You're right. A small time operator like Nokia has no business producing multiple models. Similarly, General Motors should focus their engineers on one model of car, and perhaps a heavy truck.
You missed Windows 3.0, which was the 'truly revolutionary' first usable Windows. And you missed NT 3.5, which was far superior to NT 3.1 but didn't have the 3.51 bugfixes.
Yeah, it's not like managers of big companies do that kind of things.
I know you were trying to be ironic, but inadvertantly you're right. "Managers of big comapnies" who do that are quickly replaced. The Board of Directors shitcans them, or the shareholders shitcan the Board of Directors.
You've gotta get beyond the idea that the little man drawn on the game cards in Monopoly are the reality.
Bankruptcy allows organizations to slough off all kinds of parasites and needless layers of crap. It's an opportunity for a business to reorganize within well defined guidelines.
That's probably why the Government wouldn't allow Chrysler or GM to go bankrupt. There were too many parasites with an interest in things continuing along the way they were. All those Union dollars, and the entrenched management went wailing to Washington. Same as it ever was.
Bankruptcy is not an endpoint. It's not even a problem. It's a solution.
The 'new improved' Slashdot comment systems are like a weird demented Uncle who slip into the living room every once in awhile. You have to beat him with a broom to get him outta there and back into his 'room' and slam the door. And exclaim 'whew' and go back to reading Slashdot.
You mean those incidents where a few soldiers took it into their own hands to engage in actions that were strictly against the rules? The soldiers who were rigorously punished for it?
Oh, I forgot. You've got clippings from a trotskyite newspaper you bought somewhere that say 'it was all a rig-up.'
Say the phone would had ran straight Debian or whatever and be totally open, and have no central repository but let people post whatever they developed on their webpages and have others download them. How many phone specific applications would you had seen on the phones? How many would had used them? Know which ones was popular? How many would had been developing them? So on so on.
Hold on, man. If I want to run xfig on my phone, it's my right to run xfig on my phone.
The pattern etched inside grandparent poster's brain, it seems.
Some people live in a cartoon world where they have the privilege of harboring parody political opponents. It happens on the left and on the right.
What I was expecting to see when I logged onto Slashdot today was an article revealing the shooter dude's Slashdot ID. Does anybody know it, or was he mostly an A.C.?
The Vishay-Dale resistors might not even be the best part to use in the application. Every type of resistor has it's peculiarities, and carbon/metal film resistors have impedance characteristics that are different from plain old carbon composition resistors. They are more prone to have inductive properties that might even matter (or not) in an audio design, because they're usually based on a coil design, probably with a spiral pattern esp. if they're of such a high spec that they're laser trimmed. The plain old 'lump' resistance of a carbon comp. resistor can't be beat sometimes (but of course that type of resistor has it's 'issues' as well.)
As your Username says, TooMuchToDo. I don't want to pay companies to push that much paper around on desks for everything that I buy. It's important in some instances and needless in other instances.
I don't mean literally 'paper on desks' mind you. Any form of recordkeeping has a cost associated with it. Furthermore, you can lose the important data in a sea of irrelevant data if you retain everything.
So, what happens when all those Facebook junkies (basically everybody under 25yo) are running the companies?
The ones who are Facebook junkies have automatically disqualified themselves from having a leadership role at any important company. No, I mean they really have. There are still grownups in the world. Even grownups under the age of 25.
(i.e., buying back all those assets/resources your citizens purchased with monopoly money)
In order for a buyer to purchase something, it requires that there be a seller.
If it's 'monopoly money' why should anybody in the US accept it?
In other words, in a 'state of crisis' where foreign debtors are trying to use the US dollars they hold to snap up US held resources, what if the holders of said resources fold their arms and say 'no'? It's within the realm of possibilities.
Now how absurd and wrong is it that they don't allow every idiot who knows some random programming language to distribute their stuff via the iOS app store? If you want to program Haskell on your iPhone, go ahead, nobody is stopping you, but don't expect Apple to put your work in the app store, just like Microsoft will not allow you to publish a GW-BASIC program on the Xbox 360, or Sony will allow you to distribute a Java application through PSN. Other companies also provide SDKs that you have to use to publish on their platforms, there's nothing absurd or wrong about that. Stop seeing a phone platform as some kind of hobbyist playground that should allow you to do everything with it you desire.
When was the last time you complained you can't reprogram the scaler in your HDTV, or write a Java program for your car ECU?
Did you cut and paste all that out of an iPhone discussion thread? Because here, we are talking about MacOS, on Mac computers, which are closed, but not anywhere near as closed as their cell phones and music players.
My mother doesn't do it any more, but she used to 'splice' graphic images into mimeograph stencils using a razor blade and tape. She also did text centering and simultaneous right-and-left margin justification, on an IBM Selectric.
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You're right. A small time operator like Nokia has no business producing multiple models. Similarly, General Motors should focus their engineers on one model of car, and perhaps a heavy truck.
