When I was attempting to have my account information corrected ( a process that took over six months to accomplish ) they kept on trying to sell me more services, one of which was their 75Mbs service. Sigh.
That's idiotic. Companies most certainly DO NOT exist "to produce profits".
Companies exist to make products or provide services. Profits are a side-effect that act as an incentive for people to form companies to provide products or services. The raison d'etre of a company is to PRODUCE something - the profits from efficient overproduction are just encouragement for those with the means to produce something of value to the rest of us.
That's silly, most investors would be perfectly happy with a company that made absolutely no products and provided no services as long as it was making an adequate return. Yes, as a society the reason we allow such activity is that it's generally beneficial to the rest of us but that's the side effect not the profits.
Can I have the secret for a company that doesn't provide any services, nor make anything to sell and still have a profit?
Since Sony is going to eat the production costs anyway, why not declare the movie to be in the public domain and make it downloadable by anyone at no charge?
That'll piss off the terrorists, but they'll be powerless to stop its distribution.
With no anal lube either.
By moving everything to the cloud you're not eliminating problems, just making them someone elses problem, and enabling new ones to crop up.
He's taking 207 individual problems and making them 1 problem.
More importantly, he's taking 207 databases and putting them in 1 place, which significantly reduces the impediments to data sharing.
There are still government offices that have to print something from one system and input it by hand into a second.
Whatever we can do to get rid of that type of friction is a good thing.
Who says they're problems? Him?
Never ask the barber if you need a haircut.
By moving everything to the cloud you're not eliminating problems, just making them someone elses problem, and enabling new ones to crop up.
Be careful of what you ask for, you might just get it.
> It will be interesting to see if this causes any software compatibility issues with legacy applications.
The odds are in favor that many legacy applications won't work.
IBM also produces its zSeries chips, which still happens to run a large proportion of the worlds business.
I'm all for automating management with decision makers powered by random number generators. It'll be more honest and more likely to come up with the right decision.
Anal lube will be available at an initial small additional monthly charge, for the first two years, then the price will rise to market rates.
This will never happen again once Comcast buys TWC.
Total BS. I'd take a American IT worker with an inflated ego over a corporate bean counter any day. I've been in the IT field since 1979, and trust me, I'm an expert in my speciality. They might be able to replace me with someone and pay then 1/2 of what I make, but they're not going to get my skillset.
Knowing what to do when things are going along swimmingly is easy. When the shit hits the fan, getting the corporate mainframe back running in minutes rather than hours, or G-d forbid days is worth every penny they pay me. I know it, the people who've been working with me for *mumble* years know it.
A bean counter, I doubt it.
And two jobs. One for over 16 years, and going on 19 years at my second.
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy. Do you want to live in a police state? I don't.
I'd be really PO'd if the BBC did this. How else can I watch new episodes of Doctor Who prior to them being shown on BBC America?
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. -- Plato
