MJR

What in your opinion is smallest-scale development? Millions of users using your application each year? Do we need web apps to support billions of users each year now?

JavaScript is the most superior scripting language widely available in web browsers. Until there is an alternative it cannot be an inferior language because there is nothing equivalent on which to base a comparison.

This is just not true. People value and will pay for lots of things that others think have no value and won't pay for. In most cases, you are not your audience.

And with two books under his belt dozens of blog posts, and a column in Inc. I surely don't think this was ghost-written, which seem to be insinuating.

Honest question: Are you not able to compare the EPEAT guidelines with what Apple currently does? They provide details on all of the things you mentioned - hazardous materials, energy efficiency, etc. It seems like they should still stand up to EPEAT, despite the recycling bit, considering that they offer recycling of their products. http://www.apple.com/environment/

Apple is stating that the EPEAT standards are out of date and their practices supersede the existing standards.

Just take a look at this article and check out the links to see for yourself how Apple was already doing more than the EPEAT guidelines required.

http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/07/10/apple-responds-to-epea...

http://www.apple.com/environment/

And as an aside - Microsoft in comparison is not a hardware company and the comments here aren't marginalizing the issue. The articles and reporting have blown this out of proportion to begin with.

"I think Apple no longer wants to follow the EPEAT recycling guidelines because they think not following them allows product designs that will be more compelling for consumers and bring more value to Apple than their continued participation in EPEAT.

And I don’t think it matters much. Apple still accepts their own computers for recycling. It’s not unreasonable to ask the people who recycle old computers properly, who I imagine are very few, to bring their Apple computers back to Apple to guarantee the “best” recycling."

You said: ... almost all of these professions could benefit from at least programming in R.

"Need" != "Benefit From". There are innate benefits from learning anything, including programming. That does not equate to a profession having a need for programming.

I'd much rather see a 50 apps in 50 weeks with a much smaller base number of languages. Almost like a 50 design patterns/recipes in 50 weeks for a few languages.

As far as the responses he received to the fan noise - fan noise like he described isn't normal. If the fan is running loud it's because the machine is hot and needs both fans running at high RPM. Something must be causing that because loud fans just aren't part of an Apple product(unless you're talking about a Power Mac G4 with the mirrored driver doors - those were LOUD - like airplane loud - but I digress).

I would characterize that response as normal. Since the machine shouldn't do that - my first question as well would be what are you doing on the machine? When it was pointed out that it was a Google spreadsheet in Safari I would go look at the CPU usage for Safari and see if it's pinned. If it is - it's a software issue. If it's not, it's a hardware issue.

There's no blame to be placed here without that key piece of data - this is standard troubleshooting. Is this blaming the user? No - it's understanding Apple's reputation for building solid products and the experiences of their users that this scenario is not normal, which is leading them to question what is different about the situation.

Overall it really seems like this was a viewpoint in search of a story, rather than an actual insight into something deeper about Apple's products.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/author/john-petersel.php http://www.google.com/search?q=John+Petersel

The whole second paragraph makes it clear that you don't understand the complexities of the Healthcare industry. You provide very broad brush statements like "allow insurance competition across state lines", the complexities of that single issue alone are staggering. Are you aware that the strength of most in-state insurance carriers is their in-state network. An insurance company IS it's network. In addition each individual state has a Department of Insurance which also regulates all carriers in that state. DOI rules and regulations vary from state to state. Expanding your coverage to another state is a very complex undertaking.

Also, Individual groups do have the ability to purchase healthcare - see many professional organizations(AIGA, etc) as working examples of this today.

In either case, making those changes won't just magically open the industry to "the web and to innovative, competitive forces". There are already competitive forces at play. Any new player attempting to join the fray faces an uphill battle just in the regulatory aspects of the business alone.

What do the advantages of the web and new technologies bring to insurance? How do these changes the provider networks which are the backbone of major insurance coverage today? These are the types of questions which need to be posed, and the people in the best position to answer these questions and change the game are insurers themselves. There are many smart and talented people working in insurance. The recent proposed Healthcare changes have helped to begin the process of moving forward and thinking differently, but with an industry like this it will take time.

It is happening, insurance providers are looking at new technologies and ways to provide the coverage that people expect, for lower costs, in new and different ways.

You call that just fine? This is not fine. This is not healthy and this is the attitude you should be fighting against. If you honestly think that you are a better person and you produce your best work when you're exhausted and depressed, you should probably get some other opinions on that, because I have a strong feeling that the people around you will disagree - whether that's co-workers or family members.

You can't flip-flop more than that. I can't wait until Facebook incorporates their new ideas into the product and puts them out of business - assuming that this new business actually exists in the first place.

There's nothing special about this - pull up any newspaper or online news site and you'll see the same thing.

So, let me understand. The price is on par with industry standard pricing. So why is the title in caps with an exclamation point? Just go all the way with the title.

OMG GOOGLE ANALYTICS PREMIUM PRICING: ON PAR WITH INDUSTRY STANDARDS!!!!!

What you’re watching above is the first few sections of the course.

You have to be a paid member to get access to the FULL course.

Your core problem is going to be that approximate rates are based on answers to questions. The fewer questions you answer the less accurate your rate will be. Go talk to a few agents and let them draw out the benefits for you, they are free to you and they exist for this very purpose!

Edit: I had no idea Skype worked like that as well. And I have the same reaction I did when I found out through personal experience that Spotify did that -> ⌘Q - Quit Spotify. I don't need to open my connection to the world and let a program suck up all my bandwidth just to listen to some music I can get from another source. I'm not the only person using my connection and I have other devices that I want to be able to use as much bandwidth as they need. The fact that I can't control that bandwidth consumption at all is bothersome and enough of a negative in my opinion that I won't use the service.

I can’t juggle. I definitely can’t juggle multiple clients and serve them well on the thin time margins I’m keeping. I’ve always failed when I tried. I know my limits. I don’t want my reputation and talent to take me where my integrity can’t sustain me (and it will, if left unchecked). It damages my rep and renders my talent meaningless in the grand scheme of client services. “He’s real talented, but he doesn’t do what he says” is a massive failure unless my goal is to be known as an unprofessional, out of work, real talented guy. I’d rather serve one client to the best of my abilities than multiple clients simultaneously, mediocrely.