Guess what: the vast majority of Americans who aren't affected by the outflow of jobs to cheaper labor markets don't want to pay more for lower quality.
Guess what: this is called "begging the question."
(For those of you who have probably seen ten million improper uses of that phrase, this is the proper use)
I'm increasing my skill set and indispensability to the point that I'll be in the last 10% of people to be laid off
Who decides on that skill set? Oh, right. Middle management again...
No, they fired people because they weren't "productive" or "team players." Nice and subjective, so there's no possibility of the lying cheat middle managers being proven wrong.
See, because if there are objective standards of professionalism, them uppity employees might get ideas, like having a career, a home and a supporting a family on a reliable and adequate income.
But this way, they can just fire people whenever they feel like it. They'll make up a plausible reason like "qualifications" or "productivity" but it's basically because they just felt like it today, or because they want a 1/4 point bump in next quarter's earnings.
When a computer wins a poker tournament, then we can talk about the "day of the machines." Until then, it's nothing more than a series of mathematical calculations, not a test of chess strategies.
(Further proving the axiom that all hype no substance, and the low attention span caused by television commercials makes everyone believe that anything new sux, unless presented in a movie trailer, then it only sux after it's paid for)
10 comments: "That's pretty cool. Too bad it costs money."
One more way for a prospective employee to be disqualified.
Applying for a job is just about the most pointless, meaningless exercise in complete futility in all of business. It is the worst possible agreement. There is nothing of value for the employee beyond the current number of hours worked.
There is more actual value in a one week rental of a late model Buick than the average job, and the average job probably couldn't pay for the rental either.
And they said "go to school! get a good job!" year after year. What a bunch of shit.
Look what has been accomplished! We actually invested TIME and MONEY to extract data from a lousy $10 camera. Big $#*)%#*@ deal. Up next: how to reuse paper plates to reduce your dish budget.
Is having it for free REALLY that important? I hear there are digital cameras now that you can take unlimited pictures with. Why, they might even be for sale. Imagine that!
Probably half of professional Flash MX developers are using Macs anyway. There are half a BILLION installed Flash 5 players. Flash MX works very well with Fireworks and Dreamweaver as well. Will Sparkle work with FrontPage? What are they going to replace Freehand and Fireworks with? What about Coldfusion?
The answer to traffic is telecommuting. Immense tax breaks should be given to businesses that allow their employees to telecommute at least three days a week. There is no reason for a room full of cubicles when those people could be working from home or somewhere else so they aren't all on the freeway at 7:30AM and 5:30PM.
Naturally, middle-management, in their rush to control everything and to expect their highly qualified and exhaustively interviewed employees to become irresponsible morons the moment they have left the room, will claim telecommuting cannot ever be approved and go on to schedule another meeting.
The more special effects, the more gee-whiz, super-blockbuster, 5.1 stereo rumbling, render-farm-rendered pixels are thrown on to the screen, the more bored and more impatient audiences get?
Wouldn't it be ironic if special effects increased boredom? $200 million later, it's really not all that much better than the book? Could that actually be what audiences are thinking?
Interesting question. It should be pointed out that just about every major blockbuster special-effects-genre movie in the last 3-5 years has been often reviewed as "boring," with the possible exception of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy which, ironically enough, is based on the books.
Then there might be some pressure on the studios to focus on nurturing the good writers and DEVELOPING BETTER SCRIPTS!
It will never happen. That would require the hiring of something called a "writer" and that isn't part of the "more pixels please" Hollywood formula any more.
Having watched the glacial process of licensing, I can say with great confidence that the reason this movie was so "oft-delayed" is because there is nothing, absolutely NOTHING slower than two bureaucracies negotiating with each other over licensing.
Given the fact that Alien and Predator are individually multi-million dollar licenses, I can imagine the licensing negotiations must have been excruciatingly slow and given to long inexplicable intervals of total inaction. Anyone who has ever watched this process will recognize the description. It is without competition: truly the most expensive, exasperating, pointless exercise in business.
Here's my favorite:
"So we're agreed."
(four months later)
"What agreement? I thought you were going to call."
Television is advertising interrupted by shows. It's that simple. The ads are enough to drive a reasonable person completely out of their mind. If I hear one more "sound happy now" female voice explain in excruciating detail how wonderful life is in her personal suburban paradise, or one more "smile at each other now" quasi-yupptified couple enjoying their most recent five-figure material purchase, I'm going to projectile vomit.
Television is all about what's coming up next. It's newscasters, hosts and ads screaming at people not to change the channel. The total amount of time spent not advertising some other product or some other part of the show is negligible. It is the perfect medium for the distracted, erratic and unfocused personality.
Television is the constant playing of the first seven notes of a scale.
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Also, you would be free to burn these shows to CD and give them to your friends as long as the ad was left in place.
The ads would immediately be removed and replaced with "YEAAHH!! OWN3DZZZ D0000DZZZZZZZ!!"
Because it must be freeeeee or it might feed somebody, and we can't have that.
That asks "is $TECHNOLOGY dead?" is FUD.
Period.
Telling my what symbols I can manipulate and in what way is a bit like telling me how to think.
Just like television.
and it is flat-out IMPOSSIBLE to sell hardware if it can't run Windows.
Yeah? So when did Apple go out of business?
Usually the company needs to cut costs or something.
"Your manager doesn't like you"
fire the ones that you didn't hire
How is this different from "because they just felt like it?" Is this really what we spent 20 years in school for?
Can any bank POSSIBLY expect us to sign a mortgage depending on this kind of arbitrary crap for an income?
Guess what: the vast majority of Americans who aren't affected by the outflow of jobs to cheaper labor markets don't want to pay more for lower quality.
Guess what: this is called "begging the question."
