Ego Check: Why Executive Hubris Is Wrecking Companies And Careers And How To Avoid The Trap", which shows how executives' inflated egos can impact what they choose to produce, the manufacturing decisions they make and how they market their products.
Nah, the problem is that these executives are running companies whose business models are predicated entirely on producing, manufacturing, or selling actual products. Clearly, they just need to be running different types of companies. Like the ones that were around during the dotcom boom of the late 90s.
Beyond a certain point, people will stop caring about the higher quality and just accept rips that are less than lossless.
Beyond that certain point, an unlimited amount of media will be digitally delivered for a flat monthly "service" fee (which will be divvied up by content providers according to what you watched that month).
Just as bandwidth is always increasing, so too should the quality (and file size) of Hollywood's product. Rather than focusing on making it difficult to pirate their content with DRM, they need to focus on consistently improving their product, and ease of use to legally enjoy it. The carrot rather than the stick, as it were.
When it does go public, MySQL will be one of only a handful of open source vendors to do so. Red Hat, VA Linux (now VA Software), and Caldera (now SCO Group) led the way in 1999 and 2000...
Well, as long as Darl McBride doesn't get his hands on the company they should be ok.
Japanese isn't the only language barrier Apple's decided to cross with its 'I'm a Mac, I'm a PC' ads. Those Brits love their 'shenanigans and tomfoolery' just as much as the next guy.
It's almost like they've got General Peckem describing his platform preference to Yossarian.
Others in the anthropological field question this identification, arguing that the meter-tall Hobbit was a modern human who had something wrong with her.
"The most unique new feature is called Readyboost. When you're having performance issues due to insufficient memory, you can use a USB flash drive as an additional cache of memory to boost performance."
Wh... WHAT?!
What, you don't like KillerNIC's new product? I hear it also helps get an additional 30FPS in Half Life 2.
Slashdot Mirror
MS Office Zero-Day Under Attack
*rereads headline* what?
The Web 2.0 Journal has launched a search for what it calls "the all-time heroes of i-Technology"
In the search for heroes, they should talk to a Mr. Mohinder Suresh. I hear he has a list.
Thompson faces the possibility of disciplinary action up to and including disbarment.
I'm crossing my fingers in the hope that you misspelled dismemberment.
What are they going name this new SuperMaterial?
Unobtainium?
Apparently, if you try to 'safely remove' your iPod from a Vista-installed PC, there's a chance you may corrupt the little music player.
I shudder to think what would happen if you unsafely remove it. Especially from a Sony laptop.
Newspaper Headlines Bow to SEO Demands
Did the SEO have hostages?
Ego Check: Why Executive Hubris Is Wrecking Companies And Careers And How To Avoid The Trap", which shows how executives' inflated egos can impact what they choose to produce, the manufacturing decisions they make and how they market their products.
Nah, the problem is that these executives are running companies whose business models are predicated entirely on producing, manufacturing, or selling actual products. Clearly, they just need to be running different types of companies. Like the ones that were around during the dotcom boom of the late 90s.
It looks like Michael Dell is jumping back into the big chair at Dell because his company is slipping under the direction of Kevin Rollins.
Dude, Dell's gettin' a Dell.
Ethanol is made by adding sugar to yeast, but Amyris believes that it can reprogram the microbes to make something closer to gasoline.
They should add suger to beans. They're great for making gas.
Beyond a certain point, people will stop caring about the higher quality and just accept rips that are less than lossless.
Beyond that certain point, an unlimited amount of media will be digitally delivered for a flat monthly "service" fee (which will be divvied up by content providers according to what you watched that month).
Cue faster bandwidth speeds...
Just as bandwidth is always increasing, so too should the quality (and file size) of Hollywood's product. Rather than focusing on making it difficult to pirate their content with DRM, they need to focus on consistently improving their product, and ease of use to legally enjoy it. The carrot rather than the stick, as it were.
Solving DRM in the BitTorrent Age
The only DRM that works is having movies that are large enough, that most people won't want to spend the time downloading them. (i.e. 24gb HD-DVDs.)
The full horror that is Street Fighter: The Movie, The Game is hard to describe.
I imagine it's the same result you get when crossing the streams. You know, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.
Not meaning to be too unbearably pedantic here, but it's pronounced "toe - say".
Perhaps my joke was a bit too pedestrian.
Ed over in Accounting writes in with a Macinstein interview with Ellen Feiss, an Internet cult figure of a bygone era.
Well, you know what they say. You should let bygones be bygones.
Second Life creators Linden Labs have sent the parody site Get a First Life a proceed-and-permit letter.
In other words, they're virtually going along with the joke.
Tose - Gaming's Little Secret
I thought toes were the bipedal hominid's little secret?
When it does go public, MySQL will be one of only a handful of open source vendors to do so. Red Hat, VA Linux (now VA Software), and Caldera (now SCO Group) led the way in 1999 and 2000...
Well, as long as Darl McBride doesn't get his hands on the company they should be ok.
[Max] Whisson's design has many blades, each as aerodynamic as an aircraft wing,
Yeah, but you know Schick is just going to add one more blade and totally steal his marketshare.
I guess you could say that the 2004 election wasn't 'stolen' after all.
It wasn't stolen. They're just borrowing it until 2008.
Japanese isn't the only language barrier Apple's decided to cross with its 'I'm a Mac, I'm a PC' ads. Those Brits love their 'shenanigans and tomfoolery' just as much as the next guy.
It's almost like they've got General Peckem describing his platform preference to Yossarian.
The Coast Guard is searching for his vessel over 4,000 square miles of ocean
Sounds like Gray's Anatomy is meeting up with Gray's Marine Biology.
Others in the anthropological field question this identification, arguing that the meter-tall Hobbit was a modern human who had something wrong with her.
Maybe she just hobbitually ate a poor diet.
"The most unique new feature is called Readyboost. When you're having performance issues due to insufficient memory, you can use a USB flash drive as an additional cache of memory to boost performance."
Wh... WHAT?!
What, you don't like KillerNIC's new product? I hear it also helps get an additional 30FPS in Half Life 2.
Same thing that killed the guy who used to drive around bringing ice so your grandparents could keep the food in their icebox cold.
Syphilis?