Of course this does have the side effect of creating large numbers of burned-out and cynical young people who's first impression of having a job is that the employer only cares about working you to the bone and then spits you out when you burn out or make the tiniest of mistakes at the wrong time (wrong time is here defined as: when the boss is looking to lay some people off, right after you questioned anything the boss said or any number of other reasons).
Consider yourselves lucky, in my country call centres have been outsourced to India.
I know someone who has no last name. Legally. When he encounters online forms that require it, he has traditionally entered his profession when it is inconsequential
The law is, at least in all nations I've been to is to enter your single name into both boxes, for example if your name is "Yatie" you enter it as:
First Name(s): Yatie
Last Name(s): Yatie
Yes, some cultures have more then one last name, I personally know a Sri Lankan with 5 and the last one is "the great".
I mean I completely agree, that if you remove the anonymity you'll remove a lot of the asshole factor online. People are much bigger pricks when they don't think it can come back to bite them. So it would remove a lot of that.
But wont the trolls just move to another forum where they could continue to troll and grief anonymously. I mean is it trivial to go from www.blizzard.com/forums/WOW to www.wowtalk.com/forums/wow. All this would accomplish is a reduction of users on Blizzards forum...
I think the consumer trend is pretty clear with respect to SSDs (enterprise-level I think is still uncertain). Consumers like the speed and the battery savings (laptops being incredibly popular now) that SSDs provide, but of course there is no way you are going to get the sheer quantity of storage space that you can get with hard disks.
Storage space isn't a problem when I can attach a 500 GB traditional HDD via USB. What I need it price. Right now a 320 GB 7.2K RPM 2.5" drive costs less then A$100, a 300 GB 10K RPM 3.5" drive costs A$250 whilst a 128 GB SSD starts at A$400 for a cheap brand and if you want an Intel X25 be prepared to part with A$750 for 160 GB.
I bought a 300 GB 10K RPM disk last week to replace an ancient 320 GB Seagate as the OS/install drive in my gaming PC. My reasoning was this will do until SSD's become affordable and reliable (this last one will take a few years to prove in real world conditions, the price drop will probably take longer).
Actually we're farming that one off to North Korea.
Signed,
Electronic Arts
P.S. There may be a position in one of our salt mines for you shortly, the mines are always in need of new slav^H^H^H^Hworkers. You'll be paid in EA Dollars which can be traded for EA games or EA branded food such as the the new EA Dew.
Good luck getting Apple to play along. While I prefer their design, I doubt they'd even license out the spec to other manufacturers.
Nor do they follow established standards. I took my portable HDD, MP3 Player, Phone and Camera on holiday with me last month. I also took 1 cable for data transfer and charging (with the exception of the camera, thanks Canon please add USB charging to your next Ixus model). From this information, do you think I own any Apple products. I've decided to standardise my electronics, if it does not use a standard USB/Mini/Micro plug it does not get purchased and I'm thinking of cutting the MiniUSB out of that list. One cable to rule them all.
The internet is no more a "fad" than radio or television. It merely changed how we receive the radio and television. NOW instead of fixed schedules we can get things on-demand, whenever we wish.
MTV and VH1 have not died
I dont think you understand Prince. (aren't we meant to be calling him the Artist Formerly Known As as the record company still owns his name)
You see to Prince the internet is nothing more then MTV on slightly smaller screen. Now this is not actually true as you pointed out but to a perspective as limited as Prince's, to him the internet is MTV and I certainly hope for him and like-minded individuals that the internet is over.
This is a good thing, for the last 17 years we've seen more and more retards get onto the net, it's like letting unlicensed drivers onto the roads, the internet has become a million car pile up. If these people stop using the internet because it's
"over" or "passe" then that is a good thing, no more Myspace, E! Online, useless twitter messages saying "OMG Justin Fagboy is coming to Bumfuck county". Then again, maybe I'm just being a little too optimistic and this is nothing but a washed up old pop star looking for coke money.
BTW, MTV and VH1 are most certainly dead and just like Keith Richards no body's told them yet. Unlike Keith however, they are not still entertaining.
"MS's MO is to indoctrinate people at the business level not the developer level"
Well, maybe. It's only a pity all their acts in the last two decades seem otherwise.
Ummm...
Which Microsoft have you been watching for the last few decades?
MS always targets business leaders first. CIO's make the decision that X company is going to be an MS house, wants.Net software, demand is created for.Net developers. It doesn't work the other way around and MS knows this which is why the majority of their marketing efforts are directed at the Exec and C level.
the more the sysadmins put into Microsoft platforms the less they'll want to go anywhere else.
