Read about the theory of constraints in manufacturing you have to address the big issue first for the little issues to make a difference. Cheap cologne on top of funk just smells like cheap cologne on top of funk.
What they need is Trek SOAP. Preferably in the shape of various Trek heroines and female villains. Then the fanboys might actually use it.
THIS SHOULD ONLY BE DONE IN THE PRIVACY OF YOUR OWN HOME, SLASHDOTTERS!!! (there is significant overlap in the Trek and/. markets...thought I should issue the disclaimer)
I don't get your point. Are you saying that he should do something that doesn't make a statistically relevant difference for his patient's survival because it is common? The point of the original post was that the test doesn't statistically increase survivability.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that the point of the article that too many doctors do that?
Don't get me wrong I'm glad for you if it helped you but shouldn't our doctors do what is most effective not what protects them from legal action...maybe this is why things are so costly.
So first of all I'm pretty sure it was a JOKE. Second of all I agree with what you said except the "you can't sustain your career on your skills alone" comment. Have you ever worked before...I've been at companies full of idiots who sustain their careers without skills at all.
Am I supposed to take away that/. doesn't like Microsoft and that we're so bitter and small we complain about anything even some dumb commercial about ease of use? If so then good job with this post. I mean I'm also outraged that Juan Valdez doesn't pick every coffee bean...come on where is the truth in advertising....now can we move on to some actual news?
I think that's exactly right..you don't see the value which is fine...I just didn't think your implication that the device was worthless if they didn't give you free ebooks for stuff you owned made sense. I don't know that anyone "should" have one of these but for those of us that read a ton of very different stuff having even a substantial portion on an easily portable device is great, functionally, especially when traveling. Being able to purchase books without having to find a bookstore in an unfamiliar city is also a big plus. As far as the economics, I offset the $360 in approximately 6-8 months. All that said that is why there are early adopters that differ for each new thing...it meets the needs of someone and as long as those someone's form a viable sized market you won't see your free ebook demand for a while.
Fair enough, but I suspect that you're relatively rare in having this stringent requirement. I suspect that instead economics and technology uptake have more to do with whether a given individual will buy an ereader (regardless of brand). Hence I don't think your free redownload scenario will happen anytime soon.
More accurately I think you may be the last person on earth, or at least a relatively latecomer to the technology because you don't value the technology the same way the intended market of early adopters does. I could of course be wrong.
In your plan Amazon should not be compensated for the labor of digitizing your books?
That's the part I'm hung up on. If you're not willing to scan them why should they do it for free. Just because they've already done it doesn't mean you should benefit because you purchased something physcial under a different business model. Budgets, profits, corporate viability were all planned around the sale of the physical good not around handing out free versions to you.
The issue is the book you bought from them wasn't some easily created information it was a physical good that was priced based on market conditions as well as materials and labor to create it. That price did not include the labor of digitizing it. We could argue all day long about what a fair market price was for the digitized copy and probably both have good points but to say it should be free because you bought a physical good misses the point that it requires labor to create the digital good from the physical good. In the future/present when the digital good comes first and they're just making physical goods in an on-demand fashion I'm sure you'll see a book price that's pretty low for the digital good and a print price that's pretty high for the labor and materials that most don't care about but to expect that to apply to a past business model is naive and not really fair to the seller.
So your plan requires that you have bought all your books from one seller...that that seller have a digital copy that you have a compatible device for and that they provide the scanning infrastructure/service for free that you are unwilling to do yourself because it is too tedious? Good luck..sounds like magic to me.
You mean like by scanning and uploading the PDF to your Kindle?
That sounds like fun! Individually scanning several hundreds of thousands of pages. At 30 seconds per page, if I start today and work at it 40-50 hours per week, a small-medium sized book collection should be all scanned and ready for reading around a year from now.
Well your other option is magic as far as I know. I don't know any other way to get physical copies into digital representations other than a sensor of some sort.
I'll be the first to say that I dislike the entire notion of the US supporting Israel. Israel never needed to be created and certainly doesn't need the U.S.'s help to exist -- if it should exist, it would exist under its own power. But with all that said, it doesn't mean "I hate Jews."
