Doomed? You, maybe. Me, being a trusted slashdot personality, am sure our new overlords will see how convenient to have someone like me at their side. I, for one, welcome our new t1000 overlords! Be their reign long and fruitful!
Man. you failed to realize that the nice looking woman is his wife, not her daughter. Yeah, I know, this is just microsoft going dirty and trying to capitalize on their slave's dearest fantasies.
The difference is that when they are at your side you can shoot him/her with your.45 if they become too much distracting. To drop a phone call would be a bit too much on the rude side, I think.
Think about the class actions that would follow if it came to public knowledge that a pharmaceutical company was hiding a cure for AIDS.... I am sure the stakeholders of such a company would probably be utterly sorry they didn't bought stocks for a tobacco company instead.
Then. Think about it as a game: You spend a lot of money and find AIDS cure. Of course, it's going to hurt your other business of selling pills that have to be swallowed forever. But, now think: What if some of your rivals find the cure and start selling it? Now you've lost not only your perpetual income source, but also the chance of cashing big one-time with your AIDS cure. I think that if you are the CEO of a company in such a position, your stakeholders won't rest till you're on jail and forever ruined. Even if your rivals do not find a permanent cure, maybe they could invent a new and improved take-it-for-your-lifetime-pill that would render your take-it-for-your-lifetime-pill obsolete, and again you would have lost your stakeholder's money, and again they won't be much happy with it. And besides that, remember that the modern corporation is not competing with others for sales, but also for market value. Finding a cure for AIDS would probably make your stakeholder's a lot richer in the short time, and this is just the reason why they pay you, dear CEO, your 7/8 figures salary and your nice learjet.
Maybe their concept of hand-held was more in the line of a WWII-military phone sized device with a handle. The handle fits in you hand, right? So, it's a hand-held device. If they were really smart they could even have said the device dubbed as some sort of bodybuilding gadget, thus increasing the feature list by one item.
You can put a price tag on that. Multiply the increased years of life by the their average income and you've got a number. Not very accurate, but a number anyway.
Consider how many times this kind of thing must have floated on larry elison dreams: Having some jet fighter factories and finally wipe that loser bill gates out of sight, so the world would finally recognize him, Larry Elison, as the One and truly One.
... I just don't see OC4J coming out of this alive...... May God hear you. But as wicked a company as oracle is, I wouldn't get surprised if they discontinued Weblogic Server and kept on commiting mass OC4J.
Think about it. A Commercial airliner is pretty much vulnerable. I don't see one of those birds surving even a.90 machine gun. You'd better have better security near airports instead of relying on it.
Slow down, cowboy. Just because you're a loser, it doesn't follow on that every other/. user is a loser too. You know, some of us have degrees, some of us are PhDs, and some us even work with this type of thing.
You forgot to factor that there is also a lot of engineers hanging around here, not everyone here is a whining loser that likes to spill his/her rage randomly. I don't remember you asking the resume of your so-called slashfag to say, with such an authority tone, that he knows nothing about what he is talking .
What worries me is that even raising ideas like yours is becoming increasingly more difficult. Look at that: People like to say that global warming skeptics are no more than oil industry pawns. But at the same time nobody remembers that investment banks are going to make a lot of bucks in the derivatives market for carbon credits, and that the more masses perceive global warming as a impending tragedy the more donations are going to be received by global environmental NGOs. Note that I am not saying that this is the case, but even considering those things has become anathema.
Sure. But I hold the American Idol is an "attempt" to build a megastar. Have you seen record companies signing 100 million contracts lately? The era of the megastars is over, and that's why we only talk about Britney as an example of shitty music stars, because Britney was one of the latest examples of such kind of manufactured megastar, she is one of the last dinossaurs. Teenagers want to be cool, they want to be trendy. When they had to spend some bucks to buy a CD, the safe bet for them was to go with the absolutely most popular star. Now, they can have music for zero dollars, so they can diversify and the megastar is, thankfully, a thing from the past.
What, there's more than one? I thought you were one user with way too much time on his hands.. Man, this is the internets... the ACs have only one hand which is not very busy.
Did you notice that I was arguing that the usual examples are not old because people around here are somewhat outdated, but because said "artists" where probably the last specimen of their species?
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Doomed? You, maybe.
Me, being a trusted slashdot personality, am sure our new overlords will see how convenient to have someone like me at their side.
I, for one, welcome our new t1000 overlords! Be their reign long and fruitful!
Man. you failed to realize that the nice looking woman is his wife, not her daughter.
Yeah, I know, this is just microsoft going dirty and trying to capitalize on their slave's dearest fantasies.
