The "shareholders" are not paying the slightest bit of attention to what management is doing, or who the hell the managers are.
You could only think this if you've never had experience in the industry. Big mutual funds are very much paying attention to who is on the management team, the numbers the company is putting up, and anything else that might eventually be reflected in the stock price. I worked at a fund company, and trust me, this is what they spend their time doing. They don't change their positions very often just because there's too much information to absorb before you make a change.
Now, is this true for one-man hedge funds run by coke-snorting idiots who see themselves as "Masters of the Universe"? No. But you should try to keep your money away from those guys because they and the funds they manage don't last long.
If I'm trying to absorb information I agree 100%. My company has heinously begun to release every bit of employee communication in video format, so what used to be just a one minute email scan has become fifteen minutes of watching the CEO tell me stuff. Are there really that many illiterate people out there?
I keep going back and for on product placement. On the one hand, it's advertising, and if they're throwing in scenes because they need to place products the movie or show is likely to end up being kind of crappy.
On the other hand, our lives are full of commercial logos. If you were to film me right now you'd have a 20 oz Diet Coke in the frame. If Pepsi wanted to pay you to replace it with a Pepsi, presumably the movie wouldn't change one iota. So why not? Movie characters have to drive some kind of car. If the brand isn't central, hell, have the main character drive whatever pays the most.
Why should every business endeavor be a race to the bottom for everyone but the shareholders?
They aren't. Shareholders (through their management employees) have an incentive to treat skilled employees reasonably well, since it can take a long time to replace and retrain them.
As far as unskilled workers go... well, we've let in ten million Central and South American peasants to remove the tiny bit of bargaining power they had. Pretty much whenever the Democrats and Republicans act in collusion someone is getting screwed, and this is one of those times.
Well, that's true, but at least in the US you can't get it without a prescription, and you doctor is supposed to make sure you're healthy enough to take it.
Also, the drug is used by younger guys who have performance anxiety problems, so it's not just sick old men that benefit.
I'm so sick of this "1%" bullshit. If he has a boss he's probably not in the top 1% of the income scale. He may be in the top 40%. He's probably there because he worked hard to get into college and then worked hard in college and works hard at his job.
Not everyone who doesn't live under a bridge is "privileged".
You don't think their population would distance themselves from the crazies for a chance at a good life?
They certainly haven't yet taken the opportunities to do so. When Israel pulled out of Gaza the Palestinians had a great opportunity to improve their lot. The Israelis left behind functional infrastructure, and sunny Gaza sits on the Mediterranean, a perfect spot for resort hotels. The Israelis pulled out because they didn't really want anything to do with these people any more, meaning they were prepared to let the people of Gaza get on with their lives provided there were no kidnappings or ordinance being launched into Israel.
So how did it turn out? The infrastructure Israel left behind was all torn up and sold for scrap. There was never any attempt to get a tourist industry going, and the people chose Hamas in democratic elections. It's really difficult for me to summon up any sympathy for them. They trade a bright future for... well, what they have.
We have permission from the country involved. Those strikes are happening in countries where the national government doesn't control all of its territory. Drones are a good weapon to use against people in non-state organizations like Al Queda. Innocent deaths are minimized and you can actually damage the organization by getting to the planners instead of just killing indoctrinated sixteen year olds.
Microsoft can afford it, and I'd be surprised if they didn't do exactly that on the next generation. They can force Sony to do the same, and Sony has less money.
I'm not sure they really had a choice. Nintendo can't afford to subsidize the hardware for the next five years before it can turn a profit, so this allows them to be price competitive without going bankrupt.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always though it was the opposite. More complicated architecture meant more optimisation which meant more performance.
More complicated can also mean more pitfalls. Game design is done on a merciless schedule. You can't wring out every last ounce of performance from an architecture that was so complicated you spent all your development time getting the damn thing to work.
This was a self-inflicted wound on the part of the unions. Even the auditor from the teamsters union said the company couldn't survive without this kind of contract.
