This particular bot just looks at readme files. It could(and might) start looking at comments, but even if it does, it will probably work a lot like the spell correction in most IDEs(Eclipse for example) and simply check the spelling in comments. Most of these code spell checkers also have enough smarts to understand the common auto-gen doc formats(doxygen, javadoc etc) and will ignore any identifiers(variables, classes etc) in the comments.
The lessons that a lot of these companies never seem to get are there are essentially 2 ways to business in this industry, you can be an innovator(with or without factories) or you can be a me too guy with factories. You cannot be a me too guy with no factories and expect to thrive, you simply cannot be fast and agile enough. By the time you figure out what you want to copy and are able to get your outsourcing partners to agree to whatever it is you want done, the other me too guys with their own factories already have it out on the market, and the innovator has had it out on the market for a while before that. Acer, much like Motorola before it, never seemed to grasp this lesson and are thus on their way out.
And yet again that is something that really separates him from Ballmer. Ballmers problem is that not only does he have even a remote interest in technology, he is also a really shitty manager. He has no control over what goes on in Microsoft, nor does he seem particularly interested. As such every major manager there is stuck in the late 90s mindset that their only "real" competition comes from within Microsoft and are constantly attacking other divisions and defending their own from what they perceive are encroachments on their territory. The result is a jumbled mess, both across product lines(2 different, incompatible DRM systems, 3...THREE! different phone OS systems!) and even inside individual products itself. The Windows GUI is just an absolute inconsistent mish-mash of an interface with settings strewn randomly across the OS, often times the same functionality can be controlled with 2 or 3 different settings controlled from different programs. Not to mention it doesnt really mesh with the Office GUI etc. As a result of Ballmer's mismanagement a lot of really good ideas developed at Microsoft go nowhere and a lot of really smart people waste away there. MSFT stock has gone nowhere(yeah I know they pay a dividend, but the dividend they pay is about what I get from my savings account). If the Republicans hadnt ensured that shareholders essentially have no rights, I believe the shareholders would have rebelled against Ballmer years ago.
The Acer CEO is a dimwit who's talking smack because there's nothing else he can do to stem the tide of abject failure coming out of his factories
Acer sold off their factories years ago. They are going the Motorola route of just outsourcing everything and hoping their name alone will allow them continue to reap huge profits. Obviously as you pointed out, those hopes arent coming to fruition.
Well, I tried blurring the lines by playing real life Leisure Suit Larry, and well, long story short, I now have a police record in addition to a pudgy body.
There's a reason why the typical geek has zero capacity to predict future trends and accurately determine what consumers want - because they hold onto falsehoods as if they're gospel and stick their heads in the sand when the truth is shown to them.
You are right on the effect, wrong on the cause. These geeks get incredibly self-righteous and basically feel that if they do need, nobody should need it. Basically the geek screaming about Apple is probably the same kind of person who goes into a nice Italian restaurant and screams that it is a horrible restaurant because they wanted curry and it doesnt have curry.
Because unfortunately Steve was one of the few CEOs of big American Corps that actually gave 2 shits about the product that his company made. Outside of a few others(Google being chief among them), the modern American CEO couldn't really give a flying fuck about what the company actually makes(see Balmer, Fiorna). They are there to absorb as much money as they can while doing nothing but playing financial games with the company's balance sheets. Love him or hate him, you cannot deny that Steve was genuinely passionate about technology.
Actually the problems are largely technical. The plant was designed to be serviced by humans. Even the most humanoid robots are still incredibly inflexible and thus it is incredibly difficult to get robots into a lot of the places in the plant, let alone operate a lot of the equipment. Furthermore, even with the most advanced robots, there are still latencies involved with the video feed, input response, etc. If they could do it all with robots they would, but they cannot.
You fail elementary math. The deficits were including the same accounting tricks, as was the surplus. The point remains that raising taxes raised revenue that was NOT exceeded by increases in spending, disproving the GPs point.
It is when the weather is good, but in northern Russia/Alaska, the weather is rarely good. Poor weather not only makes shipping stuff that far north more expensive, it makes it less reliable too. And in the age of just-in-time supply chain management, its a variable that a lot of organizations would prefer to do without.
You are and idiot, that much is clear. Early to-mid-90s, raised revenues, spending, not so much. Result, surplus. Seriously, are you REALLY that dumb? or just trolling?
Look, in order to save tax breaks for private jets, sacrifices have to be made. I mean, which is more important, exploring the vastness of the universe, unlocking the secrets of mankind, or making sure trust fund babies dont have to shell out a small amount more for their private jets. If you answered the former, you are an American-hating, greedy, muslim-atheist socialist!
