The nerve of a company to treat its employees like they are valuable assets instead of galley slaves! That's what caused the dot com bubble to burst, not companies with no solid business plan to monetize their ideas and venture capitalists who dumped money into any company that was doing something with the interwebs without doing any research.
Is anyone reporting on Obama's shady dealings during his state and senate careers? No? I wonder why.
Because they're too busy reporting on Obama being a secret Muslim terrorist? If he was just a run-of-the-mill dirty politician, he'd be no worse than the rest of the senate and hardly "newsworthy".
I personally believe budgets *should* be kept small, even if artificially. This *forces* innovation... In short, I think it's the lack of resources that forces people to come up with workable solutions to whatever problems they face with what resources they have at hand.
Overcoming limitations does force people to come up with creative solutions, but small budgets are just one kind of limitation. Short time line is another. Small size, low weight, extreme temperatures, pressures, vibration, etc. If people are spending time overcoming the small budget, they have less available to overcome the project's other limitations.
The people who put up their $150+ million to set the box-office record for the "Dark Knight" are not the same people who would be watching bad camcorder videos.
No, but they probably have a friend, relative or coworker who is. If that person has downloaded it and tells them it's not worth seeing, they may not go to the theater. I think that's the point behind delaying the piracy a couple of days; you get rid of the word-of-mouth critics who may have very different tastes in movies than the average theater goer.
Everyone got a good laugh out of their own ignorance of how the Congress works and it cost him the election and got us eight years of Bush. Was a joke made at his expense really worth eight years of Bush?
Given that Gore's running mate Joe Lieberman now campaigns for McCain and fully supported the war in Iraq, I wonder just how much different eight years of Gore/Lieberman would have been.
Right, but what they're trying to emphasize is that gender is not the discriminating factor. Rather, culture is.
That's the point the article is trying to make but I don't know if the data backs that up. There are both genetic and cultural differences between males and females, just as there are both genetic and cultural differences between whites and Asians. I don't see how this data can prove whether culture, genetics, or a combination of both are at work here.
The summory[sic] makes a stupid statement about getting royalties 95 years after they stop working. Did they even read their own summory[sic]???? It's about extending it 45 years because say you work 60 years, common with musicians, then retire you still get paid for your earlier work.
Your math is as bad as your spelling. Let's be generous and say a musician starts his professional career at the age of 15. If he works for 60 years as you say, then he retires at 75 (possible I guess). The 45 year extension means he can still collect royalties when he's 110 (despite advances in medical science, I can't imagine most hard-living musicians are going to live that long). Of course that's just for the work they did at 15. They can collect royalties on the work they did at age 40 when they're 135, and they can collect on the work they did just before their retirement when they're 170. Tell me again how this makes sense?
But how's this for an idea: geo-locking hardware like this? "Here's your GPS coordinates. Stray outside of this area, you stop working." Thieves will soon learn that taking something like this will brick it.
Yes! Why do developers assume that every computer has a fast, always-on connection to the internet? Some computers, for reasons of security, practicality, expense or other reasons, are not connected (or only sometimes connected, or slowly connected). If I can't download a full package that can be installed on another computer from a USB flash drive, then that's a program I won't be installing.
And while we're on the topic of annoying installers, I also hate the ones that assume everyone already has Visual Basic, Visual C++, etc. run-time DLLs. If it didn't come with Windows, don't assume I have it. At least tell me when I'm downloading your program that I need them and where I can find them.
Actually, yes you can, when the instruments are in the hands of a musician who is capable of bringing out the best in his/her instrument.
Ahh...but could he/she also "bring out the best" if they were told it was a Stradivarius but it was actually a "placebo" violin? Double-blind testing means that not just the subject (in this case, the listener) but also the tester (in this case, the musician) does not know the true conditions of the test.