I know a lot of Jewish people and every single one of them have one thing in common -- they are not all the same!! Some think supporting Israel is important, some do not. Some will have a ham sandwich for lunch with you and some will not. Your own cultural and/or ethnic identity, whatever is may be, is not of "one mind" so why does anyone else expect this to be true of Jews? The same goes for anyone who thinks the people of the U.S. are just like Bush?
I say down with Judaism. I also say down with Christianity, Islam and every religion -- especially those that believe in invisible beings that created us and tell us how to live our lives. The evidence for Zeus is every bit as valid as the evidence for "God." Why do people have to believe in stupid stuff like that anyway?
There will always be reasons and excuses for one person to want to kill another. We don't need religion for that. But when religion becomes involved as a motivating factor, suddenly the problem becomes a LOT bigger, bloodier and more dangerous. So down with all of it I say... or... let them all kill themselves and leave us out of it.
So it's okay because you hate the religious because they're all alike? I'm confused.
Yes this is often the case in the real world...no it doesn't have to be. Some teams are much better at managing this than others which implies that it is not simply an unavoidable artifact but rather that how we work matters. All systems suffer to some extent but it is way out of control in the "real world" right now and those who've worked with a top notch delivery team can tell you that it's much rarer on in those groups that design, manage, and document chagnes properly. Initial designs targeted at maintainability and proper management can't elimiate side effects but it can very much limit them.
Generally it's a source management problem. Improper config management and source labeling leads to promotion of untested or incorrect code files so chagnes not intended to go get packed up with the ones that are intended. That's probably most of it.
The rest is just not doing correct impact analysis. For example changing something in a base class and not realizing that 400 things inherit from it instead of just the one you're trying to fix.
If people did better interface managemnt and impact analysis and they did proper source and config management many of these patch side effects would vanish.
They are used to determine what motivates you and whether the job you're applying for is a good fit. I have some questions about the accuracy of such tests/interviews but the idea is sound...if you are motivated/passionate in the area you're interviewing in you're likely to be a better cog in the machine.
The studio would be advised to release the DVD about a month after the theatre release. You've gotten most of the value of out ticket sales at this point but you can still capitalize on add dollars spent for the theatrical release during the DVD cycle. They don't want to kill theater sales but they do want to piggy back on them. My guess is that a month is the right amount of time but market research can tell for sure.
The theatres on the other hand are just trying to survive and they are failing. Until they change their business model to offer more than a simple viewing on a big screen with loud audio (something we can get at home now) they will be a dinosaur watching the comet approach.
Finally, the consumer is best served by choice so what's best for them is a simultaneous DVD and theatre release. The consumer is happiest when he/she can act according to his/her whims and that means the most choice the soonest.
All that said the studios own the product, everyone else is a middleman or end user so it's likely that we will drift toward the first scenario I've detailed assuming that it is indeed the best scenario for the studio.
Yes it's not completely accurate...yes it's happening more and more often that these new distros get credit for stuff others did years ago...so what?
Get over it. The reason they're getting credit is because they're doing it on a broad scale and successfully. It happens in every industry, it's the people who commercialize and consolidate that get the credit. Not the first person out there but the first successful person out there.
Actually "Innovation" is applied to both when discussing business strategy. Minor Innovations (or Evolutionary/Incremental Innovations in some cirles) are the simple improvements you describe. Radical Innovation (or Revolutionary Innovation) is the disruptive technology you describe. Innovation is regularly used as a catch all that is seperated into 4 basic categories based on the disruptive effects to suppliers and consumers.
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Read about the theory of constraints in manufacturing you have to address the big issue first for the little issues to make a difference. Cheap cologne on top of funk just smells like cheap cologne on top of funk.
/. markets...thought I should issue the disclaimer)
What they need is Trek SOAP. Preferably in the shape of various Trek heroines and female villains. Then the fanboys might actually use it.
