Waaaah businessmen are mean poopyheads!!! Are you nerds really so naive that you think that almost all successful CEOs aren't equally as ruthless? You don't succeed in business by being a wimp.
What I meant was one wouldn't brag about being like Gates if more knew his tactics. Perhaps ruthlessness is a necessary evil of a modern society, but people should at least be aware that it's being used.
Note I admire Steve Jobs far more than Gates because Jobs had a nose for what FUTURE consumers and movie goers would want (even though he was a still a jerk). Microsoft merely purchased or copied good existing products made by other co's and bundled them together.
we don't know the reasons the Polynesians expanded. It is highly doubtful a lone couple of polynesians set sail on the high seas to find new islands. The amount of provisioning and boat building...analogous to modern government sponsorship
What's even more likely is that tribes who lost a war were tied into their own boats with meager rations and set to drift at sea. Most probably died, but a few got lucky. Perhaps this was part of a ritual.
A lot of non-IT people don't know what a jerk Gates was. He was brilliant at killing off competitors using targeted sell-at-loss campaigns, bait-and-switch "standards", bundling, and locking one in to product upgrade cycles.
But that stagnated business software evolution and robbed the market of choice. I bet he'd make a great military general.
now the military is buying the same tech as everyone else because it's better than their custom made stuff.
That's not entirely true. Often the difference is simply not enough to justify the huge price difference.
For example, a $500 "battle grade" hammer may be able to survive being run over by a tank during battle, but is that really worth the extra $460, or is it better to live with occasional flattened hammers and spend the $460 elsewhere.
The practical current function of commercial space co's should be to provide routine transfer of staff and supplies to and from a station or base. That makes perfectly good sense. When something becomes a semi-commodity, private enterprise, with competition*, is usually more efficient.
If and when space does become profitable, such as asteroid mining, such commercial co's will already have some of the infrastructure and knowledge to pursue that market.
As far as pie-in-sky commercial endeavors like a one-way Mars mission, let investors waste money if they want. Who knows, maybe they'll stumble on an unforeseen way to make a profit. Surprises happen. If somebody discovers how to tame anti-gravity particles to get cheap launches, for example, existing space companies will have a big leg up. It's not irrational to devote some of one's investment portfolio on high-risk/high-reward stocks.
And even if they fail, humanity as a whole will be smarter for it, learning from their mistakes. Failure is experience.
* NASA does use lots of private contractors for current missions. But, they are mostly custom one-off products.
The Internet generation expects easier choice, such as clicking on Favorites to go elsewhere on whim, and will not sit through long commercial breaks. Plus, gaming, social media/chatrooms, and cat videos compete for attention.
This may mean that TV shows are less profitable and have a smaller budget. But it could also mean that new lean and mean media companies will offer a wider variety and experiment more because they don't have to deal with the bureaucracy and oligopoly collusion of the big networks.
LOL! You gotta love these libs! So stupid, it's funny.
For something comparable, the tough talk of Iran's leader affects our decision makers here and now. His quotes are quite often used by the GOP to argue their stance.
Either GOP is heavily bluffing, or they would factor in his blustery talk if there were a related international issue that required a snap judgement.
U.S., then led by a president [percieved as] possibly insane enough to do it.
Yet another downside of electing Rambo wannabe's.
We were really lucky to survive the cold war, there were roughly a dozen or more close calls. Or, perhaps it's the Anthropic Principle, multiverses, and/or God (the server admin of our emulated universe) kicking in to save us.
You are thinking of OS or bundled "system" apps, aren't you? An independent app would invent an independent way of managing features.
And even though those devices might have a standard GUI for finding and editing them, each vendor either has a different way of importing/exporting them, or provide no easy way, period.
Plus, if they were standardized in an open way, you could install a different "settings browser" with fancier search, find, compare, query, report, alarm, etc. features.
Offshoring and automation have essentially cheapened the value of much of human labor. However, all this automation and outsourcing has also made stuff cheaper. Ideally their slide rate would both match more or less, or even provide a net benefit for regular folks.
However, salaries overall seem to be slipping backward*. So, why are they not balancing out? Because the owners of capital and corporations rigged the rewards of cheaper labor/automation to go them THEM instead of us, and lobby heavy to keep it that way.
* Wages for existing jobs are stagnant, but if you lose your job, often you end up going back to work at another org for less. Thus, on average salaries are sliding backward when inflation is factored in.
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...tell the other side not to wage war. If you don't want war, then give them their land back and make a peace deal.
"Daddy, what's a 'boner pill discount'?"
The conference itself is a large gathering. True, the conference attendees are probably screened.
Wood woodles waste wonderful!
Sawy, couldn't wesist.
-Barry Kwipke
"Sarge, we couldn't find any contraband on the smugglers. They are only exporting pillows this time."
You mean the Kician Prince doesn't really exist? Shit!
