I think it's pretty safe to assume that these companies have non-trivial amounts of IT infrastructure (that needs maintenance, migrations, upgrades, etc...). Any such system that doesn't require knowledge transfer must satisfy at least one of the below:
1) You have an oracle stashed somewhere. 2) You have volumes of documentation. 3) Retaining key people that actually do know the system. 4) You don't ever plan on upgrading/migrating and are content with the current system for perpetuity (I'll even throw in that it's trivial to re-image a computer when its predecessor breaks down).
We know 1 doesn't exist, or at least, no offshore company has one that they can assign to Carnival.
2 requires a team of engineers that pore over those volumes of documentation, make sense of it all, not fuck up any future plans with their 0 experience of the Carnival systems, all the while sticking around long enough such that said team can maintain the system, return a profit for the IT company for real services rendered, and learn enough to plan out/implement whatever upgrades/roadmap they decide to do.
Good luck with 3. I rarely see management being able to retain the right talent, even when it's not pressured by offshoring schedule and with relevant leads still in place. That and human nature to retain your friends.
So that leaves us with what? 2. Which means Carnival will never improve, and for sure I won't want to go on their cruise now. Or maybe you can come up with 5/6/7 etc..., which I'm all ears.
I think you're assuming that management always know who's the best at what, and their offers reflect that. In reality, their accuracy is hit or miss. And given it's Carnival, I'd be much more willing to place my bets on "miss."
Really? Then by your logic, I'm guessing that Carnival doesn't really need him, or the whole IT department, to transfer his/their knowledge then. But since Carnival does, so I guess knowledge of existing infrastructure/software/practices/setup is pretty much a "specialized skill."
You only get charged when your ad gets placed. So if anything, it was too easy to place his ads. If Google had to collect money every time someone spends $1000, then they'd have to collect too often.
Sorry, but they're one of the first ones to release on 821. If you're going to lump 821 with 820, you may as well say Google is the last to release a phone on the 800s.
And before you know it, you didn't gain any market traction because you can't drum up support for 5 houses/city, and you blew through $10B+ just having contractors "ready and waiting" in 100 cities. It's not zero cost to start the effort in a city, you know?
Because Apple's decision will ultimately greatly affect the diversity of headphones and their prices on the market. And now people have to buy two headphones...one for Apple's shit, and another for everything else. Not to mention all the additional e-waste from the forced upgrades (in addition to headphones, there are things like card readers, mics, etc...).
FB's employee count was 14495 on June 30, 2016 (on their website). This seems to say that FB has 15682 contributors. So either FB hired like 5k+ employees in the past 2 months (hey, they have sales, which I doubt contributes to software), or there is significant double/triple/quadruple counting (or maybe past employees, but I doubt their turnover is that huge). I doubt any of this is FB's fault (since I don't think FB cares about these numbers), but the original article is pretty bad at reporting (at best), or has a hidden agenda (at worst).
I hope you do know that the black plastic case is exactly why your phone hits thermal limits way faster than a metal case, and proceeds to clock the fuck down and tanks in performance. The only thing I'd agree to in your list is the audio jack, and I'll have to wait for the official announcement to know.
Snapdragon 800: 2.3GHz CPU and Adreno 330 Snapdragon 805: 2.7GHz CPU and Adreno 420 Snapdragon 808: A57 CPU and Adreno 418
These are quite different hardware architecture/designs. It's definitely not what you would call "marketing generations." And by no means is a krait CPU a "sibling" to a default A57 CPU, performance regression or not.
The 5 and 5X are very different, especially when it comes to things that matter. I don't even know how you can claim they're similar when they're literally two generations apart. It's practically enough time for Qualcomm to develop, launch, and stop supporting a whole product from end to end!
Exactly illustrates my point. Lots of people drive during the day, and it'd be an awful waste if that light is a 50kW bulb...
And in case you didn't know, the biggest possible battery hog isn't the screen or antennas - it's the CPU. It's just that most of the time it's idle; and when it's busy, it often overheats and slows down.
So to address your original point: Snooze is great for those shitty apps (read: *cough*Facebook*cough*) that wakes up your phone every 5 minutes to phone home...I meant, to "update itself to bring you the best experience."
Some reasons why Google won't update: 1) Is the phone fast enough so that it isn't just full of jank when you upgrade? Because I'm sure people will complain a LOT more about that than be forced to upgrade a pretty antiquated phone. 2) Do the hardware component manufacturers still support those devices? Put it this way: why would Qualcomm staff up a driver team to upgrade the drivers of components in old devices if those components are "good enough" and doesn't even sell much anymore?
There are two types of updates which I think we're confounding: one is security updates, and another is OS upgrades. At least as of now, security updates are being forced through. So as long as you have a relatively recent version of Android and a phone with some sort of reputable brand, you get those regularly (just like your Windows/Ubuntu example).
