Comment Great, another address book to get F*$ked up sync (Score 3, Funny) 80
You know that is all I need... yet another address book that screws up all my contact lists when it does a sync with the 17 other address books I have......
You know that is all I need... yet another address book that screws up all my contact lists when it does a sync with the 17 other address books I have......
No, I don't "..obviously do" I never said it was either decent nor acceptable but it is how business is done. To not recognize the fact is to be incredibly stupid.
I don't behave that way nor condone it but I also realized quite early on that not being in a position of power to stop it I may as well stand on the beach and ask the tide to not come in. You want to go fight windmills, knock yourself out.
Having worked at numerous high tech companies and been on both sides of the litigation fence you come to realize, it is simply part of your business. Plain and simple. There are some rules like:
1) Never sue someone who doesn't have money unless they are a blatant rip off stealing your business.
2) You wait until they are making money. Then you walk in with your 3 foot stack of patents and say "We believe you are infringing all of these patents, pay up and cross license or we will file suit on each and every one." Then they usually follow with.." this week we are running a special, $15K/inch of height with a 2% on your revenue, AND we will throw in a set of Ginsu Knives" You in turn gag, renegotiate, build your own portfolio and look forward to the day 5 years from now when you can do the same to another competitor.
Like on the Soporano's "It's not personal.. its just businss"
It means DoS on
Yea, I remember Balmer dissing the iPhone. "So what so they sell a million phones. WE have the OS in millions of phones"
So we fast forward a few years and there are what, 30 million or so iPhones out there at $600 a crack to Apple and if I remember correctly iPhone installed base just surpassed phones with Windows Mobile in them. Yea.... right. Well they are not perfect but for me I think I would like Apple's revenue per phone much more than Windows Mobile but what the hell, gives Steve another reason to kick some more chairs.
Love their products in general. MacPro and MacBook user myself but I hate their mice and their keyboards. They both have always sucked.
The Lisa sucked big time. As did Newton but
No guts no glory. They at least stick their neck out there and try things. Sometimes it does not always work.
Just say NO to Micro$oft
Me I run OSX and FC8 thank you very much.
Come on, if your going to do worthless things why not go for the whole enchilada?
Having worked 28 some years in the semiconductor industry grinding out chips for PC's the story sounds SOOOooooo familiar.
"It's just this time...honest....just give up your entire personal life.... your wife and kids will love you for it cause we are just going to rain cash and kudo's on you"
Fast forward 2 years later...
"Ok, so my wife left me, my kids hate me and now your telling me my bonus went to the CEO and his butt buddies on the board because they needed something to light their cigars with and now your laying me off because we missed the market because you couldn't make up your friggin mind what you wanted and we all killed ourselves for you for nothing? Do I understand this right?"
Sux don't it?
I feel fortunate to have stashed just enough away to moon them all Ace Ventura style and walk away. Those in this kind of mess really have to ask themselves what is REALLY important. Those that run places like this which is 90% of corporate business these days don't give a rat's ass about you. Employees are an expense to be reduced not an asset to be valued. Think you are not replaceable. Put you hand into a bucket of water and pull it out and see how fast that hole fills up. That is the reality. If you really like that work more than life itself, then that is what you should do but if not..... you might just want to look around.
Ah, shades of Armageddon. That wonderful movie where they so realistically portray space missions so weight critical that they bring friggin miniguns along with them. What they really need is some space faring Sharks with Lasers on their heads. That should fix it!!!!!
What are these companies running on besides fumes?
An engineer is someone who does list processing in FORTRAN.