No comet
What I meant was one wouldn't brag about being like Gates if more knew his tactics. Perhaps ruthlessness is a necessary evil of a modern society, but people should at least be aware that it's being used.
Note I admire Steve Jobs far more than Gates because Jobs had a nose for what FUTURE consumers and movie goers would want (even though he was a still a jerk). Microsoft merely purchased or copied good existing products made by other co's and bundled them together.
What's even more likely is that tribes who lost a war were tied into their own boats with meager rations and set to drift at sea. Most probably died, but a few got lucky. Perhaps this was part of a ritual.
A lot of non-IT people don't know what a jerk Gates was. He was brilliant at killing off competitors using targeted sell-at-loss campaigns, bait-and-switch "standards", bundling, and locking one in to product upgrade cycles.
But that stagnated business software evolution and robbed the market of choice. I bet he'd make a great military general.
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And Armstrong's famous footstep speech would be hacked and replaced by a plug for boner-pills.
"If you want a giant leap in your trousers..."
In short*, be careful what you ask for.
* No pun intended
That's not entirely true. Often the difference is simply not enough to justify the huge price difference.
For example, a $500 "battle grade" hammer may be able to survive being run over by a tank during battle, but is that really worth the extra $460, or is it better to live with occasional flattened hammers and spend the $460 elsewhere.
Plutocrat-Wins-Darwin-Award-In-Space-Day? I'll dig it.
Deserves two days if it's Trump. Three if his hair jams the airlock.
The practical current function of commercial space co's should be to provide routine transfer of staff and supplies to and from a station or base. That makes perfectly good sense. When something becomes a semi-commodity, private enterprise, with competition*, is usually more efficient.
If and when space does become profitable, such as asteroid mining, such commercial co's will already have some of the infrastructure and knowledge to pursue that market.
As far as pie-in-sky commercial endeavors like a one-way Mars mission, let investors waste money if they want. Who knows, maybe they'll stumble on an unforeseen way to make a profit. Surprises happen. If somebody discovers how to tame anti-gravity particles to get cheap launches, for example, existing space companies will have a big leg up. It's not irrational to devote some of one's investment portfolio on high-risk/high-reward stocks.
And even if they fail, humanity as a whole will be smarter for it, learning from their mistakes. Failure is experience.
* NASA does use lots of private contractors for current missions. But, they are mostly custom one-off products.
The Internet generation expects easier choice, such as clicking on Favorites to go elsewhere on whim, and will not sit through long commercial breaks. Plus, gaming, social media/chatrooms, and cat videos compete for attention.
This may mean that TV shows are less profitable and have a smaller budget. But it could also mean that new lean and mean media companies will offer a wider variety and experiment more because they don't have to deal with the bureaucracy and oligopoly collusion of the big networks.
For something comparable, the tough talk of Iran's leader affects our decision makers here and now. His quotes are quite often used by the GOP to argue their stance.
Either GOP is heavily bluffing, or they would factor in his blustery talk if there were a related international issue that required a snap judgement.
It's not silly, as you imply, it's dead serious.
Well, I would have said "John Wayne wannabe", but the young whipper-snappers don't know who that is.
Send some politicians and Comcast executives into the wake stream for a few decades and see what happens to them. Don't waste perfectly good chimps.
Yet another downside of electing Rambo wannabe's.
We were really lucky to survive the cold war, there were roughly a dozen or more close calls. Or, perhaps it's the Anthropic Principle, multiverses, and/or God (the server admin of our emulated universe) kicking in to save us.
By injecting its SQL
Perhaps if it were made a clear and easily-changable option to the user. Example:
1. 30 day trial, no snooping
2. Snooping version, free after 30 days
3. Purchase non-snooping version
And it should let you know when your 30 days are up rather than automatically go into snoop mode without confirmation.
Clear and friendly choices can bring in more customers and more dollars.
You are thinking of OS or bundled "system" apps, aren't you? An independent app would invent an independent way of managing features.
And even though those devices might have a standard GUI for finding and editing them, each vendor either has a different way of importing/exporting them, or provide no easy way, period.
Plus, if they were standardized in an open way, you could install a different "settings browser" with fancier search, find, compare, query, report, alarm, etc. features.
But all healthcare firms in the area are under the same regulations, and to some extent nationally. The regulation knowledge is NOT firm-specific.
Offshoring and automation have essentially cheapened the value of much of human labor. However, all this automation and outsourcing has also made stuff cheaper. Ideally their slide rate would both match more or less, or even provide a net benefit for regular folks.
However, salaries overall seem to be slipping backward*. So, why are they not balancing out? Because the owners of capital and corporations rigged the rewards of cheaper labor/automation to go them THEM instead of us, and lobby heavy to keep it that way.
* Wages for existing jobs are stagnant, but if you lose your job, often you end up going back to work at another org for less. Thus, on average salaries are sliding backward when inflation is factored in.