I'd like to see the MSDS(Material Safety Data Sheet) for those products. Adding heavy metals to non-commercial coatings can't be legal everywhere. I used to work in the retail coating industry (neighborhood paint store) and even just your standard bathroom paint is regulated heavily. So heavily it makes other EPA legislature look completely logical!
I like how the interviewer skirted all the Windows vs. Other questions and went right for the latest IT alarmist buzzword "OUTSOURCING". Who cares if MS outsources? I would rather see them turn IE into something useful than I would see them "bring the jobs back". To me, that's a more pressing issue.
In a later report.....
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· Score: 2, Funny
...Google suggestion is renamed to "Skynet" by the company that acquired Google, Cyberdyne systems.
Skynet is said to be fully operational. Soon it will become "aware".
" You use the stylus on the bottom screen to look around and double tap it to jump. In just a few minutes I was pulling off classic FPS maneuvers like jumping, spinning around and shooting Tycho in the fucking face."
Shooting people in the face........what people have been longing for in a handheld system.
I can totally see this standard easily integrating with the 1000+ network element monitoring and statistics gathering software package that I use right now./sarcasm
It was a PITA enough just to get all of the devices reporting to the same polling engines. I can't even imagine going through and changing it all to some halfassed XML implementation. If they really want it to be an "SNMP replacement", they should just improve on what's already available. Make it compatible with SNMP but more powerful.
"A new laptop built by my company is shipped with a certain power supply. The power supply overheats and burns down an office building with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of power supplies in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."
The funny thing is, besides the mainboard incident, the laptop was flawless. It saw more use than any other portable in the building and that was the only problem in over 2 years of use.
You mean, like actually putting some developers on IE and shining it up a bit? At least give it a bit of XP flavor or something, call it IE 2005 or something.
It appears he'll get paid whether or not he attracts new listeners.
A completely digital product has great agility.
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Unlike "hard goods", digital products have greater agility when it comes to gauging demand. You don't have to wait for sales figures to come back from stores after end-of-day. You don't have to worry about replenishment after you sell out of a product. There's really no overhead incurred with carrying a digital product, other than securing licensing and providing a delivery mechanism. This makes for a great depth of product and, depending on the ease of use for the customer, will keep a customer coming back if they know they can find exactly what their looking for.
... and you can't timeshift live TV. Hardly a PVR. This thing needs some serious refinement for it to be the primary device in my home theater (or "theatre" in Cannuckistan;-) ).
Sounds like he feels he was being setup to fail. That or they have the department wrapped so tightly with red tape that it makes the department ineffective. As most effective CIO/information directors will tell you, they're not interested in maintaining anything. They want to innovate and if you make that impossible or do not require innovation, they will leave.
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I'd like to see the MSDS(Material Safety Data Sheet) for those products. Adding heavy metals to non-commercial coatings can't be legal everywhere. I used to work in the retail coating industry (neighborhood paint store) and even just your standard bathroom paint is regulated heavily. So heavily it makes other EPA legislature look completely logical!
...yada yada yada!
I like how the interviewer skirted all the Windows vs. Other questions and went right for the latest IT alarmist buzzword "OUTSOURCING". Who cares if MS outsources? I would rather see them turn IE into something useful than I would see them "bring the jobs back". To me, that's a more pressing issue.
...Google suggestion is renamed to "Skynet" by the company that acquired Google, Cyberdyne systems. Skynet is said to be fully operational. Soon it will become "aware".
90% of the concepts will port.
.......how fantastically mediocre! Next thing they'll be saying is that you need to pay for the software! D'oh!
.....the flash phones you!
A $500 flipbook!
*Waits for the halt to this energy "source" because none of the NIMBYs want a nuke plant nearby*
In future news, Steve Ballmer eats crow after finding out the price of hardware has no effect on the piracy of MS software.
Happiness. What a fantastic device.
" You use the stylus on the bottom screen to look around and double tap it to jump. In just a few minutes I was pulling off classic FPS maneuvers like jumping, spinning around and shooting Tycho in the fucking face."
Shooting people in the face........what people have been longing for in a handheld system.
I can totally see this standard easily integrating with the 1000+ network element monitoring and statistics gathering software package that I use right now. /sarcasm
It was a PITA enough just to get all of the devices reporting to the same polling engines. I can't even imagine going through and changing it all to some halfassed XML implementation. If they really want it to be an "SNMP replacement", they should just improve on what's already available. Make it compatible with SNMP but more powerful.
"A new laptop built by my company is shipped with a certain power supply. The power supply overheats and burns down an office building with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of power supplies in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."
"Which company do you work for?"
"A major one."
The funny thing is, besides the mainboard incident, the laptop was flawless. It saw more use than any other portable in the building and that was the only problem in over 2 years of use.
.....the 2 mainboard replacements I had done on my Inspiron 4150.
You mean, like actually putting some developers on IE and shining it up a bit? At least give it a bit of XP flavor or something, call it IE 2005 or something.
"I used to own a used video game store, but recently we went out of business because we sold all of our good games."
It appears he'll get paid whether or not he attracts new listeners.
Unlike "hard goods", digital products have greater agility when it comes to gauging demand. You don't have to wait for sales figures to come back from stores after end-of-day. You don't have to worry about replenishment after you sell out of a product. There's really no overhead incurred with carrying a digital product, other than securing licensing and providing a delivery mechanism. This makes for a great depth of product and, depending on the ease of use for the customer, will keep a customer coming back if they know they can find exactly what their looking for.
... and you can't timeshift live TV. Hardly a PVR. This thing needs some serious refinement for it to be the primary device in my home theater (or "theatre" in Cannuckistan ;-) ).
With a required OS upgrade to get the latest features and security, can one consider IE "free" ?
Sounds like he feels he was being setup to fail. That or they have the department wrapped so tightly with red tape that it makes the department ineffective. As most effective CIO/information directors will tell you, they're not interested in maintaining anything. They want to innovate and if you make that impossible or do not require innovation, they will leave.