Posts by Don Jefe

Women?

Where are the women on this list? I feel that the storage industry must be engaging in sexual discrimination in their hiring and promotion processes.

9 to 5 Hours?

What IT department has the author been working in that has 9 to 5 hours?

Rebuttal?

Why bother rebutting the guy if the original article was correct? Seems kind of petty and is just giving them free advertisement. Or is that the idea?

Online Ads

On a PC I generally don't mind ads, in fact I often find them useful. I've spent plenty of money buying stuff from ads. On a mobile device? No. I have never intentionally clicked on a mobile ad. I've opened up plenty by mistake but never, not once, on purpose.

With the fancy new eye following tech I expect little banner ads to move up and down the screen with your eyeballs. There simply isn't enough room on the device for an ad to be unobtrusive and it pisses me off when I have to zoom in enough to hit the close window button. The same for the 'Download Our App' screens. Leave my tiny little device window alone. If you want to pick on something pick on my giant PC monitors, not my defenseless little phone.

Why Mobile Service?

There are plenty of CNC shops that will use your model and can produce a far higher quality out if metal (or plastic or wood) and these places can't really survive on walk in business. What makes Gartner think a mobile service that offers a lesser quality product than is already available will work?

Meh.

So you want to monitor everything you do, every minute of the day. That's fine. The idea of a longer life is appealing to many but where's the fun? Where's the risk? Where's the 'screw it I want to see what happens'? Depending on someone else to take the risk first and analyze the results is not only a dead end road, it is cowardly.

Let 'them' do it, I'm not leaving my house between the hours of 3PM and 8:23AM because QuantBook says that my alpha waves show variable R type plateaus that have a negative impact on my Vitamin D receptors. Sure, average lifespans may increase, but what's the point? Where is the experience of living?

Anonymous

I think Anonymous are a bunch of silly no talent assclowns but I dislike the Koch brothers even more. Too bad the attack wasn't more effective.

Movie

Wasn't there a movie about something like this that had Bill Pullman playing the fake spy?

Percentages

My old CEO used to say that talking in percentages is for when you're trying to gloss over unflattering numbers. I've found that to be correct at least 50% of the time.

Analysts Analyzed

I'd like to see Gartner do an analysis of analysts to determine the biggest bullshit terms they use.

Astounding

This was a really good article! I didn't know the history behind LEO.

It is astounding to me that a bakery decided to build such a thing. In most modern businesses the bean counters would have collective apoplexy if a bakery decided to venture into say building satellites.

It Does Work

It may not appear very friendly, but specialty shops charging an entry fee is not that rare, at least in the U.S.

High end furniture galleries, collector car shops, antique auctions, beauty supply shops, firearm shops, architectural supply shops, and art galleries regularly charge entry fees that are refundable upon a purchase.

There is no point in catering to the bottom feeding comparison shopper. They are the worst sort of customer: time intensive, high maintenance, prone to returning purchased and have the unbelievably ignorant belief that by purchasing an item cheaply they are helping the merchant. They will never be loyal, they're just looking for a deal. Let them have their Internet, they aren't needed anyway.