You go to jail and have your assets seized for fraud, not for traffic violations. "Anti-competitive behavior" is the speeding ticket of corporate crime. Fraud gets the company disbanded. Plus, no one gives a shit if you or I go to jail or lose all our money except us. An entire industry and thousands upon thousands of jobs and the investment of millions of people in stock would be severely damaged. When considering cases like this, it's not so simple as comparing a person to a major multinational corporation.
It's entirely possible that this was simply the act of one stupid account manager who is very aggressive and should probably be fired. People often make the mistake of assuming that [giant organization] is a unified organism with a singular purpose. The reality is that every organization is made up of individuals, each of whom has their own distinct desires and ambitions, and personality traits. It's not at all unusual for a sales manager to say something really, really stupid, as probably every person here can confirm.
Last sentence was essentially a summary of the idea behind your entire OP.
Sig is a quote from The Office.
Consider the idea that the post was not a troll, but in fact quite informative, because now you know just what all those people who disagree with you actually hear when you say the things you do.
Because every other people group besides Americans is each actually a wonderful, interesting people with no faults or shortcomings of any kind; no ulterior motives or domineering tendencies, no desire for blood or power. It's just a misunderstanding between the kind, honest, hardworking, simple people of wherever, and the evil aggressiveness of America and its crazies whom you have nothing to do with, thereby absolving any personal responsibility but still appearing intellectually superior by blaming your own culture in a general sense.
Unlicensed means there is no one who pays a license for exclusive use of the space. That is not the same as restricted, wherein the unlicensed use must conform to certain specifications.
US population - 300 million
Japan population - 128 million
Europe population - 705 million
Now, if the US has twice as many technologically savvy people as Europe, and Japan has twice as many as the US (a rough estimate, but rather likely) then when looking at those sales numbers again, I don't think the argument of market size has anything to do with the discussion.
No it is not, in fact, it should be resisted at all costs. Corporate speak is the opposite of language.
This is not always true. Corporate speak can be used to obfuscate, confuse, impress, overwhelm, or it can simply be a particular lexicon. Just like legalese can be used to frustrate or to clarify in a way no other mode of language can.
What if the roles were reversed? Suppose the poster is a business major who has been thrust into the IT/S division of his company, asking us business folk if he should have to learn these ridiculous technical terms in order to communicate with the people he has to deal with every day. Your advice in that situation translates to: Hell no! Fight those socially inept geeks who try to confuse the real issue by loading up on technical terms and all that garbage. Whenever a network administrator submits his network health analysis report, hand it right back to him and tell him to use plain English. We'll not be having all this "TCP/IP" garbage. What the hell does that even mean, anyway? Why can't you use an easy word we all understand, like "traffic"?
The language of business means real things to the people who deal with it, just like technical terms mean real things to others. You make the mistake of assuming all lexicons outside your own are devoid of meaning because you don't know the meaning.
with Playstation 3's delay this could once again become a threat to them
I'm sorry, are you suggesting that there is some sort of curve where launching the PS3 now would be less damaging to the 360's position than 6 months from now?
...Not bottom-level performance systems. I love.NET, but no one in their right mind would write anything in it where performance is a key factor. Web applications and office productivity enhancers are not even in the same arena as, say, your network protocols implementation layer.
I'm not sure how realistic it is to even try to write OS-level stuff in.NET... the difficulties would completely negate any development speed gains.
Articles like Businessweek's only reinforce the incorrect perceptions of the ignorant. It would only take one "by the way," sentence in articles like these to help get even a tiny sliver of truth into people's minds - the Net is as safe (or unsafe) as you make it. By getting online, you are not automatically exposing yourself to any dangers you would otherwise never experience. It is what you do with your own information online that creates, or eliminates, security risk.
Is that you're not filling a need. I have also written an issue tracker ([Companyname] Issues) that manages Software, Hardware & Networking, Building Maintenence, and a separate interface (same engine) for customer-related support tickets. I also know two other people who have written such software for their companies. For OSS, or any software for that matter, (or any product, for that matter!) to take off is that it has to fulfill a previously unmet need, or it needs to fulfill that need in a significant way that no existing tool does. If you can articulate why/how your software does this, then things will naturally take their course.
What a day for celebration! One step closer to foul-mouthed teenagers with rich parents to start buying mod chips from Eastern Europe, and all of our favorite games will go to hell once again.
Console market for the most part rejects the Xbox
It's not nearly as popular as the Playstation, but I fail to see how a rougly 25-30% market share equals "market rejection". Second place worldwide in overall units sold is not "market rejection" either. I'm not saying the Xbox is the greatest thing ever, but one ought to give credit where it's due.
