Being a great leader or CEO isn't about coming up with great ideas, it's about recognizing them.
No, it's about how skilled you are in taking credit for yourself for them, and selling people on your own brilliance. Jobs was, without a doubt, a jedi master in that arena.
You had better think about the consequences. If you clone a whole army of Jobs, not only will this plunge the world into a period of blackest night from which no soul will ever escape, but it will also mean that all the handicapped of the world won't have anywhere to park.
An average person could go to the store, buy some of this, and then bring it home and install it themselves
Only if the average person happens to also be an electrician, or at least someone knowledgeable enough to plug a small power plant into their house's electrical system without ending up a "Dumbass Killed Tonight In Apparent Electrical Fire" headline on their local news.
See, it's this kind of attitude that gives me just tons of faith that BioWare isn't scared to death of people actually seeing this supposed great WoW-killer for any length of time (and seeing its flaws).
From the get-go TOR has reeked of a development clusterfuck. After failing to follow through with the massively successful KOTOR series on consoles, they come out with this PC-only MMO, followed by years of development hell (to the point where some were speculating it would be cancelled altogether). Now this supposed WoW-killer is coming out, and BioWare is suddenly pulling back on how many people will even be able to buy it, or beta it (not exactly a ringing endorsement of their confidence in their server load capacity). It doesn't help that part of the pre-order hype was that pre-ordering it would get you a chance to get into the beta (guess they forgot to mention the "for just three days" part at the press conference).
Much as I loved KOTOR and want this game to be good, this whole thing is starting to smell less like a WoW-killer and more like the Star War Galaxies mess all over again.
It only comes down to a question of how determined your ISP/government is to block you. If the ISP's really wanted to, they could keep an active running blacklist of all of all IP's associated with Telecomix and other proxy sites (the way Websense and other blocking software companies do). It would never be perfect, but it would be pretty damned effective for all but the most determined/informed geeks. And, even worse, if the government really wanted to, they could just keep a tally of everyone even trying to access those IP's and kick down your door one night to drag you off to a prison cell somewhere.
Fortunately, this sort of behavior is pretty uncommon in most developed countries, but don't kid yourself. If they *really* wanted to shut you up, they could. All they have to do is throw up enough obstacles and threats. And, as a last resort, they can even just pull the plug altogether (like they did in San Francisco during the BART protests, and in Egypt during the protests there). Most ISP's cave pretty quickly when soldiers show up with rifles and tanks.
If it's anything like my Apple store, in line is where you'll be standing too, right behind a bunch of pricks who have no intention of actually buying anything.
Your tall skinny no-whip soy tai chi lattechino has about 20 cents worth of ingredients in it.
Yeah, but your overhead on rent/property-taxes, electricity, air-conditioning/heat, labor, etc. are by far your biggest expense in a big city, not your ingredients. And if your coffee shop is packed with a bunch of slackers who just sit around all day nursing one cup of coffee and shooting the shit about how much they love their Macs and iPads, you're probably not going to be making any money--no matter how cheap the coffee is to make.
When I read that I just got the picture in my head of a Disney World for douchebags. Now I can't stop laughing. I keep picturing a bunch of animatronic Steve Jobs's singing "It's a smug world after all...It's a smug world after all..."
The really funny thing is that I bet if you asked that guy why he bought a Macbook and dressed like that, he would say that it was because it made him *unique*. Lol
before going someplace or doing something incredibly important
They're going down to Wall Street and take on the evil corporate pigs who are exporting all our jobs. But first, they need to stop off and buy a bunch of stuff from the Apple Store.
I like this idea, mainly because it might finally clear all of the smug douchebag hipsters out of the regular coffee shops. Then I could enjoy my brownie without having to listen to some dipshit typing away on their $2000 Apple laptop while talking to anyone within earshot about social justice and evil corporations.
What are some of the million new directions you see coming out of Google?
Is there any trend in the last few years that Google HASN'T knocked off? Let's see Google+, Wave, Chrome, Android, AppStores, real world Chrome stores, Chrome OS, Chrome laptops, etc. And that's not even counting the *tons* of smaller stuff they've done (Google Swiffy, Google Body, City Tours, Google Goggles, Google Squared, Google Mars, Google Earth, Google Maps, to name just a FEW).
There is no grand vision and it's got poor leadership, so individual parts of the company have no fucking clue what's going on in other parts of the company. By contrast, this is something that Apple (under Jobs, anyway) has always been MUCH better at.
Sadly, I'm starting to see this problem in Google too. Google seems to be going off in a million different directions lately, with no apparent overarching plan. They seem to be taking a "throw every dart at the board and hope one hits the bullseye" approach (similar to MS). Apple takes more the "throw a small number of darts, but aim them well and throw them hard" approach.
I realize the importance of the general principle here (that companies shouldn't be allowed to treat customer db's as assets). But as a practical matter in this case, does it really matter? Is Barnes and Noble knowing my book buying history any different than Borders knowing it? If I were so paranoid about B&N knowing it, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have bought on Borders under my real name in the first place.
Ethics, fairness, and basic morality should be "king" in politics. Science should obviously inform appropriate decisions. But politics deals too much with matters that can't be quantified into scientific questions for it to be "king."
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the applebots will mod this to purgatory.
No, they're all too busy readying themselves for the mass suicide.
They're people who made 0 difference in the world
Yes, because Apple fanatics are the only ones who've ever made a difference in the world.
Shouldn't you be preparing to throw yourself on the funeral pyre instead of wasting time here?
Being a great leader or CEO isn't about coming up with great ideas, it's about recognizing them.
No, it's about how skilled you are in taking credit for yourself for them, and selling people on your own brilliance. Jobs was, without a doubt, a jedi master in that arena.
