Jazz musicians are more likely to make a decent living by performing live. With pop, you have to be big or go home. I would argue that pop is less about the music and more about the musician being popular. Basically, pop's income distribution is very skewed. Many people making that kind of music just don't make any money at all, and fail to reach the first rung. With jazz, you have a fair number of people making a decent living, and some making a very good living (Norah Jones).
Except that broadcast radio wasn't (isn't) on demand. So if you really liked a song, you bought the album, otherwise you could hear it whenever you wanted to. With Spotify, you can hear the same song over and over without buying it. And you don't have to listen to the rest of the album.
Has anyone tried to build a two stage ballistic missile? The first stage sort of gets in in range of the missile detection, and the second evades any interceptor by altering course mid-flight.
You are comparing a mass produced product like an aeroplane with a submarine that is pretty much built "money no object". Computer simulation has not yet advanced to the point where you could trust it completely. If it was that easy, no formula 1 team would need a wind tunnel. And the FAA would not require test flights before letting a plane be flown commercially. The computer said everything will work right.
There is no substitute for a prototype. Not yet anyway. And certainly not for anything more complex than a toaster.
And you can't claim on the one hand that the lack of prototyping was a problem, then also claim that they extended the outsourcing thing too far. Unless the issue was that parts were not built to the correct specification, then it doesn't matter how you organise the outsourcing if your design is completely perfect. If everything is made to within the manufacturing tolerance, and the computer says it will fit together, then they should be no problem right?
No, you the colonisers (or rather your ancestors the colonisers - apologies in advance if you are not really descended from them). It's not like they left and let the Indians get on with things. And it's not the worst thing that Americans have done to other Americans either.
I think the article (and the person talking) meant that they hoped it was a battery problem because they would then have isolated the problem to a single component, which is much easier to fix.
If the problem is systemic, then it can be orders of magnitude harder to fix. For example, is it because the components, whilst each individually OK, behave in strange ways when combined in a certain way. Is the issue an emergent property of the whole system or only of part of the system? And which part. Is the part that appears to fail the actjal part that fails, or has something else failed (and affected another part badly)?
A completely made up example would be that a voltage regulator fails, and there is a voltage spike somewhere causing another part to melt. How do you know what caused that part to melt, particularly if you weren't monitoring the voltage. (Obviously stupid example.)
Completely agreed. Now, I know that making a phone is not the same as making a plane, but when Apple creates a new iPhone, they make the whole thing in the US first, test it, refine it, then ask manufacturers to build it to specs they know will work.
Maybe such a development process would be too expensive for a plane, I don't know, but it sure makes it easy to figure out what isn't working properly.
Any manufacturer worth their salt (and Boeing is one) should be able to fully prototype their product prior to outsourcing bits of its production (except for things like batteries). But any parts that needs to fit together very precisely should be prototyped first.
The statement is obvious and wrong and typical CEO-think. Heck, it is what Ballmer thought he needed to do to go past the iPhone. Don't believe me, lookup the infamous video on Youtube where Ballmer declares the iPhone DOA because "it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard". What has been lost in that is that business users no longer drive smartphone adoption. Heck, many companies now let ordinary users pick the devices they want.
Blackberry needs to take 1 or 2 billion dollars and pay people to develop or port apps to their platform, and give them away exclusively on the BB. That is the only way they can get a large library quickly enough to encourage normal users to buy their phones. Smartphones are all about software now, and not just the OS, but the ecosystem. iOS has it, Android has it, WP has it and BB10 doesn't.
Those are not desperate people. They are agitated people. For desperate people look at Tsarist Russia just before Lenin, or France just before the general royal beheadings (and subsequent general beheadings).
Why can't Dell, the founder of the damn company, convince his board and other shareholders that taking a short-termist view is ultimately contrary to their interests, and that he has no interest in running the company to please day traders and others looking for the stock to make quick quarter-on-quarter gains so that they can dump the stock onto some poor buyers just before it tanks again when it becomes clear that the last huge profit number was a one-off due to some accounting trick that Dell found to employ.
Love or hate Steve Jobs, but he made cold hard decisions that many people questioned in 1997, and since, and he managed to make the company genuinely successful.
Where are the leaders? Basically, to take the company private, Dell has to pay over the odds (Dell is still a going concern), and although he might make all that money back if his plan work, he is hamstringing himself. He should use his goodwill to force change through.
Not only that. 7digital has an app that allows you to download all the songs that have been bought on their website, and so you can actually have them on the phone all the time, as opposed to streaming them.