The industry is swimming in overcapacity. Either all the snack makers had to make cuts or one of them had to go. Hostess was already in chapter 11 earlier this year - there was never any doubt what would happen if they couldn't bring labor costs under control. Frankly the union members who voted down this contract are idiots.
One thing I would love to see is better voice quality. Voice quality on mobiles is crap compared to land lines. This is one possible feature of VoLTE, and I'll even pay extra for it if I have to.
People have been making these arguments since the early 19th century. While I agree there's no guarantee the pattern can continue indefinitely, I don't see any reason to believe things are changing for the worse. Remember unemployment in the US was below 5% until 2009, and there haven't been huge gains in robot productivity over the last few years.
All of these can be consistent with someone "apparently dead" upon arrival, but not actually dead after further investigation and treatment.
This. Also, it's not that uncommon for people to survive gunshot wounds to the head, depending on the weapon and the exact path of the bullet, so even with a gunshot wound to the head there's no reason to jump to conclusions.
If you have a ARM processor that targets Sandy Bridge performance levels, it will burn Sandy Bridge (or more) power.
Yep. I would go further and say Intel's industrial might allows them to be a bit less efficient on the design side, but they don't have to be, and when they catch up their advantage in process will be telling even in the lowest power devices.
Win8 is faster (or at least the same speed) and has a smaller memory footprint than Win7...
That's because Windows 8 is a mobile operating system they're trying to sell as a desktop OS. It remains to be seen whether consumers will actually adopt it or whether they'd rather have, you know, a desktop operating system.
This is not an argument at all. It's possible they stifle innovation as it is now, so they would be even better off without the patent system.
Not only that, with a few exceptions large, successful software companies in the US became large and successful in the period before the patent system started collectively taking drugs.
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The "shareholders" are not paying the slightest bit of attention to what management is doing, or who the hell the managers are.
You could only think this if you've never had experience in the industry. Big mutual funds are very much paying attention to who is on the management team, the numbers the company is putting up, and anything else that might eventually be reflected in the stock price. I worked at a fund company, and trust me, this is what they spend their time doing. They don't change their positions very often just because there's too much information to absorb before you make a change.
Now, is this true for one-man hedge funds run by coke-snorting idiots who see themselves as "Masters of the Universe"? No. But you should try to keep your money away from those guys because they and the funds they manage don't last long.
If I'm trying to absorb information I agree 100%. My company has heinously begun to release every bit of employee communication in video format, so what used to be just a one minute email scan has become fifteen minutes of watching the CEO tell me stuff. Are there really that many illiterate people out there?
This. Definitely. "The Cloud" doesn't even mean anything anymore - it's just a symbol on graphics we give to the higher ups.
I keep going back and for on product placement. On the one hand, it's advertising, and if they're throwing in scenes because they need to place products the movie or show is likely to end up being kind of crappy.
On the other hand, our lives are full of commercial logos. If you were to film me right now you'd have a 20 oz Diet Coke in the frame. If Pepsi wanted to pay you to replace it with a Pepsi, presumably the movie wouldn't change one iota. So why not? Movie characters have to drive some kind of car. If the brand isn't central, hell, have the main character drive whatever pays the most.
It's probably not worth grant money, but to online content providers and advertisers this is gold.
Why should every business endeavor be a race to the bottom for everyone but the shareholders?
They aren't. Shareholders (through their management employees) have an incentive to treat skilled employees reasonably well, since it can take a long time to replace and retrain them.
As far as unskilled workers go... well, we've let in ten million Central and South American peasants to remove the tiny bit of bargaining power they had. Pretty much whenever the Democrats and Republicans act in collusion someone is getting screwed, and this is one of those times.
Which was my point. You can accumulate a fair amount of wealth though hard work and intelligence without being some Soros-like market manipulator.
Well, that's true, but at least in the US you can't get it without a prescription, and you doctor is supposed to make sure you're healthy enough to take it.
Also, the drug is used by younger guys who have performance anxiety problems, so it's not just sick old men that benefit.