You had better think about the consequences. If you clone a whole army of Jobs, not only will this plunge the world into a period of blackest night from which no soul will ever escape, but it will also mean that all the handicapped of the world won't have anywhere to park.
An average person could go to the store, buy some of this, and then bring it home and install it themselves
Only if the average person happens to also be an electrician, or at least someone knowledgeable enough to plug a small power plant into their house's electrical system without ending up a "Dumbass Killed Tonight In Apparent Electrical Fire" headline on their local news.
Also, what do you mean they're pulling back how many people will be able to buy it? Are you making that up because pre-orders are limited
Funny, I don't recall Blizzard ever having to do that. Sure sounds like BioWare is scared to me.
But believe what you want.
t's fucking Bioware dude, the game will be awesome,
BioWare has never made an MMO.
See, it's this kind of attitude that gives me just tons of faith that BioWare isn't scared to death of people actually seeing this supposed great WoW-killer for any length of time (and seeing its flaws).
From the get-go TOR has reeked of a development clusterfuck. After failing to follow through with the massively successful KOTOR series on consoles, they come out with this PC-only MMO, followed by years of development hell (to the point where some were speculating it would be cancelled altogether). Now this supposed WoW-killer is coming out, and BioWare is suddenly pulling back on how many people will even be able to buy it, or beta it (not exactly a ringing endorsement of their confidence in their server load capacity). It doesn't help that part of the pre-order hype was that pre-ordering it would get you a chance to get into the beta (guess they forgot to mention the "for just three days" part at the press conference).
Much as I loved KOTOR and want this game to be good, this whole thing is starting to smell less like a WoW-killer and more like the Star War Galaxies mess all over again.
It only comes down to a question of how determined your ISP/government is to block you. If the ISP's really wanted to, they could keep an active running blacklist of all of all IP's associated with Telecomix and other proxy sites (the way Websense and other blocking software companies do). It would never be perfect, but it would be pretty damned effective for all but the most determined/informed geeks. And, even worse, if the government really wanted to, they could just keep a tally of everyone even trying to access those IP's and kick down your door one night to drag you off to a prison cell somewhere.
Fortunately, this sort of behavior is pretty uncommon in most developed countries, but don't kid yourself. If they *really* wanted to shut you up, they could. All they have to do is throw up enough obstacles and threats. And, as a last resort, they can even just pull the plug altogether (like they did in San Francisco during the BART protests, and in Egypt during the protests there). Most ISP's cave pretty quickly when soldiers show up with rifles and tanks.
This would not be inline with the Genius Bar
If it's anything like my Apple store, in line is where you'll be standing too, right behind a bunch of pricks who have no intention of actually buying anything.
Your tall skinny no-whip soy tai chi lattechino has about 20 cents worth of ingredients in it.
Yeah, but your overhead on rent/property-taxes, electricity, air-conditioning/heat, labor, etc. are by far your biggest expense in a big city, not your ingredients. And if your coffee shop is packed with a bunch of slackers who just sit around all day nursing one cup of coffee and shooting the shit about how much they love their Macs and iPads, you're probably not going to be making any money--no matter how cheap the coffee is to make.
the smuggest place on earth
When I read that I just got the picture in my head of a Disney World for douchebags. Now I can't stop laughing. I keep picturing a bunch of animatronic Steve Jobs's singing "It's a smug world after all...It's a smug world after all..."
The really funny thing is that I bet if you asked that guy why he bought a Macbook and dressed like that, he would say that it was because it made him *unique*. Lol
I'm an anti-hipster hipster. It's the latest thing. But you just wouldn't understand, man.
As smug and loudmouthed as they are sober, the thought of them drunk scares the shit out of me.
before going someplace or doing something incredibly important
They're going down to Wall Street and take on the evil corporate pigs who are exporting all our jobs. But first, they need to stop off and buy a bunch of stuff from the Apple Store.
I like this idea, mainly because it might finally clear all of the smug douchebag hipsters out of the regular coffee shops. Then I could enjoy my brownie without having to listen to some dipshit typing away on their $2000 Apple laptop while talking to anyone within earshot about social justice and evil corporations.
Rage is nothingness with a good engine.
So, basically, it's a typical id game?
What are some of the million new directions you see coming out of Google?
Is there any trend in the last few years that Google HASN'T knocked off? Let's see Google+, Wave, Chrome, Android, AppStores, real world Chrome stores, Chrome OS, Chrome laptops, etc. And that's not even counting the *tons* of smaller stuff they've done (Google Swiffy, Google Body, City Tours, Google Goggles, Google Squared, Google Mars, Google Earth, Google Maps, to name just a FEW).
Would you like me to go on, or is that enough?
There is no grand vision and it's got poor leadership, so individual parts of the company have no fucking clue what's going on in other parts of the company. By contrast, this is something that Apple (under Jobs, anyway) has always been MUCH better at.
Sadly, I'm starting to see this problem in Google too. Google seems to be going off in a million different directions lately, with no apparent overarching plan. They seem to be taking a "throw every dart at the board and hope one hits the bullseye" approach (similar to MS). Apple takes more the "throw a small number of darts, but aim them well and throw them hard" approach.
I realize the importance of the general principle here (that companies shouldn't be allowed to treat customer db's as assets). But as a practical matter in this case, does it really matter? Is Barnes and Noble knowing my book buying history any different than Borders knowing it? If I were so paranoid about B&N knowing it, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have bought on Borders under my real name in the first place.
Ethics, fairness, and basic morality should be "king" in politics. Science should obviously inform appropriate decisions. But politics deals too much with matters that can't be quantified into scientific questions for it to be "king."
So they're getting Jim AND Randy?