On the other hand, version upgrades are mostly wild wild west-style of approach. And in this regard, it's a lot less different from Windows than you'd think (as for lowest-common-denominator-Linux in general, well, you don't see many good games on there, do you?). When Windows Vista launched, the minimum requirement was DX9. If you didn't have a DX9 card, you're SOL for the most part. But this is also the part where some PC hardware manufacturers have done very well (compared to phones) -- they provided continual driver updates. Can't say the same for phone hardware manufacturers (which is probably why the N5 wasn't updated).
Let me rephrase your concern: "what benefit will X be for use case Y when X is designed for use case Z?"
Well, yes, not a whole lot use when your use case is Y. But if your use case is Z, then it sure helps a lot. Your statement is also a lot like saying "why would I need an ignition switch on my car if every time I use my car it needs to be running anyway?" Well, yes, except you're not always driving, right? And for a lot (if not the majority) of people, their phones' screens are more often than not off between charges.
Yes, because when Kim Jong-il died, North Korea was freed from the decades of repression and servitude. Oh wai....
And when the Arab Spring happened, obviously no corrupt leader died/were thrown from office and are still the same illustrious leaders today. Oh wai....
Trust me, if you failed to pass on your legacy of tyranny on to your offsprings, you failed as a tyrant. Natural death addresses some of the symptoms of evil, not evil itself.
As long as the logistics isn't an issue, it's rather easy to solve this problem -- require a tax of 10-20% of all donated blood to go into blood banks. Now you'll have more blood in blood banks than what you know to do with.
That's part of the point of the whole project -- get rid of certain JS/CSS hogs that constantly change and relayout the page while you're reading. And personally, I don't want to go back to the 90s crap static HTML using Lynx. I actually do like my interactive web pages (sans laggy third-party JS), thanks.
Didn't YT already address this (recently) by holding onto the revenue while a complaint is being resolved, and then sending the accrued revenue to the winning party when the complaint is actually resolved?
From my personal experience with speaking to people, most choicers stop being ok with abortions at 3rd trimester, and most lifers start are fine with abortion at 1st trimester (using abortion as a guide of "when does 'life' begin"). The debate is really at the second trimester. But in the US, the politics/political theater/extreme groups keep glossing over this point, and try to polarize the issue into all or none. This polarization prevents actual civil discourse and resolution. It's rather sad, actually.
Slashdot Mirror
I think it's pretty safe to assume that these companies have non-trivial amounts of IT infrastructure (that needs maintenance, migrations, upgrades, etc...). Any such system that doesn't require knowledge transfer must satisfy at least one of the below:
1) You have an oracle stashed somewhere.
2) You have volumes of documentation.
3) Retaining key people that actually do know the system.
4) You don't ever plan on upgrading/migrating and are content with the current system for perpetuity (I'll even throw in that it's trivial to re-image a computer when its predecessor breaks down).
We know 1 doesn't exist, or at least, no offshore company has one that they can assign to Carnival.
2 requires a team of engineers that pore over those volumes of documentation, make sense of it all, not fuck up any future plans with their 0 experience of the Carnival systems, all the while sticking around long enough such that said team can maintain the system, return a profit for the IT company for real services rendered, and learn enough to plan out/implement whatever upgrades/roadmap they decide to do.
Good luck with 3. I rarely see management being able to retain the right talent, even when it's not pressured by offshoring schedule and with relevant leads still in place. That and human nature to retain your friends.
So that leaves us with what? 2. Which means Carnival will never improve, and for sure I won't want to go on their cruise now. Or maybe you can come up with 5/6/7 etc..., which I'm all ears.
I think you're assuming that management always know who's the best at what, and their offers reflect that. In reality, their accuracy is hit or miss. And given it's Carnival, I'd be much more willing to place my bets on "miss."
Really? Then by your logic, I'm guessing that Carnival doesn't really need him, or the whole IT department, to transfer his/their knowledge then. But since Carnival does, so I guess knowledge of existing infrastructure/software/practices/setup is pretty much a "specialized skill."
And Samsung/Apple doesn't? Don't delude yourself.
You only get charged when your ad gets placed. So if anything, it was too easy to place his ads. If Google had to collect money every time someone spends $1000, then they'd have to collect too often.
Sorry, but they're one of the first ones to release on 821. If you're going to lump 821 with 820, you may as well say Google is the last to release a phone on the 800s.
Like, the very people who buy Galaxy S7/iPhone 7 and make them successful phones? Yeah, those.
You make it sound sinister. Just buy the Chromecast 2 if you don't have the proper goods; it's still being sold.
And before you know it, you didn't gain any market traction because you can't drum up support for 5 houses/city, and you blew through $10B+ just having contractors "ready and waiting" in 100 cities. It's not zero cost to start the effort in a city, you know?
That was 32 years ago, man.
Because Apple's decision will ultimately greatly affect the diversity of headphones and their prices on the market. And now people have to buy two headphones...one for Apple's shit, and another for everything else. Not to mention all the additional e-waste from the forced upgrades (in addition to headphones, there are things like card readers, mics, etc...).