It is obvious that removing 18 pounds from a plane will lead to some fuel savings. If the estimated fuel saving is estimated to be on the order of $12,500, then the saving is not worth the risk. They could have just reduced the price by $12,500 and put in the slightly heavier batteries. This is probably costing them more than any saving that the slightly lighter batteries would have saved in fuel costs.
Not only that. A P/E of 12 is too low for Apple, given that they have nearly $130bn in cash, liquid investments and bonds. If you knock that off their valuation, you get an even lower P/E.
The time between clicking an app and it appearing on your screen is not lag. That is just the OS being a little slow. Lag is scrolling on the screen and having the graphics catch up with your finger. It's there and it has been perceptible on every Android phone I have used.
The argument that there is nothing preventing someone charging for GPL software is sophistry. There is nothing stopping me from selling the sun either. For all intents and purposes, the GPL prevents you from selling software as a business model. In particular, RMS also insists that you not only sell the code that defines the software, but also the scripts that are used to compiled the software precisely so that another person can create the very same binaries.
Apple just let Google create a Youtube app after they failed to agree on API access. the iPhone is way more popular than Windows Phone devices, so it made financial sense for Google to do so. So maybe MIcrosoft should offer to pay Google to create an app for Windows Phone.
I am trying to imagine the scenarios the author refers to on a plane, and I can't for the life of me figure out why it is better to use a touch screen.
Once you have opened the laptop, you have a full keyboard and pointing device right there, so you can use that. Unless you have a super heavy laptop, or are particularly weak, using the keyboard and touchpad seems to be quicker and more convenient. In particular, using a touchscreen while standing up and holding it in your hands is more difficult because of the lack of tactile feedback, unless you have extremely steady hands (Have you ever tried to type on a smartphone keyboard with one hand while holding it with another?).
It feels gimmicky. Touch is very good for browsing the user interface, and I can agree that a vertical screen some distance away from you is not the best place to have a touch screen.
A little inflation is good. Encourages people to invest or spend rather than keep money in their mattress. Economic activity should be more valued the more recent it is, therefore money made 50 years ago should be worth less today.
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But Nokia didn't have $130bn just lying around. $130bn changes everything.
Is it really so hard for you to decipher 0.42 cent?
Jazz musicians are more likely to make a decent living by performing live. With pop, you have to be big or go home. I would argue that pop is less about the music and more about the musician being popular. Basically, pop's income distribution is very skewed. Many people making that kind of music just don't make any money at all, and fail to reach the first rung. With jazz, you have a fair number of people making a decent living, and some making a very good living (Norah Jones).
Except that broadcast radio wasn't (isn't) on demand. So if you really liked a song, you bought the album, otherwise you could hear it whenever you wanted to. With Spotify, you can hear the same song over and over without buying it. And you don't have to listen to the rest of the album.
Has anyone tried to build a two stage ballistic missile? The first stage sort of gets in in range of the missile detection, and the second evades any interceptor by altering course mid-flight.
You are comparing a mass produced product like an aeroplane with a submarine that is pretty much built "money no object". Computer simulation has not yet advanced to the point where you could trust it completely. If it was that easy, no formula 1 team would need a wind tunnel. And the FAA would not require test flights before letting a plane be flown commercially. The computer said everything will work right.
There is no substitute for a prototype. Not yet anyway. And certainly not for anything more complex than a toaster.
And you can't claim on the one hand that the lack of prototyping was a problem, then also claim that they extended the outsourcing thing too far. Unless the issue was that parts were not built to the correct specification, then it doesn't matter how you organise the outsourcing if your design is completely perfect. If everything is made to within the manufacturing tolerance, and the computer says it will fit together, then they should be no problem right?
No, you the colonisers (or rather your ancestors the colonisers - apologies in advance if you are not really descended from them). It's not like they left and let the Indians get on with things. And it's not the worst thing that Americans have done to other Americans either.
I think the article (and the person talking) meant that they hoped it was a battery problem because they would then have isolated the problem to a single component, which is much easier to fix.
If the problem is systemic, then it can be orders of magnitude harder to fix. For example, is it because the components, whilst each individually OK, behave in strange ways when combined in a certain way. Is the issue an emergent property of the whole system or only of part of the system? And which part. Is the part that appears to fail the actjal part that fails, or has something else failed (and affected another part badly)?
A completely made up example would be that a voltage regulator fails, and there is a voltage spike somewhere causing another part to melt. How do you know what caused that part to melt, particularly if you weren't monitoring the voltage. (Obviously stupid example.)
Completely agreed. Now, I know that making a phone is not the same as making a plane, but when Apple creates a new iPhone, they make the whole thing in the US first, test it, refine it, then ask manufacturers to build it to specs they know will work.
