Does this guy even know what EOE is? If the application terminal is broken, then nobody is going to get a job. So, everybody who wants to apply for the job has an 'equal opportunity' or chance to get the job. That chance being 0%.
OTOH, if they are looking for someone with basic computer skills and he is just too incompetent to fill out the application, he doesn't fit there job requirements anyway. Any company has the right to refuse employment to someone if they don't have the required skills for the job. That's just common sense.
"I look at it this way, if someone wants to buy the big SUV, pay the premium for doing so, and then to top it off pay for all that extra gas I say LET THEM!."
Except if you look at it from a supply and demand perspective, all those people driving turbo diesel 8.0 liter trucks getting 9 mpg and consuming all that gas is raising gas prices for everybody else too. If supply remains the same and demand goes up, then price goes up.
I work for a credit card company also and things are a little different. The artistic design team use macs, the web team some use windows and 1 uses a mac. The backend guys are split. Some use macs and others windows but they all just end up using a shell to get to linux where they develop in vi. The IVR team is Windows only. In the case of the IVR, development using a Mac wouldn't even be possible let alone faster. Macs seem better for artistic design where Windows seems better for C++. Either platform is about the same for web development. Either platform is the same to shell to linux.
In our situation, development on Mac doesn't actually save any time it's just a matter of personal preference or in the IVR case, the windows requirement.
- A $299 leather case for Mac keyboards. You can not actually use the keyboard while it is in the case. - A new line of computers called the 'Hi-Speed'. Pricing: $2,499 for the 200 Megahertz model and $2,999 for the 300 Megahertz model. - The Mac nano - so small you can't even see it
I agree with you. This isn't even about a new product or service. This is a story about some really pathetic guy who is so lame he is going to kill himself if Apple doesn't announce a new product or service soon.
I am an emusic subscriber and I think it's a great idea. I like how I can get the standard mp3 format without any DRM. The bit rate is one thing that is kind of weird. It seems like it is different for ever song. However, it is always good usually in the 180-200+ range.
The other thing I really like about eMusic is the pricing. I pay $9.99/month for 40 songs. That's $.25 per song. It's even better if you do the $19.99/month for 90 songs, just over $.22 per song. Another cool thing is it remembers what you download and you can download it again later for no charge. The site is really well done also.
That said, the biggest problem with eMusic is the selection. They add new music all the time, but they have virtually no mainstream music. For the most part, that is ok with me. They do have a lot of Jazz and Classical and music for lots of other genres you don't normally hear on the radio. Great for trying new music at a low cost.
Sony is pushing BluRay with the PS3. They seem to think they need 30 GB of storage for a single game. This presents several problems. AFAIK, the PS3 will not come with a hard drive. Where are these games going to be stored? Even if they add a hard drive, what happens if you want to own more than 2 or 3 games? Then, there is the bandwidth problem. How many servers and T1 lines are they going to need? What happens when a hit game comes out and everybody tries to download it at the same time?
Sony is trying to tell the world that they need BluRay. Now they are saying that you can download games. So why do I need BluRay again?
Unless they release the Bluray set with better resolution in which case it will take up a whole lot more than 3604GB and a whole lot more discs than you are talking about.
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For the nine months ended Sept. 30, 2005:
Revenues = $174.0 million Net loss = $189.6 million Marketing expenses = $176.3 million
Even if they were able to eliminate all marketing expenses without losing any revenue, they would still be losing money. If you eliminate $176.3 million of the $189.6 million loss, they still would lose $13.3 million.
Also, it's kind of fishy that they are reporting 9 months. I mean most companies are able to do a full year report by around Januray 20th. What are they hiding in the last 3 months?
How will the studios be able to manufacture the next boyband or pussycatdolls, if only talented musicians can make a profit?
That's exactly my point. I would prefer if only talented musicians make a profit. It sickens me that people with little or no musical talent are making millions of dollars making music while people who have devoted their entire life to learning and writing quality music make nothing.