I'm so sick of this "1%" bullshit. If he has a boss he's probably not in the top 1% of the income scale. He may be in the top 40%. He's probably there because he worked hard to get into college and then worked hard in college and works hard at his job.
Not everyone who doesn't live under a bridge is "privileged".
And let me echo his "fuck you".
What difference does it make what they were researching?
They certainly haven't yet taken the opportunities to do so. When Israel pulled out of Gaza the Palestinians had a great opportunity to improve their lot. The Israelis left behind functional infrastructure, and sunny Gaza sits on the Mediterranean, a perfect spot for resort hotels. The Israelis pulled out because they didn't really want anything to do with these people any more, meaning they were prepared to let the people of Gaza get on with their lives provided there were no kidnappings or ordinance being launched into Israel.
So how did it turn out? The infrastructure Israel left behind was all torn up and sold for scrap. There was never any attempt to get a tourist industry going, and the people chose Hamas in democratic elections. It's really difficult for me to summon up any sympathy for them. They trade a bright future for... well, what they have.
We have permission from the country involved. Those strikes are happening in countries where the national government doesn't control all of its territory. Drones are a good weapon to use against people in non-state organizations like Al Queda. Innocent deaths are minimized and you can actually damage the organization by getting to the planners instead of just killing indoctrinated sixteen year olds.
Microsoft can afford it, and I'd be surprised if they didn't do exactly that on the next generation. They can force Sony to do the same, and Sony has less money.
I'm not sure they really had a choice. Nintendo can't afford to subsidize the hardware for the next five years before it can turn a profit, so this allows them to be price competitive without going bankrupt.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always though it was the opposite. More complicated architecture meant more optimisation which meant more performance.
More complicated can also mean more pitfalls. Game design is done on a merciless schedule. You can't wring out every last ounce of performance from an architecture that was so complicated you spent all your development time getting the damn thing to work.
This was a self-inflicted wound on the part of the unions. Even the auditor from the teamsters union said the company couldn't survive without this kind of contract.
The industry is swimming in overcapacity. Either all the snack makers had to make cuts or one of them had to go. Hostess was already in chapter 11 earlier this year - there was never any doubt what would happen if they couldn't bring labor costs under control. Frankly the union members who voted down this contract are idiots.
A bigger problem would be getting them to move at all after a cold night.
One thing I would love to see is better voice quality. Voice quality on mobiles is crap compared to land lines. This is one possible feature of VoLTE, and I'll even pay extra for it if I have to.
In CDMA SMS was originally sent over the paging channel.
People have been making these arguments since the early 19th century. While I agree there's no guarantee the pattern can continue indefinitely, I don't see any reason to believe things are changing for the worse. Remember unemployment in the US was below 5% until 2009, and there haven't been huge gains in robot productivity over the last few years.
If that were really the dynamic unemployment would be over 99% because of all the farmers and manual laborers that got laid off in the 20th century.
All of these can be consistent with someone "apparently dead" upon arrival, but not actually dead after further investigation and treatment.
This. Also, it's not that uncommon for people to survive gunshot wounds to the head, depending on the weapon and the exact path of the bullet, so even with a gunshot wound to the head there's no reason to jump to conclusions.
If you have a ARM processor that targets Sandy Bridge performance levels, it will burn Sandy Bridge (or more) power.
Yep. I would go further and say Intel's industrial might allows them to be a bit less efficient on the design side, but they don't have to be, and when they catch up their advantage in process will be telling even in the lowest power devices.
Win8 is faster (or at least the same speed) and has a smaller memory footprint than Win7...
That's because Windows 8 is a mobile operating system they're trying to sell as a desktop OS. It remains to be seen whether consumers will actually adopt it or whether they'd rather have, you know, a desktop operating system.
This is not an argument at all. It's possible they stifle innovation as it is now, so they would be even better off without the patent system.
Not only that, with a few exceptions large, successful software companies in the US became large and successful in the period before the patent system started collectively taking drugs.