midnitewarrior

Him helping that elderly person undermined Apple's highly engineered brand interaction with that customer. Apple is there to have you bring your computers in to the genius bar and interact with you to build brand loyalty and sell you more things. The customer is then supposed to go tell their friends how wonderful the Apple Store is.

Instead, an Apple employee undermined the precision-crafted brand experience with this customer. Worse yet, if he would have messed up the transfer, he'd be making Apple look really bad when the customer told their friends about how unreliable getting a new Mac going can be due to their experience.

This is possibly their narrative on this issue. Companies like Apple worry endlessly about this, which is how they have earned their reputation with customers.

I can understand a warning or write-up being an educational opportunity for the employee to understand the problem here, but clearly there was no malicious intent here, firing someone over this is really poor management unless they are a repeat offender after a warning.

Bad move.

Zoom will still get hacked if the minimum security isn't enough, then they will have to blame their potential customers for their own problems while their brand is smeared.

They don't own all the IP used in Windows. Even if they wanted to open source Windows, they couldn't without a very expensive licensing agreements with all of the rights holders of technologies they have licensed.

Very much not "the flu".

As far as getting old jobs back, many companies will cease to exist unless bailout money magically sustains them, which it likely won't.

Many businesses were weak, operating with high debt and thin margins. The math that allowed them to continue to exist just got destroyed, they aren't coming back. No cash flow, no cash reserves means no ability to service that debt. Taking on additional debt to bridge this crisis would create a new level of future debt service that isn't sustainable with previously good revenues.

Disposable income is going to be gone for many until we get a vaccine rolled out in 18-24 months. Hospitality, travel, foodservicr, events and entertainment industries will be decimated until we reach herd immunity.

Just buy the AirPod Pro 2 next Fall

Given Google's track record of killing products people depend on, I can imagine the hesitation managers feel when they consider moving mission critical applications to Google.

Risking losing funding if they don't surpass AWS or Azure is a scary thought. It's a shame because GCP is very good from what I've read.

I was excited when I read the title - I thought Amazon might have finally taken the review fraud on their site seriously and released a tool to combat it. sigh

It's a FUD marketing campaign by the meat industry because of declining sales.

If I were spying at Twitter for Saudi Arabia, I'd stream Trump's real-time location back to my handlers, as the Twitter app gathers location data and Trump's online habits are lax.

Brave + DDG works well for me. All of the compatibility of Chrome, but with none of the tracking.

We should start sprinkling pollen in high crime areas to prevent crime!

The Internet switched from contribution to consumption with the rise of mobile. Most users' main Internet device is a phone, not ideal for contributing meaningful content, but optimized for scrolling and media consumption.

I worked at a large web incubator, we build web sites and applications and helped out clients find funding and tried to support them in other ways. Round after round of layoffs. People were on edge. We had offices around the globe, maybe a dozen or more. The final straw was 9/11, as our largest client was revamping their national hotel chain website. Their occupancy went down to 4% and the whole multi-months-long web site development project was mothballed. I was one of the chosen few to stick around and work in the last office of the company that ended up splitting off into its own company.

Knowing you have the largest factor of your cost of living fixed for the next 15 or 30 years is powerful for budgeting and planning. I've lived places where the increasing rent has pushed me out of my apartment home.

Yes, agreed, it's amazing how many more feature Windows ships than Linux, and that's only the "nano" version!

Is this the RoboCop prequel?

Thank you for doing this!

I was subscribed an otic cream that cost over $200 when the pharmacist told me there were similar, slightly less effective drops for $50. I spent 2 hours at the pharmacy calling back to my physician and waiting to try to get the prescription changed. Most don't have that time flexibility to do that.

I think the pharmacist regretted telling me, as it was such a pain to get the prescription changed with my Dr.

The fact this was accidental is far worse than a virus.

Artesenal toilet paper may be this bubble's WebVan...

Their tuition is rising at unsustainable rates, and institutions are making huge investments in facilities whose loans depend on the unsustainable rise in tuition in order to pay them off.

State schools contributed less to tuition, pushing the burden on to students and parents. They used the money saved to build more impressive facilities to attract more students, and also raised costs.

Students accepted that they will need huge loans to get an education, and institutions invested in more elaborate amenities (sports arenas, rec facilities, apartment-style dorms, huge athletic budgets) to attract the top students and their loan money.

Modern, rich countries externalize their polution-causing activities to developing nations.

Do Empress trees make for good firewood?

Maybe, if we don't have an abundance of food for 10 billion people, people will think twice before having more children? The environmental challenges with our existing number of people are already overwhelming.

How about his willful undermining of the integrity of the public comment process for the Net Neutrality regulations for starters?

He got his way aside by refusing to investigate the tens of thousands of fake comments supporting the repeal of Net Neutrality regulations.

I wonder how many years Ajit Pai will get when it's his turn?

Telling a lie then saying 3 Hail Marys means you are forgiven for the lie, it doesn't fix the lie.

As such, planting a tree to be forgiven for going on a flight that burns carbon-laden jet fuel doesn't fix what you did.

Fossil fuels are excess carbon atoms sequestered safely deep inside the Earth. Unless you can find a way to put them back there, there's no fixing the situation. Planting a tree does capture carbon. However, when it dies and rots, all the carbon gets re-released over time back into the atmosphere. If you burn that wood, it happens much more quickly.

The only way to fix this problem is to stop using fossil fuels. There is no politically viable way for this to happen. The only way this is happening is if the planet gets depopulated of humans rapidly.

Linux and Open Source tech is a huge part of Azure now. They profit from people using Linux on Azure. They don't have a reason to chase customers away when they are making money from them.

The referenced comment rehashes the evils of Ballmer's Microsoft which Nadella has mostly corrected. Satya Nadella has embraced (but not extended!) Open Source. Their Azure strategy puts all platforms on a level playing field - yet has also made Azure an incredible place to make Windows/Microsoft technologies shine. It's a great place for all apps.

Yes, they control Office and are the defacto office document standard. What they do with Office now is affordable and ubiquitous. No other office document suite can do this. They are a for-profit company, and Office serves their customers very well. Yes, in Ballmer's days this wan't the case, but today you can run Office (365/Cloud) on a Chromebook and on Android and iPhone as supported apps.

Switch from Chrome to Brave