And again U.S.-centric media act as if the U.S. market is representative for the whole world.
This is/. American-centric is what it is all about.
Here's a hint: RIM is only a player in push-mail smartphones. Worldwide, the major smartphone platform is Symbian. Apple may as well not exist in the world-wide market.
See above
I have seen a colleagues iPhone, and it is a nice little machine, but it is currently geared more for multimedia use than as a business smartphone.
Being "geared more for multimedia than (for) business" has never stopped my company from adopting silly pieces of hardware/software. I bet the same is true elsewhere.
It will take Apple at least one more generation to actually become a threat to Symbians dominance of the marketplace.
You're probably correct. Apple is, above all things, patient.
Of course, compared to the other bit players in the marketplace, if one company can pull off a landslide shift in marketshare, it will be Apple. It helps that they understand Marketing extremely well.
I don't know about this. I'm not sure Apple ever really saw the iPhone as a contender against RIM/Symbian, but now that the opportunity presents itself will they "market" directly to their new user base (read "businesses") or to their current user base (read "consumers"). I think Apple will ignore the whole things and continue to market only to high-end consumers and let the chips fall where they may. "We never meant for it to be a business-class phone" protects a lot of ass.
I read that "GW" as George W. God, did I laugh.
Don't worry so damned much about global warming. If it's our fault, the tipping point was probably during the sixties so its WAY too late to do anything now.
How do I know that? Mankind as a whole is about as observant as any given five year old of its species. Given that we just noticed the weather is heating up, I figure this has been going on for at least forty years. Besides, our "science" just got its act together enough to take a really good look at the world. Its almost as though Mankind has awakened to find the house on fire.
So don't worry. Either its Our fault and we're screwed or it isn't our fault and we're screwed. Betchya we nuke ourselves into oblivion over scarce food and oil WAAAY before global warming can do us in.
I thought it was orginally called "Duck Tape" becasue the man who invented it used it to repair his boats. Back in those days it was made of duck cloth or "cotton duck", much sturdier than today's tape, and tar was used as the "glue" and waterproofer. When the modern manufactuer took over in world war two the tar was replaced with (then) moden glue and the waterproofing was a spray-on synthetic rubber, much like the macintosh raincoat. However the tape was used, as you said, for waterproofing ammo cans. It was soon used for much more.
I first heard this an NPR last week as having an opt-in/opt-out feature. How will the feds know who gets the messages? Presuming this only send text messages to citizens (at first)won't they need to have a database of all the IDs?
There is a reason why there is still a lot of cobol out there, ROI. Why switch when it works? Switching is risky and costly, as anybody who was sucked into an ERP project has learned.
No, the reason there is a lot of dinosaur code out there is that managers are @#$%ing lazy cowards. Even if you show them that updating the code will save the company a bucket full of money, there is no upside to a code upgrade. No one ever got promoted for fixing someone elses solution.>/p>
wait until the code stops working -- THEN you have something to get promoted over.
Google's work only brings one more camera to the street. In most urban areas people are already photographed day and night. Banks, stores, city government, transportation departments, tourists, spy sats. and on and on. Everyone has a camera on me.
Or maybe I'm just paranoid?
Anyway, One more camera won't really hurt that much.
So this is only a trial test, with a field test to follow, but what entity is deciding what is inappropriate. Obviously pr0n would be blocked....
Obviously? What is porn exactly? You give me the guidelines of what is and what is not porn and I'll show you porn just outside of your guidelines. And, with enough money and enough lawyers I can get any pics I want declared non-porographic.
And on and on and on. The odds against this thing being wrapped up before next January are so staggeringly huge that it makes one wonder exactly why Congress is even bothering.
When the Dems first won the majority I was thrilled every time they did even one little thing to try and stop George. Now I just get this sinking feeling that this is all some sort of pathetic show cooked up between the Dems and the GOP to keep the citizens screaming for blood. I'm not really sure anyone cares whose blood it is anymore.
1) 8,000 bce to 1885 ce - Musicians traveled the countryside playing music in bars and taverns making a modest living.
2) 1885 ce to ~1995 ce - Musicians record music and national record companies sell recording for enormous profit. Record companies make most of the money but smart musicians still make a boat load themselves. Record companies have a monopoly on making the recodings becasue the process is expensive and cumbersome.
3) 1995 ce to present - Having switched to a less expensive and less combersome process of creating recordings the record companies find themselves making less money and not more. This is because the same technology the companies use to record and copy the music is available to anyone with a personal computer. Record companies want to keep their monopoly but hardly anyone wants to switch back to the old-style recordings.
4) The future - Recordings are still made (probably directly by artists because its cheaper) and distributed (probably via the internet becasue its cheaper). Artists probably make a modest living.
The real question Bono is not how the recod companies can regain their monopolies but on how you, sir, will make your money in the future.
"I'm on an island at a busy intersection
I can't go forward, I can't turn back
Can't see the future
It's getting away from me
I just watch the tail lights glowing"
Look, I know there are some corporations out there that still run apps under OS/2 and might benefit from a FOSS release, but there are other ways. I've got to believe that any IT person who has the time and expertise to devote to on open source version of OS/2 would have the time and experience to move the OS/2 app to another platform. Now that would be something.
