Smart people can still make a project fail miserably. 50/50 they also get in the way of a project (by miscalculating priorities for instance).
You don't just need smart people: you need the right people. That's called a team. To the MBA's, that management 101, and is no different for the s/w field. Bring the wrong team, and I guarantee it will fail.
Not do-able if you get internet from your cable provider (Fios, or Uverse too).... If they see a shift, guess what: internet bandwidth costs will go up.
Has anyone check all of PCWorlds blogs and articles of the last 3 days?
From the tone, style and opinions on all, and I mean ALL articles about the Droid or VZW: they are all negative to the point for spreading FUD. I rather call it an anti-Droid campaign. The blogs are plainly bias ("I'm keeping my iPhone FTW!")
And yes, this post and OP need a mod down to reality, cause my buddy's Droid Eris connects and send/receives Exchange mail from a Fortune 500 corporate server on the 30$ plan. and the tether rates are the same on a BB on VZW, nothing new here, please move along...
Also, at least VZW is going to support tethering and the 5GB is likely realistic: I doubt you would pull 1GB from an iPhone on AT&T's network, either the iPhone would run out of battery or you'd lose AT&T's connection 9/10 times. How's that for a different look at the situation.
"I suggest that Pickens and the article author do some fact checking before publishing assumptions and hearsay."
You should read their blogs, talk about LOL like the world will end if you get a Droid... and should stick with an iPhone.
Being PCWorld, I wonder what's going to be their bias when the HD2 comes out.
"Personally, I'd rather just not have a space program"
Considering the air in the ISS is likely cleaner and better than the air currently on this Earth, that we recycle more efficiently on the ISS than anything on Earth, and energy use made and used more efficiently than anything on Earth.... I rather have a space program that discovers more ways to makes things better than look at ground science solutions for a better energy infrastructure.
Cause frankly, we need thinking "out of box", and fresh ideas to solve these ground problems like an energy infrastructure. And that where "space" science comes to play. It is just unfortunate as another post mentions that "space" science is currently "political" science.
That's the thing, Hodgman is partially right, because in the world of Jockdom, you have 2 opposing forces: those of the jocks (the war mongers), and those of the academics (the folks you're talking about). The football hero ended up being the general, and the brainy Harvard grad ended up being the politician or war planner. And guess what, in high school, they both hated "the geeks".
Nerds, geeks, normal scientists/engineers that aren't working at Princeton have only been around for 50 years, they are not academic, nor jock, just normal people with a love for science and technology. We now have 3 opposing forces. And that's where Hodgman is leading towards...
Note along side the geeks, the business wonks are rising as well, that's those folks who are like geeks, technology savvy, but focused on their MBA credentials, VCs and their network--yeah I'm talking to you MIT/Stanford grads.
"Final thought - how often is it that we look back on these studies five or ten years later to find out they were somewhere around, oh, dead wrong"
because science (i.e. by the 'academics') typically results in 80% wrong facts, and 20% absolute fact. Academics can't accept this, cause science is supposed to always produce 100% fact: i.e. it's philosophically bad in our society of 'yes and no' that science is sometimes "right".
And religion is said to be 100% correct due to 100% faith.
(And that's why there will always be a religion-science conflict)
I usually find articles like these are to motivate or push someone's political agenda...and not in the name of science.
"As of noon Monday it appeared that there was a 60% chance of showers and/or high altitude clouds interfering." "It certainly would have been better if NASA could have finished the SRB facility in Mississippi,"
Or better yet, just move everything into the desert (or NM's new spaceport) and have places/spaces to build it correctly and without freaking weather issues.
If the gov't space program dies, we can blame everything on the politicans involved. Pure political fiasco. "Hi Mr. Engineer, I want to build rockets in illogical areas and launch in high risk areas, just so I can move $$ to my state"...
It's obviously fake, if you've watched: Bad Boys, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Transformers 1 & 2, it's the same crater!.