You missed Windows 3.0, which was the 'truly revolutionary' first usable Windows. And you missed NT 3.5, which was far superior to NT 3.1 but didn't have the 3.51 bugfixes.
Yeah, it's not like managers of big companies do that kind of things.
I know you were trying to be ironic, but inadvertantly you're right. "Managers of big comapnies" who do that are quickly replaced. The Board of Directors shitcans them, or the shareholders shitcan the Board of Directors.
You've gotta get beyond the idea that the little man drawn on the game cards in Monopoly are the reality.
Bankruptcy allows organizations to slough off all kinds of parasites and needless layers of crap. It's an opportunity for a business to reorganize within well defined guidelines.
That's probably why the Government wouldn't allow Chrysler or GM to go bankrupt. There were too many parasites with an interest in things continuing along the way they were. All those Union dollars, and the entrenched management went wailing to Washington. Same as it ever was.
Bankruptcy is not an endpoint. It's not even a problem. It's a solution.
It's also possible, though, that some of the 'big names' cashed in their chips and retired. Don't you think that could be true some of the time?
I've been sort of expecting somebody to post what his Slashdot ID was.... I'm sure he didn't only post as an A.C.
The 'new improved' Slashdot comment systems are like a weird demented Uncle who slip into the living room every once in awhile. You have to beat him with a broom to get him outta there and back into his 'room' and slam the door. And exclaim 'whew' and go back to reading Slashdot.
I downloaded a distribution of Debian that ran on the Hurd a number of years ago. It's complete enough to use.
You mean those incidents where a few soldiers took it into their own hands to engage in actions that were strictly against the rules? The soldiers who were rigorously punished for it?
Oh, I forgot. You've got clippings from a trotskyite newspaper you bought somewhere that say 'it was all a rig-up.'
I remember on the few instances when I went to LUG meetings that there were a few bears looming up in the last few rows of seats in the auditorium.
ARCnet is probably FDA approved. What's wrong? Not good enough for you?
That means that eventually, there will be an XP release of Android, and the entire market will belong to Android.
I despise people who equate Apple with BMW.
A better comparison would be: "That's like saying RC Cola is a failure because Coca-Cola outsells it."
Let's pitch the notion that Apple is a luxury brand. That's hype.
Hold on, man. If I want to run xfig on my phone, it's my right to run xfig on my phone.
heh
But whichever side they're on is going to feel as nasty backlash.
You mean the nut-case contingent? Yes. Probably they will feel a nasty backlash.
The pattern etched inside grandparent poster's brain, it seems.
Some people live in a cartoon world where they have the privilege of harboring parody political opponents. It happens on the left and on the right.
What I was expecting to see when I logged onto Slashdot today was an article revealing the shooter dude's Slashdot ID. Does anybody know it, or was he mostly an A.C.?
The important message, though, is: "The IT Guys know that they should be getting paid more money for doing more new stuff."
The Vishay-Dale resistors might not even be the best part to use in the application. Every type of resistor has it's peculiarities, and carbon/metal film resistors have impedance characteristics that are different from plain old carbon composition resistors. They are more prone to have inductive properties that might even matter (or not) in an audio design, because they're usually based on a coil design, probably with a spiral pattern esp. if they're of such a high spec that they're laser trimmed. The plain old 'lump' resistance of a carbon comp. resistor can't be beat sometimes (but of course that type of resistor has it's 'issues' as well.)
As your Username says, TooMuchToDo. I don't want to pay companies to push that much paper around on desks for everything that I buy. It's important in some instances and needless in other instances.
I don't mean literally 'paper on desks' mind you. Any form of recordkeeping has a cost associated with it. Furthermore, you can lose the important data in a sea of irrelevant data if you retain everything.
...is the Zuck urinal puck. Nobody would ever miss again.
So, what happens when all those Facebook junkies (basically everybody under 25yo) are running the companies?
The ones who are Facebook junkies have automatically disqualified themselves from having a leadership role at any important company. No, I mean they really have. There are still grownups in the world. Even grownups under the age of 25.
(i.e., buying back all those assets/resources your citizens purchased with monopoly money)
In order for a buyer to purchase something, it requires that there be a seller.
If it's 'monopoly money' why should anybody in the US accept it?
In other words, in a 'state of crisis' where foreign debtors are trying to use the US dollars they hold to snap up US held resources, what if the holders of said resources fold their arms and say 'no'? It's within the realm of possibilities.
Did you cut and paste all that out of an iPhone discussion thread? Because here, we are talking about MacOS, on Mac computers, which are closed, but not anywhere near as closed as their cell phones and music players.
Buying from your website: obscure website with no proven track record. Making payment to an unknown business entity.
Buying from Apple's website: known entity, billing arrangements already set up in advance.
My mother doesn't do it any more, but she used to 'splice' graphic images into mimeograph stencils using a razor blade and tape. She also did text centering and simultaneous right-and-left margin justification, on an IBM Selectric.