FB's employee count was 14495 on June 30, 2016 (on their website). This seems to say that FB has 15682 contributors. So either FB hired like 5k+ employees in the past 2 months (hey, they have sales, which I doubt contributes to software), or there is significant double/triple/quadruple counting (or maybe past employees, but I doubt their turnover is that huge). I doubt any of this is FB's fault (since I don't think FB cares about these numbers), but the original article is pretty bad at reporting (at best), or has a hidden agenda (at worst).
You stopped working on your pet project at home and moved on? Say it ain't so.
I hope you do know that the black plastic case is exactly why your phone hits thermal limits way faster than a metal case, and proceeds to clock the fuck down and tanks in performance. The only thing I'd agree to in your list is the audio jack, and I'll have to wait for the official announcement to know.
Snapdragon 800: 2.3GHz CPU and Adreno 330
Snapdragon 805: 2.7GHz CPU and Adreno 420
Snapdragon 808: A57 CPU and Adreno 418
These are quite different hardware architecture/designs. It's definitely not what you would call "marketing generations." And by no means is a krait CPU a "sibling" to a default A57 CPU, performance regression or not.
The 5 and 5X are very different, especially when it comes to things that matter. I don't even know how you can claim they're similar when they're literally two generations apart. It's practically enough time for Qualcomm to develop, launch, and stop supporting a whole product from end to end!
Exactly illustrates my point. Lots of people drive during the day, and it'd be an awful waste if that light is a 50kW bulb...
And in case you didn't know, the biggest possible battery hog isn't the screen or antennas - it's the CPU. It's just that most of the time it's idle; and when it's busy, it often overheats and slows down.
So to address your original point: Snooze is great for those shitty apps (read: *cough*Facebook*cough*) that wakes up your phone every 5 minutes to phone home...I meant, to "update itself to bring you the best experience."
Some reasons why Google won't update:
1) Is the phone fast enough so that it isn't just full of jank when you upgrade? Because I'm sure people will complain a LOT more about that than be forced to upgrade a pretty antiquated phone.
2) Do the hardware component manufacturers still support those devices? Put it this way: why would Qualcomm staff up a driver team to upgrade the drivers of components in old devices if those components are "good enough" and doesn't even sell much anymore?
There are a lot more reasons beyond "specs".
There are two types of updates which I think we're confounding: one is security updates, and another is OS upgrades. At least as of now, security updates are being forced through. So as long as you have a relatively recent version of Android and a phone with some sort of reputable brand, you get those regularly (just like your Windows/Ubuntu example).
On the other hand, version upgrades are mostly wild wild west-style of approach. And in this regard, it's a lot less different from Windows than you'd think (as for lowest-common-denominator-Linux in general, well, you don't see many good games on there, do you?). When Windows Vista launched, the minimum requirement was DX9. If you didn't have a DX9 card, you're SOL for the most part. But this is also the part where some PC hardware manufacturers have done very well (compared to phones) -- they provided continual driver updates. Can't say the same for phone hardware manufacturers (which is probably why the N5 wasn't updated).
Let me rephrase your concern: "what benefit will X be for use case Y when X is designed for use case Z?"
Well, yes, not a whole lot use when your use case is Y. But if your use case is Z, then it sure helps a lot. Your statement is also a lot like saying "why would I need an ignition switch on my car if every time I use my car it needs to be running anyway?" Well, yes, except you're not always driving, right? And for a lot (if not the majority) of people, their phones' screens are more often than not off between charges.
Yes, because when Kim Jong-il died, North Korea was freed from the decades of repression and servitude. Oh wai....
And when the Arab Spring happened, obviously no corrupt leader died/were thrown from office and are still the same illustrious leaders today. Oh wai....
Trust me, if you failed to pass on your legacy of tyranny on to your offsprings, you failed as a tyrant. Natural death addresses some of the symptoms of evil, not evil itself.
As long as the logistics isn't an issue, it's rather easy to solve this problem -- require a tax of 10-20% of all donated blood to go into blood banks. Now you'll have more blood in blood banks than what you know to do with.
That's part of the point of the whole project -- get rid of certain JS/CSS hogs that constantly change and relayout the page while you're reading. And personally, I don't want to go back to the 90s crap static HTML using Lynx. I actually do like my interactive web pages (sans laggy third-party JS), thanks.
Didn't YT already address this (recently) by holding onto the revenue while a complaint is being resolved, and then sending the accrued revenue to the winning party when the complaint is actually resolved?
http://youtubecreator.blogspot...
From my personal experience with speaking to people, most choicers stop being ok with abortions at 3rd trimester, and most lifers start are fine with abortion at 1st trimester (using abortion as a guide of "when does 'life' begin"). The debate is really at the second trimester. But in the US, the politics/political theater/extreme groups keep glossing over this point, and try to polarize the issue into all or none. This polarization prevents actual civil discourse and resolution. It's rather sad, actually.