As Max Zorin said...
"So, anyone else want to drop out?"
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KAAARRRRLLLLLL!!!!
As quoted by Ron Susskind:
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore." He continued "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.
...as The Laundry management has heard that Her Majesty's gummint is holding on to outdated and quite possibly spiritually infected technology with suspicious alacrity and has decided that serious headbanging and a few exorcisms might be in order.
It's like in those olden times when all the pimply-faced geeks and retards (back then, including me, were fighting during recess about whether the Amiga or the Atari ST where somehow Da Best and then Appletards came out of the woodworks laughing at others because no-one understood the immense forward-looking Jobsian Wisdom of not having preemptive multitasking Apple Wondermachines...
Good times, good times.
Uh, yes. Also, water is wet, Sky is blue, You need to be at the right place at the right time (preferably while the economic bubble is still inflating) etc. etc.
"average seed deal size has actually climbed to $5.4m, up from $4.0m in the fourth quarter of 2009"
Just means that money is still cheap. Better hurry though, the next stage of the economic crash can't be far off. And this time, there will be dead people hanging from trees.
...when your BIOS, after having helpfully shown that it is in fact a specced-down Windows XP due the to well-known error popus, the various "bong" sounds and Clippy making noises on the lower right, presents you with the possibility to log into Facebook while-u-boot, tweets your uptime with Javascript, presents you with hardware-relevant ads and downloads 20 Meg of "fun&games" from a Romanian Website while you wait for the RAID construction to end.
Won't take long now.
I'm mean, what consumer can resist the goodness of those features?
We need a Marketdroid icon. Saintly Bill will do.
It's truly amazing that a problem which doesn't exist or has only something to do with the number of bars shown (which are also disappearing on other maker's phones if you grip them really tight which of course you wouldn't do with the expensive iPhone kit in the first place) and about which truly no-one complains because otherwise returns would be off the chart is even being discussed in the apparently biased and Apple-hating press.
No, really. Does Apple send professional blog fixers out en masse?
"one of the more dramatic scenes in the still-ongoing Gizmodophone opera buffa"
This is _not_ an opera buffa. It is unalloyed Corporate Police State action.
Still, guy should be grateful that they didn't cap/tazer his ass a few times just for the fun of it (aka. "resisting an officer in his line of duty")
...tech teams don't work like that. They are often dedicated but can get demoralized really quickly if Mr. Armani from upstairs shows up and thinks he knows what he's doing and has this tech knowledge down pat because he has an MBA from Unsoldered University. Erratic feature control, marketing interference and micromanagement then gets you something out the door, but it's just boving excrement.
You also lose the tech team.
1) Get US "unitary" president to take ombrage at Steve Jobs.
2) Prez decides to put Steve on deathlist (no oversight required).
3) CIA-controlled drone armed with Hellfire missiles starts from Sunnyvale AFB (violating a few dozen laws no-one cares about any longer)
4) ???
5) Fanboi rage!
"You've got to instrument the network to know what's going on, so you have situational awareness to take action," an unnamed military source told the paper.
Translation:
"You have got to make some work and pretend that you can do a better job than the private sector at knowing what's going on, then pretend that you can actually do something, Hollywood-style, about a problem. If you don't shell out like crazy, you might also get a budget reduction next year and nobody wants THAT"
This is not copyright infrigement (where the notion of "stealing" is already bent out of shape), it's about patents. Patent infringement has nothing to do with "stolen property". It, however, has to do with ideas being "near" each other (with an arbitrary definition of distance), where one of those ideas has been granted a state-enforced area of avoidance by clueless USPTO employees.
Guys could just release the implementation on sourceforge and leave it at that.