Apple is and always has been a hardware company. They fear competition on the hardware front, because that's their primary business product: overpriced "luxury" computers.
(cue the fanboy bashings)
What is this "blackball" you speak of? Is there a large database for all IT managers to use in order to determine the "blackball" status of a prospective employee? I've been in IT for close to a decade now, and I haven't met even close to a tenth of a percent of all IT professionals in my region. I doubt anyone has, so there really isn't much of a word-of-mouth network to be able to "blackball" people, especially outside your immediate area.
How does this "blackball" thing work? What is to stop him from moving to Georgia and getting hired for an IT job at a small firm there?
So then you have 2 admins on a system, with an identical "backup" system for each one to have, with no power for the other? That's 3x the equipment cost, thanks.
Oh, you mean have a co-admin who is completely independent of your current admin? Then that's 2x the equipment cost and 2x the personnel cost, with the co-admin doing nearly nothing to get a nice big paycheck.
No, higher education is notorious for being filled with the same brand of people as the stereotypical public office. They're slow, incompetent, and downright vicious. The only faculty who have any shred of a clue are the professors themselves. Unfortunately, though, many of them are plagued with "tunnel knowledge," or such a severe specialization in a field that it comes at a detriment to nearly every other cognitive ability.
That depends on the severity of the nuclear disaster. All the Hot Pockets and Jolt Cola in the world wouldn't provide enough radiation immunity to be able to churn out a stable system before death.
If, however, you want to know primarily what people-who-answer-online-polls think, then they work simply wonderfully - You wouldn't want a truly "random" sample in that case.
A representative sample needs to be random for almost any reliable statistical analysis of the target population. For your analogy to be correct, your target audience would have to be people-who-answered-MSN-Zogby-polls-pertaining-to-EBay-usage-and-who-read-the-websites-presenting-these-polls-on-a-regular-enough-basis.
Unless it is in a binding contract, with severe penalties, you should never expect a company to "keep its word." This is especially true when keeping said word affects the almighty Bottom Line. Cash is king, peon.
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Apple is and always has been a hardware company. They fear competition on the hardware front, because that's their primary business product: overpriced "luxury" computers. (cue the fanboy bashings)
Well, for one thing, there's having his name appear on the front page of Slashdot ...
Nobody but those involved or those with near-superhuman lucidity will remember this guy's name next month.
So, why did this guy get modded flamebait? He's right.
Yeah, because every single server out there runs Windows.
Compared to a multi-million-dollar salaried exec? Definitely.
Sure-fire way out of that one: "I forgot it."
I agree. If someone is left with no reasonable recourse, then the chances of that person using an unreasonable one gains in likelihood significantly.
What is this "blackball" you speak of? Is there a large database for all IT managers to use in order to determine the "blackball" status of a prospective employee? I've been in IT for close to a decade now, and I haven't met even close to a tenth of a percent of all IT professionals in my region. I doubt anyone has, so there really isn't much of a word-of-mouth network to be able to "blackball" people, especially outside your immediate area.
How does this "blackball" thing work? What is to stop him from moving to Georgia and getting hired for an IT job at a small firm there?
Calm down, Kafka.
So then you have 2 admins on a system, with an identical "backup" system for each one to have, with no power for the other? That's 3x the equipment cost, thanks.
Oh, you mean have a co-admin who is completely independent of your current admin? Then that's 2x the equipment cost and 2x the personnel cost, with the co-admin doing nearly nothing to get a nice big paycheck.
No, higher education is notorious for being filled with the same brand of people as the stereotypical public office. They're slow, incompetent, and downright vicious. The only faculty who have any shred of a clue are the professors themselves. Unfortunately, though, many of them are plagued with "tunnel knowledge," or such a severe specialization in a field that it comes at a detriment to nearly every other cognitive ability.
Why would anyone ride an unsafe bus knowingly?
Take a trip to Kabul, Afghanistan. There you shall find your answer, or at least the opportunity to discover it.
Put him in jail untill he is willing to talk.
Mind linking the law which states that the penalty for forgetting a password is life in prison?
Which brings up interesting 4th Amendment questions, considering he worked as an agent of a government entity.
That depends on the severity of the nuclear disaster. All the Hot Pockets and Jolt Cola in the world wouldn't provide enough radiation immunity to be able to churn out a stable system before death.
Coward.
Calm down, Ballmer.
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If, however, you want to know primarily what people-who-answer-online-polls think, then they work simply wonderfully - You wouldn't want a truly "random" sample in that case.
A representative sample needs to be random for almost any reliable statistical analysis of the target population. For your analogy to be correct, your target audience would have to be people-who-answered-MSN-Zogby-polls-pertaining-to-EBay-usage-and-who-read-the-websites-presenting-these-polls-on-a-regular-enough-basis.
Making excuses? Please. Your ability to twist anything into a political rant is astounding.
Methinks you need to review the definition of "auction," troll.
According to a recent MSN-Zogby poll,
WTF?! Those numbers are huge!
MSN-Zogby, IIRC, conducts online polls. Online polls tend to violate a wide array of rules regarding statistical bias.
Unless it is in a binding contract, with severe penalties, you should never expect a company to "keep its word." This is especially true when keeping said word affects the almighty Bottom Line. Cash is king, peon.
Maybe Viacom (and anyone else) want to be able to decide where their work shows and how much money it makes.
No, they should be able to decide how much to CHARGE. Very distinct and important difference.