Sure they're switching over to a packet based infrastructure.... but it's not going to go over the internet!
They are going to use the same infrastructure they have in place. Do you think they are just going to let millions of dollars in copper just sit in the ground and rot?
Having conventional phone service be VoIP but going over a private network will not degrade service any worse than having a switched network.
Stock price is not an indicator of consumer popularity. It's not a good indicator of anything, really. It's just the psychological indicator of the value of that company.
Microsoft has a large market value based on its stock price. How "popular" is Microsoft in today's culture? When compared to Apple purely from a stock price standpoint, Microsoft whoops Apple's ass.
Stern's primary market is blue collar workers, not the young "hip" generation. The hip generation is just that, the hip generation. They won't have any hips left soon you see, because they shake them too much to that hip hop music. This is much like what happened with Elvis and his fans.
People wonder why there is so much hip replacement surgery going on these days. Personally, I'm considering starting SternWalkers and SternWheelchairs, since we all know that Howard Stern is the hip hop king of the hip generation.
Are you just jealous or what? Who gives a flying shit? Do they have good products? Check. Have they really done anything wrong? Nope. Let them be rewarded for it.
That's why they got into the game -- to make money.
Stock price does not reflect whether or not a business is successful, or even going to be successful. It's not even a good indicator as to the health of a business.
I suggest you educate yourself on how business works before spouting off eccentric bullshit.
Projects are about communication. Bidirectional communication, above everything else. Functional specs are a complete waste of time, just get to real as quickly as possible. Sketch out your idea, mock it up, prototype, move forward.
"Scope" is a waste of time, just a hack that lets you start pointing fingers at people when the project fails.
I was reading your homepage and found something a little amusing, please allow me to quote:
If you are using Netscape 4, this page probably looks like shit. That's because NS4's support of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) blows. The section headers are SUPPOSED to be a blue bar going from margin to margin. This works in every browser except NS4. I havn't figured out how to work around this bug yet - it's annoying, but not annoying enough for me to waste time fixing it. While ugly, Netscape users can still read the page, and I'm not so anal-retentive that I'm going to lose sleep over the fact that someone might not see my pages EXACTLY the way I indended them to be seen, which is the whole point of the web. Good HTML degrades gracefully on less-capable browsers. Of course, you ARE still using Netscape 4, you should really upgrade to a non-broken, standards-compliant browser.
Emphasis is mine. Just wanted to point out that the rest of your page looks like shit in Safari, and well to be honest, just about every browser out there. I suppose it would look okay in Lynx, but even then I doubt it.
Nov '99 - Get recruited into aforementioned dot-com.
Summer 2000 - Following the bursting of the dot-com bubble and corresponding drastic plunge in prospects of getting the first-round funding we'd have needed to turn the venture profitable, we wind up the company whilst still solvent, returning over half the seed investors' cash. Wary of the industry, I hold fire on various job offers from dot-coms and consultancies and instead take a 3-month contract, setting up e-commerce infrastructure at Deutsche Bank.
Ok. You're trying to tell me that essentially I don't know jack shit about startups, yet you've only ever participated in one?
One that failed at that. Here's the cluestick, go ahead... that's right... hit yourself over the head with it.
Slashdot Mirror
Worked great how?
:-)
Keeping them off of the family PeeCee?
I have a question.
Has a company ever been successfully boycotted, where success means the company saw a significant drop in their bottom line?
I am Rain Man.
So said I.
Sure they're switching over to a packet based infrastructure.... but it's not going to go over the internet!
They are going to use the same infrastructure they have in place. Do you think they are just going to let millions of dollars in copper just sit in the ground and rot?
Having conventional phone service be VoIP but going over a private network will not degrade service any worse than having a switched network.
Get a clue.
Well, don't you have a response?
/. I know you have a response. Sucka.
back_pages basically just stuck his hand in your face and said "BIATCH!"
Well? We're waiting. Come on, this is
No, the license doesn't forbid it.
Nothing to see here, move along....
Setting the bar pretty high there, don't you think buddy? ;-)
Or is t hat only what you've been led to believe?
Surely the founding fathers had seen an industrialized nation before, or at the very least had experience in watching how Europe governed at the time.
