I agree with this. In my 25+ years of experience I've found that managers generally have good people skills which help them to delegate and motivate, good planning skills, good organizational skills, etc. They rarely have great analytical ability or creativity.
My post was a joke, based on the fact that his Slashdot username is Runaway1956.
I agree with you regarding the DCMA, but draw the line at copyright violation, though I'm a huge advocate of copyright reform.
Buying software should be no different than buying a book, car, music, movie, a can of tuna, or any product.
When you buy a car, the terms of the warranty differ if you use the car for commercial purposes. When you buy a movie (i.e., DVD) you're explicitly forbidden from showing it commercially, and you've read the FBI warnings, right? And have you ever read the fine print on a can of tuna? (That was a joke, for the humor-challenged moderators out there. Wouldn't want to get another "-1 Troll":P)
Well, considering that you've just confessed to breaking a number of laws (DCMA, copyright, etc.) you may need to change your Slashdot username to Runaway2009.
There are plenty of patents related to automobile airbags. Hasn't stopped them from becoming pervasive.
These days patents aren't about differentiating your product, they're about protecting yourself from infringement charges from others through cross-licensing agreements. The bigger your patent portfolio, the more leverage you have.
True. Technically, almost everything is marketing. The selection of products, and their features, are marketing. Setting prices is marketing. Etc.
But the general public tends to think of marketing as being synonymous with advertising. I mean, think of how many times you've heard the phrase "sales and marketing" when in fact sales is a part of marketing.
Over the years when Microsoft has been given credit for its marketing prowess it's my opinion that it's their advertising that people are usually talking about.
Yup. Another example of that brilliant Microsoft marketing machine we've all heard about.
I mean, when I think of cool and trendy, I think of Ned Ryerson. Wouldn't everyone want to buy insurance from that guy? Wouldn't everyone want him to do their searches?
The truth is that Microsoft has never had much marketing ability. They just have tons of cash to throw at it, and they've always been good at leveraging monopoly power in one market to win the next. They leveraged their PC DOS monopoly to win the PC GUI environment market with Windows. They leveraged that to win the office suite market. They used their office suite dominance to wipe out Novell by giving big corporations huge Office discounts if they replaced their Novell servers with NT Server. They then leveraged NT Server's dominance to gain dominance in Back Office products like Exchange and IIS. Marketing has had little to do with their success. They of course also tied IE to Windows to thwart Netscape. And every time you installed a new copy of IE it defaulted to msn.com as the home page, otherwise MSN never would have had any market share. The list goes on and on.
We finally come to search engines. Other than making Windows and/or IE default to using Live Search, or whatever it gets rebranded to, they really just don't have much power to tie it to any of the markets they currently dominate.
Guess only time will tell, but I'll be amazed if they gain more than a percent or two from Google in the search market, because I can't see any compelling reason to switch from what I've read so far.
Now we just need to to infect the top seven world leaders with it and we'll have a cure. (MAD TV reference)
Or just infect the top one world leader. Then we all win whether they find a cure or not. (Just kidding. I don't even want him to suffer like that. Now hemorrhoids, yeah, a real nasty case of hemorrhoids would be good!)
We can join in, we just need to redefine Pi as 1.43
Well, if you'd be willing to take King George off our hands, he's become quite good at redefining science, so I'm sure he could make that change for you.
As I stated in a previous post discussing the Zune, I think iTV is being developed specifically for use with an upcoming WiFi iPod (or is it the WiFiPod?).
If you have broadband, and if you are using iTMS you probably do, I don't see why you wouldn't have the option to have iTMS send a copy of anything you download via wireless to your hard drive as well.
You sit at Starbucks downloading My War directly to your iPod, you and your fellow iPodders bandwidthally challenging Starbucks' WRT54G. Meanhile, back at the ranch, iTMS, having secured your permission to do so, places My War on your hard drive without needing you to click any Oks or reboot or otherwise get up from your double espresso which was tragically served to you in a paper cup.
Nope. No need. iTunes 7.0 now copies purchased music from your iPod to your iTunes when you sync (so that you can have it on multiple computers), right? With WiFi, syncing becomes even less painless. So the end result is the same, but without all the additional development work that you're proposing.
OK, I don't think I've seen or heard this rumor anywhere else, so I guess I invented it myself. You know the new upcoming Apple iTV? What's the point? I mean, they already sell the Mini for use with your TV, right? So why develop this iTV thing with Wi-Fi? Just so you can wirelessly view movies & TV shows that are sitting on your Mac Pro? I don't think so.
I believe Apple is developing an iPod with WiFi for use with iTV. Or, a better way to put it is that Apple is developing iTV as an accessory for the new WiFi iPod that will be out next year.
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Just as mystified by this. Does one get mistresses in other genders too? (Not that I would know, but one can try to learn from the basement...)
Apparently you've never seen The Crying Game.
Because of the low levels of CO2 today, we have and increasingly large areas on earth, were nothing grows anymore...
Well, we should soon have no problem growing crops all over the world, then: https://climate.nasa.gov/syste...
I agree with this. In my 25+ years of experience I've found that managers generally have good people skills which help them to delegate and motivate, good planning skills, good organizational skills, etc. They rarely have great analytical ability or creativity.
In the olden days of Slashdot, there would have also been something about a Beowulf cluster of these. Ah, the good old days.
If females start disappearing from our society we're in trouble.
My post was a joke, based on the fact that his Slashdot username is Runaway1956.
I agree with you regarding the DCMA, but draw the line at copyright violation, though I'm a huge advocate of copyright reform.
Buying software should be no different than buying a book, car, music, movie, a can of tuna, or any product.