The reason I think this is a rotten idea is that Microsoft is very dominant in office software. Rental agreements are a very simple way of making sure you get money each and every year as long as people use it, even if there's little to no innovation. The whole advantage to the consumer, and the reason there's usually some premium, is that you're not that committed. End the rental agreement, sign on someone else. In a market completely dominated by Microsoft, where's the advantage?
I think you answered your own question. The advantage (to Microsoft) is a constant stream of revenue with little to no innovation. As many other posters have mentioned, lots of users are satisfied with Office 2003 (or even Office 97). Microsoft's biggest competition in the office suite space is not Open Office, it's their own previous versions of Office. The upgrade treadmill is no longer adequate to generate continuing revenue, and it's very expensive (those developers could be more profitably used on other MS products). Having users pay year after year for the same product (with maybe a few minor improvements/bug-fixes) keeps the cash flow up with minimal expenses.
For example, Apple didn't succeed with their Newton handheld but Palm computing did with their Pilot. Most people agree its a case of market timing, even though the Newton was unarguably a more powerful device all-round.
While I generally agree with your comment, I don't agree with the example. Palm was not just less powerful than Newton, it was also less power-hungry. The Palm was just powerful enough to do the basic applications that users at that time wanted, which gave them longer battery life, lower weight and smaller size. That is ultimately why it succeeded where Newton failed (that and Newton's poor handwriting recognition). Unfortunately, Palm held onto that "just powerful enough" strategy a little too long, as technology improved and users began demanding more.
Yes, more units are sponsored by LDS than any other single source, but it's hardly a majority. A lot are sponsored by other churches, businesses, Legions, PTAs, Lion's clubs, fire departments, etc.
I'm assuming "Operation" is a video game based on the popular board game, and "Cost" is some sort of accounting/budgeting application similar to Microsoft's "Money". Either that, or the article author doesn't know what the phrase 'killer apps' means.
Fluorescents are more efficient than incandescents but they have many disadvantages: slow startup, limited operating temperature, can't be used with dimmers or motion detector switches, contain mercury, and low power factor (a significant problem if reducing strain on the power grid is the goal). Fluorescents are a step in the right direction, but not the final solution.
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We shouldn't blame them for threatening legal action based on a text tag without even viewing the supposedly offending video?
USB On-The-Go was designed to give USB some of the peer-to-peer abilities of FireWire.
No, it isn't. Unfortunately, some people can't distinguish the difference between criticizing China and criticizing the Chinese.
True, but if I can't remember my password, what makes you think I'll remember a made-up mother's maiden name?
Are you saying the poster had a problem with The Bourne Identity?
The nerve of a company to treat its employees like they are valuable assets instead of galley slaves! That's what caused the dot com bubble to burst, not companies with no solid business plan to monetize their ideas and venture capitalists who dumped money into any company that was doing something with the interwebs without doing any research.
Because they're too busy reporting on Obama being a secret Muslim terrorist? If he was just a run-of-the-mill dirty politician, he'd be no worse than the rest of the senate and hardly "newsworthy".
Overcoming limitations does force people to come up with creative solutions, but small budgets are just one kind of limitation. Short time line is another. Small size, low weight, extreme temperatures, pressures, vibration, etc. If people are spending time overcoming the small budget, they have less available to overcome the project's other limitations.
No, but they probably have a friend, relative or coworker who is. If that person has downloaded it and tells them it's not worth seeing, they may not go to the theater. I think that's the point behind delaying the piracy a couple of days; you get rid of the word-of-mouth critics who may have very different tastes in movies than the average theater goer.
Given that Gore's running mate Joe Lieberman now campaigns for McCain and fully supported the war in Iraq, I wonder just how much different eight years of Gore/Lieberman would have been.
That's the point the article is trying to make but I don't know if the data backs that up. There are both genetic and cultural differences between males and females, just as there are both genetic and cultural differences between whites and Asians. I don't see how this data can prove whether culture, genetics, or a combination of both are at work here.
Why is 10% "magic"? This number is significant because that's how many fingers we have?
