And if you shout symbianis dying and then kill it then it will die. Nokias's problems were not symbian but the way they worked or organized their teams. Autark teams where everybody can do anything (but does not) made efficiencies of scale imposible. Top it with CEO telling everybody our produts have no future' and you wonder why their credit lines are still open. I think it is difficult to destroy company fast but management of Nokia is doing quite nicely. In corporation I work for we took working frameworks Nokia used so successfully and guess what - our products start to fail. I guess we did not copy their good practices well enuff thou because we do not fail as fast - maybe we need more gurus?

the problem you describe is real but does not apply to all environments and application types. The web application i.e. single target (or cloudy crowd of clones) has different characteristics still if you release few times a day then your web page is not good enuff.

Somewhere above somebody claimed FB is doing it every day and that is a sign it is possible and good - well I dare say FB web page is one of the worst web.2.0 pages I have misfortune to 'enjoy'. Maybe their back-end is good maybe not I do not care because front end is crap - maybe they do not release fast enuff. Then again this is a single target i.e. they do not have to deliver to many customers, different configurations, ensure no interruptions during roll-out test roll-out and roll-back and all other things that you cannot always automate. This is of course not to say that it is impossible and not feasible. It is but not always or even usually not. That is my vies. ymmv and agile gurus know better anyway (but have not even tried to understand what the hell the word means).

Well it all depends. There are systems complex enuff and important enuff that need to have stability tests that run longer and are more complex than automated run attached to automated builds can do. This means they are decoupled from nightly builds. This also means that you cannot have full test for each nightly build and this affects of course release pace. OTOH if you work on maintenance branch you do not usually do whole stability tests which is justified by the size of the patch/set of patches you are releasing so your pace may be faster here. This said there are for sure systems where this much tedious testing is not needed and which are less complicated (one standard release no market releases, no market configuration branches etc) so you release one application with a basic set of configs - this is easy then and I guess you can just make your master branch available to customers to pick it this making the release cycle very short (say week or two). I do not think any serous software can be released more often unless you release internally to your back-end server. But even there I cannot imagine few releases a day as productive and sensible.

BTW: I work in the industry for quite a while and I have not seen one organisation that actually worked water fall. They did some silly planning sessions for projects predicting how many lines of code you may be writting 2 years ahead but actual design and test was done in iterative way which is as efficient as agile methodologies (ooops sorry I should have said frameworks) if not more efficient (in terms of combined quality, usability, project scope and time needed).

they do not have to - in majority of jurisdictions where such networks operate there are laws in place that force operators to:

• be able know where a mobile device is
• to intercept all standard mobile communications i.e. calls and texting

I believe in US this is called Lawful Interception.

if you sheets have round corners then there will be at least one company that would like to have some royalties paid on that idea.... so better leave all the spherical round etc and go for sharp edges - they will sue your arse for all the cuts and bruises but chances are their lawyers are not as well paid as this one bullying company ones are....

If it is really so that nobody picks the work after other people leave then I would seriously considering leaving too because they are just burning money.

As replaceability goes - everybody is replaceable that is true. Of course there are differences. If difference between you leaving and another one coming and moving along is small i.e. small cost then you were working in call center and being fired is not the way to think of it - you just got a new opportunity. Higher you go in salary and position more difficult it is to replace you but then hey - sometime they downsize sometimes you do not fit no more. Sometimes it costs lot if you live but company just deals with it.

So the actual lesson from this may be that marketing people are a waste of bandwidth and the articles about them are that too. TFA confirms this quite nicely.

You can think of it this way: change in power structure of the world esp on top are always dangerous as bullies that they are tend to overreact and wrongly estimate own and other side capabilities. Sizes of these opponents and their military power means that there is lots of damage if they make a mistake.

yes and no.

Original concept was indeed to deal with the liabilities of corporations which before considering them a legal persons could kill or cause losses but could not be held liable thus causing trouble so they have been made liable by declaring them persons in law for dealing with debt. It was back then but It is different in US now (and possibly in Germany if you believe this but I guess that depends what courts will find) where corporations are now granted much more rights than needed to deal with liabilities. It is one of those things that simple in principle make your mind boiling and have a raising set of unintended/not predicted consequences.

they are not idiots - they make a pretty rational decision. See when I have a choice to pay and know that in need and/or emergency I will be treated anyway I could imagine that I will not pay - why should I? This is pretty rational decision. It is immoral and asocial but it is reasonable. That is also the reason why health insurance must be mandatory if your health system is to survive. I guess health system is a perfect example for tragedy of the commons. There are different ways to handle this but as this is insurance case we can just borrow from car insurance only this time as long as you have life needing saving you must be insured as with a car being registered and used. You stop using it then you are free not to be insured only in this particular case you are dead... Now they way to organize the system is another thing - some may chose one tier system or private enterprise or combination of different systems as in Holland but I think majority of Tea Partiers and Republicans in general fail at understanding what is the main problem here.