It would also be much easier for people to find good music. Imagine being able to turn on the radio and find some new music that was good. Or MTV and find (gasp) music. Yes, there are a few talented artists that make it mainstream, but for the most part it is all garbage. I know there is a ton of good music out there. Everyone, including myself, is missing out on a lot of good music because it is not visible.
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They're like a car company saying to their customers, "You don't want a big SUV - you want our compact car with good fuel economy".
Your analogy to the car market is a bit funny because it is right on and yet contradicts your point. I will admit that the SUV is a big market. Yet, not everybody wants a big SUV. A lot of people actually do want an economy car. Other people want sports cars. Other people want motorcycles. Have you been reading any news on General Motors? They posted record losses last year in the billion dollar range. Sales of SUVs were dismal in the second half of 2005. During the same time period, companies like Toyota and Nissan reported record sales of their mid-size cars. The demand in the market is changing.
In the same way, Nintendo is trying to target a totally different market and I think if this new controller works and they can produce fun games, they will see great success. Also, I would point out that unlike some companies, Nintendo has proven they actually can make a profit in the video game industry.
A quote from the article states: "The network builders are spending a fortune constructing and maintaining the networks that Google intends to ride on with nothing but cheap servers." Nothing but cheap servers? I could have a bunch of cheap servers in my basement but not make any money unless I pay a large fee to install a bunch of T1/T3 lines and pay a large monthly fee for access to the network.
They just want to target google because they have a ton of money. The telcos should be happy websites like google exist because they increase demand for the average joe to buy a high speed broadband subscription for their home.
I think they mean that it would kill future work. They think that the artists will no longer get paid to produce new music and thus will have no incentive to produce music. Rather than change the business model, they just freak out and say the internet is killing their music.
Other artists are actually embracing the internet. Artists such as Phish, String Cheese Incident, etc. allow taping of their shows and actually encourage online trading of these live recordings. This is like free advertising for these bands. Then, when the bands go on tours, more people will buy concert tix to attend the shows. These bands also typically offer fans to purchase SBD quality shows online through their website.
Instead of fearing P2P, they should use P2P to actually help them make money.
It seems like the current business model is messed up. Development costs of games are skyrocketing, yet is the fun factor of games skyrocketing? No. If anything games are getting less fun to play.
Maybe the development companies should start focusing on making games that are fun with lots of replay value instead of remaking the same sports and FPS games over and over with just improved graphics. If games were that much more fun to play, more people would be willing to buy them new and keep them for longer periods of time, thus reducing the used inventory at stores like EB. People will then have to buy the game new because they can't find it used as easily.
This is something I think Nintendo is trying to achieve with the Revolution and I hope they succeed. Nintendo has proven they are the company that can actually make a profit in the game industry.
The Talkman software is found to come preinstalled with a rootkit that sends a copy of all conversations to the U.S. government. All conversations are monitored for terrorist activity.
The Chinese government forces Talkman to censor some controversial topics. Chinese users quickly find they can still talk about these topics by slightly mispronouncing the words.
The homebrew community produces a hack that allows you to speak in pig latin.
I am continually amazed that these big corporations lose credit card, ssn, and other personal data all the time. Why were these card numbers printed in the first place? Why was the paper recycled or reused and not shredded or professionally destroyed?
They should be required by law to keep the data secure. I would propose the following requirements:
- Credit card and personal inforomation must be stored encrypted or not stored at all. - Any machines containing cardholder data should be fully equipped with anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, etc. - Printouts should never have the full card number. They should build their reports with just the last 4 digits of the card number or preferably using some other id number like a customer id or subscriber id that means nothing to someone outside of their database. Same thing goes for SSN. - Printouts with any card or personal info should never leave the building - Printouts should be under lock and key while they are needed, not just sitting on someones desk. - Printouts should be shredded or professionally destroyed when they are no longer useful. - Laptops or other removable media should never leave the building with any useful info.
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Does this guy even know what EOE is? If the application terminal is broken, then nobody is going to get a job. So, everybody who wants to apply for the job has an 'equal opportunity' or chance to get the job. That chance being 0%.
OTOH, if they are looking for someone with basic computer skills and he is just too incompetent to fill out the application, he doesn't fit there job requirements anyway. Any company has the right to refuse employment to someone if they don't have the required skills for the job. That's just common sense.