[http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/05/26/news_6099 369.html?new_theme=standard_alt&sid=6099369%5D
One would hope that Bush's statements on scientific advances prove that he is not anti-science, no more than pro-lifers are anti-women. It is silly (though convenient) to label someone with whom you disagree as evil - it doesn't make sense that any President would actively work to thwart something like scientific progress in general. It DOES make sense that a President would try to do what's best for the country, and that is where the disagreement lies.
Rather than saying "I am for progress and Bush is against it because I am Good and he is Bad", try to understand why his position is what it is - you just might discover that there are intelligent arguments on all sides of the table.
No, but it takes $5M to pay for Timothy Roberts' fourth mansion while the Infinium engineers (aka a receptionist in an empty building) work through more Technical Difficulties.
I think you are confusing Flash with Shockwave. Flash is the authoring environment, which is properietary. However, the websites to which you are referring are all swf files (Shockwave), which is an open format. You could write your own authoring suite that has all of the same features as Flash and it could export equivalent Shockwave files for publishing.
They ported some functional code to their newest project. I hope they don't get unfairly bashed for this, just because a few bits of said code were discovered to be vulnerable. Every halfway intelligent programmer reuses code - it would be far more stupid not to. This is semi-interesting as a landmark ("frist patch!") but not exactly news because of what it contains.
As fun, and seemingly simple, as it is to bash M$ for being a complete failure at taking over the living room, they are taking the tried-and-true approach to establishing dominance: baby steps. Put the Xbox in the living room, and after two or three iterations of that it's pretty commonplace to see Microsoft sitting under your tv. And so on.
The line from Pirates of Silicon Valley where Bill says (paraphrasing) "You have to make people need you" is perfectly descriptive of Microsoft's philosophy. You create a dependency over time... something that seems fringe or even silly in 1995 but in 2005 everyone can't live without it. It's a long process, but it works. You might not like it, either. But it makes money. It's a sound business practice.
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You go to jail and have your assets seized for fraud, not for traffic violations. "Anti-competitive behavior" is the speeding ticket of corporate crime. Fraud gets the company disbanded. Plus, no one gives a shit if you or I go to jail or lose all our money except us. An entire industry and thousands upon thousands of jobs and the investment of millions of people in stock would be severely damaged. When considering cases like this, it's not so simple as comparing a person to a major multinational corporation.
It's entirely possible that this was simply the act of one stupid account manager who is very aggressive and should probably be fired. People often make the mistake of assuming that [giant organization] is a unified organism with a singular purpose. The reality is that every organization is made up of individuals, each of whom has their own distinct desires and ambitions, and personality traits. It's not at all unusual for a sales manager to say something really, really stupid, as probably every person here can confirm.
Last sentence was essentially a summary of the idea behind your entire OP.
Sig is a quote from The Office.
Consider the idea that the post was not a troll, but in fact quite informative, because now you know just what all those people who disagree with you actually hear when you say the things you do.
Because every other people group besides Americans is each actually a wonderful, interesting people with no faults or shortcomings of any kind; no ulterior motives or domineering tendencies, no desire for blood or power. It's just a misunderstanding between the kind, honest, hardworking, simple people of wherever, and the evil aggressiveness of America and its crazies whom you have nothing to do with, thereby absolving any personal responsibility but still appearing intellectually superior by blaming your own culture in a general sense.
Some of my best friends are black, too!
Unlicensed means there is no one who pays a license for exclusive use of the space. That is not the same as restricted, wherein the unlicensed use must conform to certain specifications.
Great but, why wouldn't the republicans introduce a bill like this? Why does it always have to be the party not in power that has the good ideas?
Same reason your girlfriend looks great when she's trying to get you but then she gets fat when you're "committed".
Wait, slashdot... ok, bad analogy. TCP/IP, Something about a linux distro... ha ha!
US population - 300 million Japan population - 128 million Europe population - 705 million Now, if the US has twice as many technologically savvy people as Europe, and Japan has twice as many as the US (a rough estimate, but rather likely) then when looking at those sales numbers again, I don't think the argument of market size has anything to do with the discussion.
No it is not, in fact, it should be resisted at all costs. Corporate speak is the opposite of language.
This is not always true. Corporate speak can be used to obfuscate, confuse, impress, overwhelm, or it can simply be a particular lexicon. Just like legalese can be used to frustrate or to clarify in a way no other mode of language can.
What if the roles were reversed? Suppose the poster is a business major who has been thrust into the IT/S division of his company, asking us business folk if he should have to learn these ridiculous technical terms in order to communicate with the people he has to deal with every day. Your advice in that situation translates to: Hell no! Fight those socially inept geeks who try to confuse the real issue by loading up on technical terms and all that garbage. Whenever a network administrator submits his network health analysis report, hand it right back to him and tell him to use plain English. We'll not be having all this "TCP/IP" garbage. What the hell does that even mean, anyway? Why can't you use an easy word we all understand, like "traffic"?