#2 it involves rail. Yes, freight-rail primarily, which has some presence in the US. But there's no way that the US will build the kind of rail network that will link a tunnel on the far-western side of Alaska with the rest of the US in order to import Russian goods.
You best be checking your facts there. Freight rail has more than "some" presence in the US, the US probably has the worlds most advanced freight rail system in the WORLD. From 'kipedia
In the 1950s, the U.S. and Europe moved roughly the same percentage of freight by rail; but, by 2000, the share of U.S. rail freight was 38% while in Europe only 8% of freight traveled by rail.
Its because of the US freight rail system that you can buy cheap Chinese goods in New York, shipping them by truck would cost considerably more. Not even worth reading the rest of your post, you obviously have NO idea what you are talking about.
It still can, salt just makes it impractical. Of course if you had a true Turing machine even salt would be useless, but alas nobody as of yet has come up with an infinite storage device.
And ever since Washington rarely have you found a president who knows its best not to stick your nose where it doesnt belong. Washington basically warned us about the current situation in the US over 200 years ago when he gave his farewell address. In it he basically warned against the formation of political parties and against the US getting involved in foreign wars...... basically warning us to stay away from the two things that are biting us in the ass right now.
Well, I know for myself a good swift "attack" on my "middle layer" does cause me to fall to the ground and writhe around for a while, so I guess the internet and I do have a lot in common, really vulnerable mid-sections.
Care to elaborate? CEOs give Republicans tons of money and in return Republicans give them carte Blanche to rape the corporations they are in charge of. Pretty damn simple.
That might have been true at one point, but ever since the Republicans declared open war on capitalism by denying shareholders rights at every turn, the CEO essentially works only to enrich himself. This means basically turning the company into their own personal piggy bank, liquidating whatever they can and absorbing all the cash that comes from that. R&D certainly is not a part of that process.
I have never seen such an anti-capitalist major political party in the US. Republicans hate capitalism, pure and simple. See, in a capitalist society the people who own the CAPITAL reap the profits, but to the Republicans, that was an anathema, because anyone can buy stocks. Only a select few can become CEO, so they decided to scrap capitalism in favor of corporatism. And look at what lovely results we have. Fuck the Republican party, THEY are the ones that truly hate America.
China is pretty much copying the Wal-Mart model, absorb losses until your competitors go out of business, then jack up the price.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Japanese aren't investing like crazy in mines in the US(and other places). Not only are a lot of their industries dependent upon them, but with the yen being insanely strong right now they would be insane not to take advantage of that and get mining rights on the cheap.
They sell those, but apparently the law has a different view of what the warranty should be, from the Australian Government
A consumer buys a plasma television for $6000. It stops working two years later. The supplier tells the consumer they have no rights to repairs or another remedy as the television was only under the manufacturerâ(TM)s warranty for 12 months. The supplier says the consumer should have bought an extended warranty, which would have given five yearsâ(TM) cover. A reasonable consumer would expect more than two yearsâ(TM) use from a $6000 television. Under the consumer guarantees, the consumer therefore has a statutory right to a remedy on the basis that the television is not of acceptable quality.
The supplier must provide a remedy free of charge. This may also amount to misleading a consumer about their rights.
IANAL, but this seems pretty cut and dry to me, if an expensive computer "breaks"(even if it is the fault of the user), then the company is responsible for replacing it, even if the original warranty has run out.
It seems that Apple usually prices in the local consumer protection laws when pricing their models abroad. For instance, the US, Japan, and Hong Kong dont have any forced warranties of sorts, and all those prices are, when taking taxes and whatnot into account, about the same. However, in places like Europe and Australia where the government pretty much forces companies to provide multi-year warranties with their products companies have to price that into their products. Those laws are nice, but stop pretending they are free. Personally I would rather have the option of either buying the warranty OR taking a chance on my product not breaking(the vast, vast majority of them dont) instead of the government essentially forcing me to buy an extended warranty whether I want it or not. But of course maybe that is just me.
Cannibalizing the assets of the corporation they are supposed to be in charge of? Thats pretty much it, Republicans have fought tooth and nail to make sure that CEOs are not at all responsible to the shareholders they are ostensibly serving. As a result CEOs have pretty much been given the go ahead to gorge themselves on as much of the company's stored wealth as they can, and if it gets to the point of collapse, they can liquidate whatever productive assets there may be and give it to themselves.
