"Google's Rich Miner has identified one of the biggest problems facing mobile phone carriers, manufacturers, and developers: The hardware on the current generation of phones is not being used by many customers."
Why is this a problem? Isn't this like fretting that 60% of Dodge Caravan owners don't use the rear-seat cup holders? Maybe people just don't want to take pictures with their phones.
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7. Close enough.
Re:Answer: definetely no!
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Dude, I know. That's why it's funny to call him the "go-to guy".
*sigh*
So Dijkstra is no longer the go-to guy on this?
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But seriously:
I've always thought that coding
Can be poetry
Indeed. I'm not an expert, but I believe "a suspected failure in a superconducting connection, which overheated and caused around 100 of the LHC's super-cooled magnets to heat up by as much as 100 degrees" is just fancy-talk for "we made a wormhole, but it wasn't big enough".
This one time in the late '70s I was stopped and frisked by a couple of officers in broad daylight in a quiet little town in Southern California. When I came up clean, they were happy to tell me they stopped me bacause I had long hair and was running.
I missed my bus and was late to class that morning.
Oh, my. Good old RM/COBOL.
MACOLA got its start with an RM/COBOL rewrite of MCBA's accounting package, which was written in TI-COBOL. I got source code for 4 modules (A/R, G/L, I/M and SOP) and rewrote them from top to bottom to comply with some byzantine business rules. The damn thing screamed on an IBM PC-AT, and was viable all the way into the mid-90s, when management decided they wanted something that would work with a mouse.
It's the same deal, isn't it? And it has the same inherent problem: you don't get what you pay for. Fees charged by outsourced development and management companies cover an operating cost and a juicy profit, yet the client has no control over those costs and reaps no benefit from that profit. Don't talk to me about economy of scale -- the VARs and the SaaSers are as inefficient and problem-prone as any other IT enterprises. It's a crazy idea that goes against a basic free-market sensibility. VARs and SaaSers take advantage of a business' reluctance to manage in-house IT and charge exorbitant fees, knowing that it's more acceptable for the client to allow this arterial bleeding than it would be to switch VARs. It's an inherently parasitic and dishonest business model.
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"Google's Rich Miner has identified one of the biggest problems facing mobile phone carriers, manufacturers, and developers: The hardware on the current generation of phones is not being used by many customers."
Why is this a problem? Isn't this like fretting that 60% of Dodge Caravan owners don't use the rear-seat cup holders? Maybe people just don't want to take pictures with their phones.
In English?
1. Read story
2. Load comments
3. CTL-F "lipstick"
4. (not found) What the WTF??? Wait...
5. CTL-F "pig"
6. "A pig is still a pig, even when it's in a dress."
7. Close enough.
Dude, I know. That's why it's funny to call him the "go-to guy".
*sigh*
But seriously: I've always thought that coding Can be poetry
Indeed. I'm not an expert, but I believe "a suspected failure in a superconducting connection, which overheated and caused around 100 of the LHC's super-cooled magnets to heat up by as much as 100 degrees" is just fancy-talk for "we made a wormhole, but it wasn't big enough".
Some of us still remember the Great 8-Track Riots of '78. It wasn't pretty.
This one time in the late '70s I was stopped and frisked by a couple of officers in broad daylight in a quiet little town in Southern California. When I came up clean, they were happy to tell me they stopped me bacause I had long hair and was running. I missed my bus and was late to class that morning.
Is the angle of offset rakish or merely jaunty?
The internet's laissez-faire, libertarian ethic was born with Usenet, and is slowly dying with the WWW.
Oh, my. Good old RM/COBOL. MACOLA got its start with an RM/COBOL rewrite of MCBA's accounting package, which was written in TI-COBOL. I got source code for 4 modules (A/R, G/L, I/M and SOP) and rewrote them from top to bottom to comply with some byzantine business rules. The damn thing screamed on an IBM PC-AT, and was viable all the way into the mid-90s, when management decided they wanted something that would work with a mouse.
It's the same deal, isn't it? And it has the same inherent problem: you don't get what you pay for. Fees charged by outsourced development and management companies cover an operating cost and a juicy profit, yet the client has no control over those costs and reaps no benefit from that profit. Don't talk to me about economy of scale -- the VARs and the SaaSers are as inefficient and problem-prone as any other IT enterprises. It's a crazy idea that goes against a basic free-market sensibility. VARs and SaaSers take advantage of a business' reluctance to manage in-house IT and charge exorbitant fees, knowing that it's more acceptable for the client to allow this arterial bleeding than it would be to switch VARs. It's an inherently parasitic and dishonest business model.