Comment Re:Out of touch management (Score 1) 124
There's a salesperson at the door saying "I can make sure your employees are saying please" and zero salespeople saying, "I can make sure your buns aren't stale".
Comment The franchisees don't want the machines to work (Score 1) 80
The franchisees don't want the machines to work. The daily clean-up time (and believe me... when dealing with dairy you want it to be VERY clean) takes a long time. They lose money unless they are selling TONS of servings. Nobody could possibly sell enough ice cream to break even.
Let's suppose it is going to take 1 person-hours each day to clean the machine and you make 10 cents profit per serving. Assuming labor cost of $10/hour (these numbers are all fiction). You're going to have to sell 100 servings just to break even. That would mean a TON of advertising and promotion to drive that kind of sales volume. Doing those promotions cost even more money, which requires more sales to make up for.
It is much more profitable to leave the machine broken and have that 1 hour of labor doing something that they know makes money... like grilling burgers.
Of course... this is an excellent opportunity for iFixit and others to advocate for the changes they want. McDonald's can't publicly admit they don't want the machines fixed. It gets good PR for iFixit and friends.
Comment Re:Very Sensible - and Not. (Score 1) 398
What do you recommend eating so that you don't need healthcare related to being pregnant?
I hate to say it this way but only a dude would make a statement like what the CEO said.
Comment Pregnant women need healthcare (Score 1) 398
Last I checked, a more healthy diet doesn't stop you from needing healthcare when you go into labor.
Comment Same plot as The Last Star Fighter??? (Score 3, Funny) 44
I loved that film!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0...
Startups, VCs in India Request 'Relief Package' From the Government To Fight Coronavirus Disruption (techcrunch.com) 25
More than six dozen startup founders, venture capitalists and lobby groups in India have requested the government to grant them a "robust relief package" to help combat severe disruptions their businesses face due to the coronavirus outbreak. From a report: In a joint letter to India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, startups requested the government to bankroll 50% of their workforce's salaries for six months, provide interest-free loans from banks, waive rent for three months and offer tax benefits among other things. "Unfortunately, our startup companies across the nation are inherently young, less resilient and most vulnerable. Many of them face likely devastation during this extraordinary economic downturn. At this dire moment, Indian startups need a robust relief package from the government, lest all our collective efforts of the past few years are in vain," they wrote.
As India, where the economy growth has been slowing for several quarters, scrambles to provide for its 1.3 billion citizens, the letter has drawn some criticism from industry figures. "I can't fathom how such a list gets made in a country of more than a billion people who are facing a crisis unlike any they've seen before. A significant majority of them daily wage earners who have no financial cushion or any idea where their next meal is going to come from. Let's not even stray into health and the need for medical emergencies; just putting three square meals on the table a day is proving to be impossible for so many," wrote Ashish K. Mishra in a column on The Morning Context.
As India, where the economy growth has been slowing for several quarters, scrambles to provide for its 1.3 billion citizens, the letter has drawn some criticism from industry figures. "I can't fathom how such a list gets made in a country of more than a billion people who are facing a crisis unlike any they've seen before. A significant majority of them daily wage earners who have no financial cushion or any idea where their next meal is going to come from. Let's not even stray into health and the need for medical emergencies; just putting three square meals on the table a day is proving to be impossible for so many," wrote Ashish K. Mishra in a column on The Morning Context.
Comment Re:SIGGRAPH TPPT is exactly what you asked for! (Score 1) 95
The 2018 edition is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment SIGGRAPH TPPT is exactly what you asked for! (Score 2) 95
SIGGRAPH is the ACM computer graphics research conference. You won't find anything more cutting edge. Each year they produce a video "SIGGRAPH $YEAR : Technical Papers Preview Trailer". This is exactly what the OP was looking for. Here's 2017's video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Comment Can Go add better static analysis? (Score 1) 185
The "Rust" programming language boasts the ability to perform more static analysis (finding errors at compile time) than Go. Could Go add better static analysis?
Comment Does the lineage include C++? (Score 1) 185
In the preface there is a chart of "The Origins of Go" which includes many languages such as C, Modula-2, CSP, and so on. However C++ is missing from the chart. Oversight or intentional?
Comment Measuring cost instead of profit. (Score 1) 327
This report measures the wrong thing. If GF is profitable purely by itself (no accounting tricks, no assumptions about how much additional ad revenue could be generated, as son on), then the investment would be justifiable no matter the cost.
Also, since Google has released zero actual cost numbers, this is making guesses based on how Time Warner or other highly inefficient companies operate. Why do that?
Fired IT Worker Replaces CEO's Presentation With Porn 316
An anonymous reader writes "52-year-old Walter Powell wanted revenge when he was fired from his position as an IT manager at Baltimore Substance Abuse System Inc. So, he hacked into their systems — installing keyloggers to steal passwords. Then, when his CEO was giving a presentation to the board of directors he replaced the slides with pornographic images. Powell has now been given a 2 year suspended sentence, and 100 hours community service."
Comment Re:i am impressed (Score 2) 246
I had 15 items and picked the 10 best.
Comment Re:I'm sorry, why should we care? (Score 1) 246
You sound like one of those people that piss all over the public bathroom floor and say, "ha! it's someone's job to clean it up! why should I care!" (since you made the janitorial analogy, I thought I'd complete it)
The biggest change in business in the last 10 years is the realization that IT is not a "cost to be reduced" but the driver of innovation that should be invested in, respected, and optimized.
Comment Re:What does Google need with a building? (Score 1) 87
Those advertisements don't sell themselves. Google has a very large salesforce. Since NYC is the center of the universe for advertising (think "Madison Avenue") and magazine publishing (name just about any magazine) it is obvious that Google has a large salesforce there.
Google already rents a large part of that building and has been quoted as saying there are at leaset 2000 employees there. It's cheaper to own then rent.
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