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This particular bot just looks at readme files. It could(and might) start looking at comments, but even if it does, it will probably work a lot like the spell correction in most IDEs(Eclipse for example) and simply check the spelling in comments. Most of these code spell checkers also have enough smarts to understand the common auto-gen doc formats(doxygen, javadoc etc) and will ignore any identifiers(variables, classes etc) in the comments.
The lessons that a lot of these companies never seem to get are there are essentially 2 ways to business in this industry, you can be an innovator(with or without factories) or you can be a me too guy with factories. You cannot be a me too guy with no factories and expect to thrive, you simply cannot be fast and agile enough. By the time you figure out what you want to copy and are able to get your outsourcing partners to agree to whatever it is you want done, the other me too guys with their own factories already have it out on the market, and the innovator has had it out on the market for a while before that. Acer, much like Motorola before it, never seemed to grasp this lesson and are thus on their way out.
And yet again that is something that really separates him from Ballmer. Ballmers problem is that not only does he have even a remote interest in technology, he is also a really shitty manager. He has no control over what goes on in Microsoft, nor does he seem particularly interested. As such every major manager there is stuck in the late 90s mindset that their only "real" competition comes from within Microsoft and are constantly attacking other divisions and defending their own from what they perceive are encroachments on their territory. The result is a jumbled mess, both across product lines(2 different, incompatible DRM systems, 3...THREE! different phone OS systems!) and even inside individual products itself. The Windows GUI is just an absolute inconsistent mish-mash of an interface with settings strewn randomly across the OS, often times the same functionality can be controlled with 2 or 3 different settings controlled from different programs. Not to mention it doesnt really mesh with the Office GUI etc. As a result of Ballmer's mismanagement a lot of really good ideas developed at Microsoft go nowhere and a lot of really smart people waste away there. MSFT stock has gone nowhere(yeah I know they pay a dividend, but the dividend they pay is about what I get from my savings account). If the Republicans hadnt ensured that shareholders essentially have no rights, I believe the shareholders would have rebelled against Ballmer years ago.
The Acer CEO is a dimwit who's talking smack because there's nothing else he can do to stem the tide of abject failure coming out of his factories
Acer sold off their factories years ago. They are going the Motorola route of just outsourcing everything and hoping their name alone will allow them continue to reap huge profits. Obviously as you pointed out, those hopes arent coming to fruition.
Well, I tried blurring the lines by playing real life Leisure Suit Larry, and well, long story short, I now have a police record in addition to a pudgy body.
There's a reason why the typical geek has zero capacity to predict future trends and accurately determine what consumers want - because they hold onto falsehoods as if they're gospel and stick their heads in the sand when the truth is shown to them.
You are right on the effect, wrong on the cause. These geeks get incredibly self-righteous and basically feel that if they do need, nobody should need it. Basically the geek screaming about Apple is probably the same kind of person who goes into a nice Italian restaurant and screams that it is a horrible restaurant because they wanted curry and it doesnt have curry.
Because unfortunately Steve was one of the few CEOs of big American Corps that actually gave 2 shits about the product that his company made. Outside of a few others(Google being chief among them), the modern American CEO couldn't really give a flying fuck about what the company actually makes(see Balmer, Fiorna). They are there to absorb as much money as they can while doing nothing but playing financial games with the company's balance sheets. Love him or hate him, you cannot deny that Steve was genuinely passionate about technology.
Actually the problems are largely technical. The plant was designed to be serviced by humans. Even the most humanoid robots are still incredibly inflexible and thus it is incredibly difficult to get robots into a lot of the places in the plant, let alone operate a lot of the equipment. Furthermore, even with the most advanced robots, there are still latencies involved with the video feed, input response, etc. If they could do it all with robots they would, but they cannot.
You fail elementary math. The deficits were including the same accounting tricks, as was the surplus. The point remains that raising taxes raised revenue that was NOT exceeded by increases in spending, disproving the GPs point.
It is when the weather is good, but in northern Russia/Alaska, the weather is rarely good. Poor weather not only makes shipping stuff that far north more expensive, it makes it less reliable too. And in the age of just-in-time supply chain management, its a variable that a lot of organizations would prefer to do without.
You are and idiot, that much is clear. Early to-mid-90s, raised revenues, spending, not so much. Result, surplus. Seriously, are you REALLY that dumb? or just trolling?
Look, in order to save tax breaks for private jets, sacrifices have to be made. I mean, which is more important, exploring the vastness of the universe, unlocking the secrets of mankind, or making sure trust fund babies dont have to shell out a small amount more for their private jets. If you answered the former, you are an American-hating, greedy, muslim-atheist socialist!
