Where someone is in the world and time and date are now more important than ever with the information age. Getting items shipped to you, expectations of response times are hugely dependent on the time of day and date. e.g. it is no use me getting pissed off that the American company I am trying to contact from Australia on a Monday is not answering as it is the middle of sunday evening for them, or perhaps a public holiday. It becomes even more important with delivery times as public holidays and weekends and business hours all affect time frames for many 24/7 web sites.
WTF? my tiny iriver had 512MB and my full size device at the time had 5gb (can't remember the device brand). Even the iriver was capable of a very large collection. The ipad when introduced had similar capacity as the top end devices at a significant premium. What it had over those devices though was simplicity and marketing.
The summary has this completely arse backwards and is really a warped view of the world. Your privacy is your right, companies like Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft et al should be paying YOU in order to track you, that is assuming you approve of it at all. They have absolutely no need whatsoever to track you, yes they make more money by being able to track and manipulate you but that is hardly right they should have and it is completely fucked that anyone should think you should have to pay not to be manipulated.
HP's problem is not the OS (though that might not be helping), it is there damn ugly designs, crapware and bloatware that every device comes configured with making even the most expensive items feel like you are using a device from 10 years ago. It won't matter what direction they pick till they fix there core problem of not making machines for usability and performance.
I don't think you got that quite right. Nintendo last gen courted the casual crowd and were hugely successful at it, however they have realised this gen that this is much harder due to smartphones and tablets being good enough for the casuals. So Nintendo retargeted back to gamers, unfortunately the effort was half hearted and really nothing that would encourage xbox or playstation gamers to switch. Yes it is a warning to MS and Sony, but not the warning you say it is. The casual market has shifted, to be a success they need to excel at games to hold the gamers or they need to change significantly to try and find another market.
There seems to be this common misconception that a network can be broken into without causing any damage. Tell that to the IT department that has to re-flash and re-image every damn machine on the network to make sure no backdoors were left behind.
Those actions and associated costs are not the result of having your network broken into. They are the result of being told your network is vulnerable - even if you have no knowledge that the network was actually broken into.
That is not completely correct. Once you know your network has been broken into you can no longer trust any device that has potentially been intruded upon and more often then not a full rebuild is required, simply finding a vulnerability means you have to patch it not rebuild. There will always be vulnerabilities, maintaining and monitoring is key to that, however once a vulnerability is exploited the cost skyrockets.
relatively speaking the resources on earth are just a tiny weenie drop even in our own solar system. Once the cost of actually getting into space and mining is solved the available resources are so vast compared to what we currently have that the idea of fighting over resources seems a little silly.
Resources are so extensive once you go beyond the earth I really wonder if this will be a problem at all. Fighting over resources is only valid when their is a finite amount of them.
IT staff are generally not affected by the branding one way or the other and it would be an incredibly rare occurrence for them to ever be involved. Even in this instance the IT staff are not affected by the branding, they just would have been able to advise on how bad a branding choice it was.
price competition? have you seen the prices places like gamestop put on used games? The only thing positive for the publishers in the used game market is generally the pricing is so high that many people will choose new over used anyway.
Perhaps you have not seen the news in a couple of years? Sony are in deep financial trouble, they have been liquidating assets and consolidating their business in an attempt to reign in their serious debt and profitability problems. The one thing Sony CAN'T do this time around is brute force success, they simply don't have the funding to bankroll a multi billion dollar loss leader as it could well send them bankrupt. What they do this time around must stand on its own or it is game over.
He talked about not being willing to upgrade every 6-12 months. many workstations don't need hardware upgrades or to be replaced regularly at all depending on the task they are doing, It is not unusual for a workstation to have a 5-10 year life if its intended use is not processor or IO intensive. however they do need support and stability.
While I agree social engineering more often then not works, it is actually a sign of POOR training or execution of the security staff. This is exactly the type of thing they should be looking for. I work in areas with security where even if you know the name of the guard and drink with him on a Friday night he won't let you in without a security check and a valid pass as he knows that if he doesn't do it and someone sees him not doing the check he will get canned, The fact that they could socially engineer their way in so easily really was basic security failure.
Their are no local support costs, The companies mentioned use global support operations not local ones so support costs are actually identical to the US. Distribution is mostly digital and where it isn't the cost at worst is a couple of dollars to ship it to a store. A premium can definitely be justified, but it is not remotely possible to justify the premium currently being imposed as anything other than a FUCK YOU.