Because it has reached double digit
Yes, going from 9% to 10% may only be a 1% increase in market share, but it's a 100% increase in the number of digits the market share number has!
The summory[sic] makes a stupid statement about getting royalties 95 years after they stop working. Did they even read their own summory[sic]???? It's about extending it 45 years because say you work 60 years, common with musicians, then retire you still get paid for your earlier work.
Your math is as bad as your spelling. Let's be generous and say a musician starts his professional career at the age of 15. If he works for 60 years as you say, then he retires at 75 (possible I guess). The 45 year extension means he can still collect royalties when he's 110 (despite advances in medical science, I can't imagine most hard-living musicians are going to live that long). Of course that's just for the work they did at 15. They can collect royalties on the work they did at age 40 when they're 135, and they can collect on the work they did just before their retirement when they're 170. Tell me again how this makes sense?
But how's this for an idea: geo-locking hardware like this? "Here's your GPS coordinates. Stray outside of this area, you stop working." Thieves will soon learn that taking something like this will brick it.
GRM...Geographic Rights Management.
Anyone else really hate online installers?
Yes! Why do developers assume that every computer has a fast, always-on connection to the internet? Some computers, for reasons of security, practicality, expense or other reasons, are not connected (or only sometimes connected, or slowly connected). If I can't download a full package that can be installed on another computer from a USB flash drive, then that's a program I won't be installing.
And while we're on the topic of annoying installers, I also hate the ones that assume everyone already has Visual Basic, Visual C++, etc. run-time DLLs. If it didn't come with Windows, don't assume I have it. At least tell me when I'm downloading your program that I need them and where I can find them.
Ahh...but could he/she also "bring out the best" if they were told it was a Stradivarius but it was actually a "placebo" violin? Double-blind testing means that not just the subject (in this case, the listener) but also the tester (in this case, the musician) does not know the true conditions of the test.
I think you answered your own question. The advantage (to Microsoft) is a constant stream of revenue with little to no innovation. As many other posters have mentioned, lots of users are satisfied with Office 2003 (or even Office 97). Microsoft's biggest competition in the office suite space is not Open Office, it's their own previous versions of Office. The upgrade treadmill is no longer adequate to generate continuing revenue, and it's very expensive (those developers could be more profitably used on other MS products). Having users pay year after year for the same product (with maybe a few minor improvements/bug-fixes) keeps the cash flow up with minimal expenses.
When will half of the hafnium be gone? And what is the half-life of hafnium?
While I generally agree with your comment, I don't agree with the example. Palm was not just less powerful than Newton, it was also less power-hungry. The Palm was just powerful enough to do the basic applications that users at that time wanted, which gave them longer battery life, lower weight and smaller size. That is ultimately why it succeeded where Newton failed (that and Newton's poor handwriting recognition). Unfortunately, Palm held onto that "just powerful enough" strategy a little too long, as technology improved and users began demanding more.
The PLGR has been replaced by the DAGR which addresses many of the problems you described.
Yes, more units are sponsored by LDS than any other single source, but it's hardly a majority. A lot are sponsored by other churches, businesses, Legions, PTAs, Lion's clubs, fire departments, etc.
I'm going to cyber-squat on www.0711240656407113070180000000.org. Prepare to profit in 3 microseconds, 2 microseconds....
I'm assuming "Operation" is a video game based on the popular board game, and "Cost" is some sort of accounting/budgeting application similar to Microsoft's "Money". Either that, or the article author doesn't know what the phrase 'killer apps' means.
The last time I played an interactive game along with a sci-fi TV show was Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. I suspect this one will be about as successful.
Fluorescents are more efficient than incandescents but they have many disadvantages: slow startup, limited operating temperature, can't be used with dimmers or motion detector switches, contain mercury, and low power factor (a significant problem if reducing strain on the power grid is the goal). Fluorescents are a step in the right direction, but not the final solution.