Bay needed a realistic crater look for all those freaking meteors hitting the Earth. So he spent millions building that thing and now it has to appear in every one of his movies to recoup the costs until 2012--then he can lend it to Emmerich for his 2012 followup (hence we know the 1st 2012 will suck without having the real crater and all CGI).
I call conspiracy as Acer is a traditional MS whore (builts hardware specifically for Windows, drivers suck on Linux, etc...).
I would not be surprised if they did this Android exercise to show how great Windows 7 is as well as knock Android down a notch before WinMo6.5 (and Zune) comes out.
10million... that's cool, but still a far ways from Google becoming anything real:
Keep working Google... you still have (10^100 - 10^7) = 10^93 servers to add before becoming a physical entity (Google Universe edition?).
TFA misses the point, the mobile device is all about simplicity and fast, intuitive access.
Unless I missed the trend that everyone wants to see the same thing on their 3.1" screen like on their 21" LCD at home?
WAP was a great idea, poorly executed and the web grew so fast it couldn't scale. All mobile platforms face this challenge, cause just a simple translation of the desktop is just plain stupid. It's a problem we need. And in the end, it's not a sad situation as a finding a mobile solution will guarantee that the desktop experience will get better from it current state of Flash induced indigestion and inefficiency.
Hyped as Usual.
How much of a "big financial" hit is Tmo really taking, $130 (100+month's data service) off per specific sidekick users? That's likely 25% of the Tmo user base, not all of it. And those users are likely longtime customers too, so the hit is not too bad (like given them a free phone upgrade honestly, no biggie). That's why T-mobile is doing it: good customer service, and it's not that expensive. Good move T-Mobile, even though it was MS's problem!
As for MS, it is a hit to their reputation, but still doesn't effect the enterprise users, which is where MS will get its cloud computing gold nuggets. Remember, public consumers get cloud services for free nowdays and don't have problems switching to another cloud service. Enterprise users pay for theirs and usually resist moving services once committed.
Welcome to new cloud services, the same as old local IT network services. Not much different really (made sense they would recover the data cause it's still in a IT Datacenter)...
$20+/yr for OSX upgrades (Apple forcing you to upgrade)
$1200 for a Macbook (sorry, I'm a Linux person, so I need a MacBook, etc...)
$199 for a iPod touch (before the 3G S came out and I have a G1 phone already!)
$75/mo for the best internet access (SDK updates are 2.7GB since it includes XCode!!!, also, my apps are media heavy at 100MB per app)--and the app uploader tool sucks.
(and $120 for a data plan if you need it)
That about $2K to get my 1.99 apps out the door, not to mind:
development time (can take months for a polished professional app)
slower development time (and learning curve for most) using Obj-C. It's a PITA, like Symbian... Compared to WebOS or Android development.
2week wait for any approval
illogical hassles and contract bureaucracy with app-store that will stress you out.
Hence in all, if I used my typical developer rate, I think I spent $25K in niche apps (meditation apps) with a creative partner and so far have made my last 3 months' developer fees. It took Apple about a month to review as well.
I'd say it's less lucrative than other platforms! In WebOS and Android, my dev experience was much easier in creating the same app... at 1/2 the cost. Sure, every ecosystem has appstore hassles, but they are either more predictable or respond faster.
Conclusion: it is a crap shoot, Apple gives consumers what they want at expense of devs and I would have had more fun in Vegas spending $5K--at least some touching and nudity would have been involved compared to building these apps.
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If you've been in the business for >15yrs.
Smart people can still make a project fail miserably. 50/50 they also get in the way of a project (by miscalculating priorities for instance).
You don't just need smart people: you need the right people. That's called a team. To the MBA's, that management 101, and is no different for the s/w field. Bring the wrong team, and I guarantee it will fail.
"Time To Ditch Cable For Internet TV?"
Not do-able if you get internet from your cable provider (Fios, or Uverse too).... If they see a shift, guess what: internet bandwidth costs will go up.
"The current implementation is a plain mark-and-sweep collector but a replacement is in the works."
At that point....no thanks for now.
I wonder if this is going to be the new Ruby.
Also, looking at the tutorials: nice job at recreating Ada. Really.
submit to executives and on what frequency?