This makes no sense. Developers and sysamins have been pushing for a move away from MS for over a decade now but managers keep throwing back terms like TCO and the old favourite "Who will we sue if it all goes wrong" (like you didn't give up that right when I pressed F8). MS knows that in order to keep itself in the market, developers don't really matter as much as the C level execs.
Microsoft certainly will take very seriously losing its grip on the developer's side.
But that's not happening, mainly because MS is not losing it's grip on the managers side, hence jobs are created for MS technologies.
MS went after the high end where Apple was but didn't offer any real reason to choose them over the iPod.
No, Apple is at the mid to low end of the MP3 market, they just are priced high. MS went after a very specific subset of this.
At the high end Apple isn't even an option, it's dominated by Cowon, Archos and Iriver and prices get above Ipod levels for things like the D2 and Archos 5 (old, but I haven't looked at that market for a while) but then again functionality is way beyond Ipod level. High end personal audio/media players are often used as storage for recording devices. I know people who have helmet cams on their bikes/stock cars (racing) and they use things like the D2, Ipods aren't even an option.
you just talked to a stupid rep. they are perfectly capable of transferring you to any apple department, and there is most certainly a department for fraud handling.
You've never dealt with CSR's before have you. No point in even trying to single Apple out here with the OP's experience, all CSR's that retarded.
Let me put it this way, would you be a level 1 phone CSR if you weren't borderline retarded, socially inept and/or had the intelligence to get a better job. People who work in call centres are like people who work in McDonalds but with fewer people skills.
FTFY. And, of course, I know this. It's just amusing (and encouraging) to see Microsoft whinging that they're having a hard time indoctrinating students into dependence on their tools.
This isn't MS whinging, this is some idiot at the NYT whinging.
MS's MO is to indoctrinate people at the business level not the developer level as it's the business people who sign pay cheques. It may appear that MS is having a hard time wooing developers when MS spends all its time and effort wooing MBA's.
This is also why all the innovative work is done in F/OSS. You cant schedule new idea's into a project.
Really? "but at least Ballmer doesn't tell me I can't compile my code without forking him $100/yr."
For less then A$500 a year I can get access to the entire Microsoft Software library to develop against, everything going back to Windows 3.1. I also get a bunch of prod licenses.
VS express is free as is Eclipse. You can develop for windows without paying a cent including access to Microsoft's Technet (which they publish for free access over the web). You do know you can write windows software using a free IDE on Linux, can you do that for an iDevice?
"and he doesn't take 30% percent of whatever I might make selling my code."
But he also don't provide a free server to host your code and free testing before it is provided to users and no credit card fees.
That is a very weak argument. Party A takes 30% of your earnings and party B doesn't provide you with a server. I could host my own store, even with a third party handling CC payments it would cost less then 10% of my total sales price. The cost is never in hosting the product the cost is always in development. Further more I can use multiple delivery systems, for example if I released a game I could sell it on my web site, on Steam, on Impulse, in brick and mortar stores or any combination of the above.
You still havent managed to account for the fact that with Windows I have a choice of IDE's and languages,.Net, C++, Java, Python, Ruby are all supported by Windows. So I can develop for Windows using Java at zero cost, I can also distribute at zero cost using many online services such as sourceforge.
Apple isn't perfect, but don't tell us Microsoft is much if any better.
This is like comparing AIDS to Herpes, I don't like either but if I had to contract one, I definitely done want iAIDS.
The Zune wasn't/isn't a bad player. The problem is that to unseat the iPod, it had to be a fantastic player. And Apple kept moving the hardware/spec goal
I think you're giving the Zune far too much credit. As Google have proven Apple don't ever move the goal posts that far, Google in 18 months managed to completely eclipse a product that took Apple 3 years to get to that point. As far as MP3 players go, the likes of Cowon and Iriver are producing far superior players to the Ipods but just don't have the marketing.
The Microsoft software stack is designed so that service providers can siphon money off at the point of delivery. Antivirus is a good example. Yeah we sold you an OS but you need this extra thing to make it secure, didn't you know that?
As much as I dislike MS, this is a case of "never blame malice for what can adequately be blamed on stupidity".
Microsoft designed a single user OS with no in built security in a time where networks were rare and have been forced to continue on with it by their customer base. All security ended up being tacked on because MS cant afford to kill legacy applications. I really don't think anyone at MS wants Windows to be insecure, it just happened that way and now they have to live with it.
