While I do agree that running IT like a business is often not the best way to go about it, some of the things said in the article are simply bizarre. For example, what does this even [b]mean[/b]:
Instead of reacting to users, he should be their peer. Primarily, I asked him why he didn't transition from building Web apps to instead creating a solution using cloud technology and true mobile devices like BlackBerrys, iPods, and emerging tablets. He could offer a better solution, at about a quarter of the cost.
While buzzword compliant it doesn't really mean anything.
This is a non-story, it was exclusive to the X360 at the time. There is no difference than the umpteen movies (some of which Sony is undoubtedly behind) which exclaim 'only in theatres!' in their trailers.
I believe the CRTC only mandates that Bell resell at a minimum of 5 Mbps; at the time this wasn't a bad speed but of course technology has advanced since. The ideal solution in my mind would be to mandate that Bell provide resellers the speed few years prior, this would encourage them to continue to innovate if they want an advantage yet still provide competition. Otherwise we're stuck in the stagnant duopoly unless a city decides to lay fibre/ethernet.
(A real pipe dream would be to split the physical network and content providing parts of Bell Canada and Rogers into separate companies so we could have true competition, but that is unlikely)
In general I don't think that the last mile has been paid for by taxpayers.
someone could enter 8008S on it, think of the children!
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This is definitely true, the knetwork plasma has been broken since the launch of Jaunty for a variety of wireless configurations (even common ones such as hidden essid) and more recently Firefox 3.5 cannot be installed as through broken dependencies it requires firefox-3.0
Intel, and other SSD manufacturers are getting a free ride on reliability and performance. When these types of problems occur in the storage world it can be game over for the manufacturer.
Yes, you really need to be careful with any battery powered device if you drop it, particularly if it has just been on the charger. I've heard a number of stories about cell phones exploding under the same circumstances.
One of the posts in the responses on the linked site (which I don't recommend anyone read, its a cesspool) mentions that there is also a 680 million tax cut in the budget as well.
Unlike MS Windows, the iPod or iPhone is not (*) a crucial business tool that most businesses require in order to run the software they need. People can't just go ahead and purchase a product from a competitor of Microsoft, since their costly business software probably depends on Windows. But people absolutely can (and do) purchase a competitor of the iPod or iPhone.
Explain how this is different than someone having purchased drm'd songs on iTunes and getting locked into ipod/iphones.
The problem is that they aren't prioritizing voice/video, they're essentially preventing the use of P2P (and other protocols) by setting their traffic to an arbitrary low bitrate. For example with Bell Canada and torrents downloads are capped to 30kb/s and uploads to 1 kb/s
Voting with your wallet only works if you have a viable option, and rarely is one actually available to the consumer. While a companies might have the buying power to push the individual rarely does which is why regulation is often necessary to solve this type of issue.
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While I do agree that running IT like a business is often not the best way to go about it, some of the things said in the article are simply bizarre. For example, what does this even [b]mean[/b]:
Instead of reacting to users, he should be their peer. Primarily, I asked him why he didn't transition from building Web apps to instead creating a solution using cloud technology and true mobile devices like BlackBerrys, iPods, and emerging tablets. He could offer a better solution, at about a quarter of the cost.
While buzzword compliant it doesn't really mean anything.
Why would a computer which only uses web applications need a 64GB SSD?
Presumably their back catalogues are worth something.
This is a non-story, it was exclusive to the X360 at the time. There is no difference than the umpteen movies (some of which Sony is undoubtedly behind) which exclaim 'only in theatres!' in their trailers.
Er... wait a minute, isn't the tax rate based on the corporations income in the country, not what they're paying an employee.
I'd assume it has more to do with the fact he looks like a crackhead.
By your logic people with OCD are simply 'making a choice'.
I think it was more that the shady people typically also held large numbers of domains (ie, those they found tasty) so had special accounts.
They wouldn't want to get caught doing it intentionally, though that isn't to say that they wouldn't be aware of a problem and not bother fixing it.
Real networks is a little different, no one actually uses their software.
I believe the CRTC only mandates that Bell resell at a minimum of 5 Mbps; at the time this wasn't a bad speed but of course technology has advanced since. The ideal solution in my mind would be to mandate that Bell provide resellers the speed few years prior, this would encourage them to continue to innovate if they want an advantage yet still provide competition. Otherwise we're stuck in the stagnant duopoly unless a city decides to lay fibre/ethernet.
(A real pipe dream would be to split the physical network and content providing parts of Bell Canada and Rogers into separate companies so we could have true competition, but that is unlikely)
In general I don't think that the last mile has been paid for by taxpayers.
someone could enter 8008S on it, think of the children!
This is definitely true, the knetwork plasma has been broken since the launch of Jaunty for a variety of wireless configurations (even common ones such as hidden essid) and more recently Firefox 3.5 cannot be installed as through broken dependencies it requires firefox-3.0
Yep, and unfortunately they've been allowed to push around the resellers like Teksavvy.
Intel, and other SSD manufacturers are getting a free ride on reliability and performance. When these types of problems occur in the storage world it can be game over for the manufacturer.
Yes, you really need to be careful with any battery powered device if you drop it, particularly if it has just been on the charger. I've heard a number of stories about cell phones exploding under the same circumstances.
One of the posts in the responses on the linked site (which I don't recommend anyone read, its a cesspool) mentions that there is also a 680 million tax cut in the budget as well.
I doubt most incidents are reported.
Unlike MS Windows, the iPod or iPhone is not (*) a crucial business tool that most businesses require in order to run the software they need. People can't just go ahead and purchase a product from a competitor of Microsoft, since their costly business software probably depends on Windows. But people absolutely can (and do) purchase a competitor of the iPod or iPhone.
Explain how this is different than someone having purchased drm'd songs on iTunes and getting locked into ipod/iphones.
The problem is that they aren't prioritizing voice/video, they're essentially preventing the use of P2P (and other protocols) by setting their traffic to an arbitrary low bitrate. For example with Bell Canada and torrents downloads are capped to 30kb/s and uploads to 1 kb/s
From a news segment I saw here recently in Canada virtually the entire world with the exception of the USA requires radio stations to pay artists.
To me I don't see why you would pay songwriters but not the musicians.
We don't know that Microsoft isn't implementing the video tag, the post on the mailing list simply says they have not commented on it.
Exactly what gives you the idea the locations change? Airports have been a common choice for years as they need accurate data.
Temperature records also follow increases in emissions.
Voting with your wallet only works if you have a viable option, and rarely is one actually available to the consumer. While a companies might have the buying power to push the individual rarely does which is why regulation is often necessary to solve this type of issue.