The drawing is nicely done, the colors are just right. But heck. this thing is not funny, is not even vaguely interesting enough to be read.
The difference is that when they are at your side you can shoot him/her with your .45 if they become too much distracting.
To drop a phone call would be a bit too much on the rude side, I think.
Think about the class actions that would follow if it came to public knowledge that a pharmaceutical company was hiding a cure for AIDS....
I am sure the stakeholders of such a company would probably be utterly sorry they didn't bought stocks for a tobacco company instead.
Then. Think about it as a game:
You spend a lot of money and find AIDS cure. Of course, it's going to hurt your other business of selling pills that have to be swallowed forever. But, now think: What if some of your rivals find the cure and start selling it?
Now you've lost not only your perpetual income source, but also the chance of cashing big one-time with your AIDS cure. I think that if you are the CEO of a company in such a position, your stakeholders won't rest till you're on jail and forever ruined.
Even if your rivals do not find a permanent cure, maybe they could invent a new and improved take-it-for-your-lifetime-pill that would render your take-it-for-your-lifetime-pill obsolete, and again you would have lost your stakeholder's money, and again they won't be much happy with it.
And besides that, remember that the modern corporation is not competing with others for sales, but also for market value. Finding a cure for AIDS would probably make your stakeholder's a lot richer in the short time, and this is just the reason why they pay you, dear CEO, your 7/8 figures salary and your nice learjet.
Im my day, computers ran DOS, so we could ran only half one thing at a time, where the other half was an overlay.
Maybe their concept of hand-held was more in the line of a WWII-military phone sized device with a handle. The handle fits in you hand, right? So, it's a hand-held device. If they were really smart they could even have said the device dubbed as some sort of bodybuilding gadget, thus increasing the feature list by one item.
You can put a price tag on that.
Multiply the increased years of life by the their average income and you've got a number. Not very accurate, but a number anyway.
Provided you mis-pronounce it always the same way, I think it's not much of a problem ;-)
Good luck measuring things like (unnamed) socioeconomic factors and power. Social Sciences.... humpf!
Consider how many times this kind of thing must have floated on larry elison dreams:
Having some jet fighter factories and finally wipe that loser bill gates out of sight, so the world would finally recognize him, Larry Elison, as the One and truly One.
... I just don't see OC4J coming out of this alive...... May God hear you.But as wicked a company as oracle is, I wouldn't get surprised if they discontinued Weblogic Server and kept on commiting mass OC4J.
Women are not a minority. Actually they are a majority in most countries, except China.
Just to make sure there's no chance of contamination they will nuke the fucking thing before landing and saturate it with radioactive materials.
Think about it. A Commercial airliner is pretty much vulnerable. I don't see one of those birds surving even a .90 machine gun. You'd better have better security near airports instead of relying on it.
Slow down, cowboy. /. user is a loser too. You know, some of us have degrees, some of us are PhDs, and some us even work with this type of thing.
Just because you're a loser, it doesn't follow on that every other
You forgot to factor that there is also a lot of engineers hanging around here, not everyone here is a whining loser that likes to spill his/her rage randomly.
I don't remember you asking the resume of your so-called slashfag to say, with such an authority tone, that he knows nothing about what he is talking .
What worries me is that even raising ideas like yours is becoming increasingly more difficult.
Look at that: People like to say that global warming skeptics are no more than oil industry pawns. But at the same time nobody remembers that investment banks are going to make a lot of bucks in the derivatives market for carbon credits, and that the more masses perceive global warming as a impending tragedy the more donations are going to be received by global environmental NGOs.
Note that I am not saying that this is the case, but even considering those things has become anathema.
Either you have a perverted sense of humour or the education in your country is so bad that you should all go commit collective ritual suicide.
Sure. But I hold the American Idol is an "attempt" to build a megastar. Have you seen record companies signing 100 million contracts lately? The era of the megastars is over, and that's why we only talk about Britney as an example of shitty music stars, because Britney was one of the latest examples of such kind of manufactured megastar, she is one of the last dinossaurs.
Teenagers want to be cool, they want to be trendy. When they had to spend some bucks to buy a CD, the safe bet for them was to go with the absolutely most popular star. Now, they can have music for zero dollars, so they can diversify and the megastar is, thankfully, a thing from the past.
I know, Steve Jobs once told me so.
What, there's more than one? I thought you were one user with way too much time on his hands.. Man, this is the internets... the ACs have only one hand which is not very busy.
But imagine a BOTNET of 787s!
Did you notice that I was arguing that the usual examples are not old because people around here are somewhat outdated, but because said "artists" where probably the last specimen of their species?