So its a great way to make money if you stay with their targeted solutions. But if you want to do something totally new the benefits of using microsoft aren't really there so developers look elsewhere.
This, the entire article is not news and I think this sums it up nicely. For a long time now the innovative people have used OSS whilst the people who just want to bring product X to market used MS.
See, a few things. "hurt a planet" in my mind is way more than an extinct species.
You think of this thing as black and white not the very narrow shade of grey that it is.
The planet will survive just fine as a ball of ice or fire, the question is will we. When the dinosaurs ruled the earth, the planet was filled with life yet the human race, if transplanted there would be unable to survive. It was simply too hot and far too much carbon in the air (6-7 times pre-industrial levels, we are talking serious birth defect territory here). The planet happily survived this, but do you honestly think we could survive even the tiniest variation in temperature and atmosphere composition?
My head still isn't big enough to think that I can hurt a planet.
Yes indeed, your head is not big enough.
In fact your head is so small you cannot conceive that your actions have far reaching consequences. As a simple experiment, if you have tree's in your yard, go outside and cut them all down. Measure what happens to the temperature inside your own house, especially in relation to the temperature outside. Last winter (it's winter now where I live) a in my yard was blown over. After it was removed we began to notice the house got a bit colder and mimicked the temperature outside more closely.
Now we as a species do this on a much grander scale. We cut down a mountain and turn it into a city. Putting up a single 10 story building affects the temperature of all the buildings around it. If you put up dozens of buildings... We remove inert carbon from the ground, change the chemical composition by fire and shoot that carbon into the air with a whole bunch of heavy metals. We cut down large and diverse forests to plant rows of the same plant, or allow a larger then sustainable number of selected animals roam. If you don't get how doing this on an industrial scale will affect an ecosystem as large as a planet then yes, your head is not big enough and you should remember this when getting involved in conversations you don't understand the scale of.
the HD2 has audio/video sync issues, the nexus one/HD2 has a pink camera issue, and I'm sure the Incredible and Droid have their own problems.
But you can hold any of these phones and not lose most of your signal.
The problems you describe are not detrimental to the function of the phone. Maybe this is because HTC and Motorola actually test their phones in real world conditions. Motorola has going one step further as they invented Six Sigma which is designed to spot and eliminate flaws in the manufacturing stage (read, fewer DOA devices).
These problems with the Iphone are not affecting a small number of users, in the case of the aerial issues it's affecting nearly all users. This isn't a small issue with the camera, it's a critical failure of QA and UAT.
Mark me as redundant, but haven't people learned already that first-gen Apple products are suspect to major flaws?
But Apple products Just Work(TM) because they've been expertly designed and tested...
Or so the Fanboy^W marketing tells me. RIM doesn't get flack over design failures because RIM has not established their entire company reputation on having supposedly "superior" designs. Apple made their bed by advertising their products as "always working" and "never flawed" unlike the competition. If Apple didn't rabbit on about how the iProduct "Just Works" and how it is so "easy to use" and "simplifies" everything then we wouldn't be having a problem. Then again Apple wouldn't have more then 5% smart-phone market share.
Apple made its bed by claiming their products will always works (I.E. do not have flaws), then Apple releases a defective product that could have been fixed if the prototypes went through some basic real world testing. You cant blame people for having a little schadenfreude now that their marketing has been turned on its head, nor can you cover it up by claiming that the marketing fanboys parrot so often is false.
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Consider yourselves lucky, in my country call centres have been outsourced to India.
It's a shame what happened to Tiny68 though.
Problem already solved.
Last name: Prince
First Name: Artist Formerly Known As
The law is, at least in all nations I've been to is to enter your single name into both boxes, for example if your name is "Yatie" you enter it as:
First Name(s): Yatie
Last Name(s): Yatie
Yes, some cultures have more then one last name, I personally know a Sri Lankan with 5 and the last one is "the great".
I'm certain you've been told this before but you'll always be nothing but a zero.
Good day sir.
But wont the trolls just move to another forum where they could continue to troll and grief anonymously. I mean is it trivial to go from www.blizzard.com/forums/WOW to www.wowtalk.com/forums/wow. All this would accomplish is a reduction of users on Blizzards forum...
By George, that's genius.
But trolls, they will troll.