"I look at it this way, if someone wants to buy the big SUV, pay the premium for doing so, and then to top it off pay for all that extra gas I say LET THEM!."
Except if you look at it from a supply and demand perspective, all those people driving turbo diesel 8.0 liter trucks getting 9 mpg and consuming all that gas is raising gas prices for everybody else too. If supply remains the same and demand goes up, then price goes up.
It's actually #2 - "college professors". If you read the page, you will see they include university level professors.
I have two coworkers who did the opposite. They bought dell laptops with Windows and installed OS X on them and can dual boot to either OS.
I work for a credit card company also and things are a little different. The artistic design team use macs, the web team some use windows and 1 uses a mac. The backend guys are split. Some use macs and others windows but they all just end up using a shell to get to linux where they develop in vi. The IVR team is Windows only. In the case of the IVR, development using a Mac wouldn't even be possible let alone faster. Macs seem better for artistic design where Windows seems better for C++. Either platform is about the same for web development. Either platform is the same to shell to linux.
In our situation, development on Mac doesn't actually save any time it's just a matter of personal preference or in the IVR case, the windows requirement.
My predictions for what they will announce:
- A $299 leather case for Mac keyboards. You can not actually use the keyboard while it is in the case.
- A new line of computers called the 'Hi-Speed'. Pricing: $2,499 for the 200 Megahertz model and $2,999 for the 300 Megahertz model.
- The Mac nano - so small you can't even see it
I agree with you. This isn't even about a new product or service. This is a story about some really pathetic guy who is so lame he is going to kill himself if Apple doesn't announce a new product or service soon.
Slashdot - news for suicidals?
Or you might say it will be March Madness
You forgot about the flux capacitor and the fact that it takes 1.21 gigawatts of power to run.
I am an emusic subscriber and I think it's a great idea. I like how I can get the standard mp3 format without any DRM. The bit rate is one thing that is kind of weird. It seems like it is different for ever song. However, it is always good usually in the 180-200+ range.
The other thing I really like about eMusic is the pricing. I pay $9.99/month for 40 songs. That's $.25 per song. It's even better if you do the $19.99/month for 90 songs, just over $.22 per song. Another cool thing is it remembers what you download and you can download it again later for no charge. The site is really well done also.
That said, the biggest problem with eMusic is the selection. They add new music all the time, but they have virtually no mainstream music. For the most part, that is ok with me. They do have a lot of Jazz and Classical and music for lots of other genres you don't normally hear on the radio. Great for trying new music at a low cost.
Sony is pushing BluRay with the PS3. They seem to think they need 30 GB of storage for a single game. This presents several problems. AFAIK, the PS3 will not come with a hard drive. Where are these games going to be stored? Even if they add a hard drive, what happens if you want to own more than 2 or 3 games? Then, there is the bandwidth problem. How many servers and T1 lines are they going to need? What happens when a hit game comes out and everybody tries to download it at the same time?
Sony is trying to tell the world that they need BluRay. Now they are saying that you can download games. So why do I need BluRay again?
17*212=3604GB in total for the collection
Unless they release the Bluray set with better resolution in which case it will take up a whole lot more than 3604GB and a whole lot more discs than you are talking about.
For the nine months ended Sept. 30, 2005:
Revenues = $174.0 million
Net loss = $189.6 million
Marketing expenses = $176.3 million
Even if they were able to eliminate all marketing expenses without losing any revenue, they would still be losing money. If you eliminate $176.3 million of the $189.6 million loss, they still would lose $13.3 million.
Also, it's kind of fishy that they are reporting 9 months. I mean most companies are able to do a full year report by around Januray 20th. What are they hiding in the last 3 months?
How will the studios be able to manufacture the next boyband or pussycatdolls, if only talented musicians can make a profit?
That's exactly my point. I would prefer if only talented musicians make a profit. It sickens me that people with little or no musical talent are making millions of dollars making music while people who have devoted their entire life to learning and writing quality music make nothing.