(do not submit paper reports, just supply the following):
uptime report == beer.
traffic report == steak dinner
TCO report == golf day
ROI report == night clubbing
staffing and capitalization report (money used) == invite VCs.
From the tone, style and opinions on all, and I mean ALL articles about the Droid or VZW: they are all negative to the point for spreading FUD. I rather call it an anti-Droid campaign. The blogs are plainly bias ("I'm keeping my iPhone FTW!")
And yes, this post and OP need a mod down to reality, cause my buddy's Droid Eris connects and send/receives Exchange mail from a Fortune 500 corporate server on the 30$ plan. and the tether rates are the same on a BB on VZW, nothing new here, please move along...
Also, at least VZW is going to support tethering and the 5GB is likely realistic: I doubt you would pull 1GB from an iPhone on AT&T's network, either the iPhone would run out of battery or you'd lose AT&T's connection 9/10 times. How's that for a different look at the situation.
"I suggest that Pickens and the article author do some fact checking before publishing assumptions and hearsay."
You should read their blogs, talk about LOL like the world will end if you get a Droid... and should stick with an iPhone.
Being PCWorld, I wonder what's going to be their bias when the HD2 comes out.
There's an app for that on the iTunes appstore.
information doesn't want to be free. LHC (and birds) proves it.
"The system remains down Thursday, with no ETA in sight.""
Can't find those 5.25" floppy disks for DOS 3.1 I see. Time to check ebay.
"Personally, I'd rather just not have a space program" Considering the air in the ISS is likely cleaner and better than the air currently on this Earth, that we recycle more efficiently on the ISS than anything on Earth, and energy use made and used more efficiently than anything on Earth.... I rather have a space program that discovers more ways to makes things better than look at ground science solutions for a better energy infrastructure.
Cause frankly, we need thinking "out of box", and fresh ideas to solve these ground problems like an energy infrastructure. And that where "space" science comes to play. It is just unfortunate as another post mentions that "space" science is currently "political" science.
This article smells like it was written by the editors/hosts of Top Gear.
(as the ZR-1 cleans house...)
Correct, Apple is the Miley Cyrus of phones...
We sure here a lot about her/it, but it's for a specific niche crowd (tweens/"cool" people). The rest of the world continues as usual...
That's the thing, Hodgman is partially right, because in the world of Jockdom, you have 2 opposing forces: those of the jocks (the war mongers), and those of the academics (the folks you're talking about). The football hero ended up being the general, and the brainy Harvard grad ended up being the politician or war planner. And guess what, in high school, they both hated "the geeks".
Nerds, geeks, normal scientists/engineers that aren't working at Princeton have only been around for 50 years, they are not academic, nor jock, just normal people with a love for science and technology. We now have 3 opposing forces. And that's where Hodgman is leading towards...
Note along side the geeks, the business wonks are rising as well, that's those folks who are like geeks, technology savvy, but focused on their MBA credentials, VCs and their network--yeah I'm talking to you MIT/Stanford grads.
"Final thought - how often is it that we look back on these studies five or ten years later to find out they were somewhere around, oh, dead wrong"
because science (i.e. by the 'academics') typically results in 80% wrong facts, and 20% absolute fact. Academics can't accept this, cause science is supposed to always produce 100% fact: i.e. it's philosophically bad in our society of 'yes and no' that science is sometimes "right".
And religion is said to be 100% correct due to 100% faith.
(And that's why there will always be a religion-science conflict)
I usually find articles like these are to motivate or push someone's political agenda...and not in the name of science.
"As of noon Monday it appeared that there was a 60% chance of showers and/or high altitude clouds interfering."
"It certainly would have been better if NASA could have finished the SRB facility in Mississippi,"
Or better yet, just move everything into the desert (or NM's new spaceport) and have places/spaces to build it correctly and without freaking weather issues.
If the gov't space program dies, we can blame everything on the politicans involved. Pure political fiasco. "Hi Mr. Engineer, I want to build rockets in illogical areas and launch in high risk areas, just so I can move $$ to my state"...