THIS SHOULD ONLY BE DONE IN THE PRIVACY OF YOUR OWN HOME, SLASHDOTTERS!!! (there is significant overlap in the Trek and
I don't get your point. Are you saying that he should do something that doesn't make a statistically relevant difference for his patient's survival because it is common? The point of the original post was that the test doesn't statistically increase survivability.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that the point of the article that too many doctors do that?
Don't get me wrong I'm glad for you if it helped you but shouldn't our doctors do what is most effective not what protects them from legal action...maybe this is why things are so costly.
So can I return my Kindle 2 that I bought because of text to speech now that it's been crippled?
So first of all I'm pretty sure it was a JOKE. Second of all I agree with what you said except the "you can't sustain your career on your skills alone" comment. Have you ever worked before...I've been at companies full of idiots who sustain their careers without skills at all.
wow I can't write....that should read the French aren't ALL cowards...I think.
Now that's not nice, the French are ALL cowards....granted apparently they aren't ALL sonar engineers either.
Am I supposed to take away that /. doesn't like Microsoft and that we're so bitter and small we complain about anything even some dumb commercial about ease of use? If so then good job with this post. I mean I'm also outraged that Juan Valdez doesn't pick every coffee bean...come on where is the truth in advertising....now can we move on to some actual news?
Well I wanted to just called you an idiot or just cursed at you but I didn't want us to be modded as redundant. ;)
I enjoyed it as well.
LOL, I like the closet Luddite comment =).
I think that's exactly right..you don't see the value which is fine...I just didn't think your implication that the device was worthless if they didn't give you free ebooks for stuff you owned made sense. I don't know that anyone "should" have one of these but for those of us that read a ton of very different stuff having even a substantial portion on an easily portable device is great, functionally, especially when traveling. Being able to purchase books without having to find a bookstore in an unfamiliar city is also a big plus. As far as the economics, I offset the $360 in approximately 6-8 months. All that said that is why there are early adopters that differ for each new thing...it meets the needs of someone and as long as those someone's form a viable sized market you won't see your free ebook demand for a while.
Fair enough, but I suspect that you're relatively rare in having this stringent requirement. I suspect that instead economics and technology uptake have more to do with whether a given individual will buy an ereader (regardless of brand). Hence I don't think your free redownload scenario will happen anytime soon.
More accurately I think you may be the last person on earth, or at least a relatively latecomer to the technology because you don't value the technology the same way the intended market of early adopters does. I could of course be wrong.
In your plan Amazon should not be compensated for the labor of digitizing your books?
That's the part I'm hung up on. If you're not willing to scan them why should they do it for free. Just because they've already done it doesn't mean you should benefit because you purchased something physcial under a different business model. Budgets, profits, corporate viability were all planned around the sale of the physical good not around handing out free versions to you.
The issue is the book you bought from them wasn't some easily created information it was a physical good that was priced based on market conditions as well as materials and labor to create it. That price did not include the labor of digitizing it. We could argue all day long about what a fair market price was for the digitized copy and probably both have good points but to say it should be free because you bought a physical good misses the point that it requires labor to create the digital good from the physical good. In the future/present when the digital good comes first and they're just making physical goods in an on-demand fashion I'm sure you'll see a book price that's pretty low for the digital good and a print price that's pretty high for the labor and materials that most don't care about but to expect that to apply to a past business model is naive and not really fair to the seller.
So your plan requires that you have bought all your books from one seller...that that seller have a digital copy that you have a compatible device for and that they provide the scanning infrastructure/service for free that you are unwilling to do yourself because it is too tedious? Good luck..sounds like magic to me.
You mean like by scanning and uploading the PDF to your Kindle?
That sounds like fun! Individually scanning several hundreds of thousands of pages. At 30 seconds per page, if I start today and work at it 40-50 hours per week, a small-medium sized book collection should be all scanned and ready for reading around a year from now.
Well your other option is magic as far as I know. I don't know any other way to get physical copies into digital representations other than a sensor of some sort.
The only way I'm ever going to buy an e-book reader is when my current book collections can be transfered to the machine. Until that time, no thanks.
You mean like by scanning and uploading the PDF to your Kindle?
I wished this sort of crap would stop.