(For those of you who have probably seen ten million improper uses of that phrase, this is the proper use)
I'm increasing my skill set and indispensability to the point that I'll be in the last 10% of people to be laid off
Who decides on that skill set? Oh, right. Middle management again...
They've taken away job security.
They've taken away the benefits.
They've taken away overtime.
They've taken away the promotions.
They've taken away the adequate salary.
And now, they've taken the furniture.
It's not funny.
No they fired people for being unproductive.
No, they fired people because they weren't "productive" or "team players." Nice and subjective, so there's no possibility of the lying cheat middle managers being proven wrong.
See, because if there are objective standards of professionalism, them uppity employees might get ideas, like having a career, a home and a supporting a family on a reliable and adequate income.
But this way, they can just fire people whenever they feel like it. They'll make up a plausible reason like "qualifications" or "productivity" but it's basically because they just felt like it today, or because they want a 1/4 point bump in next quarter's earnings.
freeing employees from their cubicles to save on corporate real estate costs
They fire them.
The days of bits being scarce enough to sell are over,
That would be true if companies were only selling "bits," which they aren't.
Apple does EXACTLY WHAT EVERYONE SAID THEY WANTED and they still get fucked over.
This isn't about fair use any more. This is about "fuck over any company that uses price tags."
This entire argument has lost every last shred of whatever legitimacy it may have once had.
When a computer wins a poker tournament, then we can talk about the "day of the machines." Until then, it's nothing more than a series of mathematical calculations, not a test of chess strategies.
503 comments: "It sux."
(Further proving the axiom that all hype no substance, and the low attention span caused by television commercials makes everyone believe that anything new sux, unless presented in a movie trailer, then it only sux after it's paid for)
10 comments: "That's pretty cool. Too bad it costs money."
2 comments: "Does it run Linux?"
LOL
There are PhDs stocking the paper towel shelf at Wal-Mart. The economy excels at taking giant thundering shits on its most knowledgeable employees.
for prospective employers
One more way for a prospective employee to be disqualified.
Applying for a job is just about the most pointless, meaningless exercise in complete futility in all of business. It is the worst possible agreement. There is nothing of value for the employee beyond the current number of hours worked.
There is more actual value in a one week rental of a late model Buick than the average job, and the average job probably couldn't pay for the rental either.
And they said "go to school! get a good job!" year after year. What a bunch of shit.
Look what has been accomplished! We actually invested TIME and MONEY to extract data from a lousy $10 camera. Big $#*)%#*@ deal. Up next: how to reuse paper plates to reduce your dish budget.
Is having it for free REALLY that important? I hear there are digital cameras now that you can take unlimited pictures with. Why, they might even be for sale. Imagine that!
Probably half of professional Flash MX developers are using Macs anyway. There are half a BILLION installed Flash 5 players. Flash MX works very well with Fireworks and Dreamweaver as well. Will Sparkle work with FrontPage? What are they going to replace Freehand and Fireworks with? What about Coldfusion?
Not as simple as it sounds.
The answer to traffic is telecommuting. Immense tax breaks should be given to businesses that allow their employees to telecommute at least three days a week. There is no reason for a room full of cubicles when those people could be working from home or somewhere else so they aren't all on the freeway at 7:30AM and 5:30PM.
Naturally, middle-management, in their rush to control everything and to expect their highly qualified and exhaustively interviewed employees to become irresponsible morons the moment they have left the room, will claim telecommuting cannot ever be approved and go on to schedule another meeting.
The more special effects, the more gee-whiz, super-blockbuster, 5.1 stereo rumbling, render-farm-rendered pixels are thrown on to the screen, the more bored and more impatient audiences get?
Wouldn't it be ironic if special effects increased boredom? $200 million later, it's really not all that much better than the book? Could that actually be what audiences are thinking?
Interesting question. It should be pointed out that just about every major blockbuster special-effects-genre movie in the last 3-5 years has been often reviewed as "boring," with the possible exception of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy which, ironically enough, is based on the books.
Are we keeping these jobs or just borrowing them like last time?
Then there might be some pressure on the studios to focus on nurturing the good writers and DEVELOPING BETTER SCRIPTS!
It will never happen. That would require the hiring of something called a "writer" and that isn't part of the "more pixels please" Hollywood formula any more.
Having watched the glacial process of licensing, I can say with great confidence that the reason this movie was so "oft-delayed" is because there is nothing, absolutely NOTHING slower than two bureaucracies negotiating with each other over licensing.
Given the fact that Alien and Predator are individually multi-million dollar licenses, I can imagine the licensing negotiations must have been excruciatingly slow and given to long inexplicable intervals of total inaction. Anyone who has ever watched this process will recognize the description. It is without competition: truly the most expensive, exasperating, pointless exercise in business.
Here's my favorite:
"So we're agreed."
(four months later)
"What agreement? I thought you were going to call."
Television is advertising interrupted by shows. It's that simple. The ads are enough to drive a reasonable person completely out of their mind. If I hear one more "sound happy now" female voice explain in excruciating detail how wonderful life is in her personal suburban paradise, or one more "smile at each other now" quasi-yupptified couple enjoying their most recent five-figure material purchase, I'm going to projectile vomit.
Television is all about what's coming up next. It's newscasters, hosts and ads screaming at people not to change the channel. The total amount of time spent not advertising some other product or some other part of the show is negligible. It is the perfect medium for the distracted, erratic and unfocused personality.
Television is the constant playing of the first seven notes of a scale.
When we solve the problem of the scarcity of steady paychecks, then we can talk about solving the problem of abundance.
The sheer brilliance of iTunes continues to echo across the computer and entertainment industries.
Apple has proven what shareware authors have known for years: good service and convenience are more valuable than the data itself.
Now that there is a valid business model, everybody wants to be as cool as Apple.