They are charging you EXTRA for that service to cover the cost of the phone. It is coming out of your pocket, they just use it as a means for the clueless sheep as they don't realise it is actually a more expensive way to purchase the phone.
when everyone is poking everyone else with sharp sticks, the one who stops poking gets skewered. The war was started by patent trolls but they inevitably dragged everyone into it.
I seriously have my doubts this ever happens. The real world doesn't work that way. The simple cost of doing the interviews to get the solution would far outweigh the costs of actually paying a skilled consultant to do it in the first place. Interviewing people is expensive, especially when you likely have to go through quite a few to find one that is actually skilled nowadays.
If you look at what you get in todays DSLR's they are smaller, lighter with more tightly integrated tech than ever before. I don't like what they are doing with their parts, but really it is their right not to sell parts just as it is your right to not buy from them or to buy 3rd party parts from manufacturers that want to step into the void left. how often do modern DSLR's actually require repair anyway? (legitimate question I really don't know), anecdotally I would not think it is a common issue, I have 2 DSLR's (Canon 7D and a 5D) and I have friends with everything from older Nikons to the professional 1D and I am not aware of any of them ever needing a repair.
Last time I looked the separation of Church and State is pretty much a failure, many religions are represented in Government with strongly religious Politian's bringing their bigotry and bias with them government and using them to shape laws and policy.
I doubt the offer was all that genuine, he would have to be familiar enough with aviation regulations to realise that the offer was always completely and utterly infeasible given certification and testing required not to mention compatibility with the existing systems. Best case scenario would be 12 months, if the planes aren't flying again long LONG before then there will be some serious financial problems for all involved.
Even most journalists, who are supposedly there to tell truth to power,
I just want a journalist to tell me what happened. Do some research, so I can read it, because I don't have time to do it all myself. I don't want reporters to shove their ideology and viewpoint at me. That's what editorial pages are for.
^this, nowadays it is impossible to trust most articles as every reporter or wannabe reporter thinks part of writing an article is giving there own personal spin on the facts to push their personal viewpoints. I will take the dry facts without the bullshit anyday compared to the shit most journalists publish.
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Where someone is in the world and time and date are now more important than ever with the information age. Getting items shipped to you, expectations of response times are hugely dependent on the time of day and date. e.g. it is no use me getting pissed off that the American company I am trying to contact from Australia on a Monday is not answering as it is the middle of sunday evening for them, or perhaps a public holiday. It becomes even more important with delivery times as public holidays and weekends and business hours all affect time frames for many 24/7 web sites.
WTF? my tiny iriver had 512MB and my full size device at the time had 5gb (can't remember the device brand). Even the iriver was capable of a very large collection. The ipad when introduced had similar capacity as the top end devices at a significant premium. What it had over those devices though was simplicity and marketing.
It's a damn slap in the face. You install updates to protect yourself and you get the fucking ask.com malware as your reward.
The summary has this completely arse backwards and is really a warped view of the world. Your privacy is your right, companies like Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft et al should be paying YOU in order to track you, that is assuming you approve of it at all. They have absolutely no need whatsoever to track you, yes they make more money by being able to track and manipulate you but that is hardly right they should have and it is completely fucked that anyone should think you should have to pay not to be manipulated.
HP's problem is not the OS (though that might not be helping), it is there damn ugly designs, crapware and bloatware that every device comes configured with making even the most expensive items feel like you are using a device from 10 years ago. It won't matter what direction they pick till they fix there core problem of not making machines for usability and performance.
I don't think you got that quite right. Nintendo last gen courted the casual crowd and were hugely successful at it, however they have realised this gen that this is much harder due to smartphones and tablets being good enough for the casuals. So Nintendo retargeted back to gamers, unfortunately the effort was half hearted and really nothing that would encourage xbox or playstation gamers to switch. Yes it is a warning to MS and Sony, but not the warning you say it is. The casual market has shifted, to be a success they need to excel at games to hold the gamers or they need to change significantly to try and find another market.
There seems to be this common misconception that a network can be broken into without causing any damage. Tell that to the IT department that has to re-flash and re-image every damn machine on the network to make sure no backdoors were left behind.
Those actions and associated costs are not the result of having your network broken into. They are the result of being told your network is vulnerable - even if you have no knowledge that the network was actually broken into.