They had great expectations for this country, and definitely would not have limited themselves to "thinking small".
It would help if they would at least answer emails.
Pretty tacky if you ask me.
I don't know who the hell always mods you up, but god damn your sing-song is getting tired.
Give it a rest bud.
Stock price is not an indicator of consumer popularity. It's not a good indicator of anything, really. It's just the psychological indicator of the value of that company.
Microsoft has a large market value based on its stock price. How "popular" is Microsoft in today's culture? When compared to Apple purely from a stock price standpoint, Microsoft whoops Apple's ass.
Is it that hard to follow the track?
A year or two?
Eventually?
If that were the case, why haven't they already added in FM or AM by default? There is no eventuality waiting to happen here.
You're adding features that don't need to be added. Less software, less hardware. By default.
No, I think you're wrong.
Stern's primary market is blue collar workers, not the young "hip" generation. The hip generation is just that, the hip generation. They won't have any hips left soon you see, because they shake them too much to that hip hop music. This is much like what happened with Elvis and his fans.
People wonder why there is so much hip replacement surgery going on these days. Personally, I'm considering starting SternWalkers and SternWheelchairs, since we all know that Howard Stern is the hip hop king of the hip generation.
*sniff sniff*
You smell that?
I smell pussy...
Are you just jealous or what? Who gives a flying shit? Do they have good products? Check. Have they really done anything wrong? Nope. Let them be rewarded for it.
That's why they got into the game -- to make money.
Stock price does not reflect whether or not a business is successful, or even going to be successful. It's not even a good indicator as to the health of a business.
I suggest you educate yourself on how business works before spouting off eccentric bullshit.
Uhm...
It quit working?
I would say it only quit working from the standpoint that they reached their tipping point and, well, that's why they are still around today.
Try again next time buddy.
If I had mod points, and hadn't already commented in this article, you are definitely one I would mod up.
Have a great day.
No, I'm afraid I'll have to politely disagree.
Projects are about communication. Bidirectional communication, above everything else. Functional specs are a complete waste of time, just get to real as quickly as possible. Sketch out your idea, mock it up, prototype, move forward.
"Scope" is a waste of time, just a hack that lets you start pointing fingers at people when the project fails.
Hate to break it to you buddy, but your site sucks too. Personally, I feel that the Zen Garden is *way* overrated as well.
P.S. - Love the photos on your site, happy 17th.
I was reading your homepage and found something a little amusing, please allow me to quote:
If you are using Netscape 4, this page probably looks like shit. That's because NS4's support of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) blows. The section headers are SUPPOSED to be a blue bar going from margin to margin. This works in every browser except NS4. I havn't figured out how to work around this bug yet - it's annoying, but not annoying enough for me to waste time fixing it. While ugly, Netscape users can still read the page, and I'm not so anal-retentive that I'm going to lose sleep over the fact that someone might not see my pages EXACTLY the way I indended them to be seen, which is the whole point of the web. Good HTML degrades gracefully on less-capable browsers. Of course, you ARE still using Netscape 4, you should really upgrade to a non-broken, standards-compliant browser.Emphasis is mine. Just wanted to point out that the rest of your page looks like shit in Safari, and well to be honest, just about every browser out there. I suppose it would look okay in Lynx, but even then I doubt it.
Thanks, have a nice day.
he's been pwned.
Fabulous, let's analyze this piece too:
Nov '99 - Get recruited into aforementioned dot-com.Summer 2000 - Following the bursting of the dot-com bubble and corresponding drastic plunge in prospects of getting the first-round funding we'd have needed to turn the venture profitable, we wind up the company whilst still solvent, returning over half the seed investors' cash. Wary of the industry, I hold fire on various job offers from dot-coms and consultancies and instead take a 3-month contract, setting up e-commerce infrastructure at Deutsche Bank.
Ok. You're trying to tell me that essentially I don't know jack shit about startups, yet you've only ever participated in one?
One that failed at that. Here's the cluestick, go ahead... that's right... hit yourself over the head with it.
Uh, what is the new whizbang replacement for fibre?.
Thanks for playing, please try again.
Too bad it still looks like shit.
Aesthetics are everything for common adoptance people! When will you realize this?!