So when you give a politico advice then it's "can claim some credit", but when someone else does it they're "the economics 'genius' behind"?
Bit snide, Shirley?
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Technical questions on a particular language or platform shows mostly what their experience to date is on that particular technology. You get significant additional insight into the ability of a candidate by assessing their general approach to problem solving, and for developers that particularly applies to logic & maths problems. Obviously you don't base the entire interview on abstract puzzles, but they certainly have their place.
Not quite sure why El Reg has been so sneery about this one. For a couple of good articles on just why this case is unlikely to hurt anyone other than Carreon, I'd suggest checking either Lowering the Bar or Pope Hat:
http://www.popehat.com/2012/06/17/the-oatmeal-v-funnyjunk-part-iv-charles-carreon-sues-everybody/
http://www.loweringthebar.net/2012/06/carreon-v-the-oatmeal.html
IT departments aren't even close to embracing iOS, Android or RIM to the same extent that they happily sign up to MS. Nokia, who every man and dog acknowledge produce good hardware but meh software, contemplate the two available mass market offerings and place their bets on MS surprisingly quite decent but still uncommon Winphone 7. Big surprise, absolutely common sense play.
And who loses here? A really quite decent alternative to Android and iOS gets the sort of hardware supplier you want to use signing up. Nokia get a chance to not disappear off the map by ditching some OS that no bugger wanted to use. WTF with the bitching?
Could someone please explain what this means:
" "Is it really a surprise that Bakbone has shit the bed? Amateurs with handcuffs is not a winning combination."
I take it "shit the bed" is make a right mess of things, but I'm not following the amateurs with handcuffs comment at all.
"When I was readin your article I thought to myself that it was not a good one to publish and that there are far more great police officers in the various forces than there are bad and that articles such as these just undermine everyone but for no actual public achievement/gain"
Are you serious, or just a master of deadpan comedy? Of course bringing a massive breach in data security like this to public attention benefits the public interest. Covering it up would just allow whichever idiot oversees this lax operation to sweep it under the carpet. Airing it means that 10,000 people can now ask just who else their confidential data has been accidentally emailed to, and also makes sure Gwent Police have to seriously improve their procedures.
OK, let me correct you
"isn't the 360 the ONLY console on the market that *doesn't* sell the system at a loss? "
No. Nintendo are making just under $40 profit on every Wii sold. - http://kotaku.com/gaming/wii/wii-autopsy-discovers-manufacturing-cost-221736.php
Whereas Microsoft subsidise each 360 to the tune of $126 - http://www.joystiq.com/2005/12/28/xbox-360-costs-715-to-make/
Also, considering they're selling 5 times the rate of ps3's and twice the rate of 360's I have to ask just how you come to the conclusion that it's going to have poor games sales and developers won't support it. As far as I can see, Nintendo have a lot to be happy about.