Storage space isn't a problem when I can attach a 500 GB traditional HDD via USB. What I need it price. Right now a 320 GB 7.2K RPM 2.5" drive costs less then A$100, a 300 GB 10K RPM 3.5" drive costs A$250 whilst a 128 GB SSD starts at A$400 for a cheap brand and if you want an Intel X25 be prepared to part with A$750 for 160 GB.
I bought a 300 GB 10K RPM disk last week to replace an ancient 320 GB Seagate as the OS/install drive in my gaming PC. My reasoning was this will do until SSD's become affordable and reliable (this last one will take a few years to prove in real world conditions, the price drop will probably take longer).
Actually we're farming that one off to North Korea.
Signed,
Electronic Arts
P.S. There may be a position in one of our salt mines for you shortly, the mines are always in need of new slav^H^H^H^Hworkers. You'll be paid in EA Dollars which can be traded for EA games or EA branded food such as the the new EA Dew.
Nor do they follow established standards. I took my portable HDD, MP3 Player, Phone and Camera on holiday with me last month. I also took 1 cable for data transfer and charging (with the exception of the camera, thanks Canon please add USB charging to your next Ixus model). From this information, do you think I own any Apple products. I've decided to standardise my electronics, if it does not use a standard USB/Mini/Micro plug it does not get purchased and I'm thinking of cutting the MiniUSB out of that list. One cable to rule them all.
I dont think you understand Prince. (aren't we meant to be calling him the Artist Formerly Known As as the record company still owns his name)
You see to Prince the internet is nothing more then MTV on slightly smaller screen. Now this is not actually true as you pointed out but to a perspective as limited as Prince's, to him the internet is MTV and I certainly hope for him and like-minded individuals that the internet is over.
This is a good thing, for the last 17 years we've seen more and more retards get onto the net, it's like letting unlicensed drivers onto the roads, the internet has become a million car pile up. If these people stop using the internet because it's "over" or "passe" then that is a good thing, no more Myspace, E! Online, useless twitter messages saying "OMG Justin Fagboy is coming to Bumfuck county". Then again, maybe I'm just being a little too optimistic and this is nothing but a washed up old pop star looking for coke money.
BTW, MTV and VH1 are most certainly dead and just like Keith Richards no body's told them yet. Unlike Keith however, they are not still entertaining.
I've discovered that if you offer the other party a little extra money they will do whatever you want without protection.
Ummm...
.Net software, demand is created for .Net developers. It doesn't work the other way around and MS knows this which is why the majority of their marketing efforts are directed at the Exec and C level.
Which Microsoft have you been watching for the last few decades?
MS always targets business leaders first. CIO's make the decision that X company is going to be an MS house, wants
This makes no sense. Developers and sysamins have been pushing for a move away from MS for over a decade now but managers keep throwing back terms like TCO and the old favourite "Who will we sue if it all goes wrong" (like you didn't give up that right when I pressed F8). MS knows that in order to keep itself in the market, developers don't really matter as much as the C level execs.
But that's not happening, mainly because MS is not losing it's grip on the managers side, hence jobs are created for MS technologies.
No, Apple is at the mid to low end of the MP3 market, they just are priced high. MS went after a very specific subset of this.
At the high end Apple isn't even an option, it's dominated by Cowon, Archos and Iriver and prices get above Ipod levels for things like the D2 and Archos 5 (old, but I haven't looked at that market for a while) but then again functionality is way beyond Ipod level. High end personal audio/media players are often used as storage for recording devices. I know people who have helmet cams on their bikes/stock cars (racing) and they use things like the D2, Ipods aren't even an option.
You've never dealt with CSR's before have you. No point in even trying to single Apple out here with the OP's experience, all CSR's that retarded.
Let me put it this way, would you be a level 1 phone CSR if you weren't borderline retarded, socially inept and/or had the intelligence to get a better job. People who work in call centres are like people who work in McDonalds but with fewer people skills.
This isn't MS whinging, this is some idiot at the NYT whinging.
MS's MO is to indoctrinate people at the business level not the developer level as it's the business people who sign pay cheques. It may appear that MS is having a hard time wooing developers when MS spends all its time and effort wooing MBA's.
This is also why all the innovative work is done in F/OSS. You cant schedule new idea's into a project.
For less then A$500 a year I can get access to the entire Microsoft Software library to develop against, everything going back to Windows 3.1. I also get a bunch of prod licenses.
VS express is free as is Eclipse. You can develop for windows without paying a cent including access to Microsoft's Technet (which they publish for free access over the web). You do know you can write windows software using a free IDE on Linux, can you do that for an iDevice?
