up several of their feature animation releases.
4. So they close approximately a dozen animation studios worldwide, including the studios in Florida that were DIRECTLY responsible for approximately ONE BILLION DOLLARS IN DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE REVENUE.
5. Thousands of IRREPLACEABLE PROFESSIONALS watch their careers, which they have been working towards their entire lives, destroyed utterly.
Disney's claim is that 2D animation is too expensive, and that it has been made obsolete by 3D animation from companies like Pixar. This is nonsense, of course, swept aside by the fact there are 400 animation studios operating in Japan today that have no significant revenue problems, and which are producing profitable DVDs, television series, OVAs and animated features by the dozens.
Disney's complaints about cost lose all their credibility in light of the fact Disney paid seven BILLION dollars for Pixar. If they can afford to spend ten figures to buy Pixar, why can't they afford to spend far less to avoid destroying the careers of the people responsible for the vast majority of their revenues, including theme parks, licensing, retail, home video, toys, games, publishing and feature animation?
It's really rather simple, actually. Businesses claim that employees that provide value to a company don't have to worry about layoffs, a claim which is also directly and conclusively refuted by this example (and the many others like it). They claim that marketable skills insulate employees from layoffs, another claim which is obliterated by this example (and many others). The truth is, nothing matters any more. There is nothing an employee can do to keep their job, because there is nobody at the company that gives a fuck.
Is that logically cohesive enough for you, or would you prefer a map?
Companies where there are deadlines, budgets, time constraints, and customers.
And Google does business in some kind of inter-dimensional utopia zone?
Do not expect the same kind of environment working for H&R Block.
Yes. We should expect the workplace to be a joyless shithole. That way middle management cannot be faulted for depriving people of their dignity, or blamed for destroying their careers in order to steal their salaries.
Have health care costs stayed level (when adjusted for inflation) over that entire 100 year period, too?
Nope. Then again, neither have the retail prices of vehicles ($70,000 SUVs?), upper management compensation, the off-loading of retirement costs to 401k accounts, taxes, the costs of financing a vehicle purchase, ripoff warranties or the use of mass layoffs as a cost control measure. The original article was about pensions, not health care.
There's a very real reason why companies are moving away from defined benefit retirement plans and towards defined contribution retirement plans
1. So they can pocket the difference in cost.
2. Health care is not a free market.
is not a sustainable practice
Prices cannot rise to unsustainable levels in a free market.
Oh, salad-bar-ordering management, Disney fired all their animators for no reason and film at 11.
the exponentially increasing unfunded obligations that their competitors don't have.
bew hew?
Starting to sound like Disney:
"eh eh eh, 2D animation isn't profitable anymore"
there's 400 studios in Japan
"eh eh eh 2D features don't make money any more"
why are you distributing Ghibli movies?
"eh eh eh 2D animation is too expensive"
you paid $7 billion for Pixar
"LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA"
Is there any Google app that is truly profitable other than Google Search and Adds?
Who.
Gives.
A.
Fuck?
JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING IS UNPROFITABLE DOES NOT MAKE IT WORTHLESS
Yeah, you're doing fine, because you're profitable now, wait until you have retirees to take care of like GM did.
GM has had retirees to take care of for about 100 years.
They look for the really smart self motivated type.
Yeah, the type of person all other businesses say they want, but what they really want is a slave.
Don't tell people what to work on? And exactly how does that finish projects, ever?
WELL IT SURE SEEMS TO BE WORKING OUT JUST FINE FOR GOOGLE, DOESN'T IT?
In the real world, there are two ways to get rewarded
1 - Do real work
2 - Lie
Because doing things worth being rewarded for is actually difficult, you can often get better rewards and more often, simply by talking people into giving them to you, rather than doing any real work.
And in the process become a phone-flipping lying rat fuck ass-molded hairpiece. Congratulations.
then these guys are better at the game than you.
Better liars. Better cheats. Better rat fucks.
You may not like it, but life's like that.
No it isn't. The unwiped ass of the workplace is like that. Life is entirely different.
While it'd be nice if promotion and salary were neatly tied to ability and achievements, that ain't the case.
Used to be. But see, that was back when we could actually build something. That was back when we weren't destroying people's educations and careers. Middle managers produce nothing except carbon dioxide and methane. They are utterly incompetent, repulsive, hateful people who take great delight in draining every last molecule of joy and goodness from the world in order to stuff their own pockets with everyone else's paychecks.
You either need start playing by their rules in order to compete with them, or stop thinking of yourself as "the bottom doing real work".
In other words, everyone should stop doing real work in order to "compete" with some salad-bar-ordering fuck? Not likely, chunky.
The mass of middle managers are afraid to do think anything that isn't supported by someone like Gartner.
That way they'll have someone to blame when they are wrong.
Lying rat fuck asscracks.
Gartner urges managers to consider better process control
Which is why managers are lying rat fuck incompetent hairpieces.
Part of this discipline is 'killing development projects early and often.'
And firing everyone in order to take their paycheck, thereby destroying their career, education and home. Wouldn't have to cancel the project if you didn't approve it in the first place. There's cake in the conference room you lying asscrack molded-ass air-conditioned rancid crotch.
But I want a modern, *REAL* MMORPG
With or without stunlock?
Good thing the game industry is such a source original thought and creativity.
hee hee ha ha ho ho har har hee hee
Thanks.
Ah, are we forgetting that the asscrack high level managers have already done a cost/benefit analysis of this 'telecommuting' of which you speak and decided to let your replacement telecommute in from Bangalore?
While refusing to allow the few remaining non-Bangalore employees to telecommute implying they are too unprofessional/expensive/untrustworthy to telecommute? Of course not.
The key word in all of this is "asscrack" of course.
Spider-man.. Spider-man.. does whatever a Spider can...
/laugh /spit /dance /violin /vanish /vanish /vanish
THREE UNDEAD ROGUES APPEAR
Cheap shot! Cheap shot! Ambush crit!
"OH NOES SPIDEY USE YOUR WEBZ!"
"HE CAN'T! HE WAS BLINDED/KIDNEY SHOTTED/GOUGED/VANISHED/CHEAP SHOTTED FIFTEEN TIMES!!"
"EEEEERRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHZZZZZZZZZZ!!"
Can't wait.
Exactly how much more credit do you need?
The businesses need the credit so they'll have a reason to tell the rat fuck lying bloated hairpiece phone-flipping rancid asscrack to shut the fuck up about 7AM donut meetings.
The Fat Cats want the consumer to have as much excess money as possible to buy more of his product.
Which explains why wages have been stagnant for almost 50 years.
You really think rich people pay taxes? Really?
How about a tax credit for telecommuting? Ding! Traffic goes away.
But see, that would take control away from asscrack middle managers who insist on being able to penalize people for failing to leave for work two and a half hours early (and therefore miss breakfast and time with family) to overcome miles of 5 MPH traffic and unreasonable traffic signals. All we have to do to solve 21st century traffic problems is to get the fuck OUT of the 19th century workplace.
Businesses profit from legislation. Other businesses outraged. Film at 11.