Didnt know sit ups made your nads stronger.
#2 it involves rail. Yes, freight-rail primarily, which has some presence in the US. But there's no way that the US will build the kind of rail network that will link a tunnel on the far-western side of Alaska with the rest of the US in order to import Russian goods.
You best be checking your facts there. Freight rail has more than "some" presence in the US, the US probably has the worlds most advanced freight rail system in the WORLD. From 'kipedia
In the 1950s, the U.S. and Europe moved roughly the same percentage of freight by rail; but, by 2000, the share of U.S. rail freight was 38% while in Europe only 8% of freight traveled by rail.
Its because of the US freight rail system that you can buy cheap Chinese goods in New York, shipping them by truck would cost considerably more. Not even worth reading the rest of your post, you obviously have NO idea what you are talking about.
It still can, salt just makes it impractical. Of course if you had a true Turing machine even salt would be useless, but alas nobody as of yet has come up with an infinite storage device.
Isnt running php on Windows the equivalent of hanging a big sign on your back that says "hack me"?
And ever since Washington rarely have you found a president who knows its best not to stick your nose where it doesnt belong. Washington basically warned us about the current situation in the US over 200 years ago when he gave his farewell address. In it he basically warned against the formation of political parties and against the US getting involved in foreign wars...... basically warning us to stay away from the two things that are biting us in the ass right now.
Well, I know for myself a good swift "attack" on my "middle layer" does cause me to fall to the ground and writhe around for a while, so I guess the internet and I do have a lot in common, really vulnerable mid-sections.
Care to elaborate? CEOs give Republicans tons of money and in return Republicans give them carte Blanche to rape the corporations they are in charge of. Pretty damn simple.
That might have been true at one point, but ever since the Republicans declared open war on capitalism by denying shareholders rights at every turn, the CEO essentially works only to enrich himself. This means basically turning the company into their own personal piggy bank, liquidating whatever they can and absorbing all the cash that comes from that. R&D certainly is not a part of that process.
I have never seen such an anti-capitalist major political party in the US. Republicans hate capitalism, pure and simple. See, in a capitalist society the people who own the CAPITAL reap the profits, but to the Republicans, that was an anathema, because anyone can buy stocks. Only a select few can become CEO, so they decided to scrap capitalism in favor of corporatism. And look at what lovely results we have. Fuck the Republican party, THEY are the ones that truly hate America.
China is pretty much copying the Wal-Mart model, absorb losses until your competitors go out of business, then jack up the price.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Japanese aren't investing like crazy in mines in the US(and other places). Not only are a lot of their industries dependent upon them, but with the yen being insanely strong right now they would be insane not to take advantage of that and get mining rights on the cheap.
They sell those, but apparently the law has a different view of what the warranty should be, from the Australian Government
A consumer buys a plasma television for $6000. It stops working two years later. The supplier tells the consumer they have no rights to repairs or another remedy as the television was only under the manufacturerâ(TM)s warranty for 12 months. The supplier says the consumer should have bought an extended warranty, which would have given five yearsâ(TM) cover. A reasonable consumer would expect more than two yearsâ(TM) use from a $6000 television. Under the consumer guarantees, the consumer therefore has a statutory right to a remedy on the basis that the television is not of acceptable quality.
The supplier must provide a remedy free of charge. This may also amount to misleading a consumer about their rights.
IANAL, but this seems pretty cut and dry to me, if an expensive computer "breaks"(even if it is the fault of the user), then the company is responsible for replacing it, even if the original warranty has run out.
It seems that Apple usually prices in the local consumer protection laws when pricing their models abroad. For instance, the US, Japan, and Hong Kong dont have any forced warranties of sorts, and all those prices are, when taking taxes and whatnot into account, about the same. However, in places like Europe and Australia where the government pretty much forces companies to provide multi-year warranties with their products companies have to price that into their products. Those laws are nice, but stop pretending they are free. Personally I would rather have the option of either buying the warranty OR taking a chance on my product not breaking(the vast, vast majority of them dont) instead of the government essentially forcing me to buy an extended warranty whether I want it or not. But of course maybe that is just me.
Hey, maybe he's just a chickenhead, cut the guy some slack.
Cannibalizing the assets of the corporation they are supposed to be in charge of? Thats pretty much it, Republicans have fought tooth and nail to make sure that CEOs are not at all responsible to the shareholders they are ostensibly serving. As a result CEOs have pretty much been given the go ahead to gorge themselves on as much of the company's stored wealth as they can, and if it gets to the point of collapse, they can liquidate whatever productive assets there may be and give it to themselves.