Yes, you are so right. Many times I have heard stories of CEOs being exiled from the businesses they ran, thrown out into the cold, cruel world with only twenty or thirty million dollars in cash and stock options, and wept.
That's what an iPod and a book are for. Even the most obnoxious of the homeless insane wont try to talk to someone protected by such an overpowering barrier of leave-me-the-fuck-alone. Obviously you've never ridden the route 16 bus on MTC in the Twin Cities.
I love that line about 'corporations used to generate their own electricity, but then the utilities took over'. Yeah right. If the corpation was a big enough consumer of electricity the utility company couldn't generate the amount of power consumed and the company had to generate its own power. Even today U.S. Steel owns and operates electrical production plants and is working to increase the ouput, not decrease it.
I wonder how many of the carckberry addicts got that way from gradually increasing service expectations, not managerial interdicts? The problem in my group isn't so much that my boss wants everyone to be accessible 24/7, its that my co-workers try to out-do each other in the customer service area. Coincidentally, the people who keep the most lusers happy usually get the best raises because they have the lowest number of complaints. I guess that some people would rather have a juicy raise than a good night's sleep.
And you know the rest. That goes for the ability to cross interstellar space in a short (200 solar year) lifetime, too. We don't have a hope of understanding how it would be done and therefore we would be like gorillas to anyone who could do it.
Yes they could probably crush us but at the same time any aliens we need to worry about are probably so advanced that we are of no interest to them.
Yes, downloading is okay if it makes the company money. Remember that anyone with a television can 'download' the 'streaming content' from the 'providers' for free any time they want to. They can even 'timeshift' the broadcast to watch it later. The problem was never that the broadcasters were afraid of this technology it was that they were afraid of what this technology would do to traditional broadcasting. Now that the ship is sinking the raft doesn't look so bad.
One. You can have cleanly written code that follows this or that coding school. The code will have the correct number of comments to explain what the programmer meant but nothing else and only where absolutely necessary. Two. You can have code that does exactly what the user expects. Further more the code has enough comments so you can hook on all the bells and whistles that your client wants.
For me, I'd pick number two any day and twice on Sunday no matter what the code looked like. Performance over design.
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This is /. American-centric is what it is all about.
Here's a hint: RIM is only a player in push-mail smartphones. Worldwide, the major smartphone platform is Symbian. Apple may as well not exist in the world-wide market.See above
I have seen a colleagues iPhone, and it is a nice little machine, but it is currently geared more for multimedia use than as a business smartphone.Being "geared more for multimedia than (for) business" has never stopped my company from adopting silly pieces of hardware/software. I bet the same is true elsewhere.
It will take Apple at least one more generation to actually become a threat to Symbians dominance of the marketplace.You're probably correct. Apple is, above all things, patient.
Of course, compared to the other bit players in the marketplace, if one company can pull off a landslide shift in marketshare, it will be Apple. It helps that they understand Marketing extremely well.I don't know about this. I'm not sure Apple ever really saw the iPhone as a contender against RIM/Symbian, but now that the opportunity presents itself will they "market" directly to their new user base (read "businesses") or to their current user base (read "consumers"). I think Apple will ignore the whole things and continue to market only to high-end consumers and let the chips fall where they may. "We never meant for it to be a business-class phone" protects a lot of ass.
I read that "GW" as George W. God, did I laugh. Don't worry so damned much about global warming. If it's our fault, the tipping point was probably during the sixties so its WAY too late to do anything now. How do I know that? Mankind as a whole is about as observant as any given five year old of its species. Given that we just noticed the weather is heating up, I figure this has been going on for at least forty years. Besides, our "science" just got its act together enough to take a really good look at the world. Its almost as though Mankind has awakened to find the house on fire. So don't worry. Either its Our fault and we're screwed or it isn't our fault and we're screwed. Betchya we nuke ourselves into oblivion over scarce food and oil WAAAY before global warming can do us in.
I work in IT, you insensitive clod! Carrying other people's laptops around IS WHAT I DO!
I thought it was orginally called "Duck Tape" becasue the man who invented it used it to repair his boats. Back in those days it was made of duck cloth or "cotton duck", much sturdier than today's tape, and tar was used as the "glue" and waterproofer. When the modern manufactuer took over in world war two the tar was replaced with (then) moden glue and the waterproofing was a spray-on synthetic rubber, much like the macintosh raincoat. However the tape was used, as you said, for waterproofing ammo cans. It was soon used for much more.
Yes, I call BS on you, too.
I first heard this an NPR last week as having an opt-in/opt-out feature. How will the feds know who gets the messages? Presuming this only send text messages to citizens (at first)won't they need to have a database of all the IDs?
Or, maybe my tinfoil hat is on too tight.
The internet's main problem is between the chair and keyboard ;-)
There, fixed it for you.
Poh-tay-toh, Poh-tah-toh. Sounds like political double-speak and spin-control to me.
