Comment Call Center Work (Score 1) 491
IBM is a 'service company' these days. That means they basically run call centers. So IBM having a lot of people in India is not surprising nor even an amazing fact.
IBM is a 'service company' these days. That means they basically run call centers. So IBM having a lot of people in India is not surprising nor even an amazing fact.
Eventually the market will be overwhelmed (if not already) by the number of Android phones. At some point the developers will stop and realize there's a whole lot of people in the other ecosystem.
Now hopefully they actually write an app that uses Android properly instead of some stupid iOS port - I've seen so many that are hard to use on Android because of this.
The big thing is that Android is going on cheaper phones - we just got a plain phone here at work with a keyboard for texting, it came with Android and it was a whopping $150 to buy outright. It's no wonder the shipments/sales have taken off.
Not everyone needs a $600 smartphone, and it's an oversight on Apple's part.
I saw a Tracfone for $60ish dollars at the grocery store running Android 2.1 (I think). Three of the four phones they offer were Android.
Really? Artificial wombs, FFS? Look around you, Dr. Fertility. The natural wombs are pumping out product at a terrifyingly prodigious rate with no help from you. Maybe you can work on some other organ that we maybe need to stay alive or something?
And that doesn't say anything to people that want to be parents but for some reason they can not physically carry a baby to term. I applaud this as a step to help those that live under that anguish.
I have no idea if Apple's $1 figure is fair. It's probably a lowball figure to negoti based on device cost is NOT fair. After all, the only difference between a 64GB iPhone and a 32GB iPhone is the amount of RAM, yet Apple would have to pay Motorola more for a license from the more expensive phone! That is ridiculous.
That would be percentage of the *build* cost of a device, not necessarily what they sell it for. And that's a lot less money and probably is fairly reasonable.
Your heart possibly being owned by a corporation. Or your willy wang and the police busting down your door for unauthorised jerking methods.
You mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo!_The_Genetic_Opera ?
It sounds like they just found a lot of 'missing mass' here? How does it jibe for balancing things without using 'dark matter/energy'?
This is actually much more than 2x standard broadcasts in terms of resolution as far as the US market is concerned. In the US almost everything "HD" is 720 @ 60fps (or sometimes even 30!). This is 8k, which is 16x the resolution of 1080, and twice the frame rate.
Yes, but most 'real' High Definition that people watch on movies and cable/satellite is 1080i/p. Considering people haven't even starting buying QuadHD (2160p) TVs yet, ones that go up to 4320p are a bit out there.
Although with the prices of 32" 1080p TVs dropping so radically, I do expect QuadHD TVs to start to appear to keep up the base price.
"... and another fraudster selling nonexistent Yorkshire Terriers.'"
Bullshit. Yorkshire Terriers most certainly exist.
But *he* wasn't selling real ones.
As in those who were infected that lost important data can no longer know (for a surety) that their important data kept on their computer/server was compromised or not.
"So our top-sekret 'eyes-only' data may or may not be compromised and they may know everything. But we don't know if they actually know anything about everything. So we can't trust anything that we've stored on a computer in the last year."
Talk about your security nightmare situation for an Intelligence Agency of some acronym.
Or informational? Some of the amount of videos and pictures probably are excessive, but all in all it is informational and explains what these things are. It is not hundreds of pages/pictures of busty white girls topless on beaches.
I'd suggest trimming back (just because its excessive) but the fact that it is merely informative about something you feel uncomfortable with does not make it 'porn'.
casual piracy really is hurting the industry.
Lots of "people" say this, but the evidence is lacking.
Right. Avenger's kinda blew that out of the water. In fact, I'd heard one guy at work (after watching a pirated version) declare he was going to go see it in the theater for the 'experience'.
It's a shell-game and always has been. Rich countries were supposed to pay for poor countries to pollute more heavily (because it was cheap) while they created less polluting technology that would trickle down.
It's no wonder it failed so spectacularly.
...and forces you to consider the matter more in depth. It breaks the normal shape of words and sentences.
Total BS. Most of these guys aren't saying (just) take from the rich. They *are* saying that the rich have been gaming the rules because they have money to pay for politicians.
Or we are looking at the 'real' speed limit of Relativity. Since light is able to affect things far easier than neutrino, I bet they find that neutrinos are far closer to mass-less or has a lot less energy (and hence has less mass.) The lighter the mass of the particle function, the faster it should be able to reach the maximum speed of propagation.
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of FORTRAN. -- Alan Perlis