That is a very weak argument. Party A takes 30% of your earnings and party B doesn't provide you with a server. I could host my own store, even with a third party handling CC payments it would cost less then 10% of my total sales price. The cost is never in hosting the product the cost is always in development. Further more I can use multiple delivery systems, for example if I released a game I could sell it on my web site, on Steam, on Impulse, in brick and mortar stores or any combination of the above.
.Net, C++, Java, Python, Ruby are all supported by Windows. So I can develop for Windows using Java at zero cost, I can also distribute at zero cost using many online services such as sourceforge.
You still havent managed to account for the fact that with Windows I have a choice of IDE's and languages,
This is like comparing AIDS to Herpes, I don't like either but if I had to contract one, I definitely done want iAIDS.
I think you're giving the Zune far too much credit. As Google have proven Apple don't ever move the goal posts that far, Google in 18 months managed to completely eclipse a product that took Apple 3 years to get to that point. As far as MP3 players go, the likes of Cowon and Iriver are producing far superior players to the Ipods but just don't have the marketing.
As much as I dislike MS, this is a case of "never blame malice for what can adequately be blamed on stupidity".
Microsoft designed a single user OS with no in built security in a time where networks were rare and have been forced to continue on with it by their customer base. All security ended up being tacked on because MS cant afford to kill legacy applications. I really don't think anyone at MS wants Windows to be insecure, it just happened that way and now they have to live with it.
This, the entire article is not news and I think this sums it up nicely. For a long time now the innovative people have used OSS whilst the people who just want to bring product X to market used MS.
Microsoft still in favour with paid developers and their superiors.
You think of this thing as black and white not the very narrow shade of grey that it is.
The planet will survive just fine as a ball of ice or fire, the question is will we. When the dinosaurs ruled the earth, the planet was filled with life yet the human race, if transplanted there would be unable to survive. It was simply too hot and far too much carbon in the air (6-7 times pre-industrial levels, we are talking serious birth defect territory here). The planet happily survived this, but do you honestly think we could survive even the tiniest variation in temperature and atmosphere composition?
Yes indeed, your head is not big enough.
In fact your head is so small you cannot conceive that your actions have far reaching consequences. As a simple experiment, if you have tree's in your yard, go outside and cut them all down. Measure what happens to the temperature inside your own house, especially in relation to the temperature outside. Last winter (it's winter now where I live) a in my yard was blown over. After it was removed we began to notice the house got a bit colder and mimicked the temperature outside more closely.
Now we as a species do this on a much grander scale. We cut down a mountain and turn it into a city. Putting up a single 10 story building affects the temperature of all the buildings around it. If you put up dozens of buildings... We remove inert carbon from the ground, change the chemical composition by fire and shoot that carbon into the air with a whole bunch of heavy metals. We cut down large and diverse forests to plant rows of the same plant, or allow a larger then sustainable number of selected animals roam. If you don't get how doing this on an industrial scale will affect an ecosystem as large as a planet then yes, your head is not big enough and you should remember this when getting involved in conversations you don't understand the scale of.
Is there anything actually incorrect about my post or do you just not like it.
But you can hold any of these phones and not lose most of your signal.
The problems you describe are not detrimental to the function of the phone. Maybe this is because HTC and Motorola actually test their phones in real world conditions. Motorola has going one step further as they invented Six Sigma which is designed to spot and eliminate flaws in the manufacturing stage (read, fewer DOA devices).
These problems with the Iphone are not affecting a small number of users, in the case of the aerial issues it's affecting nearly all users. This isn't a small issue with the camera, it's a critical failure of QA and UAT.
But Apple products Just Work(TM) because they've been expertly designed and tested...
Or so the Fanboy^W marketing tells me. RIM doesn't get flack over design failures because RIM has not established their entire company reputation on having supposedly "superior" designs. Apple made their bed by advertising their products as "always working" and "never flawed" unlike the competition. If Apple didn't rabbit on about how the iProduct "Just Works" and how it is so "easy to use" and "simplifies" everything then we wouldn't be having a problem. Then again Apple wouldn't have more then 5% smart-phone market share.
Apple made its bed by claiming their products will always works (I.E. do not have flaws), then Apple releases a defective product that could have been fixed if the prototypes went through some basic real world testing. You cant blame people for having a little schadenfreude now that their marketing has been turned on its head, nor can you cover it up by claiming that the marketing fanboys parrot so often is false.
Yes, but this one dials 10 chevrons.