One can reason that an intelligent criminal would research potential targets and your house is probably not on the list and if it were the criminal would investigate ways to disable the protection systems before going to work. The less intelligent ones would see the lights and seek their luck elsewhere because small chance that they are mistaken about 'fake' system is coupled with huge inconveniences of taking a shower in prison. So no the argument about silly criminals is probably wrong. as the only ones you have to protect against are the /.ers because when they see it they 'know' it is a fake ...

Some of entities included on ISO list do not have such a thing as GDP.

The value of a company on the market at particular time is not what it earns these are two different things. Third different thing is how much a company having all the nice income is going to spend and actually spending. It is yet another thing how much spending by one such company affects local and not so local economy. I have serious doubt that a company like Apple does make a huge difference for economy of US not only if it did spend what it earned in a country where its HQ is located but also because none of huge corporations actually does that. It is not only Apple that is like this.

nnot sure when did you watch your streams or what sports you like but German TV did (from my perspective) the same crap as always on air and their streaming sucked big time. So what was on air was a big show of doped athletes - in fact I had impression any time I turn it on it is either heavy weights lifting or swimming and such. Their streaming was crap and besides opening ceremony and one basketball game I never managed to see anything in most of the cases I got empty page saying 'try later' or some such so even their main web sides were overwhelmed. You could watch late at nite of course but German TV did not provide full coverage archive except some highlights from the day. Crap and crap. After some searching I found out European Broadcasting Union site and I found at least something to watch. Their streams were not so good quality and had no comments but there were 12 main streams covering each day. You could watch all games you wanted. There were no commentary except from what one could hear from the venues but that is something an advantage :) The browsing and random access was abit difficult so when I wanted to see particular judo fight that was a problem but then people in the arena had to watch it all too :) On top of this you could find EBU members streams there - Germans were not available for legal reasons but BBC did nicely at least for closing ceremony. Generally I find German approach - fees paid by GEZ not bad but the methods used are just wrong and the effects on public TV at least terrible. GEZ is violating privacy of people and there are some reports of them selling data that they got trough their 'legal' methods for profit. Add to this really bad quality of broadcasting in Germany - I mean how many TATORT or CSI are you going to watch? ARD (made with french broadcaster) and niche ZDF broadcasts (ZDF Kultur etc) are less terrible though. It is still better that the crap presented on private channels. Quite frankly I stopped watching regularly long time ago.

Bottom line is : BBC seems to have done things right. EBU as a backup solution did well albeit quality should be much better. The service for which you pay (in Germany at least) was dreadful and there is no improvement in sight - I complained to ZDF and they just 'did not know' what disturbance would they be having and I am pretty sure this is not my last mile or home network that was at fault as I did try to access from different locations/ISPs. So shit as usuall and sheopple happy as usual.

This is OT but I find all these doped robots appalling - only few sports actually are enjoyable - teams sports are good (albeit football is just plain boring and without alco not enjoyable) - at least there is a chance that actual ability is not made up in a drug store. Archery was good. Judo and taekwondo is good to watch too and I do not believe they enhance their ability in drug store too much. Fencing was interesting too. Badminton was interesting also albeit for different reasons - I would not think there could be teams not willing to win the match for tactical reasons - good that they were disqualified. In fact after all the reports about the doping scandals and I had temptation to follow snooker only. These sportpeople are professionals of course and this is their job but then what do I as a amatour sportsman have in common with these robots? The feeling that with a bit of luck and hard work you can reach high level is gone after you look at results the professionals have.

It is also so funny to observe the discussion in German media about the 'targets' I did not know but apparently Germany set some targets for their athletes - this many medals in particular discipline etc I guess they should stop giving money away (to Greece, to the banks and football associations etc) and instead start funding schools instead then maybe they will have material on which they can work on. Having Germans doing efficient doping controls does not help of course.... Come to think about schools and what I see there - having all the focus on girls and 'girly' society is not doing the kids too much good - not much sports in the schools and they cannot run and enjoy the sun during the brakes - all must be orderly. I guess Germans do not want to have men with balls. No wonder their reproduction rates are falling so low (even if we immigrants are trying....).

That is already more logic than a normal indi-h-vidual can take without overheating his/her brains or going directly into hit the interlocutor in the face mode.

It is also in direct contradiction with "if I have a hammer then everything is nail" approach