I'll be the first to say that I dislike the entire notion of the US supporting Israel. Israel never needed to be created and certainly doesn't need the U.S.'s help to exist -- if it should exist, it would exist under its own power. But with all that said, it doesn't mean "I hate Jews."
I know a lot of Jewish people and every single one of them have one thing in common -- they are not all the same!! Some think supporting Israel is important, some do not. Some will have a ham sandwich for lunch with you and some will not. Your own cultural and/or ethnic identity, whatever is may be, is not of "one mind" so why does anyone else expect this to be true of Jews? The same goes for anyone who thinks the people of the U.S. are just like Bush?
I say down with Judaism. I also say down with Christianity, Islam and every religion -- especially those that believe in invisible beings that created us and tell us how to live our lives. The evidence for Zeus is every bit as valid as the evidence for "God." Why do people have to believe in stupid stuff like that anyway?
There will always be reasons and excuses for one person to want to kill another. We don't need religion for that. But when religion becomes involved as a motivating factor, suddenly the problem becomes a LOT bigger, bloodier and more dangerous. So down with all of it I say... or... let them all kill themselves and leave us out of it.
So it's okay because you hate the religious because they're all alike? I'm confused.
He's gouging you....I'll work for 20% and act as your defense council...but that'll cost another %20 too. ;)
Yep the pirates have to have something to master their copies from I just would have thought that there were more than 244 copy houses. ;)
Don't lie, you didn't have two girlfriends, you slashdot freak. ;)
No but if no one knows who they are are they really "famous"? You can be accomplished and not globally famous.
Yes this is often the case in the real world...no it doesn't have to be. Some teams are much better at managing this than others which implies that it is not simply an unavoidable artifact but rather that how we work matters. All systems suffer to some extent but it is way out of control in the "real world" right now and those who've worked with a top notch delivery team can tell you that it's much rarer on in those groups that design, manage, and document chagnes properly. Initial designs targeted at maintainability and proper management can't elimiate side effects but it can very much limit them.
Generally it's a source management problem. Improper config management and source labeling leads to promotion of untested or incorrect code files so chagnes not intended to go get packed up with the ones that are intended. That's probably most of it. The rest is just not doing correct impact analysis. For example changing something in a base class and not realizing that 400 things inherit from it instead of just the one you're trying to fix. If people did better interface managemnt and impact analysis and they did proper source and config management many of these patch side effects would vanish.
They are used to determine what motivates you and whether the job you're applying for is a good fit. I have some questions about the accuracy of such tests/interviews but the idea is sound...if you are motivated/passionate in the area you're interviewing in you're likely to be a better cog in the machine.
The studio would be advised to release the DVD about a month after the theatre release. You've gotten most of the value of out ticket sales at this point but you can still capitalize on add dollars spent for the theatrical release during the DVD cycle. They don't want to kill theater sales but they do want to piggy back on them. My guess is that a month is the right amount of time but market research can tell for sure.
The theatres on the other hand are just trying to survive and they are failing. Until they change their business model to offer more than a simple viewing on a big screen with loud audio (something we can get at home now) they will be a dinosaur watching the comet approach.
Finally, the consumer is best served by choice so what's best for them is a simultaneous DVD and theatre release. The consumer is happiest when he/she can act according to his/her whims and that means the most choice the soonest.
All that said the studios own the product, everyone else is a middleman or end user so it's likely that we will drift toward the first scenario I've detailed assuming that it is indeed the best scenario for the studio.
Yes it's not completely accurate...yes it's happening more and more often that these new distros get credit for stuff others did years ago...so what? Get over it. The reason they're getting credit is because they're doing it on a broad scale and successfully. It happens in every industry, it's the people who commercialize and consolidate that get the credit. Not the first person out there but the first successful person out there.
Actually "Innovation" is applied to both when discussing business strategy. Minor Innovations (or Evolutionary/Incremental Innovations in some cirles) are the simple improvements you describe. Radical Innovation (or Revolutionary Innovation) is the disruptive technology you describe. Innovation is regularly used as a catch all that is seperated into 4 basic categories based on the disruptive effects to suppliers and consumers.