Maybe such a development process would be too expensive for a plane, I don't know, but it sure makes it easy to figure out what isn't working properly.
Any manufacturer worth their salt (and Boeing is one) should be able to fully prototype their product prior to outsourcing bits of its production (except for things like batteries). But any parts that needs to fit together very precisely should be prototyped first.
The statement is obvious and wrong and typical CEO-think. Heck, it is what Ballmer thought he needed to do to go past the iPhone. Don't believe me, lookup the infamous video on Youtube where Ballmer declares the iPhone DOA because "it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard". What has been lost in that is that business users no longer drive smartphone adoption. Heck, many companies now let ordinary users pick the devices they want.
Blackberry needs to take 1 or 2 billion dollars and pay people to develop or port apps to their platform, and give them away exclusively on the BB. That is the only way they can get a large library quickly enough to encourage normal users to buy their phones. Smartphones are all about software now, and not just the OS, but the ecosystem. iOS has it, Android has it, WP has it and BB10 doesn't.
That’s what the bean counters call a simple actuarial analysis.
Or it discourages them from employing underage workers.
Those are not desperate people. They are agitated people. For desperate people look at Tsarist Russia just before Lenin, or France just before the general royal beheadings (and subsequent general beheadings).
Why can't Dell, the founder of the damn company, convince his board and other shareholders that taking a short-termist view is ultimately contrary to their interests, and that he has no interest in running the company to please day traders and others looking for the stock to make quick quarter-on-quarter gains so that they can dump the stock onto some poor buyers just before it tanks again when it becomes clear that the last huge profit number was a one-off due to some accounting trick that Dell found to employ.
Love or hate Steve Jobs, but he made cold hard decisions that many people questioned in 1997, and since, and he managed to make the company genuinely successful.
Where are the leaders? Basically, to take the company private, Dell has to pay over the odds (Dell is still a going concern), and although he might make all that money back if his plan work, he is hamstringing himself. He should use his goodwill to force change through.
Not only that. 7digital has an app that allows you to download all the songs that have been bought on their website, and so you can actually have them on the phone all the time, as opposed to streaming them.
Much ado about nothing!
It is obvious that removing 18 pounds from a plane will lead to some fuel savings. If the estimated fuel saving is estimated to be on the order of $12,500, then the saving is not worth the risk. They could have just reduced the price by $12,500 and put in the slightly heavier batteries. This is probably costing them more than any saving that the slightly lighter batteries would have saved in fuel costs.
The new batteries were a false economy.
Not only that. A P/E of 12 is too low for Apple, given that they have nearly $130bn in cash, liquid investments and bonds. If you knock that off their valuation, you get an even lower P/E.
The time between clicking an app and it appearing on your screen is not lag. That is just the OS being a little slow. Lag is scrolling on the screen and having the graphics catch up with your finger. It's there and it has been perceptible on every Android phone I have used.
If your devs are installing illegal software, it is probably because you make it hard for them to acquire software they need easily and legally.
The argument that there is nothing preventing someone charging for GPL software is sophistry. There is nothing stopping me from selling the sun either. For all intents and purposes, the GPL prevents you from selling software as a business model. In particular, RMS also insists that you not only sell the code that defines the software, but also the scripts that are used to compiled the software precisely so that another person can create the very same binaries.
Apple just let Google create a Youtube app after they failed to agree on API access. the iPhone is way more popular than Windows Phone devices, so it made financial sense for Google to do so. So maybe MIcrosoft should offer to pay Google to create an app for Windows Phone.
That wasn't Batman. That was Harvey Dent, before he became Twoface.
If others are paying the same licensing fees, then it is reasonable.
If this had been Apple vs Samsung, I bet the majority of the responses would be along the lines of, "Apple should pay up".
I am trying to imagine the scenarios the author refers to on a plane, and I can't for the life of me figure out why it is better to use a touch screen.
Once you have opened the laptop, you have a full keyboard and pointing device right there, so you can use that. Unless you have a super heavy laptop, or are particularly weak, using the keyboard and touchpad seems to be quicker and more convenient. In particular, using a touchscreen while standing up and holding it in your hands is more difficult because of the lack of tactile feedback, unless you have extremely steady hands (Have you ever tried to type on a smartphone keyboard with one hand while holding it with another?).
It feels gimmicky. Touch is very good for browsing the user interface, and I can agree that a vertical screen some distance away from you is not the best place to have a touch screen.
A little inflation is good. Encourages people to invest or spend rather than keep money in their mattress. Economic activity should be more valued the more recent it is, therefore money made 50 years ago should be worth less today.