When you buy a car, the terms of the warranty differ if you use the car for commercial purposes. When you buy a movie (i.e., DVD) you're explicitly forbidden from showing it commercially, and you've read the FBI warnings, right? And have you ever read the fine print on a can of tuna? (That was a joke, for the humor-challenged moderators out there. Wouldn't want to get another "-1 Troll" :P)
The poster's Slashdot ID is Runaway1956. I was basically just making a joke about that. Sheesh.
Well, considering that you've just confessed to breaking a number of laws (DCMA, copyright, etc.) you may need to change your Slashdot username to Runaway2009.
FM Radio in the Nano. Checking date - nope, it's not April 1.
Accidentally moderated this offtopic - stupid scroll wheel on the mouse.
Hmmmm..... I don't suppose that's a Microsoft mouse, it it? Interesting . . .
There are plenty of patents related to automobile airbags. Hasn't stopped them from becoming pervasive.
These days patents aren't about differentiating your product, they're about protecting yourself from infringement charges from others through cross-licensing agreements. The bigger your patent portfolio, the more leverage you have.
Jobs is nowhere near technically competent as Woz, but can hold his own. Probably better than most coders here. Woz would probably agree if asked.
But the more important question is "is Jobs the ballroom dancer that Woz is?"
True. Technically, almost everything is marketing. The selection of products, and their features, are marketing. Setting prices is marketing. Etc.
But the general public tends to think of marketing as being synonymous with advertising. I mean, think of how many times you've heard the phrase "sales and marketing" when in fact sales is a part of marketing.
Over the years when Microsoft has been given credit for its marketing prowess it's my opinion that it's their advertising that people are usually talking about.
Yup. Another example of that brilliant Microsoft marketing machine we've all heard about.
I mean, when I think of cool and trendy, I think of Ned Ryerson. Wouldn't everyone want to buy insurance from that guy? Wouldn't everyone want him to do their searches?
The truth is that Microsoft has never had much marketing ability. They just have tons of cash to throw at it, and they've always been good at leveraging monopoly power in one market to win the next. They leveraged their PC DOS monopoly to win the PC GUI environment market with Windows. They leveraged that to win the office suite market. They used their office suite dominance to wipe out Novell by giving big corporations huge Office discounts if they replaced their Novell servers with NT Server. They then leveraged NT Server's dominance to gain dominance in Back Office products like Exchange and IIS. Marketing has had little to do with their success. They of course also tied IE to Windows to thwart Netscape. And every time you installed a new copy of IE it defaulted to msn.com as the home page, otherwise MSN never would have had any market share. The list goes on and on.
We finally come to search engines. Other than making Windows and/or IE default to using Live Search, or whatever it gets rebranded to, they really just don't have much power to tie it to any of the markets they currently dominate.
Guess only time will tell, but I'll be amazed if they gain more than a percent or two from Google in the search market, because I can't see any compelling reason to switch from what I've read so far.
I just wish the Firefox team would discover Apple's secret API to prevent memory leaks. Now THAT would be sweet.
Now we just need to to infect the top seven world leaders with it and we'll have a cure. (MAD TV reference)
Or just infect the top one world leader. Then we all win whether they find a cure or not. (Just kidding. I don't even want him to suffer like that. Now hemorrhoids, yeah, a real nasty case of hemorrhoids would be good!)
We know how terribly the iPod did without custom apps.
Damn, where are mod points when you need them? +1 Insightful.
We can join in, we just need to redefine Pi as 1.43
Well, if you'd be willing to take King George off our hands, he's become quite good at redefining science, so I'm sure he could make that change for you.
To me, a vacuum is not a cleaning appliance, but the reason people would explode if they were in space without a spacesuit.
You spelled "asplode" wrong.
As I stated in a previous post discussing the Zune, I think iTV is being developed specifically for use with an upcoming WiFi iPod (or is it the WiFiPod?).
With WiFi, syncing becomes even less painless.
Oops, coffee hasn't quite kicked in yet. That was supposed to be "even more painless", or "even less painful", or maybe "even painless-er".
If you have broadband, and if you are using iTMS you probably do, I don't see why you wouldn't have the option to have iTMS send a copy of anything you download via wireless to your hard drive as well.
You sit at Starbucks downloading My War directly to your iPod, you and your fellow iPodders bandwidthally challenging Starbucks' WRT54G. Meanhile, back at the ranch, iTMS, having secured your permission to do so, places My War on your hard drive without needing you to click any Oks or reboot or otherwise get up from your double espresso which was tragically served to you in a paper cup.
Nope. No need. iTunes 7.0 now copies purchased music from your iPod to your iTunes when you sync (so that you can have it on multiple computers), right? With WiFi, syncing becomes even less painless. So the end result is the same, but without all the additional development work that you're proposing.
OK, I don't think I've seen or heard this rumor anywhere else, so I guess I invented it myself. You know the new upcoming Apple iTV? What's the point? I mean, they already sell the Mini for use with your TV, right? So why develop this iTV thing with Wi-Fi? Just so you can wirelessly view movies & TV shows that are sitting on your Mac Pro? I don't think so.
I believe Apple is developing an iPod with WiFi for use with iTV. Or, a better way to put it is that Apple is developing iTV as an accessory for the new WiFi iPod that will be out next year.
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Old Version:
if(user.getGender()==Person.MALE)
recomendation=MovieGenre.PORN;
else
recomendation=MovieGenre.CHICKFLICK;
New Version, sure to win the million bucks:
if(user.getGender()==Person.MALE && user.getOrientation()==Person.STRAIGHT)
recomendation=MovieGenre.PORN;
else
recomendation=MovieGenre.CHICKFLICK;
Used up all my mod points yesterday. Somebody *please* mod parent up!