That is not completely correct. Once you know your network has been broken into you can no longer trust any device that has potentially been intruded upon and more often then not a full rebuild is required, simply finding a vulnerability means you have to patch it not rebuild. There will always be vulnerabilities, maintaining and monitoring is key to that, however once a vulnerability is exploited the cost skyrockets.
relatively speaking the resources on earth are just a tiny weenie drop even in our own solar system. Once the cost of actually getting into space and mining is solved the available resources are so vast compared to what we currently have that the idea of fighting over resources seems a little silly.
Resources are so extensive once you go beyond the earth I really wonder if this will be a problem at all. Fighting over resources is only valid when their is a finite amount of them.
IT staff are generally not affected by the branding one way or the other and it would be an incredibly rare occurrence for them to ever be involved. Even in this instance the IT staff are not affected by the branding, they just would have been able to advise on how bad a branding choice it was.
price competition? have you seen the prices places like gamestop put on used games? The only thing positive for the publishers in the used game market is generally the pricing is so high that many people will choose new over used anyway.
Perhaps you have not seen the news in a couple of years? Sony are in deep financial trouble, they have been liquidating assets and consolidating their business in an attempt to reign in their serious debt and profitability problems. The one thing Sony CAN'T do this time around is brute force success, they simply don't have the funding to bankroll a multi billion dollar loss leader as it could well send them bankrupt. What they do this time around must stand on its own or it is game over.
He talked about not being willing to upgrade every 6-12 months. many workstations don't need hardware upgrades or to be replaced regularly at all depending on the task they are doing, It is not unusual for a workstation to have a 5-10 year life if its intended use is not processor or IO intensive. however they do need support and stability.
While I agree social engineering more often then not works, it is actually a sign of POOR training or execution of the security staff. This is exactly the type of thing they should be looking for. I work in areas with security where even if you know the name of the guard and drink with him on a Friday night he won't let you in without a security check and a valid pass as he knows that if he doesn't do it and someone sees him not doing the check he will get canned, The fact that they could socially engineer their way in so easily really was basic security failure.
Their are no local support costs, The companies mentioned use global support operations not local ones so support costs are actually identical to the US. Distribution is mostly digital and where it isn't the cost at worst is a couple of dollars to ship it to a store. A premium can definitely be justified, but it is not remotely possible to justify the premium currently being imposed as anything other than a FUCK YOU.
They are charging you EXTRA for that service to cover the cost of the phone. It is coming out of your pocket, they just use it as a means for the clueless sheep as they don't realise it is actually a more expensive way to purchase the phone.
when everyone is poking everyone else with sharp sticks, the one who stops poking gets skewered. The war was started by patent trolls but they inevitably dragged everyone into it.
I seriously have my doubts this ever happens. The real world doesn't work that way. The simple cost of doing the interviews to get the solution would far outweigh the costs of actually paying a skilled consultant to do it in the first place. Interviewing people is expensive, especially when you likely have to go through quite a few to find one that is actually skilled nowadays.
If you look at what you get in todays DSLR's they are smaller, lighter with more tightly integrated tech than ever before. I don't like what they are doing with their parts, but really it is their right not to sell parts just as it is your right to not buy from them or to buy 3rd party parts from manufacturers that want to step into the void left. how often do modern DSLR's actually require repair anyway? (legitimate question I really don't know), anecdotally I would not think it is a common issue, I have 2 DSLR's (Canon 7D and a 5D) and I have friends with everything from older Nikons to the professional 1D and I am not aware of any of them ever needing a repair.
depending on the age of the documents, it is more likely to be far more cost effective to simply shred
really you think appealing to a tiny fraction of the gaming population is how the winner is decided?
Last time I looked the separation of Church and State is pretty much a failure, many religions are represented in Government with strongly religious Politian's bringing their bigotry and bias with them government and using them to shape laws and policy.
It was just as sensible as the OP's suggestion for Tesla and GM.
I doubt the offer was all that genuine, he would have to be familiar enough with aviation regulations to realise that the offer was always completely and utterly infeasible given certification and testing required not to mention compatibility with the existing systems. Best case scenario would be 12 months, if the planes aren't flying again long LONG before then there will be some serious financial problems for all involved.
Even most journalists, who are supposedly there to tell truth to power,
I just want a journalist to tell me what happened. Do some research, so I can read it, because I don't have time to do it all myself. I don't want reporters to shove their ideology and viewpoint at me. That's what editorial pages are for.
^this, nowadays it is impossible to trust most articles as every reporter or wannabe reporter thinks part of writing an article is giving there own personal spin on the facts to push their personal viewpoints. I will take the dry facts without the bullshit anyday compared to the shit most journalists publish.