I'm surprised they didn't use a Windows symbol instead of those skull and bones.
That apple looks like a familiar sticker one gets when buying a certain computer.
It's obviously fake, if you've watched: Bad Boys, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Transformers 1 & 2, it's the same crater!.
Bay needed a realistic crater look for all those freaking meteors hitting the Earth. So he spent millions building that thing and now it has to appear in every one of his movies to recoup the costs until 2012--then he can lend it to Emmerich for his 2012 followup (hence we know the 1st 2012 will suck without having the real crater and all CGI).
I call conspiracy as Acer is a traditional MS whore (builts hardware specifically for Windows, drivers suck on Linux, etc...).
I would not be surprised if they did this Android exercise to show how great Windows 7 is as well as knock Android down a notch before WinMo6.5 (and Zune) comes out.
Checkout the Motorola/VZ droid. 5MP with AF/flash. End of this month.
There, happy now?
And don't worry, SE's going to likely release a 8MP phone with CZ lens and Sony tech.
10million... that's cool, but still a far ways from Google becoming anything real:
Keep working Google... you still have (10^100 - 10^7) = 10^93 servers to add before becoming a physical entity (Google Universe edition?).
The Kindle Killer Arrives
With all the Apple news in the last 24hrs, I immediately thought this was the Apple tablet when I read the RSS feed...
(sigh, pwnage from the Apple marketing group, crap!).
Android is great, we all know it, but I guess the only way to become legendary technology is to hype is up as much as any Apple product.
Ion engines are worth nothing if you can't get from Earth (the GROUND) to space efficiently and effectively.
And a bunch of Aries rockets isn't going to cut it.
We have a dream (Just to goto space), why do we need to have more dreams (Mars)? Why can't we keep the problem simple?
TFA misses the point, the mobile device is all about simplicity and fast, intuitive access.
Unless I missed the trend that everyone wants to see the same thing on their 3.1" screen like on their 21" LCD at home?
WAP was a great idea, poorly executed and the web grew so fast it couldn't scale. All mobile platforms face this challenge, cause just a simple translation of the desktop is just plain stupid. It's a problem we need. And in the end, it's not a sad situation as a finding a mobile solution will guarantee that the desktop experience will get better from it current state of Flash induced indigestion and inefficiency.
Hyped as Usual.
How much of a "big financial" hit is Tmo really taking, $130 (100+month's data service) off per specific sidekick users? That's likely 25% of the Tmo user base, not all of it. And those users are likely longtime customers too, so the hit is not too bad (like given them a free phone upgrade honestly, no biggie). That's why T-mobile is doing it: good customer service, and it's not that expensive. Good move T-Mobile, even though it was MS's problem!
As for MS, it is a hit to their reputation, but still doesn't effect the enterprise users, which is where MS will get its cloud computing gold nuggets. Remember, public consumers get cloud services for free nowdays and don't have problems switching to another cloud service. Enterprise users pay for theirs and usually resist moving services once committed.
Welcome to new cloud services, the same as old local IT network services. Not much different really (made sense they would recover the data cause it's still in a IT Datacenter)...
But I never had any trust funds of any kind, though my dad did pay my tuition at Harvard, which was quite expensive."
BUT who got you into Harvard?
If you don't has a trust fund, but have connections, it's pretty much the same thing nowadays. It's just in the latter, you can't piss everyone off.
That about $2K to get my 1.99 apps out the door, not to mind:
Hence in all, if I used my typical developer rate, I think I spent $25K in niche apps (meditation apps) with a creative partner and so far have made my last 3 months' developer fees. It took Apple about a month to review as well.
I'd say it's less lucrative than other platforms! In WebOS and Android, my dev experience was much easier in creating the same app... at 1/2 the cost. Sure, every ecosystem has appstore hassles, but they are either more predictable or respond faster.
Conclusion: it is a crap shoot, Apple gives consumers what they want at expense of devs and I would have had more fun in Vegas spending $5K--at least some touching and nudity would have been involved compared to building these apps.