The language of business means real things to the people who deal with it, just like technical terms mean real things to others. You make the mistake of assuming all lexicons outside your own are devoid of meaning because you don't know the meaning.
with Playstation 3's delay this could once again become a threat to them
I'm sorry, are you suggesting that there is some sort of curve where launching the PS3 now would be less damaging to the 360's position than 6 months from now?
...Not bottom-level performance systems. I love .NET, but no one in their right mind would write anything in it where performance is a key factor. Web applications and office productivity enhancers are not even in the same arena as, say, your network protocols implementation layer.
.NET... the difficulties would completely negate any development speed gains.
I'm not sure how realistic it is to even try to write OS-level stuff in
Thank God we have a highly visible individual to attach all blame for everything wrong in the world.
Articles like Businessweek's only reinforce the incorrect perceptions of the ignorant. It would only take one "by the way," sentence in articles like these to help get even a tiny sliver of truth into people's minds - the Net is as safe (or unsafe) as you make it. By getting online, you are not automatically exposing yourself to any dangers you would otherwise never experience. It is what you do with your own information online that creates, or eliminates, security risk.
Thank you Randall, that was the joke.
Is that you're not filling a need. I have also written an issue tracker ([Companyname] Issues) that manages Software, Hardware & Networking, Building Maintenence, and a separate interface (same engine) for customer-related support tickets. I also know two other people who have written such software for their companies. For OSS, or any software for that matter, (or any product, for that matter!) to take off is that it has to fulfill a previously unmet need, or it needs to fulfill that need in a significant way that no existing tool does. If you can articulate why/how your software does this, then things will naturally take their course.
Google hopes to use this as an opportunity to help bring global censorship into the spotlight of American politics.
Yeah, I can do something that benefits me and then think of a nice-sounding reason for it afterwards, too.
Sex workers definitely aren't a bad potential influence on children.
Oh, wait.
What a day for celebration! One step closer to foul-mouthed teenagers with rich parents to start buying mod chips from Eastern Europe, and all of our favorite games will go to hell once again.
Console market for the most part rejects the Xbox It's not nearly as popular as the Playstation, but I fail to see how a rougly 25-30% market share equals "market rejection". Second place worldwide in overall units sold is not "market rejection" either. I'm not saying the Xbox is the greatest thing ever, but one ought to give credit where it's due. [http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/05/26/news_6099 369.html?new_theme=standard_alt&sid=6099369%5D
One would hope that Bush's statements on scientific advances prove that he is not anti-science, no more than pro-lifers are anti-women. It is silly (though convenient) to label someone with whom you disagree as evil - it doesn't make sense that any President would actively work to thwart something like scientific progress in general. It DOES make sense that a President would try to do what's best for the country, and that is where the disagreement lies.
Rather than saying "I am for progress and Bush is against it because I am Good and he is Bad", try to understand why his position is what it is - you just might discover that there are intelligent arguments on all sides of the table.
Increased revenue because they sold fewer 360s at a loss. That means less loss overall, less drain on other sources of income.
No, but it takes $5M to pay for Timothy Roberts' fourth mansion while the Infinium engineers (aka a receptionist in an empty building) work through more Technical Difficulties.
I think you are confusing Flash with Shockwave. Flash is the authoring environment, which is properietary. However, the websites to which you are referring are all swf files (Shockwave), which is an open format. You could write your own authoring suite that has all of the same features as Flash and it could export equivalent Shockwave files for publishing.
They ported some functional code to their newest project. I hope they don't get unfairly bashed for this, just because a few bits of said code were discovered to be vulnerable. Every halfway intelligent programmer reuses code - it would be far more stupid not to. This is semi-interesting as a landmark ("frist patch!") but not exactly news because of what it contains.
As fun, and seemingly simple, as it is to bash M$ for being a complete failure at taking over the living room, they are taking the tried-and-true approach to establishing dominance: baby steps. Put the Xbox in the living room, and after two or three iterations of that it's pretty commonplace to see Microsoft sitting under your tv. And so on.
The line from Pirates of Silicon Valley where Bill says (paraphrasing) "You have to make people need you" is perfectly descriptive of Microsoft's philosophy. You create a dependency over time... something that seems fringe or even silly in 1995 but in 2005 everyone can't live without it. It's a long process, but it works. You might not like it, either. But it makes money. It's a sound business practice.
Same with Linux, or any other system not developed under stringent requirements.