It would also be much easier for people to find good music. Imagine being able to turn on the radio and find some new music that was good. Or MTV and find (gasp) music. Yes, there are a few talented artists that make it mainstream, but for the most part it is all garbage. I know there is a ton of good music out there. Everyone, including myself, is missing out on a lot of good music because it is not visible.
They're like a car company saying to their customers, "You don't want a big SUV - you want our compact car with good fuel economy".
Your analogy to the car market is a bit funny because it is right on and yet contradicts your point. I will admit that the SUV is a big market. Yet, not everybody wants a big SUV. A lot of people actually do want an economy car. Other people want sports cars. Other people want motorcycles. Have you been reading any news on General Motors? They posted record losses last year in the billion dollar range. Sales of SUVs were dismal in the second half of 2005. During the same time period, companies like Toyota and Nissan reported record sales of their mid-size cars. The demand in the market is changing.
In the same way, Nintendo is trying to target a totally different market and I think if this new controller works and they can produce fun games, they will see great success. Also, I would point out that unlike some companies, Nintendo has proven they actually can make a profit in the video game industry.
A quote from the article states: "The network builders are spending a fortune constructing and maintaining the networks that Google intends to ride on with nothing but cheap servers." Nothing but cheap servers? I could have a bunch of cheap servers in my basement but not make any money unless I pay a large fee to install a bunch of T1/T3 lines and pay a large monthly fee for access to the network.
They just want to target google because they have a ton of money. The telcos should be happy websites like google exist because they increase demand for the average joe to buy a high speed broadband subscription for their home.
I can't believe that is the best name the government can come up with. It sounds more like an STD than a computer virus.
I thought this article was about a new sex toy
I think they mean that it would kill future work. They think that the artists will no longer get paid to produce new music and thus will have no incentive to produce music. Rather than change the business model, they just freak out and say the internet is killing their music.
Other artists are actually embracing the internet. Artists such as Phish, String Cheese Incident, etc. allow taping of their shows and actually encourage online trading of these live recordings. This is like free advertising for these bands. Then, when the bands go on tours, more people will buy concert tix to attend the shows. These bands also typically offer fans to purchase SBD quality shows online through their website.
Instead of fearing P2P, they should use P2P to actually help them make money.
It seems like the current business model is messed up. Development costs of games are skyrocketing, yet is the fun factor of games skyrocketing? No. If anything games are getting less fun to play.
Maybe the development companies should start focusing on making games that are fun with lots of replay value instead of remaking the same sports and FPS games over and over with just improved graphics. If games were that much more fun to play, more people would be willing to buy them new and keep them for longer periods of time, thus reducing the used inventory at stores like EB. People will then have to buy the game new because they can't find it used as easily.
This is something I think Nintendo is trying to achieve with the Revolution and I hope they succeed. Nintendo has proven they are the company that can actually make a profit in the game industry.
The Talkman software is found to come preinstalled with a rootkit that sends a copy of all conversations to the U.S. government. All conversations are monitored for terrorist activity.
The Chinese government forces Talkman to censor some controversial topics. Chinese users quickly find they can still talk about these topics by slightly mispronouncing the words.
The homebrew community produces a hack that allows you to speak in pig latin.
I am continually amazed that these big corporations lose credit card, ssn, and other personal data all the time. Why were these card numbers printed in the first place? Why was the paper recycled or reused and not shredded or professionally destroyed?
They should be required by law to keep the data secure. I would propose the following requirements:
- Credit card and personal inforomation must be stored encrypted or not stored at all.
- Any machines containing cardholder data should be fully equipped with anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, etc.
- Printouts should never have the full card number. They should build their reports with just the last 4 digits of the card number or preferably using some other id number like a customer id or subscriber id that means nothing to someone outside of their database. Same thing goes for SSN.
- Printouts with any card or personal info should never leave the building
- Printouts should be under lock and key while they are needed, not just sitting on someones desk.
- Printouts should be shredded or professionally destroyed when they are no longer useful.
- Laptops or other removable media should never leave the building with any useful info.
I guess H&R block have never heard of a serial (or autoinc) number to use for a unique id instead of someone's SSN.