No, the reason there is a lot of dinosaur code out there is that managers are @#$%ing lazy cowards. Even if you show them that updating the code will save the company a bucket full of money, there is no upside to a code upgrade. No one ever got promoted for fixing someone elses solution.>/p>
wait until the code stops working -- THEN you have something to get promoted over.
Google's work only brings one more camera to the street. In most urban areas people are already photographed day and night. Banks, stores, city government, transportation departments, tourists, spy sats. and on and on. Everyone has a camera on me.
Or maybe I'm just paranoid?
Anyway, One more camera won't really hurt that much.
Obviously? What is porn exactly? You give me the guidelines of what is and what is not porn and I'll show you porn just outside of your guidelines. And, with enough money and enough lawyers I can get any pics I want declared non-porographic.
And on and on and on. The odds against this thing being wrapped up before next January are so staggeringly huge that it makes one wonder exactly why Congress is even bothering. When the Dems first won the majority I was thrilled every time they did even one little thing to try and stop George. Now I just get this sinking feeling that this is all some sort of pathetic show cooked up between the Dems and the GOP to keep the citizens screaming for blood. I'm not really sure anyone cares whose blood it is anymore.
Sir, please remain where you are. Officers will be along shortly to "question" you.
Are you not paying *ANY* attention to this story?
First you must document the documentation process. If no one know how to document things, all will be in vain.
1) 8,000 bce to 1885 ce - Musicians traveled the countryside playing music in bars and taverns making a modest living. 2) 1885 ce to ~1995 ce - Musicians record music and national record companies sell recording for enormous profit. Record companies make most of the money but smart musicians still make a boat load themselves. Record companies have a monopoly on making the recodings becasue the process is expensive and cumbersome. 3) 1995 ce to present - Having switched to a less expensive and less combersome process of creating recordings the record companies find themselves making less money and not more. This is because the same technology the companies use to record and copy the music is available to anyone with a personal computer. Record companies want to keep their monopoly but hardly anyone wants to switch back to the old-style recordings. 4) The future - Recordings are still made (probably directly by artists because its cheaper) and distributed (probably via the internet becasue its cheaper). Artists probably make a modest living. The real question Bono is not how the recod companies can regain their monopolies but on how you, sir, will make your money in the future. "I'm on an island at a busy intersection I can't go forward, I can't turn back Can't see the future It's getting away from me I just watch the tail lights glowing"
Look, I know there are some corporations out there that still run apps under OS/2 and might benefit from a FOSS release, but there are other ways.
I've got to believe that any IT person who has the time and expertise to devote to on open source version of OS/2 would have the time and experience to move the OS/2 app to another platform. Now that would be something.
Yes, you are so right. Many times I have heard stories of CEOs being exiled from the businesses they ran, thrown out into the cold, cruel world with only twenty or thirty million dollars in cash and stock options, and wept.
WAH!
Gave it a try. Is three years long enough for you?
I think you MEANT to say 'your mileage may vary'. Obviously Vancouver bus-bums are more considerate/sane than Twin Cities bus-bums.
On a night when the big news was a gasoline truck that rolled into the ditch, this story was a no-show on the local ten o'clock news.
Nothing to see here. Not even the locals care.
I love that line about 'corporations used to generate their own electricity, but then the utilities took over'. Yeah right. If the corpation was a big enough consumer of electricity the utility company couldn't generate the amount of power consumed and the company had to generate its own power. Even today U.S. Steel owns and operates electrical production plants and is working to increase the ouput, not decrease it.
If this is his best analogy, I think IT is safe.
The Little Mermaid was written by Hans Christian Anderson who was DANISH, you insensitive clod!
I wonder how many of the carckberry addicts got that way from gradually increasing service expectations, not managerial interdicts?
The problem in my group isn't so much that my boss wants everyone to be accessible 24/7, its that my co-workers try to out-do each other in the customer service area. Coincidentally, the people who keep the most lusers happy usually get the best raises because they have the lowest number of complaints. I guess that some people would rather have a juicy raise than a good night's sleep.
And you know the rest. That goes for the ability to cross interstellar space in a short (200 solar year) lifetime, too. We don't have a hope of understanding how it would be done and therefore we would be like gorillas to anyone who could do it. Yes they could probably crush us but at the same time any aliens we need to worry about are probably so advanced that we are of no interest to them.
Yes, downloading is okay if it makes the company money. Remember that anyone with a television can 'download' the 'streaming content' from the 'providers' for free any time they want to. They can even 'timeshift' the broadcast to watch it later. The problem was never that the broadcasters were afraid of this technology it was that they were afraid of what this technology would do to traditional broadcasting. Now that the ship is sinking the raft doesn't look so bad.
One. You can have cleanly written code that follows this or that coding school. The code will have the correct number of comments to explain what the programmer meant but nothing else and only where absolutely necessary.
Two. You can have code that does exactly what the user expects. Further more the code has enough comments so you can hook on all the bells and whistles that your client wants.
For me, I'd pick number two any day and twice on Sunday no matter what the code looked like. Performance over design.